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Early 51 Birthday Q

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FNGs: None

Warm Up: lap around the Culture Center/Library; GM, WMH, Arm circles/seal & overhead clap.

The Workout:

Circuit One: 3×17 SSH/Mountain Climbers/LSF

Lap around library

Circuit Two: 3×17 Durkins/Urkins/Dips

Circuit Three: 2x Colt ā€œ51sā€ /Bolt ā€œ51sā€ / Triceps (17 count) w medium size rockĀ 

Circuit Four: 2×51 count Peopleā€™s Chair and BTTW. Modified w Australian Ass Smackers if desired.

Mosey back to the flag

Mary: Round of 10 count in cadence abs: LBC, AH, H2M, Air Bender, Hundreds. Finished w hamstring and runners stretch.Ā 

Announcements: Picnic , CSAUP and Memorial Day Murph coming up. Check Slack.Ā 

T-Claps (Recognition): My 51st birthday tomorrow , May 23rd.

Prayer: My M is in Israel- safe travel; Plungerā€™s M having a procedure tomorrow.Ā 

UvU DORA at DTT

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FNGs: Nope

Warm Up: Good mornings, SSH, Moroccan Night Clubs, Sir Fazio F/R, Seal Claps, Overhead Claps

Moseyed to far end of parking deck.

The Workout:

A you vs you DORA. Complete 50 Merkins, 100 LBC IC, 150 squats, AMRAP each set, run to top of stairwell and back between each set, back down. PAX decided to stay together for counts to push each other and keep mumblechatter going.

After complete, did BTTW x20 each PAX, peopleā€™s chair x20 each PAX.

Moseyed to rock pile abs grabbed a medium rock. Completed chest press, skullcrushers, curls for the girls, overhead press, ruh rohs.

Mosey back to flag.

Mary: Homer to Marge, Box cutters, low slow flutter, low slow flutter again, American hammers, and a little light yoga/stretching to finish it out.

Announcements: Davis (3-Alarm) birthday coming up

T-Claps (Recognition): All of the guys who did the smoky mountain relay, guys who pushed 3alarm and Wolfie this weekend at spring classic, all volunteers too.

Prayer: Boucherā€™s friend John who lost his dad to cancer

YHC took us out.

39 is the magic number

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YHC came out to be the conductor at Downtown Train after a funfilled weekend celebrating my 39th birthday. The number 39 was in play throughout the workout. UFO pulled lots of PAX in, but 3 HIM showed up to help me wear off the birthday hangover.

FNGs: Nada

Warm Up: SSH x 39, Sir Fazio Arm Circles F/R, Seal Claps, Overhead Claps, Good Mornings, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies, Moroccan Nightclubs

The Workout:

We moseyed over to the amphitheater for 3 rounds, 6 exercises, 13 reps to total 39 reps of each exercise.

Mixed up some of the ab work along the way to keep things fresh.

First round was Dips, Derkins, Step ups, high plank hold 13 count each PAX, BTTW 13 count each PAX, people’s chair 13 count each PAX.

Second round was Dips, Derkins, Step ups, chillcut plank hold 13 count, BTTW 13 count, people’s chair 13 count.

Third round was Dips, Derkins, Step ups, low slow flutter IC, BTTW 13 count, people’s chair 13 count.

We moseyed over to the rock pile for 3 rounds of exercises with rocks, added an exercise each round. Again 13 of each for a total of 39 was the magic number.

First round: Chest press, skullcrushers, curls for the girls, ruh rohs, wonderbras

Second round: Chest press, skullcrushers, curls for the girls, ruh rohs, wonderbras, goblet squats

Third round: Chest press, skullcrushers, curls for the girls, ruh rohs, wonderbras, goblet squats, bus drivers…to which there was much complaining.

Note: Wild Turkey also let out a thunderous bellow from his bowels during this set…poor Plunger was beside him and downwind…mentions of Bobby Boucher’s absence and possible Tex Mex #2 explosion explaining said absence…

Mosey back to flag

Mary: LBCs x39, American Hammer, Low Slow Flutter, Homer to Marge, Pickle Pounders, a little light stretching.

Announcements: Sign up to volunteer at NC Spring Classic at Bass Lake. See Slack or contact Abe for details.

T-Claps: Plunger for getting back out in the gloom!

Prayer: Davis (3-Alarm), my MIL going through radiation treatments for breast cancer.

YHC took us out.

Hollywood Birthday Party

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FNGs: None

Warm Up: Based on the weather, all PAX headed for the parking deck as soon as 5:30:00 arrived. Warmed up and stretched with Side Straddle Hops, Good Mornings,Ā  Frankenstein’s, and Willy Mays Hays.Ā 

The Workout: PAX tackled a few exercises named after Hollywood classics.

  • First – The Imperial March: Imperial walkers, performed while marching in a circle for the duration of the John Williams classic ‘The Imperial March (Darth Vader’s Theme)”. PAX complained about how long the song was, but not loudly enough to get relief from the Q.
  • Second – Catch Me If You Can: PAX partnered up for a race of sorts. At the sound of ‘GO’, partner one performed five burpees. While partner one performed burpees, partner two attempted to flee as quickly as possible while running backwards. Upon completing the required burpees, partner one sprinted to catch their fleeing partner. Flapjack. Repeato while replacing Burpees with 10 diamond merkins.
  • Third – Field of Dreams: PAX counted off by four, then split to each of the 4 designated ‘bases’. At the sound of ‘GO’, Home plate performed 10 burpees, 1st performed AMRAP merkins; 2nd held a plank; 3rd AMRAP Squats. When homeplate completed the required burpees, they raced down the baseline to first, starting the chain of all stations rotating as they were tagged out. Repeato until all PAX performed burpees.Ā 
  • Round 2 of Catch Me If You Can
  • Round 2 of Field of Dreams, replacing burpees with dips, merkins with derkins, planks with LBCs, squats with Sumo squats
  • Round 3 of Catch Me If You Can – At this point, it became a challenge among PAX to travel further than their partner did. @U.T.I. attempted to gain extra distance on @wildturkey through the use of evasive maneuvers. @wildturkey elected to instead take a shortcut to put a stop to @U.T.I.’s shenanigan’s.Ā 
  • Round 3 of Field of dreams, replacing dips with burpees, derkins with Erkins, LBCs with low-slow-flutter, Sumo Squats with preachers chair.

Ended with a game called Rock Paper Scissors. each PAX measured how many overhead claps they could perform in 20 seconds. They then partnered up to compete in an effort to see who could reach their predetermined number of claps first. In the event of a tie, RPS was played to determine the winner.Ā  After four rounds it was determined that @bestinshow was truly the best-in-show and could have a viable career as a bird if he desired.Ā 

Ended with COT where Q provided doughnut holes for all PAX in celebration of 34 trips around the sun. Nothing makes you want doughnuts like sweaty cardio on a humid morning.Ā 

Mary: None

Announcements: None

Prayer: Davis’s (@davisteitelbaumF3;3Alarm) recovery, @BobbyBoucher’s 2.0 Walt (F3 Bolt) recovery from breathing difficulties yesterday, @Kosher’s mother-in-law recovery from breast cancer.Ā 

Death by Dips

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YHC took an opportunity to jump back in the Q circle today aboard the Train! Have struggled for months with physical/health issues and I just got cleared a few days ago to work out again, so I figured…”why not?’

FNGs: Nada

Warm Up: Good Mornings, Fazio’s, Imperial Walkers, Frankenstein

The Workout: A short mosey to the hallway between parking deck and Main. 10/15/20 Dips, 10/15, 20 mountain Climbers IC. Then we moseyed on don to the parking garage for some DORA.

DORA consisted of 100 Hand-Release Shoulder Tap Merkins, 200 Monkey Humper IC, and 300 LBC. Partners ran the stairs up to do 10 more dips each pass.

Wall Work consisted of 2 rounds of People’s chair, while the end PAX bear crawled to the end of the line.

We took a quick mosey over to the small rock pile in the main lot. 4 PAX did AMRAP chest press, while the other 3 PAX rotated to complete 3-Man Rows (ie. 2 men stand as the base while the other lies down and does inverted row). 2 rounds of this and more on this later.

Mary: Supermans, shoulder roll stretches, Cobra Stretch.

Announcements: Like the exercise mentioned above, our job as the men of F3 is to pick eachother up when we are down. Many PAX during the last many months for YHC have reached out and have my sincere thanks as YHC has not been the best version of himself for months now. Our job in F3 is to pick up the six, never leave someone behind, and help eachother do things we don’t think we can do.

T-Claps (Recognition):

Prayer: Woody’s M has some promising job prospects on the line. Pumpkin Spice has kids with need for safe travel. 16-Bit, his family and kids with various things going on. YHC for continued clarity on health situation, good results, and strength to bite down and move forward.

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Bear Karaoke

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FNGs: none

Warm Up: SSH, Daisy Pickers, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies, Sir Fazio Arm Circles, Seal Claps, Overhead Claps

The Workout: PAX moseyed over to the rock pile for a “medium-sized” rock and then met up at the amphitheater.

Round 1 consisted of Curls for the Girls, Squats, Mountain Climbers. Then line up on the side walk for bear crawls down and crawl bears back. Did that 3 times.

Round 2 was Ruh Rohs, Lunges, WWIIs. Then a karaoke down and back on the side walk. 3 times.

Round 3 was People’s Chair, 10 count down the line. Plank, 10 count down the line. Repeated both and returned the rocks.

Mary: We had time for some LBCs, some Homer-to-Marge and some yoga.

Announcements: F3 South Wake town hall – Feb 28th, 7pm, Bass Lake Boat House

Prayer: Wild Turkey’s friend’s family

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Roll of the Die

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FNGs: none

Warm Up: SSH, Daisy Pickers, Imperial Walkers, Sure Fazio Arm Circles, Seal Claps, Overhead Claps

The Workout: We left the workout in the hands of fate today. The way it worked is we moseyed a few yards and rolled the exercise die. Repeat. Lunges, merkins, frog jumps, crunches, side straddle hops, planks and wall sits. Oh, and 20 burpees.

Mary: Popcorn Mary, finished with some yoga.

Announcements: Consider a CPR class if you haven’t taken one.

Prayer: Wild Turkey’s friend passed away this past weekend. Prayers for his friend’s family and loved ones.

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Thanks, Ollie…

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FNGs: Nope

Warm Up: SSH x20 IC, Sir Fazio Arm Circles F/R x10 IC, Seal Claps x 1o IC, Overhead Claps x10 IC, Moroccan Night Clubs x10 IC, Samson Hold until YHC called time, Michael Phelps, Hillbillies x15 IC

Mosey to the rock pile

The Workout:

THANG 1:

YHC instructed PAX to grab a medim to large rock at the pile. We cusacked 2/3 of the way over, then went to regular and ran the rest until we stopped at the back of the library.Ā 

PAX split up into pairs, one team of 3. We completed a DORA consisting of 100 uneven merkins 50/50, 200 goblet squats with rock, 300 LBC with rock. Partner 1 did exercises while Partner 2 ran around the rear parking lot of the library, switch, continue until done.

THANG 2:

Once done with DORA, we circled up for rock work consisting of curls for the girls x20 IC, Overhead Press x20 IC, Ruh Rohs x20 IC, Skullcrushers x20 IC, Wonderbras x20 IC.Ā 

PAX cusacked rocks back to the pile.

THANG 3:

We completed people’s chair x10 each PAX, chillcut plank hold x10 each PAX.

Back to the flag for Mary.

Mary: Popcorn Mary consisting of low slow flutter, freddie mercury, dying cockroach, heel taps, WW2, pickle pounders, homer to marge, side planks, Peter Parkers.

Announcements: None

T-Claps (Recognition): All PAX for pushing through and starting their Monday off right.

Prayer: Pumpkin Spice M looking for internship/part time work – progress here; Stickers M’s grandmother, turning 101, but having to switch care facilities while they do renovations to old one; YHC’s friend who got hurt lifting heavy in O2 fitness this weekend, had to leave in an ambulance, ab and groin pulls/tears.

YHC took us out.

4 Corners with no running… How do we get around?

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FNGs: Nada

Warm Up:
Windmills, Hillbillies, Imperial Walkers, Frankensteins, Sir Fazio Arm Circles, Seal Claps, OH Claps, Hold them out

The Workout:
4 Corners with reps divisible by 5 in celebration of my 2.1s 5th Birthday
– 5 Burpees each corner of parking deck, travel via Karaoke
-10 Low Slow Flutter each corner, travel via high knees
-15 Breakdancing Bear each corner, travel via butt kicks
-20 Merkins at condensed corners, travel via bear crawl
-25 Squats at condensed corners, travel via broad jump

Move to low wall, 2 rounds of dips, erkins and derkins then mosey back to flag for some Mary

Mary:
Popcorn Mary – Homer to Marge, Box cutters, Poop Crawl?, Heel Taps, Shoulder Taps, WWIIs, Chillcut plank hold (10 ct ea PAX), followed by some disjointed Yoga

Announcements: AED list being generated for easy reference at AOs

T-Claps (Recognition): Thanks to those that came out and braved the cold

Prayer: Sick and Injured PAX, Bobby Boucher’s M seeking dream job opportunity, Pumpkin Spice’s M seeking part time work while finishing out grad school. YHC took us out.

Riding the train with Diego

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EC: A quartet of ECers visited Womble on a 2.0mi jog. Stickers, Kosher, Abe and Bleeder

FNGs: None

Warm Up: We started quick after a few Pax guessed I had adventures awaiting on the first floor of the parking deck. A true gloom morning made the dry parking deck a welcome addition to the morning. Side Straddle Hops, Seal Claps, Windmills, Hillbillies, Overhead Claps and Good Mornings go everyone loose and mildly warm.Ā 

The Workout: Inspired by an image of Dora the Explorer riding a train with a monkey, this train trip featured Dora’s cousin Diego, who is a much tougher train conductor along with frequently monkey activities.Ā 

PAX partnered up to complete the Diego workout with the following cumulative goals:

-50 Merkins

-100 Overhead Press with a coupon

-150 LBCs

-200 Mountain Climbers in cadence

-250 Curls for the girls with a coupon

-300 Squats + coupon

While one partner tacked the exercises, the other partner raced to the top of the 3 flights of stairs in the parking deck. Upon the running partners return, both PAX performed 5 monkey humpers together then flapjacked. All groups completed just in time for a return to the flag and some Mary.Ā 

Mary: We circled up and held a plank while each PAX performed 10 merkins one PAX at a time. Upon completion of everyone’s merkins, we performed a variety of yoga and stretching exercises to complete the beatdown.

Announcements: @abe is collecting donations for the holly springs food cupboard throughout his 5 pack this week. Details on 3rd F slack

MLK service opportunity at womble next Monday

T-Claps (Recognition): None

Prayer: Sick and Injured PAX with a special callout to @ginsu who is recovering from a pinched nerve.Ā