Sink roulette deck of cards

17 eager and excited pax showed up. Some brought sand bags, some brought just their willing attitude which was quickly put on point upon the pile of sandbags awaiting them.

After a quick run around the parking lot, a few in cadence SSH, followed by burpees, and that repeated a few times, it was time for business.

Deck of cards was the game. Rules were simple. Follow the count on the card and suit to the key on the paper.

Here’s the extra kitchen sink rule: for the 4 cards laid out, 1 card was chosen by a pax to either pick red or black. If correct, follow the card suit/count. If incorrect, penalty was double the count.

All exercises were done with your sandbag.

– 2-7 diamonds manmaker
– 8-Ace diamonds squats
– 2-7 spades lunge
– 8-Ace spades merkins (just do regular merkins
– 2-7 clubs clean and press
– 8-Ace clubs flutter w/ a press
– 2-7 hearts chest press
– 8-Ace hearts curls
– Joker gear carry shuffle 100 yards and then 1 min sandbag toss over shoulder, 100 yard shuffle
– A few “breaks” were added which included some slick run cool downs and a few gear shuffles with no bag toss

For the record, there were some incorrect cards chosen which were a crowd favorite as you’d expect.

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AKA 2024 at the Colosseum

WARMUP: mosey, dynamic warm-up including high knees, butt kicks, lunges, side lunges, etc
dynamic planks and upwarddownward dogs
THE THANG: groups of 4 and 5
station 1: bulgarian L 30″, bulgarian R 30″, 30″ rest
station 2: RDL L (with weight) 30″, RDL R (with weight) 30″, 30″ rest
station 3: curb burpees 30″, flutters 30″, 30″ rest
2 rounds
station 1: side shuffle through pillars about 50 yards total
station 2: farmer’s carry weights (until shufflers done shuffling)
station 3: burpee broad jump (until shufflers done shuffling)
2 rounds
station 1: step-up L (with weight) 30″, step-up R (with weight) 30″, 30″ rest
station 2: front squats (with weight) 30″, double leg RDLs (with weight) 30″, 30″ rest
station 3: curb burpees 30″, flutters 30″, 30″ rest
2 rounds
MARY: yes – Q’d by ~5 pax
ANNOUNCEMENTS: RH 10 year coming up
COT: Prayers for those affected by storm in RH.

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AKA meets BOP

17 men showed up at The Stockade this morning for AKA Friday. Quick disclaimer and warm-ups consisted of SSHs, Windmills, Imperial Walkers, and Plank Stretches. Mosey around the parking lot for the main event, Board of Pain. Men have laughed, men have cried, but no man has ever completed all exercises within a 45-minute period.
Today, we would tackle the board as a two-man team, split the reps into two rounds. Once the team completed the exercise, we ran a lap. Exercises listed below:

Round 1

Burpees – 50
Calf Raises – 75
Ski Abs – 50
Merkins – 50
Deep Squats – 50
LBCs – 100
Carolina Dry Docks – 50
Russian Twists – 50
Mac Tar Jai– 50
Jump Squats – 50
Mountain Climbers – 50
Shoulder Raises – 100
Mary Catherines – 50
Hello Dolly – 100
Wide Arm Merkins – 50
Squat Jacks – 50
Flutters– 50
Burpees – 50

Round 2

Repeat Round 1

Some of the team made it to the second round complaining about the burpee count. Farthest team made it to Ski Abs. Great work men!

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Play time is over

WARMUP: it’s sweep the leg. We did a burpee ladder instead on way to school drive. Starting with 1 worked our way up to 5 then back down performing the burpees at each light pole on way down Dave gibson, we also stopped every so often to perform exercises IC waiting for 6

THE THANG: short version of longest mile with using light poles, lunge walk to 1st pole, then bear crawl to 2nd then crab walk to 3rd.
We all picked up 6 before moseying to back of school by bottom of hill where YHC did not provide very clear instructions at start so had to run around and update pax as we went. but we started 11s with HR Merkins (10) and BombJacks (1) at last pole top of hill. Plan was to drop a pole each lap so it would get progressively shorter think the gazelles got up to round 6 or 7 but we still ran out of time, and a couple PAX got back a min or two late

MARY: no time
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Christmas party, lots of Saturday CSAUPS coming up, PnP tomorrow, HIM camp. We named hashbrowns

COT: yep!

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Dave Lyle to Gold Hill and back????

WARMUP: None

THE THANG: 1.75 out and back for a total of 3.5 miles. Option to add on 2 loops around the very large building for another half mile.
MARY: Yes – handful of the fast runners
ANNOUNCEMENTS: CSAUP, Bethel Men’s Shelter, Litter Pick up coming soon, Canoli Run….
COT:Well done well attended and knocked out in a timely manner.

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