The Thunder Taper

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Thunder Taper Night…. thank you LIPSYNC,  Crosby, Kubota for braving the cold conditions and rough ass Q. Kudos to Shredder for coming for EC as a break from work

THE EC – Shredder, LIPSYNC, Crosby & John Deere  cranking out 5miles mystery run. 

Honestly I lost track of the work out… still sore from excessive Murphs…… we did a bit of everythang……. lots of dynamic stretches as promised, Rocks… rocks and more rocks….throwing rocks, Preachers Crosses with rock, chest presses with rocks, WW1 with rocks, squats with rocks, Plank Walks whilst dragging rocks, Low Slow Flutter with rocks, Box Cutters with rocks, Mercian Hammers with rocks…New Management Mandatory Double Merkin Burpees… Curb side shuffles, Curb side Merkins, 10 parking space crab walks, bear crawls, Wheel Barrow car park Merkins…. amongst other stuff I have forgotten. Oh…….. Indian run all the way from top car park to shelter……. then Donkey Kicks throwing in Balls Holds at random times….. Mary we did 10 counts all round, then 5 counts.. errrr Freddy Mercury’s, LBC, Carolina Wine Makers, Diamonds, Protractors, planks…..sorry forgot the others.

Announcements- Half, Expo

Prays – Kubota job interview, those who serve, safety/Injury for PAX running half, crablegs… personal request from myself on Immigration and my wife getting back to running after 18month injury.

Pleasure to lead…… 2ndF Tapline

“We’re working Here”

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Warm Up:Mosey to Playground

20 SSH in Cadence
The Workout:

10 SETS
Pull ups-5
Merkins-10
Squats-15
American Hammers-20
LBC-25

FIRST TO SET 5
Pause for 5 Double Merkin Burpees OYO
Continue

FIRST TO 10
Pause for 5 Double Merkin Burpees

Finish with the 6

Mosey to white fence John Deere called it 5/10/15 up N back D’erkins
Mosey to other end of Soccer fields
10 star jumps together
Mosey to pavilion for 16 dips in cadence
Mosey to the tennis courts for some sprints
Sprint to the fence 20 squats back to fence 10 M’erkins
Back to fence 20 LBC back to fence 10 Turkish get ups
Back to fence 20 Peter Parker’s  back to fence
Wheel barrel half way 10 M’erkins finish to fence & switch
Bear crawl to fence & back

Routine Mumble chatter from Carpex Spectator AirSoft throughout..

Mary:5 count from each person
Diamond Merkins burpees
Plank
Homer to Marge
Pickle pounders
Wide M’erkins
Break dancers

Announcements:Bottle share at Pikachus Saturday @ 7

Crosby is at My Way that night @ 9

Holly Springs Half Expo Thursday @ 5

Holly Springs Half 11/17 if you aren’t running show up for some support!

 

Prayer: Kubota has a job interview Monday

All of us to be better Fathers, Son’s & Husbands

31, 13, 6 suck

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Pax of 6 turned up for some Halloween suck administered by John Deere.

Pikachu, Gump, Crosby, Sting, Airsoft, John Deere.

EC – Pikachu/Gump 20min Ping-Pong. Deere with 6.1miles hitting up Crossway and a Bass lake to Grimsby PR. Crosby walk from home :0)

Warm Up:Mosey from tennis courts to rock pile… during mosey some dynamic high knees, butt kickers, high leg toe touches, over head arm stretches and cross chest arm stretches.

At rock pile circle up: 13 Cotton Pickers, 13 arm circles F&R.

Collect a ‘medium’ rock and John Cusack back to grass at Tennis Courts.

The Workout: All in Cadence

31 x SSH, 31 x Curles, 31 x mountain climbers, 31 x squats with rock, 31 x Merkins, 31 x Ruck rows, 31 x monkey humpers, 31 x cadence timing plank, 31 x triceps extensions, 13 x Double Merkin Burpees (with star jump Bat Wing)

RINSE AND REPEAT X 3

john cusack rocks back and mosey to tennis courts.

Mary:Pax choice 6 count: as follows

Diamond Merkins
Plank Left arm up
Plank Right arm up
Reverse LBC
Peter Parker’s
Freddie Mercury’s
Merkins
WW1
Homer to marge Left leg up & Right Leg up
American hammers

John Deere closing out with 31 x American Hammers

Announcements:UTurn 6.30 HSHM preview, bottle share Nov 10th. Watch out for kiddies and teenagers on the way home.

Prayer:General prays… thanks to Gump for taking us out.

 

 

“That’s No Moon!”

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Warm Up: Mosey to Ampitheatre

•  SSH

  • Cotton pickers
    The Workout: alternating Q lead workouts

• Round the clock Merkins 2/4/6/8/11
• Protractors 15° 45° 90° back down back up back down
• American Hammers
• D’erkins 10
• Step ups
• LBC’s
• Mosey to Playground for a Full up & Down Six Pack
• Mosey back to Ampitheatre Balls 2 the wall shuffle
• Mosey to otherside of soccer fields for some Catalina Wine Makers
• Ran the length of Stinson – Grigsby -top of BB fields exercise at each light post
• S. Merkins, Wide Merkins, LBC’s, Peter Parker’s, Plank-Side plank-Plank-Other side Plank- R leg L arm- L leg R arm, Knuckle Merkins, Mountain Climbers, Homer 2 Marge, Box cutters, Low Slow Flutter
• Mosey to rocks for Jesus Press
• Mosey to Tennis courts for Single court suicides
• Double down Merkin Burpees 10 count

Mary:
Announcements:
Prayer:

2 years of the Chu – Part 1/2

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YHC decided to Q consecutive workouts to celebrate 2 years of F3 – the lovely folks at Thunder got to go first.

Peeping Tom joined YHC for a nice 2+ mile EC route – standard Cletus EC + a run by Black Dog Bottle Shop to check the new venue out (looking nice by the way – give it a go).

Warm Up:

Mosey to grass parking lot by rock pile.

SSH x20

Good afternoons x10

Standard Merkin x20

Mountain climbers x20
The Workout:

Tour de Womble:

Mosey down the greenway towards baseball fields, make a left onto the loop and stop at the metal bars.

Half of pax on bars, half on the grass for deep squats.

Reps of 10 and 15 for each group of pax

Mosey to park entrance – burpee broad jump from yellow greenway pole to end of walkway.

Mosey to grass between greenway and baseball fields – gitmo x2 + chilly broad jumps (jump over Pax doing broad jumps)

Mosey to hill between greenway and opening in fence between baseball fields

Did 3 rounds of run to the top of the hill (each time) and various exercises down (crawl bear, bunny hop, and run). Each round we did Merkins (standard, on my up/down, and diamonds on Butt Joint’s call) at the top and squats (standard, on my up/down, and on Peeping Tom’s call) at the bottom.

Mosey to grass near batting cages – stopped for some Mary to show off to the parents.

Mosey to rock pile for some rock work – in a circle, rotating between rocks after every exercise:

Triceps x15

Deadlifts x15

Curls x15

Overhead press x15

Groundpounders x15

Mosey to the grass next to the tennis courts – following the first Mary exercise we promptly moved to the tennis courts as we were all covered in hundreds of nats.
Mary:

Low slow flutter, freddy mercury

Stretching routine:

Tabletop -> cat/cow

Plank – runners pose down onto elbows

Plank – pidgeon
Announcements:

South Wake Beer Mile 10/13
Prayer:

Hurricane Florence safety

Bloody Hell at Thunder

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Pax of 4 gathered for a taste of the old management. Crosby promised YHC would bring the suck so he did everything in his power to oblige.

One 45lb weight plate and one fire hose joined in for the fun.

Warm Up:

SSH x20 IC

Good afternoons x10 IC

Daisy Pickers x10 IC

Mountain Climbers x10 IC

The Workout:

Pax were told to keep the 45lb weight plate off the ground for the entire workout – they weren’t told what the penalty would be but they had a good guess.

John Cusack the plate and fire hose to the playground.

2 pax do pull ups, 2 hold plank (one with weight on their back). Switch, rinse and repeat until all pax have done 25 pull ups.

John Cusack the plate and fire hose to the amphitheater.

Lazy Dora with the 45lb plate in tow – pax partnered up and between the two:

100 merkins – plank hold while not doing merkins

200 squats – squat hold while not doing squats

300 LBCs – 6 inch leg hold while not doing LBCs

Que the quotes of the day:

”Bloody hell” – every time someone told Brexit he had another round of an exercise to do.

”It’s never been 6 inches” – Pax not to be named

After the lazy Dora the pax John Cusack’d the plate and hose over to the white fence on the other side of the soccer field.

Partner 1 does Dirkins on the fence – 7 on the bottom rung, 7 on the middle, 7 on the top. Partner 2 holds a plank. Switch and repeat.

John Cusack down to the other end of the white fence for Irkins – 10 on the top rung, 10 on the middle, 10 on the bottom, and 10 on the ground (full blown Merkins).

After these Irkins YHC “accidentally” dropped the 45lb plate (and was quickly called on the “accident”) so the pax got to all enjoy 5 burpees 🙂

John Cusack to the tennis courts for Mary.
Mary:

Yoga – reverse table top twice, lingering for ~5 seconds.

Go into downward dog, rocking heels into ground.

Swing leg through to runners pose, dropping down onto back knee and forearms. Switch and repeat on other side.

Back to downward dog, rocking heels again.

Swing leg through to pigeon pose, again dropping down onto back knee and forearms. Switch and repeat on other side.
Announcements:

Holly Springs half shirt order is live. CSAUP in Carpex on Saturday.
Prayer:

Praises for Noah’s Ark’s recovery.

 

Always an honor and privilege to lead – thanks men.

Under New Management

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Thunder….

Warm Up: 20 x side straddle hops, 15 x cotton pickers, 10 x fwd arm circles, 10 x reverse
The Workout: mosey to first street lamp on Stinson…10 lap posts to Grimsby.. 2 burpee’s at post number 1, increasing 1 burpee per post… (65 Burpee’s in total….) Pikachu did an extra set… was unable to understand simple instructions it seemed.

Plank holds / LBC whilst waiting for PAX.

Mosey down Grimsby stopping at every lamp post conducting the following:

Post 1- 10 spiders,  Next post – low slow flutters in cadence 20, Next post – 35 Merkins, Next – 20 cadence American hammers, Next – 20 cadence pickle pounders, Next 20 cadence homer to marge, next, 20 cadence box cutters.

Mosey across the road down Fairground Rd, turn left on Barley Mill Rd to hit the currently closed Greenway…..Partners up, target accumulate 100 Merkins and 50 burpees with shuttle runs up the greenway (PAX modifies due to time)

Getting back to the tennis courts………….Indian run, 1 burpee… PAX got 3 burpees as we ran back to tennis courts.

Mary: Q led – 5 std Merkins, 10 wide, 10 fist, 10 diamonds, 10 dry docks. PAX calls in cadence 5 Leg raises, 5 burpees, 5 Superman, 5 LBC, 5 have a nice day, 10 diamond.

Announcements: Beer Mile, CSAUP

Prayer: Fallen F3 member in other group, crablegs

Warm up now means burpees

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It was a week of transitions for F3 AOs and Thunder was the latest as Pikachu and Buttjoint turned the AO over to Crosby and John Deere. It won’t get easier, you’ll just get stronger. 8 men posted to send Buttjoint out in style and Buttjoint delivered. Now if he could post in the gloom again. If you’ve never posted at Thunder give it a shot. Love how this workout has a completely different feel compared to the gloom.

Warm Up: Mosey from the tennis court to the open field. SSH, 10 burpees, IW, 9 burpees, Fozio arm circles, 8 burpees, Chanooks, 7 burpees, merkins, 6 burpees, something else, 5 burpees

The Workout: Mosey around the baseball field to the back side. Partner up and broken wheel barrow along the side walk to the baseball statue guy. Switch partner and finish at the concession stand. Three sets alternating balls to the wall and preacher chair.

Mosey to the playground. Stay with partner. One partner doing pull ups and the other doing box jumps. Group did 50 pull ups combined. Group was joined by skidmark’s 2.0 for some box jumps and skidmark completed a round of box jumps holding a baby doll at his daughter’s request.

Mosey to tennis courts. Stay with partner. One partner is doing suicides and the other is doing Al Gore Tree Huggers. Rinse and Repeat.

Mary: I’m pretty sure there were some diamond merkins in here somewhere. 3 count around the circle under the pavillion as we were kicked off the court due to lightning. Not because we placed our balls on the fence or that there was a giant sign that said courts closed.

Announcements: The Odyssey 10/20/18 CSAUP in Apex. Shredder doing self defense class at North State Sport and Spine. Beer Mile 10/13 at CBC. UTI looking for runners for Tuna Run

Prayer: Much thanks to Buttjoint for his leadership over the past year and the impact he has had on many men.

2 Years of the ‘Chu – Part 1 of 2

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YHC decided to Q consecutive workouts to celebrate 2 years of F3 – the lovely folks at Thunder got to go first.

Peeping Tom joined YHC for a nice 2+ mile EC route – standard Cletus EC + a run by Black Dog Bottle Shop to check the new venue out (looking nice by the way – give it a go).

Warm Up:

Mosey to grass parking lot by rock pile.

SSH x20

Good afternoons x10

Standard Merkin x20

Mountain climbers x20
The Workout:

Tour de Womble:

Mosey down the greenway towards baseball fields, make a left onto the loop and stop at the metal bars.

Half of pax on bars, half on the grass for deep squats.

Reps of 10 and 15 for each group of pax

Mosey to park entrance – burpee broad jump from yellow greenway pole to end of walkway.

Mosey to grass between greenway and baseball fields – gitmo x2 + chilly broad jumps (jump over Pax doing broad jumps)

Mosey to hill between greenway and opening in fence between baseball fields

Did 3 rounds of run to the top of the hill (each time) and various exercises down (crawl bear, bunny hop, and run). Each round we did Merkins (standard, on my up/down, and diamonds on Butt Joint’s call) at the top and squats (standard, on my up/down, and on Peeping Tom’s call) at the bottom.

Mosey to grass near batting cages – stopped for some Mary to show off to the parents.

Mosey to rock pile for some rock work – in a circle, rotating between rocks after every exercise:

Triceps x15

Deadlifts x15

Curls x15

Overhead press x15

Groundpounders x15

Mosey to the grass next to the tennis courts – following the first Mary exercise we promptly moved to the tennis courts as we were all covered in hundreds of nats.
Mary:

Low slow flutter, freddy mercury

Stretching routine:

Tabletop -> cat/cow

Plank – runners pose down onto elbows

Plank – pidgeon
Announcements:

South Wake Beer Mile 10/13
Prayer:

Hurricane Florence safety

 

Hot hot hot

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Pax of 6 gathered for a very hot Thunder session.

EC: YHC with an easy mile.

Warm Up:

Jog over to grass near amphitheater.

SSH x15 IC

Good afternoon x10 IC

Mountain Climber x20 variable cadence

Arm stretches
The Workout:

Since some of us were sore from the 5 year anniversary beatdown we decided to get all our Merkins out of the way.

Mosey to the nearby hill (directly next to running track) for clockwork Merkins, starting with 12 o’clock pointing towards the track.

12x at 12 o’clock, and then proceeding accordingly clockwise all the way around – 78 merkins

Mosey to playground – ab work to let the heart rate recover:

Low slow flutter x10 IC

LBC x10 IC

To counterbalance all that chest we needed some back, so to the monkey bars we went. 3 pax hold chill cut plank, other 3 each do 10x Pull Ups. Each group went once, then went again with 5x Pull Ups.

Mosey to the rock pile where pax were instructed to get a “medium, non-traveling rock to share”

Circled up for various rock exercises rotating rocks throughout:

7x Deadlifts, 14x cleans, 21x overhead press, 14x putting it all together for the ground pounder

Curls – 7x bottom half range of motion, 7x top half, 14x full range

Tri-ceps – 7x bottom half, 7x top half, 14x full range

Return the rocks and mosey to the metal bars along the walkway near the baseball fields

All pax on bars for upright bodyweight rows – x10

Switch to grass for 10x squats

Repeat rows x10, prisoner squats x10, rows x5, lunges x5 each leg

Mosey back to tennis courts for Mary

Mary:

Mary around the horn – 15 count each (except for the Burpees called by our FNG Urban, only 8x of those. Maybe that’s why the Big Blue fan got that name).

Announcements:

9/11 stair climb
Prayer:

Crab legs. Unspoken.

 

Great work men – hot one out there. An honor and privilege as always to lead.