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Trotting the Boulder Bases

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Diamond Rio at Possum Trot

FNGs: None

Warm Up: Good mornings, Side Straddle Hops, Windmills, Imperial Walkers, Sir Fazio Arm Circles, Seal Claps

The Workout: 4 HIM moseyed to the rocks, grabbed our pick of the litter to play a game YHC calls Boulder Bases. Along the road surrounding the tennis courts, we started at one corner (1st base) doing rock exercises of 10 overheads, 10 triceps, 10 squats, and 10 curls for the girls. Rifle carried our rocks to 2nd base and dropped them before doing non-rock exercises at each base (20 plank jacks at 2nd base, add 15 Merkins at 3rd base, add 10 side straddle hops at “home plate,” and add 5 burpees at 1st base) before returning to 2nd base to do another round of rock exercises. Then we rifle carried the rocks to 3rd base. We carried on this routine until we could get the rocks to home plate. We changed up the non-rock exercises throughout, but kept the same structure of 20 reps, +15 reps, +10 reps, +5 burpees. At Home Plate, Diamond Rio’s 90’s hit song Nowhere Bound was played on repeat the entire workout because
why not?

Mary: shoulder stretches, downward dog, and some cobra for a quick wrap up

Announcements: South Wake picnic July 30th

T-Claps (Recognition): T-Claps for @Dangle, the pride of Wilson, NC, joining us in the gloom at F3 South Wake and cleaning up the Quay Walmart in the daylight!

Prayer: Unspoken prayers lifted up

Wiffleballs in the Nest

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FNGs: None
Warm Up: Good mornings, Side Straddle Hops, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies, Sir Fazio Arm Circles, Seal Claps
The Workout:

6 PAX moseyed over to the Middle School steps. We broke into 1s (Breach, Pumps, and KITTYLTTR) and 2s (Abacus, Warbucks, and Cupid). 1s climbed up the rails while 2s did dips and lunges. Switched. 3 sets.

Then PAX moseyed over to the baseball field for a wild game of Wiffleball. Bats were flying after the wiffleballs popped up by my daughter’s pitching machine. Homer = getting the wiffleball into the grass. Sticking to our 1s and 2s, if a team hit a homer, the opposing team had to do Balls to the Wall along the backstop while the home run team ran the bases sprinting to 1st, karaoke to 2nd, back pedal to 3rd, and karaoke to home plate. If a team didn’t get the homer, that team had to crab walk to 1st base and back pedal back while the opposing team enjoyed some shoulder press squats (don’t know the real exercise name). Humble brag: YHC’s team won the game 5 to 3. Props to Cupid and Warbucks! Hit the batting cages Breach, Pumps, and KITTYLTTR!

Mary: 7 Minute Abs (give or take a minute) – Low Slow Flutters, Freddie Mercuries, LBC, Pickle Pounders, downward dog
Announcements: South Wake picnic July 30th
T-Claps (Recognition): YHC is celebrating his 8-year anniversary with the M today.
Prayer: Praise God for 8 years with M. Prayers up for the unspoken prayer.

Post-workout, All PAX joined in for some 2ndF homebrewed coffee courtesy of YHC.

Prison Yard work ain’t easy but the coffee’s good

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Warm Up: Side Straddle Hops, Good mornings, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies, Fonzi Arm Circles, Seal Claps

 

The Workout: PAX moseyed over to an uphill section of the parking lot. Along the parking lines, we did 1 burpee lunge before karaoking to the other side of the parking lot to do the same on that side. 14 burpee lunges in total. Headed downhill on the parking lot, we did 2 Peter Parkers to a lunge before shuffling to the other side of the parking lot to do the same on that side. 28 Peter Parker lunges in total.

Moseyed up to the starting spot where cinder blocks, a sledge hammer, and an ab roller were waiting for us. We split into 1s and 2s. 1s worked toward an individual total of 50 Curls for the Girls, 50 Shoulder Press, 50 Ruh rows, 50 Sledgehammer squats and 50 Norma Jean Riley’s (ab rolling). 2s ran to the other side of the parking lot to do 5 burpees and 10 WWIIs before running back to the 1s. 1s and 2s exchanged spots until each got to their 50 reps in.

Mary: 7 Minute Abs (give or take a minute) – Low Slow Flutters, American Hammers, Freddie Mercuries, LBC, Reverse LBC, Pickle Pounders, Box Cutters, Hello Dollies. Wrapped up with 10 Peter Parkers due to excessive mumblechatter
Announcements: July 5th volunteers needed for HS firework show, South Wake picnic July 30th
T-Claps (Recognition): YHC celebrated his 1-year F3 Anniversary today. A big thank you to all PAX who’ve pushed me, encouraged me, and held me accountable this past year. Shot out to @Sunshine who also recently wrapped up his 1st year at F3 and has been crushing it all year long.
Prayer: Prayers up for Carpex PAX Pet Sounds dealing with health issues, prayers up for the South Wake F3 Community at large

Post-workout, All PAX joined in for some 2ndF homebrewed coffee courtesy of YHC.

How to get schweaty in under a mile.

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Warm Up: Side Straddle Hop, Good Mornings, Imperial Walkers, Hill Billies, Sir Fazio Arm Circles, Seal Claps, Overhead Claps, Moroccan Night Clubs
The Workout: We moseyed over to the ball field. Starting at home plate, we performed an exercise at each corner of the field. Squats, Merkins, WWIIs and Mountain Climbers. All 20 count. Five rounds for a total of 100 each. It was such a humid morning that PAX were encouraged to hydrate along the way.
Next we lined up on the brick wall for People’s Chair. 10 count down the line, with 10 PAX, equaling a 100 count. Recovered and lined back up Balls-to-the-Wall. A quick 10 count down the line once more. Moseyed back for Mary.
Mary: LBCs, American Hammers and Homer-to-Marge. Ended with some yoga.
Announcements: Stay hydrated!!!
T-Claps (Recognition): Olaf from F3 Houston for joining us while down range.
Prayer: Stubs!

Work Hard Play Hard Sheepdog

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3 for some EC (Cupid, Abacus and Breach)

6 PAX members descended on Sheepdog for a 7 X 7 work session

Shredder, Farva, Cupid, Abacus, Warbucks and Breach on the Q

 
Warm Up: 22 Counts of Frankensteins, Windmills, Imperial Walkers/Hillbillies, Squats, and Good Mornings

The Workout: 7 X 7 workout (Squats, Merkins, LBC’s, Lunges, Burpees, Pullups and V ins) followed by a run around the track. All had to be completed in 3 mins or less, anytime you have left is rest time. Otherwise, you go into the next round.

This was followed by some old school freeze tag, when you get frozen you have to do Side Straddle Hops until you get unfrozen by a teammate.

Mary: A fee stretches to loosen up the sore muscles, and some appreciation of beauty before closing out.
Announcements: Mentor opportunities are upcoming for the Travis Manion Foundation, details will be posted in Slack.

Meal train for Stubs family

Closed in Prayer

Mutiny Rock Work

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PAX: @Pumps, @Double D, @Finkle, @Abacus the OG
Warm Up: Mosey around the soccer field track with butt kickers, high knees, and karaoke. Ran forwards and backwards at a diagonal up and down the hill at the track.
The Workout: We travelled down to the rock pile and grabbed a fine specimen and went to the round-a-bout for some rocking around the clock exercises with rocks.  We completed one and a half times around the clock.  After each exercise we traveled with our rocks by doing lunges.  Rock exercises were rut-rows, rock merkins, try’s for the guys, curls for the girls, wonder-bra’s, bus drivers, overheads, LBC’s with rocks, and skull crushers.
Mary: Reverse LBC’s, E2K’s, Low Slow Flutters, Protractors, and Yoga stretches
Announcements: June Challenge
T-Claps (Recognition): Abacus and Finkle completed EC
Prayer: Prayer for hurt and recovering PAX and their family members.

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!

Recovery Burpees

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YHC hadn’t posted in over a week and was dreading his own Q. But there is nothing like getting a Q in when your in a drought. Really appreciated 8 PAX who came out to celebrate my 3 years in F3. Boy George even skipped the gym to come out to the ME.

FNGs: None
Warm Up: Mosey to bottom of Red Trail, between the two hills.  Circle up for arm stretches, SSH and Frankenstein.
The Workout: Lucky 7’s.  Run up steepest hills on red trail. Stop at stairs on right side and knock out 7 merkins.  Run to the bottom and do  burpees. Run to flat spot where red trail symbol is posted on tree on the left side hill and do 7 squats.  Run to bottom and do 6 Burpees. Repeat until zero burpees.  Pick up 6 on completion.  We moseyed to bottom of old #18 and PAX had to run from bottom back to cars parked at top of hill.
Mary: Heel taps, Butterfly Crunch, Freddie Mercuries, Yoga poses.
Announcements: June Challenge

T-Claps:  Breach speaking at Memorial Day Service in Garner.  All that F3 has done in YHC’s life.
Prayer: Unspoken.

Farva’s 35th Birthday Beatdown

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Warm Up:4 for 2+ miles EC then returned to find a parking lot full of PAX who had no idea what they were in for. Did a quick mosey around the parking lot along with some line agility drills, circled up for side straddle hops, arm circles forward and reverse, seal claps, overhead claps, and good mornings.
The Workout: I told everyone to partner up by size and what weight they’d like to use. There were 2 45lb plates, 2 35lb plates, 2 25lb plates, 2 70lb dumbbells, and a 75(ish)lb atlas stone. Then I proceeded to lay out the Farva 35 challenge.

Fun with Dora

Alley work

Rinse and Repeat

Victory Lap

And finally 35 man maker burpees

First Dora using one of the plates was 100 curls for the girls(in cadence), 100 overhead press (in cadence), 100 tricep extensions(in cadence), and 50 merkins together with your partner. The Pax that wasn’t doing the reps ran line agility down the parking lot and back before switching.

Alley work- grab a dumbbell or atlas stone and go down half of the alley and back. Switch with your partner as needed, the partner not carrying the weight would bear crawl or duck walk.

Rinse and repeat, but the Dora this time was 100 weighted squats(cadence), 100 mtn climbers(cadence), 100 chair kicks, and 50 monkey humpers (in cadence) together with your partner. The pax not doing reps went down and back as before. Then back to the alley to finish the rinse and repeat.

Next was a victory lap around the school to celebrate what you’d just accomplished.

Finally this beatdown was to end with 35 man maker burpees.

Mary: All pax helped finish out the Burpees with no time to spare.
Announcements: Q sheet opportunities
T-Claps (Recognition): Everyone who made it out to support my birthday Q!
Prayer: I took us out

Fun with Football 12.3

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Warm Up: Mosey around the parking lot doing parking lot line agility drills
The Workout:

Football quick feet merkin, pass completion progression, parking lot suicides

Start on the first parking lot line, all pax do quick feet for a 4 count rep following by 1 merkin. Then one pax stays the next runs up to the first line, cuts right and must catch the ball to progress to 2 quick feet merkins. Switch pax and they go up to 3 etc. any time the ball is dropped you start back at 1 until you complete the parking lot.

Rinse and repeat back but cutting left

  • Mary: Shredder led us in combatives to close out
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