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Pickle Beatdown at Cletus

FNGs: Nope

Warm Up: SSH, Good Mornings, Imperial Walkers, Sir Fazio Arm Circles F/R, Seal Claps, Overhead Claps, Wille Mays Hays

The Workout:

Thang 1 – The Big Pickle:

PAX completed an Indian Run over to the parking lot on the other end of the soccer fields. Once we got there, we partnered up (one group of 3) for 3 rounds of the Big Pickle. One PAX ran one direction, partner ran the other way around the lot, when they met up, completed 10 patty cake merkins. Continue running, meet on the other side, do 10 WW2. We did 3 rounds of this.

Thang 2 – Bread and Butter:

PAX moseyed over to the amphitheater for the following: Partners from the previous round split up into 2 groups. Group 1 completed people’s chair 10 count each PAX while Group 2 held chillcut plank. Switch. Next round Group 1 completed balls to the wall 10 count each PAX while Group 2 held a squat. Switch…we did 3 rounds of this.

Then we went to the lower wall and did the following exercises in order: Round 1: Erkins, Dips, Heels to Heaven Round 2: Erkins, Dips, Heels to Heaven Round 3: Erkins, Dips, Tempo Squats

Thang 3 – Variety Fresh Pack

PAX moseyed to the rock pile and were instructed to get a medium rock. Everyone did except for Bondo, who picked a cute little one we called the “Pebble”…

YHC instructed PAX to rotate various directions and number of rocks to switch it up and get variety/diff size rocks. We completed overhead press, curls for the girls, chest press, skull crushers, ruh rohs, and bus drivers.

PAX returned rocks and went back to the flag for Mary.

Mary: Heel Taps, Box Cutters, Homer to Marge, Low Slow Flutter, Pickle Pounders

Announcements: Upcoming all hands meeting being scheduled by Breach, be on the lookout. Also, a PSA that CPR can and has saved lives in F3. If you haven’t been trained, highly recommend it.

T-Claps (Recognition): All PAX for showing up in the gloom! 33 PAX combined between Cletus and Crazy Ivan on this fine Friday.

Prayer: Unspoken, Woody took us out

Five Year Anniversary Q

FNGs: None

Warm Up: Arm Circles, GM, Mosey to Soccer Field Parking Lot

The Workout: Football Mascot Merkin Workout utilizing scores from last week’s games.  

NCSU’s Tuffy – Merkins (+alternate exercise)

7 (tempo squatsx10), 10 (pulse squats), 17 (lungesx10), 24 (mosey to picnic shelter)

UNC’s Rameses

7(People’s chair 5 count each PAX), 10 (BTTW in cadence to 10), 17 (People’s), 24 (BTTW), 31 Urkins (Mosey to rock pile)

Duke’s Blue Devil

3 (curls & rows x10), 6 (curls&rows), 13 (curls&rows), 21 rock presses (curls and rows), 28 rock presses (curls and rows)

Mary: Around the circle name an ab exercise & closed off with some stretching. 

Prayer: Prayer for PAX’s injured and struggling with illness.  Pray for all PAX BRR. 

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Relatively cool morning

Warm Up: SSH, good morning, frankenstein, imperial walker, slo-mo merkins

The Workout:  YHC had nothing planned for today because YHC is lazy.  Started with 7’s in the parking lot (burpees & squats).  Mosey to the covered shelter for BTW & People’s Chair (X2), moseyed to the stage thing, stopping along the way for an exercise the name of which is escaping me at the moment, for dips & box jumps (X2).  Moseyed some more around the track and had some fun with Carolina Dry Docks and Reverse Lunges (X2).  Mosey back to stage thing for more dips, some derkins, then headed back.

Mary:  Started with a move I saw at F3 Timeshare in Myrtle Beach – On your six in a V position, start with left leg extended while the right leg is tucked to your chest.  Hold for 10 seconds.  Switch legs, hold for 10 seconds.  Then both legs extended, hold for 10 seconds.  

After that was popcorn Mary.  Box Cutters, Freddy Mercury, Jane Fonda, Heel Taps, and some elbow-to-opposite-knee thing that Jellybeans called.

T-Claps (Recognition): Prayer:  Forceps getting ready for a move to DC while also prepping for an interview to move up in his company.

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Pre-blast for today’s workout gave all of the details of what was to come. Those in attendance choose to fight the heat to get stronger.

Warmup: Slow mosey from the parking lot towards the other parking lot, with a stop at the picnic shelter for some goooooood mornings. Once we arrived at the other lot and commented how little of the field construction materials remained, we did some side straddle hops and daisy pickers.

The Thang: Suicide B.L.I.M.P.S

Using the parking lot light poles as distance markers for each new exercise that was introduced, with the curb serving as the start/finish point. Exercises were as follows:

B-Burpees (5)

L-Lunges (10)

I-Imperial Walkers (15/side)

M-Merkins (20)

P-Plank Jacks (25)

S-Squats (30)

Workout was a stack-em, where each round we repeated the prior exercises and added a new light pole/exercise. Stack until you spell BLIMPS.

Curb–> B –> Curb

Curb –>B –> L –> Curb

Curb –>B –> L –> I –> Curb… etc

After spelling BLIMPS, we worked our way back down to B, removing one light pole/exercise each round. (BLIMP, BLIM, BLI, BL, B)

At this point we were all cooked, so we moseyed to the amphitheater for some preachers chair and dips,  moseyed to the picnic shelter for some more preachers chair and dips, then to the tennis courts for mary. 

Mary was popcorn around the circle, throwing a found pickle ball at the next popcorn leader. Everyone went the extra mile to come up with an ab exercise more miserable than the one before.

COT: T-Claps to @TomTom for jumping back in with both feet after time away. T-Claps to @Abe for leading the backpack drive for SouthWake. Prayer requests for PAX who are training for assorted events, safe travels for @abe as he heads to Tennessee.

 

 

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Roaming Yoga in a Thunder/Lightning Storm

I wasn’t exactly raring to go today.  Signed up to Q last minute the night before because, who know why.  No plan, but feeling like I needed  a recovery sort of routine after this week, so I had a general idea of a slow mosey around the track with yoga stops along the way.  I know very little yoga so I wasn’t sure how this would go, but it actually went well, accomplishing just what I was looking for and pretty spot on with timing.

Rolling up to Cletus, the dark morning sky was flashing lightning in the distance, didn’t think much of it, but soon it just opened up and poured buckets on us.  It was awesome. 

The Workout:  Slow mosey walk, not run, around the track, stopping at each corner to attempt some yoga poses.  Each stop began with downward dog then progressed into: runner’s pose, crescent pose, warrior, warrior 2(?).   

I learned that Moose is alarmingly, and comically inflexible. 

We completed two laps around the track, then joined Crazy Ivan for COT.

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Building the Pyramid

FNGs: None

Warm Up: Grabbed some coupons from the back of Q’s car and carried them to the lot behind Hunt Center. Warmup OYO

The Workout: PAX worked OYO to complete a pyramid, 100 reps per level, building lap after completing each layer. Thats it. 

 

Mary: Popcorn around the horn. @jellybeans, @nemo, @wildturkey and @brexit joined for Mary + COT

Announcements: 3-alarm Q sheet

Prayer: Injured PAX + those we haven’t seen much recently, @brexit had a HR exam with a 49% pass rate ,@wildturkey prayed for self control for @brexit to not make ‘That’s What She Said’ jokes about it being hard during the test…. joke was not his best…

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Irrelevant bug facts and a Personal Anniversary

FNGs: No

Warm Up:  SSH, Willy Mays, Daisy Pickers, Sir Fazio, Seal Claps

The Workout:  7’s in the parking lot – Doubled up burpees on both ends…lol

Simple stuff today.  Set up stations under the covered picnic table area:  People’s chair, balls to the wall, curls for girls w/dumbbells, WWII, standard merkin, Squats w/30lb ruck, alternating shoulder raises w/dumbbells.

The timer was my homemade Quadzilla tire sled pull.  PAX chose a station to start in and the tire puller ran to the playground sign and back, at which time all PAX would rotate.  We got two full rounds in.

Mary:  YHC called box cutters then opened it for popcorn:  Freddy Mercury, reverse boxcutters, some goofy but difficult thing Pikachu called, low slow flutters…I don’t remember the rest.

Announcements: Trash pick up and backpack donation that Abe is collecting for

T-Claps (Recognition):  YHC share with the group that today is his 4-year sobriety anniversary.  In his old age, he’s not big on most anniversaries, traditional ceremonies and the like, but this one is different.  A time for reflection, praise and the sincerest of gratitude.

Prayer:  The usual

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FNGs: none

Warm Up: Warmed up on the commute over.

The Workout: YHC was the only PAX this morning, so I called an audible. 5k while picking up trash. For every piece of trash, one merkin and one squat were performed (squat was to pick up the trash). Managed to get 100 pieces of trash (ended up being about two grocery bags’ worth), 100 merkins and 100 squats before calling for time.

Announcements: Picnic on June 24th, CSAUP TOMORROW!

Prayer: neighbor’s brother

Forceps Respect Q @ Cletus

First of all Thank You to everyone who showed up for my respect Q.  July 4th will mark my 6th year with F3 and it has been such a positive and amazing experience for me. I cannot express how much this organization and so many of you have meant to me in my life.   

FNGs: None

Warm Up: Good mornings – 10 IC, SSH x 25 IC, Daisy Pickers – 25, Willy Maze Hays – 10 IC, SF Arm Circles – 10 IC

Mosey to rock pile – Pax pick up two small rocks

3 sets of each rotating around circle

Curls- 25 IC, Tricep extensions -25 IC,  Nipplers – 25 IC, Overhead press- 25 IC, Seal Claps – 25 IC

Dora: Partner up

100 merkins, 200 LBCs, 200 squats rotating exercises while the other partner runs to end of parking lot & back 

Plank Hold till all teams are done.  

Patty Cake Planks to 25 IC

Big Boy Sits ups to 25 IC

Mosey to playground.  

Same partners: 1 HIM does 25 Pull up while other does Mountain Climbers x 25; Plank Jacks x 25

Mosey to tennis court to meet up with Crazy Ivan crew

Banana Seat led us through some Ab exercises which included American Hammers 

Announcements: Run for Quay +2nd F and Sprint Tri on Saturday

Prayer: Banana Seat led us in prayer  

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🇺🇸 Memorial Day Murph 🇺🇸

FNGs: N/A

Warm Up:  I was late so I only did Frankenstines / imperial walkers & hillbillies 🍦

The Workout: The MURPH 💪

1 mile buy in

100 Pull-ups

200 Push-ups

300 Squats

1 mile punch out

Thank everyone who has served our country a little respect goes a long way 🪖

Prayer: unspoken PAX’s