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Fitness, Fellowship, Faith

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JV heat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

9 delirious men showed at  Midoriyama for a nice 90+ day. I guess a tweet out provoked a none response for the workout. But all who showed had a great time.

I had a plan, but it changed when I saw the Iron Pax challenge. I want to push myself a lot more. I can’t compete with these guys, but these challenges are just that. Challenging myself to be better, not just at the workouts but a mental challenge for myself. As I come to these workouts I listen and notice all the work you guys put in with family life, work life, and your extra things like running and working out. I am in awe of you all for the work ethic and strength that you all show each and everyday! Thank you all for your love and  friendship. Thank you for the push through the pain and misery. God bless you all!!!!

 

Iron Pax Challenge #4

Mogadishu Mile

1 mile run

50 pull-ups

4 rounds of each:

25 alternating traveling leg lunges

25 air squats

4 rounds of each

25 merkins

25 yard sprint

100 coupon squat thrusters

50 pull-ups

1 mile run

 

 

Announcements

stop soldier suicide / speed for need

JJ 5k

 

Walk Off and Limp Off at Folsom

4 came out early for Extra Credit

A little out of order but thisnisnwhat happened…may edit later

Time to start.
Circle up. Grab 3 rucks pass right to left. Pass with overhead press, change to squats.

Enough warm up. Mosey to tennis courts. Carry rucks to back fence. Split up into four teams, grab a ruck go to the corners.

Pair off into kickball teams.
Lots of whining crying cussing and burpees. Hacksaw got some puss and hurt his hip.

Walk off grand slam by Bedpan.
Name o rama and Q took us out.
Exercise is buddy humpers.
Call an exercise for your teammates to perform while you grab a ruck and mosey to fence and back. Did that 4 rounds.

-Oompa

Who’s Ready?

Tuesday at the Storm and YHC was cutting it close on making it in time. Luckily everyone was in formation waiting for the Q. Aye!!!

I asked whether we had any FNG’s this morning because Freight sent word that there should be one. In my hurry to get started I either didn’t hear or ignored anyone say there was in fact and FNG, from now on to be known as Get a Grip. Super brief disclaimer was given, because there wasn’t an FNG right?

Warm Up:

Captain Morgans x5 IC each side (this was  fail, not to be repeated)

Cheerleaders x10 ICish

Freddy Mercurys x15IC

Pledge of Allegiance

Mosey down to the road to the speed humps. This is where YHC is informed that we actually do have an FNG. Disclaimer. Karaoke left from the 1st to 2nd, karaoke right from 2nd to 3rd, skip from 3rd to stop sign.

Gather up for a quick count off. Mosey 25 yards to the bottom of the big grass hill.

Everest: Lunge, lunge then squat until you reach the top. Repeato x3.

The Thang:

Elevens: Merkins at the top, run to the bottom to do Gorilla Humpers then bear crawl back to the top. Switch the reps until they’re all flapjacked.

Nur up the sidewalk to the artwork. Regular mosey after about halfway.

At the artwork, its time we get personal with a Menage:

Team up for groups of 3 to do work. While partner 1 exercises the other 2 run around the circle. Switch off at each lap until the team reaches 90 reps of each exercise.

Round 1 – Bobby Hurleys

Round 2 – Big Boy sit ups

Round 3 – CDDs

Time’s running out so we mosey back to the start. Once there we get in 30 Alternating Shoulder Taps to finish up.

Strong work today men, especially the FNG. AYE!

Prayer Requests: Leigh Anne Carpenter, Lynn Hamm, Breaker Breaker’s family, Tesla’s friend’s family on his passing, Slim Shady’s grandmother passing, FNG Get a Grip’s father in law blood infection

Announcements: several 5ks coming up, Burpeethon (you’re welcome @andrew_quinley), other stuff

Thanks for the opportunity to lead today men. Next week Boudin gets his shot.

AYE!!!

Fellowship and Some Excercise

I’m sorry for the late BB.

16 High Impact Men showed to better themselves, their families, there communities, and the souls they will have a chance to impact this day.

The focus of this particular workout was fellowship.  It stemmed from an earlier workout Q’d by Whoopee.  I thought it was a very challenging and productive morning but when I read his BB he made a very good point. What he labeled as a Q fail was that there was very little opportunity for fellowship during the workout.  Lets face it, the fellowship is a HUGE motivation for overcoming the fart sack and posting.  With that said, the idea behind this was to keep the group grouped, moving at his own pace, giving and getting a push and some encouragement from a peer when needed, and some conversation….all the while getting in a good workout.

This was what that looked like.

Warmup:

SSH x 20

High Knees x 20

Mosey to short wall in front for bank for Dips x 20

The Thang:

Mosey to the Old Coconut Horse parking lot for this idea taken directly from the Dolph playbook.  Thanks Dolph.

10 parking placed were set up as stations marked in chalk.  The Pax was to complete said exercise and mosey, run, walk, limp. crawl, or whatever they can do two light poles down (approx 150′) and back then continue to the next station.

The stations were as follows;

  1. Burpees x 10
  2. American Hammers x 20
  3. Merkins x 20
  4. LBC’s x 50
  5. CDD’s x 20
  6. Curls with either 17lb or 30lb dumbells x 20
  7. Squats x 20
  8. Toe Risers x 20
  9. Bobby Hurleys x 10
  10. Leg Raises x 20

We did this until 6:14am then mosey back to start.  My fitness watch said we did roughly 2.5 miles all the while listening to some music, talking, and hanging out.  The time seemed to fly by.

It was really great to see Bandit.

Great fellowship and work by all.  You are all such and inspiration.

Please read HIPAA’s post for the announcements.  There are quite a few and all great stuff.  It’s so nice to be part of a group doing great thing for the community.

Aye!

Timeframe

 

The Pain of Isolation

It’s been awhile. Had my third child, Anna Joy Rinaldi, and been anxious to get back. I’ve had this idea in my head about the pain of isolation, as I certainly experienced this while having to step away from F3, making sure Anna, my M Sloane and family were taken care of in her early months.

THE WARMUP (10 in cadence except burpees) – Side Strapple hops, burpees (5), plank jacks, burpees (5), and peter parkers

Mosey….

THE THANG – Dubbing it now as The Isolation Train. Each HIM in plank position. One HIM runs around the building, all other HIMs do shoulder taps until returns. this is repeated, with next exercise being mountain climbers, then left foot to right hand, right foot to left hand, until all 13 HIMs have completed…Analogous God’s mercy and grace, through in some isolated LBCs…We moseyed back to the  starting point after doing a lap, to the next part – The Isolation Wall. Similar to the Isolation Train, Each Him would be inverted on the Wall. This time, two HIMS would run at a time around the wall, until all completed 2X. The exercises would be Hip Slappers, Donkey Kicks, and Jock Straps (my version of Ballz ;-)) to the Wall… Again analogous of God’s mercy and grace, through in some wall sits to ease the should stress…All HIMs returned back to the where we had completed The Isolation Train and repeated it. This time with two running together around the building, while others completed shoulder taps, mountain climbers, etc…We mosey’d back to the starting point to wrap up with two exercise symbolizing the power of sharing each other’s burdens and being there for one another through struggles. Each group of two did patty cake merkins and hand shake squats…Dolph concluded us with Big Boy Situps.

I spoke about the theme of isolation…Asking the question of where do we often carry our burdens? With HIMs answering on our shoulders…And where was the focus of the workout?….Shoulders!!!

There’s so much good that comes when we come alongside each other and share each others burdens, be there in times of need, celebrate in God’s many ways of blessing us.

That’s the dilly dilly!!!

Slim Shady

Stretching is way overrated

If you don’t know who Bob Wylie is, you are missing out. He’s the offensive line coach for the Cleveland Browns who has a personality about as big as his waistline. In a video with language not suitable to show your mama, he shares that America “won two World Wars, two World Wars” by doing pushups, jumping jacks, situps, climbing a rope and running. In honor of the treasure that is Bob Wylie, the PAX at The Pub concentrated on one of those foundational principles of American greatness. We ran…

The “Pub Route”
Out of the Publix parking lot and right on Hoffman
Left onto Pamela (to be clear, that is take a left turn onto Pamela St)
Left onto Gardner Park Dr
Left onto Armstrong Park Rd
Back to The Pub
Thanks to the PAX for helping recover the lost sheep. Q fail on that for losing the six.

The Pledge

Prayer Requests
Sly
Stroganoff and family
Gastone’s in-laws
Dunce and M for the baby on the way

Close in Prayer

Good work by all.

Until next week…

BackBlast 8/23

10 PAX showed on a really nice evening at Midoriyama.  Awesome to have temperatures in the low 80s in August.  I noticed we have 1 FNG with us today, so a short disclaimer was given.

Warm-Up:

Slaughter Starter-  which is 20 Burpees OYO

The Thang:

Mosey to the hill that leads down to the fishing pier.  For those that frequent Midoriyama, you know that this is a long tough hill.   With that said, time for some Triple Nickel.  This is where you perform 5 x called exercise at top, run to bottom and complete 5 x called exercise and then run back to top.  5 repetitions (5/5/5=Triple Nickel).  We started with Jump Lunges up top with right knee and left knee going down counting as 1 rep.  We ran to bottom and did 5 Burpees, then ran back to top.  We did this 5 times to complete the Triple Nickel.  While waiting on the six to finish, someone called I think 40 LBCs OYO.

Next mosey across the street to small parking lot.  Here we got a partner to do some 11s.  With partners on opposite sides of parking lot, we started with 10 Tiger Squats.  Then meet your partner in the middle for 1 Booyah Merkin.  Partners plank facing each other.  Perform merkin in unison and on up move reach out and tap right hand of partner.  Repeat merkin and on up move reach out and slap left hand of partner to complete 1 rep.  Continue doing this until you flip the numbers and end with 1 Tiger Squat on each side and 10 Booyah Merkins in the middle.  Way to push on this one fellas, the merkins are tough at the end.

With time running short, we started our mosey back to the flag.  We would do some route 66 with Plank Jacks stopping at 11 different light poles to perform the exercises.  First pole was 11 Plank Jacks, next pole 10, next 9, continue until performing 1 Plank Jack at the last light pole.  Finised up and mosey to flag.

With the upper body feeling good from the Booyah Merkins, might as well do some more.  Here I called a little Burp & Merk.  I modified this a little and changed the merkin to Hand Release Merkins.  Start with your traditional Burpee and do Hand Release Merkin at bottom then complete.  Drop back down for a second burpee with 2 Hand Release Merkins at bottom.   I think we continued this until 9 Hand Release Merkins were completed.  Upper body was smoked at this point.   A couple ab exercises were called until time was up.  Great push men.

COT:

Announcements

Prayer Request

Nameorama

It was an honor to lead today men.  Welcome FNG Somebody (Doug Flemming).

Sister Act

Surprise

This week started with Roadie scheduled to Q this morning.  He asked me on Monday to take his Q as he had previously scheduled plans.  He didn’t tell anyone about the change – just that he had big plans for Thursday.  He wasn’t wrong.  Big didn’t mean anything overly special, he meant big as in an elephant had the Q.   At 0529 YHC informed the PAX that Roadie was in fact not the Q, and it was time to clock in.

Warmup: SSH x 15IC, Toy soldiers x 10IC and Hillbilly x 10IC

Pledge

Mosey to the lower parking lot for deconstructed burpees.

Move down to the turd shack and grab some wall.  11s with Australian mountain climbers and regular mountain climbers.

Take the steps back up by doing 15 calf raises per step.

Route 66 with squats, lunge walk the lines.

Bear crawl/lunge walk to the speed bump and then mosey to the tennis courts.

Circle up: 10 crab cakes and 20 LBCs.

Rugby sprints x 3

Circle up for Mary.  Flutter kicks, Sandy Vs, American Hammers, WW1, Burpees, shoulder taps and Mrs. Parkers.

TIME

COT

Annoucements: JJ5K, Speed for Need 5/10k, burpeethon, Snowbird retreat.

Prayer requests: each other.  Gumby’s father in law.

Praise report: Gumby baptized his son last Sunday.

BOM: YHC closed us in prayer.

It was an honor.

Philippians 4:13

Huckleberry

Why Run?

It was another humid morning to start out in the Folsom gloom. The PrisonBreak attendance has been pretty darn good since the AO started and today didn’t disappoint. I’m sure the reason behind this phenomenon is due to the HIMness of the site Q………….or……….his leg.  The Folsom AO started about 2.5 years ago and the amount of running per WO May have reached a total of .5-.75 miles. Which sucked then. For some odd damn reason all of a sudden Folsom decides .5 miles is not enough and it’s gotten carried away to where Folsom hosts 2 running AOs a week! Then, some started with the XmasTown 5k, then the first CSAUP relay, more 5ks, another CSAUP relay and now, some are talking about the P200!!!! What has happened to ole school Folsom? Anyway, cars are rolling in, yes, cars. The Folsom brand has made such a stamp out and about the Gastonia region that not just the stereotypical truck driver posts nowadays. Enough of the chit chat. It’s 5:30 and WomanLeg is not present.

pledge

All PAX ran, moseyed, mall walked, or jogged this AM for between 2-5 miles give or take. Some left early and some left late.

Announcements LaborDay Murph at Martha’s

YHC took us out in prayer

It’s an honor to Q and be the site Q for Prisonbreak even though I’m not a “runner.” I hate running, but for some dumb reason I continue to perform said dumbness.

MW Out

Special Olympics – Burpees by the Lake (AKA Burpeethon)

This is an intensive 2 person team workout for the burpee enthusiast!

There will be adults only heats and adult/child heats

Added bonus: $2.00 “How many can you do in a minute?” competitions for prizes! (Burpees, push-ups, sit-ups, hip slappers)

 

October 6th, 2018      9:00 am– 11:00 am

Rankin Lake Park, 1750 Rankin Lake Rd, Gastonia

 

 

 

COST: $25.00 paid day of event.  Cotton adult sized Guardian of Flames t-shirt for all participants if registered by 9/18/18 – 100% of all proceeds go to Special Olympics NC

Waiver: Please print and sign the waiver – 2018 General Waiver for SONC-Burpeethon.  Remember to bring with you day of the event.

REGISTRATION: Rankin Lake Park Waterfront Shelter  8:00am-9:00 am the day of the event

or

Pre-Register below by September18th to reserve your T-SHIRT!!!!!

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