Author: wirenut (Page 4 of 12)

There was 2 of us at Old School this morning. It was myself and The Old School OG himself Freight. We got in some good hard work and fellowship this morning. There was a lot of Merkins and Squats along the way to Carr Elementary were we got in several rounds of Pull-ups paired with a lot more Merkins and Squats. We followed up with a quick round of 4 corners that consisted mostly of core work before we headed back towards the Old School parking lot for some fun with Sandbags. We got in several rounds of various carries, presses, deadlifts, etc… We finished things off with a Burpee to Deadlift complex that was totally uncalled for, unnecessary, but very effective.

TIME

Announcements – 4/13 Convergence at Community Foundation Race – Speed For Need Pushers needed for Community Foundation Race see Purple Haze

Prayers – Hall Family, Turtleman, Huckleberry, Anchorman and many more I am failing to remember.

Body is aching and tired but that’s no excuse I said I’d Q this morning so here I am. Started with The Pledge. We then did a lengthy real warmup before heading out to the park to get in some strength and conditioning along with lots of recovery work between rounds. This was a Push, Pull, Legs Style workout. There were Pull-ups. There were several variations of Merkins and Squats. Hell we even got in several rounds of running and core work before heading back to Pelicans to finish everything up with a few rounds of sprints.

Finished up with Announcements, Prayers and Praises

Thanks all who showed

It was 0625. Everyone was slowly pulling into the parking lot. There’s no sign of former site Q Blart at this point. As I get out Freight approached me and said he thought somebody must’ve stole my truck cause there was no way in hell he thought I was here early. Well I was. Still no Blart. 0630 hits and still no Blart. And just like a covey of quail everyone is off most in the same general direction with a few strays doing their own things. 0715 we’re all arriving back for the Pledge and COT. Where the hell is Blart? Oh well he must’ve take his Little Blue Pills instead. I guess the Site Q Curse is real.

Pledge, Announcements, Praises, and Prayers

Most headed in for coffee and discussion about what the DRP means to us and if we knew of anyone in sports, entertainment, business or politics that exemplified F3’s meaning of the DRP. It was tough but we did come up with a few examples. That’s a shame when you think about it but that’s the world we’re living in right now. All the more reason to keep doing what we’re doing men. Let’s keep pushing the rock and fighting the false narratives this world would have us believe to be truth. Now take your DRP and get after it.

2nd Q today. This wasn’t planned it just happened. Freight posted a couple of days back that he needed someone to step up and take his Midoriama Q today. I said what the heck I can take it. I got in enough cardio this AM so this afternoon we’re going to grind.

Warmup was pretty much nonexistent. We did 5 SSHs in cadence then grabbed the blocks and carefully slow moseyed over to the small soccer field.

Once everyone convened there we lined up and made our way across the field by means Murder Bunnies. We did 5 Murder Bunnies and 5 Block Thrusters until we were all at the other sideline.  At this point there’s some chirping starting to happen which is great. It was something like Murder Bunnies are stupid and should only be utilized during IPC. Well I agree with most of that statement that’s why we’re not doing any more of them today. We did however continue to use the blocks much to just about everyone’s disapproval. We continued to utilize the field for Rifle Caries between rounds. Each round consisted of 4 movements. They were Curls, Shoulder Presses, Bent Over Rows, and Squats. We started with a good even number of reps which was 50 each then as mentioned before Rifle Carried across the field and did the work again but we dropped the reps by 10 each time we crossed the field until we were at ten for the final round. Defib rolled through this way to quickly and made it look too easy. On the other hand I found a workout that Seuss didn’t give 2 craps about being in the front for. I’ll take that as a win. In all seriousness I thought this would have taken the entire time but these overachievers blasted right through it. Good job men your reward will be more block work. We carried the blocks back towards their hiding spot and they made it oh so close when I stopped everyone and we partnered up for a few rounds of I go you go work 1 man does 10 reps while the other rests. The work was Blockies and WW3s. After 2 rounds of each it was finally time.

Pledge, Prayers

Bye

I’m at The Storm this AM for my first time visit and Q at this locale. As I pull into the parking lot I see a large lively group ready for werk. I also noticed Slaw back from his recent trip to the Chapel Hill Burn Center courtesy of Def Leppard. Good job buddy way to get back up on that horse. Well it’s time to go. After a few quick introductions, my  disclaimer, and The Pledge we were quickly at it. There were a lot of SSHs and Mike Tysons during the warmup. Along with these and a few other movements there was a good bit of Mumblechatter as well as zero attention paid to the instructions given during the warmup. That’s all good as I’m completely eat up with ADDDDHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHDDDDDD myself and go off the rails quite often too.

After we finished up the warmup we headed out to the lower entrance for a Tripple Nickel in the dark. Exercise selection was Jump Squats and Perfect Form HR Merkins. While here I caught a little more crap about how I avoided an entirely lit parking lot and  chose to run where the lights were out. It was also said how someone should report this to someone who works for Duke Power. Ha ha ha good one. Well I’m a lineman and we do our best work in the dark. Plus most of you are 10s when your M turns the lights off anyway.

After the Nickel we got in a little recovery stretching before heading off to run a bunch of rounds of 4 Corners where we ran through several rounds of single exercise before stacking them all together for the final round.

• Rd. 1 – 10  Merkins each corner
• Rd. 2 – 20 Hillbilly Squats each corner
• Rd. 3 – 30 Seal Jacks  each corner
• Rd. 4 – 40 Flutters each corner
• Rd. 5 – All Previous Work each corner

It was during this time that Dr. Suess became the source of everyone’s attention. Every time he got up from any exercise the chants started. No way Seuss! No Rep Seuss! He’s going because someone else is going again! All of this said as if to insinuate that Dr. Seuss would take off if he thought someone was ahead of him. I tell you I kinda like this saucy little crowd over here. They talked $h!t profusely,  pushed hard the whole time, and kept on calling out some nonexistent PAX named CPAP. The entire dang workout his teammates cheered this fella on. He got cheers like that last poor Some Beech that crosses the finish lines at the Boston Marathon. CPAP you need to show up and earn your team them points for yours and your family’s sake. I fear your teammates may decide to do you some harm if you don’t show up soon.

Well it was getting close to that time so we made a mad dash back to the COT for Praise, Prayers, and Announcements. Once finished some of us headed for refreshments while others quickly scurried off about their Thanks for all the Trash Talk, Fellowship, and Hard Work Men.

Until Next Time

Well after joining in on the Misogi CSAUP challenge that Freight put together this morning I was beat. I figured this would be the case so I said what the heck we’ve got a perfectly good field here at Old School so let’s put it to use. So I laid out a field of battle with some cones and after a few readjustments and some equipment exchanges we were running through the worst game of Ultimate Frisbee in the history of F3. Between the Gail Force Winds and a few Prison Rules Fouls both of which I happened to be involved. I’m sorry Wiki. As for Westside I’ll not apologize. I’m not quite sure who’s fault that was but my neck and back still feel like I was hit by a Buick Riviera. All that being said these weren’t the worst injuries of the day. You see with all the bad luck most were having there was one of us who was on FIRE. It was The Man, The Myth, The Ledgend, Def Leppard. He was sporting The Downhill at Dawn race shirt and days of Leppard past were upon us on this glorious of days. And who you ask did he roast but none other than the peoples champ Slaw. When I say burned I mean I thought we were going to need to reserve a room at the Chapel Hill Burn Center for the poor guy. When heckled we shamed him and all he could do was say, “ Hey if you think you can do better then you get him.” We all said, “Nah there’s no point in anyone else needing to go to the ER with 4th. degree burns today. The Old Man caught like 5 TDs and tossed like another 3. In all reality his abuse of the Slawbag was downright disgusting. So much so that after The COT Slaw sat in his truck and cried before finally heading to Time Out to join us for breakfast. I’m telling you now if this was an episode of Chappelle’s Show Leppard would have been like “Game Blouses”. If you didn’t know now you do. If the Old Man’s not on your side then you better double team him. Well that’s all I got I’ve gotta head to Walgreens to get some Aloe Vera and nonstick bandages so Mrs. Slaw can clean and change his bandages.

Not that it’s a surprise or that anyone needed to be told but The HIM known as Mayor is apparently a Jacka$$. This and many other topics were thoroughly discussed at this this morning’s installment of The Weak and The Restless at the Best Friday Morning AO in The Region. We did manage to get in a workout despite all the chatter. We did a lot of SSHs, Merkins, Squats, Mike Tyson’s, Big Boys, etc… on our tour of The Fuse District. Once back to the Rotary Pavilion we did a bunch more SSHs paired with a few rounds of Burpees.

Prayers

Announcements

Done.

See y’all next time.

I’ve been working on making it out to each of our regions weekday Bootcamp AOs. I am waiting to see new faces and workout in new places. So when it was put out on the ol’ interwebs that Mt. Hollywood needs a Q this week I was like why not. As fate would have it I’ve never most of these men and I’ve never been there for a workout let alone a Q so no better time to go right.  Once there I knew mostly what I wanted to do and I’m pretty good at making things up as I go along.  So after a good warmup we were off heading straight into downtown. We stopped at each pole along the way in for 10 deep squats. We then stopped at the intersection Main St. to stretch and workout the stiffness in the lower body. All limbered back up so we’re going head down to 273 aka Highland St. this time stopping at each decorative light pole along the way for 10 HR Merkins. We headed back up to the CBD shop for some more recovery work this time focusing on the upper body. We then cut down the back alley behind the downtown businesses where we finished things of with a little DORA  core work. 100 Big Boys, 200 LBCs, & 300 Flutters. We’re now pressed for time so with a quick dash between the buildings and back up Central to the Flag. With perfect timing we rolled into the parking lot just in time for the Pledge and COT only after I catch my breath that is. I’ll tell you what trust me when I say these Men of Mt. Hollywood ain’t no joke. I was the lead but I spent much of my time chasing these guys down. I’d give them a task and they’d attack it like a swarm of angry yellow jackets. Great work men and thanks Blueprint for the invite.

Folsom Nationals 2/10 – 0630

Many Prayers Spoken and Unspoken

Day one PR challenge and I’ve got rep and count cheaters at the first workout. We did a simple WOD but it was a ton of reps.
Round 1 100 reps. each – Merkins, Squats, Big Boys, and SSHs. Rinse repeat but drop the reps. by 25 until you get to a final round of 25 each. This was very similar to our PT test with the exception of the useless running which I intentionally left out. There was however a timer and every 3 minutes we stopped where we were and did 3 burpees. Very simple but very effective. You’ve got to pace yourself in those first two marathon rounds so that your body doesn’t die before you get to the sprint rounds.

Well first thing I saw when we started was someone doing half reps.Then I’ve got Ball Joint and SA tag teaming reps looking like Midnight Express after the Road Warriors kicked the snot out of them at The Starcade 89’ Scaffold Match. Next I saw the worst version of face down arse up crawling on your knees Merkins I’ve ever seen. I guess that’s the version you want to practice if your boss has a tiny desk. I can tell you now that the things I saw out here today are burned into my brain and I can’t unsee them. I heard a hey man It’s You vs You. Well if we’re going to cheat that bad we need to change that motto to If You Ain’t Cheating Then You Ain’t Trying. It wasn’t all bad though I had guys pushing and grinding through the suck. On another high note I had the Peoples Champ back out here in the Gloom with us this am and he appeared to have picked up right where he left off before Lynn Good abducted him last month. Then there was Westside this guy is like the original Terminator literally said nothing just grinding through rep after rep with impeccable form and performance. He’s the only one to get through the all rounds from what I could tell. Dude went Beast Mode.

We finally got through that mess and headed back up for the Pledge and COT.

Folsom Winter Nationals 2/10 at 0630

There were several spoken and unspoken prayers. As always we’ve got way too many things to be thankful and give praise for.

Thanks For The Support and Opportunity.

Well that’s all for now I’m sure I will get the chance to critique more of you guys in the near future. Until then remember If You Ain’t Cheating then You Ain’t Trying.

Some ran fast some ran slow. Some ran a little while some ran a little more and some even rucked. Once that fun was done we shared a few words from my daily devotion that happened to be about judgment. Not that I’m passing judgment on you but if you wanted the entire conversation then I guess you should’ve been there.