8 modern day warriors strode into Cerberus. Their minds were not for rent. It was a fine assemblage of pax, so be careful what you say about this company, as it would also say something of society.
They knew changes aren’t permanent, that’s why they continue to post. No FNG’s in this group – though Smuggler & Bypass are relatively new to the south Charlotte gloom. Keep posting, men.
All the pax caught the witness, caught Alf’s wit, caught the F3 spirit, and might’ve caught YHC’s spit (aka the snot rockets I was hurling as we ran the parking deck ramps).
Really not clear on what Neil Peart, Geddy Lee et al were trying to convey. I do know my next FNG name will be Tom Sawyer…because: why not?
Reason for the references to my favorite Canadian rock band is that Udder’s brother was blasting some Rush as he screamed at the pay-for-play crowd in the parking deck this morning.
So below is a bit of Thang but mostly Moleskinny:
Swimmers was late, not Floorslapper late but after 0530. We waited, nonetheless. #cobains
Good to learn Bypass is also from the Heartland, Alf went for the dig right after YHC asked “which part of Indiana are you from?” Well played, Alf.
So we ran some ramps, did a Triple Nickel and a Jacob’s Ladder. Taught most of them the Walther N’Djaiye.
No idea how much ground we covered. Didn’t start my watch. Not much ground covered. Fair amount of Mary mixed in with ramp running, some donkey kicks (hadn’t called those in a long time).
Some other observations from this morning’s mean, mean striding:
One Star and TL can call out some cadence. T-claps…though One Star struggled with the math a bit…you sure you got schooled in the Ivy League? I have heard they’re next-to-impossible to get into but easy once you’re in 😉
Smuggler was an FNG roughly 2 weeks ago. EH’d by One Star who apparently failed to post for Smuggler’s FNG downpainment. Good work out there Smuggler. Keep at it, brother!
Ironsides is a huge Rush fan and said he has a concert t-shirt signed by the entire band….he was also going on about Tom Sawyer having attended Appalachian State for a couple years.
Ok. That’s it. That’s the backblast. I like backblasts, and also since Waxhaw requires backblasts, preferably 2 for every workout, I figured I better post one.
Wait a minute. This 3-headed dog known affectionately as Cerberus – is that SOB, A51 & Waxhaw or is Union County the third head? Who cares. Good work men. Now go serve and love others and die to that selfishness that rises up in all of us. Aye!
ClyentDinner – Skip Skip to my lou
2Q for Cylent Dinner
Out of a little green dot on the radar a 35 second rainstorm came in. 13 PAX and 2.0 skip into the workout. Thank you to Bottle Cap and Wriggley for the extra coaching. I am still confused if we did 30 shoulder taps or 60, or 120 either way we put in 45 minutes of great work, and that what matters. Outside of the warmup and cool down instead of running, we skip Skip to my lou!
Warmup
The Thang
Skip to the rock pile:
Rock Pile
Over under skip to the empty field
Light Pole Races:
Rudy’s Shed
30 Tap Shoulders in plank position
ABS at the Bus Station
Café’s Tables
Squares – Honestly, I am not sure how many we did of each of the below.
Announcements
Nice, cool morning for a workout. Fifty-something degrees and remained that way until the end. 25 PX joined YHC for what turned out to be a dark web with a twist… And 5 MASHers were there hoisting their blocks over and over to develop that physique we all wish we had.
Warmorama:
Mosey around student lot and circle up near lot entrance for 20 x ssh, 20 x IW, Plank, Up/Down Dog, Calf Stretch L/R with runner stretch L/R mixed in. Back to Downward Dog. “Namaste”
Thang:
Mosey to opposite corner near football stadium and begin Dark Web (with a twist). All exercises done in 1:2 ratio
start with 1 BBSU:2 AH, Merkin:Air Press, Jump Squat:Bonnie Blair, Burpee:SSH and afternoon each circuit run to opposite side of parking lot. Repeat each circuit all the way up to 10:20. Shewww that was a killer and a time eater. (The twist was that there isn’t supposed to be any running between circuits but I decided it would be kind of boring to stay in the same spot for 20 minutes. (Thank High Hat for the suggestion…)
Line up separates by parking spaces and do Merkincide ladder across parking lot Starting at 1 and ending with 5 on the center island. Repeato and replace Merkins with Squats. Time!
head to COT to hook up with MASH for Countorama.
All in all a solid workout for everyone. Gazelles were stabled and the Clydesdales got a little bit of running. PAX stayed together and we hit all the major muscle groups and got a little sweaty in the process.
I appreciate the opportunity to lead as always and hope to do it again soon. Chain of Pain earned by Bounce House for keeping up with the big boys out there today. Way to push little man!
Announcements:
Convergence at Arsenal tomorrow to try to outnumber other regions and capture the Ghost Flag
Blood Drive this Saturday
F3 Chiseled- Oct 14 th at 530am
069- Flanders- Fusebox – Sugar-daddy
X-Lax – Ricky-bobby- FNG – Big Al
Golden Plates – Cargo – Schneider
DICCS – Always have to give the DICCS (Disclaimer, CPR Check, Cell Phone Check and Safety Reminder) Done.
Warm Up-
Run – top of the parking lot
10 Merkins
Stretch the Legs
Stretch left and night middle
Arm rolls
Plank – stretch your back crosses
Stretch shoulders
Calve stretch
The Thang
So this morning was the ABCs of F3 –
I brought a white board with the alphabet written out with one of your favorite F3 moves assigned to each letter .
You had to spell out your F3 name .With each Letter you would do a move and then run to the 2 island in the parking lot . When you got through your F3 name… then you spelled out CHISELED. This kept everyone moving til about 6:05 am. Then the last 10 minutes we stayed together and did the following:
20 Steps with Coupon Overhead
20 Curls
20 Steps with Coupon Overhead
10 Burpees
20 Steps with Coupon Overhead
20 Rows- weighted
20 Steps with Coupon Overhead
20 squats – weighted
20 Steps with Coupon Overhead
Turned and head back to the Flag
20 Steps with Coupon Overhead
20 Windshield Wipers
20 Steps with Coupon Overhead
20 Military Press
20 Steps with Coupon Overhead
20 Derkins
20 Steps with Coupon Overhead
20 Triceps
20 Steps with Coupon Overhead
20 Curls to end at COT
Nice work to all men!!
Encouraging Word –
“Be on guard; stand firm in your faith [in God, respecting His precepts and keeping your doctrine sound]. Act like [mature] men and be courageous; be strong. Let everything you do be done in love [motivated and inspired by God’s love for us].”
1 CORINTHIANS 16:13-14 AMP
Warmup
Mosey around bus lot to front parking lot. SSH, IW, Merkins, Moroccan Night Clubs & Mountain Climbers all x 18. Stretching – up/down dogs, calves.
Thang
Mosey to rock pile for PAX to select rock of their choice. 3 sets of 25 each of curls, overhead press and tri’s. Run/jog a lap around lot after each set of 25. 75×3 = 225 reps total with 9 laps in between.
Mosey to parking lot for 4 corners and burpee middle. PAX broke into groups for the following.
Corner 1 – Merkins x 20, Bobby Hurley’s x 20
Corner 2 – Big Boys x 20, Lo-slo-squats x 20
Corner 3 – Dry Docks x 20, Speed Skaters x 20
Corner 4 – LBC’s x 20, Plank jacks x 20
Middle (after each corner) – Burpee’s x 2
Repeat above with corner reps x 15 each; burpee x 1 each.
While waiting for six, One Star led various ab exercises.
Mosey back to bus lot and wall. 50 x air presses, 50 x air jabs & 15 x donkey kicks. Jail break (modify as needed) to COT.
Moleskin
Plenty of sweat added to the already foggy aura. Good to get back on the Q-train. Yes, Posse…..I will sign up for a future Homecoming gig.
Welcomed FNG Todd Pfalzgraf – Cool Runnings. Appropriately named after one of his 50 bucket list items of learning a new sport. That sport being “Skeleton Racing” where you ride belly-down, head first, 85 mph on a sled down Olympic style bobsled courses. Welcome “Cool” and extra prayers sent your way with each “run”.
Announcements / Closing
Waxhaw F3 2nd blood drive on 10/17/20 at Waxhaw American Legion. TB has details. SOB hosting their blood drive 10/23/20.
Convergence at “The Arsenal” at Indian Land Elementary School led by Dark Helmet this Thursday at 5:30 am.
SOB F2 Social at Middle James Brewery Thursday 5:30 pm.
I thought I would start with a pictorial representation of today’s Falcon Crest:
However, the*most important* images to take from today’s Falcon Crest are thoughts and prayers for our fallen: Bounce.
Quick DiCCS and were off
Mosey to flag pole circle up
15 SSH
Calf stretch
15 MC
15 Merkins
Jimmy Dugan
Partner up Gazelle with Clydesdale
Run around full flag pole island in opposite directions and do 7s. You will meet twice per lap so alternate exercise each time, 6 full laps
6 T merkins
1 burpee
down to 1 T merkin and 6 burpees
Mosey to first corner for 4 corners
20 of each
LBC
Flutters
Heels to heaven
Big boy
end at COT
Great work today boys! Little bit of running (gazelles got about 4 miles) and those heels to heaven sucked. The thought behind this one was for Gazelles to get their miles and Clydesdales to push past their norm which we accomplished. Nice to see Zin back from his beercation, I think he is a Clydesdale now? Shake gave me the “don’t let me catch you” right at the end and after that I was real close to spilling some merlot. Sugar Daddy needs to get out to some Ignition workouts! And only had a couple workouts with Bayo but that guys fast! Thank you for sharing a bit about yourself Penalty Box, who knew he was an NHL all-star? Chain of pain to Sledge, was between him and Popeye, I know what it’s like being a Clydesdale at a Gazelle workout yet I see you guys pushing hard every time – Great Job! Thank you all for letting me lead you guys today.
This THURSDAY 10/15 – Convergence at Indian Land, let’s steal this flag!
This SATURDAY 10/17 – Blood drive….enough already, sign up or you’re a terrible person
17 guys today at Asylum. Great turn out! For a site that I feared was dyeing a couple months ago after back to back numbers of less than 4, there has been a steady stream of new guys out to Asylum.
At my last Q at Flash, I brought out leg day after several pax complained after IPC that it was painfully clear we don’t do enough legs. Since Asylum missed out on that fun (and since I literally heard those exact words uttered again after Popeye’s Q on Saturday), I decided it was time for round 2 (part deux for you Charlie Sheen Hot Shot fans out there).
WARM UP (I love occasionally skipping the warm up to keep the pax on their toes)
THE THANG
Mosey to the CVS for Paul Abdul Bruce Springsteen’s – 1 step up and 2 steps back (Yes, its a deep track. Like most deep Springsteen tracks its a depressing song that will leave you wishing you hadn’t ventured that far out of the mainstream. Here you go if you’ve never heard it…. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkFQHScyti0 ). Ok, back to the workout. Springsteen’s for a bear crawl forward one parking space for 10 merkins and a crawl bear backwards two spaces for 10 In/Outs. Repeat 5 times for 50 Merkins and 50 In/Outs. This was a crowd favorite.
Short mosey to Payless Shoes wall. Partner up. P1: Dry Docks. P2: short mosey to curb for 5 Russian Get Ups then come back to relieve your partner. Do this 3 times total.
Mosey to Target parking lot for Star Fish. Progressive Burpees in the middle starting with 1 and finishing with 5. The four corners were:
Mosey towards Hickory Tavern grabbing a new partner along the way. P1: LBC’s. P2: mosey to stairs and crawl bear up the stairs then run back to your partner. Because these suck so bad, I told pax in advance we would only do it once. Even knowing that, there was still some grumbling and attempted hijacking discussions.
Same Partners: P1: Run to short brick wall and back. P2: one legged side step ups. I ran first to return to see the entire group doing regular step ups and chastised Chastain the most for doing it wrong. He tried to claim he didn’t hear the directions – not a valid excuse. 4 rounds total (2 per leg).
About 2 minutes left and I’m out of Winkie…lets do a Jack Webb. Russian Get ups are the 1 and squats are the 4. Made it to 5 Russian Get ups and ran out of time. Note to self: this was hurting really good at 5…perhaps we go the whole 10/40 at the next Q.
Jail Break to COT where we find for the first time ever MASH has beaten us there (THANK YOU FOR BEING ON TIME TO COT MASH!!!).
MOLESKIN
Lots of chatter today, well except Chatter Box – but that’s to be expected with a name like Chatter Box.
Posse telling me he gets “Giddy” when I’m on Q. I think we all know its not because he likes my workouts, but because he enjoys poking (and then twisting that knife). If you haven’t had the pleasure of sitting back and watching him at his finest, you really should come join a Q of mine and watching him work.
Chastain with a rare Damascus moment. Tighten up!
Flanders and I have gotten into a superstitious rhythm of him asking me how many points I’m willing to give for the Wolfpack Thursdays at Floater. I respond with some insane number (I believe it was 20 points against Pitt) only for the Wolfpack to win outright. We have decided to keep the tradition alive until the Wolfpack lose (spoiler, I’m out of town this Thursday so put all your money on Duke).
Good to see Sledge pounding away back at the workouts.
Ex Lax making a conscious effort to get out of his comfort zone to some running boot camps here lately. Always pushing hard.
Chatter has gone from me hanging back to encourage him to me now seeing the back of him. I can’t remember the last workout I turned around to join him. Now I’m having to push to stay with him.
Loafer let out a few “Oh Yeah’s” today so I know I at least had him working hard.
JWoww with a fly by testing out the legs. He’s hoping to to get a good Dr’s report tomorrow and be able to Q Saturday.
Great discussion at Q Source post workout about Courage. I will leave the chapter for you to read if you would like, but as usual, the discussion at Q Source far exceeds what the book is teaching. https://f3nation.com/courage-q3-12/ Monday’s Q Source will be getting into the 4th quadrant next week: Leave Right. This was the chapter that I started coming to last year and gave me enough gut punches and thought provoking questions to keep me coming back for over a year now. Its never too late to jump in.
Hanson was our FNG today. Named after the boy band Hanson because Posse’s suggestion of Jonas Brothers was too easy (his first name is Jonas). Hanson moved down here from Minnesota so he was able to see how bad F3 Waxhaw Geography is with suggested names of Cheese Head and Cheese Curd being thrown out. Weezer was a close second. Great job by Schnitzel bringing him out.
Always good to see Radar. Even if he has to slide out early. Still waiting on Yella to drop me off some Cheerwine (I’m kidding).
Both Bypass and Hanson wore grey shirts so I can’t remember who I was giving hell to about their loud running at the end. Either way, they will never sneak up on anyone.
Shop blew past me on the final mosey to Hickory Tavern. Posse was close by to make sure I noticed (bastard).
We learned as part of the 6th man movement that Mayhem doesn’t have a belly button (How in the hell did that not come out while naming him?), that in Fayettnam (as Mayhem called it and where he’s originally from) belly rings are like tattoos – everyone has them, and that despite his better judgement – he’s a Tar Heel fan.
Thanks to those who went yesterday to help Legalize load up and stat heading out west. Hopefully the Oregon Trail is kind…careful on those river crossings. It’s been a pleasure getting to know you Legalized. Best of luck to you and the family in Colorado.
Need to get some Asylum Cotter’s back out. Big Tuna/Chipolte, Flow, and Psycho just to name a few. Beat the Fart Sack and come join us boys!
ANNOUNCEMENTS