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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.

A little drizzle this am but still sticky!

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Driving down Optimist Farm Road this morning. Several PAX ECing and I blew the horn. Fanny Pack said I scared the crap out of them. M4life rolled in with maybe 1 second to spare barefooted. He said he did not need shoes for this easy workout.

FNG: Nope

Warm Up: We moseyed over to the baseball PVA. We did Good Mornings, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies, Frankenstein’s, Side straddle hops, merkins, Burpees to 10 all IC.

The Workout: Moseyed behind school and broke off into 2 groups. 1st group BTW while second group did monkey humpers, switched-then we moseyed back down stretch of school for some burpees. Moseyed back to the wall for wall sets with seal claps, group 2 was doing Turkish get up. Moseyed back behind school where we rinsed and repeated. I left a little earlier and got called out. So when we moseyed around the back of the school for another BTW while group 1 did Turkish get ups. Went into the circle where some steps were for step up, Urkins, Derkins and dips. Left there and took the scenic route to the Abyss behind the ball field. While enroute we used steps, ramps wherever they were in sight. Once we arrived at the we split up in our groups for 2 rounds of LBC’s at the top while the other group ran the steps. Moseyed back for Mary.

Mary: Circled Up and squatted down low. The circle shuffled to the right and left. I called on several PAX for their favorite exercises. FRAM’s were the least liked. Peter Parker with a hold on the way up and down. (Sucked)

T-Claps: 2 visitors from NE Wake region-Thing-a-ma-bob and Tube Top Several PAX’s out getting EC this morning. M4life did workout barefooted! (I bet he is hurting)

Announcements: Bed Build Kohls PVA Saturday morning. %K race this weekend. Check slack for details.

Prayers: Lipstick’s M, Hastelhoff Prayers as well. YHC took us out!

It was an Honor to lead fellas!

Birthday Q 7/10

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FNGs:

Still none!
Warm Up:

Grab bells and walk to amphitheater

Bounce while Jump by Van Halen plays – fitting huh?

Staggered Hinge, Sir Fazio forward/backward x10 IC
The Workout:

Tabata style. I said 50s on 10s off but the app got set to 60s/15s – c’est la vie.

Run through the following 8 exercises:

Snatch
Figure 8
Turkish get up
Absolution
Clean & jerk
Kettlebell swing
Balls to the wall
Midget love handles

Mary:

Low slow flutter, pickle pounders, LBCs x20 IC
Announcements:

Picnic sign up
T-Claps (Recognition):

Dawgpound and Emeril for completing the Pikachu 5-pack
Prayer:

Skidmark and family

Emeril’s friend with cancer

YHC took us out praying over the men in the circle

Fun and Games

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FNGs:

None  today
Warm Up:

SSH x20 IC

Daisy Pickers, Sir Fazio forward/backward, Good Mornings x10 IC
The Workout:

Mosey over to the baseball field and partner up for a game of Wasps. 2 pax start out “it” and do 2x burpees at home base. They then tag other pax who then become “it” after returning to base for 2x burpees. Entire baseball field was in play – even the fence apparently for Pots.

Unfortunately Wrangler had an injury when performing a burpee towards the end of the game. Prayers for a speedy recovery bro.

After Wasps we moved on to some animal races – from the infield/outfield line to the fence we raced in the form of Bear Crawls, Duck Walks, Wheel Barrels, and Sprints.
Mary:

Moseyed back to the flag and circled up for LBCs, low slow flutters, and Freddie Mercury’s.
Announcements:

Upcoming 5ks – Grasshopper and Derek Davis. Sleep in Heavenly Peace bed build on June 12th.
Prayer:

Wrangler for injury recovery

Ravishing Rick Rude… He was a wrestler… He is dead… No more questions

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EC: Pikachu, Dawgpound, UTI, Lipstick, Katniss, Dahmer
FNGs: Nope
Warm Up:

Circle Up
Bounce
Foot trace
Hinge
Hips In a Barrel
Spinal Twist
Neck Stretch

The Workout:

Everyone lined up for one Indian run. We always turned right. At all cuddle sacs we did the following.

10 Merkins
10 Squats
10 LBCs

Mary:

Punch of stretching. It felt good.

Announcements:
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer:

Marine Corps History at TBD 5/26/21

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11 Pax got a lesson in Marine Corps history as we took to Belleau Wood and Tripoli at TBD for a butt-kicking like no other @M4LIFE @swishersweet, @Hardy @Gamecock @Florence/FloJoe @Yogurt @Dahmer @Java @Cancun @HazMat and

@Breach on the Q/Drill Instructor/History Professor

Warm Up: All pax were issued a Rifle (aka a pool noodle) and we formed 2 squads for a platoon style movement to the lower parking lot for 22 counts exercises of (SSH, Windmills, Imperial Walkers/Hillbillies, and Prisoner Squats)

The Workout:

Evolution #1- Battle of Tripoli

April 27 1805- Marines march more than 500 miles across the Libyan desert to defeat the barbary pirates and rescue the crew of the USS Philadelphia. This is the battle where the Marines earned the nickname leatherneck due to the piece of leather they wore to keep the pirates from slicing their throats

Get into pairs and wheelbarrow around the track, every time that you have to switch you have to perform 5 burpees. Squat hold for the 6. We recused the crew of the USS Philadelphia and they had to finish the evolution with us. (2 Pain Sticks, 2 Sandbags and 2 Fire hoses) All the gear had to be carried by the platoon. 

 

Evolution #2-Battle of Belleau Wood -June 1918 

Marines charges machine guns nest with fixed bayonets and engaged in fierce hand-to-hand combat that took six days to accomplish, it was at this battle that the Marines earned the title Devil Dogs for their fierce fighting style and their inability to quit fighting. 

Rescue the crew and move on to the rock pile- get a medium-sized rock and line up across the parking lot. Frogger jumps with the rock across the lots. When you get to the other side 19 ground pounders, frogger back and do 18 ground-pounders, pick up the 6. 

Grab the crew and head toward the tennis courts for Mary

Mary:

Chumbawamba- I get knocked down, but I get up again. SSH for the non-course line and burpees/Turkish get-ups for the course, every I get knocked down you hit the deck and get back up.

Ended the workout with some bagpipe amazing grace to reflect on the upcoming Memorial Day holiday and what the cost of our freedom is.

Announcements:

Volunteer event this Sat in Holly Springs, Bacon is leading the charge check slack for details. For every pax member that wears Red on Friday at a workout Breach will donate $10 to the Travis Manion Foundation and if we get 75% or more he will double it.

Closed in Prayer

Runners, ruckers, and terds oh my…

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FNGs: Welcome FNG Huffy – UTI let it be known that he brought Huffy and was claiming the point, thanks UTI
Warm Up: SSH, IWs, Frankenstein’s and GM’s
The Workout: 9 PAX out for a 3 miler, one rucker and 9 PAX out for little over 5.  McNugget did his best Lipstick impression, first being denied entry to the bathrooms in 12 Oaks, only to drop his deuce somewhere off Green Oaks Parkway, I’m sure the furry woodland creatures are enjoying the smell.  Great work by all today, beautiful morning for a mosey.
Announcements: Shredder is leading the Memorial Day Murph at Womble, check out slack for more details.  We are also raising money the HSPD to equip 24 squad cars with a pretty sweet First Aid kit, which budgets don’t cover for them…a worthy cause.  Bring some cashish or use the ol’ Venmo for donations.
Prayer: Spoken/unspoken, military, first responders, Crablegs.

Closed with the pledge of allegiance.

It looked good on paper

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Warm Up: good morning, SSH, windmill, imperial walkers, hill Billy’s, daisy pickers
The Workout: teams of 3- 100 burpee pull-ups, 200 LBC, 300 squats.

rocks- curls, triceps, wonder bra x3

Mary: side crunch, low slow flutters, homers left and right, Have a nice day

Announcements: Bad build, Iliad

Prayer: Wild Turkey’s friend who passed. Prayers for his family for healing and peace.

Does this count as 1?

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FNGs: Welcome Woody!
EC: Pikachu, Dahmer, Fonzie, Gamecock, Warbucks

Warm Up:
Warmu p lap around soccer fields.
Quick disclaimer, then SSH, Windmill, Sir Fazio arm circles, Imperial Walkers.

The Workout:
Mosey to the Abyss and partnered up.

PAX completed a Dora 1-2-3.  YHC struggled to explain counts, so PAX mileage may have varied…
Partner 1 ran down stairs and back up, YHC instructed to touch each step
Partner 2 did exercise and swap when runner returned.
100 Single leg Homer to marge (1 each leg = 1)
200 Low slow flutter IC
300 Side crunch (1 each side = 1)

Mosey to soccer fields for an evolution of man.
Inch worm (crawl) a quarter of the soccer field and held chill cut plank.
10 pickle pounders IC
Crab Walk to half field.
10 monkey humpers IC
Sprint the remainder of the field
10 Scorpion dry docks

Repeat above back across field.

Mary:
With 20 seconds remaining YHC called for 20 sec of have a nice day!

Announcements:
Workout and cornhole tourney on Sunday to raise money for Sgt Leach
Social media.

T-Claps (Recognition):
Nice work by FNG Woody and the rest of these dudes.

Prayer:
Unspoken. Bondo took us out.

Rock Swap Fail

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Great group out there today. Solid EC as a bunch of us stuck together on a strong pace. After almost 4 years, and countless times posting at PT when it was the only show in town on Wed, this was the first time I took the Q.

FNGs: None today, so no extra points for any PAX
Warm Up: Jog around tennis courts, circle up for exercises. All you need to know is we did Good Mornings and we did ICx20. Several other typical moves to prepare for workout.
The Workout: Moseyed around courts to select a rock that would be a good challenge with focus on bi/tri and Wonder Bras. We lined up at one end of the lot and we did bis/tris ICx20, then a run to far end where we did tempo squats ICx10. Back to rocks and repeat. Did this 3 times. Next we lined up across from an accountability partner and we did Wonder Bras ICx20, followed by a shoulder burn holding out on 10 count – Fazio 10 forward, 10 count hold, Fazio 10 reverse, 10 count hold, Seal Claps ICx10, 10 count hold, Overhead Claps ICx10, 10 count hold. Recover on the Michael Phelps. Repeat. Shredder pulled a rock swap and delivered his slightly heaver rock to me, and Cancun quickly joined the swap by trading out with me and dropping a behemoth at my feet. Staring down at that thing I had to decide if another round was in order, or if time was ticking and it was time to return the rocks. Truth be told, the plan was to be done, and so I stuck to it, but I did Cusak that piece of shit back to the pile as a show of good faith. By the way, very little chance I was gonna survive another round of Wonder Bras with that thing. Returned the rocks and moseyed down to the field house and did alternating BTTW and tempo dips.  3 rounds and nice job by Pots going 1 handed. Circled up for a quick set of SSH ICx50. Moseyed back to tennis courts lined up at one end and did merkins ICx10, Bear Crawl across court 1, shoulder taps ICx0, Bear Crawl across court 2, Nipplers ICx10, Bear Crawl across court 3, Plank hold 10 count. Lots of action out there today, lots of constant movements, very few recovery. Ended up logging 1 mile even while moving our way around the park.
Mary: Multiple rounds of LBC, Homer to Marge, 6 Hold and Low Slow Flutters
Announcements: Picnic, Fram on Q at TB, Warbucks on Q at Disney, Shredder preparing for Memorial Day Murph
T-Claps (Recognition): Everyone, all PAX really put in the effort this morning. We kept moving and worked hard start to finish.
Prayer: Fram shared upcoming travel to reconnect with family he has not seen in 2 years. Tend to forget how the pandemic might have isolated some folks and led to these long gaps in sharing time together. Shredder took us out.