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Let The Circle Be Unbroken

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FNGs: None

Warm Up: Sir Fazio Arm Circles, Side-straddle Hops, Various Stretches

The Workout:

  • CIRCLE #1 = Carolina Dry-docks x10 OMD/OMU, Indian Bear Crawl, Rochamburpees x10, Crunches IC to 20, Lunges x10 each leg OYO, Everests x10 OYO
  • CIRCLE #2 = Carolina Dry-docks x9 OMD/OMU, Indian Bear Crawl, Rochamburpees x9, Crunches IC to 18, Lunges x9 each leg OYO, Everests x9 OYO
  • CIRCLE #3 = Carolina Dry-docks x8 OMD/OMU, Indian Bear Crawl, Rochamburpees x8, Crunches IC to 16, Lunges x8 each leg OYO, Everests x8 OYO
  • CIRCLE #4 = Carolina Dry-docks x7 OMD/OMU, Indian Bear Crawl, Rochamburpees x7, Crunches IC to 14, Lunges x7 each leg OYO, Everests x7 OYO
  • CIRCLE #5 (Blitz Round) = Carolina Dry-docks x6 OMD/OMU, Indian Bear Crawl, Rochamburpees x6, Crunches IC to 12, Lunges x6 each leg OYO, Everests x6 OYO

Mary: None due to time

Announcements: See Slack

Prayer: Finkle’s daughter regarding a potential job change, H1N1’s daughter with a potential concussion, general injured PAX.

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Water Park at R4TJ

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FNGs: none (don’t blame them)

Warm Up: SSH, high knees

The Workout: 6 runners and 3 ruckers. The runners had a nice and simple out and back on Crossway. 5 miles, give or take, and a few hills. The temperature was just right for the rain to not be too much of a bother. Everyone did a good job picking up the 6 (YHC).

Mary: Nah, we’re good.

Announcements: see Slack

T-Claps (Recognition): all of the PAX who got out in the driving rain this morning to get it done

Prayer: injured PAX, miss seeing them in the gloom, reach out!

Moleskin: F3’s third core principle is “Be held outdoors, rain or shine, heat or cold.” Obviously, safety takes priority. Don’t go play on a field when their’s lightning (we were skirting the edge of that today), don’t go for a hard long run if it’s 120° F. But part of getting up at 5:30 in the morning and knocking out a workout is doing the hard thing. Those hard things make us stronger, not just in a physical sense but also mentally. So if it’s raining, if it’s cold, if it’s dark, make the commitment to get out there (safely) and put in the work. You’ll be better for it and so will your brothers in the gloom.

 

8 Dark Knights conquered the Dragon at the Nest

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PAX:  @Firstblood, @Haggis, @K I T T Y L I T T R, @Rico, @H1N1, @Griswold @Enough, @Finkle

Q Extraordinare: @Finkle

Event 1: Batman’s -> a fantastic way to kick off.  We did a short little mosey around the park and stopped at the brick wall behind the dugouts. Started with 50 bat wings, 10 sec hold x8 of balls to the wall, 50 overhead claps, 10 sec hold x8 of balls to the wall, 50 air presses, and 10 sec hold x8 of balls to the wall.  Since @Rico was still smiling I figured we would stay for a round of people’s chair.

Event 2: Welsh Dragons (modified) -> in the center field we did 10 sets of 10 bear crawls followed by 1 merkin & 1 plank jack with increasing in number of exercises.  Meaning ending with 10 merkins and 10 plank jacks (in cadence of course).

Event 3: We finished off the morning with 2 circuits of exercises using some of Finkle’s favorite toys.  Cindy and her big sister, a jump rope, exercise cube, exercise ladder, and 8lb weighted exercise ball.  This completed the trifecta.  Exercises for 1st circuits were timer ran around the parking lot, chest press with big sister, curls for the girls with Cindy, WW1’s with weighted ball, roll the dice for your exercise, jump rope, and squats.  2nd circuit exercises were rut rows with big sister, overhead press with Cindy, American hammers with weighted ball, roll dice for your exercise, jump rope, and lunges.  But alas we ran out of time to complete 2nd circuit.

Mary: none

COT: @FirstBlood and decisions about college to attend in fall, praise that @H1N1 didn’t get kidnapped while across the pond in England.

hashtagbakedgoods?

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FNGs: none 🙁

Warm Up: SSH, Good Mornings, 5 penalty burpees, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies, Willie Mays Hayes, Sir Fazio Arm Circles, Seal Claps, Overhead Claps

The Workout: We moseyed over to the rock pile to get some medium rocks. Headlights came down the drive, 5 more penalty burpees.

Today’s workout was a tabata-style circuit. 3 stations, 2 minutes on and half a minute of rest. We did 4 rounds. The stations consisted of the following:

Station 1
– 20 Jump Squats
– 10 Merkins
– AMRAP Burpees

Station 2
– 20 Reverse Goblet Lunges
– 10 Supine Bodyweight Rows
– AMRAP “Kettlebell” Swings

Station 3
– 20 Step-Ups
– 10 Overhead Press
– AMRAP Box Jumps

We returned our rocks and circled up at the flags.

Mary: LBCs and Homer-to-Marge was all we had time for.

Announcements:
– Suicide Prevention Class
– Bottle Share
– Core Challenge

Prayer: Thanks for new jobs, Jill and Scott’s families for their losses, Downrange’s wife, other’s who are injured

We gathered for parking lot coffee afterwards.

EGG-cellent workout

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FNGs: None

Warm Up: SSH, GM, WMH, Arm-circles, Seal Clap, Overhead Clap, Michael Phelps.

The Workout:

Circuit #1: PAX chose a coupon (sets of dumbbells, weight plates, weight vest, mace bell, kettlebells, slam ball)

Selected exercise from Easter basket (plastic eggs).  Stacked exercises.  Did each exercise 10 count in cadence: Triceps, Row, Curls, Halos, Ground Pounder, Death March, Shoulder Press. 

Circuit #2: Selected exercise and number from Easter basket: Urkins, Durkins, Dips, Step Ups; Round 1: 15 count; Round 2: 10 count

Circuit #3: Each PAX did 10 inverted rows on playground then murder bunnies the circumference of the playground. PAX alternated doing 10 merkins and 10 squats while waiting for inverted row bar and for other PAX to complete their murder bunnies

Mary: American Hammer, Box Cutter, LSF, Shoulder Stretch. 

Announcements: April Ab Challenge, Bottle Share coming up, 

T-Claps (Recognition): No Regerts new to F3. Two posts in a row. 

Prayer: PAX struggling to find work, struggling marriages, sibling with addiction. 

Even the Odds

EVEN the ODDS 3/22/24

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FNG NONE; 

ODD NUMBERS EXERCISE DISTANCE Points EVEN NUMBERS EVEN EXERCISES Points
1 Run  400 1.0 2 100 I/C SSH 2.0
3 Run  800 2.0 4 100 I/C Big Boy Sit-ups 2.0
5 Run  1200 3.0 6 100 I/C Plank Hold  2.0
7 Run  1600 4.0 8 50 Absolutions 5.0
9 Run  1200 3.0 10 Tire Flip (1 lap) or Squat Thrust Broad Jump (1 lap) 20.0
11 Run  800 2.0 12 100 Sandbag Burpees (25 per bag) 20.0
13 Run  400 1.0 14 Lunge Walk Curves / Sprint straights (2 Laps) 5.0
15 Run  1600 4.0 16 Bear Crawl (1 lap) 10.0
17 Run  1200 3.0 18 John Cusack w/Cindy (1 lap) 10.0
COMPLETE IN ORDER 9,200 23.0 COMPLETE EVEN #’S IN ANY ORDER. NO REPEATS!! 76.0

PAX picked their path.  

1 hour beatdown: 

 

Announcements on SLACK. 

 

SEE ya’ll in three months! 

Last Call for Q School

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10 PAX for the final scheduled March 2024 Q school hosted at Downtown Train.

Why Q school? This is to help with F3 formality (uniform) across all regions so if you attend an AO in New York or Texas it’ll still be close to the same structure.

3 main topics to cover – How to Q? Why to Q? (new exciting things) Are you ready to Q?

Sample structure for warm up with some discussion:
Disclaimer, warmup, workout (the thang), Mary, CoT – 45 mins total time, get a watch. Assign a sweeper if you have a large group of FNG’s.
Bring a Flag if you plan to Q. If you don’t have one, ask site Q to bring one.

Conduct WU and have guys take turns with exercises. SSH, Good Mornings, etc.

Be ready for CoT with announcements and prayer requests/praises

Review during workout:
Cadence Count
Form and rep count
Know your PAX limitations if possible
Site Q duties
Q sheet, pre-blast, backblast
Exicon, backblast from other regions, winky, Co-Q

Thang 1:
Partner up in parking deck
P1 does Australian Mtn climbers
P2 runs to opposite long side and back
3 rds with different merkins after each rd

Thang 2:
P1 holds squat while P2 does 10 dirkens with feet on partners legs
Leg pushes abs
Patty cake merkins
Rinse and repeat

Mary
Various exercises

Thanks everyone for coming out. Now sign up to Q.

BS Out!

Push & Pull

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FNGs: none

Warm Up: normal Warm o Rama

The Workout: Partner up with a large rock for both PAX. One PAX starts 30 reps of an exercise and the other takes a lap around the community center. They meet after a time and switch off. Curls, overhead press, squat, ground pounder. 

Thing 2: One partner bear crawls and pushes a small rock down the parking lot. Other partner runs to the end and back. Switch spots and repeat. Changes to walking lunges instead of bear crawls after 3 rounds. 

Mary: popcorn

Announcements: Q School, 2nd F opportunities on slack

T-Claps (Recognition): all the hulks smashing rocks

Prayer: PAX traveling

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In Cadence On my Down

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The weather is finally starting to warm up but it was still a bit chilly this morning. We had a good turn out for the EC about 4 if I recall. I haven’t been out in a while for an F3 workout let alone Q the damn thing. So we warm up everything is fine. Mossyed over to the football field to do some erkins derkins and dips. As I start calling out the exercises and instructing how to follow me I ended up saying both ways “In cadence on my down”. It gave Woody a good laugh. Then I did it about two more times after that. Lol good times!

Warm Up:

  • Good mornings
  • Imperial Walker’s
  • Hill Billy’s
  • Sir Fazio Arm Circles
  • Mtn Climbers
  • Side Straddle Hop

The Workout:

  • erkins derkins and dips
  • Wall sits
  • 11’s – WW I’s & Air Squats

Mary:

  • Homer to Marge & pickle pounders

Q School: Session 3

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Why Q school? This is to help with F3 formality (uniform) across all regions so if you attend an AO in New York or Texas it’ll still be close to the same structure.

3 main topics to cover – How to Q? Why to Q? (new exciting things) Are you ready to Q?

Sample structure for warm up with some discussion:
Disclaimer, warmup, workout (the thang), Mary, CoT – 45 mins total time, get a watch. Assign a sweeper if you have a large group of FNG’s.
Bring a Flag if you plan to Q. If you don’t have one, ask site Q to bring one.

Conduct WU and have guys take turns with exercises. SSH, Good Mornings, etc.

Be ready for CoT with announcements and prayer requests/praises

Review during workout:
Cadence Count
Form and rep count
Know your PAX limitations if possible
Site Q duties
Q sheet, pre-blast, backblast
Exicon, backblast from other regions, winky, Co-Q

Thang 1:
Mosey down to concessions stand wall
Irkens, dips, dirkens, step ups 15,12,10

Thang 2:
Partner up on tennis court
P1 does BTTW on fence
P2 runs suicide (halfway then full)
Rinse and repeat

Thang 3:
P1 holds squat while P2 does 10 dirkens with feet on partners thighs
R&R

Mary
WWI’s
Out and UPS
LBC’s
American hammers

Ended with announcements and prayer by Rubiks. Nice work by all.

BS out!