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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.

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Oh brother, where art thou?

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FNGs: Bellhop (brought to us by Jigglypuff from Carpex)

Warm Up: 0530 rolled around with no sign of Q, so Abe started things off with the warm up. Into was given to the FNG. SSH, Daisy pickers, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies, Sure Fazio Arm Circles, Seal Claps, Overhead Claps

The Workout: Breach took over for the first part of the workout. We moseyed over to the rock pile. Let’s if heavy lifting followed by a bear crawl / push the rock and lunge back.

Next, Woody took us over to the amphitheater where things got a little tense as we squared up with the Crazy Ivan crew. Woody had us do arm and legs including step ups, dips, durkins and People’s Chair. The rounds of burpees on our way back to start.

Mary: Kosher moseyed in for Mary and to face the music. Popcorn Mary to wrap things up.

Announcements: Take care of yourselves out there, we aren’t invincible.

T-Claps (Recognition): PAX for stepping up and leading in turns.

Prayer: Wild Turkeys friend who passed away and his family.

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Roll of the Die

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FNGs: none

Warm Up: SSH, Daisy Pickers, Imperial Walkers, Sure Fazio Arm Circles, Seal Claps, Overhead Claps

The Workout: We left the workout in the hands of fate today. The way it worked is we moseyed a few yards and rolled the exercise die. Repeat. Lunges, merkins, frog jumps, crunches, side straddle hops, planks and wall sits. Oh, and 20 burpees.

Mary: Popcorn Mary, finished with some yoga.

Announcements: Consider a CPR class if you haven’t taken one.

Prayer: Wild Turkey’s friend passed away this past weekend. Prayers for his friend’s family and loved ones.

His stride is 3x longer than mine…

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FNGs: none, but we did have two visitors. Mr. Woodchuck from Jacksonville, FL (Full House’s brother) and McFly from TN.

Warm Up:

SSH x 20 IC, Good mornings x10 IC, Sir Fazio Arm Circles forward and reverse x 10 IC, Seal Claps x 10 IC, Overhead Claps x 10 IC, mosey to other end of the lot, Hillbillies x 15 IC, Frankenstein x 10 IC, Squatted Moroccans x 15 IC

Mosey to THAT hill.

The Workout:

7s on THAT hill with squats at the bottom, sprint to top, star jumps, mosey back down

Mosey to the guard rail across from Dunkin for 3 sets of urkins, dips, and Bulgarian split squats with each leg. Did a decreasing count on each set. 20, 15, 10.

Mosey to rock pile and grab two rocks. Circle up and perform 3 sets of rock work including curls for the girls, overhead press, ruh rohs, wonderbras, flys, bus drivers, tricep extensions.

Between sets PAX went over to the wall behind the stores and completed 2 rounds of people’s chair x10 count each PAX. Also did Balls to the Wall x 5 count each PAX.

Mosey behind HT and back to the flag for Mary.

Mary: Popcorn Mary consisting of LBC, Heel Taps, American Hammers, something called Dr. W’s I think that 16-bit called – these required way too much coordination for YHC’s liking, Low Slow Flutter, out of time.

Announcements:

Moose 52/52 Murph’s for the year. Hell of an accomplishment. T-claps!

T-Claps (Recognition): Again Moose and all of the pax out on EC. Wild Turkey, UTI, Jellybeans.

Prayer: Those dealing with cancer, sickness, traveling for holidays, military and first responders.

YHC took us out. Honor to lead!

11-18-22 Agility, Speed, Balance, and the Lady Bug Warmer

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EC 3m Bleeder, Yogurt

EC 2m Abe, Bobby Boucher, Woody

Warm-up

Side stepping: Follow the perimeter lines of the tennis court. One lap right foot forward, one lap left foot forward. Head to other tennis court. Follow the interior lines of the tennis court. Shoulders facing square to net, travel up and back the lines on both sides of the net.

Fancy feet: Step up on curb, alternating feet, while traveling. Right foot first up the parking lot. Head back down, change sides, fancy feet left foot first.

Head to Ivan lot to continue warmups: GMs x10, SSHs x50. It was at this time that Woody exclaimed that it was so cold that his Johnson was shriveled up to about the size of a ladybug. 

Main Event

ME Balance: Head to edge of amphitheater stage for balance exercises. 1-foot 4-count step-ups; Up 1, hold 2-3, down, that’s 1. Second foot never touches the ledge. Next: Calf raises with toes on ledge.

ME Agility: Mosey to softball parking lot. Fancy feet around perimeter.

ME Agility: At least four times through agility ladder, mixing with more fancy feet and many lunges. Ladder steps: left/right run; bunny hop; out/in both feet simultaneously (like and SSH); one more. Ladder stayed in middle and we did figure eights around, using the parking lot curb for fancy feet and path for lunges.

ME Speed: Sprint to marker. Must be going full speed at marker. Decelerate.  Back to marker for exercises.

Five sprints, five sets of exercises: B.L.I.M.P.S: 10 burpees, 20 lunges, 30 imperial walkers, 40 merkins, 50 plank jacks, 60 squats (didn’t have time for squats).

Mary

Balance: Tree position yoga

Announcements: Upcoming CPR class, HSHM Saturday

Prayers: Woody’s dad, Bird Flu’s wife and newborn

Big Dogs at Downtown Train

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Just like Vince Vaughn I spent the last week out of the gloom and eating a ton.  This morning I signed up to Q as a stake in the ground to set some things right that I had knowingly wronged through illness followed by some vacation.  11 men came out in support.

FNGs: nada

Warm Up: Windmills, Good Mornings, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies, Frankensteins, SSHs

The Workout:

In the parking lot next to the book return

  • 11s featuring Mountain Climbers and Burpees with sprints in between.

At the community center stage – alternating with a partner

  • Balls 2 Walls / Fast Feet 10 count in cadence 3x each
  • Preachers Chair / Fast Feet 10 count in cadence 3x each

From the bottom of Library Hill – Sprint to the top

From the round-a-bout near the flag – Sprint to the Stop Sign near the barber shop

Mary: Box Cutters, Homer to Marge, Pickle Pounders, Ankle Grabbers, LBCs

Announcements:

T-Claps (Recognition):

Prayer:

  • Bleeder’s Daughter
  • Brexit’s Daughter
  • Bondo’s Daughter – due Nov 20
    • “Remember where you come from”

Lots of Pole and a Fire Hydrant

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YHC returned from a minor medical procedure to continue the 75 Hard journey and take the lead at Thunder. I haven’t been to this AO in awhile, so I was stoked to lead these guys. A ridiculously humid night, nobody left dry. The group chalked up over a mile and stopped more times than I can count.

FNG’s: no…but a cool cat visitor from F3 Concord…Yellowcake!
Warm Up: Good Mornings
The Workout: We took the Stinson/Grigsby sidewalk loop the whole way around to the back of Womble. It was roughly a mile and we stopped at every pole (either power or sign) for a series of exercises focused on Legs, Core, or Upper body. At each stop we either did 10 reps or 15 reps. We began each series with burpees. At each stop, we increased burpees from 1-5, then 5-1, then 1-5, then 5-1, giving us 50 burpees total by nights end. Exercises for the night included: Squats, Star Jumps, Donkey Kicks IC, Alternate Lunges IC, Fire Hydrants, Money Humpers IC, Merkins, Diamond Merkins, Curb Dips, Hand-Release Merkins, Nipplers IC, Annies IC, Shoulder Taps IC, Pickle Pounders IC, WW2’s, Freddie Mercury IC, Taps IC, Dying Cockroach, LBC’s IC, Homer to Marge IC. The last couple stops going back into the park featured some rock work including, Curls for the Girls, Triceps, Shoulder Press, Chest Press, Skull Crushers, Rock Merkins.
Mary: Built In
Announcements: Bobby Boucher is taking over as 2nd F Q. Stubs is back!!!!
T-Claps (Recognition): Wild Turkey shaking it out after his whipping of the Missoula Marathon!
Prayer: YHC took us out. UTI and some health issues.

Now That We Ran a Little Bit…

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10 PAX arrived ready to board the Downtown Train on a Monday and knock out some hill repeats first thing! Some of those fellas…Moose, Best in Show, Cupid, and Sunshine…blasted up that hill a few times! A great morning for movement and a welcome break from the heat for a day or two!

FNG’s: No
Warm Up: Good Mornings and Sir Fazio’s followed by a mosey down to the library with some but kickers and fast feet on the circle. SSH x 20 and Imperial Walkers x 15 to finish up the warm up.
The Workout: 7’s on Library Hill. WW2’s at the top, Standard Merkins at the bottom. Those that moved faster, we’re rewarded with either Homer to Marge or Pickle Pounders while waiting for the crew during each pass.

A mosey over to the parking garage for a 5 corners…yes…5 corners routine with a partner. Each corner had a certain count exercise, while the partner did AMRAP wall or core exercise, then switch. Corner 1: 30 Derkins/Pickle Pounders. Corner 2: 40 Dips/LBC’s. Corner 3: 50 Monkey Humpers, BTTW. Corner 4: 40 Star Jumps/Peoples Chair, Corner 5: 30 WW1’s/Bear Crawl.
Mary: Monsey over to the flag for 10 more Good Mornings
Announcements: F3 2ndF picnic at Harris Lake, July 30th. Sign up sheet out there. Volunteers needed for July 5th fireworks event.
T-Claps (Recognition): Lot’s of RESPECT in the house today!
Prayer: Small child battling COVID/RSV…friend of POTS. POTS took us out!

Getting ready for Bobby’s 10yr Anniversary!

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FNGs: Floppy Disk
Warm Up: Side Straddle Hops, Good Mornings, Imperial Walkers, Hill Billies, Wind Mills, Sir Fazio Arm Circles, Seal Claps, Overhead Claps, 5 Burpees OYO
The Workout: YHC’s infatuation with a simple-but-effective routine of upper/lower/core/repeat continues. (PAX: “Didn’t we do this on Tuesday?” YHC: “Maybe. Try to keep up!”)
PAX took a trip down the Jeff Wells Trail and made stops at ever other light pole for an exercise. Merkins, Squats, Lunges, WWIIs, Mountain Climbers and Shoulder Taps were all performed in some variation. Either 10 or 20 counts (some of those lunges take too long for a 20 count). We picked up the six along the way. The trail proved just the right length to get us back in time for Mary.
Mary: LBCs, American Hammers, Homer-to-Marge and Pickle Pounders. Finished up with some yoga.
Announcements: F3 South Wake Family Picnic at Harris Lake (July 30th), July 5th Holly Springs fireworks needs volunteers
T-Claps (Recognition): Floppy Disk for coming out to his first workout (and Warbucks for bringing him out).
Prayer: Woody’s family, 16-bit’s wife’s grandmother, Floppy Disk’s father.