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Barbells, kettlebells and maces, oh my!

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FNGs: None

Warm Up: Quick lap, Good Morning, WMH, Arm Circles, Spinal Rotations, T-Merkins

The Workout: 2 rounds 10 exercises Tabata, 45 seconds on; 15 second rest; DL/Press/Squat barbell complex, Barbarian Swing (mace), Suicides, Bus Driver/Wonder Bra complex (weight plate), Cone facing burpees, Renegade DB Rows, Jump Rope, Squatted DB curl/Standing curl complex, Death March (mace), KB Swing.

Mosey to Basketball court.  Game of knock out.  Losers must do 10 merkins, 10 squats, 10 WWIIs before returning. 

Mary: Good morning, arm stretches, hamstring stretches

Announcements: CPR class 11/21; Volunteer spots still open HS Half. 

T-Claps (Recognition): Gump my fellow quinquagenarian

Prayer: PAX running HS Half; Deal with our addictions.  Challenge for each PAX to talk to someone about anything they are struggling with. 

Feeling Sheepish

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FNGs: Not Here

Warm Up:

  • SSH
  • Burpees for Gump
  • Good Mornings
  • Windmills 
  • Carioca
  • High Knees
  • Butt Kickers
  • Mozy to track 

The Workout:

Partner up for a DORA – 100 overhead press IC, 200 American Hammers, 300 Squats

Timer was other guy running up and down the bleachers at all stairwells

Nipplers

Mozy to half wall

Earkins, Derkins, Dips

Mary:

WW2s

Homer2Marge

Pickle Pounders

Ankle Grabbers

Prayer:

FRAMs Mother In Law

No Frills Mutinizing to start the week

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Warm Up:   FRAM and Sunshine for EC.  SSH, Good morning, Daisy pickers, Hillbillies, Sir Fazio, Seal claps

The Workout:  Had I consulted my calendar, which had me running 22 miles just two days ago, I wouldn’t have signed up to Q today.  But I didn’t, so I did. 

Then in a very adult manner of dealing with life, I tried to ignore it, hoping it would go away, so I could get another day of rest.  But it didn’t, so I couldn’t. 

So, up & at ’em.  Having only a vague template in my head of what to do, I, as Sprinkler so succinctly foretold “bullshitted my way through this workout”, and it formed into this:

7’s on the “hill” of burpees and squats.  That was it for legs.  After that we just ran around in a disorderly pattern, making periodic stops for sets of non-leg exercises.   Dips on the picnic tables, WWIIs, merkins, balls to the wall, Carolina Dry Docks.  

We got in at least three sets of each (I think), with variations of merkins (derkins on the bleachers, diamond & wide grip) and dips (alternating raised leg), but did get 4 sets of WWIIs just because I decided to hit 100 reps for some reason. 

Mary:  A P90X favorite, Downward Dog Crunches (DD position, raise right leg, swing it to touch right elbow for 4 count, return.  Raise right leg, swing it to forehead for 4 count, return, then swing right leg to left elbow for 4 count – repeat other leg).  Then we did some kind of toe touch things until time expired.  Good stuff.

Prayers:  Fire Chief Tony, battling stomach cancer; FRAM’s coworker Mike, in a car accident. 

Announcements: T-Claps (Recognition): Prayer:

18 PAX in the Wind & Rain playing Ultimate @ Ting

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FNGs: none – lots of new faces (AWESOME)
Warm Up:  SSH, Frankensteins, Sir Fazios
The Workout:  9 on 9. Not many catches 😂  lots of 🌬 and 🌧  The team without YHC (even after a trade) prevailed.  I guess I know who the weak link was today. 😭 Tons of exercises after dropped disc
Mary:
Announcements:  None
T-Claps (Recognition):  All PAX for braving the elements post Ian
Prayer:  Quiver mentioned a PAX recovery; R.I.P. Aunt of Banana Seat (very sorry for your loss); People of FL and surrounding areas impacted by the hurricane (many friends of Breach).

Honored to lead.  -Dauber

Foxtrot Uniform Ian – Crazy Ivan was Insane

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FNGs:none
Warm Up: Farmer carry kettlebells to amphitheater and then to shelter.  SSH, sir Fazios, OH claps, Seal claps, Frankensteins
The Workout:  15-14-13….1 KB swings with different 10 count/in cadence exercises using the KB.  Exercises included:  goblet squat, curls for girls, overhead press, midget love handles, upright rows, bus drivers, rut rows, lawnmowers, thrust, rack & push, ground pounders….up and over picnic tables (not a good idea); BTTW 10c, 15c, 20c; people’s chair too
Mary:  yoga and stretching
Announcements:  Storm preparation
T-Claps (Recognition):  Fram for EC in this horrible weather
Prayer:  FL…discussed and reflected on our week; how was it?  How can we improve?

Honored to lead.  -Dauber

 

F3 Field Day

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11 HIM came out for a fun yet challenging workout. YHC is calling it F3 Field Day. The rain soaked the field and the sprinklers were running in different areas but we still played. Here is how the action went down.

Warm ups
SSH
Frankensteins
Sir Fozio Arm Circles
Squatted pulses
Merkin pulses
Michael Phelps

Mosey out to the track and over to the first event.

1. Shot Put – 1 attempt the shot put the 10 LB blue ball as far as you can. Winner Fram
2. Disc Throw – 1 attempt to through the light up disc as far as you can. Winner Cupid
3. Long Jump – School actually has this. 2 attempts. 8-Bit
4. Potato Sack race – two heats, top 2 from each race final. Winner Fram by a hair!
5. 3 Legged Race – down 25 yds turn around and back to start. Winner Fram & Cupid. Lots of rubbing going on at the finish line. See video.
6. 50 YD Bear Crawl – Winner Fram (wasn’t even close)
7. Agility Race – run the ladders then around the cones. Elimination style until final 2. Winner Shredder
8. 100 YD Dash – Top 5 were tight but Winner 8-Bit
9. Tug of War – 5 vs 5 in the wet grass. Winners Shredder, Moose, Yogurt, Gump, Kitty Litter

This was a blast. Time went by really fast. Talk of having another one with The Office games involved. Fram took home the most gold medals and a big packet of beef jerky. Great job to all and this was a blast.

BS Out!

Crazy Ivan knows Uranus

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WOD
8 PaX got it done. There was a few mentions of the planets aligning and Uranus. Here is how we did it.

Warm up lap
Good mornings
Willy Mays Hayes
Mtn climbers
Ranger merkins

3 sets 10x reps
Single arm Swings
Halos – around the head
Half kneeling low to high – bell starts at touching knee
Pull through merkin – pull across body then merkin
Lap

3 sets 10x reps
Curb goblet squat (20,15,10)
Suitcase row
Single arm press while lying down
Lunges goblet hold
(Last set cut in half due to time)

Mary
Russian twists leave it
Pull over – body out straight, crunch into pull over
LSF’s with alternating shoulder press
LBC with bell
Side bends

Great Job men! That was a tough one and definitely not U-turn friendly. Sorry Dawg

BS Out!

New Amenities

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YHC took the helm at Sheepdog this morning with a carefully planned beatdown to target all areas and encourage PAX to push eachother. New amenities, the track and the bleachers, were used, and no PAX were left behind. In addition, a few stayed for an extra few minutes to finish the prescribed routine. All good things F3 this morning!

FNG’s: None
Warm Up: A quick mosey to the basketball court (also new) for Good Mornings, Sir Fazio’s, Hillbillies, Imperial Walkers, and Frankenstein’s (all x10 IC).
The Workout: PAX paired up to push eachother and pairs were instructed to wait until each PAX in their group moved on to the next phase of exercises. Again…nobody left behind! 10 Rounds total of exercises. Each round began with 5 burpees and ended in alternating fashion with either a 400m run or a 5x up/down the bleachers.

The rounds were as follows:

10 Absolutions

20 Wheelbarrow Derkins

30 Star Jumps

40 Hand-Release Merkins

50 WW2

60 Monkey Humpers

70 Dips

80 Dying Cockroach

90 Squats

100 SSH
Mary: Built in other than the mosey back to COT.
Announcements: F3 family picnic, Saturday, July 30 at Harris Lake, sign up out there, Cupid organizing.
T-Claps (Recognition): Cyclops and Fireball for breaking back out in the gloom.
Prayer: Lipstick and family, Venkman and achilles surgery, Shredder/Cyclops son’s are backpacking in Europe, YHC and skin cancer procedure.

R4TJ, Cat in the Hat Version

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A baker’s dozen showed up for a Cat in the Hat tour around Arbor Creek

2 for EC (Fram and Breach)  ME- Fram, Roaming Knome, LipStick, 187, Dumbo, McNugget, AXE, Bobby Dall, Bobby Boucher, Cancun, Abe, Woody and Breach on the Q

Warm Up: 22 counts of Frankensteins and Lunges to get the legs ready to go

The Workout: We took a tour de Arbor Creek in a very suspect-looking Cat in the Hat pattern, my GPS must have gotten off as I had to course correct a few times, but we made it back to ting as a group in just over 45 mins and we all did just about 5 miles.

Announcements: Take a look at the post that Dumbo put out on Slack, we are here to help and accerlerate each other, we may not always agree with each other, but respect needs to stand. We should encourage those around us, not put them down.

Closed in Prayer:

Beignets for Days

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FNGs: none
Warm Up: SSH x 40 while we waited for UTI, 5 penalty burpees OYO, Good Mornings, Imperial Walkers, Hill Billies, Sir Fazio Arm Circles, Seal Claps, Overhead Claps, Moroccan Night Clubs
The Workout: PAX moseyed over to the track around the ball fields and partnered up. One partner performs an exercise while the other parter runs to the concession stand, around and back. Exercises are AMRAP while focusing on keeping good form. Four stations, one at each field “intersection.”
Station 1: Merkins. 3 rounds.
Station 2: WWIIs. 3 rounds. Opted for bear crawls on this one, just because.
Station 3: Squats. 2 rounds (running out of time).
Station 4: Australian Pull Ups. 1 round before we had to run back for Mary.
Mary: LBCs x15. Homer to Marge x15. Yoga to close us out with a beautiful sunrise.
Announcements:
– July 5th Fireworks volunteers needed (post in 3rd F to come)
– mental health is taking a hit and kids are not immune. Make sure you’re talking with your 2.0s and giving them the support they need,
– remember the mission of F3; to plant, grow and serve small workout groups for men for the invigoration of male community leadership. Crucial to that mission is having a strong community within F3 South Wake.
Prayer: Stubs, kids everywhere navigating stressful situations