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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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Link street on my heart

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Written by DOAH in slack: [commentary by Band Camp]

Heart Breakers: @U01NGHPR2HW and almost @U05TY21AC2X, but he uncommitted sometime last night…

The Thang: Route attached [was attached in slack, you could look up today's date on a PAX's Strava. Suffice it to say: we hit 3 miles. FMPD slow rolled our start this morning which kept YHC from running directly where I planned to go, but we made it over there another way. No complaints]. We stopped a lot and did a lot [5 each stop] of 6-Count burpees (a BC staple), [10] merkins, [15] squats, [20] flutters, with a few LBCs thrown in for bad measure. [We did an undetermined amount of these based on keeping the group together enough so nobody got lost. Kept things in cadence because that seems to help keep men accountable to actually doing the exercises. Something about pushing through pain and discomfort together. Started with just burpees. Next stop: burpees & merkins, etc.]

Moleskine: Sweat. Plenty of sweat. And some ramblings that implied some very limited understanding of the functional success of certain systems. Regardless, we went fast and didn't lose anyone along the way… except Slash… but he was lost by choice. Uptown Girl is still greatly disturbed by my presence and refused even so much as a fist bump this morning, but like a lot of folks who hate me when they first meet me (that list is long, right Crystal Lake?), I'll wear him down eventually.

COT: The Fort’tan gave a good thought about acting on those things that we feel called to do and not delaying. Prayers for EC as he heads off to get his head shaved and his spine straightened, and prayers for NASA as he sends his little bird out of the nest.

[Here's the deal. God doesn't put things on your heart for someone else to do it. Go get after it.]

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Chance, Choice, and Scrotum Tunnels: The Memoirs a MILGA Man

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It was a moist, humid morning. The message covered a fairly simple topic, Life.

We delved into the topic of chance with the use of a coin flip. Winner named the activity and rep count. Things are at times (Most) out of our hands. We are but passengers on this life river as we flow along. We did a few rounds of this. Lots of curveballs were thrown out of the most unexpected PAX. Life doesn't go as we planned and usually we don't get what we expect out of someone.

Life is about Choices. The choice was to get across the park from the bathroom to the playground. The options were bear crawl or burpee broad jump. The catch, every time you changed your mind there was a 5 merkin penalty.

We then teamed up to chose who would go first. The only way your partner could move is if you did 1 merkin per step. The object, get 1 partner over the line and then BOTH were done. For reference there was about 70-90 steps to get across. Some teams did equal amounts and crossed together. Others, Mine and Dark Helmets, relied on 1 person to basically do all the work so the other could advance. Then we both chilled at the end waiting on the other, less able teams.

But wait, there's more….The next set of partner work was the same concept but the exercise was burpees. The catch, whoever crossed first on the original trek could NOT be the one to cross first this time. The lesson, sometimes finishing first isn't all it turned out to be. Sometimes the person out from will the next day need to carry someone else. Needless to say I did more burpees this morning than in my entire time at f3 combined.

We then had a lesson on encouragement but I'm tired of typing.

We also did the scrotum tunnel just so everyone could get a rash in the grass.

Lastly we concluded with an unfair amount of burpees selected for random PAX. some did 1, some 3, some 5…..guess what, LIFE isn't fair. Deal with that shit and move on.

At the end of it all the message is this, it is ALL life. the good, bad, fair, unfair, choices, encouragement, discouragement, chance, highs, lows. There is no BIG thing to discover. If your waiting for that your wasting your life. Appreciate it all. Find joy in a birds chirp, contentment in mashing that dam keyboard for 8 hours a day, reach to the heaven and give thanks for it all. The argument with the wife, the aggravation with the kids, the person who cut you off in traffic.

Your PERSPECTIVE will drive your life. Stop waiting

MILGA bitches

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Tour d’ Favorites

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WARMUP: Run a bit in the Sweep parking lot then a few warm up exercises: 10 Lunges each leg, 10 Mountain Climbers I/C, 10 Carolina Dry Docks, 10 Mak Tar Jah
THE THANG: The "theme" this morning, albeit unspoken, was to run to a spot and do the work. In some cases, we'd repeat it and in others, it was a one-and-done. I know, novel idea.
Exit the lot, run to Dave Gibson and turn left onto Dave Gibson's, stopping at the bottom of the hill.
10 Diamond Merkins
10 Mountain Climbers I/C
10 Carolina Dry Docks
10 Mak Tar Jah's
Run up the hill to the small parking lot and back down.
Repeat the exercises.
Run back up and down.
When all finish the final run, run up opposite hill to the realty office. Perform:
10 Hand-Release Merkins
10 V-Ups
10 Shoulder taps (ea side)
10 Jump Lunges
Run back down then up to Ben Casey Dr.
10 Hand-Release Merkins
10 V-Ups
10 Shoulder taps (ea side)
10 Jump Lunges
Run to Discount Tire
20 Dips & 20 Peter Parkers (10 ea side)
Run to the light at the 1st Brayden entrance: Emory Lane
10 Burpees
Run through the neighborhood and down to the bottom of Brayden Parkway
15 Squats & 15 Hand-Release Merkins
Run to the top of Brayden Parkway for 5 Burpees
Wrap it up at COT for some additional Mary.

I leave it to 38 Special to verify the accuracy of my reporting.

MARY: See above
ANNOUNCEMENTS: The team spends a lot of time developing the newsletter with great content, leverage it.
Bethel needs on 8/6
Excavation on 8/28
Stuff the bus on 8/8
There were more
COT: 100%

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Dark Helmet

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WARMUP:
THE THANG: We did a couple of loops around the Kingsplex, with some bear crawling and crawl bearing in honor of the Other Band Camp (@UGU3XR5RP – not present), some running up Textile Hill, and lots of NOT stepping on the grass…
We wrapped with a Mary tribute to Iron Balls McGinty. All in all, it was real nice time…

Moleskine:The mumblechatter was on point this morning. Pollo’s balls dominated the list of topics of discussion… whether it was that they were encased in metal, or being eaten by handsome crabs, we all now know too much and will need to scrub our brains.

MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT: Prayers for many things and a call to give to Living Waters International…

Go do some freaking good today. You're way more capable of it than you give yourself credit for.

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A slice of pie

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WARMUP: SSH, arm circles, windmills, imperial walkers, hillbilly walkers, Moroccan nightclubs, mosey

THE THANG:

Thang 1: 7’s
Merkins at the bottom of the hill into parking lot – NUR to top – jump squats at the top – run back down

Mosey across Ardrey to FMPD lot

Thang 2: 4 corners
Corner 1: Carolina dry docks
Corner 2: squats
Corner 3: plank jacks
Corner 4: mountain climbers
Rep count = 20
MOT = run

Completed 5 rounds

Mosey back to flag for Mary

MARY: flutters, box cutters, big boy sit-ups , big boy sit-ups , big boy sit-ups … and more big boy sit-ups 🙂

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Regular Service opportunities in the fort:

#C0BAPRMGF8V – lawn service for fort mill care center. Contact @U050B5M1DGR or check 2F

Bethel men’s shelter: 1st Thursday of month. BOLO for signups or contact @U083QU67RF0

COT: yes

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No Complaints, Just Work

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WARMUP:
Dark Helmet on Q for the 1st half:
A lap around the park with a stop at the pull-up bars for everyone to knock out a few then over to the wall behind the backstop. We performed a set of dips on the wall then made it to the left side of the field to line up the light pole.

THE THANG:
5 Burpees performed on the light pole on the left side and 10 Burpees on the right side light pole.
The mode of transportation would change for each movement:
Run/Nur, Bear Crawl/Crawl Bear, Wounded Dog (terrible & humbling) x 2, Alligator Crawl.

Hand Off to Maximus:
Don't leave this spot.
15 Squats, 10 Reverse Lunges each leg, 15 Jump Squats, 30sec Al Gore
Sprint to the other side (light pole)
15 Squats, 10 Reverse Lunges each leg, 15 Jump Squats, 30sec Al Gore
Sprint to the other side (light pole)
15 Squats, 10 Reverse Lunges each leg, 15 Jump Squats, 30sec Al Gore
Sprint to the other side (light pole)
Mosey to the top of the hill and Switzer
You had to be there for the message.
Jog down to the bottom of the hill for instructions.
Sprint your tail off to the top, jog down, perform 10 merkins and do an exercise while you wait.
Repeat.
Follow instructions for sprint/job, walk instructions to the top.
To the field again.
20 V-Ups, 20 American Hammers

NMM: From Dark Helmet:
Here's what I will tell you, no one was a huge fan of the wounded dogs but the hill sprints on TCD Hill were the real crowd pleaser…total shutdown of mumblechatter and several bodily functions. We were also treated to a number of PAX sightings as we went. I recall Shady, Pauly D, Tesh and Spike making a pass through. They looked miserable. That's good training for BRR, which is at least 72% misery. The rest is a loose emulsion of running and fellowship.

MARY: Worked in throughout.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Pints & Padres family cookout June 21 at 5:30pm at The Print Shop.
Step up and serve at The Bethel Men's Shelter.
COT: There are a lot of things going well, but there are a lot of challenges around The Fort. Don't wait for someone else to do it. Reach out to a man and share burdens. As has been said before: A burden shared is half the burden, a joy shared is twice the joy.

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