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Variety at the Coconut Horse

8 pax showed up at the Coconut Horse for a variety of beatdowns – 4 for early start Ruck, 1 for a 10+ mile bike ride and 3 for the traditional route 5 mile run.    Seven then stayed to discuss how to improve Consistency through simplifying life, creating routines and focusing on bandwidth.  Good to see Bumgardner (Redwood Kotter) back in the gloom.

 

Announcements:

Sept 19th – CSAUP at Folsom – 5:30

Sept 26th JJ 5K

Sept 27 Mt Mitchell hike

Prayer Requests:

Breaker Breaker’s daughter-in law, students and teachers going back to school,  friends and family battling addition

 

Until next time Defib out

Dueling Bluetooths (Blueteeth?)

YHC hasn’t Q’ed in a while so when BOS mentioned having an open spot at The Yank I took it. Most of our PAX know’s I fancy myself to be a DJ of sorts and it was time to bring out the jams once again. Fair warning or motivation was thrown  out on Slack the day before. Maybe that’s why we had 2 FNGs and a Cotter show to know! Here’s what happened…

El Tigre brought out his daughter’s boyfriend (memories of Broke and Golddigger anyone?), Boudin brought out his brother-in-law and Oh Wow was back after a couple year hiatus. Obviously they all heard the hits would be played this morning. The disclaimer was given and we had a lengthy warm-up of 10 Goofballs IC.

Mosey down to the Pit for stage 1

The mid-90s classic “Return of the Mack” by Mark Morrison – On every time he says “you lied” do a burpee and every “return” do a merkin. Good for getting the blood pumping.

Mosey around the corner to the street with all the parking spaces for the classic Bill Withers jam “Lovely Day”. Right about when we were going to the funny guy Roscoe tried to override the DJ action but the mutiny was short lived. Lunge walk toward Main Street until he starts saying “lovely day” then do high knees until he stops. When he does go back to lunge walking.

Mosey across the tracks to the alley of death. During Usher’s party song “Yeah” we hold a V-Up position and every time he says “yeah” contract to the full “V-up. This was really really hard and most had to modify to LBCs and whatnot.

Mosey back to the big Glenway Avenue lot for Fall Out Boy’s “I Know What You Did in the Dark”. Many might say this isn’t a good song but it’s fast paced and perfect for doing karaoke back and forth across the lot, so that’s what we did the whole time. Heart rate is going now!

Stay where we are for the F3 standard Roxanne. This time we’ll hold the plank position and every time Roxanne is said we do a full L and R shoulder tap. Feel the burn.

Mosey around the corner while listening  to Roscoe’s death metal stuff. Good gracious! Stop on Main Street and grab some curb or brick shelving for MC Hammer’s “Can’t Touch This”!!! Every time he says “can’t touch this” we do a dip and when he’s not saying that do Rocky Balboa’s on the curb.

Mosey to the wall at the vet’s office, hold the people’s chair while LL Cool J sings “Mama Said Knock You Out”. Every time he says knock you out do an air press or air punch. It’s a pretty long song and holding the people’s chair the whole time sucked.

Mosey back across the tracks and up the sidewalk into the park to the covered picnic tables. Do step ups while Sevendust rocks out “Black”. The volume was up and that was good because four minutes of step ups is a lot.

Stay at the picnic tables for the finale “Flower” by Moby. We F3 guys know this one as “Bring Sally Up”. It sucks but will burn our your abs like nothing else. It was great.

Mosey down to the Yank statue for a couple minutes of plank and then we’re done.

Announcements:

The Yank is closed next week 9-19-20 but needs Qs after that

Mt Mitchell hike and JJ 5k later in September.

Young Life golf tournament October 5th. See Buckshot for info. Breaker Breaker wants to get a foursome together for it.

Prayer Requests:

Dry Rub’s wife

Roscoe’s wife because today is their anniversary and they’ve been married 22 years or so.

Welcome FNG’s Cajun Gourmet (Boudin’s brother in law Brad) and Scurvy (El Tigre’s daughter’s boyfriend Jake) and it was great seeing Oh Wow again. Come back soon guys!!!

Thanks for indulging my musical side today men. You may not like my music but you’re always up for pushing the rock! I had fun! Next time Short Sale might show up.

 

 

Gashouse Rendition of Iron Pax week 2

24 HIM decided to fight off the fartsack and post for what would be the hardest IronPax challenge this year.  YHC arrived early to set up cones and flag.  The first thing I noticed was that 25 yards between the flag and the cones was a lot further than I expected – Not good when rifle carrying a 35lb cinder block.

We started at Schiele for a quick warm up of 20 SSH and 20 LBCs before heading over to Grier for the formal challenge – “A wheel of Misfortune” This was an AMRAP  43 minute wheel and spoke designed workout with a 400meter run to start and after each round.  After the initial 400meter run start at the center of the wheel with 10 squat thrusters. Pax then  rifle carry block periphery of wheel 25 yards away to one of 6 cones  to perform an exercise then rifle carry back to center for 10 squat thrusters – Exercises at each cone included, 25 Derkins, 25 Blockees, 25 Weighted Squats, 25 Block Swings, 25 vertical presses, and 25 Alpo’s (crossed arm block raises).  All Pax (Painlab and bootcamp) participated.  Rifle carries and squat thrusters proved to be the archenemy and mumble chatter was quite minimal.  All pax killed it – pushing themselves beyond the usual Gashouse /PainLab work.  In the end I believe all were fairly proud of their achievements.  Despite being gassed at the end YHC called out 5 additional squat thrusters to remind everyone that you are more capable than your mind would have you believe (see David Goggins).  Tclaps to Freight who proved that despite a diet consisting of livermush it is still possible to push through over 540 reps in 43 minutes. I suspect if he took better care of himself he would have beaten SA today.

Announcements:

Sept19 – CSAUP

Sept 26th JJ 5K

Sept 27th hike Mt Mitchell

Blood drive date TBD

Prayers requests:

Friends and families battling addiction, Clavin and his family, SA’s daughter, Pizzman’s family, Double Stuf’s friend in ICU, Breaker’s daughter-in-law

 

TAPs go out to F3Lake Wylie and the friends and family of Jay Grigg – F3 “Cash” – RIP

 

 

As always it was a true honor to lead this outstanding group HIM,

 

Defib

The SA

8 PAX posted at Midoriyama on Thursday.  It was cloudy all day but the sun made an appearance just in time! Being a gracious Q I took us to some shade upon request. It didn’t help much since the humidity reached 237%.

Warmup:

SSH x 20 ic

Let’s mosey

The Thang:

At the far soccer field we lined up at one goal line for what I call the SA. His birthday was this week so a little shout out to him. Now to be clear this isn’t one of my hero WOD’s but he’s alright. The SA was created from trash talk and during a time Nantan Cooper said F3 wasn’t allowed but those with a rebellious spirit still met to exercise and stayed 6 feet apart. SA only believes you need about 4-5 exercises so I created a WOD with just that.

The SA

10 Bonnie Blairs(count one leg only)

20 WWI

30 Merkins

40 Squats

NUR 100 yds, RUN back

Rinse and repeat for 35 minutes then do a round of Iron Hulk.

You can make the SA as hard as you want. You can push yourself or just slow down and work through it.  Yesterday I tried to hang with SA and my legs are paying for it today.

COT:

Pledge

Namerama

Announcements-Nothing new but a ton going on

Prayer Request-Double stuff’s dad and friend, SA and family, Slaw, Clavin. Praise report-YHC has lost a little weight and I’m no longer considered obese just over weight.

SA took us out

Moleskin:

What I like about SA is he is an exaggerated version of YHC. He doesn’t always let the words fly to just anybody like I do but he doesn’t mind letting them go. He doesn’t show emotion and doesn’t let smack talk affect him. As a matter of fact he is probably the only person I know that engages the smack talk as mush as I do. I just love to give and get it! So much fun! Anyway deep deep deep down he’s a pretty good guy and even though we don’t always like it we need the physical battflippers to push us. I do hope that one day he starts listening during Q-source instead of trolling on Strava.

 

No Sammiches today

10 pubbers set out in search of Sammiches today but found none  It was a hot sticky mess from the pub to Marthas but these 10 HIMS endured and made it back.

 

Announcements:

Shoot-em-up Sept 12

CSAUP Sept 19th

JJ 5K Sept 26th

Mt Mitchell Hike Sept 27th

Prayer requests: Clavin and family, SA and family, Slaw, and students and teachers returning to school

 

 

The Hub

When the IPC Week 2 workout came out on Sunday the description of the workout was almost as difficult to understand as the actual workout was going to be to complete. Due to the mental fatigue YHC was sure to experience during the IPC later in the week, today’s weinke needed to include a portion that somewhat mimicked the setup and routine of the challenge. After the usual disclaimer, pledge and warmup, 9 strong PAX headed off on a mosey to the small soccer field to get things started.

 

The HUB

One cone is placed in the center of the field and four additional cones are placed 25 yards from the center. Routine is as follows:

  • Start from center cone and complete a lap around the field and back to center
  • 3 Burpee’s then run to first cone for 10 HR Merkins
  • Back to center for 3 Burpee’s then run to second cone for 20 Squats
  • Back to center for 3 Burpee’s then run to third cone for 30 American Hammers
  • Back to center for 3 Burpee’s then run to fourth cone for 40 Mtn. Climbers
  • Back to center for 3 Burpee’s – Round Complete

We did 3 rounds and finished off with another lap around the field.

 

Next up was some Dora 1-2-3. One partner runs across the field and up the hill for 5 squats, then returns and swaps out. Exercises were:

  • 100 Big Boys
  • 200 Flutter Kicks
  • 300 Plank Jacks

Time was up and we headed back to the flag.

 

NMM / COT

The title of the IPC this week is “Wheel of Misfortune” and the title got me thinking a little bit (this is very dangerous). If we think about how a wheel is constructed, we can make a comparison as to how we are supposed to live as Christians.

  • The hub of the wheel is where all things come together and this is symbolic of how Christ is in our lives. He should be the hub of our life, holding everything together and center of everything.
  • The spokes of the wheel are representative of how we should strengthen our lives; prayer, study, reading the bible, fellowship, witnessing, etc.
  • The rim / tire is literally where the rubber meets the road. This is the actionable part of our lives where we make an impact on others and hopefully portray the image that Christ desires for us.

 

Announcements

  • Shoot ’em up and cookout this Saturday
  • CSAUP Sept. 19th at Folsom 0530 start
  • JJ5K Sept. 26th
  • Mt. Mitchell Sept. 27th

Prayer Request

  • SA 2.1 and family
  • Clavin and family
  • Friend of Double Stuf
  • Broke’s M
  • Huck and Purple Haze job search

Freight took us out.

I’m Broke

 

In the Gloom

Had a good group at Folsom this morning, I even made a few minutes early! 530 hit and we did some MNCs until Achey Breaky joined us, then the fun started!

10 Burpees per minute for 5 minutes.

Then we moseyed to the bottom parking lot.

11s- Bigboys mid parking lot/ Hip slappers at the turd shack/ calf raises on the steps in between.

Mosey to pick nick shelter.

10 dips ic/ 10 squats ic, 3 sets of each.

Move back to the bottom of the parking lot.
10 merkins at the first line, bear crawl 2 spaces, 10 squats/lunge walk 2 spaces, do this the full length of the bottom parking lot!

Moseyed back to the start!

Circled up for a round of Iron Hulks!

Pledge! Done!

Prayer requests- SAs daughter and family, other requests

Announcements- guest Q at Folsom this Saturday! CSAUP next Saturday, JJ5K the next Saturday followed by a Hike the next day!

Thank you men for letting me Q this morning!

Hanging

Today was supposed to be Dry Rub’s Q, but he texted YHC and asked if I could sub since he had to be at work early.

So now…. what to do.

Remembering a Q by Rudolph, and since we have moved to “Level 2.5”, (the  playground is open), lets revisit some of that.

0530 hits with 6 joining YHC.  No FNGs – No Disclaimer.  Just The Pledge.

We Rucked, stopping at the playground to hang for as long as you can or 30 secs.

Repeat for a total of 3 times.  As YHC recalls, hanging was supposed to be good for the body or soul or something.  Ask Rudolph.

0600 hits and Les needs to check out early.

We escort him back and continue on to the bottom of Gastone’s hill and back.

Stops were made along the path for some squats too.

By the time all were assembled back at the start, we were in OT…. OOOOPs.

 

Announcements:  S.O.S.  Most noteworthy is the Shoot-em-Up this weekend.  Check Slack/Twitter Meet @10 AM and take care of waiver in advance.

There were many prayer requests mostly around PAX, M’s and friends of PAX with health issues.

Tube took us out.

 

I forgot to share this…

Today’s Verse:

2 Corinthians 12:9
And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

 

Watts Up Powering Down.

Hacksaw Q

Warm Up

550 rep warm up that Hacksaw does starting with 10 different workouts going up 10 reps each workout. It gets the blood flowing.

Mosey

Stopping at each light pole

3 merkins and 5 mountain climbers

Pledge

Then its time for the Hacksaw square I like to call it!

Start at the cross walk with 3 burpees, 3 mountain climbers, 3 LBC then take a lap around the top median and do the for 5 rounds.

Mosey to the bottom parking lot on the left side of the park.

Hacksaw had each parking spot label with a workout I believe there were about 10. Anywhere from 20 reps to 30 reps. After each workout take a lap around the median until all workouts are completed.

Mosey back to the start

Time!

 

Announcements

jj5k

Mt everest hike

csaup

Prayer request

SA family

Each other

Wire nuts mother

Round Up M

 

Hacksaw

 

RoundUp’s Backup

YHC had been on covid lockdown for the past 4 weeks so it was nice to finally get out for some work. RoundUp actually had the Q, but had to leave a bit early to get Sargento’s concrete job going before the rain hit. I didn’t mind helping my brother out when asked to post a BB.

There were only 4 this fine morning to run. Many of the regulars were a few blocks away pushing the rock for the IPC. Barrel Racer said that he was glad he didn’t have to run by himself this morning. Not like I could actually run with him, but was able to enjoy a nice mosey and chat with Oompa Loompa. RoundUP was the fourth in attendance, but again had to jet out early.

We logged some miles and got better.

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