From what I’ve tasted of desire; I hold with those who favor fire

From what I’ve tasted of desire; I hold with those who favor fire

Date: 2023-08-19 AO: None Q: Krzyzewski PAX: FNGs: None COUNT: 5 Although greeted by the uncommon pleasantry of a cool morning breeze, the pax eschewed comfort and chose to do hard things today. Including five times through a double snatch/squat/press combo, courtesy of the Cowboy complex, to finish this beast. The mumblechatter as usual covered topics far and wide including impressive rookie performance in training camp, the lure of good food at Lore, the strange prevalence of per capita PhDs in Huntsville, and why Blackrock is going to solve the crime problem facing a number of deteriorating cities (hint: money). All around good pump throughout – let’s get into the recap…
WARMUP: 10x high pulls (5x e/s), prying squats, 5x sandbag cleans, synovial circles, and slingshots/around-the-worlds (5x e/s) THE THANG: (1) Rows (and then Rows Again): 5x bent over row to upright row (3 sets) (2) Romanian Deadlift: 10x double KB deadlift (3 sets) (3) Thruster EMOM: 5x single bell thrusters (alternate each minute for 6 minutes) (4) Max Merkins: 2 sets (5) Carries: Several variations including farmer, waiter/suitcase (switch), double rack, double waiter/rack/farmer, and single rack/suitcase (switch) (6) Simple Complex: 15x heavy swing, 10x goblet squat, and 6x renegade row (3 e/s) (4 sets) (7) Lawnmower Snatch Ladder: 9x lawnmower / 1x snatch; subtract one lawnmower and add one snatch each time through until 5x of each (8) Cowboy Complex: Merkin, double snatch, double rack squat, and double press (5x through) MARY: Coalesced with the Rock and Flipper helped us chisel the core with some ab punishment ANNOUNCEMENTS: – Midriff’s day of 5k is only 2 months away, hooray: f3southcharlotte.com/2023/07/28/the-homecoming-ultra-5k-preblast/ – The Waxhaw pax have the facts for a Labor Day blast – Rumor has it that Pelosi is on the mend, but though his back is um, back, he’s succumb to a bout of the flu or some such ailment…thoughts with you, brother, to heal up soon – Smile more. It costs you nothing. Even if you have nothing to smile about, just faking it will improve your well being: www.nature.com/articles/s41562-022-01458-9 COT: Flipper took us out with the gents of the Rock

Hot feet

Date: 2023-08-19 AO: None Q: Odd Job PAX: FNGs: None COUNT: 4 WARMUP: SSH, IW, Merkin, runner stretch.
THE THANG: Jump rope handed to on PAX. Frequent stops during the workout where one guy does 50 jumps (he has the hot feet) while the others do an exercise until he is done. Burpees, supermans, squats, suicides, lunges, and other exercises called.
Stopped at the playground for pain stations (jump ups, Australian pull ups, regular pull ups). Also, a few rounds of pushup variations (clap, slow count, and archer).
Stopped at the lot behind the plaza on AK for rocks with friends. Exercises called included dying rock-roach, toes-knees-elbow-head lifts, flutter, burpee over the rock, and others).
Stopped at the stairwells for a round of 10x pull up, 10x slow count merkins, and 5 handstand push up/ballz to wall.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Sign up for the homecoming 50k race – do it today – Midriff posted the sign up details and pre-blast. It’s a great cause and will be a fun day with friends.
COT: Joined by some of the chicken runners. Thank you Astro for the take-out and for serving as A51’s new third F Q.

Return to Form?

Date: 2023-08-19 AO: None Q: flipper PAX: FNGs: None COUNT: 9 WARMUP: run in circles waiting for floorslapper and OT then over to the grassy knoll for SSH, IW, LSS, ST, burpees inter-mixed THE THANG: a mix of Fan Favorites from the archives including elevator merkins, little hazes, dips, lunges of all varieties, broad jumps, merkins, jump squats, and then a partner rotation of sand and iron. About 2 miles of mosey mixed in. MARY:  mixed in throughout including plank o rama, glute bridge, boat-canoe ANNOUNCEMENTS: midriff runs a lot and Waxhaw Anniversary Tupperware (no not really Tupperware) convergence on Labor Day COT: YHC with the takeout

There is AC in the parking deck

Date: 2023-08-18 AO: None Q: Spitball PAX: FNGs: None COUNT: 7.5 odd job came left and joined for COT WARMUP: butt kickers, high knees, side shuffles THE THANG: Run down community house rd to neighborhood. Doing 5 merkins at each light pole
At intersection in neighborhood 4 way intersection Different exercises at for each direction with 5 burpees at the middle. 10 merkins 10 squat jumps 10 heels to heaven 10 monkey humpers X2
Run back community house to parking deck doing 5 squats at each light pole
Run up parking deck doing 2 exercises for 45 seconds on each level 1: donkey kicks and Dolly 2: merkins and LBCs 3: lunges and big boy sit ups 4: wall sits and shoulder taps
Run down parking deck
Go to fountain Called exercise then run around fountain 20 derkins 15 dips 10 step ups
Run back to launch.
Finish with 14 birds burpees for @olaf
MARY: none ANNOUNCEMENTS: midriff 50k COT: spitball took us out.

Crock pot bbq is a sin …

Date: 2023-08-18 AO: kevlar Q: hoover PAX: poptart, Orange Whip, Rudy, ChickenWing, Horsehead, Limey, 0 FNGs: 1 0 COUNT: 7 The Magnificent 7 (not the original actors or even actors from the re-make, more like the stunt doubles from a home video recreation) showed up to Kevlar on a cool morning for August. Here’s what went down:
WARMUP: Ran around the wet soccer field then did a bunch of old-man exercises. Orange Whip thought we wouldn’t get any mileage in, he was quickly proven wrong.
THE THANG: 3 rounds of 4 corners: Merkins in the middle x 10, Diamonds, Heels to Heaven, Wide-arm, Squats
Gassers across the field with increasing burpee count #crowdpleaser
Run to gazebo and grab a lifting rock: triple nickel with shoulder presses / jump squats
MARY: Never saw the good side of the city
ANNOUNCEMENTS: There’s a new board, Orange Whip is (sort of) in charge Waxhaw is having their big Labor Day Convergence BRR is only 3 weeks away, better start training Horsehead committed to quit smoking during workouts The soccer field has a lot of divots, but no one got injured
COT: Limey took us out, then ran for his car and almost took us out trying to get home
Limey and Pop Tart rolled in complaining about how sore they were from the beating Runstopper laid down at Hydra yesterday.
Observation: A common topic at most workouts is the frequency of bowel movements pre-workout, during a workout, and post workout. Today didn’t disappoint. Rudy? Limey? any comments?
Orange Whip didn’t know what a triple-knickel was. Almost failed the nan’taan test because of that. It’s only by the grace of Pop Tart’s expert tutoring (and a streaking incident at Chili’s last night) that we’re going to allow him to stay in that role
Pop Tart had pulled pork last night, from the crock pot. Horsehead informed him that crock pot bbq might as well be vegan bbq and serving that is a crime punishable by death in at least 6 states.
In total we hit 2.5 miles and 180 merkins. Not too shabby for a Friday bootcamp.
Full House was casually wrapping up mile 12 of a 16 mile run and stopped in after COT. Looking strong.

school house rocks

Date: 2023-08-17 AO: shield Q: kirby PAX: Cooter, Cooter2, Bombay, ToeJam, Drumstick, Rousey, Carny FNGs: None COUNT: 7 It was great to see everyone push and get a little better. Carny ran to launch but said he was tired and still killed it. Bombay looked like he could skate by on the workout without sweating. Cooter looked strong and showed good form. Rousey beast moded every rep. Toe Jam was wondering why YHC couldn’t read a map and get us home. Great to see Drumstick pushing and getting stronger.
WARMUP: ssh 15 low slow squats 15 etc THE THANG: mosey to middle school do grades 6 7 8 on parking lines. we had to move because trash truck came for Rousey . we did about 10 lines of Hand Release merkins jump squats and big boys. mosey to High school. use numbers on parking deck for RDLs and. merkins. MARY: during ANNOUNCEMENTS: Midriff has a sign up for October 14th. Do it COT: Kirby

Hills and more hills

Date: 2023-08-17 AO: _area-51 Q: ChickenWing PAX: Orange Whip, Full House FNGs: None COUNT: 3 WARMUP: Stretching in the parking lot, brisk run to the fire station, some more old man stretching including sharon towers, then to main event THE THANG: 3-2-1 hill repeats, some greenway and some long hills at the end. Around 6 miles if you are counting and Full House got in 8 MARY: ANNOUNCEMENTS: COT: Joined up with the Sparta crew and Orange Whip took us out.

It’s cooling off… ish

Date: 2023-08-17 AO: run Q: flipper PAX: Polly, Astro (Kyle Kirchhoff), Alf, turkey_leg, bunker, flipper, Dosey Doe, retread, frasier, hairball, citgo, voodoo, purell FNGs: None COUNT: 13 6 PAX for the called route, another 7 did early crew stuff, but 13 men stood in a circle once the running was done. It was nice to have slightly cooler weather.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Waxhaw Tupperware party on Labor Day, also happens to be an anniversary convergence. Midriff invites you to do silly amounts of 5ks in October COT: Astro with the takeout

That hits hard

Date: 2023-08-17 AO: nightmare-on-elm Q: wingman PAX: wildturkey, Dunkin (F3 Waxhaw), blackhat FNGs: None COUNT: 4 WARMUP: Usual SSH, IW, Windmill, Downward Dog, Stretch THE THANG: Round 1 Jumping jacks High knees Butt kicks Arm circles Lunges Squats
Round 2 Half-Burpees Fumping rope Mountain climbers Plank jacks Push-ups Sit-ups
Round 3 Jumping lunges Tricep dips Russian twists Bicycle Crunch Supermans Plank
Round 4 Wide Merkins Chippy Cross Other Half Burps Skaters Box Jump/Broad Jump Squats
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Thanks to Dunkin and Blackhat for making the trek up today to talk about Waxhaw 4 year anniversary. There are like 20 different workouts planned 🙂 something for everyone. Sept 4th.
we made it thru 6.5 rounds today. Impressive. Some back-2-back legs followed by b2b arms. TOUGH.
Will work on my music selection but we need to PUMP IT UP. COT:

Jerks were a bad finisher

Date: 2023-08-16 AO: meathead Q: voodoo PAX: flipper, ickey_shuffle, Soul Glo, Unplugged, The Worm, Drumstick, Nair, Rousey, high_tide, voodoo FNGs: None COUNT: 10 Warm up: SSH x 20 IC IW x 15 IC 5 1-handed swings per side Sharon Towers x 10 IC Prying squats x 2 5 high pulls per side
The Thang (Workout 2 of Week 6 of the TBF Program):
3 sets of pax choice of squats – do 5 if doing double front squats, otherwise do 10 3 sets of 10 see saw or double presses (5 per side if doing singles) 3 sets of 5 times through the Merkin Monster complex (merkin, sandbag deadlift, merkin, sandbag clean, merkin, sandbag clean and press) 3 sets of 10 double swings 3 sets of 10 double bent over rows
Crowd Pleaser Complex: 1 clean + 1 jerk x 5 1 clean + 2 jerks x 5 1 clean + 3 jerks x 5 1 clean + 1 jerk x 5 (ran out of time)
Mary: 1:00 of elbow plank + :45 of hollow body hold
Announcements: Waxhaw 4th anniversary convergence on Labor Day. All 3 Fs in attendance. Targeting 225+ pax, so get down there. They will be collecting cans and bikes. There will be mountain bike, running, trail running, Iron Pax, and Iron Pax relay options. Location is Cuthbertson and launch is at 0700. Coffeeteria (with eggs and bacon) immediately after.
COT: Thanks to Rousey for the take out.
Moleskine: > Great numbers this morning at Meathead and Anvil with 22 pax total. Both groups got after it this morning. > Thanks for coming out and following my lead this morning. Hopefully everyone got their money’s worth. > Congrats to Ickey on a new job and a new set of wheels!

Categories

Most T-claps

None found

Twitter

© 2024 F3 South Charlotte