Tag: Midoriyama (Page 19 of 51)

I didn’t have a lot going on and I told the site Q I would stop by and lead if anyone showed. No body showed so I ran a mile and talked junk on a video and posted it on Twitter.

Dont forget Sargento’s prayer list.

Happy Thanksgiving men!

13 men at Midoriyama.  It’s been a long time since I’ve had a chance to make the premier evening workout because of work, so I was excited to have the chance to Q today.  Wojo, appreciation the opportunity.  No FNGs, time to work.

Warm-Up:

Gravel pickers x 10 (ic)

10 Burpees.

The Thang:

Short mosey to the first light pole before the pump track.  We would stop at 4 poles along the way doing exercises at each.

1.  5 Hand Release Burpees

2.  5 HR Burpees, 10 HR Merkins

3.  5 HR Burpees, 10 HR Merkins, 15  HR Mike Tysons

4.  5 HR Burpees, 10 HR Merkins, 15 Mike Tyson’s, 20 HR Werkins

Lots of mumble chatter during this portion.  It definitely sucked, but wanted to emphasis the Hand Release part. Goal was to eliminate the ridiculous Neckies performed by so many pax.  It wasn’t a success!  Time to move on.

Next we moseyed to the top of the fishing pier hill.  Exercise called here is the always effective Triple Nickel.  Start with 5 Big Boys at the top, run to the bottom for 5 Imperial Walker Squats, run back to top.  Do this 5 times.  That hill seems to never get any easier.

Next is a mosey back to the playground.  I wanted to rinse and repeat the Hand Release work at the light poles on the way back, but decided that wasn’t a good idea after the first round mess!  Exercise called at the playground is:

5 Rounds

1. 5 Pull-ups

2. 10 Merkins

3. 15 Squats

With time still remaining, we moseyed to the parking lot beside the turd shack.  Pulled the next exercise from Freight’s playbook.  Too bad he wasn’t here to enjoy.  Pax told to stand beside a parking space line.  Exercises called are Burpees, and Side Hops.  They are to be performed in a 1:4 ratio.  Start with 1 Burpee, 4 side Hops back and forth across the line.  Next is 2 Burpees/8 Hops, 3 Burpees/12 Hops and so.  Continue this until you finish with 10 Burpees/40 Side Hops. That wasn’t enjoyable.  Time up, head to flag.

Announcements

Prayer Request

Nameorama (watch the video on Twitter, Slaw can be a prick)

Awesome time leading at one of my favorite AOs.  Appreciate the push today men.  SYITG

Sister Act

The afternoon weather is almost perfect right now and 10 PAX made it out to the JV workout known as Midoriyama to take advantage. After a short disclaimer and the pledge we did a modified Jacked Up to get started. 40 SSH’s, 30 Seal Jacks, 20 Plank Jacks and 10 Little Gumby in the Woods before we headed off to the far turd shack.

There’s some kind of workout / fitness group / cult or something that charges you money to workout that’s called 9 Rounds. Not sure what they do, but here’s my version.

On the wall at the turd shack…

9 Hip Slappers, run a lap

9 Dirty Hookups, run a lap

9 Mike Tysons, run a lap

Rinse and repeat with 18 reps of each and then with 27 reps of each.

Partner Up

90 Big Boys

180 American Hammers

270 LBC’s

One partner runs a lap while the other does the exercise.

Head back to the flag and stop at each light pole on the left (9 total) for 9 reps of each of the following:

Rocky Balboa’s, IW Squats, Calf raises

Alternate between butt kickers, high knees and lunge walk between the poles.

NMM / COT

Proverbs 11:25 – “A generous person will prosper; whoever refreshes others will be refreshed.”

You don’t have to be wealthy to be generous. Give freely of your time, talents and treasures and do so out of love and kindness rather than out of guilt and obligation.

Announcements

Thanksgiving Day – 0530 Folsom, 0700 Goat, 0830 5k at the Pub

December 10th – Blood drive

December 12th – Christmas party

Freight still has slots on the Gold Digger baby calendar

Prayer Request

Sargento’s list

Lil Sweet’s M has an uncle with COVID

YHC took us out.

I’m Broke

Midoriyama 11-5-20

Warm up all IC

Merkin

Crunchy Frogs

Nolan Ryan’s

LBC

Goofballs

SSH

Indian run up to the soccer fields. Stop at the transformers. (Note to self, not all PAX know what a transformer is). 

5 Burpees OYO.

Indian run around the fields to the hill by the dog park for 11’s. Hillbillies and Toy Soldiers up and down the hill. Indian Run over to the opposite corner of the field for 11’s across the short side of the field. CDD and Skater Squats. Run over to the Burpee spot (by the transformers) and give me 5 more Burpees. Indian run to the playground. More 11’s. Pull-ups and WW1’s.

Mosey back to the start. 11’s across the parking lot. SSH and Overhead Claps.

Announcements

Party the 12th

Sargento 40 days of prayer.

Prayer request  

Swimmer father n law

Sparky dad

Breaker family

Richard Kirk cancer

Gyro father n law cancer

Blart wife

A great turn out for my first Q at Midoriyama.  This Q was about Children’s Hope Alliance and the impact they have on the children in our community.  I told brief stories of a few children that I had the honor of taking care over the years being a member of the Children Hope Alliance foster community.

If possible,  please volunteer at the F3 Race City Event  this Saturday at Children’s Hope Alliance – https://www.signupgenius.com/go/9040B44A5AC23A6FF2-childrens

The Thang

• Child 1 – My first placement. Found abandoned in a trailer. ~5 years old did not speak, unable to use eating utensils, he only ate with is his hands when the food was placed on an ottoman near a window.   It was like getting punched in the gut.
  • AMRAP – 25 Mike Tysons, 25 Rocky Bolboa’s back and forth in the parking lot.
• Child 2 – 16 year old who has spent her life in foster care. Always running away from home to home, just trying to find her home.
  • AMRAP – Sprints, with  10 Merkins on each side
• Child 3 – A 12 year old, who at ~8 years old, was found in a severe abuse and neglect situation.  This young man was with us 2 years before being moved to another home.  All he talked about was wanting to be a big. Current status is unknown, but I think about him all the time.
  • AMRAP – 20 Big Boys, 20 CDD’s back and forth in the parking lot.
• Child 4 – Infant born with many terminal medical issues.  We pick her up from the hospital and had her till she unfortunately passed away 6 months later.  This is where my M and I found our calling.
  • AMRAP – 25 Plank Jacks, 10 second Plank –  Lunge walk the parking lot back and forth.
• Child 5 – Infant born with many medical issues. We picked her up from the hospital and nursed to a stable condition before she was to another home.
  • AMRAP  30 Squats, 30 Imperial Walkers back and forth in the parking lot.
• Child 6 – Infant born with many medical issue. We picked her up from the hospital and nursed her to a stable condition.  She was adopted by a family member and working through that process was great joy. Although out of state, we still are able to stay in contact.
  • AMRAP 35 SSH, 25 Hillbillies  back and forth in the lot
• Child 7 – Infant born with many medical issues. We picked her up from the hospital and nursed her to a stable condition.  She was adopted by a family member.  She is doing well and we still get to see her regularly. It is a blessing.
  • AMRAP 30 Goofballs, 30 LBC’s back and forth in the parking lot.
• Child 8 – I shared the story of my son, Elijah, adopted in November.
  • 50 Mountain Climbers

Slaw then called out 22 for the troops and then we pledged.

Thank you men for the opportunity to lead and Def Leopard  will you please stay focused…

Announcements

• Blood Drive – Dec 10
• Christmas Party – Dec 12

Prayer Request

• Sargento’s Prayer List
• Broke’s M
• Tigers’ Aunt
• All unspoken prayers

2 Peter 1:10 –  Therefore, brothers, be all the more diligent to confirm your calling and election, for if you practice these qualities you will never fall.

Big Pappy

As noted in the title, we shunned the normal bootcamp workout to run with Freight as he was running his 30th 5K in 30 days. Why would a self-described non-runner like Freight take on such a task? He threw out the challenge as a way to push F3 Gastonia reach a goal of $3,000 for the Give2Give fundraising drive to help the F3 Foundation get started. Thanks to him and all of our Pax as we raised $3,667 from our region and F3 Nation raised $202,856 to start what will be a new way for F3 to carry out its mission. Thanks to all the supportive Midoriyama Pax expecting a boot camp and getting a 5K instead.

Beautiful earl summer evening at Mirdoriyama, 5:30, let’s get to work!

SSH, Toy Soldiers, Grass Pickers all IC 10X.  Pledge.

Mosey to parking lot just beyond the playground.  YHC was thinking earlier in the day of mother in law that passed away a few years ago.  Occasionally she would have a little vodka and get kind of happy.  She would sometimes speak of how she liked to dance in her younger years.  Then she would put hands on hips and say her favorite dance was the penny, nickel, dime, quarter, quarter, quarter giving a series of hip thrusts on the quarter quarter quarter. You had to be there.

YHC devised a plan with this theme in mind.  Workout was run to opposite end, 5 burpees, 10 big boys, 25 hand release merkins, 25 bobby hurley, 25 flutter kicks.  Run other end and repeat.  Five rounds.  That’s a lot of hand release.

Move to parking lot on other side of turd shack.  Partner up for dora.  Lap around the island, 100 LBC, 200 squats, 300 smurf jacks.  That’s a lot of smurf jacks.

Have a few minutes left so let’s go to turd shack for one of YHC favorites.  Suspension merkins.  Feet one foot up the wall and hold plank.  On command do 10 merkins.  Three rounds.  This one is tough too.  Mosey back to the flag.

Time for 22 for the Vets.  Time.

YHC speaks for just a moment on the power of prayer.  It make a difference.  Sometimes the difference is immediate, sometimes much patience and persistence is required.  But always makes a difference.

PT test this Saturday at Gashouse, November challenge, Dec 12 Christmas Party at Lewis Farms (money being collected to cover costs), Dec 10 blood drive from 1:30 to 6:00 at Park Street Methodist in Belmont.  Register at redcross.org us F3 as search term.

Prayer requests: Broke M, Lil Sweet relative, Purple Haze job search, Tiger aunt

YHC took us out.

Always an honor

Tiger

9 all together at Midoriyama on Tuesday. Some regulars, some not. Good to see most. JK, mostly,  not really, kinda.

Warmup:

SSH x 25ic

I tried to get everyone to stay IC with me but Shortsale rebelled and just flat out refused. This turned into him blaming me for his knee and something about $5,000. Then his face got red, you know how angry he gets. You would’ve thought I asked him for directions or something! Maybe I should buy him an appropriately made biscuit to get him to relax?

Anyway we moseyed down to the new sidewalk going to the lake. Turns out it is not as steep but a little longer(the lake is now handicap accessible).

The Thang:

Triple nickel-5 burpees at the bottom and 5 sandy v’s at the top.

All went well. At some point Oompa announced he was struggling a bit because he had a colonoscopy that morning. WTH! After that there was some talk about that happening a lot in the Navy and how the Marines usually performed them. TMI!

Mosey back to the flag parking lot.

11’s-tiger squats on one side and hand release merkins on the other. However let’s step it up some. Broad jump across and hop back. It seems anytime I call jumps or hops people just quit on me! Today was no different. Most used every form of travel to get across that parking lot they could except what I called. This included prancing and rolling! At one point I thought the angry man was trying out for the N Korean army.

With a  little time left we did some dips, wall taps, merkins, LBFCs, oblique crunches, and flutters.

Time

COT:

Pledge

Announcements-Turkey trot, Christmas party 12/12, PT test 11/14, something else, and I think one more thing.

Namerama

Prayer

Moleskin:

Do I need to say anymore?

Damn, now that’s a headline! It’s an actual quote from one of the PAX at my Thursday Q at the nation’s preeminent afternoon workout. During the festivities, the mumble chatter had my mind buzzing with other working titles such as Buckeye’s Hysterectomy or Sargento Playlist. Typical of Midoriyama and their cast of characters, the mumble chatter did not disappoint. I filled the Q slot more so as a goal. My knee isn’t feeling great but then I see a guy like Sister Act who posts relentlessly and he currently has a torn meniscus – mine is repaired and I’m only dealing with some swelling. So I took the advice of my good friend Roscoe and his hashtag of #HTFU – I need to get better. The forecast for last Thursday afternoon was ominous so my Weinke had a good portion for covered shelter with picnic table work. But then the Lord looked out for me and cleared a window for good weather and the opportunity for full use of Poston. Here is how it went.

A veteran group so only a limited disclaimer of being an idiot and following any suggestion I was about to make. Per tradition we started with Moroccan Night Clubs, but only 5 in cadence. I quickly moved through my standard routine of Toy Soldiers and Side to Side lunges – quiet ole Blart started giving me some of the business for this. I thought about jumping to a Slaughter Starter but my repertoire is a bit circumcised by the aforementioned knee issue, so I move to SSH for a 10 count. We say good bye to Freight for his commitment in support of the G2G challenge #HIM.

The remaining knuckleheads follow me to the picnic shelter in the lower parking lot for a tabata mixing in all the key areas of lower and upper body with some core. We worked through four exercises at 30 seconds each with a 30 second rest between circuits – two times each set. Plenty of mumble chatter as the PAX didn’t have to count. This is where Buckeye sounded like his intestines were being pulled through his anus like rosary beads. Sargento did his normal amount of complaining and wasting valuable time/opportunity of upper body development. Blart offered his displeasure to most everything called while Pockets and Lil’ Sweet paired off in the corner in their own world.

#1

• Step-up Right
• Derkin
• Step-up Left
• Decline Peter Parker

#2

• Bulgarian Split Squats Right
• Dips
• Bulgarian Split Squats Left
• Turtle Crunch

#3

• American Hammer
• Full Leg Lifts (use the picnic table or bench)
• Flutter Kick (these two paired together created a lot of whining – consider this in your next Q)
• Makhtar Ndiaye – plank on the ground then on the picnic bench

Next up was a lengthy mosey from the picnic shelter to the lower soccer field for a new routine. I didn’t have a name for it but for now let’s call it Balls in the Bucket. I had fifteen golf balls (Blart was partial to the blue one for some reason. Numerous references to Slaw’s condition were made. Instructions and Midoriyama go together like Pelosi and Trump in a cross country car ride. So I did my best and they caught on eventually. The balls were scattered among the field in a 20’x20′ or so area. I nominated Buckeye to start us off as the “picker-upper.” The time it took Buckeye to pick up all 15 balls, one at a time (that is correct, I said one at a time Buckeye), the PAX would perform the called exercise. So the timer gets in a little (or a lot) of cardio, depending on their effort. And the PAX get some or a lot of strength or core work, depending on the picker-upper’s effort. Each PAX took a turn to pick up the balls. If that makes sense to you, you’re better off than those that attended. Called exercises were:

• Merkins
• LBC’s
• Mtn Climbers
• Corkscrew L + Hand Release Merkins + Corkscrew R
• CDD
• Crunch Frog
• Single Arm Tricep Merkin R
• Single Arm Tricep Merkin L (these are new – do not ask Dr. Seuss how to perform)

With 5 minutes left, we moseyed back to home base and after a few jokes, finished with a minute or so of dying cockroaches so the PAX got their money’s worth.

COT – Announcements for Christmas Party on 12/12; Prayer requests: Stephanie McMahan, Tiger’s friend w/ new born needing surgery, Slaw’s daughter’s band teacher passing unexpectedly, Catamount, and Belmont family whose daughter committed suicide; YHC took us out.

Moleskin – Upon completion of the game, I picked up the small bucket with the golf balls to carry with us to the base. Slaw jokingly says he’d be honored if he could carry my balls and that phrase was too good not to be shared. Like a lot of men among us, there is toughness about them that you can admire. Getting to know Slaw a bit and how much it means for him to be pushing the rock has been one of the many benefits the unique combination of first and second F’s have brought to me. Sharing the fact we both have been on the sidelines and IR more than we’d like is another thing we unfortunately have in common. So I was happy upon arrival to see Slaw among the many friends at the fabled Midoriyama playground. Until the next time, it was a pleasure to lead.

It was too nice of a day to pass up the opportunity for some frisbee at Midoriyama. Fun times all around!

Until next time,

GD