WARMUP: Lots of compliments about my Clemson hoodie especially from Assassin and Pusher. I think Backdraft wanted to punch me. JK. A little mosey after a few DIAs don’t ask. We did some dips, derkins, SSHs and various movements to get warmed up. All were warm with the hot air flying around from the mumble chatter.
THE THANG: pulled out the orange signs from the Yeti a while back. Lots of compliments on the visibility of them. NOT! 5 stations with 5 exercises at each stop. Stop 1. 25 reps – American hammers, mtn. Climbers, squats, SS hops, Rosalitas. Stop 2. 15 reps – merkins, big boy sit-ups, squats, LBCs, plank jacks. Stop 3 20 reps – monkey humpers, calf raises, sumo squats, seal jacks, weezy jeffersons. Stop 4. Reps 10 – flutters, SS hops, mtn. Climbers, American hammers, shoulder taps. Stop 5. Reps 30 – imperial walkers, Peter Parker’s, Parker peters, gas pumpers, hello dolly. Noted that @backdraft was concerned that the rep count didn’t increase as the stops progressed.
MARY: ran out of time
ANNOUNCEMENTS: D2D, newsletter.
COT: very open personal prayers shared. We will leave it at that. Good transparency. Love my F3 brothers
Tag: Bonsai
Carowind’s blast from the past….the Frenziod
- QIC: BONES
- When: 2023-01-05
- Pax: Bones, Bonsai, darkhelmet, Gears, Jekyll, Kermit, Maximus, Nasa, Shady, sirtophamhat, SkateOrDie, Sugar Daddy, Trucker
- Posted In: Minnow Pond
WARMUP:
Mosey to Fort Mill Church of God
Windmills
Slow Low Squats
Downward Dog/Honeymooner
Mountain climbers
THE THANG:
Quick recap of Frenzoid ride at Carowinds: simple but terrifying, goes in both directions, and we all move as a group.
(Using Williamson St. & Monroe White St.) Starting at the “bottom” of the hill we NUR halfway up. Stop and wait on the 6. 10 Merkins. run the rest of the way up to next street. 10 Flutters in cadence. Run back down the hill to “bottom” and perform Burpees (in ascending manner). NUR up the other side until parking lot. 10 Merkins. Run to next street. 10 Flutters in Cadence. Rinse and repeat. Burpee count got to 6 at the bottom.
MARY:
Flutters, Dying Cockroach
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Bethel Men’s. New AO
COT: Prayers for healing, our teachers and children, elderly parents, to be consistent.
DORA Ready with an unexpected whistle
- QIC: Esso
- When: 2023-01-03
- Pax: Assassin, Band Camp, Bass-o-matic, Bonsai, Brady Bunch, Cousin Eddie, Cyclops, Destiny, Esso, Incoming, Joe Lyons (F3 Long Duck), JWOW, Kaiser, Maximus, Pusher, Rebel, River Rat, Shady, Shower Curtain, SkateOrDie, Spider-Man, Straight Up, Sugar Daddy, Yoshi
- Posted In: colosseum
Disclaimer: when you hear a whistle you owe 10 burpees; intermittent whistles throughout (maybe 10 times)
WARMUP: 50 SSH, of course, and a few others warmup type stuff
THE THANG:
– Dora #1
— 200 Merk’s
— 200 Dips
— 100 Derkins
— 100 Wide grip merks
* Partner did a 50’ish yd Bear Crawl [lots of mummblechatter here?!? Some preferring the bear crawl over merks?, guessing the holidays make some of the pax soft?? 🙂 ]
– DORA #2
— 100 squats
— 150 Monkey humpers
— whatever was next nobody got to…
* Partner did a 40ish yd Duck walk
MESSAGE: we do dumb stuff in the gloom to prepare for the unexpected; the whistle, the burpees represents the unexpected in life; continue your preparedness
Chupacabra farewell with ladders 🪜 sandbags and rucks
- QIC: Tinsel
- When: 2022-12-23
- Pax: Battle Bot, Big Mac (Lake Wylie), Blockhead, Bonsai, Cohiba, Cornerstone, Cousin Eddie, Divac, Esso, F3DaVinci, Flounder, Grassy Knoll, Gump (Cape Fear), Shady, SugarBug, Tinsel
- Posted In: Chupacabra
WARMUP: no warm up
THE THANG: Tabata every 2 minutes, drop and do 10 merkins with ruck on… first one was even before we launched… whining coming from everywhere…
We had a ladder 🪜 loaded with sandbags (4×40 plus 2×60) pick up the ladder, put it on shoulders and start moving around the 1/4 mile loop, every time the timer went off we had to do 10 merkins, do Tabata and pick up ladder again and keep moving… stop about 1/3 of the loop right after the buzzer went off, form two lines and start passing the Sandbags sideways to the pax next in line, return Sandbags to starting point, now pass sandbags overhead to pax next to you, rinse and repeat twice… buzzer went off a couple of times during the sandbags exercise so everyone knew what to do…
Load sandbags back on ladder and keep moving, we didn’t get too far went buzzer went off again.. 10 more!! Advanced to starting point just in time for another buzzer, another 10 merkins; form two lines and start tossing the Sandbags to the other end of parking lot… yes, you guessed it, buzzer went off a few times… rinse and repeat… load up the ladder and keep moving… another 1/3 of the loop and buzzer went off again, 10 more, fork two lines and unload ladder, this time it was over the shoulder toss to pax next/behind you.. rinse and repeat twice and yes, buzzer went off a couple times…
Load up the ladder and keep moving.. another buzzer 2/6 of the loop, drop do merkins and grab ladder and keep moving… we had enough time to go back to COT
MARY: 20 squats with ruck on… buzzer went off one last time, 10 merkins… another round of 20 squats… 6 o’clock
It’s been my pleasure to be the site Q for Chupacabra for the past 16-18 months but it was time to put Chupa to sleep… we’ve had some great events and variety of WODs, and some times miles and smiles…
Thanks for everyone’s support…
Tinsel OUT
Xmas Eve below Zero
- QIC: Sprocket, Mark Twain, Rebound, 38 Special, Double D, Band Camp
- When: 2022-12-24
- Pax: 38 Special, 3D, Band Camp, Barkley, Barry Manilow, Battle Bot, Bonsai, Cakeboss, Clickbait, Cohiba, Cornerstone, Cyclops, Double D, Esso, Fire Marshall Bill, fishstix, Gears, Grassy Knoll, Grinder, Grout, Gump, Happy Hour, HarryCarry, Jordache, Mark Twain, Maximus, Prestone, Pusher, Rainmaker, Rebound, RollOff, Ruby Slippers, Senator Tressel, Shady, Shield, slapshot, Slow Roll, Sprocket, Vuvuzela
- Posted In: Pantheon
Some PAX ran the Clave Boss and then rolled out. Other PAX rolled in for only the workout. Some PAX did both.
Split quickly into 3 groups. Rebound, Sprocket, and Mark Twain each took a group through a warmup and then visited 3 stations. Double D, 38 Special, and Band Camp lead the PAX at each stations. It was too cold (11 degrees Fahrenheit with some biting wind) to vote on which station was the Ghost of Christmases Past, Present and Future (see we did work in a little Xmas theme)
38’s portion:
The Roshamburpee-fest
Demonstrated a roshamburpee (plank position, 1, 2, 3 shoot).
Assigned one PAX to the end of each of the concrete paths. Everyone will run up the concrete paths in succession (or do whatever) and challenge the guy stuck at the end with a roshamburpee.
Winner gets up and runs up to the next level to challenge the next PAX. Loser stays put and keeps plank (or just tries to keep warm). At the five minute mark called “Sudden Death!”. Everyone tries to do laps but they always challenge anyone they run by (passing challenges in progress) and basically it looks like a bunch of pool balls knocking into each other the whole way. A lot of burpees. A lot of laughs. A lot of running. A lot of fun
Double D’s portion:
Started with 10 burpees OYO.
Group then broke up into 3-5 pax.
1 pax runs to block does 1st exercise in red while others in group do exercise in green.
Cycle all pax in group through, then move to second set of exercises.
Exercises:
RED:
1.Blockees
2.Swings
3.Curls
4.OH Press
5.Rows
GREEN:
1.Squat
2.Clave Raise
3.Sumo Squat
4.Monkey Humpers
5.Lunges
We planked for 6 and a short msg. Then group moved on.
Band Camp’s Portion:
Buy in with 20 Bulgarian Split Squats each leg
Ran a version of Red Barchetta-style workout
Run down – exercises
Mosey back – 5 burpees in cadence
50 in cadence Mountain Climbers (cold hands)
49 in cadence Flutters
48 in cadence Squats
47 in cadence Merkins
COT – and to all a good night!
URBAN GOLF
- QIC: Spider-Man
- When: 2022-12-20
- Pax: Backdraft, Band Camp, Barrel Aged, Battle Bot, Bobber, Bonsai, Cubbie, Cyclops, darkhelmet, Esso, Kermit, Maximus, Poppins, Shady, Spider-Man, Tesh
- Posted In: Block Party
WARMUP:
SSH x25
Peter Parker x10
Parker Peter x10
Downward Dog
Honeymooner
Imperial Walker x10
Mosey down Academy St, right on Withers St and to the top of hill where my truck was parked with the hell pavers.
THE THANG: 9 Holes of golf
Top of the Hill (Tee Box) Curl the block 18 times and OH press 18 times
Run down the hill and back up the next hill to the Island Green (shovel flag planted) in front of First Baptist Church.
9 Burpees
Run back to the Tee Box and complete the same exercises but in rep counts of 16
Back to the green for 8 burpees
Continue the series decreasing the counts at the tee box by 2 and the green counts by 1 until finished.
I don’t think anyone finished although a couple of guys were on their last round when time ran out. We logged a little of 3 miles moving up and down the hills.
Great work by all and thank you Kermit for the opportunity!!!
No Time for MARY
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Newsletter has it all
Oldie but goodie @ pantheon
WARMUP: mosey to dumpster. SSH Merkins Moroccan night clubs plank stretching mosey back to front of school
THE THANG: 3 min of 3 exercises(10,15,20 reps) with burpee stack. Look it up. Merkins mtn climbers and shoulder taps then run to the little green boy. Round 2 squats monkey humpers and calf raises run again. Round 3 big boys American hammers flutters and reverse LBCs (ask Maximus)
Lastly a Dora with 100 merkins 200 squats and 300 reverse LBCs since everyone liked them.
MARY: not necessary when doing reverse LBCs
ANNOUNCEMENTS: read newsletter.
COT: prayers for marriages and those dealing with lost loved ones. 🙏
Surprise!!! CakeBoss likes Burpees too🎂
- QIC: CakeBoss
- When: 2022-12-13
- Pax: Anchorman, Backdraft, Band Camp, Barry Manilow, Bobber, Bonsai, Boss Hogg, Cakeboss, Cousin Eddie, Cyclops, Double D, Esso, Fire Marshall Bill, Funhouse, Hemingway, Jekyll, Kaiser, Kermit, oldbay, Pusher, Rebel, Stang, Tesh, Twister, White Lightning
- Posted In: Block Party
WARMUP:
Mosey to sidewalk by Little Caesars
11s: Burpees at bottom, Dips at top wall
THE THANG:
3 stations on .70 loop
At each station perform 3 exercises then move to next round
Round 1: x3
5 burpees
10 Merkins
15 squats
Round 2: x3
5 Bombjacks
10 wide Arm Merkins
15 monkey humpers
Round 3: x3
5 Flying Squirrels
10 Diamond Merkins
15 one Leg squat
MARY: backdraft led quick exercise
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Airborne Christmas Friday 12/16
Christmas Eve convergence
Read Newsletter
COT:
F3 and brotherhood is gift not to be take for granted
The busyness of Christmas we lose the reason of the season and that is that Sky Q sent Jesus on a rescue mission to save us from ourselves and own demise. Be grateful for his mission and love for us
Long 11s
- QIC: Rolloff
- When: 2022-12-12
- Pax: 38 Special, Badlands, Bonsai, Cubbie, Cyclops, darkhelmet, Joe Lyons (F3 Long Duck), Ltrain, Maximus, RollOff, Shady, Tesla81, Trucker, Vuvuzela, yard sale
- Posted In: Sweep The Leg
WARMUP: Run to the far end of school parking lot
THE THANG: 11s with hand release merkins and lunges- some got as far as 5 miles
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:
Running with Burpees…Do you have a problem with that Mr Lawrence?
WARMUP: Mosey to Patricia Ln.
THE THANG: Alternate between 2 pain stations…one at circle at the end of Patricia Ln and the second at the farthest parking lot in front of GHMS. The pain stations are exactly 1/2 mi apart. At Patricia Ln the PAX completed a round of 10 burpees and 25 flutter kicks. At GHMS, 10 merkins and 25 sumo squats. Rinse and repeat. PAX logged between 3.5 – 4.5 mi.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Christmas party and convergence. Read your newsletter.