Tag: Circus Maximus

It is Valentine’s Day, and ten muscle-bound Romeos were looking to bulk up with the hopes of impressing the M on this Hallmark inspired day.  Here is how it went down:

• COP
  • 10 Herpies OYO
  • 30 SSH
  • 15 IW
  • 12 DQ
  • 15 helicopters
  • 10 2x merkins
  • 30 2x LBC
  • 10 Donna Summers, each leg
  • 15 pickle pounders
• Lucky Bus Loop – farmers carry to the four quadrants of the bus loop, perform 15 reps of a certain exercise, adding a new exercise for each quadrant, with a total of 8 at the end

• Lawnmower pulls – each arm (8x)
• Sit ‘n presses (7x)
• High pulls (6x)
• KB swings (5x)
• Lunges (4x)
• Halos (3x)
• Clean ‘n press (2x)
• American hammers
• Run the bus loop
• Mosey to the parking lot for COT

Double digit PAX, including 2 clown cars, for Circus was an awesome way to start a Thursday!  Great work by the PAX as we remained under weight with high reps.  Took a moment during COT to encourage the PAX to love our spouses.  It can be difficult, requiring compassion and patience.  Probably not the most common traits within the PAX.  Wishing all the PAX the best as they strive to love and serve their brides today.

God is good all of time! Attila

3 circus clowns moseyed around the damp circus floor while enjoying the warm winter morning.  YHC brought a makeshift rucksack filled with pink 5 pound dumbbells to simulate the ruck beat down. 

COP 

15- SSH

SSH with 15 pound ruck sack – Each Pax member took their turn with the  ruck sack for 15 hops. 

Don Q

Planks

Merkins

 APD – Virginia Lieutenant Style

LBC

Boat canoes 
Johnsonville complained that Q sped  up the cadence during his rotation

We honored our Lt. Governor Fairfax with a round of APD’s

Atilla saluted us with plenty of gun fire and mustard gas

Does it really matter if your in the boat or the canoe when White Deer is calling the Audible? 
The Circus Thang 

Mosey over under the circus tent carrying the ruck sack for a few new exercises. 

10 each Slim down Turkish getups with a 5 pound weights 

10 each flying 180’s alternating hands with 5 pound weight while chest and feet elevated 

15 of each  following starting on left side and finishing on right side Halos

Curls

Rows

Dead lifts

Cleans

Squats

Presses

Snatch

High pulls

Triple  Check – Johnsonville loaded up the ruck sack with 50 lbs and ran/walked to far end of school and back while others jumped rope and did KB sit and presses. Rotate
The 45 minutes flew by, we couldn’t finish the third leg of the triple check. Much respect to the Virginia GrowRuck group for throwing that weight around. 

Go F3 Virginia GrowRuck

COT, Number-Rama, Name-a-Rama and Atilla took us out. He is always thankful for the many blessings that F3 brings to each one of us. 

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5 (6 if Whitedeer would have not fart sacked) frozen kettlebell swingers attacked Circus Maximus in the 13 degree gloom this morning.  PAX stays warm in cars until 0527 and then gets out to mingle and wait for 0530.  Let’s mosey!

COP:

Helicopters x 15

Don Quixote x 10

SSH x 30

Russian Soldiers x 10

Imperial Walkers x 15

Merkins x 10

LBC’s x 20

Cross over leg lifts x 10 each leg

Mosey down bus loop and set-up cones for:

KB Doracides:

Partner up and complete 100 x Sit-N-Press, 200 x Halos, 300 x Lawn Mower Pulls as a team

Switch with partner who is running cones suicide style with 1 Burpee at cone 1, 2 Burpees at cone 2, 3 Burpees at cone 3.  Plank up to wait for six.

Mosey around bus loop some more and set-up for:

Triple Check:

Partner 1 runs down to end of bus loop

Partner 2 performs KB Burpees

Partner 3 performs KB Swings

Mosey back to parking lot for:

High Pull Ring Of Fire:

Put all KB’s in a large circle.  PAX planks up to the side.  Each PAX member’s name is called out one at a time.  Run and perform 4 High Pulls at each KB (25, 30, 35 lbs. variations)  Plank-a-rama for PAX not performing High Pulls.

2 minutes of Boat/Canoe

COT, Numberama, Namearama, Announcements and YHC took us out.

Announcements: 

Sign up for GROW RUCK!!!!

Whitedeer still owes this PAX and AO a backblast from 1/10/19

NMS:

YHC didn’t sleep the best last night because it felt like his VQ all over again.  He didn’t want to oversleep and wasn’t exactly too comfortable with exercise names.  When YHC arrived at the AO this morning, he planned on reviewing his workout which was scratched on a piece of notebook paper, but the Planets, Moon and Stars were to cool not to stare at and take pictures of (YHC gets distracted sometimes.)  PAX started rolling in around 0525 and stayed in cars for a couple of minutes to make sure the heat was blowing on their KB’s on their vehicles floorboards.  HoneyDo brought his inside last night to stay warm.  YHC wonders if he brought it to bed and made M HoneyDo jealous??  Johnsonville’s KB spent the night outside on his porch YHC thinks he heard him say.  Something about Whitedeer leaving it there.  Atilla’s KB may or may not have been dressed like Kenny from Southpark overnight to stay warm…Atilla sure was dressed like him!  It was quieter than usual this morning without Keymaster and Whitedeer playing their instruments.  A PAX of 5 is hard for YHC to figure out sometimes especially when he had a Triple Check and a Dora planned, but we made it work.  Chum Bucket has really been putting in the work lately.  He ran from Punisher to Roller Coaster last night to meet up with the Roller Coaster crew to get in some miles.  Well done!  Also, two were in standard #SOP this morning.  Felt good!

YHC cannot thank the guys that posted this morning enough for coming out in these conditions for his KB VQ!  It’s always nice getting a KB workout in ever other week.  Hope you all have a great day and YHC will see you in the gloom!

Have I mentioned yet that Whitedeer was not there???

Kubota

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Two weeks ago, three modern day warriors and one keyboard impaired Q convened to throw around some KBs at Circus Maximus.  Until today, the world was unaware that such events occurred.  Let it be known in the annals of Big Data, that it did indeed occur.  We did have COP, did a beast, some boat/canoes and other various KB exercises.  There was even COT.  No injuries to report.  Our Q just failed to report such activities.  Today, that has been remedied.

It was warm but wet Thursday morning at Circus, which adds a slight element of danger to kettlebelling.  It was Johnsonville’s (YHC) day to Q, and this is what went down, more or less:

Mosey over to the far end of the bus loop under the bus loop shelter (which offered little shelter from sideways rain).  Warmup with SSH, don quiote, imperial walkers, LBCs, APDs (two and one leg variations), and arm circles.

Dirty McDeuce consisting of the following:
Round 1 –
12x sit & press in cadence.
12x merkin rows in cadence.
12x goblet squats in cadence.
Bear crawl down pillars about 30 yards and run loop.

Round 2 –
12x clean & rack (right) in cadence.
12x clean & rack (left) in cadence.
12x standing rows in cadence.
Bear crawl down pillars about 30 yards and run loop.

Round 3 –
12x halos (right) in cadence.
12x halos (left ) in cadence.
12x Alabama Honeymooners in cadence.
Bear crawl down pillars about 30 yards and run loop.

Round 4 –
12x snatch (right) in cadence.
12x snatch (left) in cadence.
12x lawnmower pulls (OYO each arm).
Bear crawl down pillars about 30 yards and run loop.

Wall of fire while each person does 10 merkins and 20 SSH in succession.  Go ’round twice.

COT with YHC taking us out.

Great work, men!  Jville

Six modern day warriors convened at Circus Maximus to throw around some cold KBs.  Here is how it went down:

COP

• 25 SSH
• 15 IW
• 10 DQ
• 15 helicopters
• 10 2x merkins
• 25 FM
• 10 scorpion kicks
• 10 pickle pounders

• Mosey to the bus loop for a Dora
  • Run the bus loop with
    • 100 sit-n-presses
    • 200 KB swings
    • 300 lawnmower pulls
  • Weighted lunge walk to other end of bus loop
  • Lindsay with KB halos at one end of loop and 2x LBC at other end of loop
  • Weighted lunge walk back to front of bus loop
  • COT with YHC taking us out

Good to have the Kubota clown car and Ponch back with the CM PAX this week.  We have missed them, and it was their KB were grateful to be dusted off.  Solid work from everyone.  More running than usual today, but no mumblechatter on that.  If you have not been to CM, you need to come just to hear Keymaster’s audible and amused laughter each time White Deer has a minor explosion between his legs.  It is borderline joyful, like a little kid.  Good to see the PAX having fun during the workout.  It is the highlight of the workout for me, not joking.

God is good all of the time!

Attila

Thursday at Circus was warm, but wet and rainy.  The PAX was a bit disorganized after the holidays, but earn high marks for getting out of bed despite candy, rain, etc.   Attilla took Q first with a warmup and a triple play involving sit and presses, lawnmower pulls, and bear crawls.  White Deer followed with a number of KB exercises in cadence (halos, snatches, swings, etc.).   YHC (Johnsonville) closed out the hot potato Q first, with wall sits holding the KB overhead, out front, and at various other points, and second, with, an ugly round of 11s having donkey kicks on one side and the dreaded merkin rows on the other.  There was not time remaining for Mary.

COT with Attilla taking us out.  See ya in the gloom.  Jville

 

The gloom nor a post New Year’s hangover could deter a triumphant three.  No Q, so it was time for the hot potato KB Q.  Here is how it went down:

• Attila
  • COT
    • 25 2x SSH
    • 10 DQ
    • 15 Hillbillies
    • 15 Helicopters
    • 25 Suzanne Summers
    • 10 merkins
    • 30 FM
  • Triple check with bear crawls, sit ‘n presses and lawnmower pulls
• White Deer
  • 20 halos each way
  • 20 high pulls
  • Farmers carry down bus loop
  • 10 ½ Turkish get-ups, each side (weighted)
  • 10 ½ Turkish get-ups, each side (unweighted)
  • 10 low pulls
  • 20 KB presses
  • 10 snatches – each side
  • 20 alternating KB swings
  • 10 clean and racks – each side
• Johnsonville
  • Wall sit with weight
  • Wall sit with curls
  • 11s with donkey kicks and merkin rows
• Farmers carry back to parking lot with COT – YHC taking us out

It was a quiet workout, just warriors gutting it out.  Good to be with my brothers.  God is good all of the time!

Attila

A group of Circus Maximus veterans answered the early alarm in order to throw around some KBs.  Here is how it went down:

• COP
  • 30 2x SSH
  • 12 IW
  • 12 DQ
  • 12 Helicopters
  • 12 Suzanne Somers – each leg
  • 12 2x merkins
  • 30 2x LBC
• Catch me if you can around the bus loop – one man carries 2 KBs while is partner does 10 burpees; repeat for a total of 50 burpees for each member of the PAX
• Ground ‘n Pound AMRAP – 30 seconds for each exercise, with a series of breaks of 20, 15, 10 & 5 seconds
  • Overhead pulls
  • Sit ‘n presses
  • Skull crushers
• Triple check
  • Bear crawl and run
  • Lawnmower pulls
  • Crunchy frogs
• 1 minute wall sit
• COT with YHC taking us out

5 KB veterans meant we were all business today.  A solid crowd for the holiday week.  For those that did not know, Chum Bucket is now a man that merits respect.  He crossed over into his 50s on Monday, and he continues to be a hoss on the KBs.  Good to see him out this early.  For those that are not aware, Johnsonville has one more Gridiron before he meets the same fate.  This PAX is redefining what to expect from the respected years.  Honeydo and YHC are minorities in the bunch.  YHC wishes we could say that we are running circles around these stallions, but when it comes to KBs, not so much.

Stay tuned for more info on workout times for next Tuesday.  Details remain unknown.

God is good all of the time!

Attila

Nine needed to get their day started right and posted to the Circus.  Some posted without Kettlebells, others without gloves but we got after it:

COP:  Hillbillies, SSH, Merkins, Flutterkicks, Scorpion Kicks, Don Qs.

Stay in Circle and grab KBs:  10 Snatch each arm, burpee, then 20 High Pulls.  Repeato dropping by 2 on Snatch & High pulls but increase burpees by 1 until down to 2.

Triple check:  Run lot and back, Lunges w/ double bells, & Sit & Presses.  Then some Boat & Canoe.  Head over to back of school for Lindsays:  Donkey Kicks, bear crawl, & KB Swings.  Back to side lot:  2 sets of Skull Crushers & Pullovers, and WWIIs.  Finish up with Freddy Mercurys and American Hammers.

NMS – YHC started his day by realizing he put his KB by his car but not in his car as he pulled in to the lot.  Luckily White Deer travels with spare KBs and we were off.  Good to see Tonka back out after recovering from a torn Achillies.

Jville posted with no gloves and managed to drop his KB on the ground a few times on the snatches.  Guess he is not used to that much snatch… During the triple check ample fumes were traded from White Deer and Keymaster, 2 of the more noxious PAX members in RVA.  Good to have Kubota and Keymaster out at CM and 9 is a good showing.