Sweet home AL

2022-09-22Leave a comment

QIC: Bass-o-Matic
When: 2022-09-22
Pax: Badlands, Band Camp, Bass-o-matic, Bojangles, Cohiba, Fogerty, Gekko, Kermit, Mark Nestel, Maximus, McGyver, Pusher, Rebel, Shady
Posted In: Minnow Pond

WARMUP: pledge
THE THANG: Alabama route 2mi. BASS exercises Bombjacks, American hammers, Squats, SSHs. 10 ea. 2 stops. 2 laps or 2nd lap circle up main and back to COT x2 for 3mi total.
MARY: PAX choice
ANNOUNCEMENTS: trash pickup this Sat. Shooting in Nov.
COT: praises prayers.

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10 Year Convergence

2022-09-17Leave a comment

QIC: Maximus, wwl, CSPAN (Fort/Philly/Metro/Dallas)
When: 2022-09-17
Pax: 98 degrees, Anchorman, Barry Manilow, Beaker, Bitcoin, Bobber, Bojangles, Bonsai, Boogie Down, Catfish, Cohiba, Console, Cousin Eddie, Crawdaddy, CSPAN (Fort/Philly/Metro/Dallas), cuomo, Cyclops, darkhelmet, decibelf3, Dojo, Double D, Drop Thrill, Eggo, Esso, fishstix, Flat Tire, Fogerty, FreeBird, Funhouse, Gekko, Grassy Knoll, Grinder, Ham Hock, HarryCarry, Headspin, Italian Job, Jekyll, JWOW, lil-e, Lutefisk, Mainframe, Masterpiece, Maximus, Mile High, Mile High2, Minuteman, Mr Clean, Nasa, Ölaf, oldbay, Pumpkin Spice, Pusher, Rebel, Reborn, Repeat, River Rat, Royale_F3, Santini, Senator Tressel, Shady, Shield, Short Sale, skipper, slapshot, Splinter, Spud, Stang, Swanson, Tater, Tinsel, training_wheels, Twister, Voltron, Vuvuzela, Wegmans, WWL, Youts, Zima
Posted In: The Fort

Ten year celebration came to a close this morning with a convergence at WEP. 12 men came earlier for a run to support Operation Sweet Tooth. 84 men attended the main event with three great HIM leading the workout: CSPAN, Maximum, and WWL. No warm-ups this morning. CSPAN took his group around the block with various stops along the way. Seven reps of Flying Squirrels, Merkins, and Sit-ups. WWL had playtime at the playground. Burpees and Pull-ups along with running fast around the playground. Did I mention Power Skips? Maximum had a simple plan. Run backwards up the hill many times and destroy your abs with American Hammers.
We closed the chapter on the first 10 years.
Monday begin the next.
The future is bright.
How will you contribute to the next 10 years?
Make an impact.

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Convergence For Our Brother Shower Curtain

2022-08-23Leave a comment

QIC: Shady, Punch List, Slapshot, Badlands
When: 2022-08-23
Pax: Airwolf, Anchorman, Backdraft, Badlands, Band Camp, Barkey, Barry Manilow, Bass-o-matic, Battle Bot, Beacon, Bitcoin, Bobber, Bodywash, Boeheim, Bojangles, Bonsai, Boogie Down, Boss Hogg, Cakeboss, Cheddah, Cohiba, Conundrum, Cornerstone, Cousin Eddie, Cubbie, Cyclops, Destiny, Double D, Esso, fishstix, Floppy Disk, Gears, Geyser, Glass Joe, Grassy Knoll, Grinder, Hardwood, HarryCarry, Heisenberg, Incoming, Italian Job, Jekyll, Joe Lyons (F3 Long Duck), Juliet, Jump Shot, JWOW, Kaiser, Kermit, Mainframe, Mark Nestel, Maximus, NakedAndAfraid, Nikkei, Ölaf, oldbay, Poppins, Pothole, Punch List, Pusher, Reaper, Rebel, Rebound, Sasquatch, Shady, Shake and Bake, Short Sale, SkateOrDie, slapshot, Slow Jams, Spider-Man, Sprocket, Tesh, Tootie, Triple Lindy, Walker, White Hot, White Lightning, yard sale
Posted In: colosseum

WARMUP:
Four Lines: Toy Soldiers, Butt Kickers, High Knees, mosey with Q to first of four rotations
THE THANG:

Slapshot’s Pain Station:

Each Pax performs

50 Merkins
100 LBCS
50 HR Merkins
100 4-CT Flutters

Every minute a timer would go off and we’d run from one side of the “track” to the other. We would then do two burpees and resume the exercises.
Group 4 only had 3-4 minutes left so we did 10 Burpees OYO then Captain Thor until 5:55.

Badland’s Pain Station:

10 rounds Tabata – 45sec work 15sec rest –
SSHs, Freddy Mercuries, high knees taps, American Hammers, mtn climbers, laying Leg Raises, In and Out Plank Jacks, J-Los, star crunches, high knee goofballs

Punchlist’s Pain Station:

Light Pole Speed Drills –

5/10/15 Merkins
5/10/15 CDD’s
5/10/15 Bonnie Blairs

Bear-pees to finish

Shady’s Pain Station:

Sheet 1: 10 diamond Merkins, 20 Merkins, 30 Mountain Climbers, 40 Seal Jacks, 50 American Hammers, 50 Shoulder Presses, 40 Crab Cakes, 30 Flutters, 20 Big Boy Situps, 10 Flying Squirrels

Sheet 2: 10 Burpees, 20 Knee to Chest jumps, 30 Carolina Dry Docks, 40 Plank Jacks, 50 LBCs, 50 Squats, 40 Dips, 30 Calf Raises, 20 Wide Arm Merkins, 10 Dive Bombers

Each sheet ~50 yards apart. Do the top exercise on sheet 1, run to sheet 2 for first exercise, then run back to sheet 1 and do 2nd exercise…and so on. Furthest we got was 50 shoulder presses and 50 squats. And we had awesome music courtesy of Detroit.

Great job Qs

COT:

Today we came to support our brother, Shower Curtain. He is recovering from his injuries and will need our help and support for several months to come. More than a workout!

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Smell that BBQ!

2022-08-20Leave a comment

QIC: Grout
When: 2022-08-18
Pax: Bojangles, Bones, Esso, fishstix, Grout, Jekyll, macgyver, Maximus, Repeat, Slash, Stang, Tesla81, Trucker, Walker
Posted In: Minnow Pond

WARMUP: NONE
THE THANG: Mosey to intersection of Academy St. & Monroe White St.
10 – Jump Squats then run up the hill to Watson St. / Parking Lot then back down.
Ran Academy St. left on Forrest St. left on Confederate St. left on Main St. and left back on Academy St. to make a (.91 Mile) loop.
10 Merkins, 10 Mountain Climbers, & 10 LBC’s every corner and intersection. (6 per lap)
MARY: American Hammer and Flutters
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Prayers for health & back to school
COT:

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A little mist in the gloom

2022-08-16Leave a comment

QIC: backdraft
When: 2022-08-16
Pax: Backdraft, Band Camp, Bobber, Bojangles, Bonsai, Cohiba, Fire Marshall Bill, Funhouse, Kermit, Kielbasa, Quack Attack, Rebel, Slash, Tesh
Posted In: 1st f

WARMUP: various warmups done
THE THANG: partner up-100 merkins, 200 Bobby hurleys, 300 single count mtn climbers.
Mosey to wall- wall sits while pax broad jump length of group x 2, 10 step ups, 10 derkins, 10dips at courtyard x 3 sets, mosey to playground 5,4,3,2,1 pull-ups and burpees. Indian run back to COT for 1 to 2 min of Mary.
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: final countdown, dam 2 dam, trash pickup
COT: prayers for metro brothers family, prayer for marriages, pray for bobbers friend who was at incident where one of his friends was tragically killed.

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Citadel Cendoff

2022-08-11Leave a comment

QIC: Jekyll
When: 2022-08-11
Pax: Backdraft, Barry Manilow, Beacon, Bojangles, Bonsai, Cyclops, f3anchorman, Funhouse, Gekko, Grout, Happy Hour, Jackalope, Jekyll, Maximus, Repeat, Shady, sirtophamhat, slapshot, Spider-Man, State Farm, ThunderRoad( WL brother from South Charlotte, Trucker, White Lightning
Posted In: Minnow Pond

WARMUP: Jackalope soon to be off to Citadel got good practice leading the PAX in COP. Chip off of Bojangles block.

THE THANG:
Mostly Merkins squats and LBCs today. Got in 2.5 with some Dora and hill work.

COT: Prayers for our kids and teachers going back to school. And for 2.0 mental health. We also prayed for and blessed StateFarm and Jackalope as well their fathers (and mothers) for strong leadership and embarking not only college but at Citadel. Aye!

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The Seesaw

2022-08-09Leave a comment

QIC: Pusher
When: 2022-08-09
Pax: Barry Manilow, Beacon, Beaker, Bobber, Bojangles, Bonsai, Clickbait, Cyclops, F3_Tesla81, f3anchorman, FreeBird, Jackalope, Kermit, Pusher, Repeat, Shady, State Farm, Trucker, Twister, White Lightning
Posted In: Block Party

WARMUP:

YHC took the pax to the top of Massey where State Farm delivered the COP. YHC finished a few exercises including mandatory SSHs the moseyed to stops along the way to WEP with burpees at every stop.

THE THANG:

The Seesaw is the hills between the new improved parking lot at WEP. Partnered up for bombjacks and lunges to 8.

Hit the stage for partner ab work.

Nur back and forth up the hill.

Finished with wall sits and burpees.

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Takin’ it back old school because I’m an old fool

2022-08-03Leave a comment

QIC: Shady
When: 2022-08-02
Pax: Band Camp, Bobber, Bojangles, Bonsai, Cakeboss, Cohiba, Esso, Fire Marshall Bill, Funhouse, jackelope, Kermit, Kielbasa, Maximus, Shady, State Farm, Stiletto, Uncle Sam, Wegmans, White Lightning
Posted In: Block Party

WARMUP: we ran up the hill on Massey into the big parking lot to circle up. Started with some SSH and stopped pretty quick to get in cadence. 5 burpee penalty. Started over with SSH in cadence…stopped again to get in cadence. 3 burpee penalty. Started again and stayed in cadence for the most part. Moved on to sumo squats, merkins, shoulder taps, up and down dog, and finished with some back stretching.
THE THANG: From the parking lot, we ran down the grass hill over to the small lot with the wall that used to have nails sticking out (we didn’t find any of those). We did 7s here with burpees at the bottom, jump the wall, and donkey kicks at the top.

Finished here and had a short run over to the “step up” wall. Before we left the parking lot, we were reminded we have one mouth and 2 ears and if we’re thinking of our responses before someone else is done speaking, are we truly listening??

Made it to the step up wall where we did 11s. Steps up were both legs (bad idea here) and we did decline ranger merkins for the other half of our 11s (10+1, 9+2…1+10).

Left here with the plan to go to LBJ church and with 15 min left, we Omaha’s back to the big parking lot. Dora was the plan and previous site Q Bobber suggested running up and down the big hill…so we did. Partner up and Dora was: 100 diamond merkins, 200 jump squats, 300 flutters 2 count…which no one made it to flutters.
MARY: 5 min to spare we ran back to COT for MARY. Both Jackelope and State Farm got a chance to call cadence and crushed it!
ANNOUNCEMENTS: lots! Check out the newsletter! Dam to dam is coming so look for Sept 1 sign up!
COT: welcomed Stiletto who was visiting Maximus from TX, and Wegmans has 13 weeks to perfect his smoking craft as he takes care of that new baby!

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Accountability takes a Brother

2022-07-28Leave a comment

QIC: Rebel
When: 2022-07-28
Pax: birdcage_f3, Bojangles, Cohiba, Cousin Eddie, Fire Marshall Bill, Fogerty, Grout, Happy Hour, Jackalope, macgyver, oldbay, Pusher, Rebel, Santini, Stang, Vuvuzela, Walker
Posted In: Minnow Pond

Minnow Pond starts with the pledge of allegiance. Off to Church of God parking lot. The route – Crossroads 10 Merkins -4 different legs with 4 different exercises. 15 squats top of Hill, 15 Monkey Humpers top hill at 160, 15 dips in front of Bloom, 10 Bomb Jacks Road past COG. Repeat until 5:55. Met back for a quick Mary of 40 flutters in cadence. Head back to COT.

Discussed we need other men in our life for accountability, guidance in work, marriage, raising kids and keeping a balance. Can’t do life alone and plenty of men in the Fort that can provide wisdom of life. Seek out other men!!!

Thanks Jekyll for the opportunity to lead.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Anniversary coming up for the Fort, stuff the bus, Stang Golf and read Newsletter.

COT:prayers for Jekyll recovery, Walker and others recovering. Marriages and kids starting back to school.

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Roots

2022-07-26Leave a comment

QIC: Jekyll
When: 2022-07-26
Pax: Band Camp, Bobber, Bojangles, Bonsai, Cohiba, Cousin Eddie, darkhelmet, Fire Marshall Bill, Funhouse, Grout, italianjob, Jackalope, Jekyll, Kermit, Kielbasa, Pusher, Trucker
Posted In: Block Party

Swampy Soup conditions were no match for 17 men to do the harder thing by launching from startex and heading into the #gloom. And when I say #gloom, I mean original AO, full grass, dirty, immersion. *just want to add that it makes me so happy to see Bojangles out with us again. pretty close to an OG and a strong leader. 2.0 Jackalope falling right in and establishing his own path too. Very cool. Cousin Eddie Accelerating, Bobber has the gift of gab, and Grout is a silent killer.
WARMUP: Full COP with SSH, IW, Merkins, Windmills, overhead claps.
THE THANG:
1. head to hill for Jacobs ladder (7) with Donkey Kicks and Bombjacks
2. Playground- Partner up for lap around playground while partner does pull ups till return. Flapjack. Rinse/Repeat
3. Partner Derkins/Dip. P1 hold plank, P2 does exercise on back of P1. 10 reps. flapjack; Rinse/Repeat
4. Pike Place Muscle ups and wall sits. Extra credit for IJ, Bandcamp and Funhouse for heading after the #monster
MARY: LBC, Rosalita, Hello Dolly, American Hammers, V- Up
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Stuff the bus, 10 year coming up
COT: Praise for Kermit’s new job. Bonsai’s leadership, and a few prayers for YHC Rhinoplasty

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F3 The Fort

Tag: Bojangles

Sweet home AL

10 Year Convergence

Convergence For Our Brother Shower Curtain

Smell that BBQ!

A little mist in the gloom

Citadel Cendoff

The Seesaw

Takin’ it back old school because I’m an old fool

Accountability takes a Brother

Roots