Smashing Pumpkins in the Hot Box

Smashing Pumpkins in the Hot Box

DATE: 2023-04-08 AO: Olympus Q: Pelosi PAX: frehleys_comet, mighty_mite, The Worm, ickey_shuffle, Emoji, voodoo FNGs: None COUNT: 7 Dodged the rain in the Hot Box with a few Rock refugees coming an going. Good grind today, about as hard as we can go for an hour. No consensus on best Smashing Pumpkins album, played Gish today and will have to layer in Smashing Pumpkins album sampler over next two months. Special appearance from Olympian @Frehley_comet back from Clemson. Permission slips for Brewruck have been submitted and awaiting approval. Will send a follow up poll on a couple topics for this summer WARMUP: flailing around THE THANG: 20 minute death march of 2x2Clean,squat,press, Tricep Terror, Monkey Humber squats, Wood choppers, Sumo squat burbees, halo’s in a horse stance. MARY: Bridges and planks ANNOUNCEMENTS: #brewruck on May 27th, some Marvin hike?? COT: Lord’s prayer with Ruck refugees

Smashing Pumpkins in the HotBox

DATE: 2023-04-08 AO: Olympus Q: Pelosi PAX: frehleys_comet, mighty_mite, voodoo, Emoji, ickey_shuffle, The Worm FNGs: None COUNT: 7
WARMUP: THE THANG: MARY: ANNOUNCEMENTS: COT:

Hills Up

DATE: 2023-04-07 AO: Mountain-Goat Q: retread PAX: geraldo, lois, Mayflower, retread, slim_fast, Spammer, sledge, Watchita, Insomniac (Q) FNGs: None COUNT: 9 WARMUP: Woodfox->Rounding Run-> Windbluff. Dynamic stretching. THE THANG: 30/30/1 intervals on Windbluff, Shallowood, Rising Meadow, and Woodfox. Recover between intervals, mostly uphill. ANNOUNCEMENTS: Brewruck, Waxhaw Trail Fest. COT: Keep Julie and Sensei in your prayers. Safe travels for Pax taking to the skies and roads this weekend.

Wait, no rain?

DATE: 2023-04-07 AO: Centurion Q: Point Break PAX: Snuka, Runstopper, Emoji, Pilgrim FNGs: None COUNT: 5 The Thang
Mosey from Amelie’s over to Charlotte Catholic and took the short ramps to the 4th floor of Tartarus for CoP.
Warm-Up Exercises in cadence: • SSH x 15 • IW x 10 • Peter Parkers x 10 • Merkins x 10 • Stretching (various) • LSS x 10
Mosey down the stairs to the base of stairwell #1.
WAVE 1: The Beast • Starting at the bottom of stairwell #1, do 6x called exercise, run to the top of stairwell #1, do 6x more. Run to stairwell #2, 6x, bottom of stairwell #2, 6x, run to stairwell #3, 6x, top of stairwell #3, 6x. Wait for the 6. Once the 6 is in, reverse and repeat with new called exercise. (6 Rounds, 6 Stops, 6 Reps each stop = The Beast) o ROUND 1: Merkins o ROUND 2: LBCs o ROUND 3: 180 Degree Jump Squats o ROUND 4: CDDs o ROUND 5: Heels to Heaven o ROUND 6: Burpees
Wave 2: Abs & Animals • Mosey over to the fence at the football filed • Toes-to-Fence (Dragonflies/Scorpions?) x20 • Bear Crawl over to deck • Racoon Crawl along the 1st floor wall • Toes-to-Fence x20
Mosey back to Chucky Cheese / Launch Point with some quick Mary before time was called.
YHC with the take out prayer.

Then there were two…

DATE: 2023-04-07 AO: Kevlar Q: ChickenWing PAX: Full House FNGs: None COUNT: 2 WARMUP: THE THANG: 8 round Tabata, full body and we even picked some heavy pebbles MARY: ANNOUNCEMENTS: COT: Continued prayers to sensei and Julie, work friend Jonathan, and to the HIMs to have the strength and patience to be there for their families.

Vomit Circle

DATE: 2023-04-06 AO: Nightmare-On-Elm Q: soft_pretzel PAX: sledge, teddyf3, Rousey, wildturkey, midriff, Dooley, Franky, war_eagle, Eleanor FNGs: None COUNT: 10
WARMUP: 8-count burpees
THE THANG: kettlebell and jump rope circle hills and push-ups
MARY: a sprinkling
ANNOUNCEMENTS: WTF
COT: Some guys “learned” some kb exercises today. Send Soft Pretzel your chiro bill. 130 push-ups and 13 sprints up a shag carpeted hill? why not.

August Humidity in April

DATE: 2023-04-06 AO: -Devils-Turn Q: flipper PAX: bunker, Joker_Shawn Heath, Astro (Kyle Kirchhoff), fleetwood, retread, Tron, Polly, hairball, Chopper, turkey_leg, Sparrow, voodoo, Wolverine, Cookie (FNG Amos) FNGs: 1 Cookie (FNG Amos) COUNT: 14 Site Q Flipper posted a route yesterday (The Traitor’s Loop), but has some bug sweeping his family, so he wasn’t there. The pax did their usual things, which involved at least 4 different workouts and 5 different routes. Joker, Tron (#kotters), and I ran the called route. Joker did some of the fartleks as prescribed by the 2-workouts-per-week mile program, but pulled up lame with a calf issue on the 3rd one and took it easy with Tron and me the rest of the way. The rest of the pax did their own marathon/ultra/whatever workout. It was the usual glorious chaos out there. Thanks to Astro for the takeout in COT.
Announcements: 1) Waxhaw Trail Fest – check out Tuck’s preblast and get signed up. Hoodies are available. 2) Brewruck – check out Hoover’s preblast and get signed up. Beer is available.
Moleskine: The sweat was flowing this morning. Polly appeared to win the prize for moistness. He seemed to be in peak July form already. Welcome to Amos, who basically named himself by referencing Famous Amos Cookies during his introduction before the run. We hope to have Flipper back in the gloom soon, although he will be in Disney for some family “fun” next week. Have a great Easter and Spring Break, as applicable.

OG Meatheads

DATE: 2023-04-05 AO: Meaad Q: voodoo PAX: high_tide, Unplugged, The Worm, voodoo FNGs: None COUNT: 4 Light numbers at the gear workouts this week as we gear up for Spring Break and pax deal with various ailments and injuries. Getting old sucks.
Warm up – Not a ton of time, so we kept it quick: 10 swings 10 ISW (Imperial Squat Walkers – something High Tide brought back from Charleston with him. It looks just like it sounds) 5 high pulls per side 2 prying squats 5 snatches per side
Main Event – Day 2 of Week 6 of the Kettlebell Only Muscle Gain 2 Program (from Joe Daniels, the rainbow spreadsheet guy). This workout is pretty low on reps, so I encouraged the pax to go heavy. Double deadstop cleans – 5 x 5 Outer Limits Protocol Vol. 1 (not sure why this needs a name, but I’ll go with it): 1 Double Long Cycle rep every :30 for 20:00 – again, try to go heavy Superset – 10 swings + 5 goblet squats (heavy again) – we got through 7 rounds of this before running out of time
COT – Circle up with the Emoji-led Anvil pax so Unplugged can take us out
Announcements: 1) Waxhaw Trail Fest is next month. Tuck has posted a preblast on Slack, so check it out. Apparently, there will be hoodies to participants, so you won’t get too cold in Charlotte in May. 2) Brewruck – Hoover has organized an event on May 27th (Saturday of Memorial Day weekend) where you can drink beer and carry a backpack (which can also hold beer). Check out the preblast and join the #brewruck channel and give him a HC if you’re in.
Moleskine: I’m getting the feeling the pax aren’t wild about this program. Maybe it’s the somewhat boring EMOMs. Maybe it’s the rainbow colored spreadsheets. Maybe it’s the focus on long cycle (i.e., clean and jerk) that is more of a kettlebell sport exercise than a hard style kettlebell exercise. I’m not sure, but numbers do seem to be down. On the bright side, we’ll be switching programs in 3 weeks. If you didn’t like the program, vote with your feet by coming back out and showing up for the next one, which will be different. This workout seems pretty easy on paper. The reps are low (especially on the main set), but I found that they really added up. We did a little sharing of bells so everyone could push themselves as much as they wanted and it was a grind. The monotony of 20:00 of the same exercise was broken up by the mumblechatter. I hope everyone has a happy and safe Spring Break and that those who celebrate Easter enjoy some time with their families over the long weekend.

Wednesday

DATE: 2023-04-05 AO: Wamrap Q: mcgee PAX: Orange Whip, turkey_leg, mcgee, poptart, Alf, rachel FNGs: None COUNT: 6 Parking deck with exercises. A bunch of times.

Wheel of Emotions

DATE: 2023-04-05 AO: Anvil Q: Emoji PAX: Point Break, snowflake, Mr. Magoo, Erin Brokavich FNGs: None COUNT: 5 WARMUP:
Right off the bat Emoji hit us up with some CoP at launch.
THE THANG:
Long mosey over to the far side of the campus where Emoji introduces us to BAPS. In short, that’s Burpees, Air Squats (although we just did regular squats, “S”, Push-ups (which are really Merkins, “M”), and Big Boy Sit-ups. So really “BSMS”. But we did each exercise x10, then x9, x8 …. down to x1. Smoked. But more to do.
Next on the docket for Emoji’s “low milage” weinke, to the Avenue of Trees for 11s. Merkins and LBCs. 1st tree, Merkin x1, back to start for LBCs x10. Run to the 2nd tree, Merkins x2, back to start for LBCs x9. And on, and on, and on.
Finished w/ a Hotbox wall session and back to launch.
MARY:
Finished with Mary called by each PAX.
COT: with the Meatheads.

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