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What’s the Standard F3 Penalty for…

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…a whole lot of mumblechatter? Haven’t heard this much since last weekend at Ground Pounder. A new undisputed mumblechatter champion AO? We’ll see. So let YHC know I f there’s an answer to this question. The standardized penalty I used today was 10 burpees OYO. Too soft?

FNG’s: None
Warm Up: Mosey to the former Ivan lot and circle up for ( all IC) SSH x 20, Seal Claps x 10, Overhead Claps x 10, Hillbillies x 10, IW x 10, and Frankenstein x 10.
The Workout: Stop 1 on the journey to get stronger. Each of the 11 pax took turns running the loop of the Ivan lot while remaining pax did an exercise AMRAP together. When runner returns, another pax leaves to run the loop.  Pax switches AMRAP exercises. Go until all pax run their loop. AMRAP exercises were: 3 rounds merkins, 3 rounds WWII’s, 2 rounds alternate lunges, 2 rounds sumo squat jumps, 1 round of LSF’s.

Next stop, the bandstand. Pax on the grass does a 20 count of exercise IC while pax on the bandstand does BTTW. Then pax switch spots.  4 rounds of this with IC exercises being: step ups, irkins, dips, and derkins. Pax up top switched between BTTW and People’s Chair.

3rd Stop, the picnic shelter. Half the pax did continuous SSH IC while other pax “bench crawled” the picnic tables around the square. Pax switch roles. Each man bench crawled and did 50 SSH. If you don’t know what bench crawls are, Skidmark was the first Q to intro me to these.

4th Stop, there’s always rocks to throw around. YHC rotated exercises and all done IC for a total of 45 reps per exercise. Curls for the Girls, tricep extensions, squats, rut rows, and rock spanks. Mumble chatter was extensive during rock spanks. Punishment? The aforementioned 10 burpees OYO. Pax were quick to blame each other for this penalty.
Mary: Tried to get back quickly for Mary but to no avail. Time up as we entered the TBD cage
Announcements: Greenhouse build this weekend. Drop an HC or a DM to @Dumbo. @ Mookie has a goal to Q southwake everything this month. Get out to support one of this HIM’s Q’s. He’s at Tiger Blood tomorrow with a fresh routine to deliver.
T-Claps (Recognition): All the pax who counted cadence while I had my balls to the wall or otherwise occupied in my own beatdown this morning.
Prayer: Our F3 brother Wallaby and family, Pikachu’s M, relief from back pain/injury, our military and nation. YHC took us out.  Thanks my F3 brothers for taking me inside and empowering me to lead and get stronger with you.

U-turn Pickin’ Up the Six

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FNGs: none

Warm Up: good mornings, stretching, daisy pickers, SSH, frankensteins, imperial walkers

The Workout: PAX set up for 3 and 5 mile options, on a damp and wet morning, but hey, the rain held off so that was a bonus.

Announcements: Playhouse build will likely take place weekend of 2/29, Fanny Pack spearheading, Dumbo looking for PAX volunteers to help build green house next weekend, Slide Rule brought up need for PAX to ensure we are all picking up the six – makes us all stronger.  Commit

Prayer: Warbuck’s wifes grandmother, Naperville F3 PAX who recently pass during a workout, Wallaby, Cowboy upcoming travel to Australia.

Championships don’t count if you weren’t on the field

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As I drove from Panera after another morning of recruiting from U-Turn, I realized my own hypocrisy.  Moving forward, I will not recruit for the Saturday double down unless I am doing so myself. 

FNG: Schroeder (courtesy of a DOA Headlock).  Schroeder is full of talent – a musical savant on the piano,  a supervisor at the nuclear power plant.

10 HIMs showed up to GP and mumble chatter started before the clock started.    

WarmUp:

10 Good Mornings, 10 Windmills, 10 Daisy Pickers,  20 Fozzie Arm Circles, 10 Imperial Squaters, 10 Hillbillies, 20 3ct SSH, 10 Willy Mays Haze

The Workout

Mosey to the Rock Pile. Rotate around rocks between sets.

  • 3 sets of 20’s – Curls for the girls
  • 3 sets of 20’s  – Overhead Overhead Tri-press
  • 3 sets of 10’s – Ground Pounders
  • 3 sets of 10’s – Trunk Twists
  • 3 sets of 10’s – Bus Drivers
  • 3 sets of 10’s – Rutrows
  • 4 sets of 20 – Standard Bench Press
  • 10 x 3ct – Windshield Wipers
  • 10 x 3ct – 6 inches (arms extended)
  • 10 x 3ct – Box Cutters
  • 10 x 3ct – Rocky’s
  • 10 x 3ct – WWII’s

Mosey to the Wall of Pain

  • 1 set of 50ct Prisoner style Wall Sits and 1 set of 50 ct Al Gore Wall Sits
  • 2 sets of 30 ct Ascending Testicles

Mosey to playground wall:

  • 2 sets of 10 x 3ct Alternating Leg Step Ups
  • 2 sets of 10 Merkins, Derkins, Erkins and Dips  

Mosey to picnic area for some dice rolling

10 Plank Jacks, 8 Burpees, 6 American Hammers, 10 Split Jacks, 7 Diamond Merkins, 4 x 3ct Lunges, 11 Mountain Climbers, 8 x 3ct Rockies, 5 Dips, 9 Mountain Climbers

Mumble Chatter was on full tilt – lots of comments about how size matters, potential concussions, buses being driven into ditches, and we all learned Pikachu practices handless BTWs and that Garner feels high school football championships are more important than teaching students how to count. 

T-Claps for those who doubled down this morning.

Announcements: Play Set Build rescheduled due to weather, no 2.0 workout today.

Prayer Requests:  HIMs that are dealing with injuries especially Aquaman,  DOA’s daughter has broken arm, Sprinkler and his family, R22’s daughters friend dealing with cancer

YHC took us out.

Frosty Foursome (+7)

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At least 6 for EC, pax of 11 for a frosty AO led by Yosemite, Norm, Dovetail, and Shredder. A foursome first? Dovetail had said the night prior that coordination wasn’t necessary as he bet nobody was doing the same thing he was. Well, overlap occurred. But it was a good time nonetheless.

Warm Up

Yosemite led warm-up and the first section of the main thing, starting with a Mosey with butt kickers and high knees mixed in, followed by a generous helping of SSH, windmills, Daisy pickers, and Sir Fazzio arm circles.

The Workout:

11s with Bonnie Blair’s and wall sit seal claps to the front and up.

Norm then took over with:
Partner 100s – Erkins, Derkins, Dips. One partner racks up reps while the other runs the track

Dovetail took the next 10 mins:
12-9-6-3 Quick-HIIT with 3 levels
Wall-sit kicks (alternating legs)
Clap merkins OR Hand raise Merkin OR merkin
Butterfly situps OR big boy situps OR LBC in cadence
Box jump overs OR box jumps OR step-ups
Derkin walk on one wall, erkin walk on the other, with frog jumps between (only did this once for the sake of time)

Combatives

Shredder led this section with the concept of trap-and-attack, defending against an attacker who has planted one hand near the throat, the other hand readying a haymaker. Talked about also using the surrounding environment as a weapon.

Mary:
No time, mixed into the thang anyway.

Prayer:

Mr Terrific’s dad’s upcoming surgery
Shredder’s co-worker Danielle – single mom, cancer, daughter in hospital with mental health issues
Ole Beater’s “snip-snip” surgery

We didn’t name him Lawn Chair (or Quitter!)

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A beautiful day at Tiger Blood.  Good friend of mine for a long time finally came out to join me and 9 others for an easy day of upper body and core.  Frisco made the trip across the wall to support SW native Dom.  I was waiting for the mumble chatter, but apparently devil burpees are the antidote to that!

FNGs: Powder Priest (Sonny -> It’s always Sunny in Philly -> Coke addicted Priest -> Alliteration is your friend)

Warm Up: Quick lap, SSH, Imperial Walkers / Hillbillys.  5 Devil Burpees at request of Da Business

The Workout:

Pikachu asked for low running.  He also didn’t actually show up, so….yeah.  Thank you for your leadership?

Thing 1:

12’s — Russian Twist + Double Merkin Absolutions.  Do 11 Twists, 1 Absolution, 10 /2 , etc.  Every 3 rounds, jail break to other side of the parking lot.
Protip: 10 double merkin absolutions, 1 twist, then 11 double merkin absolutions is none of the fun.

Thing 2:

I had originally planned Thing 3 to be at this point, but had to audible order.  We indian ran to the track and did the
“Beep Test“: 1 partner ran a lap while the other did burpees.
4x times, each time partner does 2 fewer burpees (and therefore run faster to finish together)

Thing 3:

Brokeback / Backbroke merkin combo.  Pair up, one of you does 10x backbroke, the other does 10x brokeback.
Run around the island, 8x, switch top and bottom.
There were absolutely no comments about who prefers to be a top vs. a bottom, why do you ask?

At this point the Carpex guys slipped off into the woods together.  I guess what happens in SW stays in SW?

Thing 4:
11’s — Shoulder Tap BTTW + Tysons.
We ran out of time and ended after 8 rounds with 10x of each.

Mini Thing:
Floor is lava on the tiger/dawg paws back to start

Mary: PICKLE POUNDERS

Announcements:
All the 3rdF you could want and more.  So glad to be part of this group and see the impact we’re making.  Way to lead guys.

T-Claps (Recognition): Solid effort out there this morning.  Always fun to hear guys encouraging an FNG and reminiscing about what it was like when they first came out.

Prayer: Whole lot of sickness and surgery out there.  Dom shared he got a new job.  Really solid conversation about prioritizing home life over work and the challenges we face to do that well.  Real solid COT guys.

And Tonight’s Lucky Number is…13!

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7 Pax gathered around the flag on a crowded night at Womble. So glad to see our brother Sprinkler tonight on hand and with a double down too! YHC got to introduce everyone in the gloom tonight to my lucky number…13. Just about everything tonight hit that number. FNG’s: No sir!
Warm Up: Short mosey to the baseball field parking lot. Pax circled up for SSH x 20, Daisy Pickers x 10, Sir Fazio Arm Circles x 20 F/R, and some Windmills x 10.
The Workout: A few rounds of 4 corners kicked the real work off tonight. The corners were: Merkins, Sumo Squat Jumps, Plank Jacks, and Prisoner Squats. Count started at 5 reps and progressed with each round up to 10. Pax moseyed btw corners. All done together IC. Way to go Pikachu for finding ways to modify moves he’s currently forbidden from doing!

Pax then headed to the rock pile, selected their poison, and circled up for a series of exercises all with 13 counts. Curls for the Girls x 39, (gonna do a little math here) Tricep Extend x 26, Ground Pounders x 26, Bus Drivers x 26, Shoulder Press x 26, Rut Rows x 26, Squats x 39, Goblet Squats x 13, Dead Lift x 13, Wonder Bras x 26, Rock Spanks (new to this Particular group of men) x 13.

Chest presses for a count of 13 would follow. After each set of 13, pax would do a burpee, then switch rocks. This would end the round at 8 burpees and 104 chest presses.

Rinse and repeat except after each set of 13 chest presses, each pax would do a wide grip merkin before switching the rocks. This gave us 8 wide grip merkins and 104 more chest presses. Moseyed to tennis court for a very short Mary.
Mary: LSF x 13, LBC x 13
Announcements: Long Ass Run.  22 miles coming up.
T-Claps (Recognition): Sprinkler on the double down on an extremely tough day as a man. We’re humbled by your example of toughness today sir! Babe Ruth for driving that bus with the best of em’ tonight.
Prayer: Sprinkler, comfort for his family. Unspoken. YHC took us out. Honor to lead!

Picking up the Six

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EC: Shredder and Mr. Terrific

FNGs: Not today

Warm Up:   10 x SSH IC, 10 x Frankensteins IC, 10 x Daisy Pickers IC

The Workout:

3 Mile route: Out and back from Ting to Earp Street.

5 Mile route – The Scooter:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mary: Ran out of time

Announcements: Check Slack and Facebook. There are a lot of great 3rd F opportunities this weekend and in the near future. Shredder will be rolling out a survey in the next week or so to determine area of needs for PAX (marriage health, financial, fitness, etc) and look to set up meeting times to work on these areas. F3 is more than a workout and we are all here for each other. The message today was to try to work on these areas before it is too late.

T-Claps (Recognition): Everyone for picking up the 6 the entire route. Good work men.

Prayer: Sprinkler and his family, unspoken, injured PAX.

YHC took us out. Thank you for the opportunity to lead.

As Promised-No Burpees!

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FNGs: None
Warm Up: Mosey to back courts for SSHx20, Merkx10, HillBx10, ImpWalkx10, Faz Armx10for/back, Sealclapx10, Mtclimbx10
The Workout:Indian Run around track and stop at the starting point for exercise.  Another Indian run after each exercise.  20 Merk, 20 Squats, 20 CarDryDocs. Mosey to front playground for balls, bear crawl, monkhump 10, 15, 20 counts.  Mosey to front of school for Urk, Stepups(each leg), Dips.  Again 10, 15 and 20 counts. Mosey to rock pile where we chose a smedium size rock as it was going to travel with us. A variety of exercises to work upper and lower body alike.  All to 20 counts.  Squats, Curls, Triceps, Goblet Squats, WonderBras, St Leg Deadlift, Rut rows.  Each exercised followed with a lap or lunges.  Mosey to front lot for Mary
Mary: Popcorn Mary with your choice.  Only BlueHen and Sliderule were left out.  Sliderule on purpose(nobody wants to do the Devil Burpee
Announcements:
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer:Several were lifted up.

Line ‘em up, Line ‘em up, Line ‘em up

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Downtown Train site is ripe with an empty two-level parking deck, fully striped, ready for exercises.

Flag planted 5:25 am. EC: Full House, Halfway House, Mr. Terrific

Warm-up:

Moseyed to church parking lot, but it didn’t feel right. We needed a warm-up before the warm-up! Mosey up the one way beside My Way, across Main to Raleigh, then back down to Ballentine. Left on Avent Ferry. Found new TOHS parking lot, which felt cozy after the mosey.

SSH 25x, Wind mills 10x slow with good form, GMs 10x, 5 burpees OYO

The Thang:

Mosey to upper parking deck. After confirming with Nemo that the stairs were open, climbed all the way to the second floor, which was too far. Not the first time anyone made this mistake. Finally exited onto the “upper” deck.

Rail Roads. Launched a series of Railroad Track exercises. Here’s the idea: Line up like an Indian run with one PAX per parking stripe. The six runs past the entire PAX and takes the next open stripe. Continue as an Indian run to end of parking deck, then return on the opposite set of parking stripes.

  • Railroad Round 1: Simple plank Indian run
  • Railroad Round 2: Simple plank Indian run but hop over PAX ankles
  • Railroad Round 3: Guantanamo following same pattern
  • Railroad Round 4: Chill cut Indian run following same pattern

Mosey down the steps.

People’s Chair Indian Run. PAX lines wall immediately at the bottom of the stairs. First PAX, Abe, counts to 10, runs to front of line. Next PAX, YHC, counts to 10, runs to front of line. Continue until last PAX, Mr. Terrific has completed three runs to front of line.

Rail Bear Crawls. Mosey to handrails near corner of Avent Ferry and Ballentine. Sideways Bear Crawl down rails 4x. Lead with right arm, lead with left arm, lead with right arm, lead with left arm. Squat and plank hold while waiting your turn. Full House led 10x Merkins before breaking up.

Mary:

Popcorn Mary. POTS 5 burpees OYO. New exercise from Sprinkler—can’t remember the name, but start with short quick kicks, extending kick higher as you go. No Rockette performers in this group! Freddy Mercury’s, LBCs, WWIIs, and more. Ran out of time so Abe and Nemo owe use some Mary exercises.

Announcements: Check Slack

Prayers: Sprinkler’s dad passed away early Sunday—prayers for him and his family in this time of grieving. Quiver’s M medical autoimmune issue. Nemo and M doing Hope Church’s Re-Engage program, may it be fruitful. YHC’s buddy who is revisiting doctor after hernia surgery.

TClaps: F3 South Wake’s impact on the community over the weekend with painting at Mama’s House and two roadside litter cleanups.

Mike..Mike…Mike..HHHHHUUUMMMPPPPPDDDDDAAAAAYYYYYYY!!!!!!!

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EC: @Reddenbacher, @Emeril, @Deadbolt – Ran EC in reverse.

FNGs: Mike Sheridan –  Now known as Alamo

Warm Up:
Jog to soccer field.  SSH, Good Mornings, Windmills, Daisy Pickers

The Workout:
Originally I was going to utilize the @Deadbolt special and do four corner repeats in the big parking lot followed up with some Abyss training.  But during my EC run I came up with a new plan to keep everyone moving (Pakistani Runs) and hitting all the great rides Disney has to offer.

Ride 1 – Started at the soccer field after warmups.  Balls to wall on the fence, run to midfield 15 Merkins, run to the other fence Preachers Chair. Back to midfield for Merkins.  Noticed someone standing near the bathrooms waiting on us and as we got closer realized it was @Crablegs.   5 burpees for everyone.

Ride 2 – Next stop the abyss.  One line Pakistani Run partner up on the way.   1 partner LBC’s at the top while the other partner ran down into the abyss and did 10 star jumps.  Back to the top and swap.
Round 2 partner 1 did squats while partner 2 ran down and did Merkins.  Swap.   Core work while we waited for the 6.

Ride 3 – One line Pakistani Run to the Big Parking Lot.  4 corners.  Corner 1 at the start 3 burpees.  Jog/run to corner 2 6 burpees.  Lunge walk corner 3 9 burpees.  Jog/run to corner 4 12 burpees.
Core work while we waited on the 6.

Ride 4 – Mosey to the hill behind the big parking lot.   Partner up again.  Partner 1 run to the top of the hill while Partner 2 did Prisoner Get Up Squat Jumps (PGUSJ), one of my new favorite exercises that @Dawgpound introduced to us last week.

Ride 5 – Mosey to the stairs behind the school.  5 Turkish get ups.  Run up stairs and around to the football field benches near the ticket booth.  Dips until the 6 showed up.  @Dawgpound ran us thru some of the best Russian Dips ever.

Pakistani run back to the big parking lot because @Midget for Life left his sweatshirt.  FNG was pretty tired at this point so @Dumbo stopped to provide encouragement while Pax ran ahead to parking lot entrance and did more Squats followed by the @Nemo special Goofballs led by @Midget for Life.  FNG caught his breath so finished the Pakistani Run back to the flag.

Mary:
Downward dog calf stretches.  Pigeon.

Announcements:
Thursday 1/30 4pmish – Help Snap move out of his office into storage down near @Pikachus house
Long Ass ATT run – 2/22 7am
Brought Mike into the circle to name him. After he gave us his background info I was ready to call him Hump Day but @Dumbo asked one more question.  “What was your first job?”.  Mike’s answer was “I worked at a rental car agency”.   @Dumbo appropriately named him Alamo

Feb 2nd – Greenhouse build at HS Food Pantry.  HC for a count. Don’t want to overwhelm the kid running it.

T-Claps (Recognition):
All the Pax for continuously encouraging Mike/Alamo throughout the workout.  I heard so many Mike, Mike, Mike… that thought for sure we’d name him Hump day.   Special thanks to @Midget for Life and @Dumbo for working with him.
@Dumbo for going to Central Prison on Tuesday to meet with those in prison and helping to run a bible study.  While there he found out they’ve been doing F3 3 times a day.

Prayer: @Quiver has a family friend that is 70 and was just diagnosed with ALS, @Crablegs, men at Central Prison, @Snap, @Wallaby