Category: Backblast

DATE: 3 – 28 – 19

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA:
PAX: Alright Alright, Oatmeal, MySpace, Eli, Sally, Chairman Mao, Special Sauce
QIC: Ina

AO: Katy Trail

F3 DISCLAIMER & WELCOME: 

Given

WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x 16 IC

IST x 16 IC

Squats (Single Count) x 16 IC

Windmills x 16 IC

Mosey to Trail

THA THANG:
With a March Madness theme in mind…

Sweet Sixteen – 1600 m run (1 mile)

Elite Eight – Rugby situps x 8 IC/Run 800 m (1/2 mile)

Overtime – Overhead claps x 8 IC/Run back 800 m (1/2 mile)

Final 4 – Merkins x 4 IC/Run 100 m (1/4 mile)

Close grip merkins x 4 IC/Run 100 m (1/4 mile)

Wide grip merkins x 4 IC/Run 100 m (1/4 mile Native American)

Peter parker merkins x 4 IC/Run 100 m (1/4 mile)

MARY:
LBC x 16 IC

Sky crunches x 16 IC

6 inch hold

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
YHC prayed us out

MOLESKIN:
We covered about 3.5 miles today, so a good day!  Weather was great and the PAX seemed to enjoy their time on the trail.  Although I don’t know if Eli even broke a sweat.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
1. Q source
2. Rump Roast with the VQ tomorrow!

PAX: Aaarrrggghhh, AlrightAlright, Ant Man, Chairman Mao, F150, Ina, Myspace, Oatmeal, Princess Turtlehead, Sex Panther, Special Sauce, splash, Spread, Stingray (FNG) Teasip, Thunderlips
QIC: Coach K
AO: Caruth Park

*Due to anonymity concerns, stories/NMM have been removed

Pre-Q:
PAX were instructed to arrive 5 minutes early this morning, and all were present right on time. F3 Nation dedicated workouts today to raising awareness about men’s mental health, specifically suicide and depression. Given that most suicides are middle-aged men…it’s something we can’t keep ignoring.

Tha Thang:
Dirty Mc-Cuss Word of Choice

Two full suicides: start short for the first one; start long for the second
Burpees x10
Hand-Release Merkins x12
Burpees x10
E2K x12
Burpees x10
Lunges x12
Burpees x10
Plank Jacks x12

Repeato 2 more times
Burpees x9

All in all – we did 129 burpees, one for every person that will kill themselves today.

Mumblechatter:
As with most of YHC’s Q’s, mumblechatter was restricted by the nature of the beast. splash promised us a burpee-free Q next Wednesday. AlrightAlright broke the tension with a penis joke on the “start short finish long” suicides. Him and Special Sauce tried making a truce on the third round of suicides, which fell through pretty quickly. Spread was the only one man enough to embrace the final 9 burpees without whining. Princess Turtlehead reminded the PAX that I warned everybody it wasn’t an ideal workout for a new guy. Disclaimer was given. Some moans and groans throughout as PAX figured out the pattern, but I definitely wouldn’t rank this amongst the worst of my Qs.

We wrapped up with the naming ceremony of our FNG Craig, now Stingray. He’s from Mississippi, owned a copy of “Flaming Lips” as his first CD, and was a journalist in college. Welcome, sir.

Tuesday’s #backblast

Trickle, Teasip, Alright Alright, Sex Panther, Sally, Special Sauce, Oatmeal, Ma Bell (Carpex) Rump Roast, Willie Loman from Louisiana joined Chairman Mao and YHC for a Creed 2 beat down

Warmup: SSH, IST’s

2 rounds of jump rope waterfall, one of these days we should see if Sauce and Sally could go 45 min straight

1st Creed/Drago fight, total carnage

Bear crawl the width of the football field and back, 30 burpees, 40 jump squats, 30 burpees, then bear crawl down and back again

Recovery/montage

Creed needed to strengthen his core for the 2nd fight so we did a bunch of Mary, first led by YHC then by Chairman

2nd Creed/Drago fight, the comeback

Mini solo Dora

Run width of football field and back, 25 merkins, run down and back 25 LBC’s, run down and back 25 squats

Finished with some lil baby arm circles wearing out the shoulders from all those fights

Not a lot of mumblechatter that I could hear, it was a pretty grueling beatdown for a large part of the workout

Chairman and I look forward to more movie themed co-Q’s in 2019!

DATE: Saturday 3/23

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA:
PAX: Jugs, Princess Turtlehead, Schnitzel (Willy Loman from Hilton Head), Ant Man, Special Sauce, Oatmeal, Plus One, Teasip, Splash, Sex Panther, Ma Bell
QIC: Icebox, Sally

AO: Burleson Park
F3 DISCLAIMER & WELCOME: Given

WARM-O-RAMA:
Done.
Unfortunately YHC (Sally) forgot the coupons so missed the first 5 minutes.
Guessing the warm-o-rama started with SSH then IST. YHC showed up in time for the jog around the big Burleson loop.

THA THANG:
PAX picked numbers to determine bracket seeding. Match-up partners then performed the first exercise: shoulder raises with weight vest weights, to failure.

After the winners of each match-up were determined, all PAX did a big loop.

Winners moved on in the bracket, and losers matched up with other losers. We continued in this fashion for 4 more rounds, completing the following exercises:

Coupon hold arms-length
Jump ropes
Coupon raises
Coupon squats

Ultimately the Sweet Thirteen ended in a battle between Oatmeal and Special Sauce. Special Sauce was declared champion.

All PAX then completed a partner DORA:

1. Merkins x 100
2. LBCs x 200
3. Coupon squats x 200 (modified)

PAX finally gathered on the basketball court for knockout – with a penalty of 5 merkins for a miss before a HIM could shoot his next shot. Those whom were knocked out did burpees until the game was over.

Plus One was ultimately named champion.

MARY:
Flutters
Box cutters

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Done. Developed trust and faith.

MOLESKIN:
Hit the coffeeteria afterward.
Good mumblechatter, including a call-out of Pepper, whom YHC saw at the grocery store the night before and said “I’m definitely coming in the morning.” Additionally, Ant Man called him and offered to give him a ride, but his call was unanswered.

We rib you because we miss you, Pep.

Apologies for the delayed backblast, gentlemen. If I am remembering something incorrectly let me know.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
1. YHC (Sally) will be hosting a tequila tasting / whisky tasting / poker / basketball watching night this Saturday the 6th. All are welcome.