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Twelve HIMs showed up at The Ricky Bobby for a little Dora, Two Corners, and some futbol.

The Thang

10x Each (in Cadence):

• SSH
• Imperial Walkers
• Cotton Pickers
• Monkey Humpers
• Dying Cockroaches
• Merkins

Pledge

Mosey down by the gate to the crosswalk for a quick round of Dora

1. 100 Freddie Mercs
2. 200 Bobby Hurleys
3. 300 Flutter Kicks

Mosey back to the track for our next round

Dirt led a “Rack ’em and stack ’em” workout at the Storm a while back and Watts Up did the same with his “Compounding Interest” workout at the Sandlot.  Mosey, do an exercise, Mosey back, add it on top of what you’ve already done.  Rinse.  Repeat.  I wanted to do the same, but let the PAX roll at their own pace, so I explained the whole thing at once, which long story short led to some mumble chatter about the “incomplete other side” and a description of the “Two Corners Thing” and, well, yeah.  That’s about as well as I described it.  Did I mention I’m an idiot?  Anyways, in spite of the best efforts of YHC, the PAX picked up on what we were doing pretty quickly.  It went something like this:

Round 1:

• 10x Wide Arm Merkins
• 15x Mountain Climbers
• 20x Diamond Merkins

At the end of the round, the first 2 finished ran to a very strategically placed soccer ball and waited for the 6.

With perfectly good soccer goals on the track at The Ricky Bobby, it’d be a shame if they were never used, so I figured we could throw a game of chance into the mix.  The 2 fastest PAX in Round 1 would get a chance to take a shot at the soccer goal with burpees on the line.  If he made it, 5 burpees for the rest of the group.  If he missed, 10 burpees for himself.  Our two strongest in Round 1 were Roscoe and Tesla.  Roscoe buried his shot into the net with extreme force.  Tesla did not.  Burpees were done and we moved on.

Intermission:

Between Rounds 1 and 2, we partnered up and did some lune walks and some squats.  Partner 1 lunge walked about 3/4 of the way across the field and back.  Partner 2 did squats til his partner came back.  Switch.

Round 2:

More Two Corners action, this time:

• 10x Plank Jacks
• 15x Mike Tysons
• 20x Shoulder Taps

And soccer balls placed closer to midfield.  Our two strongest this round were Nutria and Breaker Breaker.  This time, if one of the two scored the goal, nobody did burpees.  If they both missed, it would be 5 burpees.  I could have said 100 and it wouldn’t have mattered.  Nutria stepped up like he’s done this 100x before and just buried the ball in the net.  Off his foot it was just a thing of beauty.  After a shot so glorious, who cared about the next one?  (Breaker Breaker missed.)

Back to the flag for 2 minutes of LBCs.

Announcements:

• Convergence 10/31 – Bring Shoes
• Shirts soon on Mudgear for the Yank, Gashouse, Storm and Bulldog
• PT Test 11/14
• Give2Give – if you haven’t given yet, please consider; F3 is free, so give as you can
• November Challenge

Prayer Requests:

• Breaker Breaker’s Aunt
• Family and Friends of SP Student
• Rockabilly
• Montross’s M

I got my F3 name over 5 years ago, but this was my first time in the center of the Circle.  There’s a list of HIMs too long to name that have pushed me and showed me how to be a rock pusher.  Quick shout out to Woody for the EH to “Martha’s House” all those years ago and Sargento for the help with this VQ.  The more I learn, the more I realize how much I still have to learn, and I’m honored to get out in the gloom with the HIMs of F3 Gastonia and just keep getting better.

It was good to see Tricycle in the gloom at The Ricky Bobby after his first dose of buttermilk.

Yabba Dabba Doo

We had se ven show up at the Ricky Bobby with an FNG  as YHC lined everybody up for a six pack around the track this humid hazy morning. Went like this:

COP:

Arm stretches

SSH X 20

IW X 20

Cotton Pickers X 20

Grapevine stretches

Mtn Climbers X 20

Nolan Ryans X 10 each side

Time for the six pack on the track!

1st set: 10 burpees, take a lap.

2nd set: 20 jump squats, lap

3rd set: 30 merkins, lap

4th set: 40 Big boy situps, lap

5th set: 50 SSH, lap

6th set: 60 CDDs, lap

Mosey to the center of the field for some 4 corners work

1st corner: 10 merkins in the center, mosey ot the corner, 10 plank jacks

2nd corner: 10 merkins in the center, mosey to corner 2, American hammers X 10 (in cadence)

3rd corner: 10 merkins in the center, mosey to corner, 10 HR merkins

4th corner: 10 merkins in the center, 10 Turkish getups at the corner.

mosey over to the benches:

10 dips, 10 step ups, 10 dirkins, 10 inclined situps.

Mosey across the field, 25 squats, mosey back

Repeat above except 15X apiece

Bear crawl half way, burpee broad jump halfway.

25 squats, mosey to COT.

Pledge

NMM:

Great morning and great push by the pax. Welcome FNG Tricycle. look forward to having you out on a regular basis. Couple of events as follows to put on the docket:

10/31 Convergence, Martha Rivers Park, 6:15 EC, 7:00 am main event.

11/14 PT test. Not sure where. 7 am. If you were at the last one in the summer this is a great chance to measure your progress and how you do under cooler conditions.

Prayers for the country, SA’s daughter, and Sargento’s M and her knee replacement Monday. Apparently doing well.

Pleasure and honor to lead the Bobby!

Tesla

Pledge

No FNG’s – Typical disclaimer

Seal Jacks IC x 23

Hillbilly Walkers IC x 17

Abe Vigoda’s IC x 10

About this time we saw someone roll into the parking lot.  I called some LBC’s to wait and see if it’s someone walk the track or  join us.  I saw Flintstone coming up so we gave him a Monkey Humper Salute as he approached.

Mosey to the back of the school where there are 15 stations set up.  Each PAX picks a station and AMRAP’s the exercise while one PAX Bear Crawls up the stairs and around the side walk back to the parking lot.  Once complete, that PAX takes his position at the end of the line and everyone shifts one spot to the right.  Rinse and repeat until a timer goes off at which time we Jail Break to the cross walk by Stowe Rd., then Mosey back and resume where we left off.  The AMRAP stations were:

Bear Crawl

Pretzel Crunch Right

Pretzel Crunch Left

Reverse Crunch

Slow Flutter Kick

LBC

Diamond Merkin

Wide Arm Merkin

Ranger Merkin

Shoulder Tap

Mike Tyson

Bonnie Blair (Jump Lunge)

Tiger Squat

Jump Squat

Monkey Humpers

Mosey to the front of the school.

No Dirt workout is complete without some calf raises so we did 10 Calf Raises IC on the curb.

Time

Announcements:

Convergence at 7:00 AM at Martha Rivers Park.  EC meets at Snowball’s for running or Rucking.

Prayer Request:

Watts Up son

Tiger

Sargento’s M

Orange Man’s family

SA’s daughter

Sorry if I forgot someone

It was a pleasure to led you this morning.

Dirt

What an absolutely beautiful morning.  Temperature was approximately 52 degrees.  Some good chatter before we started.  We clocked in on time at 05:30.  Disclaimer followed by a short warmup of 15 Toy Soldiers.

Mosey to the side of the school and partner up.  Exercise called was Dora 1-2-3-4-5

100 Squats
200 Carolina Dry Docks
300 Australian Mountain Climbers
400 Calf raises
500 LBCs

That went much quicker than YHC expected.

Slow mosey back to the flag and circle up. YHC brought the official workout cards and passed them out. We worked on this until 06:14 and we closed with the pledge and one burpee OYO

TIME!

Announcements: Brew Ruck on 10/14 – get with Freight for details
Convergence on 10/31.  Get with Broke for details

Prayer requests: Sister Act and his family, Orangeman’s M and her Uncle
Sargento’s M and their friend.
Each other

Circle of Man: YHC closed us in prayer.

I appreciate Sargento letting me Q this AO. A lot of Rock Pushers here.  It was also nice sharing the Gloom with some men I had never met.  I’m guilty of this, but get out and post at other locations.  When we stay with our own ‘home’ AO, we are robbing ourselves of meeting different PAX.

Philippians 4:13

Huckleberry

The fall feeling weather is in the air and makes it more comfortable for pushing the rock. The HIMs were out again at TRB and start time is now!

Warm up:

Goof Balls IC

Abe Vigoda (apparently fast, then slow, then fast)

Mosey to the back of the school. Surprise, surprise! YHC brought a bag full of cards and a speaker. Joy!

Deck of Death, always a crowd pleaser.

Spades – Lunges

Diamonds – Burpees

Clubs – American Hammers

Hearts – Merkins

There were two aces in the deck and we ran to the road and back for each one. As is often the scenario, most of the spades and clubs were drawn at the beginning and overloaded the finishing rounds with burpees and merkins. That’s ok, we got swole. YHC loves the DoD.  The lucky PAX in attendance were super excited to get to hear the latest musical compilation, this version was loud and hard. Perfect for pushing the rock to.

Mosey to the front, get 5 burpees in for the train that passed earlier and we’re done.

Announcements: Young Life golf tournament Monday October 5th

Prayer requests: Orangeman’s daugther, Adam Kincaid, Sargento’s M’s knee replacement, Stephanie McMahan, Tiger’s ex’s surgery, Nutria starts new job Monday, George Miller passing, Sherry McKenzie passing

54 degrees and a great morning for my VQ at TRB! As YHC got ready to begin the disclaimer and pledge,  up out of the gloom walked none other than the Bionic-man himself: Cinderella. I already knew it was going to be a good morning to have a great morning.

I gave the disclaimer (I Q from where I want to, Sargento) we did the pledge, we got to work.

25x SSH IC

25x Goofballs IC (honor to the goofball himself, TRB site Q)

5 Burpees OYO.

I couldn’t remember if we had ever run a Dora here before, but I’m a big fan of those so we did the thang.

100 Hand release Merkins

200 IBC (sizzle to honor Buckeye)

300 Sumo Squats (honor to my Japanese heritage)

Run around the bus lot and grassy area in front of the school.

The men crushed it, with only a little complaining about the Sumos, and we headed off to the side of the school for the next bit of greatness.

Triple Nickels from the last light post, back to the crosswalk.

Light post: Crunchy Frogs

Crosswalk: Mike Tysons

After planking for the 6, we lined up along the curb for the next bit of greatness.

The PAX went down the line calling an exercise that the rest of the group would do, while he ran down to the playground and back. While Roscoe started us off with a groan worthy set of 8 count body builders, the rest was a good challenge for all. In some order we did:

• 8 count body builders
• Flutter Kicks
• Diamond Merkins
• Rosalitas
• Calf Raises (honor to Dirt!)
• Monkey Humpers (honor to Tesla!)
• Dying Cockroaches
• Freddy Mercury’s
• Hillbilly Walkers
• Rocky Balboas
• Big Boys
• One other exercise that YHC can’t remember, cause that’s a lot…so if I missed yours leave a comment.

Then we mosey’d back to the flag, and finished with a little stretching.

Announcements: JJ5k (26th), Mt. Mitchell Hike (27th), IPC Week 4 at Gashouse this week, Young Life Golf Classic on Monday Oct. 5 (info to be posted on Slack)

Prayer Requests: Orangeman’s daughter, Cinderella’s recovery, Sargento’s M having full knee replacement, Sargento’s test on Monday, our police and first responders.

Thanks for the opportunity to lead this morning, and keep pushing the rock with you all. It’s an honor to get to do what we do, with a group of HIMs that constantly push me to be not just in better shape physically, but a better husband, father, friend, leader, servant, and steward.

Our honor defend, we will fight to the end… Buckshot.

sargento was not here

Announcements:

Buckshot with his VQ 9-23 at the Ricky Bobby – second best AO in Gastonia.

mt Mitchell hike.
jj5k

csaup

prayers.
my former college roommate do with cancer

injured pax

buckshot is trying to sell his house

students, parents, teachers

Watts-Up reached out to YHC on Tuesday to cover for him as Q, he was eager to get Week 2 of the IPC in the books. YHC gladly accepted and will plan to complete the IPC on Saturday.

It’s 5:30am, so let’s get started!

No FNGs, brief disclaimer…

WARM-UP:

• SSH x20
• IW x 12
• Don Qs x 15
• Mountain Climbers x 15
• Merkins x 15
• Stretches – Left foot to left hand, hold; flapjack to right side

THE THANG:

ROUND 1 – 5 burpees, run to end of parking lot and back

ROUND 2 – 5 burpees, 10 ‘mericans, 1/8 mile run ROUND 3 – 5 burpees, 10 ‘mericans, 15 LBCs, repeat  run

ROUND 4 – 5 burpees, 10 ‘mericans, 15 LBCs, , 20 dry docks, repeat run

ROUND 5 – 5 burpees, 10 ‘mericans, 15 LBCs, , 20 dry docks, 25 squats, repeat run

ROUND 6 – 5 burpees, 10 ‘mericans, 15 LBCs, , 20 dry docks, 25 squats, 1 minute elbow plank, repeat run

ROUND 7 – 5 burpees, 10 ‘mericans, 15 LBCs, , 20 dry docks, 25 squats, 1 minute elbow plank, 30 American Hammers, repeat run

ROUND 8 – 5 burpees, 10 ‘mericans, 15 LBCs, , 20 dry docks, 25 squats, 1 minute elbow plank, 35 American Hammers, 40 shoulder presses in peoples chair, repeat run

ROUND 9 – 5 burpees, 10 ‘mericans, 15 LBCs, , 20 dry docks, 25 squats, 1 minute elbow plank, 35 American Hammers, 40 shoulder presses in peoples chair, 45 side straddle hops, repeat run

5 Burpees for the train!

COT

Announcements – see Huckleberry’s Backblast for all, October 5th, Gaston County Young Life golf tournament

Prayers – Sargento’s office cleaning staff member; Tesla’s 2.0 with job, and Tesla with work, Sargento’s upcoming exam, and Buckshot and family closing on a house.

YHC closed us out in prayer!

Although I was the substitute this morning, it was an honor as always to lead you all! Hard work was put in by all!

Breaker Breaker

12 men at The Ricky Bobby this morning!  No FNG, not much of a disclaimer, time to start!!

Warm-up:

Grass Pickers x 10(ic)

The Thang:

First exercise called here:

5 Rounds

10 Burpees

10 Jump Lunges

10 Hand Release Merkins

10 Big Boys

10 Smurf Jacks

Lap around track

After a quick 10 count from ole Buttermilk, we moseyed to the back parking lot behind the school.  Pax line up on the first parking space line for some Route 66.  Start with 1 Mike Tyson, Bear Crawl to 2nd line for 2 Mike Tyson’s. Bear Crawl to 3rd line for 3 Mike Tyson’s.  Continue this until you finish with 11 Mike Tyson’s.

Time for some core work.

Round 1:

LBCs x 20(ic)

Flutter Kicks x 20(ic)

American Hammer x 20(ic)

Freddie Mercury’s x 20(ic)

Round 2

LBCs x 10(ic)

Flutter Kicks x 10(ic)

American Hammer x 10(ic)

Freddie Mercury’s x 10(ic)

Still with plenty of time remaining.  Time for some 11’s!  Start on the side of the parking lot with 10 Imperial Walker Squats, mosey across for 1 CDD, then mosey back.  Then 9 IW Squats and 2 CDD.  Continue until you finish with 1 IW Squat and 10 CDD.

Time to start heading back to the COT.  However, we still needed to knock out some more reps on the way back.  Stopped at 5 light poles on the way back.  Started with 1 Burpee at the first, and then increase the rep by 1 at the next pole.  Finished with 5 Burpees at the 5th pole.  There were plenty more light poles, but ran out of time.  Quick mosey back to the flag!  Time!!

Announcements:

Shooting & BBQ 9/12

CSAUP 9/19 at Folsom

JJ5K 9/26 – Trail run Common Ground in Stanley

Mt Mitchell hike 9/27

Prayer Request

SA daughter & family, Stroganoff family, kids & teachers, all pax

Nameorama

Honor to lead today men.  Appreciate you men, everyone pushed hard today!!

Sister Act