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Inspired but no burpees

A few weeks back I went to Folsom on a Tuesday for an Oompa Loompa beatdown – only 4 called exercise but we did them a lot,

Why not give it a try…..

We did a lot of Merkins, LBC’s, Flutter Kicks, & SSH  throughout our 2 mile run touring the new Fuse District and base ball stadium.

Should have been there , it was fun!!!!

Guys I forgot the Pledge this morning but just said it – make sure you do the same.

Announcements:  JJ  5K, Snow Birds, Convergence Downtown, & Extinction run

Prayer request: Slaw’s daughter,  my wife & son, others we heard throughout the week.

Out in Prayer

Pleasure to lead this morning !!!

 

EZ out………

Pyramid

9 Pax showed up on a steamy afternoon at the premier afternoon AO. Tiger announced he was doing the Iron Pax Challenge Week 2 so he grabbed a block and took off to put in work.

Pledge

Warmup: SSH x 10 IC, Cotton Pickers x 10 IC (Mumblechatter indicated these may have been a little too fast), Patented Right Over Left and then Left Over Right, Low Slow Squats x 10 IC, Hillbillies x 10 IC.

Mosey toward the entrance of the park. Cross the road, turn right through the parking lot to the seldom used cul-de-sac.

The Thang: 100 Rep Pyramid
Reps 20-15-10-5-5-10-15-20 = 100. Perform 20 reps exercise then run to the parking lot and back, then 15, etc.
First exercise was Merkins. Slaw and Freight pushing the pace with Mayor right on their heels. Next exercise I jokingly said Burpees but anyone who knows me knows I will never call 100 burpees in any workout, just kidding Mayor! Next exercise was really LBC’s using the pyramid scheme running after each set of reps until we get to 100. I asked Slaw to call 10 IC Low Slow Squats and Freight correctly called out my reasoning was for the Q to catch his breath.

Mosey back across the road behind the horseshoe pits and get a block from our new secret hideaway block stash. Circle up behind the fence for some block work.
30 Curls
30 Chest Presses on your six
30 Shrugs
30 Curls
30 Chest Presses on your six
30 Shrugs
Return the blocks to our secret stash. Sprint back to the flag and time is up. Tiger is back after IPC.
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Announcements: Convergence October 2nd Downtown. Be there.
JJ5K Saturday, September 25th at 9:00 a.m. Sign up since F3 Gastonia is a sponsor of this trail race with money going to a local student scholarship. We are trying to be sure that someone beats Sister Act this year. He’s been hurt, he’s been sick, he’s been working a lot. We think someone can get him.
Service Project Items for October: Cheese or Peanut Butter Crackers, Applesauce or Fruit cups.
Snowbird Men’s Conference and we have a group of Pax going next weekend.

Prayer Requests: Bos’ sister in law, Cougar’s grandmother, Magic Minnows dad, Barrel Racer. All F3 Gastonia Pax.
Blart took us out.

*NMM Great group today. Everyone worked hard and got in some work. We found out some interesting information today. Lil Sweet sometimes gets called to fix a drink machine and all he has to do is plug it in! Freight is enjoying his new digs in Belmont and has thoroughly enjoyed the moving process. Slaw was having “stomach” issues. There was some interesting art work on the asphalt. Show to know. Pockets was displaying some excellent form on his Merkins today. Not everyone can say that. You know who you are.

What’s in the Box?

This morning YHC fart sacked at Folsom. Montross was the Q and set to Q this evening at Midoriyama. The dark angel needed a substitute Q and I gladly raised my hand.

Warm Up: SSH, MTN climbers, Mo Rockin Night clubs.
The Thang->
Mosey to the Hill for some 11’s Big Boys and Raise the Roofs.
Partner Work: two pax carry box around parking lot remaining pax do Werk while waiting to carry the Box.
squats, Flutters, CDD’s(what Up Def), HillBilly Squats, Ski Jacks, Seal Jacks.
Defib felt a conspiracy was afoot since each time he carried the box we did less shoulder work. to be honest I called them as they were written down. No Illuminati or voter conspiracy.

Booyah Merkins both pax run to the opposite side of the parking lot 5 merkins, back to start 4 merkins down to 1.

The Finisher:
Recently ive been using this set of werk at the end of each Q, It sucks and is guaranteed to make you sweat. So if I Q and you post we probably gonna do this

45 on 15 off
1/2 burpees
Plank with Toe Taps
Side Plank, “switch halfway”
low plank to High plank “switch halfway”
Butt Kickers
High Knees
Jump Lunges

Some time for Mary and we were finished.
Prayer Request:
Lil Sweets friend from Church, our country, each other.

The Bed Pan is full!

Taking Requests

For my 2nd Q at Folsom this week, the rain came. Nothing crazy, but just enough that I didn’t want to lay in it! It is the perfect day to go heavy on the reps in the shelter.

Warmup: appolgies to Westside as there was not a full and complete warmup this time. Time is gonna be short so 10 Toy Soldiers and we mosey to the lower shelter.

Thang: I asked the PAX which playlist we should use and they chose Hard Rock. I was in the mood for 90s Hip Hop but democracy wins this time.

We will use a timer today. No counting, just as man reps as possible in 40 seconds, followed by 20 secondsof rest.

Part 1:

Mountain Climbers
Alt Lunges
Freddie Mercurys
Repeat 4 times

Break time – quick mosey around then parking lot twice.

Part 2:

Plank Jacks
Mike Tysons
American Hammers
Repeat 4 times

Stogie left.

No mosey after part 2 due to time.

Part 3:

PAX choice Merkins (you choose the merkin type you want…I did planche, I also saw standard and declines)
Squats
Elbow to Knees
Repeat 4 times.

Mosey back to the parking lot and Time!

COT: keep these guys in prayer: Pappy’s family, Westside’s family,Spackle’s family. YHC took us out in prayer.

  • Montross

Woodshe

11 HIM showed up at the Storm for a beatdown of epic proportions. It went something like this…

Disclaimer

Warmup – stuff was did

Pledge of Allegiance

Mosey to the side entrance of the school where YHC explained The Thang

The WOODSHED!!! – A combination of a routine using specific exercises to be done in time with certain key words in today’s best popular music. What could be better???

W = Werkins – this was done to the hit “Joy and Pain” by Rob Base & DJ EZ Rock. Every time they said joy, pain, sunshine or rain, we did a werkin. Swole factor engage! Mosey around back of the school for the next hit.

O = One Arm Pickle Pounders -“Mother” by Danzig, a change of pace for this one. Hold one arm plank and do a One Arm Pickle Pounder every time he says Mother! Feel the burn!!! Mosey to the front entrance of the school.

O = Outlaws – Done to the classic party song “O.P.P.” from Naughty By Nature – you guessed it, hold 6″ and every time they say OPP, make a clockwise AND counterclockwise circle with your feet. Mosey to way down by the visitor entrance to the football stadium.

D = Dying Cockroaches every time Usher says “Yeah”. We also added continuous LBCs for extra work. Mosey to the side of the school again where the knobs are.

S = Step Ups to the beautiful and insanely repetitive song “Lovely Day” by Bill Withers. I read somewhere that they say Lovely Day over 70 times in this song. YHC suggested alternating legs to spread around the love. Get it? Mosey down around the practice soccer field to a random place.

H = Hillbillies were done each time Mark Morrison said “Return of the Mack”. We did something else every time he said “you lied to me”. What a B because she lied to him a LOT! Mosey to the start.

E = E2K which is an oblique crunch. I think we did this but it was rushed and I don’t recall the exact exercise I chose at this point. Anyway, every time Roy Ayers Ubiquity said Sunshine we did a rep during his less than famous but interestingly funky tune “Everybody Loves the Sunshine”. Check it out.

Time’s up. We didn’t get to the “D” in Woodshed, that’s why it’s only Woodshe. It was fun though. Even Tricycle was there. First time for HIM at the Storm.

 

 

PB

I came in to run some this and noticed everyone was out early getting work in so I took off at 5:30 solo. It was a good run and it felt good to be back running at the PB. Everybody is doing great running right now and a lot of guys getting stronger and faster!

Ball joint came back and said sparky took a dump twice while on the run and on the second dump I believe it got on his legs so he had to go to the house lol. Ole sparky and his dumps!!

Announcements 

JJ5k 

Convergence oct 2 downtown 

Extinction run November 

Prayer Request

All pax

 

Def Leppard took us out!

Round Up

The Ricky Bobby – 9/15/2021

Disclaimer – No FNGs, abbreviated version

Warm-up

  • SSH x 25 I/C
  • Don Qs x 15 I/C
  • Hillbilly’s x 15 I/C

The Pledge

Mosey around TRB and back to Shovel Flag for The Thang!

Time for some escalator;

Round 1:

5 burpees (tried in cadence) then run to other end of parking lot and back

Round 2:

5 burpees (OYO), 10 merkins I/C, run to other end of parking and back

Round 3:

5 burpees (OYO), 10 merkins I/C, 15 LBCs I/C, repeat run

Round 4:

5 burpees (OYO), 10 merkins I/C, 15 LBCs I/C, 20 CCDs I/C, repeat run

Round 5:

5 burpees (OYO), 10 merkins I/C, 15 LBCs I/C, 20 CCDs I/C, 25 American Hammers I/C,  repeat run

Round 6:

5 burpees (OYO), 10 merkins I/C, 15 LBCs I/C, 20 CCDs I/C, 25 American Hammers I/C, 30 long slow squats,  repeat run

Round 7:

5 burpees (OYO), 10 merkins I/C, 15 LBCs I/C, 20 CCDs I/C, 25 American Hammers I/C, 30 long slow squats,  35 mountain climbers I/C, repeat run

 

We have about 5 minutes left, SSH, Flutter Kicks and then finish off with 5 burpees OYO…

 

About this time, YHC’s HOT M pulls up to start her day at school. All PAX give her a big welcome, “Good Morning Mrs Breaker Breaker” as she is entering the building.

 

COT

Announcements – Convergence on 10/2 with some 3rd F afterwards (Pre-Blast coming), JJ5k on Sept 25th, and Extinction run in November

Prayer requests – The country and people with COVID

YHC closed in prayer

 

Hard work was put in by all PAX. Thank you for allowing me to lead you all this morning!

Breaker Breaker

Fill In

Fill in Q for the day YHC due to an absence of and unnamed pax…📺…myself and a few other did some stuff for about an hour.  It was spontaneous and thus it would be impossible to remember everything we did and in the order but it had to do with a bunch of farmer and rifle kettlebells.  While the other person did a variety of exercises. At the one end we also did 5 burpees…there was a lot of time so there were quite a few burpees. Anyway. Pleasure fellas.

Rescue Rangers

Rolled up to Sandlot with 5 minutes until go live. When I pulled in, I noticed a Golden Retriever in the parking lot hanging out with Dry Rub and JJ. Thought maybe one of them brought their dog along for the workout. Sat in my car for a sec wondering how I need to modify my weinke to accommodate a dog??? I stepped out the ride and after speaking with Dry Rub, we realized we have a lost dog on our hands. Dry Rub quickly assessed the collar and noted the address, to which he states he isn’t far from home in the Riverwood Plantation area. EZ Rider and Flintstone arrive back from their EC and Woody rolls in. We’ve concluded that our regularly scheduled workout will be put on pause until we return him home safely.

Pledge

Warmup:

SSH IC

Merkins IC

Imperial Walkers IC

Woody comes through clutch and grabs a random leash out of his car

Mosey to 3076 Drayton Hal Way (0.60 Miles from Pelicans). We stated out taking Shep down Riverwood Pkwy. Shep was not having it and decided to take the much longer route home. Lets re-route through Martha Rivers Park and come out on Plantation Trail then to Drayton Hall Way. House located and noticed Garage door was half-way opened. I think we might have the right house.

JJ Rings the doorbell to awake the resident at 5:40AM. Owner comes to the door and JJ explains the situation. Woody releases Shep to the owner.

Good deed for the day accomplished by the 6 PAX of F3 Gastonia!

But wait, there’s more!!

Now onto the thang:

Mosey to Gastone’s Hill. Slow mosey up hill while I placed 10 cones evenly spaced out up the hill. Slow mosey back to the bottom.

1st & 10. Which by the F3 Exicon the definition is:

100 yard field marked at 10 yard increments. Perform 10 Merkins, 1 Burpee (11’s) at the 10, sprint the remaining 90 yards. Recover jog back to the 20. Perform 9 Merkins, 2 Burpees, sprint the remaining 80 yards, recover jog to the 30. Repeat until all 100 yards and 11’s have been completed. Plank/core exercise until remaining PAX complete.

HIPAA’s sick twist: We did this going up Gastone’s hill and the cone spacing was about 35 yards apart. Gastone’s hill is .20 miles or 352 yards. Same exercises though, because why not

Whilst we did not get to name Shep Shephard, todays honorary FNG, I think it could be fitting to name him “Hercules”. Hercules after all was the famous dog in the movie “The Sandlot”.

COT

Prayer requests: Those spoken and unspoken. For updated prayer lists please go to Slack #prayer-list channel. Do this daily, someone always has a need for prayer.

Aye!

1P2A

9/11 Remembrance Q

7 PAX posted on September 10th to remember those that lost their lives on 9/11, 20 years ago.  It went like this….

Warm-up:

SSH x 20 IC

Don Q’s x 20 IC

Thang:

”343” Number of Fire Fighters that lost their lives that day

100-sec. Plank

80-Flutters

60-Squats

40-Big Boys

20-Mike Tyson’s

43-Burpees

Ran a lap before the start of each exercise and after burpees to total 2001 M

Next up…head to the parking deck.  There we completed:

9-Jump squats (September)

11-Merkins (11th)

20-American Hammers (20 year anniversary)

Bear crawl at each incline going up

With time running short, we took the stairs down and headed back to the flag to finish up.

Finished with 9-11-20 Burpees

Strong work by all that posted…glad we could honor those that lost their lives on that day!!

Until next time Pizza Man is OOOOOUUUUUTTTTTT!!

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