firefly – F3 South Wake

Rock Curls and Bear Crawls

August 20, 2024/in Downtown Train /QIC: Abe
PAX: @p.s.i, Abe, Bobby Dall, Bondo, Dangerfield, firefly, Mad Dog2020, no doubt, Yocal

FNGs: Dangerfield (Respect!)

Warm Up: SSH, imperial walkers, hillbillies, Willy Mays Hayes, Daisy pickers, sir fazio arm circles, seal claps, overhead claps

The Workout: We moseyed over to the rock pile and got a medium rock, then circled up at the auditorium. We did a round of curls, triceps, ruh rows, deadlifts, squat to overhead press and halos. Dropped the rocks for bear crawls to the front door if the cultural center, then mosey back. We did four rounds of this before returning it rocks. We got a round of people’s chair in before returning to start for Mary.

Mary: popcorn Mary

Announcements: Sign up to Q!!!!

Prayer: Choppa’s wife, praise for Bondo’s safe travels

Some mosey. Shoulders, Chest, Legs Oh My!

July 17, 2024/in Downtown Train /QIC: Pumpkin Spice
PAX: 3rd Cousin, Bobby Dall, Choppa, firefly, lube, MadDog 2020, no doubt, P.S.I. 006, Quiver, Shooting Blanks, TomTom, Woody, Yocal

FNGs: None

Warm Up: Mosey to The Block garage, SSH, GM, Arm Circles, Seal Clap.

The Workout:

Three Rounds: 15-10-5 Reps

Inverted Rows, Carolina Dry Docks, Squats, Mosey to Amphitheater

Derkins, Erkins, Dips, Mosey to Garage

2. Three Rounds: Peoples’ Chair and BTTW

3. Three Rounds: 10 reps each exercise

Step Ups/Box Jump, Bulgarian Single Leg Squat, Copperhead Squat

Mosey back to Flag

Mary: Around the Horn

Announcements: Check 3rd F channel for opportunities.

Prayer: Pax traveling, those who have lost a loved one, those struggling with sickness.

Downtown Train Birthday Bash 59

May 13, 2024/in AO Post /QIC: Yogurt
PAX: @bestinshow, Abe, Batboy, BnB, Bobby Boucher, Brexit, Compton, Cupid, Fanny Pack, firefly, Gump, Hasselhoff, Shooting Blanks, TomTom, U.T.I, Wild Turkey, Yokel

Warmups: Good mornings 10x, Bat wings 10x 4 positions, Sidestradle hop 59x for bday

Main Event: Mosey to stage area in front of HS Culture Club

Absolutions 10x

Complete circuit around library with three stations. Each station with three exercises: arms/shoulders, legs, core.

Partner up for counts and form. Complete 59 reps between the two of you.

Station 1: Merkins, squats, LBCs 59 reps

Between: Absolutions

Station 2: Side planks, lunges, WWIIs 59 reps

Between: Jack Webbs

Station 3: Patty cake Merkins, squat hold, American hammer 59 reps

Finale: Sprints in parking deck

COT: Announcements: Accept the challenge. In this case, consider signing up for the Triangle Sprint Triathlon. Super easy.

Fence painting on Monday, May 20

Prayer requests: Hasselhoff job situation/opportunity

Unspoken

Second F: Coffee by Abe and Wild Turkey

Fresh strawberries by yours truly.

Honor to lead. Thanks for helping celebrate my birthday.

How many Jump Ropes?

May 9, 2024/in To Be Determined /QIC: Fram
PAX: Abe, Best In Show, Bleeder, Choppa, firefly, Kosher, M4Life, Nickleback, P.S.I. 006, Wide Right, Yogurt, Yoshi

FNGs: None

Warm Up:5 min of various

The Workout:

ME: Thang 1

Squat Jumps /Speed Skaters
High knees/Forward Back Feet
Tuck jumps / Leg swings
Calf raises / Heisman
Lateral bounds/single-leg Deadlift
Butt kicks/Jump Lunges
1000 jump ropes per PAX.

Thang 2: Yoga

Mary: During Yoga

Announcements: Painting, Q-sheet

T-Claps (Recognition):

Prayer: Lost family members, Injured Pax, unspoken (YHC took us out)

Friends Old and New

April 22, 2024/in Downtown Train /QIC: Abe
PAX: 3rd Cousin, Batboy, Best In Show, Bobby Boucher, Bobby Dall, Fanny Pack, firefly, Gump, Hasselhoff, M4Life, Nemo, no doubt, Psi, Shooting Blanks, Slide Rule, Yokel

FNGs: none

Warm Up: SSH, Good mornings, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies, Willy Mayes Hayes, Sir Fazio Arm Circles, Seal Claps, Overhead Claps, Moroccan Night Clubs

The Workout: PAX were instructed to go get a “mediumish” rock and meet up at the amphitheater. 4 rounds of:
15 Curls for the Girls
15 Tricep Extensions
15 Ground Pounders
15 Ruh Rohs
15 Tempo Squats
bearcrawl down to the library doors, mosey back
We swapped rocks in between each round. Once done, we returned our rocks gently and responsibly back to the rock pile.

Mary: Plank for a 10 count around the circle (170 count total), LBCs, WWIIs, Homer-to-Marge, American Hammers, finished things up with a little stretching.

Announcements: UFO every 1st / 3rd and 5th Monday of the month! Watch for 3rd F opportunities with the town that help support our ability to use the fields at Ting for UFO.

T-Claps (Recognition): 3rd Cousin, Bobby Dall and Slide Rule for joining us back in the gloom. Good to see you all again!

Prayer: Midget and his family for their loss.

Thoughts: Midget shared with us at COT that his mom always put others first. He encouraged us to do the same in our own lives, put others first and always give. If you maintain this mindset of others first and use it as your guiding principle, the decisions you make will fall into the right place automatically.

Q School: Session 2

March 15, 2024/in Cletus /QIC: Banana Seat
PAX: @Abacus the OG, @p.s.i, 16-bit, Abe, Banana Seat, firefly, FlipPhone, Gizmo, Gump, no doubt, Pikachu, Rubiks

12 PAX came out to Cletus for some edumucation. Here’s what happened.

Discussion:
Why Q school? This is to help with F3 formality (uniform) across all regions so if you attend an AO in New York or Texas it’ll still be close to the same structure.

3 main topics to cover – How to Q? Why to Q? (new exciting things) Are you ready to Q?

Sample structure for warm up with some discussion:
Disclaimer, warmup, workout (the thang), Mary, CoT – 45 mins total time, get a watch. Assign a sweeper if you have a large group of FNG’s.
Bring a Flag if you plan to Q. If you don’t have one, ask site Q to bring one.

Conduct WU and have guys take turns with exercises. SSH, Good Mornings, etc.

Review during workout:
Cadence Count
Form and rep count
Know your PAX limitations if possible
Site Q duties
Q sheet, pre-blast, backblast
Exicon, backblast from other regions, winky, Co-Q

Be ready for CoT with announcements and prayer requests/praises

Thang 1: Dora – 50 pull ups, 100 Bobby Hurleys, 150 shoulder taps with lunge walk timer
Mary
WWI’s
Pretzels
Heels to Heaven
Windshield wipers

Thanks for coming out men!
BS out

Pairs and stairs

March 7, 2024/in Downtown Train /QIC: Kosher
PAX: @p.s.i, 006, 3rd Cousin, Banana Seat, BnB, Brexit, Fanny Pack, firefly, Kosher, no doubt, Pumpkin Spice, Shooting Blanks, Wild Turkey

FNGs: Nope

Warm Up:

SSH, Good Morning, Sir Fazio F/R, Hillbillies, Imperial Walkers, Moroccan Night clubs, Seal Claps, Overhead Claps, 5 Burpees OYO for BnB being late

The Workout:

Thang 1: partner DORA – 100 Merkins, 200 squats, 300 LBC. 1 partner runs to top of stairs in parking deck, back down. Switch with partner doing exercises.

Thang 2: Urkins, Dips, Plank Hold, Low Slow Flutter x3 rounds

Thang 3: Peoples chair 10 count each PAX, BTTW x5 each PAX, Monkey Humpers x10 – 3 rounds

Mary: Popcorn – Homer to Marge, pickle pounders, Freddie mercury, crab cakes, 100 tap the ground, heel taps, J-Lo’s, stretching

Announcements:

Downrange looking for rental, BnB and Firefly leading shovel flag event 3/8, Shooting Blanks looking for company on Tobacco Road Marathon

T-Claps (Recognition): all PAX for a strong showing

Prayer: Banana Seat aunt passed, unspoken, sick and injured

Reach out to guys you haven’t seen in a while.

No cows at Downtown Train…but we kept MOOving

February 21, 2024/in Downtown Train /QIC: Stickers
PAX: @p.s.i, BnB, bo peep, Cancun, DownRange, firefly, Hasselhoff, Kosher, M4Life, no doubt, Pumpkin Spice, Stickers

FNGs: none

Warm Up: side straddle hop, windmills, frankensteins, imperial walkers, hillbillies, sir fazio arm circles and a plank hold around the circle for a late arrival.

The Workout: Moseyed to the closest corner by the parking deck. Script was 7 of Diamonds, first exercise at each corner of the block was 7 IC plank jacks. 2nd lap was 14 IC low slow flutter. 3rd lap was 21 merkins. 4th lap was 28 squats. We finished with 20 side straddle hop before heading to the rocl pile.

Gathered some rocks and proceeded to do two rounds of 20 overhead press, 20 ruh rohs, 20 skull crushers, 20 chest press and a mix of carolina dry docks and erkins.

Mary: Homer to Marge, heel taps, box cutters and some others

Announcements: Pumpkin Spice going for a 5 pack. Site Qs be sure to be posting a flag at our AOs.

Prayer: Captain Kangaroo F3 Raleigh

Wide Right at Cletus

February 2, 2024/in Cletus /QIC: Kosher
PAX: Abe, BnB, firefly, Kosher, Wide Right, Wild Turkey, Yogurt

FNGs: Yes! Welcome FNG Tom aka Wide Right! Buffalo Bills fan, Pikachu gets credit for the name. Crazy Ivan guys came over for the FNG naming convergence.

Warm Up:

SSH, Good Mornings, Imperial Walkers, Frankensteins, Sir Fazio Arm Circles F/R, Seal Claps, Overhead Claps, Willie Mays Hays

The Workout:

THANG 1:

PAX moseyed to the old Crazy Ivan lot at the other end of the soccer fields. We did 11s with Wide Grip Merkins on one end, WW2 on the other end, PAX ran between ends of the lot, stopping about halfway down on the trip down.

THANG 2:

Mosey to amphitheater for 2 rounds of People’s Chair, Derkins, Dips, Heels to Heaven, and Chilcutt Plank Holds.

THANG 3:

Mosey to the rock pile, grab a medium to large rock. We completed curls for the girls, ruh rohs, wonderbras, chest press, skullcrushers, shoulder press, ground pounders, and bus drivers.

Mary:

Homer to Marge, Box Cutters, Low Slow Flutter, Pickle Pounder finisher

Announcements:

Free CPR class on Feb 7 hosted by town of Holly Springs at the Library, highly recommend. CPR can and has saved lives in F3!

T-Claps (Recognition):

Abe and Bleeder for picking up trash along their EC ruck today. Kudos to FNG Wide Right for coming out and putting in solid work on his first workout. Also kudos to Arby’s who posted at Ivan today and put in a 5 pack on his first week out in the gloom!

Prayer:

PAX running Uwharrie this weekend, Yogurt’s co-worker dealing with cancer. Sick and injured PAX.

Praise:

Turkey’s FIL Tommy rang the bell and is cancer free. Enron who was named at Cletus on a Friday in South Wake and is a North Raleigh guy now – his M was dealing with both breast and lung cancer and has been cleared!!! Also able to ring the bell!

Honored to lead, make it a great day, gents!

A little confusion couldn’t stop us

January 31, 2024/in To Be Determined /QIC: Abe
PAX: Abe, Arby's, Best In Show, Clunker, Cupid, firefly, M4Life

FNGs:

Warm Up: SSH, Good Mornings, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies, Windmills, Sir Fazio Arm Circles, Seal Claps, Overhead Claps

The Workout: On the menu today was a modified Murph, done AMRAP style (no specific count to achieve). Since it was rainy, Best In Show made the recommendation that we modify the pull-ups as to not slip and risk injury. We opted for dips instead.

We started out with a quick lap around the soccer fields. Then it was explained that this would be an AMRAP workout, 45 seconds on and 15 seconds off. Three exercises: dips, merkins, squats. Free to do them in whichever order, but switch each time. The idea of an AMRAP Murph seemed to throw PAX for a loop at first, but these are a bunch of smart guys and they caught on pretty quickly. We were able to get in 7 rounds of that before closing it out with another lap around the soccer fields.

Mary: Popcorn Mary

Announcements:
– Free CPR class at Holly Springs Library, Feb 7 at 6:30pm!
– Watch out for your fellow PAX and reach out when you think they could use some help.

T-Claps (Recognition): Arby’s has come out of the gate strong! Third workout in a row and just started. Try to keep up fellas!

Prayer: Best In Show had an unspoken, reaching out to a friend

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