Author: Billy Madison (Page 2 of 2)

Since we make a habit of leaving our home and family so often to go hang out with the men of F3 – why not make it sound like we’re doing what our wives all probably think we’re doing anyways? Time for some golf and a 6 pack with the boys!

With that theme in mind, all 11 pax grabbed a frisbee disc and prepared for some cardio and core work to build our 6 pack stomachs!

Warmup:

SSH x 20 ic

The Thang:

5 Frisbee Golf “Holes” – pair up and stagger start at each hole

While disc is in the air, you sprint. After it hits the ground you must lunge to the disc where it lays.

Hole 1 = 10x the # of throws, Mericans!

Hole 2 = 10x the # of throws, WWII Sit ups

Hole 3 = 10x # of throws, Burpees

Hole 4 = 10x # of throws, CDDs (aka “Def Lepups”)

Hole 5 = 10x # of throws, Mountain Climbers

Onto the “19th Hole Clubhouse” for a 6 pack! (Time for cardio and core work!)

• “Billy Bad Arses” (yes, I created and named my own new exercise) = 5 Pullups, suicide sprint to end of parking lot, 20 Mericans x rinse and repeat 3 times
  • (was going to be for every stroke over par but we semi-omaha’ed due to time and possible merlot-splashing-chatter)
• LBCs x 30 ic
• Flutter Kicks x 20 ic
• American Hammers x 50 sc

COT:

Blessed to share a message on my heart = life is a symphony of highs and lows. To enjoy and appreciate the “highs” you must have endured “lows” for perspective. The best meal, shower, sleep I’ve had in years all took place the day after the CSAUP. How often we take for granted the simple ability to breath until we get congested with a head cold. My appreciation for family is at a “high” after enduring the “low” of a year in the hospital with countless chemo sessions and surgeries while my wife battled cancer.

Thank the Lord for your many blessings and remember that if things are “going well” all the time, you will never appreciate them as much.

The Pledge, Announcements, Prayers then named our FNG, “Swimmer” (He works at Siemens and has 5 kids so we were VERY NICE to him.) 🙂

Welcome Swimmer and thanks to the rest of this incredible group of men. I’m extremely grateful to join you every week and especially to call you my friends.

Aye! 

This week NFL training camps opened up across the country – so the manly men of Midoriyama decided to join the fun!

Warm-Up:

• SSH x 21 IC
• Don Quixote x 21 IC

The Thang:

Alright GAME TIME! Pick your “football team” and Mosey to the playground! Teams of 2 for our first game of the day!

Pusharoma: 2:00 minute drill! Timer is running – which team can do the most push-ups (mericans) before the clock expires? MAX OUTS! Offense does push-ups while Defense does squats – alternate to maximize total reps! Winners were Slaw & Floppy Disc! (Mumble chatter about Slaws “neck ups”…)

Pullaroma: 2:00 minute drill! Timer is running – which team can do the most pull-ups before the clock expires? MAX OUTS! Offense does pull-ups while Defense does squats – alternate to maximize total reps! Winners were Lil Sweet & Billy Madison!

Next Game! Mosey back to the flag and grab a football. Let’s make our way over to the field – the fast way!

Pound the rock: Teammate hands football off to running back for a 100 yard sprint to the “endzone” – “DB catch them drill” as they sprint to catch them from behind. Alternate until we reach our destination! #keeppounding

Fun and games are over (now that hands are on knees and mumble chatter of possible merlot splashage) time to get to work!

Quadraphillia: music blasting, timer set to 5:00 minutes – “team mate battle” continues as 1 man runs backwards up hill then runs forward down, completes burpee at bottom of hill and switch with teammate. Assume plank position while rooting your teammate to keep pound!

Core work: (Reps of TD score variations)

• WWI Situps x 14
• LBCs x 21
• Flutter kicks x48
• Freddy Mercury x 14
• Marge & Homer x 7
• Weezy Jefferson x 14
• Panther Pound Burpes x 14 (Football chop steps in place until Q yells “burpee” then back to chops)
• Merican challenge (MAX OUT – Push yourselves) x head to head! Beat the man in front of you!

Mosey back to the flag – keep carrying that rock!

Still time left for:

• Madoriyama Mericans x together down the line
• LBCs x 30
• Flutter kicks x 21
• Captain Thors x max out for last minute!

Pledge:

COT:

Got to share a parable about “life after” as 2 babies in a womb can hardly grasp life after delivery – we too, are like babies on this fallen Earth….. ‘God’ is all around us. We are of ‘Him’. It is in ‘Him’ that we live. Without ‘Him’ the world would not exist. Sometimes when you’re in silence and really listen, you can perceive ‘His’ presence and can hear ‘His’ loving voice calling down from above.

Prayers for Ringo who is apparently losing so much weight so fast that his back can’t handle it! 😉 Prayers for the brothers of F3 who could not be here today and all across the nation to lead their house and their community.

Thanks for the fun today men! Lots of rumble chatter about M’s being mad at all the grass and muck falling out of unknown regions, but it was fun playing in the dirt like kids again!

I’ll keep ya’ll posted if I get any calls from Carolina Panthers scouting department this week! 😉

As the afternoon rainstorm died down, I pulled into Poston Park the home of the proud, manliest men of Mt. Midoriyama. I arrive because I know that these men work out harder than most, no matter what stands in their way. Rain, or shine, blizzards or twisters – these men challenge me to put in the work and make myself better and stronger.

There is comfort in surrounding yourself with such a band of brothers, who you know you can always count on no matter…….wait! What’s going on??? Why is there no flag posted today? Where are all the vehicles? Where are all the manly men of Midoriyama???

Well, it’s still sprinkling. Perhaps they were worried about something running into their eyes…hmmmm…

Ok, just Edison (brand new to F3) and myself. Let’s do this!

The Thang:

Run in the rain for approx 40 minutes!

COT:

Hope our band of brothers is all safe in this terrifying summer sprinkle that prevented them all from attending today.

The thermometer in my car flashed 103 Thursday afternoon as I pulled into Midoriyama for my first ever Q! (VQ)

Most men would stay in the AC and sip some Iced Tea.

F3 men see this as a perfect opportunity to workout.

F3-Midoriyama men saw a chance to enjoy a little casino night with the fellas!

8 men showed up for the hottest day of the year and used some card games to trick the mind as we pushed ourselves to “double down”!!!

The Thang: SSH x 20 IC, LBCs x 20 IC, Mericans x 20 IC, Floyd Mayweathers x 20 IC, Zombie Walkers entire length of the fence to grab our coupons!

Now that everyone has a coupon – let the games begin! Mosey with coupons to the soccer field! (1/3 mile)

Deck of Death x combined with C2C (corner 2 corner) on the soccer field!

Each corner has all 13 cards in a suit. Diamonds = diamond pushups, Clubs = Sit ups, Hearts = squats, Spades = bicep curls with cinder blocks

Sprint from corner to corner to blind draw your next card. Number you draw = your reps up to 14 on Aces! Then sprint to next station. Best 5 card poker hand gets a nice “pot” at the end. Competitive fun and effectively distracting from the sprints around the soccer field in the heat….all good – until we found a card shark in our midst! Cries of “Cheater” rang out as Freight started with Aces his first two cards and ended with a FULL HOUSE!

The Card Shark aka: Freight got to assign all of his LBCs to his victims – I mean friends in the Pax as we all played a game of….Black Jack! 

More sprints sideline to sideline! Start with 1 Merican then sprint across the field to give me 20 LBCs. Sprint back and give me 2 Mericans x sprint back for 19 LBCs! Continue until you reach 20 Mericans and 1 LBCs. Always equals 21….BLACK JACK! (We Omaha’ed this one when the “table got cold” when we reached the halfway point.) 🙁

Mosey back to the flag (1/3 mile) with coupons in hand! Ended with Captain Thors until time ran out! (reached approx. 8 situps x 32 hammers)

Great workout today men! What an honor to lead this group and lose my V-tags on the hottest day of the year! 😉 We continued to run almost the entire 45 minutes today while sprinting and/or carrying weights at all times! Midoriyama men know how to have fun – that’s for sure!

I have a feeling I’ll get some dirty looks if I ever invite you all over for a poker night! #SorryNotSorry Pax!

• Billy Madison