Tag: TwinTeam

2 ground and pounders made their way to Twin Team for a Wojo beatdown! 5:30 and no Wojo, with that Doozy takes the Q with Crash Test Dummy following along.

COP on the basketball court behind BWES

DQ’s, Helicopters, Imperial Walkers, Russian Soldiers, Dead Man Hang

Stay in the corner for a four corner start

10 Merkins, 20 LBC’s, 30 squats, 40 Lunges

Four corners Prostitute

10 NH Merkins, 20 Merkins, 30 Shoulder Taps, 40 Plank Jacks

Mosey to bus loop

Partner 1 run around the loop partner 2 does called exercise (X4)

LBC’s, Sugar Sticks, American Hammers, Scrunchy Frogs

Mosey to front of BW for elevens

Using the benches start with 1 Dip, run to other bench 10 Incline merkins, Bernie back

Mosey to teacher lot for parking lot crawls to 10, start with one merkin at the first line bear crawl to the next increase the merkins by one each time

What goes up must come down Lunges and squats on the way back increasing by two at each line

BTTF

Numbers / Names YHC took us out

NMS:

Wojo was on the Q sheet for this morning but Crash and YHC made the best of it when 5:30 hit.

Five strong assembled at Bettie Weaver Elementary for another beatdown that we like to call Twin Team. Spirits were high as we eagerly anticipated another 45 minutes of fun in the gloom. Here is a summary for you viewing pleasure:

Mosey to the basketball court for Warm-up:
-Don Quixotes, Russian Soldiers, Imperial Walkers, Helicopters, LBC’s, Hand Release Merkins, Dead Man Hang.

Mosey to the hill near the baseball field for Exercise 1:

One PAX traverses across the hill doing Gorilla Killers (Killer Gorillas?), then running back. Other PAX completed exercises together for the duration. Rotate to the next person and repeat.

Exercises completed included: Squats, Plank Jacks, Carolina Dry Docks, Hold Elbow Plank, Jump Squats, Lt. Dans, Flutter Kicks, Alternating Shoulder Taps, Dying Baby Cockroaches and Freddie Mercuries.

Mosey to the BWE track/field for Exercise Two:

Complete 4 times around the square field, alternative exercises on each side,
Round 1: Bear Crawl, Side Shuffle, Bear Crawl, Side Shuffle.
Round 2: Lunge Walk, Butt Kicks, Lunge Walk, Butt Kicks
Round 3: Broad Jump, Carioke, Broad Jump, Carioke
Round 4: Crab Walk, High Knees, Crab Walk, High Knees.

Mosey to the front of the school for 20 count Heals to Heaven, Incline Merkins, and Dips.

Back to the Flag for numbers, names, and announcements.

YHC took us out.

Final Thoughts:

We had some excellent individual performances today.

I did not realize Bullseye was so strong at bear crawling – very impressive.

Did Offshore play basketball back in the day? He seemed to be way out in front on the broad jump section.

Crash was flexing his numbers knowledge – young man has a bright future.

Doozy was Doozy – he’s fast.

I enjoyed leading! Make it a great one.

2 Boot Campers and 3 runners made their way through the drizzle to grace the Gloom at Twin Team

Mosey with the runners but break off at the JRHS

COP

DQ’s, Helicopters, Imperial Walkers, Copperhead Squats and some other stuff

Parking lot crawls

10 up Bear crawl increasing merkins at each line

10 down crab walk increasing 2 LBC’s at each line

5 up Peter Parker style (6″) increasing merkins at each line

5 down lunges increasing 2 squats at each line

Mosey to next student lot

Four Corners using light posts as a guide 10 LBC’s, 20 Carolina dry docks, 30 American hammers, 40 ???

Mosey to next student lot

Four corners around the outer perimeter 10 calf raises, 20 ball dippers, 30 monkey humpers, 40 plank jacks

Mosey to BWES playground

quick elevens – pull ups and merkins no run between

Mosey to bus loop and find bases set up for a kickball infield on the black top with a pitchers mound

Partner 1 on the mound partner 2 on home plate, partner 1 does 20 Carolina dry dock partner 2 does 20 2 count shoulder taps. Partner 2 goes to first partner 1 goes to home. Swap exercises, alternate exercises at each base

BTTF get in 5 Man Killers before time is up

Wojo and YHC talk while waiting for the runners to return

Numbers / Names YHC took us out

NMS

Great day for a beat down but extremely muggy. While talking after the COT YHC was reminded the he and Wojo graduated from the same High School in Charlotte, NC though a couple years apart. It’s always interesting to see how lives and paths have crossed over the years and how we may really never know it until later in life.

4 fearless warriors shook off the rain and looked for owners of the other f3 sticker cars in the lot, never to find them. We did find ample ab work:

COP: Invisible Jumprope, Don Qs, Imperial Walkers, Merkins, Flutterkicks. Mosey to field for 11s: Pullups and V-Ups.

Head down to baseball stands for 3 rounds of: 30 Benchkicks & 15 Derkins. Find shelter at the concession stand with: 30 Squats & 50 LBCs. 3 rounds. Back up to the field: 3 Rounds of 25 PLTs. Then bear crawl width of field.

BW blacktop for 3 rounds of Lunge across & 10 HRMs, Crab Walk back then 20 Jump Squats. Call time before done and back to flag. YHC took us out.

Annoucements: HDHH on 6/23 at Hardywood West Creek (not Hardywood’s Amelia which is totally different).

NMS: Small group with 3 speedsters wore the Q out this morning. Offshore posted making this a mini-Tuckahoe takeover, he said it was worth the drive for a beatdown instead of a run. Doozy made the 11s look easy.

This morning marks 6 years since YHC’s virgin post at 45MoM. Thank all of you for making me into a much better man over that time. This week at the Honeydo household has been very difficult and I can only wonder how Sad Clown Honeydo would have struggled to handle this week or even this last year of COVID.

Three amigos converged to celebrate the Q’s 16th wedding anniversary, so naturally, it was 16 of everything. Here’s how it’s told by the OTB SOJ runners who filled the BWE parking lot but were nowhere to be found.

The THANG:

COP #1:

• Warmerama on the BWE soccer field in the usual DTH fashion, except everything was x16 reps in cadence

COP #2:

• Mosey down to the track
• x4 laps completed, with x4 stops per lap, completing x16 reps at each quarter
• Each lap had: x16 Burpees, x16 2-ct American Hammers, x16 2-ct Ball Dippers, and x16 Dolly’s

COP #3:

• Mosey over to the parking lot
• Polar Bear x16 parking spaces, completing x1 merkin at each line
• Reverso with lunging all the way back with x1 squat each line

COP #4:

• Mosey back to the Flag the long way around and finish off the morning with variable 16-count Mary

COT:

• Counterama # 3
• Namerama
• Announcerama (see Comments)
• YHC took the PAX out in Prayer

NMS: Beautiful morning for a threesome with a couple SOJ studs. After 16 years in the saddle, YHC needs a little bromance here and there. So it was sweet sixteen of everything and turned out to be a decent beatdown – thanks Doozy for some exercise suggestions on the track. YHC hadn’t planned a routine like normal…just knew it was gonna be 16 of everything and we’d do some laps and burpees. As YHC will be out of town for a weekend of beer, brats, and fishing, it was a good thing to get smoked on the front end. The SOJ runners had arrived before we did and were still beating the streets by the time we left…probably lost somewhere in those Salisbury suburbs. As Buzzkill pointed out, the summer heat and humidity is definitely here. SYITG, DTH

At 5:30 am, the Twin Team crew rolled in 6 deep. Light skies and ideal weather conditions left little doubt that a good time would be had by all. The following is a summary for your viewing pleasure:

Mosey to the baseball field for Warmarama:

Don Quixotes, Arm Circles, Russian Soldiers, Helicopters, Hand Release Merkins, LBC’s, Dead Man Hang and Wilson’s wife.

Mosey to the track for Exercise One:

The Merkin Mile – After each lap, do 20 Merkins. Run the straightaways, Striders on the curves.
Trying to keep up with Doozy on this one proved futile.

Mosey to the Football Practice Field for Exercise Two:

After some fuzzy math by YHC, we did a Triple Check
– Pole Smokers
-Jump Squats
-Lunge Walk to the Soccer Goal, Bernie Back.

Mosey to the hill at the back of the parking lot for Exercise Three:
Bear Crawl up the hill, pivot right, and do 2 Broad Jump Burpees, Crawl Bear Down, pivot right, then 2 Broad Jump Burpees…………worked our way across the hill.
Probation appeared to be flying through this particular exercise.

Back to the flag for Names/Numbers.

Announcements: Convergence on Memorial Day at Tredegar.
River Run is back! For those interested in getting some hilly mileage – Mondays at Bettie Weaver Elementary (5:30am).

YHC took us out.

Great work everyone! This definitely ended up being a bit of a leg day. Way to push through.

In classic SOJ fashion, we thought someone had locked us in the track. After pushing the gate open, we realized this was not the case.

Make it a great one.

In 1972 the members of Deep Purple headed to Montreux in Lake Geneva to make a record. They went to a Frank Zappa concert to let off a little steam and get some inspiration. Someone in the crowd shot off a flair gun which hit the ceiling and burned the venue to the ground. That night smoke on the water was born.

3 ground and pounders decided to run down to the river to see what was going on down there, 5 runners decided to follow just in case. Once the river was reached we found everything as it should be and scientifically speaking it was just the difference in the air and water temperature that created the smoke like fog on the water. The fire in the sky was the sun peaking over the horizon.

COP

From the dock DQ’s, Helicopters, Dead man hangs to sky stretches’, LBC’s, Rosalleta’s, Imperial squat walkers, Russian Soldiers

Mosey to the parking lot

Parking lot crawls, bear crawl to the first line do 1 merkin increase merkins by 1 at each line (X10)

Crab walk back with a reverse plank dip increasing by 1 at each line (X10)

Lung walk back with a squat at each line and increasing by 1 each line (X10)

Mosey to the JRHS tennis courts

Four corners around 3 of the courts (Heals to Haven (10), Rosalleta’s (20), Jump Squats (30), Calf raises (40))

Mosey to the student parking lot

Bear crawl catch me if you can, last in line does 3 burpees

Mosey BTTF

Ab ring of fire

10 ab exercises while other 2 PAX holds a mid scrunchy frog

Numbers / Names Once the runners returned Don Draper took us out

NMS

YHC actually heard the story of how Deep Purple came up with “Smoke on the water” this week while listening to his classic rock station and this mornings visit to the river made it an easy title. YHC has been the owner of at least 20 6 string guitars (electric and acoustic) and still can’t play one song all the way through. However Smoke on the Water is one that he can play most of the way through. Deep Purple, The Who and Molly Hatchet are some of the greatest bands to ever play.

… for Partner Jerkins, a Garbage Plate innovation.

The Thang: Mosey around the school. Some runners couldn’t keep up so they went to the track for the rest of the time. COP IC: SSH x20, IW x20, DQ x10, Helicopters x10, Merkins x10, Pop Squats x15, Stand on One Foot and Bounce the Imaginary Ball x10 each foot.

Mosey to the playground for Jack Webbs with Pull-ups and 5-PAX Partner Jerkins. After round 4, the Partner Jerkins were modified to a hold for a count to the Jack Webb-prescribed number.

Mosey to the blacktop for Jack Webbs with WW IIs and Reverse Crunches, a Chum Bucket innovation. PAX ran across the blacktop in between sets, Reverse Plank for the six. Time was up after round 8. Back to the VF for COT.

NMS: YHC made the longer trip for a Friday bootcamp after jumping on the Q sheet last night, thinking that a solo post might be a possibility. What if only one other PAX posted – how to do Partner Jerkins? The parking lot quickly filled with 8 cars, but then YHC learned that some of the PAX were planning to skip the bootcamp and run – as if there aren’t enough Friday running AOs! Anyhow, that left 5, which is the perfect number for Partner Jerkins.

Way to work today, PAX. It was great to meet Buzzkill and see Doozy, Bullseye, and Probation. It was good to catch up with the runners afterward, too.

A wise PAX reminded us take some time to honor mothers past, present, and future.

4 regulars and a blast from the past posted at Twin Team. Yes YHC realizes that this is Monday and this post should have been entered on Friday.

COP to the back of BW at the playground

DQ’s, Helicopters, Cherry Pickers, LBC’s, Merkins,

3 set of 10 pull ups and 15 Merkins OYO

Head to Twin Team in search of the Beast part Tres

To the top of the hill give a brief history lesson on the search for the Beast

5 stops down the hill with 6 exercises at each stop back up the hill with same stops and exercises on the way. Made it through 3.5 sets

Squats, WWII, Ball Dippers, Scrunchy Frogs

BTF Ring of Fire abs IC each PAX picks

Numbers / names DTH took us out

NMS

The return of Buzzkill after a 3 year hiatus might have been a tough reentry workout but he showed his mental toughness as well as his physical toughness by sticking with the PAX throughout the challenge. T-Claps to Buzzkill hope to see you back on a regular basis.