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6.29.2018 Pony Racing

Posting live from Midtown hospital after arrival of another 2.0 by the M. Sorry for the delay.  20 come out for a muggy beatdown.  Little does the PAX know it will be a surprise Co-Q with Big Stick and YHC, to be referred to as Big Nuts moving forward.

Start our with a brief mosey and return to the parking lot for the WOR.  Can’t fully remember with all this hospital time but it was pretty standard.  20 SSH, 10 squats, 10 merkins,  10 GM, 10 BAC and a few cherry pickers all IC.

Big stick on DJ spins some amazing William Tell Overature for the PAX to experience my welcome home from work ritual my children have adopted.  During the song (all 10 minutes), group 1 will King Arthur around the parking lot while group 2 does AMRAP hand release burpees. Flap jack until song is complete.  Really got the heart pumping and saw some horrible form by the end!  Hans Zimmer never cuts corners on his epic movie soundtracks.

Hand off to Big Stick for a brutal circuit of 20 rows, 20 power merkins, 20 WWIs, 20 tuck jumps and then 15 butler pull ups all together as a group.  We did 3 rounds of this with a surprise last round of 40 reps in honor of CCrs bday he didn’t tell anyone about.

PAX:  Big Stick, Donuts, BV, Floppy, PSL, CCR, AR, Capslock, Edible Arrangements, Reefer, PSL, Flatline, SkidMark, 3rd degree, Robinhood, Vegemite, Venus, Ludwig, Swampfox, Yard sale.

TClaps to BV for best Coconut form during the KAs.  ATQ never skimps.

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Miles of Smiles

Temp 75…Thick
Gloom Factor Nil
Foggy Pirate Not present nor accounted for

PAX: HeadStud, Preacher Man, Yard Sale, Vegemite, Foxtrot, Big Stick, Money Shot, Cowboy, Life Champ, Venus
QIC: Bagger Vance

0529:35 – Disclaimer

0530
WOR- SSH, WMH, MTN CLIMBERS, PETER PARKER MERKINS, BAMA PROM DATES
ALL IC X 13

Thang:

Partner up

Evo I –
Partner Indian Run to Lone Oak and Overhill

Evo II –
Partner 11s Merkins at LO OH intersection and Merkins 1/2 up OH

Time called at 0605 w most PAX on the 5/6 6/5 Merkin loop

Evo III –
Slowsey back to StartEx down tower w a short wall sit break for the 6 on BPT

Evo IV –
Bear Crawl 50’ down front stretch of track

Time

NM: A great surprise to have Vegemite and Yard Sale post with us at The Skunk. Always a pleasure watching those two get after it. Today’s Q was inspired by YHCs noticeable lack of running in June, which will be rectified in July. Think that is the most mileage a non running Q has covered in quite some time. T Claps to Big Stick for allowing me to highjack his Q since he’s been KSAing all on his own as of late.
My greatest pleasure this AM was seeing that sea foam green Sequoia roll into The Skunk and knowing that none other than Head Stud was back in the game. Fantastic to have you back out in the G with us again brother.
Life Champ with the heart of a true Champion today. Back off a weeks long road trip with the Fam and getting it handed to him but like the Life Champ he is, he never wavered and never gave in to that voice of defeat.
Per usual, Big Stick led the way w Preacher Man. Way to get after it men.

BH: Lots of stuff going on this month.
Wed Am – Convergence at Titan 0530-0730. Should suck, should be some Burpees. All other AOs closed.
Wed – Party at your Grease Trap’s house to raise funds and awareness for Team Job.
Fri – 1st Friday Lunch
21 July Warpath and Tn Can Ruck

YHC,
BV

Grant me a ready spirit, a fearless heart, a right faith, a firm hope and a perfect love, that for Thy sake I may lay down my life patience and joy. ~Jan Hus

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1776 – Detention – 7/2/18

PAX: Accounts Receivable, CCR, Floppy Disk, PSL, Dine N Dash, Frugal MacDoogal, Capslock, Grisham, Frogger, Edible Arrangement, Dr Smart, Too Tall, Reefer, Hollowback Girl, Dilly Dilly, Big Perm

CONDITIONS: Perfect for sweating

16 PAX resisted the fart sack this first morning of a holiday week…

WOR:
5 Burpees
Jog around the bus loop – wave to police officer parked at bottom of hill
DISCLAIMER
Side Straddle Hops (20 count)
Hop Kicks (20 count)
Seal Claps (10 count)
Squats (10 count)
Willie Mays Hayes (10 count)

THANG:

Indian Run around neighborhood loop
Mosey to top of hill by swing set
11s (Hand Release Merkins at bottom of hill / Pull Ups at top of hill – Jog in between)
(Due to Q’s mis-judgment of time we completed about 7 of the 11)
Mosey to hand rails for some Independance Day inspired Rows (17), WW1s (7), and Burpees (6) – Rinse and repeat for a total of 4 sets.
Mosey to parking long for Mary

MARY: (round robbin of PAX favorite ab exercises)
Flutter Kicks (20 count)
Froggers (20 count)
Mountain Climbers (20 count)
LBCs (15 count)
Squats (10 count)
Freddie Mercs (15 count)
Mariahs (20 count)
American Hammers (20 count)
Feet To The Sky (not sure of actual name) (10 count)
One Legged Table Top Thrusters (not sure of actual name) (20 count)
Box Cutters (20 count)

COT:

Team Job 4th of July Extravaganza. (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/team-job-4th-of-july-extravaganza-tickets-47214304255)
4th of July convergence at Titan. Two-hour Co-Q.
1st Friday lunch this week. Stay tuned for possible location change.

Nice work gents,
Accounts Receiveable

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Stonewall – 6/30/2018

PAX: Pop-A-Lock, Cowboy, Skidmark, Spitz (FNG), Animal (FNG), Venus (EXTREME LIFO), Bagger Vance, Blue Mule, Black Lung, Reveille, Vegemite, Bicentennial Man
QiC: Hambone

13 pax posted for a nasty beatdown and 1 posted for a preruck of 4 miles.

Warmup:
Disclaimer
20 SSH IC
17 Slow and Low Squats IC
10 GMs IC
12 Merkins IC

There was an extremely simple and extremely taxing (for YHC) workout.

1. Run to Portland Brew and back to Sevier Park (~.9 miles). Squats, SSH, or Plank for the six/Hambone.
2. COP including 12 Merkins IC as the last exercise.
3. Repeat.

With a total of 4 rounds, the Stonewall Pax completed ~3.5 miles of this awful workout.

Pax closed out with dips, planks, and 6 Minutes of Mary.

NMM:
1. Sweat was not a rare commodity. TruthNugget that some pax skipped coffeeteria because they were soaked to their jimmies.
2. Truly embarrassing to be at the back of your own workout, but zero regrets and I plan on pulling this one out again.
3. Five pax (Bagger, Hambone, Vegemite, Pop-a-Lock, and Black Lung) posted for coffeeteria.

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Welcome to The Forge!

Nolensville broke in their new AO, The Forge, with a workout focused on strength, endurance, and coordination. Iron sharpens iron!

PAX in Attendance: Barney Fievel (Q), Nimbus 2000, 3rd Degree, Numbtucks, Aunt Bea

Warm-Up:

  • 30 seconds of Good Mornings
  • 20 SSH
  • 10 Imperial Walkers
  • 1 Al Gore
  • 10 LBAC (forward and reverse)

Thang 1: Mini Cooper with 20 pound coupons

  • 6 Burpees, 6 Merkins, 6 Deep Squats, one lap around track
  • Rinse and repeat decreasing one rep each time
  • Total of 1.5 miles and 21 reps of each exercise

Thang 2: Stadium Runs with Assorted Exercises

Run up, along the backside and down the bleachers doing an exercise in-between with your coupon.

Exercises:

  • 20 side-to-side lunges (use coupon as your center point)
  • 20 bicep curls (with coupon)
  • 10 windshield wipers (on your six, coupon held over you, feet touch from right to coupon to left to coupon)
  • 20 overhead tricep curls (coupon overhead and behind back)
  • 15 derkins (close grip hands on coupon)
  • 10 pull-up rows (coupon in lap)
  • 10 burpees (with coupon)

Mary:

  • Flutter Kicks
  • WW1s
  • Alabama Prom Dates
  • Megan Berry’s
  • J-Lo’s

CoT:

Hebrews 12: 1-3

Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, 2 fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. 3 Consider him who endured such opposition from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.

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Bomber 6/29/18

A baker’s dozen got up and got better.

PAX: Trapper Keeper, Reveille, Hambone, Crablegs, Barthelona, EnFuego, The Baptist, Crawlspace, Porcelain, Pop-A-Lock, Princess Aurora, T-Cell

QIC: Hi-Viz

CONDITIONS: Pretty darn perfect.

DISCLAIMER

WOR
SSH X 20 IC
Slow-N-Low Squats X 20 IC
WMH X 10 IC
LBAC X 15 IC
Air Presses X 15 IC
Reverse LBAC X 15 IC
Good Mornings X 10 IC

THANG
Mosey to the driving range for Bear Crawl and Lieutenant Dans, switching at each post along the way. Plank and wait for the six.

Mosey to the stop sign and partner-up for DORA. One person runs down the hill and back up (with a three-Burpee speedbump), while their partner makes progress toward the team goal of:
-100 Hydraulic Squats (Dropped the Hydraulic part for time/knee sake)
-200 Merkins
-300 Plank Jacks

Mosey to the parking lot wall for some newly-dubbed ‘Durkin Docks.’ Complete a Durkin, walk your hands back to a pike position and complete a Carolina Dry Dock. Walk hands back and start over. One minute was enough.

MARY
LBC X 20 IC
BoxCutters X 10 IC / Reverse X 10 IC
Flutters X 15 IC
High Plank

Done.

COT
-Sign-up for TN Can Ruck. 7/21. Hit up Slack or PA for details. (The patch looks killer, BTW.)
-4th of July convergence at Titan. Two-hour Co-Q. Should be a barn-burner.
-Speaking of the 4th, if you’re looking for afternoon family fun with a great purpose, check out Slack for details on the event to support St. Jude and Team #JobLikeTheBibleName.
-Hambone on deck at Stonewall in the AM.
-First Friday lunch next week.

Great work, men. SYITG.

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Don’t Stop Til You Beat It with a Bad Jam that makes you wanna Scream

Murfreesboro, Bragg’s Isle, 06/28/2018

Michael Jackson died 9 years ago this past Monday, June 25 (R.I.Pee-hee). AND his dad died just yesterday. YHC has been waiting months to craft yet another musically-motivated creative workout that burns through the King of Pop’s career with his highest-energy hits. This Is It.

QIC: Aristotle, with a single white glove on his left hand

PAX: Iditarod, Aristotle, Ace & Jack (fartsack for King), Noble Virus, Grohl, and special guest The Count from Chattanooga

WOR:

YHC overcame technical difficulties with the Bluetooth speaker while Noble Virus did a simple lap around the MMC parking lot and led PAX through Good Mornings x10 and Imperial Walkers x15.

(As we shall see, five minutes of fiddling with the Bluetooth was totally worth the next 40.)

THE THANG:

“Don’t Stop Til You Get Enough” (DSTYGE) = With the speaker operational, YHC cut WOR short and quickly queued up DSTYGE as our cardio/mosey theme song and we began a brisk mosey to Bragg’s Isle. Halfway there, we switched to backwards Politician stride (today, it’s the Moonwalk).

“Beat It” = Leg workout. As a group, nothing but Lt. Dan’s (squat + bi-weekly lunges) from the weird metal statue all the way to the gazebo. Sprint AYG from the gazebo back to the statue. Squats x25 OYO for good measure. Before the cops catch us for tresspassing, we Beat It.

Mosey to the playground with DSTYGE providing us with a groove. The song lasts for the entire trip there.

“Bad” = Back workout. Partner up PAX. One partner does bench dips on the picnic tables, one partner does Pullups (or Negatives, or Inverted Rows) x10 on the monkey bars. Switch. Repeat until the end of the song. Who’s Bad?

YHC intended to mosey PAX to the basketball court to properly stage the next number, but for the first time ever in the history of Bragg’s Isle F3 we were caught by the train. Incline Merkins x20 while we waited, to no avail. So we utilized the soft playground floor instead.

“Jam” = the centerpiece and original inspiration for this workout, many months ago. Each synth horn blast in the song, every 8 beats or approx every 5 seconds, is your cue to do an 8-count Bodybuilder (slowed-up burpee with Merkin and split jack). There are 66 horn blasts in “Jam” and no PAX did them all but we tried to keep up. Extra credit: after Heavy D’s second rap interjection, the horn blasts come at you every 4 beats, 7 total. Do burpees there, and stop for the pause where MJ kicks the basketball behind his back into the hoop nothing but net. (Y’all remember.) It ain’t too hard for me to Jam.

With the train long gone, DSTYGE for a gentle mosey back to MMC parking lot.

“Scream” = Circle of MARY. Each PAX picks their ab poison while Michael and Janet belt out to remind us the pain makes us wanna Scream:

  • Iditarod – Flutter kicks x20 IC
  • Grohl – American Hammers x10 bi-weekly OYO
  • Ace – Leg lifts x15 OYO
  • Noble Virus – Rosalitas x 15 OYO (in honor of CDL)
  • The Count – Boxcutters x15 IC
  • Jack – American Hammers x15 bi-weekly OYO
  • Aristotle – LBC’s for the last minute of the song

COT:
Michael Jackson was awesome, Jesus is better (not sure where I was going with that but it works). Prayer.

Make that change.

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Poor Planning but Fun Times

  1. Nice sticky warm morning

PAX: 21 Pax: Nightcrawler, Sinestro, Kilmonger, Princess Aurora, Cowboy, Casual Friday, Blacklung, Donuts, Porcelain, Hambone, Bagger Vance, Brother-at-Law, Toga, Hot N Ready, Red Skull, Skid Mark, Pop-a-Lock, Dilly Dilly, Dr SmartT, Big Stick, and myself.

5:30 kickoff

Disclaimer given en route with a light mosey to some soft, padded, dewy grass.

WOR:
Windmill x10, Good Morning x10, Imperial Walker x10, Willy Mays Hayes x10, LBAC x 10 each way, Merkins x10

Get After It:

Indian Run around the main building. PAX do 5 Merkins prior to beating feet to the front. Then stopped at the Ball Field for some Front, Back Go’s (Merkins, Flutter Kicks, Sprints on command), Tunnel of Love (low crawl under PAX), and Crowd Surfing. It was at this point Q realized he did not pace his exercises well enough and had 15 minutes to fill. Resorted to Plan B and pulled out the playing cards. Diamonds – Squats, Spades – Hillbilly Walkers, Hearts – Crab Legs, Clubs – Merkins, Ace – x35 dealer’s choice. Due to consistent shuffling of the deck, many many Merkins were performed.

BH:

413 last day. Wolverine and (Kingpin? Snoopy?) are already hard at work. Our remaining Marvel heroes begin work soon. Our pride, encouragement, and prayers will follow them. AO will be closed for a month. See Q signup sheet for future dates.

July 4th pig roast and fund raiser for Team Job on Smartt in The Shire…hit up slack for RSVPing

TN Can Ruck on 21 July

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Penance Vol. I

Temp –  71

Gloom – Moderate8 Pax endured what was YHCs penance for bad behavior last night.

0529:35 Disclaimer

PAX: Heister, Grease Trap, Black Widow, Umbrella, Canary, Tinder, Life Champ, BV

Grease Trap let it be known that he followed one Calf Killer all the way in from The Shire this AM only to see him turn right into the old Horse Barn to hang out with Fern.  YHC was noticeably disturbed (more than usual) and saddened by this news and we headed over to the Old Horse Barn to wrangle him up to no avail.

As we passed one of the BANKS in Brentwood, Grease Trap commented that he must have not gotten the Memo that Smokeboots moved to B’Wood.  It was at this point that YHC shared his transgressions and broke right with no warning to Crawfish’s old haunt for

WOR:
SSH x 13 IC, Squat Jumps x 13 IC, GMA x 10 IC, High Knees to Butt Kickers x 10 IC, Willy

Thang:

More Moseying…to one of the Ewok Village office buildings in MD Farms for some partner work.

P1 Face Melters while P2 Plank n Wait…Flap Jack then RNR to 5

More Moseying over to the second tallest building in Brentwood for some work in the squared off concrete block that has no real purpose save some Wall Sits, IT band stretches…We also Grabbed some Wall and performed 10 Dips OYO.

Back to Partner Work…Partner Indian Run back to Startex and over to Monkey Bars for AYG Pull-Ups palms facing + 5 more with P2 helping.  More MC from Grease Trap about #Form and stuff.

Head over to the Tallest building in Brentwood for more #PartnerWork.  P1 on second landing of stairs, P2 on first and a race to the Top.  P2 passes P1 = 5 Burpees for P1…Flap Jack & RNR.  All hold at the Top for Wall Sits.

Back to the bottom and head back to StartEx for

Mary:

Flutter Kix X 3 IC

Time Called for Lightning.

NM: YHC loves some running even though it isn’t exactly my strong suit.  All Pax benefit from others Pushing them, YHC included.  Nice to meet Tinder and Canary albeit briefly.  Sorry to cut it short but YHC has begun to err on the side of Caution in my Older Years.

BH:

El Maestro, Spicoli, Umbrella’s clients family prayers needed.

413 last day tomorrow

July 4th pig roast and fund raiser for Team Job on Smartt in The Shire…hit up slack for RSVPing

Can Ruck on 21 July

Warpath on 21 July

Grow Ruck in Memphis weekend of 21 Sept

YHC,

bv

 

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June 27 Titan: The Heavens Opened for Crawfish’s Final Post

PAX: PA; T Cell; Right Said Fred; Rev; Crotch Rocket (Charlotte and Expansion Man); CCR; Dupree; Vegemite; Hi Viz; Trapper Keeper; Porcelain; Crawfish; Keep the Change (Ya Filthy Animal) (FNG); Hambone; Brother at Law (Q)

15 scoffed at the conditions and made their way to the Parthenon for a cardio-heavy Titan.  YHC was very pleased to see Crawfish one last time; I thought he was gone!  Let’s go.

Mosey around the path with a quick 10 burpee speed bump.  Loop our way to the back of the Parthenon where the ducks play for…

WOR

SSH x40 (HBD CCR, ya old gray beard)

GM x10

WMH x10

LBAC w/ lunge x10

RLBAC w/ lunge x10

Seal claps x10

Overhead press x10

Hopkicks x10

Mosey over to backside of Parthenon for some SEVENS.  Imperial squatters at the bottom (squat with an imperial walker at the top counts as 1), with Mike Tyson Merkins (aka Punch Out! Merkins) at the top.  Plank and wait for the six.

Bear crawl the length of the Parthenon to the bottom of the big hill.  More SEVENS!  Carolina Dry Docks at the bottom with jump squats at the very top.  Two burpees at each concrete path or road on the way up.  A set of skaters at each concrete path or road on the way down.  The final stretch of the hill was horrible.

It really opened up at this point.  Felt like Andy Dufresne emerging from the sewage pipe.  Then…WHAT’S THAT!?!  Lightning, quite close (potentially).  Everybody get in under the  Parthenon, plank and wait for the six.  Crawl bear the length of the Parthenon.  Plank and wait. Slowsey back up front for….

MARY

FKs x20; Shouldertaps x20; GMs x10

Great to lead this morning.  Thunder and lightning woke me up repeatedly in the night, so I wasn’t optimistic about turnout, much less it even happening, so 15 was quite impressive.

Everybody said final goodbyes to Crawfish, who will be missed.  But lots of mumblechatter at the end about visits and vacations to Charleston.

Crotch Rocket explained current Expansion efforts and sought input.  Detroit is final launch for first half of 2018.  So if you’re in Detroit this summer…

TN CAN Ruck July 21.  Counts as 1) a post; 2) a CSAUP; 3) a 2nd F; 4) a 3rd F; 5) a papal dispensation from all prior sins; and 6) a submission for the Nobel Price in Physics.

July 4 Convergence at Titan.  5:30-7:30.  Only counts as a post.

You guys are awesome.