This is Hallowesteros

AO: westeros
Q: Vector
PAX: Grape, Red Skull, Young and Restless, Salami, Hedwig, Pep, Tim the Toolman, Black Lung, bluemule, CubCadet
FNGs: None
COUNT: 11
CONDITIONS: Crisp, cool and spooky

WARMUP: Mosey to front of school. LBAC x 10, Overhead Press x 10, Seal Claps x 10, RLBAC X 10, WMH x 10, Good Mornings x 10, SSH x 10

THE THANG:
‘Cause this is Thriller: Plank during Thriller with burpees/squats whenever the title is mentioned

Spooky Exercises: 100 of each and then run to school between exercise to pay off the 8 burpees owed for not HCing.
S: Squats
P: Pull-ups (which the PAX loved)
O: Overhead presses
O: Original Dips
K: Killer Incline Merkins
Y: Your favorite exercise (because the PAX deserved a treat)

MARY: A round of spooky an exercises

COT: Lifted up silent prayers and praises.

Grateful for the PAX for pushing me and each other to get better each daily.

SYITG,
Vector

PLAYLIST:
This is Halloween – Citizens of Halloween
Thriller – Michael Jackson
Heads Will Roll – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Somebody’s Watching Me – Rockwell
Superstition – Stevie Wonder
Ghostbusters – Ray Parker Jr.
Psycho Killer – Talking Heads
Twilight Zone – Golden Earring
Bad Moon Rising – CCR
Dead Man’s Party – Oingo Boingo

Compounding (Pain)terest

AO: handsomizer
Q: Patty
PAX: Chunks, Black Lung, Roadrunner, Cuban Missile, Spinal Tap, Wedding Singer, Salami, Natural Ice, Freakonomics, Spear, Patty, Achilles, Los Tigres, Pharmacist
FNGs: None
COUNT: 14
CONDITIONS: Crisp

WARMUP: SSH (20)
Cherry Pickers (15)
Good Mornings
Willie Mays Hayes
LBAC forward/backward
Runners Stretch

Unorganized bear crawl, crab walk
Merkins (10)

THE THANG:
Stairs
Burpees
Squats
Incline Merkins
Lunges
WWI’s
Run the loop and repeat. Started with 1 rep and doubled each time until 32.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Salt in the Wound

AO: greenmachine
Q: SalPal
PAX: Black Lung, FeelTheBerns, Rocket Mortgage, Betty Ford, moneyshot, Focker, Grape
FNGs: None
COUNT: 8
CONDITIONS: Hateful

WARMUP: Irrelevant

THE THANG: Salty. Happy Octoburpee y’all. Let’s get it.
1. EMOM, alternate suicides and 10 Burpees, 10 sets
2. E2MO2M, alternate 400 meter sprints and 20 burpees, 8 sets.
3. Every 30 seconds on 30 seconds, alternate 30 yard dash and back and 5 burpees, 8 sets.

Signature salt in the wound: EMOM 10 burpees for 5 minutes.

Total burpees per person = 200, just shy of my burpee sprint Q last year (205).

Average calories burned in the 500-600 range

MOLESKINE: Great discussion at coffee about Transit Tax, voting, “stroads”, and 30 Rock.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: chili event, Grow School.

COT: fockers wife due soon, family friends with child in hospice.

Stay salty Nashville. Green Sally out.

Better Late Than Never?

AO: middle-tooth
Q: Young Pawn
PAX: Go Fish, Oatmeal, sooner, Hanes, Pole Dancer, Black Lung, Zelenskyy, Two Face, Haggis, Harbaugh, Foot Drop, Pep, Grape, Toothless, Betty Ford, Formica
FNGs: None
COUNT: 17
Figure I’ll squeeze this in before the end of the month so we all get our PAXminer stats.

Ran several laps of the field and then did a “you vs. you” round where each lap must be faster or face a penalty. Closed with some Sally Up and Sally Down squats (and merkins!) and 5 minutes of mary. Credit to Bad Boy Pole Dancer for inspiration.

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:6f

No Pushing, No Shoving

AO: bomber
Q: Firefox
PAX: Black Lung, Vector, Cream Cheese, Pep, Crawlspace, DintyMoore, Pop-A-Lock, Chunks
FNGs: None
COUNT: 9
CONDITIONS: Pleasantly cool and clear

WARMUP:
– 20x SSH
– 20x Imperial Walkers
– 20x Hillbillies
– OYO Good Mornings and WMH

THE THANG:
Thang 1: Mosey to upper parking lot and partner up. 1 PAX holds a Hollow Body Hold, the other runs a suicide (do we have an alternate name for this?), and swap. 3 rounds total.

Thang 2: Staying in pairs, 1 PAX holds a static hold position while the other does an exercise, then swap. 3 rounds total per exercise.
– Table Top (bridge) and 10x/side alternating toe touches
– High Plank and 10x/side knee tuck donkey kicks
– Hollow Body Hold and 15x WW1s
– Reverse Plank and 15x/side reverse plank leg raises

Thang 3: Mosey down to the (well lit) playground. Staying in pairs, 1 PAX does 10x hanging leg raises while the other does Plank Jacks. 3 rounds total.

Thang 4: Mosey back to Startex. 1 PAX does box jumps on the wall while the other runs a Bernie up the drive to the stop sign and back. 2 rounds total.

Thang 5: A nice relaxing, meditative Hollow Body Hold for the final 2.5 minutes.

MOLESKINE: The goal was lots of core/full body engagement. There was no theme except for the absence of merkins and burpees and other exercises that aggravate my elbow… or was there? Perhaps there was a story told in the playlist that was almost completely divorced thematically from the actual workout?

ANNOUNCEMENTS: All the things. Check the calendar. There’s chili on there somewhere.

COT:
– Pop-A-Lock’s father
– DintyMoore’s M’s family visit
– Vector’s son and M travels
– Those suffering from Hurricane Helene (Look into NC/FL Disaster Relief Funds, American Red Cross, or any other forms of support that you’re able!)
– Those suffering from ongoing and escalating conflicts overseas

Time to Workout!

AO: greenmachine
Q: sooner
PAX: Cowboy, moneyshot, Betty Ford, LorelaiG, Zelenskyy, t-cell, Black Lung, bluemule, Hanes
FNGs: None
COUNT: 10
CONDITIONS: Fall!

WARMUP: mozy to track and do some active stretching

THE THANG:

Plank circuit- 1 minute each
– plank jacks
– mountain climber
– alternating plank jacks
– jump mountain climber
– alternating shoulder taps
– high plank hand shuffle
– high-lows
– T jump merkins

Track interval ladder up and back down, 100 meter resting mozy
– 100
– 200
– 400
– 800

MOLESKINE:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Brewsday was yesterday… There is a chili cook-off in a few weeks… Mini-Convergence at iiipillars next Tuesday. Don’t show up to middle-tooth because we won’t be there.

COT: Thinking about NC

Rock Me Like A Hurricane

AO: cruelhall
Q: EZ-Go
PAX: Donkey Hammer, Pedialyte, Works for a Guy, Mistah Mistah, Accounts Receivable, Focker, EZ-Go, Young and Restless, Michael Freiburg, Black Lung, Sofa King
FNGs: 1 Sofa King
COUNT: 11
Crieve Hall showed up and showed out for a washout F3 beatdown under the pavilión.

CONDITIONS:
Noahic

WARMUP:
20 SSH

THANG: The Hurricane
Tabata (2 min on, 45s off)
Retrieve soggy coupon then…

Outer bands:
1 – Sumo Squats w block
2 – Tricep extensions
3 – WW1
4 – Decline mercs

Inner bands:
1 – Lt. Dans
2 – Bicep curls
3 – American hammers
4 – Incline mercs

Storm surge!
Thunderstruck burpee-fest

Eye wall:
Eye wall bear crawl

Eye:
6 inches with block hold

Storm surge!
Thunderstruck burpee-fest

NAMEARAMA:
Welcomed Walter aka Sofa King (sells sofas on Facebook Marketplace)

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Nashville half-marathon – Oct 26

PRAYERS:
Smokehouse new baby in da house!

Great work boys, always a pleasure!

-EZ

Sinple Things

AO: bomber
Q: DintyMoore
PAX: Black Lung, Crawlspace, Cream Cheese, Firefox, Papa Bear, Pep, Right Said, SalPal (indefinitely fartsacking), Sherlock, Tim the Toolman, Vector, Wet Wipes
FNGs: None
COUNT: 13
CONDITIONS: Wet Sweat

WARMUP:
Mosey around neighborhood block to coupons
– stops @ cross streets for 10 merkins and 10 squats

THE THANG:
1) Grab coupon for each PAX at Cage

tel:10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 Devils Press
20-18-16-14-12-10-8-6-4-2 Squats

Mosey around ball field

12’ EMOM
10 Coupon Squats
10 Merkins
5 Coupon Swings

Put coupons away and Dealers Choice Mary to finish
Burpees
WW2s
Freddy Mercuries
American Hammers
Prom Dates

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2VGbEh1vYvHx2757hq4Rw6?si=YVfVD1TiQjCScKh5xJ3HGQ&pi=u-5DCzLixnR8C9

MOLESKINE: choose to love on those in your life and lead boldly

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
5k walk/race day tomorrow
Walk for Apraxia
Hustle for the House
Shade Tree 5k

COT: prayers for our country and peace in the Middle East. Great to see SalPal (indefinitely fartsacking) at coffeeteria

Shaking off the Rust

AO: greenmachine
Q: Focker
PAX: Cowboy, moneyshot, Black Lung, Goose, Betty Ford, t-cell
FNGs: None
COUNT: 7
CONDITIONS: touch of cool

WARMUP: various stretches to look at the stars

THE THANG:
“Fake 11s”
3 chin ups, Bernie up hill, 8 jump squats
Rinse and repeat

Real 11s
Dive bomber merkins, Bernie up hill, prisoner squats

400m run
20,15,10 dip, incline, decline merkin
300m run
20,15,10 DIDs
200m run
20,15,10 DIDs
100m sprint
Wait for 6

5 minutes of gut work

MOLESKINE: Black Lung mouthing off like usual, Cowboy getting a trip down memory music lane, declines continue to be a man-maker exercise

ANNOUNCEMENTS: multiple 5K’s this Saturday, future chili cook off this Fall

COT: the word “legacy” has been bouncing around my head lately. Tomorrow is not guaranteed for any of us. So if today is our last day here or our last day of good health, what will our legacy be?
I butchered a quote, so here is the original:
“You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems” – James Clear from “Atomic Habits”