U-Turn 8_11_18
Warm Up: We warmed up
The Workout: We ran. 5-6 miles
Mary: Stretched with some Yoga moves by M4L
Announcements: Can’t remember
Prayer: Can’t remember
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Rip rap a throwin’
Shovel flag planted and mumble chatter ensued awaiting the start.
Warm Up: Quick couple laps around tennis courts then down to the concession stand area for round of exercises consisting of GM’s, hamstring stretches, downward dogs, SSH’s & Michael Phelps
The Workout: Round of Dips & Diamond Irkins IC on the wall between fields. Mosey over to the bleachers for a round of steps up to warm up the legs. Mosey on over to the hill between the two fields for elevens of star jumps at the top and burpees at the bottom. Bear crawl the hill in between. A quick balls to the wall along the fence while PAX on end bears crawls back to the opposite end. Recover on the mosey up to the rip rap rock ditch and choosing the largest rocks available. Cusac over the wood line and form one long line across. YHC demonstrated an exercise earlier experienced at an F3Grandstrand AO on the beach. Each PAX would squat then stand and thrust their rock as far forward as possible then lunge walk to it and rinse and repeat. Returned rocks for another day and moseyed on over to tennis courts.
Mary: YHC called on several PAX to lead Mary for rounds of American Hammers, Pickle Pounders, Fireman pole climbs, LSF’s, WWII’s, Merkins, and Superman stretches. Count-o-rama then name-o-rama.
Announcements: Upcoming 5 year SouthWake anniversary convergence at Possum Trot on 5-29-18. Carpex CSAUP in October, The Odyssey
Prayer: Requests to remember Crab Legs, H1N1, Fedex’s M seeking work, YHC father and family. YHC took us out in prayer.
Roadie Training w/Crosby
Warm Up: Circle up Tennis court.
20 – SSH
10 – Good Mornings
Arms across chest 10 count each side
Arms over head 10 count each side
Jog to check out the stations & Explain.
The Workout:
1- Heavy bag(80lbs.) Carry & sprint end of tennis court and back (over head claps/hold plank/Squat while in line)
2- Heavy Rock (French Curls) 10 rep 30lbs
3- Light Rock ( Curls ) 10 rep w/rocks
4-Alt Rock ( lateral raise ) 7’s 10 or 5 lbs. Weights
5-Jail break (The Fence line)
6-Step ups (down stone wall)
7- Duck walk squats(Mick Jagger’s) around snack bar
8- Jail break (The Fence line back to tennis courts)
9-Suicides( pick up the mic) Tennis courts touch outside line of each court and back. Used 2 courts.
REPEAT WHOLE THING 3x’s
Mary: Every other PAX called a 5 count
Diamond Merkins
American Hammers
Merkins
Steel cross
Box cutters
LBC
More Merkins!
SSH
I may have missed a few..
Announcements: 5 year anniversary of South Wake Workout Aug 29 @ Possum Trot!
Prayer: Lucky Charm, Crab Legs, H1N1, DD family
Loading Up the Animals 2×2 on the Ark
VQ Noah’s Ark led them 2×2 before the rain came. 12 pax followed the lead.
Warm Up: Good mornings, cotton pickers, L arm/R arm stretches, LOR/ROL hamstring stretches, FOC, and SSH
The Workout: Ran lap around track to bleachers. All pax 10 count of erkins, derkins, dips , and step-ups. Mosey to 1st shelter for a 5 count typewriter on the brick x3. Mosey to rock pile to get medium size rock (unless you’re Lipsync and you favor Minnesota). John Cusak to the rear parking lot for bear bowling ( bear crawl pushing rock) to end of lot 4x stopping at each end for an exercise. 1.) 5 burpees, 2.) 10 lunges, 3.) 15 merkins, 4.) 20 squats. Front runners picking up the 6. With all in a line with rocks, 1st pax carries 5 gallon bucket filled with rocks to other side of lot and back while each pax takes turn calling a rock exercise until all have carried the bucket. Return rocks and then Indian run back to tennis courts with last guy carrying the bucket of rocks to the front. BTW with each pax crawling through the tunnel.
Mary: Freddie Mercury’s, Pickle pounders, LSF, box cutters, and American hammers.
Announcements:
Prayer: Double D, unspoken, those with injuries, and the men & women that have fought for our freedom to come together as we do.
Thank You
A big thank for everyone posting at u-turn. 18 men posted this morning. Great numbers on Saturday mornings.
Warm Up: IW, Hillbillies, SSH, Good Mornings
The Workout: u-turn in reverse
Mary:
Announcements:
Prayer: foghorn
The Hills Were Alive at Possum Trot – 19 Strong PAX
Warm Up: Ran one loop around tennis courts circling up in parking lot for 20 SSH, 10 Cotton-Pickers, 10 Windmills, 10 Hillbillies, 10 Imperial Walkers, Good Mornings and 10 Arm Cicles (front & back)
The Workout: PAX partnered up (size did not matter); one PAX grabbed a medium to large rock and made one line across the parking lot. One partner began bear crawling to midway of parking lot pushing the rock while other partner skipped. Changed roles at midpoint of parking lot and proceeded to the hill. At the bottom of the hill, Dauber instructed PAX to send one partner up the hill – bear crawling. Once they reached the top of the hill, each PAX performed a 7 count of either Derkins, Erkins or Dips on the guardrail OYO. After completion, PAX carefully headed down the hill taking the rock over from their partner. While one member was bear crawling, the other partner performed a rock exercise; each rock exercise consisted of 8-12 reps. The exercise was called out by one PAX rotating up and down the line. PAX were very creative calling out curls, squats, O/H presses, chest presses, squat presses…ONE caveat, the rock could never touch the ground unless it was a part of the called exercise or Dauber called Recover/Rest. If rock touched the ground, PAX performed 5 burpees. Additional exercises were added with the rock from the six including, presses, WWIIs, Homer to Marge, etc. Dauber called an audible and had each PAX run one lap around the tennis court while their partner continued with rock exercises. Once one lap was completed, PAX swapped roles. PAX helped bring in the six and began some core exercises started with planks, shoulder taps, merkins, diamond merkins, etc. PAX returned rocks and met up in the tennis courts. B2Wall and Al Gores until all PAX lined up for an impromptu monkey hoppers/grabbers. More running ensued using the tennis courts and finished with alligator merkins to the end of the first court. PAX and Q spent.
Mary: Each PAX called out a 10-rep core exercise that began with box-cutters and end with burpees OYO. At least 8 exercises were performed before running out of time.
Announcements: CSAUP Greenville – Car pool if able
Prayer: Double D spoke from the heart. Strong message. We hear about “thoughts and prayers”; if you look at some cable TV or social media posts, these powerful words are often dismissed. Thay’s pure bunk. These are very powerful words. When they are spoken, they have powerful meaning and greatly help that person. Double D asked for prayers for a child who suffered a terrible accident; prayers of thanks/praise for a successful surgery; H1N1 recovery; final thoughts – loneliness is a killer, F3 brings men together…keep your eyes open for those who need F3.
PAX did great today! Super job with the hill and rock exercises!
PAX included: LED, Breech, 8-Bit? (2.0), Double-D, Farva, Vespa, Deadbolt, Gump, Mookie, Midget 4 Life, Stovepipe, R-22, 187, Nemo, Noah’s Ark, Butterfingers, FedEx, The Natural and your Q – Dauber (19 strong)
Possum Trot Circuit
Warm Up: Started with a jog around the tennis courts, down to the baseball fields, and back to the parking lot where we circled up. Standard warmup of side straddle hops, imperial walkers, good mornings, forward and reverse arm circles, as well as some Michael Phelps.
The Workout: partner up (size doesn’t matter) and everyone grab a rock. Set the rocks up in two lines headed down the parking lot (set up for station 2 complete). Jog down to the wall and concession stand to demo station 3. Back up to the parking lot to begin.
The buy in is each partner runs around the parking lot doing 10 patty cake merkins when meeting on each side.
Station 1 – agility drill using lines in the parking lot
station 2 – proceed to rocks, one partner on each side and work your way through the 9 rock stations with whatever you choose without immediate repeats. Pax hold plank if there is a line behind the first rock.
station 3 – 1 partner does step ups or box jumps on the wall while the other bear crawls to the stand and back. Switch and repeat.
rinse and repeat stations 1-3 until time is called
Mary: consisted of pax calling out 10 rep exercises until time.
Announcements: Sasquatch, Benson launch this Saturday, Dauber will lead next week for a bday Q, Stovepipe will lead the following week.
Prayer: Closed in prayer to be better men, brothers, husbands, and leaders in our community. Also prayed for several requests mentioned including healing due to injuries and illnesses.
4 year F3 Anniversary at Cletus
YHC hit the fartsack last night with an irritated eye. I hoped that a good 5 hour nights sleep would cure this. YHC woke a little early for Extra credit (4am) and right eye pain was killing me. A quick trip to Harris Teeter to waste some money on eye drops that did nothing. Well… I figured I was going to be in eye pain anyway – so why not take my mind off it with some total body pain. I said screw it – lets post.
This morning, I was celebrating 4 years of F3. It took about 18 months of emotional headlocking for Chase (Gnard Dogg) to convince me to try my first workout at Womble Park. I will never forget this workout – Key West was my Q and I think Peak Week, Blue Hen, Moby, New Mexico and Howard were all there to name me. I did not think I would make it through without quitting. I remember doing a jacobs ladder with burpees in the baseball outfield. This morning, I wanted to celebrate with one of my best memories of a hard ass workout. The Bearway to heaven.
About 7-8 gathered for EC to hear me bitch about my eye. None of that matters as 5:15a hit and we were off. We did about 2 miles with many doing a little more as they circled back to get the 6 (YHC). We had 187 and Skid Mark even join us AFTER their Murph (BEAST)
PAX:
Emeril, Deadbolt, Patch, Kid Cracker, Peak Week, Brony, R22, Peeping Tom, The Dawgpound, Mookie, 187, Butterfinger, M4L, Flannigan, Slide Rule, Foghorn, Skidmark, Pablo, Luck Charms, New Mexico, Yogi, Yogurt, Doc, Hasselhoff, Nemo, Cowboy, Beach, 8Bit, Lip Stick, Banana Seat, Da Business, Forceps, The Natural, Roger Roger, Noah’s Ark, Gump, Double D, LED, Fed Ex, POTS, PSI, Vespa, Red Pill
Warm Up:
Grab the official Southwake Shovel Flag (T Claps to Howard for making it and entrusting me with it) and head to the large field to circle up for warm ups. We had WAAAAY more pax than I anticipated. Someone ran by me an said – “were you planning on 40” – I remember thinking – I am barely hear and can barely see out of my right eye 🙂
Anyway – we circled up
- SSH x 20
- Good Mornings x 15
- Standard Merkins x 20
- Imperial + Hill Billy (10 each = 20)
- 5 Burpee OYO
- Fazio Arm Circles 10F 10R
- Recover on the jog to the shelter by the soccer fields and bathrooms
The Workout:
THANG 1: Pass the Pill
- Count of by 2s to divide the pax into two groups
- Indian Runs (clockwise and counter clockwise) around soccer field with back pax carrying a 25 pound weight as he runs to the front
- Pax then carefully passes the weight to the back – man by man – repeat while indian running
- We had 20+ in each group so it took nearly 1.75 laps to get it done.
- Head to Hunt center field for next
THANG 2: Bearway to Heaven
- 40 pax in a line along the side line of soccer field
- 7 cones set up about 20 feet apart
- Bear crawl to 1st cone – 7 burpees – run back
- Bear crawl to 2nd cone – 6 burpees – run back
- Bear crawl to 3rd cone – 5 burpees – run back
- Bear crawl to 4th cone – 4 burpees – run back
- Bear crawl to 5th cone – 3 burpees – run back
- Bear crawl to 6th cone – 2 burpees – run back
- Bear crawl to 7th cone – 1 burpee – run back
- Thanks to the pax for picking the 6 (me) up
Recover on the jog back to the flag for mary / COT
Mary:
- LBC Ladder (in cadence)
- 5, 10, 15, 20 – 20, 15, 10, 5)
- Hand release Merkins x 10
- we’re done!
Announcements:
Yogi mentioned pax member running 26 hours in honor of bing sober for 26 years
F3 Greenville is having a CSAUP “Sasquach” next weekend – real all about it here – http://www.f3enc.com/backblasts/csaup/2018-sasquatch-pre-blast/ – clown cars forming
Prayers:
Prayers for many pax including
- Boy George M
- Doube D Father – ailing health
- Pablo’s 2.0 – out patient surgery
- Crablegs
- Rams (foot)
- H1N1 (MCL/ACL)
Naked Moleskin:
Thanks to everyone for 4 of the best years of my life. I never thought that I would get THIS much out of F3.
- I feel I am in the best shape of my adult life
- I’ve ran 4 half marathons
- Made 100s of new true friends
- Made great strides in my spiritual walk
- Became a much better husband and father
- Became a better leader at work
- this list could go on…
Here’s to 4 more!
The Dauber Deception
We had a PAX of 12 for an impromptu game of Ultimate Frisbee (we are hooked)…sorry Pikachu! Welcome FNG Butter Fingers!
Warm Up: It’s called Ultimate Frisbee.
The Workout: Two teams of 6 played in the dark with lots of drops. Each drop we did 3 Merkins during the first half and 5 squats the last half. Each team that scored called out an exercise of 10 from LBC, Freddie Mercuries, Star Jumps, and more Merkins among many others. The faster the exercises are completed, the faster the offense can out maneuver the defense.
The score was close (always within 2 😉 ) but in the closing minutes, the other team pulled a “Dauber Deception” by throwing the kickoff out of bounds and faking the other team out by planking. This caused confusion and the last throw was sent sailing out of bounds to end the game.
Mary: Lots of abs during the game.
Announcements: Kenny’s Grave on Thursday mornings, new Yoda AO is scheduled to start up Tues July 23. Working on specific details to follow. Dauber turns 50 next week!
Prayer: Brexit’s friend. Reach out to those PAX we haven’t seen in a while. Gump closed in prayer.
U Turn BB
Warm Up: lite mosey, high knees, ass kickers, IW, Hillbillies, good mornings
The Workout: fartlek runs
Mary: stretch oyo
Announcements: ground pounder, coffee
Prayer: Crablegs birthday, forceps mother in law