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Sheepdog – shelter is good

5 Pax for EC joined by 3 more in the Gloom

Warm Up: light jog then circled up. Light neck stretches, SSH, Fazio Arm Circles Front and back.  Moroccans night Clubs, Windmills, & Good Mornings.
The Workout: Modified merkins in cadence; 3 pulsing, 3 slow. Wing Chun Striking. Squats. More striking, 3-strike combo. Squat kicks. std. merkins. Wrist locks.
Mary: LBC, Low Slow Flutter, crab toe taps, and Breakdancers.
Announcements: 2019 AO Challenge, Breathtaker Challange for charity, and stressed getting involved in q-source (3 options).
Prayer: spoken and unspoken.

Fritter excitement

33 Pax’s 4-2.0s with 17 getting in some EC.  start to new year!!

Warm Up:20 SSH IC, 20 good mornings, fazzio arm circles, 10 merkins oyo
The Workout: split into 2 groups one in parking lot one at concession stand Dauber took one while I lead other.

Group 1

Side shuffle to snack bar stopping to do 1, 2, Randy 4 burpees along the way down. Mozey to wall for 10 L and 10 R step ups. Head to hill to do sevens: merkins on bottom of hill, lbc on top. Mosey to snack shed and did 20 count cadence BTTW followed by 20 count cadence people’s chair. Rinse and repeat Mosey back to parking lot

1 guy did rock exercises 10 count; other guy dragged tree to halfway point. Run back switch up. Pull rest of the way. Run back more rock exercises. Rinse and repeat. Returned trees and rocks. One guy ran around tennis courts and the other guy did exercises called out by Q/other

Group 2

Partner up. P1 pull Christmas tree to end of lot. P2 curls for girls.switch. Rinse and repeat with triceps. P1 does rutroos P2 jump lunges.Switch. P1 burpee with low squat shuffle. P2 overhead press.

mosey to concession

bear crawl up hill and down stairs then to wall were we did BTTW shuffling the length of wall. In plank position alternate hands to wall 20 IC. Turned around and did variation of BTTW with a merkin. People’s chair 20 IC. P1 dips P2 monkey jumpers 20 IC. Switch.P1 erkins P2 LBCs 20 IC

mosey back for mary

Mary:low plank hold 10 secs x 5, 10 nipple taps IC, 10 burpees
Announcements:several distance of Csaup in feb. fritter challenge 3 days ec and workout in row starting Wednesday gets you fritter on Friday. Breath taker challenge sign up. Q source meet ups starting this week. Q swap next week. See social media for details
Prayer:modifys mother and family, Noah’s ark, Buford.

Sheepdog – MACHs and Locks

Beater (workout QIC), Dovetail (combative and Mary QIC), Norm, Patch, R22

WARMUP
Run around the school with a Black Snake run mixed in.
Side straddle hop
Imperial Walkers followed by Hillbillies
Windmills
Good mornings

WORKOUT
Bear crawl halfway between the crosswalks, then 2 merkins, bear crawl the rest of the way, then 1 burpee. Repeat.

Incrementing squat sprints back and forth between the 10 parking lot spaces. Plank hold for the 6.

Mosey to the front. Traveling derkins with lunges in between.

COMBATIVES
Purpose of MACH techniques, then switch gears and do supinating and pronating wrist locks from handshake, shoulder/neck grab, and punches.

MARY
LBCs
Heels to the Heavens pulses
Downward dog, then into Pike pushups (I forget the F3 name for these)
Alternating single-leg v-ups
Freddy Mercuries
Static stretching

COT
Thought for the day: With so many distractions, it’s easy to just go with the flow and forget to think. 1 Peter says to always be ready to give a reason for the hope in you. Do you know what you believe and why? If not, it’s harder to make a difference in others lives. We are dedicated to improving our bodies since we all show up to these things, but the mind shouldn’t be left it off our improvement efforts either.
1. Work at Wolfie’s house
2. Upcoming Carpex Q switch week
3. Prayers for a teacher at Herbert Akins (acquaintance of Beater’s wife) who lost her husband to cancer this week.

Sheepdog – hoot

7 Pax and an ominous 🦉 braved the rain.

EC: 2 miles; Beater, r22, Shredder

Warm Up: light jog  around the parking lot and then PAX circled up.  Side straddle hop. Moroccan night clubs, Fazio arm circles front and back and then all over again backwards. Michael Phelps. Wind mills. Good mornings. All in cadence.
The Workout: Traveled; move one, one irkin. Lunges between knee walls.   Pause for squat kicks. 2nd round of traveling; move one, one arm irkins. Lunges between. Mosey.

One round of 150 strikes. Dos e doe. Block and enter. Block, enter, trap. Capoeira push-ups.
Mary: crab toe taps, breakdancers
Announcements: F3 Southwake region. Prayer: we talked about intentionality, “picking up the six” outside of the gloom AND who’s got your six? Prayers for those deployed, family members who’ve passed away, those fighting cancer and serious illnesses, and for Beater’s friend’s daughter.

Twinkle and Shimmy

18 PAX for a KG beatdown. Lots of visitors to South Park. Making new memories together, how sweet. Lots of mumble chatter today but YHC let the boys cut up some. Let’s play!

Warm ups:
Black snake run around track and rec center ending near court.

-Stretches
-Squatted morracan night club into overhead claps into out front claps x10 IC each
-Deconstructed burpees (10 squats, 10 leg thrusts, 10 Merkins, 10 leg thrusts, 10 up jumps) put it together for 5 oyo burpees proper form
-Jump lunges x10 IC
-Carolina dry docks x10 IC

Grab 3 rocks total for exercise
Circle of American Hammers with rocks
-pax sits in circle facing out. Passes 3 rocks around circle while doing AH. YHC haults, rest, R&R other direction

Mosey over to agility ladders

Ladders: 2 groups at opposite sides
one man does ladder down, burpee at end, turn around come back. Q will call ladder exercise down and different one back
PAX does called exercises AMRAP until group is complete
Rd1 Worst merkin ever
Rd2 Prisoner squat
Rd3 Nipplers

Cones – partners meet in middle, run opposite of each other doing cone pattern to other side of circle for back broke merkins x10 and switch (back broke style is the bottom man does the merkins with partners planked feet on top of upper back causing resistance) 3 rds for total of 60 reps per person

Mary
X-men ups x10 
J-Lo’s x10 IC
Exaggerated LSF x10 IC

Verse: 2 Corinthians‬ ‭9:15
“Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!”
Take time to remember the true meaning of Christmas and share with our families. We focus on gifts for others but we should be focused on the only gift given to us that matters, Jesus.
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Announcements
Lots of options on Friday, Q sign up sheet, WB training, Q school video/link, Frey Daddy run to support healing transitions, Wolfie help

Prayer request
DD family, Ausfhart, Crab Legs, R-22‘s teacher friend, Chip’s co-worker died right after retirement. 

As always, great to be a part of such a fine group of HIM. Hope you got your monies worth today. 

BS out

Snake

Mission Impossible @ Possum Trot

Warm Up: Run around the tennis courts to the snack shack.  20 SSH, 10 Good Mornings, 10 Cotton Pickers, 10 Fazios F/B, 10 HB, 10 IW, Left over Right and Back stretches.  Lined up on ramp, PAX executed 10 strides adding 1 burpee, continued until 5 burpees (5!) were met after alternating strides facing fence and then facing the RR tracks.  PAX continued up the ramp with window openings, Frankensteins and Butt kickers.  Mosey to parking lot to grab coupons.

The Workout:  PAX of 11 counted of by 3’s and formed three groups.  Q had four index cards each having a specific mission to accomplish by the PAX.   Missions were labeled A, B, C or D.   A group leader chose an index card.  Last group that chose a card, chose their coupon first from below.  Q reminded PAX to choose wisely.  Group then read each card with its specific mission.  Clarifying instructions were given by Q.  PAX began their individual mission as a covert unit.

Mission A:  200 LBC, 200 Merkins, 200 Squats.  PAX carry coupon around the outside (oops) of the tennis courts 4X.  PAX were told they could work together meeting their number of reps.  This group finished early and helped PAX on the tennis court with their mission.  PAX executed additional exercise including monkey humpers, pickle pounders, etc.

Mission C:  Not chosen.  Details saved for another adventure.

Mission D:  200 Starjumps, 200 Shoulder Taps, 200 BTTW in cadence.  PAX carry coupon around four corners of tennis courts.  At each corner, PAX dropped coupon, executed 1-4 burpees at each corner until completion.  PAX excited this 4X.  Some confusion re: executing reps individually or together.

Mission B:  200 Dips, 200 Leg-ups (alternating L/R), 200 Erkins.  PAX carried coupon from parking lot to snack shack and then back to the parking lot 4X.  This group decided to carry the coupon together resulting in needing more time to accomplish their mission.

The remaining PAX from Mission A and D joined their fellow operatives near the snack shack Mission B. helping them complete their mission.

Enthusiasm was very high so more exercises were added included  10 count dips and erkins.  Q had PAX mosey to the wall and performed the following exercises in 20 count cadence:  LBCs against the wall, arm chair and BTTW.  Rinse and repeat.  PAX grabbed all of the coupons and formed into their original mission groups.  Handed off the coupons to each member in their group while heading back up the ramp to the parking lot in a semi Indian run/walk.  Mission Accomplished.

Mary:  Q asked for any virgin Q support to help lead Mary.  Two PAX voulunteered (Modify and Beater) but Modify won out.  Modify lead us in Mary with the following 15 count core exercises:  Freddie Mercury, Homer to Marge, Box cutters, WWIIs, low slow Flutters, Winemakers.  Excellent job stepping up.  Being prepared and ready to step in is essential to leadership.

Announcements:  Messi (2.0) will Q again next Monday at Mutiny; F2 at Stick Boy

Prayer:  Ausfart, Double D’s wife and dad, Brexit’s friend who passed, spoken and unspoken.  Dovetail stepped up and lead us out in Prayer – Thank you!

Q – Dauber (Honored to lead you men in the gloom)

Building Hulk Arms

17 PAX came out to a brisk and clear 40F morning in the gloom to take partake in my first Q!

Warm Up:

Mosey around the track for a 1 lap warm-up.

Good morning x 10 IC, SSH x 20 IC, Cotton pickers x 10 IC, Fazio Arm Circles (forward and back) x 10 IC, Michael Phelps, IW and HB x 10 IC

The Workout: Bring the PAIN!

Began with 5 slides in a basketball defensive stance followed by one burpee.  Rinse and repeat adding an additional burpee each time until the roundabout was reached.

Mosey’d to the rockpile and each PAX picked out a rock and circled up for some heavy lifting.  Q called an audible and had PAX rotate to the right and workout with another PAX’s selected rock.  Proceeded with the workout – Curls for the girls, overhead triceps, ruh-rohs, and rock merkins (10 with left left hand on rock and switched for 10 more with right hand on rock).

Returned rocks and mosey’d to picnic shelter for some irkins, dirkins, merkins, and dips.  Performed 10 count of each exercise IC.  Some mubble chatter about a 10 count but Q continued on with a rinse and repeat.

Finished out the beat-down with three rounds of Balls to the Walls and Preacher Chairs for 30 seconds each exercise.

Mary:

Around the horn for 10-count exercises: diamond merkins, box cutters, LBCs, low slow flutters, burpees, WWIIs, pickle pounders, reverse LBCs, boat canoes, homer to marge, Freddie Mercuries, burpees OYO, mountain climbers, Carolina wine mixers, X-Men crosses, finished with 3 burpees, 2 merkins, and 5 WWIIs
Announcements:

Prayer: Ausfart, LED’s coworker, PAX looking for job. Families celebrating first Christmas without loved ones.

2nd F provided by Lipsync – coffee and donuts

 

 

Dauber “The Magician”

After a week hiatus due to the weather last week, Any Given Sunday re-opened for business to 8 PAX looking to get stronger. Some fresh off a great evening and aggressive headlock at the F3 holiday party and others looking to post at AGS for the first time. This morning also yielded Any Given Sunday’s first FNG. Welcome to F3, Redenbacher.

Arrived at 6:20 and was immediately greeted by Forceps and Beater. In the distance beyond the parking lot was the faint glow of a light-up vest, which YHC thought was Skidmark getting his HC’d EC before the run, but quickly found that it was Wiggly. Planted flag and greeted both Double D, Roger Roger, and Dauber. FNG-Redenbacher rolled in with just enough time to provide the F3 disclaimer. 6:30 hit and we were off with the warm up which went as follows. 

Warm Up: Light jog to the back end of the parking lot, butt kickers back. Switched to Carioca L\R, R\L back to other end of the lot. Frankensteins with a set of Lunge Walks and circled up for Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies, Fazio Arm Circles IC all with a 12 count (just because….). Michael Phelps to close out the warm up.

The Workout: A few PAX expressed an interest in 3 mi versus a full 6mi route. Here at AGS, we aim to please. Knowing that it would be soggy and muddy from the recent rain, the trails around Bass Lake were out of bounds this morning, so had to change course to the streets of Holly Springs, offering 2-5K loops for those wanting 3 and 6 miles. PAX took off from Womble heading up Stinson toward Grigsby, then proceeded to Raleigh St and then onto Main St. PAX crossed Main St. so that the traffic was coming toward and not from behind. As we headed down Main St. and then right onto Holly Springs Rd., we noticed that a few PAX were unaccounted for as we circled back to pick up the six. Quickly determined that Dauber and Beater were missing from the course. Double D circled back all the way to the light pole at the 4-way intersection at Main St\Holly Springs Rd., with YHC shortly behind. We later discovered that Dauber pulled a ‘Houdini’ to exercise some digestion issues from the night before. This is not the first time this has happened at Any Given Sunday as Dauber had a similar episode on the way to Bass Lake several months back. After this morning’s run, YHC will now refer to him as the Dauber ‘The Magician’ on Sunday. Proceeded back to Womble where PAX ran the figure 8 around the fields starting on the Stinson side of the soccer fields and proceeded to the right around the base ball fields, back to the parking lot. Reunited with Dauber and Beater on the return loop as they proceeded in the opposite direction to complete their 3mi, while the rest progressed forward to the parking lot and then picked up the 6 on their return run, with all PAX finishing together. Circled up for a ‘halftime’ COT, where we also had the unique opportunity to name a new FNG on a Sunday morning.

YHC, DoubleD, and Redenbacher continued on for 3 more miles. Kudos to DoubleD for picking up the six throughout the workout

Mary: Halftime and post-game stretches OYO

Announcements: Wrightsville Half, A big shout out to those participating in the cold and rainy Frosty-CSAUP. Thank you to M4L for hosting another great F3 Holiday party with #HIM and their M’s. 

Prayer: DoubleD’s wife who is recovering from surgery, CrabLegs, Roger Roger’s grandfather, and additional prayers for continued health throughout the upcoming holiday season.

Sheepdog- Q Round up

Warm Up: Pax rotated through leading; SSH, IW&HBs, Windmills, Fasio Arm Circles, Merkins, Dirkins and Erkins. 
The Workout: Burpee Box Jumps, then traveled along the brick knee wall. each third shift, three merkins. Lunges between knee walls, and three burpees at each end. Rinse and repeat with a session of Sticky Fingers inbetween. Ended with a review of last weeks armbar. 
Mary: LBCs and 6” leg hold. 
Announcements: CSUP & Christmas Party
Prayer: Norm lead Pax in a discussion on focus and then took us out; CrabLegs and others fighting injurie and sickness, job hunting, and families. 

 

12 Days of Christmas; Respect for 41

Warm Up: Banana Seat lead us around the tennis courts to the lower area by the concession stands.  Dauber took over and warmed up the PAX with the following exercises:  20 SSH, 10 Flower/Cotton pickers, 10 Windmills, 10 Imperial Walkers right into 10 Hillbillies; Left arm and Right arm stretches. It was a nice start to this sub 30 degree clear morning.


The Workout:  PAX of 16 (welcome friendly face Natty Ice) broke into two groups, odds began 10 left up/downs followed by 10 right up/downs on the wall while evens held BTTW on the concession stand wall for a 20 count cadence count; swapped positions and completed the previous exercise.  Rinse and Repeat.   PAX walked to the driveway lining up into two lines.  PAX performed Frankensteins, high knees, open doors, and Karaoke (R/L) to the parking lot.  Each PAX grabbed a medium-sized rock and circled up in the parking lot.  In honor of President George H. W. Bush passing last week, PAX performed a total of 41 reps (10, 10, 10, 11) of the following rock exercises:  Rut-Ros, Curls, Tricep Curls, Squats.  PAX moved one space to the right before executing next exercise.  Once completed, PAX got on their six, knocked out 15 rock presses, 15 skull crushers and 15 Homer to Marge passing the rock to the right again before each exercise.  PAX John Cusack back to the rock pile and met up on the tennis courts. Lots of mumble chatter as Q forgot his left and right and pulled a Lipsync with his rep counts).
Mary: 12 Days of Christmas (F3 Style):  Q passed out 12 index cards to 12 unsuspecting brothers.  Each index card had a number (1-12) and a corresponding exercise.  We missed R-22 for special 5th day.  In the spirit of The Twelve Days of Christmas, F3 gave to me….

1st Day: 1 chill cut plank (turned into a pickle pounder – per Double D)

2nd Day: 2 Plank Jacks

3rd Day:  3 Mountain Climbers

4th Day:  4 Wide Merkins

5th Day:  5 Burpees OYO (missed you R-22)

6th Day: 6 Box-cutters

7th Day:  7 LBCs

8th Day: 8 Freddie Mercury 

9th Day:  9 Merkins

10th Day:  10 Squats

11th Day:  11 WW IIs

12th Day:  12 SSH

PAX and Q were spent.  Dauber asked Double D for a 10-count hold.  PAX knew they were in trouble when Double D went off count a few times.  (Must have been that new math)  It messed up the Q as he tried holding plank which looked more like a yoga move with his a$$ high in the air.  Recovered after a lengthy time.

Announcements:  CSAUP (Sat-Womble), U-Turn still on; Q-School in Jan; F3 Christmas Party (Sat); Mutiny on Mon will have a 2.0 as Q (first time in SW history).  Check out Yoga deal (one month = $29 Groupon at Burn? In Holly Sporing) – unlimited yoga.  And for those early birds, Slide Rule will lead a yoga class for EC on Friday before Cletus…5:15 in pavilion.


Prayer:  PAX circled up and held hands.  Dauber took us out.  PAX looking for employment, PAX having challenges at work; Double D’s Dad medical issues – recent fall, Double D’s wife – back surgery; Ausfart recovery in the hospital from his motorcycle accident (long road ahead)

EC:  2 mile run – Banana Seat, Beater and Dauber

Always an honor leading you men.  
Dauber – Q