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Merkin Mania Agility

1 Year ago Kenny’s Grave was brought back to the gloom as an active AO. We have had some great workouts there over the past year. FV continues to grow and constant numbers for this AO are becoming more normal. The hot soup was in the air this morning. Beater was back in action. Yogi was found in the southern most part of FV. 7 total PAX was ready to put in work. YHC just rolled back from a solo EC run with 2 mins to spare. I grabbed My Boy Blue and a pair of gloves. Go time!

EC: Banana Seat

Warm Up:
Warm up lap with butt kickers/high knees then carioca over to b-ball court
Good mornings x12 IC
Prisoner squats x12 IC
Air squared x12 IC
Slalom x12 IC

The Workout:
Mosey to rocks 3×12 each
Curls (slow, reg., fast)
Tri’s
Straight back rows

Merkin mania quick feet
Figure 8 lap around the parking lots with cones and ladders along long stretch
Meet back in middle for merkins called
X12 reps each lap completed
Reverse merkins
Diamond merkins
Ranger merkins
Knerkins
Hand release merkins

7’s at the hill near splash pad
Burpees and Bobby Hurley’s

Mary:
Pickle Pounders x12 IC
J-Lo’s x12 IC
Heels2Heaven x12 IC
HAND

Announcements:
FB/Slack – Sasquatch coming up

T-Claps (Recognition):
All those that posted in the sauna like conditions

Prayer:
Noah’s Ark wife and family, Yogi’s kids, unspoken

Great work out there today gentlemen. Always a pleasure to see everyone pushing themselves. Modify will be easing into the role as new site Q. Co-Q TBD.

BS Out!

Life Lesson Naked Mole Skin

Sprung out of bed and was ready roll, and no better way than have the opportunity to have your teenager run into the workout. Would never imagine doing that in the past. So thank you to this amazing group of guys-#goobers/ #fritter
Yellow card and I had discussed the game plan for the workout. Had a friend drop a cooler- full of drinks ( water/ Gatorade) so yhc can take to workout but we were planning on running 3.6 miles from home front to PT, so that did not happen 🤪. Texted emeril to grab/ bring some water and of course he stopped and got some cheap ass water. Thank you
Parking lot was full and we rolled in right at 0523, rest of the 10 guys were just coming back from the EC run.  Thx, grabbed 2 tires and rolled them just like he use to back in the day, as a toy, all he could afford while in 3rd world country.
Set the stage/ tires- dawg # brought the rope( thank you). Dawg was very excited about carrying tires and ropes etc but he had no idea his perfect workout may not happen ..

Fartsackers: dumbo/ wacka wacka/ wallaby- pablo knew it would be a hard workout so he sent his M on a work trip – (great excuse).

EC: Dawgpound, Buford, Cowboy, Emeril, BB-8, Brony, Blue Hen, Banana Seat, Peak Weak, LED, H1N1

FNGs: BB-8
Warm Up:

It is 0530- disclaimer was done and we ran to storage unit and did the following warmup exersice.
Sshx15, smurf jacksx15, sir fazio x 15(backward/ forward), imperial walker/ hillbillies x 15.
The Workout:

We lined up went for a ‘burpee mile’ waited for the 6th ofcourse through the hood that we never visit and behind aviator etc. we never know, we may pick a guy up. We also did burpees in honor of Bernie, in front of aviator bar (that fun night after the ruck). Emeril announced that we were 20 mnts in and we did the count off, stove pipe thought 10 count.. but no No no, no 10 count, this is not a (DD) workout, so we did 5 burpees to punish our selves. We also did 5 burpees since dumbo fartsacked and 5 in honor of my good friend puddles.
Break off in group of 5, one guy pulled the tire/ carry the tire and flipped the tire, while rest of the group did Ab exersices.
We still had 15 mnts, run to the tennis courts, of course dawg was salty but not as salty as he was at whiplash, since he did not get his fix of tire flipping-

Tennis courts-
Bear crawl-
Duck walk-
Balls 2 walls 5 count (entire pax line)
Frog jump
Crab walks
Balls 2 walls 5 count ( entire pax line)
People’s chair – hands up ( 5 count)
Next- plank square x 2- you had to be there

Mary:

Low slow flutter/ ww2/ quick feet n honor of you know who-

Announcements:

5 year next Thursday 4 dead bolt

Sasquatch.  Midget is Qing so somewhat organized somewhat not.

T-Claps (Recognition):

Prayer:

Emeril’s Papi
Chips neighbor’s son was in a car wreck
Crablegs as he continues his trip
Michelle and also help Duane and hope doctors can help them during this time

Message:

Naked mole skin-

Bet you guys didn’t know you got a midget lesson this morning. Life lesson-
You have a plan- You think things are set ( tires/ rope/ all the good stuff you asked for) and than someone takes you down a road where you have to do things that you hate( burpees)or do not like but you have to because you are dealt with those cards and you thought you had everything lined up. But guess what you are with a group of guys that every .10/ mile waiting on you cheering you on, looking out for you.. you take a longer road but you are a little bit stronger- storm of life has passed and day light has come, now go enjoy the tires..
For you dawg 😄

Always honor n fun to be with you guys
#keep pushing the boulder
Aye-
M4L

Rounds of AMRAP

 

 

PAX: Breach, LED, Doc, Modify, Gump, Yosemite, Fonzie, Noah’s Ark, Fram, FedEx, Stovepipe, Finkle, U-verse

EC: Yosemite, LED, Fonzie

FNGs: U-verse and Finkle

Warm Up: SSH x 20, Imperial Walkers x 10, Hillbillies x 10, Fozie Arm Circles x 10 F and R, Stretches,  moseyed to the track for some Frankensteins, Butt Kickers, High Knees, and Carioca

The Workout: Circled up in the parking lot behind Club Wox for circuits of 5 exercises for 30 seconds of AMRAP, 15 seconds of rest for 3 sets.

Round 1:                                                                                    

1) Shoulder Tap Merkins

2) Alternating Side Lunges to Squat

3) Mountain Climbers

4) Kick Ups

5) Burpees

 

Round 2:

1) Stationery Sprints

2) Freddy Mercury

3) Alternating Forward Lunges

4) Rotational Side Planks

5) SSH for the 1st set, Seal Clap SSH for 2nd set and Burpee no push up for 3rd round

 

Mary: LBCs, Heel Taps, American Hammers, Homer to Marge, Pickle Pounders, and 10 burpees no push up

Announcements: Gump will be Qing not 1, not 2, not 3, but 4 workouts next week as he celebrates 4 years of F3

T-Claps (Recognition): US Women’s Soccer Team for 2nd straight World Cup and all the Pax that did the 1776 workout on July 4

Prayer: Noah Ark’s wife, unspoken

Diego!!! They keep coming in!!

PAX: LED, Fonzie, Potts, Dauber, Doc, Banana Seat, Noah’s Ark, 16-Bit, Cupid, Norm, FedEx, R-22, Stovepipe, Modify

EC: LED, Fonzie, Cupid

FNGs: None today

I was excited to be back from vacation and getting to Q Mutiny on a somewhat less humid morning.  When I pulled into the parking lot I was surprised to see a good number of vehicles already parked, I was assuming that LED’s post of an earlier start time and more miles for EC got some Pax out of bed, but I soon realized that some of the vehicles belonged to some early birds working the track. Sadly they were not F3 and I was thinking that maybe we’d be our regular group of 6-8 but as 5:30 approached more cars started to pull in for a total of 14 Pax and, since I didn’t put up a pre blast, at 5:29 Banana Seat yells out “ Who’s Q-ing this thing?” I step forward and circle everyone up for warm up.

Warm Up: SSH, Cherry Pickers, Fozie Arms Circles, Stretches, Lap around the track

The Workout: Told the Pax to partner up, P1 had to go to rock pile to pick a rock while P2 did squat hold. Decided to do a Diego, which is like a Dora but just a harder.  The exercises consisted of 100 merkins, 150 overhead press with rock, 200 LBC, 250 curls for the girls with the rock and 300 squats with the rock. After picking up the 6 and returning the rocks we moseyed over to the tennis courts for some suicides which consisted of bear crawl to end of first court to do 5 burpees and then crawl bear back, then sprint to the end of second court do 5 burpees and run backwards back.

Mary: American Hammers, Homer to Marge, LBC, Pickle Pounders, etc……

Announcements: Follow Crablegs on social media as he travels across the country to different baseball stadiums on ALS baseball tour

T-Claps (Recognition):

Prayer: Crablegs while he and family travel, Noah Ark’s wife recovery, Shedder and all that are injured

Two Big Bowls of Quinoa – aka 1776 workout

First, WTF is quinoa. Second, I had to ask Alexa how to spell it.

Happy Independence Day!

5 for 7.4 mile EC: Pikachu, Cobbler, Warbucks, H1N1, Skidmark

Several others for 2 mile EC

39 Pax posted this morning.

FNGs: Welcome Oboe and Snowden
The Workout:

T-Claps (Recognition): American Eagles: Popinski, H1N1, Yogurt, Banana Seat, 187, Pikachu, Lipstick was on his way.
Prayer: Warbucks and family, Thank you for the freedoms and our first responders, 243 years ago men sacrificed their lives to fight for the freedom we have today, good to Noah’s Arc back out, safe travels this weekend

Ultimate at Mutiny

Sorry for the late backblast, forgot on Monday and Tuesday was swamped.

EC: Cupid, Fonzie, LED, Pikachu

FNGs: Jeter
Warm Up: 15 SSH, 10 Imperial Walkers, 10 Hillbillies, 10 each Sir Fozie arm circles F+R, Michael Phelps
The Workout: Ultimate Frisbee! For every drop or goal, PAX completed an exercise.
Mary: No time for Mary today.
Announcements: Check Slack and Facebook. 1776 workout. Consider donating to the 3rd F charity of the month, Meg’s Smile. Donations per FNG post in July. Details on Slack.
Prayer: H1N1’s pastor had a 2 month old pass away. PAX travelling. Shredder, Crablegs, all other PAX on IR.

Sprints: Cupid, H1N1, Noah’s Ark, Breach, Black Knight, 8-bit, Sugar, Spenda, Yogurt, Pikachu, Yosemite

I’m pretty sure I am missing someone for sprints…please let me know and I can add them.

Milli Vanilli’s Greatest Hits

Warm Up

Warm up consisted of good mornings, 36 SSH for 36 months of F3 for me, daisy pickers, imperial walkers, hill billy’s, merkins and Michael Phelps

 

The Workout – My Greatest (aka: favorite exercises)

  • John Cusack with rocks to the abyss
  • Circle up for curls for the girls than wheel barrel up the stairs, Spiderman down the ramp and run back to the abyss to repeat with other partner
  • Back to rock circle for ruh rohs than sprint up grass hill for type writers followed by returning to the abyss
  • Triceps extensions with the rocks and John Cusack back to parking lot for some barely curling
  • Circle up for some Jack Webs with rocks
  • Return the rocks and run to the tennis courts for Mary

Mary

Freddy Murcury’s

Low, slow flutter

WWII

Homer to Marg

Have a nice day

 

Announcements

Refer to Slack and July 4th convergence at 6:30 am at Womble

 

Prayer Request

Warchild and his family, Gilligan from F3 Carterico who is having complications from heart valve replacement and continued prayers for Crab Legs

What Kind of Bullshit Exercise is This?

In an effort to make use of the Q Sheet, YHC is signing up to randomly Q through SW.  Today was a trip back to the hallowed grounds of Cletus, now with new and improved 5:30 AM start time.

EC was supposed to be a joint adventure at Deadbolt’s suggestion, but he (a) “Forgot” and (b) Chickened out of a Cletus beatdown given the threat of pull ups.  Something something rise to the challenge something set the bar higher something something.  So, a few of us (Cowboy, Cupid, UTI, Bernie, and YHC) hit up 2 miles of the chilly May morning before a proper boot camp.

FNGs: The CMD (Coal Miner’s Daughter, from WV)
Warm Up: Run the lines on the court, SSH, Fazio Arm Circles, Imperial Squat Walkers
The Workout:

Part 1, on the Courts:

5x Devil Burpees (Slap the floor; miss the jump shot; flop on defense; flip to pushup before overhead clap….1 rep)

Start with 1 legged Wheelbarrows (these are stupid hard, btw), go forward, sideways, then backwards.

Repeat with 1 legged Bear Crawl

Part 2, on the Playground:

Groups of 4 rotating exercise:

  • 5x Pullups
  • 5x Devil Burpees
  • 1 Legged Crawl Bear width of grounds
  • 10x WWII

Repeat 4x.  At some point Puddles provided the quote of the day (and title of this backblast)

Finish with extra round of pull ups before

Round 3, on the Hill:

Sprints while we waited for the 6.

This one is a bit of a blur.  We started with merkin bear crawls up the hill.  Every time your right foot came off the ground, a merkin was required.

Run back down, recover on the WWII.

Run backwards up the hill, Derkins off the fence.  Down the hill, recover on the WWII.  I think we did this 3-4 times.  Ending with some more Devil Burpees before one last trip backwards up the hill. There were hints of a Merlot on the last trip…

Mary: A few mary exercises.  Ended with Russian Ukrainian American Freedom Twists.
Announcements: Service opportunity at Food Cupboard tomorrow.
T-Claps (Recognition): Great to meet Plex for the first time this AM.  He just started F3, but was killing it.  I do not look forward to his first Q.
Prayer: So many ailing parents.  We’re getting older guys, cherish the time you have with your parents now, you don’t know how long it’s going to last.

Millennial

FNGs:None.

EC : 5 for EC with 1 biker. Fonzie, Cupid, Pikachu,H1N1,LED, Messi
Warm Up:Fabio arm circles. IW, Hillbillies, Good mornings
The Workout:100 count of each with ~100yd run in between.

partner up and complete exercises. First partner to 100 starts run.

SSH, LSF,merkins, curls for girls,boat canoes,rut rows, squats,triceps extensions, plank jacks,  50 burpees per pax

Mary:none
Announcements: Vote for 2nd f salamander game on slack.  See slack and FB for other announcements
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer: Physical health among pax’s, Soldiers abroad and at home and their family’s at home.

Ultimate at Mutiny

EC: LED, Fonzie, Cupid

FNGs: None

Warm Up: None, YHC totally forgot to do warmup, my bad.

The Workout:

Ultimate Frisbee, Shirts v Skins!

For every drop, we did an exercise. Exercise switched after 2 goals. Burpees, hand release merkins, turkish getups, LBCs, squats, few other things.

Every goal, PAX called an exercise the group did. Scorers only had to do half, if they wanted.

Highlights: Some great catches by lots of PAX (even the ones that were out of bounds!), lots of blocks and sprints

High Lights: The glare from the lights, the glare from the Skins

Low Lights: the not-so-glow-in-the-dark frisbee, LED being so tanned we kept thinking he was a Shirt

Mary: None

Sprints: Yogurt, Noah’s Ark, Banana Seat, Sugar, Black Knight, Cupid

Announcements: Try some new AOs out, spread the PAX around!

YHC will be leading ladder sprints post-workout at Fuquay AOs for interested PAX (thinking Mutiny and Kenny’s Grave/Sheepdog). Great way to improve your speed and endurance. Only takes a few minutes, it’s worth it.

T-Claps (Recognition): Happy birthday Yogurt!

Prayer: Dauber’s hamstring, Shredder, Crab Legs. Banana Seat’s kid with pneumonia. H1N1’s travel for work