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In Honor Of September, 11, 2001

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WARMUP: All PAX but Shield dropped in the plank with their ears wide open to listen to our brother Shield share his experience as an NYPD officer on 9/11/2001. This included the names of a few of Shield’s fallen brothers. Some of us have been fortunate enough to hear him talk about that day but every time I hear it, I take away something new. This morning was no different.
Following the plank, we mentioned a few numbers of significance for the PAX to think about:
9 & 11: This was obvious
22: Years since that day 22yrs ago
100: The number of days Ground Zero in NY smoldered
ALL PAX 100 Side Straddle Hops (50 in cadence) & 22 Burpees

THE THANG: Grab your bell and meet over by Clickbait’s trailer where we had more gear. Everyone has a weight of some kind for the following 9 exercises:
11x Kettle Bell Swings
11x Thrusters
11x Goblet Squats
11x Bent Over Rows
11x Overhead Tricep Extensions
11x Big Boy Sit-ups w/ Weight
11x Bicep Curls
11x Standing Lunges
11x Overhead Press

We went through these 9 exercises one more time and occasionally modified the cadence.

In groups of 4, we all got to experience the 200lb sand bags for 4 reps, taking the bag from the hips, to the shoulders, to an overhead position, back to the shoulders and finally, back to the hips. If we weren’t on the 200lb sand bag, we did the same evolution with our own coupon.

Then, back to 22 Side Straddle Hops & 11 Burpees.

MARY: Throughout
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Lots in the newsletter & THE BLOOD DRIVE
COT: Indeed

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Kingsley Loops just for fun

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WARMUP: Review of the Loops
THE THANG: 2 loops: 1.5 miles or 1 mile
MARY: Stretch
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Dam2Dam and Men’s Shelter needs help
COT: Prayers for sick family members and friends. Prayers for Sprocket!

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Stuff the Bus Convergence

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WARMUP:
Ran over to parking lot behind football fields
SSH – all exercises were to 20 INC
1 burpee
Windmill
2 burpees
Cherry Pickers
3 burpees
Squats
4 burpees
Moroccan Night Club
5 Burpees
Imperial walkers
6 burpees
Merkins
7 burpees
LBC
8 burpees
CDD
9 burpees
Flutter
10 burpees

Throughout the workout we had pax share about different opportunities we have within The Fort to serve our community. We had the following speak (Fogerty – Trash Pickup, Cousin Eddy – Bethel Men’s shelter, Jiffy – FM Care Center, Stuff the Bus)

Partner Up
Round 1 –
Squats
Flying Squirrels
Inch worm merkins

Round 2
Big boy sit-ups
Jump Squats
Wide arm merkins

We have an amazing opportunity in The Fort to impact our community. We have pax impacting our community through service. Challenge was raised, if you aren’t actively impacting the community, why not?

It was an honor to be able to lead the workout this morning. This was diffident from most workouts because of the number of times we stopped to talk. However I felt it important to share with the guys what is happening around them. We also were able to congratulate Double D in his hand off of Nantan to Esso. Double D, thank you for you service to the pax. You have always been someone who ask the tough questions that challenge us and I thank you for that and what you did for our Region during your reign as Nantan. Esso, I look forward where you are going to take us and your energy to lead. We have a bright future ahead.

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Just another manic monday

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WARMUP: n/a
THE THANG: Brayden hill repeats:

BOTTOM OF HILL

intersection  1 burpee

5 merkins, 10 Parker peters, 20 CDDS

TOP OF HILL

5 squats,  10 calf raises, 20 monkey jumpers

Next round

intersection 2 burpees
Reduce jumping squats by 1 each time

Rinse and repeat

MARY: no time
ANNOUNCEMENTS: HIM CAMP
COT: was held

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Failure is not an option

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WARMUP:

Light stretching exercises, windmills, , MNC, plank, yoga stretches, merkins.
THE THANG: 64 burpees, 8 at a time and run across field each time, crosswise not lengthwise

Death by,

Merkins….

Start with 3, add 3 every 30 secs for 3 rounds, then add 3 per minute until failure… FNG got to 30!

I started my testimonial… beginning of life to my rock bottom.

Then we moseyed behind ROTC, did a dead hang to failure

Then we did a Dora with 50 pull-ups, 100 overhead presses with Cindy then 200 curls with Cindy, we almost finished…

MARY:
No time but I shared the rest of my testimony. God had a plan for me and He has one for you too!
ANNOUNCEMENTS: newsletter
COT: yes

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New sheriff in town

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WARMUP:
Poppins started off with a quick warmup, 50 SSH, Windmills, Cherry Pickers, some other stuff, Plank, Merkins and some yoga stuff
THE THANG: I started it off with a mosey to the back playground where we did a crowd pleasing Dick Webb, got up to 8 RDS, then we did a quick tabata at the nearby park benches. Part 2 was Mainframe leading us to the parking lot in the back where we had to do a series laps around the lot with various leg exercises including burpee broad jumps and then a bear crawl and crawl bear activity from the lines in each space over to the line opposite side, 6 rounds.
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Newsletter
COT: Was held

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Great Job Kermit

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Kermit led
Disclaimer
Mosey to Pharmacy parking lot
10 Windmills IC
10 Hillbilly Walkers IC
10 LSS IC
Al Gore with 10 MNC IC
10 Shoulder Taps IC
10 Merkins IC
Toy Soldier across parking lot

THE THANG:
Mosey to business parking lot.
Lunge Walk hang way to Hobos (dumpster)
Burpee Broad Jump to Hobos back yard.

Hand off to the New Site Q!

Mosey to St John’s UMC
25 merkins
25 Big Boys
25 Sumo Squats

Mosey to Print Shop / Break into teams of 3 except my group of 4 which was a sizable advantage.

As a team
100 pull ups
200 LBC’s
300 Monkey Humpers

Mosey to Springs Global back lot.
Wall Sits while passing coupon from one end to the other. Last Him bear crawls to front of line. Rinse and repeated several times.

Mosey to COT.

MARY: 4 minutes of PAX led ABB work in the rain.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: 4th of July Convergence. Berthel Men’s Shelter
COT: prayers for Kermits former partner Officer Grier and family. Poppins 2.0

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Konvergence for Kenya

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We converged on 6/10 to with a special weinke designed by the PAX of F3 Nairobi (but “may” have been augmented by Poppins…)
Weinke

Warm up
Various, but highlight was 150 SSH in sets of 50. #CrowdPleaser

Groups of 5
Indian Run
5 burpees by the guys at the back

Dora on the football practice field
50 burpees – bear crawl
200 merkins – bear crawl
200 squats – lunge walk
300 4-count mountain climbers – frog leap a partner

Lots of bat flipping on the 4-count of the mountain climbers and the frog leaping

The guys in Kenya average a 5 mile transit to and from the AO, so a group of PAX dutifully pre-ran and post-ran 5 miles after the beatdown. YHC took a bit of flack, because it was me that spitballed that idea and then did not pre or post run. I did bring my 2.0 to the workout to try to cover the fact that I wouldn’t be running extra, but to no avail. Badlands 100% called me out.

Welcome FNGs
– Dungeon Master
– V-neck

Pre-runners:
– Badlands, Poppins, Rolloff, Maximus, Funhouse, Sasquatch, Cyclops, Beaker
– rucking: Sprocket, NakedandAfraid
Post-run:
– Badlands, Poppins, Rolloff, Maximus, Funhouse
All running
– Gears

The plan was to raise $$ to purchase a vehicle for transportation of Nairobi PAX to workouts, supporting efforts to assist in community and coordinating donations etc. The need is tremendous and our financial support is magnified in Kenya.

As of this backblast, we raised $2620. I have no idea when you’re reading this, but you could possibly still contribute and Poppins may still have T-Shirts in the back of his vehicle: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-our-kenyan-f3-brothers?member=26869695&sharetype=teams

Announcements:
Q-School Wednesday 6/14 at Bushwood
The Fort Retreat 8/11-8/13 (Register now!)
https://criout.regfox.com/f3-him-camp

Safari (F3 Nairobi Nantan) facetimed in at the end to offer up a prayer closing out COT.

This backblast respectfully submitted by Band Camp

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