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Turkey Bowl and a Beatdown

PAX: Classified, Dirtbag, Ina, Rump Roast, Shifty McCoy, Siesta, Sound Machine, Splash, Whoops
Q: Alright Alright

Warmorama:
Side Straddle Hops x10

Tha Thang:
Mosey
Imperial Storm Troopers x10
Mosey
Merkins x10
Mosey
Side Straddle Hops at Stop Light
Mosey to Christmas Tree at Snider Plaza
Irkins x10
Derkins x5
Dips/Irkins ring around the rosey (alternate dips and Irkins while PAX take turns running a lap around the Christmas tree, exercise is finished when each PAX has run a lap)
More moseying
More side straddle hops
More moseying
Reverse Lunges x16
Mosey
Crawl Bear up library stairs
Bear Crawl down library stairs – the overall grade for the PAX on this was N for Needs Improvement. Guess we’ll have to practice it….
Mosey to benches by Hot Box
Dirty McDeuce (3 rounds of 4 exercises with 12 reps in each round): Box Jumps, Dips, Australian Mountain Climbers, Heels to Heaven
Mosey to Burleson Soft Top
Rugby Sit Ups x15

Ultimate Football:
Rump Roast and Ina were named Captains as the only members of the group that didn’t modify the crawl bears and bear crawls (YHC excluded because… all together now: if you can’t do it don’t Q it).

Team Meat:
Classified, Sound Machine, Splash, Shifty

Team Math:
AA, Dirtbag, Siesta, Whoops

We played for 20 minutes and Team Math came out on top: 4-2. We all agreed that it was spectacular cardio and should be done again soon.

Over the course of the workout we covered about 2.5 miles.

 

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Rump & Co. First Attempt at a “Black Diamond” Workout

Temp: 60°  
Weather: Little overcast but overall a beautiful post Thanksgiving day for a beatdown

Count-off & Name-O-Rama:
PAX:  Alright Alright, Teasip, Siesta, Prime Rib
QIC: Rump Roast

AO: Burleson Park

Disclaimer: Given 

Intro/ Warm-o-Rama
SSH x 1 (IC)
IST x 12 (IC)
Cotton Pickers x 12 (IC)

  

The Thang:
Mosey to the benches by the fountain
– 10x Erkins (IC, DC)
– 10x Squats (IC, DC)
– 10x Derkins (IC, DC)
– 10x Alternating Step-Ups (IC, DC)
 
Reap-O 3x… I was thinking this was a Dirty McDuece but, without looking it up that it may be 4-sets. Either way, the Double count was ambitious and none of us would have completed the 4th set! 
 
Mosey to the Quad
 
I’m going this workout Bear Crawl Dora! 
We partnered up and did – 
 
100x Merkins
200x Overhead Claps
300x Squats 
 
While one PAX did the exercises the other bear crawled across the center grass of the Quad, and across the sidewalk and back. We ran out of time on Squats, I believe Teasip and Shifty were in the 200’s and Bleep and myself we at 200 even. Moseyed back to the launch point
 

Circle of Trust (CoT):
YHC prayed us out

Playlist:
No music this morning

Moleskin:
I was extra motivated this morning for Shifty to give the disclaimer and lead the Warm-O-Rama. We had to prompt him a little on the disclaimer but did a great job. It wasn’t too far into my portion that Teasip proclaimed that he wished Shifty would have Q’d the entire work out! As soon as we started moseying to the benches it was clear my knee was hurting more than it has been. After the first set of step-ups I wanted to go home. So I modified my original idea of Jacobs Ladder to Dora Bear Crawl and I will tell you…. Between 200 Merkins the other day, @Arrrghhhhs beat down yesterday, 100x Burpees yesterday, and the Dirty McDuece it sucked! Everyone agreed! @Bleep announced that he officially hates Bear Crawling! Teasip on more than one occasion had some choice words, and even Shifty proclaimed this work out was the dumbest idea EVER! I took them all as a compliment! No doubt we ALL got better today. #acceleration #isi #giveitaway 

Announcements:
HH tomorrow – see Band

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Thanksgiving Day Gobble Party

PAX: Ant Man, Big Tex, Ina, Pepper, Teasip
QIC: Alright Alright
AO: Burleson Park
Weather: 43 Degrees (Ina called it hot after his 3 mile extra credit run in – he was also in short sleeves)

Warmorama: mosey to Quad
Side Straddle Hops x20
Hillbilly x10
Imperial Storm Troopers x10
T-Merkins x10
(get it?)

Tha Thang: Partner up. Partner 1: exercise. Partner 2: run around fountain and back.
GOBBLE
Groiners x50
Overhead Claps x100
Bonnie Blairs x150 (double count) #crowdpleaser
Burpees x200 #eternalcrowdpleaser
Little Baby Crunches x250
E2K x300

We finished gobbling at 7:49 and moseyed back to Burleson Park leaving us enough time for…

Crabway to Heaven. Unfortunately, YHC had promised Pepper that we wouldn’t do any bear crawls, so we got to try something new. All of the PAX crushed it. Teasip and YHC were both able to finish before the song ended. Teasip finishing was more impressive as he had to deal with Pepper’s friendly crop dusting. Some might call that karma….

Moleskin:
200 burpees after 150 Bonnie Blairs is really horrible.

Crabway to Heaven wasn’t as bad as I thought initially, but once you hit the second court it gets terrible.

#tclaps to these dudes for getting up and getting after it on Thanksgiving. And extra #tclaps to Ina for his extra credit run before the workout.

On the COVID front… YHC assigned each PAX their own square at least six feet apart from one another (probably more like 8-10 feet) in which to do their exercises.

I’m incredibly thankful for all of you. Sunday will be the sixth anniversary of my move to Dallas, and I don’t know where I’d be without this brotherhood.

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Turkey Hunting for T-day

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA:
PAX: Alright Alright, Bleep, Classified, Gambler, Icebox, Oatmeal, Rump Roast, Slushii, Sound Machine, Special Sauce 
QIC: Teasip

AO: Glencoe #glencoefasho
F3 DISCLAIMER & WELCOME: Given

WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x20, IST x20, Vegetable Picker x10

THA THANG:
Mosey to the field to start the Thanksgiving festivities. Had to start by finding and killing a turkey.

Searched for turkey tracks with Lieutenant Dans out to midfield, then reverse Lieutenant Dans back. Didn’t find much, so Bear Crawled out to get closer to the ground, and Crawl Beared back. Unfortunately, we ran into a BIG OL BEAR and had to sprint the full football field, then sprint back to escape.

Finally found a turkey, so did a turkey hunt: Partner 1 squat walks with coupon while Partner 2 does 10 curls (to get the guns ready), then run and chase Partner 1. Flapjack when Partner 2 catches Partner 1. Go to midfield and back. 

We had to next “murder” the turkey, so did murder turkeys/bunnies to midfield, then did “Annies” to season the turkey and Ring of Fire to start the heat and cook the turkey.

Next, we got to work on the sides/dessert. Partner up and do the following exercises (Partner 2 runs to midfield and back while Partner 1 does the exercises, then flapjack):

Man Mashed Potato Maker – 30
Stuffing Squat Thrusters – 30
Grip, Rip and Rolls – 30
Gobble Gobble Goblet Squats – 30
Pie Plank Jacks – 30

We had to go back for seconds as well (5 reps of each exercise).

MARY:
None/done during the workout

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
We all went around and expressed what we are thankful for, as well as prayer requests.

MOLESKIN:
Several PAX come wheeling into the parking lot at 0529, and Gambler even showed up a little late. More talk about the flatulence from the West Siders the day before. Rump let out a couple bombs even though the running was minimal and he destroyed everyone except Sauce on the first sprint away from the BIG OL BEAR (#tclaps to Alright Alright and Classified for being the only P1s in attendance). A fun workout with lots of groans throughout, so YHC will definitely be bringing this workout back in the future.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
1. F3 10 Year Anniversary

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The Return of the Sweetest of Babies

AlrightAlright Sweet Baby PowPow joined YHC and Mav for this AM’s ruck

Swiper teamed up with Oatmeal for Double Time action

AA texted me while he was clearing the mechanism asking what the plan was for the ruck. Seemed like he was interested in accelerating his rucking/baby bjorn’ing skills so told him we’d do the don’t get lapped challenge

F150 also texted me this morning while he was clearing the mechanism, but that was about taking a picture, must have needed more time to clear since he didn’t make it to MRM

Like a Phoenix rising from the ashes Sweet Baby pulled up to MRM like it ain’t no thang, PowPow was so jazzed to see him that he ditched the jogging shoes for the ruck and combined forces with the Sweetest of Babies.

Oatmeal thought he was going to run alone a la the last two Stingray vision quest rucks but Swiper came in to give him some company

The runners did some hill work so the don’t get lapped challenge wasn’t as exciting

Ruckers split up into two groups, the idiots running with rucks and the non idiots normal rucking.

Everyone finished up with 5-10 minutes to spare so we did an AMRAP of 5 Special Sauce horizontal rope pull-ups (to be Lexicon’d later), 5 LBC’s, and 5 crab cakes

Mav was pretty pissed to be tied up during the AMRAP

Oatmeal led a great COT where the PAX opened up with prayer requests

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Figure 8 SMU Run

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA:
PAX: Alright Alright,  Pow Pow, Ina, Oatmeal, Special Sauce
QIC: Draper

AO: La Madaline
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER: Given

WARM-O-RAMA:
Mosey to SMU BLVD

15x SSH IC

15x HillBillies IC

15x Windmill IC

10x Merkins IC


Mosey to the area between the SMU track and SMU stadium

THA THANG:

Run figure 8’s around the stadium and the track.

Each time the PAX made it to the center (1/2 of the 8) complete the following

10x Merkins

20x Squats

30x LBC’s

MOLESKIN: As we started to mosey to meet the 2nd choice PAX’ers a lot of Mumblechatter started as fear of not getting the run in set in.  We met the rest of the PAX at SMU blvd, did a quick warm up and mosey’d between to the stadium and track.  Here I stole @PlusOne’s figure 8 path and the exercises and the PAX were off.  Not much chatter during the workout as everyone was on their own pace.  Most finished a full round of 7 and completed the exercises for 8 which if you were keeping track is 80 merkins, 160 squats and 240 lbc’s.  The elite few made it through round 9.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

  • Turkey Trot Saturday
  • Q of the year.  Nominations are open and tournament starts Monday 11/30
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Burleson 11/19

 

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA:
PAX: Dfib, sound machine, Agnes, Broadway Joe, 
QIC: Slushii, 

AO: Burleson
F3 DISCLAIMER & WELCOME: Given

WARM-O-RAMA:
Mosey to meet KTT group

SSH x 12 IC

Hillbillies x 15 IC

Windmill x 10 IC

Merkins x 10 IC

THA THANG:
5x5x5  at Cox building (5 dips on bench, run up stairs 5 burpees, run to other side and 5 (each leg) step ups on bench, around the world plank on street blockers, 5 box jumps on fountain

AB Station – LBCs, WW1, and Box Cutters

Mosey back to tennis courts at the park – calisthenic suicides (karaoke runs, high knee jump, backwards run)

On tennis practice wall – wall squat for 2 min, legs up on the wall and 5 irkins

MARY:
Jlo x 10 IC

Homer to Marge

WWI x 10

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Thankful for this day and time with these men

MOLESKIN:
YHC went to an immediate mosey after the disclaimer and PAX felt we were going to go and run with the KTT. Last night YHC talked with Draper about a meetup for warm up. After a quick warm up the two groups split and we commenced on for a bootcamp beatdown. Some decent mumblechatter about what we would name our FNG. Lot’s of “that’s what she said” comments were made on the tennis court. Great getting to know Broadway Joe this morning and welcoming him to the group! 

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
1. HH at Dfibs house 11/20
2. Cocktail making class December 9th – see Chairmans post

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Playground of Pain

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA:
PAX: Rabbit, Eruzione, Mookie
QIC: Walmart

AO: Vines High School / Liberty Park

DATE: 11/17/2020

F3 DISCLAIMER & WELCOME: Given. Q is not a professional. PAX are at the workout voluntarily. Neither Q or F3 is liable. Modify as necessary.

WARM-O-RAMA:
IST x20 IC

Forward Arm Circles x20 IC

Backward Arm Circles x20 IC

SSH x25 IC

THA THANG:

Mosey to the tennis courts.

Jacob’s Ladder: PAX started with 1 burpee, then ran across two tennis courts, then did 4 double count Bonnie Blairs. PAX ran back to the start for 2 burpees, then back across for 3 Bonnie Blairs, etc., until PAX did 1 Bonnie Blair and 4 burpees. Reps totaled 5 each time. PAX that finished early held an Al Gore pose until all in.

Al Gore for 30 seconds.

Native American Run around the block to the playground.

Playground Dora: PAX split into pairs. Pairs were jointly responsible for the following reps. One PAX does reps while the partner runs one lap around the playground, then PAX switch.

-Pullup x100

-Merkin x200

-LBC x300

MARY:
American Hammer x15 IC

Flutterkick x15 IC

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
PAX prayed for Mookie’s friend sick with COVID and pneumonia.

MOLESKIN:
PAX talked about the ongoing election cases and whether Texas would force another shutdown due to COVID.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Sign up for GrowRuck Alamo!

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Sandbaggin’ it – 11/18/20

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA:
PAX: Stingray, AlrightAlright, Draper
QIC: Oatmeal

AO: The Harbor
F3 DISCLAIMER & WELCOME: Given

WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x 15 IC

Hillbillies x15 IC

Windmills (or the Praise Jesus) x 10 IC

THA THANG:

PAX chose a sandbag and we began a camel pack mosey east to Fieldcrest for some 5x5x5 stops at each “corner” of the park:

 Fieldcrest: 5 sets: 5X burpees, 5X sandbag curls

Camel pack mosey to playground in SE corner of park: 5 sets: 5X sandbag step ups DC, run around perimeter of playground 5X dead bugs DC (x2)

Camel pack mosey to rec center parking lot: 5 sets: 5X HR merkins, backward run up hill with sandbag, 5X squats with bag

Camel pack mosey back to launching field for some body drags with the sandbags (approx. 20 yards) down and back x2 with 10 sandbag-free lunges thrown in at one end.

 MARY:

Freddie Mercuries x 20 IC starting on flat surface, up hill and highballing down the hill

LBC’s x 15 IC

 5x OHP with sandbag to wrap

 CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Stingray commented on our pandemic journey equating it to his M’s experience running a marathon.  She hit a wall at mile 21.  With only 5 miles remaining, one would think you are so close to the finish that it should be smooth sailing.  However,  the last 5-6 miles of a marathon are the most brutal since most training never takes you beyond 20 miles at a time.  We are at mile 21 of the pandemic as hopeful news continues to flow about vaccines.  We must push through this phase and be diligent to not only finish the race, but be encouraging to our families and others we encounter!  YHC prayed us out

MOLESKIN:
The mood quickly turned from hope to disappointment when only four PAX were present at launch.  What YHC had planned for a partner workout became a group exercise as the number of sandbags = number of PAX.  The grumbling quickly began when the PAX realized that with higher attendance the load of the sandbags could be shared with a partner, but alas, each PAX was responsible for his own 50lb “baby” throughout the workout.  With a focus on lower body, concerns quickly grew about the KTT workout tomorrow.  PAX can expect more sandbag workouts in the future as we slide into GrowRuck prep season!

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Coffee Park 11/18/2020

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA:
PAX: Sex Panther, Dinger, Grills (Willy Loman F3 Omaha), Agnes, 
QIC: Slushii, Dfib, 

AO: Coffee Park 
F3 DISCLAIMER & WELCOME: Given 

WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x 15 IC

Hillbillies x 15 IC

Windmill x 10 IC

THA THANG:
DFIB – DORA (Pax 1 runs down street and back while Pax 2 does exercise, FlapJack) – 100 Merkins, 200 LBC, 300 Lunges (100 front, 100 side, 100 back)

Slushii – Partner up and race down Turtle Creek Blvd and back (~.75miles). When you get to the “T” intersection each pair does 50 LBCs, 50 WW1 sittups, and 52 American Hammers (Double Count). Mosey back to soft top – 3x5x1 – pullups, box jumps, dips. 

MARY:
Jlo x 10 IC

Box Cutters x 15 IC

Windshield Wipers x 15 IC

Dolly x 15 IC

Rosalita x 15 IC

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Thankful for another day to workout together

MOLESKIN:
Started off with an unknown number of PAX. Warmed up with 5 PAX and after the mosey to the side street a Willy Loman showed up. There was some mumblechatter about changing the name of Dinger to Shallow Hal due to his tailbone soreness from his first day….still TBD. Great 2nd F after the workout getting to know the PAX a little more. Thankful for the fellowship after the beatdown. 

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
1. Potential HH @ Dfibs house Friday starting at 5pm
2. Cocktail making class December 9th – see band