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I Feel the Need for Speed! 02/20/20

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA:
PAX: AlrightAlright, PowPow, Coach K, Special Sauce, Draper, Ina, Pepper
QIC: Oatmeal

AO: La Madeleine/SMU Track
F3 DISCLAIMER & WELCOME: Given in a brain fog

WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x 20IC

IST x15IC

Windmills x 10IC

THA THANG:
YHC had the PAX to the track for some much needed speed work.  We commenced the following with each PAX taking the lead for each length.  Should the “12” not finish in the given time, there was to be punishment.

400m@95sec, 60 sec rest when the “six” finished with 20 squats during rest period

200m@45sec, 30 sec rest when the “six” finished with 10 merkins during rest period

400m@90sec, repeat active rest period with squats

200m@44sec, repeat active rest period with merkins

400m@89sec, repeat active rest period with squats

200m@43sec, repeat active rest period with merkins

400m@88sec, repeat active rest period with squats

400m@87sec, repeat active rest period with merkins

Half bleacher run

Mosey back to La Mad

Mary:

Homer/Marge with some mumble chatter by YHC adding a few exercises in throughout

Uptown crunch

Low dollie

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
YHC prayed us out.

MOLESKIN:
YHC had a need for speed this morning and brought along the PAX for some fun on what was a blustery and wet winter morn.  The challenge was to get faster with each “rep” or face punishment.  Unfortunately, YHC did not set stretch goals to allow us to fail in a safe environment so we coasted through the workout without any punishment.  YHC did note that this workout created quite the excitement (or fear) to exceed the targeted times with each run.  So much so that the jumpy PAX false started numerous times on one particular 200m run so YHC thought 10 burpees would quell the skittish PAX.  It appeared to have the desired effect as there were no more false starts! 

Once again YHC had issues with the opening disclaimer.  For the life of me, I cannot understand why it is so hard to remember an announcement that we hear every morning.  Perhaps it’s the Gloom, my reduced posts or my age.  No matter, I shall endeavor to get my act together. 

Overall, I think the workout met my desired objective and I think we, as PAX, could use more speed work with faster times!

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Impromptu Q

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA:
PAX: Bleep, Chairman Mao, Coach K, Ina, Slushii, Special Sauce, Ultra, Beater (F3 Indy), Dontcha Know (F3 Greensboro)
QIC: Alright Alright

AO: Caruth Park
F3 DISCLAIMER & WELCOME: Given

WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x20

IST x15

Squats x10

Merkins x5

THA THANG:
Run

Merkins x5 IC

Run

Merkins x5 IC

Run

Merkins x5 IC

Burpees x6 for not picking up the 6

Run

Merkins x5 IC

Burpees x3 for lollygagging

Run

Merkins x5 IC

Run

Merkins x5 IC

Run

Merkins x5 IC

Mosey to Tennis Courts

Burpee Dan with Increasing Burpees across both courts and back

Dirty McDeuce

Alternating Lunges x12

WWI Sit Ups x12

Overhead Claps x12

Bear Crawl Across Both Courts

Crawl Bear Back

Repeato x3

MARY:
Maybe, don’t really remember.

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Core and Cardio on the Trail

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA:
PAX: AlrightAlright, Oatmeal, Goop, Teasip, Special Sauce, Aaarrrggghhh, Coach K
QIC: Ina

AO: La Madeleine
F3 DISCLAIMER & WELCOME: 

Given

WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x 15 IC

IST x 15 IC

Windmill x 10 IC

THA THANG:
Mosey to Trail

Peter Parker with Merkin x 8 IC

1/4 mile – Toe Touch x 15 IC

1/2 mile – Freddy Mercury x 15 IC

1/4 mile – Right Side Crunches x 10 IC

1/2 mile (1/4 mile down and back) – Left Side Crunch x 10 IC

1/4 mile – LBC x 15 IC

1/2 mile – Native American Run – Rugby Sit Up x 15 IC

1/4 mile – 10 Burpees OYO

Mosey Back – 15 WWI situps OYO

 

MARY:
Done during the workout

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
YHC prayed us out

MOLESKIN:
YHC tried to cover more distance by incorporating some 800 m stretches on the trail. It was a nice, cool morning and we ran about 3.5 miles, got in some core work, and had a glorious workout.  Some comments were made about tailbone issues with the core work on the trail.  YHC doesn’t really notice tailbone issues but perhaps that is because I have more padding – not necessarily a good thing…Other than that I hope the PAX enjoyed the workout and got their daily dose of core and cardio on the Trail.  

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
1. Q source Friday at 11:30 in Preston Center

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3, 2, 1… Lift Off

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA:
PAX: Pee-can, Wal-Mart, Boomer, Rabbit, Bubba, Mookie, Eruzione, Ledger, Silicon, Mizzourah, Petrified (FNG formerly known as Chris), Smuckers (FNG formerly known as Evan), Dr. Dirt (FloMo), Rocket Man (FloMo), Griswold (FloMo), Ghia (FloMo), Rump Roast (F3 Dallas), Agnes (F3 Dallas), Pepper (F3 Dallas), Oatmeal (F3 Dallas)
QIC: Alright Alright

AO: Rice Middle School
F3 DISCLAIMER & WELCOME: Thoroughly given.

WARM-O-RAMA:
Side Straddle Hops x25

Imperial Storm Troopers x15

Merkins x10

Squats x10

Mosey to Soccer Field #1

THA THANG:
The Ball Sack: 55 Burpees, 66 Lunges, 33 Imperial Storm Troopers, 44 Merkins, 22 Plank Jacks, 11 Squats.

Mosey to Tennis Courts

Partner Work: Partner 1 run across 4 courts and back, Partner 2 burpees, flapjack and repeato until the team has completed 100 burpees.

Mosey to Football Field

Jacob’s Ladder: Run across football field, 7:1 Jumping Spiders, 1:7 Monkey Humpers

Mosey around school to starting point.

MARY:
Flutter Kicks x25

Wilt Chamberlain Kicks 15

Dying Cockroaches x15

MOLESKIN:
10 Plano PAX (including a bunch of #kotters), 5 Dallas PAX, 4 Flower Mound PAX and 2 FNGs.  Not too shabby.

The PAX did get to see some #RocketFuel.  I think it got the best of him during the Tennis Court work.

Petrified asked to be named Mahogany, but as a #TripleRespect from California Petrified made more sense.

Smuckers is a Petroleum Engineer.

This was a great relaunch for Plano and will hopefully give you guys some momentum.  Look forward to working out with you again soon.

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Fashionably Late

PAX: Aaarrrggghhh, AlrightAlright, Cookies N Cream (FNG), Froggy (B’ham), Icebox, Oatmeal, Sex Panther, Sweet Baby, Teasip
QIC: Coach K, Ultra

Warm-O-Rama:
We don’t know because we were both late…

Tha Thang (YHC):
21, 15, 9 of thrusters and burpees (21 reps of both, then 15, and 9)

Jacob’s Ladder with OG Manmakers (burpee, push up, clean, squat, press, two lunges) and burpee jump overs with the block

Tha Thang (Ultra):
Partner 1 runs across field while other PAX does reps
– 50 double count side leg raises (each side)
– 100 double count shoulder presses

Mosey to flag for ring of fire v-ups with chest press (200x)
Rugby SUs and LBCs to round us out

Mumblechatter:
In true co-Q fashion, 0/2 showed up on time as other PAX were instructed to tell the other to start first. Whoops. Not the ideal impression for an FNG, but his name might be cause for bigger concern…Teasip was kind enough to lead the warm-up before the Qs rolled up.

We grabbed the blocks and made it to the field. Pretty sure the thruster/burpee combo is more despised than a traditional YHC Burpee Beatdown, but that’s up for the PAX to decide. We had some side exercises going while the six wrapped up the circuit before moving to what was probably a worse series of exercies. YHC demonstrated a true manmaker (includes two lunges while holding the press). A couple of PAX requested follow up demonstrations, and we’re at the point in F3 where YHC assumes they’re being difficult and not serious. My bad. Time got called and Ultra took the reigns.

Mumblechatter was very scarce this morning, except for the number of times PAX asked Ultra to clarify he said “double-count” every exercise. Could not count the times on two hands. We powered on, but, again, it was a really quiet group this morning. There were a lot of comments about the hip flexors during the side leg raises, which is apparently a muscle none of us at F3 ever use. After the mini-Dora, we moseyed back to the flag for the longest ring of fire in Dallas history. Holding the block over your head and your legs at 6 inches, we went around doing a v-up. “We’re going to 200” was a nice warning that no one thought was serious. But alas…it was.

We wrapped up with the naming ceremony, where our lovely FNG gave us plenty of ammunition when, in describing his life, was bold enough to use the word “Lactation”. This overshadowed any references to his hometown in upstate NY and his two daughters. After circling around breast pumps, lactation, and milk, we finally got to “Cookies n Cream”. Ask him about it…you won’t regret the story.

Thanks for braving the weather this morning.

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Games with Icebox

Siesta Oatmeal Ant Man Teasip Special Sauce Rump Roast Coach K Toto, AlrightAlright and Draper joined YHC for what Draper is starting to dub “Games with Icebox”

After a quick, PAX guided disclaimer, we warmed up and ran out to the Mustang garage

The thang:

Partnered up and P1 ran a mustang lap (first lap included the merkins and LBC’s but Omaha’d after that to be just the lap to get more cardio in) while P2 did ring of fire until P1 returned

Ring of Fire was set up with 20 stations and we spent 30 seconds at each one before rotating. Rump Roast threw away my cards so here’s my best guess of what they were:

Apollo Creed Burpees
Plank
J Lo’s
Lil Baby Arm Circles
Overhead Press (with 25 lb free weights, thanks Special Sauce)
Jump Rope
Workout dice 1
Workout dice 2
Freddy Mercury’s
SSH’s
IST’s
WWI sit ups
And some others

Decent mumble chatter since no one had to count out anything, AlrightAlright is pretty proud of how far he’s come on jumping rope proving that if you keep doing what you’re not good at you’ll improve, except me bear crawling, I still suck big time at those

A healthy debate towards the end about the route of the mustang with Coach K concerned that some PAX were taking alternate routes so we did a AlrightAlright guided fun run of the lap at the end before mosey’ing to the park for COT

Announcements: Plano is this coming Saturday, get all your wildling friends out there
Cole Park again tomorrow for the late brunch crowd, 0615

https://open.spotify.com/user/martijos/playlist/57xT1bLrsqsjauCb6FXLGS?si=XjeNXB0DTnyxgOznIEeKCw

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The Return of the Omaha Q

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA:
PAX: Aaarrrggghhh, Alright Alright, Bleep, F150, Icebox, PowPow, Slushii, Rocky (Wily Loman from KC)
QIC: Teasip & F150

AO: Glencoe Park #glencoefasho
F3 DISCLAIMER & WELCOME: Given by YHC for both Q’s

WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x15, IST x15, Vegetable pickers x12

THA THANG:
YHC informed the Pax that he would be taking the first half of the workout, then we would Omaha the second half to a random Pax for them to Q the rest.

YHC started with a burpee mile, stopping every quarter mile for 12 burpees. Ended the last quarter mile with 17 burpees as that was the final margin for LSU over Clemson. Then partnered up with Partner One doing squats with the coupon while Partner Two ran to the playground for 5 pull ups, then run around the tennis court and relieve Partner One. Repeato until you reach 100 squats. 

At the end of the squats, the halfway point had been reached so YHC nominated F150 to take over from there. We quickly ran over to the football field for some modified BLIMPs. Did four rounds of each exercise, with a different method of transportation in between lines on the football field.

10 burpees, bear crawl to the next line, 10 burpees. Continue on until 40 burpees were completed.

10 lunges in place, with lunge walking in between. Continue until 40 lunges done.

10 squats with duck walking in between until 40 squats done.

10 merkin plank jacks, with bear crawling in between. Continue until 40 merkin plank jacks done.

MARY:
Not really done *shrugs*

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
YHC prayed us out

MOLESKIN:
YHC gave the cryptic preblast that warned there could be an Omaha Q in the gloom. After some discussion, it was decided that YHC would Q the first half and a mystery person would Q the rest. Icebox was quick to say I was following in the footsteps of my beloved Astros and cheating (YHC has no comment) and others were quick to volunteer to take the Q during the burpee mile. F150 was ultimately chosen and was quick to start delivering a rather punishing beatdown. Tclaps to him for being fast on his feet and delivering a good beatdown. This will continue throughout the month and will follow the same format to keep the PAX on their toes and to continue to challenge us.

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Wimps

PAX: Aaarrrggghhh, Alright Alright, Draper, Sex Panther
QIC: Coach K
AO: Burleson Parking Garage

Warm-O-Rama:
SSH x20
IST x20
Cotton Pickers x10

Tha Thang:
Ascending BLIMPS with bear crawls (Burpees, Lunges, Irkens, Merkins, Peter Parkers, Squats)

10-9-…-1 Burpees, BBSU, Squats

Mumblechatter:
Thankfully lightning forced us to merge our workouts today, otherwise Aaarrrggghhh would’ve been left with a few good men and YHC would’ve had to workout alone. Skies looked clear at midnight flying in, but the sky fell out this morning. We couldn’t decide if it was the weather or rampant vagititus that kept everyone home today. Aaarrrggghhh decided to merge the workouts, so YHC put something together that probably was not in the back of the Katy Trailers’ minds. 

Aaarrrggghhh had a hilarious pun/theme workout, so the next time he leads a Katy Trail workout all y’all best be there. 

Gimpy (YHC) asked Aaarrrggghhh to lead some side-straddle hops for the people before YHC took over. We started with a bear crawl up the first ramp followed by 5 burpees. Then bear crawled another ramp followed by 5 burpees. PAX meandered off at this point, and YHC just waited for the lost sheep to realize Gimpy hadn’t moved. We kept on with the lunges and so on up the garage. It was truly a “hot box” kinda day despite the absence of running. YHC mixed up the usual ISTs with some Irkens, which only lasted for two rounds. It was also at this point that YHC got called out for errant multiples of 5, to which YHC blames the jetlag. 

The Peter Parkers opened up a conversation about F3 disabilities as YHC has a bum foot. Oatmeal has a bum wrist (which for some reason precluded him from a running workout). Alright Alright now has a bad hip flexor, which he blames on his dog (really just old age, but we’ll let grandpa say what he wants). We all powered on before the 10 to 1 circuit. Lots of comments about disrespecting the tail bone when having to do big boi sit ups. We offered him a spot in the grass outside. COT ended with a long discussion about kids.

Not the ideal morning, but we rallied on and had a good time (to my knowledge). Cole Park launches tomorrow. Weather looks questionable tomorrow as well, but YHC believes vagisil can be found at your local grocery store. 

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Oatmeal’s Birthday Beatdown – 1/11/2020

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA:
PAX: Draper, AlrightAlright, Icebox, PowPow, Coach K, Ina, Rump Roast, Siesta, Sweet Baby
QIC: Oatmeal

AO: Burleson Park
F3 DISCLAIMER & WELCOME: Given

WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x 44IC

IST x15IC

Cotton Pickers x 10IC

THA THANG:
Mosey to parking garage:

11 burpees, backward run up ramp x4
Bear crawl down ramp, 11 burpees x4

Obama (44th president)
– Duck walk x4, jump squat

– Crab walk x4, crab cake
– Lunge x4, Bonnie Blair

– Peter Parker x4, merkin

Lazy Dora
Merkins x120, plank x10 (44+76=120)
Squats x240, squat hold x20
LBC x360, 6″, x30

Mary

Ring of Fire:

Heals to heaven x 44

Rosalita x 44

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
YHC prayed us out.

MOLESKIN:
It was YHC’s 44th birthday and PAX seemed to be in high spirits (although YHC believes this to be the result of sorority rush activities rather than YHC’s planned beat down). YHC put together a greatest hits playlist from 1976, which must seem like ancient history to most of the PAX (@Sally)! We commenced birthday burpees in the parking garage.  To give the PAX a reprieve from 44 straight burpees, YHC had PAX backward run up the ramps in between sets of 11 and seeing that YHC looks forward to at least another 44 years, we did another 44 burpees back down the ramps.  However, this is where things got dicey as YHC’s wish for another 44 years almost ended before it began.  As YHC descended a ramp on a bear crawl, a late-arrival for class or rush made her acquaintance with YHC with the bumper of her car!  Fortunately, she braked and I narrowly avoided becoming her new hood ornament.  Unfortunately, YHC managed to sprain his wrist in the process so happy birthday to me!  The drama receded throughout the rest of the workout with random mumble chatter about the choice of songs in YHC’s Spirit of ’76 playlist, spattering of sleet and general dissatisfaction with the pain YHC brought today.

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Tennis Court Fun at Caruth

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA:
PAX: Aaarrrggghhh, Agnes, Coach K, Ina, Sex Panther, Special Sauce, Sweet Baby, Ultra, Gladiator (Houston), Boobie (FNG – Houston)
QIC: Alright Alright

AO: Caruth Park
F3 DISCLAIMER & WELCOME: Given

WARM-O-RAMA:
Overhead Claps x41

Imperial Storm Troopers x20

Mosey to Tennis Courts

Lunge Paint the Lines

THA THANG:

Burpee Dan across both tennis courts

Bear Crawl Suicides with Burpees at the Doubles line

MARY:
Partner 1 Crawl Bear across 1 tennis court, Partner 2 Flutter Kicks flapjack and repeato for 6 minutes.

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

YHC prayed us out

MOLESKIN:
Lots of complaints throughout, so it must have been tough enough. 

Some clamored for Stairway when we began the Bear Crawl suicides.  Unfortunately, we didn’t have a speaker and YHC wasn’t going to let the PAX quit after only 8 minutes and 2 seconds.