Author: Bulkhead

  • No Morning Wood

    YHC took the Rock N Roll Q as part of the DaVille takeover. I was also motivated to catch up on the merkin challenge.

    • COP
      • Parking lot tracers
      • SSHs
      • Imperial walkers
      • Don Quixotes
      • Arm circles
      • Cherry pickers
      • Shoulder taps
      • Trunk twists
      • Hand release merkins
      • LBCs
    • 11s
      • merkins and WWIIs
    • Mosey to big parking lot
      • Starting on a parking lot line, lunge 2 spaces do a squat, lunge back 1 space do a squat
      • Rinse and repeat until end of parking lot
    • 7 of Diamonds
      • R1 – 7x merkins
      • R2 – 14x flutterkicks
      • R3 – 21x merkins
      • R4 – 28x SSHs
    • Mosey to pull-up bar/dip bar area
      • 2 rounds of exercise stations, with a runner being the timer
    • Native American run back to starting parking lot with 1x burpees for end runner
    • 3 corners
      • C1 – 10x merkins
      • C2 – 10x merkins + 20 squats
      • C3 – 10x merkins + 20 squats + 30 LBCs
    • 3 minutes of stretching
    • COT and Florence took us out
    • Notes:
      • Rock N Roll is a great AO and the PAX was awesome
      • Hard work was put in by all
      • Thank you for letting me lead gents!

  • DaPile Hot Potato

    Three men started their weekend with a hot potato DaPile beatdown

    • Opus Q
      • COP
      • Mosey to hill across from football stadium parking lot
      • Triple check – P1 ab workout of choice, P2 merkin of choice, P3 leap frog to top of hill
    • Helix Q
      • Burpee suicides, reverse
    • Bulkhead Q
      • Triple check – P1 Hindu squats, P2 gas pumps, P3 touch a tree
      • Mosey to practice football field, partner flips x 3 rounds
      • Pole smokers bounding towards the flag
      • Mosey to flag, stretching

  • I-81 Crew

    Three LIFOs took on the day with some KB action.

    • COP
    • Tabatha
      • 20 seconds on, 10 seconds rest, 8 sets each exercise
      • Squats, curls, flutter kicks, calf raises, shoulder press, WWIIs, lawn mowers
    • Stretching

  • Stick with the Pack

    4 runners and 2 ruckers got in their daily dose of run and walk. The runners did a Giles, Craney Island, Atlee loop for 4 miles. Speakeasy ran ahead of the pack and got in 5 miles.

    No Idea and Yardsale did their ruck thing.

  • You want the Q?

    YHC pulled into Manndate without a plan in mind. Luckily the PAX motivated me to ad hoc a kettlebell beatdown.

    • COP
    • Parking lot stations
      • Thrusters, goblet squats, flutter kicks with kb presses, good mornings, run a lap x 3
      • Curls, tricep extensions, WWIIs, calf raises, kb carry half the parking lot loop x 3
    • Couple of minutes of boat canoe
    • Opus took us out
    • Great job gents, always great chatter at Manndate

  • Can you actually hear that?

    3 men started their day with an Anvil run. PAX decided to do a run/walk of the King’s Charter farmhouse loop and got 4 miles in.

  • BRR Recovery

    5 men posted at DaVille to get their week started right. YHC was very surprised to see Corned Beef this morning after his BRR adventure.

    • COP
    • Catch me if you can
      • P1 bear crawl
      • P2 mosey around inner bus loop
      • Repeat 3 times
    • Tennis drill
      • Mosey to the tennis courts and each PAX gets a court
      • The Q will call out a spot to run to (e.g., right baseline), the PAX runs to that point does a burpee and returns to the center baseline
    • 4 corners
      • Stay in the tennis courts
      • Corner 1 – 10 merkins
      • C2 – 10 merkins + 20 squats
      • C3 – 10 merkins + 20 squats + 30 LBCs
      • C4 – 10 merkins + 20 squats + 30 LBCs + 40 mountain climbers
      • Reverse the corners without the cumulative exercises
    • Mosey back to flag, numberama, namerama, Corned Beef took us out
    • Notes:
      • Congrats to Corned Beef for completing the BRR
      • Great effort by all today

  • Just smack it

    Hot potato Q at The Creek today. Good beatdown and good company as always.

  • Hot Potato Triple Check

    3 men showed up for a hot potato Q at Manndate.

    COP

    All kinds of KB triple checks

    • Notes
      • Great mumble chatter and hard work by all.
      • Yard Sale organizing a Milestone Saturday workout in September.

  • No headlamps required

    6 runners and 1 walker started the day right. YHC took the Q to try something different. The PAX were good sports and went along with the plan.

    • COP
      • SSH
      • Imperial squats
      • Invisible jump ropes
      • Butt kickers
      • Ukrainian soldiers
      • Don Qs
    • Sprints – Mosey to practice football field for some sprint training
      • Partner up starting at end zone line, P1 sprints to 10 yard line gets set, P2 sprints to 10 yard line, P1 sprints to back to starting point, P2 sprints to starting point. x 2
      • Rinse and repeat at increments of 10 yards (20 yds, 30 yds…, 100 yds)
    • Cool down jog around the school back to parking lot for some stretching.
    • Notes:
      • Great effort by all. Thanks gents!
      • Thirsty Thursday Happy Hour at Drive Shack in Short Pump next Thursday 8/25 starting at 5pm.