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‘Twas the Week Before Christmas

FNGs: Zero

Warm Up: Side Straddle Hop, Good Mornings, Windmills, Daisy Pickers, Frankensteins, Hillbillies, Imperial Walkers, Sir Fazio Arm Circles

Bondo with the good call for a count off before we Moseyed to the Parking Deck! Thanks Bondo!

The Workout:

PAX planked whenever the poem was being read and they were not performing another exercise.

Twas the week before Christmas, when all through downtown

Not a sad clown was stirring, only the PAX.

The burpees  (10 oyo) were finished in the parking lot with care

In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be here

The PAX were planking all cold on the ground

While visions of 20 monkey humpers danced all around

And Cancun with his stinky gloves, and Abe in his cap

Had just settled down with the PAX to do 20 plank jacks.

When out on the grass, there rose such a clatter

The PAX sprang from their plank to see what was the matter.

Away to the other side (across the parking deck – touch the wall and return) we flew like a flash

Sprinting vigorously, we completed the dash.

The concrete at the feet of the of winded PAX

Gave the luster of 20 in cadence smurf jacks

When, what to our wondering eyes should appear,

But Stickers and 8 tiny exercises so near.

A little old Q, so lively and quick,

I knew in a moment, this must be a trick.

More rapid than eagles his courses they came,

And he whistled and shouted and called them by name.

Now Little Baby Crunches (ICx10), now Mountain Climbers (ICx10), now Squats (ICx10), now 10 OYO Burpees

On Merkins (ICx10), on Side Straddle Hops (ICx10), on Lunges (ICx10), on Side Lunges (10 each leg)

To the end of the parking deck, to the base of the wall

Now dash away, dash away, dash away all! (sprint back to other end – touch wall and return)

So up to the other end the PAX they flew

With a sleigh full of toys and Stickers, too.

And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the ground

The sound of feet as more mountain climbers (ICx10) came ‘round.

As we drew in our hand, and did 10 Merkins

Down the slide Stickers came with a bound

He was dressed all in red, from his head to his foot,

His clothes were all tarnished, in sweat and dirt.

A bundle of toys, he had brought on his back

He looked like a peddler just opening his pack.

His eyes, how they twinkled, his dimples how merry.

His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry.

His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow

And the beard of his chin was gone, oh no!

The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth

And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath

He had a broad face and a little round belly

That shook when he laughed like a bowlful of jelly.

He was lean and mean, a right jolly old creature

And everyone laughed when they saw him,

he had the weirdest of features.

A wink of his eye and a twist of his head

Soon let me know, we had nothing to Dredd.

He spoke not a word, but went straight to work.

Laying out presents, then he turned with a jerk.

And laying a finger on his nose,

Giving a nod, up the slide he rose.

He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle,

And away they all flew like the down of a thistle

But I heard him exclaim, as he drove out of sight

DO 20 OYO Burpees YOU’LL BE ALRIGHT!

Mosey to Ampitheater to open a present!

But wait, what’s this?! Santa left us a present?? 

We opened the present and found a Tea Party Set: 10-20-30-40  (Perform 10 Dirkins, 20 Irkins, 30 Dips, 40 Step Ups)

We wrapped with the Little Merkin Boy at the end. (PAX Plank, while we Play Bing Crosby’s Little Drummer Boy and every time we get parump-a-pum-pum – do a merkin)

Mary: Homer to Marge, Box Cutters, Heel Taps, Supermans, Low Slow Flutter, WWIIs followed by stretching to close us out

Announcements: Backblasts are a big part of F3, and a help to fellow PAX looking for ideas or to see if an AO is active. Downtown Train closed for Christmas next week. Banana Seat with Purple Cobra Q tomorrow. 3Alarm Christmas party tomorrow at 6pm at his house. Reach out to PAX you haven’t seen in a while, check in and see how they’re doing.

T-Claps (Recognition): Pumpkin Spice wedding anniversary today! Welcome back to the gloom, Kosher! 

Prayer: Sick and injured PAX, Bondo’s brother Jimmy hospitalized battling COVID.

Disney BD

Cupcakes and Cinders

FNGs: None

Warm Up: Grab some Cindy’s, Mosey to the soccer field, SSH, Frankenstein, IPW, Hillbillies, Good Morning.

The Workout:

Set 1: OH press/ Curls / Farmer March/Murder Bunnies/Squat (12 Reps each) 2 pax rotate through on SB burpees 5 each bag.

Set 2: Front raise/Triceps/Cindy Lou Who’s/Reverse Murder Bunnies/Lunges (12 Reps) same SB burpee rotation 

Set 3: Rut Rows/Curls/3 Little Bears/OH Squat (12 Reps) same SB burpee rotation 

Mary: (All done with block) 1.  WW3’s (12 reps)  2. Toe Touches R/M/L = 1 Rep (12 Reps) 3. American Hammers 12 rep I/C

Announcements: Davis XMAS Party

T-Claps: F3 as a whole, Made me weepy with kind words and sang Happy Birthday:

Prayer: BS kidney stone, Cupid holiday travels, Unspoken 

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Leg Day at the YARD

FNGs: No

Warm Up:  SSH, Frankenstein, good morning, Willy Mays Hayes

The Workout:

  • Bulgarian split squat – 24 ea
  • Calf raise squat – 25 ea
    • Recovery mosey round the building with a stop for merkins and/or LBC
  • Speed skaters – 25 ea
  • People’s chair – 10 count each PAX, probably amounted to 90 seconds
    • Mosey
  • Step back lunge – 15 ea
  • Alternating side lunge – 15 ea
    • Mosey
  • Dead lift squat – 20 ea
  • 3-way calf raises – (toes forward, toes out, toes in.  15 fast reps, 10 slow, 5 ea)
    • Mosey
  • 3-way lunge – (forward, 45deg, 90deg, 5 ea)
  • Jump squat – 15

Mary:   No time

Announcements: None

T-Claps/Prayer:  Some general discussion about mindset, and our ability to approach a difficult situation with either anxiety & resentment (selfish/self-centered), or with mind & heart open to seeing an opportunity to do some good (selfless, gracious & grateful).

Prayers for Banana Seat, with seasonal illness roaring through his household, and his continued good spirits & positivity while his body recovers.

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Upper Body Day at THE YARD

Warm Up:  Standard stuff, SSH and the like, but knowing today would be upper body-heavy, I threw in some Sir Fazios and Slo-Mo Merkins to get that whole area ready to go

The Workout:  This is a lazy copy & paste of routine I’ve done before, with the purpose of eschewing a well rounded full body workout for a more targeted beat down of one particular area.  The thang was this:

A warmup of 7’s on the parking lot hill, consisting of LBCs and Squats.  Then the main event was 3 stations, positioned around the community center building:  Merkins, Dips, Carolina Dry Docks.  We hit a set of one, mosey about 1/3 of the way around the building, repeato, repeato repeato. 

Because the mosey was so short and didn’t give us much time to recover between sets, I threw in a few rounds of People’s Chair after 2 or three rounds.  The only other variation was on the Merkins – one set was Diamonds, one set was wide-grip, and the final set was a Merkin Sampler – 4 reps of each. 

Mary: Side hips raises, heel taps maybe, …something difficult FRAM made us do, and probably one more, I dunno.  

T-Claps (Recognition):   The pre-workout message was a reminder of GRATITUDE.  Keeping our mindset off “I HAVE to workout”, and keeping it on “I GET TO/AM ABLE to work out”.  Celebrate physical abilities of our bodies and be grateful for every opportunity to use them as they are intended.

Prayer:  Nemo driving to Ohio with his son for a big time swim competition

LORDY LORDY

LORDY LORDY

FNGs: Not a one

Warm Up: Side Straddle Hops (Thanks Skid), Windmills, Daisy Pickers, Franks, Imperial Walkers and Hillbillies

The Workout:

  • Grab the blocks
  • Go to the disc golf practice hole
  • Partner Up
  • Partner 1 does an exercise AMRAP while Partner 2 travels from one side of the circle to the other.  Then Switch.  Repeat 3x
    • P1 Explosive Merkins P2 Army Crawl
    • P1 Skull Crushers P2 Bear Crawl
    • P1 Abyss Merkins aka Negative Merkins P2 Lunge Walk
    • P1 Curls for the Girlz P2 Crab Walks
  • Return Blocks

Mary: Homer to Marge, Boat Canoes, Low Slow Flutter, Pickle Pounders, Big Boy Sit-ups

Announcements:

  • Lipstick Anny Q / Convergence at Disney on Thursday
  • Christmas Party
  • Suggly Sweater
  • Davis Run
  • Q-Sheet

T-Claps (Recognition): 

  • Happy Birthday UTI – Thanks dudes for showing up!
  • DownRange – He made it!

Prayer:

  • Holiday Travel and Safety
  • Lipstick gets whatever died up there removed… 
  • Survivor – new meds, let that settle and get him back out with us
  • SoftServe’s brother
  • Stubs – new treatment

Miserable Mile

Warm up on bball court
GMs
SSH
Windmill
Sun gods
Michael Phelps

Mosey to Track
200m lunge
Abs – AMRAP LBCs until 6 is in
200m run back to start
200m bear crawl
Abs – AMRAP Freddy Mercury’s until 6 is in
200m run to start
200m broad jump (modified and removed the burpee)
Abs – AMRAP American hammers til 6 is in
200m run
200m back peddle
Abs – AMRAP WWI’s til 6 is in
200m run

Stretch back at courts

No new announcements

Prayers for H1N1 family with daughter driving, church members dad passed, Spy Kid kids visiting, Rubiks friend with brain tumor.

Strong work today men.

BS Out!

Poles and Rocks at the Grave

7 HIM showed up on another moist morning to push each other. Here’s what happened.

Warm Up
Loop around parking lot with carioca.
Air squared
Willie Mayes Hayes
Bat wings
Mtn climbers
Merkins

Grab rocks for traveling
Go to first street light
10x Ground pounders with rock – mosey to next light without a rock, do 5 burpees. Sprint back to rocks for your choice as you arrive.
Traveling curls to the next light. Then repeat.
10x Wonder bras – mosey to next light without rock. 5 burpees, sprint back for choice.
Traveling tri’s to the next light. Repeat.
10x rainbow lunges each leg. Mosey, 5 burpees, sprint back.
Traveling overhead press back.
10x American hammers with rock, mosey, 5 burpees, sprint back
Traveling bus drivers back.
10x squats with rock, mosey, 5 burpees, sprint back.
WWI’s with rocks
Return rocks

Courts – partner up
P1 bear crawl to half court then crawl bear back while P2 does plank jacks, switch.
P1 suicide to half then full court while P2 holds BTTW, switch.
P1 crab walk forward to half the backward back while P2 does LBCs, switch.

Mary
Windshield wipers
Heels2Heaven
LSF
Cross ups
J-Lo’s

Way to push this morning men. Pleasure to lead.

BS out

Circles and balls at the Nut

10 PAX for some track work and a little game of knock out.

Warm up lap around to back
SSH
Good morning
Imperial squat walkers
Mtn Climbers

Track
Hand release broke back derkins with partner. Run in opposite directions and meet half way. 3 laps x10 reps each (6 sets)

Catch me if you can
P1 does 10 monkey humpers
Partner runs backwards until P1 catches them then switch
3 laps

Knock out Hoops
5 burpees
10 star jumps
15 plank jacks
Back in once completed

Mary at the flag
LBCs
Reverse LBCs
American Hammers
Boat canoes
Pickle pounders

That’s for letting me lead.

BS Out!

Cinderblocks murder Disney

Warm up lap around fields
Good mornings
Smurf jacks
Sir fozio
Mtn climbers
Merkins

Grab cinder blocks
Take them to turf fields Cusack style
Murder bunnies with wonder bras built in for 50Yds
Colt 45’s
Murder bunny with diamond merkins back 50Yds
Bolt 45’s
Mosey down and back
Block swings x15
Dips on block x20 IC
Sprint field then lunge walk back
Cinderblock squat leg lifts x20 (squat down onto block and lift legs then back up)
Rocky toe taps x20 IC

Mary on turf decline
American Hammers
WWIs
Freddy Mercury’s
Dying Cockroach
Pretzel’s

Strong work today by all PAX. Definitely one for the books.

BS Out!

R4TJ 5 Year

R4TJ 5 Year Anniversary – “What we experienced this moanin’ was sum gud ole fashion fun”

Nine men got stronger on the BEST HILL TRAINING ROUTE EVER. After 25 fast side stradle hops in cadence, we took off. Across Main Street, right on Milpass, left on Crossway, up to Creekvista. Batboy and Flop arrived first and started running the elbow. On this route originated by Wild Turkey, the “elbow” consists of running down Creekvista, running back up, then running to the bottom of Crossway, then running back up to Creekvista. Rinse and repeat as many times as possible before converging for the run back to the flag.  

I got hooked on the elbow last week with Sunshine’s Q. This is the kind of run that is exhausting and exhilarating all at the same time. Everyone ran strong and pushed each other–just like last week. But, no trips this week. Two last week. No “knee-matomas” either. 

Glad to honor the 5-year anniversary of F3SW’s original mid-week run. Thank goodness one of the Original Gangstas @U.T.I. joined us at COT. UCrain told us all about it. Started with his Blue Ridge Relay team looking for a mid-week run. Went to HS Run Club, found very unsatisfying. Got headlocked, I mean, realized they were Freed to Lead and started their own Area of Operations (AO). UTI and Lipstick were site Qs for the first year or so, then @Redenbacher took over for the next four. Red used to wear his DOT approved safety vest. So glad that he broke down this barrier, now I’m proud to wear one. Shout out to Red by wearing my vest in the snap. 

In the end, TomTom declared, “What we experienced this moanin’ was sum gud ole fashion fun” And so it was! It was an honor men.

Flag planted, warmups, run, COT, snap, backblast, done.

Bring back the HC!