{"id":23965,"date":"2024-08-21T07:29:28","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T11:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/?p=23965"},"modified":"2024-08-21T07:29:28","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T11:29:28","slug":"gridiron-geriatric-greatness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/2024\/08\/gridiron-geriatric-greatness\/","title":{"rendered":"Gridiron Geriatric Greatness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s cooling down now, so that means it&#8217;s time for football season!\u00a0 As said in my other Q for High Life, these workouts have been pretty strong. I don&#8217;t want to break that chain yet still let&#8217;s have a little fun.\u00a0 For this workout I was able to rope in my kotter neighbor Gamestop and also an FNG that would soon receive a very gracious name.\u00a0 Lucky devil.<\/p>\n<p>I show up with Gamestop with Lampchop and Brownbag already warming up.\u00a0 Influencer joins in and then kindly reminds me that I should tell my FNG which parking lot we&#8217;re in.\u00a0 Good call, he was on the other side.\u00a0 Q fail.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s get warmed up with our small circle:<\/p>\n<p>SSH, Arm Circles, Chain breakers, Swimmers, Whirly with a clap, Quickmills, Lunge with a twist.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, let&#8217;s head up the hill.\u00a0 Before we play we need to get the work in so a quick DORA.\u00a0 Or I thought quick:<\/p>\n<p>300 SSH, 200 High Knees, 100 Diamond Merkins.\u00a0 Lambchop said it would take awhile, so I did Omaha at each interchange to conserve time.\u00a0 Also, he kicked the damn ball I was using as the line for runners even further down the field.\u00a0 Damn runners&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Next phase was some station work.\u00a0 BUT, I&#8217;d forgot my speaker in the trunk.\u00a0 Luckily Influencer flew down the hill to grab it and all good.\u00a0 The key was I had the old Sam Spence NFL Films music on the ready, but none of these guys recognized any of it!\u00a0 What a national travesty.\u00a0 It&#8217;s almost like I&#8217;m an old man now (reference; I&#8217;ll be 45 in a week or two, I suppose that is old).\u00a0 The stations were:<\/p>\n<p>Jump rope, Plate Push, Box run, Arm bands, Burpees.\u00a0 We&#8217;d go for 1 minute, move, repeato.\u00a0 Once every person had visited each station we were ready to play!<\/p>\n<p>Tag football &#8211; flag rules, short field.\u00a0 3v3:\u00a0 Lambchop, Influencer, FNG versus Gamestop, Brownbag and Rudolph.\u00a0 I won&#8217;t tell you the score or of what glory hit the field, you have to show to know.\u00a0 I will say that this works well as a gasser, and was a good time.\u00a0 Lucky for us we have time to work as this is the preseason!<\/p>\n<p>Just a few minutes left so let&#8217;s go back to start, Mary time where each person gave us an ab exercise, TIME.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer concerns &#8211; UGA&#8217;s sister is staring grief counseling for the loss of parents; important and a great first step that warrants our prayers, but is also a Praise.\u00a0 Influencer&#8217;s cousin Megan needs our prayers for surgery recovery.\u00a0 Lambchop&#8217;s cousin had the scheduled birth of the child, and as expected the child is in the NICU and needs our prayers.<\/p>\n<p>Praise only &#8211; Gamestop turned 50 yesterday.\u00a0 Maybe needs prayers too.\u00a0 Praise on Brownbag for that awesome VQ last week, looking forward to the next one.<\/p>\n<p>FNG &#8211; Michael Deane is a Sunday School classmate to Influencer and I.\u00a0 We have yet ANOTHER wife that said &#8220;yes, get his ass out there, he needs it&#8221;.\u00a0 Amazing how many wives are begging us to get their men out of the house (that&#8217;s a great woman).\u00a0 Anyways, he&#8217;s a great dude but as he wore Georgia red and had a Georgia Bulldog hat on, the crowd was super kind and named him UGA.\u00a0 *Note &#8211; I love GOOD nicknames, not the opposite; but Brown bag an I still volunteered Yellowjacket.\u00a0 Gator would have been painful.<\/p>\n<p>COT.<\/p>\n<p>MOLESKIN &#8211; everyone start thinking about the timing of this AO.\u00a0 Lambchop has bible study coming up that means he needs earlier and I&#8217;m pretty sure the weather will be in our favor to move it up a tad.\u00a0 Personally I&#8217;d love any advance to earlier time.\u00a0 Not taking any actions of course but think on if others will come out if we think on the time.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll talk to the Nan&#8217;tan and start getting thoughts.\u00a0 Overall the football experience was fun as hell!\u00a0 Sometimes you just need to be like a kid an throw a ball around.\u00a0 Only other Q fail I can think of was it was perfect weather to have a brew after the workout and I didn&#8217;t have them on the ready.\u00a0 All the more reason to Q again soon.\u00a0 Always a pleasure.<\/p>\n<p>Rudolph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s cooling down now, so that means it&#8217;s time for football season!\u00a0 As said in my other Q for High Life, these workouts have been pretty strong. I don&#8217;t want to break that chain yet still let&#8217;s have a little fun.\u00a0 For this workout I was able to rope in my kotter neighbor Gamestop and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":637,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-highlife"],"acf":{"q":"Rudolph","date":"8.20.2024","pax":"Influencer, Gamestop, Lambchop, Brownbag, UGA (FNG)"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/637"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23966,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23965\/revisions\/23966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}