Category: Westeros

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WEIGHTsteros workout 1

AO: westeros
Q: Michelin Man
PAX: Tim the Toolman, bluemule, Vector, Spinal Tap, Natural Ice, Pep, Michelin Man, Papa Bear, Red Skull, Right Said, Squatter, The Merchant, Juicy J, 0, 0
FNGs: 1 0
COUNT: 13
CONDITIONS: effin’ cold

WARMUP: nope

THE THANG:

1. Warm up lap
2. MM creates 3 groups. MM’s group is the timer. Do 30 of each and then rotate to next station. 2x through.
-Station 1- curls / tricep extensions
-Station 2 – lunges (each leg is 1) / squats
-Station 3 – bent over rows / OHP
3. 5 Sprint break
4. Repeat #2
5. 5 sprint break (including a RE-moralizing decades staggered run)
6. Mary for time

Thanks for letting me lead. WEIGHTsteros begins.

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17 NOV 2025

AO: westeros
Q: bluemule , Papa Bear, DintyMoore, Spinal Tap, Young and Restless, Tim the Toolman, Pep, Sherlock
PAX: bluemule, Sherlock, Young and Restless, Tim the Toolman, Spinal Tap, Pep, DintyMoore, Papa Bear
FNGs: None
COUNT: 8
CONDITIONS: Cold but manageable

WARMUP: YHC had a house alarm go off five minutes before start – false alarm but it required leaving and having everyone else step in to Q!

THE THANG:
The PAX all stepped up for a no-notice Q while I went to check the security alarm!
-Dora: 100 mountain climbers, 200 LBCs, 300 squats, one PAX does exercises and one runs around the loop
-Playground: Rounds of several calisthenics including burpees, pull-ups, merkins, and dips.
-Sprints: Self-explanatory

MOLESKINE:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
-Night Moves this Thursday, and Thanksgiving run next week

COT: Happy Thanksgiving!!!

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IYKYK

AO: westeros
Q: Chunks
PAX: Spinal Tap, Vector, CubCadet, DintyMoore, Puzzlah, Pep, Tim the Toolman, Papa Bear, bluemule, Salami
FNGs: None
COUNT: 11
CONDITIONS: NOT FOR THE WEAK. :cold_face:

WARMUP: Arm Circles. Imperial Walkers, SSH, Right over left, Left over right, Willie Mays Hayes

THE THANG:

Don’t know what Pre-Workout Gym Bro Vector took, but he was ready to take on Love Circle.

CubCadet was skeptical and waiting for a surprise Co-Q to pop out of a bush.

Without furth ado, time to attack Love Circle!

Off we go with and Indian Run. Stopped at the bridge for some Boo Boo Bearcrawls. Continued the run to the stop sign for some Merkins. Then we took the Mrs. Toolman route straight up the hill.

Reached the summit for a moment of reflection. Asked the PAX to think about all the opportunities they’ve been blessed with in this city and how they can pass those along to others in the city we all love.

What goes us must come down. Also we completed the circle at love circle. Stopped at the stop sign again for some merkins. Continued our run stopped at the bridge for a nice lunge walk across the bridge. Continued the run to the hill near the portajohns. Squats and Merkins at the top and bottom. 3 Rounds.

95% of men over the age of 35 will never sprint again. Not today Satan. Sprint back to startex.

Finished with some ab work and broga.

MOLESKINE:

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Check Slack

COT: Prayers for jobs and families

Found out after the work out that was Papa Bear’s first time summiting Love Circle. :heart::large_green_circle:

Always an honor to lead at Westeros.

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Simple and Effective

AO: westeros
Q: Natural Ice
PAX: Papa Bear, Sherlock, Michelin Man, Juicy J (JBowman), Spinal Tap, Squatter, The Merchant, Tim the Toolman, bluemule, Vector, Chunks, Pep
FNGs: None
COUNT: 13
CONDITIONS: Spooky Foggy and 34F – PERFECT

WARMUP: Did not start with SSH, but Windmills and then SSH, Merkins, Imperial Walkers, Squats, Hill Billies, Deep Groin Stretches

THE THANG: Simple and Effective!
– 5 pull ups
– 10 BB Sit Ups
– 20 Merkins
– 30 Dips
– Run across the field

Various forms of Merry in between sets as we waiting on the 6

The pax was so enthusiastic, that we had to rinse and repeat. (correct me if I am wrong, but I think we did it 6 times)

In total we ran 1.6 miles!

Ended with merry and we gave Pep a chance to SSH in Cadence……. to no real effect…. one day you will get it :slightly_smiling_face:

Playlist was Michelin Mans highschool CD collection

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6oxbeNXMdnBn0i24KrnRLK?si=0f318d06d0f14f13…… and yes I did add a song by Bush at the end

MOLESKINE: Its getting cold, but we have an extra hour of sleep. Don’t Waste it!

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Percy Warner Beat Down – 11/15 at 6 am !
GROW School Dec 6th

COT: Prayed to see the blessing and to have a grateful heart!

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Still called WESTeros

AO: westeros
Q: CubCadet
PAX: DintyMoore, Papa Bear, Juicy J (JBowman), Pep, Tim the Toolman, Vector
FNGs: None
COUNT: 7 plus 1
CONDITIONS: Comfortable with a light drizzle

WARMUP: 1 min stretch OYO, 15 SSH, Mosey to school traffic circle

THE THANG: 1000 point challenge comes to Westeros. We bear crawled to find partners. Each team completed challenges on card (9 exercises), minimum 100 points per exercise. You choose the sequence and reps / round. There were burpees. There was running. There was a late arrival, but not who you might expect.

MOLESKINE: Difficult to mumble chatter when counting.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: See slack for Chili, 2.0 workout, and the thing formerly called Night Moves.

COT: Pep getting an offer on new role (especially before titan). Papa Bear friend struggling with cancer and running out of options. Mental health, especially for our young ones.

6 pax for coffee at Dose, including Michelin Man who was spotted near the AO muttering something about weights.

Grateful for these men and their friendship.

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Just Warming Up

AO: westeros
Q: Shy Guy
PAX: Supernova, Young and Restless, Red Skull, Michelin Man, CubCadet, Sherlock, Vector, Right Said, Juicy J (JBowman), Detective Pikachu, Shy Guy
FNGs: None
COUNT: 11
CONDITIONS: Finally feels like fall

WARMUP: SSH ICx20
Squats ICx15
Merkins ICx10
Burpees x5
Mosey
High Knees
Worlds Greatest
Butt Kickers
Over Unders

Line Toe Taps
4 ways x2

Strides

THE THANG:
Sprints
Beginning movement:
Roll outs x4
3 point stance x3
Burpee x3
Shuffle x4
Bound jumps x3

Backwards hill runs x4

Mosey back to startex
OHC Merkins x20- shuffle
Squats x20- shuffle
Toe Tap Merkins x20 – lunge walk
Merkins x20 – bounds
Bonnie Blairs x20 – 1 leg bounds

MOLESKINE:
Lots of great mumble chatter, seemed like it was excitement about hill sprints. Pep pretended like he didn’t know all the words to the Kanye songs

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
They were announced.

COT:
Prayers for Peps job search, Detective Pikachu’s potty training his kid, my grandmothers health

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The Rise of WEIGHTSteros!

AO: westeros
Q: Michelin Man , Vector
PAX: Vector, Michelin Man, Pep, Tim the Toolman, Black Lung, bluemule, Chunks, CubCadet, Shy Guy, Spinal Tap
FNGs: None
COUNT: 10
CONDITIONS: Hot Guy Fall

WARMUP: Warm Up OYO. Ran a quarter loop around the park.

THE THANG: DORA

1. Partner Up. Distributed weights. Thank you Chunks and Shy Guy. NO THANK YOU to Tim the Toolman. 🙂
2. Wall Sit – 1 Pax wall sits with the weight. Other Pax runs to the second portapotty and back. Repeat 3x each.
3. Black Lung and newly minted late guy Spinal Tap showed up. Black Lung penalty of 12 burpees.
4. Moved to the pavilion.
5. Pax does 50 squat thrusters with coupon. Then 100 senior proms (weighted alabama prom dates). Then 150 step ups with weights. Then 200 front touch thing with weights. Other Pax runs.
6. 40 fire hydrants. 40 jane fondas. 40 donkey kicks.
7. A minor amount of broga.

MOLESKINE: Thank you to Vector for an A+ fun and games playlist. Thank you to bluemule for letting Vec and I lead. Good job everyone racing me back up the hill including CubCadet and Pep and Chunks.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Check the Natural Ice blast!

COT: Thank you for these guys, and good weather, and healthy bodies.

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Another one

AO: westeros
Q: Natural Ice
PAX: Demo – F3 NoHo HTX, Tim the Toolman, Young and Restless, CubCadet, bluemule, Pep, Grape
FNGs: None
COUNT: 8
CONDITIONS:
Fantastic morning. Crisp air

WARMUP:
The usual suspects: SSH to get the blood moving, a round of merkins to wake up the arms, squats to loosen the hips, and some light stretching to make sure no one pulled a hammy.

THE THANG 1:
Bear Way to Heaven up the little school steps. Ten full rounds of bear crawls up with a merkin on each step. Why ten? Because someone had to make sure we put in more stair work than handsomizer. A true gut check—hands and legs burning by the end.

THE THANG 2:
Circuit grind: 5 pull-ups, 20 dips, 30 squats. Repeat, repeat, repeat. Too many sets to count, but enough to make the shoulders scream and the quads question life choices. Simple, effective, punishing.

Sets of Merry where tossed in between each set.

MOLESKINE:
We almost capped things off with a Burpee Apocalypse, but I gave in to the peer pressure of Grape and listened to the little voice saying “slow down, live to fight another day.” Sometimes wisdom is knowing when to push and when to hold back. Good reminder that accountability isn’t just about going harder, it’s also about checking your ego and keeping it sustainable.

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18th Anniversary Convergence

AO: westeros
Q: Michelin Man
PAX: Pep, Black Lung, Michelin Man, Sherlock, bluemule, Chunks, DintyMoore, Vector, Salami, Tim the TOOLMAN
FNGs: None
COUNT: 10
CONDITIONS: Happy Fall Y’all!

WARMUP:

18 Star Jumps

TODD JEFFERSON HARTLEY
9 – Toy Soldiers
8 – Jumping Jacks
07 – Hillbillies

1 lap around the park. Black Lung joined us halfway through. 7 burpee penalty called by bluemule via the BlackLung rule.

THE THANG:

AMRAP. Pax made a circle with coupons. 1 Pax runs to the end of the parking lot and the remaining Pax did:

Squats
Curls
Overhead press
Rows
Eagles wings lunges

rosebud Pax heard it was my anniversary and started showing up throughout the workout. Thanks for joining Chunks , Salami , and DintyMoore !

We stopped several times to do 18 cinder block pull throughs.

MARY:

18 Flutters with block

LAURA RAINES HARTLEY
9 – Leg raises with block
8 – Rotational block twists
7 – High knees

1 more mosey to cool down.

MOLESKINE:

Today is my 18th anniversary. Laura and I were married on 9/8/2007 in Memphis, TN. I’m so thankful.