The Darkest of ALLL Convergences

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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Max on Q – You Know The Drill

WARMUP: Mosey to the GHES Teacher Lot for:
25 Mountain Climbers
20 LBC
15 Carolina Dry Docks
10 Hand-Release Merkins
5 6ct Burpees
THE THANG: Mosey to the Keller Williams parking lot:
PAX in a straight line and lock arms. Lunge walk to the other side of the parking lot. Reverse lung back.
Keeping the arms locked, squat walk out.
Unlock the arms and bear crawl back.
Mosey back to the bottom of the hill.
AYG back to the GHES teacher lot.
Inch Worm Merkins to the other side of the lot.
Crawl bear back.
Wide-Arm Hand-Release Merkins
Carolina Dry Docks
Mosey to the 1/2wall around back:
Over & Back x 5
V-Ups
Protractor
Flutters
American Hammers
MARY: See above
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Indeed there were.
COT: Principle #5

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This is moderate, right?

WARMUP: run, shuffle, toy soldier, high knee, butt kicker, bear crawls, low slow squats, merkins, mountain climbers
THE THANG: run to the back parking lot and go to the middle by the basketball hoops.

I tell the guys this workout is from a moderate workout back in June 2020
which I don’t think I treated it as moderate back then.

Point out 4 corners about 40 yards from the center. At each corner, start with 5, then come to middle for 1 burpee, then to the next corner for 5, back to center for 1, until you hit all corners and center. Then go up to 10 at each corner and back to center for 2 burpees
and so on. Do this increase of 5 at corners and then keep adding burpees until 25 at the corners and 5 burpees in the center.

4 corners were: ranger merkins, knee jumps, American hammers, CDD.

It was a crowd pleaser and took pretty much the full time. We picked up the 6 so some guys got some bonus which was nice and we did the last round of 25s and 5 burpees as a group.
MARY: Did some round robin Mary
ANNOUNCEMENTS: check
COT: of course

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Old Kingsley and the Box

WARMUP:
THE THANG: 3.74 miles
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Fundraising check presentation
COT: Prayers for Arlene, Marriages, mental health, still sick and suffering alcoholics

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“Mary” Poppins came to play

WARMUP: 102 SSH IC
THE THANG:

Mosey down road a bit


Bear Crawl & crab walk ab ladder
Started on first arrow in parking lot
Crab walk and bear crawl alternating and completing the following exercises at each arrow (does not accumulate)

10 heels to Heaven (cw)
20 Peter parker (bc)
30 crab kicks (cw)
40 parker Peters (bc)
50 Hammers

Back down road
40 Plank Jacks (bc)
30 LBC’s  (cw)
20 Flutters (bc)
10 4 CT mtn climbers (cw)

Leadership message;

The topic was parenting
Couple key points:

Lead by example, do you have your kids do as you do or do as you say? Or are there two sets of rules?

Hold to a set of family values, is there a clear set of values and principles? Maybe even put them on the wall somewhere

Allow space for failure, don’t be hasty to judge, criticize and even being sarcastic can stifle a culture where your kids are comfortable failing in the home- much like the gloom for us, we can feel confident to try things and sometimes fail.

Be a father first friend second, society tells us to let your kids do whatever they want in the name of personal preferences, we aren’t here to placate every desire of our children, we need to be fathers!

and remember this life is nothing but dust in the wind! What will your legacy be? Do your kids know God? Better yet do they know Christ?

X routine

Start with 5 burpees in middle of X then run to each corner complete the exercise then run back to the middle for 5 more burpees

Merkins x 50
Wide arm merkins x 50
Diamond merkins x 50
CDD x 50

MARY:  

4 or 5 ab exercises

ANNOUNCEMENTS: clown car to Raleigh this Saturday to support DH

COT: marriages, families and special encouragement for F3 Safari in Kenya

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Metal đŸ€˜đŸ»

WARMUP: SSH, merkins, arm circles, squats
THE THANG: Tabata 60 secs on, 60secs off:

Halo, Merkin, swing, Flutter, Row, LBC, Goblet Squat, Jump squat, Single Leg Dead lift, Alt Lunge.

We got through 2 rounds of this full body upper middle and lower workout. Lots of great mumble chatter mostly about the hair metal play list. Let’s just say it was a generational divide!

All worked hard and felt it the next day.
Aye! Jekyll

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Hitting the Cycle

WARMUP:

10 windmills
20 hillbilly walkers
10 cherry pickers
15 Moroccan nightclub

Walk to first pole, drop bells, mosey to other side of parking lot, 20 incline merkins on curb, mosey up hill, 20 low slow squats at top of hill, mosey to curb, 20 calf raises on curb, mosey back to pole

THE THANG:
Hitting the Cycle:

Uhaul in cadence
Lunge walk to second pole for a single
American hammers in cadence
Rifle carry to third light pole, murder bunnies to forth light pole for a double
Monkey humper goblet squats in cadence
Around the world back to first light pole, lunge walk, rifle carry for a triple
2 handed upright rows in cadence
Murder bunnies, around the world, farmer carry, lunge walk for Homerun
Curls in cadence
Rifle carry for a single
Flutter with a press in cadence

MARY: Big boys, American hammer, flutter with a press
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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Preparedness at the Coaches Box

Weather was 32 degrees and chilly but the lights were on and YHC was prepped for a Q to discuss Jester and Preparedness

Simply defined, the Jester is temptation of the flesh that hinders Acceleration. It is a stumbling block that a man continuously trips over in his effort to become a Pro.

The Jester tells a man several lies including:

1. You are the boss of me
2. You are what you do
3. You are not a bad guy
4. Jester and Virtue can coexist
5. You can’t live, if living is without me

But the antidote to the Jester is preparedness, preparing for what is expected and what is unexpected. The addition of love to this preparation leads to diminishing the Jester. But it is a battle that a Man must fight throughout his life.

THE THANG:

Mosey to the front of FMHS

COP
SSH
Merkins
Windmills
CDD
MNC
Plank Jacks

Mosey to the band lot

Deconstructed Burpee – STAR model

Burpees in the middle x 5
Bobby Hurley x 25
Squats x 25
Merkins IC 12
Mtn Climbers x 25

Mosey to pull up bars

Grip Strength work
Partner 1 – hang
Partner 2 – Mary

Rinse and Repeat x 3

Mosey home for COT

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Saying hello to Colosseum

WARMUP: SSH
THE THANG: Run to Colosseum, 15 Mac tar jai’s; run back to StL, 5 Jack Webb’s; repeat again; run, 15 CDD’s; run, 5 plank Webbs; repeated by the gazelles

Mini QSchool for 7 min: For pax that have never Q’d, schooling given on proper cadence; given an exercise to lead pax in: SSH, merkins, American hammers

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Kettle Bell Blues

WARMUP: mosey to parking lot with bells to warmup. SSL,IW,Merkins, Low Slow Squat, peach pickers, wind mills.
THE THANG: DORA
100- American Hammers w Bell – mosey 100 yds and back
100 -lunges w Bell – mosey 100 yds and back
100-tricep extensions- mosey 100 yds and back.

AMRAP – 45 seconds
Goblet Squats
Curls
Chest Press
Swings
Rows

Mosey to Large Hill (7’s)
Man Makers
Cleans

MARY: not really
Announcements: Post at Block Party on Tuesdays
COT: prayers for health (physical,mental, spiritual)

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