Introduction: YHC had signed up for this Q several weeks or even months ago, and since YHC is no Miss Cleo, had no idea Snowmageddon would be bearing down on the triangle.  Thinking about the workout last night, YHC was determined to minimize the amount of time we spent on the ground because YHC does not enjoy being wet and cold.  Waking up at 4:15 YHC was disappointed to see nothing on the ground, and even more disappointed to go outside and discover it was cold and rainy vs snowing.  As is typical for all YHC’s Q’s, the exicon was reviewed in the hopes of finding exercises that the PAX had not done before.  YHC hopes the PAX were not looking for “Arm Day” because that wasn’t happening.

Warmup: 2 PAX met at 5am for an EC Ruck around Croasdaile Farms.  As 5:30 rolled around, 4 pax were present and Soda Popinski pulled his standard move of coming in on two wheels with the tires smoking.  After searching the website yesterday, YHC discovered there is an entire legal-ese disclaimer written, and despite the fact there were no FNG’s, YHC gave the disclaimer because of the potentially changing weather conditions.

SSH x31

Finkle Swings L/R Leg x10each

Willie Mays-Hayes (Yes Yes Yes)  x10

Imperial Walker x10

Hillbillies x10

Fellowship jog around the parking lot and go around the backside of the school – be careful of holes in the grass!

The Thang:

We posted at the North Side Bus Island and looked across the extremely snowy parking lot (sarcasm) to the south side bus island – YHC declared that we were going to do Burpee Dan’s to the other island and back. For the uninitiated, Burpee Dan’s are a traveling exercise with 1 burpee and then 4 lunges.  Mumble chatter was high.  It was discovered that Soda has a bet with a few guys regarding the accumulation of the snowfall for Winter Storm Inga (YHC hates the way weather.com has decided they are going to name winter storms) – the over/under was set at 2.5 inches.  We discussed how all the snow was blowing in our face and how Larry Sprinkle had gotten it wrong (YHC did not realize that Larry Sprinkle is a weatherman in Charlotte – so YHC is unable to verify the accuracy of his forecast, but all PAX agreed that name is perfect for a Weather Guy – sort of like Wolf Blitzer during Desert Shield/Desert Storm (for the PAX under 30, Desert Shield and Desert Storm were military engagements that the United states were involved in the early 90’s.))  First PAX Back to the bus island were to Al Gore and wait for the six.  Burpee Dan’s went out and back – so one iteration each way.

YHC then had his watch set for two minutes and the PAX were told to go into Al Gore.  periodically in this period the PAX would be told to “Time Bomb” and we would drop and do 5 burpees, then back into the Al Gore.  PAX ended up getting another 15 burpees in this stretch.  YHC Believes this may be called a “Climate Change” in the exicon, but has reached out to a knowledgeable source to confirm – if not YHC will name this exercise and utilize it more often because it is a SMOKER.  YHC will also increase the duration of the excercise next time.

PAX Then did 1.5 laps around the bus islands to loosen up the legs. and then we began “Dan Forest” – single count squat, then x4 lunges.  YHC Called the lunges in cadence and the Squats in single count, looking back over it YHC will call both in cadence next time.  We took this up to 5/20 and then rode the escalator back down to 1/4.

Another lap to loosen the legs.

“Ballerinas” – sets of 5/10/15/20

“Baryshnikov Squats” – sets of 20/15/10/5

Mosey back towards the front of the school, stop 1/3 of the way for an Al Gore hold for roughly 45 seconds.  Mosey next 1/3, then YHC called out Duck walk for the final 1/3 of the path.

Circle up for Mary –

True Americans – x20 (Not technically a core exercise but YHC will have this in every Q and needed to fit it in)

Weezy Jeffersons – cadence count X10

Bay City Scissors – cadence count x5

COT:

The Bull is April 14 – sign up, it is awesome – if you can do an F3 workout, you can do The Bull

Tater Tot announced a site announcement regarding #Hurricanrana coming out in the next week

2nd F at Gonza for lunch next wednesday

NMS:

YHC encourages all PAX to read the exicon – there is some great stuff in there.

4 PAX went to Coffee World for Coffeteria – YHC really likes Coffeeteria – we need to find a way to get more of these with the weekday workouts

YHC also encourages the PAX to look for ways to increase their involvement in F3 or other organizations they may be involved in. Remember, the 1st F is not the primary goal of F3, the primary goal is :The mission of F3 is to plant, grow and serve small workout groups for the invigoration of male community leadership.

F3 has certainly helped YHC learn to speak up, take charge, and ultimately look at things in a different light – the more the YHC embraces F3 it just seems to be a natural transition into more leadership.

Stay Safe during Snowmageddon!