YHC prepared for the rain and part of that was knowing that there would be at least some getting wet! It just has to happen in this environment or we’re not working hard enough. So it went like this:

COP:

SSH X 20

IW X 20

Gravel Pickers X 20

Tesla Stretches

Mtn. Climbers X 20

Escalators as follows:

10 HR merkins – parking lot lap

10 HR merkins + 20 big boys – lap

10 HR merkins + 20 BB + 30 squats – lap

10 HR merkins  + 20 BB, 30 squats + 40 CDDs – lap

10 HR merkins + 20 BB +30 squats + 40 CDDs + 50 CDDs

Mosey over to the basketball courts and the benches for some bench work and some suicides:

Dips, step ups, dirkins, inclined Big boys

Round 1 – 10X each

Round 2 – 15X each

Round 3 – 20X each

After each round, BBall suicides, 5 jump squats each stop.

Back to COT:

NMM:

Didn’t get too wet today, thought it might. We managed in the drizzle pretty well. Effectively I would say. Shout out to Mainframe for showing up and doin the work! Proud of my brother here. A rock pusher. What I would like for all of us to be.

Prayers up for many pax right now. It’s been a difficult last several years and it’s wearing guys down.  I see it everywhere. Get out and post! Feet on the ground and move out early doing something hard. What follows won’t be easy. But we pray to be stronger men.

Tesla out!

Four pax showed, Tesla with Q.  All decided to ruck downtown Belmont and back.

Due to small crowd, Tesla pushed Q Source topic – Team Accountability to next week.

Announcements: Three month team Challenge beginning in January, see Flintstone pre-blast, beer mile New Year’s Eve morning

Prayer Requests: Turtleman, Huck, Radar sister, Tiger and family, Pax traveling

Tesla prayed us out

12 Bootcampers & 2 Ruckers got after it on a Saturday morning at The Fighting Yank.  Lots of reps, not a lot of running, something about fish at Christmas and a photo op that went south in a hurry.  Here’s what I remember…

The Thang:

To the Bunker for the warmup.  We lost the ruckers already:

• 10 x SSH (IC)
• 10 x Don Quixotes (IC)
• 10 x Hillbilly Walkers (IC)
• 10 x Can Openers (IC)
• 10 x Dying Cockroaches (IC)
• 10 x Hello Dollies (IC)
• 10 x Mike Tysons (IC)

Anyone who really didn’t want to run was gone, so we took a quick mosey and ended up… right back where we started, at the Bunker.

• 15 x Superman Pullups (IC)
• 15 x American Hammers (IC)
• 15 x Single Leg Glute Bridge R (IC)
• 15 x Single Leg Glute Bridge L (IC)

YHC put on Christmas music, and we heard “Run Rudolph Run” twice in 3 songs, and an ad for tuna fish, which somehow turned into a Christmas Carol about tuna.

Lazy Dora

Partner Up – One PAX does called exercises, other does the called hold

• 100 x Apollo Ohnos / 6 inches
• 200 x Moroccan Nightclubs / Balls on the Ground (like a Merkin, you just don’t come back up)
• 300 x Toe Touches / Wall Sits

Enough of the Bunker, off we go.  In front of The Station for

• 20 x Dips (OYO)
• 20 x Step Ups (OYO – count each step)

Mosey on around back down Glenway to the big parking lot to watch guys on bikes take 30 minutes to do anything, while we got into round 2 of…

• 15 x Superman Pullups (IC)
• 15 x American Hammers (IC)
• 15 x Single Leg Glute Bridge R (IC)
• 15 x Single Leg Glute Bridge L (IC)

Back with your partners, one stays and performs called exercise, the other runs to the end of the long parking lot and back.  Switch when they get back and do same exercises.  Here’s the exercises picked…

• Perfect Form Merkins
• Reverse Lunges
• Boat Pose
• Repeato for a second cycle

Was so much fun, we had to do it twice.

Mosey past Jekyll & Hyde to Nellies for one last round of…

• 15 x Superman Pullups (IC)
• 15 x American Hammers (IC)
• 15 x Single Leg Glute Bridge R (IC)
• 15 x Single Leg Glute Bridge L (IC)

Triple Nickel on the Weinke.  No time for all that.  Let’s just travel as a group and get done what we get done.

• 5 x Burpees (OYO)

We started to mosey back down the street when our Nantan-elect ordered up a group photo.  11 PAX, shoulder-to-shoulder, all the way across the street, and a SUV looking for a way through, parked in the parallel spots trying to thread the needle by us, with a mail truck way off in the distance.  Sounds like a perfect time for YHC to call some monkey humpers.  Did about 3, but we needed to get out of the road.  Cars were trying to get by.  Ladies and Gentlemen, your 2023 SLT!

• Short Mosey
• 30 x Monkey Humpers (OYO – to the beat of Christmas Vacation)
• Short Mosey
• 5 x Burpees
• Short Mosey
• 30 x Flutter Kicks
• Short Mosey
• 5 x Burpees
• Short Mosey
• 30 x Monkey Humpers

Back to the Yank, arriving with the ruckers for COT.

Moleskin:

This was the first Bootcamp I’ve led in 3 months.  Glad to get back at it.  Thanks for the opportunity lead and get after it with a solid group of HIMs.

Yabba Dabba Doo

4 HIM’s overcame the fartsack and gathered on a cold morning to get better. By the time I got my coupons and bluetooth speaker ready at the gathering spot, it was 0530, go-time. Warm-up was hillbilly walkers, Moroccan nightclubs, and Nolan Ryans (10xIC). In the distance I heard the whistle of a train so tacked on 5 burpees. PAX debated whether I actually heard a train. Orangeman said it was a car. “So you did hear it!” I replied – as if I even needed a train to call 5 burpees.

The Thang:
Set up the music (The Offspring Pandora channel helpfully added by my 15-yr old daughter who has somehow developed remarkably good taste for 90s alternative rock).
Set up the timer: 30 seconds of work, 15 seconds of rest.

“Exercise 1” consisted of:

Derkins
Kettlebell swings
Bulgarian split squats (switch legs halfway)
Lawn mower rows (switch arms halfway)
Kettlebell pullovers

Step ups
Merkin pull throughs
Clean and press (switch arms halfway)
Dips
Reverse lunges

Flutter kicks
Side plank star crunches – L
American hammers
Side plank star crunches – R
Scissor kicks

Some of these exercises were picked for their emphasis on balance. Most of us could use more work on that.  The side plank star crunches were especially ridiculous. Thanks to F3Carpex for introducing me to that little gem – it will surely make another appearance in a future Q. 

There were coupon-carry breaks after each set of 5 exercises.  After about 2.5 complete rounds, we finished up with 2 minutes of Mary.

Announcements:  New Years Day stuff – check Slack for details; 2nd F lunch

Prayers:  Turtleman, Huckleberry, my Brother-in-law Dylan

Privileged to lead a fine group of HIM’s this morning,

 – Nutria

Many a HIM was roaming around the northern territory in today’s gloom. Some rucked, some ran, some discussed Persuasion and how it applies to the HIM life. All were better for the effort.

Prayer Requests: Wirenut’s daughter, M & In-Laws, Huckleberry, Turtleman, Mayor’s boss’ father in law, Whoopee & Rebar Covid, Christmas time stress and those who face the grief of the season, our Men and Women in service especially overseas

Annoucenments: Bell Ringing this Thursday and Saturday, Flintstone B-Day Saturday, New Year’s Challenge, 2nd F Lunch on Thursday the 22nd

Merry Christmas men!

It was Sunday morning and the temperature hovered in the high 40’s. Perfect for a run. As the Q, I showed up on time – that’s right, 6:29:50. Stroganoff, Roscoe and Maybeline were gathered. Stroganoff yelled at me to hurry up. I yelled back for the runners to take off because the Q was gonna ruck. It was going to be just like that. Those three men took off and I went the opposite direction. About 45 minutes later we reconvened at the starting spot.

Roscoe asks if there are any announcements…”step off Nantan, this is my Q,” I say. Only one week into his Natanship and apparently the Old Nantan ways were shared in the onboarding. While I fumbled through my phone looking for an American flag so we could say the pledge, Stroganoff suggests a Q should be better prepared. As the Q, I quickly suggest a good Site Q would have already planted the flag. Guess who the Site Q of Coconut Horse is? Candor is being spread thick like a peanut butter sandwich.

We moved on and got through announcements, prayer requests for Turtleman, Stroganoff’s co-worker that lost their son unexpectedly, and Whoopee who is suffering from the ‘Vid. I took us out. We moved indoors. Roscoe bought me a coffee because I forgot my wallet – thank you brother. We then covered QSource Q4.8 on Team Accountability. Oh – fresh off his VQ (5 years in mind you) Hunch Back joined us for the Q-Source. He needs to come back. One of the points was a Q should not only lead by example, but the Q must exceed his Team’s Standards. I recounted a story when former Appalachian State Football coach, the legendary Jerry Moore told a story about running on a treadmill for hours as his team arrived to the weight room and having his team see his light gray shirt soaking wet because he wanted his team to see him working as hard as he could to set the example. I think I saw a tear in the corner of Roscoe’s eye. Those were the glory days. We all went on to share some stories about team accountability and the various challenges we have faced in our work places.  Some men are Kimonos and some are Toxic. It is imperative to uncover those personalities so not to disrupt the Dynamism of the team. The chapter concludes with advice on the Q not giving up on the willing. There is a difference between the man who can’t as opposed to the man who won’t meet the Standard.

If you’ve never been to a Q-Source, come check out one of the three on Sunday morning. If that doesn’t work for your schedule – start one during the week. In the first quarter, you can get an extra point for attending. See 1st F Q Flintstone’s pre-blast about the 2023 Challenge.

It’s the first Saturday of December & we’ve got ourselves a Christmas party tonight. No better time than now to get  in a little work to prepare for the extra calories that will be consumed from the debauchery to come. It’s my First Q in a while since we all tried our best to partake in his excellency’s New Q November I haven’t had to plan out one of these in a bit. Let’s do this. Quick warmup ladder down style.

SSH and Mike Tyson’s                              25/5, 20/4, 15/3, 10/2, 5/1

Followed that up with some:

Gravel Pickers IC                                                   MNC IC                                                                   Mountain Climbers IC

We finished off this Warmup with some static and active stretches and now we’re off. We headed over to the newly rebuilt Block Wall over by the Church and FD. Here we did some 11’s.
Single Leg step ups on the Block Wall and Calf Raises on the curb across the road. Upon finishing up we moseyed over to the Courthouse for some 4 corners. We did 5 Mike Tyson’s at each corner around the Courthouse Block. Once finished with a round of that we headed over to the dreaded Kotter’s Korner and ran 4 corners of 10 ATG Squats per corner around this Block. Moseyed back over to the FD. Paused here for The Pledge and a few more Mike Tyson’s why not right. We’re now headed back towards the Old School parking lot just in time to let everyone know I’ve got a truckload of you guessed it Blocks. Everyone grabbed their coupon of choice and we did 7 rounds of:

7 Thrusters                                                               7 Goblet Squats                                                     7 Curls                                                                         7 Tricep Ext.                                                             7 Alpos

We followed each round with a rifle carry of 25 yards. It was at this time that Gumby discussed with us the amazing and very interesting usages of Asprin and Chloraseptic Throat spray. (ask him I’m not getting into it on here) Needless to say we all learned a little something interesting today. Then  once the last carry was in it was time to head in for the COT.

There always seem to be lots and lots of prayers this time of year so be sure to check out the prayer list frequently.

This wasn’t a barn burner by any means but we got in a lot of Quality Reps and @ 2.5 miles as well which was the goal.

Thanks guys for the constant push and encouragement until the next time.

It was a cold rainy morning but F3 continues on – rain or shine. Good work men!