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Parking lot Heavy Weights

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16 posted @ the Possum Trot in the heat & humidity of another hot Carolina morning in June.

Warm up: Q led by Farva for SSH, IW, Hillbillies, G-mornings, Fazios all IC

The Workout: Pax lined up for a 1-2 count off then bear crawled to their respective pain stations at opposite ends of parking lot. Before YHC could lead the Pax in a 10 count of merkins, Pikachu jumped the gun causing a penalty thereby leading to 20 merkins. Upon bear crawling to each groups pain stations, Pax each proceeded to carry or flip tires to opposite end of parking lot. Stations consisted of farmers carry of 2 40lb water jugs, 2 40lb cinder blocks, flanked and rolled 3″ fire hose, 40lb barbell, large flippin’ tire, medium flippin’ tire, 2 shoulder carry tires, pallet, and slosh pipe. Pax without weights to move stayed back and completed merkins & LBC’s waiting for their turn. Upon reaching end of parking lot Pax bear crawled large hill to complete 20 count of Irkins, Derkins, dips on the guard rail the crawl bear back down hill. Rinse & repeat x 2. After 2 completed hill climbs of the above, the remaining time was used to continue moving weights back and forth across parking lot. The Pax held various forms of plank waiting on the six. Upon finishing, YHC called for a sprint from opposite end of parking lot to the base of hill for another round of Irkins, Derkins, & dips at the top. Since Pikachu had found fault with YHC’s earlier merkin count of 10 it was decided to rinse and repeat the hill work once again! Mosey on over to tennis courts for Mary.

Mary: Farva & YHC decided together to call out a Pax who had never led Mary. Noah’s Ark raised his hand and took center court like a pro leading us in 20 modified Freddy Mercurys IC, followed by 10 Pickle Pounders and 20 WWII’s.

Announcements: Upcoming July 4th 1776 convergence at Womble, up and coming AO for Yoga and Kenny’s Graveyard, and Wake County finally approved the South Wake Park project coming to Crooked Creek.

Name-o-rama

Prayer requests:  Crablegs to have continued strength

COT:  YHC shared the Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have done unto you and what that looks like when we all encounter less than desirable situations involving people including family that say or do things that hurt us or rub us the wrong way. React in a way that will demonstrate the love and kindness of Christ in the situations. Noah’s Ark and YHC shared a short testimony how easily we can become agitated and react with the wrong attitude. Let this not be said of us F3 men. YHC led us out in prayer.

The Evolution of Soccer

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When: 06/19/2018
QIC: Blue Hen
The PAX: Blue Hen, 187, Emeril, Yogurt,The Natural, Forceps, Pablo, Pikachu, Breach, DogPound, Da Business

The Q got a late night text from Flanigan asking to sub in for the Q. While watching highlights from the World Cup it only seemed appropriate to draw up a soccer themed workout. Went to the 2.0’s soccer bag and pulled out a ball and retrieved some cones and the workout was ready.

Warm UP
Quick run from the front of the school and around to the soccer field, but kickers and high knees along the way. The Q had set up 15 cones in a line and took the Pax through some rounds of shuffles, cone jumps, and backwards shuffle. X 20 Windmills, X 20 Good Mornings, X 20 SSH.

The Thang
The PAX divided into two teams with one team having an extra player. We moved the goals about 50 yards apart and set up cones around the perimeter. Shirts vs. skins in a round of crab soccer. If the ball went out of bounds everyone had to do 5 burpees. If a team scored a goal the other team had to do 10 merkins. Dogpound and Breech sacrificed their bodies while Emeril made several strong saves in goal. F3 SouthWake has some strong CrabWalk Soccer players. An Indian run lap was the intermission around the track. During the second half burpees were substituted for merkins and you could either crab walk or bear crawl to the ball. As the PAX approached 200 merkins (50 burpees) the Q called everyone on their feet for about 5 minutes of somewhat normal soccer. Not sure who won, but we all finished stronger with at least 200 merkins and covered in dirt and sweat.
The goals were put back to where we found them and the PAX followed the Q down towards the playground running up and down the hill. As the PAX approached the playground everyone held a low squat hold on the fence by the playground. On the call everyone backwards run down the hill and back up to hold the squat hold on the fence. Rinse and repeat 5 times. Quick mosey over to the front of the school for Mary.

Mary
Circle up and the Q called out and ab exercise for the PAX to complete while shuffling around each person in the circle. The next person called out an ab exercise until all eleven went.

Announcements
Convergence 4th of July at Disney 6:30 am.

Prayer Requests
Carpex brother Snots with heart issues, CrabLegs, and the Robinson family that lives in 12 oaks rebuilding after a house fire this weekend.

HOT Tea Time

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5 Pax gathered in 90+ degree humid weather for some hot tea time action. Spam dragged an FNG out (and they biked over to boot) so disclaimers were given and we went out for our first mile.

The Thing (No surprises here…..Murph city)

The pax hammered away at the sets and shirts did not last very long. We wrapped up all of our sets and did a great job getting the six for the remainder of the sets – 2nd mile was ran and we were done inside of 45 minutes. Very impressive considering the temperature.

Announcements

4th of July Convergence – Carpex is also hosting 1776. South Wake 1776 is at Disney AO at 6:30am.

Prayers

Snots in Carpex for a speedy recovery. Crab legs.

FNG Sea Dog took us out.

 

Fuquay Frisbee Challenge

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We had a 11 PAX for an unsuspecting game of Ultimate Frisbee. It was time for Fuquay to host a game on another very humid morning.

Warm Up: We were excited to get to the field so we did some quick warm-up stretches prior to the workout starting.

The Workout:  We divided teams into gray shirts (5) and other shirts (6). Each time the frisbee was dropped we did 3 Merkins the first half and 4 Squats during the 2nd half. The team that scored chose the exercise (10 for the non-scoring team and 5 for the scoring team). The exercises were picked by the scorer: Merkins, Leg raises, SSH, Star jumps, LBCs, WWII. For the Merkin challenge we officially count 105. There were some great plays out there for several that have never played before!

Mary: We gathered for less than 6 minutes of Mary with around the horn of stretching and abs only.

Announcements: July 4th Convergence, A Yoga AO starting up mid July

Prayer: Beater lifted up a friend that suddenly passed at the age of 42, prayers for Draper, DoubleD, and CrabLegs

Ground-Pounder

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Pax: Breach, Forceps, Pikachu, The Natural, Mookie, Farva

6 Posted for a little fun at Jones Park

Warmup lap around the pond, circle up for 22 reps of Imperial Walkers, Daisy Pickers, and Merkins

Mosey over to Veterans Park for a Pax Choice workout, Scout run around the pond with a stop for each pax member

  1. The Natual-  22 count merkins, big boy sit-ups right leg step ups, left leg to step up and side straddle hops.
  2. Forceps– Each pax member Bear crawl around the veterans memorial while the rest exercise, (Mountain climbers, derkins, merkins, chill cut plank hold squats)
  3. Pikachu– Each pax member does 10 pull-ups while the remaining pax does 10 merkins
  4. Breach- Fun with rocks 22 reps (Curls for the girls, Sumo Squats, Truck twists, Tricep extensions and Overhead press)
  5. Mookie– 22 reps (Carolina Drydocks, Irkins, Standing Mountain climbers, merkins)

Mosey back to Jones Park

6. Farva- 22 count (squat pulses, six-inch leg lifts, supermans, 23 hand release merkins)

Ended with a snake style run up and down the hills behind the baseball diamond.

COT- Prayers for the men out in the community that do not have a father figure to look to on FAthers day weekend. Happy Early Fathers day to all the dads in the pax.

Message- Go out into the community and be a positive influence, The ripple effect that we have can never really be measured but we should always strive to be that stand up individual that others can look at as an example.

Closed with prayer

 

U-Turn

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11 Pax posted for a minimum 5 mile run. A few got in a little EC.

Warmup: 10 x IW, 10 Hillbillies, 10 x SSH, 10 merkins

COT at the beginning.

Announcements: 4th of July Convergence

Prayers: Draper and his family, Double D, Crablegs

Welcome FNG Glamper

Cletus. Java’s First Year F3 Anniversary. Crab inspired workout.

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Q: Java

Pax of 25 this morning at Cletus with seven joining at the last few minutes from Ivan.

EC Murph was done by a few locos prior to Cletus.

Warmup:

Indian reverse run around the soccer fields and over the bridge to the Southwest parking lot

Side Straddle Hop x30 IC

Imperial Walkers x 15

Hilly Billy x 15

Good Mornings x 10

Fazio arm circles x 15 IC Forward

Fazio arm circles x 15 IC Backward

Arms and chest stretch

Standard merkins x 30

Main Workout:

Run backward to the middle of the parking lot: 20 merkins

Run backward to the end of the parking lot: 20 squats

Repeated for 4 trips

Crabwalk to mid lot: 20 LBCs

Crabwalk to end lot: 20 Freddy Merc

Repeated for 2 trips

Bearcrawl to the middle of the parking lot: 20 LBCs

Bearcrawl to the middle of the parking lot: 20 Freddy Merc

Repeated for 2 trips

Indian run around the south loop and back to the southwest parking lot.

Dips on the cement parking bars x 20

Erkins with hands over the cement parking barks x 10

Squats x10

Dips on the cement parking bars x 20

Erkins with hands over the cement parking barks x 10

Squats x 10

Mosey to the tennis courts.

Cool down: Circle up for core exercises; flutter kicks, windshield wipers, LBCs.

Announcements and prayer requests:

Support the Healing Transitions AO on Fridays at 2 PM.

Banana Seat is having a CT Scan; pray for positive results.

Tofu requested prayer so Java finds a job 😉

COT and closing prayer:

Prayed so we may be the light and salt of this earth, that we may leave everything and everyone better than before in order to be men of high impact.

Ground Pounder

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Warm up:
10’s – Good Mornings, Don Quixote’s, Imperial Walkers & Hillbillies, Standard Merkins
20’s – LBCs & Homer to Marge

Rock Pile -(pick a big’n)
circle up rotate rocks around circle between sets
30’s – curls, overhead tri press, bench press w 6inches,
20’s American hammers, Windshield wipers

Break into 2 groups rotate stations
Aiken Leg station- 20 Box Jumps, 20 Squats, 20 Split Jacks
DD station – 20 Dips, 20 Merkins, 20 lunges
PS Station – 2 sets of 10s – 20 pull ups, 20 WWII, 20 Squats
Tables: 20 Derkins, 20 Erkins, 20 LBCs

Mosey back to Rock Pile pair up 1 rock per pair
1 planks while 2 sprints to 2nd speed bump and back
2 sets: weighted planks and crab planks
Jail break to bathrooms:
Balls to Wall 7 X 10 Count

Mosey back to parking lot
Circle up: 10s- Pickle Pounders, Mnt Climbers, Cotton pickers, Freddie Mercuries

5 min Cool Down: Shoulder stretches, Heels to Balls, & Hammies.

Announcements:
Farva completed a 5 pack for his Birthday week – great work Farva
F3 Picnic in the Park today at Harris
Healing Transitions needs us- 2 PM Friday afternoons- make a commitment to post once a month. We get more than we give.
Pax talked about building real rations with others to share our hearts – find/give support

Prayer Requests: Pax on the DL, Crablegs, making real bonds with others to share our hearts,

 

Just a little bit muggy this morning

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PAX of 17 at Paradise City to workout on this muggy Monday morning.   6 PAX started the day early with 2-2.5 miles of Extra Credit.  The merkin challenge became just a bit more exciting for this Q as The Dawgpound told me he was chasing and planned to catch and pass me by weeks end.

PAX: Emeril, 187, THE Dawg Pound, CHiPS, UTI, Yogurt, Peeping Tom, Doc, Skidmark, Forceps, Roger Roger, Blue Hen, Moby, Brony, Pikachu, OCR and welcome FNG Pablo

Q:  CHiPS/Emeril

EC:  Emeril, CHiPS, UTI, Peeping Tom, Dawg Pound, Roger Roger, Skidmark

Vests: N/A

HC Fartsacks:  N/A

Excuse lexicon addition: N/A

Warm Up:

3/4 Mile Jog – Fast feet step ups, Karaoke on the jog.  20 Merkins bottom of the ramp

½ Mile Jog – x10 each way Fazio Arm Circles, x11 Good Mornings, x12 Windmills, Arm Stretches

The Workout

Tennis Courts – 11’s

10 Merkins to 1 Squat

Varied the types of Merkins and the types of Squats.

Tunnels:

Partner up.  1 partner does the short run while the other partner does Balls to the Wall

Swap/repeat

Leave the tunnel and 1 partner does the long run while the other partner does bear crawl up the hill

Swap/repeat

Mary:

On the run – x 20 low slow flutter, x 20 Homer to Marge, Good Mornings, x10 Boat Canoes, x10 Freddie Mercury’s, Stretches

Total running ~2.7 miles

Announcements:
N/A

Prayers:  From Skidmark – Family that lost their father to cancer.  Moby – Friends brother in law died in his sleep.  Prayers for both families

Scripture: Luke 15:3-7 – “Then Jesus told them this parable: 4 “Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Doesn’t he leave the ninety-nine in the open country and go after the lost sheep until he finds it? 5 And when he finds it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders 6 and goes home. Then he calls his friends and neighbors together and says, ‘Rejoice with me; I have found my lost sheep.’ 7 I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent.”

Ultimate beat down at Thunder

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12 Pax gathered at Thunder for what was promised to be an Ultimate (frisbee) beat down. We moseyed over to the turf fields to mark off a field with some cones and do a few warm up exercises:

10x SSH IC

10x Fazio Arm Circles IC, both directions

The pax were conveniently wearing 6 red shirts and 6 non-red shirts, so no skins were needed. Teams were made and we were off.

Rules were simple, any time the disc hit the ground (after kickoff) all Pax had to perform 3 Merkins before they could do anything else. When a team scored the scoring team/Pax called out an exercise for 10 reps, following which the team that was scored on walked to the other side and play resumed with a “kick” off. After a close game (red won 6-5) we wrapped up with some Mary:

Low slow flutter x10 IC

Standard Merkin (on my down and my up) x7 to get us to our 167 target for the day.

Announcements – Day in the park, July 4th convergence.

Prayers – Shredder with praise for support for mission trip.

Shredder took us out – great work (and tons of fun) men!