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Poles at Kenny’s Grave

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FNGs: @Kimura

PAX: @Gamecock, @Finkle, @Slots
Warm Up: SSH, Daisy Pickers, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies,
The Workout: On the large softball field we did an exercise at each pole and stacked the exercises from the previous poles.  We moved from pole to pole by bear crawl, lunge walk, or sprint.  It was amazing just how far apart those stupid poles were.  Especially with the bear crawls!
Mary: ABCs, Outlaws, LBCs, E2Ks
Announcements: none
T-Claps (Recognition): none
Prayer: can’t remember

Dry’ish Day at The Nest

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PAX:  Norm, Fumunga, Yosemite, 16-bit, Marky Mark, Gamecock, Slots, Martini

FNGs:  Not today

Warm Up:  Quick lap around the parking lot and then circled up for the following:  Good Mornings x 10, Windmills x 10, Daisy Picker x 10, Imperial Walkers x 10, Hillbillies x 10

The Workout:  Shelter Workout.  PAX in pairs completed the following exercises:

Round 1 – 100 erkins, 200 LBC, 300 squats.  PAX one did 10-20 reps while PAX 2 held plank, squat, balls to the wall, or people’s chair.  Back an forth until all exercises complete.

Round 2 – 100 dips, 200 imperial walkers, 300 step-ups.

Great job picking up the six and sharing the pain.  Plenty of mumble chatter to go around.

Mary:  Handled during the workout

Announcements:  New AO officially launched this morning

T-Claps (Recognition):  Yosemite for taking us out.  All those who picked up the six.

Prayer:  Fumunga’s coworker who’s son is battling cancer.  Fumunga’s personal prayer request.  Yosef’s son’s broken leg.  Our military in general and specifically the issues surrounding military suicide (thoughts and actions).

Bears, Snakes, and Dragons all in a wheelbarrow

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In light of my B-day being tomorrow, I figured that 30 would be a solid number to revolve around.

EC: Dovetail, Norm, Martini, Yosemite

Warm Up: Mosied around the parking lot with butt-kickers and Frankensteins included.  Circled up for SSHx 30 IC, High Knees x 15 IC, Daisy Pickers x 15 IC, Windmills x 15 IC, Thrusters x 10, Annie’s x 10 IC(each hand).

The Workout: PAX lined up in a plank position and then, one by one, bear crawled past the next person in a crisscrossing fashion(Official name is Bear-Snaking). This continued until we made our way to the main road across from the school. From there we partnered up and wheelbarrow merkined up both flights of stairs in front of the school, the number of merkins increasing for each step. After some insight(hidden in a question) from one of the PAX we modified the number of merkins on the second flight. At the top, we did prisoner squats X 30 then bear crawled back down the steps to rinse and repeat with squats X 50 next round.

From there we mosied back over to the heart of The Nest for some Welsh Dragons(up to 10) in some pretty wet grass. After finishing the dragons, we lunge walked back to where we began. Mosied over to a wall for 30 Australian MC’s.

Mary: American Hammers X 15 IC, WW1’s( the right way) X 20, reverse LBC’s X 15 IC, Homer to Marge’s X 15 IC, X & O’s X 15. Dovetail took us out with some solid stretches.
Announcements: 16-Bit’s Super Bowl block, Q-Sheet reminder/Virgin-Q encouragement
Prayer: Martini’s job-related situation/and foot pain

What is this, a glow run?

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Whether it’s training or Shield-Lock, or the combination of both, there was a strong showing of 34 PAX for U-Turn. After warming up, the group disbanded into a large bobbing body of neon light. A thought come to me, ‘What is this, a glow run’?…. A pretty cool sight!

Warm Up: Mosied around parking lot, side shuffling between lots,  then circled up for SSH 30x IC, mountain climbers 15x IC, Daisy pickers 15x IC, right over left and contra leg stretches, inner thigh stretches(some called it groin stretches).

The Workout: 3 mile, 5 mile, and multiple PAX with more mile routes. Picking up the six and good convos.
Mary: Nowhere to be found
Announcements: Nope
T-Claps (Recognition): Martini for pushing hard with EC and long route ME. To everyone picking up the six.
Prayer: Fumunga prayer request for a friend.

Birthday Q at The Nest

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Warm Up: Started the day with a mosey around the parking lot and some line agility work, then circled up for for some side straddle hops, arm stretches (with a warning that they’d need them today), good mornings, and daisy pickers. Then told everyone to partner off for the first main event.
The Workout: I kicked it off with Dora the Explorer. We’d start by needing 100 total reps(L+R=1) from each set of partners of Australian mountain climbers.  One Pax began the reps, while the other ran half a lap around the parking lot, then rotated as needed until all of the six are done. Then it was time to go exploring, we needed to find the sets of 200. It happened to be across the street next to a ramp with handrails. We needed 200 reps of split lunges and the partner would rail walk up  both sets of handrails, then rotate as needed until all of the six were done. Everyone got their 200 and we set off again to find the sets of 300. We found them back in the initial parking lot and were serenaded to the Dora theme song on the mosey there. The sets of 300 were shoulder taps in plank while the partner did the line agility work that we’d started with this morning, then rotate until all of the six were done. Dora was toast but we still had time for more! Line up for main event number 2 – animal 11s.

1 monkey humper in cadence, bear crawl 2 spaces then 10 merkins on my down. Duck walk back followed by 2 monkey humpers in cadence, bear crawl 2 spaces, and 9 merkins on my down. Rinse and repeat totaling 11 each time until the final set of 10 monkey humpers in cadence and 1 merkin on my down

Mary: Mary was sounding good but I mentioned she looked like a couple of avengers to me. Circled up and on your 6 for 10 rounds of Captain Thor’s! Those begin with 1 sit-up and 1 American hammer in cadence. Add 1 rep each time until we reached 10 sit-ups followed by 10 American hammers in cadence. I believe all Pax were sufficiently smoked and one mentioned those felt like Captain America punched Thor in the face! Time for have a nice day and Dovetail took us out with several stretches.
Announcements: There is already an Ice Man in South Wake, so Yetis 2.0 is now named Jester after another pilot in Top Gun.
T-Claps (Recognition): Several EC posts this morning
Prayer: Travel, illness, wildfires, and our troops. I took us out and am thankful for the opportunity to lead

Throwback 5 – Day 5 – Riding the Murphy-Go-Round at Cletus

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46 PAX IN THE GLOOM!  Way to end the week HIM!

EC: Norm, ShamWow!, Martini, DawgPound, Skidmark, Maybelline, Redenbacher, Pablo, Buford, Cowboy, Mr. Terrific

FNGs: NOPE

Warm Up:  YHC felt a little odd Qing the final Throwback of the week.  I wasnt here when these fine AOs were established.  I needed some star power…  I needed CrabLegs!!!

No, not those delicious buttery delicacies… This HIM!

I reached out and luckily enough he was available. CrabLegs was wrapping up some vacation in New England and he made the push to get back and join in on the fun.  Crablegs put the PAX through their paces in the warm-up.

  • SSH
  • Runners Pose
  • Pigeon Pose
  • Overhead Stretches
  • Daisy Pickers
  • Good Mornings

The Workout:

41 PAX were present when we started the workout with an initial count-off.  YHC watched as a few men filed in at various moments but was unable to get the count.  This called for 6 Burpees OYO!

PAX had counted off 1,2,3,4 and broke into 4 groups.  We were headed to the Murphy-Go-Round.  Most Murphs would last about an hour and we would have enough room for everyone to grab some pull-up bars.   We didn’t have that today and with 41 (later 46 PAX) there were some logistical challenges.  YHC had his heart* set on some sort of Murph-like event today so a contingency plan was in place to make it happen.

*One of my earliest memories of attending Cletus was when a Murph was announced instead of the normal workout.  As a new PAX at the time, I was intimidated and I remember being pretty shattered the day after.  It was brutal and humbling and oddly it now made me feel nostalgic and happy…  this F3 really changes a guy.

The Actual Workout…  Finally…

We mozy’d to the railing on the greenway between the pond and the baseball fields.  The railing would serve as our pull-up bars, strike that Inverted Row bars.  Group 2 was dropped here and told to get started AMRAP until they were relieved by Group 1.

We mozy’d to the parking lot beyond the baseball diamonds.  As we entered the lot, we dropped off Group 3.  There job was to do AMRAP Merkins until they were relieved by Group 2.

We mozy’d down the lot to give some space and dropped off Group 4 off.  AMRAP Squats until relieved by Group 3.

From there, Group 1 set off on a Run around the Baseball diamonds until they got to Group 2.

The Murphy-Go-Round was set in motion and continued until time was called.

Mary:

Back to the tennis courts…

  • 6 inch leg holds
  • Boxcutters
  • Superman Ws and Ts
  • LBCs

Announcements:  Check Slack because my memory don’t work so good…  here is a round-up

  • Paradise City starts at 5:30 from now on
  • U-Turn launches from Panera from now on
  • Support a local Eagle Scout and the food pantry.  Donations happening now, building out a greenhouse later
  • Dumbo has setup a FREE CPR class at Hope next week – sign-up and show-up, you could save a life
  • Dad’s Workout 1/4 @9am Womble

T-Claps (Recognition):  To the OGs that set South Wake in motion.  Great representation this week from some of the earliest PAX including Howard.  Amazing leadership and great whetstones to reference as we push forward with the 2020 vision.

Prayer:  Those PAX that are working on physical and mental battles among us.  For our service members that keep us safe and guarantee our freedoms.  CrabLegs took us out.

Throwback Day One – Baby Come Back

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Day 1 of our Throwback week. I had the honor of leading 25 PAX from Holly Springs and the Quay in bringing back and taking care of Baby.

FNGs: None
Warm Up: SSH, Fazio Arm Circles, Windmills
The Workout: Our goal was to not drop Baby (the football) throughout the workout. If she is dropped, a 3 Burpee discipline

  1. Combo exercises included: step-ups and irkins, wide merkins and plank jacks, rinse, repeat
  2. Quarterback / receiver drills while other PAX were in line doing planks, squats, high knees
  3. Two Rock Shakur: Colt 45s and Tricep Extensions
  4. Split in to two groups. Bear Crawl around circle drive holding Baby from the inside and passing to the next PAX to reach the outside circle
  5. Mosey to playground: Split in to 4 groups for pull up, swing planks, and a game of Hot Potato
  6. Two Rock Shakur repeat

Mary: Around the Horn starting with those who have been in F3 the longest down to two years…and a few Respects
Announcements: Throwback week. Hope to see everyone at the next workout at Kenny’s Grave. Shield Lock starts Jan 1.
T-Claps (Recognition): Those PAX that have stuck with F3 for multiple years!
Prayer: H1N1 sports hernia, Quiver’s wife uncle with cancer

2nd F at Starbucks!

 

Figgy Pudding

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Apologies for the super-lateness of this post. Family in town, yada yada, no excuse, I’m sorry! 4 HIMs out for YHC’s first post-Christmas AO. Great time, great weather.

Warm Up:

Kidney massage, torso twists, side-straddle hops

Blackjack with Squats and Imperial Walkers (mixed in with hillbillies and LBCs).

The Workout:

15 reps each, then 12 each (original plan was 18-15-12-9-6-3, but not enough time):

  1. Catalina winemakers
  2. Cheerleaders
  3. Box jump burpees
  4. Dips
  5. Lt. Dans

Combatives:

MACH techniques

Mary:

Incorporated into the thang.

Announcements:

Throwback week next week

Frozen Cheer

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Coldest morning yet for Sheepdog, but the biggest group in a while. Norm is back from training, so thankful to have him back safely. Co-Q today with Shredder leading the Warm-up and Mary, Dovetail leading the Thang and Combatives.

Warm Up:
SSH, squats, SSH, squat with leg lifts, fazzio arm circles, hillbillies, imperial walkers.
Indian run with dumbbell

The Workout:

Tabata Torture
9 stations, each one does 2 minutes of Tabata (20 sec work, 10 sec rest)
1. Hand raise push-ups
2. Kettlebell Turkish get-ups
3. Hammer curls
4. Overhead press
5. Tricep extensions
6. Dumbbell thrusters
7. Plank jacks
8. Two-handed curl
9. Burpee box jump-overs

Combatives:
M.A.C.H techniques (mechanical advantage control hold) 1 & 2: dosey-do, bicep grab, ridge hand across chin, to elbow drop and shoulder pivot.

Mary:
Low slow flutter
Box cutters
LBCs
Break dancers

Announcements:
Celebrate Recovery: if you have a hurt, hangup, or habit that you want relief from, or if life just doesn’t seem perfect, this program can benefit anyone. Contact Dovetail (Jess Hines) for details.

Prayer:
Sargeant Pepper (heart attack at AO yesterday, recovering in hospital), praise for the dad of Mr. terrific’s coworker who is doing better, general prayers for marriages.

Monday mutiny

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FNGs:none
Warm Up:SSH, imperial walkers, SSH, hillbillies, SSH, mountain climbers, leg stretch he’s, arm stretches, fazio arm circles
The Workout:Fedex led 4 pax while 4 stayed at red October. 10- hot potato IC, 10-around the body IC, 10-Figure 8 IC, 10 Swings, 10-triceps IC, 20 -presses, 10- standing be rows and 10- bent over rows. 10- tricep rows. 10-go let squats, 10- each side suitcase deadlifts, 10- each leg single leg deadlifts, 10-squat curls IC. 10-sit-up press, 10- merkin/squat /curl combos, 10 American hammers, 10 side bends.  Rinse and repeat
Mary: derkins, irkins , LSF, LBCs, homer to marge, pickle pounders
Announcements: shield lock, throw back week next week. Possum trot closed Christmas unless a volunteer to q. Oak wood 24 donations and auction
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer: injured pax, Fumunga, unspoken.