Burpee Pull-Ups and 3-man Relay

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YHC made the trip back to Fuquay to try out a new workout with the FV PAX. YHC arrived at 0502, shovel flag planted, Norm arrived, 0505 hit and we were off. Upon return from a mosey up Mount Fuquay, there was a lot full of PAX, but unfortunately none of the Holly Springs PAX braved the trip down south. 0530 hit and we were off!

FNGs:Nope

Warm Up:
Short lap around the parking lot. Circled up for SSH x25 IC, Windmill x10 IC, Mountain Climbers x10 IC, Merkins x10.

The Workout:
Pax split up into 3 man teams and headed to the playground. 1 Pax did 10 burpee pull-ups while the other 2 did merkins and squats, rotating until each Pax did all 3 exercises. For round 2, merkins and squats were replaced with LBCs and plank hold.

Pax mosey’d to the parking lot for 3-man relay. This was a new routine YHC saw posted on Twitter by F3 Lexington, SC so I figured we would give it a shot. Still in 3 man teams, 2 PAX wait at opposite ends of the lot doing LBCs and plank hold while 3rd PAX sprints across the lot and waiting PAX sprints across lot when sprinter arrives. Rinse and repeat until time for Mary. YHC modified replaced LBCs with plank hold, then plank hold for squat hold, then squat hold for recover. Lots of sprints were done!

Mary:
American Hammers x20
LSF x20
Homer to Marge x20
Pickle Pounders x20
American Hammers x10
LSF x10
Homer to Marge x20
Pickle Pounders x20

Announcements:
F3 Family Picnic on October 12th – Save the date!
9/11 Stair Climb

T-Claps (Recognition):
16-bit – strong work with breathtaker!
Yosemite with some strong sprints.

Prayer:
Noah’s Ark, Crablegs, Injured PAX

YHC took us out. Thanks for letting me lead this morning!

After taking us out, Norm pointed out that YHC forgot name-o-rama, so we did that too.

Time to Toss the Dice

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Small group at Thunder tonight (Pax of 3).  I think everyone is doing extra running training for upcoming races.

FNGs:  None

Warm Up:  SSH, Cotton Pickers, fazio arm circles, arm stretches

The Workout:

Mosey to rock pile for some strength exercises:  3 sets of 12 reps – curls, bent over rows, shoulder press, triceps press, squats and merkins

Mosey to pavilion, taking turns rolling dice to determine exercise:  12 reps for each one depending on roll:

  1. Merkins
  2. Diamond Merkins
  3. Balls to the Wall
  4. Squats
  5. Lunges
  6. Dips
  7. WWII
  8. LBC’s
  9. Shoulder Tap Planks
  10. Mountain Climbers
  11. Double Merkin Burbies

Mosey to picnic shelter for a quick bathroom break and continued rolling the dice.  This time working through each exercise letting the dice determine number of reps.  It was nice of Rams to roll a 11 for double merkin burbies to end the workout.

Mary:  LBC’s, WWII, box cutters, low slow flutters, plank hold

Announcements:  Updates on health

Prayer:   Noah’s ark’s wife and family, teachers and kids starting school

“Fresh Air” Zone

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EC: Axe, Cowboy, Dawgpound, Dumbo

FNGs: not today

Warm Up:  YHC showed up at 5:27, planted the flag, grabbed my light vest, and headed over to the group to get started. A quick glance at my Garmin showed 5:29. Lipstick got us started and turned it over to me as I entered the circle. Thanks Lipstick and sorry PAX for cutting it so close this morning.

All exercises in cadence

10 x SSH, 11 x Frankensteins, explained the route and off we go

The Workout: Turkey Leg was in play today. Good work by all PAX going strong through Crossway.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mary:  We circled up as remaining PAX came in and we all started to get a little light headed from the exhaust fumes coming out of the truck that one of the construction workers felt obligated to park right next to us and leave running. We relocated to a “fresh air” zone and circled up for CoT.

Announcements: Labor Day convergence workout. Lipstick has the Q.

T-Claps (Recognition): Lipstick for picking up the 6 all through the route.

Prayer: injured PAX, wounded soldiers, unspoken. YHC took us out.

 

9 x 4 + 1

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EC: H1N1, Messi, LED, Banana Seat, Pikachu, Fumunga, Cupid (might be leaving someone off, sorry)

FNGs: None

Warm Up: YHC welcomed the crowd to his 37th bday bash, little anxious for some reason but got it going quick.  Explained to the gang that we were going to do 37 – 1 min exercises (cadence/OYO); then circle up for Mary.  I broke it up into Heats and tried to incorporate an Upper, Lower, Core and Run into each one.  Here’s how it went down…

The Workout:

Warm up: FAC’s (fwd/rev), Leg Stretches/Frankenstiens,  Good Mornings/Side Stretches, Run around tennis court and pick up rock (last part took a little longer than 1 min so we made up for it next)

Heat 1: Curls for the Girls (1,2) with Squat (3,4) with rock, Imp. Walkers, run around tennis court (run took a little longer than 1 min so again we made up for it next)

Heat 2: Overhead Press (1,2) with Lunge in place (3,4) with rock, Hillbillies, run (this time to the hill and back to stay on time)

Heat 3: Alternating Merkins with rock, Homer to Marge (alternating leg raise), LBC’s, run to Snack Shack

Heat 4: Durkins, Box Jumps/Step Ups, WWII’s, run up hill and back

Heat 5: Balls to Wall and People’s Chair (swapping every 30 secs, American Heel Taps, run up hill and back

Heat 6: Urkins, Monkey Humpers, J. Lo’s, run up hill back to rock

Heat 7: YHC asked for a 10 count…then back to it; rut rows, star jumps, American Hammers with rock, run to hill and back

Cool Down: Tri Extensions with rock, Al Gore with rock (bus driver style if you choose), Plank Hold (PAX were doing different variations based on ability/call outs; good work men!), run to return rock, meet back at tennis court

Wait! What!? That’s only 36 exercises…oh yeah, here is the +1, 10 Burpees OYO

Mary: We had Mary with all kinds of exercises; Freddy Mercury’s, Box Cutters, Diamond Merkins, others I can’t remember…but we did finish with 5 Burpees OYO.

It was a great honor to lead you all today, each one of you has an impact on my journey and so many others.  Great work out there and way to push each other, I appreciate you all!

Announcements: 9/11 Stair Climb, JoCo Convergence, Q Sheet Sign Up Challenge (let’s fill up the rest of the year!), Fonzie has your Q next week!

Prayer: Capt’n Kirk, Noah’s Ark, Cupid, Unspoken

Round Robin

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FNGs: Nope

Guest drivers (Snap, ShamWow and Quiver) borrowed the TBD car the last few weeks and returned it each time in better shape than when it left.  Felt good to have the keys back again this week and glad to have a PAX of 7 along for the ride.

YHC pulled into the Womble lot at 0522 to find UTI and Yogurt limbering up and looking serious.  Did some quick re-figuring and added reps to my internal playbook before coralling the rest of the troops for a mosey over to the Ivan lot.  Cool breeze suggested we might have a nice morning queued up; no dice.  Sweat pool commenced by the end of warm up and UTI was in full swim mode by the end.

Warm Up: Mosey to Ivan lot for smurf jacks, daisy pickers, Nancy Kerrigans (good twist on Fazio arm circles, look it up), flappy birds, seal claps.  Mosey (with reverse, carioca, and ray-gu-LAR) the long way around to the playground for Thang 1.

The Workout:
Thang 1: Round Robin.
Round 1: One PAX does 10 pull-ups and assigns an exercise for the remaining PAX to do while pull-ups are happening.  Rotate through all PAX.
Round 2: ditto, but 15 merkins instead of 10 pull-ups
Round 3: ditto, with 20 squats
During these rounds PAX did every exercise you’ve heard of, plus some you haven’t (e.g., Quadruple Merkin Burpees).

Thang 2: Mosey to min-Heartbreak Hill beside Hunt Center for 7’s.  Merkins at the bottom, star jumps at the top.

Q was gassed, PAX was quiet, headed back to tennis courts for Mary

Mary: Plank-o-rama including plank jacks, mountain climbers, plank holds, pickle pounders, Homer-to-Marge (reverse plank) and others.  Wrapped up with low slow flutters and a marathon session of boat canoes courtesy of Aquaman.

Announcements: BRR coming soon; stay tuned for Theme Month at TBD in September; fill out the Q sheet.

Prayer: Daily wisdom, this morning brought to you by Confucius: When you find that your goals cannot be met, don’t adjust your goals – adjust your actions.  Variety of prayers and praises expressed.

TBD needs a driver next week, August 28 – find the Q sheet or let me know.  Aye!

Getting some rock work in.

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Small group of 3 PAX for Downtown Train this week. Mookie’s 2-year anniversiary had some pull! Congrats to you Sir on that 2-year milestone.

Solo EC by Nemo.

FNGs: None
Warm Up: Standard DT lap. Followed by: 5 burpess OYO, Daisy Pickers, Windmills, hamstring stretches straight leg, right over left, left over right.

The Workout: Mosey to rock pile for rock and headed to back of library parking lot.

Workout was made up of 4 rounds of exercises with rock and each round focusing on a different group(s) of muscles. In between rounds we did quick round of cardio to get the heart rate up.

Round 1: Two rounds in cadence of Curls for the girls , tricep extensions, slow curl. Run lap around parking rock over head.

Round 2: Two rounds in cadence of shoulder press, then rock hold (as YCH called to switch between holding rock straight out from body and overhead) for 45-60 seconds. 7 burpees OYO

Round 3: Two rounds in cadence of squats, sumo squats. Bear crawl 25 yards out and back.

Round 4: Series of glute exercises each leg x 10

Repeat above until time to head back for…

Mary: LBCs, Dying Cockroaches

Announcements: See Slack and Facebook
T-Claps (Recognition): Nemo for the solo EC run. 3rd Cousin for choosing a pretty heavy rock and getting it done.
Prayer: Wounded rangers, injured PAX

Cool Breeze

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Pax of 2 doing standard Murph tonight.  Workout felt much better with a cool breeze in the air, but would have been nicer if it wasn’t so humid.

FNGs:  None

Warm Up: Run 1 mile

The Workout:  100 Pull-ups, 200 Merkins, 300 squats

Mary:  Run 1 mile

Announcements:  see Facebook

Prayer:  Noah’s Ark wife and family

Pterodactyl Mating Call?

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EC: H1N1, Messi, Fonzie, LED, 16-Bit

FNGs: None

Warm Up: 9- PAX ; Lap around parking lot with Carioca, High Knees, Butt Kickers.  Circled up for Good Mornings, Cotton Pickers,  SSH, FAC’s (fwd/rev), Arm Stretches

The Workout: Today is YHC’s last day at 36 yrs old so a little Pre-Bday beat down was due…so the theme was 36 or a variation of.  First off we started with a modified 11’s (I called it 3’s & 6’s/6’s & 3’s)…PAX lined up on one end of parking lot, ran/jogged to halfway, dropped for 3 merkins and up for 6 Bobby Hurley’s, ran back to start, dropped for 6 merkins and up for 3 Bobby Hurley’s…we did this 8 times so you end up with 36 merkins/36 Bobby Hurley’s and out of breath; that humidity was something serious.  While we are trying to remember what number/exercise we were on there was this prehistoric squawking close by, PAX were concerned but pressed on, she must have seen the sweat ground beasts and moved on.

Next we got back to the start line after a 10 count and began and Alligator March…YHC saw and Alligator Merkin so I incorporated this into a March or Crawl.  Down in plank, begin crawling like an Alligator while performing Alligator Merkin (off angle Merkin)…pain and displease ensued and we ended up move a few more paces in between Merkins to other end of parking lot/trash can.  Lots of mumble chatter afterwards…sounds like a new trick in the bag.

Another 10 count to catch breath (man the air was thick) and on to the next, Paula Abdul (2 steps forward, 1 step back).  PAX lined up on parking space line, Lunge two parking spaces, jog/walk backwards one space back, down to 1 Burpee; Lunge two parking spaces, jog/walk backwards one space back, down to 2 Burpees; continue this theme until you reach 8 Burpees…this will equal 36 Burpees when complete.  Impressed with PAX determination to complete this…heart rates were up!

10 count again, man it was swampy…PAX lined up single file for a modified Indian Run leaving about 7 ft between, this was so we could plank hold while last PAX runs to front, continue until first is last, repeat but with Plank Jacks, then repeat again but with Mountain Climbers…then we stood up, turned 180 degrees and rinse/repeat…shoulders were toast.

Mary: On your six, 6in hold (10 count), low slow flutter (10 count), WWII – 16 ; finish with 36…HAND!

Announcements: JoCo Convergence, F3 SouthWake picnic, Beater Bday Q tomorrow at Possum Trot

T-Claps (Recognition): 16-Bit with Breathtaker, killing it!  Messi taking us out!

Prayer: Noah Ark’s wife, 16-Bit for job clarity, injured PAX

Shaking Off The Rust

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Sorry for the late BB. I blame a little residual rust.
FNGs: none
Warm Up: YHC noticed in particular this morning how dark it is getting at 0530.
Started out with SSH (25)
Daisy Pickers (10)
Fozio Arm Circles (10, 10)
5 Burpees OYO for the late arrival
Hill Billies (10)
The Workout: 12 pax showed up to help YHC shake off the rust after a string of fartsacks.
After warmup, moseyed down to the part of the track in between the woods and the ball fields. 11s with WWIIs at the bottom and pushups at the top.
Continued mosey around the track to the entrance by the flag poles and down to the concession stand (the middle part of the ball fields). Grabbed some wall for balls to the wall / people’s chair. 10 each, 3 rounds.
Moseyed on back out to the entrance again and around the track to the playground. Counted off by 2s. 1s did pull-ups while 2s sprinted to the outdoor stage. Switch. Did this a few times.
Moseyed over to the picnic shelter for urkins/durkins/dips. 10 each. 3 each.
Back to the tennis courts for Mary.
Mary: Popcorn Mary.
Announcements: 9/11 Stair Climb
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer: FedEx’s family (loss of dog), Noah’s Arc and M traveling to Mayo Clinic

False Advertising for Cobra

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FNGs: none
Warm Up:

  • Quick Lap around the parking lot but not too long as the Q wanted to be sure he could cadence count
  • SSH x 20 I.C.
  • Fazio Arm Circles x 20 I.C.
  • Prisoner Squats x 20
  • Standard Merkins x 20
  • Mountain Climbers x 20 I.C.
  • Left foot over right stretches – reverse
  • Right arm across body stretches – reverse
  • Michael Phelps

Workout:

  • Pax Count was 14 – choose an accountability partner to hold you accountable on form, reps and everything else
  • Thing 1:  Deconstructed Burpee Ladder (reps were 16, 12, 8)
    • Squats
    • Leg Thrusts
    • Merkins
    • Reverse Leg Thrust
    • Squat Jumps
  • Indian Run to Bottom of Hill by Planet Fitness
  • Thing 2:   Play with cards you are dealt
    • Hearts – Side Straddle Hop (in Cadence)
    • Spades – Burpees
    • Diamond – Diamond Merkins
    • Clubs – Jump Squats
    • Face Card – Sprint to the top of the hill

Mosey back to flag for Mary / Cot

Mary:

  • Not much time but pax led Homer to Marge x 20 I.C. while YHC got his phone
  • Time’s up – 6:15 on the dot

Announcements:

  • Check slack and facebook but
  • 9/11 stair climb coming up at Carter Finley
  • Middle Creek Elementary Beautification service project Saturday morning – 187 has your Q
  • Southwake Picnic in October – more details coming

T-Claps (Recognition):

  • Welcome back for a short visit to our brother Roger Roger – we miss you in the Gloom every day
  • 187 for absolutely killing it
  • Extra Credit Crew was
    • 187
    • Axe
    • Dawgpound
    • Buford
    • Roger Roger
    • Warbucks
    • Deadbolt

Prayer:

  • Prayers for Noahs Arc M (Michelle) as she is getting treatment at the Mayo Clinic
  • The Rangers returning home (Per Darby)
  • Crablegs
  • The Carpex Pax member that lost his Mother
  • The Fishermen from Jacksonville and Fairfax Fire departments lost at sea
  • YHC took us out

What an honor to lead – thank you all