I was awoken by the 2.1 at 4:38am and after a quick diaper change I decided to look up who had the Q of Dante’s Peak this morning. Boy was I surprised to see that YHC had signed up (likely during another sleepless night). Time to rise to the occasion and make somebody sweat. 27 pax arrived for an early morning tour of Apex nature park.
Warm-Up
Hold that thought as 5, yes 5 pax arrived late.
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Brotherhood of the Traveling Rocks
The plan this morning was to travel around SNS with some rocks. None of this standing around in a circle stuff. Get that heart rate up!
Warm Up
SSH x 20
Merkins x 15
Good Mornings x 15
Mountain Climber x 15
Sir Fazio Arm Circles forward and back x 10 each.
Burpees x 5 OYO
Thang 1
Get a medium sized rock. Mosey over to parking lot. 7 exercises around the parking lot perimeter.
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Tortoises Comes To A-Team
The plan this morning was to bring a Tortoises style workout to A-team. Limited running, unlimited pain. So we moseyed to the first parking lot at the front of the park and stayed there for the entire workout.
Warm Up
Little Man Jumping Jacks x 15
Jukebox x 15 (created by and named for my 2.0)
Imperial Walker x 15
Cotton Pickers x 15
Thang 1
Partner up for Dora 1-2-3, merkins x 100, prisoner squats x 200, LBCs x 300, one partner runs the pickle while the other does the exercises.
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Celebration in the Peak of Good Living
Earhart, sooner, SUEY, Swag, monkey nut, disco duck, Parker, Snots, Lulu, ascot, stove pipe, nature boy, Franklin, goose, blueprint, road rash, blackout, open out, Wilbur, banjo, hotspot, water wings, Crimson, sky blue
Babyface, a.k.a., Colin Snyder, led a compelling sermon centered around Jesus his first miracle, John 2:1 to 11, turning water into wine at a wedding reception. YHC cannot find the podcast so you men will need to stretch your imaginations, extend some faith beyond your sensibilities, and trust me on this one.
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Traveling “Jack Webs”
The morning weather is perfect and 13 PAX all gather on time for another beatdown. No FNGs so we head out and around the skate park and across the street (wait for the cars and then backwards run). Circle-up behind the building for:
Warm Up 10 Good Mornings
15 Side Straddle Hops
10 Cotton Pickers
15 Windmills
The Thang Finish warmup and get the PAX into a plank hold line. Q describes the first thang workout, 7s running up one side of the building, performing 6 CDDs, run down the stairs on the other side and perform 1 burpee.
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Sneaky Hard in New Hampshire
16 of CarPex’s finest gathered in the gloom at Bond Park for SNS, deciding they wanted both a beat down and to be home before 7:30 AM.
Warmup Jog to the Community Center parking lot for warm ups: SSH, GMs, SFAC, Hillbillies, Cotton Pickers, Mountain Climbers, Merkins, & Quick Feet
Indian Run to the rock pile adjacent to the Bond Lake spillway.
The Thang Split into three groups for a little F3 Cat’s Cradle.
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Raindrops keep falling on my head
YHC planned for some music to enhance the enjoyment of the beatdown and thankfully the theme from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid was not on the playlist. Since the speaker and phone were already set up on the field, a little/lotta rain wasn’t going to change my plan.
No FNGs, but lots of new faces and we were off. Mozy around parking lot and enter first soccer field.
Warm-up
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Step by Step
Life is a series of steps. For the first 25 years or so, you are basically pushed down a series of steps. Elementary school, little league baseball, driver’s license, first job, then usually college or in my case, the military.
In the Army, every step of your life is controlled almost 24 x 7. My three years in the 82nd Airborne Division were challenging and fun but when I got out, the day I got out, the minute I signed my last form, I was lost.
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Return to Hinton Hill
YHC and Parker managed to lock down the premier Carpex AO BH Q for VQ week. With that tremendous responsibility upon us we devised a Co-Q plan to bring the pain and bring the pain we did. YHC sought a return to Hinton Hill, the scene of YHC’s first BH post and beat down.
At 5:45 20 men, no FNGs, were off with a brisk mosey to the Baucum Elementary school bus lot for warmup after being questioned by a few skater dudes.
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Day Dreaming
YHC is glad to be part of VQ week! Thanks to all the PAX that participated in FOD today. I now have a better appreciation for how much the Q has to juggle, not the least of which is catching one’s breathe while talking and exercising.
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