Our young F3 brother Whopper has been posting with us on the regular for a few months now and was days away from leaving town for several months for work. What do we do in situations like this? Accelerate his opportunity to Q! I spoke to him the week before and he was excited and ready to take on the challenge. Here are his words for this BB.

Whopper’s Thang:

My VQ got off to a rocky start as I was late a couple minutes (the traffic light, I protested), but I caught up to the PAX and we moseyed down to the center of the middle school track in heavy fog.

Warm-up was as follows:
15x SSH, imperial Walkers, windmills
2x ten count plank
1x ten count elbow plank

Main event kicked off half the PAX splitting off on either end of the track. Idea was to play an intense game of tag against the men on the other side. 3 PAX on one end with the other 4 half way around. We chased each other down until you could tag one PAX of the other group. Underestimated how painful that was going to be. 2 fast laps around the 400m track.

Staying in two groups we did an Indian run variant in which one group would stop and do 15 reps of an exercise of Q’s choice, catch up to the other group, and switch off. Exercises as follows:
15
Merkins
Jump squats
LBCs
Groans were heard all around as we circled back up and ensued pain till the 30 min mark –
Ascending pyramid of burpees, oyo to 5
15x Rosalita
15x hello dollies
15x flutter kicks
10 4 count merkins

The added cardio is what really made the difference for my half of the Beatdown, cross country background came in clutch.

Hand off to Royale.

I asked for a few ten counts to stop sucking wind, then we moseyed to a new part of the elementary school that Wild Thing and I found during our 1 hour pre ruck. It was a nice playground!

We kept the PAX split into two groups. One group would use the swings for a exercise while the other did the following.

25 Swing Crunches – Wide Arm Merkins
20 Derkins – American Hammers
20 Dips – Elbow Planks (Wild Things complained his arms were to short to do these swing dips…lazy!)

Mosey to the middle of the playground for this lovely green turf. I told the PAX this looks like great space for our favorite = Jack Webbs! (It wasn’t, like sandpaper on the knees)

1 Merkin to 4 over head claps –> repeat the cycle all the way to 10-40. Awful

10 count then flipped to our backs for a little Ab Lab break. I asked Bart how his sports hernia was doing, then made him do ab workout anyway…(I can be a real Jerk)

mosey back over to the road leading out of school, we had about 100 yards to cover so…

30 yards of lunges – plank for the 6
35 yards Lt. Dans – plank for the 6
35 yards Lt. Dangers – plank for the 6

Mosey back to our Middle school side of the street, hit a wall for the final segment.

People’s Chair last guy bear crawls to the other side
BTTW
Peoples Chair 30 count
Peeters on the Wall (thanks Mr. T, check lexicon)

Mosey back to start for a small ab lab final…and TIME!

Moleskin

One of the many things I’ve enjoyed in my own personal growth with F3 over the last two years has been the relationships I’ve gained with true HIMs, and the opportunity to try and do the same for other new PAX that come into our group. I’ve had great mentors, role models, and new REAL friends from some the hundreds of men I’ve been able to meet through F3. So what I’ve been trying to do is give back to the newer PAX and pay it forward like the men before me. I have been privileged to see Whopper in his own growth in the last few months, and truly get to know and learn more about him. He’s one of the guys I personally EH’d, just from a FLYER at a food truck event Witch Hunt, Dark Helmet and I attended in Lake Wylie. You know, one of those awkward, “He you look like you work out” kind of EHs! But the man showed up one Saturday morning, jumped out of his car and asked, “Is this F3?” and then kept coming around! The guy is wise beyond his years and has been a great addition to the Lake Wylie group. He’s jumped in for CSAUPS, helping me cut my 10K time at the Joe Davis run by over 2 minutes, and he’s come to 3rd F bible studies’ on Fridays with us to grow even more. It was an honor to co Q with him on his VQ and I wish him well as his work take him to Texas for 4 months. Glad he could experience what the men of F3 provide to their communities! So much more than a workout…

Royale