Month: July 2024

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Adding new routines to the repertoire

AO: pain-train
Q: SalPal
PAX: Timber, The Banker, FLO, El Capitan, Pitmaster, G-string, Cheeks
FNGs: None
COUNT: 8
CONDITIONS: Refreshingly brisk

WARMUP: mosey+ assorted routines

THE THANG: fun to fields behind middle School. Set up 9 cones in a line, ~10 yards apart.

Modified suicides: bearcrawl to 1st cone, 9 burpees, run back, 10 Lt. Dan’s. Repeat, going out an additional cone and down one burpee until you get to the last come with 1 burpee.

Killed time at the end with proper suicides, mosey, and Merkins.

MOLESKINE: Do hard things.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Night Movez, GEODIS run.

COT: This country, Ms pregnancy, gratitude for physical health.

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Track and Field Rack and Stack!

AO: greenmachine
Q: Cal Worthington
PAX: Haggis, Sherlock, Zelenskyy, Cowboy
FNGs: None
COUNT: 5
CONDITIONS:

Moist. Slight Drizzle. Thick.

WARMUP:

Warm Up I.C. X20
SSH
Imperial Walker
Toy Soldiers
PIckUp
Grass Git’rs
Stay down 4 stretch, left & right
Worlds Greatest Stretch

Mosey to the Track!

THANG 1:
Set of 11’s – Dips and Derkins

THANG 2:
Rack and Stack 400
Track Suicides Rack / Stack

Run to the 100 – Drop and do Exercise,
Return.

Run to the 100 – Drop and do Excercise, Run to the 200, exercise Then return.

At each 100, do the exercise. Upon return to start, stack exercises on top of each other.

(100,200,300, 400yrd marks)

✓ 5 burpees
✓ 10 hand release Merkins
✓ 15 Star jumps
✓ 20 heels to heavens

Finish with a Victiry Lap up
And down bleachers.

Mosey to the start and finish with Abs ring of Fire

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Hope on Slack

COT:
Don’t focus on the negative. Control the controllable, keep it moving and you will get through it.

Thanks for letting me lead Focker :punch:

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Childish Play

AO: the-knoll
Q: Timber
PAX: The Banker, Malibu, morning stār, El Capitan, Pebbles, G-string, Timber, Smoltz (2.0), Mucchi (2.0), Iowa (2.0), Bumblebee (2.0), Butter
FNGs: 1 Butter
COUNT: 12
CONDITIONS: 73 degrees, light rain for the first 20 minutes

WARMUP: SSH, Squats, Overhead arm clap, variety of stretches for legs (covered F3 mission, principles, credo here)

THE THANG:
Station 1: Item Toss
-divided into 2 teams, each PAX selected an item to throw to a target 25 yards away (items: football, tennis ball, frisbee, dodgeball)
-total # of steps from the target that items landed = total # of reps of exercises
-exercises: pullups, burpees, merkins (Round 1); squat jumps, Apollo Ohnos, spicollis (Round 2)
Station 2: Obstacle Course Run
-1 PAX from each team ran the playground obstacle course while other PAX completed a dealer’s choice of shoulder/core exercise (2 rounds)
Station 3: Matching
-8 pairs of workout cards (16 cardboard cards total) placed face down; PAX took turns flipping the cards. If NO match, PAX completed both workouts; if match, PAX discarded the cards without having to complete the workout. Cards: Carolina Dry Docks, Burpees, Merkins, 4ct flutter kicks, WWIIs, LT Dans, Jump Squats, Pullups

MOLESKINE: for the item toss, # of reps ranged in the 20-28 reps range for teams. The rain added in some challenges (like making the obstacle course a tad slick) – good work by PAX to err on the side of going slower to stay safe. El Capitan proved his tremendous servant leadership by showing up at the end with Mtn Mojo for the group. We expressed gratitude for a successful court date for Sparrow in their adoption process.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: check slack channel!

COT: emphasis on the power of AFFIRMATION. When genuine, affirmation has the ability to install confidence and a feeling of security in our kids, and it has the ability to break down barriers with others we might have conflict with in our lives.

Great work this morning!
-Timber

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First time is the easiest

AO: thestronghold
Q: tampalibra
PAX: Red Skull, Decaf, toga, Dan Tanna, bluemule, Shocker (Mark Holmes), Spandex, Speed Walker, Baby Boy, Light Weight, Five Points, Layup, Temper Tantrum, Bumble Bee, Peso, Unc, Tampax, Skid Mark, Long Way, Soft Soap and Trajectory
FNGs: None
COUNT: 23
First. We’ve got 160 PAX in this channel and only 6 at the workout. 4 if you take out Red Skull and Decaf who are there by default. I personally cant come every time so I totally get it but I really cant overstate the impact y’all have on these men. I’d really encourage you to commit to coming at least once per class, more if you can. 4:13 speaks directly to the heart of the mission of F3.

CONDITIONS: Cool

WARMUP:
SSH x 30
Squats x 10
LBAC x 10 each way
Jack Webb 1/3 Merkin+Air Press up to 10/30

THE THANG:
Grab a block at mosey

Line up in 2 groups of 11. bluemule was kind enough to Q some 4-count flutters while YHC set up cones.

Sprint relay – grab a cone bring it back, next guy grabs the next and brings it back, so on and so forth until all are picked up and then reset back out.

Group 2 won the first round with Red Skull someone getting stuck with 3 legs of it! To the winner goes the spoils so I gave them the choice of burpees or block thrusters. The team chose thrusters so 15 thrusters while Group 1 did 20 burpees.

Rinse and repeat. Group 2 again took the W. They chose burpees this time so YHC obliged with 30 burpees. 20 thrusters for Group 1.

YHC had some other things planned but wasn’t super pleased with the sprints, the lack of full reps, etc. SO we lined up and every man ran 125ft sprint down, and 125ft back. Immediate rinse and repeat again.

Grab the blocks and mosey home for burpee-apocalypse. When we got to 6 YHC promised we could be done once every person completed every rep. @Tampax stepped up and called out the reps for PAX, awesome leadership.

MOLESKINE:
Barely Legal (repeat 413’r) asked me 3x for a new name. I told him no and that it only gets worse. I finally obliged after insisting several more times. Being at a Tampa Q, and the bright pink shorts, Barely Legal has been officially renamed Tampax. Dont let Red Skull put any of this Tampa-X nonsense out there. It’s Tampax. Period. (pun intended)

I had something a little different dialed up but last second changed it up. I thought it was important for the PAX to experience a team focused challenge. It was interesting seeing them only focus on the dude next to them and give only just enough effort that was required and forgetting about the bigger picture. Some good lessons in that for sure.

COT:
Lots of prayers for safety for the men, resiliency, and their families.

Spandex has a sister getting some cancer scans this week.

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Tour de Nations

AO: atlantis
Q: Schnauzer
PAX: SalPal
FNGs: None
COUNT: 2
CONDITIONS: 70 degrees, high humidity

WARMUP: SSHx20

THE THANG:
Run to Treaty Oaks.
Run the loop with 20 air squats, 20 lunges, 20 push ups. x2
Run down Lousiana. Bear Crawl random hill.
Back to West Park for 10 dips x2 in pavilion. 30 step ups.
More running. Tabata air squats. More running back to parking lot.
Sprints x 10
Deep squats x10
Mary

MOLESKINE: 2.64 miles when all said and done. Very hot and humid. Originally planned for basketball mid-workout but audibled due to wet courts and few PAX. We went off campus for a bit, but returned to West Park quickly because we wanted to be near the guy who sprints around the baseball field every morning.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Dash at the Castle 5K. Geodis Park, Saturday 7/27
Night Moves at Bicentennial Park, Saturday 7/20 at 1830

COT:
Prayers for healthy pregnancy
Prayers for injured and downrange PAX
Prayers for Schnauzer’s wife’s friend who recently lost her husband

Coffeeteria at White Bison

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Simple 7s

AO: the-discipline
Q: hambone
PAX: Dylan Wickliffe, Dilbert, Country Parkour, Dizzy Doc
FNGs: None
COUNT: 5
CONDITIONS: post-rain smell

WARMUP: It’s summer–why warmup? My drive from the Great North is enough of a warmup. Let’s roll into it.

THE THANG: We merkined IC x 7, squatted IC x7, and in general had a good mosey around the park.

MOLESKINE: I had a moment of doubt about getting back up that hill on time to end the workout, but we kicked it into gear and finished early.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Check the slack machine

COT: Prayers for continued growth

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Indian Style

AO: devilsden
Q: Flash
PAX: McAfee, Reveille, Flash, Woodchuck
FNGs: None
COUNT: 4
CONDITIONS: Almost…cool…?

WARMUP: 6 Turkish get-ups

THE THANG: July Kettlebell Regimen x4. Finished with 5 minutes of burpee broad jumps until the clock hit 6:15AM

MOLESKINE: Mumble chatter: Home COVID tests are weird, Army fitness requirements even weirder, Flash has hair under his hat, Woodchuck new gig, McAfee did not remove shirt, Rev can’t sit Indian style, can you even say “Indian style” anymore?

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

COT:

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Tabata to Johnny Cash

AO: the-knoll
Q: Timber
PAX: Pebbles, The Merchant, morning stār, The Banker, Sparrow, El Capitan, AAA, FLO, Timber, Eric Phillips Snapshot (Suncoast), Tea Party, Smoltz (2.0), Bumblebee (2.0)
FNGs: None
COUNT: 13
CONDITIONS: mid 70s, no dew on the grass

WARMUP: 3 sets of 50 yard jogs, SSH, merkins, squats, mountain climbers, lunge streches (covered F3 mission, principles, credo here)

THE THANG: played to the tunes of Johnny Cash hits
Station 1 (Tabata): 30 seconds on/15 sec recover, 6 exercises, 5 rounds; Exercises: merkins, squats, dips, burpees, split squats, LBCs
Station 2 (Pull-up challenge): 6 minutes (I said 5, but we ended doing 6 minutes), set of 10 pullups followed by ~100 yard run, 9 pullups/run, 8….Challenge was to see if you could finish before time was up.
Station 3 (Marys): American hammers, Big Boy SUs, flutter kicks, pickle something (Eric Phillips Snapshot (Suncoast) you’ll have to remind me of the name – we’ll do them again for sure!)

MOLESKINE: it was great to have our guest from Florida stop by (Eric Phillips Snapshot (Suncoast)), El Capitan came through again with some ever delicious Mtn Mojo, The Banker and Pebbles were closest to finishing the pullup challenge (I think they got to 2 pullups); Smoltz says he finished, but I’m not sure I can believe him.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: check F3 channel for details!

COT: Don’t be afraid to seek challenges. Putting ourselves in front of something we fear (even if small) can help us develop courage we’ll need in bigger moments. Also, a reminder to continue practicing gratitude – a pillar of happiness!

Thanks for coming together with me in the gloom boys!
-Timber

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Daft Punk is playing at my house

AO: iiipillars
Q: princessaurora
PAX: LorelaiG, t-cell, Two Face, Zelenskyy, Sooie, Haggis, Black Lung, Go Fish, Will Norton, Grape, Swiffer, Foot Drop, Fake Job, gov’t mule, Tackle Box, Good Morning America, Full Monty
FNGs: None
COUNT: 18
CONDITIONS:

Oh-so hot, the perfect foretaste of what will surely be a steamy 14th anniversary.

WARMUP:

Mosey to the field for some

SSH
I’s, Y’s, and T’s
RAC->MNC->RRAC
WMH
SnL Squats

THE THANG:

Marriage, like life, is a dance. With YHC celebrating an anniversary tomorrow, it was time to prep with a dancer-inspired workout.

STEP 1

4 sets:
Explosive jump lunge w mid-air switch x 5 ea side//1’ rest with Merkins x 20

STEP 2

4 sets:
Bulgarian split squats x 12 ea side//1’ rest with Prone Snow Angels x 20

Shake it out with a lap

STEP 3

4 sets:
Partner Nordic Curls x 8-10, alternating each set

STEP 4

4 sets:
Deep Squat Calf Raises (with wall assist) x 15//Tibialis Raises x 20

Reverse crunch for six

STEP 5

4 sets:
Pull-ups x 8-10//Pseudo-Planche Merkins x 15

Mosey back to flag

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

– Gulliver’s Travels challenge is in full swing. The perfect excuse to check out some AOs you might not otherwise attend. Speaking of…
– 4:13 Strong is back in action. Hit up thestronghold and help lead this class of men toward new lives.
– Night Moves at Bicentennial Park this Saturday.

TAPS:

– Praises from Haggis for a special time on the road with his dad.
– Prayers for Swiffer ‘s friends’ daughter Victoria and her upcoming surgery, and praises for a successful first operation.

A pleasure as always, men. Life’s a dance, and you sure learned as you went today!

PA out

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Catch me if you Can 🏃🏻‍♂️🏃🏃🏻‍♂️

AO: middle-tooth
Q: Cal Worthington
PAX: DrRupp, Michelin Man, Rocket Mortgage, sooner, Oatmeal, bluemule, Cowboy
FNGs: None
COUNT: 11
CONDITIONS: Steamy :hot_face:

Another steamy day in the gloom as 8 schweaty pax braved the moisture to come see what YHC had in store! We :man-running:. We :package: jumped. We :burpee: . Then we ran some more, mixed in some other exercises and :burpee: :burpee: :burpee: :burpee: at the end because why not!?!?

WARMUP: I.C. X20
SSH
Imperial Walker
Toy Soldiers
PIckUp
Stay down 4 stretch, left & right
Worlds Greatest Stretch

THANG 1:
Catch me if you Can Burpee – to Picnic Benches

Pick a Partner, one runs while the other does a burpee. Catch your partner, they drop for a burpee and you run, rinse and repeat till destination.

THANG 2: 11’s
:burpee:s & 📦 Jumps

THANG 3:
Catch me if you Can :burpee: back to parking lot!

THANG 4: Parking Lot ⭕️ Sprints x20

Partner Up! Partners run in opposite direction around the whole parking lot. When they meet, drop and do the exercises below then keep running back to the start. 20 count on all exercises / Ab exercises in cadence!

T Clap Merkins
Big Boys
Sumo-Squats
Flutters IC
Freddy Mercuries IC
Burpees

Announcements: Hop on slack
COT: Grateful for F3 Nash
:pray: : Families/ Marriages/ :us:

:heart_hands:

Cal Worthington