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Mental Health Battle

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Warm-Up:
Mosey lap around AO
SSH – 20 IC
Imperial Walkers – 15 IC
Windmills – 10 IC
Strawberry Pickers – 10 IC
Mosey lap around AO with log

Main Thang:
Round 1: Cinder Strength

Perform 3 rounds: (10, 15, 20 reps)

Cinder Block Squat Press (Thruster)
Cinder Block Rows
Cinder Block Lunges (Rep per leg)
Cinder Block Curls
Cinder Block Flutter Kicks (with a press)

Recovery: Farmers Carry with Cinderblock on each hand to 50 yards and back between rounds.

Round 2: Log Run

First group runs with log to the 30 yard line and back while the others do burpees and then you switch.

F3 Discussion:

The Mental Health Battle

Objective

Sharpen awareness, reinforce brotherhood, and provide practical tools to manage mental strain—personally and as a group.

Lead-in: Mental health is not a trend—it’s a daily fight. Every man in the circle is carrying something: pressure, stress, expectations, or silent battles.

Key Point: You don’t have to be broken to be struggling.

Set the tone:

– Confidentiality is implied

– No fixing, just listening

– Respect the man speaking

Define the Battlefield

Mental health issues don’t usually show up labeled. They come disguised as:

– Irritability instead of anger issues

– Withdrawal instead of sadness

– Overworking instead of avoidance

– Silence instead of strength

Discussion Prompt:

“Where does stress show up in your life right now—work, home, or internally?”

The Lies vs. The Truth

Men tend to operate under outdated scripts:

Common Lies:

“I need to handle this alone.”

“Talking about it is weakness.”

“It’ll pass if I ignore it.”

“Other guys have it worse.”

Counter Truth:

Isolation compounds problems

Speaking up is controlled strength

Ignored issues grow roots

Comparison kills accountability

Discussion Prompt:

“Which lie have you personally bought into?”

Tools for the Fight

This is where you bring practical execution—F3 is about action.

1. The Check-In

One guy you trust

Once a week, no surface-level talk

2. Control the Inputs

Sleep, alcohol, social media

Garbage in = garbage out

3. Move Your Body

You already did this today—there’s a reason F3 works

4. Name It

Stress, anger, burnout—call it what it is

Undefined problems don’t get solved

5. Faith Component

Anchor yourself in something bigger

Scripture, prayer, or quiet time—discipline over emotion

Proverbs 12:25 – Anxiety weighs the heart down, but a good word lifts it up.

Discussion Prompt:

“Which of these are you currently neglecting?”

Closing: Lock It In

Final Challenge:

Identify one action you will take this week

Identify one man you will check on

Make it specific:

Not “I’ll do better”

Instead: “I’ll call John on Thursday” or “I’ll cut out late-night scrolling”

Close with this: Strength isn’t carrying everything alone—it’s knowing when to lock shields with the men beside you.

Go around:

One word describing your current state

One word describing where you want to be

Bottom Line

Mental health is maintenance, not emergency repair. Ignore it, and it owns you. Stay ahead of it, and you lead your life instead of reacting to it.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your newsletter
COT: Prayers and Praises

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3-13

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Good group for a chilly morning. Decided to be super creative and use date as workout plan. Yog over to side of lowes for 3 exercises, 13 reps of each: HR merkins, big boys, and squats. Repat this at 2 more stops until we ended up near the Imdian restaurant. Break up into 3 teams, 2 teams work while 1 team does active rest. Teams 1 & 2 do 10 merkins while team 3 holds plank, then 2 & 3 merkins and 1 planks, then 1 & 3 merkin and 2 planks. 2 rounds of this. Then same sequence but big boys were the exercise and 6″ leg holds were the rest. 2 rounds of that. Then another 2 rounds with squats and Al Gores. Yog over to main parking lot. Everyone line up on curb for 15 merkins, 15 big boys, and 15 squats, then run 3 line suicide. 13 merkins, 13 big boys, 13 squats, 2 line suicide. 11 merkins, 11 big boys, 11 squats, run to far line and back. Circle up, PAX are doing shoulder taps while 2 do 5 merkins. Rotate merkins around the circle until everyone has done 2 sets. Next round was lunges and 3 burpees. Again go around until everyone did 2 sets of burpees. Back to the cars for a few minutes of Mary. Thanks for the opportunity <@U04M7P605SM>!

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Beast Mode

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WARMUP: disclaimer
THE THANG: run to masons bend
MARY: run further
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Italian night at Bethels, Frozen chickens, tortoise and hare, over night ruck
COT: prayers and praises

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Shoulder pain

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WARMUP:
SSH, mosey Down the back hill, shuffle one way, flapjack, Carioca, flapjack
THE THANG:
Partner up, one does the exercise the other runs out and back.
Merkins
Step ups
Derkins
Irkins

Run back up the hill stopping at lights for workouts (BBS, Lunges, CDD)

MARY: attended
ANNOUNCEMENTS: newsletter, yeti challenge, CSAUPs
COT:

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3 Leg Stool

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WARMUP: I led us off in warmup of WM, CP, IW, HW, Up/Down dog, worlds greatest stretch and some merkins
THE THANG: mosey to bus loop for a set of 7’s, Squats at bottom of hill, dips at the top bear crawl/crawl bear between.
Tomb Raider led us to the far lot for some core work/circle of hell. One man runs, two do an exercise called. Lastly Float led us to the Kids lot, did increasing Merkins at every island, headed back to COT, first did similar ladder but with more squats
MARY: got 1 round in
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Turtles and rabbits and the sleep over.
COT: always

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Twisty runs

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WARMUP: we watched Vuvu and Rolloff do a pre run
THE THANG: Ran to Kingsley, ran to the street leading to the trails in Kingsley, ran all the way down the road to the back corner of the parking lot at Sunbelt, ran to the parking garage, ran out of Kingsley past SBUX, ran to old Kingsley and either did 1 lap (under 4 miles) or ran an extra loop (just under 5).
MARY: she was not there
ANNOUNCEMENTS: lots of csaups coming up – let’s go!!
COT: Janick’s and Uhaul – heavy prayers!

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Knock out for fun

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WARMUP:
– Moroccan nightclub
– Imperial walker
– Cherri pickers
– Windmill
THE THANG:
– street light ladder x stations
– Reps 5, 10, 15, 10
– Station 1
– side straddle hop
– Squats
– Lunges
– station 2
– merkins
– Plank jacks
– Shoulder taps
– station 3
– mountain climbers
– Big boy sit-ups
– American hammer
– station 4
– box cutters
– Flutter kicks
– Leg raises
– 10 minutes of knockout
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
– read the newsletter
– April tortoise and hare
– May 12 hr ruck
– cannoli run
COT:

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That’s Too Many Squats!

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“Let us not get tired of doing good, for we will reap at the proper time if we don’t give up.”

‭‭Galatians‬ ‭6‬:‭9‬ ‭CSB‬‬

After a warm up, we completed the circuit below. Similar to a 12 days of Christmas.

20 squats
20 SSH
20 press
20 lunges
20 merkins 

Learned a few things about the Pax I didn’t know. You had to be there to hear for yourself.

Prayers for UHaul, the Mills family and the Tyson family (Micah is F3 Glass Joe of Union County).

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4 Corners & More

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WARMUP:
Motivator
Imperial Walkers
Stretchy Things

THE THANG:
Thang 1 – Four Corners Escalator
Corner 1: 10 Merkins
Run to corner 2
Corner 2: 10 Merkins, 20 Squats
Run to corner 3
Corner 3: 10 merkins, 20 Squats, 30 Big Boys
Run to corner 4
Corner 4: 10 merkins, 20 Squats, 30 Big Boys, 40 Lunges
Run to Corner 1 then back to 4 to go back down the escalator.

Thang 2 – Dora
50 Hand Release Merkins
100 Squats
150 Flutters (4-Count = 1)
200 Mt. Climbers (4-Count = 1)

MARY: We had a couple of minutes for Mary.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Break the Dam
Overnight Ruck
Tortoise & Hare
Bethel Men’s Shelter
Read the News Letter

COT: Praises were made!

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Dealer’s Choice

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Nice and gloomy, misty, cool morning. Just being out in this means you made the choice to NOT let the Jester win.
WARMUP: Slow mosey to the contractors pickup area at Lowe’s, circle up for the following, my standard SWIMS warmup:
– 15 SSH 4ct
– 10 Windmills
– 15 Imperial Walker 4ct
– 10 Moroccan night clubs 4 ct
– 15 Strawberry pickers
Since we were where we needed to be, we went right into….
THE THANG:
Dealer’s Choice
I have had the F3 workout deck in my truck for quite some time, like over a year, and never found the right opportunity to use it. Well, today was the day. The cards are waterproof so I was not worried about them getting wet, just whether I could read the small-ish print or not. HA!

Pick a card, do the exercise, then on to the next. Clubs are core, hearts are cardio, spades are legs, diamonds are upper body. Rep count is based on number/suit on the card 2-10 are their number, jacks are 11, queens are 12, kings are 13, aces are something special. jokers/jester are wild card (I had them as 10 burpees).
We got through the following (larger numbers were OYO, everything else in cadence)
2 bulgarian split squats
2 hand clap merkins
11 plank jacks
100 calf raise (ace of spades)
3 wojo squat
7 LBC
sprint 200 m (modified to 50m out and back, 2 of hearts)
11 dips
10 rosalita
NUR 50m out and back
sprint 300m (modified to 50m out and back, 3 of hearts)
lunge walk 50m out and back
10 oblique crunch per side
90 sec high plank
4 CDD
100 SSH (ace of hearts)
13 merkin
sprint 400m (modified to loop around parking lot)
5 lunge 2 ct
12 monkey humpers’
100 arm circles (50 each direction, ace of diamonds)
7 monkey humpers
3 Chuck Norris merkins
6 wide arm merkins
4 alternating side squat/lunge, each side
10 incline merkins
12 diamond merkins
9 ranger merkins10 butt kickers each leg
12 freddy mercury, 2ct
5 hand release merkins
9 LSS
60 seconds low plank (on forearms)
That put us at 3 minutes to 6, just enough time to run back to COT. Unfortunately no jokers/jesters were pulled.
Mumblechatter was most excellent!! Great job by all
MARY: None

ANNOUNCEMENTS: A LOT going on. Highlighted literally everything that is in the newsletter.

COT: A lot lifted up. Reminded PAX that we are all carrying burdens, and we men tend to suffer in silence, but when it gets too much, do not be afraid to reach out, for someone will definitely step in to help lighten the load.

Thanks Peach Stand for the opportunity to lead.
SYITG
Blessings,
-NASA

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