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So much to do, but so little time

FNGs:N/a today

3 Pax for Monthly Challenge EC and several for an EC run.

Warm Up:Side straddle hops, arm circles forward and reverse, seal clap, overhead claps, daisy pickers

The Workout: I started with a blast from the past, my first visit to this AO was the 1776 workout on July 4th 2018.
Mosey around the parking lot and head towards the shelter for 16 rounds of 31 seconds on, 9 seconds off Tabata work:

  • merkins
  • high knees
  • Scorpion dry docks (not enough pull up bars for everyone so I subbed this one out)
  • Plank jacks
  • Side straddle hops
  • Turkish get ups
  • Overhead claps
  • American hammers
  • Lunges
  • Step ups
  • Squats
  • Moroccan night clubs
  • Mountain climbers
  • LBCs
  • Dips
  • Plank shoulder taps

Bear crawl across the parking lot and 7 burpees to finish it off

Mosey to the legendary Abyss for some Dora style partner work

  • 100 Planche merkins (great for biceps)
  • 100 AG squat front kicks
  • 100 mountain climbers (L/R=1)
  • Pick up the 6 and a 10 count squat hold
  • 100 boat canoes
  • 100 crab cakes in cadence between all PAX

Mary: Mosey back to the parking lot for an Embrace the Suck hold (3 minutes). Finished with 25 low and VERY SLOW flutters.

Announcements: Several Pax doing the Triathlon Saturday and they are looking for volunteers, some 3rd F opportunities coming up, my 4yr F3 Anniversary is this Saturday and I’ve got the Q at GP.
T-Claps (Recognition): Everyone that came out this morning despite the threat of pouring rain, and especially those that did EC.
Prayer: We all took a knee and I took us out.

Straight forward

FNGs:none
Warm Up:4 pax with 2mile EC. circle up and did some SSH, windmills,Fazio arm circles and prison squats
The Workout:Moseyed down to the concession stand wall where we did 20count of erkins, derkin , and dips. Moved over to the hill and did 7s of LBC and alternating lunges.  Made our way back up to rock pile and performed several exercises while the last pax bear crawled to the front. After rolling through we did jack webbs only to realize  that it was reverse jack Webb’s. So we did 1press and 4 merkins up to 5/20. And the came back down doing 20 press and 5 merkins.  After burning out the arms rocks were put back in place and hit the tennis courts.  Used the four corners and stacked the following exercises sprinting the long ends and Karaoke the short sides. 10-SSH, 20- calf raises, 30 IC BTW, 40 IC 6 inch hold.
Mary:Mary consist of single leg v ups, big boy sit-ups, hello dolly, dog pointers which was on all 4s extending left hand right foot and the repeating for other side.  Lifted knees off ground while in crunch position and did 20IC mountain climbers.
Announcements: Sleep in Heavenly Peace June 12. Fritter challenge 6/14. Picnic
T-Claps (Recognition):Fram for using largest rock in Fuquay
Prayer: brother in law recover from sickness, first responders,

Early 4 Year at Disney

My 4 year would be the Memorial Day Murph, but out of town plans led me to ask Dawgpound if I could take the Q from him at Disney for an early celebration. This was just before the challenge and I appreciate he gave up a coveted Q spot late in the month, and was pleased to see he picked up a different AO this morning. It was an honor to lead, was pleased to see such a great turnout, and what better place than Disney for me to celebrate. I am a proud Disney site Q alum. Preblast promised nothing fancy, just moving around and putting in the work, with a guarantee of a good tour.

FNGs: None today, so no bonus point awarded
Warm Up: Quick jog around lot, circled up for Good Mornings, Daisy Pickers, Windmills, Imp Walkers, Hillbillies and had to throw in Goofballs for good measure. 5 burpees OYO too.
The Workout: Jog around back of fields and down the hill to the road, circled up for a couple sets alternating SSH ICx20 and a shoulder burn (arms out, fazio front, arms out, fazio reverse, arms out, seal claps, arms out, overhead claps, arms out, recover). On the jog back to entrance and grabbed a low pole for alternating deep tempo dips ICx10 and tempo merkins ICx10. Did this 4 times. On the jog to the lower lot, each man on a line, dropped to plank hold, shoulder taps, plank hold, nipplers, chill cut, merkins, plank hold, recover. Did this 2 time. On the jog to back corner of building for alternating low slow flutters ICx20, 15 and 10, with the other half holding BTTW, so 3x on the wall for each of us. On the jog to big lot lined up in groups of 4 for a bear crawl Indian Run. PAX hold plank while man in back bear crawls to front. Each man did 4 bear crawls. 10 quick merkins to burn out and then on the jog to The Abyss for 2 rounds with LBC up top and Star Jumps at bottom. On the jog back to flag.
Mary: Not much time so heel taps ICx22 and LBC ICx2
Announcements: Cletus 7 year anny celebration with Deadbolt on Q, wear red Fri, ZERO excuses and support Breach raising money for Travis Manion Foundation – let’s go big tomorrow for this.
T-Claps (Recognition): from me to all of you for the experiences over the past 4 years, and for putting in the effort start to finish today – might not seem like we did all that much but when you think about it we did not stop working the whole time
Prayer: 16-Bit mother-in-law, those impacted by the shooting in San Diego. As leaders in all we do, let’s be mindful of looking out for others especially when it comes to mental well being. YHC took us out

Tennis at the trot

FNGs: None

Warm Up: Nice mosey around the tennis court stoping at each parking lot light to do a prescribed exercise.  Along the way we divided into 1’s and 2’s and picked up our coupon (rock) to use over at the hill.
The Workout:

At the hill 1’s and 2’s partnered up to do circuit exercises.  Going up the hill one partner would do a rock climber (bear crawl with rock) at the top we did in sets of 10, 15, 20, and 25 Dips, Irkins, Tricep Ext, and curls for the girls.  Partner at the bottom was doing Mountain climbers, Monkey Humpers, Marionettes, and then Mexican Jumping beans.

After much mumblechatter and @Redenbacher almost loosing a leg from a falling rock down the hill we moved over to the tennis courts for a little game of F3 Tennis.  Rules: ball can only bounce once on your side, player bounce player not player bounce bounce, serve has to make it over net from the back rectangle, opposing team gave prescribed exercise if the team got a penalty.  Playing to 10.
Mary: We did Low slow flutter, boxcutters, E2Ks, boat canoes, and pickle pounders (to get ready for Father’s Day of course)
Announcements: June 26th F3 picnic at Harris Lake, June 12th SIHP bed build, Memorial Day Murph, Red shirts on Friday
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer: Remember Heidi battling cancer, 16-bit’s mom in law diagnosed with breast cancer, Laettner recovering from sickness, and Martini kidney stones.

Stone Cold Kung Pow 5/28/21

Warm Up: A Quick set of 22 counts of SSH and then a mosey over to the church parking lot for a Broken Skull obstacle course. We toured the grounds to hand out instructions and then we got to work.
The Workout: There were 8 stations that the pax and a partner needed to run to complete the exercise and then run to the next one. The goal was to complete 2 revolutions of the course in the allotted time. The stations were as follows
Station 1: Weight plate chest presses (25 reps)
Station 2: Water bottle or Sandbag Farmers Carry
Station 3: Roll the 3 dice, perform those exercises
Station 4: Battle Rope Figure 8’s (25 reps)
Station 5: Out of the box (25 Reps at each corner of SSH, Squats, Windmills and Frankensteins) bear crawl to each corner
Station 6: Fire Hose Run
Station 7: Catalina Winemakers around the clock with tires
Station 8: Traveling Merkins with an overhead press.
Mary: Mosey back to the parking lot

Announcements: Memorial Day message, Freedom is not free, it has a high price that has been paid by alot of great men and women. In recognition of Memorial Day for every pax member that wears a RED shirt on Friday the 28th I will donate $10 to the Travis Manion Foundation and if 75% of the pax wears a RED shirt I’ll double it.

Prayer: Roger Roger family friend that has thyroid cancer, men and woman on the front lines

Billy Madison Visits To Be Determined

EC: LED, Fanny Pack, Fonzie, Katniss, Maybelline, Redenbacher, Yogurt

FNGs: Welcome (Wilson Robertson) Drum Circle! He went to App State and said it was a pretty groovy experience..  Thanks for bringing  him out Fonzie.

YHC made my inaugural Q at TBD so I wanted to make sure PAX got their money worth on this fine Wednesday morning in the gloom.  Seven of us headed out for Extra Credit with great pick ups of the 6 along the way. Returned to the flag for about 10 more PAX ready to get after it. Fonzie let me know we had an FNG so I laid down the disclaimer and off we went.

Warm Up:

A quick mosey to the center of the ball diamonds and then circled up for:

  • Good Morning x 12
  • Windmills x 12
  • Frankenstein x 12
  • Spinal Rotations x 12

We then took another quick mosey to the parking lot east of the soccer fields for the main event.

The Workout:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Inspired by Billy Madison’s journey through back through school, this routine involves a running loop and exercise per grade. Begin with a loop (to simulate the grade) followed by an exercise with 12 reps as the exam. This concludes 1st grade. Run the loop again, followed by the 1st grade exercise x 12 reps plus a new exercise x 12 reps. This concludes 2nd grade. Continue with the loop and adding an exercise each time until you’ve completed one loop and exercise combo for each of the 12 grades.

First Grade

  • Star Jumps x 12

Second Grade

  • Star Jumps x 12
  • Sumo Squats x 12

Third Grade

  • Star Jumps x 12
  • Sumo Squats x 12
  • Carolina Dry Docks x 12

Fourth Grade

  • Star Jumps x 12
  • Sumo Squats x 12
  • Carolina Dry Docks x 12
  • Merkins x 12

Fifth Grade

  • Star Jumps x 12
  • Sumo Squats x 12
  • Carolina Dry Docks x 12
  • Merkins x 12
  • Chilcutt Peter Parkers x 12

Sixth Grade

  • Star Jumps x 12
  • Sumo Squats x 12
  • Carolina Dry Docks x 12
  • Merkins x 12
  • Chilcutt Peter Parkers x 12
  • Chilly Jacks x 12

Seventh Grade

  • Star Jumps x 12
  • Sumo Squats x 12
  • Carolina Dry Docks x 12
  • Merkins x 12
  • Chilcutt Peter Parkers x 12
  • Chilly Jacks x 12
  • Mountain Climbers x 12

Eighth Grade

  • Star Jumps x 12
  • Sumo Squats x 12
  • Carolina Dry Docks x 12
  • Merkins x 12
  • Chilcutt Peter Parkers x 12
  • Chilly Jacks x 12
  • Mountain Climbers x 12
  • Pickle Pounders x 12

Ninth Grade

  • Star Jumps x 12
  • Sumo Squats x 12
  • Carolina Dry Docks x 12
  • Merkins x 12
  • Chilcutt Peter Parkers x 12
  • Chilly Jacks x 12
  • Mountain Climbers x 12
  • Pickle Pounders x 12
  • LBC x 12

Tenth Grade

  • Star Jumps x 12
  • Sumo Squats x 12
  • Carolina Dry Docks x 12
  • Merkins x 12
  • Chilcutt Peter Parkers x 12
  • Chilly Jacks x 12
  • Mountain Climbers x 12
  • Pickle Pounders x 12
  • LBC x 12
  • Freddy Mercury x 12

Eleventh Grade

  • Star Jumps x 12
  • Sumo Squats x 12
  • Carolina Dry Docks x 12
  • Merkins x 12
  • Chilcutt Peter Parkers x 12
  • Chilly Jacks x 12
  • Mountain Climbers x 12
  • Pickle Pounders x 12
  • LBC x 12
  • Freddy Mercury x 12
  • Dying Cockroach x 12

Twelfth Grade

  • Star Jumps x 12
  • Sumo Squats x 12
  • Carolina Dry Docks x 12
  • Merkins x 12
  • Chilcutt Peter Parkers x 12
  • Chilly Jacks x 12
  • Mountain Climbers x 12
  • Pickle Pounders x 12
  • LBC x 12
  • Freddy Mercury x 12
  • Dying Cockroach x 12
  • WW II x 12

Mary:  We returned to the flag with enough time for 12 count low slow flutter. Have a nice day.

Announcements: Check Slack and FB for information on the upcoming F3 picnic, bed build, and CSAUP.

T-Claps (Recognition):

Prayer: Unspoken. Sham Wow! Laettner

YHC took us out. Always an honor to lead.

EVENing the ODDs

FNGs: None

Warm Up: Mosey from parking lot to track. Hamstring Stretch, Quad Stretch, Pull knee to chest
The Workout:

PAX were instructed on the ground rules for the ME: ODD numbers must be completed in sequence. EVEN numbers are interchangeable throughout the non-stop 45 min timer. I/C exercises were to be done in proper cadence timing and lap work on EVEN’s were to be held to the spot you stopped on the track. i.e. Don’t start walking on bear crawls if your tired. PAX were politely told to have some self-respect and be honorable in their effort. To quote Pablo “I’ll be checking accountability and I ain’t your Daddy.”

PAX were instructed to pick up the 6 on EVEN numbered exercises. Flip a tire, bear crawl an extra distance, throw an extra rep or cadence rep to the 6’s way. Plenty of help given during lack of “will” moments.

I don’t have every PAX’s completed Events. (Each # is an event) But I can come back and edit as they come through.

Nemo: 6 , Mookie: 5, Breach: 6, 16 Bit: 4, Fanny Pack: 6, Maybeline: 7, Cupid: 6, Pablo: 6, FRAM: 6, Roger Roger: ? , Mad Dog 20/20: ? Floe/Joe: ? , Hardy: ?,

Lots of lesson to be learned from this: Help someone, Ask for help, Get past the surface of fear and pain, True Accountability, Steel sharpens steel.

Mary: Not time
Announcements: None (Too tired)
T-Claps (Recognition): Maybeline, Breach and Fanny Pack for EC.  ALL the PAX who committed to the workout. ALL PAX for competing against YOU vs YOU.
Prayer: Pablo’s Family Friend, Roger Roger’s extend families medical issues, Floe/Joe medical issues with family and wife’s getting job opportunities.

Pennsylvania Sweat Box at Cobra

FNGs: None

Warm Up: Short mosey over to the GNC Parking lot for circle up.

  • SSH x 20
  • Good Morning x 10
  • Standard Merk x 20
  • Imperial Walker x 20
  • Fazio 10+10

The Workout:

  • Mosey over to in front of the Butchers Market for a Pennsylvania Sweatbox with bonus sprints
  • Get accountability partner
  • Pax Does the following exercises right in front the butchers market
    • Squat x 20
    • WW2 x 20
    • SSH x 20
    • Merkin x 20
    • Freddy Merc x 20
    • Lunges x 20
  • After that set of 6 exercises above – pax does a parking lot suicide with 6 stops at parking lot “tips”
  • Repeat the above until time

Mary:

Mosey back to Teeter lot and then Jailbreak to flag

  • Low Slow Flutter x 20
  • Homer to Marge
  • Homer to Marge alternating legs
  • times up

Announcements:

  • Family Cookout – check slack
  • JoCo CSAUP – check slack

T-Claps (Recognition):

  • Roger Roger’s family member with brain tumer

Prayer:

  • YHC took us out in a Ball of Man
  • Honor to lead men

 

Spartan 500 at Paradise City

YHC made my triumphant return as the Q at Paradise City this 55 degree comfortable morning.  About 7-8 showed for Extra Credit with Pikachu and Skidmark leaving early to get in the extra mile (nice work).  great pick ups on the EC run of this 6.  Returned after EC to see a large gathering in the parking lot which looked great!  We had a visitor from F3 Chartlotte in town – more on that at the COT

FNGs: None

Warm Up:  A quick lap around the parking lot and then circled up

  • Windmills x 10 🙂
  • Wide Grip Merkins x 10
  • Side Strattle Hops x 20
  • Fazio 10F and 10R
  • Seal Claps x 10
  • Right over left and left over right stretches
  • Pax instructed to find an accountability partner of equal speed to put him

The Workout:

We did the Spartan 500 with running a 0.25 mile in between each sets.  Partner up with a man of similar speed but that can push you.  Do the set of 50 exercises at opposite corners with your partner.  See image below for details.

Goal was to do this 10 times or 5 laps.  T claps to (at least) Pikachu, Skidmark and 187 for finishing all 10!  I think most of the rest got 8 so a spartan 400!

Mary:

The lead pair got back to the Basketball courts a little early and led group in ab exercises.  YHC arrived and closed out mary with a 5 count around the horn holding 6 inch leg lifts.

Announcements:

  • JoCo CSAUP
  • Sleep in Heavenly Peace (check slack)
  • Cookout (check slack)

T-Claps (Recognition):

  • Mookie for running a 2:08 half marathon yesterday and still posting
  • Visitor from Charlotte (Greyhound) – his step daughter is having a baby today

Prayer:

  • Greyhounds Daughter and doctors
  • unspoken

Simple and affective

9 for EC
18 PAX showed for Purple Cobra
We warmed up.
We did Hindenburg BLIMPS.
We did Mary.

Everyone was tired except 187.

The end!
This BB is dedicated to 16 Bit.

BS out!