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Since some of you won’t read past the first paragraph, let’s go ahead and get the important stuff out of the way. Next Saturday at Gashouse, Dr. Defib will be doing a heart and overall health focused Q. Come on out and join in what I’m sure will be a physical beat down along with a lesson on how to Get Right and Live Right.

YHC led a quick warmup and then the Pain Lab went with Tube and the rest joined the bootcamp. Due to some back issues, today would be a simple workout with low reps and YHC’s interpretation of low impact. We ran a 4 mile loop stopping 7 times to complete the following:

5 PF Merkins

10 Big Boys

15 Mike Tysons

20 LBC’s

25 Plank Jacks

Returned to the start just in time and met back up with Pain Lab for COT.

2/11 Convergence at Folsom, all other AO’s closed, 0630 start

3/4 Extinctin Run at Primal, 0900 start

Be praying for – Huck, Turtleman, Clavin’s M, Defib travel and passing of his friend and mentor, Boudin son

Happy Bday to Nutria’s M!

Sargento took us out.
I’m Broke

9 degrees at the start.  10 HIMs showed for a brisk beatdown the day before Christmas.

As a cliche for the day, YHC broke out the 12 Days of Christmas workout from Christmas Eve 2017 that went as follows:

Short warm-up with SSH’s, Imperial Walkers and Merkins.

Mosey to track at Grier Middle School.

Here are the 12 exercises in the 2022 version of Stroganoff’s 12 Days of Christmas:

Day 1 – 1/2 lap mosey; Day 2 – 10 Bobby Hurley’s; Day 3 – 10 Merkins; Day 4 – 20 LBC’s; Day 5 – 5 burpees; Day 6 – 30 Flutter Kicks; Day 7 – 20 Squats ; Day 8 – 20 CDD’s (maybe); Day 9 – 20 Hillbillies (maybe); Day 10 – 2- SSH’s (maybe); Day 11 – 30 Mountain Climbers (maybe); Day 12 – 50 Moroccan Nightclubs (for sure).  I know these are the exercises we did, I am just not 100% sure of the order of things.

A little time was left so we added one lap of the Wolfpack Grinder with 10 IC Squats – Half Lap – 30 Freddy Mercury’s – Half lap

Mosey back to the start.  Brisk workout over.

It was great to have that many show for a 9 degree workout.  Before F3, not only would I have never worked out in this type of weather, I wouldn’t even consider it.  It’s always outside.  Do hard things.

My tradition on the Saturday before Christmas is to give out copies of a new book plus any I have left over from previous years.  This years book was The Greatest Salesman in the World by Og Mandino.  This is an older book but one that is considered to be a classic personal development book.  Og has a large collection of similar books and titles.  I would recommend checking them out.

Thanks for the opportunity to lead.

Until the next one.  Aye!

Stroganoff

Time is short before Christmas so let’s get straight to the details.

The Pledge

Warm-up
SSH x 15
Merkins x 15
LBCs x 15
Imperial Walkers x 15

Pain Lab split to do their thing. Boudin went mall walking due to an injury.

Bootcamp moseyed for some last minute shopping, but stopped by Grier for some quick work. YHC had planned on this being a faster stop, but the Q’s little elves help set up traffic cones so we stayed a little longer in recognition of their effort. Four cones set up 5 parking spaces apart. Suicide runs to each cone. Exercise, then off to the first cone. Exercise, then back to start line. Exercise, then off to the second cone. Rinse and repeat for all 4 cones.

Round 1 – Suicide Straddle Hops
Round 2 – Suicide Squats
Round 3 – LBSCs (Little Baby Suicide Crunches)

Mosey on towards our shopping destination. First stop, Ollie’s for a 6-pack. One group ran to the other end of the parking lot row while the other group did AMRAP exercises. Stop at the light pole in the middle for a burpee going out and coming back.

1 – Crunchy Frogs
2 – Seal Jacks
3 – Freddie Mercuries
4 – Squats
5 – Moroccan Night Clubs
6 – Reverse Crunches

Mosey to Gabe’s/Conn’s to pick up a set of 4-corners.

Corner 1 – Burpees x 10
Corner 2 – Merkins x 20
Corner 3 – Squats x 30
Corner 4 – Flutter Kicks x 40

Run it back with half the count but unstacking the exercises

Corner 1 – Burpees x 5, Merkins x 10, Squats x 15, Flutters x 20
Corner 2 – Burpees x 5, Merkins x 10, Squats x 15
Corner 3 – Burpees x 5, Merkins x 10
Corner 4 – Burpees x 5

Mosey back to Grier. Lunges and Karaoke through the parking lot. Mosey to the flag.

Announcements
Stroganoff Christmas Eve Q next Saturday
Gashouse Site Q Swap (potentially 12/24)
Pushing Rocks Challenge

Prayer Requests
Turtleman
Praise – All the PAX that set up the decorations at Turtleman’s house
Huckleberry

Prayer to take us out.

Until next time…

13 posted for the Gashouse bootcamp on Saturday. Some came because they signed up for the adopt a street cleanup and some came to check out a Q voted as the best in 2022(not SA). We did a little warmup with the Painlab guys then we hit the asphalt for the thang.

The Thang:

At the track we partnered up for what I called the Partner Mile. P1 starts doing an exercise while P2 runs 100 meters. P2 then starts doing the exercise while P1 runs to catch up. Keep switching back and forth for 4 laps or a mile. So let me break this down for you a little. 4 laps, 4-100 meter runs per lap, 4 exercises per lap. The exercises were merkins, squats, WWI situps, and lunges. Rinse and repeat these exercises each lap.

Mosey over to the back side of 1st Pres. Bearcrawl 5 spaces, Crawlbear 5 spaces, rinse and repeat the length of the parking lot. This sucked and most let me know it.

Mosey over to Parkwood and line up on the curb for dirty 11’s. Mike Tysons, burpee in the center, and Freddy Mercury’s(count one side). So I had been reading quotes about leadership along the way and I read one here that stumped me a little when I read it. It’s all about the commas in the quote. In hindsight maybe I didn’t pause enough when I read it. If you make people think they’re thinking, they’ll love you. If you really make them think, they’ll hate you.-Don Marquis

Mosey to the front of 1st Pres. Crabwalk the parking lot stopping at each line to do a crabcake. Yet another favorite. We got to hear the famous Stroganoff growl! Love to see it.

Mosey down to the wall at the Perio office. Well at least def and I did. The rest of the group took it upon themselves to cross the road. I guess they thought we were done. So instead of following the leader they ran off and got themselves a failure. While insignificant in our setting it is important to learn to follow just like we try to learn to lead. How are you helping the leader if you refuse to follow. You know what happens if someone refuses to follow? Eventually you have to bring in the black tahoe. So thank you Def Leppard for leading by following! At the wall do a burpee then a muscle up x 5. Some meows stayed on the low side and didn’t really do anything.

Mosey to the corner of the Schielle for some wall sits and planks. Mosey back to the flag.

COT:

Pledge

Announcements

Prayer Request

It’s been a minute since I’ve been to the Gashouse on a Saturday morning, Whoopee reached out a couple weeks ago and asked if I’d Q? I text him yesterday and asked how many blocks should I bring, he thought 15 would be more than enough, that’s what I brought, we had 16 men show! We made it work!

Warmup- SSH ic, Gravel Pickers ic

Then we head over to the truck, everyone grabs a block! Roundup and myself got there a little early to find a hill, and we found a good one for this exercise! Starting at the trail head doing the 1st exercise, run down the trail to the bottom near the bridge and do the 2nd exercise! Easy enough?

1st set of exercises 10 Blockees at the top of the Hill, 10 Burpees at the bottom, 4 sets!

2nd set of exercises, 15 Thrusters at the top, 15 squats at the bottom, 4 sets!

3rd set, 20 alternating block merkins at the top, 20 regular merkins at the bottom, 4 sets!

4th set, 25 American Hammers at the top, 25 LBCs at the bottom, 4 sets!

Everybody killed it! And pushed hard! After we finished this, we all circled up to close it out!

Announcements- Chad 1000 at Gashouse next Saturday, Christmas party also next Saturday

Prayer request- Huck, each other, family members

Thanks for the invite to Q, it was good to see everyone and an honor to lead!

Gashouse 11/5/22
Rainy days usually turn many a Pax into fartsackers but a very nice sized crowd. I have a few quotes about gratitude “sprinkled” throughout the workout today.

Warmup with the Painlab Pax.
SSH x 15 IC
Cotton Pickers x 15 IC
Right over left, left over right
Low Slow Squats x 15 IC
MNC’s x 15 IC
5 Burpees

Pledge

Pain Lab goes to their work and us bootcampers mosey toward Presbyterian Church stopping a couple of times along the way for 3 burpees.

“Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.” – Doris Day

11’s
10 perfect-form merkins at bottom under a nice dry breezeway, run the steps to the nice dry overhang for 1 Imperial Walker Squat each side = 1, then 9-2, 8-3 etc. Let the bat flippers flip! I did 11’s while several may have done 13’s or 14’s waiting on me.

“This is a wonderful day. I have never seen this one before.” – Maya Angelou

Mosey behind and back around the church to another nice dry breezeway for…
an Ab Circle.
LBC’s x 10 IC
American Hammers x 10 IC
Flutters x 10 IC
Freddie Mercuries x 10 IC
Reverse Crunch x 10 IC
WW1’s x 10 single count
In solidarity with the Royal Nantan Elbow, Elbow Plank 1 minute or so.

“I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson (I like this one).

Mosey to the sidewalk and up to the far side of the Parkwood parking lot for…
Rugby Sprints
Exercise until I say Sprint, run 1 section out then 1 section back and then walk 1 section.
Exercises Plank Jacks, Squats, Merkins, Seal Jacks.

“When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.” – G. K. Chesterton

Mosey back across the road to Grier parking lot for…
Route 66 with 1 CDD, bear crawl to next space 2 CDD’s all the way up to 11. That one always gets me.

“Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.” – Karl Barth

Mosey back to flag as the bell rings.

Announcements
Christmas town 5k 11/26
Christmas Party 12/3

Prayer Requests
Turtleman
Huck
Gumby’s mom
Haze’s mom
Timeframe’s Dad
Sledge’s friends with cancer
Pizza Man’s pastor

Broke took us out.

*NMM As we begin the countdown to Thanksgiving, I thought a few quotes about gratitude would be good. Turns out we had a little discussion about Joy and Peace and Happiness as these guys had some great insights. JJ had been recently teaching a lesson to youth about gratitude. It’s always good to be back where I had my first post around April 2016 and as a certain puddle-jumping Pax recently said, “TRANSFORMATIONAL” is the word to describe it. Broke was sweating before we started. Shout out to the Pizza Man for crossing the river to visit. Always good to have him back pushing the pace as always. I heard Seuss preaching the Word at one point today during 11’s and he almost had a sweat going today. I tried to catch Roscoe using some bad form today and it never happened. Dude is a machine. We discussed the famous Gumby hat he usually wears. Works well in rain and sun. Oompa is trying to recover but as I am finding out it takes longer these days but he’s still posting and doing what he can. I think that’s a great way to keep motivation. We saw Stroganoff putting in some OYO EC. He is easy to notice wearing that color of shirt. I am not sure why he wears those. I appreciate all the guys who came out.

And again…
“I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson. Me too Ralph!

Traffic must have been horrible in the big metropolis of Gastonia this morning because the PAX didn’t start rolling in until right at 0700. 15 in total and after a quick warmup, 5 headed to Pain Lab and 10 chose bootcamp.

After a mosey to the track at Grier, we got started on the main event….a Merkin Mile.

Each round consisted of a buy in of 5 burpee’s, 10 oblique crunches each side, 15 mountain climbers and 20 big boys. This was followed by a lap around the track performing various Merkins every 100 meters.
Round 1 – 25 Merkins at each 100 meters

Round 2 – 20 Werkins at each 100 meters

Round 3 – 15 Diamond Merkins at each 100 meters

Round 4 – 10 Perfect Form Merkins at each 100 meters

A recovery lap around the track with NUR, karaoke and high knee skips was taken to let the arms recover.

Time for partner work. 10 Booyah Merkins then each partner does 25 LBC’s. R&R with 8, 6, 4 and 2 Booyah’s.

One more recovery lap with 25 dying cockroaches and 25 squats every 100 meters.

Mosey back to the start to finish with some Mary, but since we had a little time we stopped for 20 rocky balboa’s and 12 hip slippers for Whoopee.

Announcements

Christmas Party 12/3

See YHC if you have someone interested in being a Track Commander for Christmastown 5k

Prayer Request

Huck

Turtleman

Sargento

Praise for Sarlaac job

Nutria has a friend and brother in law with cancer

YHC took us out.
‘I’m Broke

At Gashouse Saturday we had 6 for the normal bootcamp, 3 from across the river on the east side doing the ironpax challenge, 4 out running 18.5 miles, and several more for painlab. Gashouse is getting complicated. Tighten it up Whoopee! All I was responsible for was the bootcamp so this is what we did.

Warmup:

Some stuff

The Thang:

Mosey up the street to Parkwood. Tesla was with us until he realized he was with the wrong group. In the parking lot it went like this. Bear crawl 5 spaces, do 5 squat jumps, run back to the start and do 5 burpees. Run back to where you left off bear crawling and bear crawl 5 more spots. I mentioned I was going to mark these off for them but decided they needed the mental challenge as well. Rinse and repeat this the length of the parking lot. 32 spaces. I thought this went well. I may have heard some grunting and a little yelling at one point.

Mosey up to New Hope to the hill across from Milano’s. at the bottom and top diamond merkins 5 ic, squats 10 ic, flutter kicks 15 ic. During this I changed the count up a few times for some more mental training. After this we ran around the back side of whatever this facility is back to Dixon. Down Dixon to the Presbyterian Church we stopped at each telephone pole for 5 monkey humpers ic. By this point the talk of NC State vs Clemson was heating up between SS, Strog, and Watts up. JJ keep trying to get involved but he’s a Carolina fan so what he had to say wasn’t relevant. The Duke fan, while in a good year, stayed quite.

At the Pres front parking lot we broad jumped from one parking space line to the other and did a burpee at each line.

We moseyed down to Akers Pharmacy and did 10 Freddy Mercury’s ic at each corner.

Back at the Schielle we stopped at the corner for a few rounds of wall sits and Mike Tyson’s.

COT:

Announcements-Ruck 10/8, Convergence 10/15, Rumor is there’s a Christmas Party on 12/17, Dredd has the Gashouse Q next week

11 men posted at Gashouse/Painlab on Saturday. 7 for the bootcamp and 4 for pain lab. Time Frame said the pain lab guys did work and asked me to include them here. That’s all I can say about that. The bootcamp on the other hand was an old school group with a lot of years and post between us.

Warmup:

Sealjacks, merkins, Don q’s, etc.

The Thang:

I had worked up an old school classic workout of things and places we have regularly used in the past. What appeared to be an Army group of some sort had taken over Grier doing their PT test. That along with a fence changed my plan. Oh well adapt and overcome. I’d like to not that as we took of on our mosey Shortsale was hustling. I mean he ran out and vultured us a couple of times. He was running backwards up Garrison! My man was ready to work. No meows today!

In the school parking lot we did triple nickel with tiger squats and mike tysons hopping back and forth.

Next we moseyed over to the big steeple church stairs for some Dora 1,2,3. Shoulder taps, back scratchers, overhand claps. Run the stairs and back. Some went deeper than others and some went deeper each time. You had to be there.

Still modifying my plan we used the side road that goes up the same hill as the stairs for some more partner work. Starting in the middle do 1 booyah merkin. Partners run in opposite directions and back to meet and do 2 booyah merkins. Switch directions and keep going until you get to 10 merkins.

I had written down to look for a wall to do wall ups on and it just so happened we found the perfect one at the top of the hill next to the building. So P1 does WWI’s while P2 runs to the wall,  gets up on it 1 time and runs back. Do this 5 times each.

Next we moseyed over to Bosshog’s office to the slanted parking lot. Triple nickel. Calf raises and well I don’t remember. I seem to have lost my weinke. It’s probably still in my shorts pocket. Anyway we bear crawled up the parking lot hill and crawl beared back down.

To finish things off we moseyed over to the Schielle wall for several rounds of wall sits and planks.

COT:

Prayer Request

Pledge

Announcements