Taking off the Training Wheels at The Snake Pit

14 HIMs showed up for what was promising to be a great morning.  Prior to this morning HIC had not posted in 3 weeks.  While not fartsacking, I certainly was not pushing myself.  Being know for not wanting to do much cadence there was a plan hatched the night before that was sure to be easy to lead yet keep everyone on their toes and with any hope, a bit sore the next day.

 

After a good bit of razzing from the group about an FNG on Q (Yeah I get it, it’s been a while) we start off.

Warmup:  Mosey around the lot. SSH (x20) MNC (x20) Tappy Tap (20x)

Grab your bells

Slight move of location for The Main Event.  Keeping with the theme of I don’t want to count we’ll use a run timer for the remainder of the morning.  One person runs out to the gate and back, the rest of us do exercises for that time.

Goblet Squats

Curls

Lunges

Scull Crusher

Calf Raises

Overhead Press

Romanian Deadlift

Chest Press

Big Boy Sit-ups.

 

BREAK:  Move to the wall.  Peoples chair.  Everyone does 5 burpees down the line.

 

Second verse same as the first:

Goblet Squats

Curls

Lunges

Scull Crusher

Calf Raises

Overhead Press

Romanian Deadlift

Chest Press

Big Boy Sit-ups.

Back to the wall:  Bear crawls to the end.

 

5 min of Mary.

 

Announcements:

Convergence at WEP on 7-11

My thanks to 3D for the call out and opportunity to Q.  It was much needed to get out of my covid funk.  It takes a village, and I’m thankful for all of you.

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Dark and Wet Ranch

9 men showed up  this wet morning at the Ranch.  Bobber had trouble finding the designated parking lot so he left his car in the middle of the drop off lane.  Uhaul was complaining about the darkness and wet surface, but stayed around for the fun.  After the disclaimer, we moseyed around the parking lot to the front of the school.

COP

SSH x 20

Imperial Walker x 20

Windmill x 20

Plank (6′, Honeymooner, Downward Dog)

Arm Circles (Forwards, Backwards)

Next, we moseyed to the school entrance for 11s between the curbs.  We started with one dip, bear crawled to the other side, ten Carolina dry docks, crab walked back to the other side, and increase the count by one to two dips…continued this exercise until the six was finished.

Once done, we jogged to the front of the Middle School for some leg work.

1st round: 10 leg lunges, 15 jump squats, 20 monkey humpers, 25 calf raises

Ran a lap around the car loop

2nd round: same as first, but added 10 to reps

Ran a lap around the car loop

3rd round: same as second, added 30 Dirty Myrtles

Next, we moseyed to the back of the school for some Ab work.

20 LBCs

20 American Hammers

15 Leg Lifts

Superman

With a few minutes left, we were able to squeeze in 50 yards of burpees broad jumps.

 

Great job everyone. Thanks for the opportunity!

 

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Wall Buddies

Ten pax came out to Block Party, officially at WEP again, on a muggy warm morning.

Short Mosey run to…
Warmup
S S H (12X I/C)
Windmills (10X I/C)
Imperial Walkers (10X I/C)
Moroccan N/C (10X I/C)
Low Slow Squats (10X I/C)
Arm Circles (10x I/C)
Peter Parkers (12X I/C)
Downward Dogs/Upwards Dogs

Mosey run to Springs side parking lot
Thang 1: Fishy Tracks [forward doing transportation noted, do exercise at count when called]
Toy soldiers walk – Burpees (did 5 and 5)
Bear crawl – merkin (did 10 and 10)
Lunge walk – squats (did 15 and 15)
Crab walk – LBC (did 20 and 20)

Mosey run to Pike’s front lot
Thang 2: Wall Buddies
Need a partner; size does not matter but cognitive skills does. Get on a wall sit near your partner.
Go down the line and each pair does rock-scissors-paper and note the result. When the line of pax is done, Q calls what to do:
Result is same = both do 10 burpees
Result is different = both do 20 merkins
All back on the wall, Repeat: Go down the line: Do rock-scissors-paper
Result is same = both do 10 bomb jacks
Result is different = both do 20 LBC
All back on the wall, Repeat: Go down the line: Do rock-scissors-paper
Result is same = both do 10 wall tar jais
Result is different = both do 20 smurf jacks

10 burpees OYO.

Mosey down 160 up the hill to Pike’s large parking lot.
Thang 3: Global Warming
Circle up, low stance position, all pax side shuffle about the circle, stop and do exercise called out
Gas Pumpers
Bobby Hurleys
And some others.

Mosey run back to COT area
Some mary (flutters, protractors)
Thang final: Big Balls
Play AC/DC’s “Big Balls”. Pax do a monkey humper at each utterance of balls in the song and offend the entire community at the same time.
Song is about 2:30.

Fini

Prayers for Asphalt and Cash, may God guide their doctors and bring a swift recovery.

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The Hive at Block Party for Stations

Beast on Q for a Q re-debut after some considerable time in the fart sack. The Q’tine and U-Haul’s leadership has compelled me to get up and back in the gloom over the past few weeks. It’s great to be in the gloom with the Pax encouraging one another.

COP
We did a few warm-up laps while the stragglers rolled in.

  • 30 SSH
  • 15 Sumo Squat
  • 30 Morrocan Night Clubs
  • 10 Windmill
  • 10 Cherry Pickers (also know as Tappy-Taps apparently)
  • Finkle swings to loosen up the hips
  • Bone the fish across the parking lot
    • Shuffle R, sprint, shuffle L – R&R a few times
    • Karaoke R, backpedal, Karaoke L – R&R a few times
  • Flying Nuns – this was a crowd favorite with Mubble Chatter
  • 5 Body Builders and 5 Iron Mikes to make sure everyone was ready for the stations
  • 10 Mountain Man Poopers – also a crowd favorite!

After COP the Pax went out a little warm-up lap to point out the stations that were set up around the church parking lot. Set-up 2 exercises per Station. Pax in pairs – it’s a CDC thing, each Pax on one exercise at a time, then switch and R&R. (P = Pax, SC = single count, IC = in cadence)

  1. P1 Step up or Box Jump, P2 30 SC Derkins (pacer)
  2. P1 Everest up the steps (pacer) climb 3 2 times, P2 LBC, Plank
  3. P1 30 SC Incline Merkins, 40 SC Wall Dips
  4. P1 Iron Mike, P2 15 IC Rosalita (calling cadence)
  5. P1 Wall Sit, P2 15 7 8-count Body Builders

Pax got through 4 stations and then we had a little time for station 5, and tabled station 6 for another day.

Due to popular demand, we closed out the remaining 8 Body Builders before moving into some last-minute Marry and COT.

Prayers/Praises: Prayer for Pax’s (3D I think) daughter AP test, and one other request.

Closing thoughts – as the Gloom re-opens, pick up the phone and call your fellow Pax and check in on them and ask them to come out and join you in the gloom.

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World Domination Complete – The Hive comes to Saturdays at a socially distant location near you…

Well it was bound to happen and eventually it did, The Hive crossed over the last day of the week not yet occupied by The Hive…  Spitz led the first half and Tesh closed strong on an absolutely beautiful day in The Fort.  We are blessed to be in this great town and I am blessed to have the brothers of F3 here in Fort Mill coming out and supporting this AO.  We will soon be back to the new form of normal and I will definitely be ready to stop using Worship Planner…

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The Manion

First Lt. Travis L. Manion, 26, died April 29 in combat in Anbar province. He was serving his second tour in Iraq, embedded with an Iraqi army unit that he was leading and training.

 

In honor of First Lt Travis Manion, the PAX completed a Manion run which consisted of 29 squats followed by 400m of running, followed by 29 squats, followed by 400m of running… 7 rounds total.

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“Quarantine Convergence” – Snake Pit 4.22.2020

Snake Pit 4.22.2020

Disclaimer – we had an FNG so I had to cross the t’s and dot the i’s.

My goal was to play a Queen play list because my current quarantine stache is making YHC look like Freddie Mercury. We decided against the music for the sake of the residents nearby. 

 

Warmup:

20 SSH, 10 IW/HW/Moroccan Night Clubs

Weinke:

I wore an interval timer that was set to go off every 3 minutes. Every time it sounded we did two things:

1. 5 Burpees at each beep
2. Go onto the next Circuit and pick up where we left off from the time prior

Each Group Rotate After Each “Burpee-Val”

Circuit 1
25 Calf Raises Toes Pointed Straight
20 Goblet Squats
15 UHAULS
10 Skull Crushers
5 Clean and Press Each Side
30 Flutters With Bell

Circuit 2
25 Calf Raises Toes Pointed Out
20 KB Swings
15 Kid Launches
10 Curls Each Side
5 Right Turkish Get Ups
30 LBCs With Bell

Circuit 3
25 Calf Raises Toes Pointed In
20 Reverse Lunges (10 Each Side)
15 OH Press
10 Lawnmowers Each Side
5 Left Turkish Get Ups
30 American Hammers With Bell

In all, we made it through each round 3 times. You can do the math to figure out the totals.

While we were cycling through, I asked the PAX one by one to tell the group how they’ve taken advantage of all of the added time with family/friends. Most have been able to take a step back from the hustle and bustle of the commute/work/busy life and have been able to focus on their families more. This is a huge blessing that we must not miss the chance to capture!

In all, we had 12 PAX and 850 total burpees. It got a little hairy toward the end, but I believe everybody enjoyed the work. Thanks for the opportunity to lead, 3D.

Announcements
Manion WOD this weekend – reach out to Maximus if you would like more details

Prayers/Praises
Be Intentional in this time – how often are we forced to spend more time with our family?
1 Peter 5:7 – “Cast all your anxieties on Him, because He cares for you.”
Praise for UHAUL’s Niece at Texas A&M for receiving a grant/scholarship to clear away most of her school debt.

Welcome, FNG: N-95!

Punch List out.

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