Author: Jim Huddle

  • It’s snowing!

    But not during the workout. I grew up on the Mississippi Gulf Coast and so I still like seeing snow.

    Mosey to corner Parking lot and give standard disclaimer

    • 20 SSHs
    • 10 Man-Maker Merkins
    • 15 Crunchy Frogs
    • Stretch

    Mosey to Asphalt playground

    • 20 IWs
    • 10 Diamond Merkins
    • 10 each side Suzanne Sommers
    • Stretch

    Mosey to corner parking lot

    • 20 Squats
    • 10 Stagger Arm Merkins
    • 15 Knee Ups
    • Stretch

    Mosey to asphalt playground

    • 10 Don Quixotes
    • 10 Stagger Arm Merkins
    • 15 Ukrainian Hammers
    • Stretch

    Line up on sidewalk to the asphalt playground for 11s

    • Mike Tyson & V-Ups

    To the grass playground in back; Count off by 3s. Rotate Counter-Clockwise. (Apparently, some people are a bit confused about which direction is counter-clockwise.)

    • 10 Get-ups at the swings, (lay on you back and then stand up without using your hands)
    • 20 Hanging Knee-ups at pull-up bars,
    • 30 Dips at benches,

    To the wall for

    • 15 People’s chair airpress
    • 10 BTTW hip slaps in cadence
    • 15 Donkey Kix
    • 15 People’s chair Milkers
    • 10 BTTW Australian Mountain Climbers
    • 15 Donkey Kix
    • 15 People’s chair Muhammad Ali
    • 10 BTTW Toe Taps
    • 15 Donkey Kix

    On the patio in front of the wall for

    • 60 count 6-inch leg lift

    Time’s up!

    Announcements:

    Grow-Ruck: May 4 weekend. Check Slack

    1 year Q for Purple Rain at Rock N Roll:

  • Pork Rind Appreciation Day

    https://www.convenience.org/Media/Daily/2023/September/5/6-A-Pork-Rind-Appreciation-Day_Marketing

    Whitesnake informed me that February 11, 2024 is the 15th Annual Pork Rind Appreciation Day! Truly, a day to celebrate! In honor of that day, I Q’d today (a month early). And we even had a visitor from Roanoke, Centrum Silver, to celebrate with us!

    Of course, we began with the standard Disclaimer: “If you hurt yourself, it ain’t my fault.” (Alternative Disclaimer “If you hurt yourself, you shouldn’t play kickball.”)

    Warm-up: All in cadence

    • 20 SSHs
    • 20 IWs
    • 20 Ukrainian Soldiers
    • 10 Don Quixotes

    Walk to the covered walkway for the ‘Atilla Escalator’. It works like this:

    1st Curls
    2nd Swings
    3rd Triceps
    4th Squats
    5th Overhead Press

     

    • 1st round: 5 reps of the 1st exercise (Curls)
    • 2nd round: 5 reps of the 2nd exercise, 10 reps of the 1st exercise
    • 3rd round: 5 reps of the 3rd exercise, 10 reps of the 2nd exercise, 15 reps of the 3rd exercise
    • 4th round: 5 reps of the 4th exercise, etc.
    • 5th round: 5 reps of the 5th exercise, etc.
    • 6th round: 10 reps of the 5th exercise, 15 reps of the 4th exercise, 20 reps of the 3rd exercise, 25 reps of the 2nd exercise (drop off the 1st exercise)
    • 7th round: 15 reps of the 5th exercise, etc.
    • 8th round: 20 reps of the 5th exercise, etc.
    • 9th round: 25 reps of the 5th exercise.

    Run around the ‘Island’

    Stretching exercise.

    Repeat ‘Atilla’s Escalator’ with the following set of exercises

    1 Lawnmower (each arm)
    2 Lunge (each leg)
    3 Overhead Pull
    4 Halo
    5 Upright Row

     

    Run around the ‘Island’

    Stretching exercise.

    We still had a little time left so:

    • 20 Flutters in cadence
    • 10 Ukrainian Hammers in cadence
    • 15 Bench press in cadence
    • 60 count 6 inch leg lift

    Numberama,

    Namearama

    No Announcements:

    Take out by YHC. “Life is so ironic, it takes sadness to know what happiness is, noise to appreciate silence and absence to value presence.”

  • Somebody nose

    I need to write a backblast for yesterday’s workout.

    At 5:30, somebody nose what we are going to do today. It turned out to be YHC. We decided to follow our knows to the Dave & Buster parking deck for stairclimbing. I sniffed out a shorter distance so that I would get there about the same time as Lighthouse, Pinto and Whitesnake. Actually, I got there slightly before they did and kept running in their direction. Right at the corner of the parking deck, we bumped noses. I no, running that close to the corner was poor judgement on my part.

    The gameplan; start at the bottom of one stairwell, run to the top level, run across the top level over to the other stairwell, run to the bottom, turn around and run back to the top level, return across the top level to the first stairwell, run to the bottom and do 20 merkins. Now that everyone nose what to do, we repeated this evolution. I did 6 times and the others did 1 more than I did. I think I did 6 times, but nobody nose for sure.

    From here, Whitesnake and I followed our knows back to Pocahontas parking lot the most direct way. Pinto and Lighthouse no a longer way and so met us about 1 minute after we got back.

    Nosearama

    Namearama

    Announcements:

    2nd F at noon on the 2nd Tuesday at Firehouse Subs in Innsbrook (January 9).

    If you are wearing gloves and want to unlock your phone, there is a way to do so without taking off your gloves. Use your nose.

    Takeout: Life doesn’t allow us to go back and fix what we have done wrong in the past, but it does allow us to liver each day better than our last.

  • War Baby

    We arrived at Pocahontas at 5:27. It was raining. At 5:30, it was still raining. So we took a vote. Pig, Skin and Pigskin were all in favor of staying dry. We voted to drive to the Dave and Buster Parking Deck. For the third week in a row, we ran up the stairs in the stairwell, across the parking deck to the other stairwell, down to the bottom of the other stairwell, returned to the starting place and did 20 merkins. There was one slight revision. After running to the top of the stairs, we ran back down 1 level so we could avoid the top level and the rain. Total of 9 cycles, I think. After 9 cycles, it was about 6:15 so we did a few stretching exercises.  Numberama, Namerama. No announcements. Takeout by Piggy. Pigskin was awarded the coveted War Baby award.

  • Costa Rica

    No Lighthouse. He’s in Costa Rica. So Whitesnake and YHC more or less recycled last week’s workout. We run to the Dave and Buster’s parking deck. We went out the school to the left and cut thru West Broad Village. Once we got to the parking deck, we went up the stairs, across the top level, down the stairway, did 20 merkins and came back to the start. I think we did this 7x. Then we returned to Pocahontas the same way we came and had about 5 minutes left for some ab exercises.

    No announcements

    Matthew 6: Therefore, do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

    Lighthouse feeding a crocodile
    LIghthouse feeding a crocodile

  • Your Mom Fart-sacked

    The four of us looked at each other and asked: “who’s the Q for today”? Someone responded “your mom” signed up as Q. Apparently, she fart-sacked and so we had a ‘hot potato’. The following is approximately correct.

    Wedding Singer started out with a mosey to the 3rd Presbyterian parking lot for:

    • 20 SSHs in cadence
    • 10 Don Quixotes in cadence
    • Stretching
    • 10 Merkins in cadence

    And then we moseyed over to the office building beside the school for

    • 20 WWIIs in cadence
    • 20 Freddy Mercuries in cadence

    Mosey to the parking lot behind building (very short distance) and partnered up for

    • Partner 1 bear crawls across parking lot and jogs back
    • Partner 2 does Merkins
    • Switch with a goal of 100 Merkins

    Last Call took over and we used the cross walk to mosey to the office building between Ziontown, Ridge and Forest. We partnered up and did the following:

    • Partner 1 runs around the building
    • Partner 2 does WWIIs
    • Switch roles

    Second time:

    • Partner 1 runs around the building
    • Partner 2 does Merkins
    • Switch roles

    Last Call took over and we went to the parking lot with the cinder blocks and partnered up for a triple check

    • Partner 1 runs around the parking lot (timer)
    • Partner 2 does called exercise
    • 50 single count windshield wiper merkins
    • 125 curls
    • 200 squats

    YHC took over and we did

    • 30 Flutters in cadence

    Moseyed to the front of the school for

    • 20 Bench Kicks on the stairs in cadence

    Moseyed to the wall for Angry Donkeys.

    • 11s with People’s chair airpress and donkey kicks.

    And in the “courtyard” by the wall we did

    • 20 Pole Smokers (imaginary poles)
    • 20 APDs
    • 5x Pointing Dog (start on all fours, raise right arm and left leg and hold for a count of 10, switch arm/leg)
    • 60 count 6-inch leg lift

    Times up!

    Announcements

    12 Days of Christmas

    Takeout with some additional commentary by YHC:

    The Spanish have a verb “esperar”. This means ‘to hope’ or ‘to expect’. These words, expect and hope, do not mean the same thing. If you expect something, it will almost certainly take place. We expect Christmas in a week. It will certainly happen. But we hope for a season of goodwill and a coming new year better than this fast-expiring old one. (I hope we all had a great 2023 but I know there have been struggles for at least some of us.) Today, the years since the birth of Christ are called CE or the Common Era. But in years previous, this timeframe was Anno Domini or “In the year of the Lord”. The hope was that the presence of Christ in this world would bring us a world of peace and love. May 2024 bring us a bit closer to those ideals.

  • 2 right gloves

    Whitesnake brought 2 right gloves to the workout. Fortunately, I have a collection of gloves to choose from. The four of us ran to the parking deck with Dave and Buster’s. From there, we ran up one set of steps to the top, then ran over to the other set of steps and down to the bottom and then returned to the start. Upon returning, we did 20 merkins. I got 6 rounds in. The rest got 7 rounds in. Then we returned to Pocahontas. I took a short cut.

    No announcements

    Genesis: Then the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast? If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.” This is the basis for the novel by Steinbeck, “East of Eden”. Is the message of God to Cain, a message of hope? Is sin something you can overcome?

  • 71 Burpees

    Gracias a todos por celebrar mi último día a los 70 años. Upchuck gave up his Duolingo lesson to attend today so I had to provide a little español for him. Honeydo got his passport renewed in time to make it north of the river. Mr. Rogers left his dog at home. Atilla was stylishly dressed in all black. Handshake looked like a sausage in his tight shirt. Piglet made his second 5:30 AM workout. Too many others to mention except in the list below, but ¡Gracias!

    Mosey to loading dock in front of school for Disclaimer and Warmup: All in cadence

    • 20 SSHs
    • 20 IWs
    • 10 Don Quixote
    • 20 Squats
    • 10 Each side: Suzanne Sommers

    Mosey to Pemberton Parking lot for 11s

    • Burpees & V-Ups
    • Plank for the 6

    Mosey to pull-up bars behind School

    • 10 Pull-ups, 20 Merkins, 30 Ukrainian Hammers: 2X

    Mosey to Pemberton wall

    • Stretch
    • 10 Burpees OYO

    Mosey to wall at Quioccasin for

    • 15 People’s chair airpress in cadence
    • 10 BTTW hip slaps in cadence
    • 15 Donkey Kix OYO
    • 15 People’s chair Milkers in cadence
    • 10 BTTW Australian Mountain Climbers
    • 15 Donkey Kix OYO
    • 15 People’s chair Muhammad Ali in cadence
    • 10 BTTW toe taps in cadence
    • 15 Donkey Kix OYO

    Mosey to benches in front of Quiocassin, all of the following in cadence, 3X

    • 10 Bulgarian Split Squats (right leg)
    • 10 Bulgarian Split Squats (left leg)
    • 10 Derkins
    • 10 Dips
    • Stretch

    Mosey to flag

    • 6 Burpees OYO
    • 71 count 6 inch leg lift

    ¡Terminado!

    No Announcements

    Take out by YHC

    “Life doesn’t allow us to go back and fix what we have done wrong in the past, but it does allow us to live each day better than out last.”

  • Grateful

    We had 3 walkers due to injuries along with a couple of dogs. One of the dogs was an FNG. “What was your first concert?”

    Mosey to the Corner Parking Lot

    Begin with Disclaimer:

    I am not a professional. The idea is to get better, not to get hurt, so feel free to modify called exercises.

    Mosey to corner Parking lot

    • 20 SSHs
    • 10 Man-Maker Merkins
    • 15 Crunchy Frogs
    • Stretch

    Mosey to Asphalt playground

    • 20 IWs
    • 10 Diamond Merkins
    • 10 each side Suzanne Sommers
    • Stretch

    Mosey to corner parking lot

    • 20 Squats
    • 10 Stagger Arm Merkins
    • 15 Knee Ups
    • Stretch

    Mosey to asphalt playground

    • 10 Don Quixotes
    • 10 Stagger Arm Merkins
    • 15 Ukrainian Hammers
    • Stretch

    To the grass playground in back; Divide into 3 groups. Rotate Clockwise

    • 10 Get-ups at the swings, (lay on you back and then stand up without using your hands)
    • 20 Hanging Knee-ups at pull-up bars,
    • 30 Dips at benches,

    To the asphalt playground for 11s

    • Mike Tyson & V-Ups

    To the wall for

    • 15 People’s chair airpress
    • 10 BTTW hip slaps in cadence
    • 15 Donkey Kix
    • 15 People’s chair Milkers
    • 10 BTTW Australian Mountain Climbers
    • 15 Donkey Kix

    Mosey to the flag: Birddogs

    • How: Start on your hands and knees with a flat back. Contract your abdominals as you simultaneously slowly extend your right arm straight in front of you and your left leg, in line with your head. Keep your chin tucked. Visualize a glass of water on top of your back and keep your hips level enough so it doesn’t spill. Hold for three to five seconds. Return to start and perform three to five repetitions. We did about 6 of these, each side

    Time’s up!

    Announcements: Convergence Thursday 6:00 AM at Mary Mumford

    VQ at Dogpile on December 2 (sorry but I didn’t get whose VQ this is)

    Take out: Name something you are grateful for; F3, Family, Handshake and others for headlocks.

  • Rifle carry

    Turns out, the worst part of the 11s was the Rifle carry between the exercises.

    Classical music was provided. Standard Disclaimer given. No one almost passed out today. Or according to Friedrich Nietzsche: “What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger.”

    Warmup

    • SSHs, Ukrainian Soldiers, Don Quixote, stretch arms, stretch hamstrings.

    Deep Mountain Climber countdown

    • 20 Swings (single count)/20 Deep Mountain Climbers (Single count);
    • 18 Hammer Curls/Deep Mountain Climbers,
    • 16 Upright Rows/Deep Mountain Climbers,
    • 14 Triceps/Deep Mountain Climbers,
    • 12 Sit & Press/Deep Mountain Climbers,
    • 10 Press/Deep Mountain Climbers,
    • 8 Squats/Deep Mountain Climbers,
    • 6 Swings/6 Deep Mountain Climbers,
    • 4 Hammer Curls/Deep Mountain climbers,
    • 2 Upright Rows/Deep Mountain climbers.
    • Run around island:

    11s. We walked back and forth across the courtyard area to the Propane Tank and the door.

    • Renegade Rows, Rifle carry, Bench Press
    • Run around island

    Variation on 11s

    • Do 10 Merkins, Farmer’s carry one direction and waiter’s carry the other direction. We did the Countdown from 10 to 1 on Overhead pulls. Except we didn’t quite finish. I think we were down to about 3 overhead pulls to finish up the set.

    Back to the flag for numberama, namearama

    Announcements:

    Tuesday noon: 2nd F at Firehouse Subs on Tuesday (in 5 days)

    Convergence for Thanksgiving at Mary Mumford Elementary

    Take out by YHC. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” Aristotle