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In hindsight… some of this was stupid

11 men posted for the lastest edition of Midoriyama.  Relatively speaking the weather was nice.  At 17:30 we clocked in.  Tool Time and Wojo went running while the rest of us started the warmup.

Warmup: SSH, Imperial Walkers, Flutter Kicks all x 10IC.

Mosey to the parking lot by the far turd shack.

Four corner escalator  C1: 20 Scorpion dry docks.  C2: 20 Scorpion dry docks and 40 Peter Parkers.  C3: 20 Scorpion dry docks, 40 Peter Parkers and 60 LBCs.  C4: all the above plus 80 Squats.

Lunge from pole to pole and line up for Route 66.   Bearcrawl between lines with merkins.

Mosey to the far turd shack.  11s with Australian mountain climbers and regular mountain climbers.   I’m not certain, but I think I heard more complaining during this than any exercise I’ve ever called.

Mosey back to the parking lot.  Lunge, nur, lunge, nur. Circle up for some tabata.   One minute of the exercise with a brief break.   Exercises were monkey humpers, moroccan nightclubs, LBCs, SSH and something else.

Mosey back to the closest turd shack for 10 jackass merkins.   This brought more complaining.   From the plank do one merkin and immediately into a donkey kick.

Back to the launching point for 20 LBCs IC and 22 for the vets.

Pledge

TIME

COT

Announcements: Speed for need, JJ5k, CSAUP

Prayer requests: Def Leppard, Montross, Medicine Woman, each other.

BOM: YHC closed us in prayer.

Men: I know when I have the Q it’s a little different than most.   I’m not the greatest runner and I know the amount of running that most of you get in.  I appreciate the opportunity to Q, and I hope you get something out of it.

Philippians 4:13

Huckleberry

 

Burpees

Going to make this brief…….

Warm Up….

SSH – 20 in cadence

Merkins – 10 in cadence

LBC – 20 in cadence

Squats – 20 in cadence

Pledge

Mosey to Martha River’s.  Bandit pushing himself hard to improve after some much needed time off, great effort sir.  Lead off to a modified 11’s borrowed from Roscoe’s playbook.  Note to self, and note to all PAX, do not ‘EVER’ borrow a page from Roscoe’s playbook.  Serious injuries from minor hemmorage and lesions to fatality may occur.  Luckily for me I only experienced a major ’bout of discomfiture resulting in me losing overall count and wondering if I even completed the full round of 11’s.  Our modified and not monkified 11’s included 5 burpees at the bottom of the hill which by max standards can only be a 5% grade, but in full swing felt to me like 95%.  At the top of the mighty small hill Pax are to perform 10 squat jumps (I squatted an inch and jumped an inch) and reduce count by one each time up.  I may (may I say) have splashed merlot around the third or fourth time up, not necessarily due to my lack of athletic ineptitude, no, moreso to my discountenance watching Boudin, Defib, Spiderman, oh hell all of them lap me.  To start we ran, wait…….go back and start 5 burpees and then run.  It is honestly to me a great heart start burner.  We finished and many thanks to Gastone as he lead the completed PAX (all of them) in planks and yanks as I finished my next five rounds.

Mosey to Picnic Shelter area #2 for some Lindsey’s/Forties.  Just as we are about to get started I noticed that we were in the wrong shelter.  Even though I called ahead and reserved Shelter #1 (had to have the Volleyball Court) Gaston County Parks and Rec told me I would not need advanced notice as at 5:30 in the morning there is relatively little circumscription even though I now think all of the ropes creating barriers to my Q were the result of me insisting upon my natural appanage.  So, she took my credit card information and said, you got Shelter number #1, idiot.  I’m waiting for that charge to appear.

Lindsey’s/Forties, 30 Dips/10 Merkins, total 40.  Rinso/Repeato reduce/increase by 5.

Smokin arms, mosey to the rock barriers and did not even glance at the volleyball court which I so needed for what I have no idea.

Aiken Legs, 20 of each – Squatz, Scissor Jumps, Lunge, Step or Jump Ups

Mary, Led us in a short bout of Mary, Spiderman insisting that he get a chance to chime in with one.  Really, holding up his hand shouting me, me, me, me.  Come on man, pick me.  Hey, Linus……Here, I’m right here, pick me!!!  I want to lead one!!!!  Got to got to admire the enthusiasm.

Modified 4 corners, Light poles on the way back, stop and do 10 merkins, next one 20 squats, next one was 10 merkins.  It was 10 merkins because in 4 corners, not only is the next exercise supposed to be 30 of whatever, I could not even think of whatever 30 we would do so I resorted to starting back over, along with Whoopee properly noting that each corner would pick up with the prior exercise as well as the next advance.  So, this is modified, monkified, Linusfied (definition, if it includes Linus then it is messed up).

Moseyed back to Snoballs, Thank you to all Pax that came back to carry me home.

Announcements:

Stuart Cramer:  Mayor wishes to pass the torch on Site Q.  Step up if interested

Irwin Center – 7/27, 6:00-11:00 (pm I suppose), At Risk Kids, need Chaperone’s to help with fun and games, see Gastone for intel

Bandit’s Father playing in Swing Band (not swingers like some had hoped) at Stowe Park, 7ish’.  Already happened but hope it was great

Monday – Site Q change at Black Knight.  Mighty small ceremony to take place.  Show

Whoopee – Shout out to T-Bone and Peppercorn for their commitments to Fitness and F3

Many thanks Whoopee to your recognition of Linus and efforts to improve.

Prayers/Concerns:

Clavins’ Mother, Whoopee’s daughter (who is improving), I believe there is another I missed, I regret this and am sorry but we lifted all concerns up.

Great time guys, thank you for Posting.

Honored to Lead where I am frequently the Six

Linus, out

Fartsackamania is running wild, brothers.

Five men posted at Folsom this morning the day after the inaugural Tronmoss Legacy 5k.  That’s it… just 5.  In preparation for my painlab VQ this Saturday, I wanted to try and only do low impact work.  This was difficult because if you know me… you know how much I love to run.  Once 05:30 hit it was time to clock in.

Temperature: 72. Humidity: 400%.

Warmup: SSH, Toy Soldiers, LBC all x 15IC.

Mosey a bit. (only mosey of the morning)

Deconstructed burpees

11s with incline and decline merkins.

Deck of death.  Gave out 5 cards to each person.  After the round the winning poker hand got to pick an exercise.   DOD exercises were merkins, scorpion dry docks, squats and flutter kicks.  With the flutter kicks we added ten to each number.

After that round Sister Act had the winning hand.  He picked 10 contra burpees.

Dealt again and YHC won.  10 Eight count body builders.   Omaha after 7 and leave because someone crapped their pants.

Lunge and fellowship mosey back to the launching point.

Pledge and 22 for the vets.

TIME

Announcements: JJ5k, Speed for Need race coming up.

Prayer requests: Def Leppard, Montross, Medicine Woman.

BOM: YHC closed us in prayer.

AYE

Philippians 4:13

Huckleberry

HILLS AND ALLIGATORS

It’s been way too long since I have had the Q . I guess I had too long to come up with something cause I only got through about half of it. Here is what I remember

 

WARM UP:

SSH 10 IC

LBC’S 20 IC

HILLBILLIES 10 IC

Mosey to playground for 3 sets of seven pullups and seven burpees

Mosey to dogpark hill for 11’s

Plankjacks at bottom and squats at top

LBC’S WHILE WE WAIT ON 6

Next to side parking lot for some partner work

From each side of lot each one does 1 Mike Tyson on Curp then alligator merkins until they meet partner in middle for 5 booyah merkins., we did 3 sets of this.

 

Next back to flag for some block work Mary style

Exercises included,:

Curls, overheadpresses, bentoverrows, Lbc’s 1 leg squats thanks for showing off Wojo blockies,  tricep extensions,  and Flutter kicks

ANNOUNCEMENTS,  sign up for CSUP and other SFN events coming up also JJ 5K

PRAYER REQUESTS,  Sly and others serving our Country,  Def leopard  and others traveling,  Montross and others on IR

As always it is truly an honor to lead a group of men of this caliber

I TOOK US OUT WITH PRAYER

 

 

 

Tronmoss Legacy 5k

We run because he can’t

Who is Tronmoss? Well it all began one cold January day back in 1978…ok, we won’t go that far back. I am Montross aka Tronmoss. If you aren’t aware, Allen Tate gives everyone his own personal nickname (this extends beyond F3). He started calling me Tronmoss months ago. He told me once he gives you his own nickname, that’s when you know you have made it to his own inner circle. I am proud to join the likes of Dingleberry, Spar’-key’ (sorry, can’t paste the ‘key’ emoji here), Essay, Skeet, Tink, etc. This probably led to me calling him Chief, but that is another story for another day.

So I believe it was Roadie who first suggested hijacking the Prison Break AO and naming it the Montross Run, primarily to troll Medicine Woman. Medicine Woman was not having it and he is typically the Q for Wednesdays. MW is at the beach this week so when he said he needed someone to pick up the Q, YHC saw opportunity and immediately took the Q! After 1837 messages of discussion, the Folsom GroupMe voted to help select Tronmoss Legacy 5k as the name for todays event. It became a staple in the announcements, guys got behind it, logos and stickers were made, and this became a big deal to the guys at Folsom as well as me.

However, I was a little surprised when I rolled into Folsom to see 13 cars in the parking lot at 5:30 on a Wednesday. Several brothers from other AOs made the trip in to join us today and for that I say “THANKS!” Chief (aka Allen Tate) said all along this was a day for rock pushing and indeed it was. You guys probably saw a few messages on Slack as I tried to do a little live-blogging. Guys who don’t typically ran showed up to run today. There were at least 3 PRs set this morning that I know of…4 if you count Sparky pooping at Waffle House in 6 minutes flat. Essay in particular put in 6 miles and, based on when he started and finished, one can assume Pizza Man ran about 6-7. All in all, it was evident guys were pushing themselves and each other.

As the runners and ruckers returned and we gathered for a few minutes of fellowship, Oompa gave me one of the most special gifts I’ve ever received…something truly from the heart. Since I’ve been on crutches this past week, I kept thinking how much I need a walker with pink fur and butterflies all over it and my man came through! I feel like I was channeling my inner Def Leppard as I pushed my walker around Folsom. Thanks Oompa!

Announcements – 2.0 workout this weekend at Folsom, CSAUP relay coming soon per Broke. YHC took us out in prayer. Prayer requests included Def Leppard as he returns, Bed Pan as he goes on vacation, Montross, Medicine Woman, and all the other guys battling injuries. I let the guys know they needed to do 22 raise the roofs OYO today in honor of Medicine Woman. I knocked mine out in the parking lot.

For real though, what started as jokes and trolling turned into something that did really mean something to me so thanks to everyone who showed up. You supported me when I was the 6, you supported me when I Q’d, and you guys are supporting me now as I heal up. I am looking forward to getting back out there to workout as soon as I can but I’m going to listen to the doctors and not rush it. In the meantime, I’ll stay connected through chats and breakfast at Country Kitchen. Keep pushing the rock fellas!

  • Montross aka Tronmoss

For those that weren’t there, here’s my sweet new ride

a gift from Oompa Loompa

Did someone fart

We started this day in the gloom with no warm up. Judging by the weather it was not needed.  We said the pledge and went to work. Slow mosey to the courts.  We had a circuit set up with a big ass tire some blocks and some kettle bells. First round snatch press, up and down with the battle rope, inclines Merkins, flip the tire(with no rim), curls with the 30lbs dumbbells,  overhead press with a block. We did 1 min at each. Run half the tennis court and nur the other half. Now we did front raises with the kettlebells,  side to side with the battle rope, decline merkins,  chest press with the dumbbells,  flip that dam tire, blockees, (we did all of these for 2 min because of the mumble chatter) we did this till time ran out. Oh yeah we did some lbc’s too because it wouldn’t be a roadie workout with out them. There was a lot of mumble chatter today(which makes me think I did something right).

 

We had some announcements and some prayers.

 

It was a honor to lead today men.  I know that I don’t always bring the hardest workouts to the table but I hope y’all know that leading ya’ll is truly an honor.  I hope that everyone left the workout today satisfied. I have never been one for words of wisdom so I hope yall look to someone else for that. I’m just here to feel a gap and push y’all the way yall push me. God bless y’all and god bless this country.

 

GET YOUR  BUTT DOWN LEPPARD

 

Love all of you men like brothers.

 

Could we pass the NCSU PE class with high honors??

That was the question weighing on my mind. The back story : met a young  guy at the gym doing various exercises similar to what we do at F3.  He was working very hard and was intense.  Tried to head lock him to get him out.  Long story short, he wanted to pass his PE class next semester at State.   I was curious, asked a few questions and pulled the course curriculum from State’s online registar.   Could this be a good winkie?

Knowing F3 Gastonia has a number of State fans (not sure how many actually graduated) or how many padded their gpa’s with PE, I figured we could have some fun with it.  So we get started and to his credit, T bone was the only one to claim having graduated there. I am pretty sure in his graduate work, he didn’t take PE.   So would be a new experience.  At this point, I am very interested to see if the pax could earn high honors.

The thang

Disclosure

Pledge

Warm up

Moroccan night clubs x 20 IC

SSH x 20 IC.

Mosey down to the shopping center

1st PT test – 40 push ups in 2 minutes.  All pax passed on 1st attempt achieving a score of a B.   40 was the criteria

Run to the loading dock, bear crawl down to side walk, run to parking lot, complete 20 squats oyo.  Rinse and repeat x3

2nd PT test – 100 lbc’s within 2 minutes:  again all pax passed with a B based on current NCSU thresholds.

Mosey to other end of lot for some wall work

Hip slaps IC x 10 (complete Q fail, yhc screwed that one up with cadence)

Wall sits for 1 minute

Back to hip slaps this time oyo to 10

Wall sits for 1 minute

Mosey behind shopping center, jump the wall and wait for pax in back parking lot of doctors office.

Plank waiting on the six

Next PT test – 50 ww I sit ups in 2 minutes.  All pax passed with another B score.

Mosey around building, stop at road.  Squat jump up the hill to first light, run back, rinse and repeat x3.  Island was a beast, practically floating in the air.

Gastone honored us with a  quick count of flutter kicks x40 I think

Mosey through the neighborhood to cut thru to the park.  Plank while waiting on the six.  Yhc heard a train and called 5 burpees.   Monk whispers you didn’t hear a train.  Must of been a ghost train.

Mosey to back field for the price of admission.  The main event, the turtle run.  Like an Indian run except everyone bear crawls with last in line moving to the front.  Was a crowd pleaser.

Running short on time, mosey to picnic shelter.

20 dips oyo x2

20 step ups oyo x 2

Mosey back towards Snoballs.  Stop and plank at top of park waiting on six

Jail break back to Snoballs

Time

  • Moleskin:   the Pax put in some good work.  It was a honor to lead.  Everyone earned their B.   Next time we will target the A thresholds.   Pretty amazing to think about a bunch of older men accomplishing what many young kids can’t achieve.   Mind over body.  Keep pushing the rock.  Till next time – Turtle Man

 

 

Redemption

Less than a week from some pretty rough stuff at the GOAT, it was time for redemption. I reworked the timer and made sure it was legit and ready to go. Phone and speaker were charged up and the night before the Q, Breaker Breaker reached out and gave a little more grief, but did give me his favorite music genre is old school rock. Just so happens, Spotify has a playlist for just such a thing.

No FNGs so the normal disclaimer.
Warm Up – SSH x10IC, Moroccan Night Clubs x 25IC and Grass Pickers x10IC (we were able to count).

Grab some extra coupons because I remember there only being 14 blocks, but Dr. Seuss, Orangeman and Slim Shady manned up and carried the Slam ball, kettle bell and Sand Bag.

Mosey to the blocks and circle up for some 3, 2, 1….Three minutes of strength split b/w two exercises, two minutes of cardio split between two exercises, one minute of abs and then run to keep us moving.
Set1: 3) Squat Press & Merkins, 2) Burpees & high knees, 1) crunchy frogs.
Set2: 3) kettlebell/block swings & curls, 2) plank jacks and fast feet, 1) American hammer.
Set3: 3) squats & dips, 2) side straddle hop & mountain climbers, 1) flutter kicks.
Set4: 3) overhead press & Tricep extensions, 2) squat or lunge jumps & seal jacks, 1) Freddy mercury.

We Omahaed the running on the third set to make sure we finished the sets. Put the blocks up and mosey to the start. The music selection and timer operation for the sets were flawless. Still some mumble chatter.

Announcements: This was a Tiny Tank special Q. It’s been a year since I took over and I am looking to pass the reigns. Ruck this weekend so get with Boudin to park at Roadies work or Freights house.

Prayers: Clavins mother in Hospice, Boudins sons shoulder and concern for his senior year.

COT – Tophat took us out.

Shade Please

13 HIMS showed up to a nice toasty evening at Midoriyama.   1 PAX put in some time on a  mountain bike, 2 PAX ran for 45 minutes, and the rest of us enjoyed some bootcamp time.  I always enjoy the afternoon workouts at Midoriyama, so I wanted to bring something to the table that really pushed everyone.  I just had the Q at Folsom the weekend before, so I decided to not leave the Midoriyama guys out and repeat some of that workout.  Let’s just say, this wasn’t a real crowd pleaser.  The heat of the summer in the afternoons can really intensify a workout and push you mentally and physically.  This one pushed me and it was great seeing everyone out here pushing themselves in whatever activity of their choosing.  After a little EC with Slaw, it was time to get started and to start getting everyone ready.

 

Warm-up:

None needed, it’s HOT!!  Mosey to small soccer field.

 

The Thang:

Found an exercise  called The Cooper.  This one was a repeat from Folsom, but today we are using the small soccer field as our track.  Begin with 1 lap around perimeter of field, then 10 Burpees, 10 Imperial Squats, 10 Ski Merkins.  Run lap around field, then 9 Burpees, 9 Imperial Squats, 9 Ski Merkins.  Continue this until you finish with 1 rep of each exercise.  Oh boy did the mumble chatter( complaining) begin here.  Several PAX mentioned the lack of shade in my selection of workout location.  I didn’t feel like shade was necessary, so we continued on.  You don’t want the PAX getting soft and expecting shade at every Midoriyama workout, so on we go.  What a difference it is,  in doing this at 6:30 in the morning Saturday versus 5:30 in the evening.  This was a challenge and smoked the guys pretty good.  There were calls for Omaha, but we continued.  I did however  offer a break in stating that when the first PAX finishes, I will end the misery and move on.  WeeWee saved us, as he finished several laps ahead of the rest of us.  That dude is a beast!.

After a short break to let everyone catch their breath, on to the next exercises.  4 corner escalators called.   Mosey to First corner 10 Mountain Climbers(IC).  Mosey to corner 2, 10 MC(IC), 20 Peter Parker’s.  Mosey to corner 3, 10 MC(IC), 20 PP, 30 CDD.  Mosey to corner 4, 10 MC(IC), 20 PP, 30 CDD, 40 Sumo Squats.  Time running short, so let’s mosey towards flag.

We arrived at flag with time to spare, so let’s grab some wall at the turd shack.  I did feel a little bad, so we used the shade side of the shack.  Here we did 10 Hip Slappers (IC) & 10 Mike Tyson’s(IC), next 8 HS & 8 MT and finished with 6 HS & 6 MT.  Time

COT:

22 for the Vets

Pledge

Announcements

Prayer Request, YHC took us out

It was an honor, as always, to lead today.  Even with the summer heat upon us, it is great seeing steady numbers at Midoriyama.  Way to push that rock fellas.

 

Sister Act

Burpees in Belmont

So comes the day that YHC is up at The Yank and after a posting in Lake Wylie F3 last Wednesday where we did a 59 burpee segment at The Abyss we figured it was time to spread the wealth a little in uptown Belmont! So here is how we accomplished that feat.

COP featuring a burpee ladder on the pad in the park

SSH X 20

2 burpees

IW X 20

4 burpees

about this time Tool Time was trying to EH a runner who said “next week” so we’ll see! Hope TT didn’t scare him off too bad.

Copperhead squats X 20

6 burpees

Mountain Climbers X 20

8 burpees

LBCs X 20

10 burpees

Mosey up to the Corner of Knowledge for partner work:

Round 1

P1: run to the other end of the school and do 10 merkins

P2: Step ups ’till P1 returns.

Flapjack

Round 2

P1: Run to the other end, 10 Mike Tysons

P2: Inclined merkins until P1 returns

flapjack!

 

Round 3

P1: Run to the other end and do 10 CDDs

P2: Step ups until P1 returns

Mosey down to the upper school lot.

Round 1: Burpee suicides: Run two lines, Nur one and do a burpee. All the way to the end.

Round 2: Squat suicides, same as above but 5 squats.

Mosey down to the filed of dreams for some REAL fun!

First things first, 5 burpees fro the train.

Four Corners in middle of the field

Corner 1 – Merkins X 10

Corner 2 – LBCs X 20

Corner 3 – Hand release merkins X 10

Corner 4 – plank jacks X 10 (each leg)

Return to center each time, 5 burpees .

One round for the pax. Then time for the Bear crawl IM!

Two rounds to the end, bear crawl and agility run.

SSH X 10

Moroccan nightclubs X 20

2 rounds

mosey back dropping at each pole:

1st: 5 hand release merkins

2nd: 10 LBCs

3rd: 10 merkins

mosey over to Heartbreak hill

Triple nickel:

bottom: Mountain Climbers X 5 (each leg)

run to the top

Jump squats X 5

Pretty well wiped out the Pax. Time for some pax called “Fountain Mary” to finish up with. Fonda called burpees.

Pledge

Done.

NMM:

We did a little today. Maybe more than a little? Could be! Welcome FNG Virus, a Sam’s Club recruit. Respect was the name of the game but YHC still holds the War Daddy monicker in F3 Gastonia. You guys want varsity play, come hang with the Respects at The Yank! It is a badass place when they are in town! Bring your A game and that means attitude!

Note on another development. Revolution is really taking off in Metro. had 45 out there Saturday with my Core bros and Black Men on the Run showing big time. I think we need to go over on Saturday in August just like core did and keep it growing. That community needs it and is responding!

Tool Time with the lead Saturday as YHC is on vacation. Need leadership the 28th. Wide Open. step up!

 

Tesla

 

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