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Hot Humid Morning at the Yard!

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It was drizzling rain when I arrived at 5:10 am to unload all the toys.4 cars were in Parking Lot. All F3 guys getting in some EC. Glad the rain held off.

 

FNG: Nope

Warm Up: Ran a lap around the club house. Circled up for Good Mornings, Merkins, Fazio Arm Circles, seal claps, overhead claps, Hillbillies, Imperial Walkers all 15 IC.

Workout: We worked in Teams of 2. 2 runners were the timers for each station around the club house. Each person rotated after runners were back.

  • Runners-Timers
  • Bench Press w/ RR Iron/LBC’s
  • Curls/Shoulder Shrugs w/tractor weights
  • Tire Flip/Merkins
  • Bench Press Bar with partner up and over/ground pounders
  • Farmers Carry/Bear Crawl

Rotated through 4 times.

Mary: Circled up for Low-Slow-Flutter, Homer-to Marge, Plank Hold all IC

T-Claps: Fram head locked 2 neighbors to come that have not posted in a while.

Announcements: Bed build this Saturday, Holly Springs 5k

Prayers: Breach travel mercies the rest of the week, Friend of mine and DoubleD has cancer, Inspector Gadget rolled his ankle during EC. Hope he recovers quickly.

Honor to lead you Gents!

Straight forward

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FNGs:none
Warm Up:4 pax with 2mile EC. circle up and did some SSH, windmills,Fazio arm circles and prison squats
The Workout:Moseyed down to the concession stand wall where we did 20count of erkins, derkin , and dips. Moved over to the hill and did 7s of LBC and alternating lunges.  Made our way back up to rock pile and performed several exercises while the last pax bear crawled to the front. After rolling through we did jack webbs only to realize  that it was reverse jack Webb’s. So we did 1press and 4 merkins up to 5/20. And the came back down doing 20 press and 5 merkins.  After burning out the arms rocks were put back in place and hit the tennis courts.  Used the four corners and stacked the following exercises sprinting the long ends and Karaoke the short sides. 10-SSH, 20- calf raises, 30 IC BTW, 40 IC 6 inch hold.
Mary:Mary consist of single leg v ups, big boy sit-ups, hello dolly, dog pointers which was on all 4s extending left hand right foot and the repeating for other side.  Lifted knees off ground while in crunch position and did 20IC mountain climbers.
Announcements: Sleep in Heavenly Peace June 12. Fritter challenge 6/14. Picnic
T-Claps (Recognition):Fram for using largest rock in Fuquay
Prayer: brother in law recover from sickness, first responders,

Memorial Monday Mutiny

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With May Challenge finally done, it was understandable that the parking lot was somewhat empty this morning as guys are falling back to lick their wounds a bit after a month full of beatdowns. YHC also knew many PAX would be doing the double down today for the Memorial Day Murph, so we stayed away from the Murph-like moves.

FNG’s: None.
Warm Up: Good Mornings x 12, Daisy Pickers x 12, Seal Claps/Overhead Claps x 10, Frankensteins x 12, Imperial Walkers x 10, Hillbillies x10.
The Workout: Started off with 22 Burpees OYO. Everyone grabbed a rock suitable for challenging higher reps work. The series consisted of Curls for the Girls, Tricep Press, Rut-Rows, Shoulder Press, a mosey up to the pavillion, Dips, and LBC’s with a mosey back to the rocks. We did ascending sets of 15, 20, 25, and 30.

Step Ups x 20 IC. People’s Chair for a 10 count per PAX, BTTW for a 10 count per PAX.
Mary: Popcorn Mary for 20 counts of: LBC’s, American Hammers, Pickle Pounders, Homer to Marge, LSF’s, and 22 WW2’s.
Announcements: Murph Today! New Monthly Challenge tomorrow showcasing working on the “guns”.
T-Claps (Recognition): Scrapple getting back out here in the Gloom!
Prayer: Our nation, unspoken.

Fun and Games

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FNGs:

None  today
Warm Up:

SSH x20 IC

Daisy Pickers, Sir Fazio forward/backward, Good Mornings x10 IC
The Workout:

Mosey over to the baseball field and partner up for a game of Wasps. 2 pax start out “it” and do 2x burpees at home base. They then tag other pax who then become “it” after returning to base for 2x burpees. Entire baseball field was in play – even the fence apparently for Pots.

Unfortunately Wrangler had an injury when performing a burpee towards the end of the game. Prayers for a speedy recovery bro.

After Wasps we moved on to some animal races – from the infield/outfield line to the fence we raced in the form of Bear Crawls, Duck Walks, Wheel Barrels, and Sprints.
Mary:

Moseyed back to the flag and circled up for LBCs, low slow flutters, and Freddie Mercury’s.
Announcements:

Upcoming 5ks – Grasshopper and Derek Davis. Sleep in Heavenly Peace bed build on June 12th.
Prayer:

Wrangler for injury recovery

Mop Handles and Mumble Chatter

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Great group out at Ground Pou… I mean, Sheepdog, this morning. Some strong mumble chatter was in play. I won’t go into details but there was talk of an F3 South Wake calendar and there was some discussion about a mop handle. Been a long week for many of us and so I was looking to bring a little different variety. Ironic thing is, I ended up taking pieces of the previous day Fram-led beatdown. It was that memorable that I just figured I wanted to keep doing it. Several in play for EC, gotta love that later start at the end of a long week.

FNGs: Nope
Warm Up: Long jog around to back of school, circled up for variety of exercises. This was second time this week I included Good Mornings ICx20. Guys are always asking for it, so what’s wrong with a little extra time to stretch?
The Workout: Lined up along the side of the school. Kept it simple. We would run down the length of the road and do a plank hold together on a 30 count, then run back. When we returned we did SSH ICx100. Kept this pattern but on the return we changed it up each time and did LBCs ICx75, Mt Climbers ICx0, Low Slow Flutter ICx25, and American Hammer ICx10. Good mix of jog/plank/core work. Then we circled up and Shredder led a 10-min lesson on some self-defense moves. If you have ever been to Sheepdog, this is something you are missing out on. Shredder walks the PAX through some basic techniques, provides demo, and you practice. Look, nobody is gonna become an expert in 10 mins, but this is a great addition to a workout and you get to learn a few things along the way. T Claps to Shredder for sharing his knowledge with the PAX.
Mary: Mosey back to flag and a Sprinkler/Redenbacher 2-man jailbreak broke out. Circled up for a couple quick rounds of LBC, 6 hold, Low Slow Flutter and Homer to Marge. Then we did a 5-min arms and shoulder stretch routine. Figured after some of the workouts this week we could use a little extra. This is when the mumble chatter reached Ground Pounder status. It was almost like Dauber was there.
Announcements: CSAUP, others check Slack
T-Claps (Recognition): Lots this morning. Great to see Mr. T back in the gloom. Red for piling up points and running strong. Maybelline putting in the work too. Shredder showing great leadership during the challenge. I could go on but you get the point.
Prayer: Unspoken, YHC took us out.

First time at Falcon Park

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FNGs: Not today, but welcome back Princess Cut
Warm Up: Mosey around
The Workout: Lazy Dora with Cinderblock work and BTW hold for partner.  Baseball field suicides
Mary: Plank Hold while each Pax ran the bases once
Announcements:
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer:

Are you bad listeners or am I a bad leader?

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FNGs: Not today
Warm Up: Mosey to a wall for BTW and a count off of PAX… It took us about 6 times to actually get a count off. The precedence was set for a chatty workout with nobody listening to YHC.  We began to mosey to other side of lot for SSH x15. PAX was surprised by the x15 on SSH, as YHC is known for his x50 or even x100 to begin workouts.  YHC threw a curveball on the SSH, as he called them again, but this time as 21’s.  Q calls out 2 count SSH for the first 1-5 and then 6-21 are silent. If the PAX don’t finish all at the same time in cadence on 21, repeato….Lets just say we repeated quite a few times.  We even had some OYO Peeping Lipsticks when the PAX struck out 3x for not being quiet.   We continued the mosey to another lot and did more warmups.

The Workout: Partner up and suicides across lot with peeping lipsticks.  6 suicide stops- Pax 1 goes to first and back while Pax 2 does peeping lipsticks, rotate partners after each suicide stop, until we got to the end.  Pax had a hard time understanding and also questioned the legitimacy of a peeping lipstick (turkesh getup with a star jump)  It’s in the exicon!   Next we mosey to the bus stop where YHC had coupon pain stations setup.  Partner 1 worked with coupon while partner 2 ran out and back. Switch roles and then switch stations as we rotated through 7 stations.  Stations as followed: Merkin Jack Webb with Cinderblock (2 stations) Weighted jump rope, grave diggers with 20lb mace, death march with 10lb mace, kettlebell swings 35lb, kettlebell tricep extensions 15lb. Closed out with 21s again to test our progress. It only took 3 times to nail it, Pots even turned his back to the Pax!
Mary:  Mary caught the bus and we kept the heartrate up until the end!
Announcements: June 26th Picnic at Harris Lake, Families invited, Emeril is smoking 32 Pork Butts
T-Claps (Recognition): All Pax for showing up during this challenge. The engagement, fellowship, accountability, etc has been awesome. Let’s keep this going through the summer!
Prayer: Heidi, Emeril’s family friend with Cancer

Thunder YOGA w/ 19 PAX

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FNGs:  Welcome Jukebox, future patrolman who loves to sing.  Thanks for bringing this young man out Pumpkin Spice.  Good to see your college basketball playing, former HS Hawk XC star, Cobbler, out to the gloom too.
Warm Up:  many PAX participated in VC.  Bike ride +10 miles.  PAX moist.
The Workout:  YOGA, much needed.  Look, I will simply attach a pic of the movements we executed.  Special thanks to Cancun who provided the play by play and color commentary of all the moves attempted.  I tried finding the prisoner terminology he used on this sheet I downloaded from the internet but was unable to locate the verbiage.  I will defer to Cancun for his intimate experiences.  Quite flexible for a 6’4” 260 pound dude.  Awesome.  The much anticipated spread Eagle was executed flawlessly by many.  Only a few PAX let out some flatulence.
Mary:  lots of stretching, balance stuff.  Full 45 mins of pure awesomeness IMO.
Announcements:  CSAUP, Murph, bed build, 5Ks, see Slack/FB
T-Claps (Recognition):  Happy Birthday Cancun!  All PAX killing it during May challenge.  Remember to listen to your body and REST.
Prayer:  Interrupted by geese, goslings and churlish children, YHC chided them and finished up in thoughtful, loving prayers only a seasoned parent could pull off.

Honored to lead – Dauber.

Rock Swap Fail

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Great group out there today. Solid EC as a bunch of us stuck together on a strong pace. After almost 4 years, and countless times posting at PT when it was the only show in town on Wed, this was the first time I took the Q.

FNGs: None today, so no extra points for any PAX
Warm Up: Jog around tennis courts, circle up for exercises. All you need to know is we did Good Mornings and we did ICx20. Several other typical moves to prepare for workout.
The Workout: Moseyed around courts to select a rock that would be a good challenge with focus on bi/tri and Wonder Bras. We lined up at one end of the lot and we did bis/tris ICx20, then a run to far end where we did tempo squats ICx10. Back to rocks and repeat. Did this 3 times. Next we lined up across from an accountability partner and we did Wonder Bras ICx20, followed by a shoulder burn holding out on 10 count – Fazio 10 forward, 10 count hold, Fazio 10 reverse, 10 count hold, Seal Claps ICx10, 10 count hold, Overhead Claps ICx10, 10 count hold. Recover on the Michael Phelps. Repeat. Shredder pulled a rock swap and delivered his slightly heaver rock to me, and Cancun quickly joined the swap by trading out with me and dropping a behemoth at my feet. Staring down at that thing I had to decide if another round was in order, or if time was ticking and it was time to return the rocks. Truth be told, the plan was to be done, and so I stuck to it, but I did Cusak that piece of shit back to the pile as a show of good faith. By the way, very little chance I was gonna survive another round of Wonder Bras with that thing. Returned the rocks and moseyed down to the field house and did alternating BTTW and tempo dips.  3 rounds and nice job by Pots going 1 handed. Circled up for a quick set of SSH ICx50. Moseyed back to tennis courts lined up at one end and did merkins ICx10, Bear Crawl across court 1, shoulder taps ICx0, Bear Crawl across court 2, Nipplers ICx10, Bear Crawl across court 3, Plank hold 10 count. Lots of action out there today, lots of constant movements, very few recovery. Ended up logging 1 mile even while moving our way around the park.
Mary: Multiple rounds of LBC, Homer to Marge, 6 Hold and Low Slow Flutters
Announcements: Picnic, Fram on Q at TB, Warbucks on Q at Disney, Shredder preparing for Memorial Day Murph
T-Claps (Recognition): Everyone, all PAX really put in the effort this morning. We kept moving and worked hard start to finish.
Prayer: Fram shared upcoming travel to reconnect with family he has not seen in 2 years. Tend to forget how the pandemic might have isolated some folks and led to these long gaps in sharing time together. Shredder took us out.

Red October 5/17/2021

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14 Pax took to the pavilion at Red October for a Tabata style kettlebells and then some workout.

Sprinker, Felix, Fram, Pots, Dawgpound, Dumbo, Emeril,  Farva, Norm, Lipstick, Yoshi, welcome FNG Murdoch and Breach on the Q

Warm Up: Circled up in the traffic circle for some 22 counts reps of SSH, Daisey Pickers, Windmills, Fazio Arm Circles, and Imperial Walkers/Hillbillies

The Workout: 7 Stations of fun: Partner up with one partner using the tools partner 2 is on a dealer’s choice kettlebell exercise, at the 2 mins mark partners switch.

Station 1 Sandbag- Brupess with a snatch

Station 2 Pain Stick- Overhead press in the front and back

Station 3 Barbell- Rut Rohs

Station 4 Weight Plate- Squat and press

Station 5 Tire- Farmers Carry around the circle

Station 6 Kettlebell squat to upright row

Station 7 Kettlebell sandbags- Squats and shoulder shrugs

Mary: Combined effort with Mutiny- Pickle Pounders and Lo-Slo Flutter.

Announcements: JOCO CSAUP this weekend, sign up on Slack, South Wake picnic on June 26th, details in Slack. Bed build on June 12th
T-Claps (Recognition): All pax for the effort during the May challenge.

Prayer: Emerils family friend who is recovering from thyroid cancer, and always for our first responders and military that are out there on the front lines.