Christmas Q

AO: middle-tooth
Q: Rocket Mortgage
PAX: moneyshot, Cowboy, sooner, Oatmeal, Topanga, TheShield, Esposa
FNGs: None
COUNT: 8
CONDITIONS: 24 Degrees. Beards were icy

WARMUP: The usual. Mosey’d to tennis courts for some additional butt kickers, high knees, skips, and karaoke. It was hard not to be merry.

THE THANG: 11s on the tennis court. 1st set: Merry Thrusters and Bethlehem Star Jumps. 2nd set: WW2s and burpees.

Ran a lap around the circle and stopped at bleachers for 50 step ups, 40 dips, and 20 decline merkins.

COT: Prayers for traveling families and those lonely during the holidays. ✌🏼

A Very Grateful Q

AO: middle-tooth
Q: Pole Dancer
PAX: Oatmeal, Subway, Young Pawn, Toothless, Cowboy, Topanga, Betty Ford, moneyshot, Bad Boy, Rocket Mortgage, TheShield, sooner, monster biscuit
FNGs: None
COUNT: 14
CONDITIONS:
Clear, Crisp 29

WARMUP:
Static warmups with good mornings, willie mays, and cherry pickers. Comfortable mosey around the school/field, followed by active warmups of hammy scoops, A-skips, b-skips, skips for height, and quad stretches.

THE THANG:
Set of 20 exercises, followed by lunges from sidewalk to sidewalk. I swear they lengthened the soccer field since my last Q. Completed three reps- kicked off with burpees, mountain climbers, and dips respectively.

Mosey back to the parking lot for Ring of Fire set to a short rendition of Truckin’ (5 mins).

MARY:
Like Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders, there was a Legion of Mary.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Upcoming convergence, boxing day workout, New Years Q from @toothless, and Brewsday next week if I remember correctly

COT:
Prayers for various relatives, friends, and PAX recovering from illnesses and ailments right before Xmas, and for gratitude and strength to help those in need.

SOUNDTRACK
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2kN3ZI91qB19W7Bs9xO6qY?si=1b50a0590fd74cf4

MM under the sea

AO: atlantis
Q: Michelin Man
PAX: Toothless, Salpal, Chunks, Hair Band, Oatmeal
FNGs: None
COUNT: 6
CONDITIONS: acceptable

WARMUP: most of us ran. Oatmeal walked.

THE THANG: 1 burpee followed by 10 reps of an exercise called out by each successive PAX. 5 rounds: upper, lower, ab, total body, and traveling. Run the water tower loop in between.

MARY: nah

ANNOUNCEMENTS: you know.

COT: Thankful.

Loving you was like Red

AO: middle-tooth
Q: t-cell
PAX: Focker, Young Pawn, Toothless, Michelin Man, Chariot, moneyshot, Oatmeal, Betty Ford, DrRupp, Subway, sooner, FeelTheBerns
FNGs: None
COUNT: 13
CONDITIONS:Warmer than expected. Lots of Red. We were in our Red era. Then the power of TSwift took over and we let her take us where she wished as we fired up the Red album.

WARMUP: 22 SSH, some GM and WMH, followed by some baby arm circles and squats.

THE THANG: Long mosey down Granny White, so much so that MM thought we were headed back to Lipscomb. Wrong. Headed to the Hill!

11’s with 2 exercises = 22 (fuzzy T Swift math) Burpees at the bottom, drop squats up top.

Mosey over to the pavilion where we worked out next two either a dead body or a man sleeping. We will never know, we had DID business to attend to. 25 dips, 20 inclines, 15 declines for 3 rounds.

MARY: No time!

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Brewsday, Gobbler, check the Slack

COT: Grateful for Fockers vulnerability and sharing over some recent victories and growth. He’s a true HIM.

Go Burpees for Donuts

AO: bomber
Q: Firefox
PAX: Subway, Papa Bear, Recharge, Cream Cheese, Michelin Man, DintyMoore, Vector, Tim the Toolman, Spinal Tap, sooner, Oatmeal, PeteTheCat
FNGs: None
COUNT: 12.5
CONDITIONS: No complaints

WARMUP:
– SSH x 15
– Good Mornings x 10
– WMH x 10

THE THANG:
To prepare folks for Game Night tomorrow, I adapted the rules of a fun, family game called Go Nuts for Donuts. But rather than collecting a variety of donuts, PAX were attempting to collect a variety of exercises.

6 cards, each showing a specific exercise and number of reps were displayed in a row, numbered 1 through 6. PAX were split into 5 teams and given a set of cards, also numbered 1 through 6. One member from each team held a plank and selected the number from their cards corresponding with the exercise they wanted for their team that round. If no one else picked the same number, their team “won” the exercise. If any teams picked the same number, those teams had to do 15 burpees instead. Meanwhile, all other PAX did SSH.

Exercises included (with variable but not trival rep counts):
– Merkins
– Decline Merkins
– Iron Mikes
– Buzzsaw Planks
– Jump Squats
– Drop Squats
– Monkey Humpers
– Pull-Ups
– Hanging Leg Raises
– Bear Crawl around the circle
– Crawl Bear around the circle
– Split Squats
– Plank Jacks

We did 12 rounds of this. For reference, Team 2, consisting of me, @sooner, and @tim_the_toolman did a crawl bear circuit, 20 pull-ups, 30 monkey humpers, 30 jump squats, 40 iron mikes (each side is a half), 40 buzzsaw planks, and 40 merkins to go along with 75 burpees (Thanks, @sooner )

Fun was had by ~all~ me.

MARY:
– 4 rounds of 10 WW1s and a Hollow Body Hold

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
– Did I mention Game Night?
– Family-friendly shindig at casa de @tim_the_toolman Oct. 27

COT:
– My mom’s speedy and smooth recovery from knee surgery
– Peace and comfort for all those suffering and/or under threat due to violence overseas

Donut Den donuts were consumed by many. Star Bagel was had by some.

Other observations:
– @PeteTheCat showed up and startled many a PAX with aggressive friendliness. @sooner was not a fan. Pete was wise to avoid the HBH but did try to sneak in for some donuts.
– I’m pretty sure there was at least 1 team that exceeded their burpee quota today (looking at @michelin_man and co)
– @oatmeal used some very subtle tactics to dissuade other teams from picking the same exercise as him. It only worked some of the time
– The 30 pull-ups card was in high demand and led to a lot of burpees, for some reason.
– Gratitude to @oatmeal for picking up all the cards

Playground Games

AO: middle-tooth
Q: Chunks
PAX: Oatmeal, sooner, Bad Boy, Young Pawn, Subway, Hair Band, Gump (F3 Kansas City), bluemule
FNGs: None
COUNT: 9
CONDITIONS:

WARMUP:
Lackadaisical mosey around the parking lot
41 SSH
Left Over Right
Right Over Left
Willie Mays Hayes
Good Mornings
13 Forward Little Baby Arm Circle
13 Reverse Little Baby Arm Circle
13 Moroccan Night Clubs
13 Overhead Press
Shake out the Arms

Pass the Speaker Caboose is Loose Run to Playground
PAX struggled with directions of “Pass the Speaker”
It was dropped once, so 5 Burpees were done.

THE THANG:
Thang
Bear Crawl in a line around playground

Duck Duck Goose
Chase around the playground
Circle Up – Hold Plank
Get caught 5 burpees, group 5 Merkins
Don’t get caught 5 Merkins, group 5 burpees – Select again
Once you’ve either been caught or not SSH till everyone else has gone

Mosey to Tennis Court
Divided into teams for Rock Paper Scissors
Line up facing each other middle of center court
Winner must chase and tag the loser before reaching the end of the far court
1’s stayed in place while the 2’s rotated to face another 1

Mosey back to StartEx
1’s were O’s and 2’s were X’s
Tic Tack Toe
5 Merkins and Two Burpees
Run and place your token
Run back to tag partner
Go until either CAT or winner

Another lackadaisical mosey around the parking lot

Circle up for 5 mins of Dealers Choice

MARY:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Announcements: Sooner on Q at atlantis Thursday. 4:13 Strong first workout with new cohort this Thursday.

TAPs: Hairbands great grandmother, great aunt and uncle dealing with lots of health concerns and far away from other family. Bad Boy’s brother in law Josh. Oatmeal’s friends wife diagnosed with breast cancer. Young Pawn stepping out to have some crucial conversations with his manager.

We were able to pass out an F3 business card to a guy who stopped by at the end of the workout and wanted to know more about what we were doing.

Thanks for the honor to lead.
COT: