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AGS

FNGs: none

Warm Up: some leg swings and jokes

The Workout: 4 miles EC. 4 miles  3Alarm and YHC, others ran much faster and much more  

Announcements: Vertical Horizon at Ting 5/9/26

T-Claps (Recognition): 3Alarm and his dad for getting up early and getting to AGS early 

We never run the standard

FNGs: None

Warm Up: GMs, Hammy stretch, WMH Plank hold with calf stretch. Mission and Core Values

The Workout: Standard Route 5.3 Miles > Stack’em Krakken Buprees every mile. 2 @ Mile 1. Last mile 2 min of Krakken Burpees

Mary: None

Announcements: Q’em, accountability sheet, Even the Odds

T-Claps (Recognition): Bleeder for Mike tracker

Prayer: Merle’s son suicide, Dumbo son Blake hospital. Unspoken 

AGS

Warm Up: OYO. EC run to AGS

The Workout: 5ish mile route at not-mosey pace with plenty of hills to go around. 

Announcements: TMF workout for South Wake is TBD. Be on the lookout for post from Breach

Prayer: Firefly and his wife starting adoption process. Pikachu’s dad needing assisted living. Tough decisions and hard conversations with employees this week for Wax Off. Be men – love your wife, serve your family, trust in Him  

Enjoy your Sunday!

 

Wax Off

Into the Dungeon

FNGs: Not today

Warm up: Mosey around the parking lot and then circle up for SSH, Windmills, Daisy Pickers, Sir Fazio Arm Circles, Seal Claps, and Overhead Claps

The Workout:

YHC promised a Dungeons and Dragons themed workout this morning.  I brought 4 dice with me as well as 8 numbered cards., each with four exercises on them.  The format was fairly simple, we’d roll the dice and they would determine what we did and how much.

The dice were:

D8 – Chose which card we would work off of

D6 – Determined the number of sets we’d do

D20 – Number of reps per exercise

D100 – Number of swings we’d do in between choosing cards.

I have to admit, this whole thing came out of the gate hot.  I was hoping we’d ease in to it but, alas, it was not to be.  As Pikachu said in Slack, the dice may not lie but they are not kind.

The first rolls were

D8 – 3 – This card consisted of Snatch on the left, Snatch on the right, Clean on the left, Clean on the right

D6 – 3 sets

D20 – 15 reps

As was exclaimed many times during this part of our quest, that’s way too many Snatches (not something I ever thought I’d say).  If you’re playing along at home that’s a total of 90 snatch and clean.  That was a lot.  But the D100 would be kind to us, right?

Prophetically, Pikachu called this one before we got to it.

D100 – 90

90 swings.  Nothing fancy about it, just a lot.

The second roll was:

D8 – 4 – This card was Chest Press, Skull Crushers, Overhead Reach, and Turkish Getups

D6 – 6 sets

D20 – 15 (!)

YHC immediately called an audible and said we weren’t going to do 6 sets of 15 Turkish Getups and that we’d save them for the end.  4 sets in and I called another audible because I hoped to get through another card or two.  We did four sets of 15 of the first three excercises.  We began our 15 Turkish Getups but a few minutes in to it I called an end to it because, again, I wanted to get more in.  The D100 couldn’t be cruel again, right?  Right?

D100 – 100

F.  Another audible was called.  We started the set of 100 with just 25 with the promise of sprinking the rest in later.

The third roll:

D8 – 5 – This was single arm lat raise on the left, single arm lat raise on the right, bus drivers, and ground pounders

D6 – 3

D20 – 8

Ok, this was a little more reasonable.  However, after struggling to do the single arm raises with the amount of weight we all had we changed it to double handed straight lat raises for the rest of our sets.  Also, instead of waiting until the end after each set we did another 25 swings.  By the end of this card we had finished our 100 from the previous roll.  Unfortunately we were out of time at this point.  The good news is that there are still 5 unused and unseen cards to be used again.

Mary:

Low Slow Flutter x10 IC

LBC x10 IC

Box cutters x10 IC

Pickle Pounders x10 IC

JLo x10 IC

I might be forgetting something here.

Announcements:

Fire Marshal Gavin – Seriously, congrats!

Prayer Requests:

Injured PAX.

 

As always, its an honor to get a chance to lead you all.

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7-11. Seven Year Anniversary Q

7-11. Eleven PAX celebrated my 7 year F3 Anniversary. The number 7 was in play with

Warm-up: SSH, GM, Arm Circles, Mosey to The Block parking garage. 

Workout:

Two rounds

Partnered up: One partner 7 count Inverted Rows, Carolina Dry Docks, Prisoner Squats – rinse and repeat, while other partner ran a lap. 

Mosey to amphitheater: Same deal two rounds with Derkins, Dips, Step Ups/Box Jumps

Together 2 rounds Peoples Chair, BTTW

Mosey to Ballantine: 7s with Pistol Squats & Burpees up and down the hill

Mary: During Mary each PAX shared how they got involved with F3.

Prayers for PAX looking for work and recovery from illness or injury.

Pumps and Grunts

FNGs: none

Warm Up:

  1. Bodyweight Good Mornings
  2. KB Halo 
  3. Hip Openers (World’s Greatest Stretch) 
  4. Uppercut Left-to-Right
  5. Bodyweight squats

The Workout:

Format: 4 rounds — work 50 sec, rest 10 sec, move to next exercise. Rest 30 sec between rounds.

  • KB Clean to Press (Right) 
  • KB Clean to Press (Left)
  • KB Front Rack Reverse Lunge (Alternating Legs) 
  • KB Deadlift to High Pull
  • KB Goblet Squat to Thruster
  • KB Swing

Mary:

KB American Hammer

KB Deadbug (Right) – Hold KB over chest, alternate lowering opposite arm/leg.

KB Deadbug (Left)

KB Plank Pull-Through

Pickle Pounders

Mountain climbers

LBCs

WW3s

Announcements: none

T-Claps (Recognition): none

Prayer: M4Life’s neighbor has a collapsed lung. @Choppa’s daughter has kidney issues

Around the Library, through the tunnel, up the switchbacks

FNGs: n/a Warm Up: n/a The Workout: Mary: n/a Announcements: Wake County Speedway this Friday for family fun, Clay shooting at Drake’s this Sunday. T-Claps (Recognition): Support for Wild Turkey’s M, Mr. Terrific not getting lost on the route and showing up on time Prayer: Unspoken

This could be the start of BRR Training

FNGs: not today.

Warm Up: Incorporated into the workout.

The Workout:  Leave Ting and head to the greenway in Arbor Creek.  Stops along the way for good mornings, arm circles, over head claps, seal claps, reverse lunge, squat.

At the greenway bridge we stopped and spent the remainder of our time on the hill that enters into Sunset Ridge.  Pax did 10 merkins and 10 IC LBCs then ran to the cul de sac for 10 star jumps.  Rinse and repeat.

On the return to Ting we stopped for additional reverse lunges, windmills and good mornings.

Finished up with the Pledge of Allegiance at the flag. 

Mary: she didn’t show up today!

Announcements: Couple of service opportunities this weekend –

  • HSFC gutter install and clean up.  
  • Travis Manion road clean up in FV.

T-Claps (Recognition): Banana Seat with his weighted vest this morning.  Pikachu, Vasoline and Gizmo with EC this morning.

Prayer:  Banana Seat’s mother had quadruple bypass last week.  Sick/injured PAX.

9 MEN vs Hurriane Debby

Hurricane Debbie is flooding the streets, but that didn’t stop 9 MEN that courageously faced the wind and the rain. Everyone was soaked in about 10 seconds of exiting their vehicles.

EC: 3 miles ShootingBlanks, Downrange, Mr. Terrific

FNGs: Didn’t show, Debby scared them off?

Warm Up: Side-straddle hopps, shoulder taps, plank jacks, 

The Workout: 5 rounds of 4 Corners, escalating. Mosey between corners, sprint to the finish line, pick up the six when done with your round

Round 1, C1 5 burpees /  C2 10 Murkins / C3 15 LBCs / C4 20 squats. 

Round 2, C1 5 burpees /  C2 5 burpees, 10 Murkins / C3 5 burpees, 15 LBCs / C4 5 burpees, 20 squats. 

Round 3, C1 5 burpees, 10 Murkins /  C2 5 burpees, 10 Murkins / C3 5 burpees, 10 Murkins, 15 LBCs / C4 5 burpees, 10 Murkins, 20 squats. 

Round 4, C1 5 burpees, 10 Murkins, 15 LBCs/  C2 5 burpees, 10 Murkins, 15 LBCs / C3 5 burpees, 10 Murkins, 15 LBCs / C4 5 burpees, 10 Murkins, 15 LBCs, 20 squats. 

Round 5, C1 5 burpees, 10 Murkins, 15 LBCs, 20 squats /  C2 5 burpees, 10 Murkins, 15 LBCs, 20 squats / C3 5 burpees, 10 Murkins, 15 LBCs, 20 squats / C4 5 burpees, 10 Murkins, 15 LBCs, 20 squats

Mary: LBCs, Low-slow flutter, Have a nice day

Announcements: Shooting Blanks has some generators for sale

T-Claps (Recognition): Courageous PAX in the hurricane wind and rain.

Prayer: Shooting Blanks’ family member is moving next week, health concerns, safety in the storm

Crazy Ivan Birthday Bash

FNGs:  None

T-Claps: Flip Phone and Gump (5 workouts)

Warm-up:  SSH, Good AM, etc

Workout:  See binky ; Very little rest  HIIT

COT:  Family members who are ill; PAX looking for work.  YHC took us out.

Honored to lead on my 56th birthday.  Apologies for the commercials while listening to Pandora.