Tag: Assassin

The Encore … again

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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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15 pounder

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WARMUP: Did some stretching and had a nice Indian run

THE THANG:
Did some time at the small wall/firepit with various sets of muscle exciters. Got in lots of kettlebell swings, lawnmower pulls and laps in between.

KB Swings
Lawnmower pulls
Triceps extensions
Halo circles
Hillbilly walkers w bell

-Lap-

Squats
LBC w bell
Deadlifts
KB Swings

-Lap-

KB Swings
Tricept extensions
Around the World

-Lap-

Lawmower pulls
Clean press
Halo circles
KB swings

-Lap-

Squats
LBC’s
Around the world
Shoulder presses

-Lap-

Lawnmower pulls
Tricept extensions
Deadlifts
Clean press

-Lap-

Then, pass the duitchie, where we all got to feel Tesh mammoth and Destiny’ 15 pounder.

COT: Mentioned a few things in the newsletter including FM Care Center lawn sign up, Pusher bringing back Q Source

Prayers for Destiny’s colleague with health issues, Band Camp’s church for VBS (for seeds to be planted) and for Pusher’s daughter Emma and surgery/recovery for torn ACL.

Good crew this morning. Lots of good mumble chatter. Missed Battle Bot…..Appreciate the opportunity to lead!

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Bed Pan Anyone? Can I Get A Towel? Star!

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We did 12 Days of Christmas in the rain.  Some rucked separately. Here’s the bootcamp:

1- Run to the back and back to cover.
2- Mak Tar Gis. How to spell?
3-Greg Jump squats
4-LBCs
5-Diamond merkins
6-Imperial walkers
7-Rosalitas
8-Slow flutters
9-Low slow squats
10-Lunges (10 each leg)
11-Merkins
12-Burpees

Welcome FNGs Bed Pan and The Admiral!

The Thrill is gone!

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Some opted for the norm, some did not

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Disclaimer included the option of rucking or running on your own as is sometimes the norm but meet us back at 0600. The other option was to join me in running to the high school track, or so we thought. We made our way to the the stadium and saw that all access points were locked so we utilized the parking lot instead of the track. It wasn’t as good but it worked.
WARMUP: We ran
THE THANG: Cool run around the lot.
Fast run around the lot.
Cool run followed by a fast 2 laps.
Cool run followed by a fast 3 laps.
Cool run followed by a fast 4 laps.
Switch directions to run a lap then up the hill and down.
Again, run a lap but now, NUR up the hill and down.
Run another lap then up up and down.
Run back to COT. ~4.5mi
MARY: Sprinkled throughout.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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Lost and Found at Clydesdales

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We ran. 10 launched, 10 landed, but one got lost a little and NASA went for a drive after COT to retrieve him. He was not far from COT when found.
Route was 160 to Baxter’s Market St.
– Left onto Market St
– Left into Baxter Y
– Take trail behind the Y that takes you to Sixth Baxter Crossing
– Right onto Sixth Baxter Crossing up to Sutton
– Left on Sutton
– Left on Sam Smith
– Left on Harris St
– Left on Munn
– Back to COT

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The Peacemaker

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WARMUP:

Very quick demo of what was coming. 12 exercises pulled from the intro dance to Peacemaker.
The board:

Oh, and everyone grab a 4.5lb paver for each hand. They’re brand new so the gloves are to keep your skin from being sliced open.

THE THANG:

HIIT workouts with all 12 exercises. Everyone, just use the beat!
1. Squat lat pull w/alt leg raise
2. Dumbell scarecrow
3. Lat pulls w/alt high knees
4. Al Gore tricep extensions. Arms out, elbows turned UP
5. Apollo Ono with shrug/lat pull/whatever felt right
6. Overhead press (with optional pelvic thrust)
7. Lunges with full arm motion
8. Side arm lat raises
9. Hillbilly walker
10. Scarecrow again
11. Slow, full arm circles with one arm, holding the other out. Guitar hero style
12. overhead press to tricep extesion and back

We did the above for:
1. 90 seconds on, 20 seconds rest
2. Take a break with a long lap around the parking lot
3. 30 seconds on, 12 seconds rest
4. Two of each, straight down the line, try not to mess up or burpees
5. Everyone did fine, so 10 burpees as a reward
6. Two each one more time, because the ruckers needed to know what they were missing

Spotify playlist:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6k0Pd1cAC3pmdvO7NstFkq?si=75f40460c85245c

Video of our last two minutes is here (as caught by the TeslaCam):
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-Im8n1SVEW-_TXBNIcm-EoHATl797135/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-CcQb4RhCVMlU7UEx7gyL1tt1dlIvrO6/view?usp=sharing

ANNOUNCEMENTS

https://photos.app.goo.gl/SByJGmeayUfkfNab7
Funhouse talking about what AKA is all about
Tinsel talks about the Manion WOD at Chupacabra on 4/29
YHC letting everyone know that we can soon start posting BBs in Slack, and to update your names or you won’t get tagged

COT:

Talked about F3 being open to all men. While YHC is reasonably certain that most of the men there was some flavor of christian, I asked men to bow their heads for a moment of murmuring silence. When complete I also said I don’t want to ignore things that are difficult in each others lives. grab the man next to you if you need to talk about something. This is CoT, and we trust.

NMM:

I’d been thinking about this workout for weeks, basically the first time I saw the intro credits for Peacemaker, I knew I had to bring this to an AO near me. And it just so happened that I had the Swamp on AKA, so I watched that credit sequence over and over until I had a solid, awful, dumb, stupid workout ready to share with whatever AKA groupies were brave enough to drive out to Rivergate.
I knew it was going to make guys feel dumb, stupid, perhaps even embarrassed, but the smiles went on for miles, and the shoulders have been successfully melted. Mublechatter was epic, everyone had a great time, and I couldn’t be more thrilled to have brought a fun, shoulder smoking Friday morning to The Fort. Thanks for putting me on the calendar, Slapshot!
Peacemaker intro:

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It dit-int rain

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We had a few at a damp parking lot, but no rain (U-haul.)

Started by stretching just enough to get Funhouse a little grumpy ’cause he could feel something coming.

A sampling of a few groups of exercises with a light jog in between:

KB Swings 15
Lawnmower Pulls 15 each arm
Tricept Extensions 15
Halo circles 20
Hillbilly Walker with Bell 10 each leg (20)

Squats 15
Deadlifts 20
KB Swings 20
Tricept Extensions 15
Around The World single count 20 

Lawnmower Pulls 15 each arm
Clean press 10 each arm (20)
Halo circles 20

Squats 15
Around The World single count 20
Shoulder Press 15

Lawnmower Pulls 15 each arm
Tricept Extensions 15
Deadlift 20
Clean press 10 each arm (20)

Unfortunately, at one point, we lost Funhouse. Something got pulled. Hope you are doing much better soon.

Prayers to the Cyclops fam.

We talked about the Mental Battle podcast dropping Friday with DH, DThrill and C-Span (who is moving to Dallas?)  Also great fellowship with the young turks who are married and engaged in being strong dads. I am glad to see so many under 40’s taking advantage of F3 and what it brings in building the I am Third. I am more than happy to chat about the mistakes I made as a young dad trying hard to make my mark (before F3 existed.)

Thanks to 3-D for the opportunity.

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“Twos”day Torture

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9 PAX gathered on a beautiful February morning – a preview of spring that is right around the corner.

Disclaimer and we started to mosey down road towards the entrance when Olaf came trotting out of the woods making it 10 PAX.  Turned around at entrance and did some dynamic warmup on return to parking lot (Toy Soldiers, High Knees, Karaoke).

Maybe it was the weather or maybe it was just Olaf, but the mumblechatter was strong this morning.

 

The first Thang:

10 Minute hardCORE HIIT – 10 Exercises 45 Sec On 15 sec off

SSH

Freddie Mercuries

Standing High Knee Taps

American Hammers

Mountain Climbers

Laying Leg Raises

Plank In and Outs (think flying squirrel – plank jacks)

Plank side to sides (think elbow plank where you alternate rotating and touching each hip to the ground)

Star Crunches (essentially a Dying Cockroach)

Running High Knees

Before the circuit started, I proclaimed this was a core HIIT.  So thank you Bandcamp for letting us know halfway through that we were doing a lot of ab work – very enlightening 😉

 

The next Thang:

“Twos”day Torture – in honor of it being 2-22-22 on a Tuesday

2 stations separated by .2 miles – Station 1 at parking lot where we park, Station 2 at parking lot at entrance

Perform following exercises at Station 1:

2 Mickey Mouse Merkins

22 MNCs while in squat position

22 Lunges (11 each leg)

Run to Station 2 (Plank for the 6)

Perform following exercises at Station 2:

2 Kraken Burpees

22 overhead claps

22 calf raises

Run Back to Station 1 (Plank for the 6)

Rinse/Repeat – we made it through 4 rounds

 

Moseyed back and finished back at COT right on time

 

NMM:  As usual, an honor to lead the Pax.  Naturally, the runs back and forth between stations today evolved into long sprint races and competitions of who could get their heart rate highest.  Not sure there was a clear winner but we all got better together and fought the urge to slow down or cut it short.  Maximus would have agreed that we earned our 1% today –  great work from all the PAX.  Thanks for the opportunity Shower Curtain!

 

-Badlands

 

 

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