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Welcome to the Storm

Dirt and Breaker Breaker with some EC

Let the Music Begin. Started out with some outlaw country.  Johnny Cash, Merle, Chris, Waylon, Willie, and the Boys.

SSH in Cadence, MNC in Cadence, Imperial Walker in Cadence.  Lets Mosey.

3 Rounds

3 exercises – Tiger Squat x 10, Merkin x 15, Crunchy Frog x 20

Sprint to end of row in parking lot, karaoke step to the first brick and back to row, nur to parking island, bear crawl to end of island and back, sprint to beginning.

plank between each set with shoulder taps and various planking positions for the 6

Mosey to next spot

3 Rounds

3 exercises – Mike Tysons x 10, American Hammer 20 each side, 30 squats

Sprint to end of row, karaoke step to first brick and back to row, nur to parking island, bear crawl around island, run to start, side shuffle to brick and back

flutter kicks between,  shady had a ten count in there, TopHat did not enjoy the music so we switched to The Black Keys Radio

Very short mosey.  next round – exercise followed by sprint.

Big Boys then sprint, single leg dead lift then sprint, oblique crunch then sprint, finally protractor called by moses then sprint.

Easy mosey back to the start.

Grabbed the pledge.

Change music to my daughters music channel for some stretching – lucky for us the perfect song for 5 minutes of stretching – Circle of Life – Lion King Sound Track.

Announcements

CSAUP – sign up by 2-16, event is 2-23 with Stinky 2nd F immediately following at Buffalo Wild Wings

QSource on Sundays at 7:30 am

Prayer Requests

Breaker Breakers Family, the pax, special prayer for f3LKN lost a member recently.  TopHat father passed away Sunday.

Dr. Seuss Took us OUT in the COT aka BOM

 

The Elixir for the Super Bowl Hangover or perhaps the magic number of 24

10 PAX strong to start the week in gloom on this balmy Monday at Neverland.   Much mumble chatter to start about the boring game last night though I didn’t hear any Patriot fans.  Or Wolfpack fans for that matter.   5:30am on Monday’s come fast.   Let’s hit it

Start with the pledge and typical disclosure

Warm Up

SSH x20 IC

LBC’s x 20  IC

Merkins x 10 IC

The bucket of jelly beans made a return visit.  Someone grab the bucket and let’s mosey.

The Thang

Arrive at the doctor’s office down Riverwood Parkway

Broad jumps up the hill to the light; mosey back to start, rinse and repeat x3.   I’m always amazed at the damn rabbit (Island) that comes flying by.  So graceful in mid air.

Some grab the bucket of jellybeans and lets mosey to the back parking lot.

On your six, form a line, shoulder to shoulder.  AMRAP – Flutter kicks, while the 1st in line completes 20 bucket presses, pass on down the line until the end.  Brutal

Recover, grab the bucket, scale the back retaining wall and mosey to the parking lot by the pizza joint.

Time for the famous Red Barchetta , line up at the start, dash to the far end of the parking lot by the ATM, complete 100 SSH’s OYO (don’t forget the bucket of jellybeans)

Dash back to the start, plank it up waiting on the six, Dash back to the 2nd light, complete 75 mountain climbers OYO

Dash back to the start, plank it up waiting on the six, Dash to the 1st light, complete 50 LBC’s OYO

Dash back to the start, plank it up waiting on the six, from the plank position, complete 20 merkins OYO

Really an improvised Red Barchetta, only 3 lights total across the parking lot.

Whassupp man gave us an inspired 10 count

Next exercise – run to the loading dock, hop up and then bear crawl down the ramp, mosey to parking lot and complete 20 squats OYO

Rinse and repeat x3

YHC took a quick time check and saw that we still had plenty of time

Ran the Red Barchetta again with a minor adjustment

Line up at the start, dash to the far end of the parking lot by the ATM, complete 100 SSH’s OYO (don’t forget the bucket of jellybeans)

Dash back to the start, plank it up waiting on the six, Dash back to the 2nd light, out of the corner of my eye, saw a truck pulling out of the ATM.  Watch for the truck and called 75 monkey humpers  OYO.  Think the guy was amused, though, he hit the horn a time or two.

Dash back to the start, plank it up waiting on the six, Dash to the 1st light, complete 50 LBC’s OYO

Dash back to the start, plank it up waiting on the six, from the plank position, complete 20 merkins OYO

Getting close to time; grab the bucket and head towards Snoballs

Stopped at the wall and called 20 step ups

Followed by the people’s DIPs x  15 IC

Rinse and Repeat x2

Mosey back to the start, still had a few minutes, in honor of Spiderman, who has made a strong return and had to leave, 20 Peter Parkers and ended with 20 big boy sit ups OYO

COT

Announcements

May 5th Mt.Mitchell Hike – see Gastone

CSUAP – Spelling? coming up

Took us out in prayer.  Big prayers for Hushpuppy that surgery goes well with a speedy recovery, Whassupp man, Easy Rider’s son, Gastone’s dad, Blades and Stones of Whetstone

Great work gentleman.  Always a honor to lead.  Getting challenging coming up with new routines.   Sort of fall into old routines.   If you haven’t Q’d lately, get on the list.  Also, try other AO’s to get some new ideas.

Till next time – Turtleman

Monday Morning Fartsacking

Hope Dark Knight had a good turn out this morning, otherwise Gastonia region had a serious fartsack problem this morning.  Do you think Tom Brady stays in the bed all morning?  Me either

Anyway five HIM showed and got better for it.

Warm – up: Big arm circles, SSH, Imperial Walker, Don Q, all 10X IC. Pledge.

Mosey to entrance to school.  YHC dialed up a self serving Q this morning.  Keeping Quiche theme of 5000 reps, Q called 25 merkins, 25 lbc, 25 squats and do a lap around parking lot.  Keep going till Q says stop.

Time, mosey to flag.  YHC got 14 rounds, Broke a couple more.

Announcements: CSAUP and Rooster sign up ongoing, Q source on Sunday mornings, 2nd F opportunity at Station on Main Street Belmont at 5:00 Friday afternoon, BRR team in the making, and hike up Mt Mitchell in May

YHC had a word regarding serving.  Mentioned that the Q today was self serving as I had to catch up on my challenge.  But our ultimate call to service is service to God first and our fellow man.  Take every opportunity, and create opportunity to be a shining light in a dark world.  That is our greatest call.

Prayer requests: Pizzaman M, Hushpuppy surgery, brothers returned from Chimbote, brothers headed to New Orleans.

Pax we praying for this week: Broke, Gold Digger, Roscoe, Linus, Bed Pan, Swimmer, Virus, Anchor Man

YCH took us out

Always and honor

Tiger

Daddy’s back Home at The Yank!

As many of you may know YHC from mid November to the end of January is fairly well occupied with duck season which usually cuts back on his F3 Saturday activities. Including showing up and leading at The Yank, the best Saturday AO in the Gaston region. We have had outstanding leadership in that time and some killer workouts. But it was time for the old man to come home and make sure everybody understood what a real beat down in Belmont REALLY looked like! Just need reminders from time to time.  Went like this:

COP

Mosey down to the pad in the park for the following:

Stretch -O-Rama! Something we need to do for a minute or so to start with and to end workouts with.

SSH X 1 minute

Merkins X 1 minute

Mountain climbers X 1 minute

Copperhead squats X 1 minute

LBCs X 1 minute

 

Mosey to the tennis courts, Tiger picks up the six.

1s and 2s

Suicide pairs. 1s run to halfcourt, do exercise, run back to endline and then run to the other endline, do excecise. 2s do a called exercise. Flapjack

Round 1 – 1s, 5 hand release merkins, 2s SSH

Round 2 – 1s, 5 jump squats, 2s, lBCs

Round 3 – 1s,  diamond merkins, 2s merkins

Round 4-  1s, CDDs, 2s big boy situps

Mosey back to the Corner of Knowledge, well over half done by now.

At the corner:

10 step ups (total)

10 inclined merkins

10 dips

Sprint to other end of the school, 10 copperhead squats, sprint back

15 step ups (total)

15 inclined merkins

15 dips

Sprint back to the other end. 15 copperhead squats.

Burpee broad jumps back to 1/2 way.

Frog hop the next half (this was hard!)

Mosey down to the field of dreams with @ 9 minutes left for Bear Crawl Slalom!

Three rolls for each pax.

SSH X 10

IW X 10

All you got back to the start point!

Mosey down to the pad fro 3 minutes of stretching.

Pledge and done.

NMM:

Great to be back at The Yank this morning. Perfect morning, clear @ 32 degrees, great pax to have present for a little “Kotter” for Tesla as it was. We worked hard and that was the intent. Nobody shows to take it off.

Prayers for Top Hat whose dad appears to be facing his death very soon. Family has some real decisions to make as of tomorrow. Reach out to him if you can and let him know we are here for him.

Tiger has it next week, so I would be thinking this could be pretty hard. Show to know!

Tesla, out.

 

 

“Preparedness is for the Birds.. Wing it”

8 Pax ran today.

Q Source on Preparedness was given by Alan Tate. Seven runners were in attendance along with Pizza Man and 2.0, Huckleberry, and Alan Tate (Q Source leader).

Eph. 6:14-15 Stand therefore, having fasten on the belt of truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, and, as shoes for your feet, having put on the readiness given by the gospel of peace.

Preparedness..a mindset or a process?

Don’t leave prayer out of the process, as is the tendency.

4 Quadrants: Get right, Live right, lead right, leave right

Great job, Alan Tate, of preparing and delivering a great Q Source with stories and humor! So, as some feel  more comfortable doing things off the cuff, while others of us need to be more regimented, we all need to be preparing spiritually, mentally, physically, emotionally each day.

Prayer Requests:  illness of pax members and families, each other, Pizza Man’s M, Pax going to New Orleans

Announcements:  CSAUP, Rooster

Nice, steady run today everyone! Thankful for the opportunity to Q this great group of men!

Seuss

WolfPack brings da pain!!

So i talked to my best friend josh montgomery who is my cousin and hucks brother and was telling him I had the Q coming up. He lives in Asheville now and is a part of F3 up there. His name is Wolfpack. He had told me about some of the things they do up there so I decided to bring em to Folsom.

 

The Thang:

Show to Know!!!!!

 

Announcements: c saup, prayer requests: 5ks

BOM YHC took us out in prayer

 

Always a pleasure to lead u men

Allen Tate CHIEF of Folsom !!!

5,000…er 15,000 reps

Inspired by Quiche’s 5000 rep challenge on Slack, YHC cooked up a workout that focused on his own 3 exercises: merkins, LBCs, and flutters.

Warmorama: Slawter starter, then 20 of each of the Big 3.

Next up, triple dime on the hill for 50 more of each. Nur/sprint up the hill one extra time for 10 more to round up to 80.

Mosey to tennis court for modified 4 corners. 10, 20, 30, 40 of the Big 3 to get to the daily minimum of 180. Only 30 minutes in and the daily challenge has been met.

Get down to the lower parking lot for Route 66 w/lunge walk and Bobby Hurley’s (YHC’s least favorite).

Now time for a GD crowd pleaser, the shoulder burn: Find a parking spot, 11’s w/ Mike Tyson’s on the curb, bear crawl to the end of the white line, crab cakes, then crab walk back. Run laps until Omaha. Shakeout with chinooks.

Mosey back to flag (provided by the ever-obliging MW) for various Mary/Mumblechatter.

Announcements: CSAUP and Rooster coming up.

Prayer requests: All PAX, Pizza Man’s M, Medicine Woman’s daughter, Gumby, Blart’s friend who passed away, Stroganoff’s friend’s M.

Always a pleasure to lead. I am continually inspired by the strong work put in by all.

Until next time,

GD

Day 5 – HIPAAPALOOZA – So loud we couldn’t hear ya

Pub Crawl at HIPAAPALOOZA on Day 5. Anthrax and Bono performed and didn’t disappoint. Some could hear it 5 miles away and some at shorter distances. It was so loud we didn’t hear the Diablo Sammich PAX yelling at us from across the parking lot of Harris Teeter. Too bad they didn’t join us for the festival. Probably wish they had instead of sitting in a circle reading Shakespeare.

Today’s Groupies (To be a groupie you need to have posted 2 or more time during HIPAAPALOOZA):

JJ, Broke, Clavin, Sister Act

COT

Announcements – CSAUP, Rooster, Mt. Mitchell, BRR (Run & Ruck Teams)

Prayer Requests

YHC took us out

Defib asked me during my run if I was going to keep running on regular. You’re damn right and why?? Because #DFQ & #ABT

AYE!

HIPAA

Day 4 – HIPAAPALOOZA – Déjà vu

HIPAAPALOOZA brought out the Pelican’s SnoBalls shaved ice treats on this warm, 22 degree, morning. So far, the festival has been amazing with many PAX returning & wanting more. Some have felt they have been here before, even though this is the first of many HIPAAPALOOZAS. This is now the middle of the week. Mental and Physical exhaustion is starting to settle in, but we remain strong and keep pushing the rock!

Today’s Groupie (To be a groupie you need to have posted 2 or more time during HIPAAPALOOZA):

Watt’s Up

Disclaimer – No FNG’s

Warmup

MNC – 20 IC

Randy’s – 20 IC

Merkins – 15 IC

Imperial Walkers – 15 IC

Pledge

Mosey (safely, there is Ice) to just past the Turd Shack. Find some grass or pavement for this next routine.

My son is into Marvel right now so let us do a little themed segment.

Captain Thor – 1:4 – 10:40

Iron Hulk – 1:4 – 10:40

Recover

Next up:

Count off by two’s. OK, now 1’s partner with 2’s?? I guess there was an easier way to do this.

Bear Crawl 1-2-3

TONS of mumblechatter about this one. Apparently Turtleman did this exact same routine on Monday. It is like Déjà vu. Good, that means you should be pro’s at it by now.

Bear Crawl 1-2-3 with Merkins, Squats & LBC’s

Recover

Mosey to 1st Island (No not our Island, the Island in the parking lot) – 1 Burpee

Mosey to 2nd Island –  2 Merkins

Mosey to 3rd Island – 3 CDD’s

Mosey to 4th Island – 4 Burpees

Mosey to 5th Island – 5 Merkins

Mosey to 6th Island – 6 CDD’s

Mosey to 7th Island – 7 Burpees

Mosey to 8th Island – 8 Merkins

Mosey to 9th Island – 9 CDD’s

Mosey to 10th and Final Island – 10 Burpees

Mosey or Jailbreak for some, back to start

COT

Announcements – CSAUP, Rooster, Mt. Mitchell May 5th

Prayer requests

YHC took us out

Thank you all for the support and encouragement. Sorry I had to repeat a routine you already did this week. So far, it has been great to reflect on the accomplishments this week. It is neat to see how this week of Q’ing is tying into this week’s Q Source about “Preparedness”. I encourage you all to continue with Q Source weekly either meeting every Sunday, listening to the 43feet podcast or reading on F3Nation.com.

https://f3nation.com/2019/01/28/preparedness-f5/

AYE!

HIPAA

 

 

 

 

 

Day 3 – HIPAAPALOOZA – Birthday Bash

It was YHC’s 41st birthday so why not go out in style by celebrating at HIPAAPALOOZA 2019! It was Heavy Metal day and there were 9 stages to visit. YHC was in Hysteria to see Def Leppard live in person, it’s like the best BDay gift a person could ever have; But then again VooDoo and his family did get me an F3 Minivan Centurion shirt (Which makes #23 in my F3 Shirt collection) so that is probably a better gift! Which by the way is only appropriate to have as I rolled up to Bulldog in the M’s Odyssey slammed packed with coupons for the workout. Let’s get it!

Today’s Groupies (To be a groupie you need to have posted 2 or more time during HIPAAPALOOZA):

Broke, Oompa Loompa & Def Leppard

Coupon List:
• Battle Rope
• Sand Buckets
• Tire
• Slam Ball
• Forearm rope roller
• Kettlebells
• Dumbbells

Playlist – 80’s Hair Bands

The Thang

Tabata

30 Second AMRAP – 10 second rest – Why nobody still believes it’s not 10 seconds is beyond me. I swear its 10 seconds.
Stations:

Station 1 – Battle Rope:
Round 1: 3 Sets – Double Arm Waves
Round 2: 3 Sets – Side to Side Slams

Station 2 – Slam Ball:
Round 1: 3 Sets – Overhead Slams
Round 2: 3 Sets – American Hammers

Station 3 – Kettlebell:
Round 1: 3 Sets – Upright Rows
Round 2: 3 Sets – Swings

Station 4 – Body Weight:
Round 1 – 3 Sets – LBC’s
Round 2 – 3 Sets – Pseudo Planche Merkin

Station 5 – Dumb Bells:
Round 1 – 3 Sets – Front Lateral Raise
Round 2 – 3 Sets – Arnold Press

Station 6 – Kettlebell
Round 1 – 3 Sets – Renegade Rows
Round 2 – 3 Sets – Dead Lift (Go Heavy)

Station 7 – Cinder Block
Round 1 – 3 Sets Curls
Round 2 – 3 Sets Curls

Station 8 – Misc Gear
Round 1 – 3 Sets – Bucket Shrugs
Round 2 – Forearm rope

Station 9 – Body Weight
Round 1 – 3 Sets – Merkins
Round 2 – 3 Sets – BBSU

Time!
COT
Announcements
Prayer requests
Def Leppard took us out

Moleskin
Thanks to everyone who came out to my birthday Q. Last year I turned 40 & No, joining F3 was not some mid-life crisis. I posted this on FaceBook on my birthday last year and I want to share it here: “They say when you hit 40 you are now “over the hill”. I feel that means 40 is the pinnacle of your life. Sorry folks but my life’s journey hasn’t even come close to the pinnacle yet. I’ve merely reached the “Nepal base camp”, the halfway point to the summit of the highest mountain in the world.” This last year is a testament to that statement. I kept climbing in 2018, never looking back. Now that I’m 41, I feel stronger than ever and I will keep pushing the rock up that mountain. See for me, the top of that mountain is when I meet the good lord, only then will I take the time to relax.

AYE!

HIPAA

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