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The Mythical Men Return

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PAX: A brisk, perfect Monday evening for 11 PAX including the return of Butt Joint and Skid Mark to Tea Time. Other PAX were Patch,Tricycle, Crosby, Huggies, Dusty, Shredder, John Deere, Pikachu, and QIC The Natural.

Warm Up: We did a Murph – the first mile IS the warm-up. PAX split to different routes and paces – converged back at the playground.

The Workout: MURPH (100 pull ups, 200 merkins, 300 squats – another mile).

Announcements: CSAUP Dec. 15th – check Facebook or Slack for more info. Sign-up for various races (Wilmington, BRR, others…).

COT: Prayed us out with lifted prayers and praises.

An Early Christmas Miracle!

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Thanks to all who posted to help set a new attendance record at Purple Cobra!  Special thanks to the few PAX from Raleigh that came down to visit us in the South Wake gloom (Drysdale, Bloodied Elf, and Yoda).  There were even a few Purple Cobra virgins out there and to top it off we welcomed 3 FNGs! (La Fleur, Bob Ross, and Motor Boatin’)

Warm Up:

YHC took a page out of the F3 Houston workouts and started off with 50 IC SSH.  Then we did the following:

Imperial Walkers ICx15

Hillbillies ICx15

Frankenstein Kicks ICx15

The Workout:

Count off by 3’s and then Bataan Death March with 5 Merkins at the end of the line over to the Jiffy Lube guardrail.

 

Partner up to do the following:

Partner 1 – 10x Derkins/Erkins/Dips

Partner 2- Plank Jacks and Squats

Switch, rinse and repeat decreasing by 2 reps each time

 

Mosey to the Goodwill Lot

Wilt Chamberlains

 

Mosey to Dollar Tree Lot

Burpish Getups 10 OYO

 

Mosey to Wells Fargo Lot

The same damn thing again

 

Mosey to the Flag

Wave of Merkins to 10

Mary:

Homer to Marge IC x20

Back Plank

Announcements: CSAUP is 12/15, see Chips post on FB about tickets to Xmas church services

Prayer: Pablo’s mom, unspoken, YHC took us out.

Welcome Ironic and Full House

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Welcome Ironic and Full House.

Thunder claps for Foghorn for wearing a vest.

EC EC: Dawgpound, Emeril, Midget, Lipstick, UTI

EC: Dawgpound, Emeril, Midget, Lipstick, UTI, Axe, 187, Warbucks, Yogurt, Brexit, Chips

Excuse Lexicon: IT Band Flare Up, No Alarm

Warm Up:

Circle Up
Fazio arm circle
10 Imperial Walkers
10 Hillbillies
Good morning
10 Reverse Pushup
15 Squatter Pyramid

The Workout:

Workout
Find Groups of 4 Similar Speed
Indian Run around the 1/2 Mile Loop

Corner:
5 Burpee

Ticket Office
5 Burpee
10 Merkins

Bottom of Ramp
5 Burpee
10 Merkins
15 Squats

Basketball Court:
5 Burpee
10 Merkins
15 Squats
20 LBCs

Lead group came back for the six after they finished their last set.

Total of three laps

Run to ticket office
20 Squat Pyramids

Run to courts for Mary

Mary:

5 Burpee Countdown
LBC
Have a Nice Day

Announcements:

December 15th CSAUP
Some Second F is coming our way in the future

Prayer:

Pablo’s Mom
Crablegs
Double D’s Dad
Dave Bexit’s Buddy from Michigan.  Currently battling burns and infections.

Thanks for letting me lead you guys today.

Challenge Points:

Burpees: 75 => 225
Merkins: 100 => 200
Squats: 170 => 170

Total Points: 595

Didn’t Even Have to Poop

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Pax of 11 came out for a promised no running beatdown by Pikachu & Lipstick (Pikachu’s Lipstick?) at Crazy Ivan. Brexit even ran a mile before the workout and Crosby switched from Cletus based on the promise of no running.

Warm Up:

Lipstick circled us up for some arm and leg stretches followed by:

SSH x20 IC

Daisy Pickers x10 IC

Then we grabbed our kettle bells for the beginning of legs.

The Workout:

Lung walk (with kettle bell held at chest, focusing on form) halfway down parking lot.

Deep squats x20

Curtsey squats x20

Lung walk rest of the way down the parking lot.

Deep squats x20

Curtsey squats x20

Box cutters x20 IC to give the legs a break

Lung walk back down half way and hand it off to YHC.

We started to mosey our way to the Amphitheater, but Cletus was hogging it so we double back to the first parking lot line for the evolution of the burpee. We started with a new exercise YHC thought up for this Q – the Kurpee. It’s a burpee with the kettle bell – you hold the bell when dropping for the merkin (and do the merkin uneven – one hand on the bell), and when coming up out of the plank drive the kettle bell overhead into a lockout and then bring it back to your waist and then switch hands for the next rep.

We lined up at the parking lot line – 1 Kurpee at the first line, 2 at the 2nd, etc up to 5.

After a 5 count we went back the other way, doing Turkish Getups this time.

By now the ampitheater was cleared out so we moseyed over there, John Cusack & 10x Tricep extensions IC on the way.

Pax lined up along the short wall for some upper back rows – one hand and leg on the wall, the other on the ground.  5 rows per kettle bell with the pax rotating through to each kettle bell once (11 total). We then spun 180 degrees and did the same thing for the other arm.

Mosey back to the parking lot (John Cusack of course) where YHC brought out his speaker for a musical finish with Roxanne – Merkin for every Roxanne, Plank Jack for every Red Light, holding plank otherwise.

Mary:

YHC lead some yoga – Downward Dog, Runners Pose, Pidgeon.
Announcements:

The Frosty CSAUP Dec 15th – Womble, 6AM

Christmas Party at Nemo’s Saturday.

2nd F at Dunkin after.

Prayer:

Lipstick’s grandmother – prayers for the family.

Chips & Brexit echoing the importance of prioritizing our M’s over jobs and other things.

YHC took us out – always an honor and privilege men.

2.0 at Crazy Time!

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Pax of 3 for a jam session at Crazy Time. With Pikachu and Crosby on the ramp up from the IR Gumby was the only one running.

100 pull ups

200 merkins

300 squats

And we were all off to Crazy Ivan.

Droppin’ Plates

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Warm Up: SSH , Cotton Pickers, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies, Over head stretch both, across chest stretch both

The Workout: Partner Workout : One doing exercise. Other performing exercise with Plate.

Plates can’t touch the ground: Penalty of 10 Double Merkin Burpees

45lb plate x2

25lb plate

Ampitheatre
Dora
300 LBC’s. Plate Hold over chest on your 6
200 Squats. Plate John Cusack
150 Merkins. Plate Plank Hold
100 Dips  Plate WWII’s
50 Burpees Plate Squat Hold

Mosey to Back P Lot

Same partners

Cinder blocks / Plates
5 lines & Back
Bear Crawl push Block/ Plate Hold Plank

50 Curls Block/ Plate Curl

3 lines & Back

Plank shuffle dragging Block/ Plate Hold Plank

50 Curls Block/ Plate Curl

Repeat Bear Crawl/Plank Shuffle

Mary: 5 Double Merkin Burpees
Announcements: CSAUP Dec. 15 starts at Womble 6am .. 2nd F Tapline
Prayer: Many injured seeking fast recovery. Crosby’s Son’s Dad’s Mom(That’s a lot) is not doing very well. Continue to show up and become better leaders in our community. Crab Legs. Several others & unspoken.

Purple Cobra BackBlast

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Warm Up: Pablo lead the PAX in warmup with: Job around Sunset loop, SSH ICx20, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies and Arm Circles
The Workout:

Simple 7’s: PAX partnered up – 1 ran the Goodwill loop and back while partner did 7 Star Jumps and 7 Merkins.  Squat hold if returned and partner still working on his 7’s or Plank if waiting on running partner.  7 laps.

Half Way There: Wheel Barrel with partner halfway around the loop and switch.  Back at the start, one partner does Mountain Climbers while other does 1/2 the loop crabwalk forward and 1/2 backward (plank if MC’s are too much), next partner does Squats while other does 1/2 the loop bear crawl forward and crawl bear backward (Squat hold if Squats are too much).

Merkin Shuffle @ 5 count

Mary: Plank-O-Rama
Announcements: CSAUP Dec 15th at 06:00 Womble, Christmas Ugly Sweater Dec 1st at Nemo (Wood Creek), On Dec 1st, F3 Southwake will be an official Region!
Prayer: CrabLegs, DoubleD’s father/family, those injured and traveling

It’s like the Moon Landings

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Suprisingly cold and blustery Tea Time Murph…… good day for impressive shovel flag flying

Johndeere doubling down with EC Murph

WELCOME FNG – TRICYCLE

Warm Up:1st Mile
The Workout:100pullups, 200pushups, 300squats (modified as needed)
Mary:2nd Mile
Announcements: CSAUP 15th Dec
Prayer: Crablegs, Johndeere knee, unspoken

Thanksgiving Convergence

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Kenny’s Grave was excited to see all the cars pulling in the gloom on a Thanksgiving Thursday. Disney had come to town for a visit as well as others that may not typically post. Either way, we had 24 HIM show up for a sweaty before stuffed workout.

A few men got in some EC. Great job!

Warm up:
Lap around the park with some high knees and butt kickers to get our legs loose. Carioca once we exited the track. Switch after the turn.
YHC instruct two lines at the end of parking lot. Slides/shuffles down the two combined white parking space lines then forward to the next set and slide opposite direction. Do this all the way down the go right into the agility ladders. We had four quick loops to stay on the ladders. Then we moseyed over toward the b-ball court parking area for some warm up exercises.

Focus on form :
Red Bull Smurf Jacks x20 IC (fast)
Windmills x10 IC
Plank jacks x20 IC
Ranger merkins x20 IC

Main Event: YHC lead a TURKEY workout
T – Thunderstruck right out the gate
U – Up/Downs x10
Grab a rock
R – Railroads jumps with rock
K – Knerkins x15 : on my down and up
E – Elevens on hill (rock elf on the shelf/WW2’s)
Put rocks back
Y – Y raises like Superman but letter Y
Thanks to Pikachu on the reminder. Had to pick up Y after Mary since YHC forgot how to spell.

Mary:
V-ups
Protractor into LSF into Freddy Mercury

Verse – Thanksgiving
“Oh, that men would give thanks to the LORD for His goodness, And for His wonderful works to the children of men! For He satisfies the longing soul, And fills the hungry soul with goodness.”
‭‭Psalms‬ ‭107:8-9‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

Announcements:
Official region for SW Jan 1, CSAUP Dec 15 @ 0600, Nemo Xmas party food cupboard Dec 1, Pablo POTluck Dec 29, cape fear dec 1 rehab house see M4L

Prayer request:
Crab legs, season safety, travelers, Buford surgery, web ex baby, martini baby, Moby baby (in-progress), DD dad prayers, troops and those that cannot be with family during the holidays

During COT, some PAX gave words of thanks. I’m thankful for the opportunity to lead a great group of men on this day and everytime I’m chosen to lead. We all have some many blessing and hope we recognize them more each day. Let’s express our gratitude and thankfulness to those around us. Have a great day with whomever you are spending this holiday with.

BS out!

CMU – Concrete Masonry Unit

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CMU, aka Cinder Block…..

PAX of 2 for Thunder this evening….

EC- Pikachu with a Murph, John Deere with 8.5miles

Warm Up: Both Pax already warmed up with EC….
The Workout:Mosey to top baseball car park, 5 Double Merkin Burpees at approx 1/4mile and again once at car park

Collect CMU already waiting… following exercises all conducted with CMU and in cadence:

20xcurles, 20x rows, 20xcurles, 20xrows, 10xCMU Chest throws across the Volley ball area followed with 10xSlams.

Block push/pull bear crawl for 10 parking spaces.

In Plank position, move sideways 5 parking paces to the right, pulling block with right hand, them 5 back with left (surprising killer!)

On Six, arms straight up holding CMU, 20xLowSlowFlutter, 20xchest press, 20xLowSlowFlutter, 20xchest press.

5 x Double Merkin Burpees

20xMerkins with hands on CMU Followed with 10count regular plank, 10count right arm, 10count left arm, 10count regular

On Six, arms straight up holding CMU, 20xboxcutters, 20xchest press. Back up on feet:

10xcurles, 10xrows, 10xcurles, 10xrows

Block push/pull Bear Crawl 10 parking spaces.

Partner Up (yea we had limited options for partner)leave CMU – Broken Wheel Barrow, 5 parking spaces right leg, 5 parking spaces left leg.

5 double merkin burpees.

leaving CMUs mosey back to tennis courts……

Tennis Courts Suicides (both courts including middle line)

Mary: 20xAmerican Hammers followed by Protractors (22.5/45/90/45/22.5) in cadence 20 count for each angle.
Announcements: CSAUP Dec 15th, Christmas Get To gether… Poll Open, 29th seems favorit, local TBD.
Prayer:Crablegs, Noah Ark, unspoken. Thank You Pikachu for taking us out.