With a Little Luck . . .

Date: 2026-03-16 AO: westeros Q: Vector PAX: Pep, CubCadet, Chunks, Squatter, Spinal Tap, SalPal, DintyMoore, Papa Bear, Tim the Toolman FNGs: None COUNT: 10 YHC thought that today’s highly anticipated version of Weightsteros should celebrate tomorrow’s holiday, St. Patty’s Day :four_leaf_clover: with a theme about luck.
CONDITIONS: Cool but perfect.
WARMUP: SSH, LBAC, Overhead presses, Seal Claps, Moroccan Night Clubs, RLBACs, Squats, WMH and Good Mornings
THE THANG: #1 Lucky :four_leaf_clover:: PAX each draws a card. Lucky PAX has highest card and gets to wear the shamrock necklace and pick an exercise for the PAX to do while they run across the lot and back x 3.
#2 Unlucky :x: :four_leaf_clover:: Now the PAX with the lowest card goes, but has to do 5 burpees with each exercise lap
#3 Lucky #7 :four_leaf_clover: :seven:: Spinal Tap’s turn to go — same principle as #1
#4 L-U-C-K: 17 reps of Lunges Ultimate/Utilitarian/Ugh Burpees Crunches of the Lil’ Baby Variety Killer Squats
Mary to time.
MOLESKINE: In life, you’ll encounter good and bad luck — be prepared with the skills to handle both as leaders and men.
ANNOUNCEMENTS/COT: – Holy Smokers, Grow School, Etc. – check the Slack – Kudos to The Merchant for a successful murder mystery night that may have involved Tim the Toolman turning into a demon?? – Thanks to some lippy jib-jab from DintyMoore and Chunks, the Q made the PAX run a little sprint. Gotta get your movement tracker started I guess . . . – SalPal was the dreaded Lucky HIM as he picked blockees more than once. He’s practically on vacation anyway. – Prayers for Title Max’s daughter, those traveling, our Muslim community members, and our leaders – Pep was most excited about Tom Petty’s entry on the playlist, singing aloud and recalling its post-apocalyptic music video. – 110% coffeeteria as Title Max joined us at Dose for CubCadet’s favorite $17 coffee.
PLAYLIST: Get Lucky – Daft Punk Lucky Star – Madonna Good Luck Babe – Chappell Roan I Feel Lucky – Mary Chapin Carpenter Some Guys Have All the Luck – Rod Stewart You Got Lucky – Tom Petty With a Little Luck – Wings A Stroke of Luck – Garbage My Lucky Day – Bruce (for Papa Bear) Lucky – Britney Spears
:four_leaf_clover: wishing you much luck Vector

Naming Conventions in Atlanta are strange

Date: 2026-03-06 AO: handsomizer Q: SalPal , Chowda(F3 Atl WarningTrack) PAX: Salami, Natural Ice, Old Maid, Spinal Tap, TitleMax FNGs: None COUNT: 7 CONDITIONS: Absolutely delightful.
WARMUP: Led by Chowda(F3 Atl WarningTrack)!
THE THANG: (1) Merkin Circuit, (2) Atlanta Beatdown Sample
MOLESKINE: Lots of discussion around naming conventions and ballpoint pens.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Grow School, Merkin Madness, Murder Mystery, Spring Fling, Check Slack
COT: TitleMax kid, career, runners this weekend, intentions unspoken.
PLAYLIST: N/a

Fight like hell and slay your demons

Date: 2026-02-25 AO: titan Q: SalPal PAX: Pep, Squatter, CubCadet, Black Lung, Stumbles, Spinal Tap, caprate, Papa Bear, Sherlock, swamper FNGs: None COUNT: 11 CONDITIONS: Weirdly warm for my Rocky impersonation.
WARMUP: 11s, Pullups and Weighted Squats
THE THANG: Recreation of the Myth of Sisyphus: Bear Crawl + Coupon Drag, Hill Runs with HR Merkins and Lt. Dans. Plank circuit and 10 burpee buyout.
MOLESKINE: Music was brutal and repetitive. Great for getting locked in.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Grow School, Merkin Madness, Murder Mystery, White’s Creek AO, Check Slack
COT: Changes at work with project, intentions unspoken.
PLAYLIST: Hades + Hades II + Doom (2016) soundtrack

Mike Tysons Are Hard

Date: 2026-02-11 AO: titan Q: Cowboy PAX: Pep, Tim the Toolman, Squatter, Stumbles, Black Lung, Good Morning America, Firefox, Todd Doherty – F3 UMass, Spinal Tap, Choo Choo FNGs: None COUNT: 11 CONDITIONS: Cool, crisp, downright pleasant.
WARMUP: As per Titan tradition a piece of the workout was offered to PAX DR from Atlanta Todd Doherty – F3 UMass
THE THANG: Choose Pairs and Mosey Parthenon Steps. 1. Pairs do 50 Total of Mike Tysons : partner run the loop. FlipFlop R&R with Jump Shots, R&R with Mike Tysons 2. 11s at side incline hill. Burpee Buyin: ladders @ 5 GiggyUps at the bottom – Iron Mike at the top – Partners start on opposite ends With 5 Slap Merkins in the middle when you meet your partner
Mary: Hold AL Prom Dates, add leg raised to sky, 30 sec Supine Planks x 2,
MOLESKINE: Cowboy doesn’t know his right from his left. Grateful was the word of the day
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Holy Smokes 2/19 and see above :point_up_2:for New AO at Whites Creek HS.
COT: Gaze at the moon and acknowledge how small we are in a great expanse AND yet chased down by a Maker
PLAYLIST: All Coverbands – only 2 hidden original recordings. Who were they?

Last man standing!!!

Date: 2026-01-21 AO: titan Q: Choo Choo PAX: Spinal Tap, Sherlock, Tim the Toolman, Hipster, Stumbles, Natural Ice, Drop Trow, Pep, Vector, bluemule FNGs: None COUNT: 11 WARMUP: some warmup with 5 core principles
THE THANG: Thang: we did 2 rounds of each Partner up. Keep pushing till one of you give up -> easy mosey -> switch partners HiFi merkins Curls American Hammers OH Press American hammers Swings
MOLESKINE: Its better to be a hole than a sink hole. A hole is something that you can see on the surface, you would know how wide, deep it is. But a sinkhole looks all good on the surface, it keeps corroding within then one fine day collapses, taking everything down with it.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: check out after-hours leanpax
TCLAPS to Tim the Toolman for being a HIM and getting blocks on demand.

Parking Garage of Glutes

AO: handsomizer
Q: Natural Ice , Spinal Tap
PAX: Spinal Tap, Old Maid, Freakonomics, bluemule, Natural Ice, Swamper, Lance Brock
FNGs: 1 Lance Brock
COUNT: 7
CONDITIONS: Wet and Wild

WARMUP: SSH, Stretchin, Merks

THE THANG: -Ran to the Parking Garage-
Natural Ice wanted to keep it simple
11s -Merks on one level and WW1s on the other – Keep it moving

Then Spinal Tap – went for A Dora, single leg glut bridges, reverse lunges, Romanian Split Squats, Advanced Alabama Prom Dates.

Lots of Running and Glute exercises

MOLESKINE: You only get wet once

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Holy Smokers Thursday night,

Spinal Tap & Natural Ice launching a small group this wednesday night. Kick off is 6:45 at Hopping River North – with Trivia

COT: Prayers lifted!

New Year, Nw Start

AO: westeros
Q: Vector
PAX: Pep, Michelin Man, Grape, Black Lung, Papa Bear, Squatter, Sherlock, Spinal Tap, Tim the Toolman, Mudflap
FNGs: None
COUNT: 11
2025 is done. 2026 is fresh and new. Leanpax starts today. No better time to celebrate the turn of the calendar. New year, new starts. Let’s hit it HIM.

[Note: as per new WEIGHTSteros AOQ edict, I had to run a workout that used coupons. So use them we did.]

CONDITIONS: Crisp and new.

PLAYLIST:
[Despite accusations that this was created by ChatGPT – Pep how dare you, sir – and that it consisted of songs from CDs that were on the floor of my 1988 Pontiac Sunbird, songs from a diversity of decades motivated the PAX to start anew.]

– New Year’s Day – U2
– I Will Buy You a New Life – Everclear
– New Sensation – INXS
– Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag – James Brown
– Start Me Up – Rolling Stones
– I Want a New Drug – Huey Lewis and the News
– New World Man – Rush
– Begin the Begin – R.E.M.
– Someone New – Hozier
– Brand New – Ben Rector
– New – No Doubt

WARMUP:
SSH x 26, LBAC, Michael Phelps, Sea claps, RLBAC. Then some mild cardio of high knees, butt kickers, sprints. Then grab your coupon and away we go.

THE THANG:
20 reps each of coupon work:
– Coupon squats
– Coupon kettlebell swings
– Coupon presses
– Coupon rows
– Coupon curls
– Coupon overhead presses

Mosey to sign via lunges, then broad jumps.
Rinse and repeat x 4 (?5).
Break to run some sprints to make sure we don’t fall into the Chunks rule (with some age adjusted distances).

One last coupon work – pull throughs x 20

MARY of flutter kicks, prom dates, Freddie Mercuries, Hello Dollys, and low planks.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
– Leanpax starts today! Not too late to join, even if you ate a tub of icing this morning for breakfast.

COT:
– Prayers for work, Grape’s father, CubCadet safe return from PR after flights delayed in the Caribbean, and general cooling of emotions after this weekend’s global events.
– Always great to have Grape back at Westeros . . . I mean, WEIGHTSteros (sorry Michelin Man). Some classic Gilbertisms today including “The only thing new about Huey Lewis is the news” and “20 prom dates? That’s 20 more than I had in high school.”

Honor to lead you HIM – great start to the year. Stay at it.
SYITG, Vec

New Year Beatdown

AO: handsomizer
Q: Old Maid
PAX: Cuban Missile, Grape, Natural Ice, Old Maid, Salami, Spinal Tap
FNGs: None
COUNT: 6
CONDITIONS:
Cool and clear

WARMUP:
30 SSH
30 Baby Arm Circles
15 Air Presses
Good Mornings OYO
Willie Mays Hayes OYO
Worlds Greatest Stretch

THE THANG:
Mosey to stairs
Split into teams of 2
Partners take turns running stairs or doing exercise. At each landing, exercise changes.
Burpees
Merkins
Freddie Mercuries
Reverse Lunges

MOLESKINE:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Eat clean until Valentines Day (I forgot what it’s called :man-shrugging:).

COT:
Prayers for Grape’s dad’s surgery, Old Maid’s brother, Salami’s healing

WEIGHTsteros 4

AO: westeros
Q: Michelin Man , Vector
PAX: bluemule, Red Skull, Vector, Old Maid, Spinal Tap, Tim the Toolman, Michelin Man, Pep
FNGs: None
COUNT: 8 pack
CONDITIONS: insta-cold

WARMUP: standard jog around the park

THE THANG:

1. Sevens

Thrusters in middle of parking lot.
Murder bunnies as mode of travel (modify to lunge walk if needed).
Blockees at the Christmas tree pile.

2. Acronym circle- BLOCKS

Do the following:
Big boy sit-ups
Lunges (2 is 1)
Overhead press
Curls
Kettlebell swings
Squats

Did sets of 5x, 5x, 10x, and 5x.

3. Mary. Cool guys incorporated the block in their Mary call. Thank you cool guys.

MOLESKINE: Didn’t want to come. Glad I went. Workout got better with every murder bunny.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: YHC Grinchingly stealing all the Qs in December is over. Back to regular rotation next week. As repayment, those in attendance received a brand new, gently used cinder block as a holiday gift. BRING YOUR OWN COUPN EVERY WEEK MOVING FORWARD.

COT: thank you LORD. Amen.

Subsequently, Doseteria was held at Star Bagel.