Laces In 8/18/16

  • QIC: CSPAN
  • When: 8/18/16
  • Pax: Stang, Funhouse, Dark Helmet, Flat Tire, Maximus, Peabody, Olaf, Package, Clark Kent, Bird Cage, Chaser, Ginsu, Santini, Atticus, Kielbasa, Romeo, FNG-Skinny Jeans, Wapner, Fellini, Backdraft, Shady, Bonsai, Man-O-War, Skate-or-Die, White Lightning, Chicken Hawk, Deacon, Old Bay, & Apache
  • Posted In: Laces In

Perfect morning humid and 77 degrees

Disclaimer witnessed by Celebrity Legal Counsel “The Chaser”

Mosey up to gun lot

#HIM Clark Kent lead warmup-O-rama in cadence (I believe Clark thought there would be the normal 5 guys at this workout when he signed up to Q with me #sorryNOTsorry, he did great and got us good and warmed up)

Walk to board and review sequence: do exercise and run to far curb and back

10 Flying Squirrels
20 CDD
30 Squats
40 LBC
50 Seal Jacks
60 Hello Dolly
70 SSH
80 Calf Raises
90 Mountain Climbers
100 Apolo Ono
10 Flying Squirrels
20 Diamond Mercin
30 CDD
40 LBC
50 Squats
60 Flutter
70 Peter Parker
80 Air Press
90 Big boy sit-ups (crowd pleaser)
100 SSH

Skate or Die set the pace

Several Teams pushed the pace Ginsu/Backdraft and The Wapner Trio all did well

Stang kept Apache in check

Package and I went on a date, and he may have miscounted a station or many…

Great to have Funhouse back out

Time was up…Mosey back…turned into an AYG

COT/Prayer or Praise/BOM

Sermon Notes:

Lots of talk about FNG “skinny jeans’ worship leader at Forest Hill Fort Mill, he did great, and #TCLAPS for Ginsu closing the deal on his EH. We talked about The #ShieldLock and supporting each other when needed.

We also talked a quick lesson on the vertical relationship with God and the importance of having quality relationships on your horizontal (this world) relationships, in my worldview you can’t have one without the other.

In F3 it is described this way:
CONCENTRICA: The circular rings formed by a man’s relationships on the Big Ball. Please look it up on the lexicon for a much more articulate definition.

1. First Ring: M (wife)

2. Second Ring: Shorties (children)

3. Third Ring: Shield Lock (brothers in arms)

4. Fourth Ring: Blades (younger men)

5. Fifth Ring: Mammon (work)

Be a better man today than you were yesterday, and I appreciate the invite Twister, and it is always an honor to Q a pack of #HIM,
AYE!
CSPAN

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CSPAN disrupts @F3RockHill #F3OldTown

  • QIC: CSPAN
  • When: 08/22/16
  • Pax: 3 FNGS: Dingo, Dr. Ruth, Crayola, +Chicken Wing, JAG, Pony Tail, Money Bag, Pistol, Spartacus, Roxanne, Burgundy, Anchor Bar, Blueprint, Samari, Water Boy, Maximus, Mayhem, Package, Hot Sauce, Stang, & Apache
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Almost felt like Fall for a second, 75 degrees and not as humid

Disclaimer in detail with JAG as my witness

Fast run to parking deck

warmup-O-rama in cadence to 10 repetitions, air was filled with sarcastic #mumblechatter, lots of laughs, and some occasional wittiness displayed

Review Sequence:
10 Flying Squirrels
up stairs
10 Flying Squirrels
down ramp
up ramp across top deck to other stairwell
10 Flying Squirrels
down stairs
10 Flying Squirrels
across bottom deck to starting point
and that equals 1

Now partner up with someone you don’t know and hold each other accountable

Solid pace by all with The Burgundy/Package Team taking home the virtual trophy with 4 rounds the fastest

rally up troops

platoon run to COT with abs and calf raises along the way, and a few more abs until all the troops arrived

COT/Prayer or Praise/BOM

Sermon Notes

Discussion on how someone you do not know will hold you more accountable than your best friend, and don’t expect your wife to do it as she already has too much of your “junk” to deal with.

We also talked a quick lesson on the vertical relationship with God and the importance of having quality relationships on your horizontal (this world) relationships, in my worldview you can’t have one without the other.

In F3 it is described this way:
CONCENTRICA: The circular rings formed by a man’s relationships on the Big Ball. Please look it up on the lexicon for a much more articulate definition.

1. First Ring: M (wife)

2. Second Ring: Shorties (children)

3. Third Ring: Shield Lock (brothers in arms)

4. Fourth Ring: Blades (younger men)

5. Fifth Ring: Mammon (work)

Be a better man today than you were yesterday, and I appreciate the invite Burgundy, and it is always an honor to Q a pack of #HIM,
AYE!
CSPAN

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Independence: Fire On The Deck

  • QIC: Riddler
  • When: 08/22/16
  • Pax: Riddler, BlackHawk, RedFish, Dawg Pound
  • Posted In: Uncategorized

Woke up this morning feeling confident that CSPAN was going to be doing flying squirrels up and down the hot box at Old Town.

Old town is a great AO, I however really like all that the independence has to offer even though we stayed close to home today. My focus was a moderate recovery focusing on burning each element of the body. Arms, shoulders, chest, abs, thighs and calves were all in play.

4 pax showed for a good moderate work. BlackHawk burned his leg last night and was bandaged up. Red fish was in peak shape, and Dawg Pound was still recovering.

So I gave the spill that we would be focusing on moderate and burning after each piece of the workout.

The Thang

20 Moroccan Night Clubs
20 Military press
Rinse and repeat both sets

20 Sumo Squats
20 BEARmuda Triangles(Sumo squat position crawl to left foot, crawl all the way forward, crawl back to right foot)
20 Caterpillars(crawl all the way to plank then crawl back all the way to standing)
Rinse and repeat

20 American hammers
20 Heel taps(lay flat in sit up position, touch each heel)
Rinse and repeat

20 Box cutters
20 LBCs
Rinse and repeat

Mosey to Dinkins field
20 Fire Hydrants Left Leg(All fours, bring leg up, kick Leg out, bring back down to position)
20 Fire Hydrants Right Leg
Rinse and repeat

Round the bend complete a series
20 MNC
20 MP
20 SQ
20 BT
20 CAT
20 Box Cutters
20 LBC’s
20 Fire Hydrants Each Leg

Plank for final two minutes.

COT PRAYERS
CHECK THAT NEWSLETTER
F3 Lancaster launch Saturday

Prayers
Families
Pax recovering including Blackhawk

Always honored to lead

Riddler

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Lancaster Recon: Because every man needs F3

  • QIC: Apache and Popeye
  • When: 8/20/16
  • Pax: Pistol, Popeye, Lattamore FNG, Hoffa, Power Plant FNG, Bono FNG, Italian Job, Schrute, Big Poppy, Burgundy, Hot Sauce, Stang, Lock Pick, Bourne, Watson, Lucky Charm, Buccy FNG, and YHC
  • Posted In: The Fort

YHC has been looking forward to this Recon for months, Lancaster is a great city with a lot of heritage and hard working citizens that have been through a lot over the years with industries coming and going, like a lot of textile communities they have had to adapt to the changing times. And take themselves out of the  comfort zones.

Which is one of the reason I love F3 nation so much. When tough times arise you have your brothers of the gloom to depend on and not being hoarders of F3 and sharing this thing we call The Brothership of the Gloom lets like minded men gather together and sharpen themselves, “As iron sharpens Iron, so does one Man Sharpen each other” to prepare us for that next hurdle we may have to cross..

We gathered at the Lancaster High School and the shovel flag was planted.

18 of the finest gents unpartook the far sack including 4 FNG’s welcome brothers to your new family of HIMS‘ (High Impact Males)

FNG’s Thanks for leaving your comfort zones and unfartsaking yourselves to partake in the brotherhood of the gloom “The workouts don’t get easier we get stronger”

  • Bono: Great to see your always chipper mood and smiling face and strong performance
  • Lattimore: Awesome Job this moring brother, and glad you decided to take the plunge in this F3 nation Thang
  • Power plant : Awesome message this morning and great drive thru the workout
  • Buccy: Awesome job brother and prayers for what you are going thru on a personal level

Can’t wait to sharpen the iron and push the rock with the brothership in Lancaster next Saturday

Warm up (Popeye)

20 SSH in cadence

20 Mercian Night Clubs

20 Merkins

20 mountain Climbers

There were no 10 counts this fine morning the 10 counts were replaced with each pax that was called upon told his story of how he came upon this great F3 Thang an awesome way to get to know your PAX and their story and not being just a PAX of the gloom

After warm up Popeye handed back off to YHC and we moseyed around the Lancaster High complex and passed the Q stick from everyone to enjoy in the Q fun.

We covered everything including just under 2 miles of moseying

  • bear crawl Indian merkins run
  • burbees
  • balls to the walls
  • monkey hump
  • monkey humpers
  • Al Gores
  • derkins
  • erkins
  • dips
  • SSH
  • seal jacks
  • plank jacks
  • mountain climbers

I am truly honored and blessed to be able to lead the leaders of F3 and foresee nothing but great things happening in Lancaster

And cant wait for the official launch Aug 27. Next weekend with Pusher and Italian Job on Q. So save the date and don’t miss the great occasion of our F3 nation growth…

Thanks again for honoring YHC and Popeye in letting us lead  in the recon efforts and really enjoying this F3 thang and the lives it is changing daily in the gloom.

Aye!!!! Apache!!!!

https://youtu.be/0ACaQkBJAEE

 

 

 

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The Riddler Walker: Burpee Edition

  • QIC: The Riddler, Walker
  • When: 08/20/16
  • Pax: Walker, The Riddler, Long Shanks, Money Bags, Captain Kangaroo, Turbine, Bogey, Mugsey, Jag, Bull, Cornerstone, Peach, Limp Bizkit, Winchester, Anchor Bar, Paris, Keanu, Bubazilla, Nail Pop
  • Posted In: Uncategorized

Got up at 5 to get ready for the gloom. Met up with Walker at 6:20 for a pre run and a cone setup.

7:00 rolled around and it was time for YHC to lead this fine pack of PAX! 19 men took the red pill and joined for some fun!

Started with a Quick Mosey over to the backside of Sullivan. I went to school here and use to eat in this area we called the canteen. So I figured it was time to reminisce.

Warmup
SSH
Moroccan Nigh Clubs
Merkins
Mountain Climbers
Carolina Dry Docks

Split off to two groups Mosey to the bus loop in line formation

Here comes the pain

The Thang
Burpee Train two rotations
PAX plank while each pax hop over and perform a Burpee.

Another Mosey over to Teacher Lot
Prison Cell Burpee Train

Mosey to field 3
Bunny hops across field then back
Squats
Left over right stretch
Right over left stretch
Jump lunges

Passed it off to Walker for time as he was continuing the Pain Train

Mosey down to field 1 the big papa

3 comes were setup to form a pyramid.
Start with 10 prison cells at first come
30 squats at second cone
30 LBC’s at Third cone.

Rinse and repeat, Prison cells went down by 1 while Squats and LBC’s went down by three.
Totals
55 prison cells
165 squats
165 LBCs

Then we circled up
45 single count merkins

Next exercise was what Walker called 4 minutes of Hell

20 seconds of plank squats
Go down to squat pop out to plank and then back to standing. As many times as you can for 20 seconds.
10 seconds rest.
Rinse and repeat for 8 rounds

Mosey back to COT

COT
This months theme is forgiveness
Walker talked to Matthew‬ ‭18:21-22
“Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, “Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother or sister who sins against me? Up to seven times?” Jesus answered, “I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times.”

Forgiveness starts in your heart, forgiving someone is just as good for them as it is for you. So go into a hard situation and forgive, as the father has forgiven us through Jesus.

Great work from the 19 men that showed today! Lot’s of faces I have not seen before which is always good, means we are growing! I am humbled to be able to lead such a great group of PAX

Announcements and Prayers
‭‭‬ ‭
Ragnar teams still forming Oct 7-8
September 30th Fort Convergence
September 10 Race for the Cure, and Alex Race see newsletter/Twitter for details

Corner Stones Daughter just finished her 51st round of Chemo treatment yesterday. Will not only have to go every other week!

Bubasizla is traveling to visit family next weeks.

Lots of others unspoken in our area. Pray for our teachers, military and those in uniform serving everyday.

Thanks for letting me lead today!

Riddler!

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Slow Burn – Cake Boss Special -> moderate as can be!

  • QIC: Cake Boss
  • When: 09/19/2016
  • Pax: Stang, Spud, Flat Tire, Socrates, Change Order, Gilmore, Barry Manilow, Couples, Assassin, Beacon, Figaro, Falenini, Pusher, Culture Club, Dilbert, Old Bay, Patten, Tesh, Skinny Jeans, Lugnut, CSPAN, Trucker, Ditch Witch, Dark Helmet, Rain bird, Spitz,
  • Posted In: Slow Burn

26 PAX came to the Baxter Chick filet ready to end the first week of Fort Mill Schools back in session and get their weekend started. 0515 hit and YHC did the obligatory disclaimer and such. Informed the PAX there has been mention of too much complaining and not enough encouragement, and with that I was brutally assaulted with words and foul language. I wiped the tears away and we took off for a mosey down to Empire!

Once in front of Empire we did

  • butt kickers down the lane
  • High knees back
  • Karaoke down
  • Karaoke back
  • backward run halfway, turn and sprint
  • backward run halfway, turn and sprint

COP

  • SSHs, Mekins, Imperial Wakers, Wide Arm Merkins, Hillbilly walkers, LBCs, some other stuff that I’m too tired to remember and due to mumble chatter I can’t think of

Split into 1’s and 2’s for the NANTAN showdown.

Mosey over to lot next to lowes. one line for the

  • 1’s Pusher’s Squad of street corner punks
  • 2’s CSPANS clan of misfits from the Fort
  1. First Round – BEar Crawl to each cone and get to end. Guys in line do Lunges/Calf Raises
  2. Second Round – Backward Bear crawl around each cone and get to end. Guys in line do Lunges/Calf Raises
  3. Third round – As team bear crawl and perform exercise on Cones.
  4. Fourth round – As team bear crawl and perform exercise on Cones flap jack to other line

Mosey back over by Baxters Bunch and Circle up

  • Freddys. Protractor, Rosalitas, Hello Dolly’s, Superman’s. Parachute. Mak tar chis
  • COT

Prayers for Tim, Tony and Senator Tressel for healing and God’s peace. All PAX dealing with forgiveness and relationships.

I spoke to the PAX about forgiveness and our need to know SKY Q, our need for forgiveness and our duty to extend that to others. Forgiveness brings relationships closer and tighter. Our vulnerability opens our heart to forgive and show others we are not perfect but are willing to admit it and change. My challenge to the PAX was to reach out to those difficult relationships and extend an olive branch. It is a hard thing to do, but we will be stronger because of it.

Thanks Barry for the Q. Humbled and Honored!!

Cake Boss

 

 

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BB From Petra 8-19-16 Slooow Buuurn!!!

  • QIC: Samurai
  • When: 8-19-16
  • Pax: Flop, Stockyard, Yoda, Anchor Bar, Fallout, Apache, Bogie, Money Bags, Schrute, Hulk Hogan, Lucky Charm, Deadlift, Iron Site, Ponytail, Pooh Bear, Dollywood, Kindergarten Cop, Reborn, Hot Sauce, Mr. Big Stuff, Italian Job and Samurai. FNG Yuengling, Goose and Brickyard welcome to the Brotherhood!!!
  • Posted In: Uncategorized

Petra Backblast 8-19-16

I was once again humbled to lead such an outstanding group of HIMs.  Great Mumble chatter guys lots of energy.

The Warm Up, Wrist Stretch, Right over Left, Moroccan Night Clubs, Dillon County Cotton Pickers and SSH

Mosey to the Wall

People’s Chair, Al Gore’s Tree Hugger, Merkins, Carolina Dry Docks and Overhead Claps

Reverse Indian Train Run to the Handrails at Office Depot

Irkins, Dips, Derkins and Plank up till finished and Rinse and Repeat

Mosey to the start line

2 lines of Karaoke, 1 line of Shuffles, 1 line Sprint, Plank Up till the 6 are in.

Return was Bear Crawl 2 lines, Lt. Dan 1 line and sprint back to the start, High Knees 1 line, Butt kickers 1 line and Sprint to the Start Line

Cool Down

LBC, Box Cutters, Rosealittas, 6 Inches, American Hammers and Merkin Circle Double Count

COT

The Bible verse today was from Matthew 18:21

Then Peter came up and said to him, “Lord how often will my brother sin against me and I forgive him?  As many as 7 times?”  Jesus said to Peter, “I do not say 7 times but 77 times.”

“The Dash”

Please Google this online for a full meaning but there are three things on a tombstone, the date someone was born and the date they died.  There is a Dash between the dates and this is what is important, what you do in your life.  Please reflect on your dash and make it purposeful.

Prayer for the injured PAX along with Reborn’s test today, our country and leaders of our country.

Tomorrow morning the a Clown Car will leave Target for the first Recon in Lancaster, Apache wants 95% from RH.  I think the take off time is 0515 but Italian Job will send out a tweet with the details.

Again thanks for you all for this opportunity to lead such a great group of HIMs.

Samurai out

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Pass the Baton

  • QIC: Fishsticks
  • When: 8/17/16
  • Pax: Zima, Cake Boss, Dawg Pound, Puddles, Chicken Hawk, Bart, Atlas, Fishsticks
  • Posted In: Pantheon

It was a honor today to receive the hand-off from Zima for the Pantheon Q.  Big shoes to fill.  Before I met Zima through F3, he was known as the crazy neighbor with all of those Christmas lights in his yard!  He’s a great leader and friend.  We are privileged to have him here in The Fort.

On to the workout:

Mosey to the basketball court for the following exercises:

SSH (x20)

Imperial Walker (x20)

Mountain Climber (x20)

Moroccan Night Club (x50)

Flutter Kicks (x20)

In honor of Bing and Howitzer moving outside of The Fort, we did 50 merkins each.  It’s been a standing joke that Bing does not like merkins.  Not sure who started this rumor, it may have been me.  For Howitzer, he always has perfect form from the first to last rep.

Next, we split into groups.  The first group ran sprints on the basket ball court while the other group performed the following exercises:

LBCs (x2)

Burpees

Mosey to the other playground for Dip (x20), Derkins (x20), and wall sits.  Rinse and repeat four times.

Light jog to the front of the school.  Lunge walk between cross walk and stop sign, calf raises (x20) at every other column post.  Lunge walk back to cross walk, squat (x20) at every other column post.

Finish with a sprint to the stop sign

Back to COT

Announcements:

  • Read Newsletter
  • Navy Ball in Oct – Open to all military (see Dawg Pound)
  • Sept 13th Convergence at the Ballroom
  • Sept 27th Launch F3 Lancaster
  • Sept 30th 4yr Anniversary – The Fort

Prayers:

  • Cake Boss sister (Health)
  • Puddles (Heath)
  • Zima’s cousins in LA (Flood victims)
  • Chicken Hawk’s friend (Health/Healing)
  • Fishstick’s M and family (Bereavement)

 

 

Always and honor!

 

Fishsticks

 

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14 To Take on The Turbine!

  • QIC: Turbine
  • When: 08/15/2016
  • Pax: High Pockets, Rhinestone, Joe Dirt, Mr Big Stuff, Dry Dock, Redwood, Dollywood, FNG (ZEBRA), Cocktail, Hulk Hogan, Mr Rogers, Poo Bear, Cedar, Vila, and Turbine.
  • Posted In: Uncategorized

A very humid Monday morning with little mumble chatter told me this group of HIM’s were most likely recovering from a crazy weekend! After a brief disclaimer as we had 1 FNG, we moseyed over to a well lit area. Then it went down something like this:

THE THANG

SSH

MNC 40

R over L stretch

Flip Flop

Calf Stretch

WM

Hill Billy W

Imperial W

MTN Climbers

Mosey

Roaring Forties with Squats and lunges

The Word: Forgiveness- YHC explained the parable in Matthew about the servant being forgiven and not being able to forgive others. Brief word on forgiveness and breaking ourselves out of jail by the 3 step process when asking for forgiveness:

1- Genuine apology

2- Admit what you did was wrong

3-Ask the person what can you do to make it better

If at that point the person still cannot forgive you, pray that they can come to the realization that you are sorry for what ever happened and that you can no longer hold yourself in jail as you have completed all you could to make things better.

JACK Webbs with pain sticks. Up to 32 and back down to 1…Using pain sticks for arm raises and tricep extension.

Rifle Carried the Pain Sticks to grab some wall

Peoples chair

Hands/Knees/Toes

Mosey back to AO

40 American Hammers

40 SSH

COT

Welcome my brother in Christ; Brad Howey. Now known as F3 Zebra.

Thanks for allowing me to lead such a great group of men.

Humbled and Encouraged,

Turbine

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9 HIM Men for Hills and Burpees at the Ranch

  • QIC: Spider-Man
  • When: 08/18/16
  • Pax: Cheddah, Snap Hook, Fridge, Nomad, Gopher, Mainframe, Fire Marshall Bill, Anchor Man
  • Posted In: The Ranch

Mosey to the start of the long road leading to the Middle School.  Performed exercises to move us toward the school with stops to complete other warm up activities.

  • SSH X50
    • Toy Soldiers
    • Merkin X15
    • 5 Burpees
  • Butt Kickers
    • Windmills
  • Karaoke
    • Imperial Walkers
  • Karaoke

Mosey to the playground to check out the new equipment.  Partnered up.  One partner completed 15 swing crunches while the other partner completed 10 pull ups.  Rinse and repeat for a total of 3 sets.

Mosey between the schools to the hill in front of the Middle School.

Partner 1 run backwards up the hill and then run down the hill.  Complete this 5 times while partner 2 completes burpees.  This continued until the pair completes 100 burpees.  Thighs on fire!!!

Mosey to the elementary school playground.  Circle up on the new soft play surface for Mary.

  • Jack Knife X15
  • LBC X20
  • Rosalita X10
  • Superman
  • Box Cutter
  • 3 more that I can’t remember

A little bit of time left so we completed 2 rounds of derkins (15) and squats (10).

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