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RESPECT to 50

Another day in Paradiseā€¦City that is. 13 total PAX showed up to get stronger in a drizzling gloom this morning. We lost one about mid-workout due to some health concerns. Flag was planted, speaker was hidden, no FNGā€™s. Let the party begin!

Fartsack: ShamWow! (late scratch)
Double Fartsack: Crosby (EC + HC)

Warm up:
Run up to top parking area near tennis courts. Carioca, both sides.
Smurf Jacks x20 IC
Windmills x10 IC
Bat Wings x20 IC (4 sets)
Daisy Pickers x10 IC

The Thing:
Partner Up
Miyagi Merkins x20 (Always look eye) ā€“ head up for better form

Mosey over to parking spaces near restrooms
Wheelbarrow the parking lines with 5 merkins at each corner facing the same direction, switch partners, Rinse and Repeat

Mosey over to short wall at top of ramp
P1 – Box jumps x15
P2 ā€“ Monkey Humpers x15 IC

BTTW Beast Mode ā€“ shoulder taps on 1 & 2, vertical shoulder press on 3 & 4 x10 IC

Side step squats down the ramp. Sumo squat then tight squat alternating about 20 yds, lunge about 20 yds, then run to bottom of the ramp.

At the bottom of ramp. Contra burpees (add 1 merkin each rep) x10 (45 total merkins)

Ramp suicides. 4 cones. Run to 1st, run back, run to 2nd, run back, etcā€¦ squat hold for 6 when done at bottom

Mosey to lower parking area
Nipplers x10 IC
Right leg up nipplers x10 IC
Left leg up nipplers x10 IC
Hand release merkins x10 IC
All with no break, stay in plank
Mosey back to bball court

MARY: 6 mins 47 secs of Mary (Length of Paradise City song by GnR)

Start at the beat drop
Freddy Mercury x28 IC
Stop at first whistle blow

Start at singing
American hammers x15 IC
Stop at course

Start at guitar riff
Box Cutters x18 IC
End at course

Start at “So Run”
LBCā€™s x29 IC
End at drum roll

2 min warning, all IC double time, start at fast part
Homer to marge x20
LSF x20
Pickle pounders x20

Talked about RESPECT factor. Men that are over 50 doing in F3 should be an inspiration to the younger guys. For me to even think about doing F3 for another 10+ yrs and reach 50 would be a challenge. Use these men to lean on. They have been around the block a few more times and can share wisdom to all of us. Hats off to you guys!

Name-O-Rama

Announcements:
See FB and Slack today for updates, Fritter Foundation should have big induction this Friday (especially since M4L is paying)

Prayers:
Shredder should get results today, Crab Legs and those battling ALS, all of our marriages (V-Day this Thursday)

Thanks to Skidmark for accepting my Q request at PC. I hope everyone enjoyed the new stuff and the Mary session left you pumped up for the day. Itā€™s great to see so many new PAX there. Blessed that I could lead this morning.

BS Out!

Surf’s Up – Cletus 2-8-19

Fresh off a week in Costa Rica, I (Yogurt)Ā mimicked surfing in this arm-intensive workout.

Warm Up: Mosey around Hunt Center to front parking lot; SSH 25x; Arm circles 10f/10b; 5 burpees OYO

Mosey to tennis courts. Local surfers would stretch before hopping in the water. Leg stretches: Flat on back, knees up to 45 degrees, left ankleĀ to right knee, gently pull left knee toward right shoulder, feel in the buttocks. Opposite side too.

Star stretch: flat on back, arms extended overhead, left knee up to 45 degrees, drop left knee over right, extend. Simultaneously, reach left arm out to left. From above, you are forming a plus sign. Opposite side too.

The Workout: Mosey to softball field, right field foul line. Got our bearings in the darkness with a quick wheelbarrow out to hula hoops. SwitchĀ partnersĀ and back.

Workout mimicked paddling out and surfing in. When paddling out, often you have to sprint. You must hammer to make it past the breakers and into the lineup.

Workout: Elevens with squats and Catalina wine chillers. On shore side, squats. Sprint to paddle out. While in the lineup, Catalina wine chillers. Catch a wave and ride it in! Rinse and repeat with Elevens as count.

Mosey to dirt parking lot to ride the tides. How many tides are in a day? Typically four–high, low, high, low

From greenway (low tide side), run to paved driveway (high tide side): 12 Merkins to represent high tide at 12 o’clock; run back down to greenway (low tide side), 6 Merkins to represent low tide at 6 o’clock. Rinse and repeat until we did a couple of days’ worth of tides.

Mary: Mosey to tennis courts. Ab work: Hammock without the hammock 20x; Superman arms to side 15x, arms overhead 15x. Pickle pounders 20x. Low slow flutter 20x. Box cutters 15x.
Announcements: Long a** run Saturday, see FB or Blue Hen for details

January Breathtaker: Over $1,000, tons of clothes, and workout participation for Healing Transitions

February Breathtaker: ALS. 2/9/19 Bid goes to “Men from Fuquay,” bidding $500 goes to Gump
Prayer: Shredder knee injury, Moby’s dad

Welcome FNG Edgar, who is now F3 E squared!

Dump or Super Bowl – Both Stunk

22 Pax gathered in the smelliest part of Holly Springs for a Monday morning beatdown. Q was a little upset with the result so made sure to take it out on the Pax. Very few Pats fans showed up but I doubt they could handle it anyway.

EC: 187, Cowboy, Crosby, UTI, Full House, Pablo, Pikachu, Dawgpound, Skidmark

Warm Up: Mosey for one loop with stops to do Good Mornings, SSH, and Windmills. Once back at the court Pax paired up by ability and speed. It was only logical that Dawgpound requested to be Lucky’s partner. Somebody needed to make sure we gave Lucky a push. Kudos DP.

The Workout: Catch me if you can partner runs. 1st loop 2 Double Merkin Burpees. 2nd loop around 3 squat jumps. 3rd time around 5 merkins. Once at the end circle back for the 6 doing 5 LBCs.

Mosey to the ramp for some 7’s. Reverse merkins at the bottom and star jumps halfway up the ramp.

Mary: Merkin clock with stops at 12, 10, 8, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, and 12.

Announcements: See Pikachu’s announcements on FB and Slack. Nothing new.

Prayer: Shredder, Dumbo, Brexit, Emeril

Fly like an airplane

PAX of 18 braved another frozen morning for the 2nd edition of a VQ from YHC. YHC cracked open the Exicon once more for a little variety, but not too much.

The clock struck 5:15 and 3 PAX headed out for a 2 mile EC loop: Cowboy, Double Doink, and YHC.

Warm Up:

YHC gave brief instructions to PAX to keep arms out on the mosey while doing Sir Fazio arm circle repeats (5 fw/5 bw/5 hold). PAX reluctantly did their best airplane impression and 3-2-1 blast off for the warm up lap around the soccer field. A few stops along the way for:
20 SSH
15 Imperial Walkers
10 Hillbillies

Circled up on tennis court for:
10 Windmills IC
15 Morocan Night Clubs
20 Randys IC

The Workout:

With shoulders warm, PAX lined up on the sideline of the court for some Bottom Feeders (Tiny 11’s). It looked like this:
Bear crawl to other baseline
10 prisoner squats
Crawl bear back to start
1 WWII
This continued in normal 11’s fashion until 1 prisoner squat and 10 WWIIs were done.

Next, PAX split into 2 groups for some BTTW Bear crawl tunnels. Each group lined up and held BTTW against the fence. The last PAX in the line bear crawled through the tunnel to the front and held BTTW. Each group worked its way to opposite ends of the court and back, well 1 group did. The other group’s bridge collapsed, with no causulties, and the mission was aborted.

PAX moseyed over by the rock pile for some Jack Webbs. PAX went from 1 merkin:3 air presses up to 10:30.

Rocks were obtained and carried to the parking lot.
John Cusack rock around the lot with stops at the 4 corners for Wonder Bras. Starting with 5 at the first stop and adding 5 at each stop, ending with 20 at the last stop. Rocks were returned and PAX moseyed to the tennis courts for a date with Mary.

Mary:

Circled up on the tennis courts for Mary.
YHC led some plank-o-rama then PAX called out exercises.
10 Pickle Pounder IC
15 LBCs IC
10 Low slow flutters IC
10 Burpees OYO (thanks Lucky)
20 Foreign-national hammers IC
Have a Nice Day

Announcements:

NC Spring Classic on 4/27/19
New Running AO Thursday evenings – Sheetz Show (3-5 miles all paces welcome)
Blue Hen wins Breathtaker auction and donations for February to go to ALS.

Prayer:

Moby’s Dad, Injuries: Dumbo, Brexit, other PAX

YHC took us out.

Welcome to the Sheets Show

Week 1 of Lucky Charms BETA running work off kicked off this week.Ā  3 PAX showed up for some hills work.

Show up next week for week 2.Ā  We’ll determine if this continues after that but I can’t see why it wouldn’t.

Warm Up:W/U Dynamic stretching, side lunges, front lunges, deep squats, front kicks, side kicks
The Workout:1 mile W/U.
6 x strides
3 x sm hill climbs
3 x md ā€œ ā€œ
3 x sm + md ā€œ ā€œ
3 x sm + md + lg ā€œ ā€œ
2 x md + lg + xl ā€œ ā€œ
1 mile cool down
Mary: Cool down stretching
Announcements: Talked about Wrightsville and running strategies
Prayer: The heathen forgot the prayer.

 

I’ve never seen lights worn like that

Wow. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, South Wake loves virgins…Q’s that is. 30 Pax posted for a virgin Q this morning by Aquaman.

The amount of Pax that posted at EC was incredible too. I’ll try to get them all: UTI, Pablo, Lipstick, Crosby, Gumby, Dawgpound, Deadbolt, Double Doink, Slide Rule, Cowboy, Nemo, Peeping Tom, Mookie, , Wiggly, Skidmark (again sorry if I forgot anyone)

New light vests should come with instruction on how to put it on. Said pax had the lights somewhere down around his groin area and through his legs. I think there was some concern with it not staying on his shoulders.

Welcome FNG Boogie

Warm Up: Slight mosey to the bottom of the ramp for SSH x 21, IW x 10, Hillbillies x 10, Fozio Arm Circles forward and reverse, Chinooks, seal claps and over head claps at 10 cc
The Workout: 3 groups of 10 for Indian runs. At each corner do 5 merkins, 10 pickle pounders , 15 LBCs, 20 Hillbilly Squats. Try for 3 loops. Also add in 2 double merkin burpees every time the first pax in the line got back to the front.
Mary: Skidmark led Mary for 30 cc Freddy Mercury’s, 15 cc Boxcutters, Protractors, and finish with some plank hold exercise
Announcements: See announcements on Slack and FB. CSAUP long ass run 2/9 start from New Hill on ATT. Valentines Day challenge. Phones and devices away from 6-8.
Prayer: Several prayer requests, Brexit’s MRI, an aunt’s funeral on saturday (sorry can’t remember right now who it was)

South Wake Invades Dante’s Peak

QSwap 2019 – YHC & Skidmark had the Q at Dante’s Peak. Loads of EC in play – Crazy Time, Pull up routine, EC miles.

The pax poured in and included an FNG brought out by Banana Seat. Disclaimers were read and we were off.

Warm Up:

Mosey to upper parking lot, performing karaoke, butt kickers, backwards run, and skips along the way.

Circle up for:

SSH x15 IC

Daisy Pickers x10 IC

Mountain climbers x10 IC

Standard Merkin x5 on Q’s up and down

Windmill x10 IC

Mosey down to end of parking lot

The Workout:

Pax lined up shoulder to shoulder facing backĀ  the direction we came from. Dropping down into plank, on Q’s GO they sprint back to start/where we circled up.

Repeato back and forth, each sprint on Q’s GO with the following exercises (always held before the next GO):

  • Squats x15 IC
  • Low Slow Flutter x10 IC
  • Pickle Pounders x10 IC
  • Plank hold
  • Squat hold

Last sprint was down and back once YHC had used most of his allotted time. Pax circled up for Freddy Mercury x10 IC for one last break and then the reins were handed over to Skidmark.

Mosey to rock pile/bridge/pond. Pax grab a rock for some Jack Webbs

Merkin x1 Rock Press x3

Run lap around the lake

Merkin x2 Rock Press x6

Run lap around the lake

Merkin x3 Rock Press x9

Run lap around the lake

4:12 through 10:30 were done without the running in the interest of time.

Mosey back to flags.

Mary:

Merkin clock from 12 down to 1. “Break” at 6 o’clock for one arm up planks.

Some planks IC wrapped us up:

Standard x10

Right arm up x10

Right arm and right leg up x10

Standard x10

Left arm up x10

Left arm and left leg up x10

Chill cut pickle pounders x10
Announcements:

See FB/Slack for South Wake announcements

Carpex Pax are heading to Peru in ~3 weeks – they have a published list of needed supplies, see Carpex or South Wake slacks for details

Burger Feet is taking a group down to Burgaw in Eastern NC for Hurricane cleanup tomorrow (Saturday Jan 19th). See Twitter for details.

Carpex Pax has a published book where proceeds go to Triangle foster care. Book name is Charlie’s New Puppy Brother. Available on Amazon, however direct purchases yield more donation and are encouraged.
Prayer:

Ausfart – receiving visitors at home, request that M be contacted ahead of time (# is on Carpex slack)

Crab Legs – ALS

DD, Water Wings

Matlock – praise for being back out after being on IR with a back injury for a while

 

QSwap continues to be one of YHC’s favorite weeks of the year. A huge thank you to all of the Carpex & South Wake Pax that helped make this happen, from Qing workouts to making long drives and clown cars to support Qs. We’ll certainly do it again next year!

“Lucky” for us you couldn’t “Blame it on the Rain” at Rush Hour during Q Swap Week

PAX of 18 , including two FNGs (welcome Candy Crush and Spitz), came out for a 25-minute ā€œwarm upā€ with LipSync before Lucky Charm brought the pain

Warm Up

A fun jog to the rock pile and then circle up for warm up consisting of: SSH, Daisy Pickers, Good Mornings, Imperial Walkers and Hill Billieā€™s

 

The Workout

Part 1 ā€“ LipSync

Grab a rock and line up for Barley Curling across the parking lot

Return to starting point with crab walk rock kicks

John Cusack to parking garage for rock Wonder Bra/LBC 11ā€™s

John Cusack back to rock pileā€¦ return rocksā€¦ hand off to Lucky Charm for the real beat down

 

Part 2 ā€“ Lucky Charms

50 merkins

Run to parking garage and grab sands bags to carry up stairwell to top level of parking deck

Grab a spot on the wall for shoulder tap balls to the walls

Carry you sand bag back down to the pileā€¦ the long way

Run to flag poles for Mary

 

Mary

More merkins and intense row boats from Lucky Charms

 

Announcements

Q Swap continues

 

Prayer Request

Crab Legs, wounded Police officers and their families, F3 brother in motorcycle accident, Beaufortā€™s recovery from hip surgery and any others that I forgot.

Is Lipstick a Super Hero

Where does Lipstick really go when he disappears? Has anyone seen Superman and Lipstick in the same place? No. Batman? No. Spiderman? No. Lipstick may be fighting crime instead of dropping a deuce. Does anyone really have to poop that much? I can’t imagine the toilet paper budget in the house.

Regardless, 23 Pax posted on a slightly chilly Monday morning. I’m hoping the SW presence at Carpex was good and we were well represented.

10 for EC: Dawgpound, Full House, Emeril, Chips, Crosby, Double Donk, Cowboy, UTI, Peeping Tom, Skidmark

Breathtaker present

Warm Up: Pax were already circled up some Q let with some SSH. As Pax began a car wondered into the parking lot. The level of urgency was in question so Pax continued SSH until and unknown joined the circle. Pax did SSH x 60 and then 5 burpees OYO for the late Pax. A quick tutorial was given on Indian run that the Pax must reach the front before next Pax goes. Indian run for one loop with stops to do Good Mornings, Sir Fozio Arm Circles, Chinooks, Goofballs, and Moroccan Nightclubs.

The Workout: Big Winners today!! Triple 7’s! 7 burpees at the top of the ramp, 7 burpees at the bottom, and 7 runs up the ramp. Total = 98 burpees. Modify to merkins if needed.

Mosey to bottom parking lot. Partner up. One partner run and other do squats and then change to merkins.

Mary: Q provided a brief tutorial on the correct form for Imperial Walkers and Hillbillies. Engage the core. Did each in cc of 15.

Plank exercises all 10 cc. Regular, Right arm up, regular, left arm up, regular, parker peters, pickle pounders – recover

Announcements: See Pikachu’s announcements on Slack and FB. New announcements: R4TJ needs a Q Wednesday. Contact UTI.

Prayer: Bufird, Ausfart – released from hospital, Double D, Raleigh P.O.

Q took the group out in Prayer.