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F3 Welcomes Baseball Season ’22

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FNGs: none
Warm Up: SSH, Good Mornings, Imperial Walkers, Windmills, Sir Fazio Arm Circles (front/back), Seal Claps, Overhead Claps
The Workout: My daughter had her first baseball practice of the season last night, so that gave me a good idea.

Thing 1: Diamonds on the ball field.
PAX gathered at home plate. Bear crawl to first base where we did squats. Bear crawl to second base where we did squats and merkins. Bear crawl to third base for squats, merkins and WWIIs. Finally, bear crawl home for squats, merkins, WWIIs and side lunges. One more round as we start taking exercises off.

Thing 2: PAX split into two groups. Group 1 holds squat while group 2 sprints to the fence and moseys back. Switch. Then group 1 holds plank while group 2 sprints out and back. Switch.

Thing 3: People’s Chair, 10 count down the line x8. Balls to the Wall, 10 count down the line x8.

Moseyed back to the parking lot for Mary (both tennis courts were taken!).
Mary: A couple of Mary exercises (can’t remember, sorry) and group stretches before closing out.
Prayer: Lots of guys dealing with sickness or injury, either personally or in their inner circle. Three Alarm’s upcoming surgery. Reach out to your fellow PAX that you haven’t heard from in a while.

Owls are Bigger than I Thought

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YHC took the helm at Disney this morning promising stops at several attraction the park had to offer, so I did. 4 Thangs and plenty of Mary during this workout! During EC, 187 and I spotted an owl swoop down from the trees and land totally silent…that sucker was huge!
Warm Up: SSH, Good Mornings, Imperial Walkers, Sir Fazios, Seal Claps, and Overhead Claps, then a long mosey over to the large HS parking lot.
The Workout: Started with some Poopeaters x 10 IC in honor of our K9 friend! We then partnered up for some whellbarrow/merkin ladders. Wheelbarrow your partner to parking lines, they start with 1 merkin, move, then 2 at the next…so on until hitting the 7th parking line. Finished in this area with Poopeaters x10 again IC.

Mosey over to the traffic circle in front of the HS and split in two groups. 1 group did an Indian run to the top of the hill and did 5 Star Jumps, while the other group stayed at the circle and did 15 merkins, 15 WW1’s, 15 squats, and 15 burpees. Groups switch. We did 4 rounds of this.

A quick jaunt back to the large lot to do a whole group, lunge walk, bear crawl Indian walk…let’s say. Pax in back of the line is the bear crawler until he gets to the front. All others lunge walk. Everyone got a turn.

Moseyed over to the big dark hill behind the soccer fields for a “take that hill” series. Up the hill…20 Hand Release Merkins, Up the Hill…15, Up the Hill…10.
Mary: Moseyed back to the flag for Mary for 20 counts of: LSF’s, LBC’s, Homer to Marge, American Hammers, BB Sit Ups, Freddie Mercury.
Announcements: LAR on 2/12…details on Slack. Raising money for ALS with SuperBowl Squares…reach out to Dauber. Wear Red Fridays boys! OurLegsForCrabLegs
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer: Lots of praises from FloJo about job situations, several Pax have sick/injured relatives. YHC took us out….glad to be back on the Q at Disney!

See yall next year!

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Singed up to Q Cletus as Abe has stepped up to Q Downtown Train many times, figured I could return the favor, and make sure I get the last workout of the year in. Rolled into the Cletus parking lot and saw Abe and FloJo on EC.

FNGs: None
EC: ABE, FloJo

Warm Up: SSH, Sir Fazio Arm circles, Imperial Walkers, Frankensteins, Good Mornings
The Workout:
    Thang 1: Mosey to the parking lot by the rock pile for some escalator  4 Corners, 1. Merkins 2. Squats 3. Carolina Drydocks 4.  We start with 5 burpees you stack the exercise till you get to three, then do three exercises at each station (dropping the one from the furthest station)  till we got 9, Then did 10 and each station at the end.
This took most of the time, so we moseyed to the small shelter for Mary

Mary: Popcorn Mary, including LBC’s Freddie Mercuries, Poop Eaters, Raising Flutter Kicks, American Hammers
Announcements: Carpex is having a 10 k and 5 k Ruck at Bond, 10k leaves at 5:30, 5k At 6:30 on New Years Day. The Town of Holly Springs is having a day of service on MLK Day, Jan 17, check slack for details
T-Claps (Recognition): Udder for coming on to his first Cletus post
Prayer: Udder’s co-work Gray starting cancer treatment. YHC’s Sister In-law Kelly finished up Chemo, and prayers for my Nephew TJ (her son) to stay covid free after being exposed.
NMS: Last Q of the year, and my personal goal for next year is to make more F3 workouts and Q more than I have been. Its been a weird year, again, but moving into next year looking to continue to improve myself.

That hill was shorter last time, right?

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FNGs: none
Warm Up: Quick mosey around the tennis courts. Circled up for; SSH x 22 (for 2022), Windmills x 10, Good Mornings x 10, Imperial Walkers / Hillbillies x 10 each, Fozio Arm Circles x 10 forward and 10 backward, Seal Claps x 10, Overhead Claps x 10.
The Workout: Four corners around the tennis courts. Each corner adds an exercise. Second time around, take exercises off. It went like this:
10 Merkins
10 Merkins, 20 big boy sit ups
10 Merkins, 20 big boy sit ups, 30 mountain climbers
10 Merkins, 20 big boy sit ups, 30 mountain climbers, 40 squats
20 big boy sit ups, 30 mountain climbers, 40 squats
30 mountain climbers, 40 squats
40 squats

Next, we lined up at the bottom of the grassy hill for 7s. Air press at the bottom, monkey humpers at the top. I don’t remember that hill being so steep!
Mary: Popcorn Mary featuring great hits like LBCs, Homer to Marge, Poop Eater, Pickle Pounders, American Hammers and Freddy Mercurys. Wrapped things up with a round of yoga.
Announcements: nadda
T-Claps (Recognition): Rollback for the push in EC, Florence/Flo Jo for beating that fartsack!
Prayer: lots of PAX out with illness and injury, losses of family members
Praises: Flo Jo’s wife’s promotion, Flo Jo’s new opportunity at work.

Christmas Eve 24

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24 exercises w/24 reps on the 24th of Dec

Warm up in upper lot near rocks
1 – SSH
2 – Randy’s IC
3 – Windmill’s
4 – skater’s

Grab a rock and Cusack to the track
4x4x24 – 4 corners with 4 exercises 24 reps
Only perform 1 exercise then advance to next corner. Should total 4 complete laps when completed.

C1 – curls, tris, ground pounders, chest press (rock corner)
C2 – Bobby Hurleys, knee tucks, groiners, monkey humpers
C3 – knerkins, fence dirkens, doublewides, Carolina dry docks
C4 – chillcut plank, plank jacks, catalina wine mixers, plank marching

Song – Santa Claus is Coming to Town by Springsteen
Mountain climbers the whole song.
Hand release merkins when you hear SANTA. Guess home many times Bruce says it…24 (random and lucky find)

Mary
21 – reverse lbc’s
22 – pretzels 12 each side
23 – Freddy Mercury’s
24 – Australian Snow Angels

Awesome job and Merry Christmas!

BS out

How did I forget to add bear crawls?

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FNGs: none
Warm Up: SSH, Windmills, Hillbillies / Imperial Walkers, Sir Fozio Arm Circles, Seal Claps, Overhead Claps, 5 burpees OYO for late PAX
The Workout: YHC is all about functional exercises, stuff that can come in handy day-to-day. While we may not see any combat in our daily routines, the Army Combat Fitness Test‘s recommended exercises will surely lead to better results when playing with the kids or tackling that honey-do list. I picked out a few and modified them to make them more F3 Southwake-friendly.

1ish mile run (figure 8)

Round 1
Lunges (10 in cadence)
Star Jumps (10)
Hand release merkins (10)
American Hammers (10 in cadence)
Sprint down the parking lot, mosey back.
Repeat 2 more times for a total of 3.

Round 2
Goblet squat (10)
Overhead Press (10 in cadence)
Supine Chest Press (10 in cadence)
Low Slow Flutter (10 in cadence)
Sprint down the parking lot, mosey back.
Repeat 2 more times for a total of 3.

At the request of Pikachu, we threw in some Bearly Curling (bear crawl while pushing rock). Down the parking lot, John Cusack the rocks back.

One more loop around the ball fields and back to the tennis courts.
Mary: Popcorn Mary featuring LBCs, Box Cutters, Pickle Pounders and a few others I forgot.
Announcements: donate blood
Prayer: Cupid’s knees, PAX with cancer, general mental health this time of year

That last burpee completes me

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FNGs: Nope
Warm Up:
SSH, daisy pickers, arm circles, mtn climbers, merkins
The Workout:
We took 3 laps around the park, stopping for burpees at the half way point between corners (increase to 6 then back to 1) and 3 sets of 10 exercises at each corner.
1st half exercises: rotated between 1)shoulder taps, monkey humpers, LBCs and 2)merkins, squats, LSF
2nd half exercises: rotated between 1)dips, mtn climbers, american hammers and 2)carolina dry docks, lunges, freddy mercury
1.5 miles were covered, 42 burpees and 360 exercise reps were completed.
Mary:
Various stretches
Announcements: See Slack, BRR Sign-up on 12/6. #fuquaymafia
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer: Gamecock upcoming travel

Rock Bear Repeat

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FNGs: none (Lawn Dart doesn’t count)
Warm Up: SSH, Windmills, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies, Fozio Arm Circles / Seal Claps / Overhead Claps
The Workout: Mosey over to the rock pile. PAX were instructed to get a mediumish rock and line up on one end of the parking lot. It went like this:
Curls for the girls x30, Triceps x30, Ruh Rohs x30, Squats x30.
Bear crawl to the end of the parking lot, mosey back to start.
Repeat, reps reduced to 20. Down and back.
Repeat, reps reduced to 10. Down and back.
Returned the rocks and moseyed to the picnic shelter.

At the picnic shelter, we took a break with People’s Chair. 10 count down the line for a total of 70 count. Recover.
Balls to the Wall, 70 count. Recover.
Repeated both one more time, then moseyed back to the tennis courts.
Mary:At the tennis courts, everyone picked their favorite exercise for a round of popcorn Mary. Then YHC wrapped things up with a little yoga stretching.
Announcements: Frosty CSAUP is coming up
Prayer: Lawn Dart’s brother, UTI’s uncle, unspoken

Feelin’ S.C.R.A.P.P.Y at TBD

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FNGs: BonBon – Came to us by way of HollyFest

Warm Up: 5 Burpees for the late guy, Fredrico – He announced himself with confidence, slotted right in, no questions asked

Windmills, Daisy Pickers, Fazio Arm Circles, Seal Claps, Overhead Claps, SSH

The Workout:

Inspired by this random article that hit my newsfeed….

https://lifehacker.com/12-bodyweight-exercises-that-will-actually-make-you-str-1847903062/slides/12

Mozy around the soccer fields – Sprint the length of the Ivan lot and continue Mozy to the shelter

  • Single Leg Squats – Each leg x6
  • Copenhagen Planks – Each leg x6
  • Reverse Nordic curls – x10
  • Australian Mountain Climbers – x10 IC
  • Poop Eaters – x10 IC
  • Pike Merkins – x10
  • Yogi Boo Boos – x20 IC

Repeato 1x

Mary: One last lap/sprint around the soccer fields – this is when the mumblechatter uncovered that Fredrico was not an F3 name but an FNG name.  OUR LATE GUY WAS AN FNG!?  The disclaimer was provided as we made our way to COT which launched straight into naming.

Our FNG spoke of his athletics in his college years but how he favored the couch since his son came along.   There was a consistent request for BonBon among the PAX (one in particular) and so he was named.

Announcements:

  • Get those food purchases ready for the Food Cupboard!!!

T-Claps (Recognition):

  • PAX for your help at HollyFest.  We got an FNG and we renewed our rental of the fields at Ting for Ultimate – 1 more year

Prayer:

  • YHCs, Uncle in the ICU with Covid
  • Twins on the way to Swisher Sweet’s sister – family growing from 2 kids to 4 kids
  • BonBon and family are looking to buy a house – Prayers brother

Pyramid Scheme

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Crisp morning at The Nest, and we have the falcon hut back! We missed it so much we spent the whole time in there. Also it was wet everywhere else.

FNGs: none
Warm Up: merkins, daisy pickers, windmills, ssh, sir fazio arm circles, Frankensteins
The Workout: Start out with a classic 123 Dora with merkins, lbcs, and squats. Runner went around the field. Then went to a pyramid with 5 rounds building them dripping reps (123454321) with irkins, derkins, dips, box jumps, lunges.
Mary: longer Mary with the exercises not limited to abs. Poopeaters, burpees, Freddy mercury’s, LBC, sneaky lunges, people’s chair, honey to Marge exicon.
Announcements: hollyfest
T-Claps (Recognition): all the dudes fit coming out
Prayer: Finkle’s back, Floyd to be responsive to testimony