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6/23/18 Ground Pounder

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7 PAX came out for the beat down.

Warm up:

10’s –  Good Mornings, Windmills, Imperial Walkers & Hillbillies, Fuzzy Arm Circles, arm stretches, Daisy Pickers

The Workout

  • 10’s SSH, Standard Merkins, Plank Jacks, Mountain Climbers, Burpies (for the tardies)

Rock Shock -(pick a big’n)

circle up rotate rocks around circle between sets

  • 4 sets of 10’s – Curls, Overhead Tri-press, Squats, Press, Windshield Wipers

Cousac to the bathroom wall

Wall of Pain:

  • 70 count Balls to the Wall
  • 10 Burpies

Cousac to the Playground

Aik’n Station:  Break into 3 groups rotate stations clockwise

  • Aik’n Legs –   15’s Box Jumps, Lunges, Split Jacks, High Knees
  • Aik’n Arms –  15’s Dips, Derkins, Erkins, Shoulder tap Merkins
  • Aik’n Belly –   15’s LBCs, 6 inches, Rocky’s, Pickle Pounders

Rock Suicides in lawn: Pair up and chose one rock. 1 planks while other sprints to sidewalk and back

  • 2 sets: Standard Rock Planks
  • 2 sets: Crab Planks

Tunnel of Love X 2 – While Pax plank side by side, one by one someone crawls under the tunnel of planking pax.

Return Rocks to pile and mosey back to lot for COT/BOM

Announcements:

6/27 Wrangler Virgin Q @ Possom Trot (Action Park – 5:30AM)

4th of July Convergence @ Disney (Middle Creek Park 6:30AM) so invite your neighbors

Healing Transitions needs us- 2 PM Fridays at the Arena- Pick a Friday and HC

Review and share the FB Post from the F3 founders.

Prayer Requests:  Pax on the DL (Draper, DD, Crablegs), Safe travels for Pikachu’s family (sister in-law headed to Korea and the rest headed to Yellowstone).

Humid humid feels like rain

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8 pax got sweaty in the humidity at U-Turn. Nice run. Deadbolt is a NRFC (nice relatively firm commit) for sunrise tomorrow. A nice breeze just blew through ahhhh.

Annoincements: 4th of July Convergence at Disney. Mumble chatter of a 2nd F at M4L after. UTI doing sprint Tri at Harris Lake on the 14th. Go cheer him on.

Prayers: Be safe

Nemo – My #1 Fan

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Pax of 17 showed up in the stifling late week heat as the summer solstice was taking place at Middle Creek as Nemo was back on the Q. Not sure it counts as FNG but the Nemo fan made an appearance to stress the message of importance about hydration and exercising responsibly during the summer heat.  EC credit to 187 (check that pace), Skidmark and Crosby.

Warm Up: On the jog we headed around the main fields but veered off down the greenway and circled up along the main road for SSH ICx15, Good Mornings ICx10, Fazio Arm Circles ICx10 front and reverse, and a series of arms/shoulders/chest stretch.

The Workout: On the jog we headed to the wood rails along the entrance to the start and set up shop for a round of assisted deep squats offset with merkins.  10 count of each and we went 5 rounds. Included a bonus 5 burpees in the middle as H1N1 rolled up a couple minutes late.  On the jog around to what I like to call the lower lot, we set up on the benches for a round of dips offset with squat jumps and merkins. 10 count of each and we went 4 rounds with a recover jog around the lot between rounds 2 and 3. On the jog back to the main field we set up for SSH ICx30 then a round of Jack Webbs at a 1:3 ratio (1 merkin then 3 air press). We pushed this to a 10:30 count.

Mary: Plank-o-rama with plenty of time to work in some tough exercises, each man on a 10 count or IC.

Announcements: Nemo will be out the next 2 weeks so Tha Natural has your Q next week and Yogurt has your Q the week after. July 4th convergence will be at Disney.  Plenty of great options Fri so post (EC Murph at Womble, Crazy Ivan, Cletus, Sheepdog all in play).  Reminder to exercise smart in this heat – be aware of your condition and rest as needed, hydrate throughout the day.

Prayers: A reminder to take time to listen to others and see any signs.  Praise for how F3 guys step up as needed, for each other and for the community.  Plenty of unspoken.  YHC took us out in prayer.

Parking lot Heavy Weights

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16 posted @ the Possum Trot in the heat & humidity of another hot Carolina morning in June.

Warm up: Q led by Farva for SSH, IW, Hillbillies, G-mornings, Fazios all IC

The Workout: Pax lined up for a 1-2 count off then bear crawled to their respective pain stations at opposite ends of parking lot. Before YHC could lead the Pax in a 10 count of merkins, Pikachu jumped the gun causing a penalty thereby leading to 20 merkins. Upon bear crawling to each groups pain stations, Pax each proceeded to carry or flip tires to opposite end of parking lot. Stations consisted of farmers carry of 2 40lb water jugs, 2 40lb cinder blocks, flanked and rolled 3″ fire hose, 40lb barbell, large flippin’ tire, medium flippin’ tire, 2 shoulder carry tires, pallet, and slosh pipe. Pax without weights to move stayed back and completed merkins & LBC’s waiting for their turn. Upon reaching end of parking lot Pax bear crawled large hill to complete 20 count of Irkins, Derkins, dips on the guard rail the crawl bear back down hill. Rinse & repeat x 2. After 2 completed hill climbs of the above, the remaining time was used to continue moving weights back and forth across parking lot. The Pax held various forms of plank waiting on the six. Upon finishing, YHC called for a sprint from opposite end of parking lot to the base of hill for another round of Irkins, Derkins, & dips at the top. Since Pikachu had found fault with YHC’s earlier merkin count of 10 it was decided to rinse and repeat the hill work once again! Mosey on over to tennis courts for Mary.

Mary: Farva & YHC decided together to call out a Pax who had never led Mary. Noah’s Ark raised his hand and took center court like a pro leading us in 20 modified Freddy Mercurys IC, followed by 10 Pickle Pounders and 20 WWII’s.

Announcements: Upcoming July 4th 1776 convergence at Womble, up and coming AO for Yoga and Kenny’s Graveyard, and Wake County finally approved the South Wake Park project coming to Crooked Creek.

Name-o-rama

Prayer requests:  Crablegs to have continued strength

COT:  YHC shared the Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have done unto you and what that looks like when we all encounter less than desirable situations involving people including family that say or do things that hurt us or rub us the wrong way. React in a way that will demonstrate the love and kindness of Christ in the situations. Noah’s Ark and YHC shared a short testimony how easily we can become agitated and react with the wrong attitude. Let this not be said of us F3 men. YHC led us out in prayer.

Fuquay Frisbee Challenge

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We had a 11 PAX for an unsuspecting game of Ultimate Frisbee. It was time for Fuquay to host a game on another very humid morning.

Warm Up: We were excited to get to the field so we did some quick warm-up stretches prior to the workout starting.

The Workout:  We divided teams into gray shirts (5) and other shirts (6). Each time the frisbee was dropped we did 3 Merkins the first half and 4 Squats during the 2nd half. The team that scored chose the exercise (10 for the non-scoring team and 5 for the scoring team). The exercises were picked by the scorer: Merkins, Leg raises, SSH, Star jumps, LBCs, WWII. For the Merkin challenge we officially count 105. There were some great plays out there for several that have never played before!

Mary: We gathered for less than 6 minutes of Mary with around the horn of stretching and abs only.

Announcements: July 4th Convergence, A Yoga AO starting up mid July

Prayer: Beater lifted up a friend that suddenly passed at the age of 42, prayers for Draper, DoubleD, and CrabLegs

U-Turn

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11 Pax posted for a minimum 5 mile run. A few got in a little EC.

Warmup: 10 x IW, 10 Hillbillies, 10 x SSH, 10 merkins

COT at the beginning.

Announcements: 4th of July Convergence

Prayers: Draper and his family, Double D, Crablegs

Welcome FNG Glamper

Possum Trot -Fun with Rocks

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Pax of 17 came out to PT in the gloom this morning

Warm up:

SSH, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies, Good mornings, Fazio Arm Circles, arm stretches and a warning that you’ll need them

The Workout:

All Pax grab a rock and line up on one side of the road

11’s with the rock (brief pause and move away from the houses)

1 merkin with left arm on the rock, bear crawl push the rock to the other side and do 10 squats with the rock, carry the rock back across.  2 merkins with right arm on the rock, bear crawl push the rock to the other side for 9 rock squats.  Rinse and repeat etc.  As always, PICK UP THE 6 when done.

Jog back to the warmup circle and set the rocks down

Set my phone as a marker for the point position who gets to call a 10 count of whatever rock exercise they’d like.  After each 10 count, put the rock down and rotate to the right until a full 17 man rotation is complete.

return the rocks and head to the courts for Mary

Mary:

Circle up for a similar circuit, each pax gets a 5 count of their choice.  Some chose to do a 5 count of 5 count merkins (25 total).  Ended up doing 150 merkins in the regular workout, some pax did EC with 30 more after the workout for good measure.  Q and Pax were sufficiently smoked at the end of the workout.

Announcements:

Pain truck next week at PT, Wrangler will have his VQ the following week at PT, PT is cancelled on the 4th of July in favor of supporting the convergence.

100 mile ride on Saturday – see Double D if you can make it

Prayers – I closed us in prayer, asked for guidance and to help us be better men, brothers, husbands, and fathers.

Community Suzie Q

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PAX of 6 came out and enjoyed the nice cool, disgustingly humid morning

Warm Up:

SSH, IW, HB, Windmills, Good Mornings, Fazio Arm Circles and some stretches

The Workout:

Picnic table merkins, dirkins and irkins x20 with a mix of abs x15

Mosey’d to the rock pile and picked up two rocks (or in R22’s case, boulders) and moved to the picnic tables. Started with Curls for the Girls x15 and an ab exercise and moved to the next rocks in line. Each PAX called a rock exercise to lead with abs/merkins twice around the horn.

Finished with 177 Merkins.

Mary:

Around the horn for Mary: Burpees, LBC, Dying Cockroach, more Merkins, and some more that I cannot recall!

Announcements:
Discussion on the great time PAX had at the Day in the Park and hope that it will be an annual event.

Prayers:  DoubleD nephew – back home and at his old job. R22 brother diagnosed with Huntington’s Chorea.