Tag Archive for: Pikachu

Better late than never

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Warm Up:

Started on the initial ½ mile jog when we saw a Mercedes SUV roll in late. Circled back to pick up Midget for Life.  Burpees while we waited for him to get out of his car and tie his shoes.

½ mile jog w/ Good Mornings, Squat Jumps, Karaoke, Merkins, Dips, Balls to the Wall

The Workout:

7’s at the long tennis court  – Burpees and Turkish Getups

Tunnel – Partner run, Balls to the Wall and Preacher Chair

Bear Crawl up the hill

Mary:

Boat Canoes

Pickle Pounders

Homer to Marge

Elbow to Knee crunches

Heel Taps

Announcements:

Dawgpound and Skidmark to take over Paradise City

Beer Mile at CBC.  Can do teams.  Oct 13th

https://admin.racereach.com/r/south-wake-beer-mile

Down East F3 groups cancelled workouts until January.  They’ll be working to restore the communities they live in.  If you want to help/contribute see Midget

Holly Spring Half less than 8 weeks out

Prayer:

Gents please keep Crab Legs in your prayers on a daily basis

Prayers for Brandon @ Hope as he continues his recovery from the boating accident

Prayers for Clay as he battles cancer

Kid Crackers 10-year-old getting x-rays

All those affected by the hurricane

Any Given Sunday (No Johns Edition)

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3 pax (Bernie, Brexit, and YHC) ran some EC and found each other around town and ran back into Womble together. They were met by 3 other pax (Midget, Emeril, & Forceps) and we were off.

Warm Up:

SSH x10

High knees x15

Jog 1/3 down the parking lot, kareokee 1/3, switch for last 1/3

Butt kickers length of parking lot back
The Workout:

6 mile route (out Womble to main to Walgreens, right on Holly Springs road, left into Jones Park on greenway, follow greenway through Jones, Veterans, Windcrest/Sunset Ridge North and then down to N Main St at Ting, then Main street back to Womble) with some stops (for weight distribution as Dauber calls it) – at Veterans park for YHC and after the steep hill on the greenway for Midget. YHC lost the group and ran back to Womble via Main St solo.

Mary: N/A
Announcements: 2nd F coffee at Starbucks
Prayer: Mookie for some healing in the legs

Stay away from trees

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Florence couldn’t keep 6 men from posting at Cletus.

 

Warm Up: some stairs at the pavillion and then mosey to the back parking lot. 10x Imperial Walkers, 10x hillbillies, 15x Good morning, 21x SSH.
The Workout: mosey down stinson where there is a road on the left. 7’s with burpees at the top and merkins at the bottom. End of run was by crosby’s house.

Back to parking lot for some lunges and bearcrawl before mosey to the tennis court.

Jack Webb’s at the tennis courts 1:3.

Mary: all pax 5 count with 1 cadence count to 10 of boat canoes.

Announcements: CSAUP Oct 20, Beer Mile 10/13

Prayer: Crablegs, safety for thoe at the coast

Florence met Murph.

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2 pax weren’t scared by Florence (just a good breeze at this hour) and came out for a pre-Cletus Murph.

Warm Up:

1st mile
The Workout:

100 pull ups

200 merkins

300 squats
Mary:

2nd mile
Announcements:

None
Prayer:

None

2 Years of the ‘Chu – Part 2 of 2

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15 pax came out to workout 2 of 2 celebrating Pikachu’s 2 year F3 anniversary.

Warm up:

Lap around the turf field. Circle up in the parking lot:

SSH

Mountain climbers

Arm stretches

The thing:

Mosey to turf field – line up along near left edge

Jog to other end

Bear crawl length of field

Jog to other end

3 count – on 1 start holding low plank, on 2 keep holding, on 3 sprint to other side of the field

Low slow flutter

Jog back to far end

10 count

3 count – on 1 start holding 6 inches, on 2 keep holding, on 3 sprint to other side

Freddy Mercury

Jog back to far end

10 count

3 count – sprint on 3, all out for last one

10 count

Mosey to the abyss/stairs

Warm up trip to bottom and back to top

Back to bottom – 10 of Pikachu’s favorite exercise (aka the Burpee)

Back to top – plank hold

Back to bottom – 10 of Pikachu’s 2nd favorite exercise (aka the Turkish Getup)

Back to top – squat hold

Back to bottom – third favorite exercise (Pickle Pounder)

Back to top – 10 count

Mosey back to parking lot for Mary. Yogurt started while YHC got his phone…..and a speaker.

Thunder by Imagine Dragons – hold plank and do a merkin every time the word Thunder is said.

Stretching routine (copy from Thunder).

Announcements:

Pikachu thanks all of South Wake for making Holly Springs feel like home over the past two years.

Prayers:

Crab legs. Brick house is looking for a joke.

2 Years of the ‘Chu – Part 1 of 2

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YHC decided to Q consecutive workouts to celebrate 2 years of F3 – the lovely folks at Thunder got to go first.

Peeping Tom joined YHC for a nice 2+ mile EC route – standard Cletus EC + a run by Black Dog Bottle Shop to check the new venue out (looking nice by the way – give it a go).

Warm Up:

Mosey to grass parking lot by rock pile.

SSH x20

Good afternoons x10

Standard Merkin x20

Mountain climbers x20
The Workout:

Tour de Womble:

Mosey down the greenway towards baseball fields, make a left onto the loop and stop at the metal bars.

Half of pax on bars, half on the grass for deep squats.

Reps of 10 and 15 for each group of pax

Mosey to park entrance – burpee broad jump from yellow greenway pole to end of walkway.

Mosey to grass between greenway and baseball fields – gitmo x2 + chilly broad jumps (jump over Pax doing broad jumps)

Mosey to hill between greenway and opening in fence between baseball fields

Did 3 rounds of run to the top of the hill (each time) and various exercises down (crawl bear, bunny hop, and run). Each round we did Merkins (standard, on my up/down, and diamonds on Butt Joint’s call) at the top and squats (standard, on my up/down, and on Peeping Tom’s call) at the bottom.

Mosey to grass near batting cages – stopped for some Mary to show off to the parents.

Mosey to rock pile for some rock work – in a circle, rotating between rocks after every exercise:

Triceps x15

Deadlifts x15

Curls x15

Overhead press x15

Groundpounders x15

Mosey to the grass next to the tennis courts – following the first Mary exercise we promptly moved to the tennis courts as we were all covered in hundreds of nats.
Mary:

Low slow flutter, freddy mercury

Stretching routine:

Tabletop -> cat/cow

Plank – runners pose down onto elbows

Plank – pidgeon
Announcements:

South Wake Beer Mile 10/13
Prayer:

Hurricane Florence safety

 

Block Party

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Warm Up: Easy run down to concession stand area for several w/u exercises consisting of SSH, Cotton Pickers, Fozio Arms, Good Mornings, Squatted T-claps all IC.

The Workout: Return to main parking lot, retrieve cinder blocks from truck and make our way to end of tennis courts for line up. Series of exercises advancing blocks John Cusac or cradle carrying across all 4 courts to opposite end but stopping after each court for 1st series of uneven merkins, 2nd series of rut rows, 3rd series of overhead presses, 4th series of curls for the girls all called out by individual paxes for sets of 5/10 or 6/12 or ups. Drop blocks at far end hold plank for the six and then all sprint back to the start. Bear crawl across all 4 courts back to blocks and switch blocks. Rinsed and repeated x4 with duck walk next back to blocks next time. Recovered with BTW count of 20. Brought all 4 exercises together on last trip across all 4 courts back to blocks starting out with spider mans across 1st court followed by bear crawls, followed by duck walks, followed by crab walks. Ended session with 10 burpees OYO. Returned blocks to Double D’s truck.

Mary: 50 LBC’s, then YHC called out 3 pax who had been attending F3 less than 8 weeks to each lead us in an exercise. Cowboy/ 10 box cutters, Dumbo/ 10 low slow flutters, Messi/ 10 WWII’s – special shout out to Messi who’s only 11 years old!

Announcements: Pikachu’s 2 yr. anniversary tomorrow at Disney, Kenny’s Grave tomorrow.

COT: YHC shared scripture from Psalms 118:24 “This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it”.  In the midst of the storm, including Hurricane Florence on the way as well as the storms in our lives, can we still rejoice and be glad in it? Yes we can, because the Lord made this day and  tomorrow day and every day hear after for us. Time is our gift back to Him so in the midst of our storm look for ways to rejoice. Name-a-rama.

Prayer: Bubblewraps (Brad George) wife Kelli George in her early 40’s having double mastectomy due to breast cancer, Roger-Roger’s neighbors son Clay, Crablegs, H1N1 friends having marital issues, Banana Seat’s father-in-law waiting on MS test results. YHC took us out in prayer.

9-11 Stair Climb

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Warm Up:

There was none.  I guess the first flight of Stairs

The Workout:

Stairs, Stairs and more Stairs

Mary:

Some abs where done after some Stairs

Announcements:
Prayer:

Are you guys crossfit?

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4 Pax for a humid beat down at Tea Time. Pikachu appears to be an HC for BRR next year.

  1. Warm Up: 1st mile
    The Workout: the standard 100 pullups, 200 merkins, 300 squats. Pikachu, John Deere, and Skidmark all wearing vests. 2nd mile under beautiful lightning. Serious EHing tonight. Expect a FNG soon.
    Mary:
    Announcements: 9/11 stair climb tomorrow.
    Prayer:

Midgets Daisy Dukes

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7 Pax at 5:15 for EC.  Upon arriving back at Paradise City they were greeted by M4L and his God Bless America Daisy Dukes, a red carpet and a chair.   He had the red carpet and chair for the 4 Pax from BRR who decided to get out of bed this morning and do the workout.  Solid work today fella’s.

Those 11 joined another 10 for 21 PAX at PC for a minimal (by PC standards) run work-out.

Warm Up:

½ mile jog

½ mile jog w/ SSH, Good Mornings, Windmills, Karaoke, Fazio Arm Circles

The Workout:

Partner up.  One set of partners on one side of the parking lot and the other set of partners on the other side.

Run with hose to someone on other side pass it on.  Do this back and forth with two different hoses.  In between the Pax not running did a variety of exercises

Move to ramp for Lazy Dora.  x100 Merkins (each partner does 50. While one partner does his the other partner planks), x200 LBC’s (each partner does 100. While one partner does his the other partner does 6 inches), x300 Squats (each partner does 150. While one partner does his the other partner does squat hold).

Mary:

Freddy Mercury
Good Mornings
Stretches
Yoga

Announcements:
911 Stair Climb tomorrow

Looking for 2 new Q’s to take over Wednesday evenings at Thunder

Prayer:

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.

Matthew 5:9

Gents please keep Crab Legs in your prayers on a daily basis

Prayers for Brandon @ Hope as he continues his recovery from the boating accident

Prayers for Clay as he battles cancer