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4yr Q at GP ran like clockwork

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FNGs: Yes! Welcome Sharknado

Warm Up: side straddle hops, arm circles forward and reverse, seal claps, overhead claps, arm stretches, good mornings.

The Workout: Mosey to the rock pile and grab a large rock. Circle up in the main parking lot to begin the 1st event.
My 4yr Q centers around time so we started with some clockwork using 4 different exercises. Started with 1 rep of each: curl for the girl, overhead press, ruh roh, and squat. Set down the rock, rotate, and do 2 of each. This continued through the 12 rounds of the clock for a total of 78 reps of each exercise.

Next up the calendar beatdown as follows, all with your original rock:

  • June 30 rock presses
  • July 31 homer to marge in cadence
  • August 31 rock merkins right arm
  • September 30 American hammers in cadence
  • October 31 rock merkins left arm
  • November 30 flutter kicks in cadence
  • December 31 rock spanks in cadence
  • January 31 ground pounders (stopped at 7 to do burpees for my birthday then picked back up at 8)
  • February 28 Rockys in cadence
  • March 31 ascending testicles  10,10,11
  • April 30 wall sit
  • May 31 pickle pounders in cadence

Mary: LBCs, Boat Canoes, and the introduction of Krispy Kreme’s (12 count move that targets your abs), then 20 Merkins as it was only called a decent Q. After the merkins it was deemed reasonable.

Announcements: Picnic, 2.0 workout at 9, Bed project next weekend

T-Claps (Recognition): My 4 year anniversary, Cyclops for bringing an FNG, and Sharknado for making it through his first post.

Prayer: We all took a knee and I took us out. Very thankful for what F3 has done in my life and in the lives of others, I’m definitely a better man for it.

So much to do, but so little time

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FNGs:N/a today

3 Pax for Monthly Challenge EC and several for an EC run.

Warm Up:Side straddle hops, arm circles forward and reverse, seal clap, overhead claps, daisy pickers

The Workout: I started with a blast from the past, my first visit to this AO was the 1776 workout on July 4th 2018.
Mosey around the parking lot and head towards the shelter for 16 rounds of 31 seconds on, 9 seconds off Tabata work:

  • merkins
  • high knees
  • Scorpion dry docks (not enough pull up bars for everyone so I subbed this one out)
  • Plank jacks
  • Side straddle hops
  • Turkish get ups
  • Overhead claps
  • American hammers
  • Lunges
  • Step ups
  • Squats
  • Moroccan night clubs
  • Mountain climbers
  • LBCs
  • Dips
  • Plank shoulder taps

Bear crawl across the parking lot and 7 burpees to finish it off

Mosey to the legendary Abyss for some Dora style partner work

  • 100 Planche merkins (great for biceps)
  • 100 AG squat front kicks
  • 100 mountain climbers (L/R=1)
  • Pick up the 6 and a 10 count squat hold
  • 100 boat canoes
  • 100 crab cakes in cadence between all PAX

Mary: Mosey back to the parking lot for an Embrace the Suck hold (3 minutes). Finished with 25 low and VERY SLOW flutters.

Announcements: Several Pax doing the Triathlon Saturday and they are looking for volunteers, some 3rd F opportunities coming up, my 4yr F3 Anniversary is this Saturday and I’ve got the Q at GP.
T-Claps (Recognition): Everyone that came out this morning despite the threat of pouring rain, and especially those that did EC.
Prayer: We all took a knee and I took us out.

Memorial Day Murph Challenge- 2021

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32 Pax showed up today to help me (Shredder) celebrate my 4 year F3 anniversary and more importantly pay respect to our nation’s fallen during our annual Memorial Day Murph Challenge.

Impressive effort by all, especially after the May Challenge. 30 joined in on the Murph, Dauber (IR) joined to capture the event and support with donuts, and Breach (after doing a Murph at 0600) stopped by to give us his thoughts on Memorial Day and his recent visit to Arlington National Cemetery.

Warm Up: short warm-up with SSH, Good Mornings, Willie Mays Hayes, & Frankensteins. Pax counted off by 2s and headed off in opposite directions for Mile 1.

The Workout: 1 mile run, 100 pull-ups, 200 push-ups, 300 squats, 100 mile run.  Since this is F3 the last mile was an Indian Run race with the slower group having to knock out 50, scratch that, 20 Burpees. After a quick “speech”, the two groups took off in their different directions.

The mental battle was in full effect as my mind kept telling me “you need to quit”, just after I told everyone we needed to learn to Embrace the Suck. But Pax did what they do best and mentally drug me through the last mile.

As everyone wrapped up their last mile and came back together, guess what…..? Yep. We all did Burpees.

T-Claps (Recognition): We raised $425+ for HSPD first response bags. Sprinkler’s team donated 1/2 of their May Challenge winnings to the 1st response bags and 1/2 to the FQV bed building. Great work #HIM.    

: YHC took us out. Remember why we have a Memorial Day. Freedom is not Free! 🇺🇸

That Treat is Stale!

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It was a beautiful morning with cool temps in the mid 50’s. It was good to see Scrapple return from knee surgery. Yogurt had a treat for Java’s dog Latte. Must to of been stale. She turned her nose up at it! Sure did miss the 2nd F at Breaches house this morning.

FNGs: 2- Chad (A-Rod) and Micah (Fire Marshall Bill)

The Workout: M4life rolls out with a 65lb bag everyone had the pleasure of carrying. We hit the blue and the yellow for some miles.

Announcements: Workouts are on for tomorrow with the Murph to follow at 8:00 am.
T-Claps (Recognition): M4life for bringing an FNG and A-Rod for listening to @breach to get him out here this morning.
Prayer: @Fram’s family for travel mercies flying out of RDU this morning heading home. PAX with injuries and unspoken.

Site Q finally gets a chance to lead Ground Pounder again

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FNGs: Welcome Fireball (bartender and military) and YHC’s son Joystick (gamer) 

10 HIMs posted to GP.   YHC brought the music box, basketballs & discs.  

Warm Up: 10x3cts of: Good Mornings, Willie Maze Hays,  Daisy Pickers, Arm stretches, Imperial Walkers and Hillbillies.

The Workout

Circle of Rock (of course): Mosey to the Rock Pile pick a LARGE rock.

3 sets of 10x3ct of each exercise:  Curls for the Girls, Overhead Tricep Press, Bus Drivers, Rut Rows and Ground Pounders. On your six for 3 sets of 10x3ct Rock Press,  1 set each of 10x3Ct Windshield Wipers, Heel Taps, Rockies, LBCs

Heavy Hoops:

Pax line up for a game of knockout. Prisoner squats in line, SSH once you are knocked out.

Mosey to the Wall of Pain

Wall of Pain: 

10x3ct Prisoner Peoples Chair;  Australian Ass Smackers,  Al Gore Peoples Chair, Ascending Testicles, Moroccan Peoples Chair, BTW (5 ct down the line).

Mosey to the disc golf putting green

Heavy Discs:

9 discs in play at all times. PAX put discs; Make it and lunge walk to closest disc, Miss and bearcrawl to closest disc.  YHC stopped tossing four times for exercises: 10x3ct Homer to Marge, Freddie Mercuries, Merkins and Lunges

Announcements: Memorial Day Murph; Fund Raising for HSPD to provide 1st Aid kits.

Prayer Requests: For our military, injured PAX (ShamWow and Wrangler), YHC asked for prayer through an interview process.

Marine Corps History at TBD 5/26/21

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11 Pax got a lesson in Marine Corps history as we took to Belleau Wood and Tripoli at TBD for a butt-kicking like no other @M4LIFE @swishersweet, @Hardy @Gamecock @Florence/FloJoe @Yogurt @Dahmer @Java @Cancun @HazMat and

@Breach on the Q/Drill Instructor/History Professor

Warm Up: All pax were issued a Rifle (aka a pool noodle) and we formed 2 squads for a platoon style movement to the lower parking lot for 22 counts exercises of (SSH, Windmills, Imperial Walkers/Hillbillies, and Prisoner Squats)

The Workout:

Evolution #1- Battle of Tripoli

April 27 1805- Marines march more than 500 miles across the Libyan desert to defeat the barbary pirates and rescue the crew of the USS Philadelphia. This is the battle where the Marines earned the nickname leatherneck due to the piece of leather they wore to keep the pirates from slicing their throats

Get into pairs and wheelbarrow around the track, every time that you have to switch you have to perform 5 burpees. Squat hold for the 6. We recused the crew of the USS Philadelphia and they had to finish the evolution with us. (2 Pain Sticks, 2 Sandbags and 2 Fire hoses) All the gear had to be carried by the platoon. 

 

Evolution #2-Battle of Belleau Wood -June 1918 

Marines charges machine guns nest with fixed bayonets and engaged in fierce hand-to-hand combat that took six days to accomplish, it was at this battle that the Marines earned the title Devil Dogs for their fierce fighting style and their inability to quit fighting. 

Rescue the crew and move on to the rock pile- get a medium-sized rock and line up across the parking lot. Frogger jumps with the rock across the lots. When you get to the other side 19 ground pounders, frogger back and do 18 ground-pounders, pick up the 6. 

Grab the crew and head toward the tennis courts for Mary

Mary:

Chumbawamba- I get knocked down, but I get up again. SSH for the non-course line and burpees/Turkish get-ups for the course, every I get knocked down you hit the deck and get back up.

Ended the workout with some bagpipe amazing grace to reflect on the upcoming Memorial Day holiday and what the cost of our freedom is.

Announcements:

Volunteer event this Sat in Holly Springs, Bacon is leading the charge check slack for details. For every pax member that wears Red on Friday at a workout Breach will donate $10 to the Travis Manion Foundation and if we get 75% or more he will double it.

Closed in Prayer

525 on 5/25

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FNGs: None, but Backdoor was out for his 2nd post
Warm Up:
Mosey the long way to dumpster area. Circled up for SSH and Sir Fazio arm circles.
PAX counted off by 4’s and mosey to goodwill parking lot with 4 carrying the buckets full of rocks.

The Workout:
PAX teamed up by number behind the 4 buckets. Each bucket had a list of 21 exercises that PAX were instructed to do 25 reps of each exercise. After each exercise, 1 PAX would carry their bucket of rocks to the other end of the lot while the remaining PAX did SSH until all exercises were complete.

21 exercises x 25 reps each = 525 total reps

  1. Merkins
  2. Lunges – 25 total
  3. Big boy situps
  4. Dodo bird with rock (IC)
  5. Monkey humpers (IC)
  6. Low slow flutter (IC)
  7. Carolina dry docks
  8. Single leg deadlift with rock – 25 total
  9. Hello Dolly (IC)
  10. Overhead press with rock
  11. Squats
  12. LBCs (IC)
  13. Wheelbarrow – 25 steps each PAX
  14. Homer to marge (IC)
  15. Plank hold – 25 count
  16. Hand release merkins
  17. Turkish get-ups
  18. 6 inch hold – 25 count
  19. Chill cut plank hold – 25 count
  20. Box cutters (IC)
  21. Burpees

Rocks were returned while the final group finished their burpees and we headed back to the flag.

Mary:

Announcements:
PAX circled up and held a plank. YHC asked PAX what the mission of F3 SW was. We got it right on the 2nd try and 1 merkin. Then YHC asked PAX for 1 or the 5 principles of F3. We did a few merkins for incorrect answers, but finally got through them all. 5 merkins for the 5 core principles. 20 boat canoes IC and a short back plank.

T-Claps (Recognition):
Good job Backdoor.
69 PAX posted in SW today with 5 FNGs!

Prayer:
Unspoken. YHC took us out. BOM is back!

Things got done and so did this backblast!

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Warm Up: Good Mornings, Bounce, neck rotations, spinal rotations, foot traces, hinge stretch, windmill. Finish with a lap around the block to get the HR up.

The Workout: Find a partner with a similar sized bell! Partner 1 would either run the stairs or farmer carry their bell to the end of the deck and back. This differed between the 9 exercises below. 3 times we would pause the exercises and partner 1 takes the stairs while partner 2 farmer carries both bells and then we switch and repeat.

Exercises –

  • clean and press (stairs)
  • swings (farmers carry)
  • single leg dead lift (stairs)
  • ballistic row (stairs)
  • off set pushup (farmers carry)
  • Midge cookie pouch (stairs)
  • nipplers (stairs)
  • goblet squat (farmers carry)
  • floor press (stairs)

    • Mary: American Hammer ICx10, Homer to Marge IC x 20, Low Slow Flutter IC x 20. All were done with bell.

    Announcements: Picnic (see slack)

    T-Claps (Recognition):

    Prayer: Laettner, Jeff, Heidi

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    This was my first time at Needmore Park. The routes were great and we had some quality mumble chatter along the way.

    EC:  A lot of PAX were there for EC.

    FNGs: not today

    Warm Up:    10 x Good Mornings, 10 x Spinal Rotations

    The Workout:  We ran the Yellow route for EC so I suggested we take the yellow route in reverse. After some discussion to coordinate the coffee stop, we decided to take the blue route and then the yellow route. We made a pit stop at Breach’s house for coffee and then headed bag to the flag.

    Mary: Short on Time

    Announcements:

    Picnic note from Dawgpound:

    F3 Southwake is hosting a picnic at the Longleaf shelter at Harris Lake. All Pax and their family are invited. The goal is to have a couple of Pax cook hotdogs and hamburgers at the event. The rest of Pax are recommended to bring either a side, paper plates, silverware or dessert. Everyone is welcomed to bring picnic games like Cornhole. There is a playground nearby for kids to play and we are close to the lake.

    Date: June 26
    Time: Starts at 11 AM. Stay as long as you want
    Who: Every Pax and their family

    How do I register: Fill out information here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-nsRCNZUJY2UB43Q6Q9bOX4zG-Nt-JcFFlDd83424wI/edit?usp=sharing

     

    Bed Build Note from LED:

    Talking with coordinator and she said she will be posting the signup to the public Monday for the June 12th build day.  If your able to help please signup below. They plan to cut and stain 40 beds in fuquay and 7500 across the nation. Come be a part of it and let’s help out the community. It’s amazing how excited these kids are when they get a new bed delivered.

    https://m.signupgenius.com/#!/showSignUp/10c0d49aba823a3f4c61-shpncfuquay14/19596328

    T-Claps (Recognition): Breach for proving the coffee for all of us.

    Prayer: Unspoken

    YHC took us out. Always an honor to lead.

    Oh Deere, Ultimate at Thunder

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    FNGs: NO SIR

    Warm Up: Windmills, Frankensteins, SSH, Irish Potato Pickers

    The Workout:  ULTIMATE!  We were down in the pit across from Womble.  Notable MVPs were Breach, Cancun, Maybelline, Redenbacher, Bullseye, and Pumpkin Spice.  Repeated big plays by these PAX.  Overall though this was a great game that was very equally matched.  Who won!?  I don’t remember the specifics but I feel like we all won really.

    • Merkins and Squats were utilized to penalize drops of the sacred frisbee

    Mary: NO SIR

    Announcements:

    • Be on the lookout for a plan to be hatched to make Wolfie a more prominent member of F3.

    T-Claps (Recognition):

    • PAX for Organizing the raffle to benefit Wolfie’s chair.  Lot’s of local good done in a short amount of time.  Money raised buys Wolfie a new chair and sets Wolfie and his mom up with gift cards for groceries through the end of the year.
    • Pikachu on the new gig.
    • Pikachu and Dauber for making sure we had all the right gear for ultimate.
    • Breach/M4L for finding my key on the field – that could have been bad

    Prayer:  Unspoken, YHC took us out