731 Days Later
Two years goes fast. I still remember my first post and how I thought I was going to die most of the time. How did those guys move so much? How were they not as exhausted as I was? Who is this Banana Seat guy and how has he not been arrested for torture? Kenny’s Grave was the only AO I went to for some time. Thursday was my F3 day and that’s what I did. And, honestly, having Banana Seat Q most of my first work outs was probably a blessing because, well, you know how he is. He made me do things I didn’t think I could do and made me keep wanting to come back to see what more I can do. So, for that Banana Seat, I thank you.
Two years later and I’m still enjoying every minute of these workouts, pushing myself and others to achieve things previously unachievable. The things I’ve accomplished along the way were things that I would have told you I’d have never done before. As we’ve all heard in the past, they workouts don’t get any easy, you get stronger. And I’ve gotten a lot stronger and not just physically.
On to the workout, the preblast indicated that the numbers 24 and 16 would be prominent. I was hoping the reasons would be fairly obvious. I also remembered something that New Mexico said on Friday at Deadbolt’s 6 year Q, “Anniversary Q’s don’t have to suck, you know?”. With that in mind I set out to make us all sweat but not to make us all regret it. I also wanted to work in some of the things we did in my first workout so I borrowed a bit from that old backblast.
FNGs:
Not today
Warm Up:
We ran a lap around the track, mixing in butt kickers, high knees, and carocia. We finally circled up near the tennis courts for:
Squatted overhead claps x24 IC
Windmill x16 IC
SSH x24 IC
Daisy Picker x16 IC
Burpees x5 OYO
The Workout:
The Red October guys went about their business why the rest of us moseyed down the parking lot some. We partnered up to do some partner plank hops. P1 did shoulder taps while P2 did side hops over their legs 24 times, and then switched. Each partner did two rounds.
We moseyed a bit further to do some chilly broad jumps to traverse the rest of the parking lot down to the circle. PAX got in chill cut plank position and spaced out a bit while the first guy got up and jumped over everyone. When he was done he got down in to plank and the next guy went. We got through 3 rotations before reaching the end. From there we went and fished a rock out of the water and circled up for some quick rock work:
Curls for the girls x12
Tricep extensions x8
Ground Pounder x12
Rut Rows x8
Rinse and repeat (had to get 24 and 16 reps). 5 more burpees and then we carried our rocks up to the back parking lot and lined up. We started with 24 dips on our rocks and then bear crawl pushed them to the other side of the parking lot where there was an island. On that side we did 16 dirkins with our feet up on the curb. To work our way back across the parking lot we put our rocks in our bellies and crab walked. Back at the start we did 24 midget cookie pouches with our rocks. With our rocks in hand we duck walked to the other side where we did 16 goblet squats. We held our rocks and lunge walked back across and finished up with 5 more burpees.
We returned our rocks back to the drain and made our way over to the soccer field and lined up along the sideline. Instructions were given that we would sprint across the field, do an exercise, sprint back, do an exercise, etc. The exercises were Bobby Hurley x24, irkins on the bleachers x16, tuck jumps x24, and lastly 5 more burpees.
We did a slow Indian run up to the bathroom building for a 24 count people’s chair before heading to the tennis courts for…
Mary:
Our esteemed Red October colleges joined us in the circle for:
American Hammer x24
LSF x16
LBC x24
and to round it off, 4 burpees for 24 total during the workout
Announcements:
The Bass Lake mulch project continues. Great work is being done by UTI and the team so please help volunteer and help solidify F3 in the community. We probably wake a lot of people up so giving ourselves good press can only be good.
T-Claps (Recognition):
To all the guys that did the ruck yesterday morning, helping bring food and supplies to Mama’s House. It’s a great place and I love that we’re doing things to help them. I was proud to see LED and Fram and F3 in a post from Mama’s House last week thanking them for their charity
Prayer:
For everyone dealing with all the things. So much stuff is going on right now and we’re all dealing with something. Maybe that’s the biggest take away that there is, we’re all dealing with something so have grace and patience for your fellow man.
I also reminded God that I think he left the oven on.
As always, it was an honor to lead. When I started doing this there was no way I ever thought I’d be able to lead a workout, for many reasons. I’m glad that I do and I’m glad that I can and I encourage anyone that hasn’t to get out there and do it. You will surprise and impress yourself, I guarantee it.
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