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  • Heatwave at the Goldmine – from Charmin

    So YHC received a call from his AC guy who YHc lightly EH’ed when he last came over saying he would be coming out to post in the gloom at the Goldmine (he didn’t use those terms exactly, but the reader will indulge)

    After knowing that Rev Socks is back on the IR list (IR standing for Injured Rev) from last week and that Kenna Brah had to soak his bunions, I had a feeling this would be a two man workout.

    Walking out into the gloom this morning, YHC’s suspicions were confirmed.

    So when 5:30 came YHC started with the standard disclaimer and began explaining how to count in cadence and all the names. We started with 10 Side Straddle Hops, followed by 10 forward arm circles, 10 reverse arm circles, 10 T Claps and 10 Moroccan Night Clubs, which the FNG really got into.

    The Thang:

    We moseyed out to the workout pad in the back doing a two count lunge at each light and three squats at each bench with only a few gassers along the way. Once we reached the workout pad we worked our way through half the workout equipment with the other person doing Big Boi Sit-ups.

    Realizing the time we headed back to the start by finishing the lap with three squats at each light and a two count lunge at each bench.

    Reaching the “shovel flag” we ended with a brief name-o-rama and naming of the FNG. Since he is an AC repair man, YHC figured that Heatwave would be an appropriate F3 name for him

  • The return of the Yippee Bag – from Rudy

    The birthday tradition is back! Finally! Reasons outside of YHC’s control kept the Yippee Bag from its traditional August date, but better late than never. 12 PAX got to experience the joys and sorrows of The Yippee Bag ™ this fine morning. That included one DR visitor (Extinguisher from JAX), one second-timer (welcome back Igor!) and one FNG (thanks Igor and Triple Shift).

    Disclaimer given, mosey to the Big Lawn. Quick review of The Yippee Bag ™ Rules: Basically, there are none. Pick from the bag, the card provides instructions for what happens. Exercises 4 U. Exercises 4 the PAX. Exercises 4 the Q. Fun and Games. Its a crapshoot!

    Circle Up for the warmup. Catfish kicks us off by pulling “20 Merkins for Someone”, and of course – he selects YHC. Its gonna be that kind of day. So the warm up continued in a very disjointed manner, as War Eagle also reached into the bag. In between Situps, 8 counts, Burpees – the PAX managed to get in a bit of a warmup.

    Thing 1: Bear Crawl (maybe 25 yards), then 7 burpees. Crab Walk, 14 merkins, Bear Crawl, 21 Squats, Walk Crab, 28 BBSU. In between, we had LOTS of cards drawn. Everyone’s in on the game. Bogey pulls out the Bear Crawl Relay. Mahatma draws Crab Walk Red Light/Blue Light, and more and everyone is pulling out more Burpees. War Eagle has to go to the MINI to rifle carry the ANDY block.

    Thing 2: Head over to grab a rock. Meanwhile, YHC has to do 10 more 8 ct body builders. 10 Overhead, Rifle carry, 10 Curl, Rifle carry, 10 Row. Return to the tree. Repeat with 9. Then 8. More and more cards. FNG gets selected for 10 Bobby Hurleys – whoa, that guy can jump. Definitely on Team Pontiff for future Ultimate games. Quick game of SPUD (oh, *thats* what the football was for). This devolved into barely controlled chaos. Keep lifting rocks. Then its time to put the rocks away.

    Thing 3: Mosey to the MINI. Partner up for some Dora in the parking lot. PAX 1 – run (w/ bricks), 1 brick-pee, then return. 50 Hand-release merks, 100 Squats, 150 Situps. Klinger drew a “Sing Happy BDay to Q”. He did a great job (while YHC had to do more Burpees). Bogey won the “Hold Your Breath” contest (in his defense, YHC had just run a lap while everyone else was holding low plank).

    Time ran out nearly at the same time as the Yippee Bag ran out. Back to the (Virtual) flag.

    COT: Reviewed 5 principles for the FNG. Then we all know the drill. FNG named “Tesla” due to his South African background.

    Thank you all for humoring me again!

  • Something for Everyone – from Boo-Boo

    13 men came to the Wally Sprint for varying flavors of difficulty, but all with the purpose of becoming stronger than when they arrived.

    Ruckers- Logo, Charmin, Hokie, Kenner Brah, Macgyver, Boo-Boo, Klinger, and Baloo completed 2.37 miles followed by nine minutes of Mary incorporating weighted rucks.

    Tenderloin did his thing.

    Sprinters- Hawg, Frac, Pai Gow, Mambi mindlessly sprinted around the track and showed up to COT dizzy.

    COT, prayers, OUT! Coffeteria followed with partial attendance.

  • Surprise – Week 5 – from Hawgcycle

    A surprise week 5 IPC at Rock City chased a lot guys to the Scrum. There were a lot of Bonnie Blairs.

    5 Kraken Burpees every 5 minutes. When the EMOM timer goes off, stop what you’re doing and do 5 Kraken Burpees.

    Round 1

    10 BDE Burpees
    10 yard Murder Bunny
    10 BDE Burpees
    10 yard Reverse Murder Bunny
    Round 2

    20 Thrusters
    20 yard Murder Bunny
    20 Thrusters
    20 yard Reverse Murder Bunny
    Round 3

    30 Bonnie Blairs (the Hard way)
    30 yard Murder Bunny
    30 Bonnie Blairs (the Hard way)
    30 yard Reverse Murder Bunny
    I’m beginning to sense a trend
    Round 4

    40 Jungle Boi Squats (2 Spoonz Style)
    20 yard Murder Bunny
    40 Jungle Boi Squats (2 Spoonz Style)
    20 yard Reverse Murder Bunny
    Well, I thought there was a trend
    Round 5

    50 Merkins
    10 yard Murder Bunny
    50 Merkins
    10 yard Reverse Murder Bunny

  • IPC Week IV – from Charmin

    YHC was challenged with this week before even getting to the AO. First, Fast Tax says he isn’t going to be doing IPC at Rock City, so YHC signs up to Q at the Scrum. Then the Thang gets posted and it’s all for the Skinny Runners (God Bless ‘Em) and YHC realized that doing this at Rock City was going to make way more sense, YHC calls an audible after some advice giving on the Slack.

    So, after a night of arts and crafts with the M to write down all the things and searching all of our moving boxes for the box of invisible jump ropes, YHC showed up early and the gate is locked. So after a nice warm up mosey around the track YHC was able to get inside. With some help from Bogey the board is over the gate.

    YHC was impressed when Rudy jumped the fence to save on the mosey and grateful for Mahatma for bringing his speaker.

    Starting exactly at about 5:30, everyone was off!

    The Thang:
    100 Gas Pumpers (Knees to Chest – watch the video)
    50 Jump Rope
    1 mile run
    25 Hello Dollies (seriously, watch the video)
    25 Burpees
    50 Jump Rope
    400-meter run
    25 Hand Release Merkins (we explain a lot in the video)
    25 V-Ups
    50 Jump Rope
    400-meter run
    25 Leg Raises
    25 Jungle Boi Squats – 2 spoons style(we will even do demonstrations)
    50 Jump Rope
    400-meter run
    25 4-count flutter kicks (watch the video)
    25 Bonnie Blairs (hard way – right leg and left leg counts as 1 – if there is any question about this, re-watch the video)
    50 Jump Rope
    400-meter run
    100 Big Boy Sit-ups
    50 Jump Rope
    1 mile run

    Watching Hawg and Rudy blast through the mile was impressive as they lapped YHC multiple times. As with any IPC workout part of the battle is physical, but most of it is mental to just keep going. Watching Frack kickstart through all of his 100 Big Boys without stopping was inspiring.

    Special T-Claps to Rudy for sticking around with me while YHC did his Big Boys with some “gassers” mixed in for fun.

    Overall even through all the challenges, YHC is relieved to have completed all 4 weeks of the IPC plus Week 0. Here’s to hoping next year is not easier because there is less of the Thang but becuase YHC and everyone else is a stronger HIM!

  • Rock City Answers The Belle – from Hawgcycle

    Conditions: Clear and 77 degrees. Humidity 87%. Wind 2.3 mph from the WNW.

    Pax: The Bogé, Charmin, Hokie, Rudy, Triple, Boo, HG, Cyber C, and YHC

    I’m using text to speech to write this back blast cents I can’t move my harms. My farms. My alarms. Delete. Backspace. BACKSPACE. Okay. Just start over. Leeland! Come here. How do I turn this off? Never mind. Stop laughing at me. You have milk coming out your nose. Just wipe your face and go to school. New Paragraph.

    Hokie clearly became board during the first 3 quarters of the Saints game, as he texted me regarding the set-up for this week’s IPC. He told me what the challenge was, that setting it up as a star was stupid and then he texted “Are you stupid?” I texted “I’m not stupid.”

    Charmin’s car was there when I pulled up at about 0515. I think he may have slept there. We walked up together with our cinderblocks coming upon a mass of humanity, lying on the sidewalk, shaped like a pretzel. We told The Bogé hello as we stepped over him. One by one pax members came to a cinder block workout without cinder blocks. The requirements for an F3 workout could not be much lower. It’s free, you do have to leave your house and go outside, and about twice per year you need to bring something to the workout. Fortunately our resident boy scout had a couple of PainCakes that he donated to a couple of pax and then walked to the rock pile so that he could do the workout au natural.

    The Thang: Belle Ringer
    Format: AMRAP for 45 minutes

    Set-Up: Make a 5-point star with each point of the star being 25 yards away from the center. Scratch that. Set Up: Mark of 25 yards from the goal line and tell people to remember the order of the exercises and don’t get in each other’s way.

    Workout starts with:
    • 5 ManMakers in the middle. Rifle carry to cone 2 and perform 10 “We’re Not Worthy”. Farmer carry back to center.
    • 5 ManMakers/Blockees in middle. Rifle carry to cone 3 and perform 15 Goblet Squats. Farmer carry back to center.
    • 5 ManMakers/Blockees in middle. Rifle carry to cone 4 and perform 20 Overhead Triceps Extensions. Farmer carry back to center.
    • 5 ManMakers/Blockees in the middle. Rifle carry to cone 5 and perform 25 KB Swings. Farmer carry back to center.
    • 5 ManMakers/Blockees in the middle. Rifle carry to cone 5 and perform 30 Curls. Farmer carry back to middle.

    Scoring: Total reps for 45 minutes of the exercises

    Each complete trip is 125 reps

    • T-claps to Cyber Cajun for vowing to arrive early today and executing. He was a little late to last week’s IPC. We talked about the importance of getting there early since everyone is going to want to start at 0530. He arrived at least 15 seconds before this one started.
    • Mahatma was a no-show. The rumor was that he was looking for a cinder block that weighed more than 10 pounds. He finally found one, but was unable to lift it into his truck.
    • T-Claps to Rudy for Marshalling enough courage to show up this morning.
    • The variety of coupons used today was impressive. We had three or four actual cinder blocks. We had a couple of PainCakes. There was the natural rock. And Triple Shift brought a bag of laundry that he swears weighs 45 pounds.
    • We helped each other calculate the results since there was some difficult mathematical concepts involved. Hand Grenada proved that Arkansas is at least 49th in education. Bogey came over and let him use his fingers. After staring at my feet for a while, they still couldn’t come up with the correct number. I fixed it for them below. Without further ado here are the results. Remember, you can post these on F3 Greenville’s site if you want to see how ridiculous other people’s numbers are.

    o Charmin – 375
    o Rudy – 375
    o Triple – 373
    o Hokie – 275 + a long mosey with rock to and from the rock pile
    o Boo – 375
    o Cyber – 300
    o HG – 410
    o The Bogé – 395
    o YHC – 430