Fitness, Fellowship, Faith

Day: August 12, 2023

Golden Anniversary

YHC took the Q at Gashouse on Thursday, and by Friday night, the ideas for a weinke started forming. Early in the evening on Friday, YHC remembered that tomorrow was his parent’s 50th wedding anniversary. This seemed like an important event, but how would that be relevant to the PAX? Then, later that evening after enjoying the music of the Liquid Pleasure Band in Mt Holly, YHC found out that it was the 50th anniversary of Hip-Hop. Who knew? As someone who experienced high school and college in the 90’s, this seemed significant due to the quality of hip-hop music in the 90’s. But once again, how would this be relevant ot the PAX? The events may have been less important for a global reach, but numbers are important. And the number 50 seemed like the right direction for the weinke.

YHC arrived to the Schiele on Saturday morning to find Flintstone and Virus in what appeared to be a post-run state. Thought they’d got in some EC and would be joining the crowd. Turns out, they were taking a little break half-way through their 14 mile mosey. Good work men.

0700 and time to get going. Brief disclaimer.

Warm-up
SSH IC x 10
Low-Slow Squats x 10
Merkins IC x 10
LBCs IC x 10
Imperial Walkers IC x 10
(That’s 50 in the warm-up in case you missed that)

The Pledge

Bootcamp moseyed off while Nutria took the Pain Lab crew.

Mosey to the steps at First Pres where I gave the Site Q the option of 5-10 or 10-5. After some explanation and deep, thoughtful consideration, Short Sale chose 5-10.
That meant 5 count of each exercise 10 times.
So 5 Squats at the bottom of the stairs, mosey up the stairs, 5 Big Boy Sit-ups, mosey back down the stairs.
Repeat that 10 times (Once again, that’s 50 of each exercise in case you aren’t keeping up).

Mosey to the parking lot of Parkwood. Earlier YHC had explained to the PAX about the relevance of the number 50 to which Short Sale responded if it was the anniversary of hip-hop, then why didn’t we have any music? This is what makes him the King of Q and YHC a mere peasant Q dealing out scraps to the PAX. Had the idea not formed at 9:30pm the night before, that idea may have come up but probably not. With only a phone in hand, YHC started playing the “50th Anniversary of Hip-Hop” playlist on Amazon music. This was extremely underwhelming, but YHC let it play nonetheless.

Here’s how the parking lot madness went…

Start in the middle of the 4 corners. Mosey to the first corner and complete 10 of the exercise. Then, return to the center for 1 burpee.
Mosey to the second corner (counter-clockwise) and complete another 10 of the same exercise. Then, return to the center for 1 burpee.
Repeat for all 4 corners. Once returning to the center, complete a final 10 of the same exercise and 1 burpee.
That made 50 of each exercise during a round.
Round 1 – SSH
Round 2 – Jump Squats
Round 3 – Flutters (Count both legs)
Round 4 – Hand-release Merkins
Round 5 – Calf Raises
Round 6 – LBCs
Round 7 – Air Presses
Round 8 – Lunges (Count both legs)
Round 9 – Crunchy Frogs
Round 10 – Mike Tysons

Once we completed round 6, time was running low. So we had to combine rounds 7-10. Instead of 1 burpee, we did 4 burpees to make sure we hit the count.
So that was 50 of each exercise and 50 total burpees.

With little time remaining, mosey back to the flag arriving at exactly the 1 hour mark.

Annoucements
PT Tests coming up; Classic next Weds @ Ricky Bobby
Kings to Crowder Ruck 8/27 (#1 in 3-part Ruck Series)
Coconut Derby 9/4 – the belt is on the line
Convergence on Labor Day (9/4) @ Caramount Park downtown

Prayer Requests
Mayor
Norwood
Nutria’s brother adoption
Turtleman

Prayer to take us out.

Until next time (shameless plug, which will be next Weds at The Labyrinth, 2nd Annual Back to School Q)…

Accountability

With Round 2 of the PT tests coming up, YHC thought it might be a good time for a Q focused on form. After a warmup we moseyed to the block pile and partnered up. One partner rifle carries the block while the other does 3 Mike Tyson’s then runs to catch up. Switch out and continue in this manner back through the start and up to the tennis courts. We discussed the proper form for multiple exercises and explained The Thang. One partner does max reps in 2 minutes while the other checks form and counts reps. Suicides were done using the courts for 3 minutes. Here’s how it went:

 

Suicides

HR Merkins

Big Boys

Suicides

Curls

Squats

Suicides

OH Press

Windshield Wipers

Suicides

Tricep Extensions

 

YHC had a little more planned, but we were short on time and the natives were restless. Rifle carry the blocks back and head to the start for COT.

It seemed like the form was pretty good overall and the PAX pushed out a ton of reps. Wichita led the way with the most reps on most of the exercises with Roscoe and The Canoe also standing out. SA was partnered with Gear Wrench and I believe he made him quit a few exercises with time remaining due to his constant critique of the form. Not sure if it was warranted or if SA was just being SA.

Announcements

F3 Dads next week at Folsom

2nd F lunch Wed

Hike 8/27

Coconut Derby 9/3

Convergence 9/4 at Fuse

 

Pray for Huck, Turtleman, Hacksaw, Westside family, Brillo, Sgt. Porkchop, Mayor, Nuthin

 

SA took us out.
I’m Broke

Lots of numbers

It was super foggy in some parts of the land this gloom. Only 3 HIM were able to find their way to Old School. Those studs got after it and then some. This is what happened…

Warm up: Merkins and Goofballs

Pick up your bricks and mosey toward the courthouse square with alternating normal and hallelujah moseying.

Once we arrived at the square, YHC reminded the HIM that football was about to start. It’s an exciting time of year and to commemorate the occasion, we noted some statistics.

Defense

Four Corner Escalator:

4 Players led the NFL with 6 interceptions last year. We did 6 brickees at each corner.

Nick Bosa led the NFL with 18.5 sacks so we did 18.5 Merkins at the 2nd corner but Omaha’s like Payton Manning to squats for the last 2 corners.

Foyesade Oluokun led the NFL with 184 tackles so we split it up and did 84 brick presses at the last 2 corners and then 100 flutterkicks at the last one.

Offense

Dora 128, 340, 435

Since there were only three of us one man worked while the others ran around the courthouse. Last year leading receiver Justin Jefferson had 128 receptions, leading rusher Josh Jacobs had 340 carries and leading passer Patick Mahomes completed 435 passes. We did

  • 128 CDDs
  • 340 LBCs
  • 435 Moroccan Night Clubs

Next we went back out to the sidewalk to recognize the 5250 yards Patrick Mahomes passed for by doing 52 side steps in one direction and then 50 the other direction. This didn’t get us around the block far enough so we then did lunges and reverse lunges to get back to where we started. Dr Seuss even heckled us as he drove by to feed at the trough known as Time Out. We did Giraffe stretches in honor of his recognition of us.

Time was getting short so we headed back to the start and we made it just in time to get the last couple things done on the ole weinke.

Josh Jacobs ran for 1653 yards so we did 16 big boys and 53 curls of your preferred style. YHC mixed his up.

Justin Jefferson had 1809 yards receiving so we did 18 shoulder taps each side and 9 lunges each side.

We did LBC for over a minute to finish up until time. Whew!!!

Thanks for the opportunity to lead men. This group was small but that’s ok. Just like most of us have found, when there are only a few of us there, those can be some of the best times to connect and get to know guys better. And it’s that much more important that we post because we don’t want to be the one to not be there for our brothers. What if no one showed and the person who committed time to lead the workout was alone? Get out of the fartsack! Put your feet on the floor and post! AYE!!!

Announcements: 2nd F lunch Wednesday at Belmont Pita Wheel, Labor Day convergence, Coconut Derby, Peak to Peak hike

Prayer requests: Turtleman, Norwood, Pocket’s dad, Hacksaw, Westside’s family on passing of his grandmother, Queso and others going to college, Sarlacc’s family on passing of M-in-law

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