Category: The Ballroom

BLIMPS and stuff

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WARMUP:
Ran around parking lot stopping to do a few COP warm-ups here and there.

THE THANG:
Ran across cool bridge to field house. Partnered up for some BLIMPS. Partner 1 did stationary exercises (alternating between 2 listed below), while partner 2 did moving exercises to the bleachers, then ran the rest of the way, across the bleachers and back.

1. B – Bomb jacks, Box cutters, ==> Broadjumps
2. L – LBCs, Lunges (in place) ==> Lunges
3. I -Imperial Walkers, Inclined Merkin ==> High Knee
4. M – Merkins, Monkey Humpers ==> Mosey
5. P – Plank Punches, Peter Parkers ==> Power Skip
6. S – SSH, Scorpion Dry Dock (5 each leg) ==> Shuffle Left/Right

Finished right on time. Great work, men!

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Locked gates brings pole work

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We found the football field/track LOCKED for the first time in years, so the weinke was modified. We made it work at this “moderate” AO with getting in around two miles of running, sprints and a little mall walking using the light poles.

All enjoyed dishing out advice to one of our newest pax and today’s war baby Cliffhanger, whose wife is expecting.

For those of us with older kids in various stages, we have many things to ponder as they grow older and wisdom to pour out (when asked for.)

Prayers up today for our kids, aging parents and a few pax going thru some struggles and challenges.

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Last Dance in 2025 at Ballroom

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WARMUP: SSH, CherryPickers, Squats, Seal Jax, Merks, OH Claps, Nightclubs, and a slow mosey.
THE THANG: Crazy Eights, 4 corners, wall sits w discussion on our “one word” and a burpee.
MARY: 3 mins of Mary or one round with the 4 pax.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Bethel volunteers, Break the Dam run, One word exercise at Panera.
COT: Riveting

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Christmas spelled out

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WARMUP: mosey to back of school – exercises in cadence were windmills x 12, beet pickers x 12, imperial walkers x 12, hillbilly walkers x 12 and side straddle hops x 12

THE THANG: 5 rounds of Christmas – 23 reps on rounds 1&2 and 12 reps for rounds 3 & 5
Carolina Dry Docks
Heels to Heaven
Rosalitas
Incline Merkins
Sumo squats
The Lunge
Merkins
American Hammers
Side Straddle Hops

Splinter was king and we had enough time to mosey behind the school for dips and incline merkins.

Mosey on the COT in time for 0600

MARY: no time. She wasn’t there anyway – open to all men
ANNOUNCEMENTS: read your newsletter
COT: 5th core principle

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Staying warm

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Yog a lap then circle up for usual stretchy warm up exercises. Yog down to behind school for some wall qork. Everyone get in peoples chair qhile one by one PAX bear crawl to other end. Next series was broad jumps. Next was 11s. Start on one end of gym with 1 bomb jack and run to other side for 10 seal jacks. 2-9, 3-8 etc. Finished in middle. Next was pax picks. One guy calls an exercise and runs to other side of bridge and back while other PAX do the exercise called. First round was mostly your basics. Second round we had to use the bench so derkins, step ups, butt touch squats, etc. Finished up and moseyed around school. Stop for 354, 3 exercises, 5 reps each, 4 rounds. First series was merkins, squats, big boys. Moseyed some more and stopped for another series: CDDs, mtn climbers, and flutters. Moseyed again and one more series of diamond merkins, SSHs, and v ups. Back to COT right at time. Thx Bass o!

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12 comes of Christmas

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Old bay had every intention on Qing however a call from the M created a change of plans due to a water leak at home.

Fortunately he gave me the winky to make it all happen. We did a little warmup and took a mosey to the back lot.

Cones were set out and the fun began. Center cone exercise was assigned by Tang 5 merkins.

The 12 cones of of Christmas are as follows
50 Freddie Mercurys
25 SSH
10 flying squirrels
25 box cutters
50 flutters
40 plank jacks
50 mtn climbers
10 Turkish getups
10 jump squats
25 hello dollys
30 CCDs
50 squats

That’s all she wrote. Solid workout. Thanks <@U08G28Z7E>

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How to use a stopwatch

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Yes, it was raining at the ballroom. However, the most noticeable item was trying to figure out how to use the stopwatch on my iPhone. Through multiple failed attempts old Bass suggested that I ask Siri to do a timer for us which pretty much worked flawlessly.

We took a quick mosey to the only dry spot we could find down by the football field. Then moved into our series of Amrap exercises with a minute timer for each set. They started out as follows, wide arm merkins, regular Americans, mountain, climbers and shoulder taps all 10 reps each. The next set was leg exercises which included squats, sumo squats, calf raises, and monkey Humpers the next set included LBC‘s Weezy, Jefferson‘s American hammers and flutters. The final set side straddle hops jump squats overhead collapse, and Moroccan nightclubs did a few exercises in between, but mostly stayed with these four different sets. We stayed mostly dry until we had to head back to COT in it downpour on us we finished up with some abs and it’s about it.

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Lucky Sevens

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Began with short mosey followed by a warmup: SSH, windmills, imperial walkers, low slow squats, peter parkers and some plank stretches (up/down dogs).

Ran to the benches and did: step ups, derkins, butt touch squats, dips.

Ran to parking lot and did lucky sevens, started with:
7 burpees, run loop
14 merkins, run loop
21 SSH, run loop
28 squats, run loop
35 flutters each leg, run loop
28 squats, run loop
21 SSH, run loop
14 merkins, run loop
7 burpees, run loop

Loop alternated between the 800 feet of the outer loop or the 550 feet of the inner loop.

Mary: round robin; Freddies, flutters, box cutters.
Fini.
COT

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Sawdust returns

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The Ballroom was Grand. Bassomatic, thank for pulling me out of retirement… Bassomatic, Tank, Honkey Tonk, Fogherty, and Saw dust performed rounds of: 1) 400 m runs 2) 20 Yard Shuttle Runs 3) 90 pond Sled Drag Carries 4) Cinder Block Farmer Carries… Tank led all scores with a number to high for me to count. Prayers today for the Elderly, Financial Challenges, and Emotional & Physical health. See ya next time at the Ballroom.

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It is what it is!

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As is typical of YHC, I wanted to do some ladder work at the Ballroom to keep the Pax moving today so I researched old backblasts for ideas. While not original, I love reading the old backblasts to see the Pax, the mumblechatter and the work being done. I stumbled on a few good ideas from Fogerty and Cake Boss but settled on a Bonsai from 2022 that included over 700 reps which I thought was appropriate for our 1st sub 30 degree day this Fall.

WARMUP:
After a thorough disclaimer, we commenced to Indian Run to the track with the 6 doing 5 merkins and then sprinting to the lead.

We circled up in the track/football field parking lot for the following:

SSH x 30
Cherry Pickers x 10
Seal Jacks x 20
Windmills x 10
Plank Jacks x 20
IW x 15

We moseyed to find a gate that was open so that YHC could deploy the Weinke.

THE THANG:

Line up on the goal line
Run to the 10 yard line, do 1 burpee
Run to the 20 yard line, do 2 burpees
Ladder up then down to other goal line

Line up on the goal line
Run to the 10 yard line, do 5 merkins
Run to the 20 yard line, do 10 merkins
Ladder up then down to the other goal line Run

Line up on the goal line
Run to the 10 yard line, do 10 squats
Run to the 20 yard line, do 20 squats
Ladder up then down

Line up on the goal line
Run to the 10 yard line, do 10 flutters
Run to the 20 yard line, do 20 flutters
Ladder up to the 50 then pause
Bear crawl the remaining 50 yards

Mosey home

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Read the newsletter

COT:
Many prayers and praises abound this AM; All were lifted up and a prayer to continue this momentum for the remainder of the day by accepting our strength in Christ

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