Tortoise & Hare – Run #1

AO: thestronghold
Q: Red Skull
PAX: Chunks, Hair Band, Right Said, Crawlspace, hambone, Young and Restless, SalPal, Skeet, Take 3, D Pole, Jackie Moon + 9 FNGs waiting to be named on Thursday
FNGs: None
COUNT: 23
CONDITIONS: A chilly 19 degrees

WARMUP: SSH, IW, Squats, Stretching

THE THANG: Pair up and RUN!!

MOLESKINE: What a great first run for the new class. Everyone finished sub 40:00 today. Thanks for the great F3 support this morning.

COT: Prayers for strength, courage and wisdom

Earning the Apres

AO: middle-tooth
Q: Pole Dancer
PAX: Young and Restless, DrRupp, sooner, Toothless, bluemule
FNGs: None
COUNT: 6
CONDITIONS: Cold and Windy! I thought it was supposed to be warm in the south…

WARMUP: Mosey around the school, active warmups, dynamic stretching

THE THANG: Cross Country Skiing

Lunge the length of the field
20 Burpees
Mosey back
Lunge the length of the field
20 Star Jumps
Mosey to the Parking Lot

Inchworm from standing position into plank, perform merkin, walk feet up to hands, put hands straight up. Inchworm the length of the parking lot

Ring of Fire!
All start in high plank, transition to low plank, and back to high plank throughout the song.

DORA: 200 WW1’s as your partner travels the length of the lot and back

5 Burpee buy in for ending one minute early

ANNOUNCEMENTS: LeanPax started yesterday, juiceday kicking off, new 4:13 class at Stronghold next Thursday

COT: Prayers for health in the new year

Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1kzub06eTl0GbLr2BLL6AU?si=afdafc675dcf4923

Start leanpax

AO: westeros
Q: Pep
PAX: Vector, CubCadet, Hair Band, Grape, Young and Restless, Puzzlah, Salami, Black Lung, SalPal, Michelin Man, The Merchant, Tim the Toolman, DintyMoore, Blueprint, sooner, bluemule, Sherlock, Boomerang
FNGs: None
COUNT: 19
CONDITIONS:
Cold.
Did I already say cold?

WARMUP:
– imperial walkers
– Hillbillies
– Good mornings

THE THANG:
-trivia pep guardiola theme
– hold plank till right answer is called
– pax with right answer tells us how many burpees to do

– Dora:
– Timer : run the circle at the school drop off
– 100: pull ups
– 200: windshield wipers
– 300: fire hydrants

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
– JUICE day (?in place of brews day)
– Leanpax (bagels are processed food)
– Aoq bootcamp (coming quarterly)

First Friday

AO: cruelhall
Q: Accounts Receivable
PAX: Accounts Receivable, Donkey Hammer, Esposa, Mistah Mistah, Pedialyte, Works for a Guy, Young and Restless, @hayes
FNGs: None
COUNT: 8
CONDITIONS: clear / 38

WARMUP:
Side straddle hops, yoga stretches, sumo squats,
Imperial Walkers, Michael Phelps

THE THANG:
Mosy around school and grab coupons.
Head to Winston (church next door) for 11’s.
Kettle bells swings with block at bottom
Burpees at top
Leaders plank for the six

Return coupons and grab some bar for corncob rows.
4 sets of 10 reps

Back to parking lot for sprints.
6 sprints with 5 atomic merkins in between

Circle up for Mary and perform round robin core exercises until time.

MOLESKINE:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

COT:
Prayers for transitions back into work and school.

Christmas Light Alert

AO: westeros
Q: Natural Ice – CBO
PAX: Wolfpack, Spinal Tap, Grape, DintyMoore, Pep, CubCadet, Vector, Young and Restless, Red Skull, Shingles (F3 Wichita), Tim the Toolman, Natural Ice – CBO, Steampunk, Tops
FNGs: None
COUNT: 14
CONDITIONS: Wonderful

WARMUP: The usual warmups with a few extra stretches

THE THANG: PAX embarked on the 3rd Annual Christmas Light Alert, exploring the festive streets of Westeros under YHC’s lead. This 2.6-mile mosey combined holiday spirit with heart-pumping fitness, as we stopped to honor neighborhood decorations with exercises:
– White Christmas Lights = 5 Iron Mikes (each leg counts as 1/2)
– Multicolored Lights = 5 Merkins
– Inflatable Deer or Standing Statues = 5 Burpees
The neighborhood showed up in force with decorations, and so did we. PAX powered through countless lights, racking up reps and burning 590 calories in the process.
Bonus Challenge: A festive bear crawl across the neighborhood bridge, adding some extra grit to the evening.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Lean Pax is almost here!

COT: Prayers for Courage in the New Year

Gravity is for the birds

AO: westeros
Q: SalPal
PAX: Hedwig, Young and Restless, Black Lung, Michelin Man, Tim the Toolman, Blueprint, Chunks, hambone, Red Skull
FNGs: None
COUNT: 10
CONDITIONS: A touch frosty.

WARMUP: Not my problem.

THE THANG:
Exposition: Disclaimer
Rising Action: Mosey to Love Circle, 5 burpees EMOM
Climax: 10 Burpees, EMOM, 5 minutes
Falling Action: Mosey to Bridge, Burpee Broad Jump over.
Denouement: Triple Box Jump Burpee Dora (30 total)
Epilogue: 10 burpee buyout and hill sprint.

MOLESKINE: I hope you’re happy.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Lean Pax, NYD convergence, 4:13 in January

COT: Praise for Black Lung on promotion, Blueprint in new endeavors, Hedwig for incoming baby, SalPal for wife’s career.

The basics

AO: middle-tooth
Q: Focker
PAX: Toothless, sooner, Oatmeal, Hanes, DrRupp, Betty Ford, Young and Restless, Pole Dancer, Wolfpack
FNGs: None
COUNT: 10
CONDITIONS: wet, but only from below

WARMUP: Toothlesswas kind enough to lead warmups while I slept through my alarms

THE THANG:
15 decline merkins, lunges to 10 swing rows
20 decline merkins, lunges to 11 swing rows
25 decline merkins, lunges to 12 swing rows
Failure incline merkins, lunges to 13 swing rows
20 decline merkins, lunges to 14 swing rows
15 decline merkins, lunges to 15 swing rows

11s in the parking lots
Sit throughs and prisoner squats

Finished with sprints and high skips

MOLESKINE: great work by all, this one challenged me for sure as was my first time leading since the new addition.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: come on out Sunday 12/15 for LOTR movie!

COT: prayers for those with illness and death in their family, praises for healing,

The Standard is the Standard

AO: titan
Q: Chunks
PAX: bluemule, Right Said, Natural Ice – CBO, Spinal Tap, Firefox, Papa Bear, Black Lung, Puzzlah, Sherlock, Pep, Young and Restless, Tim the Toolman, CubCadet, DintyMoore
FNGs: None
COUNT: 15
CONDITIONS: COLD!

WARMUP:
The Mission of F3 is to plant, grow and serve small workout groups for men, for the invigoration of male community leadership.

Right Said served as the standard monitor for cadence and workout understanding.

SSH in cadence starting and stopping till we were all in cadence

Almost 1 Mile Run down Natchez Trace

THE THANG:

Partnered up for Cocaine Bear Crawls relay 5 lines at a time to the end of the parking lot.

DORA
Ran out of time and had to head back to Startex

Mosey back to Startex

Made back in time for 5 mins of Mary

MOLESKINE:

Encouraged the HIMs to incorporate the Mission of F3 into their workouts when they Q. Let’s not forget why we are doing this. The Standard is the Standard.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Check Slack
COT:
Prayed out.

Post Butterball Crawl Beatdown

AO: cruelhall
Q: Donkey Hammer
PAX: BTU, Pedialyte, Young and Restless, EZ-Go, Michael Freiburg
FNGs: None
COUNT: 6
CONDITIONS: cool but lovely

WARMUP: SSH, calf raise, WMH, GM

Grab block

Mobility
Cat/cow
Thoracic rotations
High plank -> right/left foot forward (rotate, wiggle hips, knee down, bends towards and away from knee)
Prone snow angel
Prone scorpion
Down dog to up dog
Side lying shoulder rotation
Jane Fondas
Supine pigeon
Straight leg raises – R, L, B

THE THANG: Four corners Tabata: 40 seconds on, 20 off with different modes of travel between corners.

Rounds:
Merkins
Squats with side step
Block merkins
Calf raises
APD
Jump squats
Extended side plank each side then high plank
Jump over block then merkins

Modes of travel between corners:
Bear crawl
Crab walk
Duck walk
Lunge
Reverse lunge
Alligator merkin

MOLESKINE: Happy Thanksgiving. Welcome, BTU.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: start planning to attend 2nd annual Crieve Hall Butterball Crawl now.

COT:

Cruel Work

AO: cruelhall
Q: Cowboy
PAX: Donkey Hammer, Young and Restless, Accounts Receivable, Mistah Mistah, EZ-Go, Matador, PoundPuppy
FNGs: None
COUNT: 8
CONDITIONS: Crisp and Cold or was it Hot and steamy. Can’t remember

WARMUP: SSH, GM, WMH, Downward Dog – Calf Stretch
Burpee Buy-in – 11
Mosey to the Pavilion behind school
THE THANG:
4 Corners, 4 Stations, 4 Groups. Each group at a sifferent station. Do the exercise, hold for the six. All travel at the same time
Round 1 Reps = 10 Travel = Crab Walk
Burpee Buy-in – 10
Station 1 = Side Step Squat 2is1
Station 2 =Git Ups
Station 3 = Tuck Jumps
Station 4 = Iron Mikes

Round 2 Reps = 9 Travel = Bear Crawl
Burpee Buy-in – 9
Station 1 = Bowing Merkins
Station 2 = Bowing merkins
Station 3 = Elbow to Knee – Suzanne Somers Style
Station 4 = High Low Plank

Round 3 Reps = 8 Travel = Duck Walk
Burpee Buy-in – 8
Do Round 1 & Round 2 Exercises plus these
Station 1 = Single Leg Squat
Station 2 = Git Ups
Station 3 = Tuck Jumps
Station 4 = Iron Mikes
Burpee Buyin 7
Burpee Buyin 6
Mosey Back to Star Deck via Indigenous Peoples Run + Burpee
Burpee Buyin 5
Burpee Buyin 4

Mary and Time

ANNOUNCEMENTS: – Turkey Trot 11/28, BrewsDay Dec 3