Some of Us Got The Good Genes

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Finally a break in heat and humidity on this fine morning at Runde Park.  Six men came to be challenged and I believe they left satisfied.

The Thang

Gears for first half.

Lap around the park calling out 3 stations on the route.

Circle up in the lot for a light warm up:

  • SSH
  • Windmills
  • Potato Pickers

Took off around the park loop, hitting three stations.  At each station 5 Burpees OYO, planked for the 6 at station 3.  Repeat with 5 Bomb Jacks OYO.

Hit the baseball field for Four Corners:

  • 5x Around The World Squats
  • 10x Squat Jacks
  • 15x Monkey Humpers

Plank for the 6 at station 4.  Repeat, but double the counts.

Another set of 2 laps around the park loop hitting the three stations with 10 Burpees OYO at each, then 10 Bomb Jacks OYO at each.

Hand off to Mr. Clean

PAX each grab a Cindy from the Suburban and head to everyone’s favorite hill.

PAX commenced with The Beast (6*6*6):

6 stations up the hill, 6 reps per exercise for 6 different exercises with Cindy.

  • Squat to upright row
  • Curls
  • Skull crushers
  • Chest press
  • Shoulder press
  • Lawnmower pulls

Moseyed back to the Lot for COT.

NMM

Confession: It has been forever since I Q’ed a boot camp.  With all the running and travel (and, if I am honest, excuses) it has been too long.

It was good to lead the men this morning through the first half and to push through the second half with them at my side.  It was the highest complement to have both Cable Guy and Fishsticks comment on how tough the workout was.  Also good to clown around with Wegmans while putting in work as his brother Sasquatch was sprinting up the hill with a Cinderblock.  And I couldn’t have asked for a better man than Mr. Clean to share the Q with this morning.

Missed seeing some of the regulars this morning… hopefully a temporal problem.

Announcements and Prayer Requests

  • Suffolk Punch has some sort of special with free (F3) beer.  Talk to Wegmans.
  • Prayers for Wegmans Father in Law and Prostate Cancer
  • Prayers for kids going through GI sickness that appears to be going around
  • Prayers for my leg to heal up after some sort of nerve issue

Honor to Serve

 

 

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Digging Deep at The Swamp

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  • QIC: Half Shell
  • When: 10/04/2019
  • Posted In: The Swamp

Pax: Tardy, Lox, Tesla, Lutefisk, Photo Bomb, Bones, World Wide Leader, Cobra Kai, Copyright, Twister, Crab Cakes, DaVinci, FNG (Wing Nut), Bitcoin, The Real McCoy, Half Shell (Q)

Sixteen bootcampers/ruckers arrived at The Swamp/Chupacabra to get better with their F3 brothers and share some morning pain.  After delivering the disclosure to the PAX (including one FNG – Welcome “Wing Nut”!!), the ruckers left to do….well, rucking things and YHC led the bootcampers on a brief mosey to an adjacent parking lot from COT.
      My plan going in to the workout was to dig a little bit deeper into the exercon for some more obscure exercises.  We circled up and started with 10 Copperhead Squats.  I was quickly reminded that this four-count squat exercise is strikingly similar to the low-slow squat but…. it was in the exercon so I was going with it.  After the Copperheads….eh hem…. Low Slow Squats, we did 10 Imperial Walker Squats.  (After each cross-over add a squat) and 10 mountain climber merkins.  I “adjusted” (messed up) the movement count slightly on that one which led to some brief mumble chatter.
     We then moseyed to the fountain where each member of the PAX started a ladder of Dirty Hookups.  (Exercon’s terminology, not mine)  Each person begins in the plank position facing the fountain.  With the first count, put one arm on the wall of the fountain, then two, then one, then back to plank.  YHC called out the cadence then it rotated clockwise with each PAX calling it out.  All members did each rep.
    After two rounds of Dirty Hookups we partnered up for some stair exercises.  Starting at the fountain, and with your partner, each PAX did 20 dips on the benches then ran over to, up and down the opposite stairs.  Someone zip-tied the gate at the bottom so we called an audible.  Instead of running through the now, non-existent open gate, we did 5 squats at the bottom and ran back up the stairs and over to the fountain.  The PAX completed five rounds of this so, we got in 100 dips and 10 rounds on the stairs.
    Once completed, we moseyed to the front of Target.  At each red ball the PAX completed 2 burpees.  Between the balls we alternated between Bear Crawl merkins (merkin on the fourth count) and Lt. Dan’s.  We modified the return trip and did 5 flutters at each ball.  To get to the next ball the PAX ran two balls ahead and returned one. – Mini suicides.
    Short on time, we headed back to COT with a brief stop at the fountain for two more rounds of Dirty Hookup ladders.
    After brief announcements, (read your newsletter) prayers included internal reflection, Tardy’s niece and Lutefisk’s daughter.
   Thanks for the opportunity to lead!
Half Shell
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VQ at the Millstone with a Guillermo 1-2-3 Routine and the Presidential Wall of NoN-sEnSe

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The hype was huge, the turnout was moderate for Boss Hogg’s VQ at the Millstone. All 8 PAX in attendance got to enjoy the first day of cooler temperatures. 3 PAX went for a walk…2 with rucksacks and 1 with his arm in a sling. Huge T-Claps to Smithers for showing up while on the IR. The remaining 4 PAX followed the most Boss of all Hoggs on his VQ journey.

The Thang:

Mosey’d from Veteran’s Park to the parking lot across from Puckerbutt Pepper Company
• Stretched arms and legs
• 15 – Gas Pumpers (for my buddy Twister…Respect!)

Mosey’d to the St. John’s United Methodist Church parking lot
• Toy Soldiers across the parking lot – jogged back to starting side
• High Knees across the parking lot – jogged back to starting side
• Lunge Walks across the parking lot – jogged back to starting side
• Butt Kickers across the parking lot – jogged back to starting side
• Carioca across the parking lot and back in the opposite direction
• Shuffled across the parking lot and back in the opposite direction

Mosey’d to First Baptist Church of FM parking lot (home of Footloose!)
Circled up…
• 15 SSH
• 15 Windmills
• 15 Cherry Pickers
• 15 Imperial Walkers
• 15 Hillbilly Walkers

Mosey’d to FM Church of God parking lot
Next up was a Guillermo 1-2-3 routine. For those of you know don’t know (and I would be shocked if any of you didn’t already know this), Guillermo is Dora’s infant brother who does not fully grasp the concept of pairing PAX in 2’s and progressively moving from chest, to core, to legs. Guillermo likes to divide the entire population into two groups. The goal being that the exercising group works out together with focus on form, not speed. In concept, this was a great idea. Given that there were only 5 PAX participating in the Guillermo 1-2-3, one group included 3 PAX and the other included 2 PAX. The routine included:
• 100 Squats
• 200 LBCs
• 300 Overhead Claps
The group not performing exercises got to snake the stairs across the street.

Next up, was the Presidential Wall of Non-Sense! Don’t worry, there is nothing political behind this. The non-sense had to do with the exercise itself. PAX formed a line to begin the border wall. PAX were instructed to hold a tree via the Al Gore or by planking to form the wall. The HIM at beginning of the wall was instructed to run to the imaginary forest to gather more trees for the wall. Trees were knocked down via 1 burpee, 2 donkey kicks, or 3 Bobby Hurleys. Once the HIM obtained another tree from the imaginary forest, he returned to the end of the wall and held it in place via the Al Gore or by planking. The exercise continued until the wall crossed the parking lot.

Finally, with time running out, the PAX mall walked back to COT. The leader of the group dropped out of line to perform 1 burpee, 2 donkey kicks, or 3 Bobby Hurleys. Once completed, they rejoined the group at the back of the line. The process was repeated until COT was reached.

At the end of the workout, Boss Hogg was asked about his VQ experience.  He responded in the words of the great scholar Borat Sagdiyev, “Great Success!”.

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Office etiquette

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I kept asking “what is a kettle bell” as my frequency of attendance at KB workouts can be counted on two hands- maybe one.  Somehow I was tapped to lead and thankful that I did.  Getting outside of the comfort zone and breaking routines is refreshing.

Warm Ups: Moroccan Night Clubs, windmills, lap runs with shuffle

The Thang

  • Round 1 10 reps
  • Round 2 15 reps
  • Round 3 20 reps
  • Round 4 10 reps

 

  • Goblet Squat
  • Tricep Extention
  • Curl
  • Shoulder Press
  • Windmill (Crowd pleaser)
  • Lunge-Row
  • Swing
  • Lawn Mower Pull

Naked Man Moleskin

Great group this morning and truly appreciate being shown the way to better form and technique.  Good to end a tough cardio week on focused strength.  Highly recommend Hive attendance.

 

 

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A wee bit of everything at Pantheon

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Unbelievable. Amazing. Has it REALLY been almost 4 years since YHC first posted to that fear-inducing AO known as Pantheon? What little I remember from that first WO was cursing the Q’s name (the evil Double D) and, more importantly, CSPAN coming alongside me and taking my mind off the merlot that was oh soo close to coming up. #The Full FNG Experience.  This is such an awesome AO that I wanted to include a little bit of everything.

The Pax seemed game for the plan. Mumblechatter was minimal but there was some grumbling and groaning. Mission accomplished.

WARM-UP: Mosey with Toy Soldiers, High Knees, Butt Kickers, Power Skips

COP around the flag (starting with The Pledge of Allegiance):

  • SSH * 25
  • HILLBILLY WALKER * 15
  • Merkins * 15
  • Squats * 15
  • Diamond Merkins * 15
  • Windmills * 15
  • Wide Arm Merkins * 15 (Initial grumbling & groaning ensued)
  • Mountain climbers * 20

MOSEY to AMPHITHEATER

JACOB’S LADDER- (7s) BEAR CRAWL UP, RUN DOWN-BURPEES  & SQUATS

Thoughts on FAITH: 3 f’S in F3 – 1st F is the Magnet, 2nd is the Glue, 3rd is the DYNAMITE. IT’S A BELIEF IN SOMETHING LARGER THAN YOURSELF. WHEN MEN OF FAITH COME TOGETHER FOR A COMMON CAUSE, THE RESULTS ARE AMAZING. DON’T GO IT ALONE

MOSEY to Basketball Court

Partner up:  opposite side of court, suicides on foul lines and meet in the middle for partner hand slap merkins.  15 reps, 3 rounds. Suicides, meet middle for partner Giddy Ups (crowd pleaser) . 5 reps per partner, 3 rounds, Suicides, meet middle for partner-assisted Sit-ups. 10 reps per partner

MOSEY to playground for a modified DORA – Partner Up- 50 Swing Lunges, 200 Bombjacks, 300 -LBCs Partner runs to end of the b-ball court & back

Mosey To wall- BTTW, then 5 Seal Jacks each Pax while the group does Peoples Chair.

COT: Olaf came running out of the gloom to join us at the very end. Must have been doing a brisk pace since he seemed to be on the verge of splashing last night’s dinner. But good of him to join.

NMM: Triple Claps are not sufficient to express my gratitude to Bing, Howitzer and Fish Sticks for staying on me to try out this thing we call F3. More like triple triple claps. I’ve tried to #give it away since that day and have told anyone who will listen what a game-changing moment that has been for me.

Thank the Good Lord that we ended up in this corner of the world known as The Fort. Home of many Highly Impactful Men. One awesome consequence – my 2.1 Pigeon is wanting to post more often. As a father, being exposed to this brotherhood is a great thing for my son. As we walked to the car to leave for the workout, he asked “Is this workout going to be hard”?   Well, yes, son, that’s part of what makes this F3 engine run. Sure seemed hard enough to me. What a great morning. Thanks to Bear Grylls for the opportunity to lead.

Short Sale out.

 

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School Loops

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Temporary location change to Tega Cay Elementary School.

Route:  Stay on school grounds, big loop around the back of the school.  At the crosswalk, fast lap around the soccer field.  Small loop around parking lot, then repeat with big loop around school.  One lap was a little over a mile.

We got 4 laps in..good for a bunch of old guys.

Happy Birthday to Mrs.  Gears!

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Shipwreck – 10/2/2019

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Shipwreck (10/2/2019)

We had 7 HIM post this morning for the 30 minute high intensity workout at Shipwreck. Since some of us are coming off the Iron Pax Challenge, I thought what better way than to incorporate some of their ideas into my very own Week 5 Iron Pax Challenge.

Warm Up
SSH X 25 (IC)
Hillbilly Walkers X 15 (IC)

The Thang
25 Burpees
400 meter run
50 Merkins
800 meter run
75 Squat Jumps
1200 meter run
100  Plank Jacks
1600 meter run

Circle of Trust
Beginning the week of October 14 for approximately six months the following AO’s will be at 5:00 a.m. (Crow’s Nest, Cannonball, and Poopdeck).

F3 Lake Wylie CSAUP is Saturday, October 26. Check out the backblast here.

Don’t forget to order your F3 Lake Wylie shirt. Deadline to order is October 3. Order your shirt here.

Praises for “Survey Says” who found out that he and his wife are having a Baby Boy.

Aye,
Sean Corcoran (RADAR)

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Ultimate Burpee Championship

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With the Iron Pax challenge winding down and also taking a page from Witch Hunt’s timed workouts I decided on making up my own Lake Wylie Ultimate Burpee Championship. I went to Wally World to look for a cheap trophy to hand out (Coffee Travel Mug) and formed the championship from there. 13 Pax answered the challenge at an AO I feel does not get a lot of love, the infamous Bermuda Triangle.

My Rules(Disclaimer: If you would like to do something like this, you do not have to copy my method, just make tweaks to it as you see fit, this is F3 after all):

400 meter run as warm up

4 sets of 1 minutes of Burpees with 30 second rest in between to write down your numbers

400 meter run

4 sets of 1 minute Man Maker Burpees-30 second rest to write down numbers

400 meter run

4 sets of 1 minute Kraken Burpees-30 second rest to write down numbers

400 meter run

Championship round-4 sets of 1 minute Burpees-30 sec to write down numbers 

400 meter victory lap

Count up number of Burpees and announce winner(and award trophy), which was Two Ferns with 209 Burpees in the 16 minutes given. Congrats to this great HIM. 

This was just a trial run to see if the Pax liked it and it seemed to work. For the next championship I will have a WWE belt ordered to hand out as a trophy and will advertise it to the surrounding regions to see if we can get more involvement. Thanks to Wolverine for letting me use his AO as an experiment. Good luck to all the Ragnarians this weekend and don’t forget about the Nesses October 26th! Prayers always for this crazy world we live in. Peace!

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Core and Upper body work at the Colosseum

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Great morning at The Colosseum and probably my last Q of the year before we get into high gear for the Holiday Season, for most is too early to think about Christmas but for us is GO TIME!!

9 brave gladiators decided to accelerate their Tuesday morning so we started with a quick mosey around the drop off line with toy soldiers and high knees followed by the warm up by the basketball courts: windmills, Moroccan night clubs and low slow squats.

We split up into 3 groups for the 3 stations that had been set up, preferred transportation mode was bear crawls:

STATION 1

-> 20 overhead press

-> 20 biceps curls

-> 20 merkin

-> 30 triceps dips

-> 30 Carolina dry docks

STATION 2

-> 20 slam ball to ground

-> 30 Freddy Mercury

-> 30 Rosalitas

-> 30 Sledgehammer swings  (15 each side)

-> 40 Dying Roach SC

STATION 3

-> 5 burpees

-> 10 Tire flips

-> 20  Monkey Humpers

-> 20 lunges SC

-> 30 low squat (touch the ground with hand)

Everyone finished one full circuit and we met up in the middle for some web work, we had a brief talk about the theme going on at the weekly snippet on one of the Slack channels about sportsmanship and how sometimes we put too much pressure in our kids during sports.

Back to the beatdown, first up was the famous Captain Thor:

1 Big Boy Sit Up and 4 American Hammers, progressive to 10 BBSU and 40 AH, lots of chatting and the fear of getting tramp stamps but everyone did a great job here but the best was still to come.

Next up was a new combo creation, there’s no name for it in the Exicon so I’ll just name it the Illegal merkin (hence the definition of shoulder tap:  Shoulder tapping refers to the illegal process where a person who is not of age asks someone who is of age to buy them cigarettes or, more commonly, Alcohol.:

1 merkin and 4 shoulder taps, you guessed it, progressive to 10 merkins and 40 shoulder taps; that equals to 55 merkins and 220 shoulder taps, a real burner!! We had to take a few brakes on this one since I didn’t want anyone to face plant during one of my Q’s. More whining here but you don’t get up at 4:30 am to do the easy thing right?

We finished with just 2 minutes to spare and load the truck with the props then headed to COT in the parking lot.

Announcements: Ragnar race was brought up but I was the only one running this weekend so I invited all PAX to sign up for next year; I also mentioned the Lake Wylie official launch as the newest region with their CSAUP “The Nessie” on 10/26 and encouraged everyone to sign up for it, I know it will be NO-DERATE!!

Prayers and praises for all families and kids and to keep all competitors safe this weekend.

Thank you Hardwood for the invite!!

 

Tinsel Out…

 

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Penthouse Lake Wylie VQ

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Conditions – A cool balmy 83 degree fall night with the hint of man sweat in the breeze.

 

Disclaimer/COP – YHC arrived at Black Flag with a truck full of goodies “blocks” to start this night off right. Somewhere in my planning this Q my mental faculties must been askew, this looked great on paper. After the disclaimer to the pax, this is how it went down.

 

Warm Up –

 

Mosey to the top deck for the warm up.

 

TTT x10 IC

LBAC x10 IC Forward

LBAC x10 IC Reverse

Motivators aka SSH aka Penthouse/Bellhop Shuffle x10 IC. This little ditty I saw on F3 Naperville twitter and it looked awesome. The total amount done = 220. Definitely a #crowdpleaser #countingnumbers

 

Slowly mosey back to the main lot for the next round of fun. #itburns

 

The Thang –

 

Grab a block, cusack to corner one:

  • Curls for the Girls x20 IC
  • Overhead Presses x20 OYO
  • Squats w/Block x20 OYO
  • Block Merkins x20 IC

Cusack to corner two:

  • Curls for the Girls x15 OYO
  • Overhead Presses x15 OYO
  • Squats w/Block x15 OYO
  • Block Merkins x15 OYO

Cusack to corner three:

  • Curls for the Girls x10 OYO
  • Overhead Presses x10 OYO
  • Squats w/Block x10 OYO
  • Block Merkins x10 OYO

Cusack to corner four:

              Curls for the Girls x5 OYO

  • Overhead Presses x5 OYO
  • Squats w/Block x5 OYO
  • Block Merkins x5 OYO

 

Pre Mary (to recover), the lack of oxygen clouded my memory on the count.

  • LBC – Penthouse
  • 6” w/lift – Penthouse
  • Flutter kicks – Penthouse
  • Canoes – Survey Says
  • Freddie Mercury – Costanza
  • Dying Cockroaches – Soft Shell
  • American Hammers – Shakespeare

 

Part Two:

 

Partner Up

Pax 1 farmer carries w/shoulder lift holds every other ten steps

Pax 2 20 block swings, 15 triceps extensions, 10 thrusters

Rinse and repeat x2

 

The coup de gras ended on 21’s (curls) IC

 

Mary –

BBSU x25 IC (3up / 1 down count)

#SweatAngels

 

Recover Recover

 

This beatdown was more than I expected. Thanks to the HIMs that decided to DRP with me this evening. On another note, there was a quick glance of a Chippindale in our presence. “The glistening and buffness under the night lights” noted one pax. Needed to be there to know!!

 

This thing called F3 is contagious. Wanting to do more for F3, the Pax, family and community. As some, if not most are total beatdowns and still I come back for more. A big thanks to my bro-in-law Fryin’Pan @TCBrinkley on the EH, @F3LakeMurray @F3Depot and @F3LakeWylie #Wyliemen for making me a better man all around and lifting me up.

 

Announcements –

  • Nessy CSAUP – 10/26 (3 man teams)
  • Last few days left to order your F3 Lake Wylie Shirts. Get them before they’re gone.
  • Needing to double down or looking for an evening AO? Black Flag has you covered…do it!!

 

Prayers – Unspoken

 

Until next time,

Penthouse

 

#ISI #DRP

 

SYITG

 

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