Start your weekend by getting a Sunburn

QIC: Sunburn

Date: 05/18/2019

PAX: Fastlane, Bubbles, Sidewinder, ThreeSkin, Mustang, RugDoctor, Mrs. Baker, 9 Volt, Sidekick, Schnitzel, Transplant

AO: The Battery


Conditions

Perfect, not too hot, not too cold


COP

Mosey around the dog park to the far end of parking lot. SSH, Forward Fold, Mountain Man Poopers, Willie Mays Hayes, Imperial Walkers, LBAS, LBAS-Reverse, Overhead Press, Seal Claps

The Thang

Mosey around park to playground.

3 Rounds: 20- Big Boy Sit Up’s, 20-Werkins, Dips, 20-Air Squats, 20-Merkins – Run up and around Playground

Mosey to Hill around park to hill. Lung Up hill to parking lot.

Lunges across parking lot and back

Bear Crawl across parking lot and back

Burpee Broad Jumps across parking lot

3 rounds of wall jumps

Mosey to bottom of hill: Bear Crawl up hill

Mosey down top side of playground

20 Pull Ups on your own

Mosey to bottom of playground to for a round of Mary

Mosey back to starting point. 


COT

Word of the day is commitment. Family

 CIRCLE OF TRUST: The terminating stage of each Workout, wherein the PAX form a circle and conduct Counterama, Namerama, Announcearama and the Ball Of Man.
BALL OF MAN: Congregation of two or more men in physical contact, usually (but not exclusively) in the prayer that terminates the COT. Abbr: BOM]


Moleskin

[The “Moleskin” aka the “NAKED-MAN MOLESKIN” is the portion of the Backblast in which the Q describes interesting things about the Workout that are at least partially true.]


News

Upcoming Murph


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    Tour de Landfill

    QIC: Skitch

    Date: 05/18/2019

    PAX: Chelms (Willy Loman), The Count, Fissure, Fly-by, Geek Squad, Goose, Hasbro, Iron Butt, Ringwald, Prosciutto, Snowflake, VSquared, Whittler

    AO: Landfill


    Conditions

    Clear and sweat-worthy warm before we wrapped up. No real gloom to speak of really.


    COP

    SSH x 25 IC, Forward Fold IC, Imperial Walkers x 20 IC, Finkle Swings x 10 each leg OYO, SSH x 20 IC, Merkins x 15 IC, Plank 20 secs, Plank Jacks x 20 IC

    The Thang

    Tour de Landfill

    (A) Lunge to restrooms, Wall sit, Wall sit with overhead press x 30 IC;

    (B) Mosey to bottom of hill midway across field, Bear crawl up hill, Hold plank, Werkins x 10 IC, Plank Jacks x 10 IC;

    (C) Indian run around field, then Bernie Indian run from field down to playground pavilion, 40 dips OYO;

    (D) Lunge to tall playground, climb to top area (up climbing wall, steps, ladder, etc.), toe merkins until all up on playground, down pole or slide, walk to base of rocks on hill;

    (E) As a group find and pick up extra rocks at the bottom of hill and place rocks higher up hill to restore erosion control measures;

    (F) Hold plank at top of hill, plank jacks x 15 IC, hill/mountain climbers x 15 IC, merkins x 10 IC, walk to top pavilion;

    (G) Decline merkins x 10 OYO, dips x 30 OYO; incline merkins x 10 OYO;

    (H) Mosey to lower rock source by road, all PAX but one select coupon and remaining person holds trashbag for plogging (picking up trash while jogging – it’s a Swedish thing), Indian run plogging down to dog park and up to base of big hill and when reach front of line, swap out coupon for trash bag (incentive for plogging: PAX was cautioned that 100 Big Boy Situps were waiting for them during Mary and each piece of trash picked up would decrease count of Big Boy Situps by 1);

    (I) Bear crawl up the big hill, crawl bear down the big hill, 10 merkins OYO, 20 Imperial Walkers OYO, 30 overhead press or tricep extensions, etc. with coupon OYO;

    (J) Run up the big hill, walk down the big hill, 10 merkins OYO, 20 Imperial Walkers OYO, 30 overhead press or tricep extensions, etc. with coupon OYO;

    (K) Indian run plogging + coupons back to lower rock source by road to return coupons;

    (L) Mosey to top pavilion, Bernie across length of field, jail break back;

    (M) Mary: only 20 Big Boy Situps after estimation of 80 pieces of trash collected, flutter kicks, Freddie Mercury, dealers’ choice x 3 including 10 burpees OYO. Time.


    COT

    A brief history of Landfill. It was a landfill for Red Bank – White Oak community from 1955 to 1976. In 1997, contaminated water was found leaking from landfill and site was capped with several layers of clay and then dirt and grass. In 2002/2003 the park was built/opened. In 2019 a group of men did an F3 workout and encouraged each other as men and leaders. In 2019 a group of men looked for opportunities to restore things that are leaking “contaminated water” (e.g. in marriage, family and friend relationships, work, etc.) and work to restore them into new things that bring encouragement. Seeing restoration (like a landfill transformed into a park) leads to thankfulness which leads us to seek more restoration.

    BOM after prayer requests.


    Moleskin

    The gate was closed. The restrooms were closed. Some of PAX held it for the workout. The Q found a restroom alternative and some kudzu TP (that is kudzu not poison ivy, right?). The Q tripped and shotput a coupon nearly taking out a fellow HIM. Geometry lessons on hill length of hypotenuse v. shorter side of triangle conducted by Geek Squad. The hill is still really big, no matter how you slice it. It’s covering 2 decades of junk, after all. Plogging is jogging + plocka up (picking up) trash — it’s a Swedish thing.


    News

    Memorial Day Murph. Fallen Five Memorial rucking/workout event coming in July.


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      The Three Effs

      QIC: Fissure

      Date: 05/16/2019

      PAX: Blindside, Laces Out (Respect), Red Tees, Fabio, Iron Butt (Respect), Loan Shark, Free Candy, Hobo, Moneyball, Sidekick, Sunburn (Respect), Prosciutto, Skitch, She Shed, VSquared, Uncle Fester, Sunshine

      AO: Hill City


      Conditions

      Upper 50’s.  One might even say crisp.


      COP

      Mosey through the Coolidge stage, around the Coolidge Park loop then to the Great Hall

      • SSH x 20 IC
      • Merkins x 5 IC
      • Overhead Squats x 10 IC
      • Werkins x 5 IC
      • Big Boy sit-ups x 15 single count
      • Overhead Lunges x 10 IC
      • Imperial Walkers x 10 IC
      • SSH x 20 IC

      The Thang

      Mosey to the Coolidge Park stage.  PAX divide into two teams. Team 1 performs prescribed rep count of the exercises below while Team 2 Indian Runs the loop. Teams switch, then Rinse and repeat for three rounds.

      • Merkins
      • Squats
      • Werkins
      • Big Boy Sit-ups
      • Lunges
      • Imperial Walkers

      Round 1: each exercise x 10, single count; standard Indian Run

      Round 2: each exercise x 15, single count; Indian Run with last man dropping for one Burpee before sprinting to front

      Round 3: each exercise x 20, single count; standard Indian Run for two laps

      With the PAX nice and winded we met back at the Great Hall.

      Burpee broad jump together across the Great Hall then lunge back
      Bear Crawl across lunge back
      Crawl Bear across lunge back
      Sprint across lunge back x 3

      Mosey back to the parking lot 


      COT

      Quick refresher on the three F’s.  Fitness, Fellowship and Faith.  Fitness and fellowship are pretty self explanatory, but Faith gets trickier for some.  F3 doesn’t subscribe to a specific religion.  It’s open to men of all faiths.  Faith plays a big role in leadership for (most) good/great leaders have a belief in something outside of themselves.  A higher power.  Read Freed to Lead.

       


      Moleskin

      Prosciutto (essentially my co-q today) and his team were administered a 5 burpee penalty for trying to avoid the prescribed burpees for finishing the first Indian run lap before the other team’s reps.  Keep in mind my team had to do burpees for finishing our first lap too quickly so it came out a wash.

      Prosciutto then decided to break up his team’s 20 rep round in half.  More slack was given to the Salty Italian for making things a tad easier.  Turns out he was just thinking of his squad.  Props to the co-q.  All in good fun and Prosciutto takes a joke with the best of them.


      News

      Memorial Day Murph at The Dame 5/27 0700

      Fallen Five ruck event 7/13 0500 at recruiting center.  Registration soon (cost covers patch)


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        Diamonds Are Forever (Or at least they feel that way)

        QIC: Rug Doctor (R)
        Date: 05/15/2019
        PAX: Deep Dish, Fastlane, Mrs. Baker (R), 9 Volt (R), Sidewinder (R), WuzntMe
        AO: The Battery


        Conditions

        Dry and cool 52°F


        COP

        Disclaimer: We’re all veterans here but you’re here voluntarily and if you go into cardiac arrest or stub your toe we’ll get you to your vehicle or call in Lifeforce.
        Mosey around the Dog Park and back to the flags.
        SSH IC x 12
        Imperial Walkers IC x 12
        Little Baby Arm Circles (Forward and Reverse) IC x 12
        SSH IC x 12
        Mosey around the Dog Park and back to the flags.

        The Thang

        Four cones were set up about 100 feet apart in a baseball diamond pattern on the grass around the flags.  The Pax all gathered at the first cone to begin.
        Title of exercises or routine
        First Round: 7 Burpees at Cone 1, 2, 3, and 4. Running in between each cone.
        Second Round: 14 Merkins at Cone 1, 2, 3, and 4. Running in between each cone.
        Third Round: 21 Lunges (both legs count as one) at Cone 1, 2, 3, and 4.  Running in between each cone.
        Fourth Round: 28 Big Boy Sit-ups at Cone 1, 2, 3, and 4.  Running in between each cone.
        Fifth Round: 35 Air Squats at Cone 1, 2, 3, an 4. Running in between each cone.
        Sixth Round: 42 Mountain Climbers at Cone 1, 2, 3, and 4.  Running in between each cone.
        Seventh Round: 49 SSH at Cone 1, 2, 3, and 4.  Running in between each cone.
        Had time to begin at the First Round again and went through another round of Burpees.
        Mary:
        7 Freddie Mercury’s
        7 Crunches
        7 Hello Dolly’s
        7 Leg Lifts
        7 Dead Cockroaches


        COT

        CIRCLE OF TRUST: Find someone to be kind to today.  It is small random acts of kindness that can have a tremendous impact on someone.
        BALL OF MAN: Prayers for Fastlane, his wife, and her grandmother as they provide care for her.


        Moleskin

        I don’t think the PAX really enjoy this workout as they frequently referred to me as several colorful expletives during the Q.


        News

        Convergence at The Dame Memorial Day for Murph.
        Hero WOD “Zachary Keller” at The Battery the Saturday before Memorial Day.


        Find the Stairs and Catch the Hares

        QIC: Mr. Clean

        Date: 05/15/2019

        PAX: Early Bird, Milkman, Ohms, She Shed, Sidekick, Vila, Whittler

        AO: Lion’s Den


        Conditions

        56 degrees (perfect marathon temp). Clear. Low humidity.


        COP

        SSH x15 IC

        Forward Fold x15 IC

        Imperial Walkers x15 IC

        Willie Mays Hays x15 IC

        Plank x15 IC

        Pike x10 IC

        BAC x15 IC

        Reverse BAC x15 IC

        Moroccan Night Club x15 IC

        Shoulder Press x15 IC

        The Thang

        Ohms arrived sometime during the COP (way to be an awesome dad), after making sure his 2.0 was taken care of. We moseyed back to his truck for some coupons. Moseyed back to the bleachers for the following routine.

        No Elevator…Take the Stairs
        Pax partnered up. One suitcase carried a coupon to the top while the other completed exercises in the Dora format.

        100 Merkins

        100 Inverted Rows

        100 Dips

        100 Shoulder Press (Pax used coupon for Presses and explorer got a “break”)

        Tortoise and the Hare
        Pax stayed with the same partner. One Pax completed an exercise while the other moseyed. In increments of 10, the Pax did the following…

        100 Squats

        100 Monkey Humpers

        MOM


        COT

        Shield Lock, iron sharpening iron, and/or accountability is a foundational principle of F3. YHC forgot that a bit over the few weeks after my second son was born…YHC was reminded, it hurt for minute, then it motivated me. Thanks Pax for supporting each other. Additionally, the challenge this week, as presented by Vila, “don’t be casual with the HC”


        Moleskin

        Oddly enough, it was very low this morning…

        I did hear a passing runner say…”you can just hold it for me”

        The construction guys partnered up as did the former Gordon Lee guys


        News

        Memorial Day Convergence — “The Dame” (Chickamauga Dam) 0700 Startex

        Fallen Five Memorial Ruck — 07/13/2019. Registration will be live this week.


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          Better By Fear

          QIC: VSquared

          Date: 05/14/2019

          PAX: Iron Butt, Sunburn, Durk, Vila, Ducktales, She Shed

          AO: Boneyard


          Conditions

          Nipply


          COP

          Warm Up:

          1. Imperial walker x30
          2. Willie Mays Hayes x12
          3. Rise & Shine Yoga Sequence (via Vila)
            1. Forward fold x12
            2. Downward dog x12
            3. Upward dog x12
          4. Side startle hop x50 (last x10 double time)
          5. Mosey around baseball diamond then to little workout place.

          The Thang

          The Murph Scares Me; So Let’s Get Prepared
          The Simple(r) Mini Murph
          (A Dora based exercise between a group of 3 Pax)

          1. One Pax will run around the playground area.
          2. A second Pax will be doing as many LBCs as possible in during that lap
          3. The final Pax will be pumping out as many of the following exercises as possible to reach the allotted number of each. The Pax will tally their numbers to get there.
            1. Pull Ups (x100)
            2. Merican’s (Push Ups)(x200)
            3. Squats (x300)(modify up by doing them on the wobbly base)
          4. Mary: mosey back to Circle and call out other men to lead. We got in six different sets of core excercises this morning!

          COT

          Because some things are worth preparing for God gave us fear.

          It’s really quite simple. We wouldn’t do shit unless we saw something in it for us. This helps us survive in many cases, but can also prove to be a barrier to addressing areas of our lives that are unhealthy. Fear is produced by various things that trigger us emotionally and we have a fight, flight, or hide choice at that moment. There are undoubtedly times to all of those responses, but fear is particularly notorious for giving us reason to run when we should fight, or try to engage something when we really need to just sit there in it and let it pass.

          Identify it, examine it and the effect it has on you (repeat if necessary), seek the best way you can respond to that situation that is triggering you and what would actually motivate you to action, and then do it. This sentence long process can and will take a lifetime of slowly learning one thing then another about our fearful hearts and unlearning and learning various aspects of truth and how it applies to our lives. This is the process we must fall in love with, though until heaven will always find our selfish finite selves in tension with.

          The ultimate place we see this need for becoming connected to the process is in our sanctification from a sinful heart and flesh, and the motivation that drives it is found in the gospel that both makes it possible by propitiation and imputation (look those words up!). That one man had enough empathy and fear for another to whom He owed nothing that He gave his life for that other men – for all other men. We are called to fear that which we had to be made holy before and that our sinful bodies are not capable of not sinning and disappointing our great and merciful God.

          So what we do out here is small, but we come together to fight fears of guilt, shame, loneliness, sadness, bad health – all of these and more have driven us to prepare by attendance; by doing the hardest part of getting out of the bed each morning we work out. And that sets the precedence for the rest of our day(s). May we not operate without fear, for where would any motivation be found!? Get to know yourself, and let us interact with fear well as we come away with a motivation that won’t as easily falter.

          Cheers to a fear-filled day – HIM!


          Moleskin

          Don’t challenge the old guys to a pull-up contest. Damn.


          News

          Murph and Fallen 5 Ruck; see Slack for details.


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            We up’d our average, so…

            QIC: threeskin

            Date: 05/14/2019

            PAX: Flemish, Goose, Hobo, Red Tees, Skitch, Sidekick, Sunshine

            AO: Hill City


            Conditions

            Coldest day of May

            Disclaimer

            Just in case anyone forgot.

            COP

            SSHs – in-between everything x 10 IC
            Imperial Walkers x 10 IC
            Good Mornings x 10 IC
            Willie Mays Hays x 10 IC
            Forward Folds x 10 IC
            F3 Arms x 10 IC
            Calf Stretch 
            Mosey

            The Thang

            Blue Rhino Relay

            Team Up: use the loop up Tremont for a timer – fast/slow advantage
            Runner yells switch upon return.  

            Round One:
            Team: Rotate 8 ct BBs while each PAX takes a turn running

            Round Two:
            Rest of team: complete two cycles to win
            Squats
            Imperial Walkers
            Run

            Round Three:
            Rest of team: complete two cycles to win
            Merkins
            Pickle Pointers
            Speed Walk (hahahaha)

            Mary:
            Pretzel Crunch
            Freddie Mercury
            Dying Cockroach 
            Broga


            COT

            Law of the Inner Circle: you are the average of the people you surround yourself with. 
            There are 2 ways to look at this, I you bringing the average up or down? What can you do to affect change?
            CIRCLE OF TRUST: The terminating stage of each Workout, wherein the PAX form a circle and conduct Counterama, Namerama, Announcearama and the Ball Of Man.
            BALL OF MAN: Congregation of two or more men in physical contact, usually (but not exclusively) in the prayer that terminates the COT. Abbr: BOM]


            Moleskin

            Sprints, no matter how many, are difficult.

            Speed Walking is definitely a sport.


            News

            Memorial Day Murph
            Fallen Five Ruck


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              The thriller

              QIC: Ducktales

              Date: 04/30/2019

              PAX: Dirk, Peanuts, Ironbutt, Roadhouse, Whoopi, CANDU, Sidekick

              AO: Boneyard


              Conditions

              Always like the thriller at the boneyard


              COP

              Burpee tuck Jumps 10 oyo

              10 Wide mericans

              15 flutter kicks IC

              Mosey

              10 box jumps up bleachers oyo

              Mosey to the gym

              The Thang

              Circle of Plank
              Pax hold plank in circle 2 at a time did 5 pull ups

              Mosey to Great Wall

              Bear crawl to city food

              10 diamond mericans IC

              Mosey to tennis court

              Karaoke, Bernie, karaoke, mosey 3 times around court.

              Mosey to back of teachers lot

              Pickles were pounded IC

              Seal claps IC

              Another round circle plank


              COT


              Moleskin

              I wanted to cut out 4 minutes early to make a breakfast meeting and sidekick called me out for more pull ups! We pull used and planked till 6:15


              News

              Growruck August 23rd weekend.


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                Soundtracked

                QIC: ducktales

                Date: 05/02/2019

                PAX: hasbro, She shed, u turn, truck yeah, geeksquad

                AO: the Huey


                Conditions

                We are in perfect condition, in preparation for weezer at river end we rocked out to their whole album of covers.


                COP

                SSH ic 18

                Windmill ic 18

                Little baby arm circles ic 18

                Reverse ic 18

                Shoulder preempt ic 18

                Squat turn punches ic 18

                Mosey to start thing

                The Thang

                At she sheds VQ he blew my mind with the way he used the Huey space. The bleachers ! We have been to the park 100s of post and driven by even more and had not thought about them.

                Step up box jumps
                stepped up a row with each leg, then box jumped the last row up. 10 oyo

                Mosey to wall

                Wall set joe Fraser 18 IC

                10 Mericans IC

                Wall sit Muhammad Ali 18 IC

                10 mericans IC

                Mosey to shack

                10 Decline mericans IC

                On sit bus driver 18 IC

                10 incline mericans IC

                Mosey to tennis courts

                Karaoke, Bernie Sanders, karaoke, mosey 3 times around court

                Mosey to back street

                We back street boys did diamond pushups at the 4 way

                Mosied up side street and a dog started barking fiercely, thankfully for the 6 cujo was one a cable.

                Met up at the laundry mat, did squats

                Mosey back to big flag and SSH 18 IC

                10 burpees


                COT

                Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving. Colossians 4:2


                Moleskin

                1st birthday Q and it was a smokefest.


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                  Relay For Strife

                  QIC: Sidekick

                  Date: 05/13/2019

                  PAX: Threeskin, Whittler, Prosciutto, Sparky, Fast Lane, Early bird

                  AO: Beast Ridge


                  Conditions

                  57 With a bit of a Nip in the air


                  COP

                  SSH ICX30; Willie Mays Hays ICX15; Slow Squats ICX15; Forward Fold ICX15; Mercans ICX12; Left over Right ICX10; Right Over left ICX10; Seal Claps ICX15; Alabama Ass Kickers (Auburn Variety) ICX15; Shoulder Press ICX15

                  Grab the Corn and Mosey to Soccer Field

                  The Thang

                  Relay for Strife

                  Broke up into two groups.

                  Round 1

                  Pax 1 – Run a lap of defined distance and route

                  Pax 2 – Ircans

                  Pax 3 – Box Jumps with Corn on your back (Step ups to modify)

                  Pax 4 (where applicable) – Hold Al Gore

                  When runner gets back, rotate forward in the PAX count.  Repeat until all Pax have completed each leg

                  Round 2

                  Pax 1 – Run a lap of defined distance and route

                  Pax 2 – Dips

                  Pax 3 – Squats with Corn on your back (Step ups to modify)

                  Pax 4 (where applicable) – Hold Al Gore

                  Round 3

                  Pax 1 – Run a lap of defined distance and route

                  Pax 2 – Dercans

                  Pax 3 – Lunges with Corn on your back (Step ups to modify)

                  Pax 4 (where applicable) – Hold Al Gore

                  AmeriCORN Challenge

                  Each Pax takes a turn of Mercans to failure with corn on your back

                  Mosey to flag to drop the corn

                  Mosey to Pavilion for modified Mary

                  Super Dips ICX20; Box cutters ICX15; Super Dips ICX15; Rosalita ICX15

                  Mosey to Flag

                  Time


                  COT

                  F3 Chatt is growing! Don’t get complacent.  Keep the momentum moving forward.  Visit other AOs.  I went to 5 AOs last week and did not even get to Hill City.  lots of good workouts to share both internally and externally to F3.  None of which are too far to drive to.


                  Moleskin

                  I didn’t catch most of the MC this morning.  so not real sure what was said.  PAX seemed to have a good time though and it was nice to have some salty meat and a German dictator with us this morning. 


                  News

                  Murph at the Dame! 5/27!


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