Tag: Bo Wiseman (Saw Dust)

HIIT?

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8 enjoyed a beat down on the football field at Ballroom. The buckets of running pain were back and the pax selected random runs from the assortment of options available such as 20 yard sprints, 50 yard runs, 100 yard runs, and just a few, very few, mall walk options. But mostly an opportunity to get in just under 2 miles worth.

Great fellowship and good to see Who Dat back out clown carring with Cubbie.

Prayers for Triple Lindy and his health concerns as well as some family health issues. Prayers for Poppins family situation, for peace and comfort.

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2023.04 The Ranch

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WARMUP:
Emphasis on hamstrings and shoulders

THE THANG:
Mosey to 4square courts:
Burpee broad jumps in clockwise direction from square to square inside a 4square court (2 pax per court) with sets of 4, 6, 8, and 10. Core exercise between sets.
After first round: people’s chair with shoulder mobility exercises then calf raises while sitting, balls2wall with shoulder taps.
For second round of burpee broadjump set going counterclockwise.

Mosey to parking lot behind school for sprints. 2 teams of 4, 40yd dash relay. Finish when each PAX has 3 sprints complete.

Mosey to picnic tables for step ups.

COT:
For those of us that pray before a meal, what do you pray for?
Do you pray in thanksgiving asking your consumption be blessed with nourishment? Did you do your best to provide yourself and others you feed with nourishment? Is the meal a source of comfort and that’s what you are hoping the meal be blessed with? Be intentional.

Thought two: Pick something that you do every day that you can take for granted. Pray before you do it, like you would for a meal. Be thankful and use the resources presented to you with intention.

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Testimony

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WARMUP: SSH, WINDMILLS, HELD PLANK FOR TESTIMONY PART 1
THE THANG: After sharing part of my story we proceeded to the football field for some pain.
10 BURPEES
RUN 200 YARDS
10 BURPEES
25 MERKINS
RUN 200 YARDS
10 BURPEES
25 MERKINS
50 LUNGES
RUN 200 YARDS
10 BURPEES
25 MERKINS
50 LUNGES
100 BIG BOYS
RUN 200 YARDS
10 BURPEES
25 MERKINS
50 LUNGES
100 BIG BOYS
150 SQUATS
RUN 200 YARDS
During the WOD I shared more of my testimony and how I overcame and got through it…I also shared my word of the year “PATIENCE”. I lost it somewhere and need to find it again when it comes to my family.
MARY: No Mary WOD took up the whole 45 minutes
ANNOUNCEMENTS: D2D Bar 10k, Men’s shelter
COT: prayers for family and patience

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There’s Gold at the Ballroom

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WARMUP: Warmup in the front parking lot. SSH, Cherry Pickers, MNC’s, High Knees, Butt Kickers, Mosey to back parking lot.

THE THANG: inspired by Olaf’s “Charge” Q. Pax go forward 2 cones (exercises posted at each cone) and back 1 cone. Completed all 16 cones.
Did a series of brotherhood locked-in-arms exercises down at the bottom of the hill by the bridge. Wall sit, squats, calf raises, erkins, and derkins until time was done. Moseyed back to COT.

MARY: Nah
ANNOUNCEMENTS: All of them.
COT: Prayers lifted to all.

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Sharknadoish

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WARMUP: SSH, cherry pickers, Moroccan night clubs. Mosey to front of school for some merkins- mosey a little more
THE THANG: 10 burpees, run up hill to rock and back
20 big boys, run up hill to rock and back
20 hand release merkins, run up hill to rock and back
20 squats, run up hill to rock and back
20 Carolina dry docks, run up hill to rock and back
Repeat until we head back
Most got atleast 3 rounds through
MARY: burpees ,flutters ,American hammers
ANNOUNCEMENTS: dam2dam packet pick up and read your newsletters
COT:

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Progress over Perfection

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It was a nice warm morning at ROF where we had 4…yes 4 FNG’s

Warmup

Since tomorrow would’ve been my grandmothers 103’rd birthday we went ahead and did 103 burpees.

12 Burpees on EMOM for 8 minutes + 7 more for 103

At ROF Cousin Eddie is asking us to bring our story/challenges to our Q’s so I incorporated my story into the workout. First was laying the groundwork with what I struggle with.

Testimony:

Ten years ago on paper I was “good”. Had a great job, house, finishing my MBA and my first child was born. Underneath though, I was far from good. I constantly doubted myself, truth be told I didn’t like myself. While I had family and some friends I didn’t have “friends” not like F3. In a word, even though I was surrounded by ppl in a lot of ways I was alone. When stress came, and it did, I wasn’t equipped physically, mentally, or spiritually to deal with it. I didn’t have the positive outlets I needed. So I did the wrong things. I kept it inside, I ate or drank and escaped into lazy excuses. Long story short, I was at least 50-60lbs heavier then compared to what I am now. My first 5 K I finished around 40 minutes. So one day I made the call to get help. I made the call to talk to a therapist. It wasn’t an easy thing to admit but I needed it. Making that call was one of the best decisions of my life. It was the very start of me being able to turn my physical, mental, and spiritual health around. But a lot like a rock just starting to go downhill……that journey didn’t accelerate until about 4 years ago when I joined up with F3.

The doubts still remain….I weigh myself multiple times a day. It’s sounds dumb and unnecessary but it’s just how I check myself. For work I make it a point to be the first to log on/show up on my team each day. For faith I have my SL to continue to inspire me and give me perspective. I can say I am better now than I was….but that journey continues, there’s always a hill to climb and it’ll never end.

So With that, I incorporated 5 sayings/rules that have helped me along the way with different exercises.

Progress over Perfection
4 minutes Tabata Flutters /Lbcs Each Minute increase your total rep count. Push yourselves
Any Great thing isn’t accomplished alone
Bear Crawl Web 1 merkin to 4 bear crawl steps. All the way to 10-40. This was on the Football Field.
Anything worth doing is going to be hard.
25 HR Merkins Sprint down to the opposite Goal line
15 HR Merkins Sprint down to the opposite Goal Line
15 HR Merkins Sprint down to the opposite Goal Line
15 HR Merkins Sprint down to the opposite Goal Line
Occham’s Razor – the simplest explanation/solution is usually the right one
Sprint to the 50 Do 10 Burpees
Sprint to the Goal Line and do 10 burpees
Staring at a hill….doesn’t make it smaller or easier.
Run to the top of the hill by the entrance and do 5 Merkins and 5 LBCS at the top of the hill. Run back down to the bottom and repeat running all the way to COT.

With 10 seconds left I let the Pax know how much I’m thankful for them and that I love them………then I asked them for 5 more burpees.

Honored to lead and to share!

Thank you all!

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Tribute to Cardinal

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WARMUP:
15- Side Straddles Hops
10- Tempo Merkins*
10- Flutter Kicks Double Count
10- Little Baby Arm Circles Forward
10- “ “ Backward
10- Hallujahs
10- Knoxville Cherry Pickers*
20 Sec. Samson Hold*

THE THANG:
Complete each round and then run 160m
Rd 1&2 (5 counts)
– Burpees, Big Boys, Heels to Heaven
Rd 3&4 (10 counts)
– Burpees, LBC, Mtn Climbers (double count)
Rd 5&6 (15 counts)
– Burpees, Air Squats, Freddie Mercurys

20 Burpees

We still had time after completing Cardinal’s weinke so we took a quick mosey to the playground. Partner up. One partner completes runs while the other partner does 10 pullups and 5 burpees. Two rounds and then run back to the start point.
MARY:
Completed some rounds of exercises
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Decided to forego announcements and focus all of our thoughts and prayers on Cardinal’s family.

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That hill was too close not to use….

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WARMUP: Run to lot, SSH, squats, etc. good 10 minutes.
THE THANG: Run up hill AMRAP Merkins, run to top of other hill to parking lot for 20 flying squirrels. Do that until told otherwise.
MARY: 18 of us decided to do the difficult thing today.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: D2D info. Lots of good stuff.
COT: Prayers for marriages, friends suffering from depression, praise for time spent with kids.

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Heroes from Gettysburg to Ukraine to Fort Mill

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In the spirit of MLK, who fought for peace and justice, we tapped the history books to honor another minister from the battlefield. Fr. William Corby served for 3 years during the Civil War as chaplain to the 88th New York Infantry, which was one of the five regiments of the Irish Guard. He was at Gettysburg and a statue there memorializes his blessing of the Union troops on the 2nd day of the battle. His unit originally included 3,000 troops, and started the battle with 500, only to lose 200 to death, wounds or MIA. Fr Corby went on to become the president of the University of Notre Dame 2x later in his life.

WARMUP: SSH, Mtn climbers, Peter Parker, Parker Peter, Carioca, Toy soldiers, Butt kickers, Run, Nur

THE THANG: In honor of Fr Corby and his regiment, we did 88 reps of three exercises as follow:
Round 1: Run lap then do 22 burpees (4 cycles)
Round 2: Run lap then do 22 Squats (4 cycles)
Round 3: Run lap then do 22 Mahktar N’Dyaes (4 cycles)

MARY: Flutters, Freddys, Box cutters, Big boys, LBCs, American Hammers, Planks

ANNOUNCEMENTS: D2DB 10k Jan 28; Murder Bunnies game 3 Wed 7p, Weekend in woods event in Blue Ridge, VA in late Feb

COT: Words from Clickbait, kidney donor request from Splinter, & prayers from Mark Twain

Thanks to Saw Dust for the Q stick. Always an honor to lead the heroes of The Fort!

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ENTRE NOUS

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WARMUP:
Walk to the NAFO football field/track.

THE THANG:
Sawdust and I found a spot on the track near the entrance from the road for the 1st half of the workout which was Broga. We started with some whole body stretching and then worked through all of the basic poses I learned from F3 yoga master, Sasquatch. We took a couple fellowship-paced laps around the field and then finished off with SSH’s, windmills, and some upper body and core strength training.

COT: Prayers for ST’s son’s girlfriend’s’ father who died suddenly on Tuesday.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Dam2Dam. Read your newsletter.

NAKED MAN MOLESKIN
As 5:13 rolled around and I saw no cars, I thought, well, after 10 years and numerous Q’s, I’m finally getting stood up – hahahaha. I was OK with it because I had never led Broga before and thought it would be good to practice alone. Anyway, I saw some headlights approach, and then it was Whoo Hoo! – my streak is still alive!
I’ve only seen Sawdust at a handful of workouts (most recently at Wed’s Ring of Fire here) so we took this opportunity to get to know each other better. It was a morning well spent working on my yoga and making a new friend. Entre Nous is another Rush reference (RIP Neil Peart).

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