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Kill the rabbit, kill the rabbit

FNGs:None 9 pax for EC 16 pax’s joined the beat down.
Warm Up:SSH, good mornings, imperial walkers with squat, fazio arm circles
The Workout:

With rock in hand, we lined up along parking lot.
Murdered bunnies two parking spots did 4 merkins cusack back to start.

Murder bunnies 4 parking spots, 4 squats cusack back.

Murder bunnies 6 parking spots 4 ground pounders, cusack back.

repeat this for 2 more iterations upping reps to   8 and 12 reps

Made way to hill at ball fields where we did 8’s of 1-leg squat at bottom and Turkish getups at top, while running backwards up hill.

At shelter we did 3 sets of  wrk in seeking and dips increasing reps from 5-10-15.
Mary: LBCs, side kicks, pickle pounders, Peter parkers, heel taps, 6in – hello dollies, to 45 deg hello dollies and then windshield wipers.  Last exercise captain Thor’s 1-2 up to 8-16 reps
Announcements: Derek Davis race June 12. SHP June 12th. Joco csaup May 22nd

Prayer:FedEx mother, injured pax’s.

ABsolutely fantastic time at Mutiny

FNGs: Welcome Shingles!
Warm Up: I/C SSH, IW, Hillbillies, Goodmornings, Frankesntien’s, Daisy Pickers, SFAC, 5 Burpees for not starting on time by site Q. 5 more Burpees for Norm being late.
The Workout: Everything done in tennis court. Start at net 5 LBC, Crawl Bear to mid court and stack 5 LBC, 10 Big Boy Sit-ups, Crawl Bear to end line and stack 5 LBC, 10 BB, 15 WWII, Crawl bear to fence into BTTW. Hold position for the six. BTTW slide shuffle to next court over to same position on previous court. Reverse the stack pattern with Bear Crawls back to the net. Swinging Gate to fence and did Guantanamos to the other side tennis court’s fence. Repeat Bear Crawls bears, BTTW, BTTW slide and Crawl bears. this time at the lines it was Plank hold for 15 i/c, 10 side raises, each side, 5 Oblique crunches. Swinging gate and Guantanamo’s to original start.
Mary: Complaining about Q’s direction earned 5 burpees. More Complaining earned another 5. Burpees for Breach became the catch phrase. Freddy Mercuries, Scissors, Meat Gazers, Meat Gazers w/ legs crossed, Leg Climb. 5 more burpees for good measure.
Announcements: Wilmington race
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer: Pots wife going into surgery on Tuesday, Unspoken and YHC took us out.

Turned out to be a nice morning considering all the storms yesterday!

I had not even planned on having the Q. I received a text message last night and was advised the Q sheet was still open. I signed up and made some plans. Once I arrived this am we got with Red October for warm up. After that what I had planned changed.

FNG: Nope

Warm Up: Moseyed a lap around the field. Dauber warmed up with side straddle hops, good mornings, sir fazio arm circles, seal claps.

The Workout: We moseyed to the start of the parking lot. 1st round, every white line 1 Merkin and add them all the way to the end for a total of 11 with a bear crawl in between. Lunge Walk back every white line add a squat. Repeated this with different exercises.

2nd Round Crawl Bear, every white line 1 crab jack- returned Bobby Hurley’s every white line to 11

3rd round Bear Crawl, every white line Plank Jacks, every white line-returned calf raises

Next we moseyed to restrooms for some BTW, people chair, seal claps, BTW, overhead claps, peoples chair. The timer was 1 PAX ran 2 laps around the building and we rinsed and repeated 2 times.

Mary: We moseyed to the tennis quarts for LBC, Reverse LBC, Full LBC, Homer-to-Marge, Low slow Flutter and Have a Nice Day.

 

Announcements: Check Slack for the thrift store building project and Sleep in Heavenly Peace bed project build on April 24th. Sign up genius posted on slack 3rd F. Wednesday March 31st Jersey Mikes in FUQUAY ONLY, all proceeds go to Military Men in Action. This is 70% of their budget. Lunch or dinner show your support!!!

T-Claps: Fram for EC. What a Beast he is!! Everyday!

Prayers: Fedex and family has friends that has an 8 year old boy with cancer. They organized a Jeep drive by yesterday with around 50 Jeeps and managed to secure Fairview FD for the TRAIN. Nice work and what an encouragement this must have been for that little boy. Continued prayers for Doc’s daughter on the road to recovery from surgery. God is Good Fellas!!!

YHC took us out. Honor to be a part of F3!!

Surprise Q

So this was my first day back after being out for two weeks with Covid and I was thinking I would try to take it a little easy. Ha! I arrived in the parking lot and was greeted by several PAX and a discussion began about who had the Q. Someone (I think it was FedEx or Sprinkle – or both) said YHC had the Q, to which I chuckled and uttered something along the lines of “yeah, right”. They quickly responded saying that YHC did indeed have the Q. At that moment I remembered that I had signed up to Q weeks ago – prior to getting Covid – so I jumped in and repeated part of a previous workout and improvised the rest.

Thanks for bearing with me and for the opportunity to lead – although YHC was somewhat underprepared.

FNGs: None
Warm Up:

SSH x 20 IC
Daisy Pickers x 10 IC
Good Mornings x 10 IC
Sir Fazio Arm Circles x 10 IC
Seal Claps x 10 IC
Overhead Claps x 10 IC
Imperial Walkers x 10 IC

The Workout:

Mosey to the rock pile for a repeat of a previous Q. Everyone grabbed a rock and we proceeded to circle up for a rock exercise followed by a lap around the circle – John Cusack style.

The exercises stacked up after each lap…
Exercise 1: Curls for the Girls x 15 IC;
Exercise 2: Overhead Press x 15 IC;
Exercise 3: Tricep Extension x 15 IC;
Exercise 4: Ruh Roh’s x 15 IC;
Exercise 5: Rock Merkins x 10 on each side

Rocks were then returned after one last lap and we moseyed to the tennis courts for a modified 4 corners. Corner #1 was 10 Merkins, followed by BTTW/ bear crawl one at a time until all PAX made it to the next corner. At corner #2, we stacked the 10 merkins with 20 squats. We lunge-walked to corner #3 for stacked merkins, squats and added 30 SSH. To cap it off, we repeated the BTTW/ bear crawl until all PAX were at corner #4. Once there, we stacked the merkins, squats, SSH, and added 40 Freddie Mercuries.

Mary:

Dauber took over and stretched us out with some yoga for Mary.

Announcements:

MMIA fundraising coming up – check slack for details.
New thrift shop in Angier starting soon and needs some help on Sat., Aril 3rd. See Gump/ Slack for more details

Prayer:

YHC is glad to be back after having Covid – family has recovered.
Gump – new job is going well.

Rusty and Dusty Tires

FNGs: None
Warm Up: Partnered with Red October (Good mornings, Daisy Pickers, SFAC, Seal Claps, OH Claps, SSH)
The Workout: 6 pax rolled two tires down to the open field next to the playground.  4 pax were instructed to get rocks. teams of 3 on each tire.  1 PAX would flip the tire (one seemed to be heavier than the other) while the SLT called out various exercises to be done with rock IC of 20. They run to meet tire flipper PAX and then trade out. This cycle continued changing tires after 3 cycles. Thing 1 lasted up to the the stop sign at Old Honeycutt Rd.  Thang 2 was backward pulls up down to parking lot entrance and back to the stop sign.
Mary: Cockroach sky touches, Slow Freddy Mercury, Meat Gazers (Breach named it), Cobra, Plank to stretch.
Announcements: Long ass run (Dauber), Help out at Under the Umbrella opening (Gump), March 31st buy a meal at Jersey Mikes and proceeds to local veterans support.  Prison Yard one year AO on 3/23/21.
T-Claps (Recognition): Fed-ex for making EC and Gump remembering we do EC. YHC is VERY happy to be back!
Prayer: Doc’s Daughter, Fram’s Brother going through divorce, unspoken (YHC took us out)

Mama house volunteering

FNGs:no fangs but two additional volunteers.  Crazy Kevin and Emily, dark wing duck(Fonzie 2.0) and  m Christie assisted with the help.
Warm Up:Coffee, ruck for Breach and Myself(Needmore ruck)
The Workout:move 500 bags of clothes from a garage to 48 foot trailer 20 feet away. 12 volunteers formed a chain and started digging into the pile passing bag after bag of clothes and shoes down the line filling the truck in 2 hours.  Leaving half the garage empty and half the garage still needing to be loaded in anothe trailer at some point. TBD
Mary: coffee
Announcements:ultimate Monday, possibly another round of moving bags.
T-Claps (Recognition):To everyone that showed up and helped out.
Prayer: motor baiting test and results. The ma parents traveling safe, military personal and all of us to keep hanging in there during these hopefully soon to be over covid days.

Hills and Yurpees

FNGs: @Teachers Pet, @Yodeler, @McRib

PAX: @Norm, @Fedex, @Breach, @Double D, @Price is Right, @Endo, @Sprinkler, @Finkle
Warm Up: Mosey around the tennis courts, followed by a 10 count of Good Mornings, Daisy Pickers, 20 SSH, 10 counts of quad stretches each leg and cross leg toe touches to get the legs loose.  Ended with 10 count cadence of Sir Fazio Arm circles F/B.
The Workout:

Event 1:  Hill Climbers – we split into 2 groups and group at the bottom of the hill did Mountain Climbers, Monkey Humpers, and Marionettes while the other group hiked up the hill as fast as they could to do a circuit of Dips, Irkins, and Squats starting with 10, 15, then 20 each time around.

To catch are breath we went on an Indian Run around the courts to lead us into the second event.

Event 2: Tennis court fun – at the tennis courts we circled up to do a round of exercises with dancing bears (plank with right hand up and left leg up then switch), alternating shoulder taps in cadence, followed by Yurpees (merkin clap and two tuck jumps).  We started at 3 of each exercise and added one each time we completed the round.  We got up to 6 and modified to go back down 5, 4, and 3.  Very nasty stuff those Yurpees!

Mary: Not So Lazy Boys, Box Cutters, ABCs, Boat Canoes, Outlaws all in a to count.
Announcements: Ruck this Saturday being led by @Norm.  Another ruck on the 21st followed by roadside trash pick up.
T-Claps (Recognition): To our FNGs for hanging in there.  Also, for FNG Teachers Pet who did EC with @Breach his first day out to F3.
Prayer: @Fedex’s cousin passed suddenly, so prayer for his family, also @Teachers Pet’s mom is recovering from COVID, prayers for our nation and families.  @Finkle took us out.

Wheel Racing at Mutiny this morning

Arrived this crisp cold morning to set up all kinds of toys for the main event. Yesterday at the Ruck Pots joked and said “what are we going to do at Mutiny in the morning….since you have the Q…wheelchair racing. So I kind of took that theme and ran with it this morning.

FNG: None

Warm Up: Moseyed around the track. Circled up for side straddle hop, imperial walkers, hillbillies, seal claps, overhead claps and some stretches. No takers for Red October so LED joined our group. After Norm arrived a little late we did 5 Burpees in his Honor. LED wishes he had Red Octobered by himself!!!

The Workout: THANG 1: YHC arrived early with all kinds of toys. Set up 4 tires and paired up & cones were set up with exercises of 5 on each. Paired PAX had to roll tires to exercise cone, once exercise was completed you advanced to the next cone. After completing the last cone roll tire and run around circle. Reverse the order all the way back to start line. There was some no driving PAX this morning with the tires rolls!!

 

1st– Merkins

2nd Burpees

3rd Carolina Dry Docks

4th Squats

5th Lunges 5 each leg

6th WW1

7th Star Jumps

Once we made it back to the start line PAX was instructed to grab a coupon-tractor weights, Rocks, Railroad Iron or Pots grabbed the Pallet. Curls for the girls, tricep extensions 20 count down to 5. Then we rinsed and repeated 3x.

THANG 2:

Pallet push with your partner while the other paired PAX was bench press with railroad iron, tire jump and throw, farmers carry with tractor weights. All PAX rotated until we completed where we started.

Mary: Low Slow Flutter, Homer-to-Marge, Pickle Pounders and stretched.

Announcements: February 22nd Ruck at Hilltop NeedMore Park followed by Road-Side Trash Clean Up. Mark your calendar boys…it’s bad this time. We need all the help we can get. Momas House Moving to new location even bigger and still looking for a headquarters office in Fuquay.

Prayer: Roger Rogers friend (cancer), Fedex cousin in the loss of a love one leaving behind three children. Co-worker of mine friend, in the loss of mom leaving behind 6 children, she was 36. Brain aneurysm.

YHC took us out. Thanks for playing my shenanigan’s this am.

Cadence Can Kill

A cold morning over in the Quay this morning. YHC was very glad to see a few cars roll in while returning from a nice EC route still lit up by Christmas lights…cuz everyone knows YHC just can’t see so good! Turned out to be a co-Q with 6 PAX, as FedEx had an extra kettlebell and I had extra’s which gave everyone something of everything!

FNG’s: No.

Warm Up: FedEx led the circle. SSH x 25, Good Mornings, Fazio Arm Circles, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies, Michael Phelps, 5x Burpees.
The Workout: Kettlebell Thang 1st: YHC cooked up a 12/28 reps workout. Most Pax finished before FedEx took over the Q again. 12 Halos, 28 Bell Merkins, 12 Shoulder Press Each Side, 28 Tricep Press, 12 Squats, 28 Swings, 12 Curls for the Girls Each Arm, 28 Lawnmowers alternate sides, 12 Midget Love Handles, 28 Boobity Boobity’s, 12 Figure 8’s, 12 Clean/Jerk/Press.

Next Thang was on FedEx and he killed us with reps and cadence. Legs and Shoulders were hit hard. We did 20, 14, and 12 counts of: Step Ups, Pulse Squats IC, and Side Lunges. Then it was 20, 14, and 12 counts of Dry Docks, Dips IC, and Shoulder Taps IC.

Mary: FedEx took the lead for Leg Raises, Freddie Mercury’s, Standard and Side Planks with arms/legs up. Pickle Pounders

Announcements: Monthly challenge is out there for accountability. Check Slack.
T-Claps (Recognition): Sparky…out for his 2nd workout! FedEx for coming prepared to combine if necessary.
Prayer: Thanks for my M’s recovery. PAX who are doing this on their own in F3 nation…getting after it. FedEx took us out!

Pyramids in a Chilly Rain

You never know what to expect when headed to an AO on a rainy morning, especially a chilly one.  YHC had signed up to Q Red October a few days back and I was grateful for that because I knew it meant I could be under shelter the whole time.  What I didn’t know was how many other men to expect.  I pulled in to the parking lot to find Breach already waiting.  A minute or two after I arrived FedEx pulled in.  He was set to Q Mutiny.  That looked like it was going to be it but at 05:29:59 Norm came squealing in on two wheels to make it in time.

Due to the rain everyone wanted to do something under the shelter.  Luckily I had soething planned and those without a bell could use a rock.  We decided to combine AOs and get underway.

FNGs: None

Warm Up:

Lead by FedEx –

SSH x20 IC

SFAC x10 IC forward and reverse

Daisy Pickers x10 IC

Imperial Walkers x12 IC

The Workout:

Needing rocks we decided to mosey to the lower shelter.  Once rocks were secured the workout was explained.  A pyramid would be done consisting of 6 different exercises.  We started with one rep of each, then two, then three, all the way up to 10.  Afterwards we would work our way back down.  To give credit where credit is due I stole this idea from Rams.  I went to my first Thunder workout last week and this is what we did and I liked it so I stole it.

The exercises we did were:

Swings

Curls for the Girls

Triceps Extensions

Overhead Press

Weighted Hillbillies

Merkins

The PAX were going through these pretty quickly so after our round of 10 YHC announced a bonus round of 11 before we started working our way back down.

Once the pyramid was done we did a decreasing number of goblet squats and rut-rows.  The sets were 20/10, 16/8, 14/7, 12/6, 10/5.  I realized too late that I had missed the 9s but just rolled with it.  After these were done we returned our rocks and then took a mosey up to the upper shelter for …

Mary:

Again lead by FedEx we did:

LBC x10 IC

LSF x10 IC

Protractors

Planks with alternating leg lifts and then alternating arm raises

Chill cut plank

Pickle pounders x10 IC

American Hammers x10 IC

Announcements:

Holiday part on Thursday

Mama’s House looking for toys to distribute to needy families.  Breach will provide more information later today.

Prayer:

Breach’s sister with COVID and mother who also isn’t feeling well.  She tested negative but they’re still not convinced.

Everyone dealing with hardship or illness during the holiday season.

 

Glad to get out there and lead this group of men on a dreary morning.  Thanks for starting your day with me.

 

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