Who’s says you can’t use a bike at a boot camp workout… A Timekeeper, is a Timekeeper

FNGs: Candy Corn (Heath Thomann. Originally from Iowa and raised on a Farm… get it??? Candy name from a Farm that grew corn??? and it’s October??? Nice call Gump)

Warm Up:

  • SSH, Good Mornings, Arm Circles, Seal Claps, Overhead Claps, Merkins and Michael Phelps

The Workout:

  • Lined up our coupons next to the horseshoe pits
  • Bike in highest gear was Timekeeper as each of us rode through the tall, wet grass down to the pond and back
  • Rotated through the following exercises:
    • Squats with Cancun’s stinky Ruck Pack
    • Curls for the Girls with kettle bell
    • Triceps extension with kettle bell
    • Ruh Rows with kettle bell
    • Picking up and slamming down medicine ball
    • Bench press heavy piece of metal that John Deere brought
    • Merkins
  • Rinse and repeat
  • Return to tennis courts for Mary

Mary:

  • LBCs
  • Some well-deserved and needed stretching lead by Cancun

Announcements:

  • CSAUP this Saturday
  • Skid Mark’s NYC Marathon fundraiser at PYRC from 6:00 to 8:00 PM on Saturday 10/23
  • Long Arse Run on Sunday 10/24

T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer:

  • More praises than request… Cancun’s Wife’s job and its new challenges and the fact that John Deere has been married for many, many Dog Years.

One last ride through the woods for the season

FNGs: Candy Corn (named at Thunder)
Warm Up:

  • N/A for Bike ride

The Workout:

  • Cell Tour Run
  • Bass Lake Loop
  • Steeple Chase
  • Ride by Tapline to see what’s for dinner

Mary:

  • N/A for Bike ride

Announcements:

  • Since everyone stayed for Thunder, announcements were held off until Thunder COT

T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer:

  • Since everyone stayed for Thunder, prayers were held off until Thunder COT

The Olaf Route

FNGs: Nope
Warm Up: SSH, Frankenstein kicks, Willie Mays Hayes
The Workout:
We ran.
https://connect.garmin.com/modern/course/80549691

Mary: Nope
Announcements:
See slack – Hollyfest, Brute CSAUP
T-Claps (Recognition):
All who ran.
Prayer:
Stubbs, co-worker with brain cancer, injured PAX, unspoken

As promised a never done before F3 workout Indoors! Basketball full Court!!

Warm Up: Moseyed to indoor Basketball gym.

Stood on Baseline for the Pledge of All Allegiance

Workout: We had exactly 20 so we divided up into 4 groups and played 2 separate games of full court 5 on 5. We rotated after halfway. I don’t think our ball skills were very sharp in the beginning. Most of the PAX got better as time progressed except for Guatemalan. He pretty much stood in the same place every time and asked for the ball.

I know sometimes we do a lot of the same things every week. Thought this would be fun to mix it up a bit. Those that shined like @pumps because he has skills and @Fram the rest made up for it in fouls and large bodies pushing and shoving. Thank God we did not call fouls today. I would have fouled out before the second game…BTW I am pretty sure my Team won both games @bobby bouche @deadbolt @mookie @maddog. Next time we play @banannaseat will be on a 3-man team due to his speed!

 

Mary: No Time

T Claps: Bosshog and the new addition to the Family! Congratulations

Prayers: Thanks for the prayer support for my Mom. Our Country, Injured PAX, 3rd cousin who took a dive OTW back. Hope he is okay!

Announcements: CSAUP 6-10 Saturday

I HAVE THE POWER!!!

EC:  Let it be documented that Full House and UTI ran EC on this day.

FNGs:  The title of this backblast makes me think of a once FNG we had at the Cobra.  He was named Snarf for his love of Heman (I think that was the story) also something about a pet he had named Snarf.  I’m gonna reach out once I write this backblast.  Chat soon Snarf!

Warm Up:  Typical stuff – Windmills, Merkins, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies, Goofballs, etc.

I’ll put this next section in the warm up because it was more about me having fun, but we worked out too.  I didn’t let the PAX know what I was doing so they thought I’d gone crazy or simply had no plan and was wondering the parking lot.  Some might recall a Q of mine from way back when where I marked Purple Cobras.  Back then, I was inspired by some graffiti that was sprayed on the now Dollar Store across the street from the Cobra and decided compete for tagging dominance and properly mark my territory.  See my earlier backblast for the exciting details – https://f3southwake.com/2018/12/18/pffffttttt/

We ran around completing exercises along the way.  Plank Jacks, SSH, WWIs, and Squats were dished out.  At one point, Full House said something like “I think he is writing something…”  DING DING DING DING DING!!!!  Kosher\Woody congrats on taking the next drink of Kool-Aid at F3 and becoming site Qs just know that this AO has been marked for UTI (POWER).  Once you get a UTI, it’s not always easy to get rid of…

Photo

 

We went through the bank lot and around to the back of Teeter where we ran Carioca each side, then ran in reverse as we washed ourselves in the odor of the HT dumpster.

It was about here that Full House was afflicted with a calf issue.

The Workout:

Thing 1:  Earkins, Derkins, Dips, run around the Jiffy Lube 2x – Full House was asked to sit the running part out but he is stubborn and he soldiered through it.  I pulled the plug on this workout due to time and a concern for my friend.  But mostly for time (There was more to do)

Thing 2:  Mozy to the Thrift Store lot and partner up.  Using the islands and the curb facing HT as our boundaries.  Something shy of 11s with Broken Wheel Barrows in between for transportation between said island and curb.  Star Jumps and Prisoner Squats on the ends.  There was highly accurate counting in play thanks to my brother that always brings A Dash More, 16-bit.  In the end, it didn’t matter – I got bored of the workout and the counting somewhere in the middle to the end…  NEXT

Thing 3:  There was a wall nearby and I had recently invented/stole/borrowed/found something I call Ball Walkers.  So we did them!  Assume the Balls to the Wall position and shimmy down the wall on your hands.  We went down the wall 2x.

Back to the flag!

Mary:  Pickle Pounders, Homer to Marge, Dying Cockroach, and some calf stretching courtesy of Full House.

Announcements:  Holly Fest Sign-ups, Brute Squad this weekend, Purple Cobra wants you to sign-up on the Q sheet

T-Claps (Recognition):  Shredder is shredding – nearly done with his 75 Hard Challenge.  Good Stuff

Prayer:  Kosher’s co-worker recovering from brain surgery for cancer, Wallaby’s mom with early onset of Parkinson’s, 16-bits friend that recently passed and left a wife and 3 kids behind.

 

As the workout wrapped and everyone left.  Kosher and I talked shovel flags and said hi to Dahmer as he pumped gas.  Dahmer looked well rested, he said that he had just come from Caveman.  That makes sense…

 

Dahmer left and Kosher and I both went to leave but when he turned the key just some light clicking came from his truck.  I had done it… I had put on a workout of such greatness that I even managed to suck the energy out of Kosher’s truck!

Ask Lipstick about the wooden car he made when he moved down here from NY

FNGs: N/A

EC: Lipstick, Dahmer, Emeril

Warm Up: Foot Trace, Daisy Pickers, Spinal Rotations, Good Mornings, Hip Thingamajigger

The Workout
: 6 Exercises, 8 rounds per exercise, quick 30 second lap around the median to keep heart rate up.

(Lateral Lunge, Bow Draw, Squat, Uppercut, Waterfall Pullover, Z Press)

Mary: Stretching

Announcements: CSAUP

T-Claps (Recognition):

Prayer: Prayers for Dahmer as he is starting a new job.  Prayers for Stubs as he goes in for a MRI on Friday to check on his brain cancer

9 PAX put in the work

Decided to do something a little different at Mutiny. I had scoped out the greenway and found out that there was plenty of things to do along the way.

FNG: None

Warm Up: Dauber warmed us up with several exercises.

Workout: Moseyed to the end of the soccer field where the Greenway begins. Started out with Carolina Dry Docks IC. Headed down the Greenway and stopped at the bridge for Dips, and Derkins. Moseyed to Hwy 55 crosswalk and ended up in the PVA.

Lined up on the car bumper stop and from one side of the PVA to the other we did the following:

In between we Bear Crawls, Crawl Bears, Lunges

On each side we did exercises: All Ab related. Moseyed back for Mary but not before BTW and wall sits.

Mary: Various exercises

Announcements: CSAUP 6:00 am Hilltop Needmore Park

Prayers: PAX injured, Unspoken

Honor to Lead!!

Road-trip to 540 Under Construction

FNGs:none
Warm Up: OYO
The Workout: See Strava pic….
Mary: OYO – getting ready for Thunder
Announcements:  Holly fest
T-Claps (Recognition): Great navigation by LypSync
Prayer: unspoken; PAX injured

Honored to lead!

Flexibility at Red October

FNGs:none
Warm Up: Led Mutiny and RO PAX with good morning, SSH, seal claps, overhead claps, and windmills.  Midget unsuccessfully tried head-locking two guys going for a walk around the path.  “A” for effort brother.
The Workout:  My pre-blast informed PAX it was going to be a “kettlebell” workout.  Cancun listened.  I had brought an extra bell hoping one of the two PAX I called out would come.  Gump took my spare kettlebell. No matter, the show must go on.  Smalls and Money Pit were ready to roll but with TRX straps.  Plan was to do a pyramid workout with three  rotating exercises with reps of 5, 10, 15, 10, 5 moving on to the next three exercises with same number of reps.  That lasted for almost one go-around.  I learned as a young Lt. “flexibility is the key to air power” and just rolled with it.  PAX swapped between bells and straps.  YHC even added a jump rope.  Lots of swings, figure 8, lawn mowers, squats, thrusters, overhead press, curls, midget love handles, step ups, etc.  Some exercises from our six too including low slow flutter, straight arm curls, WW II, …. Reps varied between 10-25, mostly 15X
Mary: Joined Sprinkler and Mutiny PAX at tennis courts for low slow flutter, burpees for POTS, good mornings…
Announcements:  CSAUP, Hollyfest support needed….see socials
T-Claps (Recognition):  10 yr anniversary of F3 – miracle Rojas naming; welcome back Kotter – Pumps
Prayer:  injured PAX; Those struggling with COVID; Sprinkler took us out -great story about young man in your church.  UNSPOKEN

Honored to lead; great seeing all the RESPECT out there this morning.  – Dauber

Pax of 2 for stacked 4-corners and combat. 
Warm Up: short warm-up lap, SSH, SFAC F&B, Daisy pickers, Willie Mays Hayes, Frankenstein‘s.
The Workout: for stations each at one corner of the parking lot. We started with one squat, then ran to the next corner for 1 Merkin, next corner for 1 lunge in cadence, and then 1 LBC in cadence at the last corner. Rinse and repeat adding 1 each time, up to 10.

Combat focused on how to build more power in your hook punch and angled side kick and back kicks. Great job Farva.

Announcements: upcoming CSAP and Holly Fest.
Prayer: Farva’s M’s job situation. YHC took us out.