Loop-tidy Loops At Bushwood

WARMUP: Run 1/8 mile to hill at entrance to Catawba Ridge
THE THANG: Had a list of exercises that the pax completed one at a time and after that exercise was completed they ran a .17 mile loop up the hill and back. Pax completed between 15-19 exercises. All reps are 20 except the burpees where 10.
Burpees x 3 rounds of 10 reps
Hand Release Merkins
Big Boi’s
Carolina Dry Docks
Wide Arm Merkins
Monkey Humpers
LBC’s
Sumo Squats
Hello Dolly’s
Apollo UNO’s
Mike Tyson’s
Box Cutters
Squats With Calf Raise
Diamond Merkins
Lunges
Heel Touches
Dips On Curb
Alternating Shoulder Taps

MARY: Yep
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Big Changes Coming For 2026 In The Fort
COT:

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Musical spaces

WARMUP: WINDMILLS/PICKERS/MERKINS/LOW AND SLOW SQUATS
THE THANG: mosey over to Lowe’s 11s with big boys and merkins

PART 1: MUSICAL CHAIRS WITH THE BURPEE PIT (20 min)
Setup: Everyone in a parking spot. ONE LESS spot than total PAX.
Each Round:
1. Exercise in spot (20 sec) → 2. “MOVE!” (scramble) → 3. “SPOTS!” (find space)
2. Last PAX without spot → joins THE BURPEE PIT
Burpee Pit: Eliminated PAX work together on 200 total burpees (split however)
In-Spot Exercises: Merkins • Squats • Mtn Climbers • Imperial Walkers • Shoulder Taps • Freddies
Travel Methods: Run • Bear Crawl • Lunge Walk • Backward Run
Endgame: Pit not done? Everyone finishes together. Pit done early? Final players do 25 burpees.

MARY: gas pumpers
ANNOUNCEMENTS: yes, read ya newsletter
COT: yes

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so much chatter at slowburn

WARMUP: windmill mosey, imperial walkers, hillbilly walkers, low slow squats
THE THANG: Dora with merkins, squats, crunches. Other guy runs loop. Lunge walk then bearcrawl, across the parking lot. Goldilocks squats,
MARY: crunches,
ANNOUNCEMENTS: HIM camp.
COT:

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13 YR Anniversary Convergence

WARMUP:
THE THANG:
Here is my weinke – Assassin

We had about 12 runners and 6 ruckers tackle the tundra of the paved loop around the schools.

Starting at the front door we headed around the back, past the shop, past the ROTC HQ, down to the elementary playground, back by the stadium, out to Jones Road and back to the front.

All enjoyed. Thanks to Sasquatch and Spectre for the preview lap and suggestions.

Convergence bootcamp Q- Backdraft

Warmup- SSH, windmills, cherry pickers, mtn. Climbers, Moroccan night clubs

The thang-
Count off for groups of 3s
Mosey to pull up bars
Group 1 wall sits
Group 2 merkins

Group 3 13 pull ups 13 burpees

Stay in groups Dora on the hill
Bottom 300 CDDs top 300 squat jumps mosey from top to bottom

Line up in parking lot for 43 seconds of following exercises followed by bear crawls in-between
Exercises were as follows
Merkins, air squats, flutters, alt. Shoulder taps, jump squats, lbc’s, Carolina’s dry docks, alt lunges, burpees,

Mosey back to COT in original 3 man groups

KB workout- Boogie Nights

Ladder of pain- it sucked

MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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2025 – SLT Disruption

WARMUP: full crew in cadence
65ish SSH for the 65 dudes that were in the circle
Imperial Walkers
Hillbilly Walkers
Peter Parker

Split to boot camp and kettlebells
THE THANG:
Bootcamp:
– Buy-in: 20 bomb jacks, 20 donkey kicks.
– Bear crawl the length of parking lot / whistle = 10 merkins
– Lunge walk parking lot / whistle = 10 jump squats
Kettlebell
– 20 swings
– 5 merkins
– 5 goblet squats
– count down the merkins and squats keep the 20 swings
– Swing progression
– Squat Swings
– Swings
– American Swings
– Rack bell
– slow step back reverse lunge
– press when returning the back leg
– Clean Progression
– Row
– Clean
– Swing
– Snatch

Unbeknownst to the PAX we switched modalities about halfway through. This was to represent the foundation 1 from Q-Source: https://f3nation.com/disruption.

“Because it induces movement, leadership causes Disruption”

PAX were disrupted from their planned morning workout to make sure both Qs saw all the PAX and to push them outside the complacency zone of their established routines. With the leadership, we should expect disruption and embrace it.

Leaders influence movement towards advantage. Disruption is a solid technique to induce movement.

“If a man calls himself a leader but does not cause Disruption by initiating movement, then he is not practicing leadership. He might be doing something else, like managing or governing, but he is not leading.”

It is not the goal of the new SLT members is not to manage or govern. It should not be the goal of the Site Qs to manage or govern. Let’s lead!

F3 is not an organization with leaders, but an organization OF leaders. Each man is freed to lead. The particulars of Site Qs and the SLT structure is nice, but let us not be afraid to disrupt when we have a vision for advantage.

Kermit handed 2nd F Q off to Liberty Bibberty
Band Camp handed the Weasel Shaker off to Poppins
Esso handed the Nantan Flag off to Band Camp

It is an honor to be considered a leader in the Fort. But be mindful every member of the PAX is A LEADER. Let’s all be about the business of leading.

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Hold on to your balls

Everybody issued a soccer ball to keep for the duration.

Run with ball. Then hop with ball between ankles past all the fit freaks of f45.

Circle up w the usual, but make sure you include your ball.

Take a break and dribble ball around lot.

More circle of the usual.

Dribble ball again.

Hop ball back towards cot and engage in a crazy 8.

Mary.

Hop back towards cot and return your blue ball.

The end.

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Weighed Down

WARMUP: yea, this is important. did SSH for a while because Esso was late. He apparently “went to block party” and then remembered we were going to ballroom today.

THE THANG: ran around exploring

Found a 15 space parking lot
1 merkin
2 squats
3 burpees
4 merkin
5 squats
6 burpees
7 merkin
8 squats
9 burpees
10 merkin
11 squats
12 overhead claps (by request)
13 merkin
14 squats
15 overhead claps

Started to do that again, but I just didn’t wanna. Was hoping more PAX would gripe about it. But they didn’t they were either too cold to complain, or knew I might actually go through with it if they did.

Mosey some more
some squats, lunges, cossak squats

Mosey some more found a hill
bear crawl, donkey kicks, back down
crawl bear, donkey kicks, back down

Mosey some more found the basketball court
5 squats run to the middle 5 jump squats
back to start
5 squats run to far end 5 lunges
did that a few times

MARY: did some hip flexibility work. Barry did not seem to be a fan, but I know he really enjoyed it in his heart.

COT: had to be there. Bass is a stellar Site Q. It was an honor to lead

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Rocktober Jams Vol 1

WARMUP: took a quick slowsy to the sidewalk in front of the tipsy bottle for some IC exercises and stretches
THE THANG: Head to toes Tabata – 7 cycles, 6x sets ea. 25 secs on, 15 secs rest. 1 min recovery run/walk.
1. cdd
2. Shoulder taps
3. Merkins
4. Big boys
5. Superman’s
6. Monkey humpers
7. Side to side Squats
MARY: no time for her
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Alcatraz 10 year convergence Saturday, poker tourney 10/14, bbq and bourbon 2nd F in Nov, Shanking with Stang
COT: prayers for safety and travel mercies for our in-laws on vacation, prayers for healing for long duck, prayers for marriages and 2.0s, praise to our fellow pax for accountability

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Stuff the Bus Convergence

WARMUP:
Ran over to parking lot behind football fields
SSH – all exercises were to 20 INC
1 burpee
Windmill
2 burpees
Cherry Pickers
3 burpees
Squats
4 burpees
Moroccan Night Club
5 Burpees
Imperial walkers
6 burpees
Merkins
7 burpees
LBC
8 burpees
CDD
9 burpees
Flutter
10 burpees

Throughout the workout we had pax share about different opportunities we have within The Fort to serve our community. We had the following speak (Fogerty – Trash Pickup, Cousin Eddy – Bethel Men’s shelter, Jiffy – FM Care Center, Stuff the Bus)

Partner Up
Round 1 –
Squats
Flying Squirrels
Inch worm merkins

Round 2
Big boy sit-ups
Jump Squats
Wide arm merkins

We have an amazing opportunity in The Fort to impact our community. We have pax impacting our community through service. Challenge was raised, if you aren’t actively impacting the community, why not?

It was an honor to be able to lead the workout this morning. This was diffident from most workouts because of the number of times we stopped to talk. However I felt it important to share with the guys what is happening around them. We also were able to congratulate Double D in his hand off of Nantan to Esso. Double D, thank you for you service to the pax. You have always been someone who ask the tough questions that challenge us and I thank you for that and what you did for our Region during your reign as Nantan. Esso, I look forward where you are going to take us and your energy to lead. We have a bright future ahead.

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10 Year Convergence

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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