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Ampitheater Circuit at the Big Ball

THE SCENE: Very wet, low 40s.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x 25 IC

Cherry Pickers x 10 IC

Mosey to Ampitheatre b/c it was super wet out

Continue warming up under cover on the stage

Baby Arm Circles x15 up and down IC

Burpee Drill – SSH until PAX yells “down!” to do one burpee. Everyone gets a turn around the circle.

THA-THANG:
Ampitheater Circuit –

6 Stations around the Ampitheater on the floor and on the upper level at the top of the stairs.

– 3 circuits – 20, 25, 30 reps

  1. Bottom right – MERKINS
  2. Top right – BBS
  3. Bottom center right – IMPERIAL WALKERS 4CT
    1. Bear crawl to next station
  4. Bottom center left – SQUATS
  5. Top left – PULLUPS
  6. Bottom left – AMERICAN HAMMERS 2CT
    1. Bear crawl back to 1. Repeat 3x
  • 21s – Counting is not that hard…
    • PAX do 21 SSH. First 5 are counted out loud. 6-21 are counted silently. If we don’t all stop at the exact same time, we do an exercise…. group too small to make this effective b/c we all stopped at the exact same time – even with our backs turned away from each other.
    • Each PAX was asked to lead us in an exercise around the circle

MARY:
Plank with shoulder taps around the circle

Everyone in the plank position. First PAX does 10 shoulder taps on a 4CT while the others hold the plank position. Rotate around the circle so everyone gets a turn while the others plank.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
G-6, Abort, Swanson, Si Pad, Filter
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
MLK speech at Spelman College in 1960 – “If you can’t fly, run; if you can’t run, walk; if you can’t walk, crawl; but by all means keep moving.”
MOLESKIN:
Prayers for lots of folks in and around our group with health issues.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
None.

testing out the 1-2 step up

THE SCENE: 39* which was a heat wave after Monday and Tuesday
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

Gear inspection and quick warm up
  • BAC forward and reverse
  • Tempo squats
  • 8 count bodybuilders
Gear up and move out. Head to UT amphitheater by library. 4 PAX with rucks, two additional 60 pound sandbags. Rotate bags as needed until reaching amphitheater.
Two count of one arm ruck overhead squats, then step up to next level of amphitheater. Continue to the top.
2 derkin at each level, bear crawl going down (hence forth known as the controlled fall).
Two rounds, switch arm for ruck overhead going up. Same two count controlled fall going down. THIS WAS HARD.
Bucket list style, mule run. One man farmer carries both 60 bags about 20 yards and back. Upon return, next man takes turn and the group moves to next exercise.
  • Curls
  • Flutters
  • 8 counts
  • Thrusters
  • Sit ups
  • Overhead over and back
  • Merkins
  • Ruck OH squats

Went two rounds of this, bumping order. Ruck up and head back to start point, climbing stairs at The Hill and Pfeiffer finding another solid mountain to ruck up. (A Rod once said if you have a choice to go over or around a mountain, you always go over).

Cash out with Amazon complex. Burpee on top on sandbag -> strict curl -> clean -> squat -> press throw to next person in the circle. 5 reps for each man.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
4 weirdos: Fast n Easy, Pfeiffer, Swanson, Abort

shooting from the hip

THE SCENE: Phone said 16*, feels like 6*.  Channeled my inner Crawdad and rocked shorts (though I had 5 layers up top).  Wind was colllddddd
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
BAC forward IC
BAC backward IC
Tempo squats IC
SSH IC
THA-THANG:
Mosey out of start point and toward amphitheater.  Run to the top of the backside of the theater to try to hide from the wind. One round of leg blasters, exercises done with no break:
15 air squats
20 lunges (10 each leg)
10 jump squats

Followed by a half round of Amazon shoulder smokers:
25 overhead claps on 4 count, pick the cherries and put them in the bucket x3, then another 25 overhead claps on 4 count.  Amazon is the only person with the superpower to go to 100 on 4 count with no rest, can’t do it don’t Q it, so we stop at 50.  Mosey down and across the pedestrian bridge and over to the Big Ball stairs for some 11’s.

Start with one jump squat at the bottom, run to the top of the stairs and do 10 hand release merkins.  Keep going through 11’s routine until our legs were made of jello.  Recover and 10 count.

Mosey back to the pedestrian bridge and do Lieutenant Dan’s across the bridge.  Four lunges, one burpee, until you reach the other side.  Short mosey to the bottom of the amphitheater.  One group of 2 and one of 3.

One partner does dips on the benches at the bottom, the other partner sprints up the hill and does 5 pull ups on the rails at the top.  Return to the bottom and flapjack with your partner.  3 rounds for each partner.

Mosey back to the start point for Mary.

MARY:
Box cutters IC
Boat/canoe ring of fire
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Frostbitten 5: Dinger, Filter, Swanson, Vertigo, Abort
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Scheduled Q did not show up, so I did not have a word prepared.  I just did the Pantene method and rinsed and repeated my word from Saturday about reaching out to someone you haven’t spoken to and rebuild a bridge.  Vertigo spoke about the value of lives of all ages, and hope that the man who left a note to his family had a change of heart and will be found alive in the mountains.

Rock piles and cathedrals

THE SCENE: 29 actual temp, 23 feels like temp. Shorts weather!
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • 6 count squat (not tempo)
  • 6 count shoulder tap
  • Merkins on 4 count
  • SSH (varied pace)

THA-THANG:

“Bro I’m cold” rule in effect for durarion – I call out person when I’m cold and we do 5 burpees. Person I call out must call six count cadence. They then nominate the next person when they’re cold – or want to be a jerk.

Mosey out of SP toward amphitheater. Stop at back part of amphitheater for 10 eight count merkins, 10 jump squats. Sprint the hill and hold squat waiting for the 6. Continue mosey to church parking lot for rock PT.
  • Curls x15
  • Thrusters x10
  • Offset merkins x10
  • 10 meter duck walk and back
  • Overhead squats x 10
  • Overhead press x15
  • Hammers x10 (4ct)
Escalator style. Between each iteration run and touch the church and come back. Pick up next exercise and work back through beginning with curls.
Mosey back to SP.

MARY:

  • Iron cross IPTBAW. Last man standing picks next exercise and count, calls cadence but only does half the reps. Careless wins, calls out 30 Edward scissor-legs. Like a boss, does them all instead of stopping at 15.
  • Low plank on elbows IPTBAW. Run out of time with most PAX still holding, so we all win.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
12 strong, 1 visitor from Charlotte and 1 first time baller from Dog Pound: Reverb, Amazon, Passport, Dingar, Brooks, Duggar, Filter, Careless, Cowbell, Swanson, JPEG, Abort
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
“A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.”  Go about your day viewing things not the way the are, but the could be if you applied impact to them.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Hardship Hill OCR coming up in May. I want us to have minimum one team, hopefully two. We also will be building an obstacle, details to follow.

Bomb Shelter can have Amy back

THE SCENE: High 30’s and clear – warmed up real quick!
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER Yup still not a professional!
WARM-O-RAMA:
25 side straddle hop – 4 count/IC

15 Baby arm circles – forward/backward – 4 count/IC

20 Tempo Squats – 4 count/IC

10 Merkins – OYO

THA-THANG:
Mosey to Big ball

Lunge/Burpee – 4/4, 4/3, 4/2, 4/1, 4/2, 4/3, 4/4

and then Amy showed up!

50 Squats

  • 10 burpees

lap around convention center loop

40 BBS

  • 10 burpees

lap around convention center loop

30 lunges (Alternating)

  • 10 Burpees

Lap around Convention center loop

20 Merkins

  • 10 burpees

lap around convention center loop

10 bear crawls between enter and outer bollard post of convention enter loop

  • 10 burpees

lap around convention center loop

once complete, we went back up the ladder starting with bear crawls. we do half the reps on the exercises and kept the burpees and lap the same.

MARY:
boat/canoe for about 45 seconds & that’s all she wrote

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Persistence – Nelson Mandela was arrested before he could finish his law degree. He spent 36 of the 37 year he was in prison trying to complete his degree.  Despite many obstacle, he persisted an completed his degree month before he was released from prison after the fall of apartheid government.

This isn’t just another, “keep your resolution post”, this is a persistence post. there are opportunities everyday to give up; Don’t give up! we all want to at time, yet in those moments of weakness we need to press in to the goal or task. We also need to have men around us that can keep us accountable of those goals.
MOLESKIN:
Image result for nelson mandela prison letters
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Insert information about upcoming events, 2nd or 3rd F opportunities, and any other announcements.