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18 STRONG at The TRAIN!!

FNG: Nope

Warm-Up: Good Mornings 15 IC, Side Straddle Hop 30 IC, 5 Burpees OYO, Fazio Arm Circles 10 IC forward & back, Seal Claps, Overhead Claps 15 IC

Workout: Split into 2 groups and Indian Run to Parking Garage and completed a lap around lower level. Split Group 1 & 2 on each side of parking spots. Each PAX was instructed to get on a white line. Started with 1 Merkin on white line and slide over to next space for 2, back to the left for 1, then back right for 3 until we reached 5.

Next was a bad idea Bearcrawl Burpee Indian Run. The Pax in rear had to pass everyone until they got to the front where they completed a Burpee. We did this until we ran out of real estate in parking lot.

Stayed in 2 groups, Group 1 ran the stairs to the top for 5 burpees while group 2 was doing AMRAP big boy sit ups. Repeated 3 times except changed top floor to Merkins and bottom floor to squats.

Then we got out of the stifling parking garage and went to the top floor.  Guantanamo’s 2 rounds and then we split up in groups again. Opposite ends of parking garage PAX was instructed to 30 IC Crab Jacks while the other PAX 30 IC Lunges. Moseyed and swapped ends. Repeated except not IC. Ikachu

Moseyed back to humidity and pollen infested parking garage. We then BTW and peoples chair with each PAX counting to 10 except last round of 20 IC.

Fellowshipped run to parking lot.

Mary: Low-slow-flutter, downward dog, various stretches, superman, Have a Nice Day

Announcements: See Slack

T-Claps: All who EC’ed, to many to name.

Prayers: Quivers Co-workers, Fonzie mother-in-law awaiting on Good News hopefully, Pikachu and his wife trying to have a baby.

 

Honor to Lead Gents!!

Baker’s Dozen at NeedMore Ruck!

FNGs:  TWO FNGs compliments of M4L!  Welcome Allen Duncan (50 Floors) and Ken Almonds (Nail Pouch). Sprinkler loved the leadership of Dauber bringing out so many PAX to this forgotten gem in FV!
Warm Up:  After F3 story and introductions and EC (nice work Nemo, Fanny Pack, Breach and Dauber) headed out.
The Workout:  Played the back nine this morning starting off on 9 and 8.  Headed to 1-7 remembering great shots from a long time ago including shots over the pond or a layup by the tree.  I had a tee time at 8:-4 at the Neuse and definitely had golf on my mind. Great mumble-chatter with all the PAX.  Got some grilling tips from Fonzie and shared some parenting advice with Cancun (I hope it was well-received). Stopped at Breach’s for coffee-teria. Thanks brother!  Just a beautiful morning with great fellowship.
Mary:  OYO
Announcements:  See Slack/FB. Get out to HS Food Cupboard on Th.  Ultimate frisbee on Mon at Ting.
T-Claps (Recognition):  All the PAX getting it done in the month of May – great numbers.  Keep raising each other up!  Also Cancun for bringing his adorable 2.0 baby boy out.  Loved hearing his cooing during the trek!
Prayer:  Sprinkler led us out – thank you sir!  Honored to lead! -Dauber

 

Tiger Blood/Travis Manion WOD 4/29

13 men took on Tiger Blood for the 2021 Travis Manion Foundation Workout of the Day (Wod) 

Warm Up: Mosey down to the track

The Workout: 29 squats with your weight implement of choice, run 400 meters, repeat 7 times

Mary: Quick message about TMF and the importance of carrying on the ethos of “If Not Me, Then Who”

Announcements: May Challenge in a few days

T-Claps (Recognition): FRAM for max effort during the workout.

 

Closed in Prayer:

Cackling and Clucking on the Yard

There are some PAX (POTS) that simply shut down the mumblechatter with burpees. YHC can typically deal with some mumblechatter during the warm ups or even Mary at some point…during the workout…nah. Those that were, according to POTS cackling and clucking (you know who you are) put in some reasonable work on the Yard this morning, so the guest Warden didn’t punish. Apparently, the pain stations equipped with many types of coupons were enough anyways…13 men…a record for Prison Yard…did the crimes and did the time at Hilltop Needmore Prison today.

FNGs: no fresh meat on the Yard today!
Warm Up: After a quick set-up with the help of the inmates, we ran a quick mosey loop followed by SSH x30 IC, Windmills x10 IC, Sir Fazio’s F/R x 12 IC, Frankensteins x10 IC, Standard Merkins x 20.
The Workout: The timer was two men, flipping the large tractor tire up the hill and carrying back to the bottom. Each man flipped up the hill once. During this, the PAX took part in various pain stations including: Kettlebell Swings, Plank Pull Throughs, Steel Mace Warrior Squats, Railroad Iron Bench Press, Pain Stick Squat, Pain Stick Curl, Pain Stick Press, Partner Pain Stick Squat and Press, Tractor Weight Shoulder Shrug, Farmers Carry with the Tractor Weights and Diamond Merkins, 4 cones for a side shuffle Burpee routine. All prisoners got to play with the toys multiple times.
Mary: Put the coupons away, followed by LSF x30 IC and LBC’s x30 IC.
Announcements: May Main Event…only two more days to sign up. Bed build info on Slack. Breach will Q a Travis Mannion workout Thursday at Tiger Blood.
T-Claps (Recognition): Lots of EC this morning…LED, Breach, FRAM, Nemo, Mookie, Deadbolt. Nemo’s first time on the Yard…looked like he’d done time before….good work!
Prayer: Shamwow! injury and hopes he or all injured PAX can get back after it! Motor Boatin’ a prayer of thanks for the accountability. Breach took us out including the moment of silence for our military and first responders on the front lines. Honored to lead this strong group this morning!

Billy Madison 12 grades

FNGs:none
Warm Up:12 count SSH, good mornings, windmill, fazio arm circles
The Workout: The workout was Billy Madison out of Exicon with 12 count of 12 exercises, resembling 12 grades of school Stacking each grade on top of the others. Unfortunately we only made it to tenth grade due to time but still was challenging.

12Ic xSSH

jog .03 mile

12ic x SSH-12 xCurls for girls

jog .03 mile

12ic x SSh -12 x Curls for girls-12ic x mountain climbers

jog .03 mile

12ic x SSH-12 x curls for girls-12ic x mountain climbers-12 x tricep ext

jog .03 mile

continued this routine with the following exercise:12 x  WWII,12 x  overhead press, 12ic x American hammers, 12ic x shoulder taps, 12 x merkins,12 x  burpees.

return rocks and head to courts

Mary:none
Announcements:needmore ruck to mamas house possibly this Sunday.
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer:Gump,Lipsync,bubba, jigglywatt

first responders roll child hit by car, gimps interview, Noah Ark and family, Preacher in north Raleigh and health

Ballin!

FNGs:

None – sad day 🙁
Warm Up:

Burpee ladder with warm up exercises

SSH x10

Burpee x1

Sir fazio forwards x10

Burpee x2

Sir fazio backwards x10

Burpee x3

Repeat accordingly including Daisy Pickers, Good Mornings, Frankensteins, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies, and Squats, stopping at 9x burpees.
The Workout:

Mosey to the rock pile – sharing is caring with 3 rounds of 10x Curls, 10x Tricep Extensions, 10x Squats, 10x Ground Pounders, and 10x Rut-rows

Mosey to the wall – 20x down the line People’s Chair and Balls to the Wall

Mosey to the basketball courts – Pax took turns taking up to 3 attempts at a roughly foul line jumper – the same one Markeith Morris had a shot at to help the Lakers win a title the night before. Pax that had just shot chose an exercise for everyone else to do while the one pax was shooting until they made a shot or missed all three. The pax were much better shooters than typical and many exercises only got 1 or 2 reps.

After 3 rounds we tallied how many times we had all missed all three shots (5 times). Farva weighed in that he liked Burpees so we did 5 x 2 = 10 burpees, meaning we didn’t have to do the last 10 that we owed from our ladder earlier.

Mosey back to the cars for the speaker to tune us up to Imagine Dragons’ Thunder – Plank hold the entire song, do a merkin on each “Thunder”
Mary:

20x reps of LBC, Homer to Marge, and American Hammer
Announcements:

Food Cupboard workday postponed due to rain

Blackops Holly Springs Half scheduled for November 14th
T-Claps (Recognition):

Frenchie and Macho Nacho for making it out in the rain

Farva for being our designated “grizzly veteran” in a very below average aged workout
Prayer:

State of our country

Ongoing COVID pandemic

Abstract Art

FNGs:none
Warm Up: 4 for EC Fram,Fumunga,Norm,LED

Took a little jog and then did Good mornings, daisy pickers, windmills, and Fazio arm circles
The Workout: Grabbed a rock for our art work and headed to soccer field.  Performed 2 minute intervals of 15 exercises to create a masterpiece not pretty but original.
SSH x 4

bent over rows

curls for the girls

tricep extension

alternating lunges

prison squats

catalina wine makers

speed skaters ( or bobo something)

merkins

plank hold x 2

deadlifts

Mary: 20 count IC LSF,Hello Dolly, boat canoes
Announcements:mulch is complete, iron pax Wednesday.
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer:my uncle and pancreatic cancer, fumunga and wife during pregnancy

Heavy Hoops

FNGs: None

5 HIMs posted to GP this morning at 7AM.   YHC brought the music box once again. Disc Golf Tournament kept us from the original plan to integrate disc toss into workout but luckily I had a a backup plan to integrate some hoops. 

Warm Up:

10 Good Mornings, 10 Daisy Pickers,  10 Emperial Walkers, 10 Hillbilly’s, 10x3ct SSH, 20 Fozzie Arm Circles, 4×10 ct arms stretches, 10×3 ct Willy Maze Hays

The Workout

Circle of Rock: (Rotate rocks between exercises).

2 set of 10 x 3 ct of each exercise:  Curls for the Girls, Overhead Tricep Press, Wonder Bras, Trunk Twists,  Rutrows, and Ground Pounders.

4 sets of 10x3ct Rock Press, 10×3 ct Windshield Wipers, 10x3ct Box Cutters, 30ct 6 inches, 10 Rockie’s

Mosey to the Basketball Court for some Hoops where we learned none of us can shoot:

Each PAX rotated between taking shots and exercises: shoot from 3 designated free throw areas. 3 attempts at each location followed by 2 attempts for layups. Miss all 5 shots and add 1 Burpee penalty.

Rest of PAX perform exercises till 1 shot is made from each location.

Standard Plank Hold, LBCs, Plank Jacks, Lunges, High Knees, Star Jumps, Squats, Mountain Climbers, Squat Hold,

OYO Burpees based on your personal penalty

Mosey to the Baseball Bleachers

  • 10 Merkins, 10 Derkins, 10 Erkins, 20 Dips
  • 10×3 ct Step Ups, 10 WWIIs,
  • 10 Bleacher Merkins

Mosey back for Mary to stretch it out: Pigeon Pose, Calf Stretch, 10×3 ct Windmills, 4×10 ct arms stretches, 10×3 ct Michael Phelps.

Announcements: Sign up for mulch work starting up again next weekend.

Prayer Requests:  Prayers for Wes, DOA’s Father-In-Law going through another round of Chemo this week. Prayers for Shredder work & family stress.  Forceps: Prayers for divorce being finalized in the coming weeks and for his son Jon’s estate to be closed.

If You Build It They Will Come (Carrying Rocks)

24 strong and Determined Pax rolled into Womble park this morning to run some bases and push some rocks. After the warm up, YHC shared a belief statement with everyone and asked Pax to think about it throughout the workout for a brief discussion about its meaning. “If you think you can, or you think you can’t, you’re right.”

FNGs: Nada
Warm Up:

Daisy picker X10, Frankenstien X10, Moracken night club X10, 5 burpees

The Workout:

Counted into 2 groups. Group 1 started with Fanny Pack. Group 2 went with me on a brief indian run around the soccer fields and down to the pit.

Rock Push/Mini Dora: Fanny Pack

Group 1 moseyed to the rock pile for a rock push/mini Dora.

First a round of Balls to the Wall and rock chest presses, then

1 partner rock pushes until the end of a long parking lot, then Wonderbra walks back while partner 2 chips away at:

Groundpounder x 50

Curls for the girlz x 100

Triceps extensions x 150

Round 1 ends with an indian run down to the pit to switch up with Group 2.

Field of Dreams: Tetanus

Modified baseball diamond was laid out with cones and pax counted off by 4. PAX went to the base associated with their numbers. 4’s went to home plate.

First base (1’s) do Febreeze AMRAP

Second base (2’s) perform Catalina Winemixer AMRAP

Third base (3’s) perform Lt. Dan’s AMRAP

Home plate (4’s) complete 15 burpees

Base movement is contingent upon the PAX at home plate. Once burpees are completed, sprint to first base and all others rotate 1 base to perform the next exercise. Groups #1 and #2 performed Field of Dreams for 10 minutes each in a competition to see who could score more runs.

Final score 7-7

Group 1 headed back to Mary Indian Run style with a modified namorama. Since we had a large group this morning with PAX from the Quay, I thought it would be good for everyone to call out the Indian runners name with some words of encouragement as he races to the front of the line.

Mary:

low slow flutter (x20, x15, x10)

Freddie Mercury   (x20, x15, x10)

Homer to Marge   (x20, x15, x10)

Pickle Pounders   X20

Final Thoughts: “If you think you can, or you think you can’t, you’re right.”

“Fundamental to our work (whatever that may be) is the idea that your personality creates your personal reality, and your personality is made up of how you think, act and feel. So in order for a person to make change happen, create a new life and a new reality, they have to change the way they think, act and feel. To transform from the old self to the new self requires us to become conscious of all our unconscious thoughts, automatic behaviors, routines, and emotional reactions that we’ve been conditioned into. To become conscious of any of these unconscious programs is where we can begin to initiate change. Einstein said “we cannot solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them.” That means that for us to resolve our problems, we have to go to a greater level of awareness
a higher level of consciousness than the consciousness that created them.”     -Dr. Joe Dispenza

Announcements:

Need volunteers for mulching

This Sunday food ruck hilltop needmore park to mommas house of thrift

Clean out your closets for featured AO workouts this week and hygiene items next week (no alcohol)

Prayer:

Sprinkler brought our attention to the 14 yr old daughter of the Woodard family daughter

Florence  work assignment in Wilmington

 

Candy Crush

FNGs:none
Warm Up: mosey to home plate.  Fasio arm circles, 10 good mornings, 10 daisy pickers, arm stretches.
The Workout:15 erkins, 15 derkins, 15 dips.

mosey to playground 2 rounds of pax chasing exercise and then spinning the wheel to determine reps 5-25 per exercise.

Exercises included mountain climbers, merkins, plank jacks, American hammers, squats, pickle pounders, homer to marge, merkins, ssh, wwII, lbcs,  and 3 more I can’t recall.

moved to tires and did 2 sets of hopping over tire and a burpee, and then step ups on each leg.  X10 then x 6
Mosey to Ramos and did bear crawl up one side and down the other x3.
mosey to rock pile and did 20x curls for the girls, over head press, and ground pounder.

mosey to start and did 1-5 ratio of jack webbs.

finished with some arm and hip stretches.
Mary:incorporates in work out
Announcements: mulch, Derek Davis run at tiger blood, q swap.
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer:forceps, all effected by hurricane and guidance through Covid situations.