WARMUP: None
THE THANG: 3 mile run, 60 burpee’s, 120 big boys
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: check slack
COT:corporate prayer
Triangle rotation
Hello, September! Back to school, Labor Day, football season, cooler weather (hopefully), Octoberfest (huh?) AND the anniversary of that day in September 2012 when a Shovel Flag was planted at WEP. So, let’s pick up the conversation from a few weeks back that started about our present state and expand on it.
The Fort started as an extension of Area 51, merely a new AO. At the time, there were no Mustard Seeds, no Leap Expansion playbooks, no Freed to Lead or Q Source books, no podcasts and only the earliest sense of what a region might entail (which was far beyond our reach). About a dozen Fort Mill FNGs posted and persevered through the workout alongside pax from Metro and Area 51. Thankfully, six of the locals returned. And in the years since, we’ve grown in every measurable way.
What’s notable about this story, however, isn’t the numbers or WHAT we’ve done. The real growth story of The Fort is about WHO we’ve become — each of us individually, as men, as humans. And I’m not talking about Fitness. I’m talking about a change of heart. I’ve seen Sad Clowns transform into dynamic leaders – in the Gloom, in families and in our community. I’ve seen men struggle through tragic health and life events, supported by fellow pax. And I’ve seen those same wounded men rebound to inspire and lead and impact others in remarkable ways. I’ve been inspired by men who’ve developed the courage to face their demons and wrestle with them in ways they couldn’t have imagined previously. I’ve witnessed more tears from pax in these years than from all men combined in my pre-F3 life. I’m sure you have your stories of this sort.
For me, this is the growth story of The Fort…a love story, really. Yes, what I describe above is a vision of men loving each other well. And spreading that love to their families and community. Our hearts have grown immensely through this journey. Mine has grown, and yours has too. Whatever we’ve “done” as a region, the ways we’ve “expanded” our numbers in AOs or Sites or CSAUPs, any “impact” we’ve had on our local community – 100% of it represents the fruit borne directly from the growth in the heart of each man among us. This personal growth — over the past month, year and decade — is the history I’m excited to celebrate this month.
Importantly, this celebration isn’t solely about the past. In fact, I believe it’s just as much about the future…because I know I’m not done growing, and I trust you’re not either. The Respectables among us are proof that we haven’t found the Fountain of Youth. But, we’ve definitely molded The Fort into a proven platform for invigorating men and Male Community Leadership. And I know our best days, as individuals and as a region, lie ahead.
So, let’s celebrate! Invite your M, load up the clown car, EH the FNGs and Kotters! We may be living in the Third 500, but we’re only closing out The Fort’s first chapter. SYITG!!!
WARMUP: 2 line running, high knees, butt kickers, side straddles, that kind of thing, . . .
THE THANG:
S
Sleep Walkers 123 – Squat, windmill, reverse lunges, 1,2,3, then 2,4,6, . . . keep going . . . !
H
Hurricane Hoedown – Flutters 7 X 4 exercises X 6X
O
One-legged Burpee -13 on leg of choice
W
Wave of Merkins – We got to 5 around the circle
E
El Capitan – deep walking lunge going up a small hill. The lunge has the back leg straight out behind you, your front leg at 90 degrees or less – both hands go fully on the ground in merkin position on the inside of your front leg. Return to a standing position and repeat the lunge until you reach the top of the hill.
R
Rampage – 13 finger tip dips, bear crawl down the hill, 13 sumo squats, crawl bear back up the hill, 13 regular dips, bear crawl down the hill, 13 sumo squats, crab walk back up the hill
C
Catch Me If You Can – Two partners. Partner 1 performs 10 Diamond Merkins and then sprints to catch the Partner 2, who has been running sprinting to the goal post and running back to start
U
Up downs
A mix between chopping your feet or high knees. On my signal chest hits the dirt and bounce back up and we resumed chopping or high knees.
R
Red Bull Smurf Jack
Exceptionally high-tempo cadence at 3 times the speed of a normal cadence. Did in cadence, no less than 20. 20 is challenging, 30 will take your breath away, and 40 would be a very high level of achievement.
T
Triple Check
Teams of three. First man in a peoples chair, second man in front of him in plank, third man sprints 100 yards and back, rinse and repeat times three.
A
Alarm Clock
Lie on ground- back of head and heels touching ground. Get up (as quickly as possible). Hop up. Rinse, repeat. Did 15.
I
Inch-Worm N’Diayes
Proceed with a standard inch-worm but when you get completely stretch out in plank, perform a Makhtar N’Diayes before completing the remainder of the inch-worm. Did 8.
N
Nolan Ryan
Start in a side plank position with your ungrounded arm extended. Complete a punching motion as if someone, namely Robin Ventura, were under your other arm. Did 6.
MARY: n/a
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your newsletter. Labor Day 2 hour morning event at 6 am. Be there is you dare!
COT: Prayers for the injured, PAX to be leaders
MESSAGE: Focus on kindness by way of your nonverbals and your verbal talk. Especially between 3-8 pm each day when you are tired!
WARMUP: I’m sure we did something.
THE THANG:
Run to the pull-up bars and grab a cinderblock…
BUY-IN: Bear Crawl down the hill toward the Elem School, then CrawlBear back up.
25 Pull-ups
400M run (up and down the hill twice)
25 4-ct curls
400M
25 burpees (no block)
400M
25 4-ct flutters with press
400M
onto Phase 2…
Mosey to the track with your brick…
1 lap with brick
25 overhead press
1 lap with brick
25 curls
1 lap with brick
25 overhead press
25 curls
No more laps, ran out of time…
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your newsletter
COT: So many thoughts about backblasts and about the process I went through on my own to write this one. One day, if you are interested, ask me and I’ll gladly share…
For now, here is the BB.
WARMUP:
Goofballs at variable cadence
Low slow squat
merkins
GTFO – we have work to do
THE THANG:
sprint up the big hill
Mozey on the trail to Harris Street Park w/pain stations:
20 high knees
20 flutters
20 diamond merkins
20 overhead claps
20 jump squats
20 bomb jacks
Some would call this trail “off road” including YHC, but there were some other, wronger opinions expressed by some in the group
at Harris Street Park
Basketball court:
Burpee broad jumps down and back
Benches:
10 each leg Bulgarian split squats
20 dips
Swings:
10 derkins
10 pullups
Rinse, repeat, and roll back up the trail of pain to COT…
…But wait, we made one last stop at the big hill.
Today’s lesson is: begin with the end in mind. We began with hill sprints, and ended with hill sprints to drive the lesson home.
The end of the workout when you are tired is where the real growth happens. We got some today.
It was hot and humid, first day all year as such.
We ran.
Some ran 3.4 miles.
At least one ran 5.5 miles.
At least one ran into a tree (it’s not a laughing matter)
At least one hung out by the bank and smoked Marlboro Reds (rumor has it)
Get off my lawn!
Looks like we made it,
Barry Manilow
Going into todays WO I was thinking I’d hold off on the merkins and the Burpees. Unfortunately , I couldn’t help myself.
While no pre-run today I did a pre-mosey with the vest and discovered all the other options that this site has. It’s a great place and I encourage PAX all over the fort to make the drive down to Catawba Ridge. It’s well worth it!
Warmup:
Mosey to the band lot where we would sprint every two islands followed by a recover mosey to the next island. We repeated this until the end of the lot.
Circled up near the car line.
15 SSH
10 MNC
3 Burpees
15 Seal Jacks
5 SLOOW Windmills
15 Mountain Climbers
Mosey to the bottom of the hill behind the football field.
2-Minute Drill
Each Pax are to perform:
25 Burpees
50 Jump Squats
75 LBC’s
100 4-CT Flutters
100 Hello Dolly’s
75 LBC’s
50 Jump Squats
25 Burpees
Every 2 minutes though they would be required to run to the next cone do Hand Release Merkins and then continue with the reps of the exercises.
The cones went from the bottom all the way to the top of the hill. Once at the Top of the hill Pax needed to run all the way back to the start stopping at each cone for additional HR merkins.
1 additional wrinkle in this routine is that I had a whistle. Every time I’d blow the whistle I would “audible” to another exercise or a new rep count. For Instance, I upped the HR merkins from 3-5-7 during this workout. In addition, I changed the total burpees from 25 to 35.
Everyone got done with this portion of the workout with about 8 minutes to spare so we ran to the last cone on the top of the hill and did 5 reps of each exercise then ran back down to the bottom of the hill. Doing 3 HR merkins at each cone on the way down and doing 10 HR merkins at the bottom of the hill. With just under 4 minutes left we ran the hill one more time doing 5 burpees and 10 flutter kicks on the way up at each cone.
We timed it so we got back to COT right at 6:00.
Appreciate Cohiba for the call and welcome Voltage all the way from Charleston!
WARMUP: small mosey, 20 SSH, 10 imperial walkers, 10 cherry pickers, 10 good mornings, 10 low slow squat
THE THANG: starting by the bike rack do 12 BBSU, run past the front entrance to the intersection at the side of the school, 12 kick through merkins, back to the bike racks, 11, 10,… you get it
any who finish starts at 1 burpee and works their way up. Fishstix and Minuteman got to one burpee before time was up
MARY: 60 seconds left on the clock, Minuteman called a 10 count superman with a ripcord pull. Stix called a body destroyer to run out the last few seconds
ANNOUNCEMENTS: 10 year stuff is coming, ready the newsletter
COT:
WARMUP:
10 KB Swings
10 Halo’s – 5 in each direction
5 Beakers IC (a Beaker is a Uhaul with an OH press)
Short mosey around the parking lot
THE THANG:
Part 1
Snatches
12-10-8-6-4-2 (reps each hand)
Followed by a lap around the parking lot after each set.
Part 2
100 American (or High) KB swings (means that KB gets above your head.)
100 Russian (regular) KB Swings (eye or torso level)
Every time the KB gets put down, 3 burpees.
MARY: who?
ANNOUNCEMENTS: a lot is going on. Check your newsletters
COT: stays in COT