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Remembering the week of 9-11

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WARMUP: Mosey to the elementary school side lot. COP with exercises in cadence
Windmills
Cherry pickers
Imperial Walkers
Hillbilly walkers
Seal jacks
Low slow squats
Hold peoples chair while doing Moroccan night clubs and shoulder presses in cadence
Plank with salutations
Merkins
Recover and move

THE THANG: Track and light poles
Moseying to the track, pax stopped at the flag to honor those who made the intimate sacrifice this week 25 years ago. Never Forget

At the track, 9’s and 7’s were called.
7 rounds
Rounds 1,3,5&7 – 9 merkins and 7 big boys
Rounds 2,4&6 – 9 big boys and 7 burpees

Mosey to the light poles.
As a group – various merkins and an exercises of 9’s and 7’s were called every other light pole to the top of the hill.

At the top of the hill – 10 burpees – just because.

Descend the hill stopping for 9’s and 7’s at every third light pole – time was running short, hence fewer stops.

Mosey to benches for a round of Bulgarian split squats and then on to COT at 0600.

MARY: no time
ANNOUNCEMENTS: plenty of ‘em
COT: 5th core principle and some solid vulnerability among posting pax.
NMM: F3’s credo is leave no man behind and leave no man where you found him. Today’s workout was kept together with that very purpose in mind.

No matter what we bring to any workout, we have the blessing of a place where we can be met and welcomed as we are with the capacity to change ourselves for the better. What a privilege!!

Give this thing away, men. Because it’s a gift.

Thanks for the call, Halfback. 👁️

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BRR warm up

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WARMUP:
Yog or jog. I dont know if I pronouncing this correctly. A lap around the parking lot.
SSH
Imperials
Hillbillies
Cherry pickers
Windmills
Peter Parker’s
Parker Peter’s
Plank it out!
THE THANG:
DORA
100 merkins
200 squats
100 plank jacks
200 seal jacks
100 Shoulder Taps
200 American Hammers
100 mountain climbers
200 LBCs
100 lunges
200 calf raises (I think a few made it here, no one finished)

MARY: I remember Hello Dollies. There was something before this. It’s was only two rounds.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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Get better!!

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WARMUP:
Mosey around drop off line and back to beginning of GHMS loop.
THE THANG:
4 corners of stuff: (3 rounds)
Station 1: 40 mtn climbers, 40 sec plank hold
Station 2: 40 LBC, 40 Flutter
Station 3: 40 reverse lung, 40 squats
Station 4: 40 steps, 40 dips (with the bench)
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Bethel, Newsletter
COT: Focus on Excavation. What is holding you back? Identify IT and use the tools that are here to support. Get IT removed!!

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Ring Around the Rosie

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WARMUP:
## 1. DYNAMIC WARMUP (10-12 min)
– Imperial Walkers x10 IC
– Bend & Reach x10 IC
-Windmill x10 IC
– Short warmup jog
**20 yards, non-stop, down and back:**
– High knees
– Butt kickers
– Walking world's greatest stretch
– Elephant walks
– Dinosaur walks
– Soldier walks
– Side shuffle (each way)
– Karaoke (each way)
-A-Skips
-B-Skips
– C-skips
– Power skips
-Jog
-Run
– Sprints

THE THANG:
##Ring around the Rosie (30 mins)
SPRINT → EXERCISE → RUN → EXERCISE → SPRINT → EXERCISE
Wait for a partner to race before sprinting
15x Squats > Sprint
10x E Fwd Lunge
10x E Rear Lunge > Sprint
15x Billy Cannon
15x Squat Jumps > Sprint
10x E Speed Skaters
15x Plank Jacks > Sprint
25x E Mountain Climbers
15x Merkins > Sprint
15x Carolina Dry Docks
20x Overhead Arm Claps > Sprint
20x Overhead Arm Claps
Jog back to COT

##Love Triangle (15 mins)
3 to a group minimum
Watch for perfect Form or punishment
If watcher doesn’t call them out for bad form, they they get punished

Exercises

  1. 15x Squats
  2. 10x E Forward Lunges
  3. 10x E Rear Lunges
  4. 15x Squats
  5. 15x Merkins
  6. 10x Hand Release Merkin
  7. 20x American Hammers
  8. 20x Flutter Kicks

Punishment
Sprint 25 Yards & Broad Jump Back
(Step Squat if unable to broad Jump)

MARY:
X’s & O’s
Gas Pumps
Superman’s
Box cutters
Flutter kicks

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Big Red Bus
Trash Pickup

COT:
Sobriety
Family

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A VQ and Lessons in Teamwork

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Eagle Claw's VQ!!!
WARMUP:
Eagle Claw led. Start right at COT, no mosey, circle up for:

  • 20 SSH
  • 10 WM
  • 10 IW
  • 10 MNC
  • 10 cherry pickers

Everything 4 count as usual. Then mosey over to the nearby Grace Presbyterian Church for the following:

THE THANG:
Part 1 – Ring of Fire:
Designed by Eagle Claw, led by both him and NASA
In the half of the parking lot closest to the church, we had 8 cones set up in a loop/ring, each about 15 yards apart, each with an exercise, in this order:

  • 15 burpees
  • 20 merkins
  • 20 big boy sit-ups
  • 25 LSS
  • 25 mtn climbers 2 ct
  • 20 lunge 2 ct
  • 25 LBC
  • 20 CDD

These are minimum rep counts. Each person picked a cone (with 6 PAX, 2 were left open). Do the exercise, then alternate duck walk or bear crawl to next cone.
The catch – NOBODY could move forward until the last person is done their minimum rep count they were on. Until the last person shouted "done!", everyone kept doing the exercise at hand, exceeding minimum rep counts. We all did 2 complete rounds as a group. The burpees and 2ct lunges were our 6s that kept the team together as a unit, but we all pushed together. Solid work.

Part 2 – DORA:
Eagle Claw designed, mainly NASA led. Mosey over to the parking lot behind Red Bowl, starting point was the corner of the back lot closest to Stockbridge Dr. Partner up. Run was from the start out past the RB dumpster to the end of that building and back. Exercise reps were cut due to time:

  • 50 merkins (was 100)
  • 100 LBC (was 200)
  • 150 LSS (was 300)

Dumpster did not stank no where near as bad as we expected it would! Great efforts by everyone!
We finished with a couple minutes to spare. Back to COT.
MARY:
Eagle Claw led – 1 minute of hello dollys
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Read your newsletter, get involved. If you see something that is your D2X, get behind it, EH some guys. and make it happen. Freed to lead! This is exactly how ALL of the things we see in the newsletter as well as F3 organized CSAUPs came about.
COT:
A LOT lifted up by everyone! A great COT session.

NMM:
This was designed to be lessons in teamwork:

  • RING OF FIRE: The team, large or small, is only as strong and fast as the last person in line. The team doesn't move forward as a collective group until everyone is done doing their work. You can choose to get out way ahead, focusing on personal gain, but then you leave the rest of your team behind.
  • DORA: When you are paired with someone to complete a set of tasks, you both should be putting in the same level of effort. Slacking on your part will only put more load on your partner, which over time could drive you two apart. Equal efforts keeps the partnership strong.

Eagle Claw is off to spread his wings and follow his passions at The Citadel. Thank you to all the PAX who have poured the 3 Fs, wisdom, motivations, and encouragements into him. You all have made him a better person because of it. I cannot thank you all enough. Love you all. Blessings and SYITG.
-NASA

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Moving up

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WARMUP: ssh, iw, hbw, windmill, cherry pickers

THE THANG:
Mosey around TCES drop off line and back to beginning of GHMS loop.

4 corners in GHMS car line loop
Station 1: 40 mtn climbers
Station 2: 40 reverse lunges
Station 3: 40 glute bridges
Station 4: 40 Superman pulls

We did 2.5 rounds, then a short round of bench work under the breezeway:

10 Step-ups each leg
20 Dips
10 Lateral step ups (each leg)

MARY: no time
ANNOUNCEMENTS: read newsletter
COT: yes

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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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