Sheepdog 03/10/2023

Two for a slightly soggy EC; Farva and Shredder

Started with some Side Straddle Hop, Sir Fazio Arm circles, front and back, seal claps to overhead claps, good mornings, willie mays hayes, to warm up.

For the main workout, we rotated between exercises and combative techniques.  These included wing chun pushing, pulsing merkins, single leg squats, jab/cross combos, and freddy hammers.  We finished by working on slipping past someone’s punch, hitting a reference point, and then a. . . . Well, you’d have to be there to experience it.

Short term memory loss 4 corners at the Nest

 

PAX: @Finkle, @K I T T Y L I T T R, @Rubiks, @Martini

Warm-up: Mosey around parking lot, various warm-up exercises. (can’t remember)

4 Corners: (disclaimer: I admitted that I often forget what exercises we’re doing on the fly)

Each corner was a 10 count of prescribed exercise and then we would stack the exercises.  After first round each PAX picked an exercise.  Completed 4 rounds.  Mode of transportation was jog on the long sides of parking lot and crabwalk, bear crawl, lunge walk on the short sides.

Mary: (can’t remember, lol)

Prayer requests: @K I T T Y L I T T R ‘s co-worker, @Rubiks leading a podcast this weekend, @Gamecock’s father-in-law recovering from brain surgery.

Kenny’s Grave Out and Back

PAX: @Finkle, @Pumps

Warm-up: Mosey around the parking lot.  Daisy pickers, Willie Mayes Hayes, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies

Workout: Headed over to the ball park bleachers and did 2 rounds of dips, irkens, dirkens all with a 10 count and wall sits for a minute each round.  Then we headed down the green way doing 10 count of prescribed exercise stopping at each light pole.  R&R on the way back.  We stopped at bleachers again for 2 more rounds of dips, irkens, dirkens, and wall sits.

Mary: Homer to Marge, Freddie Mercuries, boat canoes, lower back stretches, and leg stretches.

Prayer requests: @Warbucks father with back pain, @Gamecock’s father-in-law recovering from brain surgery.

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No running allowed

FNGs: none

Warm Up: windmills, sir fazio forward and back, seal claps, overhead claps, Smurf Moroccan nightclubs

The Workout: YHC still has a bum ankle from uturn on Saturday, so I set out to serve a beatdown without the use of running. Starting in the parking lot, pax alternated traveling as landscapers and wheelbarrows until reaching the intersection with the running track around the soccer fields. Once there, pax were given the choice of continuing with the wheelbarrow or converting to walking lunges. These modes of travel carried us to the newly opened playground. Once we arrived at our destination, we embarked on a modified murph, with modifications centering on not using legs (running and squats). Each pax completed 100 pull-ups (or inverted rows), 200 merkins of assorted styles, and 300 LBCs. All pax were serenaded with classic rock as they worked their was through the rounds. 

Mary: Freddy mercury, box cutters, plank hold w/10 merkin per pax counter, Australian snow angels, broga.

Announcements:Nemo on the Q at Disney tomorrow for the first time in a year and a half

T-Claps (Recognition): jellybeans new site Q at purple cobra

Prayer:sick and injured pax

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Crushing It with Rocks

5 PAX worked their summer beach bods with some rocks. We each called an exercise to put in 5 sets around-the-horn:

  1. Biceps
  2. Shoulders
  3. Quads
  4. Triceps
  5. Back
  6. All the Rest

T-Claps for Socrates hanging tough and sticking with F3 the past few months!

Flora sucks

4 HIM at Prison Yard today. FRAM got a solo run for EC. Dumbbells were in play today. 20’s, 25’s, 35’s and 40’s. Tunes were playing and here’s what happened.

Warm up lap around clubhouse
Good mornings
Willy Mayes Hayes
Arm circles
Upper body stretches

Flora 1-2-3
Partner 1 does the weighted exercise to start then swap after reps are completed.
100 row merkins on dumbbells (x10 reps)
– P2 holds plank
200 weighted American hammers (x20)
– P2 six inch hold
300 curb squats (x30)
– P2 squat hold

Mary
LBC’s x15
Reverse LBC’s x15
H2M x15
Exaggerated Freddy Mercuries x15
HAND

Announcements
Banana Seat to start co-Q’ing at Prison Yard. Expect call outs to Q.

Prayers
Farrington family (Frams neighbors) and Sunshine’s MIL had a stroke.

Good job today men!
BS out!

Death by Dips

YHC took an opportunity to jump back in the Q circle today aboard the Train! Have struggled for months with physical/health issues and I just got cleared a few days ago to work out again, so I figured…”why not?’

FNGs: Nada

Warm Up: Good Mornings, Fazio’s, Imperial Walkers, Frankenstein

The Workout: A short mosey to the hallway between parking deck and Main. 10/15/20 Dips, 10/15, 20 mountain Climbers IC. Then we moseyed on don to the parking garage for some DORA.

DORA consisted of 100 Hand-Release Shoulder Tap Merkins, 200 Monkey Humper IC, and 300 LBC. Partners ran the stairs up to do 10 more dips each pass.

Wall Work consisted of 2 rounds of People’s chair, while the end PAX bear crawled to the end of the line.

We took a quick mosey over to the small rock pile in the main lot. 4 PAX did AMRAP chest press, while the other 3 PAX rotated to complete 3-Man Rows (ie. 2 men stand as the base while the other lies down and does inverted row). 2 rounds of this and more on this later.

Mary: Supermans, shoulder roll stretches, Cobra Stretch.

Announcements: Like the exercise mentioned above, our job as the men of F3 is to pick eachother up when we are down. Many PAX during the last many months for YHC have reached out and have my sincere thanks as YHC has not been the best version of himself for months now. Our job in F3 is to pick up the six, never leave someone behind, and help eachother do things we don’t think we can do.

T-Claps (Recognition):

Prayer: Woody’s M has some promising job prospects on the line. Pumpkin Spice has kids with need for safe travel. 16-Bit, his family and kids with various things going on. YHC for continued clarity on health situation, good results, and strength to bite down and move forward.

Ground Pounder on a perfect morning

FNGs: None

Warm Up: Good mornings, Willy Mays Hays, Hill Billies, Imperial Walkers, Sir Foxio Arm Circles forward & reverse, Side Straddle Hops

The Workout:

Rocks: Curls for the Girls, Wonder Bras, Rut Rows, Overhead Tricep Presses, THE Ground Pounder, Rock Squats…… Rock Spanks, Mountain Climbers, Rock Spanks.

Playground: 11 consisting of Pull Ups and Merkins.

Rock wall: Dips, Step-ups, Dips

Mary: Each PAX picked their exercise.  

Announcements:  Hoping we may have a flag building session sometime this year.

T-Claps (Recognition):  Congrats to Bollywood for starting a new job! Congrats to Stubs for keeping his momentum going!

Prayer: Prayers for Stubs and potential new job, Socrates’ brother, Fanny Pack to feel better and get more information on what’s causing him to feel bad, Pumkin Spice’s wife and a potential new job, Motor Boatin’s brother, and HazMat’s wife this morning. 

God gave us the perfect morning this morning.  So thankful.  Time to get out there and lead!

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A PAX of 10 slowly arrived during the wet morning for Crazy Ivan. We headed under the intimate shelter at the amphitheater for a cozy and somewhat dry workout with our bells. Absolutely NO running which meant no time for recovers. This lead to a ton of reps.

Warm ups:
Front bend stretch
GMs
Sir fozios
Windmills

Main Event:
Single arm Swings x15 each arm
Rows x15 each arm
Rainbow lunges x15 each leg
Suitcases x15 each side
Rinse and repeat x10 this rd

Shoulder raises to eye level
Curls
Goblet squats
Triceps
2 rds x15 & x10

Single arm snatchs x15 each side
Side bends x15 IC each side
Pull through merkins x15
Halos x15 each direction
R&R x10 this rd

Mary:
Cookie pouch x10
KB LBC’s x20 IC
LSF x20 IC
Stretching/Broga

Prayers for injured PAX (Fanny Pack and others), PAX struggling to get back out, F3 as a whole.

Been a long time since leading the bells. It makes you push a lot harder and I’m sure I’ll feel it later. Sign up to Q if you plan to workout there on Fridays. Appreciate the opportunity to lead men!

BS out!

2023 F3SW TownHall

2023 F3 South Wake Town Hall

BREACH INTRO

Ground Rules for the Meeting – Show Respect to everyone, Let each other talk, be kind

F3 Core Principles were reviewed
 
Everyone asked to remember our WHY
 
Rough Spots Addressed Up Front – Based on Breach conversations with PAX to this point since becoming Nantan for SW
  • Breathtaker – Seen by some as a measuring contest that was limited to those with the budgets to participate
  • Covid – Division based on and still present since F3 SW AO shutdown
  • June/May Challenge – Competition/Points/Rules – PAX pushing themselves rubbed some the wrong way
Let’s use this opportunity here to discuss our perspectives, work on fixing things, and move on.
 
OPEN DISCUSSION
 
What’s the Problem/Solutions?
  • Pre-covid – more comradery, more community, more supportive.  AOs started despite the shutdown
    • Should we have more convergences to bring a larger group of PAX together more often?
    • Growing number of workouts happening at set dates/times weekly that aren’t on the website, not pre-blasted, don’t present themselves as open to all (undisclosed)
      • Concern raised about FNGs going to these undisclosed workouts, are they being introduced to the greater F3 South Wake?
      • Concern raised about a lack of time shared with PAX that only go to undisclosed workouts
    • Point Countered – some have moved away from Social Media including Slack making it harder to share with a wide audience but noted that there are still some that go to 
    • It was discussed that we have ~472 PAX listed on the website, it was estimated that we have ~100 Active PAX in reality with a split of about 20 in FV / 18 “BlackOps” / 40 HS
      • Feeling was that we are losing PAX, folks are falling out, and our division can lead to the feeling that we are lacking in community
      • It was countered that covid or not, this has always been the case.  People decide F3 isnt for them, cold weather, hot weather, life happens, injuries, it’s always in flux
      • The PAX that arent showing up are opportunities for us to continue reaching out and staying in touch – growing 2nd and 3rd F would mean avoiding losing PAX to injury or workout related reasons for not showing up.
      • Lots of good growth and FNGs joining us all the time – great leadership coming from them too.
  • We used to be more grass roots, less structured – No one person calling the shots
    • Lot’s of rules being dictated down from the leadership team, should we remove leadership and be more FREED TO LEAD?
    • Point countered
      • Leadership team is a model that exists throughout the nation.  Part of what F3 is
      • No dictators in the leadership team just FREED TO LEAD PAX trying to help set examples around the Fs
      • Other than Covid there have been no rules or mandates passed down nor should any one F3 person be able to do so.
      • As in Covid, it was suggested that F3 not officially meet in alignment with national and state laws – black ops AOs popped up, no one stopped them.
  • Transitioned to a run club, covid spurred more running for all PAX and it’s continued
    • Bootcamps are pushing 3+ miles, R4TJ is pushing 9-10 miles
      • Was told that if you don’t expect to bring 3 mile minimum to Paradise City, don’t expect to Q by Site Q
    • Point countered re:mileage
      • Strava shows more experienced runners ‘picking up the six’ for greater mileage at AOs
      • Paradise City is listed as a high intensity workout with a 3 mile min expectation every week
    • BREACH:
      • Reviewing website listings to ensure clarity on what bootcamps vs running vs high intensity means
      • Conversations with Site Qs around working to maintain a standard depending on the expectation bootcamps should be less than 2mi, shovel flags, Q School, etc
  • Did we grow too fast?  Should we consider shutting down some AOs?
    • Discussion in the room resulted in the idea that AOs should self-govern, Site Qs should take responsibility/decision to officially close it down based on lack of attendance/Qs
  • We need to plant shovel flags more often
    • Site Qs need to take responsibility for planting a flag
    • It was suggested that we should have a 2nd F for making shovel flags – DOC and VIDEO examples – these are all over the internet
  • We need to keep up with BackBlasts
    • These are maybe largely unseen but a valuable resource for FNGs learning about F3 and eventually running their own Qs
    • Can be valuable to PAX going to a new/different AO to get a sense of what typically happens there.
    • Can be valuable to PAX Qing an AO for the first time
    • BackBlast Generator is now available to make it easier – Ask SoftServe for a website login if you dont already have one.
  • 2nd F
    • Is in a good place – Coffee is shared almost daily and regularly
    • It was asked that there be more emphasis on sticking around after COT if possible, 2nd F can be open to more with a few more minutes in the lot
    • More social events?  Rush Hour Karting was suggested recently, talk of a 75 Hard BBQ Celebration
      • Need more leadership in planning events, just like 1st this is a leadership opportunity
      • Doesn’t have to be well thought out or planned – Pick up BB games, Disc Golf, whatever you’re into just invite others if you are looking for people to hang with.
  • 3rd F
    • We have always been great about stepping up and taking care of our own – family hardships, celebrating new 2.0s, moves, etc
    • HS Food Cupboard is still out there but they are getting alot of support from the Boy Scouts, less needs for us at the moment
    • Holly Springs and Fuquay Town partnerships have been good for F3 SW
      • Can we shift our relationship to be less about manual labor?  What else can we offer?  Professional Services?
      • It was pointed out that things like HollyFest have been great for bringing FNGs to Fuquay
      • FV PAX were set to be at CelebrateFV but it was cancelled due to weather in 2022
      • We are listed as a free exercise class in Fuquay Parks and Rec – has brought FNGs and made our workouts officially sanctioned by the town so we won’t be kicked out of parks.
    • School Partnerships to find more 3rd F opportunities, improve our relationships there as well
      • Will likely need to find local school leaders – NutCracker has had the Principal at a workout before 😀
    • Parade Participation?
    • Abe is our 3rd F Q
      • Reach out if you need support with any ideas on 3rd F leadership opportunities.
      • Freed to lead, we need leadership in 3rd F and 2nd F like we have in 1st.  If you see something worth doing go after it.
    • 3rd F is organic and is best limited to 3-5 guys, shared bible study or book study
    • Doesn’t just have to be about doing physical good, it’s about spiritual good as well.  Great examples out there today on this too.
CLOSING THOUGHTS
  • We can’t force our way back to the way things were.  Things Change.
  • Intentionality.  We should still figure out who we want to be as a region and individuals and work towards it.
  • Negativity spawns negativity – we need to be mindful of how we talk to one another.  Especially on Slack where inside jokes and playful banter can be taken the wrong way.  
  • Slack – Think your messages through and recognize when in-person, phone, or direct text messages to smaller groups are warranted.
  • If you aren’t adhering to the F3 Core Principles, you aren’t running or attending an F3 workout.