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LipSync’s 4-year anniversary Q at the location where it all started

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AO: Kenny’s Grave

Date: 25-June-20

Warm Up

  • Run to rock pile and grab a rock
  • Circle up for Warm-up: Side straddle hop, good mornings, Frankenstein’s, imperial walkers, Hill Billies and seal and overhead claps

The Workout – My Greatest (aka: favorite exercises)

  • Barely curling across parking lot
  • Hit the greenway with John Cusack’s
  • Two rotations of squat hold Indian runs with rock
  • Curls for the girls with running lap around the group as the time keeper
  • Rocks spaced out along greenway with alternating bear crawls and crabwalks
  • Jack webs in grass next to baseball field
  • Wonder bras at bathrooms
  • Return walks and jog to Mary

Mary

  • LBCs, Freddie Mercurys, box cutters and have a nice day

Announcements

  • Still openings for mulch spreading this Saturday
  • We need more HIMs to step up to Q. Our Q sheets should be filled out 3 weeks instead of looking for Qers each week.

Prayer Request

  • Our Country
  • First responders and hospital workers
  • Gamecock’s 2.0 due this November
  • Traveling mercies during the summer break

That’s a Big Weinke

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Warm Up:  The rain held off.  Red October PAX joined the PAX from Mutiny.  Dauber led the warmup with good mornings, Daisy pickers, overhead claps, seal claps and sir Fazio arm circles (f/b), 25 SSH.

The Workout:  I brought a poster listing a bunch of kettlebell exercises.  After turning 50 I need reading glasses and opted for a huge weinke.  See picture.  After each 25 rep exercise, we caught our breath doing core exercises that included planks, LBCs, WW IIs, leg lifts, 6 inches, catalinas, erkins…At one point we moseyed to the wall for a 10c X 4 BTTW and people’s chair. R&R but doubled the time.  Fun.

Mary:  joined FedEx with some static stretches, pickle pounders, planks,  merkins, hammers, H2M, etc.

Announcements:  Bass Lake mulch sign up.  See Slack.  FV PAX check FB.

T-Claps (Recognition):  welcome back kotter (Modify)!

Prayer:  FedEx took us out.  Lots of unspoken.  Prayers for Noah’s Ark’s M, recent graduates, first responders, gov’t leaders; PAX who are grieving with loss of a family member; injured PAX; everyone trying to improve their relationships with others.

Pulled Some Fire Hose For A Barn Burner

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I pulled in at South Park around 5:00 am to set-up. One vehicle in parking lot. Could not tell who it was. Looked back at 5:05 and they were off. I got everything in place and the vehicles started rolling in. I was worried that we may have too many PAX and not enough props. It all worked out. So, I made mention that we may have a Fire Drill. Comment made, what is a Fire Drill? I stated it was a surprise…show up and he did not (Dauber). 14 PAX showed up for a barn burner of exercises and some fire hose workouts with no water this time.

FNG: None

Warm Up: Moseyed a lap around the track. Circled up for the following: SSH-25, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies, Moroccan Night Clubs, Fazio Arm Circles, Daisy Pickers and we are off to the workout.

The Workout: Moseyed to where the props(stations) were staged and explained what was about to take place. It was complete silence especially when PAX saw the PALLET. M4life was even quiet, I know that’s rare!

1st  partner did station while the other did the following exercises and they would rotate until that station was finished…move onto next station. Rinse and Repeat for almost 4 rotations all the way through

Merkins, LBC’s, Squats and towards the end whatever you had left.

1st Station, 100’ 3” fire hose drag from one end of the parking lot to the other

2nd Station, Farmers carry with 44lbs each arm

3rd Station, 150’ 3” fire hose on your shoulder. Run from one end to the other of parking lot

4th Station, More tractor weights (1) lunges one end to the other of parking lot

5th Station, Rotational Hose slams around a tree with 1 3/4″ fire hose

6th Station, 100’ 3” fire hose drag from one end of the parking lot to the other

7th Station, The most fun for all PALLET PUSH with 50’ 1’ ¾” hose on pallet. You guessed it from one end to the other. It was rough so we had partner push it back to starting area.

8th Station, Tractor Weights John Q form one end to the other of parking lot.

Mary: I knew it was too good to be true M4life started bumping those gums.

Low slow flutter, Box cutters, Downward dog, Leg and pigeon stretches, Have a nice day

Announcements: Check Facebook and Slack

T-Claps (Recognition): EC: Beater by himself. Gamecock for running to AO from his house. Great job to all. It was a tough work out!

Prayer: Beater, Uncle and Cousin Palliative Care called in. Modify sister-in-law broke her back (Molly), passing of Wiggly Dad, Fedex co-worker 50lb box fell on his head, still out of work, Forceps Family

It was a Honor to Lead! Sprinkler

Light it up!!

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FNGs:1 FNG. (Armpit) 5 for EC.  Fonzie, breach, born & buttermilk
Warm Up:16 pax total started with SSH, Windmills, daisy pickers, fazio arm circles, seal claps, over head claps.
The Workout:9 for Red October

one person did battle rope twist while the others did the exercise 20 count IC

Rows

Squats twists

Push up drags

Burpee press

American hammers

Leg raises

Curls for girls

Step ups

side bends

Wonder bras/ (mountain climbers/ opp mc/ peter Parker)1:4

Half burpees curls

Mary:

all in 20 count Cadence

lsf/6 inches/ hello dolly

lbcs, homer to marge, pickle pounders, shoulder taps. 10 burpees oyo.

Announcements:q sheet need a filled out. Q all AO challenge. Forceps sons service at Hope Saturday
T-Claps (Recognition): Att runners along with half milers last weekend
Prayer:forceps and family, military and 1st responders, marriages and families health issues

Better late then Never

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FNGs: No
Warm Up:  Quick lap around track with SSH, IW/HB, Good Mornings, 5 burpees.
The Workout: Kettle Bell Indian run down town with a stops at the springs: 11s (Turkish get ups/squats), parking lot 1: murkins, diamond murkins, and release murkins, parking lot 2: WW2,  crunches, and a quick stop at the rails on the way back for erkins, derkins, and dips.
Mary: Have a nice day.
Announcements:
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer:

15 PAX at the Trot – GOOD TIMES!

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FNGs:  Welcome Gary Cunha – 90120; a native of CA.  Learned about F3 after meeting Darby at the opening of Crooked Creek Park in FV.

EC:  LED,  Farva, Fonzie

Warm Up:  So excited to be back at the Trot.  Lots of fist bumps and smiling faces as we circled up in what Noah’s ark called “Perfect Exercise weather” – a balmy 55 degrees/overcast.  Flag was planted, no FNGs at the start and we began a mosey around the tennis courts to the snack shack.  Heard some “oh craps” as a vehicle entered Action Park. Wasn’t sure if it was a PAX, an FNG, or other.  16-bit had a similar experience at an AO when an unidentified car showed up and loitered for a bit before taking off.  I was alerted we indeed had an FNG and circled up for the warmup.  Welcomed Gary Cunha, gave the F3 disclosures and began the following exercises:  25 SSH, 10 good am, 10 Don Quixote, 10 Daisy Pickers, 10 Sir Fazio Arm Circles, 10 Overhead Claps, 10 Seal Claps.  A thought occurred to me to have a PAX keep an eye on the new PAX – Gump must have been on the same page and shadowed him making sure he was doing OK.  Just a suggestion going forward to have a PAX (perhaps the one who brought him out if able) stay with the FNG throughout the workout.

The Workout:  I had hinted at rocks, hills and a possible field trip during a pre-blast.  Wanted to give Gary a nice introduction to F3 and headed to the edge of the grass for Jack Webb’s 1 merkin to 3 air presses to 10 count.  FUN!  Recovered to the short wall for 10 step ups on each side (L/R) OYO.  Mosey to the snack shack for 15 ic People’s Chair followed by 15 BTTW ic.  Rinse and Repeat but increased count to 20 but had Gump and Farva call out the count respectively.  Mosey to the road for the following exercises:  Frankensteins, Gate Openers, Bear Crawl, and Karaoke (L/R) to the parking lot.  Mosey to the hill.  At base of hill, 10 Prisoner Squats.  Great mumble chatter continued.  Bear crawl up the hill on newly cut grass (NICE!).  At the top of the hill, PAX completed 10s of derkins, erkins and dips on the guardrail.  Hopped over the guardrail and jogged to the far corner of the tennis courts to pick up a medium sized rock.  And there’s always one guy who does not know what medium means.  More to follow.  John Cusack to the newly lit white lights.   5 burpees OYO.   Circled up for a bunch of rock exercises,  some single count, some exercises in cadence.  Had the PAX rotate, 1, 2 or 3 places after completing an exercise.  These are the exercises we executed (not in exact order):  curls for the girls, tricep extensions, overhead presses, rut rows, reverse bicep curl (please explain what this is to Gump), goblet squat, bus drivers, slap rocks from plank, toe tappers, ground pounders.  Somehow we got on our six; I called on the “Respect” PAX for exercises on our six.  Boat canoes, WWIIs, 6 inch, Chest press, tricep press….John Cusack back to the rock pile.  Jog to tennis courts for Mary.  That one “medium-sized rock” was a friggin’ challenging!  Way to push yourself PAX!

Mary:  Core exercises including box cutters, low-slo flutters, homer to marge, pickle pounders, Freddie Mercury, and yoga stretches including Runner’s, Pigeon, Child pose, DDog.  Focused on the word OPPORTUNITY (saw on Slack – thanks Mookie).  Reflected on M, Tues.  what can we do better today and rest of the week as husbands, fathers, workers, etc.  Have a Nice Day – Silence for 30 seconds.

Announcements:  New AO Prison Yard (great job Breach); New roadside F3 signage “Adopt a Highway” clean-up opportunity (Great job John Deere); See Slack/FB for other announcements.

Learned about Gary, a USMC vet, a VA social worker, originally from N. Hollywood.  Names of Smog, Hollywood were thrown out but 90210 stuck!  Welcome!

T-Claps (Recognition): EC PAX!

Prayer:  Yosef’s? son with broken femur, PAX with alcohol/substance abuse, Quiver’s wife, other SPOKEN and UNSPOKEN prayers.  YHC took us out.

Great to be back at PT; long overdue.  Honor to lead.  Double D has given 90210 three weeks before he steps up and takes over at Q.

 

2nd F at Stick Boy

Lots of 24 Reps Honoring Kobe in the Pouring Rain

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Pre-blast:  YHC wanted to honor a legend of the NBA, gone too soon, after seeing a bunch of tributes in CA last week while on a business trip.  I saw the forecast for 90% rain with temps in the low 60’s.  I knew there was a shelter at South Park but my F3 planning I did earlier looking up some new exercises were to be – better experienced in the elements.  The Black Mamba would have wanted it that way too.  I asked the PAX to come prepared for rain.

Warm Up:  Rolled up into the parking lot and recognized the Chocolate Fix bumper sticker on Modify’s car.  I had hoped he would be there since this AO was his baby.  Three more vehicles arrived filled with waves, fist bumps and smiles from Noah’s Ark, Sprinkler and Norm (who made it just in time as the clock struck 530 am).  A couple of PAX reminded me of the shelter option.  I politely declined and had the PAX jog to the basketball courts peppering them with Kobe stats for the next 20-30 mins.  At half court, we did the following exercises in 24 cadence counts:  SSH, seal clap/overhead clap combo, monkey jumpers, Don Quixote, Sir Fazio Arm circles.  Recovered with 24 merkins in puddles.

Lakers at Wizards 12/2/15

The Workout:  Found a new Indian run called the Mamba (it was just meant to be I guess) where PAX run in between brothers back to front.  I had calculated a nice 1.5 mile (total) run on the sidewalk of  S Judd Parkway SW.  The weaves were a bit dicey going on and off the sidewalk on to the wet/muddy turf so I called an audible having the PAX run and pass on the Right for safety halfway through the run.  Along the way, PAX executed 3 sets of 8 burpees OYO commemorating Kobe’s two uniform numbers.   I do not think the PAX were impressed with his stats but the idle mumble chatter led to some laughs and threats of throat punches.  We were jelling as a team!  Yay!   We found ourselves back at the basketball court and began 4 corners.  Four corners consisted of:  10 plank jacks ic, 20 monkey jumpers ic, and 30 squats.  The last 40 in the final corner was BTTW with each PAX counting ic to 8 for a total of 40 count BTTW – that sucked btw.  (I initially wanted single count; glad we did a 4 count). The PAX lunged, performed Frankensteins, bear crawled and karaoke’d around the 4 corners.  Mosey to shelter (FINALLY) for Mary.

Mary:  Lots of stretching, LBCs, WWIIs (24s) while YHC got emotional asking the PAX to think about the last few minutes Kobe had with his daughter while the helicopter they were riding on declared an emergency and crashed into the ground killing them both.  (UPDATE:  A day after this BB was written, a news report suggested the pilot did not declare an emergency and switched from VFR to IFR making an ascent through the clouds at 180 mph.  He was at 1400’ trying to maneuver over a mountain top at 2400’. Kobe may not have had any time to reflect.  I am sure there was anxiety in the cockpit, possibly fear.  Regardless, it was an awful event.)  I was saddened and shared my fear of losing a child before me one day.  I asked the PAX to take a minute while lying on the cool, DRY ground, and think about all of their blessings and what was important to them – their family.

Announcements:  Come out Friday to Bombshell for a great cause with Breach and listen to our very own Crosby.  Eagle Scout project on Saturday building a green house (10-2?). See Slack for details.

T-Claps (Recognition):  The All-Star PAX who came out today in the pouring rain!

Shooting guard: Noah’s Ark
Point Guard: Modify
Small Forward: Dauber
Power Forward: Norm
Center: Sprinkler

Prayer:  PAX friend who lost a baby; Those couples who participated at Hope working on “relationships “ helping others and their own.  PAX injured.  Unspoken.  YHC took us out.

Honor leading you men in the gloom.  -Dauber

It’s the return…

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Dauber asked on Sunday if I could fill in for him at Red October on Monday because he was under the weather.  Not having Q’d a kettle bell workout before I promptly went and scoured Crazy Ivan back blasts in order to come up with a workout.  20 minutes later I had a winkie created and was ready to roll for the morning.  Pre-blast went out and then I noticed that Mutiny was doing ultimate frisbee in the morning, which we usually converge one.  Confirmation from Dauber meant my time creating the workout was for not.  Or was it?  I was already signed up to Q Possum Trot so maybe I could make it work on Wednesday morning, using rocks instead of kettle bells.

Arriving at the park, still unsure what I was going to do, I made up my mind to scrap the original plan and come up with something else.  I’ve tried using a rock in place of a bell before and it just isn’t the same.  Trying to do kettle bell swings while not throwing the rock in someone else’s face is a work out all in itself.  Alas, at least I have a workout pre-built for when I eventually Q Red October (no, Dauber, this is not me signing up for anything).

FNGs: Not today
Warm Up:

Quick lap around the tennis courts.  As we made our way towards the entrance a car was pulling in.  Audible groans and complaints of burpess arose from the HIM in attendance but ulitmately it was someone who was lost or had other business to attend to in their car because they turned around and left a minute or two later.

Circled up for the following:

SSH x20 IC

Windmills x10 IC

Sprinklers x10 IC

Sir Fazio Arm Circles x20 IC (10 forward, 10 reverse)

The Workout:

We made our way to the rock pile and then moseyed to the big hill.  YHC remembered his VQ where we did 11s with rocks and figured that could work here.  We started with 10 Turkish get-ups with the rocks at the bottom, then carry your rock up the hill, put it in your lap and do 1 tricep dip.  Run back down and you know the rest.  PAX were silent, which usually means they’re working hard, which is good.

Afterwards we divided in two two groups.  The first group did 20 Curls for the Girls IC while the other group did American Hammers with their rocks.  When the first group finished we traded places.  After one set we returned our rocks and made our way to the wall inside the tennis courts.

YHC had PAX group up near one end of the wall.  The task was simple, PAX would hold BTTW at about a 45 degree angle while one PAX bear crawled underneath.  When he reached the end he got up in BTTW and the next dude went. We got through two cycles of this before running out of wall.  I had the idea to do wall sits on the way back but everyone was pretty convinced that there was no way we were fitting under each other, which was probably a good call.  I audibled to broad jumps over planking PAX back down the wall.  This seemed to work for everyone but Sprinkler who took exception to the apparent downward dog that Modify was doing.  Kicks to the ribs were expected in retaliation to the calling out but Modify is a good dude and inflicted no bodily harm.

Mary:

We circled up for the following:

WWII x15 IC

Homer to Marge x15 IC

Pickle Pounders x15 IC

Sleeping Hillbillies x10 IC (each side)

Announcements:

Breach’s Travis Manion fundraiser at Bombshell on Friday night.  6p – 9p I believe.  Check with him to be sure

Prayer:

Fram’s wife and baby.  Induction is scheduled for next week but the baby could always come sooner.  They’re both very anxious to meet her.

FedEx’s podiatrist appointment as well as him getting outside of his comfort zone and volunteering to be a prom date to special needs kids

 

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Circle of Broken Cinder Blocks

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EC: Norm, Yosemite, Finkle, Dovetail, Martini, Beater

FNGs: one, welcome Depends

Warm Up:  Quick lap with Butt Kickers, L/R skips, high knees, Arm Stretches (R over L, L over R, R elbow, L elbow), Good Morning, Daisy Pickers, SSH, 5 x Burpees

The Workout: YHC brought some broken cinder blocks and bricks from the torn down Gold Leaf building (new Aviator Brewery site) and placed them in a tight circle.  Had 11 Pax so spread them out so everyone had something to use for ascending Circle of Pain.  Each Pax chose a spot, began the 10 exercises starting at 1 working our way up to 11 each, after each round Pax moved to the left.  Count and order was a little off at times (sorry fellas) but we all killed it, great work gents!

Exercises:  Curls for Girls, Wonder Bra (said Jack Web’s but YHC doesn’t know proper exercises, will work on this), Bus Drivers, OH Press, Tri Extensions, Rut Ro’s, Squat, Ext. Squat, OH Squat.  Note: there was one cinder block was partially full of cement…T-Claps for FNG killing it on the last round, hope he comes back.

Bear crawl to Mary spot, roughly 50ft

Mary:  LBC’s, Mary Annette’s {WW1’s L/C/R = 1} (??), Box Cutters, Low Slow Flutter, Boat Canoes, American Hammers

Prayer:  Sprinkler’s family, Norm’s friends (one with miscarriage, another with baby in womb with under developed lungs), unspoken

Those bear crawls were brutal

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Warm Up: Short lap around the parking lot. SSH, Fazios, IW/HB, stretches.
The Workout: Pole 2 Pole 2 Pole 2 Pole 2 Pole 2 Pole and back again.

Pole 1: 10 burpees – bear crawl to the next pole…. and it was a long haul!

Pole 2: 15 – Plank Jacks – lunge walk to next pole

Pole 3: 20 – LBC – sprint to next pole

Pole 4: 25 – Star Jumps – mosey to next pole

Pole 5: 30 – SSH – lunge walk to next pole

Pole 6: 35 – Squats – Then back to poles 5 through 1 repeating each exercise.

Great working men encouraging each other on that last bear crawl back to pole 1.  Nicely done!

Mosey back to concession stand to finish up with peoples chair with seal claps and BTW 10 count for good measure.

Mary:  LBC, LSF, H2M, Box cuter, FM
Announcements: Possible new AO, check slack for more detail
T-Claps (Recognition): Everyone for bringing that last bear crawl round in.
Prayer: Sick PAX, Stressed PAX, Traveling PAX