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This is Sparta

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FNGs: None
Warm Up:

Run, SSH, Proposals, Proposals with a jump, Sir Fazzio arm circles, spiderman twist

The Workout:

The 300: Pax pair off (one group of 3), and the goal is to get to 200 Hindu pushups and 400 squats as a team (so 300 total per person). Pax A starts off with Hindu pushups while Pax B runs 100 yards, then they trade off. When Pax A returns from his run, he goes into squats while Pax B runs.

So:

  • A: pushups – B runs
  • B: pushups – A runs
  • A: squats – B runs
  • B: squats – A runs
  • rinse and repeat until the target count is achieved

Combatives

MACH techniques (mechanical advantage control holds)

Mary:

Side bridges, X-Man crunch

Announcements:

Bottle swap @ Lipstick’s; Run the Quay and Sprint Tri next weekend.

T-Claps (Recognition):

Norm’s 21st wedding anniversary

Prayer:

  • 16-Bit’s wife and son driving to Pennsylvania this weekend
  • Cupid’s hectic work
  • Dovetail’s friend Nathan (marriage struggles)

Death by Burpee

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Apologies for the lateness of this BB. Got right into work on Friday, and forgot over the. weekend. Thanks Pikachu for the reminder!

Warm Up:

Mosey, lunges with a twist, Spiderman’s, supermans. Then some twosome and threesome partner squats (back-to-back) that all agreed we’re a bit awkward, but legs were trembling and both groups almost collapsed, so YHC declares a fitness success.
The Workout:

Suicides between the lines, first plain, then with a squat at each stop, then again with a Merkin at each stop.

Burpees with a tuck jump (10x)

Burpees with a plank jack (10x)

Burpees with a broad jump (the farther you jump, the fewer you have to do).

Warm-up part 2 being complete…

Moved on to what I am calling “30-30s” (or maybe Henry, for the famed maker of 30-30 lever-action rifles):

4 ROUNDS

30 seconds max merkins, 30s rest

30s max box/wall jumps, 30s rest

Combatives:

Wrist locks from holds, grabs, and punches

Mary:

Legs-on-wall crunches, Absolution

Announcements:
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer: Dovetail’s friend Nathan (marriage), 16-bit’s wife’s stepfather’s health issues.

This ones for Shredder

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EC: UTI, Lipstick & Cupid

FNGs: N/A
Warm Up: Lap around school and circle up on far side entrance. SSH x50, Daisy Pickers x10, FAC x10, Reverse x11, Over head clap x12, Drop to plank Merkins x13, Mountain Climbers x14, Shoulder Taps x15
The Workout: YHC talked UTI into a Co-Q at Sheepdog for Q Sheet Awareness.  UTI started off the main event with partner chase BLIMP.  Paired up and used the front lot as our circuit. Partner 1 started with 5 Burpees while Partner 2 started running the parking lot. Once partner 1 caught partner 2, partner 2 dropped and did 5 Burpees. We continued this partner chase with 10 Lunge Walks, 15 Imperial Walkers, 20 Merkins, 25 Plank hold, 30 Side Straddle Hops.  PAX covered about 1.5 miles during the chase.  UTI handed the reigns back to YHC and we mosey to the back of the school.  At the back of the school we met some knee walls and did another circuit. This circuit consisted of Irkins, Merkins and Derkins Jack Webs. We started with 1 I,M,D and 4 Air presses. We then did a fast pace mosey around the track and back to the wall for 2 I,M,D and 8 Air Presses.  We were only able to get to 4 times around before we headed back for Mary. (Thanks UTI for taking all my time!)
Mary: In place of Mary, we did Combat.  Dovetail led us in an educational session on how to street fight.  He explained why you shouldn’t throw a punch in a street fight, and showed us the proper techniques.  As Dovetail said, we did martial, the arts comes over time.
Announcements: Mother’s Day- Don’t forget the Mom’s in your life!
T-Claps (Recognition): Cupid great job on the EC, not just today but picking up the frequency all week!
Prayer: Work related peace, 16-Bit’s Step Father in law Dad to his brother of another mother from west virginia (or something like that) All seriousness, he needs our lifting up as he has been thru some rough times and has a long road ahead of him.

We miss you out in the gloom Shredder but hear you are doing well and even went to a martial arts class on your crutches this week.  Looking forward to seeing you in the gloom again!

Zombies

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EC: YHC did about 1.5 miles because he couldn’t remember the route and didn’t want to get lost/show up late

Warm Up: Mosey around the parking lot

15 side straddle hops IC, 15 imperial walkers IC, 15 hillbillies IC, 15 mountain climbers IC

Michael Phelps it out

The Workout: Special request from Messi to play Wasp since he missed that day. YHC obliged with a similar game and we moseyed to the baseball field for 3 rounds of Zombie.

Two PAX were zombies, they had to catch everyone else and tag them. PAX had a 10 count to get away (you had to stay within the baseball field), and then the zombies were released. Once you were tagged, you became infected and had to do 5 burpees. After the burpees, you are now a zombie and you have to hunt the rest of the people down. Last person tagged, no burpees. Shoutout to Dovetail for his creative but unsuccessful technique of climbing the fence, it was pretty entertaining to watch.

After the third round, PAX grabbed a rut row sized rock and moseyed to basketball court for a modified Dora.

100 BTTW shoulder taps while partner runs a suicide (half court, full court)

200 butterfly situps while partner bear crawls forward and crab walks back (sideline to sideline)

300 rut rows while partner sumo squats forward and back (sideline to sideline)

PAX moseyed back to flag for Mary.

Mary: On your 6, everyone picked an exercise. I think we did four corners, one legged homer to marge, some sort of breathing-while-tensing-abs exercise, LBCs, and then PAX had a nice day because we ran out of time.

Announcements: Facebook, Slack

T-Claps (Recognition): All the PAX solo posting downrange, way to get after it brothers!

Prayer:

Banana Seat’s stepdad’s recovery from surgery, 16-bit’s mother-in-law’s husband to recover from surgery, H1N1’s travel

At the car wash

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 Great morning for a virgin Q. 16 PAX came out in resistance of the fartsack! Great job men!! 

Warm Up:

Warm up lap, Side straddle, Good mornings, arm circles, daisy pickers

The Workout:

(Mosey to the loading dock/dumpsters)

-2groups (20 count in cadence and rotating exercises)

Wall sits / Peter Parker’s

Balls to the wall / American hammers

(Guard rail by the car wash)

3 sets Merkins 10, Dips 10, Derkins 10

(Parking lot good will)

-Accountability partners

 1 partner Bear crawl to the end of parking lot, 5 Burpee‘s, sprint back

1 partner LBCs

 Total of 21 Burpee’s

Mary:

Low slow flutter, Freddy Mercury,  ridiculous boat canoes, Homer to Marge

Announcements:

Need Q for next 2.0 workout, Fritter foundation is sponsoring holly spring a food pantry. Bring canned goods and non perishables to AO’s for donation.

Prayer:

Warbucks friend Lauren for health and recovery and Dovetails friend Nathan for guidance and support at home.

Just Roll With It

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EC: Full House, Sham Wow, UTI, Pikachu, Lipstick, Skidmark
Warm Up:Mosey up the ramp with BK, HK, Grapevines, backwards to top. Circle up for SSH x50, FAC x12, reverse x13, overhead claps x14, straight to plank merkins x15, mountain climbers x16, shoulder taps x17.  Count off and get into groups of 4,5,5
The Workout: 4 Corners Team Competition: First Lap around Ting we did together top right corner Star Jumps x15, lower right corner derkin hold until partner from top corner comes down, bottom of ting ramp J-Lo Burpees x7, top of ramp BTW until bottom of ramp parter comes up from burpees.  The beginning was a little rocky and was hard to get an accurate starting time once all pax were in their corners to start.  But the creativity was there and we rolled with it! PAX completed 2 circuits and we met back at the top for a backwards crab walk half way down ting ramp and then sprint back to bball courts bc we were out of time.  PAX was told the losing team would be penalized, but it was all a lie to get them amped up working hard on this beautiful Monday morning. (I also ran out of time 🙂 )
Mary: No time for Monday Mary, she had enough over the weekend.
Announcements: Memorial Day Convergence check FB/Slack for details– Q Sheet Awareness continues Lipstick has your Q at Sheepdog on Friday
T-Claps (Recognition): Another morning of 21 Burpees for our friend Riley
Prayer: Injured PAX, Impacted community at UNCC shooting

504 Burpees is a lot…

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FNGs: Nope.
Warm Up: U-Turn has been bringing a full parking lot to Starbucks lately…First Mosey with high-knees and butt kickers to Wendy’s front lot. YHC realized we were right in front of the plaza entrance. Safety first, we moved one more lot over. We’ll likely circle here from now on as there was more room to spread out.

SSH IC x20

Imperial Walkers called by YHC but YHC started Hillbillies, corrected to x15

Hillbillies x10

Leg Stretching R/L, walk-arounds etc.

The Workout:

Lost count of the bikers going – maybe 5?

Others varying w/ varying routes of 3, 5+, 15 for those doing EC EC.

Following the thang, 21 Burpees OYO based on the callout for AO’s to remember Riley Howell – the hero of the UNCC shooting – who tried to stop the shooter and was fatally wounded in the process. God Speed Riley.

Mary: N/A
Announcements: Dad’s workout was this AM, Run the Quay 6/1, check channels/FB for Wrightsville registration link.

T-Claps (Recognition): Aquaman for creating his own route this morning and repeating the suicide hill climb on Irving!
Prayer:

YHC took us out. Riley Howell from the UNCC shooting and all those impacted.

Sweat Angels and Blimps

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Showed up to Norm and Cupid finishing up a good EC (Norm’s first!). Norm reported he also did a 120-burpee penance the night before for fartsacking on an HC for Kenny’s Grave. Way to work Norm! Had 2 Sheepdog first-timers! Trojan and Cricket.

FNGs: none
Warm Up:

Mosey, Run in place, drop on Q’s command, get up, run in place, wall hops (hands on the wall, hop side to side over it as you move down the wall), then over to the circle wall and go around twice, half in walking erkin and half in walking derkin position.

TheWorkout:

BLIMPS – 4 ROUNDS
Rx is 10,20,30,40,50,60, but due to time constraints, opted for a 10,10,20,20,30,30 structure each round instead
B – Burpees × 10 – 40 total.
L – Lunges (jumping) × 10 – 40 total.
I – Imperial Walkers × 20 – 80 total.
M – Merkins × 20 – 80 total.
P – Plank Jacks × 30 – 120 total.
S – Squats × 30 — 120 total. (Alternate with sumo squats)

On the 4th round, whoever finishes first calls “done” and the group moves on to the next exercise.

Combatives:

Wrist grab escapes, with some discussion around appropriate levels of response.

Mary:

Each Pax chose an exercise for 10 reps
Sweat angels (snow angels, but with legs and arms off the ground)
Low slow flutter
Freddy mercury
Big boy situps
Windshield wipers
WWIIs
American hammers

Prayer:

  • Beater on travel next couple weeks
  • Cupid’s friend recovering from back surgery
  • Norm’sgreat aunt passed away (close family)
  • families of the UNC shooting

Hand Cramps

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12 PAX for a bricktaculous workout at KG. YHC filled the trunk with some red bricks last night for a not so FNG workout. Overachiever started this Monday so he was the freshest PAX member to join us at KG. YHC returned from EC with 3 minutes to go. PAX grabbed a brick for each hand and away we went.

EC:
2.5 miles: Cupid, H1N1, Messi (bike), Overachiever, Banana Seat

HC/Fartsack:
Norm – alarm problems

Warm Up:
Get bricked for warm ups
Laps around parking lot with carioca and some butt kickers.
Air squared x20
Windmills x10
Stretches w/o bricks
Sir fozio arm circles 10F 10B
Good mornings x10

The Workout:
Partner up and then mosey over to the baseball field
Brick-barrows – Take turns with partner brickbarrowing base to base. Squat hold when complete. All PAX went back to 3rd base to help bring in the six.
Lunge walk the bases with bricks overhead. Brickees X5 at each base. Squat hold for the six.

Mosey back over to the parking lot
Brick-a-sides
P1 runs to cones and back with bricks, 4 distances (tap the ground with brick when changing directions)
P2 does exercise called with bricks AMRAP
1-Bricklers (nipplers)
2-Hammer Curls
3-Morning Wood
4-Triceps
Hand stretches once completed

PAX was pretty smoked but lot of time left on the Vivoactive. So we circled up with our bricks.
Brick flys x20 IC (fly out to side, down, then out to front, down = 1)
Plank jacks on bricks x20 IC
Hand release merkins with brick extensions out to side for the release x10

Mary with bricks of course:
American Hammers x15
Boat Canoes x15
WWI’s x15
Have a nice day!

T-Claps (Recognition):
YHC called out the 6 to hear a little about them. However, we just did this with Dovetail so the next HIM inline was Boy George. He was returning to the gloom since Oct 4, 2018. BG got his name because he use to play in an 80’s hard rock cover band. F3 has helped contribute to his strong running ability. BG accomplished a double marathon, a 100-miler, some ultra’s, etc. BG showed some emotion as he realized what he’s been missing in the gloom. Awesome work my man and welcome back!

Announcements:
Events and Runs coming up, Dads 2.0 workout this Saturday, Dads Camp, TC Awareness month coming to an end.

Prayer:
16 bits MiL’s husband had foot amputated
Praise for Boy Georges wife finishing dental school with honors
H1N1 work travel
UNCC families
Cupid’s friend having back surgery
Banana Seats good friend Brandon had a heart attack a couple weeks back
Crab Legs and injured PAX

YHC thought of the 3 Little Pigs story when loading the bricks up last night. The house stood strong once made with bricks. They make us stronger during a workout just like making a foundation stronger. We need to build a strong group of friends that will support you, such as F3. HIM to lean on during life’s struggles. Sharing this metaphor was a bit different but hopefully you get the idea.

It was a great day to be at Kenny’s Grave. I hope all the PAX got stronger and pushed outside your limits. It was almost a Q merlot near the end of suicides but held strong. Only 1 brick was destroyed by Messi. Thanks for letting me lead again guys and for the company this week.

BS Out!

MinuteMan

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PAX of 3 out in the gloom. Other regulars out frittering their lives away. Cheers to Norm, hopin’ he’s having a good time on the cruise.

Warm Up:

No time, just jumped straight into the Thang.

The Workout:

10 Mins, every minute on the minute (EMOM)
15 side straddle hop
10 pushups
5 toes to bar

10 mins, alternating EMOM
1: 5 each side Turkish getups with 35#
2: 20x Backwards lunge, knee raise when you stand up

10 min EMOM
5 merkins
5 box jumps (or jump-overs if you’re feeling good)
5 situps (WWIIs, butterfly sit-ups, or boat-canoes)

Combatives:

Knife defense

Mary:

No need, worked abs in the Thang

Announcements:

Holly Springs Classic this weekend. Run or volunteer.

T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer: