How to Scare Away Your Relatives

AO: bomber
Q: Firefox
PAX: Tim the Toolman, Sherlock, Young and Restless, Vector, Spinal Tap, Toolbit, Woodchuck, Dumpster, CindyBlock, Rodin
FNGs: 4 Woodchuck, Dumpster, CindyBlock, Rodin
COUNT: 11
CONDITIONS: Not very seasonal

WARMUP: Mosey up to the parking lot
25x SSH
25x FLBAC
25x Air Presses
25x RLBAC

THE THANG:
PAX gathered at one end of the upper parking lot.
30x Mountain Climbers (each side is a half)
20x Plank Jacks
10x Merkins
Run to the end of the parking lot and back, plank and wait

35x Mountain Climbers
25x Plank Jacks
15x Merkins
Run

40x Mountain Climbers
30x Plank Jacks
20x Merkins
Run

10 Burpees

Mosey down to the circle
20x Bulgarian Split Squats per side
20x Jump Squats
20x Monkey Humpers
Bear Crawl around the circle

Repeat 2 more times

10 Burpees

Mosey to Playground
25 Pull-Ups, do shoulder tap plank jacks if waiting
Once all-in, everyone does 25 shoulder tap plank jacks per side

Mosey to Startex
10 WW1
Hollow Body Hold
10 WW1
Hollow Body Hold
10 WW1
Hollow Body Hold
Hold a Plank until time

MOLESKINE:
– Originally expecting 5 or 6 PAX, I had a plan for a partnered workout with rice bags. Then the FNGs kept pouring out of Toolman’s car; so, I went with Plan B
– Toolman has a connection with Cindy Crawford
– Coffeeteria at Star Bagel with Strutter Chunks hambone and Right Said

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
– Happy Holidays!

COT:
– Everyone gave thanks
– Extra thanks to Spinal Tap for bringing his bro-in-law and Tim the Toolman for bringing his son, bro, and nephews. Hopefully we’ll see them again some day

Sleigh Ride

AO: titan
Q: DintyMoore
PAX: SalPal, Haggis, Strutter, Natural Ice, DintyMoore, Sherlock, Crawlspace, Chunks, Spinal Tap, Young and Restless, Space Baby, Squatter, Juicy J, Tim the Toolman, Stumbles, Tool Bit, Leonardo, Ronaldo, Ice Tea, Ice Cube, Diego, , Sticks (2.0 FNG), MVP (2.0 FNG), General (2.0 FNG), Lieutenant (2.0 FNG),
FNGs: 5 Sticks (2.0 FNG), MVP (2.0 FNG), General (2.0 FNG), Lieutenant (2.0 FNG),
COUNT: 28
CONDITIONS: Merry and Bright

WARMUP: PAX led

THE THANG:
Partner/2.0 travels while the other does Reps of each station

🎁 MAIN EVENT – “Santa’s Workshop Grinder” (30 MIN)

FORMAT

5 Stations

4-5 minutes per station

AMRAP / Laps

Kids’ reps count DOUBLE

🔴 STATION 1 – Build the Sleigh

PAX: Cinderblock Goblet Squats

Kids: Brick Squats

Score: Total team reps

🔴 STATION 2 – Deliver the Presents

Partner Run Relay

PAX carries block

Kid runs unweighted

Switch each lap

Score: Total laps

🔴 STATION 3 – Stock the Shelves

PAX: Cinderblock Overhead Press

Kids: Brick Press

Score: Total team reps

🔴 STATION 4 – Santa Sack Carry

Bear Hug Carry to pole & back

Relay style

Kids = shorter distance

Score: Completed carries

🔴 STATION 5 – Chimney Climb

PAX: Block Rows or Deadlifts

Kids: Brick Deadlifts

Score: Every 10 reps = 1 chimney

MOLESKINE: Fun workout with our 2.0s to help Santa get ready for the big night

ANNOUNCEMENTS: LeanPax, F3 AfterHours starting every second Tuesday at 7:15 @ Capital Steps, Convergence on NYD at Stronghold.

COT: 28 Pax and 2.0s with Coffeeteria at Star Bagel

THE 12 BLOCKS OF CHRISTMAS

AO: westeros
Q: Natural Ice
PAX: Sherlock, Papa Bear, Red Skull, Young and Restless, DintyMoore, Grape, Right Said, Vector, Michelin Man, bluemule, Chunks, Tim the Toolman, Natural Ice
FNGs: None
COUNT: 13
CONDITIONS: Jolly

WARMUP: SSH, Imperial Walkers, Merkins, Streeechin

THE THANG: THE 12 BLOCKS OF CHRISTMAS

• Start each round with Run Around the Block
• Perform the current day + all previous days
• Movements stack every round
Pax waiting on the 6 with SSH

Day 1 – Run Around the Block
Day 2 – 2 Block Burpees
Day 3 – 3 Block WW2 Sit-ups
Day 4 – 4 Block Overhead Presses
Day 5 – 5 Block Thrusters
Day 6 – 6 Block Bent-Over Rows
Day 7 – 7 Block Squats
Day 8 – 8 Block Curls
Day 9 – 9 Block Merkins
Day 10 – 10 Block Russian Twists
Day 11 – 11 Block Chest Presses
Day 12 – 12 Block Lunges – The last day we grabbed the coupons and ran one last time around the block and back to the start.

I clocked 2.3 miles of running and 584 calories

MOLESKINE: Do hard things – put the Weight in Weighteros

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
2.0 Work out at titan at SIX THIRTY!
New Years Day Convergence at thestronghold with a Q Hand off!

COT: Prayers for Grapes fathers health and family

12 days of RESPECT

AO: bomber
Q: Puzzlah
PAX: DintyMoore, Pep, Vector, Papa Bear, Tim the Toolman, Firefox, Leonardo
FNGs: None
COUNT: 8
CONDITIONS: frigid, waaandy

WARMUP: move to playground. Start watch.

THE THANG:
12 days of christmas

1 — Lap & 1 Cartwheel
2 — Dive Bomber Merkins
3 — Big Boy Sit-ups
4 — Pull-ups
5 — Swing Rows
6 — Squats
7 — Crunchy Frogs
8 — Curtsy Lunges
9 — Dancing Bears
10 — Tuck Jumps
11 — Monkey Humpers
12 — Carolina Dry Docks

Had this in mind, but definitely need to credit my guy, Pole Dancer, for some comparisojs yesterday. No one, to my knowledge, had 24 days of Christmas, but there’s still time.!

MOLESKINE:

ANNOUNCEMENTS: boxing day Q tbd

COT: prayers for work, travel, safety and family, especially through tough times and loss

Three dr in Nashville because their wives brought them

AO: titan
Q: Pep
PAX: Squatter, The Merchant, Spinal Tap, Young and Restless, SalPal, Choo Choo, Tim the Toolman, Sherlock, Papa Bear, Intel, rooster, moped
FNGs: None
COUNT: 13
CONDITIONS:
Cold but felt comfortable after 14 degrees on Monday

WARMUP:
Little baby arm circles
Imperial walkers
Willie mays Hayes
Good morning

THE THANG:
run to West End side of the square
move through field in a rectangle
Indian run plus:
– mosey
– Bernie
– Skip
– side shuffle
– lunge walk
– bear crawl
– duck walk

finish with a short round of Mary

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Jan 1 convergence at stronghold
Tomorrow (Thursday) night moves at bottom of the hill at the capitol building

COT:
Y&R’s wife is having a rough go. It is a year since her parents passed

WEIGHTsteros #3

AO: westeros
Q: Michelin Man , Vector
PAX: Vector, Tim the Toolman, CubCadet, Spinal Tap, Michelin Man, Papa Bear, Red Skull, Squatter, Pep, Oil Rig(?), Cash Crop
FNGs: 1 Cash Crop
COUNT: 11
CONDITIONS: 14 degrees and completely dry. Not that cold? Red Skull “it was cold”

WARMUP: 41 side straddle hops!

THE THANG:

Follow the leader lap around the park. Carrying blocks!

Low quality in the initial run. So we did a bonus follow the leader to the interstate bridge and back. Continued varying levels of interest in running occurred. So…

Circle of Blocks!
Pair up. 6 stations. Spinal Tap and Squatter are the timers and do 6 reps. Then each group shifts to the next station.
Stations:
1. OHP
2. Squats
3. IYTs
4. Halos
5. Kettlebell swings
6. Curls

1 warm us up lap in the middle around the bus loop. Run back carrying blocks.

Mary

MOLESKINE: gratitude for Cash Crop and Oil Rig joining down range. Thanks Vector for keeping us Hot with that playlist.

Never Miss a Monday.

The Great Shave Deception

AO: titan
Q: Squatter
PAX: Chunks, hambone, CubCadet, Pep, Spinal Tap, Tim the Toolman
FNGs: None
COUNT: 7
CONDITIONS:
Windy 42 degrees

WARMUP:
SSH
Michael Phelps
Butt-Kickers
WMH-Runners Stretch-2Buck
Good Mornings

THE THANG:
Indian Run w/ speaker

15 minutes of
5 Pull-ups
10 Merkins
15 Squats

Coupon work in cadence
Curl to OH Press 4 ct
Body Builders 8 ct
Slow Thrusters 8 ct
Deadlift to Row 4 ct
BB Sit-ups 4 ct
Flutter kicks 4 ct
Lunge walk/OH walk w/ coupon
Rinse Repeat til 615

MOLESKINE:
Squatter still has a beard. You can’t believe anything you see online these days. But as promised the PAX saw a beardless Squatter as they passed around his drivers license pic from 15 years ago.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
F3 Christmas Party 12/12
Christmas Eve Titan Workout – 2.0 friendly
New Year’s Eve Titan Workout – AOQ change

COT:
Prayer and Coffeteria at Star Bagel

WEIGHTsteros 2

AO: westeros
Q: Michelin Man , Vector
PAX: Vector, Shy Guy, CubCadet, Puzzlah, Tim the Toolman, Michelin Man, The Merchant, Fud (DR), Solaran? (DR)
FNGs: None
COUNT: 9
CONDITIONS: moderate cold. Tights appropriate but could have done shorts.

WARMUP: nil

THE THANG: Butt Stuff

Run the park lap

Monkey humpers for length of the America. Standard: “Bootylicious”. On “Booty,” do a star jump.

Partner Up. 2 rounds.

Partners 1 does broad jumps (round 1) or high knees (round 2) to the vehicles and jogs back
Partner 2, with a block, does:
Squats
Lunges
Bulgarian Split squats
Step ups
Stand ups (from a sitting position stand up with one foot with a block)

Squats for length of the classic: “My Humps.” On “Humps,” do a 5 monkey humpers. Oh my humps…

Mary for time

COT: Never Miss A Monday. See you next week

Vector 8th Qversary – A Sampling of the Past

AO: bomber
Q: Vector
PAX: Chunks, CubCadet, DintyMoore, Firefox, Papa Bear, Pep, Sherlock, Strutter, Tim the Toolman
FNGs: None
COUNT: 10
To celebrate a slightly belated 8th Anniversary for YHC (I was EH’d by Ebola in Nov 2017 and had a hambone Q’d beatdown to introduce me to this non-cult cult), I decided to celebrate the musical tradition of sampling by sampling from my first Q. Vector from 8 years ago didn’t give me much to work with, but, like most sampled tunes, the end result is often worse than the original . . .

CONDITIONS: Slightly chilly but warm in our hearts

PLAYLIST: Legendary songs that sampled other works along with the originals

U Can’t Touch This – MC Hammer (which samples . . .)
Super Freak – Rick James
Ice Ice Baby – Vanilla Ice (which samples . . . )
Under Pressure – Queen and David Bowie
S.O.S. – Rhianna (which samples . . .)
Tainted Love – Soft Cell
Don’t Stop the Music – Rhianna (which samples . . . )
Wanna be Starting Somethin’ – Michael Jackson
Anxiety – Doechii (which samples . . . )
Somebody That I Used to Know – Gotye

WARMUP:
Taken from my first Q in March 2018:
GM x 12, WMH x 12, IW x 12, Squats x 12, LBAC x 12, RLBAC x 12

THE THANG:
The Original Vector Q Workout:
[Side note – 1) not sure how you do “reps” of bear crawls, 2) bear crawls AND burpeees? Jeez 2018 me, not cool.]
1) Bear crawl x 12
2) Dips on benches x 12
3) Pull-ups x 12
4) Burpees x 12

The Sample: Taking the original and making it better? worse? indifferent?
DORA with partner
Burpees x 100
Pull-ups x 200
Dips x 300
Run around Rec Center with a Bear Crawl on the last leg

Mary:
Did the 2018 Mary of Elbows to Knees L and R side x 12 each and followed by sampling to make better with “real” bicycles x 12 each side.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
1. Grow School 12/6 (tomorrow)
2. Holiday Party Hair Band house 12/12 6p
3. Night Moves/After Hours 12/18

COT:
Words of gratitude, praises, prayers. Many prayers and gratitude for Pep’s new computer (like there was A LOT of discussion about this). Appreciated the arrival of HRS Chunks-N-Stuff and that they did not leave once they heard 200 pull-ups and 100 burpees on the docket! Thankful for all the HIM who came out and continue to push me to be harder, better, faster, stronger (see the Kanye sample I threw in there?). SYITG, Vec

Stand by your man

AO: titan
Q: Puzzlah
PAX: Choo Choo, Spinal Tap, Pep, DintyMoore, Tim the Toolman
FNGs: None
COUNT: 6
CONDITIONS: Lovely Day.

WARMUP:
SSH, Arms, Legs

THE THANG:
Last-man up to the Dog Park Hill with some lunges to give us a chance to come together.

“Stand by Your Man” –Changed last minute from playing Tammy Wynette on a loop to songs that have “Stand” in them

Pair Up, work simultaneously, alternating between workouts every 10 reps:

– 100 Merkins
– 100 Squats

Run a lap

– 200 Incline Merkins
– 200 Step Ups

Run a lap

– 100 Decline Merkins
– 100 “Boston Cream Pie” Split Squats because I can’t speak

Last man up back to start

MOLESKINE:
Keep pushing through the cold days, !

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

6:30 AM 2.0 Friendly Christmas Eve Beatdown

COT: Mental health, connection, Stand by your guys (and gals).

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