6 rucked, 8 for Q source, great discussion on missionality, thanks guys-was a good one for me, and thankfully Roscoe reminded me last night that I was Q today so I could be prepared.
Author: Whoopee (Page 7 of 25)
0530-start this thang up. Disclaimer, Pledge, then warmup. I knew the WU would get me some mumble chatter…..SSH then 5 burpees, Merkins, then 5 burpees, Big Boys, then 5 burpees, then Ellwoods (just leaned this one from Flintstone earlier in the week) then poll the PAX: how old is your youngest child (knowing we had older kids or no kids) and Dirt asks “how about grandkids?” so we went with it and did 1 Burpee just for fun.
Mosey to Auto Zone for some pain: Everyone gets an exercise to remember: 5 Burpees, 10 Bonnie Blairs, 15 Mike Tysons, 20 Big Boys, 25 Mountain Climbers, 30 Squats, 35 Flutter kicks, 40 SSH, 45 Moroccan Night Clubs, then 50-ish Elwoods. Next we moseyed to 7/11 for Seven 11’s: 7 exercises at 11 reps each: Burpees, Squats, Mountain Climbers, Merkins, Freddie Mercuries, American Hammers then I let JarJar pick left hand or right? He picked LEFT which was burpees so we did 11 more burpees. Right hand would have been Elwoods just FYI. Next we moseyed to the dumpster, site of a black panther visit less than 1 week ago-luckily, no sighting this am. We did 10 Merkins to start, run to loading dock, jump then either bear crawl or lunge back to start, plank for 6 then repeat but drop 1 Merkin each round down to 1. Time was running short so we went to wall for step ups for about 30 seconds…..guess my watch was a little slow because it seemed to the PAX that it lasted longer than 30 seconds….must be something wrong with my watch. I’ll have to get it looked at. Then we moseyed back home for COT.
At the beginning, Breaker Breaker notified me he was posting because he “had a bone to pick with me.” I couldn’t imagine why? He said it was because I had previously said he wore girl panties in a Slack post. Well it turns out, I may not be wrong. BreakerBreaker said he and his wife do their own laundry (separately), and the other day he was folding clothes, HIS clothes, and found a pair of GIRL PANTIES in his pile of clothes……now I was not there, but in my opinion, those panties did not get there on their own and if that is the case, well then maybe BreakerBreaker just might have worn them. So there you have it. Girlpanties, squirrel covers, undies, tidy whities, (cue the music) thong the thong thong thong. Whatever you want to call them. BreakerBreaker just might wear them. Has anyone ever seen him wearing underwear that was not girl panties? I rest my case.
We finished with some announcements and a quick prayer.
thanks for tolerating me guys-Whoopee
and BTW, Boudin was not here today because he apparently IS a wuss. I also read that on Slack recently so it must be true.
Smallish crowd this am, SS rolled in hot so we got started with the Pledge and warmup then I discussed the options for today: PainLabbers could take off and do their thing or stay with us for first half with no required running then we would split up for 2nd half. They chose to stay and we got right into it. I brought some toys to play with and was hoping they would join us.
Look around at the toys…..a sandbag, 30# plate, a medicine ball, some barbells, and a BUCKET O TURDS……I don’t think the morning could get any better. And then Tube broke out the speaker with……music???? It was not the 2 types of music I was used to listening to….you know? Country music and Western music. Oh well, I’ll give it a try and see. Maybe it will grow on me.
We got our marching orders and got to work. The timer would be the BOT with a farmer carry walk thru the parking lot. “How long do I walk?” you ask….as long as you want to cause pain for your fellow men. While the farmer carried the BOT, we did various exercises at different stations as follows:
SSH
ruck swing with the 40# barbell
upright rows or flutter kicks/bench press with 30# plate (do either or swap from 1 to the other)
Big Boy situps
Medicine ball merkins (harder than I expected): 1 hand resting on ball (not your balls, the medicine ball Sargento). Do a merkin then roll the ball (again the medicine ball, not your ball Rosco) to the other hand and repeat.
(my favorite) Elevator Sandbag Burpees: burpee with sandbag chest press and increase the merkin part of the burpee by 1 with every “next” burpee. After each burpee you jump over the sandbag.
We took turns with each station so everyone got a chance to carry the BOT. We did this for 2 rounds (with a short mosey btwn rounds) around the lot or lunge if you didn’t want to mosey. I believe Hermie was bear crawling for part of this time. We listened to some music from Tube. I think it was music…..I blacked out part way thru and woke up with Tube in a headlock giving him some Nolan Ryan’s to the face. Sorry Tube, put some ice on it and it will be ok in a few days. Something about that music just made me want to do that. Very. Strange.
This got us to just past halftime so we split off the boot campers with a mosey while the PainLabbers stayed with the music. The boot campers moseyed to the baseball field hill for some Hillevens (elevens on a hill, see what I did there?). At the top we did American Hammers (because I really hate hammers) and at the bottom we did jump squats. We bear crawled up the hill each trip, which was really not a good idea in retrospect but what the heck? We did it with SS leading the pack. If there were Olympics for bear crawling, I think SS would get at least a silver, probably a gold medal. Now if he “gender switched” I bet he could get a gold easy so maybe that is something to consider SS. That gold medal sure would make your eyes sparkle especially with a nice yellow dress and some makeup…..maybe 1 day.
After I finally got over the bear crawling we took a couple laps around the track and every 1/4 lap we did either 20 Merkins, 20 big boys, or a combination with total 20 reps. That got us almost to time so we moseyed back to start with a quick wall sit on the way then some Mary at the end.
We finished with a COT then a quick video for Turtleman-GREAT IDEA Tube!!! We all said something to Turtleman on a video that Tube sent to him. He’s coming up on 3 weeks in the hospital and he’s doing great. I know he’s ready to get out of there. Keep those prayers going up-he needs them and appreciates them. Looking forward to a cold beer and a big fat steak with Turtleman, hopefully really soon. Thanks for coming out guys.
Whoopee
UNFORTUNATELY, no rain which means no puddles which sometimes means angry Whoopee Q…..not so angry this am. We started with a disclaimer, pledge and warmup as Hushpuppy rolled in. I ‘splained that I try to have something interesting to discuss during my Q’s but don’t always succeed. Today, I thought, I had something good to share-Stroganoff (y’all remember him, right?) gave me a devotional book a few months ago and although I am way behind, I have gotten back to reading it lately and 1 devotional really stuck with me-April 15th (that is how far I am behind)-It starts off with this:
“If you ever consider divorce, you will always have to consider divorce.” Let that sink in for a minute then keep reading.
We moseyed to the wall for some stepups and Derkins. While doing stepups we continued the discussion. The devotional talks about being married is like owning a car that you NEVER trade in…….as in N.E.V.E.R. Let that sink in about “just” a car. How would you care for that car? Would you keep it up to date with regular maintenance? Would you even consider looking at other cars? How about looking for a “newer model?” Really no reason for that, right? You have your “lifetime” car already so what is the point? Now consider that we are talking about your “lifetime” wife. Get the “D” word out of your vocabulary and how have you done the past few years with your M? I know I could do better, probably better than I am willing to admit in public for sure. Chew on that for awhile and try to remember it when your M does something that gets on your nerves. The author of the book finishes with a challenge: “Forgive. Whatever it is, forgive. Repeatedly, forgive. Forget about “D word” and make your marriage work!”
Being married and having parents that divorced when I was in my 30’s makes this challenge a gut punch at times if I am being honest, and I LOVE MY M. I can’t imagine what it would be like in a bad marriage. Take the time to make yours work. It’s worth it-you know it is. Re-read the concentrica part of Freed to Lead. Make her your queen.
We did some other exercises and finished with COT. At the end we had some really good discussion about “stuff” and if you were there, you know what I’m talking about.
thanks for the book Strogi-ready for you to get back out here soon.
Whoopee
Pretty good crowd this am, Flintstone rolled in hot but was there when we started so (I guess) he gets full credit…
Started with Disclaimer, Pledge, and warmup because that’s what we do. Tube texted me that he had gotten into a case of Old Milwaukee beer, Funyons, and some Slim Jim’s the night before. Well, he must have overdone it because during the night, he pooped himself while sleep walking and it was a big mess. He had to go to the store to get some chlorox and a bunch of towels because his dog Fred got into it and ran all over the house making an even bigger mess. Apparently the dog knocked over the bird cage and his bird Lamont got out of it’s cage and got into it too, flapping it’s wings in it and causing a major $hit-storm. Well, then Fred got into the half empty bag of Funyons and a few Slim Jim’s and then all hell broke loose. Fred started yakking everywhere. Eventually Fred yakked on Grady the cat and then the stuff really hit the fan. Basically it was a poop/yak-fest so after all that, he was not going to make it to Q the PainLab-sounded like he had enough pain by 0630 anyway. In the end we decided we would just combine the boot campers and pain labbers so some minor modifications were made at the last minute, but no big deal, at least not for me….
After the warm up, most of us moseyed up to the parking lot at Grier. Flintstone drove, but that’s ok. I just said to get up there any way you wanted-you could walk or mosey because we were combining the PainLab and Bootcamp because of Fred, Lamont, and Grady spreading Tube’s excrement all over creation…..but we don’t need to go thru that again. Once we got to Grier, I ‘splained the plan. I had laid out some things on the parking lot and we were gonna do some suicides. When you got to an object, you had to pick it up and bring to the other side and put down. Someone else would pick it up and bring to the other side. We hit 20 lines in the lot for our suicides and the objects were the following: football, 10-ish # weighted ball, granite-wrapped in a towel, bucket o turds, 30 # ruck plate, 30-ish # ruck sack, 40# sandbag (Alberta), 60# sandbag (thanks Boudin). I believe that was it….I thought this actually went pretty well. We added 1 merkin every time you got back to start at Shortsale’s request which was a great idea and probably should have been on each end or maybe more than just 1 rep….will remember that for next time.
We picked up all the stuff and moseyed down to the track for the main thang…..I had some papers with instructions on them and we divided up the work that would be done at stations. This is what I remember: the “timer” would be someone who either ran around the track or lunged across the field and back. While he was doing that, the rest of us would being doing whatever was called at the different exercise stations which included the following:
tire flip (thanks Roscoe for the suggestion as this was not part of the original plan but fit in nicely
sandbag burpee (optional 40# vs 60# sand bag)
football throw and run after it then repeat
bear crawl with ball up the hill, walk down, repeat
bucket o turd farmer carry bucket around the Stroganoff Memorial Baseball Field (he helped build the pitcher’s mound years ago)
flutter kicks alternating with bench press granite or ruck plate
bear with me using ruck sack (look it up, it sucks, had to be there)
I wanted to work the sandbags into the Weinke and I think it went ok. I’ve recently gotten into using the sandbags. It definitely is a challenge and worth trying sometime. We collected the stuff and carried back to start for some Mary then finished with COT.
When you see Tube, I suggest you wave hello or at most, knuckle bump him and avoid the handshake for a week or so.
Whoopee
Running at The Pub….hard to make that fun but we did for a little while. I played some music while JJ , Buckeye, and I chased after Waterboy and Seuss. Unfortunately Seuss wanted coffee from McDonald’s more than he wanted to stick around for COT so we missed him. I’ll try not to let that hurt my feelings….. Guess I need to run faster????
Whoopee
I almost missed by Q. Fortunately SA texted me to ask if I had the Q at the Storm and reminded me. It was quickly followed by a Mr. Bean gif yawning and a comment saying it would probably not be worth his time. In my head, I thought…..sorry, can’t put that on the inter webs….I just might run for office one day and I’ve already got enough skeletons in my closet. No need to add any more. I politely replied that I would bring my angry eyes and would look for him in the morning. Since I go to be early by most people’s standards (except Stroganoff-BTW, anybody seen him lately???? if not, how about reaching out to him to check on him), I had about 30 minutes to come up with something so…..I texted Boudin to see if he could bring his sandbag then went to the garage and got a bunch of stuff and threw it in the back of my truck and got to work. During the night I had a bit of an upset stomach due to an early Taco Tuesday meal (thanks Caroline), so I ran to the garage and pooped in a bucket, put a lid on the bucket really tight, then threw it in the back of the truck thinking SA will love this…..
It’s 0530, let’s get started. WU with SSH, Merkins, then some burpees while we looked at the things I had brought: 40 # sandbag, 60# sandbag (thanks Boudin), two 20#-ish pieces of granite wrapped in pool noodle or towel, 5# medicine ball, and a 5 gallon bucket with approximately 20-30# of processed Taco Tuesday. During the WU we listed the 5 core principles.
Then came the marching orders: Today would be Triple Nickel ALL. DAY. LONG. After a quick Q fail on the actual performing of said “Triple Nickel” we actually did the “Triple Nickel” correctly. On 1 end we did 5 burpees then picked up 1 of the above objects and moseyed to the other side of parking lot. At that point we did 5 BigBoys for a total of 5 times. We finished this with some $itching and complaining, mainly from Seuss and SA…..you know how Seuss complains so much. The only good thing about it was that SA kept his whiny mouth shut and listened while Seuss was complaining. Next we moseyed to the wall for some REAL FUN along with the toys. I let SA pick the first exercise. He wanted to do Grass Pickers. I told him hell no, we are doing some real f’ing exercises and quit his be-atching about everything and grab some wall. It’s time to do some dern Hip Slappers. The other exercise was going to be LBCs but Dirt suggested Flying Squirrels-even better so that is what we did. We moseyed across the parking lot with the toys between exercises because that is how the old Triple Nickel works. Again, 5 sets thus the term triple NICKEL. Even you Folsom boys can follow that math, right?
We stayed in the same spot for another round of Triple Nickel, this time Step Ups and Merkins. After a couple bat flippers did their 5 sets (I think), we convinced them they had only done 4 so they did another set with us. We were almost out of time so we started another round of Triple Nickel without the running so Shortsale pointed out it was really just Double Nickel, but Triple Nickel sounds a lot cooler so we did a version of triple nickel where we just didn’t move anywhere. We did 8 count body builders and baby makers (no music or comments on needing a plumber, sorry) for a few sets then moseyed back to start for a few quick rounds of Mary.
Overall it was a great morning for me. Again, the only down side was the 2 complainers that will go un-named (Seuss and SA).
Fortunately for me SA chose to poke me the night before which saved me. That is sort of the thing about F3 though. We all seem to help each other out, sometimes even when we don’t realize it. During the workout, we talked briefly about how being in F3 keeps you on track. Not posting for a workout or hanging around these guys allows the bad habits to start, the wandering mind to go places it shouldn’t, and the guardrails to fade away. I know we say this a lot, but F3 really makes us better. More importantly sometimes, it keeps you from getting worse. It raises our standards so that we don’t end up being a Jackwagon and doing something stupid that ruins our day or even worse. Bottom line is, we all need this in our lives. And not just for a few months or years, but every month as much as possible. Life is hard. It’s much harder when you are stupid. F3 makes you smarter at life. Don’t forget that.
thanks for the text SA. You made me look a little less dumb….at least for 1 day.
Whoopee
Been awhile since I have been at Diablo so it was good to see some guys out there this am. I brought my sandbag (we named it Alberta a couple years ago) so we could have some fun with it. We started with a sandbag toss around Pelicans then moseyed on over to Gastone’s hill with Alberta and took a couple trips up with some exercises along the way up and down. After that we moseyed back home for COT. Thanks for the opportunity to lead and for coming out.
Whoopee
Change of pace with good idea from Flintstone/Speedracer-site Q swap. Today Speedracer came in from Lake Wylie and Q’d for a day while Flintstone did the same at Crow’s Nest. We warmed up as the Q was coming in hot then he took over. Mosey to Martha’s parking lot for Walls of Jericho. Supposed to be 7 exercises X 7 rounds with 7 reps each exercise. I think either I remember it wrong or we just did 6 exercises…..could be either. WHAT I REMEMBER IS THIS: Plank Jack, Merkin, SSH, American Hammer, LBC, and Flutter kick with 7 rounds of mosey to the 3rd island and back to start. We moseyed to the picnic tables for the 2nd part: 11’s with Dips (Nur to the sign down the hill by the bench) and Diamonds at the bottom. We got thru this then moseyed back to start for COT and naming of the FNG brought by Boudin. Not much chatter this am due to a lot of counting and keeping track of reps. Solid workout and great crowd, especially Balljoint and other representing from Folsom, Orangeman coming from Belmont area, and (Kotter) Hushpuppy coming out of nowhere.
great idea for the site Q swap
Whoopee
I awakened this am to nice quiet peaceful bedroom with the soft whispering snore of our dog. My M rolled over and said, dang, can you hear that rain? I didn’t hear a thing. I’m sure it has nothing to do with me being 51 years old. It’s probable from listening to Rush all those years as a teenager. Ahhh, the memories….so then I got up and checked my phone and saw it was raining and there was a wind advisory. Oh well, back to reality and time to get dressed and get to GasHouse. I pulled up a little early and saw Strog’s car there. He’s getting over some sinus-type infection. So much for getting some rest. He and the rest of the guys eventually get there about the time I am dozing off to sleep. We started talking about Q School which was planned for right after this workout. To be honest, there was not a lot of excitement….from me or anyone else….even with Tube offering to make a coffee run to entice people to stick around. I really didn’t have any interest in sitting in the wind advisory cold weather to listen to some bone head speak…..oh wait, I’m one of the boneheads so maybe I should take a different approach. In my head I though about what my M often does in situations like this. She looks at me and smiles and says “We can talk about that later.” This is code for STFU, I’ll decide, and you won’t remember we even had this discussion sort of like a Jedi mind trick…..Note to self, when I hear the M say “We can talk about this later” I need to think “These aren’t the Droids you’re looking for. You can go about your business. Move along.”
Start with the WU then split with PainLab heading 1 way and 5 bootcampers headed up to Grier Middle School parking lot. Last week Boudin did some suicides and I liked it so much I planned for some more of the same with a twist: new exercise called IndianRunPlankJumpSquatSuicides. Everyone lines up on one end of parking lot in plank position. Guy on far right jumps up and runs to first line, jump squat and runs back to start. When he does jump squat, next guy jumps up and runs to first line, jump squat…. on down the line. When we get back to first guy, he can move to next line. We did a bunch of these so we got our plank time in for sure. I liked this, but burpees or merkins might be better next time. Next we moseyed to the track for some leap frog stuff. We split into 2 groups. Group 1 did exercise while group 2 started to mosey around track. Whenever group 2 wanted to stop and yell, then group 1 would stop the exercise and mosey past group 2 as far as they wanted then stop/yell/start exercise while group 1 repeated same until we got around the track back to start. We did 3 laps with Merkins, SSH, and Squats. There was only one puddle at the track so we were all VERY CAREFUL to avoid splashing in the puddle. I think JJ might have stepped in the puddle so we chastised him severely so he would be more careful.
Next came a bit of a decision for me. My plan was to go to the grassy hill near the famous Long Baseball Field, you know, that famous field with the pitcher’s mound built with the blood and sweat of our own Stroganoff BACK IN THE DAY. However, the grass was a bit wet, and all of you know how much I really don’t like to get in the water while exercising…..well I didn’t want to let the guys down so we did it anyway. We did Hillevens (elevens on the hill) with Imperial Walkers at the bottom and (I think) plank jacks at the top. Apparently Gator and I cannot count and got in some EC. That has never happened to me before. I checked my watch and figured it would be cutting it close, but thought we should follow the Weinke anyway. We moseyed to the steps at First Presbyterian Church for what ended up being almost my favorite part of the morning (favorite part was dodging the puddles of course). We got to the steps and I “splained the plan: start at the bottom and hop up touching each step to the top then mosey back down to bottom for 5 merkins. Repeat and add 5 merkins until we hit 20 merkins. After quick time check, I figured we could bring it back down so we kept this up but worked the merkins back down to 5. Part way through I got a 10 count from Capt Stubing to let me catch my breath-the legs didn’t get too tired, but the hopping really worked the cardio and breathing. That will be on my list of things to do next time-I think the pax really liked it as well. There were lots of happy faces while we were doing this. I had some other stuff planned for the trip back home, but I forgot to get the sandbag out of my truck on the way in so I will have to save that for later. We moseyed back to start with a quick stop for some wall sits and hip slappers before a few minutes of mary at the end.
No FNG’s but we finished COT and had another discussion about Q School. In the end, I don’t think anyone wanted to let the guys driving in from other AOs down so we fired up the grill and got started. Bubba Sparxxx jumped in on the teaching and Sargento came in strong with condiments and supplies then handled the grill like Chef Ramsey. We chowed down on some good burgers while getting some good learnin’ in. A few others arrived and think we had a total of about 15 guys for Q school with a lot of input from new-ish guys and veterans along the way. In the end I think it turned out better than I expected even if we had good weather.
You can find a lot of F3 info including what we discussed at Q school today if you google “F3 the steve.” The one thing I would add is what we talked about at the very end: Know the power of the shovel flag. If you don’t know what I mean by this, ask me or anyone else that was here.
One more thing…..those burgers were really good and we will be doing this again sometime soon. Gumby knows a thing or 2 about breakfast.
Whoopee