Tag: GridIron

The Q is coming off IR, so it was not much cardio…but a lot of abs and arms. (I know, you’re shocked)

Mosey to Grid Iron for 4 rounds:

1st- 100 Merkins (10 every 10 yards), but take a break at the 50 for 100 Abs (4 sets of 25 WWI, WWII, Crunchy, and Flutters). 2nd- Turn around in end zone and march back to original goal line, with 10 Staggered Arm Merkins every 10 yards. Don’t worry, a break at mid field for another 100 Abs (4 sets of Knee Ups, Side Crunches each side, Heals to Heaven, Flutter Kicks). 3rd- Took a break of arms and did 10 squats every 10 yards. But of course we stopped for 100 more abs. 4th- Only 50 yards of Chuck Norris, followed by a break of 100 more abs.

Left the Grid Iron for the bleachers and benches: 2 rounds of 20 Dips, with 20 Bulgarians in between. Then 20 steps ups and 20 Derkins.

Finished at playground for 2 sets of 10 Jerkins on the swings, 100 more abs, and some balancing and stretching

Ten strong warriors and White Deer came to my 5th Q in a row this week. Pigskin and Lighthouse were at all five and one of them paid for it.

The Pax requests to go straight to coffee started before 7 but the 11 endured the following first:

Warmups of SSH, DQ, Cherry Pickers, Arm circles, LBCs, Candy Corns

Dora to show off to the 2 playing pickleball: 100 merkins, 200 squats, 300 LBCs with partner running to the end of the courts and back

Mosey to the lit soccer fields to then be chased down by a lady in a golf cart telling us we must leave.

Mosey to the frosted football field for a double quarter pounder: 1st time: 25 merkins, 50 reverse crunches, 75 mountain climbers (single count), 100 SSH: bernie back to goal line after doing each exercise at the appropriate yard line. 2nd time: 25 HRM, 50 American Hammers (single count), 75 Bobby Hurleys, 100 Candy Corns (ouch).

Crab walk ten yards, ten WWIIs, repeat to the 50. Bear Crawl ten yards, 5 merkins, repeat to the goal line. Hands nice and cold now.

Burpee ladder back. (this is when the Pax told me that liked me better when I was injured) 1 Burpee at ten yard line, 2 at twenty yard line, all the way to 10 (55 in total).

Ran a lap around the field and then back to the start for 5 minutes of Mary.

Did some Freddies, Flutters and LBCs until the end.

Circled up, did some prayers and then Pigskin wanted more attention and got light headed and needed some help from the Pax. It was a combination of the cold, the tough workout and maybe a smidge of him being 70. He felt better after some water, coffee and banana bread (recommended by 4 out of 5 actors who play a Doctor on TV).

I suspect Pigskin is doing some Balls to Wall at home now for fun.

On a nice warm late October morning, 8 of us got together near the beastly Pickelballers of Short Pump. In honor of Dean Smith, we went on a four corners themed workout. COP: DQs (without Attila), DMH, HRMs, MCs, FMs. mosey past football field to curbs.

Curb crawls to 3 down to 1.

Four Corners 1: 10 burpees, 20 WWIIs, 30 2 count Mountain climbers, 40 SSHs. Mosey to Bus loop.

20 pole smokers OYO Mosey to basketball court.

Four Corners 2: 10 burpees, 20 V ups, 30 plank jacks – 2 count, 40 jump squats. Mosey to other side of bus loop.

Bear crawl to 3 to 1. Mosey to front of school.

Four corners 3: 10 burpees, 20 WW1s, 30 carolina DDs , 40 LBCs (without Jville). Mosey to nearby parking lot.

Four corners 4: 10 burpees, 20 heels to heaven, 30 squats, 40 2 count flutter kicks. Mosey to front of school.

Quadruple check: Donkey kicks, wide grip merkins, American hammers, and run around loop. 3 times.

Mosey with squats to home base pavilion. Elevens with derkins and dips.

Finish with stretching because some of us are old. Coffeteria was good with a lot of discussion on the Middle East. Pray for peace and help to those you need it. Enjoy the warm weekend.

Fireman Ed

Somebody said the Q forgot to do burpees a few weeks ago, so today we made up for it. All 100 of them.

Warm up, followed by 2 sets of 10 Jerkins, and 10 Burpees. Mosey to soccer field for a series of:

• Go 10 yards and 1 Burpee, go to 20 and do 3 Burpees, (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) until 5 at midfield.
• Then a break with (4) 25 count ab exercises (WWII, Heals, 2 Side Crunches, and Crunchy),
• followed by a ladder down of 5 Burpees, go 10 yards, (4, 3, 2, 1 for the 50 yards).
• End line we turn around and do 10 merkins every 10 yards until mid field.
• But wait, we stopped at mid field for 4 sets of 25 abs (WWI, Knee Ups, Flutter, and Bicyles backward and forward). Next 50 yards 5 sets of 10 staggered arm Merkins.
• Turn around and 10 sets of leg raises every 10 yards until mid field (arms and chest needed a break). Ab break of 100 American Hammers.
• Next 50 yards was Burpee Ladder (again) of 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Turn around with 10 sets of squats every 10 yards. 100 more abs at mid field, and Burpee Ladder.

Mosey back to starting point with (2) sets of 20 dips, a little stretching…10 more Burpees (to reach 100 total), and another 50 American Hammers

We had two visitors (Swank, Dollywood) from Charles Town WV, not far from Harper’s Ferry, here for a wedding. Tater also talked a passerby into participating. (Sri from Capital 1.) Hope he shows up again!

Disclaimer

Warm up

• 20 SSHs
• 20 IWs
• 10 Don Quixotes
• 20 Ukrainian Soldiers
• Hamstring stretch

Indigenous People’s Run: I brought a green dolly. The first 3 people in the line hold it over their heads. The next people, except for the last one, get 2 bricks each. We run to the middle of the covered walkway. The last person runs to the front and displaces the first person, etc. This didn’t work out as planned.

• to the middle of the covered walkway:

Covered walkway

• Stretch
• 7 minutes of Burpees

Triple-up

• Partner 1: Timer carries 2 bricks and runs to the end of the walkway.
• Partner 2: Pole-Smokers
• Partner 3: 10 Merkins/10 Squats, 10 Merkins/10 Squats, etc.

Near death Mankillers: Less awful version of Mankillers

• 10, 8, 6, 4, 2

Wall Routine on the school wall

• People’s Chair 15 Air Press, 10 BTTW Hip Slaps, 15 Donkey Kix OYO
• People’s Chair 15 Muhammad Ali, 10 BTTW Australian Mountain Climbers, 15 Donkey Kix OYO
• People’s Chair 15 Milkers, 10 BTTW Toe Taps, 15 Donkey Kix OYO
• People’s Chair 15 Lalannes, 10 Dirty Hookup, 15 Donkey Kix OYO

11s with brix (everyone got to carry a brick back and forth between school wall and covered walkway

• Squats and Mike Tysons

Indigenous People’s Run, sort of.

• back to the parking lot.

Last 3 or 4 minutes

• Stretches
• 60 count 6-inch leg lift
• Brazilian Mind bender

Announcements: none

Ecclesiastes Chapter 3

There is a time for everything and a season for very activity under heaven:

• A time to be born and a time to die,
• A time to plant and a time to uproot,
• A time to kill and a time to heal,
• A time to weep and a time to laugh,
• A time to mourn and a time to dance,
• …
• A time to love and a time to hate,
• A time for war and a time for peace.

And here we are, more than 2,000 years later.

Good day at Grid Iron. 3 did a pre-run, and 10 joined for a “28” workout (Q’s 28th Anniversary, so the number stuck in my head). Welcome to our F3 brother from Austin who was in town for the weekend, Breaststroke.

Warm up and then a mosey to playground with 2 sets of 14 pull-ups on the swings (28 theme all day)

Mosey to soccer field for a series of up and down the 100 yard field 3 times with a series of merkins every 25 yards and ab “breaks” at mid field.

First lap: 2 sets of 14 merkins at the 25 yard line, 2 sets of 14 wide grip at the 50. Pause at mid-field for abs: 28 WWIIs, 28 Crunchy Frogs, 2 sets of 14 side crunches. Continue the march with 2 sets of 14 wide grip merkins, and 2 sets of diamond merkins. Turn around and head back to 50 yard line with 2 sets of 14 Chuck Norris, 2 sets of regular merkins. Break at mid field for abs: 28 WWIs, 28 Heals to Heaven, 14 V-Up Rollups (because it’s 2 exercises in 1). Continue the next 50 yards with: 2 sets of 14 standing leg curls, 2 sets of 14 squats. Repeat, then circle up for Jack Web (1 merkin, 4 overhead presses). Blue Moon didn’t get enough abs so we did 28 4 count American Hammers. Yep.

Mosey to pull up bars for 7 pull ups, alternating with 28 dips. Repeat twice and then add in 14 incline Merkins. Mosey to playground for 2 sets of 14 partner leg tosses. Mosey to wall for 4 sets of alternating balls to the wall Toe Taps 28 times, and then people’s chair with arm exercises. After 4th round, circle up, 28 crunchy frogs. And we’re done.

Small group of Gridiron PAX members could not make the convergence and kept the lights on at the AO for visitors.  Here is how it went down in the rain:

• COP
  • SSH
  • Ukrainian soldiers
  • DQ
  • Helicopters
  • Arm circles
  • Squats
• Move to the pavilion to work through a variety of ground & pound exercises

COT with YHC taking us out

An injury/weather friendly Q to start off the weekend.

God is good all of the time!

Attila

 

Gypsy and Homer went for a run while the remaining four of us divided up the Q-ship.

YHC lead the Warm-Up

20 SSH

20 IW

10 Don Quixote

20 Copperhead Squats

Head for the Pull-up bars for 11s

Pull-ups, run to the bridge, American Hammers

We actually had a couple of other guys doing pull-ups. Not used to having competition for the pull-up bars

Turned it over to Pinto.

Over to the artificial turf on the soccer field. Sign posted said “No Dogs Allowed”.

11s from endline to the middle: Merkins and WWIIs

11s from middle to the endline: Reverse crunch and Squats

Half way thru, Homer joined us.

Next, Piglet took the Q

Indian run around the circle in the middle of the soccer field.

15 Crunchy Frogs in the middle, Bear crawl to the circle: Merkins at the circle, crab walk back to the center: 4X

Indian Run around the circle.

Go to edge of the field:

Lunge walk to the middle: 10 Side crunches, Bernie back: repeat

Back to the flag.

This write up may not be exactly right but it’s close enough.

Pinto with the takeout.

Ten Gridiron regulars, a well rested EF Hutton, and an FNG (thanks to Johnsonville) arrived on a beautiful Saturday morning to welcome me back to Gridiron and then to be surprised I was the Q.

We hit the football field to warm up and started with some SSH and then hit the soft wet ground to do some Suzanne Somers, Freddie Mercuries and Flutter Kicks. Maybe we did more, I can’t remember.

Then in memory of Jimmy Buffet we did a “Cheeseburger in Paradise” (Quarter Pounder). To be clear, a Quarter Pounder was my plan before Hutton informed me that he died yesterday, but now I had a theme. Jog to the 25, do 25 merkins, bernie back to the goal line, jog to the 50 for 50 squats, bernie back, to the 75 for 75 LBCs, bernie back and then to the other goal line for 100 SSH and bernie back. The soccer crew showed up midway to play on the football field and we thought about fighting for our spot but then realized they would all take a dive like Salah from Liverpool and get us in trouble. So we moved to the soccer field next door.

After wondering why the soccer players play on the football field each week, we did another Cheeseburger in Paradise with merkins, jump squats, mountain climbers and SSH.

Still looking for paradise we went to the front of the school and did a triple check of running the loop (“A Trip Around the Sun”), hand release merkins and WWIIs.

After some bad math on my part, we went to the nearby parking lot for a modified 4 corners which Jimmy Buffet fans will call “A Pirate Looks at Forty Burpies”. First set was 15 American Hammers (2 count) at each corner, followed by 5 burpies in the center after each corner. Second set with 20 shoulder taps (2 count modified to 1 count), followed by 5 burpies in the center. 40 burpies total. Johnsonville’s groaning sounded nothing like a Pirate but let’s pretend it did.

We moseyed back to the bleachers to hopefully achieve “Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Attitudes”. We did three sets of 15 dips and 15 (2 count) step ups. I could not detect a change.

With 5 minutes left we circled up and did some stretching. The change in attitude was felt, until I was out of ideas and there was 1 minute left. We ended with 10 burpies.

“Come Monday” we have a Convergence at Dogpile, 7AM. Prayers for Roger Roger and all the other injured working their way back.

Our FNG, Ryan, is now named Swampy. He is right out of college and a baseball player. He did break a sweat but may need a Pigskin Q to learn to not underestimate grown-ups. Also please note that I had to google most of these Jimmy Buffet songs titles. He’s not my favorite musician but I do give him lot of credit for such a long prosperous career and a huge following of fans.

A steamy Saturday for 6 noble warriors.  Here is how it went down:

• COP
  • SSH
  • IW
  • DQ
  • Helicopters
  • Arm circles
  • Dead man hang
  • Suzanne Somers
  • Merkins
  • LBC
• Mosey to the turf field for a 4 corners (10, 15, 20, 25 reps at each corner)
  • 70 HRM
  • 70 WWII sit-ups
  • 70 monkey humpers
  • 70 crab cakes
  • 70 Chuck Norris push-ups
  • 70 side crunches, each side
• Mosey to the pull-up bars for 10 pull-ups and 20 PLTs, 3x
• Mosey to the playground for a 3x check
  • Run
  • FM
  • Squats
• COT with YHC taking us out

Great work by the PAX today in steamy conditions.  Good to have Geico and his positive, encouraging energy with us. 

Convergence next Monday at Dogpile at 7 am.

God is good all of the time!

Attila