Sheepdog is looking GOOD!!!

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Old English Sheepdog omg this is the best pboto | Old english sheepdog, English sheepdog, Cute animals

FNGs: none

Warm Up:

First – a small fellowship tour of the new digs at Sheepdog.  I’ll need to come back with a different plan someday soon, they have some fancy new toys over here.

Daisy Pickers, Fazios, Franks, Good Mornings

The Workout:  BOMBS – We headed to the back of the old school instead.  Partnered up.  Timer was a runner around the small “track” while the partner busted our as many of each of the prescribed workouts as possible.  50 Burpees, 100 Overhead presses, 150 Merkins, 200 Big Boy Situps, and 250 Squats (although Shredder and I were both worried about our legs for the Tri tomorrow so we only did 100)

Mary:  Fellowship Mozy back to homebase

Announcements:

Shredder to post about a town meeting for folks to attend concerning affordable housing – something we should all care about concerning the diversity of our town and the access for other perspectives to join our community.

Good luck and well wishes offered to all of our racers this weekend

July 5th celebration in HS – Town would like to have us there to support if possible.  Offered us a tent to post at as well if we like.

T-Claps (Recognition):  Farva for being a great Site Q

Prayer:

Prayers for continued healing over this country as division, mental illness, death, inflation, and many hardships continue.

Prayers for Hello Kitty

Sheepdog – 5/13/22; Build a Panda

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FNGs: None

Warm Up: A little follow the leader, then intervals of Good Mornings, Willie Mays Hayes, SFAC front and back, SSH, Daisy Pickers, Michael Phelps, & Frankensteins.  Ended on speed skaters.
The Workout: Pax started a little build-a-squatted bear.

Starting with 1 squat, then bear crawl to the other end of the parking lot line, two squats, etc, up to 10 squats.  Then over to the to cover for rotations of dips/Capoeira push-ups/erkins, chest press, LBCs, Rows, and alternating lunges (front, side, back; each leg).  The pax doing the LBCs set the time with 25 in cadence.  We did 3 rounds of this.  Between each set that Panda came out with a little kung-fu action.

Announcements: Triangle Tri, coming up. Food train for Lipstick.

Prayer: Job situations, family, Lypstick’s wife.

One Man Wolf Pack at Sheepdog

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FNGs: N/a
Warm Up: 2 mile EC run then some laps around the parking lot with agility work on the lines. Circled(?) up for side straddle hops, good mornings, imperial walkers, hillbillies, fozzy arm circles forward and reverse, seal claps, and overhead claps.
The Workout: No rest, no mumble chatter, just me vs me putting in work:

Around the parking lot agility x3
10 merkins
20 LBCs in cadence
30 squats
40 lunges
50 side straddle hops
60 second plank hold

To the walls and to the pain  (Rep until it hurts then 5 more) 

Merkin
American hammers
Irken
Box cutter
Dip
Low slow flutter
Derkin
Homer to marge (left leg, right leg, regular)

Mary: Ran a lap around the school and parking lot
Announcements:
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer:

Sheepdog – Sally still sucks!

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5 Pax worked hard this morning with a tri-q including Big Ditch, Farva and Shredder. 

EC: Farva, Shredder, and a partial EC from Big Ditch.

Warm Up: Big Ditch kicked us off with  his debut taking us through Sir Fazio arm circles f&b, Frankenstein‘s, Imperial walkers, hillbillies, Willie Mays Hayes, and daisy pickers.

The Workout: shredder took the main event with four corners starting with one merkin, mosey to the next corner for one squad, LBC‘s in cadence at the next corner, and then star jumps. Rinse and repeat adding one each time until we got to 10. Then over to the new wall in front of the school for step ups and a Bring Sally Up Erkin challenge. Add bring sally up Pax pushed up. I bring Sally down Pax went down, holding that position through the chorus.  3 min  20 sec  of pure bliss 😫.

Combat: Farva wrapped us up with a little Build-a-Strike. Starting with 5 knuckle merkins, we then mossied to the 1st station for a front jab, cross combo x 10.  Back to the start for 5 knuckle merkins. Then 5more knuckle merkins as we start round 2. Repeat station 1. At station 2 we did a combo front jab, cross, front hook, cross. Back to station 1 and then back to the start with knuckle merkins. Round 3 added a 3rd station with knee strikes and a front kick. Round 4 added station 4 where Pax put it all together. Front jab, cross, front hook, half clinch, two knee strikes, front kick, then double front kick. I believe it was at this point big ditch looked at shredder and said “what is this Mortal Combat”. 🤣

Big Ditch wrapped everything up.
Announcements: Wrightsville this weekend.
T-Claps (Recognition): Big ditch for stepping up to Co-q.
Prayer: people traveling to Wrightsville this weekend, Beer Pressure is fostering a dog that needs a home.

Sheepdog- 2/18/22

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Something to bring home to M; Straps and points.

Three Pax for EC and the ME at Sheepdog. 
Warm Up: Pax jumped right in the a quick mosey around the parking lot, then snaked up and down the parking lines with lateral shuffles.  Upon circling up we executed 4 rounds of SSH; 25 each IC. Between each set we did assorted arm exercises (SFAC, seal claps, overhead claps, and a combo seal to overhead). We then moved on to IW and HB & Frankensteins.

The Workout: Over to the shelter at the entrance to the schools we did a rotation of exercises including band work. Biceps, press, dips, erkins, derkins, rows, step ups, box jumps.

Mary: LBCs and Crab cakes.

Prayer: family, Pax, mental health

Incline Freddie Hammers?

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FNGs: N/a
Warm Up: 2 PAX for 2+ miles EC then a lap around the parking lot and “circled” up for side straddle hops, imperial walkers, hillbillies, arm circles, seal claps, reverse arm circles, overhead claps, and daisy pickers.
The Workout:

Tabata timer – 22 seconds on, 12 seconds off x16 rounds for 4 of each exercise

Tabata #1
Merkin
Monkey humpers
Plank jacks
Squat jump

Tabata #2
Low slow flutter
Pickle pounders
Homer to marge
Reverse crunches

Tabata #3
Dip
Irken
American hammers
Derkin

*American Hammers ended up being done on a wall to allow for a mix with Freddie Mercurys (American Mercury or Freddie Hammer? Who knows but it was very effective!)

Mary: Abs were smoked from Tabata, Shredder taught me how to correctly throw a Superman Punch and Superman elbow strike
Announcements: Run tomorrow, see slack
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer: Shredder took us out

Sheepdog 1/21/22

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Solo workout at Sheepdog +EC

Warm Up: a couple laps around the parking lot with stuffer step up and down each line.
The Workout: multiple rounds of traveling erkins on the knee wall, lunges in between, with band work mixed in; reverse hand bicep curls, rows, and press. Wrapped up with Single leg squats.
Mary: LBCs

Bear crawls and duck walks and crab walks, oh my!

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Nothing fancy about today.  It was cold so we showed up and got our sweat on.

FNGs:

None

Warm Up:

SSH x20 IC

Windmills x10 IC

Sir Fazio Arm Circles x10 IC forward and reverse

Daisy Pickers x10 IC

Imperial Walkers x10 IC

Hillbillies x10 IC

The Workout:

Starting at the first median in the parking lot the PAX lined up.  We were going to do a bear crawl Jack Webb.  We’d start with our 1:4 of merkins and air presses from where we were starting and then, between each set, we’d bear crawl two parking spaces and work our way up and down the parking lot to complete the Jack Webbs all the way up to 10:40.

After this we did what I call Duck Walk Spud Webbs.  These are similar to Dan Taylors but reversed.  We still maintained the 1:4 ratio but it was in cadence lunges and then squats.  Again, starting at the first parking median we did the first set and then duck walked two parking spaces to do our second set.  So on and so forth until we completed 10:40 for a total of 221 squats.  And also me saying “down” 221 times.

After this was done we moseyed around to the back of the school.  We stopped at the road on the side of the school because I thought I had ideas but that stretch of road was too long for what i was thinking.  I’ve since come up with better ideas that we’ll visit next time 🙂

At the basketball court we lined up for a crab boil.  Starting at one goal we crab walked to the other side were we did 10 in cadence crab cakes.  Crab walk back to the other side of the court for 10 in cadence crab humpers.  One more trip across the basketball court and we finished with 10 in cadence crab jacks.

We lined up on the near wall to do a round of BTTW and peoples chair.  Afterwards we went over to the knee wall for a quick set of irkins, dirkins, and dips.

In mediocre Sheepdog fashion we circled up for some CQC and did two round of 20 single, double, and triple punches.

After that we moseyed back to the flag for…

Mary:

Circle up and on our 6.

LBC x10 IC

Sleeping Hillbillies x10 IC each side

American Hammers x10 IC

Yoga stretches

Announcements:

Wilmington is coming up.  UTI and Friends are also going to Myrtle Beach to run there and have some room open in a house.

T-Claps (Recognition):

Motor Boatin for starting couch to 5K.  Great program and great way to get in to running (it’s how I started).  Way to get out there!

Prayer:

Farva’s M’s grandmother in the hospital.

My co-worker recovering from cancer surgery

Kosher’s uncle passing away from covid

Finkle’s family friend with a recent cancer diagnosis

Gigawatt lost his father

Finkle and his 2.0 and their DMV woes

 

 

Always an honor men, have a great weekend!

 

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Farva’s 35th Birthday Beatdown

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FNGs:N/a
Warm Up:4 for 2+ miles EC then returned to find a parking lot full of PAX who had no idea what they were in for. Did a quick mosey around the parking lot along with some line agility drills, circled up for side straddle hops, arm circles forward and reverse, seal claps, overhead claps, and good mornings.
The Workout: I told everyone to partner up by size and what weight they’d like to use. There were 2 45lb plates, 2 35lb plates, 2 25lb plates, 2 70lb dumbbells, and a 75(ish)lb atlas stone. Then I proceeded to lay out the Farva 35 challenge.

Fun with Dora

Alley work

Rinse and Repeat

Victory Lap

And finally 35 man maker burpees

First Dora using one of the plates was 100 curls for the girls(in cadence), 100 overhead press (in cadence), 100 tricep extensions(in cadence), and 50 merkins together with your partner. The Pax that wasn’t doing the reps ran line agility down the parking lot and back before switching.

Alley work- grab a dumbbell or atlas stone and go down half of the alley and back. Switch with your partner as needed, the partner not carrying the weight would bear crawl or duck walk.

Rinse and repeat, but the Dora this time was 100 weighted squats(cadence), 100 mtn climbers(cadence), 100 chair kicks, and 50 monkey humpers (in cadence) together with your partner. The pax not doing reps went down and back as before. Then back to the alley to finish the rinse and repeat.

Next was a victory lap around the school to celebrate what you’d just accomplished.

Finally this beatdown was to end with 35 man maker burpees.

Mary: All pax helped finish out the Burpees with no time to spare.
Announcements: Q sheet opportunities
T-Claps (Recognition): Everyone who made it out to support my birthday Q!
Prayer: I took us out

Cobra Kai day at Sheepdog

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FNGs: N/a
Warm Up: 2 PAX for a new EC route after missing a turn. Returned to find 3 more ready to kick off the last South Wake workout of the year. Cranked up the 80’s rock on the Bluetooth speaker and we started with lots of parking lot agility, then circled up for side straddle hops, good mornings, imperial walkers, Hillbillies, and arm circles forward and reverse.
The Workout: Plank snake around the parking lot doing wax on/wax off in plank position, while the last person weaved in and out of the pax to the front to drop into plank, then continually rinse and repeat until the full parking lot was complete.

Next was a build a Strike combo. The 5 stations were 5 knuckle merkins(start), 10 jab cross combos(Station 1), 10 jab cross hook rear uppercut(Station 2), 10 jab cross/clinch 2 rear knee strikes(Station 3), and jab cross hook rear uppercut jab cross/clinch 2 rear knee kicks and a flying front kick (Station 4)

Rd 1 – start, bear crawl, station 1, mosey, start

rd 2 – start, bear crawl, station 1, run, station 2, mosey, station 1, mosey, start

rd 3 -start, bear crawl, 1, run, 2, bear crawl, 3, mosey, 2, mosey, 1, mosey, start

Rd 4 -start, bear crawl, 1, run, 2, bear crawl, 3, run, 4, mosey, 3, mosey, 2, mosey, 1, mosey, start

Mary: introduced the PAX to Thunderstruck and was shocked that this was the first time they’d done it.
Finished with pickle pounders and homer to marge in cadence – 5, 10, 15
Announcements:
T-Claps (Recognition): Thanks to all of the PAX that push me to be better physically, mentally, and spiritually each day! Happy New Year brothers.
Prayer: I took us out