Tag: Circus Maximus

Circle up for COP: Introduction, Disclaimer, SSHs, DQs, Cherry Pickers, Arm Circles, Mt Climbers, WWIIs & Merkins.  Recover. Start walkin’.

Walking w/ the Bell: we walked towards the front of the school doing High Pulls, Overhead Press and Curls – each exercise interrupted by 5 Burpees (OYO).  We stopped along the way to do some Pull Throughs & Calf Raises on the curb. 

Triple Check along the front of the school.  P1 runs to a tree and back.  P2 Sit & Press.  P3 Lawn Mowers. Recover. Rest the arms for moment: 20 Heels to Heaven (OYO).

Back to walking while doing High Pulls, Overhead Press and Curls – each again interrupted by 5 Burpees (OYO).

Next Up? “Don’t Touch My Bell Bro”:
How to play: Step 1.) Go to front parking lot, to attract FNGs 2.) Form 2 parallel lines.  3.) Both lines do 10 AMs, then leave your Bells in place and Crab Walk to the parallel line.  4.) Pick someone else’s Bell and execute 10 AMs (those arriving first got their pick, I got stuck with the behemoth that Off Shore calls a Kettle Bell).  5.) Same idea but with Bunny Hops.  6.) Then Lunges. 7.) Lastly, Bear Crawls. 

Start walking back towards our Coffee Club House, where no girls are allowed, while doing High Pulls, Overhead Press and Curls – each, this time, punctuated by various core exercises. 

Regarding our walk to the front of the school, to honor Gomer on his bday week, I took his suggestion for attracting FNGs and moved the workout today. We tried to look awesome doing our reps to attract local Westhoians, but that didn’t seem to work. Next, we tried accosting people. Salt Lick took a stab at it first. He got ignored as he called out to a man running. White Deer wanted to recruit a hot lady runner, but the wisdom of the Pax got him to cool his jets. We considered it might be safer for the community to have us tucked away behind the school. Back there, we found a man walking his dog. He acknowledged our invitation, but didn’t show interest. However, I could tell, his dog wanted to join us. So, there’s hope. But for now, the coffee pot and the workout will remain behind the school. The jogging women of Westhoe can rest easy.

On the way back, we stopped by the picnic tables for an Amanda (Lindsays go to 40, Amandas go to 20). 
15 Step Ups on the picnic table and 5 WWIIs.   Then 10 & 10.  And lastly 5 and 15. 

BTTF for a lil Mary (FMs, Flutters, 60 second leg hold). Done!

Numbers. Names. 

Announcements:
Showing of “Join or Die” on 4/28 at 6:30am w/ OBT at The Byrd, discussion on Connection/Loneliness to follow.

Bridge Sat Apr 26 Corned Beef.  May 10 Big Herm. 

Csaup May 2.

Westhoe Csaup Team Meeting after Circus Maximus next week, 5/1. Honeydo & Hutton, come join us. Offshore will make coffee just for you guys.

Prayer Requests: None today. YHC took us out.

Moleskin: We all want others to be patient with us, to give us grace and kindness. Let’s move into this day intentionally and make an effort to extend the same to others. Thx for letting me lead. SYITG!

The promise of coffee is real, and it is magnificent.  14 redwoods converged for KBs in the gloom of the Circus.  Here is how it went down:

• COP
  • SSH
  • IW
  • DQ
  • Helicopters
  • Arm circles
  • DMH
  • Merkins
  • LBC
  • APD
• KB one-man Dora – 5 sets of 3 exercises with a run in-between sets
  • 100 overhead pulls
  • 150 curls
  • 200 lawnmower pulls (100 each arm)
• 3 sets of 20 PLTs
• COT with YHC taking us out

14 STRONG!   Great turnout and what an awesome start to the day.  T-claps to Offshore for continuing to provide the opportunity for 3^rd F with post-workout coffee. 

Great to see Pinto back.  White Deer made his presence known.  YHC is thankful to see Fireman Ed as he continues treatments.  Then there was Mr. Rogers.  A broke-down car was not an impediment!  He walked his @$$ there with a KB.  Double t-claps!

Congrats to Piglet and Pigskin on the arrival of the new daughter/grandbaby. We missed you Pigskin, but we gave thanks for that blessing in COT.

Rest your arms tomorrow!   Let’s celebrate the death and resurrection of our Savior this weekend!  God is good all of the time!

Attila

Thirteen (!) of the best men from the West End came to the back of Godwin for a very special comedic episode of Circus Maximus. Music from Weird Al and some other comedy bands.

Warmups to “Like a Surgeon” and “My Bologna”: SSH, Ukrainian Soldiers, IW, Arm Circles, LBCs, Flutters, maybe something else.

“Eat it”: High Pulls transition to Swings during the Chorus

“Dick in a Box” by the Lonely Island: Floor Press, Box Cutters (of course)

“Amish Paradise”: Partner wheelbarrows with ten pushups (2 times each)

“Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo” by the Bloodhound Gang: Hammers and APDs during the Chorus. Lots of great lyrics in this song for all newcomers. “Marinate the nether rod in the squish mitten” is a good example.

“Smells Like Nirvana”: Halos and Jump Squats during the Chorus.

“Loud Ass Car” by Wolves of Glendale: OH Press and Lunges during Chorus

“I Glued my balls to my Butthole Again” by Obscurest Vinyl: Sit & Press and OH Pulls. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on glue.

“White & Nerdy”: Side Lunges and Curls

“Fat”: Sumo squats (thanks Seymore for showing us the right form) and Burpees during the Chorus

“Community Property”: Steel Panther: Triceps and Cleans. Nothing clean about this romantic song. “You’re the only girl that I like to screw when I’m not on the road”.

“Headline News”: Some stretching to this parody of “Mmmmmm, mmmmmmm”. Cut it off before we got to the verse about the old news story about cutting it off. “And then, there was this guy who, made his wife so mad one night that she cut off his weiner, and when he finally came to, he found little Mr. Happy was missing, he couldn’t quite explain it, It’d always just beeeeen theeeeeeere, mmmmmmmm, mmmmmm”

Announcement, Prayers and the best coffee in Richmond.

Until next time,

Weird Al Whitesnakovic

We took a Waymo “robotaxi” while we were in Austin, Texas. No driver (and no tip!) We discussed over post-workout coffee how this might impact high school dating.

Disclaimer

Warmup

• 20 SSHs in cadence
• 20 IWs in cadence
• 10 Don Quixote in cadence
• 20 Copperhead squats in cadence
• 10 Merkins in cadence
• Stretch (Right foot/right hand; Pfannkuchen)

Move to covered walkway for Ring of Fire. I led off with

• 15 Lawnmowers OYO, Mosey to end of walkway and back
• Repeat the first exercise and add 15 curls, Mosey to end of walkway and back
• Repeat the first two exercises and add 15 tricepts, Mosey to end of walkway and back
• Repeat the first three exercises and add 15 Squats. Mosey to end of walkway and back
• Repeat the first four exercises and add 15 Calf raises. Mosey to end of walkway and back
• Repeat the first five exercises and add 15 Flutters, Mosey to end of walkway and back
• Repeat the first six exercises and add 15 Skull Crushers, Mosey to end of walkway and back
• Repeat the first seven exercises and add 15 Sit N Press, Mosey to end of walkway and back

Mosey back to the flag for

• 20 Heels to Heaven in cadence
• 20 APDs in cadence
• 20 Crunchy Frogs in cadence

Finished!

Announcements:

2^nd Tuesday, 2nd F: Firehouse Subs in Innsbrook

1^st Weekend in May: CSAUP. Slack for details

COT

In the third temptation of Jesus (Luke 4: 9-12), the devil tells Jesus to throw himself down from the pinnacle of the temple because God will protect him. Jesus responds “Don’t put the Lord your God to the test.” The point; it’s one thing to ask for God to protect you from things you couldn’t prevent. But if you do something stupid, that’s on you.

11 KB warriors took the F3 path less traveled at Circus Maximus today.  Here is how it went down:

• COP
  • SSH
  • IW
  • DQ
  • Helicopters
  • Arm circles
  • DMH
  • Merkins
  • LBC
• KB Beast – different exercise and different means of traversing the length of the bus loop
  • Sit ‘n press and KB carry
  • High pulls and right-hand overhead carry
  • Curls and left-hand overhead carry
  • Tricep press and death crawl
  • Sumo squats and weighted lunges
  • KB swings and riffle carry
• Run the bus loop
• Mary – 1 legged crunches, each side and H2H
• COT with YHC taking us out

The PAX comes for the coffee and tolerates the beat-down is pretty much the official motto of Circus.  Great work from the PAX today.  Death crawls suck!  Great to see Fireman Ed.  He has a birthday Q on Saturday at Gridiron.  T-claps to Offshore for consistently providing coffee.  Thanks to Fudd for eventually showing up and realizing that the workout goes much faster when you miss COP. 

Continued prayers for Roger Roger, Fudd and Fireman Ed.  God is good all of the time!

Attila 

After a hiatus to take care of treating my cancer (which has gone well overall so far) I was back again leading the PAX with some kettlebell workouts. Admittedly I did drop 5 pounds in kb weight; otherwise I would have struggled more.

The workout went like this:

COP: SSHs (just kidding I don’t do those for COP), DQs, helicopters, DMH, HRMs, MCs and FMs. Mosey to back of school.

Doras with a theme of 52 (upcoming birthday): 52 sit and press, 104 bench press and 208 LBCs. Mosey toward other side of school. 2 sets of 13 lawnmower pulls each arm.

4 corners: 13 burpees, 26 high pulls, 39 curls (I struggled on this one) and 52 coupon squats (gotta build those legs for pool season). mosey back; 2 sets of 13 lawnmower pulls each arm.

2 sets of 13 triceps and swings combo.

Finished with coupon wall sits and a couple sets of halos.

Gypsy is hosting a help him with chainsaws, shoot stuff and drink beer on 3/22. Hope everyone has good medical insurance and a good time. I will be Q’ing on my birthday on 3/29 at Gridiron. Attila took us out in prayer; it was good to see everyone out there. Also enjoyed coffeeteria ala Offshore; Al Gore would have been proud of our discussion.

Fireman Ed

Tani Katane gazed upon us as she slithered around the hood of my car while 80s glam rock got us ready to sling some iron.

Disclaimer.

COP: SSHs, 1 Burbee, Arm Circles, 2 Burbees, DQs, 3 Burpees, Cherry Pickers, 4 Burbees, Mt Climbers, 5 Burpees, Fudd finally arrives, Dead Man Hang, 6 Burbees. Now it’s time to work!  

The Thang: 15 KB Press, Sit & Press, Squats, Lawn Mower Pulls, High Pulls, Curls, & Overhead Press. Then  12 of each.  Then 9. 6. 3. Take a lap.

Somewhere in the middle of this routine, a song by the Bullet Boys came on called “Smooth Up In Ya” reminding us middle-aged men to make sure we get our prostates checked.  

Next Up: Lindsay: 30 Step-ups on the picnic tables seats (single count).  10 Flutters/KB Press.  20/20.  10/30.  Take a lap.

W/ a perfect 12, ya gotta do a Triple Check: Timer runs.  P2: Calf Raises.  P3: Curb Overhead Pulls. 

BTTS(tamper)F.  

60 seconds left: FMs.

Recover.  

Numbers.  Names.  

Announcements:  2 events on 3/22:  SOJ Chili Cookoff at Lwood’s crib and Fun on the Farm w/ Gypsy – fellin’ trees, shootin’ skeet and drinkin’ brews.  On 3/24, the Alamo, which has been an FNG magnet, turns 2. On 3/26, Heist turns 40 and will bless the Green Mile w/ a B-Day Q. And lastly, the csaup no one requested, but the one we all wanted is here: Century Classic 2.0. It will start on May 2 and end after your legs fall off. But hey, at least it’s not a Grow Ruck.

Prayer requests: None spoken.

YHC took us out.  

Moleskin: On an average day, when not much seems to happen, remember that we are blessed to have families, jobs, homes, food. So much is going right all the time. We are so fortunate to have the gift of life. May we all recognize the blessing it is just to be alive.

3rd F (Faith): thank you Atilla for taking us out this morning. Prayers for pax brothers, family, and friends.

2nd F (Fellowship) YHC will be hosting a field day at my farm in Mineral (Ataraxia) on Saturday 22nd starting at 11am. Bring your chainsaws, shotguns, and beer steins. We will take out a few trees and run them threw the multcher. Once we wrap, I have 2 cases of skeet and 2 skeet launching machines. Let’s see who has the best shotgun skills. Oh did I mention the Cooling pond beer that will be on tap as well.

1st F: The Thang: Worm Burners

This one is an easy one to Q: Called exercise to be completed by the PAX while a single pax pushes a 35lb bench plate across the parking lot and back as a timer: Think Bear Crawl, but both hands on the plate pushing it along. Called exercises were given to each pax. You just tel the guy to right what you did and move down the line as the pacer does a Worm burner.. But some how we ended up with all sorts of exercises that were not orginally called. Run through this rotation twice.

Finish up with a few rounds of burners (the Kettle bell does not touch the ground) :

7 up-right rows, 7 tea bag squats, 6,5,4,3,2,1.

7 clean and press, 7 Swings, 6,5,4,3,2,1

7 American Hammer, 7 chest press 6,5,4,3,2,1

7 Plank pull troughs, 7 Merkins 6,5,4,3,2,1

3 mins of Mary remain.

All done: time for coffee.

A dirty dozen of familiar faces and some welcomed strangers gathered for a mumble-chatter convention attached to a deceptive KB beatdown.  Here is how it went down:

• COP
  • SSH
  • IW
  • DQ
  • Helicopters
  • Arm circles
  • DMH
  • Merkins
  • LBC
• KB 4 corners, prostitute-style with weighted lunges between corners
  • 105 KB curls
  • 75 high pulls
  • 45 KB swings
  • 15 tricep presses
• 4x check
  • Run
  • Overhead pulls
  • Sit ‘n press
  • Lawnmower pulls
• COT with YHC taking us out

Fudd was more than fashionably late today.  White Deer made sure he knew that.  The entire PAX knew White Deer was back, as his mumble-chatter/clipboarding was at its normal, high intensity.  As they say in Spinal Tap, “this one (e.g. White Deer) goes to 11. Mr. Rogers went lower weight to combat injuries, but enjoyed a scholarly conversation with Pigskin.  At one point, I hear that Pigskin was all in favor of executing Hitler, a boiling hot take.  Whitesnake reappeared in a boot, yet set a pace on the 4 corners.  Welcome Warby!   Great to see you; hopefully we did not scare you.  Welcome back Fireman Ed!  An answer to prayer to see you brother!  Finally, the outlet for the coffee pot did not work.  Offshore is working with the fine staff at GHS to address.  We have confirmation that the coffee pot still works.

For those that have not been to Circus, this is par for the course.   Come join the circus sometime!

God is good all of the time!

Attila

A faithful foursome gathered in the Circus gloom for another week of KB workouts.  Here is how it went down:

• COP
  • SSH
  • IW
  • Ukrainian soldiers
  • DQ
  • Helicopters
  • Arm circles
  • DMH
  • Jazzercise
• 12 x 12 de-escalator – 12 exercise, 12 reps; rinse and repeat with dropping a rep each cycle
  • 60 lawnmower pulls – right arm
  • 60 lawnmower pulls – left arm
  • 60 KB lunges – right leg
  • 60 KB lunges – left leg
  • 60 KB swings
  • 60 high pulls
  • 60 curls
  • 60 tricep presses
  • 60 halos
  • 60 sumo squats
  • 60 calf raises
  • 60 thrusters
• Add a little Mary since the area under the bus loop stayed dry
  • 20 WWII sit-ups
  • 20 cross crunches – each side
  • 20 H2H
  • 20 2x flutter kicks
  • 20 reverse crunches
  • 20 LBC
  • 20 2x hammers
• COT with YHC taking us out

A dry Q was the plan.  A dry Q was attained.  T-claps to Offshore for continuing to prepare coffee in these elements.  Thankful the bus loop covering remained dry so we could get some Mary in today.

Stay safe and sane out there.  God is good all of the time! 

Attila