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The Ultimate Mutiny

18 PAX joined in for some wet frisbee Ultimate!

FNGs: 2 thanks to Yogurt for bring them out @DingSing @GatorPit
Announcements: If you can, volunteer for the upcoming Holly Spring Half
Prayers: Those struggling with COVID, Cancer

Ground Pounder – 10/23/21

FNGs: none
Warm Up:

  • SSH x 23 ic
  • SFAC x 10 F&B ic
  • Seal Claps to Overhead Claps x 10 ic
  • Hula hoops, clockwise and counterclockwise x 10 ic
  • Merkins TUT x 10 ic down and up

The Workout:

  • Mossied to the rocks. Medium to large rock.
  • Pax did an assortment of exercises including; curls for the girls, overhead tricep extensions, rut-rows, ground pounders, overhead press, and bus-drivers. sharing is caring so we rotated after each exercise.
  • After two times around we dropped to our 6 for rock press, windshield wipers, and rock spanks at which point Gump told Bubba to “spank it like it’s your sister” 🤔.
  • Paused for 5 burpees OYO since Mr. Terrific was about 5 minutes late.
  • Returning the big rocks we mossied to the small rocks pill. Pax grabbed two smaller rocks and hit higher rep curls for the girls, tricep extensions, and arm raises to the front then side. The burn was enjoyable.
  • returning the small rocks we mossied to the playground for step-ups, Diamond-standard Erkins, squats, and single-leg lunges.

Mary:

  • LBC, LSF, Giant Cockroachs, box-cutters, Gump-cutters, jump-lunges, and crab-cakes.

Announcements:

  • HSPD Goggin’s Challenge for Special Olympics is going on now. Join Bacon this weekend if you can.
  • HS food pantry boxes
  • Hollyfest

Prayer:

  • Stubs received a clear MRI on Tuesday. Still no brain cancer!
  • Dauber, family sickness
  • Mr. Terrific, leadership

America’s Favorite Pastime at Purple Cobra

FNGs: None

PAX: Lipstick, U.T.I, Woody, Warbucks, Shredder, Full House, Cupid, Mr. Terrific, Wild Turkey, Maybelline, Kosher

Warm Up: SSH, Good Mornings, Daisy Pickers, Hillbillies, Imperial Walkers

The Workout: YHC had sent out a pre-blast saying that everyone’s favorite hill may or may not be in play, and that there may or may not be competition involved. THAT hill and competition were both in play.

After our warmup, we moseyed over to the parking lot in front of Town Hall Burger for a little baseball (aka America’s pastime). In honor of postseason baseball getting underway, YHC had gone out early in the gloom prior to the workout and placed my 2.0s rubber bases at various points throughout the parking lot, effectively creating 4 corners with a pitcher’s mound in the middle.

We split up into 2 teams for a several competition style rounds around the 4 corners. YHC informed the PAX that each trip around the bases would consist of various exercises at each base, and that a “prize” would be in play for whichever team completed the exercises and arrived back at home plate and then the pitcher’s mound first at the end of each round. YHC encouraged each team to push and stick together as the round was only complete once the last man on each team was back at the pitcher’s mound.

After each round, once a winner was declared, we moseyed to the bottom of THAT hill. Little did the PAX know that their “prize” consisted of the winning team selecting an exercise to complete at the top of THAT hill after we collectively sprinted to the top. PAX moaned about YHC’s choice of a “prize” – but we continued nonetheless. After each trip up THAT hill and exercises were complete, we went back to the baseball diamond for another trip around the bases. The exercises consisted of:

  • Round 1 around the bases: 1st base – Merkins x15, 2nd base – Squats x15, 3rd base – WW2 x15, Home plate – Star jumps x15, hold for the 6 at pitcher’s mound.
  • Round 1 up THAT hill – Sprint to top, Team 1 called out dips, U.T.I. dished out the count for 40 of ’em on the rail. PAX wondered if he would ever stop counting.
  • Round 2 around the bases: 1st base – Wide grip merkins x 15, 2nd base – Prisoner squats x 15, 3rd base – Crab kicks x15, Home plate – SSH x15 IC (I think), hold for the 6 at pitcher’s mound.
  • Round 2 up THAT hill – Sprint to top, Team 2 called out Turkish getups. Lipstick led the count with PAX shouting out random numbers. Lipstick wasn’t amused and punished us with more. I think we did 20 total.
  • Round 3 around the bases – 1st base – Diamond merkins x15, 2nd base – WW2, 3rd base – merkins x15, Home plate – WW1 x 15, hold for the 6 at pitcher’s mound.
  • Round 3 up THAT hill – Sprint to top, Team 1 called out Bulgarian Split squats. Woody led the count for 15x each leg.

After 3 “innings” – YHC led the group to the wall behind the shopping center. Mumblechatter about monkey humpers led to YHC spontaneously calling for us to to 25 Monkey Humpers IC over near the bushes. Mumblechatter was high around monkeys humping in the bush.

YHC took the PAX to the wall for balls to the wall – 5 count from each PAX, followed by Preacher’s chair 10 count from each PAX.

We headed over to the rock pile and picked up 2 rocks each for rounds of: Curls for the girls, shoulder press, rows, American Hammers with the rocks, and skull crushers.

Time to mosey back to the flag.

Mary: YHC called on various PAX to pick an exercise. We completed Freddie Mercury, LBC, 6 inches, and box cutters before we called time.

Announcements: Hollyfest (see slack for signup), 3 Alarm 2nd F signups (see Slack), Wild Turkey Trot run – see Wild Turkey for details

T-Claps (Recognition): Mr. Terrific for getting back out in the gloom! Great to see you, brother!

Prayer: Unspoken

YHC took us out. Prayed for the sky Q to help us be the light in our communities. Prayer for our military and first responders.

Always an honor to lead!

P.S. Woody and I are taking over co-site Q responsibilities from Cupid after him serving solo for 18 months. Great work holding it down, Cupid! Woody and I look forward to seeing many more of you out at Purple Cobra in the future!

Mop Handles and Mumble Chatter

Great group out at Ground Pou… I mean, Sheepdog, this morning. Some strong mumble chatter was in play. I won’t go into details but there was talk of an F3 South Wake calendar and there was some discussion about a mop handle. Been a long week for many of us and so I was looking to bring a little different variety. Ironic thing is, I ended up taking pieces of the previous day Fram-led beatdown. It was that memorable that I just figured I wanted to keep doing it. Several in play for EC, gotta love that later start at the end of a long week.

FNGs: Nope
Warm Up: Long jog around to back of school, circled up for variety of exercises. This was second time this week I included Good Mornings ICx20. Guys are always asking for it, so what’s wrong with a little extra time to stretch?
The Workout: Lined up along the side of the school. Kept it simple. We would run down the length of the road and do a plank hold together on a 30 count, then run back. When we returned we did SSH ICx100. Kept this pattern but on the return we changed it up each time and did LBCs ICx75, Mt Climbers ICx0, Low Slow Flutter ICx25, and American Hammer ICx10. Good mix of jog/plank/core work. Then we circled up and Shredder led a 10-min lesson on some self-defense moves. If you have ever been to Sheepdog, this is something you are missing out on. Shredder walks the PAX through some basic techniques, provides demo, and you practice. Look, nobody is gonna become an expert in 10 mins, but this is a great addition to a workout and you get to learn a few things along the way. T Claps to Shredder for sharing his knowledge with the PAX.
Mary: Mosey back to flag and a Sprinkler/Redenbacher 2-man jailbreak broke out. Circled up for a couple quick rounds of LBC, 6 hold, Low Slow Flutter and Homer to Marge. Then we did a 5-min arms and shoulder stretch routine. Figured after some of the workouts this week we could use a little extra. This is when the mumble chatter reached Ground Pounder status. It was almost like Dauber was there.
Announcements: CSAUP, others check Slack
T-Claps (Recognition): Lots this morning. Great to see Mr. T back in the gloom. Red for piling up points and running strong. Maybelline putting in the work too. Shredder showing great leadership during the challenge. I could go on but you get the point.
Prayer: Unspoken, YHC took us out.

Sheepdog – TKD Conditioning.

4 HIM brought it this morning while working through some high intensity TKD Olympic training drills.

All 4 Hit the road for extra credit. Norm busted in with an 8:00 minute mile (before he knew what was on the menu.

Warm Up:

Light warm up lap

Side straddle hop

Sir Fozio Arm Circles (f&b)

Michael Phelps

Frankenstein

Good Mornings

Willie Mays Hayes

The Workout:

Pax started with a couple of light drills designed to loosen the hips with modified suicides. 1st round; knew raises down and then run back (each line). 2nd round; Front high lifts down to each line and run back. 3rd round; front kicks down to each line and run back.

Then Pax hit the curb and Traveled around the island

Next, we picked an intersection of two parking lot lines. Pick a + parking lot line. TKD stance jacks, with switching sides.

Curb travel, reverse.

Switch side, front kick drills.

4 corners, from kick drill.  Basically Pax fires a front kick, turns 90 deg. and kicks, 90, kick, etc, to each direction in rapid succession. 

Mary:

1 min. of LBCs.

Announcements:

May challenge. 3rd F opportunities, etc.

Prayer: Families, country, Mayor Sears health.

Nice pot of Gumbo at Sheepdog

FNGs: N/a
Warm Up: Mosey around the parking lot and circled up for side straddle hops, fozzy arm circles forward and reverse, good mornings, daisy pickers, imperial walkers, and hillbillies
The Workout: Took the Q last minute and decided to do some greatest hits around the AO.
Started with field of dreams: home plate was 10 burpees, 1st base was mountain climbers, 2nd base was WW1’s, and 3rd base was plank jacks.

Then moved on to the 12 days of F3 for: 12 Australian ass smacks, 11 wing chun combos, 10 10 count jump rope, 9 Scorpion dry docks, 8 stars a jumping, 7 Side hop moguls (in cadence), 6 boats a rowing (in cadence), 5 CRAAB CAAAAKES  (in cadence), 4 T-Stand kicks (in cadence), 3 prisoner squats, 2 box cutters, and Give me one man maker burpee.

Mosey around the side of the school and stop for 11’s of monkey humpers and goofballs

Continue to mosey to the back for a 3 minute AMRAP of 10 single leg squats, 20 hand release merkins, and 30 squat jumps. Take a lap around the track then head over to the circle.

Bear crawl Ring of Fu – we all Bear crawled around the circle, each pax called out a number and on their up we did that many wing chun strike combos.

Shredder finished us off with combatives, focusing on rooting and form for wing chun strikes.

Thanks as always for allowing me to lead and make sure to fill up that Q sheet before Thursday!

It’s Good to Be Back

“It’s good to be back.” This was said by Kotter Mr. Terrific as we finished up today’s workout with COT. You know how sometimes you know someone only means something like 60 or so %…either way, Mr. Terrific was strong pushing through today’s workout. He was not weak…if so…he would’ve just fartsacked. We we’re glad to have this guy back! Today’s beatdown was designed to be very simple, yet effective.

FNG’s: No
Warm Up: SSH x 25 IC, Good Mornings x 10 IC, Frankenstein’s, Willie Mays Haze, Seal Claps, and Moroccan Night Clubs all x12 IC. Moseyed around the back of the school for the workout.
The Workout: Very simple. Each PAX would complete 100 Single Leg Bulgarian Squats, 200 Hand-Release Merkins, and 300 Squat Jumps. PAX worked for 3 minutes at a time. When the timer went off, we did and Indian Run around the back track. Each round we added a lap for the Indian Run, up until 3 laps. All PAX worked together toward the end to pick up the 6 and bang out final reps. This took us just about the entire time.
Mary: WW2 x 30, LSF’s x 20 IC, Pickle Pounders x 10 IC. SSH x 50 IC, Good Mornings x 10 IC. Have a nice day!
Announcements: Bed Build donations and project coming up at the end of the month. Thrift store work this weekend as per Gump. Look for both of these opportunities on the 3rd F Channel. New Monthly Challenge about to hit the street…Check Slack…it’s yoga and stretching…we all need it!
T-Claps (Recognition): Mr. Terrific fearless and unrelenting in getting back after it in the gloom today!
Prayer: Pikachu’s M, Sargeant Leach (retired HSPD) battling lung issues in need of transplant. YHC took us out…honored to lead today men!

Not quite a clipboard

YHC decided to keep the Q at Tiger’s Blood despite the calf giving a good nagging this week. Figured I’d be able to run ~half the workout and then could encourage the pax as they finished up – ended up working out well.

FNGs: Not today!
Warm Up:

Mosey to the track

Mosey a lap

Side to side and front to back leg swings

Daisy Pickers

A skip 50m

B skip 50m
The Workout:

800m repeats at Long Interval pace, 400m recovery – 6x
Mary:

Mosey back to the flag

Yoga recovery
Announcements:

Upcoming CSAUP, beer ruck, holiday party – see Slack/Facebook for details
T-Claps (Recognition):
Mr. Terrific for getting back after it with speed work!
Prayer:
187 & M.

Sheepdog 11/27

FNGs: none
Warm Up: mosey around the parking lot with intermittent warm-up exercises; SSH, SFAC, Overhead Claps, Seal Claps, Good Mornings, IP, and HBs. We added a couple of Muay Thai Wall of Defense blocking and combo Wall of Defense with an el ow strike to tease in some combatives.
The Workout: we started off by having Pax travel 1/2 down the parking lit with front kicks then the remaining 1/2 with lunges. Rinse and repeat x3. Then a Sheepdog style Build-a-Bear. Pax Bear Crawled from one side of a back to back parking line to the other then adds 1 Merkin. On the return we did Duck Under, Hook Punch combos. This continues with +1 Merkin until 10. Once done we Mossied to the brick knee wall for some TUT Dips and Cobra Merkins.
Mary: Deals Choice as Pax rotated through an assortment of our favorite core exercises.
Announcements: Frost Ruck on 12/5. TEDtalk with Bacon coming up.
T-Claps (Recognition): All Pax for coming out the day after Thanksgiving. BINGO’s first trek to Sheepdog. Mr. Terrific and Shredder EC.
Prayer: M’s with ongoing health issues, Dovtail’s move to AZ. Pax how are alone during the Holidays.

Ground Pounder – 11/21

Best mumble chatter in SouthWake.
FNGs
: None, but one visitor here for a soccer tournament.
Warm Up: SSH, SFAC, Overhead Clap, Michael Phelps, Good Mornings, Squatted Moroccan Night Clubs, IP, & HBs.
The Workout: Straight for the wall of pain. With a rotation of Balls to the Wall and People’s chair. Had to make sure we through in some Australia Ass Smackers for the new guy. To which he responded, “who came up with those.”

Pax were then instructed to get a “respectable” rock with some clear variations on what is respectable means. For rock rotations we focused on TUT (Time Under Tension). Cadence represented 1/2 the move so everyone slowed down and focused on form. Curls for the Girls, Overhead Triceps press, Overhead Press, Rut Rows, Ground Pounders, Chest Press.

We then broke into twos. 1st Pax plank holds while the rock is set on their back. 2nd Pax sprints to the speed bump and back. Rinse and repeat three times.

we wrapped up the work out with bear crawl rock drags from one speedbump to the other.  Pax deposited rocks and return to the show flag for Mary

Mary: LBCs, heal taps, H2M, Giant Cockroach, Crab Cakes.
Announcements: Gravel at Momma’s House, TEDtalk, Frosty Ruck, Beer Ruck, HSPD Angel Tree.
T-Claps (Recognition): Rams and John Deer with there fly by HSHM PR runs!
Prayer: Several Ms dealing with health issues. Those dealing with COVID or recovering, our nation, community, our troops.