It was too long ago. I am a loser for not posting it sooner. I have no idea. I only take some amount of solace in the fact that the FNG went rucking so he won’t know what he missed…
WARMUP: Pledge if you pledge. Ruckers did their thing
THE THANG: Head to Hardees, which is fenced off, so we kept running to Elliot and up to the cemetery. Right on Unity to start our loop.
20 squats at the West entrance to Unity church
20 merkins at Steele St
20 LBCs on E Hill
20 Grave Diggers on Unity
Three laps were completed. Then 20 squats at Unity church. Then run up and down the steps at First Baptist for 20 merkins. Down to Academy and up to do LBCs at the Axe place. Then back to COT
Everyone got ~3.7miles
MARY: 90 seconds of Mary
COT: Circle of Trust initiated. What’s on men’s hearts? Get the internal external. F3 is for all men. ALL of them. Not just those of our preferred flavor of a religion. F3 helps everyone. If somehow it saves a soul from the perspective of any particular PAX, great. We’re here to make leaders of all men, let’s keep on keeping on.
16 at Minnow Pond for a test of speed and math skilz.
Simple loop around town, four stops
Stop 1 – COT – Merkins
Stop 2 – Pharmacy – LBCs
Stop 3 – Parking lot – SSHs
Stop 4 – Gazebo – Squats
Back to COT for lap 2
Rep count Lap 1 was 2 for everyone
Rep count Lap 2 was 4 for everyone
Rep count Lap 3 was 6 for everyone except the lead pax, 8 reps
additional laps: Lead Pax rep counts = 2 x prior lap reps
everyone else rep count = lap # x 2
Guys out front reach the 64 rep count based on the compounding.
Short lesson, compounding can be excellent when you are looking at saving money, over time it accumulates to a nice sum of money. On the other hand, when you have issues that go unchecked, they can result in a bigger problem down the road. Make sure you keep coming out, share what’s on your mind with your shield lock.
Partner Up, 1 partner carries (2) 2# weights, other doesn’t
Run to end of parking lot near Duck Donuts, 10 SSH in cadence, switch 2# weights with your partner.
Run to bottom of Brayden Pkwy, 10 SSH in cadence, switch 2# weights with your partner.
Run down Afton Way to the corner of Afton Way & Afton Way, 10 partner merkins in cadence, switch 2# weights with your partner.
Run to the ammenities building on Emory & Helton Ln, skip halfway around the parking lot with your partner, swithc 2# weights with your partner, skip the remaining half of the parking lot with your partner.
Run back to the lot behing Duck Donuts…
REPEAT
AND
REPEAT
MARY: 90″ led by The Pirate
COT: Prayers for mental health of the pax; Praise for promotions, Prayers for physical health of the pax
THE THANG:
1. Run 160, Stonecrest, Hubert Graham and back
2. 16 March Madness Merkins at every other light pole on Stonecrest and Hubert Graham
3. When there’s a guardrail, alternate between incline merkins and Derkins
we got in 3.4 miles.
MARY:
A few did abs, I made it for Hello Dollys at the end.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:
Heavy stuff today.
Live 3rd. It’s not about you, it about how to serve the ones in your life.
Smothered and Covered shared heavy news. Spectre led us out to give prayers to S&C.
It was a relatively warm morning at Minnow pond where 17 strong PAX met to get some miles..but only limited smiles.
Ran straight to WEP in front of the stage.
The workout:
Start with 10 Burpees
Run to the first swing along the paved path do 10 merkins and 10 lbcs
Run back to the stage do 9 burpees
Run to the 2nd swing on the path do 10 merkins and 10 Lbcs
Run back to the stage and do 8 burpees
Keep going along the path as far as you can until time.
It was here that YHC made the decision to split the pax up into 1’s and 2’s.
I was thinking I just wanted to create some space on the path….unfortunately…what happened was the 2’s were given the opportunity to run up the WEP hill pretty much the entire time.
Despite the complaints the PAX handled it extremely well.
At 5:55 we headed back to COT and got there just in time for 10 more merkins 10 more LBCs and 1 last burpee.
Thanks to Nasa for the opportunity. It was great getting out amongst the PAX this morning.
Until Next Time….
It PAYS TO BE A 1!
WARMUP: full crew in cadence
65ish SSH for the 65 dudes that were in the circle
Imperial Walkers
Hillbilly Walkers
Peter Parker
Split to boot camp and kettlebells
THE THANG:
Bootcamp:
– Buy-in: 20 bomb jacks, 20 donkey kicks.
– Bear crawl the length of parking lot / whistle = 10 merkins
– Lunge walk parking lot / whistle = 10 jump squats
Kettlebell
– 20 swings
– 5 merkins
– 5 goblet squats
– count down the merkins and squats keep the 20 swings
– Swing progression
– Squat Swings
– Swings
– American Swings
– Rack bell
– slow step back reverse lunge
– press when returning the back leg
– Clean Progression
– Row
– Clean
– Swing
– Snatch
Unbeknownst to the PAX we switched modalities about halfway through. This was to represent the foundation 1 from Q-Source: https://f3nation.com/disruption.
“Because it induces movement, leadership causes Disruption”
PAX were disrupted from their planned morning workout to make sure both Qs saw all the PAX and to push them outside the complacency zone of their established routines. With the leadership, we should expect disruption and embrace it.
Leaders influence movement towards advantage. Disruption is a solid technique to induce movement.
“If a man calls himself a leader but does not cause Disruption by initiating movement, then he is not practicing leadership. He might be doing something else, like managing or governing, but he is not leading.”
It is not the goal of the new SLT members is not to manage or govern. It should not be the goal of the Site Qs to manage or govern. Let’s lead!
F3 is not an organization with leaders, but an organization OF leaders. Each man is freed to lead. The particulars of Site Qs and the SLT structure is nice, but let us not be afraid to disrupt when we have a vision for advantage.
Kermit handed 2nd F Q off to Liberty Bibberty
Band Camp handed the Weasel Shaker off to Poppins
Esso handed the Nantan Flag off to Band Camp
It is an honor to be considered a leader in the Fort. But be mindful every member of the PAX is A LEADER. Let’s all be about the business of leading.
Mission – Know It…for the love.
WARMUP: Not Really
THE THANG:
Run around the building, 3 core exercises
Run to Front St, 3 upper body exercises
Cross 160 & run to Brayden, 3 lower body exercises
Run to the bottom of the hill and back up, 2 core
Run to Ivybrook, 2 upper
Run to the school basketball courts, 2 lower
Run 1/2 way up the back road, 1 core
Run to the top, 1 upper
Run back to the basketball courts, 1 lower
Run to Ivybrook, 2 core
Run back to COT…Plank series
For the one person that read this far, you’ll see the similarity to a recent Minnow Pond BB. Why reinvent the wheel? No need to introduce a game or anything creative, just get a minimum of 3mi and make the guys push a little harder. Or, pull a little more if you’re ‘squatch.
In other areas of my life, I try to make things harder. In some cases, I’ve even created the more difficult situation. If I can strip the emotion out of the situation, assess it then address it, I can tackle it.
That’s exactly what we did at Sweep The Leg. We assumed this post would be hard, showed up, got simple instructions and did the work. Nothing creative. Nothing complicated. Nothing emotional. Nothing easy.
Just.Do.The.Work.
For the love, stop settling for just showing up. Showing up is important, yes. You can’t lead without showing up. If this is about leadership, don’t measure yourself against a standard that says showing up (physically) is enough.
You’re here for more. Time to lead!
MARY: See above
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Convergence, Jaeger
COT: You should’ve been there.
Was I late? Yes. After all that hype, I freaking forgot I said to be there at 0445. So, what do you do in those situations? Well, you dial your ShieldLock and get him to warm everyone up for 5 minutes while you drive like a maniac.
WARMUP: I dunno, <@U19FA0Q8Z> did it. I caught some Dry Docks, but that was all I saw…
THE THANG:
Head to entrance hill
– 6 burpees at top – go to bottom
– 20 flutters, 10 big boys, 5 double leg lifts
– REPEATO
Back to Startex to pick up the 0500 crowd
– Head to pull up bars/cinderblocks – Grab a block
– 6 pullups
– 20 curls, 10 OH press, 5 triceps extensions
– Run a lap / 400m-ish
– REPEATO
MARY:
No chicks.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Read your newsletter.
COT:
The 5th Core Principle.
Run to the school back entrance but first male 2 stops for merkins.
The thang: 10 light poles. 1st light pole is for 5 burpees, run to second pole and do 27 squats and 27 merkins. Back to first pole and repeat 5 burpees. Run to second pole and do 24 squats and 24 merkins, back to first pole and repeat burpees. Keep going to the next paul and back to the first one reducing the number of squats and merkins by 3.
Run back to COT after finish all 10 poles for a total of 3.5 to 4 miles for everyone.