Fitness, Fellowship, Faith

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Winna Winna, Chicken Dinna!

So, I found these foam cube-like polygons at $5 Below. I bought both the Expert and Intermediate versions, as well as a yoga one. Each side of the non-yoga polygons has an exercise (ie. 20 Burpees, 30 Mnt. Climbers, 15 Squats with a Twist (Imperial Walker Squats), 30 Russian Twists (American Hammers), etc…). Without much of a plan I rolled into Folsom with about 5 minutes to spare and began to make things up in my head on the drive in.

We began with a warmup of:
15 SSH in cadence
5 Burpees (oyo)
15 Gravel Pickers

Pledge

We moseyed to the tennis courts.

For 30 minutes each Pax (as many as we could get thru) would roll both dice. We would do both exercises. We then would run/sprint (you vs. you) to the next corner of the courts. There was an option for “Water Break” on both dice. For this we did waterfall burpees for one round (Pax planking after completing their burpee) and then whatever the other exercise was. We did this for around 4 laps or so around the courts before I had to leave at 6am. There were several times we hit 20 burpees… otherwise it was a mix of Bonnie Blairs, Mountain Climbers, Squats with a Twist (Imperial Walker Squats), Tuck Jumps, etc… Anything else… #showtoknow.

I asked Wichita to take over and finish the PAX out with a round of Iron Hulks and some merry (if any time was left).

Announcements: PT test Saturday at Gashouse 7, Christmas party Dec 12th pre blast will be out soon.

Prayer Request: SA’s daughter and family, Montross, Sparky’s dad and mom, and Purple Haze’s job interview.

Thanks for allowing me to lead and for playing along this morning. I may need to update the dice a bit… maybe take off the “water break” and add more burpees or my favorite workout (not that I have one, but I can make something up). I hope ya’ll had fun.

Until next time… SYITG

~Stogie

The Storm

20 showed up for the Storm and Oblivious’s first Q.

Warmup

Side straddle hops x 20

Blades of steel x 10

Moroccans x 15

Mntn. Climbers x 20(count one leg)

Hold Superman plank for 20 secs

 

Long Mosey at a decent clip to abs station

 

Abs

2 sets of 8 exercises done for 30secs each, 30secs rest between sets:

American Hammers

Leg lifts

Australian Flutter kicks(flutters while on stomach)

Left side plank

Right side plank

Freddie Mercury’s

Box cutters

Plank

 

Indian run to next station

 

Descending Ladder

5 sets descending by 1 count of reps:

Set 1: 10 Spiderman pushups(also know as lizard pushups), run 30yds, 10 CDDs.

Set 2: 9 Spiderman pushups(also know as lizard pushups), run 30yds, 9 CDDs.

etc.

 

Mosey to next station

Deconstructed Burpees

4 count per movement, as many as possible for 90 secs

 

insert short motivational speech

Mosey to next station

Dora

Partner up.

50 Squats, 100 LBCs, 150 Merkins

Flutter kick or plank till 6.

 

Mosey to start

Finished with Yoga and stretching

Announcements:

Storm shirts – buy them

Q’s needed for storm

PT test at Gas house Nov 14 @ 0700

Ricky Bobby – Roscoe Q and inaugural shirt launch

Christmas party Dec 12th. Be there. Be jolly.

Its Goat instead of Turkey this year! Thanksgiving Goat at 7. Opportunity for triple post that morning.

Prayer requests:

Roscoe – friend at work has two sons, Jackson and Bennett, with cancer.

Sargento’s wife – issues with knee

Purple haze –  job interview

 

Hacksaw

9 Guys show up to Folsom for a beatdown brought to you by. Hacksaw

Im writing this backlist for my dad and I wasn’t there participating in this event so I’m not exactly sure what happened. I heard there were lots of burpees and a lot of ssh. Im sure Hacksaw put it on them fellas just like everyone else that comes thru Folsom!

 

Announcements

Nov 14 PT test at the Gashouse

Christmas Party December 12

Prayer Requests

The lord knows and He will provide!

 

Thanks men Hacksaw

Faith Without Works

5 HIM’s got in some work and more importantly the Word.

November is National Adoption month and this past Sunday was orphan Sunday. In the US, there is ~425,000 children in foster care annually.  ~17,000 children in North Carolina.

As of Today, there are 2,861 children in North Carolina in foster care awaiting adoption.  Most will never be adopted and will “age out” of the system.

Recently, Tool Time put out an opportunity to serve at Children’s Hope Alliance in Troutman. Please sign up and serve. This organization serves many of these ~17000 children in NC. A simple day of work goes a long way in support of their mission.

Here is a the link to sign up.

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/9040B44A5AC23A6FF2-childrens

Our Verse for the week:

James 2:14-17 ESV
What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? [15] If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, [16] and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? [17] So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.

Prayer Request

  • Sister Act’s Family
  • Sparky’s Family
  • Achey Breaky’s Friend
  • Purple Hazes’s Nice
  • Family of Wichita’s Friend

Announcements

  • Next Saturday PT Test
  • Christmas Party Dec  12

Big Pappy

Psalm 139:13-14 ESV
For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. [14] I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.

 

 

 

On The Fly

It was warmer out than is normal for this time of year in the gloom.  A little hazy but dry none the less. YHC arrived a few minutes before the stroke of 0530 to find Watts Up, Dirt, and EZ Rider out running for EC.  Way to push guys.

Others starting rolling in for a grand total of 11 HIM’s.  Very nice group.

5:30 strikes and it’s time to get moving.

Pledge

Disclaimer

Warmup:

20 SSH double count IC

20 Squats

20 Monkey Humpers

20 Merkins

20 Mountain Climbers

20 LBC’s

20 Flutter Kicks

5 Burpees

Mosey to the maintenance shed parking lot

20 Squats

20 Monkey Humpers

20 Merkins

20 Mountain Climbers

20 LBC’s

20 Flutter Kicks

5 Burpees

Disclaimer about the roots and tripping hazard

Mosey back side of ballfields stopping along the way for some more

20 Squats

20 Monkey Humpers

20 Merkins

20 Mountain Climbers

20 LBC’s

20 Flutter Kicks

5 Burpees

Mosey to parking lot for 11’s

CDD’s this side and American Hammers on that side (upon request from Watts Up)

Quick count off so YHC could breathe

Abs in parking lot:

40 LBC’s

20 Oblique crunches each side

20 Windshield wipers

20 Heels to heaven

20 Crunchy frogs

20 American hammers

40 LBC’s

Starting at lower end lasting for 3 islands in parking lot progressing toward start:

20 Squats

20 Monkey Humpers

20 Merkins

20 Mountain Climbers

20 LBC’s

20 Flutter Kicks

EZ Ride, Watts Up, and I think JJ decided to get a one burpee EC.  We can add it to there final grade.

Mosey toward start passing Waterboy and stopping at entrance of the park for 1 more round of:

20 Squats

20 Monkey Humpers

20 Merkins

20 Mountain Climbers

20 LBC’s

20 Flutter Kicks

Mosey to start and time!

 

Announcements:

PT Test Nov 14 Gashouse

Christmas Party Dec 12.  M friendly but not 2.0

Shirts are live.  Links are on Slack and have been sent as a Backblast.  13 more days.

Prayers:

Flintstones sister with a heart cath

Family members

Country

Its was truly an honor and a privilege to start out my day with such a great group of men.

AYE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Timeframe

 

 

 

Warm November Morning at the Yank

YHC got to The Yank a little early to set up and fact check some of the trivia questions.  There was already a guy there.  I didn’t recognize him, but he had an F3 shirt on so I new he was not foe.  It was Carrier who came across the mighty Catawba to join us for a beatdown and pick up some shoes from BOS.

Quick disclaimer since there were no FNGs.  Like I normally do, I let the pax know there was going to be some trivia for them this morning.  A question would be asked.  Exercise ensues.  An answer would be given.  If that answer was correct, we just keep on moving.  If that answer was wrong, 5 burpees for everyone.  I was a little nervous when I saw Sargento show up, since I’m not sure he’s ever gotten one of my trivia questions wrong before.  The dude is a walking, talking encyclopedia.

Mosey the long way around to the pavilion for some Corewood.  We did 25 of each exercise on my count:
– LBCs
– Crunchy Frogs
– Pretzel Crunches
– Freddy Mercuries
– Leg Raises
– American Hammers

Mosey to the pit where I had written several exercises in chalk in parking spaces.  The pax needed to do 25 of each exercise then run a lap around the pit.  Some of the exercises included:
– Merkins
– Lunges
– SSHs
– Diamond Merkins
– Hill Billies
– Bobby Hurleys

There were more and I had them all written down on my weinke, but my M threw it away.

Mosey up near the field of dreams.  Pax had to do the following exercises – pull ups, merkins, dips and one lap around the track.  Started with 5 pull ups, 10 merkins and 15 dips for the first round.  Second round we went up to 10 pull ups, 20 merkins and 30 dips.  For the third round, the weinke had us going up to 15, 30 and 45 but I heard a little mumble chatter asking to go back down after the second round instead of up on the reps.  So we ended up doing 5, 10 and 15 for the third round.

We then did some Dora 1, 2, 3.  It really only ended up being a Dora 1, 2, 1 since we were running low on time.  100 Merkins, 200 Squats, 100 LBCs.

Mosey back to where we started for our COT and pledge.

Prayer concerns:
– Brutus’ M having surgery

Announcements:
– PT Test next week at Gashouse
– BCO takes donations for gifts for kids for Christmas
– Carrier thanked the pax for all of the shoe donations

It was a lot of fun, men.  Thank you!

Failure

We ran or rucked….nothing exciting until Flintstone flanked the 4 ruckers while on the Greenway coming out of the woods near an apartment complex. He’s lucky we didn’t smack him with one of our purses. Great discussion for Q Source.

Whoopee

Fantastic Fall Morning and “Failure” at Crossroads

6 runners today at Crossroads. Beautiful morning, great temperatures and no rain!

You guys motivate me in various ways, for which I am thankful!

Q Source on “Failure” today. It takes failure, and lots of it, to refine a leader.  We have all failed, at some point, as leaders. But let’s use that as a learning experience and grow from it.

Great work by the Ville-to-Ville team! Keep up the running!

Huck joined us for Q Source.

Nice work today, men!

Seuss

The Six Foundational Movement Patterns

The Squat, the Hinge, The Lunge, The Push, The Pull, and the Carry.

We ran to the Church and did some abs while keeping the PAX together.

Then we did squats, run uphill, pistol squats, run downhill, and repeat x 5.

Hinge with Straight leg deadlifts

Mosey to Sherwood track for lunges but wait, there is some sidewalk chalk and a hop scotch thing set up with math equations.  Hop Scotch to the jungle gym.

Push ups and pull ups

Repeat.

No carry’s due to Covid so we moseyed to Grier for some football drills.

The Center hikes to the QB while the receivers run deep routes for sprints and the QB throws it as far as possible.  This was a learning opportunity as we learned our ages and lack of preparation in running, AND CATCHING the ball was very difficult.

However, when it was time to play two hand “injury free” touch football the hands got more sure and we enjoyed the remaining time playing a game.

We moseyed back the long way and circled up for our second Pledge with the PainLab PAX.

Prayer requests:  Sparky’s Dad, Hippa’s M’s side of the family, Tube with a job interview Monday, Kevin, Catamount, My Father in Law,

Thanks for Watts Up for the EC invitation.  Two for a four mile EC ruck and three for a Union Road Diner spectacular breakfast.

PT Test next Saturday at the Gashouse, November Challenge ongoing, Christmas Party December 12th.

 

 

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