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Prison Yard 3/2/21

4 Pax for an early morning workout at the Yard Double D, Motor Boatin FNG (Shiv) and Warden Breach on the Q

Warm Up: A quick mosey around the clubhouse, then circle up for some 22 count SSH, Imperial Walkers, Daisey Pickers and Windmills

The Workout: 7 Stations of pain. 2 rounds, 2 mins a station then 15 secs rest to move to the next station

Station 1- Sandbag Kettle Bells- Round 1 (Shoulder Shrugs) Round 2 (Famers carry around the parking lot)

Station 2- Kettle Bell- Round 1 (Swings) Round 2 (Alternating 1 arm snatches)

Station 3- Firehose- Round 1 (Squats) Round 2 (Lunges)

Station 4- Battle Rope- Round 1 (2 arm waves) Round 2 (Side Straddle hops with rope)

Station 5- Med Ball- Round 1 (American Hammers) Round 2 (Dying Cockroaches)

Station 6- Weight Plate- Round 1 (Curls) Round 2 (Tricep Extensions)

Station 7- Sandbag- Round 1 (Burpee with a full press) Round 2 (Rut Rohs)

Prayer: Pray for Motor Boattin that his tests this Thurs go well and they don’t have any negative results. Military and First Responders. Go out into the world today and be a positive influence, no matter how big or small.

Mama house volunteering

FNGs:no fangs but two additional volunteers.  Crazy Kevin and Emily, dark wing duck(Fonzie 2.0) and  m Christie assisted with the help.
Warm Up:Coffee, ruck for Breach and Myself(Needmore ruck)
The Workout:move 500 bags of clothes from a garage to 48 foot trailer 20 feet away. 12 volunteers formed a chain and started digging into the pile passing bag after bag of clothes and shoes down the line filling the truck in 2 hours.  Leaving half the garage empty and half the garage still needing to be loaded in anothe trailer at some point. TBD
Mary: coffee
Announcements:ultimate Monday, possibly another round of moving bags.
T-Claps (Recognition):To everyone that showed up and helped out.
Prayer: motor baiting test and results. The ma parents traveling safe, military personal and all of us to keep hanging in there during these hopefully soon to be over covid days.

Catch That Cheater!!!

YHC doesn’t get out to the Trot enough. While running EC, it was just cool to run through downtown Varina… that’s right…. and see a few fellow PAX from the FV mob along the way. YHC wanted to bring a good routine that would encourage competition, good 1-liners, accountability, and some fun thrown in there.  I think we accomplished that, so let’s get to it!

FNG’s: nope
Warm Up: Warm up mosey around the lot followed by: Good Mornings x15, SSH x 35, and Sir Fazios, Imperial Walkers, And Hillbillies x 10-12.
The Workout: To the tennis courts for a 4 corners “as many rounds as possible” you vs. you challenge. The timer would be a PAX bearcrawling the length of all 4 courts and mosey return. Each corner consisted of a constant 4 exercises in reps of 5. At the end of the four corners and as a group, we would count our total rounds completed. Exercises on Court 1 were: Merkins, Squats, Mountain Climbers IC, and LBC IC. The group wound up with 53 total rounds completed.  On to Court 2…

Same routine, but different challenge. This was the us vs. us challenge. YHC threw down the challenge of completing more than 53 Roy F’s doing 4 slightly different exercises. Exercises this time we’re: wide grip merkins, squat jumps, burpees, American Hammers IC. Wouldn’t you know it… we had a draw…53 rounds again. Only a half penalty of 5 burpees was assessed.

The other challenge was the us vs. you challenge. Otherwise known as “Catch that Train”. 1 PAX would start out sprinting from am standing position while all other PAX did mountain climbers IC. The sprinting PAX could leave the start line whenever they wanted during the count.  The rest of the PAX had to catch him, or face a 5 rep penalty. If the sprinting PAX was caught, only he did the 5 rep penalty.  YHC got caught along with a few others, but some escaped, including POTS who just simply took off early and somehow out gunned us! Penalty exercises consisted of: burpees, SSH, Squats, Squat Jumps, Merkins, Diamond Merkins, And Shoulder Taps. Moseyed back over to the tennis courts for Mary.
Mary: Actually wound up finishing 20 cts. Of exercises YHC had intended on adding on to the competition, but that’s for a different Q. Exercises here were 20 counts of: hand-release  merkins, monkey humpers IC, plank jacks IC, and WW1’s. Followed by 22 counts of Dying Cockroach, H2M, LSF’s, And chill cut hold.
Announcements: Needmore Ruck plus cleanup this Sunday.  Also this Sunday, Q School at Womble. Norm is gathering a mud run team.  Check Slack. Sometimes in life, it can seem like us against the world, if we watch the media it can seem like us against us sometimes, but the biggest battle will always be you vs. you. Do you have the discipline, the heart, the accountability, and leadership to stand and accelerate when the chips are down? Sometimes we do… sometimes we don’t. But we make each other stronger in that battle through F3.
T-Claps (Recognition): Teachers Pet getting out to his 2nd Post and hitting it hard!
Prayer: A family in Sprinklers Church, Teachers Pet mom recovering from COVID. Military, first responders, and the unfortunate number of 22 former service men and women who take their lives each day… for purpose, peace, and a path.

Prison Yard 2/16/21

4 Pax took to the yard to get an obstacle course style beat down

Spoonman,  Bondo, 8-bit and the Warden(Breach) on the Q

Warm-Up: a Little mosey around the parking lot, circle up for 22 reps of SSH, Imperial Walkers/Hillbillies, Windmills, and Frankensteins

The Workout: 7 stations of suck. 2 mins of work followed by 15 seconds to get to the next station.

Station 1 (Battle Rope) Round 1:  arm waves, round 2: Figure 8

Station 2 (Sandbag) Round 1: Romanian deadlift, round 2: Power cleans

Station 3 (Sand Bags) Round 1:  shoulder shrugs, round 2: Farmers carry

Station 4 (Kettlebell) Round 1:  swings, round 2: Figure 8

Station 5 (Ab Wheel) Round 1: Abs, round 2: Abs

Station 6 (Weight Plate) Round 1:  Curls, round 2: Tricep extensions

Station 7 (Med Ball) Round 1: Squat and Throw, round 2: Overhead Slams

Announcements: Hilltop clean up Feb 20th after the Hilltop Ruck

Bondo closed us out in Prayer

Prison Yard 02/09

2 Pax took to the yard for a day of beating the deck. Spoonman and Breach on the Q

Warm-Up: Mosey around the area and circled up for some 22 count reps of (Good Mornings, Frankensteins, Side Straddle Hops, and Windmills)

The Workout: The F3 deck of cards made an appearance at the yard. The premise was to beat the deck. We pulled 5 cards and performed the exercises, after the 5 cards we would hit the kettlebells all at 22 count reps (Swings, Curls for the girls, Halo’s, Overhead Tricep raises, Side Bends). Finished off with a sprint around the parking lot.

Announcements: Road clean up on Feb 21st after Hilltop Ruck

Closed in Prayer:

Hills and Yurpees

FNGs: @Teachers Pet, @Yodeler, @McRib

PAX: @Norm, @Fedex, @Breach, @Double D, @Price is Right, @Endo, @Sprinkler, @Finkle
Warm Up: Mosey around the tennis courts, followed by a 10 count of Good Mornings, Daisy Pickers, 20 SSH, 10 counts of quad stretches each leg and cross leg toe touches to get the legs loose.  Ended with 10 count cadence of Sir Fazio Arm circles F/B.
The Workout:

Event 1:  Hill Climbers – we split into 2 groups and group at the bottom of the hill did Mountain Climbers, Monkey Humpers, and Marionettes while the other group hiked up the hill as fast as they could to do a circuit of Dips, Irkins, and Squats starting with 10, 15, then 20 each time around.

To catch are breath we went on an Indian Run around the courts to lead us into the second event.

Event 2: Tennis court fun – at the tennis courts we circled up to do a round of exercises with dancing bears (plank with right hand up and left leg up then switch), alternating shoulder taps in cadence, followed by Yurpees (merkin clap and two tuck jumps).  We started at 3 of each exercise and added one each time we completed the round.  We got up to 6 and modified to go back down 5, 4, and 3.  Very nasty stuff those Yurpees!

Mary: Not So Lazy Boys, Box Cutters, ABCs, Boat Canoes, Outlaws all in a to count.
Announcements: Ruck this Saturday being led by @Norm.  Another ruck on the 21st followed by roadside trash pick up.
T-Claps (Recognition): To our FNGs for hanging in there.  Also, for FNG Teachers Pet who did EC with @Breach his first day out to F3.
Prayer: @Fedex’s cousin passed suddenly, so prayer for his family, also @Teachers Pet’s mom is recovering from COVID, prayers for our nation and families.  @Finkle took us out.

Prison Yard 2/2/21

2 Pax braved the cold for a bodyweight beat down in the yard.

Warm-Up: Mosey around the clubhouse and back in the yard for 22 count reps of SSH, Windmills, Good Mornings,  Imperial Walkers, and Goofballs.

The Workout:  Kick off with the 7 x 7

7 rounds of 7 reps per exercise:

Air Squats, Merkins, LBC’s, Lunges, Burpees, dips, and V-ins, followed by a run around the parking lot.

We followed that up by descending ladders of 40 merkins and 40 air squats, 30 merkins, 30 air squats, 20 merkins, 20 air squats, 10 merkins, 1o air squats

Closed in Prayer

Prison Yard 1/12 CRT

3 Pax took to the yard for some Combat Readiness Training (CRT) Sprinkler, SpoonMan and Warden Breach on the Q.

Warm up– Mosey around the parking lot and perform 22 reps of SSH, Frankenstein’s, Imperial Walkers/Hillbililes, Prisoner Squats, and Batwings

Workout

7 stations ( 1 mins 45 secs of work) between each set run 200 meters in under 60 seconds or a penality exercise will be assessed. There were 5 penalties enforced.

  • Painstick- Over Head press
  • Tire- Flips
  • Punching bag- bear crawl drag
  • Fire Hose- squats
  • Battle ropes- Waves
  • Sandbag- Cleanup merkin
  • Kettle bell- swings

Between each station, there will be a question asked and only 1 answer is allowed, less than 5 seconds to answer. If an incorrect answer is given or the answer is wrong, there is a 5 burpee penalty. There were 2 wrong answers so we finished with 10 burpees OYO.

The purpose of the exercise for today is to think fast under pressure. This is often looked over looked skill that can be vital to someone getting through a situation or perhaps not. Also when one member of the team does not make it all members need to be accountable so all get the penalities enforced against them. As everyone is responsible for themselves as well as the others on the team.

Look out for a food donation Ruck either this weekend or next.

 

Closed out in Prayer

Chilly Morning with lots of Icey spots.

Sunday morning was cold! We had a good number show up for the Ruck.

 

The Workout: We hit all three trails for a total of 5 miles. Great mumble chatter all along the way. Stopped off at Breaches house and the coffee was already made waiting for us in the garage.

Announcements: Hilltop Needmore Roadside cleanup coming up soon. Be on the lookout for the date. Moma’s House food Ruck either this Sunday or next. Dates to follow.
T-Claps (Recognition): Breach and the 2F COFFEE!!
Prayer: Our Nation.

 

Honor to Lead Gents!

05:52 Fast Pass Confirmed

Well, it’s been a few weeks since I’ve had the chance to return to AO’s. I’ll spare the details, but it felt good to be back in the middle and at my second home, DISNEY! Great numbers today that braved some ball clenching cold. I think we all warmed up relatively quickly…. Tetanus brought an FNG and I had a disclaimer chat with him privately before we headed out… LET’S GO!

FNGs: Welcome Tush!
Warm Up:  Quick mosey around the PL return to circle up. SSH x50 w/ 2 sets of 10 at double time IC, Frankenstein x10, Windmill x10, OHC x10, Seal Claps x10, Pakistani Night Clubs (for M4L), Chinook x10 Fwd/Back, Arm circles R/L Fwd/Bck x10.
The Workout: Nice and easy mosey out of the lot to the elementary school PL. Circle up, Jack Webs x25, Standard Merkin x25.  Continue the mosey around to the circle by the football field entrance. Arms out as 6 rolls in and hold. OHC x15, Moroccan Night Club x15 , Al Gore w/ around the horn counts from 5 PAX w/ 10 count.  Continue the mosey in the big HS PL – Hand Release Burpees x10.

Mosey to the Abyss to punch our 05:52 Fast Pass – RIGHT ON TIME… 20 of us found accountability partners for a DORA. 100 Jack Webbs, 200 Squats, 300 LBC’s (IC to start, last trip up and down was single counts). Kicker was that partner 1 wasn’t just walking down and back up – but bear crawl down and up the stairs (thank you to 187 who did this about a year ago and I’ve done once since).  We made 2 solid trips bear crawling and 1 as a walk up/down.  Watching the clock, time for Mary.

Mary: Squat Hold for the 6. Big Boy Sit Ups x25, Homer to Marge 10 (+ L leg, R leg), Box Cutters x20. Have a nice day.
Announcements: Welcome FNG Tush!
T-Claps (Recognition): Nemo and ShamWow! for running EC. Emeril for the monthly challenge EC.
Prayer: For our country.  Breach took us out.