FedEx – Page 11 – F3 South Wake

Setting Expectations – Isn’t 25 enough?

September 27, 2019/in Cletus /QIC: Yogurt
PAX: 187, Abe, Cha Ching, Da Business, FedEx, Noah's Ark, Oboe, Slide Rule, Snap, The Natural, Yogurt

11 PAX for what turned into serious arm work. Long 10 counts between reps, unless 187 was counting. Only hours before, I wasn’t tired, so stayed up past midnight listening to Kenny Chesney on Spotify. Considered staying up until my 4:20 am alarm time, but finally fell out around 12:30 am after settling on the workout. Was thinking about partner carries, because I had threatened to carry UTI around Cletus as an incentive for him and Breathtaker to post at Cletus. Glad that didn’t work out!

EC: 187, Yogurt

FNGs: None
Warm Up: We jumped in immediately with SSH x50. Once past 25 SSH, PAX always wonder when I will stop. Let’s just say it has to do with my 50+ #years experience. Next, bat wings 3x (10 forward, 10 backward, 20 seal claps, 20 overhead claps). Always kept arms out. PAX took turns with 10 counts between, some fast some slow. This was a challenging exercise, especially with 3x rinse and repeat. Monkey humpers 15x to start the legs.
The Workout: Mosey to wooden fencing. Derkins and squats 4x: Started with Derkins on bottom rung 10-20; squats 1-20; Derkins top rung 1-20; squats 1-20; Derkins on bottom rung 10-20; squats 1-20; Derkins top rung 1-20; squats 1-20; Derkins on bottom rung 10-20; squats 1-20; Derkins top rung 1-20; squats 1-20. Worked on squat form by holding arms out straight, eyes on fingertips, full squat with chin up and chest out. Cha-Ching liked this one. I kept him guessing on how high we were counting. Isn’t 15 enough? Maybe, maybe not. To further set expectations, I told him the workout ended at 8 am.

Mosey to the “back stretch” behind Hunt Center. Time for the partner carry. I was odd man out, so did lunge walk initially. 187 graciously gave me his spot. PAX partner carried down and back. But, did one burpee upon switching and added another burpee for every switch. We did at least three or four up-and-backs. No one opted for the wheelbarrow modification. Dodged a Hunt Center employee dumping a large potted plant that got hit by a ping-pong ball.

Mosey to dirt parking lot near horseshoe pits. Circle up for Jack Webbs: 1 Merkin/3 overhead presses to 10 Merkins/30 overhead presses. Everyone was pleased to do more arm work!

Mary: Plank, pickle pounders, chill cut, Catalina wine things, Ranger Merkins, LBCs (with feet above knees), Freddie Mercury, probably more, have a nice day!
Announcements: Check Slack. F3 SW picnic Oct 12
T-Claps (Recognition): Oboe for HC’ing to two Cletus posts; UTI for creatively funding Breathtaker for the week >$700; Breach for signing up for Breathtaker for a SIXTH time this year.
Prayer: Bernie and wife, FedEx wife knee surgery; Pilgrim recovery

Final week of IPC

September 25, 2019/in Possum Trot /QIC: LED
PAX: Cha Ching, FedEx, Flair, Fonzie, H1N1, LED, Messi, Particle Board, Trojan

FNGs:None but 3 pax came out to check out the IPC challenge. A little miscommunication on starting time but we got a full 45 minutes of work out in.
Warm Up:Individual stretch
The Workout:IPC week 4

3 rounds for time

100 reps of either merkins or squats

100 meter run with coupon

100 reps of either Bonnie Blair’s or kettle bell swing

100 meter run with coupon

100 reps of either squat thrust with block or walking lunges

100 meter run with coupon

Mary: a couple leg stretches
Announcements: picnic oct 12th
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer: unspoken.

He Called You “Sir”!!!!!!

September 23, 2019/in AO Post, Mutiny /QIC: FedEx
PAX: 16-bit, Banana Seat, Cha Ching, Doc, FedEx, Finkle, Fonzie, H1N1, Hump Day, LED, Modify, Noah's Ark, Potts, Promise Ring, Slimer, Sprinkler, UTI, Venkman

PAX: Promise Ring, Hump Day, Finkle, Sprinkler, Potts, Doc, Fonzie, LED, Slimer, H1N1, 16-Bit, Noah’s Ark, Banana Seat, UTI with breathtaker, Cha Ching, Modify, Venkman, FedEx

FNG: Hump Day

EC: H1N1

Warm Up: SSH x 25, High Knees x 15, Butt Kickers x 15, Mountain Climbers x 20, Fozie Arm Circles x 10 F & R, Half Burpees OYO

The Workout: Started at the first shelter with dips x 10, step up x 10 (first right leg then left leg), Derkins x 10 and skull crushers x 10. Rinse and repeat. Then we partnered up, grabbed some coupons (thanks LED and Fonzie) and moseyed over to the playground. While one partner did floor press, ground pounders, and goblet squats with the coupon, the other partner did either squat hold or plank hold, switch, then merkins, pull ups, and mosey across the field and back together for 10 count. We continued decreasing each rep count by 1 (10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1) but had to call it half way through in order to get to Mary.

Mary: American Hammer, Low Slow Flutter, LBC, Freddie Mercury, Plank Merkins, Pickle pounders

Announcements: UTI AO bid sheet ( all proceeds goes to this month charity), Carpex Odessey Oct. 5, F3 South Wake picnic Oct. 12, check FB and Slack
T-Claps (Recognition): UTI raising money for TMF, Hump Day
Prayer:Noah Arks wife, Banana Seat’s young neighbor who fell over a zip line and landed on her head, FedEx’s wife knee surgery

IPC week 3

September 17, 2019/in The Nest /QIC: LED
PAX: Cupid, Dauber, FedEx, Fonzie, Fumunga, H1N1, LED, Sprinkler

8 pax showed up for IPC week 3 1 for EC

FNGs: none
Warm Up:OYO
The Workout:

10 pullups

15 burpees over coupon

20 coupon curls

25 coupon squat thrusts

30 reverse crunches

rinse and repeat for as many rounds as possible for 43 min.

Mary:none
Announcements: oct 12 F3 outing. New AO coming soon in Fuquay
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer: Fumunga and his wife. Norm and his travels. Fedex wife’s knee issues

9/11 Stair Climb

September 16, 2019/in AO Post, Convergence /QIC: Warbucks
PAX: 16-bit, Abe, Banana Seat, Bernie, Blue Hen, Breach, Buford, Chips, Coal Ash, Dahmer, Dauber, Dawgpound, Deadbolt, DoubleD, Dumbo, Emeril, Farva, FedEx, Foghorn, Gump, Lucky Charms, M4L, Martini, Maybelline, Moby, Modify, Noah's Ark, Norm, Pablo, Peak Week, Pikachu, Pony Boy, Quiver, R22, ShamWow!, Side Piece, Smokey, Sprinkler, Swanson, UTI, Warbucks, Wiggly, Yogi, Yosemite

At 5:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 11, over 250 men gathered for the fourth annual 110-flight stair climb at Carter-Finley Stadium to honor the first responders who risked or lost their lives during the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in 2001. South Wake represented well with almost 50 Pax posting.

FNGs: Welcome Side Piece, Smokey, and Swanson!

Warm Up: SSH x20, mountain climbers x20, good mornings x20

The Workout:

110+ flights of stairs.

What is Morning Wood?

September 16, 2019/in AO Post, Mutiny /QIC: Banana Seat
PAX: Banana Seat, Doc, DoubleD, Farva, FedEx, Finkle, Fonzie, Gump, H1N1, Martini, Modify, Norm, POTS, R22, Sprinkler, Venkman, Yosemite, Youversion

Another humid but not so bad soupy morning for a workout. Mutiny had cars that just kept coming in. We had 18 total PAX. Two for EC arrived just before the workout started. (Norm and Martini) Planted Cupid’s flag but no Cupid. No FNG’s. 0530 so we blasted off like this.

Warm Up:
Lap for warm up with butt kickers and high knees then snake on hill. Circle up in middle of field

Up downs x10
Mtn climbers x20
Carolina dry docks x20
Sumo squat x20
Lower body stretches

The Workout:
Partner up with like speed
Catch me if you can with morning wood on track ~ 1 mile
P1 fast mosey P2 does morning wood on each arm, then chases down P1. Tag and switch exercises.
Switch from mosey to backwards run every other time you run
*A 4 year veteran asked “What is Morning Wood?” YHC quickly responded to see the exicon.*
– This is a Turkish Get-up without the Kettlebell. Laying flat on back with one arm raised sit up and then come up into a standing position. Added degree of difficulty = don’t use other hand to push yourself up! (A Turkish Get-up without a Kettlebell is aka A Turkish Get-up.)
YHC called recover then mosey to upper field.

Suicide merkin ladder – start at center field. Shuffle or carioca to right cone 3 merkins back to center field 3 merkins, then to left cone that’s further out 6 merkins back to center 6 merkins, right cone even further out, 9 back to center 9, left cone 12 center 12, right to end of field 15 back center 15. Cones will be spaced longer as you go.
Plank for the 6
10 big boy sit ups to catch our breath
Rinse and repeat with star jumps
10 BB sit ups

Burpee plank ladder
PAX plank about 3 feet from each other. HIM at the end hops up, jumps over next guy then performs a burpee. Continue this until you reach the end of ladder then return to plank. Each HIM goes twice.

(Rapid) Mary:
American hammer 20
Box cutter 20
Freddy Mercury 20
Heels to heaven 20
Dying cockroach 20
HAND

Announcements:
FB slack, CSAUP Odyssey, Norms departure

Prayer:
FedEx M for healing, Noah’s Ark M, Shredder’s dad passed away,Banana Seats uncle passed yesterday after battle with cancer, Crab Legs always, unspoken

Always great to be in the gloom. Most guys cannot fathom waking up this early. My M says she sees a big difference in the days that I do and don’t post. The days I do post always tend to bring more energy to the day and days I don’t post seem to be slothish (probably not a word). Anywho…I appreciate all the hard work each of you put in today and every time you post. Keep pushing that rock and if you need help pushing it, let somebody know. I’m sure someone will help you!

BS Out!

3 Years & 1 Onesie

September 13, 2019/in Cletus /QIC: Pikachu
PAX: 16-bit, Aquaman, Banana Seat, Blue Hen, Breach, Cha Ching, Crab Legs, Dahmer, DoubleD, FedEx, Hasselhoff, Kid Cracker, Lieutenant Dan, Lipstick, M4L, Oboe, Pikachu, Redenbacher, Rut, Skidmark, Snap, The Natural, UTI, Wiggly, Yogurt

Solid crowd for YHC’s 3 year anniversary – clearly my warnings of no funny business did nothing to deter anyone from showing up.
After some speedy EC with Yogurt YHC donned the infamouse Pikachu onesie to make things really interesting. 0530 was here with no FNGs and we were off (our FNG showed up ~5 minutes into the workout).

EC: Pikachu, Yogurt, Skidmark, Dahmer, Aquaman, Redenbacher

FNGs: Sea Breeze

Warm Up:

Mosey to small tennis court and circle up

3x Burpees OYO
5x Burpees OYO since M4Life’s car clock needs to be fixed
SSH x 53 IC
Breakdancer x10 IC
Good Morning x10 IC
The Workout:

Stay on the tennis courts, partnering up (size matters, speed kinda matters)
Start at fence along long side of court, partner 1 does 10 partner carry fence squats, then wheel barrels the short way across the courts
Partner 2 repeats on the other side
Repeat counting down to 1 dropping by 3 each time. Can’t just do 1 so do 10 on the set of 1.

Mosey across street down hill to the well lit big hill in back
Partner 1 bear crawls to the top, does 10 derkins, crawl bears back down
Partner 2 does crab cakes until they’re back and then switch
Repeat with derkins going down 3 each time (7, 4, 10)

Mosey back across road all the way to pull up bars
Partner 1 does 10 pull ups
Partner 2 holds squat hold or helps partner if need be
Repeat with pull ups going down by 3 to 1….10 if pax can handle all that

Mosey back to tennis courts (big one this time) and line up along side line near fence.
Burpee broad jump across both courts to the other fence. Circle up for mary.
Mary:

LBC x20 IC
Plank hold for 3 minutes of fun:
1 minute of left hand up, left leg up, x10 crunches
1 minute of right hand up, right leg up, x10 crunches
1 minute of chill cut, pickle pounders, big boy pickle pounders
Announcements:

Great overview of Travis Manion Foundation by Breach and Lt. Dan.

New coffee spot for Fridays – Harvest Moon near Bass Lake Draft House/Lowe’s Food

T-Claps (Recognition):

Crab Legs for an inspirational summer
Prayer:

Crab Legs

Noah’s Ark & Michelle

Those impacted by 9/11

Always an honor and a priviledge men – thanks for making the last 3 years great. Can’t wait to see what the next 3 hold in store!

Mutiny Greatest Hits, Vol. 1

September 9, 2019/in Mutiny /QIC: Norm
PAX: Breach, Doc, Farva, FedEx, Finkle, Martini, Norm, Sprinkler, Yosemite, Youversion

The temp was in the low 70’s with 100% humidity and everyone noticed. Martini and YHC returned from a 2 mile EC just in time to meet up with the other 10 PAX in the parking lot who were ready to roll. 5:30 arrived and we were underway…

FNGs: None

Warm Up:

We started with SSH (x20 IC) in the parking lot then moseyed around the track with stops at each “corner” for a warmup exercise: Imperial Walkers x10 IC, Hillbillies x 10 IC, Daisy Pickers x10 IC, and once we were back in the parking lot we finished warmup with some windmills x10 IC

The Workout:

We had one PAX who beasted the BRR so YHC tried to keep the workout as friendly as possible for recovery purposes. Since this was also part of YHC’s 1 year anniversary tour, the goal was to experience some of Mutiny’s greatest hits – along with a couple new ideas.

Stop #1: The Snack Shack
PAX lined up on the wall for BTTW – hold while first person person bear crawls around to the rear position – next PAX started bear crawling right after the PAX next to him went. Repeat until we go all the way around the building at least once. – We went around a couple of times which was plenty. We held People’s Chair while waiting for the 6 and then we were ready to move on to…

Stop #2: Rock Pile
Everyone grabbed a medium sized rock for 3 rounds of 15 reps (IC) of the following exercises and switching rocks between each: Curls, Ruh Roh’s, Wonder Bra’s

Stop #3: Shelter near tennis courts

3 rounds each: Irkins x15, Derkins x15, Dips x15 IC

Stop #4: Tennis courts
Pax split into 4 equal groups of 3 for some 4 corners:

corner 1 – Merkins x15

corner 2 – WW2’s x15

corner 3 – squats x30

corner 4 – Bobby Hurley’s x10

Rinse & Repeat for 3 rounds

Mary:

Around the horn for 10 count of PAX choice ab exercises.

Announcements:

9/11 Stair Climb – stay tuned to slack and FB for clown car options; 3rd F at Healing Transitions to spread mulch (see Breach for more details)

T-Claps (Recognition): Martini for making it out for EC and Breach for killing it at BRR and showing up strong with Breathtaker to start the week strong!

Prayer:

FedEx’s friend who recently has skin cancer surgery

Crab Legs returning from his trip tomorrow

PAX whose uncle passed away recently – my apologies for not being able to remember who it was. Memory isn’t what it used to be.

Thanks for the privilege of leading you #HIM for my first Mutiny Q this morning and for the ongoing encouragement and accountability. This group has helped me in multiple ways and I’m grateful for each of you.

Dorian are you here yet?

September 5, 2019/in Kennys Grave /QIC: Messi
PAX: Banana Seat, Cupid, FedEx, Finkle, Fonzie, H1N1, LED, Martini, Modify, Norm, Sprinkler, Yosemite

YHC (H1N1) arrived early to Kenny’s Grave for a little extra EC before the Hurricane Party got started. Pulling into the parking lot, YHC saw Cupid was already parked but nowhere to be found – must be out getting in some extra mileage (6+ to be exact). BS, LED, and Fonzie rolled in ready to go followed by Martini – Cupid was soon sighted coming back in and then the PAX headed out for 3 miles for pre-party festivities. PAX returned from EC to see some additional party goers had arrived and quickly learned that Norm also completed some EC starting at 0505.

0530 arrived, time to get this Hurricane Party started! 12 Pax showed up but we were missing the guest of honor – Hurricane Dorian was delayed and had not arrived – no matter the Pax proceeded on. Based on yesterday’s forecast for rain, YHC had planned for a shelter workout so a mini audible was called and the workout was performed in the parking lot under the clouds.

Warm Up: Pax took a lap around the parking lot mixing in butt kickers, high knees, and high skips. YHC explained that reps from today’s exercises will be exaggerated and slow just like Dorian and conducted in multiple of 5s since at one point Dorian was a CAT 5 storm.

Good mornings x 5 IC; IW and HB x 5 IC; arm stretching

The Workout: Spelled out Dorian

D – Dan Taylors, 1 squat:4 lunges (alt. legs) for 5 rounds (multiplying the ratio by 2 each round)

O – One Calls, 8 count merkin for 5 rounds. Each count held in place for 5 seconds. 1 – down just above the ground; 2 – hand release; 3 – up; 4 – Floyd Merriweather right punch; 5 – right arm down; 6 – Floyd Merriweather left punch; 7 – left arm down; 8 full plank

R – Rochanburpees, partner up from some rock, paper, and scissors. Loser does 2 burpees while winner does 2 merkins. If tie, both partners do merkins. Play 5 rounds doubling the count each time.

I – Imperial Squat Walker – performed 5 rounds IC. 1 – squat; 2 – right knee to opposite elbow; 3 – squat; 4 – left knee to opposite elbow

A – ATM, perform 5 rounds of the following: 5 alternating shoulders, 5 tempo merkins, and 5 fast merkins

N – Not so Lazy Boys – start on your six with legs extended. Cross arms and grab sides. Slowly lean back as far as possible without legs coming up. Hold 5 seconds, rotate right and hold 5 seconds, return middle and hold 5 seconds, and rotate left and hold 5 seconds

Finished a little early so we heading to the snack shack for Peoples Chair with mini seal claps x 25 IC

Mary: Pax went around the horn calling out a variety of exercises delivered in multiples of 5
Announcements: see Facebook and Slack
T-Claps (Recognition): Half of the Pax in attendance also completed EC; Cupid for 10 miles EC
Prayer: FedEx unspoken; BS shoulders; impact of Hurricane Dorian

Ultimate at….Sugg!

September 4, 2019/in AO Post /QIC: Cupid
PAX: 16-bit, Charmander, Cupid, Dauber, FedEx, Finkle, Forceps, Fram, Gump, H1N1, LED, Martini, Messi, Noah's Ark, Norm, Slimer, Venkman, Yogurt, Yosemite

FNGs: None
Warm Up: OYO
The Workout: Ultimate!
Mary: More Ultimate for anyone interested.
Announcements: 9/11 Stair Climb

I forgot everything else…sorry. Work/school was a bit hectic this week so the backblast is tardy.

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