Category: The Ballroom

The Hay is in the Barn

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With several PAX getting ready to tackle the Blue Ridge Relay this Friday, today’s mission was simple: get moving without cashing any checks the legs need later this week. No heroics. No smoked quads. Save that suffering for the mountains. 😂
We started with an easy mosey and dynamic warm-up — SSH, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies, Windmills, Toy Soldiers, calf raises, ankle circles and leg swings.
Then it was off to 4 Corners, keeping the travel easy while mixing in:
💪 Merkins & Carolina Dry Docks
🔥 LBCs & Dead Bugs
🦵 Calf Raises & Squats
💪 Incline Merkins & American Hammers
From there we partnered up. One PAX took an easy 100–150 yard out-and-back while his partner worked through Merkins, LBCs and Supermans before switching.
We finished with mobility and some much-needed stretching to send everyone home feeling better than when they arrived.
Solid work by Honky Tonk, Fogerty, Old Bay and Boogie Down this morning. The BRR crew kept the governor on, and nobody fell for YHC’s secret plan to turn a recovery workout into a leg burner.
Good luck to everyone taking on the Blue Ridge Relay Friday. Run smart, enjoy the miles, and bring home some stories!
5 PAX. No injuries. Legs preserved. Mission accomplished.

The Hay is in the Barn

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Running bootcamp

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WARMUP: None
THE THANG: We ran poles in the driveway at P Knoll. Turned a bootcamp into a modified LIIT. Ended up about 2 miles worth of running.
MARY: Yes, including Peter Pointers
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Bethel Shelter, Tortoise and The Hare, BBBB (and Cigar area)
COT: Lots happening to lift up. Lots to be thankful for, but there are things happening with the Pax that need prayer. Just awesome to have these groups getting together every day.

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A comfortable August morning?!?

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WARMUP: Mosey to behind the stadium via pedestrian bridge

Hold plank until 6 arrived
Exercises in cadence
Windmills
Cherry pickers
Imperial walkers
Hillbilly walkers
Seal jacks
Merkins
Mountain climbers

THE THANG: Mosey to the back parking lot for a view of the Space X rocket experiment and DORA with rocks

Partner 1 runs, partner 2 exercises then flapjack.

100 merkins
200 flutters with the rock press
300 goblet squats with rocks

Return the rocks to their rightful place.

Mosey on to the light poles where exercises were done in cadence at each one moving back toward COT

Merkins
Mike Tyson’s
LBC’s
Carolina Dry Docks
Monkey Humpers
Mosey a lap around the front lot

MARY: A few exercises called – Boxcutters among others
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Always
COT: 5th core principle

NMM: We post to get better and be there for those in the circle with us, who we support and love. Shoulder burdens with others. They get a bit lighter and more tolerable. The workout makes us just a bit more resilient in the face of challenges.
For whom are you showing up today? 👁️

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Gear Workout at The Ballroom

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Have not attended the Ballroom in a while so browsed through backblasts to see what the guys at this sight have been doing for the past couple of months. Did not see any gear show up in the BBs, so thought I would remedy that situation.

WARMUP: Led the group on a mosey around the COT parking lot as this is the loop we would run periodically throughout the workout. Ended the mosey at the 1st station set-up in a parking space. Performed SSHICx21, then proceeded to explain the exercises at all 12 stations. Time to work.

THE THANG: Brought out the gear and set-up 12 pain stations. PAX were asked to partner up, Partner #1 performs the exercise at the pain station while partner #2 runs the loop we practiced in the warm-up. FlapJack when partner #2 returns. When both partners have completed the exercise at the station they move on to the next one. Did not instruct the PAX to go in any particular order, they could pick and choose pain stations as they pleased. Most of us completed 16 stations and got in about 2 miles. Great Work Gents!!! Exercises & Gear listed below.

  1. OH Press Toss w/ 60lb SB
  2. CurltoCleantoPress w/ 45lb plate
  3. V-Sits w/ 10lb med ball
  4. OH Squats w/ Cindy
  5. Kettle Bell Swings w/ a 30lb KB
  6. Reverse Lunges w/ 20lb weighted vest
  7. American Hammers w/ 10lb med ball
  8. Alt Snatches w/ 35lb DB
  9. LawnMower Pulls w/ 45lb DB
  10. AB Wheel w/ a pillow for the knees ( we are older, need the pillow )
  11. Squats w/ 30lb Ruck on
  12. Shoulder Swings in Low Squat Position w/ Heavy Rope

MARY: Because this is an F3 workout could not finish without performing some Burpees, called 5 burpees OYO to finish right.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: TRASH PICKUP on AUG 22nd!!! BE THERE!!!!

COT: STK!

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Left Right Left…which way?

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WARMUP: Stretch, SSH, Merks, Squats, HoneyMooner, Cherry Pickers. LBCs and a Mosey.
THE THANG:Rinse and Repeat – bench work – Dips, Irkins. step Ups. Crazy 8s – with Squats and OH Claps in the middle.
Finished up with 5 exercises 5-10-15 reps ( SSH, Merks, BBS, PlankJax, Squats) we completed 5 rounds with a mosey around parking lot between sets.
MARY: 3 mins of Mary, flutters Box cutters, LBCs – time ran out as we got to Barry Manilow ( phew)
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Stuff the Bus, Bethels men shelter, Litter pick up coming soon.
COT: Prayers shared by each Pax

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Carolina Day Ballroom

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Started with a mosey run
Warmup: SSH, Windmills, Imp Walkers, LSS, arm circles, peter parkers, plank stretches
-Run-
Do-run-do routine:
At baseline do 15 bobby Hurleys, run to halfway point, do 15 bobby Hurleys, run to far baseline and do 15 bobby Hurleys. Plank for the six.
Repeat doing 10 merkins and bear crawling
-Run-
Bench work: Step ups, dips, squats, derkins, calf raises
-Run-
Wall work:
Wall sit, run out and do CDDs, back on the wall.
Wall tar jais in cadence.
Leg lift dora: Partner one runs, partner two does leg lifts, switch, go to 100 cumulative.
-Run-
Simon says: smurf jacks, squats, some other things
Ball toss: pax in circle and toss the 15lb slam ball to each other.
Talked about Carolina Day 6/28/1776, battle of Sullivan’s Island.

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PoBoy Mike Tyson’s

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WARMUP: straight up Broga with some stretching
THE THANG: mosey to benches for hips and back. Went to back lot for other warmup stuff two kinds of walkers, squats etc. more hip and hammy stretching. Down to playground with soft turf really nice Clark. Did these poboy Mike Tyson’s that’s what Barry called them. He can demo. Good back stretch along with lats. Did some Mary. Went to wall do some sits. Did a bridge run both ways to check gate. Couldn’t get in cause @UGU3XR5RP hasn’t given me a key 😂 so did some bench work or something back to cot for Mary.

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No title, just work

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WARMUP:
SSH, windmill, low slow squats and broga

THE THANG:
Ran the light poles between the elementary and middle school. Backwards. Stopping at each light pole adding one merkin each time we stopped.

Moved over to the basketball court for some leg and speed work

Kriss kross down and bac
Bounces down and back – ask someone who was there. Hard to explain in a backblast but it sucked.

Moved to the benches for LBCs with feet on the bench

Plank with feet on bench
5 merkins

Repeat all of the above for another round

Move over to picnic tables for two rounds of dead lifts and LBCs.

COT for hip exercises to finish the workout
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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The Ballroom Playbill

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The Quad: 4 PAX. Small enough to be an intimate dinner party; strong enough to reshape the concrete.

​The Main Event: Four Corners. Because why just run in a straight line when you can suffer at every cardinal direction? We ran, we reached a corner, we paid the toll in pain, and we repeated.

​The Leg Destroyer: 100 Step-Ups. Pretty sure we collectively climbed a small mountain. Our quads are currently holding a press conference to protest tomorrow's alarm.

​The Remix: A spicy, chaotic blend of other exercises thrown in just to make sure nobody could breathe properly.

​The Verdict: No tuxedos, no disco balls, just four dudes putting in work while the world slept.

​If you missed it, your calves thank you, but your pride shouldn't. See you at the next beatdown!

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