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Rocks at the Trot

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It was great to be back at the Trot in front of 27 high impact men eager for a “Rock” beat down promised on social media.

FNGs:  None

Warm Up:  Jog around tennis courts.  Circle up in parking lot.  25 SSH, 10 IW, 10 HB, 10 Daisy Pickers, 10 Good Mornings, 10 Seal Claps, 10 Thunder Claps (all in cadence).

The Workout:  Jog to the snack shack.  Lined up in front of hill adjacent to ballpark fence.  Sevens of Merkins and LBCs.  Line up against outfield fence for 25 count people’s chair, 25 count BTTW.  Lots of chatter/commotion as the chain link fence may not have been as sturdy as Q anticipated for said exercises.  Adapt and overcome – headed to the snack shack for 25 count Australian Mountain Climbers and People’s Chair.  Chatter continued as PAX lined up on road in two lines.  Not sure what PAX anticipated but Q began Frankenstein’s, Gate openings and Lunges up the hill.  Mosey to rock pile for medium size rock.  PAX lined up with their rock in two opposing lines.  Q was at one end in the middle leading the following rock exercises with a couple of 10 count breaks in between:  10 count cadence – Curls for the girls, OH press, Tricep extension, Side twists, goblet Squats, Rut-rows.  PAX continued with their rock performing the following exercises on their six:  Homer to Marge, chest press with feet 6 inches off, skull crushers, LSF with rock extended above chest and LSF with rock extended behind head (that was a fun one).  Chatter was minimal.  Hmmm.  PAX finally put their rock down and began 25 count of toe taps, side to side jumps (over rock), front and backward jumps (over rock).  With rock at feet, PAX completed a square circuit beginning 10 R and then 10 L.  PAX switched rocks.  Some Mosey and curls.  Felt like I was back at ROTC Field Training on the parade grounds.  10 Burpees together.  Closed out with 10 cadence counts bicep curls, tricep curls and OH curls.  Return rocks to pile.

Mary:  Various Yoga positions for cool down.

Announcements:  Bottle exchange at LipSync home (whether or not he is home) this Friday; Torch Run; Food Cupboard (need more PAX turnout – See Emeril); Lots of PAX celebrating F3 Anniversaries – Guest Qs coming:  Memorial Day workouts and Murph at 0730 (Womble).  Check Social Media.

T-Claps (Recognition):  Highlighted Rainmaker (Pete McKeon) today as 6th man.  Originally from NY/CT, LEO (20 years); Great F3 naming – during an interview with a person in custody, threw his keys to another LEO and inadvertently hit a sprinkler causing the sprinkler system to go off!  LOL!  Mets fan.  LOL! Active 5-6 months in F3.

Prayer:  Messi has schoolmates involved in a 4 wheeler accident – doing OK; wear helmets!  Injured PAX; Silent / Unspoken prayers.  Thank you Fonzie for leading PAX out today in prayer.

EC:  Messi (bike), Fonzi, Pumkin Spice, H1N1, Katniss, Pilgrim, Bernie, Crosby, LED, Cupid, ShamWow!, Emeril, Dawgpound, Pikachu, M4L, Skidmark (ruck) and The Natural.

 

An honor leading you brothers – Dauber.

Midget who?

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solid 13 PAX turned up for a sweet hot and sticky evening Thunder work out.

Warm Up: mosey to rock pile, 20 Cadence side straggled hop, 15 Cadence daisy pickers.

Grab a rock and mosey to picnic shelter.

The Workout: THE DECK OF CARDS.

Card Value = Rep, FACE CARDS = 10, Ace = 15, 2 x Jokers = 10 double merkin burpees.

Full Deck Completed = 99 Reps of each exercise….

Hearts – Mountain Climbers Cadence

Diamonds – what else…..diamond Merkins…

Spades – Peoples Chair & Wonder Bra with rocks

Clubs – Balls

Mary: mosey to rock pile… one arm pickle pounder with other arm holding rock on back (10 Cadence each arm)

mosey to tennis courts..

20 Cadence Box Cutters

10 Left, 10 Right Straight Pretzels

10 Left, 10 Right Cadence Toe Taps

20 Cadence American Hammers

Announcements: Holly Springs Police Torch Run – 0715 25th May, Memorial Murph 0700 Womble… Bender Street first full set Lincoln May 19th…forgot the rest….
T-Claps (Recognition): none
Prayer: Shredder weight bearing…

VolunTold to run a Paradise City workout

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Sunday evening @Emeril  sent a text out to determine if he should go to Paradise City or Downtown Train Monday morning.

Text went like this:

Emeril-  Who has the Q at PC tomorrow?
Spreadsheet pic comes thru.  4/29/19 Emeril/Midget
Dawgpound: “Well lookie here”
Midget:  “Nice…Emeril…Let’s kill them”
Emeril: “Bullshit”
Dawgpound:  “I’m getting excited, I’ll go ahead and save it. Would love to have a Midget and Emeril Q”

FNGs: GrubHub

Warm Up: On the jog.  Good Mornings, Fire Hydrant, SSH, Imperial Walkers, Burpees

The Workout: 11’s on the hill by b-ball courts

Start with 10 hand release merkins
Indian run two groups to top of the hill
1 Squat
Keep going
Continued with occasional breaks for Burpees, Wide Grip Merkins, Homer to Marge,

Mary: Pigeon, Runners Pose, LBC’s, Clam Shells

Announcements: Southwake Dad’s workout Saturday. @Bernie and @Brony have the Q

@Yogurt continues sprint workouts after PC

T-Claps (Recognition): Cowboy for setting up the CPR class.  Gumby for completing 8k

Prayer: Crablegs, can’t recall if there were others.

Gotta Catch Them All

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EC: Emeril, Yogurt, UTI, Skidmark, Midget, Pablo, Warbucks, Full House, Crosby, Cowboy, Shamwow, Aquaman, Dawgpound

After Workout Sprints with Yogurt: Yogurt, Pablo, Midget, Emeril, UTI, Warbucks, Aquaman, Katniss, Shamwow

Warm Up:

Circled Up for some nice Side Straddle Hops.

Then we counted off by fours creating five teams of four and one team of three. The teams would be doing Indian Runs for the rest of the warm up and the workout.

Indian Run up to the Ticket Office. Did YHC favorite Good Mornings. It was a beautiful morning already and the good mornings just made it better.

Indian Run to the corner. Did some Hairy Rockettes to stretch out those legs.

Indian Run to the basketball court to do the Sir Fazio Arm Circles along with squats.

Indian Run to the start of the workout.

The Workout:

Stack Em up Indian Run Suicides:

The Stack:
5 Burpees
10 Hand Release Merkins
20 Monkey Humpers
30 LBCs
Stairs / 5 Burpees
2 Trips Hop up Right Foot
2 Trips Hop up Left Foot
2 Trips Hop up Both Feet

Once everyone finish we played the first game of Gotta Catch Them All. — Thank you Cowboy for the initial idea.

The team that finished last in the Indian Run Suicides had zero burpees to do. The chaser team did 10 burpees. Every other team did 5 Burpees. The goal was to Indian Run from the bottom of the ramp around to the basketball court. When the chaser caught you 5 burpees each.

The Teams:

Team Mew: (chasers)

Lucky Charms
UTI
Aquaman
Shamwow

Team Squirtle:

M4L
Pablo
Glass Jaw
Warbucks

Team Togepi:

Pac Man
Pumpkin Spice
Short Pole
Emeril

Team Ditto:

Yogurt
Cowboy
Spanx
Wiggle

Team Koffing:

Buford
Crosby
Skidmark
Particle Board

Team Slowpoke:

Dawgpound
Full House
Katnis

It looks like team Koffing made it without being caught. Team Ditto was caught at the very end.  Excellent job guys.

Mary:

Circled up for the following.
Squatter’s Pyramid
Squat Pulses with Lunges — I asked the pax for friendly numbers.  I got no number lower then an

Announcements:

See Facebook and Slack

T-Claps (Recognition):

Warbucks — Cooper Ridge 10K 47:06  Pace of 7:32.  Great job!!!!

Prayer:

Crablegs and his trial opportunity tomorrow
Shredder and his recovery
All Pax that where not there but want to be out with us.

Rams pooped in his glove

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Warm Up

A fun jog to Ram’s car to get his gloves followed by another jog down next to the horseshoe pit for warmup consisting of:  SSH, Imperial Walkers and various stretches.

 

The Workout

Jog to rock pile and grab some traveling rocks

John Cusack across Grigsby with several stops to do the following:

Girls for the girls, triceps extensions, full body press, derkins and erkins on the fence and plank Indian bear crawl

On the other side of Grigsby… bearly curling down the road with crab walk rock kicks back up the road

Return the rocks repeating some of the previously stated exercises

Run up small hill 5 times with 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 double merkins

Bear crawl merkin pyramid in grass parking lot then head to Mary

 

Mary

Plank-o-rama

Freddy Mercurys

WWII

Protractor

 

Announcements

Guess Q by Art Vandalay (Trevor Cundiff) at next week’s Thunder (10-Apr)

 

Prayer Request

Crab Legs and Shredder

90210 Firestarter

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Warm Up: SSH, Daisy Pickers(beneficial Pace) , stretch legs & Arms

The Workout:Mosey & stop between Lower Pavillion & Top of BB field stopping to do:

In-between each set do 2 Double M’erkin Burpees (20 total)

10 each

Monkey Humpers

Donkey Kicks

Squats

Diamond M’erkins

LBC’s

Brian Boitano’s

Seated Toe Taps

Shoulder Taps

Low Slow Flutter

Repeat 10x

Mary:

Protractors to FireStarter by The Prodigy

15/45/15/45/90/30ish/15/45

Announcements: FB/Slack

Prayer:Our Crew/ Our Country

Rest up now ya hear

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It was a cold morning, but that didn’t stop 17 PAX from posting with 8 for EC including 1 FNG. Welcome Dahmer! This beatdown was another Wrightsville friendly event with a focus on stretching and a lot of core work (sorry Mary). Before EC was over, Skidmark was tired of questions of why he wasn’t resting. Crosby also brought out his 2.0, Gumby, to celebrate an 11th birthday. When YHC was 11, there was no way you could get me out of bed before 5am in 30 degree weather to go workout. T-claps Gumby.

EC: Skidmark, Crosby, Gumby, Maybelline, ShamWow!, Aquaman, Warbucks, FNG Dahmer

Warm Up:
Run 10 yards and circle up for:
SSH x20 IC
Standing pigeon (alternating legs)
Leg swings each leg – forward,back,front,back x10 IC
Calf raises x10 IC
Lunge walk to the …. island with an elm tree

Standard warm up lap

Circle back up for:
Sir Fazio arm circles x10 forward/ x10 backward IC
Moroccan night club x10 IC

YHC joined the circle for 2 rounds of howling monkeys. With legs burning and PAX howling, we mosey’d over to the Goodwill lot.

The Workout:
PAX split into 4 groups for some core-centric 4 corners. 3 rounds x10 IC and a 4th round x20 IC.

Corner 1: Boat canoes
Corner 2: Shoulder taps
Corner 3: Low slow flutter
Corner 4: Pickle pounders
Center: Merkins

Mary:
Mosey back to start. Circle up for:
2 rounds of x10 IC Fire hydrants and Homer to Marge. Repeated x20 for round 3.

It was at this point that Crosby alerted the PAX of Gumby’s birthday, so 11 burpees OYO in celebration.

YHC led PAX in some stretching to finish up:
Quad stretches
Toe touches – right over left /left over right
Downward dog
Runners pose
Pigeon pose

Announcements:
Wrightsville 5k, Half, Full marathon this weekend.
Raleigh CSAUP the Mule this weekend
F3 Dads workouts 1st Saturday each month. Need 2 dads to led each workout.
Sign up to Q a workout – link.  Site Q’s shouldn’t lead every week. Step up PAX! Speak to your local site Q for more details.

Prayer:
Safe travels and health for PAX running Wrightsville
Unspoken

YHC took us out.

Final Crunchy Burp Tapping

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Warm Up:
The Workout:You know the deal!

Last one for February. New workout starts next week!

100 – Burpees

200 – B2W Shoulder Taps

300 – LBC’s

Mary:
Announcements: Check FB/Slack

2nd F Tonight at Big Easy downtown. Crosby has live photos with Band starts at 11(2100).
Prayer: Silent Prayers

bring protection…latex break 😈

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EC – Crosby Deere 5 Miles, LIPSYNC 4miles, Peeping Tom & Aquaman 2miles

Warm Up:

Mosey to Baseball lot… some dynamic stretching Enroute (high kicks, tricep extensions)

Circle up – Daisy Pickers, Windmills, Arm Circles Fwd & Rev. 

The Workout:

Grab the Tires, 2 x Michelin 19.5L24: 271lbs each. Grab a manly rock. 

FLIP IT Workout

2 x PAX flip the tires 10 times (5up, 5down) rest of pax preformed various Rock Reps. Once the original 2 return from flipping, the next 2 started to flip. Three Sets ending with 30 flips and various reps using rocks: Curls, Overhead, tricep extensions,  squats, squat&overhead, squat with straight arm rock hold, Burpee ‘rock jumps’

Next, Merkin Hand Tire Plank, preform the merkin then hand step up to plank of tire, hand step down preform next merkin…

1 merkin climbing to 10. Total 55 Merkins. 

Tire Step-Up’s in cadence 30 count. 

Rinse and repeat FLIP IT Workout again. 

Pax holds squat whilst 2 Pax preform Tire Carry for 3 parking spaces and return… rotate through group. 

Mary:

Mary – 15 x box cutters, Protractors 22.5/45/90/45/22.5 10 counts, 15 count low slow flutter, Boat Canoes holding canoe till getting a hernia. 

Announcements:facebook, slack, carrier pigeon
Prayer:crab legs, young deaths, unspoken.

So Long But Not Goodbye

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Awesome turnout for YHC’s last time as Site Q at Purple Cobra.  New management starts next week with Warbucks at the helm!

It’s truly been an honor to lead and I look forward to the continued fellowship of all the PAX in South Wake even though I won’t be around anymore in the Gloom on a regular basis.  Carpex isn’t that far.

 

Warm Up: We started with an FNG and after the disclaimer we did the usual warm up lap around and then back to the flag to circle up for the following:

Good Mornings ICx15

Fazio Arm Cicles ICx15

Imperial Walkers ICx15

Hillbillies ICx15

Mountain Climbers ICx15

It was then that we noticed the the FNG had left.

The Workout:  Partnered up for wheelbarrows

Partner 1 about 7-8 parking spaces down, pause for 10 nipplers, then finish to the end of the embankment

Partner 2 switches and we head back to the start

 

We then divided into two lines and did a long Indian Run to the Jiffy Lube guardrail.

When we arrived we partnered back up again for 10 derkins, erkins, and dips while partner 2 did LBCs.  Each partner did their reps and we decreased each set by 2 until we both completed everything.

 

Mosey over to a new hill that YHC found over next to the new Planet Fitness.  We kept our partners for Burp Back Mountain.

After each group reached 100 burpees we got back into our Indian Run lines and made our way back to the flag for Mary.

Mary: WWIIs ICx15

Have a Nice Day!

Announcements:

Crosby is playing at 11pm Saturday I think?  Please ask him for more details.

Undisclosed and Unofficial Beer Mile at 4pm on Sunday?  Meet at the town hall – again check with Crosby for more details.

Last year M4L and DB participated in the Hope Community Church Military Family Symposium. F3 Southwake had a small booth where we talked to military service members and spouses. We headlocked a few FNGs. They have asked us to come back this year – it is Saturday morning 2/23/19 from 8:30 – 12:30. We need a few #HIM to man the booth. We don’t need a commitment for the entire 4 hours.https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nu4TYt7EyMpW9ZC6Ixgt_aiS4BWVDbEwVEEvKgjfURA/edit?usp=sharing

Prayer:  DB took us out

Crablegs, Moby’s Dad, UTI’s Dog, Shredder, Buford, unspoken