Simon Says at the Ranch

Start with a Mosey run in Parking lot
Side shuffles
High knees
Butt kickers
Toy soldiers
George Washington was born on Feb 22nd, 1732
More mosey run

Circle up for Warm up
SSH (IC 10x)
Windmill (IC 10x)
Imperial Walker (IC 10x)
Moroccan Nightclub (IC 10x)
Low Slow Squats (IC10x)
Merkin (IC 10x)
Peter Parker (IC 10x)
Plank stretches
Downward dog
Honeymooner
More mosey run

Thang 1: Bermuda Triangle
Three cones spaced 20-30 yards apart.
Start at cone 1, do one burpee, bear crawl to next cone
Cone 2, do two burpees, bear crawl to next cone
Cone 3, do three burpees, bear crawl back to cone 1, and pick up a clothes pin from the bucket
Repeat the circuit, picking up a clothes pin for each completed circuit.

More mosey run

Thang 2: Bench work
Step ups
Incline merkins
Decline merkins
Butt touch squats
Calf raises

Thang 2: Simon says
Football training style
Do what Simon says: Shuffle left, shuffle right
Exercises
SSH
Bobby Hurleys
Mountain Climbers
OH claps
Smurf jacks
LBCs
If pax breaks with Simon, they lose a clothes pin. Change Order earned an extra clothes pin by remembering Geo. Washington’s birth date.

Simon says penalty: Pax do burpees: their count is calculated by: 20 minus number of clothes pins remaining

Mosey run to COT

Thang 3: Sally Routine
Low plank/high plank

Fini

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No legs

Day before D2D relay so decided to take it easy on legs. Quick disclaimer than slow jog around lot, back to start point for a few basic warm-ups. Then partner up for lazy dora: P1 does 10 merkins will P2 holds plank, switch back and forth until 100 total. 200 V-ups. P1 does 20 V-ups will P2 does 90 degree leg hold. Flapjack up to 200. 100 2 ct shoulder taps. P1 does 10 while P2 does 6 inch plank hold. Flapjack upto 100. 200 LBCs. P1 does 20 LBCs while P2 does 6 inch (10 degree) leg hold. Flapjack up to 200. Slow jog to behind Lowe’s. Using guardrail, 10 dips, 10 derkins, and 10 incline merkins. Jog to other end and repeat. Jog to side of lowes. 8 hand release merkins, 8 mtn climbers, 7,7,6,6…1,1 then jump back to 8 & 8 to finish. Lots of bitching on this one so I was happy. Jog over to Indian restaurant, 8 Flutters, 8 Hello Dollies, 7,7,6,6…1,1 then back to 8,8 to finish (legs never touch). Another crowd pleaser. Just a few mins left so back to COT for a few stretches. As promised, didn’t hit legs today so everyone was fresh to run D2D. Thx for the nod Peach Stand!

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Golden Corral buffet

WARMUP:
Mosey to church parking lot
SSH, moroccan nightclub, arm circles, low slow squat, down dog, honeymooner

THE THANG:
Mosey over to Sonic for 5 trips through the drive through. Each round you performed the exercises starting with the first number. After running a lap you would decrease each exercise by the second number listed in the row below. Example round 1 – 10 burpees, round 2 8 burpees….

Burpees – 10 – 2s
Merkins – 25 – 5s
Squats – 50 – 10s
LBCs – 75. – 15s
Calf Raises – 100 – 20s

MARY:
Finished with some speed work exercises
One leg lung jump
Bunny hops
Scissor over line
Low slow jump squat

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7s, 10s, 20s, oh my…

WARMUP: Imperial walkers, mountain climbers, low slow merkins
THE THANG: Mozy to the side of Harris Teeter for 10 counts and 20 counts. Started with 10 count BTW then run across the street for 20 squats. Flip flop for 20/10 (overhead clap/burpees), 10/20 (wall tar jai/dips), 20/10 (air presses/merkins)
Mozy to access road in front of O’reilly auto parts for 7s. Began with 6 burpees, ran to the oil change place where we did 5 CDDs, bear crawl to the wall for 1 big boy sit-up. Jog back to oil change place for 5 more CDDS then back to start. Rinse and repeat 5/5/2, 4/5/3, 3/5/4, 2/5/5, 1/5/6.
Mozy across Gold Hill Road (being responsible and checking for traffic) for more running and reps. Lots of back and forth and a fair amount of confusion. Reps included flutters, more dips, shoulder taps, merkins and more BBS.
MARY: Unaccounted for since we did plenty else
ANNOUNCEMENTS: D2D teams needing replacements, Christmas party officially scheduled.
COT: Family, travel, Ms and 2.0s

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Making a trip to Blockbuster

WARMUP:
Pick up blocks
Walk to band lot
SSHs
Windmills
Sumos

THE THANG:
20yard murder bunnies
10 man makers
20 yard bear crawl
10 flying squirrels
20 yard crawl bear
10 bombjacks
Rinse and repeat until murder bunnies into endzone
Round 2
20yard murder bunnies
10 curls
20 yard bear crawl
10 leg lifts
20 yard crawl bear
10 big boys

MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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Leg Day with the cones

Leg Day:
9 cones roughly 10 yds apart. Exercises in cadence and then mode of transport to next cone. Starting at 5 or 10 reps single count cadence and increasing by 5 or 10 respectively. Max count at 5th cone and then decrease by same number.

Squats 5, lunges walk
SSH 10, power skips
Bomb jacks 5, broad jumps
Calf raises 10, duck walk
Monkey humpers 5, toy soldiers
Bobby hurleys 5, high knees

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First Saturday Workout

WARMUP: Tabata with 4 rounds of 5 exercises. 30 seconds on, 15 off. Side straddle hops, windmills, imperial walkers, Moroccan night clubs, and low slow squats
THE THANG: Dora w partner- 100 merkins, diamond merkins, and wide merkins. Then 200 Squats, mountain climbers, and calf raises. Got in 2 miles while partners split exercises.
MARY: Flutters, big boys, LBCs, hello Dolly, box cutter, American hammer
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Dam to Dam 100k
COT: prayers for families and marriages

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Luck 7 Island Party

WARMUP: SSH, Windmills, Morrocon NC, Imperial Walkers, Strawberry Pickers, and Broga
THE THANG: Mosey around the parking to side wall of HT. At wall, we did 3 rounds of Balls to the Wall and Wall Sits for 10, 5, and 3 countdown.
Then Island Party Began:
At the Islands, we started at first Island with 10 Burpees, Then next Island, we did 20 Shoulder Taps, then next Island we did 30 Bomb Jacks, and 40 Squats. Each round we used a different mode of transportation between the islands with Round 1 being a bear crawl, then Round 2 was lunges, and final round was Crab Walk. Final exercise was the Cheese Shredder.
MARY: American Hammers
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your newsletter
COT: Prayers and Praises

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It Was Mostly Moderate

WARMUP:
Slow MIle Run to Molokai Drive and back. Circle up in the fire dept parking lot for COP

THE THANG:
COP: SSH x 20, windmill x 10, merkin x 10, jump squat x 20, Carolina dry dock x 10, cherry picker x 15, Morrocan night club x 40. Al Gore hold x 60s, Rosalita x 15, Freddie Merc x 20
Walk to the tall pull up bar: Burpee pull up x 5. Everyone gets a turn. While the Pax waited, we did Al Gore, plank hold, and LBC’s
Mosey to the ledge behind the baseball diamond for 11’s. Derkins and dips
Mosey to the playground and break into 3 groups. 2 rounds of pullups (10), ab exercises, and step ups
Mosey to the bottom of Tara Tea for mini quadzilla. Nur up the hill, 5 squats at the top, run down, 5 squats at the bottom, Repeat 2 more times.
Mosey to the soggy field for Airbornes Killer Abductor routine (crowd pleaser)
MARY:
Ran out of time for Mary today
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Dam to Damn bar 10K today!
COT:
Prayer for Change Order’s M’s work travel and for Uber’s co-workers affected by a layoff
NMM:
The warm temps brought out the Pax today and the mumble chatter was in abundance. We covered a good bit of the AO , including the field which was a bit soggy. The whining about getting wet in the field was also in abundance – c’mon men! Back in the day, no one would have thought twice about laying down in a wet field…….It was a pleasure to lead the group today and always the best way to start off your Saturday mornings. Thanks for the Q spot, @Uber!

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