YHC loves the good-spirited vibe that all the 2.0s bring to TBL. We had 7 today, including FNG Starburst!
Happy to have the opportunity to bring my 2.0, Houdini, out a couple of months back, and really excited to do our first co-Q together.
The goal was a healthy mix of beatdown and good times, and we more or less succeeded, IMHO.
Warm-up – YHC and Houdini took turns calling cadence
- Deconstructed Ladder Jack
- SSH X 15 IC
- Seal Jacks X 15 IC
- Smurf Jacks X 15 IC
- Plank Jacks X 15 IC
- Willy Mays Hayes X 10 IC
- Mountain climbers X 20 IC
- Abe Vigoda X 10 IC
- Makhtar N’Diayes X 10 IC
- Joel Berrys X 20 single count (We’re UNC people, so these are just renamed Bobby Hurleys)
Thang
In honor of Houdini’s namesake (he’s great at card tricks), we busted out a little something we called…
AMRAP-CADABRA
As Many Reps As Possible, one minute each, of the following:
- Carolina Dry Docks
- Air Squats
- Double Merkin Burpee
- American Hammers
- Booyah Merkin (in honor of the late great UNC alumnus Stuart Scott)
- Red Bull Smurf Jacks – (Just super fast smurf jacks, if you ever feel like punishing your quads)
- Alternating Shoulder Taps
Can’t speak for rest of PAX, but YHC was huffing and puffing pretty good after this.
Mosey to hill
- Backwards run up hill
- 20 tuck jumps at the top
Rail
- Dips X 20 IC (shout-out to Teo for taking the count)
- Derkins X 20 single count
- Erkins X 20 IC
Was gonna do another round of those but, as mentioned, one of the Qs was on the struggle bus.
Mosey to rock pile, grab a rock for reps
- Genuwine X 20 IC (ride that pony)
- Rapid Fire Rock Set – Tri extension, curl, shoulder press X 20-25 each single count
- Genuwine X 20 IC
- Another Rapid Fire Rock Set
Now, the fun part.
Crab vs. Bear soccer
Found this doozy in The Exicon. Houdini is a big soccer player, so decided to give it a try. One team crab walks while the other bear crawls/crawl bears, and we attempted to play a game of soccer with the mini goals we brought. It was kind of a hot mess with that many PAX, but arms and legs were good and smoked. Houdini almost scored on a pass from Teo, but alas.
So, like good Americans, we abandoned futbol for football.
- Straight-up game of two-hand touch, with the only wrinkle that we called out exercises after every down. – Mix of merkins, burpees, LBCs, flutter kicks (SO to Johnny Five for taking a count), and WWIIs
- Believe it was Hendrix and Iron Man who drew up the lone scoring play, a fake reverse that led to a TD pass to Newt.
- The other side had a chance to spring Rocket for the equalizer, but couldn’t quite get there.
- We worked in Mary between snaps, so kept playing till just after 8.
- Finished with 10 burpees.
COT
- Teo gave a plug for the 2019 Custom F3 HTL ruck event March 1 in Chapel Hill/Durham. The Heavy will start on March 1 and Tough and Light to follow. Registration for F3 Nation will begin soon. Sweats also mentioned this event Wednesday at House of Pain. Time to start training is now. YHC plans to give the Light a go, and will be looking for guidance from the initiated. Follow @F3HTL002 on Twitter for official info and announcements. You can also join the #rucks channel on Slack for info on this and all things ruck.
- Mr. Brady noted he has the Q next week at TBL. It’s coming up on his Respect Birthday, and he said his Q would, in fact, be birthday themed. But not his birthday. Intriguing!
- No prayer requests. As is customary, Crockett took us out.
Thanks again for the leadership opportunities F3 provides. Grateful for the large turnout this morning. SYITG