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…and Bears. Oh my!

It was a great morning to get out of the fartsack. 11 guys chose to do so.

The PAX: Xbox, SPAM, Salsa, Santa, Dunder, Mifflin, Goats, Magic, Worthington, Dig Dug, Hollywood (Q)

Sizing up this group, I knew that this was one of the strongest collections of HIMs I’d have to honor of leading in quite some time. We all got after it…

Warmup with SSH, Merkins, Mtn. Climbers, 10 Burpees (OYO), 10 Jillian Michaels (OYO).

Red-bear-chetta+ (Yep…those 5 Jillian Michaels at the end were something else.)

Mosey to lower stairs, take a left turn all the way down to the baseball field.

Half the group wall sits, the other half Bear crawls up the stairs, 5 merkins at the top, and bear crawl back down. Flapjack when the entire group is in. (High 5’s ensued.)

Mosey up the steps, to the bottom of the salmon ladder…decision was then made to head to the track.

4 corners with 15 jumping lunges.

Bear crawl the football field from one sideline to the other. (Hey this field is really nice turf. We are so spoiled up here in Woodinville…you should join us.)

Crabwalk back. (Salsa did some A/B testing and determined that both forward and backwards both suck.)

Level Jacob’s Ladder  – sideline to side line…no stairs this time…so this was “really easy.” – Merkins & Sumo Squats.  (High 5’s ensued once again.)

WMD sets of merkins. (Wide, Medium, Diamond) – 5 each.

Lt. Dan – All the way up and all the way down. Dig Dug got mouthy about my squats, and my ability to count. I reminded him that Q’s get to do whatever the heck we want.

Mosey back to the start for CoT. Did I say mosey…called an audible and had the PAX run at an AYG pace across the field. Then a quick few minutes of WWI sit-ups and flutters.  (Surprisingly, Santa complained here. I had instructed him to give all ya got, and then threw 6MOM at him. Yep…that’s exactly what I did.)

We were done at that point.

Announcements:

Worthington’s Weekend is a month away. Let him know if you’re going. Sign up soon on the Facebook events section.

With the weather getting great, and the sun coming up so early…now is the time to EH those guys who need this. Give the F3 gift to someone ASAP!

Get out there and Q. It’s really great. Santa volunteered for Woodinville next week!

Comz – Everyone should have received a notice from the REMIND App…if you did not…go to f3newguy.com and enter your information there.

WoW…

Life is all about your perception of it.  Here’s a joke:

You only have two things in life to worry about: either you are sick, or you are well. If you’re well, you’ve got nothing to worry about; if you’re sick…you only have two things to worry about: Either you’re going to get better, or you’re going to die.  If you’re going to get better…you have nothing to worry about; if you’re going to die…you only have two things to worry about; Your’re going to heaven or you’re going to hell. If you’re going to heaven…you have nothing to worry about; if you’re going to hell…well you’ll be so busy shaking hands with old friends that you have nothing to worry about.

 

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Running in both directions

Creating this BB for XBox who had to run down to Seatac for an 8:15 flight. (Ahem…he still hit a workout on a travel day…cough, cough….#NoExcuses )

The PAX: FSBO, XBox, Drydock, Spotlight, Hollywood.

We did 4 miles on the Redmond trail.  (XBox peeled away after 3, but that’s acceptable, cause he’s “tha man.”)

Kept the pace around 10:00/mile…maybe crept up a little faster, but started and finished as a group.

Great conversation the whole time.

During CoT and WoW I mentioned the book I’m reading “Factfulness” by Hans Rosling.  Great read so far. If you’ve never seen one of his TED talks, I highly recommend them.

Cheers,

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Here comes the rain again, falling on my head like a memory…

KiMS – Saturday 04 07 18

22 HIMs weren’t afeared of no stinkin’ rain.

The PAX:  XBox, AP, SPAM, Razor, Simmons, Olaf, Gilligan, Elroy, Rivet, Lateral, Jar Jar, Maybe, Alexa, Joystick (Kotter), Drama, Hollywood (Q), Blue, Wolf, Kojak, Swinger, Foley, Worthington

The Thang:

Warm-up with: SSH, Merkins, Mtn. Climbers, Squats (Woodinville Style)

Mosey round the corner underneath a bit of cover for the real work to begin!

PYS – Reps of 15…say it with me: It’s easy, because….its laying down.

Arms of Pain – 20 reps – little circles forward, little circles back, big forward, big back, seal claps, shoulder presses, pretzels.

10-20-30: Declines, Inclines, Dips

Split into 3 groups – Wall Sit, Amrap SSH, Jog to bollards for 5 Jillian Michaels. Rotate when the Jillian Michaels groups jogs back for wall sits.  Hit all 3 stations.

Mosey up and around to the Santa’s Ladder parking lot…for…a full series of Santa’s Ladder – Burpees & Merkins, then Merkins & Burpees.

Mosey all the way around the school, and those who so chose can add High Knees in to the mosey.  Back to 6MoM –

6MoM – American Hammer passing a found baseball twice around entire circle. Slow Bicycle, LBCs, Flutters, and Bro-tractor.

Done.

Announcements:

Q School in Bellevue next Saturday 4/14 – Talk to XBox, or AP for details.

Worthington’s family weekend – Late June in Richland, WA – Talk to Worthington for details.

3rd F conversation is every Saturday 6AM – Location moving to Juanita Starbucks. Talk to Wolf or Kojak for details.

WoW: SPAM, Xbox, AP and Alexa spoke on the power of being Q. It’s an honor to do it, and its a gift back to the PAX. Learning to Q will help you elsewhere in your life. Do it.

It was an honor to lead the men today…and as is so often the case…the rain deluge halted for us for one hour. So glad to have made it out this morning. Thanks to the PAX always.

 

 

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Woodinville 04 05 18 – Burpees over Burpees

6 guys got after it this morning in Woodinville.

The PAX: SPAM, Salsa, Dunder, Mifflin, Hurley, Hollywood (Q)

The Thang:

Warmup with SSH, cotton-pickers, then arms of pain – little baby arm circles forward and back, bigger circles forward and back, seal claps, arm raises, pretzels, then back to circles forward and back. I felt those in my shoulders, elbows, and arm area. They burned.  Finish the warmup with squats and sumo-squats.  Good….mosey to front parking lot to begin the workout.

Red Barchetta (AP-style): SSH, Mtn. climbers, LBCs, Merkins, Burpees…and Jillian Michaels thrown in the end for fun.

Swedish mile up the gradual hill to the highest parking lot. (Hurley rocked this section – that guys an inspiration.)

Once at the top, we looked all the way down the stretch of parking lot…and hit lunge walks the entire way.  Followed by 50 SSH OYO, followed by high-knees all the way back…that was impossible…we all had to modify to skipping at the end. Followed by 20 squats OYO.  (Feeling our legs and hips by this point.)

Mosey down to the flags for 10-20-30: Box Jumps, Step-ups, Dips.

Then had SPAM help me pick odd or even…the choice was odd…so we did not do crab walks. What we did instead was a Double Jacobs Ladder…that’s up both sets of stairs rather than just the lower section…with Burpees at the top, and Burpees at the bottom.  (Salsa did some math during this pearl…I counted up to, too damn many burpees.)  This one rocked the group. It was awesome.

Slow mosey back around the school, down the salmon ladder to CoT and WoW…finishing up with one (1) flutter. Done and Done.

Announcements:

Check out www.f3pugetsound.com for all Q sign-ups, backblasts, and location information.

WoW:

Salsa reminded us to appreciate the little things in life.  Great words.

Next week: Salsa has the Q.

Cheers.