Saint Patrick’s Fay Beatdown

Warmup
Side straddle hop
Imperial Walkers
Merkins
Honeymooners
Downward Dogs

Shippin up to Boston – Mosey to the back

Dora Rounds
2 minutes each station timed with 1 minute in between.

Move the Blarney Stone – Slam Ball
Paddywagon shuffle – Hillbilly Walkers
Climb up Carrauntoohil – Mountain Climbers
Jailbreak – Prison Burpees (standard burpee)
Kiss the Blarney Stone – Merkins
Irish Car Bomb – Seal jacks
Irish Jig – Jump rope weighted or not

Passing the keg – Wall sit with slam ball pass back and forth
Repeat sequence

Mosey to COT

Mary

COT
Health
Brotherhood
Job Market

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Convergence Before the Invergence

It was rainy, cloudy, dark, in other words perfect weather for a convergence. We had roughly 55-60 PAX out for the variety of workouts that were about to be executed.  Disclaimer disclaimed, FNG identified (Randy from heaven on earth (aka Pittsburgh) , and we launched.

Bootcamp Q : Slapshot

Bootcampers followed me up the hill and towards the springs parking lot. After a quick plank for the 6 we moved onto to the parking lot across 160 behind the former bank and now drug store for the warm-up.

Warm-up:

50 SSH (IC)

20 Merkings (IC)

10 Michael Phelps (IC)

5 Windmills (IC)

20 Mtn Climbers (IC)

Stretch

20 Plank JAcks (IC)

Mosey to the other side of the parking lot.

DORA: Partner up with someone you haven’t worked out with. Run was around the drugstore and through the parking lots.

200 Plank JAcks

200 Toe Touches

200 SSH

150 Diamond Merkins

100 4-Ct Flutters

Recover Run Back towards COT.

Tabata Series

30 Seconds on 10 seconds off

4 Rounds 4 sets

  1. SSH
  2. Seal JAcks
  3. HR Merkins
  4. Am. Hammers

Last 7 minutes: 10 Burpess EMOM (which was reduced to a an 11 of sorts after minute 5 where we started going 10 burpees plus 1 BBS, then 9 burpees plus 2 BBS….etc… until we had about 20 seconds left.

I had everyone recover on their feet and then add 1 last Burpee.

NNM: I spoke today about one of the many examples of what F3 has meant to me. Specifically, the other day I was out for a pre-run where I started out at a “comfortable pace” already deciding in my head what I was “good” with that morning.  Then about 2 miles in I came across a fellow Pax who got to the AO early and decided to go find me. We started to run together and my “comfortable pace” got very uncomfortable very quickly. All told, when we got back to COT I had increased the pace I was running at by over 35 seconds. He literally found me where I was, didn’t leave me behind, and pushed me to accelerate. It is what I needed then, and it’s what I needed 5 years ago when I started F3. I never knew how fast I could run, until I started running with faster guys. That Friday morning was a great reminder that I can always push more, that I have plenty of gas left in the tank, and that somewhere out in the gloom a brother is willing to go find you and get you better. (Thanks Olaf)

Whether you are accelerating 1F or the 2nd and 3rd, run with faster guys and don’t just be comfortable. You never really know what you are capable of until you push just a little bit more.

AYE!

Running Q Bandcamp

Speaking of Running with faster guys…Bandcamp executed a 10K route where he was able to hit a PR. The route went all over the downtown Fort Mill area. Again, men surround yourself with HIMS you never know what you’re going to be able to do.

Ruck Q : JWOW

Ruck to Church of NAzarene

10 rounds –

5 merkins at the bottom then 10 squats at the top of the stairs.

Rucked to Print Shop

20 step ups and 20 dips

Rucked up Main STreet and back to Wep for the chair swing loop at each chair swing 5 squats and 5 CDD’s One more half loop to COT.

Kettlebell Q: 38 Special

Leg stretches for a couple minutes while us 40somethigns PAX complained about our joints

The Thang:

10 each of Arm Curl and Press, tricep ex. and overhead press. Grabbed bells and went for a stroll around the park. Bells always farmered carried. We used the park equipment to tell us what to do. Each Swing 20 swings, Statues 30 Standing Tesh with squat each arm Bathrooms = 20 squats same set as the start upon our return.

Paired up for a dora

100 Goblet Squats

200 Calf Raises

300 Flutter with chest press

6 minutes to go carry back to bathroom and back 1 minute of squats and 1 minute of swings.

IR Q: Kermit

Took a nice mosey around downtown Fort Mill and even down to the Peach stand and back. Big thank you for leading this piece and not leaving any men behind!

 

Post Workout  JWOW led us in prayer and we named a  FNG The name Cannonball.

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Double Dora

WARMUP: Jog across the street, SSH, MNC, HBW

THE THANG: 2 ROUND PARTNER DORA: ROUND 1: 100 MERKINS, 200 SQUATS, 300 LBC’S CHOICE OF A LAP OR WALL SIT WHILE PARTNER WORKED
ROUND 2: 100 STEP UPS, 200 DIPS, 300 INCLINE MERKINS, CHOICE OF A LAP OR WALL SIT WHILE PARTNER WORKED

MARY:

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Bethel Men’s Shelter Thursday, Convergence Saturday

COT:

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Q-School Part 1

Started this fine morning with Pusher leading the Disclaimer.

All key points were included.
Asking for new people
Declaration that you are not an expert
Stating that everyone there is assuming all risk by being there, every exercise is a suggestion and to modify if needed to avoid injury.

Pusher also made sure to note the leadership aspect of being a Q. How it links with the larger mission of F3 and how being prepared to lead is instrumental in having a successful Q.

With that we moseyed to behind the Oil Change garage.

Here we circled up and Pusher put us through the finer points of a warmup including how to call cadence, how to pace cadence, and a sample of exercises that are popular within a warmup. After this portion of Q-school Pusher handed it off to me and I called 5 burpees OYO. Because why not….

Well also, as I explained, it’s a good tool to use to silence mumble chatter and help corral the PAX. (a whistle also helps with this)

For my portion of Q school I introduced a couple of workout concepts that had are scaleable. Meaning that the PAX could modify these up or down as they saw fit during the course of the workout. The other key piece I mentioned here is the intention of time-boxing your workout. For me I like to divide my workout into pieces. This helps inform me on if I can modify up or modify down a set of exercises based on the time allotment.

The first two sequences were first a simple circuit using the wall behind the garage.

10 Irkins
10 Derkins
10 Dips

X3

Plank for the 6

Run to behind the grocery store

Using the two islands

A simple 7 concept with a run in-between the two stations

HR Merkins on one side and Squats on the other.

Again, these are concepts that you can leverage and elevate as needed. For instance the 7’s could become 11’s, 20’s or even 30’s if you are so inclined with any mode of transportation you see fit in-between like bear crawls or burpee broad jumps.

For the final 3rd piece of the WO portion I took us to the pavilion by the church. I talked about knowing the AO and what it has to offer. Specific for this AO we have cover and benches here. It’s a great spot for a tabata style workout leveraging the WOD app. And that is what we did. I called out a series of exercsies with a short rest in-between.

Again, this is a great way to use a small space but keep the hear rate up and engage the pax. Candidly some of my best Q’s were in this format because of the proximity of my fellow pax and the ability for PAX to push themselves in this type of format.

After this portion was over we took off for COT.

With just over 5 minutes left we did Mary but had newish pax attempt cadence. I’m happy to say we all settled on Starting Positions ….MOVE……and that all Pax did a good job of picking up on it quickly.

We ended on COT where Pusher did a great job of articulating why it’s important and why it makes F3 different.

To quickly recap

-A great Q starts before 5:15. Work with the Site Q and plan ahead. Always overplan because it’s easier to scale down than scale up if needed.
-When calling cadence practice if you are not used to it. Practice in your garage or wherever but perfect practice makes perfect.
-Be willing to alter your plan if needed. A big thing for me is to keep PAX together and keep Pax safe. In other words if you think that hill looks a little too muddy to run up maybe look to do something else. (burpees for instance)
-COT is one of the most important pieces of the Q experience (that and writing a timely backblast). Be respectful and thoughtful.

Thanks to the Pax who came out, and the Pax who supported this (Especially Fishtix and Olaf who shared tidbits of wisdom throughout)

If anyone has any questions or wants to view/access some of the documents referenced today please feel free to reach out.

SYITG!

Class dismissed!

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Where’s the Rain?!

WARMUP: SSH, Imperial Walker, Windmills, moseys
THE THANG: Agility runs, 7 Burpees-People’s Chair, 2 rounds of Tabata legs, chest and core
MARY: Thunderstruck Plank Jacks
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your newsletter
COT: Culture Club grand baby arrived yesterday. Harry Carry’s 2.0 has Trumpet audition at Winthrop, JCruise has a donor lined up for Winthrop Music/Arts department that will match 3x small dollar donations, I suggested Band Camp get pledges for each mile he Bear Crawls in March.

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Where’s the Rain?!

WARMUP: SSH, Imperial Walker, Windmills, moseys
THE THANG: Agility runs, 7 Burpees-People’s Chair, 2 rounds of Tabata legs, chest and core
MARY: Thunderstruck Plank Jacks
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your newsletter
COT: Culture Club grand baby arrived yesterday. Harry Carry’s 2.0 has Trumpet audition at Winthrop, JCruise has a donor lined up for Winthrop Music/Arts department that will match 3x small dollar donations, I suggested Band Camp get pledges for each mile he Bear Crawls in March.

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1 more rep

First off, Old Bay, Peach Stand, and Sugarbug just walked around holding hands with backpacks. But they wanted a shot at catching Sprocket’s posting numbers and YHC is tagging them.

WARMUP: of course
THE THANG: ran for a while

11 Squats
11 Split Squats (each leg)
11 Mike Tyson
Bear Crawl
Rinse and Repeat 3 times
Mosey to benches
Seated one leg jump squat
11 each leg
Rinse and Repeat
Mosey down the hill
Red Barchetta (look it up in the exicon)
Mosey up the hill
11 Squats
11 Split Squats (each leg)
11 Mike Tyson
Mosey back

NMM:
F3 Prepares us to handle to unexpected. But no matter how hard the workout is in the Fort we know it will be over after 45-60 minutes. In life, we don’t know when the challenge will be over, but we can almost always knock out one more rep. And then do it again, just one more rep, and one more rep, and one more rep, and one more rep

Brother, you can knock out one more rep. I know it. And if necessary, call it in cadence and ask the PAX to join you—cause we will

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Deep in the Honeycomb at The Hive

WARMUP:
Few exercises to get the PAX loose

THE THANG:
8 exercises
4 rounds
30 yard run and abs in between each round

MARY:
Couple Mary moves
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Newsletter
COT:
Just don’t say you’re being intentional…put some action behind the words and do something 👏🏻🥓🔥👆🏻

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CT Spare Key Beatdown

WARMUP:
Abe Vigodas
Side Straddle Hops
Merkins
Honeymooners
Downward Dogs

THE THANG:
Indian Run with 5 merkins

Dora
50 Burpees
200 Squats
200 LBCs
200 Imperial Walkers
50 Wild Cards from the deck

MARY:
LBC and Walkers were enough

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Convergence at #ao-sweep-the-leg Monday.
Q school 3/1

COT:
Prayers for marriages
Prayers for health

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Simon Says at the Ranch

Start with a Mosey run in Parking lot
Side shuffles
High knees
Butt kickers
Toy soldiers
George Washington was born on Feb 22nd, 1732
More mosey run

Circle up for Warm up
SSH (IC 10x)
Windmill (IC 10x)
Imperial Walker (IC 10x)
Moroccan Nightclub (IC 10x)
Low Slow Squats (IC10x)
Merkin (IC 10x)
Peter Parker (IC 10x)
Plank stretches
Downward dog
Honeymooner
More mosey run
Thang 1: Bermuda Triangle
Three cones spaced 20-30 yards apart.
Start at cone 1, do one burpee, bear crawl to next cone
Cone 2, do two burpees, bear crawl to next cone
Cone 3, do three burpees, bear crawl back to cone 1, and pick up a clothes pin from the bucket
Repeat the circuit, picking up a clothes pin for each completed circuit.
More mosey run
Thang 2: Bench work
Step ups
Incline merkins
Decline merkins
Butt touch squats
Calf raises
Thang 2: Simon says
Football training style
Do what Simon says: Shuffle left, shuffle right
Exercises
SSH
Bobby Hurleys
Mountain Climbers
OH claps
Smurf jacks
LBCs
If pax breaks with Simon, they lose a clothes pin.  Change Order earned an extra clothes pin by remembering Geo. Washington’s birth date.
Simon says penalty: Pax do burpees: their count is calculated by: 20 minus number of clothes pins remaining
Mosey run to COT
Thang 3: Sally Routine
Low plank/high plank
Fini

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