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You’re A Daisy If You Do Redux

Last week, I stumbled upon Huck’s VQ from May 17, 2016. As I read through it, I decided to call the workout exactly as it was written in honor of my good friend who has been struggling recently. Love ya Huck!!!!

There were 10 at Huck’s VQ. We had 12 today. Medicine Woman is the only man who was present at both workouts. Was it was easier last time because it was before he jacked up his leg?

Warmorama

SSH x 15 ic / Floyd Mayweathers x 10 ic, switch/repeat / Allen Tates (monkey humpers) x 15 ic

Pledge (we got this at the end)

short mosey. stopped and found rosalita 15 times ic

continue the mosey to the lower parking lot.

4 corner escalators. spot one: merkins x 10 / sprint to spot two: squat jumps x 15 + merkins x 10 / bear crawl to spot three: mountain climbers x 20 + squat jumps x 15 + merkins x 10 / sprint to spot four: lbc x 25 + mountain climbers x 20 + squat jumps x 15 + merkins x 10 / bear crawl back to start

mosey a little

Peter parkers x 10 ic

mosey some more

arrived to the tennis courts to partake in 11’s starting with 1 burpee and 10 imperial walkers. went up and down the tennis courts.

afterwards we circled up for more fun

5 double merkin burpees, hillbillys x 10 ic, 5 double merkin burpees, monkey humpers x 10 ic, ring of fire with 5 merkins and 10 lbc, calf raises x 10 ic, don quixotes x 10 ic, 5 double merkin burpees.

mosey back to the parking lot to finish up with another ring of fire with 5 merkins and 5 additional double merkin burpees.

Prayer requests: Huck and his family, Striper’s brother, My mom, Achey’s uncle, Westside’s wife – all nurses, MW – friend going through marriage issues. Bedpan’s family

I consider Huck one of my best friends and I have F3 to thank for that. He isn’t the only one though – I consider all of you my friends and know Ibhave hundreds of men around Gaston County and beyond who have my back! It is such a great network of men who push and support each other. I appreciate all of you who came out this morning. This workout holds up pretty well after 6 years! I look forward to the day Huck has the Q and delivers this beatdown himself!

The original backblast is HERE

– Phillipians 4:13

Montross

Bunker

Clock struck 7:00 a.m.. Sargento led us down to the Bunker, but refused to go down into the Bunker, so I took the Bunker crew down the steps for a warmup.

First things first, get the Pandora Metallica station going.

Warmup

15 SSH IC

10 Imperial Walkers IC

10 Merkins IC

20 Squats OYO

5 Burpees

Next up route 66.  Lunges and Bear crawls going one way and Merkins and Lunges on the way back.

Next up 2 rounds of following work outs

1 min Wall Sit

10 Hip Slappers

10 Hook ups

30 Shoulder Taps

1 min Wall Sit

Tabata 20 seconds of work and 10 seconds of rest for 4 minutes.

CDD

Monkey Humpers

Merkins

Mtn Climbers

Tabata 20 seconds of work and 10 seconds of rest for 4 minutes.

Hill Billy Walkers

Squats

Lunges

Imperial Walkers

5 merkins

Fellowship mosey to end of parking lot and back.

With time running low we put in some core work.

25 of each of following core exercises

LBC

High Flutters

Low Flutters

High Scissors

Low Scissors

American Hammers

Heals to Heavens

Plank Jack

WWI

Time almost up we fellowship moseyed back to The Yank.

Sargento took us out with COT.

Six Feet Under

There’s nothing quite like working out at Midoriyama in August, it’s hot and humid with very little shade. Eight PAX made it out and put in work despite the rough conditions.

 

No need for a warmup so let’s get going. My intention was to do some easy running with stops along the way for quick reps of various exercises to get the heart rate up. Major Q fail!!! The heart rate went up right off the bat and never came down. Got in about 2 miles total with stops for merkins, lbc’s, squats, ssh and burpee’s. Also threw in some lunge walks, big boys and Mike Tyson’s just to mix it up. Solid work by all the PAX!

 

NMM/COT

YHC took a few minutes at the end to discuss how Freight is a great example of what a leader should be. He’s candid, he’s dedicated, he challenges himself and others, he will hold you accountable and expects you to do the same for him and when he sets his mind to do something he gets it done. All of these traits are things we discuss at QSource and if you aren’t attending these sessions you’re missing out.

 

Announcements

Blood Drive 8/10

Freight’s moving day 8/13

F3 Dads at Yank 8/20

Dads Skate 9/17

JJ5k 9/24

 

Prayer Request

Huck

Travelling Pax

 

Purple Haze took us out.

 

Huck joined us for the COT and it was great to see him up and about. Keep sending up those prayers for his healing and comfort and reach out to him if you get a chance.

 

I’m Broke

Only a little lost

WARMUP:
SSH
Imperial Walker
Hillbilly Walker
Shoulder Taps
Slow merkins

THE THANG:
mosey around until I got lost.

Stop along the way for:
10 Merkins
9 squats
8 LBCs
7 Carolina Dry Docks
6 Jump Squats
5 American Hammers
4 Hand Release merkins
3 Jump Lunges
2 Flutters
1 Burpee

Did the full set each stop. I think we stopped around 6 times. I ran to what used to be an event center to do another round and was informed it’s now a private residence.  Better to be dissuaded by your friends than run off by someone wielding a shotgun.  We got a little over 3 miles in today.

Unintentional message of the day:
How do you respond when your leader is clearly lost?

Planned message:
You’ve done something challenging today.  Don’t shy away from other challenges as they face you.  You may need to press forward and persevere, or you may need to hold back and assess.  Both decisions require different kinds of toughness.

Thanks Radar for the call to lead outside the my home region. Was great to be in Belmont this morning.

Type O Negative

A Storm of EMOM (Every Minute on the Minute) was brewing so we got after it.  (For full disclosure, Sargento was at the start and finish of the workout after running before and during, the earlier half with Buckeye.  YHC believes Termite was around as well.

Eleven PAX were there for the workout.  It went down like this.

 

Warm Up:  SSH, Merkins, LBC’s, SQUATS

The Thang One:

EMOM  10 merkins, 15 LBC’s, 15 squats x ten rounds

Mosey to the baseball concession area for Thang Two:

5 Dive Bomber Merkins, 10 Big Boy Situps, 15 jump squats x 5 rounds

Mosey to the front of the school for Thang Three:

5 burpees and 20 lunges  x 5 rounds

Mosey to the lower lot behind the away side of stadium for Thang Four:

1 minute plank, 50 Moroccan nightclubs, 1 minute plank

Stay put for Thang Five:

All PAX plank on the curb of a traffic island.  PAX one plank walks to his right and tags in the next PAX and it continues around the island for two laps.

Mosey back and hit the Pledge along the way.

COT began when we got back and then we prayed it out.

Announcements:   F3 Dads at the Yank Aug 20th, F3 Blood Drive August 10th, JJ5k September 17th

Prayer requests:  Rice and Beans, Homelessness, Stinky Bird’s brothers FIL recent passing,  Safe delivery for all the babies in our F3 Gastonia family…Buckshot, Buckeye, Bouquet, Wichita, (missing one?)

We had four for coffeerama where we discussed the blood drive and perhaps getting guys to give blood so they can be around us F3 guys and see the ballbusting of who can give the fastest pint.  We learned that Boudin is TYPE O NEGATIVE, otherwise known as the Universal Donor.  This was as blatant a humblebrag as YHC has ever heard.  We also learned that Sargento is “B POSITIVE”.  Of course!

If you aren’t strong, you’re wrong!

Roscoe

 

No Burpees Q -Whoopee

Total of 3 miles around Martha Rivers area including the following suggestions:

SSH

LBC’s

Flutter’s

Merkin’s

Nurr

11’s that turned into 7’s

Declining merkins

NO BURPEES but it is you against you

You should have been there

Announcements

Many prayer request

EZ out!!!

 

 

Downtown Fillin for the Canoe

SA is under the weather this morning so he asked me if I would paddle his Canoe for him at DT. I actually arrived 10 mins early! Was a small but pretty good crowd…it was basicly all Folsom guys and EZ Rider, who actually meet all the Folsom requirements other than that silly little egg looking thing he drives (Come on Stroganoff!)

Warmup–SSH, some stretches etc…

Mosey to the Alliance Bank Wall. Wall marches, overhead presses, Australian mountain climbers, monkey humpers.

Mosey to McQuiters wall for Lindsay 30-10, 25-15, 20-20, 15-25, 10-30…dips and dirkins between each set do 20 step ups.

Mosey to Safelite Autoglass parking lot for Modified Triple nickel. 10 imperial walker squats, then run downhill to the pull up bar…10 pull ups…do this 5 times, if you get done pick up the six.

Mosey to parking deck (Achy Breaky said he had never been Downtown so i wanted to show him around). Bear Crawl the ramps, then a burpee, Keroke/nur/sprint the straights ..all the way to the top.

Mosey back to start…time!

Announcements:
Aug 10 Blood Drive in Belmont…see Slack for details
Aug 20 Dad/2.0 workout at the Yank
Sept 17 Kate Skate
Sept 24 JJ5K

Prayers:
Huck
Turtle Man
Big Pappy Family
Ez Rider Family
GearWrenchs Customer
Goudelock Family
Achy Breaky Uncle

Everybody got in a pretty good workout I think. Not as douche as SA would have done it but i did what I could.

SYITG

Ball Joint

Tour De Folsom…..revisited

Warmarama
SSHx10 IC
Hillbilliesx10 IC

Mosey to amphitheater

Thang

Triple Nickel time. 5 decline Merkins then to the top of the hill for 5 burpees. Rinse and repeat 5 times.
Mosey over to the ball field parking lot.
Line up for some 11’s. Jump squats on one end and lunges on the other(count 1leg).
Mosey over to the upper fishing pond parking lot. Line up for some Route 66 using Bobby Hurley’s.
Mosey on around to the tennis courts. 4 corner escalator. First corner 10 merkins, next corner 10 merkins + 20 French fries(count both arms), next corner 10 merkins + 20 French fries+ 30 mountain climbers(count both legs), fourth corner 10 merkins + 20 French fries, + 30 mountain climbers + 40 LBCs.
Mosey back to start. With a couple minutes left YHC calls on a PAX to lead us with one, Balljoint calls 5 Burpees OYO. Wichita adds in 20 merkins OYO.
Time!

Pledge

Announcements: Blood Drive August 10th, JJ5K (date unknown), Snowbird men’s retreat September 16-18

Prayer requests: Sparky’s parents, Achy Breaky’s uncle, Huckleberry, Goudelock family, Big Pappy and family, Melinda White, Clint Hudson, Wirenut’s 2.0, Stogie’s neighbor, Bedpan’s M

Moleskin; You can be out of this group for months, but when you do show back up, it’s like you were never really gone. Except for the fact your body lets you know you’ve been out. It’s always an honor to lead you men. As I mentioned during the Q, it’s crucial in today’s society for men to be MEN! “Toxic masculinity” is a term used to tear down that notion. It’s not toxic to be men. It’s biblical. Also, confidentiality is a big part of F3. What we share between each other stays our group. Trust can easily be lost. That being said, I’m thankful to be a part of this thing called F3.

SYITG

MW out!

A Kotter’s Q for me and you

17 HIM’s showed came out to put in some work in the gloom at Folsom.

We started out with a disclaimer, in which I very clearly stated that I was in no way a professional……

Did some warm-up and then went for an aimless mosey up to the tennis courts and then back down towards the lot, only to realize we had more PAX than coupons so the mosey got a little longer when we doubled back for cinder blocks.

Broke up into groups of 3 or 4 and did 4 sets of literally whatever at times because groups of 4 had 1 block, 1 kettlebell

There was some well-deserved mumble chatter. This didn’t improve when we took a break from the random series of kettle bell swings, curls presses, burpees, planks, squats, to go over to the shelter for 200 dips… and bats flying overhead.

At this point I tagged out, my workout simply wasn’t well planned enough for that many guys.  Balljoint called for 11’s which took us out. Thankfully the PAX saw to returning the coupons for future use and we took it out with COT, Pledge, Announcements, Sarlacc prayed us out

Announcements

 

Prayer Requests

 

 

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