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I Object!

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It was a nice summer morning and a break from the humidity, but we still donated sweat to the sacred ground of The Nest.

FNGs: None
Warm Up: Good mornings, windmill, SSH, imperial walkers, hillbillies, Michael Phelps
The Workout: First thing was a Route 66 with a jog stopping at each light pole along the road. Exercises built up 1 rep as we got to each pole. Is that a light pole or an electric pole? A stadium light? Doesn’t matter, exercise! 4 rounds with Merkins, squats, burpees, WW2s. Thing 2 was a round of Survivor. Went thought a list of exercises and the worst one was voted off by the group, then rinse and repeat with what’s left. To make it interesting, each member had an immunity which would negate the vote result. This resulted in some power trips and light mumbling between rounds. Order of elimination: Slow burpee, starjump, out-n-back inchworm, Daft Punk (around the world lunge), Carolina Dry Dock.
Mary: LBCs, sweat angels, boat canoes, American hammers
Announcements: Carpex Q swap
T-Claps (Recognition): Finkle on the EC
Prayer: Finkle’s church youth pastor, Hardy travelling and competition, Norm’s safe arrival, Gamecock’s job

Speed Traps

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FNGs: none

PAX: @Gamecock, @Beerpressure, @Abacus, @Martini, @Finkle
Warm Up: Mosey around the ballpark track doing butt kickers, high knees and crossovers.  Then did SSH, Good Mornings, Daisy Pickers, Hillbillies, leg stretches
The Workout: Grabbed a rock and hit the road.  At each intersection we stopped to do a prescribed rock exercise until we came to our beloved FQV speed trap sign.  We then went to task to see who was the fastest sprinter.  Each person that sprinted then picked an exercise with their rock to lead the group through.  YHC ended up being the fastest with 18 MPH with several others with a close 17 MPH.  But whose to say it was a competition b/c we’re all winners.  Next we went down to the park and did a bear crawled up a couple hills with exercises at the top and bottom and took a nice mosey back to the Grave to finish out with prayer.
Mary: none, field trip took too long.
Announcements:
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer: @Finkle – prayers for my youth pastor and family, sick with covid.  @beerpressure – knee injury, @gamecock – job change

Pop the Trunk

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Pre blasted that I has a surprise in the trunk. Finkle guessed a beaver… close? Another thing heavy and not fun to carry around.

FNGs: None
Warm Up: SSH, Willie Mays Haze, Imperials Walkers, Hill Billies, Fazio Arm Circles
The Workout: Popped the trunk and PAX chose their paving stone. 1) Four corners stack with the pavers. Squats, Overhead Press, Through Leg Lunges, American Hammers. 2) Merkins at each corner with Lunge walk on the long stretch and bear crawl manmakers with the pavers on the short length.
Mary: Mary on the corners with LBCs, WW2s, Windshield wipers, American Hammers
Announcements: None new
T-Claps (Recognition): Fumunga with the weight vest
Prayer: July 4th Weekend and families

Goofin’ around at the Nest

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FNGs: none

EC: @Finkle, @Martini, @Norm

PAX: @Finkle, @Martini, @Norm, @K I T T Y L I T T R
Warm Up: Mosey around the park circle, then did good mornings, daisy pickers, lots of leg stretches.
The Workout: 11’s with squats at one end of parking lot and goof balls at the other, running the whole length of the parking lot down at the nest.  To be fun we did the goof balls by the ladies workout group that meets there on Tuesday mornings.

Second event was four corners in the parking lot with stacking ab exercises.  We stacked boat canoes, pickle pounders, not so lazy boy chairs can’t remember the 4th one.  All in a ten count cadence.  Mode of transportation: on the long side we did Indian bear crawl nippler taps and short sides we did lunge holds with a lunge walk from the person in back.
Mary: Ran out of time.
Announcements: 6/26 F3 picnic at Harris Lake Park, same day Rugged Maniac.
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer: Teresa (pancreatic cancer), Finkle’s shoulder, Martini’s man baby named Spike, and Norm and family in their transition.

Hoops down South

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FNGs: None

EC: Finkle and Gamecock

Pax: @Norm, @Beerpressure, @Cyclops, @Gamecock, @Finkle, 
Warm Up: Nice mosey around the parking lot and then some stretches and warm up exercises.
The Workout: First event we went to the rock pile to pick out a friend.  Each Pax got the opportunity to run around the gym block as a timer while everyone else did a rock exercise: curls for the girls, overhead press, rut rows, tricep-extensions, rock chest presses on six.  To spice it up we switched rocks each time.

Second event: We took a short mosey over to the basketball court to play a basketball game of knockout.  Those who were in line had to do a prolonged stint of exercises ranging from lbc’s to dips, to merkins.
Mary: In cadence: outlaws, American Hammers, reverse lbc’s, boat canoes, and outlaws.
Announcements:  Bed build with SIHP at Kohl’s Saturday morning.
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer:

Got some!!

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FNGs:None.
Warm Up:6 Pax for Ec. Started with 21 SSH where all pax needed to stop on 21 after count stopped at 5.  Not Surprised, these HIMs were ready to go.  Continued with windmills, Dazio Arm circles, merkins, and squats.
The Workout: 7s of squats and absolutions Squats at bottom of hill absolutions at top.  Made way to school wall did 20-15-10 count Erkins, Derkins, and dips and then a second round  reverse exercises dips, Derkins , and Erkins.  Mosey to field and did stacking 4-corners 10-SSH, 20-BBSitups, 30-Bonnie Blair’s, 40-calf raises.
Mary:Finished off workout with protractors hello dollies, single leg v-ups, pickle pounders and some stretching
Announcements: picnic June 26th, bed build June 12th,
T-Claps (Recognition):16-bits wife for picking up the flag I left
Prayer:Norm and his process of going to deployment, Swisher Sweet house search, Finkle and all pax’s injury recoveries

Did We Win or Lose Today?

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A muggy, wet morning out at the grave left no man dry upon completion of a workout led by YHC and a deck of cards.

FNG’s: no sir
Warm Up: A mosey lap around the various lots of Kenny’s Grave stopping for exercises, which were: SSH x40, Windmills x12, Seal Claps x12, Overhead Claps x12, Daisy Pickers x12, Mountain Climbers x40.
The Workout: We split into 2 teams of 4 pax each. Each team had to complete 100 burpees total. So one man would do some burpees while the others did Plank Jacks, SSH, and LBC’s. PAX would rotate until all burpees were complete. this was a great routine I borrowed from Yoda.

We then took another mosey lap and did some fast feet along the way. We then moved on to the deck of cards, which we got though about 45 of them. Hearts = Merkins, Diamonds = Diamond Merkins, Clubs = alternate lunges IC, Spades = Squats, Face Card Hearts = 5 burpees, Face Card Diamonds = 5 count BTTW per PAX, Face Card Spades = 10 squat jumps, Face Card Clubs = People’s Chair 10 count per PAX, Jokers = 10 Turkish Get-Ups.
Mary: WW1 x 30
Announcements: Bed Build and HSPD Benefit Race this Saturday.
T-Claps (Recognition): Scrapple out again…killing it this week. Fireball out for a 2nd day in a row!
Prayer: Scrapples daughter Claire and foot surgery. Unspoken. YHC took us out.

Ultimate at Thunder

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FNGs: Welcome Snoopy and Hertz!

Warm Up: YHC attempted some upper body stretches to loosen up before the big game. There was a lot of chatter going on so we all did 5 burpees OYO. Then we counted off, split into the 2 teams, and let the games begin.

The Workout: Ultimate! We had a highly competitive game with the good guys stealing a heart breaker on the last play of the game.

Mary: Not  today

Announcements: Check slack and FB.

T-Claps (Recognition):

Prayer: Unspoken.

YHC took us out.

Early 4 Year at Disney

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My 4 year would be the Memorial Day Murph, but out of town plans led me to ask Dawgpound if I could take the Q from him at Disney for an early celebration. This was just before the challenge and I appreciate he gave up a coveted Q spot late in the month, and was pleased to see he picked up a different AO this morning. It was an honor to lead, was pleased to see such a great turnout, and what better place than Disney for me to celebrate. I am a proud Disney site Q alum. Preblast promised nothing fancy, just moving around and putting in the work, with a guarantee of a good tour.

FNGs: None today, so no bonus point awarded
Warm Up: Quick jog around lot, circled up for Good Mornings, Daisy Pickers, Windmills, Imp Walkers, Hillbillies and had to throw in Goofballs for good measure. 5 burpees OYO too.
The Workout: Jog around back of fields and down the hill to the road, circled up for a couple sets alternating SSH ICx20 and a shoulder burn (arms out, fazio front, arms out, fazio reverse, arms out, seal claps, arms out, overhead claps, arms out, recover). On the jog back to entrance and grabbed a low pole for alternating deep tempo dips ICx10 and tempo merkins ICx10. Did this 4 times. On the jog to the lower lot, each man on a line, dropped to plank hold, shoulder taps, plank hold, nipplers, chill cut, merkins, plank hold, recover. Did this 2 time. On the jog to back corner of building for alternating low slow flutters ICx20, 15 and 10, with the other half holding BTTW, so 3x on the wall for each of us. On the jog to big lot lined up in groups of 4 for a bear crawl Indian Run. PAX hold plank while man in back bear crawls to front. Each man did 4 bear crawls. 10 quick merkins to burn out and then on the jog to The Abyss for 2 rounds with LBC up top and Star Jumps at bottom. On the jog back to flag.
Mary: Not much time so heel taps ICx22 and LBC ICx2
Announcements: Cletus 7 year anny celebration with Deadbolt on Q, wear red Fri, ZERO excuses and support Breach raising money for Travis Manion Foundation – let’s go big tomorrow for this.
T-Claps (Recognition): from me to all of you for the experiences over the past 4 years, and for putting in the effort start to finish today – might not seem like we did all that much but when you think about it we did not stop working the whole time
Prayer: 16-Bit mother-in-law, those impacted by the shooting in San Diego. As leaders in all we do, let’s be mindful of looking out for others especially when it comes to mental well being. YHC took us out

Tennis at the trot

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FNGs: None

Warm Up: Nice mosey around the tennis court stoping at each parking lot light to do a prescribed exercise.  Along the way we divided into 1’s and 2’s and picked up our coupon (rock) to use over at the hill.
The Workout:

At the hill 1’s and 2’s partnered up to do circuit exercises.  Going up the hill one partner would do a rock climber (bear crawl with rock) at the top we did in sets of 10, 15, 20, and 25 Dips, Irkins, Tricep Ext, and curls for the girls.  Partner at the bottom was doing Mountain climbers, Monkey Humpers, Marionettes, and then Mexican Jumping beans.

After much mumblechatter and @Redenbacher almost loosing a leg from a falling rock down the hill we moved over to the tennis courts for a little game of F3 Tennis.  Rules: ball can only bounce once on your side, player bounce player not player bounce bounce, serve has to make it over net from the back rectangle, opposing team gave prescribed exercise if the team got a penalty.  Playing to 10.
Mary: We did Low slow flutter, boxcutters, E2Ks, boat canoes, and pickle pounders (to get ready for Father’s Day of course)
Announcements: June 26th F3 picnic at Harris Lake, June 12th SIHP bed build, Memorial Day Murph, Red shirts on Friday
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer: Remember Heidi battling cancer, 16-bit’s mom in law diagnosed with breast cancer, Laettner recovering from sickness, and Martini kidney stones.