Running is FUN.
WARMUP: Mosey to the front(ish) of Lowes. Merkins, Squats and stretching happened and were glorious. Mosey to the North side of the strip parking lot to get to the thang.
THE THANG: 11’s – one side Merkins and Squats, the AO parking lot had Big Boys and Flutters.
MARY: Freddie Mercurys, Box Cutters, LBC’s and Flutters
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Blood Drive, July 4 convergence, Read your news letter.
COT: Prayers for health.
WARMUP: Mosey up bus lane, shuffle mosey shuffle mosey
Hillbilly Walkers, cherry (strawberry) pickers, sumo squats, monacan night clubs
Mosey to slight hill to loading dock
7s: Bombjacks/ Carolina Dry Docks
THE THANG:
Mosey to Band lot
Snaking through the lot with 15 pain station’s, in between moseying
5×15 burpees-75
10×15 Merkins-150
15×15 squats-225
MARY:
N/A
ANNOUNCEMENTS: HIM camp 🤨 sign up
COT: prayers for parents traveling, participating in HIM camp, my travel to NJ and my mother’s grieving loss of stepdad
WARMUP: we
THE THANG: ran
MARY: 4.5
ANNOUNCEMENTS: miles
COT: amen
WARMUP:
SSHs
Mosey to the Chinese Massage
Hillbilly Walkers, squats, Merkins
Mosey to funeral home
Lunge walk
Reverse lunge walk
Mosey to entrance to FHC
THE THANG:
Do exercise at entrance
Run to top of driveway
Do accumulating exercise 1st,2nd…so on
1 Merkins x10=10
2 Leg lifts x9=18
3 Sumo squats x8=24
4 CDDs x7=28
5 Burpees x6=30
6 Wide arm Merkins x5=30
7 Donkey Kicks x4=28
8 Squat jumps x3=24
9 Flutters x2=18
10 Plank punch x1=10
MARY:
Mosey to Chinese Massage
LBCs, Freddy’s, Rosalitas, HelloDollys
Mosey to COT
Some more Mary all the way to 0600
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
F3Dads, Saturday guest Q at The Yard, keep posting
COT:
Prayers and Praises
Lots of health concerns, cancer, surgeries
Also lots of travel and prayers for safety
Family and praise for F3 and people in our lives
6 of us for the 101 edition of Q School. Oddly enough, Lighthouse is the only PAX in the entire Fort region that needed Q School 101. 4 veterans also shared the wisdom. It was a bit of a bizzaro world, I get out to a couple 100 workouts a year, but there is only one new guy, and ZERO PAX who feel they need to hone in on their basic Q skills. Well done, nothing to learn hear. Go back to your knitting.
1. basic warm up with imperial walker, hillbilly walker, LBC, hello dolly, low slow squat, OH clap, shoulder taps, merkins
2. 7s with BB sits and jump squats, with bearcrawl 1/2 trans mode.
(Rebel was recognized for his jumping skills)
3. 2 rounds of Assassin suicides, 5-10-15, BB sits, merkins, squats AND gas pumpers, shoulder taps, calf raise
4. Mahktar N’Diayes, Kneetar N’Diayes (or course)
5. circled for some practice cadence calling with Lighthouse
Observations:
-BandCamp is a big fan of backblasts
-Squat Jumps should be re-named, maybe Squat Baby Bunny Little Hops
-Site Qs required to attend Q601 are generally grumpy dudes
-Basso was not in attendance, Rebel and Fogerty missed him
– We have an excellent Q101 doc (see BandCamp)
Q101 wisdom nuggets
-clear disclaimer
-new guy inquiry (a new guy does not know the term FNG)
-be aware of the abilities at your workout
-a longish run can be taken in chunks or destination stated for slow guys
-5 steps in calling a complete exercise
– keep it simple
-keep it moving
-keep it familiar
-clear and easy instructions
-10ct for moderates (and old guys)
-don’t Q it if you can’t do it, or aren’t going to complete it (ie calling 50 burpees and you half-a$$ 12) (really)
-practice cadence
-promote your Q, knowing what I am waking up for and where I am going is half the battle and very motivating
-I like to give no more that 3 exercises verbally per instruction, my small brain can handle 3, more than that? on a board, or chalk it
-don’t chalk MONKEY HUMPERS in a school or church parking lot
-prepare a weinke
-steal a weinke
-review a weinke with a vet
-COT
-count
-name o rama
-record (at least verbally so you have the names for your backblast
-announcements
-prayers
-WRITE A BACKBLAST
-don’t stress on all this, you can do the life and death stuff when you get crunching your excel spreadsheet at 9:04am
Thanks for hosting Fogerty
Thanks to Solid State for being my first instructor
Thanks to Rebel, Bandcamp, Fogerty and Birdcage for adding bits of knowledge
Looks like we made it,
Barry Manilow
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We converged on 6/10 to with a special weinke designed by the PAX of F3 Nairobi (but “may” have been augmented by Poppins…)
Weinke
Warm up
Various, but highlight was 150 SSH in sets of 50. #CrowdPleaser
Groups of 5
Indian Run
5 burpees by the guys at the back
Dora on the football practice field
50 burpees – bear crawl
200 merkins – bear crawl
200 squats – lunge walk
300 4-count mountain climbers – frog leap a partner
Lots of bat flipping on the 4-count of the mountain climbers and the frog leaping
The guys in Kenya average a 5 mile transit to and from the AO, so a group of PAX dutifully pre-ran and post-ran 5 miles after the beatdown. YHC took a bit of flack, because it was me that spitballed that idea and then did not pre or post run. I did bring my 2.0 to the workout to try to cover the fact that I wouldn’t be running extra, but to no avail. Badlands 100% called me out.
Welcome FNGs
– Dungeon Master
– V-neck
Pre-runners:
– Badlands, Poppins, Rolloff, Maximus, Funhouse, Sasquatch, Cyclops, Beaker
– rucking: Sprocket, NakedandAfraid
Post-run:
– Badlands, Poppins, Rolloff, Maximus, Funhouse
All running
– Gears
The plan was to raise $$ to purchase a vehicle for transportation of Nairobi PAX to workouts, supporting efforts to assist in community and coordinating donations etc. The need is tremendous and our financial support is magnified in Kenya.
As of this backblast, we raised $2620. I have no idea when you’re reading this, but you could possibly still contribute and Poppins may still have T-Shirts in the back of his vehicle: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-our-kenyan-f3-brothers?member=26869695&sharetype=teams
Announcements:
Q-School Wednesday 6/14 at Bushwood
The Fort Retreat 8/11-8/13 (Register now!)
https://criout.regfox.com/f3-him-camp
Safari (F3 Nairobi Nantan) facetimed in at the end to offer up a prayer closing out COT.
This backblast respectfully submitted by Band Camp
Tomahawk came with one mission and one mission only, to take ass and kick names. It has been a great few months reviving this long forgotten relic. I can’t think of a better way to send Tomahawk back to the depths than with todays Gladiator Games.
It renewed my faith in the pax that they aren’t ALL squishy. Sure some still cant do a proper lunge (Bandcamp), but I saw hope. Hope that pax don’t stay complacent, hope that harder AOs like Tallawah and Kitchen Sink become the new norm, and hope that we will continue to push each other.
Who knows, maybe Tomahawk will be needed again one day. But for now… Birdcage signing off
WARMUP: SSH. Cherry Pickers, Merks, Rebel Merks, Diamond Merks, Imperial Walkers, Nightclubs, Squats, Honey Mooner, Downward Doggie, Windmills, Mosey…
THE THANG: Keep it simple: Mini – Ladder – start at 5 reps w each rung in ladder adding one rep ( 6, 7, 8, and 9) 5 Bomb Jax, 6 Diamond Merks, 7 Big Boys, 8 Donkey Kicks, 9 Seal Jax!
Next up – some 11s ( that Bass couldn’t wait to get started )
We started top of the hill with Bobby Hurleys then moseying down around the bend and up the Hill to a spot so close to the starting point ( other side of road) and knocked out Plank Jax to keep the math working…
Called an audible half way thru to assist with the hill climbs and descents- finished out the 11s on a flatter area of the entrance. Almost infringed on the Minnow Pond parameters ( but who was measuring the total ground covered??)
MARY: 4 mins of Mary completed with a solid use of Heels to Heaven by Gemini who challenged the Pax up to a 15 count ….when the mumblechatter began after passing the standard 10 count! Nice work by all!
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Yes!!
COT: Prayers for Geraldine who was being comforted at Hospice ( prayers for Slash and family), Family ( teenagers for ChickHawk), health and fellowship as we head into Summer.
WARMUP: SSH, slooooow windmills, produce pickers, imp walkers, hillbilly walkers, mountain climbers – generally a bakers dozen of each
We also ran around lowes for some dips
THE THANG: AMRAP: one minute of work with 30 secs of recovery of the following: shoulder taps, big bois, squats, hand release merkins, American hammers, monkey humpers – record your count with chalk
Repeat
Added 10 secs to each exercise for third round with goal of pushing to beat your highest count from the previous 2 rounds
MARY: ran out of time
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Murph, konvergence for Kenya, boss Hogg send off – possibly others – see news letter
COT: prayers and praises for grads