FNGs: none
Warm Up: ssh, sir Fozzy, windmill, spinal rotation, good morning
The Workout: 30 minute EMOM: 5 big boy sit up, 5 push-ups, 5 curls, 5 KB swings
Mary: box cutter, big boy set up, J Lo, LBC, cross crunches
Announcements: See Slack
Prayer: racers this weekend, best in show looking for new employment, lipsticks family, stubs, crab legs, Dahmerâs brother-in-law
EC: Abe, Alpine, Bleeder, Cupid, Lipstick, Skidmark, Pikachu, UTI. In May 2018, @Skidmark invited me to an F3 workout. Probably the easiest headlock ever. On May 13, 2022, 27 men posted to celebrate my 4 years of F3 and 57 years of life. When we came rolling in from EC at 5:27 am, I was overwhelmed by more than two dozen men, circled up, ready to go.
Special invitation: Yogi, who was at my first workout. When it was time for my F3 name, after fruitless discussion around Raleigh native, environmental worker, and more, I got the âWhat was your first concert?â question. Answer: BTO, you know, Bachman Turner Overdrive, who sing, Takinâ Care of Business. Dorton Arena, ~1975. Yeah, Yogi chimed in, Takinâ Care of Business – TCoB! Slide Rule heard âTCBâ and immediately thought TCBY â The Countryâs Best Yogurt. Ok, your name is YOGURT!
Warmup: 1) Run to top of Ivan lot. 2) Circle up for 57 SSHs. Count off: 27! 3) Mosey to amphitheater lawn area. 4) Jack Webbs to 30; 19 pickle pounders, 19 squats, 19 Catalina wine mixers. (19 x 3 = 57) 5) Â Mosey up to greenway, on your six. Guantanamo. Wide range of pushes from nice and easy to brutal by Pikachu. Long time to circulate 27 PAX. Mosey to truck to pick up gloves. Note: Should have picked up speaker too! Mosey to rock pile. Each PAX grab a rock.
During the workout, I missed several counts and received much-deserved grilling. During my days of Qâing Cletus, I was never known for counting.
The Thang 1: Count off in 1s and 2s. Simple exercise â 1s bear crawl to top of parking lot and back, while pushing your rock. 2s do AMRAP curls for the girls (Round 1), rut rohs (Round 2), prisoner squats (Round 3).
The Thang 2: Circle up in âgrassyâ lot. Similar to Banana Seatâs and Pikachuâs AC/DC Thunderstruck workout, I used Takinâ Care of Business as the song and we did a burpee with every âTakinâ Care of Business.â Thatâs 27 (compared to 31 for Thunderstruck). Volume was way too low, so yes, should have grabbed speaker while at truck. Anyway, everyone grilled me for that.
Mary: Circle up on tennis courts, where it all began. Big boy sit-ups, Pickle pounders, Box cutters, Protractor. Have a nice day.
Announcements: #Junechallenge and more on Slack. Highlighter running for Congress.
Prayer requests: Yogi prepared a list of goals at the suggestion of his pastor. Boy George selling house and moving family. Highlighter pointed out those who need help mentally may not be reaching out. Find them.
Message: Thanks for all the F3 support over the years. Itâs a real privilege to be part of this group. Each one of you has been a positive influence in some way. Thanks for keeping the F3 SouthWake standard high. F3 is the real gift.
FNGs: none
Warm Up: SSH, Good Mornings, Windmills, Imperial Walkers, Hill Billies, Sir Fozio Arm Circles, Seal Claps, Overhead Claps
The Workout: PAX moseyed over to “That Hill⢔ and held squat at the bottom while YHC laid out the plan. PAX would run to the first intersection, perform an exercise, run to the top of the hill, perform another exercise, run back to the first intersection, perform and exercise and then run back to the bottom and squat hold.
⢠Round 1: merkins, squats, big boy sit ups
⢠Round 2: mountain climbers, side lunges, LBCs
⢠Round 3: shoulder taps, forward lunges, low slow flutter
⢠Round 4: merkins, merkins, merkins
⢠Round 5: squats, squats, squats
⢠Round 6: big boy sit ups, big boy sit ups, big boy sit ups
After this, we moseyed over to Good Will and held People’s Chair with a 10 count down the line for a total of 70. Rinse and repeat for a total of 3 rounds. Then back for Mary.
Mary: Popcorn Mary and a little yoga to finish things up.
Announcements: 3 Alarm is back home. Send some encouragement his way.
T-Claps (Recognition): All of those that got up before the butt crack of dawn this morning to get it done. Keep the momentum going!
Prayer: Bobby Boucher’s wife’s job, Nemo and his son traveling.
Moleskin: I’ve yo-yoed a bit over the past few months, gaining momentum and losing momentum. If I’ve learned anything, it’s that it’s much easier to get up at 5am and go work out if you’ve built up that consistency. That means it takes a good week or two of dedicated fart sack avoidance to get in the groove. If you’re already in that groove, awesome! Keep it up! If you’ve fallen off the wagon (as I have), dedicate yourself to getting up and getting out there. Stick with it and you’ll be back in the groove before you know it.
FNGs: none
Warm Up: Quick mosey around the library. Hasselhoff was able to catch up with the group after parking late and taking a wrong turn down Library Hill (penalty burpees were skipped accordingly). SSH, Windmills, Imperial Walkers, Sir Fozio Arm Circles, Seal Claps and Overhead Claps
The Workout: YHC brought the workout die. We moseyed around downtown as we let the die decide our fate. Exercises performed included
We got a little over 1.5 miles along the way.
Mary: Popcorn Mary all around including 30 Murkins (thanks Pumpkin Spice).
Announcements: Keep PAX that are training for events in your thoughts and offer some encouragement. Also, donate blood!
T-Claps (Recognition): Hasselhoff for tackling Library Hill solo!
Prayer: Stubs’s upcoming MRI, Best in Show’s neighbors.
FNGs: none
Warm Up: SSH, Good Mornings, Imperial Walkers, Windmills, Sir Fazio Arm Circles (front/back), Seal Claps, Overhead Claps
The Workout: My daughter had her first baseball practice of the season last night, so that gave me a good idea.
Thing 1: Diamonds on the ball field.
PAX gathered at home plate. Bear crawl to first base where we did squats. Bear crawl to second base where we did squats and merkins. Bear crawl to third base for squats, merkins and WWIIs. Finally, bear crawl home for squats, merkins, WWIIs and side lunges. One more round as we start taking exercises off.
Thing 2: PAX split into two groups. Group 1 holds squat while group 2 sprints to the fence and moseys back. Switch. Then group 1 holds plank while group 2 sprints out and back. Switch.
Thing 3: People’s Chair, 10 count down the line x8. Balls to the Wall, 10 count down the line x8.
Moseyed back to the parking lot for Mary (both tennis courts were taken!).
Mary: A couple of Mary exercises (can’t remember, sorry) and group stretches before closing out.
Prayer: Lots of guys dealing with sickness or injury, either personally or in their inner circle. Three Alarm’s upcoming surgery. Reach out to your fellow PAX that you haven’t heard from in a while.
FNGs: none
Warm Up: Nemo took the warm up. We did a quick jog and then went into some SSH, Good Mornings, Sir Fozio Arm Circles and a few other things (memory is failing me at the moment).
The Workout: Woody took over for round 1. We gathered at the bank and partnered up. 6 Patty Cake Merkins at the ATMs. Run to the other side, 6 more Patty Cake Merkins. Run back. We did 5 rounds.
YHC (Abe) had round 2. We ran around the back of the shopping center and grabbed 2 palm-sized rocks. Lined up on the wall, we held People’s Chair with arms extended. 10 count down the line for a total of 70. Recover. Side arm raises with the rocks, 10 in cadence. We repeated for a total of 3 rounds.
Next up was McNugget for round 3. We lined up on the guard rail for some dips and durkins. 10 each, 3 rounds.
Last but certainly not least, Wild Turkey for round 4. Over to “that hill” for 7s. Burpees at the bottom, star jumps at the top.
With everyone properly beat, we headed back for Mary.
Mary: Bobby lead Mary to close things out.
T-Claps (Recognition): PAX that stepped up and took turns Qing this morning.
FNGs: none
Warm Up: Jog around the soccer field. Circled up for SSH, Good Mornings,
The Workout: Mosied over to the Abyss. YHC has been following a similar routine of four exercises, run, repeat. Simple but effective.
Round 1 (repeat 3 times)
Merkins x10
Squats x10
Lunges x10
WWIIs x10
down the Abyss and back up
Round 2 (repeat 3 times)
Shoulder Taps x10
High Knees x10
Side Lunges x10
LBCs x10
down the Abyss and back up
Round 1 (repeat 2 times)
Wide Grip Merkins x10
Tempo Squat x10
Jumping Lunges x10
American Hammers x10
down the Abyss and back up
Mosied back to start for Mary.
Mary: LBCs x30, Homer-to-Marge with single leg variation, Pickle Pounders, wrapped up with some quick yoga.
Announcements: Jan 17th day of service, sign up to Q!
T-Claps (Recognition): Full House and Miget for getting back out after recovering.
Prayer: PAX recovering from sickness and injury, Sprinkler’s family, mental health this time of year
FNGs: none (Lawn Dart doesn’t count)
Warm Up: SSH, Windmills, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies, Fozio Arm Circles / Seal Claps / Overhead Claps
The Workout: Mosey over to the rock pile. PAX were instructed to get a mediumish rock and line up on one end of the parking lot. It went like this:
Curls for the girls x30, Triceps x30, Ruh Rohs x30, Squats x30.
Bear crawl to the end of the parking lot, mosey back to start.
Repeat, reps reduced to 20. Down and back.
Repeat, reps reduced to 10. Down and back.
Returned the rocks and moseyed to the picnic shelter.
At the picnic shelter, we took a break with People’s Chair. 10 count down the line for a total of 70 count. Recover.
Balls to the Wall, 70 count. Recover.
Repeated both one more time, then moseyed back to the tennis courts.
Mary:At the tennis courts, everyone picked their favorite exercise for a round of popcorn Mary. Then YHC wrapped things up with a little yoga stretching.
Announcements: Frosty CSAUP is coming up
Prayer: Lawn Dart’s brother, UTI’s uncle, unspoken
FNGs: None
Warm Up: Fanny Pack & I did a 2 mile EC. Nemo ran a solo EC.
SSH, Good mornings, Frankensteins.
The Workout: 5 flights of stairs, 2 sets of incline pull ups & homer to marge.
Ran over to cemetery hill & did 5 hill repeats mixed in with various exercises.
Mary: Did just about everything.
Announcements: Frosty CSAUP, HS Half (see slack for more).
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer: Unspoken
11/01/2021
FNGs: None
PAX: Bobby Dall, Maybelline, Nemo, Hasselhoff, Wild Turkey, Kosher
EC:Â Bobby Dall, Maybelline, Nemo, Wild Turkey
I arrived around 5:24 to find only one car in the lot. Hasselhoff stepped out, otherwise all quiet on the western front…
One by one the PAX started to roll in. Nemo emerged from the gloom from his EC, then Bobby Dall. A headlamp rounded the corner and out popped Wild Turkey right around 5:29. Then Maybelline came strolling in right at the 5:30 mark.
Time to get to work! YHC had decided ahead of time that we would keep things moving, but we would avoid THAT hill…
Warm Up: SSH x 25 IC, Good morning x10 IC, Imperial walkers x15 IC, Hillbillies x15 IC, Sir Fazio Arm Circles forward and backward x10 IC
The Workout:
PAX moseyed over to the bank parking lot and did a quick lap around it, stopping by the ATMs. YHC asked the PAX to partner up. Then the fun began:
Making deposits at the bank:
Thang 1: All PAX completed 10 merkins, 15 plank jacks IC, and 15 WW2 together. We then partnered up and ran in opposite directions around the bank. When PAX met up halfway around the building, we stopped and did 10 patty cake merkins. Completed the lap around the building, 10 more patty cake merkins.
Thang 2: Once PAX were back at the starting point, we did 10 wide grip merkins, 15 plank jacks IC, and 15 LBCs IC. Another lap around the bank with 10 patty cake merkins on each side of the bank.
Thang 3: One more round of fun around the bank. PAX completed 10 diamond merkins, 15 plank jacks, and 15 LSF. One more lap around the bank with 10 patty cake merkins on each side.
Riding the rail:
We then moseyed behind the shopping center down to the rail next to Jiffy Lube. We completed 3 rounds of work there with a mosey around the building in between each round.
Round 1:Â Dips x20, Derkins x10, Erkins x 15
Round 2:Â Repeato round 1
Round 3:Â Gave our arms a break. Bulgarian Split Squats x 15 on each side, Prisoner Squat x 15, Monkey Humpers x 15
Rocking it out:
We moseyed back around the building to the rock pile. YHC asked each PAX to grab 2 rocks, then we went over near the wall for the following with the rocks
Round 1:Â Wonderbras x 15 IC, Shoulder press x 10 IC, Tricep extension x 10 IC. Drop rocks, over to the wall for BTTW and People’s chair x 10 count from each PAX.
Round 2:Â Curls for the girls x 15IC, Ruh rows x 10 IC, Skullcrushers x 10 IC. Drop rocks, back to the wall for People’s chair and BTTW – again 10 count from each PAX. YHC mentioned doing it backwards and Maybelline proceeded to do some questionable things to that wall….
YHC instructed PAX to return the rocks, then moseyed back over to the parking lot in front of Pet Mania.
Suicides – are we done yet?
YHC lined up the PAX and instructed them to sprint down to a black truck that was a few curb stops down. We’d do exercises at one end, then sprint back, where we’d complete more exercises. We did 3 rounds of this:
Round 1:Â Sprint down, 10 merkins, sprint back, 10 star jumps
Round 2:Â Sprint down, 10 squats, sprint back, 10 WW1
Round 3:Â Sprint down, 10 merkins again (I think?), sprint back, 10 breakdancers with Hoff on the count
Wild Turkey mentioned that this must have been a Woody inspired Q. YHC was happy as I knew I’d have made my co-site Q proud, even if he was down with the warden at Prison Yard this AM…
Mary:Â Just the tip for Mary and we ran out of time. Homer to Marge x 15 IC. Have a nice day…
Announcements: 3 Alarm 1st and 2nd F tonight, Holly Fest, Warbucks driving meal box collections for HS Food Cupboard – get on this if you haven’t already. See Slack for more details.
T-Claps (Recognition): T-Claps to Bobby Dall, Maybelline, Nemo, and Wild Turkey for getting in some EC.
Prayer: Unspoken, first responders and military. YHC took us out.