Cone Course and Slow Dirty McDeuce

2022-10-02Leave a comment

QIC: oldbay
When: 2022-10-01
Pax: Bass-o-matic, Dojo, Drop Thrill, Fogerty, oldbay
Posted In: the yard

WARMUP:
No running – just normal stuff with a little stretching

THE THANG Part 1:
Partner work: Partner 1 does stationary exercise while partner 2 does a moving exercise through cone course.
1. LBCs –> lunges
2. American Hammer–>bunny hops
3. Peter Parkers –> karaoke
4. Squats –> backwards lunges
5. Flutters –> High Knees then Butt Kickers
6. Imperial Walkers–> broad jumps
7. Bombjacks —> shuffle

THE THANG Part 2:
Slow Dirty McDeuce – 12x, slow 4 count
Set 1
– Wide arm Merkins
– Squats
– LBC

Set 2
– Dry Docks
– Flutter Kicks
– Calf Raises

Set 3
– Irkins
– Step lunges
– Weezy Jefferson

Set 4 – Out of time…

Great work, men!

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All around da Yard!

2022-09-25Leave a comment

QIC: Dojo
When: 2022-09-24
Pax: Bitcoin, Boogie Down, Bowser, Dojo, Ham Hock, HarryCarry, Ironclad, Peabody, Ruby Slippers, Soy Sauce, Tesh, Uhaul
Posted In: the yard

WARMUP: Short Mosey, MNCs, Cherry Pickers, Windmills, The MOTIVATOR, followed by a Wonky 10 more of SSHops. Some across the lot work with high knees, lunges, bear crawls, and toy soldiers.
THE THANG: mosey to back road light poles. 10 sec plank. Go pile to pole with 10 reps each of LBC’s, HR merkins, Flutters, Derkins. Repeat adding 10 more seconds of plank to start. Repeat with 30 second plank (chose the younguns to count and they counted alright 1 sec = 10 sec)
Finished with a 1 minute plank.
Mosey to entrance hill. Not BOMBS but CLIMBs (my 2022 one word)
Carolina Dry Docks
Lunges
Imperial Walkers
Merkins
Big Boys
Starting at 5 reps/up or down the hill/increase 5 reps every interval
Mosey to school wall for 3 minutes of wall sit and burpee popouts (1/2/5)
MARY: Nah, she wasn’t there.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Christmas Party. etc…check slack for Cakeboss for Kenya posts- can’t miss em.
COT: Great COT, UHaul took us out

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Lamp Post Pain

2022-08-27Leave a comment

QIC: Cousin Eddie
When: 2022-08-27
Pax: Bass-o-matic, Bitcoin, Bowser, Cousin Eddie, Dojo, Double D, Fogerty, Ham Hock, HarryCarry, Iron Clad, Mr Clean, Peabody, Reaper, Rebel, Tater, Uhaul
Posted In: the yard

WARMUP: 10 each Moroccan night clubs, cherry pickers, SSH, imperial walkers
THE THANG: started with 3 laps of the parking lot with duck walks, bear crawls, lunges, toy soldiers, LBC, merkins, burpee’s, big boys

Suicides on the hill with burpee’s, LBC’s, flutters, squats, min climbers, merkins

MARY: box cutters, LBCS, flutters

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Trash pick up, Dam to Dam, check slack

COT: Shower curtain, wisdom for u-hauls daughter, bitcoin sons health, gentleness in words for Peabody, reaper and cousin Eddie marriage, ham hocks dad, Double Do’s moms back, dojos son battling culture, travel mercies for rebel, mental health

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Looking behind curtain number 3

2022-08-21Leave a comment

QIC: Double D
When: 2022-08-20
Pax: Battle Bot, Bitcoin, Bowser, Chris Clark, crab_cakes, Double D, Drop Thrill, Fogerty, Ham Hock, HarryCarry, Iron Clad, Mr Clean, oldbay, Peabody, Ruby Slippers, Stinger, Uhaul
Posted In: the yard

WARMUP: Brief mosey around the fake track by the gym followed by COP with various classics

THE THANG: The Main Event started with a brief stop at the only real grass at The Yard for some Knee Tar N’Diayes and Mahktar N’Diayes. Then we moseyed to the gym wall for three rounds of the following:

Donkey Kicks x10
Monkey Humpers x20
Merkins x30
Squats x40
Flutters x50

After each round we recovered with either Lunge Walks, Bear Crawls or Backward Lunge Walks

Mosey back to main parking lot for tunes by UHaul plus some more exercises

MARY: Bitcoin took the baton and led the pax through some Mary, capped by a plankorama triggered by UHaul.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Many good things going on in The Fort. Read your newsletter and join in along the way.

COT: Welcome to FNG Stinger! he posted after hearing the Order of Man podcast with DOAH. Thankfully he chose to post despite what he heard. He will be back and will fit right in like he’s been here forever.

Bitcoin took the Shovel Flag today! Great to have this Accelerating pax step into a leadership role. Put The Yard on your Sat itinerary — he’ll keep this AO soaring!

The pax pushed through the Main Event with perseverance. Some mumblechatter from Crab Cakes and UHaul plus some Form Police from Peabody kept spirits light enough. Apparently Fogertys guidance that The Yard is a 45 min boot camp (and not a Moderate boot camp) hasnt made its way to all the pax. It’s clear everyone can handle it from today’s work, including our FNG Stinger who wasn’t far behind our King, Runy Slippers. Also near the front was Old Bay, who is clearly accelerating following his return to the Gloom.

Thanks to Fogerty for resurrecting The Yard. We have a trio of good options on Sat now — nice work!

Always an honor to lead the pax. SYITG!

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Thanks for the Burpees, Fogerty

2022-08-06Leave a comment

QIC: Wegmans
When: 2022-08-06
Pax: Backdraft, Bass-o-matic, Bitcoin, Boogie Down, Cousin Eddie, Dojo, Fogerty, Ham Hock, oldbay, Tater, Twister, Wegmans
Posted In: the yard

WARMUP: 5 burpees oyo. Short mosey. Moroccan night clubs, LSS, shoulder taps, dynamic warmup.
THE THANG: Jacob’s Ladder with merkins and bomb jacks using 11. Picked up the 6. Split up into teams for a couple relay races. Loser had to do 5 burpees. Then 10 merkins. Winners had 3 burpees and 10 merkins.
Hold Al Gore and 1 by 1, run to the picnic table. Next round was skipping.
Do some calf raises. Then head back to the basketball courts. Do Airborne’s hip routine.
Next shake out the lactic acid. Quick yoga at the end and more burpees due to Fogerty. Sprinkled burpees in other places as well.
MARY: bbsu and burpees
ANNOUNCEMENTS: lots of stuff in the newsletter
COT: stays in COT.

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Tour of the Yard

2022-07-18Leave a comment

QIC: Barry Manilow
When: 2022-07-16
Pax: Barry Manilow, Boogie Down, Bowzer, Dojo, Drop Thrill, Ironclad, oldbay, Peabody, Spinner (Derrick Dominey), Uhaul
Posted In: the yard

If you saw the video, Bowzer is your guy if you need a face/voice for video intro.

After committing to a pre-run, I was then a fill in Q, my tail was dragging.

Dynamic warm up, back and forth across the lot, a couple exercises, the a motion across, couple more, motion across, you get it.

Finish with the bear crawl challenge. Often times when working out with PAX at my old and broken fitness level, a bear crawl means you take a half dozen “strides” and stand up, grunting and groaning and swinging your arms around like you are loosening up. Over the last couple Q’s I called this out and gave the PAX a distance to make. If you call it out, they (I) will do it.

over to the light poles for one round of suicides

back to the school wall where we did wall sits and tons of BURPEES

on our way to the hill in front of the school we weaved in and out of the perma-cones

At the hill we did some exercises at the top and some at the bottom, super high counts, 5-10-15, than 10-20-30 at the bottom

then over to the bench, where we did the typical dips and incline merkins

Wrapping the morning up, all PAX crushed a 10 count of BALLS TO THE WALLS (my ode to Accept)

Exercises throughout were typical old guy stuff, windmills, BURPEES, shoulder taps, BURPEES, mountain climbers, monkey humpers, squat jumps, BURPEES, multiple rounds of Makhtar N’Diayes, BURPEES, stuff like that

Looks like we made it,

Barry Manilow

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Light Poles and Jack Webb’s

2022-07-09Leave a comment

QIC: Rebel
When: 2022-07-09
Pax: Barry Manilow, Bass-o-matic, Beacon, Boogie Down, Boss Hogg, Dojo, f3anchorman, Fogerty, Pusher, Reaper, Rebel, Senator Tressel, Triple Lindy, Wicked Tuna
Posted In: the yard

WARMUP: little mosey and then SSH, O/H Claps, MNC, MC, Imperial Walker
THE THANG: 6 light poles and treat it like suicides with an exercise at each pole. 1st pole, 10 Wide Arm Merkins, 2. 15 CDD, 3. 20 Merkins. 4. 25 Squats. 5. 30 Monkey Hunpers. 6. 35 Plank Jax.
Mosey to front of Middle School in front of Benches. Two rounds of Jack Webb. 1st round up to 5 & 20 Heels to Heaven / Big Boy Sit-ups. 2nd round up to 5& 20. Merkins/Dips. Return to basketball court for sprints. And end with some Mary.

Welcome FNG Wicked Tuna, EH’d from Colombia, SA. Yes that is South America

Thanks Fogerty for the Q stick. Great to see Beacon back out!!!!

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Leading The Old Men in Circles

2022-07-02Leave a comment

QIC: OTG
When: 2022-07-02
Pax: Bass-o-matic, Cakeboss, Dojo, Double D, Fogerty, HarryCarry, Missed his name, oldbay, OTG, Pusher, Reaper, Rebel, Senator Tressel, Short Sale, White Lightning
Posted In: the yard

WARMUP: Everything in cadence to 10
Windmills, Cherry pickers, M Nightclubs, Imperial Walkers, HB Walkers
2 laps on the track around basketball courts, met around 4 square and did SSHs, calf stretching and groin stretching.
THE THANG:
10 Merkins
15 BBS
20 calf raises
25 Superman’s
30 CDD
35 LCB
Run lap around parking lot
Rinse, repeat

7:12
Baseball stretches
Leg across body
Knee to chest
Knee to ground
Groin stretch

7:15
Pain ends

MARY: Nada

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Convergence on Monday, July 4th at Honey Badger; GoRuck Star Course on Oct 8th in Charlotte.
COT: Prayers for kids turning 18 and living in the freest country in our realm!

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Bass kickin at The Yard

2022-06-25Leave a comment

QIC: Bass-o-Matic
When: 2022-06-25
Pax: Barry Manilow, Bass-o-matic, Boss Hogg, crab_cakes, Dojo, f3anchorman, f3destiny, Fogerty, HarryCarry, Rebel, Spitz, Triple Lindy, Twister
Posted In: the yard

WARMUP: light stretching a mosey SSH Merkins IW plank Jax run up and down hill and back to the start
THE THANG: 10 stations adding an exercise at each station. A lap around the lot between stations. 10 reps each exercise. All in order: merkins, big boy sit-ups , squats, LBC, plank Jax, flutters, SSH, mtn climbers, American hammers, burpees. Finished right on time.
MARY: nada except twister trying to Q jack.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: John 15:5 what do you need to prune in order to create space for new growth.
COT: prayers for those Ill and people traveling.

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The Encore … again

2022-06-20Leave a comment

QIC: Barry Manilow
When: 2022-06-18
Pax: Assassin, Barry Manilow, Bitcoin, Cornerstone, Dojo, f3anchorman, Fogerty, Short Sale, Twister
Posted In: the yard

6 years ago, I Q’ed The Yard the morning after an Iron Maiden show. I pulled that Weinke out, then forgot it at home. Still can close …

WARMUP: mosey to the lot near the football field for some dynamic warm up back and forth across, shuffle, karaoke, butt kickers, toy soldier, soccer knees. Ending in a bear crawl that all executed completely. A couple stops at the side during, calf raises, merkins, BB sit ups, other stuff. 15 minutes worth.

Mosey to the bus loop. Half ran while half did LBCs, and flip flop. Same with squats and plank-o-rama

THE THANG: Mosey to the entrance with the hill, an exercise at the top related to an Iron Maiden song, then run the hill (Run to the Hills) after each exercise
Two Minutes to Midnight: 11 merkins, 58 OH Claps
Aces High: 11 … flying squirrels (I also recommended that everyone give a listen, my fav IM song … we’ll done Assassin)
22 Arcacia Avenue: 22 shoulder taps
Deja Vu: repeat 22 shoulder taps
Bruce Dickinson’s age: 6 of something, 3 of another
The Ides of March: 3 burpees, 15 merkins
There may have been another

MARY: no, Mary was not present

ANNOUNCEMENTS: sign up for lawn mowing, do your backblasts, eat your Wheaties

COT: Bitcoin accepted the site Q opportunity

Looks like we made it,

Barry Manilow

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F3 The Fort

Category: the yard

Cone Course and Slow Dirty McDeuce

All around da Yard!

Lamp Post Pain

Looking behind curtain number 3

Thanks for the Burpees, Fogerty

Tour of the Yard

Light Poles and Jack Webb’s

Leading The Old Men in Circles

Bass kickin at The Yard

The Encore … again