Convergence Continues!
33 Regional F3 Pax posted to start their week off with a downpainment. The rain held off until MOM, giving YHC flashbacks to the winter Ruck, and snow falling in our faces from the trees.
The Thang
Run around football field and baseball diamond, COP on football field.
2 Burpees (and a false sense of security)
SSH x 25
4 Burpees
Squat x 25
6 Burpees
Merkins x 15
8 Burpees
Imperial Walker x 15
10 Burpees
Merkin Jack x 10
Partner up
Partner carry across football field; Flapjack
Wheelbarrow across field; Flapjack
Partner 1; Sprint across field and back while Partner 2 does:
Merkins/Flapjack
Squats/Flapjack
One Legged Burpees/Flapjack
Mosey to Dugouts
Partner 1: 10 Pullups, Partner 2: People’s Chair
Flapjack
Partner 1: 10 Hanging Knee Raise, Partner 2: Donkey Kicks
Flapjack
Mosey to Pavillion
Dips x 20
Box Jumps x 10
Decline Merkins x 10
Rinse and Repeat x 3
Run around football field to baseball diamond for 6 MOM
LBCs x 25
Dollys x 15
Flutter x 15
LBCs x 25
Rosalita x 15
Protractor
LBCs x 25
10 Burpees
Moleskin
DMZ has quickly become one of my favorite workouts as it provides a chance to meet the broadest range of F3 pax. A big Thank You to those from The Fort for making the trip in.
My EH came April of 2012 from Ice Nine at Atlas, and I spent about a year touring Metro workouts. This year has been mostly in Area 51, getting to know some great Brothers there. Now DMZ is drawing in Brothers from several areas, and Hops and Skywalker have done a great job pulling this together. As Dredd says, Multiplication by Division. The Starfish Principle.
See you in the gloom –
Snowflake
ANNOUNCEMENTS
We are looking for guys to Q future DMZ workouts. Hoping to get a couple of guys from The Fort on July 1.
We have July 22 and 29 open. Would love to get a couple of guys for those from Metro. Please Tweet @Skywalker_F3 or mention in the Comments below. We are especially looking for guys who have never been a Q before or havent Q’d a lot to help out.
A Giant (Psycho T) Among Boys
41 hearty souls made it out of the fart sack this morning to plant the ShoveFlag at DV in the Gloom
The Thang
COP led by Psycho T
SSH, Imperial “Walkahs”, Merkins, Peter Parkers, Parker Peters
Split into two groups: Group 1 stays with Psycho T, Group 2 goes with Skywalker for a stroll through the woods to the Davie Park playground
Psycho T’s #BeatDown
Animal Jams
Super set with Gassers
Animal Exercises: Bear Crawl, Crabwalk, Duckwalk, Donkey Kong, Jumping Wolverine
Plankfest
Merkins
Skywalker’s #BeatDown
The Circuit of Pain: Swing Donkey Kicks x 30, Dips x 20, Step Ups x 20, Decline Merkins x 20
Rinse & Repeat until time is called
Mosey back to the football field
Groups switch off
The pax regroup at the school building and rest rooms for:
Roman Chair
Jump Ups
More Roman Chair
Jump Lunges
Dolly x 20
10 Burpees on your own
Freddie Mercury x 8 (YHC was so gassed that he couldn’t count any longer)
5 more Burpees on your own
COP
Moleskin
– During YHC’s second round of the Circuit of Pain, YHC made a note to self: “Don’t ever create a workout that you don’t want to do twice in a row…”
-YHC heard lots of complaining during his part of the workout. That’s a sure sign that the #downPAINment was just right.
-Great job to Strange Brew for encouraging the pax to push it.
– Bananas brings out yet another FNG today. YHC thinks TR has convinced Bananas that he’s getting frequent Flyer miles for each guy that he EH’s. I mean, seriously, how many friends can the guy have??
Announcements:
-F3 Pool Party & Cookout THIS Saturday – view the link for the details: http://www.evite.com/event/018BAAQZXGK5ZYLR4EPCYYNVVFB2HY?utm_source=other_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=text&utm_campaign=invite&gid=018BAAPMT7N2NE3UEEPCYY7NTWXSMA
-Tclaps to M. Mic Check for her segment on F3 yesterday. View the segment here: http://www.wcnc.com/charlotte-today/F3-workout-210088791.html YHC hears that a name change is in the works for Run Stopper, aka Showtime.
– If you haven’t noticed, we have more than doubled the number of pax coming out in the last 6 months. We will likely double again in the next 4 months. That means we have to have more workouts which means we need more guys to lead. If you have been coming out to the workouts for 2-3 months, then you are ready to Q one – even if you think you aren’t. If you are concerned about leading an entire workout, reach out to any of the Site Q’s (listed at the bottom of the weekly emails). They will be happy to take 1/2 of a workout and let you do the other half. Or they may find someone else to co-Q with you. When I led my first couple of workouts, I was way out of my comfort zone. Most guys who now lead would tell you the same thing. So take the first step, reach out to a Site Q and lead 1/2 a workout. Aye!
DMZ Launches tomorrow Aye!
Join us Monday for the launch of DMZ at Carmel Neighborhood Park (same site as The Governator), 0530, Bootcamp workout.
Aye!
No, not that again!
24 men jumped out of the fartsack for lots of running and miscellaneous fun.
The Thang
COP- SSH, IW, Slow Squats, Peter Parker, Parker Peters
Mosey to Ring Road entrance
Catch Me If You Can 1: Partner 1 runs, Partner 2- 5 burpees then catches Partner 1. Flapjack – one LONG lap of the Ring Road
She Hate Me 1 – Merkins x 15, Squats x 20, LBC x 20 for 6 minutes
Catch Me If You Can 2: Find a new partner. Same as above but with Merkins x 10
She Hate Me 2 – Merkins x 10, Skater Lunges x 20, Dolly x 20 for 5 mins
Shortened Jacobs Ladder. Run up hill do 5 burps, back down for 1 squat; up for 4 burpees, etc
3MOM
Moleskin
Not much #Mumblechatter amongst the Pax particularly during each round of She Hate Me.
Welcome, Graceland, to F3. There was much debate over this Brother’s name since he hails from the King’s town of Tupelo. Finally settled on Graceland. Look forward to seeing you back out in the Gloom.
The idea to change partners for Round 2 of Catch Me If You Can came from Tiger Rag. YHC thought he was suggesting that as a way to build a little 2nd F into the workout – by getting to know another member of the Pax. It turned out, however, TR suggested just so he could partner up with Bulldog for Round 2. #ManCrush
Speaking of Bulldog, he was driving his wife’s car sporting (this is no lie) her license plate that says: ILUVABRIT
Bulldog, if that plate ever goes missing, you might want to check the back of TR’s SUV. I’m just sayin’
New Saturday workout launches May 25
This Saturday, Radar & Purple Haze will launch Area 51’s fourth and latest workout on Saturday mornings. To think that in one year we have grown from 3(?) workouts to 16 is just amazing. So many of us have been so positively impacted by our involvement in F3 that we can’t help but try to EH every guy that we know. And that is one of the reasons that we have grown so much.
So here’s your chance to EH another buddy, coworker, or neighbor.
The workout (name still TBD) will launch at 0700 from McAlpine Elementary School, located at 9100 Carswell Lane. That is just off Hwy 51 (Pineville-Matthews Rd) about 1 mile west of Calvary Church.
It’s a great site for this traditional bootcamp workout.
See you in the Gloom. Aye!
Tiger Rag in a Kilt??
The Gauntlet has been laid down. Our illustrious Regional Q, Tiger Rag, has publicly stated that if 150 of the Area 51/S-CLT Pax respond to our recent survey, that he will wear a kilt to Haggis’ new workout #Bagpipe. I’m assuming, Haggis, that TR may have to borrow one of yours.
Click on the link below to take the survey. It will cost you less than 5 minutes of your time.
http://survey.constantcontact.com/survey/a07e7co6qh7hfmuz68s/start
Come on men. We are just over half-way to the goal. This is F3. We have to hit the target. Aye!
Run Like A Butterfly, Sting Like A Bee
27 of the faithful showed this morning for lots of running.
Indian Run in two groups.
Group 1 goes off with Ziapdee – Group 2 with Skywalker
Zip’s workout:
Mosey thru the woods to the park / parking lot, 5 burpees.
(note: Bulldog called an audible of a better way to get to the park instead of taking the normal trail. We quickly found ourselves in the woods; however, no trail to be found (BD utters hrm, I think this is the right way follow me mates! #LOST) and we’re now hopping logs, mosey’ing through mud holes and then scaling a 5’ tree that we had to get over to get to 51. Once on 51, we had a ½ mile mosey to the park (BD turned it into a sprint).
Mosey to pull-up bars, 10 pull-ups, 20 merkins.
Mosey over to the “HILL” and “DING DING” sprint up it…..
Walking Lunges ½ way down and then “DING DING” sprint to bottom of the “HILL”. 5 burpees
Mosey back up to the top of the “HILL”, there’s NO mosey’ing, “DING DING” SPRINT to the top. 30x LBC’s
Mosey over to the hills over by the diamond and soccer fields for suicides. YHC calls out how many trips up the hills and then 1 minute of AMRAP’s as called.
3 trips – Merkins
2 trips – Peter Parkers
2 trips – Carolina Dry Docks
4 trips – Turkish Get-Ups
3 trips – Burpees
Mosey over to the parking lot by the 2 playgrounds for some – Mary – Flutter 30x, Dolly 20x, Rosalita 20x
Mosey back thru the woods, NO audible this go round as we’re getting short on time!
Finally hit pavement so let’s do a 100 yd uphill Indian Bear Crawl home
– Crowd pleaser, as the mumble chatter begins asking if the last guy runs to the front – Psycho T bear crawls past the PAX as if he had 6 legs. #strongbrother!
Once to the top, Wait, look at that wall — Peoples Chair with 30x Air Presses (in cadence)
Skywalker’s Group
COP
SSH, IW, Perkins(that’s a Perfect Merkin), LBC’s
On the track, Partner up with someone you do not know (if that’s possible)
Partner 1: Run a 400 – Partner 2: 30 Merkins then squats til your partner returns
Flapjack
Next, Partner 1: Run 400 – Partner 2: 20 Merkins then LBC’s til your partner return.
Flapjack
Mosey to Football Goal Line
Suicides with Burpees – sprint to 25 w/5 burpees & return to goal line; sprint to 50 w/10 burpees & return; to 75 line with 15 burps & return; to other goal line w/20 burpees (ugh!). YHC hates burpees which is why we did them this morning.
Then same suicides with Squats (using good form) (5/10/15/20)
Suicides with Merkins (5/10/15/20)
6 MOM
Mosey back to parking lot for COT
Moleskin:
It’s awesome to see our numbers still high at Death Valley even with the launch of The Maul at Stonecrest.
Great job by everyone in the pax. YHC (Skywalker) talked a lot about the importance of good form with his group. And the pax delivered. Way to go guys.
Announcements
– New workout, Hydra, starts next Thursday 5/9 at Old Providence Elementary. Site Q’s will be 49’er, Bugeater, and Donkey Kong. If DK is involved there will surely be lots of burpees. He loves burpees so much that YHC thinks DK dreams about them at night. Hydra will be a Bootcamp style workout with “a twist.” Don’t miss it!
-Check out the Area 51/S-CLT new page on F3’s website. There you will not only see all of the workouts that we now have but also 2nd and 3rd F events. http://f3nation.com/schedules/charlotte-south/
And to read the backblasts from our workouts, you can go to http://f3nation.com/regions/nc/charlottesouth/
Starting May 10, the latest 3rd F event will begin, Compass, with Bulldog & Stone Cold. 6:30-7:15 Fridays at the Arboretum Chick-Fil-A. We will be discussing a great book, entitled, The True Measure of a Man
New Workout Tuesdays in Ballantyne area
Our resident stonemason, Haggis, is set to launch his new workout, Bagpipe, THIS TUESDAY April 30 0530-0615. Bootcamp style. Launch from The Vine Restaurant located at 13735 Conlan Cir in Ballantyne. (Man, I just have to digress a second to say that posting is so much easier than Twitter. I’m always running out of characters when I Tweet). Click below for directions:
https://maps.google.com/maps?daddr=Vine+American+Kitchen,+13735+Conlan+Cir,+Charlotte,+NC+28277&hl=en&ll=35.057114,-80.850551&spn=0.001208,0.002344&geocode=CQAnauDTrD8sFdrtFgIdilEu-yHizhL4MYvZyg&gl=US&t=m&z=19
Aye!
Where are the Snakes?!
35 of the faithful posted this morning despite reports of snakes biting and fireants stinging at the site.
The Thang
Mosey to courtyard for COP
SSH x 20
Imperial Walkuh’s (Bulldog-speak) x 20
Peter Parker x 15
Seal Jacks x 10
Run the Ring Road to the Hill with Burpees & Merkins at selected Pain Stations
Skywalker’s Ladder – Run the hill, burpees at the top up to 7 with 10 Dollys at the bottom each time down
3MOM led by Bulldog
Mosey to lower parking lot
Suicides with 5/10/15 Squats
Suicides with 5/10/15 Perkins (that’s the Perfect Merkin in Tiger Rag-speak)
Suicides with 5/10/15 LBCs
Suicides with 5/10 Burpees with 5 more Burpees at the finish
Mosey to “soccer field” while dodging the snakes
4MOM
Dollys x 20
LBCs x 30
COT
Moleskin
Great work by the pax this morning. YHC’s legs were so sore and tired after the hill work at Devil’s Turn yesterday that I wasn’t sure I could make it through the planned workout. But somehow YHC rallied.
Not much #mumblechatter this morning. Tiger Rag and Bulldog began their usual trash talking to each other as we began the Skywalker’s Ladder, but YHC noticed that Bulldog quickly pulled ahead to the lead through the Ladder and subsequent suicides. YHC thinks that Tiger Rag was saving himself for the #DoubleDown tomorrow. #Sandbagger
Ice T alledgedly was bitten by a snake during MOM at Skunkworks on Tuesday. While we have yet to obtain anything more than circumstantial evidence of this purported crime by the snake, the pax still decided that a name change to #Snakebite was in order. Great job this morning Snakebite!
And welcome FNG Chaps to Kevlar. Hope to see you at more Area 51 workouts.
Announcements:
-All Saturday workouts are on as planned. Check the website for details of each if you have any questions.
-Bulldog and Stone Cold are the Q’s for Compass which begins Friday, May 10 from 6:30-7:15 at the Arboretum Chick-Fil-A. We will be reading and discussing “The Treasure of Man” which is a great thought-provoking book. Please come out for some great discussion.
WHERE MEN ARE MADE
Suggested attire for Kevlar
Winston Churchill once said “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life but what we give.”