Murphin Dora

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Pax of 2 for a coupon filled murph inspired Dora at Thunder on a nice wet evening. Fitting that it was murph inspired as the other pax was the site Q for Tea Time.


FNGs: None tonight
Warm Up:

SSH x20 IC

Daisy Picker x10 IC

Fazio arm circles x10 forward and backward

Michael phelps

The Workout:

Grab a coupon (45lb bumper plate) that YHC had in the trunk. One per pair, so just 1 for us tonight.

Mosey over to playground for a modified Dora. Total per pair of:

  • 50 burpees
  • 100 pullups
  • 200 merkins
  • 300 low slow flutter

While partner is doing the exercise the other partner alternates between squat hold, plank, and people’s chair, all while holding the weight.

Following the dora completion we returned our coupon and moseyed over to the main shelter for Bring Sally Up in squats to wrap up our workout.

Mary:

Following sally we did:

LBC x20 IC

Homer to marge (exicon) ~20 times

Announcements:

Tea time’s numbers continue to struggle – AO future is unknown

ATT long run 22Feb20

Prayer:

YHC’s M has had a back flare up

And Tonight’s Lucky Number is…13!

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7 Pax gathered around the flag on a crowded night at Womble. So glad to see our brother Sprinkler tonight on hand and with a double down too! YHC got to introduce everyone in the gloom tonight to my lucky number…13. Just about everything tonight hit that number. FNG’s: No sir!
Warm Up: Short mosey to the baseball field parking lot. Pax circled up for SSH x 20, Daisy Pickers x 10, Sir Fazio Arm Circles x 20 F/R, and some Windmills x 10.
The Workout: A few rounds of 4 corners kicked the real work off tonight. The corners were: Merkins, Sumo Squat Jumps, Plank Jacks, and Prisoner Squats. Count started at 5 reps and progressed with each round up to 10. Pax moseyed btw corners. All done together IC. Way to go Pikachu for finding ways to modify moves he’s currently forbidden from doing!

Pax then headed to the rock pile, selected their poison, and circled up for a series of exercises all with 13 counts. Curls for the Girls x 39, (gonna do a little math here) Tricep Extend x 26, Ground Pounders x 26, Bus Drivers x 26, Shoulder Press x 26, Rut Rows x 26, Squats x 39, Goblet Squats x 13, Dead Lift x 13, Wonder Bras x 26, Rock Spanks (new to this Particular group of men) x 13.

Chest presses for a count of 13 would follow. After each set of 13, pax would do a burpee, then switch rocks. This would end the round at 8 burpees and 104 chest presses.

Rinse and repeat except after each set of 13 chest presses, each pax would do a wide grip merkin before switching the rocks. This gave us 8 wide grip merkins and 104 more chest presses. Moseyed to tennis court for a very short Mary.
Mary: LSF x 13, LBC x 13
Announcements: Long Ass Run.  22 miles coming up.
T-Claps (Recognition): Sprinkler on the double down on an extremely tough day as a man. We’re humbled by your example of toughness today sir! Babe Ruth for driving that bus with the best of em’ tonight.
Prayer: Sprinkler, comfort for his family. Unspoken. YHC took us out. Honor to lead!

Thunder’s Blood Sugar

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FNGs: Welcome FNG Squirtle – another member of the Crosby family.
Warm Up:

Side straddle hop, Non offensive plant pickers, Sir Fazio arm circle, Good morning, Hill Billies, Imperial
The Workout:

Each round was 10 exercises done for # of reps = Kubota’s blood sugar/10

Round 1
Step Ups, Squats, People’s Chair, Toe Taps, Russian Dips, Balls to the Wall, Shoulder Taps, Box Cutter, Rolling Side to Side Plank, pull up.

Mosey to rock pile and get a rock

Round 2
Overhead Press, Tricep Press, Rutrows, American Hammers, LBCs, Heal Taps, WWII, Low Slow Flutter, Homer to Marge, curls.
Reept round 2
Mary:

Around the circle for 10 counts
Announcements:

Long run on ATT 22Feb20
Prayer:

Wallaby and Family, Kubota’s friend and family

 

Q Swap Week Countinues – Tabata Crush with Ultimate Frisbee at the Mighty SW Thunder

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I got the call from HOTY 2018 and 1stF Q Disco Duck asking if I wanted to Q Thunder during Q Swap Week with our SW Brothers. I emphatically said ABSOLUTELY YES!!! The day and time was not an issue with me because I will take every and advantage to Q a workout. I’ve never Q’d at Thunder before so I made it a point to attend a Thunder Q before said date. I went the week prior to my Q and John Deere was the Q. We played with tractor tires that were 220#+, a PVC pipe filled with water, sledgehammer, and some crazy weight stick wrapped in duct tape. Bottom line: It was a blast but tough workout.

Here is my take away with a workout at this time. I get a workout in before hitting the sack at the end of the day.

As I contemplate what I want to do, I pulled out one of my favorite routines … tabata with pain stations. Additionally, I wanted to have some fun with it and since Thunder is held at one of the largest sports parks in Wake County, I also wanted to play one of my favorite F3 sport (Ultimate Frisbee).

Since I Q’d a lot last year and experienced routines and exercises from multiple Q’s since my start of F3, I have made a list of my favorites. Here is what we did:

No FNG. We got the F3-ministration stuff out of the way and we Pledged Our Allegiance to Old Glory, it was time to get rolling. We moseyed over to the baseball field parking lot, which by the way was without any lighting other than the glow of the already existing lighting from the soccer and baseball fields. It looked alright when I did my walk through to set-up my weinkees. Yes I still do weinkees and you’ll understand why. When you have a tabata routine with 5 stations and multiple rounds, its hard to keep up with all the exercises. So no pride here, a weinkee it is to keep things straight.

Warm-up: SSH, Sir Fazio, seal clap, overhead clap, Moroccan nightclubs, calf stretch, and last but not least, Eskimo merkins to 13.

QIC had the PAX count of 1-5. Each number representing what station to start at in the thang. QIC also had PAX 3 & 5 get an ego rock to take with them to their station. They will leave it at the station upon completion of the time.

Thang: Tabata Crush with 5 pain stations X 2 (1 min 15 secs per station)

Station 1:

R1: Plank Destroyer

R2: Crowd Pleaser

Lunge walk to Station 2

Station 2:

R1: Heels to Heaven

R2: Low slow flutter

Bear Crawl to Station 3

Station 3:

R1: Burpee rock your body with coupon

R2: Wolverine burpee with a rock press

Disco Duck walk to Station 4

Station 4:

R1: Sumo squat jump

R2: Squat palm touch

Karaoke or side step to Station 5

Station 5:

R1: Overhead Press with coupon

R2: Tricep extensions with coupon

After round 1, run around the pickle twice and back to your starting station for round 2.

After round 2, run around the pickle and back to the starting point for thang 2.

Thang 2: Ultimate Frisbee.

Here is the thing about where we played. Womble Park is an extremely busy park which I mistakenly thought a field was going to open up (NOT). I had to figure out a back-up plan. I was not giving up on ending the workout with some Ultimate Frisbee. I found a decent size area right next to the tennis courts which we utilized effectively. It will do. We played Ultimate Frisbee for 23 mins closing out the workout. Rules: Dropped Frisbee (closest PAX calls a 10 count exercise); if a team scores, winners do 10 merkins and losers do 7 burpees. We did lots of stuff and each side scored a touchdown.

No Mary done today.

CoR: 11

NoR: Respect (4), mehs (7)

Announcements:

Q Swap week continues … Theismann will Q Tiger’s Blood Thursday; EarharT will Q Crazy Ivan on Friday, and Triple Lindy will Q Ground Pounder Saturday.

HFT (finest AO West of 540) Thursday … Sour Mash will be your Q

Prayers / Praises:

Prayers for safe travels for Cauliflower’s family traveling to see them

Prayers for Wolloughby who is recovering.

NMS:

Do what you love and have fun doing it.

Q Swap with our SW Brothers is absolutely awesome to do. It is an amazing chance to meet other F3 Brothers from another region.

Q #2 or 52 for me. Blessed and honored to be able to Q these awesome HIMs.

2020 Thunder Pax

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Pax of 5 for the 1st Thunder of 2020…. 

deere, butt joint and dusty with just over 5miles EC with some nice hills.

Warm Up:

cotton pickers, imperials, hill billies, stretches….. Deere has put on so much weight the infamous curse of the shirt constantly riding up the belly occurring.

The Workout: 2020 meant a 20count for each called exercise.

pax member called something, everything from Diamonds the pull-ups… making use of the tables for dips, step-up’s etc. 4 rounds

to the rock pile, each pax calling a 20 count, three rounds.

shelter – 20 count balls, 20 count preachers chair, 20 count shoulder taps – rinse and repeat.

Mary: tennis courts, 20 box cutters, 20 homer to marge (10 right up, left up) – 20 American hammers.
Announcements: None really – discussion about the validity of Tea Time due to poor attendance, Dusty and Deere hatching a plan.

T-Claps (Recognition): None
Prayer: general

Playing with a full deck

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Pax of four for a workout on a cold evening.

EC:  4 miles for John Deere

FNGs:  None

Warm Up:  SSH, Cherry pickers, Fazio arm circles, arm stretches

The Workout:  Started with a run to get the blood pumping to fight the cold.  Jogged along road about 200 yards, stopping at each light pole for merkins (1 at 1st pole increasing to 10 at the last.  Mosey back to pavilion for main workout, using a deck of cards to direct the flow.

Rotating through pax picking a card, then leading group in 10 reps depending on card:

  1. Merkins
  2. Diamond Merkins
  3. Balls to the Wall
  4. Shoulder Taps
  5. People’s Chair
  6. Squats
  7. Lunges
  8. Dips
  9. LBC’s

Jack:  WWII

Queen:  Mountain Climbers

King:  Plank Hold

Ace:  10 count recover

Joker:  Double Merkin Burpees

Mary:  None as we just finished the last card at the 45 minute mark and Mary was mixed in.

Announcements:  Suggly Sweater 5K this Saturday

Prayer:  Gratitude and safe travels

Work Fast, Recover Faster……and Love Burpees

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YHC pre-blasted Thunder as being 0% chance of running but 100% chance of burpees. Crosby HC’d but then got hung up – just a pax of 2 tonight pushing through what felt like a long workout on the tennis court.

FNGs: None tonight
Warm Up:

SSH x15 IC

Imperial Walkers x10 IC

Good evening x10 IC
The Workout:

Tabata style inspired  by Onnit. Each round is 20 minutes long, each minute being 40s on, 20s rest. During the 40s go through three different exercises, starting at 4 reps of each. If you finish before the 40s are up then your next round goes up 1 rep of each exercise. If you finish after the 40s are up then your next round goes down. Last 2 rounds are push yourself and do some extra reps.

Round 1 exercises (all single counts) – double merkin burpees, squats, side straddle hop

Round 2 exercises (all in cadence) – LBCs, low slow flutter, shoulder taps

Mary:

See round 2
Announcements:

Christmas party this Saturday.
Prayer:

Wallaby and his family.

Upper Body Workout

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Pax of 5 for a workout focused on upper body strength. No legs, running or cardio as many of us are preparing for half marathon this weekend.

FNGs: None

Warm Up:  SSH, Cherry pickers, L+R overhead stretch, fazio arm circles

The Workout:

Cycle through upper body parts with 3 exercise per body part, using a rock or weight.

15 Exercises:  12 Reps each, 10 count recovery in-between body parts

Chest:  merkins, derkins, wide grip merkins

Shoulders:  Upright rows, balls to the wall, shoulder press

Triceps:  dips, triceps press, diamond merkins

Back and Arms:  curls upright rows, curls again

Core:  LBC’s, WWII, Boxcutters

Stretching

Repeated 15 exercises, reducing rep count to 10

More stretching

Mary:  Rotated around PAX picking various core exercise for last 15 minutes of work out.

Announcements:  Frosty, Christmas Party, Holly Springs Half

Prayer:  Quiver’s daughter, health

Fritter Favorites

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I got asked to Q Thunder.  I was excited for it is a zero run workout and I didn’t have Kettlebells.   It allowed us to do some rock work and create some new exercises.  I asked some of the Fritter boys what are their favorite Chest, Back and Leg exercises.  This set the agenda, but I did modify them.  I cannot say how much having accountability in F3 makes F3 easier and enjoyable.  About a year ago part of my shield lock formed without me knowing what a shield lock was.   A couple of us gravitated to each other looking for hard workouts and pushing each other and holding each other accountable.  Just like this Q things are easier when you have a group of guys to depend on.

FNGs:  None
Warm Up:

Jog to the rock pile and circled up
Good Mornings
Fazio Arm Circles
Hillbillies
Imperial Walkers

Grab two small rocks you can hold in each hand.  Partner up and head to the Amphitheater.

The Workout:

3 Rounds of the Emeril Flow:
10 Fruity Peebles (This is  new exercise.  Emeril said T Merkins.  This is a modification of T Merkins with the rocks.  Staring with the rocks next to you hands in a plank position go down for the push up.  Do a hand release and grab the rocks.  Extend your arms out to the side.  Bring them back in and extend them  forward, in front of your head.  Bring the rocks back to their starting place.  Finish the pushup.  That my friends is a Fruity Peebles   — New Exercise

10 Goblet Squat Press (Emeril said Jump Squats, but with my achilles I’m not doing them)
10 E2K each side

3 Rounds of the Dumbo Flow:
10 Broke Back Derkins
10 Cliffhangers (Go to the edge of the Amphitheater  have your upper body hang over the edge. Do a big boy sit up)  — New Exercise

3 Rounds of Pablo Flow:
10 Bulgarian Split Squats Each Leg
7 Mickey Mouse Push ups
15 LBC

3 Rounds Dawgpound Flow:
5 Each Leg Front to Back Lunge Holding the rocks
20 Alternating Chest Press in Bridge Pose
Batwing with Ralphies
Fazio Arm Circles Forward/Backward
Seal Claps
Overhead Claps
Ralphies

Mary:

Staying at the amphitheater:

2 Rounds of
Homer to Marge  (Dumbo Favorite)
Midget Cookie Pouches
Toe Taps

Jog to the rock pile

Circle up for some light stretching

Announcements:

The Frosty is a coming!!!   Mark your calendars December 7th

T-Claps (Recognition):

Prayer:

All pax health
All unspoken prayers

Alphabet Soup

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FNGs: Swiss Miss

Warm Up: Merkins, SSH, Imperial Walkers, Good Mornings

The Workout:  PAX jogged down from the tennis courts for a quick warmup in front of the amphitheater.  From there we took the amphitheater concrete for a name game workout.   This workout was one of my favorite Thunder workouts led by John Deere.  Small change was made to the workout in that for more popular letters I added an additional exercise so we didn’t over utilize one exercise.  We picked a PAX Member and then worked thru the exercises that spelt their name.  We made it thru all the PAX with some slight modification.  Only spelt Yellow for Yellow Cake and Midget for Midget for Life.

 

A– Choose your own Ab Exercise                               N-Nipplers or Nolan Ryan

B– Burpee or Balls to Wall                                          O-One Leg Burpee or OYO Exercise

C– Carolina Dry Dock or Chilly Jacks                       P-Patty Cake Merkin(team)

D- Derkin or Dips                                                          Q-Q Choice

E- E2K (Mary) or Escalator (stepups)                       R-Reverse Crunch or Russian Dips

F- Fire Drill or Flutter Kicks                                        S-SSH or Smurf Jacks

G-Goofball or Guantanamo                                         T-Turkish Get Up or T Merkin

H- Hand Release Merkin or Homer 2M                   U-Up Downs

I-Iron Hulk or Imperial Walker                                 V-Van Goghda

J-Jump Squat                                                                 W- War Hammer

K-KNerkin – Knuckler Merkin                                   X-X’s and O’s

L-LBFC’s                                                                         Y-Yurpee

M-Monkey Humpers or Mountain Climber            Z-Zombie Walk – Lunge Walk over long area

 

Mary:  We did core work throughout the workout and didn’t have any additional time for Mary.

Announcements: Same stuff we’ve announced all week and on slack

T-Claps (Recognition): N/A

Prayer: Family of girl that was hit by a car.  Some others that I forgot because i’m writing this 2 days later.