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Plates and Indian Runs

Warm Up:

The normal lap through the back parking lot up onto Sunset Lake Rd

Jailbreak for the Strava segment crown (kudos to Pablo)

Circle up back at the flag for the following:

Moroccan Nightclubs ICx15

Fazio Arm Circles ICx10 forward & back

Imperial Walkers ICx15

Hillbillies ICx15

The Workout:

Indian Run clockwise around the AO where the last PAX does 5 diamond merkins.  We did this for 2 laps to make sure everyone got their merkins in.

 

Back at the flag we formed groups of 3 and 1 PAX from each group grabbed a 35lb plate brought by the YHC

We did the following exercises rotating each time:

Partner 1 does weighted shoulder press

Partner 2 does Catalina wine makers

Partner 3 does SSH ICx15

 

Partner 1 does weighted Russian twists ICx10

Partner 2 does homer to marge

Partner 3 does Mountain climbers until the 6 is done

 

Partner 1 does weighted squats

Partner 2 Star jumps OYOx15

Partner 3 Squat hold

Plates were then placed back at the flag and we did another Indian Run Bataan Death March style

Mary:

WWIIs, Boat Canoes, Pickle Pounders (led by 187)

Announcements:

Guest Q next week 10/16 – Straight Ca$h

South Wake Beer Mile Saturday 10/13 5pm @ CBC

SAS 5K

Prayer:

Deadbolt took us out

Crablegs

Two dropped in cause Cletus was to Easy


Warm Up
:

Stayed at the playground and circled up.

Good Mornings
Daisy Pickers
Fazio Arm Circles
Mucho Chesto

The Workout:

Rounds of Kettlebell only Excercises

Round1 — We went through Three Times

Kettlebell Swing 35 Reps, 25 Reps, 33 Reps (Nemo picked a number between 25 and 35)
Kettlebell Reverse Lunge
Kettlebell Pistol Row
Midget 4 Life Crunch

Round2 — We went through Three times

Kettlebell Plyo Pushup
Kettlebell Squat
Bottoms up Kettlebell Press
American Hammers

Round3 — We went through Two times

Kettlebell Chest Squeeze
Kettlebell Bus Drivers
Single Leg Deadlift

Mary:

Stretched out the legs since I knew mine where going to be soar.

Announcements:

Carpex CSAUP October 20th

Prayer:
Crableg’s, Clay and all unspoken prayers.

Merkin Count w/ Back Planks

EC streak credit to Nemo, 187, Warbucks, Lipstick, Dumbo

Welcome FNG (or as he said, PNG) Fancy Feast.  Another Woodcreeker in the mix – we might need multiple clown cars one of these morning.  We are glad to welcome you!

Warm Up: Jogged around the starting lot and circled up on the other side of the half pipe.  SSH, Fazio Arm Circles, Moroccan Night Clubs, Good Mornings.  Jogged over to next lot for SSH and arm stretches.  YHC was so tired from a really long day and late night that one count somehow only went to 9, but we kept moving.
The Workout:  On the jog to the big lot where we lined up and set a target about halfway across the lot.  On my go, sprint to the other side.  Drop to plank hold for the 6, then merkins x10 on my down, followed by a set of LBCs then  everyone’s favorite, turned over for back planks.  On my go, up and sprint back to start, plank for 6, merkins x8, back plank and repeat.  Went down to 4 and back up to 10.  8 sprints.  Recover on the jog back to start lot, lined up bottom of hill.  Bear crawl up, plank hold for the 6, then merkins x10 and crawl bear back down.  8 merkins at bottom, back up for 6.  You get the point. “Broken” Jack Webs on a 1:3 up to 10:30 merkins:air press. Sprints between sets for 6 more sprints.  Jog to midfield and back to slow things down then circled up for Mary.
Mary: Quick set with some Homer to Marge, Low Slow Flutters, Pickle #ers.
Announcements: Breach still looking to fill 2 spots on Tuna Run team
Prayer: Crablegs, neighbors down east recovering from Florence, with praise for all the work F3 has been doing.  YHC took us out in prayer

Grand Opening!

Pax of 19 showed up for the Purple Cobra Grand Opening and an upper body beatdown.  (Special appearance from Globo Gym’s founder White Goodman)

Warm Up: At 5 seconds past 05:30 there were a few throat clears and we were off!  Warm up lap through the parking lot out onto Sunset Lake Rd.  We backpedaled up Sunset Lake to the light, reg-u-lar, then right on Holly Springs Rd, then right again back to towards the flag.  Circled up for the following exercises:

Hackeysack IC X 10

Moroccan Nightclubs IC x 10

Imperial Walkers IC x 15

Hillbillies IC x 15

Good Mornings IC x 10

(peak at Winkie)

Fazzio Arm Circles IC (10F, 10B)

 

The Workout: YHC said there would be a lot of upper body today…

Partner up

Wheelbarrow to the first island, switch to the next island

Broken Wheelbarrow to the next island, switch & turn around to the previous island, switch again

Jail break to the beginning

10 count break

Crab crawl to the first island

Bear crawl to the next island

Gorilla hop to the end

 

Mosey to the guardrail behind Jiffy Lube

Partner up again

Partner 1 – 10x Derkins/Erkins/Dips

Partner 2- Plank Jacks and Squats

Switch, rinse and repeat decreasing by 2 reps each time

 

Indian Run in front of the business past Average Joe’s gym, around the end to the right

Pause at the wall and partner up for the last time

Partner 1 – Balls to the Wall

Partner 2- SSH IC x 20

Switch, rinse and repeat doing 12 instead

 

Mosey back to the flag

 

Mary: Circled up and did the following exercises:

WWIIs

Homer to Marge

Burpees

Plank Hold

 

Announcements:

Neighbor 2 Neigbor breakfast/ 0700 tomorrow

Recovery month- support HT- today @ 1630

Carpex oddysey 10/20

South Wake Beer Mile – 10/13 @ CBC

 

Prayer: Chips took us out

Crab legs

Folks down towards the coast

 

Side Straddle Hops

Nemo was back on the Q and looking to get the heart rate up during this traditional boot camp style beat down.

EC was strong for Deadbolt, Nemo, 187, Axe, Peeping Tom, UTI and Lipstick

Warm Up: Jog around soccer fields and circled up for Good Mornings, Fazio Arm Circles forward and reverse, Goofballs, Arm Stretch
The Workout: On the jog to the lower lot where we set up on the benches for 3 sets (1st 2 sets all ICx15, last set ICx20) of Tempo Dips – SSH – Shoulder Taps – LBCs – Nipplers.  Recovered on the jog around the lot between sets.  On the jog back down the road towards Optimist Farm we stopped at bottom of greenway.  Split in 2 groups.  Group 1 was on the run up the hill to touch fence at back corner of soccer fields and return.  Group 2 was SSH the whole time.  Each group made the run 2x.  On the jog back to the start.
Mary: Strong round of plank-o-rama
Announcements: Countoff was 12, Name-o-rama, discussed new AO set to start next Tue at Harris Teeter parking lot – great leadership Peeping Tom.  Deadbolt assisting family friends in Wallace who are dealing with very bad flood damage and he is rallying to make a trip there to deliver gas/money/supplies and a helping hand.
Prayer: For all dealing with Florence, Clay and Crablegs

Breach still looking for a couple more to add to his Tuna Run Team

Good luck to those running the Police 10k Sat

Keep an eye on facebook for many opportunities we as F3 can do to support Florence recovery

Post-AO chatter included recognition of the effort by Roger Roger stepping up and volunteering his time and skills as a pilot to help deliver supplies down east

Hill Repeats for the King

Warm Up: Side Straddle Hops, Good Mornings, High Knees, Butt Kickers, Skipping (whee)

The Workout:Jog to the base of “Bridgewater Hill”, 3x Hill Repeats on “Bridgewater Hill”, Mozy to the next spot for some repeats, 2x Repeats of “Powerline Sprint” with a run/walk intermission around Well Spring Dr back to the start.  We ceremoniously lost Lipstick again.  Rumor has it someone near the Bridgewater Pool may be dealing with a rather large “dog” dropping today…

Mary: Jog back to Ting where it all started

Announcements: HSPD 10k this weekend, WoodCreek Blood Drive could use some volunteers (no blood donation required) – https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090945afa62aa0f49-woodcreek

Prayer: Prayers for Clay (pre-schooler fighting cancer), Brickhouse is on the job hunt, those dealing with the Florence aftermath, Mortar who will soon be enlisting in the Marine Corps

Florence, 80s Hip Hop and Burpees; Life doesn’t get better

9 Members of the Crazy Ivan Pax braved the wind to do a Burpee base workout.  Thank you Emeril for the Men’s Health Article!!  Midget suggested some Bobby Brown and 80’s Hip Hop Music so it was played until Mary.

Warm Up:

Lap around the Soccer fields
Fazio Arm Circles Forward
Fazio Arm Circles Backward
Imperial Walker Squats
Good Mornings
Daisy Pickers

The Workout:

Kettlebells where placed in the middle of the Shelter.  Pax split up one group went to the rock wall the other to the open end of the shelter.

Countdown from 5 Burpees to 1 Burpee.  The Burpee though was a Tuck Jump Burpee.  After you did the 5 Burpee you bear crawled to the middle.  Grab a Bell and Did 15 Standing Chest Press Squeezing the bell in your hands.  Then you bear crawled to the other side and did 4 Tuck Jump Burpees.  Repeat down to 1 Tuck Jump Burpee.

Countdown from 5 Burpees to 1 Burpee.  The Burpee though was a Plan Jack Burpee where you did at least 3 plank jacks.  After you did the 5 Burpee you bear crawled to the middle.  Grab a Bell and Did 10 Goblet Squats.  Then you bear crawled to the other side and did 4 Plank Jack Burpees.  Repeat down to 1 Plank Jack Burpee.

Next all the bells where moved to the Burpee locations.  You then did 5 Kettlebell Deadlift High Pull Burpees and Gorilla walked to the other end.  You did 5 more Kettlebell Deadlift High Pull Burpees.  Repeat as you count down.  We stopped at 3 for Midgets Special Song.

Next it was Bobby Brown “My Prerogative”.  Staring in Mountain Climber position you mountain climb until Bobby said “Prerogative”  then you did a Burpee and got back into mountain climber

Mary:

Canoe Shoulder Pulses
Homer to Marge
Right Leg over Left Knee Crunch
Left Leg over Right Knee Crunch
Box Cutters
Low Slow Flutter
LBCs

Did some final stretching so this Q could stretch out his hips.

Announcements:

New AO Starting September 25th at the Harris Teeter at Sunset and Holly Springs Road.  Name is finalized but wasn’t announced.  Q will be Crazy Ivan’s own Peeping Tom.

Prayer:

Crab legs, Clay, all without power.

2 Years of the ‘Chu – Part 2 of 2

15 pax came out to workout 2 of 2 celebrating Pikachu’s 2 year F3 anniversary.

Warm up:

Lap around the turf field. Circle up in the parking lot:

SSH

Mountain climbers

Arm stretches

The thing:

Mosey to turf field – line up along near left edge

Jog to other end

Bear crawl length of field

Jog to other end

3 count – on 1 start holding low plank, on 2 keep holding, on 3 sprint to other side of the field

Low slow flutter

Jog back to far end

10 count

3 count – on 1 start holding 6 inches, on 2 keep holding, on 3 sprint to other side

Freddy Mercury

Jog back to far end

10 count

3 count – sprint on 3, all out for last one

10 count

Mosey to the abyss/stairs

Warm up trip to bottom and back to top

Back to bottom – 10 of Pikachu’s favorite exercise (aka the Burpee)

Back to top – plank hold

Back to bottom – 10 of Pikachu’s 2nd favorite exercise (aka the Turkish Getup)

Back to top – squat hold

Back to bottom – third favorite exercise (Pickle Pounder)

Back to top – 10 count

Mosey back to parking lot for Mary. Yogurt started while YHC got his phone…..and a speaker.

Thunder by Imagine Dragons – hold plank and do a merkin every time the word Thunder is said.

Stretching routine (copy from Thunder).

Announcements:

Pikachu thanks all of South Wake for making Holly Springs feel like home over the past two years.

Prayers:

Crab legs. Brick house is looking for a joke.

Block Party

Warm Up: Easy run down to concession stand area for several w/u exercises consisting of SSH, Cotton Pickers, Fozio Arms, Good Mornings, Squatted T-claps all IC.

The Workout: Return to main parking lot, retrieve cinder blocks from truck and make our way to end of tennis courts for line up. Series of exercises advancing blocks John Cusac or cradle carrying across all 4 courts to opposite end but stopping after each court for 1st series of uneven merkins, 2nd series of rut rows, 3rd series of overhead presses, 4th series of curls for the girls all called out by individual paxes for sets of 5/10 or 6/12 or ups. Drop blocks at far end hold plank for the six and then all sprint back to the start. Bear crawl across all 4 courts back to blocks and switch blocks. Rinsed and repeated x4 with duck walk next back to blocks next time. Recovered with BTW count of 20. Brought all 4 exercises together on last trip across all 4 courts back to blocks starting out with spider mans across 1st court followed by bear crawls, followed by duck walks, followed by crab walks. Ended session with 10 burpees OYO. Returned blocks to Double D’s truck.

Mary: 50 LBC’s, then YHC called out 3 pax who had been attending F3 less than 8 weeks to each lead us in an exercise. Cowboy/ 10 box cutters, Dumbo/ 10 low slow flutters, Messi/ 10 WWII’s – special shout out to Messi who’s only 11 years old!

Announcements: Pikachu’s 2 yr. anniversary tomorrow at Disney, Kenny’s Grave tomorrow.

COT: YHC shared scripture from Psalms 118:24 “This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it”.  In the midst of the storm, including Hurricane Florence on the way as well as the storms in our lives, can we still rejoice and be glad in it? Yes we can, because the Lord made this day and  tomorrow day and every day hear after for us. Time is our gift back to Him so in the midst of our storm look for ways to rejoice. Name-a-rama.

Prayer: Bubblewraps (Brad George) wife Kelli George in her early 40’s having double mastectomy due to breast cancer, Roger-Roger’s neighbors son Clay, Crablegs, H1N1 friends having marital issues, Banana Seat’s father-in-law waiting on MS test results. YHC took us out in prayer.

Stairs

With 9/11 Stair Climb approaching we once again took advantage of the stairs at Disney to get some reps on the steps.

EC streak continues with Nemo, SkidMark, Axe (with an E), and 187 on the standard 2+ mile route

Warm Up: Standard w/u jog around the field followed by SSH, Good Mornings, SSH, Good Mornings, SSH, Good Mornings. legs right over left and left over right
The Workout: On the jog to the stairs we set up for some rounds of steps and here’s how it worked.  Down/Up on the stairs was a 1 count.  Up top we did squat star jumps.  So we started with 1 down/up on stairs, squat hold for the 6, 3 jumps.  Then 2 down/ups with 6 jumps.  3 with 9, 4 with 12 and finished with another 3 down/up.  13 total laps of the stairs if you are keeping track at home.  Also, had a 20 and a 35 kettlebell and the PAX always made sure it was in tow.  On the jog back to start.
Mary: Quick round ICx15 of LBCs, Low Slow Flutters, Homer to Marge with a couple rounds of each.
Announcements: BRR end of next week, 9/11 stair climb.  Some Qs will be looking for others to step up and take AOs as 12 of us will be tapering and running BRR.  Great chance to lead.  The workout today was all about some training for the 9/11 stair climb.  We might underestimate some of the challenges we take on physically and mentally and it is important to focus on putting in the time to prepare – this is as true for the challenges we face in life as much as it is for the challenges we subject ourselves to in fitness.
Prayer: Chips coworker who had a family member in an accident, took a silent 15 count for all to reflect on, and lift up to the group and unspoken.  YHC took us out in prayer.