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Sergeant Major

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Started off the Pre-Veterans day workout with some standard warmup exercises:

11 SSH IC
11 Windmills (steady pace)
11 SJ IC
11 MNC (IC)
11 Merkins (IC)
Stretch
11 Mnt Climbers (IC)

Mosey to Mavis Brakes (this was a nice long mosey across Gold Hill)

Planked up and waited for the 6.

In Plank I talked about the next portion of the workout. Something I like to call the “Sergeant Major”

In short, the rep counts reflect the different units my Dad (a Sgt. Major) served in during his lifetime.

The workout for today laid out like this…

28 Burpees
3 Laps around the parking lot of the school nearby

28 Burpees
56 LBC’s
3 Laps around the parking lot of the school nearby

28 Burpees
56 LBC’s
112 HR Merkins
3 more laps around the parking lot of the school nearby

Whenever you finished you went and picked up the 6.

After this we mosey’d back to COT with a few minutes to spare

Led a round of Mary..

22 Flutters IC
22 HD IC
22 FM IC

Pusher quickly picked up on why the rep count for this last portion of the exercise. The point was made that our gratitude for our veterans should be equaled by our concern for their mental health and a desire to help them in any way we can.

COT was another great example of why we all joined F3 and still come back. What was said, stays there but it was a lot of what I needed to hear that day.

Men I’m extremely thankful for the service and sacrifices of our veterans (my Father and Brother in law among others…)

Hope the example of service and sacrifice continues to inspire and push us all to be better leaders in our communities and lives.

Take care,

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Set your Goals…then crush em!!

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WARMUP:
Dynamic warmup with running, lunges, karaoke, shuffling to various locations and performing various exercises
Side straddle hops
Hill Billy walkers
Merkins
Low slow squats
LBCs
Hello Dolly’s
Derkins
Dips
Step Ups

THE THANG:
Up and down hill at main entrance
Accumulating exercises ever stop
1 Merkin down the hill
1 Merkin 2 big boys up the hill
1 Merkin, 2 Big boys, 3 plankjacks down the hill

Get the idea

4 full squats
5 burpees
6 Wide Arm Merkins
7 SSHs
8 Flutters
9 Jump Squats
10 Donkey kick
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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Set your Goals…then crush em!!

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WARMUP:
Dynamic warmup with running, lunges, karaoke, shuffling to various locations and performing various exercises
Side straddle hops
Hill Billy walkers
Merkins
Low slow squats
LBCs
Hello Dolly’s
Derkins
Dips
Step Ups

THE THANG:
Up and down hill at main entrance
Accumulating exercises ever stop
1 Merkin down the hill
1 Merkin 2 big boys up the hill
1 Merkin, 2 Big boys, 3 plankjacks down the hill

Get the idea

4 full squats
5 burpees
6 Wide Arm Merkins
7 SSHs
8 Flutters
9 Jump Squats
10 Donkey kick
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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Set your Goals…then crush em!!

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WARMUP:
Dynamic warmup with running, lunges, karaoke, shuffling to various locations and performing various exercises
Side straddle hops
Hill Billy walkers
Merkins
Low slow squats
LBCs
Hello Dolly’s
Derkins
Dips
Step Ups

THE THANG:
Up and down hill at main entrance
Accumulating exercises ever stop
1 Merkin down the hill
1 Merkin 2 big boys up the hill
1 Merkin, 2 Big boys, 3 plankjacks down the hill

Get the idea

4 full squats
5 burpees
6 Wide Arm Merkins
7 SSHs
8 Flutters
9 Jump Squats
10 Donkey kick
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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A Halloween Nightmare

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COP

Take a lap around HT

SSH x 30
Windmills x 15
Mtn Climbers x 15
IW x 15

The Thang:

Mosey to new spot

H-and Release Merkins x 100
A-ir Squats x 100
Take a lap
L-unges x 100 each legs
L-ow Dolly x 150
O-ut and Back – take a lap
W-orld War II Sit Ups x 100
E-scalator (10 Jump Squats, 20 Burpees, 30 Merkins, 40 Squats, 50 Lunges)
Take a lap
E-mpty Wheelbarrow
N-olan Ryans x 50 (each side)

Mosey home. Only Slapshot made it to the end.

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Benjamin’s for my GIL

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WARMUP: 60/100 SSH’s, merkins, produce pickers, imperial walkers, p Parker’s, etc.
THE THANG: 100 stepups & dirkins 20/100 SSH’s
A pendulum- 100 of something to 100 of something to 100 of something else.
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: read your newsletter
COT:celebrated my grandma-in-laws 100th birthday

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Tour of the Grounds

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10 men toured The Stockade grounds this morning. Here’s what we did:

-10 Low Slow Squats (IC)
-10 Imperial Walkers (IC)
-10 Moroccan Night Clubs (IC)

Mosey to HT side wall
-Hold Wall Sits while each person takes turns doing 10 Merkins
-BTTW
-10 Australian Mountain Climbers (IC)

Mosey to Upper Lot
-10 Burpees, take a lap
-20 Merkins, take a lap
-30 Overhead Claps, take a lap
-40 LBCs, take a lap
-50 Calf Raises, take a lap
-40 American Hammers, take a lap
-30 Flutters, take a lap
-20 Hand Release Merkins, take a lap
-10 Under the Fence, take a lap

Serpentine the HT lot
-Run, Nur, Side Shuffle, Bear Crawl, Burpee Broad Jump
-5 Ladder Merkins per rung (5 levels)

Mosey to HT side wall
-10 Dirty Hookups (IC)
-10 Dirty Hookups, but with your feet (IC)

Mosey to the garage
-20 Step ups
-10 Knee tar N’Diayes (IC)
-10 Makhtar N’Diayes (IC)

Mosey back to COT
-20 Ab Mat Situps
-20 Freddie’s (IC)

Total Mileage: 1.85

NMM
I just returned from a trip to England with our GrowRuck team. I learned that regardless of our accents, we are one PAX with the same mission in mind. I had a wife tell me F3 broke her husband (Hoops). It broke him and rebuilt him into the father she always desired for her children and the husband she married years ago. You see, F3 is more than a fitness group – it is a way to unlock a man’s hidden potential to love and lead well. I am so blessed to be surrounded by men like Hoops. He was just like so many of us – lost without know it. Let his story inspire you to find your “why” and rekindle your desire to be an asset wherever you are.

-IJ

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Tour of the grounds

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10 men toured The Stockade grounds this morning. Here’s what we did:

-10 Low Slow Squats (IC)
-10 Imperial Walkers (IC)
-10 Moroccan Night Clubs (IC)

Mosey to HT side wall
-Hold Wall Sits while each person takes turns doing 10 Merkins
-BTTW
-10 Australian Mountain Climbers (IC)

Mosey to Upper Lot
-10 Burpees, take a lap
-20 Merkins, take a lap
-30 Overhead Claps, take a lap
-40 LBCs, take a lap
-50 Calf Raises, take a lap
-40 American Hammers, take a lap
-30 Flutters, take a lap
-20 Hand Release Merkins, take a lap
-10 Under the Fence, take a lap

Serpentine the HT lot
-Run, Nur, Side Shuffle, Bear Crawl, Burpee Broad Jump
-5 Ladder Merkins per rung (5 levels)

Mosey to HT side wall
-10 Dirty Hookups (IC)
-10 Dirty Hookups, but with your feet (IC)

Mosey to the garage
-20 Step ups
-10 Knee tar N’Diayes (IC)
-10 Makhtar N’Diayes (IC)

Mosey back to COT
-20 Ab Mat Situps
-20 Freddie’s (IC)

Total Mileage: 1.85

NMM
I just returned from a trip to England with our GrowRuck team. I learned that regardless of our accents, we are one PAX with the same mission in mind. I had a wife tell me F3 broke her husband (Hoops). It broke him and rebuilt him into the father she always desired for her children and the husband she married years ago. You see, F3 is more than a fitness group – it is a way to unlock a man’s hidden potential to love and lead well. I am so blessed to be surrounded by men like Hoops. He was just like so many of us – lost without know it. Let his story inspire you to find your “why” and rekindle your desire to be an asset wherever you are.

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Friday the 20th at the Stockade – clever title absent

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WARMUP: Short “mozyroo” from the AO to the front of Harris Teeter.  YHC has been nursing a bum calf so no SSH were to be had.  We proceeded with  Carolina Dry Docks, Low Slow Squats, American Hammers, Mountain Climbers and Moroccan Night Clubs.
THE THANG:  Another short mozy to the side of HT.  At HT we did a group wall sit with the first Pax giving us a 10 count.  We then crossed the alley and did 5 merkins as a group.  When back to the HT wall we swapped out wall sits for planks.  Rinse and repeat with ongoing 10 counts and merkins (regular, hand release, Diamond, wide arm) alternating wall sits and planks.  After finishing these we did a lap around the oil change place with a brief stop for dips using the wall.  
 Back to HT for the same series but we swapped out merkins for 3 burpees.  Burpees included regular, Superman, Kraken and 8 count.  Repeat the lap (with dips) and back to HT.  Last series we swapped out burpees for 5 big boy sit-ups.
 Mozy to the fountain at the bottom of the hill by the fire dept.  There we did a plank clock with Carolina Dry Docks.  We started at 1:00 and did one CDD.  Plank walk to 2:00 for two CDDs.  Kept going until we did a full fountain lap and 78 total CDDs.
 Briefest mozy ever to the start of the row of arborvitae trees at the entrance to the apartment complex.  Starting with the first arborvitae we did two burpees and lunge walked the row, where at alternating trees, we did two burpees.  48 burpees later we were done.  Running a bit short on time we jogged our way back down the row and did two burpees at every third one.
  Mozy back to COT with one minute to spare.  One minute of full body destroyers ensued and we were all happy.
MARY:  she stayed home
ANNOUNCEMENTS:  D2D fund raisers
COT: Family health, marriages, 2.0s

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Wheel of Gloom

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Had a last minute cancellation so today seemed like a great day to bring back the Wheel of Gloom!

It’s a competition where each pax spins the wheel… which lands on an exercise. The spinner counts each Rep as his points.

At the end… the top two point getters square off in a 1:00 minute AMRAP to see who gets the W.

So we all got a good workout in. Minimal running but over 200 Merkins and dozens of other reps of BBS, Squats, lunges, and Freddy Mercury’s. 1F was satisfied but 2nd accelerated!

Congrats to Half She’ll for getting the championship today.

Until next time…

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