Hey guys, it’s me….DW! As you all can assume already, I started planning this workout years ago. With such an awful site like old #87, nearly any PAX member can have success here…..
I had a goal of avoiding any and all Mary since my abs are already looking spectacular. My wife calls my stomach the most impressive thing on my entire body. I’m not sure what that means because it small and has zero definition. I hope she lets me in on the joke soon.
Anyways, I ended up running the PAX until they couldn’t breath any longer. While I have a wienke wrist thingy now I’ve actually just slipped in a mirror. Now when I’m out so far ahead of everyone I can sneak a look at myself and think “who’s that good looking guy in there?” Makes me giggle every time….
Time for the show. DiCCS reviewed.
THE THANG
Around a 3/4 mile mosey to the track at the school – circle up on ball court for Warmup:
Mosey to Bad Idea 7×7 – Subtract 1 each round
Mosey to BBall Court – Side to Side 7’s – 1-6, 2-5, 3-4, etc with Merkins at both sides
Mosey to Dreamchasers – Burpee Every 5th Light pole
Run the Block – Audible Halfway down and back
Timing running low, Mosey to Keith Jong Hill with 2 Splinter Masters at stop sign
MOLESKIN
Once I nearly lapped everyone I was forced to Mary by myself. Al Gore was my go to or when annoyed by loud breathing I would call an audible to show those that aren’t as fit at me, Deadwood, some mercy. As I said before it’s absolutely me still writing this.
A few nightlights was Rudy locating us in the gloom a few minutes after the start and joining us at our first warmup, well done bro!
At one point I asked Chainsaw if he wanted 10 count and he blurted out, “NO! I will still out run you Philip!” Classic father-son moment.
Gerber brought an FNG but didn’t circle back for his nephew much. FNGs counts were off a bit forcing him to be an overachiever but he hung strong. It’s just about time we get the Gerber Q….
Speaking of Qs, Airdrop continues to push hard and we need more stories from this guy. Constantly at the front and if I’m being honest me, Deadwood, the site Qs for the Floater put on a clinic on closing those ready for their VQ. Incredible stuff MB and Zin. See you in March Airdrop for your cherry pop!
Thanks to all 10 PAX that joined this morning! Welcome Depends, our FNG and temporary Briarcrestonite. Fresh college graduate turned sales rep for nursing homes, hence the nickname. Hope he joins again!
Thanks to MB for taking us out.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Dasher on Q tonight!
Deflated on Q tomorrow!
Popeye on Q Saturday!
Something else happening I’m sure I’m missing….
I missed Monday and was looking to get an extra day in so I offered to Q the 86th worst location in WUC. Having done the 87th the week before I figured it couldn’t be much worse.
8 total posted yesterday at Clyent Dinner, a new record! Now knowing all it took was beer we should call this site Clyent Hoppy Hour. Let’s get into it…
THE THANG:
DCCS given right at the start
Small Mosey Lap
8 pack – Dana’s Dream Abs
1. 30 second side plank
2. 30 second side plank
3. 30 second 6” plank
4. 30 x LBCs IC
5. 30 second side plank
6. 30 second side plank
7. 30 second 6” plank
8. 30 x LBCs IC
Mosey
Up two lights, back one light:
• 5 x Shoulder Shredders
• 10 x Jumping Lunges (5 per leg)
Mosey from Transporters Shed to Tennis Courts
Lunge the whole sidewalk stopping for 10 Bobby Hurley’s at each light, 2 total
Line up bootcamp style for an exercise at the top & bottom of hill:
1. 20 x SSHs IC
2. 20 x 6” Plank Jacks IC
3. 20 x Squats CC
4. 20 x Peter Parkers IC
5. 20 x Mountain Climbers IC
6. 20 x Jumping Lunges CC (10 per leg)
7. 20 x Carolina Drydocks CC
8. 8 x Master Splinter Burpees in 60 secs OYO
Speedskater Strip (7 Lights) – deep & touch the ground
Small Lot = The Burpee Loop (7 lights)
• 1st Light, 1 Burpee
• 2nd Light, 2 Burpees
• 3rd Light, 3 Burpees
• 4th Light, 4 Burpees
• 5th Light, 3 Burpees
• 6th Light, 2 Burpees
• 7th Light, 1 Burpee
Make way back to COT, stopped at HS benches for 10 inclined merkins and MS benches for 10 derkins. Completed 20 dips and 60 seconds of pistol LBCs.
Done
THE MOLESKIN:
My Qs are focused on planning to avoid as much of Mary as possibly. While I really want Dana Abs too I would rather keep the PAX together. We pretty well achieved that.
The opening abdominals workout was to warm the core and knock them out before ramping up those HRs!
Everyone put in the effort and it’s hard to modify when in a group like that with bulk being in IC or CC. It was good to see people dying doing 30 secs of 6″ plank jacks. I hate them and that’s why I’m doing them every time I Q.
I will say some PAX seemed a little conFUSEd on the burpee portions doing more of what I would call a “burp”. Let’s sneak that full merkin in there next time twinkle toes. Just jokes (kind of).
Thanks to those that showed up and thanks to Banjo for taking us out.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Ayyyyyyyyy!! Not really. For my 8th Q, I postponed it one weekdue to a never ending J. Timberlake 48 hour “emotional” headlock. Thanks to DW for covering my shift last week and thank you to Moneyball for letting this slide. I brought even more shame to the worst location in all the land, for that you are most welcome.
What more curse words can be said about this site that the dirtiest mouth in all the land hasn’t already said? I’m not sure exactly but it was the least honorable location to Q….
15 PAXs in total this morning. Appreciate every single last one of them. Thanks for the support.
DCCS given to about 93.333% of the guys before start. Coca-Cola flavored lip balm caught the tail end but caught the gist. Let’s rock
THE THANG
Mosey to the dark, Workout at each light, alternate exercise:
Cross Street Together (several PAXs forgot the part of DCCS where I asked everyone to cross together, we would try better next time), Same Idea at all lights
Line Up Across the front of Dreamchasers, instead of a circle…safety first!
All of the lights, up 2 and back 1 at each light:
Cone Exercises at BB&T Lot, break into 5 groups
Mosey to Keith Jong Hill, 6 master splinters for a minute, 10 x lunges (per leg) up hill then jail break to stop sign. Mosey down. Repeat but upped the MS to 8. Mosey back to the start.
That’s a wrap at 15 seconds passed 45. Whoops.
Thanks to One Star for taking us out!
MOLESKIN
The path I created worked out well for the most part. The speedskater row was much longer than expected but we gotta get those buts right. An M, not mine, told me my ass fell off with working out and I want her to have something to galk at this summer.
BB&T parking lot 4 corners worked out for the most part. It was larger than I remembered (that’s what she said) but a little name calling got everyone moving between stations.
Always a pleasure to lead and love to see the different PAX pushing themselves to new levels. Rudy was right in the mix with my all morning and he won a new award, Brightest Headlamp of the AM! He’s giving DW a run for his money here.
Great to see Trojan posting so consistently lately, keep pushing yourself man. Great work!
Welcome back Gerber! Great to have our one Gazelle of Briarcrest back and keeping us somewhat respectable as far as athletic abilities are concerned. Maybe one day he will carpool with us or he will just continue to be embarrassed about where he lives just like Hollywood. Stay tuned…
One area of concern as of late is the high level of stress that seems to be coursing through Recalculating veins. I’m hoping it’s based completely on the fact he’s participating in Dry January and will pass in 14 days! Because if not so help me I’m going to be thrown out of the game due to a hard technical foul if he critiques my Bobby Hurley form again.
The rest of you are awesome. Thanks as always.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
While circling up at the end Impromptu yesterday, Recalculating through out the idea of splitting the Q for Commitment. I had heard this was frowned upon but I jumped at the chance to host with a local legend. While Recalc has a persona of the cranky guy, you will find he’s merely an exaggerated version of his actual self. While he does bicker it’s with the intention of laughter. If you get some words thrown at you, run with it….he means well.
So like Lloyd Christmas famously said in the 1994 smash hit, “You know, the elderly, although slow, and dangerous behind the wheel, can serve a purpose. Don’t you go dying on me now!” This quote couldn’t sum up my feelings for Recalc anymore….
Let’s go….
THE THANG
Jog to circle, circle up, disclaimer given, exercise:
• SSH
• Moroccan Night Club
• Merkins
• Squats
• Imperial Walkers
Mosey to Community Entrance & Split into 3 Lines. Indian Run w/ a burpee to Elementary School Courtyard.
Individual Cone & Ladder Stations, split up into groups of 8. Planned to do Laps every 2 stations but my 30 minutes was running short. Stations were:
1. Burpees
2. Carolina Dry Docks CC
3. Mtn Climbers IC
4. Ladder Merkins OYO
5. American Hammers IC
6. Jump Squats CC
7. Ladder Dance OYO
8. 6” Plank Jacks
Burpees Count Down to the handoff, 10 Burpees a minute for 2 minutes
RECALC takes the reins….
Increasing stamina & conditioning with 3 x 220yd sprints. Goal to decrease times between each cycle.
Millbridge’s version of Keith Jong Hill. Not as steep but seemed to never end.
• Reverse suicide up the hill with escalating Hurley Trio at each stop
• Hurley trio: 1 Bob Sr (burpee), 2 Danny’s (broad jump), 3 Bobby’s Hurley’s
• Increase count at each end of suicide by 1
Re-up the conditioning back to the start. 3 x 220yd sprints to finish. Jail break to parking lot
Thank you Goodfella for taking us out!
MOLESKIN
Chilly morning but anything was better than Deadwood Qing again rain! That brisk 44 degrees didn’t scare off the 19 PAX that posted this morning. Recalc and I shot a bit from the hip on the plan but it worked out really well. My focus would be building blue twisted steel muscles….
Usual warm up but the slow Mosey to the entrance of Nesbit Park and we were already down a few PAX. Lost Popeye and hope he’s wiping icing his ailment. Then we thought we lost Rudy but he was picking up his 2.0, Lancer. We started the Indian Run to pick up the 6. Lancer asked where we were headed and little dude sprinted there! Great to see these young guys getting it….
We got to station work and quickly learned how many guys memories were completely shot. I handed them mental station numbers and 1/4 of the groups couldn’t remember. Quick regroup and we split up. Nothing major happened here other than my choice of Steve Winwood & Eric Clapton’s Live album not providing the energy we needed for the burpees. Def Leopard next time….
I happily jumped to the passenger seat and Recalc took us on a journey. I was completely confused with whatever he said we were doing but I was taught by my parents to respect my elders. 40 sec, 35 sec and 30 sec sprints it was. Shout out to Dana for letting the PAX pass him after stage 1 to rid his body of a taco infused hot air biscuit.
Disclaimer given by Goodfella about the need for Millbridge folks like to sleep and we should keep it down. After Recalc told us about the Hurling Hurley Family Suicides it was silent.
Minutes left and it was back to the 220yd sprints to get home. Bottlecap accused two Clydesdales of sandbagging but personally I would much rather compete in short sprints for 45 minutes than LSD (long slow distance). My frame was built for sprints and it seems Fuse Box’s body was too.
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It was a pleasure to split the Q with Recalc and to lead you group of great men. Always good to see the 2.0s joining us and seeing the extra push out of the Dad’s.
Yikes. That just took me nearly 2 hours to type. Luckily I had a tasty 30th Birthday Anniversary brew from Portland to help me close strong.
Great to see Mad Dog today at McDonalds and hope he joins us in his finest sweatpant material outfits in the future!
Happy Saturday!
ANNOUNCEMENTS
My 6th Q ever but what an honor to have the first Q of 2019! Sadly no one gave me that honor and I solely just volunteered myself to lead the crew this morning. As we start the new year I’ve seen posts about making resolutions and about not making them. I’m not a fan personally but one thing I do know is that we are all in this together. This workout would be tough but we would focus completing as a pack.
Slower disclaimer given, discussed where we would be going and shared the new focus on safety.
THE THANG
Mosey around the Petsmart and meet in the center of the parking lot. 4 Corners IC, @ the center 25 x LBCs but we will bear crawl to each corner
1. In & Outs x 25 CC
2. SSHs x 25 IC
3. Merkins x 25 CC
4. Squats x 25 CC
Mosey over to Hickory Tavern, find some space
• Short Lap, 19 Derkins CC
• Long Lap, 19 Dips CC
• Short Lap, 19 Incline Pushups CC
• Long Lap, 19 Heels to Heaven
Mosey around HT, run up past Chick-fil-A & to the traffic circle. 10 burpees a minute for 5 minutes.
Mosey. I had plans to run behind Gas Station, around CVS and meet at the BB&T. We ran straight to BB&T. Split into even groups for station work. The timers would be, Round 1: Bunny Hop and Round 2: Toe Taps. Cones set up
1. 6” Plank
2. Jump Squats IC
3. Mountain Climbers IC
4. Dry Docks CC
Mosey to Side Lot by Rack Room and 10 burpees a minute for 5 minutes 1 minute. Happy for the audible call on my part.
Mosey to front of Target and all the way to the front left corner. Split into even groups for Indian Run. This would be a slow Mosey w/ one (1) Shoulder Shredder.
Finished right on time with each PAX completing two rounds of IR and SS.
THE MOLESKINE
A lot of people fartsacked today and normally I wouldn’t blame them but this year I do. Nine not scared men joined me in the amazing 65 degree weather at the Watchtower location for what would be a gag inducing workout. Too much holiday cheer? Maybe.
The goal was to keep the group together and I think for the most part that was a success. I couldn’t breathe from the start of 4 corners and thanks to those that helped me count IC. Not sure if that’s adrenaline or what but I gotta get that under control.
A bit of whining at the jump of four corners with the mention of bear crawls but I was still mad at Dough Boy’s lack of BC I wanted to welcome him back with open hands of bourbon spiked egg nog arms. The only thing I offered Breadbowl was dry heaving through out the 45 mins. Thanks to those that helped encourage that man to finish.
The laps around HT were pretty simple but then Ice9 asked, “what’s with this 19 counts?”. Hello, it’s 2019 bro! More on him….
Hooch was an a hole gracious enough to do two rounds of 10 burpees a minute for 5 minutes last week at the Floater. I love/hated it. He wants me to credit him in my syllabus for using it but I’m told he stole it from Transporter. Not sure of the creator.
Speaking of burpees, the form is all over the place these days on these things. It’s pretty simple but please lock it up. I hate them too but drop it like it’s hot and get them over with properly. I mean one guy was even dry heaving for the last half of those things. THATS NOT PART OF A BURPEE!! I’m not going to call that guy out but his name rhymes with Nice Shine. (Hahaha)
We knocked out the two rounds of station work and I had aspirations of another 5 minutes of burpees. Shoulders were spent and we had 7 minutes left. We knocked out 1 minute of 10 with my encouraging words of “we got this”. I was talking my mental Up mostly.
No other major highlights but I felt good with the plan. I appreciate the opportunity to lead you group of fine brothers and appreciate everyone that showed up. Until next time….
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Can you even take a punch? Seeing as it was Boxing Day I had the eye of the tiger flowing through me. Would my workout channel anything specific to boxing? Not a chance. Have I been in my fair share of scraps as a younger man? Buy me a drink and let’s chat offline.
The gear workout is a bit tough to plan out due to never having a headcount ahead of time. Do I have enough gear? Enough stations? When and how can I incorporate Hip Thrusts to Heaven?
Plus I was looking to really throw a curveball at the PAX and knowing Recalc would be there, expectations were extremely high. But would I actually incorporate gear into the gear focused location?
THE THANG
Mosey to Entrance, Grab Lifting Rocks, Mosey to right of Mt. Chiseled, circle up. Disclaimer given.
• 20 SSHs IC
• 20 Imperial Walkers IC
• 20 Mtn. Climbers IC
• 10 Peter Parkers @ 6″ IC
• 20 Parker Peters IC
Lap Around Mt. Chiseled
Activity with a lap in-between, count of 20 each:
• Al Gore w/ jabs
• Torso Twists w/ rock
• Slow deep squats w/ air press
• Speed Skaters w/ front lateral raise w/ rock
Mosey w/ rocks to 1st Light:
Mosey to Side Lot for Station Work, Station #1 is the timer, Mosey every 4 stations as a group
{fin}
MOLESKIN
Thanks to the 9 PAX that posted with me! We covered little mileage but keep the hearts racing if you were pushing yourself. Those rocks were so freaking cold but got the ripping & tearing we needed to get jacked….
The Double Merkin Ladder with Double Bear Crawls as the timer was a great idea. The PAX yelling cheering each other on to hurry up finish strong was great. Then I threw in a short mosey lap after 4 stations allowed everyone to stop thinking about hurting muscles for a few seconds. This way we kept the intensity high when we got back to the stations.
Cheers!
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
(I’m a day late, see announcements from Hooch’s BB today)
What would my birthday be without celebrating with my brothers? Also a great excuse to lead a creative workout with the soul purpose of burning as many calories as possible since I would later consume 1,000+ calories in crafty brews. I appreciate each and everyone for showing up this morning. Even those that fartsacked, you all still have a tiny, tiny, tiny piece of my heart.
I have to have a theme for my workouts just to change it up for my mental planning. So being born on 12/22/80 and turning the tender age of 38 I knew it was going to be a good day. Obviously I’m never worried about mileage but always focused on constant motion. Keeping the HR in zone 4 is my goal. As well as focusing on my problem areas. Beer belly and thunder thighs.
Sidenote: keeping things somewhat “fun” with the promise of 2.0s wasnt something I had to think about before. But boy oh boy did the kids show up for Uncle Zin this AM…
THE THANG:
Jog to circle, circle up, disclaimer given
Duck, Duck, Skip an Exercise – Every PAX will run around the circle twice while the remainder of the PAX complete an exercise in IC. 2 rounds
Mosey to Elementary Entrance & Partner Up
Partner 1, Bear Crawl from one light to the next, P2 lunge walk between lights. Flip flop.
Mosey to Playground
Individual Cone Stations x 6, split up in groups, 2 rounds
Mosey to the front left of the school, team up, Partner 1 is the timer, run down the stairs & back up:
Mosey to Entryway, going after an 80 count, flip flop exercises between trees
Jack Webb’s – Merkins and Air presses
Finished on the dot! (in your face Posse!)
MOLESKIN:
20 men posted and I appreciate everyone’s participation in my own little “fun house” this morning. Even more impressed with the 2.0s level of effort and I can’t wait for my boys to be a bit older so they can join in the fun.
I hope I didn’t miss anyone in my long post. Thought I would have fun with this BB while I slowly sip this delectable adult beverage. Thanks to Dancing Bear for taking us out. See you all on Monday!
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
fin
Moleskin:
I think I’m starting to get the hang of this thing. Doing exercises that make people slightly uncomfortable due to them not being in touch with their feminine side might be my forte. Regardless I can’t shake my beer gut so the whole core area must be destroyed by me. Thanks for playing along…
Only a few moments to laugh about this morning as we kept it moving basically the entire time. My goal was to stay IC as much as possible to avoid taking breaks/fartsacking in the middle of the workout. For the most part we nailed that and the only break was for gazelles that crushed the B&B “gift”. I also attempted as little running as possible and makes it tough to get the HR up to a fat burning pace but 1.47mi is probably close to the lowest mileage for that location. #goals
I do want to highlight one guy that consistently shows up (a little late), puts in the time and today he got a great joke in. Today we had odd numbers and Jingles took on the challenge of carrying his rock overhead the entire challenge by his lonesome. Lt. Rubbermaid made light of the size of his rock and Jingles quickly clapped back with, “that’s what they all say when they see it!” Well done.
Thank you to everyone for joining today and for the support over the last couple months.
Lastly, thank you to Flo for taking us out!
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
My second Q since popping my cherry just 12 days ago and I was already feeling really apprehensive about the next one. I could barely sleep last night and was nervous after all the older guys were so relentlessly bashing my gearless-gear workout. I’m kidding, I’m Bruce Wayne and I immediately tapped my Batman spirit when I got the signal from Foundation.
The title for this workout came to me while pooping in the Batcave and it would serve as my homage towards the Dark Knight. You might remember this quote from that movie as said by Harvey Dent when the Joker and the guys from Asylum & Ignition his goons were threatening civility in The Playhouse Gotham. The loose meaning of the quote is to say that its about as dark as its going to get right now but from this moment we start heading towards the light.
I spent part of Sunday mapping out each of the street lamps across the campus of Cuthbertson and created a workout solely focused on the “light”. On Friday Dasher handed us a whooping but one that I actually enjoyed. I needed to some how keep my brethren, the 6, closer. Could it be that I might create a workout with as little stoppage time as possible but somehow spread the pain across different parts of the body so that we don’t loose the 6? Oh we did just that….
The THANG
Disclaimer given right at the start
Long-ish Mosey into nearly complete darkness and the basis for the theme of this workout. 35 degrees out this AM and figured being under what I assumed were heat lamps would help with the mental. It didn’t….
Made it to the first light out in front of the middle school closest to Cuthbertson Road. I attempted thought about lining everyone up bootcamp style but instead were just a mess of dudes. Regardless I wanted to try something other than circling up. So we warmed up at each light until we got passed Moneyball Mountain (12 lights):
Small Lot = The Burpee Loop (7 lights)
Speedskater Strip (5 Lights) – get deep & touch the ground like you mean it
Massive Lot – (18 lights)
8 pack bridge (8 lights) aka “my elbows hurt”
Tennis Courts (3 lights)
Beltway Home (6 lights)
Made it back probably 60-90 seconds late, my bad. COT & thanks to Damascus for taking us out!
Moleskin:
It was a great workout in my mind. Other than arriving a bit late to the finish all of it pretty much went as planned. The two highlights for me was when Tupperware’s little baby skin elbows were in such pain he needed to take his shirt off to act as an elbow pad? Stop it. Its freezing outside. The next memory was moseying towards Transporter’s Poopoo Palace shed and Posse shared some thoughts on our distance when compared to the amount of time left. I barked at him since I thought I knew what I was doing but he was in fact was right. A public apology was given at 6:45AM. I was hoping and had planned for 71 lights but feel good about getting to 59 street lights!
I appreciate my second opportunity to lead you fine gentlemen and thoroughly enjoy the fear each of you showed up with this morning knowing I might start doing aerobics at any minute. I don’t think we did any 80s-style aerobics but we did keep our heartbeats rolling for the full 45 minutes. Only one time did we wait on the 6 after 8 pack bridge which was my goal.
I will continue to improve with the support and push of each of you. If you have ideas, let me know as long as your name is not Keith or Lou.
Lastly, zero thanks to anyone from Briarcrest today as all 10+ members bailed on me this morning. I hope each of you gets a flat in the near future. Post picture on GroupMe please.
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