Pole Dancing At The Yard

WARMUP: Mosey Pax to back parking lot. We did 10 Seal Jacks, 10 Plank Jacks, 10 Windmills, Moraccian Nightclubs, Over head claps, and 7 Merkins.
THE THANG: After the warmup I told the Pax to meet me at the road leading out to Springfield Pkwy. This was the start of the pole work we put in. Along the road there are 14 lights that I put exercises at each one. You start at the first light pole then you proceed to next pole after doing your reps at each. To continue down the road you have to start back at the beginning and work through all the previous poles before continuing to the next one. Here’s the list of the exercises and order they where in at the light posts:
Hand Release Merkins
Big Boy Sit Ups
Sumo Squats
Diamond Merkins
X’s and O’s
Carolina Dry Docks
Monkey Humpers
Wide Arm Merkins
American Hammer
Lt. Dans
Regular Merkins
Freddy Mercury
Jump Squats
Everyone’s favorite Kraken Burpees
10 Reps for all stations

It was a tough workout that Uhaul complained about the whole time saying it wasn’t original. Harry Carey, Tesh and Peabody where kings. All Pax got at least 2 miles in.

MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: F3 The Fort 10 year anniversary this week and the next.
COT: Prayers for Tater’s daughter. Thanks Fogerty and Bitcoin for the Q. Sorry I’m terrible at writing Backblasts.

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Week 1 Iron Pax

So Humid…so dark….so wet….

In other words conditions were perfect for IPX week 1.

WARMUP: We did some SSH, windmills, and other stuff. It was all to loosen up for the inevitable beatdown.

THE THANG:

45 minute EMOM

4 Cones in a square. Each 25 yards apart

Start at cone 1 bearcrawl to cone 2 do 25 Squats,

sideways bearcrawl to cone 3 do 25 merkins,

Crawlbear to cone 4 do 25 Big Boy Sit-ups

sideways bearcrawl back to cone 1 do 25 burpees.

As many reps as you can in 45 minutes.

This was tough. Sweat poured, merlot was spilled, no tears shed but weakness did leave the body.

Grateful for the men that showed and did the really….really…. hard thing.

Week 2 here we come!! ⚔️⚔️⚔️

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Lite Work

WARMUP:

Mosey, Hillbilly Walker, Cherry Picker, Windmill,

THE THANG:

Mosey, The Motivator

Mosey, Circle of Pain (Mercans, Flutters, etc)

Mosey, Circle of Pain (Box cutters, Big boys, etc)

Mosey, Circle of Pain, (We named a workout called the Frat Boy, which involved a stair workout with Burpee’s).

Last 10 minutes we did Rowers, Fire Hydrants military presses, forward, and overhead claps.

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Running … into trees

It was hot and humid, first day all year as such.
We ran.
Some ran 3.4 miles.
At least one ran 5.5 miles.
At least one ran into a tree (it’s not a laughing matter)
At least one hung out by the bank and smoked Marlboro Reds (rumor has it)

Get off my lawn!

Looks like we made it,

Barry Manilow

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Trail Rucked with hill climbing

Pre-warmup
3 of us launched at 4:45a for a pre-ruck 1.6 miles
Warmup – None
The Thang:
Trail Rucked with hill climbing
Small Hill
Bottom of the Hill
15ea squats
15ea Moroccan night clubs
Top of the Hill
15ea squats
15ea Moroccan night clubs
*Rinse and Repeat 2x
Large Hill
Bottom of the Hill
15ea squats
15ea Moroccan night clubs
Top of the Hill
15ea squats
15ea Moroccan night clubs
*Rinse and Repeat 2x
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@Airwolf
was cool, calm, and collect as always. He shows and goes.
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@Dojo
was round house kicking trees down to make new paths. Monday’s are leg day.
@Ölaf
we need more Olaf’s.
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@Flounder
and
@Triple Lindy
went Bigfoot hunting while we were in the woods. No sightings but we did see a couple of deer.

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Week 0 Iron PAX challenge

WARMUP:

15 SSH IC
15 Michael Phelps IC (DH gave us an abridged Michael Phelps bio during this exercise)
5 Windmills IC
15 Mountain Climbers IC

THE THANG:

The COE Sandwich.

COE:
5 rounds
20 Thrusters with Coupon
20 Standard Merkins

Brenton
3 Rounds
100ft Bear Crawl
100FT Burpee Bear Crawl back (3 burpees for every 5 broad jumps)

5 more Rounds of Coe.

Modified version offered Goblet Squats and Incline or Decline Merkins for Coe and a 100 FT mosey/Lungewalk for Brenton with 10 HR merkins at the halfway point

We decided to make it harder than the recommended 3 merkins.

Please remember to submit those times.

As always it was a tough workout but we all better for it. Today’s workout was a combination of 2 hero WOD’s I encourage you all to take the time and read up on it at F3 greenwood.

Until Next time………

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Longest 11 ever

WARMUP: SSH, Imperial Walkers, Merkins, Downdog
THE THANG:
Mosey to the school for a round of 11’s.
Breakdance merkins(double count) on one side.
Crunchy frogs(in cadence) on the other side.
Distance between points was approximately 0.2mi.
No one got through all 11. Maybe it was too far?

Thanks for the opportunity to come run with the high performance HIM’s of the Fort. I’m always impressed by the showing and the effort laid down.

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SlowBurn: What’s your number…Go get it!

WARMUP:
Mosey, shuffle, toy soldier, bear crawl, moracan night club,l
THE THANG:
20sec on 10sec rest
3rounds
Merkins
Leg lifts
Sumo squats
Wide arm Merkins
Donkey Kicks
Squat jumps
Plank punch
Flutters
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Read Newsletter
COT: was glorious!!

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Lamp Post Pain

WARMUP: 10 each Moroccan night clubs, cherry pickers, SSH, imperial walkers
THE THANG: started with 3 laps of the parking lot with duck walks, bear crawls, lunges, toy soldiers, LBC, merkins, burpee’s, big boys

Suicides on the hill with burpee’s, LBC’s, flutters, squats, min climbers, merkins

MARY: box cutters, LBCS, flutters

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Trash pick up, Dam to Dam, check slack

COT: Shower curtain, wisdom for u-hauls daughter, bitcoin sons health, gentleness in words for Peabody, reaper and cousin Eddie marriage, ham hocks dad, Double Do’s moms back, dojos son battling culture, travel mercies for rebel, mental health

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Ruck fartlek

WARMUP: lap around the parking lot. Each man had opportunity to lead an exercise in cadence.
If memory serves correct it was:
Squats,
Merkins,
Standing penguins,
Imperial walkers
Moroccan night clubs
THE THANG: Fartlek style repeats focusing on keeping feet quiet (meaning less impact and less putting on brakes), keeping head steady, keeping ruck close to body, quick short steps landing on a bent knee vs an outstretched leg. We did over 2 miles worth of speed work. Very proud of the guys for coming out and getting faster. Spare rucks are always available for guys to attempt The manly thing.
MARY: keep core tight during shuffle to reduce chance of injury.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: congratulations to my wonderful M for not killing me for the first 14 years of our marriage.
COT: Grout took us out. Prayers for @shower curtain

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