Anchor Bar’s LADDER of PAIN

WARMUP: Five rounds of 5x IC SSH followed by 2 Burpees OYO.
THE THANG: Anchor Bar’s (Rock Region) LADDER OF PAIN. Do the first exercise, run to designated spot and back. Then do first and second exercises, run out and back. Then do first, second, and third exercises, etc.

Exercises:
1) 1 Burpee
2) 3 Big Boys
3) 6 Shoulder Taps
4) 10 Flutters
5) 15 Merkins
6) 21 Freddies
7) 28 Dry Docks
8) 36 LBC’s
9) 45 Overhead Claps
10) 55 Squats
11) 66 Baby Arm Circles
12) 78 Monkey Humpers
13) 91 Moroccan Nightclubs
14) 105 Calf Raises
15) 120 Overhead Presses

MARY: F3 is for men only
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read ya newsletter
COT: Prayers and praises lifted

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Buffet at the Yard

Six pax at the Yard on a beautiful morning.

Began with a mosey run around the bball courts.

Warmup: SWIMLAPPs: SSH, Windmills, Imperial Walkers, Moroccan N/C, Low slow squats, big arm circles, Peter Parkers (all I/C to 10), followed with some plank stretches.

Mosey run.

Fish Tacks: do movement until told to halt, then do exercise yelled out, we did: Toy soldiers – Bobby Hurleys; bear crawls – merkins; lunge walk – smurf jacks.

Mosey run.

Bench work: step ups, incline merkins, dips, calf raises, butt touch squats (all I/C to 10)

Mosey run.

Munitions work: bear crawl to the factory (30 feet away) and then do:

Burpees (5x); OH claps (10X); Merkins (10x); big boy sit ups (10x); Squats (10x). then bear crawl back home.

Mosey run.

Wall work, with 15lb slam ball: all pax wall sit, then one by one pax hold out slam ball for a ten count. Recover then all pax back on the wall, then wall-toss slam ball; recover then back on the wall, pax to triceps extension of slam ball (10x). recover.

Mosey run to COT area.

Light mary: LBC, pickle pointers, stretches.

Fini.

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Shovel Flag Handoff

WARMUP:
– was done!
THE THANG:
– first 30 min by Grinder with focus on legs and abs
– last 30 min by Portal with focus on arms
MARY:
– was done as well!
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
– read your newsletter
COT:
– was held

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Pleasing Others

WARMUP: SSH, Windmill, MNC
THE THANG:
3 sets of wall sit while partner does 3 sets of 10 merkins
3 sets of wall sits while partner does 3 sets of 10 squats

7’s
Burpees at the top & side straddle hop at the bottom

4 corners at the coutyard

Corner 1: 10 Merkins
Transportation: run
Corner 2: 10 Merkins, 20 (4ct) mountain climbers
Transportation: skip
Corner 3: 10 Merkins, 20 (4ct) mountain climbers, 30 LBCs
Transportation: run
Corner 4: 10 Merkins, 20 (4ct) mountain climbers, 30 LBCs, 40 flutter kicks
Transportation: lunge walk

MARY: LBC
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Newsletter
COT: Closed in prayer

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Almost forgot about this sizzling morning on TGI Friday

After a thorough disclaimer from YHC, we moseyed over to the Lowes parking lots open section for some Warm-O-Rama with,

Side Straddle Hop
Produce Pickers
Hillbilly Walkers
Windmills
Moroccan Nightclubs
Imperial Walk

For the moleskin,
7s running from one end of the Lowe’s parking lot to the middle with,
CDD & Squats
Merkins & Lunges
Shoulder Taps & Monkey Humpers
Mountain Climbers & Bomb Jacks

Time for some partner Dora’s, 50 each
LBCs
Freddie Mercurys
Flutter Kicks
Heels to the sky
Big Boys (Extra Credit for those high performing HIMs)

Mosey to Shovel flag for some Marys:
PAX Choice for last 8 minutes

CoT:
Announcements: Blood Drive & read newsletter
Prayers and Praises (said & unsaid)

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Letting Go of Heavy Things

WARMUP: Disclaimer, brief COP, Sen T rolls up late like he’s the special guest of the day
THE THANG:
Mosey to road behind school for 10 burpees at each of 5 light poles with various forms of lunge walks between each pole

mosey to picnic tables for some step ups, dips, derkins

mosey to football field

pax line up side to side and do Al Gore while one pax does weaving run through the line to the far end. continue this fashion for 100+ yards

rinse and repeat above with flutters in place of Al Gores

pick a partner and line up like WR vs DB. DB runs defensive route to keep pace with WR for about 10-20 yds. flapjack. rinse and repeat full length of field

100 yd bear crawl back to starting end zone

mosey back to parking lot for 10 burpees, then sprint home

ANNOUNCEMENTS: 8/4 convergence, 1st F Q transition, trash pickup

COT: It was great to be back with the pax after much travel over past 2+ months.

the past 3 days involved lifting heavy stuff (Cindy at the Bubble and sandbags at Stockade) so today was “no lift day”

besides the heavy weight in the Gloom for two days, I’ve been carrying heavy stuff on the workforce for 2 months. I’ve been missing the pax during this period and all the mental reminders and affirmation just isn’t enough to keep me in a clear headspace without the benefit of a push from the pax in the Gloom.

thanks to Bitcoin for the invite and thanks to the pax for posting and always filling my tank!

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Four Corners & a Burpee!!

WARMUP: Abe Vigoda, Cherry Pickers, Flying Squirrels, Imperial Squat Walkers, The Drill Instructor,
THE THANG: Four Corners on the Football field, 50yd line and end zone, pick a card, do the Thang, run, nur, karaoke, side shuffle to each corner. The 400m run around the track was a crowd pleaser. One burpee in the middle of the field in between sets thanks to @Twister who was pumped up to an ‘80s rockin’ soundtrack of Boston, Christopher Cross’ Ride Like the Wind, The Cars, Led Zeppelin, Van Halen. Indian run back to COT.
MARY: Box Cutters, Flutters, LBCs
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Black Flag workout, 08/04 Convergence @ PKMS, Shovel Handoff
COT: Prayers for @Cornerstone’s neighbors

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F3 Dads 2021 Closing: Kickball

F3 Dads lots of fun was had

It was great to be out in community with so many PAX and their families this summer. It’s one for of bonding to suffer a bootcamp or run hills alongside your fellow PAX. It’s even cooler to see your kids run alongside their kids. Was also fun (for me) to have a circle of pain and call just 2 merkins when everyone thought we were just there for kickball.

To be honest the Kids vs. Dads kickball game was a bit of a cluster. (Charlie Foxtrot). My boys were very excited to compete against the dads. But I underestimated how many 2.0s would understand any semblance of the rules or strategy… T-Claps to all the dads for basically playing against them and coached them at the same time. If we do something like this again, we’ll have dads and kids along side each other.

I’m glad we had the parachute there as well. Unlike a normal F3 workout, kickball can feel more like a clipboard workout than something we do together. It was fun to see to be on the parachute towards the end and see CareBear start to exert her natural desire to lead (Grassy Knoll is going to have his hands full with that one).

Ended with water balloons courtesy of Hardwood and Floppy Disk. Prefect ending to the session. And T-Claps to Peabody for picking up the broken balloons so I could tell my M that we did!

I jotted down a quick AAR in Slack:

What you saw today if you drove by WEP was men enjoying time with their kiddos and being present. F3 is an organization not with leaders, but of leaders. That was on display today in a silly (bit of a cluster) game of kickball with parachute popcorn springing up on the side. And closing with a water balloon fight (props to @F3Hardwood and floppy disc for the assist on that)

:clap::skin-tone-2: :clap::skin-tone-2: :clap::skin-tone-2: T-Claps to all the men that Qed F3 Dads this summer. @JWOW, @g_purve_olaf, @Tootie, @Lutefisk, @UHaul, @maximus, @Michael Pysher(F3 Slapshot), @Peabody :clap::skin-tone-2: :clap::skin-tone-2: :clap::skin-tone-2: and T-Claps to all the guys who came out with their kiddos early on a Saturday to be in community

Until next summer….


Band Camp dismissed

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