Day: January 21, 2022

With the recent winter weather, all of Folsom was under snow or ice.  10 men overcome the temptation to fart sack and posted at Folsom.

Warmup:

SSH, Gravel Pickers, Hillbillies

With all the ice, we didn’t go far from the COT for the entire workout.  First routine we stayed in place for a lil Pandemic!  3 exercises called, Burpees, Mountain Climbers, Sit-Ups.  Start with 1 Burpee, 2 MC, 3 Sit-ups.  Then 2 Burpees, 4 MC, 6 Sit-ups.  Continue this until you finish with 10 Burpees, 20 MC, 30 Sit-ups.  That got the blood flowing!

Short mosey to snow covered soccer field beside tennis courts. 4 Corner Escalator called.  1st corner 10 Hand Release Merkins.  Mosey to 2nd corner 10 HR Merkins, 20 Jump Lunges. Mosey to 3rd corner 10 HR Merkins, 20 Jump Lunges, 30 Plank Jacks.  Mosey to last corner 10 HR Merkins, 20 Jump Lunges, 30 Plank Jacks, 40 Flutter Kicks.  Stay in place, now time to head back down.  40 Flutter Kicks, 30 Plank Jacks, 20 Jump Lunges, 10 HR Merkins.  Mosey to next corner for 30 Plank Jacks,20 Jump Lunges, 10 HR Merkins.  Mosey to next corner for 20 Jump Lunges, 10 HR Merkins.  Mosey to last corner for 10 HR Merkins. That was a lot of Jump Lunges in the snow.  Especially for those that wore snow boots.  My legs still feel that one.

Short walk back to COT.  Last routine called is one from the F3 Grand Strand area. Named after an F3 brother who lost his life in the line of duty.  Called “The Hightower”.  It’s one of my favorites and it’s brutal.  Definitely look it up. Goes like this:

5 exercises, 9 reps each

1). 9 Burpees

2). 9 Body Builders – Burpee with Plank Jack

3). 9 Triple Merkin Burpees – Burpee with 3 Hand Release Merkins

4). 9 Triple Jump Squat Burpee – Burpee with 3 Jump Squats

5). 9 Putting Them All Together – Triple Merkin Triple Jump Squat Bodybuilders – Burpee with 3 HR Merkins, Plank Jack, 3 Jump Squats

That routine is awful.  By the 5th exercise, you are completely smoked and have to give it all you got to finish!  Time

Announcements

Nameorama

Prayer Request

Appreciate the opportunity to lead today.  Wasn’t sure how it would go with the freezing temps, ice and limited running.  Lots of fun this morning, and I appreciate the push!,

SA

Four Pax gathered in spite of a little rain and cold.  It is a metaphor for life, you have to be willing to do what it takes regardless of the conditions.

Time hits, start to mosey, Haze coming in hot, stop for some SSH to give him to join.  Mosey to the pavilion.  In consideration of elevation gain at smokey mountain relay, and having half way participated in Chad 1000, Q calls for 500 step ups on the benches of the picnic tables.  Let’s go.

Finished with enough time left for rounds of 10 15 and 20 dips and derkins.  Mosey back to start.

Pledge

Announcements:  Q school re-scheduled from Saturday, retreat has spots remaining, Rice n Beans Tuesday evenings

Prayer requests: EZ Rider and family, Huck and family, Gumby, family of friend of Roscoe, Tesla and family, Big Pappy mom, Tiger M and step sons

YHC took us out

Always an honor

Tiger

It was a day unlike any other. The Gastonia area actually got the predicted snow, kids and parents alike had tons of fun and all was right with the world. With all the icy weather Flintstone made the decision to move the regularly scheduled Monday workout from am to pm. On top of that, the scheduled Q couldn’t make the new time so reinforcements were called in. This is what happened…

YHC got to the AO early to scout things out. There was still lots of ice around and it was wet too. Now some HIM might throw caution to the wind and go splashing through some half frozen puddles like a school kid. Not this guy, we took the mature route and headed to the nice dry abandoned bank drive through. It was perfect.

Because YHC felt like mixing things up, a delegated workout from the PAX was in order. When YHC asked for any suggestions, Broke spoke up and offered

The Covid WOD

• 25 burpees
• 1 round of
  • 19 Crisscrosses IC or something like that. Actually, they looked a lot like Jingle Balls
  • 19 Imperial Squat Walkers IC (Sargento style)
  • 19 Oblique crunches each side IC
  • 19 V-Ups OYO – This is where Def Leppard did a sneak attack and sucker punched Defib in the gut! Watch you back men!
  • 19 Diamond Merkins OYO
  • Lunge walk from one end of the drive thru and back
• Repeato x3

After this Flintstone offered up some partner work where one person exercised whilst the other held plank and you switched back and forth whenever you wanted. The idea was to do this for 2 minutes. We did Merkins (stupid) and other stuff. It sucked and he won’t be called on to lead this again.

At this point time pretty much ran out so we carefully moseyed back to the start, said the pledge and wrapped it up.

Remember our theme for the year, Always Be EHing!!!

Prayer requests: Gumby’s back, Huck’s dad, Mayor’s M, Big Pappy’s mom,

Announcements: Q School has been rescheduled for February 5th, Flat Rock retreat only has 15 spots remaining

Thanks for the impomptu opportunity to lead men. Aye!