Category: Bomber

16 HIMs made the right decision and escaped the Fartsack this morning to make themselves better.

VQIC: Cunning Linguist

PAX: Blue Mule, Studio 42, Porcelain, Ride Along, Hi-Viz, En Fuego, Vector, Lunch Lady, Preacher Man, Pumpkin Spice, Crablegs, Crawlspace, Right Said, Harvey Updyke, and Macaroni from F3Franklin

THE THANG:

YHC gave a one-minute warning followed by a rather verbose disclaimer (during which mumblechatter was overheard surrounding the Weinke on my left arm), then we moseyed along the outside of Bomber and uphill (where YHC got  “turned around”) to the area euphemistically known as the “Bump” for Warmarama.

Warmarama consisted of:
SSH x 15
WMH x 12
LBAC x 12
rLBAC x 12
4-Count Squats x 12

YHC had PAX count off 1s and 2s, and strongly encouraged them to remember their neighbor.

Mosey to Park Smart sign near entrance of Bomber.

Main event was B.O.M.B.S. with 1s running to and looping around traffic circle outside Bomber while 2s started on:

Burpees x 50
Overhead Claps x 100
Merkins (called an audible) x100
Big Boy Situps x 200
Squats x 250

When 1s tagged in, they took note of 2s progress with Burpees and counted from there. Wash, rinse, repeat until Squats are complete.

Mosey back to main parking lot area for 3MOM:

Freddie Mercury x 12
Boxcutters x 12
Flutter Kicks x 12
American Hammers x 12
LBC x 12

Circle up and perform Countarama, Namearama, Sixth Man, and CoT. Highlighted Macaroni for putting YHC in the EH less than two months ago.

BULLHORN:

Lessons learned were a-plenty this go ‘round, but I cannot say enough positive things about the group of HIMs I have the opportunity to share 45 minutes with on the Big Ball every morning. I am humbled by the outpouring of support given to YHC, both today and up to now, and I look forward to my next Q.

They say you never forget your first, right?

MOLESKINE:

• Let’s keep adding our names to the Q calendar. Cold weather is no excuse to avoid taking the DRP.
• Speaking of cold weather, props to Porcelain and Bagger Vance for sharing a link in the Slack channel for where we can procure additional gear and learn how to layer effectively.
• Post-workout coffeeteria discussion revolved around the planning of a HDHH in the near future. Be on the lookout for details very soon.

22 HIM came out into the gloom to reflect on time

PAX:  PA, Bad Boy, T-cell, Hi-Viz, Lunch Lady, Pumpkin Spice, Crawl Space, Right Said, En fuego, Duplex, Shadow, Ride Along (FNG), Hambone, Harvey Updyke, Crablegs, Bicentennial Man, Porcelain, Silver Medal, ABC, TK, Firefox, Vector (QIC)

Conditions:   Cool but comfortable, especially as many HIM debuted their new F3 wardrobe swag

Warm-o-rama:  Willy Mayes Hayes x 12, Good Mornin’s x 12, LBAC x 12, Seal claps x 12, Reverse LBAC x 12

Flashback:  November 3, 2017 – YHC arrived at Bomber with Ebola, unsure of what was about to happen.  Hambone on Q, several thoughts flashed across my brain about 4 minutes in as we bear crawled up the street next to Edley’s (1. “This is odd,” 2. “Holy crap, I’m out of shape,” and 3. “Don’t barf. Don’t barf. Don’t barf.”)

In the year that’s followed, I’ve gotten stronger, embraced the odd, and have not barfed.   More importantly, I’ve grown as a HIM and leader thanks to all of you.  So today, as I reflected on the passage of time, I decided we all should do the same.  Time is fleeting, often wasted, and finite.  We must use the time we have to better ourselves as leaders, men, husbands, partners, brothers, sons, uncles, etc.

Playlist:

It’s Time – Imagine Dragons (2012)

Days Go By – Dirty Vegas (2002)

Only Time Will Tell – Asia (1982)

4 Minutes – JT/Madonna (2008)

Time Has Come Today – Chambers Brothers (1967)

Too Much Time on My Hands – Styx (1981)

Closing Time – Semisonic (1998)

Clocks – Coldplay (2002)

Mosey to Rec Center Cul-de-sac. Clock shaped, it served well as our first exercise AO.  Partner up to race the clock:

#1:   On even numbers of the clock face, jump squats (12 reps, 10, 8 . . .) around the clock. Odd numbers, merkins.  Once group moves to 11, next group starts at 12.  PAX performed SSH (as seconds ticking away) until their turn to race.  Plank action when finished.

#2:  Evens: Squats.  Odds: Plank Jacks

Mosey to Hill for 7s (like the days of the week).  Lt. Dans at bottom, burpees at top.  On 3rd time up the hill (representing Wednesday, which of course is “HUMP DAY!” run down to other side of the hill and back, stop to perform the Bad Boy Honorary Lt. Dan Burpee x 4.

Mosey to Wall:  DID x 15 for 2 sets.  3rd set x 10 with focus on partner’s form.

Mary:  Circle up (like a clock) – PAX choice around the clock:  Flutter kicks, Hello Dollys, WW1s, Crunchy Happy T-cells . . . I mean Frogs, Ankle Taps, J-Los, Freddy Mercurys, Russian Twists

COT:   Welcome FNG Ride Along (a.k.a. Chris)!!  6th Man: Porcelain.  Congrats to Bad Boy and M for the gender reveal (It’s a girl!).

Thanks to all HIM for the past year.  I have truly grown in ways I had not planned or anticipated.  Value the time you have with your loved ones, and continue to strive each day to be better than the day before.

SYITG,

Vector

CONDITIONS: Brisk. Winter is coming.

PAX: T-Cell, Dewey, Duplex, Porcelain, Shadow (FNG), Princess Aurora, Minnow Tank (FNG), Crawlspace, Crablegs, Cunning Linguist, Vector, Bad Boy, Trapper Keeper, En Fuego, Reveille, ABC

QIC: Hi-Viz

Mosey to upper parking lot. Today’s focus: Slow it down. Focus on form. Today’s about quality of movement, not quantity.

WOR: SSH IC X 20, Squats (Slow-N-Low) X 20 IC, 6-Count Burpees X 10 IC, LBAC X 10 IC, Beetle Baileys X 10 IC, Reverse LBAC X 10 IC

Count off 1s and 2s. Lose count somehow. Re-do count off.

THANG: Mosey to the end of the parking lot. 1s and 2s line up at different spots. Bear crawl zig-zag down the parking lot, forward, side, forward, side. Those waiting to go (and those who ended before others) knocked out some Lieutenant Dans.

6-Count Burpees X 10 IC

Mosey to the parking lot.

1s and 2s line up for relay, up the hill and back. Runner calls the exercise for those on his team.

6-Count Burpees X 10 IC

Rinse and repeat the relay, except runner calls the exercise for the other team.

6-Count Burpees X 10 IC

Grab some wall. Slow-N-Low DIDs X 10 IC.

6-Count Burpees X 10 IC

MARY: LBCs X 20 IC, Plank (~2:00).

Done.

NMM: T-Claps all around. Lots of hard work this morning. I’ve been wanting to Q a workout like this for a while, focusing on slowing things down to make sure all of us are doing things correctly, not just sort of doing them.

YHC has been thinking a lot about shortcuts lately. I challenged the group in this morning’s COT — and I’ll take the opportunity to challenge all of us — to look for the ways we’ve gotten into the habit of choosing shortcuts instead of choosing the more difficult or more costly way to correctly do things. It might be when you post. It might be at work. It might be at home.

Thanks for the opportunity to lead today. And thanks for challenging me to get better at our AOs and throughout my life.

BH: Check out the #Leadership channel on Slack for the 12th Man effort we’re launching. Hit up T-Cell if you’re interested in being a HIM who helps out.

#PickneyPain next Friday. Crawlspace and Right Said have been ‘voluntold’ to take the Q. Sure to be a good one.

 

Weather: It’s Always Sunny in Sylvan Park

Q: T-Cell

Pax:  Princess Aurora, Dewey, Lemon, Hambone, Bicentennial Man, Vector, Harvy Updyke, Studio 42, Porcelain, High Viz, Firefox, Lunch Lady, Rocket League, Barthelona, Reveille, Keep the Change, DaVinci, Trapper Keeper, Crab Legs, Huggy, Clark Stint (FNG), Vinyl Signs (FNG), Rainmaker, (FNG)

24 rolled up, including a clown car of FNG’s from recent FNG DaVinci for a T-Cell special that apparently had Hambone feeling semi-erect for the last 24 hours.

Mosey around the hood just to get some Sylvan Park flavor and back up to the top parking lot. Warmorama of 20 SSH, 15 Imperial Walkers, 10 Willie Mays Hays, 10 Squats, 10 Merkins, 20 Mountain Climbers, and finish with some Bat Wings.

Mosey down to the bottom of the hill to board the roller coaster. Here was the deal, run up to the top of the hill, perform 1 burpee, run down other side to the gate, reverse run back up the hill, perform 2 burpees, run down to the start. This continued until you did 8 burpees. Porcelain remarked that this felt like a roller coaster since you went up slowly then put your hands up at top before coming back down. Alas, we now have the Bomber Roller Coaster.

On to the parking lot for relay races. Each time squared off in a sprint against a member of the other team whilst the pax did squats and SSH. Had a marquee start with PA and Dewey leading us off.  Dewey however pulled a hammy on the way back. The 2’s took the competition.

Finished with some Mary, which turned into a impromptu “Plank Up Comedy Show”. Lots of good jokes. None of them repeatable.

Wrapped with COT and the naming of the new guys.

Keep Lunch Lady in your prayers as he’s got a challenging year ahead at his job. Praying things get better with his boss and his blood pressure (those two are related)

Praises for Reveille’s father being back on US soil. Grateful for his service.

Had 10 for coffeteria.

Thank you men. It’s an honor to lead you.

PAX:  PA (pre-ruck), Hi-Viz (pre-ruck), T-cell, Third Person, Bad Boy, Blue Mule, Hambone, en fuego, TK, Reveille, Lunch Lady, Mighty Stork, Canary, Ebola, The Baptist, Lemon, Crawl Space, Studio 42, Meatloaf (FNG), Frequency (FNG), Harvey Updyke, Firefox, Tiny Dancer, Voucher, Keep the Change, Vector (QIC)

26 (including 2 FNGs) enjoyed a perfect mid-70s (in both temperature and playlist) morning.

Disclaimer

The First F:  Fitness – Warm-o-rama:
WMH x 13
LBAC x 13 (Aside #1 – this was disrupted by mumble chatter pointing out Bad Boy and T-cell’s matching outfits; rumored conversation between the two later in the workout: “Next week, let’s go with an orange motif.”)
Lunch Lady for a 13 count (aside #2, Kotters to Lunch Lady – you were missed!)
Seal Claps x 13
RLBAC x 13
GM x 13

THANG:
Mosey to McCabe Rec Center.  To commemorate Friday the 13th, YHC, noting the very few PAX who were alive in the 1970s (aside #3:  Major Kotters to Mighty Stork’s return and glad to have a pre-1980 HIM with me), decided to use this day of bad luck and horror movies to go back to a murder — July 12, 1979.  Comiskey Park, White Sox vs. Tigers.  A local DJ held a promotion – $1 ticket to a doubleheader if you brought in a disco record.  Between games, they were taken on field (the records, not the fans) and blown up (along with a section of center field), in an event forever known as the “Death of Disco.”  As such, our workout today focused on remembering that horrifying (yet catchy) music of my youth.   Also, as mental strength is as important as physical strength for HIM, the workout was performed to a playlist of disco classics (that I actually may or may not have in my collection):

Staying Alive, Bee Gees
Boogie Wonderland, Earth, Wind and Fire
Heart of Glass, Blondie
That’s the Way (I Like It), KC and the Sunshine Band
I Will Survive, Gloria Gaynor
Le Freak, Chic

Round #1:  Split into 6 groups (F2: Fellowship – as we need others to become true leaders and to push us along the way).  Each group at a station. Rotate when runners return (runners do 13 dips on first set on McCabe benches).  2 Sets.

D:  Derkins
I:  Incline Merkins
S:  SSH
C:  Crunchy Frogs
O:  Over/Under (line up in plank position, jump over your group members and crawl back under)

Round #2:  Mosey to playground, same groups, same concept, 1 set

S:  Squats/Split-squats
U:  pull-Ups
C:  Calf Raises
K:  “Killer” Burpees (whatever version of burpees kills you — for some, even thinking of burpees at this point was a killer)
S:  Swerkins

Round #3:  Mary
PAX choice, 13 reps.  Got 8-9 different exercises in from Flutter kicks x 2, American Hammers, Boxcutters, Newton’s Cradle, etc. etc.  To ease the mental angst from disco, playlist included several non-disco classics from 1979:

London Calling, The Clash
Let’s Go, The Cars

COT – F3: Faith:
Welcomed 2 FNGs, Frequency (who likes to listen to morning radio with one ear at work), and Meatloaf (a transplant back home from ATL).  So great to have new men come out into the gloom and experience F3 — welcome back anytime!  Prayers for Reveille’s cousin (now in rehab) and praises/prayers for Lunch Lady’s new/old job.  Truly was an honor to lead you all this morning as we all push each other to be better men, husbands, partners, fathers, friends.  Was told I get “Most Improved Cadence,” which means my first Q, I must have really biffed it!  And I’m not apologizing for all those disco ear worms that swam throughout your head all day.
SYITG,

Vector