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Free Outdoor Morning Workouts To Build Community Leaders

Fault Line brick….house

  • When: 20210412
  • QIC: Pretzel
  • The PAX: Peg, Mullet, Caterpillar, X-Ray, AED, Pretzel


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Fault Line. Monday, April 12. Five men joined me for some shenanigans with bricks and running. We Dora’ed, we mini Dora’ed, and we Usain Bolted. It was a quality time with quality men.

Again, I can’t upload an image so here’s a picture of a guy getting kicked in the junk.

Conditions: Low 60s, clear. Real nice.

COP

SSH x2

TTT x 10

Imperial Walker x 10

LBC x 10

The Thang

Dora: Two bricks per person and head to the road. Partner up for a Dora. Running partner runs with his bricks.

100 overhead claps

200 darnits (dammits, but with bricks instead)

300 squats (or lunges)

 

Mini Dora: 50/100/150

 

Return bricks, head to flag for Usain Bolt. Two minutes of Mary to close.

Tennis Court Beatdown

  • When: 20210128
  • QIC: Waldo
  • The PAX: High Stick, Peg, Grits, Hospice, Splinter, Microwave, Space Cowboy, Milton


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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: Cool, breezy, and with light rain near the end of the workout

FNGs: None

COP: SSH x20 IC; TTT x10 IC; SSH x20 IC; Mountain Climbers x15 IC; SSH x20 IC; LBAC forward & backward OYO; Slow mosey around the armory building into the tennis court

The Thang:
-Pax circle around the tennis net…side shuffle to the right around the net, then to the left, changing direction on Q.
-Set of 11s – Squat jumps on one side; high knees IC on the other side; sprint each way between stations.
-LBCs x20 IC
-Go around the tennis court…on the long sides, do sumo squats…on the short sides, do lunge walk.
-Circle around the tennis net and side shuffle on Q again.
-Set of 11s – Squats on one side; Merkins on the other side; Burpee broad-jump from squat station to merkin station; spring back after merkins.
-LBCs x20 IC
-Go around the tennis court…on the long sides, do sumo squats…on the short sides, do lunge walk.
-Side shuffle on Q around the tennis net again.
-Squat jumps x5 OYO, then sprint to other side of court and back.  Repeat until Q says to stop.
-Return to flag

Mary: LBCs x20 IC; Ray Charles x20 IC; Flutter Kicks x20 IC; LBCs x20 IC

Numberama: 9

Namerama: High Stick, Peg, Grits, Hospice, Splinter, Microwave, Space Cowboy, Milton, Waldo

Pledge and COT

Announcements: February Q sheet is up.  Convergence at the Ditch on Saturday.

Devo: Try to keep learning.  Learn new skills and new things.  Learn more about the things you think you know well.

Moleskin: I rarely Q outside of Bedrock, but Microwave asked for some help at Seismic, so I was happy to help out.  I hadn’t worked out at Doty in a while, so I decided to keep it simple and do a cardio/leg beatdown in one small location.  Running around town is a good workout, but you can also do cardio in a small space with the right exercises.  I tried to keep everyone moving and keep the heartrates high.  The mumble chatter got lighter as we went along, so I think I succeeded.  It was great to finally lead the #tipofthespear.

Block Party… sort of

  • When: 20210114
  • QIC: Schrute
  • The PAX: Space Cowboy Splinter Peg Microwave Cannoli Milton Hospice Flo


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Weather : Cold and 38 degrees

numberama: 9

warm up:

Side straddle hops

Through tunnel
Imperial walkers
Don Quixote
Overhead t claps
Little baby arm circles and reverse
Mountain climbers
Bear crawl parking lot lines to end
the Thang:
Jog to block pile
One block with blocks overhead and mosey to corner of Doty park
Max set merkins while two run the block and back
Mosey to corner with block overhead of Doty park
Max set Squats with blocks
Two other run the block and  back
Mosey to corner with block overhead
Max set Damits
Repeat
Max set Repeat forward lunges
And no Mary time expired
note to self the run around the block of Doty Park is a lot farther than thought

Establish A Connection

  • When: 20210112
  • QIC: Milton
  • The PAX: Microwave, Peg, Space Cowboy, Hospice


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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

FNGs: None

COP:

SSH – 20 – IC

Don Quixote – 15 – IC

LBAC Forward – 10 – IC

LBAC Backward – 10 – IC

Overhead Clap – 10 – IC

Bat Wing – 10 – IC

The Thang:

Grab 2 bricks

Mozy to the parking garage (stop to rest with 10 Merkins)

Partner up: Partner 1: Run up the stairs. Across the garage. Down the other set of stairs. Partner 2: Curls for my wife with the bricks. Rinse and repeat 3 times.

Partner 1: Run up the stairs. Across the garage. Down the other set of stairs. Partner 2: Overhead press with the bricks. Rinse and repeat 2 times.

Run back to the AO

Mary: No time

Numberama: 5

Namerama: PAX names

Pledge and COT

Announcements: replace with announcements

Devo: Hebrews 10:25 – not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.

Moleskin:   replace with moleskin

UGA 45 – South Carolina 16

  • When: 20201201
  • QIC: Milton
  • The PAX: Cuz, Microwave, Floppy, Peg, Splinter, Space Cowboy, Schrute, Fanny Pack, Smokey


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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: replace with weather

FNGs: any FNGs

COP:

45 – SSH – IC

16 – Burpees – IC

45 – Squats – OQ

16 – Merkins – OQ

45 – Calf Raises – OQ

16 – Terrible Ts – IC

The Thang:

Mini Dora

139 lunges – 1 for every one of JT Daniel’s passing yards

332 leg lifts – 1 for every rushing yard

Mary:

45 – Crunches – IC

16 – Jane Fonda’s – IC

45 – Flutter Kicks – IC

16 – American Hammers – IC

45 – Freddie Mercury’s – IC

16 – Pickle Pounders – IC

45 – WWI Sit ups – OQ

16 – Heel Touches – IC

Numberama: 10

Namerama: PAX names

Pledge and COT

Announcements: replace with announcements

Devo: replace with devo

Moleskin:   replace with moleskin

The Game of Life

  • When: 20210107
  • QIC: Floppy
  • The PAX: Sugar Mountain, Old Flame, Peg, Milton, Space Cowboy, Splinter, Microwave


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Conditions: 34 and clear

FNGs: none:

Warm Up:

  • Mosey to various spots stopping to do exercises
    • Thru the tunnel
    • Bridges
    • Calf raises
    • Little baby arm circles

The Thang:

  • Go to block pile for coupons
    • Everyone hold low plank and one person at a time retrieves blocks and returns to block plank
  • Go to street with blocks and hold al gore while explaining game
  • Final square is by the stop sign
  • Take blocks to other stop sign and drop them off with the block die
  • Mosey around the block to the starting square
  • Teams each get a die. Roll exercise die, add up the numbers on the street square, and do the exercise that many times.
  • When finished roll the other die and move forward that any spaces
  • Roll the exercise die. Repeat until you get to the blocks we dropped off.
  • When your team gets to blocks switch to die with block exercises
  • First team to finish do running ladders from stop sign to the other team until that team finishes
  • Stow blocks

Mary: we barely had time for a 1 exercise.

Moleskin: YHC tried this weinke about a year ago. There was some tweaks to improve. There’s still work to be done. This weinke will work!

Devo: Yesterday, a large group/mob of Donald Trump stormed and raided the U.S. Capitol. There’s a lot to unpack in our nation. We all have different religious, political, etc. views. Bi-partisanship has done a lot to dictate the thoughts and actions of American citizens. Without calling any one side out I shared 2 Instagam posts from the andcampaign who looks at politics from a Biblical perspective, and left it at that.

Too Many Exercises to Remember

  • When: 20201210
  • QIC: Flo
  • The PAX: Floppy, Peg, Pretzel, Microwave, Space Cowboy, Schrute, Fanny Pack, Milton, Good Times


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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:  43 degrees

FNGs:  None

COP:

SSH, TTT, LBAC, Moroccan Nigh Club, Hillbillies, Imperial Walkers

The Thang:

Grab a block and circle up for four cycles of exercise focused on arms, chest, legs, core, and cardio. We did five rounds with four to five exercise per round. The exercises included: Curls for the Girls, Chest Press, Goblet Squat, Big Boy Sit-Up with Block, Tricep Extensions, Merkins on the Block, Block Squat, LBCs, Lawnmowers, Diamond Merkins, Flutter Kicks, SSH, Sledgehammers, Tempo Chest Press, Hydraulic Squats, Military Crawls, and others…

Usain Bolt to close us out.

Mary:  Dying Cockroach, Superman

Numberama, Namerama, Announcements, Pledge, COT

Devo: At times, a man can reject Christ believing he is too sinful or too far gone to save. The Christmas story reminds us that Christ was born on earth in a stable and placed in a manger for a bed. A stable, where animals lived and a manger where they ate. Both disgusting places to live and sleep. We’re reminded that Christ lowered Himself, in humility, to be our savior. He has already brought Himself to our lowly state to provide us with salvation. No one is too sinful or too far gone to be saved by the grace He offers.

Moleskin: Good mumble chatter among the Pax today. We were reminded that we do curls for Milton’s wife and tempo curls for YHC’s wife. Also, we confirmed Milton’s wife digs legs. A good time was had by all.

The Gathering

  • When: 20201101
  • QIC: Schrute
  • The PAX: City Slicker, DHL, Placebo, Peg, YHC


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Weather: 62 degrees and cool

 

Warm up: waiting for 5AM

 

The Thang: two routes run, Placebo 5K. And the 7 mile rum by the rabbits.

COT: conversation at the outdoor seating of Starbucks

 

The Standard was held

Headlines: Election Day is Here and Flo Channels His Inner Floppy

  • When: 20201103
  • QIC: Flo
  • The PAX: Pretzel, Peg, Space Cowboy, Fanny Pack, Milton, Smokey, Placebo, Sugar Mountain, Microwave


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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:  39 degrees

FNGs:  None

COP:

SSH, TTT, LBAC, Imperial Walkers, Monkey Humpers, Terrible Ts

The Thang:

Today is election day, so YHC came prepared with puns and exercises for the PAX.

Pick and running mate and run for office

  • Partner up. One man runs to the end of the field and back while the other does four-count butt-kickers until the two of you come to the cumulative number of 123 (the number of days Kanye West has been running on the Birthday Party ticket)
  • To run the office and make it to Capitol Hill, you have to climb the mountain. Four-count mountain climbers while your partner runs the field. Keep going until the cumulative number of 33 is hit (number of senate seats up for grabs today)

Swing states

  • 20 Block Swings

Head to the picnic area

  • Every politician wants a seat at the table. Twenty squats so low that your butt hits the bench
  • Core values – some core PT to rest the legs consisting of WWII sit-ups, Spider-man, LBCs, and pickle pounders
  • Every politician needs a platform. We’ll jump to ours. Twenty box jumps

Return to the field and our blocks

  • Sometimes you have to cross party lines to get things done. Ice skaters over the block, 4 count
  • Balance the budget – lift one leg off the ground and complete a single-leg squat low enough to touch your block on the ground
  • Donkey kicks x 10
  • Elephant walk (bear crawl forward twenty yards and then backwards twenty yards)

For Kanye

  • Kanye West is on the ballot in 11 states so we do Jingles’ 11 in his honor (Merkins on the block / overhead presses)

Mary:  WWI Sit-ups, American Hammers, Superman

Numberama, Namerama, Announcements, Pledge, COT

Devo: From Ephesians 2:11-14 – In all of the nastiness, polarization, and division we will likely witness today, recognize that in Christ he has made us one. Through his death and breaks down the walls that divide us and make us one in Him.

Moleskin: YHC remembers fondly an election-themed workout that Floppy did four years ago. Today’s was not as good as that, but it was still fun and got a few laughs and comments from the PAX. Credit to my M for helping me with my weinke last night as today’s workout was developed. Scary moment today when Milton heard his calf muscle pop. Check in on him if you get a chance and make sure he’s ok. Finally, Space Cowboy headed out early to do his civic duty and vote. He and Pretzel also win the day for wearing shorts and t-shirs… Pretzel had the cut-off t-shirt. They are real men.

 

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.