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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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7 of Nipples … err, Diamonds

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You know the phrase “My nipples are so hard they could cut diamonds”?  Well, that was this morning’s experience for me, especially with the wind.  I can’t speak for POTS but, damn, was it cold.  Rolled up to the site to find POTS ready and waiting so after planting the flag and a bit of chatter we got started.

FNGs:

Nope

Warm Up:

Lap around the tennis courts

SSH x10 IC

Sir Fazio Arm circles x10 IC forward and reverse

Windmills x10 IC

Imperial Walkers x10 IC

Hillbillies x10 IC

The Workout:

I realized later in the day yesterday that there was no Q signed up so I didn’t have much time to plan anything.  A seven of diamonds is always an easy go-to especially when you have a layout like at PT so we made the most of it.  It would have been more interesting with more people because I had planned on doing some Walk Like an Egyptians and burpee plank indian runs in between some of the corners but POTS and I would have died trying that so we didn’t.

Typical 7 of diamonds, the same exercise at each corner for the whole round, starting at 7 and going up by 7 for four rounds.

First round – Set of 7 burpees at each corner (28 total burpees)

Second round – Set of 14 merkins (56 total merkins)

Third round – Set of 21 lunges (84 total lunges)

Fourth round – Set of 28 squats (112 total squats)

Checked the watch after and we didn’t have enough time to work back down so we moseyed off to the concession stand.  Starting on one side we did BTTW for a 10-count and then bear crawled around to the next side.  There we did People’s Chair for another 10 count.  Bear crawl to the next side of the building for another BTTW set and then another bear crawl to the fourth side of the building for another set of People’s Chair.

After that we headed to the knee wall for two rounds of irkins, dirkins, and dips.  We then moseyed to the tennis courts for…

Mary:

LBC x10 IC

Sleeping Hillbillies x10 IC each side

Box cutters x10 IC

Hello Dolly x10 IC

American Hammers x10 IC

Stretches including downward dog, pigeon, and child poses.

Announcements:

Watch out for more snow this weekend.

Prayer:

Sprinkler with COVID

Fram with possible COVID

POTS trying to fix his blood pressure

 

An honor to lead, as always, no matter the temperature.

 

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3-Alarm Fun Run – 2021 Year in Review

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“How did these runs with 3-Alarm get started?” “What are 3-Alarm’ conditions?” “Why does it burn when I pee?” Here’s the answers to your burning questions.

First of all, shout out to everyone who posted in 2021!!! As you know, 3-Alarm wants to meet everyone in F3 SouthWake. Here’s our start: 16-Bit, Banana Seat, Bobby Bouche, Bobby Dall, Bondo, Cancun, Cash Roll, Cupid, Dawgpound, Dumbo, Emeril, Fanny Pack, Forceps, Full House, Gillette, Go-Gurt, Gump, Lipstick, Martini, Maybelline, Midget, Pikachu, Slide Rule, Snooze, Sprinkler, Swisher Suites, TomTom, U.T.I., Wild Turkey, Woody, Yogurt, Yoshi and 2.0s 3rd Down, 4th Down, Flower, Isabella, Slash, Sketch, Vader. That is an awesome start! Good times are in the attached photos. Who did I miss?

How did all this begin? My daughter (F3 Slow Pitch) and her boyfriend (F3 Go-Gurt) were friends with 3-Alarm from high school. One night in the fall of 2019, they were Facetiming with 3-Alarm and he got wind that I was in F3. I had never met 3-Alarm before. They handed me the phone, introduced me, and 3-Alarm immediately said his classic, “Heeeeeey!” and “Let’s go run!” That’s all it took.

Pure Joy – 2019 November 1st Run. I invited Pikachu and Go-Gurt on that first run. It was cold and dark and drizzly and I was definitely overdressed. See photo. I knew nothing about pushing a running chair and barely knew 3-Alarm. But I quickly learned, this kid is excited about running! He would yell out, “Weeeeeeeeee!” and “I’m happy!” What a blast! Pikachu remembers: “My just overwhelming memory from the first run, and really all the runs, is just pure joy. Every time I run with 3-Alarm it doesn’t matter what kind of day I’ve had or what mood I’m in – he has a contagious joy that has the ability to just completely turn my day around!” Wild Turkey has expressed this same sentiment. He looks forward to leaving the work behind and enjoying 3-Alarm’ enthusiasm for life.

Time Lapse – 2021 Spring. Covid had been around for a year or so. I hadn’t seen or heard from 3-Alarm in a looooong time. While dropping off my 2.0 Zumba at Holly Springs School of Dance (HSSOD), I pulled into a parking spot, looked to my left, and lo and behold, there’s 3-Alarm. “Davis!” I shouted. We were both glad to see each other. I asked Davis is he had been running lately. His joy quickly turned to dejection, as he answered NO. Sensing this urgent need, I said, “Let’s go run!” That’s all it took.

2021 Tuesday Runs – Pure Joy. Since early June 2021, F3 has been running with 3-Alarm every Tuesday. Why do we do this? Pure Joy! So much fun. I asked 3-Alarm what he likes most about our Tuesdays together. He says: F3 feels like family. Everyone welcomes me with open arms.

3-Alarm has impressed me in so many ways on these Tuesdays. He has an infectious enthusiasm that resonates with everyone. He literally has fans everywhere. During our runs, we’ve had fans stop their cars, shout out from their porches, stop us on their dog walks—just to say hello. In the summer, this happened over and over. What do you remember about your first meeting with 3-Alarm?

Tuesday Splashes. We were settling in on Tuesdays and more and more PAX kept trickling in. Early supporters included Bobby Bouche, Cancun, Dawgpound, Fanny Pack, Go-Gurt, Martini, Maybelline, Pikachu, Wild Turkey, and more. To sweeten the draw and to make things more fun for 3-Alarm, we added a splash down at the end of the run. By the time we reached August, we had a record turnout in the record heat. See photos.

FNGs. 3-Alarm has a keen ability to make friends and did his own recruiting for the Fun Run. While out walking with Mama Hope, one of his nurses, he met people and got busy. He texted me and was so excited to announce that he had an FNG coming. The following Tuesday, we dropped by Cole’s house. Cole wasn’t completely ready, but joined us for his first F3 workout. He was wearing very thick sweatpants in the August heat and I know he was roasting! We named him Snooze because he loves to chill and sleep. 3-Alarm also recruited Charlie, a 7th grader, who lives in Holly Glen and rides BMX and MTBs. We named him Cash Roll after a BMX trick created by BMX champion Daniel Dhers

911. Things were not always peachy on our runs. 3-Alarm has several conditions (Polymicrogyria, Dandy-Walker Syndrome, and seizures). In late September, the seizures were serious enough that Pikachu, Wild Turkey, and I followed our procedures for this situation. We timed the seizures and called Davis’s mom, then 911. Davis spent a few days in the hospital undergoing extensive diagnostic tests. For the next 3-4 weeks, we had second F instead of running. If we ever have to call 911 again, 3-Alarm wanted to request the specific medics who he had befriended on his ride to the hospital 😊.

“Out of the Goodness of His Heart?” In October, Bondo organized a special treat for 3-Alarm and all of us—A visit from Mr. and Ms. Wuf. See photos and separate backblast Wuf Sighting on Acorn Falls, October 26, 2021. Davis’ mom asked me this question during the October visit from Mr. and Ms.Wuf. The answer of course, was YES, Bondo did this out of the goodness of his heart. Certainly a highlight for 3-Alarm and all of us. Woody: Don’t take that picture without me!

“That’s a big cat” In October the Halloween lights and yard decorations were in full bloom. Wild Turkey did not wear his glasses on these runs or was hallucinating. A giant Rudolf looked like a cat 😊 This was followed by many Christmas light runs through Hilly Glen. Again, lots of fun, see photos. Wild Turkey says the neighborhood lights runs were among his favorites of the year. See my favorite in the BONUS FOOTAGE below. What your favorite 3-Alarm memory of 2021? Reply below.

Christmas Party 2021. Mr. Ambitious requested an F3 Christmas party at his house. I explained that it would be a little challenging to organize given the short notice, Covid surge, and busy schedules. But, all the F3 brothers came through. We had a party of at least a dozen PAX and 2.0s. Pikachu brought the magic hot cocoa maker and we showered 3-Alarm with some additional F3 swag and coffee gift cards (like he didn’t have enough!). See photos.

What’s next? 2022 brings another 52 opportunities to experience the Pure Joy for yourself. Are you ready?

BONUS FOOTAGE

2019 HS Half Midget, Pikachu, Snap. Midget lined up Pikachu and Snap to push 3-Alarm. Pikachu remembers:  I remember hearing I was recruited with Snap and knew we were gonna have fun flying through the springs! The joy that Davis has on race day is on a whole other level. And at Holly Springs Half that day the grit that he showed was on a whole other level too – the bumpy course definitely didn’t do him any favors but he persevered and definitely gave me one of my best HS Half memories (and there are plenty of great ones over the years!). Note that Pikachu also ran 3-Alarm in The Quay, where many of you met 3-Alarm on his way to the finish line.

2021 HS Half Banana Seat, Wild Turkey, Yogurt, and 3-Alarm plus Midget, Matt, and Wolfie. 3-Alarm called out this event as one of favorites in 2021. Banana Seat helped Matt push Wolfie. Wild Turkey ran 9 miles EC. I was feeling good but did not push 3-Alarm until around mile 7 of the race, which was mile 16 for Wild Turkey! Forceps, Cancun, Wild Turkey, Mama Hope’s son, YHC, and others joined 3-Alarm and his dad for Second F at 3-Alarm’s favorite coffee shop, Our Moments in Time.

“Erin, Erin, Erin!” A chance meeting at the FV Christmas parade. This is probably my favorite outing with Davis in 2021, maybe because it was completely unplanned and unexpected.

Davis’s sister and my 2.0 F3 Zumba were among the hundreds of dancers from the Holly Springs School of Dance performing in the parade. We had both dropped off our dancers early and by chance walked up the hill together to select a prime spot to watch. Davis’ dad (Dan), Davis, and I joined a woman who was sitting on one of the built-in benches in front of town hall, poised to see her kids and grandkids pass by in their 4-WD Jeeps and such. “Kathy” shared her bench with Dan and I while Davis positioned himself front and center on the curb to wait. I must admit, sitting on that bench had a real Forrest Gump feel to it. I had a blast just sitting there hanging with Dan, who I had only met once or twice. Kathy watched and listened to our interactions with Davis and was intrigued. By the time it was over, our new friend Kathy was a big fan.

Watching Davis interact with the parade was amazing. For once, I grabbed his phone and took photos from there. Everyone was friends with Davis.

“I’ll email you!” About halfway through the parade, a convertible rolls up among the elected officials waving to the crowd. Suddenly, 3-Alarm sounds the alarm. He starts bobbing up and down and yelling, “Erin, Erin, Erin!” over and over again. Dan and I looked at each other like, What? Davis kept yelling. Finally, the legislature representative Erin turned our way and saw Davis. She was so excited! Davis, how are you? Great to see you! And as she is rolling away, she’s pointing at Davis, twiddles her thumbs like she’s texting, and exclaims, “I’ll email you!” It was the craziest thing I had ever seen. Dan and I were flabbergasted. And I was so impressed. This just showed the range of Davis’ influence. All the way to the Legislature in downtown Raleigh!

Bear crawls and duck walks and crab walks, oh my!

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Nothing fancy about today.  It was cold so we showed up and got our sweat on.

FNGs:

None

Warm Up:

SSH x20 IC

Windmills x10 IC

Sir Fazio Arm Circles x10 IC forward and reverse

Daisy Pickers x10 IC

Imperial Walkers x10 IC

Hillbillies x10 IC

The Workout:

Starting at the first median in the parking lot the PAX lined up.  We were going to do a bear crawl Jack Webb.  We’d start with our 1:4 of merkins and air presses from where we were starting and then, between each set, we’d bear crawl two parking spaces and work our way up and down the parking lot to complete the Jack Webbs all the way up to 10:40.

After this we did what I call Duck Walk Spud Webbs.  These are similar to Dan Taylors but reversed.  We still maintained the 1:4 ratio but it was in cadence lunges and then squats.  Again, starting at the first parking median we did the first set and then duck walked two parking spaces to do our second set.  So on and so forth until we completed 10:40 for a total of 221 squats.  And also me saying “down” 221 times.

After this was done we moseyed around to the back of the school.  We stopped at the road on the side of the school because I thought I had ideas but that stretch of road was too long for what i was thinking.  I’ve since come up with better ideas that we’ll visit next time 🙂

At the basketball court we lined up for a crab boil.  Starting at one goal we crab walked to the other side were we did 10 in cadence crab cakes.  Crab walk back to the other side of the court for 10 in cadence crab humpers.  One more trip across the basketball court and we finished with 10 in cadence crab jacks.

We lined up on the near wall to do a round of BTTW and peoples chair.  Afterwards we went over to the knee wall for a quick set of irkins, dirkins, and dips.

In mediocre Sheepdog fashion we circled up for some CQC and did two round of 20 single, double, and triple punches.

After that we moseyed back to the flag for…

Mary:

Circle up and on our 6.

LBC x10 IC

Sleeping Hillbillies x10 IC each side

American Hammers x10 IC

Yoga stretches

Announcements:

Wilmington is coming up.  UTI and Friends are also going to Myrtle Beach to run there and have some room open in a house.

T-Claps (Recognition):

Motor Boatin for starting couch to 5K.  Great program and great way to get in to running (it’s how I started).  Way to get out there!

Prayer:

Farva’s M’s grandmother in the hospital.

My co-worker recovering from cancer surgery

Kosher’s uncle passing away from covid

Finkle’s family friend with a recent cancer diagnosis

Gigawatt lost his father

Finkle and his 2.0 and their DMV woes

 

 

Always an honor men, have a great weekend!

 

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Farva Christmas Spectacular 12.24

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FNGs: N/a
Warm Up: 2+ mile solo EC run to look at Christmas lights.
Pretty standard warmup to kick things off and turned on the Christmas playlist to set the holiday mood.

The Workout: First up was Merkin Claus. Hold plank and alternate between sets of mtn climbers and plank jacks, while doing merkins every time they say “Santa” in Here comes Santa Claus.

Next up was time to decorate the tree with the atlas stone. Line up on the first line and take turns carrying the atlas stone from branch(line) to branch. To get past the first branch you must do 1 man maker burpee. 2nd branch was 2 box cutters and 1 man maker burpee. Continue this until the top where pax need to complete 12 Monkey humpers, 11 mountain climbers, 10 split lunges, 9 Scorpion dry docks, 8 stars a jumping, 7 Side hop moguls (in cadence), 6 boats a rowing, 5 crab cakes, 4 t-stand kicks, 3 prisoner squats, 2 box cutters, and 1 man maker burpee

Finally it was time to build a snowman. Turned on a get hype frosty the snowman mix and we got started. Bear crawl up the parking lot line and do knee taps, bear crab to the right and do waist taps, then crawl bear back for shoulder taps, and bear crab left for head taps. Rinse and repeat for the full length of the remix.

Mary: Bowl of jelly destroyer
Pyramid – LBC, reverse lbc, right lbc, left lbc for 5, 10, 15, 10, 5

Announcements:
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer:

Penis and Balls

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It’s the first day of winter.  You can’t wake up in May and start thinking about going to the pool and looking good, that has to start now.  Numbers wain during the cold months but these are the months that make the warm months easier.  Get out there and do something, no matter what the weather.

FNGs: None

Warm Up:

SSH x20 IC

Sir Fazio Arm circles x10 IC forward and reverse

Seal Claps x10 IC

Overhead claps x10 IC

Imperial Walkers x10 IC

Hillbillies x10 IC

The Workout:

We headed to the pavilion for our first set of exercises when the title of this backblast was found.  Inside the pavilion was a box of canned goods and various articles of clothing, obviously for some sort of drive.  There was also purple chalk writings on the floor with stars and sparkles.  YHC paid no attention to it as he assumed that some little girls were just playing the day before.  It wasn’t until we got down for LBC’s that someone pointed out that, in purple, was written Penis and Balls with corresponding illustrations.  Never would have guessed that was what it was.

We started with an LBC circuit pyramid.  We did standard LBCs, reverse LBCs, knees to the right LBCs, and then knees to the left LBCs.  We did 5, then 10, then 15, then 10, then back down to 5.  It was a total of 180 LBCs of one kind or another.

After that we went down to the curved wall for what I called an Irkins, Dirkins, and Dips bear crawl typewriter.  This worked out better in my head than in practice but it was still “fun”.  The goal was to start in irkin position, do 1 rep, and then have the last person in line bear crawl to the other side and get back up.  We’d then do 2 irkins.  So on and so forth until we hit 5 and then we started at 1 again.  When we hit the middle of the wall where the steps were we went back the other way.  We completed a full round of irkins.

Dirkins didn’t go so well.  We pivoted to duck walks because they’re faster but we only made it to the steps when YHC called an audible because he didn’t feel like we were going to survive the trip back down.  We then went in to dips with crab walks.  Once we reached the end of the wall we made our way back to the pavilion.

Here we did a step up pyramid, in similar fashion as the LBCs, with a set of 10 irkins in between each round of step ups.  Then it was down to the baseball field.  At the backstop we all held People’s Chair while someone ran the bases.  After that it was a quick set of BTTW with People’s Chair with seal claps or overhead claps in between.  Then it was back to the flag for…

Mary:

Rocky Balboa x15 IC (I think?  There was so much mumble chatter that I just kept going to see if anyone would pay attention.  Eventually someone started counting again and they picked it up at 13 and I stopped at 15.  I think we did more but no one was counting.)

Homer to Marge x15 IC

Chill cut plank hold -> Standard plank hold -> Chill cut plank hold

Pickle pounders x10 IC

Freddie Mercury x10 IC

Hello Dolly x10 IC

Announcements:

Baby it’s cold outside

T-Claps (Recognition):

POTS t-claps to Warbucks for helping him through last week.

Prayer:

Sprinkler’s family.  His mother is in the hospital and several members of his family have COVID.

Warbucks’ new job opportunity.  You got this brother!

Fumunga’s boss’ family and whatever crud they’re dealing with

Farva’s wife’s job hunt

Fumunga and his wife and their baby going through sleep progression.  If you know then you know and you know.

I still feel like I’m forgetting something.  There were a lot of prayer requests this morning.  Continue to remember those who don’t always have good memories or fun times during the holidays.  And make sure to reach out to friends you might not have talked to in a while.

 

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CĂ©line 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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Abs and asses

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YHC has been absent a lot recently due to the half marathon training plan I’ve been following.  Thursdays, however, call for ab work so I figured why not lead an ab-centric workout this morning and share with everyone else.  I also know that glutes are one of our most neglected muscles during our typical beatdowns so I figured I’d throw in a couple exercises that focused on them to round out the workout.

FNGs:

None

EC:

Gamecock

Warm Up:

A quick lap around half of the parking lot and then in to the pavillion

SSH x20 IC

Imperial Walkers x10 IC

Hillbillies x10 IC

Daisy Pickers x10 IC

Windmills x10 IC

The Workout:

One of my favorite ways to work abs is in a Tabata workout so that’s what we did today.

40 seconds work/20 seconds rest.  6 times through these 6 exercises

LBC

Sleeping Hillbilles – switch sides half way through

Zebra Kicks

War Hammers

Box Cutters

J-Los

Mary:

Very little time for Mary at the end so we did a set of 20 squats and 10 merkins

Announcements:

Holly Fest on 10/30

HSPC Goggins Challenge starting on Friday.  See Slack for more details.

Prayer:

Gamecock’s wife studying for a certification for work

 

Really sorry about not setting my alarm earlier this week but very glad to be able to lead this morning.

 

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I HAVE THE POWER!!!

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EC:  Let it be documented that Full House and UTI ran EC on this day.

FNGs:  The title of this backblast makes me think of a once FNG we had at the Cobra.  He was named Snarf for his love of Heman (I think that was the story) also something about a pet he had named Snarf.  I’m gonna reach out once I write this backblast.  Chat soon Snarf!

Warm Up:  Typical stuff – Windmills, Merkins, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies, Goofballs, etc.

I’ll put this next section in the warm up because it was more about me having fun, but we worked out too.  I didn’t let the PAX know what I was doing so they thought I’d gone crazy or simply had no plan and was wondering the parking lot.  Some might recall a Q of mine from way back when where I marked Purple Cobras.  Back then, I was inspired by some graffiti that was sprayed on the now Dollar Store across the street from the Cobra and decided compete for tagging dominance and properly mark my territory.  See my earlier backblast for the exciting details – https://f3southwake.com/2018/12/18/pffffttttt/

We ran around completing exercises along the way.  Plank Jacks, SSH, WWIs, and Squats were dished out.  At one point, Full House said something like “I think he is writing something…”  DING DING DING DING DING!!!!  Kosher\Woody congrats on taking the next drink of Kool-Aid at F3 and becoming site Qs just know that this AO has been marked for UTI (POWER).  Once you get a UTI, it’s not always easy to get rid of…

Photo

 

We went through the bank lot and around to the back of Teeter where we ran Carioca each side, then ran in reverse as we washed ourselves in the odor of the HT dumpster.

It was about here that Full House was afflicted with a calf issue.

The Workout:

Thing 1:  Earkins, Derkins, Dips, run around the Jiffy Lube 2x – Full House was asked to sit the running part out but he is stubborn and he soldiered through it.  I pulled the plug on this workout due to time and a concern for my friend.  But mostly for time (There was more to do)

Thing 2:  Mozy to the Thrift Store lot and partner up.  Using the islands and the curb facing HT as our boundaries.  Something shy of 11s with Broken Wheel Barrows in between for transportation between said island and curb.  Star Jumps and Prisoner Squats on the ends.  There was highly accurate counting in play thanks to my brother that always brings A Dash More, 16-bit.  In the end, it didn’t matter – I got bored of the workout and the counting somewhere in the middle to the end…  NEXT

Thing 3:  There was a wall nearby and I had recently invented/stole/borrowed/found something I call Ball Walkers.  So we did them!  Assume the Balls to the Wall position and shimmy down the wall on your hands.  We went down the wall 2x.

Back to the flag!

Mary:  Pickle Pounders, Homer to Marge, Dying Cockroach, and some calf stretching courtesy of Full House.

Announcements:  Holly Fest Sign-ups, Brute Squad this weekend, Purple Cobra wants you to sign-up on the Q sheet

T-Claps (Recognition):  Shredder is shredding – nearly done with his 75 Hard Challenge.  Good Stuff

Prayer:  Kosher’s co-worker recovering from brain surgery for cancer, Wallaby’s mom with early onset of Parkinson’s, 16-bits friend that recently passed and left a wife and 3 kids behind.

 

As the workout wrapped and everyone left.  Kosher and I talked shovel flags and said hi to Dahmer as he pumped gas.  Dahmer looked well rested, he said that he had just come from Caveman.  That makes sense…

 

Dahmer left and Kosher and I both went to leave but when he turned the key just some light clicking came from his truck.  I had done it… I had put on a workout of such greatness that I even managed to suck the energy out of Kosher’s truck!

The Rope is Thick…and the Pipe is Sweaty!

/in /by

All I know is the title of this Backblast contains two statements that WERE said by PAX at today’s workout. I just don’t know sometimes…

FNG’s: none
Warm Up: SSH x25 IC, Seal Claps x10, Overhead Claps x10, Imperial Walkers x8, Hillbillies x10, Good Mornings x12, Daisy Pickers x8, Squats x15
The Workout: PAX took turns leading various counts of the following ground exercises (most of which attached the plank position). Merkins, Shoulder Taps, Peter Parkers, Mountain Climbers, Pickle Pounders, El Lobos, more Merkins, LSF’s.

Pain Stations: The timer was a runner doing a short lap. The stations were Tire Flip, Pain Stick Squat, Kettlebell full swing to overhead, Kettlebell Row, Ballistic Curl with mace, Blockees, Battle Ropes, Dumbbell Bench press w/ 45’s, Brick Shoulder Progression. Everyone got in about 2 whole rounds.
Mary: Time for more distributive leadership. These PAX are good! PAX took turns calling Mary exercises which were: LBC’s, Freddie Mercury, Homer to Marge, WW2’s, Side Plank Stretch, 6 In. Hold, Box Cutter, Merkins, LSF’s.
Announcements: Brute CSAUP Oct. 16th. Breach has lots of free Apple Pie LiquidIV, 3rd F channel has info regarding partnering with town for Holly Fest.
T-Claps (Recognition): Sunshine in the house!!! Back out in the Gloom brother, we are better with you!
Prayer: YHC and job/career transition, Ricoh…F3 brother and family recovering from COVID/family still with illness, Sprinkler mom. Bondo took us out!