Category: Uncategorized

Date: Thursday, 2/6/24

AO: #ao_mastodon
PAX: @Samsonite, @LeMond, @Mad Cow, @Bloomer, @Hancock, @Mr Roboto, @TBTF, @Linc, @The wet burrito, @Captain Crunch
FNGs:
Q: @Stock boy
Total: 11

WoR: SSHs, copperhead squats, copperhead merkins, Abe Vigodas, runners stretches

Thang 1: Lap around Hoffa.

Thang 2: 10 rounds EMOM (60 seconds to complete 30 reps each), alternating DL merkins and squats.

Thang 3: Lap around the parking lot.

Thang 4: 10 rounds EMOM (60 seconds to complete 30 reps each), alternating curls and goblet squats.

Thang 5: Lap around the parking lot.

Thang 6: 10 rounds EMOM (60 seconds to complete 40-60 reps each) alternating baby crunches and calf raises.

Thang 7: Lap around the parking lot.

Moleskin: My pastor’s last sermon was on Daniel 4, where KN (King Nebuchadnezzar) has a dream about a large, bountiful tree that sustains life around it. But then a being from heaven cuts it down. Daniel interprets the dream and warns KN that his hubris will bring his downfall like the tree that was cut down. KN does not heed the warning, and a year later is admiring his kingdom, and praises himself for his own accomplishments. He is immediately driven mad and for 7 years lives as a beast in the field, naked and eating grass. He finally comes out of it, and realizes that his pride blinded him to God’s sovereignty. He then recognizes God is in control, and God alone ultimately determines who accomplishes great things, and not KN himself. We need to stay humble, and realize all our accomplishments are achieved by God’s will, and he may take them away at any time.

Prayers: Praise that @Mr Roboto ’s power outage was resolved quickly, prayers for my neighbor Mike and his neck surgery recovery and upcoming back surgery, prayers for my friend Tyler going through lung cancer.

Date: Saturday, 2/3/2024
AO: #ao_mastodon
PAX: @Bloomer@Jailbreak@Stock boy@Samsonite @McStuffins (FNG) @Noodles@TBTF (QIC)
FNGs: 0
Q: @TBTF
Total: 7WOR:
– SSH x25
– Toy Soldiers x10
– Good Mornings x10
– Abe Vegodas x10
– Picking Daisies x10
– Tappy Taps x10Thangs:
Thang 1 –
– Merkins mosey (4 stops – standard merkins x15)Thang 2 – the Sheldon Cooper (modified)
– typically – burpees, squats, merkins, BSU, run a lap x10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 (55 total of each exercise)
– *modified – diamond merkins, squats, wide merkins, BBSUs, run half way up Hoffa
– we added 5 additional diamond and wide merkins to get our totals to 60 eachThang 3 –
– small merkin mosey (4 sets of fingers-in merkins x15/squats x10/BBSU x10)
– small merkin mosey (4 sets of fingers-out merkins x15/squats x10/BBSU x10)
– quick round of 10 pull-ups, 20 dips, bear crawl up Hoffa for the final 5 minutesMoleskin: Challenge to reflect on where you are and are not being present enough.COT: Prayers for @Stock boy ‘s neighbor Mike’s recovery from surgery, Jeff Hubbard at @Jailbreak church back home, @Noodles and his co-workers as they navigate uncertainty in the workplace, @TBTF friend Suzy who just lost her sister to ALS

Backblast: Tenth Day of PAXmas

Date: 01/04/2024

AO: #ao_dark_room

PAX: @Beaker, @Noodles, @Framed, @Captain Crunch, @LeMond

FNGs: 0

Q: @LeMond

Total: 5

• Warmorama: 5 mins

  • 45 SSHs

  • Mountain Man Pooper: 10

  • Side lunges: 15

  • Bat wings

• Pre-thang 1:

  • 30 coupon curls

  • Balls to the walls: 1 minute hold

  • Wall sit: 1 minute hold

  • Wall sit: 10 alternating leg lifts

  • 80-sec plank

  • 30 coupon curls

• Dan Taylors across field

  • Up to 6 squats, 24

  • 20 4-ct groiners, just for fun

• Walking squat thrusters:

  • 1 to 12 squat thrusters on yellow lines of path north of parking lot.

• Main Thang: 7s of BBS and T-Merkins on field north of parking lot.

  • Coupons in a line in the middle of the field.

  • In the middle do 3 burpee block jump overs.

  • Wrap up with 9 T-Merkins, 19 BBS OYO.

• Mary:

  • 20 4-ct flutter kicks

  • 50 shoulder taps, 25 4ct

  • 15 4-ct American Hammers.

• Moleskin:

  • No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count on what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam.

  • —Charles Lamb

  • To me, January 1st seems to be an arbitrary day to start the new year. Why not September 1 or the start of spring?

  • I take inspiration from this quote and tell everyone to plan big for 2024!

Date: 2/1/24

AO: #ao_dark_room

PAX: @Framed @Manhole @Gummi Bear @Captain Crunch @LeMond @Toto @Frank @Beaker

FNGs: 0

Q: @Beaker

Count: 8

WOR:

Goofballs, x25, ic

Mountain man poopers, x20, ic

Monkey humpers, x15, ic

Abe Vigodas, x10, ic

Michael Phelps, oyo

5 T-Bone burpees

15 Merkins

Thang: Pearls on a string

Mosey along the 1 mile path, north to the road

Diamond Merkins, x15, ic

Hold Al Gore for the 6

Bear crawl along the road to the turn south

Side lunges, x25, ic

Raggedy Andys, x15, ic

Hold Al Gore for the 6

Mosey along the path to the gazebo

Fingers out merkins, oyo, x15

Sitting down

Peoples chair with Wonder Bras, x20, ic, 1:30

Lying down

Low plank, 1:00

Boat/Canoe, 1:30

Sitting down

Peoples chair with Moroccan night clubs, x15, ic, 1:00

Fingers in merkins, oyo, x15

Dan Taylors along the road (President) to the path

Go to 8, then mosey the rest of the way

Low plank for the 6

Mosey back to the flag

Wide-arm merkins, oyo, x15

Moleskine: Go in peace, serve the Lord

COT: @Frank and his family situation, @LeMond’s M

Date: Thursday, 2/1/24

AO: #ao_mastodon

PAX: @Ankles, @Bloomer, @Jailbreak, @Spokes, @Mad Cow, @Tortuga

FNGs:

Q: @Stock boy

Total: 7

WoR: Motivators, Abe Vigodas, arm circles forward/backward, seal claps, overhead claps, Moroccan night clubs, stretch on your own

Thang 1: Run path starting west of parking lot, staying on the path until we get back to the parking lot, stopping at each lamppost, repeating these exercises:

1. 15 merkins, hands normal

2. 15 squats

3. 15 merkins, hands in diamond

4. 15 squats

5. 15 merkins, fingers out

6. 15 squats

7. 15 merkins, fingers in

8. 15 squats

9. 15 merkins, hands wide

10. 15 squats

Those who did full sets at each stop completed 4 sets of the February challenge.

Thang 2: Minnie Mary Murph at cooties: do as many sets of the following exercises as possible.

1. 5 double leg lifts hanging from the pull-up bar, touching toes to the bar for extra credit.

2. 10 BBSUs

3. 15 flutter kicks (2 is 1)

Moleskin: Sometimes I ask myself, how many times have I done this? How many sit ups, how many push ups, how many times running early in the morning? Why am I doing all this? Is it really worth it? And how many more times will I have to do this to stay in shape and maintain my lifestyle? But then I know that having the strength to work out gives me more strength. Strength to find what I’m looking for in life: in life, which is still a struggle. And like anything worth having in life, if you want to stay in shape, you have to work for it. – Dolph Lundgren

Prayers: Prayers for the @Jailbreak’s former church and their pastor, Jeffrey Hubbard, for my neighbor Mike’s recovery from surgery.

Backblast: Handrolled Nineties Glory Part Deux
Date: 1/31/2024
AO: #ao_tar_pit
PAX: @Tortuga @Ankles @Banks @TBTF @Frank @Crack @Gummi Bear @Panhandle @Shiplap @Bones @Jolly @8-Track @Krampus @DQ @SAGA @Spit Valve @Da Vinci
FNGs: 0
Q: @Da Vinci
Total: 17

After Bodyscan Warmorama to Bittersweet Symphony we ascended to the Spa. Between classic Nineties songs we ran the hampster wheel.

1. Derkens and Ameriasdfcan Hammers with coupon
2. Dips and Scissor Kicks
3. Curls & LBCs
4. Overhead Press & Outlaws
5. Skullcrushers & Flutters
6. Merkens and Freddy Mercurys

Concluded with @Shiplap curls and @Panhandle flutters, just before our best friend showed up in her SUV.

Moleskin: Encapsulation of Viktor Frankl’s book Man’s Search for Meaning. Freud read our drives through pleasure, and Adler through power, Frankl, after experiencing Auschwitz, read our drives through meaning. “Self-actualization is possible only as a side-effect of self-transcendence.” “Man’s concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.”

“There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one’s life. … in the concentration camps, those who knew that there was a task waiting for them to fulfill were most apt to survive. What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task.”

Frankl told a story of a man who had lost his wife and was in unbearable agony. Frankl didn’t analyze his childhood, but asked the man, “What if you had died?” The man answered, “She would have suffered terribly.” Frankl said, “Such a suffering has been spared her, and it was you who have spared her this suffering – to be sure, at the price that now you have to survive and mourn her.” By instilling meaning, the suffering did not disappear, but it was made bearable for this man.

What is your meaning?

Date: 1/29/2024
AO: #ao_mastodon
PAX: @LouGee @TBTF @Samsonite @Jailbreak @Panhandle @LeMond @Dr. Phil @SAGA @Crack
FNGs: 0
Q: @Stock boy
Total: 10

Backblast: Black Diamond Leg Day
Date: 01/30/24
AO: #ao_tar_pit
PAX: @Panhandle @Jolly @Banks @DQ @8-Track @Bones @Spokes @Tortuga
FNGs: 0
Q: @Banks
Total: 8

Conditions: Unseasonably Warm

WoR:
7x Motivators
10x Windmills IC
10x Mountain Man Poopers IC
10x Merkins IC
25x Squats IC
25x Good Mornings IC
Bataan Death March around the lake stopping for 5 burpees and then running to the front

The Thang: Frenemies
We partnered up with someone of like ability. We took turns running the big hill and at the end compared reps to see who won the round. We completed 4 rounds:
Jump Squats
BBS
Burpees
Lateral Lunges

1 MOM: 20x each side Inner Thigh Raises IC

Moleskin: Be hard on yourself. "Take the cold bath bravely and make yourself do unpleasant things so as to gain the upper hand of your soul" W. E. B. Dubois

Prayers for DQ’s Aunt, Spokes and family as they make a major life decision, and for peace around the world with the many wars that are occurring simultaneously.

Date: 01/29/24
AO: #ao_flat_earth
PAX: @Shiplap @Gummi Bear @Krampus @Tortuga @8-Track @Hershey @Banks @Spit Valve @Velveeta @Jolly @Panda Express @DQ
FNGs: 0
Q: @DQ
Total: 12

WOR

• SSH

The thang
6 v 6 Ultimate on an almost entirely snow-free field with only a couple little icebergs left.

Moleskin
Seek out guidance from people ahead of you in life. Our young family group enjoyed a conversation with a panel of grandparents who shared their parenting experiences and wisdom. It was really awesome getting to know them more and to soak up what they had to share. Books and podcasts are great sources of learning, but don’t underestimate the value of learning from people in your own community who have gone before you. Because you have relationships with these people, it’s more personal and you keep learning over time.

Backblast: Our patience is at an end

Date: 1/25/24

AO: #ao_dark_room

PAX: @Noodles, @Framed, @Toto, @Manhole, @LeMond

FNGs: 0

Q: @LeMond

Total: 5

• Warmorama:

  • Goofballs

  • Imperial Walkers

  • Mountain climbers.

  • Tappy taps

  • Mountain man poopers

• Pre-Thang at Hoffa, by the hill.

  • 20 SSHs, 10 groiners at top

  • 20 seal SSHs, 10 groiners at top

  • 20 mountain climbers, 10 groiners at top

• No Mercy Mile with variations: lamppost to lamppost on trail.

  • jog, 20 merkins

  • bear crawl

  • jog, 40 squats

  • lunge walk

  • Repeat step 1

  • Should do four rounds.

  • Merkin variations: regular, diamond, wide, one-legged.

  • Squat variations: Chinook, sumo, jump squats, side lunges

• Mary

  • Outlaws

  • Zombie crunches

• Moleskin:

“Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.”

—Dale Carnegie