Fitness, Fellowship, Faith

Day: August 13, 2017

Forrest Gump Returns for Pain

The sun rise is getting later these days so it’s looking more and more like the real gloom at Gashouse on Saturday’s.

Several showed for a great 3rd F message from JJ.

Several more showed up and wondered who had the Q as it was not posted earlier in the week.

The mumble chatter varied from mild laughter to disgust when it was revealed that YHC would be leading the workout this morning.  Not sure what that meant.

However, off we went with a quick warm up in cadence:

SSH X 10

Merkins X 10

Imperial Walkers X 10

Pain Lab and regular workout then split up.

Mosey to the flag for the pledge.

The Thang

What now?  Left…right….where to go……let’s head toward Lineberger Park as Forrest Gump had not visited the Gashouse in quite a while.

Group mosey to the Baptist church just up the road for some in cadence work:

Prayer Squats X 20

Merkins X 11

Flutter Kicks X 30

Mountain Climbers X 30

Mosey to second stop at Hillbilly’s BBQ for more in cadence work:

Hillbilly’s X 20

Merkins X 12

Flutter Kicks X 30

Mountain Climbers X 30

Mosey to the Flag Circle at Lineberger Park for some play time with Dora.  Partner up for some set exercises and running up toward the pool and back.  Partner 1 works the exercise until Partner 2 returns from the short run with cumulative reps as follows:

Merkins X 100

Squats X 200

Flutter Kicks X 300

Mosey again to the upper picnic area inside the train track for more in cadence work:

First exercise was cleaning up the picnic area from the excessive mess left by the “Wilson” family.  Nice work and nice call out by Madoff.

Dips X 20

Squats X 20

Derkins X 15

Step Ups X 20

Mosey back to the Flag Circle for some Ring of Fire:  5 Merkins while the PAX planked until all had completed the Merkins.

Almost done.

Mosey back to the Church – Plank for the Six:

Final Forrest Gump tradition as always:  Monkey Humpers X 15  (Dang……legs hurting)

Mosey back to the Schiele to join the pain lab for some Mary:  Freddy Mercury’s plus some LBC’s (thanks goodness for the bells of First Pres)

Nice workout men.

Announcements.  Prayer requests.  Name-o-rama.

I will take this opportunity as I did after the workout to express something F3 has helped me with over the last year and especially in the last few days.  I have experienced the support from F3 through my Father-in-law’s death just over a year ago and again this past week as we took our oldest 2.0 to college about 3 hours away.  For me personally, it was more difficult than I anticipated.  I know I would not have had the same support through these times prior to F3.  I heard from many of you this past week and I thank you.  Even saw Gumby last night in Cramerton during dinner with my family.  We traded some Q stories from yesterday….it was great.

Thanks to all of you for being the HIM’s that you are.  You have made a difference for me.  Thanks for the opportunity to lead this morning.

Until the next one.  Aye!

Stroganoff

One is the Loneliest Number

One showed in the gloom a The Pub.

I ran.

I saw a girl with a dog.

I saw two women walking.

I saw one dude running.

Upon returning to The Pub, a group of women runners had just arrived back there also.  I think they thought I was stalking them.

The end.

Aye.

Stroganoff

WOW!

Wow was all I could say as I pulled up and seen several PAX congregating and more on their way in the parking lot as I was getting out of my vehicle. Great to see the turnout, not just for the numbers but for what F3 stands for, and everyone was there to get better and to show their support for their brothers at Folsom. 05:30 hits and it’s on! No FNG’s but a short disclaimer and we’re off.

 

Warmarama:

SSH x 20 IC,  LBC x 20 IC, Don Quixote x 10 IC

 

Thang:

Mosey to flag at entrance for the pledge, short mosey to nearby parking lot for 10 Merkins,  Bearcrawl to middle of lot for 20 LBC’s, Duck Walk the other half of lot for 30 squat’s.  Mosey back to top of parking lot for repeato.  Another short mosey to a nice hill for some hill work.  Whoopee had some words of encouragement and  what F3 stands for (Thanks Whoopee).  Here we do some 11’s with Big Boy’s at the top and Freddie Mercury’s at bottom with a nur back to the top.  A few of  us YHC included disturbed some ants at the top and they were not amused at us ringing their doorbell  so early in the morning,  I know I ended up with at least a dozen ant bites and Roadie and Huckleberry with quite a few too #antbitesitch. From here we mosey on to yet another one of the many parking lots for some Burpee Long Jumps across the lot with a Bearcrawl back to start. On to another mosey around the pond and back up to the amphitheater for some Flutter Kicks x 20 IC, American Hammers x 20 IC, Dips x 20 IC, Incline Merkins x 20 IC, and finally Derkins x 20 IC.  Mosey to lower shelter for 20 Step Ups IC.  Mosey back to start with Pizza Man taking enough lead to stop and do Burpee’s at the speed bump near the top of the hill.  Circle up  and pick up the 6 and Pizza Man calls Flutter Kicks, YHC  with LBC’s, Sister Act with Merkins and Huckleberry with Burpees.  YHC doesn’t remember the exact count on these as I was trying to catch my breath, but I think they were all done 10 IC with the Burpees being 10 OYO.  With that time was up.

 

Announcement’s:  JJ5K in September, Burpeethon not sure when, Mayor is taking point on that, Speed for Need (McAdenville 5K the Saturday after Thanksgiving),  #Give2Give for F3 expansion.

 

Prayer Request: Friend of Sparky and his M, Roadie’s M’s grandmother, Pizza Man’s niece, and each other.

 

Lots of hard work by everyone that posted today.  Way to push the rock! Shout out to Tadpole for hanging in there and pushing through.  Thank’s for pushing me to be better and  for the chance to lead a great group of men today. It was an honor.

 

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