Hills and Heavy things are hurtful

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:
– Read your newsletter
– Prayers and Praises: Parenting, health, job searching

TClap |
0

Handstands, burpees, and bear crawls oh my!

WARMUP:
Mozy to the wall
SSH
Low Slow Squat
CDD and chill

THE THANG:
Balls to the wall
It was at this point Sasquatch joined us
10 handstand pushups OYO
People’s chair
10 wall squats
Balls to the wall
10 handstand pushups OYO
20 burpees

mozy to roundabout
bear crawl around roundabout
20 burpees – to control the amount of chatter. There are people sleeping in those apartments ya know.
A2G (deep squat) for the 6

mozy to second roundabout
bear crawl around roundabout. Turns out this one is bigger. Who knew?
Olaf joined the group
20 more burpees to keep em quiet
Plank for the 6

mozy back to first roundabout
crab walk around
Plank for the 6

Mozy back to Red Bowl
3 corners, 10 reps each:
1) Big Boys and 2count Flutters
2) Burpees!!
3) Jump Squats and Bomb Jacks
The pattern was 1, 2, 3, 2, 1, 2, 3, 2, etc.
Funhouse joined us somewhere in here

MARY:
Flutters, Peter Parkers, and LBCs

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Men’s shelter next week – Battle Bot
Blood Drive – 3D
Cannoli run
New 3rd F on Wednesdays – Kaiser
4/20 Partake – Battle Bot
Download “In Love While Parenting” App. It’s free – Olaf

COT:

TClap |
0

Burpee 420 spring training – AKA in March

WARMUP: SSH, wmills, tappy taps, merkins… ddogs to hmooners to arm raises – both arms, yes BOTH arms.
THE THANG: benchwork- step ups, derkins
A Sweetest 16s – burpee & sumo squat madness.
MARY: 3 minutes of Mary. Some held onto the ball until the buzzer
ANNOUNCEMENTS: AKA apparently started 3 days ago, even though we still have 2 days of March. read your newsletter
COT: yes

TClap |
0

AKA Day 3 – Beaker 1 Year

BUY-IN:
100 KB swings. 3 burpees every time the bell touches the ground

THE THANG:
11’s
Goblet Squats and Burpees up the dirt hill. 1 Goblet squat at the bottom, 10 burpees at the top. 2 squats, 9 burpees etc.

Head over to the hill at the entrance of the parking lot. More 11’s.
10 lat pull-over(YouTube it for demo), 1 merkin at the top of the hill.
Didn’t finish because time was up.

MARY: None
ANNOUNCEMENTS: AKA continues, Q school.
COT:

TClap |
0

AKA Day 1

WARMUP: Run from Earth Fare to end of Ben Casey Drive.
THE THANG: Complete 8 windmill merkins. Run through adjacent parking lot down to end of Patricia Lane. Complete 8 inch worm merkins. Run to end of Gold Hill Middle parking lot. Complete 8 curb burpees. Run back to Patricia Lane. Complete 8 inch worm merkins. Run back to Ben Casey Drive. Complete 8 windmill merkins. Repeat all of the above AMRAP until 5:57AM.
Run back to Earth Fare.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: I opened the newsletter at COT. Too many things happening to share… so read your newsletter!

TClap |
0

2 Cats Eat More Than 1 Cat

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

TClap |
0

Hills, Stairs and Jake Webb- Oh My!

WARMUP: The Usual suspects- SSH, MNC, Merks and OYO Burpess sprinkled in
THE THANG: 7s up & down the Monroe White hill, Bombjacks at top, LBCs at bottom. Mosey over to FMCOG for a partner DORA- Merkins, Squats & LBCs at partner runs the snakey stairs. Head back to 1St Baptist for Jack Webb
MARY: none
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Cannoli Run, blood Drive
COT: Prayers for FMHS Band trip to Ireland (YHC is also going)
Closed with a request for each Pax to bring some of HIS light into someone’s day. Thanks DoJo for the nod.
Shortest Of All Sales

TClap |
0

Litter pick up – Community Svc

March 18th is tentatively set as our first pick-up for the US21 adopt-a-Highway litter pickup! We will have 4 opportunities in 2023. Once a quarter is the plan.  All supplies provided ( bags, gloves, safety vests, pick up sticks, eye-wear, and fellowship) All that remains is YOU.
Plan for about 1 hour and 30 mins – 2 hours maximum. We will meet at the Harris street park around 7:45am.
We will walk up the hill to US21 and split up into 2 groups.  One group will head north to the Peachstand and back and the other group will head south to Sutton Rd and back.  (1 mile each direction)

We could use 10-12 guys to keep this an efficient and timely process. 2.0s and Ms are welcome as well as anyone who would like to participate in our community svc event.

Thank you to all who participated in 2022. Looking forward to seeing new faces as well as the HIM who assisted last year.

US 21 from the Peachstand south to Sutton Rd ( Circle K – gas station) is the road that we adopted!!

TClap |
0

Sneaky miles

WARMUP: mosey to a church lot for 16 counts of various exercises including windmills, imperial and hillbilly walkers, merkins (s/c), Broga poses, should taps and mountain climbers

THE THANG: mosey to another lot for 16’s counting down or up by 2’s – flying squirrels at one end and squats at another

Mosey to another lot for 7’s – diamond merkins, run, lunges and nur.

Mosey back up the hill to the lot of exfoliation: 16’s but going up or down by 1 each time: merkins mosey two lights, LBC’s with exfoliation and mosey back – rinse and repeat. We got to 7 & 9 and 0600 was upon us and almost 2 miles under our belts.

MARY: no time for it
ANNOUNCEMENTS: happened
COT: happened too

The blessing of fellowship at every workout is a sustaining thing for all of us. I was grateful for that this morning in a small but meaningful group of HIM.

Dojo – thanks for the call out. You were missed. Bonsai & Short Sale – thanks for joining YHC. It was a pleasure to be in your company this morning in the gloom and go 1-0 on the day.

Gratefully,
Cyclops

TClap |
0

The Wheel of Wow

It was a dank morning in The Fort as 18 men decided to make the hard choice and accelerate their Friday!

We warmed up the engines quickly and then moseyed over to the Wheel of Wow for a high dose of pain.

Wheel of Wow:
Eight cones with a different KB exercise at each cone. The timer was a 40 count of reps on the battle ropes. We rotated around the wheel, and at every third cone we ran a lap.

Back to COT for prayers and praises.

-JWow

TClap |
0