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What’s The Plan?

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We had 11 strong for a beat down at the  Abyss.  The pax was unsure if I knew what the plan was until we approached the workout written in chalk……then they knew.

The Thang:

Mosey in the parking lot with a sudden turn to make the last 1st and the 1st last.  Mosey some more and do some toy soldiers and karaoke.  Then mosey behind the school and circle up.

Imperial Walker x15, Cherry Pickers with a chain break at the top x 15, slow windmills culminating in a stretch, plank to mountain climbers x10, plank to peter parkers x11, plank to parker peters x11 and plank to mountain climber x1.

Mosey near the playground for a choose your own approach work out written in chalk:

100 merkins, 100 squats, 100 dips, 50 pull ups , 30 hanging knee lifts, run up the hill backwards 3x and run around track 3x.   Complete in any increments you would like.

When completed do 25 LBC, 25 Freddy Mercury, 25 Hello Dollies and 25 heels to heaven.

Mosey to grass hill and Jacobs ladder with alternating lunges (1 up to 7) on top and burpees (7 down to 1) on bottom.

Thank you for the opportunity to lead.  It was fun!

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Omaha

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I had our 1st F Q Royale lined up for the Q this morning, but got the word late the night before that he wouldn’t be able to Q dueto a family emergency.  Life happens, but we’re all brothers here and this was a perfect opportunity to step in so YHC took the Q.

After a quick disclaimer we got moving for a FAST mosey towards the back of the school that included some toy soldiers and karaokes before circling up.

CoP

  • SSH x20
  • Windmill x10
  • MNC x20
  • Merkin x10
  • Downward Dog/Honeymooner
  • Peter Parker x15
  • Parker Peter x15

Quick backstory, as soon as I announced I was Q’ing instead of Royale a collective sigh was heard and then Iced-T made a quick run back to his car to get a pair of gloves… good call.  It’s like he knows me or something… which leads us right into…

Routine 1:

So I had each PAX get on a parking space line and we did ascending bear crawls.  Starting at the curb we did 1 derkin and then bear crawled to the opposite curb (maybe 10 yards?) and did 2 irkins, bear crawl back and do 3 derkins and so on until we hit 13.  Nice and painful routine to start with.

Routine 2:

Staying in the back of the school there are some landscaped islands at the top and bottom of the parking lot so  so we did something I like to call Crazy 8’s.  This is a homegrown routine created by YHC that includes your choice of 3 exercises followed by a figure 8 style lap around the parking lot planters and then repeated 8 times.

  • 8 Boxcutters
  • 8 “Big Boy” Sit-ups
  • 8 Burpees
  • Figure 8 lap
  • Repeat 8 times

Routine 3:

The first 2 routines were made up on the fly, the 3rd routine was the only one I planned after Royale messaged me so I stuck a couple of high powered flashlights high up on the fence in front of the “Green Monster”, a Crow’s Nest landmark, before the PAX arrived.  I didn’t actually plan what we would do, only that we would do something on this one-of-a-kind, incredibly nasty, and poorly lit hill.

Slow mosey to the bottom (because it is super steep and somehow still wet at the very bottom).  I made the PAX partner up and we did wheelbarrows up the mountain, err, monster and then 10 Wheelbarrow Merkins, swap and repeat.  Kudos to Iced-T, because I told him I would call him out in the backblast for being the only one to make it up in this way (along with, ahem, YHC).

To finish it up, I made everyone NUR UP the monster and then do 8 Burpees, x2.

Mosey back to CoT with about a minute to spare and our newer PAX gasping for air, so I called on them for a little Q lesson and had Chop Block call 20 LBC”s IC and O’Reilly followed with 10 Flutters IC.

Nice job to all!

CoT

Get ready for the Yeti and sign up! Joe Davis & P200 coming up as well.

Prayers for Royale and his family (father-in-law) and that he may recover fully.  Prayers for all PAX who may be injured or sick and that the may find health soon as well.  Also, continued prayers for F3 and what we have together and that we may never take for granted the ability and privilege to be able to do this.

Until next time (Friday),

-FLUX-

 

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Lost in translation

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6 pax came out for the swamp plus 9 for Chupacabra and running.

After pax were exhaustively disclaimed, we mosied around the parking lot for COP

COP- the usual: SSH, MNC, IW, LSS, merkins, Peter parkers

The thang (see picture)

Each card had a #, exercise, and was in a foreign language.  Pax had to guess each, which we would the complete, followed by the correct exercise + appropriate punishment/reward for each guess.  Pax did remarkably well .  I think I need to venture outside of my European language comfort zone to really make it hard.  I’ve been warned not to try these shenanigans with Mile-high, luckily he was a no show.

Thanks Cha Ching for the opportunity to lead.

 

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Buffet at the Poopdeck

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5 Pax came out to a cold day in the gloom.

I decided to bring a Golden Corral classic to the Poopdeck.

COP

The usual assortment of SSH to warm up, Imperial Walkers, Moroccan Night Clubs, Windmills, Squats, Peter Parkers… maybe some more.

The Thang

9 rounds, Burpees, Merkins, LBCs, CCD, Squats, Elbow Plank, American Hammer, Peoples Chair with OHP, SSH with adding an exercise and reps to each added exercise (so 1.) 5 burpees, 2.) 5 burpees, 10 Merkins, etc.,) with a run around the parking lot in between each round.

Finished up with some Abs

Read your newsletter, and thanks Peg for the oppurtunity.

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The Kettlebell Tolls for Thee at Cannonball

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Five hearty lads braved winter’s chill this morning at Cannonball, Lake Wylie’s newest  AO.  Costanza joined with a brand new kettlebell…after we corralled Olaf who squeezed in 15 min of P200 prep time, here is how it went down:

Warm – o – Rama

  • Warm up lab around the parking lot, approx 200 yards
  • Circle up for :
  • Sun gods, forward 15, backward 15, IC
  • Windmills, 10 IC
  • Cotton pickers, 10 IC
  • SSH 20 IC
  • Merkins 10 IC
  • Downward Dog, Honeymooner

The Thang, with our kettlebells

  • Single arm curls, 10 per arm
  • Goblet squats, 10
  • Around the body pass, 15 each direction
  • run a lap (200 yards)
  • Kettlebell Swings, 10
  • Kettlebell merkins, 10 each side
  • Kettlebell lunges, 10 each leg
  • run a lap (200 yards)
  • Lawnmowers, 10 each arm
  • Tiny Tim (70 lb kettlebell and the mascot of Cannonball) dead lift, 10, while others hold plank
  • Shoulder press ladder, 1-5 and back down
  • run a lap (200 yards)
  • Kettlebell calf raises, 30
  • Two handed tricep extensions, 15
  • Chest press, 10 each arm
  • run a lap (200 yards)
  • 10 burpees (no KB)
  • Flutters, 15 IC holding KB
  • Freddie Mercurys, 15 IC (no KB)
  • run a lap (200 yards)
  • Rinse and repeat – we got through the lap after lunges above

Announcements, praises and prayers

Yeti coming up; P200 still teams looking for guys if interested; praise for the ability to be out in the morning and for those recovered and recovering from illness and injury; prayers for missing pax. Wolverine took us out.

Always an honor,

Wolverine

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Getting Your Mind Right at The Deep

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YHC took the Q on a brisk morning at The Deep for a pre-QSource beat down.  One hour workouts challenge even the toughest Pax; I’m pleased to report the 8 who joined me were more than up to the challenge.  Here is how it went down:

Warm-o-rama

  • We began with a comfortable 1/2 mile mosey around the OMS parking lot to the back of the school
  • 10 Windmills IC
  • 20 SSH IC
  • 15 Imperial Walkers IC
  • 10 Merkins IC
  • 10 Low Slow Squats

The Thang Part 1

  • 100 yard long suicide course with 5 squats at every marker (8)  on the way down; sprint home
  • Same course, alternating lunges and bear crawls for mode of transport, with 5 merkins at every marker

The Thang Part II

Mosey 1/2 mile to the track at the elementary school.  On opposite sides of the track, about 200 meters apart there were two stations:

Station 1

  • 30 SSH – Single Count
  • 20 Flutters – Double Count
  • 15 Werkins
  • 15 CDDs

Station 2

  • 15 Jump squats
  • 10 Burpees
  • 20 Nolan Ryan’s (10/side)
  • 25 LBCs (single count)

Rinse and Repeat once

The Thang part III

Partner beat down; partner runs 100 yards and back while other works the list; adding the counts until finsihed:

  • 100 Lunges -Single Count
  • 75 Diamond Merkins
  • 75 Bobby Hurley Squats
  • 75 Carolina Dry docks
  • 75 Crab Cakes
  • 75 Werkins
  • 75 Monkey Humpers

The Thang Part IV

  • Mosey to the back of the elementary school
  • round one, alternating 5 big boy sit-ups and 3 pull-ups until completing 25/15
  • round 2: 5 squats and 3 pull-ups until completing 25/15
  • 2 minutes of Mary: Freddie Mercurys, Crunch Frog,  American Hammer

Moleskin

We kept it short in anticipation of getting together for our first Q-Source discussion on Language.  Reminded Pax about the Yeti and to read the newsletter.  Gave thanks to the Lord for the ability to gather; lifted prayer for healing for injured pax and sick kids.  Always and honor to lead.

Aye, Wolverine

 

 

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The Spice Of Life

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My last Bootcamp Q was do an exercise, run a lap, rinse and repeat.  My last Q at Cannon Ball was a take on an older Q I did but with kettlebells.  This time I wanted to do something different so as not to be known as the guy who runs boring Q’s.  With that being said, 6 Pax braved the cold, Playoff Football hangover and the  the FartSack to come get some.

After a quick disclaimer I had us start out with an Indian Run to the back playground, last man does a burpee then runs to the front, rinse and repeat.

COP consisted of 1 burpee/30xSSH, 2 Burpee/SunGods fwd and reverse x10, 3 Burpee/Abe Vigoda Windmill x10, 4 Burpee/10xLSS, 5 Burpee/2 Cycles of Down Dog/Honeymooner

The Thang Part 1

Since I have a Spartan Race coming up in July I have been doing pull-ups on my own for grip and hanging strength but I wanted to spread the joy of hanging from bars to everyone.  I had the Pax hold plank as each Pax member swung from the circular play ground monkey bars for one rotation.  Then I had the Pax hold Al Gore as we did it again.

The Thang Part 2

Another thing about these types of obstacle course races is pulling your body over a wall.  Luckily for us we have a loading dock at the Crows Nest.  I had the Pax do a ladder of 10 Pull-Ups-1 BigBoy Sit-Up till we hit 1 Pull-Up to 10 Big Boys.  The Big Boys were done on the loading dock after you pulled your body up on it which makes for an interesting challenge.  This ladder took longer than expected.

The Thang Part 3

So a thing called playoff football happened yesterday and in celebration of this time honored part of the year I whipped out a frisbee. (What?)  We played a little bit of ultimate frisbee in a lit section of the parking lot 3v3.  I put the frisbee in the middle filed of play as the Pax had to bear crawl to the disc to determine who had possession.  Bear-crawling expert Flux of course got the disc first.  The scoring team only had to do 5 burpees while the team that allowed the score did 10.  Each team scored once.  With 8 minutes left on the clock we moseyed back to COT.

The Final Thang

Wave Of Merkins- Read the Lexicon

Thank You to Flux for the opportunity to lead.  Prayers for DaVinci for healing, patience with children, work/life balance(for me) and faith in a higher power (We are all Christians so that would be the God of the Bible).  Peace. 

 

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Capture the Dodgeball Bear Crab Crawl

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Not feeling well and with three Qs in four days, YHC almost requested a substi-Q, but decided against it. Knowing I would need to be up and moving for the Wednesday Q Source launch, what better way to guarantee my attendance than having me Q the workout before? So I dug through past workouts, found one that was fairly straightforward yet enjoyable, modified it, and prayed it would work out well.

0515, and a whole bunch of PAX posted, as is the standard for Abyss these days. Short disclaimer given (I think all the points were made), and off we moseyed out of the parking lot, toward the entrance, wrapping around the island for side shuffles, flap jack, then heels to butts, knees to chest, and toy soldiers. Circle it up in a random area behind the school before we got to the “track.”

Truth be told, the delay in the writing of this backblast has led to the forgetting of what was done in COP. Vaguely remember SSHs, windmills, MNCs, merkins, and maybe some downward dog/stretching. I don’t know. We warmed up.

Quick mosey around the school to the middle of the track for the Thang:

Flag capture the dodgeball bear crab crawl

PAX were divided into two teams. Every PAX received a length of fabric to use as a flag/tail (think flag football). A dodgeball was placed inside the perimeter of a hula hoop (to keep it from rolling away) roughly 20 yards from the “start” line. Cones were lined up to mark the outer limits of the course. Rules were simple-ish:

  • Complete the buy-in exercise
  • Bear crawl to the ball (or equidistant to the ball if somebody else got there first)
  • Crab walk back to the start
  • The team that gets the ball back to the start “wins” that round and does half the penalty
  • Losing team gets the full penalty
  • Any time you lose your flag, you have 5 burpees on the spot (even if you step on it yourself)
  • Forward passing after losing a flag is not allowed (this was Omaha’d in later)

After every round, PAX ran a lap for good measure.

Buy-in exercises:

  • 50 merkins
  • 50 squats
  • 50 CDDs
  • 50 monkey humpers
  • 50 werkins
  • 30 lateral lunge leg lifts

Penalties:

  • Odd rounds: 20 donkey kicks for loser; 10 for winner (teams tied first round due to rule confusion and all did 10)
  • Even rounds: 20 jump lunges/leg for loser; 10 for winner

Mosey back to to COT, arriving at exactly 0600 (as though I planned it).

Quick name-o-rama, announcements, and prayers. Apparently YHC was rushed to get out to Q Source, so apologies to any PAX who didn’t get to share.

Thanks for the opportunity to lead, Copyright, even though I was scheduled by Bones.

~Jedi

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Nothing but Poopdeck

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I have been skipping Thursday’s of late because I almost always work from home that day and have been choosing to sleep in a bit and go for a run as a change of pace so it was nice to come back here.  I believe the Poopdeck was the 2nd “Lake Wylie” AO I ever posted.

It was chilly this morning and felt even colder because of the recent warm weather we’ve been enjoying, but that didn’t stop the other 8 PAX who joined YHC for some fun at the Poopdeck.

I gave a better-than-usual disclaimer since we welcomed back kotter Twitch and we did and Indian Run/5 merkin mosey to the upper parking lot.

CoP

  • Windmills (Abe Vigoda) x8
  • SSH x25
  • Low-Slow-Squat x12
  • Plank (1-2-3 count to x12)
  • Into 6″ Plank (1-2-3 count to x12)
  • Crab Cakes x10
  • Diamond Merkins x5
  • LBC x15

I chose a distance of about 50 yards (between 2 light posts) for the remaining routines.

Partner up, the 1st routine consisted of crawling under and jumping over.  1 PAX would be in plank position while his partner crawls under him, then he drops to 6″ hold while his partner jumps over.   Back to plank and you get the idea. Repeat x10 and then both he and his partner would Bear Crawl to the other light posts and the other PAX would perform the exercise before Bear Crawling back to the 1st light post again.

Then I told all the PAX to do 10 Burpees “OYO” and run “AYG” to the 2nd light post.  Mosey back (this was the break).  Repeat.

Next up, I had one PAX plank again while the 2nd PAX did 10 incline merkins with his hands on his partners back while he holds plank.  Once finished, crab walk to the light post, swap, repeat, and crab walk back.

Then I told all the PAX to do 10 Burpees “OYO” and run “AYG” to the 2nd light post.  Instead of the Mosey back I just had them repeat the 10 Burpees and sprint back “AYG” to the 1st light post again.

The last set consisted of decline merkins x10.  1 PAX would hold the legs of his partner while he did merkins (wheelbarrow merkins) and the PAX holding the legs would do x10 Squats.  Once complete, wheelbarrow to the lightpost, swap, repeat, and wheelbarrow back.

Then I told all the PAX to do 10 Burpees “OYO” and run “AYG” to the 2nd light post.  Repeat.

I then told half the PAX to hold Al Gore while the other half did 30 squats and then vice versa.  We then did a lunge walk about 100 yards or more before the mosey back to CoT.

We had 2 minutes to spare so I called on Ice-T for some ab work and we did 10 Big Boy sit-ups OYO, I called out x10 Hello Dolly’s IC and Twich finished us off with 10 American Hammers.

Well done everyone.

CoT

Ice breaker this weekend, Pre-Blast for the Yeti is out, Qsource on Wednesday and Saturdays.  Prayers for Iced-T’s grandmother and health for all those that are sick and still getting back in the groove after the holidays.

Thanks for getting me back out to the Poopdeck Peg!  Hopefully you can make it next time!

-Flux-

 

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Let’s do Pull-Ups at Crow’s Nest

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Today was a great chilly morning for my first post of the year!

Disclaimer at 0515 and straight into a mosey which included high knees, toy soldiers, and broad jumps (mumblechatter already? this should be good)

Ran around to the far back parking lot and did some warmup
Windmill
Imperial Walker
Carolina Dry Dock
Hillbilly Walker

The first routine would be a rough 100m sprint, then 10 pull ups, 100m sprint back and 10 burpees
We repeated this a few times changing the transportation mode
NUR 100m
bear crawl 50m

Then came the main Thang
Partner DORA 1-2-3-4 using a timing mechanic of 3 pull-ups
100 hand release merkins
200 Big boy sit ups
300 Monkey Humpers
400 Squat Jumps

Squat Jumps were somewhere higher than 100 for all groups before we Omaha’d and ran back to CoT…. almost

A good long Balls to the Wall was in order and then 5 burpees to cap it off

CoT
IceBreaker at the Dragon in York on Saturday!!! 0530 StartEx (5k obstacle course, you can do it 1-4 times with a partner or by yourself, however you want to tackle it)
QSource Week 0 convergence recap with Week 1 kicking off this week at Bagel Boat after The Deep
Lake Wylie is looking to fill some P200 relay race spots, ask around
IceT is on a flight to Florida for a family funeral
Two Ferns has some family medical operations coming up next week
QBert is beginning home schooling for IronMan

Aye!

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