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Loading Up the Animals 2×2 on the Ark

VQ Noah’s Ark led them 2×2 before the rain came. 12 pax followed the lead.

Warm Up: Good mornings, cotton pickers, L arm/R arm stretches, LOR/ROL hamstring stretches, FOC, and SSH
The Workout: Ran lap around track to bleachers. All pax 10 count of erkins, derkins, dips , and step-ups. Mosey to 1st shelter for a 5 count typewriter on the brick x3. Mosey to rock pile to get medium size rock (unless you’re Lipsync and you favor Minnesota). John Cusak to the rear parking lot for bear bowling ( bear crawl pushing rock) to end of lot 4x stopping at each end for an exercise.  1.) 5 burpees, 2.) 10 lunges, 3.) 15 merkins, 4.) 20 squats. Front runners picking up the 6. With all in a line with rocks, 1st pax carries 5 gallon bucket filled with rocks to other side of lot and back while each pax takes turn calling a rock exercise until all have carried the bucket. Return rocks and then Indian run back to tennis courts with last guy carrying the bucket of rocks to the front. BTW with each pax crawling through the tunnel.

Mary: Freddie Mercury’s, Pickle pounders, LSF, box cutters, and American hammers.
Announcements:
Prayer: Double D, unspoken, those with injuries, and the men & women that have fought for our freedom to come together as we do.

No Rest for the weary

Props to Lab Rat and Darby for completing a 5 Pack (Detox, The Station, GTR, Disney/Kenny’s, Morning After)

Warm Up: Lap around the lot followed by SSH, Good Mornings, Hillbillies, Imperial Walkers, Windmills, static stretch, and arm circles
The Workout:

PAX partnered up and ran opposite directions around the lot for a miserable mile.  North and South ends: patty cake merkins and Squat jumps; East and West ends: bear craw and lunge walks.  PAX completed 4 laps and plank for 6.

Keeping a running theme DORA 1-2-3s.  Merkins (100), Squats (200), flutter kicks (300).  All exercises were cumulative.  Partner ran length of parking lot and back then picked up the count.

Run to the shelter and lined up on a line.  PAX completed 5 WWIIs then crab walked up to the next line until the center column was reached.  PAX held a wall squat for the 6 then a 10 count was observed.

Mary: PAX held plank was asked to name something they were thankful for and what positive impact F3 has had in their lives.
Announcements: Sasquatch tomorrow and a wild coyote is roaming garner.  Media hype made it appear crazier than it was.
Prayer: politics at work, upcoming surgeries, continued healing for Grayson (now 5.6 lbs), unexpected loss

The Hills Were Alive at Possum Trot – 19 Strong PAX

Warm Up:  Ran one loop around tennis courts circling up in parking lot for 20 SSH, 10 Cotton-Pickers, 10 Windmills, 10 Hillbillies, 10 Imperial Walkers, Good Mornings and 10 Arm Cicles (front & back)
The Workout:  PAX partnered up (size did not matter); one PAX grabbed a medium to large rock and made one line across the parking lot.  One partner began bear crawling to midway of parking lot pushing the rock while other partner skipped.  Changed roles at midpoint of parking lot and proceeded to the hill.  At the bottom of the hill, Dauber instructed PAX to send one partner up the hill – bear crawling.  Once they reached the top of the hill, each PAX performed a 7 count of either Derkins, Erkins or Dips on the guardrail OYO.  After completion, PAX carefully headed down the hill taking the rock over from their partner.  While one member was bear crawling, the other partner performed a rock exercise; each rock exercise consisted of 8-12 reps.  The exercise was called out by one PAX rotating up and down the line.  PAX were very creative calling out curls, squats, O/H presses, chest presses, squat presses…ONE caveat, the rock could never touch the ground unless it was a part of the called exercise or Dauber called Recover/Rest. If rock touched the ground, PAX performed 5 burpees.   Additional exercises were added with the rock from the six including, presses, WWIIs, Homer to Marge, etc.  Dauber called an audible and had each PAX run one lap around the tennis court while their partner continued with rock exercises.  Once one lap was completed, PAX swapped roles.  PAX helped bring in the six and began some core exercises started with planks, shoulder taps, merkins, diamond merkins, etc.  PAX returned rocks and met up in the tennis courts.  B2Wall and Al Gores until all PAX lined up for an impromptu monkey hoppers/grabbers.  More running ensued using the tennis courts and finished with alligator merkins to the end of the first court.  PAX and Q spent.
Mary:  Each PAX called out a 10-rep core exercise that began with box-cutters and end with burpees OYO.  At least 8 exercises were performed before running out of time.
Announcements:  CSAUP Greenville – Car pool if able
Prayer:  Double D spoke from the heart.  Strong message.  We hear about “thoughts and prayers”; if you look at some cable TV or social media posts, these powerful words are often dismissed.   Thay’s pure bunk.  These are very powerful words.  When they are spoken, they have powerful meaning and greatly help that person.  Double D asked for prayers for a child who suffered a terrible accident; prayers of thanks/praise for a successful surgery;  H1N1 recovery; final thoughts – loneliness is a killer, F3 brings men together…keep your eyes open for those who need F3.

PAX did great today!  Super job with the hill and rock exercises!

PAX included:  LED, Breech, 8-Bit? (2.0), Double-D, Farva, Vespa, Deadbolt, Gump, Mookie, Midget 4 Life, Stovepipe, R-22, 187, Nemo, Noah’s Ark, Butterfingers, FedEx, The Natural and your Q – Dauber (19 strong)

Possum Trot Circuit

Warm Up: Started with a jog around the tennis courts, down to the baseball fields, and back to the parking lot where we circled up.  Standard warmup of side straddle hops, imperial walkers, good mornings, forward and reverse arm circles, as well as some Michael Phelps.
The Workout: partner up (size doesn’t matter) and everyone grab a rock.  Set the rocks up in two lines headed down the parking lot (set up for station 2 complete). Jog down to the wall and concession stand to demo station 3.  Back up to the parking lot to begin.

The buy in is each partner runs around the parking lot doing 10 patty cake merkins when meeting on each side.

Station 1 – agility drill using lines in the parking lot

station 2 – proceed to rocks, one partner on each side and work your way through the 9 rock stations with whatever you choose without immediate repeats.  Pax hold plank if there is a line behind the first rock.

station 3 – 1 partner does step ups or box jumps on the wall while the other bear crawls to the stand and back. Switch and repeat.

rinse and repeat stations 1-3 until time is called

Mary: consisted of pax calling out 10 rep exercises until time.
Announcements: Sasquatch, Benson launch this Saturday, Dauber will lead next week for a bday Q, Stovepipe will lead the following week.
Prayer: Closed in prayer to be better men, brothers, husbands, and leaders in our community. Also prayed for several requests mentioned including healing due to injuries and illnesses.

Gump’s Vacation is Over, So is Summer?

We had a 7 PAX come out for Gump’s Back from Vacation beatdown. The weather was almost “nippley”.

Warm Up: SSH, IW and HB, some Moroccan arm thingy, stretches as we moseyed to the field.

The Workout:

  • Started with 10 Merkins, side-stepped across the field, 10x wide Merkins, side-step across field, 10x Irkins, backwards run, Diamond Merkins,  Lunges/Bear Crawls across field, 10x Twisting Merkins, High Knees Skipping across field
  • Split into groups of two – 20x Jump Pullups, Swing Knee Tucks, Squats (low and slow) with Dips, Freddie Mercuries, rinse and repeat
  • Grabbed some big rocks from the creek – 20x Curls for the Ladies, Squat jumps, moved left to the next rock, 25x overhead tricep extensions, skiers on each leg, 20x Rut-rows, 20x swing kicks, repeat

Mary: Around the horn of Burpees, Freddie Mercuries, LBCs.

Announcements: A Yoga AO starting up mid July, Kenny’s Grave starts on thursday

Prayer: Lots of PAX injuries

Exhaustion in the AM

Lab Rat, Stovepipe, Pickin’ n’ Grinnin’, Laker, 2%

Warm Up

3x laps around the lot with the agility ladder mixed in at the end, circled up for SSH, Arm circles, and good mornings

The Workout

Lined up along the crosswalk

-5 jumping lunges each leg for every white line until PAX reached the stop line, plank for the 6.

-5 WWIIs back down to the cross walk on each line, plank for 6

-5 merkins each line, bear crawling to next.  Al Gore for 6

-5 pulse ups each line going back down, Al Gore for 6

Over to the Rocks

-Around the PAX 2x each calling out an exercise with the rock

Mary

Plank-o-Rama

COT

Prayers for travels coming up for Laker and Stovepipe.  P&G and Lab Rat’s job situation, 2% finalizing home inspection for foster care.

 

Community Suzie Q

PAX of 6 came out and enjoyed the nice cool, disgustingly humid morning

Warm Up:

SSH, IW, HB, Windmills, Good Mornings, Fazio Arm Circles and some stretches

The Workout:

Picnic table merkins, dirkins and irkins x20 with a mix of abs x15

Mosey’d to the rock pile and picked up two rocks (or in R22’s case, boulders) and moved to the picnic tables. Started with Curls for the Girls x15 and an ab exercise and moved to the next rocks in line. Each PAX called a rock exercise to lead with abs/merkins twice around the horn.

Finished with 177 Merkins.

Mary:

Around the horn for Mary: Burpees, LBC, Dying Cockroach, more Merkins, and some more that I cannot recall!

Announcements:
Discussion on the great time PAX had at the Day in the Park and hope that it will be an annual event.

Prayers:  DoubleD nephew – back home and at his old job. R22 brother diagnosed with Huntington’s Chorea.