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Downtown Train Birthday Bash 59

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Warmups: Good mornings 10x, Bat wings 10x 4 positions, Sidestradle hop 59x for bday

Main Event: Mosey to stage area in front of HS Culture Club

Absolutions 10x

Complete circuit around library with three stations. Each station with three exercises: arms/shoulders, legs, core.

Partner up for counts and form. Complete 59 reps between the two of you.

Station 1: Merkins, squats, LBCs 59 reps

Between: Absolutions

Station 2: Side planks, lunges, WWIIs 59 reps

Between: Jack Webbs

Station 3: Patty cake Merkins, squat hold, American hammer 59 reps

Finale: Sprints in parking deck

COT: Announcements: Accept the challenge. In this case, consider signing up for the Triangle Sprint Triathlon. Super easy.

Fence painting on Monday, May 20

Prayer requests: Hasselhoff job situation/opportunity

Unspoken

Second F: Coffee by Abe and Wild Turkey

Fresh strawberries by yours truly.

Honor to lead. Thanks for helping celebrate my birthday.

A bit of rain, lightening, thunder, but no breeze

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Good times under the shelter with some rocks for a full body workout featuring the best of counting by Socrates.  Humid and warm and we just wanted a breeze and keep dinner in its proper place.  Good work men.

Rain and thunder waited until we were almost done

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9.5 miles not going too far from Womble.  Ended with a trip through the neighborhood of Socrates and a flash of lightening.

UFO May 6th

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FNGs:1 Welcome Tumbleweed.

Warm Up: Mission Statement, 3 Burpees, SSH, Frankenstiens, 10 merkins, 10 squats

The Workout: LBC, Brokeback Merkins, and 3 burpees on the Drops.  It was a close game until Team Yellow stopped fooling around. It was a great play and a huge effort by all. 

Announcements: Painting Holly Springs Monday, May 20th 9-11. 

T-Claps (Recognition):

Prayer: Buttermilk for running, Unspoken, YHC took us out. 

VC

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Mostly road for 9.8 mile ride.  Fun down hill on Bass Lake Road.

Friday’s a Great Day for Leg Day

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Warm Up:

  • March-in-place (in cadence)
  • High-knees (in cadence)
  • Butt-kicks (in cadence)
  • Heisman’s (on my up)
  • Double Heisman’s (in cadence)
  • Side-straddle hops
  • Frankenstein’s
  • Willie Mays Hayes
  • Buns of Steel! (don’t ask…)
  • Good mornings

Heavy Warm Up:

  • Slow squats (in cadence)
  • Pulse squats (in cadence)

(Hold the Squat Position): 

  • Sir Fassio arm circles
  • Seal claps
  • Overhead claps
  • Hallelujah’s
  • Moroccan Night Clubs
  • Tighten the circle, do Slam ball passes in squat position
  • Green Sally Up (the whole 3min 25sec):

Moby - 'Flower' (Official Audio) - YouTube

The Workout:

Session 1, Round 1

  • (25) STRAIGHT CALF RAISES

Stadium Stairs

  • Lateral duck walk w/ squat (right lead)
  • Lateral duck walk w/ squat (left lead)
  • 1 flight walking kickbacks singles
  • 1 flight walking kickbacks doubles

Session 1, Round 2

  • (25) INWARD CALF RAISES
  • Rinse and repeat stadium stairs

Session 2, Round 1

  • (25) OUTWARD CALF RAISES
  • (1) flight stadium sprint singles
  • (1) flight stadium sprint doubles
  • (2) flights stair burpee/pushup combo

Session 2, Round 2

  • (25) STRAIGHT CALF RAISES
  • Rinse and repeat stadium stairs

Session 3, Round 1

  • (25) INWARD CALF RAISES
  • (1) flight walking lunges singles
  • (1) flight walking lunges doubles
  • (1) flight crossovers left
  • (1) flight crossovers right

  • (1) flight in-n-out jumps singles

Session 3, Round 2

  • (25) OUTWARD CALF RAISES
  • Rinse and repeat stadium stairs

Session 4, Round 1

  • (1) flight side shuffle left
  • (1) flight side shuffle right
  • (1) flight two foot jumps singles
  • (1) flight two foot jumps doubles

No Mary…have a nice day.

Announcements:

Prayer:

  • Safety and success for Rubiks’ street ministry 
  • Safe travels to GA for Buffalo and his wife’s anniversary

swirling around sugg

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A good 9.6 miles circling Sugg farm.  Down Cell Tower, Down Soul Crusher, outside the fence and finish down steeplechase.  Good time where had by all.

oldandnew

Friends Old and New

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FNGs: none

Warm Up: SSH, Good mornings, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies, Willy Mayes Hayes, Sir Fazio Arm Circles, Seal Claps, Overhead Claps, Moroccan Night Clubs

The Workout: PAX were instructed to go get a “mediumish” rock and meet up at the amphitheater. 4 rounds of:
15 Curls for the Girls
15 Tricep Extensions
15 Ground Pounders
15 Ruh Rohs
15 Tempo Squats
bearcrawl down to the library doors, mosey back
We swapped rocks in between each round. Once done, we returned our rocks gently and responsibly back to the rock pile.

Mary: Plank for a 10 count around the circle (170 count total), LBCs, WWIIs, Homer-to-Marge, American Hammers, finished things up with a little stretching.

Announcements: UFO every 1st / 3rd and 5th Monday of the month! Watch for 3rd F opportunities with the town that help support our ability to use the fields at Ting for UFO.

T-Claps (Recognition): 3rd Cousin, Bobby Dall and Slide Rule for joining us back in the gloom. Good to see you all again!

Prayer: Midget and his family for their loss.

Thoughts: Midget shared with us at COT that his mom always put others first. He encouraged us to do the same in our own lives, put others first and always give. If you maintain this mindset of others first and use it as your guiding principle, the decisions you make will fall into the right place automatically.

EGG-cellent workout

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FNGs: None

Warm Up: SSH, GM, WMH, Arm-circles, Seal Clap, Overhead Clap, Michael Phelps.

The Workout:

Circuit #1: PAX chose a coupon (sets of dumbbells, weight plates, weight vest, mace bell, kettlebells, slam ball)

Selected exercise from Easter basket (plastic eggs).  Stacked exercises.  Did each exercise 10 count in cadence: Triceps, Row, Curls, Halos, Ground Pounder, Death March, Shoulder Press. 

Circuit #2: Selected exercise and number from Easter basket: Urkins, Durkins, Dips, Step Ups; Round 1: 15 count; Round 2: 10 count

Circuit #3: Each PAX did 10 inverted rows on playground then murder bunnies the circumference of the playground. PAX alternated doing 10 merkins and 10 squats while waiting for inverted row bar and for other PAX to complete their murder bunnies

Mary: American Hammer, Box Cutter, LSF, Shoulder Stretch. 

Announcements: April Ab Challenge, Bottle Share coming up, 

T-Claps (Recognition): No Regerts new to F3. Two posts in a row. 

Prayer: PAX struggling to find work, struggling marriages, sibling with addiction. 

Last Call for Q School

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10 PAX for the final scheduled March 2024 Q school hosted at Downtown Train.

Why Q school? This is to help with F3 formality (uniform) across all regions so if you attend an AO in New York or Texas it’ll still be close to the same structure.

3 main topics to cover – How to Q? Why to Q? (new exciting things) Are you ready to Q?

Sample structure for warm up with some discussion:
Disclaimer, warmup, workout (the thang), Mary, CoT – 45 mins total time, get a watch. Assign a sweeper if you have a large group of FNG’s.
Bring a Flag if you plan to Q. If you don’t have one, ask site Q to bring one.

Conduct WU and have guys take turns with exercises. SSH, Good Mornings, etc.

Be ready for CoT with announcements and prayer requests/praises

Review during workout:
Cadence Count
Form and rep count
Know your PAX limitations if possible
Site Q duties
Q sheet, pre-blast, backblast
Exicon, backblast from other regions, winky, Co-Q

Thang 1:
Partner up in parking deck
P1 does Australian Mtn climbers
P2 runs to opposite long side and back
3 rds with different merkins after each rd

Thang 2:
P1 holds squat while P2 does 10 dirkens with feet on partners legs
Leg pushes abs
Patty cake merkins
Rinse and repeat

Mary
Various exercises

Thanks everyone for coming out. Now sign up to Q.

BS Out!