No Barkley, No Peace

Roughly, this is what was done:

Run to the back of the school.
Here’s the series… run to the 3rd light pole out back
– Grab a rock, here’s the sequence
– 15 curls, run two light poles, 15 flutters, run back
– 15 curls, 15 OHP, run, 15 flutters, back
– 15 curls, 15 OHP, 15 bent over row, run, 15 flutter, back
– 15 curls, 15 OHP, 15 bent over row, 15 chest press, run, flutter, back
– 15 curls, 15 OHP, 15 bent over row, 15 chest press, 15 tricep, run, flutter, run

Back to the front for more light poles
– Partner up
– Alternate carrying your partner down, at each light pole, 10 derkins each
– On the way back, run, 10 hand slap merkins at each pole
Head back to COT

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O to the smells of BushPit

WARMUP:
Mosey over to middle school with multiple stops along the way to our final destination by the football field.

SSH, imperial walker, second cousin hillbilly walker, butt kickers, high knees

THE THANG:
Ladder where you start with first exercise and then run a lap. Add a new exercise each lap and count increases by two for all exercises along the way. Note that Birdcage requested 2 miles so I made the lap longer than I typically would.

Exercises

2 – merkins
4- squats
6- LBCs
8- lunges (both legs)
10- CDD
12 – flutter
14- wide arm merkin
16- calf raises
18- wheezy Jefferson
20- burpees
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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Cones and Reps at The Ranch

WARMUP: Quick mosey with a stop for mountain climbers, MNC, low slow squats
THE THANG: Mozy over to Springfield Middle School where we placed four evenly-ish spaced cones the length of the drop off before you get to the hill. From the start we ran to the first cone for 20 reps each of shoulder tap merkins, monkey humpers, box cuttahs, and plank jacks then ran back to the start. From there we ran to the second cone for dips, squats, flutters and Mike Tyson’s. Back to start then to cone three for CDD, bomb jacks, American hammers, SSH. Ran to start then on to cone four for merkins, calf raises, BBS, and burpees. (20 reps for each exercise at each cone)
Quick mozy back to start then we ran to the top of the hill and partnered up. At the top of the hill, each partner did three burpees then ran to opposite sides of the hill for 50 reps each of the selected exercise. After each exercise they ran back to the top for three burpees with their partner. Rinse and repeat with SSH, LBCs, Merkins, Squats, Overhead claps, CDD.
Mozy back to COT with a stop to pickup all the cones.
MARY: No dedicated Mary time but we got it in.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Q source, convergence, newsletter
COT: Prayers for family, local teacher who passed

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11s and miles

WARMUP: pledge
THE THANG: run to church corner down academy do 1 merkins. Then run all the way up hill to print shop then to pull up bars. Do 11s with pull ups and toes to bar. Run back past ABC store turn right on academy and go back down to church corner.
MARY: toes to bar count.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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“9/11 Tribute WOD” – Modified version of a workout done on a previous anniversary at the Pentagon in the courtyard

WARMUP:
– 9 Side Straddle Hops
– 11 Windmills
– Plank to Down Dog, Calf stretch’s to Up Dog

THE THANG:
– 2,001 meter (1.243 miles) run to symbolize the year;

– 175 squat thrusters, representing United Airlines flight 175, which crashed into the South Tower of the World Trade Center;

– 110 deadlifts and 110 lunges to symbolize the 110 floors in each of the World Trade Center towers;

– 93 box (bench) jumps to symbolize United Airlines flight 93, which crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania;

– 77 kettle bell swings to symbolize American Airlines flight 77, which crashed into the Pentagon;

– 125 burpees to symbolize the 125 personnel killed in the Pentagon.

Sets were completed with a partner to symbolize how this Country came together after the horrific events of 9/11/2001.

MARY:
– 9 Heel touches,
– 11 Heels to heaven
– A few moments of silence

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your newsletter!

COT: It is what it is…

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Fish Tales with Birdcage

We had 9 at varsity (2 for IronPAX, 1 proctor, and 6 for a Cindy beatdown. Here’s what we did:

Warmup
– 10 Low Slow Swuats
– 10 Mountain Climbers
– 10 Windmills
Mosey to get a cinderblock

– 10 Manmakers
– 15 Curls
– 20 OH Press
– 25 Flutters with a Press
– 30 Cindy Swings
– 20 Squats
– 15 Skull Crushers
– 10 Sit-up to Press
– Jog to AO Jones

Repeat 2 more times

NMM
Below is an AI generated backblast about yesterday’s workout. Some of it is true.

The sun had yet risen where the flags would be, and the usual quiet was shattered by the sound of furious guitar riffs echoing across the lot. Rumbling Bald himself had decided that today was the day he would reinvent himself as a heavy metal solo act. His amps were cranked to eleven, his hair (which may or may not have been real) was blowing in the breeze, and every bird within a mile radius had fled in terror.

In a parking spot nearby, Birdcage was already five tall tales deep. “And that’s when Dark Helmet single-handedly wrestled a grizzly bear with a lightsaber and taught it calculus!” he boomed, waving his arms dramatically. Nobody was buying it, but everyone kept listening because Birdcage’s delivery was too good to ignore.

Time Machine, meanwhile, sat cross-legged on the asphalt, looking like he had aged a century overnight. “What am I doing with my life?” he muttered, staring off into the middle distance. “I mean, posting at Varsity? Was that really my legacy? Out of all possible timelines, why did I land there?” He sighed so deeply that Rumbling Bald’s double-bass pedal briefly went out of rhythm.

Finally, Spiderman dropped in from a nearby tree branch, landing with a thud. “Hey, uh, what’s all this?” he asked, eyeing the stack of cinderblocks Italian Job had been planning to incorporate into Bald’s stage show.

“Those,” Rumbling Bald growled, “are for dramatic effect. I need someone to swing them into the pit when the breakdown hits.”

Spiderman looked at the rocks, then back at Rumbling Bald, then immediately raised both hands. “Nope. Nope nope nope. Swinging heavy things is not in the contract.” With a single web-thwip, he was gone before anyone could argue.

Birdcage stood, puffed out his chest, and pointed dramatically toward the horizon. “Did I ever tell you about the time Dark Helmet built an entire stadium out of marshmallows just to host the galaxy’s first interstellar dodgeball championship?”

Time Machine groaned, Rumbling Bald shredded harder, and somewhere in the distance Spiderman was still muttering: “Nope. Not my job.”

And thus, the morning at NaFo ended the way all their gatherings did—half concert, half existential crisis, and entirely ridiculous.

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Don’t put your hand in dog $@#

WARMUP:
– 15 SSH
– 10 LSS
– 10 Windmills
– 10 IW
– 10 MNCs
– Yoga
THE THANG:
Ran loops around the block (160 to McCammon to Cleborne to Main), stopping at each driveway for exercises (below). First loop was 10 reps, 2nd loop was 20 reps, 3rd loop was 30 reps. All were completed.
– Squats
– Mike Tysons
– Big Boys
– Merkins
– American Hammers
– Monkey Humpers
– Shoulder Taps
– Burpees

MARY: None, wrapped up burpees at 0600

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Bethel, Golf Tourney, 50k race, Pints & Padres

COT: Stays in COT

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Whats the point of this

Sometimes I wonder if a ‘backblast’ is important. Yes, I can here the admins now screaming their doctoral rhetoric at their phone screens. ‘Its for new guys to get ideas’, ‘Its to share with people that weren’t there’, ‘Its to get our name plugged into the all powerful algorithm and track our stats.’

I kinda think its BS. When F3 started we didn’t have any of this crap. Not to say change is bad (or good), but to say are we missing the point. F3 isn’t about any of the things we are told to use a backblast for. That’s one of the things I always loved about Indian Land, the fact you wont find any record of it anywhere. But we, and you know who we are, what we were about, and the legend was born.

I suggest this. If you are gonna right a backblast, tell me something I cant find on YouTube. If I need a workout, that’s easy to find. I want the meat. What was your challenge, mentally. Who did you push. Did the PAX overcome. Did you grow as a leader.

Are you forging your legacy?

If you want to know what we do at my workouts, then show up. Otherwise just know we will be there sharpening our steel. Ill call impossible tasks not for the physical work, but to test your mind and fortitude. And just know I WILL be right there with you. Good or Bad, BC is here to stay.

I’m sure Ill get kicked out of F3 for these statements

#MILGA rising

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SKIP IT TOY

WARMUP: lol
THE THANG:
Yog to Emory Ln corner for Braden loops. 3 work stations. 15 reps of merkens, big boys and squats. 3.5 miles at least with good total body workout.
MARY: none
ANNOUNCEMENTS: golf, HIM camp
COT: prayers and praises for health, our wife’s and children.

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ALLTHUMBS!!!

Arrived early to pick up Cindy and her friends ( just more Cindys ). After the party favors were loaded in the truck I drove to the band practice lot, needed 25yard spacing, why reinvent the wheel. As I was setting up the workout layout noticed some early arrivals, RUCKERS ( pretty sure this is a cult ). They were off before I could return to COT and wish them a pleasant trip, as the call to conquer unknown terrain hastened their departure.
Cindys were ready and waiting, workout layout complete, and old man stretching completed. LFG!

WARMUP: Disclaimer was disclaimed and we moseyed from COT to the band parking lot. SSHICx25, HBWICx12, CPICx10, MerkinsICx12. Pax moseyed around the workout layout to receive an explanation of the format/flow of the workout and exercises to be completed at each station. Finished at the center station where the PAIN would begin.

THE THANG: 2022 IPC Challenge – Week #2 – The “Belle” Ringer
AMRAP for 45 minutes
Set-Up -Make a 5-point star ( pain stations ) from a center location with each point of the star being 25yards away.
Workout starts with:
1. 5 ManMakers in the middle. Rifle carry to cone 2 and perform 10 “We’re Not Worthy”. Farmer carry back to center.
2. 5 ManMakers in middle. Rifle carry to cone 3 and perform 15 Goblet Squats. Farmer carry back to center.
3. 5 ManMakers in middle. Rifle carry to cone 4 and perform 20 Curl to Press. Farmer carry back to center.
4. 5 ManMakers in the middle. Rifle carry to cone 5 and perform 25 Cindy Swings. Farmer carry back to center.
5. 5 ManMakers in the middle. Rifle carry to cone 5 and perform 30 Bent Over Rows. Farmer carry back to middle.

Scoring: Total reps for 45 minutes of the exercises
Each complete trip is 125 reps

Sasquatch was King, well into his 4th round, followed closely by his fellow BOSSMEN partner Spectre.

The reward for crushing this workout -SKINLESS THUMBS!!!

MARY: None needed

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Civitas race, First Responder WO fundraiser ( stay tuned as SpiderMan brings the details in near future, gonna be epic!!! )

COT: Double D’s M and CakeBoss’s relative need our prayers for healing.

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