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Yeehaw’n through 1985

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FNGs: none

Warm Up: side straddle hops, daisy pickers, windmills, sir fazio arm circles

The Workout: Supposedly there was some large rotating storm in the area, thankfully it was a nice breeze and some drizzle for us. Nevertheless, a shelter workout was planned and that’s what we did. 

Tabata style rotation- Three sets of 4 exercises (30 seconds on, 15 seconds off) for 4 rounds. First set- mountain climbers, split lunges, erkins, and dips (RIP triceps). Second set- star jumps, dry docks, wall sit, plank jacks. Third set- LBCs, WW1, box cutters, saw plank. ~5 minutes left so we cooled down with some stretching, felt great. 

In celebration of my birthday we listened to the top hits from the year of my birth (’85). There was also a “yeehaw” sound on the timer that played around every 30 seconds. The music and the yeehaws got some laughs early on but were soon replaced by groans. The commercials from my free version of Spotify (like Lebron) were icing on the cake.

Mary: covered in the third tabata set

Announcements: Lots of events coming up- watch slack for updates and opportunities to serve.

T-Claps (Recognition): none specifically

Prayer: P.S.I. and family for safe travels

Sandbag Dora

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6 HIM showed for Prison Yard. After a long night with no power, trees were down and some cleanup needed around South Wake. YHC showed up 3 mins before go time. Breach brought the 60lb, 80lb, 100lb sandbags for some fun.

WU
Lap around blue loop with stops
Good mornings, SSH, arm circles, decline merkins on hill, squats
Took 10 mins which was a bit longer than expected.

Sand bag Dora
50 burpee jump overs
100 squat jumps bag on shoulders
150 curls
200 chest press
250 LSF bag overhead
P1 does reps while P2 runs down lot hill and back. Switch repeat.

Mary wasn’t allowed in the yard today due to assault with an ice pick.

No new announcements
Prayers and thanks. Those that participated in 2nd F clean up. Those traveling and injured PAX.

Rule the day men!
BS Out

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Making Beetle Bailey Proud

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

The Workout: I like workouts that help make daily life better. Even though my daily life isn’t like being in the Army, they have some great exercises for strong movement. Today’s workout was inspired by the ACFT.

Thing 1
Started with a run around the baseball fields. Stopped at the rock pile and got a mediumish rock. 3 rounds of the following:

  • sumo squat w/ rock
  • overhead press w/ rock
  • ruh rohs w/ rock
  • hand release merkin
  • plank
  • sprint to the end of the parking lot, mosey back

Returned rocks and ran around the soccer fields, stopping back at the tennis court concession stand. All in all we got about 1.5 miles in.

Thing 2
We had some extra time because these dudes are BEASTS. 2 rounds of People’s Chair, Urkins and Dips.

Mary: Popcorn Mary followed by some yoga / stretching.

Announcements: F3 South Wake picnic, Memorial Day Murph

T-Claps (Recognition): Shooting Blanks for coming back out for his second workout. Keep it going!

Prayer: any injured PAX

Is the Q going to Merlot?

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Warm Up:

Good Mornings, Sir Fazio Arm Circles F/R, Seal Claps, Overhead Claps

Moseyed to other end of parking lot, then Imperial Walkers, Daisy Pickers, Squatted Moroccans

The Workout:

PAX moseyed down Sunset Lake to Sunrise UMC. There we completed the following:

Round 1: Irkins x 20, Dips x 20, Bulgarian Split squats x 20 each leg. We completed two sets of these.

Round 2: Partner DORA – 100 squats, 200 LBCs, 300 merkins…that’s right…300 merkins. Partner ran to the other end of the Sunrise UMC parking lot and returned, then switched. We got through about 275 of the merkins before YHC called it before I merlot’d…

Round 3: PAX moseyed to far end of the Sunrise lot and grabbed medium/large rocks. We completed Ruh-Rohs, Curls for the Girls, Skullcrushers, and Overhead Press.

PAX moseyed from Sunrise back to the flag. YHC again thought he’d merlot…nothing like wrecking yourself on your own Q.

Mary:

Not much time for Mary but we did squeeze in Box Cutters, Homer to Marge, Heel Taps, Freddie Mercury.

Announcements:

Sign up for Hollyfest, CPR class, know where AEDs are if you are Q’ing somewhere…reminder re: Chipper in Carpex.

T-Claps (Recognition):

T-Claps to all PAX for pushing their limits this morning in the dense fog. Twas thick.

Prayer:

Bleeder’s daughter, sick/injured PAX. YHC took us out.

Exploring that whole parking lot at Purple Cobra!

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FNGs: None
Warm Up: SSH, SFAC, Windmills, Squats
The Workout: Mosey to the church!

On the way we did 35 dips IC (my shoulders), 20 irkins IC.

At the church, we split up into groups and did a modified set of 7s. One group started with 7 turkish getups, the other group started with 7 squats. We counted down from there by running to the other side of the parking lot – every time we passed each other we did 7 merkins.

After this, we did 3 rounds to the other side of the parking lot. One group ran, the other group did an exercise. Planks, LBCs, and then homer to marge.

Finally, we did one round of bear crawls around the last side of the parking lot (thanks Bondo!) while the other group did pickle pounders.

Back to the HT parking lot for one round of BTTW and one round of preacher’s chair, during which there was one particularly nasty fart that actually made YHC stop his counting. We hustled back to the flag and that was that!

Mary: No time

T-claps: Wallaby! Nice to see you back out, brother!

Prayer: F3 PAX in Raleigh’s brother died rescuing family from a riptide. Family saved, brother did not make it. Also Fanny Pack for skin cancer removal.

Purple Cobra 06/14/22

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3 for EC and 9 Pax for the main event of inventing it as we go Purple Cobra

Midget4Life, Gilette, Corncob, Sand Crab, Dahmer, Bondo, Moose, Kickstand and Breach on the Q

Warm Up: 22 reps counts of SSH, Windmills, Imperial Walkers/Hillbillies and Good Mornings

The Workout: a Little mosey around the back of the center for 3 rounds of alternating Balls to the Wall and Peoples chair, while the other 1/2 of the pax did some plank holds, LBC’s, 6in leg holds, absolutions and some merkins.

This was followed by a bear crawl Indian run and then some movement to the other side of the parking lot for 4 corners of fun. Midget made us partner up and learn a few things about our partner as well as ran, bear crawled and crab-walked around the square. We stopped at each corner for 15 counts of Merkins, Squats, LBC’s and Starjumps.

Another mosey to the front of Globo gym for some real Indian runs back to start

Mary: 22 counts of hello dolly followed by 2 mins of stretching to close out the workout

Announcements: (Midge4Life) Get to know your fellow pax, he may just need to have someone ask if he is doing ok. Its important that we know each other as people not just as the guys that work out together.

(Breach) there are some mentor opportunities with the Travis Manion Foundation coming up. Details will follow on Slack for anyone that is interested.

CLosed in Prayer:

Loops around Sunset Lake Commons

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FNGs: Dr. Feelgood, Ponch
Warm Up: Side Straddle Hop, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies, Good Mornings, Sir Fozio Arm Circles / Seal Claps / Overhead Claps
The Workout: The name of the game today was String-o-Pearls. Mosey, stop, exercise, continue. We took a trip around the Harris Teeter shopping area while following a pattern of upper / core / lower exercises (merkins, WWIIs, squats, etc). 20 reps each stop. We did also stop for People’s Chair (10 count down the line for a total of 140 count) and Balls-to-the-Wall (5 count for a total of 70). 1.5 miles completed along the way.
Mary: More WWIIs, Dying Cockroaches, Homer-to-Marge and Mountain Climbers. Finished up with some yoga. Ended a bit early to make time for the FNGs.
Announcements: Get on that meal train for Stubs! (see Slack for details)
T-Claps (Recognition): Dr. Feelgood and Ponch for coming out to their first F3 workout. Hope to see you guys again soon!
Prayer: Stubs and his family, Sand Crab’s friend (new baby)

Can You Smell the Granite?

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First day of the June Challenge and dues were showing up eager to start posting some points. I haven’t written a backlist in about 2 months…but nothing like a challenge to light a fire under you…so here goes! Great to see these 11 guys out there pushing each other…while we pushed rocks today and seeing all these HIM putting in a strong pace on the indian runs!

EC: Dahmer, Bleeder, Yogurt, YHC

FNG’s: None
Warm Up: SSH x 20, Good Mornings x 10, Sir Fazio’s x 10 (F/R), Imperial Walkers x 10, Chinooks x 10, Windmills x 10, a quick mosey over to the bridge.
The Workout: Two lines, mile long figure 8 Indian Run around and through the ball fields, stopping 4 times: 5 burpees/15 merkins, 5 burpees/15 ct. BTTW, 5 burpees/15 irkins, 5 burpees/15 ct. People’s Chair.  A quick mosey together over to the rock pile and while many PAX began circling up, YHC instructed them rather to head over to the grassy hill for 11’s. There was some groaning about…

11’s on the grassy hill being sire not to wake the residents. Ground Pounders, run up the hill, Wonderers, all IC.

Once finished, we did a rock push bear crawl back across the parking lot with lots of guys picking up the 6…which I think was me today.

We circled up for some rock exercises which included two rounds of the following: Curls for the Girls x 15, Triceps x 15, Rut-Rows x 10 IC. Guys were told to grab 2 smaller hand held rocks and we did a series of 20 ct. shoulder exercises including Front Raise, Lateral Raise, and Press.

We returned rocks and returned the long way around Womble in 1 Indian Run line with a jailbreak at the end. We logged just a bit over two miles as we headed in for Mary.

Mary: LBC’s x 15 IC, LSF’s x 15 IC, Homer to Marge x 15 IC. 30 seconds of Have a nice Day!
Announcements: June Challenge underway, Help Stubs with the Meal Train on 3rd F.
T-Claps (Recognition): Sand Crab gave YHC some COT kudos!
Prayer: FedEx two boys are graduating HS!, some guidance for them as they move into the future. Prayers for Stubs, Lipstick. YHC took us out!