Tag: Circus Maximus

Seven was the lucky number at Circus Maximus today.  Seven noble warriors and their weights linked arms to grow stronger.  Here is how it went down:

• COP
  • SSH
  • IW
  • DQ
  • Helicopters
  • Arm circles – forwards and backwards
  • Merkins
  • LBC
• Catch me if you can – pair off and have one man do 10 burpees while the other does a double barrel KB carry, once the burpees are complete, catch the KBs and switch
• KB escalator – 10, 15, 20 then 25 reps; add a new exercise as you move up the escalator
  • 70 sit ‘n presses
  • 70 overhead pulls
  • 70 skull crushers
  • 70 sumo squats
  • 70 swings
  • 70 lawnmower pulls each arm
  • 3 laps of the bus loop mixed in
• Mosey back to the shovel flag for some Mary
  • Boat/canoe
  • KB hammers
• COT with YHC taking us out

Great to have some visitors today as Snuff and Splinter joined the PAX.  Solid work from these warriors.  They were definitely more quiet than a vacationing White Deer.  Noble efforts from the remainder of the PAX.  Great start to a Thursday!

God is good all of the time!

Attila

• Attila

Today was a celebration.  Everyone’s favorite bag of hot air and flatulence turns 60 today.  The PAX was promised a workout with limited cardio, and White Deer delivered.  Here is how it went down:

• COP
  • White Deer SSH
  • Helicopters
  • Merkins
  • APD
  • LBC
  • Boat/canoe
• 60s – matriculate around the bus loop 2x performing 60 reps of 6 exercises, with a run of the bus loop in between laps
  • Curls
  • Sit ‘n presses
  • Lawnmower pulls
  • KB swings
  • KB pole smokers
  • Overhead pulls
• 3x check
  • Run the bus loop
  • Merkins
  • WWII sit-ups
• COT with YHC taking us out

HBD to White Deer!   He is loud, obnoxious and vulgar, but there is not a more faithful friend.  If you ever need something, there is not a more generous and dependable member of the PAX.  Do not let the farts and Viagra jokes fool you.  Double respect has been earned.  Great turnout to celebrate a PAX legend.  HBD brother!  If you missed him today, come to Gridiron on Saturday for a birthday encore.  If you late, no worries, we will still be within a 25 yard radius of the parking lot.

Home run derby at HBR on Tuesday.  Come to Tuckahoe Little League, not Quioccasin Middle. 

God is good all of the time!

Attila

The last Thursday before White Deer hits double respect.  A trinity of noble warriors converged for a KB workout.  Here is how it went down:

• COP
  • SSH
  • IW
  • Dead man hang
  • DQ
  • Arm circles – forwards and backwards
  • Helicopters
  • Merkins
  • Scissor side crunches
  • LBC
  • APD
• 4 corners – 5, 10, 15, 20 reps at different corners; weighted lunge walk between corners
  • Sit ‘n press
  • Overhead press
  • Curls
• 3x check
  • Run
  • Overhead pulls
  • Lawnmower pulls
• 20 flutter presses
• COT with YHC taking us out

YHC has a long workday ahead.  Just a simple God is good all of the time!

Attila

Another Thursday and another chance to link arms with 3 other faithful warriors.  Here was what was on the menu today:

• COP
  • Invisible jump ropes
  • Russian soliders
  • DQ
  • Scorpion kicks
  • Merkins
  • LBC
  • APD
• Mosey to the school for the following:
  • 10 2x chicken peckers
  • Bear crawl 20 yards to you KB
  • 15 lawnmower pulls each arm
  • Run back to the wall for a 1 minute wall sit
  • Rinse and repeat 4x
• Run the bus loop
• 3x check
  • Sit ‘n presses
  • Sit ‘n presses
  • Run
• COT with YHC taking us out

Been a long day and this BB is late.  Grateful to have started it with my brothers.

God is good all of the time!

Attila

Back from vacation and back in the saddle for Circus Maximus.  YHC was excited to rejoin the PAX today and here is how it went down:

• COP
  • SSH
  • IW
  • DQ
  • Arm circles – forward and backward
  • Helicopters
  • Scorpion kicks
  • Merkins
  • LBC
• KB carry to practice field, stop and do 15 lawnmower pulls each arm on the way
• KB Beast on the practice field
  • Sit ‘n press with a behind the back carry
  • High pulls with a right-handed waiters carry
  • Sumo squats with a left-handed waiters carry
  • Swings with a death crawl
  • Tricep presses with around the world carry
  • Curls with lunges
• KB carry back to parking lot, stop and do 15 lawnmower pulls each arm on the way
• COT with YHC taking us out

YHC has to admit that he has not read back blasts or group texts from the PAX while away.  Today could have been a repeat of prior weeks.  Still good to be with these men.

Convergence on Saturday at 7 a.m. at Dogpile. 

God is good all of the time!

Attila

The stimulus-funded weather station at GHS reported temps in the 50s, 4 PAX, 4 KBs, a ruck plate, and several attempted Attila Impressions. The signal was lost as the PAX moseyed around the back of the school, so the dog walkers picked it up from there:

COP: SSH, DQ, Helicopter, Cherry Pickers, Merkins, maybe something else

Donkey Bells: Inspired by the Mann Date crew, in turn inspired by HoneyDo, 20 DKs, lunge across the parking lot, then 20 Upright Rows, 20 Sit and Presses, 20 Swings. Repeato 3x.

Jack Webbs: Halos (1x) and Lawnmower Pulls (4x)

Soul Crusher: 15 Skull Crushers followed by 15 Pullovers. Repeato 2x or 3x? Either way, it was brutal.

KB Bear Crawl and Burpees

20 Squat and Presses, 20 American Hammers, 20 Curls. Repeato 2x.

NMS: A 513 number on the Circus text chain volunteered to Q in Attila’s absence but never showed. Turns out it is an impostor who has been playing along. Attila keyed in Lighthouse’s number wrong, missing one digit.

As YHC types, Byproduct is trying to pick her up with his collection of blue diamonds and White Deer is, well, delivering the full White Deer Experience.

Announcements:

July 4th convergence on July 3rd, get your F3 RVA Passport in July/August, July 31st F3 night at the Diamond, July 6th 3rd F on Zoom. If you just get your Passport, you won’t need to keep track of all the announcements.

The new stimulus-funded weather station at Godwin detected a new red kettlebell and also reported the following Circus:

White Deer led a COP with SSHs, DQs, Helicopters, Scorpion Kicks, Merkins, LBCs, APDs.

Lighthouse took charge and led the PAX through 2 laps of the bus loop, adding an exercise at each corner. 15 reps each. Exercises were: Lawnmower Pulls, Curls, Sit and Presses, Overhead Pulls, Sumo Squats, Swings, American Hammers, and Halos.

Offshore lined the PAX up in consecutive parking spaces for a Conveyor Belt with Right Snatches, Left Snatches, and Figure 8s while the timer lunged to the front space.

COT: Chum Bucket took us out.

Announcements: 3rd F on Tuesday, HDHH on Wednesday

NMS: YHC got a new kettlebell, which frees up a 30-lb ruck plate for another PAX – handles on both sides! ByProduct has first dibs, which could free up a 25-lb kettlebell for a new Circus participant. Maybe that 513 guy could join the PAX.

Time to get stronger.  Five noble warriors assembled at the Circus Maximus for our weekly beat-down.  Here is how it went:

• COP
  • SSH
  • Russian soldiers
  • DQ
  • Helicopters
  • Arm circles
  • APD
  • Merkins
  • LBC
• KB ladder – series of four exercises, starting at 10 reps and moving down to 1 (which really turned into 10), followed by a chaser of 10 lawnmower pulls (each arm)
  • Sumo squat to a high pull
  • Curls
  • Sit ‘n press
  • Shoulder press
• Run a lap of the bus loop
• Catch me if you can – one man does 10 burpees and then catches his partner doing a double barrel KB carry; rinse and repeat
• Ciabatta  with overhead pulls
• COT with YHC taking us out

Great work from the PAX today.  Big data requirement fulfilled. YHC is going to bed.

God is good all of the time!

Attila

Another Thursday, and in the immortal words of Christopher Walken, more kettlebell! (or something like that)   The rain held off and we avoided the bus drop off area.  Here is how it went down:

• COP
  • Invisible jump ropes
  • Russian soldiers
  • Cherry pickers
  • Helicopters
  • Arm circles
  • APD
  • Merkins
  • LBC

• AMRAP challenge – rotation of 5 exercises over a 30 second period, with reduced rest after each rotation; rests start at 20 seconds and move down to 15, 10 and 5 seconds
  • High pulls
  • Squat thrusts
  • Curls
  • Halos
  • KB swings
• Run the bus loop
• AMRAP challenge/version 2 – rotation of 4 exercises over a 30 second period, with reduced rest after each rotation, rests of 20, 15 and 10 seconds this time around
  • Skull crushers
  • Sit ‘n presses
  • Overhead pulls
  • Weighted American hammers
• Run the bus loop
• COT with YHC taking us out

Great morning with these men.  If anyone is interested, come join us for KBs.  It is good to mix in with the runs and boot camps.  Good core strength building. 

God is good all of the time!

Attila

YHC is a day away from vacation, so YHC took the easy way out and led to a lazy Q where the deck of cards did all of the work.  Here is how it went down:

• COP
  • SSH
  • DQ
  • Arm circles
  • Merkins
  • LBC
• Deck of death – 12 reps of an exercise where each suit is a different exercise
  • Hearts – curls
  • Diamonds – high pulls
  • Clubs – overhead pulls
  • Spades – sit ‘n presses
  • Joker – burpees
• COT with YHC taking us out

YHC then rushed into 1 last day of work before heading on vacation.  Big Data requirement now fulfilled.

God is good all of the time!

Attila