Greetings gentlemen: I hope all are recovering from the Thanksgiving holidays. I know its hard to pursue the 40/50 challenge when there’s so much opportunity to fail. However with the T-giving holiday behind us its time for the final push. We have started strong and we need to finish strong! So many have rediscovered living an austere life – Limiting the unnecessary excesses and becoming better men in the process . Many have lost weight and all have become healthier by limiting excessive calories. If nothing else we will go into the new decade better men for our perseverance. A big part of this challenge has also (for me) finding ways to give back. Therefore with this in mind I would like to close out the challenge with a CSAUP. On Saturday December 21 we will have the “Not So CSAUP CSAUP” at all three AOs. Post at the AO of your choice – Starting at 5am at Folsom and at 5:30 at Gashouse and the Yank we will ruck the surrounding community and pick up trash along the way. The rucks will be led by Pockets at the Yank, Big Pappy at Folsom and myself at Gashouse. The rucks themselves will be challenging with stops for pain along the way. The ruck will end by the time the regular bootcamps start (so plan on another hour of pain to follow the ruck). If nothing else this final push will send you off into the end of year holidays feeling good about yourself. So I challenge you – don’t blow this off – Find the time to make the community and yourself better!
Category: Backblast (Page 592 of 904)
12 men put in some work at Midoriyama.
Warm-up:
SSH, Grass Pickers
The Thang:
Been a while since I’ve done block work at Midoriyama, so tonight that would be our main focus. Each pax grab a block out of my car and take a short fellowship mosey to the long parking lot across from our gathering point. 5 exercises called here.
50 Curls
40 Chest Press
30 Goblet Squat
20 Tricep Ext.
10 Burpee w/ block jump over
Run to far end of parking lot then back.
We completed 5 rounds of this. Great work by all, this was a good burn.
Next, time for some 11s. Do this on the short side of same parking lot. Exercises called are Incline Merkins and Thrusters . Start with 1 Incline Merkin on block, carry block to otherside for 10 Thrusters. Carry block back for 2 Incline Merkins, then back across for 9 Thrusters. Continue until the numbers are reversed and finish with 10 Incline Merkins and 1 Thruster.
Time is almost out, carry block back to flag. Finish it off with 10 Blockers. Time
Announcements
Prayer request
Nameorama
Honor to lead you men tonight!!
Sister Act
So what we do at crossroads to make it easy, if you have Q source, you also have the Q for that day. Lucky me, with all the rain and lightning it was my turn. No early birds at 0600 so I stayed in the truck to avoid the majority of the downpour and Broke, SA and Slaw get out around 0630. Slaw & SA ran, Broke and I rucked and finished up at 0715. Lots of puddles to splash in. Then go inside for some Qsource on Accountability (Team). Thanks to those that showed up for both. its a bit of a reach with the title based on the picture, but I went for it.
11 strong and dedicated HIMs made their way out of the fartsack to start working off their Thanksgiving indulgences. This would be YHC’s first Q is a very long time so of course I had to have some tricks up my sleeve… a couple of early gifts from Santa? Cue the music!
Disclaimer was given, no FNGs.
WarmUp:
Goofballs x10 IC
Don Quixotes x10IC
Monkey Humpers x3IC
Start up the music, Christmas Hits for the Black Friday action. Mosey to the parking deck, all the way to the top. Today we would be welcoming back the Q’s best friend.
The Deck of Death
The PAX would perform the exercise on each card pulled. Anything not a face card was given 10 extra reps. Fun, fun, fun.
After lots of mumble chatter, passing of Thanksgiving digestive gases and overall good times we ran out of time. We only made it through about 1/3 of the deck so this will have to be revisited soon.
Thank you for the opportunity to lead men!
Prayer requests: Dry Rub’s wife in the hospital, couple others I can’t remember.
Announcements: Christmastown 5k tomorrow evening, laser shows at the Schiele Museum starting December 14th
4 HIMS got out there to get in some work before a great day of fellowship ahead. We took a mosey around Folsom stopping at various locations. We did a variety of exercises and had fellowship on past Q’s.
A few stops/ memories remembered were:
- Medicine Woman letting us all know that nur spelled backwards was run
- Montross and the calve raisers
- Huckleberry and the wall work
- Tolkein and the Merkins/ laps
- HIPPA and the crazy he put us through
- King Pin has a heck of a jump shot with the Bobby Hurley’s
Once back to the to the flag we did COT, Volt’s farmers market, and Prayers.
Moleskin
During the workout, we stopped at 4 places were YHC almost made to the decision give up and never to post again.
- During my first post, the PAX took off for a mosey and YHC could not run to the end of the parking lot. Def Leppard came back and did fellowship mosey with YHC and encouraged me throughout the workout. Thank You Def Leppard
- On my third post, YHC was tired, sore and was sick tired of being in pain continuously. For whatever reason, Oompa Loompa stayed with YHC throughout the whole work out. Encouaging and pushing me. Thank You Oompa Loompa
- On my first weekday post, It was raining and freezing cold. There was only three of us that Gumby, the always reliable Volt, and YHC. We were taking a quick mosey and YHC was thinking to myself this is stupid. I stopped halfway 100% sure that I was done with this idiocy. Gumby came back and picked me up but pushed me through the rest of the work out. It finally clicked that it not just a work out. Thank you Gumby.
- Finally about 3 months later, during a Q with a lot running, YHC was about to just give up, walk back to the car and call it a day. But Hacksaw in all his HIMness, was not having any of it. He pushed and pushed me and was not going to let me stop until we were back to the flag. At the time is was not even a third of a mile, but YHC have not run that far continually in over 20 years. It was a big event for YHC. Thank you Hacksaw.
By posting more and more, YHC got involved in other F’s and events. Thank you Sparky for convincing me to do my first 5K. Thank you Huck, and Allen Tate for inviting me to the House of Hims. Thank you Montross for convincing me to get out there for a Speed for Need event. Thank you Bedpan for being a solid stone. You have helped me more than you will ever know.
Thank you to all of Folsom and F3 Gastonia. Happy Thanksgiving!!
Big Pappy
We all Ran this Morning.
1st Place: Stinky Bird took home a sweet aged Old English 40oz.
2nd place Rader with only the finest Christmas Beer aka Santas But.
3rd goes to Gump, he took home a feelin Lucky Koozie, Mini American Flag, and a tube of Gold Glitter.
Top pick award goes to the one and only Def Leppard received a custom Medal. (show 2Know)
C.O.T.
The Bed Pan is Full!!
Warm Up,
SSH, Hill Billy’s, Monkey Humpers, MO-Rockin Night Clubs.
Mosey to the triangle in the road, we did 10 American Hammers, 20 Squats, 30 Seal jacks,
Sprint to each corner perform 3x.
Mosey
Dora 1,2,3,
Merkins, Rosa Litas, Arms Circles,
Mosey one more time for a quick mile then we finished the morning with some Yoga.
The Bed Pan is Full.
Pledge
5 man maker burpees
run around snoballs
5 more man makers
off we go
arrive at doctors office down the street where I inform pax today’s inspiration comes from that great song “ A few of my favorite things” as I’ll be calling some of my favorites as well as some of my least … like now where we will broad jump to light come back And then perform 5 corkscrew merkins
now we mosey to Gastone’s Hill and there’s chatter as to whether we will use the hill or as Watts Up correctly calls …. not
10 diamond merkins and after all recover I act as though we will climb the hill …. only to psyche all out
mosey to Dollar General for 20 flutters and nur the hill
now to wall across from old Auto Bell for Australian Mtn Climbers IC x 10 …. rest
10 suspension merkins …. rest
least favorite ( but as I tell all of Gastone’s comment that if an exercise is not your favorite/ strong suit … embrace it and conquer it) Hip Slappers 10 single count
now we collect in Food Lion parking lot for Rugby Sprints
pax will call out what they are thankful for, call an exercise until they call,”Go!” And then we are to mosey halfway and back and then full on run to end of lot finally walking back
much thanks were called for F3 and it’s comraderie and leadership … also God, Jesus as well as family
exercises were diamond merkins, flutters, squats and plank/arm raises/ lower plank
run to other side twice over
mosey to steps for 3 separate sets of calf raises during which a light literally comes on and Watts Up says must be a great idea
run behind Planet Fitness where another light comes on Undoubtedly timer related , and someone mentions a perfectly placed ramp so we double back for bear crawl and lunge walk along it
mosey to wall at bank for 15 IC dips and 15 step ups each leg finally 15 IC derkins and Dry Rub asks ic the turkey is over done yet
mosey to Martha’s where at entrance we perform 5 big boys up the hill for the invisible Turtleman and run back to start
seal jacks 10
goof balls for Sargento as he drives off wishing all a good night,, I mean turkey ,,,, i mean happy turkey ,,, aww hell he said something
finally Parker Peters ….. I finished last savoring every morsel of this over done Bird ( or maybe I’m just slow
all of this today I did wearing a turkey hat … so pax has something to chase
pub/ goat/ Diablo all open tomorrow morn
Midoriyama not
pain lab shirts still up for sale til Saturday
operation sweet tooth
christmas town
prayers dry rubs m in hospital
all pax/families traveling
there were some pax doing EC good to see Gastone out ( on IR) only running now
may your turkey NOT be overdone
Huck had to reach out for a replacement Q today due to illness and Big Pappy agreed to take over. When Pappy got stuck at work the one and only Allen Tate decided it was time for him to take a break from his extensive training for the P200 and bring his Q talents to a Pain Lab style workout.
After a a short warmup we moseyed to the flag at the entrance, said the Pledge, did some ab work and moseyed back to the start. Rudolph grabbed a couple of kettle bells and pain stations were established. We did about three rounds of various exercises; curls, swings, merkins, goblet squats and a bunch more I can’t remember. Solid work by a great group of HIM’s.
Announcements
SFN this Saturday
Convergence at the Yank on 12/28
Christmas Party 1/4 – preblast soon
Prayer Request
Oompa’s M still recovering from car accident
Friend of Montross having surgery to remove tumor
Broke’s M illness
Others I failed to remember
Allen Tate took us out
Attendance from Twitter.
DRP was taken.