Author: Faceplant

  • Potatoes for Everyone!

    YHC met with two other spud loving PAX members for a cool morning in one of the City’s finest parks, with the best work out facilities. Oyster started us out precisely at 5:30 AM. We moseyed on over to the circle for the COP.

    Mix of merkins, Don Quixote’s, LBCs, side straddle hops, and more. YHC’s memory is failing but we did get in a good deal of merkins. Next Oyster moseyed us on over to the cage for a good ole’ fashion cage match. It went down like this: three rounds, three people, three exercises, timer runs to the fire hydrant and back, one does pull ups, and the other does inclined merkins. Repeato three times and then we were done.

    Next YHC after much cajoling was tossed the potato and off to the hill we headed. YHC may botch this explanation but it went down like this. Three people, three different exercises, the timer is at the bottom of the hill going through 100 burpees, 200 air squats, and 300 side straddle hops. Second person hangs out at the top of the hill doing a series of ab exercises, and the third person runs up to the top of the hill and changes place with the person at the top. We can call this one bringing down the person off the top of the mountain or just a plain old hill workout. To complicate it even more, the runner ran up to one higher tree along the hill each time. Confused, YHC is too, but we finished just a few minutes shy of the end time.

    Moseyed on back to the flag with a few merkins along the way back and finished out with a nice plank. YHC is probadly missing some things but the big data gods will be happy that YHC at least got the names right.

    Numbers and Names and Oyster took us out with some thoughtful words on considering others.

  • BLIMP Ride For One Plz

    BLIMP Ride For One Plz

    It was a quiet Monday morning in Forest Hill Park this morning. YHC posted with a fresh head full of ideas from the Exicon. It went down like this. After some brief stretching at the tennis court, the solo beatdown started.

    B.L.I.M.P.S. was on the menu today and it goes down like this:

    Six rounds, four corners each, with running between each corner. First round 10 Burpees at each corner, second round 20 lunges at each corner, third round 30 imperial walkers, fourth round 40 merkins, fifth round 50 plank jacks, and sixth round, 60 squats. That little routine took up the better part of the time, but there was a few minutes to spare before YHC’s carriage turned into a pumpkin…

    So ran on down to the bottom of the hill of ill repute, then ran back up stopping at each light pole for 10 merkins. Back up to the flag for some quiet reflection.

  • B.O.M.B.S. Over Batteau

    B.O.M.B.S. Over Batteau

    Two Hot Potato Warriors showed up this morning for a humidity filled 45 minutes of body conditioning. In typical Batteau fashion the hot potato was warming in the oven, and Double Mint put on his work gloves and picked it up.

    We started with a mosey on down to to top of the steps near the storage yard for some lite stretching. First order of business was side straddle hops, then Don Quixotes, russian solders, then a few other stretches that are escaping YHC.  

    YHC picked up the potato having just read the Exicon at the stop lights on the drive over, and had some ideas. Moseyed on down to the bottom of the hill of ill repute for a little modified B.O.M.B.S action. First person runs to the first light pole and back again, while the second person is churning through 100x Burpees, 100x Over-Head Claps, 100x Merkins, 100x Big Boy Situps – which became regular WW2s, and 100x Squats. Finishing all of this in record time YHC and Double Mint had to go back up the hill some how.

    Lunges up to the first light pole then 100 flutter kicks, mosey up to next light pole and 50 WW2s, mosey up to the next light pole and 50 LBCs. By that time it was getting close so mosey on back to the flag for a final bit of sweat.

    Freddie Mercury’s, Fudskies, and Wilsons, and that is a wrap.

    Moleskin: It was a good humid morning and YHC was very glad to have some company. Happy to hear the good news on Double Mint attaining his Black Belt in Taekwondo (correct me if I am getting that right). YHC barely has time to make dinner every night while Double Mint has been putting in the extra effort to attain this amazing accomplishment. Very impressive, so big congrats. I wish him well on his next adventure in Boxing!

    Bonus points to anyone who can name the type of boat in the picture!

    See you all in the Gloom.

  • Two Keydets, One Hill

    Two Keydets, One Hill

    In typical YHC fashion, just a few days late with the BB. Batteau was looking pretty quite when YHC arrived on Monday morning, but thankfully another Keydet showed up to join in the fun. In typical Batteau fashion there was a big steaming hot potato waiting for us when we got there. Flatline picked up the potato to start us off with some warm-up exercises that consisted of… Helicopters, Donny Q’s, reverse scopions, and several other exercises that are escaping YHC’s memory now.

    The potato was passed on to YHC, and having just read through the Exicon before exiting the car, the ideas were flowing. Mosey on down to the bottom of the hill, and since there were two of us, a little Burp-Back-Mountain was in store. Burp-Back-Mountain went like this. One of us is at the bottom of the hill and starts doing 100 Burpees, the second person does Bernie Sanders up to the first light pole then runs back down to pick up on the Burpees, while the other is Bernie Sanders-ing up the hill to the light pole, and so on and so forth until we get to 100 Burpees. THEN mosey on up to the next light pole up the hill, rinse and repeat, this time 100 WW2’s if YHC recalls and Bernie Sanders up the hill to the next light pole. Next came 100 Merkins, but no Bernie Sanders, that was replaced with Bear Crawl. Then last but not least 300 air squats/lunges with Bernie Sanders run up the hill. This was more than enough for the two Keydets to get done, so we moseyed on back to the flag after all was said and done.

    Flatline took us out with some very thoughtful and calming words. It was a heck of a morning and YHC is probadly forgetting some things. Very thankful to have Flatline join YHC that morning. It was a great start to the week!

  • Batteau By Yourself

    Batteau By Yourself

    One lone PAX at Batteau this morning ready to do battle against the fart sack. Thankfully YHC did a quick read through the Exicon and Lexicon and was fresh full of ideas.

    YHC started out with some light warm-up stretches, then quickly proceeded to do the first exercise – Burp Back Mountain. This usually requires two but since there was one, it was modified and YHC did everything. Started out at the bottom of the big hill, did 10x burpees then Bernie Sanders up to the first light pole, then run back down, and repeat the run 5x. Do 10 more burpees, then Bernie Sanders hill run 5x, and repeat until 10 rounds are complete – 100 total burpees.

    YHC overestimated and it took the entire time to complete the entire thing. Moseyed back up to the top after completion and there was a quick prayer and no announcements 😉

    Can’t wait to break out Burp Back Mountain next time to share this great routine.

  • Happy Friday on a Thursday

    On the eve of our Nation’s independence day weekend five morning warriors arrived at Mary to find that no one had the Q. Bodos stepped up and took the potato and we all moseyed on over to the blacktop for some much needed stretching.

    It went down like this… some Swirley bend over and touch your toes stretching to begin, Donny Q’s, Helicopters… YHC’s memory is failing on the rest of the warm-up exercises as the Independence Day weekend beverages are already in play.

    YHC feeling insipired volunteered to take the potato… and apparently the BB too. Moseyed over to the far corner of the blacktop for Hindenburg BLIMPS. It went down like this. Six rounds, start with ten reps of an exercise in each corner of the blacktop, running between each corner. Second round, change the exercise and increase the reps by 10, so 20 exercises in each corner running between corners, and on up to 60. First exercise was burpees, second round was air squats, third round was side straddle hops, fourth round was YHC forgot, fifth round was team effort merkins, each person took ten merkins for a total of 50 at each corner, sixth round was mountain climbers.

    Passed the potato on to Handshake for a modified five person Dora. Two people doing dips, two people doing wall sits, and the last lone ranger timer ran to pull up bars and did 5x pull ups. Did that for 3 rounds.

    Potato got passed then to Hitchhiker, for what was a very tough exercise… Moseyed over to the tennis courts, starting on the baseline bear crawls to the net, 10x walk out merkins, then polar bears to the opposite baseline, 20x LBCs, then polar bear back, 10x walk out merkins at the net, and bear crawls to the baseline.

    But we still had 2 minutes left, so Hitchhiker was kind enough to pass the hot potato on to Pucker for the final round. Ran up and down the baselines and karaekoed along the net, for all five tennis courts. Final mosey back to the flag.

    Numbers and names to round us out and, Pucker took us out with some kind words. YHC took the BB since the Hindenburg Blimps took up 90% of the time. Great work this morning gents.

  • Vacation is over

    Two Keydets showed at Batteau this morning, one coming off a nice family beach vacation, the other getting ready to go into a similar battle in the coming days. in typical Batteau fashion the hot potato had the Q this morning.

    YHC moseyed everyone over to tennis courts for some good stretching. It went like this – various reps of Donny Q’s, helicopters, imperial soldiers, right leg over left leg, the reverse, Fuddskies, Wilsons, and some side straddle hops to get the blood pumpin.

    Mosey over to the parapet area where we proceeded with three rounds of 10 incline merkins, 15 dips, run to the top of the hill and back. To balance out the muscle groups, next three rounds included 20 WW2s and 30 flutter kicks.

    Flatline took the potato and ran us down to the lake. First lap around the lake 3x merkins at each light pole, second lap 5x jump squats at each light pole.

    Mosey back up the hill to the tennis courts with time to spare for a little Mary. We did some WW2s, hand release merkins, Freddie Mercury’s, plank at various heights, and some other fun exercises that have escaped my memory.

    Back to the flag for names and numbers. YHC appreciated having some quality Keydet time with a fellow alum that he has great respect for. Flatline took us out with some kind words.

    Also props to Flatline for posting while on family vacation!

  • A Trip Down Exicon Lane

    Feeling like groundhog day, the same three warriors descend upon Forest Hill Park as last Monday. When Hardywood asked what YHC did this past weekend, YHC really had to think hard because every weekend just seems to be the same thing over and over. Where’s the excitement in that. In an effort to mix it up YHC decided to paruse the good ole’ F3 Lexicon and Exicon for some fresh ideas.

    What started out as a hot potato quickly became a full on Q and YHC didn’t even know it. In typical Swirley fashion, we moseyed on down to the coupon pick up zone but no coupons for us this morning. Swirley lead us in proper stretching

    YHC recalls the following, some bending over and touching toes, helicopters, right foot over left foot and touch the toes and vis-a-versa, merkins, and WW2s. As Swirley went on, YHC decided to try and impress the PAX and volunteer for the next hot potato. YHC took the potato and the PAX moseyed on over to the great valley of Forest Hill Park.

    Arriving at the valley YHC introduced the PAX to the run routine called Hindenberg BLIMPS which is modified version of BLIMPS. YHC further modified the routine from 6 rounds to 10, because we just wanted to be extra on a Monday morning. It goes down like this – picked four points, two on either side of the valley to make an approximate square. Round one starts out with 10 reps of an exercise at each of the four points of the square, with of course running in between to get to each corner. Started with 10 reps for round 1, then 20 reps for round 2, 30 reps for round 3, and you quickly get the picture here, on up to 10 rounds. The exercises for each round was as follows:

    1. Burpees
    2. WW2s
    3. Plank Jacks
    4. Imperial Walkers
    5. Side Straddle Hops
    6. Freddie Mercury’s
    7. Group Merkins – PAX split up all 70 (24 each)
    8. Single Count Mountain Climbers
    9. High Knees
    10. Victory Lap – No reps, just run as fast as you can touching each corner

    Some of the ones in the middle were a bit fuzzy to YHC due to the extremeness of this workout.

    YHC tried to hand off the Q to Hardywood with just seconds to spare to try and get out of writing the BB, but Hardywood was too smart for those shenanigans. YHC moseyed the PAX back to the start and lead everyone in some final exercises that consisted of Wilson’s, Fudd’s, and finished out with the Have-a-Nice-Day in the cool grass while the rain fell on our faces.

    Names

    Numbers

    Announcements: July 4th Convergence – Don’t forget it! Stay tuned for an announcement on BRR replacement… Sounds like something is in the works in replacement of BRR.

    Hardywood took us out with some thoughtful and kind words.

    Always a pleasure gentlemen.

  • Extreme Social Distancing

    Policeing my own today… If a Faceplant posts in the woods of Batteau all by himself does he post a backblast? The answer to that question is a resounding yes as I embrace Big Data now.

    Since Faceplant was the sole poster this morning, the potato was cold and was carried the entire time by one.

    It went down like this, stretches in the requisite tennis court area. Then run down to the gym for a pull-up ladder starting at 5 down to 1 then back up to 5.

    Moseyed on down to the pit area, 10 incline merkins, 10 dips, run up the hill do 20 air squats then repeat 5 times. After that headed down the hill to the lake for a Faceplant favorite lap around the lake – Stopping at each light pole for alternating 5 burpees and 10 WW2s. Made my way around the lake, and headed up the hill of ill repute, alternating between lunges and running between each light pole. At each light pole stopping to do 20 Merkins. Ended at the top of the hill right at 6:15.

    Names and numbers were quick, Faceplant took us out.

  • Hogatron

    YHC wants to thank all that came out this morning to help remember a good friend and get some exercise in too. The morning went down like this.

    Brief introductions, social distancing warnings, and all the obligatory commentary. We started out with a warm-up of three Don Quixotes, and then the PAX was ready. We moseyed on up Grove towards Lexington/Albemarle, went through the neighbhood, came out on the other end, and headed to Hillcrest Ave. to go wake up TYA. Once we arrived at Hillcrest Ave, YHC had conveniently left a chalk starting line drawn on the pavement. For anyone counting it is exactly one mile away.

    YHC explained that April 2nd is the birthday of a good old friend of two of the PAX-ers who had passed away in 2012. Today would have been Shawn Hogan’s 36 birthday, and that was the magic number of the day. Shawn was an avid runner and exercise enthusist, and YHC would have liked to think he would have enjoyed a good workout on a hill. So hill we did, the PAX started out running down Hillcrest Ave, until we arrived at an exercise drawn in the pavement with chalk. Memorize that exercise then run back up to the top of the hill and do 36 of said exercise. With each exercise we ran further down the hill and had to run further back up. The exercises went like this:

    1. Merkins
    2. LBCs
    3. Burpees
    4. WW2s
    5. Side Straddle Hops
    6. Burpees
    7. No one will ever know…. We didn’t get past this one.
    8. More mystery

    At an appropriate time for all we moseyed on back to the flag, and with time to spare because YHC assumed it was going to be a much slower run back, we finished our 36 Burpees, then stretched it out with Wilson and Fuddskie, Right Knee Right Elbow, Left Knee Left Elbow, and a new one. YHC was introduced to while posting to some Raleigh area F3 locations. It’s called the ‘Have-A-Nice-Day’. Let YHC explain: you lie down on your back, that’s it.

    We wrapped up with names, and numbers, and no announcements. YHC took us out.

    Thank you again to everyone that joined in to help remember a dear friend to me (and least we forget Handshake’s old college roommate!). I was happy to share some stories about a good dude, who has left an indelible mark on my life. Until next April 2nd!

    For those of you that want to learn more about the inspiration for today’s workout:

    Army Green Beret Captain Shawn G. Hogan

    https://army.togetherweserved.com/army/servlet/tws.webapp.WebApps?cmd=ShadowBoxProfile&type=Person&ID=218784

    https://www.runforthefallennh.com/army-capt-shawn-g-hogan.html