Tag Archive for: Wild Turkey

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Comparing rocks

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FNGs: none

Warm Up: SSH, Daisy pickers, imperial walkers, 5 burpees, hillbillies, Sir Fazio Arm Circles, seal claps, overhead claps

The Workout: We moseyed over to the rock pile where PAX were instructed to get a mediumish rock for a good deal of reps. We circled up at the amphitheater.

Curls for the girls in cadence x30, Tris for the guys in cadence x30, ruh rohs in cadence x30, squats x30, WWIIs x30. Dropped the rocks and did a bear crawl down the sidewalk to the library door then mosey back.

Round two was the same but the counts dropped to 20. Round the saw counts of 10. Returned our rocks and moseyed around to the semicircle parking lot.

PAX lined up on their six for Guantanamos. We got two rounds in as we went almost all the way around the semicircle. On our way back to the start, we lunge walked past the book drop-off.

Mary: popcorn Mary took us right up to time.

Announcements: parking lot Coffeeteria (thanks to BnB) after the workout at Cletus/Crazy Ivan this Friday, stay hydrated and learn CPR

Prayer: Gizmo’s mom, man that Plunger saw at the golf course

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A trip to the Zoo

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FNGs: Nada

Warm Up: Nope

The Workout: Q organized a route through town that resembled a giraffe and promised a zoo experience for all those who attended in the pre-blast. 

@yogurt, @bnb and Q were all operating on a just-in-time schedule for AGS. At 5:59:20, only @wild turkey was in Womble parking lot. By 5:59:45, there was a crew of 4 ready to hit the mean streets of Holly Springs. 

We departed womble for quick loop through Remington to complete the leg gap of our giraffe. At the first turn we encountered the first zoo animal, a native odocoileus virginianus doe mere feet from the street. 

We then traveled down stinson, across bass lake rd and onto hillspring where we completed the hind leg of the giraffe. As we turned to begin running up the back, we spied the second zoo attraction that Q had organized, a second odocoileus virginianus, attempting to hide in the brush. 

As we traveled the remainder of the route, discussing vacations, weddings, upcoming races and home improvement projects we spied assorted felis catus, sciurus carolinensis, and canis lupus familiaris. All added to the zoo experience that Q had promised. 

We arrived back at womble around 6:45 for some great mumblechatter and COT.

Prayer: @BNB has a friend in Atlanta going through some health challenges, trying to determine the long term impacts on his fitness. Prayers for doctors wisdom. 

Six Souls Survive Sevens on S(C)emetery Summit

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FNGs: None

Warm Up: Quick Mosey, SSH, Windmill, 10 Merkins. Another mosey

Thang 1:

7s on Cemetery Hill: Squats at the bottom, Burpees at the top. (The Humidity was worse than the hill)

For the last round of each we added a twist. 

After completing our last burpee, PAX circled up for a 1 at a time 10 count merkins around the circle. While each PAX pushing the earth down, the other PAX held a low merkin position (similar to a plank, but the bottom of a merkin). 

After completing the last six squats, PAX circled up for a similar exercise as the the top of the hill, only this one featured squats/squat hold.

Thang 2: All PAX moseyed back to the flag, with a quick stop along the way for some calf raises and dips along the curb. We then visited the small rock pile in the corner of the parking lot for some rock work. Colt 45s, Groundpounders and Goblet Squats. We then circled up for a game Q called ‘Duck Duck Bear’: in a circle, each PAX held a bear crawl position (knees low, waist at a 90 angle). In sequence, a PAX would circle the group while performing a bear crawl, the remainder held still. Hold until all have completed a circle. @Batboy made sure to call out “Duck” as he passed each person.

Mary: Homer to Marge, Freddy Mercury’s, Superman, Yoga

Announcements: @Batboy on the Q tomorrow at Purple Cobra, 

Prayer: @Best-In-Show’s Mom, MIL and FIL who are all battling issues. Strength for them, strength for him and his M as they are caretakers. 

Mumblechatter at Ground Pounder stays at Ground Pounder

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FNGs: None

Warm Up: Old man hangs, Good Mornings, Windmills, Sir Fozio Arm Circles forward & reverse, Imperial Walkers, Hill Billy’s, Willy Mays Hays, Side Straddle Hops x 25 in cadence

The Workout: Each PAX picked two small rocks.  One for each hand.  Many reps of Curls for the Girls, Rut Rows, Forward arm raises, Overhead tricep presses, Lateral arm raises and Shoulder presses.  Repeat all 6 exercises until everything burned.  Mumblechatter took a sideways turn and the count was hard to keep on track during the whole set….  On to the small wall for a set of 11’s with Merkings and Dips.  Then mosey to the picnic tables for a round of squats, monkey humpers and star jumps.

Mary: Around-the-horn core exercises.

Announcements: F3 picnic.  3-Alarm run this Tuesday.  Open Ground Pounder Q still needs to be filled for 7/8/23.

Prayer:  Prayers for all those travelling.  Prayers for Socrates’s family.

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The Bowler Runs 4 The John

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FNGs: Nuh uh

Warm Up: EC was had by 187, Lipstick, UTI

The Workout: A past route of my own creation returns!

Mary: Profuse sweating in the parking lot, heavy breathing

Announcements: 

  • Bottle Share this weekend – see Cupid and Slack
  • Picnic next weekend – see Cupid and Slack
  • 3 Alarm Run – just show up (See Q sheet)
  • R4TJ in need of a site Q – Bring the flag, encourage leadership, draw up some running routes – Ask Lipstick, UTI, and Redenbacher for past Site Q overview.  

T-Claps (Recognition):

Flag provided today by Yogurt – thanks brother!

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Prayer:

  • Maybelline
    • MIL is having open heart surgery, M is traveling to be with her
    • Dad is recovering from recent procedure
  • Pikachu
    • MIL is traveling
    • Mom is having surgery
  • Down Range
    • New baby, new to the area, new job

Forceps Respect Q @ Cletus

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First of all Thank You to everyone who showed up for my respect Q.  July 4th will mark my 6th year with F3 and it has been such a positive and amazing experience for me. I cannot express how much this organization and so many of you have meant to me in my life.   

FNGs: None

Warm Up: Good mornings – 10 IC, SSH x 25 IC, Daisy Pickers – 25, Willy Maze Hays – 10 IC, SF Arm Circles – 10 IC

Mosey to rock pile – Pax pick up two small rocks

3 sets of each rotating around circle

Curls- 25 IC, Tricep extensions -25 IC,  Nipplers – 25 IC, Overhead press- 25 IC, Seal Claps – 25 IC

Dora: Partner up

100 merkins, 200 LBCs, 200 squats rotating exercises while the other partner runs to end of parking lot & back 

Plank Hold till all teams are done.  

Patty Cake Planks to 25 IC

Big Boy Sits ups to 25 IC

Mosey to playground.  

Same partners: 1 HIM does 25 Pull up while other does Mountain Climbers x 25; Plank Jacks x 25

Mosey to tennis court to meet up with Crazy Ivan crew

Banana Seat led us through some Ab exercises which included American Hammers 

Announcements: Run for Quay +2nd F and Sprint Tri on Saturday

Prayer: Banana Seat led us in prayer  

39 is the magic number

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YHC came out to be the conductor at Downtown Train after a funfilled weekend celebrating my 39th birthday. The number 39 was in play throughout the workout. UFO pulled lots of PAX in, but 3 HIM showed up to help me wear off the birthday hangover.

FNGs: Nada

Warm Up: SSH x 39, Sir Fazio Arm Circles F/R, Seal Claps, Overhead Claps, Good Mornings, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies, Moroccan Nightclubs

The Workout:

We moseyed over to the amphitheater for 3 rounds, 6 exercises, 13 reps to total 39 reps of each exercise.

Mixed up some of the ab work along the way to keep things fresh.

First round was Dips, Derkins, Step ups, high plank hold 13 count each PAX, BTTW 13 count each PAX, people’s chair 13 count each PAX.

Second round was Dips, Derkins, Step ups, chillcut plank hold 13 count, BTTW 13 count, people’s chair 13 count.

Third round was Dips, Derkins, Step ups, low slow flutter IC, BTTW 13 count, people’s chair 13 count.

We moseyed over to the rock pile for 3 rounds of exercises with rocks, added an exercise each round. Again 13 of each for a total of 39 was the magic number.

First round: Chest press, skullcrushers, curls for the girls, ruh rohs, wonderbras

Second round: Chest press, skullcrushers, curls for the girls, ruh rohs, wonderbras, goblet squats

Third round: Chest press, skullcrushers, curls for the girls, ruh rohs, wonderbras, goblet squats, bus drivers…to which there was much complaining.

Note: Wild Turkey also let out a thunderous bellow from his bowels during this set…poor Plunger was beside him and downwind…mentions of Bobby Boucher’s absence and possible Tex Mex #2 explosion explaining said absence…

Mosey back to flag

Mary: LBCs x39, American Hammer, Low Slow Flutter, Homer to Marge, Pickle Pounders, a little light stretching.

Announcements: Sign up to volunteer at NC Spring Classic at Bass Lake. See Slack or contact Abe for details.

T-Claps: Plunger for getting back out in the gloom!

Prayer: Davis (3-Alarm), my MIL going through radiation treatments for breast cancer.

YHC took us out.

Hollywood Birthday Party

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FNGs: None

Warm Up: Based on the weather, all PAX headed for the parking deck as soon as 5:30:00 arrived. Warmed up and stretched with Side Straddle Hops, Good Mornings,  Frankenstein’s, and Willy Mays Hays. 

The Workout: PAX tackled a few exercises named after Hollywood classics.

  • First – The Imperial March: Imperial walkers, performed while marching in a circle for the duration of the John Williams classic ‘The Imperial March (Darth Vader’s Theme)”. PAX complained about how long the song was, but not loudly enough to get relief from the Q.
  • Second – Catch Me If You Can: PAX partnered up for a race of sorts. At the sound of ‘GO’, partner one performed five burpees. While partner one performed burpees, partner two attempted to flee as quickly as possible while running backwards. Upon completing the required burpees, partner one sprinted to catch their fleeing partner. Flapjack. Repeato while replacing Burpees with 10 diamond merkins.
  • Third – Field of Dreams: PAX counted off by four, then split to each of the 4 designated ‘bases’. At the sound of ‘GO’, Home plate performed 10 burpees, 1st performed AMRAP merkins; 2nd held a plank; 3rd AMRAP Squats. When homeplate completed the required burpees, they raced down the baseline to first, starting the chain of all stations rotating as they were tagged out. Repeato until all PAX performed burpees. 
  • Round 2 of Catch Me If You Can
  • Round 2 of Field of Dreams, replacing burpees with dips, merkins with derkins, planks with LBCs, squats with Sumo squats
  • Round 3 of Catch Me If You Can – At this point, it became a challenge among PAX to travel further than their partner did. @U.T.I. attempted to gain extra distance on @wildturkey through the use of evasive maneuvers. @wildturkey elected to instead take a shortcut to put a stop to @U.T.I.’s shenanigan’s. 
  • Round 3 of Field of dreams, replacing dips with burpees, derkins with Erkins, LBCs with low-slow-flutter, Sumo Squats with preachers chair.

Ended with a game called Rock Paper Scissors. each PAX measured how many overhead claps they could perform in 20 seconds. They then partnered up to compete in an effort to see who could reach their predetermined number of claps first. In the event of a tie, RPS was played to determine the winner.  After four rounds it was determined that @bestinshow was truly the best-in-show and could have a viable career as a bird if he desired. 

Ended with COT where Q provided doughnut holes for all PAX in celebration of 34 trips around the sun. Nothing makes you want doughnuts like sweaty cardio on a humid morning. 

Mary: None

Announcements: None

Prayer: Davis’s (@davisteitelbaumF3;3Alarm) recovery, @BobbyBoucher’s 2.0 Walt (F3 Bolt) recovery from breathing difficulties yesterday, @Kosher’s mother-in-law recovery from breast cancer. 

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Spring Training

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FNGs: Fried Okra

Warm Up: F3 intro delivered for FNG. SSH, good mornings, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies, Daisy Pickers, Sir Fazio Arm Circles, Seal Claps, Overhead Claps 

The Workout: thing 1: four corners. PAX moseyed out to the ball field. Someone lost their shirt, so we opted to move out into the grass. Start at home with merkins. First base; merkins and squats. Second base; merkins, squats and WWIIs. Third base; merkins, squats, WWIIs and mountain climbers. Second time around we stayed taking exercises off. Once complete,. Moseyed to the rock pile.

Thing 2: rock work. Curls for the girls, Tris for the guys, ruh rohs. 3 rounds.

Mary: popcorn Mary followed by a bit of yoga.

Announcements: Breach’s street cleanup

T-Claps (Recognition): Foot Fault for coming back out to the gloom and Fried Okra for coming out for the first time. Great work fellas, hope to see you again soon.

Prayer: Davis (3 Alarm)

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Wild Twerkey and Nacho Cheese

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YHC showed up at the new Purple Cobra site at Jones Park to find Wild Turkey sitting off to the side revving his Jeep….lights pointed down to the area where we thought we might drop our cinderblocks off, but we decided on a different location. Abe had too showed up early to help scout a location for the coupons. Started running low on time before the main event. We ultimately decided to place the blocks behind the short wall on the right hand side of the playground right after the workout was over.

FNGs: None

Warm Up: SSH, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies, Seal Claps, Overhead Claps, Moroccan Night Clubs

The Workout:

PAX moseyed over to the short wall on the right hand side of the playground. We performed 2 rounds of the following exercises: Derkins, Irkins, Dips, Bulgarian Split Squats. Added Step-ups on the 2nd round on the short wall.

We then went over to the bathroom/facilities area and completed 3 rounds of people’s chair with BTTW, plank holds, and chilcutt planks in between each round of people’s chair.

Next we went over to the rock pile to grab medium-sized rocks. Bobby Boucher picked out one of the biggest rocks I’d ever seen at an AO. Each PAX rotated in between each exercise to make sure we each got a turn with the large rock. Lots of complaining from the PAX during this portion of the ME, some due to the rocks, and some due to Bobby Boucher letting out some extremely wet gas that was dubbed as “Nacho Cheese’ by the PAX. Abe soon chimed in on the smelly fun. The exercises consisted of chest press, overhead press, ruh-rohs, skullcrushers, goblet squats, wonderbras, and curls for the girls.

Finally we went over to the bleachers beside the ball field. We split up into two groups with one group climbing to the top of the bleachers and completing various exercises while the other group stayed at the bottom and did air squats until the first group returned. Exercises at the top consisted of squats, merkins, carolina dry docks, and some weird variation of squats that Wild Turkey was doing that looked like he was trying out for an adult film. We dubbed him as Wild Twerkey during this portion…there are some things that you just can’t unsee….we also mixed in a few different methods of going up and down the bleachers such as bear crawls and crawl bear.

Back to the flag for Mary.

Mary: Popcorn consisting of LBC, WW2, Xs and Os, low slow flutter, alphabet soup spelling out N-A-C-H-O-C-H-E-E-S-E-F-A-R-T-S, Homer to Marge including single leg, and some new exercise that Pumpkin Spice picked up from Peak City – don’t know what it was called but basically like boat canoe with heels up, tap hands on the ground while keeping feet up all the way to 100. That hurt!

Announcements: Town hall at Bass Lake on Feb 28 @7pm

T-Claps (Recognition): All PAX for coming out to support the AO location change. Thanks to guys who helped move the coupons from my truck to their new home at Jones Park. Many hands make light work.

Prayer: Hasselhoff’s great uncle dealing with some heart issues, Kosher’s MIL diagnosed with breast cancer, praise for Kosher’s half sister who was approved for a kidney transplant at UNC. This now puts her on the list so that when she does find a donor match, they can complete the surgery. Bobby Boucher interviewing for potential new job that came out of the blue.

Also a reminder from YHC based on Bobby Boucher’s situation and some personal things that have happened with me lately that some of the best things come from unexpected opportunities. Reminder that God is in control and it’s HIS timing, not yours! Put your trust in Him!

YHC took us out.