Testimony

WARMUP: SSH, WINDMILLS, HELD PLANK FOR TESTIMONY PART 1
THE THANG: After sharing part of my story we proceeded to the football field for some pain.
10 BURPEES
RUN 200 YARDS
10 BURPEES
25 MERKINS
RUN 200 YARDS
10 BURPEES
25 MERKINS
50 LUNGES
RUN 200 YARDS
10 BURPEES
25 MERKINS
50 LUNGES
100 BIG BOYS
RUN 200 YARDS
10 BURPEES
25 MERKINS
50 LUNGES
100 BIG BOYS
150 SQUATS
RUN 200 YARDS
During the WOD I shared more of my testimony and how I overcame and got through it…I also shared my word of the year “PATIENCE”. I lost it somewhere and need to find it again when it comes to my family.
MARY: No Mary WOD took up the whole 45 minutes
ANNOUNCEMENTS: D2D Bar 10k, Men’s shelter
COT: prayers for family and patience

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Mentorship Has Its Privileges

WARMUP: COP – SSH, Mtn climbers, Peter Parker, Parker peter, inperial Walker, Merkin

THE THANG:
Grab partner and discuss a non-F3 mentor who helped you in life while doing partner leg throws

Different partner, now discuss non-F3 man you helped mentor in life while doing partner planks/merkins/shoulder taps

Different partner, now discuss missed opportunity to share a mentor relationship with another man in your past

hand off to Long Duck

Series of exercises marked in parking spaces. each pax chooses a space, completes exercise, runs 1 lap, then moves to next space/exercise and repeats the cycle.

Run home

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Long Duck is The Fort’s Whetstone Q. Don’t be confused by the lexicon…Whetstone=Mentorship. it’s that simple. Long Duck shared his experiences (which are vast considering his long service as a sponsor in AA). Tap this HIM to learn more about starting or improving in the area of Mentorship.

COT: Prayers for Slash’s dad and Escargot’s son and Long Duck’s friend Tyler struggling with drug addiction.

thank you Shower Curtain for the opportunity to lead the pax!

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Work at The Horn

5 at The Horn. Warm up lap around the carpool circle. Circle up for SSHs, Imperial Walkers, Windmills, Squats, and arm circles.
Next, mosey to the wall in the back parking lot. Dora (merkins, squats, LBCs) , partner 1 performed exercises while partner 2 ran to wall and performed 2 muscle ups. Quick break to discuss Word of the Year.
Next, moseyed to the front of the school. Using the parking spaces, we lunged walked the length of the lot, stopping at every other line for 10 squats. Repeat but replaced exercises with crawl bear and Carolina Dry Docks.
Finished up with a mosey back to COT stopping at every other light pole for a exercise.
Prayers for the schools, job opportunities, and travel.

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A German, Mormon, Cuban, & The Wizard of Oz

WARMUP: Suggested stretching and warmup prior to start. No warmup, was feeling spicy.

THE THANG: The objective, soak up an hour with mileage and quality mumble-chatter.

– Run WEP track, 5 burpees at each swing set, plank at atrium.

– Run to parking lot wall in front of Pharmacy. Omaha, decided on a Webb that consisted of muscle ups, followed by alternating heels up to wall ledge, then a merkin. Went up to 5 and 20, plenty.

– Ran to Loom parking lot; 5/10/15 merkin,irkin,derkin followed by broad jumps, rinse and repeat.

– Ran to intersection of of academy and withers. 4 corners: up to Baptist church parking lot, forest st, up the hill, back to loom. 5/10/15 shoulder tap, squats, mtn climber w 3 burpees at intersection.

– Right on schedule, ran to WEP playground for 7s, pull-ups w/ jump squats. Pointed to stranger as our jump squat location, more or less at 4th tree, debate ensued and we were off. Couple rounds in, @darkhelmet and @toto shared words of affection.

With time surprisingly left, decided to go with a quarter pounder.

– 5 trees more or less 25 years apart. Suicides reps of 25/50/75/100. Thinking quickly called shoulder taps, mtn climbers, Freddie mercuries, and calf raises.

– back to COT for Mary

COT: Shared praise on patience, you’re either going in, in the middle, or coming out of something , trust in God during every season, it won’t last forever.

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Where’s Olaf?

WARMUP: Loosen up the shoulders with Moroccan NC, and big arm circles , ham stretches
THE THANG: 20 ruck squats, 20 ruck burpees, 20 merkins with ruck, 20 ruck flutter presses , ruck shuffle stop sign to stop sign and back. 15 ruck squats, 15 ruck burpees, 15 merkins with ruck, 15 ruck flutter presses , ruck shuffle stop sign to stop sign and back. 10 ruck squats, 10 ruck burpees, 10 merkins with ruck, 10 ruck flutter presses , ruck shuffle stop sign to stop sign and back. Ruck cool down. 1.83 total ruck miles
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT: Dark Helmet lead us out.

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Cardinal Tribute

WARMUP:
During warmup I asked Pax to remain quite and think about Cardinals family. I also asked them to think about their legacy. How will they be remembered when they are no longer here?

SSH
Tempo Merkins
Flutter Kicks
Lil baby arm circles / reverse
Hallelujahs
Cherry Pickers
Samson hold

THE THANG:

5 each exercise and then run a lap. Repeat each set before moving to the next set

Burpees
Big Boys
Heels to Heaven

10 each – burpees
LBC
Mtn climbers

15 each – burpees
Squats
Freddy Mercuries

20 – burpees
Squats
LBC

Decided to forgo the second round of 20’s and moved to the wall for 4 rounds of 20 second wall sits and 5 burpees.

Total 100 burpees

MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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Long Drive

WARMUP: The warmup was a slow mousey around the parking area….we did Windmills, Hillbilly Walkers, Imperial Walkers and Morrocan Nighclubs.
THE THANG: We did 8 exercises 5 SQUATS,10 LUNGES,15 MERKIN W/PLANKJACKS,20 BIG BOYS, 25. SHOULDER TAPS, 30 AMERICAN HAMMERS, 35 MTN CLIMBERS AND 40 SSH
We did the first exercise the count was 5 then ran a lap around the parking lot, then repeat the exercise before and continue down the list in increments of 5 until you completed the list and rinse and repeat. Thank you to Slapshot for giving me the opportunity to lead and for giving great directions to the AO in the best hype video out there.
MARY: no Mary
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Dam to Dam Bar 10k
COT: We prayed for safe travels and family

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Abide in me, and I in you!

WARMUP: Shared with the group some of my life experiences when trusting in something greater than myself vs. just trusting in myself. Show to know the details!
Mosey to the track
Completed 1 lap warm up with high knees, karaoke, & butt kickers.
Next phase of warm up routine had us standing on the goal line of the football field for sprints.
1st Sprint – 50 yard runway ( building up to top speed ) and then 50 yard sprint followed by 10 reps of each – merkins, big boys, squats
2nd Sprint – 25 yard runway and then 75 yard sprint followed by 10 reps of each – Shoulder Taps, V-Sits, Lunges
3rd Sprint – 20 yard runway and then 80 yard sprint followed by 10 reps of each – Alternating toe touches from plank position, Straight lower leg lifts, Jump Squats.
Group was adequately warmed.

THE THANG: As with the warm-up the theme was 100, as I need to be constantly reminded to completely trust ( 100% ).

1st Routine; 100 yard Bear Crawl with 100 merkins
Start on goal line of football field, bear crawl 25 yards and then perform 25 merkins, continue down the field until reaching the other goal line.

2nd Routine: 100 Burpee Mile
Complete 40 Burpees and then run a lap around the track
Complete 30 Burpees and then run a lap around the track
Complete 20 Burpees and then run a lap around the track
Complete 10 Burpees and then run a lap around the track

MARY: While others were finishing the main event routines, those that finished a little earlier did the following:
Choose 2 ab exercises that are easy to transition into
1st exercise conduct reps of 30
Go right into the 2nd exercise and keep going until time is called. Chose time interval of 90 seconds. Only had time to do 1 round – LBCs -> Flutters
Next rounds would have included Gas Pumpers -> Penguins and then Heels to Heaven -> Xs&Os

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your newsletter!!!
COT: Shared a few more tid bits of my story, prayers & praises!!!

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You ain’t in Kansas anymore…

WARMUP:
– SSH and a few other things
THE THANG:
– Twister made us play with Cindy along the light poles plus some mosey
– Grinder called some suicides with SSH and Burpees completed with the Airborne Hip-exercise and some mosey.
MARY:
– plenty of mumble chatter
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
– read your newsletter
COT:
– was held

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Four Freedoms

Stockade Four Freedoms January 6th 2023 (1941)

Started with a run behind Harris Teeter and up to Grace Presb Church.
Warmup:
SSH (20x I/C)
Windmills (8x I/C)
Imperial Walkers (10x I/C)
Moroccan Nightclubs (10x I/C)
Low slow squats (10x I/C)
Big Arm Circles (6 forward, 6 backwards)
Peter Parkers (10x I/C)
Plank Stretches (Downward dog, upward dog)

Short mosey run

Fish tracks routine:
Pax do the transportation and stop when instructed and do the exercise called.
Toy soldiers…stop and do Bobby Hurleys,
Lunge walk…stop and do squats,
Bear crawl…stop and do merkins,

Short mosey run back over to the shopping plaza.
Bench work: Incline Merkins, step ups, dips, squats, derkins, calf raises

Short run over to the wall nearby Dollar Tree:
Wall sits, BTW, and wall-tar-jai’s
Four Freedoms background/info delivered during wall sits. See summary at end of BB.

Short run to adjacent parking lot: found the cinder block and did:
Pass the ammunition: Pax do a curb plank, drag/pass the cinder block to the guy next to you, and so until the last guy then sends the block back to starting guy. Then all pax do curb merkins (3 I/C). repeat.

Run back to Grace church: Find the four cones in the parking lot.
Cone 1 “Freedom of Speech”: did 4 burpees,
run to Cone 2 “Freedom of Worship”: did 4 burpees,
run to Cone 3 “Freedom from Want”: did 4 burpees,
run to cone 4 “Freedom from Fear”: did 4 burpees.

Run back to shopping plaza.
Global running routine: Pax circle up, wrestling stance, side shuffle, stop and do: Smurf jacks, squats, monkey humpers.

Run to COT.
BURPEE-QUIZ time: Pax were asked, and correctly answered, what the Four Freedoms were, which President delivered the speech, and when was it delivered. Therefore, pax had to do only 8 burpees.
Mary: Freddies, flutters, box cutters.

Fini
COT

Four Freedoms:
Context/background: by December 1940, Nazi Germany had taken over most of Europe and Britain/London was getting pummeled with the nightly blitz bombings. Japan was also making conquests in China and Korea. The US was separated from all of this, and many folks thought the isolationist stance should continue (people were still remembering the pain of WW One).
But FDR (newly elected to his third term as President) knew the US was basically the only nation capable of saving the democracies of the world.
In his State of the Union address on January 6th 1941, FDR laid out why the US should get more involved…the four basic freedoms of democracy was under attack:
Freedom of Speech
Freedom to Worship God in the manner that a man wants to.
Freedom from Want…economic security
Freedom from Fear…aggression of one nation to another

Eighty-two years later, we have Ukraine being attacked and their basic Freedoms under attack. Prayers for ClickBait, MarkTwian, and their crews in the work they are doing over there in Ukraine.

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