WARMUP: Lots of compliments about my Clemson hoodie especially from Assassin and Pusher. I think Backdraft wanted to punch me. JK. A little mosey after a few DIAs don’t ask. We did some dips, derkins, SSHs and various movements to get warmed up. All were warm with the hot air flying around from the mumble chatter.
THE THANG: pulled out the orange signs from the Yeti a while back. Lots of compliments on the visibility of them. NOT! 5 stations with 5 exercises at each stop. Stop 1. 25 reps – American hammers, mtn. Climbers, squats, SS hops, Rosalitas. Stop 2. 15 reps – merkins, big boy sit-ups, squats, LBCs, plank jacks. Stop 3 20 reps – monkey humpers, calf raises, sumo squats, seal jacks, weezy jeffersons. Stop 4. Reps 10 – flutters, SS hops, mtn. Climbers, American hammers, shoulder taps. Stop 5. Reps 30 – imperial walkers, Peter Parker’s, Parker peters, gas pumpers, hello dolly. Noted that @backdraft was concerned that the rep count didn’t increase as the stops progressed.
MARY: ran out of time
ANNOUNCEMENTS: D2D, newsletter.
COT: very open personal prayers shared. We will leave it at that. Good transparency. Love my F3 brothers
Tag: Backdraft
Last Site Q for Boehiem
- QIC: Boeheim
- When: 2023-01-02
- Pax: Anchorman, Assassin, Backdraft, Barry Manilow, Bass-o-matic, Boeheim, Cakeboss, Double D, Fire Marshall Bill, Funhouse, Pusher, White Lightning
- Posted In: Flight Plan
WARMUP: welcome the new year.
THE THANG: River District run
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Lots… Newsletter
COT: Boehiem has served the Pax well as site Q of Flight Plan for 6+ years. Thank you for your leadership!!!
URBAN GOLF
- QIC: Spider-Man
- When: 2022-12-20
- Pax: Backdraft, Band Camp, Barrel Aged, Battle Bot, Bobber, Bonsai, Cubbie, Cyclops, darkhelmet, Esso, Kermit, Maximus, Poppins, Shady, Spider-Man, Tesh
- Posted In: Block Party
WARMUP:
SSH x25
Peter Parker x10
Parker Peter x10
Downward Dog
Honeymooner
Imperial Walker x10
Mosey down Academy St, right on Withers St and to the top of hill where my truck was parked with the hell pavers.
THE THANG: 9 Holes of golf
Top of the Hill (Tee Box) Curl the block 18 times and OH press 18 times
Run down the hill and back up the next hill to the Island Green (shovel flag planted) in front of First Baptist Church.
9 Burpees
Run back to the Tee Box and complete the same exercises but in rep counts of 16
Back to the green for 8 burpees
Continue the series decreasing the counts at the tee box by 2 and the green counts by 1 until finished.
I don’t think anyone finished although a couple of guys were on their last round when time ran out. We logged a little of 3 miles moving up and down the hills.
Great work by all and thank you Kermit for the opportunity!!!
No Time for MARY
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Newsletter has it all
12 days of painmas
- QIC: Anchorman
- When: 2022-12-16
- Pax: Anchorman, Backdraft, Barry Manilow, Bass-o-matic, Boogie Down, Boss Hogg, Cakeboss, Cheddah, Cousin Eddie, Destiny, Dojo, Fogerty, JWOW, Mark Nestel, Nasa, oldbay, Pusher, Quack Attack, Rebel, Shady, Sprocket, Weezer
- Posted In: Slow Burn
WARMUP: mosey to parking lot across the street for a circle and warm up exercises.
THE THANG: mosey more over to medical building and get going on the 12 days.
Not moderate. Good work put in. Fellowship was pretty quiet by about day 5.
Do day one, run around building.
Plank for 6.
Do day two, day one then around the building, etc
1 Donkey Kick
2 WAM
3 Jumping Lunges
4 Merkins
5 Squats
6 Burpees
7 Bombjacks
8 Sumo Squats
9 CDD
10 Flutters IC
11 Monkey Humpers
12 Diamond Merkins
During Plank we got to hear about Pax fav Christmas gift memory as a kid. Sounded like a lot of our folks were hitting the Sears catalog or the local KB Toy in the mall for the best stuff.
Outside of Old Bay who got a dot matrix printer. Prob from Radio Shack. We are renaming him Tandy.
MARY: no time for her. It took all 45 to wrap the 12 days. Site q was nervous we’d be late during run back.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:
Hill Yeah!
- QIC: Everest
- When: 2022-12-14
- Pax: Backdraft, Barry Manilow, Boeheim, Boss Hogg, CableGuy, Cobra Kai, Corruption, Cyclops, Double D, Everest, Gekko, Mainframe, Mark Nestel, Nasa, Short Sale, Sugar Daddy, Tesla81, Twister, White Lightning
- Posted In: Clydesdales
WARMUP: the first 1/2 mile
THE THANG: 4+ miles with maybe a few hills to help prep for dam2dam
MARY: nah
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Christmas party coming up and be on the lookout for more d2d fundraisers
COT: prayers & praises
Surprise!!! CakeBoss likes Burpees too🎂
- QIC: CakeBoss
- When: 2022-12-13
- Pax: Anchorman, Backdraft, Band Camp, Barry Manilow, Bobber, Bonsai, Boss Hogg, Cakeboss, Cousin Eddie, Cyclops, Double D, Esso, Fire Marshall Bill, Funhouse, Hemingway, Jekyll, Kaiser, Kermit, oldbay, Pusher, Rebel, Stang, Tesh, Twister, White Lightning
- Posted In: Block Party
WARMUP:
Mosey to sidewalk by Little Caesars
11s: Burpees at bottom, Dips at top wall
THE THANG:
3 stations on .70 loop
At each station perform 3 exercises then move to next round
Round 1: x3
5 burpees
10 Merkins
15 squats
Round 2: x3
5 Bombjacks
10 wide Arm Merkins
15 monkey humpers
Round 3: x3
5 Flying Squirrels
10 Diamond Merkins
15 one Leg squat
MARY: backdraft led quick exercise
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Airborne Christmas Friday 12/16
Christmas Eve convergence
Read Newsletter
COT:
F3 and brotherhood is gift not to be take for granted
The busyness of Christmas we lose the reason of the season and that is that Sky Q sent Jesus on a rescue mission to save us from ourselves and own demise. Be grateful for his mission and love for us
Just a little spritz
- QIC: Mainframe
- When: 2022-12-06
- Pax: Backdraft, Cyclops, Joe Lyons (F3 Long Duck), JWOW, Mainframe, Mark Nestel, Rebound, Senator Tressel, Shady
- Posted In: colosseum
WARMUP: Short yog around the campus ending up under one of the overhangs. PAX seemed happy to be out of the ‘spritz’.
THE THANG: Partner up and start with Lazy Dora. 100 Merkins, 200 LBCs, 300 Squats.
>P1 does 10 Merkins while P2 holds plank then swap and continue swapping until 100 total.
>P1 does 20 LBCs while P2 holds 6″ leg hold then swap and continue swapping until 200 total.
>P1 does 25 squats while P2 holds Al Gore then swap and continue swapping until 300 total.
Light yog around bus loop to central overhang area.
Who’s the King? Every minute on the minute. Start with 1 burpee and 20 shoulder taps (L+R=1). Each minute add one burpee, same # of shoulder taps. Rest time is whatever time you have left in the 60 seconds. Keep going until you can’t get everything done in the 60 seconds. As Cyclops is fond of saying…this one escalated quickly. If you can’t complete the round then you’re out and you do 5 burpees and 20 SSHs. A few made it through round 8 but no one started 9.
Quick 10 count then move to back lot. 4 rounds of the following: 10 jump squats, 10 plank jacks, 10 bomb jacks, run a lap. Back to the overhang for some Mary: boxcutters, flutters, protractors, and LBCs. Recover, recover. Back to COT.
Great work by the PAX today. I appreciate everyone for coming out in the spritz.
Pole Work makes the Goal Work
- QIC: UHaul
- When: 2022-12-03
- Pax: Alamo, Backdraft, Bitcoin, Dojo, HarryCarry, Headspin, oldbay, Respawn, Ruby Slippers, Short Sale, Tap Out, Tater, training_wheels, Uhaul, Yo Yo Ma
- Posted In: the yard
WARMUP: Some normal stuff
THE THANG: Split into 4 groups of Pax to run the poles. Pole 0: 10 KB Swings while rest of group does Seal Jacks, Pole 1: 10 Merkins, Pole 2: 20 Squats, Pole 3: 30 Plank Jacks, Pole 4: 40 Flutters. At least 4 or 5 rounds were completed by all.
MARY: LBCs, Protractor, Hello Dolly and then the classic Hive finishing move: Airborne’s hip destroyer
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Coffeeteria at Panera during the winter, Shovel flag handoffs this week on Wednesday, Serving at the shelter this week, and final highway clean up next week
COT: Take time today to love those around you because you don’t know when is the last time
Merkin 200 at the Yard
- QIC: HarryCarry
- When: 2022-11-26
- Pax: 3D, Backdraft, Barry Manilow, Bitcoin, Boogie Down, Change Order, darkhelmet, Dojo, Esso, Fogerty, Grinder, Grout, HarryCarry, Headspin, JWOW, Kellogg; Alamo, oldbay, Pusher, Ruby Slippers, Senator Tressel, Short Sale, skipper, Slow Jams, Tap Out, Twister, Vuvuzela
- Posted In: the yard
Short mosey to start
Warm-up: SSH (I/C 20x), Windmills (I/C 8x), Imperial Walker (I/C 15x), Moroccan N/C (I/C 15x), Mountain climbers (I/C 15x)
Six count burpees (5x)
Short mosey run
Routine #1: Prison Yard Merkins: at a half basketball court do 10 merkins at one corner, bearcrawl to next corner and do nine merkins, keep going around until finish with one merkin (from 10, the total merkins here is 55).
Short mosey run
At the benches:
Step ups (10 each leg, OYO)
Derkins (15, single count)
Butt Touch Squats (15x)
Incline merkins (15, single count)
Calf raises (I/C 20x)
Dips (I/C 15x)
Short mosey run to fire access road
We ran a short bit and then stopped and did a push up exercise, rinse/repeat. Some ten counts in between. The push ups were:
HAND RELEASE (15 single count)
WIDE ARM (15)
DIAMOND (15)
CURB RIGHT (10)
CURB LEFT (10)
Short mosey again, stopped and did:
Toy soldiers, stopped and did monkey humpers
Lunge walk, stopped and did bobby hurleys
Short mosey run
Another push-up exercise bit:
HAND RELEASE (10 single count)
WIDE ARM (10)
DIAMOND (10)
REGULAR (10)
Short mosey to last push-up-related bit:
Six count burpees (5x)
Mary: Freddies, LBC
Fini, COT
Thanks to all for joining me on the day I hit 200 F3 posts in 2022.
Broga, Merkins, Pyramids, & More Merkins
WARMUP: plank, upward dog<>downward dog, variety of merkins, plank jacks, shoulder taps with variety of updog<>downdog mixed in; run to parking lot near WEP: dynamic warmup including buttkicks high knees to soldiers Carioca lunges- 10 merkins after each
THE THANG: pyramid at the playground 1 pull-up-2 merkins-3 big boys (up to multiple of 7 so finished with 7 pull-ups to 14 merkins to 21 big boys)… down the pyramid- 7 chin-ups:14wide arm merkins: 21 flutters down pyramid to 1:2:3 of those
On curb on playground area: 10 burpees, 9 situp-getups, 8 burpees, 7 sit-up-getups… down to one
MARY: mosey back to Veterans park, repeat the plank, merkin, updog<>downdog thing from warmup with a little extra stretching mixed in
ANNOUNCEMENTS: thanksgiving convergence at Ranch!
COT: overarching theme of thankfulness = family and health!
*also important to note- Block Party is located at Veterans Park, not WEP, like it was 2-3 years ago! Been awhile since I’ve posted at BP! Thanks for the opportunity Kermit!