WARMUP: SSH, IW, HW, Cherry Pickers, Broga
THE THANG:
4 corners – 25 reps each – Mot: Mosey
Squats, LBC’s, Monkey Humpers, PYO – 3 Rnds
SSH, PlankJacks, BB – 3 Rnds
MARY: Yes – Each called out
ANNOUNCEMENTS: RYN
COT: Always
WARMUP: Yea, a good one. Humane Burpee
THE THANG:
Right Side:
5 Snatches
5 Overhead Lunges
5 Cleans
5 Swings
5 Rows
5 Merkins w/ hand on the bell
Repeat on the left
did 5 round
in between had guys explain their name origin story
After 5 rounds we did 1 reps of each exercise in the circuit as a complex. Got tough.
MARY: Flutter w/ Press & American Hammer
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Invergence Tomorrow
COT: was held
Steel City Beatdown – By the numbers
5 burpees OYO – 5 Pirates World Series Championships
13 SSH IC – 26 total reps for Steeler HOF Rod Woodson
5 burpees OYO – 5 Penguins Stanley Cups
6 Windmills – 6 Steelers Super Bowl Championships
1 Burpee OYO – 1 Olympic Gold Medal for Kurt Angle (he did it with a broken neck)
Mosey to the hill by the fire station
Inclined PAIN workout. You would do 3 burpees at the bottom of the hill and then do an exercise, go back to the bottom of the hill 3 more burpees, and then move up the ladder completing all exercises. Everyone loved this. All the reps represented the numbers of different Pittsburgh sports legends.
Steel City by the numbers Cont.
87 Mountain Climbers – Sidney Crosby
75 LBC’s – Mean Joe Greene
66 Flutters – Mario Lemieux
43 – Calf Raises – Troy Polamalu
32 – SSH – Franco Harris
24 – Freddy Mercury’s – Barry Bonds
21 Merkins – Roberto Clemente
10 Squats – Ron Francis
8 BBS – Willie Stargell
7 HR Merkins- Ben Roethlisberger
Mosey back to COT. If you got through it…446 reps…the exact number of Bridges within the Steel City.
Thanks to all who posted and embraced the legacy of PGH Sports.
WARMUP: Mosey to the backside of the Harris teeter. On the way – butt kicks, high knees, karaoke, and then completed SSH, cherry pickers, imperial walkers, hillbilly walkers, low slow squat, and moroccan nightclub. Mosey to fire station through the apartment complex.
THE THANG: Pendulum – we completed merkins at the fire station and LBCs at the other end of the pendulum (stop sign up the other side of the hill). We increased by 2 with merkins and by 4 with LBCs until we reached 10 merkins and 20 LBCs. Mosey back to the side wall of HT and completed wall sits while everyone bear crawls out to burpee and then bear crawl back. Burpees sprinkled throughout the moseys.
MARY: Flutter kicks, hello dolly, box cutter, american hammer, and some stretching.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Hero’s 5k, 9/11 stairs, upcoming golf tournament, read newsletter.
COT: Prayers and praises.
YHC was making up for a missed Q two weeks ago due to sickness. As I was reviewing previous backblasts, I came up with a Big Hairy Audacious Goal for the workout to circle the entire FMHS while carrying the KB with pain stations along the way. I hadn’t seen it done so that was the plan.
Weather was perfect. Felt like an early Fall and time for college football.
WARMUP:
SSH x 10
Windmills x 10
Merkins x 10
Arm Circles x 10
THE THANG:
With the BHAG of circling the school, which is approximately 1.5 miles, we moseyed stopping (4) times for the following:
21 KB swings
18 Upright rows
15 Goblet squats
12 Curls
9 Tricep extensions
6 Manmakers
MARY:
Finished at the end with a circuit of the following:
LBCs
Flutters
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Read the newsletter
WARMUP: Quick lap of the parking lot then windmills, squats, light stretching
THE THANG: As the newly appointed (and very temporary Site Q) we did a mozy out of the parking lot and hung multiple rights to get to the parking lot behind Hobos for some four corners.
Pax to complete all exercises at each corner then do a full lap around the parking lot before getting to the next corner. Corners broken out as:
– Upper body (20 reps each) Merkins, CDDs, Dips, Shoulder taps
– Lower body (20 reps) Calf raises, Bomb jacks, Squats, Monkey humpers
– Abs (20 reps) Big boy sit-ups, American hammers, Flutter circles, Box cutters
– Full body (20 reps) Burpees, SSH, Mike Tyson’s, Single-leg merkins
Mozy to the parking lot across from what used to be the Hardee’s. (Kimbrell’s) Pax planked up for 4 plank-jacks, Mountain climbers, Shoulder taps, Superman’s. Rinse and repeat for reps at 4, 8, 16, 32.
Since we were in downtown Fort Mill, we did a quick history lesson on why the town has its name. (We are located half way between a British fort built to protect the Catawba Indians and Webb’s Mill). In honor of the town’s founding in 1873, we did 18 Merkins then ran down to the bottom of Main Street for 73 SSH.
We had about 5 minutes left at that point, so we did a mozy back to COT.
MARY: About 2 minutes worth
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Bethel, Grow Ruck, H.I.M. Camp
COT: Family, Health, Marriages
WARMUP:
• 20 SSH IC
• 10 Windmill Cherry Pickers IC
• World’s Greatest Stretch (both sides)
THE THANG:
AMRAP Circuit – 40s on / 20s off (4 rounds)
1. KB Swings
2. KB Goblet March
3. Suitcase Deadlifts
4. Cross Body Curls
5. Alternating Bent Over Rows
6. Lunge w/ KB Pass Through
7. Lunge w/ Waiter Press
Active Recovery Between (most) Sets:
• Planks
• Goblet Squats
• KB Carries
Core Finisher – AMRAP (40s on / 20s off):
1. Around the World
2. American Hammers
3. Overhead KB Dying Cockroaches
4. Bear Plank w/ KB Pull Through
5. LBCs w/ Overhead KB
6. Flutter Kicks
7. KB Halos
8. KB Lateral Swings
9. Plank to close it out
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: bethel men’s shelter, HIM camp.
COT: Prayers for all.
WARMUP: side straddle hops, arm circles, windmills, imperial walkers, cherry pickers
THE THANG:
Station 1: 100m-ish partner run – 100 monkey humpers, 200 Carolina dry docks, 300 American Hammers
Mosey
Station 2: 10 Merkins, 15 air squats, 20 big boys, 10 burpees
Mosey to the wall
Station 3: PAX stayed in wall squat, while we snaked down the line bear crawling out 10 yards and performed 5 wide arm merkins, then crab walked back. Then walking lunges out to 5 squats and walking lunges back.
Mosey
MARY: 30 LBC, 15 Box cutters, 15 Freddie Mercuries, 15 Flutters, CELEBRITY @slapshot 30 hello dolly’s, and a much needed 15 second body destroyer
ANNOUNCEMENTS: 9/11 stair climb, HIM Camp, and the jam-packed newsletter
COT: praises for new family members for @grassy knoll and a healthy baby for @the pirates friend Netflix. Prayers for Pollo Hermano’s father, DD and family fighting the fight against cancer, college of mine in the throws of rock bottom, and a member of my personal network getting a heart stent in place today. Apologies for any prayers spoken that I’ve forgotten.
WARMUP: Some
THE THANG: AMRAP:
400m partner run
31 KB Squats
69 KB swings
31 OH press
69 OH DB stationary lunges
31 burpees
MARY: A little
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Newsletter
COT: Best part. “Marriage isn’t meant for our happiness, it’s meant for our holiness”
WARMUP: After a messy start of out of order exercise commands, we warmed up
THE THANG: 5 rounds, 2 exercises, 1min each – 20 Swings with a plank, 6 burpees and run with KB
2 rounds, 6 exercises, 1 min each
clean, squat, press, both sides
Bent row, both sides,
Stork Press, both sides
2 rounds, 4 exercises
RDL – single leg, both sides
Goblet squats,
Squat jumps
MARY: Side Planks
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT: Treasure the good moments