It was put out on the twittermachine the day before that any PAX posting to The Fort this week would get a shot of Jack.  10 PAX stepped up to the plate and took the daily red pill with a chaser of Jack!!  Noticed 1 FNG so welcomed him and gave a almost full disclaimer.

THE THANG

Santini wanted a little foreplay first before what he knew would be a beatdown.  So we did a warmup of :

20 x SSH, 15 x IW, 15 x Windmills, 15 x Seal Jacks, 15 x Plank Jacks, 15 x Mountain Climbers

Still not warm up enough so mosey up the path to the second drill bit with high knees, butt kicks, karoake.  Stop at second drillbit up the hill and run back down to the parking lot with karoake, butt kicks and high knees.

Stop at the base of the Stairway and explain the meat of the workout and some of Jack Webb and his friends.

First time up the stairway – Jack Webbs 1:4 at first light pole, 2:8 and second light pole, 3:12 at third lightpole, 4:16 and 4th lightpole, 5:20 and 5th lightpole, then do 10 seal jacks and come back down the hill in reverse order doing Jack Webbs, 5:20, 4:16, 3:12, 2:8, 1:4.  Plank at the bottom when finished.

While in Plank position, mentioned Jack Webbs cousin Jack Squat.  One Squat and then 4 Lunges.  Same course up and down the stairway.  Plank when finished.

Next up was Captain Jack Sparrow. 1 Burpee and then 4 Bombjacks.  All the way up and down the stairway again. 5 burpees and 20 bombjacks was definitely a crowd pleaser.  And we got to do it twice.

Next up was Captain Crunch. 1 full Situp then 4 LBC’s.  Up the stairway again and back down.  Plank when finished.

Once the 6 was in we moseyed to the playground for Jack Lalanne (this dude was 90+ and still rockin out pull-ups, pushups, etc. daily).  Here we did 1 pullup and then 4 Moroccan Night Clubs.  All the way up to 5.  Then run a lap around the playground and go down from 5. Another crowd favorite.

After finishing up there we moseyed down 160 to the parking lot in from of Synergentics for some people’s chair and ab work.  People’s chair then Flutter Kicks x 15 and Rosalita x 15.  Back in the chair.  Then heals to heaven x 15 and hello dolly x 15.  Then back in the chair.  Moseyed back tothe COT area with 2 minutes left so 1 minute of plank jacks and 1 minute of seal jacks.

Namearama, COT, BOM

Announcements – BRR, Mud Run, CAH, read the newsletter

Prayers/praise – Prayers for safe travels this week for Easter and Spring Break.  Praise for a safe Palmetto 200.

Moleskin

1.  Always amazed by almost perfect mumblechatter of Santini.  Nobody complains more during a workout than he does but then again nobody thanks you as much afterwards.  I’m glad we could have an old school bootcamp butt kicking instead of ruinning all over the place.
2. Double D wearing the Notre Dame shirt.  Don’t make the Q angry!!!
3. Welcome to FNG Screenprint!!  Dude rocked his crossfit shirt during the workout and I’m pretty sure WWL EH’ed him onto a BRR team.
4. With the exception of the FNG it felt like a Veteran crew from the WEP old days with Santini, WWL, Double D, Crab Cakes.  Glad I could deliver that old school bootcamp feeling
5. At coffeteria Santini asked me how my 2016 word sacrfice was going.  Shared some stories about where I have made some sacrifices but also got me thinking when I left about where is I can sacrifice or what others have sacrificed for me.  This lead me of course to the Ulitmate sacrifice made for all of us.  Jesus Christ.  This weekend we celebrate his death and resurrection so that ALL of our sins can be forgiven and that we may have that relationship with the Father.  So as I look at sacrifice going forward, I’m going to look for areas where I can sacrifice some time to better my relationship with the Father.

Longshanks out!

This morning, 19 PAX crushed a sweat fest, you against you, beat down at ManU. Disclaimer was disclaimed and then work began. Thanks to our brothers from Fort Mill, Tega Cay, and Indian Land for crossing the river and joining us in the gloom.

Warm Up

Mosey to the Fountain for our standard ManU Warmup:

• 25 SSH (in cadence)
• 20 IW (in cadence)
• 25 Moroccan Night Clubs (in cadence)
• 25 Italian Night Clubs (in cadence)

Long mosey around the Manchester Village Parking Lot. Circle up for some stretches:

• Left over Right
• Right over Left
• Middle

The Thang

Partner up for the BOMBS beat down I learned about in San Antonio a few weeks ago. It was terrible!

The following activities were completed as an aggregate total. While partner 1 performed the exercise, the other ran the length of the parking lot and back. Exercise counts were:

• 50 (B)urpees
• 100 (O)verhead Claps
• 150 (M)erkins
• 200 (B)ig Boy Situps
• 250 (S)quats

Finish up with suicides the length of the lot.

Mosey to COT for 3 Minutes of Captain Thors courtesy of Popeye.

Today we covered 2.5 miles in addition to the BOMBS workout. Excellent mumble chatter too.

NMM

I really enjoyed working alongside such a great group of men this morning. The conditions were perfect – no rain, no wind, and only 51 degrees. We started off a bit chilly, but heated up quickly. I was very impressed with the effort every man put in today – lots of mumble chatter and encouragement.

I took the idea of this workout from a visit to San Antonio. This prompted a few comments, my favorite being from Riddler stating, “You can take that workout back to Texas.” I like these workouts because you are in charge of how hard you work. I was glad to see guys running hard when they could have jogged. I’m proud of you guys.

I also had the privilege to share a word from my devotional this morning (The One Year Uncommon Life Daily Challenge by Tony Dungy and Nathan Whitaker). Below is an exact transcript from the March 24 devotional.

Exodus 4:10-13

Moses pleaded with the Lord, “O Lord, I’m not very good with words. I never have been, and I’m not now, even though you have spoken to me. I get tongue-twisted, and my words get tangled.” The Lord said to him… Go! I will be with you as you speak , and I will instruct you what to say.”

But Moses again pleaded, “Lord, please! Send anyone else.”

Too often we tend to think of our platform as something that is tied to our position or occupation. We influence the people who work for us or who have a direct relationship with us. Certainly we don’t have a platform to influence others outside our areas of authority, we think. But that isn’t true.

During a tumultuous time in our nation, Dean Smith, the legendary UNC basketball coach, repeatedly put himself in the middle of the unsettling race relations. As stories go, he would invite an African American member of the community to lunch. They would head to the most segregated place in town, whether it was in Chapel Hill, Durham, Greensboro, or other places in North Carolina or other Southern states. People would stare and become angry at his audacity to do that in public. Smith didn’t care and would blithely eat his meal, knowing they weren’t about to throw him out, as much as they might want to.

“He was a basketball coach,” some critics might say. What he did, well, that was outside his coaching platform. He overstepped his bounds.”

Wrong. We all should be expanding our platforms, looking for ways we can influence others in situations for good. This doesn’t have to involve civil disobedience. We can volunteer, tutor, carpool to soccer practice, or start a book discussion group. Have a cheery disposition for everyone we come in contact with. The list of options to make a difference is endless.

I encourage each of you to make a difference wherever you are. Don’t wait for God to send someone else. As the #HIM you are, people watch what you do. You have a level of influence in everything you do. Take those opportunities to make your world better. You’ve already started on the right foot posting with us in the gloom. Now take it one step further. Be the change you want to see in the world.

Announcements:

• Fort Region shirt order – Last day to order is 4/3
• 3/26 Saturday  1600.  Children’s Attention Home fun day.  Contact chicken hawk for details
• 4/9 Saturday Nun Run. Contact Twister for details.
• 4/15 Friday 0610. Eternal Church behind Zaxby’s Fort Mill 3rd F convergence on Fatherhood
• 4/16 Saturday Come See Me 5k, Half, Fun Run
• 4/30 Saturday Mudrun
• 5/14 Saturday 1805 F3 Nation, F3 Dads Knights Baseball.  Block of tickets will go quickly.
• 5/19 Thursday 1745 National White Water Center-for F3 and family 45 minutes 1st F then 2nd F

Prayer Requests:

• Tinker Toy’s injury recovery
• Travelling mercies for those PAX going out of town
• Boots as he prepares for Coast Guard Boot Camp
• Schrute’s aunt recovering from a stroke

7 Pax shook off the temptation to fartsack in sympathy with the P200 smartsackers and gathered at LILO for a taste of St Paddy’s Day pain.

The Thang

Warm up run path to far side of WEP

COP – Mtn climber, IWs, SSHs, Windmills, Merkins, Squats

Run to hill and down to base

Traditional Jacob’s ladder – running 7x up and down w/merkins at the top starting w/1 and adding 1 each trip up

Run path back the way we came stopping at playground

Pulls ups x10, CDDs x10, Monkey humpers x10 (3 cycles)

Plank sequence, including the Leprechaun (aka the Plank Punch)

A Few Mins O Mary (our favorite Irish lass), including her Latin friend Rosalita

Run back to parking lot and grab a Bucket O Gold (aka cinder block)

Line cinder blocks across parking lot circle to form stations for each pax to do deep incline merkins between two blocks

Incline merkin suicides up stairway to heaven – Deep incline merkins x10, run to light post and back, 10x DIMs run to next light post….repeat all the way to top and back.

Derkins x10

Burpees x10 OYO

COT

Naked man moleskin

St Patrick’s Day was the perfect morning for our friend O’Pie to post at LILO, making the trek from Indianland.  Plus, he brought along another friendly lad from those parts, Bloody Knuckles.  Great to have you both along for the adventure!

Bird Cage and Hasslehoff scared off MacGyver and Corruption, who chose to get in five miles over hill and dale rather than submit themselves to boot camp agony.

We closed out with prayers of gratitude from all pax, taking a cue from YHC’s near miss of disaster on the way to WEP at Peach Stand intersection.  Much to be thankful for, especially the gift of our F3 brotherhood.

Thanks to Twister for the invite. Always a privilege to lead the pax.

12 gathered around the planted flag.  Italian Job led off and moseyed the PAX to the parking lot for a Patriot style warm up…

To the serene tune of birds chirping in the background:

• 20 SSH
• 20 Imperial Walkers
• 20 Moroccan Night Clubs
• Various stretches (L over R, R over L, Wide, Butterfly, a few others)

On to grab some wall and in the seated position tap the head, knees, and ground – 20 in cadence.

….the serenity began to fade.

Mosey (the long way) to the football field where entrance was gained one way or another. Don’t tell the law man (we trespassed).

Handoff to Peach

20 Minutes of Blackjack with Merkins and LBCs…50 yds in between (20 Merkins/1 LBC, 19 Merkins/2 LBC…all the way to 1 Merkin and 20 LBCs).

…serenity is now long gone. The humidity has caught up with us. Mumble chatter has ceased.

The PAX give a strong showing and once we are thoroughly drenched Peach passes to Geppetto.

Using the football field it was 4 corners

• Lunge 100 yds
• 25 Low Slow Squats at the corner
• Bear Crawl to the next
• 25 Mtn Climbers at the corner
• Side shuffle 100 yds to the next
• 25 Low Slow Squats at the corner
• Burpee Broad Jump to the next

4 corners again..this time with sprints in between.

• 25 Heels to heaven
• 30 Side Crunches (15 each side)
• 35 Flutters
• 50 LBCs

Back to the COT for count off, Name-o-Rama, Announcements (most of which were about various events where one is required to run long distances for no particular reason), and prayer requests.

Great day at the Patriot, and a perfect start to the weekend…serene or not.

-Geppetto

Posh led 14 men through a hotbox sweatfest at Old Town. Here’s what we did.

Warm Up

• SSH
• Windmills
• SSH

The Thang

Long Mosey down Main Street to the hotbox parking garage. We performed the following exercises:

• Run to the top
• Sprint to the wall and back (x4)
  • Merkins in between
• Sprint back to ground level
• 35 Merkins on level 1
• 30 Merkins on level 2
• 25 Merkins on level 3
• 20 Merkins on level 4
• 15 Merkins on level 3
• 10 Merkins on level 2
• 5 Merkins on level 1
  • American Hammers until the 6 was in
• 35 Squats on level 1
• 30 Squats on level 2
• 25 Squats on level 3
• 20 Squats on level 4
• 15 Squats on level 3
• 10 Squats on level 2
• 5 Squats on level 1
  • American Hammers until the 6 was in
• 35 LBCs on level 1
• 30 LBCs on level 2
• 25 LBCs on level 3
• 20 LBCs on level 4
• 15 LBCs on level 3
• 10 LBCs on level 2
• 5 LBCs on level 1
  • American Hammers until the 6 was in, a few Hello Dollies, and 5 more LBCs to finish us out.

NMM

As always, it was a pleasure to get stronger with the PAX of Rock Hill. Great impromptu Q by Posh this morning. Welcome FNGs Beaker and Quick Silver (Choir Boy’s 2.0). Today marks another week of double digit posts for the Rock Hill AOs (though I fear that streak will end with 66 of the Fort’s finest doing final preparation for the Palmetto 200). Per usual, Burgundy and York led the PAX with newcomer Beaker hot on their heels. Reborn and Schrute were both pushing YHC to try to catch up with them. TClaps to Quick Silver for putting in the work this morning and keeping up with the gazelles. Big time respect to 2^nd week poster, Pistol. 57 never looked so fast! Don’t think the improvements Blueprint, Van Wilder, and Choir Boy are making aren’t being noticed. We see you guys getting stronger and faster. Great leadership and epic mumble chatter from our 6 by choice, Apache. Boots, you’ll be missed – even if Creed says you won’t.

Something big is happening in RH. Keep bringing FNGs – they don’t know how much they need what you have discovered. #GiveItAway

Prayers

• Boots will be leaving for boot camp in two weeks
• Posh’s M will be giving birth sometime this week
• PAX running in the Palmetto 200
• The homeless men and women of Rock Hill (shelters closing)

Announcements

Read the weekly email

Well YHC was reminded by the one and only Chief Turkey Puncher, Apache that I was on the Q for Petra at 830pm. so behind the 8 ball I remembered that Petra was a #slowburn AO So what I put together on the fly was going to be slow and burn quite a bit. 15 PAX showed up in the gloom

THE THANG:

WARM UP –

• STRETCH those old bones and muscles – CSPAN would be proud
• WM (IC) X15
• SSH (IC) X15
• MNC (IC) X15
• CDD (IC) X15
• SEAL JACKS (IC) X15
• STRETCH a little more
• PLANK for 30 secs.
• HONEY MOON from the Plank to yes again stretch the back out.

MOSEY – One full lap around the parking lot

LET A BEAR BE A BEAR!

Bear Crawl Merkins – Up hill the parking lot bear crawl to each parking spot line then do one merkin. Turn around and Bear Crawl Merkin back.

This looked really good on paper but the slow burn really burned and produced some mumble chatter.

ZOMBIE RUN –

• 2 rounds – Zombie Run is like an Indian Run but you lunge walk while the 6 runs to the front of the line. Good old mumble chatter and groans with this one. SLOOOOW BURN.

LET A BEAR BE A BEAR again –

• Bear Crawl Merkins – This time 5 rows – up and back

We did a set of high knees & butt kickers to the cross walks of the parking lot

Another full Mosey around the Parking Lot

LET A BEAR BE A BEAR again –

• Bear Crawl Merkins AGAIN this time 10  rows up and back.

However, I did stop to explain a little bit about the lines.  Marcus Latrell the Navy SEAL and Lone Survivor how when he was under fire in the mountain side of Afghanistan – he took a rock and drew a line in the sand, and said he would drag himself until his feet crossed the line. When they did, he did it again.  All with his back broken and shot. for 8 to 12 hours.

So YHC told the PAX when they have that point in their day, especially after lunch on a Friday where they want to phone it in for the day, picture Latrell and draw your “line in the sand” and just get to that point and do it all over again.  — 60 count over —

After the Bear Crawls we became Zombies once more

• Zombie “Ran” for another round.

Mosey back to the front of the Bingo Hall to circle up for a round of

• 5 Captain Thors – (Jack Web for abs)
• Next Dealers choice for Ab lab to the end.

Thanks to the PAX for allowing me to lead them today even though I was not fully prepared. I hope I didn’t disappoint.

16 Pax met on this glorious spring morning to study Jude. Italian Job crossed the Catawba river to attend today’s session. God asked Stang to pray for Anchorman during our study for reasons that exceed our level of understanding. God called him to bless our brother. Stang’s response was an honorable demonstration of his obedience to our Father. #Goosebumps…

Here are takeaways from today’s discussion.

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Jude 3 ~ I had been eagerly planning to write to you about the salvation we all share. But now I find that I must write about something else, urging you to defend the faith that God has entrusted once for all time to his holy people.

Takeaways:

• Learn the bible so that you’re able to discern whether what others say is founded in truth.
• Establish a personal relationship with Christ through prayer and serving others.
• Do you defend the word of God when someone twists the gospel for their personal benefit?

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Jude 16 ~ These people are grumblers and complainers, living only to satisfy their desires. They brag loudly about themselves, and they flatter others to get what they want.

Takeaways

• The act of complaining shows that we don’t appreciate God’s plan for us.
• What would you do if a person always complained after you gave them something? You’d stop giving them things which is why we should not test God with complaints.
• If you complain, you remain.

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Jude 23 – Rescue others by snatching them from the flames of judgment. Show mercy to still others, but do so with great caution, hating the sins that contaminate their lives.

Takeaways:

• Sinners who are lost don’t know it so don’t judge them.
• Your Godly actions/reactions will be observed and hopefully adopted by lost sinners.
• Hate their sins but love the sinners.

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Moleskin:

The Gospel is ours to defend so be on guard. Replace complaints with thanksgiving. The best gift that you can give to a sinner is the presence of God’s love. We are blessed by God’s grace and mercy so pay it forward.