AYE. For the A51 PAX who spurned the Joe Davis Run, YHC brewed up somethin’ really special to punish all of us for not being better people and supporting a great cause. Plus, Banglaore (FNG) texted, and I quote, “make it difficult…very difficult” for his first post. So I did my best. Here’s more or less what transpired, as far as I can remember. It’s amazing how much I forget in 3 days…
THE THANG
10 Burpees for a little appetizer
10 SSH + 10 Burpees
10 Merkins
The Lap – Parking lot next to cars, up North Face and around Calvary with 8 pain stations
Lap 1 – 10 Jump Squats at each station + Mary and plank at the finish
Lap 2 – 25 Merkins at each station + Mary and plank at the finish
Lap 3 – 20 Freddie Mercuries at each station
Mary – keep feet elevated, close it out with 50 cadence Mountain Climbers
Lap 4 – 10 Burpees at each station + Mary and plank at the finish
Lap 5 – Run yer arse off
Sprint to first light pole
Sprint to second light pole
Sprint all the way back
Duck walk to first light pole
Lungewalk somewhere in there
I think that was it but, like I said, I can’t really remember
YE OLDE MOLESKINE
#horseneck OUT
AYE. This year has been a challenging one for me and my family. I’ve been posting at F3 several days a week since July of 2011 but these last few months I’ve struggled to get out of the #fartsack at 5AM on a regular basis. Sleep has just seemed like a much better choice. As many of you in F3 Nation and your Ms in FiA nation know, my mom was diagnosed with Stage 4 ovarian cancer in May and the prognosis isn’t great. A couple of months ago, my best friend was diagnosed with Stage 4 colon cancer. My wife and I are struggling with prolonged infertility issues after our first son. And to top it all off, at work I went from managing 8 people to 80 people and taking over a product line I knew virtually nothing about in the middle of a planned spinoff for my division of the company. I’ve never doubted that God is using all of this for His glory and I can already see how much good coming even from things that seem dark. But that doesn’t mean my 6 is up and out of the #fartsack before dawn these days because, as a few of you have mentioned, it usually ain’t.
So I decided to do something a little bit different for the month of December and live up to my given title as the King of Burpees #flyingsquirrels even if I’m not posting quite as often.
THE THANG
100 Burpees a day for 31 days
Burpees can be done consecutively or sprinkled like sacred salt throughout a workout
YE OLDE MOLESKINE
I’m not going to make this super philosophical, but I did learn a few things along the way. Some of them were just simple reminders of some truths that I often forget.
So what now? I think I’m going to take tomorrow off and then go back at it – 100 burpees a day for 100 days. I still need it. And I don’t think I’m the only one. Who’s with me?
AYE. 7 hearty souls gathered in the frosty Gloom for the weekly RockZero #RIPDZ beatdown. There was some working out, a lot of complaining, quite a bit of #refuseniking and 100 burpees for some. Here’s more or less what transpired:
THE THANG
Mosey to church porte cochere
Do some exercises and eventually cover 30 burpees
Run back to parking lot by cars for:
THE LEG BREAKER
3 jumpsquats at each parking lot line all the way to Buttermaker’s mom-mobile
AYG back to the line
10x huddle jumps for each leg
Lunge walk to middle, do some baryshnikovs, frog walk the rest of the way and back
AYG back to the line
5x monkey humpers at each line and then 10x for the last few lines
Mosey to bottom of The North Face
Run to the top, do 10 burpees, run to the bottom, do 20 jumpsquats
Repeato 3 times
TRUE 6 MINUTES OF MARY
Gather back at porte cochere for a true 6 minutes of Mary
What does that mean? It means you can’t let your feet touch the ground for 6 minutes while we do exercises
How many guys actually did that? YHC and maybe Flipper and maybe maybe Curd
Someone then asked – “can we run for a little bit?” Sure, so we lapped the church and did 30 burpees along the way
At the bottom of the parking lot we did 5 burpees then true AYG to the mom-mobile
5 more burpees
Some more stuff to kill time and then we were (mercifully) done
100 burpees, 2.2 miles, about a thousand monkeys humped
YE OLDE MOLESKINE
1. Curd busted out an electronic skateboard (of sorts) after the workout and did an incredibly acrobatic controlled fall about 5 seconds into his demonstration. TClaps. $1,400 well spent.
2. Buttermaker straight up refused to do burpees. #highintensitysiteQ
3. Lots of smack talk was appreciated. Alf would have fit right in but he was at home puking his brains out. That’s the only reasonable explanation for why he would bail out on the Q the night before.
Thanks again to the pax for putting up with my challenge to do 100 burpees every day this December. #horseneck OUT
Note: Please compare this workout to this one – 100
AYE. At 43 degrees with a 43 degree dew point, YHC’s amateur meteorologist skillz predicted that it would be a very Gloomy morning and, indeed, it was. The stoplights barely pierced the haze and left us wondering what horrors might lie beyond the grey. So we kept close and decided not to find out.
THE THANG
150 burpees in roughly 12.5 minutes
6 minutes of true Mary without feet touching the ground
Mosey to the rocks and withdraw from Bank of Rocks
2 Rounds of – run to lightpole with rock, 25xMerkin, 25xJump Squat, 10xBurpees
Deposit rock back at the Bank of Rocks (interest paid)
AYG x 3 to lightpole sans rock + 10 + 5 burpees
Lunge walk to pole, mosey to other lot, broad jumps
Mosey back to main lot and complete 5 burpees + some plank to kill time
YE OLDE MOLESKINE
1. A little explanation might be useful here. YHC has decided to do 100 burpees a day for the month of December. Needless to say, I’d rather not do them alone. Hence, the 200 burpees. Why 200? I ran out of time to do them yesterday. Oops.
2. I think we were about 130 into the burpees when Scabby began to protest. Something about being bored. Don’t remember, definitely didn’t care. We were on the death march to 200 beautiful burpees and could not be stopped.
3. Iron Horse said it was the best workout he’s been to in months. Case closed.
#horseneck OUT
AYE. Look, it wasn’t pretty. It wasn’t fun. I didn’t tweet out the mileage beforehand. We didn’t do a warmup. Heck, I barely did the disclaimer. But it hurt…although not as much as last time.
THE THANG
Run to Old Course Drive and do 30 Burpees along the way
Mary while we wait for the 6 (we’ll get to that in a minute)
Partner up
20 Jump Squats at the valleys
10 Mighty Merkins each at the peaks
There are 14 peaks/valleys, so it was a lot of stuff
Mary while we wait for the 6
Run it all the way back and do 30 Burpees along the way
Mary while we wait for the 6
AYG 100ish yards to close it out
YE OLDE MOLESKINE
1. Extremely strong crew this morning. YHC had lots of potential workout options in mind but saw the makeup of the PAX and figured we’d take the road less traveled. Mileage was within reach for all (just under 4) but #smokebooters got lots of Mary while the 6s got a continuous grind. TClaps to all.
2. Speaking of speed, Larry Birds to Turkey Leg who posted for my #redpill Q at Matrix on Monday, led Fast Twitch yesterday (7.5+ miles) while YHC fartsacked and then posted for this one today. The dude is a monster of monsters, a beast of beasts, a gazelle of gazelles and a veritable leg of a turkey. I’m not sure how that last part fits in but whatever. He’s fast.
3. Thin Mint dispelled a long-held YHC notion that if I tweet that I have the Q, no one will show up because everyone is afraid of the Burp. Not only did Thin Mint post this morning and crush it, but he commented that his first post was our last visit to Piper Glen and that he posted to Anvil specifically because YHC had the Q. This warmed my heart, but next time we’re doing 200 burpees. I can’t have people saying stuff like that.
4. Icky Shuffle is a streak of lightning.
5. Iron Horse can hate all he wants but he has strong nostalgia for Piper Glen a) because he used to live there and b) because he loves those hills.
6. Scabby was late. This is not even worth mentioning, really, but my hope is that more public shaming will get him to workouts on time.
7. Alf kept complaining about all of his BRR injuries while he smoked YHC & Co.
#horseneck OUT
What can I say? It was just another day where a few dudes emerge from the Gloom to take the #redpill and make themselves a little better. Here’s more or less what transpired.
THE THANG
Mosey down to parking lot for warmup
10 x SSH
10 x Imperial Walker
10 x Merkins
Partner up and run to one end of the parking lot
Partner 1 runs, partner 2 does exercise
Round 1 – 100 cumulative Burpees + 2 laps partner carry + Mary
Round 2 – 100 cumulative Monkey Humpers + 20 Might Merkins at each switch + Mary
Round 3 – 200 cumulative Jump Squats + Mary
Round 3 – 200 cumulative Mountain Climbers + Mary
A bunch of sprints and leg exercises
15 Burpees to close it out
YE OLDE MOLESKINE
1. Poptart, ever the #oldworriedgrandmother that he is, leaned down to YHC at 5:30.01 to make sure that I was still planning on leading because my tardiness had him worried.
2. So many Larrybirds today. It was ridiculous. Form LB always goes to Lobstah. Sprint LB to Argonaut. Running LB to Turkey Leg. All around athlete LB goes to Rhapsody (D1 Decathlete). Guy who’s ridiculously athletic but not quite as athletic as Rhapsody LB goes to Orange Whip. Keeping up the Six LB goes to Prohibition. Best prayers LB goes to Da Squid.
3. Honeymoon did not find it humorous that YHC thought his name was Elf Honeymoon. YHC, on the other hand, found it to be quite humorous.
4. I wish I could have recorded the collective groan let out by the PAX when I called 100 burpees. Truth be told, I was going to call 200 but made a last second decision to chop it in half. Pretty sure there would have been a mutiny had I followed through with the original plan.
#horseneck OUT
Just 5 PAX showed up for the weekly Anvil beatdown. #Lobstah wanted to know if YHC tweeted beforehand and that scared folks away, but I’ll chalk it up to BRR. Here’s what we did:
THE THANG
Mosey over to some part of the huge parking lot
SSH x 10, Merkins x 10, Mtn Climber x 10, Slow Squat x 10
1 burpee at each parking lot line
There were 50 of them
So that’s Burpee x 50
Suicides to the parking lot lights
Jump Squats x 100
More suicides
Heels to Heaven x 150
Even more suicides
Jump Squats x 200
Lots of sprints back and forth
A bunch of Mary interspersed in there
YE MOLESKINE
1. Old Tenenbaum showed up right as we finished up the burpees. Perfect timing. He said he was lost…right.
2. It’s the first time that YHC and #Lobstah have been at the same Anvil workout in a very long time and I’ll say that for me, I did not enjoy it. He is too fast and his form is too good.
3. But he’s not as fast as Ye Olde Ickee Shuffle. That brother can fly.
AYE. 6 souls assembled in the steamy Gloom for the weekly Day Zero beatdown. Some of the regulars were nowhere to be found, particularly one specific site Q who tweeted the night before…but anyway, where’s more or less what transpired:
THE THANG
Mosey over to parking lot in front of daycare
SSH x 10
Merkin x 10 x 10
Jump Squat x 10 x 10
Mosey up to intersection of N. Bevington and Carswell
Jump Squat x 10 at the top of the hill on Carswell
Squat x 10 at the intersection of Carswell and S. Bevington
Jump Squat x 10 at the top of the hill on Carswell
Merkins x 20 at intersection of N. Bevington and Carswell
Leaping Lunges x 20 at end of traffic island on N. Bevington
Merkins x 20 at intersectio nof N. Bevington and Carswell
Repeat 3 times
Mosey to N. Bevington and Baybrook
AYG around the loop to S. Bevington and Baybrook
Mosey back to shopping center parking lot
Lots of Mary
Some Legbreaker
Mosey back to school with an AYG at the end
YE MOLESKINE
1. Teddy and Duval ran 6 miles before posting. An impartial spectator would never have known by watching Duval because he lead the PAX through basically everything. Now Teddy, on the other hand…
2. Something stinks in the shopping center parking lot and the PAX had plenty of creative ways to describe the smell. I think I remember something along the lines of “burnt Indian food” and “steaming manure.”
#horseneck OUT
AYE. 15 PAX awaited in the Gloom at 5:29.55 as YHC came screeching into the lot. But hey, rolling out of bed in Providence Country Club at 5:19 and making it to the AO in time is no small achievement. TClaps to myself. Anyway. Enough of that. Here’s more or less what happened:
THE THANG
Mosey down to the bottom of the hill on Elmstone for the Leg Breaker
40 Jump Squats at the bottom
Run to first light pole and do 20 Monkey Humpers
Run back and do 40 Jump Squats
Repeat for second and third light pole
People’s Chair for a while afterwards
COP for Baryshnikov, Huddle Jump, more Jump Squats, more leg exercises.
YHC was in some serious pain at this point
Head back towards the AO and do a whole bunch of short sprints and leg exercises
10 minutes of Mary to close it out
#horseneck OUT
AYE. A round 10 emerged from the Gloom for the weekly Anvil beatdown. Here’s more or less what transpired.
THE THANG
Little Baby Warmup – SSH, Imperial Walker, Merkins, etc
Mosey down to the end of the parking lot, turn to face cars
1 Burpee at each line (37 total), mosey back
2 Jump Squats at each line
3 Merkins at each line
A few minutes of Mary
4 Heels to Heaven at each line
Partner carries across parking lot
20 Mighty Merkins / Dumbocrats
Flapjack
Lots of sprints – probably 3 or 4 times back and forth
10 burpees to close it out
YE MOLESKINE
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