At the last Black Diamond, it was only Jekyll (who was the Q) and myself, so by default the clock was ticking on my turn to lead the PAX in a Black Diamond Beat Down (B2D2)… I figured no better day for a downpainment than tax day. The day already is filled with pain, what’s a little more?

The moon was up, the air was cool, and it was time to Mosey…

The Thang:
Head to the upper lot for a little COP/Warmup:
IW x 20 (IC)
FAST SSH x 20 (IC)
Peter Parker x 20 (IC)
Merkin x 15 (IC)
Squat x 20 (IC)
CDD x 20 (IC)

Mosey to cul-de-sac (.5 mi)

Grab a coupon (cinderblock): We’re going to work out in ascending “tax brackets”, from minimum wage to Decibel…
– Cusak lap (hold the cinderblock above your head –  http://f3nation.com/exercises/#c) around lower parking lot back to circle in cul-de-sac
– 10 cinderblock burpees
– Cusak lap (which quickly deteriorated to simply carrying the coupon)
– 20 cinderblock merkins (incline merkin on cinderblock)
– Cusak lap (who in the world had the idea to carry cinderblocks around anyway???)
– 30 upright rows
– Cusak lap
– 40 bicep curls (2 handed)
– Lap
– 50 squats holding coupon

Next was a variation of a Bear/Crab Suicide:
Bear crawl halfway across lower lot, then crab walk back… Rinse and repeat.

Indian run up the hill (coupons fully abandoned by now) halfway and kneel down on the side for some Jack Webbs 1:4 ratio up to 7 merkins and 28 arm raises

Mosey back to top for some Mary:
– Hello Dolly x 15
– Freddie Mercury x 15
– Rosalita x 15
– Protractors
What’s that? 2 minutes left???
– 15 Burpees OYO just to make sure that everything sticks

COT and Name-a-rama…

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As always, an honor to lead, and to be in the gloom with brothers.

– Helmet Out…

Sixteen men gathered for a Armory like beat down at the Ballroom.

The Thang:

Frogger across Gold HIll to parking lot behind school

Across parking lot and back: high knees, butt kickers and karaoke

Circle up

Imperial Walker x36, CDD x15,Cherry Pickers x25, Merkins  x10 and Windmill x15

Mosey to stack of blocks

Group 1: Laying Chest Press, Run up hill with block, Curls, up hill backward, Shoulder Press, up hill with block, up right rows, up hill backward, Tri extension, up hill with block, squats (with coupon), Up hill backwards

Group 2: Up hill backwards, Laying Chest Press, Run up hill with block, Curls, up hill backward, Shoulder Press, up hill with block, up right rows, up hill backward, Tri extension, up hill with block, squats (with coupon),

At bottom of the hill.  Remember to believe the Q when he says we are done running up the hill even if you are at the bottom of the hill:  Crab Walk 1/3 of the way up, Bear Crawl 1/3 of the way and Backward Bear Crawl 1/3.  Told you no running up the hill!

Mosey to stairway and then up.  Then to crosswalk (No Frogger this time)

Mosey to Anytime Fitness and Circle Up for 3 minutes of boat and canoe

COT

Don’t forget Children’s Attention Home this Friday at 7 pm

Welcome FNGs TPS and Corruption

I enjoyed my Virgin Q at the ballroom.  It is a blessing to have so many options at the Fort.  I am blessed by every man that comes out to sweat along side me!

God Bless

With an all night rain in the forecast Spitz and YHC did not know if we would have any dance partners. But 14 strong men punched their dance card and posted on a raining morning. Spitz and YHC have been on this earth for a combined 100 years(we tried to think of an exercise we could do a 100 of, but could not think of any). But hopefully we gave the young Pax what they paid for.

This is how it went:

Spitz started out like a flash at speeds that we have not seen down Gold Hill road toward the car dealerships. We stopped for the Pledge of Allegiance facing the huge American Flag at the Jeep Dealership. Then a long fast mosey to the farthest cul de sac at the Ballroom.

Warm-up (all in cadence):

Merkins

SSH

IW

Windmills

The Thang:

In the back parking lot we did Bear Crawls to other end stopping half way to do 10 burpies and another 10 burpies at the end. Then lunge walk back with 10 sumo squats midway and at the end.

Mosey to back up toward Gold Hill to a wall for wall sits and balls to the walls.

Hand off to YHC where I did an audible from my weinke as many Pax are doing the Mud Run this Saturday so I decided to go to the double retaining wall (introduced by Senator T) where we proceeded to climb both walls and do 1 bumpies at the top run back around the walls to do 7 bomb jacks at the bottom. We continued this until 7 burpies at the top and 1 bomb jack at the bottom. Plank a roma until the six finished up.

Moroccan Night Clubs IC

CCD IC

Mosied over to a grassy patch for classic Jack Webb 1×4.

Jail Break to COT.

Moleskin:

We learned that Spitz did actually wear Mark Spitz trucks as part of a FM swim team as a boy.

It was an honor for Spitz and YHC to Q this wet morning.

• #USMCMudRUN & #OCR this weekend
• 4/18/15 & 4/25/15 Gastonia #Clowncar
• 4/30/15 F3 Golf and just ask Package or Menthol as The Fort is defending champions = see Package for Teams and details
• 5/2/15 1 year Anniversary of rock hill with Dredd & OBT
• 5/25/15 Memorial Day Murph at NAFO at 0640 read pre-blast this week

19 of Fort Mill’s best men gathered at The Ballroom to get a little workout in on Tuesday morning. For YHC it was an especially exciting morning since it was my VQ. After having it handed to me so many times from the great Qs in the area over that past few months, I wanted to make sure I returned the favor. Plus, when you’re partnered up with a guy like Zima for the USMC Mud Run, you better bring it strong whether it’s your VQ or 100^th Q.

The Thang:

5:15 was my first attempt at a disclaimer; the delivery alone said “not a professional.” And then we were off! We start with a mosey out of the parking lot toward the warehouse buildings down to first warehouse intersection, hang a left and run up to the fence behind Fort Mill Hyundai where everyone circles up for COP.

• SSH X 25
• Windmill X 20
• Imperial Squat Walkers X 15 (insert groaning PAX)
• Mountain Climber X 10
• 6 inch 10 sec hold X 3

All warmed up? This AO is littered with opportunity, time for some fun!!! Mosey back to the warehouse intersection and wait for the rest of the PAX. Maximus looks up the the hill and says, “That’s a long hill.” We divide into pairs and start running. The objective is for each partner team to complete 100 wide arm merkins before the running can stop. After a good amount of grunting and the six coming in it was time for a rinse and repeat but this time with a 100 regular merkins.

On the way up for the final set YHC is mid-stride with Zima, and asks “This is going faster than I thought, think we should do another one of these?” Zima replies, “How about 200 squats?” DONE!! So we again rinse and repeat the run but this time with 200 squats.

After a couple of 10 counts it’s time to bring the heart rate down a little so we make a short mosey to the wall near Fort Mill Hyundai and take a seat in the People’s Chair for a 60 second count followed by a 15 count of the famed Moroccan Night Club. Rinse and repeat that combo and off on a mosey again.

This time we head all the way to the end of the warehouse main street, which I have to admit I remembered as being shorter on my scouting trip, to the parking lot at the end of the street. The parking lot also appeared smaller from my steering wheel. So audible it is. The lot is divided in sections so the PAX bear crawls to the first divider, flips it around and crab walks to the end and celebrates with 10 burbees. All the good Qs I mentioned before taught me that every good workout has burbees. Once done with the burbees run back the starting point and plank up for the PAX.

Whoa, time is running short time to head back up the hill to the parking lot. After a nice jog up the hill the PAX circles up to finish with an ab lab.

We welcomed TWO FNGs this morning. The first was took the name Pappy as in Pappy Van Winkle. The second took the name Capone due to his love of the movie The Godfather. Welcome to you both!!

Reminders made to continue the support for the CAH and prep for the mud run on 4/11.

Thank you for all that came out to support my VQ! You truly made it rewarding!

The virtual shovel flag was planted and 21 men got off to a great start this morning with the 2nd official offering of The Ballroom.  This is how it went:

The Thang:

Mosey from the parking lot, down the short hill and head down the road toward the big warehouses.  Do a U-turn and go up/down,  ziggy/zaggy on the grassy hill, and then  follow the road to the lot behind Fort Mill Ford.

COP

SSH x 40, merkin x 10, Windmill x 20, LBC x 25, Squat x 26, MC x 25

Mosey back to the main road and up to the grassy patch.  Starting at the tree line, do the following:

Bear crawl down the grass, across the road, and up the grass hill – jog back (repeat once)

Side shuffle down the grass, acrooss the road… (repeat once)

Backwards bearcrawl, down the grass, across the road…(no repeat – these are hard!)

Jog down the grass, across the road…(repeat, only sprint the second time)

Everybody cross the road and find a spot on the grassy hill for clock merkins:

Assume the plank position move your body like the hand of a clock to various times and do merkins at those times.  We did, 12, 3, 6, 9, 6, and 3 – all in plank, no break.

Mosey to the warehouse parking lot for Jacob’s Wall Ladder.  Starting at 20 paces back, do one burpee, run to the first retaining wall, climb up, then climb over the second wall and run the path back to the start.  Repeat with 2-7 Burpees (crowd pleaser).

Walk back to the wall of the warehouse for extended people’s chair with arms out, up, etc  (I believe it was Anchorman who shouted, ‘hey, we’re still sitting!’ after the first 60 sec.  Aye – that’s right!)  Take a short walk break to stretch out the legs and repeat  .

Mosey to the grass patch in front of the Chicken Roaster for COP abs:

Freddie Mercs x 25 (fast and slow), Russian Twist x 25, Hello Dolly x 20, Superman/parachute x 2

COT

Moleskin

It was a great morning in the gloom, althrough 55 deg is still a litle too warm for me this early in the year.   We had a great turnout today and you can already tell that the Ballroom will be a popular Tuesday morning spot at 5:15.  It’s always fun to Q, especially with a brand new  AO that still has a lot of virgin territory to explore and enjoy.  Great work by the Pax tackling the Jacob’s Wall Ladder.  My guess is that I’m not the only one who banged up his knees and put some wear on the toes of his shoes today   We’ll be using hose retaining walls again, I’m sure.

Welcome, FNG, Pete Faliskini (Calimari).  Glad to have you with us, brother and we hope to see you back.

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