Keep Pushing the Rock Men

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There once was a man who lived in a cabin next to a field. In the middle of the field was a huge rock – an enormous boulder. One night, God came to the man in a dream and said “I want you to go out in the morning and every morning after that and push the rock with all your heart and all your might.” So, the next morning and every morning after that the man did exactly as God instructed. Every morning, day after day, week after week, month after month – no matter the weather – the man woke up and pushed the rock until he could no longer push it anymore. And day after day, week after week, month after month, the rock never budged a single inch. Some days, he did not feel like pushing the rock, but he did it anyway.

Some days, he did not push the rock with all his heart and all his might, giving just a partial effort until he realized this was not God’s command. His task was to push the rock with all his heart and all his might, every morning. He grew frustrated and prayed, “God, why am I pushing this rock? Day after day, week after week, month after month I have pushed this rock. I have never moved it, and never will!”

God replied, “I did not ask you to MOVE the rock, I asked you to PUSH the rock with all your heart and all your might. You have been an obedient and faithful servant; now look how you have transformed yourself: your shoulders are broad, your arms are strong, your legs are powerful. You are now ready for me to use you for a greater purpose!”

What are you pushing the rock for?  We may not know yet!

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Nutcracker found some monkeys

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Pax of 10 joined in the gloom at the nut for some fun

Flanigan (Q), blue hen and skid mark added EC, met up with pikachu, breach, Smithers, fomangu, coal ash, da business & norm

Warm Up:left parking and began jogging towards business park. Q had a stash of 10 beat down cards in his pocket.
The Workout:while running to the business park, stopped to perform random card from pocket. Got to park, bear crawled up the ramp, sprinted down and up hill, crawl bear down, repeat the deck in random order back to school

Deck; 15 obl crunches each side IC,  100 lsf IC, 25 monkey humpers IC in front of traffic, 20 Rosalitas IC, 14 Carolina dry docks, 15 hand release merkins, 25 shoulder taps IC, 100 fozzy  arm circles IC, 200 m sprints, 75 m backwards lunges

Mary: finished the deck with 100 lsf and 100 arm circles
Announcements: q swap week, q source today and tomorrow
Prayer:breach took us out, prayed for coal ashes father having surgery today

Buttjoint Returns

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Tea Time tonight with some slightly modified plans for some. Several ran EC.

Warm Up: 1 mile
The Workout: 3 pax performed the murph with 1 modifying. 1 pax did a bunch of core work.
Mary:
Announcements: see Pikachu’s novel. Run for Dee Dee 5k March 30. Ask Skidmark or Buttjoint for details.

Prayer: prayers for friends and family to cope with life’s stressors

Disney Qswap

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33 Pax from Southwake, Carpex, and Raleigh came to the best place on earth to see what Carpex had to offer in the Qswap.  Q was Shut-in.  Backblast is from memory and a few days old.  If you were missed, please let me know and I can add you.

Warm Up:

SSH, fazio arm circles forward and back, overhead hand claps
The Workout:

Mosey to the big parking lot for exercises.  Run around the big lot stopping at the islands to conduct hand release merkins.  Partner up for bull frog burpees down one side of the lot while the partner ran the length of the lot and back.  Mosey to the flag with stop for Australian mountain climber
Mary:
Announcements:

QSwap continues, Rebuilding homes in Eastern NC affected by hurricane is still ongoing every weekend,

Prayer:

crab legs, parent going through surgery, Raleigh Police officer shot in the line of duty,

Wolverine (Q Swap) 1/14 

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Pax of 32 for a cold wet Monday morning workout in the gloom

Hello Kitty, Water Wings, Random House, Flip Flop, Ollie, Goose, Rooney, Banjo, Flacco, Liverpool, Shut In, Warbucks, Prodigal, Pivot, Flea, LED, Ma Bell, Build a Bear, Pikachu, Saber, Honeycomb, Beaner, Angry Elf, 1-4, Sub, Slide Rule, Doogie, Calahan, Parker, BoGo, The Commish,

Breach on the Q

Warm up– Jog around the smaller soccer field and circle up. 22 counts of Hillbillies, Good mornings, Squatting Imperial Walkers and Merkins.

Main Event: Mosey over to the rock pile and choose your rock for around the world. 22 counts of curls for the girls, Overhead Press triceps extensions, traveling and traveling Merkins . Return rocks to the pile mosey over to parking lot.

Fast feet on the curbs down and traveling planks back, fast feet up and run over to the school.

Split into 2 groups perform a run back and forth down the back of the school parking lot, if we didn’t complete in under 60 secs we would of repeated the feat.

Stay in the 2 groups and use the parking spaces to bear crawl and crawl bear up and down the parking lines, Side plank travel between the lines and when you reach the end of the line do a Merkin. Circle up for 22 cadence count SSH

Run back to Davis drive park. Racing Indian runs, last man is trying to beat his counter part from the other line.

Mary: Mosey back to the original parking lot for Mary, Bring sally up squat holds. Finish with 22 cadence counts of LBC’s and Low Slow Flutter.

Prayers: for a co-worker of a pax member had a stroke on Friday, pray for a speedy recovery and prayers for Crablegs.

Bolt, Colt, and Dolt 45s

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PAX of 10. Welcome FNG Garden Knome!

After the Q went to Q School, he dug deep in to the F3 Exercise list.

Warm Up: Moseyed around the track with some Windmills (in proper cadence), Goofballs, IW and Good Mornings
The Workout:

  • Straight to the wall for some Dwight Howards, Donkey Kicks, and Crazy Indian with Bolt 45s to finish off
  • Duck and Weave through the parking lot feeling the burn all the way through.
  • Two Rock Shakur
    • Bolt 45s (biceps)
    • Dolt 45s (triceps)
    • Dips x 15
    • Irkins x 15
  • Reversed workout with Weave and Duck
  • Rinse and repeated Dwight Howards, Donkey Kicks, and Crazy Indian with Bolt 45s to finish off

Mary: Went around the horn with PAX calling out 6MOM exercises. thankfully we ran out of time and stopped before reaching R22 (the Burpee Man)
Announcements: Q School for Feb, ATT Run, Q Swap Week
Prayer: Bobx2 and their fight with cancer

Is Lipstick a Super Hero

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Where does Lipstick really go when he disappears? Has anyone seen Superman and Lipstick in the same place? No. Batman? No. Spiderman? No. Lipstick may be fighting crime instead of dropping a deuce. Does anyone really have to poop that much? I can’t imagine the toilet paper budget in the house.

Regardless, 23 Pax posted on a slightly chilly Monday morning. I’m hoping the SW presence at Carpex was good and we were well represented.

10 for EC: Dawgpound, Full House, Emeril, Chips, Crosby, Double Donk, Cowboy, UTI, Peeping Tom, Skidmark

Breathtaker present

Warm Up: Pax were already circled up some Q let with some SSH. As Pax began a car wondered into the parking lot. The level of urgency was in question so Pax continued SSH until and unknown joined the circle. Pax did SSH x 60 and then 5 burpees OYO for the late Pax. A quick tutorial was given on Indian run that the Pax must reach the front before next Pax goes. Indian run for one loop with stops to do Good Mornings, Sir Fozio Arm Circles, Chinooks, Goofballs, and Moroccan Nightclubs.

The Workout: Big Winners today!! Triple 7’s! 7 burpees at the top of the ramp, 7 burpees at the bottom, and 7 runs up the ramp. Total = 98 burpees. Modify to merkins if needed.

Mosey to bottom parking lot. Partner up. One partner run and other do squats and then change to merkins.

Mary: Q provided a brief tutorial on the correct form for Imperial Walkers and Hillbillies. Engage the core. Did each in cc of 15.

Plank exercises all 10 cc. Regular, Right arm up, regular, left arm up, regular, parker peters, pickle pounders – recover

Announcements: See Pikachu’s announcements on Slack and FB. New announcements: R4TJ needs a Q Wednesday. Contact UTI.

Prayer: Bufird, Ausfart – released from hospital, Double D, Raleigh P.O.

Q took the group out in Prayer.

Turning Water Into Coffee

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PAX: Straight Cash, UTI

Warm Up:  This was more mental than physical.  Despite the sound of consistently louder and louder drops of water hitting the roof as my alarm went off at 5:30 AM, I got out of bed with my correctly set alarm (No mis-fire today Skidmark).  I proceeded through my pre-workout ritual which gave me a little time to sit and read a few articles on the best attire for a run in the rain.  Following said ritual, I pulled together the best of what my closet had to offer and went down stairs.  Checking-in with Straight Cash, who had DM’d me the night before, I re-confirmed his HC for a clowncar to AGS.  He got in the car and we both agreed this wasn’t smart but we committed.  If other PAX showed and committed as well, we were in it for the long haul.

The Workout:  We did expect to meet some hard core PAX at Womble.  Upon arrival at approx 6:29 the lot was empty.  We gave it the old 5 min. rule and in at 6:34 and about 30 secs we watched as a lonely car made its way over the speed bumps on Stinson.  The car passed Womble and we started talking game plan.  The rain was a solid “yellow” for the next hour on AccuWeather’s MinuteCast…  So the next debate was Starbucks or Duncan.

Mary:  We were reassured by Draper with our decision to go for coffee, he had also called off his Harris Lake run this morning due to the heavy rain.  At least we weren’t alone.  Straight Cash and I sat at Duncan and covered a broad spectrum of topics both F3 and personal.  The shop itself was pretty dead with the occasional customer strolling through.  There were some questionable cleaning practices in play on the AC intake as the manager or other employee sprayed some sort of aerosol upward onto/into the vent.  I hope it was on the up-and-up and they weren’t simply spray painting the vent cover white for appearances.  There was a definite spray paint smell…

Announcements:  Based on our own mumblechatter I’ll call out the following announcements…

  • BRR hangout Jan 22 – Black Dog Bottle Shop, info on the Facebook and the Slack
  • Breathtaker up for grabs weekly at Cletus – Benefits charity, many ways to contribute either through auction, donation, and even getting others to sponsor you to carry the vest.
  • Convergence Lunch in RTP – Look for updates on the next one on the typical channels.
  • QSwap continues next week SW goes to Carpex.

Prayer:  Selfishly – please pray that Straight Cash and I don’t have some sort of lung-related issues from the DD fumes.

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Compression packages

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U-Turn continues to grow every week. If this is any indication Wrightsville is going to be a BLAST. A 7+ mile route was developed for the Pax but Pax modified as needed.

Fartsacks: UTI – Alarm Misfire??

Warm Up: SSH x 20, IW x 15, Hillbillies x15, Mountain Climbers x 15, SSH x 10
The Workout: Go for a run
Mary: Coffee
Announcements: Q-Swap – we are going to Carpex next week, BRR meeting 1/22 at Blackdog, 2 Shirt orders (Wrightsville shirt comes with a $5/shirt donation to ALS)
Prayer: Raleigh Police Officer – Special thanks to our First Responders and Military, Daubers mom, Buford

Sheepdog – frozen Sugar

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Pax of 8 with 3 EC; Beater, Farva, & Shedder.

Warm Up: Norm led Pax through some Side Straddle Hop, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies, Good Mornings, Fazio Arm Circles.
The Workout: YHC Started with Build a Bear, Striking in cadence (150 total) then slowed it down and focused on technique. Rotated through Merkins, Wedging, Military Merkins, back to Wedging, Capoeira Merkins, and then ended on an Americana Arm Bar.
Mary: LBCs (short on time)
Announcements: lots of announcements on Facebook and Slack. BT Challange, q-source, q-swap.
Prayer: Beater’s neighbor. Injuries and health.