3 Rocks and 4 Corners (5/17/23)

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FNGs: None

Warm Up: SSH, GM, Frankenstiens, SFAC. 

 The Workout: Mosey to rock pile, 1 rock per PAX, PAX may not drop rock unless exercise calls for it. Penalty 5 burpees. 3 excersises at each corner. too many to list, but Squats, lunges, Curls, press, Homer to Marge, Round the world, Bear Crawl push. Mode of carrying the rock changed each time we went to a new corner.  (no one dropped the rocks)

Mary:  Yoga for 7 min

Announcements:  Brute CSAUP, check slack

T-Claps (Recognition):

Prayer: In-laws with new baby coming Abacas, Sombrero grandma with Colon Cancer 

Earn that Bacon

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Today was a first in F3SouthWake. A few PAX have been talking for a few years about having a 2nd F breakfast after a workout to showoff their skills on the griddle. Finally, the day was here. We had an early start (0515) and a shorter (30 min) workout to accommodate this event. YHC had the Q and wanted to PAX to earn that bacon and sausage. We arrived at 0500 to get set up. There were 23 total PAX that came out to enjoy this first time event at Possum Trot, SW’s Original AO site. YHC forgot a cone for the workout so a banana would be the substitute. So I grabbed one and here’s what some PAX called 30 mins of Hell.

Warm up
Mosey down to lower part of park for some carioca, butt kickers, high knees, and slides.
Gather at concession stand area.
SSH’s
Windmills
Willie Mayes Hayes
Plank Jacks

The Thang
Partner Dora
100 – Hand Release Merkins
200 – Shoulder Taps (each side cts as 1)
300 – Squat Jumps
Partner not doing exercises bear crawls to the banana (roughly 25 yards), complete 3 burpees, run back.

With 3 mins to go, we completed Dora gathered back to the starting lot. This is Fuquay’s finest parking lot that comes with razor blade rocks for your liking. We were about to have pancakes with our meat and cup of Joe so I figured let’s try something I’ll call a “flapjack”. Pax lays on their back. Do a WWI then roll over and complete a merkin. 10 total OYO. Everyone got to experience this never forgetting parking lot.

COT
No new PAX.
Announcements: Breach with Travis Manion event on April 28. Details on slack.
Prayers: traveling PAX, those with injuries
Quick word: Easter weekend is here. Remember Jesus and what he went through this week. Hope that everyone can worship this Sunday and reflect on his sacrifice.

This was a very successful event. Hopefully we can do this again possibly in the fall. Thanks for all the PAX that attended and especially for those that contributed to an amazing breakfast. Fonzie and LED on the griddles. Abacus with coffee. Breach and his bigger table that wouldn’t fit in his micro machine car. Thanks for the support and allowing me to lead such a strong group.

BS Out!

 

Chicken after dancing puts the fire out

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9 PAX including 1 FNG thanks to Abacus took to the streets of Fuquay this morning. YHC picked a few from the exicon to coincide with the places to stop at today. We stayed together and finished on the world’s greatest parking lot. Disclaimer was given to our FNG then away we went.

Mosey down to parking lot other side of railroad tracks
Warm up
Good Morning
SSH
Mtn Climbers
Carolina dry docks

Mosey to Dance Academy
Breakdancer merkins – Begin in plank and perform the down part of a merkin. On the up, raise the right arm and come into a side plank, kicking your left leg in front of your body. Rotate back to plank and repeat on the other side.

Indian run to Fuquay Tire
Flat Tire – Partner 1 gets into wheelbarrow and takes 4 steps then does 1 derkin, takes 8 steps and does 2 derkins. Continue this 1:4 progression until each partner gets to 20:5, then switch.

Indian run to Fire Dept
Fire drill – PAX in a circle, chopping feet or high knees. Each PAX calls out “Fire” all PAX hits the ground rolls right, merkin, roll back left, another merkin, then back up chopping.

Mosey to Joyce & Family restaurant
Chicken peckers – Feet up on the Wall, Hands on the ground. IC lift your hand and touch your opposite shoulder. (BTTW shoulder taps)
Quick LBC break then R&R

Indian run back to flag with a pick up the six along the way.

Mary
Each PAX called an exercise.

Core challenge and PT breakfast announcements coming soon.
Breach has a road clean up scheduled for this Sat.

Prayers for those having surgery or recovering.

Great time ITG today men! Always an honor.

BS out

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Amigos and Boulder Bases

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FNGs: Welcome Sombrero!

Warm Up: slide straddle hops, good mornings, Willie May Hayes, imperial walkers, hillbillies, sir fazio arm circles, seal claps

The Workout: Boulder Bases: 8 PAX moseyed to the rocks, grabbed our pick of the litter to play a game YHC calls Boulder Bases. Along the road surrounding the tennis courts, we started at one corner (1st base) doing rock exercises of 10 clean/squat/press, 10 curls for the girls, 10 lunges, and 10 rut rows. Rifle carried our rocks to 2nd base and dropped them before doing body-weight exercises at each base: 5 burpees at 2nd base, 5 burpees + 10 merkins at 3rd base, 5 burpees+ 10 merkins + 15 big boy situps at “home plate,” and 5 burpees + 10 merkins + 15 big boys + 20 squats at 1st base. From there, we moseyed to 2nd base to do another round of rock exercises. Then we rifle carried the rocks to 3rd base. We carried on this routine until we could get the rocks to “home plate”. We changed up the body-weight exercises throughout, but kept the same structure.

Mary: No time

Announcements: F3 SouthWake meeting on Tuesday, Bass Lake Park.

T-Claps (Recognition):

Prayer: Prayers up for men struggling in their marriages and relationships.

Farewell Possums of 2022

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Possum Trot was cold but 4 HIM came out for the final beat down for 2022. We got it done and beat the sack.

Warm up across street at ample
Smurf jacks
Mtn climbers
Plank jacks
Travolta merkins
Squat pulses up on 4

Indian run to FVHS circle
Bear crawl around
Morning wood x10
Frog hop around (modified at halfway)
Monkey humpers x20
Lieutenant Dan around (mod at half)
Plank up/downs x30 IC

Bench used to box jump squat at top with burpees at bottom x10

Partner up
Wheelbarrow with +1 dirkins at each parking space. 8 spaces total

Indian run back to flag
Mary in world’s greatest parking lot
LBC’s
Reverse LBC twists
Protractor

Honor to lead fellas.

BS out!

45 Reps around the Possum Trot

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FNGs: Buttermilk…Not really but technically a Kotter.
Warm Up: Mosey around the parking lot. Mosey to the concession stand to find a stash of weights. SSH, Good Mornings, Daisy Pickers, Sir Fazio
The Workout: 45 reps of each exercise.  Curls for the Gurls, Tricep ext, Squats, Double rope slams, Kettlebell swings, Lawnmower pulls and one guy run to the next ballfield and back. Next round Plank holds on the wall and pass the 25lbs down and back.  Repeat and add 40lbs. Preachers chair, pass 25lbs with overhead press and repeat adding a 45lbs.  One BTTW and pass the 25lbs down one way.
Mary: Heel taps, Touch the sky, Squat hold cause Banana Seat is a time Nazi.
Announcements: Even the Odds on Friday at Sheepdog, F3 Christmas party sign-up
T-Claps (Recognition): Buttermilk for coming back out after 6 months and ECing.
Prayer: Thankful for F3!

Hump Day at The Trot

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5 PAX showed for the main event. 3 ECers. Lipstick must have been lost and showed up in FV. Here is the workout we all enjoyed.

Mosey down to concession stand
Warm ups
SSH
Windmills
Good mornings
Copperhead squats
Copperhead merkins

Wall work – 3 rds x10 each
Irkins
Dirkens
Dips
Box jumps

Vicious Circle on baseball field
Rd1 – Bear crawl around bases. First man runs to pitchers mound for exercise. Then returns to back of line. 5 burpees
Rd2 – lung walk around. 5 diamond merkins
Rd3 – duck walk around. 5 star jumps

7’s on the hill
Bear crawl up – Bobby Hurleys at bottom
Run down – groiners at the bottom

Courts
Suislides
Backwardsides
Suicides

Mary
WWIs
Dying cockroaches
Windshield Wipers
Freddy mercs
Stretching

Announcements see slack
Prayers – unspoken
YHC took us out.

Good times. Thanks for letting me lead and strong work.
BS Out

We Belong – HOF Pat Benatar

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FNGs:none
Warm Up: mosey to lower parking lot trying to make it harder for Fram to find us as he checked out the port-a-potty.  SSH, good morning, OH claps, seal claps, sir Fazios, willie mays hays , daisy pickers. Mosey back outside fence, open gates, close gates, Frankensteins, karaoke L/R back up hill
The Workout:  off the rock pile for medium rocks. John cusack to lovely coral rock parking lot for some fun.  Lots of 10c and in cadence movements including slap rock, curls, tricep extensions, rut rows, bus drivers, squats, knees Gov’t tore up from pavement doing o/h press (that was a bad idea – sorry for all PAX wearing shorts)…more rock work and then returned the rocks to the pile.  Mosey to bottom of the hill.  Bear crawl up the hill, dips on the guard rail R & R but with erkins in the guardrail. No ant hills experienced. Mumble chatter was exceptional .
Mary:  YOGA on the tennis courts. Much needed stretching.
Announcements:  HS half; support Breach at T Marion booth; Gump and I shared some wisdom from our +50 years each on this planet; I referenced the newest member of Rock and Roll’s HOF class, Pat Benatar,, men – we (all) belong in F3.  It makes us all better because of each other
T-Claps (Recognition):  Sunshine and all PAX who ran their first Marathon – AWESOME
Prayer: Breach took us out. Thank you sir!  Honored to lead.  -Dauber
2nd F Stickboy

Four Corner Rocks and a Hill

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It was a sticky morning today as YHC pulled in to the cheese grateiest parking lot in all of South Wake, if not North Carolina.  Fumunga was spotted finishing up EC on the drive in and that would be it for total number of participants this morning.  Some loose plans had been made for the beat down but some modifications were necessary with only two HIM.

FNGs:

Nope

Warm Up:

SSH x20 IC

Daisy Pickers x10 IC

SFAC x10 IC forward and reverse

Frankenstein x10 IC

Imperial Walker x10 IC

The Workout:

Mosey to the back corner of the loop around the tennis courts to pick up travel sized rocks.  Fumunga had grabbed a larger rock and as I went to go put mine back in favor of a bigger one he pointed out how thin his was.  30 seconds later he said “Wow, that really is a little rock” so back to the rock pile I went.

The plan was to take our rocks with us around the four corners of the loop, working different muscle groups at each and finding fun ways to travel between the corners.  First up was arms and chest.

Two sets of:

Curls for the girls x10 IC

Tris for the guys x10 IC

Chest press x10 IC

Skull crushers x10 IC

After those two sets we John Cusack’d to the next corner where shoulders and back were the focus.  Again, two sets of:

Shoulder press x10 IC

Bus drivers x10 IC

Dead lifts x10 IC

Torso rotations x10 IC

After this we took our rocks to be even with the pergola by the tennis court and then set them down to do a bear crawl rock push to the end of the parking lot and the base of the hill.  We set the rocks aside for the time being to do a bit of work on the hill.  The plan was simple and, in similar fashion to the rest, consisted of two sets.

Burpee at the bottom

Sprint up the hill

Dirkins x10

Burpee at the bottom

Sprint up the hill

Irkins x10

After this we reclaimed our rocks and lunge walked to the next corner.  Time for legs.  Two sets:

Goblet squats x10

Willie Mays Hayes x10 IC

Good Mornings x10 IC

The form of travel this time was a slow backwards mosey with our rocks.  At this point time was running short so we modified a bit.  At the first corner we only did one set and excluded the skull crushers.  At the second corner we put the dead lifts in between the shoulder press and bus drivers.  We were out of time at this point so we went in to ….

Mary:

Mostly all of these were done with our rocks

American Hammer x10 IC

LBC x10 IC

Reverse LBC while holding rocks up x10 IC

Homer to Marge x10 IC

Bridge hold x10

Sleeping Hillbillies x10 IC each side (no rock)

Announcements:

South Wake family picnic at Harris Lake Park this Saturday

Prayer:

YHC and Fumunga both traveling in the next few days

Fumunga’s family as they deal with tension with his brother-in-law and the rest of the family

 

It’s hot and gross out there boys so please be safe.  Check Slack for a post from John Deere regarding temperature + dew point.  Also remember to be drinking lots of water.  This humidity is harder on our bodies than you think so slow it down and be safe.  And as always, an honor to lead.

 

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Trotting the Boulder Bases

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Diamond Rio at Possum Trot

FNGs: None

Warm Up: Good mornings, Side Straddle Hops, Windmills, Imperial Walkers, Sir Fazio Arm Circles, Seal Claps

The Workout: 4 HIM moseyed to the rocks, grabbed our pick of the litter to play a game YHC calls Boulder Bases. Along the road surrounding the tennis courts, we started at one corner (1st base) doing rock exercises of 10 overheads, 10 triceps, 10 squats, and 10 curls for the girls. Rifle carried our rocks to 2nd base and dropped them before doing non-rock exercises at each base (20 plank jacks at 2nd base, add 15 Merkins at 3rd base, add 10 side straddle hops at “home plate,” and add 5 burpees at 1st base) before returning to 2nd base to do another round of rock exercises. Then we rifle carried the rocks to 3rd base. We carried on this routine until we could get the rocks to home plate. We changed up the non-rock exercises throughout, but kept the same structure of 20 reps, +15 reps, +10 reps, +5 burpees. At Home Plate, Diamond Rio’s 90’s hit song Nowhere Bound was played on repeat the entire workout because…why not?

Mary: shoulder stretches, downward dog, and some cobra for a quick wrap up

Announcements: South Wake picnic July 30th

T-Claps (Recognition): T-Claps for @Dangle, the pride of Wilson, NC, joining us in the gloom at F3 South Wake and cleaning up the Quay Walmart in the daylight!

Prayer: Unspoken prayers lifted up