Fitness, Fellowship, Faith

Day: June 7, 2024

Bugs, Sweat, and Tears

6 men Snoozed their way through a miserable sweatfest, accompanied by an entire rain forest of insects, and a little whining, though it could’ve been worse.  Here’s what I remember:

Disclaimer given was meant to lower expectations.  The Weinke wasn’t fully formed, but rather than keep it simple, YHC tried to wedge it all in.  It was going to be dumb – either way too much or dry and slow.  Regardless, it would be what it was.

The Thang:

  • 10 x Don Quixotes (IC)
  • 10 x Imperial Walkers (IC)
  • Tesla Stretches
  • 10 x Mike Tysons (IC)
  • 10 x Peter Parkers (IC)

Went ahead with the first set of, I guess 2, sets of what was supposed to be a circuit we came back to a few times:

  • 15 x Perfect Form Merkins (OYO)
  • 15 x Bulgarian Split Squats L (OYO)
  • 15 x Bulgarian Split Squats R (OYO)
  • 15 x Oblique Crunches L (OYO)
  • 15 x Oblique Crunches R (OYO)

and just one more bit of stupid before running off:

  • 10 x Goofballs (IC)

Mosey to the picnic shelter beside the greenway.  It was a long run, and we thinned out, so YHC planned to stop for Monkey Humpers on the side of the street, but then we just… didn’t.  Snooze at it’s finest.  Once at the picnic shelter, it was time for the first of, I guess 1, sets of what was supposed to be a circuit we came back to a few times:

  • 20 x Freddie Mercuries (OYO)
  • 20 x Toe Touches (OYO)
  • 20 x Double Crunches (OYO)
  • 20 x Star Boys (OYO)

Short Sale’s Double Crunches are really something from another planet.  Pretty sure he has a YouTube channel on core work.

The next mosey was a long one, as we went around the large body of water in front of the fire station that the Q might’ve referred to as “the lake”.

We stopped at the River Room for some work on those steps for a few more dumb ideas.

  • Climb steps
    • 3 x Calf Raises each step (OYO)
  • Descend steps
    • 3 x Merkins w/hands on steps (aka Deep Sea Divers?) (OYO)
  • Crab Walk to the parking spaces
  • 10 x Jungle Boy Squats
  • Lunge Walk back to the steps
  • Climb steps
    • 3 x Merkins w/feet on steps (backwards, some had to modify to incline with hands on steps) (OYO)
  • Descend steps
    • 3 x Sissy Squats (heels up) (OYO)
  • Crab Walk to the parking spaces
  • 10 x Jungle Boy Squats
  • Lunge Walk back to the steps

JJ said something about it being 0711 already, and the Q wasn’t sure how we’d burned so much time without really getting as far as hoped for.  More often than not, it takes 2 Qs to get in all the stuff planned for 1.

So we’d do what we could.  Back to the picnic shelter for what was supposed to be another full round, but we only really got done with the first half before we needed to move on or miss out on a venture to the “Torture Chamber”:

  • 15 x Perfect Form Merkins (OYO)
  • 15 x Bulgarian Split Squats L (OYO)
  • 15 x Bulgarian Split Squats R (OYO)
  • 15 x Oblique Crunches L (OYO)
  • 15 x Oblique Crunches R (OYO)

Rather than more core work or more running, we just moseyed back to the Pharr building for some Lazy Dora.  The Pharr building has this open space with a breaker box and old paint and bugs which was perfect for some idiots following an idiot to get in a few reps.

Lazy Dora

  • 100 x Australian Mountain Climbers (count both left and right legs, we were running out of time) / Plank
  • 150 x Dips / Empty Hammer (cut short after a couple rounds due to time)
  • 1 round each partner of Flutters / Wall Sits

Mosey back to the flag, and with 1 minute left

  • Burpees til the bell

Not sure where time went, but with Snooze, that seems to be how it goes.  One minute you hear your alarm, next thing you know, you’ve overslept.

Good fellowship and a box checked to start the day.  Thanks for the opportunity to lead.

Yabba Dabba Doo

F3 The Ricky Bobby – June 5, 2024

YHC had the Q at the Ricky Bobby this morning. We had 3 PAX for the workout and five ruckers. It was great seeing Kool-Aid back out in the gloom. He is rehabbing his injury from Iron Pax.

WARM UP:
Two laps around the track.
Goofballs x 20 IC
Imperial Walkers x 10 IC
Sun Gods x 10 IC (each direction)
SSH x 20 IC
Merkin x 10 IC
Plank Jacks x 10 IC
Stretches

I was tired of doing some of my older Q’s so decided to give the Exicon a look and tried out something called Dirty MacDeuce.

4 sets of 12 merkins IC, 12 monkey humpers IC, 12 mountain climbers IC, and then a lap.

Next, we did 11’s (Dips and Squats)

For the last few minutes, we ran the loop in the parking lot to kill time.

PRAYERS:
Turtleman’s family.
Marriages.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
We have a lot of events coming up. Check out the website for more information.
https://f3gastonia.com/events/

Aye,
Radar

D Day

I accidentally double booked myself today. Thankfully Balljoint secured the Folsom Booking for me.

It being the 80th anniversary of D Day I used Stats from the day for reps and sets I used for the work that was put in most in attendance. We had a good turnout and a FNG Parkay. You owe penalty burpees Tiger you can show up to Oldschool and do them for EC the next time you Q there.

COT

Prayers: Turtleman’s Family, Anchorman, Guffey Family

Announcements: 2nd F Bubba’s 33, Turtleman Convergence Monday all AOs closed

 

We Ran

6/5 Crossroads

We Ran. Some ran more some ran less. Still we ran none the less.

COT

Prayers: Guffey Family, TurtleMan’s Family, many more I’m sure

Announcements: 2nd F – Bubba’s 33

 

Tequila Sunrise living up to its name

Eighteen PAX got to soak in an amazing sunrise while violently agitating their bodies for improvement. Here’s what we did. Pledge. Mosey around perimeter of parking lot followed by high knees, butt kickers, arm circles, side straddle hops, and runner’s stretch. On our six for some more static stretching followed by 25 big boys, 50 Freddie Mercury’s, 75 flutter kicks, and 100 LBC’s. At some point 2 PAX broke off to complete some aggressive ruck training.  Partnered up and demonstrated Bubba Gumps (partner sit squats). Round One: partner ran perimeter of parking lot while other partner did as many reps as possible of merkins (lap one), squats (lap two), burpees (lap three), switching roles each lap. Bubba Gump for 30. Round two: mountain climbers, pickle crushers, plank jacks. Bubba Gump for 30. Round three: Moroccan night clubs, shoulder press, stomach vacuum (exhale then suck in umbilicus as if pulling umbilicus into spine OR see Sargento when around other men). Bubba Gump for 30.  Finished with two rounds of bear crawl slalom.

Announcements: Second F Lunch 06/19 @ Bubba 33, Snooze 6:45 Friday @  McAdenville , Monday 06/10/24 convergence @ Martha Rivers/Pelicans

Prayers: Sargento’s daughter (permit test) and hamstring, Barnes family, Anchorman, Gavel travel

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