Month: January 2022 (Page 6 of 13)

I show up first, for the first time ever. There is no him in sight. Oh, wait, here comes Spiderman and Nutria. We circle up and begin to ask who has the Q? ….crickets, ….crickets and more crickets.

Well, let share the responsibility then.

We took turns calling out Mary for the next 45 minutes working 50 and off 10. We improvised nicely and gave ourselves a good strong workout.

Word is, that Spiderman is taking the Bulldog in February. He will have no excuses of being late, lol. He can walk to the AO.

Thanks Hims, we made it happen, good work!

It is a cold morning with a hint of snow in the air. Will it stick, or will it be the traditionally dusting with accumulation of ice and sleet like we are accustom too. We shall see.!

We split from Gashouse and circle up in the parking lot. It pretty cold, so lets did a few warm-ups first.

Set 1: 50/10 while we jam out to our favorite 80’s rock. 

side straddle hop, squats, grass pickers, Imperial walkers and best for last Burpees. R&R

Set 2: 50/10

crunches, flutters, American hammers, bug boys, heels to Heaven, mountain climbers. R&R

Set 3: grab your ruck sacks and follow me down the nature trail

Along the way we stop to do step ups, lunges, incline pushups, big arm circles and rifle carry.

We returned just n time to do Mary for a few  minutes.

Good work men!

Let it snow!!

8 HIMs showed up to put in some miles. We all met back at 6:15 and I shared the Word with them.

The Tree and Its Fruit

¹⁵ “Beware of false prophets who come disguised as harmless sheep but are really vicious wolves. ¹⁶ You can identify them by their fruit, that is, by the way they act. Can you pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? ¹⁷ A good tree produces good fruit, and a bad tree produces bad fruit. ¹⁸ A good tree can’t produce bad fruit, and a bad tree can’t produce good fruit. ¹⁹ So every tree that does not produce good fruit is chopped down and thrown into the fire. ²⁰ Yes, just as you can identify a tree by its fruit, so you can identify people by their actions.

True Disciples

²¹ “Not everyone who calls out to me, ‘Lord! Lord!’ will enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Only those who actually do the will of my Father in heaven will enter. ²² On judgment day many will say to me, ‘Lord! Lord! We prophesied in your name and cast out demons in your name and performed many miracles in your name.’ ²³ But I will reply, ‘I never knew you. Get away from me, you who break God’s laws.’

Building on a Solid Foundation

²⁴ “Anyone who listens to my teaching and follows it is wise, like a person who builds a house on solid rock. ²⁵ Though the rain comes in torrents and the floodwaters rise and the winds beat against that house, it won’t collapse because it is built on bedrock. ²⁶ But anyone who hears my teaching and doesn’t obey it is foolish, like a person who builds a house on sand. ²⁷ When the rains and floods come and the winds beat against that house, it will collapse with a mighty crash.”

²⁸ When Jesus had finished saying these things, the crowds were amazed at his teaching, ²⁹ for he taught with real authority—quite unlike their teachers of religious law.

I shared with them the inspiration they have been in my life and how we are called to lift each other up in Christ.

There were a lucky 13 HIM who showed for this improvised version of Tequila Sunrise. A couple of the guys went their separate ways after the warmup but we still gave them credit. For everyone else, this is what happened…

Warmup of high energy Don Quixote’s just for Whoopee

Mosey over to the blacktop, making sure to jump the chain.

YHC brough the trusty JBL Flip 4 for some awesome tunes to accompany the Thang. When Breaker Breaker asked for a substitute for his Q, YHC knew what needed to be done.

The Deck of Death

We did the straight up version where we do what the card says. This was a good idea except, in true Tequila Sunrise fashion, the lighting was a little less than adequate, but we figured it out eventually. There was a lot of mumblechatter and the guys got their sweat on. We even did 22 burpees at one time, that was a lot! Time ran out and we circled up. Thanks for the opportunity to lead men!

Announcements: Flat Rock Retreat February 18-20 (only 16 spots left), Q School next Saturday the 22nd at Gashouse

Prayer requests: Round Up’s M expecting triplets, Mayor’s M, Tesla, Breaker Breaker’s back, Gumby’s back

It was a bone chilling morning at The Goat. YHC arrived early at the back lot to lay down some things to do, and headed to the start where eight other HIMS were braving the cold.

At 5:30 sharp, we said the pledge, did a warm-up (SSH, hillbillies, etc.), and moseyed to the island. Across the bridge we went, just no regular moseying (bear crawl, lunge walk mostly). Once across, we continued with our non-moseying ways with skipping, karaoking, and nurring, eventually making it the back lot where the thang was awaiting.

THE THANG – Touchdown Beatdown

YHC had placed 5 different exercises approximately 10 yards apart before the workout. BOS introduced Gashouse to the Touchdown Beatdown at the Goat last year, so YHC borrowed it for this morning. The TD BD goes like this: Bear crawl from the goal line to the 10 yard line, do 10 reps of the first exercise, run to the 20, do 20 reps of the second exercise, run to 30 for 30 reps, to the 40 for 40, the 50 or 50, then back down to the other 10 yard line and bear crawl to the goal line. In the regular TD BD, you run back to the start, rinse and repeat. However, YHC changed it up to just a reverse.

Called exercises were Apolo Ohno’s x10 (count 1 leg), Merkins x20, Big Boys x30, sumo jump squats x40, and Six Shooters x50 (25 shots at each foot). The Pax pushed hard, teams stayed together, and two full rounds were completed. A few Omaha’s were called as we started round three. YHC needed his stones back that were holding the exercises down, so cold, gloved hands struggled, but succeeded at getting everything cleaned up. Time was very short, so the Pax moseyed back to the flag, with YHC loaded down with the rocks, just enough time (actually over by a minute) for 5 burpees for the train.

Announcements: Nantan’s F3 retreat, Q school

Prayer requests: Breaker Breaker, Tesla, Pillager’s dad, Schools, families, and health.

Tesla took us out.

It was an honor to lead-Orangeman

We moseyed down to the Bunker from start. Dirt lead the warmup then lead the boot camp away from the Bunker. Time to get started, but YHC fumble the start with technical difficulty getting the speaker connected.  With the Metallica Pandora station playing we got started.

3 rounds

10 Lunges

10 Air Squats

10 Monkey Humpers

5 Burpees

Now that we are warmed up we moved on to Route 66

Merkins and lunge walk to each parking spots.  Fellowship mosey back to the start to repeat Route 66 with Squats and bear crawls to each parking spot.

Fellowship mosey back to the wall.
1 min wall sit

20 Hip Slappers

10 Dirty Hookups

1 min wall sit

Moved to TABATA 20 sec of work 10 sec rest for 4 minutes of following excercises

Merkins

Monkey Humpers

CDD

Squats.

Fellowship mosey back to the wall.
1 min wall sit

20 Hip Slappers

10 Dirty Hookups

1 min wall sit

Next we circled up for:

12 Burpees

24 Squats

12 Merkins

24 4 count Flutter Kicks

12 CDD

24 Reverse Lunges

At this time I gave the PAX an option to repeat previous set or move on to the next segment of workout.  Majority decided to move on , so we moved into a You Tube an workout called:  10 min Six Pack workout/ Pamela Reif. About halfway through I noticed the PAX seemed bored. Omaha move back to previous set of exercises.

12 Burpees

24 Squats

12 Merkins

24 4 count Flutter Kicks

12 CDD

24 Reverse Lunges

With time running short fellowship mosey to the Yank.

Pledge

Announcements:  F3 Gastonia Retreat- see Sargento or last. Q School January 22 after Gashouse. Pockets will Q team for the Rooster if there is interest. Rice and Beans On Tuesday.

COT Dirt took us out in prayer.

Welcome FNG Sissy.

YHC saw Slack post from Pilgrims Progress post about Members Only ruck option starting at 6:20 am Saturday night. Woke up Sunday morning to snow and decided to give it a shot. Showed up at 6:10 am to get started. At 6:15 am Buckeye and Pilgrims Progress showed up. Pilgrims Progress and I headed out.  Upon return we saw 2 runners by this time weather had turned to sleet.  It was Buckeye and Dr Seuss.  Finished up a little after time.  Buckeye finished his workout with a snow angel.

Pledge

COT

3 HIM’s came out to the Bulldog on a cold morning for a self-directed beatdown. With no assigned Q for the session, mumblechatter led to Tube setting up a timer on his phone for 0:50 of exercise followed by 0:10 of rest. Each PAX took turns calling an exercise, “Mary” style.  Anything counted.  We worked legs, arms, shoulders, back, and abs, in no particular order.  We repeated a few exercises when creativity faltered.  We stopped when it was “time.”  We all left better than when we started.

RUN/RUCK/WALK

We had a good crowd even though the site Q and various others didn’t join us.  I was going to write about it, but better leave the sandy V alone.

Disclaimer

Warmup:  SSH x10 IC, Gravel Pickers x10IC, ROL/LOR, MNC x25 IC, Arm Circles

Thang:
1) Pledge, Mosey to flagpole, 22 for vets and police.
state mission and principles.
Free, peer-led workout for men.  The mission is to plant, grow and serve small workout              groups for men for the invigoration of male community leadership

Free of charge, open to ALL men, held outdoors rain or shine, heat or cold, led by men who participate in a rotating fashion, end with a circle of trust

2) Partner up for lot (going up/down hill) for Dora
Squats/Merkins/LBC

3) Mosey to Dragway pond stairs

4) Five (5) calf raises at each stair.  When finished, plank and wait on the six.

5) Dora from that general location up hill to the next speed bump for second round of Dora
Lunges (Each Leg)/CDDs/Leg lifts

6) Mosey to Tennis Courts
Do 10 reps and run to middle of courts and run back.  Repeat
Mountain climbers (count one leg)
French Fries (10 IC-4 count)
SSH (single count)
Michael Phelps (10 IC-4 count)
Plank Jacks (10 IC-4 count)
Freddy Mercury’s (10 IC-4 count)

7) One final lap to help some get to the 10 mile mark on the day, Announcements, Prayer/Praise, Name-o-rama, COT/BOM.

Announcements:  Q school 1/22, 2nd F lunch 1/19 at Buffalo Wild Wings, Rice and Beans ongoing, F3 retreat (15 spots left) 2/18-2/20, need four (4) runners for Smoky Mountain Relay (see Purple Haze), Downhill 1/2 May 13-14,

Prayers:  Gumby, Stogie, Roundup, Big Pappy