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Push & Pull

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Warm Up: normal Warm o Rama

The Workout: Partner up with a large rock for both PAX. One PAX starts 30 reps of an exercise and the other takes a lap around the community center. They meet after a time and switch off. Curls, overhead press, squat, ground pounder. 

Thing 2: One partner bear crawls and pushes a small rock down the parking lot. Other partner runs to the end and back. Switch spots and repeat. Changes to walking lunges instead of bear crawls after 3 rounds. 

Mary: popcorn

Announcements: Q School, 2nd F opportunities on slack

T-Claps (Recognition): all the hulks smashing rocks

Prayer: PAX traveling

Wood Chuckin’

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Warm Up: 25 SSH; Bat wings: 15 Sir Fozio forwards, 15 backwards, 15 seal claps, 15 overhead claps; Jack Webbs to 10. Arms and shoulders are awake now. 

Been eyeballing the handrails outside the gym entrance since the middle school was finished. We did a sideways bear crawl up and around three times. 

Found some curb and did about 50 yards of fancy feet 

Main event: Everyone selected a log from thestack. Lined up for John Cusack (overhead carry) Indian run the long way around the elementary school, arriving at the track. During the pain, we all got a chuckle out of several wood references along the way, including Morning Wood and Major Wood. Had to modify from the overhead carry. Shoulders were toast. 

Tossed log over the fence and hopped in. Lined up on soccer end line. H1N1 explained the soccer term, end line. 

First pass: Lunge walked with log. Really we were just scoping out the log toss. I wanted to make sure there were no sprinkler heads. Didn’t see any. Learned that Wide Right played high school football and played both offensive and defensive line. 

Second pass: Throw your log as far as you can, run up to it and do a burpee. Rinse and repeat until you reach the other end line. Fram led  the way. Saw a cigarette butt in the middle of the field. 

Third pass: Mosey with another overhead press? Followed by 15 bus drivers in cadence. Shoulders are feeling good now!

Looked down at my watch and it was 6:05 already. 

OK, time for some SPRINTS! Moseyed to start line. I marked several intervals along the way. We did four intervals. Not very clean starts, but solid effort by all. 

Mary: We had 1 minute for low slow flutter. Have a nice day. 

Announcements: Highway cleanup Saturday after GroundPounder. 

T-Claps (Recognition): This group worked hard today!

Prayer: Finkle’s brother (separation), Rico’s son (noggin), H2N1 family (lost grandmother recently)

Q School – Session 1 2024

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12 PAX for a mixer of Kenny’s Grave and Q school. Here’s a review.

Why Q school? This is to help with F3 formality (uniform) across all regions so if you attend an AO in New York or Texas it’ll still be close to the same structure.

3 main topics to cover – How to Q? Why to Q? (new exciting things) Are you ready to Q?

Sample structure for warm up with some discussion:
Disclaimer, warmup, workout (the thang), Mary, CoT – 45 mins total time, get a watch. Assign a sweeper if you have a large group of FNG’s.
Bring a Flag if you plan to Q. If you don’t have one, ask site Q to bring one.

Conduct WU and have guys take turns with exercises. SSH, Good Mornings, etc.

Be ready for CoT with announcements and prayer requests/praises

Review during workout:
Cadence Count
Form and rep count
Know your PAX limitations if possible
Site Q duties
Q sheet, pre-blast, backblast
Exicon, backblast from other regions, winky, Co-Q

Thang 1: Dora with bear crawl timer. 50 diamond merkins, 100 monkey humpers, 150 groiners,
Thang 2: Basketball court 7’s – burpees and absolutions

Thanks for attending men!

Golfing Graveside

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FNGs: None

Warm Up: Variety

The Workout:

  1. Rules: teams of 2 or 3. Must always alternate throws. Must carry your golf bag (rock) with your team at all times.
  2. Land mark target (hole) picked with rules for frisbee to hit. Must stay on South Park Grounds.
  3. At Tee off exercise is called and done I/C until all teams throw.
  4. Modes of Travel  in no particular order but all must be done before repeats. Run /Lunge Walk/Bear crawl/Min of 3 Burpee Broad jump.
  5. Hole completion – score = # of Kraken burpees. 2nd place does their score and half of team in front of them.  Max hole score 10. R/P/S breaks tie (one time)
  6. Winning team picks new hole and tee box. Losing team picks tee off exercise.
  7. Rinse and repeat and have fun.

Mary: Banana Seat

Announcements: Road Clean up, core challenge, Check Slack, Even the Odds 3/22/24

T-Claps (Recognition):

Prayer: Health, H1N1 mother-in-law and  Unspoken.

A mutiny happened at Mutiny and @Rico is not yet a grandpa!

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PAX: @Finkle, @Rico, @Rubiks, @FlipPhone, @Breach, @Fumunga, @Winnebago, @H1N1, @LED

FNG: @Buffalo aka @Don Ross

Warm-up: 

Good Mornings in cadence, downward dog, spitting cobra/up dog, merkins, SSH, and a mosey around track.

Main Event:

  1. 11’s on the hill next to soccer field.  Fence squats at the top and burpees at the bottom.  Modes of transportation were jog, reverse lunge walk down, and bear crawls.
  2. Catch me if you can.  We partnered up and ‘partner A’ jogged around the track while ‘partner B’ did a prescribed exercise and then had to sprint to catch their partner.  Then switched.  Did 4 rounds exercises were, 20 merkins, 20 low slow flutters, 20 lunges, 20 SSH.
  3. No free picnic.  We made our way over to the picnic tables and did 10 Irkins, 10 Merkins, 10 Derkins, 10 Dips, 20 Step-ups and repeated once same exercises.

Dad Joke (sponsored by @Rico):

What do you call a man with no shins?  Tony, get it Toe-knee

Something about Mary:

LBCs, WW2, Side crunches, Freddie Mercuries, J-Lo’s, Plank hold, and Pickle Pounders to appease the all the wild women watching us workout at 5:30 in the morning.

COT:

Safe travels for @Finkle ‘s M, @H1N1 for his family as they mourn the loss of his M’s grandmother, and @Rico’s daughter GG who apparently is not prego @Rubiks lol…  She will be having an ultrasound soon to check on a possible cyst on her ovary.

Sally start to finish

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8 PAX out for a moist 65 degree gloomy morning. Couple of missed HC’s but still a couple new faces. We started with a Sally song and ended with a Sally song.

Mosey down to circle for warm up while listening to Long Tall Sally
GM
Air squared
Imperial squat walkers
Mtn climbers
Merkins

Track – Indian run w/ exercises every 200M
1. Ranger Merkin toe tap – go down for a push up then come up and touch opposite foot x10 IC
2. Deep Squats x20
3. Merkin and up like a burpee but keep hands down and the back out x10 IC
4. Shoulder taps x20
2 laps

Ramp
Crawl bear up ramp
At top grab some short wall
Irkins, box jumps, dirkens x15 each
Mosey to stairs
Calf raises on each step x5 (16 sets)
Grab tall wall
Wall sits 10 count each PAX
BTTW 10 ct each

Mosey to bball court
Broad jump burpee across bball court
10x Turkish getups
Broad jump burpee back
Indian run back to flag

Mary
Sally (Moby)
Side dips
Stretching

Hairy bags and flopping bittys

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Warm Up: SSH,GM’s, Frankenstein, Daisy Pickers, Micheal Phelps

The Workout:

Round 1:60/80lbs sandbags (clean and press) stacked sets, 25lbs KB (single leg deadlift) Weighted 50lb SB drag/pull, 80lbs sandball (clean and bench press), Big Tire flip, Timer was tire carry. 

Round 2. 60/80lbs same, 25lb kettle bell same, Bear Crawl drag with 50lbs SB, Big Tire flip, 80lbs SB layflat put on chest and stand to feet. Tire carry was timer. 

Round 3. 60/80lbs Stacked Squats, Med ball press, Big Tire Jumps, Tire timers, Bear Crawl drag with 50lbs.  Pain Stick OH heel taps,

 Mary: It was horrible and hard. 

Announcements:  Sheepdog parking to change. Sign up to Q. 

T-Claps (Recognition): Prayer: H1N1 Son (knee/transmission), B.S. healthy, Rubic’s M. 

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Giving 110% for Kenny

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Warm Up: SSH, hillbillies, imperial walkers, Daisy pickers, sir fazio arm circles, seal claps, overhead claps, Willie Mays Hayes

The Workout: Thing 1: Four Corners
different exercises at each corner
– merkins
– squats
– mountain climbers
– WWIIs
Idea was to do 10 count first round, then 20, then 30 and then step it back down. Finkle suggested we do two rounds of 20 so we could get an even 100, and YHC was happy to oblige. Then Banana Seat said that we give 110%, so YHC had the idea to take on one more round of 10 counts for a solid 110!

Thing 2: People’s Chair, 10 count down the line / dips 20 count. Repeated for a total of 2 rounds.

Mary: popcorn Mary

Prayer: Finkle’s brother-in-law, Rico looking for housing

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Shelter Tabataaaaa

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Warm Up: warm-o-rama

The Workout: Tabata with 5 rounds, 5 sets, 30s on 10s rest. Brought some classic rock to bring the energy!

1) walkout, reverse lunge

2) irkins, pulse squat jumps

3) dips, side straddle hop

4) balls to the wall, step ups

5) burpees, wall sit

Mary: light stretching

Announcements: none

T-Claps (Recognition): those for EC and PC

Prayer: Rico’s housing search, Gamecocks company layoffs 

Passing the Baton

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Probably close to two years ago Fonzie and I took over as site Q’s at Possum Trot.  As one of our favorite AOs it was fun to keep it running, Qing as much as we could, and making sure things went smoothly.  Over time, and with injury, we lapsed in our duty.  It became evident that new leadership was needed so we reached out to local PAX to find potential candidates.  After a lot of searching two stepped forward, almost at the same time.  Both Stovepipe and Rubiks wanted to help lead South Wake’s original AO and felt up to the task.  YHC picked up the Q for the day and asked the two of them to be there for the official hand off.  All in all, 11 other men joined the three of us for a beatdown and the official handoff of the site.  

FNGs: None

Warm Up:

SSH x27 IC (that was the temperature when I looked when I woke up)

Windmills x10 IC

Daisy Pickers x10 IC

Imperial Walkers x10 IC

Hillbillies x10 IC

Sir Fazio Arm circles x10 IC forward and reverse

The Workout:

We started at the back corner, by the rock pile, to begin a four corners workout.  Each corner would be some sort of leg or ab workout with the exception of the first because I finally feel like I can lift a (small) rock.  

Curls for the girls x10 IC

Tris for the guys x10 IC

Rut Rows x10 IC

Chest press x10 IC

We then did a backwards mosey to the next corner, by where the parking lot met the road.  

No Surrender x10 IC

Bobby Hurley x10 IC

Star Jumps x10 IC

We then proceeded to the next corner, on the other side of the tennis courts.  We made our way there via Walk like an Egyptian.  This is a lunge walk Indian Run where everyone steps in to a lunge while the guy at the back lunge walks to the front of the line.  Once they get there everyone steps in to a lunge with the other leg while the next guy goes.  This got a little unruly at times and, honestly, took way longer than I thought but all the complaining really fed my soul.  

The next corner was abs.  We did an LBC cycle

LBC x10 IC

Reverse LBC x10 IC

Side LBC x10 IC each side.  

We did a rinse and repeat and then did a slow mosey to the next corner for some squat rounds

Squats x10 IC

Wide squat x10 IC

Feet together squat x10 IC

Two rounds of that as well and then it was a duck walk back to the rocks to do another round of what we had done before. After that we returned our rocks and went to the tennis courts.  We started with a set of calf raises.  After that, there was a lot of mumble chatter which made YCH feel like he hadn’t worked everyone hard enough so we went in to a round of suicides across the width of of the court.

Mary:

American Hammers x16 IC

Sleeping Hillbillies x10 IC each side

Box cutters x16 IC

Announcements: 

Prayer outreach with Rubiks down town Raleigh at 7:00pm

Prayer:

Bleeder recovering from surgery

 

Always an honor to lead and it has been an absolute privilege  to have led this AO.  I look forward to what new leadership will do.  

 

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