My Qshake Brings The Boys To The Yard

Mission of F3:
To plant, grow, and serve small workout groups for men for the invigoration of male community leadership.

5 Core Principles:
1. Free of charge
2. Open to all men
3. Held outdoors, rain or shine, heat or cold
4. Led by men who participate in the workout in a rotating fashion, with no training or certification necessary
5. End with Circle of Trust

Credo:
Leave no man behind, but leave no man where you found him.

Warm-Up:
SSH – 20 IC
Imperial Walkers – 15 IC
Moroccan Night Clubs – 10 IC
Windmills – 10 IC
Strawberry Pickers- 10 IC
Mosey around the parking lot

The Thang:
1. Light Poles:
Light Pole 1: 10 Burpees
Light Pole 2: 20 Merkins
Light Pole 3: 30 Squats
Light Pole 4: 40 Big Boys
Light Pole 5: 50 Calf Raises
➡️ MOT: Lap 1: Mosey between poles, Lap 2: Bear Crawl between poles, Lap 3: Crab Walk between poles

2. Partner Work:
P1: 20 Incline Merkins
P2: Hold plank or Al Gore
Repeat with:
20 Decline Merkins
20 Step Ups
20 Dips
MARY: She does like Qshakes so No Show
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your newsletter
COT: Prayers and Praises

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It’s not ‘negative’, its ‘eccentric’

WARMUP:
windmills, produce pickers then mosey to Kingsley Springs corner
monsters, knee grabs, arm stretches to lakeside benches

THE THANG:
C.H.I.P.S. and Dips
Complete 20 reps each of exercises, in cadence, followed by 20 dips off a park bench, and a lap around the landscaping
C – Calf Raises, Dips
H – Hello Dollies, Dips
I – Imperial Walkers, Dips
P – Parker Peters, Dips
S – Squats, Dips

Identify 'finish line' for future use

Mosey to bottom of hill
Rock routine (5/7/10)
Deadlifts
One-legged or two-legged
Bicep curls
Up on 1; down slowly on 2, 3, 4
Overhead presses
Up on 1; down slowly on 2, 3, 4
Coupon Crucible (curl + press)
a block curl straight into an overhead press and then slowly (3-5) count to lower the block into starting position. That's one rep.
OYO; encourage slow count to starting curl position
Tricep curls
OYO

Mosey to roundabout circle
Cocaine bear crawls (each sidewall partition) – 1 circuit

On Kingsley Springs sidewalk (back to the lake):
Squat-walk to rockpile facing alternating directions every 10 strides
Best effort up the hill to the previously announced 'finish line'

MARY:
dollies during CHIPS, @U78QN5XU5-led mary while the rest of us were struggling up the hill

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Read your newsletter, Bethel, Stuff the Bus

COT:
Prayers for families, marriages. Encouragement to do something not in your wheelhouse that will be within reach if you work at it.

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Start with Station #3

Last time I Q'd the Kitchen Sink we only used 1pc of gear. Needed to up my game for this Q to live up to the name Kitchen Sink, gotta bring more gear, so we used 3pcs. this go around – Ruck, SB, & KB.

WARMUP: Started with a mosey around the COT parking lot loop mixed in with the usual suspects, stopped and formed a circle back at COT for more of the usual warm-up movements. Time to work.

THE THANG:
3 stations were set-up around the COT parking lot loop. Instructed PAX they would need to carry all gear to each station. Upon arriving at a station, you can unload. Each station consisted of a buy in/out exercise and various other exercises with 1pc of gear. After completing the buy-in, list of exercises, and the buy-out, load up all gear and move to the next station. Continue until time is called. Stations are described below:

Station 1 — Exercises w/Ruck
· Buy In/Out – ManMakers x 10

  • Ruck thrusters x12
  • Ruck On squat jumps x12
  • Ruck On Alt Backward Lunge x 12 ( 6 ea leg )

Station 2 — Exercises w/Kettlebell
· Buy In/Out – Merkins w/ KB pull through x 10

  • KB swings x20
  • KB Alt Snatches x20 (10 ea side)
  • KB U-Hauls x20

Station 3 — Exercises w/Sandbag
· Buy In/Out – SB Overhead Press Toss x 10

  • Sandbag bear-hug squats x12
  • Sandbag ShouldertoShoulder OH Press x12
  • Sandbag DeadLift to Cleans x12

Everyone made it through 2 rounds on this muggy morning. FishStix said we covered a little over a mile and then suggested we should add one more piece of gear. Will take this suggestion into strong consideration for next time! We started with station #3 because YHC did not pay attention when setting up the stations prior to the workout. Found out it's not about where you start, it's how we finish that is important.

MARY: No time

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your NL! Stuff the Bus this Saturday, Bethel this Thursday, etc…

COT: STK!

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Dark Helmet

WARMUP:
THE THANG: We did a couple of loops around the Kingsplex, with some bear crawling and crawl bearing in honor of the Other Band Camp (@UGU3XR5RP – not present), some running up Textile Hill, and lots of NOT stepping on the grass…
We wrapped with a Mary tribute to Iron Balls McGinty. All in all, it was real nice time…

Moleskine:The mumblechatter was on point this morning. Pollo’s balls dominated the list of topics of discussion… whether it was that they were encased in metal, or being eaten by handsome crabs, we all now know too much and will need to scrub our brains.

MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT: Prayers for many things and a call to give to Living Waters International…

Go do some freaking good today. You're way more capable of it than you give yourself credit for.

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Hair Metal 🎸 and Iron Bells 🔔

It was a wet morning in the fort but the dry humerus chatter kept us warm. A quick warmup and we were off.

Thang: 50 reps of an exercise and then run across the parking lot and nur back. We did this 10 times. It was glorious.

Jwow

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Impossible Island Hopping

WARMUP: moseyed with some stops along the way. No feedback on the cadence calling. The PIP I was on was in full effect. Finished with Bonnie Blairs X 10.
THE THANG: In honor of The Pirate, a 4 corners, 20 reps at each corner. Merkins, Derkins, Heels to Heaven, and Big Boys.

Mosey and Sprints 2X to length of the parking lot changing pace at every island. Another idea taken from Pirate.

Picked two islands to do an Impossible Mile:
First Lap: Burpee Broad Jumps
Second Lap: Lunge Walk
Third Lap: Bear Crawl
Fourth Lap: Mosey.

Everyone LOVED the Impossible Mile.

Truly an honor to GET TO share doing difficult things with these men.

MARY: some did, some not so much.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Stuff the Bus, LaGrama, Bethel, Bourbon, Cannoli Run!
COT: Lifting up all those going through life’s beatdowns and enjoying the time when the storms pass.

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Round About

WARMUP: Yea, interspersed with burpees
THE THANG: A bit ADHD

  • 7s on the hill behind sugar creek
  • merkins, squats, and bulgarian split squats in front of the school
  • bear crawl the front wall of the elementary school with a merkin at each window
  • pistol squat w/ leg raise behind the school
  • Cinder blocks and the pull-up bar
  • 5 called pull-ups
  • 10 deadman to barbarian with the block
  • 5 oyo pull-ups and knees to chest
  • 10 thrusters
  • 5 oyo pull-ups and toes to bar
  • 10 deck squats with the block
  • Some mary

ANNOUNCEMENTS: newsletter
COT: was held, but often my tongue is not held in check. So, I brought that up.

Eggo seemed tired
Splinter modified the workout to walk around wearing his wife's weighted vest. Must be close to getting back from injury

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McHale’s Dawn Patrol 5, 10, 20, 10, 5

WARMUP: 5 minutes:
Side straddle, hops, hillbilly walkers, windmills, cherry pickers, Moroccan nightclubs, squats, high knees
THE THANG: sets 5, 10, 20, 10 and 5: Carolina dry docs, mountain climbers, Merkins, big boys set ups, flying squirrels, LBC’s, jump squats, American hammers. Also shard my banana, Superman and swimmers.
MARY: cherry, pickers, arm, circles, and stretches
ANNOUNCEMENTS: new psych trailhead coming soon Bethelman shelter, Fort mill Care Center loan care
COT: prayers for patience, love the Colorado wildfires and Tarzan

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