WARMUP:
– yes
THE THANG:
– lucky 13 with 7 exercises and 1 round WEP, rinse + repeat
– sandbag carry
MARY:
– Airborne Hips
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
– read newsletter
COT:
– was held
We have an FNG!! We went through the 5 core principles of F3, stated its mission, and did a full lengthy disclaimer so the FNG knew the full monty, money back guarantee.
8 bootcampers and 4 shield lockers doing their own thing (Olaf, Sasquatch, Beaker, and one other I could not see/hear).
WARMUP: Mosey around the parking lot for about a half mile or so, circle up near the school for 10-20 of the following:
* SSH
* Windmills
* Imperial walkers
* Moroccan night clubs
* Strawberry pickers
>> Then over to the road by the JROTC building for the main event.
THE THANG:
1. First up, 11s w hill repeats
Utilizing the mild grade hill alongside the JROTC building that leads down to the elementary school, we did some 11s. 10 Merkins at the top, 1 box cutter at the bottom, repeat accordingly until we finish with 1 merkin at the top, 10 box cutters at the bottom. Overall about a mile and a half of running and 55 reps of each exercise.
Then we discussed shield locks and how important they are. We men tend to internalize our struggles, keep them to ourselves. That only amplifies the pain. Find someone you can trust – the key word in making it work – and that you can be open and vulnerable with. Whether it is inside the F3 ranks our outside F3, just lock up with a someone. No OYO!!!
Next up…..
2. Cindy relays
Divide into 2 groups. Luckily we had an even number of 8. Using the new cinder blocks…..still with that new cinder block smell!…..blocks were placed about 20-30yds from the start. One person from each team runs to the blocks, does the exercise with the blocks, then runs back to the group. Group is exercising as well while they wait for their go. Next person up runs, and so forth, relay style. Constant movement, no rest.
Round 1: 15 cindy curls (1 block) while group does SSH
Round 2: 15 cindy overhead press (1 block) while group does flutters
Round 3: 15 cindy squats (2 blocks) while group does lunges
Round 4: 10 cindy manmakers (1 block) while group does IWs. >> We ran out of time and did not get round 4 in.
>> Back to COT
COT:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
* Read your newsletter and get involved!!
P&P:
* BE SURE TO DRINK ELECTROLYTES, NOT JUST WATER!!
* Marriages, being a father, and your relationship/responsibilities to both your M and 2.0s.
* Sorry if I missed anything else. Several things were lifted up.
Thanks for the opportunity to lead! SYITG and God Bless!
– NASA
WARMUP: @harrycarry lead us through a standard array of warm ups
THE THANG: ascending rep count 5-> 10 -> 15 -> 20 -> 25 -> 30 of calf raises, squats, Freddy mercuries, merkens, CDDs with some running in between each exercise
MARY: extensive session that included many lbcs and the dreaded J-LOs
ANNOUNCEMENTS: had a few
COT: did this
WARMUP: 15 SideStattleHops
8 (3 count) Michael Phelps
10 Moroccan night clubs
10 (3 count) V-ups
10 (3 count) dying cockroaches
10 (3 count) Mt. Climbers
10 (3 count) Peter parkers
10 (3 count) Parker Peters
10 (3 count) Hello Dollies
10 Box cutters
10 (3 count) Airplanes
8 (3 count) J-Lows
THE THANG:
Dora – Partner 1 bear crawl down and toy soldiers back. Partner 2 does Turkish Get-ups until partner 1 gets back.
Two – 30 second 6 inch hold in plank position while resting in straight arm in plank position in between sets for 30 seconds. This allowed for my 2 minutes of sharing about the benefits of our SL.
Jack Webb Wheelbarrow style, partner up, partner performing the Jack Web gets into the wheelbarrow position with other partner holding his legs. Perform 1 merkin, then wheelbarrow 4 paces, then perform 2 merkins, then wheelbarrow 8 paces, so forth and so on until you reach the ultimate goal of 10-40. If the first partner attempting the wheelbarrow jack web needs a break he will remember where he was in the web upon stopping while his partner starts the same process. Keep swapping back and forth as many times as needed until both partners complete the series.
Ran a circuit around the school lot with six leg stations along the way. At each station do rep count of 15 for the first lap, then 20 for second lap, then 25 for 3rd lap.
MARY: No time
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your newsletter, Come to the Testament on Wednesday.
COT: Prayers for deaths in the family of close friends, Praise for opportunity to serve others,
WARMUP: mosey to nearby springs parking lot after climbing out of WEP.
Windmills, imperial and hillbilly walkers, tunnel touches and side straddle hops with burpees in between each exercise.
Mosey to the WEP path
THE THANG: Doing a lap around WEP, 5 burpees at each bench for lap 1, 10 hand release merkins at each bench for lap 2 and 15 squats for lap 3. After that, YHC handed off to Trucker for more “fun”.
Mosey to 160 – 5 squats
Mosey to springs wall parking lot – 5 clean sweeps
Mosey to parking lot at emmets – 20 flutters
Mosey to print shop- 5 pull-ups 5 irkins, repeat
Mosey to emmets – 20 flutters
Mosey to MP lot – 20 lbc
Mosey to spring lot – 10 leg raises
Mosey to other springs lot –
4 corners with seal jacks and ccd’s
MARY: Hello Dollys in cadence brought us to 0730.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Yes
COT: 5th core principle
NASA and Ruby Slippers tag-team Q. It was a wonderful dewy muggy morning! PERFECT for what was planned…..
WARMUP: Ruby led the warmup. First a run around the entrance road loop out front, approx half mile or so, then circle up in the parking lot for the following:
* 1 burpee OYO
* 7 windmills IC
* 2 burpees OYO
* 7 cherry pickers IC
* 3 burpees OYO
* 7 Moroccan night clubs IC
* 4 burpees OYO
* 25 (4ct) SSH IC
* 5 burpees OYO
Quite a nice warmup! Then on to….
THE THANG: PAINBALL
Divide the pax into 2 teams. Team NASA, and team Ruby. One team is on “Offense”, the other on “Defense”. The offense does their workout, tries to circle the bases, and cross home plate as much as possible until the defense finishes their workout. When the defense finishes their workout it ends the respective half of the inning. Teams then swap from offense to defense and vice versus. Continue/repeat until time to go to COT.
OFFENSE – BASE WORK:
Cones set up at all 4 bases on the baseball infield – home plate, 1st base, 2nd base, 3rd base. Each cone has a set of exercises and a type of movement to the next base. Only one person is allowed on a basepath at any given time – you can have a runner going to each successive base but not going to the same base, just like baseball. No more than 2 runners on a base at any given time (tough to have only one – things clog up). Do SSHs while waiting to exercise or move. When a runner does all the bases and crosses home plate, that is a run for that team. Exercises and movements:
* Home – 1 burpee, 10 merkins, then long jump to first base
* 1st base – 1 burpee, 10 merkins, 20 CDDs, then Lt Dan to 2nd
* 2nd base – 1 burpee, 10 merkins, 20 CDDs, 30 BBSU or LBC, then crab walk to 3rd
* 3rd base – 1 burpee, 10 merkins, 20 CDDs. 30 BBSU/LBC, 40 flutters, then bear crawl to home
* Rinse and repeat until defense is done. A run does not count if the runner has not crossed home plate. No halfway there scores. All or nothing.
>> A suggestion was made for next time to have offense start the runners off where they left off at the previous inning.
DEFENSE – DORA
Two cones about 30yds apart is the run portion. One person does and exercise, while the other runs. Swap when runner returns, continuing the exercise count where the other left off. In the case of multiple people on defense – split the group and take the highest count of one person. Exercises:
* 50 burpees
* 100 sumo squats
* 200 flutters (2 ct)
Defense records the last out when the last flutter is done AND the runners are back in.
Pretty much nonstop movement for one hour! No breaks between innings. Just swap offense/defense and get after it.
We got 3 full innings in, and another 4th inning where reps were cut in half in order to complete before COT. Team NASA won by one run, but dangit if team Ruby came on strong and almost…….by a half base…….tied it in the end. Not sure what we would’ve done in a tie…….
WAGER: was going to be burpees but everyone was smoked. An IOU for that.
PAX really enjoyed this! A rematch was mentioned. This will reappear later this summer or early fall……
These guys were hammering it out, knocking out long balls, and flippin some bats all morning! AWESOME JOB FELLAS!! AND between rolling around in the dewy grass and infield sand, everyone got nice and sandy dirty – sugar cookies!!! Yes, that was intended. You are welcome!! HA HA HA!!!
Observations:
* Senator Tressel is a MACHINE! Dude just cranks it out.
* Tapout definitely benefits from his youth but put in A TON of work…..did every rep! So cool to watch him do his thing.
* Headspin can burpee with the best of them. Don’t tell Slapshot that though……
* Falcon Crest gets the work done, a silent killer, John Wick style. So great to see him back in the gloom accelerating.
* Ruby Slippers is really returning to form from his injury……watch out Fort. He’s coming for ya!!
* Uber kept the mumblechatter going and knows what levers to pull to keep guys motivated and pushing through the pain. MUCH appreciated!!
* I was just happy to be there with the fellas and complete it all without merlot. I wanted to push everyone including myself. Pain = growth.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
* Read The Fort Newsletter and get involved
* All AOs closed next Saturday 6/10 for Poppins’ Convergence for Kenya
* Fort Mill Care Center needs volunteers to help with lawn maintenance. Jiffy has been doing alot of mowing on his own. We can do better Fort!! Let’s help……see signup in the Newsletter
COT / P&P:
* Senator Tressel’s mom
* Vuvu’s son and family
* The serving at Bethel Men’s Shelter
* Marriages
* Health – including mental health
* Ruby in his mentorship of a gentleman at Bethel Men’s Shelter
* Many more……
GREAT way to start off the day, up 1-0 at sunrise!!
On behalf of Ruby Slippers, we thank you for the opportunity to lead. God bless.
– Ruby Slippers and NASA
WARMUP: A quick broga-y stretch and mosey through the parking lot w/ some high knees and karaoke.
THE THANG: Picked up cinderblocks and started at the top of the hill adjacent to the JROTC building… 10 reps of each exercise w/ block:
– swings,
– overhead press,
– overhead tricep extension,
– curls,
– upright row,
– merkins,
– lunge w/ core twist,
– squats,
– calf raises
Mosey to bottom of hill and repeat with 1 less rep before heading to next location. 10-9-8…1
The PAX made it to the bottom of the hill near SCES bus loop playground and back to the top of the hill near NFHS bus loop entrance before returning to the starting location adjacent to the JROTC building and returning the blocks.
Mosey back to COT for some additional broga-y stretching.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Cannoli Run tomorrow, read your newsletter
COT: Show to know!
WARMUP:
THE THANG:
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:
WARMUP:
Windmills
Hill walkers
Imp walkers
Low squats
MNC
THE THANG:
Mosey to benches
Single circuit of following exercises
4×20 ( It was 4/20 you know)
Box jumps or step ups
Bulgarian squats
Dips
Derkins
Head to small circle
Sprint lap with timer
Thats how many squats you do
Next lap try to beat time, if you do you only have to do 1/2 of time
One more lap same thing
Next head to playground for a quick Dora
20 pullups
50 Mike Tysons
100 Ab crunches on swings
Partner 1 runs small lap for timer
Next go to basketball court
Knockout
if you get out you do Bobby Hurleys, played two rounds
Headed to side of school
Bear crawls up hill
Crab walk down
Hill repeats x 3
Run back to COT
MARY: No time
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Amrap, Odd Kidneys, Bethel
COT: Had to be there
For Q-School, we focused on a solid warmup in cadence.
Had the newer PAX build some reps.
Also worked to push the PAX a bit with a DORA, and then some Pearls on a String. Small discussion of how these workouts function and how to describe them before executing them. Focused mainly on basic exercises, there’s no need to do a 12-count exercise before you can count imperial walkers.
Exercises we stuck around:
Merkin
Squat (& low slow variety)
Imperial Walker
Side Straddle Hop
Burpee
Some discussion of in-cadence vs. single count. We had the PAX work on cadence count again once they were winded after running the Bus Route Hill.
I encourage PAX to review the Q101 document https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zFiVyspf1Xph6GIv-r-z5brONWUzhEYrBvXzbnKfdBc/edit?usp=sharing and the Fort’s Workout Q Handbook https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1TSlzhBPmkrGp3_kI7qA-UpI57tSVzo_mdyKpqXAJQ4k/mobilebasic
Remember to observe the PAX, ask the Site Q to cover the 6, take command, and to HAVE FUN. It’s a free workout group! Yes, we are strivign to be better, but put some personality and joyfulness into your Qs!