Tag: The Storm (Page 11 of 26)

Nice crowd at the Storm this morning, 17 PAX clocked in and ready to go to work at 05:30! We started with a short disclaimer, the Pledge and what has become my typical warmup of 5 Burpee’s OYO. Let’s mosey!

First stop is the roundabout in front of the school for a little core work:

25 American Hammer’s IC

10 Big Boy’s OYO

25 LBC’s IC

10 Big Boy’s OYO

25 Flutter Kicks IC

10 Big Boy’s OYO

25 Mountain Climbers IC

10 Big Boy’s OYO

Continue with the mosey around the back of the school for some 10 to 1’s at the loading dock. 10 Merkins at the bottom, jump up on the dock and do 10 Squats. Rinse and repeat with 9 reps, 8….all the way to 1.

Next up was a mosey over to the student parking lot for some partner work. Start in the middle of the lot with 10 Booyah Merkins IC. One partner runs to one end of the lot and does 10 Little Gumby in the Woods while the other partner runs to the opposite end and does 10 Bobby Hurley’s. Meet back in the middle then swap ends. Rinse and repeat all the way to 1.

The PAX are pushing the pace at this point and we’re doing great on time. Let’s grab some wall and do 3 sets of 10 Dirty Hookups and 10 IW Squats. There was a good bit of mumble chatter at this point about whether or not YHC could hear the train or was just ignoring it. I think I actually heard 2 trains, so 10 Burpee’s OYO.

Since we got the core work out of the way at the beginning, YHC wanted to leave some time at the end for a mosey instead of Mary. About 7 minutes of meandering through the parking lots and time is up.

COT/BOM

Through the Storm

We’ve all been through a storm, are currently in one, or will experience one in the near future. We must remember that we aren’t alone, God is with us in the storms of life. He’s there to guide us through and help us repair any damage that the storm may cause. Too often, these are the only times we seek God and ask for his guidance and protection. Remember, we need God through the calm as much as we do in a storm.

Psalm 107:29 – “He made the storm be still, and the waves of the sea were hushed.”

Announcements

August 3rd – Tooltime party at Sargento’s. RSVP ASAP

August 17th – Pizza Man hosting a run/walk/fellowship event at Rankin Lake in remembrance of his niece

September 14th – Stair climb for 9-11 in Charlotte

September 21st – Stop Soldier Suicide 5k in Belmont. SFN event, let Pizza Man know if you want to drive

September 28th – JJ 5k in Stanley

Prayer Request / Praise

Lynn Hamm and family

Trooper Wooten

Whetstone program

Gump – 14th wedding anniversary

Hayzus M going on mission trip

Doodles, Scribble and Headcase part of a group going on mission trip

YHC took us out.

Thanks to the large group of PAX for coming out this morning. Great to have Pillager back with us today, he recently moved to this side of the river and previously posted with Metro. Welcome to Gashouse brother, the best region in F3!

I’m Broke

At 0530 YHC gave a quick disclaimer and said there would be some trivia in the workout.  A question would be asked and after a little time for deliberation the pax would have to give an answer.  If it was correct we just moved on to the next exercise.  If it was wrong, everyone had to do 5 burpees.  Dolph wished he had his phone to get some assistance from Google on the trivia questions, but that wasn’t allowed.

The warmup was a mosey to the traffic circle for some Corewood.  Buckeye knew it was coming.  We did 25 of each of the following exercises:

American Hammers
Crunchy Frogs
Pretzel Crunches (each side)
Dying Cockroaches

Mosey to the front of the school for some wall sits and merkins.  We did a 30, 40, 50 and 60 second wall sit with 10 merkins in between each wall sit rep.  Headcase saved us all from 5 burpees with his Larry Bird knowledge.

Mosey to the main parking lot and partnered up for Dora 1-2-3.  Pax 1 did the exercise and Pax 2 moseyed around the first island in the parking lot.

100 shoulder taps
200 jump squats
300 LBCs

Mosey around the parking lot to the other parking lot adjacent to the tennis quarts for triple nickel.  Lunges on one end and diamond merkins on the other.  Due to time it really only ended up being a triple triple.

Mosey back to where we started for the COT.

You boys know your car and basketball trivia, but not so good on your Disney movies and women’s world cup trivia.  It didn’t help that Sargento wasn’t there to get all of the questions right, like he usually does.

Announcements

Prayer Requests:

Lynn Hamm – undergoing chemo
Righteous Fox’s family – M’s father passed away

Thanks for the push today fellas.  We all got better.

Tuesday morning, a beautiful cool day to push the rock. YHC remembers the days when the Monday AO was known as Derecho. It was a running based workout where we did stuff other than just run a certain route. We did creative stuff like sprints, hill work and fartleks (actually we never did fartleks but we could’ve). Mayor and Top Hat gave an audible groan when I mentioned what we’d be doing today. Time to have a throwback Tuesday!

Warm Up

Goofballs (of course)

Monkey Humpers

Dying Cockroaches

Mosey from the starting area around the parking lot to the small roundabout.

The Thang

Sprint to the first road hump, do 15 merkins, sprint to the next, 15 more, sprint to the next, 15 more, mosey to the stop sign. Props to the Mayor, he’s a pretty good sprinter.

From the stop sign the PAX nurred up the hill to the artwork. Once there the PAX woudl bearcrawl the circle. A few of the elder PAX decided to take the outside circle for a little extra effort. Nice job showing the young whippersnappers what’s up.

Mosey from there back to the small circle where we started.

For this round of action instead of sprinting we skipped and karaoked from speed hump to speed hump. At each hump the PAX did 10 burpees.

Get to the stop sign then nur up to the top.

We were going to bearcrawl around the artwork but Mayor had a great idea to do it backward. Anchorman said we should take that up a notch and not only go in the opposite direction but switch to crab walks. Once again the elder rockpushers took the long route around.

Mosey back for one more round. Sprint to each road hump and then do 25 LBCs. We made it through the 3 roadhumps before it was time to head back.

Once at our original start we had time for a round of Nolan Ryans.

Time!

Prayer requests: Anchorman’s mother in law, others I forgot

Announcements: Mt. Mitchell hike May 5th

Thanks for the opportunity men. It was a pleasure as always.

With the P200 getting close, YHC needs to start logging a few more miles each week. Hopeful that a couple of other P200 PAX would post today, I decided to plan a Weinke that involved a good amount of running. After the typical Broke warmup of SSH’s, Don Q’s and Moroccan Nightclubs x10IC, we started on our journey.

Mosey out the lower entrance to Lakewood Road and stop for some Merkins, Plank Jacks and Shoulder Taps, all x10IC. Back to your feet and across Lake Drive and up Armstrong to the roundabout for a salute to the morning commuters. Monkey Humpers, Rosalita’s and LBC’s x15IC. After a mosey down the main entrance we paused in front of the school for three rounds of Dips and Derkins x20OYO. Mosey through the parking lot and around the back of the school for a stop at the back entrance. Mike Tyson’s and American Hammers x10OYO, run to Hwy. 74 and back and repeat. Around the back of the school and up to the baseball field for 10 Burpee’s then backtrack around the rear of the school and back to the start. Still got some time and only at 2.90 miles so let’s knock out 10 more Burpee’s and mosey around the parking lot to get in a total of 3.15 miles.

Still had time for 6 minutes of Mary and 5 Burpee’s for an imaginary train heard by Sister Act.

Moleskin / COT

“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” – Matthew 11:28

If you’ve ever heard Tiger pray, he almost always quotes this verse at the start. God didn’t design us to go non stop and never rest. He told us to rest on the seventh day, HE rested after creating the Heavens and the Earth, and Jesus found time to rest even when he was surrounded by people. Examine your life and find time to rest.

Announcements

Convergence 3/30 at 7am at Folsom

Nomads 3/9 heading to AG Middle in Charlotte

May 5th Mt. Mitchell hike

March 22nd 2nd F event at ODB in Dallas (M’s welcome)

Prayer Requests

Allen Tate – health issues

Sargento and Family – loss of M’s aunt

Each other

Strong work by the PAX this morning. You guys continue to push me to get better.

YHC took us out.

SYITG,

Broke

8 men of impact showed to the Storm this am looking to push the rock and better themselves.  We were lucky enough to get one last post in before the yucky weather arrives.

During the disclaimer this am it was discussed the difference in feeling the burn and getting stronger and feeling pain and hurting yourself.  We also discussed finding the line between the two and how close we can get but not crossing it.

Warmup:

SSH x 20

Mountain climbers x 20

Slow merkins x 5

Pledge

Mosey long way to circle.:

Ring of fire…

Heels to heaven until everyone one by one high knees around circle.

Mosey to front of school where 5 circular rocks await the pushing they will surely receive…..

Pair up.

3 sets amrap.

P1 runs roughly 150′ and back while P2 does called exercise.  Switch x 3.

Squats

Step ups…at this point it was asked by YHC how everyone is feeling?  Anchorman replied the we have found the line previously discussed.  This was good news.

Yoga break..down dog, cobra, plank, lower back stretches.

Dips

Incline merkins…literally pushing the rock.

Yoga break.  Same as above.

Mary:

American hammers x 20

V ups x 20

Merkins x 20

Rinse and repeat x 15

Meander to wall for calf raises x 20 feet together and x 20 spread apart.

Most back and time!

Announcements:

HIMs for Rice and Beans meet tonight at the Point Church in Belmont across 74 from Walmart at 6:15pm.

Please is you have and questions about the Mt Mitchell hike see Gastone.  This sounds quite cool.

Prayers for us, families, health, and community.

Big fat Q fail.  I forgot to do the namarama.  Oops.

It was my honor and privilege to lead such a great group of HIMs this am.  You guys make me better and I am grateful.

Aye!

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