Tag: TwinTeam

Lucky 7’s were tossed around at the latest installment of the award winning “Twin Team Lounge” this morning. Here is how things went down.

5.30 is called so off we mosey for bit of warm up at the blacktop. Disclosures and introductions are completed. Conversational warm up included Dead Man Hang, Ukrainian Soldiers, Helis, DQ’s, Jazzercise among others. So we begin

Mosey to the black top corner for 4 corners BroCode style. 10 merkins, 20 squats, 30 lunges and 40 shoulder taps.

Pax noticed YHC brought some coupons to be stored for future use early on. Not to disappoint as numbers were perfect, we moseyed to the bus loop for a circle jerk. 6 stations of various block exercises while timer ran the loop and back. Exercises included rows, curls, squats, squat thrusters, WWII’s, and chest press. 2 rounds were completed.

Mosey over to the benches for 2 rounds of step ups, incline merkins and dips.

MBTTVF for a bit of stretching and premature time being called to the PAX dismay. Announcements, Prayers followed by Doozy taking us out.

Tepid Triangle Ruck event happening 8 pm tonight at Alamo. Pad Thai still looking for partners for the Grow Ruck next weekend.

NMS: After a week of numerous counting exercises, YHC was interested in a more conversational beatdown. Limited running was also preferred to packing in the miles. No better answer for that then to donate some 12″ coupons to the cause. Good conversation about various topics. Great way to start the morning and the weekend. Thanks for coming out fellas.

6 regular HIM’s and 1 Downrange joined YHC for a little Lounge action at Twin Team today. Was it loungy? Sort of.

Warmarama: Various exercises called, all completed in conversation.

Thang: 4×4 basketball – regular court. The great hoopers that joined YHC today didn’t let a semi-flaccid basketball stand in their way. It was time to hoop! No score was kept and YHC would call out various exercises after a made basket or a particularly bad shot or pass.

Thang 2: 4×4 basketball – diagonal court. A bit more running on this one.

YHC’s summary of players:

Rosie quickly established himself as the basketball player in the group. Ever see one of those 1950’s videos of the white guy with perfect form holding down a solid pivot foot while protecting the ball in 3-point stance? If so, you’ve seen Rosie play basketball. Mad skills on this dude.

Pad Thai: We’re still trying to identify his range. Couldn’t seem to make a basket if he was one foot from the hoop or 20 feet away. The bottom of the net proved elusive. It’s always a good idea to try and throw the basketball as hard as you can against the backboard…so says Pad Thai.

Doozey: Ever seen Steph Curry play basketball??? Doozey is the exact opposite.

Sin bin: This F3 brother just rebounds. Does he score? No. Does he play defense, sort of. He is the Dennis Rodman of Twin Team.

Last Call: Anyone ever play basketball with an old man, and he just knew where and how to throw elbows to inflict pain? In YHC’s younger days, YHC used to play with basketball with Kelly Jones. Kelly used to elbow YHC in the kidneys on every play. Need a dirty old man trick…Last Call is your man.

Game Warden: YHC is going to go out on a limb and say that Game Warden has never played basketball before.

Wedding Singer: YHC couldn’t come up with the proper adjective to describe Singer’s game. Maybe YHC will come up with something clever and update the backblast a later date.

Mozey Lunge back to the Flag for a quick Circle Up for some Ab exercises.

During these Ab Exercises, conversation turned to Game Warden’s wedding this weekend. Various unnamed people were trying to get some intel on how good looking the bridesmaids were. Doozey reminded the group that the mother’s and aunts are more in our age range than the bridesmaids and the backblast title was born.

Name-a-rama / Announcements / YHC took us out in prayer.

A sneaky Lounge workout today! It was fun.

Bullesye chose a flat route, Singer followed. 4 miles logged around Robious Landing, River Downs North.

Bulleyes and YHC dusted off the running sneakers and logged 4 miles – Twin Team -> Ellesmere -> Mount Hill and home. The 4 miler pace is a good pace for casual conversation, we’ve been working on it for years, perfecting it one might even say.

-Singer

Three regulars and one close by newbie joined up for a lounge-esque Friday morning workout at Twin Team.

Warm up while the pax awaits OC’s arrival – Don Q, SSH

Mosey over to JRHS track. Beast – PAX choices – merkins, squats, SSH, flutters, etc.

one round of blimp on the track

mosey to bleachers, one round of love hill, abort to field, complete love hill (merkins, freddies)

mosey back to BWE, wall squats with various wall workouts, one person LARPs a basketball shot and returns.

mosey to point of beginning, various ab exercises.

Fun workout this morning gents. YHC tried to maintain the spirit of the lounge while covering some ground, keeping most paces at a mosey with plenty of chatter. OC arrived early to ruck off some steam. Rosie kept us in check and Pad Thai found a new workout location 10 minutes from his house.

-Singer

YHC was thrilled to see 7 HIMs in attendance this morning at the Twin Team Lounge this morning. Temperatures and attitudes were near perfection as always.

Warm-a-rama: Back and forth across the blacktop. In conversation warmup with Ukranian soldiers, walking high knees, quad stretch, jogs, etc. Then circle up for some stretching to get those muscles loose. You can’t rush perfection at the Lounge.

Thang 1: Quad-check. Run, Squats, Merkins, LBC’s.

Thang 2: Ascending 4 corners. YHC pulled a fast one on the group and went to 50, 60, 70 and 80 on the corners vs. starting over. The PAX rallied and rebelled appropriately. We ended with 80 monkey humpers which was an appropriate transition to the weekend activity that we’re all sure to have.

Number-a-rama / Prayer Requests and YHC took us out.

Credit to Rosie for the joke of the day. YHC apologies to Last Call for making him sweat in the Lounge. Great to have Bullseye back with the group.

Bruce Springsteen’s Born To Run album came out 50 years ago this week. YHC figured that’s a perfectly loungey album to bring to Twin Team. Unfortunately The Board Of Directors of Twin Team would not have given this workout the stamp of approval. Luckily they didn’t have a quorum, so YHC was able to proceed with the workout as planned. Here is more less what happened:

Mosey (sorry, “slowsey”) to the basketball courts for

Warmerama

Invisible jump rope

Helicopters

Don Quixote 

Imperial walkers

Jazzercise 

Freddie Mercury 

Scorpion kicks

Shoulder taps

Pickle pounders

Mosey to the benches in front of the school for two rounds of:

The BOSS

Bulgarian split squats 5 each leg

Outlaw (O with feet) 10 each direction 

Squat 15

SSH 20

Mosey to base of Twin Team for

Born to Run (right on time with the song!)

Run up twin team 

10 merkins, 10 squats, 10 WW2s at each mailbox

Mosey back to to the invisible shovel flag for

50 years of4 corners

50 count flutters

50 monkey humpers

50 shoulder taps

50 Peter Parkers

The 5 minutes of Mary to finish it up

Numbers, names, mumblechatter, announcements, mumblechatter, prayer requests, mumblechatter, YHC took us out

Announcements:

-convergence on Labor Day, 7am at Dogpile

-IronPAX starts next week at Timberwolf, come on out!

7 go getters made their way to Twin Team to see how loungy Doozy could make a Q.

Slaughter start with stretches 😁 of all sorts, DQ’s, Helicoptors and various other lounge worthy exercises capped of with everyone’s favorite part of Man Killers 1,1,1,1

Mosey to basket ball court 4 corners

Mosey to play ground triple check

Mosey to the bus loop triple check

Mosey back to basketball court 4 corners

BTTF for a ab ring of fire

Numbers/names

NMS:

YHC has gotten back into doing 5 workouts a week and having one that is a little more stretching and 2nd F is a nice way to end the week.

Warmarama:

• Mosey down to James River High School
• Various stretching
• Side Straddle Hops
• Fan favorite: Long and deep Alabama Prom Dates
• Solid mumber chatter on the Lethal Weapon series including Lastcall’s teenage crush portrayed by actress Patsy Kensit in Lethal Weapon 2

The Thang:

1. Triple Check

• Dips on benches
• Squats
• Runner to the farthest light in the parking lot

2. Dora at the Pull-up Bars

• 50 Pull-ups
• 100 Side Straddle Hops
• 150 Squats

3. Hill Work (small hill near Betty Weaver Elementary)

• Bernie walk up hill → 5 squats at the top
• Walk down → 5 Side Straddle Hops at the bottom
• Repeat x5

4. Mosey back to the flag

• Light stretching to close

Announcements:

• Homegrown Half – Saturday, 8/16

Prayer Requests:

• All students returning to school—from kindergartners to college students
• Those battling cancer or illness
• Men with nagging health issues—encourage them to get checked out