Lazarus

WARMUP: 10 side straddle hops
10 slow low squats
10 windmills

THE THANG: started running in parking lot moving towards Red Stone theatre, Dosie Dough on left side then right side Dosie Dough. Running for a quarter mile then stopping for Bear Crawling for 100 feet. Running, stop for Mile Tysons, running, used outside patio chairs for
Dips, and step ups 10 each, running to paved hill for Bear crawls and 3 burpees, rinse and repeat 2 times over. Running quarter of a mile to back parking lot of theater, for tire flip, flipping a tire earned Pak 3 burpees, ran back to COT. Started with 12 finished with 12
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Fast Five Saturday @ 3
COT: prayers and praise from all F3 members

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AKA – Board of Pain 2025

The [vintage] Challenge:
– Burpees – 100 (Ruby Slippers 0, Slash 7)
– Calf Raises – 150 (50 regular, 50 toes pointed in, 50 toes pointed out)
– Ski Abs – 100 (Barry Manilow started)
– Merkins – 100
– Deep Squats – 100 (Anchorman started, Cake Boss 10, Short Sale 50, JWOW 51)
– LBCs – 200 (Cohiba – completed)
– Carolina Dry Docks – 100 (Time Machine 10)
– American Hammer – 100 (Harry Carry? Vuvuzela & Band Camp completed)
– Mac Tar Jai – 100
– Jump Squats – 100
– Mountain Climbers – 100
– Shoulder Raises – 200
– Mary Catherines – 100
– Hello Dolly – 200
– Wide Arm Merkins – 100
– Squat Jacks – 100
– Nippler– 100
– Burpees – 100

The Board of Pain isn’t that hard. It isn’t completable in 45 minutes. But it ain’t about finishing, it’s about seeing how far you can go!

You:
– Show up
– Put forth the effort
– Share suffering amongst the PAX
– Build camaraderie
– Teach yourself that
– You can take on challenging tasks
– You will improve
– You accelerate when other men are striving alongside you

There are plenty of harder workouts. But the Board is doable by ALL MEN. Be present and try; that’s all it takes! You don’t have to get far; you just have to go.

How is it in our lives that we have a problem and the solution is the same? Be present and try

We ain’t getting it all done today, but today’s effort still matters!

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A little B-ball practice at the American Jackal

WARMUP: 10 Moroccan Nightclubs, 10 Windmills, 10 Strawberry Pickers
THE THANG: Line touches on the b-ball courts while partner practices grabbing rebounds (I.e. jumps) switch positions when partner returns from line touches, line touch burpees, bear crawls to lines with push ups at each line, 2 court – cross court runs with 50 squats on one end and 50 LBCs on the other end and then repeat, 2 court – cross court runs with 50 merkins on one end and 50 dips in the middle on the benches and then repeat, lunges across the 2 courts with 50 LBCs on one end then lunges back across with 50 LBCs on the other end, then a 2 basketball double dribble around the COT with some Mary called out a few times around.
MARY: 10 each of Flutter Kicks, American Hammers, and Box Cutters
ANNOUNCEMENTS: The fastest 5k for VuVu’s son and donate if you can for the great cause!
COT: It is what it is…

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Believe it or Not….He’s Alive and well!

WARMUP: transitional COP (Circle of Pain)
Mosey about 150 yards and circle up
10 or so exercise moves 10-15 reps each In cadence
THE THANG:
Mosey to back of theatre and gather at bottom of lot
Jacobs ladder or 7’s with all exercise moves occurring at bottom of hill
1 wide arm merkin
Take lap
2 wide arm merkins
Take lap….up to 7

Move to parking spaces
7 parking space lines
Start with 1 at first line
2 at second line and continue up to 7
Exercises were
Merkins
Sumo squats
Bombjacks
Burpees
Mode of transportation was
Bear crawl
Duck walk
Backwards walk
Forward lunge

Mosey to island
Plank on curb of island
Take 7 plank steps to right
7 merkins
Take 7 plank steps to left
7 merkins
Rinse and repeat

MARY:
Mosey back to COP location
Freddy mercury’s
Then super man’s where members of the pax determined how long we hold the position :persevere:
Mosey to COT
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
:collision:Bethel men’s shelter today
:collision:April 12 FAST 5k pleasant knoll 3pm
:collision:Read Newsletter
COT:
Lazarus was a real man and Jesus was one of best buddies from childhood. He was dead 4 days and Jesus showed up and wanted the people to see how Awesome Sky Q is so he called Lazarus out of the tomb and said “unbound him and let him go”

What do you need resurrection from? What do you need to be unbound from?
Jesus can do it and change everything :clap: :fire: :point_up_2:

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Q school at ROF

Five students attended Q school, and 3 runners posted at NAFO this morning. This is what they did:
WARMUP: Disclaimer and slow Mosey around NAFO parking lot. Circle up for COP
THE THANG:
COP: SSH x 30, windmill x 10, squat x 20, merkin x 10/hold/Peter Parker x 10/Left arm and leg high/6″/regular/mountain climber x 10/6″/recover, LBCx20, Morrocan night cub x 30
Run to the bottom of the hill by the ROTC building for Jacob’s Ladder (1-7), pull-ups at the top of the hill
People’s chair along the ROTC building x 90s, recover, round 2 with the Pax each running to the road, doing 3 burpees, running back to the wall.
Mosey back to the parking lot for cocaine bearcrawls along the parking spaces (1-5 merkins at each line)

MARY: American Hammer x 20, hello dolly x 20
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Fastest 5K in a couple weeks, Bethel Men’s shelter this Thursday, April 3
COT: Prayers for families, Splinter’s 2.0 in a difficult situation, Becky with cancer, Cash’s family
NMM:
It was a privilege to lead Q school this morning. Here are my pearls of wisdom from Qing workouts for the past 12 years:
1. Always have a watch to keep track of your time (start and end promptly).
2. Ease into the workout with a light jog, SSH’s, and windmills to stretch the major muscle groups.
3. I typically count at a slower cadence for more effective training. I make sure the workout is balanced with strength and cardio conditioning.
4. Use pull up bars whenever they are available at your AO. Try to work a back exercise into every workout (like Superman).
5. Steal shamelessly from other Q’s. I stole frequently from South Charlotte and local Pax (Geronimo was one of my favs). Today’s cocaine bearcrawls were stolen from Poppins (who stole from someone else, I think).
6. Due to my early work schedule during the week, I can’t stay for COT, and it’s something I truly miss. F3 has been a blessing in my life.

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Counting Down from 100

WARMUP:
Quick COP warm-up with Imperial Walkers, Seal Jacks, and Hill Billy Walkers.

THE THANG:
Mosey down to oval loop in front of Springfield Middle. Near school entrance we started with a 100 reps of an exercise. We then ran (together) down to the lower part of the loop. For a portion of the run, pax had to do a moving exercise, determined by one pax drawing from a bucket ‘o pain. At the lower part of the loop, we then did 90 reps of a different exercise. Once all pax were done, we ran back to the top part in front of the school entrance (scaling a small wall that was part of the loop).
We repeated, counting down to 10 exercises. Here was the list.

100 Flutters
90 Squats
80 Shoulder Taps
70 Hello Dollys
60 SSH
55 LBCs
50 Merkins
40 Speed Skaters
30 Lunges
20 Burpees
10 Big Boy Sit-ups

We ended up skipping the lunges due to time, but we added some Bombjacks at the end, thanks to some nudging from BandCamp.

YHC had the opportunity to share my testimony and try to encourage all pax that each person’s testimony is their own uniquely, God-created, story…including the testimonies being lived out by our kids.

The mumble chatter was fantastic, as we learned perhaps a bit too much about CakeBoss’ impending first “official” colonoscopy. Thanks RainMaker for the opportunity to lead.

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Tour de odor AKA style

WARMUP:
SSH
Windmills
Imperial walkers
Hillbilly walkers
Plank
Stretches
Merkins

THE THANG:

After warmups we moseyed to back of HT,
Performed wall sit burpee waterfall with everyone doing 1 burpee, then 2

Mosey around back towards church

Toy solders
Karaoke
NUR

In back parking lot, break up in groups of 3,- took a couple tries
Partner work – groups of 3
Partner 1
Cocaine bear Crawls to light pole and back
Partner 2 SSH
Partner 3 Mtn climbers

Mosey to church

Bench work
Webbs
Bulgarian split squats and cactus jacks

Got all the way up to 10/40

Dora
100 Derkins
Sprint
200 dips

Back towards Flag

MARY:

50 4 count flutters IC, Box cutters, dying cockroach and American hammers
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Fast 5K, Joc, Bethel
COT: make every day count and be sure the ones you love most know it!
It was an honor to serve today, Thank you men!

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Shield is a lean mean pain making machine

WARMUP: Did couple exercises
THE THANG:
4 rounds of board of pain
In between exercises take 400m lap
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Ruby and Splinter are training for Marathon :clap: :muscle: :bacon:
COT:
Be light in the darkness :bulb:

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St Paddy’s Day WOD

WARMUP: Our warmup consisted of Windmills, Imperial Walkers, Hillbilly Walkers, some downward dog and honeymooners
THE THANG: We did 5 rounds of exercises
The first 3 rounds were 17 reps of each exercise followed by a 400 meter run. The 4th round was 15 reps and the 5th was 10 reps
The exercises were:
LEPRECHAUN LUNGES
LORD OF THE DANCE SSH
GREEN MT CLIMBERS
DROPKICK MURPHY’S SHOULDER TAPS
IRISH TWISTS
POT OF GOLD SQUATS
PATTY O’PUSHUPS W/PLANKJACK
KISS ME I’M IRISH BIG BOYS
MARY: NO MARY
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your newsletter
COT: Reverend Ruby took us out with his soothing voice and a prayer

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