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A Bedrock Rerun

  • When: 20211007
  • QIC: Waldo
  • The PAX: Fish N Chips, Defib, Easy In, Mayhem, Swamp Fox, Old D


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The mission of F3 is to plant, grow and serve small workout groups for the invigoration of male community leadership.

Conditions: Warm and muggy, but luckily not raining

FNGs: None

COP: SSH x25 IC; TTT x10 IC; Mountain Climbers x15 IC; LBAC forward & backward OYO; lunge walk around the circle

The Thang:
-At the flag: Tempo LBCs (3 count on the way up, 1 count on the way down) x10 IC; Reverse Tempo LBCs (1 count on the way up, 3 count on the way down) x10 IC; run around dirt parking lot
-At the flag: Tempo LBCs x15 IC; Reverse Tempo LBCs x15 IC; Squats x10 on Q; run to big pavilion
-At the picnic pavilion: Tempo LBCs x20 IC; Reverse Tempo LBCs x20 IC; Squats x15 on Q; Step ups x10 each leg OYO; run to front of park
-At small wall: Tempo LBCs x25 IC; Reverse Tempo LBCs x25 IC; Squats x20 on Q; Step ups x15 each leg OYO; Box Jumps x10 OYO
-At big wall: Hold people’s chair for about 30-45 seconds
-At small wall: Box Jumps x10 OYO; Step ups x15 each leg OYO; Squats x20 on Q; Reverse Tempo LBCs x25 IC; Tempo LBCs x25 IC; run to big pavilion
-At the picnic pavilion: Step ups x10 each leg OYO; Squats x15 on Q; Reverse Tempo LBCs x20 IC; Tempo LBCs x20 IC; run to flag
-At the flag: Squats x10 on Q; Reverse Tempo LBCs x15 IC; Tempo LBCs x15 IC; run around dirt parking lot
-At the flag: Reverse Tempo LBCs x10 IC; Tempo LBCs x10 IC

Mary: None…did enough LBCs during the workout that Mary wasn’t needed

Numberama: 7

Namerama: Fish N Chips, Defib, Easy In, Mayhem, Swamp Fox, Old D, Waldo

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Announcements: Bedrock will host this week’s rotating Saturday workout.

Devo: Debates can be fun, but if they cause you angst or anger, then what’s the point?

Moleskin: It was time for an ab/leg workout, and I found one that I made up a year ago, and decided to give it another run…This is a workout that fits perfectly into the 45-minute timeslot and gives your legs and abs a great workout.

The Snips Merry-Go-Round

  • When: 20210923
  • QIC: Waldo (Snips as Co-Q)
  • The PAX: Easy In, Fish N Chips, Placebo, Pretzel, Stalker, Old D, Swamp Fox, Three's Company, Chum


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The mission of F3 is to plant, grow and serve small workout groups for the invigoration of male community leadership.

Conditions: Low 60s, clear, perfect (though with some standing water from all the rain earlier in the week

FNGs: None

COP: SSH x15 IC; Don Quixote x15 IC; LBAC x15 IC forward & backward; Overhead Claps x15 IC; TTT x15 IC

The Thang:
-Indian run to the whiffle ball field, going the long way around.
-Split into 5 groups.  4 of the groups will start at a different base while the 5th group starts as the runners.
-The pax that are running will take one lap around the field, while they are doing that, the pax at home plate are doing flutter kicks, the pax at 1st base are doing burpees, the pax at 2nd base are doing LBCs, and the pax at 3rd base are doing merkins.
-Once the runners complete their lap, everyone rotates…the runners go to home, home goes to 1st base, 1st base goes to 2nd, 2nd base goes to 3rd, and the men at 3rd base become the runners.  Continue this rotation until around 5:35.
-Mosey back to the flag.

Mary: LBC x30 IC; WWI situps x20 on Q; American Hammers x10 IC

Numberama: 11

Namerama: Easy In, Fish N Chips, Placebo, Pretzel, Stalker, Old D, Swamp Fox, Three’s Company, Chum, Snips, Waldo

Pledge and COT

Announcements: Saturday workout is at Fault Line.

Devo: Taking on a new leadership role can be scary.  Yes, you may make some mistakes, but if people were encouraging you to take on that role, then they have faith in your ability to do it…but if you wait until you personally feel like you are ready, you may never make the leap.  So sometimes you have to take the risk and go out and lead before you feel like you are ready.

Moleskin: It’s always exciting when somebody steps up to co-Q for the first time.  Snips has been a regular at Bedrock since December, and finally took the leap to lead for the first time this morning.  He had to deal with the first co-Q jitters, the classic Fish N Chips stalling tactics, and some solid mumble chatter, but he handled all of that well and led us through a good workout.  I look forward to what he’ll bring to the Q table going forward.

Figure 8s

  • When: 20210902
  • QIC: Waldo
  • The PAX: Easy In, Mayhem, Swamp Fox, Fish n Chips, DeFib, Chum, Survivor, Manana


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The mission of F3 is to plant, grow and serve small workout groups for the invigoration of male community leadership.

Conditions: Warm, but not quite as humid as we had been used to…And dry..no puddles around the park today.

FNGs: None

COP: SSH x20 IC; TTT x10 IC; Mountain Climbers x15 IC; Imperial Walkers x15 IC; LBAC forward & backward OYO

The Thang:
-Mosey to big picnic pavilion
-Tricep Dips x15 on Q; LBCs x20 IC; Box Jumps x10 OYO
-Mosey to whiffle ball field
-At the field, we did a figure 8 type movement.  Run a lap around the field; At home plate, merkins x5; Bear crawl to first base; V-ups x5; Mosey to pitchers mound; Burpees x5; Mosey to third base; Squats x5; Lunge walk to 2nd base; WW1 Situps x5; Mosey to pitchers mound; Burpees x5; Mosey to Home plate.
-Repeat that cycle until 0540…increasing the reps by 1 each time you go through the cycle (except the burpees, those always stay at 5)
-At around 0540, gather at the pitchers mound; Monkey humpers x15 IC.
-Mosey back to the flage

Mary: LBCs x42 IC

Numberama: 10

Namerama: Easy In, Mayhem, Swamp Fox, Fish n Chips, DeFib, Chum, Survivor, Manana, Waldo

Pledge and COT

Announcements: Saturday rotating workout is at Tectonic this week.  September 11th convergence @ Nexton. Get in touch w/ Pretzel if you’re interested in SpeedForNeed.

Devo: Never underestimate the power of a sincere apology.

Moleskin: A good workout is only as good as you can communicate it…and I probably had a few too many steps in my Figure 8 routine, but luckily after one round, most of the pax seemed to have the pattern down.  Overall, it was a solid workout, and the mumble chatter was great as always.  I also passed along the AOQ duties to Manana, who I’m sure is going to lead Bedrock well.  It’s been a pleasure leading the Country Club for the last 19 months.

A Tabata for Arms

  • When: 20210824
  • QIC: Waldo
  • The PAX: Easy In, Mayhem, Swamp Fox, Fish n Chips, Sugar Mountain, Snips


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The mission of F3 is to plant, grow and serve small workout groups for the invigoration of male community leadership.

Conditions: Typical summer morning…warm and muggy and a bit foggy too

FNGs: None

COP: SSH x10 IC; TTT x10 IC; Imperial Walkers x15 IC; LBAC forward & backward OYO

The Thang:
-Grab 2 bricks each
-Today we did a series of classic Tabatas.  Each Tabata was a single exercise, 20 seconds on, 10 seconds off, 8 sets.
-At the flag, Tabata #1 – Curls w/ the bricks.
-Mosey to the bridge (carrying bricks), Tabata #2 – Dips.
-Mosey to the far parking lot (carrying bricks), Tabata #3 – OH Press.
-Mosey to the small wall (carrying bricks), Tabata #4 – Incline Merkins.
-Mosey to whiffle ball field (carrying bricks), Tabata #5 – Tricep Extensions.
-Mosey to smaller pavilion (carrying bricks, Tabata #6 – Curls w/ the bricks.
-Mosey back to flag & stow bricks

Mary: LBCs x25 IC; Heel Touches x25 IC

Numberama: 7

Namerama: Easy In, Mayhem, Swamp Fox, Fish n Chips, Sugar Mountain, Snips, Waldo

Pledge and COT

Announcements: Saturday rotating workout is at FaultLine this week.  Get in touch w/ Pretzel if you’re interested in SpeedForNeed.  Sept. 11 Convergence at Nexton.

Devo: Be prepared…whether it is to fill in to Q or for whatever else life throws at you.  Be mentally & physically ready.

Moleskin: I had done an all-leg tabata back in July, so I decided to do an arm version of the workout today.  The bricks were a bit underwhelming on the first set of curls, but they started feeling heavier as the workout went along.

Saturday Track Meet

  • When: 20210821
  • QIC: Waldo
  • The PAX: Luigi


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The mission of F3 is to plant, grow and serve small workout groups for the invigoration of male community leadership.

Conditions: Warm and muggy

FNGs: None

COP: SSH x25 IC; TTT x10 IC; Mountain Climbers x15 IC; Imperial Walkers x15 IC; LBAC forward OYO; LBAC backward OYO; Slow run around the track

The Thang:
We ran laps…before the lap, we’d do an exercise at the start/finish line, then we’d start our lap.  On the straightaways, you run as fast as you can…then you walk the first half of each curve, and then do an exercise on the other half of each curve:
Lap 1 – Exercise at start: Squats x20 on Q; Exercise on 2nd half of curves: Sumo Squats
Lap 2 – Exercise at start: Hold high plank for about a minute; Exercise on 2nd half of curves: Bear Crawl
Lap 3 – Exercise at start: Monkey Humpers x20 IC; Exercise on 2nd half of curves: Lunge Walk
Lap 4 – Exercise at start: Calf Raises x30 IC; Exercise on 2nd half of curves: Backwards Run
Lap 5 – Exercise at start: Squat Jumps x20 on Q; Exercise on 2nd half of curves: Cherry Pickers
Lap 6 – Exercise at start: Hold high plank for about a minute; Exercise on 2nd half of curves: Burpee Broad Jumps
Lap 7 – Exercise at start: Squats x20 on Q; No exercise on the lap this time…just a slow mosey to cool down

Mary: Figure 4 Reverse Crunch x15 on Q each leg; LBCs x25 IC; Heel Taps x25 IC; Hold 6 inches for about 30 seconds

Numberama: 2

Namerama: Luigi, Waldo

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Announcements: SpeedForNeed on Sept. 25

Devo: Prepare and execute with the same effort, whether there are 2 people at the workout or 20.

Moleskin: When you’re at the Jones, the track is a great resource.  I decided to slightly modify a workout I had Q’d at the Jones a few months ago.  I was a little worried I’d be doing the workout on my own, but Luigi showed up right at 0600 to join me.  I feel like we got some good work in.

Rainforest Cardiac

  • When: 20210819
  • QIC: Waldo
  • The PAX: Easy In, Fish n Chips, Snips, Mayhem, Sugar Mountain, Manana


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The mission of F3 is to plant, grow and serve small workout groups for the invigoration of male community leadership.

Conditions: Very warm and very muggy

FNGs: None

COP: SSH x20 IC; TTT x10 IC; Mountain Climbers x15 IC; Imperial Walkers x15 IC; LBAC forward & backward OYO

The Thang:
Cardiac monthly fitness test…5 merkins, 10 squats, 15 wide merkins, 20 LBCs, 10 burpees, run to the lightpost on the right and back….repeat for 40 minutes

Mary: N/A on Cardiac Day

Numberama: 7

Namerama: Easy In, Fish n Chips, Snips, Mayhem, Sugar Mountain, Manana, Waldo

Pledge and COT

Announcements: Saturday’s rotating workout is at the Jones; SpeedForNeed and other events are coming up.

Devo:  There are a lot of people that would appreciate people being nice to them.  With a lot of people on edge, I’ve seen people in the service industry and other areas treated very poorly.  Show some grace and be nice and appreciative to people…it isn’t difficult to do.

Moleskin: I’m not sure what a rainforest actually feels like at its most humid, but I can’t imagine it would be much worse than the conditions we had at the Cardiac this morning.  That made the Cardiac feel like even more of a grind than it already is.  But we got our work in, and as always, some good conversations were had.

Something Died at Bedrock

  • When: 20210814
  • QIC: Waldo
  • The PAX: Easy In, Mayhem, Placebo, Pretzel, Motherboard, Clampett, Three's Company, Muggsy


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The mission of F3 is to plant, grow and serve small workout groups for the invigoration of male community leadership.

Conditions: Warm, muggy, summer morning

FNGs: None

COP: SSH x10 IC; TTT x10 IC; Mountain Climbers x15 IC; LBAC forward & backward OYO; Imperial Walkers x15 IC; SSH x25 IC

The Thang:
-Mosey down the road toward the small wall…but before getting to the wall, bear crawl across the ‘bridge’.  Then arrive at the wall.
-At the small wall…Right leg step up x15 on Q; Left leg step up x15 on Q; Derkins x10 on Q
-Mosey to the parking lot near the fire station.
-Round-About 11s.  Start with 10 Bobby Hurleys and 1 Mountain Climber IC, running counter clock-wise around the parking lot, doing the exercises on each end.  Finish with 1 Bobby Hurley and 10 Mountain Climbers IC.
-Mosey back to the small wall…Right leg step up x15 on Q; Left leg step up x15 on Q.
-Mosey to wiffle ball field.
-Start at home plate, do 5 burpees OYO; move to 1st base via Burpee Broad Jump; At 1st base, do 5 squat jumps; move to 2nd base via sumo squats; At 2nd base, do 5 merkins; move to 3rd base via bear crawl; At 3rd base, do 5 flutter kicks IC; move to home plate via crab walk.
-Rinse and repeat, adding a rep to all of the exercises each time around…continued for about 15-20 minutes, until 6:50.
-Mosey to big pavilion.
-Right leg step up x15 on Q; Left leg step up x15 on Q; Dips x10 on Q
-Mosey back to the flag.

Mary: Heel Taps x20 IC; LBCs x25 IC

Numberama: 9

Namerama: Easy In, Mayhem, Placebo, Pretzel, Motherboard, Clampett, Three’s Company, Muggsy, Waldo

Pledge and COT

Announcements: SpeedForNeed on September 25.

Devo: It’s ok to not know something.  It’s ok not to have an opinion on a topic you aren’t familiar with.  By all means, get educated on things you want to know about.  But nobody is an expert on everything.

Moleskin: I recycled a workout I had done back in March 2020, and it seemed to get good reviews….except for whatever died near the whiffle ball field, which created a major stench in the air while we spent our time in that part of the park.  It was great to have Three’s Company back in the gloom, and the 2nd F at Starbucks after the workout was excellent.

The skateboarders are making Zeus angry

  • When: 20210805
  • QIC: Waldo
  • The PAX: Easy In, Mayhem, Fish n Chips, Swamp Fox, Snips


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The mission of F3 is to plant, grow and serve small workout groups for the invigoration of male community leadership.

Conditions: Upper 60s…so actually not too bad for August.  Light drizzle at times

FNGs: None

COP: SSH x20 IC; TTT x10 IC; Imperial Walkers x15 IC; LBAC OYO (forward then backward); Slow mosey around dirt parking lot

The Thang:
-Grab two cinderblocks and return to the flag.
-Curls for the Girls x20; Calf raises (while holding cinderblocks) x20; Lawn Mowers x10 each arm; Farmers Carry the blocks around the circle…all OYO.
-Repeat the above set until Q says to stop (lasted 10-15 minutes…I wasn’t keeping track).
-Leave blocks at the circle and mosey to the whiffle ball field.
-At ‘home plate’, do Squats x10 & Burpees x5, then sprint to first base, side shuffle to second base, run backwards to third base, side shuffle home…all OYO.
-Repeat the above set until Q says to stop (lasted 10-15 minutes).
-Howling Monkeys (all pax hold monkey humper position, while we all take turns doing monkey humpers x10).
-Mosey back to the flag & stow blocks

Mary: LBCs x50 IC

Numberama: 6

Namerama: Easy In, Mayhem, Fish n Chips, Swamp Fox, Snips, Waldo

Pledge and COT

Announcements: Saturday rotating workout is at Tectonic this week.  Back-to-school Liquefaction @ Major Dad’s house on Aug. 12.  SpeedForNeed 5k is needing volunteers…see Pretzel for details.

Devo: We have so many options of what to consume, but we also can choose not to consume what we don’t want to consume most of the time.  No need to continuously complain about certain news channels or programs or certain shows or certain Olympic sports while you are still choosing to watch those things.

Moleskin: This was a fun workout that allowed plenty of opportunity for mumble chatter, where we learned that Fish n Chips does not like skateboarding being an Olympic sport this year.

July Cardic

  • When: 20210715
  • QIC: Waldo
  • The PAX: Easy In, Fish n Chips, Snips


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The mission of F3 is to plant, grow and serve small workout groups for the invigoration of male community leadership.

Conditions: Warm and muggy

FNGs: None

COP: SSH x20 IC; TTT x10 IC; Mountain Climbers x15 IC; LBAC forward & backward OYO

The Thang:
Cardiac monthly fitness test…5 merkins, 10 squats, 15 wide merkins, 20 LBCs, 10 burpees, run to the lightpost on the right and back….repeat for 40 minutes

Mary: N/A on Cardiac Day

Numberama: 4

Namerama: Easy In, Fish n Chips, Snips, Waldo

Pledge and COT

Announcements: Saturday’s rotating workout is at the Jones

Devo:  I echoed a point I heard from the Guild yesterday…You can push yourself in more ways than just physically.  Most people join F3 to see fitness gains, but many of us have made gains in areas of leadership, to extend our social networks, and plenty of other things away from half marathons and ruck events.  So look for areas to improve yourself, not just on the fitness end, but in all aspects of life.

Moleskin: At its core, the Cardiac is a chance to test your gains…are you improving over your former self from the last time you did the Cardiac.  But even if you aren’t physically 100% or able to push for the record, the Cardiac always allows you to get a good workout in, and often some good 2nd F as we spend most of the time together at the entrance to the traffic circle.  Some good conversation was had as we got through our rounds, and even though the Cardiac isn’t anyone’s favorite workout, I know we benefited from being there this morning.

Five-Card Stud

  • When: 20210710
  • QIC: Waldo
  • The PAX: Easy In, Mayhem, Placebo, Chum, Pretzel, Fish n Chips, Bangers, Microwave, Flanders, Defib, Horshack


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The mission of F3 is to plant, grow and serve small workout groups for the invigoration of male community leadership.

Conditions: Typical summer morning…warm and muggy

FNGs: None

COP: SSH x25 IC; TTT x10 IC; Mountain Climbers x15 IC; LBAC Forward & Backward OYO; Slow mosey around dirt parking lot

The Thang:
-Grab a Cinderblock and gather at the flag.
-I dealt one playing card to each person (with FNC & Bangers sharing a card, along with Placebo and myself sharing a card, due to #s).  We then arranged ourselves in the order of those cards.  I gathered up the cards, shuffled a whole deck, and placed that deck on the ground in the traffic circle.
-Beginning with the person with the low-card (in this case, Microwave), each man would bear crawl around the traffic circle, taking a card as they finished (which is the first card of their five-card stud poker hand, hidden from the rest of the pax).  As that person began his bear crawl, he’d call out an exercise for the pax to do (can be with or without a block).
-Once everyone did their bear crawl and got their first card, we gathered at the entrance to the traffic circle and did a jailbreak to the lightpost on the right and back.
-Repeated the process of going around the traffic circle one-at-a-time to get a card, but this time, instead of bear crawling, we did lunge walks.  Again, each person called out an exercise for the pax to do while he went around the circle. (after that process, everyone had two cards)
-Due to time, on the third round around the circle, we did it in groups of 4 or so men, going around the circle doing burpee broad jumps.
-Another audible called…on the fourth go-around, we all went at the same time, doing sumo squats, and we each grabbed our final two cards.  Making a five-card poker hand.
-Time to play a hand of poker.  Beginning with Microwave, we went in turn, with each person deciding whether they wanted to stay in the hand or fold.  If you stay in the hand and win, you do 5 burpees.  If you fold, you do 10 burpees.  If you stay in the hand and lose, you do 15 burpees.  And if you fold, but had a hand that would have beaten the winner, you have to do 20 burpees for being a coward.  I believe 6 or so people stayed in the hand (and none of the folded hands would have won).  Placebo (and I as his partner) were the winners w/ 2 pair.
-Backward bear crawl around the traffic circle as a group.
-Stow blocks

Mary: Reverse figure four crunch x10 on Q, each leg; Heel Touches x25 IC; LBCs x25 IC

Numberama: 12

Namerama: Easy In, Mayhem, Placebo, Chum, Pretzel, Fish n Chips, Bangers, Microwave, Flanders, Defib, Horshack, Waldo

Pledge and COT

Announcements: Talk to Hot Spot if you’re interested in being in the Sheepdog program.

Devo: In life, you can’t always control the cards you are dealt, but it is up to you to play them as well as you can.  And sometimes you have to regroup and fight another day.

Moleskin: I’ve wanted to do a poker-themed workout for a while now, but hadn’t been able to figure out the best way to do it.  I’m not sure this was the best way, but I thought it went pretty well.  I liked keeping the group in one general location for the whole hour, which led to plenty of good mumble-chatter.  I may bring this one back someday, with some modifications.