Category: Varsity

Keep On, Keep On, Keep On

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We the NWO Shield Lock were fortunate enough to be asked to Q Varsity. Dirty Harry, World Wide Leader, Wegmans, and YHC have been together for 4 years now, in the ups and downs. Solid little thing we got going on

WARMUP:
SSH, Peter Parker’s, Windmills, Mosey around the parking lot

THE THANG:

WWL – parking lot suicides with 5 merkins at each turn around point and 10 squats at the base line. Mosey for one iteration, lunge walk/bear crawl for the second.

DH – transfer moving boxes from his 4Runner to PL’s truck. 5 burpees when you grab a box, 5 merkins when you drop it in the truck. Repeat until all boxes are moved.

PL – Pull up/Bobby Hurley 7’s + Active Recovery
Hold Al Gore for 1 minute, pulse 20 times.
Hold low lunge position for 1 minute, pulse 20 times. Flap Jack.

MARY:
Apparently there’s something called a Cobra and DH had us do it.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Vote for our D2D charity!

COT:
Lots of strong prayer requests this morning.

Thanks for the opportunity to lead, HC.

DH/PL/Wegs/WWL out.

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Shield Lock Circuits of Fun

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WARMUP: on the field w/Bonsai – SSH’s, Windmills (professional cadence) and a bit of broga….but just a bit.
THE THANG: bonsai – merkin mile – lap 1 – 8 merkins every 100 yards, lap 2 – 6 merkins every 100 yards, lap 3 – 4 merkins every 100 yards. Lap 4 – 2 merkins every 100 yards. Total of 1 mile and 80
Merkins. Flutters until the 6 arrives.

Bonsai Hands off to sir topham hat

Mosey to pull up bars: 10 pull ups 5 merkins, 8 pull ups 10 merkins, 6 pull ups 15 merkins, 4 pull ups 20 merkins, 2 pull ups 25 merkins

We’re now at too many pull ups and 155 merkins, for those keeping score at home.

LBC’s and Freddy’s in cadence until the 6 finishes and hand off to Weezer

Circled the islands of the parking lot around COT – pax could choose transport between bear crawls, crab walks and lunges. Once returned, 20 d/c gas pumpers I/C. Circle again with karaoke or side shuffle and do big boy sit-ups I/C. One more circle either jogging or nurring and upon returning a hand off to YHC

Mosey back toward pull up bars but passing them to the hill for 7’s – krakens at the bottom and squats at the top. PAX completed most of them before 0600 summoned us to COT

Total merkin count – all of them.

MARY: no time
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Yes
COT: 5th core principle

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Shieldlock Shakedown

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WARMUP:
3D started us off with a nice warm up for a cool day. YHC missed some of it, but there were windmills and Moroccan night clubs.

Harry Carey and Splinter were doing Iron Pax
THE THANG:
38 brought us down the hill behind the pull-up bars where we did the dragon walk (look it up). Starting at the bottom and stopping at each tree for 10 BBSU, then continue to the 4th tree (that’s 3 sets of big boys). Nur back down and one more day set.
Cubbie instructed us to grab a Cindy each and we lined up in the street facing the school. 15 reps of the following with a full karaoke up the road, and mosey back between sets
1. Arm curls
2. Tricep extensions
3. Chest press
4. Forearm curls
Then a quick relay with the Cindy to determine who would win the prize of not doing 10 kraken burpees while the winners put away everyone’s blocks

MARY:
3D taking the reins once again to lead us through hip flexor madness
ANNOUNCEMENTS: 9/11 Q tomorrow at the Fort with a shovel flag handoff
COT: Prayers and openness

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Varsity Locks up Shield

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WARMUP: Windmills SSH Nightclubs, Squats Merks Stretching, Mosey w buttkickers, toy soldiers.
THE THANG: Rebel :Partner up (3s) Merkin pumps with flutters – bottom of hill with Pull ups and Squats top of hill(next to JRROTC) 3rd partner is the timing of switching locations. Bass grabbed Q stick from Rebel and led the pax with rows of light poles (4) – w pain locations at each stop – increasing reps by 2 at each pole. 4 rounds completed w varying exercises for each round
Fogerty took back the Q stick for a quick round of JackWebbs ( squats/seal jax)
MARY: finishing with 3 mins of Mary led by NASA and capped off with Gemini closing out w a round of Russian Twists.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Bethel, Christmas Party, DamtoDam,
COT: prayers and praises added by all pax as we went around the circle for everyone to share something.
Bass closed is out in prayer.

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Green fruit with fuzz

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Esso:
Merkins
Dips
Overhead Claps
Derkins
Erkins
Multiple reps

Band Camp:
Pacer Test

Shady:
10 knee ups
20 flutters
30 American hammers
40 second plank

10 Peter Parker’s
10 Parker Peters
10 Side things now called the fire hydrant

– @Barry Manilow was not parterning with @Anchorman or @CakeBoss
– @Portal found an orange sky
– @HarryCarry and @Shady want another 20 meter shot
– @SkateOrDie managed to get to the closest AO to his house, and many mornings that is enough
– @Shield and @Ruby Slippers want permission to give me candid feedback. Granted.
– @Saw Dust charges hard
– @Splinter and @Esso had a competition to see who was a bigger Clemson fan. ( @Slash would have loved it )

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Shieldlock of PAIN

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WARMUP:
Imperial Walkers, Mosey, Low Slow Squats, mosey, Maracan Night Clubs, Shoulder Presses, Hillybilly Walkers

THE THANG:
Cake Bass lead: Partner Up
#1 doing big boy situps in endzone, while
#2 bear crawls to numbered yard markers and does that number merkins
When #2 gets worn out, go tag partner to complete the merkins all they way through 50 yardline. mode of transportation back is run, out is bear crawl
Second round was same except exercise was squats and mode of transportation was lungewalk

Hand off to Pusher:
Star course beatdown
Corner 1=Mountain climbers
Center=5 burpees
Corner 2=
Center = 4 burpees
Corner 3=
Center=3 burpees
Corner 4= Merkins
Mosey to bus drop off of campus for Mary
MARY:
Side straddle hops
LBCs
Side straddle hops
Freddy’s
Side straddle hops
Hello Dolly’s
Side straddle hops
Flutters

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Dixie has lost 20lbs since posting over 3 weeks
Next Friday 8/4 Convergence
Next Saturday 8/5 Stuff the Bus

COT:
ECC 4:12
By yourself you’re unprotected.
With a friend you can face the worst.
Can you round up a third?
A three-stranded rope isn’t easily snapped.

Luke 23:34
Jesus prayed, “Father, forgive them; they don’t know what they’re doing.”

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Mojo Rising

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Portal led the warm up. His first time counting in cadence. He crushed it

We moved around the campus today

Legs at the auditorium entrance:
20 step ups – mosey
20 box jumps – mosey
20 one leg box jumps- mosey

Mosey to the 4 year old parking area
Bear crawl

Mosey to the outdoor lunch area
People’s Chair with leg lifts
Tibialis raise

Mosey to auto shop
Burpees for the 6

Mosey to pull-up bars
1 pull-up
2 chin ups
3 merkins
5 sets
Harry Carey complimented this and I admired I stole it from Skate-or-Die: https://f3thefort.com/2022/07/01/hardest-24-minutes-in-all-of-the-fort/

Mosey to Sugar Creek for some hip mobility
Shin Box Switch
Sumo-Squat, knee tap
Cossack Squat, knee fold
(Crowd pleaser)

COT

Set an alarm to make things around you better today.

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Flexing

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We spent most of our time challenges that @Mainframe “could have accomplished 20 years ago.”
Notes: @Peta needs a side career doing voice overs
@Joe Lyons (F3 Long Duck) is actually from GA, which makes the bulldog thing understandable
@Slapshot and @fishstix stayed towards the 6 to make YHC feel like the workout was challenging
@SouptoNuts brought a co-worker (Joe Blow) along to commiserate. He name dropped @Royale_F3
@photobomb and @Badlands were psychic on the lack of running and got more in on their own. For an extra fee, they’ll do tarot card readings
@Sprocket is considering building a company based around puzzles of Mark Rothko paintings
@Shady & @Esso seemed enamored with how many picnic benches you can fit under an awning

Kept it light on running as recovering from giving blood apparently takes me a long while. Spent a lot of time on mobility and leg exercises. And hey, you can learn a lot on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuLyss7FkFc

The pistol squats after a ton of lunge walking pissed guys off. 🙂

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Hot Enough Yet?

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We have an FNG!! We went through the 5 core principles of F3, stated its mission, and did a full lengthy disclaimer so the FNG knew the full monty, money back guarantee.

8 bootcampers and 4 shield lockers doing their own thing (Olaf, Sasquatch, Beaker, and one other I could not see/hear).

WARMUP: Mosey around the parking lot for about a half mile or so, circle up near the school for 10-20 of the following:
* SSH
* Windmills
* Imperial walkers
* Moroccan night clubs
* Strawberry pickers
>> Then over to the road by the JROTC building for the main event.

THE THANG:
1. First up, 11s w hill repeats
Utilizing the mild grade hill alongside the JROTC building that leads down to the elementary school, we did some 11s. 10 Merkins at the top, 1 box cutter at the bottom, repeat accordingly until we finish with 1 merkin at the top, 10 box cutters at the bottom. Overall about a mile and a half of running and 55 reps of each exercise.

Then we discussed shield locks and how important they are. We men tend to internalize our struggles, keep them to ourselves. That only amplifies the pain. Find someone you can trust – the key word in making it work – and that you can be open and vulnerable with. Whether it is inside the F3 ranks our outside F3, just lock up with a someone. No OYO!!!
Next up…..
2. Cindy relays
Divide into 2 groups. Luckily we had an even number of 8. Using the new cinder blocks…..still with that new cinder block smell!…..blocks were placed about 20-30yds from the start. One person from each team runs to the blocks, does the exercise with the blocks, then runs back to the group. Group is exercising as well while they wait for their go. Next person up runs, and so forth, relay style. Constant movement, no rest.
Round 1: 15 cindy curls (1 block) while group does SSH
Round 2: 15 cindy overhead press (1 block) while group does flutters
Round 3: 15 cindy squats (2 blocks) while group does lunges
Round 4: 10 cindy manmakers (1 block) while group does IWs. >> We ran out of time and did not get round 4 in.
>> Back to COT

COT:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
* Read your newsletter and get involved!!
P&P:
* BE SURE TO DRINK ELECTROLYTES, NOT JUST WATER!!
* Marriages, being a father, and your relationship/responsibilities to both your M and 2.0s.
* Sorry if I missed anything else. Several things were lifted up.

Thanks for the opportunity to lead! SYITG and God Bless!
– NASA

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Pelican Brief Q

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WARMUP: Grassy Knoll led warm up
THE THANG:
Grassy Knoll – traffic circle bear crawls
Slapshot – burpees and LBCs
BW – modified murph
Kaiser – Block work
MARY: shield lock discussion – each Q shared testimony on what shieldlock has done for each man
ANNOUNCEMENTS: HIM Camp – sign up
COT: 🙏 all around

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