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The tale of 2 AOs

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4 HIMs posted to GP on a dry cool morning.  YHC brought the music box and joined Shredder at the entrance to Jones to cheer on the Classic runners assuming anyone posting would see us (not the case).  16-bit and Tetanus snuck past us and started the workout led by 16-bit.   Luckily I decided to get some rock work in anyway and ran into these two mid-workout.   

Warm Up: Who needs a warm up? (well turns out I did – hamstrings burning)

The Workout

16-bit and Tetanus started without us and sounded like a good bit of rock work and crabwalks.

All together Circle of Rock: Mosey to the Rock Pile pick a rock.

3 sets of 15x3ct of each exercise:  Curls for the Girls, Overhead Tricep Press, Rut Rows and Wonder Bras,

2 sets of 15X3  Rock Spanks (with and without consent), Mountain Climbers,  Rock Press, LBCs, American Hammers

1 set of 10x3ct Rockies, Box Cutters, Freddie Mercuries

COT

Announcements:  Sleep in Heavenly Peace postponed to June 12th,  New F3 Challenge starting up soon $10 entry fee.

Prayer Requests: For our country and our leadership, Bernie’s family with mother in-law passing recently. Forceps job situation to improve or change.

BB Continued

Wall of Pain: Shredder and Forceps cont.

3 sets of 10x3ct BTW with a failed attempt at Australian Ass Smackers.

My apologies for failing to realize the race was going to complicate the parking situation this morning.

T-Claps for all those who ran in the Classic – solid F3 showing: John Deer, Dusty, Norm, Abe, Dauber, Breach, Aquaman,

The Dawgpound has the Fastest Feet in South Wake

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Crazy Ivan Backblast

FNGs: none
Warm Up: SSH x 20, Hillbillies x 10, Imperial walkers x10, Daisy Pickers x 10, sir fascio arm circles x10
The Workout:  Group Exercise while 2 pax run a lap around the parking deck and then run the agility ladder. The Dawgpound showed us how fast the ladder can be done.
Mary: no time
Announcements:  Sleep in Heavenly Peace Event 4-24   8-11 am
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer: Prayers to be better fathers, husbands & sons. Prayers for our children as they start to return to normal

Play Ball!

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Little League!! Play Ball! #baseballgame | Play baseball, Baseball movies, Baseball memes

The town of Fuquay recently sent out an email announcing that they were starting up the men’s softball league again which got YHC’s old team moving again and working on getting the band back together. Excited at the prospect of hitting the diamond again I decided to pull out an old favorite that utilized a bat and a ball and, unfortunately this time, a lot of burpees.

FNGs:

Nope.  We barely had G’s, let alone FNG’s

Warm Up:

Quick lap around the tennis courts followed up by:

SSH x20 IC

Good morning x10 IC

Daisy Pickers x10 IC

SFC x10 IC forward and reverse

Imperial Walkers x10 IC

Hillbillies x10 IC

The Workout:

I grabbed a softball and bat from my car and we headed down to the first field going down the road.  As we closed in on home plate the instructions were given. Each PAX would take a turn hitting the ball to which we would all run to and the batter would call out a 10 count exercise.  If the batted ball hit the dirt before passing the mound we would all be assessed 5 penalty burpees.  After 3 rounds we would “run the bases” which would consist of bear crawls, crab walks, lunge walks, and duck walks, in each person’s preferred order.

I can’t remember all the exercises called but some included star jumps, squats, diamond merkins, mountain climbers, SSH, Willie Mays Hayes, and No Surrenders.   We only got through 5 rounds before having to fold it in due to time.  POTS, in usual fashion, was the last to call an exercise when it was all said and done and treated us to 10 burpees.

The total count of penalty burpees done was 45.  We were no all stars out there.  Add those penalty burpees to POTS present and the total number of burpees done on the day was 55 which, by my calculation, is about 54 burpees too many

Mary:

Back at the tennis courts we got down for:

LSF x10 IC

Reverse LBC x10 IC

Oblique LBC x10 IC knees to left and then right

Announcements:

Sleep in Heavenly Peace bed build on 4/24.  Still need volunteers and charitable donations.  Hit up YHC or LED for more information.

Prayer:

POTS’ wife gonig to the doctor for a follow up for some issues she’s having

YHC’s wife for heart rate issues she’s been struggling with

 

Always an honor to lead.  Today’s group was fun and I’d like to think that everyone had a good time.  When is it not a good time on the baseball field?  Until next time!

 

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Elite 8 Madness at Red October

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Warm Up: One lap around the soccer pitch; circled up for SSH, Sir Fazio, Daisy Pickers, Moroccan Night Club, overhead claps, seal claps
The Workout: 4 PAX chose two kettle bell exercises each; completed all exercises  Rinse and Repeat 8X.

1-8 Rounds (all 8 Rounds completed)

ROUND 1-8

8 X Swings (single arm)

8 X Tricep Curls

8 X Squats

8 X Rack/Thrust

8 X Upright Row

8 X Lawn Mowers

8 X Curls

8 X Arm Thrusters

Mary:  Joined Sprinkler and Mutiny PAX on tennis courts for some burpees, stretching and H2Marge

Announcements:  No Mutiny/Red Oct next week…meet at Ting for ultimate frisbee; Eat at Jersey Mikes in FV this Wednesday – all proceeds donated to Local charity (Military in Action); Saturday 3rdF opportunity helping Gump and a new charity (see socials); Make a bed charity in April – Sign Up (See 16-but/LED)

T-Claps (Recognition):

Prayer:  Praise for Doc’s daughter surgery, should be coming home, surgery went well; Fed Ex neighbor’s kid with cancer; UNSPOKEN   Sprinkler took us out.

Honored to lead.  -Dauber

 

Crazy Ivan

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The Workout: rotation of 7 bell exercises while taking turns (OnePAX at a time) 75 pound atlas ball carry 20 feet, five burpee’s, carry the ball back
Mary: LBC, box cutters, “bring Sally up“ push-ups
Announcements: ATT long ass run last Saturday of the month.
Prayer: prayers for Docs child preparing for surgery this month. Prayers for the family and friends of pumpkin spice his friend who passed.

This was a really bad idea. Also, does it even snow in Australia?

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To address the second part of the title first, yes, it does indeed snow in Australia.  When Teacher’s Pet asked this while doing Australian Snow Angels this morning YHC was legitimately stumped.  I had never really thought about that before but a quick Google search confirms that they get most of their snow between June and August.

To the first point, yeesh, what was I thinking?  Having been recently cleared off of IR (mostly) I returned to Q at Possum Trot.  I didn’t want to over do it so I decided to reach in to the archive and find an old beatdown that I used for Containment Area since those were all mostly stationary.  I finally decided on one because it didn’t seem that bad.  Boy, was I wrong.

Today’s workout was an ab beatdown.  It was warm yesterday and YHC started to think about the pool and the beach and then also thought how I had been mostly not working out for the last month and a half so I wanted to get started on that beach body.  What I planned for was a tabata workout but it didn’t fully work out.

FNGs:

Not today

Warm Up:

SSH x20 IC

Windmills x10 IC

Daisy Pickers x10 IC

Imperial Walkers x10 IC

Hillbillies x10 IC

Sir Fazio Arm Circles x10 IC forward and reverse

The Workout:

Expectations with the PAX were set.  We’d start with some “warm up” ab stuff and then get in to the meat of the workout.

Marionettes x10.  These are big boy situps where you come up and reach to the left of your legs, then back down and up to the center, and then back up to the right.  A full cycle is 1.

Captain Thor – started with 1:4 big boy situps/American Hammers and went to 10:40.

It was then explained that we’d be doing tabata abs, 40 seconds on and 20 seconds off.  We’d do each exercise 6 times before moving on to the next.  The exercises were

Low slow flutter

Hello Dolly

Boat/Canoes

Gas Pumps

Australian Snow Angels

By round two of LSF I realized this might have been a bad idea.  There was some mumble chatter about not realizing we were doing 6 rounds of each exercise before moving on.  Then, about mid-way through Dolly, Shiv walked off.  YHC assumed he had just gone to water the trees and didn’t think anything of it.  A few minutes later and POTS got concerned so he went to go look for him at his truck. He wasn’t there.  After we finished the round of Dolly YHC put a pause to the workout and we went on a search mission for Shiv.  Luckily Sprinkler and I found him running up and down the road by the ball fields.  He was modifying since he was struggling with the abs.  We were happy to see him and glad he was ok.

Upon returning YHC called an audible.  We would cycle through the remaining three exercises as the tabata timer clicked down.  We got through two more rounds before coming up on time.  No one was sad.

Mary:

The whole workout was Mary.

Announcements:

Nothing came up that was of any importance.

Prayer:

Price is Right thanked us for answered prayers as he had previously prayed that an EPR rollout would go well at work and it went like butter.

Prayers for Norm and his family as they heal through COVID.

 

It was great to get back out there and lead a workout.  I didn’t realize how much I missed it until I was back out there.  I look forward to see you all again more.

 

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Snatch is a favorite

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A little uncertainty heading into the workout with the health of the Q’s shoulder. No injury, just sore after jabbing a needle into it. Apparently there was some interest in Yoga, but no one spoke up so we relocated some weight.

FNGs: None
Warm Up: Sir Fazio Arm Circles, Good mornings, SSH, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies
The Workout: Consisted of building on previous exercises and creating a flow.
Tabata style: 45 on, 15 off for 9 minutes, alternating the exercise every minute.. 3 sets of 9 minute workout
Set 1: Clean, Kettlebell Swing, Merkins
Set 2: Clean & Press, Snatch, Jump Squats
Set 3: Clean & Press & Lunge, Snatch & Squat, Burpees
Mary: Stretching and finish with have a nice day
Announcements: Long Ass Run, Bacon doing Goggins Challenge, Update to Freed to Lead (What’s your story)
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer: Docs Daughter, Norm’s daughter and family, A client of Dahmer. YHC took us out

100% Satisfaction Guaranteed at PT

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FNGs: none

PAX: @Cancun, @16-bit, @Sprinkler, @Teachers Pet, @Endo, @Finkle
Warm Up: Mosey around the tennis courts with but kickers, high knees and others.  Followed by good mornings, daisy pickers, SSH’s, toe touches, and Frankenstein’s
The Workout:

Event 1: Parking Lot Extravaganza

During this event we did a moving exercise to the next parking space and followed it up with another exercise building up to ten reps.  First round was ten parking spaces traveling by a plank position and typewriter to the next space then a merkin.  RR till we did ten merkins.  Next we did a lunge walk followed by squats.  Then bear crawled foll0wed with mountain climbers and back to starting position with lunge walks again with lbc’s.

Event 2: Upper body nonsense…

In pairs we each picked out a rock of your choice then one partner starting on the long side of the road along the tennis courts ran with their rock to the next corner and back.  Meanwhile the other partner did as many reps of the prescribed rock exercise given by YHC.  We started with curls for the girls, then triceps extensions, rut rows, bus drivers, and ending with overhead presses.

Mary: We got rid of the rocks and mosey over to the tennis courts for Mary and COT.  We did a quick round of balls to the wall and then some shoulder taps to get us started off right.  Next, everyone got on their 6 for some abs.  We did flutter kicks, Freddie Mercuries, E2K’s, and Outlaws.
Announcements:
T-Claps (Recognition): Good to have @16-Bit back out with us!
Prayer: @Norms family dealing with Covid.  Praying for a quick recovery and the stop the spread within house. @Cancun ‘s son is starting a new private school.  @Finkle led the prayer.

Do You Even Lift Bro?

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Sometime in the prior week YHC got the idea to bring out the deadlift bar to Captain Caveman and pair each pax’s reps with reps on the mace. This format also fits well for Crazy Ivan – maybe it’ll make an appearance there.

The pre-blast mentioned lifting but didn’t quite give pax an idea of what to expect. Waking up early for EC yoga YHC decided to bring enough weight for reps of 135 and 185 thinking that 135 might be a bit too light. The sad news the day before about Daft Punk set up our play list and put the number 28 into play at various times too.

Yoga happened (thanks Dawg, Emeril, & Redenbaucher) and the cars began to roll in.

FNGs:

None today unfortunately.
Warm Up:

SSH x28 IC (In Cadence)

Daisy Pickers x10 IC

Good Morning x11 on my down/up

Sir Fazio Arm Circles x10 forward/backward – keep arms up through spinal rotation

Seal Clap x10 IC

Overhead clap x10 IC

Chinook x10 IC

Windmill x10 IC

Spinal Rotation x10 IC

The Workout:

1 pax on the deadlift bar counts reps. All other pax perform exercises based on those reps/timing – exercises stayed constant for 5-6 pax worth of deadlifts on the bar and included:

  • Deadlifts – alternating between two-legged and single-legged
  • Ballistic curls
  • 360 swings
  • Pendulums

Wiggly made it clear from the beginning that 135 was too light. We had multiple 30+ efforts, a few 50s, and one 60.

For the round with 185 we kept it more reasonable but still very impressive – 3x 30+ rep efforts.
Mary:

Ditch the mace

Absolution (groiner, down to chill cut, plank jack, up to standard – 8 cadence count) x11 IC (28 just wasn’t going to happen)

Boat / Canoe on my out/in – 28 total

Crab Cake x28 IC

Break Dancer x28 IC

Yoga – lots of forward fold to stetch those backs out
Announcements:

Write your back blasts!
T-Claps (Recognition):

Cancun – guy is killing it

Dawgpound – dude is strong

McNugget – picking up way over his body weight this morning

16-bit – getting back out into the gloom while on IR
Prayer:

Pumpkin Spice’s friend Mike’s family. Sadique (young man that Pumpkin mentors)

There are plenty of not stupid people apparently…

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PAX: Steamboat, Buford, Dawgpound, Tetanus, Tush, 16 Bit, Pikachu, Wahoo, Koolaid, Spinman, Midget for Life, Moped, Emeril, Pipes, Super Spreader, Chaps, Dahmer, Pots, Pumpkin Spice, Wiggly, Snap

Apparently this one never published, was stuck in Drafts folder.  Oh well, better late than never.

Weather called for rain and cold this morning, Crazy Ivan was the only option with a roof over your head so I decided to make a call to divide the ranks into stupid and not stupid.  21 showed up so I guess there still hope for F3 South Wake.  Or maybe we’re just the weak ones…  Regardless, I was happy to work hard and stay dry this morning!

FNGs: None
Warm Up: Mosey around the lot and then SSH, Sir Fazio, Frankenstein, daisy pickers, windmills, and mountain climbers.
The Workout:

Stairs and Sharing: We partnered up and one Pax ran up the stairs while the other worked on curls for the girls, triceps extensions, squats, and LBCs with a twist.  Partners switched off until they had combined for 100 of each exercise.

Grumbling Legs: We went halfway down the parking lot with front lunges and finished the lot with side lunges.  Then came back halfway with side lunges the other way and finished it with back lunges.  It wasn’t a popular one especially since the kettlebells came with us.

Tabata: 30 secs on, 10 secs off.  3 sets of halos, figure 8s, deadlifts, and Midget love handles

Mary: Midget cookie pouches, boobity boobity with a 6″ hold, plank rows, pickle pounders and a 90 second plank with shoulder taps, nipplers, and mountain climbers mixed in.
Announcements: Monthly Challenge
Prayer: Fumunga just had surgery, and friends struggling with Covid.