I forgot my ruck sack to the ruck sack workout

The Thang
We rucked about 1.5 miles stopping for 10 rep exercises of OH press, curls, tris, chest press, abs, squats, and calf raises. We discussed our best sporting events and fun with parenting.

The theme was the Boy Scout motto Be Prepared. I lugged a bell around as my ruck sack slept at home. By making it painful, I will remember it next time.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: sign up the cannoli Run
COT:

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AKA ‘25 at Block Party

WARMUP: Mosey to vet clinic parking lot. SSH, LSS, MNC, Merkin, Down Dog, Up Dog
THE THANG:
Mosey to large parking lot at the corner of Confederate and Monroe White for a DORA.
– 100 Mike Tyson (MOT – Run to far side of parking lot and NUR back)
– 200 Lunges (MOT – bear crawl to second landscape island and run back)
– 300 American Hammers (MOT – Run to far side of parking lot and NUR back)

Run to bottom of Massey St hill for a round of 7s.
– Burpees at the top of the hill
– Jump Squats at the bottom of the hill

MARY: PAX took turns calling Mary to run out the final 3 minutes.

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$100,000 Pyramid (Scheme)

WARMUP:
Seal Jacks, Moroccan Nightclubs, Cherry Pickers, Windmills

THE THANG:
The amphitheater has 11 stone “benches”. An index card with 2 exercises was placed on each stone. One at a time, a pax bear-crawled to a stone to retrieve a card, while other pax planked from elbows until he returned.

All pax then did those 2 exercises together:

Index cards:
1. Merkins 30 / Sumos 30
2. Derkins 20 / Lunges 20
3. Carolina Dry Docks 20 / Bomb Jacks 20
4. Burpees 15 / Flutters 60
5. Dips 20 / LBCs 40
6. Shoulder Taps 20 / Freddy Mercury’s 40
7. Step Ups 20 / American Hammers
8. Peter Parker 30 / Al Gore (60 sec)
9. Flying Squirrels 20 / Box Cutters 20
10. Side Lunge 20 / Mtn Climbers 30
11. Parker Peter 30 / Reverse Lunge 20
each side

MARY:
Throughout

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Bethel tonight, Vuvu’s fastest 5k next week

COT:
Praises and prayers for aging parents and praises for Boogie’s son getting accepted for a semester abroad in Spain!

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A Respectable Ramble

WARMUP: Disclaimer only
THE THANG: A ruck around FM including WEP, Massey and Harris St.

Great conversation about life in Respect stage among 3 Respectables. Lots of love for The Fort and our pax referenced. Emphasis on living our best individual life now without waiting or deferring to the future.

MARY: She didn’t post
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Fast 5k
COT: Of course, always included

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1st ever Hubert Graham Pwky workout

THE THANG:
1. Run 160, Stonecrest, Hubert Graham and back
2. 16 March Madness Merkins at every other light pole on Stonecrest and Hubert Graham
3. When there’s a guardrail, alternate between incline merkins and Derkins
we got in 3.4 miles.
MARY:
A few did abs, I made it for Hello Dollys at the end.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:
Heavy stuff today.
Live 3rd. It’s not about you, it about how to serve the ones in your life.
Smothered and Covered shared heavy news. Spectre led us out to give prayers to S&C.

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Everyone wants to be Double D

WARMUP: Mosey around the park with the following exercises throughout – SSH, cherry pickers, imperial walkers, hillbilly walkers, moroccan nightclub, windmill.
THE THANG: Start with bear crawls at the roundabout, then the following exercises between light poles along the sidewalk (OTW to sunbelt lot) – toy soldiers, lunges, bear crawls, toy soldiers, lunges…. mosey to sunbelt lot and then do 7 of diamonds – 4 stations starting with 7 merkins at each station, then 14 squats at each station, then 21 LBCs at each station, and finally flutters at each station. Mosey back towards COT and on the way – hold plank then mountain climbers, mosey to stairs, hold plank while running up and down individually. Mosey back to COT.
MARY: Ab workouts throughout
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read newsletter
COT: Prayers and praises and ended in prayer.

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Hurt So Good

WARMUP: Short mosey around amphitheatre, down path by pond around fire pit and back with some exercises along the way and short COP. Mosey to stairs in strip where Epic sits.

THE THANG: Figure 8 loop that includes a run upstairs, lunge walk to right end, run downstairs back to starting point, run upstairs, bear crawl to left end, run downstairs and back to starting point. One core exercise.

We did rinse/repeat of this route a total of 7x with some mods to vary the lunges and to include some crawl bears.

Mosey home

2 mins of burpees or flying squirrels

MARY: She finished off each lap

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Convergence Fri for leadership transition, Jaeger on Sat

COT: Always! Some added reflection by YHC on “Home” my word for 2025 and DOAH added some thoughts on his word “Grace”

It was great to have pax pushing themselves and each other throughout. Also a treat to have DOAH for his first ride along with the Dawn Patrol (his 2nd workout of the morning!).

Grateful for presence of each of you men. SYITG!

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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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Run or Ruck or Bootcamp or All 3.

WARMUP: Started moving
THE THANG: Rucked to a parking lot, ran a loop, did accumulating exercises at each stop. 10 Merkins, 10 BigBoys, 10 Ruck Curls, 10 Dips, 10 Squats.
MARY: Nope. Landed right on time.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Convergence at The Hive, The Jeager, CANNOLI RUN.
COT: Yes, Always

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