Funny how 32-34 seemed pleasant compared to last Friday’s rain filled Diesel. 6 PAX made their way to a very high rep fast paced zero mileage challenge today.
Warm-up – What? We don’t warm up; we just get after it. Lots of stretching before in preparation. DiCCS shared, exercise form explained to limit strains and away we go.
10 Stations: (rinse and repeat until time is up)
Moleskin:
The group almost finished 5 laps around this mess. The best part about this type of work out and group is all the interactions. I mentioned that the speed skaters make my ass hurt and away we went. Turns out that Offline (R) is crazy funny when he finally speaks. I can’t remember if he said prison rape or if that is what I assumed he said, either way, we were laughing and a bit nervous after.
I’m confident everyone got a great pump from all the work. Some great stories on how TB is staying after it. Great job, we’re all proud of you. O-69 continues to get after it, keep it up.
Announcements:
Site Q School this weekend — if you can do a workout you can be a site Q!!!!! Q School next weekend –See Posse – Bottlecap will gladly clown to the school.
COT – Keep Prayers up for Doc and Legalized’s son.
Spring is in the air, so we all decided to sneak in a round at the Bushwood Country Club. I got there nice an early to survey the grounds and ensure everyone would have a great round before work and responsibilities caught up to us. I haven’t been to this site other than the wonderful day we launched a few months back. I tried to steal some ideas from previous Q’s, but my computer was having a tough time searching previous BackBlasts. Damn Internet.
DiCCS were shared. I outlined that the pace was going to be quick and miserable.
WARM UP
Let’s Mosey! 2 fast laps around the parking lot. Circle Up.
THE THANG
Let’s Mosey! 2 more fast laps around the parking. Circle up at the starting point.
Another fast lap around the parking lot.
Legs we so fried, we needed to slow mosey over to the playground to get a good lifting rock. Yes, we left the parking lot Mad Dog.
Slow mosey into the playground to some picnic tables. Biceps are smoked, let’s get those triceps some love.
Drag your arms back to COT to get finished.
Moleskin
Amazing work by everyone. I got the attire of this sight correct but failed miserably to get the counts right. There is a 9 or 18 count expectation, but once I messed it up, I committed to adding the 2 additional playoff holes each round. Lots of fun mumble chatter around this.
I personally love the Webs. They may seem like a lazy way out at times, but it keeps everyone together and working hard. Proximity really helps with the mumble chatter. I couldn’t stop laughing multiple times today. Doing these webs doesn’t give you much of a chance to blend in and hide with the other PAX.
The guys really helped me finish those last few sets on the picnic tables. I’m always blown away by the strength shown by this group. Big thanks to the Site Q’s for having me out. I had a great time and look forward to visiting this site more often in the future. Too bad it took a Giants loss to make this happen.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
What a great way to get your 1st invite to Q at Watchtower, Recalculating’s inability to perform as committed. 19 eager PAX overcame the call of the FartSack to meet me a in a frozen Elementary parking lot. If that didn’t warm my heart, a PAX saying that he would have FartSacked if it wasn’t for me being on Q. Everyone came dressed for the cold, but my goal was to keep everyone sweating. DiCCS given, let’s get started.
WARM UP
Let’s Mosey! 2 laps around the parking lot and back to where I shared my DiCCS.
THE THANG
Let’s Mosey! 2 more laps around the parking. Here is when the threats against my safety began. Tripping and kicking seemed to be the beating of choice. Circle up at the starting point.
Moleskin
Great job by everyone. My main goal today was to keep everyone working hard enough to stay warm. Zin got in my head yesterday about keeping everyone’s HR up, so I hope there was enough running and work to keep everyone interested. Getting an opportunity to lead a group like this even for 45minutes is such a great honor. This added pressure is exactly what I needed after being a Slug over the past couple weeks. Thanks again to all.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
It’s been a long couple weeks of traveling and you quickly begin to miss all the stupidity your brothers are enjoying in the gloom without you. Thank goodness for GroupMe. I didn’t know who to expect this morning with the numbers being down the past couple weeks. I guess 47 degrees is the sweet spot to get more out.
9 strong men posted on this morning. DiCCS given. Everyone is circled around standing behind their coupon and dumbbells. Let’s get stupid.
WARM UP
Moroccan Night Club (yep, that’s it)
THE THANG
Shoulders are smoked, so let’s get into something easier?
Shoulders are rested now, maybe.
Legs are now smoked, so let get into something easier?
We ran these through 2 more times before modifying the reps in half.
What’s the point of having all this muscle if we don’t have the Abs to match?
Moleskin
Great job by everyone. Diesel accomplished exactly what it was intended to today. Some needed to get back in slowly, some need to limit impact on knees and everyone was able to get the pump they needed to feel good about coming out. Between today group and the usual’s that come, Diesel should consistently have more that 10 each week in the coming months.
Big 10 on Q for Diesel on Black Friday. Come out and let that Turkey settle while you build some muscle.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
A few weeks back I was asked about being Q for today’s Flash. Once I saw that date, I knew this was the day after my first Spartan Race. Probably shouldn’t except, that would be stupid. Wait, isn’t all this a little stupid? I told Chicken Little that I would love to get out of my comfort zone. Stop being such a create of habit. Let’s get Stupid!
Cars kept rolling in until there was a total of 29 PAX doing Ignition or Flash. Glad I was up all morning worrying about my Weinke. Can’t let this group down.
Let’s get this DiCCs in and get started!
THE THANG
Circle up! Yep, Circle up
Count off. 1, 2, 1, 2…
Mosey down that standard path in 2 lines to start the fun.
Short little Mosey before we begin the Jack Web (crowd favorite)
Get back into our 2 lines for an Indian Mosey to the Foot Ball Field.
Not sure what we call this, T Pain or Triple Nickel, but it was fun.
3 Rounds in Total – Some guys started some American Hammers until the 6 came in. Thanks for that.
Get back into our 2 lines for an Indian Mosey to where we did the Jack Web.
Time to Mosey back, but let’s hit each light pole for a little something more.
Let’s Circle up now and do a few more exercises, since we’ve been having so much trouble with Counterama.
MOLESKIN
This morning was a great time. I really wanted to get out of my comfort zone, and I hope I helped a few others accomplish that as well. Just when I thought the fun was about to end, we needed to meet and name our newest FNG. He did not disappoint. He came out the gates confident and fun. He was brought by Catfish and they are connected by some Deep South Family Marriage. Since Catfish brought him in, Mad Dog came with the name Noodler for Jeff Edwards. Jeff was so inspiring with his faith during his personal intro, he needed to be the one to take us out. Nailed It! Great Job Noodler.
When you have time, talk with Noodler. You can tell right away that he has a lot of great stories to share. Police Officer, Teacher, Football Coach. He’ll fit in great here.
150 Merkins today for those interested. Frack would have loved it.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
You put the time and work in, you watch the experienced Q’s and then it happens. You get the call! “Hey kid, you ready Q?” I bet Fuse Box never expected me to be as enthusiastic in my acceptance of the opportunity. I’ve been fired up for today’s Chiseled Q since that moment and appreciate all that came out loosen the V off this VQ. (very gentle)
You always have everything planned out in your head, but it is a little different when you’re thinking about next exercises and counting kinda counting. You know what you should say and you know when you should say it, but then you just miss it. Thank you to Dough Boy for the reminder. Everyone would have known when to stop if they were in my head, but that is not an ideal place for anyone.
DiCCS given. DJ Fuse Box starts the Party. Let’s begin….
Warmup
The Thang: 14 Stations
Circle up for some Low Slow Squats – 15
The plan always was to get thru the cycle 3 times, but the program quickly turned into an AMRAP to keep things simple. Other Q’s in the past have successfully used running as a timer. I think I will have to revisit that technique for future Q’s.
Thanks again to the 15 PAX that came out and made my 1st Q such a great time. I hope you all felt the love I was trying to share.
Announcements:
F3 Dads Saturday at Dogwood Park – 9:00 am
September 14 prostate run with Need for Speed