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Championships don’t count if you weren’t on the field

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As I drove from Panera after another morning of recruiting from U-Turn, I realized my own hypocrisy.  Moving forward, I will not recruit for the Saturday double down unless I am doing so myself. 

FNG: Schroeder (courtesy of a DOA Headlock).  Schroeder is full of talent – a musical savant on the piano,  a supervisor at the nuclear power plant.

10 HIMs showed up to GP and mumble chatter started before the clock started.    

WarmUp:

10 Good Mornings, 10 Windmills, 10 Daisy Pickers,  20 Fozzie Arm Circles, 10 Imperial Squaters, 10 Hillbillies, 20 3ct SSH, 10 Willy Mays Haze

The Workout

Mosey to the Rock Pile. Rotate around rocks between sets.

  • 3 sets of 20’s – Curls for the girls
  • 3 sets of 20’s  – Overhead Overhead Tri-press
  • 3 sets of 10’s – Ground Pounders
  • 3 sets of 10’s – Trunk Twists
  • 3 sets of 10’s – Bus Drivers
  • 3 sets of 10’s – Rutrows
  • 4 sets of 20 – Standard Bench Press
  • 10 x 3ct – Windshield Wipers
  • 10 x 3ct – 6 inches (arms extended)
  • 10 x 3ct – Box Cutters
  • 10 x 3ct – Rocky’s
  • 10 x 3ct – WWII’s

Mosey to the Wall of Pain

  • 1 set of 50ct Prisoner style Wall Sits and 1 set of 50 ct Al Gore Wall Sits
  • 2 sets of 30 ct Ascending Testicles

Mosey to playground wall:

  • 2 sets of 10 x 3ct Alternating Leg Step Ups
  • 2 sets of 10 Merkins, Derkins, Erkins and Dips  

Mosey to picnic area for some dice rolling

10 Plank Jacks, 8 Burpees, 6 American Hammers, 10 Split Jacks, 7 Diamond Merkins, 4 x 3ct Lunges, 11 Mountain Climbers, 8 x 3ct Rockies, 5 Dips, 9 Mountain Climbers

Mumble Chatter was on full tilt – lots of comments about how size matters, potential concussions, buses being driven into ditches, and we all learned Pikachu practices handless BTWs and that Garner feels high school football championships are more important than teaching students how to count. 

T-Claps for those who doubled down this morning.

Announcements: Play Set Build rescheduled due to weather, no 2.0 workout today.

Prayer Requests:  HIMs that are dealing with injuries especially Aquaman,  DOA’s daughter has broken arm, Sprinkler and his family, R22’s daughters friend dealing with cancer

YHC took us out.

And Tonight’s Lucky Number is…13!

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7 Pax gathered around the flag on a crowded night at Womble. So glad to see our brother Sprinkler tonight on hand and with a double down too! YHC got to introduce everyone in the gloom tonight to my lucky number…13. Just about everything tonight hit that number. FNG’s: No sir!
Warm Up: Short mosey to the baseball field parking lot. Pax circled up for SSH x 20, Daisy Pickers x 10, Sir Fazio Arm Circles x 20 F/R, and some Windmills x 10.
The Workout: A few rounds of 4 corners kicked the real work off tonight. The corners were: Merkins, Sumo Squat Jumps, Plank Jacks, and Prisoner Squats. Count started at 5 reps and progressed with each round up to 10. Pax moseyed btw corners. All done together IC. Way to go Pikachu for finding ways to modify moves he’s currently forbidden from doing!

Pax then headed to the rock pile, selected their poison, and circled up for a series of exercises all with 13 counts. Curls for the Girls x 39, (gonna do a little math here) Tricep Extend x 26, Ground Pounders x 26, Bus Drivers x 26, Shoulder Press x 26, Rut Rows x 26, Squats x 39, Goblet Squats x 13, Dead Lift x 13, Wonder Bras x 26, Rock Spanks (new to this Particular group of men) x 13.

Chest presses for a count of 13 would follow. After each set of 13, pax would do a burpee, then switch rocks. This would end the round at 8 burpees and 104 chest presses.

Rinse and repeat except after each set of 13 chest presses, each pax would do a wide grip merkin before switching the rocks. This gave us 8 wide grip merkins and 104 more chest presses. Moseyed to tennis court for a very short Mary.
Mary: LSF x 13, LBC x 13
Announcements: Long Ass Run.  22 miles coming up.
T-Claps (Recognition): Sprinkler on the double down on an extremely tough day as a man. We’re humbled by your example of toughness today sir! Babe Ruth for driving that bus with the best of em’ tonight.
Prayer: Sprinkler, comfort for his family. Unspoken. YHC took us out. Honor to lead!

Q school 2020 KickOff

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Mutiny would be the Q school kick off for 2020. We want to try to offer Q school a lot this year and the best way to do that would be to do it during a workout. This was the first attempt to get all points across while still providing a valid workout. Overall it went pretty well for the first go at it. Here are some details to the action.

FNGs: Welcome Pumps!

Quick Overview:
Plant the flag. Site Q’s responsibility
Any FNG’s. 1-2 mins prior to start
Know your PAX. Who needs encouragement. Don’t leave anyone behind. Start on time 0530. End on time 45 mins end workout. Then COT. People can leave if needed at that time. During workouts, respect the Q. If Q needs correcting, do it after the workout. No questions asked today so I guess the PAX got it all. We can have high expectations moving forward with this group of HIM.

Warm Up:
Warm up exercises, try to mix it up. Static stretches should be avoided and Dynamic stretching is recommended.
Short mosey to circle
SSH – cadence count, how to call and how to end
Not too fast
Windmill (give instruction)
Merkins (teach good form)
Daisy Pickers (slow and what the exercise is for)

The Workout:
Choose a few main events and execute
Bearmuda Triangle
1- plank jacks x20IC
2- hand release merkins x20 OMD
3- prisoner squat x20 on my down

R&R
1- Mtn. Climbers x20IC
2- Diamond Merkins x15 on my down
3- Monkey Humpers x15IC

Tennis courts
11’s – common go to or a Dora can be used if more material is needed
Bobby Hurley’s and Burpees
Squat hold or plank hold for 6
5 Burpees OYO for good measure

Improv due to time.
Fence walk ups x10IC

Mary:
Mary – 6 mins is great for core workout. Stretching works as well.
End at 45 mins or sooner.
DO NOT GO OVER 45
WWI x20 OMU
WWII x10IC
– Know the difference between each
J-Lo 1 x10 each side (IC slow 4 count on all fours)
J-Lo 2 x15 IC (Hip touch’s)
LBC’s x10IC (ankles above knees)
Reverse LBCs x10IC
HAND

COT:
Name-a-Rama
Announcements
Prayers *Either ask PAX to volunteer or take us out in a word*

Try to meet and great anyone new or new to you. Get to know your PAX of brothers.

Announcements:
Travis Manion foundation event
Krispy Kreme race on Sat
Super Bowl squares (16-bit is in charge)

T-Claps (Recognition):
Puddles EH’ed FNG from before moving. His nephew, finally got him out.

Prayer:
Sprinkle lost dad
Breach grandmother passing
R22’s wife lost her cousin
PAX on IR
H1N1 having more tests on injury

Thanks to the PAX for allowing me to use this time to conduct Q school while working out. Any feedback is always appreciated. Holly Springs AO will be next on the schedule.

BS Out!

Jan, 22 2020: 3rd F Leadership Meeting

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PAX – I know this is long but please read and look for things you may want to support as we progress through the year.  This leadership team is not exclusive, and we welcome everyone to the table.  If you think you can help with one of these initiatives below please jump in.  If you want to help but dont know where you fit, let us know.

EC:  ShamWow!, SlideRule, YHC

I must have done something to upset ShamWow!, Ended up on my butt less than a mile into the run on a dark uncharted portion of the greenway.  I survived this ordeal and finished up 4.3 miles with these HIM before moving inside for coffee.

FNGs: No

Warm Up:  We all got our coffee and assorted food items and buckled in for the meeting.  YHC started off with some general administrative stuff

  • CALENDAR We have a calendar for South Wake now https://f3southwake.com/schedule/calendar/. We’ll use this to centralize all of our 3rd F events so that PAX know what’s coming in advance.
  • CONTACT INFO Our Gmail account F3southwake@gmail.com has been updated with PAX contact information to make it easier to tag events with specific PAX that may be leading them.
  • PHOTOS The same account has had any/all Google Photos albums from Slack that are still discoverable tied to it. Should help with any future media and archival needs.  Feel free to share your photos with f3southwake@gmail.com to keep the albums there up-to-date.

The Workout:

For the meeting we welcomed Zombie Bride, she is the South Wake FiA Philanthropy Q.  You may also know her as Crosby’s wife.  Some may ask… “Who’s Crosby?”  Zombie Bride listened in to see where FiA and F3 may be able to find some common ground in the 3rd F space.  We hope to continue having a delegate at our future leadership meetings so we can plan accordingly and perhaps steal some ideas from one another.  We also hope to have some co-branded events in the near future so we can invite entire families out to 3rd F with us and introduce them to F3 and/or FiA.  Stay Tuned.

AO Updates

Heart (YHC) – More detail below but TL;DR? – Monarch School (Event), Food Cupboard Volunteer (Volunteer Reoccurring), Mama’s House (Volunteer Reoccurring), Town of Holly Springs (Volunteer Reoccurring)

Mind (Shredder) – Will aim to assess the needs of our PAX (Survey Monkey early February), expect to introduce facilitated and pointed discussions based on feedback.  Will look to do the work to keep Shield Locks supported and introduced to new PAX.  Will also introduce an MIA program to pull Kotters back out.  Be it the gloom, 2nd F or 3rd F.

Cloud (ShamWow!) – Looking to get together some promo materials in terms of flyers, Videos, and to get more engaged with the social medias.  Meeting in the works with Comms and our Nantan to coordinate.

Accelerator (Abe) – See themselves working closely with Cloud.  #Acceleration channel is moving again.  YHC added that he has put all of his races on the South Wake calendar.  Could show an opportunity for those not racing to provide race support instead.

 

TL;DR Content

Cause:  Monarch – Fundraising for a new High School for kids battling/overcoming drug addiction

Q: Dahmer

References:

https://www.wakemonarchacademy.org/

https://youtu.be/iHNztoBkEv8

Update:

Met with Monarch.  Looking into ways to help with their fundraising.  Golf Tournament, Race, Luncheon, etc.  Currently targeting the race and looking for potential partners.  Working with Monarch and their connections to facilitate where possible.  Future meeting TBD

 

Cause:  Holly Spring Food Cupboard

Q: Dumbo

References:

http://hsfoodcupboard.org/

Update:

  • People that use them sometime come with asks that go beyond food (home repairs)
  • Are in the most need for food in the Spring and Fall, expect F3 Food Drives
  • Expect F3 to get involved in the Garden Club
  • Golf Tournament?  Q will be SlideRule if this one comes to pass
  • Feb 1st, looking for 4ish PAX to support Eagle Scout greenhouse build following our $600 donation for supplies (THANK YOU SOUTH WAKE) – https://www.gofundme.com/f/greenhouse-and-shelving-for-hs-food-cupboard

 

Cause:  Mama’s House

Q: LED

References:

http://mamashouseofthrift.org/

Update:

 

Cause:  Town of Holly Springs Parks and Rec

Q: UTI

References:

https://hollyspringsnc.us/214/Parks-Recreation

Update:

  • Looking to give back to the town that hosts our shenanigans.
  • We will look to get involved in the 4th of July and HollyFest events
  • Help clean-up post event, get a tent during the event as well.

 

More HEART items being worked on and discussed – Truth In Nature, Hope on the Homefront, Meg’s Smile.  Keep an eye on the calendar https://f3southwake.com/schedule/calendar/.

 

View our master “plan” – https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/14rcT2XZDKsv2jIorN85W474V0xJVa9p-V8wzzSx7ijw/edit#slide=id.gc9374547a79f840_0

Mary: I believe Zombie Bride’s hospital name is Beth…  So…  Nope….
Announcements: Did I mention we have a calendar!? – https://f3southwake.com/schedule/calendar/
T-Claps (Recognition):  3rd F leadership is on point.  Some really exciting stuff happening in 2020 and these guys are really passionate which makes it even easier!
Prayer:  Silence

That’s what she said

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When YHC saw a last minute opportunity to step up and Q the AO with South Wake’s best mumble chatter he jumped at it. Rolling in at 7:20 to a few cars from runners who had started much earlier I was happy to see Dauber and Sprinkler around. Other pax rolled in and Banana Seat ran in with ~-30 seconds to spare. But since YHC can’t do high impact burpees for punishment were out of the question.

FNGs: None today
Warm Up:

Imperial squat walkers x10 IC
Frankenstein walk to the rock pile
The Workout:

Grab a rock
Cusac to the facilities
Dirty Hookup x10 IC (plank to wall plank and back)
Mike Tyson x10 IC (squatted plank to merkin and back)
Air Squared x10 IC (people’s chair with overhead claps)

Rock work x20 – curls, triceps, overhead press, rut row. Do one each “break”

Repeat wall work and rock work 3 times each

Balls to the wall x20 IC
People’s chair x10 IC per pax

Cusac to playground

As we made our way to the playground with saw Mr. Terrific come running through – like a guy with too much energy he immediately jumped in and joined us for last portion of the workout after a 2+ hour run this morning!

Pull ups x10
Derkins x10
Irkins x10
Dips x10 IC
Repeato

Cusac rocks back to pile and return

Mosey back to soft grand under the dripping canopy
Mary:

V ups x10 IC
WW2 x10 IC
Pickle Pounder x10 IC
Side plank crunches x10 IC

V ups x20 IC
WW2 x20 IC
Pickle Pounder x20 IC
Side plank crunches x10 IC
Side plank needle threads x5
Announcements:

Long run 22Feb20. Upcoming 2nd F at Bombshell for Travis Manion foundation. Lots of 3rd F going on today during the day. Q School at Mutiny on Monday.
T-Claps (Recognition):

Banana Seat for the 10 mile run + Ground Pounder. Mr. Terrific for jumping right in after 2+ hours of running prior to.
Prayer:

Aquaman’s foot injury. YHC’s leg injury. Families growing. Mr. Terrific’s dad’s surgery this week.

Building a Flow with your Host Dawgpound

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It was a warm Friday morning. The parking deck kept us even warmer.  The audio visual team was up and running and streaming Sarah Beth Yoga for the Pax to get a bit of stretching.  Trying to win the day by putting the work back into our bodies.  Dumbo convinced Pablo to run hills though.  That man really loves those hills by the library.

Dumbo even brought his brother out.  Even though he is 9 years younger he refers to Dumbo as his ‘Smaller brother’.  We already had the name lined up.  First job was at a country club.  That went to caddy shack.  That went to Noonan.  Danny Noonan is the kid caddie from the moving that is trying his hardest to get the caddy scholarship.  I wanted ‘Na Na Na’, but everyone seemed onboard with Noonan.  Just don’t let Emeril ruin it for us.  That guy.

It was a special morning.  Besides building our flow we ran the stairs at the parking deck for the first time.  Pax that couldn’t (Pikachu) stayed down and did more abs.

Yoga EC: Dawgpound, Buford, Emeril, Deadbolt, Flanigan, Coal Ash, Skidmark, Redenbacher, Noonan
Running EC: Cowboy, Dumobo, Pablo
FNGs: Noonan
Warm Up:

Quick lap around the parking deck. Then we got in a U. I said circle but the space wasn’t large enough to accommodate so we had rows in a U fashion.

Started just bouncing and loosening up the legs and shoulders
Backstroke
Hinge stretch — Big toe of back foot is inline with heel of front foot. Bend at the waist. Repeat on the other side.
Leg Swings
Leg Circles Front and Back

The Workout:

We built up to a full out flow. We started small. After each progression of the flow half the pax ran the stairs the other half did some ab work.

5 Reps: — Did the right side then left. That was one Rep
Push Up one arm on bell
Row

Stairs/Exaggerated toe touches (Hand touches opposite toe while swinging the leg up)

5 Reps: — Did the right side then left. That was one Rep
Push Up one arm on bell
Row
Clean

Stairs/Midget Coookie Pouches

5 Reps: — Did the right side then left. That was one Rep
Push Up one arm on bell
Row
Clean
Squat

Stairs/Kettlebell Pull Through (In a plank position move the bell from one side to the other)

5 Reps: — Did the right side then left. That was one Rep
Push Up one arm on bell
Row
Clean
Squat
Snatch

Stairs/Midget Stand Ups

5 Reps: — This one we did the right side then after the switch during the swing we did reverse and finished with the pushup

Push Up one arm on bell
Row
Clean
Squat
Snatch
One arm Swing
One arm swing and switch hands

Stairs/Exaggerated toe touches (Hand touches opposite toe while swinging the leg up)

Mary:

2 Rounds
Midget Love Handles
Supermans — These will know be known as Flying Pikachu’s

We finished with some stretching. Gotta run some miles tomorrow.

Started with frog stretch. (In table top pulse moving our hips back to our feet.)
Leg through stretch. Like pigeon, but instead of the leg being under your body it is sticking out to the side. Bring forearms to the ground. Reach up to the sky
Runners Pose rotate to the leg that is bent for added benefits
Pigeon Pose. Rotate hip of leg bent for added benefit
Thread the needle (Start in table top put right arm under left arm. Your head should be resting on your shoulder. Bring the arm back up.)

Announcements:

Long Ass ATT Run. Blue Hen is running the whole thing this year

T-Claps (Recognition):

All pax who put up with my Kettlebell workouts. I love them and I hope everyone else enjoys kettlebells.
Prayer:

Wallaby
Pikachu
Pikachu’s wife (Cause we will be having a moody Pikachu as he goes through withdraw from running)

We Could Run a Little, We Could Run a Lot

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YHC struggled with what to plan for this workout. I wasn’t really sure what to expect in terms of runners/non-runners and Tiger Blood is one of those AOs that finds good balance in running vs bootcamp. One way to solve that: Deck of Cards.

EC: Warbucks, Pikachu, Skidmark, and 187 ran from home

FNGs: None
Warm Up: 2 laps around the parking lot. Good mornings, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies, SSH
The Workout: Deck of cards with the following:

  • Diamonds: regular merkins
  • Hearts: LBCs
  • Clubs: Squats
  • Spades: Burpees

If an Ace is drawn run laps in the parking based on the value of the card before the Ace. This proved highly effective as the first Ace drawn followed a 10. Modification quickly followed.

Suicide King was supposed to be suicides but we missed it and did suicides at the end.

Mary: 10 count exercises by pax

Announcements: 2/22 Long Ass Run

T-Claps (Recognition): Da Business who said his heart was in his stomach
Prayer: Those struggling with addictions, family members young and old

Thunder’s Blood Sugar

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FNGs: Welcome FNG Squirtle – another member of the Crosby family.
Warm Up:

Side straddle hop, Non offensive plant pickers, Sir Fazio arm circle, Good morning, Hill Billies, Imperial
The Workout:

Each round was 10 exercises done for # of reps = Kubota’s blood sugar/10

Round 1
Step Ups, Squats, People’s Chair, Toe Taps, Russian Dips, Balls to the Wall, Shoulder Taps, Box Cutter, Rolling Side to Side Plank, pull up.

Mosey to rock pile and get a rock

Round 2
Overhead Press, Tricep Press, Rutrows, American Hammers, LBCs, Heal Taps, WWII, Low Slow Flutter, Homer to Marge, curls.
Reept round 2
Mary:

Around the circle for 10 counts
Announcements:

Long run on ATT 22Feb20
Prayer:

Wallaby and Family, Kubota’s friend and family

 

Murph / 2

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4 Pax braving cold Monday night workout

Warm Up:  Run one mile

The Workout:  50 Pull-ups, 100 Merkins, 150 squats

Mary: Run two miles

Announcements:  none

Prayer:  Silent

38 at U-Turn – Record Number?

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Regular U-turners, Marathon Maniacs, Shield Lockers! Heck, I might have been nervous about Q’ing if I’d known that all you rascals were showing! But no, now closing in on 2 years of F3, I know y’all. Besides, I didn’t have time to think about it really, having stayed out past my bedtime with Baby Doll and our friends enjoying dinner and drinks. Then, in spite of waking early, an extra trip to the john meant leaving the house late. With all that, I rolled into the parking lot just before 6, only partially surprised to see 99 guys ready to go.

Warm up: I planted the flag, hit a few fists, then had to yell to get everyone’s attention. Everyone was pretty jacked up already. We didn’t have room to circle up so we moseyed around a few islands doing cariocas and some butt kickers along the way. Upon circling up, I realized we were taking up most of the parking lot!

SSH 25x, GMs 10x, Hammy and Glute stretch 10 count each side.

COT: 36 plus 2 after UTI notified me that Aquaman and Maybelline had started already.

Prayer requests: Wallaby, Troops overseas

Main Event: 5k route, 10k route. Shine a light, make good decisions, pick up the six.