Category: Backblast (Page 643 of 904)

6 PAX logged some miles at Crossroads this cool June morning. Good work men!

Convergence next Saturday at Gashouse, all other AO’s closed

Prayers for the Cabe family, family of young man that fell from climbing wall, PAX traveling

Praise for Def Leppard job situation

YHC took us out.

I’m Broke

My first Q at Midoriyama in quite a while. I was part of the PAX the previous Thursday when Sister Act crushed us, setting a high bar for F3 Nation’s Premier Afternoon Workout. My Weinke was strong, at least in my opinion. As I made the frantic dash from downtown Charlotte toward Gastonia, the skies darkened and wind hastened, looking like the tornado scene in the Wizard of Oz. The app on my phone indicated it would be the typical brief summer storm and it was. By the time I arrived at the AO, the asphalt was evaporating, adding more steam to the steamy afternoon. I set out a few coupons and arrived back at the circle where Slaw appeared in his ranger panties once again. Apparently he is the only one participating in Thong Thursday at Midoriyama, thankfully the remaining PAX were in standard attire. Swimmer jumped on his bike and nine gathered for this:

Warm-up:

• Moroccan Night Clubs IC x 17
• Toy Soldiers IC x 10
• Ring of Fire – PAX perform SSH’s while individual PAX drop for 2 burpees (Lil’ Sweet was on a work call, so we did it twice)

Mosey to the back parking lot an concession stand/turd shack

Line up on the wall for 10 Hipslappers (count 1 side), bear crawl to about half the first parking lot, 10 Peter Parkers (count 1 side), run over the median to the opposite sidewalk and do 10 Merkins, run back. Do it two more times.

For those familiar with the parking lot, there are medians between the east/west lots. Use the blocks/sandbags for this circuit: 25 swings, 20 push-press, 10 forward/back frog jumps – run around the median and to the other side (effectively an upside down “U”). On the other side complete 12 ground clap merkins (these are not as worse as SA’s Kracken Merkins, but they drew some mumble chatter. Essentially you go all the way to the ground and while flat, clap in front of your head, then finish the burpee). Next, 15 big boys sit ups and 20 American Hammers; run around the median to start. I’d intended for that set to be done three times but we only got two in. We moved to the other side using the sand-filled pvc pipes to hold overhead, stopping 4 times during the run around the median for 10 Rifle Squats. The challenge here is running with you’re arms up, stressing your lung capacity – try that one on your next Q – it’s effective. We did that twice.

I offered the PAX a chance for one more circuit or to get back to base for Mary. The PAX chose option C – carry all the coupons back on a fellowship mosey. That worked too.

Announcements: Convergence next Saturday at GasHouse. YHC has the Mary portion – something we can all look forward to. Prayer requests for the Cabe family that lost their daughter in an car accident earlier that day; Roscoe’s Father-in-law battling health issues.

Moleskin – The heat adds a thick layer of challenge to any Midoriyama workout and this day was no different. The routines are challenging, but the PAX all pushed through with plenty of chatter, especially with Slaw’s short shorts Thanks to Def Leppard for bringing the cold water to quench our thirst. Until the next one, it was a pleasure to lead.

Abstract Art: a play on our names but mostly because this workout didn’t have a set theme. We were all over the place.

Disclaimer

Warm-up: SSH x10

Grasspickers x10

Imperial Walkers x10

Mosied in the Dolph lap around downtown with 30 burpees along the way.  Stopped at the bottom of the hill on 8th Ave.

Here we did merkin and big boy suicides. 5 merkins at the light pole we run to, 5 big boys at the bottom of the hill. Rinse and repeat 8x.

Got to the wall at First Baptist and attempted to do 15 wall jumps. Probably wasn’t the best idea.

Then we mosied on down 10th St. to the ball fields with 20 more burpees along the way.

Once we got to the ball fields, we got in 2 rounds of burpees around the field and shared Isaiah 26:3-4 which says:

“You will keep in perfect peace all who trust in you, all whose thoughts are fixed on you! Trust in the Lord always, for the Lord GOD is the eternal Rock.”

Now up the steps to the road to get in some push up walks.

Lastly we mosied on back to base and finished up with some MARY and some more burpees.

On behalf of Scribbles and I we appreciate this opportunity and the camaraderie we’ve experienced in this group. Thank you men

Humid this Morning at the Sammich no worries, we were all glad to be in the gloom.
530 came I explained that since we are at the Diablo Sammich anytime you hear a CB “thank goodness I did not have to explain all pax were of age” come across the radio we would stop and do work.
For all non CB people CB stands for {Citizens Band} radio frequencies typically used by Truckers and Lot Lizards. Today we enjoyed the sounds of our Favorite Smokey and the Bandit along with the one an only Cledus.

Stop 1.
10 merkins, 10 Sack Swings, 10 Squats.
Stop 2. 10 Hill Billies, 10 Hand Release Merkins, 10 Squat Thrust.
Stop 3. 10 Imperial Walkers 10 Merkins, 10 Triceps, 10 Curls.
Shout out to Hush Puppy for calling some extra Squats while one lady could get a good distance between us. We really didn’t want her to be scared but also I did not want her to hop in the party an ruin the movie about haulin Beer like Sally Field Did! The Bandit did not need a girlfriend, do you not remember all the women on the side of the road cheering for him.
We covered 2miles with some lunges somewhere in the mix.

Pledge, COT, Keep Ditka in your prayers this guy is going through some tuff stuff.
This is the BedPan signing off better drop it down to the double Nickel ole Smokey is on your tale! Find me on Channel 18.

Shortly after another crazy beat down from Island I created this monster and filed it away for another not so rainy day. I also had a couple of ideas for parts of s workout inspired by some of pax who coincidentally post Midoriyama lately … sadly they were not present….
Last week while posting I noticed several openings at sites I’ve never Q’d before and decided this bird needs to fledge and leave the nest. First was the Storm where I’ll be July 2, then I grabbed one from Dr Seuss at the Goat later in the month followed by my noticing a small want ad in the Slack section of the paper and decided what the hey…..later the same day I finally committed to my coworker who ( if you posted at the Murph recently) is Iced Tea and site q of Crows nest in Lake Wylie where I’ll be in August ( site unseen… never been …. if you wonder they meet Monday’s 5:15 Crowders Ridge Elementary.
Onto the beat down …. I began as always with pledge and proceeded to inform all that the warm up was inspired by Defib and what I lovingly call the cardio cadence count… it’s a double time count which we did for 20 and rapidly followed with 20 cadence count merkins… and we did this twice ! I gassed out at 18 merkins on the second round …..
It was remarked later that if you want to shut down mumble chatter … this is the way to do it!
Moved to bleachers and two rounds of 10 count each leg step ups and 20 dips and return to flag for a choice …. inspired by Freight….. but it was mentioned that there WAS an actual choice A and B .
Lil Sweet tried to vote both ways and then attempted to leave , all the pax pulled him out of the van kicking and screaming because his choice wasn’t chosen , but when we made him understand ( with his arms pinned behind his back ) that he won either way …. he saw the light and decided to rejoin the party ….
The pax chose A ( which I secretly hoped and Slaw was excited to learn of Burpees … so excited I could not explain the exercise for 2-3 minutes! ( choice B was escalators on soccer field of squats merkins plank Jax and lbcs)
However they chose the what I call Murder Suicide …. ran parking lot with no cars or traffic ( length of soccer field …. perhaps not wise choice) 1 burpees each end then 2 – 3 -4 and 5 each end at this point switched to half parking lot for diminishing numbers back to 1 …. pax inspired me to run whole lot on final one!
Next up to Dog Hill…. original idea was to run up hill for 11s but modified to choose your direction of to the trash can and back or to soccer goal doing squats at one end and monkey humpers facing dogs to see if any dogs might be interested ….. no takers today sorry to say.
Return to start for Mary …Freddy Merc ,America hammers and some crazy crap from Oompa that was a painful lbc keeping legs elevated for some damn reason !

Announcements for 2.0 workout Schiele Saturday and tubing later that day

Next Saturday convergence Schiele again all others AOs closed

Sign up for Tuna … Ragnar

Prayers for Blart, Whetstone , All pax and Oompa wanted to pray for guidance , understanding and hope for misguided individual he sees most mornings with bumper stickers of rainbow and what appears to be two men going at each other!

I thoroughly appreciated this opportunity and am glad to have seized it …. I’ve become so relaxed going to my usual workout sites and Qing those …. but the other month when I visited all sites I realized time to move out a little ….. there’s s lot to be said about the heat at Midoriyama …. it’s REAL ! Had arm sleeves with tattoos I had to rip off about 10 minutes in , which someone advised I do quickly !
Extra special thank you to Def Leppard for the ice cold water !!!!!!

After getting woken up by thunder and lightning, I was worried that my Q may have to be delayed due to weather.  That was not the case, when  the 4:20 am alarm on my phone went off, I was delighted to see the storm was gone.  I arrived at Folsom about 5:22 am to see Roundup getting some EC in and Volt was getting his early work in.

5:29 am is here and I realize we have a nice crowd!  5:31 am we begin (Q fail, chattering away). No FNG’s so I just reminded the pax that a lawsuit against me would be highly disappointing.

Warm up: 

10 SSH in cadence 

10 Don Q in cadence 

10 squats single count 

Mosey to the tennis courts 

Thang:

Rugby sprints 1 court width  repeat after each exercise!

10 flying squirrels OYO  (some upgrades to burpees)

1 minute raise the roof

1 minute merkins

1 minute Morroccan night clubs

Mosey to the other end of the courts and back

Still rugby sprinting

1 minute emperial walkers 

1 minute hillbillies 

1 minute LBC

1 minute flutters

1 minute Rosalita’s

Mosey to the end of the courts and back 

Still rugby sprints 

Lunge walk 1 court and back

1 minute squats 

1 minute calf raise 

1 minute squats 

1 minute calf raises

Mosey to the end of the courts and back.

Rinse and repeat 

The entire work out had music blasting (thanks Pappy for the speaker)  and served as a great way to get the mumble chatter going as I had some very familiar  90’s tunes and a few other not so familiar tunes as well.

Rugby sprints was a great way for us to keep the heart rate up and YHC to be able to keep up with the pack.  This group of men at F3 Gastonia encourages me to be better every day.  I hope the workout today wasn’t too JV for some of our more athletic men.  Thank you all for the support today!