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Red October 5/17/2021

14 Pax took to the pavilion at Red October for a Tabata style kettlebells and then some workout.

Sprinker, Felix, Fram, Pots, Dawgpound, Dumbo, Emeril,  Farva, Norm, Lipstick, Yoshi, welcome FNG Murdoch and Breach on the Q

Warm Up: Circled up in the traffic circle for some 22 counts reps of SSH, Daisey Pickers, Windmills, Fazio Arm Circles, and Imperial Walkers/Hillbillies

The Workout: 7 Stations of fun: Partner up with one partner using the tools partner 2 is on a dealer’s choice kettlebell exercise, at the 2 mins mark partners switch.

Station 1 Sandbag- Brupess with a snatch

Station 2 Pain Stick- Overhead press in the front and back

Station 3 Barbell- Rut Rohs

Station 4 Weight Plate- Squat and press

Station 5 Tire- Farmers Carry around the circle

Station 6 Kettlebell squat to upright row

Station 7 Kettlebell sandbags- Squats and shoulder shrugs

Mary: Combined effort with Mutiny- Pickle Pounders and Lo-Slo Flutter.

Announcements: JOCO CSAUP this weekend, sign up on Slack, South Wake picnic on June 26th, details in Slack. Bed build on June 12th
T-Claps (Recognition): All pax for the effort during the May challenge.

Prayer: Emerils family friend who is recovering from thyroid cancer, and always for our first responders and military that are out there on the front lines.

This was my first time at Needmore Park. The routes were great and we had some quality mumble chatter along the way.

EC:  A lot of PAX were there for EC.

FNGs: not today

Warm Up:    10 x Good Mornings, 10 x Spinal Rotations

The Workout:  We ran the Yellow route for EC so I suggested we take the yellow route in reverse. After some discussion to coordinate the coffee stop, we decided to take the blue route and then the yellow route. We made a pit stop at Breach’s house for coffee and then headed bag to the flag.

Mary: Short on Time

Announcements:

Picnic note from Dawgpound:

F3 Southwake is hosting a picnic at the Longleaf shelter at Harris Lake. All Pax and their family are invited. The goal is to have a couple of Pax cook hotdogs and hamburgers at the event. The rest of Pax are recommended to bring either a side, paper plates, silverware or dessert. Everyone is welcomed to bring picnic games like Cornhole. There is a playground nearby for kids to play and we are close to the lake.

Date: June 26
Time: Starts at 11 AM. Stay as long as you want
Who: Every Pax and their family

How do I register: Fill out information here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-nsRCNZUJY2UB43Q6Q9bOX4zG-Nt-JcFFlDd83424wI/edit?usp=sharing

 

Bed Build Note from LED:

Talking with coordinator and she said she will be posting the signup to the public Monday for the June 12th build day.  If your able to help please signup below. They plan to cut and stain 40 beds in fuquay and 7500 across the nation. Come be a part of it and let’s help out the community. It’s amazing how excited these kids are when they get a new bed delivered.

https://m.signupgenius.com/#!/showSignUp/10c0d49aba823a3f4c61-shpncfuquay14/19596328

T-Claps (Recognition): Breach for proving the coffee for all of us.

Prayer: Unspoken

YHC took us out. Always an honor to lead.

Crazy Ivan 5/14/21

FNGs: none
Warm Up: GM, Fozzy Arms, SSH, windmill, Spinal rotation, Imperial Walker
The Workout: 4 rounds, 45 sec work, 15 sec rest. 8 bell exercises.  Rows, tricep extension, figure 8, plank row, curls, KB swings, midget cookie, ground pounder.

Mary: popcorn
Announcements: bed build June 12

Prayer: military and first responders

Oh, the Places You’ll Go!

FNGs: none, but lots of new riders to VC.  Administered Safety brief, rules of road, helmets…Made sure EVERYONE knew how to change their gears on their bikes, especially bikes that were borrowed.
Warm Up:  oyo
The Workout:  see pic.  Really proud of the effort everyone put in this afternoon and Lipsync for picking up the six and making sure the Q knew where he was going.
Mary:  on tennis courts, good evenings, static stretches, Frankensteins
Announcements:  see FB, Slack; 5K runs, bed build
T-Claps (Recognition): PAX coming out to VC for the first time; Breach for riding his bike from Needmore area and making it ON TIME (gassed, but on-time nonetheless); Sprinkler did drive him home with his bike in the back of the truck.  Nice job Captain.  And special shout out to my mom who graciously supplied water bottles to PAX that just forgot to bring.  Luckily her house was on the route and she was at home.
Prayer:  Unspoken, military appreciation month, less fortunate….thanks Breach for taking us out.

Pledge of Allegiance

Honored to lead.  -Dauber

Kill the rabbit, kill the rabbit

FNGs:None 9 pax for EC 16 pax’s joined the beat down.
Warm Up:SSH, good mornings, imperial walkers with squat, fazio arm circles
The Workout:

With rock in hand, we lined up along parking lot.
Murdered bunnies two parking spots did 4 merkins cusack back to start.

Murder bunnies 4 parking spots, 4 squats cusack back.

Murder bunnies 6 parking spots 4 ground pounders, cusack back.

repeat this for 2 more iterations upping reps to   8 and 12 reps

Made way to hill at ball fields where we did 8’s of 1-leg squat at bottom and Turkish getups at top, while running backwards up hill.

At shelter we did 3 sets of  wrk in seeking and dips increasing reps from 5-10-15.
Mary: LBCs, side kicks, pickle pounders, Peter parkers, heel taps, 6in – hello dollies, to 45 deg hello dollies and then windshield wipers.  Last exercise captain Thor’s 1-2 up to 8-16 reps
Announcements: Derek Davis race June 12. SHP June 12th. Joco csaup May 22nd

Prayer:FedEx mother, injured pax’s.

Oh Deere, Ultimate at Thunder

FNGs: NO SIR

Warm Up: Windmills, Frankensteins, SSH, Irish Potato Pickers

The Workout:  ULTIMATE!  We were down in the pit across from Womble.  Notable MVPs were Breach, Cancun, Maybelline, Redenbacher, Bullseye, and Pumpkin Spice.  Repeated big plays by these PAX.  Overall though this was a great game that was very equally matched.  Who won!?  I don’t remember the specifics but I feel like we all won really.

  • Merkins and Squats were utilized to penalize drops of the sacred frisbee

Mary: NO SIR

Announcements:

  • Be on the lookout for a plan to be hatched to make Wolfie a more prominent member of F3.

T-Claps (Recognition):

  • PAX for Organizing the raffle to benefit Wolfie’s chair.  Lot’s of local good done in a short amount of time.  Money raised buys Wolfie a new chair and sets Wolfie and his mom up with gift cards for groceries through the end of the year.
  • Pikachu on the new gig.
  • Pikachu and Dauber for making sure we had all the right gear for ultimate.
  • Breach/M4L for finding my key on the field – that could have been bad

Prayer:  Unspoken, YHC took us out

May 12 2021 – Possum Trot (Action Park) QIC POTS

May 12 2021 – Possum Trot (Action Park) QIC POTS

EC:

Sprinkler, POTS, Blue Hen, Labatt, Flanigan, Redenbacher, Breach, Rollback, Moby

PAX:

11

 FNGs:

 None

 Warm Up:

 Good Mornings

Windmills

Fazio Arm Circles

 The Workout

2 to 3 rounds through all Stations.

Mosey to;

Station 1 (The Hill)

3 Repetitions

  • 5 Burpees OYO (at bottom of hill)
  • Crawl up the hill.
  1. 10 Erkins on guardrail.
  2. 10 Dips on guardrail
  3. 10 Derkins on guardrail
  • Run down to entrance and back to bottom of the hill.

Mosey to;

Station 2 (The rock pile)

3 Repetitions

  1. 20 Curls for the girls
  2. 20 Tricep extensions
  3. 20 Overhead press

Mosey to;

Station 3 (Concession stand)

3 Repetitions

  1. 20 Step ups
  2. 20 Prisoner squats
  3. 20 Side steps with squat

Back to Station 1

Mary:

Guantanamo’s for all.

 Announcements

May Challenge in full swing

Pledge of Allegiance:

Led by Sprinkler

 Prayer:

Double D’s Mother-in-law

Noah’s Arch family

Sprinkler’s daughters’ friend

Military and First Responders

Unspoken

Bullfrogs and puddles at Paradise City

It had been a while, ok over a year, since I made my way out to the place we call Paradise City and it was great to get back. The rain came down hard prior to the EC activities, but stayed fairly dry for us.  When I rolled in for EC a few trucks in the lot and Fram was there ready to get after some EC with me.  We set off and passed POTS and Sprinkler getting their ruck on.

Some old and new faces joined us for the main event.

FNGs: none
Warm Up:

With eight of us ready to roll we set off for a quick warm-up lap around the parking lot and circled up for warm-up.

  • 20 SSH IC
  • 10 good mornings IC
  • 10 squat hold Moroccan nightclubs IC
  • 10 windmills IC
  • 10 forward fazio arm circles and 10 reverse fazio arm cirles IC
  • merkin clock – 3 o’clock merkins, 6 o’clock merkins, 9 o’clock merkins, 12 o’clock merkins

It was now time to set off for some wet rocks.

The Workout:

The PAX started off for the tunnel, but first needed to partner up and collect one rock per partner.  As the PAX met back in the tunnel, one partner remained for 20 count of balls to the wall, 20 count people’s chair, and back to 20 count balls to the wall.  The other partners ran with rock in stow to end of the path and back.  Rinse and repeat with the other partner.  Round two the rocks stayed and one partner did repeat 10 count curls and 10 count tricep extension continuing until partners are back from their run. rinse and repeat.

The rocks were returned and an indian run was formed heading back towards the Ting ramp.

It only seemed appropriate given the gloomy, wet conditions to bring out the fan favorite bull frog – wheelbarrow combo.  One partner would bull frog (similar to the  wheelbarrow except both hands spring forward at the same time – hence bullfrog) as far up the ramp as they could.  The other partner would then give it a go.  Next, wheelbarrow, repeat, back to bullfrog, until the partners reached the top of the ramp – no easy task!

At the top of the ramp, a quick burnout on the wall.  20 count of dips, urkins, derkins, and step ups. Followed by 10 and finally 5.

All PAX returned to the bottom of the ramp for the grand finale.  the PAX dropped down to plank hold for 10 count, down to chill cut 10 count, back to plank.  When I instructed to sprint, the PAX took off for a designated spot(trash can) about 1/3 of the way up the ramp.  Back down for rinse and repeat for next spring
Mary:

  •  six inch leg hold, move to 33, move to 45, move to 90, back down to six.
  • AH’s IC
  • Shoulder taps
  • AMC
  • LBC’s
  • windshield wipers
  • and of course boat canoes

Announcements:

Get them points. Good chatter on what sites the PAX are traveling this week.
T-Claps (Recognition):

Great work everyone, it was an easy day to bag it with the heavy rain this morning, but this group came out ready to go.  It is always good to be able to lead the group.
Prayer:

Prayers were lifted for Leattner who has some tests coming back and Sprinkler’s daughter’s roommate and her friends were in a very bad boat accident in Wrightsville.

Dawgpounder

EC: Fanny Pack, Red, Pikachu, Maybelline, Full House, Katniss, Cupid, LED, Nemo,
FNGs: Nope
Warm Up:

Lap around the parking lot. We then circled up in the field.
Bounce
Staggered hinge
Spinal Twist
Bat Wing
Fazio Forward
Fazio Backward
Seal Claps
Overhead Claps

The Workout:

Pax split into two groups

Group one did absolutions while Group 2 did BTTW and vice versa. Group 1 would do Monkey humpers in cadence while group 2 did wall sits. Each pax did 10 absolutions 9, 8 7 … 1.

10 absolutions/BTTW
9 absolutions/BTTW
10 Monkey Humbers in cadence/Right Leg out
10 Monkey Humbers in cadence/Left Leg out
9 Monkey Humbers in cadence/Normal Wall Sits
8 absolutions/BTTW
7 absolutions/BTTW
8 Monkey Humbers in cadence/Right Leg out
8 Monkey Humbers in cadence/Left Leg out
7 Monkey Humbers in cadence/Normal Wall Sits
6 absolutions/BTTW
5 absolutions/BTTW
6 Monkey Humbers in cadence/Right Leg out
6 Monkey Humbers in cadence/Left Leg out
5 Monkey Humbers in cadence/Normal Wall Sits
4 absolutions/BTTW
3 absolutions/BTTW
2 absolutions/BTTW
1 absolutions/BTTW

Moseyed to the playgrounds. This became complicated. Note to self. This is not easy to explain.
Split up into 2 groups. The pax went around the circle. Pax will hold plank. Pax in the back will Burpee and bear crawl to the front. When we got to the fence we did 5 each leg Bulgarian squats. I will think about how I can improve this workout.

Mary:

Circle up around the practice green
Legs Straight up to our hands
Six Inch Holds
Pickle Pounders
Legs Straight up to our hands
Six Inch Holds
Pickle Pounders
Supermans

I’m drawing a blank here. We did abs though.

Announcements:
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer:
Pax bringing home their kids
Full house’s friend
50 car pile up on 540

Reach out and touch someone (old AT&T slogan)

During announcements I closed encouraging everyone to reach out to someone within F3 that may be dealing with an injury or just flat out hasn’t posted to an AO in a while.  I told Saturday’s U-Turn PAX during the month of April I was personally dealing with a toe sprain and I hadn’t posted nearly as much as I would’ve liked to.  Weekends are usually my only time to post at all during the week and I had missed U-Turn and AGS for 2 weeks straight.  It didn’t take long for me to feel disconnected and somewhat distant from my fellow F3 brothers  (both because I hadn’t seen anyone in a while and I had also lost some of my stamina/endurance).  I can only imagine how a long term injury or a long period of time off (for whatever reason) may lead to a PAX feeling embarrassed or shameful to come back and post.  Although we would never shame anyone and we always welcome any man to any workout at anytime I feel its important that we make an effort to reach out to a fellow F3 member that we know is injured, dealing with another issue, or just haven’t seen in a while.  Sometimes a little encouragement can go a long way.

FNGs: none today

Warm Up: quick mosey, 10x Windmills, 10x Daisy Pickers, 10x Imperial Walkers, 10x Frankensteins, 25x-30x Merkins

The Workout: standard U-Turn in reverse (6mi option or 3mi option).  By far an easier route than standard U-Turn due to less hills/elevation.

Mary: ran outta time

Announcements: congrats to Sprinkler’s son graduating high-school!  Upcoming Grasshopper 5K run, 5K walk, & 1mi fun run benefiting Sergeant Rick Leach Sat June 12 here in Holly Springs.  Bed build June 12th.  May challenge continues…

T-Claps (Recognition): Picking up the 6 as always

Prayer:  11yr old recently involved in dirtbike accident, injured PAX, well being of F3 Friar Tuck and family upcoming move to TX