In this time of SIPO, many have had the opportunity to spend more time with family and to feel a sense of longing for simple things like wandering through the canned food aisle of Harris Teeter and picking up cans to actually see what’s in it before you buy it or sending 2.0s into the play area at Chick-Fil-A so that you can enjoy the rest of your meal in peace. And some miss the time spent with neighbors — but do you know all of the people in your neighborhood? YHC decided to invite some of the people — both famous and everyday — to his 4th anniversary Q of the curbside edition of Clyent Dinner.
WARM-UP
No mosey, you’re in your garage.
THE THANG
4×4 — 4 rounds of each of these exercises OYO
4×4, part II — 4 rounds of each of these exercises OYO
Run 30 seconds out and 30 seconds back Jack Webb — 1:4 Merkins and Air Presses
Angry Al Gore x 20 OYO
Makhtar N’Diaye x 4 OYO
MOLESKINE
So many friends in our neighborhood — who knew!? The rain held off most of the day, but the PAX in garages were doing the workout in a sauna so kudos to that extra effort. There’s not a lot of mumblechatter on the muted virtual workouts, but the occasional grunts and heavy breathing showed there was some work going on. YHC called an audible with the short run before Jack Webb because he was exhausted already and needed an extra moment before moving on to the more regrettable part of the workout. And still somehow during Jack Webb, his voice began to crack like a seventh grader’s and he suddenly had horrible flashbacks to middle school PE and the nauseating, engulfing scent of a dozen aerosol deodorants — he almost passed out then and there.
For YHC, it’s been a great 4 years with F3 and the people above have given him much reason to moan and groan, but it’s PAX around him that keep him coming back — the HIMs who care, who push, who lift, who go beyond just because. Anyone who’s made it this far in the rambling and the many others who didn’t, keep pushing because it makes a difference.
YHC with the take-out.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Solid update from Centerfold on the 100 PAX Challenge: https://f3southcharlotte.com/2020/05/12/100-pax-challenge/
Bushwood opened up for Friends and Family Day this morning and the crowds turned up en masse to see what it’s all about. 20 men were not scared off by rumors of a doody in the pool. But the gloom is ever-present well past 6:15 AM these days and no one saw anything they shouldn’t have.
WARM-UP
After a mosey through the parking lot, YHC asked the PAX to share their feelings, to open up. Apparently, that is a good way to end mumblechatter.
THE THANG
Partner up…
Then to the playground where one partner runs a lap on the small track while the other exercises, totaling…
Out to the soccer field for more individual work
Mosey back near the start, find the hill and Merkin Clock!
Finish up with some Mary
MOLESKINE
The rough was thick at Bushwood this morning and for those who didn’t refusenik, they came away with the grass clippings to prove it. But that’s okay, because real men find their balls when the rough is thickest. One Star found some on his chest today.
Throw in a few more odd exercises and a merkin clock and you have a classic Das Boot workout. YHC has wanted to utilize the swerkin for more than two years and it finally worked out today and it proved to be an unrelenting exercise — between that and the sumo hillbillies, the quads have been screaming with each stair today.
Several site FNGs at Bushwood today and the atmosphere was fantastic for an early round with the boys. And it ended with the official snack of the Bushwood Country Club pool — the Baby Ruth. If you didn’t get one, let YHC know and you’ll find one coming your way sometime soon.
15 PAX celebrated the summer solstice and longest day of the year bright and early with the most confusing site name in the region and perhaps the most confusing line-up of exercises they’ve seen in a while.
WARM-UP
Mosey through the Whole Wallet parking lot, mixing in some alternating side shuffles with the mosey, circling up in the back employee lot.
THE THANG
Mosey straight to the parking garage and jump the wall to get into the lowest level of the garage.
Mosey back down 2 levels of the garage, jumping and slapping every other crossbeam above the down-ramp area of the garage.
10 pistol crunches per leg and then mosey back up to the top of the garage using shortcuts of cutting through the gaps in the walls and climbing the metal cable railings. 10 more pistol crunches per leg on the flats.
Top Rope Challenge – At the top of the deck, 1 burpee then cross to the other side of the deck for 5 Supermans. Return for 2 burpees and then cross again for 10 Supermans. Repeat with 3 and 15. Highly encouraged to go straight across, climbing the cable railings between exercises.
3-Man Tag Team – Mosey down to the Haagen-Daz area, gather in threesomes. Two PAX get in plank beside each other while the other puts feet on the short wall, and one hand on the back of each team member for 10x merkins. When done, the merkin-er runs a timer lap while the other two do dips. Switch up and give each PAX the time for merkins.
Return to COT with 7x Flying Sun Gods per leg to finish out.
MOLESKINE
YHC hasn’t watched wrasslin’ in many years, but much of the joy of watching the NWA on the SuperStation TBS as a child was the creativity of the matches. The most memorable of the creative matches was the scaffold match that pitted the Road Warriors vs. the Midnight Express at Starrcade 1986 which culminated in Jim Cornette dropping from the scaffolding and mauling his leg.
YHC wanted to have some creative fun to kick off summer and the longest day of the year, but he was also still suffering from his own stupid ideas Q’ing Dromedary two days prior and did not want to end up like Jim Cornette. That fun came through attacking the parking garage in new and different ways that elicited mumblechatter, some revolt and an open call for a Q-jack at one point.
The initial wall climb into the garage was a nice twist on using open space to enter an area. The calf-raise ascent of the stairwell was possibly the slowest ascent ever and quite painful. Descending the ramps and seeing others jumping to slap the crossbeams was pretty entertaining. Climbing through the wall gaps to go back up was initially cumbersome, but it prepared the PAX for the full-bore assault on the braided-cable railings at the top.
For some reason, Job is not well-versed in mid-1980s southern regional professional wrestling, but he easily got the hang of climbing the cable railing. There was minimal flying from the top rope, but some PAX did get creative with that, though YHC heard no Ric Flair-esque cries of “Woooooooo!!!!!” If one looks down from the top level through the gaps and ropes, it’s quite a descent but all PAX stayed safely within the ropes of the squared circle. The 3-man tag team effort was chaos, but those matches always are — metal chairs were moved around on the concrete, but fortunately, Gumbo and Billy Goat didn’t get angry enough to throw them.
For historical reference: https://www.wwe.com/videos/jim-cornette-falls-from-the-scaffold-wcw-starrcade-1986
ANNOUNCEMENT
Fixing it for Christ service project this weekend in Waxhaw. It’s a great opportunity to serve the community and you can learn more on Slack (via Jingles) or at www.FixingItForChrist.com.
19 PAX gathered on Juneteenth / 19th in super-humid, tropical Marvin region of the Carolinas for multiple 19s and unknowingly to finish off an exercise that was not completed the last time YHC was on Q at the mid-week camel.
WARM-UP
Mosey around, circle up…
THE THANG
Mosey to the bus lot for a snakey weave.
Mosey back up along the buses to the Boiler Room building. Grab a quadrant of the brick wall and “rock climb” sideways along the quadrant. Finish the quadrant, run past the next one and climb on another one.
Mosey to the baseball shed and grab two bricks…
Mosey to the tennis court benches for Dips x 19 and then haul it back to COT.
YHC arrived a little early to scout the area following a good night’s rain and returned to the start just before the PAX revolted. An unintentional request for Hillbillies went out on Slack prior to the event and YHC had to oblige, along with introducing the Union County crowd to the face of the 1994 Winter Olympics, Nancy Kerrigan. YHC also took advantage of the parked school buses, while the palpable humidity replaced the usual fog of diesel emissions. The rock climb/wall walking quickly became a great way to simulate a farmer’s carry of heavy plates as pinching the bricks worked the forearms.
Kudos to the PAX for sticking with such a stupid Webb idea. Most had Gumby arms for the mosey back to dips and to COT. Solid 2.0 and Respect representation today Wednesday has solid AOs throughout the South Charlotte/Union County area and the Dromedary campus is a fantastic place to post, with quality PAX and it’s exciting to meet new people out each week.
FNG 2.0 is Po, but YHC can’t get the tag to work. Also, YHC is still a terrible judge of time.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Men across the land woke early this morning with a primal urge to do something manly: the high five. Men in Canada woke with the urge to play hockey. For 14 PAX, Rebel Yell combined both of those urges into a big ball of workout today to celebrate National High Five Day and the 20th anniversary of Wayne Gretzky’s final NHL game.
WARM-UP
THE THANG
Mosey to the main Elm entrance to Stonecrest and partner up.
At the (formerly) Bi-Lo parking lot, the PAX split into 2 groups and one group circled the vertical pairing of islands/parking spaces while the other group did Bonnie Blairs. Just like a complete line shift, once the entire group was back, the other group ran the same area. This went on for the length of the parking lot, or 8 vertical lengths. The middlemost parking area has a double-sided double shopping cart return and PAX were encouraged to jump the cart return either OCR-style or like entering the ice from the bench.
After completing the first length of the lot, repeato but with Angry Al Gore air punches instead of Bonnie Blairs because someone asked when the fighting part of hockey would come into play.
Mosey (or haul it) back to COT.
YHC has not posted often at Rebel Yell but thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity to celebrate manly things with manly PAX. Now more PAX know that YHC likes a good theme to a workout, digs deeeep into the Exicon for a change of exercises, and is a poor judge of time, as evidenced by running the workout long by 2 minutes and still only getting through half the Weinke.
The PAX were open to new exercises today and everyone agrees that starting off with Nancy Kerrigans at 5:30 AM is a little early for a test in balance. One Star must have played some serious Blades of Steel on NES or is a huge closet Cutting Edge fanboy because he has serious Bonnie Blair skills and entered the ice on the shopping cart return like he was the one who laced up the skates 1487 times in the NHL. Boitano had some strong punching moves, but no one wanted to ask if he was a goon in his pro days. And Wild Turkey beat out Happy Meal as the one who had the most fun surmounting the shopping cart return. Turkey rolled under and even took the highest route possible over the 8-foot signage railing, giving YHC a momentary fear of a Jim Cornette-Starrcade ’86 situation. Fortunately, that was not the case.
https://www.wwe.com/videos/jim-cornette-falls-from-the-scaffold-wcw-starrcade-1986
Good times at Rebel Yell and maybe YHC can finish the Weinke sometime soon.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Thanks for the take out, One Star.
15 PAX paid no attention to the forecast of 64% chance of showers at 5 AM and descended on the best high school the Village of Marvin has to offer for the best workout they attended before 6:15 AM all day. There was also a solid Emotional Support Animal ready for the morning’s pain.
Disclaimer x 1
Cell Phone x 1
CPR Certified x 4
WARM-UP
Mosey through the parking lot until reaching a suitable area for COP.
THE THANG
Mosey to the main drag…
Mosey to the single benches between the tennis courts…
To the hill behind the soccer field…
Mosey to the baseball diamonds…
Mosey to the Cave
Mosey back to the COT
MOLESKINE
There are a few things one can count on when YHC is on Q. First, there will be some strange exercises pulled from the depths of the Exicon. Today was no exception – the Goofball was placed in the warm-up by request, there was the Steve Earle and the Travolta Merkin. The Pointer Dog looked downright normal.
The second requirement is to overthink and over-plan the workout. YHC watched the forecast for several days leading up and was quite concerned about the high likelihood of showers – not just rain, but showers. How to fill 45 minutes under a shelter? YHC prepared two workouts, though the rainy day version was much less refined. Then YHC beat the alarm, even lay in bed wondering how wet it was outside before finally peaking outside to see… bone-dry streets.
After the initial relief, the one thing that has continued to stick with YHC throughout the day is the scripture in Matthew 6:
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: yet I say unto you, that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
While perhaps not on the same level of significance, YHC shouldn’t stress out for Q’ing, especially among this strong group of HIMs.
Back to the workout… Travolta Merkins are nothing to laugh at. The PAX discovered that Jack Webb’s Emotional Support Animal is a peacock, the animal-like move making an appearance throughout the UC and SOB-land lately. Huge kudos to Goodfella for knocking out the peacock when all others gave way to the weighted feathers. YHC’s poor time management skills only left time for 2.5 minutes of Mary which was a disappointment, but it will be continued. Unfortunately, YHC also has a tendency to tune out any mumblechatter during the workout, especially when there’s a focus on avoiding the Weinke.
YHC enjoyed the opportunity to lead today and needs to do so more often. If you’ve read to the end of this rambling discourse and need a Q sometime, reach out.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
With more than 6 billion people in the world and a solid 600 years of recorded history (plus much more spotty history on hand), there is so much to commemorate on a daily basis. On this fine morning, 19 men came together at the Marvin Ridge High School parking lot to celebrate several amazing events. Or perhaps more likely, 18 fine men showed up for a workout led by a PAX belatedly celebrating his 2nd anniversary as a member of the F3 Nation.
Today marks the 52nd anniversary of the landmark Miranda vs Arizona decision which produced “the Miranda Rights” that hopefully few or none of the PAX have had delivered to them. In honor of those famous words, YHC gave a poorly worded and rambling disclaimer that would have served very little benefit in a court of law. And then they were off!
THE THANG
In honor of Flag Day eve…
(That makes 50 merkins and 13 burpees.)
In honor of school being out — or just because the buses were nearby…
Mosey to the rockpile to pick up 2 cinder blocks and 2 running rocks. PAX split into 2 teams and an individual ran to a cone with the cinder block to pull a card from the cone. Run back with the block. Team does the main exercise on the card. Once that was completed, another PAX ran the block to the cone of his choice to pull a card. While he ran, the team did the secondary exercise listed on the previous card. Repeato until all PAX had carried the block.
For Deuce on cones, once all PAX had completed the carry and exercises, the team ran suicides to each cone and one PAX grabbed a card for a main exercise once the team returned to the starting location.
To finish, PAX completed half of a Captain Thor. Time did not allow for sets 6-10 and PAX were quite saddened by this.
MOLESKINE
Huge props to Purell who unknowingly shared a variation of the cone idea with YHC on Saturday. Several PAX need to adjust the alarm clock by a couple of minutes, but other than that, it was a great showing today. YHC took to heart some suggestions — Posse on the Flag Day Eve and Bratwurst’s reminder for IC count was followed by completely avoiding any IC work except for the brief Angry Al Gore (which was probably butchered). Kotters to Honeycomb and YHC did not know Boitano but looks forward to crossing paths again.
Another huge shout out to the men of F3 Nation. YHC recently hit the 2-year mark and it has been a great experience. The PAX are examples in the workouts, making him want to push himself more in the gloom, but also — and more importantly — setting the reminder each day to go out and be a HIM. Your examples are motivating and don’t doubt that you can have a positive impact wherever you stand.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
INTRO
The PAX of Union County do not fear the Polar Vortex, nor an AMRAP, nor a Holiday Jukebox, but only the 9 toughest wake themselves early during Spring Break in order to endure the mentally demanding workout YHC brings as he tries to incorporate new and strange activities from the Exicon. One of those fine men is StubHub who revealed that he – well, more his M – is less than three weeks away from blessing the world with a tiny new ticket vendor. The rest of the PAX warned him that he should be sleeping at 5:30 AM while he still can, but he continued and the teachings of the wiser older PAX became less useful.
DOO WOP (That Thing)
(Warning: YHC’s dog ate his Weinke, so this is recounted from a highly questionable memory.)
1 x Disclaimer
Warm-up:
During Indian Run, Q would shout halt at speed bumps and light poles and the PAX in front would call out an exercise for 15 IC.
PAX moseyed to the hill for Clock Merkins, a new-found YHC favorite. All 9 called a time and the men shifted and did 5 merkins at each point on the clock.
PAX then moseyed to the… facilities management building (?) for a round of Walls of Jericho. 7 reps of each exercise, followed by a lap around the building and then regrouping for the next exercise in the set. The set ended with an AYG run around the building, but no shout.
Mosey to the middle school entrance and partner work.
Mosey to the lunch area for Dips x 25 IC.
Mosey home for Monkey Humpers x 10 to finish up.
NOTHING EVEN MATTERS
The pre-workout mumblechatter was good and revealed that the StubHub family is soon to grow. The conversation could have veered towards important fatherly suggestions and tips such as bed times, how to change diapers, 529 funding and when are 2.0s ready for their first sporting events, but that was not the case. Instead, StubHub was educated on who Tammy Wynette was and her signature song, “Stand By Your Man.” Soon after, he was introduced to Partner Plank Curls which is, frankly, an unsightly exercise that YHC vows to never attempt again – and this comes from the guy who isn’t afraid to throw monkey humpers into the workout. YHC and Bratwurst completed the 30 each, but there were many refuseniks. The final educational element was a later conversation around Gladys Knight (minus the Pips).
TELL HIM
A challenge was issued: “It is easier for a dromedary camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a PAX to meet the [General] Merkin Challenge in a single workout this late in the month.” Sixteen men were up for that challenge, though only four knew of it ahead of time. (Read Slack, Pax.)
Warm-up:
Capri Posse Lap with 10 merkins in each corner
COP:
(50 merkins total so far)
The THANG
(100 merkins total so far)
(145 merkins total so far)
(170 merkins total so far)
Mosey back to the HS parking lot
(260 merkins total)
Moleskin:
Sir Winston Churchill died on this date 53 years ago. He is believed to have said, “Success is the ability to go from one merkin to another with no loss of enthusiasm.” YHC was concerned with the daunting task of completing the merkin challenge during the workout and not completely boring the PAX at the same time, but the spirit of the British Bulldog pushed him forward.
That task was accomplished flawlessly. The PAX enjoyed YHC’s usual introduction of a new and strange exercise in the COP — this time it was the Annie. The PAX is now ready to scrub floors this weekend in a spirited and loving show of affection towards the many deserving Ms in the F3 Nation. A bonus “new and strange” was the Clock Merkin which had the PAX singing songs of praise for analog timekeeping devices and excited that there was no mention of digital devices which would have kept the group pointing the same direction.
Other shots of acclaim came as the PAX shuffled through the dark to find bench space for dips and then gladly crawled under the bench for supines and gently extracted themselves to return to dips. The only disappointment came when the PAX did not engage in full Ascending Testicles merkins, because they really wanted to climb higher on the wall. Finally, the utter beauty of the logistics of the tree run and doing knee-based pointer dogs on a gravelly parking lot was also well received.
On an individual level, huge props to Offline who was an FNG a mere 24 hours earlier, but posted for the second day in a row with great gusto. Bottlecap shows excellent form in Star Jacks and could easily gain part-time employment at the Waxhaw YMCA when it opens. Xerox (R) is always up for a good J-Lo reference and this morning he turned that in with the driveway shape. Recalculating showed up for one disrespectful post before… advancing in wisdom and stature. The Posse lap did not produce Posse so perhaps more marketing is needed to make that a thing. Johnny Utah (R) took us out and had a good news reminder that the Lord will bless and St. Judes does awesome things for people going through tough situations, so remember the good around us.
Overall, it was a fantastic morning at Dromedary and YHC is sure that Sir Winston Churchill would agree. Another of his quips rings true: “History Blackblast will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”
Annoucements: