H-BOMBS
TIME WASTERS. Who cares. BEATDOWN. H – and Release Burpees x 5 B – onnie Blairs (SC) x 10 O – verhead Slams x 15 M – ountain Climbers x 20 B – ig Boy Situps x 25 S – ide-to-Side Merkins x 30 Run a...
Read moreThe Swing Set, Refurbished
WARMARAMA. Time wasters … You didn’t come here to read about how we stretched. BEATDOWN. Set up: – 13 stations in a straight line curve around the parking lot – stations to the right of center are closer together than the ones...
Read moreThe TRQ Mix Tape
Beatdown. TUBTHUMPING exercise: SSH when you hear: “I get knocked down”, do Burpees ALL I DO IS WIN exercise: Low Dollies when you hear: “Win”, do Hip Thrusts when you hear: “Hands up / Hands Down”, put your Hands Up or Down ...
Read moreCenturies, Redux
BEATDOWN. Do 100 reps of each exercise OYO. When an exercise is finished, yell “Mayhem!” On “Mayhem”, all PAX stop their current exercise and run up the hill and back down. Resume the exercise from where it was paused. After calling for...
Read moreThe 12 Pains of Christmas, Presented by The Grinch (2025)
The Grinch is the GOAT. He remains undefeated. None of the BSDs dethroned him this year. But there were a few valiant efforts and so onward we go. Although it was a little early for a holiday-themed beatdown, the PAX rolled with it while the Q...
Read moreThe Walking Wounded
YHC popped out of bed this morning without an alarm – rare, then headed to the bathroom, like all of us middle-aged men do. As I was getting ready, you know, primping myself and listening to my morning podcasts, something felt off. A...
Read moreHiroo Onoda
Hiroo Onoda was a Japanese soldier who lived and fought on Lubang Island for many years after WWII ended. Refusing to believe that Japan had surrendered, he hid in the jungle and conducted raids on local villages for many decades after the war...
Read moreA Simple Beatdown for Simple Men
BEATDOWN. All stations were in a straight line (kind of). Run from #1 to #2 to #3 back to #2 and then to #1. Rinse and repeat. Increase the rep count by 1 at each station. Station #1: KTG MKs (dc) Station #2: Dead Bugs (dc) Station #3...
Read moreMayhem Rock Party
This beatdown was a last minute adaptation of a CSAUP from The Speakeasy a little over a year ago. It was a bad idea then and it did not improve at all with age. TIME WASTERS. We could have had more time to do the actual workout if we...
Read moreThe Q is Who?
You know how sometimes you look around and wonder who is the Q and then you realize crap, it’s you? Well … that’s not exactly what happened this morning, but it was close. The Q, whose name most of us didn’t recognize, was MIA. In hopes that...
Read moreCan I Buy a Vowel
TIME WASTERS. On the move BEATDOWN. We moved between 2 stations by rifle carrying our rocks. At the first station, we started with 1 exercise and added 1 each round. At the second station, we started with 5 and removed 1 each...
Read moreThe Rhody: Thunder and Lightning
Another simple to execute beatdown, but inexplicably botched explanation by Zima. The PAX eventually understood the workout though. All was fine. TIME WASTERS. Heroes come already prepared. BEATDOWN. At Station #1 (Bottom...
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