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Are you bad listeners or am I a bad leader?

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FNGs: Not today
Warm Up: Mosey to a wall for BTW and a count off of PAX… It took us about 6 times to actually get a count off. The precedence was set for a chatty workout with nobody listening to YHC.  We began to mosey to other side of lot for SSH x15. PAX was surprised by the x15 on SSH, as YHC is known for his x50 or even x100 to begin workouts.  YHC threw a curveball on the SSH, as he called them again, but this time as 21’s.  Q calls out 2 count SSH for the first 1-5 and then 6-21 are silent. If the PAX don’t finish all at the same time in cadence on 21, repeato….Lets just say we repeated quite a few times.  We even had some OYO Peeping Lipsticks when the PAX struck out 3x for not being quiet.   We continued the mosey to another lot and did more warmups.

The Workout: Partner up and suicides across lot with peeping lipsticks.  6 suicide stops- Pax 1 goes to first and back while Pax 2 does peeping lipsticks, rotate partners after each suicide stop, until we got to the end.  Pax had a hard time understanding and also questioned the legitimacy of a peeping lipstick (turkesh getup with a star jump)  It’s in the exicon!   Next we mosey to the bus stop where YHC had coupon pain stations setup.  Partner 1 worked with coupon while partner 2 ran out and back. Switch roles and then switch stations as we rotated through 7 stations.  Stations as followed: Merkin Jack Webb with Cinderblock (2 stations) Weighted jump rope, grave diggers with 20lb mace, death march with 10lb mace, kettlebell swings 35lb, kettlebell tricep extensions 15lb. Closed out with 21s again to test our progress. It only took 3 times to nail it, Pots even turned his back to the Pax!
Mary:  Mary caught the bus and we kept the heartrate up until the end!
Announcements: June 26th Picnic at Harris Lake, Families invited, Emeril is smoking 32 Pork Butts
T-Claps (Recognition): All Pax for showing up during this challenge. The engagement, fellowship, accountability, etc has been awesome. Let’s keep this going through the summer!
Prayer: Heidi, Emeril’s family friend with Cancer

Rock Swap Fail

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Great group out there today. Solid EC as a bunch of us stuck together on a strong pace. After almost 4 years, and countless times posting at PT when it was the only show in town on Wed, this was the first time I took the Q.

FNGs: None today, so no extra points for any PAX
Warm Up: Jog around tennis courts, circle up for exercises. All you need to know is we did Good Mornings and we did ICx20. Several other typical moves to prepare for workout.
The Workout: Moseyed around courts to select a rock that would be a good challenge with focus on bi/tri and Wonder Bras. We lined up at one end of the lot and we did bis/tris ICx20, then a run to far end where we did tempo squats ICx10. Back to rocks and repeat. Did this 3 times. Next we lined up across from an accountability partner and we did Wonder Bras ICx20, followed by a shoulder burn holding out on 10 count – Fazio 10 forward, 10 count hold, Fazio 10 reverse, 10 count hold, Seal Claps ICx10, 10 count hold, Overhead Claps ICx10, 10 count hold. Recover on the Michael Phelps. Repeat. Shredder pulled a rock swap and delivered his slightly heaver rock to me, and Cancun quickly joined the swap by trading out with me and dropping a behemoth at my feet. Staring down at that thing I had to decide if another round was in order, or if time was ticking and it was time to return the rocks. Truth be told, the plan was to be done, and so I stuck to it, but I did Cusak that piece of shit back to the pile as a show of good faith. By the way, very little chance I was gonna survive another round of Wonder Bras with that thing. Returned the rocks and moseyed down to the field house and did alternating BTTW and tempo dips.  3 rounds and nice job by Pots going 1 handed. Circled up for a quick set of SSH ICx50. Moseyed back to tennis courts lined up at one end and did merkins ICx10, Bear Crawl across court 1, shoulder taps ICx0, Bear Crawl across court 2, Nipplers ICx10, Bear Crawl across court 3, Plank hold 10 count. Lots of action out there today, lots of constant movements, very few recovery. Ended up logging 1 mile even while moving our way around the park.
Mary: Multiple rounds of LBC, Homer to Marge, 6 Hold and Low Slow Flutters
Announcements: Picnic, Fram on Q at TB, Warbucks on Q at Disney, Shredder preparing for Memorial Day Murph
T-Claps (Recognition): Everyone, all PAX really put in the effort this morning. We kept moving and worked hard start to finish.
Prayer: Fram shared upcoming travel to reconnect with family he has not seen in 2 years. Tend to forget how the pandemic might have isolated some folks and led to these long gaps in sharing time together. Shredder took us out.

Pennsylvania Sweat Box at Cobra

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FNGs: None

Warm Up: Short mosey over to the GNC Parking lot for circle up.

  • SSH x 20
  • Good Morning x 10
  • Standard Merk x 20
  • Imperial Walker x 20
  • Fazio 10+10

The Workout:

  • Mosey over to in front of the Butchers Market for a Pennsylvania Sweatbox with bonus sprints
  • Get accountability partner
  • Pax Does the following exercises right in front the butchers market
    • Squat x 20
    • WW2 x 20
    • SSH x 20
    • Merkin x 20
    • Freddy Merc x 20
    • Lunges x 20
  • After that set of 6 exercises above – pax does a parking lot suicide with 6 stops at parking lot “tips”
  • Repeat the above until time

Mary:

Mosey back to Teeter lot and then Jailbreak to flag

  • Low Slow Flutter x 20
  • Homer to Marge
  • Homer to Marge alternating legs
  • times up

Announcements:

  • Family Cookout – check slack
  • JoCo CSAUP – check slack

T-Claps (Recognition):

  • Roger Roger’s family member with brain tumer

Prayer:

  • YHC took us out in a Ball of Man
  • Honor to lead men

 

Red October 5/17/2021

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14 Pax took to the pavilion at Red October for a Tabata style kettlebells and then some workout.

Sprinker, Felix, Fram, Pots, Dawgpound, Dumbo, Emeril,  Farva, Norm, Lipstick, Yoshi, welcome FNG Murdoch and Breach on the Q

Warm Up: Circled up in the traffic circle for some 22 counts reps of SSH, Daisey Pickers, Windmills, Fazio Arm Circles, and Imperial Walkers/Hillbillies

The Workout: 7 Stations of fun: Partner up with one partner using the tools partner 2 is on a dealer’s choice kettlebell exercise, at the 2 mins mark partners switch.

Station 1 Sandbag- Brupess with a snatch

Station 2 Pain Stick- Overhead press in the front and back

Station 3 Barbell- Rut Rohs

Station 4 Weight Plate- Squat and press

Station 5 Tire- Farmers Carry around the circle

Station 6 Kettlebell squat to upright row

Station 7 Kettlebell sandbags- Squats and shoulder shrugs

Mary: Combined effort with Mutiny- Pickle Pounders and Lo-Slo Flutter.

Announcements: JOCO CSAUP this weekend, sign up on Slack, South Wake picnic on June 26th, details in Slack. Bed build on June 12th
T-Claps (Recognition): All pax for the effort during the May challenge.

Prayer: Emerils family friend who is recovering from thyroid cancer, and always for our first responders and military that are out there on the front lines.

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This was my first time at Needmore Park. The routes were great and we had some quality mumble chatter along the way.

EC:  A lot of PAX were there for EC.

FNGs: not today

Warm Up:    10 x Good Mornings, 10 x Spinal Rotations

The Workout:  We ran the Yellow route for EC so I suggested we take the yellow route in reverse. After some discussion to coordinate the coffee stop, we decided to take the blue route and then the yellow route. We made a pit stop at Breach’s house for coffee and then headed bag to the flag.

Mary: Short on Time

Announcements:

Picnic note from Dawgpound:

F3 Southwake is hosting a picnic at the Longleaf shelter at Harris Lake. All Pax and their family are invited. The goal is to have a couple of Pax cook hotdogs and hamburgers at the event. The rest of Pax are recommended to bring either a side, paper plates, silverware or dessert. Everyone is welcomed to bring picnic games like Cornhole. There is a playground nearby for kids to play and we are close to the lake.

Date: June 26
Time: Starts at 11 AM. Stay as long as you want
Who: Every Pax and their family

How do I register: Fill out information here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-nsRCNZUJY2UB43Q6Q9bOX4zG-Nt-JcFFlDd83424wI/edit?usp=sharing

 

Bed Build Note from LED:

Talking with coordinator and she said she will be posting the signup to the public Monday for the June 12th build day.  If your able to help please signup below. They plan to cut and stain 40 beds in fuquay and 7500 across the nation. Come be a part of it and let’s help out the community. It’s amazing how excited these kids are when they get a new bed delivered.

https://m.signupgenius.com/#!/showSignUp/10c0d49aba823a3f4c61-shpncfuquay14/19596328

T-Claps (Recognition): Breach for proving the coffee for all of us.

Prayer: Unspoken

YHC took us out. Always an honor to lead.

OG U-turn returns

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25 PAX got a taste of the old school route this morning. We had a bunch of ECers run over from Jones Park as well. Lot of good chatter on this brisk morning. Nice work picking up the six. The 3 mile group did some yoga after their run. Pikachu called in sick so YHC stepped up for some May points. Nice work all around.

We ended with prayer as always.

Thanks for allowing me to lead.

BS out!

Baker’s Dozen at a Respectful Downtown Train

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FNGs: None. welcome back kotter – KOSHER!  Great to have you back in the gloom
Warm Up:  Circled up after a bunch of PAX ran 2 miles EC in the rain.  Thanks for picking up the six men.  Began with 20 SSH, daisy pickers, sir fazio (F/R), seal claps, overhead claps, Don Quixote, and Imperial Walkers.  Gave PAX an overview of the workout and we were off to library hill, not the parking garage.
The Workout:  Ran down library hill.  SAFETY Point:  only one PAX had a head lamp.  Completely poor leadership on YHC.  Thank you Lipsync for lighting the way.  Stopped at the stop sign/fire hydrant and cranked out 10 squats.  Proceeded down the road until we reached the cross walk.  5 burpees OYO.  Mumble chatter had continued from the warm-up….something about would this be a running boot camp?  From Dauber?  PPPLEASE!   Back to the fire hydrant for 10 merkins. What goes down must come up?  Heading back up library hill. At the top, conducted 10 star jumps.  Off to the rock pile.  Asked PAX to get a medium rock.  Size does matter.  11/13 rocks were fine.  Other two…I think they were replaced for bigger ones.  Lined up near sidewalk until a car was spotted and we moved again on to the sidewalk.  Once again, better leadership was needed by me.  We did A LOT of exercises with the rocks in cadence mostly.  Exercises included, curls for the girls, tricep extensions, slap rock, toe taps, rut-rows, wonder bras, upright rows, squats, overhead press, ground pounders, bus drivers, etc.  From our six, more rock exercises including nipplers, straight arm curl, 6 inches with rock above chest, box cutters, etc.  Returned the rocks.  Thanks again to Lipsync for lighting our way.  Off to the amphitheater wall by library.  All PAX participated in 10 count BTTW or people’s chair rotating between the two exercises.  Running out of time head to flag for Mary.
Mary:  American hammers, box cutters, protractors (some trouble with math due to Dauber’s public education), H2M, six inches, etc.  Finished with some yoga including DD, chair, pigeon…
Announcements:  Build a bed; Run for HSPD/officer in need; see Slack/FB.
T-Claps (Recognition):  Fundraising for Brandon Rizzuti (and his mom) for the purchase of a new chair and local company gift cards! T-claps to those who organized (Lipsync) and everyone who donated bottles and all PAX who purchased raffle tickets.  Good luck everyone.
Prayer:  Thank you Norm for leading us out in prayer today.  Prayers for India, injured PAX – including PAX who was in a bike accident, Deuce’s surgery, first responders, for our country, Unspoken….

Finished with the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag.  I saw this at AGS by Full House.  I love this idea.  Encourage other Qs to incorporate in their workouts.

Honored to lead!

Thank you to Quiver for asking PAX with RESPECT to lead DT in the month of May.

Sheepdawgpound

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EC: Dawgpound, Emeril, Yoshi, Dumbo, Shredder, Lipstick, Yogurt, Big Ditch, Norm,
FNGs: Nope
Warm Up:

Ran around the parking lot and circled up.
Will the Pax bounce I did a terrible job explaining the main event.
We did some other warm up excessive. Everyone felt froggy.

The Workout:

At each light pole was a stop. 2 x 36# and 2 x 22# kettlebells where carried to each pole and back to the start. The Pax was doing build them up suicides. This means at Pole 1 they did Break Dancers (Side kicks). At the start they only did break dancers. At Pole 2 they did 5 Prisoner Squat Get Up Squat Jumps. At the start line they did 3 break dancers and 5 Prisoner Squat Get Up Squat Jumps. We kept going until we learned how to defend ourselves.

Exercises:
Pole 1: 3 Break Dancers
Pole 2: 5 Prisoner Squat Get Up Squat Jumps
Pole 3: 10 Carolina Dry Docks
Pole 4: 20 in cadence LBCs

Mary:

Modified Onnit 6 minute abs

Plank Hold
Peter Parkers
Mountain Climbers
Big Boy Situps
Bicycle
Russian Twist
Bowl

Announcements:
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer:
Martini
Yogurt’s Mom

Reach out and touch someone (old AT&T slogan)

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During announcements I closed encouraging everyone to reach out to someone within F3 that may be dealing with an injury or just flat out hasn’t posted to an AO in a while.  I told Saturday’s U-Turn PAX during the month of April I was personally dealing with a toe sprain and I hadn’t posted nearly as much as I would’ve liked to.  Weekends are usually my only time to post at all during the week and I had missed U-Turn and AGS for 2 weeks straight.  It didn’t take long for me to feel disconnected and somewhat distant from my fellow F3 brothers  (both because I hadn’t seen anyone in a while and I had also lost some of my stamina/endurance).  I can only imagine how a long term injury or a long period of time off (for whatever reason) may lead to a PAX feeling embarrassed or shameful to come back and post.  Although we would never shame anyone and we always welcome any man to any workout at anytime I feel its important that we make an effort to reach out to a fellow F3 member that we know is injured, dealing with another issue, or just haven’t seen in a while.  Sometimes a little encouragement can go a long way.

FNGs: none today

Warm Up: quick mosey, 10x Windmills, 10x Daisy Pickers, 10x Imperial Walkers, 10x Frankensteins, 25x-30x Merkins

The Workout: standard U-Turn in reverse (6mi option or 3mi option).  By far an easier route than standard U-Turn due to less hills/elevation.

Mary: ran outta time

Announcements: congrats to Sprinkler’s son graduating high-school!  Upcoming Grasshopper 5K run, 5K walk, & 1mi fun run benefiting Sergeant Rick Leach Sat June 12 here in Holly Springs.  Bed build June 12th.  May challenge continues…

T-Claps (Recognition): Picking up the 6 as always

Prayer:  11yr old recently involved in dirtbike accident, injured PAX, well being of F3 Friar Tuck and family upcoming move to TX

Dawgpound Celebrates 4 years

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EC:There was 22 plus people running EC. So yeah I don’t have the names here.
FNGs:Pile Driver
Warm Up:

Circled Up and bounced while I went over the Disclaimer. Did a count off to have an understanding on how many Pax where there.

Mosey to the field and circle up.
Bat Wing
Fazio Arm circles Forward
Fazio Arm circles Backward
Seal Claps
Overhead Claps
Ralphies
Good Mornings
1 Burpees
2 Burpees
3 Burpees
4 Burpees
5 Burpees

The Workout:

Moseyed to the Bus Drop off. We split up into pairs and then a pair took one of the three islands.

Run in opposite directions around the island. When you met your partner do 7s counting down of Broke Back Shoulder Tap Merkins. Every time you meet you decreased the number. We went down to 1. Once that was wrapped up we did laps around the island. Partner A did bear crawls and Partner B did Lunge walks. When Partner A needed a break Partner B took over the bear crawls and Partner A did lunges. After one lap we switched to Gorilla Walks and Lunges.

Mosey to the wall for mobile balls to the wall. The pax waiting held their Squat Hold. As pax held balls to the wall and moved down the length of the wall.

Moseyed to the playground and split up in three groups. One group went with Emeril to the hill. One group with Flanigan to the play ground and the last group with me to the wall. The hill group was the timer. 5 trips up the hill running backwards. The folks against the wall held squat while lifting up one leg and switching. The playground group did pull ups. Once the 5 trips where completed group one went to the wall. Group 2 to the hill and group 3 to the playground. Repeat until all groups ran the hill.

Then we made our way up the stairs. We then found our original partners and wheelbarrow to the flag pole/stop sign.

Mary:

Circled up for Mary:
Did a modify Onnit 6 minute Abs:
Plank Hold
Peter Parkers
Mountain Climbers
Big Boy Sit-ups
Freddie Mercuries
Russian Twists
Bowl

Announcements:
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer:

All unspoken prayers