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Almost 46

What a beautiful morning it was today.  Maybe a bit damp but no water falling from the sky and temps were just right.  It’s the day before my birthday so I took the Q and promised to make the numbers 16 and 46 prominent and I think that was accomplished.

FNGs: None

Warm up:

SSH x 46 IC

Sir Fazio Arm Circles x10 IC forward and reverse

Daisy Pickers x10 IC

Trunk rotations x10 IC

Frankenstein x10 IC

Burpee x 8 OYO

The Workout:

We built a pyramid of exercises today.  The format was simple, we’d start at 10 and work to 1 and then back down.  The first set would be just the 10, then the 10 and 8, then 10,8, and 7. So on and so forth.  And yes, I left 9 out on purpose because 10+8+7+6+5+4+3+2+1 = 46.  The exercises were as follows:

10 – Swings

8 – Figure 8 (duh)

7 – Goblet Squats

6 – Curls for the girls

5 – Tris for the guys

4 – Lawn mowers

3 – Midget love handles

2 – Turkish Getup

1 – One minute of plank switches or holding plank when you needed a rest

Once we got through that we did another 8 burpees to bring the total to 16.  We then worked our way backwards down the pyramid, removing exercises as we went.  So the first round we eliminated the plank, second round we eliminated the Turkish getup, etc.  This took us all the way to the end.

Mary:

There really wasn’t time for it.  We spent a minute doing a bit of light stretches.

Announcements:

Fram’s mattress move

Prayer Requests:

Tragic deaths in Fuquay.  One was a classmate of my middle daughter. Hold your kids tight.

 

Until next time.

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DORAAROD

FNGs: None

Warm Up:

  • SSH IC
  • Good Mornings
  • Stretching

The Workout:

A variant of a common DORA but instead of the team trying to hit a target number of reps, it was AMRAP style for 12 minutes per exercise. We had three PAX so two did the exercise while the third lapped the parking lot and then switched in for one who was working out and the rotation continued for 12 minutes x 3 sets. Total number combined reps were tallied.

  • Merkins = 355
  • Squats = 580
  • WW1s = 378

Mary: None

Announcements: Q’em All Challenge

T-Claps: Everyone who showed up in the rain and put in work.

Prayer: Various

Getting Crazy With Ivan

FNGs: None

Warm Up: SSH IC, Sir Fasio Arm Circles IC, Daisy Pickers IC, and some stretching.

The Workout:

  • Entry fee of 100 consecutive kettle bell swings
  • Main Set #1
    • Bent Rows IC, Curls Fu Du Gurls IC, Overhead Press IC, and Tris For Da Guys IC.
    • Recovery Mosey
    • Rinse and repeat
  • Main Set #2
    • Little Tea Cups IC on each side, Dead Lifts OMU, and WW1s OMU
    • Recovery Mosey
    • Rinse and repeat

Mary: Tridents IC, Homer-to-Marge (weighted) IC, Low Slow Flutter IC, 60sec Chill Cut Plank Hold, Plank Jacks IC, Mountain Climbers IC, and some stretching.

Announcements: Q-em All Challenge, Post Tracker Challenge, and Site Qs adding attendance to new column on AO specific tab on the Q-sheet.

T-Claps (Recognition): None

Prayer: General

Into the Dungeon

FNGs: Not today

Warm up: Mosey around the parking lot and then circle up for SSH, Windmills, Daisy Pickers, Sir Fazio Arm Circles, Seal Claps, and Overhead Claps

The Workout:

YHC promised a Dungeons and Dragons themed workout this morning.  I brought 4 dice with me as well as 8 numbered cards., each with four exercises on them.  The format was fairly simple, we’d roll the dice and they would determine what we did and how much.

The dice were:

D8 – Chose which card we would work off of

D6 – Determined the number of sets we’d do

D20 – Number of reps per exercise

D100 – Number of swings we’d do in between choosing cards.

I have to admit, this whole thing came out of the gate hot.  I was hoping we’d ease in to it but, alas, it was not to be.  As Pikachu said in Slack, the dice may not lie but they are not kind.

The first rolls were

D8 – 3 – This card consisted of Snatch on the left, Snatch on the right, Clean on the left, Clean on the right

D6 – 3 sets

D20 – 15 reps

As was exclaimed many times during this part of our quest, that’s way too many Snatches (not something I ever thought I’d say).  If you’re playing along at home that’s a total of 90 snatch and clean.  That was a lot.  But the D100 would be kind to us, right?

Prophetically, Pikachu called this one before we got to it.

D100 – 90

90 swings.  Nothing fancy about it, just a lot.

The second roll was:

D8 – 4 – This card was Chest Press, Skull Crushers, Overhead Reach, and Turkish Getups

D6 – 6 sets

D20 – 15 (!)

YHC immediately called an audible and said we weren’t going to do 6 sets of 15 Turkish Getups and that we’d save them for the end.  4 sets in and I called another audible because I hoped to get through another card or two.  We did four sets of 15 of the first three excercises.  We began our 15 Turkish Getups but a few minutes in to it I called an end to it because, again, I wanted to get more in.  The D100 couldn’t be cruel again, right?  Right?

D100 – 100

F.  Another audible was called.  We started the set of 100 with just 25 with the promise of sprinking the rest in later.

The third roll:

D8 – 5 – This was single arm lat raise on the left, single arm lat raise on the right, bus drivers, and ground pounders

D6 – 3

D20 – 8

Ok, this was a little more reasonable.  However, after struggling to do the single arm raises with the amount of weight we all had we changed it to double handed straight lat raises for the rest of our sets.  Also, instead of waiting until the end after each set we did another 25 swings.  By the end of this card we had finished our 100 from the previous roll.  Unfortunately we were out of time at this point.  The good news is that there are still 5 unused and unseen cards to be used again.

Mary:

Low Slow Flutter x10 IC

LBC x10 IC

Box cutters x10 IC

Pickle Pounders x10 IC

JLo x10 IC

I might be forgetting something here.

Announcements:

Fire Marshal Gavin – Seriously, congrats!

Prayer Requests:

Injured PAX.

 

As always, its an honor to get a chance to lead you all.

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Rope Work at Purple Cobra

FNGs: None

Warm Up: SSH IC, Daisy Pickers IC, Willie Mayes Hayes IC, Stretching

The Workout: Bearcrawls with Ascending Merkins, Lung Walks with Ascending Squats, Battle Rope Slams, Speed Rope, WW1s, Offset Merkins, Heel Raises

Mary: LSF IC, Homer to Marge IC, LBCs IC

Announcements: Q’em All Challenge and Weekly Post Tracker

T-Claps (Recognition): None

Prayer: Military, First Responder, and general PAX

Six PAX Worked our LEGZ and Got Stronger Together

Better Late Than Never – Backblast Disney January 8, 2026

Warm Up: Step ups rotating with wall sits until it burned.

The Workout: Dora style goblet squats 50, reverse lunges 100, and mountain climbers 150 with bear crawls on the turf. Finally, John Cusack those blocks back to the cedar den and Mary.

Banana Seat got the shirt memo, Best in Show brought burpees and Spider Man, SoftServe brought 2.0 Chief and looks forward to trimming the cedar den, and F3 veteran @Blue Crush just moved in the neighborhood and can’t wait til the next Disney workout. 

Prayer: Gratitude and Trust

It’s Not Cold

Pledge of Allegiance

Warm Up: 50 side straddle hop by the flag; mosey to U.S. map for 25 mountain climbers (2x); dynamic leg warmup: 25 leg swings front-to-back, 25 leg swings left-to-right (2x)

The Workout: Balls to the wall for 10 count x 3 (3x); wall sits for 10 count x 3 (3x)

Track: high knees for 100 feet; walking lunges for 200 feet

Wheelbarrows: two wheelbarrow while the other broad jumps; rotate positions every 50 feet; standing squat for almost 2 minutes

Ledges: Step-ups (25); squats from heels (25); squats from heels (25); three sets each 

Mary: Homer to Marge with feet on ledge; popcorn Mary

Announcements: None

T-Claps (Recognition): Great job beating the fart sack on this “cold” morning LOL

Prayer: Friend’s father in hospital; Gratitude for every day and the many blessings we live. 

In the Army Now

Warm Up:  Side Straddle Hops, Frankensteins, and Willy Mays Hays

The Workout: 

Wheelbarrows, broken wheelbarrows, deconstructed Duck Duck Goose, the old Erkins Derkins Dips, and some Army Crawls.

They play duck duck goose in the army too – right?

Announcements: Check Slack

Prayer– General Prayers

7-11. Seven Year Anniversary Q

7-11. Eleven PAX celebrated my 7 year F3 Anniversary. The number 7 was in play with

Warm-up: SSH, GM, Arm Circles, Mosey to The Block parking garage. 

Workout:

Two rounds

Partnered up: One partner 7 count Inverted Rows, Carolina Dry Docks, Prisoner Squats – rinse and repeat, while other partner ran a lap. 

Mosey to amphitheater: Same deal two rounds with Derkins, Dips, Step Ups/Box Jumps

Together 2 rounds Peoples Chair, BTTW

Mosey to Ballantine: 7s with Pistol Squats & Burpees up and down the hill

Mary: During Mary each PAX shared how they got involved with F3.

Prayers for PAX looking for work and recovery from illness or injury.

10 Years of BS

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!