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There are plenty of not stupid people apparently…

PAX: Steamboat, Buford, Dawgpound, Tetanus, Tush, 16 Bit, Pikachu, Wahoo, Koolaid, Spinman, Midget for Life, Moped, Emeril, Pipes, Super Spreader, Chaps, Dahmer, Pots, Pumpkin Spice, Wiggly, Snap

Apparently this one never published, was stuck in Drafts folder.  Oh well, better late than never.

Weather called for rain and cold this morning, Crazy Ivan was the only option with a roof over your head so I decided to make a call to divide the ranks into stupid and not stupid.  21 showed up so I guess there still hope for F3 South Wake.  Or maybe we’re just the weak ones…  Regardless, I was happy to work hard and stay dry this morning!

FNGs: None
Warm Up: Mosey around the lot and then SSH, Sir Fazio, Frankenstein, daisy pickers, windmills, and mountain climbers.
The Workout:

Stairs and Sharing: We partnered up and one Pax ran up the stairs while the other worked on curls for the girls, triceps extensions, squats, and LBCs with a twist.  Partners switched off until they had combined for 100 of each exercise.

Grumbling Legs: We went halfway down the parking lot with front lunges and finished the lot with side lunges.  Then came back halfway with side lunges the other way and finished it with back lunges.  It wasn’t a popular one especially since the kettlebells came with us.

Tabata: 30 secs on, 10 secs off.  3 sets of halos, figure 8s, deadlifts, and Midget love handles

Mary: Midget cookie pouches, boobity boobity with a 6″ hold, plank rows, pickle pounders and a 90 second plank with shoulder taps, nipplers, and mountain climbers mixed in.
Announcements: Monthly Challenge
Prayer: Fumunga just had surgery, and friends struggling with Covid.

Burn out!

FNGs: none
Warm Up: SSH, SFAC, Daisys, Windmill, lap around the deck
The Workout: 6 exercises, 5 rounds, 1 min work and 15 sec rest. Lawnmower, tricep extensions, ground pounders, curls for the girls, overhead press, and goblet squats
Mary: midget cookie pouches with the bell, low slow flutter with the bell
Announcements: Holly Springs half marathon F3 style next Saturday 11/14. Looking for people to man the aid stations

Prayer: 187 and family. Shamwow and family.

Pre- Halloween Revelry with a Heavy Friend

The heavy music was turned up loud, we went “trick or treating” a couple times, burpees were avoided, kettlebells were clanged, and a heavy friend (coupon) joined in the Halloween Hooliganry at the Underworld for Crazy Ivan. 10 PAX played along with YHC’s game of chance for their pre-Halloween beatdown.

FNG’s: none
Warm Up: SSH x 15, the 10 counts of Seal Claps, Overhead Claps, Good Mornings, and Daisy Pickers.
The Workout: The workout was simple. YHC brought a bucket of tickets, each with a different classic favorite Halloween candy pic on it. Each pic corresponded to a kettlebell exercise that was to be done AMRAP by the men while 1 pax (the timer) carried the pumpkin themed heavy friend (a 75 lb. cement ball skillfully crafted by Dahmer) down to a parked car and back. Repeato on this sequence a lot!

Exercises were: Reese’s – Horn Squats, Snickers – Bell Merkins, Skittles – Single Arm Shoulder Press, Twizzlers – Figure 8’s, Milky Way – Halos, Baby Ruth – Swings.

One caveat…YHC placed a few “trick or treat” tixx in the bucket. When drawn, the whole pax would travel a bit for short exercises. YHC put 3 such tixx in the bucket…2 were drawn during our time together. When they were drawn…we ran down to do a 30 ct. BTTW. Then next one was about halfway through the workout as we travelled up top to typewriter the parking curbs as a group before returning to the Underworld. As Halloween fortune would have it, the PAX never drew the 3rd “trick or treat” ticket…that would have cost us a short mosey, but 30 burpees. At the end of the workout, there were only 3 tixx left in the bucket that we didn’t get to. Lucky day before Halloween!

Mary: 20 Midget Cookie Pouches, 20 LSF IC. Have a nice day!
Announcements: Holly Springs virtual F3 half coming up…consider running or volunteering at aid station. More info to come this week! Mutiny moves to TING Monday for Ultimate under the lights! No metal cleats. Paradise City pax will still workout at TING that day…plenty on room on the turf for a change!
T-Claps (Recognition): Dahmer for his work on a new coupon for Crazy Ivan.
Prayer: Our brothers Shamwow!/187 and their M’s for some recent health issues they are dealing with. Kool aid just moved to area and his family settling in. Chaps stepped up to take us out. Thanks for playing fellas!

BRR Caveman

FNGs: Nope.
Warm Up:

Quick lap around the lower parking date
Circle up for the following
Side Straddle Hop
Side lunges
Bat Wing with Randies
Forward Fazio Arm Circles
Backword Fazio Arm Circles
Seal Claps
Overhead Claps
Randies

The Workout:

A pyramid that took to long

3 Mace Modified Man O Makers (Push Up on Bell, Row, Plank Raise)
20 Ballistic Curls

3 Mace Modified Man O Makers (Push Up on Bell, Row, Plank Raise)
5/5 One Arm Chop
20 Ballistic Curls

3 Mace Modified Man O Makers (Push Up on Bell, Row, Plank Raise)
5/5 One Arm Chop
15/15 Lever Rows
20 Ballistic Curls

3 Mace Modified Man O Makers (Push Up on Bell, Row, Plank Raise)
5/5 One Arm Chop
15/15 Lever Rows
20/20 Uppercuts
20 Ballistic Curls

3 Mace Modified Man O Makers (Push Up on Bell, Row, Plank Raise)
5/5 One Arm Chop
15/15 Lever Rows
20/20 Uppercuts
5/5 360
20 Ballistic Curls

3 Mace Modified Man O Makers (Push Up on Bell, Row, Plank Raise)
5/5 One Arm Chop
15/15 Lever Rows
20/20 Uppercuts
5/5 360
20 Tricep Extension

3 Mace Modified Man O Makers (Push Up on Bell, Row, Plank Raise)
5/5 One Arm Chop
15/15 Lever Rows
20/20 Uppercuts
20 Tricep Extension

3 Mace Modified Man O Makers (Push Up on Bell, Row, Plank Raise)
5/5 One Arm Chop
15/15 Lever Rows
20 Tricep Extension

3 Mace Modified Man O Makers (Push Up on Bell, Row, Plank Raise)
5/5 One Arm Chop
20 Tricep Extension

3 Mace Modified Man O Makers (Push Up on Bell, Row, Plank Raise)
20 Tricep Extension

Mary:
Ran out of time

Announcements:
BRR
Mulch sign up. Please finish it this week

T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer:
All BRR participants

Co-Q Duel Kickoff at Downtown Train

F3 Southwake Co-Q Duel got started in a big way at DT. Record attendance for this site that averages 3-5 #HIM as we had 36 strong post. Was excited to have our newly named Weasel Shaker, and a guy who has had a major impact on me over the past few years, Mookie as the surprise Co-Q. DT is sort of like a “poor man’s Disney”, lots of great rides available and I was looking forward to showing a couple of them off for all the new faces posting to DT for the 1st time. Mookie and I decided to do a little split Q so everyone had a chance to spend time with both of us, and we went with 2 DT classics – repeats on Cemetery Hill, and a visit the drug store. Mookie would lead the hill work and I would take drug store with a group switch in the middle. Quite the impressive scene as I headed back to the lot from EC to find guys looking for overflow parking. Was cool to see guys reconnecting and catching up a bit on life, with some great mumble chatter out there this morning. Thanks to all who posted and thanks for a solid start to the donations for Healing Transitions.

FNGs: Not today, but I noticed several of or newer guys out there this morning. and it’s great to see you all coming back and really getting to be part of F3.
Warm Up: Stayed at the flag knowing we would be opening the workout with a jog and we did some SSH, Good Mornings, Fazio Arm Circles, Mt Climbers and of course, a Nemo classic the Goofballs.
The Workout: Counted off by 2s to split the group and headed out on the jog towards Earp where 1 group veered off the tracks to head over to Cemetery Hill and the other headed up and along the back road to the drug store. Mookie took his group through hill repeats and focused on keeping together by adding sets of burpees at the bottom, merkins at the top and mixing in low slow flutters, shoulder taps and LBCs. Cemetery Hill is a DT favorite and I was glad to see Mookie pushing the PAX to put in the work on these repeats. At the drug store we worked through another DT classic set that really just involves doing a bunch of different stuff with little, if any, recovery. Without details of count/cadence it went something like this: BTTW, People’s Chair, BTTW, straight into plank, shoulder taps, plank, merkins, plank, nipplers, plank – then on the feet and hold out the arms, slow seal claps, hold out arms, overhead claps, hold out arms – then drop and bear crawl across lot, plank hold for 6 then merkins, then crab walk back. Recover, repeat. We worked in some SSH too, and 2nd set we stopped short of the bear crawls for time. After the full set at each spot, the groups met midway and swapped. Then we converged again for a fellowship jog back the flag.
Mary: Circled up and did a set of 6″ hold/low slow flutter, LBC, Homer to Marge, American Hammers. Then Mookie treated us to some clockwork merkins and closed us out with some good stretches.
Announcements: After name-o-rama we brought back a tradition I really like and we asked the 6th man in the count to tell us how he got his name and what he has appreciated about F3. Tetanus was the 6 in the circle and he explained his name and talked about how he appreciates the accountability and how he looks forward to posting. Co-Q Duel continues this and next week – head over to Nutcracker tomorrow for Moby and some surprise Co-Qs, Mulching Bass Lake going well.
T-Claps (Recognition): Guys out on EC, Boy George for posting after a tough 50k trail race this weekend, everyone who brought donations, Pikachu for a great setup for trunk coffee 2nd F
Prayer: Let’s keep Quiver’s uncle and family in our prayers as he recovers from covid, unspoken, YHC shared a message about the work we each need to put in to being good leaders. 10 count silent for unspoken and YHC took us out.

Honor to lead and to co-Q with Mookie, hope you all have a strong start to the week

Don’t you guys want to workout at 1pm?

10 PAX at the start of Captain Caveman which is a bit more than typical.  Threats of rain or potential Nest cancellation might have pushed a few more over to our covered workout.
FNG showed up on time.  Thanks to Chaps for bringing him out.   His second FNG in 2 weeks.  Josh was curious why we worked out so early instead of 1pm.  @Pikachu gave him the details.   As we started warming up our 11th PAX decided to show up as Lipstick rolled into his first steel mace workout.  10 Burpees for everyone for his tardiness.

 

FNGs: Josh Powell AKA Kool Aid.  More on that to come in the announcements

Warm Up
:  Foot trace, hip stretches, shoulder stretches, jog to end of parking garage and back

The Workout:

20 pushups on mace ball held in left hand
20 ballistic curls
20 shoulder tosses OR shoulder presses
20 tricep extensions
Run with mace to other end of garage

20 pushups on mace ball held in right hand
20 ballistic curls
20 shoulder tosses OR shoulder presses
20 tricep extensions
Run with mace to other end of garage

10 clap merkins or normal merkins

2 burpees/2 squat thrusters
run to end of garage and back
4 burpees/4 squat thrusters
run to end of garage and back
6 burpees/6 squat thrusters
run to end of garage and back
8 burpees/8 squat thrusters
run to end of garage and back
10 burpess/10 squat thrusters
run to end of garage and back
8 burpees/8 squat thrusters
run to end of garage and back
6 burpees/6 squat thrusters
run to end of garage and back
4 burpees/4 squat thrusters
run to end of garage and back
Last round best round
2 burpees/2 squat thrusters
run to end of garage and back

 


Mary
:
20 Russian canoe touches
20 90 degree toe touches left side/right side
15 overhead obliques right side/15 overhead obliques left side
Midget love handles
10 overhead obliques left side/10 overhead obliques right side
10 90 degree toe touches left side/right side
8 Russian canoe touches

8 minutes of stretching exercises


Announcements
:

As we made our way around COT and got to our FNG he said his name, age and then said Green Tea.  We asked why he said Green Tea and he said he thought we were all naming our favorite drink.  Must have heard Pumpkin Spices F3 name only because there were no other drink names at the workout.   We asked the usual FNG questions and even though his first concert was Duran Duran we couldn’t come up with an appropriate name.   @Dumbo brought it back to Green Tea, which led to Macha for Macha Tea and continued to evolve from there until Dumbo said Kool Aid.  So welcome Kool Aid to F3.   I think he got his moneys worth as he was looking a bit pale and tired at the end and was sitting while everyone else stood.

Mulch sign up – if you haven’t done it yet give it a shot!

Co-Q Duel weeks begin next week – All AOs closed except for the featured AOs listed. Go post somewhere you don’t go very often! See Slack or Facebook for details


T-Claps (Recognition)
:

Prayer
:

Kevin and Saddiq and for Josh’s family as the welcome a new baby