Young Grasshopper

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FNGs: Adam is a 21 year old Ohio State Buckeyes fan who works in the field of oncology and enjoys martial arts and long walks on the beach – Welcome “Grasshopper”

9 HIMs showed up this morning at GP.  Pikachu posted barefoot having doubled down.  

WarmUp:

20 Fozzie Arm Circles, 10 Good Mornings, 10 Daisy Pickers, 10 Windmills, 10 Emperial Walkers, 10 Hillbillies, 10 Moroccan Night Clubs

The Workout

Mosey to the wall of pain

3 sets of 45 ct wall sits (Al Gore, Moroccan and Prisoner style). Pikachu forgot how to count to 5 again and Doc was up to his antics with his unconventional methods as well. 

2 sets of 30ct Ascending Testicles

Mosey to the Rock Pile (Rotate rocks b/w sets). YHC suggested large but not XL rocks however 90% of the PAX chose not to listen and selected boulders.  YHC had to ask the PAX what XL rocks look like if these are just large.

  • 4 sets of 20’s – Curls for the girls
  • 4 sets of 20’s  – Overhead Tri-press
  • 4 sets of 10’s – Ground Pounders (they don’t count if the rock doesn’t touch the ground)

Move it up to the parking lot for 4 sets Rock Press; 3 sets of 10 Extended Rock Windshield Wipers

Partner up for 4 sets Rock Planks & Rock Crab Planks.  One partner planks while the other lunge walks/Frankensteins to the speed bump and back.

Return the Rocks and circle up at flag

Aik’n Abs

  • 20 LBCs
  • 10 3 ct Pickle Pounder
  • 10 WWIs
  • 20 H2Ms (10 standard, 5 single leg)

Aik’n Arms

  • 15 Shoulder Tap Planks
  • 15 Merkins
  • 15 Plank Jacks

Aik’n Legs

  • 10 – 3 ct High Knees
  • 10 – 3 ct Split Jacks

Split Jacks pushed young Grasshopper over the edge and he had to take some time to recover during COT. 

Announcements:  Megan Smiles Charity Event still needs volunteers (July 20th & 22nd).  Greenville’s Sasquatch CSAUP end of July

Prayer Requests:  Pumpkin and his family of 7 are flying to the land of weed (Coloroado) for a 2 week workcation.  3rd Cousin’s Father-in-law passed away at the young age of 63. Prayers for Double D and his family as his father passed away this week. Forceps house is back on the market as contract fell through.

YHC took us out.

Fourth of July Hangover

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FNGs: None
Warm Up: 1 lap around islands, side straddle hops, fozzie arm circles, imperial walkers/hillbillys
The Workout: 100 mountain climbers, 100 plank jacks, 100 dips, 100 American getups, 100 merkins, 100 overhead claps, 100 American hammers, 100 squats, 100 American nightclubs, 100 American situps shared between partners
Mary:
Announcements: check slack
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer:

They let Midget Q Ivan

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YHC knew he had a lot left in the tank but his son’s and 6 others commitment to get a 5 pack w/ EC and 2 for fritter drive him out of bed-
Love a little chit talking amongst others- kept my distance this morning-
Picked up yellow card- damn it is a 33 minute commitment was running few minutes late dropped him right behind Buford and told him to #getafterit- turned around to check the facilities at hunt center for lucky charms- since he was out of town – asked if would do him a favor- they were slacking – doors to bathrooms were propped open- unreal.
17 pax were already gathered- took few kettle bells out ‘tomater’ and planted the F-3 flag and glad site Q has a F-3 flag after being a site Q for over a year. Thanks Pablo.

EC: Dawgpound, Pikachu, Emeril, Shamwow!, Buford, Dahmer, Pablo, Dumbo, Yellow Card
FNGs: None
Warm Up:

530- and Emeril warms us up with 5 exercises and YHC takes over- little jog around the lot-
Stretches-
Left/ right 10 count
Shoulder stretch – kid cracker fav
Michael Phelps
Towel ringer

The Workout:

Main event-
1st set-15/10/5
Squat
Squat/ curls 4 girls
Squat/ curls 4 girls thruster
Over head
Triceps extensions
Suitcases right n left

Sun was coming out so we jogged and moved the kettle bell for better view- YHC instructed all to look enjoy the sun so may be they will not feel the pain-

Next round 15/10/5
Ww1
Low slow flutter
Turkish get ups
Curls right left

Pax were really loving the Turkish get ups. Ran a lap and half way thru ran back wards to view the sun- good call

Soccer drill- quick feet on kettle bell
My favorite ABSOLUTION
Asked BS to help out w/ cadence for last 7 (15 total)
All the time we had

Mary:
Announcements:

Sasquatch 7/27
Bourbon bourbon/ meg smile

T-Claps (Recognition):

SlideRule

Prayer:

Crablegs
John Deere
Emeril’s dad
Dumbo to find energy and do a good workout and not be soo sad about vacation is over

Midget’s Words of Wisdom:
It has been a fun week and 4 more Q’s to go – thanks for putting up with my chaos.

Aye.
M4L

Midget Goes To Thunder

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Hot- loaded up my water cooler and when YHC pulled up saw Tofu snd Kabuto.
Few minutes later what wallaby.. really dude is getting after it. Pikachu rolled and doc in his shiny black car and asked why YHC did not post this am at his Q😅. Lastly saw John Deere with crutches in hand he said he wanted 2 be there for paki birthday- so thank you.
1900 and we went for a little mosey
And ended up on fake FC soccer field.
John Deere went to pull up bars-

FNGs: None
Warm Up:

Good afternoon
Ssh
Imperial walker/ hill billies
Merkins
Wide grip
Diamond
Stretch right n left Achilles

The Workout:

Line up by the soccer field fence and go to other side-
Lungs walk ( form matters)
From jumps-
Duck walk back
Bear crawl

Find nice fence-
Ball 2 walls
Last guy runs to the end
Until we reach the very end
Well we have to come back- so rinse n repeat – pickachu start hackling some soccer girls- come on man

Due 2 heat yhc called 4 mosey to flag- grab a water Gatorade drink etc – squat hold for 6th

Shelter-
2 rounds
Merkins/ erkins/ derkins/ dips/ step ups
15 each
Frog jump around the horn 10 each- total 6
Homer 2 merge- form matters- thx pickachu

Pair up-
1 guy runs 2 flag other people’s chair hand in front- ( rinse repeat 3x)
80
Lbc as a group / other guy runs to flag
Frog jump x 60 to recover n Mary

Mary:
Announcements:
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer:
Crablegs
John Deere
UTI’s Neighbor

Thought by M4L:
Thunder is great opportunity to recruit lots of guys since it is in the afternoon and many parents are just sitting waiting on kids to finish practice- we should encourage and try to get them out.

M4Life

5th Q of the Week

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Thx for a late text from Lipton that alarm was set n syitg.. I always cherish my time conversation with this guy, man is regimented and buttoned up- texted Emeril if he can grab yellow card- of course he complained bitched n moan about getting no sleep but like always he did pick yellow car. Thanks
Pre blast n got some folks fired up/ scared but full disclosure- we were mostly using our feet- and YHC always loves Disney-
Pre Murph- with my man Lipton- he was waiting we chatted a bit and ask if South Wake was bringing beverages as part of workout?😉
Started the run and 1/2 way thru the great conversation YHC had to pull lipstick n go behind the bush-
Carried on with the Murph and some deep life conversation- very impressive to do pull ups while bar is swinging.
Ec runners start showing up-

EC: Warbucks, Yellow Card, Emeril, Dawgpound, Buford, Katniss, Pablo, Dumbo ( oh never mind) he needed a EC rest 🙂  Dawg thinks Pikachu was there, but not sure.

It is main event time – got 21 dudes waiting to #getafterit
We go for a mosey around the circle and we do count off and by that time we saw this dude and of course said hello and said come on join us and 1st he hesitated but just jumped in- well now we have 22- time to circle up and disclaimer.
Promised him- #neverleaveyouwherewefoundhim

We were running stoping to pick up the 6th n making our way to #turkishgetuphill- just named that hill n Jamison
Exersice in the way-

FNGs: Yellow Submarine
61 yr young about to get married- lost his wife if 35 yrs – dog of 20 yrs- writer- May be he can help midget ( got his work cut out)- worked for beetles for 15 years #submarine

Warm Up:

Side Straddle Hops
Quick Feet
Merkins

While doing merkins created 4 groups of 5 runners for our Indian run and also reminded all pax to have inside voice
And wait for further #wawd at the stop sign.

As we are running towards tukishgetuphill- another ‘emil’ runner
Told him 2 join n he said sure.. well 2 dudes just by leaving the compound.

Bottom of the hill- Pablo read him disclaimer- every time we stopped 10 front jumps – Pikachu called them

The Workout:

4 groups of 5+
2 groups go left when you meet the group coming from other direction perform
10 frog jumps and #turkishgtup
Make a left on Wesley ( emeril) not that hard no chaos-
Do not leave 6th behind push ur self on Indian run – very simple but effective

We did 2.5 laps – pax were gassed/ oxygen was low/ mask were ordered/ used/ pax were using fng n cotters as excuses to slow down but guess what ?? We all got what we put in- just like life.
T claps to fng submarine and dead bolt to keep his dbshuffle going.
Gathered back at stop sign I hear few guys/ think they were tired-
Midget 11 mnts let’s head back
Carpex mumble chatter
Yellow card- 1 Indian run-
No guys- we have time and we are using every darn minute-
4 mail boxes 3629- Indian run as hard as u can and 10 Turkish get ups-
Emeril n pickachu team only did 3 mail boxes- oh well
Back at the bottom-
Indian run back to the flag- few stops to pick up the 6th ( squats/ frog jumps)
Come to the very bottom- face each other 10-11 on each side and perform squats-
Jail break to the flag-

Mary:

Coffee was for pickachu
We lost Emil ( lime) he had to head back but warbucks stalked him and posted we should nag him back to f-3

22 were there and 2.75 miles were covered and some went home and napped-

Announcements:
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer:
Crablegs
John Deere
Emeril’s Dad

Quote: Life is hard but it is harder when u r stupid and around stupid ppl- Yellow Submarine

Bullseye’s B-Day Party!

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QIC: Bullseye

FNGs: Tony the Teacher, Pistorius
Warm Up:
The Workout: EC: Dahmer, Warbucks, Aquaman, Pikachu; Distances between 3-14 miles were had. The 6 was picked up!
Mary:
Announcements: Happy Birthday Bullseye!
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer: Aquaman took PAX out.

Blood, Sweat, and Tears at Cletus

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FNGs: Welcome “Sea Legs” – OBX’r who moved inland. Scraped knee on BTW today.
Warm Up: Mosey to “Rock” parking lot. SSH x 30, GMs, tricep stretches, arm circles 15/15
The Workout: Part 1. Four corners. Partner up, wheelbarrow to first corner, 5 burpees OYO; wheelbarrow to second corner 5 burpees OYO; wheelbarrow to third corner, 5 burpees OYO; and finally–see a pattern here? wheelbarrow to fourth corner 5  burpees OYO. Da Business says wheelbarrows are his favorite!

Mosey to scoring tower Indian style. PAX plank up in a line. FNG Sea Legs started us off with 5 Merkins, hopped over each PAX to front of line. PAX continued for 3 full rotations.

Part 2. Circle up at scoring tower for Squats/BTW. YHC demonstrated good form for squats: Chin up, chest out, alternate hands touching ground between feet. Squats 15 count. Next, BTW 15 count. YHC shared good form–better balance and easier if your hands are as close to wall as possible. YHC spotted our FNG on these. Nonetheless, FNG scraped knee while coming out of BTW. Dang! Hence, BTW once again draws blood–just like @Slide Rule at Tiger Blood. Finished three rounds of squats/BTW here today, with blood spilled!

Mosey to spectator platform Indian style. This time, Guantanamo until all PAX rotated 3x. PAX was feeling it by now.

Part 3. What’s Cletus without Erkins/Derkins/Dips? Kept this one to only two rounds because the PAX showed signs of fatigue, plus I wanted to have time for a good Mary with Shredder’s standing squat. Mosey back to tennis courts for Mary.

Mary: Da Business launched Mary while I circled back for Bernie and FNG Sea Legs. Homer to Marge, Pickle Pounders, American Hammer, Australian Snow Angels. Popcorn Mary: Shoulder taps, nipplers, mountain climbers, Freddie Mercuries, more.

Finally: Brought back Shredder’s “Embrace the Suck” 2-minute squat hold. YHC demonstrated proper form. Slight squat with knees over feet. Chin up,  chest  out, arms relaxed hanging. Start clock. Pray, think about puppies, puppies on the beach, whatever works for you. PAX was grimacing at 1-minute mark. Hung strong for final minute and final 10-second count down. Ended workout right on time!
Announcements: Check Slack, FB. Breathtaker belongs to Slide Rule, earned through online bid.
T-Claps (Recognition): Bernie for bringing Sea Legs; Sea Legs for finishing solid
Prayers: Crablegs on the road. Check out his posts.

EC: YHC joined Crazy Ivan ECs: Dahmer, Pablo, Dumbo

Snake Eyes

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Light crew today with only 2 sheepdogs and a pup as YHC brought his 2.0 to his first official AO.

FNGs: Charizard (he’s been to 3 of the 2.0 workouts, but this morning got up for his first early post)

Warm Up:

Mosey, SSH, trunk twists, good mornings, daisy pickers, imperial walkers, hillbillies, karaoke

The Workout:

Three dice, one determines the exercise, the other two added together determine reps. Doubles equals one lap run around the parking lot, and a corners roll means roller’s pick. Continue throwing dice until out of time. Exercises for each number were:

  1. Catalina wine press (chillicut plank with a merkin at the end)
  2. Cheerleaders (SSH, but squat on legs open)
  3. Box jumps
  4. Dips
  5. Lt. Dan
  6. 4×4 press (two 30” 2x4s screwed together for this, but pressure-treated 4x4s would have been nice and heavy. Use whatcha got.)

Combative:

wing chung striking, open-end escapes

Mary:

Low slow flutter, LBCs, leg raises, homer to marge, WWIIs

Announcements:
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer: Shredder, Norm and Cupid traveling

Merkin Mania Agility

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1 Year ago Kenny’s Grave was brought back to the gloom as an active AO. We have had some great workouts there over the past year. FV continues to grow and constant numbers for this AO are becoming more normal. The hot soup was in the air this morning. Beater was back in action. Yogi was found in the southern most part of FV. 7 total PAX was ready to put in work. YHC just rolled back from a solo EC run with 2 mins to spare. I grabbed My Boy Blue and a pair of gloves. Go time!

EC: Banana Seat

Warm Up:
Warm up lap with butt kickers/high knees then carioca over to b-ball court
Good mornings x12 IC
Prisoner squats x12 IC
Air squared x12 IC
Slalom x12 IC

The Workout:
Mosey to rocks 3×12 each
Curls (slow, reg., fast)
Tri’s
Straight back rows

Merkin mania quick feet
Figure 8 lap around the parking lots with cones and ladders along long stretch
Meet back in middle for merkins called
X12 reps each lap completed
Reverse merkins
Diamond merkins
Ranger merkins
Knerkins
Hand release merkins

7’s at the hill near splash pad
Burpees and Bobby Hurley’s

Mary:
Pickle Pounders x12 IC
J-Lo’s x12 IC
Heels2Heaven x12 IC
HAND

Announcements:
FB/Slack – Sasquatch coming up

T-Claps (Recognition):
All those that posted in the sauna like conditions

Prayer:
Noah’s Ark wife and family, Yogi’s kids, unspoken

Great work out there today gentlemen. Always a pleasure to see everyone pushing themselves. Modify will be easing into the role as new site Q. Co-Q TBD.

BS Out!

Another Murph Down

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Pax of three knocking out another Murph.  Continuing to seem hard just like the others these past few weeks .

Warm Up: Run 1 Mile

The Workout:  100 Pull-ups, 200 Merkins, 300 squats

Mary:  Run 1 Mile

EC afterwards:  Run 3 miles (John Deere’s idea even though he had a fractured foot)

Prayer:  Silent