THE SCENE: Warmer than anticipated. Less Wind. Wonderful pre-ruck.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER Done. Q took about 15 mins for questions.
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH IC x15; LBAC each way IC x10; Little of This, Little of that; Tempo Squats IC x10; Cherry Pickers IC x5 … Grab a CMU and mosey to Thunderdome
THA-THANG:
Tabata+ workout: eight 25-second rounds of an exercise with a 10-second rest between rounds. Field Trip in between rounds.
Exercises:
- OH Press
- Field Trip to SkateTown, up & over the wall and back
- Goblet Squats
- Field Trip to the entrance to track Burpees x5
- Curls
- Field Trip to SkateTown, up & over the wall and back
- Up & Over Merkins
- Field Trip to the entrance to track Imperial Squat Walkers x5
- Flutters x2; Hello Dolly x2; Freddie Mercury x2; Georgia Cheerleaders x2
- Field Trip to SkateTown, up & over the wall and back
MARY:
Mosey back to AO and put up CMUs
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
11 HIMs; 0 FNGs; Welcome Backfire from F3 Chattanooga!
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
When making my Birthday/Christmas list recently for my family, I was browsing the F3 Gear site and noticed a patch with a minivan that said “Minivan Centurion” on it. I thought this was a funny thing that connected that a lot of F3 guys are dads who have to haul their kids around and added it to my list. I also have been getting into the F3 Nation podcasts recently (start listening if you can!). One of the shows mentioned the “Minivan Centurions” and I actually understood where it came from and what it actually means.
Excerpt from “The Locked Shields of the Minivan Centurions” on the F3Nation website
“I have had the opportunity to workout at a lot of great parks and schools in F3Nation, but I have to admit to being partial to Freedom Park in Charlotte because that is where it all started. Not only is it a great workout location, but it serves the community in a thousand different ways. I probably spend an average of 7 hours a week there in one capacity or another. Go there on a Saturday morning in the Spring or Fall and you will see the parking lots stuffed full of minivans and the fields overrun with kids playing soccer and baseball.
There is so much sweet America there it will make your teeth hurt. When the World is running particularly amuck, a day in Freedom is all I need to keep focused on what we have here, what is worth protecting. The World may be afire, but we have Freedom Brothers. We have Freedom. Is it likewise in every park that is part of F3Nation? I imagine so. That is really why we do this, isn’t it?
One day after soccer, I walked towards the minivan with my daughters when the youngest one asked me why there were never any police officers at Freedom Park. I had never thought about it until that moment, but she was right. I had never seen a police officer patrolling the park. So I answered, “they are probably at other places in Charlotte where they are needed.”
Which prompted her older sister to say, “yeah Sarah, we don’t need them here because we have the daddies.”
Little Sister: “rigggght, we have the daddies to keep us safe at Freedom. The police are at the parks without the daddies.” At that, I kind of looked away so my daughters wouldn’t see the tears in my eyes, and I noticed that I could see about five other F3 guys within nine-iron distance, coaching soccer or cheering their kids on. And I knew there were another 20 F3 men that I couldn’t see from where I was standing. But they were there. It occurred to me that if the bad guys came to Freedom they might have thought it easy pickings because they would see no police on duty. But they would be mistaken. If Evil comes to Freedom it will have the daddies to contend with, and it will not stand a chance. While we might be outnumbered Brothers, we have locked our shields and will keep them locked in the heat of battle.”
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