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Sally start to finish

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8 PAX out for a moist 65 degree gloomy morning. Couple of missed HC’s but still a couple new faces. We started with a Sally song and ended with a Sally song.

Mosey down to circle for warm up while listening to Long Tall Sally
GM
Air squared
Imperial squat walkers
Mtn climbers
Merkins

Track – Indian run w/ exercises every 200M
1. Ranger Merkin toe tap – go down for a push up then come up and touch opposite foot x10 IC
2. Deep Squats x20
3. Merkin and up like a burpee but keep hands down and the back out x10 IC
4. Shoulder taps x20
2 laps

Ramp
Crawl bear up ramp
At top grab some short wall
Irkins, box jumps, dirkens x15 each
Mosey to stairs
Calf raises on each step x5 (16 sets)
Grab tall wall
Wall sits 10 count each PAX
BTTW 10 ct each

Mosey to bball court
Broad jump burpee across bball court
10x Turkish getups
Broad jump burpee back
Indian run back to flag

Mary
Sally (Moby)
Side dips
Stretching

HIIT circuit at Prison Yard

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7 PAX showed up to the Yard for a circuit beatdown.

Quick warm up
SSH
Arm circles
Imperial squat walkers

Groups of 2
3 stations – 2:15 on 0:45 off, 4 rds at each
Total time at each station then rotate is 12 mins

1. Ladder burpee increase – 1 burpee, ladder, 2 burpees, ladder, 3, L, 4, L, 5 (change ladder movement each rd)
2. 150 single under jump rope, 30 merkins
3. TRX bands and a kB – 4 exercises (curls, tris, deep squats, knee tucks)

No time for Mary

Pigskin Practice

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6 HIM showed up for some chilly football practice. 19 degrees but it’s a Monday so let’s get the week started.

Lap around clubworx gym
Warm up
GM
SSH
Windmills
Chilly jacks

Pass the peel – Indian run around track with football toss overhead. When it gets to the back, run to front and start over. If someone drops the ball, 1 Turkish getup. 2 laps total. Combine drops for burpees. We had 6 total.

Football drills in lower field
Left/right while chopping. Up/downs on hit.
Ladder shuffle drills 6 times through

Grab a rock
Partner up, similar speed
Devin Hesters – one person takes off sprinting with the rock, P2 does 1 burpee then try’s to catch them. Switch, R&R twice

Tables – dips, irkins, box jumps
reps of 15, 12, 10

Mary on tennis court – popcorn style

Hairy bags and flopping bittys

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FNGs: None

Warm Up: SSH,GM’s, Frankenstein, Daisy Pickers, Micheal Phelps

The Workout:

Round 1:60/80lbs sandbags (clean and press) stacked sets, 25lbs KB (single leg deadlift) Weighted 50lb SB drag/pull, 80lbs sandball (clean and bench press), Big Tire flip, Timer was tire carry. 

Round 2. 60/80lbs same, 25lb kettle bell same, Bear Crawl drag with 50lbs SB, Big Tire flip, 80lbs SB layflat put on chest and stand to feet. Tire carry was timer. 

Round 3. 60/80lbs Stacked Squats, Med ball press, Big Tire Jumps, Tire timers, Bear Crawl drag with 50lbs.  Pain Stick OH heel taps,

 Mary: It was horrible and hard. 

Announcements:  Sheepdog parking to change. Sign up to Q. 

T-Claps (Recognition): Prayer: H1N1 Son (knee/transmission), B.S. healthy, Rubic’s M. 

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Giving 110% for Kenny

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FNGs: none

Warm Up: SSH, hillbillies, imperial walkers, Daisy pickers, sir fazio arm circles, seal claps, overhead claps, Willie Mays Hayes

The Workout: Thing 1: Four Corners
different exercises at each corner
– merkins
– squats
– mountain climbers
– WWIIs
Idea was to do 10 count first round, then 20, then 30 and then step it back down. Finkle suggested we do two rounds of 20 so we could get an even 100, and YHC was happy to oblige. Then Banana Seat said that we give 110%, so YHC had the idea to take on one more round of 10 counts for a solid 110!

Thing 2: People’s Chair, 10 count down the line / dips 20 count. Repeated for a total of 2 rounds.

Mary: popcorn Mary

Prayer: Finkle’s brother-in-law, Rico looking for housing

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Shelter Tabataaaaa

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FNGs: none

Warm Up: warm-o-rama

The Workout: Tabata with 5 rounds, 5 sets, 30s on 10s rest. Brought some classic rock to bring the energy!

1) walkout, reverse lunge

2) irkins, pulse squat jumps

3) dips, side straddle hop

4) balls to the wall, step ups

5) burpees, wall sit

Mary: light stretching

Announcements: none

T-Claps (Recognition): those for EC and PC

Prayer: Rico’s housing search, Gamecocks company layoffs 

Passing the Baton

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Probably close to two years ago Fonzie and I took over as site Q’s at Possum Trot.  As one of our favorite AOs it was fun to keep it running, Qing as much as we could, and making sure things went smoothly.  Over time, and with injury, we lapsed in our duty.  It became evident that new leadership was needed so we reached out to local PAX to find potential candidates.  After a lot of searching two stepped forward, almost at the same time.  Both Stovepipe and Rubiks wanted to help lead South Wake’s original AO and felt up to the task.  YHC picked up the Q for the day and asked the two of them to be there for the official hand off.  All in all, 11 other men joined the three of us for a beatdown and the official handoff of the site.  

FNGs: None

Warm Up:

SSH x27 IC (that was the temperature when I looked when I woke up)

Windmills x10 IC

Daisy Pickers x10 IC

Imperial Walkers x10 IC

Hillbillies x10 IC

Sir Fazio Arm circles x10 IC forward and reverse

The Workout:

We started at the back corner, by the rock pile, to begin a four corners workout.  Each corner would be some sort of leg or ab workout with the exception of the first because I finally feel like I can lift a (small) rock.  

Curls for the girls x10 IC

Tris for the guys x10 IC

Rut Rows x10 IC

Chest press x10 IC

We then did a backwards mosey to the next corner, by where the parking lot met the road.  

No Surrender x10 IC

Bobby Hurley x10 IC

Star Jumps x10 IC

We then proceeded to the next corner, on the other side of the tennis courts.  We made our way there via Walk like an Egyptian.  This is a lunge walk Indian Run where everyone steps in to a lunge while the guy at the back lunge walks to the front of the line.  Once they get there everyone steps in to a lunge with the other leg while the next guy goes.  This got a little unruly at times and, honestly, took way longer than I thought but all the complaining really fed my soul.  

The next corner was abs.  We did an LBC cycle

LBC x10 IC

Reverse LBC x10 IC

Side LBC x10 IC each side.  

We did a rinse and repeat and then did a slow mosey to the next corner for some squat rounds

Squats x10 IC

Wide squat x10 IC

Feet together squat x10 IC

Two rounds of that as well and then it was a duck walk back to the rocks to do another round of what we had done before. After that we returned our rocks and went to the tennis courts.  We started with a set of calf raises.  After that, there was a lot of mumble chatter which made YCH feel like he hadn’t worked everyone hard enough so we went in to a round of suicides across the width of of the court.

Mary:

American Hammers x16 IC

Sleeping Hillbillies x10 IC each side

Box cutters x16 IC

Announcements: 

Prayer outreach with Rubiks down town Raleigh at 7:00pm

Prayer:

Bleeder recovering from surgery

 

Always an honor to lead and it has been an absolute privilege  to have led this AO.  I look forward to what new leadership will do.  

 

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Upper Body Day at THE YARD

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Warm Up:  Standard stuff, SSH and the like, but knowing today would be upper body-heavy, I threw in some Sir Fazios and Slo-Mo Merkins to get that whole area ready to go

The Workout:  This is a lazy copy & paste of routine I’ve done before, with the purpose of eschewing a well rounded full body workout for a more targeted beat down of one particular area.  The thang was this:

A warmup of 7’s on the parking lot hill, consisting of LBCs and Squats.  Then the main event was 3 stations, positioned around the community center building:  Merkins, Dips, Carolina Dry Docks.  We hit a set of one, mosey about 1/3 of the way around the building, repeato, repeato repeato. 

Because the mosey was so short and didn’t give us much time to recover between sets, I threw in a few rounds of People’s Chair after 2 or three rounds.  The only other variation was on the Merkins – one set was Diamonds, one set was wide-grip, and the final set was a Merkin Sampler – 4 reps of each. 

Mary: Side hips raises, heel taps maybe, …something difficult FRAM made us do, and probably one more, I dunno.  

T-Claps (Recognition):   The pre-workout message was a reminder of GRATITUDE.  Keeping our mindset off “I HAVE to workout”, and keeping it on “I GET TO/AM ABLE to work out”.  Celebrate physical abilities of our bodies and be grateful for every opportunity to use them as they are intended.

Prayer:  Nemo driving to Ohio with his son for a big time swim competition