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I said MLarge

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FNGs: Macho Nacho (Frenchie’s friend) and Floss (Logan – Dovetail’s son)

11 HIMs posted to GP on a beautiful day.  YHC brought the music box & a basketball. 

Warm Up:

20x3ct SSH, 10 Good Mornings, 10 Daisy Pickers, 10 Hillbilly’s,

The Workout

Mosey to the Rock Pile for Circle of Rock: (Rotate rocks between exercises).  YHC said to grab MLarge rocks but we had some serious boulders in the mix

2 sets of 10x3ct of each exercise:  Curls for the Girls, Overhead Tricep Press, Wonder Bras,  Rutrows, and Ground Pounders

4 sets of 10x3ct Standard Press, 10x3ct  Windshield wipers, 10x3ct Box Cutters, 2 sets of 10x3ct Rock Spanks (with and without consent),

Mosey to the Basketball Court

Heavy Hoops:

Each PAX rotated between taking shots and exercises: shoot from 3 designated free throw areas. 2 attempts at each location followed by 1 attempt at a layup. Miss all 3 shots and add a 2Ct OYO Burpee penalty.

Rest of PAX perform exercises till 1 shot is made from each of the 3 location.

SSH, Standard Plank Hold,  Supermans, Plank Jacks, Lunges, High Knees, Squats, American Hammers, Squats, Shoulder Tap Planks.   OYO Burpees based on your personal penalty.

Mosey to the Wall of Pain

55ct People’s Chair (5 ct down the line), 10x3ct Aussie Ass Smackers, 30ct People’s Chair (Al Gore style), 30ct Ascending Testicles, 10x3ct Peoples Chair (Moroccan Night Club style),  30ct BTW

Mosey back for COT for some stretching.

30 ct Pigeon Pose, Calf stretches, 10×3 ct Willy Maze Hays, 10×3 ct Boat Canoes, 20 ct Cobras

Announcements: Donate to Give2Give: F3 Nation fundraiser for planting new groups across the country.

Prayer Requests:  Prayers for Dovetail and his family as they look for a new home in Arizona.  Prayers for our country, our country’s leadership especially for Trump and his family who are managing through COVID.

White Men Can’t Hoop

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5 HIMs posted to GP including M4L.   YHC brought the music box & a basketball. 

Warm Up:

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

The Workout
Mosey to the Basketball Court

Heavy Hoops:

Each PAX rotated between taking shots and exercises: shoot from 3 designated free throw areas. 3 attempts at each location followed by 1 attempt at a layup. Miss all 4 shots and add a 2Ct Burpee penalty.

Rest of PAX perform exercises till 1 shot is made from each of the 3 location.

Standard Plank Hold,  Supermans, Plank Jacks, Lunges, High Knees, Star Jumps, Hillbilly Squats, American Hammers, Squats, Split Jacks

Moseyto the Rock Pile for Circle of Rock: (Rotate rocks between exercises).

20x 3 ct of each exercise:  Curls for the Girls, Overhead Tricep Press, Wonder Bras,  Rutrows, Ground Pounders and Bus Drivers

20x3ct Rock Press, 10×3 ct Windshield Wipers, 10x3ct Box Cutters, 10x3ct Plank Rock Spanks (with consent), 10 Rockie’s, 20 Love Handle Haters

Mosey to the Wall of Pain
2 sets of 10x3ct Aussie Ass Smackers
2 sets of 50ct People’s Chair

OYO Burpees based on your personal penalty. (Thanks for the reminder DOA)

Mosey back for COT.

T-Claps: M4L wore a 30lb ruck the entire workout

Announcements: Sign up for mulch work, Upcoming Ted Talk (Dahmer) on depression and community support. Donate to Give2Give: F3 Nation fundraiser for planting new groups across the country.

Prayer Requests:  Prayers for Moby’s Dad passed away Wes, Forceps: Prayers for closure (divorce and Jon’s estate).

Heavy Hoops

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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.

“Reasonable Q”

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4 HIMs posted to GP this morning at 7AM;  1 HIM posted at 7:32.  Mubble chatter was fantastic.  YHC brought the music box.

WarmUp:

10 Good Mornings, 10 Daisy Pickers,  10 Emperial Walkers, 10 Hillbilly’s, 10×3 ct Windmills,  20 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).

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

Mosey to the parking lot.

4 sets of 20 Rock Press,

1 set of each: 10×3 ct Windshield Wipers, 10x3ct Box Cutters, 30ct 6 inches and 10x3ct Scissor Kicks

PAX pair up for 4 sets of Rock Planks and Crab Rock Planks while other PAX alternates between Frankensteins and Lunge Walks

Mosey to the Wall of Pain

  • 50 ct Prisoner Wall Sits, 10 Mountain Climbers, 10×3 ct American Hammers
  • 50 ct Bernie Wall Sits, 10 Plank Jacks, 20×3 ct LBC’s,
  • 50 ct Trump Wall Sits, 10 Star Jumps, 10 Homer to Marge, 10 each single leg H2M

Mosey back for Mary to stretch it out: Pigeon Pose, Calf Stretch, Hamstring stretch and Butterflies

Announcements:  Soft J 5K being hosted at AGS on Sunday; sign up for mulch work

Prayer Requests:  Prayers for Shredder work & family stress.  Praise for Forceps’ -AC fixed, car fixed, Volvo sold; Prayers for divorce being finalized in the coming weeks and for his son Jon’s estate to be closed. Praise for Pumpkin’s 19 yr old friend Sidiq for accepting Christ and prayers for Sidiq career path.

8/22/20 Ground Pounder

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5 HIMs posted to GP this morning.   Great to see everyone and to welcome Tetanus to GP.

WarmUp:

10 Good Mornings, 10 Daisy Pickers,  10 Emperial Walkers, 10 Hillbilly Squats, 10×3 ct Windmills,  20 SSH, 4×10 ct arms stretches

The Workout

2 sets of:  Happy Feet down row of parking curbs, Bear Crawl 1/2 way, Lunge Walks 1/2 way.

Mosey to the Wall of Pain

  • 50 ct Wall Sits
  • 10 x 3ct  Australian Ass Smacker
  • 10 Merkins
  • 10×3 ct LBC’s
  • 50 ct Al Gore Wall Sits
  • 10x3ct Australian Ass Smackers
  • 10 Merkins
  • 10 x 3ct LBC’s

Mosey to the Rock Pile. PAX all selected medium rocks and assembled along the bridge.

20 Rock Press, 10×3 ct Rock Tri-cep Extensions, 10×3 ct Windshield Wipers,

20 Rock Presses, 10×3 ct Rock Tricep Extensions, 10 Box Cutters,

20 Rock Presses, 10x 3 ct Rock Tricep Extensions, 10x3ct ct 6 inches and Scissor Kicks

Circle of Rock: (Rotate rocks between exercises).

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

  • 2 sets of 10 x 3 ct Plank Curb Spanks
  • 10×3 ct American Hammers
  • 10x3ct Plank Jacks
  • 10x3ct Freddie Mercuries
  • 20 Love Haters  (10 for each handle)
  • 30 Squats
  • 30 SSH

Mosey back for Mary to stretch it out: Pigeon Pose, Willy Mays Haze, Calf Stretch, Cobra, Cat & Cow pose.

Announcements:  Sign up for mulch work

Prayer Requests:  Prayers for Shredder work & life stress.  Continued Prayers for DOA’s Father in Law, Wes undergoing chemotherapy treatment and for his wife. Forceps’ divorce being finalized in the coming weeks and for his son Jon’s estate to be closed.

Some Stones You Can Control

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Distributive leadership opportunities were pre-blasted for Ground Pounder today. One of the best things we can do as men is recognize the strengths in other men around us and encourage them to lead alongside us. HIM’s need to be intentional about giving other men a chance to lead. One characteristic of YHC’s workouts is giving others a chance to take some leadership… and I’m not just talking about taking the cadence count when YHC is winded. Talking about intentional distribution here! 4 pax posted at Ground Pounder on a thick, foggy Saturday morning for some upper body blasting!

FNG’s: None
Warm Up: SSH x 20, Windmills, Merkins x20, SSH x15, Sir Fazios, Merkins x15, SSH x10, Frankenstein’s, Merkins x10.
The Workout: Mosey to the rockpile and select a rock. There were no Farva, Pikachu, or Shredder size rocks chosen today!  Circled up for curls for the girls, Tricep press, squats, rut rows, shoulder Press. 5 burpees, 10 star jumps, and 5 double merkin absolutions. Each pax then took a turn moseying up the parking lot, doing typewriter on the curbs and going fast feet back before returning. Each time a man left, they would delegate leadership for exercise and counts to another pax in the circle. During this time, there were many, many rock exercises chosen , including some Mary-type exercises and burpees, Star Jumps and more through the two whole rounds we did this.

Next, pax were instructed to trade rocks for two, hand-held, well-controllable rocks. Oboe, always quick with a line says “here’s two rocks I can control” while positioning rocks appropriately.

Going to the wall, YHC led the pax in 20 IC Shoulder Press, 20 front raises, 20 lateral raises, and an each pax 20 count of BTTW.  We proceeded to repeat this two more times with 15 and then 10 counts, respectively. Finished with 5 counts of above exercises and a 20 count each pax of People’s Chair. Mosey on over for Mary.

Mary: 20 IC LBC, 15 IC LSF, 10 PicklePounders IC, and 5 IC Homer to Marge.
Announcements: Mulch, Food Ruck at Needmore tomorrow.
T-Claps (Recognition): the pax making it happen out there!
Prayer: DOA’s father in law battling cancer, Saadiq, guy living with Pumpkin Spice and light on his path forward. YHC took us out. Honor to lead.

Candy Crush

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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.

Ground Pounder with a twist

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5 HIMs posted to GP this morning.  Mumble chatter did not disappoint. 

WarmUp:

10 Good Mornings, 10 DaisyPickers,  10 Emperial Walkers, 10 Hillbilly Squats, 10×3 ct Windmills, 10x3ct Fozzie Arm Circles,  20 SSH, 15 ct arms stretches

The Workout

Mosey to the Wall of Pain

  • 50 ct Wall Sits
  • 1 set of 10 x 3ct  Australian Ass Smacker
  • 10 Merkins
  • 50 ct Prisoner Wall Sits
  • 1 set 10x3ct Ascending Testicles
  • 10 Merkins
  • 20×3 ct Moroccan Wall Sits
  • 1 set 10x3ct Ascending Testicles with a few holds

Mosey to the Rock Pile. PAX all selected perfectly large rocks (so proud) and assembled in the lot.  Rotate rocks between exercises.

3 set of 10 x 3 ct of each exercise:

Curls for the Girls, Overhead Tricep Press, Wonder Bras, Trunk Twists, Bus Drivers,  Rutrows, and Ground Pounders (of course).  Broke up each set with Ab exercises.

  • 2 set of 10 x 3 ct Plank Rock Spanks (1 without consent; 1 with)
  • 40 LBCs
  • 10x3ct Freddie Mercuries
  • 10 x 3ct Windshield wipers
  • 10x3ct Scissor kicks
  • 10x3ct Box Cutters
  • 10x3ct Rocky’s
  • 20 Love Haters  (10 for each handle)

Mosey back for Mary

Ended with ACDC’s Thunder Struck to end the suck.
Divided song in 3 sections.

1st section:  SSH + Squats on “Thunder” (just about killed us)

2nd section: Mountain Climbers  + Merkins on “Thunder”

3rd section: LBCs + Homer to Marge on “Thunder”

Announcements:  Mulch day at Bass Lake, Derrick Davis and Yogging 5Ks Sign up open

Prayer Requests:  Praise for all HIMS who support one another in times of need. Praise LED’s uncle on solid road to recovery.  Continued Prayers for DOA’ Father in Law, Wes undergoing chemotherapy treatment.

No Slushies at Ground Pounder on 7-11

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FNGs: Welcome Duece

6 HIMs and 1 FNG showed up to GP this morning.  It was a hot and we got shweaty. Stout from Davidson, NC was downrange and decided to join us in the gloom.  DOA was LOA (Late on Arrival) 

WarmUp:

10 Good Mornings, 10 DaisyPickers,  10 Emperial Walkers, 10 Hillbilly Squats, 10 Burpies, 10 Willy Mays Haze, 10 3 ct Windmills, 20 SSH, 15 ct arms stretches

The Workout

Mosey to the Rock Pile. YHC asked the PAX to select medium rocks and we headed for the shade.  Rotate rocks based on exercise.

3 set of 10 x 3 ct of each American exercise:

Curls for the Girls, Overhead Tricep Press, Wonder Bras, Trunk Twists, Bus Drivers,  Rutrows, and Ground Pounders (of course)

  • 2 set of 10 x 3 ct Rock Spanks (1 without consent; 1 with)
  • 10x3ct Freddie Mercuries
  • 10 x 3ct Windshield wipers
  • 20  1 Arm Merkins (10 each side)

Mosey to the Wall of Pain

  • 3 sets of 70 ct Wall Sits
  • 2 set of 10 x 3ct  BTW Australian Ass Smacker

Mosey back for Mary

  • 20 ct Pigeon pose
  • 20 LBCs
  • 10x3ct Plank Jacks
  • 10x3ct Mountain Climbers
  • 30 ct Chill Cut Planks
  • 10 WWIIs
  • 20 American Love Haters  (10 for each handle)

T-Claps for LED getting the FNG out this morning

Announcements:  Mulch day at Bass Lake starts up again this weekend.

Prayer Requests:  Prayers for DOA’ Father in Law Wes undergoing chemotherapy treatment.  For our country’s local and federal leadership and for all those suffering physically or financially.

Were You Guys Holding it for Me?

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Four PAX converged at Ground Pounder to see what YHC was cooking up. Pre-Blast offered up a nice cool down for those who where doubling down from U-Turn. Arrived a little early to find Fanny Pack and Pikachu in the Jones lot. Planted the flag and continued with some mumblechatter before seeing DOA emerge from the woods. About 2 minutes before lift off, Boy George pulled into the lot. He asked if I was Q and then indicated he was getting some miles. Wasn’t sure how to take that, but was clear he was running to get some extra mileage and was gonna skip whatever YHC had planned with rocks this morning.

Ground Pounder is typically a low- no running workout, but Fanny had skipped U-Turn this morning, Pikachu was fresh off of U-Turn, and DOA came running from the woods already, so we took off from the lot to the buses in front of the school. Took a little side detour through the grass up the hill. Pikachu complained a bit about his white shoes and the wet grass, but it lightened once we circled up for the following:

Warm Up: SSH X20, Imperial Walkers X10, Hillbillies X10, Fazios X10 F\B, Seal Claps X10, Overhead claps X10, Chinooks X10, Prisoner Squats X10. Finished those up and took the long way back (for Pikachu and his shoes) to the lot via Holly Springs Road and Right onto School Days Ln.

The Workout:

Instructed everyone to grab a rock. It would be their rock, no switching, and one that would be good for curling and extending. Before we started with curls and extensions, had PAX put the rocks down to perform some uneven Merkins on rock

Merkins-Right hand on Rock X10

Merkins-Left hand on the Rock X10

Curls X10-3 sets- Bottom to Middle, Top to Middle, Bottom to Top

Tricep Extensions X 20

Place Rocks down out of the drive path and a quick mosey behind the bathrooms for some B2W’s- with each PAX giving a 10 count in varying cadence. Felt like a minute, may have been longer with Pikachu’s Mississippi count. Recover with some Peoples Chair with Overhead Claps in cadence X10.

Back to B2W’s for one more set with YHC giving a 20 sec Cadence Count. Recover with more Overhead Peoples Chair X10 IC

Back the the Rocks

For those who haven’t been to Wescott BlackOps yet, we’ve seen a lot of great Q’s coming out of there since the beginning. Pablo gave an outstanding routine this past Friday with cinder blocks, so I figured I’d pay homage to a guy who knows how to deliver a quality beat down, while giving PAX a taste of what goes down in Wescott during these Friday AO’s.

Progressive Exercises (Rock included) with a 40 yard dash back and forth in between.

Set 1- Rut Rohs X10

Set 2- Rut Rohs X10, Overhead presses X10

Set 3- Rut Rohs X10, Overhead presses X10, Squats X10

Set 4- Rut Rohs X10, Overhead presses X10, Squats X10, Derkins X10 (with feet on Rocks)

Set 5- Rut Rohs X10, Overhead presses X10, Squats X10, Derkins X10, Chest Presses X10

In between Sets 1 and 2, lots of mini vans came rolling through, some with passengers others with solo drivers. With PAX on both sides of driveway, YHC called for some overhead holds as the cars rolled in, not to interrupt traffic flow but also not to stop the burn we had going. One nice lady even rolled down her window to ask if we were holding it just for her. Later discovered that there is an all female workout (non-FIA) that appears to be starting at 7:45 on Saturdays. Maybe we’ll see Cupid out at GroundPounder more often.

Dropped off the rocks back to the pile and did a nice cool down behind the bathroom shelter again. Same format as the last one.

Next had PAX find some nice handheld rocks for our next set of exercises. One rock for each hand similar in size.

Jack Webb Crawls in 1:3 ratio. Merkins\Air Presses (with Rock) with a bear crawl of about 5 steps in between with the rocks still in hand.

Got all the way to 5 Merkins and 15 Air Pressses. Shoulders sufficiently scorched, we returned the rocks and circled up for Mary.

Mary: PopCorn Mary of Box Cutters, Freddy Mercurys, Crab Cakes, Pickle Pounders X10

Announcements: Rune- log your miles, July 4th convergence next week- check slack, Mulch- sign up
T-Claps (Recognition): Double Down by Pikachu, Fanny Pack spreading mulch after Ground Pounder, DOA painting his deck Ground Pounder. Need to see the paint job as YHC is guessing there may be a few uneven strokes after this workout. Fortunately, he was not painting a ceiling.

Prayer: DOA’s stepdad, those battling health issues, Skidmark and the new addition to his family. Those seeking employment or have been impacted by the pandemic.

YHC took us out!