On a rainy Monday morning in the gloom, on my way to the Rivergate Quagmire I was driving very carefully due to my special cargo in the van…one mistake and I’d have some deadly projectiles looking to take me out!  I pulled into the parking lot, got out and was greeted by 6 of my fellow PAX…and at 5:14am our Cousin “Vinny” fish tailed it in to the parking lot to make the disclaimer.

I’ve been reading Dredd and OBT’s “Freed to Lead” book (thanks Cornhole) and I thought today was a great day to share some of the insight I’ve gained from the book.  So I started with asking the PAX what was F3’s mission?  I shared that mission, “To plant, grow and serve men’s small workout groups in order to reinvigorate male community leadership.”  and with that we moseyed.

The Thang

Mosey to HD parking lot for COP (there was a steady and strong rain coming down now)

15 IWs 20 MCs 10 Merkins 25 SSHs

20 LBCs in 2 inch puddles during which we got the quote of the day… our shirts made this god awful sucking noise in the rain so a member of the PAX yelled out “it sounds like flushing a toilet!” …maybe you had to be there…

20 Seal Jacks 15 LS Squats 10 Windmills

Mosey to side of Target where our favorite Red Balls of Pain begin.

We did Burp-a-cides: Run 1st ball do 2 burpees, run back do 1 burpee, run to next ball 2 burpees, etc.

Rinse and repeat until all ten Red Balls were done.

Plank until six, but some strong men picked up the six (thanks Crash, Geronimo and Cornhole) = great leadership!

For our 10 counts I asked all who knew the 5 core principals of F3?

1. Free 2. to all men 3. held outdoors (rain or shine) 4. lead in rotation by a member of the group 5. closes with a COT

Mosey to Books-a-Million were my present for the PAX was gathered (and the potential deadly projectiles were) 12 cinder blocks!

Cinder Block exercises included

20 Curls 10 Cinder block Burpees 10 Overhead Presses (I asked if a Q ever splashed merlot during his own workout)

For our 10 count I shared 1st F = Magnet   2nd F = Glue   3rd F = Dynamite!  and elaborated a little on each..back to those cinder blocks!

10 Durkins 10 Squats 20 Curls finally 10 more cinder block burpees (the PAX now yelled aloud that they hoped I WOULD splash my merlot for this one)

Mosey back towards our launch point, found out the fountain was filled with soap from some pranksters, finished with AbLab again in the pouring rain.

20 Freddie Mercury’s 20 LBCs 15 Hello Dollies finished with Protractor

Mosey back to COT

Announcements

Christmas Party 12/19 PAY FUNHOUSE! Gladiator Games 12/12 Children’s Attention home this Saturday

Prayers for Crash’s Uncle Tommy – heart stints:  Royale’s coworker Father – heart triple bypass

It was my honor to lead this fine group of men on this rainy morn!