Is there anything better than hefting a frozen kettlebell outside with your buddies, listening to dope music, seeing clouds of your own breath in front of your face each time you exhale? Probably yes, a lot of things. But so what? It’s still amazing. And so we had an amazing workout this morning. Anyone reading this who doesn’t like working out during the cold months? Don’t be like that, it’s great. Say goodbye to sweating! Did you know you can buy clothes to warm your body in just about any kind of weather? You may even shed layers after you…
Browsing: The Old Hundred
Two days later and it sounds like you can’t handle your chili… 7 boys from the hood and 1 Westhoe came for all the smells. Check your shorts!! Warmarama: One Lap around the school, SSH, Arm Circles, DQ, Imperial Walkers, Copperhead Squats, LBC, Flutter Kicks, Bear Crawl to the curb, Incline Merkins, Decline Merkins. The Thang:4 Corners-Mosey to the 1st Corner, 20 Curls: Drop KB run to the start and back. 20 Curls-Mosey to the 2nd Corner, 20 Curls, 20 Lawnmower: Drop KB run to the start and back, 20 Curls, 20 Lawnmower.-Mosey to the 3rd Corner, 20 Curls, 20…
I’ve Q’d here a bit and thought I’d wing it this morning. And I did, but it started off kind of slow. Still, I feel some serious soreness coming already. Toward the end we gained steam. There’s something about kettlebells that doesn’t feel like running but still feels like I put in serious work. Am I crazy? Probably. Thanks to trailblazers like Hermey I feel empowered to leave this truncated back last. We had a haphazard, run-free OYO warmup. Then 3x of the following: Swings, goblet squats, single leg deadlifts, Romanian deadlifts, WW3s, calf raises, upright rows, single arm rows,…
”Who is this guy?” was soon followed by even weirder looks after I took out the Ghost Flag and stole the Q from Purple Rain. After a mosey around the large bus loop we circled up for a little disclaimer and some warmups of Helicopters, Arm Circles, Ukrainian Soldiers, DQs, LBCs, Flutters and Merkins. Taking from Attila’s playbook, I took out a park of cards to determine the kettlebell exercises. Clubs were Curls, Spades-Squats, Hearts-overHead presses and Diamonds-Da swings. Face cards=ten, Diamonds=15, face value for everything else with a 5 minimum and 2 jokers for ten burpees each. Lots of…
6 Redwoods posted out on this Election Day ready to vote for a good kettle bell beatdown. What was to be a Purple Rain Q turned into a Nancy Q. Thanks PR for allowing me to get back to the Q sheet as I have a break from travel this week. Nothing better than starting a day with fine men! Warm up: 20 each: LBC’s, SSH, Imperial walkers, 10 each: Merkins, CH squats, Cherry pickers, DQ’s, Helicopters. Get to it: Round Robin of 6 with timer carrying the 50lb cannon ball to various lengths while pax rotated through: Kettle wings,…
8 adventurous HIMs pulled into the lot this morning eager for a kettlebell beatdown. Hermey supplied a diverse playlist played at high volume, but that’s how the old hundred crew likes it. We’re a non-conformist bunch, save for the common yearning for muscle-splitting, pulse pounding beatdowns where we’re all slinging weight. Never mind the school zoning, weight was slung. Here’s what appeared on the menu: Lap around the school, SSHs, Andy Dufresne stretch, dead man hang, grass grabbers, OYO helicopters, rotator cuff stretch, hold a deep squat, cobra and downward dog stretches, HRMs, 30 Freddie Mercurys w/ variable cadence 20 swings, 20 goblet squats, 20 single leg…
cop – we waramarmed in the normal fashion thang – mixture of exercises in a circuit format cot – name/number announce hermey took us out
Four dudes, their circadian rhythms mysteriously aligned and peaked this morning, slung weights around and brewed up some of the most cerebral and stimulating conversations. Nary a man ran, but here’s what we did do: SSH, Andy Dufresne, KB helicopters, dead man hang, hold a deep squat, merkins, cobra and downward dog 20 thrusters, 20 reverse lunges (10/leg), 20 single leg deadlifts (10/leg), repeat 3x 20 Alabama prom dates, 15 WWIIIs, 75 calf raises, repeat 3x 20 Romanian deadlifts, 20 upright rows, 20 overhead presses, repeat 3x 20 curls, 15 skull crushers, 30 lawnmower pulls (15/arm), repeat 3x Hermey took us out. Old Hundred never…
7 men made it out to hit the kettlebells on a cool 70 degree and sunny morning. The air was crispy aside from a few times where a warm fog drifted by… caused by high-fiber foods. Mosey to the back of the parking lot. Warmup CoPSide Straddle HopsHelicoptersUkrainian SoldiersImperial WalkersCopperhead SquatsArm Circles Cocaine Bear CrawlBear crawl back to the kettlebells stopping every 2 white lines to do a Merkin. Upper Body CoPClose-grip curls x20Close-grip reverse curls x20Front arm raise x15Overhead press x30Swings x30Lawnmowers x15 per armSkullcrushers x20Chest press x30 Mosey to the bus loading area for a DORA100 Goblet Squats200…
Words of wisdom………but I am here to talk about a kettlebell workout. Here is a brief summary for your viewing pleasure:Mosey to the port-o-john area for Warm Up:Arm Circles, Don Quixote’s, Ukranian Soldiers, Copperhead Squats, Mummy Kicks, Bruce Lee Punches.Mosey back towards the flag and grab the KbellsExercise One: Self Dora100 curls – run after each set of 25 200 squats – run after each set of 50200 LBC’s – run after each set of 50 Exercise Two: One Pax carries their Kettle and 30 LB ruck plate across the parking lot and back. They call an exercise, which the…