Figure 8

WARMUP:
THE THANG:
F3 BACKBLAST – FIGURE 8 BEATDOWN 💪🏃‍♂️
AO: Earth Fare Parking Lot
Q: Thank you for the opportunity to lead!
Total Distance: 3.8 Miles
The Thang: Figure 8 Ladder
Today’s beatdown took us through a Figure 8 course around the Earth Fare parking lot, combining running, strength, and endurance.
At the center of the Figure 8, we started with:

  • 5 Monkey Humpers
  • 5 Squats
  • 5 Lunges

With each completed lap, we increased every exercise by 5 reps until reaching 25.
The Ladder:
5 → 10 → 15 → 20 → 25
20 → 15 → 10 → 5
10 → 15 → 20 → 25
The Running:
🏃 Earth Fare Loop: Faster pace, pushing the tempo around the parking lot.
🚶 Roadside Loop: Recovery pace along the back half of the Figure 8, allowing the PAX to catch their breath before pushing again.
The goal was simple: push the pace, recover, and keep moving while building strength and endurance.
Final Results:
✅ 3.8 miles completed
✅ Two climbs to 25 reps
✅ Plenty of Monkey Humpers, Squats, and Lunges
✅ Strong work by all PAX!
F3 Mission:
To plant, grow, and serve small workout groups for men for the invigoration of male community leadership.
The Five Core Principles of F3:

  1. Free of charge.
  2. Open to all men.
  3. Held outdoors, rain or shine, heat or cold.
  4. Led by men who participate in the workout, in a rotating fashion, with no training or certification necessary.
  5. End with a Circle of Trust.
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50’s the #

WARMUP:
Mosey around parking lot loop with 2 stops:
15 SSH
10 Merkins
7 Windmills

THE THANG:
8 parking spots in front of Novant
50 Merkins
50 Squats
50 Mountain Climbers
50 Shoulder Taps
50 Burpees
50 Lunges
50 SSH
50 BBS
400m Loop

Complete one parking spot and run a loop.
No specific order, but complete them all.

MARY:
Wall sits while PAX drop for 1 Burpee
3 rounds

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Bethel Mens Shelter

COT:
Check In with each pax

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Poles of Death

The Thang: Mosey to the light poles at the back of the school. Out one, 10 merkins, back to start 10 lunges (each leg). Out two poles 5 burpees, back to start, 10 squats. Out 3 poles, 10 merkins, etc. Repeat until time getting progressively further down the path. Return to COT. If that wasn't clear, you're in good company. A few of us didn't understand at first either… but we eventually all figured it out and got about 4 in.

COT: Prayers for IJ’s friend, Spectre’s wife, Olaf's pizza airplane, and all the rest.

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Skipper zipper

THE THANG:
Zipper route starting at Elliott St
. 10 merkins and 10 jump squats at the end of every street. 5 burpees each time the pax cross Springs St. Pax logged 3.5-4.5 miles.

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FORTeen Years

WARMUP: 14 Burpees
THE THANG: Mosey to center of WEP

Pax rotated into center based on year of 1st post (ie Class of 2026, 2025, 2024, etc). Varied exercises were performed by all including Burpees, Partner Derkins, Squats, Sumo Squats, SSH, Mtn Climbers, Mahktar N'Dyiae, Flutters, Freddys, Monkey Humpers, etc

Pax sprinted home for the finish.

MARY: She participated during the Thang

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Bethel Shelters service

COT: Yes, of course, 5th Core Principle

The pax came early and stayed late to celebrate this Community of Brothers we call The Fort. For 14 years, men have posted in the Gloom of WEP and other wonderful sites throughout FM/TC (and in Rock Hill, Clover/LKW and now Chester) to sharpen each other, to hone leadership skills, and to prepare themselves and each other to tackle the ups and downs Life will regularly throw their way.

The number of men who've stood at COT in The Fort over these years exceeds 2,000. And roughly 200 pax keep the flame burning in 2026. Their continued participation is an individual choice, one they can't not keep making because, as they shared, they've found brotherhood, community, belonging and accountability in The Fort.

Who will be standing in COT in 2036 or 2046? Anybody? Nobody? You? Your son or son-in-law or grandson?

As Band Camp shared, we Get To make this choice. Each man stands apart from the general crowd in our culture in making this choice. And yet, each man of The Fort is no better than any other man who lives among us. All men are made of the same fiber in the same image of our Creator. As Dark Helmet said, every man is needed in the leadership mission required to bring to fruition the world our Creator intended. So stay in the game. Find the next man and bring him into the fold. Because 14 years of history only matters if we continue to bring Impact to men and our broader community today, tomorrow, next week and next year. #KeepPosting

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Go Bills workout

WARMUP: SSH, LSS, mosey, some Broga
THE THANG: moseyed over to side of Harris Teeter (for a little contact high 😳)
Wall sit as one Pax ran to concrete and did 3 burpees, halfway through changed to balls to the wall.

Then moseyed over to start the real thang:
Exercise 1: Merkins – MOT to Exercise 2: lunge walk
Exercise 2: Flutters – MOT to exercise 3: burpees broad jumps
Exercise 3: Squats- MOT TO exercise 4: run
Exercise 4: dips- MOT to Exercise 1: bear crawl.
Started with 5, then went up by 5 each time we got back to Exercise 1.
All got up to about 25…

ANNOUNCEMENTS: lots…read newsletter
COT: stays in COT

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