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A Fire Hose, 2 Snot Rockets, and an Anniversary

What a great year! The great men of F3 have pushed me everyday to be a better version of myself. A year ago, like many fellas out there, I was dead in my tracks and had no sense of acceleration anywhere in my life. Then, Katniss made one choice to EH me into a workout and I made one choice to go. Never underestimate the power of 1 choice, 1 invitation, or 1 time of “showing up” and the influence it may have on another’s life.  40 lbs. lighter, ran a relay (BRR) in the middle of nowhere, stronger, faster, smarter, connected…and…I hate running much less! All things that a year ago seemed out of reach and the workouts we do seemed crazy. I literally “hung up my gloves” 5-6 years ago, lost my wolfpack and accountability, was beat down and injured, and without a physical pursuit. So I took the path of least resistance and settled for mediocrity. F3 has helped me take all of it back! Plus, I wear expensive running shoes now. Thanks men! The workout below incorporates many of the blurry elements of the first workout I posted at 1 year ago.

EC: YHC, Dahmer, Nemo, Katniss, Cupid, Shamwow!

FNGs:none
Warm Up: SSH x 30, 12 IC counts of Good Mornings, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies, Seal Claps, Overhead Claps, and Daisy Pickers.
The Workout: Group split in two. Group 1 does Indian run around the Underworld garage with fire hose wrap. Indian runner carries hose to front of line, pax exchanges until last man gets it. All pax in group carry the hose twice.  Other group performed series of BTTW, People’s Chair, and alternating single leg deadlifts.  Groups switched and repeated.  We all the Cusacked our kettlebell to the far end wall.  Pax did 20 Goblet Squat, 20 Merkins, and an all pax 20 count of People’s Chair.  This…was…challenging! YHC dispatched himself very quickly following this as group was held in suspense before see it was only YHC’s snot rocket fire 1! Back to work.  20 Goblet Squats, 20 merkins, 10 each single leg deadlifts, and an each pax 20 count of BTTW.  Many grunts and choice words during this time! Group recovered for YHC to fire snot rocket #2 away from the group to a few cheers.

Group moved over to the low wall for a series of Irkins, Dips, and Dirkins. Counts were 15 and then 10.  Back to the kettlebells for a series of OYO exercises for 20 counts. Exercises were: Swings, Figure 8, and Halos.  Pax were instructed to do bell merkins until the whole group was finished. Repeato except lower rep count to 15.

Next, 2 rounds of pax performing about a 20 yard bear crawl, doing 7 lawn mowers each side with kettlebell, lunge walk back, then hold BTTW until the six was in.  Cusack the bells back for Mary.
Mary: 10 counts of Midget Cookie Pouches, LSF with bell, and Pickle Pounders.  Also did plank hold with 25 IC Mountain Climbers.
Announcements: Work at HS Food Cupboard tomorrow. Check 3rd F Slack. Tetanus will bring us the next Ted Talk at end of October. Details and teasers will be on 3rd F Slack as well.
T-Claps (Recognition): All the pax who’ve pushed me and posted with me at workouts. Especially, my 3rd Watch ShieldLock brothers, my 12 man BRR Boxcars team, Deadbolt for Q ing the workout that got me hooked, and Katniss, for that EH that has highly impacted my life.
Prayer: Bondo’ granddaughter Piper is home! Prayers for F3 Grandstrand and a lost brother and police officer.  Katniss took us out.  Honor to lead. Here’s to the next year of getting faster, stronger, and probably crazier!

Good thing my M knows math or my kids would be screwed.

Another glorious morning at the greatest place on earth. YHC was excited to see Deadbolt doing some weasel shaking last night on Facebook as a pre-blast so I followed up on Slacks.  I had an FNG coming out and it was great to see all the HC’s coming in. Welcome FNG OJ!

I promised simple and effective. If my math was better, it might have been a little smoother. The whole jack webb thing messes with me.

FNGs: Welcome OJ!
Warm Up: FNG Disclaimer, Lot Mosey, SSH x40 IC, Frankenstein x10, Sir Fazio, Seal Claps, OHC all x10 IC. Daisy Pickers x10, Standard Merkin x15.
The Workout: Mosey to the Abyss. Split into partners.  1 Partner at the top cycle through Standard, Wide and Military Merkins AMRAP until partner 2 returns from down the stairs and 10 Star Jumps at the bottom. Cycle through until each person has done the bottom 3 times.  We all went down and picked up the 6 with 10 Star Jumps.

Mosey back to the fields.

Suicide Lines

1st Set: Halfway, all the way.  At halfway, Mt Climbers IC x15, End WWII x15

2nd Set: Halfway: Chilly Jacks x15 IC, SSH x15 IC

3rd Set: Jack Webb 2-4 finish with 10-20 (or something close to that, this is where my math went off the rails)

Mary: Homer to Marge x10 IC (L/R), Box Cutter x10, LBC’s x20 IC
Announcements: HS/FV Q battle next week. Bring “all the clothes” for healing transitions
T-Claps (Recognition): Goldilocks, Bondo for hitting it hard today and FNG OJ!
Prayer: Those impacted by the storm, Families in Beirut, Small Business owners, YHC took us out.