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No Running (I Promise)

13 strong at The Hooch this Monday morning, including 1 FNG – welcome Meadowlark. Short warmup run with side-sides, high knees, butt-kickers.  Q forgot to do a few warmup exercises because he was so excited to get started. The Thang Continuing a theme initiated by The Zoo, we commenced an …

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Lactic Saturday

Let’s go.  YHC loves a good impromptu planned workout and this morning started by being unable to find my watch and grabbing my wife’s sleek and slender model on the dash out the door.  Mentally reviewed the workout over the 10 minute drive to W Bridge and knew after a …

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Birthday(s) Beatdown

Nine hearty men arrived in the still humid Austin parking lot in the almost gloom.  Green Bean’s birthday is today and Leon’s is Monday, so they celebrated with the rest of us on a rollicking Seles beatdown. The Thang 15 Imperial Walkers, 15 Sumo Squats, 10 Run-Stance-Switch, 10 Floyd Mayweathers, …

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Carry-A-Coupon!

Warm-up: Imperial Walker x20 Toy Soldier x20 Mountain Climber x20 Nolan Ryan: Start in a side plank position with your ungrounded arm extended. Complete a punching motion as if someone, namely Robin Ventura, were under your other arm. 21’s In unison PAX does 2-count side straddle hop and counts reps …

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24 HR Q – The Switch

Trail Mosey Warmup in cadence X15 side striatal hop X10 toy soldiers X15 Imperial walkers X10 weed pickers X15 Mountain climbers Mosey Core Section –Dora 1 2 3 Teams of 2 working together to reach cumulative exercise goals of 100, 200, and 300 reps. Pax 1 executes as many reps …

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What goes up…must come down

As YHC exited my truck this morning with bluetooth speaker in hand several comments and glances came at me as the PAX have been scarred from recent beatdowns by Snowden and Howser involving music. Fear not gents, today the music is for enjoyment only, not pain. After multiple long runs …

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The Norseman earns its name

Your scheduled Q glanced at his watch to see it was 6:00 am. Feeling awful for missing his first Q at this new AO, he was already drafting his apology statement. Then your Q woke up again to his actual alarm at 5:05 am. Being Q is stressful business. PreWarmup …

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Opening Day at The Norseman

Tuesday was opening day, the inaugural launch, the ribbon cutting ceremony if you will for North Park.  We had coffee, muffins and a brand new shiny flag (courtesy of HaHa) and 5 pax ready to explore this great expanse.  We had hoped and expected some FNG’s to come out but …

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