The Beast has Awakened

The Tomahawk was awaked and is not pleased with what it sees. This fabled AO is riddled with mystic and lore. Did it ever exist? Was there ever really an F3-Indian Land? Where did it go?

YHC is here to tell you Tomahawk was too much for this modern world. It was a place where men wore weight vests for the 5-mile pre-runs, then did kettlebell work outs for cool downs. I can assure you, the worst stories you have ever heard are watered down at best.

We are getting soft, and mushy. We talk too much. We lift things that weigh under 30LBS. We video stuff and talk about trendy topics.  It’s time for a rebirth by fire. Tomahawk is coming back to take teeth and kick names. There will be no fluff. Leave your Lululemon at home.

Launching 2-22-23 we will begin a Legends series where you can expect to see the royalty of AO pasted. YHC has an abundance of devilish delights for the coming months…so stay tuned.

There seems to be a vacancy at Catawba Ridge so we will plant our flag there and reclaim what is rightfully ours. You got what it takes?

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Preblast: Jaeger

The Fort’s hottest new CSAUP is a TEAM RACE

SIGNUP!

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0D44A4AB28A3F5C70-jaeger_csaup_2023

TL;DR details:

  • Time 0800-1200(ish)
    • Yard will meet 0700-0745 @ GHMS that morning
  • Start: GHMS –> Finish: Print Shop
  • Teams of 4(ish)
    • 2 runners, 2 ruckers (recommended); but at least 1 rucker and 1 runner to form a team. (Optional: A team’s Runners & Ruckers can alternate/switch roles at each pain station)
      • runners stay together
      • ruckers stay together
    • Themed pain stations/team meet points for team challenges (stay tuned for exact route map)
      • Start/Station 1: GHMS (Chase)
      • Station 2: Catawba Park (Hunt)
      • Station 3: Allison Park (Kill)
      • Station 4: WEP (Carry)
      • Finish: Print Shop
    • Mileage – runners and ruckers travel different routes
      • Runners: slightly more than 14 miles
      • Ruckers: slightly less than 10 miles
    • Scoring the Race
      1. Team “card” to be time stamped at each pain station when team has
        completed the “team pain-station exercise”
      2. Time credit for overall scoring
      3. Possible…time credit for FNG / Kotter / Respectable / etc. per team?
      4. Teams will sign up via sign-up genius
      5. “winning trophy” = show to know
      6. “loser trophy” = show to know
    • Pain Stations:
      1. “faster” part of team can build up credit for other part of the team (e.g.
        ruckers can finish the exercises for the runners)
      2. Time goal for each pain station: 10 minutes (e.g. 8 min individual and 2
        min JOINT TEAM exercise)!
      3. Pain Station Q chooses WOD
      4. “JOINT TEAM exercise”: show to know! After this is completed the Operator will timestamp the TEAM card before departing

Coming in from out of the region? Have questions? Send a message to: jaeger.csaup@gmail.com

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Burpees for BBQ, take 341

Who: Pax of F3

What: Workout in Peachland, NC and wait in/on line for the best Texas style BBQ in NC

When: March 4th 2023

Why: YHC birthday is March 8th and what better way to celebrate than to do burpees while you wait!

There are 23 patches available for those interested in joining. Plan to leave Fort Mill at 0600 to get to Jon G’s Barbecue around 7. We will get in line and complete an hour-long workout in line. The restaurant provides up to 2 free, cheap beers if that’s your thing. We can coordinate any breakfast items, along with any drinks and other non-burpee games as we wait for the restaurant to open up at 11!

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Q-School 101 and 601

It’s time to head to school or maybe even back to school for some continuing education credits.

If you haven’t Qed, if you’ve Qed a tad, if you’ve Qed a few and want to add some pizazz to your next weinke, then Q-School 101 is for you. Band Camp is leading a tour-de-force course on the nuts and bolts, ins and outs, brass tacks, and the tidal wave of minutiea that go into creating, executing, managing, and adapting the leadership opportunity that is Qing an F3 workout.

If you’re a Site-Q, if you’ve been a Site-Q, if you’ve delusions of grandeur, then Q-School 601 (graduate level) is where you belong. Slapshot is going to bring the the power play and guarantees afterwards you will lead with a hat trick of all 3 Fs.

Both the 101 and 601 will launch from the following AOs on the dates listed:

2/21 – Ballroom (Tues)
3/30 – Matterhorn (Thur)
5/1 – Honey Badger (Mon)
6/14 – Bushwood (Wed)

More dates to come in the fall. Stay tuned. Keep EHing, encourage the FNGs to make a second/third post, support the VQs, and let’s get after the business of being better.

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HIP HOP HOORAY!!

Hip Hop Hooray (Name O’rama Video)

We had 9 HIMs post @theyard for an old school Hip Hop Hooray, playing cards beatdown with a Boogie Down Productions Old School straight up Hip Hop soundtrac :

WARMUP:  Abe Vigoda, Breakdancing Merkins,  Cherry Pickers,  Drill Instructor, Flying Squirrels, Imperial Squat Walkers

The Thang:

Mosey to Light Pole #1- Pick a Card/workout 3x

Mosey To

Light Pole #2 Pick a Card/workout 3x

Mosey to

Light Pole #3 Pick a Card/workout x3

Picking a Royal card- 20 reps

Picking a card #-10 reps

Picking an Ace-100 reps

Backward Lunge, Backward Run (NUR), Burpees, Bulgarian Split Squats, Calf Raises, Merkins, Mountain Climbers, Oblique Crunch, Plank Jacks, Rosalita, Smurf Jacks, WW II Situps

COT

Old School Hip Hop FNGS:

Afrika Bambaataa-Planet Rock

2 Pac-Changes

Biz Markie-Just a Friend

Coolio-Gangsta’s Paradise

Fat Boys-Fat Boys

House of Pain-Jump

Ice Cube-It was a Good Day

KRS -One-Step into A World

LL Cool J-Mama Says Knock You Out

MC Search-Here it Comes

Naughty By Nature-Hip Hop Hooray

Rob Base-It Takes Two

Tone Loc-By popular request by Tater!!

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Welcome To The Machine!

WARMUP: SSH, MNC, Cherry Pickers, Chest stretches
THE THANG: First Round: 7 stations with running in between: Station 1: 50 regular merkins
Station 2: 50 Squats
Station 3: 50 wide arm merkins
Station 4: 50 Squats
Station 5: 50 diamond merkins
Station 6: 100 IC flutter kicks (400 single count)
Station 7: 20 burpees
Round 2: Starfish routine – 10 burpees every time in the center; 1st station – 50 merkins, 2nd station – 50 squats, 3rd station – 50 pike presses (CDD), 4th station – 50 IC flutter kicks (200 single count),
Round 3: 7s with regular merkins at one end and IC flutter kicks at other end.
Totals: 221 merkins, 150 squats, 171 IC flutter kicks, 50 pike presses, 20 American Hammers, 1 to 2 miles of running.

MARY: 20 American Hammers and approximately 1 minute of heels 6 inches off ground

ANNOUNCEMENTS: d2db10k

COT: Prayers lifted and thanks to God for letting us do the F3 madness.

Thanks to Uber for letting me lead the workout this morning.

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Four Corners of Fun at Golden Corral

WARMUP: 4 Plank Jacks/Merkins/Shoulder Taps/Supermans. Repeat with 8 count. Repeat with 16 count. Repeat with 32 count.
THE THANG: Four corners with four exercises (20 count each) at each corner. After exercises completed at the corner, run one full lap + 1/4 to get to the next station. Exercises grouped as “Upper”, “Lower”, “Abs”, “All”. Once completed all corners we did the warmup all over again.
MARY: Nope
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Dam to Damn Bar
COT: Grassy’s son

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“Jump Program” and FNGs…what are you talking about?

Go back to when you were told, “say your hospital name, age, FNG” at your first workout. We likely can all recall that exact moment. You were probably like most of us, “now what happens, AND, what just happened”…aside from likely knowing you were going to be sore the next day. Maybe someone was in your ear during the workout encouraging you, maybe asking you questions when you’re just trying your best not to merlot, or maybe no one really said much to you (or you zoned them out) because you were just trying to follow along with the exercises or the lingo. Whatever your experience was, how long was it until you started understanding the small things like: “oh, that’s what an AO is”, or “now I get why I shouldn’t look up merkin on the internet”, or “there’s someone that schedules people to lead a workout?”…or pick your question.

The bigger question is, when did you start to feel like one of the PAX and you belong.

As we continue to pick up FNGs weekly (good work here!), the question this group of 6 that developed the “Jump Program” asked each other is: “how can we get these guys plugged in to F3 faster, how do we answer some of these basic questions we all now take for granted, how do we make them feel welcome and that they belong, how do we not leave this man behind”.

Since none of had the one silver bullet answer to this question, this is where the “stuff worth trying” mindset really came into play and the Jump Program was willing to try, fail, try, fail…rinse and repeat, with a mission to be intentional about making FNGs feel included, drive relationships early, and provide an F3 overview within 1 month of 1st post.

We started with looking at day 1 for an FNG and came up with this acronym SINCK (sounds like sync) which we want to share and have you apply it as best you can. Yes take liberties of course as these aren’t rules or core principles; hence the “worth trying” application.

  • S – Selfless
  • I – Impression
  • N – Naming
  • C – Connection
  • K – Knowing (as in get to know)

Selfless: Todays workout isn’t about you (non-FNG Pax reading this now)

Inclusion: Give some space, but make sure FNG has a guy with him from beginning to end outside of the EH Pax and Site Q – give him a sense of inclusion

Naming: Be mindful of body language as he’s being named – we want him to come back out and his name shouldn’t take away from that (we know names don’t matter but he doesn’t)

Connection: Remember, you’re his first impression of F3 so try and connect with him, or listen for clues on who he may connect and relate to

Knowing: Get to know him and gather some background (who EH’d, how’d you hear about F3, where do you live?)

Once the FNG has been named, this is where the Jump Program kicks off. We have been gathering FNGs and their contact information and have a goal in offering monthly off-the-books (OTB) workouts. We’ve kept this OTB in an effort to remove the intimidation FNGs tend to feel in the beginning when working out with guys who have been working out a lot longer than them and/or they’re still trying to figure out what a Carolina dry dock is. The Jump Program team has been co-Q’ing a 30 minute workout, very Q-school 101’esq, along with a coffeeteria intro to F3 Q&A following the workout. Having co-Qs allows the newer PAX to ask questions, allows the co-Qs to answer questions and/or address basic “when I was new, this is what I remember having questions about, or not finding out about ‘x’ until I was a year into F3”. We all have these stories of course, but the idea is that the new PAX outnumber the co-Qs with the goal that they are surrounded by PAX on the same F3 knowledge base (i.e. they feel like one of the guys b/c the guy standing next to them knows just as much as they do!).

Certainly more to come as this evolves, and would love your help with FNGs encouraging them to attend the monthly OTB Jump Program workouts. If they miss one, they’re invited to come to the next one and more than once if they’d like. If you can help apply the SINCK, maybe this is something that makes the FNG think “I could see myself working out with this group”, which we all know is the first bite of the apple we all took when someone pulled us aside and said, “remember, you need to say your hospital name, age, FNG”.

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Site Q Rotation

Your favorite site Q may not be present at their respective AO’s a few times this year.

One of the prices of leadership is that at times you aren’t afforded the same level of flexibility as others. If you’ve ever been a Site Q or thought about the responsibility that Site Q’s have, you realize that there is a level of monotony in their ability to post. Sometimes we don’t want to go to the same AO that we post at every Monday or Friday. Sometimes we want to do something different in the middle of the week, and as a Site Q, there isn’t that availability.

In an effort to allow for that flexibility and variability in posting, Site Q’s may switch up where they post on the days they carry the shovel flag. This does NOT change the AO style at all.

What can this look like? For example Monday’s we have Honey Badger lead by Sawdust and Sweep The Leg by Badlands. They may swap locations on a Monday, but HB will remain a boot camp and STL will remain a running with pain stations AO.

Currently every 6 weeks, starting the week of February 6, there may be a swap as to who carries the flag to an AO. They may also be your QIC for that day as well.

SYITL

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