Dust in the Wind? No!

2022-08-01Leave a comment

QIC: Double D
When: 2022-08-01
Pax: Beaker, Cakeboss, Cheddah, Double D, f3anchorman, F3DaVinci, Gekko, Happy Hour, JWOW, Shatner, Spinner (Derrick Dominey), Sugar Daddy, Uhaul, Uncle Sam
Posted In: The Armory

WARMUP: SSH, Mtn climber, Peter Parker, Parker peter

THE THANG:
Triple Bs day — bells, bricks and blocks

Bells:
10 Swings (round 1)
10 Goblet squat (round 1)
10 Lawn mower pull each side (round 2)
20 Tricep extension (round 2)

Bricks (1 pair per pax):
20 Moroccan night clubs
20 Punches
20 Overhead claps
20 Bent over flies

Blocks (1 per pax):
20 Derkins
20 Irkins
20 Overhead press
10 Man makers (blockees)

Half of group runs to each pile, completes first exercise, runs back to bells and completes 2 exercises, runs to opposite pile, returns to bells to complete sa.e 2 exercises.

Group made it through almost two full rounds.

MARY: American Hammer, Flutter

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Final Countdown coming 9/10, 10 yr convergence 9/17 am, 10 yr party 9/17 pm, The Bubble 8/4, Pints & Padres Tue pm at Amor Artis.

COT: Battle Bot was missed today. Hopefully we moved enough heavy stuff and listened to enough UHaul ear candy and mumblechatter to meet our Site Q’s standards. Get well!

Reports of Barry Manilow posting proved to be false unfortunately.

Special guest visitor posted today — Uncle Sam, fresh back from Colombia on his way to Virginia for 12+ most of education and inspiration before returning back to Colombia to continue his life’s work in his home country. great to have you in the Gloom with us and to hear your stories of Picking up the Six. Keep up your HIM efforts and example! Praise and prayers for you!

Prior Site Q Shatner was back in the Gloom today after many weeks DR. welcome back!

DaVinci proved he can throw shade with the best of the pax, dropping some darkness with a smile on Cake Boss. Watch out DOAH, he’s coming for you next!

Thanks to Battle Bot for the Q invite, my first at a gear AO. Sometimes we all need the push toward something new and different. As I persevere through a long, hot, sometimes mundane summer that at times feels like Ecclesiastes and Kansas “Dust in the Wind” this morning’s experience with the pax including dialog before, during and after gave me a real jump start to the week. Thank you!

This thing we call The Fort is special. It’s impact is actually global, as we heard this am from Uncel Sam. And it only continues if you post tomorrow. #keep posting #noOYO

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Seven Years Later

2022-07-31Leave a comment

QIC: fishstix
When: 2022-07-30
Pax: Crawdad, darkhelmet, Double D, fishstix, Grout, Mainframe, Pusher
Posted In: The Fort

Seven years ago, Jekyll invited me to The Fort for my first workout. WWL and Rooney did a great job keeping the 40 Pax busy with difficult exercises and ended with a strong message – Pay attention to detail, It is the little things that make a big difference. Here’s the link to the Backblast : https://f3thefort.com/2015/07/11/40-at-the-fort-q-school-extra-credit-attention-to-detail/

WARMUP:
SSHx20
Imperial Walkersx15
Windmillsx15
Plank Stretches
Mountain Climbersx10

THE THANG:
Next, we did a modified Jack Webb. We ran around the park and stop for each round of merkins and arm raises. I should have read the message from my first post about attention to detail a bit closer. Several times, I lost count and the Pax reminded me . We finished at the far end of the field, a quick rest with some Goggins motivation. Next, we partnered up for a long wheelbarrow to the playground. One catch, if you stop and switch partners, 5 burpees. Once we got to the playground, we continued with partners exercises.
Partner one – run around playground while partner two does dips (swap)
Partner one – run around playground while partner two does derkins (swap)
rinse and repeat
Next, we made our way back to the amphitheater for a few minutes of recovery abs exercises (LBCs, Flutters, and Box Cutters). We took the path to the power line hill where the XC runners typically do hill repeats. Partner one runs up the hill and returns to the bottom using the paved path while partner two performs an exercises. Three rounds: Squats, Calf Raises, and Lunges. One last run up the hill, backwards. Back to the front of the amphitheater. Plank line up, each Pax performed two merkins in front of the other pax, rinse and repeat.
We had time for some Mary and a 30 second body destroyer.

Great job everyone!

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Rocking and Rolling in the Gloom

2022-07-29Leave a comment

QIC: Badlands, Double D
When: 2022-07-28
Pax: Badlands, Cakeboss, Cubbie, Double D, Paddle
Posted In: Laces In

WARMUP:
Double D at the helm:

COP — SSH, Seal Jack, Mtn climbers, merkins, Peter Parkers, Windmill (all IC x10)

Burpees x10 OYO

Mosey to rock pile on driveway up from stadium. Grab a rock without worrying about running with it.

Curls IC x10
run down hill, sprint up
Overhead Press ICx10
run down hill, NUR up
Squat ICx10
run down hill, bear crawl up
Calf raise ICx10
run down hill, sprint up
Tricep press ICx10
run down hill, NUR up
Chest press ICx10
run down hill, bear crawl up

Sprint back to flag

THE THANG:
Badlands in charge:

Mosey to asphalt band practice field…

Descending Ladder Suicide:
Starting at the goalline – run 100yd to far goal line and do 10 each of the following: burpees, squats, merkins, LBCs, Forward Lunge (each leg). Run 100yd back to original goal line then run 90 yd to far 10 yd line and perform 9 reps of each of the same 5 exercises. Run 90yd back to goal line then run 80yd to far 20yd line for 8reps…. keep decreasing 10 yards and 1 rep.

Made it to the 50 yd line before time was getting low so for the 40yd, 30yd, 20yd, 10yd we only performed merkins and we mixed in some Nur and bear crawls and crawl bears instead of running.

Finished off with mosey back to COT and 1 minute of Mary (flutters and American hammers)

ANNOUNCEMENTS: The Final Countdown coming 9/10, stuff the bus, Invergence Aug 13

COT:

We rocked the first half, then Badlands rolled us in the second half. Good energy from all throughout!

Cake Boss made a fashionably late appearance at 0558. We gave him full credit for a post because…well….WWJD!

A reference to high school reunions brought reflections on HS friends that remain in contact today and those that walked with us through that life stage so many years ago. gratitude for both groups and reminders of the value of what we have with our F3 brothers.

Prayers for Yard Sale and the flux he’s navigating. Thanks for the chance to lead!

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Escalated Quickly….

2022-07-29Leave a comment

QIC: Cohiba
When: 2022-07-29
Pax: Cohiba, Cyclops, Deadbolt, Gekko
Posted In: The Stockade

WARMUP: Mosey, SSH, Windmill, Merkins, Squats, Cherry pickers
THE THANG: Balls to the wall 10 count x2 Shoulder taps; 5 Rounds of 4 corners in main lot. 5-10-15-…
Corner 1:
Dips
LBC
Corner 2:
Merkins
Donkey kicks
Corner 3:
Carolina dry docks
Peter Parker’s
Corner 4:
Burpees
MARY: American Hammers, Hello Dollies, Broga
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Bethel Shelter, Stuff the Bus, Bourbon Tastings, and 10-year Convergence
COT: Kentucky & St.Louis Flooding, DaVinci Stepfather, and Deadbolts son deployment to Coast Guard

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Only a little lost

2022-07-29Leave a comment

QIC: Band Camp
When: 2022-07-29
Pax: Band Camp, Dr. Suess, Gavel, Grizzly, Grout, Here's Johnny, None, Radar, Shady, Slash, Tesla, Village Progress, Watt's Up
Posted In: shieldlock otb

WARMUP: SSH, IW, HW, Shoulder Taps, slow merkins

THE THANG:
mosey around until I got lost.
Stop along the way for:
10 Merkins
9 squats
8 LBCs
7 Carolina Dry Docks
6 Jump Squats
5 American Hammers
4 Hand Release merkins
3 Jump Lunges
2 Flutters
1 Burpee
Did the full set each stop. I think we stopped around 6 times.

I ran to what used to be an event center to do another round and was informed it’s now a private residence. Better to be dissuaded by your friends than run off by someone wielding a shotgun.

We got a little far afield today. 3 total miles. Unintentional message of the day: How do you respond when your leader is clearly lost?

Planned message: you’ve done something challenging today. Don’t shy away from other challenges as they face you. You may need to press forward and persevere, or you may need to hold back and assess. Both decisions require different kinds of toughness.

Thanks Radar for the call to lead outside the my home region. Was great to be in Belmont this morning.

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SL Ruck

2022-07-29Leave a comment

QIC: fishstix
When: 2022-07-29
Pax: fishstix, Mainframe, Trucker
Posted In: shieldlock otb

2.19 Mile Ruck

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The parking lot is always smoother in the other corner

2022-07-29Leave a comment

QIC: Sugarbug
When: 2022-07-29
Pax: Backdraft, Boss Hogg, Destiny, Dilbert, Esso, Flounder, Gump, Hassellhoff, Pusher, Spinner (Derrick Dominey), SugarBug, Tater, Twister, Weezer
Posted In: Slow Burn

WARMUP: Some side straddle hops, windmills, imperial walkers, hillbilly walkers, Moroccan nightclubs and cherry pickers to loosen things up

THE THANG:

Used the ol’ Seconds Pro app to provide a TABATA workout with 50 seconds on 20 seconds rest ratio. After every 4th exercise we would rotate to the next corner of the parking lot. It should be noted that I used an Apple playlist and the app appeared to have undergone an update since last use… By the time I discovered the errors with both of these items we had come too far (I already pushed start) and the only option was to press forward for the next 40 minutes… We made it through a full cycle and 3/4.

Merkins
Squats
Flutter
Donkey Kick
Rotate
Calf Raises
Mountain Climbers
Side Straddle Hops
Al Gore
Rotate
Box Cutter
Plank Jacks
Lunges
Dry Dock
Rotate
Seal Jacks
High Knees
Monkey Humpers
Freddie Mercury
Rinse and Repeat

Things learned:
-the update changed the default voice from an Australian lady to a deep voiced male… not as fun to be told to do monkey humpers by a deep voiced male
-Apple includes U2’s One as a 90’s Rock/Alternative Essential, and while a great song, it is not terribly motivating… however it is very long…
-the update also messed up the volume of the coach voice anyway, so everyone just had to listen to me yelling over U2 anyway…

COT: It happened… we were all there…

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Heavy metal, heavy things

2022-07-28Leave a comment

QIC: Battle Bot
When: 2022-07-27
Pax: Band Camp, Battle Bot, NakedAndAfraid, Tesh, Tinsel, Uhaul
Posted In: snake pit

WARMUP:

Line up the bells heaviest to lightest

Mosey to grab cinderblocks

THE THANG:

Originally, the intention was to have a group working with 2 kettlebells and another group working with cinderblocks. Since there were 12 kettlebells and 6 PAX, we were all able to work together.

PAX were encouraged to grab 2 heavy bells and rucks or sandbags to get some serious strength training in.

EMOM

Team Iron:
Bigger muscle groups – with 2 bells
3 sets each. 10 reps
Squats
Deadlifts
Chest Presses
Rows
Swings (one bell)

Team Concrete:
Smaller muscle groups – with a cinder block
3 sets each. 20 reps
Curls
Tricep extensions
Shoulder presses
Clave raises
High pulls

We returned the cinderblocks and made it back to COT right at 0600

MARY:
none

COT:

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Accountability takes a Brother

2022-07-28Leave a comment

QIC: Rebel
When: 2022-07-28
Pax: birdcage_f3, Bojangles, Cohiba, Cousin Eddie, Fire Marshall Bill, Fogerty, Grout, Happy Hour, Jackalope, macgyver, oldbay, Pusher, Rebel, Santini, Stang, Vuvuzela, Walker
Posted In: Minnow Pond

Minnow Pond starts with the pledge of allegiance. Off to Church of God parking lot. The route – Crossroads 10 Merkins -4 different legs with 4 different exercises. 15 squats top of Hill, 15 Monkey Humpers top hill at 160, 15 dips in front of Bloom, 10 Bomb Jacks Road past COG. Repeat until 5:55. Met back for a quick Mary of 40 flutters in cadence. Head back to COT.

Discussed we need other men in our life for accountability, guidance in work, marriage, raising kids and keeping a balance. Can’t do life alone and plenty of men in the Fort that can provide wisdom of life. Seek out other men!!!

Thanks Jekyll for the opportunity to lead.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Anniversary coming up for the Fort, stuff the bus, Stang Golf and read Newsletter.

COT:prayers for Jekyll recovery, Walker and others recovering. Marriages and kids starting back to school.

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Clydesdales Run is what we Do!!

2022-07-28Leave a comment

QIC: Rebel
When: 2022-07-27
Pax: Bass-o-matic, Boss Hogg, Cakeboss, Cobra Kai, decibelf3, f3anchorman, f3destiny, Fogerty, Mainframe, Mark Nestel, Maximus, Rebel, Shady, State Farm, Twister, White Lightning
Posted In: Clydesdales

We ran 3.5 mile – 4.5 miles. Jackson St down to Harris up the trail to WEP. Head back or loop to main St and then back.
COT: prayers lifted.

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