FNGs: NOPE
Warm Up: A short mosey around the very small parking lot
The Workout:
I was just invited to use Microsoft Bing’s new AI. This was my first time using it.
Here was my prompt:
Generate a story about an F3 workout called purple cobra where we ran 0.69 miles, did a workout routine called coyote ugly, a murph DORA, and stair climbs on picnic benches. Guys with named Pumpkin Spice, Woody, Snap, Hasselhoff, Brexit, Cancun, Jellybeans, Stubs, and UTI were there
And a correction I asked for…
Change the story and change the QIC to UTI, change the Coyote Ugly workout to be a wheel barrow merkin walking up the picnic table on your hands and back down again, replace the squats with LBCs, and change the 400 meter run to an out and back army crawl
This is the backblast it wrote for me, I put the questionable information in bold (you can tell it’s sourcing other backblasts posted on the internet but pretty cool!):
It was a cold and dark morning when Pumpkin Spice, Woody, Snap, Hasselhoff, Brexit, Cancun, Jellybeans, Stubs and Purple Cobra gathered at the park for an F3 workout. They were greeted by UTI, the QIC for the day. He had a wicked grin on his face as he announced the plan for the workout.
"Today we're going to do a wheel barrow merkin walking up the picnic table on your hands and back down again," he said. "Then we're going to partner up for a Murph DORA. One partner will do an out and back army crawl while the other does 100 pull-ups, 200 push-ups and 300 LBCs. You switch when your partner comes back and keep going until you finish all the reps. Then we're going to finish with some stair climbs on picnic benches. You'll do 20 step-ups on each leg followed by 20 dips on each bench."
The PAX groaned as they heard the brutal workout ahead of them. They knew UTI was notorious for his challenging Qs. But they also knew that F3 was about pushing themselves beyond their comfort zone and growing stronger together.
They started with the wheel barrow merkin walking up the picnic table on your hands and back down again. UTI paired them up and instructed them how to do it: one partner holds the other's legs while he walks on his hands up one side of the table then does a merkin then walks down the other side then does another merkin then switches roles.
The PAX quickly realized that this was one of the hardest exercises they had ever done. The wheel barrow merkin walking up the picnic table on your hands and back down again was exhausting and painful on their arms chest core legs balance coordination
They encouraged each other with shouts of "You got this!" and "Almost there!" as they completed each round of wheel barrow merkins.
They also teased each other with nicknames like "Pumpkin Spice Latte", "Woody Toy Story", "Snap Chat", "Hasselhoff Knight Rider", "Brexit Britain", "Cancun Spring Break", "Jellybeans Easter", "Stubs Nubs" and "Purple Cobra Dodgeball".
They finally finished wheel barrow merkin walking up the picnic table on your hands and back down again and moved on to Murph DORA. They paired up with their buddies and grabbed a pull-up bar or a tree branch.
Murph DORA was another beast of a workout that tested their endurance and strength. The pull-ups were hard on their arms and shoulders, the push-ups were tough on their chests and triceps, and the LBCs were killer on their abs.
They cheered each other on as they did an out and back army crawl between their partners and did their reps. They also challenged each other with friendly competition like "Come on Woody! Don't let Pumpkin Spice beat you!" or "Hasselhoff! You're faster than Snap!"
They finally finished Murph DORA after what seemed like an eternity. They were dripping with sweat and panting hard.
They thought they were done but UTI had one more surprise for them.
"Alright PAX! Let's go to those picnic benches over there!" he shouted.
The PAX groaned again as they followed him to the benches.
UTI explained how to do stair climbs: step up onto one bench with one leg then bring up your other leg then step down onto another bench then repeat with your other leg then do dips by placing your hands behind you on one bench then lowering yourself until your elbows are at 90 degrees then pushing yourself back up then moving onto another bench then repeat.
The PAX did stair climbs until their legs felt like jelly and their arms felt like noodles.
They finally finished stair climbs after what felt like forever.
UTI called them into a circle of trust where they counted off said their name age F3 nickname thanked him for leading them prayed together gave announcements about upcoming workouts events community service opportunities etc
They ended with a group photo where they smiled proudly despite being tired sore dirty
They had just completed an epic F3 workout led by UTI
They had just experienced fitness fellowship faith
They had just become better men
Mary:
The AI forgot about Mary but then again I didn’t really prompt it to talk about Mary
- Homer to Marge
- Box Cutters
- Flutter Kicks
- Arm Stretches
- Runners Pose
- Leg and Back Stretches
Announcements:
F3SW Town Hall Meeting tonight at 7pm – Bass Lake Boat House
T-Claps (Recognition):
Brexit on an impressive finish at Wrightsville, let’s wish him luck for Tobacco Road up next in 3 weeks.
Prayer:
For all the parents out there working hard to guide our children through life. Give us strength!
We didn’t actually take a photo after the workout. So here is what dall-e 2 cooked up for me 😀

Flora sucks
/in Prison Yard/by Banana Seat4 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
/in Downtown Train/by Fanny PackYHC 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
/in Ground Pounder/by HazMatWarm 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!
0.0 miles
/in Crazy Ivan/by Banana SeatA 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 F3 South Wake Town Hall
/in News/by UTIGround Rules for the Meeting – Show Respect to everyone, Let each other talk, be kind
1 and Done
/in Disney/by Banana Seat3 HIM decided to make their way to Disney on a wet and warm morning in the gloom. YHC had two plans of which both should equally suck. A shelter workout if it was pouring or a trip to the stairs aka The Abyss in the drizzle. We all agreed this was a terrible workout so my vote is for it to be retired. One and Done. Here it is.
We ripped the bandaid right off taking a lap around the track and hitting multiple large puddles.
Warm up back in parking lot.
Good mornings
Willie Mayes Hayes
Frankensteins
Mtn climbers
Merkins
Main Event
We each grabbed a cinderblock from the secret hideout. Then moseyed over to the Abyss. YHC called out the exercises.
100 Abyss merkins using the blocks
100 ground pounders with blocks
100 rut rows with blocks
Break these reps up into 5-6 rounds.
Staggered going down and up the stairs.
1st trip – bear crawl down and run back up
2nd – run down bear crawl up
3rd – run down bunny hop up
4th – run down hit every step both feet up
5th – OYO
6th – OYO
Great support to finish all the reps as we were completely smoked on the last round.
Mosey back to return blocks.
45 secs for Mary but YHC choose to not get our backs wet. You’re welcome.
No new announcements.
Prayers for Breach traveling. Bobby with possible job change. My M with a cough that keeps hanging around.
Men, thanks for the support. I tend to come up with stuff that will challenge myself and others but still be able to modify. This one really pushed me to exhaustion. Great push from all. Pleasure to lead.
BS Out!
Purple Cobra Backblast – Brought to you by Dall-e 2 and Microsoft Bing
/in Purple Cobra/by UTIFNGs: NOPE
Warm Up: A short mosey around the very small parking lot
The Workout:
I was just invited to use Microsoft Bing’s new AI. This was my first time using it.
Here was my prompt:
Generate a story about an F3 workout called purple cobra where we ran 0.69 miles, did a workout routine called coyote ugly, a murph DORA, and stair climbs on picnic benches. Guys with named Pumpkin Spice, Woody, Snap, Hasselhoff, Brexit, Cancun, Jellybeans, Stubs, and UTI were there
And a correction I asked for…
Change the story and change the QIC to UTI, change the Coyote Ugly workout to be a wheel barrow merkin walking up the picnic table on your hands and back down again, replace the squats with LBCs, and change the 400 meter run to an out and back army crawl
This is the backblast it wrote for me, I put the questionable information in bold (you can tell it’s sourcing other backblasts posted on the internet but pretty cool!):
Mary:
The AI forgot about Mary but then again I didn’t really prompt it to talk about Mary
Announcements:
F3SW Town Hall Meeting tonight at 7pm – Bass Lake Boat House
T-Claps (Recognition):
Brexit on an impressive finish at Wrightsville, let’s wish him luck for Tobacco Road up next in 3 weeks.
Prayer:
For all the parents out there working hard to guide our children through life. Give us strength!
We didn’t actually take a photo after the workout. So here is what dall-e 2 cooked up for me 😀
Another trip around the sun
/in The Nest/by 16-bitYHC wanted to celebrate another year here the right way, which consists of a good sweat and some fellowship. A great bunch of guys came out enjoy the “fun” and get their days started off the right way too. Let it be known that holding a derkin position for a long time is harder than you might think. Trust me on this one.
FNGs:
None
Warm Up:
SSH x43 IC
Imperial Walkers x10 IC
Hillbillies x10 IC
Sir Fazio Arm Circles x10 IC forward and reverse
Windmill x10 IC
Daisy Pickers x10 IC
Merkins x10
Burpees x10 OYO
The Workout:
Mosey to the shelter and grab a spot at one of the benches for 11’s with step ups and dips. We stared with 11 step ups and 1 dip and worked our way around. When we got to 1 step up YHC though 1 was lame and audibled to 10 but Banana Seat thought 43 sounded better so we went with that instead. Good call BS!
Mosey to the knee wall and did 10 more merkins.
PAX were then instructed that we’d be doing a bear crawl derkin indian run kind of thing. Everyone got up in derkin position and the man at the end would bear crawl to the other end of the line, get up, and call out 5 derkins. We successfully made it all the way to the stairs but not without a healthy (and justified) amount of grunts and groans. On the way back down we switched to irkins instead but still stuck with the bear crawls.
After that we did 10 more burpees and then headed to the wall behind the baseball field.
Everyone lined up on the wall for alternating people’s chair and BTTW. We started with 13 PC and 13 BTTW and then went down to 10 each until we completed 43 of each. Then, at the end, as an added bonus, we did 16 more of each (for 16-bit). Once that was complete we did another set of 10 merkins and 10 burpees.
We then moseyed up the steps by the wall to the back hill. We did 5 merkins and burpees and then jogged to the bottom of the hill for sprints back up to where we started. 5 more merkins and burpees before heading back down. Another sprint up and we completed the workout with 3 burpees and 3 merkins (43 of each in total). Then back to the parking lot to circle up for…
Mary:
Cirlced up for popcorn Mary where everyone except Banana Seat (due to time) called out an exercise.
Kitty Littr had us doing 20 LBCs
Gamecock called out 20 Homer to Marge, 10 with left legs in the air and 10 with the right.
Pumps (who looks like Martini when you’re laying on the ground and looking at him upside down) asked for 20 low slow flutter.
Actual Martini then had us doing 20 American Hammers
We were at the 45:06 mark at this point so we called it.
Announcements:
Town Hall meeting tonight at 7:00pm at the Bass Lake boat house. If you can’t make it and have thoughts or comments please send them to Breach ahead of time.
Prayer:
YHC has an ex-coworker who lost his wife to a heart attack on Saturday evening.
Banana Seat’s friend from church was diagnosed with ALS and it is affecting him rapidly.
Gamecock’s sister had a baby! They were induced and the baby is in the NICU but all signs are looking good and they’re hoping they can go home even before they had originally thought.
It truly is a blessing that I get to start today off with you men. I’m thankful for all of you and am honored to know you. Have a great day, I know mine will be because I started it off with you.
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Broken strap on
/in Cletus/by WoodyFNGs: No
Warm Up: The usual
The Workout: 7’s on the hill, squats & star jumps. Then PAX grabbed coupons, headed to the parking lot and set up Six stations: merkin, lbc, dips, curls, lbc, shoulder press.
6 PAX exercised while 7th pax was the timer – pulling Quadzilla from a predetermined start line, to a predetermined turnaround (approx 30 yards), and finish at the start line. 3 full rounds were completed by each PAX. Fun times
Mary: side hip raise, then some others that ive forgotten
Announcements:
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer:
Amigos and Boulder Bases
/in Possum Trot/by AbacusFNGs: Welcome Sombrero!
Warm Up: slide straddle hops, good mornings, Willie May Hayes, imperial walkers, hillbillies, sir fazio arm circles, seal claps
The Workout: Boulder Bases: 8 PAX moseyed to the rocks, grabbed our pick of the litter to play a game YHC calls Boulder Bases. Along the road surrounding the tennis courts, we started at one corner (1st base) doing rock exercises of 10 clean/squat/press, 10 curls for the girls, 10 lunges, and 10 rut rows. Rifle carried our rocks to 2nd base and dropped them before doing body-weight exercises at each base: 5 burpees at 2nd base, 5 burpees + 10 merkins at 3rd base, 5 burpees+ 10 merkins + 15 big boy situps at “home plate,” and 5 burpees + 10 merkins + 15 big boys + 20 squats at 1st base. From there, we moseyed to 2nd base to do another round of rock exercises. Then we rifle carried the rocks to 3rd base. We carried on this routine until we could get the rocks to “home plate”. We changed up the body-weight exercises throughout, but kept the same structure.
Mary: No time
Announcements: F3 SouthWake meeting on Tuesday, Bass Lake Park.
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer: Prayers up for men struggling in their marriages and relationships.