FNGs: No
Warm Up: Good morning, SSH, Merkin, …I dunno, maybe more.
The Workout: EC Crew – YHC, Dahmer, Full House, and we picked up 187 on the way. ME added Warbucks, Kosher, Wild Turkey, Cupid, Hasselhoff and Hazmat.
A little back blast background. A distress call went out the day prior asking for someone to take the Q. I didn’t want to, I knew I’d stress over putting it together, especially on such short time – so of course I knew I had to. Get over yourself, Woody. Put a leash on that anxious overthinking, you’re not organizing a group trek up Everest. Well, I was right on all points. Time crunch stress, check. Overwhelmed by the multitude of exercise options, compounded by unfamiliarity with the vast majority of those goofy F3 names, check (choosing from a menu in a new restaurant can be a nightmare). I even tried to back out last minute, messaging Cupid to see if he could step in because my stomach wasn’t feeling great – which was not untrue, I really am a bit off in that department, at the moment. But soon after berated myself rather harshly for that chickens**t move, knowing it was just an excuse.
Realizing at the end of it all, that I’d once again needlessly worked myself into a tizzy because it really isn’t that complicated, check, check. Stupid brain.
So I decided on stealing the simplest complete routine from the backblast archive, which came from a recent Deadbolt Q. A bunch of suicides mixed with a bunch of sets of simple moves, for the entire show. Turned out to be too simple, and after just three rounds, audibles were called the rest of the way.
- Meet Me In the Middle: Stole this one from Mookie. PAX paired up at the bank and ran in opposite directions around the building, meeting on the other side for 10 Patty Cake Merkins. Repeato for 3 laps (Total of 6 sets of PCM).
- Moseyed to the middle-ish section of the parking lot, in front of the Tailor shop for the Deadbolt Special. 20 squats, 20 merkins, 20 lunges, 20 LBC, 20 SSH, then suicide run to 3 islands and back. Repeat for a triple play. Good show for all, picking up the six on this one.
- Wild Turkey offered a fist bump on a suicide pass and I whiffed. Sorry.
- I couldn’t see how this could go on, so, audible time. Moseyed to the stank wall for people’s chair, each calling a 10 count.
- Then maybe LBC, IC? I think that happened.
- Disclaimer: Items listed here may or may not have occurred in this order. But probably did occur.
- Mosey to the rail at Dunkin for some dips
- Back to stank wall for BTTW
- Mosey to another section of rail for more dips, realized the bushes were too overgrown and was referred to a larger section behind the car wash by PAX.
- 187 moseyed through the car wash, but emerged on the other side no cleaner than when he had entered.
- On approach of the more suitable rail/bush setup, many puns, double entendre, and otherwise inappropriate comments were thrown about. Anyway, more dips here.
- Mosey to rock pile, surprise burpees along the way. PAX grabbed 2 smallish rocks for straight-arm shoulder raises, front and side raises.
- All PAX were successful in throwing their rocks back into the pile except Cupid. He missed. Missed the whole quarry. So PAX did 5 more burpees for that.
- Mosey back to the tailor shop for a heap of LBC, IC
- Jail break back to the start.
Mary: I don’t think so. Just a bit of stretching for the legs, IIRC.
Announcements: Derek Davis run this weekend, and reminder that this is also a used shoe drive, so sign up and donate!
Prayer: Full House’s mom scheduled for knee surgery.
Thanks, men, for the opportunity to battle my insecurities, indecision and scatter-brainness. Keep coming back, get a little better every time.
Upper fo Show
/in Cletus /QIC: Banana SeatPAX: Abe, B-I-N-G-O, Banana Seat, Dawgpound, Florence Flojo, Hardy, Woody, Yogurt
8 PAX gathered in the gloom on another humid day in Hollys Springs. Today YHC planned to focus more on upper body with some core mixed in. Cletus AO has so much to offer so we went around to hit a few of the well known spots. This is how it went down.
Warm ups w/agility
Good mornings
SSH
Girl Fight
Michael Phelps
Stretching
Partner up
Pull ups and swing tucks
x10 each then switch 3 rds
Mosey to pavilion
Single leg squats (4ct down 4ct up)
Dips tension (4ct down 4ct up)
Shoulder tap BTTW
3 rds
Rocks
Chest press x30, 25, 22
WWI w/rock x20, 15, 10
Shelter
Abyss merkins x10
donkey kicks x20
3 rds
Tennis court
Suicides with increasing burpee merkins each return
Mary
Windshield wipers
Pretzel
V ups
J Lo’s
Pickle pounders
As always it was a pleasure being able to lead such a strong group of HIM. Hydrate and enjoy the day men!
BS Out!
“NEW” Detroit
/in AO Post /QIC: UTIYHC hasn’t been back to the Detroit area in 2 years with the Covid being in play last year. The family decided to make the trek this year and I checked-in with the F3 Detroit friends Brexit and I made in 2019. https://f3southwake.com/2019/06/29/detroit-meets-south-wake/
It took some digging, their Slack was silent and it seemed like the AO in Canton, MI might be no more. I hit Twitter and some other avenues and found that their might be a new AO in Rochester but I was unable to confirm before the rumored Saturday workout. On Tuesday, I got a text from Lockjaw and wound up in a headlock to Q on Thursday. OF COURSE!!!
PAX: Lockjaw, Melting Pot, Loogie, Pączki, and YHC
FNGs: None
Warm Up: Windmills x15, Side Straddle Hops x30, Imperial Walkers x15, Hillbillies x15, Good Mornings x15
The Workout:
Thang 1 – BOMBS around the duck pond x3
Thang 2 – 2x
Mary:
Announcements: AOs Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays in Rochester. Come check-em out!
T-Claps (Recognition): Lockjaw for taking the mantle of the “Dancing Idiot” on behalf of F3 Rochester/Detroit. He has alot of passion and is working hard to build this region up. He has assembled a great group of men and they have a very cool corner of Detroit to light this fire!
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Rochester+Municipal+Park/@42.6838082,-83.1389348,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x8824e9bc8515e2b7:0x3c2f399a4e7e9c69!8m2!3d42.6838043!4d-83.1367461
He was introduced in passing through work, never went to a workout, investigated F3 online, and decided to start something when he heard this Roundtable podcast about F3 Toledo. https://soundcloud.com/f3nation/the-toledo-miracle
Prayer: Help these men build F3 to support the men of greater Detroit. This is a great opportunity for F3 and for the men of Detroit.
Speed Work at the Nest
/in The Nest /QIC: FinklePAX: @K I T T Y L I T T R, Finkle, Gamecock
FNGs: none
PAX: @Finkle, @Gamecock, @K I T T Y L I T T R
Warm Up: SSH, quad stretches, toe touches, daisy pickers, other stuff
The Workout: In the top field we did sprints, butt kickers, high knees, crossovers, 8X. At the end of each sprint we did a prescribed 10 count of either merkins, mountain climbers, squats, lunges, calf raises, SSH, irkins, derkins. Then we ran around the block and up to the middle school front steps and shimmied up the hand rails one PAX at a time. The others were doing a called exercise by the PAX going up the hand rails.
Mary: Low slow flutter, box cutters, LBCs, and have a nice day.
Announcements:
T-Claps (Recognition):
EC: Gamecock and Finkle
Prayer: can’t remember.
Too Many Bush Puns From Which To Choose
/in AO Post, Purple Cobra /QIC: WoodyPAX: 187, Cupid, Dahmer, Full House, Hasselhoff, HazMat, Kosher, Warbucks, Wild Turkey, Woody
FNGs: No
Warm Up: Good morning, SSH, Merkin, …I dunno, maybe more.
The Workout: EC Crew – YHC, Dahmer, Full House, and we picked up 187 on the way. ME added Warbucks, Kosher, Wild Turkey, Cupid, Hasselhoff and Hazmat.
A little back blast background. A distress call went out the day prior asking for someone to take the Q. I didn’t want to, I knew I’d stress over putting it together, especially on such short time – so of course I knew I had to. Get over yourself, Woody. Put a leash on that anxious overthinking, you’re not organizing a group trek up Everest. Well, I was right on all points. Time crunch stress, check. Overwhelmed by the multitude of exercise options, compounded by unfamiliarity with the vast majority of those goofy F3 names, check (choosing from a menu in a new restaurant can be a nightmare). I even tried to back out last minute, messaging Cupid to see if he could step in because my stomach wasn’t feeling great – which was not untrue, I really am a bit off in that department, at the moment. But soon after berated myself rather harshly for that chickens**t move, knowing it was just an excuse.
Realizing at the end of it all, that I’d once again needlessly worked myself into a tizzy because it really isn’t that complicated, check, check. Stupid brain.
So I decided on stealing the simplest complete routine from the backblast archive, which came from a recent Deadbolt Q. A bunch of suicides mixed with a bunch of sets of simple moves, for the entire show. Turned out to be too simple, and after just three rounds, audibles were called the rest of the way.
Mary: I don’t think so. Just a bit of stretching for the legs, IIRC.
Announcements: Derek Davis run this weekend, and reminder that this is also a used shoe drive, so sign up and donate!
Prayer: Full House’s mom scheduled for knee surgery.
Thanks, men, for the opportunity to battle my insecurities, indecision and scatter-brainness. Keep coming back, get a little better every time.
Bear Sighting at Town Hall
/in AO Post, Downtown Train /QIC: AbePAX: Abe, Warbucks
FNGs: none
Warm Up: Regular mosey loop up around Raleigh St and back. Followed up with SSH x15, Daisy Pickers x10, Imperial Walkers x10, Sir Fazio Arm Circles x10 (forwards/backwards), Seal Claps x10, Overhead Claps x10.
The Workout: Mosied over to the rock pile and got a mediumish rock. Circled up in front of the amphitheatre for part 1.
Curls for the Girls x30, Triceps x30, Ruh Rohs x30. Dropped rocks and jogged around the library.
Rinse and repeat, but this time x20 on the exercises. Jog around the library.
Rinse and repeat with x10 on the exercises.
Returned rocks and mosied up to town hall for part 2.
Town Hall has a nice little courtyard in the back that YHC has always wanted to incorporate. We started with a bear crawl up the ramp. There are three levels. At the top level, we did low slow flutter x30. Middle level was shoulder taps x30. Lower level was WWIIs x30.
Rinse and repeat with another bear crawl up the ramp. Exercises were x20 this round.
Rinse and repeat with one more bear crawl. Exercises were x10 final round.
Mosey back to start.
Mary: Since part 2 included core work, we went straight into some yoga.
Announcements: Brute Squad CSAUP, Oct 16th at Hilltop Needmore.
Emeril’s Envelopes
/in Captain Caveman!! /QIC: DawgpoundPAX: Dawgpound, Redenbacher
FNGs: Nope
Warm Up:
Circled up:
Bounce
Good Mornings
Spinal Rotations
Arm Circles
The Workout:
Emeril was supposed to have the Q. He is up in New Hampshire. He sent down some envelopes for the workout. We didn’t get through them all. He had some pain in the ass cards. Oh well.
Red drew:5 Waterfalls Each Direction
Dawgpound drew: Around the clock merkins
Red drew: Lunge around the parking lot
Dawgpound drew: Start at 100 Jump Ropes and 10 Turkish Getups. Countdown by even numbers. So 100, 10, 80, 8, 60, 6, 40, 4, 20, 2
Red drew: 200 Merkins between Pax. Well this sucked with just two of us at the workout
Dawg Drew: 3 sets of 10 Reverse Bow Draws
Red drew: 300 Death Marcher between Pax. We ended early for some stretching.
Mary:
Ran out of time
Announcements:
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer:
Uturn 8/14
/in U Turn /QIC: DawgpoundPAX: 187, Alpine, Bobby Boucher, Cowboy, Dawgpound, Dumbo, Full House, Hotspot, McNugget, Pablo, Vasoline, Wild Turkey, Yogurt
EC: Dumbo, Dawgpound, Vasoline, McNugget, Full House, 187, Wild Turkey, Hot Spot, Yogurt, Alpine
FNGs:
Warm Up:
The Workout:
https://onthegomap.com/s/2dbcgteq
Mary:
Announcements:
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer:
Ivan 8/13
/in Crazy Ivan /QIC: DawgpoundPAX: Dawgpound, Money Pit, Warbucks
FNGs: Nope
Warm Up:
Lap around the parking lot
Bounce
Foot Trace
Good mornings
Fazio Arm Circle
The Workout:
We were building a flow. Each Set was done for each arm
5 Rows
1 Row
5 Swings
1 Row
1 Swing
5 Cleans
1 Row
1 Swing
1 Clean
5 Thrusters
1 Row
1 Swing
1 Clean
1 Thruster
5 Lunge
1 Row
1 Swing
1 Clean
1 Thruster
1 Lunge
5 Press
1 Row
1 Swing
1 Clean
1 Thruster
1 Lunge
1 Press
5 Side Bends with 1 Press
We then built down the flow. We did 10 reps each side. So one rep looked like the following
1 Row
1 Swing
1 Clean
1 Thruster
1 Lunge
1 Press
1 Side Bend
1 Side Press
1 UnSide Bend
1 Press
1 Stand up from Lunge
1 Thruster
1 Clean
1 Swing
1 Row
3 Rounds of the following:
10 Lawnmower rows
10 Bobbity to Bobbity
Mary:
LBC
Feet and Legs straight up. Right Foot Left hand down. Switch
Homer to marge
Announcements:
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer:
Tiger Blood 8/12
/in Speed Racer /QIC: DawgpoundPAX: Dawgpound, Dumbo, Redenbacher, Skidmark
FNGs: Nope
Warm Up:
Ran to the track and did one lap around the track
Leg Swings Across the body
Leg Swings Front to back
Tiger Claws
The Workout:
800 Meters at 10K pace
400 Meter Recovery — Repeat 800K
200 Meter Fast Pace
200 Meter Recovery — Repeat 200K 6 times if you are slow 8 times if you are fast
800 Meters at 10K pace
400 Meter Recovery — Repeat 800K
Mary:
Job back to the cars for some stretching
Running Stretch and Hamstring Stretch
Announcements:
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer:
Caveman 8/10
/in Captain Caveman!! /QIC: DawgpoundPAX: Dawgpound, Emeril, Redenbacher, Yoshi
EC: Emeril, Red, Yoshi
FNGs: Nope
Warm Up:
A lap around the track and then circled up for the following.
Bounce
Foot Trace
Spinal Rotations
Fazio Arm Circles
Neck Stretch
The Workout:
One corner of the track was mace exercises. The other corner was core exercises.
Mace Exercises:
5 Each Leg Kurtsy Squats
5 Each direction Waterfalls
5 Each Leg Deadlift to Straight Leg Deadlift
5 Bow Draw Rotation from Front to Back
5 Death Marchs
5 360s Each Direction
Run to the core corner
Round 1 and 3 of Core
Legs 6 inches with LBCs
Knees to the side
Both Legs and Arms up. Right Arm and Left Leg down. Switch
Supermans
Round 2 and 4 of Core
Legs holding six inches swings legs across each other
Legs straight with hands up in the air. Bring legs to hands
Both Legs and Arms up. Right Arm and Left Leg down. Switch
Bridges
Run to the mace corner. Repeat for four rounds
Mary:
Some Stretching was done
Announcements:
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer: