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Ultimate in the Pit

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Tonight’s workout was pre-blasted as ultimate frisbee and clearly that was popular with the pax based on the 18 people that showed up to play. Turf fields were reserved but the pit across stinson and down the hill had plenty of open space. After a quick Alpine sighting we began.

FNGs: Puberty & Do-si-do – welcome men!
Warm Up:

SSH x10

Daisy pickers x10

Sir Fazio Arm Circles x10
The Workout:

Ultimate frisbee. First half of the game was 3x merkins everytime the disc hit the ground, second half was 3x squats. Scoring squad called an exercise for eveyrone to do – Fumunga called burpees multiple times.
Mary:

Not tonight
Announcements:

RUNE continues – remember you can’t win in the first week, but you can certainly lose.
T-Claps (Recognition):

FNGs Puberty and Do-si-do for coming out on a hot evening. Skidmark for getting them out there.
Prayer:

Fantastic message from Breach about Travis Manion foundation and how important that type of work is especially now with everything going on in our country.

Pablo/Particle Board/Rain Maker’s mom – see 3rd F channel for arrangement details.

17 PAX for an Anniversary Rock Beat Down at GP

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A huge turnout of 17 PAX ascended upon Ground-pounder looking for a rock beat down with a possible field trip.  Some ran during U-turn.  One showed up at 7:00 am.  Lots of mumble chatter from start to finish.  Great seeing Farva out for the first time since the start of the pandemic.  Very excited to see Dusty too (no pull-ups today).  Just an AWESOME turnout men!  Sorry Norm you were told the incorrect location.


FNGs: Yes!  Welcome Lance Huber – NABS.  Thanks PAX who helped me with our welcoming speech.  Great job Pumpkin Spice for bringing him out.  Behind his naming, think of Lance “Nabs” crackers…way better then Armstrong or Phelps that were too easy (and too good).

Warm Up: Mosey around the parking lot to an adjacent lot and circled up for the following 10cc exercises:  good mornings, Daisy Pickers, sir Fazio Arm Circles, seal claps, overhead claps, Moroccan night clubs, static arm stretches and 25 SSH.  Ended with 5 burpees OYO.

The Workout:  I asked the  PAX to grab a medium-sized rock.  Let’s just say, some PAX were more zealous than others.  There would be no rock rotation.  In honor of my three year anniversary starting F3 at the Nut, I wanted to execute three exercise and then repeat two additional times.

LOTS of Rocks with three separate 10c exercises;  (Rinse and Repeat Three Times)

Curls for the girls, Tricep Extensions, Rut-rows

Goblet Squats, Slap Rocks, Wonder bras

Bus Drivers, Trunk Twists, Toe Taps

From our six:  6 inch hold with Rock over chest, Nipplers, Straight arm Tricep Extensions

5 Burpees OYO because Q messed up the count

Headed to the walls for 20 cc BTTW and People’s Chair.  Thanks a shredder for helping wit the count.

Back to our rocks for one last Rock exercise:  20 Ground-Pounders.  After 3 years, I finally learned there is a squat at the bottom rather then bend over.  Thanks Forceps!

No time for a field trip.  Kind of wish we did venture that way. I learned later, my trip planned to Veteran’s Park

Mary: 20 LBCs, Yoga stretches including Downward dog, Pigeon pose, leg-overs.  Have a nice day.

Announcements:  RUNE; Trash pick-up Sunday morning – See Slack/LED.

T-Claps (Recognition):  16-bit for incredible virtual Workouts!  Thanks Nemo for recognizing all of my Q activities in South Wake this year.

Prayer:  Martini’s mom entering hospice; other PAX struggling with parental care; All impacted by pandemic.  YHC took us out.  UNSPOKEN.

 

An incredible honor leading you men this morning.  Thank you for making my three year anniversary very special.

Moving Weight at Red October

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FNGs: Not technically, but LipSync and Boy George made a guest appearances at Red October – definitely a first for LipSync.  Both heard it was going to be a Limited/non-running AO.

Warm Up:  FedEx led us with a bunch of great exercises including SSH, merkins, seal/overhead claps, Fazio arm circles…
The Workout:  Stayed under the shelter and did some rinse and repeats, latters, just kept moving with some great mumble chatter.

Step-ups, swings, squats, elevated lawn mowers from plank position; power thrusters

From our six, chest presses (20, 15, 10) followed by nipplers  in cadence

Tricep curls, curls for the girls, upward rows, midget love handles while we moved around the track; stopped half way for some sand bag farmer carry

Lots of arm work today – PAX happy – great effort by all!

 

Mary:  Joined Mary led by FedEx already in progress; YHC finished up with a ton of leg, hip stretching; yoga, hello dollies, Catalinas, Freddie Mercury, box cutters

Announcements:  See Slack/FB; Road side pickup led by LED

T-Claps (Recognition):  PAX who braved the sprinkles, took the red pill and came out today.

Prayer:  PAX with illness, job changes, financial struggles, family members with illness; leaders making good decisions, our finances…YHC took us out.

‘’An honor to lead.”  -Dauber

The Best 1st, 2nd, and 3rd F

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6 Pax showed up and put forth some quality effort for a full body workout. Lots of mumble chatter up front but none at the end.

FNGs: None
Warm Up: SSHx59 We went until Gump did one more. 5 burpees.
(Fozio arm circles x 10 F/R, Overhead claps x10, Seal claps x 10) x2
10 merkins
5 burpess
Mosey to the pit

The Workout: Start with Burpee Bull Ring
11’s up the hill in the Pit…Lunges at the bottom, merkins at the top.
Jacobs ladder with squats
Mosey back to tennis court for Plank hold and merkins to Thundestruck

Mary: Michael Phelps, Arms stretch, Good mornings
Announcements: Run the Quay defer email coming soon. Virtual run by PYRC with money going to shoes for frontline workers. Sign up and run your 1/2 marathon. Rams is in 2nd place so far.
T-Claps (Recognition): Rams racing Pikachu up the hill
Prayer: Lots tonight. HSRC and the Holly Springs Community with the passing of Heather Prince, Wallaby, Fanny Pack’s daughter, Wrangler’s daughter, Triple Lindy’s father, Forceps (who ironically texted Lipsync when we were praying for him). Our friends who are small business owners. The Holly Springs Community. It doesn’t get easier, you just get stronger…we continue to try to lift this community and each other up.

Running at Red October

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FNGs: None

EC:  Fonzie, LED, Norm

Warm Up:  Three PAX for Red October joined forces with 6 PAX for Mutiny and did a quick jog around the loop; circled up for some good am, static arm stretches, Hillbillies, Imperial Walkers, Seal Claps Overhead Claps, Sir Fazio Arm Circles (F/B) and SSH.  Mumble chatter was decent.

The Workout:  See Poster/pic.  Completed three kettlebell exercises from the poster I had made the night before.  After three exercises, PAX ran together around the loop.  Rinse and repeat.  All exercises completed minus lunges and additional kettlebell exercises from our six added at the end.  These included, chest presses, Tricep straight arm curl, skull crushers and 6 inch leg elevation with kb over chest.  Ended up running 1.75 miles.  Great job Gump for hanging in there and shout out to Doc for his first Red October beat down.

Mary:  Joined the Mutiny PAX and FedEx led us with pickle pounders, plank hold, monkey jumpers, boat canoe, and burpees.

Announcements:  F3 10 year anniversary – Jan 2021 Wilmington; Ultimate frisbee coming back to first Monday’s at Mutiny.

T-Claps (Recognition):  Our delivery drivers and first responders.

Prayer:  FedEx took us out.  Dauber’s Godfather, Rudy, who lost his battle with brain cancer, Wrangler’s kid recovering from an illness.  Reach out for help – it’s OK.  Find someone in need – make it right.

 


Heck of a job social distancing; even our vehicles were separated!

Sheepdog 5/1/2020

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FNGs: none
Warm Up: loop around the school then some traditional F3 favorites; SSH, Sir Fazio your arm circles, , Moroccan night clubs, Frankensteins, toe taps.
The Workout: Transitioned to three sets of merkins and squats. Slow down the fast up. Moved to combat with some punch, elbow, knee strike combinations, then some block/strike combinations.  Sprinkled in some more squats, lunges, jump squats, and star jumps and we had ourselves a good time.
Mary: Capoeira push-ups, Crabcakes, LSF, and box cutters.
Announcements: welcome back into the gloom for many. Felt really good to see everyone out.
T-Claps (Recognition): Gump for making sure we got back at it.
Prayer: F3 Pax during this time, families, jobs, and t-claps to those who are going above and beyond right now.

Sesame Street Spelling & Combat Moves…Love Sheepdog!

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Warm Up:  Turned into Herbert Aikens after seeing two glowing lights in the distance heading my way.  I confirmed EC by Shredder and Martini.  Nice work.  Was not sure how many PAX would be in attendance.  Shredder and I contemplated a few ideas and he promised a nice beat down via pre-blast on Slack.  Numerous vehicles rolled in including one late AO owner that resulted in 10 burpees for the PAX given at the start of Mary. This would be the third (possibly final) time I brought the alphabet list to an AO.  It had been successfully executed earlier in the week at Paradise City and Purple Cobra.  I was confident that the Fuquay PAX had not experienced this workout yet.  Before getting to the newly described Sesame Street spelling workout, I had the PAx jog around the parking lot on a cloudy 54 degree morning.  Circled up by the two shovel flags.  It was Friday and PAX were in a GREAT mood regardless of the recent Wake County announcement.  THAT is why THESE PAX are so special!  Adversity comes their way and they face it head on with a smile.  PAX got busy with the following 10 cc warmup exercises:  good am, Don Quixote, Daisy Pickers, sir Fazio arm circles, seal claps, overhead claps, imperial walkers, hillbillies and 25 SSH.

The Workout:   each PAX received an alphabet card A-Z.  Each letter had a different exercise and a number of reps.  PAX were instructed to spell out their full names.  Time permitting, add their F3 name.  After spelling one letter, PAX would run the distance in the parking lot, length of the bus corridor, and begin the next letter in their name.  Rinse and repeat until full names spelled.  Shredder jumped in after PAX completed their spelling lesson with some awesome arm movements, both blocking and striking.  Memo to all:  I do not think you ever want to F#@^ with Shredder.  Just saying.  Thank you brother for your insights and demonstration.

 

The PAX performed exercises based on the following full names (some did their F3 name too):

 

CRAIG JOSEPH NELSON DAUBER

JESS DANIEL HINES DOVETAIL

EVERETTE SCOTT DANIEL SPRINKLER

JEFFREY THOMAS DUDLEY GUMP

DAVID WARREN CONNOR MARTINI

TODD ROBERT COLE NORM

JOEL MICHAEL GENIESSE SHREDDER

TRAVIS EUGENE CUNDIFF LIPSYNC

 

Mary:  10 burpees due to Dovetail running late; then each PAX called a 10 cc AB exercise.  If my memory serves me right, we did LBCs, Box cutters, Freddie Mercury, Hello Dollies, Left and Right side lifts, low slow flutter and heel taps.

Announcements:  See post re: Wake County new guidance/ordinance.  Be smart.  Be aware of F3 brand/perception.  Look to the greenways and personal property to meet up and carry on the AOs.  New norm for the time being.

T-Claps (Recognition):  THESE PAX at Sheepdog.  You all brought your “A” game.  Great attitude.  Great mumble chatter.

Prayer:  I needed help and Dovetail graciously took us out.  Thank you brother.  Lots of UNSPOKEN.  COVID -19 impact on all of us, our families, our first responders, etc.

 

Keep in contact with each other.  We all know how important F3 (not just the workout) is to all of us.  Get creative.  Keep it alive and keep it safe.

 

A unique 2nd F took place post workout at a Starbucks in a parking lot with lots of separation.

 

Honor to lead men!  -Dauber

Remedial Education Needed

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Counting and reading should be easy by now, right?  You’d think so.  Well, if you were on the live stream this morning or watched later in the day you’ll know that to not be true.  Cards are easy.  A suit equals a workout, the value equals the reps.  Except for when you can’t count in your head (or remember the card) or if you continuously mix up the workout/suit combination.

All that said, I like to think it was a good workout.  There was sweat dripping off my head on a cold, albeit indoor, morning so I feel like something got accomplished.

FNGs: No.  Honestly, if I do get one we should probably call the police.

Warm Up:

Good Morning x10 IC

Daisy Picker x10 IC

Squatted Moroccan Nightclubs x10 IC

Arm and shoulder stretchers

SSH x20 IC

The Workout:

Fairly basic deck of card workout.  The value of the card determined the reps.  Face cards were 10 and aces were 11.  This was not a standard deck.  I took out everything below 5, took out one each of 5, 6, and 7, and filled in the rest with other face cards.  There were also 5 or 6 jokers.  The excercises were:

Hearts – Merkins/Diamond Merkins/Wide Grip Merkins

Diamonds – LBC/American Hammer

Club – Squats/Lunges (N x each leg)

Spade – Air Presses (in cadence)/Carolina Dry Docks

Joker – 5 burpees

The idea was that the exercise would change with each drawing of the suit.  I’m pretty sure I didn’t do that right either.

 

Mary:

Sleeping Hillbillies x10 IC

Superman x10 IC

Australian Snow Angels x10 IC

Low Slow Flutter x10 IC

Protractors

 

Announcements:

AOs still meeting but be respectful of the state mandated closure of playgrounds.  Two virtual options, this one and Dawgpound’s on it routines.

Prayer:

All the medical professionals.  Anyone dealing with the virus.  Unspoken

 

Until tomorrow.

 

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5 PAX Social Distancing at Red October

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EC:  Norm, LED, Martini.

Came in early for me (5:21) and saw three lighted vests trying to cross the road.  I was covering Q from 16-bit at RO.  Wasn’t sure what the numbers were going to be.  None of the PAX in my neighborhood are active in F3 anymore.  I recognized a white Maxima in downtown Fuquay and smiled as I realized Gump was coming out.  I had an extra kettlebell and hoped he would join me.  PAX quickly starting filing in.  And Norm called 5:30 and we were off.

FNGs:  None

COVID-19.  PAX keeping their distance, refraining from fists bumps and high fives.  New reality.  Mixed emotions.

Warm Up:  Norm (Mutiny Q) led a warm-up run around the gym.  Circled up for good am, hillbillies, imperial walkers, windmills, Fazio arm circles and SSH.

The Workout:  PAX met up with Dauber under the picnic table shelter.  I initially thought it was only going to be Gump and me.  Excited to see HOA, Buttermilk and Banana Seat join us. Wanted to keep a high temp.  Called out three to four exercises each round and then had PAX rinse and repeat before moving on to next round.  Here’s how things played out:

Round 1:

20 swings

10 step ups on the wall (L, R)

10 wall planks one arm rows

Round 2:

10 Lawn mowers (L, R)

10 Upright Rows

10 Leaning on picnic table Rows (L, R)

Round 3:

Mosey to the wall for BTTW and People’s Chair

Round 4:

10 Halos

10 Midget Love Handles

10 Trunk Twists

Round 5:

10 Goblet Squats

10 Patty cake planks

10 Toe Taps

Round 6:  (On our six)

10 Chest press

10 Nipplers back bridge

10 WWIIs (without bell for most of us)

10 six inches (Weight above chest)

Round 7:

10 Seated Tricep curls

10 Figure 8s

10 Box Cutters (weight above chest)

Join Mutiny PAX for Mary.

Mary:  Had PAX circle up and kept repeating plank holds with normal stance and wide stance.  Many cadence counts.

Announcements:  Update on Wrightsville racing options, routes.  Thank you Banana Seat for your efforts.  Not sure if I voiced this, movie night still on.  Call of the Wild, 6:45 pm at Holly Springs.  Bring your Clorox wipes for the seats.  Looks like Roger, Roger and me are the only PAX going.

T-Claps (Recognition):  PAX for keeping their distance and being respectful toward others as each family deals with COVID-19.

Prayer:  All of our families during this pandemic.  Leaders.  First-responders.  UNSPOKEN.  Injured PAX.  PAX with illness/struggles. Dauber took us out.

 

Honor to lead during this very challenging time. -Dauber

All Business at the Nest

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The temp was much warmer than yesterday – in the mid 50’s, which is just about perfect for what we do in the gloom. There wasn’t much mumblechatter this morning so it was all business for the most part throughout the workout. Not totally sure what to attribute that to, but we’ll say it was the intensity of the beatdown that limited our ability to chat it up.

FNGs: None
Warm Up:

Mosey around the parking lot, mixing in some high knees and butt kickers along the way.
Frankensteins x10 IC
Good Mornings x10 IC
Sir Fazio Arm Circles x10 IC – forward and reverse
SSH x25 IC
Imperial Walkers x10 IC
Hillbillies x10 IC

The Workout:

Thang 1: Mosey around the parking lot for a pyramid with the following four exercises: 1) Spiderman Merkins x10; 2) Freddy Mercuries x15 IC ; 3) Prisoner Squats x25; 4) Scorpion Dry Docks x10 each leg:
  • Exercise 1, run a lap around the parking lot
  • Exercises 1, 2, run a lap
  • Exercises 1, 2, 3, run a lap
  • Exercises 1, 2, 3, 4, run a lap
  • Exercises 2, 3, 4, run a lap
  • Exercises, 3, 4, run a lap
  • Exercise 4, run a lap
Thang 2: Partner up for Dora and Mosey over to the pavilion. Partner 1 exercises while partner 2 runs a lap around the track:
100 shoulder tap merkins
200 step-ups
300 LBC’s (aka Mary)
We had to stop there as time had expired and the PAX were spent. 600 calories burned makes for a great start to the day – plus another 400 for those who did EC = 1k. Great work gents.
Mary:
Included in the workout at no additional charge.
Announcements:
MULE this Sat. – See Slack/ FB for details
Wrightsville is coming soon.

T-Claps (Recognition):

Beater and Marky Mark for joining YHC for EC. It’s always good to have someone to run with.
Prayer:
Beater’s friend going through a tough time – lost his uncle and having issues at work.
Several PAX nursing injuries as they train for upcoming races.
Virus outbreak – pray for those affected and infected.
Until next time…SYITG