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Surprise Q

So this was my first day back after being out for two weeks with Covid and I was thinking I would try to take it a little easy. Ha! I arrived in the parking lot and was greeted by several PAX and a discussion began about who had the Q. Someone (I think it was FedEx or Sprinkle – or both) said YHC had the Q, to which I chuckled and uttered something along the lines of “yeah, right”. They quickly responded saying that YHC did indeed have the Q. At that moment I remembered that I had signed up to Q weeks ago – prior to getting Covid – so I jumped in and repeated part of a previous workout and improvised the rest.

Thanks for bearing with me and for the opportunity to lead – although YHC was somewhat underprepared.

FNGs: None
Warm Up:

SSH x 20 IC
Daisy Pickers x 10 IC
Good Mornings x 10 IC
Sir Fazio Arm Circles x 10 IC
Seal Claps x 10 IC
Overhead Claps x 10 IC
Imperial Walkers x 10 IC

The Workout:

Mosey to the rock pile for a repeat of a previous Q. Everyone grabbed a rock and we proceeded to circle up for a rock exercise followed by a lap around the circle – John Cusack style.

The exercises stacked up after each lap…
Exercise 1: Curls for the Girls x 15 IC;
Exercise 2: Overhead Press x 15 IC;
Exercise 3: Tricep Extension x 15 IC;
Exercise 4: Ruh Roh’s x 15 IC;
Exercise 5: Rock Merkins x 10 on each side

Rocks were then returned after one last lap and we moseyed to the tennis courts for a modified 4 corners. Corner #1 was 10 Merkins, followed by BTTW/ bear crawl one at a time until all PAX made it to the next corner. At corner #2, we stacked the 10 merkins with 20 squats. We lunge-walked to corner #3 for stacked merkins, squats and added 30 SSH. To cap it off, we repeated the BTTW/ bear crawl until all PAX were at corner #4. Once there, we stacked the merkins, squats, SSH, and added 40 Freddie Mercuries.

Mary:

Dauber took over and stretched us out with some yoga for Mary.

Announcements:

MMIA fundraising coming up – check slack for details.
New thrift shop in Angier starting soon and needs some help on Sat., Aril 3rd. See Gump/ Slack for more details

Prayer:

YHC is glad to be back after having Covid – family has recovered.
Gump – new job is going well.

Still trying to recover

Pumpkin Spice's VQ at Ground Pounder

I think I got the cadence and count down for my VQ, but I forgot to “recover” after each exercise.
FNGs: None
Warm Up: Side straddle hop; imperial walkers; hillbillies; good mornings; abe vigados; sir fozio arm circles.
The Workout: Mosey to the rock pile. HEAVY ROCK 3 rounds 10 count: curls, triceps, rows, shoulders, squats, GPs; TWO SMALL ROCKS 2 rounds 10 (cadence): boxing, shoulders, L-raises, annies, T-pushup position rows, merkins. Mosey to basketball court; Two rounds of knockout. Overhead clap while waiting in line. When knocked out, while waiting for the end of the game, Bobby Hurleys round one & WW I round two. Wilt Chamberlain modified (100 LBCs; 100 Squats; 100 low slow flutter)
Mary: Good Morning
Announcements: See slack
T-Claps (Recognition): None
Prayer: Forcep’s work situation; Praise for Motor Boatin’s diagnosis.

No Quads Necessary

A request was made to go easy on the quads by a particular PAX during the EC run today. Apparently, the quads were heavily targeted on Tuesday and full recovery had just not taken place. While the request was taken under advisement, it was certainly not fully honored. YHC only omitted one exercise and replaced it with a non-quad move. With kettlebells, you would eliminate snatches, swings, squats, and similar moves if you don’t use the quads…so while that certain PAX became salty, we proceeded forward generally as planned. The Bat Cave was full of municipal vehicles, police cruisers, and the sounds of mostly the Dropkick Murphy’s during Crazy Ivan today. There was a fake storm that came through last night…

FNG’s: no
Warm Up: SSH x 30 IC, Sir Fazio Arm Circles x 7 IC (F/R), Good Mornings x 10 IC, Imperial Walkers x10 IC (wait…no hillbillies?), Overhead Claps x10 IC.
The Workout: 4 Rounds of 6 Exercises. 1:15/0:15 Tabata style. Exercises were:

Figure 8’s, Kettlebell Bear Crawl, Kettlebell Squats, Snatches, Midget Love Handles, Swings.

Mary: 2o nice n slow Good Mornings IC.
Announcements: Long Ass Run March 27th, check Slack. Apparently, CarPex is trying to work on form by having “Form Week” next week. A couple of our own, Pikachu and Dawgpound, will be guest Q’s down there. Pumpkin Spice on the VQ at Ground Pounder tomorrow.
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer: Motor Boatin’ with good health test results. YHC took us out.

Are you a Member of the Clergy?

Sometimes when an FNG shows up, you gotta ask, “are you a priest or pastor, or member of the clergy?” Because we’re about to talk about rock spanks with consent and without consent and pickle pounders, etc. Today’s FNG Abacus, was not a member of the clergy so we had the “all clear” to commence with the best mumblechatter in Southwake. YHC sought to set the stage for ridiculousness by introducing the Bag of Wrenches (about a 30lb. bag of wrenches, literally) that would accompany us on our short journey today.

FNG’s: Welcome aboard Abacus!!!
Warm Up: Shredder got us started off with SSH x 15 IC as YHC got some extra gloves for our FNG. This was followed by Good Mornings x 20 IC, Imperial Walkers into Hillbillies x 15 IC, Hand Release Merkins x 20, Seal Claps x 10 IC, Overhead Claps x 10 IC, Donkey Kicks x 20 IC, Hand Release Merkins x 10, Good Mornings x 10 IC.
The Workout: Mosey over for some rock work as Shredder and Pumpkin Spice shared the load of Bag of Wrenches.

Circle of Rock

2 Rounds of each: Squats x15, Rut-Rows x15, Hand Release/Release Merkins x 10 IC, Curls for the Girls x15, Tricep Extension x15, Rock Spanks x15 IC, Chest Press x25, Shoulder Press x15.

The circle of rock continued except 4 PAX stepped up to do 25 Curls for the Girls with the Bag of Wrenches, while the rest of the circle did AMRAP Ground Pounders the entire time. PAX not Curling or Pounding were Planking.

Wall of Pain

Each PAX took a turn doing 25 Curls for the Girls with the Bag of Wrenches while the rest of the PAX alternated between BTTW and People’s Chair. With 13 fellas…this took awhile!

Mosey to the playground with Shredder and 3rd Cousin grabbing the bag to travel. When we got there, 4 different PAX stepped up to be our “wrench curlers” while all others did AMRAP step-ups. PAX not curling or stepping, were planking.

Mary: LBC’s x20 IC, Homer to Marge X 20 IC, WW1’s x 20, Pickle Pounders x20 IC, short mosey back to the flag for Donkey Kicks x 10 IC. I told these guys not to leave open spots on the Q Sheet!
Announcements: Long Ass Run, March 27th. Downtown Train has an April “Neighborhood Challenge” coming up.
T-Claps (Recognition): Pumpkin Spice and Forceps for the double down and Pumpkin Spice will be on the VQ at Ground Pounder next week. That dude is gonna uncork it on us! Welcome Abacus (works in finance…close to Bean Counter…but).
Prayer: Motor Boatin’ and his new job, Pumpkin Spice has a friend who has recovered from a possible brain tumor, fellow PAX in Carpex with various injuries, those struggling with addiction, depression, mental illness, and grief. When we pray…God moves! YHC took us out.

17 PAX Under the Lights for Ultimate Frisbee

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

 

Prison Yard 3/2/21

4 Pax for an early morning workout at the Yard Double D, Motor Boatin FNG (Shiv) and Warden Breach on the Q

Warm Up: A quick mosey around the clubhouse, then circle up for some 22 count SSH, Imperial Walkers, Daisey Pickers and Windmills

The Workout: 7 Stations of pain. 2 rounds, 2 mins a station then 15 secs rest to move to the next station

Station 1- Sandbag Kettle Bells- Round 1 (Shoulder Shrugs) Round 2 (Famers carry around the parking lot)

Station 2- Kettle Bell- Round 1 (Swings) Round 2 (Alternating 1 arm snatches)

Station 3- Firehose- Round 1 (Squats) Round 2 (Lunges)

Station 4- Battle Rope- Round 1 (2 arm waves) Round 2 (Side Straddle hops with rope)

Station 5- Med Ball- Round 1 (American Hammers) Round 2 (Dying Cockroaches)

Station 6- Weight Plate- Round 1 (Curls) Round 2 (Tricep Extensions)

Station 7- Sandbag- Round 1 (Burpee with a full press) Round 2 (Rut Rohs)

Prayer: Pray for Motor Boattin that his tests this Thurs go well and they don’t have any negative results. Military and First Responders. Go out into the world today and be a positive influence, no matter how big or small.

Mama house volunteering

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.

Jessie’s Girl and the After Song

It was good to see several cars in the lot already as I pulled up early for GP. Tclaps to Shredder who hopped out of his car and went for an EC run with the promise of no burpees by the Q if he was late getting back. Forceps rolled up right on time bringing the music with him, because the pax at GP do get grumpy without their music. Little did he know how important it would be later to set the mood for my new Mary Circuit.

FNGs:N/a
Warm Up: side straddle hops(by most, Gump hops by 1, and attempted Gump hops by another), good mornings, fozzy arm circles forward and reverse, Michael Phelps, and daisy pickers.
The Workout: our normal rocks were halfway underwater so mosey to the new rock pile for a medium to large rock. I was very proud of everyone today as I didn’t see any one arm pebbles this week. John cusack, curls for the girls, and mumble chatter (something about morning enemas) as we mosey to the game board by the basketball courts.

Everyone lined up by the color wheel with rocks for the main event. Pax would spin the wheel, I would move on the board to that color, we would do a super ground pounder as the buy in for every turn there’d been (1,2, 3, etc.), the pax that spun would call a 10 count move, we would all execute that move, and then rotate down a rock. It took 15 turns to make it to the end and we ended with a 20 count move to finish.

Cusack, curls for the girls, and mumble chatter(something about a trip to Circle K, had to be there for this one!) as we returned the rocks to their exact location and mosey back to the start for Mary

Mary: Inspired by GP 2 weeks ago I promised to make a Jessie’s Girl Circuit based on some mumble chatter. Forceps had it on the playlist and got it started.
Jessie’s Girl: 10 count 3rd Nipplers(thanks Gump for the inspiration), 6 inches hold, pickle pounders, homer to marge right leg up, and homer to marge left leg up. Then rinse and repeat for Round 2. This circuit lasts much longer than the song and I think we hit a different playlist for the after song.
Finished things up with an embrace the suck plank hold.

Announcements: Mama’s Thrift moving tomorrow morning 7am
T-Claps (Recognition): All pax that made it out for some ridiculousness and a reasonable Q
Prayer: Fanny Pack traveling, covid relief, unspokens

Senior Moment: 7 Respects at GP – Welcome Slapstick

FNGs: Yes – welcome Garrett Riley, F3 name “Slapstick”…FV native, went to UNC Wilmington, married, has 18 month old daughter, first concert James Taylor, played RW in hockey growing up, loves the Hurricanes…see pic attached
Warm Up:  Discussed F3 mission and welcoming statement with Slapstick.  Had Sprinkler hang with him throughout the workout.  20 SSH, 10 daisy pickers, 10 sir fazio arm circles (f/b), 10 seal claps, 10 o/h claps, 10 hillbillies. Two laps around the tennis courts picking up the six.  Norm departed needing to get some miles in promising to join us for Mary
The Workout:  10 PAX partnered up; five got rocks and met the other five at base of hill.  Found semi dry area and began with 50 rep rock exercises (total) including curls for the girls, rut-ro’s, tricep, squats, wonder bra, bus drivers…the PAX rotated after one PAX climbed the hill, did 5 reps on the guardrails (dips, irkins, dirkins…) and then came back down the hill.  Called an audible after slippery conditions caused a PAX to fall on his bottom….audible to hop  the guardrail, jog down sidewalk and drive – back to the bottom of the hill.  Lots of great effort.  Had PAX move slightly to the left under the light held plank until five PAX retrieved another rock for some core work.  From our six, we did nipplers, straight arm extensions, 6 inch with rock above our chest.  Rinse and repeat.  Discussed F3 CORE Principles.  More core work including slap rocks, toe taps, WW I sit-ups….returned rocks to pile.  Mosey to tennis courts.
Mary:  Norm came in hot and joined us for some yoga that included pigeon,  cobra, table, various arm/leg stretches….have a nice day.
Announcements:  Q school.  New AO Saturday’s at Fleming (beta) – run 5-6 miles or ruck 3 miles.  Stay tuned.  Discussed Q responsibilities.  Discussed ID tags – YHC offered up a $10 coupon to one PAX (Endo) to purchase a Road ID.
T-Claps (Recognition):  Price is Right for bringing out numerous FNGs over the last few weeks at PT.  great work!

Observation:  7/11 men who posted this morning were 50 years or older.  AWESOME SAUCE!  RESPECT!

Prayer:  Bob Barker has new changes taking place next week…prayers for safe/smooth rollout.  I asked Norm to take us out.  unspoken. Thank you Norm!

2nd F at Stick Boys (Motor boatin’, Norm and Dauber….Buttermilk sighting)….Congratulations on new job Motor boatin’!

Honored to lead.  Nice to be back out after being on IR.  -Dauber

 

 

Backtits at Captain Caveman

FNGs:none
Warm Up: mosey, ssh x20, daisy pickers,good mornings, foot trace, sir fasio arm circles and thumbs up
The Workout:  all exercises are with weighted mace

1st set- wonderbra x10 in cadence per side, arm extension plus curl in cadence x20, push up with arm lift x10 per side

2nd set- side plank with arm extension x10 per side, bridge press x20, burpee x5

3rd set-45 second exercise 15 sec break- barbarian squat, bow draw, bent over row

4th set- 45 second exercise 15 sec break- lateral lunge, lunge w/ joist, behind the head pendulum(don’t hit those back tits)

5th set- wonderbra x10 in cadence per side, arm extension plus curl in cadence x20, push up with arm lift x10 per side

Mary: ring around the Mary
Announcements: see slack
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer: pumpkin spice household over covid, Dumbo recovery