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Snagged Downtown Train off my Big Gulp for my Monopoly Board

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I was fortunate to jump in line and secure my Big Gulp with the Downtown Train game piece.  SCORE!!!

To my surprise, 13 PAX showed up to join in on the fun.  Let’s play Monopoly!!!

Warm Up:  Fazio Arm Circles, Willy Mays Haze, Frankensteins, and Good Mornings, Windmills

The Workout: 

Travel to Amphitheater – Lunge Walk Half the Parking Garage, Bear Crawl the other half

Thang 1 x4

  • Partner 1 Preachers Chair
  • Partner 2 Box Jumps up the theater seats
  • Switch

Thang 2 x4

  • Partner 1 Balls 2 Walls
  • Partner 2 Step Ups up the theater seats
  • Switch

Thang 3 x1

  • Earkins, Derkins, Dips
  • Up the normal theater steps and back down 2x between each of the last bullet

Thang 4 x3

  • Partner 1 Inverted Rows – 15, 10, 5
  • Partner 2 Plank Hold
  • Switch

Thang 5 x4

  • Partner 1 Preachers Chair
  • Partner 2 Box Jumps up the theater seats
  • Switch

Travel Back to Flag – Carioca through the parking garage

Mary: Poop Eaters, Pickle Pounders, Homer to Marge, WW2, Superman, 6inches, Low Slow Flutter

Announcements: Check-in with Abe about CPR Opportunities, 2nd F/2nd Friday Lunch is this week join Abe+ in picking a place and BE THERE!!!

Prayer– Pumpkin Spice’s wife as she manages a full plate at work.  T-claps for her opportunity but pray to help her through the stress of getting things settled.

Prayers re: war.  Life is precious, peace is the answer.

Fookin Guy

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Warm Up: Mosey to slide rules hill. GM, windmills, Fazio arm circles, Micheal Phelps, 1merkin/7IC mountain climbers increasing to 7 merkin/7IC MC

The Workout: 7s on the hill. Even travel forward up hill, odd reverse up hill. Delineate top and squats at bottom

Jack Webb (wall planks/MC) 

Mosey to tenniscourts

Burpee breakdowns with bear crawl forward and backward run at each side line from closest to farthest. 5-Merkins, 10-pulse squats, 15-squats, 20- burpees

3-corners stack em 

20-Kevin harts(calf raises),

20-Kevin harts(calf raises)

40-Frankenstein,

20-Kevin harts(calf raises)

40-Frankenstein

60-IC SSH,

Mary: hello Dolly, lsf, Homer to Marge, lbs, 7 captain thors.

Announcements: Midget needs friend fo racquetball
Prayer:Loss of family member of one of our paxs and health

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. 

7-11. Seven Year Anniversary Q

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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.

Pumps and Grunts

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FNGs: none

Warm Up:

  1. Bodyweight Good Mornings
  2. KB Halo 
  3. Hip Openers (World’s Greatest Stretch) 
  4. Uppercut Left-to-Right
  5. Bodyweight squats

The Workout:

Format: 4 rounds — work 50 sec, rest 10 sec, move to next exercise. Rest 30 sec between rounds.

  • KB Clean to Press (Right) 
  • KB Clean to Press (Left)
  • KB Front Rack Reverse Lunge (Alternating Legs) 
  • KB Deadlift to High Pull
  • KB Goblet Squat to Thruster
  • KB Swing

Mary:

KB American Hammer

KB Deadbug (Right) – Hold KB over chest, alternate lowering opposite arm/leg.

KB Deadbug (Left)

KB Plank Pull-Through

Pickle Pounders

Mountain climbers

LBCs

WW3s

Announcements: none

T-Claps (Recognition): none

Prayer: M4Life’s neighbor has a collapsed lung. @Choppa’s daughter has kidney issues

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!

Platoon conquers 1,200 reps

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FNGs: n/a

Warm Up: hillbillies imperial walkers, seal, claps, homeschool high fives side trail, hops, surf Fazio, arm circles, and Daisy pickers between Moses’s

Thang one four corners 100 platoon count Merkins side trail hop squats, World War II alternate between mosey and Bear crawl second set 200 platoon count of the same

Thing two, mosey to the playground with brakes for a side, straddle hops star jumps and Merkins 10 lunges in cadence 10 pull-ups times three Wall work Durkin’s dips step ups

Finished with Popcorn Mary

COT announcements fence painting in a week and a half F3 picnic

Prayer: Ben and family, Security and neighborhood, pumpkin spice while she travels, BNB’s upcoming project in Franklinton

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

Monkey Humpers and Bear Squares

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FNGs: n/a Warm Up: Mosey to various benches in the neighborhood for step-ups, dips and irkins.
The Workout:

Five PAX made it happen calmly while enjoying rock music.
Warm up required crossing the street and the HIM encouraged passing traffic with Monkey Humpers while waiting for the green light.
We made good use of stray cones with bear squares, paired with balls to the wall. 2 bear squares, burpee broad jumps to the wall, balls to the wall while waiting for the 6. Then repeat.
There was also a circle of squats, each PAX called led count of squat style exercise, recovery mosey, then circle of Merkins where each PAX led a count of merkin style exercise.

7s of Monkey Humpers / Carolina Drydocks with backwards mosey to strength the knees between

Mary: Popcorn Mary Announcements: Paint the fence at Sugg Farm T-Claps (Recognition): n/a

Prayer: Friend (Brian) with cancer diagnostic and hopefully a simple procedure, Shooting Blanks’ daughter, Downrange’s family traveling, BnB’s renovations