Cletus: Yogurt 4 yr & 57 yr – Takin’ Care of Business

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EC: Abe, Alpine, Bleeder, Cupid, Lipstick, Skidmark, Pikachu, UTI. In May 2018, @Skidmark invited me to an F3 workout. Probably the easiest headlock ever. On May 13, 2022, 27 men posted to celebrate my 4 years of F3 and 57 years of life. When we came rolling in from EC at 5:27 am, I was overwhelmed by more than two dozen men, circled up, ready to go.

Special invitation: Yogi, who was at my first workout. When it was time for my F3 name, after fruitless discussion around Raleigh native, environmental worker, and more, I got the “What was your first concert?” question. Answer: BTO, you know, Bachman Turner Overdrive, who sing, Takin’ Care of Business. Dorton Arena, ~1975. Yeah, Yogi chimed in, Takin’ Care of Business – TCoB! Slide Rule heard “TCB” and immediately thought TCBY – The Country’s Best Yogurt. Ok, your name is YOGURT!

Warmup: 1) Run to top of Ivan lot. 2) Circle up for 57 SSHs. Count off: 27! 3) Mosey to amphitheater lawn area. 4) Jack Webbs to 30; 19 pickle pounders, 19 squats, 19 Catalina wine mixers. (19 x 3 = 57) 5)  Mosey up to greenway, on your six. Guantanamo. Wide range of pushes from nice and easy to brutal by Pikachu. Long time to circulate 27 PAX. Mosey to truck to pick up gloves. Note: Should have picked up speaker too! Mosey to rock pile. Each PAX grab a rock.

During the workout, I missed several counts and received much-deserved grilling. During my days of Q’ing Cletus, I was never known for counting.

The Thang 1: Count off in 1s and 2s. Simple exercise – 1s bear crawl to top of parking lot and back, while pushing your rock. 2s do AMRAP curls for the girls (Round 1), rut rohs (Round 2), prisoner squats (Round 3).

The Thang 2: Circle up in “grassy” lot. Similar to Banana Seat’s and Pikachu’s AC/DC Thunderstruck workout, I used Takin’ Care of Business as the song and we did a burpee with every “Takin’ Care of Business.” That’s 27 (compared to 31 for Thunderstruck). Volume was way too low, so yes, should have grabbed speaker while at truck. Anyway, everyone grilled me for that.

Mary: Circle up on tennis courts, where it all began. Big boy sit-ups, Pickle pounders, Box cutters, Protractor. Have a nice day.

Announcements: #Junechallenge and more on Slack. Highlighter running for Congress.

Prayer requests: Yogi prepared a list of goals at the suggestion of his pastor. Boy George selling house and moving family. Highlighter pointed out those who need help mentally may not be reaching out. Find them.

Message: Thanks for all the F3 support over the years. It’s a real privilege to be part of this group. Each one of you has been a positive influence in some way. Thanks for keeping the F3 SouthWake standard high. F3 is the real gift.

Sheepdog – 5/13/22; Build a Panda

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Warm Up: A little follow the leader, then intervals of Good Mornings, Willie Mays Hayes, SFAC front and back, SSH, Daisy Pickers, Michael Phelps, & Frankensteins.  Ended on speed skaters.
The Workout: Pax started a little build-a-squatted bear.

Starting with 1 squat, then bear crawl to the other end of the parking lot line, two squats, etc, up to 10 squats.  Then over to the to cover for rotations of dips/Capoeira push-ups/erkins, chest press, LBCs, Rows, and alternating lunges (front, side, back; each leg).  The pax doing the LBCs set the time with 25 in cadence.  We did 3 rounds of this.  Between each set that Panda came out with a little kung-fu action.

Announcements: Triangle Tri, coming up. Food train for Lipstick.

Prayer: Job situations, family, Lypstick’s wife.

Red October – Final Four Edition

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FNGs: none
Warm Up: joined Mutiny PAX
The Workout:  Lots of kettle exercises include the following:

Upright Rows

Nipplers

Clean and Jerk

Swings

Upright Rows

Crushers

Knee benders

Swings


.bunch of other exercises

Mary:  yoga
Announcements:  see Slack & FB
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer:  Go Duke; UNC Sucks.

VC 4/27/22

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FNGs: None
Warm Up: OYO
The Workout:
Mary:
Announcements:
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer: Dauber led us out

Crazy Ivan 5/6/22 – Popcorn

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FNGs:  None
Warm Up:  Lap around parking lot, SSH, windmills, sir Fazios, hillbillies, imperial walkers, o/h claps, seal claps
The Workout:  Each PAX gave a kettlebell exercise including swings, tricep curl, lawnmowers, ground pounders, upright row..15 reps, 10 reps.  Lap.  Rinse and repeat completing additional kettlebell exercise with 10 reps; Lap.  Turkish get-ups, from our six nipplers, slap bells, etc.
Mary:  Yoga
Announcements:  See Slack/FB.  Memorial Day Murph
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer:  Dauber led us out.

Did you know that whales eat moose?

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Tea Time Murph 5/9/2022

Music Theme: Country that rocks, featuring Jason Aldean; general thumbs up by all PAX
Warm Up: SSH 25x; deep squat to stretch calves, hammies; touch toes, exhale
The Workout: Murph 1 mile run, 300 squats, 200 merkins, 100 pull-ups, 1 mile run

Taking off on the second run, Cancun asks Moose, “Did you know that whales eat moose?” It’s true, seriously. First of all, Cancun said it. Second of all, it was on the Internet: “Orcas occasionally eat moose. While both animals live in different habitats, there is a predator-prey relationship. There’s no evidence that killer whales eat moose regularly, but they do sometimes.”
Mary: None
Announcements: 3-Alarm Tuesday; June Challenge
T-Claps (Recognition): Moose’s M inspired by F3 job/career changes; also became a runner via F3 influence

Prayer: Loss of WebEx’s brother in law–pray for the family

VC 5/11/22

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FNGs: NONE
Warm Up: OYO
The Workout: See Garmin
Mary:
Announcements:  Memorial Day Murph; June challenge
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer:  Dauber led us out; Lipstick’s family, Unspoken

Honored to lead.  Dauber

 

The Chute

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Prison Yard broke out only to find a hill that repeatedly punished them. They call it “The Chute” on strava. Switching things up from circuit training or classic bootcamp, we punished our legs at today’s WOD. Here’s what we did.

Mosey down to lower lot for a warm up.
Good mornings x10 IC
SSH’s x20 IC
Frankensteins x10 IC
Copperhead Squats x10
Copperhead Merkins x10

Cross the street to the greenway that went a long ways and down. Roughly a qtr mile to the bottom of this long hill.
Long @$$ 7’s YHC called it.
Morning Wood at the top and 8 count Absolutions at the bottom
Indian run between so we can stay together.
We made it down easily the first time but on the way back up some guys started thinking “Is BS serious?”
We ended up getting 4 trips to the bottom before YHC called for a modification so the PAX would be able to walk that day.

We moseyed over to the front of the club house for some other fun.
Baby box jumps x20
Dips x10 IC
Dirkens x10
Rinse and Repeat

Gathered back at the flag for Mary. PAX went around the circle calling an exercise.
Finished up with a nice stretch.

Great work today from the PAX. Thanks for letting me lead such a strong group.

BS Out!

AGS Mother’s Day “I have no idea where we are”

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I was pleased to see @Coal Ash when I jogged up. HCs @Cupid and @U.T.I and @Bird Flu were there. Nice!
Warm Up: No EC’ers today, so at 6 am we took a quick jog around the parking lot and circled up. SSH’s x25 to continue jumpstarting the heart rate. Breathed through some GMs. Stretching OYO to hit whatever spots you need to hit before a run. You know where those are. Finally, a shout out to @Vasoline with 25-30 Merkins, OYO.

The Workout: Knowing that AGS was founded on sunrises around Bass Lake, I try to honor that tradition when I’m Q’ing (@Deadbolt @Mookie). Today was no exception. I explained the route: Across Womble, down Bass Lake Outfall Greenway, along this edge of lake, over to Salem Ridge, around the driving range, connect back to Stinson, on to Womble.

We took the fast route down the greenway. I knew we had no chance of a spectacular sunrise, only gloom, but we’re used to that, right? Maybe a little unexpected the first week of May though. Going down the greenway is super fast. I’ve always said, run fast where you can, and this is one of those places.

Along the way, we made connections. Cupid the flu vaccine plant employee caught with Bird Flu, the bird flu expert who is working to contain the bird flu itself. Coal Ash, UTI, and myself caught up with work and employment.

We dialed back the pace after reaching Bass Lake, because that early fast pace wasn’t paying off for all of us. We headed up Salem Ridge towards Linksland. Someone suggested that we do something in @Pikachu’s yard, but we declined. I would love to work in some of the loops in SSL, but from Womble that would put us over 6 miles and there’s just not time. On the back half of the run, we caught up on mothers and Mother’s Day plans.

We took Gable Ridge back towards Bass Lake Road. Over to Norwalk. “I have no idea where we are,” declared @Coal Ash. Bam, we arrived at Bass Lake Road and the lights came on! From there, it was an easy jog on Stinson back to Womble. Perfect, 5.45 miles and 7 am. COT, photo op with YHC and @Coal Ash stylin’ the same colors. I even turned my hat backwards.

Mary: None

Announcements and T-Claps (Recognition): Appreciation to everyone who contributed the very successful 3-Alarm Root Beer Float Mile. @Bird Flu really led the way, buying root beer and ice cream early on. Then, posting the pre-blast. @Wild Turkey was solid too, as usual. He set up the root beer and awards table and mapped up and set up the root beer course as well. Thanks to all who posted. Plus, we had enough money from our collection to make a significant contribution to the iPad 3-Alarm received for his birthday.

UTI previewed the June challenge. Largely modeled off the 2021 May challenge, but with improvements. Not to be confused with previous “Rune” run challenges in June.

Prayer: Remember your mother and be grateful. Strength to those who may not be having children. Keep all PAX healthy and strong.

It’s all about the density…

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A lot of mumble chatter this morning. Is density important? Some say yes. Mumble chatter took over the mini-Murph and several PAX started suckling the Honey Suckle. Had to get everyone back on track.

FNGs: None

Warm Up: Good mornings x10, Willie Mays Hayes x10, Daisy pickers x10, Side straddle hops x20, Seal Claps x10, Sir Fazio arm circles x10 forward, x10 backward

The Workout: Mosey to the big rock pile. Pick a medium-big rock of your choice.
Curls for the girls, Wonder bras, Rut Rows, Overhead Tricep press, Ground Pounders, Repeat
Chest presses, Box cutters, Low slow flutters, Repeat
Mosey to the Playground for the Mini-Murph: 5 pull ups, 10 Merkins, 15 squats, Repeat for 5 sets total
Mosey to parking lot for a Round of 7: Star jumps, Carolina dry docks

Mary: LBC’s x10, Plank hold approx. 30 sec, Raise left hand for approx. 15 sec, Raise right hand for approx.15 sec, Plank hold count to 60 to finish off the workout.

Announcements: Memorial Day Murph on Monday. 7:00 AM at Womble Park? Need to verify that.

Prayer: @Shredder took us out with prayer. Prayers for @DOA who’s on his second interview for a new job! Thank God for @Stubs clear test! Prayers for these men and all our families.