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A comfortable August morning?!?

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WARMUP: Mosey to behind the stadium via pedestrian bridge

Hold plank until 6 arrived
Exercises in cadence
Windmills
Cherry pickers
Imperial walkers
Hillbilly walkers
Seal jacks
Merkins
Mountain climbers

THE THANG: Mosey to the back parking lot for a view of the Space X rocket experiment and DORA with rocks

Partner 1 runs, partner 2 exercises then flapjack.

100 merkins
200 flutters with the rock press
300 goblet squats with rocks

Return the rocks to their rightful place.

Mosey on to the light poles where exercises were done in cadence at each one moving back toward COT

Merkins
Mike Tyson’s
LBC’s
Carolina Dry Docks
Monkey Humpers
Mosey a lap around the front lot

MARY: A few exercises called – Boxcutters among others
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Always
COT: 5th core principle

NMM: We post to get better and be there for those in the circle with us, who we support and love. Shoulder burdens with others. They get a bit lighter and more tolerable. The workout makes us just a bit more resilient in the face of challenges.
For whom are you showing up today? 👁️

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Heavy Shiiiii

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WARMUP: lap around the park. Stopped for some merkins, SSH and squats
THE THANG:
PAX cycled through 8 stations
1: 2×50 KB carry
2: 20 sandbag burpees 60lb
3: 20 hand release merkins, 20 squats, 20 big boys
4: 150lb ball carry
5: 20 devils presses. 2x50lb dumbbells
6: 15 ball over shoulder. 100lb
7: sandbag throw out and back. 40lb
8: sled pull out and back. 90lb

While PAX waited for the stations, we worked through a board of pain.
100 SSH
90 mountain climbers
80 squats
70 dry docks
60 shoulder taps
50 lbc
40 flutter kicks
30 American hammers
20 jump lunges
10 burpees

With final 10ish minutes, PAX played a game. Divide into 2 teams with a “home base”. Try to get as much weight into your home base by stealing from oppo team. Must do 5 burpees before stealing weight.

MARY: a bit
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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Every Second Counts

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WARMUP: Blue took the reins and rocked his first leadership effort as a pax of The Fort! SSH, Windmill, Merkin, etc

THE THANG: Pax moseyed to the parking garage at Sunbelt Rentals (The Forbidden Zone according to OldBay) and split into two teams

Cindies were available for some weighted exercises at the top level
Bottom level was used for Core exercises

Teams took turns completing one exercise with 10 reps at the top while other team did a continuous core exercise at the bottom. Then the teams swapped. Then swapped again and continued to the next exercise.

Pair 1 = Squats (top) & Balls to wall (bottom)
Pair 2 = Swings & People's chair
Pair 3 = OH press & plank
Pair 4 = Bent over rows & Flutters

After the first round, pax paused to hear about Every Second Counts from "The Bear" on Hulu. Then teams tackled a second round of the same series at a faster pace.

Teams gathered for one final pair that included Man Makers at the top and American Hammer at the bottom.

Mosey back home

MARY: Completed throughout the workout

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Trash pickup 0745 at Harris St Park on Sat 8/22, VQ by Blue at Dawn Patrol on Tue 9/8

COT: Yes!

Pax offered many compliments to Blue on this solid cadence count and terminology during the warm up. He was completely unflustered by Twister's heckling immediately to his right. While he's not a professional today, Blue clearly tapped into his prior professional status as a US Marine many years back. Well done!

Thanks to Site Q OldBay for indulging a little extra risk in exploring the Sunbelt parking garage. The Flock cameras were in full view, so perhaps he's not completely out of the woods yet. Show up next Thur to find out!

The pax pushed through a steamy morning with Cindy offering few complaints. Not sure if that's a good thing (the lack of complaints), but I know everyone was drenched at COT and we covered the major fitness elements.

"Every Second Counts" was the mantra for the staff in the TV series "The Bear". For the most part, it drove a mindset of performance on a consistently high pace, so it seemed an appropriate theme for an F3 workout. At the same time, it can also be heard as a theme for Presence (ie, living in the moment) and can thus be a theme across all elements of life. Where could this apply in your life?

Thanks to all for their Presence today and to Old Bay for the invite!

#KeepPosting

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Hot Potato

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Started with a short run then:
Warmup: SSH, Windmills, Imp Walkers, Moroccan N/C, Low slow squats, peter parkers, plank stretches.
Thang1: burpee relay: 5 burpees, run, 5 burpees, run, 5 burpees run, plank for six.
Thang2: Merkins with lunge walk relays
Thang3: sevens: crunches and Merkins
Thang4: dance off carioca: carioca left/right, repeat with small steps, then plank and carioca in circle 2x.
Thang 5: four corners: merkins, situps, squats, something else.
Thang 6: bobby hurleys and bear crawls
Mary rounds.
Fini.
Hot potato because regularly scheduled Q did not appear.

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Borrowed ideas of sweat

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WARMUP: Mosey with SSH, Hillbiliies, Lo Slo Squats, Bonnie Blair’s
THE THANG: 4 Corners with 5 Burpees in middle (plagiarized from Maximus The Fort Q a few weeks ago.
2 Rounds
15 Merkins
15 Jump Squats
15 Carolina Dry Docks
15 Big Boys

To Curb
5 Mike Tyson’s then bear crawl across to opposite curb
3 rounds

3 rounds of dips on benches.

To Hill
Triple Nickels (Copied from Casey Kasem Q at The Fort)
A pax picks an exercise
5 reps at top of hill
Run down hill
5 reps at bottom of hill.
Run up hill
5 reps at top of hill.
We made it 4-5 rounds.

MARY: Short one
ANNOUNCEMENTS: KB workout, Trash pickup, lots more.
COT: Families and marriage struggles.

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Gear Workout at The Ballroom

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Have not attended the Ballroom in a while so browsed through backblasts to see what the guys at this sight have been doing for the past couple of months. Did not see any gear show up in the BBs, so thought I would remedy that situation.

WARMUP: Led the group on a mosey around the COT parking lot as this is the loop we would run periodically throughout the workout. Ended the mosey at the 1st station set-up in a parking space. Performed SSHICx21, then proceeded to explain the exercises at all 12 stations. Time to work.

THE THANG: Brought out the gear and set-up 12 pain stations. PAX were asked to partner up, Partner #1 performs the exercise at the pain station while partner #2 runs the loop we practiced in the warm-up. FlapJack when partner #2 returns. When both partners have completed the exercise at the station they move on to the next one. Did not instruct the PAX to go in any particular order, they could pick and choose pain stations as they pleased. Most of us completed 16 stations and got in about 2 miles. Great Work Gents!!! Exercises & Gear listed below.

  1. OH Press Toss w/ 60lb SB
  2. CurltoCleantoPress w/ 45lb plate
  3. V-Sits w/ 10lb med ball
  4. OH Squats w/ Cindy
  5. Kettle Bell Swings w/ a 30lb KB
  6. Reverse Lunges w/ 20lb weighted vest
  7. American Hammers w/ 10lb med ball
  8. Alt Snatches w/ 35lb DB
  9. LawnMower Pulls w/ 45lb DB
  10. AB Wheel w/ a pillow for the knees ( we are older, need the pillow )
  11. Squats w/ 30lb Ruck on
  12. Shoulder Swings in Low Squat Position w/ Heavy Rope

MARY: Because this is an F3 workout could not finish without performing some Burpees, called 5 burpees OYO to finish right.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: TRASH PICKUP on AUG 22nd!!! BE THERE!!!!

COT: STK!

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My Qshake Brings The Boys To The Yard

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Mission of F3:
To plant, grow, and serve small workout groups for men for the invigoration of male community leadership.

5 Core Principles:
1. Free of charge
2. Open to all men
3. Held outdoors, rain or shine, heat or cold
4. Led by men who participate in the workout in a rotating fashion, with no training or certification necessary
5. End with Circle of Trust

Credo:
Leave no man behind, but leave no man where you found him.

Warm-Up:
SSH – 20 IC
Imperial Walkers – 15 IC
Moroccan Night Clubs – 10 IC
Windmills – 10 IC
Strawberry Pickers- 10 IC
Mosey around the parking lot

The Thang:
1. Light Poles:
Light Pole 1: 10 Burpees
Light Pole 2: 20 Merkins
Light Pole 3: 30 Squats
Light Pole 4: 40 Big Boys
Light Pole 5: 50 Calf Raises
➡️ MOT: Lap 1: Mosey between poles, Lap 2: Bear Crawl between poles, Lap 3: Crab Walk between poles

2. Partner Work:
P1: 20 Incline Merkins
P2: Hold plank or Al Gore
Repeat with:
20 Decline Merkins
20 Step Ups
20 Dips
MARY: She does like Qshakes so No Show
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your newsletter
COT: Prayers and Praises

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Not-erate Yard Work

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WARMUP: 10 each

  • SSH
  • Moroccans
  • Cherry Pickers
  • Windmills
  • Flying Squirrels

Mosey on track doing:

  • Butt kickers
  • High knees
  • Karaoke
  • Toy Soldier
  • Lunge
  • Burpee broad jumps (~10)
  • Bear crawl

THE THANG:
Goal was 3 rounds, most PAX between 2-3 done.

Station 1 – 20 each

  • Merkins
  • Scorpion Dry Docks (switch half way)
  • Shoulder Taps (both = 1)

Station 2 – 30 each

  • LBCs
  • Fluttahs (both = 1)
  • Box Cuttahs

Station 3 – 40 each

  • Mtn Climbers
  • Peter Parkers
  • Plank Jacks

Station 4 – 50 each

  • Squats
  • Calf Raises
  • Bomb Jacks

MARY:
Throughout

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Bethel, stuff the bus

COT:
Kids back to school / leaving the nest, family members health.

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It’s Wet. YES. Now, Do The Work

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Whenever there's an FNG, I feel the responsibility to turn it up a notch and to ensure I adhere to the principles, cadence calling, and traits of what I love about F3. While it's not up to me to determine the intensity of this morning's workout as I'll let the PAX chime in, what I can control is the adherence to the principles, cadence calling and characteristics of what I love about F3…so long as I don't stray from the 5 Core Principles or the Credo.
Naturally, we reviewed those this morning prior to launching as we had an FNG in the gloom with us, welcome Small Things.

WARMUP: Mosey to the parking lot of FMRX and discover a nicely placed deck of cards. Oh look, what shall we do with these? The intent was to complete ~1/2 the deck utilizing some warm-up exercises and regular exercises and let this serve as our slightly-higher-than-normal-intensity warm-up.
Hearts: Merkins
Clubs: Flutters (count the rt side only)
Spades: Squats
Diamonds: Butt Kickers (count the rt side only)

THE THANG:
Mosey to the big lot on the right at the top of the Massey hill for a large evolution of 4 Corners with a center.
Start in the center of the lot and run to the corner, perform the exercise, run back to the center for 5 burpees, then out to the next corner and back to the center and so on. Complete 2 full rounds.
Corner 1: 15 Hand-Release Merkins
Corner 2: 15 Jump Squats
Corner 3: 15 Carolina Dry Docks
Corner 4: 15 American Hammers

Once everyone completed round 2, we then completed 1 additional round as a group but cut the reps in half.

Mosey to the steps at the Fort Mill Church of the Nazarene. The original plan had us running up and down the set of stairs but due to the rain, we lunge walked up the stairs, walked down and did that 3 times then went to the Church parking lot.
Here I looked at the wienke and realized I had about 7mins of material for the remaining 15mins of time in the hour. A reminder for all, plan a longer workout in case you finish an evolution faster than anticipated. So, what did we do? I preceded to make a few enemies and released the angry gremlin inside Super G.

Welcome back to the Mak Tar Jah followed by the Knee Tar Jah!

Now, mosey back to COT for what turned out to be the fastest naming of an FNG I've ever been apart of.
Welcome, Small Things.
MARY: Yes
ANNOUNCEMENTS: CRI Training, Bethel Men's Shelter, Stuff The Bus
COT: 100%

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Impossible Island Hopping

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WARMUP: moseyed with some stops along the way. No feedback on the cadence calling. The PIP I was on was in full effect. Finished with Bonnie Blairs X 10.
THE THANG: In honor of The Pirate, a 4 corners, 20 reps at each corner. Merkins, Derkins, Heels to Heaven, and Big Boys.

Mosey and Sprints 2X to length of the parking lot changing pace at every island. Another idea taken from Pirate.

Picked two islands to do an Impossible Mile:
First Lap: Burpee Broad Jumps
Second Lap: Lunge Walk
Third Lap: Bear Crawl
Fourth Lap: Mosey.

Everyone LOVED the Impossible Mile.

Truly an honor to GET TO share doing difficult things with these men.

MARY: some did, some not so much.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Stuff the Bus, LaGrama, Bethel, Bourbon, Cannoli Run!
COT: Lifting up all those going through life’s beatdowns and enjoying the time when the storms pass.

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