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When I reached out to Site Q (Real Tree) about who was Qing the Maze he responded “You want it?” Since I am not one to turn down an opportunity to lead, especially at the Maze (Great AO with endless possibility), I jumped at the chance. Plus there has been something I have wanted to try and the York/Clover HIMS were the perfect crew to test it on.

Spent the night, refining the Wienke and testing out the new exercises in the living room, much to the chagrin of my M. She kept saying, “You really are nuts!!”, but anything for the Pax. Finally got the wienke done and materials ready, so it was time to hit the fartsack for tomorrow we do battle.

Got there early or so I thought, only to find Mr. Rogers and Nunchuck already in the parking lot. Once all the Pax finally arrived we had 17 brave souls ready to defend the wall on the Quest for 300.

Quick disclaimer and we were off. Mosey to the back of the middle school on the other side of the tennis courts including some high knees, butt kickers and karoake. Once there we circled up for 30X SSHs and 20X Morracan NCs, just to get the blood flowing.

The Thang

Quest for 300

The goal was to complete all 300 exercises before we had to leave for COT.

After each exercise below, the Pax were to perform 2 laps around the circle:

• 40 Seated Knee Tucks
• 20 1-Arm Inverted Chin-Ups (10 per arm)
• 40 Assisted Singe-Arm Merkins (20 per arm)
• 40 Single Leg Heel Touch Squats (20 per leg)
• 40 Skier Single Leg Burpees (20 per leg)
• 40 Mountain Mules
• 20 Ninja Box Jumps
• 40 V-Up Twists
• 20 Wall Plank Cross Knee Plank (R/L =1)

Expectedly, the Pax accepted the challenge with fire and fight and gave it all they had.

With two minutes left it was time to head back to COT so we got moseying. (T-Claps to Gauge for the push back to COT.)

I finished up with a quick word on doing the impossible and facing the challenges of life. Watching the Pax not only push themselves, but work together to get each other through today’s workout was amazing. Even in the darkest of days or the most challenging of times, we can accomplish the impossible as long as we surround ourselves with great people and carry the torch for HOPE.

Moleskin

“The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our doing too little; not in our living above our ability, but rather in our living below our capacities.”

One of my personal struggles is that I am always looking for what’s next or to push harder or for where the next challenge will come from. In the right circumstances this is a blessing, however there are times where I have allowed this to lead me down the wrong path.

Fortunate for me I have found F3 which has been an amazing outlet for this. Being surrounded by like-minded men that are constantly pushing and challenging me and are always willing to accept the next new challenge. It has allowed me to direct this energy that I have in a positive direction and not allow it to lead me astray.

I just wanted to thank the Pax for allowing me this outlet.  And creating an environment that encourages innovation and supports you through failure, all the while having a willingness and enthusiasm to take on any challenge, even if it seems completely stupid and utterly pointless

Announcements
Go Ruck is still looking for some more HCs,
Ragnar – Rock Hill team looking for one more
Orlando F3 Launch- Reach our to Chaser or Cspan it you are interesting in making the trip

Prayers/Praises
Pray for our communities that it finds the unity it needs to thrive

Thanks for Real Tree for the opportunity to lead.

Gotta get back to the Hunt, its Witch Season…

In Honor of my boys first Birthday we had a nice workout in his honor.

Parking Lot

Warm up: a nice run to the parking lot at springs

High Knees w/hands up (called it “The Pentecostal”), Side Straddle Hops, Merkins, Repeat…

J-Jack Webb-20 Merk /1 jack  19 Merk/2 Jack  (finish at 10 merk/10 jack webb)

A-Alphabet – Ab’s – Make Alphabet with your legs

C- C2C – Suicides from outside parking lines and work in – 5 Carolina Dry Docks Per Stop

K-King Of Hearts – Suicides from outside parking lines and work in – Karaoke, Side shuffles, butt Kickers, high Knees, Bear Crawl,

S- Side Straddle Hop Burpees – 5 Side Straddle, 2 burps  (5 Sets) OYO

O- OYO- 15 burps OR 30 Merks (when finished join the rest. Go until everyone is done)

N- Never Cross Dolly – Like a Hello Dolly except you have your arms out wide

C.O.T.

YHC arrived to an empty parking lot at 0500, explored the church campus, set out a few cones and returned to see Rhinestone and Joe dirt hanging out in the parking lot. Everyone must have been recovering from the weekends cause the mumblechatter was light!

Time, as she does, slipped by and it was 0515 before YHC realized it! So a brief disclaimer (we’ve all heard it before anyways) and off we went on a slow mosey to the fire pit. We warmed up with 10 IC of SSH, Merkins, Windmills, imperial walkers, hillbilly walkers and dips.

A slow mosey down the path past the graveyard took us to the field where the cones were laid out. The PAX lined up and it went something like this:

1 merkin – lt. dan ~15 yards to the next cone
2 merkins – lt. dan ~15 yards to the next cone
3 merkins – sprint back to the starting line and R&R until you end on 12 merkins

R & R w/:

1 squat – karaoke ~15 yards to the next cone
2 squats – karaoke (facing the other direction) ~15 yards to the next cone
3 squats – sprint back to the starting line and R&R until you end on 12 squats

A quick 10 count and we moseyed back up the hill to the playground for a round of inverted rows and LBCs. Starting with 20 ea OYO, we decreased each set by 5 until we hit 0.

Another 10 count and then took off down the hill that leads to the softball field.

Then it was NUR’s up the hill, jog down, R&R. When the six was in it was 20 morocan night clubs IC followed up by another double dose of nurs and 20 overhead claps IC. We wrapped up our hill exploration with a two trips up the hill, one followed by 10 morocan night clubs IC, and the last followed by 10 overhead claps IC.

I was able to introduce the guys to the tunnel of love and they had so much fun the first time we went through it twice.

A mosey up the hill and we wrapped up with several minutes of dealers choice Mary.

We even got young man Cedar in on the Qing action!

Thanks for having me at Guns-N-Moses guys! Really appreciate the chance to lead!

Catfish, out!

Four of Rock Hill’s strongest joined YHC on a warm Tuesday morning at Iron Academy. I had planned a little Tabata with our Kettlebells for a simple, but effective workout.

Warmup:
Mosey around Sam’s Parking lot
SSH x 20
Merkins x 20
Morroccan Night Club x 20
Windmill x 20

The Thang:
4 minutes of each exercise, 20 seconds on, 10 seconds off

Curls (switch arms each exercise)
Tricep Extensions
Goblet Squats
Lawnmowers
American Hammer
Sit Ups

NMM:
It was an honor to Q this workout and I hope I did well. Each man here pushed me to do better.
Dream House–you get better each time I see you. Thankful for your dedication.
Burr – Its time we get you on a Q schedule!
Voigt – You are clearly in the class with some of the Rock Hill elite, keep up the great work!
Catfish – My brother–you and I have been at this together since the cold days out at PHOP in 2015. Thankful for your friendship and push over the past 18 months.