13 men took on Tiger Blood for the 2021 Travis Manion Foundation Workout of the Day (Wod)
Warm Up: Mosey down to the track
The Workout: 29 squats with your weight implement of choice, run 400 meters, repeat 7 times
Mary: Quick message about TMF and the importance of carrying on the ethos of “If Not Me, Then Who”
Announcements: May Challenge in a few days
T-Claps (Recognition): FRAM for max effort during the workout.
Closed in Prayer:
There are some PAX (POTS) that simply shut down the mumblechatter with burpees. YHC can typically deal with some mumblechatter during the warm ups or even Mary at some point…during the workout…nah. Those that were, according to POTS cackling and clucking (you know who you are) put in some reasonable work on the Yard this morning, so the guest Warden didn’t punish. Apparently, the pain stations equipped with many types of coupons were enough anyways…13 men…a record for Prison Yard…did the crimes and did the time at Hilltop Needmore Prison today.
FNGs: no fresh meat on the Yard today!
Warm Up: After a quick set-up with the help of the inmates, we ran a quick mosey loop followed by SSH x30 IC, Windmills x10 IC, Sir Fazio’s F/R x 12 IC, Frankensteins x10 IC, Standard Merkins x 20.
The Workout: The timer was two men, flipping the large tractor tire up the hill and carrying back to the bottom. Each man flipped up the hill once. During this, the PAX took part in various pain stations including: Kettlebell Swings, Plank Pull Throughs, Steel Mace Warrior Squats, Railroad Iron Bench Press, Pain Stick Squat, Pain Stick Curl, Pain Stick Press, Partner Pain Stick Squat and Press, Tractor Weight Shoulder Shrug, Farmers Carry with the Tractor Weights and Diamond Merkins, 4 cones for a side shuffle Burpee routine. All prisoners got to play with the toys multiple times.
Mary: Put the coupons away, followed by LSF x30 IC and LBC’s x30 IC.
Announcements: May Main Event…only two more days to sign up. Bed build info on Slack. Breach will Q a Travis Mannion workout Thursday at Tiger Blood.
T-Claps (Recognition): Lots of EC this morning…LED, Breach, FRAM, Nemo, Mookie, Deadbolt. Nemo’s first time on the Yard…looked like he’d done time before….good work!
Prayer: Shamwow! injury and hopes he or all injured PAX can get back after it! Motor Boatin’ a prayer of thanks for the accountability. Breach took us out including the moment of silence for our military and first responders on the front lines. Honored to lead this strong group this morning!
FNGs: None
Warm Up: PAX circled up for some SSH, daisy pickers and IWs
The Workout: 2 routes available this morning, 4 miles and 5.5 miles. 17 set out on a short journey in search of some pre-marathon miles, taking it easy, or running with a ruck sack if you’re @Yogurt. The 5 milers took old U-turn, with a trip up cemetery hill in anticipation of BRR in a few months. The run wouldn’t have been complete without a search for Martini’s phone on the route, t-claps to @Skidmark for finding it in the grass and @Yogurt for going back for the six.
Announcements: Opportunity to help build bunk beds for Sleep in Heavenly Peace on Saturday 4/24 from 8-11. See slack and/or LED for details. F3 Foundation is supporting the initiative and events will take place in the Kohl’s parking lot in Fuquay.
Prayer: Good health and safety for all those running in Wilmington.
FNGs: Welcome back Lipsync to the gloom (6 months). None – but a very nice turn out in 60 degree weather on the 1st day of March; that wind though made a lot of us look pretty silly throwing and catching…
Warm Up: SSH, Daisy pickers, Static Stretching (Cupid needs help)
The Workout: 9 V 8. Lots of intensity battling the stiff wind in one direction; great defensive plays; lots of nice throws and catches too. After each score, 5-10 count exercises were called out including burpees and merkins.
Mary: Nope. The game exceeded 45 mins plus.
Announcements: See Slack & FB; Freed to Lead is being updated….chance to send in an inspirational story.
T-Claps (Recognition): All the PAX who helped out on Sunday morning moving items at Mama’s House. Great leadership LED organizing everyone.
Prayer: YHC took us out.Motor boatin’ has a medical test – hoping for a negative outcome; Praise for Gump and Gump’s new job!
Honored to lead! – Dauber
FNGs:no fangs but two additional volunteers. Crazy Kevin and Emily, dark wing duck(Fonzie 2.0) and m Christie assisted with the help.
Warm Up:Coffee, ruck for Breach and Myself(Needmore ruck)
The Workout:move 500 bags of clothes from a garage to 48 foot trailer 20 feet away. 12 volunteers formed a chain and started digging into the pile passing bag after bag of clothes and shoes down the line filling the truck in 2 hours. Leaving half the garage empty and half the garage still needing to be loaded in anothe trailer at some point. TBD
Mary: coffee
Announcements:ultimate Monday, possibly another round of moving bags.
T-Claps (Recognition):To everyone that showed up and helped out.
Prayer: motor baiting test and results. The ma parents traveling safe, military personal and all of us to keep hanging in there during these hopefully soon to be over covid days.
Arrived this crisp cold morning to set up all kinds of toys for the main event. Yesterday at the Ruck Pots joked and said “what are we going to do at Mutiny in the morning….since you have the Q…wheelchair racing. So I kind of took that theme and ran with it this morning.
FNG: None
Warm Up: Moseyed around the track. Circled up for side straddle hop, imperial walkers, hillbillies, seal claps, overhead claps and some stretches. No takers for Red October so LED joined our group. After Norm arrived a little late we did 5 Burpees in his Honor. LED wishes he had Red Octobered by himself!!!
The Workout: THANG 1: YHC arrived early with all kinds of toys. Set up 4 tires and paired up & cones were set up with exercises of 5 on each. Paired PAX had to roll tires to exercise cone, once exercise was completed you advanced to the next cone. After completing the last cone roll tire and run around circle. Reverse the order all the way back to start line. There was some no driving PAX this morning with the tires rolls!!
1st– Merkins
2nd Burpees
3rd Carolina Dry Docks
4th Squats
5th Lunges 5 each leg
6th WW1
7th Star Jumps
Once we made it back to the start line PAX was instructed to grab a coupon-tractor weights, Rocks, Railroad Iron or Pots grabbed the Pallet. Curls for the girls, tricep extensions 20 count down to 5. Then we rinsed and repeated 3x.
THANG 2:
Pallet push with your partner while the other paired PAX was bench press with railroad iron, tire jump and throw, farmers carry with tractor weights. All PAX rotated until we completed where we started.
Mary: Low Slow Flutter, Homer-to-Marge, Pickle Pounders and stretched.
Announcements: February 22nd Ruck at Hilltop NeedMore Park followed by Road-Side Trash Clean Up. Mark your calendar boys…it’s bad this time. We need all the help we can get. Momas House Moving to new location even bigger and still looking for a headquarters office in Fuquay.
Prayer: Roger Rogers friend (cancer), Fedex cousin in the loss of a love one leaving behind three children. Co-worker of mine friend, in the loss of mom leaving behind 6 children, she was 36. Brain aneurysm.
YHC took us out. Thanks for playing my shenanigan’s this am.
Sunday morning was cold! We had a good number show up for the Ruck.
The Workout: We hit all three trails for a total of 5 miles. Great mumble chatter all along the way. Stopped off at Breaches house and the coffee was already made waiting for us in the garage.
Announcements: Hilltop Needmore Roadside cleanup coming up soon. Be on the lookout for the date. Moma’s House food Ruck either this Sunday or next. Dates to follow.
T-Claps (Recognition): Breach and the 2F COFFEE!!
Prayer: Our Nation.
Honor to Lead Gents!
Your YHC led this bloodbath 232-4 (OK, it was all fantasy in my head as we did not keep score). 23 PAX joined in some Ultimate fun. It was good to have several PAX that had never played with us out there. Thanks for letting me “lead” (and I use that term lightly)
On a crisp December morning. Well not so crisp but it was December 20 HIM congregated at Possum Trot for the 2020 South Wake CSAUP..Ruck Style. That’s right all of us were carrying rucksacks with the appropriate weight inside. Trust me I checked. Cadre Breach was joined by Cadre Blue Hen and Cadre M4L. We kicked off the first workout at the Trot with Fonzie at the helm.
@Farva, @Dawgpound, @POTS, @Blue Hen, @M4L, @Finkle, @Bondo, @Alpine, @Flannigan,
@Fanny Pack, @Dauber, @Bingo, @Pikachu, @Latiner, @16-Bit, @Sprinkler, @LED, @Fonzie, @H1N1 and
@Breach on the Q
Possum Trot Q #1 BB (Fonzie)
25 days of Christmas
Chestnuts Roasting (Chest press with the ruck)
Hanukkah Billes ( Hillbillies)
Reindeer Rows (Rut Rohs)
Imperial Nutcrackers
Santa Squats
Taint Tinsel (Swings with the Ruck)
Merry Merkins
Abominable Snowman (LBC’s with the Ruck)
S-Hat Burpees (10)
After the Trot workout, we hit the pavement for our trek to Mutiny. There were 5 coupons in play 2 Firehoses, 2 Pain Sticks, and a sandbag. The load had to be shared by all so everyone took turns embracing the suck. Sprinkler decided to take a dive in the ditch and almost took himself out before we got to his Q. The pax only racked up 2 violations along the way.
Mutiny Q (Sprinkler)
Arrived to have 2 penalties. With pack 20 merkins, took the pack off for overhead press for the second penalty. Off to the parking lot. Lined up to do Irkins, Derkins and dips on the curb with crab walk and lunge walks from one side to the other for a total of 4 rounds.
Moseyed to Rockpile and claimed a partner. Partner 1 curls, bus driver, rut rows while partner 2 ran to 2nd light poles. Rinsed and repeated. Ended with 5 burpees OYO.
The Pax was given 5 mins to rehydrate, refuel and repack before getting back to the action. The pax were allowed to leave 1 coupon behind and they voted to get rid of a pain stick so we left that behind in the support vehicle. We pressed on to the next AO..The Nest. Upon arrival at the nest we grounded the coupons and the packs for the Nest Q via Finkle, there were no violations on this part of the trip.
Nest Q (Finkle)
Pax was taken down to the walls and the fence line for some Balls to the wall and people’s chair sets. On the first set we counted to 25 for Balls and seal claps to 25 till we got all the way around and then set 2 we did shoulder tap Ball and overhead claps. This continues till we got down to decreasing by a 5 count each round.
Second activity was bears and dans. Bear crawl two parking spaces than did Lt Dan Taylors building each time up to 10 squats and 40 lunges.
Pax was given another 5 minutes to rehydrate and refuel, we lost H1N1, Fonzie and LED after this AO. The decision was made to leave the sandbag and a pain-stick behind for good behavior. Onward to Casino Royale. Along the way Cadre Blue Hen decided to have the pax do some Indian Runs. The back 2 guys run to the front and tuck in behind the flag bearers. During the journey he had them try to beat his timer, Flannigan with wings of glory ran ahead of the colors which resulted in a violation for the pax. Which was assessed by him when we arrived at Casino Royale. 22 Diamond Merkins with the packs on.
Casino Royale (Fanny Pack)
BOMBS at the Casino. With a lot of the wall working and bear crawling already taken, YHC had to go to a hybrid plan C. @Dauber knowingly chose a number of reps to start with (15) and @Farva unknowingly chose B1 -Burpees rather than B2- bench presses with the ruck. 2 groups Indian run with no rucks in opposite directions. When groups meet, we did BOMBS. 15 burpees OYO, 25 Overhead Press with a ruck, 35 merkins, 25 big boy sit-ups, and about 3 minutes of squats. Both groups got around the large track twice. YHC did call an audible and chose mercy over punishment and ended the squats about 20 seconds early. Honored to be a Holly Springs Pax and allowed to lead today with my brothers in the Quay!
Pax was given the last 5 min break of the day for hydration and fuel before stepping off for the final leg back to Possum Trot. Once we got to the railroad tracks Blue Hen decided to take the pax down the iron highway. The trek was slow going as the town of Fuquay did not place railroad ties very symmetrical to each other. We got a bit spread out due to the uneven terrain, but we got back in line for the final push up the hill and back down to the trot. We dumped our packs and coupons for the final time and headed to tennis courts to get smoked one more time by 16-Bit.
Possum Trot #2 (16 Bit)
PAX lined up on one sideline of the first tennis court to perform what I’ve named a Crab Boil. PAX crab-walked to the corresponding sideline of the next court where we performed 15 crab cakes in cadence. Resumed crab walk to the next court and did 15 crab bumpers (inverted pickle pounders). We were supposed to crab walk to the same sideline on the next court but a silver sneakers tennis tournament was starting to show up and that last court was getting occupied so our last crab walk was only to the sideline on the other side of the court we were on. When we got there we did 15 crab jacks in cadence.
The aforementioned tennis tournament stopped us from being able to rinse and repeat so we audibled to batwings which consisted of 10 of the following, forward arm circles, reverse arm circles, seal claps, and overhead claps.
We headed down the hill towards the baseball fields and circled up for Mary. We started with 20 American hammers in cadence and then went to Dr. W’s. These are one of my favorites but always cause a lot of confusion. It’s an 8 count exercise that we lost count during so I stopped after 7 or 8 of them. We finished up with an LBC circuit of regular, reverse, and side LBCs.
We ended in a very large COT with some great messages passed about our involvement in the community and our impact on others. We closed in prayer and got back to the front of the park for some very much needed coffee and biscuits courtesy of Forceps.
FNGs:None
Warm Up:3 pax for EC Breach, Norm, LED
1/4 mile jog, ssh, fazio arm circles, windmills, hillbilly’s, frankensteins.
The Workout: 5 pax’s made way to tennis court and did 7s diamond. Bear crawl to corner 7 merkins, shuffle to corner, 14 7 each leg alternating squats, bear crawl to corner, 21 prison squats. Shuffle to corner 28 calf raises IC. Reveres order doing 28 shoulder taps in cadence, 21 merkins (7 of each diamond, wide and regular), 14 star jumps, 7 hand release burpees.
Jog to rocks and did 20 curls for girls IC, 20 triceps, 20 overhead press, 20 ground pounders, back did 20 chest press 20 skull crushers, 20 chest press, 20 skull crushers.
Jog to wall and did 10 sets of 1×4 jack webbs. Balls to wall and wall sit.
Mary: 20 LSF, 20 big boy sit-ups, 20 x and is, 20 hello dolly, 20 American hammers
Announcements:Frosty dec 5th, ultimate December 6th
T-Claps (Recognition):pax for helping mamas house spread gravel
Prayer: my in laws and covid, Paxs wife’s and surgeries