Tag: Joe Lyons (F3 Long Duck)

Mentorship Has Its Privileges

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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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Door Dash Monday

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WARMUP: Run behind Earth Fare out past bank into Brayden around back to parking lot by the pool and muster.

THE THANG: 10 Hand release merkins OYO + 10 Shouldwr taps IC

Then we sprinted up to Inizios and onto several other establishments along 160, stopping each time for 10 merkins of varying flavors and some abs. last sprint was to HT lot. pax moseyed back home with some extra running and Mary to wrap up. Great push by all!
ANNOUNCEMENTS: D2DB slated for Sat and will have outstanding 2nd F so be there!
COT: Words on Whetstone from Olaf + prayers.

Life is full of sprints, some long and some short and some of unknown duration or finish lines. We do this crazy stuff in the Gloom to prepare ourselves. Now you know you’re prepared when the next sprint arrives in your life.

Thanks to Badlands for the invite!

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Make Wednesday Matter

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THE THANG: we ran to WEP, out the trail in backside to Harris, right turn on Jackson back to 160 and back home. some added distance. all got better!
COT: yes!

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Arms and Run

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WARMUP: SSH, Merkins
THE THANG: 3 stations Arms concentration.
Station 1 at the top of the hill of Massey, 25 Merkins
Station 2 at back parking lot of Pike Eng, 35 yard Bear Crawl.
Station 3 at tye WEP playground, 10 pull ups.
Run back to Massey through 160 to complete a 0.75 mile loop.
Rinse and repeat.
Total of 3 to 4 miles with the exercises.
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: D2D Bar package pick up on Saturday at Amor between 2 and 6PM. CSAP coming up by March.
COT: prayers for families.

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deck of discipline

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WARMUP:
Mosey toward far lot near Dave Gibson including dynamic warmup – toy soldiers, high knees, butt kickers

circled up for IC exercises (10-15 reps) each:
SSH, WMs, IWs, OH claps, MNCs, plank w/yoga stretches, Merkins, Mtn Climbers

Mosey to back near basketball hoops

THE THANG:

Part 1)
Deck of Cards:
Spades: Bomb Jacks
Clubs: Al Gore MNCs
Hearts: Superman Claps (think OH claps while laying on stomach doing superman)
Diamonds: Diamond Merkins
Jokers: 10 Burpees

stopped with 15 minutes left (about 2/3 of deck)

Part 2)
Core Corners:
Using approximately a full basketball court, bear crawl long ends, lunge walk short ends while stopping for IC core exercises at each corner (LBCs, flutters, AHs, box cutters, Freddie’s, shoulder taps, mtn climbers)

MARY: Mosey back to CoT

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Comfy and Cozy

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WARMUP: This is Sweep the Leg. We don’t really do that.

THE THANG:
– Head out – cross over to Brayden
– Down the main entrance hill and back up – at each break in the
median, 5 burpees, including at top and at bottom
– When back at top, turn left down 160
– At Storage Center on left, bear crawl to next driveway at
Breadsmith.
– Partner up, man carry around the building, switching as
necessary
– Keep heading down 160
– At Enterprise RAC – 5 burpees, 10 squats, 15 LBC in lot
– At Sam’s driveway, bear crawl to the roundabout
– Partner carry to the end of the road in front of Morningstar
– Go around Chipotle back to 160, go left
– At Wendy’s – 5 burpees, 10 squats, 15 LBC
– Around Truist, back to 160 go left
– In front of CVS, 5 burpees, 10 squats, 15 LBC
– Return route, repeat as much as possible

MARY: No chicks

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your newsletter

COT: 5th Core Principle

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Long Drive

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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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2nd times a charm

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WARMUP:
THE THANG: Fort Mill loop. 160 – Massey- Harris – Munn – (optional Kingsley loop)
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: sign up for D2DB10K, double down Saturday at 6 @ 6
COT: prayers for patience and those dealing with health issues

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DORA Ready with an unexpected whistle

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Disclaimer: when you hear a whistle you owe 10 burpees; intermittent whistles throughout (maybe 10 times)

WARMUP: 50 SSH, of course, and a few others warmup type stuff

THE THANG:
– Dora #1
— 200 Merk’s
— 200 Dips
— 100 Derkins
— 100 Wide grip merks
* Partner did a 50’ish yd Bear Crawl [lots of mummblechatter here?!? Some preferring the bear crawl over merks?, guessing the holidays make some of the pax soft?? 🙂 ]

– DORA #2
— 100 squats
— 150 Monkey humpers
— whatever was next nobody got to…
* Partner did a 40ish yd Duck walk

MESSAGE: we do dumb stuff in the gloom to prepare for the unexpected; the whistle, the burpees represents the unexpected in life; continue your preparedness

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Partner beatdown

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WARMUP: Cherry 🍒 Pickers to commemorate my VQ, burpees, windmills, and a mosey
THE THANG: two stations with a partner.
Station one- First set- Imperial Walkers, Second Set-American Hammers, Third set- Mountain Climbers, Fourth set- Monkey Humpers, and lastly – Side Straddle Hops.

Start at the first set while your partner runs to Station 2 where this is waiting… when they return, you switch.
Station two- First set – 20 Merkins, Second set – 40 squats, third set- 30 Carolina dry docks, fourth set- 10 💎 merkins, fifth set- wide merkins.

Rinse and repeat

MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: D2D 10k
COT:

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