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
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Next Workout: Same Damn thing (only different)
Background: A buddy recently started working out and told me he did a “fitness test” as a barometer. I wondered how I’d fare on that test, but I certainly wasn’t going to work out on my own, so figured I’d start Cletus with the test. Thus, the warmup!
We started with the disclaimer for 2 FNG’s (nice job!), guaranteed we wouldn’t leave them behind, then tore off at a 7 minute pace for the warmup (thanks to the awesome Pax who stayed with the Six)
Warm Up:
As fast as possible, do
- 1/2 mile
- 50 SSH
- 40 Squats
- 30 WWII
- 20 Merkins
- 10 Burpees
Time: 7 min, 6 sec.
Result: YHC was smoked and the rest of the workout was pulling from fumes
Warm Up Part Dos:
20 SSH, 20 Squat Jumps, 20 WWII, 20 Merkins, at a much more reasonable pace
The Workout:
Pt 1:
Indian run to the rocks. Grab a stationary curling rock and circle up around the volleyball courts.
- Squat Hold, Overhead Press Rock. First one in circle throws rock to sand, does a burpee, then runs a lap around the court. Second man follows after the burpee. Repeat until all have run a lap
- Same damn thing, only this time curling the rock
- SDT, only this time triceps extensions.
Recover with a round of Guantanamo Leg Raises
Followed by Bull Frogs
- Back to volleyball circle, only this time second man starts after the rock throw (Before burpee)
- SDT, curling
- SDT, triceps
Mosey to playground
Pt 2:
Groups of 4 for 3 rounds of:
- Pullups
- Merkins
- WWII
- Sprint to rock wall (acts as timer for the group)
Mary:
- 13 Russian American Hammers
- 13 Box Cutters
- 13 R-A Hammers
- 13 Freddy Mercury
- 13 R-A Hammers
Make it stop, please. Ended right on time.
Announcements:
CSAUP coming up. Ask Pikachu, he’ll be on slack
Skid Mark was our Six and shared awesome words of what F3 has meant for him this year. Invited a half dozen + guys, one today, and several of those guys are still going strong. Awesome job dude, and great getting to know you.
Welcome aboard FNGs: Vespa, Big Wheel
Prayer:
Brexit’s Michigan friend badly burned, but hanging on; Troops overseas and at home; Crab Legs.
Five & Dime, a trip back in time
YHC was feeling a little nostalgic planning out the workout for today. Hearkening back to a simpler time years gone by I was reminded of the old Five & Dimes. You younger Pax will have no recollection of anything other than the super Walmarts, Targets, etc. Oh well, let’s plan some 5 & 10’s for the workout. 17 Pax posted this morning including 1 FNG.
Warm Up: Disclaimer given and we were off out of the park for tour of downtown Fuquay. Stopped for some Moroccan night clubs, Fozzio’s, squatted T-claps & Imp. walkers all in cadence.
The Workout: 20 dips on the guardrails followed by 30 derkins got us off to a good start. Mosey run toward downtown with a couple of stops for the 1st of several 5 & dimes to include burpees & big boy step ups at the flag poles. A trip over the the Aviators WIDE brick walkway for a round of rail crawls with each Pax bear crawling under the other Pax back to the start point. More step ups followed by yet more Irkins all in cadence before heading across the street for a round of Balls to the Wall with Pax bear crawls from start to end. Followed by a round of 20 IC Balls to wall of Australian mountain climbers. Then partnered up for two rounds of 5 & dimes across the parking lot to include Monkey Humpers and burpees with partner wheel barrows in between each exercise. Found the iron hand rails for a couple of partner up Type Writers / 10 squat star jumps x 2 rounds. Mosey on back toward the park but not before stopping for another set of 5 & dimes of burpees and merkins.
Mary: YHC once again called out for any Pax who had been posting less than 3 months to raise his hand. Dovetail, H1N1, and Pablo were called out to lead Mary on the spot but not before they were shared with the importance of being ready in season and out of season to take the lead by YHC. This is what F3 is about; building male leadership in the home, work place, church, etc. Pablo x 20 flutter kicks IC, H1N1 x 20 LBC’s IC, Dovetail x 20 seated bicycles 10 forward / 10 reverse IC. All three men executed the IC exercises like a veteran.
Announcements: Upcoming Kenny’s Grave AO resurrection tomorrow morning at 5:30 at South Park. Upcoming CSAUP Sasquatch in Greenville on the 7-28.
Naming of FNG Rodney – Now known as Coyboy. Name-o-Rama followed by short message from YHC of making time for ourselves by simplifying areas of our lives that we are overextended in and knowing when to simply say no in order keep our lives a little less stressful.
Prayer: Safe travels for Natty Ice and family, Crab Legs, Brexit’s friend in burn center out of state. YHC took us out in prayer.
U-Turn sponsored by Shoes & Brews
Ask and you shall receive! 21 men posted at U-Turn. Warm up include IW, Hilbilies, good mornings, fozio arm circles.
Nice run with turn backs
Prayers for Bufors, those injured a d recovering Draper, Doible D, 187
Plan for more stretching next week and some organized training and scout runs
Patriot Games
33 men completed the Patriot Games workout and celebrated our nation’s independence.
3 FNGs:welcome midstick,waterboy, and cliffhanger
Announcements: F3 dad’s camp, Kid Cracker has tickets
Prayers: Crablegs, Pax dealing with injuries, families, marriages, military, great discussion about how F3 has impacted us and how each of us use it in our daily lives, the community is watching us be better men and make our community better, read Freed to Lead
Backblast thingamajig
QIC: Sliderule
FNG in attendance, so disclaimer was given, prompt start at 5:45
Warm Up
Reverse Indian Run w/ Burpees to start. We’ve done this several times at Cletus. Apparently Brony and Peak Week never managed to attend when it happened, though. Therefore, there was much mumble chatter and complaining. The exercise itself is straightforward. Pax runs in a line, front man sprints to back. When he reaches the back, he calls “DOWN” and entire Pax drops for a burpee. Repeat. Apparently, this extended beyond the capabilities of some of our veteran pax.
So, Audible ⅔ of the way around the soccer fields to do:
Fence work: 10 Derkins on each rung alternating with 10 count BTTW or People’s Chair.
Partner Carry back to parking lot (~ 80 yards), then switch partners to fence across street
Thang Pt 1
Typewriter on the wooden fence, alternating height, derkins, side to side.
Thang Pt 2
11’s on the hill. 10x Burpees at the bottom, run up the hill backwards, 1x Derkin at the top. Go until Lucky Charms finished. I think I made it to 4 burpees. This was the pinnacle of “You vs. You”. Lucky lapped me (and pretty much everyone else) before I made it up the hill twice.
Bear Crawl the parking lot back to the gate. Speedsters went to go get a “curling rock” and meet us at the playground. Slower guys did an Indian Run the long way around the soccer fields.
Thang Pt 3
Split into groups of 4 for 3 rounds of the following:
Pax 1: AMRAP pullups
Pax 2: AMRAP curls
Pax 3: AMRAP triceps extensions
Pax 4 (timer): 10x merkins
Rotate through the exercises 3x each.
Some guys return the rocks, others head to tennis courts. First ones to the courts do wheelbarrows & everyone bear crawls in the six.
Mary:
Freddy Mercury, 10x forward, 10x backward. 6 inch / 45 degree / 6 inch leg hold.
COT
Our Six in COT was Crosby. Dude came out this winter for the first time and got named for his love of the Capitals (was rocking a Caps sweatshirt). He quickly got his comeuppance with them winning the Cup this year, much to the chagrin of a half dozen Pens fans who named him. After attending 1x/week for a couple months, Crosby has been killing it lately and even attended the pre-Cletus Murph. It’s awesome to see him get involved and invite his friends. Might be time for him to step up and Q soon! We’re better because you’re here, Crosby, keep it up, dude!!!
Announcements
1776 Workout July 4th @ Disney. Ugh.
Ongoing prayers for Crab Legs
It’s a Long Road Ahead
So, after 2 years of being with F3 I finally got the balls to lead a workout. Thanks, Double D for going on vacation and giving me a chance to lead the men through the grind.
Warm Up:
Jog around the tennis court
15 Side Straddle Hop
15 Hillbillies
15 Imperial Walkers
10 Fozzy Arm Circles Regular
10 Fozzy Arm Circles Reverse
10 Good Mornings
10 Copperhead Squat
The Thang: Ten station workout all the way down the Possum Trot road
Station 1 Burpee x 10
Station 2 Rock Curls x 20
Station 3 Merkins x 15
Station 4 American Hammer with Rocks x 20
Station 5 Bobby Hurley x 20
Station 6 World War II x 20
Station 7 Plank Jacks x 20
Station 8 Morning Wood 10 Left / 10 Right
Station 9 Mountain Climbers x 20
Station 10 Monkey Humpers x 20
Sprint Back to the start (Station 1)
THANG ROUND 2 with adding 5 more reps to each station
No Man was left behind!!!!! Everyone picked up the six!
THE WALL
10 Donkey Kicks
15 count – People’s Chair arms out
10 count – Balls to Wall
15 count – People’s Chair arms up
Mary:
20 LBCs (I know we only had time for 1)
COT:
Prayer Request – Pikachu has a job interview and pray for F3 vets to get back out. Let’s reach back out to the guys and get them back in the grind.
Cletus – Like Clock Work
Warmup: Jog to East Parking Lot, Side Straddle Hop, Moroccan Night Clubs, Imperials, Windmill and arm stretches.
Main Event:
Jog to Main Stage – Box Jumps/Monkey Humps – 3 sets @ 20
Jog to Side Softball parking lot – Around the Clock (using the parking blocks) Clockwise at each exercise, Dips, Erkins and Derkins – 3 sets @ 20 shuffling down Spiderman style to the next parking block.
Dora – 50 Dimond Merkins, 100 LBC and 100 Squats
Rock Clock – around the clock, each PAX called out Qty and exercise with rocks
Mary: Ab work outs: WWII, Freddy Mercury, Merkins, American Hammers
COT:
Announcements: Convergence July 4th at Disney (Middle Creek), Arena today @ 2:30 – see Pikachu’s post on FB if interested.
Prayers: Awesome brother CrabLegs, Unspoken
Parking lot Heavy Weights
16 posted @ the Possum Trot in the heat & humidity of another hot Carolina morning in June.
Warm up: Q led by Farva for SSH, IW, Hillbillies, G-mornings, Fazios all IC
The Workout: Pax lined up for a 1-2 count off then bear crawled to their respective pain stations at opposite ends of parking lot. Before YHC could lead the Pax in a 10 count of merkins, Pikachu jumped the gun causing a penalty thereby leading to 20 merkins. Upon bear crawling to each groups pain stations, Pax each proceeded to carry or flip tires to opposite end of parking lot. Stations consisted of farmers carry of 2 40lb water jugs, 2 40lb cinder blocks, flanked and rolled 3″ fire hose, 40lb barbell, large flippin’ tire, medium flippin’ tire, 2 shoulder carry tires, pallet, and slosh pipe. Pax without weights to move stayed back and completed merkins & LBC’s waiting for their turn. Upon reaching end of parking lot Pax bear crawled large hill to complete 20 count of Irkins, Derkins, dips on the guard rail the crawl bear back down hill. Rinse & repeat x 2. After 2 completed hill climbs of the above, the remaining time was used to continue moving weights back and forth across parking lot. The Pax held various forms of plank waiting on the six. Upon finishing, YHC called for a sprint from opposite end of parking lot to the base of hill for another round of Irkins, Derkins, & dips at the top. Since Pikachu had found fault with YHC’s earlier merkin count of 10 it was decided to rinse and repeat the hill work once again! Mosey on over to tennis courts for Mary.
Mary: Farva & YHC decided together to call out a Pax who had never led Mary. Noah’s Ark raised his hand and took center court like a pro leading us in 20 modified Freddy Mercurys IC, followed by 10 Pickle Pounders and 20 WWII’s.
Announcements: Upcoming July 4th 1776 convergence at Womble, up and coming AO for Yoga and Kenny’s Graveyard, and Wake County finally approved the South Wake Park project coming to Crooked Creek.
Name-o-rama
Prayer requests: Crablegs to have continued strength
COT: YHC shared the Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have done unto you and what that looks like when we all encounter less than desirable situations involving people including family that say or do things that hurt us or rub us the wrong way. React in a way that will demonstrate the love and kindness of Christ in the situations. Noah’s Ark and YHC shared a short testimony how easily we can become agitated and react with the wrong attitude. Let this not be said of us F3 men. YHC led us out in prayer.
Fuquay Frisbee Challenge
We had a 11 PAX for an unsuspecting game of Ultimate Frisbee. It was time for Fuquay to host a game on another very humid morning.
Warm Up: We were excited to get to the field so we did some quick warm-up stretches prior to the workout starting.
The Workout: We divided teams into gray shirts (5) and other shirts (6). Each time the frisbee was dropped we did 3 Merkins the first half and 4 Squats during the 2nd half. The team that scored chose the exercise (10 for the non-scoring team and 5 for the scoring team). The exercises were picked by the scorer: Merkins, Leg raises, SSH, Star jumps, LBCs, WWII. For the Merkin challenge we officially count 105. There were some great plays out there for several that have never played before!
Mary: We gathered for less than 6 minutes of Mary with around the horn of stretching and abs only.
Announcements: July 4th Convergence, A Yoga AO starting up mid July
Prayer: Beater lifted up a friend that suddenly passed at the age of 42, prayers for Draper, DoubleD, and CrabLegs