A little B-ball practice at the American Jackal

WARMUP: 10 Moroccan Nightclubs, 10 Windmills, 10 Strawberry Pickers
THE THANG: Line touches on the b-ball courts while partner practices grabbing rebounds (I.e. jumps) switch positions when partner returns from line touches, line touch burpees, bear crawls to lines with push ups at each line, 2 court – cross court runs with 50 squats on one end and 50 LBCs on the other end and then repeat, 2 court – cross court runs with 50 merkins on one end and 50 dips in the middle on the benches and then repeat, lunges across the 2 courts with 50 LBCs on one end then lunges back across with 50 LBCs on the other end, then a 2 basketball double dribble around the COT with some Mary called out a few times around.
MARY: 10 each of Flutter Kicks, American Hammers, and Box Cutters
ANNOUNCEMENTS: The fastest 5k for VuVu’s son and donate if you can for the great cause!
COT: It is what it is…

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Kettlebells: The Great American Pastime

WARMUP: mountain climbers, overhead claps, merkins, CDDs
THE THANG: Mozy to the adjacent parking lot where bases and cones were setup to form a baseball field. (Happy Hour’s and my son play on the same baseball team). Each base in baseball has a number associated with it. In order from 1-9, those are pitcher, catcher, first, second, third, shortstop, left field, center, and right field.
Starting at pitcher we did one rep then moved to catcher for two reps, first base for three reps and on and on until we got to left field for nine reps. One full round of the bases is 45 reps. Transportation of kettlebells alternated between farmers carry and overhead carry.
We started with goblet squats then moved on to kettlebell swings. We then got a 6/4/3 double play of flutters with a press. After the double play we resumed our base walking with clean & presses, then the next round was upright rows. For thoroughness, these two rounds we did left handed and right handed.
After the clean/press the Pax called for a 7th inning “stretch” so we did a few honeymooners and downward dogs before resuming. A brief rendition of “Take me out to the ballgame” was heard but thankfully didn’t last long.
Next round was curls and with limited time remaining, we did 20 tricep extensions with everyone at a base of their choice. When it was all totaled up, we were just short of 350 reps.
Not sure if everyone had fun, but everyone now knows that right field is #9!
MARY: skipped it
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Fast Five, newsletter
COT: Family and friend’s health

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Fast 5k Training

Lap around old Kingsley and back to the school. Hill repeats. To the front entrance. Fast lap around the car pickup line, recovery lap, rinse and repeat. Mosey to main lot. Sprints between the light poles. Rinse and repeat 6x. Back up the hill near the stadium and return to COT. 4+ miles

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50, in air quotes, percent better at the #ao-snakepit…

WARMUP: 10 Moroccan nightclubs, 10 Windmills, 10 side straddle hops
THE THANG:

2 times through this stuff!

1. 50 Calf Raises then 50+ yd-ish Mosey w/ KB,
2. 50 Goblet Squats Sumo style then 50+ yd-ish Mosey w/ KB,
3. 50 KB Deadlifts then 50+ yd-ish Mosey w/ KB,
4. 50 LBC’s with KB then 50+ yd-ish Mosey w/ KB,
5. 50 KB Push-ups (25 L & R) then 50+ yd-ish Mosey w/ KB,
6. 50 Curls then 50+ yd-ish Mosey w/ KB,
7. 50 Lat Push then 50+ yd-ish Mosey w/ KB,

“Rattle Snakes” were offered for the overachievers, although not many were actually done. “Rattle Snakes” are basically a plank where you jump your legs side to side. Probably has a different name, but since we were in the ao-snake-pit…

Slight modification on 2nd round, but all reps accounted for plus 50 KB swings.

MARY: Box cutters, American Hammers, Protractor, Hello Dolly’s

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Fastest 5k, represent for VuVu’s son!

COT: It is what it is…

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All of the burpees

WARMUP:
Moroccan nightclubs
Windmill
Cherry picker
Low slow squat
Hillbilly walker

Burpee mile(ish) – 12 burpees, run .3 miles, 12 burpees, run .3 miles, 12 burpees, run .3 miles, 12 burpees, run .3 miles for a total of 48 burpees and 1.2 miles

THE THANG:
Burp Back Mountain: partner exercise. Partner 1 nurs up the entrance hill to WEP, then runs forward back to start and does this 5x while partner 2 does burpees. Switch until a total of 100 burpees are completed per team

Head back to amphitheater where pax take turns pulling cards from the F3 card deck and all pax perform exercises on cards
MARY: none needed
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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2025 – SLT Disruption

WARMUP: full crew in cadence
65ish SSH for the 65 dudes that were in the circle
Imperial Walkers
Hillbilly Walkers
Peter Parker

Split to boot camp and kettlebells
THE THANG:
Bootcamp:
– Buy-in: 20 bomb jacks, 20 donkey kicks.
– Bear crawl the length of parking lot / whistle = 10 merkins
– Lunge walk parking lot / whistle = 10 jump squats
Kettlebell
– 20 swings
– 5 merkins
– 5 goblet squats
– count down the merkins and squats keep the 20 swings
– Swing progression
– Squat Swings
– Swings
– American Swings
– Rack bell
– slow step back reverse lunge
– press when returning the back leg
– Clean Progression
– Row
– Clean
– Swing
– Snatch

Unbeknownst to the PAX we switched modalities about halfway through. This was to represent the foundation 1 from Q-Source: https://f3nation.com/disruption.

“Because it induces movement, leadership causes Disruption”

PAX were disrupted from their planned morning workout to make sure both Qs saw all the PAX and to push them outside the complacency zone of their established routines. With the leadership, we should expect disruption and embrace it.

Leaders influence movement towards advantage. Disruption is a solid technique to induce movement.

“If a man calls himself a leader but does not cause Disruption by initiating movement, then he is not practicing leadership. He might be doing something else, like managing or governing, but he is not leading.”

It is not the goal of the new SLT members is not to manage or govern. It should not be the goal of the Site Qs to manage or govern. Let’s lead!

F3 is not an organization with leaders, but an organization OF leaders. Each man is freed to lead. The particulars of Site Qs and the SLT structure is nice, but let us not be afraid to disrupt when we have a vision for advantage.

Kermit handed 2nd F Q off to Liberty Bibberty
Band Camp handed the Weasel Shaker off to Poppins
Esso handed the Nantan Flag off to Band Camp

It is an honor to be considered a leader in the Fort. But be mindful every member of the PAX is A LEADER. Let’s all be about the business of leading.

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Fire Hydrant

WARMUP: Yea, of course. Warm up is important

4 corners at the Tide place
Merkins
Squats
Dips
Bomb Jacks
changed mode of transport around

THANG:
Mosey to Red Ventures
Stopped for Kracken Burpees
additive merkins for the first 9 light poles on the right (45 total merkins)
Stopped for leg raises on all fours at the fire hydrants, cause when was the last time you did that?

Got past the parking deck and found a nice set of curbs

Mike Tysons and Curb Alberts
kinda did 11s for a while until I felt like we should head back

Did additive lunges at the light poles on the way back (45)

MARY: No time. Quack Attack always tells me I don’t have enough core work in my weinke’s. he’s probably right. Wish he’d post more.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Convergence 3/14 at the Hive
Jaegar 3/15 GHMS
Luka Fast 5 4/12 PKMS

COT: Was held. Prayers lifted.

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Big bucket of suck-it

WARMUP:
SSH
Moroccan night club
Windmill
Murkin
THE THANG:
Mosey to the football field

PAX draw a card from the bucket which specifies the exercise and # of reps and mode of transport. PAX do exercise every 5 yards to the 50 yard line with mode of transport in between. Once at 50, run back to bucket for next round. Made it through 5 rounds including lots of merkins, crawl bears, shoulder taps, burpees and other fun activities. Lots of complaining by all!
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Convergence Friday at the hive
Jaeger on Saturday
Ass kicking April
Luka 5K

COT: Welcome FNG Chum!

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