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Tag: The Gipper

  • Not so Lazy Dora – from Akbar

    8 Strong today, welcoming Grover for a beatdown before he left back to Arkansas. Wicket’s first visit to the Gipper as well. The 20 year old and 7 year old brought the average age down to 49.5. The plan changed when Grover forgot his running shoes, wearing Janowski’s instead. YHC was pleased to oblige in changing the Dora to a Lazy Dora in his honor.

    Warm Up
    20 SSH Hyper Speed, Arm Circles, Grass Grabbers, Toe Touches, Windmills

    Mosey for a stop at the Rock Garden for 20 Curls, 20 Rows OYO

    Courthouse – Lazy DORA – P1 does exercise, P2 does hold, switcheroo after 20 reps
    50 Plank Jacks, Hold Plank
    100 Jump squats, Al Gore
    200 Merkins, Superman hold
    300 LBC, Shawshank Redemption hold – Andy Dufrain would have been proud. All thankful we didn’t have to crawl through a tunnel of crap first.

    Smokehouse speed drills – From benches to the Smokehouse and back
    Full Sprint, jog back
    Backpedal half way, sprint, run back
    Karaoke Left, sprint, run back
    Karaoke Right, sprint, run

    Benches by the Smokehouse –
    100 Bulgarian Split Squats, 100 Freak Nasties – cumulative partner
    P1 Works, P2 runs the Courthouse stairs with 10 calf raises at the top

    Rock Garden
    20 Curls, 20 Rows

    Flag
    20 Jump Squats, Max Hand Release Merkins

    Mary – Crunchy Frogs, Rosalita x 10 IC

    Count, Name, and YHC prayed us out

    Announcements
    Fury FQ 12 – April 1st Convergence on the Lakefront 6am – 6pm
    Endurathon – March 16/17 – Fontainebleau State Park – sign up to run with the F3 Team

    NMM
    Wicket has awesome hair that all of us (except Grover) would love to have now.

    Instructions for the Lazy Dora brough some blank stares due to the lack of directions. It was more of a broken up Lazy Dora – but we got 650 reps out of it.

    BBQ presented Turbo with a plaque and hat for finishing in the top 3 short course race last week. Beast.

  • Global warming with Al Gore – from Fletch

    7 strong in the gloom of this humid morning at the Gipper.
    Warmup: toe touches, grass grabbers, merkins, arm circles, Peter Parker’s, imperial walkers, windmills and hillbillies.
    Thang: started with bear crawl to the street.
    Burpee Dans (1 burpee 4 lunges) to the corner. Shuffle, left foot forward then right foot forward to the next corner and mosey to the Taj Mahal. Circle around the flag and 1 round of BLIMPS: Burpee’s (5), Lunges (10),Imperial walkers (15),Merkins (20),Plank jacks(25) Squats(30). Global Warming, hold Al Gore position and slowly shuffle around flag and do 15 big boy sit-ups reverse direction and 10 merkins reverse again and 20 Bobby Hurleys. Mosey around the building and 1 more round of global warming and 10 Parker peters ic. Bear crawl to the road, shuffle, backpedal and mosey to the rock garden for curls, tricep extensions, grave diggers ic and mosey bak to the Gipper. Barely legal prayed us out. All had a good sweat going. Great workout! Thanks

  • Sweating out the King Cake at the Gipper – from Einstein

    A humid 67 degrees for the gathered PAX, this Wednesday morning, at The Gipper

    Warmup:
    Toe Touch, SSHops, Neck Rolls, Seal Jacks, Parker Peters, Smurf Jacks, Shoulder Taps
    Hi Jack Hi Jills, Arm Circles, Shoulder Slingbacks, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies, High Kneees, Butt Kicks

    mosey over to the front of the Justice Center

    Event 1: partner up
    First set of Two:partner one starts on bench step-ups, partner two runs up the promenade then around the half block – flipflop x2
    Second set of Two:partner one starts on box jump and/or bench hop-overs, partner two runs up the promenade then around the half block – flipflop x2

    mosey over to the parking garage upper deck

    Event 2: using the parking lot stripping; bear crawl half the parking lot distance with a merkin at every other stripe, lunge walk remainder of deck, back peddle to starting point. Core at the four corners including: left elbow to right knee – right elboew to left knee, flutter kicks, plank kick-outs, rosalitas

    mosey back to The Gipper Trailhead

    Count-o-rama, Shooter leads us out with a prayer.

    Thanks guys. Always fun to lead

  • You say Tabata. i say Tabata – from Mobydick

    YHC arrived earlier than usual and checked the calendar and saw no one had claimed the Q. I signed up just as the rest if the PAX arrived. After a a stretchy warmup and a bit of techno fumbling to get the phone sound to work we launched into a 2 min on 1 min off tabata of 5 exercises. SSH/Merkins/Crunches/Squats/Burpees. All on your own. After three rounds what happens is one reaches ones own point of exhaustion. The day after was sore in some new places so all went as planned. COT and a prayer of gratitude for our inner strength it was off to meet the world.

  • Ballgames – from TurboTax

    After a quick warmup of imperial walkers, toe touches, mountain climbers, windmills, SSHs, and seal jacks, the PAX headed over to the Justice Center for some ballgames. Operating in a cone demarcated field, the PAX played a passing game with a tennis ball. Various permutations with various penalties for fumbles had the PAX working hard on their ball skills. Tanked Up was particularly adept at handling the ball, and one can only think he gets lots of practice. At any rate, fun for all and then we traveled back to the shovel flag for our countorama, nameorama and prayer. Thanks for letting me lead guys. Krazy Ivan this Friday at 8 p.m. Mandeville Lakefront gazebo with F2 afterwards at the Barley Oak.

  • Four Cistercian Monks + One – from Einstein

    A cool 40 degrees for the gathered PAX, this past Wednesday morning, at The Gipper
    And good to see cousin Bushwacker, with broken wing, some how able to fling water-logged cinder blocks around with one arm.
    His only complaint was the silence – how quiet us oldsters were. He broke the monk-like silence with some welcomed chatter.

    Warmup:
    Toe Touch, Imperial Walkers, SSHops, Cherry Pickers, Hillbillies, Scissors, etc

    Event: 3 sets of cinder block coupon work, each followed by a run around the block
    set one; upper body
    set two; core
    set three; legs

    Mary: bear crawl, crawl bear

    Count-o-rama, Bushwacker leads us out with early morning matins.

    Cheers

  • Boss Boss….The Chain Plus – from Mobydick

    The Gipper had a perfect morning for The Chain…Plus. The PAX was small so we all got plenty of drag time. After a brief untaxing stretchy warm up the 4 of us ran a block to where the chain was laid out on Columbia St then of we went dragging it back the way we came through the oxlot a block away. Then another block run to get the Plus…two brake discs from my recent brake job 40 lbs or so and back to thread the 100’ of chain through them. Now we are ready. A count off to keep the 4 of us organized. Number one YHC took of with both end of the chain and dragged the brake disc as far as the burn would let me. Mean while 2,3,4 did an exercise. When the rattle if the chain stopped they ran the 100 yards or so and number two picked up the chain ends and dragged it back as far as he could go while 1,3,4 did the exercise choice of 1. When the noise stopped of we run to stopping point and 3 takes it back mean while the pax does what 2 suggests til tge noise stops and of we run. Hopefully you get the idea thank for 45 minutes nobody stopped doing something. Four round trips each brought us to the final block long drag back to the truck. Einstein seemed to go forever though he had to stop once fir traffic and found out how hard it us ti regain momentum.
    A final short mosey to the flag and an obligatory SSH x10 to take us to COT and a prayer.
    Turbo you missed a good one.

  • Working Off the Christmas Eggnog – from Einstein

    A cool 40 degrees for the gathered PAX, this Wednesday morning, at The Gipper

    Warmup:
    Toe Touch, SSHops, Shoulder Rolls, Neck Rolls, Seal Jacks, Peter Parkers, Parker Peters
    mosey over to the front of the Justice Center

    Event: partner up for Dora 1-2-3
    partner one starts on 100 burpees, partner two runs up the promenade then backpeddles on the return – flipflop
    partner one starts on 200 flutter kicks, partner two runs further up the promenade then backpeddled on the return – flipflop
    partner one starts on 300 squats, partner two runs up the promenade, bunny hops up the stairs, starjack jump atop, backpeddles on the return – flipflop

    then onto the benches for step ups – left leg, right leg, side and front, box jumps, bench leap-overs,
    freak nasties, incline merkins, decline merkins, decline shoulder tap merkins

    mosey back to The Gipper Trail Head

    Mary: rosalitas, iron crosses, crunches, jane fondas, one minute plank

    Count-o-rama, Barely Legal leads us out with a prayer.

    Thanks guys. Always fun to lead

  • On the first day of Christmas my True Q gave to me… – from Mobydick

    YHC has never been a big fan of running. But the season and the setup was too tempting. Downtown Covington provided the setting by randomly placing lighted 12 days of Christmas all over. The thang was run from one to twelve and add an exercise and that many reps at each day. The placements meant the route crisscrossed downtown multiple times. On the first day of Christmas your Q gave to the pax one kraken burpee and off-we go. The second day added 2 toe touches the third added 3 windmils +4 lunges +5 merkins +6 squats +7 swimmers + 8 monkey humpers +9 interior walkers +10 cherry pickers +11 SSH +12 crunchy frogs. Add up the multiple rinse and repeats and the nearly 3 miles of mosey and a good time was had by all. The COT just happened to end at the real flag pole in front of the courthouse.

  • Big Things, Little Things – from Akbar

    4 strong for another muggyish beatdown before cooler weather comes in. Special guest from St. Louis, Blue note.

    PAX: Akbar, Barely Legal, BBQ, Blue Note

    Conditions: 71 degrees mostly cloudy

    Warm Up
    Extended toe touch, SSH, Arm Circles, Grass Grabbers, Imperial Walkers, Cherry Pickers

    Thang 1 Rock Garden
    X10 IC Copperhead Style: Chest Press, Shoulder Press, Triceps Press, Curl, Row, Prisoner Squat, American Hammers

    Thang 2 Mosey to the courthouse benches
    Stone Mountains x 10 IC, bear crawl to Smokehouse, shuffle back
    Freak Nasties x 10 IC, bear crawl to Smokehouse, shuffle back
    7’s Rocky Balboas and Bobby Hurleys. Climb stairs in between with 5 Calf Raises at top

    Thang 3 Mosey to front of Courthouse
    7’s Inverted Renegade Rows 2=1 and Supermans. Up the stairs with 5 calf raises at top
    Benches: Shoulder Taps x 10 IC, lunge walk to wall, return for Y Supermans x10IC

    Return to the Gipper for Mary of LBC, LMC, and Heals to Heaven

    Count, Name, and BBQ prayed us out.

    Announcements
    Run Cajun Run, Krazy Ivan, Franco’s Dip and Dash, Nightmare Before Christmas postponed – check Slack for updates, Light up Trace ride at Covington Trailhead; F3 Camping trip Januaryish; Ultimate Frisbee Saturday at the Lakefront.

    Intentions
    Aunt Sue – Leukemia; By buddy Ned in Jackson (in hospital for overdose); BBQ brother Ned (dog passed away)

    Thanks for showing up, it was fun. SYITG – Akbar