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Burbs 9-11

THE SCENE: 76* and muggy again
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
THA-THANG:
Warm up lap: take off through the park and head towards West Hills Elementary, stop in the lot for 11 reps each of merkins, squats, curls.  Continue ruck, make a left on Vanosdale, left onto Bennington, left onto Corteland, and left onto N Winston.  At every road intersection, stop for another round of 11 reps each of merkins, squats, and curls.  Total of 9 rounds by the time we make it back to parking lot.

Meaning: The breakdown of the first responders killed on September 11th as follows: 37 Port Authority officers, 23 NYPD, 8 EMTs, and 343 firefighters.
The Work: Farmer carry ruck in one hand and sandbag in the other hand the length of the parking lot and back to simulate first responders carrying gear into the fray.  Once back to start, pay homage to the first responders with the following exercises (carry down and back, do one exercise; down and back, move to next exercise):

  • 37 brickyard manmakers
  • 23 eight-count bodybuilders
  • 8 bear complex with sandbag
  • 343 flutter kicks

Flutters were done as a group ring of fire style until we reached 343.  Back to your feet, ruck and sandbags over to the base of the N Winston hill.

Meaning: We don’t have stairs, but we have a huge hill.  Also, going over the bridge mirrors FDNY ladder 118 crossing the Brooklyn bridge heading for the towers.  The six giants on that firetruck all perished on the day.
The Work: Carry the sandbags up the hill.  Once everyone makes it to the top and safely into the parking lot, we honor ladder 118 with 11 eight-count bodybuilders.  Sandbags back up and mosey back down the hill.  Quick set of 10 counts for everyone (me) to get their breaths, turn around and do it again for the second tower.  Again, at the top we honor ladder 118 with a set of 19 reps each of merkins, squats, and curls (brings our total of each on the day to 118 reps).  Mosey back down for Mary.

MARY:
20 flutters
20 hammers
15 flutters

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
In NYC last year I visited the 9/11 memorial, and just taking it all in I leaned against the memorial.  After a minute I looked down and noticed the name my hand was on, Abraham Zelmanowitz.  I remembered the name just because of how odd it was at the time.  Later while walking through the museum, I came across this man’s story.  Abraham worked on the 27th floor of tower one of the WTC.  He very easily could have gotten out of the building after the planes hit, but his friend and coworker Ed Beyea was a quadriplegic.  With the elevators out of service, Abraham chose to stay with his friend until help arrived to get Ed down the stairs and out of the building.  Unfortunately that help never came, and they were both killed in the collapse of the tower.  The selflessness and heroism of that day can never be overstated, both in first responders and in stories such as these.  19 years ago we vowed to never forget, and I hope that promise is one that we keep.

Around the World

THE SCENE: Nice and cool
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x20 (4ct IC)
-hip flexors
-tempo squat x5 (8ct IC)
-some of these/some of those
-a little of this/a little of that

Mosey around baseball fields

THA-THANG:
Partner suicides x1
-one partner burpees
-one partner does parking lot suicides

Workout
Go while people on Kenya are running

America – Navy seal burpees/merkins
Turkey – Turkish get ups/pistol squats
Romania – Romanian deadlifts/up-downs
Bulgaria – Bulgarian split squats/walking lunges
Eqypt -shpynx push ups/tricep push ups
India -hindu push ups/CCD
Kenya -run around the field/jump rope
Russia – full KB swings/ Russian KB swings
Canada – bear crawl across field/hold low bear position
Ireland -“bar”bell snatches/cleans/highpulls

MARY:
Australia – Handstand holds 3x30seconds/elevated pike
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Enter to worship, leave to serve

The happiest of people don’t have the best of everything, they make the best of everything

MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Do Work

THE SCENE: Humid. Like being in a mouth.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Put on ruck
THA-THANG:

Ruck 1.3 miles to Bearden Middle

20 min AMRAP (yes, Ruck on)

  • 10 OHP
  • 20 push-ups
  • 30 sit-ups
  • 40 squats
  • 100 meter ruck

Ladder Part 1: 12 min begin with one rep of each exercise and continue to add till time runs out. Remember how many rounds completed for Part 2.

  • curl
  • press
  • bear hug squat
  • Ruck high pull

Ladder Part 2: 12 min using #of reps from Part 1 work back down ladder with two exercises below.

  • Ruck Burpee
  • 4 ct Mtn climber

Ruck back to SP

Mary
30 Flutters IC ruck OH

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

MOLESKIN:
Man who farts in church, sits in own pew.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Fade In/Fade Out

THE SCENE: 75 and Humid
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
->SSH (4ct IC) x20
->tempo squat (4 second down, 3 second hold, 1 second up) x5
->some of these/some of those
->quad stretch

Mosey to the top of the guard rails

Derkins x20

Mosey to the speed bump
THA-THANG:
-> speed bump
—- 20 (4ct) flutter kicks
—- 20 (4ct) Alt dead bugs
—- 20 (4ct) LBCs

-> Speedbump to Backbone
—- Bernie to top of hill/jog down
—- sprint to top of hill/jog down

—- 50 Merkins
Run to back bone

-> backbone
—- 5 pullups
—- 5 negative pull ups
—- 5 chin ups
—- 5 toes to bar/target

Run to top of hill

—- 10 1.5 squats
—- 10 lunges each leg
—- 10 close feet squats
—- 10 sumo squats

MARY:
Tweet-E’s turn or Pee Rock lift with Junk

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
-> recently I had my father message me saying where his last will would be in case anything would happen. And that’s the thing about life, we never know God’s plan for us, but we trust him and follow his words or his message. This got me thinking about the impact we have on people around us.

This led me to some song lyrics by one of my favorite bands, which are:

Just the other day I looked at my father
It was the first time I saw he’d grown old
Canyons through his skin and the rivers that made them
Carved the stories I was told
He said
“Son, I have watched you fade in
You will watch me fade out
When the grip leaves my hand
I know you won’t let me down
Go and find your way
Leave me in your wake
Always push through the pain
And don’t run away from change
Never settle
Make your mark
Hold your head up
Follow your heart”
Just the other day I stared at the ocean
With every new wave another must go
One day you’ll remember us laughing
One day you’ll remember my passion
One day you’ll have one of your own

Because of all the uncertainties in life, I’m asking you to create some sort of message for the people around you. What sort of message do you want them to have. You can make a gratitude list for the people around you, you can list off a set of values that you have learned, whatever it is. Make it personal for the person you care about. Let the people around you know they are appreciated.

Thank you,
MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
IronPax Week1 next Tuesday starting at 5:15am.

Taking the ‘Next Step’

THE SCENE:

Nice and warm
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
– Cherry pickers (4ct IC) x5
– SSH (4ct IC) x20
– some of these/some of those
– bent over back stretch

-Mosey

5 T-merkins
5 Navy seal burpees

-Mosey

THA-THANG:

-field suicides (end line, 18 yard, 50 yard, opposite 18 yard, full field)
-> navy seal burpees (5)
-> bear crawl
-> T merkins (10)
-> run back
-> Navy seal burpees (5)
-> bearcrawl
-> air squats (50)
-> run back
-> Navy seal burpees (5)
-> lunge
-> T merkins (10)
-> run back
-> Navy seal burpees (5)
-> run full field
-> Navy seal burpees (5)
->Run back
-> abs until six gets back

 

60 seconds on 20 seconds off

->Abs

->Tire flips

->Abs
->Rope tire pulls

->Abs
->Weighted jumping jacks with battle rope

->Abs
->Plate ground to overhead

->Abs
->Single arm KB clean

->Abs
->Overhead DB lunges

->Abs

->American hammers

MARY:

3 sets of 30 sec handstand holds

Variations: Handstands, Elevated pike position, CDD

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Today I wanted to get everyone doing something different than what we normally do. One of the key points of F3 is to grow ourselves and help others grow.

We focused on that ‘Next Step’ today, being better than we were yesterday. I bet if I asked you yesterday if you could do the workout you just did that you would say that you couldn’t do it. This was meant to be the “progress, not perfection mentality”.

To often do we find ourselves becoming comfortable with where we are and not taking that next step. Just because we feel like we aren’t getting closer to that next plateau. We are farther than we were.

So an example I saw that really had a profound effect is the distance we have to get to God. So every time we take that step toward God, so does God. So even though we are still some distance away from God, we are much farther away from Sin than we were. And every day we can take this next step and be somewhere that we thought was impossible.

MOLESKIN:
Clothing donation for Mend’s house. Ask Tank or Doubtfire.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Welcome FNG Freshman