{"id":9522,"date":"2019-07-08T22:59:39","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T02:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/?p=9522"},"modified":"2019-07-09T12:29:52","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T16:29:52","slug":"did-you-ever-play-athlete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/2019\/07\/did-you-ever-play-athlete\/","title":{"rendered":"Did You Ever Play Athlete?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Warm-o-rama.<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Quick mix of SSH, IW\/IST, Copperhead Squats, Hillbillies, Seal Claps, and Whirlies<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><i>Some of the PAX were in such awe of the cadence perfection that they just stopped the warmup exercises altogether and enjoyed the spectacle.<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Beatdown.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">THE PATH<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Going towards campus &#8212;-&gt;&gt;&gt;<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mountain Climbers x 50<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">each bench: Step Ups x 10 each leg or Squats, if the benches weren\u2019t available<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">each light pole: WMDs x 3\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mountain Climbers x 50<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">pick up the six<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&lt;&lt;&lt;&#8212;&#8211; Going towards Reynolda Village<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mountain Climbers x 50<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">each bench: Dips x 20 or Carolina Dry Docks x 10, if the benches weren\u2019t available<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">each light pole: Jump Squats x 10\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mountain Climbers x 50<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">pick up the six<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">THE BEEHIVE HILL<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Start with 1 WWII at bottom, run up the hill, and do 1 Burpee at the top, run down the hill<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Each PAX\u2019s manhood was explicitly judged in relation to the distance he Burpee\u2019d from the bees.<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Repeat with 2 reps, then 3, all the way to 7, at which point almost everyone was walking<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Note: As it should shock exactly nobody, in the time it took a normal PAX to do one Burpee, Huck did all seven.<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">UPPER PARKING LOT<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Random assortment of Mary exercises (Straight Leg Crunches, Low Dollies, Pickle Pounders, Penguin Crunches, Full Extension Crunches)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Out of Time.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Deep Thoughts from the Q:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">OK, follow me here.\u00a0 This is an actual conversation heard just before the beginning of the workout.\u00a0 I honestly couldn\u2019t make this stuff up.<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Palin (staring up at the 6\u20194\u201d 250 lb. hulking frame of the FNG): \u201cDid you ever play athlete?\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As the rest of the PAX were befuddled by what Palin just asked and stunned into silence, Fokker does not miss a beat and responds, \u201cJar Jar plays mandolin.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There are those times when the Q already has a title planned for his workout well in advance.\u00a0 And then there are times that he hopes something will organically materialize during said workout.\u00a0 Today, Palin was a shining beacon of light, a true shimmering pearl with his magically wonderful, stammering, yet ever so eloquent quote.\u00a0 At that point, I just knew this would be a good day.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Post beatdown, as the Q was crawling to his car, too tired to take another step, the FNG casually mentioned he was headed to his workout.\u00a0 Uhhh, what did he think we just did? Eat your heart out Van Gogh.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">YHC is not crazy.\u00a0 Well, not completely crazy.\u00a0 There WERE rectangular stones on the side of the Reynolda Village Walking Trail, as in they used to be, but aren\u2019t there anymore.\u00a0 Check out <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/@36.1308599,-80.2814955,2a,75y,345.48h,69.17t\/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sUileFm16zRfQAQmVv4Pjkg!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo2.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DUileFm16zRfQAQmVv4Pjkg%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D131.55487%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Google Street View<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> if you don\u2019t believe me (just pay no attention to the clearly incorrect date of 2014).\u00a0 Apparently they were replaced during the most recent trail upgrades when the new benches and light posts were installed.\u00a0 Phew. That was really bothering me!<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The WMDs clearly weren\u2019t difficult enough for most of the PAX because when it came time to do CDDs, they did Merkins again.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Is it a requirement for the feet to leave the ground during Jump Squats?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It was a pretty homogenous group.\u00a0 Everybody was in full on beast mode.\u00a0 YHC anticipated it breaking up during the Reynolda Trail portion, but everyone basically stuck together.\u00a0 Super strong effort!<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When the FNG showed up, Blue Steel puffed out his chest, tied up the man bun, and broke out the woman\u2019s small fitted tank top.\u00a0 And not to be outdone, at the end of the workout, Palin brought sexy back and went all Chippendales on us.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I\u2019m going to say it right now.\u00a0 It\u2019s in writing so I\u2019m admitting to it.\u00a0 The Q had to Omaha about half of his own workout.\u00a0 Humility. Only Q what you can do, right? Right?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Since Huckleberry had already taken care of the pre-blast and post-workout number Tweets for me (you know, since I\u2019m not a Millennial and detest social media), I tried to get him to write the backblast too while I was out searching for those damn rectangular stones.\u00a0 But he wouldn\u2019t do it, so you now get this crap that I put together and thus that is the reason for the delayed posting of this backblast. And yes, I did return to the scene of the beatdown at lunch to do a thorough grid-by-grid archaeological hunt for the mythical rock formations, which I obviously had no better luck in finding than I did during the morning.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Something about broken spirits, yada, yada, yada.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>FNG:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cheesesteak and Toe Tag (not present) met Mathu Gibson this weekend at a swanky 4th of July party where lamb and Katz (not cats) deli were served.\u00a0 Toe Tag must have been the waiter. Side note: That\u2019s a whole lot different than the 4th of July party that I was invited to where the most sophisticated conversation was the preferred flavor of Natty Light.\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure what type of liquor Mathu was drinking or what was in that lamb, but somehow the combination of some dudes named Toe Tag and Cheesesteak managed to EH him for this morning.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mathu is a native of Winston-Salem and played left tackle for Wingate University.\u00a0 He also played for the Broncos (uh, why not lead with that?) and for the Montreal Alouettes, along with doing some coaching.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">He\u2019s in the Winston-Salem Fellows, has some interesting tattoos, and likes to workout (well, no shit).\u00a0 As if that weren\u2019t enough, he\u2019s a student counselor down in Charlotte.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">PLUS, the little guy wore the requisite sleeveless shirt!!!!!\u00a0 Nice job on the intel TT and CS. That\u2019s definitely pandering to the Q.\u00a0 Although Mathu\u2019s arms might need to be a bit bigger to fill it out properly.\u00a0 They were only the size of small Sequoia trees.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">All of this fantastic material ripe with naming opportunities, but the morning\u2019s brain trust was none too creative.\u00a0 Possibilities were American Sports Ball, Thespian (since he plays athlete), Counter Tre, Canuck, Freedom Fighter, C-Gap, and whatever the hell weird ass waterboy position that Palin played on his high school football team.\u00a0 Finally the FNG bailed us out and threw us a bone when he mentioned the Alouettes mascot is the Angry Bird. It was settled. Welcome Angry Bird.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Announcements:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Shmedfest is August 24.\u00a0 The WAR DADDY decreed an \u201cofficial\u201d FiA\/F3 convergence that morning.\u00a0 Apparently this hasn\u2019t been run by some guy named Plunger yet, but let\u2019s be honest, if Balco\u2019s M says there\u2019s a convergence with FiA, then there\u2019s a convergence with FiA.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Offsides still needs a few guys to fill out the F3 Winston-Salem Junior Varsity team for the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.malakseries.com\/tuna-relay-overview\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tuna 200 Relay<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0 It\u2019s October 25th and 26th.\u00a0 Race goes from Raleigh to Atlantic Beach and is downhill.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Prayers:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Blue Steel\u2019s family\u2019s visa issues.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Because of the Q\u2019s new forced morning schedule, he will now go MIA for at least a week.\u00a0 Radio silence. Goodbye. Zima out.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warm-o-rama. Quick mix of SSH, IW\/IST, Copperhead Squats, Hillbillies, Seal Claps, and Whirlies Some of the PAX were in such awe of the cadence perfection that they just stopped the warmup exercises altogether and enjoyed the spectacle. Beatdown. THE PATH Going towards campus &#8212;-&gt;&gt;&gt; Mountain Climbers x 50 each bench: Step Ups x 10 each [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":200,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[112,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bootcamp","category-the-estate"],"acf":{"q":"Zima","date":"7\/8\/19","pax":"Jar Jar, Chisel, Huckleberry, Cheesesteak, Palin, Balco (official WAR DADDY), Blue Steel, Razzie, Fokker, Angry Bird (WB and FNG fka Mathu Gibson), Zima (Q for the day)"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9522","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\/200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9522"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9542,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9522\/revisions\/9542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}