Monthly Archive December 2024

Ballantyneland

Date: 2024-12-21 AO: stonehenge Q: wingman PAX: wildturkey, lex_luthor, ToeJam, Rousey FNGs: None COUNT: 5 Play a modified game of Candyland throughout the ballantyne-land.
WARMUP: Arm Circles SSH IW Potato Pickers
Kings Kandy Castle – Ballantyne Garage (looks like a crown) Stop on every floor, do called exercise: 20 Squats 20 Merkins 10/10 Lunges 20 LBC 20 Big Boys 20 Carolina Dry Docks 10 Burpees Down the stairs and out. Find peck of pallet (20 presses).
Mosey toward the Molasses Swamp (Fountain at the Teet) 10/10 Step-ups 20 Dips Repeat
Peppermint Forest (green space w/ tree in the bowl) 20 merkins on my down. As we come up, a pax names a candy. repeat. 20 Imperial Walkers in cadence 15 Tuck Jumps 15 Broad Jumps
Lollipop Woods (amphitheater) Mosey to the bottom do exercise on each level of the steps 20 Squats 20 Merkins 10/10 Lunges 20 LBC 20 Big Boys 20 Carolina Dry Docks 10 Burpees
Mosey around the amphitheater and thru the trails back to launch to finish right at 7a.
Solid work by everyone. ToeJam – despite the jammed-toe was pushing hard up front as always lex_luthor – pure grit. pre ruck in the deck and still killed it. wildturkey – you know he brought it and also the pre-ruck. Will he hit 250? Rousey – our time with him was short, but it was filled with “savages” and counting, and warm up on his own cadence. Great to have you out. Keep it up!
Prayers to those in need. Convergence in the big parking lot of the bowl @ 7am on te 24th. Coffee to follow.

Just Because You Can, Doesn’t Mean You Should…

Date: 2024-12-21 AO: olympus Q: Krzyzewski PAX: voodoo, MARTA, Emoji, The Worm FNGs: None COUNT: 5 Upon the frosty landscape, five pax supercharged their levels of Christmas cheer this fine morning. The mission: take down an even dozen of our most hallowed complexes with ruthless precision. YHC is happy to say mission accomplished. This was completely unnecessary, but good to revisit some of these complexes and remind ourselves why we don’t do these more regularly. Overall, a solid beatdown that burned enough calories to provide for some guilt-free merriment later this week. Let’s get into the recap of this nonsense… WARMUP: Swings (10x), prying squats, hi-pulls (5x e/s), synovial circles, slingshots (7x e/w) THE THANG: 1) Balance (1 set) – Swing R (15x); lawnmower R (15x); staggered merkins (15x) – Swing L (15x); lawnmower L (15x); staggered merkins (15x) – Drop everything by 5x each set so three times through each side 2) Voodoo (2 sets) – Swing, hi-pull, snatch, clean, squat, press (1x e/s) – Second set do 2x of each element before proceeding to the next 3) Flynncinerator (1 set) – 10x of each element: double swing; double front squat; see-saw press; bent-over row; merkins 4) Clean & Park (2 sets; E2MOM) – A: Clean L; clean R; press R; PARK – B: Clean R; clean L; press L; PARK – C: Heavy swings (5x) – D: Merkins (5x) 5) Porpoise (1 set) – Merkin (on bell for all merkins); swing R; merkin; swing L – Merkin; clean R; merkin; clean L – Merkin; snatch R; merkin; snatch L – Merkin; double swing; merkin; double clean; merkin; double snatch 6) Goshawk’s (1 set) – Suitcase to the tree; goblet squats (8x) – Repeat 8x total 7) Hoodoo – Bent-over row; swing; clean; snatch; OH reverse lunge (1x e/s) 8) Pyramid (1 set) – 2-handed swing (2x) – Alternating 1-handed swing (4x) – Thrusters (6x) – 2-handed swing (8x) – Alternating 1-handed swing (10x) – 2-handed swing (8x) – Thrusters (6x) – Alternating 1-handed swing (4x) – 2-handed swing (2x) 9) High Tide (1 set) – Snatch; clean; press; squat (1x e/s) 10) Humane (1 set) – A: Swings (10x); goblet squat (10x); merkin (1x) – B: Swings (10x); goblet squat (5x); merkin (6x) – C: Swings (10x); goblet squat (1x); merkin (10x) 11) Armor Building (1 set) – Double clean (2x) – Double press (1x) – Double squat (3x) 12) Fibonacci (1 set) – Double clean (8x) – Double squat (5x) – Double clean (5x) – Double squat (3x) – Double clean (3x) – Double squat (2x) – Double clean (2x) – Double squat (1x) MARY: Nope ANNOUNCEMENTS: TBD COT: Joined the men of The Rock for COT. Orange Whip graciously took all of us out and Tuna came prepped with eggnog, whiskey, and Christmas tree snack cakes for the lads

Not As Cold as We Thought

Date: 2024-12-21 AO: chicken-run Q: Paper Jam PAX: Flip Phone, bratwurst, Hippie, Paper Jam, Rob Rosenthal – Drive By, turkey_leg, toolbag, Astro (Kyle Kirchhoff), HazMat FNGs: None COUNT: 9 Hazmat and Drive By started early and finished early. Astro returned for a few miles. Turkey Leg and Bratwurst led the pack. Hippie showed up late and Tool Bag arrived at COT without any socks. Just another wild time with the Chickadees.

The Vinch

Date: 2024-12-21 AO: davinci Q: Palmolive , das_boot PAX: das_boot FNGs: None COUNT: 2 I was fully prepared for a solo workout, then up drives Das Boot for some solid fellowship and miles. We decided to make it mostly running and take a page from Kirby to put in some work at the curbs.
WARMUP: Dynamic stretching for a few minutes then head out.
THE THANG: 4 mile loop up Rea to Stonecrest and back down Elm. Stop at every road apron for merkins or squats (100 each total) and then rock work with curls, presses, tire changers, WW3 sit ups, and some WHITE LINES (exercise name TBD).
MARY: There was a little.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Convergence on Christmas Eve at The Bowl. Run and boot camp options at 7 am
COT: I took us out.

Green miles

Date: 2024-12-19 AO: the-devils-turn Q: flipper PAX: fletch, voodoo, bunker, hairball, flipper, retread, frasier, Polly FNGs: None COUNT: 8 8 PAX for a greenway jaunt, including a resurgent Retread

The Ratio at GT

Date: 2024-12-20 AO: joust Q: MARTA PAX: Header, Horsehead, hopper, baracus, Mr Brady, limey FNGs: None COUNT: 7 MumbleChatter: Leading the pack it was difficult to hear thr chatter in the back. Topics included how bad the frisbee game was to watch, the ratio at georgia tech that scared Limey away (3M:1W when I was there.. so bad a song and music video were produced the Gtgs called the ratio on you tube..don’t waste your time). geraldo’s HC doesn’t mean what it used to. Other topics include Christmas vacation means nothing in the A/E world when a client comes calling. I’d say it was a good Q but I did miss having the chanced egregiously foul the young guys on the ultimate pitch.
Run to frisbee field WARMUP 15 SSH 15 IW 10 LSS 10 ST 15 LBCS
THE THANG
7s – burpees and LbCs
4 corners x2 to get in the way or inspire the disc jockeys Jump squats x10 Merkins X 10 Freddy Mercury x20 PlankJack’s x20
Ditch the ultimate crew and run back to the track.
Stadiums x3 Mary in between
Run to grandmother partner climbs 1 partner does called excersie the other summits the hill x5
Back to the top of stadium. Backwards run x4 while partner does called exercise. Airless x25 t For TK and a Mosey to launch and glute bridge to carry us home
ANNOUNCEMENTS Convergence at 7 AM at the bowl on thr 23rd COT Header takes us out

Jingle Bell Run

Date: 2024-12-19 AO: the-phoenix Q: wildturkey PAX: war_eagle, Hawkeye, kirby, madison, midriff FNGs: None COUNT: 6 Mostly running, sprinkled in exercises to spell out Jingle Bells.
Jumping jacks Incline pushups Narrow stance squats Glute bridge Lunges, forwad Elevated leg raises Burpees Elbow planks Lunges, backwards Lo, J and LBC Sprint!
Also, Hawkeye and I fell down. Very dark.

Guess who’s back

Date: 2024-12-19 AO: shield Q: lex_luthor PAX: Rousey, Bombay, Cooter2, ToeJam, Pilgrim, lex_luthor FNGs: None COUNT: 6 We were all surprised to see Rousey this AM. It has been too long.
More surprises with 4 tires that we used for the workout.
Pushups, Squats, Carolina Drydocks, Lunges and tire drags and/or tire pulls in the parking lot
To the field where we did hair burners, pushups, drydocks, and up/downs while dragging or pulling tires
Great job out there Cooter2 no complaints, just nonstop movement on his part Bombay made the tire pulls look easy ToeJam toe rehab looks complete, moved well out there Pilgrim the maestro of the turkish gettup Rousey looks like he never left

Chapter 12 – How could a loving God send people to hell?

Date: 2024-12-17 AO: 3rdf-timekeeper Q: soft_pretzel PAX: bratwurst, Hippie, madison, kirby, das_boot FNGs: None COUNT: 6 In order to be capable of love, there must be a choice.

late backblast

Date: 2024-12-17 AO: skunk-works Q: Mountain Momma PAX: lois, Header, Smokey FNGs: None COUNT: 4
WARMUP: THE THANG: Spartacus with some agility work MARY: ANNOUNCEMENTS:
https://open.spotify.com/show/1ZvdRyYOpc4rAdG6gNnhtw?si=cqD1IKzoTFuju6FKQ0Wy-A COT: