Set your Goals…then crush em!!

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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Better Late Than Never

WARMUP: Mosey around front/bus loop, stopping periodically for some exercises: Side Straddle Hops, Imperial Walkers, Hillbilly Walkers, Moroccan Night Clubs, Windmills.

THE THANG: PAX partnered up & we attacked some exercises, DORA-style, with increasing rep requirements. PAX1 did exercises while PAX2 did some method of transport, then flapjack until the rep count was hit & move on to the next.

1. 50 Burpees / Run across parking lot (to the far marching band endzone) & back
2. 100 Dry Docks / Lunges (think to the 50yd line) & back
3. 150 Merkins / Run across & back
4. 200 Squats / Bear Crawl (think to the 30yd line, maybe it was the 50 again) & back
5. 250 LBC’s / Run across & back
6. 300 Calf Raises (equal doses of toes in/out/straight) / Broad Jump to the 50yd line & back

We got done around 05:53:23. With time left for dessert, we enjoyed a 6min AMRAP of 20x Mtn Climbers > 10x Diamond Merks > 20x Flutters > 10x Box Cutters

Made our way back to COT.

MARY: None

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Make sure you’re getting your newsletter. Once that’s been confirmed, make sure you’re reading it.

COT: Stays in COT but praises were shared and prayers requested.

Thanks for the opportunity @Cyclops!

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Exfoliation Free Lot

Quick disclaimer and warmup and we were off.
We took two steps forward and one step back, because opposites attract, or something like that.
Bear Crawl two parking spots and do a Merkin, then Crawl Bear one back. We did a few sets of this including lunges and broad jumps.
Next up was a Dora – 100 push-ups, 200 Squats, 300 LBCs. Mode of transportation was a lap around the parking lot.
Back to COT for prayers and praises.
– JWow

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Hope you brought your running shoes

WARMUP: SSH, cherry pickers, MNC, low slow squats , mosey
THE THANG: Do reps of exercise at one station, run a lap and decrease reps by 5(or10) each time around, move to next station when done
Merkins
Squats
Mike Tysons
Lunges
CDD
Hillbilly squats
MARY: American hammers till
ANNOUNCEMENTS: newsletter
COT:

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Bodily functions are real

WARMUP: started with a mosey around the parking lot. Stopped for some SSH, merkins, squats, mountain climbers, and a little back and hip stretching. Made our way over to grab some cindy’s.
THE THANG: Once we had our new toys, we went to the hill for 11s. Shoulder presses at the top with cindy and bottom of the hill hand release merkins. Pax that finished early did chest presses or picked up Pax and finished with them.

Next we took our cindy friend to the pull up bars for work. 7s was the game with 1 pull-up and 6 man makers…down to 6 pull ups and 1 man maker.
MARY: made our way to COT for Mary on steroids…1 hammer, 4 flutters; 2 hammers, 8 flutters…made our way to 5 hammers and 20 flutters before the crying started. Then it was 3 burpees and round the horn ab callouts.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: lots in the newsletter
COT: patience, schools, families in general.

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Tour of the Grounds

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

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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Dancing at the Ballroom with all my Rowdy Friends!!!

WARMUP: After a brief discussion on where to get the best sliders on the EC ( it’s in Jersey of all places ) we got after it.
All in cadence – WMx10, CPx10, HBWx10, OCx10, MNx10
THE THANG: We moseyed to the back parking lot in front of the baseball field. Completed 20 SSH in cadence waiting on the 6. Island to Island was the distance, used the 2 parking lines forward, conduct 1 rep of an exercise then go 1 line back and conduct the same exercise. 1st round was bear crawl moving forward and crawl bear moving backwards with 1 merkin completed at every line. 2nd round was alt lunge walk moving forward, alt backward lunges to move backwards with 2 squats completed at every line.
Had enough of that parking lot so we moseyed along the winding road heading back to COT. Of course, we stopped to do some dancing with DORA. Shortened the running distance to make it a SPEEDY DORA, partners completed 100 merkins, 200 LBCs, & 300 Flutters(SC).
These guys were crushing it so we had time for another routine. Headed to the benches at the school entrance. 1 PAX was the timer while all other PAX performed an exercise. The timer was 10 burpees. Rotated 3 exercises as we moved down the line with PAX performing their 10 burpees – Step-ups, Gerkins, & V-Ups.
These guys don’t quit so we had time for more at COT. Asked the PAX to think of a physical weakness, then think of an exercise they will perform for 1 minute to strengthen that weakness. Battlebot definitely picked the most interesting weakness. You gotta show to know.
After the minute of pain was up we sat down and concluded the final 3 minutes of our wo time together with stretching ( something YHC doesn’t do nearly enough of ).
MARY: Didn’t need her as we practiced our 2 step and then danced with DORA.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Bethel Men’s Shelter serve on 11/2, fundraising events, READ YOUR NEWSLETTER!
COT: Closed in prayer. Just wanted to say this was one of the most uplifting, encouraging groups I’ve had the privilege of leading! Loved every minute of it! Thanks for the opportunity Boogie Down!!!

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Old & Grizzled

Instead of giving a long disclaimer, I made the mistake of saying this was an old and grizzled group of vets. It pretty much went downhill from there. But in my defense we did average about 50% brace rate (knees, elbows. ankles, etc).

Anyway, short mosey around the lot then circle up for some warmups. Hillbilly walkers, 4 count squats (crowd favorite), mtn climbers, peter parkers, parker peters, MNCs.

Relocate over to near pull up bars. Partner up for lazy dora. 100 merkins: p1 does 10 while p2 holds plank. Switch back and forth until 100. 200 LBCs: p1 does 20 LBCs while P2 does 6″ leg hold. Switch back and forth until 200. 300 squats: p1 does 30 squats while p2 holds Al Gore. Switch back and forth until 300. 400 SSHs: p1 does 40 SSHs while p2 hangs on the pull up bar. Switch back and forth until 400.

I had more planned at front of school but based on time audibled to stay close to start point. Stay with same partner for partner burpees. P1 does burpee, then P2 does burpee, keep swapping back and forth up to 25 total then run to stop sign and back. 4 rounds (100 total). Finished up with 20 big boys and 20 flutters.

We may be old and grizzled but it was a really fun morning. Lots of mumble-chatter seemed to make time fly by. I appreciate all the old and grizzled as well as newer less grizzled guys we have in this group. Thanks Cake Boss for the opportunity to lead!

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Soggy Sloggy

It was a wet sloppy morning at The Rock, so we embrace the suck.

Quick disclaimer and warmup and we were off.

Thang;
Dora – Partner 1 – Kraken Burpees, 200 Squats, 300 Monkey Humpers. Partner 2 – runs to the pullup bars for 5 pullups.

Arod – Partner 1 – 300 V-Ups, 200 CDDs, 100 Merkins. Partner 2 – Nur across the parking lot and back.

6 Minutes of Marry, then announcements/prayers & praise.

– JWow

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