X Marks the spot – Day 2 of Finkle’s 6 pack

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PAX: @Finkle, @Martini, @Warbucks, @H1N1, @Gamecock, @Haggis, @1st Blood, @Mohawk, @Loafer

Warm-up: Mosey around main parking lot, followed by Good Mornings, ‘Y’ nots, Imperial Walkers, Michael Phelps and Sir Fazio Arm Circles.

Main Event: We traveled from the parking lot down to the cross section of Raleigh St. and S Ennis St.  Where they converge is the X for the exercise.  We jogged one street light up all four ways 3x each doing an exercise at each end and then coming back to the intersection did another prescribed exercise.  Exercises were

Round 1: SSH in middle, then merkins, squats, lbc’s, reverse lunges.

Round 2: fox hole merkins in middle, wide merkins, pickle pounders, Freddie Mercury’s, American Hammers.

Round 3: Homer to Marge in middle, diamond merkins, burpees, sumo squats, WW2’s and then a mosey back to the parking lot for COT.

COT: Prayers for H1N1’s small group that is supporting a family for the holidays, safe travels for Finkle’s daughter and her beau, Loafer’s daughter is having surgery in January, “Dr.” Gamecock’s neighbor is recovering from a stroke and the needs surrounding that situation.

Football! YOU BET!

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FNGs:  None

Warm-up:  Planted flag after rolling up facing 8 PAX ready to go!  Willy Mays Hayes, OH Claps, Seal Claps, Sir Fazios, Static Stretching with nice mumblechatter

Thang:  Mosey with football lateraling all the way, Ho-Ho-Ho! and picked up a medium rock.  Stubbs was funny and grabbed an XL.  Bastard.  (JK)  Circled up for the following exercises with rocks in cadence rotating one spot to the left:  Curls for the girls, Rutrows (when I came to the XL rock), bus drivers, ground pounders, squats, slap the rock, OH press…Singles with tricep extension.  On your six for six inches, nipplers and chest press.  Return rocks.

Mosey to various fields until we found a flat area on the pitch.  Ran routes for points.  Those PAX not throwing or catching conducted LBCs, Squats, Imperial Walkers, etc.  Competiion moved to 4 PAX playing football, QB, WR, Stationary defense doing SSH in front of QB and a Defender.  Rotated through all positions.  Lined up again for drop kicks/punts.  One PAX ran after the kicked ball while remaining PAX did exercises.  Moved into a 4 v 4 with GUMP being center/referee/cheerleader,  Lots of nice throws and catches.  Checked some PAX for stick -em.  Mosey back to parking lot for Mary.

Mary:  static stretches in a circle.  Some PAX got friendlier than others.  Something about a recent hike/tush play.  Lots of laughs for sure.  Each PAX shared a rose and a thorn.

Q forgot to do name-a-rama.  Blame his age.  YHC took us out.  Lots of Prayers for Family, Jobs, Surgeries

2nd F at Thanks a Latte.

Honored to lead. – Dauber

530 Alarm Clock

Leadership Lessons

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YHC wanted to help build the leadership principles of initiative, contingency management, and succession planning with todays convergence crew at Crazy Ivan and Cletus. To that end, Q decided it was best to stay asleep until exactly 5:30am and then see what happened.  

FNGs: None

Warm Up: Something probably, I was brushing my teeth

The Workout: YHC had promised some upper and lower body work in the pre blast, where PAX could choose their own adventure. Drawing from that direction, @pikachu took a crew for lower body work while @bestinshow took a crew to work on upper body with kettle bells. Plan that was formed involved a switch of activities for the two groups about halfway through.

As the groups split, the Q finally arrived and fired up the Xmas music. A playlist with some truly horrific takes on xmas classics. 

Upper Body Thang:

3 rounds, of 9, 12 and 15 reps each

  • Goblet Squat
  • Cleans
  • KB Hopover Burpees
  • Single Arm Rows
  • Single Arm Snatches
  • Jump Lunges

Lower Body Thang:

Ascending progressing where you would work forward through a seriesof exercises, then reverse back to the start, then add another exercise the next round. Took place on the small tennis court

  • 20 Merkins, Bear Crawl across short side, 20 LBC IC, Crawl Bear
  • 20 Merkins, Bear Crawl across short side, 20 LBC IC, Crab Walk along long side, 20 big boi situps, reverse crab walk, 20 LBC IC, Crawl Bear
  • 20 Merkins, Bear Crawl across short side, 20 LBC IC, Crab Walk along long side, 20 big boi situps, Lunge Walk along short side, 20 merkins, reverse lunge walk along short side, 20 big boi situps, reverse crab walk, 20 LBC IC, Crawl Bear
  • 20 Merkins to close

Mary: Stretching

Announcements: Some xmas light run with an the HS run club, meeting at an unknown date and time, and traveling an indeterminate distance

T-Claps (Recognition): @bestinshow and @pikachu for stepping up to lead and cover for Qs failures. Greatly appreciated.

Prayer: 

  • (Praise) @abe’s father back home, simplifying care and anxiety for his Mom
  • @YesHeCan having heart surgery today
  • @brexit with a 4th round interview today to hopefully secure a job that allows him to stay local
  • @bestinshow for working through a slow season in business, prayers for additional work or finding a wad of dough somewhere
  • @bleeder upcoming surgery (Dec 15)

2nd F – Café Tacoma:

  • @abe and @BnB provided some excellent hot brew as well as penalty free cups
  • Great 2nd F in the parking lot
  • @u.t.i. and @gilette joined following their run, @u.t.i. of course arrived shirtless and sweaty

Bermuda Triangle

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FNGs: None. Welcome back kotter Haggis!

Warm Up: normal warm-o-rama

The Workout: Bearmuda triangle around the parking lot. x20 reps at each station with a travel mode in between. Round 1 upper body (merkins, dips, bttw) with bear crawls. Round 2 legs (sumo squats, fast feet, wall sit) with lunge walk. Round 3 upper body (triangle merkins, Mike Tysons, wall climb) with air press mosey. Round 4 legs (deadlift, calf raises, wall homer to Marge) with side squat walk. 

Mary: some light stretching

Announcements: Christmas party, food pantry collections 

T-Claps (Recognition): Amelia Earhart 

Prayer: H1N1 daughter, Haggis birthday, gamecocks son

6 Rocks of Christmas

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FNGs: None

Warm Up: Side shuttle hop, Slow Squats in cadence, Fozie Arm Circles

The Workout:

Don’t worry, no running was performed at Thunder but, the storm arrived and the PAX conquered this workout with kettlebell coupons ranging from 10 to 52 pounds  

30 minute AMRAP
1. 15 KB Swings
2. 20 Merkins
3. 15 Goblet Squats
4. 10 Burpees
5. 10 Turkish Getups
6. 30 Mountain Climbers 🧗

Mary:

American Hammers with weights, Low slow flutter with coupons, pickle pounders, dying cockroaches

Announcements: F3 Party, Snuggly 5k, Q-Sheet signups  

T-Claps (Recognition): for the PAXs pushing through the workout

Prayer: PAX during the season that are going through divorces and other struggles, Recent shooting, Mor Boat and job search

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Running 4 the John: Desination WoodCreek

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FNGs: None

Warm Up: None

The Workout: It was more of a run

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Mary: None

Announcements: Xmas Party

T-Claps (Recognition):

A reminder to tell someone important to you how important they are.

Prayer:  We prayed for recent stroke victims and their recoveries.

 

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Upper Body Day at THE YARD

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Warm Up:  Standard stuff, SSH and the like, but knowing today would be upper body-heavy, I threw in some Sir Fazios and Slo-Mo Merkins to get that whole area ready to go

The Workout:  This is a lazy copy & paste of routine I’ve done before, with the purpose of eschewing a well rounded full body workout for a more targeted beat down of one particular area.  The thang was this:

A warmup of 7’s on the parking lot hill, consisting of LBCs and Squats.  Then the main event was 3 stations, positioned around the community center building:  Merkins, Dips, Carolina Dry Docks.  We hit a set of one, mosey about 1/3 of the way around the building, repeato, repeato repeato. 

Because the mosey was so short and didn’t give us much time to recover between sets, I threw in a few rounds of People’s Chair after 2 or three rounds.  The only other variation was on the Merkins – one set was Diamonds, one set was wide-grip, and the final set was a Merkin Sampler – 4 reps of each. 

Mary: Side hips raises, heel taps maybe, …something difficult FRAM made us do, and probably one more, I dunno.  

T-Claps (Recognition):   The pre-workout message was a reminder of GRATITUDE.  Keeping our mindset off “I HAVE to workout”, and keeping it on “I GET TO/AM ABLE to work out”.  Celebrate physical abilities of our bodies and be grateful for every opportunity to use them as they are intended.

Prayer:  Nemo driving to Ohio with his son for a big time swim competition

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Double Down at TBD

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FNGs: None

Warm Up: Halloween monster imitation, clapping, flower picking

The Workout: Q brought a trunk full of toys and passed them out to everyone following the warm up. PAX spread out in a circle on the tennis court and were given assorted exercise to perform with their torture devices.

Format was as follows:

45 sec to AMRAP the given exercise, count your reps

45 sec of ‘active recovery’ exercise

Unlimited time to double your round one reps (hence ‘double down’)

Squat hold until all PAX are finished

Primary exercises included: merkins, lat pulls, tricep extensions, thrusters, med ball slams, curls for the girls, weighted punching, chest flys, halos, and squats

Active recovery included: mtn climbers, WWI, Freddy Mercury, Australian snow angels, dying cockroach, plank, side plank, bear crawl, heel taps, and something else.

PAX rotated stations after the completion of each round

Announcements: Xmas party, Even-The-Odds

Prayer: @abe’s parents – dad dealing with cancer + a stroke, mom providing care

@brexit has a job interview today

leading our families well during a season that can lead to selfishness and ‘the wants’

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LORDY LORDY

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FNGs: Not a one

Warm Up: Side Straddle Hops (Thanks Skid), Windmills, Daisy Pickers, Franks, Imperial Walkers and Hillbillies

The Workout:

  • Grab the blocks
  • Go to the disc golf practice hole
  • Partner Up
  • Partner 1 does an exercise AMRAP while Partner 2 travels from one side of the circle to the other.  Then Switch.  Repeat 3x
    • P1 Explosive Merkins P2 Army Crawl
    • P1 Skull Crushers P2 Bear Crawl
    • P1 Abyss Merkins aka Negative Merkins P2 Lunge Walk
    • P1 Curls for the Girlz P2 Crab Walks
  • Return Blocks

Mary: Homer to Marge, Boat Canoes, Low Slow Flutter, Pickle Pounders, Big Boy Sit-ups

Announcements:

  • Lipstick Anny Q / Convergence at Disney on Thursday
  • Christmas Party
  • Suggly Sweater
  • Davis Run
  • Q-Sheet

T-Claps (Recognition): 

  • Happy Birthday UTI – Thanks dudes for showing up!
  • DownRange – He made it!

Prayer:

  • Holiday Travel and Safety
  • Lipstick gets whatever died up there removed… 
  • Survivor – new meds, let that settle and get him back out with us
  • SoftServe’s brother
  • Stubs – new treatment
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Workin 9-5

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FNGs: Short Bus (John), neighbor of Cover Story. From holly springs (homegrown) homeschooled (school bus… short bus) 

Warm Up: SSH, Frankenstein, Goooooood Mornings, Windmiss

The Workout:

Listened to old country: dolly, Jonny cash, John Denver, Alabama, Kenny Rogers…

Thang 1:

Every 2 min on the minute:

  • 10 bob and weave
  • 10 reverse lunge with twist
  • 10 squat to overhead press

5 rounds total

Thang 2:
EMOM, all exercises single arm, repeat for both sides in the minute:

  • 3 swings
  • 3 cleans
  • 3 press

15 rounds, the a Q challenge call to increase reps along the way from 3->4->5

Mary: dying cockroach, modified Freddy mercury, WWI, heel taps

Thang 3:

Death drop

  • 10 burpees, 10 right arm snatches, 10 left arm snatches
  • 9,9,9
  • 8,8,8
  • …
  • 1,1,1

have a nice day.

Announcements: Xmas party on Dec 7

Prayer: stubs has a new tumor treatment that is supposed to get him back to 💯.

dahmer’s brother enrolled in a substance abuse treatment program.

pumpkin spices son Alex sprained his ankle in his first JV basketball game