Category: Backblast (Page 310 of 904)

On April 10th, there was only one F3 vehicle in the parking lot. I arrived late due to the dog’s extra time to take care of business. It is also possible the Q could have got out of bed earlier and arrived on time. I was not in the running mood anyway, so I grabbed a ruck sack and walked the standard route in reverse. After a few miles, I arrived back to base and then caught sight of Whoopee chugging along. His determined look broadened into bit of a smile. I’m sure he would have appreciated seeing me at 0629 or so as he confided jumping in his truck and going home but he’s not one to turn away from a challenge, even if it is all his own. He escaped the fart-sack which is a good thing.

Flintstone and Defib joined us claiming a “smart-sack.” The cool thing about Sunday mornings is we have a buffet of 1st, 2nd and (sometimes 3rd) F offerings. So the four of us gathered inside to review the Whetstone chapter of Q-Source. Some of the PAX are part of the current program. Some of us shared a few of the challenges in the past. The concept is good as we can always benefit from a mentor. None of us have all the answers but life’s experiences do provide some calluses that can aid another who is trailing behind.

Dr. Seuss is the current Q of Whetstone – seek him out if you would like to be a Stone or Blade. There are benefits to both roles.

We had a good crowd this morning due to the clean up efforts that Freight set up with Keep Gastonia Beautiful. As you all should know, we’ve adopted a section of Garrison near Lineberger Park. Freight started us off with a few warmed up exercises, then we split up for the egg hunt.  Painlabers each grabbed a set of bricks and riffle carried them over our heads down to the gazebo on the nature trail. Expecting some rain we set up camp there. We did a few more warm-ups with arm circles, side twists, Don Quixote’s and squats. Let’s work:

Set 1: 50s work/10s rest

crunches, American hammers, mountain climbers, big boy sit-ups, reverse crunches. R&R

Set 2: 50s work/10s rest

merkins, triceps dips, incline push-ups, overhead press, shadow boxing, Burpees. R&R

Set 3: 50s work/10s rest

curls, close grip curls, fly’s, overhead triceps ext., ext. arm curls. R&R

Mary for 5 minute, then Mosey back to base. While headed back, Bondo realizes that we went to high school together 😮. Damnit man! My memory is a shade of gray from 30 years ago, but when he told me his birth name, John Mcateer, it came back to me. 

Good work men! We did a great job cleaning up our street too. I believe we had about 10 bags of trash. Oh! and Broke found a chewing gum canister full of silver! He aint that Broke after all.

God Bless you men and hope that you all have an incredible day celebrating Easter with family & friends.

YHC showed up to Stone Cold and Cinderella getting in some EC.  The clock struck 5:30 a.m. time to get started

Disclaimer

Pledge

Warmup

20 SSH IC

15 Plank Jacks IC

10 Gravel Pickers IC

10 Merkins IC

20 Squats OYO

5 Burpees

Moseyed around the track then to parking lot behind the school for Tabata work

20 Seconds of work with 10 seconds of rest for 4 minutes of the following exercises

CDD

Monkey Humpers

Merkins

Flutter Kicks

Once done we moseyed to the front of the school for another round of Tabata of the following exercises

Squats

Merkins

LBC

CDD

Mosey to the back of the school for another round of Tabata of the following exercises

LBC

Flutter

Heels to Heaven

Big Boys

Mosey to the end of the parking lot.  Next we did the following exercises then moseyed to the other end of the parking lot then repeat.

25 Big Boys

Mosey

50 Overhead Claps IC.  This were the comedy show started where the PAX began telling dad jokes. It got really bad.

Mosey

75 Merkins

Mosey

100 Squats

Mosey

125 Flutter IC

We then mosey up the ramp at the school for a little wall work.

25 second wall sit

10 Dirty Hook Ups

25 second wall sit

10 Dirty Hook Ups

With time running low we moseyed back to the start.  Time 6:15 am.

Announcements

Prayer Request

I took us out in Prayer.

Thank you for the opportunity to lead.  SYITG

Been awhile since I have been at Diablo so it was good to see some guys out there this am. I brought my sandbag (we named it Alberta a couple years ago) so we could have some fun with it. We started with a sandbag toss around Pelicans then moseyed on over to Gastone’s hill with Alberta and took a couple trips up with some exercises along the way up and down. After that we moseyed back home for COT. Thanks for the opportunity to lead and for coming out.

Whoopee

Already used this working for the morning addition at The Storm, with some advice from Breaker Breaker, I renamed this to onze for the french word for 11. We just move to different spots and complete some 11’s. Let’s start.

Warm up IC x 10
CDD
SSH
Squat
LBC
5 Burpees

Mosey to the parking lot at field 1.

5 Burpees
11’s
Squats and SSH
WW1 and Merkins

Mosey to field 4 for the next set.
5 Burpees
Hillbillies and Imperial Walkers
Goofballs and Rocky Balboa’s

Mosey to the lot by the playground for our last set.
5 Burpees
Flutter Kicks and LBC
Merkins and CDD

Mosey back to the start for some Mary.

Breaker M
Tesla
Watts up father n law
Travels
Broke
Huck
Turtleman

CDD seemed to be a hit at both spots for a starter exercise!

Thank you brothers!!

14 strong at The Storm this morning. Plenty to do and a lot planned, let’s begin!!

Warm up IC x 10
CDD
SSH
Squat
LBC
5 Burpees

Mosey to the parking lot at the football field. 5 Burpees
11’s
Squats and SSH
WW1 and Merkins

Mosey to the back of the school for more 11’s by the bus lot.
5 Burpees
Hillbillies and Imperial Walkers

Mosey around the back of the school and stop back at the front entrance parking lot for more 11’s
5 Burpees
Goofballs and Rocky Balboa’s
Flutter Kicks and LBC
Merkins and CDD

Prayer request.
Breaker M
Tesla
Watts up father n law
Travels
Broke
Huck
Turtleman

Thank you guys!!

I believe this is my first ever Q at The Pub. As I showed up I found EZ Ryder pulling up right behind me and then Termite. They both took off for some EC. EZ Ryder came back to start with the rest and Termite stayed out. I know several routes but I don’t know what regularly goes on. So I decided to let the good Dr give us a path. So up Armstrong and turn somewhere and come back down Hoffman. Since I’m not as fast, I ran up 1.8 miles and turned around and ran back to meet up at the same time with the rest. It was another good morning with even better friends.

Thank you.

Remember Christ died for us. Then rose from the grave. We serve a living God!!

Anyone need to talk just reach out to a brother.

Finally, the Mayor has come back to Belmont….and all cheered when I said this.

Move the the statue for the warmup where the disclaimer was noted.  One (1) FNG.

Warmup:  SSH x15IC, Gravel Pickers x10 IC, ROL/LOR, Moroccan Night Clubs x 15IC and arm circles to shake it out. Pledge and 22 for vets (per day) and police (per month).

Thang:  We say goodbye to the bunker crowd and roll up to the track for the solo 6.  Six exercises OYO for 50 reps/steps then take a lap.  I explained the exercises and got some flack because Nutria said there were more than six so I politely went in front of him and counted them one by one for effect.  Six it is so we move on.  CDDs, Mountain Climbers, SSH, Leg Lifts, Lunges, Bear Crawls.

We mosey to the hill I almost broke the SFN chair, but on the way, we grab some high wall and do 10 muscle ups and 5 calf raises at each stair as we go up.

At the top of the hill, I give the rendition of the first time I pushed a SFN cart so in honor, we do a triple nickel with Merkins at the bottom (another story there) and squats at the top. Fellowship mosey to the bunker to properly salute those with 20 monkey humpers IC.  They returned the degeneration X so we move on.

At the fountain we circle up for some scripted Mary:  French fries, pistol squats, Michael Phelps, X or star crunch, mountain climbers, Freddy Mercury all with 10 count or IC.

Mosey up the stairs for the statue with 5 calf raises here and we call it early.

Moleskin:  Given what has happened recently to our community with an F3 brother, I took two minutes to discuss our duty as men to reach out to other men.  We truly dont know what someone else may be going thru.  That is evident.  Don’t be a coward, ask…. If you see something, feel something….Do or say something.  Encourage other men to reach out.  There is someone in the circle you are closer to or is closer to you.  Be the oak.

Name the FNG.  He’s from Albuquerque so we named him Heisenberg.  There was a lot of chatter about having some of those in the nation, but this guy lived in the house in the show Breaking Bad.  Plus its better than Teslas option of Meth Lab.  Good luck spelling it. I will get him added later.  I didn’t have my phone so couldn’t attack it immediately.

Announcements, Prayers, Name-o-Rama, COT

I promised Dirt i would Q one back when he took over site Q of Labyrinth in January or February…better late than never I guess.

Me an Gear Wrench clowntruck’d down to one of the original bootcamp beatdowns of F3 Gastonia which has been struggling with Pax # as of late… We had 10 in the COT so not bad. Upon arrival we notice a FNG making sure he is in the right place. Turns out he showed up to the Bull Dog the day before and only Hermie showed up and claimed that he doesn’t “Lead these things”…(Come on Man!!!) so i assured him we would doing more then talking this morning!  Hermie did go over the 5 core principles and other aspects of F3, so I gave a disclaimer and off we went!

Warmup:

SSH–1 burpee

Abe Vigoda’s–2 burpees

MNC–3 burpees

Left over right over left–4 burpees

Toy Soldiers–5 burpees

The Thang:

Mosey down to Plant Fitness parking lot, rt66 bear crawl with Mike Tyson’s, then rt66 with crab walk and big boys…extra point if you can EH a sad clown headed in the gym.   No one was successful.  Recover mosey to the Bank, where he Ford F’n Ranger was waiting with a payload full of rotors.  everybody grab one according to your ability. Partner up for Dora!  One lap around the bank while other works.   when the exercise did not include the rotor (Burpees, Merkins, Squats) the partner running carried the rotor for the lap.

50 burpees

100 triceps

150 merkins

200 curls

250 squats

300 chest press

We ran out of time half way through the last one. So mosey back to the flag for COT and naming the FNG.

After being left at the Bulldog and the middle out of 8 kids, I would like to welcome Forgotten (Brandon McCall) to F3!

Announcements:

Trash pickup after Gashouse workout 16th

2nd F Lunch @ Ray Nathans BBQ 21st

Honey Hunters game Sunday 24th

Prayers:

Huck

Turtle Man

Pax Traveling

Pax in IR

Gump and his family and the 2.0 that passed