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Naturally Modifying Weinke at Slow Burn

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11 PAX endured the experimentation of a naturally modifying workout.  My name.  Nothing official.  Goal was to allow those PAX that wanted to push themselves without holding them back or making the 6 feel like they had to overdo it to keep up.  More to come.

Warmup

Short Mosey

SSH, Moroccan Nightclubs, Cherry Pickers, Arm stretches, Windmills, Leg stretches, Plank, Downdog and stretch calves, Honeymooner

The work – Q picked a target.  All PAX would run for it.  First on there turns around and pickups all other PAX as he runs back to the 6. Once the groups reaches the 6, Q calls out an exercise.  Rinse and Repeat until COT.

Merkin

LBC

Derkin

Flutter

Inerkin

Freddie Mercury

Low Slow Squat

Rosalitas

Maq Tarsa

Hello Dolly

Dips

Burpees

3 min of Mary at the flag

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6 endured Broga and Bunzercise

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Most of us dont stretch enough, especially those of us who do a lot of KB workouts.  That’s me.  I’m usually KB MWF.  Since I was asked to Q Footloose, I thought it was a good opportunity to get myself some stretching.

After waiting for Uhaul to not show, we ran down to Church of God for a warmup and more comfortable surface. Let the PAX in a variety of the usual warmup exercises (SSH, cherry pickers) then started into Broga and stretching for about 25 minutes.  I could sense the PAX were restless so threw in some Burpees after a smart alec remark from Polaroid.  Then we ran the COG zigzag stairs and back to the lot for a variety of ab work.  Followed with another stair run and then Airborne’s Hip Flexor torture.  Ran back to COT.

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BLIMPS at The Bubble

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This was the first workout at the new location of The Bubble.  Moved by somewhat popular demand from the home of the temporary JWOW outdoor exercise pavilion (conveniently located on Daphne Circle) to the Baxter Mushroom pool, seven (7) PAX undertook a 6:00 AM work out effort.

 

Missing were the PAX that complained (sic) about the location of the JWOW Pavilion – Flat Tire, 98 Degrees, Assassin and Pusher.  Odd as the mushroom pool is about a :03 minute walk.   However, in all fairness, Pusher was DR and Assassin had a work call at 6:30.

 

After a bit of  a moderate warm up, four rounds of Blimps followed by a 1/3 mile run commenced.

Round One – 5, 10, 15, 10, 10 and 10

Round Two – 5, 20, 20, 15, 15 and 15

Round Three – 5, 30, 30, 30, 30 and 30 (oops Q didn’t follow the Wienke)

Round Four – 5, 20, 20, 15, 15 and 15

Round Five – 5, 20

This completed the inaugural Bubble workout at its new home.

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The Hive’s tribute to Osgood’s Pops

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It was with deep sadness that we found out on the 26th that Osgood lost his father.  In honor of him, even while dealing with the reality of no ability to literally lean on each other, we came together in the Gloom and did our best to share pain.

The Hive – 3-26-2020

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Pain Board, Playing Cards and Stairs, lots of stairs…

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Thursday morning was another wonderful morning in the gloom.  The PAX assembled and then made their way down to the CoG parking lot where a board of pain and a deck of cards was waiting.

Long story short, we did the things on the below box and then did stairs, many many stairs…

 

Video evidence is below…

 

https://twitter.com/f3_uhaul/status/1235578901533011969?s=21

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Boss Hogg Issued a Challenge at the Ballroom and the PAX did not Disappoint!!!

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Boss Hogg threw out a challenge to see how many PAX would show up at the Ballroom.  As usual, the PAX did not disappoint.  39 was the count.

Boss Hogg arrived in his all white Q outfit.  Disclaimer was given.  A quick message was given about the power of being an influencer.  PAX were reminded to always pick up the 6 and to encourage the guys around them.

The Thang:

Mosey to the center of the football field for a quick warmup:

  • 15 SSHs
  • 10 Windmills
  • 15 Imperial Walkers
  • 15 Cherry Pickers
  • 15 Hillbilly Walkers
  • 15 Gas Pumpers (THE Twisters favorite exercise)

Next was a Guillermo 1-2-3 (Dora’s little brother).  Similar to a Dora but PAX break up into two groups instead of pairing off in partners.  All exercises are done in cadence with a focus on form, not speed.

Exercises were:

  • 100 Overhead Claps
  • 200 LBCs
  • 300 Low Slow Squats

The other group started at the goal line, bear crawled to the 20, ran to the 50, did 1 burpee, and returned to the goal line.  Teams switched back and forth until all exercises were complete.

With the remaining time, the PAX moved to the track for some large dice fun.  One die contained the name of an exercise on each side.  The other 4 were used to determine the count.  Dice were rolled, exercises were done, and the PAX moved 1/4 of the way around the track.  This was repeated until the group had moved all the way around the track.

Time was up and the group headed back to COT.  Announcements were made.  Prayer requests focused on physical healing and marriages.  Due to the overwhelming support from the PAX in attendance, $1,000 was donated to Classroom Ready.

A great reminder to all PAX, don’t just be influenced but go out and be influencers!

 

 

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Cindy shows up at Slow Burn

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It was nice to get out into the gloom on Friday for a mildly foggy start at slow burn.  A little pre-work at the lower parking lot set us up for a back to the basics beat down.  Shout out to Twister for inviting Cindy to join us for the morning.  We started out with the disclaimer and intro and moved on to grabbing our coupons and moseying down to our first stop.

A quick call to circle up for our warm-up that encompassed:  Side straddle hops, windmills, Moroccan night clubs, imperial walkers, hill billie walkers, and overhead claps.

Now on to the meat and potatoes of the workout with a little 4 corners and our coupons.  Each corner had 5 exercises starting with 10 reps per exercise at each corner. We did the first 2 exercises and moseyed to the next corner with Cindy.  After the first round of corners we took a lap around the building to let Cindy get some rest.  Round 2 for the remaining 3 exercises at each corner.

Somewhere in between there we had a short plug for shieldlocks and the importance of having accountability with each other.  A very important part of leadership and growth.

If you are curious the four corners and exercises are below:

  1.  Side Straddle hops, Shoulder taps, flutters, triceps and squats
  2. Mountain climbers, merkins, Big Boy sit-ups, chest press, calf raises
  3. Peter parkers, wide arm merkins, curls, monkey humpers
  4. Overhead claps, Carolina dry docks, Freddy Mercuries, overhead press, sumo squats

It was great to be out with the PAX and have to opportunity to lead.  Thanks Twister!

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Braving the “elements” at Slowburn

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By now, it’s a well-traveled story about the threat of inclement weather for our Friday AM post at Slow Burn. Fortunately, 10 other men joined me as we decided to give it a go anyways. After some comments the perfect road conditions, attire and an assessment by Pusher, we circled up.

Greeting…check
Disclaimer…check.
Mosey…check

We got to our first spot for our oh, so creative warm-up in the Lowe’s parking lot:
Moroccan Night Clubs
Wind Mills
Squats
Side Straddle Hops
THEN DO IT ALL AGAIN
Moroccan Night Clubs
Wind Mills
Squats
Side Straddle Hops

Mosey to the Lowe’s wall (you know the one where we keep it vertical via our backs while in the seated position. Yeah, we did that but here’s the twist:
We started with a 60sec plank (plus/minus)
PAX on the wall and starting at one end, each man would come off the wall for 10 Merkins then return to the wall. We did that through our 11 PAX.
Another 60sec plank (plus/minus)
PAX on the wall and starting at one end, each man would come off the wall for 15 Dips then return to the wall. We did that through our 11 PAX.
Final 60sec plank (plus/minus)

Mosey to the “smokers” parking lot next to Persis for the first mini Ab Lab
Flutters
Heels to Heaven (or modify to knees to Heaven if needed)
Grave Diggers (left & right)

Dora (Persis to Empire): Get a partner for the following:
Partner 1: 100 Carolina Dry Docks
Partner 2: Run to Empire Pizza and back

Partner 1: 200 Dips
Partner 2: Run to Empire Pizza and back

Partner 1: 300 Bent Over Rows
Partner 2: Run to Empire Pizza and back

Back to the smoker’s lot for the rest of Ab Lab:
LBC’s
Peter Parker
Parker Peter

Mosey to the parking lot in front of Empire Pizza:
3-tiered gassers but upon the return from each tier:
Tier 1: 5 Merkins
Tier 2: 10 Merkins
Tier 3: 15 Merkins or 5 Burpees

Take it COT.
Announcements: Read your newsletter that comes out on Sunday cause there’s a lot in there. Doty Run, BEYOND restarting in March.

Prayers: Recovery for Cash, Marriages, Co-worker fighting cancer, Friend’s daughter

Hootie & Twister…THANK YOU.

Maximus

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Boards of Pain in the Rain at the Ballroom

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The gloom was strong this morning with rain falling consistently throughout with 6 lonely HIMs fighting through…

After no warmup the crew moseyed down to the track for instruction and directions…

The basis of the workout will be partner work with one person running 200M before doing the following exercises:  25 Mountain Climbers, 25 Plank Jacks, 25 Squats, 25 Merkins, 20 Lunges, 10 Bear Crawls after each exercise PAX runs the remaining 200M back to the start where their partner has been doing the following: SSH, Flutters, SSH, LBCs, SSH and Hello Dolly.

While any one of those exercises seems Moderate, when done in between 200M runs it becomes very Noderate…

The PAX returned to COT with 3 minutes to spare so we went around the circle for some Imperial Walkers, Hillbilly Walkers, Merkins, Sumo Squats, Cherry Pickers and finally a few Windmills…

After some announcements, prayers, praises and a ball of man prayer, the heavens opened up and the PAX scurried back to vehicles and home…

 

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The Stairs at Footloose

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18 PAX gathered on a sub-30 morning in The Fort. After some griping about how “moderate” YHC would make this, it was 5:15 and a disclaimer was spoken. We snaked around the main entrance to FBC and then went down to snake around the COG….as a bonus we also hit the big stairs leading to their fellowship center.

This is a moderate AO; YHC kept all counts to 10….except for when Spitz got me laughing and I went to 11 once….something about Christian Yoga with Senior Ladies…..hard to recall. Here’s a brief synopsis of what we did for the warm-up and subsequent leg sequence:

We headed back to the long FBC parking lot for some wind sprints. 50% (that’s an F in school), 75% (just a C), and 93% (cause at least you know your A would transfer if you needed it). In between sprints we, did a yoga series or a leg series. One time (at band camp), I went off books and did some derkins and dips against a retaining wall.

Yoga series got more grumbling. Basic outline was:

Updog–>Downdog—>R Leg high–>bent knee–>R foot between hands–>warrior 1–>warrior 2–>extended side angle–>half moon–>warrior 2–>chaturanga (चतुरङ्ग) and repeat on other side

We walked through it a little modified to keep everyone together….lots of impressive half moons in the PAX today (take that however you like).

A little more wind sprinting and the leg series. To keep the moderate approach, but still push….we went to a 10-count frequently, but the next exercise was just a repeat. Similar to how YHC put a lot of SSH into the warmup.

COT
Prayers – the impermanence of life, illness, managing our aging and the aging of our parents

NMM:

My word of the year, INPUT, comes from jazz writer, Ted Gioia:

I think the most important skill anyone can develop is time management skills. How you use your day. But there is one principle I want to stress because this is very important to me. When people ask me for advice — and once again, this cuts across all fields — but this is the advice I give:

In your life, you will be evaluated on your output. Your boss will evaluate you on your output. If you’re a writer like me, the audience will evaluate you on your output.

But your input is just as important. If you don’t have good input, you cannot maintain good output.

The problem is no one manages your input. The boss never cares about your input. The boss doesn’t care about what books you read. Your boss doesn’t ask you what newspapers you read. The boss doesn’t ask you what movies you saw or what TV shows or what ideas you consume.

But I know for a fact I could not do what I do if I was not zealous in managing high-quality inputs into my mind every day of my life. That’s why I spend maybe two hours a day writing. I’m a writer. I spend two hours a day writing, but I spend three to four hours a day reading and two to three hours a day listening to music.

People think that that’s creating a problem in my schedule, but in fact, I say, “No, no, this is the reason why I’m able to do this. Because I have constant good-quality input.” That is the only reason why I can maintain the output.

Think about where you want to be better and then just take one step in that direction. If another step doesn’t come until tomorrow, it’s still progress. Always an honor to lead.

-Band Camp dismissed

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