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Southwake Dads Kickball

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Workout Date: 7/3/21
FNGs: Bolt, Mighty Duck, Knuckle Puck
2.0s:
Middie, Twinkle Toes, Bolt (Bobby Boucher)
Vader (Cancun)
Mighty Duck, Knuckle Puck (Kosher)
Vannelope, Slappy (LED)
Mickey, Mulan (Warbucks)
Golden Glove, Kragle, Home Run (Martini)
Fingerpaint, BOOM! (Pigpen)
Warm Up: Mosey to the field past the amphitheater for warm ups.
Side Straddle Hop x10 In Cadence
Merkins x10 On My Down (led by 2.0 BOOM!)
Sir Fazio Arm Circles x15 IC forward x15 IC reverse (led by 2.0 Fingerpaint)
The Workout: Kickball!
Dads count off in twos. Ones with their 2.0s are one team, Twos are the other team. Only 2.0s kick on offense. Dads and 2.0s both play defense.
Mary: Consume as many popsicles as dad will allow
Announcements: None
T-Claps (Recognition): 2.0s did a great job!
Prayer: Families travelling, great-grandmother who passed away, victims of the condo collapse in Florida

Pikachu Therapy Session

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FNGs:

Nope
Warm Up:

Daisy pickers, good mornings x10 IC

Mosey down the parking lot for 21s – SSH x5 IC with the next x16 silently, if everyone stops at 21 then we’re done, if not 5x burpees. Took three tries but we got it right.

The Workout:

Mosey to the rock pile

Bearly curling down the lot

Bolt 45s

Bearly curling back down the lot

Single leg deadlifts x10 each leg

Return the rocks and mosey to the playground

Partner up – between the two do 50x pull ups and 100x merkins

Mosey over to the Crazy Ivan pax for Hillbillies x10 IC

Mosey to the white fence for typewriters – start on the bottom rung, 10x Derkins, shuffle across for 5x Derkins, go up a rung for 5x Derkins, shuffle and 5x Derkins, go up to the top for 5x Derkins, and shuffle for 10x Derkins

Mosey to the tennis courts – Crab walk suicides to the middle lot line, end of first lot, second middle line, and fence

Burpee broad jump down the length of the courts

Mary:

20x LBCs, Freddie Mercury, Homer to Marge

Plank hold into various positions for ~3 minutes
Announcements:

CarPex Q Swap coming up

Cool Breeze

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Luckily, cloud cover brought some wind at the same time we started the workout.

FNGs:  None

Warm Up:  Side straddle hops, Cotton pickers, L+R overhead stretch, fazio arm circles

The Workout:

Jog to rock pule:

4 sets of five exercises:  8 increasing to 25 reps

curls

triceps presses

Squats

upright rows

shoulder press

3 sets of five exercises:  10 – 15 reps

Merkins

Chest press

Ground Pounders

Double merkin burbies

Bus Drivers

Jog to the pavilion

3 sets of three exercises:  10 reps

One leg step-ups

Dips

Irkins

Mary:  Each of us took two cycles of calling Mary exercises

Prayer:  Gratitude

1776 – Celebration of Freedom

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There are lots of ways one might choose to celebrate the freedom that we so often take for granted. The F3 way is to have a brutal beatdown that serves as a reminder that freedom isn’t free – it was purchased and preserved by countless patriots who made the ultimate sacrifice.

“There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.” – John 15:13 (NLT)

YHC is truly grateful for my F3 brothers who push me to become a better version of myself – physically, mentally, and spiritually. Thanks for the push to get through the 1,776 reps! Keep up the great work HIM and keep pushing each other!

FNGs: Scissor Hands

Warm Up:
Pledge Of Allegiance
SSH x20 IC
Good Mornings x10 IC
Daisy Pickers x10 IC
Frankensteins x10 IC

The Workout:
THE 1776
– Start with 1,776 yard run (1.01 miles)

Set 1 (100 reps of each – break down into 5 sets of 20/ 10 sets of 10, etc.)
Merkins
Side straddle hop – IC
Lunges – IC (100 each leg)
Set 2
Pull ups
Imperial walkers – IC
Squats
Set 3
Overhead claps – IC
Mountain climbers – IC
WW2’s
Set 4
Dips
Plank Jacks – IC
Step ups – IC (100 each leg)
Set 5
American night clubs
American get ups
American hammers
Ground pounders (mosey to the rock pile and choose wisely)
100 yard bear crawl
76 burpees
Badges of honor/pain
Patriot: partner up and each pax do half the reps
American eagle: complete all exercises flying solo

Mary:
We walked the field and picked up trash

Announcements:
Q Swap with Carpex the last week of July

T-Claps (Recognition):
Several PAX did EC before the 2-hour beatdown. Impressive!

Prayer:
Doc & YHC moving soon
Martini – Kidney stones
Overturned vehicle on Piney Grove Wilbon
Family of Owen Reed Schroeder who was killed in Holly Springs – park bench dedicated in his memory

A Toby Keith ‘Murica Celebration

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YHC picked up the Q and since it was the lead in to the 4th weekend, I put together a playlist for ‘Murica. Little did I know Toby Keith was such a polarizing figure. Maybe next time I’ll go with something a little more safe like Chris Brown and Elton John.  We sweated, we swung heavy weights and started the July 4th weekend off with a bang.

FNGs: Nope

Warm Up: Quick warmup exercises

The Workout:
Broke up into 2 teams of 4.  Each partner completes each station, then go to next exercise
P1: Ab exercise
P2: Farmers carry (2 KBs) – timer
P3: KB exercise 1
P4: KB exercise 2

Rnd KB 1 KB 2 Ab
1 KB Swing Pistol Squat LSF
2 Thrusters Cookie pouch Heel taps
3 Overhead press Figure 8s American Hammers
4 Lunge Plank drag LBCs
5 Renegade Rows KB hinge Windshield wipers
6 Single leg deadlift Goblet Squat Chill cut plank hold
7 Wonderbra KB snatch Freddy mercury
8 KB Windmill Back lunge Pickle pounders
9 Sumo squats KB clean Homer 2 marge
10 Midget Love Handle Tricep ext Dying cockroach

Mary:
Light stretching.

Announcements:
See Slack.

T-Claps (Recognition):
Good work men.

Prayer:
Injured PAX, Traveling for the 4th.
YHC took us out.

Teamwork at the Trot

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Warm-Up: A short jog around the park and followed by 22 reps of SSH, Windmills, Good mornings, Imperial Walkers/Hillbillies, and Frankensteins.

The Workout: Pax split into 2 teams for some friendly competition

Round 1- Cenepdede bear crawls- The first team to reach the line gets to recover on the jog and the losing team does burpees- Team 1 conceded for modifying (10 burpees for all)

Round 2- Tunnel Rat- teams form a tunnel and the last guys have to crawl through- Team 2 was victorious, recover on the jog while team 1 did burpees

Round 3- Duck walk snake runs- guys from back stays in duck walk position while the rest of the team squats and snakes thorough. Team 1 was the winner- Team 1 recovered on the jog, while team 2 did burpees.

Freeze Tag, one tagger chases all the remaining pax members, if you get tagged you have to stay in place and do SSH until someone untags you

Mary: 5 mins of ab burnout (LBC’s, Homer to Marge, Heel Taps, Box cutters and Plank backslaps)

Announcements: 1776 workout on the 4th Norm has the Q

Prayer: Frams co-worker Tim, 8-bit is flying here this afternoon-prayers for a safe flight.

A log, kettle bell, rucksack, tire, and another log walk into a bar….

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PAX: Woody, Dusty, John Deer, Pikachu, Kubota, Orca, RAMS, Cancun.

FNGs: None

Warm Up: RAM saved my butt by taking PAX through some life saving warm-ups before I arrived.
The Workout: A workout so terrifying that Chuck Norris checks for it under his bed every night.

Set up the toys in a row with a pax at each. Log #2 was pulled for a Hobbits Tale (there and back again) as a timer. When Log #2 left the station the pax started working. When the log got back the pax would stop and shift to the left to the next toy or plank, mountain climber, or murcan. I stole this idea from Pikachu when he did it at Possum Trot because theft is the greatest form of flattery.

Round 1 and 2:
Tire- toe taps
KB- swings
Ruck- Deadlift
Log 1- shoulder presses shifting from each shoulder.
Log 2- pull down and back

PAX without a toy held plank for round 1 and mountain climbers for round 2.

Round 3, 4.
Tire- John Cusack
KB- Romanian Deadlift
Ruck- Ground Pounder
Log 1- side to side hops over log
Log 2- log flips. Down and back.

PAX without a toy did Murcan’s. Added in Imperial walkers and LBCs before PAX started the next exercise.

Mary: Mary was quite contrary because we did LBC’s during the workout.
Announcements: SW Picnic on the 26th. Q-Swap with CarPex.
T-Claps (Recognition): John Deer for really trying to follow instructions and Pikachu for really trying to lift a spare tire over his head. Joking aside it was great to work hard with all these men and an honor to lead.
Prayer: Various injuries with different with PAX.

A Warbucks Pyramid

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YHC signed up to Q Ivan after the Bagel bros grabbed my Cletus Q spot. This was my first time on the Q, but we survived after a few kinks. YHC brought a playlist of Rock Band classics and a “pyramid” style workout featuring some new KB moves.

FNGs:none

Warm Up:
ssh, windmills, arm circles, good mornings
The Workout:

We did a pyramid of sorts, but ran out of time, so we modified the count slightly. First round was a 6 count, round 2 was a 12 count, and round 3 was planned to be 18, but due to time cut it to 10 (or some modified count that seemed reasonable).
Exercises
Thrusters (L/R)
KB Swings
Single Leg RDL (L/R)
Single Leg Hip Bridge KB Press (L/R)
Plank drag
Pistol Squat
Kettlebell Chest Supported Hinge
Goblet Squat
Front Back Lunge w/ KB overhead (L/R)
KB Windmill (L/R)

After the first set YHC called KB murder bunnies in grass between light poles. This turned out to be a bad idea as YHC took a face dive. After round 2, we modified and did a Farmers carry the bells around a tree and back. After round 3, straight into Mary.

Mary:
Following exercises x10
Windshield wipers (over KB)
American hammers
Midget Love handles (L/R)
LSF bell overhead
Windshield wipers (over KB)

Announcements:
See social media
T-Claps (Recognition):
PAX for hanging with me on my first KB Q. PAX that donated to UNC NCCC!

Prayer:
Dauber travels, unspoken. YHC took us out.

Holy Humidity Batman! 6/12/21

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This was about as humid of a morning I’ve experienced running so far this year.  I figured it would be bad because it rained all day Friday and as the sun came up it felt like a steam room.  The only relief was a little bit of sporadic drizzling rain that hit us on the rain.  I’m truly amazed at anyone who’s running in this type of weather without some type of hydration pack, or water bottle, or hydrating gel pack, or whatever else may be out there that I don’t know about.

FNGs: none

Warm Up: quick parking lot mosey, 10x Good Mornings, 10x Daisy Pickers, 30-35 Merkins OYO

The Workout: 6mi, 3.5mi, or ruck.  6mi route included a search for the albino deer, which eluded me this morning as usual

Mary: no time

Announcements: Warbucks collecting baby, preemie, and newborn items at AO’s to donate to the Newborn Critical Care Center at UNC Children’s Hospital to celebrate and honor his lost 5-week old son every year.

T-Claps (Recognition): Elton for coming all the way out to Holly Springs from Wake Forest to celebrate his 1yr anniversary.

Prayer: Axe father getting knee replacement surgery, Alpine travelling with family to Switzerland, safety for all those running the Grasshopper 5k

Back to Old School Workout

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FNGs:  Orca (Mike Pellicci)

Warm Up:  With the help of FoulBall:  side saddle hops, cherry pickers, good evenings, fazio arm circles

The Workout:

Rock pile:  5 rounds of 15, 12 and 10 reps of:  Curls, triceps extensions, squats, upright rows and shoulder press.

Run to ten poles, doing 1 increasing to 10 merkins at each pole.

Dice game with a round of each pax rolling and leading with 10 reps of:

  1. Double Merkin Burpees
  2. Diamond Merkins
  3. Balls to the Wall
  4. Shoulder Taps
  5. People’s Chair
  6. One leg step ups
  7. Lunges
  8. Dips
  9. LBC’s
  10. Mountain Climbers
  11. Plank Hold

Mary:  a few rounds of lbc’s, sit-ups with various poses, ww1’s, box cutters and shoulder taps

Announcements:  Picnic, others

Prayer:   Peace and happiness