You Shall Not Run.

Unless of course you went to whatever that running workout is that meets on Wednesdays. Combined with those people, SNS had 33. For those that stuck with YHC, it was a no running workout. As a reminder, YHC always takes requests. And so when one of you scallywags asked for no running, that’s what the PAX got: Bear Crawl 7s, a bunch of rock work (including curls, presses, extensions, rows, rock your bodies, rockees, rockins, rockroaches, you name it, we had it), and a little Mary. [Read More]

Always Charge the Hill

Pre-Blast 15 charged the hill at Lion’s Den The Warmup Pledge of Allegiance at the flag. Snake around the parking lot, circle up for: SSH, GM, Calf Stretch ‘Mericans, Victory Burpees The Thang Run to the church entrance, partner up. Partner 1 runs down the hill and across the street continuing to the bottom of the big hill and back up while partner 2 performs 20,30,40 reps of ‘Mericans, LBCs, SSH. [Read More]

Exicon GHI

Great workout this afternoon. 4 PAX took on the next set of Exicons for some evening fun at Rush Hour. TO START: Indian Run everywhere…all while listening to the best of George Thorogood music. Warm up Good Mornings - 10 Gorilla Humpers - 10 Hairy Rockettes - 10 Hillbillies - 10 Thang 1 - The Escalator 5 - Hand Release Prisoner Cell Merkin Burpees 10 - Iron Squat (in cadence) 15 - Happy Jacks (in cadence) 20 - WWII Thang 2 - Individual Medley [Read More]

MiL loves her new Condo

Well, there goes my last excuse, time to ring that second bell. Warm-up 20 HIMs mosey through the balls. YHC thought to cause some chaos in people’s days by skipping the good mornings, but reflex took over and everyone got their good morning before arms circles and perfectly led seal claps. Thang 1 Tired of feeling the threat of dropping a rock on YHC’s head, we hit the rock pile first for three rounds of overhead presses, dollar bill pickups, and ruh-rows. [Read More]

That Rocked

A dark, but beautiful morning commenced at Bond Park as 22 pax gathered for another Phooenix beatdown. After a quick disclaimer and the pledge of Allegiance we were off and running to the community center parking lot for some warm ups. Warm up Good Morning SSH Sir Fasio Arm Circles Forward and Reverse Copperhead Squats High Knees Mountain Climbers Thang 1 Staying in the plank position we did a 10 count around the entire circle (with 22 pax, that’s quite a long time. [Read More]

Dawgpound Yoga

It had been a few weeks since YHC last did a Q in Carpex so YHC figured he would kill 2 birds with 1 stone and Q an AO that he had never Q’d either. PAX of 20 showed up for an old school South Wake inspired beatdown with a special guest - The Dawgpound (SW’s Kettlebell Master and Crazy Ivan Site Q) Warm Up YHC had a goal to keep things under a mile today. [Read More]

What's Your Kryptonite; part II

Well, YHC was at a conference since Friday, so my Slack time significantly decreased. But I see that Shut-In asked someone to Q for him on Friday. Guess he got nothing, so asked again Sunday, which I saw that night. YHC thought, “my goodness, hope Shutty is OK, he wouldn’t just not Q unless something is drastically wrong”. Nope, he just wanted to attend Franklin’s anniversary Q. pffft. big deal. Nah, just kidding Shut-In, you are a great man and ‘Mantan. [Read More]

Bear Crawls and Lunge Walks and Crab Walks, Oh My!

It’s not everyday you have the opportunity to take charge at Carpex’s only AO to completely ignore copyrights and trademarks in its inaugural T-shirt….actually, it’s only Fridays. But every Friday, so I guess it’s less special than I thought. I hope that’s not how the PAX felt about the Q today. Beaker’s Beginnings **(The Warm-Up) **At 0545, we synchronized swatches and were off. We left the Stoners to their thing. Jog to the back of the school, through the refreshing mist of the sprinklers, to the top path for warm-ups. [Read More]

And in this corner...

With the upcoming Haven House Rumble, YHC thought I should try to train at least a little bit for the dance around the squared circle. It was a great morning to show up with a loosely developed plan. Watching a few clips of The One and Only Tony Horton inspired some P90x style exercises. 0545 Circle Up, Mission, Pledge, Disclaimer Warm-Up: a couple of fellowship mosey trips around the pickle with some invigorating butt kickers, high knees, and karaokes. [Read More]