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23 HIMs braved the sticky gloom to re-discover what makes Dante’s Peak the PREMIER site on Fridays in Apex. No new stuff, all vanilla. Just pretend those turf fields aren’t even there. 21 HIMs pledged allegiance and off we go. Warm Up 5 Burpees OYO SSHs Trike shows up at 5:46, so 5 burpees OYO Cotton pickers Beetle rolls in at 5:47, so 5 burpees OYO Good Mornings, Sir Fazio, Hill Billies Mosey to the top of the hill, wake up Monkey Nut’s neighbors with 5 squats. [Read More]

No Themes - Let’s Go To Work With all of the themed workouts going on lately, YHC wanted to get back to basics. PAX circled around the flag for a Pledge of Allegiance. The PAX were then directed to look up at the cross on top of the Sovereign Grace Church. This vantage point is humbling and serves as a reminder to the price Christ paid for us. We are truly blessed to be able to do what we do. [Read More]

15 PAX with no FNGs. Disclaimer given regardless, although the pre-workout mumble chatter was in full force Mozy to the middle school and circle up after I recover music set up from strategic location SSH x 15 Hillbillies x 15 Fazios, overhead claps, reverse Fazios x 12 Yogurkins x10 with a low plank hold on the last one (exercise performed with a 10 count) Thang 1 Dumpster Dive 20 each Diamond-merkins, Imperial-walkers, V-ups, Elbows-to-knees [Read More]

8, er 10 HIMs braved the monsoon rains to crush some Kettle-Dora, 7s and 11s at Hell’s Bells. Here’s how it went down: Warm Up We don’t wanna get those kettlebells wet, so we convene at the shelter and triangle up. Standard fare of: SSHs, Sir Fazio, Good Mornings, Overhead claps, Hill Billies and Merkins (on YHC’s down AND up) Thang 1.0 Partner up, size does not matter. Partner 1 does single count L-R step ups, Partner 2 works on: [Read More]

Go Time 0545 Jog to end of lot - circle up 20x IC SSH 20x IC Imperial Walkers 20x Plank Jacks 20x OMD Merkins 15x IC Peter Parkers 15x OMD merkins Mozy out (backward Run, Kariokie etc) Stop along the way for Irkins on the fence BTTW walk across the bridge (crowd favorite) The Thang Uno: Pair up (p1 w rock / p2 around pond to pullup bars 5x) Flip AMRAP Rock curls/Rows/Press/Extension/Man Makers 5 trips to pullup bars Head out - Mozy to parking lot Crawl Bear the bridge for good measure The Thang Duo: Grab brick - Circle Up Plank with one hand on upright brick 10x OMD Merkins (brick in other hand) + 10x OMD Merkins 15x brick reverse fly (left arm up/right arm up) 15x brick front raise (left arm up/right arm up) LBC w brick WWII w brick Announcements [Read More]

40 years ago today, Mr and Mrs Puryear experienced that miracle of life that is childbirth, and brought into this world a bouncing baby McCants…….Who would have thought that momentous event 14,600 days ago would have a chaos theory affect, a RIP-ple if you will, on 7/19/2018 and completely change the day for 16 HIM’s who chose to post at the finest AO in NW Cary on a Thursday morning. [Read More]

Cinder blocks … $1.68 at Lowes … priceless F3 beatdown material. YHC is always excited to Q at Tortoises to work on shoulders and arms and overall use-able strength. Yes, this is a limited run workout, but it is still a beatdown. Warm-up: SSH IC, good mornings, arm circles forward and backward. Everyone grabbed a cinder block and fast walked from the lower parking lot to the upper parking lot. [Read More]

23 met in the sticky gloom at TB Park. Warm Up Pledge of Allegiance, disclaimer, and 22 men begin what was supposed to be an easy pace Indian run to the front lot. We’ve got an FNG arriving at 5:47 so Sosa makes sure he gets to the warmup circle. The obligatory 10 burpees commence. Your standard fare of SSHs, Good mornings, Sir Fazio and Hill Billies. Thang 1 Partner up, 100 Merkins, 200 Monkey Humpers, 300 Fluttering Supermans [Read More]

Pre-Blast - 12 heavy lifters moved some serious weight at Hells Bells. - Most of us arrived on time at either the old or new location. The Warmup - Pledge of Allegiance at the flag. - Run around the pickle and circle up on the other side of the parking lot for warm-up. - Circle up for: GM, windmills, calf stretch, Sumo squat stretch, standard merkins, SSH. - Bear crawl back to where the kettle bells are located. [Read More]

Note: Orphan and Garfield were the co-Q’s for this workout, YHC is just posting the backblast for them. Goal M. Night Shyamalan directed a sleeper movie in 2004 called “The Village.” It was about a group of people who started a new society in the woods, intentionally shunning modern technology to be sheltered from current times. They were escaping the mistakes of their past to start anew, but there was no escaping the pure adrenaline caused from this little jaunt, tour, and beatdown around a neighborhood in Apex. [Read More]