Author: Freight (Page 19 of 31)

12 posted at Midoriyama on Thursday. Good crowd for a Thursday. Thursdays have been down a little lately. I was really excited to see Huckleberry post since he lost a bet to Pockets.  Oh wait….nevermind.

The Warmup:

Mosey to the soccer field. While SA lead the warmup exercises Slaw and I dug two tires out of the woods.

The Thang:

Partner up. P1 does burpee box jumps on the bleachers while P2 NURs up the hill. Do 5 rounds.

Split into 2 teams. 1 person starts flipping the tire around the field while everyone else runs a lap. When someone gets around they take over flipping. Keep doing this until you get the tire back to the starting position. It was noted upon completion that one tire was a little heavier than the other.

Time for some ab work.

We got back in our teams for tire flip sprints. Same as before except down the field and back. Some concept. We swapped tires to make a it fair.

Time for some more ab work.

Tire flip sprints again and we swapped tires again.

That’s about time so we put up the tires and moseyed back to the flag.

6:15 done right on time…..you know who I’m talking too.

COT:

Announcements-Christmas town SFN race,  F3 dads Frisbee golf see Mayor, Some more stuff I probably should have recorded but if your getting your news from me your in bad shape!

Pledge

Prayer Request

Moleskin:

It was duly noted the push I saw out there today. Everyone was pushing to get around the field to flip those tires! One of the batflippers seemed to be off his game a little but I think it’s due to malnourishment.

I talked a little about sharing the gospel and how we should all just pick one person and share it with them. Think about the impact that could make. Don’t wait! tomorrow could be too late

14 joined YHC at Midoriyama on Tuesday. F3 Royalty was all over the place.  There were some comments about what it means that these guys showed up for my Q. Let me just say…..I know I can be an A-hole/Smart-A, etc. Some of y’all be ackin like y’all don’t like it but I be seein ya(SA). Anyway it was my 1st “real” post in a month and my first “real” post at Midoriyama all summer. Having dang near died during a run the day before I knew it was time to step my game up and get back after it. I devised a workout that would push myself and hopefully others all the while keeping those batflippers moving.

Pledge

Warmup:

Nah let’s mosey

The Thang:

At the far soccer field. Do some exercises OYO then run a lap. Try to step your pace up on the lap then once you are finished everyone go back at a slower mosey to get the 6. Once everyone was back we took a 1 minute breather before starting the next round. Here’s the exercises we did with a lap after each.

50 merkins

50 squats

20 WWI

20 Burpees

50 lunges count one leg( so this equals 100 total lunges for those that struggled with this)

50 in/out

25 hand release merkins

Run back to the flag

COT:

Announcements-PM needs some help on the Stop soldier suicide race, JJ5K, Golf tournament for a charity Shocker works with reach out to Tiger if interested, Murph on Monday, Mt Hollywood will be open for usual business.

Prayer Request-Kid named Asher with cancer, Tooltime, Me, those battling addiction

Namerama

Moleskin:

Man I have missed the trash talking and even the whining a little(you know who you are). It was great to be out and actually be working out! A lot of rock pushers showed out today. I could see them all from back in the back where I was. Thanks to all for picking up the 6. This setup worked really well keeping everyone moving and everyone picking up the 6. It’s great that we don’t leave anyone behind but it’s even better when we all pick them up. We covered anywhere from 2.7 miles to the batflipping 3.4. Good work guy’s! See you Thursday for a Def Leppard concert.

8 PAX joined YHC at Midoriyama on Thursday for my first post there in 2 months. Man these last 2 months have been tough. My daughter has had swim practice on those days and I’m the chauffer. I cannot explain how much I’ve missed these guys. Between that and summer vacations I’ve been limited on my post all summer. I had Blart put me down for the Q on the day I knew I could return not knowing I would severely injure my shoulder in a Mtn Bike crash. Well I guess there is always a good chance for that but this one was a little different. I’ve wrecked a lot of stuff. 2 wheels, 3 wheels, 4 wheels, homemade carts and what not. One even involved someone being transported in a helicopter and having some organ parts removed but this may have been as hard of an impact as any could be. So a week and a half later it still hurts to breath so instead of handing over the Q I decided I would lead it anyway all the while not performing any exercises. I know the whole don’t Q it if you can’t do it but I really just needed to be out there. This really seemed to bother a few PAX. Going into it I knew there would be a lot of mumblechatter and that is really what I was hoping for. I was a little surprised by the ones that took it and the ones that didn’t. Anyway you vs you so…..

Warmup:

1 burpee, 10 x SSH ic, 2 burpees, 10 x Don Q ic, 3 burpees, 10 x Merkins ic, 4 burpees, 10 x Freddy Mercury ic, 5 burpees

I must say having stood and watched everyone’s form and their ability to follow cadence this group was….well let’s just say not going to make it in bootcamp!

The Thang:

YHC came equipped with a spreadsheet, clipboard and a whistle. I needed to see what kind of shape these guys were in since I haven’t been around. Time for a little PT test I found in Men’s Health magazine.

3 min hand release merkins-as many as you can

2 min reverse lunge-as many as you can

1 min of wall sits

2:30 min of side plank hold each side

Each category had a point scale of 1-3 points depending on how much you did or how long you lasted. Most of these guys fell in the top category of go out and crush life. A couple were in the keep up the good work category but I think that was mostly due to there rebellion of my Q.

Moving on. That took a little longer than I wanted so we improvised the rest in a smaller area.

Run drill with cones, bear crawls with cones, Red light/green light with the whistle(if you didn’t get stopped in time there was a 5 merkin penalty), This was also done with a NUR. T-claps to SA who figured out if he didn’t run as fast he could get stopped easier thus not receiving the penalty. Broad jump burpees multiple times. The PAX had to get to me and Broke accused me of moving backwards away from them but I think he was just seeing things in the heat.

COT:

Announcements-Pizza Man nieces remembrance this Saturday at Rankin Lake, Stop soldier suicide 5k in September, JJ5k in September

Prayer Request

I’m a little rusty so I failed to do the pledge

Naked Moleskin:

YHC spoke about I am weak but he is strong. This has nothing to do with my current physical state. This is about the grace of God. 2 Corinthians 12:9-11 “my grace is sufficient for you, my strength is made perfect in you weakness”. God’s grace is all we need!

13 PAX hit Midoriyama for the premier afternoon workout. Recently I’ve heard quite a few people mention they don’t know who Floppy Disk is. This is because he hasn’t posted in quite sometime because as he puts it “we run too much”(he likes to mtn bike).  So today I decided to introduce everyone to Floppy disk. Below is a workout he Q’d back in 2016. We modified a little-blockees were burpees and we added an extra lap at the end. This workout sucked!!!! I think everyone was quite surprised! Below was copied and pasted from that workout.

What is 2 + 2 yelled Floppy Disk, today’s Q. In unison, the men grunted four. Floppy retorted, NO! It’s three and I’ll prove it!

With a round of laughter, no one believed and they knew he was crazy.

Floppy took the pax to the ministry of love to prove to them that it indeed equaled three. Firing up a timer with intervals set at three minutes the first thang was yelled out. “Blockies”!

When that three minutes of horror ended, plank was shouted. Then squats, air jump ropes,  plank jack to sit-ups, star jacks, lunges, LBC’s, merkins and more. The onslaught of three-minute exercises didn’t stop until time ran out.

By the end, all were in agreement. “2+2=3” and love is hate.¹

The Thang

Warmup

• Mosey a lap around the parking lot
• Short break to fix the flag
• Side straddle hop (20 IC)
• Moroccan Night Club (20 IC)

The Thang

• 3 minutes of blockies (30 second rest)
• 3 minutes of low/high plank (30 seconds rest)
• 3 minutes of squats (30 seconds rest)
• 3 minutes of air jump rope  (30 seconds rest)
• 3 minutes of plank jack to sit-up (30 seconds rest)
• 3 minutes of star jacks (30 seconds rest)
• 3 minutes of LBC (30 seconds rest)
• 3 minutes of merkins (30 seconds rest)
• 3 minutes of lunges (30 seconds rest)
• 3 minutes of mountain climbers (should be renamed to Madoriyama  climbers)
• 3 minutes of side plank alternating sides every 30 seconds.

COT

Pledge, prayer, and while leaving we talked about some of the places in the bible that mentions the number three. Jonah in the belly of the fish for three days, Jesus’s ministry lasted three years, Peter denied him three times, the rooster crowed three times.

Moleskin

Who is Floppy Disk? FD is a good friend of mine. He is the guy who helped kill Fat Ricky. He got me tracking my food and going to the gym before F3. He was one of the founding 3 that started Midoriyama. He has and does a lot with our website. He covers the $100 server fee for us every year. He’s a great father and husband, a bit of an introvert but will talk to people if they will bother Def Leopard. He loves to ride bikes and hate’s to run. Between motorcycles and mtn bikes he’s broken about every bone in his body twice! You would think he would just give up and run but he falls down doing that too. All in all he’s just a good guy.