Solid Hydra group – several guys running in – quick disclaimer and off we went.
First boot camp post for YHC in a while. Gummy called YHC out the night before – and he was correct – guess you have to Q to get back out to doing boot camp. And Hydra is a great AO for it.
COP
Quick mosey to the small practice field:
10 IW – IC
10 Low Slow Squats – IC
10 Slow merkins – IC
The Thang
The Escalator – a favorite go to for YHC – mainly because it brings pain from the beginning and keeps everyone moving. YHC has a love/hate relationship with it.
5 jump squats, 5 merkins, 5 heels to heaven, 5 burpees – run to other end of field (approx. 50 – 60 yards)
10 jump squats, 10 merkins, 10 heels to heaven, 10 burpees – run back
15 jump squats, 15 merkins, 15 heels to heaven, 15 burpees – run to other end of field
20 jump squats, 20 merkins, 20 heels to heaven, 20 burpees – run back
15 jump squats, 15 merkins, 15 heels to heaven, 15 burpees – run to other end of field
10 jump squats, 10 merkins, 10 heels to heaven, 10 burpees – run back
5 jump squats, 5 merkins, 5 heels to heaven, 5 burpees
Finished – all total 80 reps of all and about 400+ yards of AYG
Next – divide into groups of 3 for some gopher / grinder work:
Pax 1 at the concession stand area – 10 jump ups, 10 dips, 10 derkins – rinse and repeat
Pax 2 run from the concession to playground – 5 pull ups – then to small track to Pax 3
Pax 3 –burpee broad jump around the track.
Pax 2 swaps with Pax 3 who then runs back to playground – 5 pull ups and over to relieve Pax 1 and start jump ups, dips, derkins.
Rinse and repeat until everyone had done each section twice.
Mosey to play ground – about 9 mins left
AMRAP – 5 pull-ups, 10 merkins, 15 squats for 9 minutes.
Finished.
NMM
Great group out, even if Gummy decided to sleep in. 2nd F is always great at Hydra. Was YHC’s first post nearly 7 years ago. Thanks Sprockets and Gummy for the opportunity to lead. And why YHC may have given some people flack for the lack of burpees – everyone was working hard.
Thanks again men for allowing me to lead.
Thanks Puddin for the take out.
Champagne Out.
Announcements:
Foghorn is on Q next week at Hydra – his VQ – come and show is support.
Sprockets needs bags of frozen peas for his weekend.
8 men braved the foggy conditions and tried to answer the question of whether it was possible to sweat in 39 degree weather. diccs presented.
Warmup:
*Mosey .8 mi to the roundabout by the track-stop at various locations for 15 9 merkins (car back), 15 wide arm merkins, 15 diamond merkins, 15 stagger merkins on curb.
Thang:
*Course was mapped out-run the exact opposite direction back to the start. At every prior stop, complete 8 burpees, plus 8 at end-Total 40 -Lunge walk while waiting for the 6
*Mosey down to the poop palace. On the wall, donkey kicks x15, Mike Tysons x15, mountain climbers on BTTW position x15 (each leg)
Run up to back of middle school, dodging all exhaust fumes. Dips x15 IC, Derkins x15, elbow plank Dancing Chilcutt on bench x15 (each leg)
Complete this set two additional times.
*Set of Mary-Heels to Heaven x20, Big Boys x10, Pistol x10 each leg
*Mosey to staircase, bear crawl backwards up both sets of stairs run up stairs, bear crawl to wall and complete Maktar Ndiaye’s x10, wall hand plant merkins (if you couldn’t tell, the Exicon was not consulted) x10.
Complete this set two additional times.
*Mosey to front of middle school. Burpees x10, merkins x10, bobbly hurleys x10, run half a lap, then 8 of each, half a lap, 6, etc down to 2.
Ran one final lap as hard as possible to hit 4 miles.
Moleskin:
By my count we got in 70 burpees, and I must say that they were the best looking burpees Cuthbertson has ever seen. The best! Not one Slurpee or Aussie burpee in sight. And the greatest part-no Recalcu form police to be found.
Bottlecap kept letting me know that the Q was similar to Frack’s last night, except with some more running. Obviously great minds think alike. I did try to throw out an exercise Waxhaw hadn’t seen in a while, but apparently calling out a backwards bear crawl up the double set of stairs crosses the line for some all of the present PAX. The chatter ratcheted up quite a bit and I literally got the Shake and Bake no from a few.
As usual, tried to keep the pace and heartrate up. And low backs will be sore tomorrow.
PS: when we passed the Impromptu PAX, they mocked us and tried to fight us. Jealous much? Wow!
Gerber-seemed to be on cruise control all morning. Likely perturbed that I didn’t let him run free too much and when we did, called out burpees to slow him down. Great burpees though (see above)
Bottlecap-Proudly led the “I’m afraid I’m going to crush my skull going up these stairs” charge.
Foundation-still upset about #namechangegate #didntevenbuildafreakinhouse
Deflated-fartsacked and not present. #protectyaneck
Easy Button-didn’t modify once, even when he said he was going to modify, was really only kidding and completed every rep of every exercise.
Smithers-Always know where to find him, right next to Foundation. The ultimate Tag Team.
Hooch-Only complaint-asked for more BTTW mountain climbers next time. And to run some more. Missing Longhorn out there this morning
Rubbermaid- Just happy that we didn’t venture into the muddy stuff #morningwoodproblems
Announcements:
Dash for Down Syndrome 5k-3.21.20-pushing at least 6 chairs. Need runners to assist. Message Zinfandel if you need more info
Rockwell shared a personal story about a brave young man that passed too early. Prayers needed for Gary and Gavin. Remember to cherish the times with your children.
7 dudes came out in the pouring rain to get in a 45 minute calorie burn. Pending a last minute baseball game cancellation; I was able to step up and lead. Brutus begged for low running due to raw nuts, and I obliged.
Workout
Quick mosey around back of school
Run to picnic tables
Run to stairs (partner work-alternating exercise and hot lap)
Run back to picnic tables
Run back to start where Bottle Cap took over the last 5 minutes while I stretched the lower back trying to dislodge the tampon.
It’s good to see new 2.0’s coming out. Wrangler (Birth name Levi aka Chastain 2.0) had a smile on his face the entire time. Not sure how it energy continued to increase throughout the workout. I have been really working on Transporter, and getting him to branch out and try new things. Yesterday it was an evening workout; next week it will be rejoining the playhouse. Welcome Informer; hope you enjonyed your 13 minute boot camp in the rain! “Informer, ya no say daddy me snow me I go blame A licky boom boom down“. Yes I had to google the lyrics.
Announcements
CRADLE TO THE GRAVE!
The 2020 Weight Loss Competition has ended and we have a new champ – with a 13.7% weight loss and 34.8 lbs since the start, we congratulate….. Smithers! Now, lets look at the field and see how the rest of the field panned out.
Top 3 Individuals who are in the money:
Just short of the money:
Rest of Field
Team Standings:
Payouts will be distributed to the Top 3 and Team winners in upcoming days. Great job to everyone and impressive amount of weight shed. Now challenge comes to continue to keep weight off. Good luck and keep it going.
11 PAX in all showed up at The Arsenal this morning. 6 for the prerun, where we did the Swift prescribed 4x 800m’s at a 5k pace. The high school track was great for it for obvious reasons. 5 more arrived for the main event and Happy Meal had to bounce out. If he hadn’t had told me yesterday he wasn’t going to be able to stick around, I’d think it was when he saw Fire Hazard and I pulling the sand bags out.
Warmup
Disclaimers given, sandbags shouldered, and we’re off to drop them off at the large student lot. Warmup on arrival, 15-20x of each IC
The Main Event
Leave the sandbags for a minute to head up to the smaller lot for 7 of diamonds. Starting in center, run out to each corner of the lot for called exercise, run back to center between each of 4 corners. Plank for 6 between rounds.
Return to the sandbags. PAX form groups per sandbag. 1 PAX starts as the timer and begins to throw the sandbag to the other end of the lot. The rest of PAX sprint to the end that the throwing PAX is headed toward and do as many of called exercise as possible until throwing PAX makes it to them. PAX then rotate sandbag throwers, and turn around to head back to starting point of lot. We had 3 per group and ended up doing 3 rounds.
Carry the sandbags back to launch. With about 10 minutes left we ran 3 laps around the parking lot doing burpees at the start. 10 after first lap, 5 after second, none for last. Plank up for final minute of time. Bounty Hunter really tried to stretch it out, but couldn’t figure out his fancy new GPS watch.
Announcements
Thanks, Fire Hazard, for taking us out.
Moleskine
Rain held out for a nice day at The Floater
Mosey to the basketball court at the school
Straight from warmup – get on your six for ab-web
Cutoff to finish later. Let’s mosey to Bad Idea and crush it.
Jailbreak up and let’s catch our breath plank? Thanks Carb Load! (must have watched the whole 8.5 hr video of the old guy planking for motivation this past weekend…..has anyone else seen that?)
Perfect timing for the Slurpee burpee train….
Mosey to the corner of the graveyard and do laps stopping at each corner and alternate Dry Dock and BH each corner:
Mosey to the elementary school.
Snake the parking lot there and back twice while doing 5 burpees when you round each island for a total of 40 20 more burpees
Let’s mosey to the bakery parking lot and finish that ab-web!
Start at 6-24 and finish up at 10-40. At around 8-20 you could hear me struggling a bit so Foundation jumped in to finish the count, thanks.
Mosey back to COT and as we got to crossing the street jailbreak if you got it!
1:30 left so Deadwood lead a synchronized swimming plank routine to finish it up, thank you sir.
First time Qing the Floater and I love this site. Burpee train cut the weinke short a bit but still turned out nicely. I actually love hearing that train come by because I hate burpees, so it forces me to get better at them.
Shout out to O-69 for showing up day in and day out and doing his thing! He is a testament to dedication. It’s not about motivation or drive – its about discipline. Especially when your body is sore and tired, your mind will always want you to take the easy route and rest…so don’t think! Just get up and go – you will always feel better after.
There was no real 6 today because everyone stuck together, even on some longer moseys. Obviously the Roosters were out front but everyone seemed very fast today – must be all the weight lost these past few months.
Some surprises at the weigh-ins! A lot of people getting down so serious weight and I know it must feel nicer when running and working out, I know I feel a huge difference. I think the most surprised was anyone seeing a bunch of half-naked men hanging out in front of the church…nothing to see here, move along.
Thank you all for letting me lead you today, we have a great group of guys out here in Waxhaw and it makes it a ton of fun!
Happy hour tonight at Queens South 7-9pm – dress as your favorite queen
Final Weigh In Announcement coming soon!
Man Touch has successfully completed his name change to Two Hand Touch – while signing a blood contract that he will post regularly forever
Brutus and YHC (Your Humble Chastain) rolled into the Millbridge Clubhouse parking lot about 0505 to get a good pre-stretch in. Rubbermaid is out with some nasty eye infection that I declined his offer to provide details about. Tuck is the Q but he’s out for some unknown reason. No one else in the lot yet, but we see Turnbuckle’s van over at the gym so we make a quick jog over to say hi. Locked out. Oh well. Back to the lot and Wolverine rolls in and then Sledge-O-Matic. Time to get moving so we set off at different paces. I had a good conversation with Sledge prior to his early departure to get his kids ready for school. Then I caught up with Brutus and Wolve…Goodfella! A bit more running and catch back up with Wolverine, snap a photo, then back to the clubhouse to wrap it up. And with that, I think I’ve doubled the word count for the average Pursuit back blast.
YHC took us out.
Announcements
17 PAX showed up on a pleasant morning with a temperature in the mid 50’s. DiCCS given. Moseyed to the parking lot for the warm-up.
Warm-up:
25 SSHs
10 imperial walkers
10 mountain climbers
Calf Stretch (thanks to Goodfella and Sprinkles for the countdown)
10 Carolina Dry Docks
Recover……(pull out and check the Weinke……sh*&%!)…..back down 10 Merkins
Recover and Mosey to the covered area up from the small track
The Thang(s):
Partner Exercise – grab a table and alternate between a short run to the chained area and the following:
150 Dips
150 Step-ups
100 Derkins
Thanks to Runflat and Sprinkles for leading Mary while we finished up
Mosey
Alternate exercises at each light on the way down to the globe:
30 squats
20 LBCs
…on the way back:
30 Bobby Hurley’s
20 Big Boy Sit-ups
Thanks to those of you who led Mary while we finished up
Mosey back to the big lot
7 of Diamonds:
Round 1: 7 Burpees at each corner
Round 2: 14 Mike Tysons
Round 3: 21 Box cutters
Time was upon us, so we didn’t make it to Round 7….to be continued….
COT: Number and Name-O-Rama.
Announcements: Still looking for Qs in March.
Took us out with a prayer for Tennesseans impacted by a tornado this week.
So, yesterday when Dana sent me a subtle “Looking forward to tomorrow” reminder (thanks for that!), I had my dates backwards and thought Sprinkles (my 2.0 for those of you who don’t know) was on Q today and I was on Q next Wednesday……so if the Weinke seemed a little thrown together…..it was. Please accept my apology. However, after my VQ where I was woefully short of exercises, I vowed to not run out and to keep everyone moving. I sat down with my Weinke and a beer…mmm….beer…..I digress. I reviewed the F3 Q School handout Posse gave us and started jotting down everything. Looked good on paper! I re-read the section about the Q commands since I struggled with that my first round…..yep…..struggled with it again….Q command 2: Exercise!!!!
Despite going to bed anxious and waking up a 2:30, 3:30, and 4:00 worried I’d oversleep, I felt better about my 2nd Q than my VQ. Still lots to work on but such is life, right? Special shout-out to Bottlecap for pointing out my light was on in my truck. And to Goodfella for keeping an eye on the time. And to One Star for giving me a Weinke holder for my wrist!
I really enjoyed being the Q today. All things are timed just right. I was born in Western Tn and raised on the border of western TN and KY. I lived in Lebanon, TN from 2011 to 2018 which was one of many towns near Nashville that was hit hard. It wasn’t a coincidence that a former Tennessee native was on Q here in NC after a tragic day TN. Please keep the people of middle Tennessee in your thoughts, prayers, and deeds as it will be a long recovery and lots of people have lost more than just their homes and possessions.
And finally…(I think writing and talking about this stuff helps us cope and makes us stronger)…thanks to everyone in the F3 Nation that showed up last Thursday in their bright colorful shirts for #F3forFaye. I’m sure that many of you felt the same way I did from the time she was abducted to the time they found her. I’m not too proud to admit that I cried more during that time than I have in a very long time. Sprinkles is not my only 2.0. I have a daughter, Emmerson, who is a 6-year-old kindergartner at Kensington. Like Faye and many little girls at her age, her favorite colors are pink and purple, she loves ponies and unicorns, she likes to ride her bike and skate up and down the sidewalks in our neighborhood. So, every time I scrolled through my social media feeds and saw her picture or turned on the news and saw her picture, Emmerson’s face flashed in my mind. I can’t imagine what her family and those close to this situation are going through right now but as I referenced above….nothing is a coincidence. She didn’t die in vain. It has made a huge difference in my life and I hope thousands of others. I listen to all the “silly” things my kids want to talk about a lot closer now. I appreciate the time with them a lot more. I make sure they know I love them and will protect them. And lastly, my head is on a swivel even if I’m stepping away for just a moment. Continue your prayers for her family and community.
Thanks again for your patience today! Looking forward to Qing again in April.
Downpour