Ballermann Workout

WARMUP: 15 Wind mill
15 Hill Billy walkers
15 cherry pickers
20 sumo Squats
20 Merkins
THE THANG: Mosey to the fountain @arbors
Bear crawl around the spring
At each quarter stop to do 5 burpees

Mosey to church

Exercise at patio
Stacking exercises:
10 LBCs
20 step ups
30 Flutters
40 Squats
50 merkins

In between run a round
On the short sides lunge walk
Long sides mosey

Mosey back to COT

5 burpees as finisher

MARY: –
ANNOUNCEMENTS: –
COT: –

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Cards & Corners: The Golden Buffet

This morning we split into two teams and raced from opposite corners, meeting in the middle after each card to pass a stone down the line – a reminder that even in competition, we’re still connected. The stone didn’t care who was winning; it demanded we work together, person to person, before heading back to battle.
Then we switched it up. Each PAX got to choose their own combination – exercise and travel method – building their own personal challenge. Some chose wisely, some chose pain, but everyone chose to show up and push through it.
That’s the thing about F3. We compete, we choose our hard, we suffer together, and somehow we leave better than we came. The parking lot at Golden Corral isn’t special, the exercises aren’t revolutionary – but the men who post in the gloom? That’s what makes this different.
Iron sharpens iron. Well done today, men
WARMUP: Ran a lap
THE THANG:

PART 1: CARDS & CORNERS RACE
Setup:
• Split into 2 teams
• Each team to opposite corners of the lot
• 9 exercise cards face-down at each corner (identical sets)
• Stone pile waiting in the MIDDLE
The Race:
• Team draws a card and completes exercise together (reps divided among team)
• ALL team members run TOGETHER to the middle
• Stone pass down the line – each PAX does a squat with stone and passes to next PAX
• Stone goes down and back up the line
• Team runs back to their corner
• Draw next card, repeat
• First team through all 9 cards wins
Exercise Cards:
• Merkins (2 cards in prep for GWR)
• Squats
• Burpees
• LBCs
• Casbah #2s – nod to <@U01FDRQSQG3>
• Lunges
• American Hammers
• Wild Card – Dealers Choice

Winner: The other guys – Losing team paid with eternal shame

PART 2: DEALER’S CHOICE
Setup:
• 4 cards laid out
• 2 EXERCISE cards (each with options 1 & 2)
• 2 MOT cards (each with options 1 & 2)
How it worked:
• Each PAX picks one exercise card option + one MOT card option
• Performs their combo
• Went through all PAX twice-ish

The Cards:

EXERCISE CARD A:
1. Merkins
2. Burpees
EXERCISE CARD B:
1. Squats
2. LBCs
TRAVEL CARD A:
1. NUR
2. Bear crawl
TRAVEL CARD B:
1. Lunge walk
2. Run

MARY: Yup- I need to practice “Boat/Canoe”

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your newsletter. Prayers for injured PAX, marriage, family, this broken world
COT: Jesus in the house!

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Four sets of ten (minutes)

WARMUP: Skipped it. To much “thang” to do.
THE THANG: The plan was simple, complete four ten minute stations in different locations in 45 minutes. To stay on track, we did a 5:14am disclosure and skipped the obligatory warmup of SSH, windmills, etc.
Quick mozy to station one by the closed dental practice to pickup stones from the dry creek bed. For ten minutes we used the rocks for 20 reps each of flutters with press, triceps extensions, biceps curls, upright rows, halos, and presses. After ten minutes we returned the stones and ran to the church parking lot for station two.
Station two was simple; running for ten minutes. One long length of the parking lot was a run, at the end we walked to the next straightaway then sprinted back. At the end we walked until we got back to the start for the next run/walk/sprint/walk cycle. Rinse and repeat until the timer went off and we ran to the shelter for station three; body weight exercises.
At station three we did 20 reps each of calf raises, step ups, dips, merkins, Carolina dry docks, and bomb jacks. Rinse and repeat for ten minutes. When the ten minute timer went off we ran to COT for station four; Mary.
At station four we did 20 reps each of LBCs, box cuttahs, flutters, BBS, Freddy Mercurys, leg lifts to 45 degrees. Rinse and repeat for 10 minutes.
We were able to get almost all of it completed by 6:00.
MARY: Included in the thang
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Gold, HIM camp, newsletter
COT: Family, health, marriages

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Beat Dahn n’Nat

WARMUP: IW, HBW, WM, MERKINS, MOUNTAIN CLIMBERS
THE THANG:
WHEELBARROW CRAWL WITH PARTNER 75 YARDS EACH
PARTNER CARRY 75 YARDS EACH
PUSH RESISTANCE WITH PARTNER 75 YARDS EACH

SESSION 1 – PARTNER WORKOUT
50 Burpees
100 Merkins
150 Squats
150 LBCs
100 Mnt. Climbers
50 Burpees
TIMER: 300 YARD RUN WHILE PARTNER WORK THROUGH THE WORKOUT LIST.

SESSION 2
50 Merkins
10 Burpees
20 Gas Pumpers
20 Jump Squats
Run Lap

30 Merkins
10 Burpees
20 Gas Pumpers
15 Jump Squats
Run Lap

10 Merkins
10 Burpees
20 Gas Pumpers
10 Jump Squats
Run Lap
MARY: NO TIME
ANNOUNCEMENTS: NEWSLETTER
COT: CLOSED IN PRAYER

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Armless Endeavors

WARMUP: SSH, IW, HW, Cherry Pickers, Broga
THE THANG:
4 corners – 25 reps each – Mot: Mosey
Squats, LBC’s, Monkey Humpers, PYO – 3 Rnds
SSH, PlankJacks, BB – 3 Rnds
MARY: Yes – Each called out
ANNOUNCEMENTS: RYN
COT: Always

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Steel City— by the numbers

Steel City Beatdown – By the numbers

5 burpees OYO – 5 Pirates World Series Championships
13 SSH IC – 26 total reps for Steeler HOF Rod Woodson
5 burpees OYO – 5 Penguins Stanley Cups
6 Windmills – 6 Steelers Super Bowl Championships

1 Burpee OYO – 1 Olympic Gold Medal for Kurt Angle (he did it with a broken neck)

Mosey to the hill by the fire station

Inclined PAIN workout. You would do 3 burpees at the bottom of the hill and then do an exercise, go back to the bottom of the hill 3 more burpees, and then move up the ladder completing all exercises. Everyone loved this. All the reps represented the numbers of different Pittsburgh sports legends.

Steel City by the numbers Cont.

87 Mountain Climbers – Sidney Crosby
75 LBC’s – Mean Joe Greene
66 Flutters – Mario Lemieux
43 – Calf Raises – Troy Polamalu
32 – SSH – Franco Harris
24 – Freddy Mercury’s – Barry Bonds
21 Merkins – Roberto Clemente
10 Squats – Ron Francis
8 BBS – Willie Stargell
7 HR Merkins- Ben Roethlisberger

Mosey back to COT. If you got through it…446 reps…the exact number of Bridges within the Steel City.

Thanks to all who posted and embraced the legacy of PGH Sports.

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4 Corners

WARMUP: I felt that we need a little motivation so we did “The Motivator” then a few stretchy thing the moseyed to Harris Teeter lot.

THE THANG: we did a 4 corner work out. At each corner we performed the same exercise for the reps listed.

Round 1 – 7 Burpees
Round 2 – 14 Merkins
Round 3 – 21 LBCs
Round 4 – 28 Squats
Round 5 – 21 American Hammers
Round 6 – 14 CDDs
Round 7 – V-ups

We had a few minutes left to get back to COT where we ended with a little Broga.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Bethel Men’s Shelter 9/4
Intergence 9/13
HIM Camp
Read the Newsletter
COT: Prayers were made

Thanks again <@UQ50TPDLH> for the opportunity to lead!!!

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Golden Corral – 8/26/25

WARMUP:
SSH
Imperial Walkers
Hillbilly Walkers
Cherry Pickers
Windmills
Moroccan Night Clubs

THE THANG:
Tour de Stockbridge parking Lot
10 reps of each exercise
Follow the MOT for that section
section 1-7: Bear Crawl
1. Squats
2. Merkins
3. Big boy sit-ups
4. Calf raises
5. Hello dollys
6. Burpees
7. Flutters

Section 8-13: Crab Walk
8. Shoulder Taps
9. Am Hammers
10. CDD’s
11. V-UPS
12. Dips
13. Seal Jacks

Section 14-20: Lunge Walk
14. OH raises
15. Derkins
16. Low Slow squats
17. Plank Jacks
18. Bobby Hurley
19. LBCs
20. Box Cutters

MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:

COT: prayers for StandUps Uncle with cancer, USC students active shooter false alarm

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Stand Up’s VQ

WARMUP: side straddle hops, arm circles, windmills, imperial walkers, cherry pickers

THE THANG:

Station 1: 100m-ish partner run – 100 monkey humpers, 200 Carolina dry docks, 300 American Hammers

Mosey

Station 2: 10 Merkins, 15 air squats, 20 big boys, 10 burpees

Mosey to the wall

Station 3: PAX stayed in wall squat, while we snaked down the line bear crawling out 10 yards and performed 5 wide arm merkins, then crab walked back. Then walking lunges out to 5 squats and walking lunges back.

Mosey

MARY: 30 LBC, 15 Box cutters, 15 Freddie Mercuries, 15 Flutters, CELEBRITY @slapshot 30 hello dolly’s, and a much needed 15 second body destroyer

ANNOUNCEMENTS: 9/11 stair climb, HIM Camp, and the jam-packed newsletter

COT: praises for new family members for @grassy knoll and a healthy baby for @the pirates friend Netflix. Prayers for Pollo Hermano’s father, DD and family fighting the fight against cancer, college of mine in the throws of rock bottom, and a member of my personal network getting a heart stent in place today. Apologies for any prayers spoken that I’ve forgotten.

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Double Deuces at The Corral

NO RAIN!!! I used my super secret weather control satellite, that the conspiracy theorists say the government has, to turn it off just in time for 0515 start. All that did was ramp up humidity though. Back to the drawing board on that….
WARMUP: Quick jaunt to the roundabout median down Stockbridge Dr towards the apartment complex. In the circle median, circle up for the following (everything 4 count):
– 15 SSH
– 10 WM
– 15 IW
– 15 MNC
– 10 strawberry pickers
Then mosey through the apartment complex to the other roundabout, with the fountain, and to the corner of the apartment complex entrance at Grant Farm Dr for…..
THE THANG:
Pendulum 22s
The apartment complex entrance at Grant Farm Dr, near the water fountain, is ‘home base’. We will be doing 11s, but up both hills on Grant Farm Dr, the pendulum, so it is 11s x 2 = 22s. Do the exercise at home base, run up the hill towards 160 to the fire station, do the exercise at the fire station, then back down to home base, do the exercise again at home base, then run up the other hill to to exercises at the corner of Palmdale Walk Dr and Grant Farm Dr. Then run back down to home base. That is one round. In form of 11s, you start off at 1, 10, 1, 10, then round 2 is 2, 9, 2, 9, then round 3 is 3, 8, 3, 8. Continue all the way to 10, 1, 10, 1. Exercises are:
– Home base – 10 LSS hand touch to ground
– Fire station – 10 merkins
– Palmdale Walk corner – 10 CDDs

If you got all the way to the end, you end up doing 110 LSS, 55 merkins, and 55 CDDs, and about 3.2 miles with hills. That was a burner!

Senator Tressel and Autobahn finished it. Myself and Half Shell got to starting the last round. GREAT PUSH by all!!

MARY: No time
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read the newsletter, get involved.
COT: Alot lifted up.

Thanks for the opportunity to lead! SYITG
Blessings,
-NASA

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