Fitness, Fellowship, Faith

Day: October 6, 2016

Better Late Than Never (maybe)

The morning started out beautifully, as Sargento and I met for a short mosey prior to the workout, which is our usual custom. After finishing at about 645, we took a few minutes to prepare for my a solo Q. As we recovered, 8 idiots decided to joint us for what I hoped would be a fun Saturday morning beat down at the Yank

As most of you know, I have a general predilection towards workouts that involve running. Not today, however, as, unfortunately for me and the group, ToolTime (who will be referred to from this point forward as Mr. Time) and I had gone on a mosey the week before and had a long discussion about suffering well. In order to suffer well, I reviewed all 17 pages of exercises on the F3 website in order to find the workouts that would cause me the most suffering (basically, I tried to choose exercises that Dolph would like

Disclaimer

Warm-up (IC)  (not really suffering, but I needed something a little less difficult to start)

SSH x 15

LBC x 15

Don Quixote x 10 (suffering for Mr. Time, who was Fartsacking, apparently)

Squat x 10

 

Short jog up to the Track

 

The THANG- In my attempt to suffer as much as possible, “The DAB” was chosen from the work-up, The work-out was supposed to be 10 burpees in 1 minute x 5, then mosey around the track. Repeat for a total of 20 minutes of burpees  and approximately 1 mile of running.

3 minutes in, FNG Nightcap appeared as if he needed to Merlot and was laying flat on his back. I suspect FNG Norwood was wondering what he had gotten into. Yours truly was already starting to get nauseated. Mumble chatter was at a minimum (Paging Mr. Time!!!).

Seeing that this was not going to work well, I decided to OMAHA and intersperse the Burpees with Squats. Not sure if it was actually better, but it made me feel better.  We ended up doing 130 burpees in a period of about 30 minutes (good work, men!)

After a short Mosey back down the hill to the fountain, we spread out and engaged in several exercises for 1 minute (OYO) with 30 seconds of rest in-between. The exercises were as follows: Slow squats, Merkins, Flutter Kicks, Crunchy Frog (my back cracked in places that I didn’t even know could crack), and Monkey Humpers.  Thankfully, we did not get thru the entire list of exercises that I had prepared (guess I’ll have to bring them back later)

Short mosey back to the flag

Pledge

Announcement-CASUP

Namorama- welcome to Nightcap and Norwood!

COT- prayer for officer in Belmont

Boudin and Sargento then joined me for breakfast afterwards at Cherubs.

It was a pleasure to exercise with all you men and suffer with you this Saturday morning

 

pick things up and put them down

9 men posted to midoriyama for sparky’s first q at this AO. we all knew that a block party was upon us. stretch it out until 1730, let’s roll.

temperature: 80 degrees, cloudy and a slight breeze.

warmups: don quixotes, ssh and hillbillies.

mosey to the end of the parking lot.

partner up. p1 deadlifts, p2 runs. switch and repeat up to 200 in aggregate.

p1 overhead press with block, p2 runs. switch and repeat up to 200 in aggregate.

p1 curls with blocks, p2 runs.  switch and repeat up to 200 in aggregate.

p1 lbc, p2 runs. switch and repeat up to 200 in aggregate.

p1 block merkins, p2 runs.  switch and repeat up to 100 in aggregate.

cool down mosey. time is up.

COT announcements: CSAUP and gashouse nomads this saturday.  prayer requests: floppy’s wife, hampton family, each other. BOM: q took us out.

 

nice work, men.

workout is free, what comes after is not

9 men woke up and took that DRP for another edition of the sparky beat down.  at precisely 0530, it was time to roll.

temperature: 62 degrees and nice

warmups: don quixotes, ssh and toy soldiers all x 15IC

quick mosey around the tennis courts.  partner up.  p1 does 20 dead lifts while p2 does 20 pull-ups. switch.  rinse and repeat.

mosey down to and around the lower parking lot and back. all with block: shoulder press, squats, curls and american hammers all x 15

another lap.  rinse and repeat the above three times. lap after each set, bear crawling the last 30 feet or so.

time left for 10 blockees OYO. pledge. time.

COT announcement: CSAUP. prayer requests: gumby’s brother in law, noah hampton (who has since unfortunately passed away)

BOM: sparky took us out.

  • side note about the title. while the workouts are always free, sometimes things happen during that result in spending money.  during the block curls, floyd unfortunately busted his tooth.  this resulted in a 272 dollar dentist bill. hope you’re doing well, floyd.

good work, men.

Monday Morning at Martha’s House

Moleskin: It’s Monday, it’s early, the Q wishes he could have fartsacked, but glad he didn’t.

The pledge was made and the Disclaimer was given, and the warmup began:

Warmup:

Appalachian Americans (Hillbilly’s) 15 IC

Plank for the Low, Slow Merkin, x 10 IC

Peter Parker’s IC X 10

SSH X 20 IC

Short mosey to the rock farm in front of KFC to gather some coupons.

Slightly longer mosey to Martha’s parking lot for tha thang.

Tha Thang:

Lunge walk from Island to Island, squat at each parking space line (modified zombie walk) with the coupon.  Leave the coupon and bear crawl back, merkin at each parking space.  Rinse and repeat.

Pick up the coupon and mosey to the other end of the parking lot.  The lot is unusally dark this morning.  YHC intended to do some swing set crunches and pull-ups but with no ambient light it may have been a bit dangerous.  We found a spot under a lamp post, set down the coupons and did 6 minutes of Mary and each PAX called a workout.  Good creativity, not the same old exercises.

Next was curb work with Rocky Balboas holding the coupon, then diamond merkins, then repeat.

Under the shelter, on the picnic tables for weighted dips (rock on the lap) and step ups, repeat 3X IC.

Mosey to the field house between the baseball fields for hip slappers and shoulder taps.  YHC asked for help with the cadence since he can’t count when his 6 is above his head.  Thanks for the help gentlemen. Mosey to the road, down the sidewalk and to the park entrance for some monkey humpers X 10 IC.  Mosey back to the rock farm to return the coupons, and then back to Snoballs.  No incidents with cars and everyone returned safe.  With 4 minutes remaining YHC called the peoples chair while each pax ran 1 lap around the building.  8 men, 4 minutes we finished just on time.

 

Announcements: The Climb CSAUP, Travel group had a great time capturing the ghost flag which is currently at Folsom.   Saturday the 8th the Travel group will converge with other regions for the Monroe Launch.

Prayer requests: Bandit’s mother and T-square’s youngest need our prayers.

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