Today was iffy. No rain in the forecast but looking at the sky you would think different. The rain held off but the clouds kept the humidity high. The kind of humidity that just sucks the life out of you with each breath. That same kind of humidity we will be experiencing during our workouts from now to October. Oh well, this is the hand we were dealt and we accepted our challenge ahead.
DiCCs delivered Told the PAX we would be staying off the grass for the duration of the workout…
WARMORAMA
Was going to take us down to the Tennis courts for warm ups but remembered it was going to take way too long and so I audibled to circle up in the center of the traffic circle. Mushy mess was the status so we did 15 SSHs and headed to our next spot for 15 IW. Moseyed to the backstops of the softball fields and did 10X Merkin IC, right and left calf stretch, upward and downward dog and left and right runners lunge. Pick up a rock if you didn’t bring a coupon and Al Gore while this PAX chose their rock.
moseyed back to COT where we lined up our coupons/rocks for a 10-20-30 Circuit.
Circuit 1: 10 X Burpees, Bonnie Blairs(2=1), Reverse Plank Knee Ups(2=1), Mike Tyson’s & Lap around soccer field staying on sidewalk.
R/R X 2 more rounds
Circuit 2: 20 X Plank Jacks, Speed Skaters(1=1), Curls, Shoulder Presses & Lap around soccer field.
R/R X 2 more rounds
Circuit 3: 30 X Peter Parkers or Parker Peters, Squats, Carolina Dry Docks, Coupon Bent over Rows & Lap around soccer field
R/R X 2 more rounds
3 minutes of Mary 20 X Flutters, 20 X Heels to Heaven, 40 X Shoulder Taps & 30 second Plank
Return the rocks to their original resting place and done.
Blackhawk is becoming known for 2.0 participation. I’ve been posting here throughout the Pandemic every Saturday and I don’t remember a Saturday after the first “meeting” we didn’t have at least two participating. Today we had four and they didn’t just participate, they brought it in a big way. They’re getting it. They’re pushing themselves and making themselves stronger. It’s great to witness and be a part of their journey.
Announcements:
don’t miss the first launch of a US made Rocket in over 10 years today at 3:00.
100 PAX challenge
Q Source every Friday at 7:00 Cuthbertson MS immediately after workouts
YHC took us out
A Ten-some took to the back nine at the Bushwood long course and crushed it!
Warmorama
SSH X 18 IC
IW X 18 IC
Plank for 30 count
Merkin X 9 IC
Calf Stretch
Runners STRETCH
Up/Down Dog
THANG
Start each hole with 1 burpee X hole No.
Long Mosey back to clubhouse.
Not much to say here other than to apologize for getting us back to COT a few minutes late due to some unforeseen flooding of the Marvin Creek walking trails. Everyone worked hard, got a full body bashing and some cardio in today at the finest CC this side of 12 Mile Creek.
Announcements
100 PAX challenge is still going. Donate if you can.
Dromedary, CTT and Chiseled are on the menu for tomorrow. Pick your pleasure.
Shop Dog leading Q-Source immediately after Swarm/Impromptu on Friday from 7:00 – 7:30.
YHC took us out
Always a great day when YHC gets to lead a bunch of F3 Waxhaw PAX. Strong and faithful men all around and even stronger personalities. All were on display today as we ran our way West and South in our little town of Waxhaw, NC.
We counted off by 1’s & 2’s and the groups were appropriately separated for distancing. Foundation took the 2’s and YHC took the 1’s. Our individual DiCCS + 10-10-Fart were delivered and then we had a brief period of awkward silence as I was a little pre-mature on the DiCCS… (insert That’s what she said…)
Warmorama
Mosey to the church and did 20 X SSH – IC, 20 X IW – IC, 15 X Merkins – IC, Held plank & 6″ for a minute then Calf Stretch, Upward and Downward Dog for a 10 count each.
Thang
7’s – From church parking lot to the other church parking lot on the next block stopping in the middle for 10 X Dry Docks we did Burpees at the start up to 6 and V-Ups down from 6 at the end.
This took 20 minutes and we ran 2 miles. Way longer than anticipated. Oh well, live and learn…
Mosey to 701 Main parking lot
Explained the exercises and Zinfandel accused me of Copyright infringement on Rockwell’s Q from a week or so ago but it was actually planned the previous week in anticipation of having to lead a 3rd group at the Floater if necessary. (That’s my story, and I’m sticking to it…) So we did Bear Crawl 3 parking spaces, Crab Walk 3 parking spaces, Crawl Bear 3 spaces and Walk Crabs for 3 spaces and then hot lap around the building. R/R X 2 more times.
Arg! only 9 mins left. No time for triple nickel at ABI so we plank up for 2 minutes rotating 6″ and regular every 30 secs.
Mosey to North Mainstreet via sidewalk, (via middle of the road for a couple), and stop at the exceptionally high curbs on Main for 50 X Tri-cep dips, rest 10 count and 25 X Tri-cep Dips. Feel the burn boys!
Recover and Mosey to COT and done.
Re-grouped at appropriate distance for count-o-rama at COT. I thought it was a better way to close it out, personally. Agree with Deadwood that it felt weird last week to keep the groups completely separated at COT’s.
Great push by all and everyone stayed together (10 feet apart of course). Looking back on the Mosey from 701 Main to North Main St., no one was lagging behind and kept up with the group. That tells me we were either running really slow or everyone keeps getting stronger.
Zinfandel takes the “Floatey” for over-achiever for the day. Direct quote : “V-Ups are too easy, let’s do more!” or something like that…
Glad to see Shake N’ Bake out there today. I hope that is a more common thing for him and us. The dude brings the whole next level of “Go get it”.
Tanyatine: keep posting brother! Great seeing you out again today.
As always leaders make even better followers and I was blessed to lead a fine group of men today.
See “Minimalist Weinke at the Floater” for announcements
YHC took us out
Back to Dromedary for a Hump Day Recruiting trip to the Rosecliff hood for what would turn out to be more of a huffing and puffing, try to get your wind back fest for me…. My main focus today was getting us safely off campus so we didn’t cross paths with the other group of 10 that was wandering around MRHS&MS led by the consummate HIM, Goodfella. I think we successfully accomplished that task and got some miles in the process. Recorded over 3.6 miles (some more, some less but we’ll get to that later) which is uncommon but not unheard-of for a 45 minute bootcamp and still got in some total body work (mostly core).
DiCCS & 10-10-FART delivered, Count off by 2’s and get in groups for launch.
WARMORAMA
Mosey from Teacher lot (had to move COT due to caution tape at student lot entrance) down to the student lot and came back up and around teacher lot all while doing 10 X SSH IC & 10 X IW IC at two separate stops then moseyed to Globe where we circled up for plank work and then Merkins X 10 IC, Calf Stretch and Upward/Downward Dog while explaining the route.
THANG
Moseyed to Rosecliff hood for a Burpee Ladder up to 9. Stop at each street lamp and do Burpees beginning with one at first lamp and add one rep at each lamp up to 9 where we ended in a culdesac. (45 Burpees total). As Noonan and I discussed, We realized at about the 4th lamp that this was a terrible idea but everyone pushed through. Thanks to BC for leading the Mary.
The Triple Nickel Mile – Start out running to next Culdesac 0.1 mi away and do 5 X BBSU and return to previous Culdesac for 5 X V-Ups, R/R X 5 for a total distance of 1.0 mi. (This is where we ran into discrepancies with the total milage b/c depending where you stopped to do your tummy work, you may have ran more or less than other PAX).
Mosey back to other Culdesac and entered the walking trail from there. Trail was a little washed out from rain and no maintenance but we found smooth spots and made it out with no turned ankles, thankfully. We stopped at the fork in the trail for some reverse plank Knee-ups X 20 and to catch our breath a little all while taking in the view of the pond.
Mosey back to other entrance of the hood and heard some Geese hissing at us along the bank of the pond. (Apparently that is a first for Gerber) I’ve experienced this phenomenon before but I didn’t see the Geese and it “skeered” me a little bit causing me to jump to my left thinking we had run up on a snake or something. I was quickly relieved at the scene of a family of Geese walking near us rather than a copperhead at my feet.
Maryed in the Culdesac nearest the entrance of Rosecliff with 10 X IW as we picked up the SIX and caught our breath a little bit before returning to campus.
Mosey to campus the long way around the MS and stopped for Mary at the bus lot. Did more core work with a round of Heels to Heaven and Freddy Mercury’s, then plank for 1.5 minutes rotating between high and 6″ plank.
AYG to COT and done.
A lot of running today and mostly core work to expose those abs for the M’s in our lives. I hope everyone got something out of the workout today whether it was that you went out of your comfort zone or a conversation you had with a PAX that was meaningful to you or you realized following Carb Load for a workout is a bad idea or anything else in between you needed. Way to push fellas and I hope to see you all in the Gloom as we move forward with the new normal.
Announcements:
100 Men, $100 Challenge, donate if/what you can but no shame if you can’t
Waxhaw Express running gurus meeting at Mill Bridge Clubhouse for speed work tomorrow, 5/14
Zinfandel & Deadwood on Q at the Floater tomorrow for a “REAL” workout
YHC took us out with a prayer
This morning was perfect for working out outdoors. 51 degrees and no rain? COME ON, MAN? IT DOESN’T GET ANY BETTER THAN THIS!
Asked a few of the Pax before we started if they would rather do a merkin or big boy mile at the end. They chose merkin and of course, ShakeNBake said “No” to either but he still crushed it. In fact, he said a lot of his infamous “No” today. I wonder if Deflated can put something in his magic wand of computery to track the number of Shake”No”Bakes (Copyright 2020) during a workout. GET ON IT DEFLATED!
DiCCS Delivered
Warned everyone that opening mosey would be a half mile and OneStar said” I’ll see ya later” and started heading back to the car. (I’m pretty sure he wasn’t the only one who felt that way). He changed his mind apparently and joined us for the workout. Always great seeing you out there, brother. You bring a lot of character.
Warm-up-
1/2 mile around back of schools to parking lot where we did:
10 Merkins IC, 25 MC’s IC, Drop to elbows and do 25 plank jacks IC, back up to plank and do 10 Peter Parkers followed by 10 Parker Peters, Calf stretch L/R and the obligatory downward/upward dog. No SSH’s and no IW’s bc I hate them and saw no point to them after a half mile opening mosey.
The Thang –
Supposed to do 3 minutes of burpees at this point but decided it needed to wait until the end bc there were other things I wanted to make sure we got around to doing and I thought we would run out of time. (And we did)
In MS Faculty parking lot run to top island and do 20 lung walks (10 each leg) then run back around the lot to start and do 10 Jumping knee touches. RR until get to 3 sets of each.
Mosey to Globe This is where Zinfandel led us in some Mary while we waited for the Six. We did 15 or 20 Heels to Heaven.
Run from Globe to first alcove and do 20 Carolina Dry Docks, run back to Globe and do 20 Reverse Plank Knee Raises (10 each leg) and thank you to Bottle Cap for showing me this awful exercise! RR until 3 sets completed. Zinfandel led us in LBC’s until the Six came in.
Mosey to corner of student parking lot and begin Merkin mile. Start with 10 and do 10 after running each parking row. Ended up where we started and then had 1:00 left to make it back to COT. I think we all made it back on time.
Done!
Moleskin-
Everyone pushed hard and during the Merkin Mile we found out there is an exercise called the Worm that is sometimes confused with the Merkin. That was corrected with some EHing and form was back on track for the remainder of the mile. Thank you to those involved, you know who you are…
We all get on one another from time to time about form. I just want to say that form is how you get stronger with the exercise and it’s intended result and is how you prevent injury. Don’t cheat your self, (or others if you’re in a competition), out of getting your truly, best effort.
Announcements-
March is no repeat Q month. If you have never Qed or haven’t Qed in a while… Step up!
A lot of opportunities to serve this month. Check the calendar for a 3rd F event you can attend.
YHC took us out #cradletograve
Adjusting on the fly is not my strong suit. Due to chance of Thunderstorms rolling in we had to make a change of venue at the last minute but I think it worked out ok. 6 brave souls joined me today for a rainy Monday.
Warm-up
Mosey around front drive to stadium parking lot for: plank up for 15 X Merkins IC, 10 X Mountain Climbers IC, Calf Stretch L & R, Upward Dog/Downward Dog & Done.
The Thang
4 Corners Elevator around entire parking lot:
1st lap 8 X Burpees X 4
2nd lap 12 X Jump Squat X 4
3rd lap 16 X Merkin X 4
4th lap 20 X Walking Lunges (10 each leg) X 4
5th lap 20 X LBC X 4
6th lap 16 X Reverse Plank Knee ups (8 each knee) X 4
7th lap 12 X Dry Docks X 4
8th lap 8 X Superman X 4
Mosey back to COT and do 4 Burpees at each light pole on the right side of sidewalk between Rudy’s Poop Palace and COT.
Time!
5 miles completed, a bunch of exercises to make us stronger and 900+ calories burned.
Always great to lead leaders. I hope everyone who posted today got what they were looking for in an ignition workout. Those 15 extra minutes can be brutal but somehow we made it through and we’re better for it. Way to push fellas!
This was my third Q in less than a week and I have to say I have great respect for Zinfindel who led not 3 but 6 workouts in the same amount of time. And in a ridiculous costume every day no less. My hat’s off to you brother but I will kindly say no thank you after this experience. So unless anyone objects, (and I doubt anyone will), I will be taking the rest of the year off and the Carb Loading can end…
DiCCS – Delivered
Warmorama – Quick mosey around COT Lot, IW X 9 IC, Merkin X 9 IC, Calf Stretch L/R, Downward/Upward Dog, Let’s Mosey
The Thang – Grab a lifting/carrying Rock from down the hill in back of MS.
On the sidewalk we did
25 Curls, 25 Walking Lunges, 25 Squats, 25 Walking Lunges back.
25 Shoulder Presses, 25 WL’s (This time w/out the rocks, 25 Jump Squats and 25 WL’s back
25 Curls, 25 WL, 25 Plank Jacks, 25 WL
25 Curls, 25 Shoulder Presses R/R then return rocks to original resting place. Next!
Mosey to Rudy’s Road House and Merkin Mile. 20 at start, 20 after each qtr mile. end at Rudy’s Road House and on your six for Captain Therkin, 1:4 BBSU and AH’s with 5 Merkins in between each set.
Grab some wall and do two sets each of 100 air presses and 100 jabs.
Mosey to COT and do 1 X Burpee at each Light. Time!
It was my pleasure to lead this morning and I hope all he PAX got what they needed and not necessarily what they came for. Man my legs are smoked!
Announcements:
For those who brought toys to the holiday party or at some other time, or donated money, our 3rd F sub-committee has given 39 toys and $375 over to Ray of Hope in Waxhaw just in time for their Christmas party where they will distribute to those in need. 3rd F Subcommittee will be meeting this Thursday to discuss more opportunities for F3 Waxhaw to lead community outreach events.
Ignition PAX had a “Don’t crap on my lawn” moment with a nearby neighbor. Lesson: Stay away from the log cabins on Cuthbertson Rd. Enough has been posted on GM that I won’t go into it anymore here.
Christmas Eve – Convergence at Watchtower. No Bushwood that day.
New Year’s Eve – Convergence at Bushwood. No Watchtower that day..
Mad Dog took us out
Delivered
9 IW IC, 9 Merkins IC, Calf Stretch L/R, Downward/Upward Dog
Inspired by the 12 days of Christmas Song and in the same vein of Billy Madisons but in reverse, this is a running loop and exercise per “day”. Begin with a loop to simulate the “1st day of Christmas”, followed by an exercise with 12 reps as the “gift given by your true love”. This concludes the 1st “verse”. Run the loop again, followed by the new 2nd day exercise x 12 reps plus the 1st day exercise x 12 reps. This concludes 2nd day. Continue with the loop and adding an exercise each time until you’ve completed one loop and exercise combo for each of the 12 days. The “gifts” were as followed:
In the end this was a terrible idea and it really sucked horribly. I think the PAX who joined me today would agree whole-heartedly. I had a great time today leading both The Floater and Clyent Dinner. I hope the PAX in attendance at these two sites got what they came for or something else that maybe they didn’t know they were going to get but needed in the end. It was a fun challenge and I recommend it to any of you who want to push your limits and get out of your comfort zone.
Everyone pushed as hard as they could and only modified (including YHC) when necessary. It was a privilege to lead today/tonight. Always easy leading leaders. Great job fellas!
Announcements
3 workouts to choose from this Saturday.
Clean up immediately afterward in down town is still on unless it downpours. YHC will advise if postponed to following Saturday at ~7:30 am on Saturday so check GM around that time.
Turnbuckle took us out!
F3 Waxhaw has a special AO in the down town area that I love. The Floater. We have certain rules at The Floater and one of them is Burpee Trian. Simple rule, really. Train comes through Waxhaw, the PAX stops what they’re doing and does Burpees until it passes. It doesn’t alway happen but it happens enough that the Q for The Floater should always be prepared to adjust their Weinke in the case that it does. Thankfully the Weinke was short today and easy to modify for the dreaded Burpee Train.
Mosey to Lutheran Church and 9 X IW IC, Plank up do 10 X Merkins CC, Calf Stretch R/L, Upward/Downward Dog
Mosey to Baptist Church around the block and on the way do “a couple” burpees at the street light in the middle then do 10 T-Merkins, Return to Lutheran Church stopping for “a couple” Burpees (for those of you that don’t know, a couple means 2) and do 10 BBSU’s. Rinse and repat 2 more times for 3 sets. Way to finish Fuse Box!
Mosey to parking lot behind house across the street from Fox’s Pizza and do 11’s – Squat X 1 then BC to other side of lot and do MT X 10 then CB back. R/R until get to 10 S & 1 MT. Somewhere right in the middle of all this we were blessed with a Burpee Train. When we resumed the 11’s, I audibled to Lunges and Dry Docks then after about two rounds, realizing my error in judgement, I re-audibled back to squats. We got to 9S & 2DD’s before YHC called it due to time and we moseyed back to COT.
I think it was a welcome respite to have the Burpee Train come right in the middle as the Shoulders were getting wrecked and YHC was ready for a little break but it was a sort of “pick your poison” moment when Zinfandel called out there were 11 minutes left. I pondered for a brief moment whether I would rather do burpees for the remainder of the time or continue the 11’s.
Every body worked hard today and I was glad for the ones who braved the below freezing temps this morning to come out into the gloom with me. Hopefully you got some good shoulder work along with a little bit of cardio mixed in.
Anouncements:
Deisel 5:30 on Friday for gear workout and 0.0 runningCommitment 6:30 at Nesbit Park
Clean up after your workout of choosing starts at 7:45 on 12/14. 2.0’s and M’s encouraged. I will call it if the rain is coming down in buckets. Keep an eye out on Group Me for announcement at ~7:30. Coffeeteria is at Crossroads in down town Waxhaw.
Beer Exchange at Zinfandel’s house on Saturday 12/14.
Ahhhh…. Monday! Flash is a great way to start the week. Usually a good number of PAX post on Monday to get their week started with some high impact work and to knock off the fuzz from the weekend. A particularly high fuzz weekend this time around as some of us (YHC especially) were still getting over the 1st Ever F3Waxhaw Holiday Party.
DiCCS were delivered and we were off.
Warm Up – Mosey around back of school to parking lot next to Transporter’s Shed (Mad Dog’s today) and performed 9 IW’s IC, 9 Merkins IC, Downward Dog, Upward Dog, Jimmy Dugan C/L/R and we were off to the stadium parking lot for…
As we arrived to the parking lot, someone suggested we do curb Monkey Humpers as we came up on the Ignition crew (doing some lame exercise on the curb). Not sure but it looked like they were just lying around doing nothing and didn’t really start doing anything until we came up on them??? Hmmm #ignitiongate?
The Thang – 7 of Diamonds (Not modified today with no rain) Start at bottom corner of lot and run to each corner and do(repsXsets) 7X4 Burpees, 14X4 Merkins, 21X4 LBCs, 28 X 4 AHs, 21X4 Flutters, 14X4 Sq, 7X4 BH’s Moseyed back to Transporter’s Shed for 50 air presses IC and 25 air jabs IC then AYG to COT for Namorama!
I think we were several seconds late but no one seemed to mind much.
Shout Outs!
Big 10 – Made it through the entire workout! Keep pushing! High Hat – Stepping up to lead some MARY while we were waiting on the SIX during 7 of Diamonds Dana – Wearing a vest for most of the workout.
Sorry for the lack of creativity in the Weinki between Friday and Monday. Changing up the venue a little bit and not having stairs to climb, however, made for a little different dynamic. We did get in some miles (3+) and we will definitely feel it in our abs and legs tomorrow. Always great to lead these guys and looking forward to the next time.
Announcements
Dana – November 23rd Ruck for F3 Cape Fear – Toby, Leaving Hickory Tavern in Ballantyne at 8:00 AM Bring a backpack with 20 lbs of weight and walk the route. Drinks will be provided after. In the United States, one person commits suicide every 12 minutes.
Dana – Potential for a Christ’s Closet AO to have more regular folding and sorting parties. More to come on that.
Sausage Party owes Kid Rock $$ for Shirts
Thanks to Moneyball for taking us out.