Nineteen Pax made the 5:30 AM tee time this morning at Bushwood. After a little over two months into my journey of becoming addicted to F3, it was time for my first Q. I spent about an hour last night strenuously deliberating about the workout for my first Q trying to channel my inner Goldilocks (looking for that “just right” workout for the crew). I knew I had dialed in at least a decent VQ when nineteen Peter McNeelys emerged during our opening Thang – expressing their fear of little old Mike Tyson. Nobody got knocked out by Mike Tyson(s) in this match though so no harm done.
WARMUP
While the Mashers got going on their workout, the rest of the Pax started with a shorter Mosey around the front of the site to the large parking lot for some warmup consisting of SSH, Imperial Walkers, Potato Pickers, Merkins, and Calf Stretches.
THANG
From there we Moseyed to Turkey Hunt Ct. for two laps of alternating exercises. The first lap we did exercises at every other mailbox, alternating between 10 Merkins and 10 Speedskaters. Your VQ misjudged the number of mailboxes so the first lap was far too easy. While Long Haul led some Mary while the Six came in, yours truly modified the slated plan for lap two to make it at least a little bit harder. For lap two down Turkey Hunt Ct. we did exercises at every mailbox, alternating between Mike Tysons and Big Boys. Immediately upon calling out the name of Mike Tyson, the Peter McNeellys emerged with complaints. Your VQ smiled with delight. Everyone crushed lap two so at the end Peter took down Iron Mike in this rematch. After that second lap we caught our breath then Moseyed back to campus back into the big parking lot. The Pax partnered up and grabbed one lifting rock per group of two. We then did a 15 minute AMRAP – one partner ran a lap around the big parking lot while the other did as many reps as possible of the set exercise for that lap until his partner returned and fetched the team’s baton (aka rock). The exercises with the rock were Curls, Overhead Tri Extensions, Lying Chest Presses, Squats, and American Hammers. We had a couple of minutes left after everyone had gotten through all of the exercises so we did another round of curls then dumped the rocks back in the pile. We Moseyed back to the CoT for three minutes of Mary before 6:15 arrived which consisted of Shoulder Taps and LBCs.
After Count-O-Rama and Name-O-Rama, our FNG shuffled his pink shoes to center stage to tell us a bit about himself. Our FNG was Ty Allison, a friend and neighbor of TanyaTine and Noonan In Canterfield. Not only did he crush his first F3 workout, in a prior life he crushed the spirits of ACC soccer opponents by leading the conference in yellow cards for four straight years. He was aptly given the name of Zidane – as in Zinedine Zidane – the former French World Cup star that knocked a grown man down on the pitch via a headbutt directly to the chest. Welcome Zidane!
Announcements….
Hey, its just a headline, leave me alone!
Started off with an alarm this morning that woke me from a deep sleep. The M thought it was Thursday and was asking where YHC was going saying, “where you going, you have Hockey tonight?” i replied, nope, its wednesday.. Guess its already been that type of week. As I waddled out of the room to get ready, every bone was cracking and muscles sore from the days prior.. Man, I just want to go back to bed, but the pax were counting on me. so I muster up the strength an head out to MRHS half awake and yawning.Finally nice weather, so the Tank came out… No sun just yet, but OneStar noticed the Guns were out in preperation.. DICCS applied, Lets mosey.
Warmup: 1st mosey to the HS lot with some Good ole Pickle and Goo stretching.. Calf stretch/Run stretch/glute stretch, cross armed stretch and behind back arm stretch..
2nd mosey to other side of lot for regular warmup. 15IC IW, SSH, Potato Pickers.
THANG: Remembering this was Cico De Mayo last night, had to switch up the counts and exercises to accommodate…. So, mosey over to small track and pick a partner and Rock. Each pax does 55 of each of the 5 exercise while the other partner runs with 5 burpees at the far corner:
this got some groans as many of us picked a bit larger of a rock than expected.
Mary with some Hernias for the 6.
Head to the MS cafeteria for some Circuit work: Bear Crawl up the path first.
At the Cafeteria 55 of each exercise split up in segments
Back to COT as we slow for the 6, 1 burpee at each of the 10 tree/shrub, at COT Heels to heaven IC for the 6.
M0leskin:
Lots of Pax were a bit sore since there had been some layovers the last few weeks whether on IR or traveling for work. this is the second day posting with 18 other pax. its a good number to have as there can be decent conversation.. most involving trips to the Wells Fargo this week…Enjoy it if you go, I got caught in the rainstorms Monday..
As usual, fun times with leading the group and Q’n a different AO than I normally do. Luckily everyone kept their sleeves today. weather is beautiful, so enjoy the day!!
Welcome FNG Mark Collins (RR) “The Grouch” hes from Rochester and name is taken from the Garbage plate and garbage being Oscar the Grouch.. Brought in by Bouncehouse and Pocahontas
Announcements:
Murph on Mem day
Blood drive 6/19
Need Q’s for Last call and Body shop
possibly looking at a new location for Last call to be a later start(maybe Publix on Newtown)
Led the group with prayer askign to look over those that are battling various ailmentsthat they are keeping inside and not ready to share with others at the moment which prompted Premature to say a few words following up from Zinfandels BB from yesterday about Anxiety and willing to help others when they do express their inner thoughts or emotions and notice if someone may reaching out without reaching out.
Enjoy the rest of this beautiful day and never take it for granted.
In keeping with the Bushwood golf club theme and the location being MES, this morning’s workout incorporated elements of both. All exercises were either 9 or 18 reps (golf) and the primary focus was learning how to spell (elementary school).
Warm Up:
The Thang
Mosey from COT over to main school parking lot where the Bushwood Alphabet board and the Caddyshack character names were waiting for us. Each letter of the Bushwood Alphabet had a corresponding exercise and we endeavored to spell as many Character’s names as possible by doing the exercise next to each letter.
Que music on the speaker that was waiting there for us as well, which began with theme from Caddyshack, then Lunatic Fringe, Fat Bottomed Girls, and so on..
In order to get the PAX in the right frame of mind, we began by spelling out BUSHWOOD, which involved 18 reps of the following exercises:
B: Merkins
U: Side Straddle Hops
S: Mountain Climbers
H: Speed Skaters
W: Monkey Humpers
O: Squats
O: Squats
D: Lunges
We then ran through the school playground and around the track. The sprinklers were on, so it was a nice Waterboy touch, if I do say so myself… After the run around we all grabbed a rock and proceeded back to the workout area.
We then spelled out the name of the golf Zen master who was blessed by the Dali Lama, Ty Webb, and everyone’s favorite grounds keeper, Carl Spackler.
Took a pause from the exercises and my cadence calls and ran a set of Stingers, which is what I grew up knowing as suicides (high school mascot was a scorpion).
Back to names, spelling out the pain in the ass, puke through the sunroof, Spaulding and finishing up with the object of every young boy’s desire, Lacey Underall.
Mosey back to COT with the boards and speaker in hand, music playing loud for all to have a strong finish.
Back at COT, kept with the team effort approach. One Star led a set of 18 J Lo’s with pickle pounders, Orchid called out 18 Moroccan Night Clubs, and we wrapped up with Flo leading 18 final Merkins.
One Star, Tanyatine, Orchid, and I went for coffee afterward. Encourage others to join in the future, as that’s a nice 20 min of generally good conversation.
I enjoyed my first Q, hoping it wasn’t too out there…
Waterboy
This was the first time I have q’d the hour long Saturday workout, and I apologize for the long awaited write up here, but this is seriously the first hour I may have been home this weekend… Yes, Sunday at 9pm!!! from a 6:30 saturday Commitment that was nearly forgot about and ghosted since the alarm had been set for PM! I roll up and there are a ton of cars……But no Pax, WTF is going on? the only other pax was Popeye! well, apparently there may have been a WTF tune up or something going on that the rest of us may have been unaware of. All in total, we had 2 Ruckers, 9 for commitment, and 8 doing WhaterverTF they were doing +1.5?!
Warmup:
DiCC’s called out… Quick mosey around and back to COT…. Wow, that was a great workout! Just kidding, we circled for Centerfold who came in on two wheels.
Thang:
Head to the Rock pile near the School, do 2-3 exercises then a long loop around the school lot
Finish up then head to the Club house playground stopping at every other driveway on the left alternating 5 Merkins and 5 Speed Skaters 2=1.
At the Clubhouse playground pair up 200 each of Dips/LBC/pullups/Step ups one runs, the other plays.
Finish up, head to the trail shortcut heading back to COT…..Wait, whats that? Who’s that? Where’d they come from? Where they going? the WTF’s just flew by us…. We stopped at the circle where each pax called out an Ab workout (too many to remember) then more Pax showed up Rucking!
Back to COT where we now have a Doubled group!
Moleskin:
My musical choice was going real well until Rage Against the Machine’s “Killing in the Name of” came on… but either way, it can be a treat to have some tunes on occasion to help get things going. I did get made fun of AGAIN by Goodfella.. Not for my Utility clip, but the Warmups being written on QB wrist holder… To be honest, I may have been able to wing it, but like to be somewhat prepared in case i engage in a little too heavy of a night prior.
As stated before, I hadn’t led the hour long workout in the past, so I was a bit worried at first, but the guys were all good with what I had in Store.
As always, its great to get out an lead the group, especially when the weather is so fantastic, cant wait to get at it again in May.
Announcements:
Welcome FNG Michael Wilfong -Peekaboo Originally from Union cty in Indian trail. 2 kids, one on the way. Works in Real Estate in Waxhaw, loves the outdoors, went to App state and Deadwood brought him out but Ghosted him! Peekaboo as he has the kids all under 6.. Initially asked if the name is Permanent?!?! Hes asking ME???? If it werent permanent, id have been changed long ago brother!
WTF May 1st 6:30 Blackhawk.. 13 miles per on a 3 Man team with Saturday Convergence. Kid Rock cooking up some good eats..
Need Q’s for Commitment
Blood Drive Sat June 19th
Ghosted Took us out… Man, some of you guys are just so good it seems scripted.. Way to take us out!
Better late then never, Now I can sleep… Sorry, not even gonna edit.. Sorry for grammatical errors.
Good Night!
Well its been a year since Noonan mentioned that I should get out to workout with the guys at Bushwood. About that time, F# was on a slight Hiatus, but a small group were out pretty much daily working out at MES. Noonan, Big Ben, One Star, Fiji, Spaulding and an occasional straggler along with myself. I’d say it it may have been the longest FNG run as it took a good 3 weeks to get aptly named Tanyatine. For those that had not known, I still follow and indulge in my first true love of Hockey and since I started during the early days of Quarantine, One Star played Mash-up with Tonya Harding and Quarantine.. Genius!!! Well at least he still thinks so to this day! However, it has stuck, and I think every new AO I head to, it is listed as a different name and I get dumbfounded looks regularly.
Prior to F3 and and Quarantine for that matter, I would travel and hit up so many YMCA’s that I have lost track. when that dried up, I started working out on my deck and running in early march 2020… Which looking back was pretty much a single person F3 workout, so the transition was smoother. Using a lot of those exercises within my own Q’s which are usually similar to the below.
Bushwood has been having increasing number lately and we had a perfect 18 today.
Warmup: slightly longer mosey to the front lot, Moroccan Night Clubs, SSH, IPW, Potato pickers 18IC. Calf Stretch, Up/Down dog.
Thang: Head out to the Half wall, but, uh….. Few too many Pax for the half wall, so Audible and head to Turkey Trot.
At each driveway on the left, Alternate 10 LBC’s and 10 Speed Skaters 1=2 2=1. Yes i called out 1=2 at one point.. oh well, there was the laughter to humble ones self. On the way back 10 LBC’s and 10 Romanian Dead lifts at the driveways. Smuggler led the Shoulder taps for the 6.
While we had to Audible the half wall, Fiji and Long Haul reminded me there were the picnicking tables on the back nine. So lets audible back. While going, 10 merkins at each mailbox before the cut through. As we got to the tables/Tent, a few of us from last week had some flashbacks from last week when in the pouring rain it was the only dry spot….Until the sprinklers came on. So once again, Sprinkers on so we moved some tables and started on.
Head to YHC favorite spot, the rock pile. Grab a lifting rock and rifle carry to the parking lot. Each Pax take a Spot, 9 holes of No Fun Zone!!! 9 exercises with run to end and back.
Rifle Carry rock back to pile, 3 mins to COT and finish with Fast feet for 30 seconds.
MOLESKIN
As I spoke to my wife last night that this was one year since I had finally decided to try F3 (I had been asked 3 years before in Race City) I think she is just as happy as I was since we had just moved down here and she knows i need an outlet and just as important the fellowship. I am glad I have gotten involved and have been able to meet so many great people and their families over the last year. It gives me something to look forward to in the morning, and now I am looking forward to work travel a bit more as I know many of my destinations are also F3 areas.
Welcome New FNG Jazz Flute (Rob Pettman-think thats what I heard) since he is from San Diego, but born across the pond… works in Financial services, wife and two notches, competitive wake boarder and Rugby player. other names considered: Cauliflower, San Diago, Classy, pebbles.
Announcements:
Bottle cap wants you —> at cowbell. Where is that location One Star? Thats the same as Asylum right!?!?!
1 Q challenge- 1 person to Q every workout 100 Pax need to get involved looking at a lot of Newbies..reach out to Site Q’s
-Try new sites
-Get involved
-Smuggler at Dromedary tomorrow
-Big Ben at Bushwood next Tuesday for Spring Break Q
While we have been noticing temps rising during the day and afternoons, I woke up this morning to a text from Fiji with a screen capture saying 34 degrees with flurries! NO way I thought, but dressed accordingly.
Left the house, rolled up to MES and saw the Mashers getting set up, heard some bumpin music in the SUV to left and thought, this is gonna be good. There were only a few cars when YHC arrived, but they kept pouring in one after another…Looking around, we could tell this was a serious headcount for B-wood, but we took it in stride.. DICCS set, Cranked up some warm weather tunes, Lets Mosey..
Warmup:
slightly longer Mosey to get the legs warmed up, although still jacked up counts
Thang:
Mosey to Turkey Hunt for a Paula Abdul: 5 Merkins, then 10 LBCs at the driveways, Mary at the end for the 6, then repeat back.
Head to the secret trail doing 5 speed skaters 2=1 at the driveways while I face the PAX to make sure they do em correct..Recalc, may need to set up a video to show these guys how to do these properly… Trust me, do’em right and you will feel it! Hit the trail, head behind school to the Coupon book.
With Coupon, Pax Circle up, 2 exercises, then run larger lap.
Rifle carry coupon back to pile, then head to COT.
few seconds left, so had the typical Bushwood Finally with the Fiji Fast feet merkin..
Moleskin:
Well, every week we are seeing more and more PAX and FNG’s come out to bushwood. I think the Firethorne Crew sits at the Bar Shaming recruiting patrons.. Or they have a Hustle going down on the course.
As always its a great time heading this crew and awesome to see the growth at this AO and Waxhaw in General.. The small group that met here during the early days of Covid has seen significant growth.
YHC wanted to change up the music theme from the typical 80’s hairband to the smooth vibes of Cali-Roots Reggae- definitely a different sound.
Sadly, I saw sneak peek at a BB that was never able to be shared last week from the Body Shop where a certain QIC had to audible to the fields to talk to a man about a horse. During the Warmup, I heard/Saw said PAX pull out some TP and say, “i’m coming prepared for now on..” There is no Rudy’s shed at Bushwood, and the clubhouse does not take kindly to the degenerates in cutoff collared shirts, there is a $#*+’s Creek though!
I know YHC doesn’t make too many friends when it comes to coupon work, but we at Bushwood feel an all around workout is what sets us apart. Had a few grunts and rumblings of mutiny during shoulder raises, Hernias and BG raises, but overall you will thank me.
Speaking of Hernias: this is now added to the Exicon.. some how I have noticed certain Pax/Q’s have signature stylings.. J-woww’s flavor of the month Merkin, Das – Arod Pickle Pounder …… Some things are now to be expected.
Seems like we have been getting weekly FNG’s and this week is no different. Welcome Tyler Turnbull –Flo. Hes the latest sucker Pax from Firethorne who, Get this, was waiting for it to get warmer to come out! Newsflash, still flippin cold. Smuggler is the culprit, and Tyler deals with insurance (bonds, but who cares when naming), Hence Flo, He is from Ohio, OSU and is a runner.
With the 4 mashers, we piled up to 23 Pax!!!! This caused a little bottleneck on the Abduls, but awesome to see these numbers growing. If you haven’t been to this site, get you butt out here. Its a bit of a change up from the others.
Announcements:
Warmup
Short little Mosey followed by
18 Side Straddle Hops
18 Imperial Walkers
18 Merkins
18 Plank Jacks
18 Mountain Climbers
Calf Stretch (R/L)
Another Mosey back around the parking lot
Note to self ( Burpee/Broad Jumps = Zero friends and possible second Q). Never the less, we proceeded with the following
Burpee – Broad Across the Parking Lot – 1 time. I had 2 rounds in my mind but would have resulted in total mutiny.
Thang: Keeping with the golf theme we started out with 18 reps of the following exercises for 9 rounds (made it only 1 hole). However, quickly heard the moaning and groaning and realized this would take too long. Pulled an audible and cut the reps to 9. Ended up finished 8 holes (rounds).
Chest Press
Curls
Shoulder Press
Tri’s
Back Row
Squat
American Hammers
Run a lap around the parking lot w/ 9 big boys at the final corner
Moleskin:
After my third Q, I figured I give this Backblast thing a try ((even though Bushwood is my home course)). Solid group of 15 boot campers and 4 mashers rounded out the PAX today. I guess the warm weather and Tanyatine’s marketing efforts did the trick. For me, my Super Bowl fog finally lifted and it was time to sweat out the weekend. I was debating an off campus field trip to the back nine but decided to stay together and play the front. Solid efforts but all PAX today and it was fun all staying together. The PAX loved the workout so much they were gracious enough to share and give me the largest rock on site for my final round (Big Tuna). Shout out to J WOW and Long-haul for sharing in the counting duties. Bottlecap, thanks for helping with the picture-I am not an IT guy.
Sixth Man: One Star was the six man. 4 years coming out to F3. His beautiful blonde haired friend, Bucky, originally brought him out.
Announcements:
Rice & Beans: Next Wednesday is the monthly sign up. Contact Centerfold – roughly 10-15 slots. Uptown – keep serve food to those in need. Also, Saturday Christ Closet uptown.
F3 Opportunity: 7am in person bible study. 8 am Zoom. Contact Bottlecap.
Last Call: New Site at Marvin Ridge High School. 6 am start.
Better late then never. I kinda forget what was done, but know it was raining…
Mosey through MC with Warmup at Turkey trot.
Back to the clubhouse for two rounds of the OneStar Star Blimp.
Then some Rock work with Pax and laps. Curls/presses and a bunch of others..
Wish i could remember more, but as always, the Pax had a great time.
The usual Bushwood crew has been Spotty over the last few weeks.. Whether from the holidays, vacations or Covid, its been a while since we have all been together. Today was no different. As One Star has passed the CO-Site Q flag on to YHC and taken the reigns on the new Last Call workout (Friday at Marvin High 6am start- Free Marketing) transition was slightly delayed with Both Fiji and Myself being out of Town for extended periods. Last night, we realized that here was no one on Q, thanks to Bottle Cap for TBD reminder! So we scrambled, drew straws, and went with it. I looked through some old Wienkes for a quick fix.. Well quick fix turned into something a little different where a text went out to the Pax to stretch early for a rather lengthy mosey… Not sure if the bitter cold or the text thwarted some Pax and directed them to some other Tuesday workout, but there is something to be said with a more intimate crew.
Warmup:
we started a quick stretch for those who were there early and watched Big Ben One Star come in Hot on two wheels. Found some nice mosey music on Sirius Spectrum Channel 28 and got the speaker going to set the pace for the aforementioned lllooonnnggg Mosey/Warmup (forgot to set the odometer sadly) of roughly 2 miles total… We went the a little different direction through the school path to Joe Kerr. This includes the neglected swamplands of Bushwood that reminds YHC of younger years and playing Cow Pasture golf. During mosey, YHC called out 3-5 Burpees a handful of times to keep pax together. Hooked a Left onto Autumn Blossom into MC and the traffic Circle at Running Horse to do the actual warmup.
Finished up the last 1/2 mile of our mosey back to the school.
Thang: the music on Spectrum was getting less and less workout friendly, so we had to amp it up and switch to Lithium 34 just in time for Rage Against the Machine to get us going.
Hit the wall for
Head to the rock pile grab a lifting rock and head to the parking lot. We did two exercises then ran a full lot loop together.
Head back to COT for some V-ups and Chippy crosses to finish out.
Moleskin:
Was mentioned that we will get a lot in with mileage. We ended covering a full 5k while pretty much working every muscle group. The longer mosey gave the Pax time to chat some which is always great. As mentioned earlier, we were finally able to Pass the Bushwood flag on, where YHC was told it may need to be “reworked” a little. As always, its great to get out and lead folks on this journey. Speaking of, we are looking for Q’s at Bushwood if you are interested. this is an interesting location for some folks that have not attended, we get both Waxhaw and some SOB pax crossing over to switch things up. So there are opportunities to meet some new faces.
Announcements:
For more local AO’s, YHC sets the alarm for 5:06… Yes that 1 minute makes all the difference… Except for when it doesn’t and 1 minute somehow turns into 21. not sure how, but I somehow awoke at 5:25… Quickly bounced out of bed, shot a text out that I would be coming in HOT!!!! Throw on the hoodie, get to the car…Crap window is a sheet of ice.. Roll out peaking through the small defrosted area and see the pax starting a mosey… I ran to catch them and meat just in time to start warmups…
Bed to Bushwood MES= 6 minutes
Warmup:
Pax= mosey, Q =sprint past Mashers with a quick wave of embarrassment, then catch PAX. Catch a quick breath and begin warmups. SSH/IW/(arm wobble thing I can’t remember name of at the moment) Mountain Climbers 18 IC, Calf stretch and runners stretch.
Thang:
A few weeks back YHC started this thang but was not able to finish, so we went ahead and switched up the workout so we could hit the hard stuff with a little less running and switching from team to individual… this was more like a Diesel workout. Head over to Coupon rack and pick your poison. Back nine holes in lot. LSD’s with 18 reps after each of the 4 distances for 72 stroke par on each round.
Mosey back to COT with minute to spare, 18 LBC IC, 18 Fluters IC, protractor to finish.
Moleskin:
Big thanks to Fiji and OneStar for kicking off the Mosey.. Not quite sure they even saw my text or not.. Welcome back Noonan after a little while off.
As I was a little disheveled, needed to go over exercises a few times to go through order. There were a lot of exersiczes that may not have been done in a while and the PAX were feeling the burn. Lets see how the shoulders and abs feel tomorrow after Raises, Shrugs and Hernias. Definitely hear more than a few grunts, but all worked through with honors.
Announcements: