Men of Waxhaw 2nd F Lunch Braintrust
4 PAX gathered, solved world hunger and the Afghanistan situation, discussed string theory and made fart jokes. What did you do during lunch?
The region’s 2nd F Q’s are bumping the frequency up to twice a month beginning September so come back for more.
Also, we had to post this to get Carb Load credit because he’s getting crap from guys about not coming out — at least his is due to injury. Maybe we’ll see Hooch soon.
Avoiding the floods
Four PAX converged on Kohl’s for some solid Marvin Miles and soaking up the lovely humid atmosphere after storms. Route had to be annotated to avoid flooded paths, but easy come, easy go. All in a morning’s work.
Clanking balls on my desk
“Go North, young man!” Was that the quote? The direction may be of, but in any case YHC followed Point Break’s invite to Q the Anvil and headed north of 485 on a fine and not wet Wednesday morning. The “not a professional” component of the disclaimer soon became evident.
WARM-UP
Mosey around the outer rim of the parking lot, stopping fit a few exercises.
- Hillbillies 18x IC
- Squats 18x IC
- Baryshnikov squats 18x IC
- Newton’s Cradle 18x IC
- Moroccan night club sumo squats 18x IC
THE THANG
Mosey to the rock pile on 51 and grab a running rock, one that you can handle with one hand. Head back to the parking lot.
One PAX will run, burpee and return as timer while others exercise… While planking, grab the rock and extend it above. 4 sets of this then Omaha switch to do a merkin and slide the rock to one side, merkin slide it back. 4 sets of that.
Repeat the format but with an an exercise called by the runner.
Next fun activity… Set rocks in every other parking space, plank walk sideways to rock then run to far island, run back to start, plank walk to second rock, run to far island and so on.
Return rocks.
Run back to COT stopping once for 20x gorilla humpers.
MOLESKINE
Newton’s Cradle is the official name of the exercise on the exicon, but how many people outside of a buyer at Brookstone or Sharper Image would know that name? The PAX knew it when described and offered up their own names that made it more recognizable: desk ball thing, ball clacker, ball clanker on my desk, balls smasher. Rebranding effort is needed.
The rock extensions did not go as planned. Future Qs, be warned that the rocks at Anvil are not single-handed rocks! Probably a good thing for lifting. That resulted in the Omaha midway through the first exercise. Also, of your in the parking lot and see repeated white streaks in a few spaces, that’s us. Amazingly some rocks don’t leave marks while Point Break’s merited the question, “Is your rock covered in chalk?”
Excellent work this morning by PAX in spite of the Q. Good luck to those getting kids off to college and school, and come on down to Western Union County sometime. And for anyone wondering, the significance of the 18x was just the date, nothing more.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Blood drive October 29
SOB Q school this Saturday at da Vinci
Detour not needed
Earlier in the week Smuggler was coerced into Q’ing The Body Shop by someone at Bushwood. Smuggler, fresh off a whirlwind easy cost trip, was game — apparently the coercer was not and didn’t show. String workout — as expected — by the Q and to everyone’s surprise, he didn’t even need to take advantage of Smuggler’s Notch, the eponymous on-site port-a-potty. But the biggest deal of the day was Orchid bringing his 2.0 out bright and early. A gamer, the FNG walked away with the name Sonic even though the hedgehog friend is not in his usual gaming rotation — but he did at least recognize that name more than others suggested such as Frogger, Pitfall, Q-Bert and Pong. After a few minutes of old guys getting lost in remembering games we grew up on, we had to cut it off and just name him Sonic.
Obscure Sports Quarterly and no pocketful of kryptonite
Lex Luthor took the reins of The Body Shop, bringing his out-of-this-world, er, county workout down to unincorporated Waxhaw. As much as the memes called for it, thankfully, there were no Spin Doctors references or tunes, which could bring back memories of YHC’s most regrettable concert ever. Please forgive the 16 year old who finally got permission to drive to the big city of Raleigh.
Solid workout from Lex and the PAX discussed pertinent topics of the day while playing mind games over suicides: used cars, Rocky Mountains travel and the most recent issues of Obscure Sports Quarterly.
Cue NBC Olympic music
Four PAX arrived at the bar school for Last Call to the same number of fans at the Tokyo Opening Ceremonies going on at that same time. But Last Call had a shovel flag! The shovel flag was the flag from The Body Shop, but that doesn’t matter. Flag was planted, DICCS provided and men ran off.
WARM-UP
Mosey
- Hillbillies x 10 IC
- Plank Jacks x 10 IC
- Newton’s Cradle x 10 IC
- Nancy Kerrigan x 10 each leg IC
THE THANG
Mosey to the main high school driveway
- Run the drive stopping at each of 7 lights for 5x Olympic Ring Merkins (hand-release and make circles like a snow angel)
There was a gifted pile of rocks at the roundabout! Grab a rock and carry it, stop along the way for some merkins on rocks.
Head to the benches between the tennis courts and find a special place under a bench
- Supine pull-ups underhand grip (chin-ups) x 10 OYO
- Supine pull-ups overhand grip x 10 OYO
- Stagger with one hand over and one under x 10 OYO
- Flapjack the stagger 1x 10 OYO
- Get up for 10 dips
- Straddle bench hops over the bench, bent over holding on x 10
- Run around one set of courts
Repeat for a total of 4 sets
With the rocks at the benches
- Make an ‘X’ 20 IC
- Chest flies x 25 OYO
- Michael Phelps swimmer moves x 20 IC
- Captain Morgans x 20 each leg
Run to the school entrance for 5 O-Ring Merkins
Return and repeat
On the second round, return to the back entrance with rocks for 6 O-Ring merkins with rocks in hand.
Mosey to COT stopping for 20 Dragonflies at the HS side entrance.
MOLESKINE
YHC usually has a theme for the workout. This theme began as “Reuse, Recycle, Reduce” because YHC was recycling a weinke used at Last Call in June. After some mumblechatter about the Olympics during the opening mosey and YHC calling the Nancy Kerrigan, Posse put together that the theme was around the Olympics. Yes, of course! T-merkins because Olympic Ring merkins, the Michael Phelps was added to the invisi-weinke, Dragonflies were renamed Greg Louganis and monkey humpers were scratched because… monkeys at the Olympics? A more Olympic-centric list of exercises would have worked well.
- J-Woww was a suprise after a comment made earlier in the week at Bushwood about “…some weird Das Boot exercise.” But as always, he tore it up throughout, though his weakness may be wet grass.
- Posse discovered the theme unknown even to the Q and showed that he secretly loves supines under the tennis court benches. Something about great memories under benches.
- Honeycomb showed great form on the bench hops and the O-merkins, until rocks were added where it became more of a scrape/drag effort.
Good times at Marvin and everyone was surprised, nay utterly baffled, that there was not a Site Q present. But stranger things have happened. Good conversation afterwards also, although being past Last Call, there were no beverages to be had.
Racing against Elsa
YHC has proudly proclaimed that it never rains at The Body Shop. Only 1 other PAX was brave enough to see that challenge today and we were not beaten by the remnants of a simple Cat 1 hurricane.
WARM-UP
Long mosey around the parking lots and gather in front of the school entrance
- SSH x 21
- Moroccan nightclub
- Squats
- Goofballs
- Chris Froome (goofball with hands forward, imitating the goofy awkward riding style of the 4-time Tour de France champ)
- Stretches
THE THANG
Head to the awning for some coverage and
Daytona 500
- Plank walk shoulder work for a lap around the posts
- 10 leg reps (rotate among regular squats, back lunges, Baryshnikov squats, Captain Morgans)
- 5 merkins (regular, T, hand release, Travolta)
- 10x dragonflies
Repeato for 10 rounds with a bonus plank lap to finish (about 500 reps total)
Tour de France set
- Freddie Mercury x 21 (# of stages in the TdF)
- Run a lap
- Repeato
Mosey to the rock pile
Joey Chestnut
- Curls x 25 (eating the hot dog)
- Squats with coupon x 10 (dunking the bun)
- Spring to light, mosey back (having the runs)
- Repeato
- Repeato with 26 curls (to match his new world record of 76 dogs eaten in 10 minutes — what an American!)
MOLESKINE
Some days you expect no one to show for the workout — with the rain of a hurricane passing through, YHC was understanding of that and was ready to call a solo 45-minute Have a Nice Day. But Chastain isn’t the kind of PAX to let that happen (for better or worse). He showed, wasn’t afraid of some precipitation or strange and made-up exercises. He was a great workout partner this AM, made friendly with the fine people who work at Rea View and show up by 0600 on summer mornings and pushed YHC to do better. Fine morning, fine weather, fine people.
Big Papa and little SPUDs
Papa is Spanish for potato (except El Papa, who is the Pope) and Papá is father. Spuds are small potatoes. This is the BB for Saturday’s F3 Dads event, get it? Stretched out dad jokes to start the BB!
YHC had the Q as 11 PAX and 2.0s meet at Dogwood Park in Weddington for some fun.
WARM-UP
Mosey
Circle up and each 2.0 tells their age and what they think their dad’s favorite exercise is. Then we did that number of that exercise.
Go back around the circle with each dad calling an exercise of their choice for 10x.
THE THANG
Next, a game of SPUD. What is SPUD, you ask? YHC found it on Wired and hers what they say:
Spud
This outdoor game is a lot of fun. Every player gets a number and crowds around the person who is “it” for that round. “It” then tosses the ball straight up and the other players run away. As the ball reaches the top of its toss, “it” calls out the number of one of the other players and then runs away also. The player whose number was called must run back and catch the ball (or chase after it if it is bouncing around). Once that person has the ball, they yell, “Spud!” Then everyone else must freeze. The person with the ball must try to hit one of the players with the ball. If they do, that new person gets a letter (first S, then P, then U, then D) and is now “it.” If they miss, the person who threw the ball is “it” for the next round.
And then, YHC bright a couple of pool noodles and we had team races carring the ball.
MOLESKINE
Speed Bump went for the kill early by saying Gerber’s favorite exercise is the burpee. Poor Kid Rock ran 16 miles in the morning and no one thought to cover his allotment. Pebbles had the most creative exercise with 2.0 curls. This time Gerber suffered with curls for all the 2.0s.
SPUD was fun and it’s rather shameful when the Q is the first one eliminated. But YHC’s 2.0 Hangtime brought glory back to the family by winning it all. The only incident of concern was when Muffler listened to his dad Brutus (“Hit your brother!”) and pegged his younger brother Wimpy and there was a tear or two shed.
F3 Dads is a blast. Hangtime was already asking as we left when we go again. The kids aren’t picky about games either and some might even say the Q can’t up with the noodle hand on the spot. But they enjoyed it. Good times with your kids. Do it.
Notorious B.E.N.
He loves it when they call him Big Ben. At least that’s what some suspect. Big Ben took over the garage at The Body Shop on 6/17 and delivered many exercises. There was teamwork, there were merkins, there was banding and complaining. Solid workout on a solidly sweaty morning.
I’m baaaaack
Site Qs mistakenly put a teetotaler in charge of the bar at Last Call this morning and when they realized the severity of their selection, both protested the decision by abstaining from the site for the day. One was an understandable and unfortunate emergency, the other a shocking absence.
WARM-UP
Mosey
- Hillbillies 11x IC
- Moroccan Night Club 11x IC
- Baryshnikov Squats 11x IC
- Plank Jacks 11x IC
- Stretchy-stretch time
THE THANG
Mosey to the main high school driveway
- Run the drive stopping at each of 7 lights for 5x T-Merkins
- Run back for 6 lunges at each light
- Run the original direction for 5x T-merkins
Head to the benches between the tennis courts and find a special place under a bench
- Supine pull-ups underhand grip (chin-ups) 11x
- Supine pull-ups overhand grip 11x
- Stagger with one hand over and one under 11x
- Flapjack the stagger 11x
- Get up for 11 dips
- Straddle bench hops over the bench, bent over holding on 11x
- Run around one set of courts
Repeat for a total of 4 sets
Mosey to the Cave
In the cave, do 11x of an exercise, then jump the wall and run the short distance to get back around to the start
- Superman
- Aquaman
- W-Superman
- Australian Snow Angels
Mosey back to COT
MOLESKINE
YHC was surprised to see Swimmers and Gump at Last Call today, but it turns out there was an alarm issue. But that’s why Last exists, so one can “have an alarm issue” and still get a workout in. Everyone should have that problem once a week and maybe you’ll all be leading the PAX the whole workout just like Swimmers and Gump. It’s great to hear the Deep Dish is recovering well from having the lady doctor in his man region (better than Swimmers, amiright?) and Babyface is somehow not the in-your-face New Yorker from movies. YHC had planned for Travolta merkins, but there wasn’t enough time — next time they will happen in order to see what kind of moves Babyface brought down from the Bronx.
There were some tough workouts during the week and YHC wanted something a little different, thus the focus on the back muscles. Hopefully, the crew is feeling a little sore Saturday morning in some less-worked spots. It’s also a belated 44th birthday Q which led to the set of 4 exercises with 11 reps.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
If you’re not aware, there’s a blood drive Saturday at Five Stones Church. GO!
F3 Dads Camp is open for business. Sign up now.