Round and round we go

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FNGs: none

Warm Up: Immediately mosey to the shelter where dumbbells and a kettle bell had been stashed ahead of time. SSH, good mornings, imperial walkers. Yogurt appeared from the shadows halfway through the good mornings and jumped straight in like a boss.

The Workout: 4 rounds of exercises, each round consisting of 6 1-minute sets with no built in recovery time except for one minute between each round. Finish the set before the minute is up and you get to recover until the next set. During each round, PAX rotate one by one into a special AMRAP activity for one of the 1-minute sets.

Round 1- 5 mountain climbers, 10 overhead claps, 15 squats. Special activity- curls.

Round 2- 5 burpees, 10 side step imperial walkers. Special activity- kettlebell swings.

Round 3- 5 star jumps, 10 seal claps, 15 merkins. Special activity- rut rows.

Round 4- 10 breakdancers, 15 dips. Special activity- overhead press.

Additional activities- wall sits, reward burpees for Yogurt’s fashionably late entrance.

Mary: LBCs, low slow flutter, plank hold, lower body stretches.

Announcements: Check out the 3-alarm run on Tuesday nights!

T-Claps (Recognition): none

Prayer: Injured and sick

Star Wars is Not Superman

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YHC was stoked to be back in the Q circle again. I’ve been battling several injuries, sicknesses, and setbacks for the last 2, but honestly 6 months. My COT message today was simple: Don’t take your health, but especially this fellowship of men for granted, it’s a great blessing that is greatly missed when you are not in it. #morethanaworkout

EC: Fanny Pack, Bleeder, Bobby Boucher, Nemo, Brexit, Batboy

FNGs: Nopes.

Warm Up: Good Mornings, Squatted Sir Fazio’s/Seal Claps/Overhead Claps, Frankensteins, Windmills, Cadence Squats.

The Workout: YHC promised mostly core and legs today with Indian Runs and so it was. Indian run double BOMBS hit first. Indian runs with stops along the way. The stops were: 5/5/5/5 Brokeback Merkins, 10/10/10/10 Outlaws/Overhead Claps, 15/15/15/15 Merkins/Marge Hold (Bridge), 20/10/20/10 Big Boy Sit Ups/Box Cutters, 50/50 Squats/Superman Hold…this is where Cancun got slightly confused on his 80’s adventure music…it’s Superman, not Star Wars!

Once BOMBS were built, a variation on BLIMPS was up next. The group ran small hill repeats with an exercise between. Each time we added 1 to the hill repeats between exercises. Exercises between were: 10 Bobby Hurley, 20 Lunges, 30 Imperial Walkers, 40 (total count Mary as dictated by PAX), 50 count Plank Hold, with a run back for about 4 mins. of Stretching.

Mary: Plenty of it during!

Announcements:

T-Claps (Recognition): Stubs, hitting the 6 month mark in his journey of recovery.

Prayer: Stubs and continued recovery, Ginzu with a pinched nerve is down for a bit, PAX who are in ruts…reach out. YHC, still banged up and recovering…but hopeful the comeback is beginning. We make each other stronger…don’t forget it!

Simple but Effective at TBD

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FNGs: none
Warm Up: SSH, Good Mornings, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies, Windmills, Sir Fazio Arm Circles, Seal Claps, Overhead Claps
The Workout:
Thing 1
5 rounds of: SSH, Merkins, Ruh Rohs, WWIIs, Goblet Squats (20 each). Sprint to the end of the parking lot, mosey back.
Thing 2
2 rounds of: 20 count x4 People’s Chair, Urkins x10, Dips x10, Durkins x10
Mary: Popcorn Mary (American Hammers, LBCs, Low Slow Flutter, Homer-to-Marge) followed by yoga
Announcements: none
Prayer: Bat Boy’s ankle

Embrace the suck

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The gloom was earning its name today. YHC arrived with a light shower. Set a couple pumpkins on the tables and turned some tunes on. 8 PAX came around the corner to join under the shelter at 0530. I’ll admit I’m usually the one that will go to a shelter during rain to deliver a dry beat down. Not today! I’m adjusting back into the boot camp world and I needed to embrace the suck more than anyone. Here’s how it went down.

Warm up
Good mornings
Windmills
Fozio arm circles
SSH’s

Pumpkin toss Indian run
– if a pumpkin drops, 3 burpees for everyone. If it breaks, 10 burpees.
– Pax made it 50 ft before the first one hit and burst. 2nd pumpkin made it just over half way before the drop and burst.

Indian run to amphitheater (no more pumpkins)
– Single leg squats at ledge x10 R/L
– Australian mtn climbers x10 IC
– Single leg squats x10 left R/L
– Wall sit hallelujah’s x10 IC
– Single leg squats x10 left R/L
– Australian mtn climbers x10 IC

Indian run to stairs across street
– Bunny hops up
– Carolina dry dock shoulder taps at top x10
– WWI’s at top x10
– Run loop and repeat 5 times

Mosey back to tennis courts
Bear crawl suicides, crawl bear on return, 5 lines total

Mary
LBC’s
Pretzels
Plank
Chillcut plank

It felt amazing today! Looking forward to leading more and meeting more of the newer PAX. Thanks for allowing me to lead such a strong group. Aye!

BS Out

TBD – Top Body Destruction

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PAX:  Moose, Yogurt, Bleeder, Best in Show, Bondo, Corn Cob, and welcome to 9-Ball, visiting from F3 Cape Fear
Warm Up:  SSH, Good morning, some other things probably
The Workout:  Today’s theme was Shoulder/Bi/Tri, repeato.  Pax made their way to the rock pile, made their selection then stepped onto the adjacent parking lot.  Carolina dry docks, bear crawl halfway down the lot, LBCs, crab walk to the far end of the lot, then more CDD.  Mosey back to start for curls for the girls, bear crawl/crab walk.  Mosey to picnic tables for dips.

I think we got 4 rounds of this in – sometimes Wonder Bra or Shoulder Press subbed in for CDD, but curls and dips remained the same.
Mary:  Side hip raises, box cutter, dying cockroach.    COT welcomed some runners, Brexit, Wild Turkey, Bobby Boucher, Hasselhoff and Nemo.
Announcements:  Nope
T-Claps (Recognition):  Everyone present, for pushing through the humidity.
Prayer:  A close friend of mine lost a nephew over the weekend, visiting from TX for a family reunion, swimming at the NC coast.   Rip tide took two boys out, one was rescued.

BLIMPS cut short

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4 PAX at TBD. One notable fartsack from Kosher and one tardy but glad to see Stubs back out.

Warm up down at shelter
Good mornings
SSH
Daisy pickers
Imperial squat walkers
Michael Phelps

Hindenburg BLIMPS
Laps around track at soccer fields stopping at 4 corners for exercises
Burpees x10 each corner
Lunges x20 each
Imperial walkers x30 each
Merkins x40 each
Due to time we went to the parking lot to finish up.
Plank jacks x50 each (2 sets)
Squats x60 each (2 sets)

Mary
Boat canoes x10

Praises for Stubs return. Great push today. YHC’s fault on distance between exercises which caused us to come up short. Maybe we can repeat it sometime soon.

BS Out!

Womble Graffiti Art Museum @ TBD

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PAX: Breach, Yogurt, Bleeder, Cancun, Tetanus, Kosher on the Q

FNGs: nada

Warm Up:

Good mornings, 5 burpees for late appearance from Tetanus, SSH, Sir Fazio Arm Circles forward/reverse, Hillbillies, Imperial Walkers

The Workout:

PAX moseyed around the soccer field to the Ivan parking lot. There we partnered up – PAX ran opposite ways around the parking lot and completed 5 rounds of 10x pattycake merkins on one side, then 10 pattycake WW2s on the other side. Some complaining came from the PAX…something said about already having a mile on the watch…the beatings would continue until morale improved….

Moseyed to the amphitheater and completed 3 rounds of heels to heaven with legs hanging off of the edge of the lower wall, irkins, and dips. Then completed 3 rounds of people’s chair – 15 count each PAX, with chillcut plank hold 15 count each PAX in between. Observed a fair amount of “local art” on the amphitheater. Was it impressionist? Abstract? Still life? Who knows…

Moseyed to the rock pile – did a circuit of overhead press, chest press, ruh rohs, skullcrushers, goblet squats, return your rocks

Moseyed to the picnic shelter for 2 rounds of up and over the picnic tables.

Moseyed back to the tennis courts for popcorn Mary.

Mary:

Popcorn Mary consisted of boxcutters, heel taps, Freddie Mercury, Homer to Marge, dying cockroach

Announcements: Cookout July 30th

T-Claps (Recognition): Bleeder, Yogurt, Breach on the blazing fast EC

Prayer: Unity, PAX doing 75 hard, new jobs, travel, 2.0s with sleep issues

Can You Smell the Granite?

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First day of the June Challenge and dues were showing up eager to start posting some points. I haven’t written a backlist in about 2 months…but nothing like a challenge to light a fire under you…so here goes! Great to see these 11 guys out there pushing each other…while we pushed rocks today and seeing all these HIM putting in a strong pace on the indian runs!

EC: Dahmer, Bleeder, Yogurt, YHC

FNG’s: None
Warm Up: SSH x 20, Good Mornings x 10, Sir Fazio’s x 10 (F/R), Imperial Walkers x 10, Chinooks x 10, Windmills x 10, a quick mosey over to the bridge.
The Workout: Two lines, mile long figure 8 Indian Run around and through the ball fields, stopping 4 times: 5 burpees/15 merkins, 5 burpees/15 ct. BTTW, 5 burpees/15 irkins, 5 burpees/15 ct. People’s Chair.  A quick mosey together over to the rock pile and while many PAX began circling up, YHC instructed them rather to head over to the grassy hill for 11’s. There was some groaning about…

11’s on the grassy hill being sire not to wake the residents. Ground Pounders, run up the hill, Wonderers, all IC.

Once finished, we did a rock push bear crawl back across the parking lot with lots of guys picking up the 6…which I think was me today.

We circled up for some rock exercises which included two rounds of the following: Curls for the Girls x 15, Triceps x 15, Rut-Rows x 10 IC. Guys were told to grab 2 smaller hand held rocks and we did a series of 20 ct. shoulder exercises including Front Raise, Lateral Raise, and Press.

We returned rocks and returned the long way around Womble in 1 Indian Run line with a jailbreak at the end. We logged just a bit over two miles as we headed in for Mary.

Mary: LBC’s x 15 IC, LSF’s x 15 IC, Homer to Marge x 15 IC. 30 seconds of Have a nice Day!
Announcements: June Challenge underway, Help Stubs with the Meal Train on 3rd F.
T-Claps (Recognition): Sand Crab gave YHC some COT kudos!
Prayer: FedEx two boys are graduating HS!, some guidance for them as they move into the future. Prayers for Stubs, Lipstick. YHC took us out!

Hump Day TBD

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Warm up lap to lower lot with agility
Warm ups
Willie Mays Hayes
Air squared
Slalom
Squatted moracan night club
Michael Phelps

Reverse broke back dirkens x10 3 rds
Indian run to upper Volleyball lot

Curb to curb 7’s
Mike Tyson’s
Dirkens
Bear crawls across

Big loop Indian run back to tennis courts
Crabs in a bucket
Broad jumps across court broad jump burpees back across

Mary
LBCs
Reverse LBCs
Box cutters
Plank
Catalina wine mixer
Pickle pounders

Great work men!

BS out

F3 Welcomes Baseball Season ’22

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FNGs: none
Warm Up: SSH, Good Mornings, Imperial Walkers, Windmills, Sir Fazio Arm Circles (front/back), Seal Claps, Overhead Claps
The Workout: My daughter had her first baseball practice of the season last night, so that gave me a good idea.

Thing 1: Diamonds on the ball field.
PAX gathered at home plate. Bear crawl to first base where we did squats. Bear crawl to second base where we did squats and merkins. Bear crawl to third base for squats, merkins and WWIIs. Finally, bear crawl home for squats, merkins, WWIIs and side lunges. One more round as we start taking exercises off.

Thing 2: PAX split into two groups. Group 1 holds squat while group 2 sprints to the fence and moseys back. Switch. Then group 1 holds plank while group 2 sprints out and back. Switch.

Thing 3: People’s Chair, 10 count down the line x8. Balls to the Wall, 10 count down the line x8.

Moseyed back to the parking lot for Mary (both tennis courts were taken!).
Mary: A couple of Mary exercises (can’t remember, sorry) and group stretches before closing out.
Prayer: Lots of guys dealing with sickness or injury, either personally or in their inner circle. Three Alarm’s upcoming surgery. Reach out to your fellow PAX that you haven’t heard from in a while.