One of the many beautiful things about F3 is that beatdowns come in all flavors. Some are slow cooked for that low heat quad burn. Some, pan fried in zoysia and leave you needing 2.5 gallons of Rouses water to lick your wounds. Others, heavy on the spice , with unknown ingredients mixed in ready to ambush you at every dollar store cone. Saturday’s beatdown needed all our pax ingredients to blend together in a synergistic gumbeaux of team building exercises
It went a little something like this….
Recipe for Teamwork Gumbeaux
1 cup extra crispy Yankee Joe , variable beard length for extra masculinity
1 oven roasted Goose , dark meat or white meat you’ll find the form impeccable
3.18 micrograms of Spicey Enron powder (kinda like a knock off Tony Chachere’s ) to challenge the palate,- works well on slow 10 counts
1 complaint free twice baked Perclelator , Chackbay imported only
1 tightly wrapped Wet Tap , 10 merkins before cooking or the chest meat will be gamey
1 Kilo of unmarked everchanging vehicles to keep the recipe fresh
1 sprinkle of Chocolate Montana Thunder to keep the fasting glucose below 300
1 lb of freshly chopped Piccadilly, imported from Houma
A dash of Coyote so we have a benchmark for speed
A spread of Pope to keep us young and humble
Blend all together in a roux of burpees and squatsPreheat your Peltier Park Oven to 92 , adjust to max humidity and cook for 1 hour
Serve hot and Bone app the teeth cus it always goes down smooth
WarmUp
The usuals plus a few added reps while we welcomed Kilo and Montana to the fray. (T claps to Montana for his first Peltch experience)
Got started with a Black snake Indian run with the last PAX dropping for 10 ssh. JBL dialed up Eye of the Tiger and was thumping to keep the intensity high. PAX came out of the gate strong with speed and tenacity. Set the tone and didn’t let up. This led us to the tennis courts.
With a goal of solidifying pax unity before our fundraiser event YHC had some teamwork training in mind today. First step was to identify the key pillars of an effective team then immediately put them to the test.
Thang 1
Mutual respect for your teammates
Aretha Franklin taught the boys some RESPECT
IW on song , Squats on “just a little bit “ , Burpees on “Respect “
Followed by a Mini ladder – 10 reps of the following exercises with descending burpees From 7
Ranger merkins
Elbow plank jacks
Squats
Peoples chair arm raises
Easy merkins (wide)
Carolina dry
Terrible merkins (diamond)
Coyote continued to challenge the land speed record for mammals and Yankee Joe kept the mumble chatter to a simmer which was his lowest possible setting. – T- claps to Goose for watching out for PAX safety on those net jumps. May have to modify those if they tighten the net.
Mosey to ThunderDome
Thang 2
Communication, Accountability and Trust
YHC welcomed PAX to the Burpee minefield where we will build communication or suffer the consequences.
Pax holds plank on the surrounding rectangle with scattered cones in between.
send one pax through blindfolded
if he knocks over a cone , 5 squats
Decrease time each rotation as communication improves . Goose , Montana, Wet Tap, and Coyote ran the gauntlet safely. Great teamwork and flexibility here as the PAX learned to let the next man down the line control the instructions as they are closer to the action. Penalties were minimal.
Thang 3
Mosey To big field For Conflict resolution training Via JBL and Anker. If you’ve been following the bayou pax backblasts you may know about this storm that’s been brewing. The feud between pax bluetooth devices has been long, bloody and flooded many well planned beatdowns with chaos. Every great team must be challenged with internal conflict. But how you respond to the conflict seperates good from great. With this lesson in mind YHC extended an olive branch to Team Anker with a goal in mind…. Pax destruction via a two headed bluetooth hydra spitting fire , thumping tubs, and striking thunder in the hearts of the pax.
Split into 2 teams. one to Anker, one to JBL roughly 100 yards apart
When your team does 3 burpees run to the other song
High knees on song
Sprint between devices
JBL played ACDC , burpees on thunderStruck
Anker played TubThumping
burpees on “get knocked down”
All YHC will comment here is that an anonymous tip of Whoop data was submitted later that day with HR spikes to the 190s and unprecedented strain.
We put it all together with a mission to advance the kettlebell to the 100 yard cone
All Pax in single file, pass kettle bell behind you while in al gore
Last man takes kb and lunges to the front hands off , does 5 squats
Every time you hand off the kb, do 5 squats. Brutal quad burn.
Mosey back to the flag for Special Musical Mary
With our teamwork training complete we felt like a cohesive unit , cueing up Feel so close by Calvin Harris: Alternate freddie mercuries on the chorus with wife pleasers , penguins , LBCs, big boys, flutter kicks. A great burner and the effort here was tremendous.
COT and Enron prayed us out
1 week until the SV 500!! The Stage is set and Sponsors are filled! . Check out Slack or Facebook for more info. Come see us Friday night for a burger at the Stage as well.
Grateful for you men and the strength we have when locking shields together
. Thanks for the freedom to lead.
SYITG
Paradox
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