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Dora Does The Jones

When: 20190806
QIC: Hard Drive
The PAX: Luigi, Mrs. Potts, Dorothy Mantooth

2019-08-27 by Dorothy Mantooth Leave a Comment

Posted by DMT on behalf of Hard Drive

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

Conditions: low 70s, clear, nice!

FNGs: None

COP: LBCs, TTT all IC

The Thang:

Dora
400 flutter kicks
300 squats
200 merkins
100 overhead press with block

Mary:

25 irkins
40 flutter kicks IC
2 minutes plank
30 merkins OYO

Numberama: 4

Namerama: Luigi, Mrs. Potts, Dorothy Mantooth, Hard Drive

Pledge and COT

Announcements: Labor Day Convergence at Wescott 0700 – https://goo.gl/maps/Q1GXJuYzJRdpvgop7

Devo: None

Moleskin: Dora proved to be a good challenge today. Been a while since we’ve had her at The Jones! Thanks for a great Q Hard Drive.

The Warrior – August 2019

When: 20190822
QIC: Luigi
The PAX: Run-Off, Mrs. Potts, Jojo, Dorothy Mantooth, Hard Drive

2019-08-22 by Luigi Leave a Comment

L-R: Luigi, Run-Off, Mrs. Potts, Dorothy Mantooth, Jojo, Hard Drive

Scorecard

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

Conditions: HUMID. 77F and 94% relative humidity by end of workout. No wind. Beautiful sunrise though.

FNGs: None, but we did have a visitor from F3 Conway (Run-Off) and multiple folks doing the fitness test for the first time.

The Thang:

We did our monthly fitness test, The Warrior. The PAX have 40 minutes to complete the following:

Run 1 mile, then
AMRAP (as many rounds as possible)
- 5 pull-ups (on goalpost)
- 10 merkins
- 15 squats
- Run 120 yards (to opposite goalpost)

Fitness test results (compare against July’s results):

Hard Drive: 22.00 (vs. 22.34 in June)
Dorothy Mantooth: 20.00 (vs. 19.317 last time)
Luigi: 19.30 (vs. 21.35 last time)
Run-Off: 17.00 (first time) – visiting from Conway
Mrs. Potts: 13.00 (first time)
Jojo: 9.20 (first time)

Here’s how to read the decimal scoring (each set of exercises adds one tenth):

10.00 = finished ten rounds exactly
10.04 = finished ten rounds plus 4 pull-ups
10.10 = finished ten rounds plus all 5 pull-ups
10.205 = finished ten rounds plus all 5 pull-ups, all 10 merkins, and 5 of the squats
10.30 = finished ten rounds plus everything except the run
10.40 = 11.00
Hopefully you get the picture. 🙂

Numberama: 6

Namerama: Run-Off, Mrs. Potts, Jojo, Dorothy Mantooth, Hard Drive, Luigi

Announcements/Prayer Requests:

9/2/2019 – Labor Day convergence at Bedrock / Magnitude. Starts 7am sharp at Wescott Dog Park.

Pledge and COT

Devo: Don’t follow your heart

YHC was struck by this passage in Numbers chapter 15 last week:
- The Lord said to Moses, “Speak to the people of Israel, and tell them to make tassels on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and to put a cord of blue on the tassel of each corner. And it shall be a tassel for you to look at and remember all the commandments of the Lord, to do them, not to follow after your own heart and your own eyes, which you are inclined to whore after. So you shall remember and do all my commandments, and be holy to your God. I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God: I am the Lord your God.”
Our culture says follow your heart and be true to yourself, but in this passage God says not to follow your heart, but instead to follow God’s commandments. He knows what’s really best for us (since he invented us), plus he has the authority to tell us what to do (since he owns us).
Life application: Sometimes YHC struggles at work to stay focused and not wander off on rabbit trails through Wikipedia, Facebook, Amazon, etc. I can clearly see my heart “whoring after” things that really won’t satisfy me. I need God’s intervention to change my desires and remind me of what’s true and worthwhile.

Moleskin:

YHC decided to take the mile easy this month to see if it left more energy for the remaining exercises. It seemed to work for Dorothy Mantooth (he hit a PR today), but YHC has been posting less regularly and doing almost no merkins this month, so I still got a lower score than last time.
Fastest mile was 8:51.

Improv

When: 20190820
QIC: Luigi
The PAX: Dorothy Mantooth, LottaLove, Hard Drive, Mrs. Potts

2019-08-20 by Luigi Leave a Comment

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

Conditions: great – mid 70s and clear

FNGs: None

COP:

SSH x 20
Hillbillies x 20
LBAC x 20 (forward & reverse)
HR merkins x 20

The Thang:

Indian run lap
Morning call w/ pull-ups, squats (rest at bottom)
Indian run lap
Morning call w/ pull-ups, squats (rest at bottom)
Indian run lap
Morning call w/ good mornings, HR merkins
Indian run lap
Morning call w/ good mornings, HR merkins
Indian run lap
Morning call w/ sit-ups, lunges
Indian run lap
Morning call w/ sit-ups, lunges

Mary:

Good mornings x 20
Freddy Mercury x 20
Angels and devils x 20
American hammers x 20
Reverse crunch x 20

Announcements:

Dorothy Mantooth mentioned that an F3 brother had recently been diagnosed with stage 4 brain cancer but couldn’t remember details that had been shared at The Ditch on Saturday. Will update this backblast if more details are received.
8/22/2019 – The Warrior, here at The Jones, 6am
9/2/2019 – Labor Day convergence at Bedrock / Magnitude. Starts 7am sharp at Wescott Dog Park.

Pledge and COT

Numberama: 5

Namerama: Dorothy Mantooth, LottaLove, Hard Drive, Mrs. Potts, Luigi

Moleskin:

The scheduled Q got stuck in wreck-induced traffic jam en route to The Jones this morning and never made it, so we had to improvise. Thankfully YHC was already wearing his official F3 shirt so we were good to go! 🙂

Title Goes Here Idiot

When: 20190806
QIC: Dorothy Mantooth
The PAX: Cisco, Lotta Love, Hard Drive, String Bean

2019-08-09 by Dorothy Mantooth Leave a Comment

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

Conditions: low 70s, moist

FNGs: None

COP: TTT, mosey to Shart Shed to grab the 5” utility poles.

The Thang:

Each PAX grabs a pole of their choice, drapes it over their shoulders:

10 Squats on Q – ¼ mile mosey

Grab a different pole, because all of them weigh different weights so don’t want anyone to feel left out:

10 step ups, each leg – ¼ mile mosey

10 calf raises – ¼ mile mosey

New pole: we did one more exercise with the poles and ran another ¼ mile

***head down in shame***

VOTED PAX FAVORITE OF THE DAY:

Sacrete shuffle (remix with poles) on east side bleachers

10 Super Derkins IC

10 Derkins IC

10 Incline merkins IC

30 count wall squats (each PAX counts 1,2,3,4,5 all the way to 30 during a wall sit)

30 count BTTW (each PAX counts 1,2,3,4,5 all the way to 30 during BTTW

Sacrete shuffle (remix with poles) on east side bleachers back to Shart Shed

DMT tried to organize a pole carrying suicide with cones but it ended up being a bigger CF than ever imagined. Will re-work during shower thoughts and attempt again, soon!

Mary: 10 WWI situps on Q, 10 WWII situps on @, 10 Freddy Mercury’s IC

Numberama: 5

Namerama: Dorothy Mantooth, Cisco, Lotta Love, Hard Drive, String Bean

Pledge and COT

Announcements: Keeping thoughts of victims of this weekend’s tragedies in our thoughts, as well as a PAX neighbors’ family member that lost his life.

Devo: (thanks LoL since I’m a huge Devo slacker) Bringing light to fighting evil.

Moleskin: Having 5 PAX at The Jones was a welcome treat. We got some good mumble chatter in during our ¼ mile runs. Cisco has the Q for 8AUG – if we don’t do farmer carries until DMT cries, DMT will cry until we do farmer carries until DMT cries.

1st of the Month

When: 20190801
QIC: Dorothy Mantooth
The PAX: Hard Drive, Lotta Love

2019-08-03 by Cisco 1 Comment

COP:

Nancy Kerrigans – Lean torso forward, raise one leg out to the back, reach arms out to side and do small arm circles. IC

Mountain Man Poopers resembles the aftermath of eating a helping of Grandma’s squirrel gravy. 4 Count : standing position, bend over to touch toes. Step 2: Squat low, put arms straight out front. Step 3: Back to touching toes position from Step 1. Step 4: Stand Up with a single clap.

Starfish Crunch PAX lay spread eagle on backs, feet just above ground. On count of 1, the PAX crunch at the core bringing the left leg and right arm together, On 2, return to start. On 3, crunch bringing the right leg and left arm together, on 4, return to start. Rinse and repeat many, many times.

Copperhead Merkins Regular Merkin but lowering body slowly on first 3 counts, then lifting up on 4 count

Merkin Mile:

10 Merkins IC run quarter mile

10 Derkins IC run quarter mile

10 Incline Merkins IC run quarter mile

10 Merkins IC run quarter mile

Farmer Carry Suicides:

Placed four cones about 15 feet apart in a line. Farmer carry two blocks to second cone, sprint back to the home cone, rinse and repeat to all cones.

Bear Crawl Suicides:

Bear crawl to second cone, sprint back to home cone, rinse and repeat. Some PAX had to modify to lunges on the last cone.

Mary:

WW1 Situps – 20 IC

WW2 Situps – 20 IC

1 minute plank

Devo: Luke 15:11-32 – Parable of the lost Son – pray for our fart sacking brothers so they may return soon.

Pledge, BOM

Tour de Charleston visits The Jones

When: 20190725
QIC: Luigi
The PAX: Hard Drive, Dorothy Mantooth, Tackleberry, Stringbean, OG, A-Rod, Free Willy (respect), Fragile, McDreamy (respect), Diopter (respect), Big Diff, FNG (Flat Tire), Captain Ron, Thin Mint, Daisy, Klondike (respect), Cheetah, Dri Prime

2019-07-25 by Luigi Leave a Comment

The PAX. (Not pictured: Cheetah and Dri Prime who both had to leave early, and YHC who served as photographer)

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

Conditions: Wonderfully cool (70 degrees), sunrise during the workout.

FNGs: One – welcome, Flat Tire.

Disclaimer: Given.

COP

SSH x 20
Burpee Battle starting at 7 burpees/minute
- Big Diff completed the round of 18 burpees/minute (a new course record!), for a total of 150 burpees in 12 minutes.

The Thang:

Morning Call
- 2 PAX at a time perform 5 pull-ups (each) on goalpost
- Meanwhile, all other PAX complete 5 hand-release merkins on Q
- Rotate until all PAX have done pull-ups
- By the end, each PAX completed 5 pull-ups and 45 HR merkins
Indian Run
- Double file, 1.25 laps around track, stop at far goalpost
100 yard Jailbreak on Q
- Walk back across field between jailbreaks
- Did 6 jailbreaks
Tunnel of Love x 100 yards
- Divide into two teams, race against each other
- Team #1 completed the 100 yds just as time expired and were declared the winners.
- Team #2 had about 20 yards to go when time expired.

Numberama: 19

Namerama: Hard Drive, Dorothy Mantooth, Tackleberry, Stringbean, OG, A-Rod, Free Willy (respect), Fra-gee-lay, McDreamy (respect), Diopter (respect), Big Diff, Flat Tire (FNG – welcome!), Captain Ron, Thin Mint, Daisy, Klondike (respect), Cheetah, Dri Prime, Luigi

Announcements/Prayer Requests:

Men’s Hike: Open to all F3 men. Interest meeting Aug 4 at 6pm at The Den (Freedom Church). Hike would be Oct 10-13. Contact Saget (Carson Orvin) or Olaf (Matt Brown) for more info.
Tackleberry: Prayers for Stomski family; baby died 5 days after birth with no warning. Processing, searching for answers.
Flat Tire: Fat tire biking opportunity. Sunday, July 28, 10am. Dirt patrol ride at Marrington Plantation off of Red Bank Road. Group ride with 14 mile loop. Flat Tire and his friend Skip will be there.

Pledge and COT

Devo

YHC has been re-reading a book on personal productivity called What’s Best Next (by Matt Perman), and challenged the PAX with three quotes from it:
1.) “We weren’t made to simply respond to stuff all day, but to take action and move things forward. If we don’t give attention to the discipline of personal effectiveness but instead let the flow of events determine what we do, we will likely fritter ourselves away doing all sorts of urgent things that come our way while never getting to the truly important things.” (p.21)
- Challenge: Take action and move things forward today.
2.) Efficiency is not the answer. “It doesn’t matter how efficient you are if you are doing the wrong things in the first place. More important than efficiency is effectiveness – getting the right things done.” (p.43)
- Challenge: Make sure you’re getting the right things done.
3.) Excluding God is the ultimate in unproductivity. “If you get everything you want in this life, but do it apart from God and receive no eternal value from what you’ve done, have you been productive? Not in the slightest. Productivity cannot be accomplished apart from Christ. ‘I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing’ (John 15:5).” (p.56)
- Challenge: Make sure the things you’re doing have eternal value and won’t die with you.

Moleskin:

YHC learned yesterday that The Jones should expect an influx of up to 30 PAX with the Tour de Charleston, so modified the workout to be couponless for simplicity. Everything seemed to work well. Each jailbreak + walk-back took about 2 minutes total. The PAX loved/hated the workout. 🙂
Welcome FNG “Flat Tire.” Before we even got to the naming part of the COT, he spoke up during the announcements to share a fat tire biking opportunity, and thus was named. He’s a Coast Guard member who has a 10-month-old baby at home. Lives in Summerville. Captain Ron brought him.

The Warrior – June 2019 (Beast Week)

When: 20190627
QIC: Luigi
The PAX: Dorothy Mantooth, LottaLove, Hard Drive, Saget, Cheetah, Bedpan, Tinder, Masterload, Gypsy, TKO, Blackout

2019-06-27 by Luigi Leave a Comment

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

Conditions: Low 70s, sunrise during workout, humid. Due to Beast Week, numerous PAX came immediately from Bedrock or The Ditch for a double-down.

FNGs: None

The Thang:

We did our monthly fitness test, The Warrior. The PAX have 40 minutes to complete the following:

Run 1 mile, then
AMRAP (as many rounds as possible)
- 5 pull-ups (on goalpost)
- 10 merkins
- 15 squats
- Run 120 yards (to opposite goalpost)

Fitness test results (compare against May’s results):

Saget: 23.35 (first time) – with BJDD – NEW COURSE RECORD!
Hard Drive: 22.34 (vs. 20.212 in April, finished 12 squats) – with BJDD
Dorothy Mantooth: 19.30 (vs. 19.00 last time)
Luigi: 19.33 (vs. 20.35 last time)
TKO: 16.20 (first time) – with DJDD
Bedpan: 16.00 (vs. 16.30 in August 2018) – with DJDD
LottaLove: 16.00 (vs. 16.37 last time)
Cheetah: 13.00 in 33 minutes (vs. 18.00 in 45 minutes in June 2018) – with BJDD
Blackout: 12.00 in 33 minutes (first time) – with BJDD
Gypsy: 10.00 (first time) – with BJDD
Masterload: 10.00 (first time) – with DJDD
Tinder: 9.00 (first time) – with BJDD

*BJDD = Bedrock-Jones double down; DJDD = Ditch-Jones double down

Here’s how to read the decimal scoring (each set of exercises adds one tenth):

10.00 = finished ten rounds exactly
10.04 = finished ten rounds plus 4 pull-ups
10.10 = finished ten rounds plus all 5 pull-ups
10.205 = finished ten rounds plus all 5 pull-ups, all 10 merkins, and 5 of the squats
10.30 = finished ten rounds plus everything except the run
10.40 = 11.00
Hopefully you get the picture. 🙂

Numberama: 12

Namerama: Dorothy Mantooth, LottaLove, Hard Drive, Saget, Cheetah, Bedpan, Tinder, Masterload, Gypsy, TKO, Blackout, Luigi

Announcements/Prayer Requests:

Tonight (Thu, June 27) at Accelerator – doing the Incinerator at 6:00pm
Tomorrow (Fri, June 28) at The Den – doing King of the Corner at 5:00am
Tomorrow (Fri, June 28) at Tsumani – doing The Shark at 5:45am
In one week (Thu, July 4) at The Ditch – doing 4th of July convergence at 6:00am
Prayers for TKO – doing funeral at 5pm tonight for family whose 16 year old son committed suicide Saturday night

Pledge and COT

Moleskin:

Dorothy Mantooth completed the fastest mile today at 6:57.
We were able to use the field again for the first time since December 2018, which was nice. We also tried out a new-and-improved scoreboard that YHC constructed last night from a discarded 3’x4′ dry erase board. It worked okay but the dry erase pens started to konk out midway through due to moisture, so we need to find a fix for that. However, it’s nice to have space for up to 30 PAX and up to 30 rounds completed – lots of room to grow!

5 – 11 – 7

When: 20190620
QIC: Flo
The PAX: Dorothy Mantooth, Hard Drive, Cheetah, Sakrete

2019-06-20 by Flo Leave a Comment

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

Conditions: 74 degrees

FNGs: None

COP:

SSH, Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies, Don Quiote

The Thang:

Reverse Usain Bolt including Burpees, Merkins, Monkey Humpers, Carolina Dry Docks, Calf Raises

Farmers Carry two blocks per PAX over to the bleachers.

11’s with Step-Ups w/the block and Merkins on the block

7’s with Curls for the Girls and Calf Raises (Bear Crawl and Crab Walk in between)

Throw in a few Block Presses and Flutter Kicks for good measure

Mary: WWI Sit-Ups, WW2 Sit-Ups, Freddie Mercury, Captain Thor

Numberama, Namerama, Announcements, Pledge, COT

Devo:

1 Samuel 14:7: “Do all that you have in mind,” his armor-bearer said. “Go ahead; I am with you heart and soul.”

Jonathan was going to take on the Philistines against very heavy odds with just him and his armor bearer. His armor bearer was with him “heart and soul.” What an encouragement! Do you have a fellow brother who is willing to battle beside you with his heart and soul? If not, start building those relationships by seeking to be that person for a man you know. F3 isn’t just about fitness, fellowship and faith are also key components. We need men around us, battling with us in the trenches.

Moleskin: A party of five today. T-claps to Sakrete and Cheetah for doing the BJDD. Strong work men. There was a good bit of mumble chatter to keep the crew laughing during what seemed like an innumerable number of step-ups. Hard Drive forgot his gloves… which apparently happens frequently. Thanks for the opportunity to lead men!

Water Logged

When: 20190604
QIC: Cheetah
The PAX: Masterload, Motherboard (R), Spooky (R), Hard Drive, Spaceballs Wingnut

2019-06-04 by Cheetah Leave a Comment

Intro: YHC was wondering what to do today when his old buddy Hard Drive suggested that we do some upper body heavy. Since the rain came, logs were added for extra suck.

Weather: Rainy

FNGs: None

COP:

Touch your toes: PAX count to 20

Right foot over left: PAX count to 20

Left foot over right: PAX count to 20

TTT x10 IC

PAX went and grabbed blocks and logs and went to the spiderweb at the playground. Left 3 blocks there to use during pull-ups. Returned to edge of field near parking lot.

THANG: DORA

One PAX would perform an exercise, while the other would carry a log to the playground, do 5 pull-ups with feet on the block and return to partner.

100 OHP

200 Peter Parker’s (these were harder than expected, and will be used again)

300 Lulus

grab the blocks from the playground and return coupons to the hut.

MARY: (kinda)

Tricep Dips x10 IC

Numberama: 7

Namerama: Cheetah, Motherboard (R), Spooky (R), Masterload, Hard Drive, Wingnut, Spaceballs

Pledge Prayer Announcement

Moleskin:

The rain couldn’t keep us down. The logs added enough suck along with the Peter Parker’s.

3 HIM ITG

When: 20190523
QIC: Cisco
The PAX: Dorothy Mantooth, Hard Drive

2019-05-23 by Cisco Leave a Comment

Intro:

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

Weather Conditions:

Partly Cloudy, mid 60s

FNGs:

None

COP/Warm up:

Grab two blocks per PAX and farmer’s walk to far end of the field ~ 130 yards.

The Thang:

11’s: Hanging Knee raise – on Q (or toes to the bar) | Overhead clap while on your face – 4 count IC.
(4 pull-ups OYO -> Army Crawl ~10 yards -> lateral jump over blocks 4x OYO -> Army Crawl ~10 yards) – Rinse and repeat 4x
Farmer’s Walk back to the shed ~ 130 yards. Stow blocks.
One Leg Dead Lift – 4 count IC x10 each leg
Banana Roll Right – 4x IC
Flutter Kick – 10x IC
Banana Roll Left – 4x IC
Flutter Kick – 10x IC
Banana Roll Right – 4x IC
Flutter Kick – 10x IC
Banana Roll Left- 4x IC
Flutter Kick – 10x IC
One Leg Dead Lift – 4 count IC x10 each leg

Mary:

20 second BTW – on Q

COT:

Numberama; Namearama; Pledge; BOM.

Devo:

1 Corinthians 13:2 (ESV)

²And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

Moleskin:

Got a little dirty today, but probably nothing compared to what’s to come on Sullivan’s Island this Monday.

F3 Charleston Convergence:
May 27, 2019 @ 7:00 am – 8:00 am | 2101 Pettigrew St, Sullivan’s Island, SC 29482