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Possible Intervention!!!

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11 I think for EC  with 1 going for the Fritter.  And 28 for field trip. I apologize if I missed anyone.

Warm Up: jog to storage center parking lot.  20 SSH, daisy pickers, good mornings, arm stretches and 10 burpees oyo to get blood flowing.
The Workout: jog to Aviator our door lounge for 20 erkins and dips and then with Pikachu motivation 40 derkins.  Mosey to new coffee shop for some 7’s.  This included (wolverines) merkin, one leg to elbow, merkin, other leg to elbow, merkin and jump up. Opposite side of lot we did alternating hand wall planks.(for lack of name).  With lunges  in between exercises.

Mary:mosey back to courts for pickle pounders, Freddie mercuries, dying cockaroaches, wwII, pigeon stretch, lower back stretches, andHalf a nice day.
Announcements:slack, F3 Dads Saturday@ Womble@9, quest q’s at Kenny’s grave and Disney.
Prayer:Moby’s family and father, crab legs medical treatment.

 

 

Squirkins While You Wait!

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EC: Dawgpound, Dumbo, LED, M4L

4 PAX showed up for EC this morning and the first leg of the Fritter. Good mumble chatter on the EC jog with LED and M4L circling back for the more “deliberate” runners – Dawgpound and Dumbo. 19 PAX showed up for the Main Event to get stronger today and discuss #f3MentalHealth.

Male Depression is a serious issue and I was glad to see the nation and the PAX take it seriously. YHC shared some stats and warning signs regarding depression and then several PAX shared how depression has touched their lives. I don’t think anyone left this morning without an increased awareness of this issue. We must be diligent in reaching out to our fellow F3 brothers and making sure we are all healthy – physically, mentally and emotionally. We must also go back into the community and be that same rock that someone needs. Take a minute and think about someone you know who might need a friend or someone to listen – you could be the difference!

Proverbs 17:17 – A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

Warm Up: Aquaman – SSH x30, Daisy Pickers x10 (Banana Seat is the only one who did it right), Fazzio Arm Circles x10 (front and back), Seal Claps x10, Burpee x5 OYO.

The Workout:
PAX paired up for the day. With your partner, run opposite directions around the tennis courts and do 5 Bropees (do an epic high-five with your partner on the jump of a Burpee) when you meet up. Bropees decreased until we got to 1 and made 3 laps. When finished, PAX waited under the light doing Squirkins (wheel barrow hold with one PAX doing Derkins then the other doing Squats using the first PAX legs as weight).

With all the PAX back together its time for a traditional Dora (100 Merkins, 200 LBCs and 300 Squats). One PAX does the exercise while the other runs to the entrance to the concession stand and back. As the pairs finished they were instructed to go to the center of the tennis courts and again do Squirkins while they waited on the 6.

The remainder of our time together was spent on the tennis courts. First the PAX had a Princess Tea Party (Patty Cake Merkins followed by People’s Chair using your partner as support). The first round consisted of 20 reps of each exercise followed by a sprint to the end of the tennis court and back. With all of the PAX remaining close together YHC decided we needed another round of 10 followed by an additional sprint. By this time we were really having a good time with our partner and learning some new exercises so YHC decided to wrap up with another instant classic, Lt. Get Ups (2 steps in a lunge walk followed by a Prisoner Get Up – think absolution but using your knees and not your elbows). We went from the middle of the tennis court to the end doing Lt. Get Ups and then bear crawled back to the center for Mary.

Mary: Aquaman – Low Slow Flutter x20, Box Cutter x20, Homer2Marge x20 then R leg x10 and L leg x10.

Announcements: Check social media

Prayer: Those traveling, those dealing with health issues and those dealing with mental health issues.

As we finished our extended COT and were leaving, Messi waited by the entrance to the tennis court to give every PAX leaving a fist bump. I don’t know about anyone else but that was just the thing I needed to put my day into high gear. Keep being that light in the world Messi – we need more of that!

It was an honor to lead you boys and I’ll try to do better next time. Thanks to my co-Q, Aquaman for taking warm up and Mary.

Face Catching Frisbee

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It was time to take out the frisbee for some Ultimate Frisbee. We had 15 PAX split into two teams, with a non-glow-in-the-dark frisbee and blinding parking lot lights for some face catching Ultimate.

Welcome FNG Nacho!

Warm Up: SSH, Good Mornings, and Quad stretches. That’s all you need when you play Ultimate
The Workout: Every time the frisbee hits the ground, we rotated with 5 each of Monkey Humpers, Star Jumps, Merkins, LBCs. The team that scored got to pick the 10x penalty for the other team while they enjoy 5 ranging from Diamond Merkins to Homer-to-Marge. There were some amazing plays with cheating shoves and tricks. But always a great time.
Mary: 4 minutes of Mary called out by various PAX
Announcements: Check Slack for latest, Convergence this weekend.
Prayer: Closed out by Gump for Jameson’s Family, sadly another suicide in the community, strength and healing

We Are Sparta

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EC: Dawgpound, Maybelline, Emeril, Pikachu, LED, Fonzie, Nemo

Warm Up:

Lap around the Soccer fields
Circle up for the following
Fazio Arm Circles
Good Mornings
Hillbillies
Imperial Walkers

The Workout:

From the Movie 300 the original 300 workout.

25 Pull-ups — Partner assisted
50 Deadlifts — with your KB and your Partners KB
50 Merkins
50 Box Jumps
50 Floor Wipers — These where tough.
50 KB Clean and Press (25 Each Arm)
25 Pull-ups

Mary:

10 KB Plank Pull throughs
10 Each Side Half Kneeling KB Chop
20 Reverse LBC with KB over head
10 Mini Turkish Getups each side
20 Pickle Pounders
20 Homer to Marge
10 KB Plank Pull throughs
10 Each Side Half Kneeling KB Chop
20 Reverse LBC with KB over head

Announcements:

Traveling to Whiplash tomorrow North Carolina Museum of Art.  6 o’clock start time.  Second F at Starbucks, Dawgpound’s treat for all South Wakers that post at the Whip. Clown Car leaves Purple Cobra Parking lot at 5:35

Prayer:

Moby’s dad recovering
Shredder
Crab Legs
Emeril’s Co-worker’s family for father in law had an aneurysm (Bella)

March Madness at Possum Trot

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Warm Up:  Twenty-six PAX came out on the first day of spring (low 40’s) fired up to take part in March Madness – Possum Trot style.  Inspired by Blue Hen from an earlier Q at Downtown Train, Dauber asked PAX to show up in their college team gear giving support to their favorite team.  Only four PAX brought their spirit representing UNC, Duke, Penn State and NC State by showing up in their gear.  There must have been a lot of dirty laundry or simple forgetfulness.  Not deterred, Q started the beat down on time with a jog around the tennis courts and then circling up for the following exercises:  32 SSH, 10 Good AM, 10 Vegetation Grabbers, 10 Hill Billies and 10 Imperial Walkers.  Q added some static arm stretches (L/R) across and behind the back for good measure.  PAX then headed to the Snack Shack.

 

The Workout:  PAX lined up against the outfield fence.  Jack Webbs were executed starting with one merkin and three air presses from our knees.  The count escalated until PAX reached 10 merkins and 30 air presses.  Who knew pushing air could be so hard?  Mosey to the Snack shack for 16 sec cadence count of seated chair followed by 16 sec cadence count of BTTW.  Rinse and repeat.  Mosey to the road and lined up in a single file.  PAX performed and kept a plank position or something similar to a plank while the last PAX member in line bear crawled to the front of the line.  PAX members each took a turn bear crawling until every PAX made it to the front.  Q called an audible only making it halfway up the road and had each PAX mosey to the rock pile for a medium-sized rock.  Lots of grumbling and mumble-chatter and in all honestly, Q was struggling during this “extended” exercise.  (If you cant do it, don’t Q it.). PAX circled up with rock in hand for the first set of the following exercises with rock:  16 goblet squats, 16 curls, 16 overhead presses and 16 tricep curls.  PAX side shuffled the distance of the parking lot swapping lead foot at the halfway point until they reached the large hill.  Q called a bear-crawl and then 8 dips OYO on the guradrail.  Reverse bearcrawl and jog back to the rocks.  The second set with the rocks included 16 rut-rows, 16 wonder bras, 16 overhead squats and 16 one hand on rock merkins (8L, 8R). An astute Skidmark corrected Q when he inadvertently called one-handed merkins.  Side shuffle back to the hill with more bearcrawls up the hills, 8 dips on guardrail OYO and jog back.  Q queried PAX about significance of the day (first day of Spring, officially starting at 5:58PM, etc.) and threw in 5 burpees OYO before starting next set.  Called out four PAX who had their collegiate school gear on asking them to call the next set of exercises:  Cupid called crableg grab (apologies for forgetting name); Banana Seat called for Turkish get-ups on each side and Skidmark called for the iconic Bobby Hurleys.  Dauber was too busy looking at his watch trying to grab another set in before Mary to complete the four bracket challenge and sent the PAX shuffling to the hill.  More bear crawl up and down with dips on the guardrail OYO.  Unfortunately, Dauber did not manage the clock properly and asked PAX to form up on the tennis courts for Mary after returning their rocks back to the rock pile.

Mary:  PAX held BTTW until the six.  Mary was brief with the following 10 count core exercises:  Homer to Marge, Box cutters, Freddie Mercury and American Hammers.

Announcements:  Q school Thursday at Womble, Yard clean-up Sunday at Crab Legs, Police/Firefighter hockey game, Check Announcements on FB/Slack

Prayer:  Pastor died at a local congregation (please keep him, his family and the faith formation in your prayers), PAX traveling, PAX inured – Welcome back to the gloom Buford, Moby’s dad (doing better), Silent/Unspoken.  Apologies if I missed anything.  Q took us out.

Highlight on the 6:  Something new for this BB.  I wanted to find out more about a PAX member.  This week’s focus is on Maybelline, Todd Pasnak.  Studied at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), big Syracuse fan, Married to a second grade school teacher, blessed with two boys age 15 & 12 and a daughter who is 4.  Works as a project manager at Cody in Sanford.  Got his F3 name because he was responsible for the Covergirl account.

Maybelline

 

Thank for the opportunity to lead you men.  -Dauber

Mutiny+Burpees= Lots of Mumble Chatter

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PAX: LED, Fonzie, Puddles, Cupid, H1N1, Messi, Gump, Stovepipe, Modify, FedEx

EC: LED, Fonzie

 

Warm Up: After a lap around the track we circled up for SSH IC x 25, Fazio Arm Circles IC 10 Fwd and 10 Rev,  Daisy Pickers IC x 10, Stretches, and Shoulder Tap Merkins IC x 20

The Workout:

Pax ran over to the parking lot where we bear crawl 5 lines, do a burpee, sprint back to the start, bear crawl 5 lines, do 2 burpees, sprint back to the start, etc… Told the Pax to keep adding a burpee till we reach 10 burpees. We started off great but had to call an audible when we all reached 8 burpees.

After a Messi 10 count, like only he knows how, we headed to the rock pile. After picking appropriate rocks we circled up for circuits of: curls for the girls IC x 10, tricep extensions IC x 10, overhead press IC x 10, rut rows IC x 10, LBC with rock IC x 10, American Hammers w/o rock IC x 10 and some other excercises I can’t remember.

After a couple of circuits, including one on our knees, we put it all together with a flow of squat, curl for the girls, overhead press, tricep extension IC x 10. Rinse and repeat. We put the rocks back and lined up for an Indian Run to the tennis court for Mary.

Mary: Plank it out, Diamond Merkins x 10
Announcements: Check Slack
Prayer: H1N1 and Cupid are traveling this week, Stargazer, and the founding/lead pastor at H1N1 church passed away over the weekend

45 minute Abs

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16 pax showed up on brisk 34 degree day. 8 for EC.  Was a pleasure to lead this am.  Thanks for the support.

Warm Up:Jog over bridge to lot. 20 SSH IC, 10 Good Morning, 20 Fazio arm circles, 10 IW, 10 Hillbillies, some hip and lower back stretches, 20 LBC IC.
The Workout:On side of hill did clock merkins 5 each at 12, 3,6,9,9,6,3,12.  7’s – 7 lbcs, run up hill backwards, 7 dips. 7 times.back over bridge to rock pile.  Did some sort of Indian run jack webb. In a line we did 1 curl 3 overhead press, passed rock to left and repeat until through the line. To tennis courts we went. Circled up and did Captain Therkins to 7. 1 big boy sit-up,4 American hammers IC, 5 merkins. Repeat to 2,8. 3,12 etc.. 10 burpees, 10 heels to heaven, 10 Freddie mercurys, 20 one leg homer to marge.

Mary: was incorporated in workout.
Announcements:carpex F3 dads 9am bond park, March 30th convergence pulley park 7am 6am EC.
Prayer: fedex son Stargazer, shredder, crablegs and his buddy’s family. 9 yr old Jameson( movement to perform random acts of kindness this week). All other non communicated prayers.

I apologize id I missed something

U-Turn

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Warm Up:8Pax’s showed up as the rest of the group got ready for the half and full at Wilmington.
The Workout:standard U-turn
Mary:NA
Announcements:Wilmington Race today
Prayer:The family of crab legs buddy that past away yesterday. Injury free race for the Pax. 1st responders.

11 Guys came out to sing the famous song, “The woods are alive with the sound of… Spring Peepers!!!”

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Warm Up

A fun jog around Clubworx to circle up in the roundabout for warm up consisting of: SSH, daisy pickers, good mornings, imperial walkers and various stretches

 

The Workout

Jog to the tennis courts

Bear crawl, merkin suicides (somebody called “Gents on the Fence” as the waiting on the 6 exercise… I’m sure it was Banana Seat)

Duck walk, LBC suicides (Please note that R22 called “Burpees” as our waiting on the 6 exercise this go round)

Jog to the rock pile

Rotating rock exercises consisting of curls for the girls, ruh rows, shoulder press, shoulder taps and triceps extensions) with a jog around the circle as the time keeper

11’s with dips and derkins under the pavilion

 

Mary

WWII and Have a Nice Days (with meditation, prayer and reflection)

 

Announcements

Wrightsville this weekend and U-Turn will still be open

7th Annual F3 Raleigh Mule is on Saturday

NC Spring Classic 8K and 16K April 27th. Get 10% off with F3SW2019

 

Prayer Request

Crab Legs; DD and Shredder and other injured brothers

Little Squirts

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8:40 on a cool, wet Saturday morning and Bluehen, Hard Hat, Speed Racer, Emeril, Potter, Q-Bert walked throughout Womble planning the first of many monthly 2.0 workouts.  Pucks, ropes, hoola-hoops and flags were spread throughout the park.  Around 8:50 the PAX and their 2.0’s started to trickle in.   Quite a few 2.0’s had already been to some workouts and had names but there was a big group of FNG 2.0’s in the mix.  A great first turn-out.

 

Warm Up:  Quick jog around the tennis courts.  Time to get the 2.0’s riled up.  First exercise Fortnite’s Hype kicked off by Bluehen.  Second exercise Floss led by Q-Bert.  Into evolution of Kid:  Planks, Monkey Humpers, Squats, Duck Walk, Butt Kicks, High Knees, Jumping Jacks

The Workout:

Jog down to back parking lot. Emeril pointed the 2.0’s onto one of 2 sides of the parking lot.   Bin full of hockey pucks in between the groups.  1 2.0 per team ran to the pin and retrieved a hockey puck and returned and dropped it into the hoola hoop circle.  While the kids raced to grab a puck the PAX did push-ups and squats.  Emeril brought more pucks than he thought so at one point 2.0’s were asked to grab 2 and then 3 pucks at a time.   Yellow card was ready to move on to a new exercise so him and a couple other 2.0’s grabbed the bin and brought it back to their side.  Automatic disqualification for his team and 10 SSH as punishment.

Next up bear crawl capture the flag

PAX put in their flags and bear crawled up the parking lot while the 2.0’s ran around capturing their flags and taking them back to the hoola hoop circle.  2.0’s quickly won.  10 burpees to the PAX as punishment.
2.0’s were up next as they put the flags on and did a duck walk while the dad’s did a 1 legged hop to try to catch them.  2.0’s won so 10 burpees to the PAX as punishment.

3 sets of indian runs back to the tennis courts area for 2.0’s vs PAX in Tug a War.  Matches started with multiple 2.0’s on one end and Flanigan on the other.  2.0’s won.  5 Merkins for the PAX.  Second match pitted Moby, Beater and Bubba vs teh 2.0’s.  2.0’s won. 5 Merkins for the PAX.  Third match pitted 6-7 PAX vs the 2.0’s.  2.0’s won again.  Everyone does 5 Merkins

Mary:

LBC’s,  Boat Canoe’s
Announcements:

See Slack channel for announcements
Prayer:

Dovetail took us out