Tag: The Fighting Yank (Page 7 of 18)

Don’t try this at home. I’m a professional. I know, I know, mom said not to do this.

Anyway, 20 HIMS showed up at the Yank on Saturday morning. YHC observed that there was EC happening.

7 am time to start, circle up, Pizza Man said “Annihilation follow me, rest of you stay with Oompa.”
About then I think some senile homeless dude sleeping on the park bench mumbled something about a KJV workout starting as he wandered off, but, hey, old people aren’t known for their acuity.

No FNG. So no disclaimer. Mosey up to the hill to the track at the elementary school. That’s covers our warmup.

10 SSH (IC)
20 Abe Vigodas (IC)
30 Flutters (IC)
40 Moroccan Night Clubs (IC)
50 LBC (IC)

That was so much fun, so let’s back it down.

50 LBC
40 MNC
30 Flutters
20 Abe Vogoda
10 SSH

Time to make your momma proud. Run with scissors. Or don’t. It’s you vs you.
Run around the track and drop and add 5 scissor kicks every light pole. Go 5, 10, 15, 20 ,25, 30, 35, 40. Plank for the six. Right arm up/regular/Left arm up.

20 SSH
20 Abe Vigodas
20 Flutters
20 Low slow squats
20 MNC
20 LBC
20 Shoulder Taps
20 Calf Raises

Reverse direction around the track and drop and subtract 5 scissor kicks every light pole. Go 40, 35, 30, 25, 20, 15, 10, 5. Plank for the six. Left arm up/regular/right arm up.

Halfway there! Ohhhh, ohhh, livin’ on a prayer….Admit it you were singing.

Mosey around to front of school.
10 Dips (IC)

Dora
Run from benches near road to fence and back in front of the school.

500 Squats
400 Shoulder Taps
300 Dying Cockroaches
200 Merkins
100 Freddie Mercurys

Fellowship mosey to Myrtle Street.
Since Sister Act always says it’s not an official F3 workout without burpees, burpees every light pole on each side of the street back to Main Street.

Zombie walk back to flag.

And we’re done!

Always an adventure to Q at an AO where I don’t usually post to see different faces. Thanks for offering it to me Pockets.

Pizza Man led pledge, prayer requests, announcements, and took us out.

Hot and humid, can’t get a better day for some hard work.  Warmup:  let’s mosey.

Ran from Yank to Eagle Park neighborhood.  Get to bottom of hill (the hill is 0.2 miles), YHC calls for “Bo Derek’s”.  Bo Derek starred in a movie back the 80s, movie title was “10”.  At bottom of hill 10 step ups each leg, run up hill, 10 merkins at the top.  Repeat 10x.

Only a few completed all 10, most only got 9 before time to head back.  Regardless of number, this was tough, men worked hard.

At return to Yank, YHC spoke a moment about often feeling like I am not all I should be to the people in my life and more about feeling like not being all God has created me to be.  Came across a video earlier in week from Greg Laurie were he was talking about this very thing.  He referenced Romans 12: 1 – 2 “Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. ² Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.”

Submit to God in every way, and do not conform to the pattern of this world.

Prayer requests for Sister Act’s daughter, Brutus’ M, Huckleberry.  Please also pray for YHC.

Tiger

As we have done these past three years that YHC has been ’round these parts the July 4th edition of The Fighting Yank was made do one thing and that was to observe and honor the public declaration of Independence from the crown by the founding fathers under pain of death from the world’s superpower of the time.To say it was a huge risk is an understatement but no great reward comes without great risk.

That said, these was work to be done before our ceremony yo honor that effort. That went like this:

COP:

Arm Stretches

Grapevine Stretches

Mosey to the Field of Dreams:

SSH X 20

Burpees X 2

IW X 20

Burpees X 4

Copperhead Squats X 20

Burpees X 6

Mtn. Climbers X 20

Burpees X 8

LBCs X 20

Burpees X 10

Lap @ the field.

line up for some Tesla approved half pipes! The City of Belmont has made this ideal so time to use the asset as deployed!

Top Of Heartbreak Hill: 5 plank jacks.

Bottom at pad: 5 HR Merkins

Top of bank on Main Street: 5 Monkey Humpers

Repeat 3 X

Take another lap around the Field of Dreams.

Up to the Corner of Knowledge for some bench work:

10X, 15X, 20X

Dips

Step ups

Dirkins

Line up on the walkway:

Broad jump to the middle

Frog hops to the end (these are tough!)

Mike Tysons X 10 in cadence

Big Boy sit ups (double count) x 10

Lt. Dans back to the mid point

Karoke to the end.

10X 20X

Inclined merkins

Inclined big boy situps

mosey to the field of dreams for a Tesla hallmark now that everyone is gassed!

Bear Crawl slalom time at The Fighting Yank!

This time since we had @ 16 pax we split the group and let Orangeman run the “2s” and YHC ran the “1s”. Everyone got three rolls.

By this time we were running OUT of time so it was by Q’s call time to do 2 more halfpipes to finish the workout up.

7:59. Mosey to the Yank statue and the pledge.

Pledge, names, ceremony.

NMM:

Our ceremony that has become a Fighting Yank Tradition was the following:

Read the Declaration of Independence aloud at the base of The Fighting Yank Statue. YHC broke the doc into 10 parts and we had 10 readers. My charge was this: Read Loudly! We have nothing to hide here. And in fact, like our forefathers, should be proud to say that we defend the ideas in this document.

Moment of silence following the reading to honor the effort of those who brought it about.

Reverend Sam Warner of First Presbyterian of Belmont gave an invocation that talked about how the ideas in the Declaration should be something we all agree on because it applies to all. And I think we can all agree on that reality. As it ends, the Declaration’s signers, many of whom lost life and fortune in the ensuing war pledged their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor to the ideals in that document and the nation it was birthing. It was not perfect. It still is not perfect. It will never be perfect. But it is as Lincoln said “The last best hope for Mankind” which in a broken world is all we can ask for and gives us something- in fact a lot – to continue to build on.

Special thanks to Iced Tea, Quasimodo, and Radar from Lake Wylie today and Skoal Bandit from Metro (Core) who came over today. You guys mean a lot to me and I appreciate the effort to be here today.

Tesla

Three years ago YHC thought that a special edition of The Yank would be good to recognize the efforts of our founders in 1776 to put forth the personal risk and effort to create a free nation that has over the last century especially saved the world from tyranny at least three times and continues to provide the one gate everyone in the planet wants to get through. Which is a pretty solid confirmation of those first principles that go back to Athens almost 3,000 years ago. We’ve refined and improved them since then to the point of Jefferson’s sentence declaring our Natural Rights that are God Given and perfect, not conditional privileges from a fallen government of man.

That idea is under attack. It is always under attack. And to properly defend and expand them getting back to them from time to time is vital to get back to them. As such tomorrow’s Fighting Yank will include the following activities:

*A Tesla McBadass buttermilk beatdown from 7-8 am.

*A reading aloud of the Declaration of Independence by the pax at the statue of The Fighting Yank.

*A short message from the Reverend Sam Warner of First Presbyterian Church, Belmont

This ceremony should take @ 20 minutes. I think it will be one of the best observances of the day in this part of NC and SC because it will be real and very heartfelt at a time when these values are questioned.

Look forward to seeing you there.

Tesla

The Yank 6/5/20

Mosey up to the front of the school. Warm up all in cadence. 15 for 15

15 x don quiotes.

15 x SSH

15 x cotton pickers

15 x toy soldiers.

15 x hill billies

15 x shoulder taps

15 x CDD

15 x mnt climbers

15 x LBC

15 x Moroccan Night Clubs

15 x freddie Merks

15 x American hammers

15 x imperial walkers

15 x step ups

15 x dips

Mosey to the bottom parking lot behind Sammy’s  for some chalk work. 20 min. of work here.  Do an exercise and run a lap.  Move on to the next exercise and run again.

15 x calf raises

15 x American hammers

15 x seal jacks

15 x merkins

15 x SSH

15 x squats

15 x mnt climbers

30 sec plank

15 x Peter Parker

15 x Pretzel Crunch

15 x Butt Kickers

15 x 1 Leg Dead lift. Each leg.

30 sec Low Plank

15 x Hillbilly

15 x Overhead Claps

Mosey to the Airline St, sprint up hill. Then line up for Route 66

Squat

Nola Ryan

Merkins

Lunges

We annihilated ourselves as you should every time you post. You vs you. No special designation required.

announcements

tesla has the q next week and will read the Declaration of Independence following his beat down.

prayer request

norwoods family – his M is going for a second opinion on some tough news.

A less humid awesome Saturday morning in Belmont saw a goodly number of pax assemble for a voyage into the unknown and beyond. So, as sailors of old on frigates with sails reminiscent of names like Cook and Nelson gathered for the journey east the following activities took place:

COP:

Arm stretches

SSH X 20

IW X 20

Cherry Pickers X 20

Mosey into the unknown regions of East Belmont, a place only spoken of but never accessed by F3 until this morning.

Mosey @ 1.0 mile to the East Belmont soccer fields, a virtual Shangri la of mowed grass, boundary lines, and social distancing. Time for the main event to commence!

Partner assisted Suicides, aka Jack Kevorkians!

Partner 1 – Stay at home and do the called move.

Partner 2 – Sprint to halfway and do X of the called move. Continue to the other end and do X and full return back.

Flapjack Partner 1 and 2.

Set 1: Hand release merkins

Halfway: 5

End: 5

Set 2: Jump Squats

Halfway: 10

End: 20

Set 3: Big Boy situps

Halfway: 10

End; 20

Set 4: Merkins

Halfway: 10

End; 20

Form up on the end line for some four corners work:

Corner 1: SSH x 20

Corner 2: Werkins  X 10

Corner 3: Turkish getups X 10

Corner 4: LBCs X 25

Form up again for a crowd and YHC fav, the bear crawl slalom on new ground! Sort of like planting the flag of conquest.

Everyone got two runs here. Pretty much blew the pax out. Now, we enter our favorite part of the game – the 4th Quarter! Where getting tougher is imperative.

Begin to mosey back to The Yank.

1/3 mile: Stop and drop for bigboys and merkins, 10X each.

2/3 mile: Stop and drop for Mike Tysons X 10

Last 1/3: Karoke right and left, finish OYO

Repeat as follows:

dips, elevated Situps, dirkins, 10X, 15X

Fence squats, 15X

Journey complete!

NMM:

Pretty long and tough buttermilk style workout today. Glad to get it done! Yes, the journey to and from the soccer fields was a long and difficult one. But it had to be done. Why? Because it was there! And the pax, came, saw, and conquered! So it is now in the books as known territory. Mission accomplished.

Many other missions to get done and now is time to do them. Most notably providing the male community leadership that is in my estimation the cause of our present day internal difficulty. So we must ne about the mission statement of F3. And now is time boys! No greater opportunity has presented itself.

Tesla

Wet Nutz with the Q at The Yank this morning.  He definitely delivered a beatdown, and went like this!!

Warm-up:

Mosey to the track

The Thang:

50 Burpees

Run a lap

100 Merkins

Run a lap

150 Squats

Run a lap

200 Mtn Climbers or Plank Jack’s (pax choice)

Run a lap

150 Squats

Run a lap

100 Merkins

Run a lap

50 Burpees

75 yard Bear Crawl

50 Calf Raises

15 Shoulder Taps

10 Burpees for the 2 trains

Announcements

Nameorama: Welcome to F3 – Rice Krispies

Prayer Request

Wet Nutz out!!!

So YHC has a reputation for putting on a challenging workout and has been of late alluding to that fact in pre workout that it’s coming using the term “buttermilk” to announce it. Will, after two months of no Fighting Yank, yHC took he wheel and decided to amp things up there for the first real summer workout at the AO. Went like this:

Mosey over to the parking lot beside the park where Mugshots used to be.

Arm Stretches, 1 minute

2 Burpees OYO

SSH X 20

4 Burpees

IW X 20

6 burpees

Copperhead squats X 15

8 Burpees

Grapevine stretches X 1 minute

LBCs X 20

10 burpees

Mosey over to Heart

break Hill for some halfpipe action as follows:

Top of hearbreak: 10 plank jacks.

Bottom of hill: 10 HR merkins

Top of the hill by the Fighting Yank: Butt to the street Monkey humpers X 10

Over to the Field of Dreams for BLIMPS.

P1 – run the field and back

P2 – do the work per the BLIMP (Burpees, lunges, IWs, Merkins, Plank jacks, Squats)

Mosey up to the Corner of Knowledge for some core and UB work.

Dips, stepups, dirkins X 10, 15, 20

Mosey to the other end of the school house.

10 jump squats

10 Mike Tysons

Back to the corner:

10 Bulgarian Split squats

10 Elevated big boy situps.

Rinse and repeat 2X.

Back to the Field for Dreams for A Tesla Staple, Bear Crawl Slalom on a newly mowed field!

This was problematic. Sand burs all over the place. So we had to abandon the prime plan and fall back and improvise. Which we did! Used the track and ran thru the slalom. Worked well!

End of slalom, 10 SSH, 10 squats.

Quarter lap, 10 merkins, 10 LBCs.

Quarter lap: 10 big boy sit ups.

Mosey to the Yank and we’re done!

NMM:

Great to be back in the saddle and see two 2nd posters in Worm and PP. Had a great coffeteria/breakfast afterwards, which I am going to push we do every Saturday as well as our Friday Happy Hour at The Station. We have and are going through a trying time now but you have to get this is where opportunity is born. And one of the things we need to be doing as a group is getting together and figuring that out in the 2nd F.  And you can’t do that unless you go to 2nd F. So let’s get on that too men!

Expecting a Metro contingent in June for Operation Livermush V 2.0. More later. Also, looking at a special July 4 workout to do our Declaration reading. More later but plan on being there.

Tesla Out!

This morning in the gloom there were PAX a plenty, 17 in fact. The weather was perfect and as the numbers mounted YHC had to figure out how to handle the masses. I’ve got it! We’ll spread out, move around on opposite sides of the street and I’ll yell all the instructions.

WarmUp

Abe Vigoda x10 IC

Goofballs x10 IC

Mosey up the way to the front of the school.

The Thang

The Figure 8 – at each stop on the PAX would do 15 reps of the assigned exercise

1 – Merkins

2 – WW1 situps

3 – Goofballs

4 – Flutterkicks

5 – Dips

6 – WW1 situps

7 – Goofballs

8 – Monkey Humpers

Repeato for Round 2, 20 reps. One more time for round 3, 25 reps!!!

Mosey up the road, stopping at the corner for 10 side straddle hops IC. Mosey again, stopping at the corner for 10 more SSH IC.

At the bank we stop for a rousing session of ATMs.

Alternating shoulder taps x10 IC

Tempo Merkins x10 IC

Fast merkins x10 OYO

After those reps do a lap. Repeato x2!!!

Mosey down main street to the parking space marked road for 200 yards of Zombie Walk!!! Yeah!

One last mosey to the Pit for a few minutes of Bring Salley Up, just for the new guys. You’re welcome!!!

A few minutes of Mary and we’re done. Well done men!

Prayer Requests: Health for all

Announcements: Ville to Ville relay

I was so excited to get back out with everybody, and since we can’t break bread IN a restaurant I decided to bring a coffee and donuts coffeeteria to us. Thanks for spending a little time to catch up after the beatdown men. It’s about time!!!