Where’s the Shower Curtain

Shower Curtain was on Q, but no showed. The PAX stepped up

WARMUP: band camp led

THE THANG: rebound had a cardboard workout in his car. It was very arm heavy. Bells at one end and partners. Cumulative 120 reps of things at the far end. The bell exercises were AMRAP (and very arm focused). The AO isn’t called the Legory.

Band Camp led then for movement between two parking spaces. 10 swings, bear crawl, 10 cleans, bear crawl. Eventually that shifted to 5 man makers, lunge walk with a pass through.

Backdraft led us to the wall.
Step ups
Dips with the bell in the lap
Hip thrusts or big boys

Return to COT via a modified over head carry and indigenous peoples run

ANNOUNCEMENTS: read your newsletter

COT: yep

Hope Shower Curtain is alright

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The Darkest of ALLL Convergences

80ish of the Fort’s, Lake Wylie’s, and Rock Hill’s finest converged this fine Monday to celebrate and show our support for the Darkest of All Helmet’s becoming the new Nantan of F3 Nation.

After my usual disclaimer and a giving of thanks for those who all showed , Dark Helmet led the warmup. As any true leader would do he quickly refreshed (and reinforced via burpees) the core mission of F3 and our core principles. After a rough start we did eventually nail it. After some side straddle hops and merkins the Pax were released into their own unique workout groups.

HERO WOD(Honey Badger)

This was my Q and I’m always humbled to lead Hero style workouts. They should be hard but also purposeful. For me I have created two unique workouts to honor different men of my family who have served. They would be the last people to ever consider themselves heroes. But that’s why I honor them. They sacrificed more than I ever could and I will always be inspired by them. I hope that in this very simple way their stories help inspire others.

For the purpose of today’s workout I truncated both them in the interest of time.

The “Uncle Paul”

I encourage anyone to Google the USS Pueblo Incident to get the full details but the long and short of it is that my wife’s Uncle Paul was a member of the USS Pueblo crew when it was captured by North Korea in 1968. For 11 months he was help captive as POW. Tortured, sleep deprived, and subject to all sorts of propaganda he along with 81 of his ship mates were eventually returned to the US. As a result of his PTSD he hasn’t been able to sleep for almost 50 years.

The Workout:

82 SSH (IC)

11 Burrpees OYO.

1 LAP around the Earth Fare Complex.

As we returned to our starting position I began the Second Hero Workout of the day. The “Sgt. Major”. This one is a WOD I’ve done before for the Honey Badger and is about my father who was a Command Sgt. Major in the 28th ID. Again for the sake of time I limited the usual 3 miles I try and incorporate into this workout for 3 laps instead. The exercises are as Follows.

28 Burpees

1 Lap

28 Burpees

56 Squats

1 Lap

28 Burpees

56 Squats

112 HR MErkins

1 LAP.

(Pick up the 6 if you can)

This pretty much took us up to the bell after a brief visit by the ruckers. Thanks to all who broke off to me to indulge me and these workouts. They are supposed to be hard and challenging and I hope we all got our money’s worth.

 

Running Boot camp: Sweep the Leg – FishTix

Group was split into teams of 4. Relay race around the parking lot two stops with exercises. Two runners traveled to stop 1 and stop 2 respectively while the other team members did the exercises at the stops. Once the runners arrived the running duties were handed off. Process was continued until the closing bell.

Stop 1 Exercises: HR Merkins, Dips, Burpees, CDD, Mike Tyson Merkins

Stop 2: Jump Squats, Flutters, Mnt Climbers, Lunges, Box Cutters

Rucking – VA – Olaf

4 corners with low slow squats, merkins, Lunges, and shoulder taps. After round 1 got a 40 and a 60 pound sand bag to spice it up. The bags were rotated around by the Pax.

Kettlebell – Armory – BandCamp

4 Rounds:

16 clusters (clean, squat, press

16 single arm swings (alternating)

16 lateral lunge with a row (8 a side)

Short Mosey

Some overhead lunges and suitcase deadlifts when the heart rates got too high.

Running – Flight Plan – Bass-O-Matic

Ran a bunch 🙂

At 6:00 I blew a whistle and we all reconvened for the longest Namearama I ever conducted a brief reminder of the Rooster, to read the newsletter and to have our Nantan of the Fort Esso lead us out.

Best of luck to Dark Helmet in his new role! Let’s all continue the mission!

AYE!

 

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It burns, burns, burns….

WARMUP

SSH x 15 (IC)
MNC’s x 15 (IC)
Downward Dog Calve stretch (In honor of the Clave Boss)

Mosey to Football Field

Cherry Pickers x 10 (IC)
IW x 10 (IC)
HW x 10 (IC)

THE THANG

Use football field for 100 yards, using 10 yards increments as markers.
10 Merkins, 1 Burpee (11’s) at the 10, sprint the remaining 90 yards
Recover jog to 20
Perform 9 merkins, 2 Burpees, sprint the remaining 80 yards
Recover jog to 30
Repeat until 11’s complete
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Lunge walk from goal line to 20
Duck walk from 20 to 40
Broad jump to 50
10 Good mornings at 50
Lunge walk from 50 to 30
Duck walk from 30 to 10
Broad jump from to 10 to goal line (changed to bear crawl

300 yds total

Mosey to Pullup Bars
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5 pull ups
10 overhead presses with cindy
15 squats with cindy
20 swings with cindy

4 rounds (dropped squats after 2 rounds)

Mosey back to COT
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Back to COT for a “Ring of Fire:”
PAX hold plank while the song Ring of Fire is playing.
Every time phrase “Ring of Fire” is uttered, drop for merkin.

Finished up last minute with LBC’s IC

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Q School, Print Shop on Saturday, Invergence on 3/9, need some help at Bethel on 3/7
COT: Yes

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Who needs drill bits?

WARMUP: pledge and run to WEP entrance…got in a few merkins and tree hugging while we waited for 6
THE THANG: we’re doing laps.

At the second swing bench you will stop for 10 merkins and 20 in cadence flutters. Run at a 1 mile pace to first swing bench and dial it back to 5k pace until you reach second bench…that’s pretty much about it.

What I noticed is I ran at the 1 mile faster pace most of the time so didn’t really follow instructions. Also ran low on 3 mile min so tried to have guys run at 3 swing benches but it was a little bit of a lost cause at the end. Headed back at 5:55.
MARY: old bay led some Mary at the end
ANNOUNCEMENTS: definitely
COT: for sho

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Who needs drill bits?

WARMUP: pledge and run to WEP entrance…got in a few merkins and tree hugging while we waited for 6
THE THANG: we’re doing laps.

At the second swing bench you will stop for 10 merkins and 20 in cadence flutters. Run at a 1 mile pace to first swing bench and dial it back to 5k pace until you reach second bench…that’s pretty much about it.

What I noticed is I ran at the 1 mile faster pace most of the time so didn’t really follow instructions. Also ran low on 3 mile min so tried to have guys run at 3 swing benches but it was a little bit of a lost cause at the end. Headed back at 5:55.
MARY: old bay led some Mary at the end
ANNOUNCEMENTS: definitely
COT: for sho

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Who needs drill bits?

WARMUP: pledge and run to WEP entrance…got in a few merkins and tree hugging while we waited for 6
THE THANG: we’re doing laps.

At the second swing bench you will stop for 10 merkins and 20 in cadence flutters. Run at a 1 mile pace to first swing bench and dial it back to 5k pace until you reach second bench…that’s pretty much about it.

What I noticed is I ran at the 1 mile faster pace most of the time so didn’t really follow instructions. Also ran low on 3 mile min so tried to have guys run at 3 swing benches but it was a little bit of a lost cause at the end. Headed back at 5:55.
MARY: old bay led some Mary at the end
ANNOUNCEMENTS: definitely
COT: for sho

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Gratitude Reminder

WARMUP: None. Only HIMs, none needed

THE THANG: 3 runners tackled 4-5 miles down Jackson, up Harris, back via spratt and misc trek through Whiteville Park.

5 ruckers tackled the Jackson/Harris/Massey loop plus some WEP time.

All left COT under the initial rays of Mr Sun up at least 1-0 on the day. Sprocket and Old Bay left up 2-0 after a double down.

COT: Blessed by the presence of Cornhole! he reminded all pax of the truly powerful source The Fort is to fuel each of us. he knows it well bc of the absence in his daily life since his move to Chester. may those of us who drink from this fountain truly appreciate what it offers!

Thanks to virgin Dawn Patrol pax (Quack and CK) for adding DP to their itinerary. we’re gaining traction — 8 pax is a new site record!

Thanks to Cake Boss for passing the baton to me in his absence. always an honor to lead.

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2024.07 Clydesdales

Up Massey hill
Loop back on Spratt
Up Massey hill
Loop back on McCammon
Up Massey hill
Loop back on Ardrey

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Coliseum

WARMUP: mosey with dynamic stretching. Variety of warmup exercises in 15 reps all in cadence. Pleaded of Allegiance
THE THANG: bear crawl while partner does merkins (standard, diamond, wide) mosey to wall- muscle ups 10/8/6/4/2
Light poles for variety of upper, lower, core exercises. With 15 burpees to finish it up. Indian run back to COT
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT: We all have things going on in our lives, we need to remember to put others first, focus on our changes, and remember to give others some grace.

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Preparedness at Dawn Patrol

Weather was 32 degrees and YHC had cold hands and feet coming off an earlier Q at the Coaches Box but pressed on.

YHC continued the discussion on Jester and Preparedness throughout the workout.

THE THANG:

Mosey to Lash parking lot

COP
Lots of exercises here

Mosey to far end of the lot

BLIMPS workout
Burpees x 5
Lunges x 10
IW x 15
Merkins x 20
Plank Jacks x 25
Squats x 30

Run to end of lot after completion of a round. Rinse and repeat 5 times

Mosey home with Mary along the way.

COT:

32 Year Anniversary for DD
Prayers for Old Bay M
Prayers for Sprockets upcoming grandchild

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