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Wood Chuckin’

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FNGs: None

Warm Up: 25 SSH; Bat wings: 15 Sir Fozio forwards, 15 backwards, 15 seal claps, 15 overhead claps; Jack Webbs to 10. Arms and shoulders are awake now. 

Been eyeballing the handrails outside the gym entrance since the middle school was finished. We did a sideways bear crawl up and around three times. 

Found some curb and did about 50 yards of fancy feet 

Main event: Everyone selected a log from thestack. Lined up for John Cusack (overhead carry) Indian run the long way around the elementary school, arriving at the track. During the pain, we all got a chuckle out of several wood references along the way, including Morning Wood and Major Wood. Had to modify from the overhead carry. Shoulders were toast. 

Tossed log over the fence and hopped in. Lined up on soccer end line. H1N1 explained the soccer term, end line. 

First pass: Lunge walked with log. Really we were just scoping out the log toss. I wanted to make sure there were no sprinkler heads. Didn’t see any. Learned that Wide Right played high school football and played both offensive and defensive line. 

Second pass: Throw your log as far as you can, run up to it and do a burpee. Rinse and repeat until you reach the other end line. Fram led  the way. Saw a cigarette butt in the middle of the field. 

Third pass: Mosey with another overhead press? Followed by 15 bus drivers in cadence. Shoulders are feeling good now!

Looked down at my watch and it was 6:05 already. 

OK, time for some SPRINTS! Moseyed to start line. I marked several intervals along the way. We did four intervals. Not very clean starts, but solid effort by all. 

Mary: We had 1 minute for low slow flutter. Have a nice day. 

Announcements: Highway cleanup Saturday after GroundPounder. 

T-Claps (Recognition): This group worked hard today!

Prayer: Finkle’s brother (separation), Rico’s son (noggin), H2N1 family (lost grandmother recently)

A mutiny happened at Mutiny and @Rico is not yet a grandpa!

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PAX: @Finkle, @Rico, @Rubiks, @FlipPhone, @Breach, @Fumunga, @Winnebago, @H1N1, @LED

FNG: @Buffalo aka @Don Ross

Warm-up: 

Good Mornings in cadence, downward dog, spitting cobra/up dog, merkins, SSH, and a mosey around track.

Main Event:

  1. 11’s on the hill next to soccer field.  Fence squats at the top and burpees at the bottom.  Modes of transportation were jog, reverse lunge walk down, and bear crawls.
  2. Catch me if you can.  We partnered up and ‘partner A’ jogged around the track while ‘partner B’ did a prescribed exercise and then had to sprint to catch their partner.  Then switched.  Did 4 rounds exercises were, 20 merkins, 20 low slow flutters, 20 lunges, 20 SSH.
  3. No free picnic.  We made our way over to the picnic tables and did 10 Irkins, 10 Merkins, 10 Derkins, 10 Dips, 20 Step-ups and repeated once same exercises.

Dad Joke (sponsored by @Rico):

What do you call a man with no shins?  Tony, get it Toe-knee

Something about Mary:

LBCs, WW2, Side crunches, Freddie Mercuries, J-Lo’s, Plank hold, and Pickle Pounders to appease the all the wild women watching us workout at 5:30 in the morning.

COT:

Safe travels for @Finkle ‘s M, @H1N1 for his family as they mourn the loss of his M’s grandmother, and @Rico’s daughter GG who apparently is not prego @Rubiks lol…  She will be having an ultrasound soon to check on a possible cyst on her ovary.

Cast your Vote

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FNGs: None

Warm Up: various

The Workout:

Arms– Dragonfly merkins

#1 man BC to plank hold

#2 man 2 laps feet on shoulders

3-5 same all on each has that many merkins. 5-1. Switch order (run 6,7,8)

Legs– 7’s block Squat at top, lunge walk down jump knee tucks at bottom, backwards run to top.

Abs– Twisted WW3 4x,Block press with heel taps,Tug boats (chill cut arm lock, one man pulls while other holds elbow tight to body)  ((press on shoulder 15 count/ pull on tricep 15 count)) or pull/ press block like tug o war.

Mary: no time

Announcements: check slack

T-Claps (Recognition): Ricco and son getting out to church

Prayer:Banana Seat Aunt Penny passing, Rocco’s friend Eddie passing, Unspoken

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Upper Body Day at THE YARD

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Warm Up:  Standard stuff, SSH and the like, but knowing today would be upper body-heavy, I threw in some Sir Fazios and Slo-Mo Merkins to get that whole area ready to go

The Workout:  This is a lazy copy & paste of routine I’ve done before, with the purpose of eschewing a well rounded full body workout for a more targeted beat down of one particular area.  The thang was this:

A warmup of 7’s on the parking lot hill, consisting of LBCs and Squats.  Then the main event was 3 stations, positioned around the community center building:  Merkins, Dips, Carolina Dry Docks.  We hit a set of one, mosey about 1/3 of the way around the building, repeato, repeato repeato. 

Because the mosey was so short and didn’t give us much time to recover between sets, I threw in a few rounds of People’s Chair after 2 or three rounds.  The only other variation was on the Merkins – one set was Diamonds, one set was wide-grip, and the final set was a Merkin Sampler – 4 reps of each. 

Mary: Side hips raises, heel taps maybe, …something difficult FRAM made us do, and probably one more, I dunno.  

T-Claps (Recognition):   The pre-workout message was a reminder of GRATITUDE.  Keeping our mindset off “I HAVE to workout”, and keeping it on “I GET TO/AM ABLE to work out”.  Celebrate physical abilities of our bodies and be grateful for every opportunity to use them as they are intended.

Prayer:  Nemo driving to Ohio with his son for a big time swim competition

Mini Murph + Some

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Memorial Day at Mutiny.

6 PAX had the choice of a mini murph or something equivalent of pain. They choose wisely IMO.

WU
Good mornings
SSH
Windmills
Frankensteins

Mini Murph
Run 0.5 miles
50 pull ups
100 push ups
150 squats
Run 0.5 miles

Rock work
Pax grabbed a rock. We rotated rocks after each exercise.
Curls
Tris
Wonder Bras
Squats
Return rocks and mosey to shelter for Mary.

Check slack for announcements
Prayers unspoken

Honor to lead men.
BS Out!

7/7/7 Hidden Gem Jackpot (5/24/23)

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FNGs: None

Warm Up: Slow mosey to Church St with 2 stops and exercises with the Pledge of Allegiance mixed in. 

The Workout: Mosey to the bottom of Church St. 7 reps at the bottom, run to the top of the hill 7 reps, 7x. Exercises included: Merkins, Squats, Morning Wood, Shoulder taps, Jump Knee tucks, 180-degree turns, Burpees, LBC, American Hammers, Lunges, Krakken Burpees, Bear Crawl 50 meters. Can’t remember the others.   

Mary: Yoga at tennis courts 

Announcements: T-Claps (Recognition): Cancun was #6 and told us How/Why and What F3 has done for him. 

Prayer: Cancun with patience, followed by a lot of “ditto” from the rest of the PAX. Breach took us out. 

Merlot at Mutiny

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FNGs: None

Warm Up: SSH, Frankenstein,  Good Mornings, Stretch out legs and arms. 

The Workout: 60lbs/80lbs sandbags. Must be carried and not dropped for the entire ME.  Increasing Burpee penalty for drops. Carry bags to shelter everyone else Indian run.  Grab one rock each.

Thang 1: One PAX fast Bear Crawl to cone one. Run to the end of the field, bear crawl at the same cone home.  Repeat the sequence but further distance.  Other PAX curls, triceps, rows, and John Cusack hold.  All PAX had to finish.

Thang 2: Crabwalk the cones and sidewalk back. Bleach push-ups 5 reps up and 5 reps down. Pull-ups on the playset. One rotation.

Thang 3: Wheelbarrow down and back, Single leg squats on bleachers, OH press with sandbags 15 reps each bag. (Winnibego for the Merlot win…somewhere in here). The last exercise before Mary was a wheelbarrow rock push/flip (maybe a new favorite of mine). Indian run back to the Tennis courts. 

Mary:  HTM, Single leg HTM, Freddy Mercury (oops had a sandbag drop 5 burpee penalty), Butterfly Crunch, Figure four, Scissors 

Announcements: Friday night street ministry (Rubiks), Brute CSAUP, Always be EHing

T-Claps (Recognition):

Prayer: Unspoken 

Earn that Bacon

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Today was a first in F3SouthWake. A few PAX have been talking for a few years about having a 2nd F breakfast after a workout to showoff their skills on the griddle. Finally, the day was here. We had an early start (0515) and a shorter (30 min) workout to accommodate this event. YHC had the Q and wanted to PAX to earn that bacon and sausage. We arrived at 0500 to get set up. There were 23 total PAX that came out to enjoy this first time event at Possum Trot, SW’s Original AO site. YHC forgot a cone for the workout so a banana would be the substitute. So I grabbed one and here’s what some PAX called 30 mins of Hell.

Warm up
Mosey down to lower part of park for some carioca, butt kickers, high knees, and slides.
Gather at concession stand area.
SSH’s
Windmills
Willie Mayes Hayes
Plank Jacks

The Thang
Partner Dora
100 – Hand Release Merkins
200 – Shoulder Taps (each side cts as 1)
300 – Squat Jumps
Partner not doing exercises bear crawls to the banana (roughly 25 yards), complete 3 burpees, run back.

With 3 mins to go, we completed Dora gathered back to the starting lot. This is Fuquay’s finest parking lot that comes with razor blade rocks for your liking. We were about to have pancakes with our meat and cup of Joe so I figured let’s try something I’ll call a “flapjack”. Pax lays on their back. Do a WWI then roll over and complete a merkin. 10 total OYO. Everyone got to experience this never forgetting parking lot.

COT
No new PAX.
Announcements: Breach with Travis Manion event on April 28. Details on slack.
Prayers: traveling PAX, those with injuries
Quick word: Easter weekend is here. Remember Jesus and what he went through this week. Hope that everyone can worship this Sunday and reflect on his sacrifice.

This was a very successful event. Hopefully we can do this again possibly in the fall. Thanks for all the PAX that attended and especially for those that contributed to an amazing breakfast. Fonzie and LED on the griddles. Abacus with coffee. Breach and his bigger table that wouldn’t fit in his micro machine car. Thanks for the support and allowing me to lead such a strong group.

BS Out!

 

Stormy Mutiny

Stormy Mutiny

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FNGs: 2 FNGs, Preston and Anthony. Welcome!

Warm Up: slide straddle hops, good mornings, Willie Mays Hayes, imperial walkers, hillbillies, sir fazio arm circles,  seal claps

The Workout: Had to improvise a bit for the rainy weather conditions and large group of PAX in attendance. 10 minute tabata of dips and curls for the girls under shelter. Brief intermission of interchanging between bear crawl, crawl bear, crab walk, and walk crab around the circle. 10 minute tabata of step ups and tris for the guys.

Mary:low slow flutters, big boy situps, box cutters, homer to marge, hello dollies, LBCs, pickle pounders.

Announcements: Possum Trot Basket this Wednesday. 1st Possum Trot Breakfast (with condensed workout) next Wednesday.

T-Claps (Recognition): Welcome to FNGs Rockwell and GHERKIN willing to brave the storm and make their first F3 appearance.

Prayer: Prayers for our country, our F3 community, prayers of healing for Bobby Boucher’s son Walt, 2 Dollar on the mend after surgery, Wisdom for Sombrero with medical decisions for his son.

Cocaine Bear

Greenway Parking Lot Pain

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FNGs: None

Warm Up: slide straddle hops, good mornings, willie mays hayes, sir fazio arm circles, seal claps

The Workout: Moseyed on over to the Greenway Parking Lot to do something I am retrospectively choosing to call, “Build-a-Cocaine-Bear.” Zig-zagging up and down the parking lot, we did bear crawls along each parking space line; skips across the lot; bear crawl over to the next parking space line; reverse burpee (starting from bear crawl mode – 1 merkin, jump up, then back to bear crawl) once up against each parking space curb; back to bear crawl from the curb to the end of the parking space line; skip again across the lot. We did this until we got from the farthest NW side of the lot down to the SE side.

Next, we did 11s of american hammers on one side of the lot and curbside merkins on the other side. Lunges going one way and crab walk going back.

Mary: low slow flutters, LBCs, homer to marge, pickle pounders

Announcements: Breach looking to boost our 2ndF game

T-Claps (Recognition):none

Prayer: Pumps – prayers up that families might be able to get healthy after long season of cold/flu/etc; Abacus – prayers up for Anderson family after the loss of their child. 2 Corinthians 1:1-11