Sink roulette deck of cards

17 eager and excited pax showed up. Some brought sand bags, some brought just their willing attitude which was quickly put on point upon the pile of sandbags awaiting them.

After a quick run around the parking lot, a few in cadence SSH, followed by burpees, and that repeated a few times, it was time for business.

Deck of cards was the game. Rules were simple. Follow the count on the card and suit to the key on the paper.

Here’s the extra kitchen sink rule: for the 4 cards laid out, 1 card was chosen by a pax to either pick red or black. If correct, follow the card suit/count. If incorrect, penalty was double the count.

All exercises were done with your sandbag.

– 2-7 diamonds manmaker
– 8-Ace diamonds squats
– 2-7 spades lunge
– 8-Ace spades merkins (just do regular merkins
– 2-7 clubs clean and press
– 8-Ace clubs flutter w/ a press
– 2-7 hearts chest press
– 8-Ace hearts curls
– Joker gear carry shuffle 100 yards and then 1 min sandbag toss over shoulder, 100 yard shuffle
– A few “breaks” were added which included some slick run cool downs and a few gear shuffles with no bag toss

For the record, there were some incorrect cards chosen which were a crowd favorite as you’d expect.

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Coaches bring out the best

WARMUP: COP with some SSHs squats merkins, hilly billys and LBCs
THE THANG:
Mosey to FB stadium for pain station 1
Mosey to FM HS sign past tennis courts for pain station 2
Mosey to back of HS bus drop for pain station 3
Mosey to old river view bus drop for pain station 4
Mosey to front of riverview for pain station 5
Mosey to COT
MARY: n/a
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Cannoli Run
Rock Hill 10yr convergence
Yeager

COT:
Spoke on Q1.10 Prayer
Each pain station had a topic
1) faith: belief in something bigger than self
2) What /What
WHAT will happen when I die?
WHAT does that mean about the way I should live?
3) be prepared for the next thing by communication with Sky Q
4) TAPs: if we say thoughts and prayers we better believe it or else it’s just works
5) Examples of when Sky Q showed up and was an answered prayer

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The Hammer route w/traffic pain.

WARMUP: run around the parking lot stopping at 5 stations to do exercises and show the PAX the exercises and stations to follow for the rest of the work out.
THE THANG: Five stations, 10 repeats per stations, with 5 different exercises. Between station 1 and 2 add a stop and make a burpee everything you get to a car running against the traffic, run faster to avoid or reduce the amount of burpees.
Station 1: Merkins
Station 2: Squats
Station 3: Mt Climbers
Station 4: Shoulder Taps
Station 5: Mike Tysons

MARY: a lot of complains about the amount of burpees, all the PAX pushed them selves to the limit.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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Unexpected

WARMUP: yep
THE THANG: Dora hill runs with upper body at the top and lower body at the bottom. Run to print shop. Obstacle course on the bars. Lots of dips, pull ups and pushups.
MARY: 50 flutters with slow merkins
ANNOUNCEMENTS: check your newsletter
COT: praises for everyone coming out

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Grinding through Mammon

COP

Mosey to gym parking lot.

Across the lot:
– Bear Crawl for a segment
– 10 Jump Squats
– Lunge Walk for a segment
– 10 Merkins

Repeat

Mosey to hill by the track

Grab a stone. 5 minute AMRAP on the hill the top three performers in terms of reps get a prize:
– 5 Man makers at the bottom
– 5 OH presses at the top

Winners of the AMRAP, repeat

Mosey back to band lot.

5 burpees at the start
Suicides out on 10 yard markers. Using the first digit:
For evens, 10 monkey humpers
For odds, 10 squats

Shared words on how to maintain proper perspective on work and how to ensure you have men speaking truth in your life to keep you from going off the rails.

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A Beatdown Unlike Any Other

Wanted to put together some fun as a tribute to Masters weekend. Pulled a few ideas from other regions in years past and put together a Masters themed weinke.

Warmup

Per typical golf warmup routine….very minimal.

Divot Fixers (Cherry Pickers)
Back Rotations aka “This Thingy Right Here”
Touch Your Toes 3 or 4 Times
Let It Rip

Moseyed to football field to start “Round of 18”. Wind prohibited setting up “tee markers” beforehand, so carried them with us as we went along.

The Thang

18 Holes of Pain
Burpees each hole = 1 x hole par (Par 4 = 4 burpees)
Chance to shave a stroke (burpee) each hole by answering trivia question correctly
Exercise reps = Hole par x 10
Run distance of yardage to next tee (1st two numbers only. 430 yards = 43 yards)
72 burpees total
720 exercise reps total
.43 miles of yardage covered

1 – Par 4 – 455 Yards – Merkins
2 – Par 5 – 575 Yards – LBCs
3 – Par 4 – 350 Yards – Monkey Humpers
4 – Par 3 – 240 Yards – Squats
5 – Par 4 – 495 Yards – American Hammers
6 – Par 3 – 180 Yards – Diamond Merkins
7 – Par 4 – 450 Yards – Plank Jacks
8 – Par 5 – 570 Yards – Air Chair
9 – Par 4 – 460 Yards – Shoulder Taps

10 – Par 4 – 495 Yards – Mountain Climbers
11 – Par 4 – 505 Yards – Moroccan Night Clubs
12 – Par 3 – 155 Yards – Lunges
13 – Par 5 – 510 Yards – Flutters
14 – Par 4 – 440 Yards – Carolina Dry Docks
15 – Par 5 – 530 Yards – Calve Raises
16 – Par 3 – 170 Yards – Wide Arm Merkins
17 – Par 4 – 440 Yards – Good Mornings
18 – Par 4 – 465 Yards – Dollys

Timing worked out great. Had a chance to hit a few shots at the end to add a few more exercises. Great crowd and mumblechatter.

Mary: Yes

Announcements: AMRAP 4 Autism, 4/27 Burpees, Mike Doty Run at Winthrop

Prayers/Praises: Praises for PAX/fellowship

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Backblast! QvQvQvQ Finale 2024

WARMUP: River Rat led us in Side Straddle Hops and Windmills before taking off to the RV Lot
THE THANG:
Anchor Bar kicked things off:
Starfish routine with coupon:
5 Manmakers
Ex 1 – 30 Jump Squats
Ex 2 – 30 American Hammers – DC
Ex 3 – 30 Big Boy Sit-ups
Ex 4 – 30 overhead Flutter Kicks – DC
Return to the center after each exercise for 5 Manmakers.

Since Esso planned to use the same parking lot he went next.
6 groups of men and exercising in cadence while one group member plays with Cindy:
• Mountain climbers IC > 5 Cindy Manmakers
• SSH IC > 10 Cindy swings
• 6 ct burps IC > Cindy overhead carry
Message: Ignite your fire, use F3 as your fuel, let the fire spread. :fire:
Next Homer led us out the entrance to a brand new feature of the AO. Stairs to the overflow parking lot. There we had 4 coupons and they started with the 4 Qs then passed among the PAX on each trip up and down the stairs. Each PAX also stopped for 10 squats at the top and bottom portions.
Message: share your heavy burdens.
Lastly Bandcamp tookover the group:
Crawl Bear an uncomfortable distance to the starting point using some feature of the AO
4 corner transport:
Burpee Broad Jump
Bear Crawl
Lunge walk
Toss 12 sand bags over the shoulder
Rinse and Repeat
Keep going!

Message:
Who is it that we say we are?
If you get tired, learn to rest.
There is no quitting.
You don’t get to decide when you can stop.
Who is it that we show people we are?
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Homer came out victorious mainly due to votes received for use of AO. Thanks to all who participated in 1 or all 4 weeks. It was great to see some bonding between the regions through this event. Don’t be afraid to cross the river.

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Cheese and Bear Shredder Block Party

Mentioned the core principles and mission of F3
WARMUP: Ran up the hill across the street of the AO to the parking lot and began the Warmup consisting of SSH, Windmills, Morrocon NC, Imperial Walkers, and Strawberry Pickers
THE THANG: We began with the Cheese Shredder and then went into the next exercises as follows:
From the first light pole, we would do Burpees in a ladder starting with one Burpee and went to the last light pole and did 10 Mountain Climbers. The mode of transportation between the light poles for the first round was a Bear Crawl. Then we ran back to the first pole and continued to 2 Burpees and went to the last pole and did 20 Mountain Climbers with the mode of transportation as Lunges. So, we completed 8 rounds of these exercises in the above pattern with the mode of transportation in Round 3 as Crawl Bear, Round 4 as Crab Walk and rinse and repeat the modes for Rounds 5-8. At completion of Round 8, we ran back to COT.
MARY: Not enough time
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Read your newsletter
COT: Prayers and Praises

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Play time is over

WARMUP: it’s sweep the leg. We did a burpee ladder instead on way to school drive. Starting with 1 worked our way up to 5 then back down performing the burpees at each light pole on way down Dave gibson, we also stopped every so often to perform exercises IC waiting for 6

THE THANG: short version of longest mile with using light poles, lunge walk to 1st pole, then bear crawl to 2nd then crab walk to 3rd.
We all picked up 6 before moseying to back of school by bottom of hill where YHC did not provide very clear instructions at start so had to run around and update pax as we went. but we started 11s with HR Merkins (10) and BombJacks (1) at last pole top of hill. Plan was to drop a pole each lap so it would get progressively shorter think the gazelles got up to round 6 or 7 but we still ran out of time, and a couple PAX got back a min or two late

MARY: no time
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Christmas party, lots of Saturday CSAUPS coming up, PnP tomorrow, HIM camp. We named hashbrowns

COT: yep!

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