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Honey Badger – Q School 101

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Following the Honey Badger First Monday of the Month 7 minutes of burpees we moved to a lighted area near the gate to the football field. There was a supposed to be a 601 group peel off, but Slap Shot likely needed a minute after taking the record for the most burpees in 7 minutes.

WARMUP:
Started with some explanation to the men of the components of a workout and the purpose/importance of each. Disclaimer, Warm-up, The Thang, Mary, COT. Given that we had AKA in attendance there were a number of PAX participating that taught YHC how to Q. This provided a unique opportunity to identify three PAX in attendance that either had never Q’d or had Q’d less than 5 times. I catered a lot of my message to them and some to all in attendance.
• SSH x25
• Windmill x10
• Imperial Walker x10
• Diamond Merkin x10 (at this point I mentioned the importance of good form in leading. If your form is poor, then your leadership is poor. A number of PAX tend to cheat the exercise, count fast, and get ahead of the PAX they are trying to lead.)

THE THANG:
Mosey past the pull-up bars to the bottom of the hill. The point of this part of the lesson was planning. When planning a Q, Google Maps is a great tool as you will you see things that you may not have seen in the gloom before. The hill behind me was a great example. Every PAX in attendance has run that hill at some point, but they may not have noticed the equally spaced trees moving up the hill. These can be used as a markers as part of a workout. YHC have Q’d this workout previously, but it offered a nice example of how to use an AO and that creativity does not need complexity to offer a solid challenge. It also highlighted that setting up a workout that allows PAX of different speeds and fitness levels to challenge themselves together is always a good idea.

Round 1:
• Bear crawl to the first tree 1 Spider-Man Merkin (Merkin while bringing right knee to the right elbow and then repeated on the other side)
• Run to the pull-up bars and complete 2 pull ups.
• Run back to the bottom of the hill
Round 2:
• Bear crawl to the first tree and complete 1 Spider-Man Merkin
• Bear crawl to the second tree and complete 2 Spider-Man Merkins
• Run to the pull-up bars and complete 4 pull ups
• Run back to the bottom of the hill
Rounds 3-5: Continue the series through 5 trees
Once all the PAX finished up the series, we circled up in the street near the pull-up bars. The 3 PAX that did not have experience Qing were invited to the center of the circle. I took a turn counting cadence and then the PAX each had an opportunity.
• Squats x25
• LBC x15
• Flutters x15
• Merkins x15

Each member of the PAX then grabbed a coupon from the stack of cinder blocks. We circled up and had another demonstration of counting cadence with the PAX involvement.
• Overhead Press x25
• Curls x25
• Bentover Rows x25
Put the cinderblocks back and moved to COT.

Reminder on how to write a backblast. Open slack and type /backblast and select the form that pops up.

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Large Investments only. Start with 100…

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WARMUP:
Mosey to warm-o-rama an open section of the lot.
Side Straddle Hop
Produce Pickers
Hillbilly Walkers
Windmills
Moroccan Nightclubs
Imperial Walkers

THE THANG:
Avoid HT Garbage can and head behind Express oil change for,
100 Step Ups

Run to the front lot for,
Toy Soldier/ Run
Lunge Walk/ Run
Karaoke Walk
Side Run

Head to the dollar store for 100 each with Partner Dora,
100 LBCs
100 Calf Raises
100 Arm Raises
100 Squats
100 Carolina Dry Docks
100 Lunges
100 Mountain Climbers
100 Skipping Without Rope
100 Shoulder Taps
100 Freddie Mercury
100 Merkins
100 Monkey Humpers
421 Burpees

As we could not get to burpees and ran out of time, One Burpee at 6 before CoT

ANNOUNCEMENTS: AKA continues, Blood Drive, Read Newsletter
COT: Prayers said and unsaid, health for family and friends

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Bucco Fever!!!

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It’s a great Monday here in the Gloom as America’s team; the Pittsburgh Pirates are currently in first place. Much like a solar eclipse or Haley’s comet this is a rare occurrence so YHC busted out the Bucco gear for todays workout.

Warmup: None it’s STL

The Thang:

Starting at the stop sign closest to COT we did 1 burpee

Then ran to the parking lot for Southern State Bank where we did 4 HR Merkins and 4 LBC’s.

Wash, rinse repeat the route increasing the burpee count by 1 each lap and the Merkin and LBC counts by a factor of 4.

1 x 4
2 x 8
3 x 12
4 x 16
5 x 20
6 x 24
7 x 28
8 x 32
9 x 36
10 x 40

The route was roughly .4 miles total so a decent run in between the pain stations. Also featured was an “acceleration whistle” so when I would blow the whistle everyone would have to sprint for 10 seconds. Just to make sure everyone keeps pushing.

That said I’m confident that everyone got to at least round 7 which means everyone got between 3-4 miles in with well over 150 Merkins/LBC’s. (plus burpees!)

Always honored to lead thanks to Badlands for the call.

Take care everyone!

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Golden Corral Tour de Stank

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WARMUP: SSH, Low Slow Squat, Windmills
THE THANG: A tour de stank around the Golden Corral
Map:
https://goo.gl/maps/XwYByFosKXsYZ7vp6
Stops involving transport were mostly in the wrong direction to make the course 1/2 mile.
Cholanadu: 25′ wheelbarrow, 50′ lunge walk
Front of Red Bowl: 15′ burpee broad jump up the little hill
North parking spaces: 20 BBSU (not reverse direction)
West dumpster territory: 70′ bear crawl
South HT wall: BTTW for 10 handstand pushups

Most got 5 laps, some got 6

MARY: Those who had time at CoT did some
ANNOUNCEMENTS: read your newsletter
COT:

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Great Cameos @ Pain Islands

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WARMUP: SSH, Windmills, Morrocon NC, Imperial Walkers, Calf Raises, and Strawberry Pickers
THE THANG:
Balls to the Wall with Merkins, 10-Count, and Mountain Climbers; Backs to the Wall with Overhead Claps, 10-Count, and Small Arm Circles
Pain Islands= Island #1 – 10 Burpees, Island #2 – 20 Shoulder Taps, Island #3 – 30 Squats, Island #4 – 40 Carolina Dry Docks, and Island #5 – 50 LBCs; 3 Rounds with rinse and repeat except the modes of transportation were as follows: Round 1 – Bear Crawls, Round 2 – Lunges, and Round 3 – Crab Walks
MARY: American Hammers, Hello Dollies, and Box Cutters ending with 5 minutes of Broga
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your newsletter
COT: Prayers and Praises

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Yinz going DahnTawn N’AT?

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When called to lead by a fellow yinzer…. You answer the call. The standard is the standard after all.

Disclaimer

Warmup:

8 Manmakers every minute on the minute for 5 minutes

Began the long mosey.

3 rounds of 18 Minutes.

For each 18 Minute round we would stop and do reps of an exercise. The number of reps was equal to the minute in the round. So after minute 1 we did 1 merkin after minute 2 we did 2 merkins etc..etc…
As the reps progressed it definitely got harder and the chatter got less.

Round 1: Merkins
Round 2: Squats
Round 3: Hammers ( In the interest of time and to ensure that we got back to COT on time we just walked most of this but did get hammers in at the very end)

All in we got over 170 Squats and Merkins in plus Manmakers and hammers.

Thanks to Sprocket for the call! Always happy to support a fellow Yinzer!

Take care and until next time……N’at.

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Who need AKA?

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WARMUP: Some SSH, Windmills, Moroccan Night Clubs, Imperial Walkers & Hillbilly Walkers

THE THANG:

Mosey over to the side of Harris Teeter and use there giant wall for a little work. Everyone grabbed a seat against it and had a 10 count waterfall kick us off down the line. We followed this up by a plank series with our feet on the wall (parallel, 45 degrees & B2W) 10 count at each. It was all so much fun we did it again.

Mosey back to the parking lot and completed a round of solo DORA style work. 100 merkins, 200 squats, 300 LBC. Run to the end of the lot and back whenever you were unable to continue or at least ever 1/4 of the set.

Once this was completed we continued to a board of pain for the final 10 minutes. Exercises were completed by all with a PAX in the center of the circle being the timer completing 10 man makers with a toss of the 30lb sandbag over the shoulder each time. We got through:

-Donkey Kicks
-Mountain Climbers
-SSH
-Flutter
-Plank Jack
-High Knees
-Lunges

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Attend the Cannoli Run or answer to Twister…

COT: It happened

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Site Q school Vol. 2

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Site Q School Volume 2

Decided to streamline this edition. For all specific details and guidance on Site Q responsibilities please refer to the site-q guide on the Site Q channel in Slack.

Started with a disclaimer

Mosey to the teacher parking lot by Dave Gibson.

Warmup:

20 SSH
10 MNC
5 Burpees
20 Seal Jacks
5 Windmills (VERY SLOW windmills)
5 Burpees
15 PlankJacks
Stretching
5 Burpees

Theme of the day for Site Q school: Stewardship.

Part 1 Stewardship of the Site itself Topics Covered:
Scheduling Workouts
Hyping the Site
Knowing your site(from a safety perspective)
Care for the site. DON’T destroy your site. Intervene if the Workout Q is doing something that could cause damage or trespass
Shovel Flag responsibilities

Workout: 40 Seconds plank followed by 40 Heel Touches 4x. Also 5 more Burpees

Run to the Purple light on Dave Gibson

5 Burpees

Part 2 Stewardship of the PAX Topics Covered:
Check for FNG’s
Welcome them ensure a “good” name (within reason)
Coach and encourage VQ’s or newish Pax
Pick up the 6
Be Prepared with Phone/Safety if needed
Create a positive culture at your site.

Workout: 5 minutes EMOM 25 Merkins 25 LBC’s . For the final minute switched to 20 HR Merkins and 30 LBCs

Before part 3 and for interest of time we did the next portion here.

Workout 30 Burpees but with a 6 minute timer. So every minute you had to run to the other end of the parking lot to complete your reps. If you got to 30 before time was up then did flutters until the 6 was in.

Ran back to COT

Part 3 Stewardship of the Mission (F3 Mission) Topics Covered

F3’s mission statement
F3’s 5 core principles
How to apply those principles to your site
How to encourage those principles at your site
General reminders and recap of the other pieces we covered today.

Thanks to all who showed and for the opportunity for us all to grow together.

Looking forward to the next time!

Slapshot.

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