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Normandy Aerobics

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20190619
Q: Hogs Breath

DISCLAIMER: Given

Warmup: 
Arm Circles – fwd, back, overhead – x10 IC

Abe Vigoda – 15 IC

Side Straddle Hops -25 IC
Mountain Man Poopers -10 IC

Mosey to the pier and back to the starting area, about a 400 meter mosey.

THE THANG

“Normandy”

-Partnered; one partner began Inch-worming toward the water, the other partner began a round of 10 squats, 10 Merkins, and 10 LBC. Once the second pax completed the round they sprinted to relieve the inch-wormer. Pax traded spots and continued the rounds of merkins’, squats, LBC / Inchworm until one of the pax got their hands wet in the ocean. Both pax would then mosey back to the staging area.

Pax repeated the movement with lunges, and then bearcrawls.

Q then retrieved a smartphone and speaker from his car and all pax began “F3 Aerobics”

  • “Flower” by Moby, aka “Bring Sally Up” Pax performed plank in the up and down positions to the lyrics of “bring Sally UP….bring Sally DOWN”
  • “Baba O’Reilly” by The Who. Pax performed a continuous set of Imperial Walkers to the tempo of the music. The last 45 seconds Pax moved to SSH in increasing tempo
  • “Tubthumping” by Chubbawamba. Pax performed SSH until the lyrics “I get knocked down” where pax would perform a burpee
  • “Get Low” by DJ Snake. Pax would perfom squats to the lyrics “Get low, low, low, low…ba da da dah da”

Finished up with 15 Gas pumps, 15 Hello Dolly’s and 12 Merkins!!

Words of Wisdom

When we look in a mirror, our image stares back at us.

“Reflect upon you present blessings

of which there are many.

Not on your past misfortunes,

Of which all men have some…” Charles Dickens

Ended with Number-O-Rama, Name-O-Rama, COT, Coffeeteria

After our COT several pax took a dip in the bay

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Pre-Spartan Beatdown

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20190601
Q: Flea

DISCLAIMER: Given

Warmup: 
Abe Vigodas – 15 IC
Cherry Pickers -15 IC
Sun gods -10 IC
Imperial Walkers – 15 IC

THE THANG
Today’s workout was designed to be flexible enough the PAX could adjust the level of difficulty to suit their needs and give those going to the Spartan today a little break although that’s not quite how it turned out…

It was broken up into 5 stations with exercises repeated for 10 minutes at each station. PAX were given the option of a ten-minute repeating timer or 30-sec interval timer and ten-minute station switch timer and this is where the confusion began. The intent with the 30-sec timer was that some stations had 30 sec/1 min workouts, but that message was not conveyed quite accurately enough and there was some confusion at the beginning that every workout was 30 seconds without rest.

Group counted off by 5s and were broken up into different stations. We were a little behind schedule after the warmup so the final station was only about 7 minutes in length.

Station #1
15 burpees
20 reverse lunges/side
10 merkins
20 LBC’s
10 Tricep Dips

Station #2
30 sec Mountain Climbers
30 squats
10 Overhead Shoulder Press w/ Coupon
20 Freddie Mercuries
10 plank with hip dips

Station #3
30 SSH
30 Alternating Lunges
30 Bicep Curls
20 Plank Jacks
30 sec Plank Right Side
30 sec Plank Left Side

Station #4
45 Calf Raises
1 min wall-sit
1 min Jog in Place
15 Reverse Lunges Each Leg
30 Squats

Station #5
15 bicep curls each side w/ coupon
15 tricep dips
30 mountain climbers
30 plank w/ alternating shoulder taps
1 lap around track

Ended with Number-O-Rama, Name-O-Rama, COT, Coffeeteria

MOLESKIN
Several Second F events on the way! See e-mails!
Today’s words of wisdom revolved around the vagueness of the workout and the original intention of allowing for allowing flexibility for the PAX to adapt it to their own needs. I’ve recently been studying the Old Testament of the Bible, because I think sometimes Christians have a bad habit of simply ignoring that part of the Bible due to its complexity and immense cultural differences.

The verse that specifically popped into my today during the workout was Gen 12:1 “Now the LORD said to Abram, ‘Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you.’

The instruction was vague but Abram followed the instructions given to him. Sometimes in life we receive vague instructions from God or our leaders and it is our job to continually ask for guidance and direction as to how to proceed with a little bit of our own gifts and ingenuity.

LEXICON: Word of the day- 
BLACK SWAN – Thriving in the chaos of the unpredictable.

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100 Yards The Hard Way

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VQ: Great Clips

Disclaimer: Given

Warm O Rama:
Moroccan Night Clubs
Imperial Walkers
Copperhead Squats
Abe Vigodas
Windmills

The Thang

Hello Dollys

Mosey one lap slow
Meet back in at the end zone

100 yards the hard way.

Start on the goal lines. Sprint to the 10 yard line and do 10 x merkins, sprint back to the goal. Everyone waits to start the next portion. Sprint to the 20 yard line and do 10 x flutter kicks, sprint back to the goal. Continue this to the other goal.

What goes up must come back….. 100 yards the hardway … in reverse. Sprint to the 100 yard line, 10 x merkins, sprint back. Sprint to the 90 yard line and do 10 x flutter kicks, sprint back. Continue this until you are home free.

Indian Run x 3 laps

Dealers choice

Words of wisdom:

The pain you feel today will be the strength you feel tomorrow.

Count-O-Rama, Name-O-Rama, COT

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Yes, you can sail the seven seas…

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08 May 2019

Q: Priorities

Where can you find pleasure
Search the world for treasure
Learn science technology
Where can you begin to make your dreams all come true
On the land or on the sea
Where can you learn to fly
Play in sports and skin dive
Study oceanography
Sign up for the big band
Or sit in the grandstand
When your team and others meet

8 pax posted for a PFA season themed beat down! NPS is ramping up for their bi annual physical fitness assessment so this morning, we went through the Navy’s physical readiness test.

Warmup –

  • SSHs IC x20
  • Moroccan Nightclubs IC x20
  • Imperial Walkers IC x20
  • Copperhead squats IC x20
  • Out n Ups IC x20

The Thang –

  • 2 minutes max situps
  • 2 minutes max merkins
  • 1.5 mile run

Thats it. Can you handle that? See your local military recruiter for more details…

Here’s the minimum passing requirements by age group:

Age group Situps/Merkins/Run

  • 30-34 44/35/14:15
  • 35-40 40/33/14:45
  • 40-45 37/29/15:15
  • 45-50 33/25/15:45
  • 50+ 30/23/16:15

We got done a few minutes early so we did a little circle of pain. Dealers choice. Had to be x15 of a 4 count exercise.

  • Box Cutters
  • American Hammers
  • Chilcutt Peter Parkers
  • Lunges
  • Flutter Kicks
  • Hillbillies
  • Dying Cockroaches
  • Shoulder Taps (yay, got ’em all!)

COT –

Words of Wisdom: Check out Q1.2 – The King and Q1.3 – The Queen. These are the daily discipline of physically training the body and the daily discipline over what is put in the body.

“You can’t out King your Queen.” – Dredd

It is impossible to train or maintain your body to your expectations by only having discipline over one and not the other.

Counterama

Name-o-rama

BOM

Announcements –

Lots of VQs coming up! Don’t miss a workout or you might miss something awesome. Check out the Q schedule to see who is Qing a workout near you and sign up!

Make sure you put June 8th on your calendar! Many of us will be leaving Monterey in mid June and we’re planning some kind of big blowout event. Stay tuned!

Other events coming up are The Murph on Memorial Day, Monday May 27th at Toro Park and the Spartan Race on June 1st.

If you haven’t already, join the conversation on Slack.

Priorities out

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Gymnastics Prep

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16 made it out to Carmel High this morning in the gloom… well, not so gloomy… it was actually beautiful!

Q: Cleveland Rocks

DISCLAIMER: Given

Warmup:

Armies IC, more Armies IC, MNC IC, Overhead Circles IC Abe Vigodas IC, Hill Billies IC, Imperial Walkers IC, SSH IC, Merkins IC, LBC IC, Dying Cockroach IC,

The Thang:

Run 1 lap (Fast)

Hopping.. Left/Right IC, Front Back IC, Chubby Checker IC

Run 1 lap (Fast)

Mosey to wall. 1 minute handstand on wall, break, repeat.

Tubthumping (EP version?)

Bernie Sanders up hill, 1 Merkin, 1 Copper Head, run down, repeat +1 each for 10 minutes.

2 laps last man sprints

Line up on 50, 10 yard bear crawl, 5 merkins, 10 yard crab walk, 5 burpees… repeat until endzone.

Option: Repeat above back to 50 or do Bring Sally Up at 50.

Number-O-Rama

Name-O-Rama

Words of wisdom: None

COT: Thanks @priorities

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1/16th sprints and bern

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V: Cleveland Rocks

DISCLAIMER: Given

Warmup:

10 Merkins IC, 5 Moneky Humpers IC, 5 Gorilla Humpers IC, 15 Side Straddle Hops IC, 15 Imperial Walkers IC

The Thang:

On the track. 10 burpees, sprint 1/16th of mile, 10 squats, sprint 1/16th of mile, 10 merkins, sprint 1/16th of mile, wall sits for 10 seconds, sprint 1/16th mile… repeat. Keep up until first place reaches last place. As posters catch up keep pace with last place for 1 more lap then it’s over.

20 count from @Bruha Ja

Suicides: start at goal line and go to 25, turning every 5 yards doing crab walk out and bear crawl back.

Mosey along to bottom of hill near baseball field.

Time to honor the backwards running of Priorities. Bernie Sanders (run backwards) up the hill. Feel the bern. Posters choice 10 squats, merkins burpees etc. Mosey back down. Repeat 3 times.

Teams of 2. One grabs cinder block. Line up on goal line. 1 team member inch worms while other runs with cinder block to other goal line and returns to meet inch wormer. Change places and repeat until you are both at the end zone. 20 count from Sharkbait. Repeat the other way but doing Crawl Bears back.

Wow, there’s still time! Let’s run the bleacher stairs and lean on a wall.

Number-O-Rama

Name-O-Rama

Welcome FNG Peak!

Words of wisdom: Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory…. and some discussion of who would win a battle between Bruce Lee and Chuck Norris.

COT

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