Fitness, Fellowship, Faith
It was a great morning at the Sword. We learned to increase our circle of caring and that with good beards comes great responsibility.
Our verse this week is:
Micah 7:8 Rejoice not over me, O my enemy; when I fall, I shall rise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord will be a light to me.
Prayer Request
Announcements
Big Pappy
Started with the Pledge; warm up was mosey to Martha Rivers shelter near the playground/bathrooms.
The thang:
25 Merkins, lap around parking lot; rinse and repeat until 100 Merkins completed;
25 LBC, lap around parking lot; rinse and repeat until 100 LBC completed;
25 Dips, lap around parking lot; rinse and repeat until 100 Dips completed;
25 Squats, lap around parking lot; rinse and repeat until 100 Squats completed;
25 Step Ups, lap around parking lot; rinse and repeat until 100 Step ups completed;
25 Flutter Kicks, lap around parking lot; rinse and repeat until 100 Flutters completed; plank for the six
Mosey back to SnoBalls; finished up with 10 big boys and 1 minute high plank. All said and done we put in 3 miles and 600 reps this morning.
Announcements:
Golf tournament/outing
BrewRuck on October 17 at 1PM (meet at OMB; see pre-blast on Slack from Freight)
Prayers:
Pray for F3 Hightower’s family (officer in Myrtle Beach who was killed over the weekend)
Pray for Easy Rider
Pray for Gastone and his father in law
Ended with short prayer…off to work!
Whoopee, Stroganoff, Breaker Breaker, and YHC completed the 5 mile/300 merkin challenge that Whoopee led. At the 2.5 mile mark, we ran into Kotter “Compass” along the darkened Greenway. While we stopped to do more merkins, Compass moved on and we caught him again at the 3 mile mark for more merkins.
Sargento and Buckeye were running and completed a minimum of 5 miles miles but likely many more. Flintstone completed the normal 5 miler.
Shortsale showed up for Q-Source on Quadrant Four, Leave Right. Hopefully all who stated for Q-Source were edified.
YHC failed to do the video nameorama and/or take a photo of Q-Source discussions but will do better next time!
Roscoe
I had not Q’d at the Gashouse in quite a while and jumped at the chance when Linus called for some Q help in October.
A good crowd gathered for Painlab and the bootcamp. One FNG showed (more to come on that).
We circled up for the disclaimer, pledge and a quick warm up of:
10 IC Imperial Walkers
10 IC Side Straddle Hops
Time to split up for the bootcamp and Painlab (Les Nesman with the Q there).
8 total took off to the track at Grier Middle School where so many of our region’s early workouts occurred.
The Thang
First up was some partner work with Dora:
Starting on the track straightaway, Partner 1 performs exercise while Partner 2 runs across the field to the straightway on the other side, performs 5 Monkey Humpers and runs back to Partner 1 and switches spots.
The Dora exercises included cumulative 100 Merkins, 200 Squats and 300 LBC’s.
Next on the list was 1/4 Mile four corners around the track as follows:
1st corner – 10 Merkins
2nd corner – 20 Squats
3rd corner – 30 CDD’s
4th corner – 40 FNG’s
We ran it back, literally as we nurred from corner to corner for the 2nd round of the same exercises in reverse.
YHC then mistakenly called a made up round of work that he called 1/4 Mile Merkin Lunges. With same partners, Partner 1 performed AMRAP merkins while Partner 2 lunged around the track. When Partner 1 completed a set of merkins, he ran to catch up with Partner 2 to start his set of lunges. The original plan for this was to go a full lap…….YHC omaha’d this to a half lap and it was plenty.
Finally had to throw in a few Wolfpack Grinder laps as follows:
10 IC Squats – Run Half Lap – 50 Freddy Mercury’s
Rinse Repeat for another half lap
Next round: 10 IC Squats – Run Half Lap – 25 CDD’s
Rinse Repeat for another half lap
Nearing 0800 so we moseyed back to the Schiele for some Mary that included Flutter Kicks and Dying Cockroaches.
During the COT we each shared a praise or prayer. I appreciate everyone sharing.
The naming of the FNG became a challenge due to his comment somehow related to “Big Gun”. I actually do not remember the context of the comment but that led to many names suggested including “Pew Pew”. I fought it valiantly but eventually succumbed to the time and pressure and our newest recruit was tagged with “Pew Pew”. Welcome.
Good work men. It was great to get out and Q the Gashouse Bootcamp again.
Until the next one. Aye!!
Stroganoff
So YHC took the lead at Downtown last week leaving the AO. Have to admit, I really like this workout and AO! It has grown on me. Didn’t hurt that today may have been our best morning of the year today with a near full Harvest Moon, greats stars and temp @ 55 with low humidity. So things went like this:
COP:
Arm Stretches
SSH X 20
IW X 20
Cotton Pickers X 20
Grapevine stretches
Merkins X 10
Mtn. Climbers X 10
Burpees X 5
Mosey down South Street to the hamburger hill for some power pole suicides.
Bottom: 5 HR merkins
Each Pole: Start with 10 Big boy situps and then increment by 2. Run back to the bottom and go to the next pole. Add distance every rep. Wind up with 20 Big boys at the light, passing 5 poles.
Mosey over to the old Courthouse wall for the following.
Dips X 10, 15, 20
Stepups (each leg) X 10, 15, 10 (with 20 monkey humpers thrown in).
Run a lap around the courthouse for good measure between each set.
Mosey back to the Pavillion.
Four corner bear crawl then do exercise.
1st corner: jump squats X 20
2nd corner; squats X 20
3rd corner; sumo squats X 20
4th corner; 50 SSH
Pax driven Mary with a burpee kicker.
Done and pledge.
NMM:
Great morning to do this work in. Could not have been better or more enjoyable. Pax worked hard and got better. Lots pf prayers and praises today, mostly for the positive. Good buttermilk workout! Great men, great work.
Honor and pleasure to lead.
Tesla
11 pax posted on a great running morning. YHC was in a giving mood and allowed the pax to chose the route – with a majority wanting to go to Martha’s. Along the way we enjoyed perfect 52 degree crisp air and clear skies – Perfect weather for hecking of the Sambritches and their purses.
Announcements
Look for a convergence and PT test in November (details still being worked out)
Austin TX half on Valentines Day (see Sargento)
Prayer Requests
Broke’s family, SA’s daughter, Huck and Purple Haze
I would like to take a moment to thank Hipaa for the vision and resolve in planting the Bulldog AO. At the time this AO was started there were very little painlab options. As I can recall the only option was at the Gashouse on Saturday mornings. I commend Hipaa for seeing a need and having the resolve to follow thru in meeting that need.
I would also like to take a moment to thank Voodoo for his leadership this year. Thank you for serving with honor and integrity.
It is my sincere desire to follow the lead of these 2 HIMS and MANY others be the head servant for the upcoming term at the Bulldog. I hope to help grow the AO if I happen upon a chance to have any influence in that. Growing the AO mean that more men are overcoming “sad clown” and there are personal, familial, societal benefits.
Thank all of you. Aye!
It was finally a cooler clear morning.
We stretched, did merkins, moseyed a bit, did some yoga, and had a jolly good time.
See y’all out and about.
Aye!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Timeframe
This is the kind that make it more fun. It was truly raining and it was not going to let up.
The Thang:
SSH 20
Imperial Walker 20
Merkins 20
Mosey through the crushing rain all the way to the parking deck.
11’s on the 3rd floor start and the other half on the second floor. Hand Release Merkin’s and something else. But it was fun.
We went up a level and did some other workouts.
Then we came back down to the bottom and did some ab work.
Moseyed through the rain back to the start. Had to swim some.
Finished up with everyone calling a exercise.
The Moleskin:
Went well and as the video showed it was not an enormous crowd but it was the crowd that had courage to come out in the rain.
We did announcements and prayers. We did get the pledge in.
Gastone Out.
It was wet but not rainy. But a good morning in the mid week to kick some bootcamp butt.
The Thang:
SSH
Imperial Walker
20 Merkins
Mosey around to the back entrance of the park.
50 Monkey Humpers
Walk through the darkness.
Then mosey to entry path that leads to the middle of the baseball fields.
Each light we did a different Leg Workout and then back.
Mosey to the other path that leads to the middle.
We did Merkins. (Might have backwards I don’t remember)
Then we did a bunch of ab work.
We did announcements and prayers.
Gastone Out.
The fall feeling weather is in the air and makes it more comfortable for pushing the rock. The HIMs were out again at TRB and start time is now!
Warm up:
Goof Balls IC
Abe Vigoda (apparently fast, then slow, then fast)
Mosey to the back of the school. Surprise, surprise! YHC brought a bag full of cards and a speaker. Joy!
Deck of Death, always a crowd pleaser.
Spades – Lunges
Diamonds – Burpees
Clubs – American Hammers
Hearts – Merkins
There were two aces in the deck and we ran to the road and back for each one. As is often the scenario, most of the spades and clubs were drawn at the beginning and overloaded the finishing rounds with burpees and merkins. That’s ok, we got swole. YHC loves the DoD. The lucky PAX in attendance were super excited to get to hear the latest musical compilation, this version was loud and hard. Perfect for pushing the rock to.
Mosey to the front, get 5 burpees in for the train that passed earlier and we’re done.
Announcements: Young Life golf tournament Monday October 5th
Prayer requests: Orangeman’s daugther, Adam Kincaid, Sargento’s M’s knee replacement, Stephanie McMahan, Tiger’s ex’s surgery, Nutria starts new job Monday, George Miller passing, Sherry McKenzie passing
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