We Rucked, We had fellowship. If you haven’t got to know Big Pappy, you need to….. True HIM
Category: Backblast (Page 617 of 904)
YHC felt like working the brain and the muscles on this Q. Sparky let me borrow the blocks again and I downloaded a trivia app.
Warm up: walk to the flag and pledge
the thang:
I placed the blocks in the parking lot across from the flag where we would do a set of block exercises and after each set, we answer a trivia question. The catch: if you get the question wrong, each pax has to do 5 burpees, if you get it right, you can pick any exercise up to 10 reps.
block exercises, 10 reps each, repeat until time.
curls
trivia
shoulder press
trivia
squats
trivia
on your 6: chest press
trivia
I think we went 4 rounds
5 burpees for each trivia question wrong….. we missed at least 5 (should have paid attention in school)
pappy and I were the only ones this time out but was a good time even with no crowd!
Three Pax were present for Stogie’s VQ. I would take it that no one loves me… but fact is they were all serving elsewhere (whether it be the JJ 5K with Speed for Need, or Stop Soldier Suicide, or Rucking, or serving as Q at a different AO). I guess we’ll cut them some slack. Much better than the fartsackers – who know who they are.
The Thang:
Warm Up:
– 20 Side Straddle Hops – in cadence
– 20 Pavement pickers – in cadence
– 20 Mountain Man Poopers (Thanks for the AO I was named, F3 Waynesville) – in cadence
Mosey to the road…
Pax formed a line and did an Indian Run up the hill to the Flag:
– Six did 5 Bobby Hurleys and ran to catch up
– Six did 5 Burpees or Flying Squirrels and ran to catch up
– Six did 10 Goofballs and ran to catch up
Pledge!
Fellowship Mosey to the stone bleachers at the dog track.
My version of a Dirty MacDeuce:
- 10 Step Ups (each leg)
- 20 Wide arm inclined or declined merkins
- 30 Freddy Mercurys
Run around the track
- 10 Step Ups (each leg)
- 20 Diamond inclined or declined merkins
- 30 Flutter Kicks
Run around the track
- 10 Step Ups (each leg)
- 20 (Palms up) inclined or declined Ranger merkins
- 30 Star Crunches
Run around the track
- 10 Step Ups (each leg)
- 20 Regular inclined or declined merkins
- 30 LBCs
Run around the track
Mosey to Light Post…
Pax did Lt. Dans (Dan Taylors) – 1 low squat followed by 4 walking lunges for about 30 yards, and moseyed the rest of the way down the hill to the lower parking lot.
We did two laps around the lower parking lot – karaoke’ng to one corner, nur to the other corner, karaoke’ng to the other corner and then running back to start.
We then moseyed to the Tennis Courts.
We did some Adam Wests (aka Bat Arms) – 20 x Forward Arm Circles, hold, 20 x Backwards Arm Circles, hold, 20 x seal claps, hold, 20 x overhead claps.
We then did high-knee-skip suicides.
We did one more set from the Dirty MacDeuce – Abs, Arms/Chest, and a leg workout.
We then did some Mary, called by the present Pax (mix of exercises from: Mike Tysons, Jacked Up, to Peter Parkers and Parker Peters).
We finished with some Yoga (some made up, some legit):
– Cow/Cat
– Cobra
– Stretches
– Hangs
- Overhead clap
Moleskin:
With so few in attendance, we blew through my weinke in no time. Being my first time Q’ing I had little idea how long things would take. My goal was to do exercises I could do, but not have the exercises be extremely JV. I was out to do a few new things (or things we don’t often do at Folsom), and try putting my spin on them. When we blew through with around 25 minutes left, I found I was able to improvise enough to get by until I needed to call on the other Pax there, who were waiting to be called on (Site Q chomping at the bit). Overall, I think I did fine (and think the other Pax weren’t saying so for my feeling’s sake). I learned a lot. I’ve been thinking about Qing for a few months. I think I accomplished what I wanted. Thanks Montross and Gumby for the assistance and support!
For those who didn’t show, I will just have to break out this weinke for them, but make it worse. Or, dip into the other two (much worse) weinkes I prepared while trying to figure out the best things to do for my VQ.
Prayer: We prayed for Rockabilly’s Mom, thank God for Ratchet’s son’s good report, all the kids back in school, and prayed for my disabled Dad.
YHC – Stogie
Eight HIM’s decided to get out of bed a post at Pain Lab this morning. Welcome FNG Les Nessman! Please continue to get out there and post.
The Thang
- Set One x1
- 10 Merkins
- Lunge walk the lot and lunge/squat back
- Set Two x2
- 10 Merkins
- 5 Big Boys
- Lunge walk the lot and lunge walk/squat back
- Set Three x4
- 10 Merkins
- 10 Big Boys
- 5 Imperial Walkers
- Lunge walk the lot and lunge walk/squat back
- Set Four x6
- 10 Merkins
- 10 Big Boys
- 10 Imperial Walker
- 5 Rocky Balboas
- Lunge walk the lot and lunge walj/squat back
- Set Five x8
- 10 Merkins
- 10 Big Boys
- 10 Imperial Walkers
- 10 Rocky Balboas
- 5 Calve Raisers
- Set Six x1
- 15 Merkins
- 15 Big Boys
- 15 Imperial Walkers
- 15 Rocky Balboas
- 15 Calve Raisers
We then finished up that last couple minutes with some mary. Then met up with the Gashouse for COT.
Moleskin
Todays workout was very repetitive. It got old and we become complacent. The merkins is our walk with Christ. In the beginning, we are happy it is easy we feel like we can do anything. By the 50th merkin we start to question and not realize the importance of our calling and walk with Christ. By then 150th merkin, we do not want to do anymore. We want to do something else, we lose complete focus on our baseline walk with Christ. YHC sees this in himself after working the Huckleberry challenge and is now getting back on track. Do not lose focus on whatever your calling is with Christ, and if you do lose focus there is no need to worry about it. Get back on track because He is down there doing the merkins with you.
It is always an honor.
Big Pappy
Ok, so YHC had a double Q on this fine Thursday. It wasn’t planned that way, but regardless, I was up to the task. The only problem with the Folsom Q was that I had used my new ideas for the Midoriyama Q later in the evening. Being a Folsom OG, it wasn’t hard to wing it. That being said, 5 PAX clock in at 0530.
warmorama
SSH, Toy Soldiers, Gravel pickers all x10 IC
Pledge
Thang
mosey up to the tennis courts. Whenever you’re short in Q ideas, the tennis courts will always bail you out. Line up for some burpeecides. Run the first court for 1 burpee then back. Run to the second court for 2 burpees and back. Continue to the sixth court for 6 then work back down to 1. Mosey a lap then hold up at start. 4 corner escalators starting with 10 merkins working up an ex erode each corner to the fourth corner having 10 merkins, 20 CDDs, 30 Squats, 40 LBCs. Mosey another lap. Now circle up for some coretime. Mary style, each PAX call their core exercise and when all had participated a round, we mosey a lap. Rinse and repeat x4-5 until time was up.
Announcements: SSS 5k, JJ5K, Rotary Chili cookoff,(dates were mentioned)
COT; prayers for our 2.0s in school, Myself as I continue to ween off a medication, Montross’s son with adjusting to school
YHC took us out in prayer
Another wonderful morning at PrisonBreak this AM. There was a relatively small crowd in comparison to recent weeks. As usual Volt was already on the route and when 5:30 hit, there were only 3 more PAX to add to the mix. Bedpan has been training up to push his uncle in the Stop Soldier Suicide 5k and was ready to push a little harder this run. YHC knows that when running with a partner, you actually run a bit faster or further. PrisonBreak posts are my shorter runs fir my Tuna 200 training so I told BP let’s get at it. Barrel Racer was out front pretty quick, but Bedpan and I were looking for some rhythm and I know I couldn’t keep up with him much longer. We settled in for a 5k practice run and turned some good times. Bedpan pushed out his fastest 5k to date! Nice work brother. YHC had a couple firsts myself. Again, running with a partner really does help. Bedpan is ready for his first Speed For Need event and ready to proudly push his veteran uncle.
Pledge
COT
YHC took us out in prayer
After a great beatdown Q’d by the true HIM Bedpan, we circled up for the COT. There was the usual Folsom mubblechatter that morning. There were stories about about Florida man and wondering if Huck and Allen Tate were ever going to post again. Bedpan then asked for prayers for our brother Rockabilly. Our prayers for Rockabilly were recently answered when he got a new job. The only problem was that this new job was not going to allow him to post much anymore. He has come a long way and been a motivator for many of us at Folsom, YHC included. We prayed he would not regress and continue to work. YHC thought about how I just sit around on Monday afternoons so YHC reached out to Rockabilly to see if he wanted to workout. Rockabilly has trouble with technology and never got the initial message. Therefore YHC posted it publicly on the Folsom Group Me. First it was the two of us, then Tator Hole came out, and before you know it Starkville was born.
Warm Up
- Some Don Q’s
- Some Toy Soldiers
The Thang
- Lunge walk to the Folsom Mill
- 4 Stations
- 1 – Weighted Big Boys
- 2 – Weighted Merkins
- 3 – Curls
- 4 – Weight Squats
- Go to each station and do a set of 10, 20, 30 , 40 then do sets stepping back down at qty’s of 30, 20, 10
- Lunge walk back to start.
Simple but effective.
Moleskin
Prayer always works. We may not get the answer we want or desire, but prayer always works.
Philippians 4:6-7 do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Big Pappy
6 showed to Downtown for bootcamp this morning.
The Thang:
50 SSH
50 LBC’s
50 Imperial Walkers
50 Flutter
50 Mountain Climbers
50 Plank Jacks
Mosey Down the hill to a parking lot for 30 yards of Lunges.
Stopped in a spot with 5 parking spots. Each parking location we did an exercise.
10 Diamonds, Plank Jacks 50, Mountain Climbers 50, Merkins 20, etc.
Moseyed up a hill to the next turn.
50 Sumo Jump Squats
Mosey little more
50 Monkey Humpers
Mosey
50 FLutters
Mosey
50 LBC’s
Mosey
New Merkins, Start in Crab, Then roll in the air to the right and do one Merkin, Roll back to Crab. Roll to left and do 1 Merkin, Roll back to Crab. That is 1. We did 5 Sets. (Navin suggested cheating and doing all 5 Merkins at once on each side)
Since Mumble was getting higher we did 50 more Sumo Squat Jumps.
Mosey
50 Lunges in place
Mosey
Bottom of hill all the way back to the beginning Nur. This was a long way back doing Nur or also called Bernie Sanders since we were going backwards up a hill.
End, ran out of time.
The Moleskin:
Pledge.
Announcements made.
Prayers for Watts Up M.
Lower numbers this AM but lots going on this month. Even with number’s low we had a high amount of Mumble Chatter. I tried to rename Whoopee to “The Jerk” but I don’t have the authority without the Nantan and I only think he come out to workouts once a week. This did get us to make lots of reference’s to a great movie and Steve Martins great comedy over the years.
Tried to put the #Gastonia tag on my preblast in order to draw from the rest of the city maybe to urge someone to join us. I will mess with this some more in the future. We should all try to grow our numbers double in Gastonia. Don’t just try for the people that physically look like they need it but also try for the people that are really in good shape.
Honor to be the Q.
Get some and then get it again,
Gastone
Some guys went to do some thing up in the mountains. I’m sure it was fun.
I cooked the Sammich for 3 that morning. YHC, Outhouse and Tube. We rucked to the elementary school. We found the stairs. We did 7’s on the stairs with the pack on. Merkins at the top and Squats at the bottom. We walked to the playground and removed the packs. We did some pullups and some more merkins. Then we rucked back and stopped in a few spots to do some more merkins. We got to startex and laid on the ground and did some stuff.
Nuff said.
It is the G.O.A.T. not the goat. The Greatest AO of all time. You heard it here first. Good crowd this morning, lots of respect, not only the G.O.A.T. AO, likely the most respected AO as well. My first week as the site Q and I forgot the flag and my watch. Q Fail. Thankfully, the PAX were prepared to step up with solutions to my problems. Milburn noted the flag on the side of Mayworths Pub for the pledge, virus and others kept time so we were able to wrap up on time.
SSH. Plank. Mosey. Train 5- burpees. Mosey to the upper train tunnel for 3 rounds of the stupid shuffle, wall squats, six shooters and flutter kix.
Mosey down narrow poorly lit winding road. Another Q fail. To the basketball courts which are locked. Yet another Q fail.
Lets do 11s across the short parking lot. Tiger squats and big boy sit ups. Only rules were no running or walking to travel from one side of the lot to the other. some got creative – I saw some broad jumps, lunge walk, lunge walk squat, crab walk, bear crawl, Karaoke step, nur. When finished the pax did laps around the basketball court for the six.
Mosey to the goat island bridge. Partner up – wheel barrel half way then switch, lunges for the six. repeat. Mosey to the fire station for 15 burpees for an uncertain number of trains (3 just to be safe). Back to base.
Pledge.
Thoughts
Although the Q did not go to plan. First I forgot the flag, then my watch, then almost got some PAX run over, then the courts were locked. After the dust settled the PAX seemed pleased with the work that was done. It is just a fine example that things tend to work out if you keep your eye on your goals and have some helpful friends around to lend a hand every once in a while. Thank you PAX.
Announcements
SSS 5/10K this Saturday @ 7:30 am at South Point High School in Belmont, Speed for Need starts @ 7:20. be there earlier to help set up.
JJ5k Next Saturday
Bunch of Races coming up
bring donations for the rotary potty downtown
Prayers
Lynn Hamm Family
Orangeman’s Daughter just passed CPA test – prayers for her continued professional development and congrats on the achievement.
injured pax
Upcoming Episodes of THE G.O.A.T.
September 26 – Wet Nutz – get ready to get worked (possible Milburn co-Q)
October 3 – Tesla – I bet a bear crawl or two is in store
October 10 – Termite is a maybe – if he is able to take it I have a hunch coupons may be on the menu
October 17 – Orangeman – running some hills I imagine
October 24 – Dr. Seuss – will he bring Black Jack back for another round?
October 31 – Wet Nutz – he promised me one Q a month when I took over as Site Q. If only every AO had 4 of these type of PAX.
November 3 – Dirt – One of the Midwest Best bringing the heat – Iowa 18 Iowa St. 16