Category: The Ballroom

Track and Stack at the Ballroom

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YHC was humbled to be asked to Q at the Ballroom. Heading into D2D, there is a feeling across the Fort of preparation for the big event. However, YHC wanted to challenge the Pax to make a downpainment on the day with a track inspired workout.

WARMUP:
Mosey to the parking lot beside the playground
Windmills x 10
Diamond merkins x 5
SSH x 20
WAM x 5
MNC x 20
Merkins x 5
IW x 20
Diamonds x 5
Mtn x 20
WAM x 5
Monkey Humpers x 20
Merkins x 5

Mosey to the football field

THE THANG:

Track and Stack
Run 200 meters followed by 5 burpees
Run 200 meters followed by 5 burpees and 10 merkins
Continue to stack each 200 with 15 LBCs, 20 SSH, 25 squats, 30 mtn climbers, 35 OH clap and 40 flutters

Mosey back to the flag for 3 minutes of Mary

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Trash pickup coming on 3/22
Convergence on 3/14
Jaegar on 3/15

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The Sheldon Cooper

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I picked up the substitute Q stick from <@UN6PTD007> as he’s DR this week and he picked up one of mine from a few weeks ago.

WARMUP: Mosey over to the track. The obligatory SSH, Morrocan nightclubs, windmills

THE THANG: The Sheldon Cooper. 10 rounds of descending reps. Run a lap around the track, perform 10 burpees, 10 squats, 10 merkins and 10 big boys. Continue this pattern and decrease your rep count by one after each lap.

This was intentionally chosen so that each pax could push themselves as hard as they could, regardless of the pax around them. This provided some good fellowship for a few and the ability to go hard for others.

MARY: Planks and Peter Parkers

ANNOUNCEMENTS: D2D, Jaeger, Convergence. Read the Newsletter

COT: Prayers for new job opportunities, health, and healing.

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Dancing the Tariffs Away

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WARMUP:
Imperial Walkers
Low slow squats
Hillbilly Walkers
LBC
Plank with some stretching

Mosey to front of school
12 Dips
5 step ups each leg
3 rounds
Mosey to back of school
Wall sit while 1 PAX goes up and down stairs
20 quick steps
5 irkins
15 quick steps
5 irkins
10 quick steps
5 irkins
THE THANG:
Mosey to football field
10 squats
Lunge walk 10 yard
10 merkins
Mosey back to goal
10 squats
Lunge walk to 20 yard
10 merkins
Mosey back to goal

Rinse and repeat to the 50
2nd round
Same distances
Reverse lunge walk
Sumo squats
Plank jacks
Reverse mosey to goal line

MARY:
Freddy mercurys
Rosalitas
Protractor
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Read Newsletter
COT:
By not accepting God’s free gift of Grace we trample on the sacrifice he has provided for us.
Let’s instead honor the sacrifice and accept that free gift which is in our best interests :pray: :fire: :point_up_2: :raised_hands:

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Music, Merkins, and Moroccan Night Clubs

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Six Booters and four Ruckers converged on Ball Room this morning for a music-themed workout. Conditions were cold and wet (33 and foggy). Here’s what we did.

Warm Up
– 10 Low Slow Squats (IC)
– 10 Windmills (IC)

Mosey around the lot to the covered walkway in front of the school

The Thang
The workout consisted of nine songs where an exercise was performed until a trigger word started another exercise

Song 1 – “Africa” by Toto
4m 32s of SSHs
Trigger Word: Africa – Burpees (7 total)

Song 2 – “You Can Call Me Al” by Paul Simon
4m 36s of Plank
Trigger Word: Al – Plank Jacks (4 total)

Song 3 – “Wagon Wheel” by Old Crow Medicine Show
3m 56s of Imperial Walkers
Trigger Words: Rock Me – Bomb Jacks (18)

Song 4 – “Another One Bites the Dust” by Queen
3m 43s of Plank
Tigger Word: Dust – Merkins (18)

Song 5 – “The Joker” by Steve Miller Band
3m 39s of American Hammers
Trigger Word: I’m – LBCs (32)

Song 6 – “Pour Some Sugar on Me” by Def Leppard
4m 56s of Moroccan Night Clubs
Trigger Word: Sugar – OH Claps (19)

Song 7 – “Wildflowers” by Tom Petty
3m 14s of Squats
Trigger Word: You – Flying Squirrels (24)

Song 8 – “Hotel California” by The Eagles
6m 32s of Calf Raises
Trigger Word: California – Burpees(4)

Song 9 – “Money for Nothing” by Dire Straits
4m 39s of People’s Chair
Trigger Word: Money – Merkins (17)

NMM
Who knew five minutes of Moroccan Night Clubs could wreck you? Today’s beatdown proved you don’t have to run far to get a good workout. Thanks for the opportunity <@U790WHUKC> and happy birthday <@U6AS1MBPG>. And great to catch up with our Ruckers at the end.

Remember to celebrate your wins louder than you mourn your losses. Progress deserves more energy than regret. Should’ve, would’ve, and could’ve steal too much joy. The windshield is larger than the rearview mirror for a reason.

Aye!
IJ

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Weighed Down

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WARMUP: yea, this is important. did SSH for a while because Esso was late. He apparently “went to block party” and then remembered we were going to ballroom today.

THE THANG: ran around exploring

Found a 15 space parking lot
1 merkin
2 squats
3 burpees
4 merkin
5 squats
6 burpees
7 merkin
8 squats
9 burpees
10 merkin
11 squats
12 overhead claps (by request)
13 merkin
14 squats
15 overhead claps

Started to do that again, but I just didn’t wanna. Was hoping more PAX would gripe about it. But they didn’t they were either too cold to complain, or knew I might actually go through with it if they did.

Mosey some more
some squats, lunges, cossak squats

Mosey some more found a hill
bear crawl, donkey kicks, back down
crawl bear, donkey kicks, back down

Mosey some more found the basketball court
5 squats run to the middle 5 jump squats
back to start
5 squats run to far end 5 lunges
did that a few times

MARY: did some hip flexibility work. Barry did not seem to be a fan, but I know he really enjoyed it in his heart.

COT: had to be there. Bass is a stellar Site Q. It was an honor to lead

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Peace out

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Short warmup with laps around the parking lot. Did exercises in between. Barry and 8 covered a lot of ground on mumble chatter topics. Covered a couple of miles and smiles.

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Broke back mtn.

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WARMUP: The usual SSH, windmills, cherry pickers other stuff
THE THANG: the goal was to stay warm which we did. Mosey around the whole campus and did some exercises. pax chose a card interestingly only had 4 cards to choose from. Card 1 sets of 10 flutters, SSH, Mtn climbers, American hammers and shoulder taps. Run to next stop. Card 2 sets of 20 monkey humpers, calf raises, sumo squats, seal jacks, and weezy Jefferson’s. Run to next stop. Card 3 merkins, big boys, squats, LBCs, and plank Jax. Sets of 15. Run to next stop. Card 4 amer hammers, mtn. Climbers, squats, SSHs, and Rosalitas. Run to flag bench work tris bis and stuff.
Did I mention there were a lot of women running around talking. Btw I led all this with a hurt back. Hence broke back.
MARY: Pax choice

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The Burden

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WARMUP: Side Straddle Hops, rear lunge, forward lunge, Wind Mills
THE THANG: One Pax WORKED with a 25 Pound Plate, other pax, ran, slid, and Nured 200 meters while doing a 10 count exercise at each end. Rotated pax every 200 meters. 4 rounds
MARY: Same as warm up, but with long slow stretching of hams, adductors, chest, and triceps
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read the Newsletter
COT: Prayers for Fogerty’s Mom – Nancy (85), Bassomatics and My older Relatives, and Old Bays kids at Clemson and Liberty (Sure they crushed their exams)!

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Dedicated to Bass

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WARMUP: We gathered with a lot of F3 years under our belt. It was cold so we needed to warm up our old bones. Bass wore every particle of clothing he owed, Eddie started a new fashion trend wearing a winter hat and a ball cap on top. Old Bay was in awe with this new look, he’s been wearing 2 hats since.

We ran over to the basketball court for some warmups: SSH, windmills, cherry pickers, low slow squats, merkins, Parker Peters and I think that was it.
THE THANG: We ran back to our cars, to drop off Pusher’s hat because he was drawing too much attention from FiA, and stayed in the main parking lot.

3 sets of exercises, 20 reps:
1. Merkins
2. Squats
3. Shoulder taps (in cadence)

Lap around the parking lot, rinse and repeat, and another lap.

Ran to the back of the school by the little foot bridge for another set of 3.
1. Lunges
2. American hammers (double count)
3. Calf raises (20 in, reg, out)

Ran back up the hill and back, rinse and repeat, the ran back up the hill with a sprint.

Ran over the bridge and behind the track because I’d never been there before. Another set of 3.
1. CDD
2. Plank jacks (in cadence)
3. Seal jacks (in cadence)

Kept running behind track to the other parking lot for a rinse and repeat. Bass decided to do a lot of CDD so the shoulders got toasty.

For all the above exercises, we all rotated calling cadence…because it’s good practice and YHC didn’t have to count the entire time.

Ran back to COT.
MARY: Airborne special, which was horrible, and then some stretching.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: yep
COT: did it while sitting on the ground

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