DATE: 2022-01-31
AO: Horizon-Ao
Q: Brown Bag
PAX: 3 mile, Disco, Yardbird, Lazlo, Kodiak, Mr Haand, Maj. Payne FNGs: None
COUNT: 8
WARMUP: 5 burpess, SSH, IW, DQ, CP, WMH, LBAC, DownDog, Cobra Kai
THE THANG: Mosied to 37th Rd. hill, stopping to do 5 burpees along the way. Given we had an odd number of PAX to start, we started with the odd number (1) of burpees at the bottom of the hill with an even number (10) at the top before running back down, then worked our way up and down the ladder, performing a total of 11 burpees each time with 10 total uphill runs. Mosied back to AO, where we picked up Maj. Payne who apparently had not had enough of a beatdown at Patriot.
MARY: Flutterkick, Penguin Crunch, American Hammer, 5 more burpees (for 125 total for the workout), Superman and WWI ANNOUNCEMENTS: ARC
COT: Minute of silence; You can do so much more if you have others to share your burden with, whether it’s doing 500 burpees, running 5 miles or doing 110 burpees and running up a hill 10 times or any other challenge life presents. I’m grateful to have these PAX.
200M Relay Sort Of
DATE: 2022-01-28
AO: Patriot
Q: Spokes
PAX: Big Short, Bone, Brown Bag, CableGuy, Elvis, Flipper, Fish Fry, Lazlo, Lucius, Maguire, My Space, Roadkill, Shake and Bake, Spokes, Sunshine, Wedding Singer FNGs: None
COUNT: 16
WARMUP: side straddle hope, little bitty arm circles, cherry picker, worlds greatest stretch
THE THANG: 2 stations along track, 3 teams, perform listed exercises while running team does 200M around track then switch off, perform until all exercises are completed MARY: dead-bugs, flutter kick, lbcs
ANNOUNCEMENTS: the arch
COT: adapt and support
The 2 for 1 Special
DATE: 2022-01-29
AO: Olympus
Q: Lightyear
PAX: Bluegrass, Fish Fry, Hightower, Juneau, Lazlo, Pop Fly, Popeyes, Rambler, Roddick, swish, Yard Sale, YNAB, Zeus FNGs: Red Baron (Co-Q) and welcome FNG Monarch
COUNT: 16
WARMUP: the day started with an immediate departure of a potential FNG… it was him, not us! Anyway… warmorama consisted of 1 lap around the track, arm circles, cherry pickers and SSH
THANG 1 (Q’d by Lightyear): 7 of Diamond’s. From center goal line, pax traveled in a diamond shape stoping to perform these workouts: 4x 7 Burpee’s, 4x 14 Merkins, 4x 21 Squat Jumps, and 4x 28 American Hammers. Mode’s of travel included running, walking lunges, and high skips.
THANG 2 (Q’d by Red Baron):
Round 1 – 5 Burpee’s, 10 Merkins, 15 LBC, 20 Lunges, 25 plank jacks, 30 shoulder taps, 35 flutter kicks, 40 squats, 45 SSH, 50 no surrenders. Mosey to the other side of the field for…
Round 2 – 5 Burpee’s, 10 Merkins, 15 LBC, 20 Lunges, 25 plank jacks, 30 shoulder taps, 35 flutter kicks, 40 squats, 45 SSH. Polar bear crawl across the field for…
Round 3 – 5 Burpee’s, 10 Merkins, 15 LBC, 20 Lunges, 25 plank jacks, 30 shoulder taps, 35 flutter kicks, 40 squats. Karaoke down the field for…
Round 4 – 5 Burpee’s, 10 Merkins, 15 LBC, 20 Lunges, 25 plank jacks, 30 shoulder taps, 35 flutter kicks
MARY: 20 box cutters, side planks, 100 balanced taps
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Happy Birthday to Bluegrass and big 15 to Swish! Red Baron invited everyone to the PA convergence 24-25 June. @Popfly decreed that all Merkins AND burpee’s this morning count toward the monthly challenge!
COT: Better to be a Warrior in a Garden then a Gardener in a War. Be ruthlessly ambitious but disciplined enough to control it and still show compassion and love to your fellow man.
Challenger Disaster by the Numbers
DATE: 2022-01-29
AO: Farm
Q: Infinity
PAX: Pete – Louis, Matthew – Running Man
FNGs: None
COUNT: 3
WarmUp: Imperial Walkers, Don Quixotes, Beet Pickers, Grady Corns, and 10-1 Motivators.
The Thang: Challenger Disaster by the Numbers
7 Bonnie Blairs IC
7 Crew members perished
53 SSHs IC
53 degrees: the coldest space shuttle flight before Challenger, in which Thiokol engineers identified failure of the primary O-rings in the booster rockets.
18 CDDs
18F:Low temperature overnight
25 Reverse Lunges IC
25F:Temperature measured on the left SRB
8 Burpees
8F: Temperature measured on the right SRB
36 OH Claps IC
36F: Ambient air temperature at time of launch
11 Derkins
39 Squats
11:39 EST: Time at which the Challenger started its final launched.
73sec Wall Sit
73 seconds: time after takeoff when the Challenger Space Shuttle broke apart off the coast of Cape Canaveral
Did some more exercises to stay warm:
7 Bonnie Blairs IC
20 Mountain Climbers IC
18 CDDs
8 Burpees
20 Reverse Lunges IC
20 Seal Claps IC
20 Derkins
20 Copperhead Squats
15 Stair Jumps
Mary: Flutter Kicks, Penguin Crunches, Sweat Angels, American Hammers, and Plank Pose.
CoT: Throughout the workout YHC reflected on some of the engineering and management lessons learned from the Challenger disaster. It is imperative on all who work with information that affects other peoples’ lives to adhere to strict standards of excellence—to not give in when management pressure becomes intense, but to stand by our principles.
“The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave. The Challenger crew was pulling us into the future, and we’ll continue to follow them. The crew of the space shuttle Challenger honored us by the manner in which they lived their lives. We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and ‘slipped the surly bonds of earth’ to ‘touch the face of God.’” – Ronald Reagan
Bluegrass B-Day A
DATE: 2022-01-28
AO: Sparta
Q: Bluegrass
PAX: Zeus, Hightower, Ashe, Pop Fly, Lightyear, Rambler
FNGs: None
COUNT: Seven
WARMUP: Arm circles, Cherry pickers, Hip flexors, SSH, Ankle stretches
THE THANG: Ten sets of ten exercises w/ coupon. Between each set run the field creating a number from 1 to 10. Your number should be in the form of the electronic scoreboard. Exercises consist of Blockies, Goblet squats, Thrusters, Squat Thrusters, Windshield wipers, Curls, Plank coupon pulls, Decline Merkins, Coupon dips and American Hamers w/coupon MARY: Mary was incorporated in The Thang.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: The Ark February 19th
COT: Jeremiah 29:11 This thought encourages us to find peace in our circumstances, regardless of our plans.
