12 men decided to get their weekend started off at RockZero and may or may not have regretted it. With a virtual shovel flag planted firmly in our minds, a disclaimer was proclaimed, and after giving an extra 30 seconds for O’Tannenbaum to get out of his car, we were off for a full 60 minutes of pain. Here is what may or may not have occurred on the campus of Calvary Church:
Mosey around the parking a little longer than what most pax thought was a reasonable amount of time and circled up for an old school COP:
COP:
(If you are counting, that is 55 burpees within the COP…for those who participated ahem Geraldo)
Mosey over to the rock pile and grab a lifting rock. Some hesitation in my voice on my response as to what size rock to get as I knew it was going to be a lot of lifting and I’m not one to be overly aggressive. But we went with “lifting” and those who chose to be aggressive paid the price. Circle up in the small lot next to the rock pile for an Earth Week review of the 3 layers of the Earth: The Crust, The Mantle, The Core.
The Crust:
The Mantle:
The Core:
Take our friendly pieces of Earth back to their resting place and mosey over to the long parking lot along Hwy 51 for a modified Beast. Typical Beast is 6 exercises x 6 repetitions x 6 rounds. We lined up at the first island leaving 7 more islands to go visit, so we had to modify. 6 repetitions at the first 6 islands and then 6 burpees at the final island.
As we ran out of clock we had to cut the modified Beast short and head back to launch as the time read 0800. That was our story for the day and we’re sticking to it.
Ye Naked Moleskinith:
Ah the morning started out with the typical jabs at YHC about if I even know what a bootcamp is anymore and that this must be the easy day at RockZero. Being that I’ve been on IR my running is extremely limited, so I was forced to doing a strict bootcamp with minimal running. Hops would have been proud as we totaled less than 2.25 miles on the day. The jabs about being an easy day from Cheese Curd quickly went away when we realized we were doing a burpee ladder at the COP. A crowd pleaser as always. Lot of griping commenced. Lot of extra squats from Geraldo commenced as he apparently has a strict no burpee rule now. It is also known now that my squat pivot may be the best there ever was: quick, clean, staring into the eyes of the pax. There may or may not have been some miscounting here and there as my brain and body were already turning to mush.
Lot of gripes, grumbles, and modifications made during the rock use portion of the day. But the worst was both seeing and hearing Cheese Curd’s Oh Face. I don’t know what he was doing to that rock of his, but I suggest nobody ever use that one again. We learned way too much about the intimacies at the House of Curds. Really glad nobody brought a 2.o today. O’Tannebaum is looking to hire an assistant to do his repetition counting for him. Runstopper was so excited for merkins he started before I even finished explaining the rest of the exercises. Beetlejuice removed his hat for a moment revealing a big mop of hair under there that impressed many pax. Glad he made the move to a bootcamp today leaving High Tide in the parking lot all by himself with his gear and eventually just leaving and going home.
With the modified Beast, we added an additional 24 burpees to the count which came out to a daily total of 79. I was hoping for a nice round 100, but today wasn’t the day. We’ll save it for Memorial Day weekend. Mr. Magoo was showing off his speed between islands putting us all to shame. I was so thirsty on the final two rounds I could barely talk. Dominoes and beer the night before may not have been the best idea.
Solid work by everyone. Great group today and I was happy to be back at RockZero. I will try to start getting back more often. I get too wrapped up in the running sometimes because it’s my comfort zone, but I need to shake it up with more bootcamps. Thanks for sticking with me today fellas.
-Pro
Announcements:
6 Men showed up at Rea View Elementary. 5 for The Body Shop. Only Penalty Box (triple respect) showed up for MASH. As much as we tried to get him to roll with us, he decided to go back home and ride the bike before hitting the ice. As for the remaining five men a shovel flag was firmly laid against a fence, no disclaimer was read, and off we went into the gloom. Here is what happened:
Mosey around the parking a bit and back to launch where we spread out across America for COP:
Mosey over to the rock pile and grab a friendly from the earth. Not too big, not too small. Take said rock and mosey across parking lot, up the hill, and onto the big upper field.
Earth Day Celebration
Impressively the pax knew right off the bat the names of the 3 main layers that make up the Earth: The Crust, The Mantle, The Core. So we decided to celebrate Earth Day by exercising our crust, mantle, and core.
The Crust:
The Mantle:
The Core:
Mosey our rock friends back to their home on the crust of the Earth and head back to launch for a bit of Mary.
Ye Naked Moleskin:
It was an unusually crisp morning at a balmy 36 degrees. Most of the Wax-pax must have already packed away their cold weather gear hence only 5 of us this morning wearing gloves and toboggans. I have been on IR for the past 4 weeks, so I knew that I had to keep the running limited. We got around 1.5 miles total so that is the sign of a solid bootcamp workout! There was also rumors of a meteor shower that was supposed to be wrapping up early this morning hence why we went up to the darker area at the upper field. Unfortunately we only saw what looked like a satellite fly by, but not meteors. Maybe it was because Point Break had just put new batteries in his headlamp that we couldn’t see the stars that well. Big Tuna pointed out that he never thought Romanian Dead Lifts could get worse…until he had to do them with a rock. The rock merkins seemed on paper to be the easiest because the rock just stayed on the ground. However for at least Das Boot and YHC, those were the hardest things we did. The going back and forth was brutal. That and the fact I haven’t done a merkin in 4 weeks. Chipotle kinda did his own thing all morning, which I kinda wish I followed his lead. Thanks for having me out there this morning. I hope you all went home and told your kids the names of the 3 layers of the Earth and then they looked at you like you were stupid because they knew that already. Until next time…
Announcements:
Thanks for the take out Das Boot. The birds were singing this morning!
-Pro
11 men decided to start their week off at Firestarter. With YHC at the helm for the first time at this AO, I figured I’d bring some old school F3 to the site. I mean, what’s an old school F3 bootcamp without burpees? With a virtual shovel flag planted in our minds, a disclaimer verbalized for our attorneys, and a group of tough dudes that were trickling in at 0530 and 0531…we were off for 45 minutes of pain. Here’s what we did:
Circle around the green to grab Wingman and Tuna and then off past Chili’s and throughout the shopping center avoiding garbage trucks, up and down some stairs, and found a nice area of asphalt to circle up:
COP:
(If you are counting, that is 55 burpees within the COP)
Mosey around the parking lot some more to stretch the legs and head over to the Target parking lot. Line up on the curb for a modified Beast. Typical Beast is 6 exercises x 6 repetitions x 6 rounds. Unfortunately, there are 7 islands on that particular parking lot, so we had to modify. 6 repetitions at the first 6 islands and then 6 burpees at the final island.
(Adding those 6 burpees at the end of each round = 36 bringing our total up to 91)
Mosey back to launch. With approximately 30 seconds left, it was notated that we had 91 burpees in the bag. So logically, we needed to go ahead an knock out 9 more to make a perfect 100. I didn’t hear any complaints either which was pretty amazing. Great work fellas!
Ye Naked Moleskin:
Let me just say, it was awesome to lead this group this morning. Thanks for having me. The guys really got after the whole time right from the get go. It only took to the round of 9 burpees in the COP for the pattern to be discovered. But everyone stuck it out. Had some pretty sound groans as we got towards the end of the COP.
The Beast may have brought out some colorful language from what I’m told on Slack, but I did not have the pleasure of hearing it. Feel free to recap in the comments! But here is a pro tip from Wingman on efficiency of LBC: when needing to get up and move quickly, do them facing the opposite way, then roll over and go. Thanks for that!
Great to see some guys out that I haven’t seen in a good bit. Mic Check is coming up on 8 years of F3 in April. Midriff was crushing it. Big Tuna kicking ass as always. Teddy smoking it out there and reminiscing of our days from Day Zero aka the baddest AO in Area 51 (RIP). Das Boot running in and out is always impressive. Hopefully the run back wasn’t too bad! LaFawnduh picked a good one to make his comeback . Cotters! Great work everyone.
Announcements:
16 men gathered at The Body Shop to get a tune up before the weekend’s cold and rain cause us to lock ourselves up in our warm fartsacks and sleep the weekend away. We had a solid age range out there today with McGee being our War Baby at a spry 35, while our most life experienced pax Penalty Box more than doubles that at age 72! RESPECT RESPECT RESPECT! Quick notes on Penalty Box if you don’t know him…or should I say HIM. A hockey legend and true NHL All Star (Atlanta Flames 1972) but likely more importantly a man of Faith that has been impacting local churches and charities for the last 30 years (when McGee was 5). Thank you for being a part of F3 and this community. If you get a chance to sit with him and talk, you are guaranteed to learn something.
With a shovel flag planted in the soil and after a brief disclaimer, the pax split up at the get go with 10 men choosing the bootcamp while the remaining 6 stayed back for some heavy work. I have no idea what they did, but there were an assortment of coupons ranging from bricks to full cinderblocks. Here’s what happened with the bootcamp crew:
Mosey around the back of the school navigating the dark and twisting sidewalks and back around the far parking lot for some COP:
Mosey back across the lot and down to the basketball court by the track for instructions on playing 4 corners. Each lap will have different number of repetitions (Lap 1 = 10, Lap 2 = 15, Lap 3 = 20, Lap 4 = 25)
Mary on the basketball court led by McGee until the 6 was in.
Mosey up to the main school entrance and find some wall for people’s chair
Mosey back across to far parking lot for some 11’s around the big island
Mosey back to launch with no time to spare.
YE NAKED MOLESKIN
Solid group of guys out there this morning. Thank you for having me as a guest Q. I need to make it out here more often as it is THE closest AO to my house. I tend to aim for Devil’s Turn usually but maybe I’ll start switching it up and be more regular out here. McGee, as usual, was out front the whole morning. With that he earned the “Chain Of Pain” to wear around his neck for the family photo at the end. Look for that on slack and try to find the blur that was Das Boot jumping in with the shovel flag at the last second. Big Tuna was crushing it today. I hardly recognized him with the Grizzly Adams look. Some may even say he looked like The Comish! It was so dark on the track I couldn’t see who anyone was or who let out the loudest fart heard across campus. If you can get Covid through fart residue, I am pretty sure I have it now. Thanks for that. I also learned how easy it is to train our pax when you set a pattern. After the 3rd installment of People’s Chair followed by decline merkins, the pax just went right back to the wall ready for more without being told. #BEASTS In hindsight, maybe we should have stayed on the wall instead of attempting the 11’s. Those burpees were no fun at the end.
Great work out there everyone. I hope the deadlifts and people’s chair don’t ruin your day’s plans of moving. Another shout out to Penalty Box for the strong take out this morning: We all have challenges. Let us all recognize and be helpful to each other to get through these challenges whatever they may be.
See you all soon.
-Pro
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Announcements:
Ye Naked Moleskin:
It has been a bit since I have Q’d a bootcamp, so thanks for bearing with me this morning. I am down to maybe 1 bootcamp a week these days with all of the running, so there was a high chance of multiple Q failures today. Glad Gummy was there to point them out. A lot of concern today on my timing thinking we were going to run over. Watch check: had everyone back to the cars before the clock read 08:01. Boom!
It was great getting back to the old Day Zero stomping grounds. Glad to see the green benches attached to the school are still there. Throwback with the dips/derkins/jump ups! Since they demolished half of the neighboring parking lot and put up a new building with a new parking lot (formerly Tuesday Mornings), it was time to finally check out what all the did. What a smooth surface! The kids today sleeping in the parking lot after a raucous night at Riccio’s have no clue how good they’ve got it. Didn’t see one needle or used condom. #easylivin
Observations:
Mary:
Mosey across parking for a time filler:
Run to the home of the legendary DayZero AO (McApline Elementary). Head over to the green benches on the front of the school (another time filler)
Run to the former Yellow Rose (RIP) parking lot. Not as creepy as it used to be. Head over to the new parking lot where Tuesday Morning used to be. There are 12 islands.
Run back to Calvary via Bevington to Elm to 51 stopping at the corner of Elm/51 for some monkey humpers as cars went by. Back to Calvary parking lot.
COP:
Mosey back to the cars. Finished.
It was a chilly 36 degrees this morning. With a shovel flag planted firmly in the tundra, 11 men showed up at RockZero to kick off their post Halloween(s) sugar cleanse. With a countdown starting at 11, we did this workout backwards in honor of the end of Daylight Savings and a reminder to turn your clocks back tonight. That’s how it all went down.
-Pro
It was a balmy full mooned Friday morning on the 13th of September at Centurion. What you are about to read may be disturbing for some. Discretion is advised.
I arrived still suffering from liver overuse from my work trip in DC where I slept in the tiniest hotel room in the United States. You can check my Gram for pictures. It would have been perfect for someone of Purple Haze’s stature. He actually wouldn’t have known what to do with all that space. For me (and the rest of the normal sized world) it freaked me out. I laid there being able to touch both walls at the same time. Sweating from lack of air circulation, yet the AC cranked as cold as possible. All of my clothes were damp each morning. All of this gave me time. Time to think. My thoughts got pretty dark. Really dark. I tried thinking of what would be a gnarly workout for Friday the 13th. I looked up countless Jason Voorhees references. Wondered if we could really find a Crystal Lake. Thought about if Kevin Bacon regretted being in that movie. How did that little boy who died turn into a grown ass man that haunts people years later after his mom butchered all those teenagers? Sorry…I forgot to add #spoilers.
All this to say, I ended getting so sidetracked I completely forgot to plan anything out for Centurion. The only thing I had was running the Centurion Mile and doing 13s in the deck. The whole rock thing didn’t jump into my head until about 5:12 this morning. Full moon? Not a coincidence.
So at 5:29:30, I gave out the disclaimer. I reminded everyone that I’m not a professional (these guys do need reminding of that from time to time. I mean, just look at me. Chiseled body of a god.). Then I let everyone know that with the calendar being Friday the 13th with a full moon, things would get weird. I was hoping to get a little dragon play in today, but we ran out of time. Ok, you ready for me to actually talk about the workout yet? Fine, here goes:
First off: 13 burpees OYO. Always a crowd pleaser. Got some “that’s not weird, that’s just stupid” and Haze’s classic “this is how we get injured”. Hush old man. It’s good for you.
From there, run out of the parking lot up Little and make a quick stop at the rock pile. Instructions were given to grab a “running friendly” rock. Ickey decided not to listen and grabbed a boulder to which he did not realize he would regret so quickly. After I told everyone to follow me and we got enough steps away that one could not easily exchange their rock, I told everyone to finish the Centurion Mile with the rock. See you all at the top of the deck!
COP:
Take your rock and go down the step to the first floor for 13s
Margo was the trend setter by ditching his rock early. Hopper quickly followed, then a majority of the pax did too. Weak sauce. Props to Ickey, Thunder Road, Marconi, Lorax (and of course YHC) for keeping their coupon the entire time. IF I missed someone there, my apologies. My cognac laced sweat was pouring into my eyes pretty good by that time. Haze did ask me about half way through if I planned to finish the 13s. C’mon man. Of course. And we did! We threw 13 LBCs in at the end while everyone wrapped up.
Time to run all the way back to the rock pile. We stopped on Little to get some curls in while we waited for Champagne. When can call him Simon since he took Ickey’s rock for the run back. #HIM
Back to the parking lot with 5 minutes left. Time filler: Line up A BREAST.
Finish up with some Mary:
That’s it folks. Stay weird out there.
-Pro
Announcements:
7 men gathered in the gloom of Charlotte Christian School to get themselves right for Masters Weekend. YHC had not stepped foot on this AO in at least 2 (maybe 3) years and hoped the old Google Maps would provide enough detail to get him the lay of the land. It kinda worked. Here’s what happened…
A quick disclaimer (since YHC pulled in the parking with a cool 15 seconds to spare) was read and off we went for an extended campus tour warm up yog. We looked for missing blue doors and made sure the school master’s paper was on his porch. Circled up in the middle of the parking lot and did some COP:
Mosey to football field and make our way to the 50 to give Grandma a new diamond necklace. 4 spots. 4 exercises. Start with 10 reps at each station and increase by 5 each round. Going to 30 reps each.
Audible after round of 20. Replace Jump Squats for Turkish Getups. Replace Merkins with Dry Docks. Keep LBC. Replace WA Merkins with Romanian Dead Lifts. Restart with 10, move to 20 for second round. Check Strava for perfect diamond formation. (Note: Google Maps does not identify the 50 giant ant hills on Grandma Mountain)
Mosey to bleachers and partner up.
Part 2
Mosey down to track and out to side parking lot. Stop half way towards cars. Need a 2 minute time killer.
Back to cars for Mary
Done!
Skinny Moles:
Thanks for having me out today, gentlemen (and Gummy). It was fun to be back at Joust. It used to be my go to Friday workout for a long while. I will certainly put it back in the rotation! Great work by all. Lots of mummble chatter to start in the COP. Seemed like Gummy and DW had some important things to discuss instead of doing SSH. I should have upped the reps for Tulip and Yeti. They looked strong all morning. Gummy and Puddin’ just like…know each other. One would be half way up the steps before the other even returned as if they were reading each other’s minds. DW eagerly did not want to have a partner this morning. Smart. Smokey just kept pressing all morning. No complaints per usual.
I may not be the toughest Q, but even Gummy admits my workouts are fair enough. I’ll take it. I look at myself as a People’s Q. I could do 45 minutes of burpee broad jumps up and down Grandma. But I really have no desire to do that. Nor do I have the muscle mass to sustain that. I’m more of a runner at heart. I almost died during COP. Alas, I will return and make bootcamps a regular part of my life again. Maybe…
No announcements. Great takeout by Puddin’.
-Pro
Another cool, crisp morning in the gloom and YHC’s first Friday back at Centurion in several weeks. 22 men made the decision to get one last weekday workout in before some Friday night shenanigans…or is that just me? Chelms tried to throw some gas on the fire last night with a little twitter war about this being an easy workout. I aim to please, so I tried to make it as easy for our one of our most senior members as possible. I didn’t want him breaking a hip. Here’s what we did:
Warmup stroll down Little, left on Walsh, back onto campus, and then mosey over to the Japanese restaurant parking lot just in time for the food truck to pull out and leave something foul smelling for our enjoyment during the COP:
Run up 51 to McMahan and over to the rock pile near the corner of Little and partner up. P1 do rock exercises while P2 runs up Little to Carmel and back (Flapjack)
Each partner ran Little 4 times. Planned for 6 rounds but we were severely pressed for time, so we cut it back and moved on. Mosey over to Aquatic Center parking lot and line up at the bottom.
Mosey back to the launch just in time for 20 Heels To Heaven. 0615 and we’re done.
Naked Moleskin
Well I did have a lot planned for this morning. I guess that run up Little to Carmel was a little further than I thought and took a while for 4 rounds for each guy. That took us until about 0608, so I had to cut it all back. You’re welcome, Chelms. But all that worry about Chelms hurting himself was thrown out the window with our WD Snooka smoking everyone out there. #beastmode He put the 18 year olds to shame…except when it came to burpee broad jumps. Holy Smokes! DL is a legit frog.
Great to see some familiar faces and some new ones. Welcome FNG Tommy Boy. The folks back in Sandusky are proud of you. Just remember, you don’t take No…I’m sure you got it. Champagne was very excited about good form slow rising merkins. Not as excited about running. Bug Eater, Run Stopper, Utah, Abacaus all put in good work. Margo was supposed to bring some goodies for everyone who posted. #Liar Purple Haze…were you there? I have you down, but I don’t remember even seeing you. Everyone else, awesome job. 22 is a lot for me to keep up with.
Great work men…and Mermaid.
Yours truly,
Prohibition
10 men showed up to RockZero for a flash from the past…me. It’s no secret I haven’t been posting as much as I used to and I definitely have not been making it on Saturday’s in quite a while. Hell, even my backblast is almost a week late. So I decided to take it back to when Saturday morning workouts were great. When they were pure. When they made you feel like a man. So I had to take a page from the old days of DayZero. Except, this is RockZero…plus I’m out of shape so I had to do a very abridged version of the Day Zero Challenge.
Here we go:
Run around the church to the front lawn for COP:
Head towards the big field and partner up. P1 starts the exercise while P2 runs to the fence and back. Flapjack until all counts of each exercise are done.
If you finish, start over in reverse order.
That took the whole hour. Run back to the cars just in time for 0800.
Moleskinny:
I take pleasure in razzing Flipper about the great days of DayZero. It helped that Hopper was also there being that he was actually the co-site q that helped Gummy come up with a deceitful plan to tear down one of the greatest AO’s in the history of F3. Spreading that #fakenews all over the place about waterboarding and bamboo chutes being used during the COP. This is the reason I struggle to show up on Saturdays. I just know it’s barely worth my time. Have faith men of RockZero, one day you’ll get there.
Again, I brought back a very watered down version of the DayZero Challenge. A challenge so ridiculously stupid, only Iron Horse and Purple Haze ever completed it and it took them well over 2 hours. Studs. I think this still did a number on all of us. I will give Flipper and Run Stopper credit as they were the only ones that finished this one and started it over going backwards. I believe they got into the dry docks before time was called. Solid work, men. I do believe everyone else completed the full challenge just in time.
The mummblechatter was strong in the first few minutes of the burpees. It got really quiet though very quickly. Yeah that’s what I thought. Next time I promise to compensate for that silence with some of YHC’s greatest hits and bust out the iBomb for your listening pleasure. Christmas is just around the corner…
Until then,
Prohibition
I had a calendar notification that popped up saying YHC was scheduled to Q at Kevlar. Thinking, “this can’t be right”, I pulled up the nifty F3SouthCharlotte app and sure enough there I am. Followed by messages from Horsehead and Pop Tart (and none by Site Q Orange Whip), I figured there was no backing out of Qing at an AO I probably haven’t stepped foot on in close to 2 years. With a little preview from the Google Maps, I came up with a basic plan and took it from there. Here’s what we did:
Warmup lap: left out of the parking lot, right onto the long driveway and went around the entire parking lot of the school (or church?) almost back to where we started from to the larger square parking lot.
More running and head towards the soccer field/pitch
Start running again back the way we started
Keep running until finding a decent sized wall
AYG back to the launch
Mary:
Done
Moleskinny:
Again, I don’t have much experience at this AO, but if there is room to run, a field, and a wall, you can figure something out. Great group of guys out there today. Great to see Red Riding Hood back out there as this was only his 2nd time out. Keep coming back.
Must give a shout out to Wham-O for somehow not knowing he didn’t have shoes until he got to the workout. How does that happen? The only thing he had are his Ultimate Frisbee cleats in the car, so he did the entire workout (all 2.8 miles) in cleats. Very nice!
Again, excellent effort out there all around today. Thanks for having me at the AO. Maybe I’ll drop back by in 2019 or early 2020.
Until then,
Pro