A Woman’s Dream

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YHC celebrated his 3 year anniversary with a modified version of the 1776 workout. My first workout was a convergence in Carpex for the 1776 and I split the workout with a friend. I’ve made it a point to Q this workout the past few years with some slight mods. This year proved no different and maybe the hardest yet.

Group started with an Indian run for about the first 5 miles. Lots of looks from people out walking. Best comment goes to a group a women running. we shirtless pax doing hillbillies is apparently a woman’s dream. Wait til they see our pickle pounders.

FNGs: none
Warm Up: Pledge of Allegiance
The Workout: 7.4 mile run with the following exercises done to 100 reps. We would run and stop and do 2 exercises to 50 and then run again.

Imperial Walkers, Plank Jacks, Rock curls, squats, LBCs, overhead claps, side straddle hops, lunges, star jumps, American hammers,, mountain climbers, hillbillies, merkins, stepups, rock row, WWII, Moroccan nightclubs

Mary: 76 Burpees
Announcements: bass lake mulch sign up
T-Claps (Recognition): all that completed
Prayer: fumunga’s friend, our country

Fake News

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YHC didn’t make it out for EC due to wallpapering late into the night prior, but Shredder and Norm got theirs in. Snap in the house for his first Sheepdog.

Title courtesy of Shredder after YHC was said to be misleading first by saying we’d mosey around to the back, but by way of the front, and later, that the first exercise was most challenging when in fact that turned out not to be the case.

Warm Up:

SSH, Moroccan night club, frankensteins, Imperial walkers, Michael Phelps, and Good Mornings.

The Workout:

Tabata style, 4 groups of exercises, each one having a main exercise and an active recovery exercise in 3 sets, 40s/40s first set, same for the second, and third was 40s/20s. 1 min break between each group.

Group 1
Work: Lateral tap-overs to hop
Active Recovery: Plank

Group 2
Work: Double merkin to double plank jack, with a shoulder tap on each plank jack
Active Recovery: Squat hold

Group 3
Work: Straight-leg bicycles
Active Recovery: Reverse plank

Group 4
Work: burpee followed by rocket hop (squat jump on 4 compass points)
Active Recovery: Superman (on belly, arms & legs up)

Combatives:

Circle block/strike combo, low and high

Mary:

Round-robin: American hammer, LBC, Freddy Mercury, Pickle Pounders, Box Cutters
Announcements:

1776 workout tomorrow, 6am @ Womble

Prayer:

Just the general state of things, for F3 men to stay healthy and strong.

Cletus It’s the Humidity that makes it feel so hot!

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EC:  Vasoline, Full House, Katniss

FNGs:  Not Today
Warm Up:  25 SSH, 15 Frankenstein’s, 15 Imperial Walkers, 15 Hillbillies
The Workout:  With a fresh set of legs, planned to get PAX 3 miles with some stops on the way.  A few too many stops, a lot of humidity, a Q suffering from too many Fartsacks, so we ended up with 2.3.

Circled the soccer fields the long way headed to the amphitheater:

Stop 1 – 2 groups, 1 group BTW, 1 Group 20 step-ups in cadence, Switch

Continued towards the baseball fields and stopped at the rock pile

Stop 2 – Pick a rock, I was a little over zealous, picking a @Breach rock and it caught up to me later 15X overhead press, 15X Curls for the girls

Around the baseball fields to the back parking lot

Stop 3 – 20X Merkins, 20X Prisoner Squats

Continue around the fields and back to the Amphitheater

Stop 1 – Same as last time but 2 sets

Back around the soccer fields and to the rock pile

Stop 2 – 15X overhead press, pass the cadence, Q was hurting but the PAX were strong, 15X curls for the girls, 2 sets

Back around the baseball fields

Stop 3 – Same as last time

Cut through the baseball fields on the way back because we wanted time for Mary

Mary: Popcorn Mary, 5X Plank up downs with holds each time, Oboe Box Cutters, Full House LBC’s, may have forgot one, and have a nice day
Announcements:  1776 Workout tomorrow, Bass lake mulch project sign up
T-Claps (Recognition):   All PAX today for starting there Friday off right!
Prayer:  Full House Took us out, prayers for those traveling this holiday, and prayers for healing with all the craziness around us.

Welcome to Casino Royale

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It’s not often that you get a chance to Q the official launch workout for a new AO, so I jumped at the chance. There was some chatter about EC the afternoon before the workout, so YHC went out and scouted a nice hilly 2 mile route with a shot at a couple Strava segments aka hills. Rolled into the parking lot at 0500 to 2 PAX eager to get after it, waited until 0505 then headed out.
EC: Fumunga, ShamWow, Boy George. T-claps to Fumunga charging the hills to try to take the crowns away from the notorious Evan Darm, some dude who has stolen many of them from me in Fuquay. Got one, maybe the other next time. The full 2 mile route is also a segment, hoping this is enough to lure some PAX from the Sprangs to go after that crown.
FNGs: none
Warm Up: Knowing we needed to get 3 miles today, we started off on the mosey. This AO has a great 800ish meter loop (1/2 mile) with easy landmarks every 200 meters. We spent the warm-up lap stopping every 100 meters for exercises, and I also noted where our 4 corners would be for the workout. Exercises were Daisy pickers, windmills, seal claps, Frankensteins, overhead claps, Sir Fazio arm circle forward/reverse, and good mornings. All had 5 reps in cadence (6 for GM).
The Workout: After returning to the starting corner, we reviewed our stopping points. Each lap would have the same exercise at each corner, with increasing reps. Once the faster PAX finished running back to the start, they loop back to pick up the 6, and then we finish each 1/2 mile loop with a bonus exercise.
Corner 1 – Dips IC
Corner 2 – Carolina Dry Docks
Corner 3 – Diamond Merkins
Corner 4 – Arm Haulers – laying on your belly with your knees and head up off the ground, starting in the Superman position, bring your arms back to slap your glutes, then back to Superman is 1 rep.

Lap 1 – 5 reps at each station, bonus exercise is…. crap I forgot the bonus exercise! Probably because I was up all night stressing about not forgetting the workout, and I was so tired I forgot the workout.

Lap 2 – 10 reps each station. Bonus exercise is 5 burpees – had plans to make this a double merkin with a plank jack burpee (so down, merkin, plank jack, merkin, back up), but was feeling nice this morning.

Lap 3 – 15 reps each station. Some mumble chatter about how we were going to die if we ended up getting up to 25 reps. They didn’t know YHC had something nice and easy in store for them. Bonus exercise – 5 absolutions.

Lap 4 – 10 reps each station, because I’m a nice Q and we were running short on time (not really). Bonus exercise – 6 Blue Devils (3 each side) – a Bobby Hurley (squat jump with a basketball jump shot form), into a Turkish Getup (flopping like the Dukies are known for).

Lap 5 – Chase the Rabbit. We ditched the exercises this time in favor of some fast strides. A bit of confusion on stopping points, but the intention was to run hard for 100 meters then recover for 100 meters. YHC counted down 3…2…1…Go! for each PAX, and you were supposed to try to chase down the PAX in front. We did 4 of these and at that point we were pretty smoked.
Mary: The PAX all pushed hard to finish our miles so quickly that we still had 6 minutes left, just as I had hoped. I have a yoga stretching routine I like to do after runs that usually takes about 15 minutes, but I condensed it down and we quickly moved through about 8 different positions on each leg, stretching out our quads, hamstrings, hips, back, and glutes. Pretty sure everyone felt like a million bucks after that. Ended with Have a nice day, and one last leg stretch while doing our count-off/name-o-rama.
Announcements:

  • Casino Royale is open! We discussed our monthly schedule and think we have it – 1st Friday – HIIT/3 miles like we did today, 2nd Friday – Dealer’s Choice (card deck, dice game, etc.), 3rd Friday – Running / speed work, 4th Friday – Kettle/dumbbells and TRX bands. Get on the Q sheet!
  • 1776 workout being led by Skidmark. 0600 at Womble on Saturday July 4th. 7.4 miles of running, 1776 reps of exercises.
  • Continuing mulch work at Bass Lake. Almost 1/2 mile done. No mulching July 4th.

T-Claps (Recognition): EVERYONE for pushing hard today! There were some pretty large sweat puddles after COT
Prayer:

  • Praise! Natty Ice and M’s pregnancy is going great. Baby Hannah is at 26 weeks. Prayers for continued healthy pregnancy and delivery.
  • Fumunga’s co-worker dealing with breast cancer and upcoming surgery
  • LipSync’s M’s friend’s husband (can’t remember his name) – an F3 guy that also runs a lot was out for a run and had some chest pains. Found out he had a blockage in his widowmaker but was able to get fixed up and make a full recovery. Good reminder to PAX to listen to our bodies and not overdo it, and get checked out if something doesn’t feel right.

YHC took us out. Always so much fun to Q, and I appreciate all the H.I.M. that came out to help get this AO off on the right foot.

Angry Teenage Music

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The 5 day Q Tour made its last stop at Crazy Ivan where the deck of cards told us what to do, we couldn’t quite find all the Jokers, and where heavy music was played again as promised. 5 strong men joined YHC in the underworld to move some kettlebells and kick off the holiday weekend! Before we started, Dawgpound made mention that we should field trip it upstairs to the outside of the parking deck where the air circulation was better. YHC denied that request… this is the underworld! Buford took notice of the playlist of heavy tunes very quickly and mentioned it was for angry teenagers. YHC’s response, “yeah, or angry 40 year old men…let’s get going”.

EC: YHC

FNG’s: None
Warm Up: Good mornings, Fazio Arm Circles, Hillbillies, Willy Mays Hayes, Imperial Walkers, SSH.
The Workout: The deck told us what to do.  The timer was a pax going over to the wall to do BTTW for a 20 IC self count. Exercises were AMRAP while the timer pax was gone. YHC split the deck in to 2 rounds based on time, so we spent about 18 minutes in each series.

Round 1: Spades (Swings), Clubs (Clean/Jerk), Hearts (Bell Merkins), Diamonds (Lawnmover rows) Jokers (burpees… joker only got us once this round)

Round 2: Spades (single leg deadlifts), Clubs (Figure 8), Hearts ( Boobity Boobitys), Diamonds (Halos), Jokers (Absolutions).  Once again… Joker only got us once even though YHC threw two extras in the deck. Go figure… When finished we turned over the next card…Joker

Mary: Midget Cookie Pouches x 30, Midget Live Handles x 15 each side, Curls for the Girls x 10 each arm, LSF with kettlebell x 20.
Announcements: Sign up to mulch.  Dawgpound And Emeril will be doing a Steel Mace workout in the parking deck every Tuesday starting next week.  Non official AO, but come get stronger!
T-Claps (Recognition): My ShieldLock brother Tetanus, for hitting his first 5 pack while coming to all my Q’s this week.  That’s what it’s all about brother.
Prayer: Those traveling, our nation, our leaders.  Pax in recovery and freedom for them.  YHC took us out.  Thanks too all pax who came out to support my Q’s this week. Thanks for taking the ride with me!

Fully Involved

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A pax came in a terrible mood and left feeling encouraged… maybe it was the burpees. Another pax gave blood yesterday and struggled at times but was asked several times by his brothers if he was alright. Another pax completely hauled ass up the Abyss and was met by pax willing to finish the mosey back to the flag and pick up his six when he was running low on gas. Guys finished SSH’s for the opposing team to pick up their six. Several guys including YHC grind out the workout despite aches and pains and limitations. At the end, a pax needs a kettlebell for tomorrow and like 3 pax talk about how to get him one and 1 gives him his own kettlebell out of the trunk.  All of this and more examples like them happened at Disney today…plus…we worked out.  Why did this happen? Because this is F3. Its great how a beatdown can help us help other brothers and be our best more than just physically. It was my honor as Q today to help set the stage for that.

EC: Mookie, Dawgpound, Shamwow!, Dahmer, Fanny Pack

FNG’s: Today would’ve been a good one for it
Warm Up: Good Mornings, Windmills, Chinooks, Frankenstein’s
The Workout: Split into two even teams for whole workout.  A little competition goes a long way! Teams Burpee Indian run around the soccer field in opposite directions and back to the flag. Team 2 wins! No penalty yet…mercy given during round 1.

Next, teams burpee Indian run to the large lot where the challenge is a 4 Corner stack up.  5 dirkins, run, 5 dirkins, 10 squats, run, 5 dirkins, 10 squats, 15 irkins, run, 5 dirkins, 10 squats, 15 irkins, 20 SSH IC. Team 2 wins again. Penalty is 5 burpees while winners plank hold. Not too bad..,

Mosey to the abyss. Each team on each side of the stairs. Teams send 1 pax at a time down the stairs, 5 star jumps, and back. While pax at the top complete an AMRAP exercise called by YHC. When each pax returns, exercise changes. We did two rounds of the whole team line before finishing.  Exercises were: merkins, squats, Freedom Hammers, Shoulder Taps, lunges, WW2’s, Nipplers, squats, LSF’s, Diamond Merkins, Lunges, and Freddie Mercury’s. All pax came out of the Abyss alive and Team 2 edged it out again. Penalty was 10 burpees with the winning team doing a squat hold.  Then we all did 5 burpees because even though we were two teams, we are all brothers in F3. Burpee Indian run back to the flag where there was ample picking up the six. Lots of smoked pax led to quite a broken line.  But, nevertheless, team 1 finally wins.  Shamwow! Calls 10 absolutions upon team 2.
Mary: H2M southwake style, 15 each side, 5 burpees, 15 Box Cutters, 5 Star Jumps, 15 Pickle pounders. It was a great day!
Announcements: YHC has the Q at Ivan tomorrow to finish the 5 pack Q with EC.  New AO in Garner in lieu of Detox.  Hardy will be the very first F3 ninja warrior.
T-Claps (Recognition): All the pax today… did you see above?
Prayer: FloJoe wife got a good gig, Quiver’s friend with ALS. Shamwow! Took us out.

Thunder at Ultimate – 01Jul20

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FNGs: None tonight
Warm Up:

SSH x10 IC, Daisy Pickers x10 IC
The Workout:

Ultimate frisbee. First 15 minutes each disc drop was 3x Merkins, next 15 minutes it was 3x squats, last 15 minutes it was exercise free.
Mary:

Walk back to the shovel flag.
Announcements:

4th of July workout at Womble. 7.4 mile run with 1776 reps of exercises. U-Turn and Groundpounder still open.

Forceps 3 year anniversary Q at Groundpounder on the 4th.

No mulching at Bass Lake this weekend.

3rd F meeting at 0530 at the Holly Springs/Crazy Ivan parking deck.

T-Claps (Recognition):

Hardy for the final touchdown!
Prayer:

Our country as a whole. Pax have a few extended family members that are dealing with loss.

Called It!

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Skidmark and YHC were texting the night before about what we expected number wise. RUNE had caused Running 4 the John to be a very popular option, frequently with 5+ HCs and over 15 pax. Jokingly I said we would probably only have 5 – turns out I was spot on.

No EC aside from Vasoline running over from home.

FNGs: None of those either
Warm Up:

SSH x10 IC, Daisy Pickers x10 IC, Good morning x10
The Workout:

5.71 mile loop per Garmin. Fast group this morning – no one got over 6 miles. YHC was nice and had us go clockwise so that we would get all of the hills out of the way up front.

R
Mary:

Not today
Announcements:

July 4th special offering from Skidmark – Womble at 0600. No Bass Lake mulching this weekend.
3rd F meeting Wednesday July 8th at 0530 at the Crazy Ivan parking deck.
T-Claps (Recognition):

All of the RUNE pax who put in serious work over June. Special t-claps to team Pikachu for the win!
Prayer:

Our country. Pax with injuries themselves or within their families.

Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Suicides – Patrick Henry (probably)

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That’s the real quote. No need to look it up. In honor of Independence Day, we stepped into our role as minutemen and walked in line formation against the British.

FNGs: None

Warm Up: Mosey Lap, Good Mornings, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies, Daisy Pickers, Sir Fazio Arm Circles, Michael Phelps

The Workout: Suicides with the cutbacks set every 3 parking spaces. 5 cones total. In between runs, we would “walk” straight through the parking lot stopping at each cone to perform an exercise. Then “walk” back to the start with another set of exercises.

*Suicides*, Dulkwalk to 10 squats (50 totoal), Bearcrawl to 5 merkins, *Suicides*, Lunge walk to 10 lunge pulse, Crab walk to 5 Carolina dry docks, *Suicides*, Frankenstein to 5 burpees, Mosey to 10 shoulder taps, *Suicides*, Toe Lunge to 10 calf raises, Inchworm to 5 turkish get-ups.

That’s enough of that. We moved to the Red, White, and Blue exercises.

Recovery Mosey, Wall Sit w/ seal and overhead claps, Balls to the Wall. Redbull Smurfjacks, Werkin, Bobby Hurley.

Mary: LBCs, Freddie Mercury, American Hammers, Low Slow Flutter, Boat Hold, Plank Hold, Have a Nice Day

Announcements:Mulch sign up, Norm Picking up KG co-Q, July 4th 1776 workout

T-Claps (Recognition): All who came out

Prayer: Modify as he steps back, Buttermilk’s recovery

Garmin Challenge

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5 pax answered the alarm and pushed to tiger blood to increase speed and VO2 max. This mornings workout used the garmin race pace predictor for pace intervals. One near merlot and when i say near there may or may not have been dry heaving. Makes you want to come out next week huh. 2nd F followed in Skidmark’s driveway

3 for EC: fumunga, Mr. Terrific, Skidmark

FNGs: none
Warm Up: leg swings side to side and front to back, .5 mile mosey
The Workout: Ladder work

400 at short interval pace, 400 recover

800 at garmin 5k pace, 400 recover

1600 at garmin 10k pace, 800 recover

800 at garmin 5k, 400 recover

400 at short interval pace, cool down
Mary: sweating
Announcements: 4th of July workout, no mulch this week
T-Claps (Recognition): this was hard today, good job
Prayer: coworkers health, addictions, lots of prayers for family and friends