Is this still an AWESOME route?

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EC: Pikachu, Skidmark, 187, Full House, Mc Nugget, UTI

FNGs: Not today.

Warm Up: It was cold. We discussed the route and headed out.

The Workout:

The AWESOME route (Skidmark pointed out looks like the Grinch)! If you were not there you TOTALLY missed out.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mary: short on time.

Announcements: Panera is hiring. Q source meets every Wednesday at 0645. Check 3rd F channel for location.

T-Claps (Recognition): All PAX for choosing the DRP.

Prayer: ALL PAX to stay healthy and COVID free, unspoken.

YHC took us out. Always an honor to lead.

The Nest is the new Disney

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FNGs: none
Warm Up: SSH, Hillbillies, Good Mornings, Fozio Arm Circles / Seal Claps / Overhead Claps. Penalty burpees were waved in light of today’s workout.
The Workout: Falcon Park has a baseball diamond. But today we used the whole park for our 7 of diamonds. One exercise performed at each corner, switching the exercise every round. Starting with 7 count and increasing by 7 each round. It went like this:
– Round 1 (performed 7 times at each corner): burpees
– Round 2 (performed 14 times at each corner): merkins
– Round 3 (performed 21 times at each corner): squats
– Round 4 (performed 28 in cadence times at each corner): LBCs
(Round 4 was performed in the parking lot with karaoke on the long sides. Someone said they felt like a princess and that The Nest was the new Disney AO.)

We then mosied over to the picnic shelter for Urkins / Durkins / Dips and People’s Chair. 3 rounds.
Mary: Popcorn Mary followed by some quick yoga.
Announcements: Jan 17th day of service.
T-Claps (Recognition): Finkle and Gamecock for taking me around their EC route.
Prayer: Kosher’s uncle Frank. Finkle’s family friend, Edna. PAX continuing to heal.
Moleskin: I’m going to steal a thought that Martini brought up at COT.
We have a limited number of days left on this planet. The average life expectancy is 78. You can do a calculation based on that to determine how many waking hours you have left (on average).
For me, 78-38=40. 40x365=14,600. 14,600x0.67=9,782.
So I have about 9,782 waking hours left, on average. This can help put things in perspective. Of course, no one is guaranteed tomorrow. We are seeing that every day.
All the more reason to make the most of today.

Farva’s 35th Birthday Beatdown

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Warm Up:4 for 2+ miles EC then returned to find a parking lot full of PAX who had no idea what they were in for. Did a quick mosey around the parking lot along with some line agility drills, circled up for side straddle hops, arm circles forward and reverse, seal claps, overhead claps, and good mornings.
The Workout: I told everyone to partner up by size and what weight they’d like to use. There were 2 45lb plates, 2 35lb plates, 2 25lb plates, 2 70lb dumbbells, and a 75(ish)lb atlas stone. Then I proceeded to lay out the Farva 35 challenge.

Fun with Dora

Alley work

Rinse and Repeat

Victory Lap

And finally 35 man maker burpees

First Dora using one of the plates was 100 curls for the girls(in cadence), 100 overhead press (in cadence), 100 tricep extensions(in cadence), and 50 merkins together with your partner. The Pax that wasn’t doing the reps ran line agility down the parking lot and back before switching.

Alley work- grab a dumbbell or atlas stone and go down half of the alley and back. Switch with your partner as needed, the partner not carrying the weight would bear crawl or duck walk.

Rinse and repeat, but the Dora this time was 100 weighted squats(cadence), 100 mtn climbers(cadence), 100 chair kicks, and 50 monkey humpers (in cadence) together with your partner. The pax not doing reps went down and back as before. Then back to the alley to finish the rinse and repeat.

Next was a victory lap around the school to celebrate what you’d just accomplished.

Finally this beatdown was to end with 35 man maker burpees.

Mary: All pax helped finish out the Burpees with no time to spare.
Announcements: Q sheet opportunities
T-Claps (Recognition): Everyone who made it out to support my birthday Q!
Prayer: I took us out

We all got crabs and someone lost their pancreas

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10 HIMs posted to GP on a perfect morning for boulders.  YHC brought the music box and discs

Warm Up: 10x3cts of: Good Mornings, Willie Maze Hays, Imperial Walkers, Daisy Pickers,  Sir Fazio Arm Circles (both directions), arm stretches, 20x3ct SSH and 5 Burpees OYO for tardiness     Mosey to rock pile.

The Workout

Circle of Rock (of course): Mosey to the Rock Pile pick a LARGE rock (if it can be curled by anyone with one arm – it ain’t big enough). Alternate rocks between exercises.

2 sets of 10x3ct of each exercise:  Curls for the Girls, Overhead Tricep Press, Wonder Bras, Bus Drivers, Rut Rows, Squats and Ground Pounders.

2 sets of 10x3ct:  Rock Press and  Skull Crushers

1 set of 10×3 ct (10 min abs): Windshield Wipers, Low Slow Flutter, WWIIs, Box cutters

2 sets of 10×3 ct Rock Spanks (with and without consent) and Single Arm Merkins.

Partner Up and do 2 sets each of Ice Cold Rock Planks and Get your Crabs Plank on while other runs 50 yards.

Mosey to the Putting Green

8 ish rounds of Get ‘er in the hole:  Pax take turns putting discs at basket and return to LBCs. Make the put and you can walk to the basket to retrieve discs, miss and you have to Bear Crawl to the basket and Craw Bear back before you can retrieve discs.  In between every 2 sets PAX exercise 10 ct of Merkins, SSH, Squats, and Star Jump. Shredder was hit in the small of the back and apparently felt pain in his pancreas even though its not located there. 

Mosey to Wall of Pain for 2 sets of 10 x 8 ct Step ups, 10×3 ct Dips and 10×3 ct Erkins

Prayer Requests:  Kids back in school amid spike in COVID, big event for Cancun next Friday (48 hr Ruck),  Motor Boatin’s brother going through a divorce after 25 yrs of marriage.

Announcements: Long Ass Run some time in Feb, MLK 3rd F Opps (Travis Manion and Town of Holly Springs), Q source has started this week,

T-Claps (Recognition):  HazMat laid down 4 workouts this week.

Bad form burpees according to the FV J. Larsen Creeper

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PAX: @Pumps, @Florence/Flojoe, @Warbucks, @Finkle, @Sprinkler, @Pots, @Sunshine, @Gamecock, @Martini
Warm Up: Mosey over to the basketball courts.  Followed by SSH 20 count in cadence, 10 walkouts, 10 good mornings in cadence, and imperial walkers 10 count cadence.
The Workout: I was a good boy last year, so Santa got me some new F3 toys to share.  We had 5 different stations and broke up into 2 teams of 5 and 4.  The stations were the “dice of death”, slam ball, jump rope, agility and sprints, and the battle rope.

While one group was the timer at the dice of death doing burpees, squat jumps, lbcs, SSH, and other various activities the other team was doing the other stations and then we would switch after three exercises were completed with the dice.  We did 4 rounds.  Little did we know that that morning in the gloom we would be come the talk of the town.  Apparently, our friend James Larsen videoed us doing burpees and wanted to give some critique on Facebook all the while it became a fantastic PR stud filled stunt for F3 in Fuquay.  It’s too bad we didn’t give them the full show with some pickle pounders and monkey humpers…James my friend, if video taping guys working out at 5:45 in the morning is your thing come back next week for some great footage!
Mary: Merry go round.  Thanks @sunshine for the monkey humper addition in cadence to 30 lol.
Announcements: Q source happening on Wednesday evenings at 6:45.  check slack for details.
T-Claps (Recognition): Special recognition to the Larsen Creeper for his award winning video footage.  https://fb.watch/amCz6mhtUj/
Prayer: Several job interviews, Sprinkler and family, Pots’ dad recovering from covid, and Pots’ cousin with tumors and treatment for them.

The Abyss is DARK (Abe Q 6 of 7)

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FNGs: none
Warm Up: Jog around the soccer field. Circled up for SSH, Good Mornings,
The Workout: Mosied over to the Abyss. YHC has been following a similar routine of four exercises, run, repeat. Simple but effective.

Round 1 (repeat 3 times)
Merkins x10
Squats x10
Lunges x10
WWIIs x10
down the Abyss and back up

Round 2 (repeat 3 times)
Shoulder Taps x10
High Knees x10
Side Lunges x10
LBCs x10
down the Abyss and back up

Round 1 (repeat 2 times)
Wide Grip Merkins x10
Tempo Squat x10
Jumping Lunges x10
American Hammers x10
down the Abyss and back up

Mosied back to start for Mary.
Mary: LBCs x30, Homer-to-Marge with single leg variation, Pickle Pounders, wrapped up with some quick yoga.
Announcements: Jan 17th day of service, sign up to Q!
T-Claps (Recognition): Full House and Miget for getting back out after recovering.
Prayer: PAX recovering from sickness and injury, Sprinkler’s family, mental health this time of year

Let Sleeping Truckers Lie (Abe Q 4 of 7)

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FNGs: none
Warm Up: SSH, Burpees, Good Mornings, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies, Fozio Arm Circles, Seal Claps, Overhead Claps, Moroccan Night Clubs
The Workout: Mosied over to that hill. A trucker was snoozing on the side of the road, so we kept our voices down. Hope he got his beauty sleep.
Started with 11s. Squats at the bottom, Merkins at the top. Bear crawl on the way up and mosey back down. Someone might have suggested that bear claws are better than bear crawls, but YHC is skeptical.
Wrapped that up and mosied over to just past the oil change place. PAX grabbed two palm-sized rocks and lined up at the end of the parking spaces.
Curls for the girls x25
Triceps x25
Ruh Rohs x25
Overhead Press x25
Sprint down, sprint back. Repeat.
The rocks were cold and unforgiving, so YHC took pity and decreased the count to 20 on the third round. Returned the rocks and mosied back for Mary.
Mary: Popcorn Mary (YHC’s favorite) with some LBCs, Box Cutters, Low Slow Flutters, etc. Wrapped it up with some brief yoga.
Announcements: Jan 17th day of service, Tiger Blood moving to a new location (see Slack)
T-Claps (Recognition): UTI for his 3 miles of EC.
Prayer: PAX sick and injured, UTI’s father and Uncle (prayer/praise for continued recovery), Sprinkler’s family for their loss.

Two Chilly Penguins

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It’s freezing out there. The Nest saw two cold flightless birds this week.

FNGs: none
Warm Up: Normal warm-o-rama
The Workout: 2 rounds of 4 corner stack. Pushups, jump squats, Turkish get-up, Carolina dry docks. Squats, lunges, Frankensteins, duck walk.

Finished up spelling penguin with our exercises. Pickle pounders, E2K, nine inches, ground pounders, underdog, irkins, high kNees.

Mary: 6 rounds of core exercises
Announcements: MLK day of service
T-Claps (Recognition): Finkle for braving the cold and EC
Prayer: Finkle’s class, praise for Gamecock’s wife test.

Cold Shock on the Yard

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Much colder in the gloom today than in the recent couple weeks. Back to watching for black ice and frozen fingers. The number of inmates in the Yard was 9-er.

FNG’s: none
Warm Up: Good Mornings, Imperial Walkers, Sir Fazio’s, Frankensteins, Willy Mays Hayes, SSH.
The Workout: Counter off by 4. Each group starts at a different rotation with a choice of pain heavy implements. The rotations were: Chest/Back, Arms, Legs, Shoulders. Each rotation was 3:30, then switch on. Pax choose their implement and exercise to target the noted area.

Once all rotations complete, we took a fellowship mosey of just under a mile.

Rinse and repeat the rotations once more.
Mary: LBC’s IC x30, Box Cutters ICx25, WW2’s x 20
Announcements: Sign up to Q…you’ll be glad you did and Pax will assist you.
T-Claps (Recognition): 2 Dollars still getting after it. Was great to welcome FRAM back into the gloom!
Prayer: Praises for this brotherhood of F3 and welcoming those coming back off injury, etc.

Tea Time – Murph: If you don’t like the weather in NC, wait an hour

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Warm Up: Cadence: 10 arm circles fwd/rev, 10 knee to chest, 10 Quad stretches, 10 Worlds Greatest Stretch.
The Workout: MURPH, 1mile run; 100 pull up’s / 200 Merkins / 300 Squats; 1mile run
Mary: nope
Announcements: 2ndF 3Alarm Tuesday
T-Claps (Recognition): None
Prayer: Unspoken