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Box of Chocolates at Racetrack

15 Redwoods decided to get a little better on Maryland Way in the gloom.  An FNG, a Willy Loman and a Venus rising were all in attendance.

PAX: Umbrella, Parasol (FNG and 2.0), Val (Willy Loman), Olan Mills (Starsky), Venus, Big Bang, Tampa Libra, Toga (QIC), Penny Loafers, Barkley, Wedding Singer, Ponzi, Boone’s Farm, Nurse Ratched, Not A Sport

Gloom Factor: 70 and Sunny

Thang: Standard issue disclaimer then begin the APFT with a 2 mile run.  Bang and Ponzi led the pack with Parasol in hot pursuit.  Following completion of the run portion, the PAX partnered up and completed the push-up and sit-up portion of the APFT.

We immediately began on an improvement program with a mosey to the pull-up bars to complete a ladder to 5 and back down.  This was followed by 3 sets of 10 rows on the bars.

Mosey back to the lot for Mary.

NMM: So many things happening at The Track today.  We had the naming of a 2.0 (who can jump way higher than Umbrella), Val in from out of town, Tampa thanking me for having the 2 mile run at the beginning of the workout, Venus joining us half way through the run.., the list goes on.  Life truly is like a box of chocolates when you come to the Racetrack.

Stay Classy,

Toga

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Movement Monday

4/April 2022

Temp : 45
Gloom Factor : Low
PAX : CCR, Works 4 A Guy, Cinderella, A/R, EZ-GO, Movin On Up, Bagger Vance
QIC : BV

0530 Disclaimer

WOR :
Lateral Bounding R/L & F/R
Low Long Willy Mays R/L
Lower body Stretches
SSH

Mosey to top of bus loop
Gorilla walk F/R & L/R

Mosey to bottom of bus loop
5 Hill Sprints

Mosey to back lot
Bear Crawl
Crawl Bear
Gorilla Walk L/R

Mosey to blocks and back to playground
5 Turkish Get ups w Block R/L
5 Count Pull Up Hang at Top RnR x 5
5 Curl, Extend, Chop w Block R/L
5 Jump Pull ups w Slow movement down
10 ct IC Putin Pounders w Block
OH Block Carry R/L
Murder bunnies w block
Bunny drag w block
Return Blocks

5 Pull Ups
10 Merkins (5ct IC)
15 Squats (3ct IC)
RnR
Hold low squat 1’
5 Kick throughs R/L

Parking Lot Sprints x 3

Beast 5 ct IC R/L

Peter Parker Movements x 4 R/L

Plank Progression

Time

NMM :
Solid crew this am. Explored the space and got some good real life movements knocked out. Will keep working them out.
EZ-GO VQ next week. Y’all come out and support him.

🎒🐜

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31 Mar 22

Primal Movements 101

Temp : 53
Gloom Factor : Moderate

PAX : Amoeba, Cogito, Flight Risk, Grute, Pause, Red Skull, BNB, Hambone, Bagger Vance
QIC : BV

Long Mosey w
High Knees
Butt Kix
Side shuffle
Karaoke
High plank to Recovery position
Bear Crawl
Crawl Bear
Gorilla Walk

6s
Rows
Merks

Mosey to the BBall court
SnL Squats x 6s
Turk”ish” Get Ups
Walk Arounds
Peter Parker Stretches
1/2 Court Sprints x 1, 2, 3, 5

Plank Progression to Finish

Time

NMM:
Fought through some adversity this am. Attitudes sufficiently adjusted including YHC. Several slices of humble pie were served early and often.

BH:
Graduation tonight 1800 on Campus. Y’all stop by and give the grads a fist bump.

YHC,
🎒🐜

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Sweet 16

Incredible weather was not squandered this morning by the 10 Pax that rolled out of bed and chose the path of resistance.  Intent was to balance a little strength training with some metabolic conditioning.

QIC: Grisham

Pax:  PA // T-Cell // It’s Just Lunch // Bicentennial Man //  Loan Star (FNG) // Silver Medal // Howitzer // Formica // Gables

Warm-up

Strength:

  • (4 X 16) Rows // V-ups
  • (2 X 8) HSPU // L-Sits

MetCon:

  • 5 Rds. – EOMOM (break reps in any manner)
    • 16 Pull-ups
    • 16 Hand Release Push-Ups
    • 16 Mtn. Climbers (4 ct.)

Mary

Moleskine:   Great to see so many out this morning.  Happy Birthday to It’s Just Lunch who turned 39 today and a warm welcome to Travis Dunn (“Loan Star”).  Also, great to see Silver Medal back in the mix after being on baby lock-down.

Hope you men all have a wonderful week.

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PurpleCow – 2022/3/21

PAX: Barkley, Venus, Faulkner, Olan Mills, Blackwidow, Red Skull, Penny Loafers, Nurse.Ratched, Hugs not Drugs, Toga, Wedding Singer, House on the Praire

QIC: Boone’s Farm

Conditions: crisp 40

WOR:

Circle up:

  • SSH x20
  • Squats x10
  • WMH OYO
  • Michael Phelps x10
  • Merkins x10

Thang:

Mosey to GWP along path around to playground parking lot and partner up.  P1 run lap around parking lot while P2 performs reps (combined) of exercise, flapjack:

  • Burpees x50
  • Squat Jumps x100
  • Merkins x150
  • LBC x200
  • Flutters x250 IC

2 sprints across half of parking lot.  IPR back to start for Ring of Fire Merkins, J-Lo’s x20 IC slow and Low, Time.  COT.

Prayers House on the prairie recovery, look for ways to be servant particularly wives, kids and those we routinely impact.

Great effort by all this morning.  Coffee fellowship enjoyed by all.

Always an honor,

BF

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18 March 2022

ImprompQ

Temp: 55
Gloom Factor: High

PAX: EZGO, Hiser, Works for A Guy, Pedialyte, Accounts Receivable, Movin On Up, Bagger Vance
QIC: BV

Painfully obvious that the AOQ had not lined someone up to Q today. YHC & A/R briefly discussed #Sharknado but couldn’t remember the order or the exercises.

0530:30 Disclaimer

Mosey Hogan to Trousdale to back parking lot where we all marveled at the fresh, clean blacktop.

WOR:
Bunny Hops
1/4 split squats
Warrior
Seal Jax Skiers

Mosey to bus loop:
Bear Crawl to Crawl Bear to Crabwalk to Bear Crawl.

Reverse Burpees

Mosey to Trousdale side shuffle right then left to bottom of bus loop.

Skips to first Bradford Pear sprint to second.
Reverse skips to third Bradford pear. High plank and walk arounds.

Table push/pull.

5 Pull Ups
10 Swirkins
15 Squat Jumps

6 Rows
12 Atomics
18 Thrusters

RnR above

Grab blocks – Farmers carry to front wall. Wall sits. Supermans to failure.
Block Carries.
Block Row, Hinge, Plank Jax
Return blocks

Sprint – 10 reverse thrusters
Sprint – 10 heels to heaven
Sprint – 10 APD

Bear crawl kick throughs

Time

NMM:
Good mix of movements, nasal breathing and variety of work sets.
Nice to have Hiser from F3 Davidson back out with us.
Grateful to BigStick for reaching out and asking me to Q 🙄
Coffee Talk – wrecks, traffic, potholes, KY losing, UT winning, bad referees, The Hill (RIP), etc.
No playlist

BH: Prayers up for Ukraine, our world, grateful for the blessings we have, people who lost power in The Shire and their recovery, 413, traveling mercies.

YHC,
🎒🐜

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III Pillars – “EMOMa So Ugly…” – 03.08.22

7 PAX gathered on a brisk Tuesday morning for a slow burn of a full-body workout designed to get you beach ready just in time for spring break.

QIC: Princess Aurora

PAX: Formica, Grisham, Howitzer, It’s Just Lunch, Pumpkin Spice, T-Cell

THANG:

Disclaimer and mosey to the track for a warmup lap and COP:

  • SSH x 20
  • LBAC F x 10
  • Overhead Press x 15
  • LBAC R x 10
  • WMH x 20

Phase 1

PAX gathered ’round the jungle gym to embark on an EMOM circuit hitting all major muscle groups as well as the aerobic system, all to the sucré sounds of mostly French electro house. PAX perform reps as prescribed and rest for remainder of minute. Exercises as follows:

  • 0:00 – Pull-Ups x 10
  • 1:00 – Hand Release Merkins x 15 – upped to 20 for second set onward
  • 2:00 – Big Boy Sit-Ups x 15
  • 3:00 – Squats x 20 – scaled up to 1.5x Squats for second set onward
  • 4:00 – 200m Run

RnR up to 25:00

Phase 2

Quick jog over to track gate and down Bernie Incline for a leg afterburner. Iron Mikes x 10 (2=1) followed by Bernie up to gate and jog back down. People’s Chair for six and go again x 2 for 3 rounds total.

Phase 3

Indian Run back to parking lot and circle up for 4MOM:

  • APDs x 10
  • Boxcutters x 10
  • LBCs x 10
  • Shoulder Taps x 10
  • Jane Fondas x 10 ea

COT/BOM

MOLESKINE:

Glad to have Howitzer back out, and great effort by all throughout the EMOM circuit. T-claps to Pumpkin Spice for pushing the pace on the 200s and also to Grisham for providing Spice with a riveting final 200 duel. As predicted, the 200m rest period was the shortest and added an extra level of difficulty to the pull-ups. At first glance, the workout didn’t seem to intimidating, but after witnessing Grisham shed a layer each round, YHC started to feel better about his Q.

BULLHORN:

Continued prayers for IJL’s friend, Formica’s dad, and Howitzer’s M.

Upcoming: Grow Ruck 27 here in Nashville – 04/29 – 05/01. Kick off the weekend with some HIM over beers and hot chicken, wake up Saturday for a morning workout, dive into the four quadrants of Preparedness in the F3 curriculum at GrowSchool, and embark on an overnight ruck designed to you push beyond your comfort zone and accelerate your leadership.  Hit up Big Bang and Tampa Libra with any questions, and be on the lookout for some promo videos.

PA out.

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What is this Q called?

Temp: 40 ish
Gloom Factor: Nil

PAX: Lochte, BNB, Bad Boy, T Cell, The Shield, Works for a Guy, Topanga, Bagger Vance
QIC: BV

Disclaimer and some additional excuse making about this is a new routine, YHC will need to Weinke, etc.

Side shuffle (L/R) Pole to Pole
Karaoke (L/R) Pole to Pole
Bear Crawl Crawl Bear
Mod Gorilla (R/L)

In Nose out mouth x 10
In nose out nose x 10
In mouth out mouth x 10

SSH x 20
Seal Jax x 20
Glute bridge (r:l) x 8
Straight leg swing(r/l) x 10
Rolling v sit x 5
Neck flexion x 10
Neck rotation x 10
Scapula merkins x 10
Merkin to downward dog x 10
Spider lunge w extension x 10
Baby arm circles (F/R)
Shoulder corkscrews x 10
Sumo squat slow n low x 10
Reverse lunge w twist x 5 (r/l)
Speed skaters x 10 (r/l)
Inch worms x 10

PAX split into 1s & 2s
1s to the top pull up station
2s stay at the bottom
Pull Ups at station then flap jack for merkins at opposite station.

11s
Merkins
Pull Ups

Skips pole to pole
Bernie Skips pole to pole
AYG to StartEx

Time

NMM: Focused on different movement patterns, less quantity more quality. Tempo and time under tension training. Getting breath under control, getting nasal, slowing breath down. Today’s music was from WNXP playlist on Spotify. Today’s workout title came from Bad Boy, T Cell and BNB riding me all morning and the fact that I have nothing else pithy to call it.
BH: Ukraine, 413 starting again next week, marriages, SB travel.

YHC,
🎒🐜

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Time to Let Your Donkey Out

PAX: Offshore (kotter), Umbrella (afraid to get wet), Hugs Not Drugs, Venus, Cinderella, Barkley, Nurse Ratched, Penny Loafers, THE Black Widow, Toga (QIC), Honeydo (FNG), Ponzi, EZ Go, Wedding Singer

Gloom Factor: Nil, 70 and Sunny

14 redwoods showed up in some lovely weather to get a little better, faster, and stronger.  Here’s how it went down.

Disclaimer then mosey to the short track, do a lap and sorta circle up for warmarama.  Divide into two teams with Team One (a very individualistic group) going clockwise and Team Two (much more team focused and supportive) went counterclockwise.  Both teams had to mosey around the track and complete 5 pull-ups and 10 merkins at bars and 10 donkey kicks and 10 WWII on the porch before meeting back at the start.  Repeato x3

Take a break by working on Mary then do three more laps with chin-ups and offset merkins at the bars and lunges and donkey kicks at the porch.  Repeato x3

Do one more round with pull-ups and burpees at the bar and donkey kicks and squats at the porch.

Mosey to the parking lot for a fair amount of Mary.

Announcements: GrowRuck is coming!  Talk to Tampa or Big Bang ASAP.  We also had great news that Umbrella’s missing friend from BG was found and is back with his family.

Thanks for the opportunity to lead!

Stay Classy,

Toga

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Movement > Quantity

Temp: 42
Gloom Factor: Low

PAX: Yard Sale, PSL, Black Widow, Venus, Noodler, D’Frost, Accounts Receivable, W4AG, EZ-Go, Uncle Jerry, Foxtrot, Bagger Vance (QIC)

Disclaimer 0530

WOR
Skip (F/R)
Side Shuffle x 2
Karaoke x 2
Bernie x 2
IW x 12 IC
Scorpion X 8 IC
Seal Jax X 10 IC

THANG

I. Tempo 6s
Merkins
Split Squats

II. Movements 1’

Speed Skaters
Bear Crawl
Crawl Bear
Bear Crawl
Bunny Hop
Inch Worm to Peter Parker
Unloaded Get Ups
Row, Row, Hinge, Hinge
180 Broad Jumps

III. Speed
Sprints

Nasal Breathing

Low Squat Challenge

TIME

NMM:
Focused on proper form with lateral and functional movements over lots of reps in linear fashion.
Lots of groaning and grunting. Always a good sign.
Totally dropped the ball on nasal breath work.

YHC,
🎒🐜