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No Excuses

THE SCENE: Rainy and extra gloomy

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER


WARM-O-RAMA:
Assorted stretches and mosey to learn the loop for the morning

THA-THANG:
DORA with the following exercises:

  • Decline Merkins x100
  • Big Boy Sit Ups x200
  • Step Ups x300

One partner ran the loop while other partner worked through the exercises. All PAX completed the exercises and some were about halfway through a second round.

MARY:
Overhead Claps x50

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
6 HIMs left their excuses at home this morning

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Question to think about today: What excuses are you making to keep from doing what you are supposed to be doing?

MOLESKIN:
Insert any personal comments, notes, devotion content, etc.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Insert information about upcoming events, 2nd or 3rd F opportunities, and any other announcements.

Sprint work

THE SCENE: Beautiful morning at The Arsenal
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Mosey to Oval Office, high knees, butt kicks, Frankensteins down first straight away
THA-THANG:
Series of sprints followed by 10 BBS and 10 squats. Walk the rest of lap to the next starting line for the next sprint. We got through a 100meter, a 200 meter and a 400 meter. After this we moseyed around the track with stops for sets of exercises

MARY:

flutter kicks, BBS, LBC, V ups.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Use the TAGS on right-side to record PAX (BE SURE TO INCLUDE YOURSELF) in attendance. Be sure to select the AO in CATEGORY above TAGS and then delete these notes!
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Had to adapt this week. I injured my hands over the weekend and wasn’t going to be able to make it out to F3 due to inability to grip or put weight through hands. Instead, I took Q and designed a workout to allow me to still be out in the gloom

MOLESKIN:
Insert any personal comments, notes, devotion content, etc.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Dog pound CSAUP next week, Arsenal 2.0 workout the following week. Keep an eye out for more information about OTB 2.0 workout with FiA on October 30th

How Many Hills Are There?

THE SCENE: Clear sky’s, bright eyes and humid but that’s expected
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Warm up lap around AO. Included Mosey, High Knees, hill kicks, side lunges, lunge stretch, Frankenstein’s
THA-THANG:

The goal of this beatdown was to try and name three of the Hill surrounding the AO. You can only name something after you have experienced it

  • Thang 1-  Blind Man’s Hill ( named for the fact that not only can you barley see the top from the bottom but you also really cant see where you are running when in the gloom)
    • Hill Repeats- Straightforward, Q set a 5 min timer. Sprint up the Hill jog back. The work came from the 7.7% grade of the hill.
  • Thang 2 Second Hill -Cedar St to Anderson St ( Still needs a name possible Cardiac Hill? This was also only half of this hill, it keeps climbing)
    • Dora- 50,75,100- Hip Raises, HR Merkins, Leg Raises. The exercises were straightforward, the 7% grade put the stress on the pax.
  • Thang 3- Third Hill- Anderson St- Gut Check Hill ( Avocado so pointedly pointed out that as your sprinting and you think you are near the top you look up and realize you’re not close and its a real gut check moment)
    • Spartan- pax all starts at the bottom together, Q said go and the pax sprinted up the hill. (Q did win all three races but who is counting.) At the top 10 Merkins and hold plank for the 6. Pax walked back down the hill together, lined up and repeated.

MARY:
20 LBC during the mosey back to the grindstone
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
I was reading some quotes about success and motivation. There were three themes that kept sticking out to me in all the quotes. Not only did these themes show up in all the quotes, but than i started to think what all the people that gave these quotes had in common. They are all considered highly successful and respected people. Therefore what i took away is that these three themes really are the keys to success in life.

  • Not having regrets act now!
  • failure is key to success
  • don’t look for others to give you what you want
  • “Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm” Winston Churchill
  • “I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong” Benjamin Franklin
  • ” If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on”  Sheryl Sandberg
  • “Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions.” Dalai Lama
  • “There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing , and be nothing”  Aristotle
  • ” It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you don’t stop” Confucius

The last quote was very meaningful to todays beatdown. We can not stop, we cant question on direction, we must move forward regardless of the of the obstacles in front of you or the negative voices telling you its impossible.

 

MOLESKIN:
Please keep Rep Sleepy in your prayers as he helps his friends family morn their lose.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
22nd is CSUP, Aug 28th 2.0 workout #2, October is Hardship Hill. Need to work on ideas for our obstacle.

Mog Mile

THE SCENE: Warm but comfortable morning at Arsenal
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Mosey to the Oval Office
THA-THANG:
19 reps of each of the following  rinse and repeat for time with a goal of 4 rounds to complete a mile. The CMU cannot leave your body at any time or you have to restart your round

  • Ground to overhead
  • Front squats
  • Hand offset Merkins (19 each side)
  • 400 meter run

MARY:
No time
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Use the TAGS on right-side to record PAX (BE SURE TO INCLUDE YOURSELF) in attendance. Be sure to select the AO in CATEGORY above TAGS and then delete these notes!
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
The Mog Mile is a workout designed in honor of the Army Rangers and Delta Force soldiers who fought through the streets of Mogadishu following a helicopter crash. The armored convoy that was supposed to provide cover for them went too fast, leaving them on foot. Despite being left without the help they wanted and needed, they put their heads down and went to work. The 19 reps today were in honor of the 19 who died during the mission

 MOLESKIN:
Insert any personal comments, notes, devotion content, etc.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
We need to have ideas for the rope obstacle for hardship hill

800M Bear Crawl Sprint

THE SCENE: 70 with some humidity
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

SSH IC x 10

LBAC IC forward and reverse x 10

OH claps IC x 20

Temp Squat IC x10
THA-THANG:
Mosey to track. Bear crawl around track. If you have to stop and stand, 10 squat buy in to return to bear crawl. If injury or can’t bear crawl any longer, lunge it out. Four stations set up around track: flutter kicks 4ct x 20, big boys x20, box cutter x 20, V up x 20. Mosey back to Grindstone.

MARY:
Hold Iron cross in honor of Woodshack attendance today:

LBAC forward and reverse IC x 8ish

OH claps IC x 10
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
6 HIMs and Webelo!
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
It’s not often you read something insightful and motivational on Facebook these days with all the division we have in this world. I read something the other day though that really struck a chord with me.

“For a long time it had seemed to me that life were about to begin- real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, some debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.”

Alfred D. Souza

“So stop waiting until you lose ten pounds, until you gain ten pounds, until you have kids, until your kids leave the house, until you start work, until you retire, until you get married, until you get divorced, until Friday night, until Sunday morning, until you get a new car or home, until your car or home is paid off, until spring, until summer, until winter, until your song comes on, until you’ve had a drink… there is no better time than right now to be happy.”

Happiness is a journey, not a destination.

MOLESKIN:
Walt tops the podium with Gold!
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Drifter speaking on Saturday in a few weeks at Swerve and Rep Sleepy’s church. Please RSVP on Slack so they know how much food to make.

CSAUP coming up- check channels for details.

The Arsenal will need help building obstacle for hardship hill in early October. It will be an upper body climbing obstacle. Look for details coming from Smuggler soon.