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Full body beatdown at PT

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Warm Up: Follow me for a lap around the tennis courts and a lot of line work across the parking lot

circle up for side straddle hops, good mornings, fozzio arm circles forward and reverse, overhead claps, and windmills
The Workout: grab a big rock for lifting – no need for a flat one as we will not be pushing it across the parking lot (today anyway) and circle up

Full body beatdown using 1 minute intervals. Instructions were to max out reps each interval and then begin the next interval after about a 10 second recovery

round 1 Chest

merkins, press with rocks, wide merkins, press with rocks

jog around the parking lot

round 2 shoulders

shoulder press with rocks, Carolina dry docks,  bttw, ground pounders

jog around the parking lot

round 3 back

ruh rohs, Supermans w/back flex, ruh rohs, Supermans w/back flex

Jog around the parking lot

round 4 arms

curls for the girls, tricep extensions, curls for the girls (slow), diamond merkins

Jog around the parking lot

round 5 legs

weighted squats, split-lunge agility, weighted squats – return the rocks

Mary: circle up on the tennis courts and hold chill cut plank.  Once the six arrived alphabet soup was called to close
Announcements:Welcome FNG 2.0  Messi

BRR this weekend, csaup oct 20th, anyone available on Saturday to help Kid Cracker move his parents please let him know.
Prayer: thankful for f3 and the men involved, asked for help to be better men, husbands, fathers and sons

Ummm Ultimate Mutiny Monday Madness

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Labor Day Murph

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Only one pax took Pikachu up on his offer of a pre-ultimate Murph. No FNGs so we were off.

Warm Up:

1st Mile
The Workout:

100 pull ups

200 merkins

300 squats
Mary:

2nd Mile
Announcements:

N/A – Ultimate began!
Prayer:

N/A – Ultimate began!

It Takes Two

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Buford brought the music today.  We all learned a little bit about the man known as Buford.  NC State  Football songs where present in the mix along with some old school Rap.  It was a bummer though we didn’t hear Miley Cyrus though.  Also, I didn’t hear any Taylor Swift which I know Buford personally listens to on a regular basis.


Warm Up:

A quick run around the Soccer Fields.  Circled up for the following.

20 Cadence Count Side Straddle Hops
10 Cadence Count Fazio Arm Circles Forward
10 Cadence Count Fazio Arm Circles Backward
16 Cadence Count Good Mornings
10 Cadence Count Daisy Pickers
Mucho Chesto
10 Merkins
10 Wide Merkins
10 Close Grip Merkins
10 Left Hand Forward Merkins
10 Right Hand Forward Merkins

The Workout:

Partners Up and Journied to the Rock Wall with the surveillance camera — I’m waiting for a phone call
Partner A did 5 Turkish Getups Partner B held Balls to the Wall; Switch
Partner A did 4 Turkish Getups Partner B held Balls to the Wall; Switch
Partner A did 3 Turkish Getups Partner B held Balls to the Wall; Switch
Partner A did 2 Turkish Getups Partner B held Balls to the Wall; Switch

Made it back to the Playground
Station A was the timer.  The rest of the groups grab the TRX and if one wasn’t available did the same kettlebell workout.

Round 1:
Station A:
Partner A Bear Crawled dragging battle rope with 35 lb kettlebell
Partner B Jump Rope

TRX Excercise: Atomic Pushup
Kettlebell Excercise: Kettlebell Swing

Round 2:
Station A:
Partner A Seated pull battle rope with 35 lb and 18 lb kettlebell
Partner B Bear Crawl

TRX Excercise: Rows
Kettlebell Excercise: Figure 8s

Mary:

Circled Up and did some Hip Stretches.  I think this is when Pikachu hurt himself

Announcements:

9/11 Stair Climb
Vicious Fishes Crosby Show and Corn Hole

Prayer:

Clay — Roger Rogers Neighbor has Tumor around Spinal Cord after getting through Brain Cancer
Safe Run for the Blue Ridge Relay Team

Crazy for Crazies

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YHC committed to not fart sacking after having missed his beloved Crazy Time for 4 straight weeks. Two other pax joined him for a fun Friday morning – pleasantries were exchanged and they were off.

Warm Up:

1st Mile
The Workout:

100 pull ups, 200 merkins, 300 squats
Mary:

2nd Mile
Announcements & Prayer:

None – beat downs to get to
Vests:

YHC with 12 lbs for the first half of all sets

Two pax (Crosby & YHC) went to Crazy Ivan which proved to be a mistake when we ended warm ups with 50 merkins, but that’s for another back blast 🙂

New leaders being born

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Kenny’s Grave is starting to pull some guys out of the shell. R22 stepped up this week to co-Q. Pikachu made the drive down to see how South Park does it on Thursday mornings and some talk of 5 AO’s in 24 hours. The humidity is back in full effect so let the sweat flow.

Warm Up:
Jog around track
Stretches
SSH
Squatted moroccan night club
Slaloms
Goofballs

The Workout:
Merkins on the floor ladders (2 ladders, 5 PAX each line)
Walking hands down inside boxes and feet out to the side. Two hands in one box do a merkin, each hand in a box merkin, going down the row closer merkins then wider merkins (roughly 40 total)
Box hops down
Double In and out boxes down
In, In, Out, Out box crawl down

Curb hops- use the 16 cement space curbs. Form two lines – hop sideways to left over curb and back (x4 each curb) then forward to the next one. Go down line grass area to next grass area.
Bear crawl the curb line using curbs between the legs.

R22 Steps In
The Hill 7’s
Increasing from 1 at top and bottom to 7 top and bottom

Hand release merkins and LBCs (bear crawl up hill, jog down)
WWII’s and diamond merkins (crawl bear down and jog up)
Burpees and squats (bear crawl down and jog up)

Mary:
LSF
Freddy Mercury’s
Reverse LBC’s
6 inch hold (count in R22’s head)

Announcements: Runs and events coming up

Prayer: Yosef’s family departing foster kids, Banana Seats daughter healing, Crab Legs, Wranglers kids HFM sickness, unspoken

Great job stepping up R22! Next time he’ll be running the show.

Hot hot hot

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Pax of 6 gathered for a very hot Thunder session.

EC: YHC with an easy mile.

Warm Up:

Jog over to grass near amphitheater.

SSH x15 IC

Good afternoon x10 IC

Mountain Climber x20 variable cadence

Arm stretches
The Workout:

Since some of us were sore from the 5 year anniversary beatdown we decided to get all our Merkins out of the way.

Mosey to the nearby hill (directly next to running track) for clockwork Merkins, starting with 12 o’clock pointing towards the track.

12x at 12 o’clock, and then proceeding accordingly clockwise all the way around – 78 merkins

Mosey to playground – ab work to let the heart rate recover:

Low slow flutter x10 IC

LBC x10 IC

To counterbalance all that chest we needed some back, so to the monkey bars we went. 3 pax hold chill cut plank, other 3 each do 10x Pull Ups. Each group went once, then went again with 5x Pull Ups.

Mosey to the rock pile where pax were instructed to get a “medium, non-traveling rock to share”

Circled up for various rock exercises rotating rocks throughout:

7x Deadlifts, 14x cleans, 21x overhead press, 14x putting it all together for the ground pounder

Curls – 7x bottom half range of motion, 7x top half, 14x full range

Tri-ceps – 7x bottom half, 7x top half, 14x full range

Return the rocks and mosey to the metal bars along the walkway near the baseball fields

All pax on bars for upright bodyweight rows – x10

Switch to grass for 10x squats

Repeat rows x10, prisoner squats x10, rows x5, lunges x5 each leg

Mosey back to tennis courts for Mary

Mary:

Mary around the horn – 15 count each (except for the Burpees called by our FNG Urban, only 8x of those. Maybe that’s why the Big Blue fan got that name).

Announcements:

9/11 stair climb
Prayer:

Crab legs. Unspoken.

 

Great work men – hot one out there. An honor and privilege as always to lead.

10 PAX for Any Given Sunday- Headlamps, 6 Miles, and a Sunrise

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This weekend we have seen a welcomed transition from 92 degree humid conditions to cooler\less humid desirable running weather. Driving down Raleigh St., Brexit was seen getting some extra miles. As YHC pulled into the parking lot 9 minutes before the Any Given Sunday start, he was greeted by a shirt-wearing, ready-to-go Pikachu, complete with headlamp. Clown cars started to roll in, Wrangler and Slots, followed by LipStick and UTI. Fresh off a U-Turn run from yesterday, The ‘Sir’ DawgPound and Forceps decided they wanted in on the free ‘All-Inclusive’ 6 mile run.

Noticing the need for more light for the first few miles before sunrise, DawgPound grabbed a second headlamp. Six 0’clock hit, and Brexit and Bernie joined to make a perfect 10 for this morning’s work-out that began with some dynamic stretching that started as follows..

Warm Up: Light jog to the back end of the parking lot, carioca back (L\R), Butt kickers to the back end of the lot, Frankensteins back. Circle up for Hacky Sacks x20, Pike Stretches (Rt over Lt heal, Lt over Rt heal x10count)

The Workout: 6 Mile Scenic Scout Run (going counter-clockwise this time around Bass Lake) with periodic trips back to pick up the 6.

Mary: Cool Down stretches. Rt leg over Lt, Lt over Rt x10, Downward Dog- Pike calf stretches R and L x10 count/2x, Michael Phelps, Tricep stretches L\R. Planks with Cobra stretches to stretch out the back

Announcements: Anniversary Q this Wednesday at Possum Trot- EC is in play prior to as well. BRR is coming up (12 days to go).

Prayer: Prayers for Crab Legs, Double D and their family’s. Forceps friend Brandon who is facing significant health issues. YHC shared a message to the PAX to remember to breathe. Often times we are overwhelmed with the challenges of daily work and family life that we forget to breathe and really take time for the moments that matter. A parallel can be drawn with running. We can sometimes get caught up in trying to keep up with others and setting a pace that we can’t maintain over long periods of time as we forget to take those deep breaths. This past week, I had a friend who had texted me a message saying, “Can you call me?” It was a busy week filled with deadlines, travel, and a myriad of family responsibilities, and unfortunately didn’t stop to breathe to make the time to call him back til days later. As it would turn out, he needed my help, and I wasn’t there to help him get through the challenge he was facing that day. Somewhere there is someone who needs our help at any given time and we have to remember breathe to make the right decisions and do what is most important. -Aye!…Have a great week, everyone..

Ultimate Wet Thunder

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Pax of 5 gathered on a very stormy evening. The rain mostly cleared up in time for our 7am start and we were off – we crossed the street and setup the lower grass field for some 2 v 2 (with a full time offense player) ultimate.

Warm Up:

SSH x15 IC

Good evening x15 IC

Daisy Picker x15 IC

The Workout:

Ultimate frisbee – every time the disc is dropped and/or swatted or thrown out of bounds the pax alternate between 3x merkins and 5x LBCs.

Scoring team chooses an exercise to do 10 of, and then the full time offense player switches.
Mary:

Mosied back to the tennis courts for

10x Low Slow Flutter IC

Mary around the horn
Announcements:

5 year SouthWake convergence upcoming
Prayer:

Crab legs

Questions Answered

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Pax of 17 came out on a drizzly Monday morning to answer one question – was Pikachu done using his new job as an excuse?

~7 Pax got in EC at 5:15. Wescott grabbed another FNG so disclaimers were read and we were off.

Warm Up:

Run to the top of the ramp:

SSH x20 IC

Daisy Pickers x10 IC

Run to corner by tennis courts doing kareoke, backwards run, and butt kickers on the way.

 

The Workout:

Run back to bathroom trailers to get Midget. Stop at the first island – bear crawl to the 2nd island. Crab walk back.

Now that everyone was accounted for the main event could start. Run to the bottom of the ramp for some shortened 21s:

10 Burpees at the bottom

Run to the top

11 LBCs

Repeated down to 6 burpees and 15 pickle pounders since they’re our favorite. Threw in some backwards running, a bear crawl (that got audibled to 2/3 of the way – that’s a long ramp) and some runs all the way down to the stop sign off the entrance road.

Did one more quality burpee at the bottom and then went to the basketball courts for the grand finale.
Mary:

Given the storms the night before it only seemed appropriate to do Thunderstruck – nearly 5 minutes of SSH with some more burpees mixed in.
Announcements:

5 year anniversary convergence – last Wednesday in August

9/11 stair climb – 5:30AM start, will be finished before 7.
Prayer:

Verse of the day – Psalm 102:25-28. “Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God”

Crab legs.

Doug at Hope who is recovering from a broken neck.

 

Always a privilege men – thank you for the honor.

And yeah Dog Pound – I’m back.

PS – Welcome FNG Sharapova.