Playlist Perfection

WARMUP: SSH, Moroccan Night Clubs, Tappy Taps
THE THANG: Four Corners
Curls, Squats, Lawn Mowers
Skull Crushers, Flutters, Chest Press
Shoulder Press, LBCs, Halos
UHauls, Calf Raises, Swings
2 laps completed
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Lunch today at Inizio’s, Con/Invergence next Saturday at WEP
COT: Prayers for heart surgery next week, marriages, health for family members…

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A Millllkshake for breakfast.

7 pax and 1 pet on board for a morning of Milllkshake.

The warmup: We followed the Fort Q, Straight Up, as he led us through some warmups and stretches.

We launched uphill toward Mccammon Street. We saw a pax coming in hot.so we circled back around the trail to the amphitheater for a pickup.

I wanted to get the pax some extra burn in this morning, so I picked several spots to do an advanced pace walk/run from point to point. The first was to run up the grassy hill to the upper level WEP parking lot.

Shoulder station: First exercise was Moroccan Night Clubs (15 in cadence).

Next, I mentioned the AMRAP for Autism at Alcatraz for a shoutout to Divac and the men doing that hard thing today.

All exercises moving forward were AMRAP for 1 minute. Thanks to Uhaul for the timing.

Overhead Claps/Monkey Humpers

Move along to next station. 2 times we picked up the pace and went from one fixed point to another fixed point to increase the heart rate a bit. Bowser showed off his youth and showed us all the bottom of his feet both times.

Next station; Springs Parking lot

Shoulder Taps/Merkins (1 min AMRAP each)

Moved along

Brief stop at Springs Insurance for 1-minute AMRAP of dips on the wall.

Next stop: Millstone Stairs:

3 rounds of leg exercises, calf raises. squats, lunges, as each pax went up and down the stairs one at a time. (Totally stole that from the Fishsticks workout at Footloose this past Thursday).

Advanced pace up the stairs and run to the upper-level parking lot at Millstone Park.

LBC’s/Flutters (1 min AMRAP each)

Headed back to COT. We were cutting it close on time, so we picked up the pace at the final stretch coming up Mccammon Street toward WEP. Bastion must have seen a squirrel because he pulled Tesh out way in front of us with Bowser a close 2nd.

Back to COT. As always, the mumblechatter at Millllkshake was top notch today as we all learned a little bit about each other.

Backblast complete.

Todd Dunmyer, 55, Dojo

 

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Took Shatner out

WARMUP: alla carte, probably yoga heavy
THE THANG:

Series of exercises with a mode of transportation in between. We moved through the short side of the parking lot.
10ish reps in each

Suitcase row
Over head press
Clean, squat
Side lunge
Bear crawl
Man maker
Waiter carry
Half Turkish getup
Bear craw
Side lunge and clean
Swing
Pull
Snatch
Thrust

It was hard. Finished strong with: Burpee Snatches

COT:

I broke Shatner. Love that guy, hope his back is better now that I’m writing this a solid 4 months later. Always an honor to lead.

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Horse Collar

There was a time when the world whispered. When quiet blanketed the meadows, and branches parted. When we hiked in wordless wonder and the birds regaled us once more with song. It was this morning at The Hive.

Warmup:

  • Side Straddle Hops
  • Windmills
  • Tappy Taps
  • Merkins
  • Perter Parkers
  • Down Dog/Honeymooner
  • Hamstring Stretch
  • LBC’s
  • Futters
  • Ran a lap

The Thang:

Partnered up because accountability matters. Cones were lined up with a plethora of KB exercises. The timer was an experiment of mine that was a cross between a human horse and buggy with battle ropes. The idea was to run across the parking lot with resistance. It was teeeeerible!! All of the pax would rotate through the cones onto the resistance run.

After a few rounds the timer switched up to bear crawls and waiter carries (aka The Tesh).

Six o’clock arrive fast. Back to COT for prayers and praises.

Prayers for mental health, cancer, and marriages.

JWOW

 

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X marks the spot

10 PAX

First round: start In the center with SLD, loaded carry to corner 1, 10ish reps of each exercise, loaded carry to center for SLD, loaded carry to corner 2, etc. we hit 6 corners before finishing with the flow at the end

Center
5 Single Leg Deadlift (SLD) each side

Corner 1
Goblet Squat
2 hand Thruster
1 hand Thruster

Corner 2
Clean
Clean and Press
Clean, Squat, and Press

Corner 3
Swing
One hand Swing
High Pull

Corner 4
Reverse Lunge
Forward Lunge
Reverse Lunge and Press

Finishing Flow
Single Leg deadlift
Single Leg Clean
Reverse Lunge and Press
Alternating Swing (3)
Snatch
Repeat on other side

NMM:

Sometimes there’s still work to be done, but you’ve got to go home. Focus on what’s important when the clock ain’t running.

Also Airborne got really animated at COT: video evidence:

Grateful for the opportunity to lead:


Band Camp dismissed

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Sun’s Out Guns Out at The Armory

Kept the guns locked away in the armory all winter? Time to bust them out with some upper body work. We are skipping leg day today and getting all the gainz upstairs. Today’s workout kicks off a Spring of Sun’s out guns out, where we will encourage Qs to focus on the upper body and do a buy in/buy out of hammer curls and tricep extensions just to drive the point home.

The Thang:

2 minutes each exercise followed by 1 minute of each exercise in round 2.

 

Biceps:

21s

Hammer Curls

 

Triceps:

Tricep extensions

scull crushers

 

lats:

Lawnmower pulls

Pullovers

 

Delts:

Overhead presses

Bat wings (with the provided light dumbbells)

 

Traps:

Shruggs

High Pulls

 

Chest:

Chest press (with the optional 60lb monster KB)

Derkins

 

Everyone got stronger today. Band Camp got the most out of his lower jaw exercising. Can you really own anything? Yes: you can own your GAINZ

 

Thanks to Shatner for handing off the shovel flag

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Slinging Cannonballs in the Armory

PAX were advised that this would not be an “ease into the week” workout.

After warmup, we did a quick skill demonstration on Kettlebell swings and cleans. Reviews were mixed.

We then took a walk all the way around the parking lot with our kettlebells.

 

Thang 1: Dora

Partner up and do the following: 100 cleans, 150 chest presses, 200 swings, 150 curls, 100 squats. 1 partner walks to the sidewalk and back while the other chips away at the reps.

 

Thang 2: 4 corners, no dropping the bell

corner 1: the dumpster – deadlifts

corner 2: the funeral home – overhead presses

corner 3: the hearse – tricep extensions

corner 4: COT. When we arrived, Band camp asked if we can put our kettlebells down yet. I acknowledged his suffering, and told the PAX they would have to put their bells down… because the last corner was manmakers.

Some quick Mary to finish the time, and off to take on the week.

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Heavy dice

After a warmup of low slow squats, merkins, SSH, and swings, we took a quick mosey around the parking lot.

Uhaul eventually showed up and joined us, along with his playlist of “things that kinda sound like Metallica”.

Today, we let the dice decide our reps as we worked through a pre-determined list of pain. PAX took turns rolling 2 dice and we just did that number of reps. I had promised in Slack that today would be for heavy bells and low reps, which mostly held true. If any PAX rolled doubles, we added 5 burpees to the lineup.

The movement list is as follows:

Swings

Goblet squats

Deadlifts

Hammer Curls

Overhead press

Scull crushers/tricep extensions

Lawn mower pulls

Single leg deadlifts

Cleans

high pulls

Chest Presses

Snatches

Mozey

 

After 2 rounds through the rotation, a very suspicious truck pulled into the parking lot. “That can’t possibly be Tesh!” the group cried. We readied our kettlebells as our only defense against the intruder. Heartbeats quickened, palms sweated, pupils dialated, and we fixed our gaze upon the magnificence that was… Tesh.

Not nearly enough light ribbing later, Tesh joined us.

We accomplished 2 more rounds with his highness, and the burpees kept flowing – finally giving way to some Mary at the end of the workout followed by COT.

Solid crew this morning.

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