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1/1/19 Nutcracker Convergence

Pax of 24 with an FNG for the First workout of 2019

Brexit, Forceps, UTI, 187, Nemo, Foghorn, Skidmark, Dawgpound, Warbucks, Roger Roger, Blue Hen, Lucky Charms, Emril, Turtle Man, Peak Week, Norm, LipStick, WebEx, Double D, Cowboy, and 1 FNG  welcome to the pax (Ball Drop)

Breach, Flannigan and Peeping Tom on the Q

Warm Up:  Jog around the front parking lot to the basketball court, circle up, 20 count of SSH, 22 counts of Imperial Walkers/Hillbillies, Good mornings, Merkins Fazio arm circles and Frankenstein Kicks

The Workout: Break into 3 teams of 8 for a relay style race down the backstretch

Flannigan workout: 3 rounds run down to the first light pole and back while the rest of the pax performs a plank hold. Last place team does 10 merkins and 2nd to last does 5 merkins.  Repeat in round 2 running down to the 2nd light pole. 3rd round backward run to the last light pole and then sprint down back to the start. Mosey over the side parking lot for the 2nd workout, bear crawl up the parking lot.

Breach Workout: Partner up for Stations with big boy toys. Station 1 Tire pull around the parking lot.  Station 2 Cinderblock curls for the girls, Station 3 Overhead press with a length of fire hose, Station 4 Big tire flip across the parking lot, Station 5 Battle rope waves, Station 6 medium tire flip across the parking lot, Station 7 Small tire squat. Station 8 Pig on a stick down the parking lot and back. Rotate through all the stations and then gear carries back to Breach’s truck.

Peeping Tom Workout:  Mosey to the playground with 4 35lb plates

Split in 4 groups of 6
Station 1 – pull-ups and rows
Station 2 – SSH and mountain climbers
Station 3 – BTTW and People’s Chair
Station 4 – walk with plates overhead to the wooden rails, pass to a partner on the way back

Mary: 20 diamond merkins, 22 big boy situps, and 22 low slow flutter kicks

Announcements: South wake Fritter foundation, check the site for details, Breathtaker challenge, Q source starts next week.

Prayer: Double D’s Father and Roger Rogers Grandfather who has cancer. Closed with COT and Prayer

The Last Sunday

EC: Peeping Tom misunderstood the start time and got there a little early so he made lemonade, putting 2.5 miles on the board before we got started.  Nice work!

Warm Up: 5x Burpees (We had some folks show up a little late) and 20x Side Straddle Hops

The Workout:  We had two distance groups, one went for a 3 mile loop and the other a 6 mile loop.  We stuck together for the first 1.5 miles when Oyster and Lift Kit peeled off down Bass Lake Rd.  Peeping Tom and Nemo got out ahead of the 6 milers and inadvertently created a third group when they made a wrong turn.  Much like the Disney movie we found Nemo (and Peeping Tom) in then end.  (There is some sort of plot twist in here about Peeping Tom running off with Nemo… I’ll leave it alone… moving on!).  The planned 6 mile route was made to avoid the mud at Sugg and Bass Lake but YHC couldn’t resist the opportunity to catch that sunrise that Mookie hyped-up when passing over the reigns.  Fortunately, the mud was pretty tame and not much of an ordeal.  Unfortunately the weather this morning was cloudy and overcast so there was no sunrise to be seen.  Oh well, we went around the back entrance at Bass Lake, going down the hill and circling back to the greenway.  Through the Somerset Stream neighborhood and on through Womble.

There were modifications and circling back for the 6 all along the route so we all ended up with variations between 3 and 9 miles.  We had great support from Messi as he biked the 6 mile route with us.  Circling back and checking in on everyone.

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Mary:  Is she in FiA?

Announcements:  Welcome FNG Lift Kit.  Oyster brought his father-in-law out for his first F3 experience.  He came to us from Colorado, we let him know that F3 is a nation-wide organization and told him to checkout the website.

Prayer: Prayers out for Doug Stein who got injured at the Heartbreak/Soul Crusher challenge the other day.  There is a sign-up genius out on the HSRC and “Try” club sites to support his family with meals.  He underwent surgery on both legs and his wife is nearly ready to give birth to their second child.  https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c084dada923a13-meals1

Up for something new?

Warm Up: Normal Stretching and a few Monkey Humpers
The Workout: Groups of 4 for Indian Run/Merkin repeats around Ting Park Loop.  Last Person in Indian run drops down for 4 merkins and then sprints to front.  Repeat around Ting Loop until Q says to end.

Pffffttttt….. You Call That A Tag!?

Warm Up: Daisy Pickers, Frankensteins, Good Mornings, Side Straddle Hops, Long lap around the parking lot heading to the first workout.

The Workout:

If anyone asks everything went smoothly.  I remembered all of the workouts and counting was on point.

  • 4 Corners – 10 Boat Canoes > Bear Crawl (BC) or Lunge Walk (LW) > 15 WWIIs > BC or LW > 20 Freddy Mercurys > BC or LW > 25 LBCs
  • 11s – Star Jumps > Sprint > Mountain Climbers
  • 4 Corners – 10 Burpees > BC or LW > 15 Shoulder Taps > BC or LW > 20 Plank Jacks > BC or LW > 25 Merkins
  • Repeat Running Loop around the Purple Cobras lot.

The truth is I am really looking forward to Q school – hope it helps 🙂  Also, there is a new years resolution in here somewhere for me to lead more workouts.

Mary: 5 Count Plank-o-Rama, we stopped half-way around the COT for time

Announcements:

  • #MumbleChatter about Purple Cobras being closed next week for Christmas Day.  I hear Average Joe’s might be open…
  • Brickhouse’s son has officially left for service with the Marines
  • Brickhouse is seeking a new job, Tech based bus dev, sales, and/or project management – he’ll post with more details on FB
  • M4L reminded us about Frey Daddy’s run this weekend in support of Healing Transitions – https://f3raleigh.com/oakwoodholiday24

Prayer:

  • Mike Lee, Pastor at Hope
  • Double D’s wife, recovering from surgery
  • Noah’s Ark headed for surgery

  VS  

NO CONTEST!!! – UTI WINS!

Building Hulk Arms

17 PAX came out to a brisk and clear 40F morning in the gloom to take partake in my first Q!

Warm Up:

Mosey around the track for a 1 lap warm-up.

Good morning x 10 IC, SSH x 20 IC, Cotton pickers x 10 IC, Fazio Arm Circles (forward and back) x 10 IC, Michael Phelps, IW and HB x 10 IC

The Workout: Bring the PAIN!

Began with 5 slides in a basketball defensive stance followed by one burpee.  Rinse and repeat adding an additional burpee each time until the roundabout was reached.

Mosey’d to the rockpile and each PAX picked out a rock and circled up for some heavy lifting.  Q called an audible and had PAX rotate to the right and workout with another PAX’s selected rock.  Proceeded with the workout – Curls for the girls, overhead triceps, ruh-rohs, and rock merkins (10 with left left hand on rock and switched for 10 more with right hand on rock).

Returned rocks and mosey’d to picnic shelter for some irkins, dirkins, merkins, and dips.  Performed 10 count of each exercise IC.  Some mubble chatter about a 10 count but Q continued on with a rinse and repeat.

Finished out the beat-down with three rounds of Balls to the Walls and Preacher Chairs for 30 seconds each exercise.

Mary:

Around the horn for 10-count exercises: diamond merkins, box cutters, LBCs, low slow flutters, burpees, WWIIs, pickle pounders, reverse LBCs, boat canoes, homer to marge, Freddie Mercuries, burpees OYO, mountain climbers, Carolina wine mixers, X-Men crosses, finished with 3 burpees, 2 merkins, and 5 WWIIs
Announcements:

Prayer: Ausfart, LED’s coworker, PAX looking for job. Families celebrating first Christmas without loved ones.

2nd F provided by Lipsync – coffee and donuts

 

 

GunSlinger

Warm Up:

Quick lap around the parking lot
Circle Up
Side Straddle Hop
Good Morning
Arm Stretches
Fazio Arm Circles

The Workout:

The was some new workouts so yours truly demonstrated them before we got started.

New Exercises:
Bent Press
GunSlinger
Also talked about Single Arm Snatch Form

30 Kettlebell Swings
5 Bent Press Each Arm
10 Each Arm Seated Kettlebell Shoulder Press
Indian Run around the parking Lot

30 Kettlebell Swings
5 Bent Press Each Arm
10 Each Arm Seated Kettlebell Shoulder Press
John Cusack Around the Parking Lot

5 Single Arm Snatch Each Arm
15 Sumo Squat High Pulls
5 GunSlingers Right Arm
5 GunSlingers Left Arm
5 GunSlingers Right Arm
5 GunSlingers Left Arm
10 Forward/10 Reverse Figure 8s

5 Single Arm Snatch Each Arm
15 Sumo Squat High Pulls
5 GunSlingers Right Arm
5 GunSlingers Left Arm
5 GunSlingers Right Arm
5 GunSlingers Left Arm
10 Forward/10 Reverse Figure 8s

5 Single Arm Snatch Each Arm
15 Sumo Squat High Pulls
5 GunSlingers Right Arm
5 GunSlingers Left Arm
5 GunSlingers Right Arm
5 GunSlingers Left Arm
10 Forward/10 Reverse Figure 8s

10 Shoulder to Shoulder Press
20 Midget Love Handles Each Side

10 Shoulder to Shoulder Press
20 Midget Love Handles Each Side

10 Shoulder to Shoulder Press
20 Midget Love Handles Each Side

Mary:

Yoga Stretches:
Cat/Cow Pose
Pidgin Pose
Runner’s Pose

Announcements:

CSAUP Tomorrow Morning 6 to 10
Christmas Party at Midgets Tomorrow

Prayer:
Peeping Tom’s Grand Mother
Double D Father and Wife
Crablegs
Ausfart

Shootin’ starz

Warm Up:17 gathered for brisk 32 n they were ready 4 ‘my friends’ Q.. I had few things on my ‘winkie’, adjusted according to pax
The Workout: We ran @ 457 yards- few cars were coming to bus entrance for SSH, and 5 burpee oyo- enough warning- groups of 3, YHC had counted 15 but we had 2 more oops..  I was excited for hill the yhc had ran few times with yellow card and it was nice n steady 1.2 mile- we stopped at ‘off Disney ‘ property and bottom of the hill and knocked out 50 merkins aka (mucho Cheeto) and planked while waiting on the 6th-

start w/ 2 man Indian run and stopping every 463 meters for low slow/lbc- more merkins- jump squats/star jumps- passed a lonely runner and was asked 2 joined the brothers of gloom, but he could not handle the sauce we were cooking..

indian run failed since our Indian ‘motor boatin’ Got left but we did not know until we reached the beautiful manicured spa n Pool. Feel like Indian run is better accountability tool- pushes you- instead of just running-

jump squats while waited n called 11’s – squat on one side and Turkish get ups- again the parking lot was about 257 meters- saw bunch of accountability amongst the pax- proud of few new ones and believing and trusting F-3.

557 we realized we were missing ‘motorboatin’..  chips takes off since he was winded/ tired in order 2 find him and rest of us start our Indian run back to flag-  yhc follows the tennis star n Brazilian meat lover- while rest get back 2 make sure all pax were accounted for and emeril had called out burpees- thx

naked mole skin-  we push each other and yhc really enjoys how all the guys do not think they can but all of a sudden they do things just a tad bit more during workout-work/ family life.. we learn from our mistakes and share so others do not fail-

Mary: homer 2 merge/ Superman / Carolina dry docks/ boat canoe in hone of my boy blue
Announcements: CSAUP/ slack/ Christmas party/ wrightsville
Prayer: crab legs/ DD’s M and dad/ sausage party/ selling house –

yhc/ emeril has Q at ambassador on 12/15- should be fun- always fun

make it A gr8 day-

chips/emeril/ peeping Tom/ M4L/ dumbo/ 187/ Pac man/ sharipova/ motorboatin/ DD/ warbucks/ doc/ full house/ wiggly/ trickle (when did he trickle in)/ lab rat..  saw shootin starz n birds chirping n the cold gloom only at Disney.. honor and always fun to lead- we covered over 3.1 miles

ATMs at the Bank

It was great to see 11 PAX on this sub freezing but dry morning.  A few even came up from FV to see what Purple Cobra is all about!

Warm Up: The new usual lap, dodging the Xmas trees, around the AO and up the Cobra Sunrise Strava segment and back to the flag for the following:

Monkey Humpers ICx15

Imperial Walkers ICx15

Hillbillies ICx15

Frankenstein Kicks ICx15

The Workout: We started by moseying over to the Wall behind the Dollar Tree/General/Whatever store.  At the wall we partnered up.

Partner 1: BTTW

Partner 2: WWIIs x15

switch and then changed the ab exercise to Boat Canoes followed by LBCs

Mosey to PNC bank lot next door.  Since we were at the bank we did ATMs

10 Alternating Shoulder Tap Merkins

10 Tempo Merkins

10 Merkins

followed by a lap around the bank and through the ATM line.  Repeat x3

Mosey back over to the front lot of Dollar store where we did Ascending Curb Crawl

BC to otherside 1 Derkin, BC back 2 Derkins, at 4 Derkins we modified to lunges and went up to 13 Derkins with a few PAX going to 15!

Mosey back to the flag.
Mary: Pickle Pounders ICx15, Box Cutters ICx15, Turkish Gettups OYOx10

Announcements: CSAUP is THIS Saturday

Prayer: A lot of prayers went out today with several PAX having been injured with long roads to recovery ahead.  Lipstick took us out.

PT’s 5 Pack

5 Men got stonger today and GP & Peeping Tom completed another 5 pack. Nemo wins the coveted Double Down award today for posting at both U-Turn and GP.  Thanks for your continued support Nemo. 

Warm up:

10’s –  Good Mornings, Fuzzy Arm Circles Daisy Pickers, Windmills, Emperial Walkers, Hillbillies and 20 SSH

The Workout

Mosey to Bathrooms

3 sets Wall sits &  Balls to the Walls (each Pax ct to 10)

Mosey to the Rock Pile – rotate rocks around circle between sets

  • 4 sets of 20’s – Curls,
  • 4 sets of 20’s Overhead Tri-press
  • 4 sets of 15’s Ground Pounders (Deep Squat w/ Overhead press)

Cousak to Playground for Aik’n Stations

  • 20 Windshield Wipers with Rock extensions
  • Aik’n Abs: 20’s LBCs, Rockies, 6 inches & Chillcut Planks
  • Aik’n Arms: 20’s Merkins, Dips, Derkins, Shoulder tap planks 
  • Aik’n Legs: 20 Step ups, 20 Squats , 20 lunges, 10 Star Jumps, 10 Split Jacks, 20 Mountain Climbers
  • Aik’n Abs: 20 cts, Pickle Pounders, WWIIs, Homer to Marge, American Hammers
  • Aik’n Arms: 15 Hand Release Merkins, 20 ct Superman, 20 Plank Jacks

Announcements:    F3 Southwake Christmas Party next Saturday at M4L’s, CSAUP on Saturday 6-10AM (come out and do what you can however you can).  Encouragement to participate in the Wrightsville  walk w/ Crablegs.

Prayer Requests:  For Ausfahrt and his family as he recovers in the ICU from a bad motorcycle accident, Health for Puddles and Crablegs.

Do What Now?

Warm Up:

EC- John Deere, Crosby, Pikachu

SSH, Daisy Pickers, Squats(20), Monkey Humpers(20), R over L stretch(& Reverse),over head stretch

The Workout:

Mosey to Rock pile
Partner up both have rock
1 partner runs(Cusack) other does exercise/switch
Squats(40)
Merkins(30)
LBC(50)

Each called out 10’s
Curls, overhead Press, Squats, Ruh Rows, Merkin hand on rock both sides, Curls, Tricep Ext, Bear Crawl rock push 3 lines & back, plank Rock push 3 lines back, tri Ext, Diamond Merkin

REPEAT(partner up & 10’s call out)
Sub 2xmerkin Burpees for Bear crawl
Sub Jesus Press for Plank Rock push

Bear Crawl Rock push 7 parking lines & back

Put back rocks/ head to Tennis courts
John Deere lead

Tennis court suicides (both courts), Protractors in cadence 10 count- 22.5,45,90,45,22.5.
American Hammer in cadence 20.

Put a nice little Bow on it with Some “THUNDER” MERKINS (74 Merkins)

December Challenge:

Totaling up
Squats- 120
Merkins- 184
Burpees-10

Mary:
Announcements:Welcome “Semper Fi”.. CSAUP Dec. 15 0600 at Womble .. 2nd F Tapline

Prayer:All those injured. Our Kiawah runners this weekend. Tofu took us out.