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Reindeer Tryouts amid the 12 Days of Christmas

FNGs: Nil

Warm Up: 
Side Straddle Hop
Windmills
Daisy Pickers
Frankensteins
Imperial Walkers
Sir Fazio Arm Circles

The Workout:
Reindeer Run (Indian Run) the long way around the main fields with our destination set at the rock pile.  Grab a medium size rock and carry it back to the smaller picnic shelter.

We performed the 12 Days of Christmas workout just as the song intended. YHC figured out the bluetooth speaker this time and had some free Spotify playlist at the ready.  Apparently “Pop Christmas” isn’t just Christmas songs, so we had quite the variety as well as some mumblechatter about various prescription drugs and their side effects brought on by the ads.

12 Days of Christmas Workout

1 Lap around the Tennis Court
2 Monkey Humpers
3 French High Knees (Ea. Leg)
4 Calling Curls for the Girls
5 Golden Ground Pounders
6 Geese a Laying Leg Lifts
7 Swans a Squatting
8 Maids a Merkins
9 Ladies Break Dancing (Bears) (I.C.)
10 Lords a Lunging (Ea. Leg)
11 Pickle’s Pounding (I.C.)
12 Drummer’s Driving Buses (I.C.)

Mary:
A lot of Mary mixed in with the workout, due to time constraints, we did a bit of stretching and closed it out.

Announcements:
Be safe with upcoming Holidays and travel

 Prayer:
Pray for patience and being an example for those around us. Holidays can bring us together with family we may not always get along with, but give strength and patience to the HIM we want to be.

‘Twas the Week Before Christmas

FNGs: Zero

Warm Up: Side Straddle Hop, Good Mornings, Windmills, Daisy Pickers, Frankensteins, Hillbillies, Imperial Walkers, Sir Fazio Arm Circles

Bondo with the good call for a count off before we Moseyed to the Parking Deck! Thanks Bondo!

The Workout:

PAX planked whenever the poem was being read and they were not performing another exercise.

Twas the week before Christmas, when all through downtown

Not a sad clown was stirring, only the PAX.

The burpees  (10 oyo) were finished in the parking lot with care

In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be here

The PAX were planking all cold on the ground

While visions of 20 monkey humpers danced all around

And Cancun with his stinky gloves, and Abe in his cap

Had just settled down with the PAX to do 20 plank jacks.

When out on the grass, there rose such a clatter

The PAX sprang from their plank to see what was the matter.

Away to the other side (across the parking deck – touch the wall and return) we flew like a flash

Sprinting vigorously, we completed the dash.

The concrete at the feet of the of winded PAX

Gave the luster of 20 in cadence smurf jacks

When, what to our wondering eyes should appear,

But Stickers and 8 tiny exercises so near.

A little old Q, so lively and quick,

I knew in a moment, this must be a trick.

More rapid than eagles his courses they came,

And he whistled and shouted and called them by name.

Now Little Baby Crunches (ICx10), now Mountain Climbers (ICx10), now Squats (ICx10), now 10 OYO Burpees

On Merkins (ICx10), on Side Straddle Hops (ICx10), on Lunges (ICx10), on Side Lunges (10 each leg)

To the end of the parking deck, to the base of the wall

Now dash away, dash away, dash away all! (sprint back to other end – touch wall and return)

So up to the other end the PAX they flew

With a sleigh full of toys and Stickers, too.

And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the ground

The sound of feet as more mountain climbers (ICx10) came ‘round.

As we drew in our hand, and did 10 Merkins

Down the slide Stickers came with a bound

He was dressed all in red, from his head to his foot,

His clothes were all tarnished, in sweat and dirt.

A bundle of toys, he had brought on his back

He looked like a peddler just opening his pack.

His eyes, how they twinkled, his dimples how merry.

His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry.

His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow

And the beard of his chin was gone, oh no!

The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth

And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath

He had a broad face and a little round belly

That shook when he laughed like a bowlful of jelly.

He was lean and mean, a right jolly old creature

And everyone laughed when they saw him,

he had the weirdest of features.

A wink of his eye and a twist of his head

Soon let me know, we had nothing to Dredd.

He spoke not a word, but went straight to work.

Laying out presents, then he turned with a jerk.

And laying a finger on his nose,

Giving a nod, up the slide he rose.

He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle,

And away they all flew like the down of a thistle

But I heard him exclaim, as he drove out of sight

DO 20 OYO Burpees YOU’LL BE ALRIGHT!

Mosey to Ampitheater to open a present!

But wait, what’s this?! Santa left us a present?? 

We opened the present and found a Tea Party Set: 10-20-30-40  (Perform 10 Dirkins, 20 Irkins, 30 Dips, 40 Step Ups)

We wrapped with the Little Merkin Boy at the end. (PAX Plank, while we Play Bing Crosby’s Little Drummer Boy and every time we get parump-a-pum-pum – do a merkin)

Mary: Homer to Marge, Box Cutters, Heel Taps, Supermans, Low Slow Flutter, WWIIs followed by stretching to close us out

Announcements: Backblasts are a big part of F3, and a help to fellow PAX looking for ideas or to see if an AO is active. Downtown Train closed for Christmas next week. Banana Seat with Purple Cobra Q tomorrow. 3Alarm Christmas party tomorrow at 6pm at his house. Reach out to PAX you haven’t seen in a while, check in and see how they’re doing.

T-Claps (Recognition): Pumpkin Spice wedding anniversary today! Welcome back to the gloom, Kosher! 

Prayer: Sick and injured PAX, Bondo’s brother Jimmy hospitalized battling COVID.

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Double Down at TBD

FNGs: None

Warm Up: Halloween monster imitation, clapping, flower picking

The Workout: Q brought a trunk full of toys and passed them out to everyone following the warm up. PAX spread out in a circle on the tennis court and were given assorted exercise to perform with their torture devices.

Format was as follows:

45 sec to AMRAP the given exercise, count your reps

45 sec of ‘active recovery’ exercise

Unlimited time to double your round one reps (hence ‘double down’)

Squat hold until all PAX are finished

Primary exercises included: merkins, lat pulls, tricep extensions, thrusters, med ball slams, curls for the girls, weighted punching, chest flys, halos, and squats

Active recovery included: mtn climbers, WWI, Freddy Mercury, Australian snow angels, dying cockroach, plank, side plank, bear crawl, heel taps, and something else.

PAX rotated stations after the completion of each round

Announcements: Xmas party, Even-The-Odds

Prayer: @abe’s parents – dad dealing with cancer + a stroke, mom providing care

@brexit has a job interview today

leading our families well during a season that can lead to selfishness and ‘the wants’

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FNGs: Not a one

Warm Up: Side Straddle Hops (Thanks Skid), Windmills, Daisy Pickers, Franks, Imperial Walkers and Hillbillies

The Workout:

  • Grab the blocks
  • Go to the disc golf practice hole
  • Partner Up
  • Partner 1 does an exercise AMRAP while Partner 2 travels from one side of the circle to the other.  Then Switch.  Repeat 3x
    • P1 Explosive Merkins P2 Army Crawl
    • P1 Skull Crushers P2 Bear Crawl
    • P1 Abyss Merkins aka Negative Merkins P2 Lunge Walk
    • P1 Curls for the Girlz P2 Crab Walks
  • Return Blocks

Mary: Homer to Marge, Boat Canoes, Low Slow Flutter, Pickle Pounders, Big Boy Sit-ups

Announcements:

  • Lipstick Anny Q / Convergence at Disney on Thursday
  • Christmas Party
  • Suggly Sweater
  • Davis Run
  • Q-Sheet

T-Claps (Recognition): 

  • Happy Birthday UTI – Thanks dudes for showing up!
  • DownRange – He made it!

Prayer:

  • Holiday Travel and Safety
  • Lipstick gets whatever died up there removed… 
  • Survivor – new meds, let that settle and get him back out with us
  • SoftServe’s brother
  • Stubs – new treatment

Sweaty Sevens

FNGs: Nada

Warm Up:

-mosey around the parking lot

-circle up for SSH, windmills, Seal Claps, and Merkins

-Slowly move down the parking lot with high knees, butt kickers, and karaoke  with squats and mountain climbers mixed in

The Workout: THANG #1

Lucky 7’s with cinderblock coupons

-7 rounds

-7 reps per exercise

-RutRows, Forward Lunges (both legs =1), ground pounders

 

THANG #2

Partner work with cinder coupons

-150 offset merkins

-150 weighted dying cockroach

-150 chest press

Rotators varied throughout the work, cusacks, bear crawls, walking lunges, running

“Cool Down” lap after Thang 2

Mary:

Popcorn through the group: low slow flutter, homer to marge, freddie mercury, WW2, pickle pounders

Prayer:

@bestinshow ‘s MIL (Isabel) to ‘have a good day’, strength and endurance for him and his M as they are care providers and parents. @P.s.i. traveling to South Carolina, Q and M traveling without 2.0’s for 10 days. 

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Sweaty Rocks

FNGs: N/A

Warm Up: Frankensteins | Sir Fazio’s | SSH | Mtn. Climbers

The Workout: 5 PAX endured the suck with 2 smedium :rock:’s

Mosey with rocks

Wall Sits

5 rounds | 10 x

  • front squats
  • Frog hop over rocks crawl back
  • Should press
  • Mtn climbers
Erkins, Derkins, & Dips then Wall sits again
Moseyed back with rocks

Mary: Homer to Marge (Both legs then alternating single legs) | Pickle Pounders | Crunches | Box Cutters

Prayer: Pothole needs healing after his back surgery so he can make it to Warrant Officer School coming up soon.

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Comparing rocks

FNGs: none

Warm Up: SSH, Daisy pickers, imperial walkers, 5 burpees, hillbillies, Sir Fazio Arm Circles, seal claps, overhead claps

The Workout: We moseyed over to the rock pile where PAX were instructed to get a mediumish rock for a good deal of reps. We circled up at the amphitheater.

Curls for the girls in cadence x30, Tris for the guys in cadence x30, ruh rohs in cadence x30, squats x30, WWIIs x30. Dropped the rocks and did a bear crawl down the sidewalk to the library door then mosey back.

Round two was the same but the counts dropped to 20. Round the saw counts of 10. Returned our rocks and moseyed around to the semicircle parking lot.

PAX lined up on their six for Guantanamos. We got two rounds in as we went almost all the way around the semicircle. On our way back to the start, we lunge walked past the book drop-off.

Mary: popcorn Mary took us right up to time.

Announcements: parking lot Coffeeteria (thanks to BnB) after the workout at Cletus/Crazy Ivan this Friday, stay hydrated and learn CPR

Prayer: Gizmo’s mom, man that Plunger saw at the golf course

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Leg Day at Disney

Warm Up:  SSH, Frankenstein, Hillbilly/and or Imperial Walkers, I dunno…Willy Mays Hays, standing quad stretch

The Workout: 

This worked out really well, time-wise.  Beat the legs down with two leg sets, then a recovery mosey around the parking lot w/merkins, repeat-o.  These may have F3 names, but whatever:

  • Bulgarian split squats on the half wall, 24 reps each side
  • Calf raise squats, 25
    • mosey
  • Super skaters, 25 ea
  • People’s Chair, 90 seconds
    • mosey
  • Step back lunge, 15 ea
  • Alternating side lunge, 15 ea
    • mosey
  • Single leg dead lift squats, 20?..I think only 15 ea
  • 3-way calf raises, Toes forward, toes in, toes out (15 fast, 10 slow ea)
    • mosey
  • Jump squats, 12
  • Box jumps at the half wall, 12

Mary:  LBC, Toe Taps…maybe something else.

Prayer:  Gizmo’s M is pregnant with their third child, expected December/January!

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March Madness at Thunder

This is a backblasts that YHC is writing a month or so late as I got caught up in Snowbird’s March Madness Challenge in Raleigh and Backblasts got put on the Back-burner.

Workout Date: 03/31/21
For those of you who have been following Raleigh’s March Madness Challenge, the biggest competition was in the second week between Boitano and Spit Valve. These men went head to head: posting, pre-running, doubling down, even tripling down. When the dust settled, Boitano was victorious by a point! I asked Spit Valve what happened, and that’s when I found out about Thunder in South Wake. I immediately signed up to Q for 3/31.

The Heart of March Madness

Warm Up:
Give the mission statement, check for FNGs, give the disclaimer, and warm up:
It’s been a month, and my FNG showed up in the middle so I really don’t remember. I hope I repeated the disclaimer.

Main Event
1) L-R step ups, Irkins, Dips, LBCs, Derkins under the picnic shelter
2) Rock work at the rock pile
3) Wall work at the amphitheater
4) Dora 1-2-3 to finish us out

Mary:
Various Mary exercises. I don’t remember which ones.

COT:
9 PAX
Prayers for babies on the way, couples struggling to conceive, a friend in a coma, a parent about to have heart surgery.
Rams took us out.

Naked Moleskin:
Boitano did not show. As late as this morning, he was still in the competition, trying to throw me off after The Blitz. He sent me congratulations earlier in the day, but I couldn’t decide if it was another head fake until halfway through Thunder. I still expected him to roll up with two FNGs.
Speaking of FNGs, Gizmo is my first FNG! Thank you, Boitano for pushing me. There’s no way I would’ve reached out to him it weren’t for you. He even texted me to bail out about 45 minutes before the workout. So I told him about the competition and that he could very well be the difference. It worked!
And my month-long CSAUP comes to a close. Well done, Boitano. You’re a hell of a competitor! (and pretty sneaky)
My next #F3Q21 #2021Challenge Q is Excalibur on 4/1 (tomorrow) as I make up some of the Qs I shuffled for March Madness.
-Pigpen

QIC: Pigpen
PAX: Dusty, Forceps, Fumunga, Gizmo (FNG), Gump, Kubota, Pigpen, Pikachu, Rams
Workout Date: 03/31/21