Burpee Relays & Rocky Round Robins

Burpee Relays & Rocky Round Robins

(Posted on behalf of Picasso.  Tardiness is all responsibility of Abacus.)

Shovel flag was planted early this week as Abacus showed up for a pre-run prior to start of this week’s edition of Area 51.  Passed Picasso and the 2 FNGs (Hoot & El Guapo) he and Croissant brought along, but no one elected to join YHC for the run back to McKee Rd Elementary.  Saving it up for the main event.

With everyone gathered at the launch point Picasso indicated it was 0700 and led us out for the start of his 60 minute beat-down.  Ensuing smokefest went as follows:

Let’s Get Warm:

• Mosey around the upper field – high knees & butt kickers worked in
• Circle up for SSH and IW
• Mosey through adjacent neighborhood down path to Spring Street
• Circle up for Mountain Climbers and Merkins on the concrete.  Who needs fingertips?
• Mosey to the lower field through the neighborhood cut through

Burpee Relays:

• Line up and count off into two teams
• Team One: O’Tannenbaum, Beaver, Croissant, Hoot
• Team Two: Abacus, Fraggle, Picasso, El Guapo
• Plan is to run down to the other end of the field, complete 5 burpees, and run back – but we will complete it as a relay.  Everyone in plank, first person on the team runs down and starts their burpees at which point the second person on the team goes.  When second starts his burpees, the thrid person goes. . . and so on.  Run back to start when done with burpees and plank it up until everyone returns.
• We did one relay as a baseline.
• Oops, Q forgot to time it, so let’s run 2nd relay as a baseline.
• We completed the seond one in 1 minute 58 seconds.  We have 8 more and have to beat that time on each run.  If we don’t, penalty is 5 burpees added to the end of the workout.
• The PAX got quiet for the next 20 minutes.  When planning this, Q figured we’d miss one or two.  Amazingly, the PAX never missed and we had negative splits.  We finished the 10th round in 1 minute 43 seconds.
• We did two 10 counts after we finished, then moseyed.  Fraggle was heard saying “Thank You” as the mosey was called.  We all agreed.

Rocky Round Robins:

• Mosey to the rock pile and grab your favorite lifting rock.
• Circle up your teams for round robins.  An exercise would be called and the first person on the team would complete fast, max reps.  When he started to slow down, he would pass to the next team member.  The team would keep a rep count and after 3 minutes, we’d see which team reigned supreme.  When you’re not on point doing called exercise, you’re doing a recovery exercise.
• Let’s go, three minutes of each:
  • Round 1:  Squats when in recovery, shoulder presses when you’re on point
  • Round 2:  LBCs for recovery, Sit-ups w/ your rock when on point
  • Round 3:  Flutters for recovery, Bench press w/ rock when on point
  • Round 4:  Squats for recovery, Curls w/ rock when on point
• Rounds 5 & 6 will be challenges from the other team.  Losing team gets a sprint across soccer field, winning team gets calf raises (Qs go-to joke exercise)
  • Round 5:  (Courtesy of O’Tannenbaum) Squats when in recovery, Tricep curls when on point
  • Round 6:  (Courtesy of Abacus) Dolly’s for recovery, Goblet squats w/ rock when on point

Return the rocks and double-time back to launch

COT

Moleskin:

• 50 Burpees, 24 sprints, 1200+ total reps – nice work guys
• Beaver and Q would kick off each burpee relay & Q couldn’t catch him.  Beaver was a machine!
• Q announced that if you needed more time with your burpees (like the Q) go early in the relay and if your name rhymed with Babacus, go last.  Nice work Abacus and O’Tannenbaum who ran anchor in each relay and busted out great times
• Croissant is looking strong after spending a few months on the couch.  Q asked to borrow his watch for the workout to ensure he would show up after Q let the cat out of the bag that burpees and sprints were involved
• Team One went to a silent count after Team Two got the best of them in Round 1 of the round robins.  Not sure if this was strategy or deception, but it’s suspect!
• Team One dismantled Team Two with their challenge in Round 5 of the round robins, but they did the sprint anyway.  When asked why, O’Tannenbaum answered, “I didn’t feel like doing calf raises”.  Refusenik, sort of.  In fair play, Team Two elected to join in the sprint as well after winning Round 6.
• Despite FNGs Hoot and El Guapo claiming they don’t do any strength training, they both killed the workout.  Nice work guys and we look forward to seeing you out again.
• Cold Cuts was visibly struggling through all sections of the workout.  Keep your head up buddy, keep your head up.  .