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9 PAX joined YHC for a non-wussy workout. For the most part we avoided the rain.

Warmup:

Run to the shelter

The Thang:

Hand Release Merkins-4 sets-30 seconds each-30 seconds recovery between

Dips-4 sets-30 seconds each-30 seconds recovery between

Merkins-2 sets-2 minutes each-60 seconds recovery between

Arms are smoked!

Butterfly situp-3 sets-30 seconds each-30 seconds recovery between

4 count Freddy Mercury-3 sets-30 seconds each-30 second recovery between

WWII situp-2 sets-2 minutes each-60 second recovery between

Core nice and tight now and that pivot spot on your arse is good and worn!

Prisoner jump squat-5 sets-30 seconds each-30 second recovery between

Lunge/Twist-3 sets-12 reps-30 second recovery between

Burpee-1 set-3 minutes amrap

Time!

YHC borrowed this format from a training plan Buidan and I are doing called Heavy Drop Training, look it up. It’s our first week but so far it’s been a good one. I’m sore everywhere that work has been applied and I ran my fastest 5 miler and 5k inside of that.

COT:

Announcements-Extinction run Saturday at 9, Strides of March run 3/6

Namerama

Prayer Request-SA’s family, T-Square’s family, Stogie’s father, JK2’s family

Moleskin:

To be a nasty day it ended up being a great workout. Other than the burpees there was very little cardio burn but it doesn’t have to be to be a good workout. I wore out the muscle groups we focused on. For some reason this workout was full of that’s what she said comments.

You couldn’t have asked for better weather in February than what we had at the premier afternoon JV AO yesterday. There were a total of 14 PAX present, including an appearance by the infamous Ash Pond. Good to see you back out brother! After a disclaimer and warmup we got to work.

Modified VERN

This routine is supposed to include pull ups, but due to the amount of children on the playground and some certain PAX who are banned from close proximity to those underage, we had to modify. It went like this:

10 Hip Slappers IC

Run a lap around the lot (a little over 200 yds.)

20 Dips

Run a lap

25 Merkins

Run a lap

30 LBC’s

Run a lap

Repeat x5

This is a great you vs. you routine and the PAX were really pushing it.

The goal was to get in at least a 5k and at this point we were a little under 2.5 miles, so let’s mosey. We stopped along the way for some Big Boys, Squats, Pretzel Crunches, Mtn. Climbers, American Hammers and Jump Squats and ended up back at the flag with the goal reached.

COT/NMM

The Principle of Little and Much

Luke 16:10 – “Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much.”

This teaching applies to all areas of our lives. God tests us with the little things that he gives us and the more faithful we are in doing them, the more blessings we will receive. Don’t get distracted from the importance of doing God’s will and never assume that anything from God is unimportant or trivial.

Announcements

Extinction Run – this Saturday at 9am from Primal Brewery in Belmont. See preblast for details and sign up.

Strides of March – relay run on March 6th and 6:30am. See preblast for details and sign up.

Prayer Request

SA daughter and family

Purple Haze neighbor with Covid

PAX on IR

YHC took us out.

The weather was awesome and so was the fellowship.  Ash Pond was back out after some time on the IR, Cougar and Pinky are making it out here more often and even SA made a rare afternoon appearance. We joke about Midoriyama being JV, but these guys get after it and if you’ve never been you should give it a try.

I’m Broke

It’s groundhog day or the second day of the second month or 2/2. I think 22 is a good theme.

Cold and breezy. Little sun still up. Everybody’s sitting in cars trying to stay warm.

PAX start making their way to the circle. Nice crowd for a Tuesday evening.

Rumors were swirling about a certain Q’s weak sauce wimpy workout earlier today.

530 pm. Time to clock in.
All home folks, no disclaimer. Everything is a suggestion and don’t care if you do them or not. You vs you. No form police present.

Warm up
1 burpee. All in cadence 22 SSH, 1 burpee, 22 grass pickers, 1 burpee, 22 MNC, 1 burpee, 22 LBFC’s.

The Thang.

Let’s get out of the wind.

Mosey to hill behind ball field.
1 burpee.

Much mumble chatter about the slippery steepness and length of the hill.

Seven elevens. Run down hill, 11 squats at bottom of hill, bear crawl up, 11 calf raises, run back down, 11 more squats, rinse and repeat seven times.

Not as breezy down here by the trees.

1 burpee. Run to turd shack.
1 burpee. 22 CDDs in cadence.
1 burpee. 22 mountain climbers in cadence.
1 burpee. 22 LBCs in cadence.
1 burpee. 22 hip slappers single count.
1 burpee. 22 monkey humpers in cadence.
1 burpee. 22 flutters in cadence.
1 burpee. 22 shoulder taps single count.
1 burpee. 22 Freddie Mercury’s in cadence.
1 burpee. 22 merkins in cadence.
1 burpee. 22 wall sit air presses in cadence.
1 burpee. 22 SSH in cadence.
1 burpee. 22 dips in cadence.

Let’s go back to the hill.
1 burpee. Rinse and repeat the Seven elevens.

1 burpee.

Fellowship mosey back to the flag so kindly supplied by Clavin.

1 burpee.

Pledge.

Words of wisdom.
Read the 23rd Psalm.
We’ve heard, read or said it hundreds of times.

Read it slowly phrase by phrase.

Genuflect on the phrase.
What does this mean?
What does that mean?

Remembering my VQ four years ago. Freight, Def Leppard, Slaw,and Pockets attended and were here tonight. Billy Madison, Edison, Swimmer and Chum weren’t.

Prayer requests: Mayor’s dad, Vanilla Ice’s parents, Tater Hole’s son, Blart’s M, Sister Act, others.

Def Leppard took us out.

I do believe that asses were kicked. Hard. YHC’s anyway.

Thanks for showing up to my Q guys,

Oompa Loompa.

11 of us here on a nice evening workout. As the JV group rolls in I began getting the bricks ready. My longtime friend Edison likes brick work; so that’s what I planned. But I underestimated the difference between the red bricks and the gray bricks. I think next time I may get the red bricks LOL.
Let’s warm up!
Warmup 2 rounds in cadence. everyone grab a brick.

10 x SSH

10 x Merkins

10 x LBC

10x Squats

10x Toy Soldiers

Mosey with bricks down to the picnic tables.

5 Brickies

20 x Overhead Presses.

20 x Step Ups 10 each leg

20 x Derkins

20 x Dips with bricks on lap

Mosey with bricks across the road and stop at the cul-de-sac. I had to educate this JV crew about a cul-de-sac. This is the time where a few bricks  magically became broken. 😂

5 Bring brickies

30 x Moroccan Nightclubs

30 x Seal Jacks

30 x Mnt Climbers

30 x Nolan Ryan’s with bricks

Mosey with bricks across the parking lot stopping at trail head and perform an  exercise then run trail. Repeat. 

40 x Cheat Presses

40 x Curls

40 x Tricep

Complete what we can till time is up.

Mosey back to the start.

I decided to do this workout in appreciation for my friend Edison. He is the one who brought me to F3. I also did some exercises in appreciation for a few of our past Nantans. I would like to thank all you guys for coming to each workout in effort to try to better yourselves in all aspects of your life.

SYITG,

Pockets.

After back problems, COVID, and all the after effects I finally made it back out to Midoriyama!!!  Really couldnt decide what to do with this Q. I thought about playing some Ultimate Frisbee (a Midoriyama favorite) but couldnt find my disc. I decided I would just go with the flow and kinda wing it.

Warm up:

SSHx10ic

Don Qx10ic (No scratch that here come Leppard in late lets great him w/ Monkey Humpers)

Low Slow Squats x 10 oyo

Mosey for a bit, then to the small field.

At this point someone asked about playing Ultimate and I told them how I had thought about it but didnt have my frisbee. Gold Digger then said he had one in the car!

We did some walking High Knees while GD ran back to get the disc.

Split up into 2 teams and then of course Def Leppards team won.

Mosey back

COT

It was really great to be back. I definitely felt like total S@!t physically but just being with all the guys and having some fun playing Ultimate made it well worth the pain. Being stuck at home, unable to do much really had me down. It made me realize how much F3 really does for me.

14 decided to push the rock on Tuesday evening at the premier evening, and some might say period, AO.

Warmup:

Seal jacks x 20ic

LBC x 15ic

Low slow squat x 10ic

Let’s mosey!

The Thang:

Over to the loooonnngggg parking lot we setup for something I’d been thinking about. If you did suicides on the parking space lines how long would it take and how far would you run? As explained these are the things that keep me up at night. Not really I sleep like a baby but I do think of random things like this. The more you are in F3 and working out the more you think of things like this. Luckily I’m not as bad as Shortsale and try to figure out how to combine 12 exercises in to one! Any way I am merciful and decided to break it up some. We started by doing 1/3 of the lot and that got us around a mile I think. We then paused to get in some reps.

5 burpees, 10 Bobby Hurley’s(an unnamed PAX appeared to be doing Serge Swikkers instead), 15 Wide Arm Merkins, 20 lunges, 25 Freddy Mercury’s

Back to the suicides. So we picked up where we left off and did the next 1/3. This put us over 2 miles. Then we paused for some reps.

Partner up for some Dora 123. PAX 1 does the reps while PAX 2 does 15 WWI’s. Flip/Flop you know how it works.  100 merkins, 200 monkey humpers, 300 mtn climbers.

Back to the suicides. Let’s finish the last 1/3. The cides were getting pretty long at this point! I guess we should’ve run faster or done less reps because we didn’t have time to finish. Not even close! I think we still had 8-10 more lines to go. We finished with 3.3 miles so I’m guessing it will end up being over 4 miles. I guess we will have to try another day with less reps in between. Maybe in the summer(he says followed by an evil laugh).

COT:

Announcements: Extinction run 2/13

Namerama:

Prayer Request: SA’s family, Blart’s Wife, The Golddigger’s

Moleskin:

Meh that about covers it.

9 PAX for a really pleasant January afternoon at Midoriyama. Short disclaimer, short warmup, short mosey to the adjacent parking lot to get started.

Merkin Ladder

20 Merkins on one end of lot then mosey to opposite end for 19. Back to start for 18…..all the way down to 1. 210 Merkins right out of the gate.

Mosey up to the large lot at the soccer fields stopping at each light pole on the way for 10 Big Boys. Once at the lot, Dirty 11’s, Imperial Walker Squats and Monkey Humpers with a Burpee each time you cross the island in the middle.

Head back to the start and stop at each light pole on the way back for 10 American Hammers and gather up at the Turd Shack for a little wall work. Three sets and we ended up with a total of 30 IC Dirty Hookups, 30 IC Hip Slappers and 90 Wall Jumps.

Finished up with some Mary….Burpee’s, Mountain Climbers and Freddie Mercury’s.

NMM / COT

We talked a little about my F3 Gastonia word for the year which is “Growth”. All 3 F’s are vital to growing as individuals and as a group. More info to come throughout the year.

Announcements

Roundup and Hacksaw are running 50 miles in 24 hours beginning at 5:30am Saturday morning from the Dallas Courthouse. They will be running 2 – 1 mile loops from the Courthouse to Ingles starting on the bottom half of each hour. Come out and run some with them or just hang out and give them your support. They will be collecting donations to give to a local charity.

Prayer Request

SA and family

Gold Digger and family

Def Leppard friend with upcoming tests

Martin family

Those battling Covid

Praise for Freight’s grandmother who has recovered from Covid

YHC took us out.

I’m Broke

With short notice I reached back into the depths of the BB content and grabbed an old Wienke out. With a quick disclaimer we started our warmup.

SSH x 15

Imperial Walkers x 15

Don Quixote’s x 10

Shoulder Tap x 10

With that we very short moseyed to the adjacent parking lot for some Triple Nickels.

Triple Nickle one

Burp & Merk

one burpee with one Pushup on 1st trip

one Burpee with 2 Pushups on 2nd trip

one Burpee with 3 Pushups on 3rd trip

one Burpee with 4 Pushups on 4rth trip

one Burpee with 5 Pushups on 5th trip

Squat x 5 at the other end 

Triple Nickle 2

5 Squats

5 Monkey Humpers

Mosey to the playground for some Classic Pull ups at Midoriyama.

Triple Nickle

5 Pull ups

5 Merkins

5 CDD

Mosey to the bottom of the parking lot we did 50 reps of an exercise and then ran a lap around the lot.  Here is what we did.

Carolina Dry Docks x 50 plus a lap

LBC x 50 plus a lap

Scissor Kicks x 50 plus a lap

Hill Billy x 50 plus a lap

Merkin x 50 plus a lap

Seal Jacks x 50 with the lap finishing up at the flag for some mary.

Mary went like this

Pockets – 10 Monkey Humpers IC

Slaw – 5 Burpees OYO

Blart – 30 Scissor Kicks IC

Stroganoff wasn’t here but he gave us Planks last time so we repeated.  2 min of Plank

announcements and namerama

Thank you men for showing up and pushing me to be my best.

Pockets

7 Pax started the workout with one showing up later. 1 needed to run so Oompa took off wearing a Pink Floyd T shirt and some colorfully striped leggings that would have made Purple Haze jealous. Pockets showed up straight from working wearing steel-toed boots and still put in the work. I told the Pax there would be real options in this workout unlike when Freight says choose option A or B and then he does what he was going to do anyway. They were dubious about the options.

Warmup: SSH x 10, Cotton Pickers x 10, Hillbillies x 10, CDD’s x 10. Pledge.

Grab a block and slow mosey to the bottom of the Field #4 parking lot. The size of these blocks may not have been as large as some blocks, but I weighed one and it weighed 24 lbs. which is pretty good. I’m sure Rudolph would insist on 32 lbs. but we made them work. I’m sure Seuss will be upset that he missed this one.

The Thang: In seven parking spaces there was a very fancy creatively designed paper leaf with a “Block Option” written on one side and an ab exercise (without the block) on the other. It was their choice to make. After each “Block Option” you would have to rifle carry your block one lap around the parking lot and return to the next parking spot to choose your options. If you chose the ab exercise option, you then needed to run (without the block) the lap around the parking lot. It appeared as if most were alternating the “Block Option” with the Ab exercise option. The fancy paper leaves were labeled something like this:
30 Block Curls or 30 Flutter Kicks
30 Block Chest Presses or 30 Squats
30 Block Overhead Presses or 30 LBC’s
30 Block Swings or 30 WWII’s
30 Block Alpo’s or 30 WWI’s
30 Block Curls or 30 Flutter Kicks
30 Block Chest Presses or 30 Squats.
The rifle carry after the “Block Option” was tough. Most got through about a round and a half. Somewhere very near the end of this Montross showed up in an effort to receive full credit for a post but that is up to Watts Up to make the call. Some chatter about Freight’s love handles, Slaw’s toboggan size, Montross’s tights. Lil Sweet had a great story about them slinging Ash Pond up into the air about 20 feet with a bed sheet and when he landed the sheet split and he got hurt. Good times. Get your block and mosey back to the flag.
The point of the paper leaves was from a frequently used phrase around this time of year “turning over a new leaf”. When we each think of a resolution or a change we need to make, most of us immediately think of a specific area or habit we need to improve. I told the guys to make an effort to turn over a new leaf in that area or habit and make a solid effort to get better. It is usually up to us to make the change.

Announcements: Not much.

Prayer Requests: Lil Sweet and Slaw’s cousin, Gold Digger’s M and new baby and new grandson for Broke, our country and it’s leaders.
Freight took us out.

7 on a Tuesday at Midoriyama is a little light. Where was everyone? Skeered? Cold? Who knows but the men that showed came to do work!

Warmup:

SSH x 20 ic Blart was doing a  lot of mummblechatter and grinning but wouldn’t repeat what he said.

Seal Jacks x 10 ic

Let’s mosey to one of the long parking lots.

The Thang:

Slaw’s WOD-Do the exercise and run a lap in between each one. The number is his age.

Squats x 47

Lunge

American Hammers

WWI

Starburst (Dr Seuss tried to skip these)

Wide arm merkin

One legged burpee

Diamond merkin

After the final lap we did a round of Dan Taylors. Squat/Lunge at a 1/4 Ratio. Boy these are fun!

We took the long way back to the flag and called it a day.

COT:

Pledge

Announcements-None right now

Prayer Request-The new baby on the way(it’s here now), Those that are sick.

Def took us out

Moleskin:

I chose the Slaw Wod to honor Slaw a little. He suffered through a bit of leftover Navy injury a while back and it put him down in the valley. If you don’t know about the valley you’ve obviously not had to endure the Def Leppard ups and downs workout. We all go through ups and downs or peaks and valleys in life. I repeat we ALL go through them. It’s not just you. So Slaw was on the peak a while back, running faster than I’ve ever seen him. He wasn’t just flipping bats he was juggling them as he passed by people. Then this injury kicked him in the back and rolled him  hard down the other side of the Mtn. He spent his time in the valley but he’s making a  come back. I’ve noticed he’s posting almost everyday again and he’s getting his wind back. He’ll be juggling by me in no time. The point is we all get knocked down and the road back is never easy but we can get back up the hill again. It’s hard but it’s a lot easier when you have people to push and pull you on the way. So shout out to OL’ Slaw  for not only making the climb but showing the rest of us it can be done!