Month: June 2019 (Page 3 of 9)

Recycling is suppose to be good, so why not recycle your VQ bootcamp. That’s just what YHC did, with a few minor changes, of course.

Warm-up: Side Straddle Hops i/c, 3 burpees, Imperial Walkers i/c, 6 burpees, Moroccan  Night Clubs i/c, 9 burpees, mosey to the bank parking lot.

11s: Hip Slappers, count one side only, and WWIs.

Mosey to Veteran’s Park. Pledge and 22 merkins for the Vets.

2 Steps Forward, 1 Step Back… start at the bottom of the hill, run to the first cross street, perform an exercise/10 reps, run to the next cross street, perform an exercise/20 reps, run back to the first cross street, perform the first exercise/reps again, run to the second cross street, perform second exercise/reps, run to the third cross street, and back and forth you go. For those who have not had the opportunity to enjoy Mt. Hollywood, it is hilly, and this is a 1/2 mile climb.

Cross street 1: 10 crunchy frogs

Cross street 2: 20 CDDs

Cross street 3: 30 american hammers, count right side only

Cross street 4: 40 squats

Mosey back to the start for Mary, called by PAX

Announcements: 6/29 Gashouse convergence, check with Defib about a Ragnar team at Anne Springs, searching for a few more HIMs for a second Tuna 200 team, tubing trip upcoming (check slack)

Prayer requests, PAX traveling, Tiger’s weekly prayer list.

Name-o-rama, then Doodles took us out.

It was an honor to lead -Orangeman

After I took over as Dads Q, I went to work setting up our first dads workout in 2019.  I needed some Dads to step up and lead and Island, Time Frame and Dolph answered the call.

First I need to thank Linus for letting us start this out and hijack his AO.  I sincerely appreciate it.

Island started the workout with the disclaimer and warmup.

WU:  SSH x20IC, Merkins x 10IC, LBC x20IC and Moroccan Night Clubs x20IC.

Then he led us up to the track at Grier Middle for a cat herding lesson and an Indian Run around the track in two groups. after that, we did a relay race running across the field, doing five Merkins and running back to tag out the next in line.   Now that the heart rate is up and kids are having a good time, Timeframe got us into a game of sharks and minnows.  The fun part of this was there was a hole in the field filled with water.  I saw a few kids staring at it and miraculously, no one ended up in it.  After that, Dolph got us all into a game of ultimate frisbee with the team that got scored on having to do five burpees.

Times up and a mosey back to the top of the track for nameorama and COT and then hustle back to the start for drinks and snacks.

All in all we had 13 dads and 19 2.0s for a total of 32. We all had a great time and an opportunity to spend time with our 2.0s.  I look forward to seeing everyone July 20 at Folsom and August 24 at The Yank.  Tater Hole and Clavin have a piece at Folsom and Doodles is taking some action at the Yank.  Still need one for Folsom on 7/20 and two for 8/24.  Hit me up.

Thanks Men

6 PAX logged some miles at Crossroads this cool June morning. Good work men!

Convergence next Saturday at Gashouse, all other AO’s closed

Prayers for the Cabe family, family of young man that fell from climbing wall, PAX traveling

Praise for Def Leppard job situation

YHC took us out.

I’m Broke

My first Q at Midoriyama in quite a while. I was part of the PAX the previous Thursday when Sister Act crushed us, setting a high bar for F3 Nation’s Premier Afternoon Workout. My Weinke was strong, at least in my opinion. As I made the frantic dash from downtown Charlotte toward Gastonia, the skies darkened and wind hastened, looking like the tornado scene in the Wizard of Oz. The app on my phone indicated it would be the typical brief summer storm and it was. By the time I arrived at the AO, the asphalt was evaporating, adding more steam to the steamy afternoon. I set out a few coupons and arrived back at the circle where Slaw appeared in his ranger panties once again. Apparently he is the only one participating in Thong Thursday at Midoriyama, thankfully the remaining PAX were in standard attire. Swimmer jumped on his bike and nine gathered for this:

Warm-up:

• Moroccan Night Clubs IC x 17
• Toy Soldiers IC x 10
• Ring of Fire – PAX perform SSH’s while individual PAX drop for 2 burpees (Lil’ Sweet was on a work call, so we did it twice)

Mosey to the back parking lot an concession stand/turd shack

Line up on the wall for 10 Hipslappers (count 1 side), bear crawl to about half the first parking lot, 10 Peter Parkers (count 1 side), run over the median to the opposite sidewalk and do 10 Merkins, run back. Do it two more times.

For those familiar with the parking lot, there are medians between the east/west lots. Use the blocks/sandbags for this circuit: 25 swings, 20 push-press, 10 forward/back frog jumps – run around the median and to the other side (effectively an upside down “U”). On the other side complete 12 ground clap merkins (these are not as worse as SA’s Kracken Merkins, but they drew some mumble chatter. Essentially you go all the way to the ground and while flat, clap in front of your head, then finish the burpee). Next, 15 big boys sit ups and 20 American Hammers; run around the median to start. I’d intended for that set to be done three times but we only got two in. We moved to the other side using the sand-filled pvc pipes to hold overhead, stopping 4 times during the run around the median for 10 Rifle Squats. The challenge here is running with you’re arms up, stressing your lung capacity – try that one on your next Q – it’s effective. We did that twice.

I offered the PAX a chance for one more circuit or to get back to base for Mary. The PAX chose option C – carry all the coupons back on a fellowship mosey. That worked too.

Announcements: Convergence next Saturday at GasHouse. YHC has the Mary portion – something we can all look forward to. Prayer requests for the Cabe family that lost their daughter in an car accident earlier that day; Roscoe’s Father-in-law battling health issues.

Moleskin – The heat adds a thick layer of challenge to any Midoriyama workout and this day was no different. The routines are challenging, but the PAX all pushed through with plenty of chatter, especially with Slaw’s short shorts Thanks to Def Leppard for bringing the cold water to quench our thirst. Until the next one, it was a pleasure to lead.

Abstract Art: a play on our names but mostly because this workout didn’t have a set theme. We were all over the place.

Disclaimer

Warm-up: SSH x10

Grasspickers x10

Imperial Walkers x10

Mosied in the Dolph lap around downtown with 30 burpees along the way.  Stopped at the bottom of the hill on 8th Ave.

Here we did merkin and big boy suicides. 5 merkins at the light pole we run to, 5 big boys at the bottom of the hill. Rinse and repeat 8x.

Got to the wall at First Baptist and attempted to do 15 wall jumps. Probably wasn’t the best idea.

Then we mosied on down 10th St. to the ball fields with 20 more burpees along the way.

Once we got to the ball fields, we got in 2 rounds of burpees around the field and shared Isaiah 26:3-4 which says:

“You will keep in perfect peace all who trust in you, all whose thoughts are fixed on you! Trust in the Lord always, for the Lord GOD is the eternal Rock.”

Now up the steps to the road to get in some push up walks.

Lastly we mosied on back to base and finished up with some MARY and some more burpees.

On behalf of Scribbles and I we appreciate this opportunity and the camaraderie we’ve experienced in this group. Thank you men

Humid this Morning at the Sammich no worries, we were all glad to be in the gloom.
530 came I explained that since we are at the Diablo Sammich anytime you hear a CB “thank goodness I did not have to explain all pax were of age” come across the radio we would stop and do work.
For all non CB people CB stands for {Citizens Band} radio frequencies typically used by Truckers and Lot Lizards. Today we enjoyed the sounds of our Favorite Smokey and the Bandit along with the one an only Cledus.

Stop 1.
10 merkins, 10 Sack Swings, 10 Squats.
Stop 2. 10 Hill Billies, 10 Hand Release Merkins, 10 Squat Thrust.
Stop 3. 10 Imperial Walkers 10 Merkins, 10 Triceps, 10 Curls.
Shout out to Hush Puppy for calling some extra Squats while one lady could get a good distance between us. We really didn’t want her to be scared but also I did not want her to hop in the party an ruin the movie about haulin Beer like Sally Field Did! The Bandit did not need a girlfriend, do you not remember all the women on the side of the road cheering for him.
We covered 2miles with some lunges somewhere in the mix.

Pledge, COT, Keep Ditka in your prayers this guy is going through some tuff stuff.
This is the BedPan signing off better drop it down to the double Nickel ole Smokey is on your tale! Find me on Channel 18.

Shortly after another crazy beat down from Island I created this monster and filed it away for another not so rainy day. I also had a couple of ideas for parts of s workout inspired by some of pax who coincidentally post Midoriyama lately … sadly they were not present….
Last week while posting I noticed several openings at sites I’ve never Q’d before and decided this bird needs to fledge and leave the nest. First was the Storm where I’ll be July 2, then I grabbed one from Dr Seuss at the Goat later in the month followed by my noticing a small want ad in the Slack section of the paper and decided what the hey…..later the same day I finally committed to my coworker who ( if you posted at the Murph recently) is Iced Tea and site q of Crows nest in Lake Wylie where I’ll be in August ( site unseen… never been …. if you wonder they meet Monday’s 5:15 Crowders Ridge Elementary.
Onto the beat down …. I began as always with pledge and proceeded to inform all that the warm up was inspired by Defib and what I lovingly call the cardio cadence count… it’s a double time count which we did for 20 and rapidly followed with 20 cadence count merkins… and we did this twice ! I gassed out at 18 merkins on the second round …..
It was remarked later that if you want to shut down mumble chatter … this is the way to do it!
Moved to bleachers and two rounds of 10 count each leg step ups and 20 dips and return to flag for a choice …. inspired by Freight….. but it was mentioned that there WAS an actual choice A and B .
Lil Sweet tried to vote both ways and then attempted to leave , all the pax pulled him out of the van kicking and screaming because his choice wasn’t chosen , but when we made him understand ( with his arms pinned behind his back ) that he won either way …. he saw the light and decided to rejoin the party ….
The pax chose A ( which I secretly hoped and Slaw was excited to learn of Burpees … so excited I could not explain the exercise for 2-3 minutes! ( choice B was escalators on soccer field of squats merkins plank Jax and lbcs)
However they chose the what I call Murder Suicide …. ran parking lot with no cars or traffic ( length of soccer field …. perhaps not wise choice) 1 burpees each end then 2 – 3 -4 and 5 each end at this point switched to half parking lot for diminishing numbers back to 1 …. pax inspired me to run whole lot on final one!
Next up to Dog Hill…. original idea was to run up hill for 11s but modified to choose your direction of to the trash can and back or to soccer goal doing squats at one end and monkey humpers facing dogs to see if any dogs might be interested ….. no takers today sorry to say.
Return to start for Mary …Freddy Merc ,America hammers and some crazy crap from Oompa that was a painful lbc keeping legs elevated for some damn reason !

Announcements for 2.0 workout Schiele Saturday and tubing later that day

Next Saturday convergence Schiele again all others AOs closed

Sign up for Tuna … Ragnar

Prayers for Blart, Whetstone , All pax and Oompa wanted to pray for guidance , understanding and hope for misguided individual he sees most mornings with bumper stickers of rainbow and what appears to be two men going at each other!

I thoroughly appreciated this opportunity and am glad to have seized it …. I’ve become so relaxed going to my usual workout sites and Qing those …. but the other month when I visited all sites I realized time to move out a little ….. there’s s lot to be said about the heat at Midoriyama …. it’s REAL ! Had arm sleeves with tattoos I had to rip off about 10 minutes in , which someone advised I do quickly !
Extra special thank you to Def Leppard for the ice cold water !!!!!!