Month: March 2020 (Page 4 of 9)

20 pax including one FNG gathered at the Gas House amidst national panic and fear regarding Wuhan Virus to get better and set an example for what we would expect to be a normal behavior that includes getting out of our shells and getting better even during a media driven crisis that gives us an opportunity to be who we really are –  set of leaders capable of handling a time of adversity. So with that in mind as the sun began to rise YHC took the Gas House boot campers on a magical mystery tour with some buttermilk sucking effort involved. Went like this:

COP:

SSH X 25

IW X 20

Grapevine stretches

Merkins X 10

Mtn. Climbers X 20

LBCs X 20

Mosey up to the Middle School track for a six shooter round:

10 burpees X 1 lap

20 American Hammers X 1 lap

30 squats X 1 lap

40 merkins X 1 lap

50 SSH X 1 lap

60 CDDs X 1 lap

This got us about halfway and everyone was getting gassed by now. Mission proceeding as planned! Buddy Love was hanging in there. Great work brother!

Move to the picnic tables

10 X 15 X 20 repeats with 10 SSHs at the end.

Dips

Stepups

Dirkins

Down to the baseball field for some triple nickel

Bottom: % plank jacks

Run the hill

Top: 5 HR merkins

Repeat 5X

Back to the football field for a Tesla Special – Bear Crawl Slalom!

Went across the field. sideline to sideline. Everyone gt three rolls.

Turkish getups X 5

Skip back across to where we started. Mosey back to the flag and a few minutes as a group of Mary.

NMM:

We pushed the ole rock up the hill today – hard! I wanted to do that. It’s no secret YHC runs a tough boot camp. There are some reasons for that and today was a special one. YHC wanted to create a degree a degree of adversity for all of us, even me! I was pretty well sucking wind on the last part of Triple Nickel and even the slalom. But this was all about pushing through. Guys, when I came up the 1980 US Hockey team beat the USSR and it wasn’t even on live TV.  That’s how certain defeat was in the minds of the media covering it. Oh, and did I tell you, the whole 1980 Olympics was held in Lake Placid New York. A town not even as big as Gastonia.  The only guys that believed they could win were the guys on the team. Why was that in real terms? Because their coach Herb Brooks (the last guy cut from the 1960 team that beat the USSR in Squaw Valley) pushed them with a killer 60 game schedule leading to the games and tough conditioning, sometimes doing sprints and suicides AFTER some of those 60 games, And he did it because he wanted those guys to be have faced real adversity before they ran into it in the Olympics. It worked. You look at guys from that team now and they all were successful. Rob Mclanahan became the top college coach in the US as an example. and he did it by pushing guys in real time like we need to do in F3 to be better.

YHC faced some real adversity with an old friend out west last week. Intense conversation about his daughter’s death. I’m here to tell that if I had not pushed or been pushed I would have crumbled in that situation. But I did not and my buddy knows to reach out to me. Tough, tough situation for him and his family. But I am going to help them through. No doubt in my mind the ole Sky Q put all this in motion. That’s who we work for. And he would prefer you be ready when he calls you number to do something unique in the game.

We are also facing this Wuhan thing. And I have to tell you I am more than a little disappointed at our reaction to it lately. Too much herd mentality and not enough thoughtful action – and frankly prayer. Yeah, this thing can be bad, but we’ve seen things like it before. What we need to do as a group is recognize it as a time to step up and lead. Not get back in our shells and comfort zones.  Let’s lead, let’s be smart, pray, but don’t panic. Facts over fear men!

Oh, and that buttermilk thing. It’s here to stay! Know when you see it that you will be challenged in real time. Which is your opportunity to respond and get better. That is up to you. The opportunity will be there.

Hats off to our Mortimer guys! Great work all.

Tesla

Well, sometimes you just got to punt.  Being a true #HIM, Bandit double-booked his Q.  Operation Walk This Way takes precedence, I told him we would figure it out.  We did:

Tesla started us with the pledge, the walkers left, Tesla killed it with the warm-up, and we split up.  Rudolph has the con.  We walk to the circle with Frank, and work commences.

I. 11’s with crawls – bottom of the steps, 1 squat, bear crawl up, 10 merkins.  Come down however you want, 2 squats, 9 Merkins, etc.

II. Pain stations – we made 6 stations, but we did 3 sets of each, with a 10 count in-between sets.  I set the timer to 45 seconds, but key was to max-out.

Squat Thrusters with 50 lb. bar

Merkins

Pull-overs with Kettlebells

Curls with dumbells

Front shoulder raises with calf-raises

Dips

About half-time, so we I asked if they wanted to do more stations, or choose the mystery box.  They chose.  Poorly:

III. The Test – shorter time, as we made 3 groups of 2.  Less rest, so we did half the time.  Great work by all, it really did turn out to just be 7 minutes of continuous Burpees.  I got gassed and called for a 1 minute break at the conclusion.  Quickly pivoted to LBC’s for awhile, then recover.

IV. Follow the Leader:  single file line, follow me, bear crawl up and across, stop for 10 squats, crab walk across to dips, lunge walk to something….grab the gear and head off to await Tesla gang.  He worked us for a good 5 minutes, bells.

Announcements – Tesla gave an account of a friend in need, and trust me, it was a hell of a story.  Tough to go through, but as men that’s what we do, we step up with the hard stuff.

MOLESKIN – we had 3 for Bootcamp, 6 for Painlab, and 5 for Walking Crew.  This has to be a new thing in F3 Nation, 3 different varieties of AO at the same place, and it’s exciting.  Bandit doesn’t owe anyone anything, a true #HIM for he and Linus starting the new AO.  Go get it boys, always a pleasure to serve.  ***Our FNG “Totaled” says the word SIX as SEX.  Let that sink in.

Rudolph

The Ricky Bobby – March 11, 2020

We had 6 HIM post this morning at Goat Island.

We took a lap around the elementary track and then circled up for the warm up.

Warm Up:
SSH X 25 (IC)
Windmill x 10 (IC)
MNC x 10 (IC)
Low Slow Squat x 10 (IC)
Plank Jacks x 10 (IC)

The THANG
I had plans to bring Sandy (play sand), but left her at home so we only had Cindy (cinderblock) to use.  As one PAX carried “Cindy” 50 yards and 50 yards back… the other PAX performed a called exercise. We did three rounds of this.  There was a lot of mumble chatter about the Corvid-19 and our Pax “Virus.”  In addition, we had some good jokes on Sargento who was returning from a brief absence.

Secondly, we did the following exercises.

¼ mile run
50 SSH and 50 LBC

¼ mile run
45 SSH and 45 Squats

¼ mile run
40 SSH and 40 merkins

¼ miles run
35 SSH and 35 LBC

Prayers:
Orangeman’s mother who recently had surgery.

Aye,
Radar

Two hims escaped from prison break before the rooster crowed to run over to Roadie’s place, and he was nowhere to be found. After several minutes of farting, belching, and scratching, Roadie received a wake up call stating “Get your fat lazy ass out of bed you sorry sack of chit.” Not hard to figure out who called is it?
Whereupon Roadie got his crap together and manned up.
Off we go to run the lovely greater metropolitan area of Ranlo and Auten Rd neighborhood.
It seemed we ran uphill the entire way.
Roadie knew every dog in every yard.
We hid from the po-po, a thousand bloodhounds, couple of questionable streetwalkers, bad drivers, trash cars, and eventually safely reached Bedpan’s humble abode.

At the end, up 4.7 miles was the total on Oompa’s Fitbit.

Bedpan took us out.

Good morning Gents.  A cool but not cold and dry morning at the Goat.

Arrive at 5:20 am to find the guys starting to gather in the center of Cramerton in an effort to start the day off the right way.  During the pre-workout mumble chatter it started to become obvious that we did not have a Q.  I was honored to Q but it was really more of a group effort.  It went something like this…but I’m quite sure with errors in my recollection of this morning’s gloom.

5:30 — Pledge

Warm up

20 x SSH double count IC

20 x Squats

15 x SSH double count IC

Mosey to stairs behind the building

20 x merkins

30 x LBC’s (Q fail – YHC stopped at 20)

5 x calf raises per step.  Looked like maybe 25 steps.

Top YHC made up missing 10 LBC’s

Ring of FIre

there were lots of SSH, burpees, LBC’s, American hammers, squats, merkins and maybe other stuff

Mosey to gazebo 

Note:  The town of Cramerton I hear is complaining of us doing pull-ups at the gazebo.

YHC did not call pull ups.

10 x merkins

10 x LBC’s

10 x Squats

Repeat x 5

Mosey to Police Department’s parking lot

11’s — CDD’s that side and mountain climbers over here

Mosey back to start

30 x SSH

5 burpees for the train

Time

Prayer concerns

Prayer

It was a great honor and a great way to begin the day with such awesome men.

Peace and cheers;

Aye!

Timeframe

Had a solid 14 at the prison break this morning. It was a great morning to be out! We all got better!

announcements

Lms 5k this Friday see sparky for the link or events page!

convergence on the 21st of March!

community foundation 5k see pizza man for that SIGN UP!

Prayer request

Blasts M

Dry rubs M

Ez Rider

Watts Up

Broke took us out

Thank you men!

Round Up

At one point this morning I told all of one of my favorite statements, “I thought I made a mistake once but it turns out I was wrong!”
Pledge
Gump sits down to watch our form during warm up and not offer advice as we perform toy soldiers, MN C , and merkins all IC x11 ( except merkins we’re really 12 mosey to Sara’s road to nowhere and Gump decides to come join in as we Diamond merkin x10 …. oh well the balance against the other leaves us at 11 ….
mosey to pool for 11 OYO squats ….. keep to mosey expectations are high at Gastone’s hill and yet I continued moving until the wailing and sobbing from Gastone has to be quelled so I submit to 11 OYO monkey humpers back to the hill ( Gastone was elated!)
Continue all the way to covered area at Robinson for 11’s ( is there a theme in this somewhere?)
Single dip at this side t’other flying squirrels and back to reverse Gump was even sighted as in the six , or maybe it was his misuse of math by decreasing and increasing only by 2’s
Mosey to back of school for modified 11 …. start with 10 merkins top of stairs and decrease by one until finish but at bottom of stairs do only 1 burpee …. got to 4 or 5 merkins before halting due to time constraints , but it should be noted that even after my careful instructions there was still one person who HAD to screw up and only perform 1 merkin before realizing his bad form ( oddly, this persons name has the same letters just assembled differently as Calvin!)
Arrive back at start 1 minute late to find Stinky Bird fresh off his nap in back of his truck ( claimed he ran 14 miles….. pshaw !!
I now perform 10 ( or maybe it was 70 ) penalty burpees all while waiting on JK2 whom I knew would ask for them anyway for running late
Interestingly with all these runners preparing for p200 and other events ( Madoff was a blur of motion at one point) we still put in almost 3 miles, or by JK 2’s figit spinner ( it cant be a Fitbit) he claimed we traveled   nearly 4 miles !
Read passage from Revelations 5 …. powerful

Check events calendar for upcoming ( too many

Prayers for Dry Rubs M
Mathew Smith ( patient of Voodoo who is 23 but after much effort by many doctors Is being placed in hospice care
Owner of Schneider Tree to receive / accept blessing from God to help in this time of change and crisis
Prayers for the 2 soldiers whose names were released yesterday protecting this world
I believe there Was one more ……

NEXT UP …… WATTS UP POWER CHARGED 50 th birthday bonanza complete with parade, cake dancing women …. or maybe it might be a little more low key ….. either way …. look for your invite ….. it’s bound to be lost in the mail stream …. or check your spam folder!