Panhandle borrowed a cardboard of pain from Ruby Slippers.
Site Q let me know there would be a shovel flag handoff this morning so expected a large crowd. Means different paces needed to be accommodated, perfect for a BOP. Arrived early to set-up and get a prerun in, because I'm old and need the warmup, plus it's been a long week. Jogging around the parking lot next to the school I was able to watch the cars start to roll in. This energized me which is what I needed. I love F3 workouts for the fellowship; the fitness is a bonus. Time to work.
WARMUP: Moseyed/walked with bells from COT to the large parking lot by the school. Only 2 exercises called: SSH & Burpees. Did these a few times and we were ready to work.
THE THANG: BOP was on display at a light pole, explained the BOP and then had the PAX count off in groups of 4. With 4 groups created I let the PAX know that each group would farmer carry coupons, which were also located at the same light pole, to the other end of the lot and back. Group 1 would carry and upon return would alert Group 2 that it was their turn, so forth and so on. Rotated the farmers carry throughout the workout. Most groups had the pleasure of 4 carries, my group -#4 only had 3 carries. Most PAX made it into the 20rep block of the BOP and a couple of HIMs completed the BOP. Fun was had by all. BOP and coupons for farmer carry listed below:
Farmer Carry Coupons
2 – 45lb plates
2 – 45lb dumbbells
2- 35lb dumbbells
1 – 50lb Ruck + 1 – 50lb bucket
KB BOP Reps & Exercises:
50 – KB Swings – 2 handed
50 – KB Goblet Squats
50 – KB Single Arm Bent Over Rows (25 ea side)
50 – Straight Leg Raises Over KB (count both sides)
40 – KB Dead Lift to Curl to OH Press
40 – KB Goblet Reverse Lunges
40 – KB Lying Pullovers
40 – KB Side Bends
30 – KB Swings – 1 handed
30 – KB Glute Bridges
30 – KB Romanian Dead Lifts
30 – KB American Hammers
20 – KB Snatches (10 ea arm)
20 – KB Plank Single Arm Rows
20 – KB Figure 8s
20 – KB Big Boy Situps
10 – KB Thrusters
10 – KB Man Makers
10 – KB Halos (each direction)
10 – KB Around the Body Passes (each direction)
MARY: No Time
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Bethel Men Serve, 4Bs, Trash Pickup
COT: STK!
Warmup:
Motivator(½), Imperial-Squat-Walker, Fruit Picker, up+down dog, Merkins
Violator (1 series only)
* @U07LMG5PDQU with the quote of the morning in the name-o-rama video… “We should rebrand this (the violator), it’s actually kinda nice”
Mosey to JROTC area w/ stop @ benches (Bulg.-split squat-twist-to step up: 5x each leg)
Thang: rotating Stations w/ timer (45 sec on / 15 sec rotate)
Big Tire – Sledgehammer
Big Tire – bounce
Biggest Tire – Flips
Small tire – Tantrum twists
Cindie – Manmakers, BBSU/Simba, curls, flutter-press
Mosey back for 5:30
Discussion on the nature of being tired (physically, emotionally, spiritually), how to recognize, avoid collateral damage from, and productively move forward.
MARY: PAX called AB-lab
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Bethel serve, 4Bs
Other newsletter type stuff
COT: prayers for those suffering, physically, those struggling to find work or satisfaction within current jobs, and so forth, all lifted up to the Lord
WARMUP: Lap around the Skillet, SSH, Windmills, Moroccan Nightclubs, Imperial Walkers
THE THANG: Since my shoulder is busted, it was time for some ab work. Line up on the goal line. Run to the 10 yard line, do 10 big boys. Run to the 20 yard line, add one more for 11 big boys. Do this all the way to the other end. 145 total big boys.
Come back the other way, we started on the goal line with 4 count flutters and then did the same thing, add an additional 4 count every 10 yards. By this time, most of us were toast, so starting at the 50 yrd line, we went down to 2-count flutters. 450 flutters total. Run around the parking. Then run suicides for the last 2:30.
Discussion was on Communication with our 2.0's and our M's. Lots of things that we need to do better, but it has to start with us. Be intentional with our communications with our 2.0's and M's. Remember that communication is a tool. Will we use that tool for good or evil?
MARY: Did you see that it was all abs this morning?
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Bethel!!!!! Get out and help!
COT: Mostly happened during our communication discussion.
WARMUP: SSH, Mountain Climbers, Hillbilly Walkers
THE THANG: Race to 100, Take a trip, winner calls next exercise:
Shoulder taps
A mix of Merkins
LBCs
Squats
CDDs
Calf raises
Peter Parker's
15 seconds of burpees, for good measure
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:
WARMUP:
Mosey to stop sign for some imperial walkers
Mosey to main school entrance for some side straddle hops
Mosey to benches at R wing pickup for step-ups, irkins, and derkins
THE THANG: mosey down the hill to the traffic light on Hwy 21 for 11’s
Bottom: jump squats
Light pole 1/2 way up: big boy sit ups
Mosey back COT
MARY: flutter
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT: https://www.kcrg.com/2026/09/08/iowa-band-member-collapsed-heat-hawkeyes-football-game-taken-off-life-support/
WARMUP: 11s of Flying Squirrels and Cindy Sniffers (upright row)
THE THANG: Merkins to failure, trip, BBS to failure, trip, Goblet Squats to failure, trip, farmers walk to failure.
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:
WARMUP: Skipped it
THE THANG: Bag of Burdens
One guy travels with sandbag the other 6 do AMRAP of the below.
Merkins
American Hammers
Squats
Flutter Kicks
Plank
LBC’s
Shoulder Taps
Cycle through 3x
Truck Tire
6pax lift the truck tire while one does burpees. Do a little traveling with the tire and get splashed with water.
Walls
Partner up. One pax does variations of wall sits the other does a variation of merkins
Double cindy carry farmers walk 100 yards and back. Swap with partner when you need help.
Dips
2nd F: HELP
Every man carried something heavy today. Every man eventually got relief when someone else took it. Life works the same way. The strongest men aren't the ones who carry everything alone. They're the ones humble enough to ask for help and mature enough to hear the truth when it's offered.
MARY: Dips
ANNOUNCEMENTS: NEWSLETTER
COT: 2nd F
WARMUP: Yea, YHC ran in 2.3 miles, but not all the PAX did
THE THANG: ran to do some Bulgarian Split squats, but saw Marty Byrd coming in late. So, we went to pick him up.
Highlight:
Bear Crawl the band practice lot w/ 1 merkin at the 10, 2 at the 20, until we hit the opposite 10 and were at 9 merkins.
Some work outside the new gym, it's shiny over there.
MARY: Yea, a little
WARMUP: motivator (8), mosey 100 yd., imperial walker-IC, Nur to corner, cherry picke-IC, mosey 100 yards back, windmill-IC, Nur to rally point for Thang
THE THANG:
5-Each/Nur back
1 foot Forward hop (R/L)
2 foot side hops
1 foot side hop (R/L)
Merkin crabwalk (R/L)
Icky Shuffle
Hopscotch
scissor shuffle (R/L)
Alt. Sit through fakes
Alt. Sit through and turn
MARY: sent through to crab press (body weight), PAX ab lab
30 min convo about Catharsis and personal inventory of sin done by us, to us, and around us.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Bethel, stuff the Bus, read your newsletter
COT: accomplished within the second 30 minutes!