Tag: Trooper

  • 15 Reps For The 15th

    15 Reps For The 15th

    The Scene: The Knoll
    Conditions: Sunny. Not too humid. Crowded with college cross country participant’s
    Welcome: Hi y’all!
    Disclaimer: Don’t hurt yourself guys.

    The 4 brave  50 yr old F3 men and one twenty-something whippersnapper planted the F3 shovel flag inside the grass area of the walking path. Youthful college eyes were on the “elder” motley crew wondering who we were. The men of F3 in no sense felt intimidated by the amount of athletic youth present at the park for a college cross country event. It was obvious the college kids were jealous of our varicious pump-ah-tude in our pectorals. It’s not our fault we made the gurley men jealious. Money Cat was the Q for this beautiful Saturday morning. It was announced since the date was the 15th that all reps would be in the count of 15.

    Warm-a-rama:

    15 – arm circles forward.
    15 – arms circles backward.
    15 – overhead claps.
    15 – hamstring stretches.
    15 – windmills.

    The men of F3 mosey’d on the walk path and stopped at the area of the workout bars for pull up reps. Since other men were working out in this area the F3 men took separate turns with pull ups and ab exercises. Reps of 15 were still the count for the day.

    Money Cat kept an eye on the time wanting to keep each stage of the workout at 15 minutes.
    Finishing up at the bars the men of F3 moved down to the hilly landscape towards Highland Road for working out the quads. At this time Mistletoe joined us after finding us amongst the crowded park. We obviously stood out with all the yooooth’s in the park. We walked backwards down the hill and walked up it backwards several times. More leg exercises were to come and we moved across the street to climb the bleachers at the softball field. This exercise was only done once since the morning dew on the metal bleachers could have caused more damage than we would have liked. Staying at the field we performed pushup reps of 15 by using the parking lot bars or the ground. Afterwards, we lunged down to an area of the parking lot and did more pushup reps. We walked across Highland Road and climbed the hill backwards toward the flag.

    Money Cat keeps a coupon in his vehicle for spontaneous moments when a work out might breakout. We lined up with our six on the ground and passed it around keeping our feet off the ground.

    We completed our Mary’s in this area since we were in the shade.

    15 – left leg raises.
    15 – right leg raises.
    15 – both leg raises.
    15 – right side Jane Fonda’s.
    15 – left side Jane Fonda’s.
    We got up and walked backwards to the flag for Count-o-Rama and Name-o-Rama.

    Ended in prayer for our F3 brothers in North & South Carolina enduring Hurricane Florence.

  • Chumbawamba!

    Chumbawamba!

    The Scene:  The Knoll

    Conditions: Sunny. Humid. Watery grass.

    Welcome

    Disclaimer

    Warm-a-Rama:

    Looked like a b-class soccer team as we jogged about 50 yards, and then jogged backwards to the flag.

    Butt kicks about 20 yards out and then high knees back to the flag.

    Shuffle facing the road about 20 yards and then shuffle back.

    Brought us to the real warm-a-rama.

    Q asked the pax if they loved 90’s music. Chumbawamba was mentioned (t-claps to Shangeaux for supporting this).

    Proceded to play Chumbawamba’s only hit, Tubthumping. Performed SSH the entirety of the song and everytime the song said “I get knocked down, but I get up again…” the group did a burpee. It started with fun smiles and ended with everyone hating the repetitiveness of this hit.

    The Thang:

    Indian run to the football field.

    Wide football sprints in place (think remember the titans but without the up-downs. We did not get blood on our uniforms).

    Lined up under the field goal. Sprinted to the other field goal post. 15 second break. Did this 4x overall for a real punch to the gut.

    Lined up three cones five yards apart for shuttle runs. Line up at middle cone, sprint to one cone and touch the line, run to the farthest cone and then back to the 2nd cone. Pax planked while everyone went through this d-lineman drill.

    Took three cones and made a ‘L’ shape, 5 yards apart. Start at one cone, run around the middle cone and make a hard u-turn around farthest cone, and then sprint back to original cone. Pax did six inches for six while everyone did this drill.

    Made a baseball diamond with the cones. Pax divided into four teams of three. Each team starts at its own base. Teams completed a cumulative number of reps of different exercise at each base:

    100 team merkins at first, 100 team crab cakes at second, 100 team lunges at 3rd, 100 team squats at home, and then sprinted to each next base. Each time a team passed a station, it got a point. Did this for a 15-minute period.

    A solid competition ended with 2 teams having 13 points, one with 12, and one with 11. A masterful effort.

    As reward, the 13-point teams ran to midfield and back, the 12-point team 75 yards and back and the last team ran to other field goal post and back.

    Mosey’d back to the flag!

    Mary:

    Crunchy Frogs x20 in honor of Snackpack being back!

    Count-o-Rama

    Name-o-Rama

    COT / BOM:

    Great to see Snackpack and Trooper!

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  • partial Backblast for July 15, 2018

    F3 July 15, 2018, LBCs, IMG_0008

    I’ve been out of town and didn’t get the BB from Dagwood before I left so the above is all I have at the moment.

  • Backblast for 7-8-18. The Knoll

    The Scene:

    The Knoll

     

    Conditions:

    Surprisingly refreshing for a July Saturday morning at 7am.

     

    Welcome:

    8 men posted.

     

    Disclaimer:

    Money Cat: “I am not a professional trainer….huh? Why’s that funny to y’all??? Seriously guys…why is that funny?? Stop laughing or I’ll bring back Fastball and make all of y’all feel the pain!!!”

    Warm-a-Rama:

    Money Cat led the first third of the workout. I told the guys we would start off on a mosey but would call out a change and to mimic my movement regardless if I was at the front or the back because I’m usually in the back on these running kinds of things. At the sundial I called out a fast walk. At the next change I called out a mosey and after that was a fast walk. I decided to try something different. I called out a left side straddle mosey. During the side straddle mosey I called out to switch sides and lead with the other leg…(that means we now switched to leading with the right leg.) By now we had mosey’d the course almost two times and felt for the last 50 yards (I’m guessing) to the sundial we needed to do a full sprint. I could tell the guys were itching for me open it up a bit. I had the lead the entire way until I yelled out “FULL SPRINT!” And suddenly Mega Dad passed me up. What he doesn’t know is I allowed him to pass me on my left side. I didn’t want all the attention by getting there first so I turned down the after burners and slowed up a whole lot….it’s my story and I’m sticking with that. Remember….don’t question the Q.

     

    Money Cat called out a recovery countdown….it sure seemed to go by fast.

    We began our morning exercises.

    20 Arm Circles Forward

    20 Arm Circles Backwards

    20 Raised Arm Claps

    20 Dips

    20 Mexican Dips

    20 Walking Al Gore’s

    10 Burpees

     

    I was glad to turn over the next 3rd of the Q to my F3 brother Work Horse.

    Workhorse jumping in!  Well, missing Fastball’s beatdowns I decided to combine his “quarterpounder” and the “Murph”.  We based in the Sundial as it’s called, so it went like this!

    I had four F3 brothers pick an exercise, Topanga (Al Gores), Dagwood (Little Baby Crunches), Big Easy (Merkins), and Shangeaux (Side Straddle Hop). The strategy was to do a 25 count on exercise #1 and then run a lap around the running track and at the last turn heading back to sundial, turn and run backwards to complete at sundial. Plank until the last man was in!

    #1 – 25 Merkins and Lap

    #2  – 50 Little Baby Crunches and Lap

    #3 – 75 Al Gores ( which Shangeaux hijacked from Topanga )

    #4 – 100 Side Straddle Hops (which actually “unfortunately” with Topanga’s count ended up being 200) then a Lap, but changed the turn at last corner to a sprint to the sundial.  Shout out to youngster Trooper, he was in the mix leading the charge back to complete.

    At this point, we began a mosey back to the flag to do some Mary’s to close it out.  Megadad took over from there.

    • Lay Flat sit ups
    • Buddy Back Squats (wall squats on partners back)
    • Crunchy Frogs
    • Jane Fonda’s ( 3 ways right and left) for Rocket
    • Partner Leg Toss ( 10 straight, 2 left and 2 right)

    Circle of Trust

    • Name off and prayers ( special intention for F3 brother “Trooper” recently lost his daughter )
  • An Ode to the CWS

    The Scene:  The Knoll

    Conditions: Sunny. We passed the longest day of the year so only getting shorter from here, a la a time is coming when it’s still shady for this workout.

    Welcome

    Disclaimer

    Warm-a-Rama:

    Mosey’d the main loop before descending the hill toward the road, crossing and stopping in the outfield.

    [All in place]

    • Seal Jacks 13x
    • Imperial Walkers 13x
    • Windmills 13x
    • Butt Kicks 13x
    • Open Faced Strike 20x (sit down in the squat position and with an open palm out, strike straight out at the air and alternate arms)

    The Thang:

    Shoutout to Omaha, CWS and Fastball for giving us the inspiration for this one.

    Pax goes into high plank in semi-circle around home plate. One person gets up, runs the bases (pax holds high plank entire time), and when they get back, one merkin is done by the pax. 2nd person runs around the bases, followed by two merkins, etc.

    We had six in our pax, before the glorious arrival of Shangeaux, so we snaked 1-6, and then went back down.

    Same concept but this time we did big boy sit ups while each person ran to the left field foul pole and back. We didn’t snake this time. Shoutout the guys for helping the next guy up.

    Same concept. Al gores with a variation—hands behind your head with a squat. Ran to the right field foul pole and back.

    The glorious arrival of Shangeaux! Shades of Gandalf arriving to the battle at Minas Tirith, no horse. (Puts our pax at 7 now)

    We stood in a circle and decided the exercise we were best at that we could do in place, then moved our exercise to the person to our left.

    We ran to center field this time and back, while doing an exercise. When our runner got back, we “passed” our exercise to the left.

    • Al gores
    • Big boy sit ups
    • Merkins
    • Arm Circles
    • Butt Kicks
    • Crunches (can’t remember name)

    Walked it off to edge of baseball fence and then mosey’d to the jungle gym/refinery/steel factory (pull up bar area).

    Circuit was 20x each exercise.

    • Step ups on low bar
    • Incline Merkins
    • Decline leg lifts (bless that thing)
    • Pull ups

    Mosey’d the lap and ran backwards, shuffled, broke up the mosey till we got to the flag.

    Mary:

    American Hammers

    Jane Fondas

    1 minute hold of high-low plank (get into high plank, count to 10, drop to low plank, count to 10, move up to high plank)

    Count-o-Rama

    Name-o-Rama

    COT / BOM:

    Duracell returns soon!

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