Category: 1st f

Beautiful morning for Burpacides and 4 Corners

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WARMUP: SSH / Windmills / Moroccan Night Clubs / Low Slow Squats / Cherry Pickers / Merkins
THE THANG: Mosey around the shops and avoid delivery trucks. Had to the lot behind the theater and start burpacides. The burpacides were ascending and descending on 8 parking lines with a burpee at each from 1 to 8 and back to 1. Then a nice long mosey about 40 yards to start 4 corners.
Corner 1: 20 V-Sits then bear crawl to
Corner 2: 20 Freddy Mercury’s on a 4 count then lunge to
Corner 3: 20 Pickle Pounders then crab walk to
Corner 4: 20 Plank Jacks then lunge back to corner 1.
Indian run back to the start.
MARY: 8 rounds of Capitan Thors 1 BBS and 4 American Hammers. PAX saved by the bell.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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skinny arms

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WARMUP:
– SSH / CP / IW / WM
THE THANG:
– 4-corners: 2x sandbag / 2x cindy / 2x abs / 2x kettlebell
– tire flip: 2 teams
– Jack Webb: 1:4 Merkins + OH clap
MARY:
– 6-count burpee
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
– read your newsletter
COT:
– was held

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ChatGPT Wrote It, Your Quads Regret It

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WARMUP:
– Windmills – 10 IC
– Imperial Walkers – 15 IC
– Arm Circles – 10 IC
– Overhead Claps – 25 IC
– Mosey to the larger parking lot

THE THANG:
Part 1: Dora 1-2-3 – Partner up
– 100 Merkins
– 200 LBCs
– 300 Air Squats
– While one partner worked, the other ran a 50-yard shuttle.

Part 2: Four Corners – AMRAP
PAX took on each corner with intensity:
– 10 Burpees
– 20 Bonnie Blairs
– 30 Plank Jacks
– 40 Flutter Kicks (4-count)

Part 3: Jack Webb
1 Merkin to 4 Air Presses, all the way up to 5:20.

Mosey back to COT

MARY:
Worst Worst LBC – 10 IC
Fire Hydrants – 10 IC Right Leg
Fire Hydrants – 10 IC Left Leg

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
– Blood Drive
– Cannoli Run
– Read your news letter

COT:
Prayers and praises, This was done C-Span Style everyone shared.

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East and West

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The Fort is big in number and small in geography. For the first time in our history, we have two 1st F Qs.

  • Bonsai on the West
  • Time Machine on the East

The mission of F3 is to plant, grow, and serve small workout groups for men for the invigoration of male community leadership. We’re doing such a good job on the plant & grow side, that we’re making this change to the Shared Leadership Team. Leading requires disruption. Its Foundation 1 in the Q-source. The SLT has been disrupted this morning (5/15/2025).

This isn’t a management change: the 1st F Q doesn’t “manage” anything. Their gig is to serve the AOs and invigorating the PAX’s leadership. Two tasks that need more than one man in a region with 34 AOs. Day-to-day operations for the PAX will be unchanged, but our Site Qs will now be supported more appropriate to our size.

This is The Fort. We work to be better everyday because the alternative is unacceptable.

What will change for the PAX? Very little. You show up to a workout, invest in the men around you and go home to be a better leader for your family, at work, in your church, etc.

What does this mean for our Region? We’ve got two proximate leaders pouring into our the AOs, the Site Qs, and the Region as a whole. Each side currently has 17 AOs.

  • Yes, Hwy 21 is roughly the dividing line.
  • Yes, #ao-training-ground looks like West Berlin inside East Germany.
  • Yes, your individual work of EHing men and giving away this thing we call F3 is still paramount.
F3 The Fort AOs East West
So, go be about the mission. Let’s build each other up to become the leaders our community needs.

East. West. The wind blows the same in both. You still have to keep accelerating.

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Band Camp

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2025 PGA Championship – Quail Hollow

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WARMUP: Pledge of Allegiance
THE THANG:
Inspired by the 2025 PGA Championship at Quail Hollow this will be a loop with 18 stops. The distance between the stops are based on the length of the holes (slightly modified down to get us 3 miles instead of the actual length of 4.3). The stops were marked with cones.
•Red = Par 4 = 4 Burpees
•Yellow = Par 3 = 20 Big Boys
•Green = Par 5 = 20 American Hammers
•Green Mile = Written on cardboard signs

We stuck together for the first 8 holes (1.25 miles) and then I turned the fast guys loose to run the remainder of the course (1.75 miles).

I didn’t hear it all, but I did hear some great mumble chatter:
– “Where’s the cart girl?” – Cyclopes
– “What’s the distance from the senior tees?” – Barry Manilow
– “There’s no such thing as a par 6, right?” – Dark Helmet

Thank you Nasa for the call.

COT:
Thank you Slapshot for your dedication and efforts as the 1st F Q!

Congratulations Bonsai and Time Machine on taking on the 1st F Q roles and to Cyclopes on assuming the LDP role. Really looking forward to seeing what you bring!

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Back to School

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We warmed up with the Motivator and then did some stretchy things. We moseyed around TJ the front of the theater where we went to school.

Billy Madison inspired workout — 1 exercise 12 reps, for each grade. As we matriculated to the next grade we couldn’t forget our previous lesson so we repeated that exercise and performed the next grades exercise. As we were running out of time we accelerated our lessons by the 9th grade
– K – SSH
– 1st – Mountain Climbers
– 2nd – Merkins
– 3rd – Squats
– 4th – LBCs
– 5th – CDDs
– 6th – Flutter Kicks
– 7th – Lunges
– 8th – Diamond Merkins
– 9th – Plank Jacks
– 10th – Shoulder Taps
– 11th – American Hammers
– 12th – Burpees

Moseyed back to COT. No time for Mary. Ended with announcements and prayers and praises.

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Lazarus Preps the Murph

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WARMUP: SSH, Hillbilly Walkers, Cherry Pickers, Windmill, Merkins, Stretching
THE THANG: Run 0.375 Miles, then 25 BBS, 50 Merkins, 75 Squats, Then run 0.375, 25 BBS, 50 Merkins, 75 Squats, repeat 4x
MARY: 5 Burpees, boys called some Mary
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Bethel tonight!
COT:

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