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51’s at The Trot

FNGs: None.

20 PAX enjoyed a wonderful break in the heat & humidity with a pleasant 68 degrees after a heavy downpour the day before in the Quay.  Q promised a lot of fun with Hills and rocks.

Warm Up: Q led the PAX around the tennis courts in a light jog all the way down to the snack shack.  The following exercises were executed in cadence:  25 SSH, 10 Daisy Pickers, 10 HB, 10 IW, 10 Monkey Humpers.  Mumble of 51 reps were heard by the Q.  Static stretching with arms (L/R) and behind the back.

The Workout:  Mosey to the small hill parallel to the ball field fence for 11’s of Squats and WWIIs.  PAX loved the moist grass while on their six.  Mosey to the snack for 26 BTTW and 26 People’s Chair followed by 25 more of each totaling 51 reps of each.  Mosey to the road and line up in 3 columns for an Indian run using 3 coupons (water stick, 2 kettle bells).  PAX executed Indian run up the road, past the parking lot and around the tennis courts and deposited the coupons near the shovel flag.  PAX paired up.  One PAX retrieved a medium sized rock and met their partner at the base of the hill.  Those PAX who did not get rocks, executed an assortment of plank holds.  Dauber, celebrating his birthday week, called for 51’s with the rocks:  51 reps of Curls for the girls, triceps curls, rut-ros, Squats, and bus-drivers.  When not holding a rock, partner PAX bear-crawled up the large hill and executed 5 dips on the guardrail.  PAX carefully backed down the hill and then took over rock reps from their partner.  Return rocks to rock pile.  PAX who did not return rocks, circled up in the tennis courts and began executing planks and merkins.

Mary:  YOGA movements, Superman, Merkins, Have a nice day

Announcements:  CSAUP Greenville; Paddle boarding in August ($15) – See Banana Seat; Yoga tonight in Holly Springs (near Dunkin), free first time, $7 after

T-Claps (Recognition): PAX coming out consistently in the gloom giving 100%

Prayer:  Double D took us out in prayer; prayers for our country (too much decisiveness); Injured PAX; family of an infant who died after a horrible pool accident leaving her in a coma; unemployed PAX looking for new opportunity.

2F Stick Boy.

 

Alwaysan honor leading you men in the gloom.  Thank you for making me better.  -Dauber

Audible at Mutiny

FNGs:  none BUT welcome back Snip!

Warm Up:  Run around the pitch.  Circle up for Michael Phelps, 25 SSH, 10 daisy Pickers, fozzio Arm Circles (F/B), HB, IW, Static Arm stretches.

The Workout:  Q showed up on time with a game plan but was not feeling it; shared his concern with Gump.  Immediately called an audible from a boot camp workout with rocks to a game of Ultimate Frisbee!  Dropped Frisbees and Frisbees out of bounds resulted in 3 rep exercises (various).  Scores resulted in 10 count exercises.

Mary:  Each PAX called out a core exercise ranging from Pickle-pounders to American Hammers.

Announcements:  CSAUP (Greenville), Salamander game, BRR Training…See Slack/FB

T-Claps (Recognition):  Norm – two weeks of Army training completed.

Prayer: Horrible murder-suicide tragedy in Norm’s Unit; Injured PAX; Silent prayers; Family members with cancer.

EC:  The Natural

Always an honor leading such a fine group of HIM!

Fourth of July Hangover

FNGs: None
Warm Up: 1 lap around islands, side straddle hops, fozzie arm circles, imperial walkers/hillbillys
The Workout: 100 mountain climbers, 100 plank jacks, 100 dips, 100 American getups, 100 merkins, 100 overhead claps, 100 American hammers, 100 squats, 100 American nightclubs, 100 American situps shared between partners
Mary:
Announcements: check slack
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer:

Rounds of AMRAP

 

 

PAX: Breach, LED, Doc, Modify, Gump, Yosemite, Fonzie, Noah’s Ark, Fram, FedEx, Stovepipe, Finkle, U-verse

EC: Yosemite, LED, Fonzie

FNGs: U-verse and Finkle

Warm Up: SSH x 20, Imperial Walkers x 10, Hillbillies x 10, Fozie Arm Circles x 10 F and R, Stretches,  moseyed to the track for some Frankensteins, Butt Kickers, High Knees, and Carioca

The Workout: Circled up in the parking lot behind Club Wox for circuits of 5 exercises for 30 seconds of AMRAP, 15 seconds of rest for 3 sets.

Round 1:                                                                                    

1) Shoulder Tap Merkins

2) Alternating Side Lunges to Squat

3) Mountain Climbers

4) Kick Ups

5) Burpees

 

Round 2:

1) Stationery Sprints

2) Freddy Mercury

3) Alternating Forward Lunges

4) Rotational Side Planks

5) SSH for the 1st set, Seal Clap SSH for 2nd set and Burpee no push up for 3rd round

 

Mary: LBCs, Heel Taps, American Hammers, Homer to Marge, Pickle Pounders, and 10 burpees no push up

Announcements: Gump will be Qing not 1, not 2, not 3, but 4 workouts next week as he celebrates 4 years of F3

T-Claps (Recognition): US Women’s Soccer Team for 2nd straight World Cup and all the Pax that did the 1776 workout on July 4

Prayer: Noah Ark’s wife, unspoken

Two Big Bowls of Quinoa – aka 1776 workout

First, WTF is quinoa. Second, I had to ask Alexa how to spell it.

Happy Independence Day!

5 for 7.4 mile EC: Pikachu, Cobbler, Warbucks, H1N1, Skidmark

Several others for 2 mile EC

39 Pax posted this morning.

FNGs: Welcome Oboe and Snowden
The Workout:

T-Claps (Recognition): American Eagles: Popinski, H1N1, Yogurt, Banana Seat, 187, Pikachu, Lipstick was on his way.
Prayer: Warbucks and family, Thank you for the freedoms and our first responders, 243 years ago men sacrificed their lives to fight for the freedom we have today, good to Noah’s Arc back out, safe travels this weekend

7 of Diamonds

FNGs: None

H1N1 with the Q for the beatdown at the Nest.  Two for EC – Cupid and H1N1
Warm Up: Figure eight through the parking lot with feet shuffle on the curbs around each island.  SSH, Windmills, IW, HB, arm stretches
The Workout: 7 of Diamonds was on the menu for today’s beat down.

Rd 1 – 7 burpees at each base with a mosey between the bases.

Rd 2 – 14 merkins at each base with a mosey between the bases.

Rd 3 – 21 LSF at each base with a bear crawl between the bases.

Rd 4 – 28 Squats at each base with a bear crawl between the bases.

Rd 5 – 21 Windshield wipers at each base with lunges between the bases.

Rd 6 – 14 Bobby Hurleys at each base with lunges between the bases.

Rd 7 – 7 Diamond merkins at each base with a mosey between the bases.

With 4 minutes to spare, heading onto Mary.

Mary: 1 minute all out BTTW
Announcements: see slack and Facebook
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer: Youth pastor friend of H1N1 3 month son passed away

Ultimate at Mutiny

Sorry for the late backblast, forgot on Monday and Tuesday was swamped.

EC: Cupid, Fonzie, LED, Pikachu

FNGs: Jeter
Warm Up: 15 SSH, 10 Imperial Walkers, 10 Hillbillies, 10 each Sir Fozie arm circles F+R, Michael Phelps
The Workout: Ultimate Frisbee! For every drop or goal, PAX completed an exercise.
Mary: No time for Mary today.
Announcements: Check Slack and Facebook. 1776 workout. Consider donating to the 3rd F charity of the month, Meg’s Smile. Donations per FNG post in July. Details on Slack.
Prayer: H1N1’s pastor had a 2 month old pass away. PAX travelling. Shredder, Crablegs, all other PAX on IR.

Sprints: Cupid, H1N1, Noah’s Ark, Breach, Black Knight, 8-bit, Sugar, Spenda, Yogurt, Pikachu, Yosemite

I’m pretty sure I am missing someone for sprints…please let me know and I can add them.

Dora Returns to Sheepdog

PAX:Norm, Yosemite, Sugar, Cupid, Gump, H1N1, Martini
Warm Up:2 Laps around the parking lot, SSH x 20, Good Mornings X 10, Cotten Pickers x 10
The Workout:Splint into teams of 2 (1 team of 3).  The goal was to complete 100 Merkins, 100 LBCs and 300 Squats.  The team of 3 completed 150, 300, and 600.  PAX 1 executed as many reps as possible while PAX 2 rand the length of the parking lot and back.  This did not take as long as expected.  Rinse and repeat.  On the second round no the exercises were changed to 200 overhead press, 200 reverse LBCs and 400 calf raises.

Once complete, Norm reviewed Rooting and Striking.  30 single strikes and 30 – 3 count strikes.

Mary:Homer to Marge, Box Cutters, Pickle Pounders, Freddy Mercury, Dead Cockroachoach, American Hammer, ABC (Vowels Only x 2), Have A Nice Day
Announcements:1776 Convergence at Womble on July 4th
T-Claps (Recognition):Norm for taking combatives and Cupid for taking out out
Prayer:Those traveling next week, unspoken

A trip to the Five & Dime

23 HIM’s posted in the gloom at the Trot this morning for a little arm work with a little gray block of cement!

FNGs: None

Warm Up: Led by FedEx – 5 burpee penalties were doled out to all pax who showed up to run EC while remaining pax held squats, SSH, Good Mornings, IW, Hillbillies, Michael Phelps, Fozio AC forward / reverse all in cadence. YHC added an additional 5 burpees in honor of Puddles who had requested on Tuesday that the pax perform burpees on his behalf since he had to return to his new abode in Beaufort, NC. We miss you Puddles!

The Workout: Two year F3 anniversary for FedEx and Double D who co-Q’ed a trip back in time to the days of the local Five & Dime. Cinder blocks were conveniently placed across the parking lot and Pax were instructed to push, pull, drag, or get cinder block anyway they so chose across parking lot to tennis courts without block leaving the asphalt. Once inside all Pax lined up at one end and a series of sets of 5 & dimes were called by YHC across the courts of curls for the girls, overhead presses, uneven merkins, blocks around the waist, rut rows, box jumps and plank jacks on blocks. At each end FedEx called an exercise with or without blocks of balls to the wall, mountain climbers on blocks, LBC’s, American hammers, wonder bra’s, etc, and then the series of 5 & dimes resumed back to the opposite end of courts. After a several trips to the Five and Dime blocks were then carried back out off the courts to be pushed, pulled, dragged back across the lot to YHC’s truck to be loaded up for another day! An audible was called for 10 burpees OYO after loading up the blocks.

Mary: Led by FedEx for a series of LBC’s, American hammers, pickle pounders, Homer to Marge, WWII’s

Announcements: Both FedEx and YHC expressed our thanks for this group of friends who inspire and challenge us here in SouthWake. YHC encouraged the Q’s to mix up their workouts by adding whatever they so choose and to think outside the box like assigning penalties to those who performed EC. Yoga tonight at Snap Fitness, Deadbolt’s & Gump’s 5 year anniversary Q at Womble on 7-19-19 – don’t miss it! The Arena workouts every Friday at 2:30 PM – try to do our best to give back to those men at Healing Transistions

T-Claps (Recognition): Mookie sporting Breath taker this week. Strong work Mookie!

Prayer: Robinson family whose husband/father very recently suddenly passed away, Noah’s Ark’s wife FedEx led us out in prayer.

That Was A Crazy Game Of Poker (Martini’s Virgin Q)

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PAX: Yosemite, Cricket, Norm, 16-Bit, Martini

FNGs:None

Warm Up:Lap around the parking lot, 15 SSH, 10 Cotten Pickers, 10 Windmills, 10 Good Mornings

The Workout:Each PAX was dealt 5 cards.  One at a time, a Pax would turn over a card.  The suite of the card would determine the exercise (hearts = cardio, spades = legs, club = abs, diamonds = upper body) and the face value of the card would determine the quantity of the exercise to be completed.  After all five cards were filled, the Pax with the best had would name an exercise.  Winning PAX would complete 5 of the exercise and the remainder of the PAX completed 10.  Yosemite won the first hand and chose Australian Mountain Climbers.  Norm won the second hand an chose Monkey Humpers.   To their credit, both winning PAX completed all the reps with the remainder of the PAX.  At Norm’s request, ee did a lap around the track between hands.
Mary: LBS, Reverse LBC, Homer to Marge, Have a Nice Day
Announcements: None
T-Claps (Recognition):None
Prayer: Circket’s Sister broke both of her arms, Norm’s buddy in the hospital with blood clots . . . it seems like there were one or two more that I cannot remember.