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New blood (OTB)

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WARMUP: went over the basics: SSH, merkins, cherry pickers, low slow squats, windmills, couple back stretches
THE THANG: a you vs. you morning! Everyone grabbed a piece of chalk where we did AMRAP (as many reps as possible) for the following exercises in 2 min each (in between we ran about 150 yards and back in the parking lot of Panera).
Exercises were: merkins, squats, LBCs.

We wrote down our individual numbers after the 2 min were up. We then did a rinse and repeat but with not a lot of time remaining (total workout today was only 30 min), we cut our chalk numbers in half and the goal was to beat those numbers by 1, and have at least 1 min, or more, to do it.
MARY: didn’t leave time today
ANNOUNCEMENTS: high level newsletter updates and 10 yr “what’s going on”
COT: covered the basics of what COT was and closed out. Wrapped up the next 30-45 min with coffee answering “what makes F3, F3” questions and things the guys were interested in knowing!

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The Dough Muscles

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9 men did the hard thing this morning at Colosseum. Conditions were alright, alright, alright as we welcomed our newest FNG (Excite Bike) with a workout designed to smoke even the fittest of men. Here’s what we did:

The Thang

10 Low Slow Squats (IC)
10 Imperial Walkers (IC)
10 SSHs (IC)

Mosey to the Elementary School drop-off loop

Pattern was 10 at the first stop, 15 at the second, 20 at the third, and 25 at the fourth
Exercises were:

Merkins
Calf Raises
Squats
Overhead Claps

Grab a chair for the Mr. McConaughey Workout (11s with Incline Merkins (IC) and Dips).

From the book “Greenlights” by Matthew McConaughey, pages 43-44: As a kid, my favorite TV show was The Incredible Hulk starring Lou Ferrigno. I marveled at his muscles and would pose in front of the TV with my shirt off, arms bent, fists high, doing my best bulging body-builder biceps impersonation. One night Dad saw me. “What are you doin, son?” he asked. “One day I’m gonna have muscles like that, Dad,” I said, motioning to the TV screen. “Big baseball-size biceps!” Dad chuckled, then took off his shirt, matched my pose in front of the tube, and said, “Yeah, big biceps make the girls scream and they sure look good, but that ol’ boy on the TV, he’s so muscle-bound he can’t even reach around to wipe his own ass…the biceps? They’re just for show.” He then slowly lowered both his arms in front of him, straightened them out with his fists to the floor, then he twisted his arms to the inside, and flexed a pair of massive triceps muscles. “Now the tri-cep, son,” he said, this time pointing his nose back and forth toward the bulging muscles on the back of his upper arms, “that’s the work muscle, that’s the muscle that puts food on the table and the roof over your head. The tri-ceps? They’re for dough.” My dad would take the stockroom over the showroom any day.

Mosey to the track

Run a lap and 10 Burpees (x4)

Mosey to Covered Walkway

Peoples Chair
10 Head, Knees, Toes (IC)
BTTW on a long 10-Count
10 Australian Mountain Climbers (IC)

Mosey to COT

NMM
The Mr. McConaughey story resonated with me. How much emphasis do we men put on the “show” muscles? You know, the new car, the house, the vacation…the good stuff we put on social media. How much time do we spend trying to impress others with the highlights we put online? Shouldn’t we instead focus on the “dough” muscles? You know, providing love, comfort, and support for our wife and children. At the end of the day, what really matters is those moments with the ones we love. My kids don’t care what I drive. They just want me to play with them. My wife doesn’t require a Caribbean vacation. She just wants me to listen and be plugged in to my family, and not my phone.

Maybe we are focusing on the wrong muscles. Maybe we should be working our “try”ceps a little more. Maybe Mr. McConaughey was onto something.

Aye!
Italian Job

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The Dough Muscles

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9 men did the hard thing this morning at Colosseum. Conditions were alright, alright, alright as we welcomed our newest FNG (Excite Bike) with a workout designed to smoke even the fittest of men. Here’s what we did:

The Thang

10 Low Slow Squats (IC)
10 Imperial Walkers (IC)
10 SSHs (IC)

Mosey to the Elementary School drop-off loop

Pattern was 10 at the first stop, 15 at the second, 20 at the third, and 25 at the fourth
Exercises were:

Merkins
Calf Raises
Squats
Overhead Claps

Grab a chair for the Mr. McConaughey Workout (11s with Incline Merkins (IC) and Dips).

From the book “Greenlights” by Matthew McConaughey, pages 43-44: As a kid, my favorite TV show was The Incredible Hulk starring Lou Ferrigno. I marveled at his muscles and would pose in front of the TV with my shirt off, arms bent, fists high, doing my best bulging body-builder biceps impersonation. One night Dad saw me. “What are you doin, son?” he asked. “One day I’m gonna have muscles like that, Dad,” I said, motioning to the TV screen. “Big baseball-size biceps!” Dad chuckled, then took off his shirt, matched my pose in front of the tube, and said, “Yeah, big biceps make the girls scream and they sure look good, but that ol’ boy on the TV, he’s so muscle-bound he can’t even reach around to wipe his own ass…the biceps? They’re just for show.” He then slowly lowered both his arms in front of him, straightened them out with his fists to the floor, then he twisted his arms to the inside, and flexed a pair of massive triceps muscles. “Now the tri-cep, son,” he said, this time pointing his nose back and forth toward the bulging muscles on the back of his upper arms, “that’s the work muscle, that’s the muscle that puts food on the table and the roof over your head. The tri-ceps? They’re for dough.” My dad would take the stockroom over the showroom any day.

Mosey to the track

Run a lap and 10 Burpees (x4)

Mosey to Covered Walkway

Peoples Chair
10 Head, Knees, Toes (IC)
BTTW on a long 10-Count
10 Australian Mountain Climbers (IC)

Mosey to COT

NMM
The Mr. McConaughey story resonated with me. How much emphasis do we men put on the “show” muscles? You know, the new car, the house, the vacation…the good stuff we put on social media. How much time do we spend trying to impress others with the highlights we put online? Shouldn’t we instead focus on the “dough” muscles? You know, providing love, comfort, and support for our wife and children. At the end of the day, what really matters is those moments with the ones we love. My kids don’t care what I drive. They just want me to play with them. My wife doesn’t require a Caribbean vacation. She just wants me to listen and be plugged in to my family, and not my phone.

Maybe we are focusing on the wrong muscles. Maybe we should be working our “try”ceps a little more. Maybe Mr. McConaughey was onto something.

Aye!
Italian Job

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parking space shuffle

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WARMUP: 1/2 Mile and exercise
THE THANG: elevens burpes and bomb jacks.. then to the 9 parking spaces with a select extreme reps x8 run a .02 between each
MARY: no time
ANNOUNCEMENTS: shower Curtain getting married Friday
COT: God’s will not mine, The power of positive thinking. Be careful what we feed our minds

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The Pain Train

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The morning was dark and thick in The Fort, and we could see the glimmer of a soft glow in the distance. It was the flickering light of the pain train, and it was headed straight towards us at an incredible rate. All we could do is brace for what was about to pull into the station.

Warmup:

1 Lap Around the school lot
10 Side Straddle Hops
10 Windmills – aka The Trucker
10 Cherry Pickers
10 Merkins
Up Dog/Honeymooner
The Leg Up Hip Thruster (Crowd Pleaser)

We moseyed over to the front of the school for some Wall Bulgarian Split Squats (left then right legs). The timer was an Indian Bear Crawl.

Moseyed over to the back of the school for a little 1st & 10.

The Thang:

There was cones lined up every 10 yards to represent the 10 yard markers on a football field. After each round we would do a lap around the track.

Round 1 – Cone 1 – 10 Burpees

Round 2 – Cone 1 & 2 – 10 Burpees & 20 CDDs

Round 3 – Cone 1, 2, & 3 – 10 Burpees, 20 CDDs, 30 Squats

Round 4 – Cone 1, 2, 3, & 4 – 10 Burpees, 20 CDDs, 30 Squats, 40 Flutters

Round 5 – Cone 1, 2, 3, 4, & 5 – 10 Burpees, 20 CDDs, 30 Squats, 40 Flutters, 50 Clave Raises

Round 6 – Cone 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, & 6 – 10 Burpees, 20 CDDs, 30 Squats, 40 Flutters, 50 Clave Raises, 40 Flutters

Round 7 – Cone 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, & 7 – 10 Burpees, 20 CDDs, 30 Squats, 40 Flutters, 50 Clave Raises, 40 Flutters, 30 Squats

Round 8 – Cone 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, & 8 – 10 Burpees, 20 CDDs, 30 Squats, 40 Flutters, 50 Clave Raises, 40 Flutters, 30 Squats, 20 CDD’s

Round 9 – Cone 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, & 9 – 10 Burpees, 20 CDDs, 30 Squats, 40 Flutters, 50 Clave Raises, 40 Flutters, 30 Squats, 20 CDD’s, 10 Burpees

Ran/Bear Crawled to COT for prayers and praises.

Welcome FNG Snooze Button.

JWOW

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