BnB – F3 South Wake

Kettlebells and Bear Squares

May 2, 2025/in Cletus /QIC: Mr. Terrific
PAX: @p.s.i, 16bit, Batboy, Best In Show, BnB, Foot Fault, Harry Carey, Linedrive, Moose, Shooting Blanks

FNGs:na Warm Up: 1/2 mile mosey with intermittent stops for hill Billie’s, imperial walkers, Frankenstein, sir Fazio arm circles, home school high fives, step ups The Workout: Cletus crew rolled up on Ceazy Ivan and joined there thang. Kettlebell and coupon circle with 11 stations for 2 rounds. 30 seconds in, 15 seconds rest.
mosey to the tennis courts where PAX spread to each corner. When transitioning from a corner to another tennis court the PAX crawled a bear squares. Corners were Merkins, side straddle hips, squats and big boy sit-ups. Mary: Picking up cones. Announcements: Everyone shared what they do for a living and encouraged one another to support each other as possible. T-Claps (Recognition): Prayer: Brian’s surgery, girl recovering from copper head bite, Pittsburgh families effected by tornado and man that feel from the stadium at Pirate’s game

Monkey Humpers and Bear Squares

May 1, 2025/0 Comments/in Noise Ordinance /QIC: Mr. Terrific
PAX: Best In Show, BnB, DownRange, Shooting Blanks

FNGs: n/a Warm Up: Mosey to various benches in the neighborhood for step-ups, dips and irkins.
The Workout:

Five PAX made it happen calmly while enjoying rock music.
Warm up required crossing the street and the HIM encouraged passing traffic with Monkey Humpers while waiting for the green light.
We made good use of stray cones with bear squares, paired with balls to the wall. 2 bear squares, burpee broad jumps to the wall, balls to the wall while waiting for the 6. Then repeat.
There was also a circle of squats, each PAX called led count of squat style exercise, recovery mosey, then circle of Merkins where each PAX led a count of merkin style exercise.

7s of Monkey Humpers / Carolina Drydocks with backwards mosey to strength the knees between

Mary: Popcorn Mary Announcements: Paint the fence at Sugg Farm T-Claps (Recognition): n/a

Prayer: Friend (Brian) with cancer diagnostic and hopefully a simple procedure, Shooting Blanks’ daughter, Downrange’s family traveling, BnB’s renovations

Dance Pop Mosey!

April 4, 2025/in Cletus /QIC: Mr. Terrific
PAX: @p.s.i, BnB, Foot Fault, Mr. Terrific, Shooting Blanks, Yogurt

Music played for entire workout, including an AI song with a happy singer encouraging us. We were supposed to name her (it?) but we totally forgot amongst the mumble chatter.
Here is the Cletus Dance Pop song for your enjoyment!
FNGs: n/a
Warm Up: Side straddle hops, rotating side straddle hops, Frankensteins with flair, Daisey pickers, hillbillies, imperial walkers, seal claps, home school high five
The Workout: Mosey to 7s Star jumps / Lunges I/C with Karokes in between
Mosey to Wall for people’s chair and balls to the wall
Mosey to Aussie Pullups and Squats
Mosey to tower for popcorn plank exercises
Mosey to Lunges
Mosey to Rock exercises (curls for the girls, tris for the guys, rut rows, ground pounder, wonder bra and one more)
Mary: LBCs, reverse LBCs, Heel taps, Homer to Marge, Picke Pounders

Announcements: T-Claps (Recognition): Prayer: Tax deadline stress, World Peace and avoiding world war whatever

Triple Nickel on Earp

June 13, 2024/in Downtown Train /QIC: Banana Seat
PAX: @p.s.i, @skittles, Abe, Batboy, BnB, Bobby Boucher, Bobby Dall, Bondo, Catfish, Clunker, Gump, Hasselhoff, M4Life, MadDog 2020, Stickers, U.T.I, Yocal

18 PAX for a lot of hill repeats on Earp St.

WU over to top of Earp parking lot
SSH
Good Mornings
Windmills
Frankensteins
Merkins

Thang 1
Triple Nickle to cemetery 5x5x5
Burpees and Turkish get-ups at top ends and shoulder tap merkins at bottom

Thangs 2
3-some pull ups/rows
Clock merkins (2,4,6,8,10,12)

Mary
Sally (aka Green Sally)
Lower stretch

Thanks for the opportunity to lead at DTT.

BS out

Downtown Train Birthday Bash 59

May 13, 2024/in AO Post /QIC: Yogurt
PAX: @bestinshow, Abe, Batboy, BnB, Bobby Boucher, Brexit, Compton, Cupid, Fanny Pack, firefly, Gump, Hasselhoff, Shooting Blanks, TomTom, U.T.I, Wild Turkey, Yokel

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.

That smell

May 10, 2024/in Cletus /QIC: Jellybeans
PAX: Abe, Bernie, BnB, Bobby Boucher, Full House, Jellybeans, Kosher, Nickelback, Psi, Sunshine, UTI, Vasoline, Wide Right, Wild Turkey, Woody

FNGs: none

Warm Up: SSH, daisy pickers, Willy Mays hays, Sir Fazio arm circles, chinooks, mountain climbers

The Workout:

Thing 1- PAX form two lines, each line possessed two soccer balls. At a jogging pace, the balls were thrown overhead to the pax behind, once at the back of the line that person sprints to the front to start the cycle again. Drops meant all pax stopped and performed 5 squats. ~1/2 mile loop around the park completed. We did a lot of squats.

Thing 2- Medium sized rocks were obtained and we made our way to the picnic shelter. Pax paired up for a music-based AMRAP/Dora style workout- one partner completed AMRAP exercises while the other partner cusacked their rock up a small hill and around a loop. When the song changed, the exercise changed (tricep extension, step ups, erkins, bicep curls). Skynyrd set the tone, and my free version of Spotify (like Lebron) blessed us with zero ads during the workout. Shoutout free Spotify.

All pax participated in an extended wall sit for the duration of Saturday Night Special. Some pax held out for the whole time, others gave it a break… something about running plans for the weekend. Near the end of the first verse a thicc odor spread like the plague from an unnamed pax, driving others to seek refuge elsewhere in the shelter. Pax were unpleased by the aroma, Q was unpleased because it didn’t happen during “That Smell”.

Mary: American hammer, WW1, plank hold

Announcements: 3rd F opportunities on Slack, fence painting with the town, Men’s night at local church

T-Claps (Recognition): Turkey and Nickelback both have kids graduating college

Prayer: Bobby B’s family member undergoing heart procedures, UTIs family member with a scary diagnosis.

Sciatica is my wife’s name!

May 7, 2024/in Purple Cobra /QIC: Fram
PAX: @p.s.i, Best In Show, Bleeder, BnB, Bobby Boucher, Bondo, Cupid, DownRange, Jellybeans, Kenny G, Kosher, LED, Nickelback, Pac-Man, Pumpkin Spice, Pumps, Ricoh_Suave, Rubics, Shooting Blanks

FNGs: None (5 PaX split off and Rucked)

Warm Up: Mission, Disclaimer, SSH, Good Mornings, Daisy Pickers, Frankenstein, SFAC, Scarecrows.

The Workout: Thang 1: Each PAX grabbed a Med/Lrg rock. Two lines for parking lot Indian runs. The man at the back did a burpee (Stack’em) and ran to the front while PAX did an exercise. I/C Exercise when meeting in the middle. (OH press, Curls, Triceps) Thang 2: Guantanamo Bay’s with a side shuffle rock press, Panama Canal with a bear crawl under the legs while pushing a rock. Hold plank and pull all rocks through. Thang 3. Various strength exercises low rep good form.

Mary: WWI, WWII, and V-Curl ups with rock, Side Raise with rock

Announcements: Painting, Fill up Q-Sheet

T-Claps (Recognition): All that help with the food cupboard

Prayer: Nemo’s Mom passing, Pumpkin Spice helping a guy in a dark place dealing with Porn and his family, Rubiks business venture. YHC took us out.

A Roll of the Dice

April 19, 2024/in Cletus /QIC: Abe
PAX: BnB, Emeril, Fanny Pack, Moose, Nemo, Pikachu, Psi, Slide Rule, Wide Right, Wiggly, Yogurt

FNGs: none

Warm Up: SSH, Good Mornings, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies, Sir Fazio Arm Circles, Seal Claps, Overhead Claps, Willie Mayes Hayes

The Workout: Today we followed the dice. Always a fun time (in my opinion at least) because you get to go on a field trip and you never know what you’ll get. Somehow, bear crawls, balls to the wall and absolutions showed up on the dice as well. Weird. About 1.75 miles and a bunch of merkins, side stradle hops and lunges in between.

Mary: LBCs, WWIIs, Homer-to-Marge, Poop Eaters, a bit of stretching

Announcements: Beer ruck on Saturday starting at 12, Spring Classic on Saturday (if you’re not running, help at an aid station)

T-Claps: Slide Rule and Wiggly coming back out to the gloom. Missed ya fellas.

Prayer: Unspoken, Banana Seat’s family

Last Call for Q School

March 27, 2024/in Downtown Train /QIC: Banana Seat
PAX: Abe, Banana Seat, Best In Show, BnB, Bondo, Cancun, Clunker, coverstory, Gump, Shooting Blanks

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!

Pairs and stairs

March 7, 2024/in Downtown Train /QIC: Kosher
PAX: @p.s.i, 006, 3rd Cousin, Banana Seat, BnB, Brexit, Fanny Pack, firefly, Kosher, no doubt, Pumpkin Spice, Shooting Blanks, Wild Turkey

FNGs: Nope

Warm Up:

SSH, Good Morning, Sir Fazio F/R, Hillbillies, Imperial Walkers, Moroccan Night clubs, Seal Claps, Overhead Claps, 5 Burpees OYO for BnB being late

The Workout:

Thang 1: partner DORA – 100 Merkins, 200 squats, 300 LBC. 1 partner runs to top of stairs in parking deck, back down. Switch with partner doing exercises.

Thang 2: Urkins, Dips, Plank Hold, Low Slow Flutter x3 rounds

Thang 3: Peoples chair 10 count each PAX, BTTW x5 each PAX, Monkey Humpers x10 – 3 rounds

Mary: Popcorn – Homer to Marge, pickle pounders, Freddie mercury, crab cakes, 100 tap the ground, heel taps, J-Lo’s, stretching

Announcements:

Downrange looking for rental, BnB and Firefly leading shovel flag event 3/8, Shooting Blanks looking for company on Tobacco Road Marathon

T-Claps (Recognition): all PAX for a strong showing

Prayer: Banana Seat aunt passed, unspoken, sick and injured

Reach out to guys you haven’t seen in a while.

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