Improv at the Schiele

When participating in F3, we have to be ready for whatever is thrown at us. Needless to say I was ill prepared to receive a text as I drove to workout on Sat. Thinking my brother, Davinci, might need a ride I responded to his text. Little did I know I was on his short list to fill his now vacant Q slot due to a hurting M at the house. With a little hesitation I took the challenge…I mean how hard can it be to throw together a few exercises for a couple knuckleheads waiting for me. So, without a weinke in hand I proceeded to make it up as I went along; pulling from some of my fondest memories of the past year. Below is my best memory of what happened…

Warm-ups included a quick disclaimer of the current situation and 10 of the following: SSH, mercans, squats

Slow mosey to flag for the pledge and then over the library to start the beat down. I took a stroll down memory lane of my first post; Freight was the Q and we started at the library with burpees. Now mind you, I considered myself in good shape but was not ready for that. I was determined I would finish this round.  We started on line 1 and did 1 burpee, went to the next line and did 2 burpees…all the way to 10 lines and 10 Burpees. It was on and I could tell the boys were happy that Davinci laid out! We moseyed up to the store front where I talked more about the last year and some of the ways I’ve remembered my workouts. We started with clock pushups, 5 on the 12 position, 5 on the 3 position, 5 on the 6 position and 5 on the 9 position. To give our arms a rest we moved to wall squats followed by a personal favorite, hip slappers. I thought everyone was enjoying it so we hung around for some donkey kicks before running to the next set of stores across the side street.  We found a great place to do 2 rounds of dips and then we were off to the other side to continue. Here we enjoyed some dercans followed by a bear crawl to the other side of the lot. There we did squats and karaoked back. We did this 3 rounds. The guys were really liking the direction we were going so why not stay here but shake it up. 3 rounds of incline mercans (the name has escaped me) then we skipped to the other side for dying cockroaches.

We moseyed to Grier for phase 2 of the workout. Here we partnered up for some 4 corners. We choose someone we normally don’t partner with to try and push ourselves a little harder. Just my luck, I was paired with a super hero…looks like no slacking for the Q. We started with booyah mercans, LBC’s, squats, and WWII sit-ups. Once we all finished with that we moseyed to the side stairs to further our partner bonding time. Here we did a little bit of dora…partner 1 ran while partner 2 started doing 100 mercans, LBC’s, and squats. They switched off when partner 1 returned until the totals were reached. We had plenty of time once we finished up so we went for round 2…more of the same, only different. Same story but this time we did 40 up/downs, 100 calf raises, and 200 Moroccan night clubs. Once we all finished we moseyed back to the Scheile to finish up. We did a few wall squats while JJ explained how he was standing in solidarity with the Duke nation and not wearing anything Duke related. We finished with Olive giving a short testimony about Operation Sweettooth.

That testimony is what F3 is all about. Men rising up as leaders and working along aside one another. Although it was last minute I am great full for the opportunity to lead and look forward to doing it again. Stay strong, DFQ, and keep moving!