Now You’re Speaking My Love Language
Date: 2025-02-21 AO: _sob Q: midriff PAX: fire_hazard, tuck, Hippie, wingman, soft_pretzel, Franky, Rousey, bratwurst FNGs: None COUNT: 9 This morning, 9 HIM (Tuck, Bratwurst, Franky, Soft Pretzel, Fire Hazard, Wingman, Hippie, Rousey, and YHC) gathered in the Ballantyne backyard to take on The Brave. Starting from the future Wegmans site off Community House Road, we embarked on an unconventional and awesome workout.
The Game Plan: – Each throw determined our next location, and we rotated through merkins, squats/jump squats, LBCs/flutter kicks, and burpees on the golf course holes. – On road holes, we skipped exercises but cranked the intensity with sprints at 50%, 75%, and 100% effort.
Highlights from the gloom: – Construction Trespassing: We entered the “golf course” through the construction site. tuck, in true form, declared that I was speaking his love language. – Ultimate Frisbee Cameos: bratwurst showed off his ultimate frisbee skills with some incredible throws. One memorable toss veered far right into the woods, but we tracked it down like pros. – Frozen Glow: The frisbee’s colored light refused to cooperate with the sub-freezing temps, leaving us to guess where it landed in the dark on many throws. – MVP Performance: Rousey took home “Most Improved Player,” tossing increasingly righteous slices as the workout progressed. Great to have him back at The Brave after a hiatus! – Oven Mitt MVP: Hippie brought some serious style with oven mitt gloves—yet still managed impressive frisbee throws. – Props to fire_hazard: Thanks for sourcing the frisbee (even if it wasn’t fully lit) and for letting me Q such a stellar crew.
Grateful for the camaraderie and energy this morning. Let’s keep SOB’s premiere Friday workout spinning next week!
– Midriff
The Game Plan: – Each throw determined our next location, and we rotated through merkins, squats/jump squats, LBCs/flutter kicks, and burpees on the golf course holes. – On road holes, we skipped exercises but cranked the intensity with sprints at 50%, 75%, and 100% effort.
Highlights from the gloom: – Construction Trespassing: We entered the “golf course” through the construction site. tuck, in true form, declared that I was speaking his love language. – Ultimate Frisbee Cameos: bratwurst showed off his ultimate frisbee skills with some incredible throws. One memorable toss veered far right into the woods, but we tracked it down like pros. – Frozen Glow: The frisbee’s colored light refused to cooperate with the sub-freezing temps, leaving us to guess where it landed in the dark on many throws. – MVP Performance: Rousey took home “Most Improved Player,” tossing increasingly righteous slices as the workout progressed. Great to have him back at The Brave after a hiatus! – Oven Mitt MVP: Hippie brought some serious style with oven mitt gloves—yet still managed impressive frisbee throws. – Props to fire_hazard: Thanks for sourcing the frisbee (even if it wasn’t fully lit) and for letting me Q such a stellar crew.
Grateful for the camaraderie and energy this morning. Let’s keep SOB’s premiere Friday workout spinning next week!
– Midriff
THE GREEN MILE (St Patty’s Saturday)
Attention runners, ruckers and even bikers …
Are you looking for an opportunity to put some easy miles in with your brothers? Maybe you need a training run for an upcoming race? Perhaps you just need a long-distance Saturday run/ruck or ride?
FREE- no cost…. No shirts… Just a stupid time
Several PAX are interested in running the Little Sugar Creek Greenway on St. Patty’s Saturday and want you to join us for The Green Mile.
This is an out and back sticking to mainly Sugar Creek Greenway paths. You can go as far out as you want. 5k to 50k….the initial group is committing to a 25k out to Johnston YMCA in NODA and back- 3025 N Davidson St in Charlotte.
There are several PAX dropping clown cars at the YMCA to carpool back any runners only wanting the 25k
SOB’s chicken run and Waxhaw’s Paper Trail will converge together on Sat March 15th at the Sugar Creek Greenway. Launch will be from Best Western hotel in Pineville. (This is an alternate start from last year to avoid the safety issue of running in the road around the mall.)
9825 Leitner Dr, Pineville NC 28134. Park along the main road, or inside the hotel lot.
Official launch time at 6am. Wear your favorite green St.Pattys attire. Bring hydration pack and all needed nutrition. Water, bananas, misc snacks will be provided at the launch location and at the 25k mark, but no water stations along the way. Headlamps/reflective gear suggested.
The route has been pre-planned and is not a straight shot. There are a few closed paths and several turns where PAX can get turned around. I will attempt to be ahead of the group and add chalk marks at turns, however, please stick with at least one running partner. The best directions are to download the route for guidance. Call me anytime along the route if needed – (810)459-9450
https://connect.garmin.com/modern/course/333750801
Grab a running partner, and let’s do a really stupid and utterly pointless run together.
Cans > Kegs…For Safety!
Date: 2025-02-22 AO: olympus Q: Krzyzewski PAX: MARTA, Wabbit, ickey_shuffle, Cottonmouth, Emoji FNGs: None COUNT: 6 Fortuitously, or more realistically by pure chance, the soundtrack to today’s beatdown dovetailed well with a lot of ’90s flashbacks to dorm parties in Oxford, OH, general college talk, and general nostalgia for the days of yore. Draped in a sound cloud of deep cuts by the usual suspects (e.g., Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots), a Soundgarden jam from ’89 (t-claps to MARTA for guessing that one), and, yup, even Rammstein, the pax powered through 40 minutes of EMOMs and some ‘lagniappe’ to round out the beatdown. Despite Joe Daniels’ advertisement for legs and back, we snacked on several additional food groups with copious presses, merkins, and snatches. Overall, solid beatdown to power through the cold. Hopefully, as Ickey envisaged, perhaps this was the last (or one of the last) brutal mornings this winter…we’ll see what the kettlebell gods have in store for us in future weeks. Let’s recap this one for now… WARMUP: Swings (10x), prying squats, swings (10x), synovial circles, swings (10x), slingshots (7x e/w) THE THANG: 1) EMOM #1 (10 min.) – A: Heavy swings (10x) – B: Farmer holds (25 sec.) 2) EMOM #2 (20 min.) – A: Bent over rows (3x e/s) – B: Clean / clean / jerk (2x e/s) 3) EMOM #3 (10 min.) – Snatches (4x e/s) 4) Inverse Ladder (5 sets) – Merkins (10x) [Subtract 2x each set] – Lying KB pullovers (aka Skullcrushers) [Add 2x each set] MARY: Carries that went down two tree and then back ANNOUNCEMENTS: – Not much for now – hopefully blood drive soon – Continued prayers for The Worm and his family as he continues to battle hard COT: YHC took out the joint groups in COT
“The Way Of the Warrior Princess”
Date: 2025-02-22 AO: stonehenge Q: Rousey PAX: wildturkey, lex_luthor, Brisket, tagalong, Moth Balls, Rump Roast FNGs: None COUNT: 7 “The Way of the Warrior Necklace” to be given out at the end of the beatdown to the Warrior/s who do not quit at any moment .
Warm up :Run like Warriors towards the Bowl: High knees, butt kickers, side to side sprawls , and back wards run.
Side straddle hops Hill Billy w Squat Windmill Cherry pickers Merkins w/ Toe taps World Greatest Stretch Pigeon pose
The Thang: Warrior Hill workout :
The top of the hill you do : In and out jump squats qty:20
At the bottom of the hill you do:
3 sets : Super crunch: a combo crunch (boat crunch and jack knife ) Twistin piston Splinter sits ups Run up the hill and Bear crawl up the hill.
Listen the Warrior music while we do Saw Planks.
Run like Warriors to another hills no.2 Star fish jump jacks (qty:10) at the bottom Monkey hoppers (qty:20) at the top .
Run like Warriors towards pull up bars:
Partner up exercise Together you do 100 pull ups While partner duck walks with rock over their head . (Alternate when duck walker comes back)
The Grand Finale:
The Way or the Warrior Elimination Wall of Death:
1 minute : Hand Stand Shoulder taps 1 minute : Alaskan Mtn Climbers 1 minute ; Mike Tyson Push ups
Warriors backward run to Cot: Circle up while we do a Burpee fest to determine who is the Ultimate Warrior.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: I announced that the Way of the Warrior necklace ceremony will be postponed because I left the Warrior necklaces at home . Sorry guys . The good news is that non of you deserved the Warrior Necklaces today . Better luck next time !
Warm up :Run like Warriors towards the Bowl: High knees, butt kickers, side to side sprawls , and back wards run.
Side straddle hops Hill Billy w Squat Windmill Cherry pickers Merkins w/ Toe taps World Greatest Stretch Pigeon pose
The Thang: Warrior Hill workout :
The top of the hill you do : In and out jump squats qty:20
At the bottom of the hill you do:
3 sets : Super crunch: a combo crunch (boat crunch and jack knife ) Twistin piston Splinter sits ups Run up the hill and Bear crawl up the hill.
Listen the Warrior music while we do Saw Planks.
Run like Warriors to another hills no.2 Star fish jump jacks (qty:10) at the bottom Monkey hoppers (qty:20) at the top .
Run like Warriors towards pull up bars:
Partner up exercise Together you do 100 pull ups While partner duck walks with rock over their head . (Alternate when duck walker comes back)
The Grand Finale:
The Way or the Warrior Elimination Wall of Death:
1 minute : Hand Stand Shoulder taps 1 minute : Alaskan Mtn Climbers 1 minute ; Mike Tyson Push ups
Warriors backward run to Cot: Circle up while we do a Burpee fest to determine who is the Ultimate Warrior.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: I announced that the Way of the Warrior necklace ceremony will be postponed because I left the Warrior necklaces at home . Sorry guys . The good news is that non of you deserved the Warrior Necklaces today . Better luck next time !
Alexis
Date: 2025-02-22 AO: mountain-goat Q: Insomniac PAX: retread, Spammer, wildturkey FNGs: None COUNT: 4 Cold loops, good times
Subzero (Celsius) Ulty
Date: 2025-02-21 AO: ufo-ultimatefriz Q: Spyglass PAX: MARTA, Shank, Victoria, sweeney_todd, Smokey, Fruity Pebbles, Pipes, Schottzie, Yeti, Pfeffer, Crawdad, Spyglass, David Baker, biden, pinkeye FNGs: None COUNT: 15 2.21.25 Backblast Another Friday, another day to get better. 15 braved the elements, chapped nipples and all.
Play started with 2 absolute zingers by Pfeffer, one dedicated to each of his 2 children. Pink capitalized on the substitute, and also just being generally better at Frisbee than Yellow. Bodies were thumping down on the ole long ball, with Sleepy Joe Biden apparently giggling as he secured the grab and took the hit from Schotz.
Trending up: Smokey and Pipes. Tremendous efforts from both of em.
Below average performances: Friday Spy and Friday Shank.
It was an anticlimactic game that felt over by approximately 5:25.
In better news, word on the street is the Fresby’s are returning in 2025 after a pause due to leadership crisis last year.
Also, Smokey is pretty convinced that we did indeed land on the moon. Poor guy.
Prayers for the family of Baguette as they work through the sleepless nights of newborns (Paris)
Have a day, gentleman, Spyglass
PINK TEAM(1S): 20+ MARTA SHANK VICKY BARBER SMOKEY FRUITY PIPES SCHOTTZIE
YELLOW (2S): 12 YETI PFEFFER BIDEN CRAWDAD PINKEYE SPYGLASS FLY WITH ME
Play started with 2 absolute zingers by Pfeffer, one dedicated to each of his 2 children. Pink capitalized on the substitute, and also just being generally better at Frisbee than Yellow. Bodies were thumping down on the ole long ball, with Sleepy Joe Biden apparently giggling as he secured the grab and took the hit from Schotz.
Trending up: Smokey and Pipes. Tremendous efforts from both of em.
Below average performances: Friday Spy and Friday Shank.
It was an anticlimactic game that felt over by approximately 5:25.
In better news, word on the street is the Fresby’s are returning in 2025 after a pause due to leadership crisis last year.
Also, Smokey is pretty convinced that we did indeed land on the moon. Poor guy.
Prayers for the family of Baguette as they work through the sleepless nights of newborns (Paris)
Have a day, gentleman, Spyglass
PINK TEAM(1S): 20+ MARTA SHANK VICKY BARBER SMOKEY FRUITY PIPES SCHOTTZIE
YELLOW (2S): 12 YETI PFEFFER BIDEN CRAWDAD PINKEYE SPYGLASS FLY WITH ME
Substi-Q Valentine
Date: 2025-02-14 AO: joust Q: spackles PAX: Header, Focker, hopper, puddin_pop, ductwork, poptart, marge, geraldo, high_tide, spackles, @limey, @tebow FNGs: None COUNT: 12 WARMUP: The usual
THE THANG: spackles stepped up to sub for V-day. CCS campus tour with running, body weight exercises and tons of mumblechatter.
Great to see high_tide and @tebow at a bootcamp!
#51counts
MARY: Can’t remember
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Pancake breakfast after the show
COT:
THE THANG: spackles stepped up to sub for V-day. CCS campus tour with running, body weight exercises and tons of mumblechatter.
Great to see high_tide and @tebow at a bootcamp!
#51counts
MARY: Can’t remember
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Pancake breakfast after the show
COT:
Outta Time
Date: 2025-02-21 AO: scars Q: Roulette PAX: Starch, Pepsi, F3 Elsa, Going Twice, kirby, Altar Boy FNGs: None COUNT: 7 WARMUP: Not at this AO, we dive right in… THE THANG: YHC was felling spicy, so we deviated from the standard route. In honor of midriff Q’ing the-brave we pulled out the Nittany Lion special and headed towards Ballantyne Ridge HS… Bitter cold, but that didn’t stop the men of scars from bagging some endorphins this morning. Just over 3 miles with some hills and parking deck thrown in for good measure. F3 Elsa made his triumphant return after being out a few weeks, glad to have you back. Pepsi continues to pile up the paxstats posting three times this week, keep up the great work! kirby came in hot today with 45 lbs. on his back and the highest of quality mumble chatter. Going Twice May have been going skiing after the ruck based on his attire, also turned us on to a new local auction website at coffee time Altar Boy This guy just cruises, does anything phase him? We may never know… Starch Thought it would be swell to get a brisk 3 miles in before another 13 this evening, t-claps sir… MARY: Who? ANNOUNCEMENTS: Going Twice & Altar Boy may have been volunteered for the Fort Mill Jaeger event on March 15, looking for runners for the team, will post the sign-up links again in main channels. COT: The Worm we were thinking about you today and hope you are feeling better soon.
Beer Trophy
Date: 2025-02-21 AO: joust Q: Water Works PAX: hopper, Focker, geraldo, ductwork, Water Works, Header FNGs: None COUNT: 6 WARMUP: Run to the lacrosse field for COP (including Sharon Towers) then some back and forth running end to end to get warmed up.
THE THANG: Moseyed to the football field press box to discover a menu of exercises mixed with some running. 6 pack of Hazy IPA to the winner who completed the most rounds. Various (or copious) amounts of Jump Squats, Starfish, Crabbies, HR Merkins, Freddy Mercury, Dips, Burpees, Prison Squats, and 1-2 other exercises with staggered “breaks” that included a hot lap around the track, then pulls-up, or a loop up and down the bleachers.
Good group today and Focker is still hanging on to the ED chatter from Hydra. Lots of laughs as the PAX pushed hard to complete almost 3 full rounds. Tie between Header and hopper for the win. Enjoy those :beers:
MARY: Plank and Dolly
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Ruck event tonight near The Lodge
COT: Water Works with the take-out reminding the PAX to be thankful for all things, big and small.
THE THANG: Moseyed to the football field press box to discover a menu of exercises mixed with some running. 6 pack of Hazy IPA to the winner who completed the most rounds. Various (or copious) amounts of Jump Squats, Starfish, Crabbies, HR Merkins, Freddy Mercury, Dips, Burpees, Prison Squats, and 1-2 other exercises with staggered “breaks” that included a hot lap around the track, then pulls-up, or a loop up and down the bleachers.
Good group today and Focker is still hanging on to the ED chatter from Hydra. Lots of laughs as the PAX pushed hard to complete almost 3 full rounds. Tie between Header and hopper for the win. Enjoy those :beers:
MARY: Plank and Dolly
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Ruck event tonight near The Lodge
COT: Water Works with the take-out reminding the PAX to be thankful for all things, big and small.
Frigid 23
Date: 2025-02-21 AO: centurion Q: Snuka PAX: Mr. Magoo, snowflake, Pilgrim, Can of Worms , None FNGs: 1 None COUNT: 5 WARMUP: Low Slow Sq. Imperial Walker Merkins Plank Jacks Merkins American Hammers Stretching THE THANG: Ran from launch across Hwy 51 to shopping center.
-5 rounds of running up left set of stairs and down the right. Heel to Heaven at the bottom
-Moseyed to the rock pile. Curls, Thrusters, Triceps followed by run around the circle. 2 rounds
-Moseyed to Charlotte Catholic. 5 rounds of wall jumping, donkey kicks and leg raises
-Back to launch. Thanks to Snowflake for the take out
ANNOUNCEMENTS: None
-5 rounds of running up left set of stairs and down the right. Heel to Heaven at the bottom
-Moseyed to the rock pile. Curls, Thrusters, Triceps followed by run around the circle. 2 rounds
-Moseyed to Charlotte Catholic. 5 rounds of wall jumping, donkey kicks and leg raises
-Back to launch. Thanks to Snowflake for the take out
ANNOUNCEMENTS: None