Category: The Hive

Jingle (Kettle) Bells

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WARMUP: 12 SSH, 12 Windmills, 12 Imperial Walkers

THE THANG:
Ladder format.
Do the first exercise, run to the bins and back. 2nd then 1st exercise, bin and back. 3rd, 2nd, 1st exercise. Bin and back. Keep going until the ladder is complete. Once the ladder is completed, work it back down.

Ladder as follows:
1 man maker
2 snatches
3 upright rows
4 cleans
5 swings
6 lawnmower pulls (single count. 3 each side)
7 skull crushers
8 lunges (4 each leg)
9 goblet squats
10 single leg deadlifts (5 each leg)
11 bicep curls
12 manmakers

MARY:
Some Q jackers decided to do some Mary after completing the ladder instead of working it back down. lol.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Clave Boss 5k/10k and Christmas convergence. Dam2DamBar

COT:
Patience, travel, family, addictions, loneliness.

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The Total Body Destroyer

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YHC gave the Disclaimer and also Noted last time I Q’ed a KB workout everyone hurt for at least a week.

WARM UP:
We started off with

15 – imperial walkers
15 – wind mills

Slowlesy to the larger parking lot where the board was set up along with some music

Explained this is OYO not a group effort as they looks on the pax did not look amused by the number of reps.

THE THANG:
Also on every minute on the minute 3 KB man makers.

After the first 2 rounds I Omahaed that to every 2 minutes as it took about 30sec to get done and few seconds to gain your composure back.

50 KB Thrusters
75 KB Stright Arm overhead Ground Taps (this is done on your six with the KB straight above your chest. You then proceed to lower the weight over your head till it touches the ground. This works you lats like a lat pull down in the gym)
100 KB Curls
125 KB Swings ( this is definitely a full body exercise)
150 KB Halo’s smoke those shoulders
175 KB Squats

Due to time we Riffle Carried to the opposite end of the parking lot then found our way back to COT.

There was a lot more intended but due to the stupid time constraints we only made it this far.

Planked it up for the 6.

Hope I lived up to the Hives expectations and my KB reputation.

Announcements:

Dam to Damn Bar 10k, Christmas party

Prayers:

Alot of health concerns with families getting sick, elderly parents sick and in well. It’s always hard around the holidays when we find ourselves in a house hold with sickness

rolling around. 🙏

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Deck of Cards Las Vegas Style

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WARMUP:
SSH, Windmills, Morrocon NC, Merkins, Broga
THE THANG:
Cheese Shredder
Round 1 Farmers Carry while your partner does Burpees performing “Catch me if you can” then Round 2 the same but doing Merkins
Deck of Cards= Exercises – Deadlift, Goblet Squats, Goblet Lunges, Swing, Bent over row, Floor Chest Press, Halos, Clean and Press, and MAN Makers. One card was drawn to determine the rep count. The face cards counted as 15 reps. At the end of all the exercises, we all ran up the hill to the Stop Sign and back.
MARY:
Flutters with the kettlebell, American Hammers with the kettlebell, Box Cutters, LBCs, and Hello Dollies
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your newsletter
COT: Prayers and Praises

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Don’t fear the Reaper!

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Rubber Ducky brought a full body pain session. Barkley showed up, “as always” his shield lock may have differing opinions. A contingent of marathon runners came by to see how the other side lives and said bell swingers are crazy. I even heard Band Camp contemplating his bell choices.

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Grandpa’s Shieldlock

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WARMUP:
Mozy around the parking lot, stopping at corners to do exercises. Cherry Pickers, SSH, merkins, imperial walkers, hillbilly walkers and flutters
THE THANG:
Round 1: Shower Curtain and Long Duck did a Dora. Partner runs across the parking lot while we do 100 each cumulative reps of curls, chest press, shoulder press.
Round 2: Rebound led a Tabata 3 rounds of five exercises. 40 seconds of work and 20 seconds of rest. Each round was chest press flutters, LBC, KB swings, lawnmower pulls left, then right.
Round 3: Lighthouse lost his mind and started us off with a Dora consisting of 50 man makers, 50 goblet squats, 50 tricep extensions. Back to COT
MARY: merkins but it was 6😂
ANNOUNCEMENTS: BBQ, Leaders on the Links, Christmas Party
COT: marriages, mental health, young kids struggling

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50 for 50

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WARMUP: Yes, some of the usual
THE THANG: A circle of 5 stations of 10 reps each with bell. after each station we traveled to the center point and back in varying modes (lunges, bear crawls, etc). Total of 50 reps per circuit represented 50 yrs of pain as a Tecas Rangers fan, heading into Wolrd Series game 1 later on 10/27.

we made it through 4+ circuits.

NOTE: this is posted 10 days later and Rangers are champs!!

COT: Thanks to pax for posting to only my 2nd KB Q. Good to connect with new faces Liberty Bibberty, Wooden Leg and Rubber Ducky and to see Rolloff back out in the Gloom.

thanks for the Q stick Happy Hour. you were missed!

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Trick or Treat at the Hive

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WARMUP: Extremely brief and nearly devoid of cadence calling due to the Q having a mostly lost voice.
THE THANG:
The AO was set up with different exercises posted on lampposts lableled as either Tricks or Treats. Workout consisted of 8 rounds. Each round began with a 1 minute AMRAP of a specified exercise. Based on the reps achieved by the group approximately half of the HIM were directed to receive a treat for a high effort number of reps, the other half were directed to select the Trick. The Tricks were consistently worse than the treats but all were KB exercises. In some cases high rep counts would not be conducive to good form and a more random tool was used to split the group such as age (odd/even) or Birth Month (odd even).

Tricks
Manmakers
15 Snatches
15 Clean & Press
Turkish Get ups
Thrusters
Murder Bunnies to next “house”
2 minute plank
Uhauls

Treats
Halos
Goblet Squats
Calf Raises
LBC
Lawnmowers
OH Press
Side Leans
Tri Press

1min AMRAP exercises
Kettle Bell Swings (reps)
Man Makers (random)
Chest Press (reps)
Good Mornings (random)
Pullovers (random)
Deadlifts (random)
Hay-Balers (random)
Curls (reps)

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Kettle Bell Kards

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WARMUP: SSH, Imperial Walkers, Little Baby Arm Circles, Cherry Pickers, Windmills
THE THANG: Dora The Explorer – 100-Merkins, 100-Big Boys, 100-Lunges – 100 yard mode of transport.
Deck of Pain – Kettle Bell Swings, KB Chest Press, KB Goblet Squats, KB Curls, Running on the 2.
MARY: NONE
ANNOUNCEMENTS: BBQ social at Blues Monday, Bourbon Tasting, Poker.
COT: Prayers for Long Duck. Great to see the HIM. Prayers for 🇮🇱.

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Lots of Reps

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WARMUP: Mosey around parking lot. 25 ea SSH, 10 Imperial Walkers, 10 Hillbilly Walkers, 10 Goofballs

THE THANG:
#1 Dora
100 – Curls
200 – Squats
300 Bent Rows

#2 11’s
Chest Press
Tricep Extensions

MARY: 5 Burpees OYO , Flutters
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Prayers for Soup to Nuts Brother in Law
COT:

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