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Free Outdoor Morning Workouts To Build Community Leaders

Thunderstruck, Farmer’s Carry, Thunderstruck

  • When: 20210114
  • QIC: Sakrete
  • The PAX: Snips, Manana, Sugar Mountain, Shooter McGavin, Waldo, Chum, Easy In, Defib, Fish N Chips


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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: Cold as hell.  Wet from the rain last night and cold.  It was damn cold.

FNGs: None today because it was too damn cold.

COP:  TTT x 15 IC; 15 LBAC Forward and reverse IC; 15 Over head clap IC; 15 morracan night clubs IC;  20 calf raises IC;  15 squats IC

Thunderstruck plank merkins.  Play AC/DC Thunderstruck and hold plank until they say Thunder in the song and execute a merkin.  If plank is broken at any point run down to the light pole on the right and back and jump back in.

The Thang:

Grab a block and assemble by the yield sign heading away from the circle.  Partner up.  Partner 1 begins farmers carry (both blocks) towards the baseballs at the entrance.  Partner 2 runs to the baseballs and back to Partner 1.  Both partners execute 5 burpees and switch.

Once both partners get to the baseballs track back and bring the six in.

The next part will be OYO no partners.

5 overhead press.  5 squats (with or without a block), 5 flutter kick with block overhead.  Run to the gate and back.

Rinse and Repeat increasing reps by 1 each time.

Continue this trend until 535.

Get back to the flag the same way you left it.

Mary: Thunderstruck plank merkins.

Numberama: 10

Namerama: Snips, Manana, Sugar Mountain, Shooter McGavin, Waldo, Chum, Easy In, Defib, Fish N Chips, Sakrete

Pledge and COT

Announcements: The Jones will be hosting Saturday BC this week.  Fish still collecting clothes for donation

Devo: Over The Edge
Understand this, my dear brothers and sisters: You must all be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to get angry. (NLT) ( James 1:19 )

Notice how the word “all” is used? No one is immune. It just takes the perfect storm for a personal situation to put you over the edge. Before you feel justified to say something damaging, remember this verse. And if you’re on the receiving end, be “quick” to forgive and “slow” to resent.

Moleskin:   YHC was on time this morning.  However must have been talking a little much for Chum’s liking. He yelled at me to get started.  I don’t know how a guy who has Q’ed 2 BC’s in the last 2 years and maybe only attended 10 can yell at someone to get started but he did it.  We had two new comers to Thunderstruck plank merkins.  They don’t like it any more than the rest of you.  We have a new member of the elite group of guys who has made it through the entire song without breaking plank.  Easy In.  Sugar was pushing to be the only one to complete the song twice in one workout.  We ran out of time.  Defib is an absolute monster.  He nearly made it all the way to the baseballs in the time it took me to run there and back.   By the end we all had steam coming off our heads.  Always a pleasure to be in the center of the circle.  Thanks for showing up guys and PIMW

Sugar Mountain’s Christmas Party Tour

  • When: 20201208
  • QIC: Sugar Mountain
  • The PAX: Chowda Easy In Snips Waldo Pretzel City Slicker Prius Mayhem Chum Fish and Chips Splinter Sakrete Defib


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Cold 33 deg

Warm ups

TTT x 10 IC

Don Quotie x 10 IC

Plank Strech

Mountain Climbers x 10 IC

The Thing:

As christmas music plays the pax were directed to do exercise till fail.  Then when they cannot complete they would run for rest.

C Curls

H Hammers ( American Hammer)

R Rum Squats

I Intermitting squats

S Speed Humpers

T Tricep extentions

M Man maker Murkins

A Al Gore

S WW1 Sit ups

 

Indian Bear Crawl

Mary LBC

 

Pledge

Announcements

Prayer

Mayhem’s Long Awaited Q Debut

  • When: 20201210
  • QIC: Waldo (Mayhem as Co-Q)
  • The PAX: MadDog, Grits, Sakrete, Gruber, Sugar Mountain, Stalker, City Slicker, Prius, Splinter, Chum, Easy In


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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: Cold, clear

FNGs: None

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

The Thang:
-Mosey to parking lot at front of park.
-Indian Run back to flag
-Series of stretches
-Assemble at entrance of circle w/ block
-Merkins x10 on Q; Bear Crawl to cone about 10-15 yards; SkiAbs x10 IC; Bear Crawl back
-Reverse Squats x12 on Q; Plank walk to cone; Calf Raises x20 on Q; Plank walk back; Curls x10 on Q
-Merkins x20 on Q; Bear crawl to cone; SkiAbs x20 OYO; Bear Crawl back
-Reverse Squats x21 on Q; Plank walk to cone; Calf Raises x40 on Q; Plank walk back; Curls x20 on Q
-Bear crawl to cone and back
-Stow Blocks

Mary: Rocking Chair LBCs x10 IC; WWI Situps x10 on Q; Box Cutters x10 IC; Flutter Kicks x20 IC; Heels to Heaven x10 on Q

Numberama: 13

Namerama: MadDog, Grits, Sakrete, Gruber, Sugar Mountain, Stalker, City Slicker, Prius, Splinter, Chum, Easy In, Mayhem, Waldo

Pledge and COT

Announcements: Christmas drop-in at Stalker’s House tonight; Saturday workout at Bedrock; Anniversary Convergence/Party on Jan. 9; Sakrete is collecting clothes for donation

Devo: Bedrock mantra…DBAD

Moleskin: Mayhem stepped up and delivered a high quality beat-down.  In true Bedrock fashion, the pax tried to distract him with late arrivals (including one arrival during Mary), plenty of mumble chatter, and some good-spirited critiques of the exercises that he chose, but Mayhem was prepared and took it all in stride.  Looking forward to future Mayhem workouts.

Typical Bedrock

  • When: 20201110
  • QIC: Waldo
  • The PAX: Splinter, Easy In, Sakrete, Mayhem, Manana, MadDog, Don King, Chum, Flanders, Fish n Chips


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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; Muggy

FNGs: None

COP: SSH x20 IC; TTT x10 IC; Mountain Climbers x15 IC; LBAC Forward, Backward, small circles, big circles OYO; SSH x20 IC

The Thang:
-Grab a block and return to the flag.
-OH Press x15 on Q; Block Press x15 on Q; Curls for the Girls x15 on Q; Squats w/ Block x15 on Q; Run around dirt parking lot
-Repeat the above for about 15 minutes, adding a rep to each exercise each time through, and replacing the parking lot run with a run to the no parking sign and back.
-Carry block to big picnic pavilion.
-OH Press x10 on Q; Block Press x10 on Q; Curls for the Girls x10 on Q; Squats w/ Block x10 on Q; Step ups x10 each leg
-Repeat the above for about 10 minutes, subtracting a rep from each exercise each time through.
-Carry block back to flag and stow block

Mary:
-Ray Charles x30 IC; Slow Motion LBCs x20 IC; Flutter Kicks x20 IC; LBCs x20 on Q

Numberama: 11

Namerama: Splinter, Easy In, Sakrete, Mayhem, Manana, MadDog, Don King, Chum, Flanders, Fish n Chips, Waldo

Pledge and COT

Announcements: Bedrock will host this week’s rotating Saturday workout….still need a Q.  Ruck for Hunger on Nov 21. Thanksgiving convergence at Gahagan. Christmas Drop-In on Dec. 10 at Stalker’s house. Anniversary convergence/party on Jan. 9.

Devo: Gave the Bedrock mantra…DBAD

Moleskin: We had quite a few pax show up after we started, and even after Sakrete arrived.  We also had a ton of chatter, making it tough to keep the Pax focused on the workout.  But we still got in some work.

Uno, Dos, Tres, Squatro

  • When: 20201020
  • QIC: Waldo
  • The PAX: Splinter, Defib, Chum, Peg, Floppy, Placebo, Pretzel, Scrooge McDuck, Easy In, Sakrete, Repo


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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: Mid-60s & muggy

FNGs: None

COP: Squats x4 on Q; SSH x25 IC; Squats x4 on Q; TTT x10 IC; Squats x4 on Q; Mountain Climbers x15 IC; Squats x4 on Q; LBAC forward x12 IC & backward x12 IC; Squats x4 on Q

The Thang:
After the pax each got a block, I explained that during the workout, anytime I said ‘Squatro’, that everyone would have to do 4 squats OYO (and if you happened to be by your block, do the squat with your block)…I pretty much said ‘Squatro’ after each of the exercises below (and disclaimer, much of this Q was improvised, so I may be misremembering some of the activities from this BC):

-Burpees x10 OYO (punishment for no flag present at the BC)
-Run around the parking lot.
-Overhead Press x15 on Q
-Curls for the Girls x15 on Q
-Jailbreak to the lightpole on the right
-Sumo squat to the speed limit sign
-Tempo LBCs x25 IC
-Reverse Tempo LBCs x25 IC
-Sumo squat to the fire hydrant
-Merkins x5 on Q
-Go to the pavilion
-Merkins x5 on Q
-Incline merkins x10 on Q
-Step Ups x10 each leg OYO
-Merkins x6 on Q
-Incline merkins x11 on Q
-Step Ups x7 each leg OYO
-Merkins x6 on Q
-Incline merkins x11 on Q
-Return to blocks

-Blockees x5 OYO

-StowBlocks

Mary: Ray Charles x25 IC; Squatro; Slow motion LBCs x20 IC (4 count up and 4 count down)

Numberama: 12

Namerama: Splinter, Defib, Chum, Peg, Floppy, Placebo, Pretzel, Scrooge McDuck, Easy In, Sakrete, Repo, Waldo

Pledge and COT

Announcements: Fault Line will host this week’s rotating Saturday workout.  Repo announced a 420 mile Swamp Fox run; Ruck for Hunger on Nov 21. Christmas and Anniversary parties are being planned

Devo: Be ready…be prepared.  You never know when you’ll have to fill in.

Moleskin: This workout was inspired by my 5-year old son, who insists that the number 4 in Spanish is pronounced Squatro.  So I decided to use that to come out with a workout where we’d do 4 squats after pretty much any activity during the BC.  Overall, I think it went pretty well.

The Finial Countdown

  • When: 20200928
  • QIC: Sugar Mountain
  • The PAX: Fish N Chips, Mad Dog, Manana, Hospice (R) Hospice, Double Trouble Double Trouble, Repo Repo, Sakrete, Waldo, Dry Prime, Splinter, Easy In, AC/DC, Chum, Defib, Sugar Mountain


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This was my first time back in the Q spot in a while and it felt GOOD!!

Pax 15

Weather 54 and awesome

Warm Up

TTT X 10 IC

Don Quatioe x 10 IC

Mountain Climbers x 20 IC

The Thing:

Pax was directer to grab a block and head out to the ball feild.

Once there we a count down. Start at 10 and work your way down with a run around the fieal inbetween sets.

On one side of the field we did Curals x 10  then we Qsaked the block to the other side.  At that point we did blockyes x 10 and worked our way down.

Once every was complete we moved on to Damn-its on one side and then squats on the other side.

We stowed blocks and moved on to Mary:

Mary

Monkey Hummpers x 20 IC

Pickle Puunders x 20 IC

Rocover Recover

Pledge

Anouncements

Prayer

It was good to be at it.

 

Perfect Timing

  • When: 20201001
  • QIC: Waldo
  • The PAX: Splinter, Fish N Chips, Defib, Chum, Gruber, Cubbie, Sugar Mountain, High Stick, Swinger


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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: Perfect workout weather…upper 50s, clear

FNGs: None

COP: SSH x25 IC; TTT x10 IC; Mountain Climbers x15 IC; LBAC forward x12 IC & backward x12 IC; 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 a minute
-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: 10

Namerama: Splinter, Fish N Chips, Defib, Chum, Gruber, Cubbie, Sugar Mountain, High Stick, Swinger, Waldo

Pledge and COT

Announcements: Tectonic will host this week’s rotating Saturday workout.  St. Paul food drive on Oct 10.  Ruck for Hunger on Nov 21. Christmas and Anniversary parties are being planned

Devo: Social media isn’t mandatory to participate in…I’m not saying to avoid it, it has its place…but there’s no requirement to participate at all, or to respond to every discussion.  Pick and choose your battles wisely…understand the ramifications of participating (even if you what you say is true, it doesn’t mean it is necessary to say).

Moleskin: My shoulder has been giving me some problems, so I decided to do an ab/leg workout.  I’m not sure if I invented the Tempo LBC, but I felt that slowing down the LBC makes it a bit more effective (and that may be just perception…I’m not a pro).  And as all Qs know, timing out a new workout is always challenging…you never want to cut out any of a workout you plan, but you also don’t want to finish everything and still have 10 minutes left to fill.  This was one of those glorious occasions where the timing worked out perfectly…the ladder-style workout finished right at 5:45…we finished it all, and there was no time left over.

My arms are tired

  • When: 20200924
  • QIC: Pretzel
  • The PAX: Floppy, Swinger, Sugar Mountain, Splinter, Old Flame, Chum, AC/DC, Mad Dog, HO-Spice, High Stick, Fish & Chips, Defib, Spooky, EZ-In, Gruber, Sakrete, Pretzel


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This one seemed to be more of an upper-body smokefest than I anticipated when drafting it up in the Q Cave. I’m still not sure why. But it was. Whatever the reason, 17 men seemed to be in consensus on that fact at Bedrock on Thursday.

Conditions: Cool and dry. Lovely.

COP

  • SSHx2
  • Mtn Climber x 10
  • Imperial Walker x 10
  • LBACs

The Thang

Head out of the Country Club and hit the trail along Dorchester Road to the Marshalls parking lot. Partner up for a Dora 1-1-1-1 (100 merkins, 100 Carolina Dry Docks, 100 merkins, 100 Carolina Dry Docks). We then executed a Usain Bolt, where inexplicably many of the PAX chose more merkins. Return to the CC via the trail for Mary.

Count-a-rama / Name-a-rama / Pledge / COT / Socially distanced grouping of man.

Devo: How do we better execute F3’s mission to be a group that is open to ALL men?

A Cardiac Pre-Test

  • When: 20200915
  • QIC: Hot Spot
  • The PAX: AC/DC, Fish and Chips, Chum. Manana, DT, Sakrete, Waldo, Spooky, Gruber, Easy In, Repo, Hot Spot


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Conditions: 72 degrees, humid and breezy

Count: 12 Pax

The Thang:

Warm up at COP: 25 SSH IC, 20 Don Quixote IC, single column run from COP around shelter and parking lot and back to COP. (Course familiarization)

Mosy to storage area: each pax assigned one cmu and two bricks and returns to COP.

OYO: 30 lbc with bricks, 25 flutter kicks IC with block overhead, 20 merkins of any style, 15 block/brick curls, 10 block squats.

Run loop with two bricks in tow around assigned course.  At flag pole pause for 5 burpees and continue course back to COP.

Rinse and repeat: AMRAP until time expires.

COT: Count, namorama, announcements, prayer requests.

BOM  and Devo (Romans 12:21)

Pledge of Allegiance

Moleskins: great chatter/banter this morning guys, enjoyed being amongst you again after a long time away.  A.O. has good numbers and a great group of guys pushing each other.  Lessons learned: everyone by me is doing this E=MC2 thing.  Sakrete takes cheat days to a whole new level,

A Q INSPIRED BY GREEN BAGS AND HOT TUB….. THUNDERSTRUCK ON REPEAT

  • When: 20200910
  • QIC: Sakrete
  • The PAX: Defib, Double Trouble, Spooky (R), Manana, AC/DC, Gruber, Fish N Chips, Waldo, Swinger, High Stick, Green Bags, Easy In, Chum, Splinter, Mad Dog, Mayhem (R)


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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: High 70’s and humidity just won’t go away

FNGs: None on tap today

COP:  YHC put his favorite AC/DC song on repeat.  Thunderstruck.  During first part of workout the song will play.  At any point during that song PAX would assume the plank position and execute a merkin every time they said Thunder during the song.  One set of failure.  When the plank is broken you are done.  Join in with remaining PAX doing assigned exercise.

While song was playing:

1 burpee OYO; 10 Bobby Hurleys on Q

2 burpee OYO: 9 Carolina Dry Docks on Q

3 burpees OYO: 8 Sumo Squats

4 burpees OYO: 7 WW1 Situp

5 burpees OYO: 6 SSH IC (led by Waldo while YHC planked)

6 burpees OYO: 5 Bobby Hurleys on Q (led by High Stick while YHC planked)

7 burpees OYO: 4 Carolina Dry Docks on Q

8 burpees OYO; 3 Sumo Squats on Q

9 burpees OYO: 2 WW1 situp on Q

10 burpees OYO: 1 SSH IC.

Now that you are warmed up.  Lets move.

The Thang:

Jailbreak to entrance to gravel parking lot.  YHC asked for a volunteer and Defib obliged.  Heading out from flag run at pace set by Defib for 90 seconds.  After 90 seconds halt and do 10 squats on Q and 10 merkins on Q.  Swinger set pace for 90 seconds.  After 90 seconds halt and do 10 squats and 10 merkins on Q.  Mad Dog set the pace for 90 seconds.  After 90 seconds halt and do 10 squats on Q and 10 merkins on Q.  Gruber set the pace for 90 seconds.  After 90 second halt and so 10 squats and 10 merkins.  Double Trouble set the pace for 90 seconds.  After 90 seconds halt and do 10 squats on Q and 10 merkins on Q.  Set up in 2 columns.  Indian run around circle where flag is and back out to entrance to gravel lot (90 seconds)  After 90 seconds halt and do 10 squats on Q and 10 merkins on Q.

Partner up with someone close to your speed.  From post beside entrance to gravel lot back to the flag.  Jailbreak race with your partner.  After each race alternate 10 squats on Q and 10 merkins on Q.

After all races were complete and gathering around the flag winners earned the right to stand around and watch the losers of the races do 5 burpees OYO.

Indian Run around gravel lot.

Mary: Thunderstruck plank merkins.  Play Thunderstruck by AC/DC again.  This time if your plank is broken run down to the light pole on right hand side and back.  Back in the fight.

Numberama: 17

Namerama: Defib, Double Trouble, Spooky (R), Manana, AC/DC, Gruber, Fish N Chips, Waldo, Swinger, High Stick, Green Bags, Easy In, Chum, Splinter, Mad Dog, Mayhem (R), Sakrete

Pledge and COT.  Yes we did that.  

Announcements: Rotating Saturday Q @ Bedrock led by High Stick;  Old Flame running the Charleston 100 in full gear starting tomorrow.

Devo:

Choose Grace

Let your conversation be gracious and attractive so that you will have the right response for everyone. (NLT) ( Colossians 4:6 )

 

The words we choose in our everyday conversations tell the most about who we are.  If we choose a harsh tone and unkind words, it’s going to be hard for those around you to see God’s grace at work in your life. When we speak harshly it also makes it hard for those who love you to see you as a cherished child of God. Often resulting in others responding to us with negativity.  This is why it’s so important for us to choose grace in the way we communicate.  Be the one who ends the cycle of negativity in your relationships.  Let your words be a beacon of light to those around you

Moleskin:   YHC saw a workout that Green Bags did @ home where he ran for 90 seconds and stopped and did 10 merkins and 10 squats.  I 100% stole that.  YHC went to Tectonic Monday AM for a Hot Tub Labor Day Q.  I 50% stole the “warm up” from that.  Haven’t done the Thunderstruck routine in a while.  Always fun to work that in.  We are currently 5 hours post workout and I am already sore.  Great work today Gents.