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Breaking in the rain at PC

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6 HIM showed despite the inclement weather. Not too bad for a rainy Monday.

Big lap of WU exercises
GM
SSH
Windmill holds
Imperial squat walkers

Catch me if you can
P1 runs backwards
P2 does 3 hand release merkins then catches P1

Ramp suicides x3
Abs at bottom after set completed
Star crunches, RLBC’s, ARods

Parking lot 7’s
Break dancers and monkey humpers IC

Indian run back to bball court

Mary
Freddy Mercury’s
60 sec plank hold

COT with our Ruck buddies
Prayers for newborns, surgeries, hospitalized friends.
Full service as YHC took us out in prayer.

Awesome work today and thanks for the push.
BS out!

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That smell

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FNGs: none

Warm Up: SSH, daisy pickers, Willy Mays hays, Sir Fazio arm circles, chinooks, mountain climbers

The Workout: 

Thing 1- PAX form two lines, each line possessed two soccer balls. At a jogging pace, the balls were thrown overhead to the pax behind, once at the back of the line that person sprints to the front to start the cycle again. Drops meant all pax stopped and performed 5 squats. ~1/2 mile loop around the park completed. We did a lot of squats.

Thing 2- Medium sized rocks were obtained and we made our way to the picnic shelter. Pax paired up for a music-based AMRAP/Dora style workout- one partner completed AMRAP exercises while the other partner cusacked their rock up a small hill and around a loop. When the song changed, the exercise changed (tricep extension, step ups, erkins, bicep curls). Skynyrd set the tone, and my free version of Spotify (like Lebron) blessed us with zero ads during the workout. Shoutout free Spotify. 

All pax participated in an extended wall sit for the duration of Saturday Night Special. Some pax held out for the whole time, others gave it a break… something about running plans for the weekend. Near the end of the first verse a thicc odor spread like the plague from an unnamed pax, driving others to seek refuge elsewhere in the shelter. Pax were unpleased by the aroma, Q was unpleased because it didn’t happen during “That Smell”. 

Mary: American hammer, WW1, plank hold

Announcements: 3rd F opportunities on Slack, fence painting with the town, Men’s night at local church

T-Claps (Recognition): Turkey and Nickelback both have kids graduating college

Prayer: Bobby B’s family member undergoing heart procedures, UTIs family member with a scary diagnosis. 

Prison Yard 7 X 4

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7 PAx took to the yard for an all-body weight Tabata-style workout.

Fram, Banana Seat, Flip Phone, Sunshine, Stove Pipe, and Abacus the OG. Breach was on the Q.

Warmup,

A short mosey around the parking with some stops to enjoy 22 counts of Frkesteins, Side Straddle Hops, Calf Raises and Peoples Chair Seal Claps

Workout

7 exercises x 4 Rounds. Each exercise was for 60 seconds with 20 sec of rest repeated 4 times.

Burpees

Prisoner Squats

Apollo Ohons (Skaters)

Reverse Lunges

Mountain Climbers

Low Slow Flutter

Peter Parkers

Ended with 2 mins of stretching

 

Announcements:

Road clean up project this Sat with the Travis Manion Foundation at 9 am.

Prayers:

Banana Seats neighbors, lost loved ones recently.

COT

Passing the Baton

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Probably close to two years ago Fonzie and I took over as site Q’s at Possum Trot.  As one of our favorite AOs it was fun to keep it running, Qing as much as we could, and making sure things went smoothly.  Over time, and with injury, we lapsed in our duty.  It became evident that new leadership was needed so we reached out to local PAX to find potential candidates.  After a lot of searching two stepped forward, almost at the same time.  Both Stovepipe and Rubiks wanted to help lead South Wake’s original AO and felt up to the task.  YHC picked up the Q for the day and asked the two of them to be there for the official hand off.  All in all, 11 other men joined the three of us for a beatdown and the official handoff of the site.  

FNGs: None

Warm Up:

SSH x27 IC (that was the temperature when I looked when I woke up)

Windmills x10 IC

Daisy Pickers x10 IC

Imperial Walkers x10 IC

Hillbillies x10 IC

Sir Fazio Arm circles x10 IC forward and reverse

The Workout:

We started at the back corner, by the rock pile, to begin a four corners workout.  Each corner would be some sort of leg or ab workout with the exception of the first because I finally feel like I can lift a (small) rock.  

Curls for the girls x10 IC

Tris for the guys x10 IC

Rut Rows x10 IC

Chest press x10 IC

We then did a backwards mosey to the next corner, by where the parking lot met the road.  

No Surrender x10 IC

Bobby Hurley x10 IC

Star Jumps x10 IC

We then proceeded to the next corner, on the other side of the tennis courts.  We made our way there via Walk like an Egyptian.  This is a lunge walk Indian Run where everyone steps in to a lunge while the guy at the back lunge walks to the front of the line.  Once they get there everyone steps in to a lunge with the other leg while the next guy goes.  This got a little unruly at times and, honestly, took way longer than I thought but all the complaining really fed my soul.  

The next corner was abs.  We did an LBC cycle

LBC x10 IC

Reverse LBC x10 IC

Side LBC x10 IC each side.  

We did a rinse and repeat and then did a slow mosey to the next corner for some squat rounds

Squats x10 IC

Wide squat x10 IC

Feet together squat x10 IC

Two rounds of that as well and then it was a duck walk back to the rocks to do another round of what we had done before. After that we returned our rocks and went to the tennis courts.  We started with a set of calf raises.  After that, there was a lot of mumble chatter which made YCH feel like he hadn’t worked everyone hard enough so we went in to a round of suicides across the width of of the court.

Mary:

American Hammers x16 IC

Sleeping Hillbillies x10 IC each side

Box cutters x16 IC

Announcements: 

Prayer outreach with Rubiks down town Raleigh at 7:00pm

Prayer:

Bleeder recovering from surgery

 

Always an honor to lead and it has been an absolute privilege  to have led this AO.  I look forward to what new leadership will do.  

 

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Triple Nickel on Big Red

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8 HIM came out to Prison Yard for some hill work.

WU
Mosey over to side parking lot
SSH
Sir Fozio Arm Circles
Willie Mayes Hayes
Good Mornings
Lower Stretching

Triple Nickel
We ran to the bottom of Big Red which is around 0.3 miles.
5 Absolutions
Run back up to the top.
5 Kraken burpees (3 hand release merkins in burpee)
We repeated that 5 times
The last round we only had enough time to go half way down and back but still completed the reps.

Mosey back to start for 1 minute of cool down with stretching and deep breaths.

Announcements: Q sheet always needs help, You vs You this Friday at Sheepdog
Prayers: Injured PAX, unspoken
Sunshine took us out.

Lots of deep breathing today on Big Red. Great work PAX! Thanks for allowing me to lead. Rule the day.

BS Out!

Flora sucks

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4 HIM at Prison Yard today. FRAM got a solo run for EC. Dumbbells were in play today. 20’s, 25’s, 35’s and 40’s. Tunes were playing and here’s what happened.

Warm up lap around clubhouse
Good mornings
Willy Mayes Hayes
Arm circles
Upper body stretches

Flora 1-2-3
Partner 1 does the weighted exercise to start then swap after reps are completed.
100 row merkins on dumbbells (x10 reps)
– P2 holds plank
200 weighted American hammers (x20)
– P2 six inch hold
300 curb squats (x30)
– P2 squat hold

Mary
LBC’s x15
Reverse LBC’s x15
H2M x15
Exaggerated Freddy Mercuries x15
HAND

Announcements
Banana Seat to start co-Q’ing at Prison Yard. Expect call outs to Q.

Prayers
Farrington family (Frams neighbors) and Sunshine’s MIL had a stroke.

Good job today men!
BS out!

Waldo

Where is Waldo?

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EC:  Emeril, TomTom, UTI et al

FNGs: Not today

Warm Up: pffffft. we show up ready to go at the John.

The Workout:  Standard 5 mile route – The Grinch

Mary:  Short on time

Announcements: Check Slack and Facebook

T-Claps (Recognition): Skidmark for feeling good enough to run!

Prayer:  UTI mother in law, UTI family friend, all PAX to remain healthy, unspoken.

Skidmark took us out. Always an honor to lead

Sheepdog delight – 01/13/23

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EC: Farva & Shredder
Warm Up: Follow the leader up and down the parking lines; front, back, sidesteps. 50 SSH IC, Sir Fazio Arm Circles, seal claps, overhead claps till it all burned and then we held them out a little longer. Good mornings, IW and HBs.
The Workout: The main event consisted of moseying to various locations and then knocking out exercises. 50 toe taps IC, single leg deadlifts while balancing on a curb, TUT dips, Dekin shoulder taps, combo front kicks from parking line to parking line adding one additional Merkin at each line, then lunge walks adding on additional star jump at each line, stair sprints, TUT erkins and lunges.
Mary: 5o LBCs IC and 7 heal taps.
Announcements: TMF proceeds for the SW Beer mile.
Prayer: Breach took us out 🙏🏼

Traveling Rocks Hurt

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YHC was joined by 5 dudes ready to put in work. Little did they know what the Q had planned. Needless to say YHC had a rough go on this one. All PAX was ready and 0530 was go time.

Warm up lap around the field

Warm up exercises by the rock pile
SSH
Frankensteins
Windmills
Mtn climbers

Grab a traveling rock decent size (make a wise selection)
Greenway trail stopping at every other light for exercise
1 – colt 45’s
2 – skull crushers
3 – lunge rotate rock to outside step
4 – ground pounders
5 – wonder bras
6 – front raises w/squat
7 – bus drivers
Rocks down and Indian Run 3 lights to the end of greenway.
10 Worst Merkins Ever
Indian run back to rocks.
Same exercises on the way back.
Ran short of time so skipped the colt 45’s.
Dropped off the boulders and did 1 set of Capt Thores 1×2 set of 5

See slack for announcements.
Prayers for Finkle’s and 16-bits daughters. Prayers for new career changes for Ham and Sunshine. Cardinal’s family and F3 Knoxville region.

That was a good one I’ll admit. Definitely a repeat possibly later this year. Strong work by all. Thanks for letting me lead.

BS out!

Paradise City Q of the Year?

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YHC showed up early to set up some equipment for todays beat down. The preblast had a comment saying this would be the best Q of the year. Needless to say I think it was, considering there was only 1 other one. This is the rare occasion I have the honor to Q PC and know the standard mileage is 3 or more. YHC wanted to bring the intensity and keep the PAX moving with the option to push themselves. We had 11 HIM show up for the main event with a few ECers. One dude rucked it up as well. This is what we did.

Run big loop reverse with warm up exercises along the way.
Frankensteins
Windmills
Skiers
Copperhead Dirkens

7’s on ramp down to sportsman – burpees and worst Merkin ever
Agility ladders on the flat in the middle

Stack’ems in the parking lot (snake)
Shoulder tap merkins x10
Freddy Mercury’s x20
Chilly jacks x30
Bobby Hurleys x40 – didn’t have enough time

No Mary
No new announcements
Prayers for lady dying of cancer, church family had a loss, Pablo’s family with their loss.
YHC challenged the PAX to stop going through the motions and get out of their comfort zone. Do something to benefit someone each day.

Pleasure to lead men!
BS out