Tag: The Fighting Yank (Page 8 of 18)

It’s great to be able to get together again.  I was tired of working out alone in my neighborhood.    The Yank had five show up for the boot camp workout, one rucker and two runners did 6+ miles of EC.  The air was refreshing and sun was shining.  Let’s get to work!!!!!

The usual disclaimer was given with a reminder to adhere to proper social distancing.

Warm Up

Seal Jacks x 30 IC

Abe Vigoda x 10 IC

Imperial Squat Walker x 11 IC

Mosey to the top of Myrtle Street for Individual Dora.

Start at the top and do 10 Merkins at each telephone pole running down Myrtle St until we reached Main St. (10 poles).  Mosey back to the top of the hill.  Rinse and repeat with Lunges (10 ea leg) or Squats x 20 and LBC’s x 30.

Total of 100 merkins, 200 Lunges/Squats and 300 LBC’s for each PAX!

Round Robin – 4 stations set up in front of the middle school.

Round 1 & 2:  Step ups, calf raises, flutter kicks AMRAP and  Burpees .  One PAX at each corner performing the exercise with Burpees being the timer.  After 10 burpees switch stations.

Round 3 & 4:  Dips, American Hammers, Calf Raises with Burpees x10 for round 3 and x 5 round two being the timer.

Mosey back to the flag.

No announcements.

Prayer requests:  Top Hat’s knee.

Thanks for coming out and pushing yourselves this morning gentlemen.

Dirt is out!!!!

Got a good start to the morning by arriving early to set up for the shenanigans that were about to proceed.
Parked in the pit behind sammys and laid out the cindys with care as I used my 2.0’s sidewalk chalk to scribble instructions onto the pavement. Did a short mozy to scope out the land and everyone rolled in about 2 min till and so …. it…. began:

Warm up:
20 ssh
20 MNC
15 imperial walkers
15 hillbilly walkers
10 merkins
10 Peter Parker Peters
5 6-count burpees

The Thang:
Now that we were all warm and Tesla remembered how to count

Mozy to parking lot behind sammys

1 Cindy curls x 30
2 Cindy tricep extension x 30
3 10 burpees
4Cindy overhead press x 30
5Cindy kettle bell swing x 20
6 blast off merkin/ mike Tyson x 15
7 Cindy goblet squat x 20
8 Cindy bent over row x20
9 big boy sit ups x 10
10 Cindy side lunges x20 10 each leg

Take a lap after each round-

Rinsed and repeated no run

Word on the M for national women’s day
Eph- 5:25-28

Mozy back across to the middle school track depending on time
1 lap – 1/4 each
1- high knees
1- Butt kickers
1- lunges
1- bear crawl

Mozied to cover

10 incl merkins
10 dips

Moved to cot for pledge of allegiance

12 for my f3gaatonia vq , thank you pockets for letting me lead

Prayers and praises lifted up to our gracious and merciful lord

Big Mac our

Show to Know

8 men at The Yank for a little split Q work. 5 Degrees with his VQ today. He brought us an awesome workout.

Warm up began with some exercises called by Pockets. With most being called 15 in cadence, we ended them out by giving each PAX a chance for a called exercise. Ending up with passing off the Q to 5 Degrees. We moseyed over to the lot by the trash cans and began the 9 round beat down. complete an exercise and then run a lap. Add an exercise after each round, while adding reps to each exercise.

Round 1.

Burpees  x 5

Round 2.

Add  Merkins  x 10

Round 3.

Add  LBC  x 15

Round 4.

Add  Lunges  x 20

Round 5.

Add  Squats  x 25

Round 6.

Add 1 minute Low Plank

Round 7.

Add  30 American Hammers

Round 8.

Add 40 Overhead presses and add 5 to the American Hammers

Round 9.

Add  60 SSH and 80 Overhead Presses

Awesome VQ for 5 Degrees. Thanks to all who came out. Dont forget the Convergence coming up. Please support your Site Q’s.

My man Pockets has been busy with work and life. He sent me the video of nameorama to ensure all was documented. (And to get me off his back)

Aye!

5 PAX posted for the end of the 40/50 challenge and swept the streets of Belmont clean for the CSAUP! We challenged ourselves to see who could find the weirdest thing. There were a lot of weird items we made up and lied about but it was decided the diaper was at least the worst thing.  Despite being grossed out we got it of the streets.

13 was the number for the boot camp. I’ll let you do the math here but by my count a lot more trash could have been cleaned up. Just sayin/not sorry!

Warmup:

Mosey to a nearby parking lot for some SSH and Don q’s. I didn’t have anything planned here so let’s get on with it.

Mosey to the bottom center area of the park.

The Thang:

Run the path all the way up to the middle school field and do 10 each of merkins, lunges, and WWI’s. Run back down and repeat. That’s one round….do 4 rounds.

Super quite this morning.

Mosey up to the field. Run a lap while the Q sets up some cones.

Bear crawl to each cone and at the cone do the exercise. Exercises at the cones were in this order 20 squats, 20 merkins, 20-4 count flutters, 20-4 count mtn climbers.  Run to the other end of the field and run the lap back to the start. Rinse and repeat. Do 4 rounds.

Still really quite. I guess these guys are just here to work. Tiger recognizes how weird it is when I don’t mummblechatter.

Mosey to the wall at the school.

Wall sits, then donkey kick ic and hold feet on the wall at the end(thank Pacman for this), rinse and repeat a few times. We threw some derkins in upon Boudin’s request. I introduced the dirty hookup to the crowd as well. That’s about time so lets mosey back to The Yank.

Finally a little trash talk began.

Pledge

COT:

Announcements-Christmas party 1/4 get signed up to bring something, convergence 12/28 at Gashouse(Schielle) all other AO’s closed.

Prayer Request-Several family members battling sickness

9 PAX joined YHC for the boot camp at The Yank on Saturday. Wet Nutz originally had the Q but called in sick. Pockets had Q’d about every workout he could the past week and since I was leading the Food Ruck that morning he asked if I’d like to take the reins.

Warmup:

Let’s mosey. Stopped off at a Baptist parking lot for some warmup exercises I came up with on the spot. All I remember was Golddigger renamed In/Outs to penetrators.

Let’s mosey some more.

The Thang:

We found ourselves at the Greenwood cemetery.  There are three roundabouts and we did bear crawls, crabwalks, etc around them. Mosey to the bottom of the hill where I explained my Grandmother lived next door to the cemetery, our family has a plot here, and as kid I learned to ride  a bike here. CDD’s for when I flipped over the handle bars. Mosey to Grandma’s house. Her husbands name is Bob and he was a Marine for close to 30 years so 22 for the Vet’s. Over to my Great Uncle/Aunts house for more family stories and some zombie walks. Now for the hill on Faires Ave! This hill was terrible and we did it about 3 times. The third time we went to the former home of my Great Grandparents and Quiche requested we run the hill again. Mosey back to the cemetery to my family’s plot. Time to head back. Some PAX just love to run so they kept going while the rest of us stopped off for more exercises at the Baptist parking lot. Time.

COT:

Pledge

Announcements- you know

Prayer

Moleskin:

It was a pleasure to lead this morning. Great group of rock pushers out there this morning. We would have hit a few more family members if we had time. Of course we would have to climb the hill on Julia! All in all we put in about 3.5 miles. The word on the street is some PAX didn’t think I had that kind of mileage in my Q set. Well ya know I’ve been around for a while and just might surprise you sometimes.

F3 Gastonia descended on Belmont this morning like vultures on roadkill.  As YHC was driving in, multiple PAX were spotted at various places around town getting in some EC and at 15 minutes before time there was already a good sized crowd ready to go to work. Too many PAX to warmup along the road so let’s head down to the pad and get started. No FNG’s, so the short version of the disclaimer was given and we did a quick warmup; 5 Burpee’s, 10 Imperial Walker’s IC, 10 Plank Jacks IC and 5 more Burpee’s. Painlabbers go with Watts Up and Boot Campers follow YHC..

I’m not sure what Pain Lab did, but I am sure that Watts Up pushed them. Since he started in January he’s been all in. He’s been a Q at multiple AO’s, taken a Site Q position, posts almost every day and continues to be a true HIM.. I saw kettle bells and a battle rope and heard there might have been some hill work and bear crawls. The suck factor was probably high.

Bootcamp took the long way to the Pit where we partnered up for some Dora 1-2-3. YHC wanted to work the upper body pretty good so we did 100 Dirty Hookups, 200 Hip Slappers and 300 Merkins. One partner performs the exercise while the other runs the length of the parking lot and back.  Mumble chatter was high during this part of the workout, all of it complimentary of the choice of exercises.

Stay with your partner for a little more wall work. One partner holds People’s Chair while the other runs across the lot and performs the set of exercises then flapjack.

Round 1 – 25 LBC’s

Round 2 – 25 Flutter kicks

Round 3 – 25 American Hammers

YHC’s time was up at this point and Pockets took over to finish us out. We moseyed over to Hawthorne Hill and Pockets called for a Triple Nickel. 5 Hillbilly’s at the bottom and 5 Squats at the top which was about 1/2 mile away.  Again, the PAX  praised Pockets for helping them get better running hills.

After the hill hill work we headed across the street for a sprint up the opposite side of Hawthorne and a zombie walk down Airline. Getting close to time at this point, so back to the Pad to meet up with Pain Lab for what we thought would be some Mary. Wrong! Pockets decided to call 5 Burpee’s about 10 times to finish up the workout.

Announcements

Defib putting out a 40 day challenge to get ready for the holidays.

Sargento needs volunteers for Chili Cookoff Nov. 2nd

Christmastown 5k

Prayer Request

Pizza Man’s M injury

People battling addiction

Sargento’s ankle

Child named Thomas who lost his father

Breaker Breaker’s uncle – heart attack

Watts Up’s son

Tool Time 2.0 and Sly

Tiger’s Dad

Sledgeomatic’s run for office

Sister Act took us out.

After the workout YHC spoke for a few minutes on the importance of serving others.  We are all more blessed than the majority of Earth’s population and we are called to live by the example Jesus set for us.  Make a habit of putting others before yourself and serve with humility. A great leader is a better servant.

It was an honor to Q part of the workout and humbling to be asked to speak for the 3rd F portion.  Thanks to Sister Act and Def Leppard for reaching out and allowing me to play a part in a great event. F3 Gastonia is loaded with HIM’s and as I looked around during the workout I realized what a privilege it is to get to know and spend time with each of you.

I’m Broke