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We did a lot

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FNGs: Welcome FNG Paycheck (Gavin)

Warm Up:
Mosey by soccer fields to half pipe for SSH, merkins, sir fazio arm circles, seal claps, OH claps.

The Workout:
1. 7’s on the half pipe
Squats on 1 side, lunges on the other, 1 merkin on sidewalk each time.

Mosey to parking lot by playground

2. Partner merkins
Partners ran opposite directions. 1st meeting 5x brokeback derkins, 2nd meeting 5x pattycake merkins. 4 rounds were completed.

3. Step-ups/knee tucks
Partner 1 did 10 step ups while Partner 2 did knee tucks (hanging or on swings). 3 rounds were completed.

Mosey to soccer fields

4. Indian bear crawl across soccer field
PAX lined up head to feet and held plank position in 1 line. PAX in back bear crawled to front until we made it across the field.

5. Evolution of man (crawl, walk, run)
Inch worm to 1st blue line, crab walk to center field. 21x LSF, 21x pickle pounders. Sprint the remaining half field.

Mary:
Alphabet Abs and popcorn exercise: homer 2 marge, heels to heaven, LBCs,

Announcements: See social media, Bondo’s retirement Q next week

T-Claps (Recognition):
Fram for rocking the 30lb vest all week, including EC.
PAX for their donations to UNC last week.

Prayer:
Fram’s co-worker Tim, Swisher Sweet’s family member
YHC took us out.

Possum Takes the Downtown Train

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AO: Downtown Train
Workout Date: 06/21/21
Last week at Coffeeteria, YHC was told that the Downtown Train PAX were not big fans of running. I figured a standard bootcamp would be OK, but I would keep my eyes and ears open to see if we needed to limit the running even more. I knew there was a rockpile based on previous backblasts. I showed up too late for a scouting run, but the site Qs Quiver and Bobby Boucher were very welcoming and helpful.

Warm Up:
State the mission, check for FNGs (0), and give the disclaimer
Side Straddle Hop x20 In Cadence (IC)
Good Morning x5 IC
Imperial Walker x20 IC
Sir Fazio Arm Circles forward x10 IC, reverse x10 IC

Main Event
1) Mosey around the Library to the neighborhood for a set of Sevens. Start with six Squats at the mailbox and one Star Jump back up the hill at the roundabout.
2) Mosey up the stairs to the parking load for Railroad Tracks. PAX all plank in a line like railroad ties. PAX at the end jumps over each PAX until he reaches the end, then he planks himself. Similar to an Indian Run. We worked our way around a quarter of the parking lot circle. Three cycles for each PAX.
3) Mosey back to the rock pile and partner up for AMRAP (As Many Reps As Possible) rock work by one partner while the other partner runs out to the second street light and back. Flapjack. Repeato with different exercises. Exercises were: Curl, Overhead Press, Triceps Extension, Bent Over Row, Shoulder Tap, Chest Press, Flutter Kick, Grounder Pounder
4) Mosey back to start and partner up for 1/2 Mary: 50 Merkins, 100 LBCs (Little Baby Crunches), 150 Squats. Running partner loops the small parking lot.

Mary:
Dolly x10 IC
Homer to Marge x10 IC
Rosalita x10 IC
Freddie Mercury x10 IC
Dying Cockroach x10 IC

COT:
7 PAX

Announcements:
South Wake picnic is this weekend
Carpex July 4 convergence is July 3 at Bond Park (Phoenix AO) for 1776 workout
YHC has the Q at the next South Wake Dads workout, also on July 3
Thanks to the PAX from Warbucks as he described the generosity of the PAX in supporting his efforts to provide newborn supplies to the hospital. The hospital was very appreciative, especially for the blankets.

Prayers for Tetanus’s M and 2.0s as they travel to Florida. Prayers for Tetanus’s coworkers and the driver of the car which ran into their office building up North. Prayers unspoken.
YHC took us out.

Naked Moleskin:
T-claps to Quiver and Bobby Boucher for helping me be successful this morning
Tetanus spotted a possum making his way across the field after COT. He must’ve thought we were Possum Trot!
Great fellowship, gentlemen. Thank you for the opportunity to lead!
This was my sixty-fifth #F3Q21 #2021Challenge Q (sixty-seventh overall). Next Q is Wednesday at Anchor Time (Raleigh).
-Pigpen

QIC: Pigpen
PAX: Quiver, Warbucks, Coal Ash, Tetanus, Woody, Bobby Boucher, Pigpen
Workout Date: 06/21/21

Baby Yoga at Disney.

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Several PAX had indicated over a couple of months that we should do more stretching or yoga during a workout.  YHC thought what better time to drop it on my 2 year celebration week.  40 min of  yoga from a non-YOGI master.  Names of moves and fluidity were suspect, but nonetheless we made it through. DRP taken!

FNGs: John P. AKA: Cheesy Tots
Warm Up: SSH, SFAC, Frankenstein’s
The Workout: Various Yoga poses.  Don’t know all the names, but we moved through Vinyasa’s, Triangles, Warriors, Reverse Warriors, Runner pose, Twisting Triangle, Etc…etc…..etc… Groan, grunt, cuss, Groan….breath……hold breath…..breath……groan, cuss, breath again……..CUSS!  “Damn that was fun, different and great! Let’s do it again sometime.” said various PAX’s.  Cue a “That’s what she said line” by Quiver every 30 sec during the ME.
Mary: LBC, Rev LBC, Full LBC, Butterfly’s, Two hand heel tap, Oblique V-ups, Scissors.
Announcements: Too many to list, check Slack.
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer: Woody’s son traveling to West Coast, Family in Golf cart accident. Fram daughter in NE.

It gets HEAVIER as we go!

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YHC had been wanting to get out the big boy toys for some bulking up.  The Prison Yard is notorious for coupons and tabata style work. We had tires, ropes, an ab wheel, Pain sticks, 15lbs DB – 65lbs DB, 125lbs on the straight bar, 40lbs Tractor weights, a fire hose and battle rope. Time to get to work.

FNGs: None

Warm Up: I/C SSH 20, I/C 10 Good mornings, Daisy Pickers, Frankenstien’s SFAC forward/reverse.
The Workout:  Thang 1> Instructed PAX’s to get into groups of 3 and we talked about each of the stations.  The 3 man teams rotated inside of each station performing a super set per muscle group.  Each exercise was 50 sec with 7 sec rest/rotate. After each superset was complete PAX rotated to next station.  Superset 1 ABS (Toes touch each plate on the straight bar with 125lbs while holding a bench press/AB wheel/ Double overhand smash with battle rope.) Superset 2 Shoulders (Two PAX standing press the tire while 3rd man does Bobby Hurley’s, Rotate through every 50 sec…There was some swearing on this one) Superset 3 Biceps ( Railroad iron curl/Hammer Curls 40lbs/15 lbs alternating curls…FED EX gets credit for naming the BB on this station) Superset 4 LAT/Delts (Front raise with fire hose/ Heavy bag or tire flip/Pain Stick press….DEADBOLT wanted to know if there was a rest station built in) Superset 5 Shoulders/Traps (Tractor weight shrugs/Upright Rut Rows/ 30lbs or 65lbs Lawnmowers) Thang 2 > Stack’em Curls for the girls with Plank hold.  40lbs, 60 lbs, 35lbs, Railroad iron, 25lbs, 15lbs. Start with two reps and work your way up to 12 reps finishing with the 15lbs. As the PAX move through the stackems the other plank hold while waiting their turn and when you finish move to plank hold.  Release when last PAX gets to end of group….DOUBLE D was sleeveless Fuquay-Varina style and was ready for the gun show after this.
Mary: OYO 10 reps. Big Boys, Butterflys, Two handed heal touch, Leg climb, Freddy Mercury on Q’s count. Cobra to Downward dog stretches.
Announcements: Carpex swap.  Quiver signed up and willing to Co-Q.
T-Claps (Recognition): Sprinkler for running EC with an EH from POTs.
Prayer: Banana Seat with unspoken.  YHC took us out.

Four Corners……..Audible to some sort of Triangle.

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FNGs: Nope
Warm Up: SSH, Good mornings, Sir mazio arm circles, Willie Mays Hays & Michael Phelps.
The Workout: Took a mosey over to the rock pile to grab a medium size rock then over to the library parking lot. Due to my time constraints YHC called an audible.

5-10-15-20 reps of Chest press, skull crushers & WW1 (with a rock).

5-10-15-20 reps of Merkins, squats, lunges & monkey humpers.

5-10-15-20 reps of Mountain climbers, plank jacks & star jumps.

10 reps each of curls for the girls (full curl, half & half), overhead triceps, shoulder press & bus drivers.
Mary: Ankle grabbers, box cutters, homer to marge, American hammer.
Announcements: Checkout slack for Warbuck’s donations to UNC in honor of his son Maddox.
T-Claps (Recognition): Grasshopper 5K which raised $30k for Sgt Leach.
Prayer: Prayers for our injured F3 brothers. Safe travels to Buford for work.

Memorial Day Murph Challenge- 2021

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32 Pax showed up today to help me (Shredder) celebrate my 4 year F3 anniversary and more importantly pay respect to our nation’s fallen during our annual Memorial Day Murph Challenge.

Impressive effort by all, especially after the May Challenge. 30 joined in on the Murph, Dauber (IR) joined to capture the event and support with donuts, and Breach (after doing a Murph at 0600) stopped by to give us his thoughts on Memorial Day and his recent visit to Arlington National Cemetery.

Warm Up: short warm-up with SSH, Good Mornings, Willie Mays Hayes, & Frankensteins. Pax counted off by 2s and headed off in opposite directions for Mile 1.

The Workout: 1 mile run, 100 pull-ups, 200 push-ups, 300 squats, 100 mile run.  Since this is F3 the last mile was an Indian Run race with the slower group having to knock out 50, scratch that, 20 Burpees. After a quick “speech”, the two groups took off in their different directions.

The mental battle was in full effect as my mind kept telling me “you need to quit”, just after I told everyone we needed to learn to Embrace the Suck. But Pax did what they do best and mentally drug me through the last mile.

As everyone wrapped up their last mile and came back together, guess what…..? Yep. We all did Burpees.

T-Claps (Recognition): We raised $425+ for HSPD first response bags. Sprinkler’s team donated 1/2 of their May Challenge winnings to the 1st response bags and 1/2 to the FQV bed building. Great work #HIM.    

: YHC took us out. Remember why we have a Memorial Day. Freedom is not Free! 🇺🇸

Did you used to work at dairy queen too?

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FNGs:

None today 🙁
Warm Up:

SSH x20 while Lipsync tied his shoes.

Good morning x10

The Workout:

Mosey to Rovisys – stops along the way for Sir Fazio x10 forward and backward, Monkey Humpers (towards the road of course), and standard merkins.

At Rovisys – go up the ramp, 10x star jumps, run to the corner at the top of the hill for 20x LBCs, run down the hill back to the bottom of the ramp. Methods of going up the ramp were rail spider mans and wheelbarrel twice (once per pax).

Mosey back to Rovisys with the same exercises as on the way swapping out Fazios for Imperial Walkers and Hillbillies.

Back at the school plank hold with merkins to the tune of Thunder by Imagine Dragons.
Mary:

Yoga and stretching.
Announcements:

Sleep in Heavenly Peace sign up is live

June picnic at Harris Lake sign up is live
T-Claps (Recognition):

Maybelline for posting a lot of days in a row

Full House for putting this Q up for grabs 😛
Prayer:

India and the rest of the world dealing with the ongoing pandemic

Simple and affective

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9 for EC
18 PAX showed for Purple Cobra
We warmed up.
We did Hindenburg BLIMPS.
We did Mary.

Everyone was tired except 187.

The end!
This BB is dedicated to 16 Bit.

BS out!

Baker’s Dozen at a Respectful Downtown Train

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FNGs: None. welcome back kotter – KOSHER!  Great to have you back in the gloom
Warm Up:  Circled up after a bunch of PAX ran 2 miles EC in the rain.  Thanks for picking up the six men.  Began with 20 SSH, daisy pickers, sir fazio (F/R), seal claps, overhead claps, Don Quixote, and Imperial Walkers.  Gave PAX an overview of the workout and we were off to library hill, not the parking garage.
The Workout:  Ran down library hill.  SAFETY Point:  only one PAX had a head lamp.  Completely poor leadership on YHC.  Thank you Lipsync for lighting the way.  Stopped at the stop sign/fire hydrant and cranked out 10 squats.  Proceeded down the road until we reached the cross walk.  5 burpees OYO.  Mumble chatter had continued from the warm-up….something about would this be a running boot camp?  From Dauber?  PPPLEASE!   Back to the fire hydrant for 10 merkins. What goes down must come up?  Heading back up library hill. At the top, conducted 10 star jumps.  Off to the rock pile.  Asked PAX to get a medium rock.  Size does matter.  11/13 rocks were fine.  Other two…I think they were replaced for bigger ones.  Lined up near sidewalk until a car was spotted and we moved again on to the sidewalk.  Once again, better leadership was needed by me.  We did A LOT of exercises with the rocks in cadence mostly.  Exercises included, curls for the girls, tricep extensions, slap rock, toe taps, rut-rows, wonder bras, upright rows, squats, overhead press, ground pounders, bus drivers, etc.  From our six, more rock exercises including nipplers, straight arm curl, 6 inches with rock above chest, box cutters, etc.  Returned the rocks.  Thanks again to Lipsync for lighting our way.  Off to the amphitheater wall by library.  All PAX participated in 10 count BTTW or people’s chair rotating between the two exercises.  Running out of time head to flag for Mary.
Mary:  American hammers, box cutters, protractors (some trouble with math due to Dauber’s public education), H2M, six inches, etc.  Finished with some yoga including DD, chair, pigeon…
Announcements:  Build a bed; Run for HSPD/officer in need; see Slack/FB.
T-Claps (Recognition):  Fundraising for Brandon Rizzuti (and his mom) for the purchase of a new chair and local company gift cards! T-claps to those who organized (Lipsync) and everyone who donated bottles and all PAX who purchased raffle tickets.  Good luck everyone.
Prayer:  Thank you Norm for leading us out in prayer today.  Prayers for India, injured PAX – including PAX who was in a bike accident, Deuce’s surgery, first responders, for our country, Unspoken….

Finished with the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag.  I saw this at AGS by Full House.  I love this idea.  Encourage other Qs to incorporate in their workouts.

Honored to lead!

Thank you to Quiver for asking PAX with RESPECT to lead DT in the month of May.

Always take the stairs at “The Happiest Place on Earth”

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PAX of 15, with quite a few for EC, decided to swallow that red pill and post at Disney, “The Happiest Place on Earth”.  Q was happy to see a strong showing of men this morning, especially when they could have posted at Tiger Blood for 90 minutes of running in circles around the track, boring…

EC: Cupid, Dahmer, UTI, Quiver, Deadbolt, Pablo, 187, [Lipton and Midget with the Murph, which does include 2 miles]

FNGs: None

Warm Up: All exercises in cadence: SSH x20; Imperial Walkers x10; Hillbillies x10; Windmill x 10, Sir Fazio Arm Circles 10F, 10R, Seal Claps and Overhead claps.

The Workout: PAX lined up in two groups for an Indian run that led them through the small parking lot near the community center entrance and then around the back of the school to the ticket booth and entrance area of the MCHS football stadium to do 2 sets of 10 each: Derkins, Irkins, and Dips.  PAX partnered up to complete a triangle circuit of pain that included running over to a large set of steps (abyss’s step sister) and completing a set of Burpees at the bottom, running up the stairs and down the walkway to complete a set of monkey humpers,  then running over to and down a smaller set of stairs back to the beginning to complete a set of Star Jumps.  Reps for each exercise started at a 10 count and reduced by 1 repetition for each completed loop.  Most PAX were able to complete 5-6 loops before Q called time and headed back toward the flag.  On the way to the flag, Q stopped at the back of the school for some additional exercises.  Partner#1 held “Balls to the Wall” while partner #2 did a 10 count IC of an exercise; partners switched places and repeat.  Exercises were mountain climbers, shoulder taps, Merkins, and American Hammers   PAX regrouped into an Indian Runs back to the flag for Mary.

Mary: All exercised done in cadence: Pickle Pounders x20; Homer to Marge: 10 regular, 10 right leg up, 10 left leg up; HAVE A NICE DAY!

Announcements: None

T-Claps (Recognition): All the PAX posting, bringing out new and old faces

Prayer: Countdown’s father’s death anniversary, India, Laettner’s lab work