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Pole Dancing at Colosseum

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WARMUP: Ran to the noisy lot out back by the football field and circled up for 15 reps each of the following:
* SSH
* Windmills
* Imperial walkers
* Moroccan night clubs
* Strawberry pickers
Now that the blood is flowing, muscle groups are warmed up, and heart rate is up, mosey to the back entrance road where the famed light poles are.

THE THANG:
The Colosseum Pole Dance!!
Starting at the bottom of the hill, the lowest point, near the playground. Partner up for a little ascending/descending DORA. One partner runs while the other exercises, swap upon runner return, then keep at it until everything is done. Runs are uphill to the light poles and back, but as each exercise changes you run to the next furthest light pole away increasing distance each round until midway point of exercises.
1. 50 burpees / run to pole 1 and back
2. 100 merkins / run to pole 2 and back
3. 200 mountain climbers (2ct) / run to pole 3 and back
4. 300 squats / run to pole 4 and back
5. 200 reverse LBC / run to pole 3 and back
6. 100 wide-arm merkins / run to pole 2 and back
7. 50 burpees / run to pole 1 and back
GREAT job by the PAX! Everyone completed everything except #7, which most at least started and got halfway through before we timed out.
Indian run back to COT for a little ab work of flutters, situps, and American hammers. Not much mumblechatter during the main event, but we sure made up for it during the Indian run and ab lab work! Great group of PAX!! Love it!!
Shower Curtain STILL beat us all back to COT!! The guy is a stud!

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
* A LOT going on! Read the newsletter and get involved or lead the PAX on something that has your passions.
* Thanksgiving Convergence at the Ranch!
COT:
* A lot to give thanks for
* A lot to lift up prayers for
* The holiday season is one of thanks, praise, happiness, and joy for many, but for some it is anything but. People are fighting their demons, struggling with burdens that we never see or know about because we tend to put up facades and outwardly project what we want others to see. The holiday season is, unfortunately, also a time for suicides. If you know someone who is struggling, be intentional and try to help however you can, even if it is just being there for them and listening. Sometimes all it takes to turn someone’s day around is a small gesture of kindness – a smile, a hello, your time, whatever. Be the light, the rock, the beacon of hope.

Thank you Shower Curtain for the opportunity to lead. It is great seeing you out there even if you cannot participate in the workouts.

Thankful, blessed, and encouraged
-NASA

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Keeping it together

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WARMUP: stretches, windmills, toy soldiers, side straddle hops, karaoke
THE THANG: most to the track area, series of partner repetition exercises with the bench and running. Merkins, derkins, irkins, step ups, dips. Moved over to front of school and inchworm bear crawls, Indian run to COT
MARY: flutters, straight up had this v up type exercise that consisted of one leg up at a time, LBCs, big boy sit ups, and other Misc stuff
ANNOUNCEMENTS: see newsletter
COT: praise for straight ups boys in their weekend competition, pray for shower curtains shoulder surgery, *** remember that when you are going through hard times to not stay isolated, reach out to your brothers for support – we are stubborn as me and try to carry the torch on our own and it takes us out. Ecclesiastes 4:9 – two are better than one

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Sharknado Again?

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WARMUP: We ran 1/4 mile and did the usual except for SSH’s they suck and Hill Billy Walkers are better.
THE THANG: Sharknado was called again because I’m not original and couldn’t think of anything else to do, so twice in a month seemed fine to me. Also I know how much Trucker loves it. The hand release Merkins where just for Cyclops. Here’s how it went.

10 Burpees / Run down Hill and back to top
20 Hand Release Merkins / Run down and back up
20 Big Boy Sit-ups/ Run down and back up
20 Monkey Humpers / Run down and back up
20 Scorpion Dry Docks / Run down and back up

Goal was to do entire cycle 5 times, most made it to three complete rounds. This shut up the mumble chatter very quickly as we got 3 miles in just three rounds.

MARY: Returned to COT for 5 minutes of stretching as I try to do at end of all my Q’s.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Dam To Dam Golf Tournament is Friday December 9th at 10:00AM Waterford Golf Club in Rock Hill. Contact Stang with any questions.
COT It was done.

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Gettin’ Cindy Wit It (nah nah nah nah nah nah)

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Disclaimed and started to mosey when more cars were pulling in so stayed close to CoT while everyone got parked…

WARMUP: Jog around CoT lot and circle up near stop sign near ROTC building

Goofballs, broga doggy stuff, merkins, mountain climbers, OH claps, windmills (IC)

THE THANG:
5 pullups, 10 merkins, 15 squats – SSH for the 6. Run down hill to lower stop sign and back to pullup bars

repeat x 5 rounds

Grab a block and circle up in street near ROTC building –
10 swings, 10 curls, 10 OH presses, 10 bent over rows (IC) then bear crawl to stop sign near CoT and jog back. high knees for the 6

repeat x 3 rounds

rifle carry block down hill to stop sign – murder bunny back to ROTC building

MARY: about 6 flutters

ANNOUNCEMENTS: lots of fundraisers. Time of giving – find something important to you and make an impact

COT: job searches and families

Thanks for opportunity Kaiser

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Scary DORA

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WARMUP: 40 SSH, SLOW Windmills, Imperial walkers, Hillbilly walkers
THE THANG: In a push to not only do something hard physically, but to fight through the mental pain as well. Life’s hard and that’s why you can’t do it OYO. Indian Run around the campus. It’s a big campus and lost a few along the way. Circled back and found a place for the main event in the elementary school bus loop.
Scary DORA: 100 Burpees, 200 Big Boys, low plank while your partner ran around the circle 3x. Run back the way we came to COT, which was a long way.
MARY: Freddies, Flutters, Dollys, Merkins
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Shieldlock Challenge, Bethal Men’s Shelter, Thanksgiving Convergence, Thanksgiving volunteer opportunites.
COT: Prays asked for. Lots of transition for people and praise for getting out of bed again.

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androgynous artichoke

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WARMUP: SSH, IW, HW
THE THANG: 10 min workout, 5 min yoga
Set 1:
5 burpees
10 merkins
15 plank jacks
20 jump squats
Run
We got in 3 sets

Set 2:
40 seconds mountain climbers
40 seconds squats
40 seconds shoulder taps
40 seconds lunge
40 seconds Freddie Mercury
We got in 3

Set 3:
Run
Group 1: Pull-ups & toe touches
Group 2: Merkins
Started in the down position or hanging called up and down slowly

MARY: we did yoga for 15 minutes total. Engage your core

ANNOUNCEMENTS: read your newsletter. Lots going on

COT:
Prayers of gratitude for the lives of our children
Prayers for the passing of our elders
Prayers that we may be like the burning bush, brightly on fire yet not consumed

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Ab Destruction

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WARMUP: SSH, Slow Windmills, Imperial Walkers, Morrocan Nightclubs
THE THANG: We toured the campus of Springfield Middle and Elementary schools stopping 5 times for Ab Destruction.

Big Boy w/Twist
Toe Taps
Reverse Crunch
Mountain Climbers
Plank Toe Taps
Each exercise was done 20× at each stop for a total of 500 reps.
MARY: Was alot of stretching/Broga

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Skeet shoot and Bourbon tasting was mentioed
COT: We had an FNG that we named RollOff. …we said our prayers and Praises and I took them out with a prayer.

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Tootsie Rolls in a Van Down by the River

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WARMUP:
SSH, burpee
IW, 2 burpees
HW, 3 burpees
Merkin
Mosey once Mark Twain arrived in a suspect working van. For the record it did not say “Free Candy” on the side…..but it could have

Mosey towards the auditorium entrance
Bulgarian Split Squats
Mosey to band practice field

Rehash of Iron Pax Care Bear Squared:
Starting at on corner and bearcrawl 25ish years and perform 25 air squats.
After the squats, bearcrawl to the left (Cubbie felt this was like the Tootsie Roll, which made me think he’s been doing the Tootsie Roll wrong for a number of years.) 25ish years and perform 25 merkins.
After the merkins, reverse bearcrawl 25ish yards and perform 25 flutters.
After the big boy situps, bearcrawl to the right to starting point and perform 25 burpees.

Only difference from Iron Pax is this time we did them ALL called.

Mosey towards the front of the school
Another round of Care Bear Squared in a new location

Mosey around back of the school
Bulgarian Split Squats

Mosey to pull up bars
19 pullups for the 19th of the month

Mosey back to COT
Flutters
And some more burpees in cadence (crowd pleaser) at the last minute

NMM:
The mission of F3 is the invigoration of Male Community Leadership. Throughout the workout we all listed the guy who EHed us. None of those guys happened to be at this workout. And that’s part of what invigorating leadership looks like.

It’s easy to be a consumer of F3, just to show up and workout, but that’s not the mission. Accelerating fitness is part of invigoration male community leadership, but if we aren’t developing new leaders and encouraging guys to take that VQ, plant a shovel flag, etc. then we’re missing the mission.

I’m going to tap into my Christian roots and my favorite hymn: God of Grace and God of Glory, third verse (deep cuts).
“Grant us wisdom, grant us courage
lest we miss your kingdom’s goal,
lest we miss your kingdom’s goal.”

Prayer: Let us not miss the goal.

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