Ten running redwoods embarked on a fun and likely route. After discussing the various winter gear making its way into the Pax’s rotation, off we went.
East on Grove, North on Antrim, West on Monument, South on Willow Lawn, and West on Patterson. 4s take a left on Westview, 5s on Maple, and 6s on St Chris. Everyone returns on Grove with 5s/6s doing a lap around the school block.
Bone Thugs took us out.
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Thoughts go to Bone Thugs as he embarks on his half marathon this weekend.
A thin layer of gloom hovered over the parking lot of Huguenot High as YHC waited for the PAX to arrive for the second NTB beatdown of the week. Low turnout was to be expected given the option of an Orange Crush birthday bash, but after a silver sedan took a lap through the parking lot and then exited back onto Forrest Hill, YHC knew it was going to be the ultimate “you vs. you” morning. Mosey on!
Warmarama at the flag pole.
Brickyard 400 – Mosey around to the amphitheater for a Snuff-inspired pyramid.
Beep ($#&*%) Test – Mosey down to the football field for YHC’s inaugural beep test. While traditionally conducted on a 20m interval, YHC did the math and shuttled between the goal-line and 21-yard line which is close enough. Scored a 7.9. Finished with a cooldown lap around the track and then mosey BTTF for a few minutes of self-reflection and prayer for the PAX.
7 men met and they worked out with kettlebells. That’s what we do at the Circus. The theme was 16 for my daughter’s birthday and 20 for my years as a married man.
COP: DQs, DMH, Merkins, MCs, add in a little Suzanne Somers since she passed (I did not make them do 76 of them thankfully), LBCs. Mosey for some 1620s.
Sit and Press do 2 sets of 8 and 2 sets of 10. Mosey a bit.
Then Bench press 16 and 20. Mosey and repeato the 16 and 20 with Lawnmowers pulls (which I called dumbbell rows – who calls them that?), Step ups 1 count, High pulls and Finish with 2 count flutter kicks with coupon.
Mosey to bus loop. Line up. Pacer runs to end of bus loop and back. Others do burpees, bicep curls, overhead presses, swings, LBCs and coupon squats. SOS the second time with bear crawls and bernies as the pacer and the third time lunges and run back as pacer.
Finish with prayer. Please pray for Whitesnake’s father n law as he grieves the loss of his M and goes through the pains of needing specialized care.
Thanks for letting me lead and for finding a way for the Jets to beat the Eagles even without a decent QB.
Fireman Ed
5 bootcampers and 4 runners made their way to SOT to see what Doozy had in store, we won’t talk about the runners but according to the conspiracy camera duct taped to Hardywoods van this is what happened.
Mosey to the Bus lot for COP
DQ’s, Helicopters, 10 burpees, 10 WWII’s, 9 Burpees, 9 WWII’s (Hermie starts to see a pattern) all the way to 1
Mosey to the front of the school.
33 doors lets do it
Start at door 1 with American Hammers, Door 2 Squats – so on and so on until all 33 doors are done
Little time left so why not try to get some 11’s in curb to curb
Start with 10 dips on the benches, Lunge to the opposite curb for 1 incline merkin reverse Lunges back
Time called BTTF
Numbers / Names Hardywood took us out
NMS:
NTB said no Burpees at No Toll, Not on my watch sir.
Originally YHC had planed to do Burpees and American Hammers at the doors but cooler heads prevailed.
8 aspiring comedians descended on Mary Munford to get their sweat on and enjoy a Fudd beatdown. Here’s how things progressed:
The Thang: Mosey to COP at the Northwest corner of the property.
SSH x 50
Arm circles small forward x 20
Arm circles small backward x 20
Arm circles big forward x 10
Arm circles medium backward x 10
Merkins IC x 10
Hello Dollys x 20
Speed skaters x 20
Maybe something else
Mosey to the map of the country on the blacktop for various exercises done to the music of Sixwire’s “The Beast” which is one continuous succession of 22 different songs done with instrumentals only (mostly guitars) and ends with…..you guessed it, Free Bird. The PAX did 2 rounds of the following exercises, transitioning at every song: Burpees, SSH, LBC’s, Merkins, Squat jumps, Flutter kicks, Alternating lunges, Speed skaters, Wide grip merkins, Hello Dolly’s, Plank.
Mosey to the pull up bars for 2 rounds of the following:
3 pullups
6 hanging leg raises
9 merkins
12 Lt Dans
15 SSH
18 LBC’s
Partner up for 2 rounds of the following: partner one bernie sanders around the track and P2 does 5 burpees and runs after P1. When they meet, the switch places and P2 does 5 burpees and chases P1. Rinse and repeat until lap is completed.
Mosey back to the SF for various Mary exercises.
Numberama, Namerama, YHC took us out.
NMS:
So many titles could have been chosed for this backblast due to the plethora of jokes and laughs that occurred today in the gloom. YHC couldn’t decide on one so I didn’t. For starters, today was TYA and Saab’s first bootcamp workout since going out on IR, and YHC was honored that they chose today to do so. Saab was quick to return to his cantakerous, contrarian ways by stopping during the first COP exercise, SSH’s, after about 20 and just standing there for a while. Bodos followed suit a bit and the rest of the PAX powered all the way through to 50. During the first round of arm circles, Saab voiced his displeasure with this exercise, which prompted YHC to add 3 more rounds, to everyone’s enjoyment and amusement.
The Beast song/exercise seemed to be well received by the PAX and mumblechatter was high. Watching Saab do the speed skaters was the highlight of my week. Instead of swinging his arms speed skater style, he spread his arms and hands and did a curtsy with each movement. Having two daughters that take ballet, YHC was amazed at Saab’s form. It was as good as these professionals (see link: https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?fr=mcafee&ei=UTF-8&p=ballerina+curtsey&type=E211US714G0#id=1&vid=45584271313d1c06a3f7a797cf97d7b4&action=click)
The track work was a nice balance to the bootcamp exercises from the first two stations, and everyone seemed gassed by the end. This was one of the most enjoyable workouts that YHC has attended in some time. The laughing started before we even launched and didn’t finish until the end. It reminded YHC of the early days of F3RVA when everything was new and exciting and funny as hell. I wish I could bottle this and take it around to every AO to be opened every morning. Alas, we’ll have to rely on each other.
Given the job struggles that YHC has endured recently, today’s fellowship was exactly what the doctor ordered. Thanks as always men for letting me lead. I love you guys and appreciate you more than I’ll ever be able to put into words.
Fudd
13 dudes ready to party hardy joined YHC for a little birthday celebration. October 19th, marks another pass around the sun for YHC and, per usual, a few fun birthday games were created for the PAX.
Mozey to the basketball court for a little Warm-a-rama –
YHC had a great idea to use Stevie Wonder’s Happy Birthday song for a little Sally Up/Sally Down action, but the JBL didn’t work, the sound off of YHC’s phone just wasn’t cutting it and squats/burpees combo was well…dumb. So, an audible was called about 30 seconds into that disaster. Note, YHC’s M told him that this was a stupid idea at the kitchen table last night. Death to anyone that tells her that she was right. Other exercises –
Mozey to the tennis courts for Birthday Suit ’47’s.
Starting with YHC in tennis court #1, an exercise was called and the first person to 47 1) gets to choose the next exercise and 2) must shed an article of clothing. All good exercises chosen and it was dark enough that the school’s cameras surely didn’t pick up on any nudity of the PAX. The kernel of this idea is credited to DTH; I wasn’t able to upload the PowerPoint presentation that he sent to me, but it did recommend a 12 count burpees/merkins/smurf jack thing.
After the Birthday Suit ’47’s, line up on the baseline for some shots, burpees and sprints. YHC supplied the red solo cups and poured a hearty shot of Tequila (cleverly disguised as Gatorade) for each member of the PAX. PAX downed the shot, did a burpee and sprinted back and forth across the tennis courts. Two rounds, two shots and then off to the football field for some 1976ers.
Starting at the goal line, complete 19 Squats, 19 Two Count Lunges and 19 Monkey Humpers moving 10 yards forward after completion. Stop at the 50. Candidly, a bit tougher on the legs than YHC would have liked. Starting on the 50, complete 7 Merkins and 6 Wide Grip Merkins proceeding 10 yards forward until the goal line is reached. Mozey back to the flag for…
19 Burpees OYO and a plank hold while singing Happy Birthday to OC to close ‘er out. Good times.
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YHC took us out.
Man, YHC is sooo grateful to have been able to start the first day of 47 day with 13 great dudes. YHC loves to laugh and mix in a bit of exercise – mission accomplished this morning. Thank you.
Not enough guys for Draper to pull out a Magic Mile so the group opted for a loop into Salisbury with modifications on the fly – Bullseye opted to run in the dark down the gravel road. Good conversation made the pace pick up through the middle miles.
4 men posted for some iron tossing. PAX decided to do a hot potato Q.
Bulkhead Q
Yardsale Q
4 corners (C1 – 40x demon crushers, C2 – 40x heels to heaven w/ pump, C3 – 40x lawn mowers, C4 – 40x calf raises
Partner up – 100x squats between partners, Dora style with lap around parking lot
Corned Beef Q
Boat canoes, stretching to close out
Names, numbers, Corned Beef took us out
Welcome back Spit!
The Thing Regular Cul-De-Sac workout for us, run to neighborhood and 20 merkins and 20 LBCs each cul-de-sac. 10 cul-de-sacs once completed mosey around pond long way and then over to John Rolfe to get back to the flag. 4.25 miles covered, 200 merkins and 200 LBCs. Great combo for getting chest abs and some fat burn. Q closed with prayer.
5 gathered to enjoy the fall temps and get our workout in. We cover 3.8 miles of distance with some workout in the midst. Ran from flag over to Barrington neighborhood, first cul-de-sac we warmed up with 15 Side straddles, 10 Ukrainian solders, 10 merkins, and 10 Suzzanne Summers to pay tribute, mosey down the road to another street end, 20 merkins 20 LBC and 5 burpees, mosey around and find anothe cul-de-sac to start 11’s Merkins and Jump squats. Turned out to be a big spread of distance and covered 2 miles doing 11’s. headed back to flag, loop around bus loop, finished with 20 merkins, 20 LBCs, 5 burpees and 1 minute plank to end the time YHL closed us in prayer. Praying for White snakes family with the loss of his Mother in law and Father in law who needs care full time.