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Smells like…..well, you know 🤷‍♂️

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WARMUP: Mosey to Grace Presby – SSH, LSS, MNC’s out of people’s chair, merkins, planks and a bit of Broga posing….but just a bit.
THE THANG: Dora appeared where the smells were most suspect
100 – burpees
200 – squats
300 – flutters

Mosey to the tire store for 7’s – Mike Tyson’s with Diamond merkins bear crawling in between.  

MARY:  just enough time for boxcutters before 0600 called
ANNOUNCEMENTS: yes
COT: 5th core principle

Thanks 1/2 shell for the call. Always honored to lead.
👁️

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Convergence Before the Invergence

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It was rainy, cloudy, dark, in other words perfect weather for a convergence. We had roughly 55-60 PAX out for the variety of workouts that were about to be executed.  Disclaimer disclaimed, FNG identified (Randy from heaven on earth (aka Pittsburgh) , and we launched.

Bootcamp Q : Slapshot

Bootcampers followed me up the hill and towards the springs parking lot. After a quick plank for the 6 we moved onto to the parking lot across 160 behind the former bank and now drug store for the warm-up.

Warm-up:

50 SSH (IC)

20 Merkings (IC)

10 Michael Phelps (IC)

5 Windmills (IC)

20 Mtn Climbers (IC)

Stretch

20 Plank JAcks (IC)

Mosey to the other side of the parking lot.

DORA: Partner up with someone you haven’t worked out with. Run was around the drugstore and through the parking lots.

200 Plank JAcks

200 Toe Touches

200 SSH

150 Diamond Merkins

100 4-Ct Flutters

Recover Run Back towards COT.

Tabata Series

30 Seconds on 10 seconds off

4 Rounds 4 sets

  1. SSH
  2. Seal JAcks
  3. HR Merkins
  4. Am. Hammers

Last 7 minutes: 10 Burpess EMOM (which was reduced to a an 11 of sorts after minute 5 where we started going 10 burpees plus 1 BBS, then 9 burpees plus 2 BBS….etc… until we had about 20 seconds left.

I had everyone recover on their feet and then add 1 last Burpee.

NNM: I spoke today about one of the many examples of what F3 has meant to me. Specifically, the other day I was out for a pre-run where I started out at a “comfortable pace” already deciding in my head what I was “good” with that morning.  Then about 2 miles in I came across a fellow Pax who got to the AO early and decided to go find me. We started to run together and my “comfortable pace” got very uncomfortable very quickly. All told, when we got back to COT I had increased the pace I was running at by over 35 seconds. He literally found me where I was, didn’t leave me behind, and pushed me to accelerate. It is what I needed then, and it’s what I needed 5 years ago when I started F3. I never knew how fast I could run, until I started running with faster guys. That Friday morning was a great reminder that I can always push more, that I have plenty of gas left in the tank, and that somewhere out in the gloom a brother is willing to go find you and get you better. (Thanks Olaf)

Whether you are accelerating 1F or the 2nd and 3rd, run with faster guys and don’t just be comfortable. You never really know what you are capable of until you push just a little bit more.

AYE!

Running Q Bandcamp

Speaking of Running with faster guys…Bandcamp executed a 10K route where he was able to hit a PR. The route went all over the downtown Fort Mill area. Again, men surround yourself with HIMS you never know what you’re going to be able to do.

Ruck Q : JWOW

Ruck to Church of NAzarene

10 rounds –

5 merkins at the bottom then 10 squats at the top of the stairs.

Rucked to Print Shop

20 step ups and 20 dips

Rucked up Main STreet and back to Wep for the chair swing loop at each chair swing 5 squats and 5 CDD’s One more half loop to COT.

Kettlebell Q: 38 Special

Leg stretches for a couple minutes while us 40somethigns PAX complained about our joints

The Thang:

10 each of Arm Curl and Press, tricep ex. and overhead press. Grabbed bells and went for a stroll around the park. Bells always farmered carried. We used the park equipment to tell us what to do. Each Swing 20 swings, Statues 30 Standing Tesh with squat each arm Bathrooms = 20 squats same set as the start upon our return.

Paired up for a dora

100 Goblet Squats

200 Calf Raises

300 Flutter with chest press

6 minutes to go carry back to bathroom and back 1 minute of squats and 1 minute of swings.

IR Q: Kermit

Took a nice mosey around downtown Fort Mill and even down to the Peach stand and back. Big thank you for leading this piece and not leaving any men behind!

 

Post Workout  JWOW led us in prayer and we named a  FNG The name Cannonball.

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4-corners

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*WARMUP:*  SSH, Big Boys, Windmills

*THE THANG:* 3 Round Run to CVS, 10-20-30 count exercise at each corner, back to COT for 3 burpees after each round. 3 Round Run around Harris Teeter parking lot 10-20-30 count exercise at each corner, back to COT for 3 burpees after each round, Finished with one more round to CVS then an Airborne special to close it out at COT

Prayer or praise from everyone

Olaf took us out in prayer

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Q-School Part 1

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Started this fine morning with Pusher leading the Disclaimer.

All key points were included.
Asking for new people
Declaration that you are not an expert
Stating that everyone there is assuming all risk by being there, every exercise is a suggestion and to modify if needed to avoid injury.

Pusher also made sure to note the leadership aspect of being a Q. How it links with the larger mission of F3 and how being prepared to lead is instrumental in having a successful Q.

With that we moseyed to behind the Oil Change garage.

Here we circled up and Pusher put us through the finer points of a warmup including how to call cadence, how to pace cadence, and a sample of exercises that are popular within a warmup. After this portion of Q-school Pusher handed it off to me and I called 5 burpees OYO. Because why not….

Well also, as I explained, it’s a good tool to use to silence mumble chatter and help corral the PAX. (a whistle also helps with this)

For my portion of Q school I introduced a couple of workout concepts that had are scaleable. Meaning that the PAX could modify these up or down as they saw fit during the course of the workout. The other key piece I mentioned here is the intention of time-boxing your workout. For me I like to divide my workout into pieces. This helps inform me on if I can modify up or modify down a set of exercises based on the time allotment.

The first two sequences were first a simple circuit using the wall behind the garage.

10 Irkins
10 Derkins
10 Dips

X3

Plank for the 6

Run to behind the grocery store

Using the two islands

A simple 7 concept with a run in-between the two stations

HR Merkins on one side and Squats on the other.

Again, these are concepts that you can leverage and elevate as needed. For instance the 7’s could become 11’s, 20’s or even 30’s if you are so inclined with any mode of transportation you see fit in-between like bear crawls or burpee broad jumps.

For the final 3rd piece of the WO portion I took us to the pavilion by the church. I talked about knowing the AO and what it has to offer. Specific for this AO we have cover and benches here. It’s a great spot for a tabata style workout leveraging the WOD app. And that is what we did. I called out a series of exercsies with a short rest in-between.

Again, this is a great way to use a small space but keep the hear rate up and engage the pax. Candidly some of my best Q’s were in this format because of the proximity of my fellow pax and the ability for PAX to push themselves in this type of format.

After this portion was over we took off for COT.

With just over 5 minutes left we did Mary but had newish pax attempt cadence. I’m happy to say we all settled on Starting Positions ….MOVE……and that all Pax did a good job of picking up on it quickly.

We ended on COT where Pusher did a great job of articulating why it’s important and why it makes F3 different.

To quickly recap

-A great Q starts before 5:15. Work with the Site Q and plan ahead. Always overplan because it’s easier to scale down than scale up if needed.
-When calling cadence practice if you are not used to it. Practice in your garage or wherever but perfect practice makes perfect.
-Be willing to alter your plan if needed. A big thing for me is to keep PAX together and keep Pax safe. In other words if you think that hill looks a little too muddy to run up maybe look to do something else. (burpees for instance)
-COT is one of the most important pieces of the Q experience (that and writing a timely backblast). Be respectful and thoughtful.

Thanks to the Pax who came out, and the Pax who supported this (Especially Fishtix and Olaf who shared tidbits of wisdom throughout)

If anyone has any questions or wants to view/access some of the documents referenced today please feel free to reach out.

SYITG!

Class dismissed!

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DRP

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WARMUP: SSH, Cherry pickers, IW, HW

THE THANG: In light of the Q Source topic of DRP, the weinke reflected the Spurs.
1. “A man needs help to get right.”
The first portion of the workout was a team effort. Teams of 2 had to complete 50 merkins, 50 big boys, and 50 squats total reps.

During the next portion of the workout we discussed the second spur
2. “A man must turn pro to get right.”
Second workout 25 minutes of 100yd sprints EMOM.
Turning pro means that you’re making the decision every day to work towards your goals, being a true HIM. Often times with the help of a Disrupter.

Third spur is “Discretion is a cage with velvet bars”
This means that when you give yourself too many options, giving up is easy. Before every workout the disclaimer is made “modify if necessary” and too often we modify our goals to make it easier to quit.

Wrapped up the workout with 50 merkins, 50 big boys, and 50 squats. If you finished before someone else, take a portion of their reps to help them finish up as well. A man needs help to get right.
Final buy out was a 200yd sprint.

MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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Oh, here we go again…

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WARMUP

Windmills (IC)
Quad Stretch
Downward Dog stretches
Mosey to Grace Lot
IW (IC)
HW (IC)

THE THANG – EXERCISE LADDER

Cardboard with Exercises on each end of lot

Complete first exercise and run to other side

Complete first exercise at the other end and run back and forth working way down the list

Side 1:

5 Burpees
10 Carolina Dry Docks
20 Diamond Merkins
30 Merkins
40 Shoulder Taps (20 each side)
50 American Hammers
40 Shoulder taps (20 each side)
30 Merkins
20 Diamond Merkins
10 Carolina Dry Docks
5 Burpees

Side 2:

5 Burpees
10 Bobby Hurleys
20 Good Mornings
30 Lunges (15 each side)
40 Squats
50 LBCs
40 Squats
30 Lunges (15 each side)
20 Good Mornings
10 Bobby Hurleys
5 Burpees

At the end, we did 3 rounds of sprints down and back. 100% down and 75% back.

Mosey back to COT

Did some Broga and 1 minute elbow plank hold to end.

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Golden Corral buffet

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WARMUP:
Mosey to church parking lot
SSH, moroccan nightclub, arm circles, low slow squat, down dog, honeymooner

THE THANG:
Mosey over to Sonic for 5 trips through the drive through. Each round you performed the exercises starting with the first number. After running a lap you would decrease each exercise by the second number listed in the row below. Example round 1 – 10 burpees, round 2 8 burpees….

Burpees – 10 – 2s
Merkins – 25 – 5s
Squats – 50 – 10s
LBCs – 75. – 15s
Calf Raises – 100 – 20s

MARY:
Finished with some speed work exercises
One leg lung jump
Bunny hops
Scissor over line
Low slow jump squat

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Getting Right

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WARMUP: mosey to the top of the hill. Low slow squats, imperial and hillbilly walkers, Moroccan night clubs, planks, merkins, salutations
THE THANG:

Spur 1 – A man must get right before he can do anything else: 7’s on the hill – burpees at the bottom and squats at the top

Mosey to pull up bars

Spur 2 – An unfit man is a slave to his lack of self-control.

7’s at the pull up bars and at end of the driveway. Pull ups and Diamond merkins

Spur 3 – To help others, a man must first help himself. Mosey to school wing for wall sits of gratitude x 2 then back to COT.

MARY: no time
ANNOUNCEMENTS: yes
COT: 5th core principle

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7s, 10s, 20s, oh my…

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WARMUP: Imperial walkers, mountain climbers, low slow merkins
THE THANG: Mozy to the side of Harris Teeter for 10 counts and 20 counts. Started with 10 count BTW then run across the street for 20 squats. Flip flop for 20/10 (overhead clap/burpees), 10/20 (wall tar jai/dips), 20/10 (air presses/merkins)
Mozy to access road in front of O’reilly auto parts for 7s. Began with 6 burpees, ran to the oil change place where we did 5 CDDs, bear crawl to the wall for 1 big boy sit-up. Jog back to oil change place for 5 more CDDS then back to start. Rinse and repeat 5/5/2, 4/5/3, 3/5/4, 2/5/5, 1/5/6.
Mozy across Gold Hill Road (being responsible and checking for traffic) for more running and reps. Lots of back and forth and a fair amount of confusion. Reps included flutters, more dips, shoulder taps, merkins and more BBS.
MARY: Unaccounted for since we did plenty else
ANNOUNCEMENTS: D2D teams needing replacements, Christmas party officially scheduled.
COT: Family, travel, Ms and 2.0s

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120 pounds of fun!

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Cold but glorious morning in the gloom. 5 fellow pax joined me for the following.

Warmup:

20 SSH IC
10 Windmill IC
3 burpees
20 seal jacks
15 MNC
3 burpees
15 plank jacks
Stretch(looked at a very low flying plane)
15 Mountain climbers
3 burpees

Thang:

Everyone partnered up got a sandbag and engaged in a lazy Dora… with a twist.

Partner 1 does 10 reps with a sandbag while partner 2 does as many reps as they can of the accompanying exercise. Each partner switches off after 10 reps until the cumulative total is met.

60 Man makers with Burpees
60 squats with squats
60 curls with flutters
60 flutter press with LBCS

Now every minute… on the minute a timer would go off and everyone had to run to the end of the parking lot and back. This made it fun!

After this routine we did an Indian “run” (it was really more of a walk) where the leaders would partner carry the 120lbs sandbag while the 6 had to do 10 HR merkins to catch up. We made it around the parking lot twice before tapping out with about 2ish minutes left. I closed us out with some Mary and that was it.

Big thanks to Maximas for the lead and to all who showed.

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