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I can see clearly now…

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FNGs: Not today!

EC: Dumbo & Emeril

Warm Up: SSH, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies, Bat Wings (Arm circles F/R, seal claps, overhead claps)

The Workout: Mosey through the dark to the abyss. The PAX were nervous to run through the dark based on the mumble chatter but YHC had a plan. Partner up at the top of the stairs. Partner 2 holds Partner 1’s legs. Partner 1 does 5 dirkins then Partner 2 does 5 squats. 3 sets of this and then switch positions. 2 complete rounds are done. Now I can see clearly for some stair work. Partner 1 goes down the stairs and back up while partner 2 does a plank exercise. 3 rounds are done with mountain climbers, plank jacks and plank hold. Indian run to the football stadium.

Starting at the entrance to the stadium, Russian dips followed by balls to the wall and then another round of Russian dips. YHC did this because Thang 1 didn’t take long enough and the PAX noticed! Next we did 3-4 loops on the stairs doing 5 burbees at the bottom of the stairs, 10 big boy sit ups at the top and 15 jump squats at the bottom of the second stairs. On the Indian run back to the flag we stopped for a set of people’s chair.

Mary: Each PAX called an exercise – Homer to Marge, floor wipers, LBC, Freddy Mercuries and something else I can’t remember

Announcements: Interwebs

T-Claps (Recognition):

Prayer: Bobby Dall and Pablo’s Mothers

It’s an honor to lead you men. I’ll try to do better next time.

Cujo and nipple chaffing

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FNGs: N/A

5 HIMs showed up to DTT on another cool clear morning. YHC rolled in to find 3rd Cousin, Buford, and Nemo’s cars already parked 15 minutes before start time.  Dauber pulled in while YHC posted the flag.  Nemo was no where to be found.  5 minutes before go time, NOX vest lights appeared on the horizon – Nemo had been putting in the work early with EC miles.  

WarmUp:

20 Fozzie Arm Circles, 10 Good Mornings, 20 SSH, 10 Daisy Pickers, 10 Windmills, 10 Emperial Walkers, 10 Hillbillies, 10 Willy Mays Haze, 20 ct Pigeon Pose stretch

The Workout

Indian Run around Town Hall and back to the flag.

Modified 11’s:  PAX line up on a parking space line and begin with Merkins – Bear Crawl to end of line – Plank Jacks – Crawl Bear back. Once we got to 5/6 modify to LBCs and WWI’s.  (Totals: 15 Merkins, 40 Plank Jacks, 15 WWIIs, 40 LBCs).  It was clear to YHC that everyone loves this  

Mosey to the Rock Pile. Rotate around rocks between sets. (Need to teach Cujo to bark in cadence)Image result for kujo dog movie

  • 2 sets of 20’s – Curls for the girls
  • 2 sets of 20’s  – Overhead Tricep-press
  • 2 sets of 10’s – Rutrows
  • 2 sets of 10’s –  Ground Pounders
  • 1 set of 10’s –  Bus Drivers

On your 6:

  • 3 sets of 10’s Bench Press
  • 2 sets of 10 x 3ct Windshield Wipers
  • 2 sets of 10 x 3ct 6 Inches with arms extended

Mosey to flag

Quick Feet down the length of the lot, Lunges back to start, Karaoke down, Quick Feet back

Take a lap around the Library (no craig’s listers to be found). Mumblechatter consisted of a fascinating discussion around who pays for the public libraries. 

5 minutes of Mary:

  • 3 sets 4 x 10ct  – Supermans (alternating between Dive to Free fall)
  • 3 sets of 5 x 5 ct – Boat Canoes
  • 2 set of 10’s – Mountain Climbers
  • 20 ct – Single Leg Homer to Marge
  • 10 x 3ct – Pickle Pounders
  • Single leg lifts 10 straight, 10 back, 10 forward for each leg
  • 20 ct – Pigeon Pose

Mumblechatter consisted of a discussion around methods for avoiding nipple chaffing during long runs. YHC shared a story of scaring divers and possibly small children by running shirtless to avoid the pain on Saturday. 

COT: (Nemo kept YHC on track with count/name-arama preceding announcements)

Announcements:  Dauber may have a bib for sale for the HSHM (Nov 23rd) for anyone interested.

Prayer Requests:  Prayers for our country’s leadership. Crab Legs going through experimental treatment.

YHC took us out.

T-Claps: For Nemo putting in the EC miles

High Intensity Boot Camp

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YHC signed up to Q Paradise City with every intention of helping it earn its High Intensity Boot Camp badge and possible setting a distance record for the AO in the process.

Ran over to arrive at 0515 to see some ECers out there – Yogurt, Pablo, Emeril, Dawgpound, Buford, and YHC rolled out a minute late (something about waiting for Dawgpound) and got some bonus miles in.

Come show time it was clear we were going to be an intimate 8 today. 0545 came around and we were off.

FNGs: None
Warm Up:

Mosey to the ticket booth, circle up in squat hold for x10 IC Smuf Jacks

Mosey to opposite corner of park for x10 windmill IC

Mosey back to basketball court for x10 reverse merkins
The Workout:

Mosey to the bottom of the ramp. Pax were promised getting to visualize finishing HS Half in a few weeks so we spent some quality time on the ramp.

First stop – run from the concrete/asphalt change to the 1st foul ball market, do 5 star jumps, then back. Next trip up go to the 2nd market. Repeat all the way through the 5 markers.

Pax then picked up the 6 and assembled for an indian run counterclockwise around the park. We stopped at the corner opposite the bottom of the ramp for 10x Frankenstein’s and then continued our indian run back to the bottom of the ramp. During this portion pax were instructed to come up with a workout for our next set of  ramp repeats, but they were warned that if they were easy we would be doing ramp runs based on lightpoles (13 of them) instead of foul ball markers.

Dawgpound request t-merkins (hand release with shoulder blades pinched at the top) and YHC decided those were challenging enough to do at foul ball markers, so we repeated the last ramp repeats but with t-merkins instead.

Pax then assembled for an indian run clockwise around the park. We stopped at the opposite corner for imperial walkers x10 IC. We then stopped again at the guard rail for russian dips x10 IC at the request of Emeril (YHC aims to please when reasonable). We finished the indian run to the bottom of the ramp and YHC asked Yogurt if he wanted foul ball marker or light pole repeats – Yogurt selected light poles (of course – there’s a reason YHC picked him to choose!) and YHC selected squats to go with that. So we did ramp repeats to each light pole with 3x squats at each stop.

This was great, but it took quite a while. YHC got so focused trying to keep up with Snap that I noticed rather suddenly that we had only 4 minutes left. YHC called for pax to come down on their next ramp repeat and head to the basketball courts for mary – apparently this was not well received as most pax finished out the last set and took their time to the basketball court. Blaming that one on not enough blood left in the brain to understand what “stay at the bottom” means.

Mary:

Freddier Mercury x10 IC

Homer to Marge – x5 IC per leg

Pidgeon pose – x10 per leg (at the request of Emeril)
Announcements:

Frosty CSAUP December 7th – sign up:

Christmas party December 14th – location is being confirmed

After this workout the web team decided Paradise City had earned its High Intensity (Running) Boot Camp designation and that is now reflected on the website. Should help us not kill an FNG.
T-Claps (Recognition):

Snap for properly dusting YHC on the last ramp repeat. Dude is for real fast.
Prayer:

Pablo’s mom going to doctor today

Emeril’s wife is picking up his parents this weekend for them to move down/in with them

We’re not coordinated enough for that

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FNGs: None – but return of cotter Sputnik from Raleigh who had been 2 years since his last post and now resides in the springs. Welcome back!

Warm Up:

Breakdancer x10 IC
Tappy taps x10 IC
Good morning x10 IC
Mosey lap around lot
Frankenstein kicks
But kickers

The Workout:

Circle up for pass the bell – 50lb bell gets passed around a tight circl with pax in squat hold. When the bell gets to you you overhead press it once. We went counter clock wise.

Parnter up based on kettle bell weight and mosey to the end of the parking lot with one bell per pair

Modified beep test
Start at end of lot
Partner 1 does KB swings
Partner 2 sprints to end of lot and back
Swap and repeat
First round – 80% max speed (your partner’s swings should give you a judgement on if you’re speeding up as we keep going)
5x Yurpees – thank Emeril for digging this one out of the exicon. It’s a burpee with a clap merkin at the bottom and two tuck jumps at the top instead of the jump clap

Repeato sprints – second round 90% speed
3x Yurpees
Plank hold IC x20
Third round – 100% speed

Circle up for pass the bell again – this time clock wise

Mosey down to amphitheater with one bell per pair (apparently some confusion here…..)
Drop bells on amphitheater and get into the grass for an experiment

Groups of 3 – barrel rolls while chopping feet. This went very poorly. Emeril almost took Dawgpound out at the knees in our group. Some groups were too chicken to get grass on them. Either way, this one can go away to never come back. As Dawgpound said later “we aren’t coordinated enough for that”.

Back into groups of 2
Partner 1 does bttw
Partner 2 does 10x turkish getups.
Swap and repeat. There was some modifying here to sets of 5 getups at a time. Modify as needed.

People’s chair while waiting for the six.

Repeato turkish getups and bttw going to 6 getups this time

Mosey back to parking lot with instructions to get the heart rate back down

Circle up for pass the bell – 2 loops both directions

Thunderstruck – side straddle hop during the song, burpee every time you hear thunder or thunderstruck
Mary:

All holds 10s
Plank
One arm up plank (once each arm)
One leg up plank (once each leg)
Same side arm and leg up (once each side)
Yoga
Runner’s pose
Pidgeon pose
HAND (Have A Nice Day)
Announcements:

See slack/FB.

New Kettlebell AO starting Monday in Fuquay – same site as Mutiny.
T-Claps (Recognition):

Sputnik for getting back into the gloom!
Prayer:

Scout’s family. Dauber’s daughter and all other HS seniors figuring out their path forward.

Alphabet Soup

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FNGs: Swiss Miss

Warm Up: Merkins, SSH, Imperial Walkers, Good Mornings

The Workout:  PAX jogged down from the tennis courts for a quick warmup in front of the amphitheater.  From there we took the amphitheater concrete for a name game workout.   This workout was one of my favorite Thunder workouts led by John Deere.  Small change was made to the workout in that for more popular letters I added an additional exercise so we didn’t over utilize one exercise.  We picked a PAX Member and then worked thru the exercises that spelt their name.  We made it thru all the PAX with some slight modification.  Only spelt Yellow for Yellow Cake and Midget for Midget for Life.

 

A– Choose your own Ab Exercise                               N-Nipplers or Nolan Ryan

B– Burpee or Balls to Wall                                          O-One Leg Burpee or OYO Exercise

C– Carolina Dry Dock or Chilly Jacks                       P-Patty Cake Merkin(team)

D- Derkin or Dips                                                          Q-Q Choice

E- E2K (Mary) or Escalator (stepups)                       R-Reverse Crunch or Russian Dips

F- Fire Drill or Flutter Kicks                                        S-SSH or Smurf Jacks

G-Goofball or Guantanamo                                         T-Turkish Get Up or T Merkin

H- Hand Release Merkin or Homer 2M                   U-Up Downs

I-Iron Hulk or Imperial Walker                                 V-Van Goghda

J-Jump Squat                                                                 W- War Hammer

K-KNerkin – Knuckler Merkin                                   X-X’s and O’s

L-LBFC’s                                                                         Y-Yurpee

M-Monkey Humpers or Mountain Climber            Z-Zombie Walk – Lunge Walk over long area

 

Mary:  We did core work throughout the workout and didn’t have any additional time for Mary.

Announcements: Same stuff we’ve announced all week and on slack

T-Claps (Recognition): N/A

Prayer: Family of girl that was hit by a car.  Some others that I forgot because i’m writing this 2 days later.

Between Two Ferns with your host Chips

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Everyone seemed happy before the workout started. Folks where chatting. Once the workout started most of the mumble chatter died down. Except Chips continued to interview Pax for his local cable broadcast show Between Two Ferns. He got some great material. To not be out done Dumbo brought his own source of entertainment. Red beans and rice the night before packs a powerful punch in the morning.

EC: Dawgpound, Pablo, Buford, Sliderule, Blue Hen, Flanigan
FNGs: None… Bummer
Warm Up:

A jog to pick up the bricks. Yes they are still there.

Circle Up for the following exercises with the bricks
Side Straddle Hops
Bat Wing
Ralpies

The Workout:

Head to the wall for the following:

3 Rounds:
30 Count Balls to the wall
10 Count Squat hold bricks being held out
5 Count Left Leg Up
5 Count Squat hold
5 Count Right Leg Up
5 Count Squat hold

Head to the playground for the following:

3 Rounds
Split pax into two
Pax 1 Pull Ups
Pax 2 Squat Goblet Press — Timer 20 Reps. — Last round we added a bicep curl

Head to the flag pole for the following:

2 Rounds
Dipplers (Dirken Nipplers)
Dips
Lunge Bricks Overhead

Head to the grass area by the side parking lot for the following:

3 Rounds
Pax forms two lines facing each other. Hold Bricks straight out to create a sort of tunnel
Pax at one end BearCrawl between the pax to the other end

Head to the soccer field for the following:
Jack Web 1 Push up to 3 Shoulder press ratio with bricks up to 5
Squater Pyramid up to 15

Mary:

Head back to the flag pole for Mary:
Toe Taps
LBCs
Homer to Marge
Toe Taps
LBCs

Announcements:

Frosty December 7th.
Holiday party December 14th
Shield Lock challenge

T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer:

Family involved in the Plane Crash
Families involved in the death of the 14 year old girl

Developing a Reputation

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17 Pax mosied at Paradise City for a high intensity bootcamp. The smell was ripe this morning as Pax set off for EC and continued to linger throughout the workout. Welcome back Kotter (Pilgrim). Special appearance by Roger Roger and his truck.

7 for EC: Lipstick (early or late I’m not sure but there was one pit stop), UTI, Emeril, Full House, Pablo, Warbucks, Skidmark, and Pikachu ran from home.

Q was informed he may be developing a reputation. 2nd Q in a row that has gone longer than 3 miles.

FNGs: I’ve been told my workouts may not be FNG appropriate and the SouthWake site may need to say high intensity bootcamp.
Warm Up: Small mosey lap and circle up for 10 cc SSH, 10 squats, 10 cc lunges, 10 merkins, 10 plank jacks, 10 WWIIs, and 10 American hammers
The Workout: Catch me if you can run around the complex. Partner 1 does 5 jump squats then catches Partner 2. I full lap. Went back for the 6 as Cowboy pulled a Lipstick.

3 man Indian Run from the bottom of the ramp across the parking lot to the stairs.

1 time down 7 SSH, return to start 7 SSH (not done in Cadence)

Next time 7 SSH, 7 squats

3rd round 7 SSH, 7 squats, 7 Lunges

4th time 7 SSH, 7 squats, 7 lunges, 7 merkins

5th round 7 SSH, 7 squats, 7 lunges, 7 merkins, 7 plank jacks

6th round 7 SSH, 7 squats, 7 lunges, 7 merkins, 7 plank jacks, 7 WWII’s

7th round 7 SSH, 7 squats, 7 lunges, 7 merkins, 7 plank jacks, 7 WWII’s, 7 American Hammers

Get the 6 and everyone did 7 SSH, 7 squats, 7 lunges, 7 merkins, 7 plank jacks, 7 WWII’s, 7 American Hammers together

2 groups of Indian runs back around the complex to the start.

Mary: 4 minute plank hold with Peter Parkers and 1 arm up, 1 leg up.
Announcements: CSAUP in South Wake Dec 7. Pikachu and Mookie doing Insomnia run of 13 miles starting at 3:30 AM before U-Turn (WTF)
T-Claps (Recognition): Way to kind this morning Tetnus.
Prayer: Family and community of HS after young girl was killed last week.

Kryptonite-esque Monday Morning

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YHC preblasted the night before to warn PAX that today would be a high tempo style bootcamp with around 3 miles of running.  I don’t know if it was that, a little Q sheet discrepancy, or a combination of both, that led to a typical PC workout to have lower than expected numbers.  There was no flag, no site Qs, and no PAX from Woodcreek 🙁

3 Mile EC was done by Warbucks, Maybelline, and YHC.
2 Mile EC was done by Dawgpound, Buford and Cowboy.

FNGs: none
Warm Up: Mosey up the ramp to the top by the ticket counter.  Circle up for the following:
Good Mornings ICx10
Frankenstein Leg Kicks ICx10
Seal Claps ICx10

The Workout: Partner up based on speed. Partners started running in opposite directions until they met up.  When they did meet, 5 pattie cake merkins were performed.  Then turn back and run in the opposite direction until meeting up again with said partner.  This was done until there was a total of 10 meetings.  Some of the PAX that finished early did a few core style exercises near the ticket counter area until the 6 arrived.
Mosey down the ramp and over to the tunnel.  Partner 1 did BTTW while Partner 2 ran to the end of the path and back, flapjack.  Then People’s Chair was performed while the other partner ran to the end of the path and back, flapjack.  Mosey over to the basketball court / “virtual flag” area.

Mary: Circle up at the basketball court.  Each PAX called out a 10 count exercise.  Except for Lucky Charms who called 5 Burpees OYO which led YHC to conclude with 10 Turkish Getups OYO.
Announcements: We are about a month out from HSHM.  This was most likely YHC’s final Q in South Wake.
T-Claps (Recognition): Maybelline getting faster and stronger post injury
Prayer: Unspoken, YHC took us out

Truly an honor to lead – thanks guys for coming!

Not sure why we’re running at a Boot Camp.

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As the PAX got out of their cars I informed them that they weren’t going to need gloves for this workout.  Bit of mumble chatter related to having to only run.  Moby was ready to get back in Bluehens car.   I plan to try to grab one Q a week and work on running for the HSHM.  Today’s workout would be track focused and negative splits.

FNGs: None

EC: Pikachu, The Natural

Warm Up: SSH, Hillbillies, Good Mornings, Windmills

The Workout: Jog down to the track.  Partner up, like speed.   Go in opposite directions when you meet x25 Core Exercises in cadence.  Every lap speed up.

Mary: 5 burpees for chatter, Hillbillies, Imperial Walkers, Plank Hold x10 count per Pax while stretch calves, runners pose, pigeon

Announcements: See Slack

T-Claps (Recognition):   Dumbo’s shooting star

Prayer:  Bernie and his family

PSA for R4TJ

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EC: Cowboy, Dawgpound, Emeril, Lipstick, Nemo, Redenbacher, Skidmark, UTI, Warbucks

FNGs: None

Warm Up: Some good mumblechatter, discussed the routes and headed out.

The Workout:

UTI was enfuego with his Public Service Announcement for R4TJ this week and as a result, a strong contingent of PAX were fired up and ready for some miles. We aim to please at R4TJ so YHC had a 3 mile and 5 mile option available for PAX to take advantage of this morning.

3 Mile Route:

 

 

 

 

 

 

5 Mile Route:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mary: MIA

Announcements: F3 Family picnic October 12th.

Sign up sheet:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wdWIZv-meI2jnoS8Kgl0g5fCiBk9lBbIyXsDGdXTyyc/edit?usp=sharing

T-Claps (Recognition): Emeril, Lipstick, Nemo, and Warbucks for picking up the 6.

Prayer: Bernie and his family, unspoken

YHC took us out. It was an honor to lead.