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Stripers VQ

Warm up: 15 side straddle hops,15 gravel pickers, Moroccan night clubs, 5 burpees

Mosey to top parking lot at ball fields, ran to each speed bump did 7 mike Tyson’s and 3 burpees at speed bump then run back to top and do 20 squats..continue this for 5 speed bumps(whole road). Mosey to flag and do pledge. Went to stairs did 20 incline mercans, 20 dips then jog over to black bar and did 20 flat pull ups. Indian ran from there down to the shelter where a person would call a ab exercise and bear crawl around the center column and while they are crawling the rest of the group does the exercise until the person bear crawling reaches there spot.

Announcements:

Murphy on Monday

Prayer request:

Pregnant

Turtle man

Witchatia uncle and baby

Huck

Braidens family

Stripers brother

Sarlaccs daughter

S.A’s daughter

Big pappys M

The Sandlot – 5/23/22

Disclaimer

Pledge

Seal Jacks IC x 20

Hill Billy Walkers IC x 20

Low Slow Squats IC x 15

Mosey to the park entrance for Domino Merkins.

Mosey to the wall by the vacant bank for Dips IC x 10 and Step Ups each leg x 10 OYO.  Rinse and repeat X 15.

Mosey to the Wells Fargo ATM for a few rounds of Circle of Burpees.

Mosey to the wall in front of the discount furniture store.  Wall Sit with Over Head Presses.

Mosey to the Food Lion parking lot for Rugby Sprints.  Each PAX took a turn leading an exercise.  Nice work by Wonder who lead an exercise for his first time.

Mosey back to the furniture store for Wall Sits and Marching.

Mosey to Planet Fitness for 5 Burpees.

Mosey back to the flag and 1 lap around Pelicans.

Great work today Gentlemen!

Dirt

The Punisher and That B*tch can take a Hit

It’s a nice warm spring morning and as I pull up (super early and very punctual as usual)to the best Saturday AO in the land what do I see but 5 eager PAX staring back at me.

As it would turn out the 2day notice CSAUP didn’t cause me to go at it alone this morning. I already knew a few would show as Freight had informed me the day before his intentions of showing. Also I saw the one and only Mayor has been talking a dump truck load of cold cash crap to Stogie on GroupMe about coming out to Old School for some form policing and exercising tutorials. Also noticed a couple other familiar faces upon arrival one being good ol’ Def Leppard. I think I witnessed him using the old Snuggie as heat compression treatment on his many broken down appendages. I’ll tell you men it’s hell when the mind is willing but the body is hurting and sometimes not willing. Good job Gumby and Leppard for showing up and not making excuses like a lot of others would have.

Well it looks to be that time let’s get at it. No FNG’s Quick Disclaimer and we’re warming up. Mayor kicks off the mumblechatter by dumping on my pull-up form from a workout earlier in the week at the inaugural Down Low AO. Now I didn’t go all Tarzan like Westside did but I can hold my own. Challenge accepted and warmup over.

Let’s mosey down to the ball fields behind Carr School. Once there we hit up some dips on staircase and took a lap around the 2 lower fields. There’s some discussion about names of the fields and the future location of an Olympic Sized Pool in this area who knew Little D would ever need an Olympic Pool. All I know is Old School can have a pool party while the boys at Folsom are hanging out at the splash pad. That means lots of new work out options coming to this side of the county men don’t let me down.

We’re here! The Jungle Gym! The place where in the past the young adolescent elementary school boy would make his first real friendships. Maybe for first time he shows off for or tries to steal a kiss from that pretty girl in class. Whatever the case may be a lot of first time alpha male activities go down at this epic spot on the school yard. Here’s how ours went down.

The Thang

5 Rounds
5-Pull-ups
10-Hand-Release Merkins
15-Squats

Mayor is pushing Stogie pretty hard today but not in his typical, cynical, Mayoral manor. Nope this was a caring & supportive Mayor. I’m not sure if I’m supposed to be happy or concerned for the both of them at this point. Either way I’m impressed keep up the good work Stogie and Mayor.

Now we’re good and tired our shoulders, backs, arms, and legs are screaming at us for some relief but the heck with that we’re only getting started. We mosey up to Old Schools Route 66. We’re running this one backwards from 10-1 with mountain climbers at each pole. Head back to the parking lot for you guessed it COT. Not just yet we’ve got plenty of time left for a little WOD I’ve been wanting to do for some time now and as fate would have it I got fresh shipment of 50lb. sandbags and a load of blocks in the back of the truck. Pick your poison block or bag this one’s going to hurt either way.

THE PUNISHER

10 Rounds with Coupon of your Choice

10-Squats
10-Bent-over Rows
10-Merkins
5-Burpees
25 Meter Carry

0800 and Time

Man this WOD was a Btch and that Btch can take a hit. I hit this thang with all I could and in the end it hit me back twice as hard. Hats off to Freight for being the Bat Flipping Hammer he is as he finished solidly in front of all us. Some of us had to modify due to injuries or prevention there of. Eventually I hit failure on the last few rounds of this one and couldn’t get all my reps completed in a quality fashion. I’d rather modify the workout or even drop reps off the workout than sacrifice the quality of my reps in the workout. In the end The Punisher won this round. I do however think that  even with the physical failures I encountered it’s work like this that will make us all much stronger and better so was it really truly a failure.

Pledge

COT

Prayers:

Freight’s Dad and Family Gumby’s Family, Wichita’s M and Family, My Daughter and Family, Turtleman, injured PAX, and All CSAUP participants today

Thanks men for the push today. Great job to all.

Visitor Parking only

6 of us this morning, humid and light rain definitely had an impact on us.
But we push through as we always do.

Warm up, goof balls, windmills, ssh,
Mosey to the school.
we used the visitor parking only area since the school has not let out for the summer just yet.
Booyah merkins take a lap pax meet back up and complete the exercise.

Mosey back to the Baptist church. 11s monkey humpers up the hill cdd’s
then take a lap around and back to the beginning.

return to base.
step ups 25 derkins 25, dips 25, upright merkins 25,
about 2 and half miles and some strong werk by all.

Pledge
prayer,

The Bed Pan is full.

Downtown – 5/20/22

Disclaimer

The Pledge

Warm-up

SSH x 10 – 1 Burpee

SSH x 10 – 2 Burpee

SSH x 10 – 3 Burpee

SSH x 10 – 4 Burpee

SSH x 10 – 5 Burpee

Let’s mosey to the sweat box (parking deck)

At lower level, 5 burpees, 10 merkins, 15 squats…bear crawl up the ramp and mosey across parking lot, repeat the three exercises, and then bear crawl up ramp to next level. Once at the top, finish the three exercises at end of parking lot.

Wall sits w/marches

Next is time for 11s

10 Big Boys

run to other end of deck for Mike Tysons

Once completed, wall sits w/marches and then o/h presses.

Time to mosey back down parking deck. Going down, reverse bear crawl down ramp and then 5 flying squirrels, 10 CCDs, 15 monkey humpers, rinse and repeat at bottom of each ramp as we descend down the parking deck.

Mosey back to pavilion to finish out with some core, flutter kicks, American hammers, and LBCs

COT

Announcements

Prayer Request

YHC closed with prayer

Breaker Breaker

Labyrinth – 5/18/2022

Disclaimer

The Pledge

The warm-up

SSH X 10 I/C – 1 burpee

SSH X 10 I/C – 2 burpee

SSH X 10 I/C – 3 burpee

SSH X 10 I/C – 4 burpee

SSH X 10 I/C – 5 burpee

 

Mosey down to the center of baseball fields.

Time for some 11s

Lungester (reverse lunge both legs and then a squat) – starting out with 10 reps

run to end of side walk

Merkins – starting out with 1

You know the drill, back and forth until 1 lungester and 10 merkins

Wall sits and O/H presses

Flutter kicks

American Hammers

LBCs

Mosey back to shovel flag

COT

Announcements

Prayer Requests

YHC closed out with prayer

 

Breaker Breaker

CSAUP Lite at the Storm

(photo caption above) Tribute to JOBU

For the men that showed up at the Storm for fitness and fellowship, they got what was promised.  If they are participating in the daily Bible study put on by Breaker Breaker, they got all three.

I am thankful for all who showed up, but there are a few all stars.

Whoopee for showing up at 0600 to help set up shop and plant two flags!  Pilgrim’s Promise for the F3 Tent.  Tiger for the Dunkin coffee!  Short Sale for the F3Gastonia Tent.  Doodles, who kept security on the set up during the first leg.  Jobu for showing up to open the bathrooms and for just showing up!  I think Bos brought the Corn hole board and Whoopee brought the football.  Breaker brought some refreshments as well.  F3 Gastonia Leadership were also well represented!

YHC started writing down the names of the PAX as they appeared.  At 0645, we started the Nameorama to capture everyone and give instructions.  Doodles was on IR but he showed up anyway.  The teams paired up on their own with one ruck team comprised of Orangeman, Pilgrim’s Progress, and Tesla.  Short Sale drew the short stick and ended up with YHC.  Whoopee and Boudin made a formidable team.  JJ and Sargento paired up.  Breaker Breaker and Tiger and Bos and Bubba Sparxx rounded out the teams.

Teams were handed maps and instructions for each leg.  The first part of the CSAUP is exercises at each “station” and running in between each.  100 reps of each exercise but only one PAX can perform them at a time.  The other PAX rests and then they switch.  Each of the three legs is approximately 3 miles.

LEG ONE:  At 0701, the teams left home base and ran together to the front of Stuart Cramer.   Station One was the front of the school for 100 step ups.  Everyone was together at this point.  Station Two was the loading dock for 100 squats.  Station three was the lower parking lot traffic circle for 100 merkins.  Station four was at the Lakewood traffic circle for 100 SSH.  Then down Armstrong Drive for station five for 100 yard bear crawl in the Goat Island Parking lot.  Then run across the GOAT to the Cramerton War Memorial for station six and 100 Burpees.  At this point there was some separation and Whoopee and Boudin were smoking burpees like nobodies business.  After that,  run back across Goat Island to the front of the school again for 100 dips.  Finally, station 8 was back at the start line for 100 babymakers.  There was some controversy about what constitutes a babymaker.  Some preferred to call them Pickle Pounders, but each PAX had a different interpretation.  I believe Pilgrim was performing more of a StarGazer before being corrected.

After the first leg was done, Gavel drove in after his YANK Q and caught the Ruck team doing Babymakers and asked what the heck was going on!

LEG TWO

The teams came in and one PAX from the team went to run Rocky Branch trail.  Fun fact:  This was Boudin’s first ever trail run!   YHC has no idea who was leading at this point, but it was either Boudin/Whoopee or JJ/Sargento.

Other PAX returned to the start and half of the PAX stayed for fellowship, football,  cornhole.  or just recovery.

YHC decided to Ruck leg two with the Ruck team so Short Sale just took a break before starting Leg three.  YHC texted Jobu who is a kotter but also teacher of the year at Stuart Cramer who had promised to open the restrooms for us.  He showed up after most PAX had completed the Rocky Branch and was able to reconnect with old PAX and meet new ones.  I believe I heard he is training for a marathon or that could have just been the heat playing tricks on my mind.

LEG THREE consisted of running around the Storm and back to the Goat Island Greenway Thread trail and back.

When Short Sale returned from leg three YHC took off and rant that leg as well, along with BOS,  Bubba Sparxx, and Breaker Breaker.  It is alleged that Sargento and JJ won first place, but YHC wasn’t there to see it.  I suppose it could have been Boudin and Whoopee as well.  Who knows and who cares?  Everyone got better and had a good time.

We were done and cleaned up by 1015 so it didn’t take “all day” like some M’s believed!  Although this was a CSAUP lite because it didn’t have the distance associated with some CSAUP’s, it would be a good starting point for another “out and back” relay with more mileage.  Lots of options to consider!  Let me know if you want to lead or contribute to the next CSAUP.  It is never too soon to put another one on the books.

 

 

Roscoe

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