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Stache Away this Country-Western Beatdown

QIC:  Sousa & Mr. Clean

Date: 02/12/2022

PAX: AOL, Geek Squad, M.I.A., Milkman, Ramrod (Respect), Shake N Bake, Shawshank, Toe Jelly, and Uncle Joe

AO: Legacy

Conditions

It was warm enough for silkies, but cold enough for a toboggan. Legacy does have its own way of being deceptively cold.

COP

Led by Sousa
SSH x20 IC
Forward Fold OYO
Willie Mays Hayes x15 IC
Shoulder Blaster — This included a new exercise…. The Lasso

The Thang

There was attempt to keep us moving with a great deal of cardio activity. I failed in one of these areas…
Crawl to the Trough
4 Troughs (benches) at the Legacy playground. Each one had an exercise. They were as follows: Blockees (10 OYO), Leg Raises (15 OYO), Bent Over Rows (20 OYO), and Squat Jumps (25 OYO) — Travel to each trough by Block Bear Crawling.

“Just Need a Bigger Lap”
The next section was a ladder. After each set of exercises we took the small lap around the playground.
10 — Thrusters
15 — Box Jumps (turned into step-ups)
20 — Lat Pull Overs
25 — Dips
30 — Curls
35 — Bench Presses
40 — Monkey Humpers

Oversimplified Dora
Partner up. Complete 50 Burpees together, in sets of 10, and run suicides together until you have both completed 50. Alot of confusion from my explanation, but at least we finished the burpees, and the COT was passed to Suosa.

COT

Delivered by Sousa
Reading the Bible right now, and I recently read the lesson of Peter and his interaction with Jesus on the boat in stormy waters. Jesus convinced Peter to leave the boat and walk to Him. As the waters became more choppy and turbulent, Peter took his eyes away from Jesus and began to sank. However, when he placed his eyes back upon Jesus, he was able to walk again.
When the waters of life are stormy, choppy, and turbulent, we must continue our focus on Jesus; so that we can stay upright in the most difficult times.

Moleskin

Well, the playlist led to significant mumblechatter.
Sousa created and responded to this own mumblechatter.
“Clean, you should have just ran bigger laps” – M.I.A. in response to my complaints that I did not achieve enough movement.
“I hate you, don’t talk to me” – Shake N Bake (apparently he does not like burpees….)
“I can’t stop smelling dog s**t, I think it’s just stuck in my nostrils at this point” – Also Shake N Bake
“Wait, what are we doing? Wait, where are we going? How am I supposed to lead cadence when I am trying to have a conversation?” – Sousa
“I really like Marty Robbins for the playlist. Who is this guy signing now?” – Sousa
“Marty Robbins, Sousa” – Response to the above comment….
The shocking mumblechatter or lack thereof was any reference to Brokeback Mountain…
Even without the precense of Blue, there was an abundance of TWSS jokes.

News

Tuff Muff this Saturday 02/19/2022

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    Abs-olutely, or, Saturdays are for the Core

    QIC:  Full Moon

    Date: 01/15/2022

    PAX: AOL, M.I.A., Sousa

    AO: Legacy

    Conditions

    Not terrible – 39 degrees or so, with a bit of wind from the PAX (YHC included)

    COP

    SSH x20, WMH x10, SSH x20, FF OYO, SSH x20, Tea Time OYO

    Build a dog house* – Ladder of Merkins and Air-Lifts: 1 Merkin, move to knees for 1 Air-Lift, 2 Merkins, 2 Air-Lifts… up to 10 of each – we did not come back down the ladder as PAX (YHC included, again) had had enough.

    Mosey around the path/track of the park, about a mile, stop at the back parking lot for the thang – this is around the time someone almost soiled themselves.

    The Thang

    PAX paired up for an Ab Dora – one performed exercise while the other ran a lap around the building, then switch

    100 Flutter Kick, hard count

    150 Imperial Walkers, hard count

    200 Mountain Climbers, hard count

    250 Freddie Mercuries, hard count

    300 Heel Touches, hard count

    Rinse/repeat the above until…

    Time

    COT

    Stress, and how YHC has been dealing with it lately (hint: not well) discussed. We all have many stressors in life and have the ability to choose our reaction. Typically, the culprit is our reaction, not the situation/issue/etc. itself. YHC mused upon his readings of Stoicism and how this philosophy has helped him in dealing with stress in the past.

    “Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.” — Epictetus

    Moleskin

    *YHC has never attempted this exercise – “If you can’t do it, don’t Q it” may have been mumbled by all

    PAX requested music for the Thang – YHC obliged with a terrible throwback/90’s hip-hop playlist

    “You know it’s a decent workout when Sousa shats himself.” “I don’t think he actually did, so just OK?”

    “I got one ab! Feel it, feel it!!”

    News

    4 AOQ’s on hand… if we don’t know the happenings, what are we even doing?

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      F3 Power Hour

      QIC:  Tatonka

      Date: 06/05/2021

      PAX: AOL, Bung, Dundee, John Doe, M.I.A., Mr. Clean, Ramrod, Snatch, Sousa

      AO: Legacy

      Conditions

      Humid and mid 70’s

      COP

      SSH x 20 IC

      WMH x 20 IC

      LBAC x 10 IC

      Reverse LBAC x 10 IC

      Seal Claps x 10 IC

      Iraqi Tea Time OYO

      The Thang

      Q realizes that “The Thang” wasn’t a full hour but “Power 45 minutes” doesn’t have the same ring to it. Plus, the entire beatdown was an hour long so it still works.
      F3 Power Hour
      Q had a 45 song playlist and shuffled deck of flash cards with exercises written on them. Upon the start of the first song PAX would begin performing first exercise. Every minute a new song would begin playing and Q would reveal a new card with a new exercise written on it. This new exercise would be completed for one minute until the song change occurred. This pattern continued for 45 minutes.

      Exercises completed were:

      Goblet Squats, Step Ups, Toe Merkins, Heel Touches, Kettlebell Swings, Block Presses, Box Cutters, Windshield Wipers, Merkins, Burpees, Bent Over Row, Dive Bombers, Blockees, Side Plank (each side one minute), Pulse Squats, John McCains, Iron Cross, American Hammers, Low Plank, Shoulder Taps, Mountain Climbers, Flutter Kicks, Incline Merkins, Bird Dogs (each side one minute), Dips, Table Saw, Plank Jacks, Bonnie Blairs, High Plank, Squats, Big Boy Sit Ups, Lumberjacks, Decline Merkins, Lunges, Freddie Mercuries, Little Baby Crunches, 100s, Hillbillies, Imperial Walkers, Curls, V-Ups, Side Straddle Hops, Reverse Lunges

      Upon completion of 45 minutes, we closed out with a little yoga from John Doe (AKA yawn doe-ga AKA John Doe-ga

      COT

      I read the following poem by John Donne titled, No Man Is an Island.

      No man is an island entire of itself; every man
      is a piece of the continent, a part of the main;
      if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe
      is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as
      well as any manner of thy friends or of thine
      own were; any man’s death diminishes me,
      because I am involved in mankind.
      And therefore never send to know for whom
      the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

      An island is a separate entity from the mainland, one that is self sufficient and able to support itself without outside influence. Donne speaks to the perils of isolation and the fact that mankind is not setup to be solitary. In order to thrive and survive, we need community. I read another metaphor in response to Donne’s poem further stating that mankind is also like a spider web – an influence on one portion of the web can be felt throughout the rest of the web. Like a web, as we act towards others, both positively or negatively, we send the spider web of life trembling. One act of kindness can influence and encourage another to follow it.

      I spoke to the positive impacts that F3 has had on my life and how I didn’t know I needed it until I was already a part of it. I encouraged the PAX to continue to share F3 with others and bring new people into our community of brothers. Some people need what F3 has to offer more than others, but we all benefit in some way. All it takes is a single positive experience on one person’s life to create a cascading effect that will last a lifetime.

      Moleskin

      Comments were made about the length of the Q’s shorts. In the wise words of WuzntMe the day before when similar comments were made at coffeteria, “Do you want hot pants? Because this is how you get hot pants.” Q is now in the market for even shorter shorts. You did this to yourself gentlemen.

      Sousa did not defecate in his pants, yet he still deemed it a good workout.

      The stars aligned and “Jump Around” played when side straddle hops came up in the workout. Mr. Clean showed excitement and followed the songs directions to a T.

      News

      June 12th convergence at AT&T field with game to follow that night. Families welcome to the game. $25/head for the game. Beatdown is free as always.

      July 16th – Honoring the Sacrifice Foundation Heroes Dinner; guest speaker is Marcus Luttrell (The Lone Survivor). John Doe has posted a link to register on Slack.

      July 17th Fallen 5 convergence and memorial ruck – come to the beatdown, sign up for the ruck, or do both!

      There is a current order for F3 Chattanooga shirts on the MudGear site.

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