Tag: The Manny

  • 7 COOL DUDES

    “temperature wise that is, not demeanor”

    6 Pax showed up on time
    1 Pax showed up late AGAIN. I won’t mention his name. But he likes to sidle-up.

    I was reminded of my university P.E. class, taught by the basketball coach. The DIV I basketball players would always straggle in late.
    The coach would admonish them, “three tardies equal one absence, and one absence equals a tardy.”
    As a “C” student, I could only look around, to see if anyone else was confused by that, shrug my shoulders, and wonder how different things would be if I were 6 foot, eleven.

     

    Anyways…time to jump on the Polar Express. To the best of my recall, here is how it went

    short disclaimer …

    warmup
    all 20xIC; side straddle hops, good-mornings, windmills, imperial walkers, toe touches, butt-kicks, hillbillies, arm circles, single leg lunges, squats, mummy kicks

    mosey to Bedrock; pick up a 10 pound, coarse crystalline texture, gray, limited porosity and permeability, limestone boulder.
    all 20xIC; curls, overhead presses, rows, outward presses

    mosey to the front of the Taj Mahal for the MERKIN HONOR ROLL
    here we have lots of brick pavers, each with a name and date, honoring former St.Tammany Parish school board employees.
    circle up at the flagpole outer ring
    one pax, at a time, bearcrawls in toward the flagpole to a brick, reads the name and from the last two digits of the date, chooses the higher number and this dictates the number of merkins for the PAX to do.
    for example if the brick reads “Joe Joblotz 1930-1967.” We call out Joblotz,Joblotz,… while doing 7 merkins. That pax bearcrawls out. The next pax bearcrawls in, reads the stats off his brick and we merkin to the stat, repeat with each pax taking a turn.
    We got in a lot of merkins, bear crawling, and planking, to keep us warm.

    mosey to the St.Tammany Parish Courthouse promenade
    In forward motion; One Burpee, Two Burpees, Three Burpees, Four Burpees, then up the steps, down the ramp, down the block and around. Repeat four times.
    Then to the benches for 20xIC dips, 20xIC step-ups

    Indian Run back to the trail head

    mary
    20xIC flutter kicks
    20xIC Jane Fondas

    count-o-rama, prayer led by THE MANNY

    Thanks guys, for showing up on this cold day!

  • 22% Do I NEED TO SAY MORE!!!

    Man I hate to admit this publicly but this Q on this day was really hoping to have a bunch of fart sackers so I myself could go back to my warm house!!! Sitting in my truck posting my soon to be morning routine on Facebook wondering if I’m helping or hurting F3 chances of getting any new FNG’s. Posting at 4:45am in 22% weather might or should I say probably sounds crazy to most! But the second thing I realized is how strong the fellowship is to bring brothers together in such extreme temperatures to get in a good beat down. There truly is no other group like F3!!!
    Thanks again Captain Sparkles

    Now for Warm ups in cadence
    40 Side straddle hops
    20 windmills
    20 Imperial walkers
    20 Butt kicks
    20 High Knees
    20 LBC’s
    20 Putin’s or American hammers

    The Thang

    5 times up down the stairs

    Up stairs every step doing the number of calf raises that coincides with the step your on. Step one 1 calf raise step two 2 calf raises step fifteen 15 calf raises all the way to step 27. That’s 378 calf raises.

    Down steps same thing except squats. That’s 378 squats

    3 times up down the stairs jog pace.

    20 Merkins on your own.

    Lung walk to end of covered trace area.

    Mosey to bus stop for
    10 box jumps on benches
    10 Freak Nasty’s
    10 box jumps
    10 Freak Nasty’s
    10 box jumps
    10 Freak Nasty’s

    Then hands on bench hoping over bench together on Q’s count to 15

    Mosey back to Flag area for the finish

    10 in cadence LBC
    10 in cadence Putin’s
    10 in cadence flutter kicks

    Holding legs 6” above ground for count to 60 ok that was to easy again

    Holding legs 6” above ground for 60 mississippi Little harder.