Different in a Good Way

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Better Late Than Never – Cletus Backblast January 23, 2026

“Different In A Good Way” Five men strengthened our legs. 

Warm Up: Dynamic warmup leg swings (f/b and l/r).

The Workout: Found our quads when we dug in our heels on step ups and squats. We found the sledding hills of Womble and enjoyed monkey humpers, merkins, mountain climbers, and one-legged  squats.

Mary: Finished with 1970s yoga. Everyone learned something today! Legs and prep for pending ice storm. Be prepared!

Announcements: Accept the F3Southwake Q’Em All Challenge. Use the same spreadsheet for your own accountability

Prayer: Safety in the pending “ice storm” (that never happened LOL)

The Anti-Hindenburg aka BLIMPS Ascend!

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FNGs: Negative

Warm Up: Side-straddle Hops IC x20, Daisy Pickers IC x10, Michael Phelps, Downward Dog

The Workout: BLIMPS set with an ascending number of reps of each exercise per set. Set 1 = 1 Burpee, 1 Lung (each leg), 1 Imperial Walker IC, 1 Merkin, 1 Plank Jack IC, and 1 Squat

Short mosey to recover.

Set 2 = 2 Burpees, 2 Lunges (each leg) 2 Imperial Walkers IC, 2 Merkins, 2 Plank Jacks IC, and 2 Squats.

Short mosey…..

Ascended reps through 10 total sets. 

Ended with a BLIMPS blitz be repeating set 1, 2, and 3 OYO as fast as possible with no mosey in between. 

Mary: Low Slow Flutter IC, Homer To Marge IC, WW1s x10, and lower body stretching

Announcements: Q’em All Challenge and Weekly Posting Average Sheet

T-Claps (Recognition): None

Prayer: Bnb’s Daughter’s Pre-school Teacher diagnosed with cancer. 

What has John Cusack been up to lately?

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FNGs: none on this cold morning

Warm Up: Side Straddle Hop, Imperial Walkers, Hill Billies, Daisy Pickers, Sir Fazio Arm Circles, Seal Claps, Overhead Claps

The Workout: After a quick warmup, we moseyed over to the parking lot with a rock pile. PAX were instructed to grab a medium-sized rock.

Thing 1: 3 rounds of: 30 squats, 20 overhead press, 20 ruh rohs, 20 count in cadence flutter kicks with rock overhead. John Cusack with rock around the perimeter of the parking lot. After three rounds we returned our rocks and moseyed over to the picnic shelter. UTI showed up after our initial 30 squats so we all performed 5 penalty burpees.

Thing 2: 3 rounds of: 20 in cadence step ups, 10 count x 5 people’s chair

Mary: Popcorn Mary followed by a 15 count x 5 plank hold. Finished things off with a solid stretch routine and corpse pose at the end.

Announcements: Frosty CSAUP Dec 6th

T-Claps (Recognition): Wide Right got married!

Prayer: PSI’s dad, UTI’s MIL and Dad

7 of Diamonds

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FNGs: none

Warm Up: Good Mornings, SSH, Imperial Walkers, Hill Billies, Frankensteins, Sir Fazio Arm Circles, Overhead Claps, Seal Claps

The Workout: YHC has been absent for too long and is finally crawling out of his cave. Nothing like a good Q to shake off the rust.

Main event saw us take a trip around the ball fields, stopping at each intersection for a round of 7s.

  • Stop 1: merkins / WWIIs
  • Stop 2: squats / dips
  • Stop 3: LBCs / lunges
  • Stop 4: inclined pull ups / hand release merkins

After that, we stopped by the picnic shelter for a quick round of Urkins / Durkins / Dips.

Mary: popcorn Mary followed by some stretching

Announcements: 3rd F opportunities for fence painting and Holly Fest

T-Claps (Recognition): Skittles for making it back out after being on IL.

Prayer: Six Inch’s child’s friend, who is having surgery

10 Years of BS

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YHC rolled into Cletus on June 12th solo while riding up on a mountain bike. I had no idea what I was getting myself into. The workout kicked my butt, but I loved it enough to keep coming back for 10 Years. A whole decade of my life I’ve been posting in the gloom. I’ve learned a lot and met a lot of cool dudes. YHC was ready to celebrate as this was day 4 of Throwback week from 2015 and the last original AO to Q. Here is how the PAX grew stronger together.

Warm Up run to upper lot with some agility
Willie Mayes Hayes
Red Bull Smurf Jacks
Slalom
Copperhead Merkins
Copperhead Squats

Two lines for indian run to lower parking lot.
7’s across the parking lot curb to curb
– Bear crawl to across and crawl bear back
– Absolutions and Turkish Getups were to exercises
Partner up
Brokeback dirkens – 4 rds (partners run opposite direction. when they meet, each does 10 reps of dirkens with feet on partners back)
Two lines for indian run back up to tennis courts

Partners again
Bullfrogs going across. Wheelbarrow if you cannot bullfrog. Go across both courts. Switch partners and come back.

Thunderstruck – SSH the entire song. Do a burpee every time you hear thunder. 36 total burpees.

Mary – Week 4 Core Challange
Only had time for 3 exercises: Capt. Thor’s 1:4, Banana Rolls, Freddy Mercury’s

COT
Announcements and Prayers – waited too long to post BB and forgot

It’s truly been a blessing having F3 in my life for a decade. A lot of men have come and gone but F3 continues to change lives. Thank you to each person that came out this week to help YHC celebrate 10 years of F3. I hope I’m still around Q’ing in 10 more.

God Bless,
BS Out!

Rain or Shine

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FNGs: none

Warm Up: SSH, Windmills, Frakensteins, Imperial Walkers, Sir Fazio Arm Circles, Seal Claps, Overhead Claps

The Workout: We took off in light rain on a string of pearls workout towards downtown. My dogs ate my exercise dice, so we opted for popcorn style. We stopped at random stops for exercises like merkins, squats, calf raises and core. We even took a trip to the top of block on main and did LBCs outside of Nightingale. Swung by Town Hall and headed back home. By our return trip, the rain had stopped and we were treated to a nice sunrise.

Mary: We joined up with Crazy Ivan for joint popcorn Mary.

Announcements: Yogurt celebrates 60 years on Earth at Nutcracker next Tuesday!

Prayer: unspokens

Moleskin: F3 is held rain or shine, hot or cold (only exception being lightning, I don’t mess with that). Showing up and putting in work when it’s uncomfortable builds resolve and helps prepare us for those uncomfortable moments in everyday life. Do the hard thing.

Kettlebells and Bear Squares

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FNGs:na Warm Up: 1/2 mile mosey with intermittent stops for hill Billie’s, imperial walkers, Frankenstein, sir Fazio arm circles, home school high fives, step ups The Workout: Cletus crew rolled up on Ceazy Ivan and joined there thang. Kettlebell and coupon circle with 11 stations for 2 rounds. 30 seconds in, 15 seconds rest.
mosey to the tennis courts where PAX spread to each corner. When transitioning from a corner to another tennis court the PAX crawled a bear squares.  Corners were Merkins, side straddle hips, squats and big boy sit-ups. Mary: Picking up cones. Announcements: Everyone shared what they do for a living and encouraged one another to support each other as possible.  T-Claps (Recognition): Prayer: Brian’s surgery, girl recovering from copper head bite, Pittsburgh families effected by tornado and man that feel from the stadium at Pirate’s game

Dance Pop Mosey!

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Music played for entire workout, including an AI song with a happy singer encouraging us. We were supposed to name her (it?) but we totally forgot amongst the mumble chatter.
Here is the Cletus Dance Pop song for your enjoyment!
FNGs: n/a
Warm Up: Side straddle hops, rotating side straddle hops, Frankensteins with flair, Daisey pickers, hillbillies, imperial walkers, seal claps, home school high five
The Workout: Mosey to 7s Star jumps / Lunges I/C with Karokes in between
Mosey to Wall for people’s chair and balls to the wall
Mosey to Aussie Pullups and Squats
Mosey to tower for popcorn plank exercises
Mosey to Lunges
Mosey to Rock exercises (curls for the girls, tris for the guys, rut rows, ground pounder, wonder bra and one more)
Mary: LBCs, reverse LBCs, Heel taps, Homer to Marge, Picke Pounders

Announcements: T-Claps (Recognition): Prayer: Tax deadline stress, World Peace and avoiding world war whatever

A roll of the dice at Cletus

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FNGs: nada

Warmup: SSH, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies, Daisy Pickers, Sir Fazio Arm Circles, Seal Claps, Overhead Claps

Workout: Some might call it a cop out, but I love bringing the dice out and seeing what we come up with. We ran from Womble to downtown and back, dropping the dice along the way every so often. Too many merkins and frog jumps for my liking, but we were true to the roll. 1.65 miles overall.

Mary: Popcorn Mary

Announcements: Sign up to Q! Also, Bobby’s got the 2.0 workout tomorrow!

Prayers: Choppa’s wife.

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That smell

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FNGs: none

Warm Up: SSH, daisy pickers, Willy Mays hays, Sir Fazio arm circles, chinooks, mountain climbers

The Workout: 

Thing 1- PAX form two lines, each line possessed two soccer balls. At a jogging pace, the balls were thrown overhead to the pax behind, once at the back of the line that person sprints to the front to start the cycle again. Drops meant all pax stopped and performed 5 squats. ~1/2 mile loop around the park completed. We did a lot of squats.

Thing 2- Medium sized rocks were obtained and we made our way to the picnic shelter. Pax paired up for a music-based AMRAP/Dora style workout- one partner completed AMRAP exercises while the other partner cusacked their rock up a small hill and around a loop. When the song changed, the exercise changed (tricep extension, step ups, erkins, bicep curls). Skynyrd set the tone, and my free version of Spotify (like Lebron) blessed us with zero ads during the workout. Shoutout free Spotify. 

All pax participated in an extended wall sit for the duration of Saturday Night Special. Some pax held out for the whole time, others gave it a break… something about running plans for the weekend. Near the end of the first verse a thicc odor spread like the plague from an unnamed pax, driving others to seek refuge elsewhere in the shelter. Pax were unpleased by the aroma, Q was unpleased because it didn’t happen during “That Smell”. 

Mary: American hammer, WW1, plank hold

Announcements: 3rd F opportunities on Slack, fence painting with the town, Men’s night at local church

T-Claps (Recognition): Turkey and Nickelback both have kids graduating college

Prayer: Bobby B’s family member undergoing heart procedures, UTIs family member with a scary diagnosis.Â