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3 Year Mixed Bag

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Drove in to see Pablo doing a solo EC run before the workout, nicely done!

FNGs: Nope

3 Years ago on this day, Tonka picked me up and treated me to a workout Q’d by none other than Midget at Disney.  It sucked.  I did every rep of the first set and was quite proud of myself, until I realized we were 10 minutes in to a 45 minute workout and I was quite done.  Sometime in the next 15 minutes as we were doing repeats on the stairs, Midget tapped me on the shoulder and told me to just wait at the top for everyone.  I think he was afraid I was going to fall out and hurt myself going up/down the stairs.  I also think he was right to be afraid of that.

It’s been a great 3 years.  One of my fond memories was training for my first HSHM.  That year, we did hill repeats & track workouts on alternating Wednesdays (“Speed Racer” was the AO) led by Pilgrim, Bernie, and Wrangler.  As a little homage, I brought out one of those workouts for this morning.

The Workout:

There was a lot going on this morning.  The Fritter Goobers + POTS went on a Ruck.  Not sure how far they went.  At some point they stopped for refreshments.  I’ll let them tell that story.

Double D was hoping for just miles, so Mookie mapped out a nice 4-5 mile route for him and he took off solo.

Forceps missed his alarm, but made it for COT & 2ndF 🙂

The rest of us did hill repeats on Stinson.  Starting at the bottom of the hill stop sign:

  • Run hard to Ivan parking lot; recover back to stop sign
  • Run hard to Cletus parking lot; recover back to stop sign
  • Run hard to Grigsby stop sign; recover back
  • Hard to Grigsby; recover
  • Hard to Cletus; recover
  • Hard to Ivan; recover

If you did the whole thing, it was right at 6 miles.

Mary: Pfft
Announcements:

Awesome COT after the run.  One of the best I’ve ever been at.   Too often it’s just “name / age / f3 name; quick announcement; let’s go”.  This morning we actually talked a bit about what we’re doing and why.  I really appreciated the time.
T-Claps (Recognition):  Oboe was a man on a mission this morning.  Awesome job beating down those hills.
Prayer: Running the hills made me think of a Pax I haven’t seen in a long time who used to be out there for these workouts — Princess Cut.  I know life hit him pretty hard for a while.  I wasn’t close enough with him to be there to help, but I know I miss him out in the gloom.  It made me appreciate what we’re doing with the Shield Lock even more.

Thanks for a great 3 years men, looking forward to the next 3.

Week 5 day 2

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EC: Dawgpound, Pikachu, Emeril, Skidmark, Buford, Cowboy, Deadbolt, Roger Roger, Pablo
FNGs: …….. I’m noticing a theme here
Warm Up:

Onnit Warm Up 2

The Workout:

Work Fast Recover Faster 2

Mary:

Onnit Cool Down 2

Announcements:

No Onnit next week Old School Throwback week.
No Onnit Wednesday. Do Yogo on your own

T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer:

Wallaby and his family
All Families during the Holidays.

Week 4 Day 1

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EC: Dawgpound, Buford, Emeril
FNGs: None. Not a single one.
Warm Up:

Onnit Warmup 2

The Workout:

Stand Your Ground 2

Mary:

Onnit Cooldown 2

Announcements:

Oakwood 24 this Saturday.

T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer:

All families during the Holidays

Lipstick Delegation Tour Day 4 – “Turning our bodies into Weapons”

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EC: Banana Seat, Yosemite, YHC  “Lipstick Fritter Bound for these Guys!”
Warm Up: Quick loop around Soccer fields and circle up in lot.

SSH x50

Daisy Pickers x15

FAC x10 Fwd/Rev

Overhead Claps x15

Seal Claps x15

Monkey Humpers x10

PAX was informed of Delegation Week Day 4 and today’s luck winner was M4L
The Workout: Mosey to the halfpipe hill. Crab Walk with feet first up the hill. Army crawl up the hill.

Indian Run over to Big lot for 10 Rounds with Tyson.  Burpees, Merkins, Squats, WW2 in the corners. I believe we did 4 rounds 10-7 🙂

Mosey over to the abyss. Bear Crawl Face Fwd down the stairs, SSH for the PAX to complete and recover on the jog backup. Repeat x2. Indian run back to lot

Mary: Pickle Pounders x25, Boat Canoes x20, American Hammers x10
Announcements: Frosty Dec 7.  F3 Southwake Holiday Party Dec 14, Please RSVP or just showup.  Oakwood 24hr with Frey Daddy Dec 21
T-Claps (Recognition): Grimmace for coming backout to the gloom after his debut at Ground Pounder
Prayer: Quiver’s Family, Crablegs. Yosemite’s church family for the passing of a young lady in a car wreck

People pay big bucks for this stuff

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YHC arrived at 0455 to set up the agility course on the courts. 0503 planted flag. 0507 no other cars pulling in for EC for off I go. Arrived back to a HC Deadbolt a long with M4L and Mookie making a visit to KG after a little smack talk. Hope they return soon. Here’s what we did.

FNGs: No Way

Warm Up:
Lap in parking lot with slides and carioca on parking lines

Circle Up
Air squared x25 IC
Plank jacks x25 IC
Carolina Dry Docks x20 IC
Sumo squats x25

The Workout:
Mosey to the rock pile.
Rocks – from ground up, curl, out, in, curl, tap ground x20 (2 rds)
Baby dips on curb
– leave rocks out for later

Mosey to courts
Agility course set up with ladders, cones, hula hoops on ground.
Two lines – 1 HIM runs the course while others do an exercise AMRAP until line is complete
4 rds – preachers seat with seal claps, WWII’s, nipplers/werkins, lunges/squat jumps

Back to rocks
Rock curls x25 slow IC
Skull crushers x25 slow IC
American hammers x20 IC
R&R

Mary:
Crab cakes x15 IC
XO’s x10
Hello Dolly x15
J-Lo’s x15

Announcements:
Frosty sign up, q sheet, Xmas party, Oakwood24

T-Claps (Recognition):
M4L, Mookie, Deadbolt making a visit to KG

Prayer:
Crab legs treatments, Cowboys co worker, sprinkler travels

Great job by all HIM! Until next time…

BS Out!

Arms Up!

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10 Pax today at Purple Cobra. Thanks for the strong effort Men.

FNGs: None

EC: Warbucks, Emeril, Dawgound, Axe, 187

Warm Up: Lap, 10 burpees OYO, merkins X 10, SSH x 30, windmill x 10, good mornings x 10

The Workout:

Hallelujah Indian Run around shopping center x 2.

Gathered at loading docks for balls to the wall and peoples chair (10 count each Pax) x 2.

Grabbed rock(s) and moseyed to hill across the parking lot for 40’s. Start at bottom of hill run to top, repeat. Exercises were curls for the girls and tricep extensions.

Moseyed back to loading dock and dropped off rocks. 1 burpees OYO.

Hallelujah Indian Run around shopping center x 2.

Mary: Merkins x 10, LBCs x 50 (in cadence), Merkins x 10, low slow flutters x 10 (in cadence)

Announcements:  M4L is taking up shoe donations for Healing Transitions. Veterans Day is Monday. See a Vet, thank a Vet.

T-Claps (Recognition):

Prayer: YHC took us out.

(ab)/(a+b)

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It’s been a long time since YHC and Pikachu co-Q’ed a workout together so we figured we give it a shot. Some mumble chatter about how many miles we were going to get in.

EC: Emeril, Dawgpound, Warbucks, Full House, Pablo, UTI, Skidmark, 187 (a little late)

Fartsacks: Mookie with the HC last night. Much like the Patriots last night he didn’t show up.

FNGs: None
Warm Up: 1 lap around with SSHsx10, Good Mornings x 10, IW x 10, Hillbillies x 10.
The Workout: Indian Run Merkin Mile with 12 merkins every quarter mile.

Switch off to Pikachu:

We did some running backwards up the ramp with a variety of exercises at the top including squats, Step-ups, box jumps, Russian Dips. 1 time we did a bear crawl up the ramp. Made our way around the park and did a set of Erkins, Derkins, Dips.

Mary: Plank hold. Side crunches. Have a nice day.
Announcements: CSAUP Frosty Dec 7, Christmas Party Dec 14, Oakwood 24 hour Dec 22.
T-Claps (Recognition): Midget posting after running long on Saturday and attempting 50 miler.
Prayer: Full House’s aunt.

 

We got 3 miles and Pikachu took us out.

Alphabet Soup

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FNGs: Swiss Miss

Warm Up: Merkins, SSH, Imperial Walkers, Good Mornings

The Workout:  PAX jogged down from the tennis courts for a quick warmup in front of the amphitheater.  From there we took the amphitheater concrete for a name game workout.   This workout was one of my favorite Thunder workouts led by John Deere.  Small change was made to the workout in that for more popular letters I added an additional exercise so we didn’t over utilize one exercise.  We picked a PAX Member and then worked thru the exercises that spelt their name.  We made it thru all the PAX with some slight modification.  Only spelt Yellow for Yellow Cake and Midget for Midget for Life.

 

A– Choose your own Ab Exercise                               N-Nipplers or Nolan Ryan

B– Burpee or Balls to Wall                                          O-One Leg Burpee or OYO Exercise

C– Carolina Dry Dock or Chilly Jacks                       P-Patty Cake Merkin(team)

D- Derkin or Dips                                                          Q-Q Choice

E- E2K (Mary) or Escalator (stepups)                       R-Reverse Crunch or Russian Dips

F- Fire Drill or Flutter Kicks                                        S-SSH or Smurf Jacks

G-Goofball or Guantanamo                                         T-Turkish Get Up or T Merkin

H- Hand Release Merkin or Homer 2M                   U-Up Downs

I-Iron Hulk or Imperial Walker                                 V-Van Goghda

J-Jump Squat                                                                 W- War Hammer

K-KNerkin – Knuckler Merkin                                   X-X’s and O’s

L-LBFC’s                                                                         Y-Yurpee

M-Monkey Humpers or Mountain Climber            Z-Zombie Walk – Lunge Walk over long area

 

Mary:  We did core work throughout the workout and didn’t have any additional time for Mary.

Announcements: Same stuff we’ve announced all week and on slack

T-Claps (Recognition): N/A

Prayer: Family of girl that was hit by a car.  Some others that I forgot because i’m writing this 2 days later.

My name is… My name is… My name is… Chubby Dawgpound

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Before the workout I asked the pax what music they wanted. Rock workout playlist from Apple or my Eminem playlist for the Holly Springs Half. Eminem can really fire me up.

EC: Dawgpound, Emeril, Dumbo, Pikachu (I think he had a lite vest on), Lucky, Coal Ash, Shamwow
FNGs:  Does Midget count???
Warm Up:

Did a quick lap around the parking lot for it was a cold morning.  Then everyone grab there bell and we made our way to the playground.

Circled Up for the following:

Side Straddle Hops
Good Mornings
Fazio Arm Circles Forward and Reverse

The Workout:

Started things off with a couple of full body kettlebell exercises.

3 Rounds of:
30 Two Arm Swing
10 Thrusters Each Arm
5 Snatches Each Arm

Next we took a quick jog to the Pavillon to grab a spot at the wall.

5 Seconds Wall Sit
5 Seconds Wall Sit Right Leg up
5 Seconds Wall Sit
5 Seconds Wall Sit Left Leg up
10 Seconds Wall Sit

After the wall sit circuit it was time to get into some legs

2 Rounds of Single Arm Cleans and lunges.  This is an incremental exercise.  We start with doing 1 clean each arm then one lunge each leg.  We then increment from 1 to 5.  All the cleans are done first and after they are completed we move to the lunges.  I personally felt tired at this point.

Next we took another trip to the wall.

5 Seconds Wall Sit
5 Seconds Wall Sit Right Leg up
5 Seconds Wall Sit
5 Seconds Wall Sit Left Leg up
10 Seconds Wall Sit

We can back for another flow.  This one was a straight leg deadlift, clean, and clean squat.  We did two rounds of this flow with 10 reps.  During the second round I asked everyone to partner up.  I wanted us to get some work on the pull ups.  I am personally awful at pull ups and need to get better.

Each pax had two sets on the pulls ups.  I personally want to thank Lucky for pushing me here.  I need it.

Next I wanted to move into some chest/back exercises.  We started Bridge Alternating Chest Press.  The mumble chatter really picked up here.  I felt like the workout intensity was not hard enough at this point.  So we took another trip back to the wall.

This time was a bit different. We did two rounds of the following.

5 Seconds Wall Sit
10 Seconds Wall Sit Right Leg up
5 Seconds Wall Sit
10 Seconds Wall Sit Left Leg up
10 Seconds Wall Sit
Balls to the Wall
Lunge walk down the pavilion and back.

After this was completed we went back to the playground for Mary

Mary:

Midget Flow.  Only time for one pass.

Midget Love Handles
Midget Cookie Pouches
Midget Stand Ups (Mini Turkish Getups)

Announcements:
Frosty (Southwake CSAUP) December 7th
Christmas Party December 14th

T-Claps (Recognition):  Coal Ash, Dumbo, Emeril for finishing up the fritter this week.
Prayer:

Girl in Holly Springs that was hit by a car
Health for all pax

Is this even safe?

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EC: Pikachu, Coal Ash, Maybelline, Dawgpound, 187, Emeril, Dumbo, ShamWow! Axe M4L on the Ruck. Anyone else?

FNGs: Not today
Warm Up: Quick Mosey around the lot back to the flag, Windmills x10, 5 Burpees OYO… (Didn’t you advertise no burpees? Yes, yes I did.), Frankenstein x10, 4 Burpees, Hillbillies x10, 3 Burpees, Imperial Walkers x10, 2 Burpees, SSH x41, 1 Burpee. Let’s do this thing.
The Workout:

PAX lined up to form 2 lines of 7. Death March w/ the last runner dropping for 10 Merkins. Continued for 2 cycles which led us to the top of the road by the school.  From there, last in was Emeril and ShamWow! Where we broke for a return back to the closer lot on the right.

PAX found a space to line up side by side in a chill-cut. YHC indicated that first PAX start bunny hopping over and down the end of the line. Couldn’t start the next PAX until the previous found the end.  One cycle through.

Re-formed Death March with 5 Merkins and jail broke at the playground hill to the “bowl”.

At the bowl, YHC instructed same lines split in different directions. At the top of first hill Star Jumps x10, other hill Monkey Humpers x10. Continued until 40 count complete.

Mosey to the stairs. Squat hold for the 6.

YHC laid out the plan… First group of 7 would go down the stairs as Bear Crawl with 5 Merkins at each landing (overheard “Is this even safe?” as Pikachu darted down into the gloom) rinse and repeat back to the top. While waiting second group completed Star Jumps OYO. Switch.

Next all PAX down the stairs, return back up with Bunny Hops for each step.

Mosey back to the flag!

Mary: Squat hold for the 6 in. WWII x41, Freddy Mercury x41, Homer to Marge x10 + RL/LL, Have a ni- “we can’t not finish the last 11 right?”, Homer to Marge x11.
Announcements: 12/7 South Wake CSAUP…Details coming soon. 12/14 Holiday Party.
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer: Yesterday’s tragedy with 14 YO girl being struck in traffic. Unspoken. YHC took us out.