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PAX of 10 for a foot friendly ABSolutely Fabulous hot and sticky Tennis court only work out…. 

side note: I spotted three family take photos of their kids next to the shovel flag… made me smile

Warm Up: Asked Dutch Oven to step up and run the warm up… Good Mornings, Windmills, SSH.

The Workout:

Even Hours Clock Work Merkins

ABS Set 1, 2 rounds of: 15 x LBC, 15 x Superman, 15 cadence heel taps, 15 x Dying Cockroach, 8R/8L V Crunch, 15 cadence low slow flutter, 15 cadence Box cutter.

Odds Hour Clock Work Merkins

ABS Set 2, 2 rounds as above.

10L/10R Straight-Leg Fire Hydrant & 10L/10R Side Balance Leg Lifts (both these seriously target glutes)

ABS Set 3, another 2 rounds

Grab some fence, 10L/10R toe taps (the ultimate quad killer)…. 100 count off Preachers Chair

ABS Set 4, another 2 rounds followed by a further 10L/10R toe taps

Mary: Century 10 PAX Merkin Circle… each Pax called a 10 count Merkin of choice….

Announcements: BBR Ultra ALS Support, please check Skid Mark FB page, heads up on Christmas Party, Oakwood 24 supporting healing transitions, 911 Stair Climb

Prayer: lots of prays, John Deere work colleague fighting Cancer, Noah Arc’s Michelle, Other F3 member ‘M’ troubles, Dauber daughter tonsils, unspoken…..

Rain Stopped Just in Time

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Rain and thunder stopped just in time for our Murph this evening.  Humidity did not give us a break though.

EC: 3 Miles

FNGs: None

Warm Up:  Run one mile

The Workout:  Murph (with some modifications)  100 pull-ups, 200 merkins, 300 squats

Mary:  Run one mile

Announcements:  none

Prayer: Silent

Tea Time Murph July 29

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Pax of 4 doing Murph on a muggy evening.  John Deere making it out even with a fractured foot and taught us a new word.  Twat ?   (not referring to female body part)

No EC, too humid for that tonight.

FNGs:  None

Warm Up: Run one mile

The Workout:  100 pull-ups, 200 merkins, 300 squats

Mary: Run one mile

Announcements:  Paddle board workout at Jordan Lake this Saturday

Prayer:  Silent

Lone Murph Tonight

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Pax of 1 doing Murph.  Seemed like fall compared to the heat from the last few days.

EC:  None, couldn’t get myself to run extra tonight.

Warm Up:  Run 1 mile

The Workout: 100 pull ups, 200 Merkins, 300 squats

Mary: Run 1 mile

Prayer:  Silent prayers for my brothers recovery from his stroke

Top Gun VolleyBall…We Looked The Part Too

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PAX of 9 joined in on some Top Gun Beach Volleyball. There were digs, and spikes, and sets, and falls…and that was just Dauber. It was nice to have a workout without shoes too 🙂

FNGs: None
Warm Up: Stretches as we wanted to get right into the game.
The Workout: Beach VolleyBall. Whenever the ball hits the grass, a penalty exercise was called. The ball landed in the grass quite often prompting us to do Merkins, Monkey Humpers, Squats, LBCs, Burpees, and more. 3 games were played.
Mary: Our game went 15 min over so we went straight in to COT
Announcements: Deadbolt’s 5 Yr Workout, SUP Workout Aug 3
Prayer: Healing for John Deere’s leg, Dusty’s brother Ken (stroke), Noah’s Ark and wife,

Thanks for letting me lead and joining me in part of my 4Y4Q Week. Great 2nd conversation afterwards too.

Another Murph Down

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Pax of three knocking out another Murph.  Continuing to seem hard just like the others these past few weeks .

Warm Up: Run 1 Mile

The Workout:  100 Pull-ups, 200 Merkins, 300 squats

Mary:  Run 1 Mile

EC afterwards:  Run 3 miles (John Deere’s idea even though he had a fractured foot)

Prayer:  Silent

Another Tough Murph

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Pax of 3 muscled through another Murph on a humid Monday evening.

EC:  4+ miles

FNGs:  None

Warm Up:  Run one mile  (some of us skipped this due to a long EC)

The Workout:  Murph (with some yoga modifications)  100 pull-ups, 200 merkins, 300 squats

Mary: Run one mile

Announcements:  Workout morning of July 4, more info to be posted

Prayer:  Silent

10 Stations in the Heat

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Pax of eight battling a hot June evening.  Temperature was in the 80’s, but it felt like 100 degrees out there tonight.

EC:  Some running a few miles before workout.

FNGs:  None

Warm Up:  SSH, Daisy pickers, Good Morning, L+R overhead stretch

The Workout:  15 reps at 10 stations with a different exercise, using a 25 pound weight or rock to make it harder.  Stations were separated by 10-20 yards to give time to recover between sets.

1.  Merkins, 2. Diamond Merkins, 3. Up-right Rows, 4. Squats, 5. Lunges, 6. Triceps Press, 7. Curls, 8. LBC’s,  9. Ab Roller and 10. Shoulder Press.

Recovered on a lap around soccer fields, then repeated the 10 station circuit again.

Mosey to amphitheater for to sets of:  1.  Dips, 2.  balls to the wall 3.  one leg get-ups 4. LBC’s

Mary:  Merkins, WWII, Diamond Merkins, Box Cutters, Wide Merkins, Protractors

Prayer:  Kabota’s upcoming drug trial, Peace and Gratitude

Tough Murph This Week

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This week’s Murph seemed more difficult for some reason with lot’s of modifications.

Still liking the Veteran’s park location though, nice and quiet with plenty of options for running a few miles.

EC:  2 to 3 miles

FNGs:  None

Warm Up: Run One Mile

The Workout:  100 pull-ups, 200 merkins, 300 squats

Mary: Run one mile

Prayer:  Healing

Shelter Workout

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Pax for 9 for an intense under the shelter workout out in the open….

Warm Up:

20 cadence SSH

10 cadence daisy pickers

mosey to grass at bottom parking lot

The Workout: The Circuit Of Rain’

9 different Stations

  1. 10 x Tire Flips (also rotation time keeper)
  2. Tire Farmers Walk keeping ‘slow’ pace with tire flip (this was a lot harder than it first seemed.
  3. The Drum Reel Pull (total body destroyer)
  4. Jump rope
  5. Squats with firehouse on shoulders
  6. 20lb Slam Ball
  7. Cinder block ‘curl then overhead press’ 2 per tire flip
  8. Diamond Merkin (1 per tire flip holding plank)
  9. Cardio/plank freestyle (plank jacks or mountain climbers etc)

3 total circuits were completed.

Reload truck with toys.

Mary:

Shoulders to the wall toe taps, 10L, 10R, 10L, 10R. American Hammer 25 cadence, Protractors 10 count cadence 15, 45, 90, 45, 15. 25 Diamond Merkins, 15 cadence box cutters… finishing with Boat Canoe, kudos to 187 and Pikachu for the very last 30second complete hold… your Q busy a gut 10seconds early.

Announcements: New AO Tuesday Morning 0530hrs, Falcon Park, down the Quay.
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer: for our brothers

 

2ndF – Curry and Beer movie night at John Deere’s

 

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