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Carry the Load

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10 men carried heavy things on a sweaty Wednesday morning at the Sink. Here’s what we did:

Warm-up

  • 10 Low Slow Squats (IC)
  • 10 Imperial Walkers (IC)
  • Front Fold Stretch
  • Side Stretch

Mosey to flag pole

The Thang
The PAX brought a ruck, sandbag, and kettlebell each for a large loop carry then exercise routine. It looked like this:

Round 1

  • Carry your ruck, bell, and sandbag for 1 lap followed by
  • 30 Calf Raises, 30 KB Swings, and 30 Merkins

Round 2

  • Carry 2 items for 2 laps followed by
  • 20 Curls, 20 Flutters w/ a Press, and 20 Squats

Round 3

  • Carry 1 item for 3 laps followed by
  • 10 Burpees, 10 Sit-up to Press, and 10 Bench Press

NMM
We often ask God to lighten our load, but sometimes He strengthens us by teaching us how to carry it. That looks like showing up when you’re tired. It means investing in others even when you see little results. It means leading when recognition is absent. It means remaining faithful to your mission instead of being fixated on measurable success.

Keep going, especially when it’s tough. The process is shaping you into a stronger man.

-IJ

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Playground Fun

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WARMUP:
Snooker lead us through a series of in-place warm-ups, including great hits like "Buttkickers", "High-Knees", and "Good Mornings".

THE THANG:
Moseyed on the trail about 1/4 around the park, stopping at the swinging benches for some burpees.

At the playground, we partnered up. Partner 1 did a stationary exercise, while partner 2 ran around the playground. Flap-jack. Stationary exercises were as follows;

1. Merkins
2. Heels to heaven
3. Swing crunches
4. Box Cutters
5. Pull ups
6. Shoulder Taps
7. Freddie Mercury s
8. CDDs
9. CDDs ( feet elevated above head)
10. LBCs
11. Seal jacks
12. Flutters
13. Burpees

Lined up for railroad tracks across the field.
Moseyed down to the new turf for Jack Webbs.
Sat on the wall for some Jack Reachers
2 minutes of Mary.

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It’s Wet. YES. Now, Do The Work

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Whenever there's an FNG, I feel the responsibility to turn it up a notch and to ensure I adhere to the principles, cadence calling, and traits of what I love about F3. While it's not up to me to determine the intensity of this morning's workout as I'll let the PAX chime in, what I can control is the adherence to the principles, cadence calling and characteristics of what I love about F3…so long as I don't stray from the 5 Core Principles or the Credo.
Naturally, we reviewed those this morning prior to launching as we had an FNG in the gloom with us, welcome Small Things.

WARMUP: Mosey to the parking lot of FMRX and discover a nicely placed deck of cards. Oh look, what shall we do with these? The intent was to complete ~1/2 the deck utilizing some warm-up exercises and regular exercises and let this serve as our slightly-higher-than-normal-intensity warm-up.
Hearts: Merkins
Clubs: Flutters (count the rt side only)
Spades: Squats
Diamonds: Butt Kickers (count the rt side only)

THE THANG:
Mosey to the big lot on the right at the top of the Massey hill for a large evolution of 4 Corners with a center.
Start in the center of the lot and run to the corner, perform the exercise, run back to the center for 5 burpees, then out to the next corner and back to the center and so on. Complete 2 full rounds.
Corner 1: 15 Hand-Release Merkins
Corner 2: 15 Jump Squats
Corner 3: 15 Carolina Dry Docks
Corner 4: 15 American Hammers

Once everyone completed round 2, we then completed 1 additional round as a group but cut the reps in half.

Mosey to the steps at the Fort Mill Church of the Nazarene. The original plan had us running up and down the set of stairs but due to the rain, we lunge walked up the stairs, walked down and did that 3 times then went to the Church parking lot.
Here I looked at the wienke and realized I had about 7mins of material for the remaining 15mins of time in the hour. A reminder for all, plan a longer workout in case you finish an evolution faster than anticipated. So, what did we do? I preceded to make a few enemies and released the angry gremlin inside Super G.

Welcome back to the Mak Tar Jah followed by the Knee Tar Jah!

Now, mosey back to COT for what turned out to be the fastest naming of an FNG I've ever been apart of.
Welcome, Small Things.
MARY: Yes
ANNOUNCEMENTS: CRI Training, Bethel Men's Shelter, Stuff The Bus
COT: 100%

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Hair Metal 🎸 and Iron Bells 🔔

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It was a wet morning in the fort but the dry humerus chatter kept us warm. A quick warmup and we were off.

Thang: 50 reps of an exercise and then run across the parking lot and nur back. We did this 10 times. It was glorious.

Jwow

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Impossible Island Hopping

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WARMUP: moseyed with some stops along the way. No feedback on the cadence calling. The PIP I was on was in full effect. Finished with Bonnie Blairs X 10.
THE THANG: In honor of The Pirate, a 4 corners, 20 reps at each corner. Merkins, Derkins, Heels to Heaven, and Big Boys.

Mosey and Sprints 2X to length of the parking lot changing pace at every island. Another idea taken from Pirate.

Picked two islands to do an Impossible Mile:
First Lap: Burpee Broad Jumps
Second Lap: Lunge Walk
Third Lap: Bear Crawl
Fourth Lap: Mosey.

Everyone LOVED the Impossible Mile.

Truly an honor to GET TO share doing difficult things with these men.

MARY: some did, some not so much.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Stuff the Bus, LaGrama, Bethel, Bourbon, Cannoli Run!
COT: Lifting up all those going through life’s beatdowns and enjoying the time when the storms pass.

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Q Source – Trust Q3.3

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I'm going from memory so forgive me if I missed a PAX or three.
We talked about trust as the latest QSource topic. We discussed if you're trustworthy, how you develop trust and what happens to a team when trust does/doesn't exist.

WARMUP:
THE THANG:
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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You Just Need A Sandbag….And Take It Around To Your Friends

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WARMUP: A mere jog get loosened up.
THE THANG: Hoist your sandbag to the carry position and make your way close to the flagpoles for the first of our several 60 x 60's. This is an exercise where you start with the 60lb (or similar) sandbag on the ground, lift the bag and toss it over your head. turn around and repeat, for 60 seconds.
Hoist the sand bags and make your way to the back dumpsters for our first round of 15's w/ our sandbag:
Simbas, Flutters w/ Press, Left & Right Side Bends
60 x 60
Hoist the sandbag and head down the back stretch to the other side of the school for another round of 15's:
Back Squats, Dead Lifts, Thrusters, Calf Raises
60 x 60
Hoist the sandbag and make our way to the entrance of the school for 15's:
Derkins w/ feet on the curb or sandbag, Curls, Overhead Press, Chest Press
60 x 60
Hoist the sandbag and head to the big tree and partner up:
P1: Farmers Carry the sand bags about 50yds
P2: Mountain Climbers and run to meet your partner where they stopped.
Flapjack
Hoist the sandbag and head to the front of the school for the last round of 60 x 60.

MARY: Throughout
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Stuff The Bus, La Grama, Bethel participation
COT: You should've been there.

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PoBoy Mike Tyson’s

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WARMUP: straight up Broga with some stretching
THE THANG: mosey to benches for hips and back. Went to back lot for other warmup stuff two kinds of walkers, squats etc. more hip and hammy stretching. Down to playground with soft turf really nice Clark. Did these poboy Mike Tyson’s that’s what Barry called them. He can demo. Good back stretch along with lats. Did some Mary. Went to wall do some sits. Did a bridge run both ways to check gate. Couldn’t get in cause @UGU3XR5RP hasn’t given me a key 😂 so did some bench work or something back to cot for Mary.

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Blimps are fun

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Another super humid morning but it was great seeing 11 other guys show up to get the day started right. Quick disclaimer then mosey around park stopping at each swing for 2 exercises. 10 counts of imperial Walker's, cherry pickers, tempo merkins, low slow squats, wide arm merkins, etc. Mosey down trail behind park to the grass hill for accumulating BLIMPS. 5 burpees, then either run up big hill or smaller side hill and return. 5 burpees, 10 lunges, nur up hill. 5 burpees, 10 lunges, 15 imp squat Walker's, bear crawl up hill (not my idea but someone really wanted to bear crawl). Same 5, 10, 15, then 20 merkins, run up hill. Same 5, 10, 15, 20, then 25 plank jacks and nur up hill. Last round 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, and 30 SSHs then mosey back to amphitheater. Partner up. P1 does flying squirrel while P2 holds plank. P2 drops to 6 inch plank hold and P1 jumps over. Repeat for total of 8 flying squirrels then flap jack. Yog around amphitheater then rinse and repeat. Yog back to COT for a few ab exercises then times up. Appreciate the opportunity @U08QLQH6J68

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