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Tag: The A1C

  • It takes two of us! – from Jose10k

    It was just the two of us regulars at the A1C this morning. KISS, keep it simple stupid. After a warm-up, we did 4 corners. 7, 14, 21, 28, 35, 42 at each corner. Merkins, Squats, Freak Nastys, imperial walkers, SSH, deep hamstring stretches. Run in between some. COT, Moby prayed us out. Hogsbreath retirement party tomorrow at 5. Easy read today gentlemen.

  • It takes two of us! – from Jose10k

    It was just the two of us regulars at the A1C this morning. KISS, keep it simple stupid. After a warm-up, we did 4 corners. 7, 14, 21, 28, 35, 42 at each corner. Merkins, Squats, Freak Nastys, imperial walkers, SSH, deep hamstring stretches. Run in between some. COT, Moby prayed us out. Hogsbreath retirement party tomorrow at 5. Easy read today gentlemen.

  • A Trio of Tabata – from Jose10k

    Cool morning, perfect temperature for a tabata. The usual crowd showed up, so YHC opened up the trunk of his car for some props. Some coupon work up on top of the A1C. 45 sec on, 15 sec break round robin tabata. The music was blaring, and the workout began. Exercises from squats, shoulder presses, wife pleasers, a ton of core, a lap around top, calf raises, shoulder presses, triceps, etc… Dark Wing prayed us out. Remember, bring your gloves and a coupon to Zoolanders beat down tomorrow, probably won’t be any music though. Later gents.

  • The Dynamic Duo has turned into a Triumphant Trio – from Jose10k

    Nice and cool weather this morning, 60 degrees, I’ll say it again, 60 degrees. Amazing weather this morning. Like the scramble, there was no Q this morning, just enough push to get me up this morning. Yes, I am on summer vacation. Yes, I normally post at each beatdown this time of year, however, Shooter called it perfectly in his backblast. I am a married man now, and I currently have a workout routine with my beautiful wife. However, I am Qing this Monday morning at the Marsh, a murph on Memorial Day (a f3 tradition). Anyways, there was a beatdown this morning.
    A typical warm-up
    Then we decided to leave the a1c, and venture outward. We stopped on the side to do Hammers favorite, Bulgarian split squats followed by some freak nastys. We continued to mosey to the side of the courthouse, where we back peddled for a block to the back/front of the courthouse. Time for a round of some Rocky Balboas. Short mosey to the benches for some more bulgarian split squats, then calf raises (3 per step) up the court house. Mosey back to the parking garage for calf raises up to the top followed up with 10 minutes of Mary. COT, Moby prayed us out. Akbar has the Q tomorrow, Murph on Monday morning, I believe 6:30 am start time is what everyone is voting for.

  • Core Workouts allows you to see your D*** – from Mobydick

    Yes sir, you read it correctly. The inspirational quote and motivation behind today’s workout came from Moby’s moment on the commode. Thanks to core workouts, he’s slimmed down to where he could see his MobyDick again. That’s the kind of mumble chatter you get at the A1C gentlemen, why aren’t y’all posting here more often. You get stories about Mathlete’s alter ego, Kenny Rocks, proportional comparisons of stomach and johnson’s, grumble grumbles of past merkin inspired beatdowns, Zoolanders amazing physique and ability to do merkins with both hands and feet in the air, and of course, death matches between us and the splashpad. But today, it was all about MobyDick, and his deck of death.
    The usual A1C crowd circled up to begin the beatdown, when up the ramp came the sight we’ve missed for quite sometime. We were finally joined by our long, lost brother, BBQ. Are PAX was complete, we could begin.
    Warm-ups: SSH, windmills, head rolls, oblique stretches, all in cadence
    The Thang: Deck of Death (Core style) Hearts 5 count, Diamonds-10 count, Clubs-15, Spades-20. Round Robin style. You flipped the card, you pick the core exercise. With a joker being pulled with a heart, diamond, spade, and a club on it for a 50 count. The chatter was positive and upbeat, the fellowship was great as always, and the beatdown will most certainly have me cursing out Moby tomorrow morning. Thank you Moby for picking up the Q for me, I honestly thought I was going to be a scratch for today. Thank y’all for posting and/or reading this backblast. Truecoat has the Q tomorrow. SYITG

  • Ramp Work at The A1C – from Einstein

    A pleasant 70 degrees at 5:15 a.m., at the A1C, atop the Justice Center Parking Garage.

    Warmup:
    all 15xIC: toe touch, ss hops, good mornings, imperial walkers, neck rolls, high kneees, butt kicks, arm circles, scissors, smurf jacks, etc.

    Thang:
    Set of Elevens on the up-down parking ramp;
    merkins at the top, jog to bottom of ramp, squats at the bottom, back-peddling half way up ramp then turn and sprint to top.

    Then to the parking lot stripes with star-jack-jumps at every other stripe increasing the jump count by one each time. Core work at the corners.

    Count-o-rama

    SoGo led us out with prayer.

  • You don’t skip leg day – from Jose10k

    YHC has been working out with his wife everyday since his return from the Caribbean. However, he did sleep in on Wednesday, which was leg day. Katie hasn’t let me forget that I skipped leg day, so here we go…

    Warm-ups: ssh, windmills, grass grabbers, self love, torso twists, arm circles, high knees, butt kicks

    Thang: 4 corners with a twist

    Cooper Head Squats at each corner, 15 count. Lt. Dan the long stretch, two lunges, 1 squat, 4 lunges, 2 squats, etc…

    Sumo Squats at each corner, 20 count. Lt. Dan the long stretch..

    Side lunges at each corner 25 count on each leg, Lt. Dan the long stretch.

    Great conversations with all, including our newest member of the A1C fight club, our very own Magnum PI (dark wing duck). Still, where is BBQ?

    Finished up, COT, Moby prayed us out. SYITG

  • Ramp Work at The A1C – from Einstein

    A cool 57 degrees at 5:15 a.m., at the A1C, atop the Justice Center Parking Garage.

    Warmup:
    all 15xIC: toe touch, ss hops, imperial walkers, neck rolls, high kneees, butt kicks, shoulder press, hi jack hi jill, arm circles, hillbillys, smurf jacks, thumb drives, ice skater hops, etc.

    Thang:
    Set of Elevens on the up-down parking ramp;
    pop-up and pop-down squats at the top, forward and reverse lunges at the bottom, back-peddling and fore-peddling on the flip-flop run up and down the ramp.

    All had fun…with mumble chatter about Jose10k honeymoonig, BBQ missing in action, and cuz Bushwacker dealing with sequestration under the Jesuit “cone of silence.”

    Count-o-rama
    Prayers/intentions offered for cancer patient, heart patient.
    Prayers/intentions offered for cuz Bushwacker – while he’s silently retreating at the Manresa facility in Convent, LA.

    DarkWingDuck led us out with prayer.

  • The artist formally known as “Jose10k” – from Jose10k

    I arrived to the A1C, driving through a downpour of rain, ready to work out. The skies opened up and cleared. I got out of my car and began warming up when my partner in crime, Moby, arrived. Now Moby, in a second life, was Bob Breck. He informed us of the incoming storms, so we went down to the second level to get out of the way of the storms that never did show up. I offered an olive branch to the notorious Russo. An offer of a truce, to get together and work out the differences between the splash pad and the A1C. Russo scoffed at me, and I believe pulled a Sampson towards me by “biting his thumb at me” So, the rumble is still on.
    We need to continue training for the cage match with the rowdy group from the splash pad. I don’t know if it’s at the level of the greasers vs socs rumble, the sharks vs the jets, the hatfields vs the mccoys, maybe even to the level of tom vs jerry. The talking is getting serious, so the training must get more intense. I heard that the splash pad was using the ancient teaching of Miyagi Do karate: wax on, wax off, paint the fence, sand the floors…, so we at the A1C knew how serious these gents were. We knew where we had to get our training from: the only practical source of knowledge of men our ages: 80s movies. Should we practice kicking banana trees like JVD in Kickboxer, running up snow covered mountains, splitting firewood a la Rocky Balboa in Rocky IV, or maybe increasing our cardio with some giant piano dancing like Tom Hanks did in Big? Perhaps even bring in bicycles to train like they did in RAD. Too many to choose from for just one beat down, and plus, did I forget to mention, I am leaving tomorrow to fly to the Caribbean to get married. I am not crushing myself this morning. I will save those epic training sessions when I get back, so hold onto your butts…
    Warm-up: ssh, torso twists, self love, windmills, grass grabbers, arm circles, hi jack, hey jills,
    Beginning: bruno mars think I’m gonna marry you, simple concept, ssh for the song, drop for a burpee each time the word Marry is sung.
    I promised Katie that I wouldn’t kill myself, so I kept it simple. 4 corners, 10 merkins, 15 squats, 20 big boy situps at each corner. Bear crawl the width, back peddle the length halfway, turn and sprint the rest. After that, round robin tabata, 45 seconds on , 15 second rest. The conversations were excellent as always. Including retirement, job opportunities, and of course, 80s classic movies. Including the hilarious Grumpier Old Men, National Lampoons, and of course, Kickboxer.

    COT, mention of the Inferno tomorrow, Hammer prayed us out. Everyone have safe travels, have great celebrations with your family and friends, and I will see you on the other side Ray. The next time I see y’all, I will be a happily married man. SYITG!

  • DICTATOR DECK OF DOOM – from Einstein

    A slightly muggy 67 degrees at 5:15 a.m., at the A1C, atop the Justice Center Parking Garage.

    Warmup:
    all 15xIC: toe touch, ss hops, imperial walkers, neck rolls, high kneees, butt kicks, shoulder press, ankle rotate, hi jack hi jill, arm circles, scissors, hillbillys, etc.

    Thang: Deck of Doom – using card deck, caught on the fly, at the KREWE D’ETAT parade .

    Each of the Pax is assigned a suit. When their suit is pulled – they pick out the exercise, and whatever number turns up – that’s the amount of reps.
    with this twist added – if the same suit shows up on the next card turn, the count doubles, triples, or in one instance this morning “fourples.”
    The idea was to keep it lite, this morning, so all would be fresh for the upcoming FURY, but it turned into a sweat fest.
    Jose-10K kept us focused on the high math.

    All had fun…with mumble chatter about BBQ missing in action, with speculation of what action could posible keep him from posting at A1C.
    then the fun stopped when Moby Dick blasted us with a “wendy’s chili special.”

    Count-o-rama

    DarkWingDuck led us out with prayer.