Biscuits and light poles

WARMUP: Various exercises while doing laps around outside of parking lot. Somehow biscuits were brought up and for the rest of the time everyone discussed their favorite biscuit restaurant and topping.
THE THANG: Start at point where road split for the football parking. 5 bombjacks, run to 2nd light pole, 10 merkins, 10 squats, back to start for 5 bombjacks, run to 1st light pole for 10 merkins, 10 squats, back to start for 5 bombjacks. That’s one round. Each round we moved up a light pole, kept the bombjacks, and let PAX pick exercises. 3:2 was seal jacks and LBCs. 4:3 was diamond merkins and plank jacks. 5:4 was jump squats and flutter(?). Finally 6:5 was shoulder taps and mountain climbers. Times up, back to COT.
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT: Pretty sure a few PAX had biscuits later this morning. Lots of recommendations for places to try around town. Fun group this morning and we got some good work in. Thx for the opportunity Bassomatic!

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It Pays to be a 1

It was a relatively warm morning at Minnow pond where 17 strong PAX met to get some miles..but only limited smiles.

Ran straight to WEP in front of the stage.

The workout:

Start with 10 Burpees

Run to the first swing along the paved path do 10 merkins and 10 lbcs

Run back to the stage do 9 burpees

Run to the 2nd swing on the path do 10 merkins and 10 Lbcs

Run back to the stage and do 8 burpees

Keep going along the path as far as you can until time.

It was here that YHC made the decision to split the pax up into 1’s and 2’s.

I was thinking I just wanted to create some space on the path….unfortunately…what happened was the 2’s were given the opportunity to run up the WEP hill pretty much the entire time.

Despite the complaints the PAX handled it extremely well.

At 5:55 we headed back to COT and got there just in time for 10 more merkins 10 more LBCs and 1 last burpee.

Thanks to Nasa for the opportunity. It was great getting out amongst the PAX this morning.

Until Next Time….

It PAYS TO BE A 1!

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The Forts Sidewalk Inspection

Disclaimer, Refund and Warranty Policies Shared
WARMUP:
Slow Mosey to Light at Hwy 160
THE THANG:
Rock (Ruck) Step and Double time to the Infamous Mill Stone of the Fort and Back to COT. Counted the headlamps of the minnows and made sure they were swimming up-stream. Sidewalks survey was completed and deemed doable.
MARY:
Dreamt off!
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Jeager and read your newsletter.
COT:
A Safe Place to share and pray :pray:

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These telephone poles are too close together

WARMUP: mosey to behind WEP amphitheater for ssh, hillbilly walkers and windmills all in cadence
THE THANG: part 1 – run down ardrey st to Harris and back, stopping at each telephone pole for 2 burpees

Part 2 – grab a rock from behind the amphitheater. Carry the rock over your head to the upper lot and do 20 flutters – single leg count. Carry the rock back down to the lower lot over your head and do 20 merkins – do this 5 times

Part 3 – mosey to bottom Massey st hill. Run up Massey st hill to parking lot AFAP. Plank, down dog and honeymooner, then run to the opposite end of parking lot AFAP. Then lunge walk back across the lot while peach stand describes his “why”
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT: finished the “why” story

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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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Charons’ Boat & Schwing stuff

WARMUP: SSH, 5 Burpees, imperial squat-walkers, 4 Burpee, Moroccan nightclub-Calf raises, 3 Burpee, cherry picker, 2 Burpee‘s, hillbilly walkers, 1 Burpee

THE THANG: tried dragging Charon‘s boat 1.0 (pictures in site- Q channel) and quickly realized it was too devastating to the landscape.
Minor disassembly turned this into 2- Man heavy-ass-coupons.

Two stops were made on the way to the playground (at the swinging chairs).

First stop, 10 Lieutenant Dan’s IC,

second stop 1- legged LBC complex (LBC, pickle pointer, cross elbow/knee… Then flapjack) 15 IC each

At the playground, Dora Work using the “Schwings”:
100 knee-tuck Merkins, 200 leaning jump squats, 250 inverted Rows (all on the swings)

Meanwhile… Partner, PAX runs up a slide, slides back down, 3 Burpee’s, and lap around the playground to switch

After this, we picked up afore-mentioned heavy-ass-coupons, made 1 stop on the way back to the flag to do 10 more Lt. Dan IC

MARY: bro(Y)oga for ~10 min.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: QvQ, cleanup, Convergence, Jaegar

COT: held… Prayers for marriages, communication, and recovery from injuries.

Charon’s Boat 2.0 will return in a safer (to the landscape) form in the near future

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11’s 7’s benches & other fun

WARMUP: mosey to the bus loop
Exercises in cadence with burpees in between
Windmills
imperial walkers
Hillbilly walkers
Low slow squats
Moroccan nights clubs holding people’s chair
Side straddle hops
Plank
Mountain climbers
Shoulder taps

THE THANG: mosey behind the school for 11’s
Burpees and squats on opposite sides of the lot – always adding up to 11

Mosey to the next lot for 7’s
Diamond merkins and lunges on opposite sides of the lot

Mosey to the tables for 3 rounds of:
15 step ups
15 incline merkins
15 dips

BTTW for 1 minute – just to see things from another point of view

Mosey to COT for 90
Seconds of geometry class (protractors) and we hit 0600

MARY: see above comment
ANNOUNCEMENTS: you betcha’ – on site and in your newsletter – which you should read.
COT: 5th core principle

Thanks for the call Rainmaker :eye:

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DORA Rules at GC

YHC was honored to be given the Q stick at Golden Corral by Half Shell today. This represented my first trip back in the gloom at 100% since dealing with a post D2D bronchitis and my spirits were excited about the opportunity. While not yet Springlike weather, the Pax were quickly sweaty from the downpainment on the day.

After seeing a post by IJ, I decided to maximize the DORA concept at GC today for encouragement, challenge and candor of a partner workout.

WARMUP:
Mosey to Oil and Lube shop
Windmills x 10
IW x 10
MNC x 10
Monkey Humpers x 10
Mtn Climbers x 10
SSH x 10

Let’s go!
THE THANG:

Partner up and run around HT for Group Dora stopping 5 times for:
5 burpees
10 lunges
15 Box cutters

Mosey to another lot for Lazy Dora
Alternating turns
100 Merkins/ partner plank
200 Squats/partner Al Gore
300 LBCs/ partner 6 inches

Mosey to Walgreens lot for normal Dora
50 Bombjacks
100 CDDs
150 Flutters

Mosey back for Big Boys until end

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

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