35 of Area 51’s #Faithful posted in the Gloom for a workout that YHC should have modified…read below for more.
The Thang
Mosey to football field for COP
SSH, Mountain climbers, Imperial Walker, Slow Merkins, Slow Squat
Partner up with someone you don’t know for Catch Me If You Can
Lap 1: Partner 1 runs, Partner 2 does 10 Merkins then sprints after P1 – flapjack
Lap 2: P2 runs, P1 does 5 burpees, sprints after P2 – flapjack
Lap 3: P1 runs, P2 does 10 LBC’s – same routine as Laps 1 & 2
Lap 4: P2 runs, P1 does 10 squats – same routine as Laps 1, 2, 3
3 Minutes of Mary led by Double D’s then Mosey up to parking lot & find your partner
Partner 1 runs back to football field gate, does 10 burpees, & runs back to parking lot while Partner 2 does LBC’s – Flapjack
Same routine with P1 doing 20 Merkins, P2 doing squats – Flapjack
Same routine with P1 doing 10 burpees, P2 doing Turkish Get-ups – Flapjack
Circle up for 5 MOM
Dolly, Freddy Mercury, Rosalita (en Espanol)
10 Burpees OYO
COT
So when YHC crawled out of the #Fartsack this morning he could hardly walk – #PlantarFascitis. YHC mentioned this to a couple of the pax as we were running and their response was, “So why didnt you change the workout?” YHC thought about around 0500 but was just too tired to come up with another game plan before posting.
Great work by all today. The running up the sidewalk to the parking lot was a little tougher after doing a bunch of burpees, merkins, etc.
Kudos to Robinhood, our War Daddy. Robinhood, way to push yourself, Brother. You are an inspiration to many.
19 of the The Mauls finest showed up for a Wingman led Q
The Thang
Mosey to the theater lot for a lot of the usual
25 x Side Straddle Hop
25 x Imperial Walker
20 x Merkins
20 x Low prayer squats into tall X. Spirit fingers optional
Mosey to the fountains
10 – Derkins
10 – Jump ups
10 – Dips
Run to the lingerie store and back
Plank it up – 6 inches
Mosey back towards the lot
Parter up, size doesn’t matter
100 total in cadence count LBC or 200 non-cadence
Parter 1 runs to Cantina and back
Parter 2 LBCs
Flapjack until total count reached.
Plank it up RAH, RLH, Regular, LAH, LLH, Regular (Hops)
Mosey towards our friendly cab driver by target
M100s
– 10 burpees
– 10 mountain climbers (1-2-3-ONE, 1-2-3-TWO)
– 10 squat/squat jumps (double pump and jump)
Repeat until total reps = 100
Crowd Pleaser
Mosey to find Mary behind Target
1 min of:
– Freddie four count
– Heels to the heavens 4 Count
30s of:
– Half burpee (plank -> feet to chest)
Repeat for 3 rounds.
Mosey towards hills behind target…audible due to rain.
Peoples chair for two minutes with ~30 presses
Bear crawl first speed bumps
Lunge walk second humps
Mosey/Run home
We still have time for more Mary
15 x Flutter
15 x Dolly
15 x Windshield Wipers (shout out to #F3TheForge)
Protractor until exactly 615a
Moleskin
Somehow we started talking about exercise queens before launch. YHC was trying to remember Aerobicise but somehow not a single PAX could come up with the name. Strange. Or was it denial.
This was YHC FTQ at the Maul. Everyone brought it today. I introduced a few new things and there was a bit of chatter around mountain climbers and burpees. YHC had planned a m100/m200 fest but decided to nix the m200 after the noticing the sweat on the first round. The Rain didn’t stop the crowd, except for Frehlys Comet and Chippy not wanted to get wet in the end. Somehow YHC was getting called Wingspaceman. He thinks he missed something.
Announcments
So here is this week’s plan for Devil’s Turn. There are plenty of options so everyone’s invited to partake in the running bliss. See you in the gloom.
Instructions Prior to the Run:
1) Go to http://www.runbayou.com/jackd.htm and input your latest race time (Bagpipe vs. Fast Twitch mile time would be a start).
2) On the right side, note your “R” Repetition Pace for the 400m (1-lap) distance
3) Some examples:
Plan for the run:
– Everyone launch together from Greenway parking lot (corner of Rea Rd. and Bevington Pl) at 5:15 am. Across Bevington Place from Starbucks @ 6432 Rea Rd, Charlotte, NC 28277
– Run 2 miles out to S. Charlotte Middle School track
– 3-Options:
1) 4-mile folks: 15 min of boot camp (Q TBD)
2) 6-mile folks wanting speed work:
3) 6-mile folks out for a cruise: 8 laps at desired pace
– Run 2 miles back to parking lot for COT.
YHC will hand out directions before we start. However, the intent is to run relatively together on the way to and from the school track.
12 Men posted by the virtual shovel flag, in the dark, not realizing that rain was pending, and put in a strong workout. Some strong efforts out there this morning, I’d say about 12 of them.
at 0530 hrs the pax went to do something like this:
SSH x 40
Merkins x 20
IW x 20
CDD x 20
Mountain Climbers x 20
Butt Kickers x 20
High Knees x 20
Low, Slow, Squats x 15
Mosey to pavilion to partner up for:
Partner 1 5 BTW Push ups, Partner 2 20 dips then flap jack
Together Low Slow Squats x 15 (all reps add up to 40)
Repeato
Jog to baseball field area, pick up large rock
Partner sit ups with rock exchange x 20
Partner paddy cake merkins x 10
Repeato
Mary:
Flutter x 20
Dolly x 20
Mason Twist x 10
Elbow plank x 30 sec x 2
Prairie Fire Mary x 10 with partner
Jog to cars for Q timing failure, Q announces that we’re done, only to realize that this isn’t Fast Twitch and Anvil ends at 0615, good news, 15 more minutes
Indian Run to entrance to Rea Road
Partner 1 run down hill to Rea Road, bear crawl back
Partner 2 LBC’s
Flapjack
Partner 1 sprint to bottom and back
Partner 2 CDD’s
Flapjack
Partner 1 run to light post (about half way down), crab walk back
Partner 2 Merkins
Flapjack
Indian Run circuitous route to median near cars, 10 burpees on your own
Sprint to cars to circle up for COT
Moleskin:
Q failure on the timing, was able to get in a bit more pain this morning. A lot of the reps are somehow adding up to 40, either directly or via cadence x 2, not sure why this was but just seemed to end up that way. Very strong effort by the pax today, I can see how Lobster Roll got his name, seriously fast on the crab walk and bear crawls (DK better watch out for some real competition here). Salt Lick had to put up with YHC as a partner, garnering leads on almost all movements to have them not only lost but to have YHC finish last, that’s why we do these things, they’re tough which makes us strong, very good partner efforts today with strong encouragement amongst teams. Partner sit up rock pass seemed to be a crowd pleaser. Spackler, despite at the end declaring he would be last at #F3Nomad on Sunday was a blaze of speed on the Indian Runs, well done, even gutting out the bear crawl despite a tweaked back, don’t make it worse brother, want to see you in the gloom. Abacus was pretty strong all around, hadn’t seen you in a while (problem of Area 51 getting so large!), always good to connect. When YHC Q’s and Stone Cold posts, the goal is to make the workout hard enough so that he breaks a sweat, unfortunately today it was full on raining by the end so will just have to imagine that at least one bead of the water was sweat, always great to post with you brother.
Oh yeah, the reference to 40 above, YHC turned 40 this morning, great to Q on your birthday.
Great send off by Stone Cold, always good to be reminded of our larger responsibilities and how what we do represents our faith in all situations.
Announcements:
Joust, new workout on Fridays, site Q of Stone Cold, great campus
Thunder Road: Sign up and let 49’er know, F3Nomad workout on Sundays for LSD training, so effective YHC got disoriented and lost on the last one, come on out
14 SOBs fought their way through another Tuesday morning.
The Thang:
Mosey to parking lot for warm up: 25 side straddle hop, 16 imperial walker, 21 mountain climber, 5 merkins, hold, 5 merkins, hold, 5 merkins, hold.
Mosey to lake side: 10 slow derkins, 10 slow dips, 25 flutter. Lap around lake. Repeato.
Mosey to parking lot for Mary / merkin combo: 2 merkins, 25 abs, 4 merkins, 25 abs, 6, 8, 10, 8, 6, 4, 2, hold plank on elbows for multi-pax countdown.
Mosey to grassy knoll for sprints: Sprint to end, mosey back. Repeat. Sprint to end and sprint back. Repeat. 5 merkins then sprint to end and back. 10 merkins then sprint to end and back.
Grab a partner: Partner 1 does one lap of lake, partner 2 does jack webbs. Flapjack and repeat.
Mosey back to parking lot for COT.
Moleskin:
– Not much chatter from the Pax today. This workout was serious business.
– Minimal breaks and strong effort by all.
– Soft Pretzel takes it next week.
12 men, including 1 defector from #F3Bagpipe, showed up at #F3FastTwitch on a nice morning for running. At 0515, we set off into the gloom. Here’s what we did.
The Thang
Ran from the parking lot to the front of the school for COP…
After COP, we took it to the road…
COT – great send off by Chelms a/k/a Tatertot
Moleskin
Announcements
13 of Charlotte South’s finest arose out of their slumber only to be welcomed by the cool air of a cold front moving in and brisk breeze as Fall is only a day away.
The THANG:
LBJ (little baby jog) around the campus and head to the VSF for some COP.
– SSH X25, Slow Squat X20, IW X20, Merkins X15, Peter Parker X15, Parker Peter X15
The MAIN THANG:
Mosey to the far side of campus to receive your syllabus and be schooled in 4 painful physical education courses.
– Rail Work (Rail Slides)
– Wall Work (Donkey Kicks X20)
– Brick Bench Work (jump ups X10)
– Table Work (Dips X20)
Work through all 4 pain stations at a high rate of speed between each station X4 ensuring each of the PAX covered 2 rail slides in each direction (right/left).
– Peoples Chair 1 minute
– Peoples Chair 1 minute w/ 30 air presses
Wait, what’s that jingling I hear? I hear it, I know what that sound is — To quote Dickie V, “WARM UP THE BUS BABY BECAUSE HERE COMES CT TO DRIVE US HOME”!!!!
Magic School bus
Indian Run to the High School soccer fields
COP Ring of Fire
Rand-o-rama Sevens
Station 1
Station 2
Station 3
Mosey to Disc Golf Course
COT
Mokeskin:
Aye, it was a beautiful morning with the cool air and cloud cover. Great to see the turnout of such a strong PAX! With Swiss, Schnitzel and of course Fish Taco #oneofthesonsofballentynesfinest posting, the race was on. They brought the speed and the rest of us simply hung on for dear life for 60 minutes. The only thing slowing them down were being flagged with penalty burpees for being too fast and because the Qs said so!!! YHC was just a tad disappointed that Electric Slide was out because with those 3 thoroughbreds posting, the race would have been on for the jail break up the hill and ES possibly would have had to give up his WWF3 sprinters belt.
Great to have you out guys, you made us all better on this day.
Strong performance by ALL though. Hairband, dude is getting faster, faster & stronger each week. Hardwood, the transformation you’ve gone through in the past 6-8 weeks is uber impressive. Not so sure about this Wardaddy stuff and may need to check and verify your birth certificate.
Also great to have the newest member of our PAX out (Boon Dock 2.0 Charlie) there with us who was smoking it. Just came off of an arm injury and just had his cast removed; however, he didn’t shy away from anything and was leading the way. #nofear #madedadverynervous
Great turnout and it was an absolute privilege to co-Q such a strong group of young men.
36 men met the challenge of a Skunkworks beatdown.
Warmup
– SSH x 23
– Burpees x 10
– Goblet Squats w/ KB x 15
– Burpees x 15
– Imperial Walkers x 21
Merkin Chasers
– Lunge walk w/ KB
– Partner up
– Partner 1 sprint, Partner 2 merkins x 10 and chase
– Lap around church to stairs
Hill Work w/ Partner
– Set #1: 60 two-handed KB swings combined, partner 1 sprint the hill, 10 merkins, 10 widearms, 10 diamonds
– Set #2: 80 upright rows combined, partner 1 sprint the hill, 10 stagger right, 10 stagger left, 10 merkins
Sprints, Swings and Burpees
– Sprint to bus and back, 10 two handed KB swings, 10 burpees
– Repeat to 15
– Repeat to 20 (crowd pleaser)
– Repeat to 15
– Repeat to 10
Mary
– Mosey back to flag for 3 minutes of Mary
– LBC x 25
– Dolly w/ KB x 15
– Flutter w/ KB x 13
Nothing fancy about today’s plan, just lots of running, burpees and KB swings. Strong work by all. Night Court may need to look for some more outlets for his aggression. He gave me a bit of a scare with his emphatic “I ain’t scared” after set #2 of the sprint/swing/burpee. He quieted down when he realized there would be set #3, #4 and #5.
Announcements:
– Please keep Passport and his wife in your prayers.
– Sign up for Young Life Mud Run, family event, this Saturday at White Water Center – www.ylmudrun.com
Here’s a link to today’s workout via my Garmin for those interested – http://connect.garmin.com/activity/380585889
Ten seriously insane individuals “logged in” (pun intended) for some extra credit this morning.
The Thang:
0445 Q arrives
Angler is team leader
Take 40lb Sandbag as coupon
Team forms up in one Column
Move to storage to Get logs
Take logs to football field
Drop logs
Form One Rank On Sideline
Team Sprint across and back
Team Sprint across and back again
{PT}
Forward leaning rest
Push ups x 25
Bear crawl across field
Forward leaning rest
Push ups x 25
Squat x 40
Bear crawl across field
Forward leaning rest
Push ups x 25
Low crawl across field
Forward leaning rest
Push up x 25
Buddy bear crawl across field
Rucks Overhead
Squat x 45
Overhead press x 30
Rucks On Back
Bear crawl across field
{LOG PT}
Pick up logs/sandbag – Each man had hands on a coupon
Overhead log press x 25
(Log Shoulder Position)
Squats x 40
Overhead log press x 20
(Log chest position)
Squat x 40
Take one lap around track with all coupons (eight people carrying at all times)
Return to starting point. Drop coupons.
{Total number of reps required = 450.
Team calls the exercise.
Max reps of 75 each exercise.}
Squat x 75
Flutter Kick x 75
Ruck Press x 75
Upright rows x 75
Stationary Lunges x 40
Walking lunges x 35
Ruck curls x 40
Military press x 20
Crunch x 15
Tunnel Of Love Across Field
Sniper drills back across
Push up x 25
Bear crawl across field
Sprint back
Pick up coupons
Take logs back to storage
Move out to parking area.
COT 0615
Moleskin:
Announcements
Check out www.SPEARHEADF3.com for more information and to join our Google Group mailing list
Get out there tomorrow and Wiggle – fellowship pace – corner of Foxcroft and Rothwood Dr. 5:30 am…
** Chazz Reinhold: The Wedding Crashers