Sheepdog- Q Round up

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Warm Up: Pax rotated through leading; SSH, IW&HBs, Windmills, Fasio Arm Circles, Merkins, Dirkins and Erkins. 
The Workout: Burpee Box Jumps, then traveled along the brick knee wall. each third shift, three merkins. Lunges between knee walls, and three burpees at each end. Rinse and repeat with a session of Sticky Fingers inbetween. Ended with a review of last weeks armbar. 
Mary: LBCs and 6” leg hold. 
Announcements: CSUP & Christmas Party
Prayer: Norm lead Pax in a discussion on focus and then took us out; CrabLegs and others fighting injurie and sickness, job hunting, and families. 

 

Sheepdog- 1000 strikes

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Pax of 7

Warm Up: Norm covered the warm up with a jog around the parking lot,  Butt Kickers, High Knees, Frankensteins, Fazio Arm Circles, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies, & SSH

The Workout: Ring of Fire; Pax cranked out 1000 strikes while rotating through various workouts; merkins, dips, squats, squat kicks, & crab toe touches.

Mary:  Brought to you by LipSync, Pax wrapped up with LBCs, LSF, Freddy Mercurys, Box Cutters, & Windshield Wipers.

Announcements: CSUP, Suggly Sweater, 2F, Wolfe needs

Prayer: CrabLegs, Noah’s Ark travel, Families.

Sheepdog – post Turkey

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Pax of 3 for a sub-freezing Sheepdog; Dovetail, Sketch, and Shredder.

Warm Up: light jog, SSH, FAS, Windmills, Good Mornings, Imperial Walkers and Hillbillies.

The Workout: 50 step ups, dips, merkins (wide arm, military & diamond), derkins, squats, squat kicks, lunges, and a couple laps around the track. Worked on kick deflections and entering into a blood choke.

Mary: LBCs, LSF, Box Cutters

Announcements: CSUP coming up.

Prayer: Sketch’s sister & family

Sheepdog – preHSHM

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Pax of 2 for a cold, pre-HSHM workout. Dovetail and Shredder

Warm Up:light jog with various workout and stretching intermingled.

Mary:Ended working the core and more stretching.

Announcements: HSHM, raising money for Wolfe.

Prayer: spoken and unspoken.

Sheepdog – Leadership

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6 PAX got stronger with several stepping up to co-Q: Dovetail, LipSync, Gump, Norm, Scetch, Shredder

Warm Up:

LipSync took our warm up, taken us to a new spot on the block. Good mornings, SSH, Cotten Pickers,  Hill Billy‘s and Imperial walkers.
The Workout:

Moseyed around the side parking lot for the man avail. Started with some speed skaters and then one PAX  let the pace with the 00 strikes while others ran through various exercises; lateral waited polls, dips, erkins ( wide, narrow, diamonds),  waited bicep curls,  squat kicks, jump ropes.  Rinse and repeat with a couple variations. Then PAX traveled back and forth on the brick  knee wall.  End it on a demonstration of a new compliance technique.

Mary:  Gump  Took marry with some LBC, reverse LVC, toe taps, when shield wipers, Homer to Marge,  and some crazy climb your leg like it’s a poll ?!

Announcements:  Dovetail took a out with COT, announcements, some words of wisdom in prayer.

Sheepdog- Pressure’s on!

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Pax on 4 learned a new type of pain this morning; Norm,  Martini, Dovetail, & Shredder

Warm Up: Dovetail took the warm-up with some dynamic stretching, sumo squats with a twist, Carolina Dry Docks, squats with knee raise twists, Indian run to the back, and a cool breathing core drill.

The Workout: striking (160 total), wedging, dips, lunges, erkins (wide, military, diamond) – 2 sets,  step ups w/ knee raises, Frankensteins, and pressure point manipulation (cheek and Horse Bite).

Announcements: HSHM prep run on Saturday, CSUP in Dec.

Prayer: Martini’s mom’s health and new baby on the way.

Sheepdog – Escaping the rain

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Pax of 3 “escaped” the rain this morning; Martini, Gump, Shredder 

Warm Up: light jog, SSH, Fazzio Arm Circles, Good mornings, Jump Lunges,   Moroccan Night Clubs.

The Workout: Traveled down brick kneewall; Erkins, dips, one legged lunges, with lunges, squats, and bear crawls between walls. Then two pax worked on Open End Escapes while 3rd picked an exercise.

Mary: Ended with  Fertilizer

Announcements: U-Turn Saturday, brew taste coming up.

Prayer: Families, Crablegs, HIM of F3

Sheepdog – Winter is Coming

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Pax of 3 – Martini, Sketch, Dovetail

WARMUPS
Jog the circle
Curb step-ups
Side straddle hop
Lunges
Moroccan nightclub
Imperial Walkers
Hillbillies
Good mornings
Michael Phelps
Walking Samson stretch

THE THANG
Jog to the back
Pike push-ups, then wall step-ups
Pike push-ups, then wall steps with knee strike
Feet-on-the-wall merkins, then box jumps
Dips, fast and then slow

2x: Broad jumps, then bear crawl back
Broad jumps, then high knees back
Squat front kicks

CQC: MACH techniques 1-4

ABS
LBCs
One down, two-ups
X-man crunch
Stretching

CoT
Carey Allen (Boy George) – situation with his dad up in Michigan, feeling helpless, needing peace and guidance.
Martini’s mom (lives in Apex) just diagnosed with cancer, still awaiting some test results.
Dovetail and his wife driving to Miami this week.
Shailee & Josh (friends of Sketch’s wife) just moved to Apex from AR for a new job, new place, and all new people.

Sheepdog

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Pax of 7: Gump, Martini, Sketch, Norm, Pikachu, Dovetail, & Shredder

Warm Up: Short run, SSH, Fazzio Arm Circles, neck stretches, Good Mornings, mossy to the back.

The Workout: quick review; Rooting, WC Striking, Circle Pocket, & Stickey Fingers. Then, one pax set the pace with a set of strikes while other pax each had an  exercise. Rotated through 3 rounds: blocking drills, merkins (std, military, and diamond) squat kicks, lunges to knee lifts, and jump lunges.

Mary: LBC, Low Slow Flutter, Box Cuts,  Capoeira Push-ups, and Break Dancers.

Announcements: Carpex CSUP in 8 days, Beer Mile tomorrow, APE Defense on Sunday, 2F at Dunkin after

Prayer: Health of Pax, Families, Hurricane victims.

Sheepdog – circuits

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Pax of 7 with one FNG: Norm, R-22, Dovetail, Martini, Chickenfoot, Shredder, and Sketch (FNG)

Warm Up: Dovetail took the lead with some High-knees, Butt-kicks, Inchworms, Samson lunges, Goodmornings, & Michael Phelps

The Workout: mosey to the back for a quick review of Wing Chung rooting, striking, and wedging.

Then circuits: one pax sets the duration with a loop around the walking path. Stations:

Round one

  1. Runner
  2. lateral pulls, 25lbs
  3. jumprope
  4. striking
  5. wedging
  6. Bicep curl to arm raise, 10lbs
  7. wobly merkins

Round two

  1. Runner
  2. Curls, 25lbs
  3. Squat kicks
  4. striking
  5. wedging
  6. Arm raise to overhead press
  7.  Wobly dips

Mary: LBCs & Boxcutters

Announcements: Carpex CSUP & other upcoming events

Prayer: Crablegs and others with health challenges, family, leadership, etc.