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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Snake Pit – The Best Mumblechatter Ever

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10 men showed up at the Snake Pit for a VQ by YHC. I’ve been to DBES many times but a first for CRHS. Gorgeous campus with lots of fun to explore.

we kept it simple for our Metallic Kettle Bell workout but I’m looking forward to coming back for another round in The Snake 🐍 Pit

Pleasantries were had and away we went …

mosey around the lot for dynamic warm up

  • SSHs
  • Imperial Walkers
  • merkins
  • sumo squats
  • 2 rounds of calf raises
  • mountain climbers

back to the Bells

mini board of pain

only 5 exercises 1 lap 5 rounds

Reps of 50, 40, 30, 20, 10

  • Curls
  • Goblet Squat
  • Overhead Presses
  • Kettlebell Swings
  •  Flutters w/press
  • run a lap

good times by all. Solid tunes by UHaul but once REM came on I had to get the Viking Metal playing. Only downside were the commercials on my cheap Pandora 🤷🏻‍♂️

thx 3D for a great time with great PAX.
peace ✌🏻

Cake Boss Out

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LE TOUR DE WEP Dora Style

Great morning for a Q, my third one of the week, I was super pumped since my sidekick Sonic (2.1- 8 years old) accepted to take the lead roll and co Q with me.

This time I brought my battle rope and chatters started early, we welcomed all PAX. Drop Thrill was in charge of the milkshakers so off they went.

With the Bootcampers we grabbed the rope and moseyed/walked across the wet and cold grass to the playground for the warm up, many PAX whined about getting  their toesies wet but the idea is to get out of your comfort zone and accelerate, this is why you leave your fartsack every morning. We explained that we will move as a team and our team will be as fast as the slower PAX so we all encouraged each other to get better (this is what F3 is all about)

Warm up led mostly by Sonic:

Side straddle hops
Windmill
Weed picker
Low slow squat
Moroccan night clubs
Low slow merkin
Mountain climber

I mapped the park on my phone for 15 stops and we run in between stops (picture attached), we used the walking trail to run around the park. The idea was to complete the following Dora:

100 merkins (4 stops x 25)
200 carolina dry docks (5 stops x 40)
300 overhead claps (6 stops x 50)

We went back to our starting position at the playground for some fun with the battle rope.

Our team was split into two groups for some Tug of war competition, PAX enjoyed this part as adrenaline kicked in while pulling the rope in a friendly competition. I’m definitely repeating this in my Q’s

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We had abut 11 minutes left so it was time for our superhero visit and the crowd started cheering:

Captain Thor
1 big boy situp,  4 american hammers
2 big boy situps,  8 american hammers
3 big boy situps,  12 american hammers
Progressive to 10 big boy situp,  40 american hammers

3 rounds of Superman to stretch the abs, honey mooners, downward dogs and tunnel of man for Sonic back and forth to finish our beatdown,

we finished our day running back to COT carrying the rope as a group.

We met with the milkshakers for namearama, announcements, prayers and praises.

Thanks to Slash for the opportunity to lead this great group of PAX, some of them I had only seen once or twice but it’s all about the camaraderie.

My 2.1 Sonic really enjoyed this as he does everytime he comes to F3 with me, all PAX welcomed him as one more of us encouraging him every minute, he’s only 8 but not afraid of the gloom.

TINSEL and SONIC are out!!

 

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