Author: Bubba Sparxxx (Page 4 of 8)

Warmup

SSH, Toy Solders, Good-Morning-Burpees

Mosey

THE THANG

Jacob’s Ladder on the 9th Street hill

Mosey to Goat Island bridge for Bear crawl and some sets

Burpees for the Train

Mosey to Goat Island Pavilion for Triple-Dime (5 sets of 10dips/run/10hammers, then 5 sets of 10merkins/run/10big-boys)

6MOM

Time!

Announcements
PT Test,  Aug 27
CSAUP,  Sep 10
IronPAX Challenge, starts next week
JJ5k – 24 Sep
Skate Party, Sep 17

TAPs  – Thoughts And Prayers  (also Praises & Gratitude)
Boss’ fam
Tesla’s fam
EZ Rider’s fam
Haze – good test results
Bubba Sparxxx’s friend with Term. Cancer
Huck
Turtleman
Gator – Praise for ability to be here, putting in the work together with these strong dudes
Pillager – check Slack for ways to help a refugee family

Glad to lead today,

-Bubba Sparxxx

2 ran off in various directions, 4 rucked around

QSource Discussion:  Vision

ANNOUNCEMENTS

F3 dads – The Yank
CSAUP 10th
PT Test – Aug 27th
JJ5k – Sept 24
This Wed – 2ndF lunch- viva tequi

TAPs
Tesla’s family
BOS’ family
Courtney – hit-n-run victim on Eagle rd
Breaker’s uncle
School starting. – parents, kids, teachers
Huck
Turtleman

Glad to be out there with these  PAX today.

—Bubba Sparxxx

YHC arrived at an empty parking lot at 6:21 today.  That looks like it might be GoldDigger’s car, maybe.

Tesla rolls in a 6:28, then Tiger and Sprinkle at 6:29:30.

Two rucked, three ran.  (GoldDigger ran before we ran, while we ran, and was still running after we ran.)

COT——————————

PLEDGE

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

F3 Dads, Aug 20

Sign Up for F3 Aug 10 Blood Drive

https://www.redcrossblood.org/give.html/drive-results?zipSponsor=FThree%20Gaston

THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS (TAPS)

Tesla’s fam
Sprinkle’s fam
Blmt fam lost their 17-yo child
Homeless
Kentucky flood victims/fams
PAX’s friend with cancer
College students starting
PAX with medical issues and/or injuries

QSOURCE:

We covered Mutual Competence.  Good convo.

YHC has been out of pocket for most of July, due to a combo of COVID, vacation, and work trips.  It was great to be back out in the Gloom again with some solid PAX.

–Bubba Sparxxx

Welcome and Disclaimer for an FNG that Klinger brought out into the Gloom.  Kudos to Kilnger for the Rapid-EH, as Klinger was an FNG himself on May 12th!

WarmUp

Here’s what we did (more or less):

11’s – AmHmrs & Mike Tysons

Indian Run

“Catch Up” Indian Run with 2 Burpees

Bear Crawl across the bridge to Goat Island

Dips &, Incline-Merkins at the Pavillion

CornHole Burpees (take turns “throwing” single burpees with your partner)

Lunge Walk across the bridge

Dips and Incline Merkins

Sprint  up the Hill to StartEx

Time!

COT

Announcements
Murph @ Martha Rivers Park, 7am Monday
PT 18th maybe?
Primal – 2ndF
F3 Dads – volunteers needed

Prayers
Both Parents with COVID- Cinderella
Orangeman – friend’s mother passed
Prayers for PAX’s wives (and their patience!)
Kids finishing school
Orangeman’s hamstring

Cinderella took us out.

-Bubba Sparxxx

Freight walked, YHC ran.

Sargento overcame a malfunctioning phone/alarm and joined us for QSource.

These two were fresh of the SMR relay.  That didn’t stop these HIMs from posting the morning afterwards.

This week’s topic was Prayer.  Good convo.

Glad to Q

-Bubba Sparxxx

Garibaldi Fest, the largest April arts and music festival in Belmont, was ramping up in Stowe Park as the PAX started out at the Yank.  There were people painting stuff and setting up booths. There was also a guy sitting on a side-by-side vehicle, enjoying an enormous danish or bearclaw or something while he watched us do burpees.

We welcomed an FNG that Tesla brought out,,  Chris Hardin, who will forever be known as “Old MacDonald” with “Respect”  in the Gloom. (Technically, Old MacDonald posted at The Bunker with HIPAA, but we all welcomed him and named him )

DISCLAIMER

WARMUP:

SSH, Grass Pickers, Mosey

THE THANG:

11s  (Mike Tysons, BigBoys)

Mosey with some exercise sets mixed in “on-the-move”  (AmHammers, Plank Jacks, etc)

Jacob’s Ladder

Indian Run

The Cooper (Burpees, Squats, Merkins)

SSH til time ran out

(In writing this two days afterwards, I feel like I might be forgetting some stuff we did.  Tip: write your backblast the same day as the workout!)

Time!

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Dark Helmet at the Storm on Tue 19th
Happy Hour at Traust next Friday

PLEDGE

NAME-O-RAMA

TAPs

Tate family – 12 kids, lost their oldest child
Tesla friend passed, Doug
Grateful to be here, great weather
Town of Belmont

Happy to lead these men

-Bubba Sparxxx

Warm Up:  SSH, Gravel Pickers, Short Mosey

40’s :   Step-Ups and American Hammers  (sets of 30/10, 25/15, 20/20, 15/25, 30/10.)

Mosey to the 9th Street Hill

Frog Jumps halfway up the Hill,  Bear Crawl up the Rest of the Hill.

Mosey to 8th Street by Floyd and Blackie’s  (but not for coffee … yet )

Stacker-Suicide BLIMPS up the 8th Street Hill.   Reps of 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30.    Three Burpees upon arriving back at start, each time.

(Buckshot totally killed that BLIMPS set!)

Hill Sprint (just one)

5 MOM

Time!

Public safety announcement:  Apparently we had safety concerns from local drivers about the PAX being in the road while we did our reps for the BLIMPS set.  It would have been safer and less stressful to drivers if we had been on the sidewalks.   As SiteQ, I’ll reinforce that street safety practice with each Q at The Goat, (and myself).

Announcements

Smoky Mtn Relay

Tue, May 2 – R U Smarter than a 5th Grader

Tue May 2, Rice and Beans

COT

Prayer Requests

Family members in general

Tesla lost a friend to COVID

Orangeman’s Boss’ health

Nutria’s brothers’ surgery

Buckshot’s co-worker’s husband – cancer

Watts Up took us out.

Thanks for the chance to lead,

-Bubba Sparxxx

Grabbed a chance to Q across town at The Labyrinth.  It was YHC’s first time to The Labyrinth.  It was dark, but it looked strangely similar to that other AO called the The Sandlot.

It was a comfortable 50 degrees, and the rain held off.

Up until about 5:28am, Dirt was concerned that it would just be him and YHC.  (If that had been the case, YHC was thinking to abandon the ‘ol Weinke completely and just make it a running workout.)

Well, the clock kept ticking, and a few more PAX rolled in by 5:30.   At about 5:32, the 7th and final PAX made his grand entrance.

YHC was glad to see 4 new faces from the Gastonia crew in the Gloom.

DISCLAIMER:

Adjust and Modify as necessary.   Push yourself!  …but that doesn’t mean push yourself to the point of injury, especially if you already have a known issue.

YHC re-iterated the disclaimer:  I’m not a professional and I definitely don’t know what kinds of issues you PAX have!

WARMUP:

• SSH (because who knows what kinds of strange things would happen in the Gloom if you don’t start out with SSHs)
• Imperial Walkers
• Good-Morning-Burpees   (combo of Alarm Clock + Burpee.   -Sorry you missed them, Radar)

THE THANG

Mosey to Martha, stopping every once in a while for 10 reps of various exercises

Dirty 11’s :  w/ Hammers and Merkins, Burpee in the middle

Mosey to fieldhouse

The mumblechatter topics included US legislation that is in the works to do away with Daylight Savings Time.   The PAX wondered what the implications would be for the Gloom.  More importantly, if DST went away, how would anyone know when to replace batteries in their smoke detectors?

Partner B.O.M.B.S:   Burpees (25x), Overhead Press (50x), Merkins (75x), Big Boy Sit-ups(100x), and Squats (125x)   Partner runs around fieldhouse

A dessert-like smell was emanating out of the Fieldhouse.   The PAX were trying to determine what it was.  Most PAX thought it was “some kind of Banana” dessert.  it smelled great.

Then there were others smells that started right about the time that the PAX were doing Big Boy Sit-Ups and Squats.  Those smells did not smell great.

Mosey a little to the bleachers for Dips, then Dirty Calves (in honor of Dirt)

Mosey, stopping every once in a while for a PAX-called exercise.  Some PAX counted cadence for their pick.

Indian Run back to StartEx, stopping for some reps of various exercises.

6MOM

Time!

COT

Pledge

Announcements

• 2ndF Lunch today at Pita Wheel in Dallas, noon  (if you’re just now learning about this in this Backblast, you’re late for lunch.)
• This Friday at Downtown – The F3 Nation’s Nan’tan, Slaughter, will Q      2ndF and 3rdF to follow.

Name-O-Rama

Prayer Requests

• Hush Puppy and his M:  Job-searching, possible Relo
• Rebar’s Plantar Fascia – likely an upcoming surgery
• Stinky Bird’s family
• People of Ukraine, and those otherwise affected
• Turtleman

Dirt took us out…..

Glad to join the Labyrinth crew!

YHC was surprised that there was a considerably-sized group of ladies who walk in the Gloom at around 5:20-ish.   As YHC drove away, it looked like they were doing a Circle-Up or Disclaimer or something.  They probably should have a name for their group, maybe with a Letter-Number combination.

Glad to lead this group of PAX today!

—Bubba Sparxxx

8 PAX at The Ricky Bobby

At 5:20am, as YHC drove secretly behind the school to set up cones for the beatdown, a unfamiliar car rolled up on YHC in the gloom.  YHC thought it was likely some do-gooder from the general public who wanted to harass/tell YHC that he shouldn’t be prowling around on school grounds, yadda, yadda, yadda.    However, once this person got out of their car, it was obviously a PAX dressed and ready for some work.  He asked me where he should park, since he was new to this AO (or something like that).   I asked if he was a PAX posting Downrange, and he said yes.  I asked from where, and he replied,  “Folsom” .

There were 3 new faces, at least for YHC:   El Camino, Hannibal, and also Bird-Dog who was making his 3rd  appearance in his first week of F3.

During Name-O-Rama, a Truck tried run us down, but YHC and the PAX were quick on our feet and got out of the way.  (This was all captured on video, too.)

Added a “QSource Nugget” at COTthat YHC  saw while downrange at every workout COT and AO in F3-Katy, TX:     ~2 minutes of Leadership-  and Character-building talk in the morning never hurt anyone.

Explained Slack to new-ish PAX, who were unaware of it.   YHC sent these guys an invitation link to Slack before they left.   (We must do better at sharing the basics with PAX, so they don’t go a year without awareness of our primary communications tool.)

WARMUP

(Side Straddle Hops, Goofballs, and Good Morning Burpees)

THE THANG

Mosey to back parking lot

BLIMPS Suicides, Stacked;   (I’m not sure what alternative name we’re supposed to be calling them now)

Bear Crawl Plank Relay  (All PAX hold plank in a circle, while one-by-one, relay-style,  a single PAX does Bear Crawls around the circle.)

Mosey to the Track

11’s with Dips and Big Boys, across the width of the field    (Demo for newer PAX this included an math lesson about which numbers you can add together to get to 11.)

Ran on the track, stopping every 100m for unannounced # of reps, IC;   Burpees, Flutters, MonkeyHumpers, and Incline Merkins.

Back for StartEx to knock out some Side Straddle Hops, until time was up.

Time!

COT

Pledge

Announcements:

Upcoming Relays in march/April, with some spots possibly available for those interested

Primal happy our, and probably one in Folsom, but no one

Mar 16th – 2ndF lunch at Pita Wheel, we think!  See Slack for upcoming details.

March 1stF challenge:  Daily Plank Challenge (see Slack, 1st F Channel )

TAPs (Thoughts And Prayers)

Tesla’s family, especially his son

QSource Nugget:  “Courage”

Courage is “Setting aside fear to to turn Hardship into Grace”

Courage is not the absence of Fear.

• • Fear is a natural state that can and must be governed.
  • Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
  • Grace is keeping your head when everyone around you is losing theirs.

Read more about it here:  https://f3nation.com/q/courage/

Name-O-Rama on Twitter

Look out for the Truck that tried to join (or crash) our COT !   Safety 1st!

Glad to be able to lead these men today!

—Bubba Sparxxx