Fitness, Fellowship, Faith

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Ground Assault 12/20/23

Larger crowd than expected on a brisk morning.  Started with pledge, mission of F3 To plant, grow and serve small workout groups for men, for the invigoration of male community leadership.

Announcements: Beer mile 12/30 at 10:30 – Mtn Candy named as official beer, convergence 1/1/24 at Martha Rivers 0700, Q source opportunities at each AO on Sundays

Prayer requests – praise that Jackson Curti able to spend Christmas at home but has to go back right after, Turtleman, Huckleberry, Jackson Hall, Virus father-in-law, Tesla family, Pax and family traveling, a friend of a friend named Kaitlyn – young mother diagnosed with rare form of strep outlook is not very good at this point, Jane Fonda

Tiger took us out

Always an honor

Tiger

Weinke Down My Pants, Weinke Down My Pants

Warmup, Pledge, lap around the track, you know, all the regular stuff.

At the flag, between the lamp posts Pax lunge walked, burpee broad jumped, and bear crawled. Since YHC does not own hip hugging, phone carrying, yoga pants, the phone, aka weinke, got shoved down the backside, next to the tramp stamp, for the bear crawl. Well, the weinke did not stay put and upon reaching vertical, the weinke was all the way down to the ankles, creating a funny sideshow. While YHC dug around for the weinke, Tesla kept the Pax busy with some SSHs.

Mosey to the back lot for some good ol’ fashioned 12 Days of Xmas. 12 exercises, 12 reps each in a stack ‘em style.

Day 1, 12 merkins, NUR up the parking lot, perform a perfect burpee, mosey back to the gifts, err, start.

Day 2, 12 squats, 12 merkins, NUR, burpee, mosey.

Day 3, 12 big boys, 12 squats, 12 merkins, NUR, burpee, mosey… get it?

Day 4 werkins
Day 5 Bobby Hurley’s
Day 6 american hammers
Day 7 diamond merkins
Day 8 Apolo Ohno’s
Day 9 V-Ups
Day 10 CDDs
Day 11 side lunge
Day 12 fox holes

Pax got through 10 days, but time was running out, so we pushed through the side lunges and fox holes  before time to mosey back to start.

Announcements: beer mile on the 30th, 2nd F lunch noon today at Hickory Tavern, convergence 1/1/2024 7am at Martha Rivers Park

Prayers for J2C, Montana, Jane Fonda, those suffering with illness

Kool-Aid took us out.

It was an honor to lead -Orangeman

Oh! I’m the Q today!

Of no fault of anybody but myself, I didn’t realize I was on Q until turning into the parking lot and noticing the date on the scrolling marquee. Somehow I had Thursday as the 19th and not Tuesday, Oh well, We still made it happen!

Started off with a F3 typical warm up :

SSH, windmills, gravel pickers, Moroccan night clubs, overhead claps, and imperial walkers

 

We grabbed some COLD blocks and took them to the tennis courts for a “modified” 4 corners that turned into “escalators” we started with Tricep extensions then added curls at the next stop, then added chainsaws at the last stop. Then we “deescalated the set.

One more round consisting of windshield wipers, chest to block merkins, and block swings

 

We put the blocks up then made our way to the lower parking lot and traveled Lieutenant Dan style to the middle of the parking lot, and there we ran a triple nickel with 5 burpees and 5 big boys, before Lieutenant Daning back to the top of the parking lot.

We ran back to COT for a little ab lab and that was time.

Thanks Pony Boy for the oppertunity to lead.

 

Prison Break 12/20

Weather : 25 degrees

Men : 4

I was proud to see Pall Bearer this morning at 5:11 am getting some E.C. as cold as it is today.

The beards kept the cold weather at bay.

Prayer Request

Huck, Turtleman, and those traveling for the Holiday.

Praise: Big Pappy and his wife are about to finalize the adoption of the little girl they have fostered for some time.

Pallbearer’s wife starts her knew job/role with her company in January

2nd F lunch today at Hickory Tavern.

The Bed Pan is Full..

 

 

Another Amazing Morning at Mt Hollywood

My Q pushed everyone to the limit and it was very difficult put we all made it through with many wonderful exercises including merkins, squats, lunges, lbcs, cdds, dips. Plus nurring, bear crawls, crab walks, and more. Plus we never left the parking lot.

 

Prayers for Jane Fonda and Tesla’s Sister

#FreeTez

YHC put together a weinke with a pre-Christmas theme to mirror all the hustle and bustle activities common this time of year. Little did the Q know but some of the PAX hit some EC prior to the workout. They not only warmed up their legs but apparantly the mumble chatter was warm and ready to go when the clock struck 0700.

Warm-up
SSH IC x 15
Merkins IC… this is where the Tez Walker hate began. Something was mentioned about quitting at some point so YHC let the PAX continue doing Merkins until the Q was the only one still going.
LBCs IC x 12
Imperial Walkers IC x 12

Turned Pain Lab over to Hunk a Junk and bootcamp went on a mosey.

Just like so many college and high school kids in the past week, in the Grier parking lot, we took EXAMS.
Partner 1 ran while Partner 2 performed an exercise. Then, switch until both partners performed all 5 exercises.
E – E2K (show to know or look it up in the lexicon)
X – X-Factor
A – American Hammers
M – Monkey Humpers
S – Squats

Left out of the parking lot towards New Hope. Stop at the office park. Got some Christmas shopping to do, but first we have to stop by the ATM for some cash. Same concept, one Partner runs while the other does an exercise. A – Alternating Shoulder Taps
T – Tempo Merkins
M – Merkins

The mumble chatter continued… and continued… and continued…

With cash in hand, it was time to visit Ollie’s. Shopping list included a set of Four Core-ners.
Corner 1 – 10 Crunchy Frogs,
Corner 2 – 10 Crunchy Frogs, 20 Peter Parkers
Corner 3 – 10 Crunchy Frogs, 20 Peter Parkers, 30 LBCs
Corner 4 – 10 Crunchy Frogs, 20 Peter Parkers, 30 LBCs 40 Flutter Kicks

With time left, the PAX got to choose things on their list.
Mosey half-way down the lane where Sargento picked something
Mosey to the end of the lane where Whoopee picked SSH
Mosey half-way back where somebody picked something else
Mosey to the end of the lane where Short Sale picked Jingle Balls or some variation.

Time was running out so time to mosey back. Stop for a burpee at each of the drive entrances.

Stop at the Grier parking lot where the PAX lunged from the road hump to the crosswalk.

Mosey back to start where Stroganoff had us flutter kick til the bell.

This recap does not due justice to the amount of mumble chatter during this workout. Fun was had by all.

Announcements
2nd F lunch @ Hickory Tavern 12/20
Special Q at Gashouse next Sat (12/23)
Beer mile (12/30) HC to Sargento

Prayer Requests
Turtleman
Sledge’s mom

Prayer to take us out.

Until next time…

Man Holes and Man Poles

We ran all over Dallas, We visited Lindsey over by the wall. We did more Burpees than I’d like. We stopped by Big Pappy’s house to put on a show. We found a big ass hill to run Triple Nickel on. We ran through 2 rounds of Route 66 with the first being marked by Man Hole Lids on North St. and the second being performed at utility poles or man poles as Leppard called them. It was about time at this point so we head back to the Flag for the COT.

If you showed up to my workout thinking you wouldn’t be running well the joke was on you today. We got in about 3 miles and a lot of work today. If you want to know what we did and where we did it well I guess you gotta show to know.

 

AR-7

Another attempt at an AR7 style workout. This isn’t the one we attempted a few weeks ago. This time it was a grinder. No fluff. No no useless running or active recovery rounds. It was just plain old stubborn ass Clydesdale Horse Power and Grit. It went like this. Quick warmup a little stretch then mosey to the block pile riffle back to the tennis courts and get to work.

Round 1 – 7 sets 7 reps each

  • Right Leg Only Lunges
  • Left Leg Only Lunges
  • Thrusters
  • Right Hand Block Rows
  • Left Hand Block Rows
  • Right Hand on Block Merkins
  • Left Hand on Block Merkins
  • Front Squats

Round 2 – 6 sets 6 reps each

  • Block Swings
  • Thrusters
  • Right Hand Block Rows
  • Left Hand Block Rows
  • Right Hand on Block Merkins
  • Left Hand on Block Merkins
  • Front Squats

Round 3 – 5 sets 5 reps each

  • Block Swings
  • Thrusters
  • Block Rows
  • Merkins on Block
  • Front Squats

We were getting pressed for time so I opted out of the single limb movements on the last round to keep the pace moving. Counting the warmup we got in a little over 1000 total reps and that partnered with very little to no rest equals as many calories burned as any steady 45min. state cardio session.

We finished back up at the Flag with the Pledge and COT.

Lots of Prayers and Praises.

Thanks for the hard work men.

 

 

 

Tequila Sunrise – 12/15/23

Disclaimer

Warm-up

The Thang

lets mosey to the Legion Post

The Pledge

Circuit 1

– Bodyweight squats: 15 reps

– Merkins: 15 reps

– Reverse lunges: 10 reps per leg

– Plank: Hold for 45 seconds

rinse and repeat 3x

Continue the mosey

Circuit 2 

– Jumping lunges: 10 reps per leg

– Tricep dips: 10 reps

– Bicycle crunches: 20 in cadence 

– Side plank: Hold for 30 seconds per side

rinse and repeat

Continue mosey back towards shovel flag, but one last stop for a modified Circuit 3

– Burpees: 10 reps

– Glute bridges: 15 reps

– Mountain climbers: 20 in cadence 

– Russian twists: 20 in cadence

final mosey to shovel flag for COT

Announcements

Prayer requests

YHC closed In prayer

Maybe it’s Maybelline? Not!

Since Maybelline was on schedule to Q and did not show, YHC took the lead as well as other PAX.

Disclaimer

Warm-up

The Thang – We did some running and some exercises were performed. At the end of the workout, we all put in the work!

The Pledge,

COT

Announcements and prayer request.

YHC closed us in prayer!

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