Tag: Mark Nestel

Hills and Heavy things are hurtful

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WARMUP:
– Mosey the track loop around Runde Park
– Peter Parker x10 cadence
– Merkin x10 cadence
– Windmill x10 cadence

THE THANG:
Part 1:
– Separate into 2 groups. One group starts at YHC’s truck and the other group starts at the batting cages

– Each station will have two sets of exercises. The first exercise will be done when the count is and odd number and the second exercise will be done on the even number.

Batting cage:
– Wall paver stones native to the AO. The general consensus was that they weighed about 70lbs.
– Odd: Bent-over Rows
– Even: Squats holding the massive paver

Truck:
– “Hell Pavers” as previously labeled by Dark Helmet. Equivalent to a cinder block but more compact.
– Odd: Curls
– Even: Overhead Press

Rd 1: 15 count of the Odd exercise at the station your group started with. Then run to the other station and do a 15 count of the Odd exercise for that station.
Rd 2: 14 count of the Even exercise at the station your group started with. Then run to the other station and do a 14 count of the Even exercise for that station.
– Continue decreasing the count as you complete the exercises.
– We called it after the 7 count to be sure we had sufficient time for Part 2.

Part 2: Half-Pipe
– Ran to the bottom of the big hill. Once there we were nicely positioned at the bottom of 2 hills on either side of us….like a half-pipe.
– The moderate hill had 5 cones positioned moving up the hill. And the steep hill had spots marked with duct tape at various points up the hill with the last one at the top.

How the half-pipe works:
– Run to the first cone on the moderate hill. Complete 2 merkins. It was called out that if you were not matching Funhouse’s form, then you were doing it wrong.
– Run back to the bottom and up to the first marker on the big hill. Complete 2 burpees.
– Run back to the first cone on the moderate hill and complete 2 merkins. Continue to the second cone and complete 4 merkins. Run back to the first cone and complete 2 merkins facing the way you are running. This makes them derkins.
– Run to the first marker on the big hill and complete 2 burpees. Run to the second marker and complete 4 burpees. Run back to the first marker and complete 2 burpees facing downhill. Coming up on those while facing the downhill sucks on the legs!
– Continue the series for the 5 stations on each of the hills.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
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– Prayers and Praises: Parenting, health, job searching

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2 Cats Eat More Than 1 Cat

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Undeniably the Classic AO, my all time favorite, the place I started and the place I took a turn as site Q. Weezer has done a awesome job with this AO. It was an honor to lead.

karaoke
knee tar n’diaye
LBC
merkins
LS Squats
curb walkers
JACK WEBB
dips
high knees
butt kickers
more merkins
more squats
dying cockroach
imperial walker
hill billy walker
makhtar n’diayes
more merkins
more squats
Dora
mosey
shoulder tap
overhead clap

I’m sure I forgot a few things
*not in that order
**modifications were made
***counting was poor at best
****mumblechatter was as expected

noticeably absent … liver eaters

Looks like we made it,

Barry Manilow

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Moderate-ish

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WARMUP:
Mosey to the elementary loop. SSH
Mosey to the end of the loop. Windmill
Mosey to the road. Low Slow Squat
Mosey you the sidewalk
THE THANG:
11s starting with 1 BBSU, run to school main entrance, 10 leg lifts
10-count
10 Bomb Jacks courtesy of Change Order’s TWSS
11s starting with 1 dip, run south to the first light for 10 merkins
10 count
arrange the PAX on the concrete, backs to the rising sun. Hold low horse stance (kinda like an Al Gore) for 30s, then right and left forward stances (back leg straight, front knee 90 degree bend)
leg stretches and mosey to CoT

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Some sorta CSAUP going on, read the NL
COT: everyone calls out a way to live third that they will do today (no trading responsibility, selfless actions), the PAX did great
NMM:
Best mumblechatter I’ve heard in a long time, beautiful morning to be out

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Peeing in the bushes

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WARMUP:
Mosey – hip swings – mosey – circle up for IC exercises

SSH, Windmills, cherry pickers, plank/broga stuff, merkins

THE THANG:
used parking lot near persis – Bear Crawl across lot with a merkin at every parking space line

Mosey to vape shop and back

used parking lot near Lowe’s – high knees across lot with an imperial squat walker at each row of parking spaces

Mosey to vape shop and back to Persis – Wall sits with various exercises in seated position – forward arm raises, toe raises, etc

Mosey to vape shop and back to parking lot near Persis to use entire length of long curb – do 2 dips, roll to right and do 1 merkin, roll to right and repeat the sequence until you reach end of the curb

Mosey back to Persis for more wall sits with various exercises in seated position

Mosey to vape shop and back then walking lunges for length of Persis parking lot. crawl bear back length of parking lot.

Mosey back to vape shop for more wall sits with various exercises in seated position. Then while all PAX in a wall sit, each PAX would take a turn getting off the wall to do 4 merkins. shook out the legs and did another wall sit/merkin combo and finished out the workout at 0600 in a wall sit.

MARY:
nah

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Change order didn’t pee before coming to the workout

Jaeger – tomorrow

Cannoli Run – cant recall date -talk to twister

Trash pickup this month

COT: yup

Thank you Weezer for getting me out there, I will be back!

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Purple Unicorns with Glitter Accents

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Nice morning at The Armory.

Ran the bells across the lot. dropped and circled for a warm-up.
walkers (Imperial/Hillbilly), merkins, squats, LBC, Rinse & R.

7 boards set out. Rotate from one board to the next with a short run in between. Boards had bell exercise 15 count, both sides (L & R), non-bell exercise, finished by a 10 count bell exercise, both sides.

Returned across the lot with the boards and flipped the one at a time until time ran out.

Lots of lifting.

Thanks for the opportunity, first bell Q in many, many years.

Looks like we made it,

Barry Manilow

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Will you wash my hair?

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WARMUP:
SSH
Merkins
CDD
Low slow squats

THE THANG:
Today was a test of 3S2T

Speed:
Hill sprints x3

Mental toughness and stamina:
Playground
Dead hangs 1 minute
rest and repeat

Strength:
Stations: 1 minute each. 2 rounds. Beat your count of pullups on round 2
Pull-ups
Derkins
Monkey humpers
Flutters
Dips

Stamina
Physical toughness
Mental toughness

11s of burpees and lunges
mode of transport: bear crawl
Pass the kettlebell down the line as you get to the lunge side.
When the kettlebell gets to you, do your lunges with it.

when the PAX thought we were done with this nonsense, we continued with:
11 burpees
0 lunges
mode of transport: crawl bear
12 burpees
1 reverse lunge (ie -1 lunges, so we’re still doing 11s)
13 burpees
2 reverse lunges
etc

In total, there should have been 120+ burpees

MARY:
no time

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:
In our fatigue, I totally forgot to do name-o-rama

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Polygon of Pain

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WARMUP:
– Quick lap around the parking lot
– COP – SSH, Windmill, MNC, Cherry Pickers, Merkin and Plank

THE THANG:
Polygon of Pain – Using the outer perimeter of the parking lot (roughly shaped like a pentagon), complete exercises with ascending reps (5 – 10 – 15 – 20 – 25) at each of the 5 stations…totaling 75 reps on each lap.
– Lap 1: Burpee
– Lap 2: CDD
– Lap 3: Jump Squat
– Lap 4: American Hammer
– Lap 5: Dips
– Lap 6: Overhead Clap
– Lap 7: Lunge
– Lap 8: LBC
– Lap 9: Merkin
– Lap 10: Shoulder Tap
– Lap 11: BBSU
– Lap 12: WAM

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