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A Tabata for legs

  • When: 20210701
  • QIC: Waldo
  • The PAX: Easy In, Mayhem, Placebo, Peaches, 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: Typical summer morning…warm and muggy

FNGs: None

COP: SSH x25 IC; TTT x10 IC; SSH x20 IC; Imperial Walkers x10 IC; SSH x15 IC; Mountain Climbers x10 IC; SSH x10 IC; Slow mosey around dirt parking lot

The Thang:
-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 – Squats.
-Mosey to the bridge, Tabata #2 – Calf Raises.
-Mosey to the far parking lot, Tabata #3 – Squat Jumps.
-Mosey to the tall wall, Tabata #4 – People’s Chair
-Mosey to whiffle ball field, Tabata #5 – Lt. Dans
-Mosey to smaller pavilion, Tabata #6 – Step ups
-Mosey back to flag

Mary: Got to the flag at exactly 0545…no time for Mary.

Numberama: 6

Namerama: Easy In, Mayhem, Placebo, Peaches, Chum, Waldo

Pledge and COT

Announcements: Saturday rotating workout is at Tectonic this week.  Return of the Ball of Man at the end of workouts.

Devo: Put the same effort into preparation and execution, no matter the size of the crowd.  If you’re a Q, prepare and execute at a high level, whether you expect 3 or 25 pax at the workout.

Moleskin: A Tabata is always a solid workout, especially in humid conditions.  So I decided on a leg-heavy workout today, and timed it out perfectly to hit all of the exercises I wanted to get done.  A great time as always at Bedrock.

Random exercises 12 at a time

  • When: 20210629
  • QIC: Peaches
  • The PAX: Waldo, Mayhem. Easy-In, Peaches


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The weather was clear but very muggy with temperatures in the mid 70s.

Warm up, was BACs, TTTs, DQs, and SSH.

The THANG was a hodge-podge of basic F3 exercises. Two rounds of tectonics fitness test exercises in order. (Burpees, Aussie pull-up, WW1 sit ups, squat jumps, Carolina drydock, monkey humper, American hammer, and mountain climber) All exercises were done in repetitions of 12.
We also threw in a few PAX choice exercises & a couple of mosey runs.
Mary consisted of flutter kicks, EXs & O’s, and a protractor before time was called.

MOLESKIN{ The Q was open Monday so YHC picked it up with no particular workout plan in mind. I simply went through many of the exercises in repetitions of 12 to honor 12 men who died during the battle of Sullivans Island in the revolutionary war.

Devo was you cannot drive a car while always looking in the rearview mirror. Therefore, why live your life if you’re always looking backward in regret.

Final tour de Sakrete 13

  • When: 20210429
  • QIC: Sakrete
  • The PAX: Pink Slip, Masterload, Motherboard (R), Threes Company, Peaches, Space Balls, Cheetah, Placebo (R), Wing Nut, Old Falme (R), Defib


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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 80’S AND SUNNY!

FNGs: None today

COP:  10 TTT IC, 10 Hilbillies IC, 10 LBAC forward and 10 reverse, 10 over head clap, 10 moraccan night clubs

Thunderstruck plank merkins  (run on this one is going to be from the grass by where the blocks are store over to the sidewalk in between tennis courts and back)

The Thang:

Separate in two groups.  Group 1 begins jog around the long part of the park.  Group 2 goes the opposite direction.  When the 2 groups meet up execute the following

5 burpees IC; 10 merkins on Q, 15 WW1 situps on Q, 20 squats on Q, 25 LBC on Q.  Continue running the same direction.  Every time you meet up do the exercises.  Rinse and repeat for 4 meet ups.

Stay in your groups and meet on the road that runs in front of the senior center.  Group 1 heads around the block in one direction while group 2 heads the other.  Indian run race.  Finish line is the entrance to Doty park parking lot on Hickory.  Stop Indian run and enter park.  One lap around the park at your pace.

1 minute and half of WW1 Situps.  One set of failure.

Mary: Thunderstruck plank merkins.

Numberama: 12

Namerama: Pink Slip, Masterload, Motherboard (R), Threes Company, Peaches, Space Balls, Cheetah, Placebo (R), Wing Nut, Old Falme (R), Defib, Sakrete

Pledge and COT

Announcements: Charleston Stair climb.  Father’s Day workout is in the works.  Memorial Day Murph.  Follow the page for future updates.  

Devo: Gave my testimony again.  Keep pushing gentleman.  This group works.

Moleskin:   The few times I have either Qed or attended a BC @ Accelerator we have met in the grass on the far side of the park near the gazebo.  Well there were kids practicing soccer there.  Would have been difficult to do a BC with them there so we relocated to the grassy area by where the blocks are stored.  My first time Qing 2 workouts in a day.  However, that wasn’t the greatest feat of the day.  Cheetah attended 3 BCs and a liquifaction.  BJDDAL (Bedrock-Jones DD, Accelerator and Liquifaction)  Dude is a stud.  Speaking of studs.  THREES COMPANY HELD PLANK FOR 4 DIFFERENT PLAYINGS OF THUNDERSTRUCK WITHOUT BREAKING PLANK ONCE!  A record that can only be tied.  Great work men.  Always enjoy posting at accelerator just rarely works out with my schedule.  It is a different animal working out in the afternoons.  I’ll take the sun not being out.    Thanks again for playing along gentleman!!

A Bad Batch of Exercises

  • When: 20210504
  • QIC: Waldo
  • The PAX: Easy In, Mayhem, Shooter McGavin, Snips, Swinger, Chowdah, Peaches, Fish n Chips, Three's Company


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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

FNGs: None

COP: Slaughter Starter (Burpees x20 OYO); TTT x10 IC; Mountain Climbers x15 IC; LBAC forward & backward OYO

The Thang:
-Grab a block and return to the circle
-“Back in Black” – On your six with the block behind your head as an anchor…the AC/DC song ‘Back in Black’ is played.  Through the song, keep legs up at 6 inches, and do an Iron Cross every time the word ‘Back’ is said during the song.  Try and hold as long as possible…if you reach failure, get back into it ASAP.
-Gather near the entrance to the dirt parking lot w/ the blocks and divide into two groups.  One person from Group A does a Farmer’s Carry w/ 2 blocks around the dirt parking lot.  While he’s doing that, the other members of Group A run back and forth from the entrance to the light pole on the right.  Group B does an exercise (the first exercise was curls).  When the person returns from the Farmer’s Carry, a member of Group B then does the Farmer’s Carry and the the two groups switch tasks (Group B runs back & forth, while Group A does curls).  Repeat until each man does the Farmer’s Carry.  But change the exercise after each group has done it once…After curls, it was calf raises, then flutter kicks, then lawnmowers, then squats.
-Howling Monkeys – Circle up and get into monkey humper position…stay in that position as each person takes a turn doing 10 Monkey Humpers IC.
-Stow Blocks

Mary: LBCs x25 IC

Numberama: 10

Namerama: Easy In, Mayhem, Shooter McGavin, Snips, Swinger, Chowdah, Peaches, Fish n Chips, Three’s Company, Waldo

Pledge and COT

Announcements: We need Qs.  Saturday workout is at Bedrock this week, and still need a Q for that.  Memorial Day Murph workout coming up.  And stay tuned for details about Father’s Day workout.

Devo: Saying that the media or politicians or other people are dividing us is a cop-out.  You can tune out that message…only you can decide whether to be divisive with other people.  Other people can’t make you divisive.

Moleskin: May the Fourth is a big day for Star Wars fans like me…but I couldn’t think of a good Star Wars themed workout, but in honor of the new Star Wars series ‘The Bad Batch’ debuting today, I put together a bad batch of exercises…things I don’t typically like to do, and that really have no connection with each other, but that I thought would be challenging.  I think it turned out pretty well.  And with ‘Thunderstruck’ retired, I wanted to give us another good AC/DC song to eventually hate, so I came up with the ‘Back in Black’ challenge, which proved to be difficult, as nobody got through the song keeping their legs up the whole time.  Also, fun fact…despite being about 45 seconds shorter than ‘Thunderstruck’, they say ‘Back’ more often in ‘Back in Black’ than they say ‘Thunder’ in Thunderstruck.

Q Juice spilled at Bedrock

  • When: 20210313
  • QIC: Peaches
  • The PAX: Sakrete, Placebo, Motherboard, Mugsy, Three's Company, Repo, Cheetah, Wakdo, Easy-In,& Mayhem & YHC.


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PAX: Sakrete, Placebo, Motherboard, Mugsy, Three’s Company, Repo, Cheetah, Wakdo, Easy-In,& Mayhem & YHC.
Weather was perfect with temperatures in the 50s and a bright clear morning.

Warm up began with TTT, a leg length stretch, SSH, BACs & Don Qs.
The Thang was broken down into several parts. The first involved heavy lifting with blocks. A variety of standard exercises. One included a block weighted sit-up routine with hammer situps and sledgehammer.
The next part was running with a competition race between odd and even numbered men. We then Indian ran to the front of the park.
Once at the park entrance, we did back-&-forth incline Merkins and wall dips. We also did 10 cadence Burpees. Mosey ran back to the blocks where we set up a Merkin conveyor belt.
In order to stretch time, we did a few rinse & repeat exercises before doing Mary. The Mary involved situps, flutter kicks, and the protractor before time was called.

Moleskine, the PAX was fairly quiet with limited mumble chatter, however some camaraderie was built with select jabs.

The Devo came from II Timothy 4:3. It talks about people not putting up with sound doctrine and falling into a trap of teachers who tell them just what they want to hear. I emplored the PAX to discern sound teaching to avoid the slippery slope.

It’s Like a Dora…Without the Counting

  • When: 20200822
  • QIC: Waldo
  • The PAX: Peaches, Bob the Builder, High Stick, Motherboard, Microwave, Fish N Chips, Placebo, Mayhem, Nacho Libre, Middle School, Schrute, Three's Company, Double Trouble, Grits, Where Ya At, Show Me, Stalker


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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: Muggy, but not too hot.

FNGs: None

COP: SSH x25 IC; TTT x10 IC; Mountain Climbers x15 IC; LBAC (forward & backward x12 IC); SSH x25 IC; Mosey around a loop starting at the flag, going past the water fountain and bathrooms, down the sidewalk beside the AO, and then back into the park.

The Thang:
-Partnered up based on age (two youngest were partners, and pair up next two guys in age, all the way to the oldest).
-Did a modified Dora…one partner runs the loop that we ran during the warmup, the other partner does an exercise called by the Q…but we don’t count reps…we just do that exercise until I switch to a new one.
-Exercises were merkins, squats, flutter kicks…each round lasting about 6-8 minutes.
-After the flutter kicks, we circled back up and did SSH x25 IC.
-Partnered up based on birth date.
-Did another set of modified Dora w/ new partners…exercises were burpees, squat jumps, and LBCs.

Mary: Held plank for about a minute…that’s all we had time for.

Numberama: 18

Namerama: Peaches, Bob the Builder, High Stick, Motherboard, Microwave, Fish N Chips, Placebo, Mayhem, Nacho Libre, Middle School, Schrute, Three’s Company, Double Trouble, Grits, Where Ya At, Show Me, Stalker, Waldo

Pledge and COT

Announcements: Saturday workouts are the closest thing we have to a convergence right now…so a good turnout is great to see.

Devo: Gave the Bedrock mantra.

Moleskin: I saw that this Q was open, and I had never Q’d outside Bedrock, so I decided to give it a shot.  The AO was a bit chaotic, with FiA having their Olympics and construction blocking off the horseshoe area, but luckily I was able to find a good loop to run to make the modified Dora work.  A good mix of guys from different AOs showed up, and hopefully they got their money’s worth.

Hot and Wet – With a Bunch of Dudes – did I really say that?

  • When: 20200528
  • QIC: Hot Spot
  • The PAX: Middle School, Milton, Peg, Splinter, Floppy, Probie, Peaches, Cannoli, Schrute, Smokey, Inferno, Space Cowboy, Hospice, Goose, Hot Spot


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Conditions: 75 degrees – 100% humidity

Count: 15 Pax

The Thang:

Warm up at C.O.P. – 15 Don Quixote IC, 10 B.A.C. forward IC, 10 B.A.C. rearward IC, 10burpees on Q

Mosy to storage and each pax issued a CMU

Mosy to Faultline area for 5-4-3-2-1-Go

50 lbc

40 leg reps – 20 block squats/20 block calf raises

30 SSH IC

20 merkins

10 block curls

Fun run around outer two tennis courts – return to base

Rinse and repeat – AMRAP until time expires, return CMU and jail break to C.O.P.

C.O.P. – count off, namorama, Pledge of Allegiance, B.O.M.

Devotion: Hot Spot – John 15:13 – Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.

Moleskin: – Welcome back Inferno to the gloom – great push today brother! Middle School continues to get after it – good to see you back brother – still waiting on the mouth of the south to get cranking again!  Please keep Defib in your prayers – he stated he is separated now and it is going to be a struggle.

 

3s and 30s at Radioactive Tectonic – May 1st BC

  • When: 20190501
  • QIC: Peaches
  • The PAX: QC - Roscoe - Spooky - Boombox - EZ Go - Placebo - Woody - Cold Cut - Peaches


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NOTE: YHC began treatment for cancer this week with a schedule of 30 rounds of radiation +3 rounds of chemo; thus the theme for the workout…
It was decided that an extra shot of Q Juice into the chemical mix might be an extra boost… it was!!

The weather was mild and dry with temperatures in the mid 60s

3 warmups – BAC x30, DQ x30, SSH x30

THANG: 3 exercises inside 30 – Began 30 squat-thrusts; paused on the 10th one to do 20 merkins; then continued with another pause at 20 to do 30 mountain climbers; finished to 30 squat-thrusts.
Woody led the PAX around the farmhouse while YHC regained composure.
Performed 3 rounds of Ussein Bolt with a twist: whatever exercise was called by the runner, the remaining PAX had to do 30 reps with runner joining in as he returned. (Note of thanks to Cold Cut who took over the last round with a reverse Bolt when YHC had a surprise chemo merlot)

MARY – 30 Xs & Os, 30 mosquito crunches

Moleskin: A special thank you to Woody and Cold Cut for picking up the Q when YHC fell out due to illness… Everyone worked extra hard and were very supportive during the struggles

Devo – YHC related a story where Picasso’s health situation directly led to a physical that found Peaches’ cancer early. The message is to get your physical and stay healthy before problems develop.

More BLocks at Tectonic

  • When: 20170708
  • QIC: Chowda
  • The PAX: Adjustment (respect), Chum, Hotwire, Borland, Magoo, Shortcake and 1 fng (Cheetah)


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Temps were mild in the low 60s under a clear sky

PAX – Woody, Cold Cut, Placebo, Maj Dad & Peaches

Warmup with SSH, DQ & BAC

THANG – Short indian run followed by 10 merkins.
Each man retrieved 2 blpcks & returned to street setting one block on one side & the other accross the street.
At Block 1 did a 4 ct combo of curl + OHP x 20. Bear crawl to blockb 2 for combo of chest press + flutter kiks. Crawl blk 1 for lawnmowers in tempo x20. Crawl to blk 2 for chopping blocks x20.
Moved both blocs to center of street for ab work including combo of block situp with OHP; and then sledgehanner.
Began to rinse & repeat as time neared an end.
MARY: WW1s, bicycle hammers

Numberamma

Nameoramma

Pledge

Announement & Bom : prayers

A Dry Morning at Tectonic

  • When: 20190415
  • QIC: Sakrete
  • The PAX: Major Dad, Woody, Peaches, Placebo


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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 60’s with a breeze

FNGs: None today

COP: 10 TTT IC; *Leave arms up until instructed to put down* 10 LBAC IC; 10 LBAC Reverse IC; 10 T Claps IC; 10 Moroccan night club.   Drop arms

PLANK/MERKIN TO THUNDERSTRUCK BY ACDC.  HOLD PLANK UNTIL THEY SAY THUNDER.  EXECUTE MERKIN.  IF AT ANY POINT YOU BREAK PLANK RUN OVER TO SIDEWALK AND BACK.

The Thang:

Grab a block and partner up.  One partner farmers carry both block around farm house. While partner 2 runs the opposite direction.  When you meet up execute 10 merkins, 10 LBC, and 10 squats and flop.  Blocks continue in same direction as does runner.

Mary: Ran out of time.

Numberama: 5

Namerama: Major Dad (Respect), Peaches (Respect), Placebo (Respect), Woody, Sakrete

Pledge and COT Loud and Proud (like you have a pair)

Announcements: Easter Convergence (silent BC with breakfast served after); see Major Dad’s post on FB regarding 2.0 at BC.

Devo: 

Return

Don’t tear your clothing in your grief, but tear your hearts instead.” Return to the LORD your God, for he is merciful and compassionate, slow to get angry and filled with unfailing love. He is eager to relent and not punish. (NLT) ( Joel 2:13 )

God invites us to turn our hearts towards Him.  He is filled with love for you.  He is not waiting to scold you for your bad behavior.  He desires your heart and desires a relationship with you.  So don’t delay, turn your heart towards God.  With a humble heart confess before Him and receive His grace.

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Moleskin:  The grass was dry at Tectonic.  Much to everyone’s surprise.  The spot light was out over the patio.  Much to YHC surprise.  Numbers weren’t high this morning but the work put in was.  Great work everyone and thanks for allowing me to lead.