Month: January 2024 (Page 12 of 12)

It was overheard in the gloom early this morning, “When did the upper 20s become not that cold anymore?”  But 5am is still dark, so those PAX who “forgot” their safety lights were gifted new ones for their run.  The glow of lights could be seen for miles……ahh, what a sight.

When everyone returned back safely we went over the announcements…….

3rd F Twenty-Twenty-FOR volunteer opportunity on Tuesday 1/9
3rd F Rice N Beans
More about Rice N Beans

2nd F lunch  on Wednesday 1/17
2nd F Lunch for January

And then prayer requests……..Today I’m going to ask that you pick just one of the recent prayer requests you’ve heard and spend a moment praying specifically for that person/situation.  And if you are comfortable doing so, let them know you did.

Always an honor to serve.

I’m Anchorman, you stay classy Gastonia.

Weather: 25 degrees

Pax: 6 total

Its cold!!

Bed Pan

Well it is 1/2/24 and I can already see those resolutions getting flushed down the crapper. This was the first time in a long time that I could count all the PAX at Folsom on 1 hand. Hate to See It. But since there’s only 5 of us total here today my plans quickly changed as I recalled leaving 5 bags of rocks (not the kind you can pick up on Ransom St. but the pea gravel variety) in the bed of my truck. 5 bags 5 PAX. It’s like it was meant to be. After a quick disclaimer and warmup we grabbed up the bags and headed to the Tennis Courts for some fun. We ran through a tough little Push Pull Legs de-escalator – escalator style WOD that consisted of Squats, Merkins, Curls, Skull Crushers, Gorilla Rows, and Stiff Leg Deadlifts. Once all reps were done run to other end and back ready and  yourself for the next round. We started with 25/1 exercise to run ratio. That’s 25 reps each exercise and one trip down and back. Next round was 20/2. The next was 15/3. The next was 10/4 and the final was 5 reps and 1 recovery lap. This time being a light jog around the fence line. Now we’re all finished we grabbed the bags and put them up met back at the flag for about 3 min. of cooldown and recovery work before we got to the Pledge and COT.

Lots of Prayers and Praises To go Around

2nd F lunch 1/17 Whiskey Mill Gastonia

I’m a little slow this morning with the below freezing temps. I rolled in at 5:29 to see to Popo parked parallel in the parking lot. Hmm, never seen these guys before. Could they be here to get some? Naa, they’re just sharing some coffee and doughnuts. Spiderman is the only Him here! I guess it’s just the two of us. We start our warm ups and who shows up late for the party, Hunchbck, then two minutes later Sledge, Hey! We have a party! Let’s get it on!

We start with ABC’s, Freddy Mercury’s, LBC’s, R-LBC’s, CDD’s against a 50 second clock. Rinse & Repeat. Lap around the parking lot with kettle.

Next up, Flutters, Heels to Heaven, Starfish, American Hammers, Plank Jacks against a 50 second clock. Rinse & Repeat. Lap around the parking lot with kettle. 

Finally, let’s get in some legs. Squats, Step ups, Calf raises (inner/outer), Lunges, R-Lunges against a 50 second clock. Rinse & Repeat. Lap around the parking lot with kettle.

With 1 minute left, we get in some Merkins to finish up. 

Announcements: Gashouse and PainLab will switch Q’s for a role reversal this Saturday.

Prayer request: Prayers for Hunchbacks dad and Turtleman.

Sledge took us out with prayer 🙏

So in this time between Christmas and New Years, we had a little beat down @ Goat Island! Even with the South Forck at flood stage we found some things to d over there. Went like this:

COP:

SS – Burpees X 5

IWs X 20

Grass Pickers X 20

Tesla Stretches

Mtn. Climbers X 20

DORA 1-2-3 on the big hill

Run was about 200 yards up the hill and back.

100 – Hand release merkins

200 – Big boys

300 – squats.

This was a quality call! Worked guys asses off. What you want to see.

Get by the Gondola for some fun as well.

Dips, stepups, dirkins, 10 each

Line up at the bottom of the hill and burpee broad jump to the top, mosey back.

Rinse and repeat 20X: Skip to the top and run back.

Line up for some bear crawl slalom!

Pledge and COT.

NMM:

Stayed up and at it! That’s pretty good bottom line. Everybody was blowing hard after it. Mission accomplished.

Have to say ’23 was a really good year for me. Total comeback from the difficulties of ’22. I attribute a lot to F3 and the everyday drive to get up and get started outside with all the pax. A lot of other things as well but that was pretty front and center. Looking forward to a big ’24. I see you guys doing the same. Probably be a rough ride for a lot of folks, we got storm clouds out there. But that’s where opportunity is born men!

Tesla

33 pax posted to Martha’s to start the year off right.  Several even posted an hour early for either a run or ruck (Thanks to JJ and Hunchback for leading)

Our new nantan Flintstone started us off with some words of wisdom about not resting on the accomplishments of the past but to keep up the hard work.  Then after introducing the 2024 SLT, YHC took over to discuss finding your why.  In the mission statement there is a “what” part  and a “why” portion.  What – Plant grow and serve small men’s workout groups.  Why – For the invigoration of male community leadership.   We all post to make ourselves healthier but there needs to be a more significant Why to our drive.  For me it is to provide an example to my patients.  To lead by example – patients do not take advice from a fat doc.  My hope is that my patients may be inspired to take control of their health.  We all need to “Find our why”… With all that being said it was time to get after it.

Pledge

Disclaimer

Warmup SSH, Hillbillies, Moroccan Night Clubs, Squats, Gravel Pickers (Just to make Whoopee happy) Don Q

Then YHC turned the Q over to Shortsale for 6 minutes of Mary

Thang:

With the turning of the calendar it is important to take stock in where you are.  You cannot know where you are going if you do not know where you are.  Therefore we broke up into 5 groups and performed 10 exercises in AMRAP format.  Exercises were Burpees, Curls, Merkins, Kettlebell swings, Squats, Chest Press, Big Boys, Thrusters, Triceps curls and Overhead press.  Thanks to Flintstone, Sister Act, Balljoint and Roscoe to act as proctors for each group.  “No rep” was heard frequently at least from one proctor.  With 15 minutes left we moseyed to the soccer field for a relay race.  Each team member ran the length of the field do 3 burpees and tag the next runner.  Congrats to team 4 for being the fastest group to complete the race.

It is important to remember that just like today there are times to push yourself for yourself but more importantly there are times to push yourself for the betterment of your team and fellow man.

Current fitness levels can be found in the spreadsheet below

New Years Convergence

Announcements:

There will be a beatdown award added to end of year awards.

The unofficial AO “The Halfpipe” will continue every Tuesday at 5:15 in Kinmear neighborhood at the clubhouse

Pushing Rocks will commence Feb 1 – more info to follow

Prayer Requests:

Turtleman, Montana, Jane Fonda, Sledge, Jackson Hall, Jackson Curdy, Balljoint, Cherry family

As always it was an honor to serve and look forward to great year.

Defib