Wait…you want me to Q a ruck workout?

WARMUP: Made our way to the upper parking lot for SSH, Mountain Climbers, Plank work, Windmills, and more SSH without ruck

THE THANG: FYI…this was my VQ (ruck)! I felt WAY outside my comfort zone, which is where we as leaders are meant to be…but like most any challenge we face, the way through it is my taking the next step.

Remaining work with ruck – relocated to the sidewalk just outside the entrance to the BMX track and started at the first light pole with 10 squats, lunge walk to next pole for merkins, reverse lunge walk to the next pole for curls, lunge walk to the next pole for thrusters.  Now at the bottom of the hill, we discussed my #OneWord for 2023 of #Intentionality and proceeded to use the hill for a Jacobs Ladder – starting with 10 burpees at the top and 1 big boy sit-up with the ruck overhead at the bottom.  The group completed this with just enough time to make our way back to COT
MARY: nothing other than the big boys
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Mens shelter, blood drive, d2d fundraising, newsletter
COT: What’s share in COT stays in COT

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All of the Lights

mosey around the school to the picnic tables. Two rounds of step ups and dips.
Mosey to the front of the school. At each light, alternate, merkins, squats, and LBCs, set of 10.
Follow the light pole to the football field, across the bridge, and back to the picnic tables for more step ups and dips.
Back to COT.

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NFL PIGSKIN PICK’EM

THE THANG:

NFL Pickskin Pick’em Fund Raiser

14 Pax picked the potential winner of every NFL game this season
Each correct pick was awarded 10 pts
Each E.H. that posted throughout the season was awarded 20 bonus points
Each time a Pax volunteered at an F3 community service outing (Bethel Men’s Shelter, Blood Donations, FMCC, Adopt-a-Highway) was awarded 30 bonus points.

Most correct picks with 173 out of 269 games – Fogerty and Pusher
Most E.H.’s with 1 each – Uhaul and Cohiba
Most Community Service posts with 5 times – Fogerty, Sprocket, Badlands

Overall Standings
1st place Fogerty 1880 pts and $185
2nd place Sprocket with 1850 pts and $46
3rd Badlands 1840 pts
4th Pusher 1730 pts
5th Poppins 1710 pts
6th Double D 1700 pts
7th Uhaul 1690 pts
8th Cohiba 1670 pts
8th Dojo 1670 pts
10th Backdraft 1640 pts
11th Barry Manilow 1610 pts
11th B.O.B. 1610 pts
13th Crab Cakes 1390 pts
14th Cyclops with the tagline “4 yards and a cloud of dust” – 1340 pts

1st and 2nd place get to create a workout beatdown based on standings.

$273 dollars donated to the Fort Mill F3 Scholarship fund.

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Uno the Day

WARMUP: Walked across the parking lot to where the gear was set up.
THE THANG: Small 4 corners with 4 items. 40 lb. Sandbag (New), 35 lb. KB, Rucksack, and Cinder Block. Rotated around the circle doing exercises starting with 5 reps each and then escalate up one each round up to 12 reps each. 2 rounds with 20 merkins between rounds and at the end
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT: Prayers

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8 Block’a

THE THANG:
– Goal planning best practices: 12 week planning (goals into smaller chunks), S.M.A.R.T. goals, have an Idea-ation process (uninterrupted listing/brainstorming)

Word of Year:
– Think of past words
– Create a list before critiquing each word, categorize and rank

1st F Themes:
– # of posts this year
– Event(s) for year
– Time/count based goals, i.e. 4-min mile

2nd F Themes:
– QSource
– Passion… Church groups, F3 weekly meets, etc
– Event like a long golf weekend or camping
-Engaging pax you don’t know well
Set an EH’ing goal

3rd F Themes:
– 3rdF Thursdays
– Service-based project
– Join a Life Group (church)

Jester:
– What’s driving bad habits? Real Jester? “Onion” concept, keep peeling back layers
– Abstinence, i.e. quitting porn/booze
– Putting in guardrails, i.e. telling Shield Lock, avoiding situations

Mental Preparedness: Consistency, DRP, 3S2T

Improving Relationships: Consider 2nd F goals, Concentrica relationships

Advice to You get Self:
– Get a mentor
– Don’t procrastinate
– Don’t waste time wasted
-Learn to love unconditionally

COT: Prayer by the Boss of Cakes

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12 Days of Christmas

WARMUP: stretches; windmill praises (Pope Francis (85)), Boxer Squats (Chuck Liddell (52)), Jump Ropes Manny Pacquiao(43)), Evil Squats (Milla Jovovich (46))
Bear Crawled across the basketball courts, 20 big boy twists, bear crawl back and 20 more big boy twists
THE THANG:
1 lap around the courtyard track
2 burpees
3 big boys
4 monkey humpers
5 squats
6 flutter kicks
7 bobby hurleys
8 Mt Climbers (4ct)
9 Plank Jacks
10 SSH (4 ct)
11 Lunges
12 Merkins

MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Newsletter
COT: Prayers for family members, and travel during the holidays

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52 Pickup

WARMUP: SSH, planks, arm circles, etc
THE THANG: Deck of cards workout
Spades = Thrusters
Clubs = High pull and shrug combo
Diamonds = Curls
Hearts = Tricep extensions
Ace = Mosey
Jokers = Wild (pax that draws it picks the exercise)

Took turns drawing cards, reps equaled face value of the drawn card. Ultimately we did a total of 90 reps of each of the exercises above.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Christmas convergence
COT: we all shared something we are grateful for, Prayers for patience, family going through medical procedures, etc.

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Unshuffled deck of total nonsense

WARMUP: tested the site Q to see if he would cancel and go home cause it was raining. A core principle was applied. Moseyed to cover under the awning at C.O.G.
THE THANG: Deck of cards. Took turns pulling cards and thinking of exercises and how many. Yes, that’s really what we did.
MARY: Nope.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your newsletter, LEARN HOW TO SUBMIT BACKBLASTS
COT: Mental Battles and Prayers for those that need a venue such as F3.

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12 days of painmas

WARMUP: mosey to parking lot across the street for a circle and warm up exercises.

THE THANG: mosey more over to medical building and get going on the 12 days.  

Not moderate.  Good work put in. Fellowship was pretty quiet by about day 5.

Do day one, run around building.

Plank for 6.  

Do day two, day one then around the building, etc

1 Donkey Kick

2 WAM

3 Jumping Lunges

4 Merkins

5 Squats

6 Burpees

7 Bombjacks

8 Sumo Squats

9 CDD

10 Flutters IC

11 Monkey Humpers

12 Diamond Merkins

During Plank we got to hear about Pax fav Christmas gift memory as a kid.  Sounded like a lot of our folks were hitting the Sears catalog or the local KB Toy in the mall for the best stuff.  

Outside of Old Bay who got a dot matrix printer.  Prob from Radio Shack.  We are renaming him Tandy.

MARY:  no time for her.  It took all 45 to wrap the 12 days.  Site q was nervous we’d be late during run back.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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Mississippi Mud

It was a chilly morning in The Fort, but the firey mumble chatter kept us all warm. So did the pain!

After a plethora of warmup exersices we were off for some wall work.

The Ascending Testicles (not so distant cousin to Balls to the Wall)

15 Degrees – 10 Derkins
45 Degrees – 10 Derkins
Balls to the Wall – 10 Derkins

Then a round of The Australian (aka decline mountain climbers

We then moseyed over to the track to celebrate the birthday of our beloved state Mississippi.
Fun Facts: Mississippi joined the Union as the 20th state on December 10th 1817 and gets its name from the Mississippi River, which forms its western border. Mississippi is known for being the birthplace of American blues music and is also famous for its fertile soil, which makes it an agricultural powerhouse, as well as for its catfish farming industry.

The Thang:
18 of one exercise, run half a lap around the track. Then 17 of the same exercise, and run the other half of lap (year 1817). We worked our way all the way down the list.

M – erkins
I – material Walkers
S – ide Straddle Hops
S – it Ups
I – nch Worms
S – holder Taps
S – umo Squats
I – ron Mike Tysons
P – eter Pointers
P – eter Parkers
P – eter Pointers
I – mperial Storm Kickers

Back to COT

-JWow

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