Tag: FracSac

  • NOT hum-drum at the Scrum – from Bolt

    Undeterred by the debacle at El Diablo and Rudy’s relentless whining and razzing me, YHC committed to reset and revisit the focus on the upper chest: place your left index finger underneath the right side collar bone and thumb vertically in the middle of the sternum, raise right hand overhead and note the upper chest movement: that’s where the focus is.

    Warmarama: Rapper’s Delight edition
    Including MNCs and a few burpees for Frac

    The Thang: pair up, 3 stations: box jumps and step ups AMRAP with 10 dips being the timer.

    5 upper chest exercises, 1 minute work/30 sec rest with a 10 rep target focusing on the area beneath collar bone/along sternum, while other two pair do legs/abs AMRAP
    Rd. 1 Archer (thumbs at lower chest): Squats/LBCs
    Rd. 2 Explosive: side lunge/BBS
    Rd. 3 Diamond Inc. (touch pinkies at top): reverse lunge/penguins
    Rd. 4 Pseudo Pike (hands at waist high): Bonnie Blairs/American hammers
    Rd. 5 Plunge (wide grip): Rocky Balboas/crunchy frogs

    Final refinement will include giving each chest move an F3-style name (one is definitely Rudy Booty) and limiting each beatdown to only one of the moves so it isn’t a total smoke fest. Feel free to watch the video and submit naming suggestions via mumblechatter. Grateful for all of u!

  • Not Suitable For Sunday School – from Hawgcycle

    Conditions: 64 degrees, 87% Humidity, Wind 3.4 mph from ESE
    Pax: The Sac, HC Mambi, War B*tch, Boo, Cyber, and YHC

    Warm-up:
    SSH x 25; Imperial Walkers x 25; Peter Parkers x 20; Windmills x 10; LBCs x 25

    The Thang:
    Line up near the stairs. One man runs up and around the stairs back to the end of the line. Each man moves up one position in the line.
    • Position 1 – Big Boi Sit-ups
    • Position 2 – Bakerd Lunges
    • Position 3 – Merkins
    • Positon 4 – Flutter Kicks
    • Position 5 – Burpees
    Everyone went through the line twice

    Mosey to the middle of the field where we played some games with a couple of flying orb balls
    • Game 1 – Keep the two flying orbs in the air as long as possible
    • Game 2 – Divide into teams of 3. Each team counts down from 10 with each tap of the orb. Whatever number you are on when the orb hits the ground is the number of burpees you do.
    • Game 3 – Everyone takes a seat around a giant square. Man in the middle taps the orb in the air and calls out someone’s name and trades places with that person. The person called has to run to the orb tap it and call out another name….etc. I can’t say this went well.
    • Game 4 – 2 teams of 3. One team does burpees as long as the other team keeps the orb in the air. Teams switch roles once the orb hits the ground.

    After the orbs died we moseyed to the soccer field to play some poker. The deck of cards was located at the south goal. Starting at the North goal, run to the deck and grab a card. Bring it back and do the exercise and number of reps on the card. Continue until you have 7 cards or time runs out. At the end we made our best five card hand. Losers did 10 burpees. YHC did a pool side stretch.

    Mosey back to the flag.

    Naked Man Moleskin
    • First complaint from the pax formerly known as War Eagle came 35 seconds into the workout when he thought the mosey to the warm-up was too long.
    • Second complaint from the pax fka War Eagle came 6 minutes and 20 seconds into the workout when we got down in the grass to do LBCs.
    • Third complaint from the pax fka War Eagle came 8 minutes and 10 seconds into the warm-up when we headed to the stairs.
    • I lost track after that.
    • The flying orbs were fun and have lots of potential. YHC, Mambi and War Bleep, were professionals from the get go. Once we stopped to watch Frac, Boo, and Cyber C, we were embarrassed for them. It made sense why the ladies walking the track were pointing and laughing. Even with YHC’s literary skills, I can’t figure out how to explain what they were doing.
    • YHC wanted to call it quits on the Orb Game #3, but War %*$#@ said we could figure it out. I was inspired by his never say die attitude, so we continued the game. We never figured it out.
    • On Slack yesterday Frac declared that he is terrible at card games. He ain’t lyin’
    • Frac ended the workout with one of the most unnecessary modifications of all time.
    • Boo is starting a Book Club at Pontiff. Just show up 15 minutes prior to the workout.

  • Sorry I missed Groovin’ with Tool- MOPS is 10!!!! – from Hokie

    I was heard saying @ Sphinxster’s Crawfish boil, I was going to my 1st Swolefest to Groove with Tool this morning.

    Thank you MacGyver for texting me last night reminding me I was actually the Q at The Scrum, so duty calls…

    We 5 Pax met and reviewed our mission statement… 10 Burpee penalty for a miss and a 5 burpee penalty for a near miss… 15 burpees later

    To plant, grow and serve

    small workout groups for men

    for the invigoration of male community leadership..

    After warm ups we did an exercise AMRAP for a period of time then ran backwards about 30 yards and then ran back to our starting point

    Round 1 MORE BURPEES for our N’antan
    Round 2 Merkins
    Round 3 MORE BURPEES, then Merkins, then low slow squats

    Rounds 4–11 MORE BURPEES plus just one exercise.

    To close out we did MORE BURPEES plus a minute of Nolan Ryan’s and MORE BURPEES

    200 Burpees for our N’antan

    Thank you RevSox for sharing Mops’ 10th birthday with us!!!

    Continued prayers for Heath and his upcoming trial (no date set) and now for Kenner Brah and his aches & pains

  • 21 Mutha Nickel – from Vagabond

    Stepped up to Q last minute with 5 Pax for 21 reps of 21 exercises at various points around peristyle, NOMA, Childrens Museum, using wall, fountain, benches, inclines, plus 3 pax training for the #double-nickel, with 8 converged for the COT

  • The Ducks can talk but that’s it – from Fracsac

    YHC rolled up to the Renaissance and found it to be quiet, too quiet.
    At 0630, only the ducks were talking. Since I speak duck, it was a deep and invigorating discussion. That inspired YHC to put a proposed beat down to the test.
    2.5 miles and 200 burpees later, it was time for Sunday Mornings.
    Sweaty BOM with 3 is a triangle, 2 is a hug, and 1, well it just looks awkward to those passing by…..Ducks don’t seem to get the COT…

  • El Diablo: the Devil is in the Upper Chest and the burpees—of course – from Bolt

    YHC finally arrived to Q toting 5 new exercises, 4 novel exercise implements, the Bolt 3M promise, 2 coupons, and 1 speaker. During the thick of it, the ever-astute Hawg picked up on the playlist theme and while I’m not 420-friendly, I’m not above culturally appropriating references of Goo Nation so I went with it. It should be duly noted Charmin was horrified and perplexed by the playlist (and secretly enjoying it, replete with his requisite guilt—of course) but I digress https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3EdFoz3pFUQxfJbvRL0WRa?si=4j7Qkg4ARpOg4CBZCB5VjQ

    The devil is in the details because the new exercises all activate the rarely trained upper chest and the hope was we would feel the fire burning as if the devil himself was being expelled from the upper two thirds of our pecs; I’ll count on the pax to weigh in.

    Warmorama: Rapper’s Delight Version (too long for this workout) complete with MNC for Frac, with penalty burpees for too much mumblechatter

    The Thang: 5 burpees while pax one moseys to pavilion with two coupons in tow Indian Run style, tag/take off, 5 burpees for all others

    Upper Chest
    (6 moves, 1 min/move, feet elevated)

    Explosive
    Pseudo Pike (hands at waist high)
    Archer (thumbs at lower chest)
    Plunge (wide grip, coupons as base)
    Diamond merk (Incline, touch pinkies at top)
    Burpees
    Pax 2&3 legs/abs and rotate at the table until each pax does the chest exercise; switch tables.
    Round 1: squats/LBC
    Round 2: reverse lunge/BBS
    Round 3: side lunge/penguin
    Round 4: squats/LBC
    Round 5: step ups/crunchy frogs

    We didn’t get to round 6 bc:
    Too much bitchin’ about how long the new exercises took to explain—they r NEW!

  • The CatFrac – from Fracsac

    YHC arrived at the Renaissance to find Catfish ready to roll. Catfish and YHC decided to split the Q duties. At the last second Gabrielle rolled in to make it a party!

    Catfish took the warmup on the steps of NOMA with some regular routines and 20 x 8 count Body builders.

    Off to the side of NOMA for a murderous set of calf raises and such.

    YHC took over by heading to the front of NOMA for insane DirtyMacDuece. Each round started with either burpees or 8 count body builders. Lap takes you around NOMA.

    End with 5 x Sunday mornings!

    Coffeteria rocked to celebrate a great start to Easter.

  • Football is Life – from Fracsac

    5 pax, including 1 FNG, arrived at the Scrum looking to try out for the USF3L. One could smell the scent of competition hanging heavy in the air, sort of like rotting crawfish shells.
    With the Shovel flag planted, a disclaimer was given, then a short mosey to a nice grassy area near the outdoor gym.

    Warmup consisted of the usual stuff, skipping the unnecessary stuff. But we did do MNC and dancing was encouraged!

    Mosey to the open field:

    Most of the world calls it football, but it’s soccer. We did a few different styles of offense vs defense and it was both fun and beneficial. We also knocked out 80 burpees. YHC was likely the worst player on the field.

    Return to the warmup spot for a minute of stretching followed by a mosey to the flag for the COT.

    Hawgcycle, Kennah Brah, YHC, Heisenberg and FNG Cyber Cajun all made the team! It was adult recess!!

    SYITG.

  • The Turtle – from Fracsac

    The last time YHC posted at the Foundry is unknown. It could likely be found, but what’s the point? It was long ago….too long. YHC saw the Q sheet open and made the commitment to return.
    Saban, Jesus Juice, Tool, Sandberg, and BayWatch made it clear they were ready!
    We did a little warmup, with MNC and dancing included! End with 10 burpees OYO
    Mosey to the Foundry via the LCM bridge, stopping at the benches so Saban could attempt to murder a turtle. Luckily the turtle saw him coming and dashed out of the way….
    Step ups and Dips completed, then continue the mosey to the Foundry.
    EMOM x 5 minutes for 50 burpees
    Stations:
    Jump the Green Snake AMRAP
    Pull ups or 90 degree hang
    Run to track, 3 burpees, run back – timer
    Rinse and Repeat
    EMOM x 5 minutes for 50 burpees
    Church bells ring. Apparently it’s a tradition to do 6 burpees at 6 am. So, 6 more burpees. The pax were very pleased.

    Embrace the Suck:
    7 x SSH
    7 x Merkins
    7 x jump squats
    Continue for 3 minutes. If any pax can hit 8 rounds, no more burpees.
    Saban hit 8 rounds….well done!!

    Mosey back to flag for Mary and COT

    That’s 122 burpees for the morning. T-Claps!

    SYITG
    

  • Sudden Change at the Renaissance – from Triple Shift

    With no Q on the sheet I assumed that it would be a grab bag for leadership. When I arrived, I found out Heisenberg was signed up but he never showed up so I took it. I gave the disclaimer and we ran to the foundry to warm up instead of facing the bacon. Once we arrived at the foundry, we did some exercies to warm up and then headed to the path for a burpee mile. All the PAX performed 5 burpees and then ran for one minute. The front runners (Catfish) would plank up for the six when the one minute was up. Once everyone arrived where Catfish was planking, we would perform 5 burpees and then run for one minute. We did that for an entire mile!

    Once we got back to the foundry, we did some flexed arm hangs then hangs and then Mary. With 10 minutes left, we ran to the back of NOMA to do the traditional Sunday Mornings and them back to the flag. We welcomed FNG Drift (Backed Up’s son) and closed out with the countoff, namerama, and COT. Special prayers to F3 Alpharetta (Atlanta) where a PAX member lost their life skiing with another F3 brother.