Swimmers and EE launched an new site…ASPEN… and just when I thought they couldn’t get any dumber, they go and totally redeem themselves. This site is great! Great location, great grounds and great pax! Although, I didn’t explore at all today I look forward to future beat downs to expand in this awesome site.
WU: We did stuff
The thang: 10 light poles. Merkin shredders at each starting at 10, 9,8 etc.. Mosey to the front of the school partner work one does exercise while other does loop. Two rounds of stuff ( I forgot what we did).
Moleskin: Saw work by all but special call out to Loafer, the dude is getting faster! He keeps this up he’s going to give Chastain a run for his money! Great to see HairBand and EE as well as some new faces to add to the mix. Welcome Hokey Poky to FC
Looking forward to more posts a this AO!
Invincible…The Waxhaw Version
Inspired by the Marc Wahlberg classic, “Invincible,” I decided to come up with a football “Weinke” to spice things up a little. With dudes running on fumes from vacation, humidity, life’s struggles, I tried to drag out some laughs and old stories of the glory days when we were in pee wee, middle school, and high school football.
With excitement and nerves galore, I woke up at 4:00 am. I showed up at the Chiseled campus at 4:45 to set up our football facility. This entailed taking the wrapper off my new 5’ Jenga blocks and setting them up in a ladder formation and large circle. I’ll get back to why later. As the cars came into the parking lot, I had to direct them to different parking spots. Glad Centerfold was not around, as he usually comes in on 2 wheels and might have taken some of us out. The coupons were stacked in one corner of the asphalt field. The bricks were placed in the center of the makeshift field. We were ready to go…
Warm up
Moroccan Night Clubs
Jack and Jills
Side Stradle Hops
Imperial Walkers
Yoga Warrior Poses
Calf Stretches
(To honor Damascus)
The Thang
OK, here’s the deal. We start out with 35 reps of something. I line everyone up. Each side (to my left and right) picks 1 receiver. I throw 3 bullets to the receivers. If they catch it, -5 off reps. If they drop it, +5 on reps. Group could drop to 20 reps or do as many as 50. Make sense? Guess you had to be there.
Did a miriad (bid word for some of you, including me) of bubble screens, slants, skinny posts, deep outs, and punt coverages. Exercises consisted on irkins, merkins, outlaws, box cutters, 21s, curls for the girls, Russian crab dips, Romanian leg lifts, Stormy Daniels (Mashers made this one up months ago), and so forth and so on. In Jenga block circle (known as “The Pit”), Pax had to weave in and out like the commercial with the dude from Mike and Molly. When they came out of “The Pit,” I would direct the brothers to go left or right. Would then randomly throw a laser to one of them. Part of throw/catch scenario before.
On the Jenga “Ladder,” we did quick steps on our toes. Think of running backs going through the “rope drills.” Again, part of throw/catch scenario before.
Punt coverage was fun. Surge (self proclaimed rugby star with some mad skills) kicked the ball as far as he could. We had to sprint to the ball. Everyone had to touch it or run through the end zone, like you see the Tarheel football team perform on TV. Come on Fusebox, I’m expecting a dig.
A lot of great engagement by the Pax. High Hat kept me in stitches. When guys would run routes, he would cover them. Falcon volunteered for everything. Must have been his Russel Wilson mass produced Seahawks jersey that inspired him. 😊 Judge Smalls almost dove for one. Sledge ran a 4.32678 forty on a go route. Very impressive. Forgot to catch the ball though. Maybe because I was 15 yards off the target. Others were stars as well. Can’t remember them all.
Special thanks to Loafer to give me a long leash to run with this Weinke. I had to run a lot of audibles, as I game planned for 8-10 dudes. The brothers came out in force. Already thinking of ways to tweak workout next time.
Moleskin
This was hilarious. Asked for 1 quarterback and 1 receiver. Receiver had 7 seconds to find a hole in the zone and “sit down” for a potential pass/reception. 17 of us spread out and did side straddle hops to create diversions and small windows to throw in. When High Hat ran his pattern, he found a spot and literally “sat down.” Judge Smalls overthrew him. Go figure.
Announcements
High Hat- F3 Dads camp coming up. Some spots are left, gents.
Turnbuckle- pickup furniture for Christ’s Closet this weekend
August 14-house in Pineville needs to be cleaned out. Full of
furniture. Turnbuckle out of town. Shop Dog will be the lead
Sledge- Playing at Mary O’Neills Friday night at 7:00 pm. NO Freebird requests, please. Just kidding. Go watch our brother lay it down.
Turnbuckle- Kevin at Rice and Beans. Terminally ill. 10 days to live. Prayers galore that he goes peacefully
Surge- Lauren is God daughter. Was in an accident some months ago. Part of skull replaced yesterday. Went well. Prayers for Lauren’s quick recovery.
So last Friday was Christmas morning for me, figuratively speaking, of course.
Concert Season had finally arrived and the M and I were en route to Raleigh to see the Dave Matthews Band tour opener. Cloud 9. Just when I’m thinking the day can’t get any better I receive an email – yes, email, not a slack, DM, tweet… – from Unplugged, seeing if I can Q the following Wednesday. I replied that I’d be happy to but warned that the workout would fall in between my four-show mini-tour – Dave Week, as I call it – and that it would only make sense to use a DMB playlist for the workout. Unplugged didn’t budge. “Bring on the DMB,” he said, which told me one thing – He was hard up for a Q!
My favorite part of Meathead in 2021 has been the musical “discussions” that break out each week.
“What defines a ballad?”
“How do Poison and The Foo Fighters stack up to each other?”
“Which era is better – 80s? 90s? 2000s?”
The one guarantee each week is there will be plenty of banter around the chosen tunes and this morning’s workout was no different.
Luckily for the pax, over the weekend a buddy turned me on to Umphrey’s McGee’s Zonkey album (12-track mashup covering the likes of Marley, Talking Heads, Chicago and Frank Zappa – and that’s just one song), which gave me an idea. Rather than risk getting blackballed from future DJ opportunities for subjecting the pax to 45 minutes of DMB, why not improve my odds with 30+ songs across multiple genres and eras all mashed together?
If anything it was something new and gave us something to think about other than what’s below.
Warmup
SSH x 20
IW x 10
Good Morning w/KB x 10
Prying Squat w/KB
Merkins x 10
2-Handed Swing x 10
Main Event
7’s with both KB swings and KB press
4 x 10 x 2 – four exercises, 10 reps, two sets
Farmer carry R 40 yds, L 40 yds
4 x 10 x 2 – four exercises, 10 reps , two sets
Waiter carry (R 40 yds, L 40 yds)
90 second plank medley
Encore
* My goal for the workout was to hit the entire body and get our heart rates up. We didn’t actually get as many reps as scripted (only 132 swings) but I think the mission was accomplished. To my surprise, the cleans stood out the most from all the exercises. It’d been a while since I had looked forward to getting to squats.
* You’ve heard of a three dog night? Well today was a two-hat morning for me. I brought two speakers just in case one failed. Also brought two hats cause I knew the sweat would be pouring! The heat/humidity didn’t disappoint.
* As always, I appreciate the opportunity to lead at Meathead – thank you. It was a good morning that’s bound to affect tomorrow’s golf round – but since Frehleys liked the music it was all worth it! Here’s the album for those who are curious: https://open.spotify.com/album/5GHLXH6qgXR4Gq10bmFfEo?si=Jmn9hBKxQMyXybaR7fMvgQ&dl_branch=1
Today I was accused of making up the weinke on the fly. That hurts. Ad-libbing, yes, but making it up? How dare you?
11 men plus a Chicken in a towel arrived at the humpiest site in Waxhaw. Moments after departing their air conditioned vehicles they were already dripping and I hadn’t even given the DiCCS yet.
Warmup
Mosey around the HS lot and circle up near the top for SSHs, Moroccan Night Clubs, more SSHs, Imperial Walkers, Merkins, Calf Stretches, Glidah Stretches, waving our hands in the air like we just don’t care, and ending with even more SSHs.
A very quick mosey to the curb to really get loose. Line up along the curb for some suicides.
Heart rates in the optimal position, we mosey.
The Thang
Long mosey to the first alcove on the left of the school for some 7s. Starting with 6 Donkey Kicks and a quick run to the next alcove to do Speed Skaters (2=1). Repeato until finishing with 1 Donkey Kick and 6 Speed Skaters.
Another mosey past the roundabout and towards the back of the school. Another curb. Another lineup. Broad Jump Burpees. Lots of groaning. From one curb to the opposite and back. Burpee with a broad jump instead of jumping straight up. Did I mention the groaning? Fine. Audible. We won’t go back. Instead we started picking cherries. Drive By didn’t see what the big deal was about picking cherries. You’ll see…
So we did a modified version of the Broad Jump Burpees. 2 Broad Jumps, 4 Walking Lunges, and 8 Bear Crawls all the way to the other curb. Pick those cherries, drop’em in a bucket. Do it again. Do another round of Broad Jump, Lunges, and Bear Crawls. Pick more cherries. Drive By started to get the point. It was somewhere around here I was accused of making it up as I went. Maybe the cherries were made up, but they got the job done.
Back to our regularly scheduled weinke…
Mosey back to the roundabout for some Paula Abduls. 2 light poles up, 5 T-Merkins. 1 light pole back, 5 jump squats. Repeato for a few rounds.
Partner exercises: 75 Dips, 75 Step-Ups, and 75 Derkins while the other partner does a half lap. Running low on time so a final little mosey to the trees in the center of the parking lot. 5 Bobby Hurleys at every other tree to the top of the hill. Then a jailbreak to COT.
Moleskin
The Chicken was waiting for us at COT. At some point while we were doing the 7s a law enforcement officer stepped out of the bushes. It was kinda weird. He said hey but mostly ignored us. He was checking all the doors and entrances to the school. Makes me wonder if a half naked Chicken standing in the parking lot is what prompted his arrival. I think that’d disturb anyone…
Announcements
F3 Dads camp still has a few spots available but prices go up TOMORROW. Sign up fools
Prayers for Johnny Utah’s friend Rick who is dealing with colon cancer
yhc took us out
DICCS given, it was more like CCDSI. who said it had to me in a specific order. Short Mosey around the side of school and circle up.
Warm up
20 x SSH
15 Imperial Walkers
5 merkins, 5 diamond merkins, 5 wide arm merkins
Various stretches.
Find a bench – 20 dips and 20 derkins
The Thang
Mosey long way around to elementary school parking lot. Partner up and grab a lifting rock (or in schneider’s case just grab a small rock). P1 run to end of the parking lot and back while P2 does exercise, then switch.
As a team complete 250 curls, 150 overhead presses, 50 blockee’s
Mosey to long entrance to middle school off Deal road. Run to light #1 and complete 2 burpees, run back to start for 10 jump squats, run to light #1 for 2 burpees then to light #2 for 4 burpees. Back to start for 10 jump squats. Repeat at light #1 and #2 and then 6 burpees at light #3. Back to start for 10 jump squats. Repeat at light 1,2,3 and then 8 burpees at light #4. This was a crowd pleaser.
Mosey side of middle school and find some wall.
15 Mike Tyson’s and 15 Donkey Kicks
10 Mike Tyson’s and 10 Donkey Kicks
5 Mike Tyson’s and 5 Donkey Kicks
Head to COT. 30 seconds of have a nice day
The Moleskin
Great group of guys this morning. This was my first time Q’ing at Weddington and I really enjoyed it. Appreciate you letting me lead you.
Announcements:
F3 Dad’s Camp – Spots still open.
Achbar’s son’s birthday today! Happy Birthday Lane.
Zinfandel finished last in his Fantasy Football League.
Bushwood has been a Site Q vacation for a little while, so we are back at it finally but playing catch up on the Q’n realm. One Star and YHC flipped a coin and he lost..
Warmup:
Mashers headed to the appropriate positions while the rest of the PAX Mosey –> SSH/ImpW/hammy stretch/wide leg merkin/calf stretch/Up/Down dog/Runner stretch
Thang:
Headed to half wall for some Step-ups/Dips/Derkin 2x each. Cross over Marvin School road to the newly maintaned back nine cul-de-sac. Pair up, ab work while other HIM ran. Big Bois, Freddy Mercury’s, LBC. SInce the grounds were so nice, we decided to stay in the Cul-De-Sac for a little Duck-Duck-Goose!
Circle up, each pax called an exercise for the group to do while the caller ran two laps around the group. VArious exersizes were called… Of course, J-Wow has to be J-Wow and call Diamond Merkins on his turn…. Knowing fair well he didn’t have to do them as he took his sweet a$$ time running the circle with a grin! We Jersey folk call that a dirt-bag move!!! Ha!
finish up heading back to the front nine for some wall work. with same partner, one bear crawls to the other side of lot and runs back while the other does some wall work-Jabs/Air Presses/Tysons/Donkeys. Still a little time left, so One Star pulled a rather cool audible of a Show and Tell. All sit at the wall, and each person tells a quick story of how they got their F3 name. When each finished all had to do 5 Donkey Kicks.
Head back to COT for the Fiji Fast feet.
MOleskin:
trying to get things back in order on the Bushwood site as its been a long summer with a lot of vacations. but think we are back at it.
The Show and tell Audible was really cool. Was based off the 6th man from this past year that has been fizzled out, but was a great way to know how each PAX was named. Kudos on that call.
See image on Groupme as YHC had a nice F# Sweat stain
Announcements
Need Q’s for Bushwood/Body Shop/Last CAll
Turnbuckle needs some trucks for furniture moving with Christ Closet
5 Pax, a 2.0 and two fur friends took a stroll through the streets of downtown Waxhaw starting at the Waxhaw Library.
4 & a Conscientious Objector for Neighborhood Watch through Inverness on Providence *&* Providence Grove!
Bottlecap asked if I could write the BB. I said sure not knowing what he was up to with his Q that morning. So this will be a summary as we did lot of stuff that day.
DICCS given. Run towards the round about near high school stadium. Stop in between to do some quick reps of whatever which did made thighs burn. He had found out that the gate to the football field was open. So we did run up and down the steps. Then run around the field alternating between mossey and sprints. Then we did lots of other stuffs (to many to remember). DONE.
Announcements:
Prayers for Rubbermaid and his family. Prayers for Bottle cap and his family who are now in Honduras on a mission trip.
Yes…I know you can’t believe I made it to a workout! I Qed Chiseled once and it was a complete disaster and I didn’t need that to happen at Cowbell, so I planned a little. See below. Also, if you don’t own a Kettle Bell, I suggest buying one, they are very versatile and I would go about 5 lbs heavier than you think you need. I’m weak so I went with a 35 and will hopefully be able to sling it around pretty well in a few months…just in time for IPC
Warmup:
Longish run behind Pet Smart then along the front of target and back to COT.
10 SSH IC – Left shoulder is still tight, my form was amazing!
10 IW IC
Calf Stretch
Runners Lunge
The Thang:
Suicide – 1:
Start with KB on the far side of the parking lot and run to the first main parking lot divider line ( You had to be there) with your KB and do 25 rows with each arm leave the KB and run back to the start. Run back to the KB and advance to the next line… Advance further across lot each time.
Exercises that followed 25 rows:
35 curls
45 American hammers w/ KB
55 squats – Rinse and repeat 2 more times…drop 5 reps each time.
Suicide – 2:
Just like Suicide 1 except… Walking lunges w/ KB instead of running. 50 flutters, 25 KB swings Rinse/Repeat x 3 and drop 5 reps after each set.
Circle of KB Pain:
A pax calls out an exercise and the other pax perform the exercise while said pax runs to or around a predetermined area.
Done!
The Moleskine:
Did you know Dasher is fast and in very good shape? Have you ever met Shriver? Well, he’s like Dasher…in great shape. Then there’s the one they call Chainsaw! I mean, he is a RR and still outworks some of the pax that are much younger than him! Small groups are where it’s at! Thanks for letting me lead and working hard!!
I took us out.
Announcements: Probably…but that time has passed