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Carrying the burdens

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WARMUP: Disclaimer announced and off to Grace Presbyterian lot

Plank until all pax arrived and moved into exercises
Windmills x 10 I/C
Cherry pickers x 10 I/C
Imperial walkers x 10 I/C
Hillbilly Walkers x 10 I/C
Merkins x 11 I/C
Honeymooners and Down Dogs
Shoulder Taps x 10 I/C
Down Dog, hands to feet
Rise and recover

THE THANG:

At the picnic tables, the following:
20 squats – ass to bench
20 incline merkins

15 squats – ass to bench
15 incline merkins

10 step ups each leg
10 incline merkins

Stand on the bench – reflect on whose shoulders we stand. Who loved us enough to get us out here and/or help you get to where you are in life? Go and thank them out loud.

YHC realized it had been exactly one year since my last Q at this site. A recycled weinke made a partial appearance, ladder style

Perform the first exercise in the sequence, the run to the church turnaround and back, add an exercise each time until completing 6 rounds, drop the exercise with the fewest reps each round thereafter.

5 burpees
10 diamond merkins
15 wide arm merkins
20 lunges – 10 each leg
25 squats
30 seal jacks

At 0555 PAX stopped where they were and proceeded back toward COT

The question pondered was to come up with one thing you’re carrying that, if shared, would make it feel lighter.

MARY: Time for dying cockroaches I/C

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Always – read your newsletter too.

COT: The challenges were shared and shoulders hopefully a bit lighter as a result.

NMM: The F3 community is one that has blessed YHC and many others. We walk along side one another so that we each know life is most meaningful when shared with others, the good, the bad and everything in between. YHC learned a few things today in COT and am grateful to those who posted and shared what they did.

May the sharing of our challenges help us realize we aren’t alone and that we can navigate life best with others rather than in isolation.

Thanks for the call, Sweet Baby Ray.

Gratefully,
Cyclops

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Miyagi’s Reign Begins

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WARMUP: Yes

THE THANG:
<@UQ50TPDLH> Gave us the opportunity to do 100 burpees with a run EMOM.

<@U08N41FCN0Z>
Chipper 100
– Merkins
– Squats
– BBS
– Flutters
– Dips
– Lunges

100 reps of each, broken up however the PAX wanted.

MARY: Around the circle

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your newsletter

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Cards & Corners: The Golden Buffet

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This morning we split into two teams and raced from opposite corners, meeting in the middle after each card to pass a stone down the line – a reminder that even in competition, we’re still connected. The stone didn’t care who was winning; it demanded we work together, person to person, before heading back to battle.
Then we switched it up. Each PAX got to choose their own combination – exercise and travel method – building their own personal challenge. Some chose wisely, some chose pain, but everyone chose to show up and push through it.
That’s the thing about F3. We compete, we choose our hard, we suffer together, and somehow we leave better than we came. The parking lot at Golden Corral isn’t special, the exercises aren’t revolutionary – but the men who post in the gloom? That’s what makes this different.
Iron sharpens iron. Well done today, men
WARMUP: Ran a lap
THE THANG:

PART 1: CARDS & CORNERS RACE
Setup:
• Split into 2 teams
• Each team to opposite corners of the lot
• 9 exercise cards face-down at each corner (identical sets)
• Stone pile waiting in the MIDDLE
The Race:
• Team draws a card and completes exercise together (reps divided among team)
• ALL team members run TOGETHER to the middle
• Stone pass down the line – each PAX does a squat with stone and passes to next PAX
• Stone goes down and back up the line
• Team runs back to their corner
• Draw next card, repeat
• First team through all 9 cards wins
Exercise Cards:
• Merkins (2 cards in prep for GWR)
• Squats
• Burpees
• LBCs
• Casbah #2s – nod to <@U01FDRQSQG3>
• Lunges
• American Hammers
• Wild Card – Dealers Choice

Winner: The other guys – Losing team paid with eternal shame

PART 2: DEALER’S CHOICE
Setup:
• 4 cards laid out
• 2 EXERCISE cards (each with options 1 & 2)
• 2 MOT cards (each with options 1 & 2)
How it worked:
• Each PAX picks one exercise card option + one MOT card option
• Performs their combo
• Went through all PAX twice-ish

The Cards:

EXERCISE CARD A:
1. Merkins
2. Burpees
EXERCISE CARD B:
1. Squats
2. LBCs
TRAVEL CARD A:
1. NUR
2. Bear crawl
TRAVEL CARD B:
1. Lunge walk
2. Run

MARY: Yup- I need to practice “Boat/Canoe”

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your newsletter. Prayers for injured PAX, marriage, family, this broken world
COT: Jesus in the house!

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Contact High-Colonic

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WARMUP:
– Mosey lap through the Teet parking lot.
– SSH
– CASBAH #2s
– Imperial Walkers

THE THANG: Mosey to Indian restaurant for a Dora:

Run to Dogtopia
– 200 Squats
– 200 LBCs
– 200 Casbah #2s
– Somewhere between 150 and 300 flutters

Move to middle of parking lot there for a busted Amazon rip off Select-a-Cize Move/MOT

– SSH/Lunge Walk to island
– Merkins/Run to Dogtopia

Back to COT
– CASBAH #2s
– Hillbilly Walkers
– Baby arm circles fwd
– Baby arm circles back
– Big circles fwd
– Big circles back

MARY: Yuuuuup. And she brought some weed…
ANNOUNCEMENTS: HIM camp, Bethel Men’s, Christmas party,
COT: Prayers for safety and gratitude.

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2025.40 The Stockade

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Warmup… run to nearest parking lot with at least 10 parking spaces. Burpee at each parking line then broad jump or bunny hop between lines. x3 (30 burpees) Misc exercises between sets.

Mosey behind Dogtopia to the parking spaces doing a suicide and stopping at each line (total 12 lines). Plank for 6.

Mosey to wall of Harris Teeter facing O’Reilly for wall sits and donkey kicks. (x3)

Mosey to original parking lot for a repeat of burpee bunny hops.

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Bears and burns

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WARMUP: usual suspects- ended with SSH not started lol
THE THANG:

? The Thang – 12 Laps Total
• 4 corners per lap
• Complete the same exercise at all 4 corners each lap (so 4 sets per round)

MODE OF TRANSPORTATION
FIRST 6 LAPS- BEAR CRAWLS
Always face forward so side crawling, and crawl bearing as to always face the west end of the lot
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Big group so we split up so approx 25% of the PAX started at each corner

? UPPER BODY LAPS (6 total)

Lap 1 – Shoulder Taps
• 10 Shoulder Taps (IC) at each corner

Lap 2 – Arm Circles
• 10 forward / 10 backward (20 total) each corner

Lap 3 – Plank to Pike Walkouts
• 10 reps at each corner

Lap 4 – Air Presses (standing)
• 10 reps each corner

Lap 5 – Superman Pulls
• 10 reps (on belly, simulate row) each corner

Lap 6 – Shoulder Raise Plank (alternating arms)
• 20 reps total (10 each side) each corner

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? CORE LAPS (6 total)

MODE- SHUTTLE RUNS- same concept, always facing west

Lap 7 – Flutter Kicks (IC)
• 10 reps each corner

Lap 8 – American Hammers (IC)
• 10 reps each corner

Lap 9 – LBCs
• 10 reps each corner

Lap 10 – JLOS
• 10 per side each corner

Lap 11 – Big Boy Sit-ups
• 10 each corner

Lap 12 – Hollow Hold
• 20–30 second hold each corner

With time remaining pick a cone and do 50x what was on the cone, example was CDDS

MARY: flutters
ANNOUNCEMENTS: read ya letta
COT: always!

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Double Bell Fun

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WARMUP: SSH, windmill, swings, low slow squats. Mosey to bottom of the hill
THE THANG:
Partner complexes (you go I go), double bells for all exercises

5 rounds:
3 cleans
3 OHP
3 squats
Run up hill after the 5 rounds

5 rounds:
3 swings
3 snatch
3 thruster
Run hill

5 rounds:
3 high pulls
3 rows
3 lunges
Run hill

With single bell, we did Humane Burpee:
15 swings
5 goblet squats
5 merkins

15 swings
4 squats
4 merkins

15 swings
3 squats
3 merkins

15 swings
2 squats
2 merkins

15 swings
1 squat
1 merkin

Suitcase carry around circle in between each set

1 round of 7’s:
Curls + Tricep extension

MARY: a bit

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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The Smokin Ladder Beatdown

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Warm-Up:
SSH – 20 IC
Windmills – 10 IC
Moroccan Night Clubs – 15 IC
Imperial Walkers- 20 IC

The Thang:
1. Ladders
Start at 5 reps, add +5 each round until 25, then work back down.
Exercises:
KB Swings
Goblet Squats
KB Rows (each arm)

Ladder format: 5-10-15-20-25-20-15-10-5

2. Grinder (3 Rounds)
10 KB Chest Press
15 KB Deadlifts
20 KB American Hammers (with KB, 2-count = 1)

Round 1 MOT: Bear Crawl
Round 2 MOT: Lunges
Round 3 MOT: Farmer’s Carry Above Head

3. Last Minute Arms:
10 KB Curls IC
10 KB Triceps IC

Mary was a no show

Announcements: Read your newsletter

COT: Prayers and Praises

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13 YR Anniversary Convergence

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WARMUP:
THE THANG:
Here is my weinke – Assassin

We had about 12 runners and 6 ruckers tackle the tundra of the paved loop around the schools.

Starting at the front door we headed around the back, past the shop, past the ROTC HQ, down to the elementary playground, back by the stadium, out to Jones Road and back to the front.

All enjoyed. Thanks to Sasquatch and Spectre for the preview lap and suggestions.

Convergence bootcamp Q- Backdraft

Warmup- SSH, windmills, cherry pickers, mtn. Climbers, Moroccan night clubs

The thang-
Count off for groups of 3s
Mosey to pull up bars
Group 1 wall sits
Group 2 merkins

Group 3 13 pull ups 13 burpees

Stay in groups Dora on the hill
Bottom 300 CDDs top 300 squat jumps mosey from top to bottom

Line up in parking lot for 43 seconds of following exercises followed by bear crawls in-between
Exercises were as follows
Merkins, air squats, flutters, alt. Shoulder taps, jump squats, lbc’s, Carolina’s dry docks, alt lunges, burpees,

Mosey back to COT in original 3 man groups

KB workout- Boogie Nights

Ladder of pain- it sucked

MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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