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The Seven Levels of the Candy Cane Garage

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA:
PAX: Alright Alright, Bleep, Chairman Mao, Icebox, Plus One, Rump Roast, Sex Panther, Shifty McCoy
QIC: Teasip

AO: Burleson Garage (Omaha from Glencoe with the storms)
F3 DISCLAIMER & WELCOME: Given

WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x20, IST x17, Windmill x10

THA THANG:
With the storm, YHC was forced to Omaha to the Burleson parking garage for a modified beatdown from what YHC originally planned. 

Start with 12 merkins, then alternate running and back pedaling up the ramps to the last covered one.

OH Press x20 at the top, then run/back pedal back down. Followed that with a ramp suicide (run to the far parking space line and run back and keep going until you touch every line on the ramp).

Followed that up with Squats x15 and Bear Crawl up 4 ramps, then shuffle down the ramps.

Burpees x12 and WW1 Sit ups x15 OYO once we got back to the bottom. Followed by Crawl Bear up 4 ramps which was quite the crowd pleaser. Shuffle back down the ramps.

Finish up with lunge walk up one ramps, backwards lunge up another, The Bird x20 and Mountain Climbers x10 before moseying back down for 3 MoM

MARY:
Uptown Crunch x12, Rugby sit ups x15

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
YHC prayed us out.

MOLESKIN:
YHC woke up to a text from AA concerned about lightning. YHC didn’t see any while getting ready, so wasn’t concerned about the impending storm. Until YHC started driving, then decided that yes lightning was everywhere and Omaha’d to the Burleson parking garage. Sex Panther confirmed we couldn’t get into the garage but I think several of the PAX had already figured that out. During the windmills, it was noticed that YHC had a much slower count than Plus One who said that the Windmill is obviously a cardio workout. There wasn’t much grumbling until the Crawl Bears which got several groans and death glares from the PAX. Rumor has it Shifty McCoy splashed merlot to which Rump said YHC should feel terrible about. But YHC has no time for feelings or sympathy at that time of the day. Overall a good beatdown and a fun Omaha in the sweatbox.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
1. GrowRuck Sign up is live. Check out band for details.

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Fun in the Park – 06/11/20

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA:
PAX: Bleep, Life Alert, Slushii, Sex Panther, Draper
QIC: Oatmeal

AO: Burleson Park                
F3 DISCLAIMER & WELCOME: All present are familiar, but abridged version given

WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x 15 IC

IST x15 IC

Windmills x 10 IC

THA THANG:
Mosey to SE corner of park

x25 Merkins
then to each successive corner of the park and complete

x25 Squats
x25 Peter Parker’s
x25 Carolina Dry Docks

Mosey to tennis courts
One-way suicide (i.e. facing same way entire time) with increasing groiners at each line
Mosey to wall for wall sit x 60 secs

Balls to the wall x5 (originally planned for x10 but much more difficult that YHC anticipated)
Back on the end line for OW suicide w/increasing burpees at each line

Mosey to parking lot for exercises below – bear crawl to next line between exercises
Hip slapper x10
Imperial storm kickers x10DC
Mickey mouse merkins x5
Superman x10DC

Mosey back to soft top for PAX choice Mary until time.

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
YHC prayed us out.

MOLESKIN:
As is typical for YHC’s workouts (at least in his own mind) the workout was much rougher than it appeared on paper.  Mumble chatter commenced during the corner work but quickly dissipated once on the tennis courts and the groiners commenced.  The suicides slowly morphed into mall-walk suicides as the PAX and YHC hit E on the gas tank.  Balls to the wall proved to be a growth area for PAX.  Any additional reps would have provided some lucky plastic a nice South Pacific vacation!  Burpee suicide proved to be the regular crowd favorite, one that even YHC contemplated an Omaha.  Parking lot work introduced the PAX to a couple of new exercises and YHC sends his thanks to our resident safety patrol, Sex Panther, for suggesting that we not crawl across the entire parking lot given the construction crews coming to work.  Therefore, we went across only one section of the lot.  Some finish up Mary where I think Bleep took a nap with his legs at 12” above the ground.  The soft top is back open again, AlrightAlright has an old, familiar place to plant his Starbucky tailbone once again! 

We were all gassed when we hit time, YHC did his job!

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Icebox Birthday Beatdown – Take 3

#backblast

Bleep AlrightAlright Sally Sex Panther Oatmeal F150 Life Alert Slushii Teasip Royal Flush, and Dr. Oz (FNG) joined YHC for his 3rd annual bday beatdown

Sex Panther, Dr. Oz, and YHC thought this was going to be a 3 man weave but per usual the Glencoe Caravan rolled in at 0529 with the rest of the PAX doing their best Rump Roast impression coming in HOT

AlrightAlright immediately asked if we were going to be rolling around the ant hills of Glencoe since he wanted to Chippendale, I replied his backside was safe and proclaimed myself one of 3 PAX who knows how to handle the elements of Glencoe (the most finicky of AO’s…I’ll let y’all guess who the other two are 🤣)

After a quick warm up we completed a burpee mile where we added mine and Slushii’s bday burpees:

1/4 mile, 17 burpees
1/4 mile, 17 burpees
1/4 mile, 17 burpees,
1/4 mile, 17 burpees

That’s a total of 68 for the non math majors out there

Quick mosey to the tennis court for a ring of fire, 30 seconds of an exercise, 36 times, no breaks. Exercises included the following:

Arm circles forward (twice)
Arm circles backward (twice)
Burpees
One leg burpees
Tony Hawk burpees
LBCs
Flutter Kicks
Freddy Mercury’s
Penguin Crunch
Box Cutters
Squats
Bobby Hurley Squats
Merkins
T Merkins
Superman’s
SSH’s
IST’s
Overhead Press
Overhead Claps (twice)
Wide Grip Merkins
Missing a handful but y’all get the point

Had a few minutes left so we did some sprints across the two tennis courts and back

Thanks all for coming out, a lot of fun to have y’all join!

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I’m Back

AO: Glencoe Park

Weather: 79 degrees = Auto-Chippendale

PAX: Sex Panther, Chairman Mao

Q: Alright Alright

Hairy Chihuahuas (HCs that didn’t post): Teasip and Pepper

Disclaimer: Given

Warm-o-rama: Mosey to The Bridge

Tha Thang: Jacob’s Ladder across the length of The Bridge with 7:1 Burpees on the North Side and 1:7 Lunges + Merkins on the South Side.

8 Burpees OYO/8 Lunges in cadence/8 Merkins in Cadence

9 Burpees OYO/9 Lunges in cadence/9 Merkins in Cadence

Mosey back to Glencoe.

COT: 45 reps of everything for my return.  If you don’t get it go watch The Last Dance on Netflix.  Burpees, Lunges and Merkins because Black Lives Matter.

Moleskin:  YHC was disappointed in our Hairy Chihuahuas this morning, but thrilled to be the only non-Jason in attendance.  This definitely tested everyone’s cardio, as we ran over 4 miles.

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Midway Hollow Launch – Monday Funday w/ Rump & Slushii

Date: 06/01/2020
Temp: 70 
Weather: Very few clouds and an amazing pink, orange, red sun-up. IT alone was worth the beatdown!

Count-off & Name-O-Rama:
PAX: Bleep, Sex Panther, & Shifty McCoy
QIC: Slushii & Rump Roast

AO: Northaven Park

Disclaimer: Given

Intro/ Warm-o-Rama:
SSH x 15 (IC)
IST x 15 (IC)
Hillbillies x 15 (IC)
Dancing Bear x 10 (IC)

The Thang:
Mosey to tennis courts the long way (~3/4 of a mile)
– First stop sign – 15 Air Squats
– Second stop sign – 25 Erkins
-When we got to the tennis court Sulshii did doe Mary to run out what was left of his time.
 
At this point YHC took over:
Started with a good ole fashioned Suicide short-to-long every line.
 
Then we did a Four Corners with Bear Crawling as the mode of transportation.
Corner #1 – 25x Merkins
Corner #2 – 25x Squats
Corner #3 – 25x Lunges (DC)
Corner #4 – 25x Monkey Humpers
 
Then a Suicide of just the Doubles lines from long-to-short
Then Repeat-O on the Four Corners
 
Jail-Break across the field back to the launch point 
 

Circle of Trust (CoT):
YHC prayed us out

Playlist:
No music this morning

Moleskin:
We all we’re lacking a little motivation this morning and probably didn’t start until around 0532-0533 and after a quick warmup got straight to business with this mosey for damn near a mile with very brief stops to get the heart rate up even more. I feel like once the bear crawling started we all got focused and were grunting more than chatting. It was a good beatdown this morning. Glad my brothers came out to support our first “official” Midway Hollow Monday boot camp. Look forward to growing the AO and F3! #acceleration #isi #giveitaway 

Announcements:
None

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Four corners of GO BLIMPS

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA:
PAX: AlrightAlright, Draper, Oatmeal, Pepper, Sally, Sex Panther, Siesta and Amelia (FNG Brad Trosclair)
QIC: PowPow

AO: Burleson Park
F3 DISCLAIMER & WELCOME: Given

WARM-O-RAMA:
SSHx15, ISTx10

THA THANG:

Three PAX (Draper, Oatmeal and AlrightAlright) volunteered in advance to help lead the workout. We divided into 4 teams, the team captains were these three PAX and YHC. Each team was named after one of the five core principles of F3. 

Mosey to quad by Dallas Hall. Each team occupied a “base” at one of the four points of the diamond-shaped set of pathways that surround the fountain of the quad – (1) at the time capsule in front of Dallas Hall; (2) end of path that runs SW from base 1; (3) end of path that runs SE from base 2 (ie south end of quad over towards the flagpole); (4) end of path that runs northeast from base 3.

Every 5 minutes minutes each team runs a lap around the bases (approx. 400m) and then when back to their home base performs AMRAP of an exercise. At the 5 minute mark, run another lap and move to the next exercise on the list.

Exercises: Groiners, OH Claps, Burpees, Lunges, ISTs, HR Merkins, Plank Jacks, Squats  (GOBLIMPS)

At 0745 the squats were completed and the four teams met for some PAX-choise Mary at the fountain.

Mosey to the benches in front of the Airline garage. On benches: Derkinsx20, Dipsx20, Irkinsx20, Step Upsx20 each leg

MARY:
Also some mary back at Burleson. Best as I can remember we did LBCs, Heels to Heaven, Freddie Mercury and Crab Cakes,

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Amelia was given his name because he is a pilot.  Underrated joke that he dropped when AlrightAlright asked where he went to college “Just a small trade school in Maryland.” (Meaning the Naval Academy).  As a result he was almost named “Cadet”.

Thanks to all the HIMs who posted for the workout, conditions were unpleasant but YHC had a blast leading the group today.

MOLESKIN:
The team captains recorded the total reps performed by their team in each round (much easier said then done given the light rain coming down). “Open to all men” (Oatmeal and Siesta) came in first place, followed by team “Held outdoors, rain or shine, heat or cold” (AlrightAlright and Sally). After that I believe third place was “Always Free” (Amelia, Pepper and YHC) followed by “Peer Led” (Draper and Sex Panther).  Tclaps to Oatmeal and Siesta!

 

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The Last Dance (Beatdown?)

#backblast  5/19/20

AlrightAlright Teasip Amelia PowPow F150 Sex Panther Rump Roast and Shifty McCoy joined YHC for a Last Dance themed beatdown, here’s the thang

Warmed up to the Bulls pregame intro song, SSH and IST’s (23 of each)

First 3 Peat:
Go “DJ” – hold overhead, press with “DJ” (45)

House “Party” – hold goblet squat, curl “party” (75)

“Burn” up the dance – Freddy Mercury’s while holding coupon, bench press with “burn” (76)

Second 3 Peat

PAX ran a lap around the park, spread out start time by 10 seconds each, while waiting to run and while PAX completed the run completed sets of BLIMPS (burpee, lunge, IST, merkin, plank jack, and squat

Did lap/BLIMP combo two more times

Finished with a ring of fire, hold legs 6 inches + flutter kick, went to 91

PAX was welcomed this AM with me rocking my “real men wear red” Bulls tank,
Morning observations:
Rump Roast didn’t know what the Last Dance was, contemplating our friendship, Teasip is real close to hiring me as his wedding DJ after throwing these hits out, PowPow has the sweetest quarantine beard I’ve seen so far, AlrightAlright still has a Starbucky tailbone

Per Pow’s post, I’m leading again this Thursday at Lindsley Park, will be hitting up the Sante Fe Trail and a hill I found

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3mcagFlJImUthqF5J3YgQ1?si=iJye4KMkTb29ALt7KLHeEw

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Dynamic Duo Take on Katy Trail

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA:
PAX: Sex Panther
QIC: Teasip

AO: Katy Trail
F3 DISCLAIMER & WELCOME: Given

WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x15, IST x15, Daisy Pickers x12

THA THANG:
Quarter Mile Intervals with the below pain stations:

OH Press x12, LBC x20

Rugby situps x15

Merkins x12, Squats x12

Burpees x5

Dips x12, Step ups x12

Uptown crunch x12 each leg

End with BLIMPS, starting at 10 and increasing reps by 5 for each new exercise

MARY:
Done throughout the workout

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
YHC prayed us out

MOLESKIN:
Not much mumblechatter, as most of the PAX went to the new AO of Lindsley Park. Plus, we were both sucking wind after not having visited Katy Trail in quite awhile.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

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Monday Morning at Cole Park w/ Rump and Co.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA:
PAX: Sex Panther and Shifty McCoy
QIC: Rump Roast

AO:
Cole  Park

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER:
Given
 
Intro/ Warm-o-Rama: 
Ranger Merkins x15 (OYO, SC)
20x Lil’ Baby Arm Circles FWRD
20x Lil’ Baby Arm Circles RVSE
SSH x20 (DC,IC)
Cotton Pickers x10 (DC, IC)
IST x20 (DC, IC)
 
 
Tha-Thang:
I had a work out planned… Really I did
We did a suicide
We chatted for a little while
Shifty called 15x Hand Release Merkins (OYO)
I followed that up with 15x Big Boy Sit-Ups
We chatted for a while longer… Sex Panther got his phone and found the nearest Starbucks.
 
We moseyed (slow socially distaned walk) to Starbuck.
Got coffee
Moseyed (walked) back.
 
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Socially distanced of course and prayed us out
 
MOLESKIN:
I don’t really think we can count this on our workout tracker but, was an awesome 2nd F event and #coffeteria at #starbucks was a nice treat and a hell of a way to kick off the start to a great week!
 
 
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Zoom Happy Hour Saturday  @ 2000
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E.A.S.T.E.R. Tuesday 4.14.20

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA:
PAX: Aaarrrggghhh, AlrightAlright, Draper, F150, Oatmeal, PowPow, Rump Roast, Sex Panther, Shifty McCoy
QIC: Sally

AO: Virtual
F3 DISCLAIMER & WELCOME: given

WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH
IST
Watermelon Picker

THA THANG:
Ali Shuffle front and back, 1 min
Ali Shuffle side to side, 1 min
Chop ’em w/ ups & downs, 1 min

16 ski abs

EASTER:
50 reps of each of the following, with 20 4-count high-knees in between each:

Elf on a shelf w coupon
Apollo Ohnos w coupon
Step-ups on coupon
T-merkins, chest on coupon
E2ks (no coupon)
Rows (inverted or upright) w coupon

1 round of Dirty McDeuce:
12 squat presses, switching shoulder of coupon each rep
12 SSHs

MARY:
flutter kicks w coupon
big-boy situps
LBCs w coupon

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
done

MOLESKIN:
Lord thank you for this day, thank you for these men. YHC was honored to get to lead the workout again this morning, and was grateful that so many PAX posted. Though YHC was still alone at 5:29, these 9 other men had joined by 2 minutes later. Timing was comedic.

The warm-up included a watermelon-picker tribute to Aaarrrggghhh. PAX heard an audible “yesss” when it was announced.

On the first attempted exercise YHC tried an “exercise song” a la Pepper (Chumbawamba) and/or Icebox (‘I Don’t Get Tired’). Unfortunately, PAX could not hear the music so it was abandoned.

It was darn cold and windy this morning, props to F150, Oatmeal, Pow, Rump, and Shifty for the outdoor exposure. AlrightAlright, Draper, Sex Panther, and YHC were the #GarageCrew.

EASTER routine felt pretty challenging. YHC doesn’t remember coupons nearly ever feeling as heavy as during Elf on a Shelf. T-merkins on the block also left a mark, both mentally and physically. Lots of mumblechatter about it, but YHC believes still 0 curses from Rump Roast. Perhaps Shifty influences Rump to #Advantage.

YHC believes the best mumblechatter joke today was the hiney.

Virtual Qs take some getting used to with the lag time, but as one PAX put it, they also help the Q to be “concise and precise.” Something we all can probably get better at.

Again, thank you to the PAX. Let’s keep up the great attendance. Prayed for guidance to be #ServantLeaders wherever we can be today. Our families, workplaces, neighborhoods, and broader communities all need us and would benefit from our leadership.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
1. If you have extra medical supplies or know where to find some, please let Draper or PowPow know.
2. Happy Hour Saturday – only 4 days away!!