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BOARDING ACTION!!

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FNGs: N/A

Warm Up: The Usual. F3 Mission Statement and 5 core principles were stated correctly.

The Workout: in today’s gloom we ran a competition pitting Queen Anne’s Crew (Gump, Flip Phone, and Finkle) against Vane’s Rebels across 4 stations of equipment and body weight exercises. With the help of a 50 second tabata timer, members of one crew would lift the heavy things and put them down (farmer carry, kettlebell swings, sandbag burpies, and curls for the girls) while the other crew did body weight exercises of their choosing (too many to name). The crews would switch and see if they could lift up heavy things better than that of their rival crew. 

See history lesson on Blackbeard and Charles Vane below.

Mary: No time!

Announcements: None

T-Claps (Recognition):

Prayer: Prayers for injured PAX and PAX on the job-hunt.

History Lesson: Blackbeard vs. Charles Vane

Charles Vane and Edward Teach — better known as Blackbeard — were both prominent pirates operating in the Atlantic during the early 1700s, and their rivalry stemmed from competition over territory and resources in the Caribbean and along the American coast. Vane was known for his brutality and refusal to accept pardons, while Blackbeard cultivated a fearsome reputation through theatrics and intimidation. Towards the end of Blackbeard’s life, the two were competing for dominance in pirate havens, and Vane’s aggressive tactics alongside Blackbeard’s declining influence created tension between their crews. Though they never directly clashed, their rivalry represented the cutthroat nature of piracy in that era — fitting inspiration for today’s beatdown.

Presidents Day UFO

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Warm Up:  Started the warm-up with some Side Straddle Hops, Frankensteins, and Willy Mays Hays to get the muscles moving before the main event. 

The Workout: The main event started as one big group with a Burpee on the frisbee drop, but then a few more showed up, and we had to split into 2 games. 

Many discs were dropped, and many burpees and squats were performed, but we got the job done, and everyone walked away relatively unscathed. 

Announcements: Q them all and set a number of weekly workouts challenges are active and running. If you complete the Q-Them all challenge, you will receive a custom shirt. 

Prayer- General Prayers  

Cold Snap

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Warm‑Up

Mosey around the track, stopping periodically for:

  • Side‑Straddle Hops (SSH)
  • Good Mornings
  • Windmills
  • Squats
  • Squat Pulses

The Thang

At the wall:
Performed a modified Jack Webb, using a 1:4 ratio of 4‑count Wall Planks to Mountain Climbers.

On the tennis courts:
Broke down burpees, then used lunges or bear crawl as the mode of travel to each end line.

Round 1:

  • 5 Bobby Hurleys
  • 10 Merkins
  • 15 Squats
  • 20 Burpees

Round 2:

  • 20 Bobby Hurleys
  • 15 Merkins
  • 10 Squats
  • 5 Burpees

Mary

Closed with a mix of ab work:

  • LBCs
  • Hello Dollys
  • Toe Touches
  • Leg Raises
  • Homer‑to‑Marge
  • Chillcut with Peter Parkers

Finished with stretching.

Announcements

  • Q Challenge underway.

 

Prayer Requests

  • Banana Seat and his travels.

7 for 9 stations at Mutiny

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FNGs: none

Warm Up: Arm circles, IW, HB, GM, WMH

 

The Workout:

9 stations. 50 seconds on 10 second off. 3 round

Werewolfs (downward dog <-> cobra)

Weighted Lunges

Crab Cakes

Jump Squats

Navy Seal Merkins

Weighted Homer-to-Marge

KB squat into a tri-for-the-guy

Squat Hold Calf Raises

Weighted American Hammers

 

Mary: LSF, Hello, Dolly, Scissors, and LBC. Next, we had a few group activities with a 20 lb medicine ball. Finished with 4 min of active stretching 

Announcements: pool Qs on Friday at Sheep Dog. 

T-Claps (Recognition): Happy 35th, Sombrero! 

Prayer: travels for Flip Phone and Abacus

Tumbleweed’s Virgin Q

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Note: Abacus filling our the backblast for Tumbleweed

FNGs: None

Warm Up: Standard

The Workout: We split up in teams of three and did 100 merkins, 200 Carolina dry docks, and 300 curls for the girls while one person alternated between bear crawls or broad jumps and another held a plank. Followed by an Indian run.

Mary: Popcorn Mary

Announcements: 1776 Workout

T-Claps (Recognition):

Prayer: Abacus neighbor, Popeye friend, horse face traveling mercies

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!

Day 1 2015 Throwback Week – Mutiny

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YHC has the privilege of leading the four original AO’s that were offered in 2015 when I first started this week. It will be a build up to my 10 year anniversary on Friday. We start out with Mutiny. YHC has completed maybe a hundred or more workouts at this AO throughout the years. Today we remembered one of my first posts here that was delivered by Brett Michaels…”The Michigan”. It was super tough back then and still can be today depending on how much you push yourself. Anyway, here is the workout we did.

Warm Ups
Mosey from upper circle down and around circle drive and back up.
– Good Mornings
– SSH
– Michael Phelps
– Frankensteins
– Plank Jacks

Clock Merkins – Rotating to each hour while in a plank position and performed the number of merkins for each hour. Ex. 3 merkins for 3 o’clock. When completed, it was 78 total merkins.

PAX moseyed up to the upper field for “The Michigan”
Ten 100 yd dashes – 2 M&H
Eight 80 yd dashes – 4 M&H
Six 60 yd dashes – 6 M&H
Four 40 yd dashes – 8 M&H
Two 20 yd dashes – 10 M&H
M&H = Merkins and 2X Hallelujahs
We built our speed over the progression of the dashes.

Next, we moseyed down to the parking spaces for Build-A-Bears.
Start at the end of the parking line, do a burpee, bear crawl the line to the curb, do a merkin on the curb, slide plank across the curb to the next line, do another merkin, crawl bear back down the line and perform another burpee. We did this 5 times total.

We then went to the tennis courts.
Balls to the Fence shoulder taps x10 IC then into Hallelujah wall sits x10 IC for 3 rds.

Mary
Core Challenge Wk 1 exercises X10 IC
– Sitting knee tucks
– Starfish crunch
– Exaggerated LSF
– American Hammers
– Superman’s

COT
Announcements: Paint the fence at Bass Lake on Friday. CSAUP coming this fall.
Prayers: Many unspoken, Fram’s FIL, YHC’s friend’s dad passed

PAX, Thanks for attending and it’s always an honor to lead. Until next time…

BS Out

A late Backblast Is Still A Backblast

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FNGs: none

Warm Up: Sir Fozio Arm Circles, Popeye Punches, WMH, Kettlebell Halo

The Workout:

Part 1 (10 minutes): 

One arm with no breaks between sets

  • 5x One-arm swing snatches
  • 5x Rows
  • 5x Hang cleans
  • 5x One-hand overhead squats

SWITCH Sides and repeat

Continue alternating sides for 10 min. (~4 total rounds)

Part 2 (15 minutes):

Tabata style (45 sec on 15 sec off) x 3

  • Left leg Romanian deadlift (RDL) x5 then knee raise
  • Right leg Romanian deadlift (RDL) x5 then knee raise
  • Thrusters
  • Lumberjacks (Right)
  • Lumberjacks (Left)

Part 3 (10 min):

LINE UP

  • American Hammers
  • Lateral Swings
  • Hip-Hip-Shoulder-Shoulder

Farmer carry 

  • 10x side bends

Switch sides and repeat 

Mary: 5 min various core exercises

Announcements: none

T-Claps (Recognition): none

Prayer: I don’t remember, sorry for the late backblast. 

Absolutions! Oh My!

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FNGs: Welcome Hardhat! Named because a TBI in high-school and that he works in construction project management.

Warm Up: Side-straddle hops, daisy pickers, and a few stretches while the F3 Mission Statement, Core Values, and the FNG disclaimer was recited. (Penalty burpees were assessed when the initially called upon PAX hesitated when asked to recite the mission statement)

The Workout:

Round one consisted of partnering up for a core themed DORA consisting of Absolutions x100, Plank Jacks x200, and LBCs x300 with the alternate partner running 100ish meters then swapping out. 

Round two was a BLIMPS blitz with the PAX lining up on one side of the tennis courts and completing ascending reps of Burpees, Lunges, Imperial Walkers, Merkins, Plank Jacks, and Squats then sprinting to the opposite side of the tennis court and repeating with an additional rep. Ascended through 7 sets. 

Mary: Low-slow flutter and hello dolly

Prayer: PAX that are traveling and friends/family of PAX that are ill or going through challenging times. 

Crazy Ivan Birthday Bash

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FNGs:  None

T-Claps: Flip Phone and Gump (5 workouts)

Warm-up:  SSH, Good AM, etc

Workout:  See binky ; Very little rest  HIIT

COT:  Family members who are ill; PAX looking for work.  YHC took us out.

Honored to lead on my 56th birthday.  Apologies for the commercials while listening to Pandora.