Category: the yard

Cheating on Alcatraz

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YHC made a temporary escape from Alcatraz to Q The Yard.

– Quick mosey to front parking lot followed by COP…windmill, produce picker, low slow squat, merkin, up dog and down dog.
THE THANG:
– Started with a series of gauntlets. PAX formed a line arms length apart and held plank. Each PAX took turns traveling the gauntlet, stopping to do a merkin at each planking PAX. Rinsed and repeated 3 times with the following variations…swapped out Al Gore for the plank and burpees for the merkins…plank / shoulder taps and Al Gore / lunge.
– Mosey thru the parking lot to the drive behind the elementary school. Completed a round of 7s using the straight section of the drive. Hand release merkins and big boy sit-ups.
– Mosey to the “track” for a DORA…300 sumo squats, 200 Superman, 100 wide arm merkin.

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Three’s a Crowd

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WARMUP: Windmills x 10 & MNC x 10 & Imperial Walkers x 10
THE THANG: Ejercicios (spanish for work stations) 10 Reps at each.
1. Sandbag Chest Pulls
2. Merkins
3. Kettle Bell Squats
4. Over the Shoulder Sandbag throws
5. Kettle Bell Swings
6. Ruck Triceps Pulls
7. Flutter Kicks
8. Single Lunges
9. More Merkins

After two rounds, Mosey for two laps around track and back to the rounds.
MARY: 4 Count Squats (Toes, Knees, Hands, Up) ask @Mainframe his thang.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: 10 year Alcatraz Reunion and read your newsletter in spam.
COT: Stays in COT

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Buffet at the Yard

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Six pax at the Yard on a beautiful morning.

Began with a mosey run around the bball courts.

Warmup: SWIMLAPPs: SSH, Windmills, Imperial Walkers, Moroccan N/C, Low slow squats, big arm circles, Peter Parkers (all I/C to 10), followed with some plank stretches.

Mosey run.

Fish Tacks: do movement until told to halt, then do exercise yelled out, we did: Toy soldiers – Bobby Hurleys; bear crawls – merkins; lunge walk – smurf jacks.

Mosey run.

Bench work: step ups, incline merkins, dips, calf raises, butt touch squats (all I/C to 10)

Mosey run.

Munitions work: bear crawl to the factory (30 feet away) and then do:

Burpees (5x); OH claps (10X); Merkins (10x); big boy sit ups (10x); Squats (10x). then bear crawl back home.

Mosey run.

Wall work, with 15lb slam ball: all pax wall sit, then one by one pax hold out slam ball for a ten count. Recover then all pax back on the wall, then wall-toss slam ball; recover then back on the wall, pax to triceps extension of slam ball (10x). recover.

Mosey run to COT area.

Light mary: LBC, pickle pointers, stretches.

Fini.

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2 Musketeers

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YHC thought he was going to be alone until one of his SL brother shows up…

We decided to make it a rucking bootcamp with an additional 20/30 lbs

Brisk Rucking with different routines at each one of the lamp posts, that included several sets of,

Merkins
Lunges
Squats
CDD
Burpees (yes with ruck on)
Flutters w/ weights
Step ups
Inclined/declined merkins
Peter Parker’s

Some 2+ miles covered

CoT:
Announcements: coffee
Prayers and Praises (said & unsaid)

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Pleasing Others

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WARMUP: SSH, Windmill, MNC
THE THANG:
3 sets of wall sit while partner does 3 sets of 10 merkins
3 sets of wall sits while partner does 3 sets of 10 squats

7’s
Burpees at the top & side straddle hop at the bottom

4 corners at the coutyard

Corner 1: 10 Merkins
Transportation: run
Corner 2: 10 Merkins, 20 (4ct) mountain climbers
Transportation: skip
Corner 3: 10 Merkins, 20 (4ct) mountain climbers, 30 LBCs
Transportation: run
Corner 4: 10 Merkins, 20 (4ct) mountain climbers, 30 LBCs, 40 flutter kicks
Transportation: lunge walk

MARY: LBC
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Newsletter
COT: Closed in prayer

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1 Q 2 Q 3Qs 4Qs at The Yard

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WARMUP: Bitcoin took us thru the disclaimer and a solid Warmup, complete with Imperial Walkers Hilly Billy Walkers, Wind Mills Cherry Pickers, which all began w a mosey.

The Thang:

Old bay grabbed the Q stick and walked us thru his maze of cones.  Some Pax paid attention and some Pax (well) not so much…
Old Bay
Zig-Zag Cone Course
– Line up for run through cone course by all (backwards run to start)
– Partner up (size not matter)
– Partner 1 does stationary exercise while partner 2 does moving exercises through the cone course
– Flapjack and then plank up until six is in
– Proceed to next round

1. LBCs –> lunges
2. American Hammer–>bunny hops
3. Peter Parkers –> karaoke
4. Flutters –> toy soliders
5. Hello Dollys –> backwards lunges
6. Low Plank –> butt kickers (2x)
Fogerty grabbed the Q and lead the Pax onto the Turf football field for a full 100yd ladder at every 10 yd markers.  Each pax added a rep up until mid field and then removed one rep until they reached the other goal line. Pax stated with 1 bombjax and 1 merkin at the 10yd line….2 of each at the 20, 3 of each at the 30yd line…Pax made their way back to the original goal line with same cadence but this time it was squats with overhead clap. Pax headed back to COT when Buddy ( Cousin Eddie son) took the Q stick and led the entire group back to COT w some butt kickers, Grapevine switching sides, Hops and finally a mosey to Circle up for 3 mins of Mary. Buddy did not relinquish the Q stick and led the pax in a round of Big Boys until time was called. Mumblechatter erupted around the 15th rep….but we were all better for it !! Nice job Buddy!!

ANNOUNCEMENTS: stuff the bus, HIM camp next weekend and a round of prayers / praises from every pax.
Bass took us out in prayer.

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Fun, games, and a feathered FNG

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WARMUP: mosey
The usual suspects

THE THANG:
Mosey
Corner 1 – multiple randomizers

Mosey
Corner 2 – small heavy thing

Mosey, karaoke
Corner 3 – single randomizer

Mosey
Corner 4 – larger heavy thing

Mosey

MARY:

Filled 3 minutes appropriately

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Convergence 4 Aug at the Ballroom
DD handing over to Esso there

Stuff the bus – TC Walmart

COT: got it

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Letting Go of Heavy Things

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WARMUP: Disclaimer, brief COP, Sen T rolls up late like he’s the special guest of the day
THE THANG:
Mosey to road behind school for 10 burpees at each of 5 light poles with various forms of lunge walks between each pole

mosey to picnic tables for some step ups, dips, derkins

mosey to football field

pax line up side to side and do Al Gore while one pax does weaving run through the line to the far end. continue this fashion for 100+ yards

rinse and repeat above with flutters in place of Al Gores

pick a partner and line up like WR vs DB. DB runs defensive route to keep pace with WR for about 10-20 yds. flapjack. rinse and repeat full length of field

100 yd bear crawl back to starting end zone

mosey back to parking lot for 10 burpees, then sprint home

ANNOUNCEMENTS: 8/4 convergence, 1st F Q transition, trash pickup

COT: It was great to be back with the pax after much travel over past 2+ months.

the past 3 days involved lifting heavy stuff (Cindy at the Bubble and sandbags at Stockade) so today was “no lift day”

besides the heavy weight in the Gloom for two days, I’ve been carrying heavy stuff on the workforce for 2 months. I’ve been missing the pax during this period and all the mental reminders and affirmation just isn’t enough to keep me in a clear headspace without the benefit of a push from the pax in the Gloom.

thanks to Bitcoin for the invite and thanks to the pax for posting and always filling my tank!

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Lazy Dora isn’t so lazy

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Yog down to end of school for some warmups. Typical items: SSHs, windmills, imperial walkers, etc.

Yog to back of middle school and partner up for a Lazy Dora.
>P1 does 10 merkins while P2 holds plank, flapjack and repeat until total 100 merkins.
>P1 does 20 LBCs while P2 does 6″ leg hold (10 degree protractor), flapjack and repeat until total 200 LBCs.
>P1 does 25 squats while P2 hold Al Gore, flapjack and repeat until total 300 squats.

Yog over to middle lot for a round of 11s. 10-1, 9-2, etc. running between 2 basketball goals. Bombjacks on one end and dry docks on the other end.

Circle up. All PAX doing lunges while 1 PAX does 3 burpees. Each PAX takes turn doing the burpees around the circle. Next PAX are doing shoulder taps while 1 PAX does 5 HR merkins. Round the circle. Last circle is 5 big boys while PAX alternates between 10 degree leg hold and 90 degree leg hold.

Times up, over to COT to wrap up. Great work by everyone on humid morning. Thanks for the opportunity Bitcoin!

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Next Man Up

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WARMUP: @harrycarry lead us through a standard array of warm ups
THE THANG: ascending rep count 5-> 10 -> 15 -> 20 -> 25 -> 30 of calf raises, squats, Freddy mercuries, merkens, CDDs with some running in between each exercise
MARY: extensive session that included many lbcs and the dreaded J-LOs
ANNOUNCEMENTS: had a few
COT: did this

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