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May I Make a Suggestion?

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A cold morning at Kenny’s Grave today. Norm and YHC ran EC together and Norm was looking for a few more miles, so mentioned he’d return and jump in with whatever we were doing. Thank goodness he did, because YHC has been tweaking the routine on this agility ladder Thang that I have and Norm made a suggestion to help me further tweak it during the workout. F3 brothers need to be unafraid to help sharpen each other in the moment…or at least in the moments after. The F3 workout is the place to try, fail, and improve constantly. Much better to do it here than with more important things in life out there (we do that too but…). We hold each other accountable, we push each other, we accelerate! This is our workout, the Gloom belongs to us, and we all make it better and are stronger together!

FNG’s: none

Warm Up: Quick mosey lap with some nice and slow Good Mornings and Windmills IC, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies, Seal Claps, and Overhead Claps. Another quick mosey with a stop for 5 burpees OYO.
The Workout: Each man grabbed the rock to his liking and Cusack over to the main lot. We laid the rock on the farthest parking line. Routine was: rock exercise (all 20-25 counts, except the chest presses, which were 30,40), sprint or mosey to the end parking line, then crabwalk, lunge walk, karaoke, high knees, typewriter, fast feet, or merkin roll back to rock for a repeat. Each set, we moved the rock 1 stripe closer to the start line. Merkin rolls are a means of travel between two points, but can get you dizzy or disoriented fast as we found out. But Kenny’s Grave apparently is the land of bad ideas, as site Q Finkle made mention. You do a merkin, tight roll over keeping core engaged, then merkin until you reach your destination. Exercises when we got to rocks were: Curls for the Girls (2 rounds), Tricep Press (2 rounds), Shoulder Press (2 rounds), Chest Press (2 rounds), and Rut Rows. Once complete, we returned the rocks.

Next Thang was the aforementioned agility ladder routine. Each PAX took a turn doing alternating in/out fast feet on the ladder and side shuffled to a series of 5 cones performing a burpee at each. While other PAX awaited, we did continuous WW1’s on one end and LSF’s IC on the other. It was a long time! This is where the suggestion came in to have the next PAX go when the PAX got to the ladder, rather than finished. Good idea! We did a return trip of this routine with continuous squats on one end and SSH’s IC on the other. Various PAX stepped up to take counts.
Mary: All exercises x 20. American Hammers, Freddie Mercury, Homer to Marge, Pickle Pounders. Finished with pigeon poses and some stretching and a few more Good Mornings for good measure! We don’t always stretch enough.
Announcements: Monthly challenge continues. Donations and action for HSPD first aid kits. Check Slack.
T-Claps (Recognition):  All the PAX for venturing out to play on this cold morning!
Prayer: My M Courtney, our schools and students…we need them to go back. Their learning and experiences have been deeply impacted and we just have to get after it! Pumpkin Spice and Mr. Terrific. YHC took us out. Honor to come down to the FV and lead today!

Burpees are NOT a Stretch!

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Brisk morning at Awesome Possum. YHC had no idea what to expect for my first Q at the Trot, but coming over the hill and seeing some FNGs made it something special! Norm and Martini stayed for warmup then hit some miles and were back in time for COT.

FNGs: Yes! Endo, False Start, SIR Shanks-a-lot
Warm Up: Warm-o-rama with SHHs, Good Mornings, Willie Mays Haze, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies, Newton’s Cradle, Michael Phelps
The Workout: Event 1 Rock Ping Pong: Partner up with one rock and line up at the edge of the parking lot. One partner performs the exercise then starts pushing the rock across the parking lot. Other partner takes a lap around the tennis courts and meets the partner on the other side. The goal is a competition with your partner for the end position of the rock. Exercises were 20 each curls for the girls, triceps extensions, overhead press.

Event 2: Survivor Series: Start with a round of exercises and each round vote off the group’s least favorite. Starting exercises were 20 each merkins, fire brigade lunge, turkish get-ups, star jumps, Carolina dry docks, squats. Order of eliminations round 1: turkish get-ups, round 2 (oh shoot we’re out of time): merkins and star jumps, complete round 3 with the last four.

Mary: Let’s see who’s still with me. Silent count Mary. Q leads the cadence but no total count. Anyone that stops over or under, add on 5 exercises. 20 each box cutters, LBCs, Homer to Marge

Asked POTS to lead some stretching while I grabbed my phone for name-o-rama. I come back to find everyone doing burpees. Honestly… privileges revoked POTS!

Announcements: Super Bowl squares for HSPD First Aid Kits
T-Claps (Recognition): I saw solid efforts by Endo, False Start, SIR Shanks-a-lot.
Prayer: Roger Roger’s family friend battling breast cancer, Country and leaders, Gamecock’s daughter’s 3rd birthday, WCPSS in person classes

January 29 2021 – Westcott KungPOW (Burpees Extravaganza) QIC POTS

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EC: 0 

PAX:  9

FNGs: 0 

 Warm Up:

52 Side Straddle Hops (SSH) and 2 Burpees

 The Workout: 

Mosey’d to church parking lot.

a. PAX partner’d up.

Partner 1

  1. Curls for the girls (with Rock)
  2. Overhead press (with Rock)
  3. LBC’s
  4. Triceps Extensions (with Rock)
  5. Freddie Mercury’s
  6. Goblet Squats (with Rock)
  7. American Hammers
  8. Lunges (with Rock)
  9. Bus Drivers (with Rock)
  10. Box Cutter’s

Partner 2

(Sprint to far end of parking lot)

  1. 5 burpees (rise and repeat)

b.  PAX regrouped to do 52 more Side Straddle Hops (SSH) and additional burpees

Mary: Mosey’d back to Westcott and PAX  provided several additional rounds of burpees and some ab work.

 Announcements: 

Ruck to Mama’s House in Fuquay and road side clean up for Hilltop Needmore  sometime in February

 Prayer: Fanny Pack’s M Courtney and Roger Roger’s friend Maggie.

It’s only 5 more burpees

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Warm Up: Mosey around the tennis courts and came back to do a round of good mornings, daisy pickers, Sir Fazio Arm circles f/b, Michael Phelps, tri-cep stretch, shoulder stretches, and Frankensteins all in cadence ten count.
The Workout:

Event 1: It’s too difficult…lol

Starting at the first parking space we bear crawled to the next and did a merkin.  For a total of 10 but each time we come to another parking line we added a merkin building up to 10 merkins.  The last ten parking spots we did a typewriter or side bear crawl if there’s such a thing and then lunges both legs equaling one up to ten.  To top it off and keep the blood flowing we did 20 SSHs in cadence.

Event 2: Mosey to the rock pile and we did three rounds of 10 each: overhead press, tri-cep extensions, curls for the girls, and bus drivers.  Between the 2nd and 3rd set we did a round of seal claps to let our fingers thaw and get the blood flowing.

Event 3: Lucky number 20 – using a fantastic gift from my M we rolled the cube of exercises starting with 20 burpees, 20 jump squats, 20 merkins, 25 lbcs, 20 SSHs, and 1 minute plank hold.

Event 4: To finish it off we did a round of tennis court suicides with a sprinkling of exercises in between two rounds.  This one provoked a little bit of mumblechatter!

Mary: We did round robin style with @Pots and @Sprinkler both voicing for 5 more burpees which brought our count to 30 burpees for the morning.
Announcements: Hilltop Needmore food drive ruck coming up in a couple weeks.  Date will be posted soon.  Also, trash pickup being led by LED (can’t remember date/time/place).
T-Claps (Recognition): @Norm and @Martini for EC
Prayer: For our country, @Norm and family traveling to FL.

Prison Yard 1/12 CRT

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3 Pax took to the yard for some Combat Readiness Training (CRT) Sprinkler, SpoonMan and Warden Breach on the Q.

Warm up– Mosey around the parking lot and perform 22 reps of SSH, Frankenstein’s, Imperial Walkers/Hillbililes, Prisoner Squats, and Batwings

Workout

7 stations ( 1 mins 45 secs of work) between each set run 200 meters in under 60 seconds or a penality exercise will be assessed. There were 5 penalties enforced.

  • Painstick- Over Head press
  • Tire- Flips
  • Punching bag- bear crawl drag
  • Fire Hose- squats
  • Battle ropes- Waves
  • Sandbag- Cleanup merkin
  • Kettle bell- swings

Between each station, there will be a question asked and only 1 answer is allowed, less than 5 seconds to answer. If an incorrect answer is given or the answer is wrong, there is a 5 burpee penalty. There were 2 wrong answers so we finished with 10 burpees OYO.

The purpose of the exercise for today is to think fast under pressure. This is often looked over looked skill that can be vital to someone getting through a situation or perhaps not. Also when one member of the team does not make it all members need to be accountable so all get the penalities enforced against them. As everyone is responsible for themselves as well as the others on the team.

Look out for a food donation Ruck either this weekend or next.

 

Closed out in Prayer

Chilly Morning with lots of Icey spots.

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Sunday morning was cold! We had a good number show up for the Ruck.

 

The Workout: We hit all three trails for a total of 5 miles. Great mumble chatter all along the way. Stopped off at Breaches house and the coffee was already made waiting for us in the garage.

Announcements: Hilltop Needmore Roadside cleanup coming up soon. Be on the lookout for the date. Moma’s House food Ruck either this Sunday or next. Dates to follow.
T-Claps (Recognition): Breach and the 2F COFFEE!!
Prayer: Our Nation.

 

Honor to Lead Gents!

05:52 Fast Pass Confirmed

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Well, it’s been a few weeks since I’ve had the chance to return to AO’s. I’ll spare the details, but it felt good to be back in the middle and at my second home, DISNEY! Great numbers today that braved some ball clenching cold. I think we all warmed up relatively quickly…. Tetanus brought an FNG and I had a disclaimer chat with him privately before we headed out… LET’S GO!

FNGs: Welcome Tush!
Warm Up:  Quick mosey around the PL return to circle up. SSH x50 w/ 2 sets of 10 at double time IC, Frankenstein x10, Windmill x10, OHC x10, Seal Claps x10, Pakistani Night Clubs (for M4L), Chinook x10 Fwd/Back, Arm circles R/L Fwd/Bck x10.
The Workout: Nice and easy mosey out of the lot to the elementary school PL. Circle up, Jack Webs x25, Standard Merkin x25.  Continue the mosey around to the circle by the football field entrance. Arms out as 6 rolls in and hold. OHC x15, Moroccan Night Club x15 , Al Gore w/ around the horn counts from 5 PAX w/ 10 count.  Continue the mosey in the big HS PL – Hand Release Burpees x10.

Mosey to the Abyss to punch our 05:52 Fast Pass – RIGHT ON TIME… 20 of us found accountability partners for a DORA. 100 Jack Webbs, 200 Squats, 300 LBC’s (IC to start, last trip up and down was single counts). Kicker was that partner 1 wasn’t just walking down and back up – but bear crawl down and up the stairs (thank you to 187 who did this about a year ago and I’ve done once since).  We made 2 solid trips bear crawling and 1 as a walk up/down.  Watching the clock, time for Mary.

Mary: Squat Hold for the 6. Big Boy Sit Ups x25, Homer to Marge 10 (+ L leg, R leg), Box Cutters x20. Have a nice day.
Announcements: Welcome FNG Tush!
T-Claps (Recognition): Nemo and ShamWow! for running EC. Emeril for the monthly challenge EC.
Prayer: For our country.  Breach took us out.

Thanks for the Memories

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Today’s workout was made up of a lot of old memories.  When I first started F3 I only ever posted at Kenny’s Grave, back when it was just resurrected and Banana Seat was the site Q.  In those days the agility ladders were quite often present at the AO.  Eventually I ventured out and Possum Trot was my second stop.  Two things are conjured in my mind when I think of that AO, the HILL and Christmas trees.  On my first or second post at PT there was a mountain of Christmas trees in the parking lot and Dead Bolt had a workout planned that involved dragging them across the parking lot several times and all I can remember was how good it smelled.

So, with all of those things floating around my head I set out to incorporate as much of it as I could in to today’s workout.

FNGs:

Nope

Warm Up:

Lap around the tennis court and then circled up for:

Sir Fazio Arm Circles x10 IC forward and reverse

Imperial Walkers x10 IC

Hillbillies x10 IC

Daisy Pickers x10 IC

Frankensteins x10 IC

Windmills x10 IC

Leg stretches right over left and then left over right

SSH x20 IC

The Workout:

Mosey to the base of the hill where YHC had set out two agility ladders.  The instructions were easy.  We were doing an old school Dora of 100 merkins, 200 LBCs, and 300 squats.  While partner 1 was doing the exercise partner 2 was traversing the ladder, running up the hill, doing 5 dips on the guard rail at the top, coming back down and back through the ladder and then passing the torch.  Each lap through the ladder was different:

1st – quick steps forwardd

2nd – quick in and out down the side

3rd – bunny hop

4th – bear crawl through the ladder with hands in and out

We started back at 1 when we got through 4 laps and kept going until we were done.

Once both groups were finished YHC grabbed the lone Christmas tree in the lot and dragged it to the end of the agility ladders.  An exercise was called for everyone to do while one PAX went through the ladder, grabbed and dragged the tree to the other end of the parking lot, did 10 merkins, dragged the tree back, and went through the ladder again.  When he got back he called out the next exercise while the next guy in line did the dance with the tree.

After one rotation through we mixed it up by replacing the merkins at the end with 5 burpees.  You also had to choose another mode of travel through the ladders this time and if you chose to bear crawl it you could skip the burpees (the bear crawls through the ladder was punishment enough).

Mary:

We almost didn’t have time for Mary but did manage to pull something off.  Luckily a lot of the exercises called during the Christmas tree part of the workout were core exercises so I didn’t feel too guilty.

Low slow flutter x10 IC

Box cutters x10 IC

Announcements:

There is a new monthly challenge and a corresponding Slack channel to go along with it #montlychallenge for accountability.  This month is 100 hand release merkins, 150 squats, and 200 LBCs.  These are to be done OYO or as EC.

T-Claps (Recognition):

Finkle for being the only one to choose to bear crawl through the agility ladder.

Prayer:

Scrapple and his family recovering from COVID.  Also for his knee issue which will hopefully be getting sorted out later this week as he gets off of quarantine

Sprinkler’s neck

Yosemite’s shoulder

 

Thanks guys, this was fun.  I appreciate everyone of you for coming out and starting your day with me.

 

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Ringing in the New Year with a Sprinkle and Sprinkler

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Happy New Year, Fellas!

With it being a holiday, YHC wasn’t sure who was going to show this morning, if anyone at all. Pre-blasted early yesterday morning, received zero HC’s. Saw a few for Ivan. Maybe PAX anticipated rain and preferred shelter or maybe they wanted to continue their streak of Skidmark Q’s. Unfortunately, I missed his Q on Wednesday at Possum Trot and was contemplating a quick drive over there if nobody showed this morning. That thought quickly got erased when my boy Sprinkler came rolling in with 2 minutes to spare.

“We can go grab coffee if you want,” he says as steps out of his truck.

“Nah man, we are dressed to workout so that’s what we’ll do. We can get coffee after,” I replied.

Warm Up: Good Mornings X10, Fazio X10 F\B, Prisoner Squats X10, Imperial Walkers X10, Squat hold while I explained this mornings workout that went a little like this….

The Workout:

Paying tribute to 2021, we’d perform a total of 365 reps with a quarterly grouping of exercises in 4 locations scattered throughout Wescott.

Mosey down to our favorite Guatamalan’s palm tree. In the cul-de sac at the end of Wescott Ridge in Midget’s old stomping grounds, we conducted our first quarter of exercises with reps equaling the number of days in each month with a 5 burpee addition for the month of February on the 20th to celebrate my birthday.

January- 31 Prisoner Squats, February- 28 Morocan Nightclub, March- 31 Mountain Climbers

Mosey back up to Danagher and hanging a left to Pablo’s neck of the woods

April- 30 Seal Claps, May- 31 Shoulder Taps, June- 30 alternating Lunges

Mosey to the 4 way intersection- performed 10 prisoner squats to cleanse the pallet and proceeded to Danagher North to the top of the hill

July- 31 Carolina Dry Docks, August-31 Overhead Claps with a 5 Burpee intermission at August 14th to celebrate Sprinkler’s birthday, September-30 Chinooks

Mosey back down the hill and back to the flag

Mary:

October- 15 Right over left, 15 Left over right, and 1 Good Morning, November 30 Curb Merkins, December- Plank Hold for a 31 count

Announcements: Happy New Year to All!
T-Claps (Recognition): Sprinkler for getting after it in the rain to start the new year. Deadbolt for getting up and joining us at COT and a quality 2nd F at Dunkin Donuts afterwards
Prayer: Continued health of PAX and their families near and far. Those challenged with marital issues and those facing financial hardships. Prayers for healing, success, and prosperity in the coming year.

YHC took us out.

Finish 2020 Strong

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FNGs: None

PAX: @Norm, @Florence/FloJoe, @Sprinkler, @Gamecock, @16-Bit, @Finkle
Warm Up: Took a mosey around the parking lot and at each stop sign we did warm-up exercises.  Good mornings, daisy pickers, SSH, Imperial Walkers, Sir Fazio Arm Circles
The Workout:

Since we had nice Scottish weather we did most of our workout under the pavillion.

Event 1: Goals

Gas Pumps 10 count in cadence, Outlaws 10 left 10 right, Ascending Testicles w/o derkins for a round robin 5 count at 15 degrees, 45 degrees, and full BTTW, Lounge Act in cadence 10 count, and Seal Jacks in cadence 10 count.  R/R 3 times.

Event 2: Leg Work with deck of cards. 

Hearts were squats, clubs were lunges, spades were right leg step ups, diamonds were left leg step ups.  Jokers all exercises with 10 each.

Mary: E2Ks, LBCs, reverse LBCs, American Hammers
Announcements: We each shared a personal goal for the 2021 year.
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer: @Scrapple and family dealing with Covid and an injury, @Sprinkler and family, our country and those dealing with sickness.