Nemo – My #1 Fan

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Pax of 17 showed up in the stifling late week heat as the summer solstice was taking place at Middle Creek as Nemo was back on the Q. Not sure it counts as FNG but the Nemo fan made an appearance to stress the message of importance about hydration and exercising responsibly during the summer heat.  EC credit to 187 (check that pace), Skidmark and Crosby.

Warm Up: On the jog we headed around the main fields but veered off down the greenway and circled up along the main road for SSH ICx15, Good Mornings ICx10, Fazio Arm Circles ICx10 front and reverse, and a series of arms/shoulders/chest stretch.

The Workout: On the jog we headed to the wood rails along the entrance to the start and set up shop for a round of assisted deep squats offset with merkins.  10 count of each and we went 5 rounds. Included a bonus 5 burpees in the middle as H1N1 rolled up a couple minutes late.  On the jog around to what I like to call the lower lot, we set up on the benches for a round of dips offset with squat jumps and merkins. 10 count of each and we went 4 rounds with a recover jog around the lot between rounds 2 and 3. On the jog back to the main field we set up for SSH ICx30 then a round of Jack Webbs at a 1:3 ratio (1 merkin then 3 air press). We pushed this to a 10:30 count.

Mary: Plank-o-rama with plenty of time to work in some tough exercises, each man on a 10 count or IC.

Announcements: Nemo will be out the next 2 weeks so Tha Natural has your Q next week and Yogurt has your Q the week after. July 4th convergence will be at Disney.  Plenty of great options Fri so post (EC Murph at Womble, Crazy Ivan, Cletus, Sheepdog all in play).  Reminder to exercise smart in this heat – be aware of your condition and rest as needed, hydrate throughout the day.

Prayers: A reminder to take time to listen to others and see any signs.  Praise for how F3 guys step up as needed, for each other and for the community.  Plenty of unspoken.  YHC took us out in prayer.

Thunder Up

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QIC: Hello Kitty

YHC is hungry for Qs this week, and the chance for another evening post presented itself down in So. Wake territory, so, to Thunder it is for a 1900 tip-time.

15 gather around a pair of shovel flags, YHC can tell the red carpet has been rolled out, and after a recon mission, we’re off (leaving a cooler at the flags with cold water along the way).

Warm-up:

  • Mosey to the field for: SSH, Sir Fazio, Mountain Climbers and Imperial Walkers
  • Grab a rock and move along over to the lot.
  • Quick feet, curls, quick feet, triceps, quick feet, press, quick feet, rows.
  • Curb mountain climbers (CMC), curls, CMC, tricpes, CMC, quick feet, CMC, press, CMC, rows.

Thang:

  • Head to the playground for that nice plush surface area free of sand spurs.
  • Partner up for Dora 1-2-3 (my second go-around today). Running partner to the flag/cooler and back while teaming up for 100 merkins, 200 squats, 300 LBC.
  • With great work accomplished YHC thinks he’s got to bring a Kitty Classic and little Carpex flair to So. Wake. Bull in the Burpee Ring, HIMs abound and the competitive juices (along with sweat) really flowing.
  • The group of bulls then mosey to the bottom of a hill (located by the field) for 4 rounds of hill bear crawls with 10 star jumps at the top.

Mary:

  • A round of Mary as called by the local pax, ending on Bonnie’s torture by YHC.

COT: 15 strong, and Announcements/Prayers.

NMS:

  • Per Midget’s request, YHC shared a little bit about what Chinese Downhill spoke about at the Carpex convergence this morning.
  • Thanks for letting me come down and host a beatdown with you fine HIMs this evening.

Tclaps,

Kitty

Parking lot Heavy Weights

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16 posted @ the Possum Trot in the heat & humidity of another hot Carolina morning in June.

Warm up: Q led by Farva for SSH, IW, Hillbillies, G-mornings, Fazios all IC

The Workout: Pax lined up for a 1-2 count off then bear crawled to their respective pain stations at opposite ends of parking lot. Before YHC could lead the Pax in a 10 count of merkins, Pikachu jumped the gun causing a penalty thereby leading to 20 merkins. Upon bear crawling to each groups pain stations, Pax each proceeded to carry or flip tires to opposite end of parking lot. Stations consisted of farmers carry of 2 40lb water jugs, 2 40lb cinder blocks, flanked and rolled 3″ fire hose, 40lb barbell, large flippin’ tire, medium flippin’ tire, 2 shoulder carry tires, pallet, and slosh pipe. Pax without weights to move stayed back and completed merkins & LBC’s waiting for their turn. Upon reaching end of parking lot Pax bear crawled large hill to complete 20 count of Irkins, Derkins, dips on the guard rail the crawl bear back down hill. Rinse & repeat x 2. After 2 completed hill climbs of the above, the remaining time was used to continue moving weights back and forth across parking lot. The Pax held various forms of plank waiting on the six. Upon finishing, YHC called for a sprint from opposite end of parking lot to the base of hill for another round of Irkins, Derkins, & dips at the top. Since Pikachu had found fault with YHC’s earlier merkin count of 10 it was decided to rinse and repeat the hill work once again! Mosey on over to tennis courts for Mary.

Mary: Farva & YHC decided together to call out a Pax who had never led Mary. Noah’s Ark raised his hand and took center court like a pro leading us in 20 modified Freddy Mercurys IC, followed by 10 Pickle Pounders and 20 WWII’s.

Announcements: Upcoming July 4th 1776 convergence at Womble, up and coming AO for Yoga and Kenny’s Graveyard, and Wake County finally approved the South Wake Park project coming to Crooked Creek.

Name-o-rama

Prayer requests:  Crablegs to have continued strength

COT:  YHC shared the Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have done unto you and what that looks like when we all encounter less than desirable situations involving people including family that say or do things that hurt us or rub us the wrong way. React in a way that will demonstrate the love and kindness of Christ in the situations. Noah’s Ark and YHC shared a short testimony how easily we can become agitated and react with the wrong attitude. Let this not be said of us F3 men. YHC led us out in prayer.

The Evolution of Soccer

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When: 06/19/2018
QIC: Blue Hen
The PAX: Blue Hen, 187, Emeril, Yogurt,The Natural, Forceps, Pablo, Pikachu, Breach, DogPound, Da Business

The Q got a late night text from Flanigan asking to sub in for the Q. While watching highlights from the World Cup it only seemed appropriate to draw up a soccer themed workout. Went to the 2.0’s soccer bag and pulled out a ball and retrieved some cones and the workout was ready.

Warm UP
Quick run from the front of the school and around to the soccer field, but kickers and high knees along the way. The Q had set up 15 cones in a line and took the Pax through some rounds of shuffles, cone jumps, and backwards shuffle. X 20 Windmills, X 20 Good Mornings, X 20 SSH.

The Thang
The PAX divided into two teams with one team having an extra player. We moved the goals about 50 yards apart and set up cones around the perimeter. Shirts vs. skins in a round of crab soccer. If the ball went out of bounds everyone had to do 5 burpees. If a team scored a goal the other team had to do 10 merkins. Dogpound and Breech sacrificed their bodies while Emeril made several strong saves in goal. F3 SouthWake has some strong CrabWalk Soccer players. An Indian run lap was the intermission around the track. During the second half burpees were substituted for merkins and you could either crab walk or bear crawl to the ball. As the PAX approached 200 merkins (50 burpees) the Q called everyone on their feet for about 5 minutes of somewhat normal soccer. Not sure who won, but we all finished stronger with at least 200 merkins and covered in dirt and sweat.
The goals were put back to where we found them and the PAX followed the Q down towards the playground running up and down the hill. As the PAX approached the playground everyone held a low squat hold on the fence by the playground. On the call everyone backwards run down the hill and back up to hold the squat hold on the fence. Rinse and repeat 5 times. Quick mosey over to the front of the school for Mary.

Mary
Circle up and the Q called out and ab exercise for the PAX to complete while shuffling around each person in the circle. The next person called out an ab exercise until all eleven went.

Announcements
Convergence 4th of July at Disney 6:30 am.

Prayer Requests
Carpex brother Snots with heart issues, CrabLegs, and the Robinson family that lives in 12 oaks rebuilding after a house fire this weekend.

HOT Tea Time

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5 Pax gathered in 90+ degree humid weather for some hot tea time action. Spam dragged an FNG out (and they biked over to boot) so disclaimers were given and we went out for our first mile.

The Thing (No surprises here…..Murph city)

The pax hammered away at the sets and shirts did not last very long. We wrapped up all of our sets and did a great job getting the six for the remainder of the sets – 2nd mile was ran and we were done inside of 45 minutes. Very impressive considering the temperature.

Announcements

4th of July Convergence – Carpex is also hosting 1776. South Wake 1776 is at Disney AO at 6:30am.

Prayers

Snots in Carpex for a speedy recovery. Crab legs.

FNG Sea Dog took us out.

 

Fuquay Frisbee Challenge

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We had a 11 PAX for an unsuspecting game of Ultimate Frisbee. It was time for Fuquay to host a game on another very humid morning.

Warm Up: We were excited to get to the field so we did some quick warm-up stretches prior to the workout starting.

The Workout:  We divided teams into gray shirts (5) and other shirts (6). Each time the frisbee was dropped we did 3 Merkins the first half and 4 Squats during the 2nd half. The team that scored chose the exercise (10 for the non-scoring team and 5 for the scoring team). The exercises were picked by the scorer: Merkins, Leg raises, SSH, Star jumps, LBCs, WWII. For the Merkin challenge we officially count 105. There were some great plays out there for several that have never played before!

Mary: We gathered for less than 6 minutes of Mary with around the horn of stretching and abs only.

Announcements: July 4th Convergence, A Yoga AO starting up mid July

Prayer: Beater lifted up a friend that suddenly passed at the age of 42, prayers for Draper, DoubleD, and CrabLegs

Say Happy Birthday to my little Brony

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Pax of 20 showed up @ Paradise City to celebrate Brony’s 38th Birthday

PAX: 187, THE Dawg Pound, CHiPS, Doc, Skidmark, Forceps, Roger Roger, Brony, OCR, Crosby, Midget for Life, Mookie, The Natural, Breach, Peak Week, Shredder, Lucky Charms, Magic Band, Foot Fault, Emeril

EC: CHiPS, Roger Roger, 187, Mookie, Crosby, Skidmark, Emeril

Vests: Everyone wore the vest of humidity

HC Fartsacks: N/A

Excuse lexicon addition: N/A

Warm Up:
1/2 Mile Jog –Karaoke on the jog
Âœ Mile Jog – SSH x38 for Brony’s Bday, x10 Imperial Walkers & x10 Hillbillies, x13 Cotton Pickers, x10 each way Fazio Arm Circles, x30 dips

The Workout
Dora on the Ramp
Partner up. Each partner responsible for x100 Merkins, x200 LBC’s, x300 Squats.
One partners does their exercise while the other partner runs to the top of the ramp.

Mary:
On the run – x10 WWII’s, x 20 low slow flutter, x25 Merkins

Total running ~3.0 miles

Total Merkins – 125

Announcements:
Breach/Skidmark have co-Q next Monday at Paradise City

July 4th Convergence 6:30am @ Disney

Magic Band is affiliated with a group “Truth in Nature” – https://truthinnature.org/get-involved/ —  Their mission is to reach, inspire, support, and engage young men from fatherless and single parent homes in understanding their purpose as Christian men and helping break the fatherless cycle in society today.  Relates to the scripture that CHiPS referenced this morning.

Prayers: From Skidmark – Snots is in recovery from his heart attack. Keep him in your prayers. Peak Weeks uncle is undergoing lung surgery today.

Scripture: Proverbs 22:6 – “Start children off on the way they should go,
and even when they are old they will not turn from it.”

Nutcracker

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Pax of 22 for NutCracker

Warmup

Jog around the parking lot and circle up for 22 rep of exercises (Imperial Walkers, Merkins, LBC’s)

Medicine ball Indian run to the industrial park, Man in front throws the med ball over his head to the pax member behind him. If the Medball hits the deck entire pax does 1o merkins.

At the industrial area, partner up size did not matter, Partner 1 would peter parker merkins up in the incline to the power transformer. Partner 2 would sprint to the transformer and back. repeat until the partners reach the transformer.

At the top of the incline, pax would perform a round of ab exercises in 22 rep count (WWII’s, Low Slo Fludder, Pickle Pounders) On the move over to the railings. Bear crawl plank hold down the railings to the end.

On the move back to the school, Trunk twist with Medball to the pax member behind you. The last man in line sprits to the front on of the line and we repeat. If the Medball hits the deck, pax performed 10 merkins.

Circle back up at front of the school for one last round of 22 merkins.

Ended in prayer, to go out and be a positive influence in whatever way the means.

Ultimate-Disney

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22 posted for some magical ultimate frisbee at Disney on Thursday.

Pax:  Crab Legs, Dawg Pound, Emril, Blue Hen, Yogurt, Deadbolt, Brony, Chips, Liquid Force, Crosby, Slide Rule, Pablo, 187, Roger Roger, Doc, The Natural, Magic Band, Texas Ranger, Skidmark, Lipton, Lab Rat and Breach.

Warmup jog around the soccer field circle up for some merkins, partner up for a quick partner carry to the goal box and back. Partners split and we go into two teams Shirts/Skins.

Ultimate across the field, every time the frisbee hits the deck entire pax does a merkin. The team that gets scored on has to do 10 merkins.

1/2 time popcorn Mary (LBC’s WWII’s Mountian Climbers Low Slow Fludder)

2nd verse same as first.

COT-Message was to continue to be a positive influence as we go out into the world.

Prayers for Banana seat as his test results were coming back that day, continued prayers for crab legs

 

Ground-Pounder

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Pax: Breach, Forceps, Pikachu, The Natural, Mookie, Farva

6 Posted for a little fun at Jones Park

Warmup lap around the pond, circle up for 22 reps of Imperial Walkers, Daisy Pickers, and Merkins

Mosey over to Veterans Park for a Pax Choice workout, Scout run around the pond with a stop for each pax member

  1. The Natual-  22 count merkins, big boy sit-ups right leg step ups, left leg to step up and side straddle hops.
  2. Forceps– Each pax member Bear crawl around the veterans memorial while the rest exercise, (Mountain climbers, derkins, merkins, chill cut plank hold squats)
  3. Pikachu– Each pax member does 10 pull-ups while the remaining pax does 10 merkins
  4. Breach- Fun with rocks 22 reps (Curls for the girls, Sumo Squats, Truck twists, Tricep extensions and Overhead press)
  5. Mookie– 22 reps (Carolina Drydocks, Irkins, Standing Mountain climbers, merkins)

Mosey back to Jones Park

6. Farva- 22 count (squat pulses, six-inch leg lifts, supermans, 23 hand release merkins)

Ended with a snake style run up and down the hills behind the baseball diamond.

COT- Prayers for the men out in the community that do not have a father figure to look to on FAthers day weekend. Happy Early Fathers day to all the dads in the pax.

Message- Go out into the community and be a positive influence, The ripple effect that we have can never really be measured but we should always strive to be that stand up individual that others can look at as an example.

Closed with prayer