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Fort 12 Year Anniversary

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THE THANG: Liberty led boot camp, 3D led Kettlebell and Time Machine led run
MARY: Dark Helmet rambled about cadence and people not keeping up with the rhythm of his glorious mane
ANNOUNCEMENTS: NASA presented the purpose of the Children’s Attention Home
COT: Esso talked about the purpose and greatness of the work being done by the Fort and Rock Hill regions.

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11 years and still counting…..

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WARMUP: YHC on Q. Circle up.
SSHx22, the following were in counts of 11.
Windmill, Squats, Merkins, Mountain Climbers, Imperial walkers, Moroccan Nigh Clubs, Plank Jacks, Peter Parker, HillBilly Walker, Low Slow Squats. ends with SSHx22
THE THANG: 10 minutes of Merkins, then Wheel O Pain.
hand off to Senator. Longest Indian Run in The Fort. Stop and try to do some pull ups. Many others actually did them. Keep going to bottom of hill. 10 Bomb Jacks and then to COT.
MARY: Flutters
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Golf, Fundraiser, Care Center, Bethel Men’s shelter
COT: Prayers for healing, saying goodbye to loved ones, safety of our children and community.

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Not so Moderate Deck o’ Death

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Eleven men got a little better this morning at The Yard. Here’s what we did:

Warm-Up
– 10 Low Slow Squats (IC)
– 10 Imperial Walkers (IC)
– 10 Hillbilly Walkers (IC)
– 10 Seal Jacks (IC)
– Mosey the bus loop

The Thang
Deck o’ Death (take turns pulling cards and performing the following exercises followed by a short run)
– 90 second High Plank
– 100 SSH
– 20 Diamond Merkins
– 20 Dips
– 20 Merkins
– 60 second Low Plank
– 20 Smurf Jacks
– 19 High Knees
– 15 Oblique Crunches (each side)
– 20 Irkins
– 17 Monkey Humpers (IC)
– 20 Shoulder Taps
– 18 Backwards Lunge
– 100 Calf Raises
– 20 American Hammers
– 13 Wojo Squats

Mosey back to COT lot for Four Corners
– 15 Tempo Merkins (IC)
– 15 Heels to Heaven (IC)
– Elevens (LBCs/Lunges)
– 15 Y Squats
– 15 Alternating Shoulder Taps
– 15 Rosalitas
– 15 Derkins

NMM
The humidity was as high as the spirits this morning as we endured Wisdom by Walker and a couple solid bar jokes. I hope today’s workout was the hardest thing we do today, but most likely it won’t be. Maybe it’s a past due Honey-do list or a hard conversation with the M. When whatever that thing is manifests today or this week, I encourage you to attack it with the same vigor you attacked today’s beatdown. Do the hard thing today instead of letting it eat at you for weeks. You got this!
-IJ

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An un”fort”unate series of events

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Warmup

SSH
Windmills
Imp walkers
Hillbilly walkers
Michael Phelps
Plank- yoga stretches
Merkins
Carolina dry docks

Sandbag carry to big hill, down trail. Hill is off on left side. Mode of transport was lunges and bear crawls alternating, everyone got to do all three..

Reverse bear crawl up hill

11s

burpees at top of hill
Sandbag toss at bottom

A few finished and most got to 9 tosses, Walker was king

Sandbag carry back and to amphitheater

Ab lab

Lazy Dora

Partner planks with sandbag on back for 60sec, after a minute I changed it to 30 seconds and then we ended up back at a minute- would do it differently next time but it was still fun
Other person or two depending on group size do the following exercises for 2 sets each…

American hammers
Flutters
Big boys

Rd 2 wall planks while holding coupons,

Calf raises
Monkey humpers

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Over The River And Around The Cones

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WARMUP: merkins, squats, MNCs, stretches
THE THANG: 8 stations with running to the other end of parking lot and returning to each station until the routine was complete. Stations consisted of merkins, squats, calf raises, IC flutter kicks, and burpees. Afterwards, did a 7 routine with hand clap merkins (3 different options to choose from) and jump squats on the other end. Finished with 20 squats at COT.
MARY: 62 IC Freddie Mercuries, 100 IC flutter kicks during cone station routine.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Rock Hill 10 year anniversary activities from 4/28 thru 5/4 with convergence on 5/4.
COT: Prayers were lifted for specific needs.

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AKA meets BOP

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17 men showed up at The Stockade this morning for AKA Friday. Quick disclaimer and warm-ups consisted of SSHs, Windmills, Imperial Walkers, and Plank Stretches. Mosey around the parking lot for the main event, Board of Pain. Men have laughed, men have cried, but no man has ever completed all exercises within a 45-minute period.
Today, we would tackle the board as a two-man team, split the reps into two rounds. Once the team completed the exercise, we ran a lap. Exercises listed below:

Round 1

Burpees – 50
Calf Raises – 75
Ski Abs – 50
Merkins – 50
Deep Squats – 50
LBCs – 100
Carolina Dry Docks – 50
Russian Twists – 50
Mac Tar Jai– 50
Jump Squats – 50
Mountain Climbers – 50
Shoulder Raises – 100
Mary Catherines – 50
Hello Dolly – 100
Wide Arm Merkins – 50
Squat Jacks – 50
Flutters– 50
Burpees – 50

Round 2

Repeat Round 1

Some of the team made it to the second round complaining about the burpee count. Farthest team made it to Ski Abs. Great work men!

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The Darkest of ALLL Convergences

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80ish of the Fort’s, Lake Wylie’s, and Rock Hill’s finest converged this fine Monday to celebrate and show our support for the Darkest of All Helmet’s becoming the new Nantan of F3 Nation.

After my usual disclaimer and a giving of thanks for those who all showed , Dark Helmet led the warmup. As any true leader would do he quickly refreshed (and reinforced via burpees) the core mission of F3 and our core principles. After a rough start we did eventually nail it. After some side straddle hops and merkins the Pax were released into their own unique workout groups.

HERO WOD(Honey Badger)

This was my Q and I’m always humbled to lead Hero style workouts. They should be hard but also purposeful. For me I have created two unique workouts to honor different men of my family who have served. They would be the last people to ever consider themselves heroes. But that’s why I honor them. They sacrificed more than I ever could and I will always be inspired by them. I hope that in this very simple way their stories help inspire others.

For the purpose of today’s workout I truncated both them in the interest of time.

The “Uncle Paul”

I encourage anyone to Google the USS Pueblo Incident to get the full details but the long and short of it is that my wife’s Uncle Paul was a member of the USS Pueblo crew when it was captured by North Korea in 1968. For 11 months he was help captive as POW. Tortured, sleep deprived, and subject to all sorts of propaganda he along with 81 of his ship mates were eventually returned to the US. As a result of his PTSD he hasn’t been able to sleep for almost 50 years.

The Workout:

82 SSH (IC)

11 Burrpees OYO.

1 LAP around the Earth Fare Complex.

As we returned to our starting position I began the Second Hero Workout of the day. The “Sgt. Major”. This one is a WOD I’ve done before for the Honey Badger and is about my father who was a Command Sgt. Major in the 28th ID. Again for the sake of time I limited the usual 3 miles I try and incorporate into this workout for 3 laps instead. The exercises are as Follows.

28 Burpees

1 Lap

28 Burpees

56 Squats

1 Lap

28 Burpees

56 Squats

112 HR MErkins

1 LAP.

(Pick up the 6 if you can)

This pretty much took us up to the bell after a brief visit by the ruckers. Thanks to all who broke off to me to indulge me and these workouts. They are supposed to be hard and challenging and I hope we all got our money’s worth.

 

Running Boot camp: Sweep the Leg – FishTix

Group was split into teams of 4. Relay race around the parking lot two stops with exercises. Two runners traveled to stop 1 and stop 2 respectively while the other team members did the exercises at the stops. Once the runners arrived the running duties were handed off. Process was continued until the closing bell.

Stop 1 Exercises: HR Merkins, Dips, Burpees, CDD, Mike Tyson Merkins

Stop 2: Jump Squats, Flutters, Mnt Climbers, Lunges, Box Cutters

Rucking – VA – Olaf

4 corners with low slow squats, merkins, Lunges, and shoulder taps. After round 1 got a 40 and a 60 pound sand bag to spice it up. The bags were rotated around by the Pax.

Kettlebell – Armory – BandCamp

4 Rounds:

16 clusters (clean, squat, press

16 single arm swings (alternating)

16 lateral lunge with a row (8 a side)

Short Mosey

Some overhead lunges and suitcase deadlifts when the heart rates got too high.

Running – Flight Plan – Bass-O-Matic

Ran a bunch 🙂

At 6:00 I blew a whistle and we all reconvened for the longest Namearama I ever conducted a brief reminder of the Rooster, to read the newsletter and to have our Nantan of the Fort Esso lead us out.

Best of luck to Dark Helmet in his new role! Let’s all continue the mission!

AYE!

 

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Pre-Convergence Convergence

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There were Ruckers and runners.

Barry Manilow led the runners for 5+ miles around The Fort.

The bootcampers were led first by Maximus with a SSH x Merkin combo x2 to warm up.
After a quick warm up, the weinke was
10 merkins, 10 mountain climbers (double count) at each of the 9 swings around the park. When done and waiting on the 6 to fill in, hold an Al Gore. To wrap up, starting at the bottom of the grassy hill from the parking lot, flutter kicks, then burpees at the top of the hill.

Cake Boss took second shift with playtime at the playground.
Partnering up, one partner does squats, while the other runs around the playground. Then flapjack. Next was pull ups/merkins following the same format. To wrap up, keeping the same partner, one bear crawled across the field and run back, while the other did flutters. Flap jack until 3 rounds were done.

Fogerty took us home with some 11’s and hill repeats.
At the bottom of the hill with the statue, started with 10 merkins and bombjacks. Half way up the hill, 5 burpees, then 1 squat and big boy sit-up. No burpee on the way back down the hill. Repeat until 11’s are done cutting out the burpees when you hit 5 & 6.

This was a fun 60 min bootcamp.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Clave Boss & convergence in 12/23. Happy Birthday Walker. Tallawah is officially closed for good.

COT:

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The Star Gazers

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WARMUP: SSH, Squats, MNC, Stretching
THE THANG: Warm up with 11’s with merkins and squats. Followed by Star Fish routine with merkins, squats, pike presses, IC flutter kicks, with burpees in the center after every rotation (40 burpees). Finished with merkin gauntlet with 3 merkins at every Pax (who were in plank position). During the rest periods, we admired God’s creation by viewing some of the planets and the Cassiopeia constellation.
MARY: 61 IC flutter kicks
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read the Newsletter
COT: Prayers for various concerns.

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Walker Delivers

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WARMUP: Yes
THE THANG: Started with some 11s as the pax found the cones that were set up for the Starfish workout.
11s :Merks and squats
Starfish with 10 Burps in the middle with the 4 corners set up for 50 reps at each before making way back to middle between each cone.

MARY: Yes – 3 mins of Mary that consisted of 61 flutters called out in cadence by the Q!
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Yes
COT: Well done. Encouragement by Walker educating the Pax on embracing the pain during your sets by redirecting your thoughts and focus away from the pain. When you focus on positive thoughts your body and brain relax and allows for greater acceleration. Nice work by all.

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