Tag: War Eagle

  • Three Sixes leading up to Poker Night – from Mayhem

    Q arrived early to setup the cones
    5:29 Hokie and the KnOT tribe tried to steal my Q thunder
    5:30 sharp gave the normal disclaimer, reminding Pool Boy that Q actually is not a professional trainer

    Mosey near the tracks for warmup: AV (supposed to be slow, but Q was excited), GG, SSH, IW… on your face ST, PPP… recover AC

    Hit the rock pile for a rock that you can rifle carry to the far side of the hill
    The Architect went big, it would cost him later

    6x6x6 (six rounds, six stations, six reps)
    Run up the hill to the cone, 6 reps of given exercise
    Run down the hill to the cone, 6 reps
    Bear crawl to the cone, 6 reps
    Run backwards to the cone, 6 reps
    Up the hill backwards to the cone, 6 reps
    Down the hill backwards to the cone, 6 reps
    Mary or pick up the six before moving on to the next round as a group

    Rd 1: Burpees
    Rd 2: Bonnie Blairs
    Rd 3: Mountain Climbers
    Rd 4: Squats with the Rock
    Rd 5: Merkins
    Rd 6: Man Makers

    Return the rocks
    Back to the “flag”

    COT
    Gnarly Nutria reminder 7/19 @ 6pm
    Continued prayers for Boo Boo and his M, as well as Tenderloin
    Thanksgiving for Charmin getting his new ride

    Gratitude for myself and my M, today is our 20yr anniversary of the day we met

    I have a feeling that those in the gloom are not going to poker, and those going to poker were not in the gloom…

    Thanks for letting me LEAD!

  • Hard Times make strong men – from Kenna Brah

    IMPACT Warm Up
    Imperial Walkers
    Merkins
    Plank Jacks
    Alt Should Taps
    Crunches
    Tie Fighters

    First and 10
    Heavy Rock – 11’s
    10 yd Line – 10 Curls, 1 OHP
    Sprint to Far end Zone,
    Recovery Jog Back

    Added Some Mary since we killed that first round!

    Recover on the Other End
    13’s
    Reverse Run Like Before
    12 – Sumo Squat,1 – Clean

  • Not A Licensed Professional – from Pool Boy

    Started off with a Geaux Tigers and that I am not a licensed professional.

    Some headed to KnOT while the rest moseyed to rock pile.

    WARMUP
    SSH
    Squats
    Imperial Walkers
    Arm circles
    5 burpees
    Peter parkers
    Parker Peters
    Grass Grabbers

    THE THANG
    Grab a rock and head to football field
    With the rock, we did 60 calf raises, 50 squats, 40 lunges, 30 overhead press, 20 bench press and 10 manmakers with each exercise followed by 400 meter run.
    After rock workout, we finished with LBC’s, flutter kicks, Dying cockroaches, penguins and a 2 minute plank. Head back to rock pile and run to the COT.

    Countoff, Namerama and closed with prayer. Great Way to start off Friday guys!

  • All the Parts 6/12/23 – from Bolt

    Warmorama of the usual but almost with the wrong song—corrected, commence, complete. 

    The Thang: Plank hurdles the length of the football field. Circle up past the goal post for musically directed work…
    Danger Zone: SSH the entire song except, squat 1x on title words. Starts as a cake walk, ends as a barely can walk. Mosey to playground and plank along edging for Morning Call (really wicked with 12 pax; modify to two groups of six next time???). 

    Mosey to rock pile for medium rocks and all the parts (lower body, upper body, abs):
    Curls, LBCs, reverse lunge, protractors, tricep press, O rings, wife pleasers, Yang squats. There were several 5 burpee tolls paid to skip songs, mainly at War Eagle’s hand (for those who don’t know, War Eagle is practically a Kotter and when he does post, he likes to complain about being there for a real workout while not actually working out…). Back to the flag for COT with the KnOT group. Two DR: Cliff Notes (79!), Cousin Eddie.

  • El Diablo’s BDSM (Burpees Don’t Suck Much) – from Bolt

    In preparation for my 3 yr MANniversary Q 6/5, while DR in The Woodlands, YHC wanted to try something new, except of course for the warmorama song bc the pax want what they want and who am I to deny them?! Started with Abe Vigoda then followed by Abe SLOgoda after Bogey, at coffee recently, challenged the idea of what’s a warmup, contending that SSH is too high impact for a warmup. Next, of course, were SSH followed by the usuals. Walk the field backwards to the playground equipment, music blaring to create pax pleasure and pain, depending on the listener (GLORIOUS).

    Morning call x5: this made for a long plank and plenty merkins with 17 pax (it IS starting off to be a good morning), especially with Hand Grenada and Vagabond dragging ass to the pull up bar at the end. Mosey to pavilion where the skip rule was explained, prompting Rudy to immediately make us pay 5 burpees (no double skips so thank Rudy for Sandstorm).

    El Diablo Ds: Dry Docks, (20) (Fast Tax doesn’t like screaming, pay five burpees), Dolly (25), Dips (20), Dying Cockroches (31 just cuz), Derkins (20), Dirty Hookups (20), Diamond merkins (5, they suck at the end): all in varied cadence (the Pax loved that part). Mosey back to warmorama spot and circle up with me, no more skipping allowed.

    100 Burpee playlist (below): burpee the key word(s) and perform a movement in between (SSH, Seal claps, IW, OH claps). 30 sec rest between songs. YHC pivoted the fourth song to be LBC/wife pleasers and still ran outta time (Fast Tax was first to call time so that must mean it was good. Good meaning bad, not good meaning good—this pleased YHC). Honored, motivated, and appreciative as always, pax! COT.

    100 Burpee Playlist:
    Flower/Moby: SSH, “Down”
    Tubthumping/Chumbawumba: Seal
    Claps, “Down”
    Roxanne/Sting: Imperial Walkers, “Roxanne”
    Get Back Up/Toby Mac: OH claps, “Get back up”

  • Im Prompt 2 – from Vagabond

    10 burpees x5
    BLIMPS
    More burpees and bench work
    Mary

  • No Knees Over Toes Tabata – from Scantron

    Started off with a brief backwards walk around the south end of the track to the parking lot behind the bleachers. Did a short warmup and then mosied over to the small levee behind the admin building.

    We did some up and backs over the levee, with each run ending in some derkins (10, 8, 6, 4, 2).

    That was followed by a Tabata with some complaints about not having a rock.

    6 exercises
    8 rounds of 30 seconds work/10 seconds rest

    Catalina Wine Mixer (complaints lessened after round 3)
    Calf Raises (complaints increased and Bogey tried to calf raise to the beat)
    Forward and Backward Arm Circles, Seal Claps, Overhead Claps (complaints decreased)
    Squats
    Flutter kicks
    Side to Sides up the levee and back (no more complaints)

    This was all accompanied by the following playlist, that when done right, ends with The Final Countdown finishing you out right at 45 mins.

  • Dream Sequence: Cinco de Mayo AND a Rudy Appearance – from Bolt

    As site Q, YHC psyched to see Cinco de Mayo open since it’s the day that my ancestral people celebrate…u know, Anglo Saxon Americans who pretend to b Mexican as an excuse to drink copious amounts of tequila and cervezas, all the while thinking it’s Mexican Independence Day (NOPE) but I digress…
    Imagine my exuberance when I rolled in hot to Q and saw Rudy—RUDY!—who avoided BC Uptowner since its inception bc he was “training for the Double Nickel” which apparently is now a double nickel and a penny. Really, he just hates burpees and mistakenly thought Mahatma was the Q—jokes on u! This WOULD require an audible, lest I scare Rudy off forever. Warmup of the usual stuff plus 5 burpees added in for Rudy plus it IS Cinco de Mayo.
    The Thang: (descriptions at the end) Start with Plank Hurdles the length of the football field with Bolt’s cringy playlist serenading and mocking us all at the same time. Make our way to the playground equipment for M.A.Y.O. where every letter represents a series of exercises:
    Morning Call (x5)
    Aiken Legs (x23)
    Yurpees (x5)
    Outlaws (x23)
    This is where the audible happened as I had a 100 burpee play list in the queue; switch to more M.A.Y.O.
    Mountain Goats (x23)
    Absolution (x5)
    Yurpees (x5)
    Outlaws (x23) u can’t unsee a group of men’s O faces…

    Return to the flag via backward mosey once on the track as a nod to knees over toes for 5 Yurpees (as Rudy astutely noted we skipped Y and did M.A.O. before leaving the gazebo area) plus Mary to fill the time—no short-changing the pax. Apple Watch said the BD was sufficient as did my sweat soaked shirt—Bogey concurred at coffee. Honored and humbled, men.

    Morning Call
    All but one PAX get into push-up position and hold the up position while one guy counts off doing 5 pull-ups. Every time a pull-up is called out, the PAX does a merkin. After 5 pull-ups, he joins the PAX and the next guy gets up and calls out his 5 pull-ups. The cycle continues until all have performed 5 pull-ups. No one leaves the push-up position unless it’s his turn to call out pull-ups or until all calls have been made.

    Mountain Goats
    Like Mountain Climbers but with an added goat kick (where both legs leave the ground simultaneously) – exercise is done on a four count … three mountain climbers (1 – 2 – 3) and the 4 is the goat kick. Get those legs up high to 45 degrees! Repeato until you’ve had enough.

    Absolution
    Start in plank position and perform a single Groiner (cadence “1” jump feet forward, “2” jump feet back), then Mahktar N’ Diayes to Chillcut position (cadence “3” & “4” with drop to each elbow), then Chilly Jack (cadence “5” feet out, “6” feet together), and finally Mahktar N’ Diayes to plank starting position (cadence “7” and “ONE, TWO, etc.” with rise on each hand).

    Aiken Legs
    Done in succession with no rest — 20 Squats, 20 Box Jumps, 20 Lunges (10 each leg), 20 Split Jacks (10 each leg forward). Rinse and Repeated as many times as you can.

    Yurpee
    Burpee Variation in honor of the Ruskie (Yuri Verkhoshansky) who developed Plyometrics to train Olympians. Merkin at bottom of burpee is a clap-merkin and on up portion there are 2 tuck jumps per burpee. Basically a Clurpee with 2 tuck-jumps.

    Outlaw
    Sitting in the position for flutter kicks, keep your feet together and make a big “O” with them. 10 reps to the right and 10 reps to the left or as many reps as the Q deems necessary.

    Plank Hurdles
    Done on a football field. In small groups of 5-6, everyone starts in the plank position in the end zone. 1st man from each group sprints to the 10 and planks, 2nd sprints, hurdles him, planks on the 20, 3rd man hurdles each, planks on the 30, etc. At the end of the group, 1st man sprints, hurdles everyone, etc. Everyone should finish in a plank in the opposite end zone.

  • Rudy incognito – from Kenna Brah

    YHC did his best to imitate the great one as Rusy turned up green around the gills. SO I atoned for missing Friday int eh follwing way:

    Warm Up:
    Mosey to the Pumps
    Mountail Man Pooper Good Mornings 10x
    Arm Circle Circuit 10x
    Hillbillies 10x
    Toy Soldiers 10x

    Pick a rock and go to parking lot:
    For each tree do the exercise and then return to starting line. OYO:
    5 OHP
    10 Chest Press
    15 Squats
    20 Rows

    Gather up – bring rocks to the pavilion with benches:

    On table top –
    Holding rock – Below the horizon leg lifts
    ON THE GROUND –
    Holding Rock LBC
    Holding Rock Flutter Kicks

    Cool Down stretch work, mosey back to the pile/flag
    COT