Participation Trophies

Participation Trophies

QIC: Zima

Date: 6/23/21

PAX: Atrophy, Bluto, Cobra, BAM, Transcript, Crash, Special, Lace, Data, Zuckerberg, Winklevoss, BALCO, Airbag, Tigger, Manscape, Lemming, Sweet Tea, Zima

WARMUP.  

SSH.

Whirlies.

Michael Phelps.

BEATDOWN.

Step 1: Start on one baseline of the basketball court.

Step 2: Perform 3 exercises with weight OYO (each arm)

• Curls x 10
• Squat Thrusters x 10
• Swings x 10

Step 3: Bear Crawl to half court.

Step 4: Perform Burpees x 5

Step 5: Sprint back to the first baseline.

Step 6: Sprint the full length of the court to the other baseline.

Step 7: Perform 3 exercises without weight OYO

• WMDs x 10
• Mary Katherines x 10 (DC, of course)
• Heels to Heaven x 20

Step 8: Bear Crawl to half court.

Step 9: Perform Burpees x 5

Step 10: Sprint back to the second baseline.

Step 11: Sprint the full length of the court to the first baseline.

Rinse and Repeat

DONE.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

• Convergence (Purgatory, Impossible Situation, and Alcatraz) at Hanes Park on July 3rd at 7am.  Supermax at Hanes Park at 6am.
• @SweetTea has his VQ next week at #BellsNWhistles.  Youse guys should come out.  Grab a pie or maybe some cawfee and meet in the paking lot by the watta.  Cawl him.  He’ll tawk aboutit latuh.  Now get outta hea.

NAKED MAN MOLESKIN:

• Every man posts in the gloom for his own personal reason.  My sincere hope is that mission was accomplished this morning.
• Lots and lots and lots of 2nd F.  Have to fill the silence in some way, right?  Unfortunately the Q couldn’t participate much at all because apparently oxygen is needed to talk, of which the Q had a precious short supply.  Those other beasts are clearly in much better shape than the Q.  #SuckingWind
• The beauty of a low stress, friendly morning workout is that each member of the PAX can modify the beatdown to suit his own desires and goals.  Watching today’s crew was like witnessing 18 different Cheesesteaks out there.
• Nobody voiced any displeasure at all over any of the songs that were played.
• It is completely and utterly fake news that the Q called every single one of the other 17 PAX “cheaters”.  OK fine.  Maybe not so much “fake”, but more like the exact truth.  Obviously that comment was taken well and everyone was in total agreement.  Obviously.
• I will not relent on this point.  Go ahead and challenge me; you will lose.  Every man who posted is a better man for it.
• Some guy named @Cobra was there.  He seemed like he knew what he was doing so I guessed he wasn’t an FNG.
• @Transcript posted to his second F3 workout.  After enduring Huck’s “Manly” beatdown (truly, truly awful) for his first post, there was a BOLO at local hospitals for him over the weekend.  However, there was no quit in him this morning and he even looked like he enjoyed himself, so he seems to be a keeper.
• Can we take up a collection to get @Lace a heavier dumbbell or even a kettlebell?  When a man is that fast at the exercises, he should use something bigger than a 6 lb blowup weight.  #SpartanUp
• I thought I was right on @Special’s heels at one point because I was near the top of his shadow, but then I realized that I was about 50 feet behind him.  When you’re 7’2”, you cast a long shadow.
• @Airbag puffed himself up and then exploded through the entire workout.
• @Tigger felt safe when he didn’t see any cardboard set up in the clubhouse parking lot.  However, he found it later over on the basketball court.  What he didn’t find were any jump ropes, so clearly this beatdown was not as difficult as his “27 second most difficult beatdown ever” guarantee.  Or was it 28 seconds?  Either way, without those ropes, @Tigger easily breezed through.
• @Balco smiled through each Burpee repetition.
• @Winklevoss, an elite runner himself, expressed displeasure at the … running portion.
• At one point, the Q tried to ever so helpfully suggest that @Atrophy (one of the front runners) not modify a particular exercise.  Quite pleased with that suggestion without a hint of rebuttal, @Atrophy then proceeded to dominate the rest of the workout, blow by the Q, and strangely avoid him until COT.
• @SweetTea learned some very valuable lessons for his VQ next week, namely bring music in order to drown out whatever the hell is spewing from @BAM’s mouth.  #TheMoreYouKnow.
• Speaking of @BAM, even though he talks a lot – a lot; a whole freaking lot; while working out mind you – he won’t appease the PAX when called upon to flex those vocal chords and produce some sweet melodic harmonies.  Why is that?
• How come I get so many excuses from Hates and Ayes about not wanting to try F3 because they don’t think they can do it, yet @Manscape makes us all look silly by crushing the workout without uttering a nasty word.  Come to think of it, many of you should take notes on that last point.  Learn from the man with experience.  Also, can we stop pretending he’s a Double Respect?  Until I see an actual birth certificate, I’m going to assume he’s a child of the 80’s.
• @Bluto is nice.
• I have to believe that @Zuckerburg ran about 17 EC miles at a 6:12 pace because I saw something from him that I have never seen before – it almost looked a bit like fatigue.  But my eyes must have deceived me, so I’m going to chalk it up to my incredibly poor eyesight.
• If you haven’t worked out with @Crash lately, please take the time to do so.  His meteoric rise from his first post a little over a year ago (with a bit of a hiatus) to now is nothing short of remarkable.  #BeastMode
• I’m not sure who is stalking who between me and @Lemming.  He just happens to be somewhere along my #SadClown running routes a little too often to be coincidental (pay no attention to the fact that those routes go right by his house).  Hmm.  And my name was listed on the Q calendar at this AO for this morning so he knew I’d be there.  Explain yourself, @Lemming.
• Judging by @Data’s reactions, he enjoyed every last minute of the beatdown.  No complaints whatsoever.

PRAYERS:

• none expressed out loud

Zima Out.

Atrophy, I mistakenly took the keys home with me.  But don’t fear, I gave them to my neighbor.  When you EH him (good luck!), you can have them back.