Category: The Stockade

Wheel of Gloom!!!

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It was a little rainy but a lot windy for the Stockade debut of the Wheel of Gloom.

For those unfamiliar the wheel of gloom is each Pax taking turns spinning the Wheel. Each spot on the wheel denotes a workout with reps. Each rep is one point for the spinner… but all Pax do the exercises.

Exercises included burpees, Merkins, jump squats, LBCs, Freddy Mercury’s, Big Boys, among others.

The lighting round was a wheel of fortune type routine with correct letters earning points and wrong guesses resulting in LBCS.

Masterpiece solved the puzzle and racked up some big points.

Final round was a 1:00 minute Diamond Merkin Off between Masterpiece and Grassy Knoll.

Grassy won the final round and was given the chance to take a 4-pack of delicious White Claw OR choose what was in the box. Thankfully he chose the box and got a nice variety pack courtesy of Slapshots beer fridge. Masterpiece ended up with the Whiteclaw.

The point today was a decent workout with great fellowship. Thankful for those who showed. It was a fun time!

Until next time!

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Miles and Smiles at The Stockade

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Warm and wet at the Stockade this morning. Once Tsunami and Grinder showed I decided to call and audible and not do the EMOM madness I had planned.

Instead I indulged myself and the fellow PAX with “The Slapshot “ route. Running from the Stockade we went down 160, made the right on Stonecrest, down/up Hubert Graham and then right onto Gold Hill rd. We made a few detours that added some mileage.

As for the cadence we ran for 45 seconds then took a 25 second break for merkins/cool down. After hitting the century mark in merkins we switched to squats.

The chatter and encouragement during this workout was awesome! Grinder provided me a simple solution to a problem that has been bothering me and tsunami pushed himself hard!

It’s something I’ve learned in the almost 4 years in that Some of the best F3 workouts I’ve been a part of is when less than 5 ppl have posted. Extremely thankful for the men who ran with me today… and all the guys who post with me in the past and future!

Until next time!

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K.I.S.S. Ladder? Pyramid?

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WARMUP:
Moseyed behind Harris Teeter and stopped for warmup…

20 – Side Straddle Hops
10 – Windmill
10 – Moroccan Night Club
10 – Cherry Pickers
10 – 8 Count Burpees

Moseyed over to the church parking lot…

THE THANG:

Ladder/Pyramid Style Workout
Complete each exercise, run a lap, add and exercise run a lap through all exercises and back down

10 Diamond Merkins
15 BBS
20 Merkins
25 LBC
30 Squats
35 SSH

Total rep count:
110 Diamond Merkins
135 BBS
140 Merkins
125 LBC
90 Squat
35 SSH
If you competed the full pyramid.

Moseyed back to COT

MARY:
20 – 4-count Flutters
10 – Boat/Canoe
10 – Protractor

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Traveling Site Q starts next week
Name and location change of Snackpit
AKA
Check your newsletter

COT:

Show to know

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A gear WO broke out @ The Stockade

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WARMUP: Arrived early and set-up the Harris Teeter parking lot as a battleground to deliver pain. Gave the disclaimer and we moseyed from COT to the battleground where I had 5 stations set-up. We moseyed to 4of the stations and completed SSH/IC/x20 and then made sure the PAX understood each exercise to be performed at that station. Last mosey was to the 5th station, where exercises were explained, enough talk, time to get to work!
THE THANG: Broke the PAX into 4 groups. Groups were dispersed to each of the 4 perimeter stations. At each of the 4 perimeter stations there were 4 exercises. Each PAX had to complete the reps for all 4 exercises before their group could mosey to the 5th station located somewhat in the middle of the 4 perimeter stations. The 5th station was a list of ab exercises. Here’s the flow: Group 1 performs the workout at Station #1, once completed the group goes to the middle Ab Station and completes the reps for the 1st exercise listed. Once the group finishes the ab exercise they travel to Station #2. Once the exercises are completed by all PAX at Station #2 the group travels back to the middle Ab Station and completes the reps for the 2nd exercise listed. So forth and so on, you get the idea.
All perimeter stations were set-up utilizing the grocery cart storage areas in the parking lot.

Station #1
10 – Pullups ( use grocery cart storage equipment, there is a place to modify to inverted rows as well )
20 – Overhead Presses w/ Cindy
20 – KB swings with 45lb. KB
30 – Unilateral Waves w/ Heavy Rope ( just count how many times you throw an arm up for reps )

Station #2
10 – Chin-ups
20 – 10ea arm – bent over rows with 45lb DB
20 – Lat Pulls w/Cindy
20 – Curls w/ Cindy

Station #3
10 – Switch Grip Pull-ups
10 – Overhead Sandbag Toss w/ 45lb sandbag
20 – CDDs with feet on the rail of the grocery cart storage equipment
20 – Tricep Extensions w/Cindy

Station #4
10 – Switch Grip Pull-ups
20 – Bent over rows w/Cindy
10 – Slam Ball throws w/ 30lb slam ball
10 – Man Makers w/Cindy

Station #5 ( Abs )
100 – LBCs
90 – Flutters ( single count )
80 – Freddy Mercury’s ( single count )
70 – American Hammers ( single count )
60 – Mountain Climbers ( single count )
50 – Reverse Crunches
40 – Big Boys
30 – Straight Lower Leg Lifts
20 – V-Sits
1 minute Plank
The group who tolerated my presence almost made 2 complete trips around the battleground, so it’s safe to say PAX completed 6-8 perimeter stations and made 5-7 trips to the Ab station. Great work fellas!!!

MARY: No time left for Mary
ANNOUNCEMENTS: D2DB10K, D2D, Rooster, upcoming CSAUPs, Bethel Men’s shelter
COT: Prayers were lifted up! God bless!

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Lack of Oxygen Edition

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WARMUP: The morning started out rough as my cadence count was a bit off for around the 15th SSH. Then again with Windmills and Imperial Walkers. Made it through the Hillbilly Walkers okay though. I must be really out of practice.
THE THANG: We did a modified Dora where one partner started did squats while the other partner ran the parking lot triangle and at the 2nd corner did 20 merkins. We did that x 4 rounds. The next round was calf raises and the running partner did 20 Bobby Hurleys for 2 rounds. Then we went to do 4 corners with 25 burpees (a requirement b/c @slaptshot is the Site Q, then bear crawl the to next corner and did 25 squats, then at the 3rd corner did 25 merkins and ended at the 4th corner with 25 big boys. We did LBC’s until the 6 finished.
MARY: We got into plank and did 20 shoulder taps, held low plank for about 1 minute, rotated to high plank and did left and right arm high for about another minute and then time was called just before we went back down for low plank again.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Packet pickup is tomorrow at the Print Shop for D2D Bar 10k.
COT: Prayers for mental and physical healing of those all around us. Happy 10th Birthday to Eggo tomorrow.

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Long Drive

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WARMUP: The warmup was a slow mousey around the parking area….we did Windmills, Hillbilly Walkers, Imperial Walkers and Morrocan Nighclubs.
THE THANG: We did 8 exercises 5 SQUATS,10 LUNGES,15 MERKIN W/PLANKJACKS,20 BIG BOYS, 25. SHOULDER TAPS, 30 AMERICAN HAMMERS, 35 MTN CLIMBERS AND 40 SSH
We did the first exercise the count was 5 then ran a lap around the parking lot, then repeat the exercise before and continue down the list in increments of 5 until you completed the list and rinse and repeat. Thank you to Slapshot for giving me the opportunity to lead and for giving great directions to the AO in the best hype video out there.
MARY: no Mary
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Dam to Dam Bar 10k
COT: We prayed for safe travels and family

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Four Freedoms

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Stockade Four Freedoms January 6th 2023 (1941)

Started with a run behind Harris Teeter and up to Grace Presb Church.
Warmup:
SSH (20x I/C)
Windmills (8x I/C)
Imperial Walkers (10x I/C)
Moroccan Nightclubs (10x I/C)
Low slow squats (10x I/C)
Big Arm Circles (6 forward, 6 backwards)
Peter Parkers (10x I/C)
Plank Stretches (Downward dog, upward dog)

Short mosey run

Fish tracks routine:
Pax do the transportation and stop when instructed and do the exercise called.
Toy soldiers…stop and do Bobby Hurleys,
Lunge walk…stop and do squats,
Bear crawl…stop and do merkins,

Short mosey run back over to the shopping plaza.
Bench work: Incline Merkins, step ups, dips, squats, derkins, calf raises

Short run over to the wall nearby Dollar Tree:
Wall sits, BTW, and wall-tar-jai’s
Four Freedoms background/info delivered during wall sits. See summary at end of BB.

Short run to adjacent parking lot: found the cinder block and did:
Pass the ammunition: Pax do a curb plank, drag/pass the cinder block to the guy next to you, and so until the last guy then sends the block back to starting guy. Then all pax do curb merkins (3 I/C). repeat.

Run back to Grace church: Find the four cones in the parking lot.
Cone 1 “Freedom of Speech”: did 4 burpees,
run to Cone 2 “Freedom of Worship”: did 4 burpees,
run to Cone 3 “Freedom from Want”: did 4 burpees,
run to cone 4 “Freedom from Fear”: did 4 burpees.

Run back to shopping plaza.
Global running routine: Pax circle up, wrestling stance, side shuffle, stop and do: Smurf jacks, squats, monkey humpers.

Run to COT.
BURPEE-QUIZ time: Pax were asked, and correctly answered, what the Four Freedoms were, which President delivered the speech, and when was it delivered. Therefore, pax had to do only 8 burpees.
Mary: Freddies, flutters, box cutters.

Fini
COT

Four Freedoms:
Context/background: by December 1940, Nazi Germany had taken over most of Europe and Britain/London was getting pummeled with the nightly blitz bombings. Japan was also making conquests in China and Korea. The US was separated from all of this, and many folks thought the isolationist stance should continue (people were still remembering the pain of WW One).
But FDR (newly elected to his third term as President) knew the US was basically the only nation capable of saving the democracies of the world.
In his State of the Union address on January 6th 1941, FDR laid out why the US should get more involved…the four basic freedoms of democracy was under attack:
Freedom of Speech
Freedom to Worship God in the manner that a man wants to.
Freedom from Want…economic security
Freedom from Fear…aggression of one nation to another

Eighty-two years later, we have Ukraine being attacked and their basic Freedoms under attack. Prayers for ClickBait, MarkTwian, and their crews in the work they are doing over there in Ukraine.

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Crossing State lines… running up hills.

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3 pax joined YHC on what is a balmy (relatively) morning for the last Friday in 2022.

The workout was simple but effective.

Run for 2 minutes “rest” for 1 minute. The rest part is where YHC led the pax in 10 Merkins or 10 low slow squats in cadence.

The route we ran was a very long loop. Starting at the Stockade we ran back through the forest grove development to Zoar rd. Ran .2 miles on Zoar to the state sign and then went into Hawks Creek.

We ran through my neighborhood and I pointed out homes of Pax past and present.

Back to Gold hill rd we ran all the way to the 7-11 and then headed back towards the Stockade. Before hitting COT we made a brief detour to “the hill” by the Fire station.

After running the hill we wrapped back around to Gold Hill rd entered the HT parking lot and ended at COT with 35 seconds left.

5 burpees later we hit 6:00 on the button.

The one message I left for the pax today was that no matter what your “hill” is this coming year go get after it. The hill won’t shrink the more you stare at it. You need to run it to get over it…. even if you can only go 2 minutes at a time.

Great group of men this morning. Thank you and Happy New Year!

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Gusts 💨 of wind and pain at The Stockade

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WARMUP: mosey around Harris Teeter with stops for some exercise moves
5burpees – mosey
4 burpees- bear crawl
3 burpees- lunge walk
2 burpees- run backwards
1 burpee- mosey

THE THANG:
CakeBoss version of 12 days of Christmas was 12 exercises 12 reps each

4 corners has 3 exercises each
Do one exercise at each corner run to each pain station for 3 rounds which ended about 2mi
Exercises included the following
1. Apollo Onos
2. American Hammer
3. Dry docks
4. Peter Parkers
5. Freddy Mercury’s
6. Merkins
7. Jump squats
8. Sumo Squats
9. Lunges
10. Merkins
11. Diamond Merkins
12. Burpees

MARY:
Mosey to drive thru at drug store
10 LBCs
10 Merkins
10 dying cockroaches
10 Merkins
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
See newsletter
COT:
Do good and influence those around you

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Poles in the Rain

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QIC: OTG
When: 2022-12-09
Pax: Grassy Knoll, Slapshot, Sasquatch, Grinder, Flounder, Spectre,
Posted In: Stockade
Warmup: windmills, Cherry pickers, merkins, Moroccan night club
The Thang: run light poles and aisles until COT. At every light pole do the following:
5 merkins
5 LCBs
5 squats
5 SSHs
5 Monkey humpers
5 plank jacks

2 minute stretches

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