Downward Sheepdog

FNGs: None but we have a new shovel flag

Warm Up: Mosey to the dry spot

The Workout: Various Yogo poses that sucked. 

Mary: Plank hold, Side Plank Hold, Reach outs and ups.

Announcements: Check Slack

T-Claps (Recognition): none

Prayer: 11 yr old girl that passed, Ricco daughter sick, unspoken. 

 

Do what you don’t like

FNGs:None

Warm Up:  Waited for Soft Serve and we decided to Queish by committee when he didn’t show.  Popcorned around two WU exercises each. 

The Workout: Pick two exercises that suck using the honor system and we went around the horn. A couple of times until we were done. 

Mary: 

Announcements: Marathon, Race the Sun, Saturday convergence 

T-Claps (Recognition):

Prayer:  Sickness, Injured Pax, unspoken.

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PSA: Backblasts are important!!!

FNGs: Nope, also no sign of the legendary Dick Root…

Warm Up:

Mosey from flag to corner of lot, circle up

SSH x 25 IC

Good mornings x 10 IC

Sir Fazio Arm Circles x 10 IC F/R

Seal Claps x 10 IC

Willie Mays Hays x 10 IC

Moroccan Night Clubs x 10 IC

The Workout:

THANG 1:

PAX moseyed to far end of lot to the dead end area. PAX partnered up and completed a partner DORA consisting of 100 Merkins, 200 Squats, and 300 LBC. Partner 1 completed exercises while Partner 2 ran to the flag and back, switch it up until done. Strong work by all PAX here picking up the 6/finishing together.

THANG 2:

Mosey to side wall of the church, where we did two rounds of people’s chair and chillcutt plank holds. The first round we did 10 count each PAX, 2nd round we did 20 count each PAX thanks to some poorly timed jokes from Hasselhoff and Downrange – bet they won’t do that again. 🙂

THANG 3:

PAX moseyed back to area where we completed our warmup. We completed a round of Guantanamo (PAX lay down side by side, all raise legs to 30 degrees, PAX at the end of the line gets up and goes down the line pushing down the other PAXs feet while they attempt to not let their heels hit the ground).

YHC then tried to call something that I’ve never done before and probably isn’t in the F3 exicon. I had the PAX flip over into standard plank, and much like Guantanamo, I had the PAX at the end of the line to down the line and try to push down on each PAX back while they maintained plank. After a few PAX went down the line, Best in Show made a suggestion to stop before we hurt someone’s back…that was definitely the right call so we switched to having the PAX at the end of the line slap hands with the PAX doing planks as they ran by. Think 1996 Bulls theme music here…so if I had to name that revised exercise, I’d call it “Sirius” named after the Bulls theme song. If you’ve never heard it or have no idea what I’m talking about, watch this – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HYj-uV9NGc

Mary: Popcorn including Boxcutters, Heel Taps, Low Slow Flutter, Dying Cockroach, WW1, Freddie Mercury, Homer to Marge, Pickle Pounders, and a little stretching.

Announcements:

  • 2nd F event upcoming for shovel flag builds, see details on slack from BnB and Firefly.
  • Stressed importance of site Qs having flags at their AOs.
  • Also stressed importance of backblasts. The Thanks Pumpkin Spice for raising this. We have gotten bad about backblasts – this is how we keep track of what we’ve done and we help inspire other PAX and guys that may want to Q for the first time and need ideas. Or if you’re like me and you’ve been at it for a while, I always like new ideas and sometimes reference old backblasts to get inspiration and switch it up a bit.
  • Re: backblasts, posting 2 sentences on Slack with PAX name IS NOT a backblast…something like this one I’m writing now IS.
    • Seems like there was confusion amongst the PAX around what a backblast actually is. I’ll own that as one of the guys that has been around longer.
    • Guys, if you’ve been around for a while, coach the newer guys on this. And if you’ve been around for a while and have just gotten Slack about it (see what I did there?), then tighten up…Let’s not lose the plot on why we do what we do!
    • Use the backblast generator on f3southwake.com. You’ll need a login if you don’t have one in order to post these. If you don’t have one, get with our comms Q Softserve and he will get you going.

T-Claps (Recognition):

PAX going after 5 packs this week including Pumpkin Spice and YHC. Even our visitor Bo Peep from F3 Cherokee is 4 for 4 this week and looking to get out before he leaves town tomorrow. What’s your excuse?

Prayer:

Best In Show’s friend Starla who is dealing with a falling syndrome and getting lots of concussions, my friend Trent’s mother in law Linda who was just diagnosed with Leukemia, PAX dealing with job issues/loss/stress of their own or in some cases Ms or family members. Praise for successful carpal tunnel surgery for my dad yesterday.

YHC took us out. Make it a great day, guys!

Do any of us remeber what we say to the FNG at the begining of the work out?

FNGs:  Welcome S. S. Minnow.

Warm Up:Once around popcorn, SSH, Arm Circles, Seal Claps, Imperial Walker, Hillbillies,

The Workout: Standard rounds of playing with our rocks.

Big group of respectable men and YHC. 

TBD if suicides are all fun and games

FNGs: none

Warm Up: side straddle hop, imperial walkers, hillbillies, merkins, frankensteins, prisoner squats, sir fazio arm circles, seal claps

The Workout: 

PAX did a short Indian run to the opposite parking lot. Workout was suicides to the trees in the median. 1st Stop = 10 star jumps, return home, 2nd stop = 20 merkins, return home, 3rd stop = 30 star jumps, return home, 4th stop = 40 merkins. Return home. Work your way back down at 5th, 6th and 7th tree returning home each time. 

 

Mosey to amphitheater for some dips, step ups and erkins then continue on to rock pile.

Medium rock for some All about the Benjamins. 25 curls for the girls, 25 lunges, 25 squats, 25 lunges, 25 overhead press, 25 lunges, 25 chest press followed by 20 skull crushers and 20 ruh rohs. 

Trade rocks for some handheld size and perform static lateral and front raises as well as some static curls for the girls.

Popcorn Mary around the circle for 11 total exercises (Sorry Kosher!)

Announcements: Several on track for a 5 pack this week.

T-Claps (Recognition): Good work to those putting in the effort for the 5 pack

Prayer: Captain Kangaroo F3 Raleigh passed away. Koshers dad undergoing surgery. Bobby Bouchers family. 

No cows at Downtown Train…but we kept MOOving

FNGs: none

Warm Up: side straddle hop, windmills, frankensteins, imperial walkers, hillbillies, sir fazio arm circles and a plank hold around the circle for a late arrival.

The Workout: Moseyed to the closest corner by the parking deck. Script was 7 of Diamonds, first exercise at each corner of the block was 7 IC plank jacks. 2nd lap was 14 IC low slow flutter. 3rd lap was 21 merkins. 4th lap was 28 squats. We finished with 20 side straddle hop before heading to the rocl pile. 

Gathered some rocks and proceeded to do two rounds of 20 overhead press, 20 ruh rohs, 20 skull crushers, 20 chest press and a mix of carolina dry docks and erkins. 

Mary: Homer to Marge, heel taps, box cutters and some others

Announcements: Pumpkin Spice going for a 5 pack. Site Qs be sure to be posting a flag at our AOs.

 Prayer: Captain Kangaroo F3 Raleigh

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Keep it Simple, Make it Hard

FNGs: Nope

Warm Up:SSH, good morning

The Workout:  No frills, all hills route – Crossway Classic Edition, out & back

Mary: Nope

Announcements:  Yogurt going to crush a 28 mile mountain bike race at Uwharrie this weekend. 

Prayer:  Boucher’s wife’s employment situation, Yogurt’s coworker going through cancer treatment. 

After COT:  Yogurt, Batboy and Woody partook in Yogurt’s special Ting Ramp Sprint Repeats!  Sprint up to a series of markers of progressing distance, walk back down.  Total of five sprints.  Feels good, man. 

Wheelbarrow 11’s…WTH?!?

7 PAX and 1 HC no show for Prison Yard. Today’s goal was 3 sets of 11’s. Little did I know we would only get started on the 2nd round before time expired. YHC planted the flag and off we go at 0530.

Warm up
Good mornings x11
SSH’s x11
Arm circles x11
Seal claps x11
Overhead claps x11
Squats x11

Mosey to opposite side of clubhouse
11’s with partner wheelbarrows (take turns)
WWI’s on one end and burpees on the other. 3 dirkens at half way cone while in wheelbarrow position.
– Roughly 40 yds from end to end with a cone in the middle
(Modify to lunge walk after 5 rds each due to difficulty)

11’s with crab walk
Reverse LBC IC & Turkish getups with 3x IC crab cakes was the plan. We ended up doing half the distance with getups on one end and crab cakes on the other. Only made it 2 or 3 passes before time was up.

We finished up with a mosey around the clubhouse and back to the flag just past 45 mins.

Strong work to those who posted for this one. Cancun had to hit the showers early to practice soap dropping. Hopefully we will finish this one up the next time YHC has the Q at the Yard.

BS Out!

Apollo Creed Tribute


FNGs: None

Warm Up: arm Circles, GM, WMH, SSH.

 The Workout: 2 cycles of 12 Rounds 40 seconds on, 20 second rest.

  1. Jump Rope w or w/o rope
  2. Offset basketball merkin
  3. Heavy bag punching
  4. Pull Ups / TRX rows
  5. Punching w small weights
  6. Quick feet (curb)
  7. Slam ball
  8. KB squat,bob & step
  9. Wonder bra
  10. American Hammer
  11. Bent over row
  12. Mike Tyson’s off curb

Mary: each PAX selected an an exercise 10 count or in cadence

Announcements: Dauber’s Super Bowl Squares. Check slack. Donations go to HS Food Cupboard

Prayer: Stub’s dad’s best friend passed away. 

Cinder Blocks are heavy

FNGs: None

Warm Up: SSH, GM, WMH, Arm Circles.  The PAX did a great job reciting core values and F3 mission. No penalty burpees.

The Workout:

Grab a Cinder Block, Cusack for a bit. 10x Ground Pounder, 10x Rows. Cusack. Did 3 rounds.

Curls and Triceps as we walked to bathroom building w blocks.

Dora : 100 Merkins, 200 Squats, 300 LBC (single count). Partner farmer carry both cinder blocks 50M and back.

return blocks.

Mary : Stretches and circle of ab exercises called out by each PAX. Final set of Good Mornings.

Announcements: Trash pick up today 9AM Walmart FV.  My Way anniversary party today 5:30PM My Way in Holly Springs

T-Claps (Recognition):

Prayer: Motor Boatin’s sister to ER last night . Uncertain. All PAX dealing with injuries and illness.