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Dirty Thirty

THE SCENE: A chilly mid 30’s
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • SSH x 15 IC
  • Cherry Pickers x8 IC
  • Tempo Squat x 10 IC

THA-THANG:
A little mosey over to the track. There are 4 sets of exercises, each containing 3 movements of 30 reps a piece. Once you complete one of the sets, burpee broadjump between cones and take off on a lap. When you return, move on to the next set.

Set 1:

  • 30 Wide Merkins
  • 30 Ranger Merkins
  • 30 Merkins

Set 2:

  • 30 Iron Mikes
  • 30 Sumo Squats
  • 30 Monkey Humpers

Set 3:

  • 30 Shoulder Taps
  • 30 Dry Docks
  • 30 OH Claps (4ct)

Set 4:

  • 30 BBS
  • 30 Bicycles (2ct)
  • 30 Hello Dolly’s

MARY:
Finish off with BBS until time.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
9 showed up to get some reps in
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
“The two most important days in your life are the day you’re born and the day you find out why” – Mark Twain

Everyone reading this has already done the first one of those, but finding out “why” is what we may never officially know. I thought maybe it was when I got married or had my first kid, but I don’t know for sure.

One thing I do know is that every single person who has ever shown up to F3 didn’t do it because it’s fun to wake up at 5am to go work out in the rain and get thrashed. There was an underlying reason that made you think you should show up to this. Could have been fitness, could have been the fellowship, could have been the faith, or it could have been something else you didn’t know or understand. I came to the conclusion that my “why” could also be out there at 5:30am because for some reason I kept showing up. Someone I may not have even met yet may impact me in such a way that it changes my life forever, or maybe I do that to someone else. Or one of those things could have already happened.

You may not ever get to know your “why” but sometimes there are some things in life that let you know you may be on the right path to find it. I think F3 may be that path for a lot of us.

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On a Hill, Far Away…

THE SCENE: 52 degrees – perfect weather in the gloom!
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Cherry Pickers IC – x10
  • Tempo Squats IC – x10
  • Good Mornings IC – x10
  • SMotivators IC – 5,4,3,2,1

Mosey with CMUs to the top parking lot. Drop off blocks and start the Baatan Death March (1 burpee) from there up to the oval office, one lap around, and mosey back to our blocks.

THA-THANG:

  • DORA style workout – Partner up with PAX 1 running up Church Hill and PAX 2 starts the following workouts:
    • 200 CMU curls
    • 150 CMU OH press
    • 100 CMU goblet squats

Rinse and repeat once your group completes all three workouts.

MARY:

  • Flutter Kicks IC – x25 (4-count)
  • BBS OYO – x20
  • Catalina wine mixers OYO – x10
  • LBCs OYO – x20
  • 1 round of PAX roulette – @Smuggler lead w/crunchy frogs IC x10 w/a hold at the end.

–> Stretch hamstrings for time

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Baby Weight, Butterfingers, Peach, Fins, Smuggler, Shrimp Net, & Third Base
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
“Leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way” – John Maxwell

Curtains

THE SCENE: Mostly cloudy, 68 degrees F.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

SSH, Cherry pickers, Little baby arm circles.

Run across Grinder,  Bernie back, karaoke across Grinder, skip back.

THA-THANG:
Mosey to Alcoa Road with CMU, stop at each light post and do a blockee.

Put CMU’s just off the trail at Alcoa Road and begin the beatdown in the short Springbrook Fountain loop.

16 Candles

Run to the each of the first 4 light posts and do the following:

Light post #1:  5 Merkins

Light post #2:  5 WWII Sit-ups

Light post #3:  5 Jump Squats

Light post #4:  5 Dry Docks

Run to Start Line and do 1 Body Builder

Run to Light posts #5 through #8 and do the following:

Light post #5:  10 Merkins

Light post #6:  10 WWII Sit-ups

Light post #7:  10 Jump Squats

Light post #8:  10 Dry Docks

Run to Start Line and do 1 Body Builder

Run to Light posts #9 through #12 and do the following:

Light post   #9:  15 Merkins

Light post #10:  15 WWII Sit-ups

Light post #11:  15 Jump Squats

Light post #12:  15 Dry Docks

Run to Start Line and do 1 Body Builder

Run to Light posts #13 through #16 and do the following:

Light post #13:  20 Merkins

Light post #14:  20 WWII Sit-ups

Light post #15:  20 Jump Squats

Light post #16:  20 Dry Docks

1 Body Builder @ #16

Run back to Start Line.  Stop at each light post to do 1 Body Builder at each one.

Additional Time Killer

At the base of Mt. Krumpit do 7 CMU thrusters and run up and around Christmas tree, do 6 thrusters and run around tree, do 5 thrusters and run around tree.  Mosey back to AO.

MARY:
Box cutters, superman/bananas, LBC’s to cash out.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
8 HIM’s with me being an observer due to back surgery restrictions.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
In their final album as a group, Cream had a song called Badge on side two.  They were calling it quits because singer/bass guitarist Jack Bruce and drummer Ginger Baker couldn’t get along.  The song, Badge, was a collaboration between Eric Clapton and George Harrison.  Harrison played guitar on the selection under the name L’Angelo Mysterioso because his contract with Apple records didn’t allow him working with other groups.  He was paying Eric Clapton back for his work on the Beetles song, While My Guitar Gently Weeps.  One line in the song has always stuck with me and continues to offer encouragement.  “And you better pick yourself up from the ground, before they bring the curtain down.”

Get it done before it’s too late, don’t procrastinate, no time like the present.  That’s hard to do sometimes and actions are certainly subject to multiply priorities.  There is one that should take the top billing in our day to day life that unfortunately for me (and I suspect for many of you) gets push aside too easily and too frequently.  That is my relationship with God.  It may be the same for you.  For others it may be a lack of a relationship with God.  Regardless, each and every day I need to get up, be right with Him, and live in His light because the curtain will be brought down.  As the Bible says, we don’t know the day nor the hour.
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Where’s the mumblechatter

THE SCENE: Classic summer morning
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
No need for a weak warmup. Grab the CMU and get going
THA-THANG:
Start at the base of the bridge on the greenway. 20-to-1 using the 10 light poles as markers on where to run. Halfway point between lightpoles also counts as a turnaround point.

Start by running to 20th point and return. Upon return, do 20 double-merkin-burpees and 20 sumo squat good mornings. Run to the 19th turnaround point and return to do 19 of each exercise.. You get the point. The farthest point and back was around 1/3 mile.

Most made it to round 16ish +/- a round.

MARY:
20 BBS and 20 Flutter kicks (4ct) until time
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
12 showed up to get in the work
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Sometimes you aren’t exhausted because you spent all your time doing something. But instead you realized that you spent no time doing something else and you’re out of time.

Every second you spend doing one thing is a second you also could’ve spent doing something else. Use your time for what’s important and what makes you and other’s around you better.
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Rep Sleepy’s One Year Anniversary

THE SCENE: Low 40s but we didn’t stay cold for long

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER


WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x12; Oh Yeahs (Forward/Backward) x12; Tempo Squats x12

THA-THANG:
Partner up and each pair draws a card that determines where they run to and if they need to take a CMU with them based on the suit. Once at the location another paper tells them what to do based on the card value.

Diamonds – Leave CMU and run to baseball field

Hearts – Take CMU and run to the Apex

Clubs – Take CMU and run to the Troll Bridge

Spades – Leave CMU and run to the Tennis Courts

 

DIAMONDS

2-4 – Homerun Bear Crawl (Bear Crawl the base path)

5-10 – Squat Jumps times number drawn

Face Cards – Squat Jumps times 15

Ace – Jump Squats times 20

 

HEARTS

2-4 – Murder Bunny to cone and back

5-10 – Blockees times number drawn

Face Cards – Blockees times 15

Ace – Blockees times 20

 

CLUBS

2-4 – Overhead Carry Suicide (4 cones)

5-10 – Thrusters times number drawn

Face Cards – Thrusters times 15

Ace – Thrusters times 20

 

SPADES

2-4 – Crab Walk to cone and back

5-10 – Burpees times number drawn

Face Cards – Burpees times 15

Ace – Burpees times 20

MARY:
Big Boys while waiting for the six to get back; Boxcutters x12; Flutter Kicks x12; Mountain Climbers x12; Catalina Wine Mixers x12; LBCs for time

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
13 HIMs including one FNG, “Nailed It”

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Thank you

  • Thank you for all the times I was wagon wheeled back to because we leave no man behind
  • Thank you for encouraging me to keep going even when I thought there was no way I could do this because we leave no man where we found him
  • Thank you for making me a better husband and father
  • Thank you for the ways you will push, encourage, and pray for me as we continue to walk life’s journey
  • Thank you for a brotherhood that is unlike anything I have ever know
  • Thank you to Swerve for never shutting up about F3 to the point I had to come see why he was so enthusiastic about it.
  • Thank you to Smuggler, I wouldn’t have made it past one month, let alone to one year, without your encouragement.
  • Thank you to Drifter, your M helped get mine to come to FIA starting in January and she needed it much like I needed F3.
  • Thank you to each and every one of you, I wouldn’t have enough time to go through how each of you encourage, push, and teach me through your words and actions.

Thank you is not enough but it is all I have

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