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First-ever (to YHC’s knowledge) Instagram story of an entire(ish) beatdown! Watch it here: https://www.instagram.com/stories/f3carpex/ While YHC figures out how to archive that, here’s what we did for Offish BB purposes: Warm-up: Good morning, merkins, sir fazio and overhead claps, quick feet and curb merkins Pearl 1: Rock curls, tricpes, press and rows x2 with a pickle lap in the middle Pearl 2: 7 burpees at Burpee Corner Pearl 3: Kiwanis Pavilion for LRSU, Dips, LRSU, Table Deadlift Pearl 4: Other Pavilion for LRSU, Erkens, LRSU, Derkins Pearl 5: To the beach for Merkins, WG Merkins, Diamond Merkins and a Texas Ranger prayer Pearl 6: At the kiosk for partner Dora 1-2-3 with the hill at the run Pearl 7: Over to the south of NH rock pile for Curls, Triceps, Press and Rows. [Read More]

After what looked to be a great evening of 2nd F on a Midsummer’s eve many of the PAX were operating on High Octane fuel. A fuel they would call upon about halfway through the morning as there were digging deep on an AMRAP + 1. 0520 ECP - YHC, WWW, GTL, Red Rider, Frisco continued our quest to get bigger, stronger and faster at the pull-up one repetition at a time. [Read More]

Pre-Blast - 16 HIMs we’re reminded how valuable and necessary it is to be self-motivated. Every man’s contribution of enthusiasm and effort compound together to build the incredible culture we share. - Todays theme: Show up ready to give your best and inspire the next man to give his best as well. The Warmup - Pledge of Allegiance at the flag. - Run one, and only one, lap around the parking lot. [Read More]

Pre-Blast - 9 HIMs kept it simple at A-Team. The Warmup - Pledge of Allegiance at the flag. - Run to the bottom of hill number one. - Circle up for: Good mornings, windmills, cotton pickers, groiner merkins, imperial walkers. The Thangs - Sevens on hill number one with Burpee’s at the top and Burpee’s at the bottom - Run to hill number two - Sevens on hill number two with Burpee’s at the top and Burpee’s at the bottom [Read More]

Pre-Blast 27 HIMs got wet and got stronger at Phoenix. We were reminded that Franklin is 48 years old. The Warmup - Pledge of Allegiance at the flag. - Mixed run to the West lot. - Circle up for: Supermans, LBCs, SSHs, Freddie Mercs, Merkins. - Small group Indian Run to the community center. The Thangs - Grab an ego rock and a partner. - On the wall, complete AMRAP Australian Nipplers while your partner completes 15 each: rock curls, rock rows, rock tricep ext. [Read More]

A few weeks ago YHC and WWW traveled north to the The Farm to help celebrate Spit Valve’s Q Week. The first half was a typical, well executed and thorough beatdown, but the second half was something new for us. It was a game of Ultimate Frisbee, with penalties doled out whenever the frisbee reached the end zone or touched the ground. It was thrilling and on our drive back we agreed we definitely had to bring it back to Carpex. [Read More]

As we come up on 241 years as a country, YHC felt it was appropriate to celebrate with a little victory lap. It’s a beautiful lake with wonderful scenery and a typically well maintained Apex trail running around it. The backblasts suggested A-Team hadn’t run a lap in quite some time (YHC found reference to one such effort in ‘16 led by a “McCants”) so here we go. Warm-up: this was sort of done on the run [Read More]

Nostalgia – Football Practice Drills On Saturday during coffeeteria after a brutal Hi-Liter led Phoenix beatdown, Build-A-Bear asks if I am going to FMJ. I stated “yes” enthusiastically. The follow-up question was, would you Q FMJ? I gladly accepted. I thought through what I wanted to do so I could make sure Build-A-Bear would get a good workout and I did not disappoint. What’s funny is no Build-A-Bear to be seen at FMJ. [Read More]

Roll into the Sovereign Grace Church parking lot and there’s already a lot of activity. Some of the PAX are finishing up their EC pull-ups, and we’ve got a clown car from South Wake. YHC has just enough time to place cones in the parking lot, and it’s time to go. Warm-Up Mosey down to the bottom of the parking lot and circle up for side straddle hops, hillbillies, plank jacks and Sir Fazios. [Read More]

We got your back Suey! Get well soon. With little time to plan where’s the best place to go for new and exciting ideas? The F3 Exicon. Oh the fun… Shout out to 6 HIMs who arrived at 0515 for EC pull-ups! Committed to getting back to back! As per Crimson’s watch, it’s 0545- Pledge of Allegiance. Warm up Side Straddle Hop Steve Earl Fluttering Superman Finkle Swing (another sweet Exicon find) Midget Squats (Earhart was giving me a hard time about something and YHC really likes these so we enjoyed them for a few extra reps) Thang 1 [Read More]