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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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Locking Shields_3rdF Thursday on the 3rd Thursday

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PAX of The Fort,

10 years we have been at this thing called F3 and we have covered a lot of ground and accomplished great things. Most importantly we have helped each other accelerate and be better than we were yesterday.

Locking Shields is a new way of taking our shieldlocks and all of The Fort PAX deeper and wider. We need to keep challenging ourselves and move into deeper waters in order to tap into our true selves. Maturing not only physically but mentally and spiritually is critical for moving to a place of advantage in this thing we call life.

How will Locking Shields help mature us and take us deeper?? By being willing to have the hard conversations and reach deep into the things that every single one of us struggles with and needs to deal with. This is not to embarrass or shame anyone, but to move toward advantage and overcome the things that hold us back from the BEST US!

Locking Shields

    1. We will put out a monthly topic for Shieldlocks to discuss and all PAX to consider and discuss in smaller groups and circles the first two weeks of the month.
    2. Locking Shields 3rdF Thursday every 3rd Thursday of each month will be held at Hanging with Stang. A shieldlock group will lead through discussion on the topic of the month. From the smaller discussion groups to this corporate group, the discussion will be impactful in short time Thursday mornings.
    3. Sign your Shieldlock up to lead a discussion of choice. Something you know men deal with and could benefit from have the hard conversation. Let Cake Boss know you want to lead and get on the calendar.

So what are we really talking about here. As men we have certain tendancies and bend. Here are some of the things that lead to our Jesters manifesting somewhere in our lives:

    • Identity
      • Worthiness
      • Performance
      • Control
    • Anxiety/Stress
      • Loneliness
      • Hopelessness
    • Virtuous Leadership
      • In Marriage
      • Raising 2.0s
      • At work
    • Faith
      • Grace
      • Love
      • Wisdom
      • Empathy
      • Humility
      • Worship
    • Finances
      • Debt
      • Budgeting
      • Communication
      • 2.0 lessons

The list goes on and on, but this is not a cliffnotes version. We want Shieldlocks to go deep and Locking Shields will take all the PAX into the deep waters.

See you in Da Gloom!

Cake Boss

Join in on the conversations!!

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Gusts 💨 of wind and pain at The Stockade

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WARMUP: mosey around Harris Teeter with stops for some exercise moves
5burpees – mosey
4 burpees- bear crawl
3 burpees- lunge walk
2 burpees- run backwards
1 burpee- mosey

THE THANG:
CakeBoss version of 12 days of Christmas was 12 exercises 12 reps each

4 corners has 3 exercises each
Do one exercise at each corner run to each pain station for 3 rounds which ended about 2mi
Exercises included the following
1. Apollo Onos
2. American Hammer
3. Dry docks
4. Peter Parkers
5. Freddy Mercury’s
6. Merkins
7. Jump squats
8. Sumo Squats
9. Lunges
10. Merkins
11. Diamond Merkins
12. Burpees

MARY:
Mosey to drive thru at drug store
10 LBCs
10 Merkins
10 dying cockroaches
10 Merkins
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
See newsletter
COT:
Do good and influence those around you

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Repeat the 400

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18 pax posted at Clydesdales this morning for a chilly mid week jaunt over to FMHS and some interval training. Weather was 35 but felt like 31

THE THANG:

Mosey to FMHS – 0.7 miles
400 m at 10k pace followed by 400 m walk/jog
Rinse and repeat for 6-8 times
Mosey back to COT – 0.7 miles

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
– Clave Boss 5k/10 at 6:30 on 12/24 at Pantheon (bootcamp after)
– 8 Blocker at Q Source on 12/27 at Panera
– 1/28 Dam to Dam Bar run

Mumblechatter
– DQ closes early (9 PM) provided by Sugar Daddy

Prayers
– Walker 61st birthday
– Middle school kid lost his father (Patel)
– Lost loved ones from 2022
– Andy Burkholder has AML

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Coming in Hot on a cold Tuesday morning

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WARMUP: laps until Q showed up
THE THANG:
Mosey to front of school
3 rounds of 10 dips, 10 Derkins, 10 squats
Mosey towards elementary school entrance
Run to 5 light poles and perform exercises
Round 1: 10 lunges each pole
Round 2: 10 Carolina dry dock
Round 3: 5 Weezy Jefferson’s
Round 4: 10 calf raises
Round 5: 10 diamond merkins
Round 6: 10 flutters

Mosey to back of school
Partner 1 runs across bridge and back Partner 2 exercise
1) LBCs
2) Merkins
3) Sumo Squats

Wall sit
PAX bear crawl
Wall sit
PAX 5 Merkins

Indian mosey back to COT
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Christmas Eve Clave Boss and Convergence Saturday 0630 wheels up

Dam2Dam- look it up

COT:
Lots of prayers and praises
Enjoy the moments and don’t get fought up in the complaints
Peace Joy and Love men!!

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12 days of painmas

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WARMUP: mosey to parking lot across the street for a circle and warm up exercises.

THE THANG: mosey more over to medical building and get going on the 12 days.  

Not moderate.  Good work put in. Fellowship was pretty quiet by about day 5.

Do day one, run around building.

Plank for 6.  

Do day two, day one then around the building, etc

1 Donkey Kick

2 WAM

3 Jumping Lunges

4 Merkins

5 Squats

6 Burpees

7 Bombjacks

8 Sumo Squats

9 CDD

10 Flutters IC

11 Monkey Humpers

12 Diamond Merkins

During Plank we got to hear about Pax fav Christmas gift memory as a kid.  Sounded like a lot of our folks were hitting the Sears catalog or the local KB Toy in the mall for the best stuff.  

Outside of Old Bay who got a dot matrix printer.  Prob from Radio Shack.  We are renaming him Tandy.

MARY:  no time for her.  It took all 45 to wrap the 12 days.  Site q was nervous we’d be late during run back.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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Superman made me do it

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WARMUP:

Windmills
Cherry pickers
Low and slow squats
“Hold”
MNCs so Cyclops

“Recover”

Plank
downward dogs
Upward dogs
“Hold”
Merkins
Peter Parker’s

“Recover”

THE THANG:

Mosey to side of pike building

Bear craw under awning allllll the way down

Mosey to half wall

30 Dips
30 Derkins
30 step ups

Mosey to park
Jack Webb (5 rounds)
Mike Tyson’s
Chin ups

Chin ups to failure OYO

Mosey around park- counter clockwise
Every bench complete the following:

15 air squats
10 calf raises
5 flying squirrels

7 or 8 benches were passed on way to pavilion
Under pavilion

Wall sits while 6 comes in

Take turns burpee broad jumping to end of stage and run back to wall

Started with Dora but then modified to group work for time management sake we had important work to do

50 J-Los

30
Calf raises
30
Pigeon toe calf raises

50 flutters (4 count in unison)

Mosey all the way to Kimbrells furniture store to complete monkey humpers tears facing inside Kimbrells where Cicada was supposed to be setting up a men’s breakfast.

MARY:

Stretches and a couple rounds of Mary

Freddy mercuries
Box cutters
LBCs

ANNOUNCEMENTS: newsletter
COT: shared letter from F3 Safari

Good morning my brother.
My name is Phelix Obuya (F3 Safari), born and raised in Kenya. Iwas born in abject poverty to an extent that we rarely had two meals. I wore my first pair of shoes when going to High school. Iwas born in a family of 7 but 5 of us died, my late dad included, therefore it is my 78 year old mum, my brother Chris and I who are alive. Am 48 years old and have been a member of F3 since 2020.
I hold 2 Master Degrees in Strategic Management and Community Studies and have worked with diverse organizations. Chaplain Steven Hubbard and I founded a Foundation and got it incorporated in Kenya this year. Damien’s Hope Foundation as it is called follows the ethos of the late St. Damien of Molocai, a Belgium Catholic priest who died while serving lepers. We therefore are dedicated to work with the “modern day lepers” who are needy and aren’t capable of meeting their basic needs in the society.
Damien’s Hope doesn’t have any kind of funding at the moment but we rely on personal contributions and goodwill.I do my apostolate on foot because many times I never have even cash to pay for transport. Having gone through very tough times in life moved me to found Damien’s Hope Foundation,
The reason am writing this mail is to sincerely thank you, Brother Patrick Lloyd, Fort Mill AO, Lake Wylie AO and Rock Hill AO plus any other person of goodwill who mobilized clothes, shoes and all the beautiful and valuable items that were received with gratitude to support our local F3 members and the needy in this community.
Allow me to conclude that by quoting from the Gospel of Mathew 25:35-40 that whatever you did, it was Jesus who benefited through your amazing support. We have received even some financial contribution that has always been handy in providing food and transportation to the pax who do not have any source of income and I always say, “Glory Be to God.”
Without taking much of your time let me take this humble opportunity on behalf of F3, Langata Kenya to THANK YOU FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART FOR THE GREAT WORK AND SERVICE TO THE NEEDY.
Never leave no man behind, don’t leave a man where you found him.
Be blessed.
Your humble Brother,
Phelix (Safari)

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Mississippi Mud

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It was a chilly morning in The Fort, but the firey mumble chatter kept us all warm. So did the pain!

After a plethora of warmup exersices we were off for some wall work.

The Ascending Testicles (not so distant cousin to Balls to the Wall)

15 Degrees – 10 Derkins
45 Degrees – 10 Derkins
Balls to the Wall – 10 Derkins

Then a round of The Australian (aka decline mountain climbers

We then moseyed over to the track to celebrate the birthday of our beloved state Mississippi.
Fun Facts: Mississippi joined the Union as the 20th state on December 10th 1817 and gets its name from the Mississippi River, which forms its western border. Mississippi is known for being the birthplace of American blues music and is also famous for its fertile soil, which makes it an agricultural powerhouse, as well as for its catfish farming industry.

The Thang:
18 of one exercise, run half a lap around the track. Then 17 of the same exercise, and run the other half of lap (year 1817). We worked our way all the way down the list.

M – erkins
I – material Walkers
S – ide Straddle Hops
S – it Ups
I – nch Worms
S – holder Taps
S – umo Squats
I – ron Mike Tysons
P – eter Pointers
P – eter Parkers
P – eter Pointers
I – mperial Storm Kickers

Back to COT

-JWow

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