The Unnecessary Tour

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It was an unusually cool morning at Disney this morning, which probably had PAX snuggling in tight in the fartsack to stay warm instead of posting in the gloom. YHC decided to celebrate his 1 year with F3 with a Q at Disney as it is the best AO (at least until Purple Cobra launched) and happiest place on earth. I took PAX on a journey of Disney recounting some of the most memorable workouts from my 1st few weeks that made me realize just how much I needed F3. Looking back, this was a pretty crappy (difficult) 1st couple weeks of workouts. Thanks guys! I started coming to get in better shape and definitely accomplished that. I’m in the best shape I’ve ever been in, but F3 is #morethanaworkout. The 2nd F (fellowship) is what has kept me coming back out and has really cemented how special this group is. Now enough of the sappy stuff. We had 3 for EC, and 6 for the Main Event. It was an honor to lead this morning!

EC: Axe, Pablo, Warbucks

FNGs: Nope

Warm Up:
Mosey to the big lot and circled up for SSH x20, Windmill x10, Moroccan Night Club x10

The Workout:
Thang 1:
This one was inspired by a Nemo Q my 2nd week at F3. This one sucked and I wanted to bring this one back. To get a full sense of this workout, the temperatures needed to be about 10 degrees warmer, but I’m sure the Pax got the idea.

Mosey around big lot, stopping 6 times around the lot for:
Stop 1: 12 merkin
Stop 2: 12 jump squat
Stop 3: 12 WWII
Stop 4: 12 shoulder taps
Stop 5: 12 mountain climbers
Stop 6: 12 pickle pounders

Not sure why 12 was the number for Nemo that day, but I went with it. Pablo asked if it was for 12 months (1 year for those numerically challenged) and of course I agreed. So 12’s were the number of the day today. 12 is also a very hard number to call cadence for and YHC goofed this up quite a few times, but the PAX were more than willing to provide correction.

PAX then lined up at the end of the lot for suicides. Sprint to 1st island, do exercise x12, mosey back to start, sprint to 2nd island, do x12 of 2nd exercise… You get the picture. Exercises were the same as above. Squat hold for the 6, a 10 count, and we were off to our 2nd stop, The Abyss. Quiver was very adamant that he didn’t need a tour, so off we went.

Thang 2:
This one was loosely inspired by a UTI Q the following week at F3 and many other abyss workouts since. As the new guy I had no idea what the abyss was when it was called, but soon realized what the mumblechatter was all about.

This one was simple, but effective. Split into 2 groups to avoid crowding stairs. Group 1 started with 12 LBC’s at the top and Group 2 ran to the bottom of the abyss for 10 merkins. This was repeated for 3 rounds (except Axe who got 4). LBC’s for the 6 and we were off to the half pipe.

Thang 3:
This one was inspired by a Double D beadown on my first trip to Possum Trot, the day before UTI’s beatdown noted previously. 11’s on a hill suck.

Pax started on the back side of the half pipe for some 7’s (due to time) with star jumps at the top and burpees at the bottom. I forgot about bear crawling up the hill, but there’s always next time. Early finishers did 7 star jumps and 7 burpees as the 6 finished up.

Thang 3.5:
With Mary not quite ready, we mosey’s over to the shelter by the flag. Partner 1 held BTTW while Partner 2 did 12 box jumps on the playground wall. Each partner got a turn and we circled up by the flag for Mary. This was also part of the aforementioned UTI Q.

Mary:
Homer to Marge x12
YHC asked PAX to call out an exercise. We did:
LSF, boat canoes, Freddy Mercury, Box cutters, and a couple of others I forgot.
Homer to Marge x6 w/ each leg up and x6 regular.

Announcements:
Sasquatch CSAUP this weekend, BRR runs on Saturday throughout the day.

T-Claps (Recognition):
Foghorn for rocking the vest.
Quiver for putting up with my tour.

Prayer:
Quiver’s daughter’s starting school today, Crableg’s ALS tour, unspokens.

YHC took us out.

A quiet day at the park

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Today was YHC’s last day as site Q for Kenny’s Grave. The year flew by and now it’s in another HIM’s leadership, Modify. PAX of 10 showed up with what seemed like muzzels on there mouths. Not much chatter at all as we took care of business. The weather was pleasantly cooler and the grass was full of dew. EC finished up at 0527 so Q had about 2 mins to spare. Here is what we did.

EC:
Cupid and Banana Seat

Warm Up:
Laps with butt kickers and high knees then down to the ladders and snake the hill backwards
Smurf jacks x25 (increasing speed)
Windmills x15
Reverse prisoner squats x20
Squatted marocan night clubs into pretzel x20

The Workout:
Wheel of animal walk – curb to curb (frog, bear, duck, crab) with 4 types of merkins

Laps and ladders with backwards snake hill work

Mosey down to field
Welsh Dragons- 4 bear crawls, 1 merkin, 1 plank jack, tap back of each shoulder. 4 bears, 2 merkins, 2 plank jacks, back shoulder taps x2 each, increased reps by 1 up to 10 total.

Laps and ladders with backwards snake hill work

Mosey to court – BTTW for the 6
Burpee suicides – add 2 reps after each trip (2,4,6,8,10) total 30 burpees and 5 suicides

Mary:
Windshield wipers
Exaggerated LSF
Protractor
Figure 8’s
Chillcut into pickle pounders
HAND

Announcements:
See FB/Slack

T-Claps (Recognition):
Modify for stepping up as new site Q at Kenny’s Grave.

Prayer:
Swim family, their 2 yr old was found face down in pool. Currently on life support and brain dead. Decision coming today on what to do about his life. H1N1’s wife and Messi’s mom is sick. Relationship struggles. Noah’s Ark family. Shredder. Crab Legs.

Who is Tyson?

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PAX: Pax of 5 this morning at Santa’s Workshop.
Warm Up: Side Straddle Hopes, imperial walkers, cotton pickers, windmills, arm circles, and Michael Phelps.
The Workout:10 Rounds of Tyson. (10 rounds, each round consists of 5 stations with 10 reps at each station for a total of 50 reps per round and a grand total of 500 reps. ran about 50 yards between stations . Round 1= Merkins, round 2= WWII’s, round 3= Squats, round 4= cinder block rows, round 5= LBC’s, round 6= cinder block clean and press/sumo squats, round 7= Diamond Merkins, round 8= America Hammer, round 9= Lunges, round 10= BURPEES!
Announcements: Sasquatch on Saturday
Prayer: Friends/ family battling injuries or sickness. Also, number of people traveling to and from vacation.

51’s at The Trot

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FNGs: None.

20 PAX enjoyed a wonderful break in the heat & humidity with a pleasant 68 degrees after a heavy downpour the day before in the Quay.  Q promised a lot of fun with Hills and rocks.

Warm Up: Q led the PAX around the tennis courts in a light jog all the way down to the snack shack.  The following exercises were executed in cadence:  25 SSH, 10 Daisy Pickers, 10 HB, 10 IW, 10 Monkey Humpers.  Mumble of 51 reps were heard by the Q.  Static stretching with arms (L/R) and behind the back.

The Workout:  Mosey to the small hill parallel to the ball field fence for 11’s of Squats and WWIIs.  PAX loved the moist grass while on their six.  Mosey to the snack for 26 BTTW and 26 People’s Chair followed by 25 more of each totaling 51 reps of each.  Mosey to the road and line up in 3 columns for an Indian run using 3 coupons (water stick, 2 kettle bells).  PAX executed Indian run up the road, past the parking lot and around the tennis courts and deposited the coupons near the shovel flag.  PAX paired up.  One PAX retrieved a medium sized rock and met their partner at the base of the hill.  Those PAX who did not get rocks, executed an assortment of plank holds.  Dauber, celebrating his birthday week, called for 51’s with the rocks:  51 reps of Curls for the girls, triceps curls, rut-ros, Squats, and bus-drivers.  When not holding a rock, partner PAX bear-crawled up the large hill and executed 5 dips on the guardrail.  PAX carefully backed down the hill and then took over rock reps from their partner.  Return rocks to rock pile.  PAX who did not return rocks, circled up in the tennis courts and began executing planks and merkins.

Mary:  YOGA movements, Superman, Merkins, Have a nice day

Announcements:  CSAUP Greenville; Paddle boarding in August ($15) – See Banana Seat; Yoga tonight in Holly Springs (near Dunkin), free first time, $7 after

T-Claps (Recognition): PAX coming out consistently in the gloom giving 100%

Prayer:  Double D took us out in prayer; prayers for our country (too much decisiveness); Injured PAX; family of an infant who died after a horrible pool accident leaving her in a coma; unemployed PAX looking for new opportunity.

2F Stick Boy.

 

Alwaysan honor leading you men in the gloom.  Thank you for making me better.  -Dauber

He Does Have a Whistle

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6 Pax at R4TJ, 7 if count Nemo out for run early this morning. YHC planned about an hour long workout and as promised brought his whistle, and no it did not come from Play It Again Sports. 5 Pax circled and got ready to mosey when a black Silverado come rolling in HOT!! Pax did SSH until Lipstick joined us, and he didn’t appear to be in any hurry once he got out of the truck.

FNGs: None today
Warm Up: 3 man Indian Runs to the traffic light and back to warm-up the legs.
The Workout: Today’s focus was tempo runs. Pax would start out at a 5K-10K pace for a certain amount of time, Q would blow the whistle and Pax would slow to recovery pace. Faster Pax would turn back for the 6. The recovery period was an allotted time or the time it took to pick up the 6, whichever was longer. Workout went as follows:

3 min hard run – 1 min recovery

3 min hard run – 1 min recovery

3 min hard run – 1 min recovery

3 min hard run – 1 min recovery

3 min hard run – 1 min recovery

4 min hard run – 2 min recovery

2 min hard run.

Pax met at the top of the ramp. Pax did sprints down the ramp all the way to the stop sign and recover jog up the hill to the top. Pax did squat hold until the 6 got there and then all Pax did 10 squats. Rinse and repeat 4x.

Finished off with a 6 man Indian Run to the traffic light and back to the vehicles for Mary.

Mary: Runner’s pose, pigeon pose, pretzel pose

Announcements: BRR training day Saturday, Sasquatch Saturday

T-Claps (Recognition):

Prayer: Being better leaders in the community. Lipstick’s flexibility

 

Still hard a year later…

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PAX of 18 to celebrate YHC 1 year anniversary by revisiting his first F3 workout. One year ago today, Stark made his triumphant return to South Wake with an epic beatdown at Paradise City. YHC was an innocent victim merloting not once, but twice during the workout. An honor Midget likes to remind me of at least weekly, if not more often.

Thanks to all who came out to support me today. More importantly, thanks to the men of South Wake for the support, encouragement and accountability over the last year. Just showing up was one of the best things I’ve ever done. My life has changed because of and continues to be enriched by you HIM. Thanks to you all, especially 187 and Pablo for the headlock.

FNGs: None – its probably for the best.

EC: Cowboy, Lucky Charms, Dawgpound, Warbucks, Maybelline, Aquaman, Axe, Dahmer, Dumbo, WebEx (EC only)

Warm Up:Quick warmup jog
SSH x20, Windmills x10, Imperials Walkers x10, Hillbillies x10
½ mile jog with warmps – Good Mornings x10, Windmills x10, Fazio Arm Circles x10, Stretches

The Workout: 6 Cones were set up about 10 yards apart.  YHC instructed the PAX to bear crawl (round 1), lunge walk (round 2), Bunny Jump (round 3) and partner wheelbarrow (round 4) to each cone and perform the exercise associated with that cone.

B.L.I.M.P.S
B- Burpees – Cone 1 x5 – Total = 20
L – Lunges – Cone 2 x10 – Total = 40
I – Imperial Walkers– Cone 3 x15 – Total = 60
M – Merkins– Cone 4 x20 – Total = 80
P – Plank Jacks– Cone 5 x25 – Total = 100
S – Squats– Cone 6 x30 – Total = 120

Mary: LBC’s x15, Low slow flutter x15, Homer to Marge x30

Prayer: Child injured in Fuquay this weekend. Coal Ash grandmother.

Original workout – https://f3southwake.com/2018/07/23/return-of-stark/
Thanks for the opportunity to lead you HIM. I’ll do better next time!

Don’t Drop the Baby!

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EC: H1N1, LED

FNGs: None

Warm Up: Moseyed around the lot, then 25 SSH IC, 15 Imperial Walkers IC, 15 Hillbillies IC, 10 Sir Fozio Arm Circles F + R, Michael Phelps

The Workout: Don’t drop the baby! YHC arrived with a 10 lb medicine ball. Each drop, we all stopped and did 3 burpees.

~1 mile indian run with the medicine ball. PAX at the back runs to the front carrying the ball, tosses it behind him. Once it gets to the back of the line, the next PAX runs to the front.

Next, we all got on our six in a line. PAX tossed the ball to the person next to them, then ran to the front of the line. With 6 PAX we were moving pretty fast, as soon as you got on the ground you got the ball thrown to you.

After that was a Dora. Partnered up, exercises were overhead claps x 100, seal claps x 200, squats x 300. Partner running. Ball could be passed at any time to the PAX doing exercises. During squats, ball was passed between runners.

Final portion of the workout was BTTW relay. PAX holding the ball held a people’s chair for a 5 count, passed the ball to the next in line. Repeated until everyone went.

Mary: 10 minutes left so we hit abs hard during Mary. Went through the circle twice, each PAX picking an exercise each time. I was sweaty during the workout but I was drenched after Mary, solid work HIM!

Announcements: Check Slack, FB. Stay safe out there while running. Wear lights, stay aware. Lots of non-road areas to run around here as well.

Prayer: Pray for the family of the runner who got killed on Sunday. H1N1 had serious gut pain on Saturday, pray that doctors find issue. Continued prayers for DoubleD’s family. Banana Seat’s neighbor passed away young, prayers for that family. Praise for good results of Darby’s child support case, continued prayers for good further resolution.

10 for 11’s

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The temp this was much cooler and a lot more humid than the Mojave Desert where YHC has been the last couple of weeks!

There wasn’t a lot of time to get super creative and come up with an elaborate plan for the workout this morning, so YHC kept it super simple. The goal was to get through as many “11’s” as possible, using one rock exercise and one standard exercise. We almost made it through 3 full rounds. Not bad but we might have to try again sometime in the not too distant future.

YHC is honored to have the opportunity to lead you HIM this morning. Thanks for participating and giving a solid effort out there in the gloom! We help make each other stronger – and we work out too.

Also – we had a good Q Source discussion on accountability at Shooting for the Star(bucks) over some brewed beverages. Good to have Aquaman join us this week – in addition to Pikachu and Wiggly.

FNGs:
Maybe next time

Warm Up:
Mosey around the parking lot to the back parking lot and circle up…
SSH x 20 IC
Sir Fazio Arm Circles x 10 forward IC / x 10 reverse IC
Hillbillies x 10 IC
Imperial Walkers x 10 IC
Daisy Pickers x 10 IC
Good Mornings x 10 IC

The Workout:
Grab a rock and bring on the 11’s – first exercise each round using the rock, next exercise without the rock. PAX had the opportunity to choose the exercise…

Round 1: Curls for the girls / Merkins
Round 2: WW2 (with the rock) / Squats
Round 3: Ground Pounders / Frankensteins — had to cut short for time. So close!

Mary:
Box Cutters x 15 IC
American Hammers x 15 IC
Freddie Mercury x 15 IC
Heel Taps x 15 IC
Have A Nice Day

Announcements:
– See Slack and FB

T-Claps (Recognition):
– Huge thanks to all who helped with the Meg’s Smile Golf Tournament – lots of money has been raised so far and still more coming in. F3 South Wake has been asked to consider possibly sponsoring a hole at the tournament next year. Good work!
– Shout out to those who did EC and ran to Oak View from 12 Oaks.
– Also T-Claps to Aquaman, Pikachu, and Wiggly for doing Q-Source at Starbucks after the workout.

Prayer:
– Shredder’s continued recovery
– Crablegs
– Family and friends of firefighter that died in FV
– Family and friends of runner that was killed in FV

Three’s Company

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FNGs: none
Warm Up: Standard DT loop, SSH (10), Fozzio Arm Circles (10 forward, 10 back), Imperial Walkers (15), Hillbillies(10), Windmills (10)
The Workout: Reps with rocks was the name of the game this morning. YHC requested medium rocks and then circle up in front of the stage. Reps were as follows:

  • Curls for the girls x 10
  • Overhead triceps x 10
  • Schoolbus x 10
  • Groundpounder x 10

Drop the rocks and go for a jog around the library. Get back to circle, rinse and repeat. On the second trip around the library, YHC decided to switch it up. Third set of reps were:

  • Chest press x 10
  • Squats x 15
  • Wonderbras x 15

Fourth set of reps was the same as third. Fifth set was back to the first round. The sixth set the same as the third (are you keeping up?). All in all, 3 rounds of set A and 3 rounds of set B. Time’s running out, so we returned our rocks and Indian ran back around the library and back to start for Mary.
Mary: LBC (10), H2M (10), Pickle Pounders (10), Plank hold (10 count), Merkins (10), Freddie Mercuries (10), 6″ hold (10 count), have a nice day!
Announcements: Sasquatch CSAUP on July 27th, possible ruck CSAUP on the horizon…
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer: Crablegs and his trip, Double D and his injury.

Audible at Mutiny

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FNGs:  none BUT welcome back Snip!

Warm Up:  Run around the pitch.  Circle up for Michael Phelps, 25 SSH, 10 daisy Pickers, fozzio Arm Circles (F/B), HB, IW, Static Arm stretches.

The Workout:  Q showed up on time with a game plan but was not feeling it; shared his concern with Gump.  Immediately called an audible from a boot camp workout with rocks to a game of Ultimate Frisbee!  Dropped Frisbees and Frisbees out of bounds resulted in 3 rep exercises (various).  Scores resulted in 10 count exercises.

Mary:  Each PAX called out a core exercise ranging from Pickle-pounders to American Hammers.

Announcements:  CSAUP (Greenville), Salamander game, BRR Training…See Slack/FB

T-Claps (Recognition):  Norm – two weeks of Army training completed.

Prayer: Horrible murder-suicide tragedy in Norm’s Unit; Injured PAX; Silent prayers; Family members with cancer.

EC:  The Natural

Always an honor leading such a fine group of HIM!