It’s official… I’m a professional

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11 pax took the challenge to push themselves and each other. Today was about getting pushed outside of your comfort zone. I hope we all did that. Katniss was maybe too comfortable since he found 10 cents. He then gave me the 10 cents for my Q efforts. That is how I became a professional.

EC: Dawgpound, Cowboy, Slide Rule, Skidmark, Emeril, Dumbo, Katniss, Maybeline, Warbucks for a quarter mile
FNGs:  Sadly none
Warm Up:

Lap around the soccer fields with the following stops:

Top of the Ramp:
Side Straddle Hops
Fazio Arm Circles

Stop at the corner:
Good Mornings
Hillbillies
Imperial Walkers

Stop at the basketball courts for flutter kicks as I explain what we where about to do.

The Workout:

The goal was to do Indian Run Stack Em Up Suicides and Bring them down.  We did not make it through the bring them down portion though.  Pax got into groups of 3 or 4.

We would then do Indian runs until we reach a stopping point.  At the stopping point we did one of the exercises.  The first stopping point was 3 PGUSJ, second 5 Burpees, 3rd 10 Lunges.  We had a total of 7 stops.  At base location is where we stacked things up.  First when we got back we did 3 PGUSJ.  Then 3 PGUSJ plus 5 Burpees.  We kept on stacking as we went.  Then we tried to unstack.  We only made it to Monkey Hummers on the way down.

The goal was to push yourself past your comfort zone.  Your Indian Run group was supposed to help keep you motivated.

Exercises:
3 PGUSJ (Prisoner Get Up Squat Jumps)
5 Burpees
10 Lunges (5 Each Leg)
15 Hand Release Merkins
20 Monkey Humpers
25 Side Straddle Hops
30 Flutter Kicks

Mary:

Circle up for some stretching
Runners Pose
Pigeon Pose

Announcements:

Shirt order for Wrightsville is happening

T-Claps (Recognition):

All Pax that took the challenge to push themselves and their fellow pax

Prayer:

Forceps and his family
Wallaby
Lipstick’s sister

Water Fountain in the Bathroom? No, but it smells like someone is dying in the Men’s room…

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FNGs: Welcome Fatback- Homicide Detective city of Raleigh, brought out by Rainmaker
Warm Up: Rainmaker was rolling in late with our FNG- PAX did SSH until they arrived and joined the circle. YHC then delivered the pre-workout FNG speech while we did SSH.  (about 4 minutes of SSH) Pax mosey to the top of Ting Park for IW x10 HB x10, Windmills x8, Mountain Climbers x25
The Workout: Pair up based on Speed. Pax went in opposite directions around park. Each time they met Double Merkin Burpees x10. We repeated this four total laps (2 Miles) Burpees were about every 1/4 mile.  Next we mosey to the bottom of Ting Ramp for Merkin Suicides. At each lamp post (12 total) 2 merkins at post and then 2 back at bottom of ramp. 48 total Merkins during suicides.
Mary: We were running short on time, so YHC sang Mary Had a Little Lamb while we did Suicides.  Yoga cool down during COT
Announcements: Tremendous work on coming together for our brother Forceps this past weekend. Memorial Service for his son this weekend at Hope 12-2
T-Claps (Recognition):  A lot of Cotters this morning came out for a good start to their week. Welcome back Bigalo, Particle Board, Rainmaker and our FNG Fatback for pushing hard.
Prayer: Leahy Family, Rainmaker’s fellow officer Chris lost his wife at 41 from a virus. A gentle reminder if your sick, stay home and get well. Even a small virus can turn deadly. Rainmaker to follow up if the family needs any support, other than our prayers.

 

 

Last Man Standing

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YHC had been thinking about this Q for a few weeks and trying to figure out how to pull it off. I wanted to make sure everyone pushed themselves but we all stayed together. How we could modify and keep the integrity of workout in tact. It was challenging to pull off but I think it well this time. I’ll reflect more on it and take suggestions on how to improve. The main even was pre-blasted so everyone knew what was coming.

This is also a great workout to prepare for the South Wake Beer Mile in October.

EC: Deadbolt, Mookie, Skidmark

FNGs: None

Warm Up: Very minimal as we got right to it. 25 SSH, 10cc IW, 10cc Hillbillies

The Workout: Last man standing theme. Down to the tunnel and runs were completed on the long portion of the greenway

  • 1/4 mile run and a minimum of 5 rep exercises completed in certain amount of time.
  • 1st round needed to be completed in 2:40 (includes running and exercises)
  • 2nd round 2:35
  • 3rd round 2:30
  • So on and so forth
  • We completed 12 rounds for 3 miles with the last at 1:50 return and completed the exercises. At this time we had 6 Pax still in: Snap, Pablo, Pikachu, Lipstick, Lucky Charms, and Skidmark
  • If you didn’t make the cutoff time you ran to until leaders were coming back and then did exercises with the group.

Indian Run around the complex with stops to 10 counts of erkins, derkins, and dips, 10 burpees OYO, 10 box jumps, and 25 merkins.

Return to basketball court

Mary: 10 minutes of stretching

Announcements: Long Ass Run Saturday. 22 milers start at 0715 from New Hill. 14.5 mile from New Hope Church Road at 0815, 0930 South Point Mall. Details on Slack.

T-Claps (Recognition): Pax this morning really pushed themselves. Lipstick somehow managed to run a lap, do exercises, take a shit, and make the next run in time. Quite impressive!

Prayer: Wallabee, Bernie’s family, Buford’s friend, those battling addictions

Only 12 poles…

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PAX: Snap, Pikachu, Emeril, Java, Dawgpound, Buford

FNGs:none
Warm Up:SSH, windmills, fazio arm circles, high knees, butt-kickers, and karaoke.
The Workout: Tabata style: 20 seconds of exercise, 10 seconds of rest, 3 sets each of 4 exercises for a total of 6 minutes per set of exercises.

Set 1 (lower body): Lateral jumps, Pop squats – wide squat followed by narrow squat (dubbed “Rice Crispies” by Dawgpound), jump lunges, sumo squats with kick

Ran to the top of the ramp for Set 2 (upper body): scorpion dry docks, dips, balls to the wall, and burpees.

Indian run around the park to the bottom of the ramp where we did 12s/ladder.  Sprint to the first light pole, do one merkin jog to the bottom of the ramp for 12 star jumps all together, sprint to second pole, do two merkins, jog to the bottom for 11 star jumps, etc etc

Mary: started Mary going around circle and each pax picking an exercise and 10 count.
Announcements: New permanent F2 at Food Lion on Thursdays at 6
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer: Pikachu’s wife, Snap’s employment

Gut Bombs

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6 pax crawled out of the fartsack on Super Bowl Monday hoping for beat down and hoping to keep their Super Bowl Sunday feast contained in their stomachs. Based on the menus described their was about to be a lot of “fire in the hole” if you know what I mean. There were threats of merlot but we never got to see any. We did see a few pit stops and impressive belching.

EC: Full House, Skidmark

FNGs: None
Warm Up: We did burpees until Dumbo joined us after coming in HOT!! 1 loop with Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies, and SSH.
The Workout: 6 man Kansas City Chief Run around the complex stopping at every other corners for a 20 count exercise. This included merkins, squats, LBCs, and SSH. Completed 2 laps. Everyone run on the right of the line, except Java. Only he can run over his dog.

To the parking lot for a variation of stack up suicides with 3 man Indian Run. 2 burpees, 4 squats, 6 LBCs, 8 merkins, 10 star jumps at the top of the stairs.

Finished with 7’s of squats and star jumps.
Mary: Yoga stretches because we should be doing a lot more of this.
Announcements: 2/22 Long Ass Run, Saturday 2/8 from 10-2 come build a greenhouse at HS food cupboard.
T-Claps (Recognition): Emeril for not splashing merlot
Prayer: Wallabee and those battling addictions. Those battling cancers and other health conditions.

Dumbo took us out.

Native American Mosey on a Monday

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8 men took the DRP and showed up at Paradise City. One lonely sole didn’t think it would be enough so they did EC. Everyone got at least 3 miles for a high tempo start to the week. Aye!

Indian Run

FNGs: Not today!

EC: Pablo

Warm Up: Mosey to top of the ramp for SSH, Good mornings and Windmill. Mosey to back corner for Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies and Daisy pickers. Mosey to the rail for back stroke and irkins.

The Workout: Split into two 4 man Indian run groups. Make laps around the complex stopping for 5 hand release merkins at the top of the ramp, 10 big boy sit ups at the back corner and 15 jump squats at the rail. Each group of 4 was supposed to skip a lap around the complex and do a Dora (100 merkins, 200 LBC and 300 squat). One group might have done it twice (could be bad instructions or bad listening…)

Mary: Good mornings ICx10, Homer to Marge ICx20, Low Slow Flutter ICx20

Announcements: Greenhouse 2/1, Move Snap this Thursday at 6pm, Long Ass ATT run coming up soon.

T-Claps (Recognition):

Prayer: Those looking for work (Lee), thanksgiving for our ability to get out with a group of men and get stronger.

It is always a honor to lead you men. I’ll try to do better next time!

Pablo’s Birthday Q at Paradise City

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15 PAX, 6 for EC, braved the cold temperatures to come and celebrate Pablo leveling up after another trip around the Sun.  I appreciated all the friendly faces that came out to show their support.  It was good to see Java’s dog, Nespresso, venture out into the gloom until Warbucks decided to hurt the dog (shame on you!! jk).

FNGs: None

Kotter: Particle Board

Notable Absences: Midget4Life

EC: Skidmark, Warbucks, Buford, Dawgpound, UTI, Pablo

Warm Up: started with a mosey the back way around toward tennis courts stopping multiple times for warm up exercises in cadence: SSHx40 (1 extra for good luck), IW x10, HB x10, Sir Fazio Arm Circles 10F&10B, seal claps x10, overhead claps x10

The Workout: Q got a headcount and split the PAX into 3 groups of 5 for small group indian runs to complete stakem-up suicides.  There were 5 pain stations that started at the top of the ramp area and went toward the stop sign on Sportmanship Way.  Pax ran to station 1 and did assigned exercise, then back to the beginning to repeat exercise from station 1.  Then run to station 2 to complete assigned exercise, then back to beginning to repeat station 1 and station 2 exercise, and so on… until all stations were complete and all exercises were repeated and stacked together at the beginning.  Exercises were as follows:  Station 1: 5 Burpees , Station 2: 10 Turkish Get-ups, Station 3: 15 Hand Release Merkins, Station 4: 20 Jump Squats, Station 5: 25 Monkey Humpers.  When completed, PAX moseyed to the box office and split into 2 groups, 1/2 PAX did bulgarian squats x10 each side and the other 1/2 held BTTW x 2 rounds.  Mosey to the flag for Mary.

Mary: The following exercises in cadence: LSF x20, Homer to Marge x10 regular x5 right leg up x5 left leg up, Boxcutter x20, Freddie Mercury x20, Pickle Pounders x10

Announcements: 2nd F opportunity at Wegman’s for lunch followed by Ice Skating at Raleigh Ice Plex, 3rd F opportunity to support family member of Kosher to build a playset (info to be posted on slack)

Prayer: Wallaby, Crablegs, Unspoken, Warbucks took us out.

Indian Run at 8min/mile?? Ryan Hooper, 38, Dumbo

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FNGs: MFL?
Warm Up: Mosey to the top of the ramp for SSH x53 to commemorate the new 0530 start time for PC
The Workout: Lipstick Special was on the table for this crisp beautiful smelling morning. Two groups of 6 Indian Runs around the Ting Loop. We stopped at corners for arm work. First Stop Prison Step Ups x20, Erkins x20, Derkins x20, Second Stop Dips x15, 1 leg each x15. (Repeat) Third Stop  Merkins x10, Wide Grip x10, Diamond x10. Total of 3 miles completed on the circuits.
Mary: 1 minute man- Low Slow Flutters x20, LBC’s x20
Announcements: Q Swap Week. CPR Training Tuesday 6-9 at Hope Community Church
T-Claps (Recognition): Cowboy for sticking with the Lipstick Special
Prayer: Wallaby, Anyone else suffering from substance abuse. Sgt. Pepper, All Deployed

Mary Poppins

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YHC knew the rain would be involved at Paradise City for today’s workout. Time to get creative bc I hate getting soaked during a workout. Pulled in at 0540 to 1 car in the parking lot. I looked up and here comes Pikachu running across the parking lot holding 4 golf umbrellas as YHC asked him to bring. I had 5 myself. One more car rolled in with a couple mins to spare. 4PAX were ready to roll…then we see a white truck approaching follow by another car. We waited with umbrellas up as they parked. No late burpees penalized as YHC was feeling jolly. They looked at us funny when I said grab an umbrella though. This was a Mary Poppins workout. Here’s how the fun took place.

Warm Up:
Ramp mosey up/down while holding umbrellas
Top (reg) – one handed smurf jacks x20 IC
Bottom (slides) – one handed mountain climbers x20 IC
Top (backwards) – one handed imperial walkers into Hill billies x10 IC each
Bottom (carioca)- gorilla squats x10 on my up and down

The Workout:
Head to top of ramp
Box jumps and one armed dips holding umbrellas
X10 each 3 rds
Peeping Tom took a spill but was ok

Indian umbrella run to guard rails
One armed irkens w/U x10 switch arms
Monkey humpers x10 IC
3 rds

Mosey to tunnel – put down umbrellas
Ascending and decending testicles with shoulder taps x10 IC @ 30, 45, 90
LBCs x15 to let our shoulder recover
then 90, 45, 30 degrees legs on wall
Reverse LBCs x15 IC

Partner up
P1 holds Al Gore on wall
P2 bear crawl out of tunnel with umbrella (3 legged bear) to designated spot and back
Switch
Repeat but with duck walk
The plan was to stay dry and do mary in the tunnels but Lipstick busted one and we all came close to merlot. So thanks to him we got our backs wet.

Mary (Poppins)):
w/umbrellas
– 4 corners x10 reverse R&R x10
– H2M x10, 1 legged x10, switch
– Windshield wipers x10 IC

Announcements:
Christmas Day AO’s – Site Q’s call
Paradise City time change to 0530
Free CPR class coming, Dumbo has the lead
Throwback week next week. Only 1 AO open per day

T-Claps (Recognition):
No one merloted from Lipsticks bomb releases.

Prayer:
Wallaby and family
Oakwood run successful and HT support
Sprinkler family
Those spending holidays alone or minus a family member for the 1st time
Lipsticks stomach and those around him

This was a fun yet challenging workout while holding an umbrella most of the time. Hope those that attended enjoyed it.
Always a pleasure to lead.

BS Out!

December Fitness Test

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YHC is still on IR and had a fun but rough weekend on the town.  That combined made me the master of ceremonies but not the master of anything fitness related.

The numbers continue to be a challenge at good ole PC.  Even the fitness test wasn’t enough to challenge the growing appeal of Downtown Train.

FNG: No

Warm Up: Windmills, SSH, Frankensteins

The Workout:

Paradise City Fitness Test: All must be done in order. Each rep is .01 points. Each lap is also .01 points.

15 Burpees
1 Lap
20 Merkins
1 Lap
20 Squats (as close to parallel as you can get)
1 Lap
20 WW II (Non Cadence)
1 Lap
20 Scorpion Dry Docks
1 Lap

1 Lap will be around 2 parking medians.  We left the basketball court and made a left.
Then down past the cars and made a right.  Ran past one aisle then the next aisle turned
right up past the median then right and ran back to the basketball court.

Mary: She doesn’t like Paradise City anymore either.

Announcements:. Oakwood 24

T-Claps (Recognition):. Fanny Pack.  He left the workout with a Lipstick-esque urgency but returned to keep working through the circuit.

Prayer: Silence, YHC took us out