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Let Sleeping Truckers Lie (Abe Q 4 of 7)

FNGs: none
Warm Up: SSH, Burpees, Good Mornings, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies, Fozio Arm Circles, Seal Claps, Overhead Claps, Moroccan Night Clubs
The Workout: Mosied over to that hill. A trucker was snoozing on the side of the road, so we kept our voices down. Hope he got his beauty sleep.
Started with 11s. Squats at the bottom, Merkins at the top. Bear crawl on the way up and mosey back down. Someone might have suggested that bear claws are better than bear crawls, but YHC is skeptical.
Wrapped that up and mosied over to just past the oil change place. PAX grabbed two palm-sized rocks and lined up at the end of the parking spaces.
Curls for the girls x25
Triceps x25
Ruh Rohs x25
Overhead Press x25
Sprint down, sprint back. Repeat.
The rocks were cold and unforgiving, so YHC took pity and decreased the count to 20 on the third round. Returned the rocks and mosied back for Mary.
Mary: Popcorn Mary (YHC’s favorite) with some LBCs, Box Cutters, Low Slow Flutters, etc. Wrapped it up with some brief yoga.
Announcements: Jan 17th day of service, Tiger Blood moving to a new location (see Slack)
T-Claps (Recognition): UTI for his 3 miles of EC.
Prayer: PAX sick and injured, UTI’s father and Uncle (prayer/praise for continued recovery), Sprinkler’s family for their loss.

Fun with Football 12.3

FNGs: N/a
Warm Up: Mosey around the parking lot doing parking lot line agility drills
The Workout:

Football quick feet merkin, pass completion progression, parking lot suicides

Start on the first parking lot line, all pax do quick feet for a 4 count rep following by 1 merkin. Then one pax stays the next runs up to the first line, cuts right and must catch the ball to progress to 2 quick feet merkins. Switch pax and they go up to 3 etc. any time the ball is dropped you start back at 1 until you complete the parking lot.

Rinse and repeat back but cutting left

  • Mary: Shredder led us in combatives to close out
    Announcements:
    T-Claps (Recognition):
    Prayer:

How did I forget to add bear crawls?

FNGs: none
Warm Up: SSH, Windmills, Hillbillies / Imperial Walkers, Sir Fozio Arm Circles, Seal Claps, Overhead Claps, 5 burpees OYO for late PAX
The Workout: YHC is all about functional exercises, stuff that can come in handy day-to-day. While we may not see any combat in our daily routines, the Army Combat Fitness Test‘s recommended exercises will surely lead to better results when playing with the kids or tackling that honey-do list. I picked out a few and modified them to make them more F3 Southwake-friendly.

1ish mile run (figure 8)

Round 1
Lunges (10 in cadence)
Star Jumps (10)
Hand release merkins (10)
American Hammers (10 in cadence)
Sprint down the parking lot, mosey back.
Repeat 2 more times for a total of 3.

Round 2
Goblet squat (10)
Overhead Press (10 in cadence)
Supine Chest Press (10 in cadence)
Low Slow Flutter (10 in cadence)
Sprint down the parking lot, mosey back.
Repeat 2 more times for a total of 3.

At the request of Pikachu, we threw in some Bearly Curling (bear crawl while pushing rock). Down the parking lot, John Cusack the rocks back.

One more loop around the ball fields and back to the tennis courts.
Mary: Popcorn Mary featuring LBCs, Box Cutters, Pickle Pounders and a few others I forgot.
Announcements: donate blood
Prayer: Cupid’s knees, PAX with cancer, general mental health this time of year

I Think I Saw That on a Billboard

 

FNGs: None
Warm Up: Mosey that included Good Mornings, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies, Sir Fazio Arm Circles
The Workout: Super Jack Webbs Pyramid. 1 merkin, 3 overhead press, 1 merkin. Run a loop after each set. Up to 10 merkins 30 overhead press 10 merkins and then come back down.
Mosey to the picnic tables for dora. 100 derkins, 200 irkins, 300 dips with a partner. Other partner run to the brick pillars and do 10 count balls to the wall.
Mary: Plank hold
Announcements: CSAUP
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer: Job searches, Families in need at Christmas

Ultimate 10 vs. 10

20 Men Showed Up for an Ultimate Show Down

FNGs: Sonny, now F3 Flicker, named for his awesome left-handed forehand throw, which is also known as a flick. Member of the RESPECT club at 57? Brought his own cooler, discs, and work clothes. :). Other new F3 faces to SouthWake: Sketch, MIA, Doogie
Warm Up: 25 SSH while Dauber ran and got the “pennies,” GMs x 10. Many had arrived in time to throw a few. I knew everybody was ready to play, so we got started. Disclaimer to our FNG Sonny. A few quick rules/procedures. If there’s a turnover in the end zone, you can walk it up to the goal line. Also, when “kicking off,” move up so that your clears mid-field.
The Workout: Ultimate for 35 minutes with exercises on the turnovers: SSHs, jump squats, squats, merkins. Plus, exercises upon scoring: burpees, WWIIs, merkins, and more. Final 10 minutes with no exercises except after scoring. We never really keep an official score, but it helps gauge the match. This morning, the “pennies” jumped on the scoreboard with two or three unanswered trips to the end zone. The “skins” finally settled down, shortened our throws, and got on the scoreboard. Again, unofficially, we had several ties and lead changes. Looks like my completely random passout of the pennies led to equal teams! This was fun!

Tons of great plays out there by all. Too many to remember. Lots of “jump balls” for high throws just about anywhere. Quiver tracked down a floater that looked like it was way beyond his reach. Banana Seat made some great catches but claims he can’t throw. Sonny posted in the middle and was the field marshal for the skins. He could pretty much place the disc anywhere he wanted, with a razor sharp forehand. Blue Hen and Fram knocked down multiple discs on defense. I could not shake Bobby Dall and Warbucks, who stuck to me like white on rice. Dauber had and excellent throw right down the middle to the end zone for the score. Shredder worked the edges and Mr. T worked the middle. And of course, Cupid and Roaming Gnome worked the end zone for their respective teams. Maybelline always lurking on defense, ready to knock one down. Kubota making solid throws in the middle. Great to have Sketch, MIA, Doogie join us–solid players who will join us the first Monday in 2022. Again, many good plays. Maybe we should get the TOHS footage! Meant to get a group photo, but many posted for second F at Panera, so I got one there.

Mary: No time for Mary, this was all game time.
Announcements: CSAUP The Judge this Saturday, December 11, 2021, starting at Fleming Loop Park. Also, Shop With A Cop is live on Slack. Make a donation. Kids within the local community in need will be paired with officers from the Holly Springs Police Department to go shopping for holiday presents for their families and themselves.
T-Claps (Recognition): Thanks to Dauber for sharing the Q. Especially after his pre- pre- pre-blast. I know he was feeling it, ready to play!
Prayers: Unspoken. Fram gathered in the spirit and took us out with a nice prayer.

Christmas Morning at 2.0 Workout

FNGs: None – all experienced PAX here
Warm Up: See the plan image – Home Alone style
The Workout: See the plan image – Home Alone style

The synopsis is that we walked through a typical Christmas morning and did workouts to represent the different phases.  This workout was dreamt up by HeatWave himself and he took the lead on some of the workouts too!

Mary: See the plan image – Home Alone style

Announcements:  Check the local websites – lots of Christmas Parades around over the next few weekends.

T-Claps (Recognition):

Prayer:  GoldenGlove asked for prayers for his Uncle Jimmy who has Covid.

Careful not to sit on the metal balls (unless you’re into that)

FNGs: None 

10 HIMs (3 Cotters- DOA and Noah’s Arc and Cyclops) posted to GP on a perfect morning for boulders.  YHC brought the music box and discs

Warm Up: 10x3cts of: Good Mornings, Willie Maze Hays,  Windmills, Daisy Pickers,  Sir Fazio Arm Circles (both directions), arm stretches, 20x3ct SSH.   Mosey to rock pile.

The Workout

Circle of Rock (of course): Mosey to the Rock Pile pick a LARGE rock (if it can be curled by anyone with one arm – it ain’t big enough). Alternate rocks between exercises.

3 sets of 10x3ct of each exercise:  Curls for the Girls, Overhead Tricep Press, Wonder Bras, Rut Rows and Ground Pounders and Bus Drivers.

3 sets of 10x3ct:  Rock Press and 1 set of Skull Crushers

1 set of 10×3 ct (10 min abs): Windshield Wipers, Low Slow Flutter, Rockies, Box cutters

2 set of 10×3 ct Rock Spanks (with and without consent), Single Arm Merkins.

Mosey to the Putting Green

6 rounds of Get ‘er in the hole:  Pax take turns putting discs at basket and return to LBCs. Make the put and you can walk to the basket to retrieve discs, miss and you have to Bear Crawl to the basket before you can retrieve discs.

Mosey to the Step up Wall (Careful of the metal balls):

3 sets of 10 Erkins, Derkins and Dips, and Step up kicks. 1 set of 10x3ct Plank Jacks and Split Jacks

Mary: Each PAX calls an 10 ct exercise:  Hillbillies, Low Slow Flutter, SSH, LBCs,  American Hammers, Burpies

Prayer Requests:  Quiver’s sister-in-law cancer, UTI’s uncle struggling with COVID.

Announcements: Ultimate on Monday at Ting (under the lights), Frosty CSAUP next weekend in FV.

T-Claps (Recognition):  75 Day Hard challenge participants, Bobby Boucher and UTI tripling down (U-Turn + GP + SW Dads)

Disney Ultimate Drills and Thrills

Any Disc Will Do

FNGs: No, but one Kotter: @BooBoo
Warm Up: Mosey around turf fields. Circle up for 10 Good mornings, 10 Imperial walkers, 10 Hillbillies, 10×2 Arm circles, no SSHs!

The Workout: Indian run mosey to small lot near football field. Time for Seven of Diamonds. Hit the corners in this sequence: 7 burpees, 14 low slow flutters, 21 merkins, 28 squats. Because FloJo brought his disc, we had to use it! One PAX broke and another connected with the disc. Lots of good throws, lots of bad throws. Three additional burpees for every time the disc hit the ground. We did at least 21 extra burpees. Rinse and repeat until we completed two rounds of Seven of Diamonds and everyone got to throw or catch the disc in between.

Mosey to large parking lot. General Indian run with one PAX breaking out front to catch a throw. Three burpees for every drop. We did at least 21 more burpees.

The Drills: At the large parking lot, I had placed two separate lines of cones about 40 feet apart and then about 20 feet between each cone in the respective line. We split in half. We ran this drill in groups of three: PAX 2 and 3 break towards cone 1 and 2, respectively. PAX 1 connects with PAX 2 with disc at cone 1. PAX 2 connects with PAX 3 at cone 2. PAX 1 breaks to cone 3 and PAX 3 connects with PAX 1 with the disc. If the disc hits, the ground, start over. Continue until you reach the end of cones. Finally, a “fast” run back to beginning.

Line 1 had an advantage because we had FloJo’s typical Ultimate disc. Line 2 had a disc golf putter, which does not float! When Line 1 switched to the putter, we had many more struggles. After running this drill ’til we all improved, we stretched out the line of cones to increase the distance and called the last two cones the End Zone. Keep drilling, keep drilling, keep improving. Repeated until we had about 5 minutes remaining.

Mary: Mosey back to flag. Circle up for a couple of minutes of low slow flutter to the beat of BTO Takin’ Care of Business. Have a nice day!

Announcements: F3 SouthWake Christmas party tonight, Bombshell. Captain Jack announced that CarPex is expanding into a new region, to be known as South Cary. He is exploring opportunities on east side of US1 and is identifying where the SouthWake region is.
T-Claps (Recognition): UTI reminded everyone to check up on PAX who have not posted in a while. UTI connected with BooBoo and many, many more PAX via email. Like 200 or more. Check in with someone, you never know what is going on in someone’s life. They could probably use some support.
Prayer: Quiver’s sister-in-law on track recovering from cancer; Bondo’s family friend Tomer, whose ear infection caused additional damage; Lipstick’s M, who could be delivering a baby today.

Finally, don’t bother buying an Aerobie Skylighter disc,. The disc itself was terrible and the lights did not work.

Feelin’ S.C.R.A.P.P.Y at TBD

FNGs: BonBon – Came to us by way of HollyFest

Warm Up: 5 Burpees for the late guy, Fredrico – He announced himself with confidence, slotted right in, no questions asked

Windmills, Daisy Pickers, Fazio Arm Circles, Seal Claps, Overhead Claps, SSH

The Workout:

Inspired by this random article that hit my newsfeed….

https://lifehacker.com/12-bodyweight-exercises-that-will-actually-make-you-str-1847903062/slides/12

Mozy around the soccer fields – Sprint the length of the Ivan lot and continue Mozy to the shelter

  • Single Leg Squats – Each leg x6
  • Copenhagen Planks – Each leg x6
  • Reverse Nordic curls – x10
  • Australian Mountain Climbers – x10 IC
  • Poop Eaters – x10 IC
  • Pike Merkins – x10
  • Yogi Boo Boos – x20 IC

Repeato 1x

Mary: One last lap/sprint around the soccer fields – this is when the mumblechatter uncovered that Fredrico was not an F3 name but an FNG name.  OUR LATE GUY WAS AN FNG!?  The disclaimer was provided as we made our way to COT which launched straight into naming.

Our FNG spoke of his athletics in his college years but how he favored the couch since his son came along.   There was a consistent request for BonBon among the PAX (one in particular) and so he was named.

Announcements:

  • Get those food purchases ready for the Food Cupboard!!!

T-Claps (Recognition):

  • PAX for your help at HollyFest.  We got an FNG and we renewed our rental of the fields at Ting for Ultimate – 1 more year

Prayer:

  • YHCs, Uncle in the ICU with Covid
  • Twins on the way to Swisher Sweet’s sister – family growing from 2 kids to 4 kids
  • BonBon and family are looking to buy a house – Prayers brother

Mountain Jacks, Plank Merkins, Squat Jacks and the like…

FNGs: none
Warm Up: mosey, GM’s, SSH IC, DPs IC, Sir Fazio forward/reverse, seal clap, overhead clap, LBCs
The Workout: 4 HIM set out to set up shop behind HT – UTI comments on how the workout isn’t planned…oh you just wait buddy.  PAX gather for pyramid/stack em ups/whatever the hell you call them – 5 merkins at first stop, 10 plank jacks at next, 15 squats, 20 mountain climbers and 25 WWI’s at the last stop.  The MPSMW is born…catchy name!  Between each set, run back to the beginning for 5 start jumps, stopping on the way back to hit each exercise again.  PAX thought it was funny that I kept screwing up the names of each exercise…YHC was up late and no coffee, so a bit off kilter.  Regardless we pressed forward.  After we decided to audible on the pyramid, we hit balls to the wall x 2 with people’s chair in between.
Mary: calf raises, homer to marge, low slow flutter, freddy mercury’s, up, out, together, down to round out with have a nice day to finish.
Announcements: Thanksgiving meal drive for HS food cupboard, HS half marathon
Prayer: UTI’s uncle in hospital with COVID – speedy recovery; injured PAX