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This is Sparta

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FNGs: None
Warm Up:

Run, SSH, Proposals, Proposals with a jump, Sir Fazzio arm circles, spiderman twist

The Workout:

The 300: Pax pair off (one group of 3), and the goal is to get to 200 Hindu pushups and 400 squats as a team (so 300 total per person). Pax A starts off with Hindu pushups while Pax B runs 100 yards, then they trade off. When Pax A returns from his run, he goes into squats while Pax B runs.

So:

  • A: pushups – B runs
  • B: pushups – A runs
  • A: squats – B runs
  • B: squats – A runs
  • rinse and repeat until the target count is achieved

Combatives

MACH techniques (mechanical advantage control holds)

Mary:

Side bridges, X-Man crunch

Announcements:

Bottle swap @ Lipstick’s; Run the Quay and Sprint Tri next weekend.

T-Claps (Recognition):

Norm’s 21st wedding anniversary

Prayer:

  • 16-Bit’s wife and son driving to Pennsylvania this weekend
  • Cupid’s hectic work
  • Dovetail’s friend Nathan (marriage struggles)

Rocks at the Trot

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It was great to be back at the Trot in front of 27 high impact men eager for a “Rock” beat down promised on social media.

FNGs:  None

Warm Up:  Jog around tennis courts.  Circle up in parking lot.  25 SSH, 10 IW, 10 HB, 10 Daisy Pickers, 10 Good Mornings, 10 Seal Claps, 10 Thunder Claps (all in cadence).

The Workout:  Jog to the snack shack.  Lined up in front of hill adjacent to ballpark fence.  Sevens of Merkins and LBCs.  Line up against outfield fence for 25 count people’s chair, 25 count BTTW.  Lots of chatter/commotion as the chain link fence may not have been as sturdy as Q anticipated for said exercises.  Adapt and overcome – headed to the snack shack for 25 count Australian Mountain Climbers and People’s Chair.  Chatter continued as PAX lined up on road in two lines.  Not sure what PAX anticipated but Q began Frankenstein’s, Gate openings and Lunges up the hill.  Mosey to rock pile for medium size rock.  PAX lined up with their rock in two opposing lines.  Q was at one end in the middle leading the following rock exercises with a couple of 10 count breaks in between:  10 count cadence – Curls for the girls, OH press, Tricep extension, Side twists, goblet Squats, Rut-rows.  PAX continued with their rock performing the following exercises on their six:  Homer to Marge, chest press with feet 6 inches off, skull crushers, LSF with rock extended above chest and LSF with rock extended behind head (that was a fun one).  Chatter was minimal.  Hmmm.  PAX finally put their rock down and began 25 count of toe taps, side to side jumps (over rock), front and backward jumps (over rock).  With rock at feet, PAX completed a square circuit beginning 10 R and then 10 L.  PAX switched rocks.  Some Mosey and curls.  Felt like I was back at ROTC Field Training on the parade grounds.  10 Burpees together.  Closed out with 10 cadence counts bicep curls, tricep curls and OH curls.  Return rocks to pile.

Mary:  Various Yoga positions for cool down.

Announcements:  Bottle exchange at LipSync home (whether or not he is home) this Friday; Torch Run; Food Cupboard (need more PAX turnout – See Emeril); Lots of PAX celebrating F3 Anniversaries – Guest Qs coming:  Memorial Day workouts and Murph at 0730 (Womble).  Check Social Media.

T-Claps (Recognition):  Highlighted Rainmaker (Pete McKeon) today as 6th man.  Originally from NY/CT, LEO (20 years); Great F3 naming – during an interview with a person in custody, threw his keys to another LEO and inadvertently hit a sprinkler causing the sprinkler system to go off!  LOL!  Mets fan.  LOL! Active 5-6 months in F3.

Prayer:  Messi has schoolmates involved in a 4 wheeler accident – doing OK; wear helmets!  Injured PAX; Silent / Unspoken prayers.  Thank you Fonzie for leading PAX out today in prayer.

EC:  Messi (bike), Fonzi, Pumkin Spice, H1N1, Katniss, Pilgrim, Bernie, Crosby, LED, Cupid, ShamWow!, Emeril, Dawgpound, Pikachu, M4L, Skidmark (ruck) and The Natural.

 

An honor leading you brothers – Dauber.

Death by Burpee

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Apologies for the lateness of this BB. Got right into work on Friday, and forgot over the. weekend. Thanks Pikachu for the reminder!

Warm Up:

Mosey, lunges with a twist, Spiderman’s, supermans. Then some twosome and threesome partner squats (back-to-back) that all agreed we’re a bit awkward, but legs were trembling and both groups almost collapsed, so YHC declares a fitness success.
The Workout:

Suicides between the lines, first plain, then with a squat at each stop, then again with a Merkin at each stop.

Burpees with a tuck jump (10x)

Burpees with a plank jack (10x)

Burpees with a broad jump (the farther you jump, the fewer you have to do).

Warm-up part 2 being complete…

Moved on to what I am calling “30-30s” (or maybe Henry, for the famed maker of 30-30 lever-action rifles):

4 ROUNDS

30 seconds max merkins, 30s rest

30s max box/wall jumps, 30s rest

Combatives:

Wrist locks from holds, grabs, and punches

Mary:

Legs-on-wall crunches, Absolution

Announcements:
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer: Dovetail’s friend Nathan (marriage), 16-bit’s wife’s stepfather’s health issues.

Millennial

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FNGs:None.

EC : 5 for EC with 1 biker. Fonzie, Cupid, Pikachu,H1N1,LED, Messi
Warm Up:Fabio arm circles. IW, Hillbillies, Good mornings
The Workout:100 count of each with ~100yd run in between.

partner up and complete exercises. First partner to 100 starts run.

SSH, LSF,merkins, curls for girls,boat canoes,rut rows, squats,triceps extensions, plank jacks,  50 burpees per pax

Mary:none
Announcements: Vote for 2nd f salamander game on slack.  See slack and FB for other announcements
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer: Physical health among pax’s, Soldiers abroad and at home and their family’s at home.

This ones for Shredder

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EC: UTI, Lipstick & Cupid

FNGs: N/A
Warm Up: Lap around school and circle up on far side entrance. SSH x50, Daisy Pickers x10, FAC x10, Reverse x11, Over head clap x12, Drop to plank Merkins x13, Mountain Climbers x14, Shoulder Taps x15
The Workout: YHC talked UTI into a Co-Q at Sheepdog for Q Sheet Awareness.  UTI started off the main event with partner chase BLIMP.  Paired up and used the front lot as our circuit. Partner 1 started with 5 Burpees while Partner 2 started running the parking lot. Once partner 1 caught partner 2, partner 2 dropped and did 5 Burpees. We continued this partner chase with 10 Lunge Walks, 15 Imperial Walkers, 20 Merkins, 25 Plank hold, 30 Side Straddle Hops.  PAX covered about 1.5 miles during the chase.  UTI handed the reigns back to YHC and we mosey to the back of the school.  At the back of the school we met some knee walls and did another circuit. This circuit consisted of Irkins, Merkins and Derkins Jack Webs. We started with 1 I,M,D and 4 Air presses. We then did a fast pace mosey around the track and back to the wall for 2 I,M,D and 8 Air Presses.  We were only able to get to 4 times around before we headed back for Mary. (Thanks UTI for taking all my time!)
Mary: In place of Mary, we did Combat.  Dovetail led us in an educational session on how to street fight.  He explained why you shouldn’t throw a punch in a street fight, and showed us the proper techniques.  As Dovetail said, we did martial, the arts comes over time.
Announcements: Mother’s Day- Don’t forget the Mom’s in your life!
T-Claps (Recognition): Cupid great job on the EC, not just today but picking up the frequency all week!
Prayer: Work related peace, 16-Bit’s Step Father in law Dad to his brother of another mother from west virginia (or something like that) All seriousness, he needs our lifting up as he has been thru some rough times and has a long road ahead of him.

We miss you out in the gloom Shredder but hear you are doing well and even went to a martial arts class on your crutches this week.  Looking forward to seeing you in the gloom again!

The Avengers (Plural)

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17 PAX showed for a repeat workout. A couple weeks ago, YHC performed this Avenger themed workout solo. I thought it would be a great day to share the workout with others this time.

EC: Cupid, Maybelline, Squatter, Chipper

FNGs: None

Warm Up:
Reverse loop around tennis courts with some carioca mixed it.
Seal jacks x20
Ironman take off – deep squat, on the up extend the calves and hold for a 4 count x10
Peter Parker Peters – 4 count on right leg then 4 count on left, x10 each
Upper body stretches

The Thang:
Iron Hulk – 1:4 merkin to rock air press to 10:40
Hulk smash rock slams x20
Hulk curls – grab the biggest rock you can find and AMRAP curls
Mosey over to tennis courts
7’s – WWII’s 4 ct = 1 & Peter Parker merkins
Bear crawl to advance back and forth, last stretch YHC called for spiderman crawl

Capt. America Suicides
suicide to the end of each tennis court white line and back to start. On far end, knee tucks and at start burpees. Increasing by 1 each trip down for a total of 10 reps each after 4 sprints

With about 9 mins to go YHC called an audible for some BTTW. 60 secs but as guys started dropping we modified it to 45 secs. Circle up for Mary.

Mary:
Capt. Thor 1:4 WWI and american hammers, increasing up to 10:40
Dr. Strange circles – on six, shoulders and head off ground, circles with legs together counter clockwise x10 then clockwise x10
Ended with 1 minute to spare

Announcements: See FB and slack, races coming up

T-Claps (Recognition): 2 from Carpex grabbing some EC (Squatter & Chipper) and possibly going for the fritter

Prayer:Injured PAX, H1N1 travels, graduations coming up, Mother’s Day and those first time without moms, Armed Forces, 1st Responders

It was great to do this workout again but this time with some F3 brothers. Great work today men!

BS Out!

Sweat Angels and Blimps

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Showed up to Norm and Cupid finishing up a good EC (Norm’s first!). Norm reported he also did a 120-burpee penance the night before for fartsacking on an HC for Kenny’s Grave. Way to work Norm! Had 2 Sheepdog first-timers! Trojan and Cricket.

FNGs: none
Warm Up:

Mosey, Run in place, drop on Q’s command, get up, run in place, wall hops (hands on the wall, hop side to side over it as you move down the wall), then over to the circle wall and go around twice, half in walking erkin and half in walking derkin position.

TheWorkout:

BLIMPS – 4 ROUNDS
Rx is 10,20,30,40,50,60, but due to time constraints, opted for a 10,10,20,20,30,30 structure each round instead
B – Burpees × 10 – 40 total.
L – Lunges (jumping) × 10 – 40 total.
I – Imperial Walkers × 20 – 80 total.
M – Merkins × 20 – 80 total.
P – Plank Jacks × 30 – 120 total.
S – Squats × 30 — 120 total. (Alternate with sumo squats)

On the 4th round, whoever finishes first calls “done” and the group moves on to the next exercise.

Combatives:

Wrist grab escapes, with some discussion around appropriate levels of response.

Mary:

Each Pax chose an exercise for 10 reps
Sweat angels (snow angels, but with legs and arms off the ground)
Low slow flutter
Freddy mercury
Big boy situps
Windshield wipers
WWIIs
American hammers

Prayer:

  • Beater on travel next couple weeks
  • Cupid’s friend recovering from back surgery
  • Norm’sgreat aunt passed away (close family)
  • families of the UNC shooting

10’s all out

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20 PAX came out to help me pre-celebrate 10yrs of blissful marriage and first time Q-ing Possum Trot.  Weather was right, mood was right, crowd was right; in recognition of our 10yr wedding anniversary all exercises were done in reps of 10.

Some for EC – Messi, H1N1, not sure the others, not sure about Fritter Foundation (tag yourself if you were there for it, sorry I forgot to ask)

Warm Up:

Light jog down to the baseball concession stand for Warm-up: SSH, FAC (forward/backward), Good Mornings, arm and elbow stretches, Daisy Pickers, Imperial Walkers, Hill Billies (10 ea).

The Workout:

Mosey back up to rock pile for a little more motivation, circle back up in the main lot for some 10’s:

Curls for the girls, over-head press, rut rows, merkins (10 ea); move to the right; rinse and repeat 5x.

Squats, bus drivers, elbow extensions, merkins on rock (5 for each arm) (10ea); move to the right; rinse and repeat 5x.  Thanks to all the PAX calling out cadence.

Move three rocks to the left, pick up rock, partner up.  Lunge and John Cusack back to the rock pile (the long way)

Mary:

Bear Run (new?? Indian Run but with Bear Crawl instead of running)  PAX lined up on one tennis court boundaries with enough space to for merkins, squats, diamond merkins, LBC’s, Freddy Merc’s, low slow flutters, box cutters, WWII’s, mountain climbers, Spider Man.  First PAX starts Bear Crawl while other PAX do exercises, once PAX reaches front last PAX starts and new exercise begins (due to time we sped up the bear crawl and exercises)

Announcements: Q Source at Stick Boy

Prayer:  FedEx’s neighbor’s wife, 16-Bit’s step father, Crablegs, UNCC families and students, unspoken

Tearing down the walls

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It was a pleasure to lead guys.

Several showed up for ec including: dauber, doc, r22, Cupid, modify, pikachu, beater, aquaman, h1n1, Messi, bullseye, led

FNGs:Trojan – Eric Julien
Warm Up:20xSSH, 20x Moroccan night clubs,10 forward and reverse Fabio arm circles, 10 hillbilly’s, 10IW, 10 burpees OYO
The Workout:Walls of Jericho

7 exercise @ 7 reps with jog around courts inbetween

prisoner squats, run, diamond merkins,run, captain Thor’s, run, mountain climbers, run, wide merkins,run, Red Bull jacks, run, burpees

Burpee break down suicides on tennis court

bear crawl to 1st line 4 star jumps

bear crawl to 2nd line 8 squats

bear crawl to 3rd line 12 in/out planks

bear crawl to 4th line 16 merkins

Great job picking up the six guys!!

Mary:Several pax’s contributed to Mary doing the following

lbcs, LSF, boat canoes, burpees, American hammers, pickle pounders, box cutters, hello dolly, windshield wipers, Freddie mercuries

Announcements:see slack and FB. 16 k this weekend cheer on pax’s after ground pounder

T-Claps (Recognition):breach and the breath taker
Prayer:pray for several health issues among pax family and friends. Cancer, mental health.