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Thankful for Burpees?

FNGs: none
Warm Up: Jog around the soccer field. Getting back to start, 1 PAX was late parking his brand new shiny pickup, so 5 burpees OYO were called. Then we got to SSH x20, Wind Mill x10, Bat Wings (Fozio arm circles forwards and backwards, seal claps and overhead claps all x20)
The Workout: Thing 1: 7 of diamonds (an exercise at each of the four corners of the baseball field, each round increasing by 7). The gates between the fields were locked, so we ended up running a bit further than planned. Ended up getting a little over 2 miles total. Rounds went like this:
Round 1: 7 burpees (total of 28 burpees all around)
Round 2: 14 WWIIs (56 total)
Round 3: 21 squats IC (84 total, half were standard and half were narrow)
PAX did a good job picking up the six along the way. Time was running out, so it was back to the parking lot for a bit of Thing 2.
Thing 2: Ascending Curb Crawls: PAX started on one side and bear crawled to the other, where they performed 1 derkin. Bear crawl back, 2 derkins. Repeat two more times with 3 derkins and 4 derkins respectively. Mosey the short distance back to start.
Mary: Not necessarily a Mary exercise, but we did 20 more Fozio arm circles (forward and backward), which felt great after bear crawls. 20 American Hammers finished things up.
Announcements: Frosty CSAUP 12/5, Beer Ruck 12/12, F3 Christmas Party 12/17
T-Claps (Recognition): Everyone for picking up the six.
Prayer: Quiver and his family, Quiver’s friend and his wife, 187 and fanny pack and their families, Flo Joe and his family traveling.
Moleskin: PAX were asked to think of something that they are thankful for on this day of Thanks. Family, faith and the brotherhood of F3 were all mentioned. This year has been a particularly difficult year, one that has probably affected everyone in one way or another. Even in the gloomiest of times, it’s important to take time and reflect on the things that we can still be thankful for. Keep your head up.

Need Help Getting It Up There?

A cold morning on the yard featuring various coupons from YHC and the PAX. YHC identified one coupon in particular that PAX may need assistance of teamwork. Directions were, Help each other get it up if needed.” Many comments followed as expected. A great day on the Yard!

FNG’s: no
Warm Up: Mosey to the back of clubhouse where 5 cones were placed. All PAX do SSH AMRAP while each Pax goes to each cone for a burpee and continues the run to the end and finish with SSH. Next round Repeato back down the cones stopping at each cone for a squat jump. PAX at ends would do Arm Circles. Repeato once more and PAX at ends would do Hillbillies. Finished with 25 IC Mountain Climbers.
The Workout: Workout was a 1:15 Tabata with 15 second rest at each station. Stations were: heavy bag drag, Tire Flip with tire merkin, dumbbell thrusters, kettlebell deadlift,  kettlebell halos, bench press with the 75 lb. piece of railroad ( I provided the heavy bag bench today… luxury item on the Yard), kettlebell Swings, and Bag O Wrenches Curl. PAX got through about 3 rotations of each.
Mary: Back to the cones. 25 LSF IC, bear crawl to next cone, 15 WW1’s, bear crawl to next cone, 25 Dying Cockroach, bear crawl to next cone, 15 LBC IC.
Announcements: CSAUP Ruck style on Dec.  5th, CSAUP Beer Style on Dec. 12th.
T-Claps (Recognition): The Pax for helping YHC get the gear back to the car.
Prayer: My M Courtney, surgery on Dec. 20th. Sprinkler co-worker and his loss of his mother. YHC took us out.

Awesome Sauce at the Trot with Co-Qs

FNGs: None
Warm Up:  Run around tennis courts and headed to snack shack.  25 SSH, remaining exercises 10cc including sir fazio, good am, seal claps, overhead claps. bent over claps, daisy pickers
The Workout:  moxies to small hill for sevens (Star jumps at bottom, LBCs at top) – always good to feel the dew in 30’s deg weather; mosey to snack shack for 3 sets of 7 count BTTW and 7 count people’s chair counted by all PAX; mosey to wall for leg-ups (10 each leg) OYO.  Mosey to drive and commenced some gate openers, lunges, and karaoke up the hill.  Mosey to rock pile.  YHC said medium but I inadvertently grabbed a rather large rock.  No sharing.  Executed the following 10 count or 10cc exercises:  rut rows, curls, tricep curls, ground pounders, plank taps/slaps, toe taps, from our 6, WW IIs, chest press…returned rocks.  Handed over Q reigns for more awesome sauce to be delivered up by Sprinkler as YHC had to get to an early appointment.  Thank you Sprinkler for stepping in…
Mary:  Go back to the tennis courts. At each white line, 5 merkins (total 30); bear crawl in between lines; 5 squats (total 30) with lunge walk in between.  Same with burpees and last line movement – added plank jacks.  Popcorn exercises.
Announcements:  Rucks coming up (see Socials); F3 Christmas party with BBQ contest (let’s represent FV PAX)
T-Claps (Recognition):  Sprinkler for helping with Q
Prayer:  187 and Fanny pack’s wife.  Those with no family at holidays and no food.  Folks traveling for the holidays.  Sprinkler took the PAX out.

Honored to lead.  – Dauber

 

Foggy morning

FNGs:None
Warm Up:3 pax for EC Breach, Norm, LED

1/4 mile jog, ssh, fazio arm circles, windmills, hillbilly’s, frankensteins.
The Workout: 5 pax’s made way to tennis court and did 7s diamond. Bear crawl to corner 7 merkins, shuffle to corner, 14 7 each leg alternating squats,  bear crawl to corner, 21 prison squats. Shuffle to corner 28 calf raises IC.  Reveres order doing 28 shoulder taps in cadence, 21 merkins (7 of each diamond, wide and regular), 14 star jumps, 7 hand release burpees.
Jog to rocks and did 20 curls for girls IC, 20 triceps, 20 overhead press, 20 ground pounders, back did 20 chest press 20 skull crushers, 20 chest press, 20 skull crushers.
Jog to wall and did 10 sets of 1×4 jack webbs. Balls to wall and wall sit.
Mary: 20 LSF, 20 big boy sit-ups, 20 x and is, 20 hello dolly, 20 American hammers
Announcements:Frosty dec 5th, ultimate December 6th
T-Claps (Recognition):pax for helping mamas house spread gravel
Prayer: my in laws and covid, Paxs wife’s and surgeries

Kick in the Face at KungPOW

FNGs: None
Warm Up: Things happened in the darkness.
The Workout: Apparently, I learned that what happens at KungPOW, stays at KungPOW. We don’t talk about KungPOW! There were coupons, rocks, Merkin Suicides, and a long fire hose Indian Run. The rest… well, you’ll have to talk to one of the fine gentlemen in attendance that day. We did leave a lot of footsteps in the frost at the church.

Mary: We reviewed the Mission and Core Principles of F3.
Announcements: CSAUP ruck style on Dec. 5th. CSAUP beer style with toys for tots on Dec. 12th. Oak wood 24 to benefit healing transitions in December.
T-Claps (Recognition): The great fellasof Westcott for welcoming YHC to their hood! Tetanus for pushing hard back into the gloom.
Prayer: YHC’s M, POTS cousin and family, unspoken. YHC took us out. Honored to be here.

What’s the count?

Man was it cold this morning.  I wore two pairs of gloves and still had issues with my hands (go look up Raynaud’s Syndrome).  I guess holding on to cold rocks and holding them above your head doesn’t help.  It also doesn’t help when you can’t keep count on your own and your fellow PAX are either intentionally or unintentionally messing with the count.  Thanks guys!

FNGs:

Not today.  There’s been a slew of them recently and maybe I’ll get to break one in soon.

Warm Up:

SSH x20 IC

Good Morning x10 IC

Windmill x10 IC

Sir Fazio Arm Circles x10 IC Forward and Reverse

Frankenstein’s x10 IC

The Workout:

We moseyed down to the end of the parking lot and partnered up to do Partner Plank Hops.  P1 got down and started doing shoulder taps while P2 side hopped over P1’s legs for a 10 count and then switched.  We did two rounds of this and then headed to the rock pile.

Everyone grabbed a travel sized rock and met at the corner for instructions.  We would be doing an extended 7 of Diamonds today with our rocks.  We’d start by doing 7x triceps extensions at each corner and John Cusack’d to the other corners to do more of the same.  Next was 14x Curls for the Girls with a jog between corners.  We alternated John Cusack and jogging moving forward between exercises.  We went all the way up to 28 then then worked back down the ladder.  The full list was:

7x Triceps extensions

14x Curls for the Girls

21x Rut Rows

28x Goblet Squats

21x Trunk twists

14x Ground Pounders

7x Bus Drivers

We actually ran out of time before we could complete the full round so we skipped out on the bus drivers.

Mary:

LBC Circuit x10 each (regular, reverse, left, right)

Announcements:

Frosty CSAUP December 5th.  Ruck style event exploring Fuquay and most of its AOs.

T-Claps (Recognition):

Sprinkler’s daughter actually had a varsity volleyball game yesterday.  Parents weren’t allowed so he had to watch it from his house and his neighbors surprised them by brining over food to help celebrate.  It was a bit of a return to normalcy for them which is nice and is needed, I think, for all of us.

Prayer:

Prayers for 187 and Fanny Pack’s Ms.  You men let us know if there is anything we can do for you or your families.

 

Thanks for joining me this cold morning men.  We warmed up pretty quickly once we started going.  I had fun, hope you did too.

 

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Prison Yard 11/17

3 Pax members fought off the fartsack and got out in the yard for some exercise

Sprinkler, Fram and the Warden Breach

Warm Up: A quick mosey around the parking lot followed by 22 counts of SSH, Imperial walkers/Hillbilles, Good Mornings, Seal Claps, and Overhead claps.

The Workout: Tabata styles workout with 7 stations, 2mins of work followed by 15-sec rest to rotate. 2 Rounds.

Station 1 Jump rope

Station 2 Med ball- Round 1 Squat and Throw, Round 2 Slams

Station 3 Sandbag- Round 1 RDL, Round 2 Deadlift to Clean

Station 4 Kettlebell- Round1 Swings, Round2 Figure 8s

Station 5 Pain Stick- Round 1 Overhead Press, Round 2 Trunk Twist

Station 6 Battle Rope- Round1 double-arm waves, Round 2 Figure 8s

Station 7 Ab Roller..well its an ab roller

Announcements: Breach has the Ted Style talk tonight 20:00 (8:00p) Mamas house is still in need of food/money to meet the thanksgiving needs in the community

Prayer: For Frams family as they continue to deal with homeschooling, LED’s in-laws have covid pray for a safe recovery, Pray for stability for Sprinkler’s daughter as she battles missing her Senior year of high school. First responders and the Military for helping to protect our way of life.

Q less

FNGs:None
Warm Up: SSH, good mornings, wind mills, fazio arm circles back and forward, overhead claps, seal claps, 10 merkins.
The Workout: pax’s split into 6 for mutiny and 3 at Red October. While mutiny did a popcorn Q Pots, Gump and I knocked out some upper body exercises with bell

30 curls, 15 each side lawn mower pulls, 30 rows, 15 each side press, 30 squats, 10 normal 10 diamond and 10 wide merkins, 30 triceps, 30 press.  Exercises were repeated at 20 per exercise.
Mary:the pax’s met up for Mary and each chose exercise as we went around circle. 20 LSF, 10 each side v ups, homer to marge, 5 burpees, heal taps, 10 x and o’s, 10 ex icon homer to marge 6in to 90 degree leg raises
Announcements: dec 5 breach is working on a rucking  surprise. Dec 12th frosty csaup. Mamas house still needs door to feed families for thanksgiving. Can donate cash on line as well
T-Claps (Recognition): Banana seat for taking the Q while in town for a day
Prayer: Frams co worker, safe travels, families and marriages during this time, 187 wife. Be thankful for what we have and don’t take for granted.

Co-Q

Warm Up: Started with a 30 seconds of silence for military veterans and the ones that lost their lives.  Circled up and did SSH, Fazio arm circles, merkins, SSH
The Workout: We combined groups of Red October and mutiny and did a co-q. Pax’s circled up and each had a kettle bell with one person using the two homemade log weights.

 

did a EMOM circuit performing 5 merkins every 1.5 minutes while one person did shrugs with logs and the others performed kettle bell exercises including the following. Curls for girls, tricep ext, snatch, chest press, standing rows, alternating leg dead lift, and squats.
after some arm workout we moseyed to wall and did some legs.

Stepups on wall alternating after 10, lunges, Step ups, mountain climbers, step ups, reverse lunge, step ups, jump squats, step ups, jump squats with an extra squat in between.  Took a break from legs and did 20sec btw, 20 plank to wall arm extensions, then repeat with 10 count. Back to the wall with step ups, mountain climbers and 1×4 jack webs to 10×40
Mary: 1×4 to 10x40ic captain Thor’s. 20 big boy sit-ups.
Announcements:frosty held in Fuquay details to come soon. Breach with Ted Talk
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer:Military, Gamecock and family as they welcome 2.1. Our country

Disney 11/5

11 men went on a magical journey to Disney World this AM @Sprinkler @Fanny Pack @Oboe @bondo @Nemo @Crab Legs @187 @POTS @Kosher @FRAM

Warm Up: A quick jog around the soccer field and 22 count reps of SSH, Imperial Walkers/Hillbillies, Windmills and Daisy Pickers

The Workout: We had our Friend Chesty Puller join us for a mosey down to Sprinklers truck for some coupons before we took a trip to the abyss. Once we arrived at the abyss we partnered up for a very exciting Dora that consisted of 100 merkins, 200 squats, and 300 LBC’s. When partner 1 was going to the bottom of the abyss for a ladder of burpees partner 2 would chip away at the exercises. Everyone had to take a turn, taking chesty to the bottom and bringing him back up, many coupons were also transported in the process. Took a mosey back to the parking lot for mary.

Mary: Circle up for some more 22 count exercises of Low, slow flutters, Freddie merceries, and some side plank reach throughs.

The point of the exercise was to simulate how it would be to carry someone on the battlefield if they were injured as we are on the verge of veterans day. A small reminder of the price some had to pay to keep our country safe and to protect our way of life.

Announcements: Winter CSAUP planning in the process will be a ruck style event that will span some of the AO’s in the Quay. Looking at the weekend of Dec 5th or Dec 12th. Details to follow soon.

Crab Legs had a great message to share about the importance of all the efforts that we have had around ALS research and how it is making a huge impact on his life as well as the lives of others.

Prayer: Keep Crab legs in our prayers, Fanny Pack, and his wife as she is working through some medical issues and for our country to move forward on a positive note regardless of the election outcome.