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
½ 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

 

U-Turn

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11 Pax posted for a minimum 5 mile run. A few got in a little EC.

Warmup: 10 x IW, 10 Hillbillies, 10 x SSH, 10 merkins

COT at the beginning.

Announcements: 4th of July Convergence

Prayers: Draper and his family, Double D, Crablegs

Welcome FNG Glamper

Cletus. Java’s First Year F3 Anniversary. Crab inspired workout.

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Q: Java

Pax of 25 this morning at Cletus with seven joining at the last few minutes from Ivan.

EC Murph was done by a few locos prior to Cletus.

Warmup:

Indian reverse run around the soccer fields and over the bridge to the Southwest parking lot

Side Straddle Hop x30 IC

Imperial Walkers x 15

Hilly Billy x 15

Good Mornings x 10

Fazio arm circles x 15 IC Forward

Fazio arm circles x 15 IC Backward

Arms and chest stretch

Standard merkins x 30

Main Workout:

Run backward to the middle of the parking lot: 20 merkins

Run backward to the end of the parking lot: 20 squats

Repeated for 4 trips

Crabwalk to mid lot: 20 LBCs

Crabwalk to end lot: 20 Freddy Merc

Repeated for 2 trips

Bearcrawl to the middle of the parking lot: 20 LBCs

Bearcrawl to the middle of the parking lot: 20 Freddy Merc

Repeated for 2 trips

Indian run around the south loop and back to the southwest parking lot.

Dips on the cement parking bars x 20

Erkins with hands over the cement parking barks x 10

Squats x10

Dips on the cement parking bars x 20

Erkins with hands over the cement parking barks x 10

Squats x 10

Mosey to the tennis courts.

Cool down: Circle up for core exercises; flutter kicks, windshield wipers, LBCs.

Announcements and prayer requests:

Support the Healing Transitions AO on Fridays at 2 PM.

Banana Seat is having a CT Scan; pray for positive results.

Tofu requested prayer so Java finds a job 😉

COT and closing prayer:

Prayed so we may be the light and salt of this earth, that we may leave everything and everyone better than before in order to be men of high impact.

Dovetail First Q

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BB for Sheepdog this morning! My first Q! Much thanks to Yogurt (Joe) for the warm-up, and great support from the rest of you!

Warmup
Hillbillies
Samson stretch
Squats
Sumo squats
Short run
Plank-walk Merkin (we named it Typewriter, comment if there’s another official name. Basically side-step with hands for 3-count, then push-up)
Situps, in-and-outs, v-ups (10 each) x 2, with 10 Hindu push-ups (Dive Bombers) after each set
Short Indian run
Squat jumps
Partner push-ups (horse stance supporting partners legs; needs a name, maybe Horse Merkins?)
CQC – Handshakes and wrist locks

CoT: Yogurt led devo on finding the calm in the midst of a busy, media-filled day. Double D’s nephew got his job back, prayers for a straight road. Prayers for injured members.