Where is Mighty Mite?
15 pax gathered for some early morning shopping at The Maul.
The Thang:
Mosey in front of the movie theater for COP
SSH X 30
Merkins X 15
Mountain Climbers X 25
IW X 25
Mosey to the loading docks behind HT and Target.
Partner up for partner drags between the speed bumps ~ 30 yards.
Flap jack at each speed bump. Each partner carries for three ~30 yd lengths, totalling about 100 yards of partner drag.
Plank o rama
Circle up for Wack Jebb (Lower body Jack Webbs)
1 Squat, 4 knee up jumps. 2 squats, 8 knee up jumps……up to 5 squats.
Jacob Ladder up the hill next to Target. Run up hill, 1 burpee. Run down, run back, up, 2 burpees. ….up to 7 burpees.
Circle Up for Mary
LBCs X 25
Heels to heaven X 20
Rosalita X 25
Dolly X 25
Protractor(Wingman lead) for 1 min
Mosey back to the loading docks and find your partner again
Wheel barrow between speed bumps, flapjack to the next speed bump.
Bear crawl to next speed bump. Crab walk to the following speed bump.
Forward lunge walk to the next speed bump.
Backward lunge walk to the last speed bump.
Mosey behind the movie theater and settle into the People’s Chair.
Wall walk for 20 yards along the back wall of the movie theater. People’s Chair on the other side.
Mosey back to the starting point.
Run up the hill. 10 burpees. Run down the hill.
COT
Moleskin:
YHC forgot his phone and had to race back home to get it. When he pulled into the parking lot at 5:29 he saw the pax running to their first COP in front of the movie theater. Before they had a chance to do a SSH, YHC made his first appearance much to the chagrin of many of the pax. T-claps to Uncle Leo for taking the initiative to do an emergency Q.
During our work on the speed bumps, there seemed to be more trucks on the loading docks than usual. We seem to be making friends with several of the truck drivers. Hopefully we can convince some of them to come out to the gloom on their day off.
Wack Jebb is a lot meaner than his brother Jack Webb. YHC could barely breathe and count after the 5th round.
There are lots of steep hills behind the loading dock. Be prepared for something diabolical the next time I Q the Maul.
Announcements:
HDHH: Tonight at 6 at two locations. Vintner’s Wine Market in the Arboretum or Good Bottle Co, in Southend. The Good Bottle Co. is a HDHH convergence to raise funds for F3’s 24 Hours of Booty team.
Go to Day Zero at McAlpine Elementary on Saturday for the start of the challenge. Radar and Purple Haze have cooked up an impossible workout where you can find your limit and work to blow past it 8 weeks from now.
Bring a kettlebell to Monday’s newest workout, Foxhole, at Elon Park Elementary. If you don’t have a kettlebell, there are great deals on Amazon. YHC ordered one last Monday night and it was delivered on Thursday. If you don’t have a kettlebell and want to borrow one for a week or two, sound off on twitter before Monday and there will be several pax that are willing to help.
YHC and Mic Check will be dual Qs at The Maul next week.
If you are a regular at The Maul and would like a shot at Qing, sound off to either Mic Check or YHC.
Sweet Sixteen
Original artwork by Wing Man
Posted on behalf of Puppy Love
VSF planted and we launched @ 0530 with a ready PAX posting up to celebrate the 16th of July
The Thang:
Short jog to the Corners for a warm up – theme of the day is16 with all our work revolving around that:
SSH X 16
Windmills X 16
Merkins X 16
Plank: Right/Left/Regular
Longer run to the Tower of Pain – aka Premier Parking Deck for a game of “Pick 16″. Puppy Love wrote out 16 different pain stations on slips of paper and packed those in an envelope. Each PAX will pick one from the pile at each level of the deck, lead the exercise for a 16X rep, then we are off to run to the next level and Repeato. Mighty Mite thought their may be candy in the envelope when PL asked” Guess what is in here? He was wrong and suffered the consequences for the next 35 minutes.
Run back toward the launch point with a brief stop to the ground for Protractor led by Briskett – 16 degrees was a creative and painful choice. Well done!
Solid performance by all of the team with serious water weight dropped i the parking deck – -was nearing 150 degrees in there (or at least felt like it…man it was HOT in there).
COT
Welcome to our FNG, Cable Guy who was EH”d by Philmont – -his second for the Bagpipe. May put him in charge of Recruitment if this keeps up
Foxhole’s Monday Kettle Bell workout at Elon Park Elementary needs more victims – -give it a try.
Mighty Mite on for Q next week at Bagpipe – -be WARNED
The World Tour of Pain
14 of Area 51’s finest convened at McAlpine Elementary for a holiday weekend beatdown.
The Thang: Purple Haze Q
As soon as the clock struck 7 PHaze picked up the shovel flag and began jogging to the entrance of the school. After about .5 miles, we stopped on the corner of Highway 51 and Elm Lane.
COP
SSH X 20
Burpees X 13
Imperial Walkers X 20
Burpees X 13
Merkins X 10
Burpees X 13
LBCs X 20
Burpees X 13
Mini Convergence with The Rock: Runstopper Q
The newly combined forces of Day Zero and the Rock circled up to take on an especially angry Jack Webb.
1 Merkin + 4 arm presses, 2 merkins + 8 arm presses,…all the way to 15 merkins + 50 arm presses
The convergence now finished, Purple Haze picked up the shovel flag and started the half mile back to McAlpine. Upon returning to McAlpine the pax began the…
World Tour of Pain: Mighty Mite Q
Mosey down to the track for instruction
Turkish getups with rocks X 10
Run a quarter of the track
Russian Twists X 20
Run a quarter of the track
Hindu Merkins X 15
Run a quarter of the track
Sumo Squats X 20
Return to the beginning of the track
Plank up in a circle around YHC’s yellow corona shirt for the Merkin Mexican Hat Dance
The pax rotate counterclockwise around the circle, doing a merkin every 3 paces. Once a full revolution has been made, turn it around and go clockwise around the circle until a second revolution has been made.
Complete another lap around the track with the same Turkish getups, Russian twists, Hindu Merkins, and Sumo Squats
Plank up and wait for the rest of the pax at the end of the lap.
Mac Tar Gai X 10.
Wheel Barrow Merkin Race.
Pax partner up for a 30 yard wheel barrow race. The only catch is, YHC yelling stop and instructing the participants to do wheel barrow merkins. About 15-20 merkins were completed over the 30 yards. Flapjack.
Return to the Turkish getup rocks for Alternating Squat/ Overhead Presses X 20
Circle Up for Mary
Heels to Heaven X 15
Rosalita X 20
Protractor for 1 min
Burpees X 13
Moleskin:
At the start of DayZero Baracus had just completed the jog over from the preRock Kettlebell work. He was less than pleased when he learned we would be returning from whence he came.
Purple Haze’s COP was burpelicious. YHC doesn’t recall ever being so happy to see Runstopper showup.
YHC’s thoughts during the Jack Webb
“10- He always stops at 10. Nice mini convergence. Great idea Purple Haze!
11- He’s just trying to be funny. We’ll just do one more Jack Webb round and be done with it.
12- Twelve is a nice even number. This has to be where we stop.
13- Ok, I get it. We’re unlucky. C’mon!
14- Am I going to be able to Q the second half of this workout?
15- We’re done?!? I don’t think I’ve ever been happier to see Runstopper leave…”
Great work by the 2.0’s on pushing everyone else during the World Tour laps.
Spackler inspired the Merkin Mexican Hat Dance with his Corona infused tweets night.
YHC tried to give the pax an opportunity to help decided on the next exercise after Mac Tar Gai. Instead, they learned the perils of an inefficient democracy and began the wheel barrow merkin race.
Announcements
Sign Up for the Pig Pickin that is next Saturday (7/13) at Olde Providence. Bug Eater needs a count of how many people will need to be fed. See the email for more details.
Foxhole: New Gear workout starts up on Monday at Elon Park Elementary(on the western end of Ardrey Kell Road. Next to Sports Connection). Market Timer and Honeybee are your Q’s. Bring a kettle bell.
Jack Webb and the Seven Dwarves
11 Men descended upon the gloom of Loch Ballantyne for a morning of pain.
The Thang:
COP
SSH X 25
Imperial Walkers X 25
Merkins X 15
Mountain Climbers X 15
Peter Parkers X 15
Burpees X 5
Mosey to the Haunted Forest and split up into 3 groups for some back work
Pull ups X 10
Dips X 10
Supine Pullups X 10
Repeato X 3
Mosey to the eastern shore of Loch Ballantyne
The Seven Dwarves Dirty 30
Run around the lake to the first wall for 30 Sleepy wall lunges
Run to the next wall and do 30 Dopey step ups
Run to the grill area to do 30 Sneezy jump squats.
Return to the starting point of the lap for Doc’s 60 calf raises.
Market Timer(the 8th dwarf apparently) audible for Monkey Humpers X 20…there’s got to be a better name for these…..
Run around the lake to the first wall for 30 Happy wall squats.
Run to the second wall for 30 Bashful jump ups.
Run back to the grill area for 30 Grumpy jumping lunges
Plank and wait for everyone to finish in the field next to the grill.
Wheel Barrow full of Diamonds
Partner up for some wheel barrow walks with a twist…YHC yelled stop, at which point the pax were instructed to do wheel barrow merkins. When YHC got bored of doing merkins, I yelled move again and the wheel barrow race resumed only to be interuptted by more merkins every few yards. Once all the pax reached the other end of the field, flapjack + repeato.
Mosey back to the COP for some Jack Webb.
1 merkin + 4 shoulder presses, 2 merkins + 8 shoulder presses, all the way up to 5 merkins and back down again.
Heels to Heaven X 20
Dolly X 20
LBC X 20
Mosey back to the cars for COP
Moleskin
Before all the pain got started, Unfair mentioned that he doesn’t really enjoy running the mile. Imagine how much fun it would be if you were 50 pounds heavier and/or 20 years older!
YHC named the the leg exercises during the running around Lake Ballantyne after the 7 dwarves in hopes of inspiring leg failure and a hunched or shortened stature for the pax unlucky enough to have posted today.
Market Timer and Freely’s Comet got really excited talking about ballet during the calf raises and insisted that we do some monkey humpers. It was awkward.
The wheel barrow merkin race was a real #crowdpleaser. We just might be seeing that one again…
Announcements
Haggis mentioned that the Sons of Ballantyne will be facing off against the Friends of Fast Twitch on August 27th at a neutral location to be named later.
F3 Foxhole starting up on July 8th at Elon Park Elementary. Market Timer and Honey Bee are your Q’s. Bring a kettlebell.
Chutes and Ladders
17 brave men descended upon the gloom that is Ballantyne Corporate Park to play a sadistic little children’s game.
The Thang:
Mosey to Wachovia parking lot for COP
SSH X 25
Tripod Merkins Left X 13
Imperial Walkers X 25
Tripod Merkins Right X 13
Mosey to wall next to the Lake of Gloom and Doom.
Chutes and Ladders
1. Ladder of Burpees and Wall Jumps: 10 Burpees with 1 Wall Jump, 9 Burpees with 2 Wall Jumps, all the way to 1 Burpee with 10 Wall Jumps. Run a lap around the lake(1/3 mile) and plankorama until everyone finishes.
2. Ladder of Wall Lunges and Dips. 10 Wall Lunges with 1 Dip. 9 Lunges with 2 Dips….you get the idea…..Lap around the lake and plankorama.
3. Ladder of Wall Squats and Derkins. 10 Wall Squats with 1 Derkin -> 1 Wall Squat with 10 Derkins. Lap. Plank. Pain.
Indian Run to the Parking Lot for another COP
YHC plagarized Mic Check’s Merkin Shuffle from last week. The pax moves three shuffles counter clockwise and performs a Merkin. The pax made it halfway around the circle.
Rosalita X 25
LBC X 25
Protractor for 1 min
COT
Moleskin:
YHC thought that the hilly sidewalk resembled a slide. Hence the chutes and ladders nickname. Haggis had never heard of Chutes and Ladders before but did used to play Snakes and Ladders. Hmmmm, interesting, maybe next time….
Mic Check suggested on twitter that we play Candyland sometime soon. #boardgamebeatdowns?
You can finish your ladder as quickly as you want but Unfair is going to leave you in the dust during the lap around the lake. #perfectnickname
T-claps to Long Distance who turned the mosey back to the COT into a Jailbreak sprint. You’ve made some huge strides over the last few weeks, brother!
Announcements
Come to the Maul tomorrow. Uncle Leo on Q.
Market Timer and Honeybee will be starting a new gear workout on Mondays at Elon Park Elementary with a tentative start date of July 8th.