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Not Naked, Not Afraid, Just a VQ with a Crew

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Slow Burn was smoldering this morning with 23 strong men choosing the gloom over the ‘sack & supporting YHC for my VQ! Some special guests were among the group: 2 PAX made the trek from Metro, and we welcomed our newest FNG (Cousin Eddie), EH’d by Rebel. Conditions were great – sky was clear & the rain last night cleaned the streets off for us, but also washed away my exercise notes from the curbs (lesson learned & more on that later)! It was the perfect setup for a VQ…

Started with the 5 Core Principles & Disclaimer, then got right to it.

WARMUP:
A short mosey around the parking lot
SSH x20
LSS x10
Alternating Lunges x10
Slooow Merkins (3-count down) x10
Imperial Walkers x10
Token Burpee x1

THE THANG:
Today was a somewhat of a hybrid of Pearls on a String / 11’s

Started at the 1st Street Light in front of Lowe’s Contractor Parking/Pickup
First “Pearls Set” was 10/ea: Merkins > LBC > Squats > Flutters > Big Boys > Plank Jacks
Then the “11’s Hybrid” component, which was 1x Flying Squirrel
Mosey up the road to the 3rd Street Light (back toward Empire Pizza)

Next was 9/ea of the Merks > LBC > Squats > Flutters > Big Boys > Plank Jacks
And 2x Flying Squirrels, then Mosey back to the 1st Street Light

Mosey & Repeat: 8/ea + 3, 7/ea + 4, etc. The exercises quickly moved from the main drive into the parking lot to get away from traffic. The last two rounds/sets were done in cadence – not just for my own accountability, but wanted everyone to finish together.

Short mosey back to the flag, where Mary joined us for the last 6’ish minutes. The unofficial total distance was just shy of 1.5mi (I haven’t yet joined the Strava cult).

I think the mumble chatter was good, though I was deaf to most of it as I was putting everything I had into calling exercises, trying to catch some breath in between, and pushing myself to just keep going!

Upon the clock striking 6am, the PAX graciously provided some feedback from the workout. I’ll remember to speak louder than what feels necessary (especially when in close proximity to a highway!), consult amazon to get my hands on some water-proof chalk (which sounds like it would be a parent’s nightmare… isn’t the fact that chalk doesn’t last is what makes it acceptable for the 2.0’s?!), and a Q should call an audible when needed & modify their own weinke to ensure the Q can complete it (I fumbled on completing the 9x Flying Squirrels, though I did pull it together & knocked out the last 10 when it was time)!

HUGE THANKS to Weezer – it was an incredible honor & privilege to have the opportunity to lead such an awesome group this morning. Huge shoutout & THANK YOU to Grizzly (my original EH’er) & WhatDid for making the early drive down from Metro (and THANKS to Shady for passing the note to them!). And another HUGE THANK YOU to all my PAX brothers who showed to know this morning. It was amazing having such a strong turnout! The support was more than humbling!

MARY: Yes

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your newsletter. 2nd F Lunch today (was today). F3 Dad’s this Saturday @ WEP.

COT: Praises & Prayers all around.

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sleeveless loops for Cheech

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WARMUP: 1 min plank of gratitude. Each man must say one thing he’s greatful for. Go around the circle until time is up. SSH, HOLA HOOP, HOOP Hola
THE THANG: introduced necessary exercises during warmup. . Going to run around front parking lot loop and stopping at each corner to do one set of a given exercise. 4 corners with standing penguins, cha-cha merkins, jump lunges and suicide squats. Got close to 3 miles in. Also paid tribute to the five year anniversary of loosing one of our own. Sleeveless4cheech. To honor John “Cheech” Flanagan
MARY: nah
ANNOUNCEMENTS: read your newsletter
COT: Flounder took us out with praises for his son Gump to return safely back from Africa.

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The Dough Muscles

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9 men did the hard thing this morning at Colosseum. Conditions were alright, alright, alright as we welcomed our newest FNG (Excite Bike) with a workout designed to smoke even the fittest of men. Here’s what we did:

The Thang

10 Low Slow Squats (IC)
10 Imperial Walkers (IC)
10 SSHs (IC)

Mosey to the Elementary School drop-off loop

Pattern was 10 at the first stop, 15 at the second, 20 at the third, and 25 at the fourth
Exercises were:

Merkins
Calf Raises
Squats
Overhead Claps

Grab a chair for the Mr. McConaughey Workout (11s with Incline Merkins (IC) and Dips).

From the book “Greenlights” by Matthew McConaughey, pages 43-44: As a kid, my favorite TV show was The Incredible Hulk starring Lou Ferrigno. I marveled at his muscles and would pose in front of the TV with my shirt off, arms bent, fists high, doing my best bulging body-builder biceps impersonation. One night Dad saw me. “What are you doin, son?” he asked. “One day I’m gonna have muscles like that, Dad,” I said, motioning to the TV screen. “Big baseball-size biceps!” Dad chuckled, then took off his shirt, matched my pose in front of the tube, and said, “Yeah, big biceps make the girls scream and they sure look good, but that ol’ boy on the TV, he’s so muscle-bound he can’t even reach around to wipe his own ass…the biceps? They’re just for show.” He then slowly lowered both his arms in front of him, straightened them out with his fists to the floor, then he twisted his arms to the inside, and flexed a pair of massive triceps muscles. “Now the tri-cep, son,” he said, this time pointing his nose back and forth toward the bulging muscles on the back of his upper arms, “that’s the work muscle, that’s the muscle that puts food on the table and the roof over your head. The tri-ceps? They’re for dough.” My dad would take the stockroom over the showroom any day.

Mosey to the track

Run a lap and 10 Burpees (x4)

Mosey to Covered Walkway

Peoples Chair
10 Head, Knees, Toes (IC)
BTTW on a long 10-Count
10 Australian Mountain Climbers (IC)

Mosey to COT

NMM
The Mr. McConaughey story resonated with me. How much emphasis do we men put on the “show” muscles? You know, the new car, the house, the vacation…the good stuff we put on social media. How much time do we spend trying to impress others with the highlights we put online? Shouldn’t we instead focus on the “dough” muscles? You know, providing love, comfort, and support for our wife and children. At the end of the day, what really matters is those moments with the ones we love. My kids don’t care what I drive. They just want me to play with them. My wife doesn’t require a Caribbean vacation. She just wants me to listen and be plugged in to my family, and not my phone.

Maybe we are focusing on the wrong muscles. Maybe we should be working our “try”ceps a little more. Maybe Mr. McConaughey was onto something.

Aye!
Italian Job

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The Dough Muscles

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9 men did the hard thing this morning at Colosseum. Conditions were alright, alright, alright as we welcomed our newest FNG (Excite Bike) with a workout designed to smoke even the fittest of men. Here’s what we did:

The Thang

10 Low Slow Squats (IC)
10 Imperial Walkers (IC)
10 SSHs (IC)

Mosey to the Elementary School drop-off loop

Pattern was 10 at the first stop, 15 at the second, 20 at the third, and 25 at the fourth
Exercises were:

Merkins
Calf Raises
Squats
Overhead Claps

Grab a chair for the Mr. McConaughey Workout (11s with Incline Merkins (IC) and Dips).

From the book “Greenlights” by Matthew McConaughey, pages 43-44: As a kid, my favorite TV show was The Incredible Hulk starring Lou Ferrigno. I marveled at his muscles and would pose in front of the TV with my shirt off, arms bent, fists high, doing my best bulging body-builder biceps impersonation. One night Dad saw me. “What are you doin, son?” he asked. “One day I’m gonna have muscles like that, Dad,” I said, motioning to the TV screen. “Big baseball-size biceps!” Dad chuckled, then took off his shirt, matched my pose in front of the tube, and said, “Yeah, big biceps make the girls scream and they sure look good, but that ol’ boy on the TV, he’s so muscle-bound he can’t even reach around to wipe his own ass…the biceps? They’re just for show.” He then slowly lowered both his arms in front of him, straightened them out with his fists to the floor, then he twisted his arms to the inside, and flexed a pair of massive triceps muscles. “Now the tri-cep, son,” he said, this time pointing his nose back and forth toward the bulging muscles on the back of his upper arms, “that’s the work muscle, that’s the muscle that puts food on the table and the roof over your head. The tri-ceps? They’re for dough.” My dad would take the stockroom over the showroom any day.

Mosey to the track

Run a lap and 10 Burpees (x4)

Mosey to Covered Walkway

Peoples Chair
10 Head, Knees, Toes (IC)
BTTW on a long 10-Count
10 Australian Mountain Climbers (IC)

Mosey to COT

NMM
The Mr. McConaughey story resonated with me. How much emphasis do we men put on the “show” muscles? You know, the new car, the house, the vacation…the good stuff we put on social media. How much time do we spend trying to impress others with the highlights we put online? Shouldn’t we instead focus on the “dough” muscles? You know, providing love, comfort, and support for our wife and children. At the end of the day, what really matters is those moments with the ones we love. My kids don’t care what I drive. They just want me to play with them. My wife doesn’t require a Caribbean vacation. She just wants me to listen and be plugged in to my family, and not my phone.

Maybe we are focusing on the wrong muscles. Maybe we should be working our “try”ceps a little more. Maybe Mr. McConaughey was onto something.

Aye!
Italian Job

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TWSS at Pantheon

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Ran around with 10 stops.
Each stop we did:
10 Merkins
9 squats
8 LBCs
7 CDDs
6 Jump Squats
5 🇺🇸 🔨
4 HR merkins
3 jump lunges
2 flutters
1 burpee

2ish miles

A few sets of 10 bomb jacks thrown in

Prayers for kiddo’s health
Praise for our kiddo’s and our parents’ health

Great work by all PAX present!

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Co-Q at the Colosseum

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It was warm and humid this morning at the Colosseum. I led the first 22.5 and Dark Helmet was set to take the second half. 10 Bootcampers were joined by Maximas, Gears and Vuvuzela who went running OYO.  

I led us off with a quick 10 SSH and then moseyed to my portion of the workout.

I wanted to do something hard but self contained. The first workout that came to mind was Iron Pax 2019 Week 1: The Killer B’s.  

Starting at Cone 1 you broad jump 10 yards to cone 2. Complete 10 burpees, 10 Bonnie Blairs, and 10 Big Boy Situps-
Broad Jump to cone 3 and repeat the exercises and the reps. Broad Jump to Cone 4 repeat the exercises and the reps.

Once through the cones YHC gave everyone the option to either BearCrawl back or Sprint back. (if you were seen not sprinting I blew the whistle and the offending PAX was given 5 burpees OYO) I only blew the whistle once….on myself because I love burpees apparently.

Our goal was to get through 4 times in the 20ish minutes. I’m happy to say everyone worked hard and we got through it.

Once my time was up Dark Helmet took over and we moseyed down towards the school entrance. He handed us all a pen/marker and some paper and asked us to write a message to Decibel and his son Noah who is recovering from an operation. Once we all wrote down our messages we then raced to his office to put the messages on the door. The first one there got to pick the routine for the next portion of the workout.

After a loooong mosey up the hill where YHC HR hit 190 I was able to get to the office first and got the chance to pick the next part of the workout. Starting at the top of the hill we ran back and did 15 merkins and 25 4-CT clutters 4 different cones.

At that point we were getting close to 6 and we all made a jailbreak to COT. We were reunited with the runners who I think did 7ish miles and joined in on some LBC’s and Hello Dolly’s as we hit 6:00.

Announcements included F3 Dads, the Site Change of the Swamp, and a makeup of the Misogi. Prayers for health, mental, physical and spiritual.

Always great to Q and especially grateful for partnering with DOAH today. Thanks to all who showed!

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15 pounder

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WARMUP: Did some stretching and had a nice Indian run

THE THANG:
Did some time at the small wall/firepit with various sets of muscle exciters. Got in lots of kettlebell swings, lawnmower pulls and laps in between.

KB Swings
Lawnmower pulls
Triceps extensions
Halo circles
Hillbilly walkers w bell

-Lap-

Squats
LBC w bell
Deadlifts
KB Swings

-Lap-

KB Swings
Tricept extensions
Around the World

-Lap-

Lawmower pulls
Clean press
Halo circles
KB swings

-Lap-

Squats
LBC’s
Around the world
Shoulder presses

-Lap-

Lawnmower pulls
Tricept extensions
Deadlifts
Clean press

-Lap-

Then, pass the duitchie, where we all got to feel Tesh mammoth and Destiny’ 15 pounder.

COT: Mentioned a few things in the newsletter including FM Care Center lawn sign up, Pusher bringing back Q Source

Prayers for Destiny’s colleague with health issues, Band Camp’s church for VBS (for seeds to be planted) and for Pusher’s daughter Emma and surgery/recovery for torn ACL.

Good crew this morning. Lots of good mumble chatter. Missed Battle Bot…..Appreciate the opportunity to lead!

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Stairs? I got your stairs right here…

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The PAX moseyed down to the CoG facility to make use of the tall staircases for a couple sets of 11’s. Mumblechatter was minimal for the first 30 minutes as YHC had consumed more than my Wednesday night allotment of adult beverages…
On the return trip to COT we did discuss summertime memories and how we would give our attention to our 2.0’s effectively.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: 2nd F Lunch tomorrow at Fort Mill’s finest Chinese/Sushi restaurant, Lee Cafe; Pints & Padres is an awesome opportunity for dads and @barrelaged is really committed to the topic (thanks Travis); and of course, read your newsletter
COT: Prayers for SmallWorld’s wife as she deals with the loss of her brother; Prayers for friends of N&A that are dealing with breast cancer; Prayers for YHC’s 17 year old nephew who is dealing with a blood disease that is approaching a critical point.

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Merkin fest

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WARMUP: SSH IC 15, Windmill IC 15, Moroccan Nightclub IC 15, Strawberry picker IC 15, MH IC 15, mosey
THE THANG: Station 1:
Merkin IC 15
LBC IC 15
Mosey
Station 2:
LBC IC 15
LSS IC 15
Mosey
Station 3:
Randomizer x2
Mosey

Repeat

MARY: seal jack, high knee, leg cross over
ANNOUNCEMENTS: READ YOUR NEWSLETTER!!!
COT:

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1st and 10 with KB

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WARMUP: 20 SSH, 20 HBW, 20 MNC, 1 lap around the parking lot.
THE THANG:

Take bells to starting point in the parking lot.

Exercises.
10 yard mark
20 Tricep extensions
10 Kurpees
Run to the 100y cone and back
Longes
20y mark
18 Tricep extensions
9 Kurpees
Longes to the next cone
30y cone
16Tricep extensions
8 Kurpees
Longes to the next cone
40y mark
14 Tricep extensions
7 Kurpees

50y   12-6
60y   10-5
70y    8-4
80y    6-3
90y    4-2
100y   2-1

On the way back
10 yard mark
20 Curls
20 KB swings
Run to 100y mark and back no KB
Longes to the next cone w/KB
20 yard mark
18 Curls
18 KB swings
Run to 100y mark and back
Longes to the next cone
16 Curls
16 KB swings
Run to 100y mark and back
Longes to the next cone
14 curls
14 KB swings
Ran out of time, omaha to COT

MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: 2nd activities, H&C
COT:prayers for patients, for Uhaul’s nephew going through cancer treatment, prayer for Vuvu’s son for quick recovery on his broken leg, prays for Uhaul’s 21st year anniversary.

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