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Last week Santini asked The Fort’s resident Rucktards (YHC and Package) to put on a SPEARHEAD type workout for the local Fort Mill Pax.

Despite multiple Twitter warnings to not show up due to the level of suck that would take place – 17 hardened men set out into the windy gloom for a workout that would make the leaders at SPEARHEAD proud.  (Note:  Red Banjo the only badass to grab the extra ruck!)

The Thang:

Ranger Run – 10 Spartan Burpees

Ranger Run – COP

Windmills x 10

Mountain Climbers x 10

IW x 10

Warmup Over

Exercise #1 –  80 yard Bear Crawls

Exercise #2 –  80 yard Bear Crawls (crowd pleaser – early!)

Exercise #3 –  40 yard Army Crawls (get your junk in the dirt)

Exercise #4 –  40 yard Crab Walks

Exercise #5 –  40 yard Inch Worm

Exercise #6 –  The Wiggler (you have no arms or legs now MOVE!) as far as you can go

Exercise #7 –  100 yard Sniper Drill (I’m down!)

Exercise #8 –  100 yard Sniper Drill (I’m up! – another crowd pleaser)

Exercise #9 –  80 yard Over/Under

Hand it over to Package – Rally point Crab Cakes Truck – pick out your favorite log.

LOG UP!  Find a partner.

Stairway to Heaven with increasing burpees and switching log with partner

Squats Rinse/Repeat switching log with partner x 20

Merkins x 15

Squats Rinse/Repeat switching log with partner x 20

Merkins x 15

LOG UP!  Ranger Run to bottom of the hill

Log Carries up and down hill while partner planks x 5 for each

LOG UP!  Ranger Run to playground

Partner runs around playground while parter max out on dips

LOG UP!  Ranger Run to lower park for 6MM

LBCs, FM, Dolly, Superman, LBCs, Rosalita, Merkins, Superman, Flutter Kicks.

COT

From the Mumble Chatter it sounded like the Pax got an adequate taste of some good livin’.  It was  great to be leading such a great group of men who powered through an intense SPEARHEAD level workout.  Goes to show you that anyone of you can do a GRC – the hardest part will be having the guts to sign up.  Challenge yourself and each other in 2014.  Let’s not forget that F3 Custom GORUCK Challenge is March 14th.  Read the back blasts of previous one’s – no one regrets doing one and most mark it as a crowning achievement in their life (except WWL and 10^2).

Leadership Meeting for 2014 F3 Activities in Fort Mill is Thursday Jan. 30th at Santini’s house – bring a chair.

Paintball has 20 HC’s and we’ll be picking a date soon.  More to come.

Bible Challenge is set to meet next Friday Feb. 7th. at Chick Fil A 0600 to discuss the first 4 assigned chapters.  Get reading!

Let’s learn to appreciate everything that we are capable of in our lives, gentlemen!

Crab Cakes

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“It’s a balmy 26 degrees.”

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19 men ventured out of their warm fartsacks for a chilly beat down by Cornhole on his inaugural Q. Unlike his name… this was no tailgate game.

The thang:

Warm up on the path

High knees to the post – SSH x 20

Butt kickers to the turn – SSH x 20

Lung walk to the playground – SSH x 20

Jog to the post – SSH x 20

COP

30 SSH

30 Imperial Walker

30 Slow Squats

10 Merkins

20 Mountain Climbers

20 Windmills

20 LBC

Mosey to Hill

Reverse Jacobs ladder

Burpees at top 7,6,5,4,3,2,1

Squats at bottom 1,2,3,4,5,6,7
Mosey to Playground

Line up facing path

PAX choice from left to right

Person calls exercise for pack while he runs to path and back.

(Trucker calling for Burpees was a crowd pleaser)
Mosey to Tree Line

Bear Crawl sideways, karaoke

Partner up P1-Suicides, P2-bomb jacks
Marys

20 LBC’s

20 Flutter Kicks

COT

– Praise for Decibel’s 2.0, Noah, with his feeding treatments.

– Reminder for Chicken & Wisdom tomorrow at 6am at Chick-Fil-A.

– Great to see the return of Cable Guy. Not so great to hear and smell the return of Cable Guy (although he claims, “Whoever smelt it… dealt it.”)

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I Hear Banjo’s, Paddle Faster

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Good turn out on what is expected to be the warmest day of the week. PAX’s were ready, Q was ready, Great workout – 28 strong

The Thang:

Warm up job around park, circle up in center

50 SSH
20 Imperial Walkers
20 Standing Lunges
20 Squats
20 Peter Parkers – elbow plank when finish
20 Parker Peters – elbow plank when finish
10 Spider Man Push-Ups

Mosey to Hill

2 sets of 10 decline Merkins
20 High Slow Flutters
20 LBC’s

Modified Jacob’s Ladder to 5
Run to top of hill, burpee’s, bear crawl down

Mosey to Playground – partner up en route

Partner 1 sprint 40 yards to path and back
Partner 2 10 pull-ups – switch, then 10 dips, switch

20 Mountain Climbers
20 Rosalita’s
20 Hello Dolly’s

COT

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I Hear Banjo’s, Paddle Faster

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Good turn out on what is expected to be the warmest day of the week. PAX’s were ready, Q was ready, Great workout – 28 strong

The Thang:

Warm up job around park, circle up in center

50 SSH
20 Imperial Walkers
20 Standing Lunges
20 Squats
20 Peter Parkers – elbow plank when finish
20 Parker Peters – elbow plank when finish
10 Spider Man Push-Ups

Mosey to Hill

2 sets of 10 decline Merkins
20 High Slow Flutters
20 LBC’s

Modified Jacob’s Ladder to 5
Run to top of hill, burpee’s, bear crawl down

Mosey to Playground – partner up en route

Partner 1 sprint 40 yards to path and back
Partner 2 10 pull-ups – switch, then 10 dips, switch

20 Mountain Climbers
20 Rosalita’s
20 Hello Dolly’s

COT

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Goodbye COMFORT Zone= Hello Filthy Fifty

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24 PAX posted at a cold and windy WEP Fort looking for a motivating start to their weekend, what they found was an Audit / CSPAN challenge to push beyond their normal comfort zone.

The Thang:

Audit welcomed the group to the “filthy fifty”, the first two were in cadence, and all others were OYO.

50= SSH

50= Slow and deep squats

50= Burpees

50= Bunny hops

50= Merkins

50= Walking lunges

50= Pull-ups

Lap around WEP

Seal Team sit-ups until everyone finished with a group set of 15 for fun.

Line up and sprint the long way across the park & sprint back.

Hand off to CSPAN:

Walking stretch of jog, walking imperial walker, butt kickers & high knees

Line up along tree line:

Series of bear crawl and walking lunches down and back = way too many times

Series of duck walk and bunny hops down and back = way too many times

Circle up

Dealers choice for 10 repetition around the group twice =exhausting and high level of chatter as each PAX selected the next and more painful exercise.

COT:
Audit reminded us that we are formed in God’s image, and our mind is the weakest part. Our bodies are always capable of more when our mind thinks we are finished. Today was a perfect example as many felt the “filthy fifty” was impossible but all the PAX finished strong.

Naked Man Moleskin = Check weekly email for updates and details

Doc Holliday is conducting free Oral Screenings at the Baxter Race, sounds like a great potential double down with a 0900 start time for a 5K = See Doc Holliday, Pusher or CSPAN

FNG = Welcome to Butterfly and Double Dribble

Crab Cakes & 10 Square F3 1 year anniversary

Blue Ridge Relay = See DD

Paint Ball =See Crab Cakes

2/10/14 first meeting for Bible Challenge group = See Pusher

Drink plenty of water and remember to be a better man today than you were yesterday.

CSPAN-over & out

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So that’s what sandbags could be used for

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26 pax entered the gloom to take advantage of some wet sandbags and a view of WWL’s squats (emphasis on the hip thrusters).

The Thang:

Warm up lap around WEP

COP- peter parker, parker peter, SSH, imperial walker, squat, squat-pushp-up,  

Mosey to hill

Reverse jacob’s ladder, burpees at the top, squats at the bottom, to 7

Mosey to parking lot

Side shuffle to mid court, jog second half, repeat

Karaoke to mid court, jog second half, repeat

Bearcrawl to mid court, lunge walk second half, repeat

Mosey to field (enter sandbags)

line up behind sandbags, first person does 10 squats with sandbag extended over head, then does a full suicide, next person steps up, etc.

Repeat with 10 pushups with sandbag on back

Form to line facing each other, sit on ground, pass the sandbags up and down the lines to the person to your left, add in a push press for extra workout. Reverse direction.

20 seal sit ups

1.5 MOM – mountain climbers, freddy mercury

COT

Moleskin

Strong showing by the pax, glad to see new faces coming back for more! QIC ending up taking requests from the pax (aka CSPAN)…. evidently his knees where hurting during the warm up. Although there was several comments and compliments to WWL’s squats and compliments were coming from those admiring the rear as well as the impressive hip thrusters….. just saying.

Reminder of The Fort leadership meeting Jan 30 0700 at casa de Santini to discuss 2014 planning, expansion and development.

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Game Plan – Proverbs 26 What not to do!

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8 PAX arrived in the cold rain at Chickfiet for some Chicken n Wizdim.

Studying Proverbs 26 and winding down the book with 5 chapters left, the wise authors are not holding back and telling it like it is. 26 breaks down into 4 sections for us that covers the following:

Fools, Sluggards (lazy), Those careless with words, and liars/deceitful people.

The Challenge is What not to do and don’t fall into these categories even in the slightest way in order to avoid obvious trouble.

Key verses:

4 Answer not a fool according to his folly,
lest you be like him yourself. Engaging with a foolish person makes you a fool
5 Answer a fool according to his folly,
lest he be wise in his own eyes. Warn or correct the fool so they know the right way, but then move on

8 Like one who binds the stone in the sling
is one who gives honor to a fool. Like getting hit was a misfire, Be careful of the crowd you run with and people you “honor” as it can bite you and hit you in the face one day.

13 The sluggard says, “There is a lion in the road!
There is a lion in the streets!” Any excuse not do to what we need to do…..How driven are you at work, but not in your marriage and with your kids….don’t be lazy where it matters!

22 The words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels;
they go down into the inner parts of the body. Gossip and words of destruction are like taking little poison pills….they go in deep and kill from within.

27 Whoever digs a pit will fall into it,
and a stone will come back on him who starts it rolling. Liars and deceitful people not only end up trapped, but can get killed by their own web of deceit

Proverbs 27 Next Friday. Come and join us!

God Bless!

 

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Fort Running Crew Preblast to Cola

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To All Fort Pax looking for another challenge.  Whether you ran the Kiawah Half/Full or have never ran one before, WE NEED YOU.    

Who is man enough to step up and join the crew to Columbia on March 8?  Let’s make a good showing in Cola.  It is a challenging, but good route.

Visit the F3 Columbia Preblast with all the information necessary.  F3 Columbia had secured a special $ 35 registration fee for their group and all previously interested runners.  All we need to do is provide Chaser with a ballpark number and he will help with requesting the same special rate. Please respond to me by COB 1/18/2014 and I will help coordinate with Chaser.

http://f3nation.com/2013/12/18/run-hard-preblast/

Here is a training schedule similar to the Columbia routine.  I am out each morning and some evenings for a run.  Sunday morning 6 am runs across Fort Mill.  All are welcome to tag along.  The more the merrier.  Saturday tweets will go out to find all takers.

 

Week Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Total
1/6 – 1/11 3 Miles F3 4 Miles 3 Miles Off F3 5 Miles 15
1/13 – 1/18 3 Miles F3 4 Miles 3 Miles Off F3 6 Miles 16
1/20 – 1/25 3 Miles F3 5 Miles 3 Miles Off F3 8 Miles 19
1/27 – 2/1 3 Miles F3 5 Miles 3 Miles Off F3 10 Miles 21
2/3 – 2/8 4 Miles F3 5 Miles 4 Miles Off F3 11 Miles 24
2/10 – 2/15 4 Miles F3 6 Miles 4 Miles Off F3 12 Miles 26
2/17 – 2/22 4 Miles F3 5 Miles 4 Miles Off F3 9 Miles 24
2/24 – 3/1 3 Miles F3 4 Miles 3 Miles Off F3 8 Miles 18
2/3 – 2/8 2 Miles F3 2 Miles 2 Miles Off Race / 13.1 Give Thanks 19
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No Cadence Makes Me Sad

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18 PAX posted at The Fort “Laces IN/ OUT” for a balmy 25 degree workout

In honor of the Fort Mill Police Department and our friends from the neighborhood we conducted a tribute to The Marine Corps Silent Drill Team, and please understand that no cadence makes me sad.

The Thang:

We conducted a long walking warm up around the path of the park with a high level of mumble chatter and no cadence calling to include: Lunge walk, butt kickers, high knee, and walking imperial walker with a few stops along the way to circle up for COP to get cold tired muscles ready for fun.

Run the drill bits of WEP = 5 exercises x 7 repetitions – Burpee, Merkin, SSH, Monkey Humper & Squat.

Partner up for partner push and partner pulls.

Arkloader series along tree line = bear crawls, lunge walk, duck walk and baby bunny hops.

Back to COP:

Dealer’s choice for AB-LAB, we made it through the group twice at each selection for 10 repetitions. It was fun to have the runners join us for some additionally painful suggestions.

Slow short mosey to COT:

Naked Man Moleskin

Consider Alcatraz on Saturday 1/11/14 because of the 7K running race immediately following our WEP workout, details of the race http://racesonline.com/events/7k-preservation-run

Stay in tune on the weekly email from THE FORT

Chicken & Wisdom Friday Morning with Cake Boss + 210  pounds (equal to my body weight) of food donated to the Food Bank from our group.

Friday movie night, props to Navy Seals, almost as tough as a Marine.

Drink plenty of water and remember to be a better man today than you were yesterday.

CSPAN-over & out

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Ice-Block Party @ WEP

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21 Pax posted on a 9 degrees morning to get thier Man Card punched twice for a frost bite beatdown.

FunHouse @ Q

COP
1/2 lap around WEP
SSH X 40
Imperial Walkers X 40
Mountain Climbers X 30
SSH X 30

get Moving to the Hill

Accumulator with a Hill
SSH X 40
Jump Lunges X 15, SSH X 40
Plank Punches X 40, Jump Lunges X 15, SSH X 40
Bomb Jacks X 15, Plank Punches X 40, Jump Lunges X 15, SSH X 40
Squat Kicks X 40, Bomb Jacks X 15, Plank Punches X 40, Jump Lunges X 15, SSH X 40
Merkins X 15, Squat Kicks X 40, Bomb Jacks X 15, Plank Punches X 40, Jump Lunges X 15, SSH X 40
Freddy Mercury X 40, Merkins X 15, Squat Kicks X 40, Bomb Jacks X 15, Plank Punches X 40, Jump Lunges X 15, SSH X 40
Burpees X 15, Freddy Mercury X 40, Merkins X 15, Squat Kicks X 40, Bomb Jacks X 15, Plank Punches X 40, Jump Lunges X 15, SSH X 40

2 minutes of Flutter kicks

COT

Naked (with at least 3 layers on) Moleskin:
The goal today was to stay warm, keep moving. Mission accomplished! ….Until the COT and 8 seconds later, frozen! Everyone showed up ready to work and get through the coldest post to date. Inspiring to see all of the Pax coming out ready and willing.

Reminder that Santini challenged the Pax to get a single word to give direction in your life for 2014. Keep that word close to your heart and head as we move into this new year with growing families and trying times.

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