Lucky 7s

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I have “fond” memories of H1N1’s 1st Anniversary Q at Possum Trot back in 2019 so I decided to borrow from him for today’s inspiration.

FNGs:

Not this time

Warm Up:

Mosey to the parking lot on the other side of the bridge for:

SSH x20 IC

Daisy Pickers x10 IC

Frankenstein x10 IC

Imperial Walker x10 IC

Hillbillies x10 IC

The Workout:

We ran down the hill, across the street and down Church St to the bottom of the hill.  From here  we started our circuit of  Lucky 7’s.  We would run up the hill, do 7 Merkins, run down the hill, do 7 WWII and repeat for 7 rounds.  We stuck together and did all the exercises together for accountability.

After that we ran down to the middle school.  We did the ramp railing shuffle up two levels and then ran down the steps and all the way down the ramp to bear crawl back up it.  We did two rounds of each and then headed back to the park for Mary.

Mary:

We didn’t have a lot of time so we plopped down on the newly reconstructed pergola for:

American Hammers x10 IC

Pickle Pounders x10 IC

LBC x10 IC

Oblique LBC x10 each side

Announcements:

Travis Manion WoD on Friday at Cletus

Run the Quay about a month away

Prayer:

POTS cousin Jim going in for brain surgery

 

Thank you for letting me help get your day started today fellas

 

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Uptown Funk

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The last two time YHC Q’d at Possum Trot I was either solo or there was one other man there so imagine my delight when I pulled in this morning to find 5 other cars parked and waiting.  A good crowd came out to get strong together and to bring a new brother in to the fold.  I was “looking forward” to this workout for a couple days and was excited to see how it played out.  Hopefully everyone enjoyed their time this morning.

FNGs:

Welcome Rocky Road!

Warm Up:

After the disclaimer was given we did a  quick warmup lap around the tennis courts and then circled up for our warmup.

20x SSH IC

10x Sir Fazio Arm circles forward and reverse IC

10x Windmill IC

10x Daisy Pickers IC

10x Frankenstein IC

10x Imperial Walker IX

The Workout:

We moseyed to the gate at the top of the road that ran down along the ballfields where YHC described this morning’s fun.  The exercise I had come up with I was naming Build’em Up Ultracides.  The format was simple.  We’d do 5 count exercise and then run to a spot where we’d do those 5 again and then 10 of another.  We’d run back to the start where we’d do the 5, 10, and then 15 of another.  Run to a farther spot and… you get the picture.

The exercises were:

5 – Burpees

10 – Merkins

15 – Turkish Getups

20 – SSH

25 – American Hammers

30 – Squats

Our running points were (obviously) at the gate to start, then to the concession stand, back to the gate, down to the playground, back to the gate, down to the end of the road, and then back to the gate.

Once we got all the way to 30 we started to work our way back down, removing an exercise each stop.  We swapped the Turkish getups and merkins for time’s sake.  Even with that we didn’t get all the way through and ended with a 15 count.  I was pretty sweaty and didn’t feel like we lost anything so we headed up to the tennis courts for

Mary:

Circle up in the tennis courts for :

10x LBC

10x LBC with knees to the left and then to the right

10x LSF

10x Box cutters

Announcements:

Trash pickup this Sunday at the Prison Yard/Needmore Ruck AO site from 7-8.  Reach out to LED or Sprinker for more details

Sleep in Heavenly Peace eagle scout bed build upcoming and then need help.  More information to come on this.

Prayer:

Fram’s friend Randy from his small group who is dealing with cancer

YHC’s coworker Alan who is also dealing with cancer as well as surgery complications

YHC and my family.  It’s been a rough year filled with COVID, stress, mental health concerns with the kids, and struggling motivation for me

 

I hope you all enjoyed this morning as much as I did.  For as much as I’ve been struggling this year I always feel so much better after getting out there and seeing all your smiling, sweaty faces.  Expect to see more of me as I turn this year around, starting today.

 

Always an honor

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Burpee Golf at Possum Trot 2/9/22

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FNGs: None
Warm Up: Can’t remember but we did something
The Workout: Multiple coupons of Heavy weight. (Sprinkler wanted something lighter) One PAX wore weight vest and flipped tire while the rest of us lifted to an I/C 20 count of any upper body exercise you wanted. One PAX threw frisbee in hopes of getting it close to tire. For every step away it was one burpee.  We repeated this cycle twice and the tire went to the other end of the parking lot and back while coupons were stationary. Ended up on over 150 burpee count before Mary. Breach will blame it on the frisbee, but we may have just been tired.
Mary: We did stuff for our abs.
Announcements: Can’t remember…check slack.  I am just typing words at this point because I cannot remember the announcements. Which is why 16-Bit is the BB Nazi and wants you to do them immediately after you Q.  Cancun should be the social media Q…Or maybe he should be the Meme Q…Those make me laugh….HAAAAAAAHHHHAAAAA!
T-Claps (Recognition): Anyone who reads this.
Prayer:  Injured PAX, unspoken, Gumps Dad passing. Breach with safe contest and reconnecting with an old friend.

That hill was shorter last time, right?

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FNGs: none
Warm Up: Quick mosey around the tennis courts. Circled up for; SSH x 22 (for 2022), Windmills x 10, Good Mornings x 10, Imperial Walkers / Hillbillies x 10 each, Fozio Arm Circles x 10 forward and 10 backward, Seal Claps x 10, Overhead Claps x 10.
The Workout: Four corners around the tennis courts. Each corner adds an exercise. Second time around, take exercises off. It went like this:
10 Merkins
10 Merkins, 20 big boy sit ups
10 Merkins, 20 big boy sit ups, 30 mountain climbers
10 Merkins, 20 big boy sit ups, 30 mountain climbers, 40 squats
20 big boy sit ups, 30 mountain climbers, 40 squats
30 mountain climbers, 40 squats
40 squats

Next, we lined up at the bottom of the grassy hill for 7s. Air press at the bottom, monkey humpers at the top. I don’t remember that hill being so steep!
Mary: Popcorn Mary featuring great hits like LBCs, Homer to Marge, Poop Eater, Pickle Pounders, American Hammers and Freddy Mercurys. Wrapped things up with a round of yoga.
Announcements: nadda
T-Claps (Recognition): Rollback for the push in EC, Florence/Flo Jo for beating that fartsack!
Prayer: lots of PAX out with illness and injury, losses of family members
Praises: Flo Jo’s wife’s promotion, Flo Jo’s new opportunity at work.

Day 3: The 5 Days of Fankle

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Pax voted to stay dry so we left Possum Trot and headed down to the Nest to workout under the pavilion.

FNGs: none

PAX: @Hardy, @Florence/FloJoe, @Pots, @Sunshine, @Warbucks, @Finkle
Warm Up: 10 SSH and 10 Seal Jacks in cadence, Good mornings, Willie Mays Hayes, Downward dog into chaturanga up-dog
The Workout: First Event: Ascending testicles 10 count in cadence at 15/45/and balls to the wall, squats 10, lunges 10 each leg.  3 rounds

Second Event: Bat Wings – Sir Fazio Arm Circles F/B, Seal Claps, Overhead Claps.  In cadence 10, 15, & 20 counts.

Third Event: Abs – Lounge Act(homer to marge with one leg crossed over knee), E2K’s, and Big Boy Situps. In cadence 10, 15, & 20 counts
Mary: 42 count in cadence of monkey humpers to celebrate my soon coming 42nd b-day.
Announcements: CSAUP Saturday at Tequila Sunrise
T-Claps (Recognition): for all who showed up in the rain!
Prayer: Thankful for our many blessings, and to reach out to those who are hurting during the holiday season.

Céline Dion Would Be Proud

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YCH looked at the forecast last night and thought numbers might be low this morning to match the temperatures  but never expected them to be the loneliest number, leaving me ♫ All by my self  ♫.   The temptation to go home and curl back up in to bed was high.  No one would know, right?  But there was someone that would know, me, and I continued on for their sake.  And even though it was just me cadence count was kept, COT happened complete with count-off and name-o-rama, announcements, and prayer requests.  This may speak a bit to my mental state but I found it important.

FNGs:

Clearly, none.

Warm Up:

Lap around the tennis court and then circled up for:

SSH x20 IC

Good Morning x10 IC

Imperial Walkers x10 IC

Arm and shoulder stretches.

The Workout:

We moseyed to the beginning of the parking lot and started at the first parking spot line.  The first exercise was bear crawl Jack Webb’s.  We would do the usual 1:4  ratio of merkins and air presses, increasing up to 10:40, but would bear crawl two parking spaces in between sets.  So it was 1 merkin, 4 air presses, bear crawl two space, 2 merkins and 8 air presses, bear crawl two spaces, etc.

Michael Phelps at the end to shake out those arms.

After that we did what I’m calling duck walk Spud Webb’s.  These were similar to the above exercise but we did in cadence lunges followed by squats.  In between the sets we would duck walk 2 parking spaces, making our way back to where we started the first exercise.  Again this was done in the 1:4 ratio up to 10:40.

After this we did a slow mosey to the tennis courts and lined up at the end line of the far court.  Next up was my favorite routine, the crab boil.

Starting from the end line on the first court we crab walked to the same line on the next court to do an exercise.  We did this across all four courts.  The exercises were, as usual:

Crab cakes x10 IC

Crab humpers x10 IC

Crab jacks x10 IC

At the end we did two rounds of BTTW and People’s Chair before doing another crab boil back to where we started.  After that it was time to head back out to the parking lot so we could both warm up the car and continue on to …

Mary:

Circled up and got on our 6 for the following exercises:

LBC x10 IC

American Hammers x10 IC

Freddie Mercury x10 IC

Sleeping Hillbillies x10 IC each side

Announcements:

Frosty CSAUP on 12/11

Christmas party coming up.  Check slack, I couldn’t remember the date.

T-Claps (Recognition):

All the PAX that braved the cold this morning.  I saw those black ops running dudes going down Judd Parkway on my way to the AO this morning.  Good work guys and good work to all the PAX that posted everywhere.  There was frost on my pants by the end so you know it was cold.

Prayer:

YHC asked for prayers to continue putting in the hard work at home that I’ve been doing to better connect with my kids.

Prayers for PAX dealing with injuries

 

I took us out in prayer.  I’m thankful for all of the men that have helped give me the strength to not go home when I really wanted to this morning.  Before I knew any of you I never would have done something like this.  Thanks for the continued motivation

 

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

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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

Rollback That Weather Forecast

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AO: Possum Trot
Workout Date: 08/18/21
Really bad thunderstorms were in the forecast, so I wasn’t sure how many would show up or if we would need to find an alternate AO. Two PAX rolled in and the thunder never showed. We worked out in a steady drizzle.

Warm Up: State the mission, check for FNGs(0), and give the disclaimer.
Warm Up exercises

Main Event:
1) Number of the Beast with an accidental 7th station we decided to keep. This definitely added to the difficulty as well as the time commitment.
2) Group rock work. PAX took turns calling and leading various rock exercies.

https://www.strava.com/activities/5811834631

Mary: Various abdominal exercises. Finished with Have a Nice Day in the drizzly rain.

COT: 3 PAX Announcements and Prayers

Naked Moleskin:
Rollback’s Smiley Face headband was on point!
FRAM’s favorite part was the Have a Nice Days on the wet tennis court in the rain. It was pretty nice.
This was my ninety-fifth #F3Q21 #2021Challenge Q (ninety-ninth overall). Next Q is Sunday at Any Given Sunday.
-Pigpen

QIC: Pigpen
PAX: Rollback, FRAM, Pigpen
Workout Date: 08/18/21

IPC week 1

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FNGs:
Warm Up:good morning, Frankenstein, micheal Phelps, oyo stretches
The Workout:

800 meter run, 25 yard murder bunnies, 10 merkin shoulder taps, 25yd reverse murder bunnies, 20 blocker burpee thrusters, 25 yd murder bunnies, 10 merkin shoulder taps, 25 yd reverse murder bunnies

800 meter run, 25 yard murder bunnies, 10 merkin shoulder taps, 25yd reverse murder bunnies, 20 burpee horizontal block jump, 25 yd murder bunnies, 10 merkin shoulder taps, 25 yd reverse murder bunnies

800 meter run, 25 yard murder bunnies, 10 merkin shoulder taps, 25yd reverse murder bunnies, 20 burpee vertical block jump, 25 yd murder bunnies, 10 merkin shoulder taps, 25 yd reverse murder bunnies

Announcements: 9/11 TM 5k, 9/11 stair climb, possible Fuquay 10k.

Prayer:praise for time with family, prayer for our country and health

Flavored Popcorn

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5 PAX for a Q-less Possum Trot but we all pulled it together for a flavored popcorn workout. Great work men! #FreedToLead

FNGs: none
Warm Up: Windmills, Hillbillies, Good Mornings….
The Workout: Headed to the Tennis Court for a suicide-style all court workout.

  1. Gump called Merkins, Bear Crawls, Squats x2
  2. Abacus called Mountain Climbers, Lunges, and Plank Jacks x2
  3. Rollback called Heel Taps, Side Crawls, and _____ x2
  4. Money Pit called LBCs, Crab Walks, and Squat Jacks x2
  5. Moseyed for 3 rounds of rocks

Mary: Around the Horn
Prayer: Abacus 5 month old to actually have a sleep schedule (been there), Santana work issues.