sparta Planetary Alignment Randomness

Date: 2025-02-28
AO: sparta
Q: Pop Fly
PAX: Rambler, K-Pop, NOAA, Blue Steel, Crop Duster, Dunder, Battleship, Doodles, Ashe FNGs: None
COUNT: 10
WARMUP: Yes
THE THANG: Deck of Cards A/ B Randomness. 10+ rounds
MARY: No time
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Burden Run (1 March), 18 March – manly-book-challenge, 5 April – Road clean up
COT: Q shared what was going on with his son and asked the group to consider proactive engagements vs reactive engagements.

Tags: sparta, Rambler, K-Pop, NOAA, Blue Steel, Crop Duster, Dunder, Battleship, Doodles, Ashe

olympus Tabata HIIT

Date: 2025-02-27
AO: olympus
Q: Battleship
PAX: Doodles, Hightower, K-Pop, NOAA, Peanuts, Pop Fly, Rollingstone FNGs: None
COUNT: 8
WARMUP:

Jumping jacks
Arm circles
Imperial Marches (Walkers)
Hill-Billies
Frankenstein’s

THE THANG:

4 Rounds, 5 Exercises. 30 seconds rest between rounds. Each exercise performed in Tabata format (forty seconds work, 20 seconds rest).

Exercises:
1. Squat Jumps
2. Push-ups
3. Mountain Climbers
4. Lunges (Alternating Legs)
5. Plank to Shoulder Taps

MARY:
Standing hamstring stretch
Quad stretch
Downward Dog
WGS
Cobra Kai
Child’s Pose

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Burden Run and ARC on Saturday, Road Cleanup 5 April, 2nd F coming up in March.

COT: Give. Give your money, time, and talents. When you are in a rut, give. It reaps rewards for your psyche.

Tags: olympus, Doodles, Hightower, K-Pop, NOAA, Peanuts, Pop Fly, Rollingstone

hoya-paxa Pressure is Privilege

Date: 2025-02-27
AO: hoya-paxa
Q: Summit
PAX: Daaa Auditor, Trademark, Pinch
FNGs: None
COUNT: 4
WARMUP: All IC….SSH, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies, Cherry Pickers, WMH, Downward Dog, WGS

THE THANG:
– Ricky Bobby-1 lap
– Increasing 4 corners…
– Corner 1: 5 blockees..block & bear to corner 2
– Corner 2: 5 blockees + 10 cactus jump squats…fireman carry to corner 3
– Corner 3: 5 blockees + 10 cactus jump squats + 15 dips and then murder bunny to corner 4
– Coerner 4: 5 blockees + 10 cactus jump squats + 15 dips + 20 coupon plank jacks – Tabata Set 1: 20 secs work, 10 secs rest X 8 sets
– Alternate blockees and coupon toe taps
– Ricky Bobby-1 lap
– Rinse and Repeat 4 corners without coupons and replacing dips with merkins and changing up mode of transport to lunges, broad jumps, bear crawls – Tabata Set 2: Alternate mountain climbers and WWI

MARY: IC Hammers and LBCs

ANNOUNCEMENTS: ARC, announcement channel

COT: YHC shared feeling overwhelmed lately by things around him….personal and professional…some in his control and others not. In those moments of chaos, can be a strategy to reframe and avoid over-indexing towards the risks/challenges and indexing towards the opportunities. Mantra from the great Billie Jean King…Pressure is Privilege. Go get it.

Tags: hoya-paxa, Daaa Auditor, Trademark, Pinch

thefarm I’m with the bands

Date: 2025-02-26
AO: thefarm
Q: Sparky_The Farm
PAX: Matthew – Running Man, Firehead, Lumbergh, Murdoch (Tampa) FNGs: None
COUNT: 5
WARMUP: ssh, Don Quixote’s, Michael Phelps, beer pickers, neck rolls. Mozy THE THANG:
Band work
Set 1 (do 2x each set)
Squats
Merkins
Seated rows
Tricep extension
Mozy
Set 2
Lunges
Shoulder press
Lat raises
Mozy
Set 3
Chest press
Curls
Full body thrusters

MARY:
Flutter kicks
American hammers
Hello Dollys
Lbc
Sky divers
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Squatter Q Friday, with flag!

COT:
“Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid, do not be discouraged for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go. “. Joshua 1:9

We discussed among ourselves

Tags: thefarm, Matthew – Running Man, Firehead, Lumbergh, Murdoch (Tampa)

ao-the-bullpen THE HILL

Date: 2025-02-26
AO: ao-the-bullpen
Q: Peloton
PAX: Peanuts, Crop Duster, Peloton
FNGs: None
COUNT: 3
WARMUP:
– SSH
– LBAC FWD
– LBAC BKWD
– SEAL CLAPS
– OH CLAPS
– PRETZELS
THE THANG:
– 1 Curl – Farmer Carry Right Side Up Hill – 1 Chest Press – Farmer Carry Left Side Down Hill
– 2 Curls – Farmer Carry Right Side Up Hill – 2 Chest Press – Farmer Carry Left Side Down Hill – –
– –
– –
– 15 Curls – Farmer Carry Right Side Up Hill – 15 Chest Press – Farmer Carry Left Side Down Hill MARY: Mary-go-round
– Flutter kicks
– WW3 Sit ups
– Gas pumpers
– (i forget this one)
– Sharon Stones
– Captain Thors
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
– ARC – this weekend
– Burden Run at olympus this weekend
COT:
– Spoke of my son’s experience wresting, and how he did not see much success, but he faced it each week, and eventually one his first two matches in his last event of the season.
– Watching him manage through it, never waiving from his goal, and with failure staring him down each week as he saw others all having success.
– it was personally inspiring and a reminder of how simple goals being set along the way can lead to success.

Tags: ao-the-bullpen, Peanuts, Crop Duster, Peloton