Monthly Archive August 2021

Spank It

12 strong for Dromedary!

The disclaimer was given, and here is what went down:

Warm Up Mosey

Circle Up:

  • SSH x 20
  • Imperial Walker x 20
  • Moroccan Nightclub x 20
  • Mountain Climber x 10
  • Plank Jack x 10

Mosey to the wall behind the school:

  • 10 Five-Count Wall Merkins in cadence
  • 25 Air Press in cadence
  • 25 Jabs in cadence
  • 10 Five-Count Wall Merkins

Partner work – Partner 1 works while partner 2 goes over the wall and hot lap around the fence – then flap jack

  • Donkey Kicks – 200 combined
  • Mike Tyson – 100 combined

Mosey to picnic tables

  • 20 Dips OYO
  • 20 Steps Ups OYO
  • 20 Derkins OYO

Mosey back to parking lot

Partner up again for rock work – Partner 1 works while partner 2 runs to the top of the lot and back – then flap jack:

  • Curls – 150 combined
  • Triceps Press – 150 combined
  • Shoulder Press – 150 combined

Return rocks and back to COT

A few ab exercises followed by Have a Nice Day

Done!

Great work by all PAX this morning!  During the warmup exercise I asked the Pax to “make the circles bigger” during Moroccan Nightclubs.  Well, as you can guess, saying things like “make it bigger” with this group only leads to laughter.  From there somehow “spank it” became a phrase of the day.  Laughter in the dark at 5:00 am is one of the things that makes this group so awesome.  Most people are asleep while we are laughing and getting stronger.

Welcome FNG “Houdini”.  He shared with the group that he was a refugee in Ukraine before making his way to Seattle and now North Carolina.  We were all in awe as he told his story.  He said he escaped communism twice… once from the Ukraine… short pause… and once from Seattle!  LOL  What a hilarious comment!  I think he will fit in just fine with this crew!

Sharing is Caring

Enjoy this little time machine back to The Floater from last week where we shared 600 things together.

WARM UP

.5 mosey around town and circled up in the gravel lot behind Dream chasers – Planking in gravel is a great way to help you appreciate those weathered parking lots we sometimes crawl over.

THE THANG

Partner up at the wooden RR bridge – Be nice and share 100 Burpees, 200 Squats, 300 LBC’s
P1 runs a lap around and over the bridge while P2 cranks out as many perfect reps as possible

Mosey over to the bottom of A Bad Idea? ( the one past the skatepark )
7’s – 6 Mike Tyson’s at the bottom, attack the hill and 1 Big Boy SU at the top
Rinse and repeat until 1 MT and 6 BB’s

Mosey back to COT as the clock struck 6:15

MOLESKIN

This ended up being one of those “It looked a little easier on paper / in my head.” Weinke’s… BUT with that being said the whole group powered through and crushed it! There was constructive feedback in short, simple choice words, encouragement and selfless offerings of PAX doing extra credit reps to help the group complete their 600. That’s what this is all about.

Life is hard right now. At times it really just sucks if I’m being honest. However, F3 continues to support me in nearly every area of my life. I am still blown away when I reflect back over the past few years. So, thank you again F3 brothers for walking shoulder to shoulder with me through life. 🙏👊

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS
There were a couple.

Blackhawk – Increment of 7’s

The Warmup

The Warmup started with a little Mosey to start dynamic stretching

  • Ran 400M and completed 15 SSH (to the dog poop stand)
  • Ran back to start 15 IW
  • Ran 400M opposite direction Leg Stretches (end of parking lot)
  • Ran back to start more leg stretches

The Thang

PAX started with completing (3) exercises at the start in reps of 7.

  • Merkins, Heels to Heaven, Squats – ran to poop stand and completed (14) of each exercise

PAX ran back to beginning to complete (3) new exercises, reps of 7

  • Shoulder tap, Big Boy, Bobby Hurley and ran 400M to complete another set of 14

PAX ran back to beginning to complete (3) new exercises, reps of 7

  • Dips on curb, Peter Parker, Muroccan NC and ran to poop stand and another set of 14

PAX ran back to beginning to complete another (3) exercises, reps of 7

  • V-Ups, Dry Docks, Burpees and ran 400M to complete another set of 14

Amazingly we still had time, so we decided to start over but this time with reps of 21 and 28. PAX made it through Bobby Hurley and headed back to COT with one minute left. Just finish by holding in Plank until time ran out.

It is crazy to think you can still get in 4 miles by running up and down a sidewalk.

I do have to give a shout out to Dasher since he is beast. He ran 3 miles prior to starting and then completed Blackhawk.

As soon as we finish, we see Smithers and Rubbermaid join us after they ran 9 miles!

Announcements

None

 

Weinke -Do

The time was 5:13 and no Q had been claimed and no Site Q on site, YHC looked around the parking lot and saw 1 gazelle to the right (hocking shirts from trunk).  Looked to left saw another gazelle that looked to have competed against Joey Chestnut and looking to release some of the leftovers on pavement, and then looked ahead and saw only 1 other Musketeer of LRC (Smithers not ready to do work today so we left him at home).  Question came up who wants to Q, so YHC quickly says I have it to ensure that he can control the volume for the morning’s activity (avoid 5:30/mile pace to start).

Oh and back to BB title – what do you call it when your belly sticks out further then your weinke…..a weinke-do.

 

Warmup
Mosey down concrete path and come back to the circle for quick stretch.  If Hollywood is reading this we spent 15 mins doing Imperial Walkers and Calf Stretches.  For others we did quick Jimmy Dugan, calf stretch, runner stretch.

Thang:

7’s

Using the the two circles by baseball field w/ Jump Squats and Merkins

Mosey towards alcove with steps.  1st time that YHC avoided doing calves

Burpee Indian Guardian

Hand pick randomly assign 2 groups.  Each group would do burpee indian guardian run around the bus island.  Once back to front of stairs do 20x Big Boi’s as group.  Do 3x.  Not sure if it was after round 2 or 3, but at some point Ice-9 pulled the lever and released the gremlins onto the pavement.

Mosey towards front of middle school

 Bear vs. Camper

Around the island in front of school start with 1st 2 contestants and point was for Bear to do 2 burpees and see if they can run down the camper before completing a lap.  Rotated through group until all had a chance to compete.

Mosey over to middle school parking lot for round 2.  Most cases bear won.

Finished at 6:15 with all clocking in 5+ miles with some north of 6.

 

Double Sided Hill

Light crowd today at Asylum.  We started with 4, dropped one 10 steps into the run, and then picked another one up half way into the warm up.

 

WARM UP

Mosey to Payless Shoes Parking Lot.  I was quickly corrected by Turnbuckle that it was a Rack Room (I guess he was going to attempt to take Posse’s place as the gnat in my ear on this mornings workout).   Circle back for the 6 and get out of the way of Mad Dog coming in on two wheels.  Had planned for a light Warm up but decided to extend it to give Mad Dog time to catch up.

  • Jimmy Duggan with lefts, rights, and leans mixed in.
  • Calf Stretch
  • Merkins on my up and down (so we could hold at the bottom)

Mad Dog arrives and off we go towards the neighborhood (the back way).

 

THE THANG

Asylum has a couple hill options in the Wesley Oaks Neighborhood.  Most hills we do are just an up, but I knew of one particular hill that would allow for an up and down and an up again.  One hill allowed for an incline with a longer climb while the other hill was shorter but a steeper incline.  Start in the cul de sac and do 10 In/Outs.  At the peak of the longer hill do 10 Carolina Dry Docks.  At bottom of next hill do 10 In/Outs.  So basically at the bottoms do In/Outs and at the peak do Dry Docks.   Clear as Mud?  Do that 5 times.

Recovered at the bottom of the steeper Hill to finish with the 6 then all you got to the top.

Mosey towards the back entrance to Target for more hill work.  10 Baryshnikov’s at the bottom and 10 more at the top of the hill.  A backwards run halfway up the hill with an all you got the rest of the way.  Jog back down the hill.  Repeat 3 times.

Target parking lot for 4 quarters (the overly used by me Jog, run, sprint, walk/recover thing).  We didn’t have time for overtime today.  Thanks to By Pass for keeping me honest and calling exercises while we waited on the 6.

Short Mosey to pick up the 6 then did 10 more Merkins on both my down and up.

Mosey to COT and had less than a minute.  Merkins until time.  I think most got 15 merkins in.

 

MOLESKIN

  • Small crowd and not much mumble chatter so instead of recapping I will leave you with some of the Q Bites discussion.  Shop Led us on a discussion on Everyday Leadership.  Here is the video if your interest.  Its short (like 6 minutes)  https://embed.ted.com/talks/drew_dudley_everyday_leadership
  • Lots of good discussion around not only the small leadership opportunities we can do daily, but also a discussion around circling back to those people in your lives that have been impactful.  Tell them the impact they have had on you and thank them for their effort.  Often times we don’t know the impact we have on people.  When you are at Christ Closet helping load a bed into a truck, it may be a little girls first bed.   When you are coaching a kid, you may be planting a seed that takes hold in that child’s life for years.  When you check in with a pax, you may be a light to a person that is going through some dark times.  Every day leadership.  Its small things that can reap big results…maybe results you never even know about.

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

  • Christ Closet is doing a furniture give away this weekend.  They need help bring furniture out of the house and loading it into peoples cars.  Right after the workout on Saturday.
    • There will be another Christ Closet opportunity the next weekend with a big furniture pick up in Pineville.

Chickens Throne of Lies

Diccs- Given and covered within 45 seconds since I was running my beak and about forgot to cover–

Warm up

Fast mosey to high school entrance

20-SSH

Jimmy Dungan stretch into a plank/calf stretch/ runners pose

Recover and stand up and get into squat position and then point right leg out for 10 tabs flap jack with left leg tabs.

Good form Speed skaters 10 count both side ( I saw a tear in Recalculating’s eye– I think he was like a proud papa!!)

5 low slow squats

Mosey around lot to the first Alcove

The Thang

Alcove 1

25 Donkey Kicks

10 Mike Tysons

run to road for 5 bomb jacks and 1 Burpee

Rinse Repeat one more time

Alcove 2

25 Shoulder Tabs

10 Mike Tysons

run to road for 5 jump squats and 1 burpee

Rinse Repeat one more time

Mosey around park lot to triangle area with benches near cafeteria and partner up with someone you normally do not hang or roll with

P1 run to circle island and back

P2- 200 LBCS/150 Pistol LBS/100 Gas pumps/ 50 Big Boys.

Mosey around school to stair area for 2 rounds around the triangle

5 -Mike Tysons

5- Bomb Jacks

2- Burpess

As a group 15 Big Boys/ 20 pistol LBCS each leg

Mosey to front of middle school for Step ups until 6 arrives then as a group 15 step ups

Mosey to COT for 10 Big Boys DONE SON!!

Moleskin

Well today was a first time in almost 1 1/2 that a completely ALMOST… let my Co Site Q down when I noticed  I failed to have a Q for Monday.. THE SKY IS FALLING THE SKY IS FALLING!!   So since I screwed the pooch the only way to TOTALLY redeem myself was to take the Q and roll with it. I am no Zinfandel who has Q-ed 77 times but I actually enjoying Qing and pushing myself as well as the PAX. Today was a great turnout and it was great to see some new faces and old faces back out at Flash ( Fife, Mayhem, Golden Plates, and Magnolia) Nice work boys…

Chickens Throne of Lies– So at approximately 5:21 am while cruising to FLASH Schneider ask what the Wienke looked like,  I said not really sure bro as I decided to drink and eat last night verse write my Wienke out like I should. He threw out a few good suggestions and ask how many burpees did I have planned I said maybe 4-6. I guess after burpee 10 or so he decided to call me a liar during the workout.. HOW RUDE!!

 

Announcements

Christ Closet needs help Saturday after the workouts moving furniture. ( Food will be there!! yes!!)

Next Monday and Tuesday there are spots for CPR training- reach out to Surge. ( Five Stones 6pm)

Pray for Pepper— Ghosted friend passed away in a car wreck and his family is in need or prayers and lifting up

Zinfandel is a darn good model for Gerber’s shirt push ( 3 left)