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FORTeen Years

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WARMUP: 14 Burpees
THE THANG: Mosey to center of WEP

Pax rotated into center based on year of 1st post (ie Class of 2026, 2025, 2024, etc). Varied exercises were performed by all including Burpees, Partner Derkins, Squats, Sumo Squats, SSH, Mtn Climbers, Mahktar N'Dyiae, Flutters, Freddys, Monkey Humpers, etc

Pax sprinted home for the finish.

MARY: She participated during the Thang

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Bethel Shelters service

COT: Yes, of course, 5th Core Principle

The pax came early and stayed late to celebrate this Community of Brothers we call The Fort. For 14 years, men have posted in the Gloom of WEP and other wonderful sites throughout FM/TC (and in Rock Hill, Clover/LKW and now Chester) to sharpen each other, to hone leadership skills, and to prepare themselves and each other to tackle the ups and downs Life will regularly throw their way.

The number of men who've stood at COT in The Fort over these years exceeds 2,000. And roughly 200 pax keep the flame burning in 2026. Their continued participation is an individual choice, one they can't not keep making because, as they shared, they've found brotherhood, community, belonging and accountability in The Fort.

Who will be standing in COT in 2036 or 2046? Anybody? Nobody? You? Your son or son-in-law or grandson?

As Band Camp shared, we Get To make this choice. Each man stands apart from the general crowd in our culture in making this choice. And yet, each man of The Fort is no better than any other man who lives among us. All men are made of the same fiber in the same image of our Creator. As Dark Helmet said, every man is needed in the leadership mission required to bring to fruition the world our Creator intended. So stay in the game. Find the next man and bring him into the fold. Because 14 years of history only matters if we continue to bring Impact to men and our broader community today, tomorrow, next week and next year. #KeepPosting

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MCHale’s 4 miler

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WARMUP: OYO
THE THANG:
Harvest pointe
Market street
Cross Sutton to
Founders st
Straight onto Settler heights dr
Straight onto Stratford run dr
Cross new gray rock to
Harvest pointe
Down to the end and back
4mi

MARY: no
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Convergence, Soul2Sole Flag hand off, Q School
COT: yes

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Of course, more burpees

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WARMUP:
Moroccan nightclubs
Windmills
Cherry pickers
Hillbilly walkers
Mosey to some curb merkins in cadence

BurpBackMountain

  • partner up. Partner 1 does burpees while partner 2 nurs up the hill and runs down twice. Then switch. Completed when 100 burpees are done

THE THANG:
The Sheldon Cooper
10 burpees, 10 squats, 10 merkins, 10 big boy sit-ups, run .3 miles around park to halfway point and complete
9 burpees, 9 squats, 9 merkins, 9 big boy sit-ups, run .3 miles back to Amphitheatre. Repeat with 8, then 7, then 6…
MARY:
Fear of being alone is why I come out to F3 and to give other men the opportunity to push themselves to be better. I want to be around others that will help me improve and to be held accountable.

Flutters led by Dark Helmet for 1 minute
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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Remembering the week of 9-11

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WARMUP: Mosey to the elementary school side lot. COP with exercises in cadence
Windmills
Cherry pickers
Imperial Walkers
Hillbilly walkers
Seal jacks
Low slow squats
Hold peoples chair while doing Moroccan night clubs and shoulder presses in cadence
Plank with salutations
Merkins
Recover and move

THE THANG: Track and light poles
Moseying to the track, pax stopped at the flag to honor those who made the intimate sacrifice this week 25 years ago. Never Forget

At the track, 9’s and 7’s were called.
7 rounds
Rounds 1,3,5&7 – 9 merkins and 7 big boys
Rounds 2,4&6 – 9 big boys and 7 burpees

Mosey to the light poles.
As a group – various merkins and an exercises of 9’s and 7’s were called every other light pole to the top of the hill.

At the top of the hill – 10 burpees – just because.

Descend the hill stopping for 9’s and 7’s at every third light pole – time was running short, hence fewer stops.

Mosey to benches for a round of Bulgarian split squats and then on to COT at 0600.

MARY: no time
ANNOUNCEMENTS: plenty of ‘em
COT: 5th core principle and some solid vulnerability among posting pax.
NMM: F3’s credo is leave no man behind and leave no man where you found him. Today’s workout was kept together with that very purpose in mind.

No matter what we bring to any workout, we have the blessing of a place where we can be met and welcomed as we are with the capacity to change ourselves for the better. What a privilege!!

Give this thing away, men. Because it’s a gift.

Thanks for the call, Halfback. 👁️

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300+ reps

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WARMUP: mobility and the norms
THE THANG: 50 KB swings, 40 goblet squats, 30 gorilla rows, 20 snatches, 10 clean and press, 10 thrusters, 20 high pulls, 30 reverse lunge, 40 merkins (hand on bell), 50 swings
15,10,8- swing, overhead press, goblet squats, rows r/l.
MARY: alternating around the world, oblique bends, chest press
ANNOUNCEMENTS: CRI out training, newsletter
COT: prayers and praises

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Get better!!

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WARMUP:
Mosey around drop off line and back to beginning of GHMS loop.
THE THANG:
4 corners of stuff: (3 rounds)
Station 1: 40 mtn climbers, 40 sec plank hold
Station 2: 40 LBC, 40 Flutter
Station 3: 40 reverse lung, 40 squats
Station 4: 40 steps, 40 dips (with the bench)
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Bethel, Newsletter
COT: Focus on Excavation. What is holding you back? Identify IT and use the tools that are here to support. Get IT removed!!

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Slowest of Burns

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WARMUP: Mosey up and down a few parking lot lanes with a round of NUR and some exercises after each round.
THE THANG: Mosey to the curb on the side of Persis
10 Mike Tysons
20 Squats & 20 Squat Pulses
Over to the curb on the side of Lowe's & PAX line up on the curb. The man on each end of the line will bear crawl out 15yds, perform 3 Diamond Merkins and bear crawl back. The rest of the PAX will hold a plank. Perform this until all men complete 1 crawl round.
Run behind Lowes to the front of the garden center & circle up
20 Wheezie Jeffersons
20 Flutters
10 X's & O's
20 Freddy Mercury's
10 X's & O's
Back to the lot on the side of Persis
20 Standing Lunges each leg
10 Jump Squats
10 Mike Tysons
It was now 0543 and I ran out of material….AGAIN.
So we ad-libbed with more running, burpees, core work and merkins. It's up to the PAX to decide the effectiveness of both the Weinke and the ad-lib.

MARY: See Above
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Trash Pick Up, Excavation, Bethel
COT: 5th Core Principle

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Welcome Baby Owen!

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WARMUP: oyo
THE THANG: Harvest pointe
Market street
Cross Sutton to
Founders st
Straight onto Settler heights dr
Straight onto Stratford run dr
Cross new gray rock to
Harvest pointe
Down to the end and back
4mi

MARY: no
ANNOUNCEMENTS: welcome baby Owen and congrats granddad @U5CF2DMKK
COT: yes

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