Four for Fighting

The Fort Horsemen (three of them) rotated Q of this morning’s workout at #Varsity.
Ruby started with a warmup and with SSH, Low Slow Squats etc. and added burpees between exercises.
Off to the pull up bars and Ruby directed us in a pyramid scheme:
Do one burpee—then two pull ups
Do three burpees—then four pull ups
Proceed likewise until ten pull ups and the reverse back down to one burpee. Smokey.
Headspin did a cinder block routine burner: KB swings, goblet squats, curls, rifle carry, and then murder bunnies (no blocks broken!).
Back to Ruby to cover Splinter’s hill work with a modified DORA. Partner 1 does jumping lunges while other runs down hill and nurs back up. Did a couple of sets, then switched to jump squats while other runs/nurs.
Harry Carry concluded with a fish tracks routine: bear crawl, stop and do merkins, repeat 3x. lunge walk, stop and do smurf jacks, repeat 3x.
Run to COT for Mary: flutters, gas pumpers, freddies.
Fini.

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5 Minutes

WARMUP: None.
THE THANG: Disclaimer: it is Friday we are going to keep it simple. I set watch for 5 minutes. We ruck for 5 minutes and then exercise. 1 PAX carries 60 lb sandbag. REPEAT.
Exercises: Squats, Merkins, Step ups, Bear Crawl, Lunge Walk, Curls/Triceps, 5 weighted Burpees.
MARY: None
ANNOUNCEMENTS: F3 Dads workout, Dad’s Camp, Fort Retreat.
COT: Prayers for Tinsel’s surgery, Bones headed to New Mexico for 2 weeks.

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SlowBurn:Running to the Chinese Massage 😳

WARMUP:
SSHs
Mosey to the Chinese Massage
Hillbilly Walkers, squats, Merkins
Mosey to funeral home
Lunge walk
Reverse lunge walk
Mosey to entrance to FHC
THE THANG:
Do exercise at entrance
Run to top of driveway
Do accumulating exercise 1st,2nd…so on

1 Merkins x10=10
2 Leg lifts x9=18
3 Sumo squats x8=24
4 CDDs x7=28
5 Burpees x6=30
6 Wide arm Merkins x5=30
7 Donkey Kicks x4=28
8 Squat jumps x3=24
9 Flutters x2=18
10 Plank punch x1=10

MARY:
Mosey to Chinese Massage
LBCs, Freddy’s, Rosalitas, HelloDollys
Mosey to COT
Some more Mary all the way to 0600

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
F3Dads, Saturday guest Q at The Yard, keep posting
COT:
Prayers and Praises
Lots of health concerns, cancer, surgeries
Also lots of travel and prayers for safety
Family and praise for F3 and people in our lives

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601 Finals Week!!!

Nice cool morning for the 4th and final edition of siteQ school. As with the other days the theme was Stewardship. In short, how are we as SiteQ’s acting as stewards of F3’s mission, our fellow PAX, and our actual Sites.

We moseyed to the elementary school where we ciricled up and asked the assembled Site Q’s what is F3’s mission. Slow Jams impressed by quickly noting it. I then challenged them all on what our credo is and what are our 5 core principles.
I think repeating what our mission, the credo and the principles is fundamental in reminding us of why we do what we do.
After a brief discussion on what it means to be a steward of our respective sites : leave no trace, be mindful of risks, plant the flag etc… We got to work. (since it is a workout afterall)
Stewardship of Site
30 second Tabata with 10 second rest 4 rounds. ( 2 shoulder 2 leg) The series is to do one rep of a “base” exercise then follow it with a single rep of another exercise and then increase reps as the time goes on. So 1 merkin to 1 tap increases to 2 merkins to 2 taps…3 to 3…4…to 4… and so on until time expires.
Shoulder Series by 1
1 Merkin to :
Shoulder Taps
Peter Parker
Mountain Climber
Hr Merkin
Leg Series by 1
1 Squat to:
Lunges
Calf Raises
Jump Squats
Step ups (if available

After I smoked everyone’s shoulders We talked about the importance of siteQ’s role in making sure both tenured PAX and especially newer PAX or FNG’s are taken care of at their sites. Meaning, picking up the 6, explaining terminology, introducing yourself to newer ppl, and ensuring we are creating a welcoming and positive atmosphere. We then got to more work. This series was focused on core so we did 1 to 4 ratio. 3 rounds.
Stewardship of Pax
Ab Series by 4
1 BBS to :
Flutters
Feet to Ground LBCS
Freddy Mercury
Hammers

After the Core series and looking at the clock I moved us quickly back towards COT but we did partner up and did a quick catch me if you can with merkins and bear crawls..up a hill. Because why not.
At COT I had us do a quick 5 burpees OYO and then got into the final piece which is the stewardship of the mission. How we as SiteQ’s can help influence the mission by how we run each of our sites.

I encouraged pax to read the detailed SITEQ guide that Fishtix put together and then closed us all out with announcements and COT.
In Lieu of a prayer I closed it out in a moment of silence and a final thought…that for all of us to remember that somebody…somewhere…is looking at YOU not only as an example…but as THE example for something. Don’t’ let that somebody down.
Thanks for coming and the opportunity!

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Walls of Life

WARMUP: Mosey to the Walgreens parking lot. Did some MNC, HBW, PP, Plank, MC and Down/Up dog.
THE THANG: 1st wall at Walgreens with sits and off the wall 3 merkins. then, balls to the wall with 3 merkins. Repeat. Run to the Dunkin parking lot to use the pillars to repeat the same work but added wall mekins. Run to the new Tire company for more wall work and worked in some burpees. For fun, we completed a Jackweb on a grassy knoll. Ran to the old YMCA to repeat wall work and finally to Harris Teater for final wall work. Ran back to COT.
MARY: none
ANNOUNCEMENTS: F3 dads tomorrow
COT: Prayers for travel mercies, a mothers health, good life, family stress and praise for new jobs and better health!

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Simplicity is not always easy

WARMUP:
– SSH x20
– Imperial Walkers x10
– Windmills x10

THE THANG:
Simple….loop around Fort Mill with 6 pain stations.
– Improper Pig = Merkins x20
– Fort Mill Animal Hospital = Diamond Merkins x20
– Fort Mill Town Hall = Wide Arm Merkins x20
– Fort Mill Baptist Church = Xs & Os x20
– Jacked up parking lot at the hill = LBC x20
– Print Shop Parking Lot = Side LBC x20 each side

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
– Click Bait HIM Camp – See newsletter for details.

Thank you Funhouse for the opportunity to Q at one of the strongest AOs in the region!

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God often hides opportunities to be faithful. Don’t miss them

WARMUP:

Mosey around the parking lot admiring the new smooth pavement. Then some SSH, Windmill, Moroccan Nightclubs, Imperial Walkers & Hillbilly Walkers. Finishing with a mosey over to the band lot. Which it should be noted is not nicely newly repaved…

THE THANG:

Kind of a modified shuttle run design

From the end zone line, run to the other end zone and do one squat and run back.

Once back, run to the other end zone again, do one squat, bear crawl 10 yards, do 2 squats, then run back.

Once back, run to the other end zone again, do one squat, bear crawl 10 yards, do 2 squats, bear crawl 10 yards and do 3 squats, then run back.

Continue doing this until you are doing 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10 squats, each with a 10 yard bear crawl on the return (so the return run gets shorter each revolution).

I interspersed some of this with a brief discussion of the impact of walking in faith in my life. God often presents opportunities that appear as struggles or obstacles/setbacks in our life. He never promised life would be easy, but did promise it is for a purpose. Life life with a purpose and faith in a bigger picture, and often you will see in hindsight, those obstacles were the refiners fire preparing you for opportunities you never even imagined.

Hebrews 12.1 says “Let us run with endurance the race that is set before us.”

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read the newsletter

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