Nonstop Smiles and Other Exercises

Q DATE: JULY 23, 2018 Thirteen smiling HIM and YHC showed up for some fun in the gloom. Warm Up Pledge of Allegiance Jog down to the Pleasant Grove Church parking lot Good Mornings, Sir Fazios, Calf Stretches Thang 1 Run around the pickle Squats - about 30 seconds AMRAP Plank Jacks - about 30 seconds AMRAP Lunge Jumps - about 30 seconds AMRAP CDDs x20 Mucho-Chesto American Hammers x15-20 LBCs x20-25 Box Cutters x10-15 Bear Crawl around the island Repeat all the above 2 more times Jog back to the basketball courts Thang 2 [Read More]

Death Wish

Pre-Blast Charles Bronson once said, “Maybe I’m too masculine.” He was referring to the fact that he was not getting certain movie roles. After the strong showing I witnessed this morning, the 10 HIM who joined YHC this morning won’t get hired either. The Warmup Pledge of Allegiance at the flag Run the long way around the middle school out to the street back down and halfway up Andy Hill. Circle up for: Michael Phelps arm swings, Groiner Merkins, extended plank series with stretches and exercises. [Read More]

Heavens to Murgatroyd

Pre-Blast In Welch, Murgatroyd means: a clearing in the forest on the way to the moore. So, there’s that. An even dozen HIM showed one another what it means to be in F3: no man left behind, no man where we find him. So proud of the guys who stayed with their brothers throughout this tough workout. The men refused to leave anyone alone. Just awesome. The Warmup Pledge of Allegiance at the flag. [Read More]

Climbing Mt. Olympus

Pre-Blast What an honor to support HighTower and the HIMs in Springfield as they launch Olympus, a new AO expansion out of DC. Thx to Biner and PBX for joining YHC on the journey - great to get to know you guys better. 6 HIMs at the start for an ascent up Mt. Olympus…we EH’d two along the way. Here we go… The Warmup Pledge of Allegiance at the flag. Mixed Run around the lot into extended Paint the Lines Circle up for: 50 Merkins, 50 LBCs IC, 50 SSH Run to the tennis courts The Thangs [Read More]

Leave your Bricks behind

Go Time 0545 Jog to end of lot - circle up 20x IC SSH 20x IC Imperial Walkers 20x Plank Jacks 20x OMD Merkins 15x IC Peter Parkers 15x OMD merkins Mozy out (backward Run, Kariokie etc) Stop along the way for Irkins on the fence BTTW walk across the bridge (crowd favorite) The Thang Uno: Pair up (p1 w rock / p2 around pond to pullup bars 5x) Flip AMRAP Rock curls/Rows/Press/Extension/Man Makers 5 trips to pullup bars Head out - Mozy to parking lot Crawl Bear the bridge for good measure The Thang Duo: Grab brick - Circle Up Plank with one hand on upright brick 10x OMD Merkins (brick in other hand) + 10x OMD Merkins 15x brick reverse fly (left arm up/right arm up) 15x brick front raise (left arm up/right arm up) LBC w brick WWII w brick Announcements [Read More]

This is the part of the workout where the Q posts a BB......5 PENALTY BURPEES

40 years ago today, Mr and Mrs Puryear experienced that miracle of life that is childbirth, and brought into this world a bouncing baby McCants…….Who would have thought that momentous event 14,600 days ago would have a chaos theory affect, a RIP-ple if you will, on 7/19/2018 and completely change the day for 16 HIM’s who chose to post at the finest AO in NW Cary on a Thursday morning. [Read More]

Burpees and Bear Crawls, Oh My!

23 met in the sticky gloom at TB Park. Warm Up Pledge of Allegiance, disclaimer, and 22 men begin what was supposed to be an easy pace Indian run to the front lot. We’ve got an FNG arriving at 5:47 so Sosa makes sure he gets to the warmup circle. The obligatory 10 burpees commence. Your standard fare of SSHs, Good mornings, Sir Fazio and Hill Billies. Thang 1 Partner up, 100 Merkins, 200 Monkey Humpers, 300 Fluttering Supermans [Read More]

Traveling Pearls on a String

When: July 16th, 2018 QIC: Earhart The PAX: Hermes, PBX, Saban, Trike, Biner, Clementine, Pivot, Geek Squad, Angry Elf, Suds, Cheddar Bo YHC Earhart A warm, Monday morning greeted 12 HIM for a rare Earhart Q outside of Hell’s Bells on Mondays. Many new faces to me, imagine that posting somewhere else for a change. We head out around the pickle, with a backwards run down the hill. A quick detour to the curb for some quick feet before finally circling up for: [Read More]

The Oregon Trail

Today we took a trip back to the Elementary School Library to play the classic computer game ‘Oregon Trail’ 16 of us decided to take on the challenge and travel west in search of a better life. We gathered in Independence, MO to warm up and decide if we should be a Farmer (Sprinkler and Cotton Pickers), a Banker (Good Mornings, I’m assuming a banker would say Good Morning), or a Carepenter (Merkins…there is no tie in, but merkins are always good). [Read More]

We came, we exercised, we relocated rocks, we wrote our backblast

It was good to Q at ol’ FOD this morning - had been a while. A strong crowd of 28 gathered - including Kilmer in a Cabriolet (back in my day - only sorority girls drove those)….. hmmm. Oh well - follow me - YHC said softly and started running up the parking lot through the dark path and up the road to the mailbox. Once there, we circled up for GM x18, IW x 14, HB x 12, SF Arm Circles - 10 each way, 10 seal claps and 10 overhead claps. [Read More]