Category: The Fort

It’s Wet. YES. Now, Do The Work

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Whenever there's an FNG, I feel the responsibility to turn it up a notch and to ensure I adhere to the principles, cadence calling, and traits of what I love about F3. While it's not up to me to determine the intensity of this morning's workout as I'll let the PAX chime in, what I can control is the adherence to the principles, cadence calling and characteristics of what I love about F3…so long as I don't stray from the 5 Core Principles or the Credo.
Naturally, we reviewed those this morning prior to launching as we had an FNG in the gloom with us, welcome Small Things.

WARMUP: Mosey to the parking lot of FMRX and discover a nicely placed deck of cards. Oh look, what shall we do with these? The intent was to complete ~1/2 the deck utilizing some warm-up exercises and regular exercises and let this serve as our slightly-higher-than-normal-intensity warm-up.
Hearts: Merkins
Clubs: Flutters (count the rt side only)
Spades: Squats
Diamonds: Butt Kickers (count the rt side only)

THE THANG:
Mosey to the big lot on the right at the top of the Massey hill for a large evolution of 4 Corners with a center.
Start in the center of the lot and run to the corner, perform the exercise, run back to the center for 5 burpees, then out to the next corner and back to the center and so on. Complete 2 full rounds.
Corner 1: 15 Hand-Release Merkins
Corner 2: 15 Jump Squats
Corner 3: 15 Carolina Dry Docks
Corner 4: 15 American Hammers

Once everyone completed round 2, we then completed 1 additional round as a group but cut the reps in half.

Mosey to the steps at the Fort Mill Church of the Nazarene. The original plan had us running up and down the set of stairs but due to the rain, we lunge walked up the stairs, walked down and did that 3 times then went to the Church parking lot.
Here I looked at the wienke and realized I had about 7mins of material for the remaining 15mins of time in the hour. A reminder for all, plan a longer workout in case you finish an evolution faster than anticipated. So, what did we do? I preceded to make a few enemies and released the angry gremlin inside Super G.

Welcome back to the Mak Tar Jah followed by the Knee Tar Jah!

Now, mosey back to COT for what turned out to be the fastest naming of an FNG I've ever been apart of.
Welcome, Small Things.
MARY: Yes
ANNOUNCEMENTS: CRI Training, Bethel Men's Shelter, Stuff The Bus
COT: 100%

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Blimps are fun

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Another super humid morning but it was great seeing 11 other guys show up to get the day started right. Quick disclaimer then mosey around park stopping at each swing for 2 exercises. 10 counts of imperial Walker's, cherry pickers, tempo merkins, low slow squats, wide arm merkins, etc. Mosey down trail behind park to the grass hill for accumulating BLIMPS. 5 burpees, then either run up big hill or smaller side hill and return. 5 burpees, 10 lunges, nur up hill. 5 burpees, 10 lunges, 15 imp squat Walker's, bear crawl up hill (not my idea but someone really wanted to bear crawl). Same 5, 10, 15, then 20 merkins, run up hill. Same 5, 10, 15, 20, then 25 plank jacks and nur up hill. Last round 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, and 30 SSHs then mosey back to amphitheater. Partner up. P1 does flying squirrel while P2 holds plank. P2 drops to 6 inch plank hold and P1 jumps over. Repeat for total of 8 flying squirrels then flap jack. Yog around amphitheater then rinse and repeat. Yog back to COT for a few ab exercises then times up. Appreciate the opportunity @U08QLQH6J68

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WEP Stations

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WARMUP: windmills, hillbilly walkers, moseying, toy soldiers, knee grabs, arm stretches
THE THANG:
Playground Station
C.H.I.P.S. and Dips
Complete 20 reps each of exercises, in cadence, followed by 20 dips off a park bench, and a lap around the playground
C – Calf Raises, Dips
H – Hello Dollies, Dips
I – Imperial Walkers, Dips
P – Parker Peters, Dips
S – Squats, Dips

Mosey to Sidney Johnson Station
Paula Abduls using trees to the left of the path to Looms
5 Overhead claps + 5 Big Boys

Mosey to Calhoun Street Park Station
Bearway to Heaven

  • Parking lot lines
  • Bear crawl 1 space + 7 burpees
  • Bear crawl 2 spaces + 6 burpees
  • Bear crawl 3 spaces + 5 burpees
  • Bear crawl 4 spaces + 4 burpees
  • Bear crawl 5 spaces + 3 burpees
  • Bear crawl 6 spaces + 2 burpees
  • Bear crawl 7 spaces + 1 burpee

Mosey to WEP Parking Lot Station
Triple Nickels
PAX selects exercise for the group, then 5 reps at bottom of hill, 5 at the top of the hill, 5 more at the bottom
Phrasing is important: I asked everyone to choose their favorite exercise, forgetting Wheaties was in attendance
Dojo – Derkins (when I asked Dojo to start us off I think Cyclops yelled out 'DON'T BE DUMB')
Wheaties – Burpees
Bowzer – Big Boys
Only Fans – SSH
Dark Helmet – Nothings
JWOW – CCD (I think)

MARY: throughout

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Upcoming volunteer events – CRI, Stuff the Bus
Read your newsletter
BBBB in November
Cannoli Run 2027 next May

COT:
Patience for parenting, family relationships
Seek out wisdom

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You Will Struggle!

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WARMUP: A few loops in the parking lot while Bowser shared leadership principles learned from Bible study with his buddy, followed by brief series of exercises

THE THANG:
Mosey to playground and pick a partner for Dora

100 Penguins / transit with bear crawl & crawl bear
200 Shoulder Taps / transit via lunge & backward lunge
300 Flutters / transit via run & nur

Mosey to picnic WEP area and pick new partner

Partner 1 planks while Partner 2 does Step ups
Rinse & repeat with Bulgarian Split squats
10 Burpees

Mosey to FM Town Hall picnic area

Pax chose exercise and a dice roll determines the # of reps, including Merkins, Burpees, Squat Jumps, Squats, Freddys & more

Mosey home

MARY: Included in Dora series

ANNOUNCEMENTS: July 4th convergence at Catawba Ridge 0700 launch time

COT: The theme today was built around Struggle because the Summer Steam has kicked into high gear and the core of the F3 engine for me is Shared Suffering. These pax suffered through a tough workout with grit and encouragement throughout. The Struggle in the Gloom can be hard, but the hardest struggles come once we leave the parking lot after COT. The suffering life deals is real and difficult. And the personal struggles that exist inside the heart and mind can be the toughest of all.

Don't believe the lies in your head that other men aren't struggling. We all struggle, from the sharpest and fittest Nantan to the gimpy pax trying to get off IR. DON'T STRUGGLE ALONE! The reason we post is to build the grit and the brotherhood that will get us through every struggle!

Appreciate the contributions of all throughout the workout and in COT!

Thanks for the invite JWOW! You were missed.

#KeepPosting

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Starfish

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WARMUP: 20 SSH
Mosey down the path to Harris Street Park / Basketball Court
THE THANG:
Starfish: on basketball court
20 Merkins on corner
Run to center and do 2 burpees
20 Mountain Climbers
Run to center and do 2 burpees
20 Big Boys
Run to center and do 2 burpees
20 Squats
Run to center and do 2 burpees
10 round and drop reps by two each time

Rank up Harris to COT
Did EMOM
1 lap & 15 SSH’s for 10 rounds / minutes
MARY: 3 minutes: American Hammers, Flutters,
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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AI Gone Wild

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The talk of the morning was about the AI videos created by JWOW had gone off the rails. The conversation would take our minds off the wet and rainy weather.
We began with a trip around the park stopping at each swing for an exercise. We detoured twice out in the field to enjoy the moist grass. Next, we made our way to front of Pike Engineering where we did three rounds of dips, derkins, split squats. Short trip to the adjacent parking lot for three rounds of partner exercises, Partner 1 ran while Partner 2 did muscle ups on the brick wall.
Next, we bear crawled to the top parking lot, continue our journey to the parking lot across from the Donut Shop. We did a short version of concaine bear. Ran it backways, replaced merkins with CCDs.
We made our way to Print Shop for 10 good pull-ups. Back to WEP for a round of 7s and a bear crawl around the theater.

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Padre-Sandbag

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WARMUP: the usual suspects
THE THANG:

  1. Catch me if you can: 1 pax walks w/ Sandbag or chosen coupon… Other (at each handoff), does 10 BBSU, 20 monkey humpers then moseys up for handoff
  1. Pitt-stop at Playground for Dora:
  1. 1 pax lunge-walks out to can & moseys back
  2. Other pax completes:
  1. 50 knee-tuck merkins on Swing
  2. 50 Bulg-Split-Squats on Swing (25 ea. Leg…swap every 5)
  3. 60 swing-jump squats (alternate every 5 forward/backward)
  4. 80 Inverted Rows on Swing
  1. Pitt Stop at Hill:
  1. Nur Up / Crawl-Bear down
  1. at music area: alternating Jack Webb: 1 man maker, 4 inverted rows, … 2–8, … Up to 5–20
  • 1 PAX with sandbag doing this, while the other holds wall sit

MARY: ab-lab
ANNOUNCEMENTS: cannoli run, other newsletter type stuff
COT: held… Several prayers lifted up for a recovery for medical procedures , anxiety over job-transitions, etc. Lord be praised.

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Corporate (not) approved)

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All enjoyed immensely my Q, especially the Corporate Headquarters representative, the Darkest of all Helmets.

Also, my oldest son was there, so I was under a tremendous amount of pressure to perform.

WARMUP: Yes – we ran circles around each other

THE THANG:

CHASE DOWN
Partners Chase each other across the park
Partner 1 takes off at 50%
Parnter 2 counts to 5, then chases him down.
When you catch your partner then 50% to across
the park

Repeat across park

Mosey to hill
Partner line up behind each other (be sure to ask someone who was there)
Indian Bear Crawl up the hill
WAIT ON THE SIX, jog back down the hill
REPEAT for everyone's pleasure

Lunges together up the hill

Mosey to playground
Partner up

Partner PLANKS, partner runs
Partner DIPS,
Partner GRAVE DIGGERS,
Partner DONKEY KICKS
Repeat

Indian Run around half the park, back to the dreaded hill

Lunges up the hill, then to the amphitheater

MARY: Yes, concluding with Peter Pointers
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Yes
COT: Strong COT with encouragement from many

Thanks, JWOW —– a lot — glad you were there —

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1 year at the fort

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WARMUP: strawberry pickers, windmills, Moroccan night clubs, plank, works greatest stretch.
THE THANG: mosey to Calhoun parking lot for cocaine bear crawls mosey down to Harris st park. 10 burpees. Mosey up Myers and over to the church to say good morning to sweet baby Jesus. Dora at the church with 100 Big Boys, 200 Merkins, 300 Squats. Run a lap around the church between each partner trade off. Mosey back to COT.
MARY: not present but her cousin Broga was.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: tortoise and the hare, >2026, cannoli run, blood drive.
COT:

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