Tag: #SOJ

  • Gauntlet #2 – Stairway to Heaven

    This is the second time I have done this style of workout and it seems to be a hit, so more to come! The lesson I learned this go-round is when the music plays, the PAX’s pain goes away! According to the bullfrog trying to get some this morning, here’s what went down:

    Mosey to the stop sign and back, circle up for a good warmup. Nice 70 degree morning, felt the sweat already.

    Gauntlet
    3 Burpee buy-in
    15 Squats with resistance band
    15 Curls with cinder block
    15 Merkins with resistance band
    15 Lunges with sandbag
    15 Bent over rows with KB
    15 KB swings
    15 Picklepounders
    Run to top of Satan’s Hill and back

    Rinse and Repeat for 30 minutes.

    Mudslide and Wildcat set the pace and everyone gave a great effort today, that was good stuff men! I believe we did 5-6 rounds. Mudslide took us out with 3 minutes of Broga. Shoutout to TSG for rucking while he recovers from injury. I don’t know where he went nor what he did, but I’m sure it was epic.

    CSOP and Bridge coming up. Prayers for Cookie’s family, his 53 year old uncle recently passed from a heart attack.

    Happy Friday everyone! Enjoy a bourbon, you earned it

  • Ball > Tire

    4 of SOJ’s finest gathered for a hot and humid edition of Twin Team. Coupons are atypical of the Lounge experience………….but we made it work. The following is a brief summary for your viewing pleasure.

    Exercise One: Kicked things off with an indigenous people’s run. Man in the back does 2 Power Slam Bobby Hurleys with Medicine Ball. Run and hand the ball off to the person in back of the line, then run to the front. We made our way past the high school to the tennis court area.

    Warm Up: Jazzercise, Cherry Pickers, Ukranian Soldiers, Australian Snow Angels, Freddy Mercuries, Alabama Prom Dates. Mosey behind the school for some Tire Flips – No Tires!

    Exercise Two: Dora with hanging Knee Raises, Jump Squats, Flutter Kicks. Runner goes to the Transformer and back.

    Mosey to the track for Exercise Three: Catch me if you Crab. 100 m Crab Walk. One man totes the medicine ball to the start line – 5 American Hammers. Run back and hand off the ball to the person in the lead. Repeat until all are done.

    Exercise 4: Run up and down the Swamp Stadium stairs – plank walk across each section of bleachers. Switch directions and repeat.

    Indigenous People run back to Bettie Weaver – same pattern as above.

    Exercise 5 – Complete two layups with medicine ball: one on each basket – call an ab exercise for the remaining PAX. YHC had an embarrassing performance with several air balls.

    I think we did WWII’s, Flutter Kicks, Crunchy Frogs and something else

    Run around the school – stopped for 25 dips on the benches.

    Back to the flag and YHC took us out.

    Final Thoughts: Training is ramping up for the Century Classic- Boberry and Rosie were up early this morning getting in some miles. Not too late to sign up! Also keep a look out for The Bridge workouts. Strong work by the PAX today- we got in a good workout while keeping things semi-loungy

    SYITG



  • Finally found Boberry’s NON conversational pace!

    2 Fleet footed zombies met in the gloom at Swift Creek Middle for another speed workout. Here’s the workout.

    1 mile warmup
    1.5 miles (6 laps) @8 minutes per mile
    1.5 miles @720 per mile
    1 mile cool down

    YHC and Boberry have been doing these speed workouts for a couple months now, and we both feel like we’re getting results. And this is the first time Boberry hit a pace that he couldn’t carry on a conversation. So I  guess 720 is his non conversational pace.

  • The message on the window

    6 HIMs came out to Timberwolf this morning, 3 chose rucking and 3 chose the bootcamp. It was foggy, humid, and a lot of running, but we got it done. The Q was not claimed, so we did a little hot potato full of triple checks!

    Round 1

    Triple check by Tzatziki: Merkins, squats, and the runner to the curb

    Triple check by Woodsman : Dips, toe taps, and the runner to the light pole

    Triple check by Mudslide: Lieutenant Dans, inchworms (with a merkin), and the runner to light pole

    Round 2

    Triple check by Tzatziki: Flutter kicks, LBCs, and the runner to the curb

    Triple check by Woodsman: SSH, Firecrackers, and the runner up the hill

    Not enough time for a second Triple check by Mudslide, so he took us out with some Broga in the rain.

    We met back up with the ruckers (TSG, Crabgrass, and FlyBoy) as time expired and TSG took us out. Timberwolf has been light the past two weeks but happy to be there and start the day off right!

  • Numbers, Annoucements, wait… GO F3!

    6 gloom warriors rolled into a dark, foggy & misty morning at Timberwolf. As Led Zeppelin says, “So I’m packing my bags for a misty mountain, where the spirits go now, over the hill where the spirits fly!” It’s 5:30, time for FlyBoy to make his decision; boot camp or ruck? YHC got excited when he saw the weighted vest emerge from the trunk of his car. Crabgrass joined for moral support. And we were off, 3 ruckers (Crabby, FlyBoy, TSG) and 3 boot campers! I don’t think anyone signed up for bootcamp Q, so I think they rotated, TSG took the ruckers.

    Ruckers made their way to the track for a little interval training, while the others went off to do their thang.

    The Rucker Thang

    1 mile interval: 400M shuffle/ 400M ruck / 400M shuffle/ 400M ruck

    4 corners mile of pain; start at corner 1- 5x overhead press (changed to merkins after a mighty struggle and complaints from the gallery of having to take weighted vest on and off). Shuffle to corner 2 for 5 squats, ruck to corner 3 for 5 jump squats, shuffle to corner 4 for 5 pickle dippers, ruck back to corner 1. 4x400M rounds going up 5 reps each round finishing with 20x reps per corner.

    We had about 7 min until 6:15, so we made our way over to Kitten Lip’s, I mean FlyBoys moms classroom where she said she left him a little note in the window. Sure enough, we rounded the corner and saw GO F3 in the window. Very cool. After that, we made our way back to converge with the bootcampers to wrap things up.

    COT

    • Count/ Namerama (Of course I forgot to do names, thanks for correcting me Crabgrass)
    • Announcements: CSAUP coming up- sign up!
    • Wins/ Prayer Request- Pray for all PAX, family and friends who may be facing challenging circumstances. Mudslide took us out.

    Enjoyed the company as always; F3 has truly changed my life around for the better and I’ll always be greatful for all of you. Thanks for continuing to push me to become a better man both physically and mentally. Look forward to the next one!

  • Ruck-a-ccino

    6 HIMs gathered at the stop sign. 1 HIM we found running. 1 HIM jumped out from behind a tree and startled the unsuspecting newcomers to the RounTrey Ruck Club. All in total, 8 HIM came out to put some work in!

    Started at stop sign, had light conversation on what’s better than a kettlebell or MTG cards to get weight in your pack. Only took 5 minutes before TSG felt lost but his spirits were lifted when we passed Matlock out there crushing it on his gloomy run!

    Walked past McGruffs house, nothing. Around the bend and crosses the road by the gas station. Walking up the hill with no lights whatsoever on it, McGruff was in his element and rushed us from the cover of the trees and scared a few of us pretty good. You never know where he may appear from! There was some debate on whether he had his pants up while he was in the woods by himself.

    We reminisced a little on FlyBoys life and made our way through the rolling hills and eventually back to the start. We’re hopeful that Tobey doesn’t notify HR on us today…

  • 200 Burpees, 200 Thrusters

    Pool Boy and YHC, decided to hell with pull ups and Dips. Today, we’re going hard.  For Extra Credit, we each did 200 Thrusters, 200 Burpees, then murder bunnied our way 150 yards uphill, back to the flag, just in time for the Bermuda Triangle Beatdown!

    Actually, we did our normal Pull-ups and Dips, with some Decline Merkins, and Jerkins.

    Happy April Fools Day

  • Getting Ready for State Farm

    4 Bermuda Boys came out for what turned out to be one of the tougher Bermuda Triangle Beatdowns, in awhile. YHC’S Garmin agreed, with an average heart rate in the 150s!(that’s high for a bootcamp!)

    YHC started off the hot potato with a mosey to the basketball court for the standard warmarama, then a leg circuit.

    12 lunges with one leg into 12 jumping lunges same leg, repeat other leg
    Run to other side of the court and back
    Repeato

    12 squats, widen stance 12 squats, then 12 jump squats wide stance
    Run to the other side of the court and back
    Repeato

    Over to the wall
    Wall drives x20 double count
    Mountain Climbers x20 double count
    repeato

    Back to the basketball court
    Lateral Lunges x20 double count
    Lateral shuffles between the lines on the key x20

    That’s it for legs today boys!
    Broadway says “Not so fast, my friend”

    He took us for a military style Run around the school, after a solid mile, we stopped at the bleachers at the football field for some incline merkins. Then moseyed over to the lower parking lot for some parking lot chasers.
    Then mosey up to the main lot.
    Start at 15 merkins, then 14 WW2s, declining and alternating down to 1, finishing with 10 of each.

    Pool Boy closed us out with his signature Taint tickling.

    Names, and Numbers. Broadway took us out.

    This was a good one, hopefully it will prepare us for whatever State Farm has in store for us next Tuesday at the same time, same place!

  • Colin Waller, 40, Heist

    17 grown-boys started thir week off STRONG and ran around the parking lot today at The Alamo. Here’s what went down…

    WARAMARAMA – Took the PAX on a field trip through the tunnel of love and ran back to the parking lot. Stretched out, gave the mission and got into it.

    COP #1 – 4 Corners: SUPERsized (covered a lot of ground) and LOTN-style.

    • Corner #1 – (10) Toe Taps on the curb
    • Corner #2 – (20) Squats
    • Corner #3 – (30) Carolina Dry Docks
    • Corner #4 – (40) SSH’s

    COP #2 – Partner excercises on the Tennis Court

    • Round 1: Bear Crawl to the middle of the court to meet your partner and perform (10) Booyah Merkins. Crawl Bear back. Three rounds.
    • Round 2: Crab Walk to the middle of the court to meet your partner and perform (10) Booyah WW2’s. Crab Walk back. Three rounds.
    • Round 3: Lunge to the middle of the court to meet your partner and perform (10) Booyah Lunges. Lunge Back. Three rounds.

    COP #3 – Attempted to go on an Indigenous-People’s run but YHC could feel that the PAX needed a breather so we slowed things down with a Ring of Fire.

    • Most of the PAX had a chance to call out an Ab exercise (QTY 10) for the rest of the PAX to perform. ~140 total reps of various ab exercises.

    ANNOUNCEMENTS

    • CSOP coming up! Hit up Heist for deets.
    • FNG ALERT – Welcome, The Duke!

    PRAYERS/WINS

    • PRAYER – Prayers for healthy pregnancies for The Duke/LWood’s M’s.
    • PRAYER – Blacktop’s father recently passed away. Prayer’s for strength and to see you soon, Blacktop!
    • PRAYER – Rudy’s friend Jay’s father preparing for quad-bypass surgery.

  • Exhilarating. Groundbreaking…….Embarrassing.

    The DLC was back in action at the latest edition of Rock N Roll. We had an enthusiast PAX of 10 engaging in some questionable exercises. Here is a brief summary for your viewing pleasure:

    To the small basketball court for Warm Up: Copperhead Squats, Jazzercise, Apple Bottom Poppers, Heels to Heaven, Freddy Mercuries, Alabama Prom Dates, Shoulder Taps, Hand Release Merkins, Mario Jumps, Mummy Bernies, Karoake, No Cheat Broad Jumps, Lunge Walks, Side Lunges.

    Exercise One: Indigenous People’s Moroccan Night Clubs: Everyone runs doing Moroccan Night Clubs. Man in the back does one burpee, then sprints to the front. Made our way to the baseball field.

    *50 Grow Ruck Sit Ups

    Exercise Two: Primate Crossing
    Round One: Murder Gorillas x 6, Gorilla Humpers x 10. Repeat until you make it across the field.

    Round Two: Flying Monkey Humpers.

    *50 incline LBC’s on the hill

    Exercise Three: Indigenous People’s Mario Jumps. Line does Mario Jumps: man in the back does one burpee, then sprints to the front. Made our way to the back parking lot.

    Exercise 4: Assorted Partner Exercises. Team up and complete the following:
    Broadway Dips, BooYah Merkins, Human Incline Merkins, Booyah Burpees, Partner Carry, Partner Boxing Cockroaches, Partner Leg Tosses, BooYah WWII’s, Partner Crab Walks, Partner Hand Release Merkins, Partner Assisted One Legged Squats. Grand Finale with a Team Monkey Humper Line!

    Enjoyed teaming with Mudslide on these!

    Exercise 5: Indigenous People’s Bernie Sanders. Man in the back does 1 burpee, then sprints to the front Made our way back to the small basketball court.

    Exercise 6: Suicide with 5 Douple Tap HR Merkins each time you reach the baseline.

    Finished things off with a couple minutes of Ab exercises

    Numbers (10), Names, Announcements, Prayer Requests

    YHC took us out

    Final Thoughts: It was a great morning with ideal weather and a PAX that was up for anything. Not really sure if these particular exercises were great for recruiting, but it did not stop us from trying. Big Rig in particular, was reaching out to many individuals exercising in the park. Hopefully none saw the team Monkey Humpers. Thanks for letting me lead fellas – enjoyed it!