Tag: Über (Rhett Trease)

The Hive is Alive at Five

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Warm-ups : SSHs, Imperial Walkers, Wind Mills, Plank Stretches

Mosey to the big parking lot for some partner exercises. Partner 1 carried both bells while Partner 2 performed 5 perfect merkins. Flapjack and continued until we arrived at the second light post. Next, we dropped the bells for partner pushes between the light posts. We continued this pattern until we arrived at the front of the school.
Next, we grabbed some wall with the bell for a wall sit press and extension. Two rounds and then proceeded back to the stadium carrying the bell over our head. At each light pole, we stopped for an exercises. First light pole, man-makers, set of 5. Since half the group elected to modify, we did 5 more. KB Swings, Flutters, and LBCs were completed by the time we arrived at the stadium.
Back to partner exercises, Partner 1 carried bells up the hill while partner 2 ran to the top. Flapjack and continue until mumble chatter subsided.
Return to the flag for a few minutes of bells around the circle. Lots of laughter due to either having to handle Tesh’s 100# bell or the colorful deceivingly light bells.
Great job men!
Prayers for family members and friends suffering from cancer.

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Mystic Rhythms

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WARMUP:
Slow mosey out of the park, along Windward drive, down Mariana’s Ct, back up to the Windward, and then circle up on the basketball court for COP

THE THANG:
COP (All in double count cadence):
SSHx 25, windmill x 15, CDD x 10, Squat x 20, American hammer x 20, jumping lung x 15, merkin x 10, box cutter x 15, cherry picker x 15, plank/right arm/right leg high/regular, 6″/regular/left arm/leg high/regular/6″/regular, 10 burpees OYO

Move to the middle of the parking lot, and split up the group.
Group 1: runs to the playground, and does 10 pull-ups, while group 2 does hello dolly. Flapjack
Rinse and repeat two more times with LBC’s and flutters

Mosey to the field for the Tunnel of Love (5 sets)

Mosey out of the park to the bottom of Mariana’s Ct for Jacob’s ladder. 5 reps on the hil, count 1-5 burpees at the top, run backward on reps 2 and 4. Mosey back to the wall along the concession stand in the park.

Power Square.
Assume BTTW on the concession stand wall, walk on your hands along the wall, lunge walk out to the 2nd base, bear crawl along a line parallel to the wall, lunge walk back. Rinse and repeat for a total of 3 squares.

Circle up in the field and finish off the workout with 10 minutes of Broga (Mountain Pose, Warrior I/II, Triangle, Cat/Cow, Knees to chest, Happy Baby, Corpe (aka Body Destroyer).

COT

Naked Man Moleskin
Great winter morning at Alcatraz! Love the cold temps and dry air. I can’t remember the last time Q’d a whole hour. It was nice having the full 60 minutes to make it tough, but also do something different. I took a cue from Change Order and included Broga today to mix it up a bit and cool down at the end of the workout (which we never do!)

Jiffy joined us today after an extended break from F3, but didn’t show any nice of lack of fitness. Good work, brother! We had a solid group today and everyone pushed through it to make themselves better. It’s always a pleasure to lead the fine men of F3, and I look forward to my next Q at Alcatraz.
The title of the workout is yet another Rush reference (RIP Neil Peart). Since we did yoga today, it seems to fit (a little – haha).

ANNOUNCEMENTS, PRAYERS, PRAISES:
Dam2Dam 10K coming up. Opportunities to run, ruck, or just volunteer. This is a benefit for FM schools. Read your newsletter.

Prayers and praises: Pumpkin Spice’s daughter going through treatment, ST’s son’s girlfriend’s father’s passing. Change Order’s mother-in-law with Covid. Praise for Uber’s son’s success as a student musician!

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Cardio & Coupons at The Sink

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WARMUP: 8min warm up run wherever you choose but be back for the rest of the warmup.
Windmills & Imperial Walkers
THE THANG: 30yd Crab Walk to the coupons (sounds a lot like last week) and grab a coupon of your liking, or disliking. Options were sandbags, kettle bells, rucks and cinderblocks.
1min Thrusters then a 10sec rest
1min Chest Press then a 10sec rest
1min Overhead Press then a 10sec rest
1min Derkins then a 10sec rest
1min Dips then a 10sec rest
1min Thrusters then a 10sec rest

Run a lap around the parking lot.
With coupon, 12 fixed leg lunges, each leg
20yd Partner Pushes, twice

Run a lap around the parking lot.
With coupon up in the air, leg lifts, bicycles and flutters w/ the press.
6ct Burpees
More Thrusters
Run another lap
MARY: Incorporated throughout
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Divac articulated the meaning of having Autism Strong as a organization we’re fundraising for with D2D. Read your newsletter and engage in one of the many outreach opportunities.
COT: It happened and it was powerful.

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So Funhouse can stop crying…

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WARMUP: Very little
THE THANG:
– To the pull up bars where we performed an idiot sequence of pullups one by one and some other exercises. Note for later, that didn’t really work.
– To the hill we all use entirely too much, but it’s a great hill, so why stop?
– Partner carries, wheelbarrows, running, bear crawling, all kinds of dumb stuff while we also ran around the back end through the neighborhood streets.
– One fake 10-count was involved
– Back to the parking lot for a fake Dora and then it was over…

MARY: No chicks.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your newsletter.

COT: The 5th Core Principle

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KICKING OFF GOLDEN CORRAL IN 2023

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WARMUP:
Circle up for windmill x 15 and SSH x 20. Form a line and do toy soldiers and arm circles on the way to an area in front of HT. Circle up again.

THE THANG:
After the disclaimer and a short warm up, we were greeted by two additional pax who joined the circle for a Tabata workout.

8 exercises, 8 reps each, 20 sec work, 10 sec rest.
The exercises we did today were:
1. CCD
2. Box cutters (tough)
3. Mountain climbers
4. Squats
5. Merkins (crowd pleaser)
6. Superman hold
7. Alternating lunges
8. Burpees
Finish with 90 sec body destroyer

COT

NAKED MAN MOLESKIN
I’ve done this workout several times and it’s very easy to plan, but a little tricky to execute. Keeping track of the exercises and the number of sets requires some concentration. With no cadence counting, it encourages a lot of mumble chatter and we had plenty of that today. Noteworthy was Slapshot, who welcomed our FNG with steady conversation for the entire workout. I tip my hat to him because while the rest of us were groaning on sets 7 and 8 of merkins, he kept the chatter going with little sign of fatigue or O2 deprivation. Well done!

Welcome Pongo who comes to us from North Charlotte (I believe). He brought along an FNG who we dubbed Gremlin. Welcome, gentlemen! Love getting FNG’s on the weekday workouts. It was a great morning with the fine gentlemen of the Fort and a pleasure to lead the group as always. Thanks for the Q nod, Slow Jams!

ANNOUNCEMENTS/PRAYERS
Dam2Dam race/fundraiser for Ft. Mill Schools in Feb. Read your newsletter.
Prayers: Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin, Pongo’s grandfather Warren, kids returning to school.

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Start your One Word at Alcatraz for 2023

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11 pax gathered at Alcatraz this AM to make their downpainment on 2022 and create momentum for 2023. The Site Q, Uber, requested a discussion on One Word and Double D and YHC obliged that request by incorporating this into the workout. We also celebrated DD 56th birthday today. He is a fantastic leader and has been a huge influence on my life over the past 10 years. I am blessed to have him in my life.

Similar to years past, this week has been a time of reflection for YHC. The time between Christmas and New Year offers an opportunity to review the previous year, recognize the blessings in my life, assess how the year went and get organized for next year. I review my One Word, journal entries, calendar, budget, etc. as part of this “Year End Review”.

As I reflect on 2022, my One Word was “intentional” yet the word I would use to describe the year was “unsteady”. Some parts of acceleration including my relationship with my M and 2.0s, a strong D2D performance, deepening of relationships with SL, Whetstone and other, increased faith with Shady/Backdraft and the McGospel crew and my job environment has improved. Some deceleration particularly in the Spring/Summer, continued identity in my Mammon, some struggles at home including a torn ACL and a continued jester around self worth that leads to various symptoms. Overall, there was growth particularly as we close 2022 and I have hope for 2023.

In preparation for the workout, I mentioned to Maximus and DH to join us and they requested a difficult workout. DD was quick to oblige using his One Words from previous years and I decided to crack the seal by leading my first ever cinder block workout. I search “F3 cinder block” and found lots of good ideas.

WARMUP: DD
After sharing that DD woke up with a sense of being “full” this morning celebrating his birthday with a group of HIMs we circled up for COP:

SSH x 20
Mtn Climbers x 20
Peter Parkers x 10
Parker Peters x 10

Mosey to the baseball field

THE THANG:

DD at the Q
14 Big Boys
15 Burpees
16 hand release merkins + shoulder tap
17 Mahktar Jai
18 Apollo Ono
19 Kneetar Jai
20 Mike Tysons
21 Backward lunge
22 Freddy Mercury
23 Big Boys
24 Burpees
25 HR merkins + shoulder taps
26 Mahktar Jai (

After each exercise run to the fence and back

Handoff to Pusher

Grab cinder blocks from DD truck and mosey to basketball courts

Partner up

P1 does the following:
1 Merkin
1 Squat
1 Curls for the girls
1 Shoulder press
1 Tricep Extension
1 lunge each leg

Partner 2 planks while P1 does exercises
Rinse and repeat adding a rep up to 5

Gassers
50/50
75/25
100/25

Round 2 – rinse and repeat from round 1

Coin flip – heads equals (2) manmakers/tails equals (2) big boys

Mosey back home

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
– Dam to Dam for a Cause fundraising focus over the next 8 weeks
– Q Source relaunches on 1/3
– Upcoming BBQ fundraiser
– Murder Bunnies hockey team starts this week – great 2nd F opportunity
– Opportunity to EH younger guys in the Fort and responsibility for older guys to serve as Whetstone

All men in attendance created momentum heading into 2023. YHC is thankful that I just “keep posting” because the men of the Fort inspire me.

#SYITG

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Hit the hill

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WARMUP: short COP
THE THANG: mossy to Hubert Graham Way. Run to bottom of hill (3rd street light). 10 merkins then run to top and stop at the 2 street lights for 10 merkins. 5 rounds.

Missy to playground. PAX split in half, 10 step ups each leg others do swing set crunch until step ups done. 2 rounds. 20 leg raises and 20 flutters.

Mossy back to COT the long way around the school with 3 stops on the way of 5 burpees.
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Xmas convergence
COT: prayers for travel, injured and sick

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You Could’ve Stayed In Bed

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WARMUP: Run the parking lot down and back, twice. 5 Jump Squats. 10 Merkins. 15 Mountain Climbers. 10 Windmills.
THE THANG: I’m not sure how much ground we covered but the intent was to get ~2mi plus a good workout to make getting out of bed worth it. After all, we have way too many guys staying in bed on a Saturday morning. Anyways, back to the topic at hand.
Line up on the left field line and bear crawl to the McDonald’s sign on the outfield fence. 20 Mountain Climbers. Bear crawl back for 20 more Mountain Climbers.
Run to the main hill on the back side. Run to the bottom, dodging deer, 5 burpees, NUR up the other side, 10 Carolina Dry Docks. Run back to the bottom for 5 Burpees then NUR up to the original start point for 10 more Carolina Dry Docks.
Head to the Pull-Up Bars:
Each PAX must complete 20 Pull-Ups and while you’re not doing Pull-Ups, you’re cycling through 10 Merkins and 20 American Hammers on repeat until everyone is done their Pull-Ups.
Head over to the 2nd most famous hill, Tara Tea Drive, again, dodging more deer.
Run to the bottom, 10 Jump Squats, run up, 10 Diamond Merkins. Complete 3 rounds.
Head to the field for a modified Jack Webb series:
1 WWII sit up : 4 Flutter Kicks. Complete all the way to 10:40.
Get on the line and run to the net and back.
Here’s the new one. Two lines, get in a plank position, head to toe. Man in the back does 5 Wide-Arm-Merkins then bear crawls to the front of the line (Indian Run style). Keep cycling through for about 50yds.
3-tier suicides.
MARY: Sprinkled in throughout the workout…that’s more my speed. We did finally close it out with Grave Diggers, Toe Touches and elbow planking.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Newsletter (3 convergences in a row starting on Thanksgiving, Turkey money drive, clay shooting, etc)
COT: You should’ve been there. Our guys are carrying a lot these days. Head up, shoulders back, eyes clear and lean on each other as needed.

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STL Teams

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Chilly morning so mosey over to medical offices behind bank at top of Dave Gibson to warm-up. Break out into teams of 4 or 5.
Laps are up Dave Gibson, down 160 to Arby’s, right into Earthfare lot, right on road that returns to start.
Hills are down Dave Gibson up to GHES and then back to start.
As a team complete the following as efficiently as possible:
6 Laps, 6 Hills, 50 Burpees, 100 HR Merkins, 150 Bomb-Jacks, 200 Mtn Climbers.
Every PAX had to run one loop and one hill. From there it was up to the team to figure out how to divide and conquer.
The goal was to get through this the first time and then challenge the teams to figure out how to improve their plan in order to reduce their overall time. Probably due to poor communication on YHC part, we ran short on time to complete the second round. Teams completed as much as time allowed on second round and then returned to COT. This was Wipeout’s second work-out so we went over the 5 core principals and then a quick summary of the 3Fs.

Lots of 2nd F events in the newsletter. Get out and participate!
Thanks Badlands for the Q opportunity!

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