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3-4-2026 Possum Trot – Learning to Count-Off

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Nine PAX converged on Possum Trot from near and far.

WU: SSH 25x, Imperial Walkers 10x, Hillbillies 10x, Arm Circles F/B 10x, BB sit-ups 20x

ME: Grab a rock. Success. Count off. Failure. Finally determined we had nine PAX. Then, we managed to count off as Group 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2…

Thang 1: Group 1: Slide rock across parking lot while bear crawling. Lots of different methods, including Sprinkler with a steady slide all the way across, leaving a nice skidmark; sliding and rolling was the most common approach, plus a couple of tosses. Group 2: Arm exercises, including curls and overhead press. At least two successful rounds. Time to move on!

Thang 2: Mosey with rock overhead and place rock at bottom of hill. Together, climb hill and do exercises on guard rail 5x. Dips and irkins. Requested by Gump.

Thang 3: Slide rocks for the final time down the back stretch (to make up for losses at parking lot). Return rocks.

Thang 4: Tennis courts. Group 1: BTW 20 second count. Group 2: Plank hold

Thang 5: Suicides on tennis courts. Beautiful courts, four courts wide. Requested by Six Inch.

Mary: Low slow flutter, Freddie Mercury, pickle pounders, Superman

Announcements: Q ‘Em All Challenge

Prayer Requests: Escobar’s wife receiving cancer treatment, Ausfart’s wife recovering from surgery, military personnel shot down in current middle east war.

 

 

 

Neighborhood Sweep

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  • Warm‑Up:
    Good Mornings, Frankensteins, Windmills, and Fazio Arm Circles to get everything loosened up.
  • The Thang:
    Mosey over to Crooked Bluff. For every mailbox on the right, knock out 1 merkin; every mailbox on the left, 1 squat. Reps increment and stack as we make our way toward the cul‑de‑sac.
  • At the cul‑de‑sac:
  • 20 Calf Raises
  • 20 Mountain Climbers
  • 20 Shoulder Taps
  • Rinse and repeat on the way out of the neighborhood, stopping again at a second cul‑de‑sac for the same set.
  • Next, mosey to Brushy Meadows and repeat the mailbox gauntlet all the way down to the cul‑de‑sac. After finishing there, we headed back toward Shady Greens, worked in some stretching, and moseyed back to the yard.
  • Mary:
    LBCs, Hello Dolly, and Leg Raises to close it out.
  • Announcements:
  • Q Challenge is live — step up and take a turn!
  • Prayer:
    Intentional and internal moment of reflection.

A Rope, Murder, and Tachycardia

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FNGs: None

Warm Up: Warmed up with SSH IC, Daisy Pickers IC , Willie Mayes Hayes IC, and stretching.

The Workout:

  • After retrieving some frigid Cindys from the cache, we begin main event #1 with some traveling Bunny Pounders (Murder Bunnies with Cindy for traveling along the parking lot and ascending reps of Ground Pounders at each line for 13 parking spaces. At the far end we retraced our route traveling by lung walks and stopping at each line for an ascending rep count of sumo squats all while hugging our Cindy tight to the chest. (Don’t want Cindy to get too cold )
  • For main event #2, we assumed formation around the Battle Rope with Cindys at the ready. With the rope looped around a study (and icy) light pole, each man took a turn churning out 30 rope slams as fast and hard as possible while the onlookers held a squat and contemplated their life choices. Once the man on the rope finished, he checked in heart rate and divided by 10 to determine the number of reps that the squatting onlookers were required to perform. (HR 135 = 13 Reps, HR 150 = 15 Reps, etc). The harder and faster you go on the rope , the more pain you impose on the group. As the man on the rope gasped cold humid air, the onlookers dutifully banged out their reps. These sets were repeated until each man had a chance on the rope. The mandatory exercise was changed for the next round and the cycle continued for four rounds .
    • Rope + Off-set Merkins (on the Cindy)
    • Rope + Curls fu du Gurls (with Cindy)
    • Rope + Calf Raises (on the Cindy)
    • Rope + Mountain Climbers IC (next to Cindy)

Mary: Stretching

Announcements: Q’em All Challenge, Post Tracker (Self-Accountability)

Prayer: None named but prayed for the day and the PAX in general.

Day 2 2015 Throwback Week – Possum Trot

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Day 2 of 2015 Throwback week truly felt like an OG workout. YHC pulled into the lot, planted the flag, hid the speaker on the court, then walked over to the larger than normal crowd. To my surprise there were 4-5 HIM that were at my first post and some other familiar faces I haven’t seen a quite a while. After pounding and greeting each PAX, it was 0530. The F3 mission statement took place along with the 5 core principles. Fram then decided to jog up so we could get our morning share of 5 burpees. Good thing we didn’t do these back in the day when Tardy would show up 2-3 mins into every workout. Here’s what happened at the Trot.

Warm Ups
We saluted New Mexico with follow the leader quick feet and slides on the tennis courts to start off then moseyed down to the concession stand area.
– Smurf Jacks
– Imperial Squat Walkers
– Bat Wings
– Slaloms

Wall Work
PAX found a spot on the small wall for dirkens and box jumps. Started with 10 each then 9 each all the way down to 1 each.

Jacob’s Ladder (another classic by New Mexico)
PAX lined up on the hill next to the baseball field. Back peddle up the hill, 3 star jumps, run down the hill, increasing burpees for each trip down. PAX did this 7 times.
Two lines for an Indian run back up to the tennis courts.

Tennic Courts
Each IR line stayed together for Chilly Broad Jumps across all four courts. PAX lined up about 2-3 feet apart in a chill-cut plank. Guy at the end broad jumps over each PAX legs until the end then gets in line. Repeat until we got to the fence.

Bearicides – PAX bear crawled to the end of the first court, ran back, perfomed 5 hand release merkins. Repeat to the end of second, third and yes all the way down to the fourth court.

Sally – PAX performed the squats while listening to Sally song. Quite a burner.

Mary – W2CC x15 IC
– Strict sit ups
– Side plank ups L
– Side plank ups R
– Reverse LBCs
– Mtn climber twist (touch knee to opposite elbow)

COT
Announcements: Paint the fence 2nd F, F3 Picnic, Rico’s soccer kids accomplishment
Prayers: All mainly unspoken

Great turnout today for this workout. It was such a surprise to see guys I worked out with for the first 5+ years in F3 all the time. Hope to see them more soon. Thanks for letting me lead such a strong group of HIM.
SYITG…

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

Not quite accurate rainy Mutiny

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FNGs: none

Warm Up: popeye punches, WMH, IW, HB, arm circles

The Workout:

Part 1 (3 sets of the following)

Copenhagens L&R

Squat Hold calf raises

Part 2 (4 corners)

Breakdancers

Sumo squats

Mike Tyson

Balls to the Wall

Mary: around the world Announcements: @yogurt 60th bday Q is tomorrow (Tuesday)

Prayer: @frams father-in-law, @Rico’s friend lost his mom

Murder at Disney

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FNGs: None

Warm Up: SSH till Emeril got to the circle because he was late. 5 burpeee penalty for Emeril being late, Lots of whining while Emeril tied his shoes in his car because he was late.
Mosey to soccer field, GM & Daisy Pickers I/C (Mission Statement), First PAX to DM me the word Backblast because they actually read the BB gets a 6 pack on me. Plank hold while core values were stated. 

The Workout:

Stations:

  1. Seated press /Seated Rotations 35lbs
  2. Standing Rotations & Single Arm clean press 65lbs
  3. Weighted Gorilla Squat 25lbs
  4. Sliders bear crawl push (blocks)
  5. Woodsman Chop (block)
  6. SB Burpee
  7. Curls 4 Da Gurls 40lbs
  8. SB Triceps extension 40lbs 
  9. Block pinch in middle.
  10. Block toe touch

Murder bunnies is timer.  80lbs and (block) one halfway. Run to sideline grab opposite.

Mary: Carry Coupons back to circle

Announcements: Road Clean-up, FRAM FORM FRIDAY at Sheepdog

T-Claps (Recognition): Yellow card Graduation from College, SoftServe M Pregnancy

Prayer:Mohawk Mom, Flipphone family friend, Fram Father-in-Law

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. 

men working out in a frozen parking lot with sandbags, looking colder, with more men added

Sandbag Roundup

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FNGs: None

Warm Up: Quick SSH, Good Mornings, WMH, Mosey

The Workout: Full body (focus on lower) Sandbag Workout, 10 Stations 90 Sec work, 30 Sec rest, with a Quick Mosey in between sets

Mary: No Time

Announcements: Get Warm, Stay Warm

T-Claps (Recognition): Thanks to Breach for bringing the Sandbags!  Thank you to all who hit that HC – @sardine, @Mr. Terrific, @lube, @LED, @2 Dollars, @shooting blanks.

Prayer: Shooting Blanks Daughter and Mr. Terrific’s Friends who’s house burnt down in NY.

6 years is a long time but not that long

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So great to have 29 in the gloom this morning to help me celebrate 6 years with F3.  This group has changed my life and I hope to continue paying that forward.  It’s a whole lot more than a workout!!!

FNGs: none

Warm Up: SSH, Windmill, Imperial Walkers, Mosey, Good Morning, Sir Fazio Arm Circles, Mosey

The Workout:  Cones were set up about 10 yards apart.  PAX performed the following exercises: 5 burpees, 10 lunges, 15 imperial walkers, 20 merkins, 25 plank jacks and 30 squats.  We went through the circuit 4 times traveling by bear crawl, lunge walk, broad jump and bunny hop.  Between sets mosey to the disc golf tee box and perform ab exercises to wait on the 6.

Mary: Low slow flutter, LBC, Homer to Marge, big boy sit ups, box cutters

Announcements:

T-Claps (Recognition): The PAX of F3!!!

Prayer: Emeril knee surgery, Gillette colleague that was killed