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Batting Practice in the Dark?

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As part of my Q Sheet Challenge, I took the reins from Modify and he allowed me to lead. I was introduced to the batting cages by Wrangler a few years back and wanted to bring it to 2019 (I found out later that he had done it a few times since then…shrug) Hopefully, the PAX had fun.

FNGs: none
Warm Up: A few Trunk Twists and Good Mornings to get warmed up for the Big Stick
The Workout: With a bat and a ball, we smashed it from 2 feet to 2oo ft. If the ball didn’t leave the infield we were penalized with 5 Burpees. Once we were warmed up, most went into the grass resulting in Swing Kicks, Merkins, Diamond Merks, Bobby Hurleys, Star Jumps, WWII, Freddie Mercuries and a gamut of others.
Mary: Some Yoga stretches.
Announcements: 911 Stair Climb, Labor Day Convergence
Prayer: Injuries, Finkle’s neighbor injury

BB a day late but a year better

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FNGs: none

Warm Up: the usual suspects – SSH, IW/HB, leg and arm stretches, good mornings

The Workout: Dora’s ugly step-sister Mora(?)

Pax broke into groups of 3.

Partner 1 starred at bottom of the hill completing in no specific order (at least) 100 reps of each with a rock – curls for the girls, shoulder/chest press, tricep extensions.

While partner one was repping, partner 2 ran up the hill, stopping mid way to enjoy 5 burpees before making it to partner 3. Partner 3, who was at the top, was working through (in no specific order) (at least) 100 reps of each – merkins, squats, and WWII’s.

Relay race style, once partner 2 reached partner 3, partner 3 ran down (stopping mid way for that lovely burpee break) to partner 1 and the bob and weave continued until the one-year-old-F3 :Q wrapped up this warm up (27 min deep) and sent the PAX moseying to the tennis courts

After a brief plank hold for the six and some mumble chatter about Mary…. we lined up on the baseline for more fun

1st set – bear crawl 1/2, jog 1/2  across courts into 20 shoulder tap balls to the wall with a 1/2 bear crawl 1/2 jog back to starting line for 1:5 deep squat into calf raises

2nd set – bear crawl full distance across courts into 20 shoulder tap balls to the wall with a full bear crawl back to starting line for 1:5 deep squat into calf raises

3rd set – bear crawl 1/2 jog 1/2 across courts into 20 shoulder tap balls to the wall with a full bear crawl back to starting line for 1:5 deep squat into calf raises

Mary: 18 reps each of American hammers, heel taps, side crunches, with a HAND finisher

Announcements: Check slack and Facebook
T-Claps (Recognition): all you legends for filling my stoke tank up this last year!

Prayer: Fed Ex for guidance with son, Banana Seat family and friends of friend who passed, Noah’s Arc and wife, Crab Legs

Burpee Pull-Ups and 3-man Relay

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YHC made the trip back to Fuquay to try out a new workout with the FV PAX. YHC arrived at 0502, shovel flag planted, Norm arrived, 0505 hit and we were off. Upon return from a mosey up Mount Fuquay, there was a lot full of PAX, but unfortunately none of the Holly Springs PAX braved the trip down south. 0530 hit and we were off!

FNGs:Nope

Warm Up:
Short lap around the parking lot. Circled up for SSH x25 IC, Windmill x10 IC, Mountain Climbers x10 IC, Merkins x10.

The Workout:
Pax split up into 3 man teams and headed to the playground. 1 Pax did 10 burpee pull-ups while the other 2 did merkins and squats, rotating until each Pax did all 3 exercises. For round 2, merkins and squats were replaced with LBCs and plank hold.

Pax mosey’d to the parking lot for 3-man relay. This was a new routine YHC saw posted on Twitter by F3 Lexington, SC so I figured we would give it a shot. Still in 3 man teams, 2 PAX wait at opposite ends of the lot doing LBCs and plank hold while 3rd PAX sprints across the lot and waiting PAX sprints across lot when sprinter arrives. Rinse and repeat until time for Mary. YHC modified replaced LBCs with plank hold, then plank hold for squat hold, then squat hold for recover. Lots of sprints were done!

Mary:
American Hammers x20
LSF x20
Homer to Marge x20
Pickle Pounders x20
American Hammers x10
LSF x10
Homer to Marge x20
Pickle Pounders x20

Announcements:
F3 Family Picnic on October 12th – Save the date!
9/11 Stair Climb

T-Claps (Recognition):
16-bit – strong work with breathtaker!
Yosemite with some strong sprints.

Prayer:
Noah’s Ark, Crablegs, Injured PAX

YHC took us out. Thanks for letting me lead this morning!

After taking us out, Norm pointed out that YHC forgot name-o-rama, so we did that too.

Pterodactyl Mating Call?

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EC: H1N1, Messi, Fonzie, LED, 16-Bit

FNGs: None

Warm Up: 9- PAX ; Lap around parking lot with Carioca, High Knees, Butt Kickers.  Circled up for Good Mornings, Cotton Pickers,  SSH, FAC’s (fwd/rev), Arm Stretches

The Workout: Today is YHC’s last day at 36 yrs old so a little Pre-Bday beat down was due…so the theme was 36 or a variation of.  First off we started with a modified 11’s (I called it 3’s & 6’s/6’s & 3’s)…PAX lined up on one end of parking lot, ran/jogged to halfway, dropped for 3 merkins and up for 6 Bobby Hurley’s, ran back to start, dropped for 6 merkins and up for 3 Bobby Hurley’s…we did this 8 times so you end up with 36 merkins/36 Bobby Hurley’s and out of breath; that humidity was something serious.  While we are trying to remember what number/exercise we were on there was this prehistoric squawking close by, PAX were concerned but pressed on, she must have seen the sweat ground beasts and moved on.

Next we got back to the start line after a 10 count and began and Alligator March…YHC saw and Alligator Merkin so I incorporated this into a March or Crawl.  Down in plank, begin crawling like an Alligator while performing Alligator Merkin (off angle Merkin)…pain and displease ensued and we ended up move a few more paces in between Merkins to other end of parking lot/trash can.  Lots of mumble chatter afterwards…sounds like a new trick in the bag.

Another 10 count to catch breath (man the air was thick) and on to the next, Paula Abdul (2 steps forward, 1 step back).  PAX lined up on parking space line, Lunge two parking spaces, jog/walk backwards one space back, down to 1 Burpee; Lunge two parking spaces, jog/walk backwards one space back, down to 2 Burpees; continue this theme until you reach 8 Burpees…this will equal 36 Burpees when complete.  Impressed with PAX determination to complete this…heart rates were up!

10 count again, man it was swampy…PAX lined up single file for a modified Indian Run leaving about 7 ft between, this was so we could plank hold while last PAX runs to front, continue until first is last, repeat but with Plank Jacks, then repeat again but with Mountain Climbers…then we stood up, turned 180 degrees and rinse/repeat…shoulders were toast.

Mary: On your six, 6in hold (10 count), low slow flutter (10 count), WWII – 16 ; finish with 36…HAND!

Announcements: JoCo Convergence, F3 SouthWake picnic, Beater Bday Q tomorrow at Possum Trot

T-Claps (Recognition): 16-Bit with Breathtaker, killing it!  Messi taking us out!

Prayer: Noah Ark’s wife, 16-Bit for job clarity, injured PAX

1 Million Punches

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YHC rolled in with about 30 seconds to spare. Slow start this morning due to attendence at a storm-delayed Brad Paisley concert the night before, resulting in about 4 hours sleep. Good thing Sheepdog is here to wake us all up.

Warm Up:

SSH
Trunk twists with arms straight out
Quick feet, to burpee on call
Balance on one foot, raise knee, then push straight back, 5 each side, then switch

The Workout:

1 Million Punches – Wing Chung punches while HIM take turns doing an exercise

  • Manmakers w/ 35# dumbbells – 8
  • 1 lap run
  • Ballerina Squats (heels up) – 10
  • 1 lap run
  • Merkins – 10
  • Long run (lap around the school)Round 2
  • Thrusters -10 (this is as far as we got with time)
  • Wobbly merkins – 10
  • Curls (with dumbbells or band) – 10

Mary:

American hammers, X-Man crunches, LBCs

Announcements:

9/11 stair climb

T-Claps (Recognition):

Prayer:

Knockout at Kenny’s Grave

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FNGs: None

Warm Up: Lap around the parking lot, followed by 20 SSH IC, 10 burpees for our late arrivals, 15 Morrocan nightclubs IC, 15 windmills IC. Michael Phelps it out and then mosey to basketball court.

The Workout: We played Knockout. We had a penalty exercise (burpees!) every time you were knocked out to get back in, and all PAX except the two shooters and one queued up held plank while waiting for their next turn. We modified the penalty and waiting exercises a few times.

We also had a variety of entertaining misses from just about all PAX, much laughter was had.

Three final games where PAX who got knocked out had to do exercises of their choice until we had a winner. Sprinkler won once and Messi won twice, good job guys!

Mary: We went around the circle and each PAX called out an exercise. Alphabet soup, heel taps, mountain climbers, LBCs, pickle pounders, H2M, can’t remember the rest. It was humid and we all were sweating fiercely from the ab workout by the end.

Announcements: shirt orders, 9/11 stair climb.

T-Claps (Recognition): Sprinker can shoot! Messi for winning the final two games.

Prayer: PAX on IR

Partner Chase BLIMP!

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EC: Cupid, H1N1

FNGs: None

Warm Up: 20x SSH IC, 15x Good Mornings, 10x Sir Fozio Arm Circles F+R, 15x Imperial Walkers IC

The Workout:

Moseyed to the wall for:

BTTW, each PAX counts to 10

People’s Chair, each PAX counts to 10

Repeat for 8 count then 6 count.

Circled up so YHC could explain the next exercise…partner chase BLIMPS! (5x Burpee, 10x Lunge, 15x Imperial Walker, 20x Merkin, 25x Plank Jack, 30x Squats). Partnered up and partner 1 took off around the block. Partner 2 did the first exercise and caught up to Partner 1, who then did the same thing. Got through BLIMP before we ran out of time.

Back to the wall to finish off BTTW and People’s chair for 4 count and 2 count. Lots of mumblechatter on the 2 count probably made it longer than the 4 count.

Mary: People’s choice! Did each exercise 15xIC: Dying Cockroach, BS Heel Taps, and Freddie Mercury.

Announcements: Check Facebook, Slack

T-Claps (Recognition): All PAX for the solid effort put in with this humidity. I was soaked.

Prayer: Daily life, Finkle’s class

Are We Playing Ultimate Today!!!

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As we were waiting for the clock to strike 5:30 our little circle kept getting big as Pax continued to arrive. This prompted Gump to ask “Are we playing ultimate today?” because we ended up having 19 Pax come out to the gloom at Mutiny, with 4 doing EC, and with that we started with a lap around the track.

 

EC: LED, Fonzie, H1N1, Messi

PAX: Potts, Modify, LED, Fonzie, H1N1, Messi, Slimer, Noah’s Ark, Gump, FedEx, 16-Bit, Yosemite, Finkle, Snip, Norm, Dauber, R-22, Cha Ching, Venkman

FNGs: None

Warm Up: SSH x 25, Fozie Arm Circles F x 10 R x 10, Imperial Walkers x 10, Punch Up Merkins IC x 20

The Workout: Lined up across the parking lot to do  break dancers and bear crawls. Started at the first line with 1 break dancer and then bear crawl to the first line then crawl bear back to start, then do 2 break dancers and bear crawl to the second line then crawl bear back to start, etc….. Went up to 5.     We then moysed over to the rock pile to pick an exercise friendly rock. Had the Pax line up on the field for 7 exercise circuits, 10 circuits starting with 10 reps IC with each circuit decreasing by one rep and you couldn’t drop your rock until we all got through the circuit or we’d all be doing 5 burpees OYO. Needless to say one person, not saying any names, kept dropping his rock. The exercises were curls for the girls, shoulder press, tricep extension, rut rows, squats, upright rows, and chest press.

Mary: 6 in hold, low slow flutter, 45 degree hold, windshield wipers, 90 degree hold, heels to heaven, heel taps, Homer to Marge, chiseled cut, Pickle Pounders, HAND

Announcements: Noah’s Ark thanked all the Pax and friends that stepped up to help him and his M  trip to the Mayo Clinic which was moved up 3 weeks. 9/11 stair climb

T-Claps (Recognition): All the Pax that stepped up for Noah’s Ark

Prayer: That Noah’s Ark wife gets a true diagnosis and can get on the road to recovery, unspoken.       Snip took us out.

 

As as always thank you for letting me lead. It’s truly an honor!!!

Simple but effective

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FNGs: Welcome 2 FNG’s. Venkman and Slimer. Father / 2.0 combo
Warm Up: 2 for EC. Half lap around soccer field. Good mornings, windmills, arm circles, hamstring stretches. Middle of warmups a Jeep rolls in.  Luckily they were FNGs so spared the group penalty burpees.

The Workout: To small hill.  Run up backwards and back down.  At bottom do crowd pleasers,1-7 reps.  Consists of merkin and groiners.

To wall.  BTW shoulder taps while partner does colt 45s. 3 sets of top to mid squat, mid to low squat, full squat. Rotating between sets with partner.

To rock pile.  Did sets of 20 IC – curls for the girls, ground pounders and rut rows.  Jack webbs1-3 ratio up to 7 sets.

Mosey to tennis courts.

Mary: captain thor 1-4 reps up to 7 sets. LSF, box cutters, heel taps, Freddie mercuries up to 20 IC.  Have a nice day!!
Announcements: paddle board pop up AO Saturday Banana Seat with details.   Site co-Q needed at mutiny.

Prayer: Dwayne’s wife, r22, all pax health, FedEx wife traveling

Audible at Mutiny

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FNGs:  none BUT welcome back Snip!

Warm Up:  Run around the pitch.  Circle up for Michael Phelps, 25 SSH, 10 daisy Pickers, fozzio Arm Circles (F/B), HB, IW, Static Arm stretches.

The Workout:  Q showed up on time with a game plan but was not feeling it; shared his concern with Gump.  Immediately called an audible from a boot camp workout with rocks to a game of Ultimate Frisbee!  Dropped Frisbees and Frisbees out of bounds resulted in 3 rep exercises (various).  Scores resulted in 10 count exercises.

Mary:  Each PAX called out a core exercise ranging from Pickle-pounders to American Hammers.

Announcements:  CSAUP (Greenville), Salamander game, BRR Training…See Slack/FB

T-Claps (Recognition):  Norm – two weeks of Army training completed.

Prayer: Horrible murder-suicide tragedy in Norm’s Unit; Injured PAX; Silent prayers; Family members with cancer.

EC:  The Natural

Always an honor leading such a fine group of HIM!