Varsity Level Prison Workout

WARMUP: Sasquatch led the pax through a Broga session, under cover as promised but no less stretchy than his usual job making the pax hurt so good!

THE THANG: The AO was set up for wet, muddy pain with blocks and bricks. Mother Nature decided to throw electrically charged javelins at the Pax so we audibled to work under cover for 15 mins. Twister validated safe status for getting out in the open, then just as we put hands to the heavy things Mother Nature three another spear our way. Pax hauled gear back and the workout resumed undercover.

Here’s what we did:
Burpees X10
Bombjacks X10
Donkey kicks x10
Shoulder taps x10 IC
…rinse & repeat…again and again and again and…

COT: Thanks to the pax for enduring “the prison workout” as Twister called it. Quite appropriate since my theme for the planned weinke that never got unleashed focused on the Mental Battle. I’m very guilty of living in my head way too often, which leads to me becoming a prisoner in my own mind. staying in one spot under threat with grueling repetitive work is an even greater mental battle than the physical grind. Everyone pushed through including all the reps with inspiringly few groans…this is a tough group! and the toughness comes because of the group. I know I wouldn’t have knocked that out solo, so thanks for being there and pushing yourself and me. great work!

It being Memorial Day, we closed out with a challenge to remember someone who has passed during the drive home (vet or not). I’m grateful to have another day and grateful for those who’ve touched my life here and continue to touch me from the other side.

thanks to Bodywash. Honored to lead!

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Bed Pan Anyone? Can I Get A Towel? Star!

We did 12 Days of Christmas in the rain.  Some rucked separately. Here’s the bootcamp:

1- Run to the back and back to cover.
2- Mak Tar Gis. How to spell?
3-Greg Jump squats
4-LBCs
5-Diamond merkins
6-Imperial walkers
7-Rosalitas
8-Slow flutters
9-Low slow squats
10-Lunges (10 each leg)
11-Merkins
12-Burpees

Welcome FNGs Bed Pan and The Admiral!

The Thrill is gone!

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A little of everything

WARMUP:
Mosey from COT to larger parking lot. Did some SSH, Imperial walkers, and Hillbilly Walkers

THE THANG:
A variation of 4 corners.
From corner 1
Bear crawled across 3 aisles with descending merkins at each aisle starting with 20 (20-15-10-5) to corner 2.

Ran down the length of the aisle to the other side of the lot to corner 3. Did lunge walks stopping at each aisle to do squats starting with 20 (20-15-10-5) to corner 4.

Ran back up to corner 1. In moving from corner 1 to 2, did 5 burpees at every light pole. Ran to corner 3 from 2 and then did 20 Freddy mercury’s at every light pole from corner 3 to 4.

Ran back to corner 1. Did a bit of broga. Then moseyed to the first speed bump at the bottom of the hill.

Did a variation of 11’s running up and down the hill, starting with bomb jacks at both top and bottom for 3 rounds, switched to merkins for 2.

Did some dips, karaokes and lunge walks

MARY:
Went around the circle and everyone picked a workout for the last 5 minutes.

COT: Gratitude is everything.

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Weekly Q Source is back!

The men of the Fort embarked on a Q Source journey back in 2017 which embraced the Foundations and the 4 Quadrants all while instilling a common language amongst the Pax. YHC found this to be one of the most rewarding things during my time in the Fort and have referenced the learnings in Q Source by Dredd on many occasions.

After spending time reviewing the concepts for 2 years, YHC was pulled in other directions and while I referenced the content, it was not with the same vigor as 2017-2018. We were then introduced to #Acceleration by Anchorman and I felt a renewed spirit to discuss leadership and the challenges men face in our personal and professional lives.

Lately, I have felt the urge to revisit the content and begin the journey of self exploration of invigorating male leadership. I hope you will join me on this as we kick off weekly Q Source in the Fort.

The Thang

Tuesdays beginning 6/21/22

Baxter Starbucks

6:20 – 6:45

We will resume Q Source in the Fort and follow the F3 Nation weekly topics by beginning with Q2.6 Correction on 6/21/22. Moving forward we will complete the 2nd Quadrant and move into Lead Right. This will enable you to pick up the topics if you were to miss a week.

I look forward to our discussion #SYITG

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Being Grateful…. And Burpees

WARMUP: Haha no warmup. We ran .25 miles.
THE THANG: We ran in .25 increments from the Ranch shovel flag across Springfield Parkway and and continued running on the Carolina Orchards sidewalk.

Every .25 we did the following exercises:

Burpees
Squats
HR Merkins
4-CT Flutters.

Reps increased by 5 every stop. So at the 1 mile mark we did 20 of each exercise.

On the way back we decreased the reps back down to 5.

With 7 minutes left I did a 5 minute EMOM with 5 Burpees 5 Squats and 5 HR Merkins so we got to 100 (actually 105) reps of each exercise.

We were all able to get back to COT by 6:00.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Murph this Monday. Sasquatch will bring bands to help PAX as needed with the pull-ups.

COT:Prayers for health..mental and physical. Prayers for the country.

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Get your $hit off my lawn

WARMUP: Tinsel handled it

THE THANG: unload heavy gear and stack in middle of parking lot. (leave no trace) Split into teams. Pick home base and designated “front yard”. Set timer between 3-4 minutes. Go. Run from home base to junk pile and grab as much gear as you can and haul it over to opposing teams base and dump it on their front yard. Repeat until nothing remains in middle and if trimmer hasn’t sounded go to your own homebase and clear the crap out of your front yard. Different rounds the completion goal varied but the results were the same.

Q point of the week is Q2.02 which is Influence:Igniting a palpable desire for movement.
Www.F3nation.com/q/influence

MARY: haven’t seen her… she must have been why that roll of carpet was so heavy.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT: prayers for mental health, and to be conscious of having the best Impact (Q2.01) on others.

Honor to lead along side studs. Thanks to 3D for the opportunity and bringing the keg and other random gear. And to Tinsel for bringing all the sandbags and slam balls.
Coffee was brewed on site.
Stay frosty my friends,
Olaf

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Training Wheels Memorial 48

What started with pedestrian talk of mammon, marriage and marijuana quickly turned to gambling, clean crack pipes and vomit inducing beer laps. Suffice it to say, awesome.

Next 2nd F opportunity? Friday lunch at the flying Baxter turtle or somesuch. Show to know!!

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Deck of fun w/insurance

Started w/some stretchy things then mosey down to MS for 20 merkins, 20 squats, and LBC. Mosey for a while, 15 of each, mosey then 10, mosey some more for 5 each.

Deck of fun w/insurance:
♡ = hard release merkins
♧ = jump squats
◇ = big boys
♤ = monkey humpers
Ace=1, cards 1 – 8, do the reps at each of the three lines, suicide run style
9 – K (13 for those that are challenged), only do the rep at the far line
Each person pulls 2 cards. Before pulling cards PAX can decide if they want insurance. 5 burpees for insurance. If you take insurance and pull 2 high cards, group only does half of reps. But if one low and one high card then group does everything.

I think we made it through about 2 rounds. PAX took insurance about 75% of the time and it paid off 0% of the time. Anyway, something different to try and blend some running in with the normal deck of Death.

Also, not sure about Slash’s new diet but he needs to cut down on the fiber. Thank goodness we were outside and there was a breeze!

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A little bit of Alpha, a little bit of The Fort

WARMUP: regular warmup with SSH Windmills IW etc
THE THANG: burpee mile. 1 mile. 100 burpees.
11’s with squats and big boy sit-ups
People’s chair and balls to the wall
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: read your newsletter
COT: lifting up those impacted directly and indirectly from the school shooting in Texas

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