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YHC was scheduled to Q this morning at The Storm. Notification was sent out on Twitter, weinke was prepared, and YHC set alarm early for some EC. Everything was ready to go and looking forward to a good beatdown.

Tuesday morning, alarm goes off. Uh oh! it is 5:30am, YHC set alarm for PM, not AM, and if it wasn’t for the M’s alarm, I may still be sleeping. Jumped up, changed clothes, and out the door I went. That had to be the fastest YHC has gotten ready for bootcamp.

Showed up at The Storm, not really sure if anyone would still be there. Well, there were several cars, but didn’t see anyone. Parked the car, placed the shovel flag in the ground and looked around for everyone. There they were, up by the school. Sprinted to the meet them and Timeframe had taken the lead to Q since YHC was fartsacking.

Timeframe finished out the workout. We ran, did called exercises, and ran again.

Finished up back at the Shovel Flag with some Mary…..

COT

Announcements

Prayer request:

• Dirt’s son and daughter-in-law traveling back to school
• Lynn Hamm and Family
• Breaker Breaker’s mom

TimeFrame took us out in prayer.

Thanks Timeframe for stepping up and leading while YHC stumbled alarm clock issues..

12 including myself made it to Folsom this morning for a long overdue Blart Q. Three got a few miles in the rest for a bootcamp ⇔

WARM UP:

SSH 15 IC

GRASS PICKERS 15IC

RIGHT OVER LEFT LEG

THEN LEFT OVER RIGHT

The thang

DORA 1 2 3

Partner up.

Partner 1 runs length of tennis court forward to first corner.  Then karaoke left to next corner. Nur. back to third  corner, then karaoke right to last corner

Partner 2 does called exercises

150 Merkins

250 Mt. Climbers

350 squats

Next to pavilion for 2 sets of hipslappers, dips , merkins.

10ic

20ic

20ic

And then to concrete pad for some ab work to catch our breath.

LBC’S

AMERICAN HAMMERS

NOLAN RYANS

Last to hill for some hill work

Each pax calls a exercise and moseys down hill to cones and then all you got back up. Nice push men, all gave some some gave all.

Great job guys .

I spoke a little on commitment something I have been pondering on lately.  Are mine where they should be? Could I focus more on the important things ?

If you have not attended a Q Source I would encourage you to do. Next week is on this very topic something I look forward to.

Announcements

Lots of events coming up get after it.

Prayers for those traveling,  fighting illness,  and fartsackers

Blart…..

So YHC put out the tweet that this Saturday’s edition of the Fighting Yank would be an “ass whuppin'”. And guess what? It was? And a pretty big and active pax showed up on the streets of Belmont to participate in the fun. Went like this:

COP:

Stretching (arm and foot to hand)

SSH X 20

IW X 20

4X stretch merkins X 10

Nolan Ryans X 10

Mosey over to Hawthorne Hill for some DORA work,

Run part: Top of Hawthorne Hill and back, Which is hard. Very hard.

Exercises:

Hand release merkins X 100

Big boy sit ups X 200

Squats X 300

P1 runs up and back, P2 does the work, flapjack.

This pretty well takes up half the workout and everyone is gassed! Pretty humid morning, great temp, but it is STILL summer!

10 count, mosey toward the park again.

Burpee suicides on the street.

Run two parking places up, nur one back, drop and do a burpee. Repeat to the end.

Mosey to the park and top of Heartbreak Hill:

Halfpipe X 2

Top: plank jacks X5

Pad: burpees X 5

Top of stairs: butt to the street monkey humpers X 5

4th quarter, line up on the field of dreams for the crucible – Bear Crawl Slalom!

As it is the first real Saturday of college football it was time to invoke “The Bear” as a life lesson. Which is that winning is not imperative. But getting tougher in the fourth quarter is. Read “The Junction Boys”, the story of the trip down to Junction, Tx. by Bear Bryant’s 1st Texas A&M team in September 1954 for 10 days of transformation. Then watch in real time what Boise State did when the chips were down against FSU. If you want to get it done you have to get through the tough parts. What we do in F3 is create a lab for a man to put himself in that environment and get through it. Knowing he has the support of every other guy out there with him. and in our lives since nothing is ever perfect we need that testing to be able to get through those trying times – and make ourselves better by doing it. Adversity = Opportunity.

So with that we proceeded to have 16 guys do two slaloms to the end of the field. YHC always takes the first one. After the first round Ring of Fire looked over at me and asked “Are we gonna do this again?”. Well SURE we are! why wouldn’t we! And so off we went! And ended perfectly at the end of the field after two turns for each pax.

Recovery:

SSH X 10

Copperhead squats X 10

Back to the end of the field:

Sprint to midfield: 10 CDDS

Sprint to end: 20 CDDS

10 count, over to Heartbreak hill again.

One round of halfpipe, over to the fountain for stretching.

End and Pledge at The Yank.

NMM:

Strong performance here by the pax. It was most def a “whuppin”. As advertised. We don’t come out for walkthroughs do we? Tesla announced at COT that I would be passing the flag on to Pockets in October at The Yank. Pockets will be the site XO and be getting together a Q schedule this month. Then we will pass the flag at the convergence in late October. I think we need a site XO for Pockets as well. A Saturday site is pretty demanding and if someone would step up and help Pockets I would appreciate it very much guys!

Been an honor to lead this effort. Look forward to passing it on.

Tesla

It was around 530ish on a crisp gloomy Saturday morning in the gas house when I see headlights pulling in.  I knew that Whoopee had put out an ironpax challenge the night before, but it wasn’t him.  It was none other than tool time himself straight out of Mooresville.  He was going to do some EC running, a cool 5 he said.  Out  in the distance I see headlights.  Its Whoopee, WattsUp, Stroganoff, and Roscoe.  Tool time took off, the others headed out and I did some EC rucking.  As you know around five till seven everyone rolls in.  Earlier in the week I had been taking to HIPAA and he was saying he needed some extra motivation lately so I said lets Co-Q and think of some nastiness to bring pain lab.  What a great time it was…Here’s how it went.

Stations:  Swings, Man-makers, the little green band (have to show to know), the always crowd pleaser forearm twist rope thing that really sucks, and a new crowd pleaser the Cam Newton.  Essentially you are in a LBC position with the slam ball balancing on your shins, you lay back with arms extended, come back up and grab the ball, extend back with the ball while extending your legs outward at the same time and return ( spoiler alert they really suck).  We also had a curl and chest press station as well.  We did AMRAP for 1 minute  and rotated…quickly.  We did two full rounds and took our bells on the nature trail.  Part 2:  11s on the gravel hill.  Merkins and Goblet squats.  We did Squats at the top with the bells, crab walked down the hill, did the Merkins, then bear crawled back to the top.   Rinse and Repeat till the end, you know the drill.  Part 3:  We walked with bells in hand to the circle with Frank.  We did a triple nickel there with Durkins and Dips, then with incline Merkins and LBCs.  We ended there with some Mary led mainly by a mad man named HIPAA who paid respects to the impending hurricane  Dorian, with a hurricane hoedown.  Which was horrible.   Man what a great workout.  Oh, how could I forget the playlist consisted of all Tool.  Someone requested it and I think he knew a little bit about them.  Great work by all men!  That was a fun one!

Diablo Sammich got started right on time. Six men with bags took off after the pledge and rucked to the old Harris Teeter (soon-to-be new Mattress Warehouse Outlet) with an old lady named….? Can’t remember, had to Google it just now-Ophelia. She weighs about 40# and doesn’t talk much. Once we got to the parking lot, the menu was discussed. We were going to do a version of this week’s IronPax challenge. It’s called Loredo:6 rounds of exercises with 400 meter run after each round. We modified the numbers and did the following: 6 squats, 6 Merkins, 6 Lunge Steps per leg then rucked around the lot. On the lunges, one of us carried Ophelia with the plan to carry her around the lot-we only moved her while lunging. After a round or 2 of this we increased the reps to 10 for each exercise. Eventually we carried Ophelia more than just lunging. At some point we saw some young men with soccer arms run by us. Words were exchanged and all I can say is, at least 1 of us will be getting a new insurance agent VERY SOON. We moseyed back in time for COT then got outta there.

Another great day at the Sammich-Come join us-Whoopee

13 men resisted the fartsack, and showed Downtown this morning.  Nice cool morning, no FNGs, let’s get to work.

Warm-Up:

5 Burpees for the passing train

10 Burpees for the warm-up

The Thang:

Start a mosey towards Long Ave, stopping at the bridge that crosses the railroad tracks.  Bear Crawl the length of the bridge to the other side.  Continue the mosey crossing over Long Ave and turning on Falls St, which is behind the Courthouse.  I’ve had my eye on this road for a while now.  It is a nice smooth paved road that has a fairly decent incline, with minimal traffic.  Of course, the mumble chatter quickly escalated once the pax realized my choice of location was beside a water treatment facility.  It honestly wasn’t that bad, but the complaining only intensified once the workout began. Anyway, the workout went as follows.  Starting at the bottom of the hill, sprint to the first pole on the right, then mosey back to start and do 10 Burpees.  Short recovery, then sprint to 2nd pole, mosey back to start for 10 Burpees, 15 Imperial Walker Squats.  Sprint to 3rd pole, mosey back and do 10 Burpees, 15 IW Squats, 20 Merkins. Sprint to 4th pole, mosey, then 10 Burpees, 15 IW Squats, 20 Merkins, 25 Mountain Climbers. Sprint to stop sign at the end of the street, mosey back for 10 Burpees, 15 IW Squats, 20 Merkins, 25 MC, and 30 Smurf Jack’s.  Good work men!!

Time to move on up the street, but not before knocking out some exercises as we go. Stopping at each pole and the end, we did:

Pole 1 – 10 Monkey Humpers (IC)

Pole 2 – 5 Burpees

Pole 3 – 15 Monkey Humpers (IC)

Pole 4 – 5 Burpees

Stop Sign – 20 Monkey Humpers ( IC)

Then we took a quick mosey around the corner to the small wall in front of the Courthouse. We performed 3 exercises here: Dips 10 (IC), Derkins 10 (IC), and Donkey Kicks 10 (IC).  Do two rounds.

Then start our mosey back to the flag.  Still some time left for some Deep Sea Divers at the pavilion. Start on step 1, and do 5 Hip Slappers (IC). Hold plank,  then move up a step and do 10 Hip Slappers (IC).  Go up another step and do 15 Hip Slappers (IC). Drop back down a step and do 10 Hip Slappers (IC), and finally drop back down and do 5 Hip Slappers (IC)

Circle up at COT . But first we had a little work left to do .  Next excercise is called the Worst Merkin Ever.  Called in cadence. Perform Werkin on 1 count, Merkin on 2 count, and Diamond Merkin on 3 count.  This equals 1 rep.  I called 10 of these, and yes these sucked!!   TIME!

Announcements:

Labor Day Murph at Martha Rivers 7:00

9/21 Stop Soldier Suicide in Belmont

9/28 JJ5K in Stanley

Prayer Request

Nameorama

Honor to lead today men.  Good work, even in the smelly conditions.

Sister Act