Month: January 2019
Floater’s frigid beatdown
01/29/2019
AO: Falcon Hill
Q: Floater
PAX: Swobbles, Goldstar, Burt Macklin FBI, Floater
Jog to the garage
> Suicides in Paradise
> Run to first pole and back
20 Merkins
Second and back
15 Merkins
Third and back
10 Merkins
Forth and back
5 Merkins
Bruce Lee’s + Goldstar Special in cadence
Repeat suicide with Squats
Bruce Lee’s in cadence
Repeat suicide with Burpees
> Jog back to flag
> COT
> Count o Rama
> Name o Rama
> Picture
The Perfect Workout (10!)
Date – 1/28/2019
Time – 0530
AO – Higgins
Pax – Cobra, Goldstar, Tails
Q – Wilson
A brisk 22 degrees greeted us this morning in the Gloom. The trail remained snow covered and was to be avoided, but the parking lot was in great condition. And this morning we only needed about 4 parking spaces to complete this Perfect 10 Workout.
Warm up:
- SSH IC X 10
- Imperial Walkers IC X 10
- Cotton Pickers IC X10
The Thang
10 Exercises
10 Reps
5 Sets
Do 10 reps of the prescribed exercises, when completed, hold Plank or a Deep Squat until the Pax is done with that exercise. Continue with the next one.
Rinse, repeat
Exercises:
- Clapping Merkins
- Jump Squats
- Turkish Get Up (unweighted, 5 each side)
- Front Lunge (5 each side)
- LCBs
- Air Squats
- Dead Cockroaches (5 each side)
- Overhead Air Squats
- Superman Rocker (10 rocks)
- High Knees (5 each side)
The goal was a perfect 10: 10 reps of 10 exercises for 10 sets. But the total time required as an unknown, and we could only accomplish half. The transition from a standing/vertical exercise (squats, lunges) to the horizontal exercises (Merkins, Dead Cockroaches, etc.) was a bit of a workout itself. And the Turkish Get Up is a constant get up/get down.
Missed the target (only 5 sets) but still beat the fart sack and worked up a sweat. That’s a bulls eye.
YHC,
Wilson
January 26, 2019 – DeHavilland
BEATDOWN DECK
DATE: January 26, 2019
AO: DeHavilland (Delco Park – Kettering, OH)
Q: Zebra
PAX: Wilson, Burt Macklin FBI, Faucet, BoneDaddy, Tails, Swobbles, Pavarotti
Happy to enjoy the heatwave of positive degree temps this morning, 8 HIM found the park gate locked upon arrival. No problems as we parked across the street and moseyed to the park. After a quick recital of the F3 mission, we moseyed to the Dock House, for the COP:
Side Staddle Hops IC x 11
Imperial Walkers IC x 11
Cherry errr Cotton Pickers x 11
Arm Circles OYO x 11
Zebra Butt-Kicks OYO x 11/leg
Then we moved on to…
The Thang:
PAX moseyed to the soccer field where Q broke out the ne waterproof F3 Beatdown Deck. In effort to complete the entire deck, Q kept the reps low – numbers were face value, face cards = 10, Aces = 25. When the jokers came up, Q delegated choice or exercise and reps/distance to the PAX (note to self: when delegating reps/distance to PAX, be ready to work). Wilson got in some BDS action doing extra Clapping Merkins. Then a soccer game broke out in the middle of the beatdown…one minute Wilson was kicking a ball, then he was flipping across the field. Q forgot what a Rosalita is so pickle pointers were substituted. All the cards were used – Mission Accomplished!
COT
Now this is embarrassing…
A truly awkward situation. If I don’t mention it, you would never know about it.
Last Saturday we were preparing for Snowmagedon. M did her thing around the house: candles, bottled water, laundry all caught up in case we lost power.
I had my list of To-Do as well. It included getting my propane tank filled up for the heater. U-haul pumps propane rather than exchange tanks, and that’s my preference. I pulled up to the pump and took the tank from the back of the truck. After ringing the bell for service, I got back into the truck. It was 33 degrees with rain and wind.
When the attendant arrived, I got out of the truck to conduct the transaction. The bad news: the propane pump was broken. I’d have to go elsewhere. No problem.
Except there was a problem.
When I tried to open the door to get back in the truck, it wouldn’t open. It appears that as I opened the door to get out, I accidentally pushed the lock.
The truck is running.
I can’t call M to bring the extra key because my phone is inside the truck.
I can’t use the attendant’s phone because the darn technology works so well I don’t even know what her phone number is.
It’s 2.1 miles. Rainy. 33 degrees.
In other words, it was about the same conditions we had our workout at 0700 that morning. Normal workout condition. It’s just my second workout of the day. No big deal.
Date – 01/24/2019
Time – 0530
AO – Higgins
Q – Wilson
Conditions at Higgins had gotten worse since Tuesday. And I fell Tuesday. Today is a Ruck Free workout.
PVC Shoulder Workout – R & L/Forward & Reversed
- Front and Backs
- Figure Eights
- Round the World
Club Bell
- Mills Forward
- Mills Reversed
- Big Swings
- Batting Swings
- Big Swing
Finished with a deep squat held for 3 minutes.
F3 Workouts are held in the Gloom, wet or dry, hot or cold. Benefits of an F3 workout: you’re better prepared for:
- Taking the garbage out when it’s raining;
- Changing a tire on the expressway at midnight in a blizzard;
- Or walking home after locking your keys in your vehicle.
YHC,
Wilson
Ice Ice Baby
01/24/2019
Falcon Hill
Q: Goldstar
PAX: Floater, Captain Planet, Swobbles, Pavarotti
-mosey to parking garage
Warm up:
-15 Alternating Shoulder Touches In Cadence (4-count)
-10 Tempo Merkins (down on the 1-2-3, up on 4)
-10 fast merkins
Tha Thang:
-Bearpees! Line up across parking garage
OYO 1 Burpee followed up by 4 count bearcrawl forward. Goto 5th parking garage pillar and rest. At this point 2 more PAX showed up. So we did bearpees to the other side of the parking garage.
-Partner up, perform 100 Merkins, 200 LBCs, and 300 Squats as a team. While Partner 1 is doing the 1-2-3, Partner sprints across parking garage and back, and then flip flop until all Merkins, LBCs, and Squats are complete.
-Mosey back to lot.
COT
Counterama
Namerama
Photo
Happy Birthday, Wilson!
Yes, today is my birthday. I am 1 year old. A year ago I posted for my first F3 workout in Columbus and was christened “Wilson”. I was named after a volleyball.
Date – 01/22/2019
Time – 0530
A.O. – Higgins
Q – Wilson
One mile.
That’s it. Call me lazy if you want.
Or join me on Thursday and hold me accountable for a longer workout.
YHC,
Wilson
Thaw out with Swobbles
AO: Falcon Hill
Date: 1.22.19
Time: 0530
Q: Swobbles
PAX: Zebra, Tails, Cobra, Pavarotti, Burt Macklin FBI, Goldstar, Heater
Stretching:
Quad stretch
Arm stretch
Cotton pickers
Arm circles
The thang:
Focus on picking up the six
Jog to parking garage
Burpees x level
One Leg Deadlifts x level (each leg)
Leg raises x level
Merikans x level
Level 1 x 5
Level 2 x 10
Level 3 x 15
20 air squats
Level 2 x 10
Level 1 x 5
20 air squats
Bruce Lee’s x 20
- Leg Raises
- LBC’s
- Dying Cockroaches
- American Hammers
- Scissor kicks
- Freddy mercuries
COT/prayer
PAX: 8
Name-o-rama
Photo
Frozen HIMs
January 21, 2019
Higgins
Q: Goldstar
PAX: Wilson, Tails, Cobra
Warmup:
SSH IC x20
Half mile run
Hands and feet were getting cold, numb and tingly, YHC had to divert from the original plan and take us back to the frozen parking lot. I decided to do a backup routine that got us through the entirety of our workout. Tails showed up just in time for our frozen party.
Tha Thang:
Partner up.
Pax 1 does exercise while Pax 2 runs to the other end of the parking lot. Swap out and continue the exercise until each amount of reps are complete.
The exercises and reps for each group are:
50- Burpees
100- Overhead Claps
150- Merkins
200- Big Boy Sit-ups
250- Squats
In solidarity, we joined together to all four do the 500 squats at the end, each PAX completing 125. Today we picked up the six and dived in whenever one of our brothers needed us. That is what it’s all about. We got a workout out in, but we didn’t leave our brothers behind in the blistering cold.
COT
Namerama
Photo
Dehavilland 1 – 19 – 19
DATE – 1-19-19
A.O. – Dehavilland
Q – Tails
PAX – Broomstick, Wrongway, Wilson, Bonedaddy, Swobbles
PAX TOTAL – 6
Cold! Humidity was high. Air was misty and it did start a little sprinkle near end time. Wind was quite strong.
Warm up
- Shoulder rotations – 10
- SSH – 30
- Cotton pickers – 10
- Windmills – 10
- Badboys and these guys
The Thang
- Mosey to blocks. Each PAX gabs two. Split up, half plank while half get a head start with two blocks to the Gazebo.
- Once at Gazebo PAX split to two benches. Seated, each PAX lifts block above head, holding for 30 seconds – repeated this X 6 and transitioned to seat to stand with blocks overhead.
- Mosy to lot and preform “The Sugar”
- Each PAX lines up on parking space, Sprint to opposing space and back – side sprint – karaoke – frogger – bear crawl.
- Mosy to Gazebo and stash blocks
- Mosy to flag and preform 30 second plank.
COT – Prayer for Wilson new job, Swobbles wife.
COUNTARAMA – 6
NAMEORAMA
PHOTO