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DT Body Rockers

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DT has been, like many other AOs, a site now known for a much smaller crowd. This weekend I had a few verbal HCs so I was excited to plan the workout. Heading back in from a nice EC run with Fanny Pack, we were greeted in the lot by several #HIM at the ready to put in the work. I wanted to do some serious rock work. Focus on form, slower cadence, and surround the sets with non-stop cardio. All said and done I think we were successful and we even logged 1.5 miles with a w/u jog and plenty of laps around the back of the library in what I like to call “the smile lot”.

FNGs: Nope
Warm Up: Regular DT loop then circle up for some w/u stuff
The Workout: Headed over to the rocks and picked up a rock that would provide a good challenge for curls. Moseyed over behind library and set up shop. Started with biceps – curls and then what I call 7’s 3 ways. Broke up the sets with some SSH and then a jog around the parking lot with a break for some plank jacks, MT Climbers and regular plank hold with focus on form. Did this routine a few times. Next moved to triceps with standard press followed by some SSH, then Crab Walk across the lot. Next we broke out a new one, the Body Rocker. This is 10-step exercise with the rock, focus on form not a crazy fast cadence. We did 10 of them, then jogged around the lot with a break for plank stuff, Did this 3 times too. Returned the rock alternating shoulders then set up for a bucket brigade style return – each of us taking the weight off our shoulder, having the man next to us pick it up and pass it along.
Mary: As always, a nice set 2x through of LBC, 6 hold to Low Slow Flutter to 6 hold, Homer to Marge, American Hammer.
Announcements: Mulch, upcoming Q weeks between HS and Fuquay
T-Claps (Recognition): Fanny Pack on the EC plus staying after to run hill loops on Library Hill and West Elm. All guys for showing up and putting in a steady effort for the full 45
Prayer: Educators working in uncertain times, those in recovery for continued strength on their journey, First Responders. A couple guys have a challenging start to work week with meetings with their boss. YHC shared a message about how we are all starting to carry added weight on our shoulders. We might not even notice it anymore but it’s there and it can sneak up and knock you on your ass at any moment. None of us needs to be a hero. None of us needs to be prefect. Let yourself share that weight through your faith, with your family and friends, with your F3 brothers. Closed in prayer after a silent count for unspoken.

Merica, where Democracy rules

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FNGs: Not Today

YHC decided to leave it up to the PAX to vote on the route for the day. The only stipulation, was you had to HC for the vote to count.  The lackluster vote was tallied, and Little Dipper won 2 votes to 1….C’mon Guys, we had 15 and only got 3 HC votes! #bringbackthehc
Warm Up: Mosey to the middle of the road for SSH, IW, Frankenstein, High Knees and Karaoke
The Workout: 5 Mile loop out to Womble and back.
Mary: Stretching while we had announcements
Announcements: F3 The Mule is officially cancelled for Coronavirus. Rain or Shine doesn’t include Virus protection.  #jkMidgetwestillkindoflikeyou:)
T-Claps (Recognition): Coal Ash! This man was cruising this morning! Not to overshadow all the impressive work going on out there for Wilmington Race, but this guy has been under the radar, training for a 50K! Keep up the great work Coal Ash!
Prayer: Our legs for Crablegs!

A Ferris Wheel at Disney?!

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11 PAX, including 1 FNG, (4 for EC) swallowed that DRP and posted at Disney today for a ride on the new Ferris Wheel.  YHC wanted to see if he could make a decorative design for the new ride on Strava and I think it turned out pretty nice!

EC: Deadbolt, Mookie, 187, Pablo

FNGs: Welcome “The Mechanic”

Warm Up: Quick mosey around the soccer field then circled up for excercises.  All exercises in cadence: SSH x20; IW x10, HB x10, Arm Circles x10F x10R, Seal Claps x10, Overhead Claps x10, Windmill x10

The Workout: Mosey to the center of the soccer field to explain the workout to PAX: starting at the center of the field, PAX would jailbreak to a designated corner or side of the field and squat hold for the 6, then Q called an exercise then jailbreak back to the center of the field for another exercise.  This pattern was repeated around the entire field like spokes on a wheel (or Ferris Wheel design for Strava).  Exercises around the perimeter were Burpees, Star Jumps, Shoulder taps, Derkins, Prisoner Squats, Toe Taps, BTTW and exercise at the center field was 30 sec chilcutt plank hold.  Once we made it around the field, we did the entire routine in reverse order with the same exercises except dipplers (decline nipplers) in the center field instead of 30 sec plank hold.

Mary: All exercises in cadence: LSF x20; Homer to Marge x10 regular, 10 right leg up, 10 left leg up; Freddie Mercury x20, Box cutter x20, Pickle Pounder x20, 60 sec chilcutt plank hold.

Announcements: ALS walk April 18 in Raleigh for Crablegs (details to be posted on FB/Slack), Memorial service for Forcep’s son this Saturday

T-Claps (Recognition): Crablegs posting in the gloom!  Always a pleasure seeing you out there!

Prayer: Crablegs, Wallaby coming back to town today, Wiggly and his family, First Responders and Soldiers, Unspoken prayers, Crablegs took us out!

1 Year for Downtown Train

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1 year ago I launched Downtown Train with 3 things in mind.  I wanted to provide a 0530 start option (Paradise City as still 0545) for those of us with a little less flexibility in the early morning.  As much as I appreciate running, I wanted to provide a boot camp centric option with less miles.  And, I was excited about the parking deck (although I wish it had a couple more levels for some serious fun).  This has been a great AO.  We have our regulars and also tend to attract a diverse crowd every week.  Numbers have stayed low with other more well-known options drawing the large crowds.  That has worked well for those of us who enjoy a smaller group.  I have really appreciated the number of different guys who have stepped up to lead this AO, and having Coal Ash step in as co-Q.  Overall, solid 1st year for Downtown Train and here’s to many more great rides.

FNGs: not this trip
Warm Up: usual loop around downtown, circle up at the flag for 3 rounds – SSH, Good Mornings, Fazio Arms then SSH, Good Mornings, Mt. Climbers then SSH, Good Mornings, Goof Balls
The Workout: headed around the side of the deck and to upper level and started the 1st of 3 sets.  Lined up and did some shoulder burn.  Keeping the arms up, we did Fazios front, hold, Fazios reverse, hold, Seal Claps, hold and then Overheads.  Ran length of deck and knocked out some SSH as promised, then recovered on job and worked through the set a couple times.  Then we changed it up a bit with a shortened version of a Nemo favorite, the Red Barchetta.  Ran length of deck, SSH ICx50, return.  Ran length again and kept back and forth stopping for Mt. Climbers ICx40, LBC ICx30 and Merkins ICx20.  Some other stuff worked in there too but that was the basics of it.  Then we headed to lower deck and lined up on the wall.  Big focus again on really pushing our limits as we rolled through as follows with all in 15 count or ICx15: BTTW into plank hold, then shoulder taps, hold, then nipplers, hold, then bear crawl.  Recover back to wall, rinse and repeat.  Changed it up a bit on final set working in some people’s chair and merkins.  Guys were really pushing themselves through this set and it was pretty awesome to see the energy.
Mary: a couple quick rounds, keeping feet off the ground for 6 inch hold, low slow flutters to LBCs then some Homer to Marge
Announcements: plenty on slack and the calendar
T-Claps (Recognition): everyone who has taken the Q in year 1 for Downtown Train as there have been a lot of guys lead and a lot of great variety
Prayer: YHC shared a message about he importance of intentional communication with others in your life and the value of letting conversations be a little uncomfortable, prayers some spoken and many unspoken and YHC took us out.  Honor to lead this morning and great effort by all.

New Rides for some at Disney

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11 PAX and 1 dog, 6 for EC, decided to swallow the DRP to continue in their daily commitment to accelerate fitness, fellowship, and faith and see why Disney is called “The Happiest Place on Earth”!

EC: 187, Deadbolt, Full House, Maybelline, Pablo, ShamWow!

FNGs: None

Notable Absences: Dumbo, Emeril, and Midget4Life

Warm Up: Quick mosey around the soccer field then circled up for excercises.  All exercises in cadence: SSH x20; IW x10, HB x10, Windmill x10, Arm Circles x10F x10R, Seal Claps x10, Overhead Claps x10

The Workout: PAX moseyed to the back corner of the track around the soccer fields where the path forks with hill and split into 2 groups.  Group 1: 5 burpees at the top of the hill, run to the bottom for 5 star jumps, run back to the top and repeat until group 2 has made it all the way around the field.  Group 2: indian run around the soccer field stopping at the corners to complete 10 count merkin exercises  (corner 1 wide grip, corner 2 diamond, corner 3 regular).  Switch and repeat for 2 full circuits.  During the run down the hill, heard a few PAX state that they had never been on this ride before; I was happy to provide.  PAX then moseyed to the play ground for 2 sets of : Box Jumps x10, Bulgarian split leg squats (10R 10L), 10 Derkins, 10 Dips, 10 Erkins.  PAX moseyed to the wall at the restrooms where they completed 2 rounds of: Group 1 held BTTW while Group 2 did mountain climbers IC x 10, then switch.  Mosey to the flag for Mary.

Mary: All exercises in cadence: LSF x20; Homer to Marge x10 regular, 5 right leg up, 5 left leg up; Box cutter x20, Freddie Mercury x20, Pickle Pounder x20

Announcements: Help SNAP move at 6:15 this evening at his office in Holly Springs; ATT long ass run 2/22, Help at the Holly Springs Food Cupboard this Saturday to build a greenhouse

Prayer: Wallaby, First Responders, 3 USA Fire Fighters in Australia that lost their life, Soldiers, Unspoken, ShamWow! took us out in prayer.

As Promised-No Burpees!

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FNGs: None
Warm Up: Mosey to back courts for SSHx20, Merkx10, HillBx10, ImpWalkx10, Faz Armx10for/back, Sealclapx10, Mtclimbx10
The Workout:Indian Run around track and stop at the starting point for exercise.  Another Indian run after each exercise.  20 Merk, 20 Squats, 20 CarDryDocs. Mosey to front playground for balls, bear crawl, monkhump 10, 15, 20 counts.  Mosey to front of school for Urk, Stepups(each leg), Dips.  Again 10, 15 and 20 counts. Mosey to rock pile where we chose a smedium size rock as it was going to travel with us. A variety of exercises to work upper and lower body alike.  All to 20 counts.  Squats, Curls, Triceps, Goblet Squats, WonderBras, St Leg Deadlift, Rut rows.  Each exercised followed with a lap or lunges.  Mosey to front lot for Mary
Mary: Popcorn Mary with your choice.  Only BlueHen and Sliderule were left out.  Sliderule on purpose(nobody wants to do the Devil Burpee
Announcements:
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer:Several were lifted up.

Native American Mosey on a Monday

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8 men took the DRP and showed up at Paradise City. One lonely sole didn’t think it would be enough so they did EC. Everyone got at least 3 miles for a high tempo start to the week. Aye!

Indian Run

FNGs: Not today!

EC: Pablo

Warm Up: Mosey to top of the ramp for SSH, Good mornings and Windmill. Mosey to back corner for Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies and Daisy pickers. Mosey to the rail for back stroke and irkins.

The Workout: Split into two 4 man Indian run groups. Make laps around the complex stopping for 5 hand release merkins at the top of the ramp, 10 big boy sit ups at the back corner and 15 jump squats at the rail. Each group of 4 was supposed to skip a lap around the complex and do a Dora (100 merkins, 200 LBC and 300 squat). One group might have done it twice (could be bad instructions or bad listening…)

Mary: Good mornings ICx10, Homer to Marge ICx20, Low Slow Flutter ICx20

Announcements: Greenhouse 2/1, Move Snap this Thursday at 6pm, Long Ass ATT run coming up soon.

T-Claps (Recognition):

Prayer: Those looking for work (Lee), thanksgiving for our ability to get out with a group of men and get stronger.

It is always a honor to lead you men. I’ll try to do better next time!

Mike..Mike…Mike..HHHHHUUUMMMPPPPPDDDDDAAAAAYYYYYYY!!!!!!!

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EC: @Reddenbacher, @Emeril, @Deadbolt – Ran EC in reverse.

FNGs: Mike Sheridan –  Now known as Alamo

Warm Up:
Jog to soccer field.  SSH, Good Mornings, Windmills, Daisy Pickers

The Workout:
Originally I was going to utilize the @Deadbolt special and do four corner repeats in the big parking lot followed up with some Abyss training.  But during my EC run I came up with a new plan to keep everyone moving (Pakistani Runs) and hitting all the great rides Disney has to offer.

Ride 1 – Started at the soccer field after warmups.  Balls to wall on the fence, run to midfield 15 Merkins, run to the other fence Preachers Chair. Back to midfield for Merkins.  Noticed someone standing near the bathrooms waiting on us and as we got closer realized it was @Crablegs.   5 burpees for everyone.

Ride 2 – Next stop the abyss.  One line Pakistani Run partner up on the way.   1 partner LBC’s at the top while the other partner ran down into the abyss and did 10 star jumps.  Back to the top and swap.
Round 2 partner 1 did squats while partner 2 ran down and did Merkins.  Swap.   Core work while we waited for the 6.

Ride 3 – One line Pakistani Run to the Big Parking Lot.  4 corners.  Corner 1 at the start 3 burpees.  Jog/run to corner 2 6 burpees.  Lunge walk corner 3 9 burpees.  Jog/run to corner 4 12 burpees.
Core work while we waited on the 6.

Ride 4 – Mosey to the hill behind the big parking lot.   Partner up again.  Partner 1 run to the top of the hill while Partner 2 did Prisoner Get Up Squat Jumps (PGUSJ), one of my new favorite exercises that @Dawgpound introduced to us last week.

Ride 5 – Mosey to the stairs behind the school.  5 Turkish get ups.  Run up stairs and around to the football field benches near the ticket booth.  Dips until the 6 showed up.  @Dawgpound ran us thru some of the best Russian Dips ever.

Pakistani run back to the big parking lot because @Midget for Life left his sweatshirt.  FNG was pretty tired at this point so @Dumbo stopped to provide encouragement while Pax ran ahead to parking lot entrance and did more Squats followed by the @Nemo special Goofballs led by @Midget for Life.  FNG caught his breath so finished the Pakistani Run back to the flag.

Mary:
Downward dog calf stretches.  Pigeon.

Announcements:
Thursday 1/30 4pmish – Help Snap move out of his office into storage down near @Pikachus house
Long Ass ATT run – 2/22 7am
Brought Mike into the circle to name him. After he gave us his background info I was ready to call him Hump Day but @Dumbo asked one more question.  “What was your first job?”.  Mike’s answer was “I worked at a rental car agency”.   @Dumbo appropriately named him Alamo

Feb 2nd – Greenhouse build at HS Food Pantry.  HC for a count. Don’t want to overwhelm the kid running it.

T-Claps (Recognition):
All the Pax for continuously encouraging Mike/Alamo throughout the workout.  I heard so many Mike, Mike, Mike… that thought for sure we’d name him Hump day.   Special thanks to @Midget for Life and @Dumbo for working with him.
@Dumbo for going to Central Prison on Tuesday to meet with those in prison and helping to run a bible study.  While there he found out they’ve been doing F3 3 times a day.

Prayer: @Quiver has a family friend that is 70 and was just diagnosed with ALS, @Crablegs, men at Central Prison, @Snap, @Wallaby

January 17 2020 / at Cletus (Womble Park) QIC: POTS “No Sand Bag’n”

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EC: Nemo and 187

PAX:  20

FNGs: None

Warm Up: Mosey’d to far parking lot

Side Straddle Hops (SSH), Daisy Pickers, Imperial Walkers, Frankenstein’s

The Workout: 

  1. (one or two sandbags – modify as needed)
  2. Curls for the girls (20 reps)
  3. Figure 8’s around the legs (10 Reps right and 10 reps left)
  4. Overhead press (20 reps)
  5. Floor press / bridged (20 reps)
  6. Willy Mays Hayes – Bear hug side lunge (20 reps)
  7. Good Mornings (20 reps)
  8. Squats (20 reps)
  9. Up right rows (20 reps)
  10. Halo’s (20 reps)
  11. Rut Rows (20 reps)

Rinse and repeat between each exercise

Run backwards (Back Peddle) to middle of parking lot

Merkins (10 reps)

Sprint back

  1. Mosey’d to Picnic Pavilion, Paired up;

1st round Partner 1 Balls to the Wall. Partner 2 Urkins (IC 20), Partners switched.

2nd round Partner 1 Balls to the Wall. Partner 2 Derkins (IC 20), Partners switched.

3rd round Partner 1 Balls to the Wall. Partner 2 Dips (IC 20), Partners switched.

Mary:

The PAX took turns with several rounds of ab exercises to close out the Q.

Announcements: 

Breach -Feb 7 -Travis Manion foundation 2nd F event

LED – Jan 25  – Mama’s House of Thrift cleanup and repair event

Prayers:

Florence – Friends 12 year old friend upcoming bone marrow transplant

Pickles (CARPEX) – Betty (Mother in law) has pneumonia

Unspoken,

Military

First Responders

David Goggins Stay F’ing Hard

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EC: Dawgpound, Emeril, Buford, Nemo, Mookie, Deadbolt
FNGs: Nope not today
Warm Up:

Once everyone that was coming arrived we started to move to the other parking lot on the other side of the baseball fields. The Pax was extremely generous to allow me to stay in the front for this little jog. I felt supper fast. Also at this time Midget and Chips were catching up with each other. This will happen when both stopped posting in the gloom. Once we arrived at our location we circled up.

The warm up was brought to you by Onnit
We started off with just bouncing. We do a lot of side straddle hops and bouncing is a nice equivalent exercise.
Next up was the backstroke
Followed by the behind your back Fazio Arm circles. This is where we lost some of the pax. Apparently we need to work on branching outside the F3 exercises and try something new every now and then.
Good Mornings

After this it was time to do the exercises that would make up our main thang. We did 5 reps of following exercises.
Absolutions — From plank go to chill cut. Back to plank. Push up. Plank Jack. That is one rep
Prisoner Get Ups Squat Jumps. — Start with knees on the ground. Plant one foot. Then the other. Stay low. Squat jump from there.

You could substitute proper Star Jumps instead of the PGUSJ. A proper star jump requires the pax to touch their toes and then explode from there.

The Workout:

We ran to the abyss. The pax did not let me stay in the front this time.

We did 11 at the abyss. At the top we started with 10 absolutions and at the bottom one PGUSJ.

Mary:

We ran back to where we started. I was back to being in the back. It felt like home. We circled up for Mary.

Mary was nothing but a plank hold. We held plank as we went around in the circle. I wanted to hear what each Pax was doing different this year to achieve our goals. Having goals are great, but we do not achieve them my sitting around. We have to get up and get outside our comfort zone to make a change. I heard a lot of great things. Working on sleep habits. Less hemming and hawing about committing to workouts, improving communication with accountability partners and no more taking it easy on EC.

Have a nice day finished things up for us.

Announcements:
Basketball AO in Raleigh?? I think this is where it is located.

T-Claps (Recognition):

All pax that tried the new exercises and how stayed strong through the whole workout.

Prayer:

Wallaby
All unspoken prayers