Author Archive Ricky Bobby

Who’s on Q Impromptu

I was asked 2 weeks ago by Transporter if I wanted to Q Impromptu today (2/25) I told him I would. This week when I looked at the schedule Rockwell was on the schedule. I asked Chastain if I was on Q today, since he does have the master list and I was told he did not see me anywhere on the schedule. 4:30 Thursday Transporter texts me and asks if I am good for today. I told him sure but I think there is some confusion. Chatter then posted on Group Me “I don’t know who is on Q…” Transporter later got back to me and I was indeed on Q.

The Warmup

from COT we Moseyed over to the entrance road around the front of the middle school and high school.

At every light we alternated between 10 squats and 5 lunges (2 is 1)

At the front of the High school we did some more warmups

Jimmy Dougans, side straddle hops, imperial walkers calf stretch, runners stretch and merkins.

THE THANG

We then moseyed back past COT to the path behind the middle school. We did a Paula Abdul with 7s. We ran 2 lights did 6 big boys came back 1 light and did 1 merkin then 5 and 2 etc.

From there we headed to the benches behind the middle school. We did 15 step ups, 15 dips and 15 dirkins, then ran down to the Poop shack. We then repeated with 10s and then 5s. there we went to the overhand next to the middle school, there we did Bear Crawls and lunge walks.

From there we headed over to the The stairs at the high school, there we did 1 burpee at the bottom of the stairs, ran up the stairs did 20 donkey kicks then ran down the hill and did 20 Dry docks 1 set

then we moseyed over to the front of the middle schools and did 15 big boys, 15 heals to heaven and 15 lbc’s took half a lap, repeated and then headed back to COT

THE MOLESKIN

I always enjoy Qing at the site. It is a good group of guys and for a lot its the last workout before the weekend. I tried to end it with a little advice or a life lesson that I wanted to share. I was inspired by a line in the “How God Makes Men” book. it said, ” We can endure almost any amount of pain, if we know it has a purpose” I encourage the pax to think about why they come out and do this f3 thing. We need to be able to answer the “why am I doing this?” question. If you have an answer then you will be less likely to have excuse not to do it. I believe we loose some guys because they just don’t know why they are out there. My answer to why am I doing this is for my wife and my family. So as long as I still love my wife and family, I willnot have an excuse to not get up and get at it. So I encourage all the guys to think about why we are out here and use that as your motivation for getting at it regularly. Even on the cold wet and gloomy days you will have a reason to do it.

Murder Bunny Madness

This was my first time Qing Diesel in a very long time. The weather was a little gloomy but the temps were pleasant. The ground was damp but it was not raining. Everyone was in a good mood and I was excited to be Qing.

Warmup

Walk with bricks in hand

arm raises sides

 

shoulder presses

forward raises

Shoulder stretches

15 Side Straddle Hop

15 Imperial Squawkers (I have no rhythm and screwed up the counting)

Jimmy Dougans,

Calf stretches

upward and downward dog

15 merkins

THE THANG

10 Burpee Block Jump overs

Murder Bunnies to first line

-Rifle carry back to start

10 alternating block MERKINS

Murder Bunnies to 2nd line

-Rifle carry back to start

20 Thrusters

Murder Bunnies to 3rd line

-Rifle carry back to start

30 Curls

Murder Bunnies to 2nd line

-Rifle carry back to start

40 Chest press (on the ground)

Murder Bunnies to 1st line

-Rifle carry back to start

 

ABS did this 2 times:

30 LBC’s

15 Heals to Heaven

10 Big Boys

10 Vertical block Windshield Wipers

Rifle carried back to COT to workout with Bricks

100 Tricep Exensions

50 Curls each arm

25 Punches

10 air presses

Did this 2X but second time we halved the Triceps extensions and curls then did 15 punches and 15 presses

We then finished with a JACK WEBB of Merkins and air presses. 1 MERKIN 4 air presses upto 10 Merkins and 40 air presses. I kept hoping time would run out but it did not. We did make it all the way to 40

Announcements: – Turnbuckle is hosting a cornhole tournament sat NOV 6. for Kensington PTO -$50 a team

THE MOLESKIN

This was a pretty tough workout. Everyone pushed themselves and I really enjoyed the workout and the group of guys. Thanks to TB for asking me to Q this about 6 months ago.

 

Elmer’s Gluesday Watchtower

DICCS given followed by a short mosey to the parking lot behind the school.

WARMUP: 20 side straddle hops

15 Moroccan night clubs

Calf stretch

Upward and downward dog

THE THANG:

The RHOMBUS – its a lot like 4 corners but shaped differently.

Corner 1 – 25 Dips on the benches (Was supposed to be 20 but Elmers punished us for teasing him about how he says DEEIPS)

Corner 2 – 20 Rocky Balboas

Corner 3 – 20 LBCs

Corner 4 – 20 Flutters

In the middle 5 Bobby Hurlys after each excercise

Rinse and Repeat

 

Next we went to the back  of the school and at alternation lights we did

10 Merkins

then 5 Jump squats

We went up the driveway to the exit, then came back in and went to the entrance driveway

We finished at the parking lot behind the school and circled up and did

20 Moroccan night clubs

20 Low slow squats

did this 2X

 

Then we moseyed to the entrance of the school and did 25 Rocky Balboas

then we went under the overhang and did 3 sets of air presses and 2 sets of Jabs

25 times for each except the first set of air presses, Q forgot to count.

We then moseyed to the front of the school where we paired up One guy ran and the other partner began the exercise and  as a team we had to do:

Fiddy Donkey Kicks

Fiddy Mike Tysons

Fiddy flutters

Fiddy gas pumpers

Fiddy low slow squats

Fiddy LBC,s

Audible added here

100 Merkins

100 Bigboys

 

We then returned to COT where some guys finished their Big boys some guys did have a nice day.

THE MOLESKIN:

This is one of Elmers first Q’s not is VQ but not far off, I think this is number 2. He did a great job! The guys were very supportive of him and I think everyone got a good workout.

 

What’s Tabata With you?

Tabata training (also called Tabata protocol) is a type of HIIT (high-intensity interval training). It originated in the research of Japanese scientist Dr. Izumi Tabata and his team from the National Institute of Fitness and Sports at Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan, on high-intensity exercise during the early 1990s. Their objective was to find out if short bursts of high-intensity exercise followed by shorter rests might condition the body better than a continuous moderate-intensity exercise. The high-intensity workouts benefited the test subjects more significantly both aerobically and anaerobically, which, evidently, was due to the unbalanced exercise-to-rest ratio. The reasoning behind this is that a shorter period of rest in between longer periods of intense exercise during a workout does not allow the body to fully recover. By the second half of the workout, the body is forced to work at maximum capacity physiologically, causing the heart to pump faster and the rate of metabolism to increase. In the end, the high-intensity routine builds endurance and muscle, and burns lots of calories. Hence, we have the popularity of the Tabata 20-10 workout (20 seconds of exercise, 10 of rest—and repeat).

THE WARMUP:

Moseyed around to the front of the middle school and did

15 side straddle hops

15 imperial walkers

calf stretch

runners stretch

downward dog and upward dog

THE THANG:

We then moseyed over to the front of the high school there we began the first  of our 5 Tabata style workouts. We did each of these exercises as many as we could in 20 seconds taking a 10 second rest in between. we did this 2 times.

HIGH KNEES

BURPEES

LUNGE JUMPS

MOUNTAIN CLIMBERS

We then moseyed over to the wooden benches behind the high school. our second Tabata station. Here we did:

Heels to Heaven

American Hammers

LBC’s

Shoulder tap planks

We then moseyed over around the high school to the bus lot by the high school. our Third Tabata station. Here we did:

Donkey Kicks

air presses

Big Boys

Mike Tysons

We then moseyed around the bus parking lot and over to the  benches behind the middle school. our Fourth Tabata station. Here we did:

Dirkins

stepups

Dips

Incline Merkins

We then moseyed over to Rudy’s poop shack our fifth Tabata station. (This one was not actually planned but we arrived faster than I expected and had to kill some time. Here we did:

Heels to Heaven

American Hammers

LBC’s

Shoulder tap planks

With 2 minutes left we moseyed back up to COT.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Transporter wanted to give out a new award – “The Sweaty T-shirt Award” He presented it to Smithers and Deflated for their efforts.

Posse announced that they are restarting the Lycan at a new time -Monday at 5:45 Waxhaw Elementary

Prayers for Centerfolds family friend Shelly – Slapstick’s mom she is going through a double mastectomy today due to breast cancer.

THE MOLESKIN

Overall I felt this was a pretty good workout. You could see several Pax struggling with it towards the end. I came up a little light on the mileage I wanted to accomplish. We came up slightly less than 2 miles but it seemed everyone left there sweating and breathing heavy feeling like they got a decent workout in. Some time was wasted fumbling to take my phone (which I used for the timer) in and out of my plastic bag. Schneider kept making jokes about me constantly playing with my bag. Thanks to Chatterbox for asking me to Q. I really do enjoy this site and I am thankful for all the F3 brothers who encourage me and motivate me every time I come out.

Inspector Gadget – 3rd Q

Lots of Long Island banter upon arriving…
 
Diccs
 
Warm up
mozy around close driveway loop
Back to start
THE THANG
15 SSH
15 Imperial Walkers
10 Merkins
Calf Stretch
Runners pose – right foot, right hand, left foot left hand
 
3 Alcoves on east side:
15 donkey kicks
15 mike tysons
20 dips on benches
Repeat X 3
Lots of wet shoes and socks since no paved way to the alcove.
Lots of Small amount of complaining
Outer Road with Light Stops:
3 burpee, 3 American Hammers, alternating each light
Quick “Hot lap” around the oval
Partner Up at parking lot near flag:
TEAM:  100 curls, 100 shoulder presses, 100 squats, 75 LBCs
One runs to end of oval loop, other exercises
One more “hot lap” for good measure, back to COT…
COT:
6th man – O69
Announcements:  None
Close out by yours truly
MOLESKIN
Great work by a smaller group today.  Hard work put in by all.

Muggy Monday Morning

I was pretty excited to Q this site this morning. This is a big campus and there are many areas to do different things. Chicken Little made sure my beer consumption at the pool Sunday was limited to only 3 so that I would give the guys a good beatdown. It was a muggy morning but the pax all pushed through and got a great workout in to start the week out right.

WARMUP

We moseyed to the front of the middle school

-15 side straddle hops, 15 Imperial walkers, Jimmy Dougans, calf stretch (for Damascus), Runners stretch, merkins’.

THE THANG

From the entrance of the middle school parking lot heading towards the high school we did 11’s of Big Boys and Merkins’ stopping at each light (10 big boys & 1 Merkin’ Next light 9 Big boys 2 merkins and so on)

From there we moseyed over to the the wooden benches behind the high school. There we did 20 dips, then took a lap around the big Geeb Jungle (that’s what it is called on google maps) then we did 20 step ups did another lap and then incline merkins’ then did a final lap. The complaining started here.

We then moseyed over to the steps behind the high school. There we did 10 Mike Tysons, ran down the path Lunge walked to the steps, then ran up the steps and repeated 3 times. The distance of the lunge walks was a little further than I thought. We got a good leg burn from it. We then went to the picnic tables behind the middle school there we did dirkins and step-ups then ran to the nearest out cove come back and repeat. we did 2 sets of those then headed back to COT. on the back path we stopped at each light and did 10 squats. We got to COT did some heels to heaven until the 6 got in then 30 seconds of have a nice day.

THE MOLESKIN

A good amount of guys came out today and I was proud to lead them. Thank you Chicken and Rockwell for asking me to do so. Overall we ran about 2.6 miles. I feel we got a good workout. It was great having a visitor Dilly Dilly from Illinois.

Announcements – None other than Gerber will let us know by tonight what if anything is going on for 4th of July.

Prayers, family photo

Tuesday Pump and Run

It was a beautiful Tuesday morning and all the guys that wanted a real workout this morning came to Chiseled. This was also the final day that Fuse Box was site Q for this site. He saw a need and started this site after being site Q a floater and F3 Waxhaw is better for it. I enjoy this site because of the use of the gear and I encourage those that Q this site to take advantage of the gear.

THE WARMUP

From COT we moseyed up to the entrance of Five Stones  then came back to the backside of Mount Chiseled.

15 Side Straddle Hops, 15 Imperial Walkers, Calf stretch, Plank, 6inch plank, Merkins, Runners stretch both sides, Plank, 6 inch plank and then recover. Moseyed back to COT grabbed our coupons and headed to the area by the Gravel.

THE THANG

Starting at the Gravel parking lot we lined up with our coupons and did:

3 sets of Dirkens -20 reps, then run to the first island in the parking lot and back, 15 reps, then run to second island in the parking lot and back, then 10 reps and run to the third island in the parking lot and back.

We repeated this with Incline Merkins on the coupon and then again with a Bench press and lastly with an overhead press. (Due to time limits we did not do a set of 10 on the overhead press.)

We then moved to the parking lot by the office were we did a circuit of equipment Using hair burners (2 across small parking lot)  as the  timer the Pax rotated through  the following excercises:

Weighted Lunges, weighted squats, slam ball with a squat and triceps extension, Hair Burners, Sideway shoulder raises, forward shoulder raise, overhead shoulder raise with a curl, knee slams with a dumbell, step ups and dips.

Finished up by running across the parking lot and back to COT

 

THE MOLESKIN

Overall it was a pretty good workout. The weather was pretty good, not as oppressively humid as it has been lately. I had a little technical difficulty early on with my blue tooth speaker, so we went with no music. We ended up with about 2.25 miles of running and still had a pretty good workout with the equipment.

Announcements:

Christ’s Closet this weekend. Fuse box stepping down as the site Q

 

GADGET VQ

Watchtower has struggled this month with the new Q month but Brett Havertine did the AO’s at Watchtower a solid by stepping up and giving away his Cherry to us on his VQ. and boy did he deliver. Any delay on this backblast falls squarely on the site AO. Ricky Bobby. Not trying to make excuses but I had a tooth extracted today and did not have the presence of mind to help Inspector Gadget put it together.

After a short mosey to around the main parking lot:

THE WARMUP:

15 SSH
15 Imperial Walkers
10 Merkins
Calf Stretch
Runners pose – right foot, right hand, left foot left hand
THE THANG:
BB Court:
Suicide (short lap) with burpee between each leg (increase by 1 each time)
REPEAT until 7 count
Partner Up:
100 merkins, 150 squats, 200 american hammers
One runs to corner, other exercises
Track with Corner Stations:
Corner 1:  20 LBCs
Corner 2:  20 Tricep side dips
Corner 3:  20 Merkins
Corner 4:  20 Burpees (Might have been a bit of complaining here)
around school to bus lot
Partner Up again:
Plank, while partner runs to first line (“3”) and back, switch
15 dry docks, run to second line (“6) and back, switch
Superman, line “9”, switch
20 big boys, line “13”, switch
Around to front starting lot
3 laps around lot
1 squat and 2 merkins after 1st
2 squats and 4 merkins after 2nd
4 squats and 8 merkins after 3rd
Back to COT, 15 Bobby Hurleys real quick and some even got in some Merkins
THE MOLESKIN:
This turned out to be a great first Q for Inspector Gadget. I would highly recommend him to Q any site. His energy and enthusiasm certainly showed through and I am sure he will not clobber everyone with Burpees in the future.
24 total with 4 mashers
announcements: WTF this Saturday, black hawk only other site Saturday morning. Convergence of the two. Come hang out after if not running.
Bring 2.0s to Tuesday evening clyent dinner
instead of 6-man we had story time and it was Chicken little telling us how Chicken had a fall

CELEBRATING THE 99TH DAY OF THE YEAR

21 men showed up this morning between Impromptu and Swarm to celebrate the 99th day of the year. The weather was fantastic and the overall mood of everyone seemed light. The reason I chose to celebrate the 99th day of the year is that I had no idea what other theme to use or what other significance April 9th had in history. (other than Robert Jenkins ear being cut off by the Spanish Guarde Costa in the Caribbean , later being the catalyst for the war between Brittain and Spain) – but how do you build a workout around that? So 99th day of the year was the theme and I set out to do 99 reps of each exercise but upon thinking about that for half a second, 99 reps seemed rather aggressive, so I just picked 4 areas to workout with a total 99 reps at each area.

The Warmup

Moseyed from the COT to the front of the High School

33 side straddle hops

-Calf Stretch

-Runners stretch

-33 Merkins

-33 LBC’s

THE THANG

Moseyed over to the wooden benches

-33 dips then  took a lap around the Geeb Jungle (look on google  maps, that’s what it’s called)

-33 step-ups then took a lap around the Geeb Jungle

-33 Incline Merkins then took a lap around the Geeb Jungle

 

We then Moseyed over to the overhang area with the steps by the high school

we did 3 sets of

-11-donkey kicks

-11 big boys

-11 drydocks

Each set followed with a lap around the path and up the steps with a burpee counter at the end of each

-Calf raises on the steps while waiting for the six

 

We then Moseyed over to the front of the middle school.

-33 heels to heaven then ran to overhang by the bus lot and bear crawled under the over hang and back to front of the middle school

-33 LBC’s then ran to overhang by the bus lot and bear crawled under the over hang and back to front of the middle school

-33 American Hammers then ran to overhang by the bus lot and bear crawled under the over hang and back to front of the middle school

Moseyed back to COT, did 30 seconds of flutters and called time.

 

Announcements:

Keep Rubbermaid and Hollywood in our prayers as the do their ridiculous run up Crowders Mountain

Next Saturday downtown cleanup in Waxhaw

Memorial day some guys are doing the Murph. Kid Rock is trying to organize training for it. Look to Playhouse or News channel for info.

THE Moleskin

This was only my second time leading a workout at this site. I really do like this site, there are a lot of options and areas to get a good workout in. Thank you to Chatterbox for asking me to Q this site and thank you to all the Pax who came out to support me on this wonderful morning.

 

 

Super Tuesday

On the hit TV show One Day At A Time the building maintenance supervisor was a man name Schneider. This morning Watchtower’s own site AO – Tom Evans – Schneider, stepped up to supervise a workout at his own site. Like the super from the TV show he handled everything (except this backblast) like a pro. Schneider stepped in due to some last-minute schedule changes and trying to maintain the no-repeat Q in April. We had 12 men show up for this beatdown.

Warmup

Mosey from COT to the flag pole

15-side straddle hops

15 imperial Walkers

Calf Stretch (not long enough for Damascus)

Runners stretch

The Thang

-Moseyed from the flag pole to the end of the road in front of the school

Alternating at each light we did 20 squats and 20 American hammers (single count)

-We then moseyed over to the basketball courts and did a JackWebb of Merkin’s and Air Presses

-We moseyed to the back of the school where we did 5 excercises:

10 Donkey Kicks

10 LBC’s

10 Mike Tysons

10 Heels to Heaven

10 Flutters

Each of these was followed by a lap around the track.

-We then lined up on the wall behind the school and did 3 sets of 25air presses and 25 Jabs each time getting lower on the wall.

-We finished up with doing 4 corners on the track

10 Big boys

20 Squats

20 LBC’s

10 Merkin’s

We did this 2 times.

-We then made our way back to COT where we had just enough time to squeeze in a 30 second plank.

MOLESKIN

Schneider had laid out a great workout this morning. We logged a little over 2.5 miles. The weather was great.

Annoncements:

WTF

O-69’s VQ Tomorrow

Downtown Waxhaw Cleanup Next Saturday