Date: 10/23/18
Q.I.C.: Abraham
The PAX: Airball, Bluegrass, Decaf, Sniff, Pusher, Hi-test, Fieri, Cold Call, Buttermaker, Ice Man, Hose, Lil’ Bit, Cat Daddy, Abraham
Conditions: Pefect. About 50, low humidity, no wind
Does YHC really deserve the “Angry Preacher” moniker? Isn’t he just a warm fuzzy fur ball that loves the world and everything in it? A “come as you are” “everybody gets a trophy” kind of a guy???
(Speaking of which, did you hear Airball tell about getting a medal just for showing up at that race in Columbia on Saturday? What the heck! What kind of kindergarten event was that? Did you all get milk and cookies and a nap after the race, Airball? Good grief!)
Okay, maybe the Angry Preacher thing fits just a little.
The A.P. has not Q’ed a mid-week workout in quite awhile, so maybe there was some pent up rage. He decided to take it out on the PAX this morning. A Crossroads workout seemed like just the ticket for a little anger management. Here’s how it went down:
The Thang
No stretching this morning. (You want to stretch do it before 5:30.) Heck, we didn’t even warm up. We got after it right out of the box.
Circle of Pain
10-15-20-25
The Q called for 10 sit-ups, 15 toe-tap merkins, 20 roll ups, 25 Russian twist to begin the workout.
Slowzie (slow mosey) downtown to crossroads on Mill Street.
Crossroads workout explained.
Begin at intersection of Mill St. and Keitt St. beside Land law office. Run in any direction and do the following exercises at next intersection:
Crossroads 1st circuit
Keitt & Boundary 20 Catcher Squats
Back to crossroads 5 hand release merkins
Keitt & Brooks 20 Catcher Squats
Back to crossroads 5 hand release merkins
Mill & Boyce 20 Star Jumps
Back to crossroads 5 hand release merkins
Mill & Walker Tire 20 Star Jumps
Back at crossroads 5 hand release merkins
10-15-20-25 sit-ups, toe-tap merkins, roll ups, Russian twist
Crossroads 2nd circuit
Keitt & Boundary 10 burpees
Back at crossroads 5 hand release merkins
Keitt & Brooks 10 burpees
Back at crossroads 5 hand release merkins
Mill & Boyce 20 diamond merkins
Back at crossroads 5 hand release merkins
Mill & Walker Tire 20 diamond merkins
Back at Crossroads 5 hand release merkins
10-15-20-25 sit-ups, toe-tap merkins, roll ups, Russian twist
Crossroads 3rd circuit
Keitt & Boundary 20 speed mountain climbers
Back at crossroads 5 hand release merkins
Keitt & Brooks 20 speed mountain climbers
Back at crossroads 5 hand release merkins
Mill & Boyce 20 speed SSHs
Back at crossroads 5 hand release merkins
Mill & Walker Tire 20 speed SSHs
Time (mercifully did not have time for another 10-15-20-25) Back to glory.
C.O.T.
Announcements and prayer requests were made.YHC quoted Isaiah 6 in reference to disaster relief, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” Lots of help still needed after Hurricanes Florence and Michael.
Moleskin
It was an honor to lead the PAX this morning. No, YHC is not angry, just wanted to ratchet our workouts up a bit. We have gotten better since we started but a true HIM should always be accelerating. To accelerate physically we have to keep pushing and challenging ourselves beyond what we are currently doing. If we don’t we become stagnant. So, we turned up the dial a little today, at least YHC hopes so.
SYITG,
Abraham
Extreme Couponing: ALARM Edition – Thursday 10/18/2018
QIC: Mr. Chow
The Pax: Hose, Iceman, Omaha, CatDaddy, Buttermaker, Fieri, Lil Bit (FNG), Bare Back (FNG), High Test, Airball, Sparty, Decaf, Vega, Bluegrass
YHC gets angry when he misses beatdowns. The “plus” side to that is that he gets ample time to plan the pain to bring to the PAX. I followed the COMM site(GROUP ME) and saw that Upper body and Core had been smoked in the days before. So I decided to give the PAX a total body beat down. Mr. Chow HATES running, but LOVES some coupons. Which brings us to the GLOOM……..
THE THANG
Warm Up
25 SSH
15 Merkins
Bat Wings + Moroccan Night Clubs & Randys
15 Squats
10 Big Boys OYO (with mumble chatter from the CORE death the day before)
QUICK MOSEY TO THE ROCK PILE FOLLOWED BY A ROCK MOSEY TO THE BANK (we became very close to our coupon friends)
1st ALARM – 30 reps each and a brisk Lung walk across the parking lot with a stroll back
- A- Curls for Girls
- L-Goblet Squats
- A-LBFC (not fun to do, but fun to watch)
- R-RBCs
- M-Mountain Climbers
AND WE WERE OFF AGAIN WITH OUR ROCK MOSEY TO THE COURTHOUSE
2nd ALARM – AMRAP while partners JOHN CUSACKED across the parking lot
- A-Skull Crushers
- L-Lt. Dans
- A-Plank
- R-Randys
- M-Monkey Humpers (NEVER MAKE EYE CONTACT)
ROCK MOSEY TO OUR NEXT DESITINATION, THE GAZEBO PARKING LOT
3rd ALARM – AMRAP while partners bear crawl across the parking lot and jog back (LOT OF MUMBLE CHATTER, SOMETHING ABOUT A “ROUGH” PARKING LOT #MANUP)
- A-Wonder Bras
- L-AL Gore w/coupon
- A-Freddy Mercury
- R-Rock-A-Bye Baby (BOY OH BOY….WHEW)
- M-Mountain Merkins
A QUICK ROCK MOSEY TO RETURN OUR COUPONS………BUT WHILE WE’RE THERE WHY NOT DO SOME ABS
20 American Hammers (wouldn’t be a Mr. Chow workout without them)
20 LBC OYO
Plank Circuit
ONE FINAL RUN, INDIAN RUN TO BE EXACT, back to Glory. We just happened to catch a red light perfect enough for, you guessed it, a NASCAR finish. Boogity Boogity Boogity, lets go racing PAX. We crossed the finish line with not a second wasted.
Overall 2.1 Coupon miles = a marathon (In my opinion). Nonetheless, the Q brought the pain, and the PAX responded like the manly men they are.
WOD/COT/BOM
Mr. Chow spoke about the struggles that come with life. The message talked about how important the connection with our brothers is when it comes to not only leaning on each other for support in our workouts, but in lives daily challenges and our spiritual walk and how the bible tells us to trust in the lord our God in all things. Mentally and physically drained the Q forgot the give the corresponding scriptures, but here they are.
1 Thessalonians 5:11 – Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.
Romans 12:15 – Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep.
CORE DAY: WEDNESDAY 17, 2018
QIC: VEGA
THE PAX: ICEMAN, BUTTERMAKER, CATDADDY, SNIFF, HOSE, AIRBALL, FIERI, SPARTY, VEGA
At the finale of Tuesdays Q, no one was really excited about taking Q on Wednesday, so YHC decided that he would do it and give the PAX the options of what was to come in the gloom. A “poll” was put up on our Comm site and options were as follows: Run Heavy (receiving two votes), Core Heavy (3 votes), Upper Heavy (0 votes), Lower Heavy (0 votes), Fun/easy/normal/boring (receiving 0 votes) and Don’t Care Bring the Pain (6 votes). YHC took this as a clear sign that at least two people (ones voting to run) were in need of a reminder that YHC HATES running so It was decided it was time for a good ole fashion Core Day beat down.
The Thang
Warm up:
15 Burpees out the gate
Grass Getters
Windmills
SSH x 25 (heard Fieri and Sniff starting to get worried with the pace YHC was setting)
BatWings
Core Day Excersies
Big Boys x 25 oyo
RBC x 25 in cadence
LBC x 25 oyo
Flutter Kicks x 25 in cadence – slowed some down
Dolly x 25 in cadence
Break from Core to HIGH KNEES for 30 sec
Rosalitas x 25 in cadence (YHC lost count and Airball called him out)
Dolly Whips x 25 oyo
Rosalita whips x 20 in cadence (Catdaddy was not happy here)
Mountain Climbers x 25 in cadence
Break from Core to HIGH KNEES for 45 secs
Sweat Angels x 25 (excellent DEMO was provided)
Rollups x 25
Pulses x 25
Mosey around block to the breezeway (Buttermakers name for day got changed to George of the Jungle at this point- “Watch out for that Tree!”)
DORA
100 Big Boys
200 Rollups
300 Flutter Kicks (Sparty was very excited about the flutter kicks- said it was a great idea)
NASCAR Finish with Fieri and Airball in a slight lead, however HOSE called a “CAR!!!!” warning getting the others to hold up while he took the checkered flag!
WOD/COT/BOM
Was stated that Everyone liked the new Q format of scheduling on Group Me. Hose explained how to get to it on the App and then discussion about BB was initiated. Website looks much better with some content.
Took the PAX out with excerpt from “Playing on Gods Team” by T. C. Stallings; 1 Corinthians 9:24-27 speaking from a D1 athletes perspective of what makes him successful on the field is the same type of effort that it takes to be a real Christian. Question was posed to PAX, “where does your effort lay in your relationship with Christ.”
Q.I.C.: VEGA
10/13/2018
The PAX: Abraham, Iceman, Catdaddy, Buttermaker, Mayheim, Vega
YHC was enticed by AO Leader Abraham into Q status this am. Admittedly I did ask for an exception in the time allowing me to double down with Chainsaws sponsored 5k in Summerton. So in 100% prevention mode I didn’t want to plan a big workout with a big run (didn’t really think that one through to well) …
The Thang
Warm up started precisely at 0600hrs (Mayhem was late so I was paying attention):
25 SSH
Grass Getters
50 LBC
20 Flutter Kicks
40 Merkins
** Special note ** no Batwings for Mayhem
Then we took a small mossey to the basketball court where YHC had some surprises waiting.
You see YHC and some of my fellow F3ers have embarked on a challenge dubbed the Trifecta though Spartan races (Mr. Chow def sucks for enlightening us about this). So At the basketball court YHC had a tire flipping station, Battle Hoses, 50 lbs bucket carry and then another house of pain at the picnic shed.
Paired up:
Vega-maker
Ice-aham
May-Daddy
Tire Flip (8x forward 8x back)
Bucket Carry (1 lap around basketball court)
battle Ropes (until bucket carry guys were done)
mosey to shed then 10/10/10/10 (incline/decline/dips/pullups)
Mosey back to BB court for a rinse and repeat
3 revolutions
YHC called an audible (had 5 revolutions planned) and went into a small session of TABATA
Tabata session
3 20 sec rounds per exercise
* LBC
* MONKEY HUMPERS
* RBC
* DRY DOCKS
* DOLLY WHIPS
Then transitioned to a Deck of cards (max of 10 reps)
Spades = Merkins
Hearts = Squats
Clubs = Roselita whips
Diamonds = big boys
we got through most of the deck then Mossied back to Glory
WOD/COT/BOM
YHC took pack out with a WOD about Perseverance, citing John 16:33, Romans 7, Hebrews 6:19 and Romans 5:2-5).
Q.I.C.: VEGA
The PAX: Sniff, Airball, Abraham, Pusher, Hose, Iceman, Buttermaker, Cold Call, Cat Daddy, Bluegrass, High-test, Vega
YHC woke up in a terrible mood, and after cheers and jeers from the other members commenting on the two previous morning from Sniff’s ACHIN’ LEGS to Uga’s DICE game in the gloom, we were all sore in spots we were not use to. YHC took this as a personal challenge and proceeded to lead the PAX in the following wallowing:
The Thang
Warm up started a little different this AM:
15 Burpees
Grass Getters
50 LBC
25 Flutter Kicks
15 Sweat Angles (thanks UGA for the new movement)
30 SSH
40 LBC
20 Flutter Kicks
10 SA
25 SSH
30 LBC (Buttermakers 2nd wine of the day)
15 Flutter Kicks
10 SA
Then Started the Trek on the Holy Trinity:
Mosey to the Presbyterian Church and proceeded with the following 3 movements: (Airball almost got YHC killed by a Ford needing Blinker Fluid)
40/40/40 Merkins/Squats/Big Boys (yes that is Big Boys)
30/30/15 Merkins/Squats/Big Boys (Audible called)
20/20/10 Merkins/Squats/Big Boys (Cat Daddy didn’t keep count and did to many BB)
Mosey to Methodist Church:
Due to time constraints had to increase reps and decrease # of rounds to 1
50/50/50 Carolina Dry Dock/Squats/RBC (Bluegrass was really excited about Squats)
Mosey to Baptist Church Breezeway:
20/20/20 Dips/Squats/Declines
NASCAR FINISH TO GLORY (Hose took turn 4 to wide and let Airball sneak past on the inside)
WOD/COT/BOM
Announcements -Oct 13 color run sponsored by Chainsaw. Abraham putting together a “mission” of help to some in Nichols area after the disaster of Hurricane Florence (more to come).
YHC took the PAX out with a brief WOD 1 Peter 4: 7-8 “The end of all things is near. Therefore be alert and of sober mind so that you may pray. Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.”
Date: 7/28/18
Q.I.C. Abraham
The PAX: Bluegrass, Cat Daddy, Fieri, Buttermaker, Sniff, Miley, Tofu, Ice Man, Mr. Chow, Tricycle, Chainsaw, Decaf, Omaha, Airball, Dial Tone, Hose, Hangnail (FNG), Pusher, Abraham
Conditions: Not hot, in the 70s, but have mercy was it humid!
This whole thing was Airball’s fault. First, last Saturady after we had a good pre-run at 5:30, he suggested we could have another pre-run this morning, even though the workout was scheduled to start an hour earlier! Who would do that??? (turns out YHC would – more on that later). Then Airball starts asking for a Route 66 workout on our Group Me account. He wasn’t the Q; what’s he doing asking? Mind your own business, for goodness sake. But turns out, what Airball wants, Airball gets. The man just has authority, kinda like the old E. F Hutton commercials. Buttermaker & Cat Daddy are old enough to remember those: “When E. F. Hutton speaks, people listen . . .” Well, I hate to admit it, but when Airball speaks, YHC listens. So, a pre-run it was, at 5:00AM no less, followed by (you guessed it) a Route 66 workout. Yep, what Airball wants, Airball gets.
Warm-up (This happened after 7 PAX met for the 3 mile or thereabout pre-run. Omaha ran it in a weight vest! Studly.)
The warm-up was the usual stuff. You know, SSHs but not a gazillion of them. If you want that many post when Ice Man or Vega is Qing. YHC is more tame. SSHs, Mountain Climbers, Peter Pakers, Imperial Strom Troopers, stuff like that. Bottom line, we warmed up because you’re suppose to, you know, warm up.
The Thang
After the warm up, mosey over to Dial Tone’s truck for each PAX to grab two bricks apiece. Not enough bricks? No worries. Hose had some 2.5 lbs weights in his truck, so those who didn’t get bricks got weights from the new Daddy Hose (welcome to the world F.B. Jones III, who will be called Wells!)
When all the PAX had two bricks or weights we lit out on a Route 66 workout. 11 stops with 6 exercises at each stop on a route from J. C. Britton Park, Manning Jr. High, Manning High, and back to the park. Bricks were carried the entire route and used during the exercises. The exercises were Merkins, Lunges, Squats, Mtn. Climbers, LBCs, & (of course) burpees. At the first stop, one rep of each exercise. At the second stop, 2 reps. Third stop, 3 reps. And so until the 11th stop where we did 11 reps.
Total reps = 396
Miles covered = 3.3
Mumblechattered bitching & complaints = infinite
Moleskin
A great morning, if YHC may say so. Gotta admit, Airball had the perfect vision for a challenging morning: nice little pre-run, followed by a tough route workout.
Observations along the way: Our new guys are all in. Tofu, Miley, Chainsaw, Sniff (he’s kinda, sorta new) are tough dudes intent on getting better. They’ll stick.
The FNG is a stud. Hangnail can hang. Y’all see him running up near the front? He’s got “it.” When you got “it” – watch out. He’ll be pushing the Piss Ant soon. Somebody needs to.
Sign that the apocalypse is upon us: Pusher attended a Saturady workout! And coffeeteria. The end must be near. (Hope you can do this more often Pushy; your presence adds a lot.)
Mr. Chow is injured? He doesn’t act like it. Impressive performance.
Is Fieri ALWAYS in a good mood???
Doesn’t appear Hose lost any fitness during his hiatus from F3. Was he really gone?
Who’s that man on the bicycle? Why, it’s Tricycle on the bicycle. KOTTERS, Trike.
Secretly, deep down inside, Buttermaker loves and respects Omaha. But, you’d never know it.
Cat Daddy has become a runner. He won’t admit it, but it’s true. So has Bluegrass. Bluegrass can do anything, apparently. Athlete.
Thanks, Omaha, for leading the way on the Route 66. How’d you do that after running the same route earlier in a weight vest? (His youth doesn’t account for it all. He’s just flat out awesome.)
C.O.T.
YHC quoted Hebrews 12:1-2, the “great cloud of witnesses” passage. They are watching. Don’t let them down. My father is in that cloud; has been since I was 12. Can’t disappoint him. Who is in your cloud? Make them proud.
Great day, gentlemen. It was a honor and privilege to lead you this morning. Thank you.
SYITG,
Abraham