Fitness, Fellowship, Faith

Day: April 10, 2021

1% Better Thanks To The “Bert”

15 PAX posted at Folsom and honored Albert Gettings by doing the “Bert” Hero WOD.  For those that have never done it, Google it and give it a go.  It is a mental grinder but just keep in mind that this man sacrificed his life for our freedom.

Moleskin:

YHC talked about being 1% better than you were yesterday.  If we strive to do this then we are constantly trying to accelerate.

Announcements:

-Lincoln Middle-April 16
-Convergence-April 17 WA Bess
-Tronmoss 5k-April 18 @ Crossroads
-PT-April 24 @ Gashouse
-Snowbird-Sept 24-26
Prayers:
-Big Pappy and family
-Gumby mom
-GSM and everyone involved in York SC shooting
-Three MMA fighters tonight
-Community and country

Thanks for the opportunity to lead…until next time Pizza Man is OUUUUUUTTTTT!!!

Old School Named

8 Pax circle up to get started at the newest AO in the region. Blart rolls in late to make it 9.
Warm Up: SSH x 15, Cotton Pickers x 12, Imperial Walkers/Hillbillies x 15 or something like that.
Mosey towards the upper road at Carr Elementary and circle up for 15 Merkins IC called by Broke, 15 LBC’s IC called by Freight, 15 Squats IC called by Squat Master Slaw, 15 CDD’s IC called by Mayor.
Mosey around the back of the ball fields to the other side of the school near the road and repeat the 4 exercises x 15 IC.
Mosey back up the road and turn right to go to the front of the Methodist church and repeat the 4 exercises x 15 IC.
Mosey up the street to the entrance of the Dallas Courthouse for a different routine.
11’s starting with 10 Plank Jacks moseying to the courthouse and up the “not up to code” steps up and down to the other entrance for 1 Hillbilly. Then back across the steps to the other entrance for 9 and 2 and so on until back to 1 and 10. This was very difficult and a crowd favorite.
Mosey back the long way past the Country Kitchen as we noticed a few bearded, truck driving Pax after the Folsom beat down and back to the Parking lot. Time for one last round of the 4 exercises x 15 IC.
Pledge.
I talked about Proverbs 17:22 A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones. As we get older, we can easily lose our cheerfulness and fun (if we ever had it). Try to keep a fun spirit and posting at F3 workouts is a great way to do that. The F3 Pax are always good to help keep us cheerful and talk a little smack.

Now, time to name the new AO. Yellow Jackets, Water Tower, Phat Ricky and Old School were the contenders. I was partial to Phat Ricky but OLD SCHOOL was selected. It is nice to have another Saturday option in F3 Gastonia and I believe it will do well so give it a try if you can.

Announcements:
LMS 5K next Friday, April 16th at 6:00 p.m.
Convergence next Saturday April 17th at 7:00 a.m. at The Bulldog (W.A. Bess Elementary).
PT Test on April 24th.

Prayer Requests: Robert Shook, James Lewis family, Sister Act, others I may have missed. Blart took us out.

Penguins, Burpees, and much more

It was slightly muggy and the pollen and ragweed were in full bloom.  On the night before the workout YHC and Tube the Painlab site Q collaborated and decided that we would split duties since the weinke YHC had decided on did not involve an inordinate amount of running.  We thought that it would be a good opportunity to combine the PAX for a nice change and maybe encourage some of the Painlab regulars to give boot camp a try.

After a very nicely Q’d warmup:

20 Hillbillys

20 Imperial walkers

20 squats

10 merkins

5 burpees

YHC took the rains and over to the rear steps of the library for some of the thang.

Partner up.

Pax 1 stays and does AMRAP while Pax 2 travels any way he so chooses to the top of both stair cases for 10 merkins.  We had some interesting choices.  There was bunny hopping, the one legged sprinkler, bear crawl, and mostly the old fashioned mosey.  This x 3 per called exercise.

Merkins at top.  Squats bottom.

Cdd’s at top.  LBC’s bottom.

Up to the dentist’s office for a twist on The Walls of Jericho.  This was 7 reps of 7 exercises on 3 walls 7 times around the building.

Exercises were:

Squats

Monkey Humpers

Merkins

Mountain climbers

Plank jacks

LBC’s

Flutter kicks

Rudolph and Whoppee decided they would throw in 7 burpees on wall #2.  Finding inspiration in Whoppee and Rudolph’s example  Linus and YHC around round 4 decided to throw in 1 burpee per wall.

There was some interesting conversation about overweight penguins that quickly became very inappropriate.  We all had a good time with that.  You just had to be there.  Its also possible that we had a buzz going from the sea of pollen we were pretty much swimming in.  And the mumblechatter was as thick as the pollen.

We all finished with very little time to spare.

Mosey back to start and time.

No live penguins were harmed in this workout…just very offended.

Everyone pushed hard, got stronger, had some laughs, broke a sweat, talked some junk, and had a wonderful morning.

Announcements:

4/17 Convergence at The Bulldog. Bring a block or kettlebell.

4/18 Tron Moss 5K Crossroads

4/21 PT Test Gashouse

Prayer requests:

GSM Family.  Donation link on the Mumblechatter page.

Mason, T-Square’s 2.0.

AYE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Perfect playlist

Bulldog had the perfect playlist provided by Less Nesman to accompany some old bricks.

Curls, squat press, Moroccan nights, nut crackers, seal claps, hernia, American hammers, followed by rifle carry ruck with you friends, hand bricks.

Great upper body

Join us at great AO Bulldog!!

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