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Italian gas stations have some strange customers

Warm Up:

  • Good Mornings
  • Hillbillies / Imperial walkers 
  • SFAC

The Workout:

Everyone grabbed a coupon and headed to the pavilion.

  • WWI’s
  • chest press
  • tricep extensions
  • alternate staggered pushups

took it to the half wall and did some:

  • Erkins / Derkins & Dips
  • toe taps and star jumps 

Mary:

🍿 Mary 

During COT Woody shared some interesting facts about Italian culture. Just Google Italian man puts gas pump in back door.  😲🤯

Announcements:

3F opportunities coming up

  • painting the fence at Bass Lake (check slack for details)

Prayer:

  • pray for Nemo and his family after the loss of his mother. 

Downtown Train Birthday Bash 59

Warmups: Good mornings 10x, Bat wings 10x 4 positions, Sidestradle hop 59x for bday

Main Event: Mosey to stage area in front of HS Culture Club

Absolutions 10x

Complete circuit around library with three stations. Each station with three exercises: arms/shoulders, legs, core.

Partner up for counts and form. Complete 59 reps between the two of you.

Station 1: Merkins, squats, LBCs 59 reps

Between: Absolutions

Station 2: Side planks, lunges, WWIIs 59 reps

Between: Jack Webbs

Station 3: Patty cake Merkins, squat hold, American hammer 59 reps

Finale: Sprints in parking deck

COT: Announcements: Accept the challenge. In this case, consider signing up for the Triangle Sprint Triathlon. Super easy.

Fence painting on Monday, May 20

Prayer requests: Hasselhoff job situation/opportunity

Unspoken

Second F: Coffee by Abe and Wild Turkey

Fresh strawberries by yours truly.

Honor to lead. Thanks for helping celebrate my birthday.

UFO May 6th

FNGs:1 Welcome Tumbleweed.

Warm Up: Mission Statement, 3 Burpees, SSH, Frankenstiens, 10 merkins, 10 squats

The Workout: LBC, Brokeback Merkins, and 3 burpees on the Drops.  It was a close game until Team Yellow stopped fooling around. It was a great play and a huge effort by all. 

Announcements: Painting Holly Springs Monday, May 20th 9-11. 

T-Claps (Recognition):

Prayer: Buttermilk for running, Unspoken, YHC took us out. 

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11’s turned in to 7’s

Warm Up:

All Warm Ups  – x 10

  • Good morning
  • Mtn Climbers
  • Side Straddle Hop
  • Sir Fazio Arm Circles
  • Hill Billies
  • Imperial Walkers

The Workout:

Grabbed some coupons from behind the trees at Disney and got to work!

All exercises – x 15 – 3 rounds

  • Feet in the coupon situps
  • Curls for the girls
  • Goblet Squats
  • take a lap around the parking lot

Mossied over to the round about at the high school and I thought that we had time to do an 11’s up the hill where we would do dying cockroach at the bottom and mericans at the top. 11’s turned into 7’s because I choose a very large hill …. muhahahah! Whaterver though we still pushed each other, we had great fellowship, and we started our day with some positivity!

Mary:

We didn’t have to much time for Mary but we still got 2 in:

  • Homer to Marge
  • Pickle Pounders

Announcements:

Travis Manion Foundation – Workout Of the Day is coming up

 

Prayer:

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In Cadence On my Down

The weather is finally starting to warm up but it was still a bit chilly this morning. We had a good turn out for the EC about 4 if I recall. I haven’t been out in a while for an F3 workout let alone Q the damn thing. So we warm up everything is fine. Mossyed over to the football field to do some erkins derkins and dips. As I start calling out the exercises and instructing how to follow me I ended up saying both ways “In cadence on my down”. It gave Woody a good laugh. Then I did it about two more times after that. Lol good times!

Warm Up:

  • Good mornings
  • Imperial Walker’s
  • Hill Billy’s
  • Sir Fazio Arm Circles
  • Mtn Climbers
  • Side Straddle Hop

The Workout:

  • erkins derkins and dips
  • Wall sits
  • 11’s – WW I’s & Air Squats

Mary:

  • Homer to Marge & pickle pounders

‘Twas the Week Before Christmas

FNGs: Zero

Warm Up: Side Straddle Hop, Good Mornings, Windmills, Daisy Pickers, Frankensteins, Hillbillies, Imperial Walkers, Sir Fazio Arm Circles

Bondo with the good call for a count off before we Moseyed to the Parking Deck! Thanks Bondo!

The Workout:

PAX planked whenever the poem was being read and they were not performing another exercise.

Twas the week before Christmas, when all through downtown

Not a sad clown was stirring, only the PAX.

The burpees  (10 oyo) were finished in the parking lot with care

In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be here

The PAX were planking all cold on the ground

While visions of 20 monkey humpers danced all around

And Cancun with his stinky gloves, and Abe in his cap

Had just settled down with the PAX to do 20 plank jacks.

When out on the grass, there rose such a clatter

The PAX sprang from their plank to see what was the matter.

Away to the other side (across the parking deck – touch the wall and return) we flew like a flash

Sprinting vigorously, we completed the dash.

The concrete at the feet of the of winded PAX

Gave the luster of 20 in cadence smurf jacks

When, what to our wondering eyes should appear,

But Stickers and 8 tiny exercises so near.

A little old Q, so lively and quick,

I knew in a moment, this must be a trick.

More rapid than eagles his courses they came,

And he whistled and shouted and called them by name.

Now Little Baby Crunches (ICx10), now Mountain Climbers (ICx10), now Squats (ICx10), now 10 OYO Burpees

On Merkins (ICx10), on Side Straddle Hops (ICx10), on Lunges (ICx10), on Side Lunges (10 each leg)

To the end of the parking deck, to the base of the wall

Now dash away, dash away, dash away all! (sprint back to other end – touch wall and return)

So up to the other end the PAX they flew

With a sleigh full of toys and Stickers, too.

And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the ground

The sound of feet as more mountain climbers (ICx10) came ‘round.

As we drew in our hand, and did 10 Merkins

Down the slide Stickers came with a bound

He was dressed all in red, from his head to his foot,

His clothes were all tarnished, in sweat and dirt.

A bundle of toys, he had brought on his back

He looked like a peddler just opening his pack.

His eyes, how they twinkled, his dimples how merry.

His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry.

His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow

And the beard of his chin was gone, oh no!

The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth

And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath

He had a broad face and a little round belly

That shook when he laughed like a bowlful of jelly.

He was lean and mean, a right jolly old creature

And everyone laughed when they saw him,

he had the weirdest of features.

A wink of his eye and a twist of his head

Soon let me know, we had nothing to Dredd.

He spoke not a word, but went straight to work.

Laying out presents, then he turned with a jerk.

And laying a finger on his nose,

Giving a nod, up the slide he rose.

He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle,

And away they all flew like the down of a thistle

But I heard him exclaim, as he drove out of sight

DO 20 OYO Burpees YOU’LL BE ALRIGHT!

Mosey to Ampitheater to open a present!

But wait, what’s this?! Santa left us a present?? 

We opened the present and found a Tea Party Set: 10-20-30-40  (Perform 10 Dirkins, 20 Irkins, 30 Dips, 40 Step Ups)

We wrapped with the Little Merkin Boy at the end. (PAX Plank, while we Play Bing Crosby’s Little Drummer Boy and every time we get parump-a-pum-pum – do a merkin)

Mary: Homer to Marge, Box Cutters, Heel Taps, Supermans, Low Slow Flutter, WWIIs followed by stretching to close us out

Announcements: Backblasts are a big part of F3, and a help to fellow PAX looking for ideas or to see if an AO is active. Downtown Train closed for Christmas next week. Banana Seat with Purple Cobra Q tomorrow. 3Alarm Christmas party tomorrow at 6pm at his house. Reach out to PAX you haven’t seen in a while, check in and see how they’re doing.

T-Claps (Recognition): Pumpkin Spice wedding anniversary today! Welcome back to the gloom, Kosher! 

Prayer: Sick and injured PAX, Bondo’s brother Jimmy hospitalized battling COVID.

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Running 4 the John: Desination WoodCreek

FNGs: None

Warm Up: None

The Workout: It was more of a run

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Mary: None

Announcements: Xmas Party

T-Claps (Recognition):

A reminder to tell someone important to you how important they are.

Prayer:  We prayed for recent stroke victims and their recoveries.

 

Lt Dan

No Legs and Two Big Balls

FNGs: None

Warm Up: SSH, Arm Circles, Some Clapping

The Workout: All PAX gathered a Cindy and readied themselves for an upper body beatdown. YHC is working through a knee issue, so we were doing this Lt. Dan style, no legs.  

Tabata style workout, 45on/15off, AMRAP all exericises:

2 rounds:

  • Chest Press
  • Overhead Raises
  • Dying Cockroach
  • Hex Press
  • American Hammers

15 merkins after each round

PAX then lined up shoulder to shoulder in a V-SIT and passed a 25lb med ball down and back a few times – Group American Hammers

2 rounds:

  • Curls for the girls
  • Halos
  • Weighted WWIs
  • Overhead Press
  • Dips

15 merkins after each round

Second round of group american hammers

1 round:

  • Rows
  • Plank
  • Standing Dead Lift
  • Shoulder Shrug
  • Low slow flutter

15 merkins

Mary: PAX sat in a circle and a large exercise ball was introduced. All members of the circle held a V-sit while throwing the ball around the circle. One merkin penalty for each time the ball hit the ground. The total darkness supplied by Purple Cobra added to the excitement. 

Cinderblocks murder Disney

Warm up lap around fields
Good mornings
Smurf jacks
Sir fozio
Mtn climbers
Merkins

Grab cinder blocks
Take them to turf fields Cusack style
Murder bunnies with wonder bras built in for 50Yds
Colt 45’s
Murder bunny with diamond merkins back 50Yds
Bolt 45’s
Mosey down and back
Block swings x15
Dips on block x20 IC
Sprint field then lunge walk back
Cinderblock squat leg lifts x20 (squat down onto block and lift legs then back up)
Rocky toe taps x20 IC

Mary on turf decline
American Hammers
WWIs
Freddy Mercury’s
Dying Cockroach
Pretzel’s

Strong work today by all PAX. Definitely one for the books.

BS Out!

R4TJ 5 Year

R4TJ 5 Year Anniversary – “What we experienced this moanin’ was sum gud ole fashion fun”

Nine men got stronger on the BEST HILL TRAINING ROUTE EVER. After 25 fast side stradle hops in cadence, we took off. Across Main Street, right on Milpass, left on Crossway, up to Creekvista. Batboy and Flop arrived first and started running the elbow. On this route originated by Wild Turkey, the “elbow” consists of running down Creekvista, running back up, then running to the bottom of Crossway, then running back up to Creekvista. Rinse and repeat as many times as possible before converging for the run back to the flag.  

I got hooked on the elbow last week with Sunshine’s Q. This is the kind of run that is exhausting and exhilarating all at the same time. Everyone ran strong and pushed each other–just like last week. But, no trips this week. Two last week. No “knee-matomas” either. 

Glad to honor the 5-year anniversary of F3SW’s original mid-week run. Thank goodness one of the Original Gangstas @U.T.I. joined us at COT. UCrain told us all about it. Started with his Blue Ridge Relay team looking for a mid-week run. Went to HS Run Club, found very unsatisfying. Got headlocked, I mean, realized they were Freed to Lead and started their own Area of Operations (AO). UTI and Lipstick were site Qs for the first year or so, then @Redenbacher took over for the next four. Red used to wear his DOT approved safety vest. So glad that he broke down this barrier, now I’m proud to wear one. Shout out to Red by wearing my vest in the snap. 

In the end, TomTom declared, “What we experienced this moanin’ was sum gud ole fashion fun” And so it was! It was an honor men.

Flag planted, warmups, run, COT, snap, backblast, done.

Bring back the HC!