Author Archive Lex Luthor

Kevlar – soggy bottom boys

14 men posted on this soggy morning to find Chunk and Samurai ready to deliver.

Warm-Up

– Warm up lap
– Side straddle hop
– Merkins
– Imperial walkers

Mosey behind the sheds for circuit work

Fourteen stations (completed 2 rounds)

– Decline Merkin

– Jump Rope

– Lunge

– Sit ups

– Bike

– Tire Flip

– Shoulder Press

– KB Swing

– Box Jump

– Bear Crawl

– Dead Lift

– Incline Merkin

– Dips

– Lap around the Track

 

Moved to the field for one round of Hershel WalkerStarfish Round #1 (arms)
– 20 merkins
– 20 sit ups
– 1 sprint
Mary
– several rounds of LBC, Freddy Mercury and ended with Merkins
It was a quiet morning out there today.  There was low chatter but never got too loud.  The workout was planned and executed by Chunk and Samurai so we can expect them to pick up full session in the near term.

Keep the city in your prayers.  We need to find unity and learn to love our neighbor as ourselves.

Phone didn’t record this morning so if you were in attendance – thank you.

Lex Luthor

Obstacles – No Problemo

20 men posted to Kevlar on Friday morning.  Thank you for the opportunity to lead.

The goal was to have us explore some of the space near the tennis courts and I think that objective was achieved.

The Thang

Warmup –

Lap around the track, followed by up/downs, merkins and mtn climbers.

We then proceeded to do 4 rounds of Hershel Walkers – situps, merkins and sprints – 20x, 15x, 10x and 5x for the situps and merkins

Second Evolution

Moved to the tennis courts and proceeded to run an obstacle/conditioning course that included the following: hair burners in the parking lot, followed by climbing up and over a shipping container, high knees through tires, 25x dips, 25x carolina drydocks, climb through the tennis pavilion and up or over the tables and then climb back out the other side, 10x box jumps on the far side of the tennis courts, circle back and bear crawl back from the tennis courts to the shipping container.  All of this constituted 1 lap.

The majority of the PAX finished 2+ of these circuits – job well done.

Phase Three

Carried all of the hair burner weights and eight tires with us to the hill by the church parking lot and proceeded to do a round of sevens which included squats and merkins.

Bring it home

Wrapped it up back at the school with a round of up/downs and one last Hershel Walker set of 20x.

Special shout out to Normandy (15 yrs old) as he pushed hard out there and gave Big League Chew a run for his money.

Great time out there with the Friday morning crew at Kevlar.  Thanks to Horse Head and Bulldog for allowing me to lead everyone today.

The Ocho at Kevlar

Wet out there this morning but that didn’t discourage The Ocho from turning out this morning at Kevlar.

Warmup

Jog to pavilion by the Tennis Courts

20x – SSH

20x – Imperial Walker

20x – Merkins

Tabata – 8 rounds of each exercise

Carolina Drydock w/ feet on the bench

Box jumps

Dips

Lunges

Jog back to the Field

Three rounds

Tire Hair Burners to midfield

25x Should Press with tire

15x Supine Pullups

Jog to the Hill

Didn’t make the full 11 rounds – made it through about 4 or 5 due to time

Turkish Getup at the Top of the Hill

Hand Release Merkins at the bottom

Jog up the hill backwards

Jog back to the parking lot

Finished with Abs

50x Flutter

50x LBC

Moleskin

The crew did a great job this morning in the rain.  I was starting to second guess the dip tabata’s on the third round as my triceps were screaming.  The tire hair burners were not too bad on the wet field.  Note of caution – avoid the low profile tires when doing hair burners.

Thank you for the opportunity to lead the men this morning.

Filthy Fifty

On a chilly morning that was the eve of the Super Bowl eve we had a strong showing with 16 guys posting for the Filthy Fifty workout at Kevlar.  The goal was simple, incorporate as much of the local gear as possible into the workout and make people push themselves to complete 50x of various exercises.

Disclaimer for the men and we were off.

Warmup – Hershel Walker

5x – 10 merkins, 10 push ups and sprint 50 yrds

Workout –

Filthy Fifty

Each Exercise was followed by a lap around the field.  The lap included 1x dip, 1x pull up, high knees through tires, climb over wall and bear crawl under 3 hurdles.

Exercises

50x – Merkins – 1 lap

50x – Squats – 1 lap

50x – Shoulder press (w/ rock) – 1 lap

50x – Lunges (each leg) – 1 lap

50x – Mason twist – 1 lap

50x – Burpee’s – 1 lap

Bonus – 50x – Carolina Drydock – 1 lap

Ladder on the Hill

Included backwards run/jog up hill with merkin ladder to 7x

Hershel Walker

5x – 10 merkins, 10 push ups and sprint 50 yrds

Mary

25x – Flutter in cadence

25x – Mason Twist

25x – Flutter in cadence

Great work by all out there this morning.  It is always great to see everyone pushing themselves hard.  Thanks for the help putting everything back in place.

Announcements – None, guess everyone was looking to cut out of there

 

 

Scavenger Adventure

Great showing out there today with a total of 88 making it through the full adventure at Colonel Francis Beatty Park. There were at least 4 to 5, maybe more, that didn’t stay for the count off so we may have been even closer to the century mark.

The Thang:

COP:

  • SSH
  • Merkins
  • Merkins on Dad’s back
  • LBC
  • LBC on Dad’s stomach (ouch)

Water Break

Shark’s and Minow’s

Relay Race with PAX breaking into 5 teams

  • Bear Crawl
  • Run

Water Break

Scavenger Hunt

Same five teams grouped together to hit 5 different checkpoints (home plate, shovel flag, slide in the park, volleyball court and lake) all while carrying an egg and water balloon. Along the way team members were carried and items were scavenged (picked up), including: maple leaf, oak leaf, pine needle, sand, water from the lake and miscellaneous litter.

Moleskine:

Awesome job by all of the Dad’s and 2.0’s out there today. There was a lot of great demonstrations of the various exercises early in the workout along with enthusiastic cheering for the different team members during the relay race. Everyone had an opportunity to participate in the scavenger hunt with some of the largest contributions coming from the smallest members of the PAX.

Thanks for the opportunity to lead the F3 Dads workout today. Had a blast and look forward to seeing everyone come on out during the remainder of the month of June.

My apologies for not getting all the names down.  Instead of just a partial listing I left us all off.  “All for one and one for all”

“Kryptonite” no impact for Stonehenge PAX

Great morning to get after it – Stonehenge Style
There were 19 brave souls that showed up and a few that I know for sure had brave words and timid actions – you know who you are because you did not show.
My mission was to bring some heat to the Stonehenge boys.  To that end we divided into 5 teams each responsible for carrying 1 log – 1 25 lb plate – 1 30 lb sand bag.
Warmup – no need to specify as I don’t recall what we did
Mosey to lakeside for some team pain
First station
-one team member bear crawls to lakeside (2x) while the other team members do squats.  Repeat 4 times so each team member gets to bear crawl
-Carolina Drydock with feet elevated on ledge (25x)
-Burpees (20x)
Second station
-one team member crab walks to lakeside (1x) while the other team members do lunges.  Repeat 4 times so each team member gets to crab walk.
Mosey over to hidden hill
Third station
-two team members do hills while two team members do squats (2x)
Awesome seeing Dolphin and Wild Turkey take the hill like a ski slope – great work
-two team members do hills while two team members do merkins (1x)
Mosey over to field
Fourth station
-Partner Carry to end of field then 20 merkins
-Partner Carry back to start then 20 merkins
-Karaoke across field and back to start
-Leg lifts for each partner (30x)
Mosey over to parking lot
Fifth station
Rotation of four exercises
-Sand bag carry down through the stream and back to start
-Hair burners with 25 lb plate
-Run around the building
-Squats with log
Finally we finished by moseying back to starting point.
It was a real pleasure to lead this AM.  Great crew of men out there that put forth an awesome effort.  The teamwork was phenomenal with each member encouraging their teammates along with guys from other groups – well done.
Big props to the group of 3 – Wild Turkey, Chipotle and Frehley’s Comet – no rest for the weary as there was no break from the agony for your guys today.
FNG (Balkey) did a great job out there.  I thought that I would have scared him off with the logs and sand bags but he relished the challenge – touche.
There is a great shot that Mr Bean took off several members of the PAX this morning with the logs and sand bags.  Check out twitter as I know it made it out to the Area51 group.
Announcments:
FNG Matt Shepherd (Balkey)
Queens Cup Market Timer has a tailgate at the home stretch. Buy general admission tickets at Harris Teeter.
Fight Club starts back up Monday at the trail 5.15am bring a headlamp. Chipotle is the Q