Posted by Baracus on behalf of Huddle:
12 brave souls ventured out in the gloom to celebrate the 10th day of Burpees. Historians will tell you that the burpee first came to the Americas in the early 1800s. You may recall that the burpee was persecuted throughout Europe and sought a better life across the pond. The burpee and those that worship the burpee are a special people. Today we gave them their due:
The Thang:
Mosey around the PDS parking lot to the center of the football field.
Mosey to the goal line for 11s
Mosey to the bleachers
Mosey back to the goal line
Mosey to the parking lot for Mary and COT
It was a nice cool, somewhat misty, Wednesday morning. Got out of my car and it looked like is was going to be me and three other PAX with a couple of minutes to go before we started. And then all of the sudden there came a caravan of like ten cars squealing into parking spaces. So, here’s the thang:
Warm up: Mosey up to the turn-about for a light jog, some side steps, a little high knees, a few butt-kicks, and a solid karaoke. Then we headed down to the field for a bit more. There were some side-straddle-hops, imperial walkers, merkins, and mountain climbers. Then it was to the endzone to begin the “thang”
The Thang: With the holiday season fast approaching, I figured it would be the perfect opportunity to implement a little 12 Days of Christmas!
To finish the day, we ran 1 1/2 laps with jogging the bends and sprinting the straights. Then we jogged up to the access road and had ourselves a good ol’ fashion jail brake to the gate.
And that concluded our “12 Days of Christmas” 2015 edition!
6 (then 7) men decided to stick around, even though YHC had no shovelflag, and endure the pain that was ahead of them.
The Thang
Mosey to the basketball court for COP
Foul shots – make it = 5 burpees for all, miss it = 10 burpees for all
Mosey to playground
Mosey back to parking lot, grab a rock out of culvert area:
Mosey to half wall by the school
over to the nearby wall for peoples chair and BTW, then back to the half wall
Mosey toward the stadium, with a passthrough bear crawl alley
Elevens at the stadium
Around the corner for some more peoples chair
AYG from speed bump to parking lot
Circle up for MOM in the parking lot
COT
Well…Bushwood was supposed to lead this morning, but a site Q fail by YHC led to a workout led by YHC. Turns out reading a calendar is not my strong suit…so Bushwood fartsacked, a twitterless Arena certainly didn’t get the message the he was up a week early, therefore the pax was stuck with YHC. Oh…and I also left the shovel-flag at home. #comedyoferrors
So we were off at somewhere around 5:30 and we headed to basketball courts. As I was leading the COP I noticed a lonely basketball sitting on the court. Not the most original idea, but decided to see how good the group was at foul shooting. Better than usual it turns out…we were 50%! Not exactly scholarship material, but everyone sure appreciated a few less burpees.
Arena joined us after the shootout. Turns out he forgot what day it was and posted at Meathead first. Apparently YHC is not the only guy who can’t read a calendar.
The rock work was a little less than stellar. Was supposed to be ab work, but I think everyone figured out that it was more arms than abs. And the partner rock hand-off thing certainly didn’t accomplish what was intended. Dispatch rocks and move on!
Wall work was exactly what the doctor ordered. YHC and DDs quickly figured out that the vertically challenged should pick the shorter wall. More homeage to DDs as we hit bearcrawl alley. Then the 11s on the stadium steps, coupled with the jumpsquats was just brutal. Definitely a full body workout today. Hope everyone got their money’s worth! Great job men!
There were no announcements this morning. Thanks Arena for taking us out with a prayer.
Posted by Baracus on behalf of DDs…
THE THANG:
18 men met at The Charge in the mild doom and gloom of Nov-18th with DDs as Q with plenty of Monkey Humpers on hand!
Jog around campus and parking lot for warm-up with: Side steps, high knees, butt kickers, backward job, skip, lunge walk fwds and lunge walk backwards. Continue jog to upper campus and basketball court area.
Mosey thru campus stopped and completed on wall:
RINSE & REPEATO
RINSE & REPEATO
RINSE & REPEATO
RINSE & REPEATO
Over to the wall for:
RINSE & REPEATO
Mosey thru campus stopping at playground on turf:
BEAR CRAWL ALLEY
40 YARD SEPERTINTINE BEAR CRAWL around road cones and finish with plank
Mosey down to Stadium:
Mosey down to stadium field:
x4 BACKWARD SPRINTS
Mary in the middle of Stadium:
Mosey back to parking lot for COT:
Done!
Great numbers mate, and looked liked everyone got a workout!
YHC returned to Anvil on this warm fall morning to reminisce and visit with some old friends. Oh…and we worked out a little too. Here’s what we did…
Disclaimer
Traveling COP
Sevens
Mosey to the bottom of North Face
Mosey around front of church to the courtyard
Plank walk halfway around the wall to the top and bear crawl down the hill.
Jack Webb
Peoples chair w/ 40 air presses
Mosey back to COT
Pax-led MOM
Backblast
Thanks to Mermaid and Young Love for welcoming me back to Anvil. It was great to be out at Calvary two weeks in a row following last week’s Veterans Day convergence. Good to see some of the pax that I don’t see as often these days.
Pax was a little confused today as they initially thought they were at #F3FastTwitch. We finished with about 2.5 miles under our belt, but I’m sure everyone’s shoulders are telling them this was not purely a running workout.
Northface was brutal as always. A few looks of disbelief today as the backwards bearcrawl was called. Some modification was required by most, but strong work nonetheless.
Shoulders were obviously a main target area today, although I can’t say that’s how I planned it. The plank walks followed by the Jack Webb challenged all. Hops request to keep the count slow on the air presses ensured we all received maximum value from the effort.
We ended with some Mary led by committee. Scabby tried to hog all of the time by doing 100 HTH, Hops brought a crowd favorite on the asphalt, and Bananas either has a short memory or just loves doing Freddie Mercury.
Congrats to Ickey Shuffle (among other A51 pax that participated in the Spartan Beast over the weekend). Great accomplishment! Glad you chose to endure a workout despite the sore muscles.
Thanks to Iron Horse for taking us out with a strong prayer.
Announcments:
At 5:27am YHC rolls into the parking lot at Providence Day School ready to take The Charge’s pax on a little trip off campus. Hmmm…nobody is standing outside. Well, it’s raining, so maybe people are staying dry in their cars. I get out and start stretching…but nobody joins me. All the cars in the parking lot belong to the running group that has established a regular presence at our AO. Hmmm….is this going to be the day that nobody shows and I head home to get back in the fartsack? NO! With 1 minute to spare, Icicle, John Deere, and Babyface ride in like the calvary. No time for chit-chat…so off we go into the rainy gloom!
The Thang
Mosey from the parking lot toward the school exit. Stop at Sardis Rd. entrance for first COP
Turn right on Sardis Rd and continue the trip toward the Stonehaven neighborhood (home of YHC). Cross road and stop at Waverly Hall for COP #2
Run down Waverly Hall to Regency and stop for COP #3….sorry guys, time to embrace the weather and get soaked.
Take a left on Regency and run to Rocky Falls Rd. Stop for next COP.
Right on Rocky Falls run to intersection with Charter Place…wave at YHC’s house as we pass by. Stop for instructions.
Partner Hill Repeats
Goal is to reach 100 handslap merkins, but we had to audible to 80 as the field trip to this location was a little further than what I measured the night before.
Return trip to PDS
Stops at Waverly Hall again for flutters, Sardis for IWs, and PDS entrance for squats.
We did a quick COT, a prayer by John Deere, and we were done.
Moleskin:
I’m still getting used to the new Q scheduling system. Although you’d think I’d remember if I scheduled myself to Q, I didn’t realize that until 7pm Tuesday night. No matter…I cooked up something a little different for the pax. A trip WAY off campus to visit one of my favorite BRR training sites… the quarter mile ‘climb of suck’ on Rocky Falls Rd. I think the other 3 men with me would agree that it is brutal. However, we did modify a bit for time purposes and each only had to endure the pain twice. Lots of running today…probably more than we’ve ever done at The Charge. We ran 4 miles total. More like Fast Twitch today I guess.
The weather was lousy. It rained on us the entire time, but we convinced ourselves it wasn’t bad given the warmer temperatures. We were completely soaked within 10 minutes…getting on the ground for the flutters assured that.
All the guys did great out there. I hope they didn’t mind the departure from our usual on-campus boot camps. It was fun to lead, and as always…an honor.
Posted on behalf of Winterplace, with some minor edits via Baracus
<insert awesome picture of Motown legends “The Commodores” here>
7 Commodores Pax emerged from the fartsack for some track and field work with bricks (i.e., cinder blocks) on this misty morning. Lucky for the pax, these were the last pavers on the shelf at Home Depot and were on sale for a value price of $1.42 each. The pax would get their money’s worth and then some.
The Thang:
Mosey to parking circle for lunges, shuffles, butt kicks, high knees, and crab walks to warm up.
Track Work:
400 meter Indian run with 15-20lb cinder block.
COP:
25 side straddle hops, 15 merkins, and 15 flutters.
More Track Work:
10 burpees, 15 hand-release merkins, 25 mountain climbers and 400 meter run. Rinse and repeat.
People’s chair with 20 air presses.
By that time, the Pax had caught their collective breath and were ready for more work with the cinder blocks.
The Pax partnered up. Partner 1 ran the length of the field and back with the cinder block while Partner 2 completed the called exercise. Then flap jack. The Pax completed 3 grueling rounds of running the field with the cinder block with corresponding jump squats, flutters, and mountain climbers.
The Pax caught their breath again with a series of planks and then proceeded back to the field for 50 yards of wheel barrels, 50 yards of burpee broad jumps, 50 yards of wheel barrels, 50 yards of walking lunges, 25 yards of bear crawls, 25 yards of crab walks, and 50 yards of broad jumps.
Running short on time, the Pax returned to home base for COT.
Moleskin:
26 were present to see Header plant the shovel flag on a nice, cool morning at Charlotte Christian. Actually 1 of those guys just came to watch me do burpees at the end of the workout, but he and the other 25 guys were going to get their money’s worth this morning as we started our workout.
We began with a nice mosey back to the football field with a tour of the bleacher steps along the way.
COP
Mosey over to Grandma as we have neglected her for a couple weeks.
Elevens on Grandma Mtn
Plankorama as pax finishes up.
Partner up for some work on the track
Do a little Mary as we wait for the six (LBCs, Dolly). Recovery and mosey to the playground
Head back for COT – AYG for the last 100-150 yds
Done
NMS:
Announcements:
It’s a good thing that Puddin’ Pop reminded me on Tuesday that I was on the schedule to Q at Hydra today. It wasn’t on my schedule…likely due to the fact that Bugeater booked the date for me way in advance. I think that was back when Bugeater was posting at workouts…about three computers ago for me so not much chance it was going to get picked up on the calendar, but I digress. It was an incredible morning for a workout, so we went at it…
The Thang:
Jog to short track and run a warm-up lap, circle up in the middle (or in the parking lot for COP)
COP
Jog over to church – pick a good, non-running rock and circle up
Strength work
Return rock to its home and jog back to school – find a partner
Jog over to football field to repeat the same, but this time on grass
Speed work
(four sets of 2 cones, 10 yds b/w each set of 2, and 20 yds between sets)
Round 1
Round 2
Round 3 – Same as above, but on all fours (bear crawling) x2
Mosey over to the school for some peoples chair
Head back to were we started for COT.
Moleskin:
It was nice to be back at Hydra this week. It was my 4th post in a row and I’m definitely starting to feel the effect on my pencil arms after weeks of BRR training. Oh, and Spackler keeps following me around this week…first Fast Twitch, then The Charge, no Hydra. Good seeing you this morning Spack…well done posting after shutting down the Yellow Rose yesterday.
Tried a new exercise this morning I called the Rockette squat. Terrible name, but excellent for stretching out the legs. Lots of chatter about the pace, and criticisms of my form on the squats. #doasIsaynotasIdo
Nice work at the rock pile this morning. I applaud most of the pax’ rock choices. Ironsides, however, is a bit more fickle than the rest of us. I think he ended up with a pile of 4 or 5 rocks after going back multiple times to find the rock that was “just right”.
Q-fail on calling the partner get-ups in the parking lot…that one would have been a lot better in the grass…thus why we did the second set…in the grass. Form was a bit questionable, although I’m not entirely sure what perfect form looks like on that exercise, so who am I to criticize.
We concluded with some speed work. We managed to weave in and out of the cones, back and forth, side to side, without anyone getting hurt. The bear crawl set was particularly unkind.
Good work by all the men out there this morning, and T-claps to Gummy for running in. There may have been others that opted for the pre-run this morning…sound off in comments. As always a pleasure leading you all.
Good having one of our Wilmington brothers, SBS, join us in the gloom this morning.
Announcements:
Thanks to Gummy for taking us out in prayer during BOM.
Posted on behalf of Monk…
Gloomy Wednesday morning at the Charge with a full group highly committed men. Bullwinkle made it, even with sponsoring a kids slumber party the night before. Chowda arrived, albeit JIT, but also after a night on the town.
Our title event, Tunnel of Love, was easily handled by the PAX. AstroTurf on the PDS athletic field was helpful and PAX held on for 3 rounds and 50 yards, despite the rug burn and mouthful of rubber pellets.
The Thang:
COT
Mosey to track and partner up with partner 1 running clockwise and partner 2 counter clockwise. Each time partner was passed we did an exercise.
Little Mary on the football field
Mosey to goal line on athletic field:
Track work
Mary
Announcements
Happy hour next Wednesday at Mellow Mushroom on Selwyn at 5pm, 10% of proceeds to support building of bridge in Nicaragua
Final Happy Hour at Yellow Rose at 5pm in South Charlotte tonight
Happy hour at Taco Macs, Wednesday at 5pm in Chapter Room
Baracus closed with prayer