A-Team 5-year Anniversary 7-15-19

28 HIMs showed up to celebrate 5-years of wonderful workouts on Mondays! They were led by 108 years of experience on a classic tour of the site. Warm-Up WWW started the process with the standard disclaimer. There were no FNGs. We pledged allegiance to Old Glory and took off for a short run. WWW led us in GM, Abe Vigodas, Sir Fazio Arm Circles, Seal Claps, Eskimo Merkins (they are not cool), hamstring stretch, and runner’s stretch. [Read More]

7 is the lucky number.

AO: Tortoises PAX: Alamo, Ezekiel, Hotty Toddy, Intimidator, Meatloaf, Snooze, Triple Lindy, WWW Tortoises AO continues to be my favorite AO to be at on a Wednesday morning. 0 FNG, F3 admin stuff done, Pledge Allegiance to Old Glory done. Before heading out, I had the PAX follow me to my truck where I passed out two brinks per HIM. Bricks always makes for an interesting workout. Warm-up: GM, hamstring stretch, calf stretch, Eskimo merkins, Sir Fazio w/ bricks, seal claps w/ bricks, overhead press w/ bricks, curls for girls w/ bricks. [Read More]

Got it bad, got it bad, got it bad...

17 PAX loaded up on the bus and came out to Olive Chapel Elementary to kick off the hard launch of the new Apex AO “Hot For Teacher”. YHC had the Q. Tunes were rockin’ and the two co-site-Q’s long hair was flowing in the breeze. It almost looked natural on Cataracts….almost. 0530 – Typical F3 spiel. Modify as necessary. And seriously - don’t sue us..we only own a beatup Ford Econoline van with no A/C and 400K miles, our knockoff Stratocaster electric guitars and a busted amp that doesnt even go up to “11”. [Read More]

Murph 12 of 19 (in 2019)

Pre-Blast

  • 15 for the twelfths of nineteen Murphs in 2019.

The Warmup and Thang

  • Pledge of Allegiance at the flag.

  • Run to the playground and around the track twice for the first mile.

  • Murph at the flag.

  • Run around the track twice and back to the flag for the second mile.

COT

10 to Win

10 HIMs joined us today for a beautiful July 3rd morning. No FNG’s Intro, Yogi gave us the mission statement and then we pledged Mosey around the parking lot and circle up for a warm up Good mornings Side Straddle Hops Sir Fazio Arm circle (front and back) Imperial Walkers Control Freak Merkins THANG 1: Mosey around the lot to pick up coupons (center blocks) and partner up Partner 1 did Rock Your Body with the coupon Partner 2 bear crawled 1 light pole down the parking lot and lunged walk back We did this for 15 minutes Thang 2 Mosey over to the pull up bars for a round of Cindy (15 minutes) [Read More]

We're playing basketball, we're playing basketball.

Date: 7/2/2019 PAX: Aristocrat, Cataracts, Frisco, My Cousin Vinny, Pickles, Press On, Willy Wonka, WWW Claymore is one of those AO that provides many options for a workout. As I listened to 43 feet the day prior with CSPAN speaking to Billy Bob from the F3 Columbia region. Billy Bob is the Nantan of the region. He was brought on to the pod-call-in to talk about lessons learned about being a Nantan of a region. [Read More]

Frisbee-mania

Date: 6/28/19 PAX: 20 HIMs - Alamo, Banjo, Blueprint, Chicken Big, The Commish, Freebird, Hamm, Hotspot, Hotty Toddy, Imp, QWERTY, Parker, Puddles, Short Circuit, Slim Shady, Sour Mash, Theismann, Two Factor, Un-skinny Bop, WWW No FNG. F3 admin stuff, done. Pledge Allegiance to Old Glory, done. Led the PAX to my truck to retrieve some bricks which we will get really close to along the way of the workout. Mosey to circle for warm-up. [Read More]

Like the first day of school

Like the first day of school, YHC set out clothes, made sure the flag was ready and playlist was primed for the soft launch of HOT FOR THE TEACHER. During my first Q (Hell’s Bells) in October 2018, I created a kick-ass playlist that included everybody’s favorite “Hot for The Teacher” by Van Halen. At one point @discoduck leaned over and said “ This would make a great name for an AO” When we scouted the new Thursday site and first decided on a starting point in the Publix parking lot, HFT was not one of the choices. [Read More]

The Sub

19 HIM gather in the gloom for another Claymore, limited run, beatdown care of Ninjago. How many regions have a 12-year old Q on a regular basis I ponder? Welcome to FNG Thriller (Earhart’s 2.1), who received the disclaimer from his brother. After a quick lap around the upper parking lot pickle, we circle-up for Warm Up Good Mornings Sir Fazio Imperial Walkers Hillbillies Side Straddle Hops 10 Burpees OYO thanks to Honey Do being tardy [Read More]

Q-School: Exam Day

It was a good day for a VQ, thanks to the perfect mix of humidity, heckling, helpful encouragement, and reminders from Shut-In that the things he brought up in Q school were better applied than remembered. Despite lots of “you’re starting at SNS?” questions we’re off. Mosey in the unusual direction from the flag, getting started at the ropes course parking lot. After a brief attempt to keep up appearances by suggesting that Build-a-Bear was passing the test in observing my counting woes, we found the correct combination of pauses and cadences to get going. [Read More]