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Good Ol’ String O’ Pearls

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Weather: 47°, about perfect

FNGs: nada

Warm Up: SSH, Good Mornings, Imperial Walkers, Hill Billies, Frankensteins, Sir Fazio Arm Circles, Seal Claps, Overhead Claps

The Workout: String of pearls. Probably because of my ADHD but I love this workout. You’re always seeing something new. The way it works is you run a bit, stop for an exercise and then carry on. Run, exercise, run, exercise.

Exercises covered were all the favorites. Merkins, squats, lunge walk, dips, bulgarian squat. We made our way from Womble through downtown and back, covering about 1.6 miles.

Mary: popcorn Mary

Announcements: 2nd Friday 2nd F lunch tomorrow

Paradise City Throwback

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Warm Up: 

  • good mornings, windmills, sir fazios, goofballs, SSH, imperial walkers, hillbillies

The Workout:

YHC went looking for inspriation for a Paradise City workout.  I love digging through BackBlast to see what’s been done before to inform what I’ll do.  It just makes planning a little easier.  I could just ask AI to make me a workout, but there is something about knowing who ran the workout I’m borrowing and when did they run it.  Just feels a little nostalgic and fun.  This one comes from Deadbolt circa 2021 “Spartan 500”

Keep writing backblasts.  You never know who they might inspire to show-up or make leading a workout a little easier.

Our workout today is explained in this picture.  Looking back again at Deadbolts BB, I think the intention was to do all 50 reps at each corner with the goal to move fast enough to complete 10 laps before the end of the workout.

I modified and had us do Merkins in the first lap with 10 at each corner.  With each subsequent exercise replacing the last one through the list.  Deadbolt also prescribed a team-based model.  I opted to keep everyone together.  It was perfect for us in terms of time and it allowed me to keep my pre-blast promises to stay under the former standard of 3 miles.

Games :no_entry_sign: :flying_disc:    |  Bootcamp :white_check_mark: :weight_lifter:

Running :white_check_mark: :run1:|  3 miles :no_entry_sign::run1::run1::run1:

Mary: Low Slow Flutter, Ankle Grabbers, Poop Eaters, Homer2Marge, SuperMan, Touch Your Toes

Announcements:

  • Q ’em all!
  • Abe – is there still a tshirt order?
  • Run the Quay is still not this weekend
  • Vertical Horizon, May 9th!

Prayer– UTIs Dad, Kids closing out their school year

The Q Makes The Rules

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32 PAX took the field and immediately felt the difference—this wasn’t standard Ultimate, it was controlled chaos with purpose. With three scoring zones per team, the game forced constant decision-making: grind for the safe 1-point end zone, thread a tight throw into the 2-point bonus box, or take a high-risk shot at the 3-point corner. Early on, teams played conservative, but as momentum shifted, players started stretching the field, launching deep shots and cutting aggressively to the corners.

Communication became everything—sidelines were loud, calling out zone opportunities and defensive switches as handlers scanned for mismatches. By the midpoint, legs were heavy but intensity stayed high, with several clutch 3-point conversions swinging the score dramatically. What stood out most was the adaptability—guys adjusted on the fly, spacing improved, and trust in throws grew as the game went on. In the end, it wasn’t just about athleticism; it was about awareness, timing, and taking calculated risks under pressure, and every player walked off knowing they’d been part of something fast, competitive, and a step above the usual pickup run.

The game was a close one but the score keeping team prevailed. 

When do we drop an exercise?

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FNGs: none

Warm Up: lap and some stretching

 The Workout:

1 min per round – AMRAP

6 rounds per station

Three exercises per station:

Round 1-3: do each exercise

Round 4-5: pick your favorite two

Round 6: pick your favorite one

  • Running, broad jump backpedal, Mtn climbers
  • Running, Freddie mercury, squat twist
  • Running, crisscross pickup, ledge taps
  • Running, gorilla hops, ledge pike jacks
  • Running, burpees, ssh

Mary: post workout core challenge for a few

Announcements: core challenge, q-em all challenge

T-Claps (Recognition):

Prayer: those struggling with mental health, healing and restoration with my dad

Working on the Standard

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FNGs:

None

Warm Up:

Standard Warmup, including the Mission Statement, 5 Core Principals, and the 15 Penalty Burpees associated with the failure to know when called upon.

The Workout:

26 PAX this morning for a crisp April morning game of UFO.  We apparently still need to update the website to ensure the start time is updated to 0515 because we had 6 – 8 of the 26 show up after 5:15, I’m pretty sure they still owe ~15 burpees because they missed the warmup, haha.  Great work to all the HIMs that showed up, it is always great to get out and get our weeks started out right.

Mary:

Cleanup of the field

Announcements:

@finkle stepping up to take over the Nest, the mission is to Plant, Grow, and Serve.  For anyone who is part of the Grow, but not yet taken up the Serve, think about what you can do to take the next step.  Without it, the “Plant” will die.

T-Claps (Recognition):

Good Work to those that stuck around to complete the #corechallenge Day 6.

Prayer:

Fox Family, Struggling PAX both Monetarily, Family, Faith, and Health.  Our leaders and soldiers on the frontline

Michael Scott’s Dunder Mifflin Scranton Meredith Palmer Memorial Celebrity Rabies Awareness Pro-Am Fun Run Race For The Cure

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13 + 1 PAX chased the sunrise for 5+ miles. Many stayed for the core challenge work out afterword.

Great chatter! Thanks for coming out!

Bo Time, Popeye, Banana Seat, Bernie Left Eye, Goldfish, Jellybeans, Abe, Loafer, Bird Flu, Escobar, Gizmo, Wide Right

 

 

Your going the wrong way

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FNGs:none

Warm Up: good mornings, ssh, willy mays hays, chinooks, seal claps, overhead clap, 5 penalty burpees, prisoner squats

The Workout:

Moseyed to the Abyss in the wrong direction until the PAX asked me where I was going.

7s on the stairs with star jumps and merkins. One bonus bear crawl back up the stairs to retrieve my broken camp light

Moseyed back to the parking lot for cocaine bear crawls and lunges.

Mary: 20 count of LBC, superman,pickle pounder, wwi, wwii, side plank(l/r), homer to marge

Announcements: abe is collecting donations to HSFC

T-Claps (Recognition):

Prayer:Dumbo’s son and Nemo’s daughter

Almost 46

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What a beautiful morning it was today.  Maybe a bit damp but no water falling from the sky and temps were just right.  It’s the day before my birthday so I took the Q and promised to make the numbers 16 and 46 prominent and I think that was accomplished.

FNGs: None

Warm up:

SSH x 46 IC

Sir Fazio Arm Circles x10 IC forward and reverse

Daisy Pickers x10 IC

Trunk rotations x10 IC

Frankenstein x10 IC

Burpee x 8 OYO

The Workout:

We built a pyramid of exercises today.  The format was simple, we’d start at 10 and work to 1 and then back down.  The first set would be just the 10, then the 10 and 8, then 10,8, and 7. So on and so forth.  And yes, I left 9 out on purpose because 10+8+7+6+5+4+3+2+1 = 46.  The exercises were as follows:

10 – Swings

8 – Figure 8 (duh)

7 – Goblet Squats

6 – Curls for the girls

5 – Tris for the guys

4 – Lawn mowers

3 – Midget love handles

2 – Turkish Getup

1 – One minute of plank switches or holding plank when you needed a rest

Once we got through that we did another 8 burpees to bring the total to 16.  We then worked our way backwards down the pyramid, removing exercises as we went.  So the first round we eliminated the plank, second round we eliminated the Turkish getup, etc.  This took us all the way to the end.

Mary:

There really wasn’t time for it.  We spent a minute doing a bit of light stretches.

Announcements:

Fram’s mattress move

Prayer Requests:

Tragic deaths in Fuquay.  One was a classmate of my middle daughter. Hold your kids tight.

 

Until next time.

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Do you want to build a snowman

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FNGs: None

Warm Up: Parking lot mosey, SSH, prisoner squats, imperial walkers, hill billies, merkins, willy mays hays, sir fazio arm circles and seal claps

The Workout:

You need a good base to build a snowman so the plan of 30/20/10 reps established our base. 

Round 1: kb swings, goblet squats, snatch and figure 8. After each set of reps a weighted lunge or farmer carry was called.

Round 2: curls for the girls, overhead tricep, halos and thrusters. After each set a weighted lunge or farmer carry was called.

Mary: Quick round of WWI and WWII along with some light stretching

Announcements: BestinShow starting a new business Honeydew Heroes to help those with small tasks.

T-Claps (Recognition):

Prayer: Check on your neighbors during the recent and upcoming storms. 

FOUR!!

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FNGs: None, but a late comer to the “new”but old AO location…Yogurt 

Warm Up: mosey, GM, Frankensteins, SFAC, Imperial Walkers.

The Workout: 10 hole markers of various distances.

Throw frisbee, BC, Partner Wheelbarrow, lunge walk to frisbee. Cycle through one each hole.

At frisbee: burpee frog jump to pin. Guy that threw it has the number of jumps in burpees. Everyone else cycles through Squats, Merkins and Burpees at each hole. Reps = # of throws by thrower.

Mary: 1 sun salutation  

Announcements: Site Q keep stepping up and growing your AO. EH guys to stop being sad clowns, Flip says we “Q’em” all challenge in 2026. More to come there.

T-Claps (Recognition): Flip phone for ECing all week. 

Prayer: safe travels and may FRAM’s daughter continue to seek Gods word.

Honor to Lead.Â