14 men gathered in the South Charlotte gloom on Monday morning for the official launch of The Matrix.
The Thang
Run around school
Imperial Walker X 32
SSH X 32
Squats X 32
Incline merkin X 24
100M run
Decline merkin X 24
100M run
Dips X 30 / Squats X 30
200M run
Squats X 30 Dips X 30
100M backpedal run
Pull Ups X 10 / Dips X 20 – 3 sets of each
100M backpedal run
Something X 30 [I can’t remember what… PAX, anyone remember?]
100M karaoke
Plank
Run around school
People’s Chair
Lung walk X 25 yards / 20 merkins / lunge walk X 25 yards
3 minutes of Mary [Dolly / Flutter/ LBC]
Merkins X 20
LBC X 30
Moleskin
-Belated shout out to Dora for the use of the digital weinke on Saturday during his time as the QIC. We would expect nothing less from our Regional IT Q.
-Hops was looking quite grizzly this morning with all the facial hair… not just a stache, but a full on beard… very cropped and professional looking of course.
-Mall Cop had the look of man whose team just jumped two spots in the BCS rankings.
-Triple claps for Young Love… making his third straight post at McKee Road Elementary
18 brave souls posted in the frosty gloom to take on The Rock
The Thang:
Mall Cop Lead:
Jog to soccer pitch for warm-up COP
SSH x 25
Imperial Walker x 25
Shores shoulders (in a deep 90 degree squat – small arm circles forward, small circles backward, large circles forward, large circles backward)
Carolina Dry Dock x 15.
Merkin / Arm Up Ladder – start w/1 Merkin and 4 Arm Ups, then increase to 2 Merkins & 8 Arm Ups, increasing each set by 1 / 4 to last set of 10 Merkins, 40 Arm Ups.
Jacobs Ladder up hill with CDD at top 1 to 7, and Squats at bottom 2 to 14.
COP – Football Drill: run in place with high knees and drop on command and pop back up for 90 seconds
Flutter Kick x 20
LBC x 20
Peter Parker x 20
Indian Run with 10 Merkin Chaser (turned into Indian Lung Walk w/ 10 merkin chaser).
Stone Cold Lead:
Jog to pic-nic table benches for dips x 20, jump ups x 20.
Rinse and Repeat – total of 3 sets.
400 meter run to side of church
Peoples Chair 90 – seconds
Peoples Chair – 90 seconds
Balls to the Wall – 45 seconds
Peoples Chair – 90 seconds
Jog to fields at front of church for:
Set 1) Bear Crawl 25 yards, Rolling Merkins 25 yards, Crab Walk 25 yards, Sprint 25 Yards
Partner up:
Set 2) Partner Carry 25 yards, wheel barrow 25 yards, partner pull / drag 25 yards, Sprint 25 yards
Set 3) Flapjack
Set 4) Partner 1 Planks while Partner 2 does decline Merkins x 10, Flapjack – Total of 3 sets.
Jog over to and down North Face to dry creek bed to pick out pet rock.
North Face Jacobs Ladder while holding pet rock with rock burpees at top 1 to 5, and 10 squat rock presses at bottom (crowd pleaser)
400 meter backwards run, kareoke, run back to shovel flag
Finish with merkin jumping jacks x 15
COT
Naked Moleskin:
Great work by all today and a couple of “Unsavory” (BS) calls by the pax for the Merkin / Arm up Ladder and for the rock hold Jacobs Ladder up North Face. Both were difficult and YHCs shoulders and arms are sore! That is the slowest we’ve run up North Face by hauling those rocks = smoker!
It was great to have 2 FNGs out today Screwdriver (Rob Phillips) and Ice Sickle (Ice Hole 2.0). Sorry Sickle as YHC was trying so hard to remember your name when we met but I was so smoked by the end of the workout that the swirly snakes just weren’t very active at that point. Scredriver did a great job for his first post and YHC can tell he will be an F3 Beast in no time flat! Looking forward to seeing back out in the Gloom soon!
As we were finishing up the COP at the beginning the Pax saw Bug Eater, Skinner, and Dirt Track racing from the parking lot to catch up. As a joke YHC yelled out for them to commence their penalty of 15 Burpees and was about to laugh it off and call out the next exercise until Bug Eater started whinning like my 6 year old 2.0. And then the 15 Burpee penalty began as the Pax finished our CDD. We kid because we love fellas! Just remember for next time we start promptly at 7:00 at the Rock!
In honor of our brother Dora’s virgin Q at Area 51 YHC decided to pull one of Dora’s tricks out of his backpack that he told YHC about a couple of days ago and have the pax run a 2 line Indian Run with a 10 Merkin chaser. The pax immediately started yelling to turn the Indian Run into an Indian Lunge Walk with 10 Merkin chaser. For some reason YHC complied with the request, but YHC assures you there will be no modification the next time for this one.
Special thanks to Hops for letting YHC borrow his spare pair of gloves as I drove the M’s SUV to the workout while all my gear was in my car.
Remember – Monday launch of The Matrix at McKee Rd Elementry, 5:30 to 6:15, Joker will be your Q. We had a soft launch earlier this week and the nice thing fellas is there’s plenty of auxilary and parking lot lights so you won’t need the head lamp like we do in the Black Hole called Death Valley.
28 men posted for an Area 51 painfest.
The Thang [early crew]
Jog to track for 1 lap
SSH x 25
Imperial Walker x 20
Mountain Climber x 20
6 man Indian run with dumbbell around soccer field to back parking lot
4 corners – round 1: 1 leg burpee (R), karaoke to 2nd station, 1 leg burpee (L), backpedal to 3rd station, 1 leg burpee (R), karaoke to 4th station, 1 leg burpee (L), backpedal back to 1st station
Round 2: 10 regular merkins, lunge walk to 2nd station, 10 diamond merkins, backward lunge walk to 3rd station, 10 staggers arm merkins (R), lunge walk to 4th station, 10 stagger arm merkins (L), backward lunge walk back to 1st station
Mosey to upper parking lot
Circle of 6: 30 seconds each station – lbc, merkins, bicycle, KB squats, merkins walk, mtn climbers
2 laps around track – 1 lap jog, 1 lap sprint straights and jog turns
Plank work
People’s chair x 60 sec
Merkins x 20
People’s chair x 90sec
6 min of Mary
The Thang [7AM crew]
COP x20 in cadence (ssh/iw/merk/lbc/pparker)
Indian Run w/a 5 Merkin Chaser around the entire field 2x
Visit rick pile, Get a rock buddy, mosey to nearest soccer pitch
Upper Rock Ciabatta — 20 seconds of work, 10 seconds of rest, 8 sets, AMRAP
◦ Pass rock to your brother, 8x curls
◦ 8x merkins (vary: normal/diamond/wide/stagger on your rock)
◦ Pass rock to your brother, 8x shoulder press
◦ 4x no-rock CDD
◦ Mosey to rock pile, put rock to bed
Jog to field
Squats X 30
Jog to back of school
Squats X 30
Dips X 30 / Peoples Chair – 3 sets of each
Jog to playground
Pull Ups X 10 and Jump Ups X 20 – 3 sets of each
Jog to soccer field
800 Meter Race
Plank
Jog to school
23 merkins
Moleskin
– Strong work by the “early crew” [Short Sale, Header, Stage Coach, Salt Lick, Bratwurst and Countertop], posting for a 6AM workout prior to soccer games, etc. – Triple claps for Countertop doing a double down, posting for both the 6AM and 7AM workouts
– The “merkin chasers” during the Indian Run proved to be confusing at 715am. Some pax tried doing them IN FRONT of the line. And an Indian run with 26 guys in one line is an Indian MARATHON. Next time, two lines.
– Upper Body Rock Ciabatta brought out the best from the Pax, including a signature McGee ‘Unsavory’ call
– Passing your rock to your brother keeps a pax honest about how hard he plans to work out that day, doesn’t it?
– LOTS of mid-exercise illicit black market rock-swapping happening mid-Ciabatta
– The ungloved pax learned just how cold granite can get this morning. Expect to see a run on handwear at your local hardware store this afternoon
-Strong showing from McGee and Lobster Roll in the 800 Meter Race [which is actually about 950 Meters]
-Cowboy was catching a lot of grief this morning – as usual – when he barked out, “I can just stay home and get this treatment from my wife”
-APK wore a hideous shirt today — he claims it is “wind proof”… just sayin
5 pax actually showed up to run in the cold and wet conditions.
The Thang:
4 or 6 miles with quarter mile sprints thrown in just for fun.
The Moleskin:
37 degrees and wet are not ideal conditions and most of us were surprised to see others show this morning for the run. Glad to have others out there with me though this morning. One thing is for sure, none of us would have been out there without each other. Strong work, men.
The conditions were actually handled well by all. Throw on a shell and what’s the difference? Makes one think you can actually handle a GoRuck Challenge in the middle of February as well. Just saying.
Donkey Kong was the only one to arrive at 5:30, and must have been a little late. He wrongly assummed others had left just before him and spent the first 2 miles speeding up to catch them. Only at the turn did he realize he was out there all alone, without a 5:30 Q, pushing just himself. Glad you perservered DK.
Thoughts and prayers go out across South Charlotte for our brothers, Run Stopper and Ninja Turtle who are in Oklahoma this morning consoling each other and their family after the sudden passing of Run Stopper’s mother. God bless.
26 men ventured into the breezy gloom at Death Valley for a mid-week downPAINment
Jog to baseball field
COP
SSH x 20
Merkin x10
I Walker x20
Merkin x10
Squat x20
Merkin x10
Sore Shoulders 10 small, 10 big, 10 small rev, 10 big rev
Jog to another baseball field
10 burpee – 20 merkin – 30 squats – sprint to other side (bicycle to wait)
10 burpee – 20 merkin – 30 squats – sprint to other side (merkin to wait)
10 burpee – 20 merkin – 30 squats – sprint to other side (plank to wait)
Jog to walk
Incline Plank walk up rail
Repeat incline plank walk
Lunge walk and jog to football field
Cross the field doing:
Bear Crawl / Rolling Merkin
Lunge / Reverse Lunge
Crab Walk / Rolling Merkin
Lunge / Reverse Lunge
Mary
LBC x20
Dolly x20
Rosalita x20
Mason Twist x20
Swimmer x20
Naked Moleskin:
1) We’ve got 4 baseball fields and 1 football/soccer field at Death Valley and today we covered them all.
2) Good work by all on the 3 rounds of 10-20-30. Definitely gassed at the end of that third round.
3) Hope everyone enjoyed the rolling merkins. YHC can’t figure it out, but they bring a special kind of pain to the shoulders.
Aye, 3 pax gathered in the post gloom on Monday morning to enjoy the trails of Col. Francis Beatty Park in Charlotte South.
Thang:
6 mile loop at Beatty Park and mixed in some “pain stations” every 2 miles. The warmer temps were a nice break from the cold and plenty of sweat was left on the trails.Mosey from cars to trail
Run 2 miles : 20 walking lunges
Run 2 miles: 15 incline merkins on downed tree
Run 2 miles: 10 spartan burpees
Mosey back to carsMoleskin:
T claps to turkey leg for double posting today. He hit Area 51 for boot camp and then came out to Beatty. Also, Santini made the trek to Beatty Park all the way from Fort Mill. Although our group was small, we represented F3 well. A fisherman in the parking lot remarked that we looked like we were “killing the woods”. Trail running seems to be a natural fit for F3 Nation! Great job guys.
20 men posted in the Area 51 gloom for the soft launch of a – yet to be named – Monday morning Charlotte South workout at Mckee Road Elementary School.
The Thang
1/4 mile run
SSH X 30
Imperial Walker X 30
1/4 mile run
Merkins X 40
Squat X 30
Carolina Dry Dock X 20
1/4 mile run
Plan-o-rama
Incline merkins X 20
People’s Chair / Two Minutes of Jack
Decline merkins X 20
Lunge walk
Playground for 10 pull ups; 20 dips; 30 squats – three sets of each
Relay races [4 teams of 5; 60 yard dash] X 2
Merkins X 20
Moleskin
– Strong turnout for a soft launch. Monday Nov 19 is official launch… workout name TBD. Format will be traditional boot camp, with some surprises from time to time to keep things interesting. 5:30AM – 6:15AM Monday mornings at McKee Road.
– Interesting dance moves by Donkey Kong in the gloom, with West Side Story as his inspiration. One of those – you had to see it to believe it things. Don’t quit your day job DK.
– Relay races were a show. Quarter Pounder showed his deceptive speed, just gliding along with his 6’5″ frame. Ocho Cinco has the fastest feet in Charlotte South, but others showed some wheels as well… Runstopper, McGee and our FNG from Rockingham [nickname = Dirt Track].
Twenty one Pax learned that sometimes you CAN poke the skunk.
WARMUP
KB THANG
COT
MOLESKIN
23 men gathered in the Area 51 gloom for the typical Saturday morning fun.
The Thang
McGee QIC
Burpee Warmup
10xSSH / 1 Burpee
10xSSH / 2 Burpees
10xSSH / 3 Burpees
10xMountain Climber / 4 Burpees
10xPeterParker / 5 Burpees
10xImperial Walker / 6 Burpees
10xLBC / 7 Burpees
10xSquat / 8 Burpees
10xMerkin / 9 Burpees
800 Meter Run / 10 Burpees
1 Minute People’s Chair / 10 Burpees
15 Burpees / 50 Merkins / 20 Pullups
1 Minute People’s Chair / 10 Burpees
Partner Carry / 10 Burpees
Partner Drag
Joker QIC
100 yard run at 50% then plank
100 yard run at 75% then plank
100 yard run at 100% then plank
100 yard run at 75% then plank
“The Tickler”
-Squat with rock in hands X 40
-Curl with rock in hands X 40
-Shoulder press with rock in hands X 20
3 minutes of Mary
Bear crawl X 2
Lunge walk X 2 [with 20 merkins at turnaround and 20 merkins at finish]
1/4 mile run with sprint to finish
20 merkins in COT
Moleskin
McGee fit 105 burpees into his 30 minutes at the helm. Ocho Cinco noted after the second burpee call that burpees early in the workout aren’t so bad. He did not double down on that comment later in the workout.
TClaps to Donkey Kong for powering through a tweaked back.
Pretty Boy Quarterback assured McGee that he would be at the workout on Saturday. Pretty Boy Quarterback followed through on his promise. He arrived during the Circle of Trust, which is a record for LIFO behavior in F3 Nation, surpassing Bootlegger’s 45 minute late arrival. Upon PBQB’s arrival, Joker asked him to rep out ten merkins, so as to allow for inclusion in the headcount. PBQB complied, with good form no less.
TCalps to Hokie Stone’s velvet sweatpants… a very strong fashion statement, that elicited — deservedly so — a fair amount of ridicule. Don’t let the haters get you down Hokie Stone… wear those velvet pants with pride. Just don’t wear a matching top.
The Shovel Flag was planted and 25 of the faithful attacked The Rock together.
The THANG:
COP
SSHs x 25
Imperial Walkers x 25
1-Legged Merkins – 10x Left, 10x Right
1-Legged Burpees – 10x Left, 10x Right
Jog to picnic tables
Dips x 75 (25×3), LBCs x 75 (25×3)
Lunges
Jog to soccer fields
Merkin-Mtn Climber Clusters: 10 merkins/10 MCs; 10 diamonds/10 MCs; 10 wide arm/10 MCs; 10 stagger-arm right merkins/10 MCs; 10 stagger-arm left/10 MCs
Plankorama led by Dredd for a few minutes
Partner up for Prairie Fire Mary (aka Leg throws) x 30
CCVs – 10x Right, 10x Right
5 minutes of Mary: Dolly x 20, Low Flutter x 20, Rosalita x 20, High Flutter x 20, Superman
Forward Lunges
Backward Lunges
Gorilla Walk
Broad Jump Burpees
Jog to Kitty Litter
Bear Crawl
Crab Walk
Wheelbarrow
The Plow
The Rocks: Up and Over (Boulders is what they are!)
Jog to NorthFace
Partner Carry Up x 3
Jog to COT
The MOLESKIN:
25 Pax strong this morning at the Rock. The Rock has become a Boulder. But nothing the Pax can’t overcome! Much thanks to OBT and Dredd for the fellowship. Dredd with the constant chatter but awesome leadership. Does OBT ever get a word in when those two are together? And thanks to OBT for taking us out with a strong prayer.
2 FNGs today at the Rock: Haggis – Scottish. Boxer. Stone Mason. Need we say more? And Tater – Clemson, Dental Implant Salesman — more to be said when you return! Great to have you both with us and look forward to seeing you again soon.
The Shore introduced the Boulders to the Rock, which turned just 2 months old today – Aye! Much more to be accomplished at the Rock.
Heard some bellyaching at the beginning with 1-legged merkins and burpees not being easy enough for warmup. “Sounds to me like you’re daunted! Are you men or amoebas?” (Name that movie.)
Scaling NorthFace with 180+ lbs. on your back is no small task. Nice work men. More of that to come.
See you soon on another gloomy morning!