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Snatch is a favorite

A little uncertainty heading into the workout with the health of the Q’s shoulder. No injury, just sore after jabbing a needle into it. Apparently there was some interest in Yoga, but no one spoke up so we relocated some weight.

FNGs: None
Warm Up: Sir Fazio Arm Circles, Good mornings, SSH, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies
The Workout: Consisted of building on previous exercises and creating a flow.
Tabata style: 45 on, 15 off for 9 minutes, alternating the exercise every minute.. 3 sets of 9 minute workout
Set 1: Clean, Kettlebell Swing, Merkins
Set 2: Clean & Press, Snatch, Jump Squats
Set 3: Clean & Press & Lunge, Snatch & Squat, Burpees
Mary: Stretching and finish with have a nice day
Announcements: Long Ass Run, Bacon doing Goggins Challenge, Update to Freed to Lead (What’s your story)
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer: Docs Daughter, Norm’s daughter and family, A client of Dahmer. YHC took us out

Are you a professional?

FNGs:

None today 🙁
Warm Up:

SSH while waiting on the late arrivals – x15 IC

Good morning x10 IC

Mosey to the track

Daisy picker x10 IC

Warm up lap

Grab some fence – leg swings 8x front to back and side to side

Tiger claws x10

The Workout:

Cruise Intervals (again – repeat of a few weeks back) courtesy of coach Jack Daniels. Target was 8×1,000m intervals at ~10k pace with 200m recovery. Pax were encouraged to start with a pace that was slightly slower than 10k pace and work it down over the 8 intervals.

This time YHC made sure the warm up didn’t drag on so we had 3 pax finish all 8 repeats (and one honorable mention for 7 + a deposit).

Mary:

Mosey back to the flag

Forward fold, leg stretches, butterfly demonstration courtesy of Full House

Announcements:

Long Ass Run on the American Tobacco Trail on March 27th. Trying to secure some 2nd F option(s) – worst case we’ll have coffee in a parking deck. 22, 15, 8, and out and back running options + a rucking option.

T-Claps (Recognition):

Lipstick and YHC (can you t-claps yourself?) for being on time this week

McNugget for getting out there despite injury restrictions – always good to see you bro

Skidmark and Cupid for getting after it while dealing with the side effects of the jab.

Red Chair for having our back as always.

Solid 2nd F today – always a highlight of my day.

Prayer:

COVID. Those being vaccinated.
Fumunga’s co-worker battling prostate cancer.

Always a priviledge to lead men. We’ll do this same workout one more time before Wrightsville – the hope is those training can see their improvement over time.

It came with a free shirt

1st Q of the free shirt challenge.
EC: Mookie for 2 miles, Skidmark for 3.

FNGs: None
Warm Up: Some imperial walkers, hillbillies, arm circles, SSH
The Workout: Mosey to the rock pile to select a rock. Leave the rock at the rock pile and mosey to the playset for 5-10 good pullups. Mosey back to the shelter and partner up. Partner 1 will run to the rock pile and do set 1 of Jack Webbs (1 merkin, 3 Shoulder press with rock). While Partner 1 is running and Jack Webbing Partner 2 is doing a glute exercise. Then switch. Worked all the way to 10 merkins-30 Shoulder press. Glute exercises performed: Single leg deadlift, Reverse lunge, Split squat, Homer to marge, regular squat, stepups.
Mosey back to the playset for two rounds of pullups.
Mary: 6 minutes of plank hold with various exercises. We reviewed the 5 core principals and the F3 mission while in plank.
Announcements: Long Ass Run March 27
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer: Friend of Roger Roger, YHC took us out.

Easy stuff

Sitting in a Chili’s parking lot in Lynchburg, VA listening to Dust on the Bottle by David Lee Murphy typing a backblast. Does it get better.

 

FNGs: None
Warm Up: No thanks, no time
The Workout: Mosey to the player.

Sort of a murph. Broken into 4’s. Do 25 pull-ups, 50 merkins, 75 squats, then run a loop around the soccer field. Repeat 4x

Mary: Destroy the abs. ME was too easy.
Announcements: Banana Seat going for 7 straight days of Q’s
T-Claps (Recognition): see above
Prayer: BS took up out.

Have you ever seen Brad Pitt and Nemo in the same place?

Nemo and new hairstyle graced us with their presence while continuing to recover from Uwharrie. Many comparisons were drawn to Brad Pitt and Johnny Depp. Looking good Nemo.

Couple late guys too. You know who you are.

FNGs: None
Warm Up: About 1 mile warmup. Leg swings front to back and side to side, Tiger claws, A-skips, B-skips
The Workout: Prefontaine for 3 miles. 200 m at 5k pace, 200m at 10s slower (1:20mm). 2 400m at short interval pace, 400 recover in between
Mary: Stretching and it felt good
Announcements:
T-Claps (Recognition): Good to see Fumunga
Prayer: Fumunga’s co-worker, Fumunga on upcoming fatherhood. Pikachu and M

BRR is only 29 R4TJs away

Lot’s of Fartsacks. Only 12 showed for a BRR training run. We have 4 teams and an average of 9 Pax per team I was expecting 36 pax.

Notable Fartsacks:
Bat Flipping Red
Shamwow — Is this two Fartsacks in a week
Full House — I’m assuming :face_vomiting::hankey: is a hard commit.

FNGs: Nope. Not one
Warm Up:

The drive over was a good opportunity to get warm and toasty.

The Workout:

Ran across 55 and to Milpass to crossway. Ran to the top of CrossWay and Creek Vista.

The pax had 30 minutes to get as many rounds in as possible of:

Run down Creek Vista.
Run Up Creek Vista.
Turn Left Run down Crossways
Turn around by the Cat thing jumping out into the road.
Run up Crossways
Turn right onto Creek Vista

I believe most pax got in around 5. Some Pax completed 6 rounds. It was a lot of fun

Mary:

Announcements:

I have the R4TJ Q once a month from now until BRR. We will be doing this run or something similar every time I Q R4TJ. If you don’t want to do it more than once a month sign up to Q R4TJ

T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer:

Sidiqu
Pumpkin Spice Friend Mike and his family

Did I Q Good? – Q School Re-Cap

8 PAX posted at Womble Park in the afternoon on a beautiful Sunday for our first SouthWake Q School in quite awhile. HIM’s offered great insight and input as we were in the business of equipping ourselves and others for leadership. In the end, all things covered tied back to the Mission, Creedo, and Core Principles of F3. Bottom line…we do what we do and how we do it for a reason. No one gets left behind, we pick up the six, and all men get stronger and accelerate together.

FNG’s: Not at something like this…but we covered the disclaimer and other good points of reference for FNG’s. Namely, the solid Q will assign another PAX to “keep eyes on FNG’s”.
Warm Up: SSH x 20, Good Mornings x 10, Standard Merkins x 10, Burpees x 5. Main point here was we do certain exercises in Cadence, slow cadence, single counts, and OYO for a reason. We don’t do fast windmills, we don’t do burpees in cadence.
The Workout: A quick mosey over the far end grassy field where we covered elements of routines or “Thangs” as some of us reference them. Safety, keeping PAX together and challenged were the main points here, with all PAX taking a turn to practice cadence counts, the “say” statements of…”exercise is”, “starting position”, MOVE (IC/on my…), “exercise.” It’s how it’s done! Did a series of 7’s with Mountain Climbers IC and Squats.

We did an Indian Run over to the rock pile, with a few points being shared by Skidmark about waiting until the indian is in line (rather than a weave) and also monitoring your PAX….again, we don’t leave people behind.

Did a small series of rock exercises both IC and single counts including: Curls for the Girls, Rut-Rows, Tricep Press, and Shoulder Press. Big idea on rocks…tell PAX to choose a challenging rock BUT…also let them know if you will be travelling with it.
Mary: Q has a big job when arriving at Mary to be sure all PAX are accounted for. We did LBC’s IC, LSF’s IC, WW1’s on the up.
Announcements: none
T-Claps (Recognition): Bobby Boucher, Wallaby, and McNugget, having done already their VQ’s plus some, seeking to accelerate and lead!
Prayer: Went over the format of COT, ending on time, prayer considerations. Bobby Boucher has an aunt with health issues. Martini with a big job audit situation at work. YHC took us out! On to a great time for 2nd F. My VQ at a Q School is now in the books, thanks for freeing me to lead!

Has it been 1-year already???

11 PAX showed at my 1-year anniversary right here at AGS.  Of course I took the Q and it meant a lot to me to have so many PAX show up on a freezing cold Sunday.  I mentioned in COT I would not have taken any offense to any one of these PAX not showing up today considering how much they’re posting and Q’ing during the week as it is.  This was the most PAX I’ve hosted at AGS since I took over as site-Q back in the fall.  **Mookie, Redenbacher, and Oboe all showed this morning and they were the original 3 PAX I met at AGS 1-year ago today…this meant a LOT to me guys.  There are so many PAX out there that have helped me get to where I’m at today physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually…rather than name all the individual names I just wanted to thank F3, particularly those infamous names out there that are significantly going above and beyond week in/week out.  You know exactly who you are.  THANK YOU ALL.

FNGs: none today

Warm Up:  mosey up and down the tennis court parking lot at Womble, 10x Windmills, 10x Daisy Pickers, 10x Imperial Walkers, 10x Hillbillies, 25x-30x Merkins (pretty much my standard warmup, particularly to stretch out the hamstrings)

The Workout: 6mi loop beginning at Womble with a R on Stinson, R on Bass Lake, L on Salem Ridge, L on Holly Springs, L on Raleigh, L on Grigsby, followed all the way to the backside of Womble Park, ran around Womble for a strong finish back to the tennis court parking lot

Mary: ran out of time unfortunately

Announcements: Sunday Q School 3pm

T-Claps (Recognition): my 1st F3 anniversary with many more to come, also the showing of Mookie, Oboe, and Redenbacher who were the original 3 PAX I met on my first F3 workout exactly 1yr ago to the day right here at AGS!

Prayer:  Pikachu’s M, all the unspoken, YHC felt led to take us out

Man I love some old-school NES

18-strong at U-Turn, including 2 FNG’s on a freezing 24 degree morning!  I’ve never had the Q where any FNG’s showed up and although I had the final say on their F3 names, I decided to allow a majority vote on 2 sets of names:  the first set was Biden Bucks and Mittens and the latter was Mario and Luigi.  While Biden Bucks and Mittens were great names suggested by Pikachu based on both FNG introductions to the group, I was sold immediately on Mario and Luigi when Dawgpound shouted it out.  Let it be known to all that 1st of all both FNG’s knew each other so in my mind their names HAD to be somehow paired together and 2nd of all both had moustaches (no other facial hair…just moustaches).  I grew up playing the original NES and I occasionally STILL play the original NES, but let me tell you as soon as Dawgpound suggested Mario and Luigi I took a look at both FNG’s and I totally saw Mario and Luigi….plus they were both FAST on the U-Turn route; it was like Mario Cart out there.  Welcome Mario and Luigi!

FNGs: Mario and Luigi (recruited by Emeril)

Warm Up: mosey around the parking lot followed by some Michael Phelps arms, 10x Fazio Arm Circles (fwd & rev) 10x Good Morning’s, 10x Daisy Pickers, 10x Imperial Walkers, 10x Hillbillies, 25x-30x Merkins

The Workout: U-Turn standard route (always important to list the running route the evening prior to the workout so anyone joining us late meet us out there (cough, cough, Cupid, cough cough)

Mary: ran out of time unfortunately

Announcements: Sunday Q school, Holly Springs 1/2 Marathon registration now under way, my 1yr anniversary on Sunday 2.21

T-Claps (Recognition): Emeril for bringing out 2 FNG’s, 18 PAX showing up in 24 degree weather

Prayer: strength for the family and friends of a co-worker of mine that was struck and killed by a vehicle while crossing a busy intersection Sunday night 2.14, prayers for Pikachu’s M, all the unspoken.  YHC felt led to take us out today.  It was such a honor to lead a group of PAX this big (definitely one of my bigger ones) and name a couple of FNG’s that literally hit the ground running on their first day of F3.

Safety First

9 PAX for some miles at R4TJ.

FNGs: Nope
Warm Up:Nope
The Workout

Stayed on the same side of 55 for some hilly miles. Cemetery Hill, Elm Street, and Library Hill were enjoyed by all.

Mary:
Announcements:
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer: