Set your Goals…then crush em!!

WARMUP:
Dynamic warmup with running, lunges, karaoke, shuffling to various locations and performing various exercises
Side straddle hops
Hill Billy walkers
Merkins
Low slow squats
LBCs
Hello Dolly’s
Derkins
Dips
Step Ups

THE THANG:
Up and down hill at main entrance
Accumulating exercises ever stop
1 Merkin down the hill
1 Merkin 2 big boys up the hill
1 Merkin, 2 Big boys, 3 plankjacks down the hill

Get the idea

4 full squats
5 burpees
6 Wide Arm Merkins
7 SSHs
8 Flutters
9 Jump Squats
10 Donkey kick
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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A Halloween Nightmare

COP

Take a lap around HT

SSH x 30
Windmills x 15
Mtn Climbers x 15
IW x 15

The Thang:

Mosey to new spot

H-and Release Merkins x 100
A-ir Squats x 100
Take a lap
L-unges x 100 each legs
L-ow Dolly x 150
O-ut and Back – take a lap
W-orld War II Sit Ups x 100
E-scalator (10 Jump Squats, 20 Burpees, 30 Merkins, 40 Squats, 50 Lunges)
Take a lap
E-mpty Wheelbarrow
N-olan Ryans x 50 (each side)

Mosey home. Only Slapshot made it to the end.

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Benjamin’s for my GIL

WARMUP: 60/100 SSH’s, merkins, produce pickers, imperial walkers, p Parker’s, etc.
THE THANG: 100 stepups & dirkins 20/100 SSH’s
A pendulum- 100 of something to 100 of something to 100 of something else.
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: read your newsletter
COT:celebrated my grandma-in-laws 100th birthday

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Better Late Than Never

WARMUP: Mosey around front/bus loop, stopping periodically for some exercises: Side Straddle Hops, Imperial Walkers, Hillbilly Walkers, Moroccan Night Clubs, Windmills.

THE THANG: PAX partnered up & we attacked some exercises, DORA-style, with increasing rep requirements. PAX1 did exercises while PAX2 did some method of transport, then flapjack until the rep count was hit & move on to the next.

1. 50 Burpees / Run across parking lot (to the far marching band endzone) & back
2. 100 Dry Docks / Lunges (think to the 50yd line) & back
3. 150 Merkins / Run across & back
4. 200 Squats / Bear Crawl (think to the 30yd line, maybe it was the 50 again) & back
5. 250 LBC’s / Run across & back
6. 300 Calf Raises (equal doses of toes in/out/straight) / Broad Jump to the 50yd line & back

We got done around 05:53:23. With time left for dessert, we enjoyed a 6min AMRAP of 20x Mtn Climbers > 10x Diamond Merks > 20x Flutters > 10x Box Cutters

Made our way back to COT.

MARY: None

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Make sure you’re getting your newsletter. Once that’s been confirmed, make sure you’re reading it.

COT: Stays in COT but praises were shared and prayers requested.

Thanks for the opportunity @Cyclops!

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Tour of the Grounds

10 men toured The Stockade grounds this morning. Here’s what we did:

-10 Low Slow Squats (IC)
-10 Imperial Walkers (IC)
-10 Moroccan Night Clubs (IC)

Mosey to HT side wall
-Hold Wall Sits while each person takes turns doing 10 Merkins
-BTTW
-10 Australian Mountain Climbers (IC)

Mosey to Upper Lot
-10 Burpees, take a lap
-20 Merkins, take a lap
-30 Overhead Claps, take a lap
-40 LBCs, take a lap
-50 Calf Raises, take a lap
-40 American Hammers, take a lap
-30 Flutters, take a lap
-20 Hand Release Merkins, take a lap
-10 Under the Fence, take a lap

Serpentine the HT lot
-Run, Nur, Side Shuffle, Bear Crawl, Burpee Broad Jump
-5 Ladder Merkins per rung (5 levels)

Mosey to HT side wall
-10 Dirty Hookups (IC)
-10 Dirty Hookups, but with your feet (IC)

Mosey to the garage
-20 Step ups
-10 Knee tar N’Diayes (IC)
-10 Makhtar N’Diayes (IC)

Mosey back to COT
-20 Ab Mat Situps
-20 Freddie’s (IC)

Total Mileage: 1.85

NMM
I just returned from a trip to England with our GrowRuck team. I learned that regardless of our accents, we are one PAX with the same mission in mind. I had a wife tell me F3 broke her husband (Hoops). It broke him and rebuilt him into the father she always desired for her children and the husband she married years ago. You see, F3 is more than a fitness group – it is a way to unlock a man’s hidden potential to love and lead well. I am so blessed to be surrounded by men like Hoops. He was just like so many of us – lost without know it. Let his story inspire you to find your “why” and rekindle your desire to be an asset wherever you are.

-IJ

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Tour of the grounds

10 men toured The Stockade grounds this morning. Here’s what we did:

-10 Low Slow Squats (IC)
-10 Imperial Walkers (IC)
-10 Moroccan Night Clubs (IC)

Mosey to HT side wall
-Hold Wall Sits while each person takes turns doing 10 Merkins
-BTTW
-10 Australian Mountain Climbers (IC)

Mosey to Upper Lot
-10 Burpees, take a lap
-20 Merkins, take a lap
-30 Overhead Claps, take a lap
-40 LBCs, take a lap
-50 Calf Raises, take a lap
-40 American Hammers, take a lap
-30 Flutters, take a lap
-20 Hand Release Merkins, take a lap
-10 Under the Fence, take a lap

Serpentine the HT lot
-Run, Nur, Side Shuffle, Bear Crawl, Burpee Broad Jump
-5 Ladder Merkins per rung (5 levels)

Mosey to HT side wall
-10 Dirty Hookups (IC)
-10 Dirty Hookups, but with your feet (IC)

Mosey to the garage
-20 Step ups
-10 Knee tar N’Diayes (IC)
-10 Makhtar N’Diayes (IC)

Mosey back to COT
-20 Ab Mat Situps
-20 Freddie’s (IC)

Total Mileage: 1.85

NMM
I just returned from a trip to England with our GrowRuck team. I learned that regardless of our accents, we are one PAX with the same mission in mind. I had a wife tell me F3 broke her husband (Hoops). It broke him and rebuilt him into the father she always desired for her children and the husband she married years ago. You see, F3 is more than a fitness group – it is a way to unlock a man’s hidden potential to love and lead well. I am so blessed to be surrounded by men like Hoops. He was just like so many of us – lost without know it. Let his story inspire you to find your “why” and rekindle your desire to be an asset wherever you are.

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Friday the 20th at the Stockade – clever title absent

WARMUP: Short “mozyroo” from the AO to the front of Harris Teeter.  YHC has been nursing a bum calf so no SSH were to be had.  We proceeded with  Carolina Dry Docks, Low Slow Squats, American Hammers, Mountain Climbers and Moroccan Night Clubs.
THE THANG:  Another short mozy to the side of HT.  At HT we did a group wall sit with the first Pax giving us a 10 count.  We then crossed the alley and did 5 merkins as a group.  When back to the HT wall we swapped out wall sits for planks.  Rinse and repeat with ongoing 10 counts and merkins (regular, hand release, Diamond, wide arm) alternating wall sits and planks.  After finishing these we did a lap around the oil change place with a brief stop for dips using the wall.  
 Back to HT for the same series but we swapped out merkins for 3 burpees.  Burpees included regular, Superman, Kraken and 8 count.  Repeat the lap (with dips) and back to HT.  Last series we swapped out burpees for 5 big boy sit-ups.
 Mozy to the fountain at the bottom of the hill by the fire dept.  There we did a plank clock with Carolina Dry Docks.  We started at 1:00 and did one CDD.  Plank walk to 2:00 for two CDDs.  Kept going until we did a full fountain lap and 78 total CDDs.
 Briefest mozy ever to the start of the row of arborvitae trees at the entrance to the apartment complex.  Starting with the first arborvitae we did two burpees and lunge walked the row, where at alternating trees, we did two burpees.  48 burpees later we were done.  Running a bit short on time we jogged our way back down the row and did two burpees at every third one.
  Mozy back to COT with one minute to spare.  One minute of full body destroyers ensued and we were all happy.
MARY:  she stayed home
ANNOUNCEMENTS:  D2D fund raisers
COT: Family health, marriages, 2.0s

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Entry Level Sweeping

WARMUP: STL has no warmup. STL needs no warmup.
THE THANG: Run to Emory/Helton for an easy loop to where these two streets meet again.
At the top upper abs, 10 LBC, and 10 elbow to knee on the six
At the bottom, 10 leg lifts and 10 flutter.

Simple. Effective
MARY: We run until it’s over
ANNOUNCEMENTS: D2D is coming. Fundraisers are everywhere. Contribute if you can.
COT:

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Wheel of Gloom

Had a last minute cancellation so today seemed like a great day to bring back the Wheel of Gloom!

It’s a competition where each pax spins the wheel… which lands on an exercise. The spinner counts each Rep as his points.

At the end… the top two point getters square off in a 1:00 minute AMRAP to see who gets the W.

So we all got a good workout in. Minimal running but over 200 Merkins and dozens of other reps of BBS, Squats, lunges, and Freddy Mercury’s. 1F was satisfied but 2nd accelerated!

Congrats to Half She’ll for getting the championship today.

Until next time…

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Tuesday Morning Fun Time!

Warm-up:
• Side straddle hops
• Cherry Pickers
• Moroccan night-clubs
• Merkins
• Hold position for down dog
• Honeymooners
• Right side plank
• Left side plank

• Mosey with sandbag and circle up. Sandbag rotates and the PAX does clean n jerks.
• 2 min burpees
• 2 min big bois
• 2 min squats
• 2 min peter parkers
• 2 min merkins
• 2 min imperial walkers
• MOSEY TO THE WALL
• Handstand against wall and do 5 HSPU (or hold for 30 sec)
• One at a time, run out and do 3 of your finest burpees
• PARTNER DORA (run around light poles – 20 min)
• 100 Merkins
• 200 Squats
• 300 Flutter
400 Calf raises

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Nessie at Lake Wylie 10/21

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