Tag: 45 Minutes of Mary

Five pre-sunrise warriors showed up and spent the first several minutes of the workout recounting how Bodo’s was stalking Faceplant at the soccer parking lot in anticipation of Faceplant finding out who put the parking ticket on his car.

Faceplant confesses to parking in an improper spot, but being a parking engineer Faceplant states that no one in the City of Richmond would ever enforce parking rules at the park.

After the pre-workout mumblechatter, we got down to brass tacks. With no Q on the sheet, the potato was thrown into the air and Bodo’s grabbed it and we were off.

Over to the picnic tables, for some stretching, and more mumble chatter, then we got on the picnic tables for a super ab workout. Next the potato was tossed to Faceplant.

There it was progressive merkins at each tree along the sidewalk on up to 10 merkins which got us to the blacktop. There we moseyed on over to the pull up bars for a Quint-check, Quant-check, Quan-check , or however you would call a triple check but with 5 dudes instead of 3, and we only do two rounds. Mix of merkins, dips, arm hangs, timer runs to the other bars and does two pull-ups, and then SSH.

Potato was then tossed over to Applesauce for four corners. How Bodos did not make us all do four corners is beyond me. That has been his go-to since the dawn of time. Four corners was good.

Then Swirly wrapped us up with a quick real triple check breaking into two teams, one with five and one with three.

Back to the flag by 6:15, where we did names, numbers, prayers, praises, and an impromptu discussion on the future of humanity and AI.

Big thank you to all that came out this morning, YHC truly appreciates what each and everyone of you bring to the table. An even 12 showed up which perfectly aligned with the game we were about to play. A lot of familar names from the first workout were there compared to my 1,000th. That is amazing to see!

It was fitting that 45MOM was the first workout I attended, and it was also where fittingly my 1,000th post was (at least per big data). Hat tip to Splinter for his Big Data Machine!

YHC checked the workout from many years back and it was sure intense thanks to Lockjaw, which ironically his first workout anniversary was on the same day as YHC’s first workout. It went down like this today on a hot a soupy morning:

Warmup – stretching and discussion. Maybe more discussion than stretching but it was good.

Next we moseyed on over to the tennis courts for the main event:

Rules of the Game

Break into two teams. The game runs for 15 minutes, with a new exercise every minute for the PAX staying at home base.

A cup rubber bears is placed at the opposite end of the tennis courts. The goal is simple: your team wants to finish with the most bears.

• One teammate stays at home base doing the exercise on the board while the other runs to get a bear.
• To take one bear from the cup, complete 1 burpee.
• Run the bear back to your team and complete 1 burpee to deposit it.
• Switch with your partner, who repeats the process.
• After 5 minutes, stealing is allowed. Instead of running to the cup, you can steal one bear from the opposing team. It costs 5 burpees to steal the bear, plus 1 burpee to deposit it with your team.
• Once the main cup is empty, the only way to get more bears is to steal them from the other team.
• Keep going until the 15-minute clock expires.

Team with the most rubber bears at the end wins.

We played two rounds and mixed up teammates randomly for the second round… Interestingly enough Senior Frog won both times. Thank you all for participating in YHC’s games. Over these years if there is one think you may have learned about me is YHC LOVES a good competition. Maybe some rules were bent this time but that is what YHC loves about this great thing we all have.

After it all ended, mosey back to the flag, for prayers names and numbers.

Announcements:

Convergence this Monday (PARK in the big parking lot where they do the south of the James farmers market)

Prayers: For friends of BT who’s kid is still in the hospital after an incident.

For our PAX battling stomach cancer – see post from Corned Beef with an update.

YHC took us out!

Thank you all for the opportunity to lead and be a part of a great thing!

Guess YHC should also thank Handshake for extending an invite many years ago.

A formidable Five gathered around Mary to participate in light calisthenics.  What they received was a different matter:  copious amounts of burpees and merkins. 

NMS: Due to the pax focusing their attention on other unrelated matters, there was little time or opportunity for YHC to administer his repertoire of NSFW Bob Einstein jokes. Maybe next time…

Good work out there today fellas…We hope Bodos made it home before the levee was breached… 

Saab abides

3 HIMs and 1 rucker converged in the dark parking lot of Mary for 45 minutes of bootcamp. As no pax was on the Q sheet, we commenced with a hot potato.

COP: Bodos took the start with some dynamic stretching

Triple Check: dips, wall sits, run to the pull up bar, 3 pull ups, run back. Potato passed to Swirly.

Picnic Tables: dips, incline merkins, step ups

Curb Crawls: bear crawl up to 5. Pass to Faceplant

Burpee Suicides: on the tennis courts, run to baselines, burpees, lots of em.

Back to the flag for final COP.

NMS: sorry for the late BB, good work gents!

Basic name for a basic workout.

Four dudes.

Warm-up.

Elevens: pull-ups and Lt. Dans

Ab work on the bars

Mosey and WWIIs

Running with Merkins sprinkled in

COT

“Do not put your hope in wealth, which is so uncertain, but put your hope in God, who richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment.”

(Paraphrase of 1 Timothy 6:17)

5 studs jumped into the hotbox of Richmond August for a sweaty beatdown. The following is what transpired:

Mosey to the corner of Willetta and Willetta for some COP warm up and stretching. Continue mosey to the end of Ashlawn Dr for more of the same. Mosey into Reveille UMC parking lot through the secret path and head to the Pavillion.

Table Work: Grab a place at a picnic table for 3 rounds of 3 sets of excercises in cadence. Round 1: Incline Merkins x10 IC, 3 sets. Round 2: Wingnuts x10 IC, 3 sets. Round 3: Dips x10 IC, 3 sets. Finish up with 10 Marios- hop up to the bench, hop up to table top, hop down the other side. Upchuck expressed concern about collapsing his table.

Dora: 100 Merkins / 200 Squats / 300 LBCs. P2 run to the brick wall and back.

mosey up to Andrim to the Orthodox Cathedral back parking lot.

Sevens (modified 11s). On one side of the lot, 6 Jump Squats. Bear crawl to the other side of the lot, 1 WW2. Run back across the lot. 5 Jump Squats, bear crawl, 2 WW2s and so on.

Mosey to the head of Kingcrest Pkway. Mosey back east toward the school, stopping in between each median to perform 3 burpees. 5 stops totalling 15 burpees.

COP back at the flag, American Hammers til time.

Numberama, Namerama, YHC took us out.

Great to have a solid pack of 5 this morning. At least 3 languages were used for a 10 count, and Romanian was not one of them.

SYITG

A tenatious 10 descended upon Mary to explore her inner regions. Here’s the thing…YHC had planned an off-campus workout with coupious amounts of running. However, a pair of jerusalem-gliders and a hip replacement offered a subtle hint to keep it local….YHC realized an audible was in order:

• Old Hundred with 1/4 runs around the track..
• Triple Check (b-to-wall, WWII, bear crawls and run out and back)
• bear crawl and crab walk back and forth across the court, while partner runs and out and back
• 5 minutes of Mary and a ring of fire – Merkin style…

Saab abides

Ten men celebrated the gift of life with an early morning beatdown at 45MOM. After a short mosey and some warm up COT, the thang commenced:

100 SSHs. run a lap around the blacktop

90 LBCS. run a lap.

80 Mtn Climbers 2x. run a lap.

70 Squats. run a lap

60 Merkins. run a lap.

50 American hammers 2x. run a lap

40 WW2s. run a lap.

30 Ball dippers. run a lap

20 Diamond Merkins. run a lap

10 Burpees.

Mosey to tennis courts.

Burpee Suicides: Run to the end of first court, 1 burpee, back to baseline. Run to second court, 2 burpees, back to baseline. third court, 3 burpees, back to baseline. fourth court, 4 burpees, back to baseline, 5 burpees. mosey back to the flag.

Ring of Fire til time.

NMS: great to have Labrat back out and to have Costco join us. Very welcome cooler temps, and great mumble chatter. Well done men! SYITG

The call was put out and 7 curious jeopardy contestants showed up to see what games YHC had in store. Saab was stalking the tennis courts pre workout and caught YHC planting some workout props.

Started with some much needed stretching, all the sound effects were there for the stretching routine. Then we moseyed over to the tennis courts for the fun.

It went like this – while downrange visiting F3 in Southport, NC YHC was introduced to this workout. It requires a coin and a whiteboard.

flip the coin and listed on the whiteboard is ten rows, in each row there is an exercise get heads do the heads exercise get tales do the tales exercise. Every other round run to the end of the tennis courts. Get to the end of the list – we got to finish the ones we didn’t flip so dig deep into the memory banks to do the remaining exercises all together.

After that we took another mosey around the track over to the smooth cool concrete of the covered area for Mary, becuse YHC is a benevolent Q, and didn’t want to subject the pax to the rough asphalt of the parking lot.

Names, announcements, and prayers, and YHC took us out.

Don’t forget to take a breaking break sign up!

Six men decided to brave the rain storm and see what Señor Frog had planned with his super lubed up CR rings.

COP- Standard warm up with introductions & disclaimers.

Mosey to Pull-Up play ground for 12 pull ups, Merkins & squats.

Mosey to tree line for Squats, Merkins & Scissor kicks.

Mosey to play ground for some partner Jerkins.

Burpee each tree to front benches for a few dips.

Mosey to parking lot wall for last man standing balls to the wall. *Special Mention to Vandelay for winning. He made Nacho proud.

Mosey to starting lot for some Mary until time was called promptly at 6:15AM.

See Slack for announcements.

No Prayer requests at this time. I guess all is right in the world….

Thank You WoJo for praying over us. You could give Bodos a run for his job. Well inspiring words of wisdom.

FROG OUT.