Tag: The Gipper

Beautiful morning for our workout. Our senior member Moby-67, continues to make progress. Respect/respect for our man. Grundy was in a “kick-ass” mode determined to finish first in every event. Only Turbo could stop him this particular morning. Leave it up to the jury to determine the overall number 1 guy😁.

Special thanks to “Steve” for keeping Tanked-Up spirits high as he led the PAX.

Warmups 20x –Side straddle hops, windmills, squats, mummy kicks, imperial walkers ,  rinse repeat.. In cadence.

Thang– 10 merkins followed by a circle run up the steps of the courthouse and around the backside perimeter x3… Estimated 250 yardsx3.

Same location… Let’s do some Merkins and Burpees till we burn out!

Mosey to the elevated parking lot– 3 laps up 3 flights of stairs (no skipping steps) cross to the other side and down we go… Keep that 3 lap loop going boyz.

Walk/jog/sprint– light pole to light pole followed by a full lap sprint…Grundy goes for gold and takes it!

Mosey back to our warmup location for 2 minutes of rocky balboas followed by our warm down… Jane Fonda’s and Putins.

Closout with a prayer led by Grundy.. Team gives Moby Dick high fives for his continued improvement. One Team One Mission… We are family…

 

A Pax of five posted today, with Tanked-Up showing up late…some lame excuse about his diarrhea. He was dealt 10 demerits

here’s how it went:

salutations

short disclaimer

warmup
20xIC side straddle hops
20xIC arm circles
20xIC imperial walkers
20xIC toe touches
20xIC hillbillys
20xIC squats

mosey to the St. Tammany Courthouse
merkin, derkin, erkin, burpee at bench intervals, run up the courthouse steps
down the courthouse steps and around the block — repeat four times

mosey to the back of the St. Tammany Parish Courthouse Annex parking garage
run backwards half way up the first floor ramp
turn and sprint up rest of the way
jog across the second floor ramp,
run backwards up third floor ramp , turn and sprint up rest of the way,
20xIC Tanya Hardings
20xIC Lunges
20xIC Nancy Kerigans (same as the Tanya Harding – but knees bent)

on the top deck of the parking garage
sprint across the width of the deck, then merkin
sprint across the width of the deck, then derkin
sprint across the width of the deck, then erkin
sprint across the width of the deck, then burpee

down the stairs to the “Noodling for Rats” ledge
5 pull-ups, 20 curb hop/box jumps
repeat

 
mosey to the front of the St. Tammany Parish Courthouse
lateral bench hops X20

 
mosey back to the trail head

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each PAX chose an excersize;
v-ups, wife pleasers & leg lifts, long stretch, putins, hello dollies
Tanked-up got another 10 demerits for looking up Turbo’s kilt.

 
count-o-rama, lead-out prayer by MobyDick, we bid adieu

A beautiful morning provided our men a great way to bond and work out like a well oiled machine. A FNG joined the ranks and he pressed hard to stay with the pack. At the end of the session we named our friend which will be provided at the end of the post.

Warmup–15 reps in cadence-side straddle hops, windmills, imperial walkers, mummy kicks, split jacks, squats

The Thang- the team spent 7 performing a jog/exercise routine performing various exercises such as leaps, butt kicks, lunges–thanks Steve giving me hints during the jog portion. You my buddy!

From there we crafted a 10-1 routine with cinder blocks, merkins, and squats. A routine I plagiarized from our fearless member-Turbo.

After that fun we did a short mosey to the trailhead where the team went 5 rounds of Butkus excercises. In essence,1 minute rounds of Rocky Balboa hops. Einstein and TankedUp were in such perfect unison their steps sounded like a bad ass  military unit.  I sort of felt like Ali dancing in the ring.

The team closed out the thang with a merkin, bear crawl, and run routine for a solid 7 minutes.

Warm Down–a short warm down routine featuring Jane Fonda’s

In closing we had fun with our FNG… Through our short talk it became obvious our friend must be named Moby Dick!! If you want to know the rest of the story we hope you join us next week for the “non written” explanation!

In closing, Einstein led the PAX in prayer and off we went!

 

 

 

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It was back to the farm with 3 veterans and a FNG this morning at the Covington Trailhead.  Mardi Gras is over, and there are few better ways to get back to work than with farmer carries.  So after a nice dynamic warmup down the platform alley with various stretches, hops, strides, and sprints, the PAX made their downpainment as follows:

Jack Webbs with a 1:2 ratio working our way up to 10 Merkins and 20 kneeling air presses.

Grabbed our coupons and headed to the brickyard for a set of 11s:  squats on one side, back to front lunges on the other, connected by nice farmer’s walk carrying our coupons.

FNG checked out with what Chevy Chase would call a “thing” and the veterans soldiered on.

Back to the Trailhead for a 10 minute AMRAP:  down the hill to the stage, hop or climb onto the stage, back around and then bear crawl up the hill, followed by a Merkin.  Rinse and repeat but increasing the rep count on the Merkins with each trip.  Tanked-Up put in a particularly strong performance, making sure he got all of his 16 Merkin reps in even after the buzzer sounded.

Count-o-rama, name-o-rama and Einstein prayed us out.

Tanked-Up is Q next Wednesday.  Should be fun.

A Pax of four showed up today, Our fearless leader TurboTax could not make it for Q…something about his fitting appointment for the REX ball. Whatever… so this second-stringer had to Q on the fly.

here’s how it went:

salutations

short disclaimer

warmup
20xIC side straddle hops
20xIC arm circles
20xIC imperial walkers
20xIC toe touches
20xIC hillbillys
20xIC mountain climbers
20xIC imaginary kettle ball pickups, alternating leading leg
20xIC one leg lunge with back leg up on bench, alternating leading leg

 

 
mosey to the school board building (Taj Mahal) parking lot
run the parking spaces, ladder sprint up 2 spaces, backpeddle 2 spaces, repeat for 4,6, & 8
10xIC leg swings left to right, right leg
10xIC leg swings left to right, left leg
run the parking spaces, ladder sprint up 2 spaces, backpeddle 2 spaces, repeat for 4,6, & 8
10xIC leg swings front to back, right leg
10xIC leg swings front to back, left leg

 

 
mosey to the front of the Taj Mahal
circle up by the flagpole – step back to the outer edge of the circle
one leg bearcrawl, with right leg up in the air, bearcrawl hop forward to the flag pole,
do one merkin
one leg crabcrawl, with right leg up, crabcrawl hop backward to edge of circle,
jump up and run the stairs, up and around and back
rinse and repeat with left leg up on the bearcrawl and crabcrawl

 

 

mosey to the back of the St. Tammany Parish Courthouse Annex parking garage
run backwards half up the first floor ramp
turn and sprint up rest of the way, stop and do five burpees
jog across the second floor ramp, stop and using cement walk, do a compass derkin, with 5 derkins every 45 degrees, so basically,
your feet stay in position while arm walking to the left and right
run backwards up third floor ramp , turn and sprint up rest of the way, stop and do five burpees

on the top deck of the parking garage
sprint across the width of the deck, then 10 merkins
sprint across the width of the deck, then 10 derkins
sprint across the width of the deck, then 10 erkins
sprint across the width of the deck, 10 count

down the stairs to the “Noodling for Rats” ledge
5 pull-ups, 25 curb hops
repeat

 

 
mosey to the front of the St. Tammany Parish Courthouse
circle up around the flagpole, merkin and bearcrawl around clockwise, merkin and bearcrawl counter-clockwise

 

 
mosey back to the trail head

 

 

mary
20xIC Jane Fondas
10XIC V-ps

 

 
count-o-rama, lead-out prayer by Tanked-Up, we bid adieu, we “establish” our day

Seven men strong on deck this wonderful morning.  The PAX had to help Tanked Up with the lingo, but he didn’t mind as it is all for fun. After the workout I am sure it was fair to say everyone went home knowing they worked their butts off! Can’t wait for Saturday to turn it up another notch!

Warmup–side straddle hops, imperial walkers, squats, merkins, windmills, 20 reps per

Onto the courthouse with 5 cycles of  20 reps De-Construct Burpees

Mosey to the parking lot to take on 5 laps of Bernie Sanders hill climbs… The 5th lap you could feel the “Bern”

Onto the roof for 100 merkins, 200 imperial walkers, 300 leg thrust from a merkin position..with  50 yard runs at intervals.

Wrapped up the  activities with a rotation of Bataan Death March…Picking up the foot pace at the end to punish Tanked Up😀

Mosey back to the starting point for some cool down Jane Fonda’s and Flutter Kicks

Closed out prayer led by Chewy..

Up Next– Collard Greens..

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Pax of four showed up today under the Gipper statue to “love every minute of it.”

here’s how it went:

salutations

short disclaimer

warmup
20xIC side straddle hops
20xIC windmills
20xIC imperial walkers
20xIC toe touches
20xIC hillbillys
20xIC sealjacks
20xIC imaginary kettle ball pickups, alternating leading leg
20xIC one leg lunge with back leg up on bench, alternating leading leg

 

 
mosey to the school board building (Taj Mahal) parking lot
run the parking spaces, ladder sprint up 2 spaces, backpeddle 2 spaces, repeat for 4,6, & 8
10xIC leg swings left to right, right leg
10xIC leg swings left to right, left leg
run the parking spaces, ladder sprint up 2 spaces, backpeddle 2 spaces, repeat for 4,6, & 8
this sprint was a competition run for the Pax with Tanked-Up coming in first place, no doubt he had Frosted Flakes before posting.
10xIC leg swings front to back, right leg
10xIC leg swings front to back, left leg

 
mosey to the front of the Taj Mahal
circle up by the flagpole – step back about 3 yards out
pushup and bearcrawl clockwise, pushup at quarter hour marks while bear crawling all around the clock
circle up by the flagpole – step back about 6 yards out
pushup and bearcrawl counter-clockwise, pushup at quarter hour marks while bear crawling all around the clock

 

mosey to the back of the St. Tammany Parish Courthouse Annex parking garage
run backwards half up the first floor ramp
turn and sprint up rest of the way
jog across the second floor ramp
run backwards up third floor ramp
turn and sprint up rest of the way

on the top deck of the parking garage
sprint across the width of the deck, then 10 merkins
sprint across the width of the deck, then 10 derkins
sprint across the width of the deck, then 10 erkins
sprint across the width of the deck, then 10 toe taps

down the stairs to the “Noodling for Rats” ledge
5 pull-ups, 10 box jumps
5 knee-ups, 10 box jumps

 
mosey to the front of the St. Tammany Parish Courthouse
20xIC bench hops, with arms on the middle of the bench, legs on the ground, hop to the other side
10xIC burpees

 
mosey back to the trail head

 

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20xIC Jane Fondas
20xIC Ted Turners
one set of Breathing 100’s, start on sixes, then legs slightly up, and head and shoulders slightly up, arms outstretched, breath in on 5 count, breath out on 5 count

 
count-o-rama, prayer led by Tanked-Up, Q assignment for next time, we bid our adieus and headed-out to take on the day.

 

Another beautiful morning in the gloom at the Covington Trailhead.  The PAX gathered and got to work straight away with a dynamic warmup using the train platform:  heal to toe walks, lunges, shuffles, skips, freestyle shoulder swing toe walks, backstroke shoulder swing toe walks, carioca and a few other exercises down the platform with a short mosey back to the starting point after each trip.

Mosey to the Taj Mahal where the PAX formed up in a large COP around the flagpole.  SSH, IW, Merkins, mountain climbers, dynamic back planks, twisting SSHs, squats, all IC 20x collapsing the circle to the flagpole and back to the starting point between each exercise with sprint/backpedal, forward and backwards frog jumps, forward and backwards bear crawls, forward and backward knuckedraggers, forward and backwards crab walks, and an ostrich walk.  This last “walk” was a new one for the PAX and if the neighbors didn’t think we were weird before they definitely do now.

Switch gears but remain around the flagpole for a quick battery of shuffles around the circle, sprint/backpedal to the pole, and take a lap up and over the Taj Mahal front steps.  After about 5 minutes of this nonsense and a 10 count, the PAX moved on to the main event at City Hall.

So YHC promised the PAX cinderblocks this morning and he delivered, sort of.  Paving stones served as the weapon of choice for a set of 11s.  Bench presses on the grass using the paving stones on one end and Tonya Harding ice skater hops hugging the paving stones on the other.  The tough part was the in between…walking tall back and forth holding the paving stones overhead with elbows locked out.  YHC’s thought process went something like this:  this paving stone is too light; this paving stone is getting heavy, $%#^%%*!! this paving stone!  At any rate, the PAX did themselves proud, kept their weapons high and completed the mission.

Quick Mary on the spot using the paving stones for some weighted torso twists then mosey back to the Gipper for the count-o-rama, name-o-rama and prayer of gratitude.

Great to see Steve made it with the PAX even though he was out with friends till 0100 this morning. 0600 came early for him. Sorry we missed EiEi, something about  butter milk and cookies hurting his tummy😬!

The Thang

Warmup

20xic Side Straddle Hops, Windmills, Squats, Butt Kicks, Mountain Climbers, Merkins

Get To Work

Mosey to the Courthouse- fun with Rocky Balboa’s, 7 hard laps filled with Toe Taps, Derkins and Irkins. Continued with 5 reps of De-Contruct Burpees.

Mosey to the parking lot rooftop for some fun with Bearmuda Triangles. Three sets with ascending Burpees  at each cone. Could feel the sweat after this activity! No time for rest as we challenged ourselves with the Baatan Death March. Next time 2 men down instead of 1 to do the Burpee portion. Sure to increase the intensity.

Mosey backed to our starting point to conclude with Jane Fonda’s and a host of other leg exercises.

Prayer- bless these men, our entire north shore team and our families.