Category: Varsity

Back at it #MakeSkateGreatAgain

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If being truly honest, this was my 1st BC Q in quite some time (definitely over 6 months and probably closer to a year or more) and the nerves of would I remember what to do or the exercise names was real this morning…

Which reminds me of my favorite quotes:

“Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action” ~Walter Anderson

No matter what you are anxious about, take a step… then a second… and then the next… and so on… before long you’ll turn around and see just how far you’ve come…

Funny, once we got started it was like riding a bike and all of the anxiety went away…

WARMUP: a few minutes of Broga to stretch it out a bit followed by some dynamic warmups

THE THANG: mosey to behind the JROTC building to pick up a Cindy. 5 rounds (10 reps down to 6 reps) completing each of the exercises before slow mosey to bottom of hill followed by accelerating run back to top.

Exercises w/ Cindy:
– Swings
– Overhead press
– Overhead Tricep extension
– Curls
– Upright row
– Bent over row
– Merkins
– Lunges
– Squats
– Calf raises

MARY: Shield had to bounce, so HC and I finished up our last set, returned the Cindy’s, and finished up at COT with some Mary…

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Upcoming CSAUPs

COT: ya gotta show to know!

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30th bday Q

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WARMUP: Mosey, SSH, cherry pickers, windmill, imperial walkers, hillbilly walkers, moroccan nightclub, overhead claps, plank with a few merkins
THE THANG: Use light poles as stations, 8 stations – merkins (10, 20, 30), squats (10, 20, 30), and flutter kicks (30, 30). Mosey to wall sits with bear crawls, mosey to benches – dips, step ups, and inclined merkins (30, 20, 10). Mosey to cindy and pull up bars – curls and knee ups. Mosey back to flag for abs and stretching.
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Street clean up info soon, CSAUPs, school supply fundraiser
COT: Prayers and praises – safe travels and family matters

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July 4th Hangover

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Warmup
Mosey run (with butt kickers, high knees, toy soldiers)
SSH (10x I/C)
Windmills (10x I/C)
Imperial Walkers (12x I/C)
Morrocan N/C (10x I/C)
Low Slow Squats (10x I/C)
Arm Circles (12x I/C)
Peter Parkers (10x I/C)
Plank Stretches (Downward dog/honeymooner)

Thang 1
At Pull up bars: interval routine, 20 seconds on exercise followed by 20 seconds rest. Exercises are below:
Pull-ups
Big Boy Situps
Chin-ups
Merkins
Squats (with cinder block)
Repeated, but swapped in bent over rows (with block), chin ups, switch grips, curls (block), etc to keep it interesting for a total of three sets.

Run to school entrance

Thang 2
At the benches: interval routine, 35 seconds on exercise followed by 15 seconds rest. Exercises are below:
Dips
Imperial Walkers
Step ups
Incline merkins
Calf raises
Repeat for a total of three sets.

Run to COT area

Mary: Freddies, leg raises, box cutters, LBC, etc.

Fini, COT

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The Toilet Bowl Shuffle

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The Q pulled in hot right at 5:15. It’s science? :shrug:

Quick round of side straddle hops and we were off!

Moseyed over to the front of the school for some additional warmups before hitting the bowl for the thang.

The Thang;
Ran around the carline circle as a group while adding one merkin each time around. We did 10 laps.

Nured around the same circle while adding a squat each time around. Another 10 laps.

Over to the benches for 3 rounds or step up’s, dips, and LBCs doing 20 reps each round,

Back to COT for Mary, prayers, and praises.

-JWow

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Battle of Midway

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June 4, 5, 6, and 7 in 1942 was the battle of Midway.
Started with a mosey run to parking spot #19 and did: SSH, Windmills, Imperial Walkers, Moroccan N/C.

Then ran to spot #42 and did Low slow squats, arm circles, perter parkers
Talked about Pearl Harbor and how the IJN missed the carriers and they missed the cryptography offices.

Ran to the pull up bars, pax placed a cindy near the pull up bar and then did: 3 pull ups, 4 toes to bar, 5 manmakers. Plank for the six. Repeat. Plank for the six, repeat.

Talked about how the IJN code was partially broken by the US and knew that Midway island was the ‘bait’ to lure the USN carriers to fight and get sunk by the IJN.

Run relays: run to cone #1 (200 feet away) and do 20 bobby hurleys. Run back to start line. Run to cone #2 (400 feet away) and do 20 bobbies. Run back to start line. Run to cone #3 (600 feet away) and do 20 bobbies.
Noted in chalk was: Cone 1 = Enterprise, cone 2 = Hornet, cone 3 = Yorktown. These are the three USN carriers.

Pass the ammo: Pax curb plank, pass a cindy down the line, do three curb merkins, pass the block back, rinse repeat.

Noted how the IJN was stunned that the Yorktown was still afloat; they truly thought it was sunk a few weeks earlier at the battle of Coral Sea. But the Yorktown was patched up at Pearl (a miracle of manpower and materials) and made its way to Midway.

Blocks: Curls, OH press, KB swings, Squats.

Noted how a group of USN dive bombers (from the Enterprise) were searching for the IJN Carriers and were extremely low on fuel. Their leader, McClusky, had a choice: Return to the Enterprise for fuel and try again, or continue with the grid search pattern…McClusky does neither and on gut feel heads Northwest and finds three IJN carriers. Then, another miracle, a dive bomber wing from the Yorktown show up at the nearly the exact same spot a few minutes later. Result: Within three minutes three IJN carriers were on fire and badly hit. They sunk.

Mentioned how the fourth IJN carrier decided to steam ahead right into the USN fleet with the hubris to believe they could take them out themselves. This carrier was hit and sunk. Mentioned that USN carrier Yorktown got badly hit and sunk on June 7th. US lost 1 carrier, IJN lost four.

Ran to COT, did burpee quiz: Name the USN carriers. (correctly answered and subtraction of 3 burpees), Name the USN carrier sunk (correctly answered Yorktown and subtraction of 3 burpees). Pax still had to do 6 burpees.

Fini.

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Leg Day at the Varsity

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WARMUP:

COP for the following:
– SSH x 30
– IW x 15
– Windmills x 10
– Mtn Climbers x 20

Too much chatter so we moseyed to the hill…
THE THANG:

Quadzilla
Run to the bottom
10 Jumping Lunges
Nur to the top
10 Bombjacks
3 x

Mosey to the playground and grab a partner

Partner 1 – Peoples Chair
Partner 2 – Take a lap
Alternate
Rinse and repeat 3x

Leg Tabata
30 seconds of squats
10 seconds of Al Gore
30 seconds of squat to calf raise
10 seconds of Al Gore
30 seconds of jump squats

Back to partner work
Partner 1 – Big Boys
Partner 2 – take a lap
Alternate and rinse and repeat 3x

Back to Tabata

Back to Partner work
Partner 1 – Monkey Humpers
Partner 2 – Take a lap
Alternate and rinse and repeat 3x

Back to Tabata

Back to the bottom of the hill
Nur to the top

COT
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
– (4) upcoming CSAUPs
COT:

Attended my niece’s 5th grade graduation where (3) students conducted the commencement address. A consistent theme from them aligned with the schools mission:
– Personal accountability
– Attitude
– Work Ethic
YHC was impressed at their ability to deliver the speech and the values for which they espoused. It aligns with our mission and opportunity. Dont make life too complex. Ask a 5th grader whats important. Be prepared for more knowledge and wisdom than you might expect!

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Closing out the week in good form

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WARMUP: windmills to start and various exercises in cadence while a few pax rolled in hot.
THE THANG: mosey to the sugar creek elementary school back lot for rounds of 5’s 17’s and 23’s

Set 1 – 5 rounds – 5 burpees, 17 merkins and 23 squats with bear crawling in between stations.

Dark Helmet used the pink Port a John. Other details unknown.

Set 2 – 5 rounds – 5 squats, 17 lunges and 23 side straddle hops with crawl bearing between stations.

Observation – Harry Caray is getting faster as he ages.

Mosey to pull up bars for 7’s and Cindy’s- Pull ups and cinder block curls. Flutters with the block held high to finish.

Return cinder blocks to the pile then 5 burpees OYO before a slowsy to COT.

MARY: a minute’s worth of abs plus one body destroyer brought us to 0600.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: You bet

COT: 5th core principle with emphasis on our concentrica – namely shorties.

Thanks, Harry Caray for the call! :eye:

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Cindies ar Varsity

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WARMUP: Some yogging and stretchy things to get loose.
THE THANG: Grab a cindy and move over to main parking lot. Using the parking line rows completed the following:
20 one hand on block merkins, change hands on each merkin. Then run 5 line suicide.
25 squats w/block then run 4 line suicide.
30 curls then 3 line suicide (lines 1,3,&5).
35 block OH presses then 2 line suicide (2&4).
10 man-makers then OH carry block to line 2.

We had an FNG so took a minute to hit the 5 core principles and mission of F3. Finished up with some Dora. 100 bombjacks, 200 plankjacks, 300 sealjacks. While P1 is doing exercises P2 is farmer carrying both blocks out 2 lines and returning. We got through about 75% of this before running out of time. Returned the blocks and closed out in COT. Great work by everyone including our FNG and visiting PAX. Thanks for the opportunity Harry Carry!

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Bars, blocks and Street Walkers

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Bars, Blocks and Streetwalkers at Varsity
Started with a short mosey then circle up for a warm up of: SSHs, windmills, imperial walkers, Moroccan n/c, Low slow squats, big arm circles, peterparkers, plank stretches. All in a variation of 10-15 reps I/C.

Thang 1: Four-corners Street walker style
Four corners/cones: 1st= 10 merkins, 2nd=20 LBCs, 3rd=30 monkey hmprs, 4th=40 SSH. Routine is: cone 1, then back to start line, then cone 1, cone 2, then reverse to cone 1 again and back to start line; then cone 1, cone 2, cone 3, then reverse: cone 2, cone 1, start line; then cone 1, cone 2, cone 3, cone 4, then reverse: cone 3, cone 2, cone 1 then start line. Results in: 70 merkins, 100 LBCs, 90 Monkeys, 40 SSH.
Short mosey run

Thang 2: Bars and Blocks
Alternated between doing 10 reps on the bar and 20 reps with a cindy. Bars were: pull ups, chin ups, switch grip, switch grip, toes to bar. Blocks were squats, KB swings, curls, OH press, bent over rows.
Short mosey run

Thang 3: pass the ammunition
Pax curb plank. Cindy gets passed down the line of pax, then 3 curb merkins, cindy gets passed back to starting pax, 3 merkins, pass cindy rinse/repeat for a about four cycles.
Short mosey run

Thang 4: wall sit while each pax runs out and does two manmakers with cindy.
Mary, COT, Fini.
Total of 5 pax.

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A Beatdown Unlike Any Other

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Wanted to put together some fun as a tribute to Masters weekend. Pulled a few ideas from other regions in years past and put together a Masters themed weinke.

Warmup

Per typical golf warmup routine….very minimal.

Divot Fixers (Cherry Pickers)
Back Rotations aka “This Thingy Right Here”
Touch Your Toes 3 or 4 Times
Let It Rip

Moseyed to football field to start “Round of 18”. Wind prohibited setting up “tee markers” beforehand, so carried them with us as we went along.

The Thang

18 Holes of Pain
Burpees each hole = 1 x hole par (Par 4 = 4 burpees)
Chance to shave a stroke (burpee) each hole by answering trivia question correctly
Exercise reps = Hole par x 10
Run distance of yardage to next tee (1st two numbers only. 430 yards = 43 yards)
72 burpees total
720 exercise reps total
.43 miles of yardage covered

1 – Par 4 – 455 Yards – Merkins
2 – Par 5 – 575 Yards – LBCs
3 – Par 4 – 350 Yards – Monkey Humpers
4 – Par 3 – 240 Yards – Squats
5 – Par 4 – 495 Yards – American Hammers
6 – Par 3 – 180 Yards – Diamond Merkins
7 – Par 4 – 450 Yards – Plank Jacks
8 – Par 5 – 570 Yards – Air Chair
9 – Par 4 – 460 Yards – Shoulder Taps

10 – Par 4 – 495 Yards – Mountain Climbers
11 – Par 4 – 505 Yards – Moroccan Night Clubs
12 – Par 3 – 155 Yards – Lunges
13 – Par 5 – 510 Yards – Flutters
14 – Par 4 – 440 Yards – Carolina Dry Docks
15 – Par 5 – 530 Yards – Calve Raises
16 – Par 3 – 170 Yards – Wide Arm Merkins
17 – Par 4 – 440 Yards – Good Mornings
18 – Par 4 – 465 Yards – Dollys

Timing worked out great. Had a chance to hit a few shots at the end to add a few more exercises. Great crowd and mumblechatter.

Mary: Yes

Announcements: AMRAP 4 Autism, 4/27 Burpees, Mike Doty Run at Winthrop

Prayers/Praises: Praises for PAX/fellowship

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