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51’s at The Trot

FNGs: None.

20 PAX enjoyed a wonderful break in the heat & humidity with a pleasant 68 degrees after a heavy downpour the day before in the Quay.  Q promised a lot of fun with Hills and rocks.

Warm Up: Q led the PAX around the tennis courts in a light jog all the way down to the snack shack.  The following exercises were executed in cadence:  25 SSH, 10 Daisy Pickers, 10 HB, 10 IW, 10 Monkey Humpers.  Mumble of 51 reps were heard by the Q.  Static stretching with arms (L/R) and behind the back.

The Workout:  Mosey to the small hill parallel to the ball field fence for 11’s of Squats and WWIIs.  PAX loved the moist grass while on their six.  Mosey to the snack for 26 BTTW and 26 People’s Chair followed by 25 more of each totaling 51 reps of each.  Mosey to the road and line up in 3 columns for an Indian run using 3 coupons (water stick, 2 kettle bells).  PAX executed Indian run up the road, past the parking lot and around the tennis courts and deposited the coupons near the shovel flag.  PAX paired up.  One PAX retrieved a medium sized rock and met their partner at the base of the hill.  Those PAX who did not get rocks, executed an assortment of plank holds.  Dauber, celebrating his birthday week, called for 51’s with the rocks:  51 reps of Curls for the girls, triceps curls, rut-ros, Squats, and bus-drivers.  When not holding a rock, partner PAX bear-crawled up the large hill and executed 5 dips on the guardrail.  PAX carefully backed down the hill and then took over rock reps from their partner.  Return rocks to rock pile.  PAX who did not return rocks, circled up in the tennis courts and began executing planks and merkins.

Mary:  YOGA movements, Superman, Merkins, Have a nice day

Announcements:  CSAUP Greenville; Paddle boarding in August ($15) – See Banana Seat; Yoga tonight in Holly Springs (near Dunkin), free first time, $7 after

T-Claps (Recognition): PAX coming out consistently in the gloom giving 100%

Prayer:  Double D took us out in prayer; prayers for our country (too much decisiveness); Injured PAX; family of an infant who died after a horrible pool accident leaving her in a coma; unemployed PAX looking for new opportunity.

2F Stick Boy.

 

Alwaysan honor leading you men in the gloom.  Thank you for making me better.  -Dauber

3+ miles of Indian Runs!!!

EC: Aquaman, Bullseye, Dahmer, Shamwow

FNGs:None

This is gonna be short and to the point.
Warm Up:Mosey to greenway with various stretching and exercises along the way. Windmills, high knees, butt kickers…..you get it, we were getting ready to run a bit.
The Workout:Took off out the green way in a 2 group indian run. YHC instructed that every time “DROP” was heard, PAX was to drop and do 2 DBL Merkin Burpees then continue as you were. In addition, at YHC’s direction we did various exercises together, never leaving the six. Merkins X20 in various forms, Derkins X20 at the bridge, step ups on the equipment, LBC’s IC X20 X20. I think there were other exercises but who’s counting. If you really want to know, you  should have been there! We went 1.5mi out and stopped at bottom of hill on the way back. YHC thought it would be a good idea to instruct everyone to run to top, do 5 burpees, down 5 burpees, up 4, down 4 and so on. that didn’t last long…….Indian run back for mary.
Mary:Low slow flutter, LBC’s, Boat Canoe (my fave ;)) Have a nice day
Announcements:
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer:YHC took us out

That was the Warm-up?

Answering a call on FB, this HIM stepped up and led 15 PAX at Mutiny on this glorious humid morning.  Thank you FedEx/LipSync for the opportunity; always an honor to lead you men.  Arrived with 2 mins to start, planted shovel flag, showed the PAX my kid’s old Dora the Explorer towel for some motivation and promptly began beat down at 0530.

FNGs: None

Warm Up:  Jog around track.  Circle up for SSH, Cotton-Pickers, Hillbillies, Imperial Walkers, Sir Fazio Arm Circles, Static stretches.  Q, coming off a 2 week hiatus from the gloom, mixed up a few exercises (names) but stayed on course.  Dropped down into a 10 count merkin, throwing in some R/L arm raises, R/L leg lifts and proceeded to rinse and repeat 4X after moving 90 degrees after each set.  And THEN the workout began.  Shoulders burning.

 

The Workout:  Mosey to snack shack for Australian MC, People’s Chair Both 10CC, Rinse and Repeat.  (Very slippery). Mosey to parking lot, quick feet on curb switching from R-L foot lead foot halfway down parking lot.  Squat hold for 6.  Frankensteins to the round-about.  PAX grabbed a piece of curb in plank position and began an Indian run in the plank position moving to the right initially (side to side), back to the left, right, left until shoulders were shredded.  Mosey to the rock pile for medium or smaller rock.  Lined up in one line on soccer field.  Executed the following rock exercises (10 count/10 count cadence):  curls, triceps extensions, rut-rows, bus drivers, goblet Squats, O/H presses, O/H Squats, side to side.  Took 5 steps in between each set making our way to the other side of the pitch.  Dropped rocks.  Jog to the center pitch, come back; jog to the end of the pitch, come back.  Rinse and repeat rock exercises however, Q had PAX move to the right 2 or 3 spaces in between sets changing their rocks.  John Cusack to the center point in field.  On your six.  Executed the following rock exercises:  chest press, skull crushers, H2M, WWII, LBCs, 6 inches, 45 deg, 90 deg, (leg lifts while holding rock above chest or extended over head).  John Cusack to rock pile.  Squat hold for 6.  Run sideways L/R back to the tennis courts for Mary.

Mary:  Yoga poses and have a nice day.

Announcements:  Sasquatch- See FB/Slack.  Deadbolt 5 yr anniversary this week; Gump’s 4 year celebration this week Q ing multiple sites.  Funeral/wake for Double D’s Dad today in Garner at 11:00 am.  PAX – please use q-sheet sign-up

T-Claps (Recognition):  all the PAX who gave 100% today

Prayer:  Double-D’s dad passing; Noah’s Ark’s M (illness/rest for family); PAX injured; PAX family.  Q took us out in prayer.

Diego!!! They keep coming in!!

PAX: LED, Fonzie, Potts, Dauber, Doc, Banana Seat, Noah’s Ark, 16-Bit, Cupid, Norm, FedEx, R-22, Stovepipe, Modify

EC: LED, Fonzie, Cupid

FNGs: None today

I was excited to be back from vacation and getting to Q Mutiny on a somewhat less humid morning.  When I pulled into the parking lot I was surprised to see a good number of vehicles already parked, I was assuming that LED’s post of an earlier start time and more miles for EC got some Pax out of bed, but I soon realized that some of the vehicles belonged to some early birds working the track. Sadly they were not F3 and I was thinking that maybe we’d be our regular group of 6-8 but as 5:30 approached more cars started to pull in for a total of 14 Pax and, since I didn’t put up a pre blast, at 5:29 Banana Seat yells out “ Who’s Q-ing this thing?” I step forward and circle everyone up for warm up.

Warm Up: SSH, Cherry Pickers, Fozie Arms Circles, Stretches, Lap around the track

The Workout: Told the Pax to partner up, P1 had to go to rock pile to pick a rock while P2 did squat hold. Decided to do a Diego, which is like a Dora but just a harder.  The exercises consisted of 100 merkins, 150 overhead press with rock, 200 LBC, 250 curls for the girls with the rock and 300 squats with the rock. After picking up the 6 and returning the rocks we moseyed over to the tennis courts for some suicides which consisted of bear crawl to end of first court to do 5 burpees and then crawl bear back, then sprint to the end of second court do 5 burpees and run backwards back.

Mary: American Hammers, Homer to Marge, LBC, Pickle Pounders, etc……

Announcements: Follow Crablegs on social media as he travels across the country to different baseball stadiums on ALS baseball tour

T-Claps (Recognition):

Prayer: Crablegs while he and family travel, Noah Ark’s wife recovery, Shedder and all that are injured

Not Much Talk But A Lot Of Sweat!

FNGs:NONE

EC:Aquaman, Dahmer, Katniss
Warm Up:1 lap around soccer field with a stop at the halfway point for some SSH X 15 and Daisy Pickers X 10. Continue back to tennis courts for some Fazio Arm circles 10 fwrd 10 reverse, into seal claps X10 and overhead claps X10
The Workout:Partner catch me if you can around soccer fields. 1st time around person in back does 15 high knees then catches partner. 2nd time around was 5 merkins and 3rd time around was 3 burpees. We then picked up the 6 and indian run to bottom of ramp at the pit. 7’s was the game! Burpees at bottom and merkins at top starting with 1 burpee and 6 merkins. YHC instructed PAX to run 90%-100% up the ramp and easy down. Once completed we took a mosey around the soccer field together to cool down arriving at the tennis court for mary.
Mary:We began with some shoulder taps IC led by Shamwow while YHC retrieved his phone. Once YHC returned we quickly transitioned into a 20ct of WWII’s then 20 LBC’s IC. Flip over to Pickel Pounders 20ct IC and into plank hold for a 10ct from each person (threw in some right arm and left arm up during the plank hold) ending with YHC. We finished with some downward dog, runners pose and pigeon pose to say thank you to our lower bodies for bringing us through 3+ miles!
Announcements:1776 workout
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer:YHC took us out. Travels for everyone, Katniss family member, People suffering with PTSD during this holiday! Loud noise is a big thing to some that have had to deal with the real thing. Be Aware Please!

Ultimate at Mutiny

Sorry for the late backblast, forgot on Monday and Tuesday was swamped.

EC: Cupid, Fonzie, LED, Pikachu

FNGs: Jeter
Warm Up: 15 SSH, 10 Imperial Walkers, 10 Hillbillies, 10 each Sir Fozie arm circles F+R, Michael Phelps
The Workout: Ultimate Frisbee! For every drop or goal, PAX completed an exercise.
Mary: No time for Mary today.
Announcements: Check Slack and Facebook. 1776 workout. Consider donating to the 3rd F charity of the month, Meg’s Smile. Donations per FNG post in July. Details on Slack.
Prayer: H1N1’s pastor had a 2 month old pass away. PAX travelling. Shredder, Crablegs, all other PAX on IR.

Sprints: Cupid, H1N1, Noah’s Ark, Breach, Black Knight, 8-bit, Sugar, Spenda, Yogurt, Pikachu, Yosemite

I’m pretty sure I am missing someone for sprints…please let me know and I can add them.

A trip to the Five & Dime

23 HIM’s posted in the gloom at the Trot this morning for a little arm work with a little gray block of cement!

FNGs: None

Warm Up: Led by FedEx – 5 burpee penalties were doled out to all pax who showed up to run EC while remaining pax held squats, SSH, Good Mornings, IW, Hillbillies, Michael Phelps, Fozio AC forward / reverse all in cadence. YHC added an additional 5 burpees in honor of Puddles who had requested on Tuesday that the pax perform burpees on his behalf since he had to return to his new abode in Beaufort, NC. We miss you Puddles!

The Workout: Two year F3 anniversary for FedEx and Double D who co-Q’ed a trip back in time to the days of the local Five & Dime. Cinder blocks were conveniently placed across the parking lot and Pax were instructed to push, pull, drag, or get cinder block anyway they so chose across parking lot to tennis courts without block leaving the asphalt. Once inside all Pax lined up at one end and a series of sets of 5 & dimes were called by YHC across the courts of curls for the girls, overhead presses, uneven merkins, blocks around the waist, rut rows, box jumps and plank jacks on blocks. At each end FedEx called an exercise with or without blocks of balls to the wall, mountain climbers on blocks, LBC’s, American hammers, wonder bra’s, etc, and then the series of 5 & dimes resumed back to the opposite end of courts. After a several trips to the Five and Dime blocks were then carried back out off the courts to be pushed, pulled, dragged back across the lot to YHC’s truck to be loaded up for another day! An audible was called for 10 burpees OYO after loading up the blocks.

Mary: Led by FedEx for a series of LBC’s, American hammers, pickle pounders, Homer to Marge, WWII’s

Announcements: Both FedEx and YHC expressed our thanks for this group of friends who inspire and challenge us here in SouthWake. YHC encouraged the Q’s to mix up their workouts by adding whatever they so choose and to think outside the box like assigning penalties to those who performed EC. Yoga tonight at Snap Fitness, Deadbolt’s & Gump’s 5 year anniversary Q at Womble on 7-19-19 – don’t miss it! The Arena workouts every Friday at 2:30 PM – try to do our best to give back to those men at Healing Transistions

T-Claps (Recognition): Mookie sporting Breath taker this week. Strong work Mookie!

Prayer: Robinson family whose husband/father very recently suddenly passed away, Noah’s Ark’s wife FedEx led us out in prayer.

TBD Part Deux

Co-QICs: Doc and Aquaman

11 PAX bathed in 100% humidity and got stronger in a mostly mumblechatter-free work out.

FNGs: Welcome FNG ‘Krusty’

Warm Up: Burpees for late PAX, SSH, Daisy Picker, Good Morning, Imperial Walker, Hill Billy

The Workout: Indian run to Ivan parking lot.  Pattycake merkins (5 each set), repeat as pair at the back runs to the front.  Completed 1 circuit.

Mosey to the rock pile, forward, backward, carioca.  Take a medium rock into the parking lot next to the baseball diamond.

Corner 1: 10 squats with rock overhead.  Duck Cusac (duck walk with rock overhead) full length of parking lot to corner 2.

Corner 2: 10 wonderbras.  Bear crawl pushing rock to corner 3.

Corner 3: 10 curls, 10 overhead press, 10 tricep press.  Crab walk with rock on stomach full length of parking lot to corner 4.

Corner 4: 10 merkins with right hand on rock, 10 merkins with left hand on rock.

Mosey with rock to small hill next to baseball diamond for 7s.

Squat curls at the bottom, overhead press/tricep press at the top.  YHC lost the count at some point and 7s became 8s; modify as necessary.

Mosey to rock pile to return rocks, continue to tennis courts.

Burpee ladder: sprint to half court, return and do 5 burpees.  Sprint full court, return and do 5 burpees.  Rinse and repeat.

Merkin ladder: sprint to half court, 5 merkins.  Return, 5 merkins.  Sprint full court, 5 merkins.  Return, 5 merkins.

Burpee ladder 2: Sprint to half court, return, sprint full court, return and do 5 burpees.

Mary:  low slow flutter, protractor, scissors, box cutters, homer to marge, pickle pounder, have a nice day.

Announcements:  See Slack and FB

Prayer:  Brony led us out.

Excellent work gentlemen – thanks for supporting the new AO.  Aye!

A Bone in Hand

PAX of 17 for new AO To Be Determined:
Co-QICs: Aquaman, Doc

FNGs: None

PAX of 17 showed up to christen a new AO.  Co-Qs promised a nice cool morning accompanied by a spectacular sunrise.  Delivered.  Today’s workout brought to you by the number 19 in honor of Doc’s 2.0 that graduated yesterday and the rest of the PAX connected to the Class of 19.  Thanks to everyone that showed up to help us break this in.

Warm Up: 19s (SSH IC out loud to 3 then silently to 19). Supposed to end simultaneously but failed.  Not to be deterred, continued with windmills X 19, arm circles X 19 forward and reverse, merkins X 19.  Mosey to the Ivan parking lot.

The Workout:
–Apple Turnover (bear crawl 9 parking spaces, crab walk 10 spaces.  Return by same route but reverse crab walk 10 spaces, crawl bear 9).

–Partner up at one end of the parking lot.  Five burpees each, run opposite ways and meet at other end of the parking lot for 5 broke back merkins each.  Repeat: 5 burpees, 4 broke back merkins for a total of 19 of both exercises.

In the middle of this circuit Aquaman mentioned a ‘bone popping in his hand’.  YHC thought this was mumblechatter about Aquaman’s Tuesday night extracurricular activities, but it turned out to be an injury report.  Some modification required until the bone popped back in (insert comments here).

–Sprints: PAX divided in half on each side of median.  Everyone does the following:
1. Sprint half the distance of parking lot, 5 burpees.  Sprint the other half, 5 burpees.
2. Sprint half the lot, 19 LBCs.  Repeat.
3. Sprint half the lot, 19 merkins.  Repeat.
4. Sprint half the lot, 19 pickle pounders. Repeat.
Might have been another circuit, can’t remember.  YHC running on fumes about now.

–One PAX arrived late.  So late, in fact, YHC thought it was just a dude that saw a workout underway and decided to join in.  5 burpees OYO administered.  Welcome back Popinkski, glad to have you in the group!

–Mosey around the parking lot for cool down, then around a second time and back to tennis courts for Mary.

Mary: Protractors, protractors and more protractors.  Long holds at 6 inches (expected mumblechatter about 6 inches, was not disappointed), 45 degrees, etc.  Straight into box cutters, followed by Freddie Mercurys, Homer to Marge (both legs then one leg each side), boat canoes.  PAX feeling the burn at this point, and some discussion about potential drop in attendance next week (Deadbolt: “Futures trending downward”).  Have a nice day.

Announcements: New AO in FV on Tuesday mornings at 5:30, Encouragement to attend Healing Transitions with and w/out 2.0s.

Prayer: Crab Legs, others spoken and unspoken.

Should Have Stayed In Bed This Muggy Morning

 

PAX: Potts, Fram, Doc, Gump, Cupid, FedEx, Norm, Modify

EC: Cupid

FNGs: None

Warm Up:

SSH x 15

Fozie Arm Circles x 10 F and R

Daisy Pickers x 10

Plank Jacks x 10

Stretches

Lap around the track

The Workout:

1

  Urkins

  Derkins

  Dips

2

  Bear crawl suicides

  Body weight squats

  Bunny hops

3

  Lateral burpees

4

  Squat to curl

  Curl to press  

  Squat to press

  Press to tricep ext

Mary:

  American hammers               

  V sit kick outs

  Low slow flutters

  LBC

  Homer to marge

  Toe taps

Announcements: Two new AO starting up, one this week (Wednesday at Womble) and one next week (Tuesday at Falcon Park). Check Facebook and Slack for other announcements.

T-Claps (Recognition): Cupid for running 13 miles at Crazy Train and Bond Brothers Brewery for having their 1K Flip Flop Run over the weekend

Prayer: For those still recovering from injuries, Crablegs, 16-Bit and his family, and FedEx’s son.  Sorry if I forgot any