Author: Def Leppard (Page 5 of 17)

It was a beautiful afternoon as I am on my way to Midoriyama when I get a call seeing if I will Q which of course I will. I roll up to see a good crowd and inform them of the Q change and 5:30 so let’s go!

Warmup: SSH x 10 IC, Abe Vigodas x 10 IC, Sargento’s allegedly patented Right Over Left leg stretch x 5 then Left over Right, Hillbillies x 10 IC, LBC’s x 10 IC, 5 burpees OYO for Slaw, Asssshhh Pond didn’t like it!

Let’s mosey over to the Field #4 parking lot for some 11’s. 10 Merkins on this side run across lot for 1 squat, then 9 and 2, etc.

Let’s mosey to the small soccer field for some Frisbee Football. It was very windy so the frisbee throw was very important today. Seems like Wojo and Boudin mastered the throwing and by some good fortune, they were both on my team! My team scored at will with everyone making contributions. Even Seuss who doesn’t care for frisbee stayed and played well and may have even liked it a little. Slaw and Haze’s team was slowly humiliated and by the end had given up as their countenance fell. The good news is we all got in a good workout and no one got hurt. It seems to go that way when a certain Canoe isn’t here. Back to the flag and Pledge.

Word: I read 7 Bible verses about anger and the point they were making mostly as a reminder to myself to always keep working on the anger issue. Here are the points from the scriptures.
Be slow to anger.
Anger keeps us away from where God wants us.
Anger hinders all of our relationships especially M and family.
Our response to anger can often control how a situation resolves.
Turn from anger toward forgiveness.
Turning from anger can often lead to turning away from other bad things.
Turning from anger shows wisdom.

Announcements: Remember the service project Items, individual tissues and wipes.
PT Test this Saturday at Gashouse 7 a.m. Other AO’s are still open.
Help out Site Q’s by picking up a Q at a different AO than your normal.

Prayer Requests: Turtleman, Sister Act and family, Cougar’s grandmother, Livermush, Shook family, Lewis family, GSM family. Ash Pond took us out.

A lovely afternoon at Midoriyama after a few days of rain. Time to start but Blart comes in hot so we Moroccan Night Club until he gets to the circle. Pledge. Then a surprise to everyone who knows my use of burpees is minimal at best…. a Slaughter Starter, 20 burpees!
Mosey out to the far soccer field parking lot on the left side near the rest rooms. Due to my bout of Covid back in November/December, my breathing has yet to recover fully so I requested some much needed help counting the exercises as follows.
20 Merkins in cadence (yes I said in cadence) called by Form Police award winner Sister Act.
20 LBC’s in cadence called by Best Mumblechatterer and well on his way to Bat Flipper status, Freight.
20 Low Slow Squats called by our favorite seaman, I mean airman, Slaw. I was glad no 2.0’s were there to see Slaw’s squats. It is quite a sight. There’s a thrust at the, well never mind!
Mosey around that parking lot to the parking lot near the playground. Repeat the exercises as before. 20/20/20.
Mosey down the road and to the picnic shelter. Repeat exercises. 20/20/20.
Mosey down (Freight’s) pier hill and then back up the new sidewalk. Repeat exercises. 20/20/20.
Mosey across the road to the cul de sac. Repeat exercises. 20/20/20.
Mosey around the river loop a little past half way. Repeat exercises. 20/20/20.
Mosey back to the road to wait for the six. Then back to the flag.
My watch read about 2.4 miles and 120 merkins, LBC’s and Low Slow Squats IN CADENCE.
I said a word about relying on my guys to help me count when I couldn’t and how we all should post to get better but also to be there for other men. Nice work by all!

Announcements
Strides Of March Relay Run on March 6th. Sign up for what looks like a cool event.

Prayer Requests: Sister Act’s family, Big Pappy’s family, Cougar’s grandmother, Injured Pax.

Thanks to all the guys who came out for a simple one. Thanks to Oompa and Pockets and others for picking up the six. I haven’t Q’d in a while and it was great to be back at it.

7 Pax started the workout with one showing up later. 1 needed to run so Oompa took off wearing a Pink Floyd T shirt and some colorfully striped leggings that would have made Purple Haze jealous. Pockets showed up straight from working wearing steel-toed boots and still put in the work. I told the Pax there would be real options in this workout unlike when Freight says choose option A or B and then he does what he was going to do anyway. They were dubious about the options.

Warmup: SSH x 10, Cotton Pickers x 10, Hillbillies x 10, CDD’s x 10. Pledge.

Grab a block and slow mosey to the bottom of the Field #4 parking lot. The size of these blocks may not have been as large as some blocks, but I weighed one and it weighed 24 lbs. which is pretty good. I’m sure Rudolph would insist on 32 lbs. but we made them work. I’m sure Seuss will be upset that he missed this one.

The Thang: In seven parking spaces there was a very fancy creatively designed paper leaf with a “Block Option” written on one side and an ab exercise (without the block) on the other. It was their choice to make. After each “Block Option” you would have to rifle carry your block one lap around the parking lot and return to the next parking spot to choose your options. If you chose the ab exercise option, you then needed to run (without the block) the lap around the parking lot. It appeared as if most were alternating the “Block Option” with the Ab exercise option. The fancy paper leaves were labeled something like this:
30 Block Curls or 30 Flutter Kicks
30 Block Chest Presses or 30 Squats
30 Block Overhead Presses or 30 LBC’s
30 Block Swings or 30 WWII’s
30 Block Alpo’s or 30 WWI’s
30 Block Curls or 30 Flutter Kicks
30 Block Chest Presses or 30 Squats.
The rifle carry after the “Block Option” was tough. Most got through about a round and a half. Somewhere very near the end of this Montross showed up in an effort to receive full credit for a post but that is up to Watts Up to make the call. Some chatter about Freight’s love handles, Slaw’s toboggan size, Montross’s tights. Lil Sweet had a great story about them slinging Ash Pond up into the air about 20 feet with a bed sheet and when he landed the sheet split and he got hurt. Good times. Get your block and mosey back to the flag.
The point of the paper leaves was from a frequently used phrase around this time of year “turning over a new leaf”. When we each think of a resolution or a change we need to make, most of us immediately think of a specific area or habit we need to improve. I told the guys to make an effort to turn over a new leaf in that area or habit and make a solid effort to get better. It is usually up to us to make the change.

Announcements: Not much.

Prayer Requests: Lil Sweet and Slaw’s cousin, Gold Digger’s M and new baby and new grandson for Broke, our country and it’s leaders.
Freight took us out.

As noted in the title, we shunned the normal bootcamp workout to run with Freight as he was running his 30th 5K in 30 days. Why would a self-described non-runner like Freight take on such a task? He threw out the challenge as a way to push F3 Gastonia reach a goal of $3,000 for the Give2Give fundraising drive to help the F3 Foundation get started. Thanks to him and all of our Pax as we raised $3,667 from our region and F3 Nation raised $202,856 to start what will be a new way for F3 to carry out its mission. Thanks to all the supportive Midoriyama Pax expecting a boot camp and getting a 5K instead.

Warm afternoon in the region’s finest afternoon AO and a nice crowd of manly Pax are ready to put in some work.

Warmup
SSH a 30 IC
Abe Vigodas x 15 IC
Low Slow Squats x 15 IC
Let’s go!

Mosey to small soccer field where some half cinder blocks were waiting. I weighed one of these at around 25 pounds so this is below the Painlab (mainly Rudolph) mandated weight of 32 pounds but it will have to do.

Blocks
40 curls (called by Slaw), 40 chest presses (called by Blart), 40 overhead presses (called by Defib), lap around the soccer field, 40 LBC’s (called by Tiger), 40 Flutter Kicks (called by Dr. Seuss), 40 American Hammers (called by Love Boat), lap around the soccer field.
Repeat 3 times.

Mosey to dog park hill.

Triple Dime
10 Merkins at the bottom, 10 IW Squats at top, 10 times. Slaw wanted to call this the Dime Bag but I think that means something else, at least that’s what Freight said when he and Digger “joined” us on the hill climbs. I’m not sure we all completed the 10 climbs before time was called. It seems that the Pax have been trained to only climb the hill 5 times and asking for 10 was too much for some. I know Defib and Seuss and Haze likely completed all ten. Sargento was EHing people at the top that were in the Dog Park. Is there a name for someone who actively searched out people to EH especially during a difficult exercise routine? Maybe it should be called Sargento-ing!

Before we moseyed back I repeated something I paraphrased from the HIM Italian Job from The Fort – Why do we do hard things? Because life is full of hard things so we need to be strong. Is it easy to be a man of integrity everywhere you go? Is it easy to be a present father? Is it easy to be a loving husband? Being a good coworker? Is it easy to help lead others through tough times? But men with their concentrica in order will thrive in hard times. That is why we do hard things to prepare us for the hard things life will throw at us!

Back to the flag just in time.

Announcements:
Convergence on October 31st at Marthas. Park at Pelican’s if the gate isn’t open. Run/ruck option at 6:15 followed by the workout followed by some 2nd F and 3rd F. All other AO’s closed.

PT Retest on November 14th at Gashouse at 7:00 a.m.

November Challenge put out by Roscoe. Read up and try it.

Remember if you, a family member or coworker has tested positive for Covid or been having Covid like symptoms, please refrain from posting until you/they are cleared.

Thanks for all the Pax who posted today. As for what Flugersteining means, you had to be there!