WARMUP: N
THE THANG: Y
MARY: N
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Y
COT: Y
Mosey to the church parking lot for Dora with 100 merkins, 200 squats, 300 LBCs.
Bear crawl length of lot with 3 merkins at every other parking line.
Mosey around to the large wall of the grocery for Wall sits and donkey kicks for 3 rounds followed by balls to wall and jump squats for 3 rounds.
Fin
WARMUP: mosey to bottom of Brayden
THE THANG: 20 merkins, 20 big boys then run up Brayden to the stoplight and do 20 squats and 20 calf raises then run down Brayden. Repeat 5 times to get 100 reps of each. Run back to the stoplight then jailbreak back to COT
MARY: Ferris Wheels
ANNOUNCEMENTS: newsletter and Mother’s Day.
COT:
THE THANG: Run all over with intermittent stops… side shuffle ~20 yards to & fro until the 6 catches up.
Merkins in cadence until you can no longer keep cadence or continue; once you stop, begin 1 burpee, 2 lunges, 3 merkins on repeat until the last man gives up on the merkins in cadence.
Run to the next stop. Side shuffle ~20 yards to & fro until the 6 catches up.
Wall sit holds until you can no longer hold the wall sit; once you stop, begin 1 burpee, 2 lunges, 3 merkins on repeat until the last man gives up on wall sit.
Run to the next stop. Side shuffle ~20 yards to & fro until the 6 catches up.
Up 1 cadence big boy sit-ups until you no longer keep cadence or continue; once you stop, begin 1 burpee, 2 lunges, 3 merkins on repeat until the last man gives up on the up 1 cadence big boys.
Run to the next stop. Side shuffle ~20 yards to & fro until the 6 catches up.
Plank holds until you can no longer hold the plank (must keep hands in contact with the ground); once you stop, begin 1 burpee, 2 lunges, 3 merkins on repeat until the last man gives up on the plank.
Run to the next stop. Side shuffle ~20 yards to & fro until the 6 catches up.
Right forward lunge holds until you can no longer hold the lunge; once you stop, begin 1 burpee, 2 lunges, 3 merkins on repeat until the last man gives up on the lunge hold.
Run to the next stop. Side shuffle ~20 yards to & fro until the 6 catches up.
Left forward lunge holds until you can no longer hold the lunge; once you stop, begin 1 burpee, 2 lunges, 3 merkins on repeat until the last man gives up on the lunge hold.
Run to the next stop. Side shuffle ~20 yards to & fro until the 6 catches up.
Right side plank holds until you can no longer hold the plank; once you stop, begin 1 burpee, 2 lunges, 3 merkins on repeat until the last man gives up on the side plank.
Run to the next stop. Side shuffle ~20 yards to & fro until the 6 catches up.
Left side plank holds until you can no longer hold the plank; once you stop, begin 1 burpee, 2 lunges, 3 merkins on repeat until the last man gives up on the side plank hold.
Run to the next stop. Side shuffle ~20 yards to & fro until the 6 catches up.
Merkins in cadence until you can no longer keep cadence or continue; once you stop, begin 1 burpee, 2 lunges, 3 merkins on repeat until the last man gives up on the merkins in cadence.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your newsletter.
WARMUP: None
THE THANG: 4+ Miles @ Brayden, 3 stations 20 Seal Jacks, 15 Merkins, 20 Seal Jacks 15 LBC’s , 20 Seal Jacks 15 Lunges
MARY: None
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WARMUP: lap around the parking lot, SSH, Moroccan Nightclubs, windmills
THE THANG: Do 1 More
This is a 12 round AMRAP 1 minute each with a 45 second break to do as many as you can. I told the pax to write down their number after each round. I did not tell them if a high number was good or bad or how it would affect the other pax good or bad so that they would push themselves. The rounds were:
Merkins
Squats
CDDs
Burpees
SSH
Bobby Hurleys
Plank jacks
Big boys
Shoulder Taps
Overhead Claps
Mtn Climbers
LBCs
Then we talked about how much we accomplished, but how much more was till to be done. But that you can do more than you think you can, so add 1 more to each rounds reps for round 2. i.e. 41 Merkins in round 1 meant 42 Merkins in round 2.
By the end, we had completed as a group (13 bootcampers) 9,155 reps in 45 minutes. Feel accomplished, you guys did a ton of work!
MARY: No Time
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Bethel, Newsletter, Overnight silly-ness ruck event, Strawberry 5k.
COT: Marriages, health and healing, travel, reach out to someone you haven't heard from in a while and let them know you're thinking about them. It'll make their day even if they don't respond with more than thanks. Or you might talk to them for an hour. But reach out, you never know when someone needs it.
WARMUP:
THE THANG: 7s on hill by church up to tom hall and then went to print shop for 5 pull ups 10 merkins 15 squats and run around buildings. Repeat x5
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My last day as site Q for Minnow Pond / Thursday Block Party, so I wanted to revisit some of the more fun workouts had here in the past.
WARMUP: None
THE THANG:
Part 1 – Harris St Hill Work
Proceed down White/160, left on Ardrey (by WEP), take it to corner of Ardrey and Harris St. That is the start. At start do 10 merkins and 20 LBCs, then run downhill to very bottom, across from Harris St park, do 5 burpees, then run uphill to corner of Harris St and Business 21, do 10 merkins, 20 LBCs, run back down to bottom, 5 burpees, back to start for 10 more merkins and 20 LBCs, then wait for 6. Others went back down to bottom for more burpees to pull the 6 back to start. Everyone LOVES Harris St hill!!
On to round 2. Proceed back down Ardrey to meet up in front of WEP amphitheater.
Round 2 – WEP Swing Loop
The walking path loop around WEP is approx 3/4 mile or so, with around 10-12 swings or swing stations (one of these days I will get the accurate count). Start from amphitheater towards large hill first. Stop at every swing and do 10 merkins, 15 squats, 20 LBCs. Due to time, rep count was cut to 10/10/10 about 2/3 through. By the time we all got back to the start, we had 2-3 minutes to get back to COT, perfect timing!
MARY: We had about a minute worth of flutters and something else.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Read the newsletter, get involved, invigorate your male community leadership.
COT:
Alot lifted up.
Today I handed off the shovel flag to a HIM that I know will maintain the standards set for Minnow Pond, Farmer's Only. Shady started MP up back in mid-2017 to be a place that will push you to your limits physically (1st F), but also fostered a strong 2nd F there as well. A minimum of ~3.2 miles (5K) with pain stations mixed in, so you HAVE to push your pace to get all that in within 45 minutes. That is the standard set. Other past site Qs – Longshanks, Jekyll, and Funhouse – all maintained that standard while putting their own flair on things to continue growing the 2nd F there. It was an honor, privilege, and blessing to take the reigns of what I feel is a premier site in The Fort.
When you have a strong fellowship to share your pains and burdens, it makes those pains and burdens much more bearable and manageable. When those two things come together like that, it is an awesome thing to be part of, and the result is growth in your 3rd F too, for you gain more faith in what you can do as well as who will be there to do it with you. This is a great microcosm of what F3 is all about. Planting a small workout. The black diamond aspect of it that pushed everyone to their limits drew them out. The magnet. The strong fellowship cultivated from it and by it drew you and others out, and kept them coming. The glue. Then you and others realized there is alot more to things than just working out, that you can get through hard things, that others will be there with you to help push/pull you along, and in turn you do that for others. Then it spreads outside the gloom. The Boom or explosion of growth. It is awesome.
Farmer's Only will be a GREAT site Q! He lives for pushing himself in all three Fs, and will do the same for others. Be warned, he LOVES burpees and pull-ups. HA HA!! Congratulations Farmer's Only! Well deserved and earned.
Thank you everyone for being a part of Minnow Pond / Block Party lore. Excited to see where it goes from here.
Blessings and SYITG
-NASA
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WARMUP: NA
THE THANG: run Dobbys Bridge towards downtown, left on Fairway, if you are over 20 minutes when you get to the end of Fairway, just turn back the same way. If 20 minutes or less, left on Banks, left on FM Parkway, back to Blue.
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