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My Bout with Mike Tyson

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Growing up in the 80’s / 90’s we watched Mike Tyson a lot. Pure dominance when he was at the top. His line “Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth” is often misquoted and often appropriate. My plan of Pick up the Six workout did not go as planned but luckily it did not take a punch to the face to figure it out.

My bout with Tyson occurred in Florida when I was a member of a gym (don’t tell F3 Nation!.. and it was only for a few months.) For a brief period of time Tyson was working out there and after a session in the weight room he came out to the basketball court to play a game. I was on the sideline watching when the ball went out of bounds where I was. I grabbed the ball and threw it to none other than Iron Mike.

The idea of today’s beatdown was to complete every exercise at the same time. If you completed your reps you were to continue with the exercise until the six completed it as well.

10 Burpees OYO Pick up the Six (“PUTS”)
10 Burpees OYO PUTS
20 heal touches 4 count OYO PUTS
20 heal touches 4 count OYO PUTS
1 lap – turn around and PUTS
1 lap – turn around and PUTS
25 SSH 4 count OYO PUTS
25 SSH 4 count  OYO PUTS
10 gas pumps OYO PUTS
10 gas pumps OYO PUTS
Run to back of school by curbs behind theatre – PUTS
10 Jumps over curbs – 4 count – call # – PUTS
10 Jumps over curbs – 4 count – call # – PUTS
10 Mike Tyson’s OYO PUTS
10 Mike Tyson’s OYO PUTS
Run back to bottom of the hill behind the school PUTS
20 Monkey Humpers OYO PUTS
20 Monkey Humpers OYO PUTS
Against wall 6 decline merkins OYO PUTS
1 lap – PUTS
1 lap – PUTS
10 Burpees OYO PUTS
10 Burpees OYO PUTS
Line up on Goal line, 20 yard Crawl Bear, 60 yard Craw Bear, 20 yard Crawl Bear
Some misc. SSH, Planks to finish it off.

The PUTS workout didn’t seem to go as well as I wanted. I am Q next week – I will improve.

YHC & Q = Cleveland Rocks

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To Mr. Falconeer, with love, sally

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13 made it out to Carmel High this morning! We did some last man sprints… and wow! the sprint to get to the front was loooong with this many pax!

Disclaimer given.

Warm up: 10 Burpees, 9 SSHs 4 count, 8 LBCs 4 count, 7 IWs 4 count, 6 Merkins 4 count, 5 Sun gods 4 count, 4 Flutter kicks 4 count, 3 Copperhead squats 4 count, 2 Monkey Humpers 4 count, and… 10 Burpees (Got this one from a Priorities back blast a while ago. My execution was weak, room to improve!)

The Thang:

On to the track. Run 1/2 lap. First 50% of the PAX to reach 1/2 lap do 20 burpees …. and the rest to 5 burpees. Repeat for 4 full laps
PAX “20 burpees?”
YHC “yes – potential to do 80”
PAX, who are better at math than I am ” that’s 160 burpees”
YHC “Oh yeah, you are right… exercise!”
…a few PAX may have done 160!

50 seconds of beat down: LBCs amrap for 50 seconds, rest.

Pax choice of leg lifts or flutter kicks for 50 seconds amrap, rest.

Gas pumps amrap for 50 seconds, rest.

Heal touches amrap for 50 seconds, rest.

Elbow plank dips amrap for 50 seconds, rest.

“Hay Ya!” song Tabata… 8 sessions of squats. On the break hold low squat.

Sally is back! “Bring Sally Up” Hold plank, the hold low merkin depending on what the song says. Modify with squats which many of the pax went to eventually.

Finish it off with 1/2 laps again. First 50% of pax to 20 groiners while balance of pax do 5 groiners.

Count-a-rama, Name-a-rama (Welcome FNG Buffet), BOM

At coffee we got to chat with a falconeer! Prior to reaching out to Mr. Falconeer the PAX said that a flaconeer is one of the few jobs remaining from Mid-Evil times… it was funny as when we were chatting with Mr. Falconeer he said the same thing! To my disappointment no body tried to EH the falconeer. (Mr. Falconeer requested we not show his face as he did not want the pigeons to recognize him.)

YHC and Q = Cleveland Rocks

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Game of failure

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8 strong and two 2.0s posted today at Carmel High. YHC & Q Cleveland Rocks came up with a few games to rally (trick) the PAX into working out harder. Some of the games went off successfully, others failed. YHC promises to recover from this failure and keep moving forward as this is F3 and F3 is not a destination but a process to keep being better every day.

We started 1 minute late (failure)

The Warm Up: Armies, Armies Fast, Armies Faster (IC), Cherry Pickers (IC), Imperial Walkers (IC), Copper Head Squats (IC), Overhead presses (IC), Crab (IC) SSH while YHC grabs items from van that he forgot to bring (failure)

Game One: Pax splits into teams. Two pax pulls while bear crawling a third who is on moving pads holding a rope. At 20 yard line stop, 20 monkey humpers for the pullers and 20 merkins for the person being pulled. Fourth pax is jumping rope (failure as one rope was way too small for adults) while the three pax return. Game called in middle of second round as it just was not working (failure.)

Game Two: YHC left chalk in the car for the next game (failure). Mosey to YHC’s minivan (Failure that YHC has a minivan? YHC doesn’t think so as minivans are awesome!) Mosey to ping pong table for a single elimination tourney.

While two pax play best of 3 points other pax do:
* During point 1: Burpees
* During point 2: Side Straddle Hops
* During point 3: Al Gores

I won’t tell you who won but I will say YHC was very happy with the results. Final game went down to the third point and Burgundy (respect) went in for the kill with a huge windup shot that missed YHC’s side of the table.

Mosey to track. The night before YHC looked up ‘Best F3 workout ever’ and this came up:

5 burpees, run 1/8th mile.
5 burpees, 10 merkins, run 1/8th mile
5 burpees, 10 merkins, 15 LBCs, run 1/8th mile
5 burpees, 10 merkins, 15 LBCs, 20 plank jacks, run 1/8th mile
5 burpees, 10 merkins, 15 LBCs, 20 plank jacks, hold plank 1 min, run…

We finished it off with some last man sprints and finished on time.

Great COT / BOM prose from Psych.

YHC and Q: Cleveland Rocks

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Suzanne Somers leg burner

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DISCLAIMER: Given
Warmup:
Mosey to the opposite goal line and back… round-a-bouts 200 yds
Mountain Man Poopers – 20 IC
Hairy Rockets – 20 IC
Alligator Merkin – 10 yards
World’s greatest stretch – one min each side. Got to get those hammy’s warmed up!

THE THANG

Five Rounds:
10 Coupon Thrusters
20 Coupon Swings
30 Coupon Goblet Squats
-After each round, all pax ran to the opposing goal line and back. Lather, Rinse, Repeat for 5 rounds.

Then to continue our leg burner. Walking Lunge Suicides!!!!
Start by walking lunge to the 10-yard line, then run backwards to the goal line. Then walking lunge to the 20-yard, backward run back. We followed by increasing the distance by 10 yards each time until we reached the 50.

Still having some time left, but wanting to incorporate some rest time….We performed coupon partner, run walk suicides!!!
Partnered up, the first pax would walk the coupon to the 10 yard, then sprint back to the goal tagging his partner. The second pax would then sprint to the coupon, retrieve the coupon and walk this back to the goal. While the one pax was sprinting, the other pax was able to get some rest. The distances would successively increase by 10 yards. We were able to squeeze in the full 100 yard football field!!! Just in time to circle up!

Words of Wisdom
Paraphrased Ghandi “Strength does not come from physical capacity it comes from an indomitable will!”

Ended with Number-O-Rama, Name-O-Rama, COT, Coffeeteria

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