Category: Backblast (Page 651 of 904)

Today marks the beginning of my reign at the Bulldog as site Q.  To be honest, when I first joined F3 I had no intentions of ever Qing, but now I am proud to be this involved.  It is actually a great honor.  I have met some great men during this journey and I am looking forward to growing the pax.  As for this beat down I wanted to add in a little cardio to the mix of slinging weight so here it went.

Pledge

Warmup:

SSH x 15 IC

Merkins x 10 IC

LBC x 10 IC

Poles:

Start at one end of the parking lot:

10 burpees mosey to light pole, 10 American hammers, mosey to barricade 20 kettle bell swings , mosey back to pole 10 crunchy frogs IC, mosey back barricade 20reverse grip curls, mosey back to pole 20 merkins, mosey back to beginning… We repeated this way mixing in various exercises.  More burpees, more Mary and more work with kettlebells .  We ended up going through these stations for approximately 6 rounds.  We left some sweat angels  on the ground and some wear and tear was done to our bodies.  It was an honor to lead  today, and even though I was slightly discombobulated I felt everyone got their money’s worth.  We even had a VIP first timer today as Short Sale joined us.  I ‘m not sure of it, but I think I even saw a drop of sweat roll off his forehead.  Thanks for coming out! 

Announcements:  Community 5K, collections for Pizzaman’s friend, and Monks party .

YHC took us out with a prayer.  Hope everyone has a great week.  Voodoo out

It was the same day as the Mt. Mitchell hike so we expected low numbers. Turns out we had 3. There were 6 for Mt. Mitchell so there may have been a few fartsackers????? Monk and I had a good run while Breaker Breaker took on some hills. Monk was kind and stayed with me until the gut check then he took off. He opened up to me while we were running and said he really hated to run. He said it hurt his ankles and he has some sort of inherited ankle-itis issue that skips every 3rd generation. At night he has to soak his feet/ankles in warm milk and wrap them in feminine napkins soaked in vinegar to help relieve the pain. For whatever reason, rucking does not bother him so plans to ruck full time in DC. At least that is what I remember him saying during the run….

Whatever works Monk-good luck.

HushPuppy came for Q Source and Breaker Breaker left to go to church right after run.

Good work men and hope those ankles get better soon Monk. Send us your address so we can send you supplies for your ankles…

Whoopee

11 of Gastonia’s Finest showed up on a Wednesday morning for a Bootcamp.

The Thang:

SSH 25

Imperial Walker 20

Mosey to Sidewalk. About 10 yards.

Form straight line all in a plank. Man in the back bear crawl to the front. Rinse and Repeat.

Mosey to parking lot.

Circle up for one set of Howling Monkey. Everyone grab your ankles while 1 guy at a time does 20 Monkey Humpers.

Mosey around the field and on the way.

Slow Indian Run with guy in the back running to the front after 5 Burpee’s.

Mosey around some more.

Stopping for 50 Squats and 20 Diamond Merkins.

Main Event.

11’s starting at top of the hill for 10 Pull Up’s and at the  bottom of the hill on the track about 100 yards we did 1 Burpee.

Rinse and repeat until you flip the number. We almost made it but ran out of time.

Mosey back to the start after cutting through the woods.

The Moleskin:

Stinky Bird was supposed to VQ but it is postponed until next Wednesday. I did not find out until 8:30pm so I just took the Q but was mentioned that I did not offer it up to anybody. I quickly offered it to Shortsale but knowbody grabbed. They must have really wanted me to do this Q.

Neverland and Mt. Hollywood closed on Monday but Martha Rivers Park is open at 7am for a Murph. Come one come all. Once you do one of these under an hour you are supposed to add a weighted pack.

Prayers, lift the community and each other.

Gastone Out.

15 pax showed on a great morning to be at Folsom.  It had been a while since my last Q here, so I was excited and definitely wanted to bring something good for the Folsom crowd.  After several guys put in some EC runs this morning, it was time.  Good size crowd had gathered along with 2 FNGs.  I knew what was about to go down, so I knew these 2 would get broken into F3 properly.  A short disclaimer was given, time to start.

Warm-Up:

None needed, let’s mosey

The Thang:

Last year there was a challenge sent out to F3 Nation.  It was called the Iron Pax Challenge.  It was a 4 part challenge, with each workout being different.  Each was scored with either being timed to completion, or an accumulation of reps completed.  We completed the first challenge during my Q at Folsom about this time last year.  I remember it well, so why not bring it back for those that may have missed the opportunity last year.  Here is the breakdown of this challenge:

50  Squats

40 Big Boys

30 Merkins

20 Jump Lunges (count 1 leg)

10 Burpees

400 meter run

You do this for 4 rounds.  I knew this would definitely challenge us all.  So I informed the pax that we would move on from this to something else once the first pax completes this challenge.  Each pax pushed hard, with Dr. Seuss leading the charge and completing this first.  Good work men.  We finished this quicker than expected. With lots of time remaining, let’s mosey.

Short mosey to the tennis courts.  Time for some AMRAP.   5 different exercises are given to AMRAP for 2 minutes each. Do this for 10 minutes, with no rest in between exercises.  0:00-2:00  Start at baseline of first tennis court, 10 Burpees, sprint length of 2 courts, 10 Burpees.  then sprint.  Continue this cycle of Burpees and sprints for 2 minutes.  Next exercise is Plank Jacks. From  2:00-4:00 10 Plank Jacks, sprint, 10 Plank Jacks, sprint… Next from 4:00-6:00 is 10 SSH, sprint, 10 SSH, Sprint.  From 6:00-8:00 is 10 Hand Release Merkins, sprint,  10 HR Merkins.  Finally from 8:00-10:00 is 10 Smurf Jack, sprint, 10 Smurf jacks, continue this until the 10:00 minute mark.  Good work on this men.  Going from the Iron Pax Challenge straight into some AMRAP is tough.

Still with some time to spare, another exercise is called.  Route 66 on the tennis courts.  Exercise used for this is the Mike Tyson.  Use the entire length of 6 tennis courts for this exercise.  Run to out of bounds line of first court and back for 11 Mike Tysons.  Run to start of next court and back for 10 Mike Tysons.  Continue this cycle until you finish with a  run to far end of courts and back to complete 1 Mike Tyson, which totals 66 Mike Tysons.   As we waited on all the pax to finish, let’s do 50 Flutter Kicks (IC).  There were some complaints about this, but way to finish strong men.  Quick mosey to the flag.

Announcements:  Belmont Classic 5K SFN 5/25, Memorial Day Murph 5/27 7:00 Martha Rivers

Prayer request;  Each other

Nameorama

Honor to lead today.  Welcome to F3 Mary Kate(Easton Moore) and Ashley(Thomas Moore). Today was about each pax pushing themselves.  I try my best at each workout to not cheat myself, and give it everything I got.  I hope you guys were able to physically push yourselves today.  Make it a point to push until the finish, with no shortcuts.

Sister Act