8 PAX posted at Commitment and 8 PAX are gonna hear the timer in their dreams for a while. That’s right, the ever popular EMOM (every minute on the minute) timer from the IPC made an appearance this morning.
60 seconds to go, so DiCCS provided and then a brief explanation of the timer. Every Minute, On the Minute we’ll be doing 2 Burpees. Stop what you’re doing and do your Burpees, then pick back up where you left off. “How long are we doing that for?” they asked. Well guys, Commitment is an hour long workout. You do the math.
Warmup
Mosey up the road towards the school and stop to do SSHs, Imperial Walkers, Moroccan Night Clubs, Calf Stretches, and Burpees of course, along the way.
The Thang
Starting in the parking lot next to the school we did another throwback to the IPC:
Mosey on over across the playground and find some wall for some Donkey Kicks. A Chastain favorite, we start with 10 Donkey Kicks, leaving your feet on the wall after the 10th and do a 10 second countdown. Repeato with 9 DKs and a 9 second count until we get down to 1 DK and 1 second count. Oh yeah, don’t forget about the Burpees
A handful of regular and pistol LBCs then a mosey back to the first parking lot and find a spot on the curb for some suicides. First curb and back then 10 Mike Tysons. Second curb and back then 10 Bonnie Blairs. Last curb and back then 10 Flutters (2=1).
Back past the playground for another round of the IPC stuff from above. Now it’s race time! Take a lap around the lot BUT vary your speed:
Follow this up with 10 T Merkins, 10 Squats, and 10 American Hammers all in cadence
Run another lap then follow it up with 10 Spider Merkins, 10 Bomb Jacks, and 10 American Knock Outs
Run one more lap then mosey to the other parking lot and back on the curb for another Chastain favorite: the Bear Lunge Broad Jump. 8 Bear Crawls, 4 Lunge Walks, and 2 Broad Jumps (feet together) to the first curb and back. Then repeato for good measure
Mosey back to the entrance road for some Paula Abduls with 5 Dry Docks up and 5 Squats back at the trees on the left.
Almost there! Circle up in the COT lot for one more round of the IPC work. 4 minutes left?? Partner up and do Dips on the picnic tables and partner two runs around the building.
Back to COT and finish our last 2 Burpees.
Moleskin
Whew! No one but YHC knew they’d be doing 120 Burpees today. Poor Deep Dish died a little inside as soon as I mentioned the timer (he was the only sucker PAX that did that with me 2 months ago when I Q’d Dromedary). J-Woww kept threatening to pull his Site Q card and overrule my weinke, but I know he secretly enjoyed the Burpees. Great job Doughboy coming back from the COVID and jumping right back into the workouts. Kinda feel a little bad for Ghosted as well. The guy started F3 week 1 of the IPC and kept coming back. He was probably glad it was finally over only for me to bring it right back out this morning.
Doughboy was the 6th man this morning. Bottlecap brought him out a couple years back and he went to the July 4th challenge and started with 100 pull-ups. He still came back the next day and has been a regular ever since. He also got his name from from the Kentucky Throwboy. Pretty cool. Thanks Doughboy!
Nobody felt like doing announcements this morning, so YHC took us out
Having recently attended Site Q School, YHC knows that the goal of the Site Q is to not Q his own site. But when one is Site Q at such a fun, dynamic and opportunity-filled site like The Body Shop, that guideline is a negative. With that, YHC was excited to open the garage this week.
WARM-UP
3 burpees OYO before heading out.
Short mosey to a nearby lightpole.
THE THANG
Paula Abdul time!
Rock work with a lifting rock
Head to the lower playground for swerkins!
MOLESKINE
As mentioned above, YHC was excited for the opportunity to Q today, but there’s also a bit of trepidation and wondering how the group will react to the workout. Some of the weinke was made up on the fly, like any good mechanic’s solutions to an unexplained tick or knock.
The PAX were strong today and gave big effort, and it was exciting to see some faces from distant Waxhaw lands in Rudy and Chastain. Smuggler earned the Chain of Pain today when he took the “brisk run” to a new level and chased down Chastain in the repeato by going to full-on sprint. Sledge just doesn’t quit out there, and One Star’s mouth doesn’t quit either, making for entertaining mumblechatter throughout. YHC’s tennis arms were ‘a painin during the rock work, but a glance over at Deep Dish’s persistence and was the motivation to not wimp out on his weinke. YHC loves the difficulty of the swerkins and hinted at those on GroupMe the day before — they continue to bring the pain and he commends those not afraid of such a terrible exercise.
In usual garage and YHC fashion, this job finished a little later than expected, but was delivered with a smile and a money-back guarantee.
In the coffeeteria afterwards, One Star and Smuggler expressed some positive comments about the workout and that was highly appreciated. As mentioned, there’s often a little nervousness heading into the Q, but this was a clear reminder to YHC that some positive reinforcement and kind words go a long way and he’s committing to do that more often.
One Star brought major rock work to the Body Shop, and Posse added to the pain with some creative exercises with rocks. There may have been tears shed.
For the second time this week, Chipotle brought some major ab pain to Waxhaw. Following his ab-tastic work at Bushwood on Tuesday, Chippy laid some more gut pain on the PAX. And a welcome to FNG Runway.
Beautiful morning for some Monkey Humpers. They weren’t originally on the weinke but when Posse came sliding in on 2 wheels while the rest of the PAX were warming up it seemed the right thing to do. Actually, it was a preceded by the instruction for all PAX to “aim” at Posse while performing the called exercise. Damascus showed up 15 minutes late but we’re so used to that he didn’t get anything special.
Warmup:
SSHs, Imperial Walkers, Calf stretches, weird yoga poses, and the above-described Monkey Humpers
The Thang:
Today was another round of Uncle. For those unfamiliar with the rules, one person is the leader and does the called exercise with a coupon. The remaining PAX use bricks for the called exercise instead. This time I let the PAX choose their own exercise (except J-Woww) as long as it allowed for the use of the coupon/bricks. Once ready, the leader begins the called exercise and does as many reps as possible until exhaustion and then says “Uncle!” Rotate around the circle with a new leader and new exercise.
Exercises included: Curls, Squat Thrusters, Clean and Press, Weighted Squats, Shoulder Presses, Chest Presses, Tricep Extensions, and probably some more I’m forgetting.
There were ALSO a few, uh…less conventional exercises chosen by certain PAX that appeared to be designed to circumvent the rules of Uncle. For example: Captain Morgans (one foot on the coupon/brick and squat with the other leg) are much tougher for the PAX with the bricks. It’s supposed to be tougher for the leader with the coupon. Another example: some sort of one-hand-in-front-of-the-other-merkin-up-and-over-your-brick/coupon thing that J-Woww threw at us. That one got shut down pretty quick.
Two rounds of Uncle was enough, so we moved on to a Merkin/Calf Raise Webb on our coupons. Finally, we wrapped up with a smattering of Tysons, Merkins, American Hammers, American Knock Outs, and a 15 second Have a Nice Day
Moleskin:
COT – 6th Man – Posse tried to start the count off first, but J-Woww was to my left and I gave him the “pick a number, non-inclusive, between 0 and 2”. That got the “One!” out of him and thusly Posse got stuck with number Six. Glad he told us his story, though, because his 5+ years in F3 has allowed him to grow in his leadership abilities as well as helping others to grow in theirs.
Lots of mumblechatter this morning, per the usual Diesel/MASH way. When you aren’t running you’re stuck talking to each other. It’s a ton of fun! Give it a try!
YHC needed a nap afterwards, so a nap is what I got. Highly recommended. Back on Q tomorrow at Commitment!
Announcements:
Events – Stepping up for Staci – Thanksgiving virtual run/fund raiser – see Chicken Little/GroupMe for details
Hot Wheels – Tentative Date 11/7. Making improvements for ramp/sidewalk for Brittany who is wheelchair bound. Stay Tuned.
17 Pax at Hydra. Burps. Merks. Russians. Squats. LBCs. Backward Runs. Peter Parkers (thx Deep Dish).
Closed with AC/DC’s Thunderstruck + 33 burpees and a few scowling faces.
A few guys were scared-off by the pre-workout announcement on Slack the night before.
Promised Icky Shuffle there would be no burpees next time I’m on Q.
Think I missed tagging two guys on this one. (iPhone recording of sign-off = FUBAR.)
Thank you @Sprokets for asking me to Q. My first boot camp on Q.
“Let’s turn on the juice and see what shakes loose.” – Beetlejuice
Whip, Christmas, Manziel, Baron, BLC, Chubbs, Spyglass, HH
8 Pax, filled with wanderlust and desire and one filled with last night’s burrito bowl.
Thang:
Warmup in the darkest spot on campus, over near the graveyard.
The preblast noted a South Carolina man who was stabbed with a ceramic squirrel by his significant other, after a beerless return from a requested errand. How do we avoid this situation? Do exactly what you are told. Thus, the theme of this workout was me doing exactly what the pax told to me to. Don’t tell anyone that they ended up doing what I had planned all along while thinking it was their idea, that’s the beauty of how these things go down.
Pax choice: starfish on the wet (but oh so soft) lacrosse field, or in front of the church on the dry, unforgiving pavement. We went pavement for a few rounds.
During R3 of this, Chubbs went pale and bolted to the portajohn. So, we did what any good group would do and moseyed on over for some encouragement. He was shining some sort of light inside, which counteracts my general portajohn philosophy of dark blissful ignorance, but to each man his own.
Mosey to tennis hut and partner up for a couple rounds of one guy runs while one guy exercises.
Back to launch with one round of 10/20/30 plus a run to the spirit rock to kill off a few mins.
Mary
Skin:
I’ve been laying a bit low on the backblasts lately, largely due to the fact that many of the things going on in the world today have me at risk of spouting off my mouth (or keyboard) and digging myself into trouble. However, a few things have me feeling a little better these days, so I figured I’d get this one out there. Here are some things I’ve tried recently that you may want to consider:
A few observations from the workout:
Announcements:
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Quote for the weekend:
“There’s a big difference between the words, ‘naked’ and ‘nekkid.’ ‘Naked’ means you don’t have any clothes on. ‘Nekkid’ means you don’t have any clothes on … and you’re up to something.” – Lewis Grizzard
your friend,
Horsehead
Friday AM was shaping up- perfect weather, clear skies and a good turn out with 15 Pax. Looking to shake up the boot camp style workouts I had a plan to go old school Semi-Pro and head to the basketball court at Cutty. I wanted to see what type of basketball shape theF3 Flint Tropics were in.
Warm-up
Mosey around front of Middle Schools – SSH, Dugans and into a quick yoga flow – runners stretch/merkins/plank jacks and a long 6 inch hold.
The Thang
Start at path of parking lot: Hit each lite on the way to Rudy’s Poop Palace. Alternate between 10 Bobby Hurleys and 10 Big Boi’s at each lite.
Mosey to middle school cafe tables. OYO perform 10 stepups/10Derkins runt to corner repeato with 15 count. Next up 10 Knee Slap and 10 1 leg pistol squat/ repeato 15 reps each.
Main Event – Head to Court for practice – I mean conditioning.
Sideline to Sideline or 15’s to start: 1 minute to go back and forth across the court -each line touch counts as one.
We did a bunch of 15’s – if you didn’t complete 15 – penalty burpee for each one short.
We did a bunch of 13’s – with pentalty x2 with your partner
Court slide with 10 squats at each basket – basically a low side lunch around the court
We did some more 13’s
Court slides again.
Mosey back to the parking lot.
Not a lot of mumble chatter today as heart rates were up, sweat piles were left> but no Merlot was spilled (next time).
Lots of effort on the court today: pain of chain to Sledg-o-matic and Ex Lax. Sledge jogged from Lawson to Cutty pre workout!!! Ex-Lax keeps showing up to the cardio workouts to push himself!!!! He’s working on form compliance – but with a little encouragement he’ll be on the form police squad soon.
Ralphie and/or Cargo -both young guns were pretty fast out there. Ricky Bobby has a quick first gear as he was racing Schneider all day. Sugar Daddy and Dana top effort as usual. Zin and Deadwood getting there wind back seemed to enjoy themselves. Honeycomb is sneaky quick. Hanson and Fruit Loops way to get after it. ShopDog pulled a Bill Russell to answer the bell even with a bad ankle sprain.
0-69 lapped us and good to see him pushing.
COT – Sugar Daddy 6th Man – EH’d by Rockwell and really buying into F3 on all levels. Glad you’re with us.
Prayers up for those facing challenges – medical, mental or those needing some thoughts. Take a few seconds out of your day to think about Premature’s wife Kelli.
Events – Stepping up for Staci – Thanksgiving virtual run/fund raiser – see Chicken
Hot Wheels – Tentative Date 11/7. Making improvements for ramp/sidewalk for Brittany who is wheelchair bound. Stay Tuned.
A lot of effort and stress goes into prepping for your first Q; especially when you’ve only discovered F3 two months ago and you have to follow friggin DARK HELMET from the previous week! Shout out to the PAX coming out to support me – including Waxhaw representin’
Props to Atlas and Cobbler for pre-run.
WARMUP
Mosey around ILES then back to starting point for SSH, IW, M. Night Clubs, squats, and chest stretch.
THANG
2 sets of: bear crawls, 20 tricep dips, and 30 sun gods. Then another run through ILES and back to starting point. 10 burpees on cadence – which was all jacked up cause some of us can’t count cadence on burpees but (most) everyone was smart enough to know what to do.
Then we followed a circuit in parking lot with each of the four corners having their own exercise: 10 Merkins, 20 Carolina dry docks, 30 mountain climbers, and 40 squats. For 15 minutes. And I honestly lost count of how many complete circuits we did…..
Finished with round robin of core exercises.
Apparently Brexit thought the new guy would take it easy on everyone and showed up in a tutu and ballet shoes. It was an interesting look. But as an old boss used to say: it ain’t wrong it’s just different.
I think Atlas injured his neck cause he had to keep looking behind him on the circuit – he was so far ahead. What a stud. Hey, Atlas, I hear bourbon is a good muscle relaxant.
As for Posse, Cobbler, and myself we were committed to physically demonstrating all three F’s. Fitness cause we were, you know, out there working out. Fellowship cause we hung together and kept an eye on the six (ourselves). And faith cause we were praying to get through it all. Kudos to us.
Seriously, thank you F3 for the opportunity and thank you, Happy Meal, for asking me to step up. We missed you and Hope you all are well soonest.
Closed us out in prayer – good morning