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HR Visits Atlantis on a Q-Swap

AO: atlantis
Q: Cowboy
PAX: SalPal, Oatmeal, sooner, porcelain, Subway, Siri, Puzzlah
FNGs: None
COUNT: 8
CONDITIONS: Hints of Rain Drops, 56º Breezy

ONBOARDING:
After mingling and chatter we started with some stretches.
SSH with some silent team building on 2nd round.
WMH, DonQs, Heels to Nuts,
Welcome to F3 – we are glad you joined us here at F3 and I am sure you are glad to have a place to be this morning in the Gloom. As a member of the Atlantis branch of F3 you should know the Mission and some key historical facts of F3.
We started with 11 points and each right answer reduced the buyin obligation. 4 Questions. Each right answer was subtracted from 11. 3 right answers.
8 Burpee Ladder:

TRAINING DAYS: Parking Lot Training (Oatmeal Style)
Skips, Bernie Back
Karaoke Burnie Back
Bernie Down, Sprint Back: 50%, 70%, 100%

TEAM BUILDING: Dora Style: Pair Up, Exercise on sidewalk by baseball field while parter runs the bases
100 Merkins
200 Crunchy Frogs till fail – Ukrainian Hammers to finish
300 Squat Thrusters
Follow the Boss around
PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT PLAN: At Playground
Exercises while partner runs around the playground and thru the boulders.
Wall/Box Jumps
Dips
Alternating Step Ups

Park People’s Run – Outer Loop – Pass the speaker, burpee and to the front
OFFBOARDING – Mary Dealer’s Choice

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Spring Fling This Sunday
PlankPril
Merkin Challenge ongoing

COT:
Siri’s M’s Cousin – chemo

MOLESKIN – It was a privilege to join the esteemed men of Atlantis. It has been a long time since there and a quality group it is. Pole Dancer is running a good operation indeed, but there was some chatter about needing to upgrade the coffee game. I did bring a premium coffee experience and ma available for consultation. Toothless and Betty Ford have taught me everything I know.

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Sandbag Man Maker(s)

AO: the-discipline
Q: hambone
PAX: Dilbert
FNGs: None
COUNT: 2
CONDITIONS: too cold

WARMUP: light movement

THE THANG: 10 rounds, starting at one, increase by one, with the following:

1) 10 deadlifts each round
2) sandbag merkins
3) sandbag merkins
4) curls
5) curls

MOLESKINE: early meetings are the worst. Early meetings that are cancelled why youre driving home are worse than worst.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

COT:

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Tortoise & Hare, Run #5

AO: thestronghold
Q: Red Skull
PAX: Crawlspace, Right Said, Hair Band, Judy, tampalibra, Young and Restless, Chunks, Barney, Poker Face, Hello Kitty, By Design, All Wheel Drive, Hot Wire, Greyhound, Fresh Start, Hoop Dreams, Richie Rich
FNGs: None
COUNT: 18
CONDITIONS: Cold and windy….39 degrees

WARMUP: Normal pre-run warmup of SSH, Squats, IWs, stretching and some OYO WMH and Good Mornings

THE THANG: Partner Up and RUN!! All in under 35:00 leaving plenty of time for some more work.

Mosey to the school parking lot for a quick round of 3 1 min challenges. 1st min 15 burpees, 2nd min 25 jump squats, 3rd min 25 WWIs.

Mosey back to the StartEx

MOLESKINE: This class continues to push themselves. We had 1 PR today as Hot Wire got sub 30:00 for the first time.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Signing Day is next Friday, 4/18 at 11:30. The Standing Strong Dinner at Rocketown is Thursday 4/24 at 6pm. Some F3 seats remain…it looks like Franklin could use a little help filling their table. If you would like to join us for the evening, click the link and select F3 Franklin as you Table Sponsor. Or, just DM me and I will find a seat for you.

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Good Grief

AO: the-knoll
Q: morning stār
PAX: Pebbles, Sooie, Stubs, AAA, Pitmaster, Half Lyfe, El Capitan, morning stār, Papa Bear, Derby, Malibu, clay hoover, Phillip Lee, Gold Digger, She told me, Sardine
FNGs: 2 She told me, Sardine
COUNT: 16
CONDITIONS: Chilly yet spring-like.

WARMUP: Mosey to tree line and back. Ground movements on the way. Avoid the puddle (YHC wasn’t in the mood to get wet this am), avoid posts. Circle up for low slow squats and SSH.

Mosey to 2010 flood memorial bench.

THE THANG:
31 rounds of 15 seconds of work, 45 seconds of active recovery.
Exercise one: 3-2-1 ladder of power erkins and dips
Exercise two: 3-2-1 ladder of jump squats and squats

Modify up option: finish the ladder instead of stopping at the timer.

Each PAX took turns walking around the back stop with a 30# ruck and 30# kettle bell while considering a loss they have not grieved.

Mosey back to the startex for an extended COT.

MOLESKINE:
If we keep the momentum up we the knoll may be ready to spin off another AO … which on one hand, I don’t look forward to because of the great connections we have growing here. And yet, this is how we grow and provide more opportunities for men to accelerate.

Welcome to She told me (formerly “My wife told me”) and Sardine!

Well done welcoming the new men, PAX! Hospitality is one of my favorite things about F3 and we excel at it.

I used to try to come up with a new, creative BD every time I Q’ed. I’m enjoying not having to think much about it and intending to run the “power rounds” for the rest of my days. Let’s see how long that lasts.

Here’s a quote on the danger of not facing our sadness that I didn’t share:
“”Sadness does not sink a person; it is the energy a person spends trying to avoid sadness that does that.” “- Barbara Brown Taylor, From theplacewefindourselves.libsyn.com/17-what-it-looks-like-to-actually-grieve-your-wounds of Adam Young’s “The Place We Find Ourselves” Podcast: “What it looks like to actually grieve your wounds”.

I pray we all find the courage and space to face the losses of our past and present.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: skipped them; check slack or come back Thursday.

COT:
YHC shared that learning to grieve what is, what was not (or what has not come to be) has been the most effective way to grow as a man.

Shared about the 4 achetypes of masculinity: Warrior, Lover, King and Sage. Each has an entry emotion … anger for warrior, sadness for lover, joy for king and fear for sage. In YHC’s experience growing as a lover has helped mature as a King.

YHC read the an account of the passing of Eric Liddel’s life from For the Glory (by Duncan Hamilton). This is a gut wrenching account as Lidell died withough meeting his youngest child.

When I was growing up, I chased after many things. Now, at 41, I am to live in the moment and pour out as much delight on my family and those close to me as I can.

Stay curious my brothers,
-m*

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Night Hawk

AO: toratoratora
Q: Goose
PAX: 40 Minutes, Ultratecht, Longcut
FNGs: None
COUNT: 4
CONDITIONS: Chilly

WARMUP: Willie Mays Hays, Forward Fold, Arm Stretches

THE THANG:
-Dora: 250 squats, SSH, Merkins while partner runs.

-Lunges: 2 trips down and back

-Dora w/ coupon: 250 curls and press while partner runs

-50 Dips OYO

-50 Imperial Walker while partner runs

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Night Moves Saturday! Hipster for details

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Month of the FNG Prep!

AO: bomber
Q: Toothless
PAX: Grape, Pep, Firefox, Vector, Tim the Toolman, Right Said, Sherlock, CubCadet, Papa Bear, Crawlspace, Supernova, DintyMoore, Toothless, Chunks
FNGs: None
COUNT: 14
CONDITIONS: Quite fair, a bit muggy but no complaints for being solidly back in T shirt weather!

PLAYLIST: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/459qwYOyQ4j1hCmtMHFZsC?si=a23bad9eb37c4a0b

WARMUP:

Mosey to high ground, circle up

WAR
– SSH x 30
– Air presses x 10
– Windmills x 10
– Michael Phelps x 10
– Willy Mays Hays x 10
– Carrot pullers x 10
– Scorpions x 10 oyo

THE THANG: Month of the FNG Prep! :fng:

PAX count off forming three groups, 1, 2, 3…

– Group 1 does a patrol run down to end of lot and back up
– Group 2 does a ground exercise
– Group 3 does a standing exercise

All shuffle when G1 returns. Runners to the ground, ground stands up, and standing group runs.

Do four rounds (~2 mins AMRAP in each station based on runners):
1. G: Peter Parkers, S: Prisoner squats
2. G: American Hammers, S: Burpees
3. G: Carolina Dry Docks, S: Lt. Dans
4. G: Big Boy Sit Ups, S: SSHs (cut for time)

All answer a question within their group each round:
1. How did you get your F3 name?
2. What do you remember about your first workout?
3. Who invited you and why did you come to that first workout?
4. Why did you keep coming back? (cut for time)

Circle up for…

Rings of Fire :fire:

Thunderstruck
– High and low plank, up or down on “Thunder”
Roxanne
– SSH / Burpees on “Roxanne”
Flower (Bring Sally Up)
– Squat holds on “up” or “down”

MOLESKINE: Welp, the Respects may have HC’d, but the Un-Respectables recovered and showed out in force. Double Pickney action and the return of not 1 but 2 previous AOQ’s in Dinty Moore and Supernova walking into the warmup out of the Gloom made the comeback a statement victory. Will it start a streak??

Many people are saying the Rings of Fire section was their favorite part. That section was closely followed in the rankings by YHC calling out a penalty of 10 eight count body builders for the stalling of movement upon returning from a running segment, as Pep owned up to above, but there were others….

Hottest personal take of the day….Star Bagel has earned it’s place. After long dissent, taking over the porch with 10 dudes cracking wise ones and sharing about life has won me over (but just for bomber! don’t read this men of westeros)

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
– Spring Fling! This Sunday from 12-3p! Edwin Warner Park Shelter #5 off of Vaughn Rd!
– It’s MONTH OF THE FNG! Let’s get new men out with us in the Gloom and give this thing away!
– The Merchant has a hot wing eating 2ndf opportunity the weekend after Easter, 4/26
– End of April will feature the Impossible Mile CSAUP @ greenmachine, Focker for details

COT:
– Toothless shared
– Grape shared

COT featured a message from YHC about Month of the FNG – F3 has been tremendously impactful to me over the last 6 years. This group has been there with me through job changes, kids, and all sorts of ups and downs. I want other men to have that same kind of connection and community, and I know you do too. Let’s give this thing away and invite the men in our lives who need F3!

As always, it was an honor to lead. Thanks to Firefox for the invite! It was a pleasure.

SYITG,
— Toothless :tooth:

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Dynamic AOQ duo

AO: handsomizer
Q: Purple Tiger
PAX: Freakonomics
FNGs: None
COUNT: 2
CONDITIONS: Nice

WARMUP: dynamic warmup on turf

THE THANG: Used the turf field and picnic tables to do a series of moves. Bear crawl/crawl bear followed by 20 steps & 20 dips. Broad jump with squat walk backs followed by squat jumps and incline merkins x 20. Side lunges and power skips followed by apd hamstring curls and decline merkins x 20.

Mosey to bottom of ramp, 3 sets of rows and politician up ramp.

Mosey back to turf field and repeat 1st iteration.

MOLESKINE: Lots of mumblechatter about economics and shared struggles of the AOQ role.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: BBQ on Sunday, check 2nd F for details

COT: Prayers for continued safety and recovery from storms.

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Mystery Machine

AO: cruelhall
Q: Donkey Hammer
PAX: Pedialyte, Focker, Esposa, Young and Restless, Uncle Jerry, Athena
FNGs: None
COUNT: 7
CONDITIONS: pleasant but moist

WARMUP:
– SSH, GM, WMH, easy jog to pavilion
– Mobility warmup

THE THANG:
– Tabata:
– single leg split squats, decline merkins x 2 rounds
– jump squats, calf raises x 2 rounds
– 5’s: 5 kick throughs with merkins at bottom of hill, 5 jump squats and 5 calf raises at top, Bernie half the hill, run to top
– return to pavilion, lunging suicides with imperial walkers, hillbillies, burpees at the lines
– jog to start, 2 minutes APB to close out

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
handsomizer is coming to the Shire this Friday. Be there.

COT:
Went around the circle discussing marital advice. Communication, loyalty, trust were all discussed.

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We did it anyway!

AO: thestronghold
Q: Red Skull
PAX: Decaf, Poker Face, Hello Kitty, By Design, All Wheel Drive, Hot Wire, Greyhound, Fresh Start, Hoop Dreams, Richie Rich, Crockett
FNGs: None
COUNT: 12
CONDITIONS: Threatening

WARMUP: Mosey to the school lot for some SSH and Windmills.

THE THANG: Since YHC was making things up on the fly, the mosey was a key tool used to plan the upcoming activity.

Mosey to the auditorium lot and partner up. Good ol’ Dora 1-2-3 with 100 Merkins, 200 Squats and 300 LBCs.

Mosey to the parking lot by the guard shack for a quick round of SSH and Tappy Taps.

Mosey to the parking lot in front of the office building for a set up SSHs and Burpees. We drew a crowd of watchers from inside the office building as we were splashing in the parking lot.

Mosey to the next parking lot for some Cocaine Bear Crawls and some Crawl Bears.

Turn it over to the slowest man to have him lead our next mosey and exercises. Richie Rich took us to the maintenance building and led us in SSH and Burpees.

Hand off to Fresh Start who took us to the smoke stack for some Air Presses and Seal Claps.

Hand off to Hot Wire who took us to the school drop off circle and led us in some SSH and Squats.

Sprint back to the StartEx by way of the back trail.

Time!

MOLESKINE: We covered 2.25 miles and maintained great attitudes and good effort all the way through. The 4:13 Strong guys were convinced that we would cancel, were shocked that we didn’t and felt great about what they accomplished.

COT: Crockett closed us with prayer to end the morning followed by a quick scurry into the shelter of the buildings.