Escalator and More

WARMUP: SSH, Windmills, Imperial Walkers, Hillbilly Walkers, stretchy things.
THE THANG: Moseyed to the lot in front of the theater.

Using the Parking spaces start at one end, Bear Crawl 2 lines do 1 Merkin, Crawl Bear 1 line and do 7 squats. Bear Crawl 2 lines do 2 Merkins, Crawl Bear 1 line and do 6 squats. Repeat until you do 7 Merkins an 1 squat.

4-Corner Escalator
Corner 1
– Merkins – 10 reps
Corner 2
– Merkins– 10 reps
– Squats – 20 reps
Corner 3
– Merkins – 10 reps
– Air Squats – 20 reps
– Lunges – 30 reps (15 each leg)
Corner 4
– Merkins – 10 reps
– Air Squats – 20 reps
– Lunges – 30 reps
– LBCs – 40 reps

After this we went back down the escalator .

Mosey to the fountains for 11’s.

CDDs
Dips

MARY: Piston Crunches, Peter Parker’s, Parker Peter’s, American Hammers, plank
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Bethel Men’s Shelter, Invergence, Memorial Stair Run, read the news letter.
COT: Prayers were said.

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Whats the point of this

Sometimes I wonder if a ‘backblast’ is important. Yes, I can here the admins now screaming their doctoral rhetoric at their phone screens. ‘Its for new guys to get ideas’, ‘Its to share with people that weren’t there’, ‘Its to get our name plugged into the all powerful algorithm and track our stats.’

I kinda think its BS. When F3 started we didn’t have any of this crap. Not to say change is bad (or good), but to say are we missing the point. F3 isn’t about any of the things we are told to use a backblast for. That’s one of the things I always loved about Indian Land, the fact you wont find any record of it anywhere. But we, and you know who we are, what we were about, and the legend was born.

I suggest this. If you are gonna right a backblast, tell me something I cant find on YouTube. If I need a workout, that’s easy to find. I want the meat. What was your challenge, mentally. Who did you push. Did the PAX overcome. Did you grow as a leader.

Are you forging your legacy?

If you want to know what we do at my workouts, then show up. Otherwise just know we will be there sharpening our steel. Ill call impossible tasks not for the physical work, but to test your mind and fortitude. And just know I WILL be right there with you. Good or Bad, BC is here to stay.

I’m sure Ill get kicked out of F3 for these statements

#MILGA rising

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Lazarus – 8/21/2025

WARMUP:
– 10 Side Straddle Hops
– 10 Windmills
– Plank to Down Dog, Calf stretch’s to Sunrise

THE THANG:
Mosey to hill on Red Stone behind Biergarten
25 Inchworm/Walkin Merkins
Bear crawl to top of hill
25 Tip-Toe Squats – Mosey down to bottom

Mosey to corner of Red Stone & Opportunity Dr.

Ladder with 5 stops, scale exercises with each stop. WO spots – Corner, First Drive(on R), First Crosswalk, Crimson Ct., End of Circle Exit.

Stop 1 – 5 Burpees

Stop 2 – 5 Burpees + 10 Calf Raises

Stop 3 – 5 Burpees + 10 Calf Raises + 15 Squats

Stop 4 – 5 Burpees + 10 Calf Raises + 15 Squats + 20 Merkins

Stop 5 – 5 Burpees + 10 Calf Raises + 15 Squats + 20 Merkins + 25 Monkey-Humpers

Mosey to Parking Deck, Conquer the PD (Run to top)

REPEAT – Return to End of Circle and descend ladder (I.e. do it all again in reverse order)

Mosey to COT

MARY: Heel’s to Heaven with a lift
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your newsletter
COT: It is what it is…

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Lazarus – Rising In The Rain

WARMUP: Not so much, we just got moving.
THE THANG: The destination was the Red Ventures parking deck. We made our way with a few stops along the way.
Run a bit: Merkins, Mountain Climbers, Carolina Dry Docks
Run a bit more: LBC’s, American Hammers, Flutter Kicks
Run a bit more: Squats, Jump Squats, Monkey Humpers
Arrive at the bottom of the far parking deck.
Collect your thoughts and now run the ramps to the top of the deck.
Grab a partner and Partner Push the long stretch of the deck. Bear Crawl the short distance, Flapjack the Partner Push then Bear Crawl again.
Repeat this evolution.
Run down the stairs: Jump Squats & American Hammers
Run up the stairs: Merkins & Dips
Run down the stairs and collect your thoughts again.
Run back to COT with a few stops along the way for exercises and regrouping.
MARY: See above.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: You know the ones.
COT: 5th Core Principle

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NO miles/NO smiles

Disclaimer and since we had a FNG went over the 5 core principles.
Always free
Open to all men
Outdoors rain or shine
Peer led in rotating fashion
Ends in COT

Also discussed modifications and since I am nursing a hamstring injury we wouldn’t be doing much running, was that a good thing or bad thing- leave that up to the Pax to decide

WARMUP:

Slowsey over to next parking lot where we did the warmup!

Windmills/IW/HW
Moroccan night clubs/arm circles/OH claps/Michael Phelps

Plank/Merkin/updog/Downdog/parker peters/peter Parkers

THE THANG:

Explained first activity

Death by/ 30 first 3 rounds, then 1 min

Merkins by 3s
Add three every round
Most got to round 7, Rosie got to round 8

Run to chairs for a Jack Webb
Dips x4
Oh presses x1

Mosey over to Hill for a DORA
100 diamond merkins
200 LBC
300 shoulder taps
MOT Bear crawl up hill, run back

Ran out of time during round 3 so headed back to COT!

MARY: nah
ANNOUNCEMENTS: bethel, care center, newslettery stuff
COT: always

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People’s Q

I tried something a little different today and had a people’s Q. I started us off with a little warm up then <@U07E0KTT4BV> picked up the Stick as we moseyed to the front of the movie theater. I thought we were going to watch Naked Gun but he had other plans.

Round 1
30 Step-ups (15 each leg)
25 Merkins
15 Big Boys

Round 2
30 Step-ups (15 each leg)
25 CDD
15 Big Boys

Round 3
30 Step-ups (15 each leg)
15 Hand Release Merkins
15 Big Boys

Next up was <@U08N6B7B3EF>

Group A performed Shoulder Taps while Group B army crawled for about 5 yards, then Bear Crawled for about 10 yards then sprint 25yards and back. Gross A & B switched. This went on for 3 rounds.

Next <@U067RCH0EPJ> took us over to the lower parking lot. We saw a couple of cop cars and we thought Unstable Vagina left his post to come workout with us but we were mistaken, it wasn’t him. <@U067RCH0EPJ> mapped out 4 corners of fun.
Corner 1 – 25 LBCs
Corner 2 – 25 Mike Tyson’s
Corner 3 – 25 Squats
Corner 4 – 25 American Hammers
We started in the middle of the 4 corners with a buy in of 1 Burpee then picked a corner then back to the center for a Burpee. Repeating until all 4 corner were hit.

Since we already had the 4 corners mapped out YHC picked up the stick for an Escalator.
Corner 1 – 10 SSHs
Corner 2 – 10 SSHs 25 CDD
Corner 3 – 10 SSHs 25 CDD 30 Squats
Corner 4 – 10 SSHs 25 CDD 30 Squats 40 LBCs

We moseyed back to COT in time to Al Gore it out for 30 seconds.

Announcements:
Coffe convergence at Panera Bread Kingsley following workouts
Stuff the Bus 8/2
Bethel Men’s Shelter next Thursday 8/7
Read the News Letter

Prayers& Praises
From the Waxhaw Pax prayers for Sugar Daddy and praises for Maddog’s son for completing his training for the Marines.

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Freaky Thursday

WARMUP: SSH, Windmills, Low slow squat, cherry pickers, merkins, mosey
THE THANG: EMOM 9 mins of heavy merkins and merkin variants, 2 sprints mixed in
3 rounds of 3 mins with Jump squats, grinders, squat to calf, wall sits,
10 rounds of tabata, CDD, Shoulder taps, left plank, right plank, BBS, flutters
AmRAP burpees, jump squats, mtn climbers, sprint, merkins and plank jacks.
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Lots of 2F options
COT:

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Power in 2

WARMUP:
Mosey to front of theater
Ssh
Lss
Moroccan night clubs
Plank
Mountain climber
Updog
Downdog
Runners stretch
THE THANG:
Short mosey in parking lot
4 corners in parking lot
1. Mountain climbers x 5
2. Carolina dry docks x 5
3. Merkins x 5
4. Lunge walk around island
Repeato x2

Mosey to far parking lot
Run length of lot, every line alternate front run, back run, right shuffle, left shuffle
Plank for 6 at end of lot
Repeato

Mosey back to front of theater
Partner up at wall
While partner runs, 2nd partner:
– Step ups
– Irkins
– Dips
– Single leg RDL – left leg out
– Single leg RDL – right leg out

Mosey to hill
5 jump squats at bottom
5 merkins at top
repeato
MARY:
Mosey to COT
Peter Parker
Parker Peter
Freddy Mercury
LBC’s
Pickle pointers
Have a nice day!

Happy to see <@U0603USPHAS> when I pulled up. I had a good weinke planned, hoped for more pax, grateful for time to get to know this HIM better. We kept moving, 2.4 miles total (a good chunk running backwards) plus plenty of strength. Appreciate it brother. There’s power in 2.

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Gratitude at Lazarus

WARMUP: Jog to East side of the theater – you can’t have enough of the East side!
SSH’s
Moroccan night clubs
Cherry pickers
Windmills
Merkins
Downward dog stretch
D.I.D.

THE THANG: PART 1: 5-10-15-20 ladders with merkins, lunges (2 ct), big boys and 2 ct plank jacks.
Intermission: breathe
PART 2:
Completes as a team with the three dudes… dropping B.O.M.B.S.!
50- Burpees
100- SSH’s 2ct
150- Merkins
200- Big Boys
250- didn’t make it this far

Head back to COT
MARY: not present
ANNOUNCEMENTS: blood drive in Massey 5/19, Pusher didn’t show up for something or was really late or..? Read your newsletter
COT: Prayers for new life, gratitude and brothers throughout F3.

Thanks for the nod, Goose!

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Balls and Burpees

WARMUP: SSH, Merkins, windmills

THE THANG:
Mosey behind the movie theatre
Run to each of the 8 parking spot sections and perform ascending reps (1-8) of the below exercises, then run back to beginning (~100 yards)
SSH
Merkins
Big boy sit ups
Squats

Mosey back to COT

PAX circle up, one PAX in middle. PAX in middle performs 8 sand ball over shoulder (100lb or 60lb scaled). PAX in middle calls out a burpee style for pax in circle to complete 8 reps. Options included navy seals, 180 turns, tuck jump, hand release, and more! 2nd time around 4 reps. Then 2. Then 1. 125 total burpees performed. 15 total ball tosses.
MARY: Abs
ANNOUNCEMENTS: pizza, bethel, sweaty Barry
COT: yes

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