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Nemo – My #1 Fan

Pax of 17 showed up in the stifling late week heat as the summer solstice was taking place at Middle Creek as Nemo was back on the Q. Not sure it counts as FNG but the Nemo fan made an appearance to stress the message of importance about hydration and exercising responsibly during the summer heat.  EC credit to 187 (check that pace), Skidmark and Crosby.

Warm Up: On the jog we headed around the main fields but veered off down the greenway and circled up along the main road for SSH ICx15, Good Mornings ICx10, Fazio Arm Circles ICx10 front and reverse, and a series of arms/shoulders/chest stretch.

The Workout: On the jog we headed to the wood rails along the entrance to the start and set up shop for a round of assisted deep squats offset with merkins.  10 count of each and we went 5 rounds. Included a bonus 5 burpees in the middle as H1N1 rolled up a couple minutes late.  On the jog around to what I like to call the lower lot, we set up on the benches for a round of dips offset with squat jumps and merkins. 10 count of each and we went 4 rounds with a recover jog around the lot between rounds 2 and 3. On the jog back to the main field we set up for SSH ICx30 then a round of Jack Webbs at a 1:3 ratio (1 merkin then 3 air press). We pushed this to a 10:30 count.

Mary: Plank-o-rama with plenty of time to work in some tough exercises, each man on a 10 count or IC.

Announcements: Nemo will be out the next 2 weeks so Tha Natural has your Q next week and Yogurt has your Q the week after. July 4th convergence will be at Disney.  Plenty of great options Fri so post (EC Murph at Womble, Crazy Ivan, Cletus, Sheepdog all in play).  Reminder to exercise smart in this heat – be aware of your condition and rest as needed, hydrate throughout the day.

Prayers: A reminder to take time to listen to others and see any signs.  Praise for how F3 guys step up as needed, for each other and for the community.  Plenty of unspoken.  YHC took us out in prayer.

Cletus. Java’s First Year F3 Anniversary. Crab inspired workout.

Q: Java

Pax of 25 this morning at Cletus with seven joining at the last few minutes from Ivan.

EC Murph was done by a few locos prior to Cletus.

Warmup:

Indian reverse run around the soccer fields and over the bridge to the Southwest parking lot

Side Straddle Hop x30 IC

Imperial Walkers x 15

Hilly Billy x 15

Good Mornings x 10

Fazio arm circles x 15 IC Forward

Fazio arm circles x 15 IC Backward

Arms and chest stretch

Standard merkins x 30

Main Workout:

Run backward to the middle of the parking lot: 20 merkins

Run backward to the end of the parking lot: 20 squats

Repeated for 4 trips

Crabwalk to mid lot: 20 LBCs

Crabwalk to end lot: 20 Freddy Merc

Repeated for 2 trips

Bearcrawl to the middle of the parking lot: 20 LBCs

Bearcrawl to the middle of the parking lot: 20 Freddy Merc

Repeated for 2 trips

Indian run around the south loop and back to the southwest parking lot.

Dips on the cement parking bars x 20

Erkins with hands over the cement parking barks x 10

Squats x10

Dips on the cement parking bars x 20

Erkins with hands over the cement parking barks x 10

Squats x 10

Mosey to the tennis courts.

Cool down: Circle up for core exercises; flutter kicks, windshield wipers, LBCs.

Announcements and prayer requests:

Support the Healing Transitions AO on Fridays at 2 PM.

Banana Seat is having a CT Scan; pray for positive results.

Tofu requested prayer so Java finds a job 😉

COT and closing prayer:

Prayed so we may be the light and salt of this earth, that we may leave everything and everyone better than before in order to be men of high impact.

Glad it’s Not a Turkish Getup Month Challenge

The Q was excited to get started this morning.  Bringing back a favorite exercise we haven’t done in a month.  The Turkish Getup!!

EC: Nemo thought it was a good idea to do a Murph for EC.  Roger Roger was there to do some push ups and cheer him on.

WarmUp:

Ran around the parking lot.  Before making it back to the circle we did some Frankenstein Kicks, High Knee pulls and High Ankle Pulls.
Circled up for rest of Warm Up

20 Cadence Count Side Straddle Hop
15 Cadence Count Good Morning
10 Cadence Count Fazio Arm Circles Forward
10 Cadence Count Fazio Arm Circles Backward
10 Cadence Count Hillbillie Squats

The Thang:

Partner up with someone with a similar Kettlebell weight.  Partners stood 3 parking spaces away.  Partner one started with 1 Turkish Getup Each Arm.  Partner two started with 2 Rockies (Burpee with the Kettlebell)  We counted up from 1 Turkish Getup Per Arm to 5 Turkish Getups Per Arm and 10 Rockies.  After you finished your exercise you bear crawled from your kettlebell to your partners kettlebell and did the opposite exercise.

After the Main course was completed we went on a walk with our Kettlebells.

John Cusack with your bell then we stopped and did 20 Bent Over Rows;
Partner 1 farmer walk the two bells while Partner 2 lunged walked.  We then circled up to do 10 Kettlebell Chest Press with Each arm;
Partner 2 farmer walk the two bells while Partner 1 lunged walked.  We then circled up for Weighted Homer to Marges;
Bicep Curled while walking.  We then circled up and did 20 Kettlebell Swings;
Tricep Press while walking.  We then circled up to do 20 Halos;
Each Pax then got to decided how they wanted to carry their bell to the last stop.  At the last stop we did 12 Cadence Count of the Bus Driver.  Just in time for the Holly Springs Run Club to run by us.

Joined Cletus for Mary and COT

Possum Trot -Fun with Rocks

Pax of 17 came out to PT in the gloom this morning

Warm up:

SSH, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies, Good mornings, Fazio Arm Circles, arm stretches and a warning that you’ll need them

The Workout:

All Pax grab a rock and line up on one side of the road

11’s with the rock (brief pause and move away from the houses)

1 merkin with left arm on the rock, bear crawl push the rock to the other side and do 10 squats with the rock, carry the rock back across.  2 merkins with right arm on the rock, bear crawl push the rock to the other side for 9 rock squats.  Rinse and repeat etc.  As always, PICK UP THE 6 when done.

Jog back to the warmup circle and set the rocks down

Set my phone as a marker for the point position who gets to call a 10 count of whatever rock exercise they’d like.  After each 10 count, put the rock down and rotate to the right until a full 17 man rotation is complete.

return the rocks and head to the courts for Mary

Mary:

Circle up for a similar circuit, each pax gets a 5 count of their choice.  Some chose to do a 5 count of 5 count merkins (25 total).  Ended up doing 150 merkins in the regular workout, some pax did EC with 30 more after the workout for good measure.  Q and Pax were sufficiently smoked at the end of the workout.

Announcements:

Pain truck next week at PT, Wrangler will have his VQ the following week at PT, PT is cancelled on the 4th of July in favor of supporting the convergence.

100 mile ride on Saturday – see Double D if you can make it

Prayers – I closed us in prayer, asked for guidance and to help us be better men, brothers, husbands, and fathers.

Ground Pounder

Warm up:
10’s – Good Mornings, Don Quixote’s, Imperial Walkers & Hillbillies, Standard Merkins
20’s – LBCs & Homer to Marge

Rock Pile -(pick a big’n)
circle up rotate rocks around circle between sets
30’s – curls, overhead tri press, bench press w 6inches,
20’s American hammers, Windshield wipers

Break into 2 groups rotate stations
Aiken Leg station- 20 Box Jumps, 20 Squats, 20 Split Jacks
DD station – 20 Dips, 20 Merkins, 20 lunges
PS Station – 2 sets of 10s – 20 pull ups, 20 WWII, 20 Squats
Tables: 20 Derkins, 20 Erkins, 20 LBCs

Mosey back to Rock Pile pair up 1 rock per pair
1 planks while 2 sprints to 2nd speed bump and back
2 sets: weighted planks and crab planks
Jail break to bathrooms:
Balls to Wall 7 X 10 Count

Mosey back to parking lot
Circle up: 10s- Pickle Pounders, Mnt Climbers, Cotton pickers, Freddie Mercuries

5 min Cool Down: Shoulder stretches, Heels to Balls, & Hammies.

Announcements:
Farva completed a 5 pack for his Birthday week – great work Farva
F3 Picnic in the Park today at Harris
Healing Transitions needs us- 2 PM Friday afternoons- make a commitment to post once a month. We get more than we give.
Pax talked about building real rations with others to share our hearts – find/give support

Prayer Requests: Pax on the DL, Crablegs, making real bonds with others to share our hearts,

 

Birthday Surprise at the nut

21 pax gathered to help YHC celebrate his 28th birthday – a good handful ran a funky EC route that Slide Rule came up with. 5:30 arrived and we were off with no FNG’s.

Group mosey to the basketball goal/playground circle, with kareokee and backwards runs along the way.

Warmup:
SSH x28 IC
Fazio arm circles x14 IC forward and backward
Standard Merkin x28

The first thing:
Pax got with an accountability partner for laps around the track, being told to push it all out there as there would be breaks between. Lap 1 was 7 burpees at each corner (total of 28) with LBCs x30 (YHC lost count) followed by pickle pounders x28 IC. Lap 2 was 7 turkish getups at each corner followed by Freddy Mercury’s x28 IC.

The second thing:
The pax then got to learn about Pikachu’s birthday surprise – another Q! 187 took over and moseyed us over to the bricks. All pax got two bricks – exercise 1 was a brutal wheelbarrel with brick in each hand march (hands coming out straight every “step”) with squats when breaks were needed. Pax went the length of the parking lot and then swapped. Exercise 2 was a reverse crab walk with bricks in hand the length of the parking lot. Bricks were returned and then it was time for….

The third thing:
The third Q was Skidmark. We went over to the playground for some 7s – pull ups and jump squats, alternating and adding up to 7. Skidmark then broke out his math skills and informed us that that was 21 of each, so we did 7 more of each to hit lucky number 28. We moseyed to the front of the school for a merkin clock where Skidmark impressed all by a)not stopping and b) calling for recovery on the one armed plank.

YHC lead some mary and took us out.

Words can’t express how much each of you and F3 mean to me – I’m a better man because of all of this and I’m grateful to have all of these HIMs in my life.

~ Pikachu

PS – Only two more years of hate 😉