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Proud Mary

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Good group of 10 Pax posted at Paradise City on a windy chilly morning and having to battle a VQ at Downtown Train. From what I hear the VQ was quality and the Pax were plentiful. No garbage smell this morning so we were ready to roll. No FNG’s.

3 for EC: ShamWow! Pikachu, Skidmark

Warm Up: Lots of mumble chatter as we started to Mosey so YHC perscribed 10 burpees and then 1 more for Pikachu mocking the 10 burpees. Mosey around the complex doing SSH, Fozio Arm circles, morrocan nightclubs, merkins.
The Workout: Pax mosey to the tunnel and partner up.

Partner 1 Balls to the wall and partner 2 runs the short greenway. Switch. Then partner 1 did People’s chair and partner 2 runs the long greenway. Switch.

Partner 1 Balls to the wall and partner 2 runs the short greenway. Switch. Then partner 1 did LBC’s and partner 2 runs the long greenway. Switch.

Partner 1 Balls to the wall and partner 2 runs the short greenway. Switch. Then partner 1 did People’s chair and partner 2 runs the long greenway. Switch.

Finish with an Indian Run around the complex.

Mary: Easy finish to an easy workout. Pax stayed in plank position for 8 minutes. Along the way Pickle Pounders, Plank Jacks, Mountain Climbers, Side Plank crunches both sides, Catalina Wine Mixer, 25 merkins, R arm up, left arm up, r arm forward w/ L leg back, L arm forward, w/ R leg back, more pickle pounders, and finish with 5 burpees.

Announcements: Nothing new noted. Please be on the lookout for Pikachu’s post.

Prayer: Crablegs, Shredder, Ax with an E, Crosby, and those on injured reserve.

Opening Day – Field of Pain

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Emeril, Chips, BlueHen*, Skidmark*, ShamWow!*, Aquaman*, SlideRule, Pikachu*, Spanks, Lipstick, Nemo*, DaBusiness

As the EC crowd gathered cars were plentiful for opening day at TigerBlood.  Evidently cars were parked in the lot for an overnight field trip and the Q didn’t need to call an audible on the first workout.  Those with a * were off for EC with a course of hills mapped out by Skidmark.  The pace was set and the first EC at TigerBlood was complete.  14 brave showed up to see what all the hype was for the new AO.

Warm Up:

Quick run from the parking lot to the parking lot by the track. The run was split between butt kickers, high knees, and karaoke.

Circle up for…

Daniel-Son X 10

SSH X 20

Slow Good mornings X 10

Clock Merkins, 1, 11, 3, 10, 6 (or some variation of that )

The Workout:

In the spirit of the 2019 MLB Opening Day season the Q split the PAX into 4 groups for a game of Field of Dreams.

Here is how it went down…

Home plate: (15 burpees)- Home plate is the clock.  As a group do 15 burpees, then run to right field to relieve the group.  Right field will go to center, center to left, and left to home until all groups have cross home plate.

Right Field Foul Pole: (AMRAP Chilly Jacks) This station did As Many Reps As Possible of Chilly Jacks. Remember the team total.

Center Field: (AMRAP – Merkins) This station did  As Many Reps As Possible of merkins. Remember the team total.

Left Field Foul Pole: -(AMRAP – Fence Squats) This station did As Many Reps As Possible of fence squats.  Remember the team total.

Once all groups have completed the four stations everyone returned to home plate.  The groups reported their collective totals of the three outfield stations to determine the winner of Field of Dreams.  There was evidently Bad Math and with no replays available no winner was announced.

The PAX were guided on a run, with some misdirection, over to the road along the back of the school.  Everyone went down to the chill cut plank hold for a round of Box Jump/Plankhold Indian run.  Some mumble chatter was heard about jumping over each other.  After everyone had completed one set the Q moved the group to Low Slow Flutter/Box Jump Indian Run until we reach the end of road.

Next Up…  From Field of Dreams to Field of Pain

The PAX circled up in the field in from of the elementary school with a dirt track.  Partner Up. Plank hold while other partner box jumps over the partner and back for a total of 10 complete box.  The partner doing the box jumps then took off for a hot lap around the direct track while the other partner moved to Peter Parker merkins.  Rinse and Repeat.

On the way back to parking lot for Mary the Q guided the Pax over the Tiger prints hopscotching along each print.

Mary:

Crab Humper: IC X 20.  (While in the Crab walk position thrust the pelvis into the air)

Nolan Ryan X 10 each side with POW as the count  (The PAX did a side plank while  giving  an upper cut punch to Robin Ventura)

American baseball Hammers X 10 (a variation of American hammers while swinging an air bat on each side.

Boat Canoes X 10

Clock Merkins (3,9, 6, 10… or some variation of that)

Announcements:

Many options on Saturday – North-South convergence (see Emeril for carpooling details), normal U-turn, Dee Dee 5K(SkidMark is running and welcomes others to join).

Prayer:

Belle, CrabLegs

 

The PAX got after it today and look forward to continued fun at TigerBlood.

Life Comes at you Fast

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Cold, rainy, windy, what else can you expect at Tea Time. Regardless 3 pax posted, all three on a double down too.

Warm Up: 1 mile
The Workout: A version of the murph. Slightly modified for under the shelter.
Mary:
Announcements: Mason Dixon convergence. SW shirt order.
Prayer: Slow down. Life is fast. Enjoy some of it.

Face Catching Frisbee

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It was time to take out the frisbee for some Ultimate Frisbee. We had 15 PAX split into two teams, with a non-glow-in-the-dark frisbee and blinding parking lot lights for some face catching Ultimate.

Welcome FNG Nacho!

Warm Up: SSH, Good Mornings, and Quad stretches. That’s all you need when you play Ultimate
The Workout: Every time the frisbee hits the ground, we rotated with 5 each of Monkey Humpers, Star Jumps, Merkins, LBCs. The team that scored got to pick the 10x penalty for the other team while they enjoy 5 ranging from Diamond Merkins to Homer-to-Marge. There were some amazing plays with cheating shoves and tricks. But always a great time.
Mary: 4 minutes of Mary called out by various PAX
Announcements: Check Slack for latest, Convergence this weekend.
Prayer: Closed out by Gump for Jameson’s Family, sadly another suicide in the community, strength and healing

Lucky 7 @ GP – Welcome Dutch Oven

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YHC arrived to find two parked vehicles with no one in sight.  FNG Mike was the fourth vehicle on site and he and I discussed the F3 disclaimers while we waited for the others.  Lipsync arrived on foot followed by Breach. Both had put in a couple miles of EC before we got started. Mufasa and Doc were on site next and while we were circling up for warmup, Pikachu decided to roll in and grace us with his presence.

Warmup:

10’s –  Good Mornings, 20 Fozzy Arm Circles, 15 Cherry Pickers, 10 Emperial Walkers, 10 Hillbillies,  10 Don Quixote’s (Windmills) and  20 SSH

The Workout

Mosey to the Wall

3 sets of 10 ct Ascending Testicles (15 °, 45°, 90° BTTW) and 3 sets of 5 ct down the line (35 ct total) Wall sits.  During one of Pikachu’s count downs, he started debating the method in which to count to 5 when YHC interrupted to share his count down was about to expire.

Mosey to the Rock Pile – rotate rocks between sets.

  • 4 sets of 20’s – Curls for the girls (TY Breach for choosing a rock the size of Texas)
  • 4 sets of 20’s  – Overhead Tri-press
  • 4 sets of 10’s – Ground Pounders

After a brief discussion over whether the ground was too wet to lay down on, YHC called an audible and PAX Cousak’d to the playground with the Rocks to finish our Rock work.

  • 2 sets 10’s Windshield Wipers (lot’s of groans)
  • 4 sets of 20’s Standard Press

Aik’n Station Time:  PAX paired up and broke into 3 stations rotating clockwise after each set

  • Aik’n Abs: 15 American Hammers,  20 ct 6 inches, 20 Rockies, 30 ct Chillcut Planks
  • Aik’n Arms: 15 Standard Merkins, 15 Derkins, 15 DIps, 15 Shoulder tap planks
  • Aik’n Legs: 20 Squats, 20 Step ups, 10 Star jumps, 15 Mountain climbers
  • Aik’n Abs: 20 LBCs, 20 Pickle Pounders, 20 WWIIs, 20 Single Leg Homer to Marge (10 ct each leg)
  • Aik’n Arms: 10 Shoulder Tap Merkins,  15 Hand Release Merkins, 15 Plank Jacks, 20 Dips
  • Aik’n Legs: 15 Box Jumps, 15 Lunges, 15 High Knees, 15 Split Jacks

Ended with 20 Ct 6 inches.

Announcements:   Crab Legs workday tomorrow @ 2PM (2 hrs of work + 1-3 hrs of good bourbon)

Prayer Requests:  Prayers for Forcep’s Mother-in-law who is in hospital w/ heart issues.  Prayer’s for Mufasa’s friend Chad who is waiting on a possible cancer diagnosis. Continued prayers for Shredder’s recovery and for Crab Legs.

YHC took us out

It’s never too early to have your hose sucked

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EC started at 0510 with Sliderule, Pikachu, and Skidmark going out on a 5.5 mile run. Sliderule being the mathematician that he is didn’t realize that we would be covering 5+ miles when he HC’d for a 0510 start. Regardless the pax set out on the EC route in very typical Holly Springs weather, chilly. The three arrived back at Starbucks to great the remaining Pax. Sliderule a little worn asked for some of Skidmark’s gu. Skidmark offered to let Sliderule suck his hose (from camelback) and then gave him some gu. Sliderule decline the offer for hose sucking but took the gu down like a champ. Insert all jokes about Sliderule here. Hence the title for our run this morning.

Warm Up: Mookie led the warm-up today. Some light jogging, Side Strattle hops, Imperial walkers, Mountain Climbers, High knees, and butt kickers.
The Workout: U-Turn new course. Made every effort to keep the Pax together. No one got lost. New course very well received. Actual running distance comes out to 5.2 miles.
Mary: Coffee
Announcements: Crablegs tomorrow 2-5. Work time .5 hours. Bourbon time 2.5 hours.
Prayer: Full House and Mr. Woodchuck’s father.

Hungry Like the Wolf(pack)

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ExecSum: Survive and Advance. You it on got VHS? Learning to count. Wait til we get to 30. Apply Q School. Dream big.

Warm Up: Horizontal curls (triceps parallel to ground, hands up, curl arms) 15x

Windshield wipers (triceps parallel to ground, hands down, swing arms). Slide Rule grumbled about the difficulty or something, to which I responded, “Wait ‘til we get to 30,” so of course we did 30x.

Werewolf in honor of NC State Wolfpack, 1983 NCAA championship run. Completed today with near-full moon overhead. Werewolf = Downward dog to high plank to upward dog, keeping shoulder blades close together. Then reverse the path, 5x.

Reverse pushups straight from Holly Springs School of Dance, where teens hammer these out no problem. Start in crab position, arms press up/down like a dip. Start with both feet down 5x, then extend one leg 5x, then extend leg to 45 degrees 5x.

Mountain climbers 15x, Failure to launch 7x

Circle burp to “Hungry Like the Wolf,” again a shout out to 1983 NC State Wolfpack. While doing SSHs, each PAX shouts out their college team, which triggers a burpee by the group. Finished the last PAX at 3:30 minutes—Perfect timing!

The Workout: Mosey to amphitheater, where the stage forms a perfect ledge for dips. I called for 11s with dips and derkins. But I quickly modified since keeping count during 11s is a weakness. Modified to 11, 10, 9, etc. on each end, which incited the PAX. Yes, incited, not excited.

More 11s. This time with jump-ups onto the ledge and star jumps. Fresh off of Q school the night before, the Q remembered two items: “time in tension” and ending the workout ON TIME. So, I applied both. PAX really “enjoyed” the SLOW cadence count, especially when we were down to three or so.

Moseyed back to tennis courts for Mary.

Mary: Superman, followed by Australian Snow Angels. Long count. Followed by low slow flutter, again slowly with good form. Pickle pounders. And finally, held Superman until 6:30 am sharp.

Announcements: Check Slack/FB. Work day at Crableg’s house Saturday.

Prayers: Crablegs, Shredder, others. Thankful we’re able to come out here everyday.

Q Message from Survive and Advance: You don’t have to be an NC State fan to enjoy. As we do every March, I enjoyed the program with my family last night. Very engaging and funny and passionate about dreaming big. At first meeting with his players, Coach V announced that he was going to win the national championship. He designated one practice every year to cutting down the nets to celebrate winning a championship. Now that’s vision and dreaming big! His vision became a reality.

I offered my DVD. The Business was disappointed it didn’t come in VHS. Breach took home my copy, hopefully, he has a DVD player. And hopefully, he’ll watch it, be inspired, and share with others.

 

Detective Pikachu

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Another week of only one detective at Crazy Time – this time the real deal.

Warm Up:

1 mile run
The Workout:

100 diamond merkins

200 Pickle pounders

300 Monkey humpers
Mary:

1 mile run flowing right into Crazy Ivan EC
Announcements:

The point of trust was in full effect. Only one more week in this format – workout will change in April.

Prayer:

Unspoken

Beta TigerBlood

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PAX: Brony, PeakWeek, BlueHen, SlideRule, Da Business, Wiggly, Spanx, Dawgpound, Buford, Pikachu

It is always a difficult decision to start a new AO, but we have seen over the years that this is how we grow and attract new FNG’s. With numbers consistently north of the 12 at Disney it was time to plant a new flag. Since there isn’t currently an AO at Holly Ridge Middle/Elementary today was a beta run to see if this was an ideal location with enough pain stations. The Q hasn’t spent any time at this location, but did some Google Earth reconnaissance and the site appeared to have several good options, plenty of parking, and limited houses. The goal of today was to cover the property and pull out of the bag exercises as they seemed appropriate.  It was a rainy morning for a beta test and some mumble chatter second guessing why they decided this was a good idea, but 10 PAX braved the conditions to see what this site has to offer.  A quick mosey to the front of the Middle school to take some cover from the rain before it was GO time and then we were off.

Warm Up:

Mosey run along the front left side of the middle school towards to the back of the middle school parking lot for warm up.

SSSH X 20

Daisy Picker X 10

Squat hold Fazio Arm Circle X 10 rotate X 10

Windmill X 10

Site Map


The Workout:

Mosey down the stairs to the track.  We couldn’t find an entrance so we jumped the fence, only later to find a wide open entrance further down.  A hot lap of catch me if you can with a partner.  Partner drops down for 5 merkins, sprints to catch the partner, repeat until we all get a lap in.  Jump back over the fence with some groans (some aren’t as nimble and agile as Pikachu).  We gave the bleachers a test for stability with a round of step ups.

Mosey away from the track and towards a path running behind the track and baseball field.  It is here that we discovered a wide open entrance for the track. Continued to run along the path (several uneven sections but no cuts Yet) and continue along this path leading out behind the elementary school.

The PAX divided into three groups.  Group 1 did 10 Pole Jump ups on one playground, Group 2 did 10 dips on second set of playground equipment, and Group 3 did 10 (5 each) pull ups on third set of playground equipment.  The groups rotating until each group completed one set.

Mosey out to the long parking lot on the right side of the elementary school for a round of suicide runs.  Run each light pole and sprint back until we covered the entire parking lot.

The PAX moved over to large, uneven retaining wall across from the parking lot.  Three sets of 20 count New Mexican Quick Feet and 20 count of balls to the wall.  SlideRule got in too tight with his balls to the wall causing a knee injury on the way down.  He took one for the team but kept going strong.

Indian run over to the front of the elementary school and a lap around what appeared to be a kickball field.  The PAX moved over to the center of the field for a round for Starfish.  Brony’s rain jacket was placed in the middle of the star and the PAX split into three group around the jacket.  Group one did 10 merkins, group two did 10 wide-grip merkins, and group three did 10 diamond merkins.  After each group was finished they bear crawled to the center(jacket) for 5 burpees and out to the next station(corner of the star) until all three stations were complete.

Quick mosey over to the front of the school to see what we had to work with.  There was plenty of cover along the walkway leading into the school.  Tiger prints (we think) were covering the walkway so it only made sense to leap frog each tiger print until we covered the walkway.  1 round of dips and urkins on the tables in front of the school.

Quick mosey back to the parking lot where the fun started for Mary.

Mary:

Guantanamo’s – 1 round

American Hammer – X 10

Windshield Wiper – X11

Boat Canoe – X10

JaLo – X10

Peter Parkers – X10

Quick discussion about the new site.  While it doesn’t have all of the options that Disney has, it is a promising new site location…..plenty of large parking lots, a track (that we think we can use), very large soccer field behind the elementary school, baseball field behind the middle school, good cover, limited houses nearby, and Blood Drawn on the first workout.  Several names were thrown out, but we quickly settled on Tiger (paws in front of school) + Blood (SlideRule’s jacked up knee) = TigerBlood.

Thanks for those that came out to help test this site location.  I look forward to helping get this new AO up and running.  SlideRule set the bar high drawing blood…. Challenge accepted.  Come on out next Thursday to join!


Announcements:

Helping CrabLegs with work around the house on Sunday from 2-5.  See Pikachu’s weekly announcements.

Prayer:

SlideRule’s knee, CrabLegs, those recovering.

The Longest Balls……To the Wall

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Pax of 17 came out in the gloom at PC. Good job men.

Warm Up: Jogged over to near Planet Fitness on Lassiter Road.  A treasure chest of stolen retaining wall bricks from Target were in an SUV. Circled up for Sir Fozio Arm Circles, Imperial Walkers ( I did hillbillies), Good Mornings, and some hamstring stretches.

The Workout:

Pax paired up with one doing exercises  at bottom of Lassiter Rd while the other ran up the hill to intersection at Sunset Lake road.

Exercises to include 100 Merkins, 100 Curls For the Girls, 100 Squats, and 100 Overhead Presses. Variation of plank hold to wait for the 6.

This was repeated with 50 Merkins, 50 Curls for the Girls, 50 Squats, and 50 Overhead Presses. Variation of plank hold to wait for the 6.

Pax jogged over to behind the cleaners to hold Balls to the Wall for each Pax to perform a slow or fast 10 count.

This was repeated with Peoples Chair 10 count down the line.

Jogged over to starting area for some Mary.

Mary: 30 count low slow flutter, 30 count of pickle pounders, 30 count of superman, 30 count of alternating superman.

Announcements: Thursday Q school 6:30-7:30 Womble. Work day for Crab legs this Sunday 2-5pm. Tube socks is playing in a hockey tourney to raise money for RPD officer shot.  Smile more complain less 5K 5/11/19 9:00 am at Harris Lake.

Prayer:Crab leads, Shredder, and unspoken prays.