Author: Dealer

9 brothers hit the HHS freezer to honor the snake.

Mosey to bus circle for some curb-to-curb merkins/bear crawls and dips/crab walks. Mosey to another parking lot for side straddle hops, DQs, cherry pickers, and a sampling of Broga to complete the warmup.

Mosey to the soft, dry comfort of the turf football field for The Snake.

Start on corner of the field where goal line and sideline meet. Run along the goal line to opposite sideline. Run up sideline to 5-yard line, then run along 5-yard line to opposite sideline. Run up sideline to 10-yard line then drop for 10 merkins. Run along 10-yard line to opposite sideline, up sideline, back across 15-yard line, up sideline to 20 then drop for 20 mountain climbers. Repeat – 30 merkins at 30-yard line, 40 mountain climbers at 40-yard line, 50 merkins at 50-yard line. 

Halftime guest performance by Doozy singing his hit single “Man Killers.”

Do The Snake run on the back half of the field doing 50 American hammers, 40 flutters, 30 hammers, 20 flutters, and 10 hammers.

Mosey back to flag but hit Peoples Chair for a two minute hold.

Enjoyed the fellowship and mumble chatter and prayer. I’m not bringing my mom next week.

WARMARAMA
Mosey to the MS parking lot and ease into the warm up with dead man hangs. The copious amounts of groaning and moaning from the PAX during dead man hangs set a strong tone for the rest of the morning. Also mixed in Cherry Pickers, Merkins, DQs, Freddie Mercurys, LBCs, and helicopters.

THE THANG
Experimented with a new pearl called Clockwork Orange. Each man stands on side of hill. With feet in the center of the clock, do 1 burpee (at 1 o’clock), 2 WW2s (at 2 o’clock), 3 burpees (at 3 o’clock), 4 WW2s (at 4 o’clock), all the way around the clock until 12 o’clock. Needs improvement (i.e., do on flat surface or less steep hill).

No Mercy Mile was next on the list. Line up on track. Lap 1: 25 Merkins at midpoint of straightaway, run to curve, Bear Crawl curve, run to midpoint of straightaway, do 25WW2s, run to curve, Lunge curve. Lap 1 done. Rinse and repeat. Lap 2: wide grip Merkins, Bear Crawl curve, Alabama Prom Dates (even more moaning than the Dead Man Hangs during Warmarama), Lunge curve. Lap 3: More of the same but swapped Bear Crawls for Bernie Sanders and Lunges for Reverse Lunges. Only finished 3 laps because of time.

BTTF
Moseyed back to start after 25 Jerkins on an unsuspecting pole.

ANNOUNCEMENTS
Machismo’s office is coming along. Possible destination for a beer (not work) in the future.

NMS
Good to be with you boys this morning. Enjoyed the laughs and the rolling down the hill during Clockwork Orange. Also appreciate the life and family updates during our No Mercy Mile – really 3/4 mile.

7 roughnecks played 7 of Diamonds dealt by Dealer and enjoyed a burpee sandwich for dessert (Last Call’s favorite).

COP – Mosey to tennis courts for a mish-mash of side straddle hops, Ukrainian soldiers, dead man hangs, merkans, WWIIs with a few others. Eagle eye Machismo spotted Hardywood and Don Draper a quarter-mile away at the top lot and cat whistled for them to join us.

THE THANG – Played 7 of Diamonds on the plush turf football fields to protect our soft hands and old backs. 7 rounds of exercises done at each of the four corners of the diamond. Rounds 1-4 increase reps by 7; rounds 5-7 decrease reps by 7. For the first round, we did 7 burpees at each of the 4 corners with a mosey in between corners. Rd. 2 – 14 WWIIs at each corner with a mosey in between. Rd. 3 – 21 merkans at each corner. Rd. 4 – 28 squats…Rd. 5 21 mountain climbers 2-count…Rd. 6 14 LBCs…and finally Rd. 7 7 burpees hence the burpee sandwich.

Moseyed to ramp to practice a slice of Old Glory in honor of Dr. Try Hard (DTH) who is practicing good halfway around the world. Bear crawled halfway up ramp; lunged second half of ramp; 20 jerkins at top. Threw in 5 more burpees for good luck and mounted a 1-minute offensive on a coupon Machismo had in tow (work trailer).

Numberama, namerama, announcements (Diamond Billards tomorrow at 5/530 PM) for beers, pool, and fellowship. Prayed for Machismo’s growing business, DTH’s mission, and generally showing up well on all paths we walk.

5 men of The Forge decided to chance fate and give up Q control to co-VQers Dealer and House Party. It’s a morning I’ll never forgot. 

Dealer got the crew warmed up with some off-cadence Don Quixotes, Helicopters, and Merkins. Practice makes perfect, and Dealer’s got some YouTube “How to Count on Cadence” videos to watch. 

House Party cleaned up the mess with strong sets of 10 burpees – 20 squats – 30 WW2s – RUN; then 8 burpees – 18 squats – 28 WW2s – RUN; then rinse and repeat dropping by 2 until WW2s descended to 0.

Dealer ran the men through the Gloom to the place of 5 Oak trees for Bear Crawl in the Fall. Bear Crawl to second Oak tree in line – 10 ball dippers DC – mosey back to first Oak. Bear Crawl to third Oak – 8 ball dippers DC – mosey back to first Oak tree. Repeated until we conquered all 5 Oaks. 

Moleskin – Appreciate House Party partnering on the co-VQ. Grateful for the encouragement to snap VQ morning of. Glad for the coaching throughout.