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Football!!!! (Or something like it…)

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Nice Cool(ish) morning here at the Stockade.
So typically my Q’s involve a lot of running, merkins, and of course Burpees. Today though, I was looking forward to Week 0 of College Football and wanted to do something a little different. So myself and my fellow pax did a F3 inspired football Combine.

Brief run to the parking lot of Grace church where I had some cones laid out and some plans to push the Pax but have some fun.

Warmup:

SSH: 43 IC (for Troy Polamalu)
Windmills : 7 IC (For Big Ben the QB not the Clock)
Plank Jacks: 14 IC (for the last Super bowl won by the “Super Steelers” )
LBC’s 32 IC ( For PSU and Steeler Star Franco Harris)

Round 1: 2:00 of Jump Squats
Recovery Lap
Round 2: 2:00 of Merkins (first minute was all hand-release second minute was traditional)
Recovery Lap
Round 3 : 20 Yrd Broad Jump
Recovery Lap
Round 4: 20 Yrd Shuttle Run
Recovery Lap
Round 5: “Hands Drill” We partnered up and played catch with a football while the rest of the Pax would run a lap. Switched out until everyone got a turn.

Round 6: The reason we all were here. The 40 yrd Dash!

The times were unofficial but still proud to say we have some burners here in the Fort:

Italian Job : 4.37
Slow Jams 4.57
Half Shell: 4.52
Skipper: 4.50
Grassy Knoll: 4.49
FishTix: 4.44
YHC: 3.2 (world record)   Again….I said it was unofficial.

After the dash we divided up into 2 teams with YHC as the full time QB. Team Fishtix defeated Team Slow Jams 1-0. My QB rating was sub 70 but I had 1 TD with 1 INT.  

Some takeaways:

I should get a brighter ball
Italian Job is as quick as a hiccup.
Half Shell is an offensive genius. (just didn’t have a QB who could execute)
Skipper has really good hands (especially considering that no one could really see the ball)
Being QB is hard.

Fishtix was the MVP with the game sealing INT.  His trophy and the team championship rings are pending.

Today’s workout was not a traditional workout. There were no coupons (well other than the football), no miles and no pearls on a string. That said, the fellowship was outstanding, we did get some exercise in and the best part nobody tore a hamstring.

Thanks to all that came out. Appreciate any opportunity to lead.

All the best!

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“Blindly Following the Leader: Because Questionable Choices Make the Best Stories!”

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WARMUP:
10 SSH (IC)
10 Imperial walkers (IC)
10 Squat to toe touches (IC) this was new for the Pax and the count was hard to grasp.

THE THANG:
Run to the large parking lot.

Burpee broad jump across the parking lot. Stop half way (10 Merkins) keep going til the end
Lt dan back across
Bear crawl half way / Power skip back the other half

Mosey to the hill near Munn rd

A Bones Special :Basketball shuffle up to the top of the hill.
10 Plank tucks at the top, then Basketball shuffle down the hill. 10 Plank tucks

Suicides with the lamp post
First light post 5 burpees
2nd 5 burpees
3rd 5 burpees
4th 5 burpees
Last but not least the stop sign. 5 burpees
Hold Al Gore for the 6

Mosey down Munn to the 2nd entrance. While crossing the street ask the men the Pax what they are struggling with and be prepared to talk in COT. At the entrance monkey humpers till the 6 gets in.

Continue to Mosey to the 3rd entrance. Hip openers, toy soldiers, duck walks. Mosey to the pull up bars

At the pull up bars
Partner up
Partner 1 Dead hang while partner 2 runs to the gate, flip flop.

1st round
10 Merkins
2nd round
10 fire hydrants each leg

YHC was not paying attention to the time and was called out on it so I Omaha what we were doing and headed to COT.

COT & ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Notably we held CSPAN style discussion around the circle on what are we struggling with. It’s important to note that as we went around with each Pax’s voicing their struggles we all related to every one of those aspects. Guys we are not alone and it’s much easier to go this journey through life is undoubtedly more manageable when we stand together rather than facing it in isolation.” I implore you to be more vulnerable in COT. Prayers and Praises.

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No Pancakes

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WARMUP:
– various exercises with “daily count” of 8/22 reps and mosey to Church via fire station
THE THANG:
– modified 4 corners with sandbag timer lap:
– kettle bell swings
– manmakers
– slam balls
– bomb jacks
-> rinse and repeat
MARY:
– mosey back to COT: Airborne Hips and some regular mary
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
– read your newsletter
COT:
– was held

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Whipped out a swampy sweaty wienke with a shable

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WARMUP: It was warm and schweaty.

Run around the perimeter of the parking lot with butt kickers, high knees, side shuffles and then circled up. SSH, windmill, cherry picker, low slow squats, merkins, honey nooner, down dog. Back to COT to grab the 40 bag.

THE THANG: Took the bag and pax over to bubbles and bows because they need a trim. This wienke was originally used at the Swamp in June 2019…oldie but goodie.

In a circle we numbered off to determine our order as 2 would follow 1, 3 follow 2 and so forth. Pax 1 would run to the other end of the parking lot to do shoulder presses, min 10 and max 25, and then handoff to 2. While pax 1 was on the bag, the remaining pax were doing exercises and pax 1 would pick up at the beginning or where they left off.

Exercises were: 25 bomb jacks, 50 jump squats, 75 calf raises, 100 SSH, 100 flutter right leg only, 75 CDD, 50 merkins, 25 burpees.

After the shoulder press and all pax completed this, next was 10/25 of curls. Then was 5 squats, then was 3 merkins with bag in your back. So continued to rotate the back as pax completed the 25-100-25.

Ran back to COT for a shable (a story in the tale of a fable authored by shady, shable). False ending so did a full lap around the parking lot, then back to COT.
MARY: went around the circle with stretching exercises called out…it was great.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: heard about how awesome HIM camp was, 9/11 on 9/9 event, newsletter
COT: old school CSPAN prayers and praises

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Football = Rugby? American? European?

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WARMUP: very slow windmills, very slow low slow squats, IW, Morrocan nightclubs
THE THANG: 2 rounds of suicides with LBCs at the end of each, 5 rounds of rugby sprints, mossy to oil change back lot for 2 rounds of step ups and dips, mossy to HT wall for merkin murders (first pax run to opposite wall and back while all PaX do merkins, and then move down the line). Missy back for 2 more rounds of rugby sprints, then 5 min of Mary
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT: Walker and his family loss, patience, schools, health

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Clydesdales, Wed Aug 16

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Apparently we ran, apparently there were 22.

The route was spectacular, all downhill, except for the uphill.

Looks like we made it,

Barry Manilow

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Vision at the VA

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WARMUP: mosey around parking lot with dynamic warmup. Toy soldiers, imperial walkers, karaoke, hamstring sweeps
THE THANG: 3 min timer with various coupons and exercises. The focus was on proper form and discussion on how we can continue to improve leadership development process in TheFort.
SSH,
Shorty chair squats,
Shorty chair step ups,
Big boy burpees,
Cross over lunges,
Sandbag over the shoulder toss.
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: HIM camp coming up. Look for mentors and mentee to transfer positive habits
COT: had to be there.

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Badlands returns…. and then exits

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My first day back after vacationing for 2 weeks. hurt my back so may be out for a bit again.

WARMUP: run to coffee shop on Dave Gibson – Plank for 6, left arm high while discussing mission of F3, right arm high while discussing 5 core principles, then 10 merkins IC. continue down to parking lot at school.

THE THANG: 11s with diamonds on one end and imperial squat walkers on other end. every time you pass the sign in the middle, 3 burpees.

didn’t make it all the way through

ANNOUNCEMENTS: welcome FNG Skid Row

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Taste of pain at the buffet

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Rolled in with 10 min to spare but unbeknownst to me that was much time to get all of my torture equipment set up.

WARMUP: None straight to the THANG

THE THANG: Set up 16 stations and 3-sets of cones towards HT. Set a timer HITT timer for 1 min of exercise then 10 sec of rest then move to your right to the next station for 4 sets. Then proceed to to run suicides with the timer set for 2:10 what ever time you have left is your rest time.

Stations
1. Dumbbell front raises to lateral raises
2. Dumbbell Squat to Overhead Presses
3. Dumbbell swings
4. Slam balls
5. Throws
6. Sandbag Overhead Throws
7. Sandbag Curls
8. Hand Release Merkins
9. American Hammers With Medicine Ball
10. Alternating Toe touches
11. Kettle bell Chest presses
12. Sumo Squat Pulses
13. Burpees
14. Reverse Crunches
15. Wipers
16. Mike Tysons

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

COT: continued prayers for the Weed family’s loss of their son. Also prayers for a church goer that was hit by a car.

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The Mighty Five at the Golden Corral

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Five, fine Fort Millians gathered at the HT lot for another helping at the Golden Corral. Here is what they did:

THE THANG:
Mosey around the HT lot and circle up near the front of Harris Teeter for COP:
SH x 25, windmill x 10, merkin x 15, squat x 20, imperial walker x 20, box cutter x 20, wide arm merkin x 15, Alabama ass kicker x 15 (L/R), mountain climber x 25, cherry picker x 15

Mosey to the lot in front of Best Brains. Using the parking lines as a guide, side shuffle left along the line, quick steps forward to the next line, side shuffle right, quick steps to the next line. Continue until we reach the end (approx 10 lines). Rinse and repeat in the reverse direction back to the starting point.
Line up along the first parking lot line.
Bearcrawl to the end, 10 burpees, bearcrawl back, 10 burpees
Lungwalk to the end, 15 bmbjcks, lungewalk back, 15 bmbjcks
Crabwalk to the end, 20 diamonds, crabwalk back, 20 diamonds
Lungewalk to the end, 10 burpees, bearcrawl back, 10 burpees

Indian Run around the lot and circle up at the flag for ABLAB:
Freddie Merc x 25, Rosalita x 20, Superman x 3

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Check your newsletter.

COT: We prayed for loved ones and friends with cancer and for the teachers and students going back to school.

Lots of chatter today, including ‘Apache 10 counts’ from everyone recalled their beginnings at F3 and how they were named. We all got to know each other better this morning.

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