Tag: MANNdate

  • The DaVille 300

    5 DaVillians posted on a spring like morning for some KB action.

    • COP
      • SSH
      • Twisters
      • Arm circles
      • Helicopters
      • Imperial walkers
      • Lunges
    • 300
      • 6 exercises x 50 reps each = 300 reps total
      • PAX walked around the bus loop to do each exercise
      • Exercises were: Goblet squats, clean & press, WWIIs, KB swings, curls, demon crushers
    • Notes:
      • Lots of great mumble chatter this morning
      • Yardsale took us out
      • Hump day happy hour at PBR on 301 today at 5:30-7:30 pm
      • Great work gents!
  • Almost an AARP convention

    4 OG’s and a young whippersnapper showed up to take on the kettlebell workout this morning.

    Here is what happened:
    COP — helicopters, don quixotes, arm circles, chinooks, sumo squats, SSH, am ham with cycle, ATM’s, KB overhead warmup, KB slingshot, kb windmill, lateral squat and pressout, Boat Canoes

    Elevens — burpees and demon crushers

    4 corners —
    15 presses
    15 goblet squats
    15 high pulls
    15 kb chops

    stretchie stretches

    Numbers, Names, Announcements
    2nd F next wednesday at PBR 5:30 PM
    YHC was happy to lead this morning — first kettlebell Q in a while. Just a reminder to enjoy your time and cherish every moment. Hug your kids. Love the brotherhood we have.

  • It’s like skiing

    A good turnout today with 4 gents showing up for a KB workout.

    • COP
      • SSH x 20
      • Invisible jump ropes x 20
      • Fat Alberts x 20
      • Don Qs x 10
      • Arm Circles
      • Scorpion kicks x 10
      • HRMs x 10
      • Heals to Heaven x 10
    • Ladders
      • Shoulder thrusts + Goblet squats (5 + 15, 10 + 10, 15 + 5)
      • KB swings + Curls (5 + 15, 10 + 10, 15 + 5)
    • 11s
      • Good mornings + Demon crushers
    • MoM
      • Boat canoes
      • Flutterkicks + KB presses
      • KB American hammers
    • Stretching
    • Corned Beef took us out
    • Notes
      • Hard work put in by all and as always at Manndate, very interesting conversations.

    Great job gents!

  • Manndate Triple Tiger

    With three at this workout, after warm ups of SSH, DQ, helicopters, arm circles reverse arm circles and 20 merkins we decided to rotate the exercise choice around the group and started with Yardsale with 20 4 count demon crushers, Corned Beef walk the parking lot loop with clockwise around the world halfway then counter clockwise around the world, Trout 40 kettle bell presses, Yardsale Halo clockwise while walking half of loop the halo counter clockwise while completing the loop. Corned Beef 20 lunges with KB each leg, Trout, 5 burpee thrust, run lap around lot loop then 5 more burpee thrusts. Yardsale 5 KB cleans with each side. Trout Run to opposite site 20 Freddie mercuries then mosey to start to finish the work out as we were out of time.

    Numberama, Namerama and we had a great workout this morning.

    Excellent Mumble chatter this morning and you missed a good one as we did more exercises with the healthy discussion so we hope to see you in the gloom soon. Cheers…CB

  • Get Rhythm

    2 men showed on a cold windy day to throw from iron around.

    • COP
    • Dora
      • Curl + presses x 100
      • Goblet squats x 200
      • Flutterkics 2ct x 300
    • 5 mins of stretching
    • Notes – during COP we determined Yardsale has 2 left feet.
  • Three men and a 2.0

    Three men and No Idea’s 2.0 (Rainbow) braved the cold to get some kb action.

    • COP
    • Supersets
      • Lt. Dans x 10, sprint to first island and back
      • Clean and jerks x 10, sprint and back
      • Burpee + deadlift x 10, sprint
      • Leg lifts over the kb x 20, sprint
      • Rinse and repeat for 3 rounds
  • Always Sunny and 70

    3 men braved the cold and the wind to throw some iron around.

    • COP
      • SSH, invisible jump ropes, imp Walkers, arm circles, Russian soldiers, HRMs, copper head squats, LBCs
    • 4 Corners
      • Corner 1 – 10 squats
      • Corner 2 – 10 squats + 15 demon crushers
      • Corner 3 – 10 squats + 15 demon crushers + 20 KB swings
      • Corner 4 – 10 squats + 15 demon crushers + 20 KB swings + 25 boat canoes
    • 11s
      • Shoulder thrusts
      • Reverse snow angles
    • 5 minutes of stretching to end the beatdown
    • Numberama, namerama, No Idea took us out.
    • Notes:
      • It was cold and windy this morning especially with the KBs. Hard work was put in by all.

  • Solo Tabata at Manndate

    YHC showed up to an empty parking lot at Manndate and here is what went down:

    COP

    Brief warm up of 25 SSH, 10 DQ’s

    THANG

    So broke out the trusty Tabata app (now with music) and proceeded to set up a Kettle bell routine with the following:

    10 total 4 minute Cycles of 8 sets of 20 seconds exercise with 10 second rest and the following list were the exercises:

    Right arm Curl – started with 10 curls this was brutal on the last 3 sets where only 8, 7 and 6 reps were possible.

    Left arm Curl – same as above

    Kettle bell squats – able to perform 13 proper squats every 20 seconds

    Kettle bell cleans – Started with right side 5 reps in 1st 10 seconds and swtiched to left hand for 5 reps for remaining 10 seconds, repeato for remaining 7 sets.

    Skull crushers – 13-15 reps each set

    Alternating lunge – 7-8 reps each leg per set

    Kettle Bell Pushup – 5 reps right side then switch to left 5 reps – hold plank for remaining time…Brutal

    Sit up press – 10-13 reps each 20 seconds

    Around the world – 5 right hand then 5 left hand in 2 seconds

    Kettle Bell swings – 15 reps each set

    Moleskin

    YHC was lonely this morning, but the workout was worth the trip! See you in the gloom soon…have a great day gents…CB!

  • Lonely

    Came…. worked out left……alone

  • Circle clean and jerk

    YHC hadn’t posted to MANNdate in a while so I took the opportunity to Q this week. YHC thought of a new routine that looked good on paper. The PAX was going to be the guinea pigs.

    • COP
      • Mosey around bus loop to front of school
      • SSH x 20
      • Invisible jump ropes
      • Helicopters x 10
      • Arm circles x 10 small, x 5 big
      • DQs x 10
      • Imp. walkers x 10
      • Copperhead squats x 10
      • HRMs x 10
      • Reverse snowangels x 10
    • The circle – The pax formed a circle, the Q calls out an exercise and each person in the circle does 1 rep of that exercise starting with the Q then the next man does 1 rep and on and on around the circle until we cumulatively complete 100 reps. The exercises were:
      • Shoulder press
      • Goblet squats
      • Lawn mowers (100 each arm)
      • WWIIs
      • bench presses
      • Curls
      • Halos
      • Demon crushers
      • Snatches (50 each arm)
    • 1 MoM and some light stretching.
    • Numberama, namerama, No Idea took us out.
    • Notes:
      • Congrats to Corned Beef’s daughter for getting into Virginia Tech. Go Hokies!!!
      • Glad to see No Idea back.