Tag: The Fighting Yank (Page 15 of 18)

3 manly men showed up at 6:15 for a lil rucking. We rucked as long a time allowed 1.5 miles but we fellowshipped a lot more. We talked about life, rucking, sports. Found out Mayor was recruited to play football for NC State due to him being the “First Hybrid” of his kind. As we made it back to start the pax started rolling in. 12 pax strong including FNG (came out due to Sargento yelling “come join us” last week) it was time to start. Here’s what I remember.

Warmarama:
SSH 20ic
Windmills 10ic
Cotton Pickers 10ic
Moroccan Night Clubs 25ic
Imperial Walkers 10ic

Mosey to Hawthorne Park.

Triple Nickel: up the hill (BIG LONG HILL)
Burpees/Squats

Mosey to the track behind school.

360 Rep Workout:

Round 1:  20 mericans, 20 squats, 20 Freddie Merc, 20 burpees, run a lap

(After first round we Omaha to 10 burpees)

Round 2:  20 wide arm, 20 monkey humpers, 20 Russian twists, 10 burpees, run a lap

Round 3:  20 diamond, 20 lunges, 20 flutters, 10 burpees, run lap

Round 4: 20 offset hand Mericans, 20 jump Squats, 20 Chrunchy Frogs, 10 burpees, run a lap

Mosey back to the start.

Pledge:

Tiny Tank hears a train…… 5 BURPEES

COT:

Namarama:
Welcome FNG Dr. Seuss (respect)

Prayers: TopHat for his loss of his brother and prayer for comfort for the family.

Announcements: still need driver for runners of the Palomino 200.
Shirts for the YANK are ready for order.

Thank you for allowing me to lead this group. Strong work and great mumble chatter. Allows a pleasure guys. Brownstreak Out!

With low temperatures settled back in the pax started gathering with plenty of mumble chatter amongst them. With 15 pax we got off the sidewalk and into the grass for the warmup. First we  pledge to the Flag. With a FNG present I gave a disclaimer and we began.

Warmup

Goofballs, Don Quixote, SSH, Grass Pickers, Flutter Kicks, LBC, Squat   x 10 IC

THE THANG

Mosey up to the track for some partner work. partner 1 runs across the track while partner two does exercise. OYO

CDD x 50

Peter Parker x 100

Hillbilly’s x 150

Dying Cockroaches x 200

Mosey to the wall for

Hip slappers x 10 IC

donkey kicks x10 IC

First train arrived everyone 5 Burpees OYO

Wall sit with Moroccan Nightclubs until Q says stop.

Mosey up in front of the school. we ran the court yard with six stations of work. all OYO. WE completed 4 rounds with rounds 2 and 4 alternating exercises at stations 2 and 3. Another train coming by we got in another set of 5 Burpees.

Station 1  Burpee x 5

Station 2  LBC x 20 / Sandy V

Station 3  Merkin x 20 / Dying Cockroaches

Station 4  Monkey Humpers x 20 backside to the road

Station 5  Dips x 20   after station 5 return to stations 2 and 3 before moving to 6

Station 6  LBFC x 10

Mosey back to the Gazebo for a triple nickel.

Monkey Humpers at the bottom and LBC at the top.

Mosey back to the start with one pax pointing out we still had some time left so we had some Mary.

Edison, Tool Time and Sargento helping out  we did some Flutter kicks, Side Merkins and some Arm raises.  With the rare third train tuning in we did 5 more Burpees OYO.

Announcements and Prayer finished up the morning.

Thank you to Edison for pushing me to join and thank you to all of you for receiving me in with open arms. Thank you for helping me be a better man. It was a pleasure and I’m looking forward to many more!

Pockets

15 Pax arrived at the Fighting Yank to experience my VQ.  Shad Rap brought an FNG, his brave 2.0.  Disclaimer was given and it was made clear to the FNG he was an idiot for following me.

Warm Up:

• SSH x 25 IC
• Imperial Walkers x 17 IC
• Flutter Kicks x 15 IC

Counting was a struggle for me this morning, and the Pax pointed that out.

The Thang:

Slow mosey up to the track behind the middle school.  YHC explained my first F3 workout was Qed by Keesh.  Quishe did a workout called The Dab.  Ironically enough, Keash was there this morning to experience that workout once again. YHC did a slight variation of Qeesh’s Dab workout.

YHC announced we would do 10 burpees in a minute, then 25 Mericans in a minute, 10 more burpees in a minute, then 40 Monkey Humpers in a minute and lastly 10 more burpees in a minute.  If you finished early, as Tiny Tank typically does, you had a rest until the next exercise.  YHC said to Omaha when necessary.  Mayor and Tool Time almost instantly were calling for an Omaha, but Dolph started salivating when he heard about the number of burpees we were going to do.

Each set was followed with a slow mosey around the track.

Rinse and Repeat 3 more times.

Countoffs were clearly not a strong point of the Pax.

We picked a partner and started a Dora 1-2-3 with an extra exercise to start.  Fifty Leg Throws, 100 Mericans, 200 LBC’s and 300 Squats.  Baggy shorts and no leggings was not the optimal attire for Qeash’s partner, Flush, during the Leg Throws.

After the Leg Throws Pax 1 would start on the Mericans while Pax 2 would Bear Crawl out and Lunge back.

Mosey back to the flag.

Pledge

Prayer Request’s:

• Shad Rap’s mother-in-law
• Wheezy’s mother-in-law (“safe travels”)
• Becky Waters – hit by a drunk driver

Eight Pax then went to Cherubs for a little bit of breakfast goodness.  At breakfast we learned Mayor is a big North Carolina State baseball fan and Wheezy is a liver mush connoisseur.

Thanks to all the Pax that showed up to experience my VQ!

The morning started with 3 PAX launching at 6:15 for the first unofficial Ruck. The plan was to give it try and discuss the future of Rucking in the region. We arrived to find the runners were already out on their route. Lots of good came from our Ruck walk/talk. The Ruck gives you a great chance to cover all 3 F’s. We were just going to cover business but found ourselves delving into the 3rd F! I was quite surprised to find a huge crowd of PAX when we got back to the park. Great to see all these guys posting.

Warmup:

With a group of 20 I decided we would circle up around the fountain so everyone would have a decently dry spot to start the day. As we moseyed around I noticed Mayor’s 12-13 year old nephew(Governor) was right behind me and we thought we would have fun with the PAX. We decided we would keep running around the circle to see how long they would follow us. After a few times it ws obvious it could go on for a while so we stopped so we could get some work done.

SSH x 20ic

Don Q x 15ic

Freddy Mercury x 20ic

Happy Jacks x 10

Mosey up the street to find a wall.

The Thang:

So after doing the Ruck I regretted planning a bunch of wall work and bearcrawls but to get better there has to be some suffering!

All PAX plank and starting at one end the first PAX does 5 donkey kicks then bear crawls across the parking lot and planks waiting for the last PAX to finish. After the first PAX starts crawling the next PAX starts his donkey kicks. This was tough with 20 PAX!

Long jump back across and do 25 wall taps OYO.

Australian Mtn climbers x 10ic bearcrawl across then duckwalk back. 25 wall taps OYO.

Power Holds-30 sec wall sit, 30 sec plank. Rinse and repeat for 5 minutes.

Mike Tyson x 10ic

Hip Slappers x 10ic bear crawl across.

Somewhere in here Sggweieich had to leave. He said he had to work but I think his arms were hurting. He should practice running on his hands then maybe I could go with him some morning.

Circle up for Howling Monkeys. Everyone enjoyed this so much we did 2 rounds.

Mosey to back parking lot for route 66 with squats.

Mosey back toward the flag with a stop over at String Bean for Captain Thor x 10.

Mosey to the ball field at the school. During this mosey I was talking to the future Governor about having the Mayor for an uncle. YHC thought this might be tough but was informed he was all right as long as he keeps moving and working out! Future HIM and motivator!

At the field I had 5 cones spread out longways across the field. Run to the first cone then Nur. Switch at each cone. From the other end we sprinted to each cone starting with 5 merkins and adding 5 more at each cone getting up 25 at the last cone. Rinse and repeat the first run. Going back the same ladder except with squats. Rinse and repeat the run. Going back we did the ladder with CDD’s.

A few minutes to spare so we went to the shed for Tri dips x 20ic and merkin taps. Mosey back to the flag.

We did 22 for the Vets led by Pizza Man. Then since no train had come through Sargento produced a train sound with his phone and we did 5 burpees.

COT :

Pledge

Announcements-Advisory meeting, P200 has 2 teams, Mudrun info coming start forming your 4 man teams, Pizza Man wants some PAX to do the frigid 5k at Whitewater..

Namerama- 2 FNG’s thanks to Tooltime and Mayor

Prayer Request

Closed in Prayer

Moleskin:

Great group out this morning. You guys really pushed me! I shared a little about not exercising but training instead. Set a goal and go after it. As in all parts of life there will be suffering but know there will be victory in the end!

Romans 5:3-4

Suffering produces endurance, Endurance produces character, Character produces Hope!

With ToolTime and Brownstreak Qing together who knows what will happen but here is what I recall. The morning started with a lot of mumble chatter. Why are we here on Christmas Eve? Who’s Qing?, who has the nicest hair? Etc. Sargento and Freight must have the same barber. As time drew near pax kept rolling in. A Kotter came back or at least one I haven’t seen in a while “spring break!” Time to start yankers so we moseyed to the boat? Tank? Car? Truck? Whatever the hell we called it. It got called everything. We moseyed there….. and here is when the evilness started.

Warmarama Brownstreak style:

SST x 50

1 Burpee

Hillbilly x 15

2 burpees

Cotton pickers x 10

3 burpees

Monkey humpers x 15

4 burpees

Mericans x 15

5 burpees

Apollo Ohyes x 10

6 burpees

Toy soldiers x 10

7 burpees

Squats x 15

8 Burpees

Carolina Dry docks x 15

9 burpees

Peter Parker x 15

10 burpees

After this monster of a warm up we didn’t mosey but jumped up on the boat?…… anyway some or maybe one of us did a really cool roll up instead of a jump up (mayor got skills) it was here that the second part of our evil plan would unfold. Core time with  Tool Time… Mayor and Dolph was playing and mumble chattering about the warm up and blah blah blah…. y’all know them two. All that stopped real quick… bahahaha!!!

Core Time with Tool Time

In and Outs with arms up -25

Freddie Mercury’s forward with arms up in seated V position – 25 /Then Backwards for 25

Crunchy Frog – 25

Wide leg sit-ups – 25

Fifer Scissors- 25

Hip Rock and Raise – 25

Heels to Heaven- 25

V-Up/Roll-ups -25

Oblique V-ups Right Side -25 /Then Left side -25

Leg Climbs Right leg – 12/ Then Left Leg 12

And to put the cherry on top….

American Hammers -50

After that awful and I mean awful evil workout I wasn’t sure which way was up, but we can’t stop til a body drops so we moseyed….. up to the track/ pull up bars. Here is where Brownstreak took the reins of this two mad dog sled and introduced Cindy…. Cindy is a crazy work out that crossfitters and seal teamers do and now F3ers. We modified to accommodate the area and stay within reach of all pax abilities (mine included). Here is what Cindy is….modified of course.

Cindy:

(Modified)

5 rounds – alternating pull-up grips each round ( regular, reverse, close grip, right/left hand different, left/right hand different)

Cindy= (5 pullups, 10 pushups, 15 air squats) Run a lap between each set.

Tool Time being the beast he is along with Dolph and Freight lead a flutter kick extravaganza ( about 55 IC)til all pax finished with Cindy. With just a lil time to spare Tool Time ran us home around and back to the flag.

Pledge

COT

Nameorama

Prayers

Top hat’s dad, Shrimpboat, T-square

Proverbs 27:

¹⁷Iron sharpens iron,
and one man sharpens another.

It was an honor to lead today men!

Brownstreak / Tool Time

New Year’s Eve. Pretty cold. Men waiting to get their sweat on. A Cotter back on the scene, good to see you again Flintstone. No FNGs despite their HCs, the EHs will continue. Let’s do this!

A short disclaimer to refresh the men on the fact that I’m an idiot and that this deal is You vs. You but we’re here to help along the way.

Warmup:

Side Straddle Hops x20 IC, Don Quixote x15IC, Dying Cockroaches on the acorns x20IC I think, Goof Balls x15IC.

Pledge

Mosey across the street to some lines I had painted by the DOT just for the workout. The PAX would do a burpee at each line and then lunge walk to the next. There were about 15 or so lines so everyone was good and warmed up by the end of this. Against my original idea, we did not make the return trip doing the routine. This announcement was well received by the PAX, don’t worry, there’s plenty more to come!

A fellowship mosey took us back through the park past the jet ski up to the back of the middle school building. YHC had scouted the area before the workout to come up with some new stuff and realized there is a perfectly good wall back there that he had never been used. The PAX performed 20 Donkey Kicks IC, a Wall Sit for a while with Air Presses thrown in at the end, then 15 Hip Slappers IC to wrap it up.

Short mosey around to the front of the school to set up for the inaugural run of the Figure 8. The sidewalk in front of the school sets up nicely to follow this route with a different exercise at each stop. Think four corners only expanded.

• Station 1: Squats
• Station 2: Merkins
• Station 3: LBCs
• Station 4: Monkey Humpers (must point business end of the exercise toward passing traffic Mayor!)
• Station 5: Dips
• Station 6: Merkins again
• Station 7: LBCs again
• Station 8: Flutterkicks

All exercises were to be done to 20 reps.Plank for the 6. This went pretty well, so much so that Top Hat gave Dolph a good run for his money for first place. AYE! Mumble chatter. Repeato but switch the Merkins for Carolina Dry Docks. Top Hat again up front with the machine, dude was en fuego! One more round, go back to Merkins in the middle. Good work men!

Mosey back down the street to the paddle boat in the park for the Triple Nickel. 5 Burpees at the bottom and WWI (or maybe WWII, I’m not sure, you pick) at the top. Repeato x3.

We finished up with a round of Mary. Sorry but I can’t remember who called what but there were American Hammers, Dying Cockroaches, Flutterkicks, Nolan Ryans, V Ups too. There was a 5 set of burpees thrown in courtesy of a passing train. AYE!!!

Prayer requests: Chum’s walk, Top Hat’s dad, Brownstreak’s son, T Square, others.

Announcenments: After Christmas Christmas party at Whoopee’s next Saturday (not Friday), bring donated school supplies to DDC’s office. If anyone has or knows someone who has graphic design or artistic abilities, we’re going to make a logo for the Fighting Yank to get some AO gear.

Moleskin: As I write this on New Year’s Day 2017, my mind goes back to a Thursday Rotary club meeting in March that I was fortunate enough to fit into my schedule. It was supposed to be a regular weekly meeting with some presenter I wasn’t familiar with. That day was my introduction to F3, through a fiery, inspiring talk by the founders of our cause, OBT and Dredd. In attendance were a couple of guys I knew well, Stroganoff and Dr. Feelgood, others I thought I knew but not too well, Bandit and Roscoe, and several more I didn’t know at all but am glad I’ve gotten to know because of F3, Whoopee and Headgear (Dr. Justin Hannon).  I consider that when turning points in my life happen it is the work of the Lord. This was definitely the case that day, He put me there. The following Saturday at the Schiele was my FNG post, and there have been countless posts and get togethers since. You men who EHed me that day (even Mrs. Stroganoff) and everyone who’s been there since have changed my life. This may sound sentimental, maybe it’s even a little gushy, but I thank God that He put me there that day and opened the door to all of you HIMs. F3 has allowed me to become a better man, husband, father, friend and businessman. Thank YOU!!! AYE!!!

Happy New Year men !!!

Today is the 117th Army-Navy football game and I encourage all to tune at 3pm to watch the future leaders of our armed forces do battle on the fields of friendly strife.  The Army team is paying tribute to the 82nd Airborne Division today and wearing uniforms inspired by the uniforms worn by the 82nd Paratroopers during WWII.

On to the workout…

Warm Up:

To get the pax in right mindset for the big game I decided to call some airborne cadence on our mosey (this was for you Sargento).  Mosey at a double time, in cadence around the block and finish at the pavilion.

The Thang:

The Deck of “Double” Death: used pinochle deck of cards instead of standard deck (9, 10, J, Q, K, A x2 for each suit). After 12 cards are flipped, run a quarter mile for a break.  Aces were wild.  Person who flipped an ace could decide if we did 15 of the normal exercise or 25 of the exercise of their choice (ended up doing 50 Merkins on the 2 ace of spades…)

• Spades = Burpees
• Clubs = Merkins
• Diamonds = Dips
• Hearts = WWII Situps
• Total exercises per suit = 140
• Total run = 1 mile

After round 3 YHC challenged pax to do 5 x five man Merkins.  If successful, last round of spades would be changed to squats instead of burpees.  Pax formed a pentagon and put their feet on the back of the person behind them.  Merkins performed in cadence.  Pax were successful, or at least the opposite side of the pentagon assured the YHC that we were…

After final round, enough time left for a triple nickel up the hill.  Sprint to top, 5 x squats, sprint to bottom, 5 x monkey humpers.  Repeat 5 times.

Moseyed back to  start to close out.

Pledge

Announcements: Convergence next week.

Prayer Request:

• Edison’s family as they deal with the death of his M’s sister
• Bandit’s father and friend as they deal with death of their M’s.

Go Army, Beat Navy!

Leading up to the usual Saturday workout at the Yank, YHC knew there was a 5k planned to start from Stowe Park in downtown Belmont. What I didn’t know was that the race would take over the whole town! Anyway, after parking in the remote lot and hiking to the park, YHC was pleasantly surprised to find 7 PAX waiting to get their sweat on!

Starting with a quick disclaimer for the FNG, my oldest 2.0 Trey, we quickly moved into the warmup.

Side Straddle Hops, Sun Gods, Merkins, Imperial Walkers and the latest new exercise for YHC, Jingle Balls (since its the Christmas season).

Mosey, navigating through the throngs of people waiting to get their run on, up to the track behind the middle school. Line up single file for an Indian Run to get everyone extra warmed up. A couple good laps and then head to the front of the school.

BLIMPS: 5 burpees, 10 Lunges each leg, 15 Imperial Walkers, 20 Merkins, 25 Plank Jacks, 30 Squats. The PAX made it through this routine pretty easily so repeato for good measure.

Mosey down the road to Davis Park where the mighty Belmont optimist Pop Warner football teams practice for a round of Elevens. At one  light pole, PAX does Dying Cockroaches, the other end Bobby Hurleys. For the distances in between, do high knees one way, butt kickers the other. Toward the end of this drill Stroganoff had built up a pretty good lead and from out of nowhere the FNG found another gear to finish up neck and neck with the leaders. Strong work my boy, the name overachiever or sandbagger was brought up with his performance.

From there, the PAX moseyed around the corner(s) to the intersection of Main and Catawba (I think) where a nice brick wall waited. No need to let it go to waste so we did a couple rounds of wall sits, hip slappers (15 and then 10 IC) and a celebratory set of Monkey Humpers for the passing cars.

Mosey down toward the starting place with a quick stop for dips X15 IC and then an attempt at the Plank Compass. It was supposed to be where the PAX starts with their feet in the center and they face out in the plank position. Then we would rotate around hand over hand and stop with 5 merkins at the Q’s call. Comedy and error ensued. Nice attempt men!

A final mosey down to the start for a round of Mary. American Hammer, a combo of Inch Worm and something else courtesy of Flush, Mountain Climber, Flutterkicks, Merkins, some other stuff and finally Jingle Balls by the FNG (don’t tell your Mama)! AYE!!!

We were done on time by this point and some had to run, literally.

Prayer requests, announcements and namorama.

Moleskin: After several inquirys by my 2.0 to post, it finally worked out for him to be able to make it. As expected, he was a true trooper and finished in strong fashion. Welcome to the PAX Queso!!! I am SO PROUD!.

It was a pleasure as always men. See you next time!