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Mutt Ruck Monday

Backblast – July 8th, 2019

AO: Flagpole Hill – Normal route

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA:
PAX: Icebox, Coach K, Ultra, Griswold (FNG Drew Larson – Welcome!)

So YHC accidentally signed up to Q both workouts this morning and did not know he had done so (technical difficulties with the website). Apologies for any confusion and for missing the preblast.

(Fabricated) Mumblechatter: PAX spent time getting to know Griswold and then discussed the weather.

Welcome and happy 40th birthday to Griswold! He lives way out in Flower Mound (Alright Alright asserted that no one is actually from Flower Mound). It sounds like he wants to plant a workout closer to home, so that’s more opportunities to #giveitaway. Name given because he owns an RV (if you haven’t seen National Lampoon’s Vacation from 1983, then shame on you).

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Three’s Company

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA:
PAX: Draper, Sally
QIC: PowPow

AO: Burleson
F3 DISCLAIMER & WELCOME: Given

WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x 15 IC

IST x 15 IC

Cotton Pickers x 13 IC

Mosey to Dallas Hall

THA THANG:

Dora 123: Partner 1 runs up and down stairs in front of Dallas Hall four times while Partner 2 performs the exercises:

100 Merkins / 200 LBCs / 300 Squats

7 of Diamonds: PAX perform 7/14/21/28 reps of an exercise at each corner of a diamond, laid out on the quad in front of Dallas Hall. Movement from corner to corner was a mix of moseying, partner carry, bear crawl, carioca and backwards run.

Rounds:

7 – Burpees

14 – Ski Abs

21 – (Skipped for time)

28 – Calf raises

Mosey back to soft top at Burleson

Burpees x 15 OYO

MARY:
Freddie Mercury x 10 IC

Uptown Crunch x 10 IC each side

Sweat Angels x 10 IC

Dr W’s x 5 IC

Flutter Kicks x 10 IC

LBCs x 20 IC

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
YHC thanked Sally and Draper for joining me this morning and for their commitment to accelerating themselves and others. The DRP (Daily Red Pill – daily commitment to accelerate the 3 Fs) is impossible to sustain unless one teams with other men.

MOLESKIN:
Today was YHC’s 43rd post since starting F3, and lately YHC has been an enthusiastic listener of the 43 Feet podcast from F3 Nation – so the workout included a total count of 43 in the Warm-O-Rama and 43 burpees.

With a group of just three men working out mumblechatter was more like 2nd F…when we could breathe enough to say anything. An older couple walking through the quad laughed at us and gave us thumbs-up as we partner carried/bear crawled past them, we must have looked pretty weird.

YHC was a bit preoccupied with the plan for the workout, due to it being my 2nd ever Q for a bootcamp workout, so a lot of mummblechatter was about that. This one will be coming back again, for sure.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
1. We need a Q for #DoubleTime on Monday
2. Fort Worth launch on Satur …. wait no, you missed it.

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F3 Fort Worth Launch

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA:
PAX: Manhole (FNG Dave), Rocket Man, Pipe Dream (FNG Ryan), Snooki (FNG Craig), Rump Roast, Arachnophobia (FNG Austin), Beaver, Round Up, Carnitas (FNG Brian), Chuck E. Cheese (FNG Tony), Griswold, El Oso, Oatmeal, Hercules, Edible Arrangement, Cinco, Fabio (FNG Caleb), Duff (FNG Dan)
QIC: Alright Alright

AO: Bayard Friedman Tennis Center (Fort Worth needs to name this AO)
F3 DISCLAIMER & WELCOME:  Your Humble Correspondent gave the full unabridged version.

WARM-O-RAMA:
Mosey to the Track

Side Straddle Hops x20

Imperial Storm Troopers x15

Overhead Claps x50

Monkey Humpers x5

Burpees x5 On Your Own

THA THANG:

Bataan Death March: 3 lines of men.  Run around the track with runner at the back of the line doing 3 burpees then running to the front. Repeato until 2 laps around the track have been completed.

Dora 123: Partner up. Partner 1 runs while Partner 2 performs the exercise.  Flapjack and repeato until the pair has completed the following exercises:

100 Burpees

200 Merkins

300 Lunges – single count

Bear crawl down the stairs to the parking lot.  Modification: Lunge down ramps

Bear crawl across parking lot back to Shovelflags.

MARY:
Little Baby Crunches x15

Flutter Kicks x10

90 Degree Crunch (Hercules) x10

Low Dolly (Oatmeal) x10

Rosalita x15

Nolan Ryan x7 each side (one for each of his no-hitters)

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Naming was fun, as always.  

Manhole – went to Cal Berkeley. The city of Berkeley is removing all gendered language from city code.  Manhole was one of the more ridiculous changes.

Pipe Dream – sells pipes.

Snooki – announced to us that he’s originally from New Jersey.

Arachnophobia – went to University of Richmond, home of the Spiders.

Carnitas – sells pork.

Chuck E. Cheese – works in real estate for CEC (Chuck E. Cheese corporate).

Fabio – we were between that and Rapunzel.  You have to see the locks to believe them.

Duffman – food and beverage distributor.  Duff Beer is Homer Simpson’s beer of choice.  Duffman is their spokesperson.  

MOLESKIN:
YHC didn’t hear too much mumblechatter today.  Could be because the PAX were winded.  Or it could be that they weren’t comfortable harassing the stranger that was leading them through a beatdown.

The field was full of divots and holes from javelin and shot put practice, so we had to be careful and there was some grumbling involved. 

Rump Roast did look at me in the middle of Dora and say “I hate you.”  Which is the response YHC was looking for during this workout.

Round Up was drinking coffee before the workout, and YHC mentioned that we might see that coffee again.  YHC was unable to run it out of him though.

Your Humble Correspondent was grateful that the PAX left Snooki to be YHC’s partner.  That saved YHC a lot of merkins. 

Thank you all for welcoming our crew from Dallas and for all that you’re doing to get F3 Fort Worth started.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
1. Workout on Friday at Overton Park at 0530
2. Workout on Saturday at Bayard Friedman Park at 0630

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Q3 Benchmark Week: The Murph

PAX: Special Sauce, Plus One, Teasip, Rump Roast, Sex Panther, Pow Pow, Jazzy Jag, PAX from Cherokee, Stingray, F150, Sally, Major Applewhite (FNG: Jeff Koerner)

Q: Alright Alright

Warm-o-rama:

SSH x15

IST x15

Tha Thang:

The Murph

Run 1 mile

20 rounds of 5 pull-ups, 10 push-ups, 15 squats (Totals of 100, 200 and 300)

Run 1 mile

Done for time

Results:

Alright Alright: 33:28

Special Sauce: 32:18

Pow Pow: Just started 2nd mile

Teasip: 39:41* – finished the last half mile after COT

Sex Panther: finished first lap of 2nd mile

Rump Roast: Completed exercises

Stingray: finished 1/2 of 2nd mile

Major Applewhite: 1.5 miles and 10 rounds of reps

Jazzy Jag: finished 2nd mile after COT

Sally: 3 laps of 2nd mile at 41 minutes

F150:

Circle of Trust: 

YHC prayed us out.

Naked Man Moleskine:

We named FNG Jeff Koerner Major Applewhite because he is a football coach and we thought it was a great name.

Sorry for the delay on the backblast.  3 in 3 days got the best of me.

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The Open Championship… on the SMU Track

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA:
PAX: Sally, Draper, Special Sauce, Pepper, Ina, Pow Pow, Plus One, Aaarrrggghhh
QIC: Alright Alright

AO: SMU Track
F3 DISCLAIMER & WELCOME: Given

WARM-O-RAMA:
Mosey to the track

THA THANG:
Run the distance of each hole of Royal Portrush with PAX choice exercise at the beginning of each hole.  When PAX complete the hole, they complete as many reps of the exercise as they can before the Six arrives.  If reps=par for the hole it counts as a birdie for the individual, if reps=2xPar it counts as an eagle.  Any hole that isn’t completed counts as a bogey.  As a group we completed the first 12 holes.

Hole Par Yards
1 4 421
2 5 574
3 3 177
4 4 482
5 4 374
6 3 194
7 5 592
8 4 434
9 4 432
10 4 447
11 4 474
12 5 532
13 3 194
14 4 473
15 4 426
16 3 236
17 4 408
18 4 474

 

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No running, no fun??

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA:
PAX: Rump Roast, Sex Panther
QIC: Oatmeal

AO: Burleson Park
F3 DISCLAIMER & WELCOME: Given

WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x 15 IC
IST x 15 IC
Windmills x 10 IC

THA THANG:
Mosey to soft top
3x sets of the following:
Squat ups x5 (Squat pull ups)
Hip slapper merkins x5
Step ups x5

CLIMB
Five rounds of the following starting reps x1, 2, 3, 4, 5, flapjack exercises (burpees first on rd 2) reps x2, 4, 6, 8, 10.  Flapjack exercises each round increase reps x3, x4, x5 to finish!
-Crab cakes
-Lunges
-Iron crosses
-Merkins
-Burpees

Mary
Dr W’s x10
AL Prom Dates x24
Homer/Marge x12
Sweat Angels x12

To finish for a twist, YHC changed playlist and put on Thunderstruck by AC/DC where at each “thunder” PAX performed a Bobby Hurley to bring down the thunder.  Seal jacks were YHC’s choice to keep the heart rate up in between the rumbles.
YHC then changed music genres to round out the workout to “My Humps” by the Black-Eyed Peas and had the PAX perform a monkey humper at each mention of hump.  Fortunately for PAX the pain lasted less than 90 seconds, but YHC intends to add this to the set list in the future. 

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
YHC prayed us out.

MOLESKIN:
When YHC asserted there would be no running in this workout, the PAX expressed doubt.  @RumpRoast even said his workouts have some amount of running in them.  The lack of running intrigued/scared the PAX, especially coming from YHC.  The three rounds of exercises that opened the workout was a changeup that helped warm up the PAX for the CLIMB.  YHC introduced squat ups and hipslapper merkins, the latter of which should not be completed using the swings unless you play at Expert level!  YHC suggests the hipslapper merkins become a regular in the rotation. 

Any mumble chatter during the CLIMB was slowly replaced by midwife groans and expressions of love for the iron crosses.  This turned out to be much more taxing than YHC had thought during his planning of the workout.  Par for the course!  Next time however, there will be a CLIMB down to go along with the CLIMB up (a good idea for a Saturday workout). 

Finishing with Thunderstruck and My Humps completely worked the PAX over, but it was the seal jacks over the BH’s that got the most complaints.  PAX didn’t get in enough monkey humpers to start howling with enjoyment.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

    Q Source on Friday @ Preston Center
  • Marathon Team #2 has open spots. Sign up now. Cost $83.  Let’s get a third team started soon!
  • FTW workout this Saturday. Clown car leaves at 6:00a from Burleson Park and will return around 10:00a.

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#DoubleTime Monday – Conquering the Hill

07/15 #backblast

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA:
PAX: Sweet Baby, Draper, Sally, Ina, AlrightAlright, Coach K, Special Sauce, Icebox, Sex Panther, PowPow
QIC: Pepper

AO: Flagpole Hill

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER:

WARM-O-RAMA:

THA THANG:
Warmup run to the hill on the back side of the normal route. Run the hill 4x, 30x merkins at the bottom, 30x sweat angels at the top, OYO. Once everyone finished, run back to the start with a minute to spare.

MARY:

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

MOLESKIN:
Heard the peacocks asking where their fearless leader Gold Digger was this morning on our warmup run to the hill; we could feel their disappointment in our response. Complaints were heard about the number of reps, otherwise mumble chatter was low this morning. #tclaps again for Draper winning VQ week, who received his reward this morning.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Glencoe workout tomorrow with Coach will meet at Glencoe’s northwest corner. Q-Source Wednesday evening and Friday afternoon.

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Burleson Omaha

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA:
PAX: Ina, Pow Pow, Oatmeal, Chairman Mao, Pepper, Sex Panther, Special Sauce, Rump Roast, Icebox, Teasip, Sally, Capsize, Isaiah, Coach K
QIC: Plus One

AO: Burleson Park
F3 DISCLAIMER & WELCOME: YHC provided the disclaimer and welcomed the PAX to the beat down.

WARM-O-RAMA: 

SSH x 20 IC

IST x 15 IC

Windmills x 10 IC

THA THANG:
Mosey to parking lot

Dora

Bear Crawl to Light Post & Run back

Merkins x 50

LBC x 100

Squats x 150

Lunge to Light Post & Run Back

Freddie Mercury x 100

Low Flutters x 200

Low Dolly x 300

Mosey to playground

Son of  Bench

Dips x 12 IC

Irkins x 12 IC

LBC x 12 IC

Dips x 8 IC

Irkins x 8 IC

LBC x 8 IC

Dips x 4 IC

Derkins x 4 IC

LBC x 4 IC

Mosey to field

Ahoy Sailor

Burpee Dan across field (8 forward lunges to 1 burpee)

Dan Burpee across field (8 backwards lunges to 1 burpee)

Mosey to tennis court

Merkin ring of fire (total of 75 merkins or 5 per PAX)

Burpee abroad jump across courts

Duck Walk back across

Carolina Dry Docks x 12 IC

Lunge across tennis courts

Dora Quacks Like a Duck

Duck Walk across the courts and Walk Duck back

Merkins x 100

mosey to playground

MARY:
Freddie Mercury x 12 IC

Lance Armstrong (or slightly modified) x 12 IC (both sides)

Homer to Marge

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
YHC prayed the PAX out.

MOLESKIN:
The PAX were obviously disappointed that Le Tour was to be postponed, but hopefully the Omaha served as a good beat down for a Saturday.

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Hot Box ROF

Backblast 0700 workout on Friday 7/5/2019

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA:
PAX: Oatmeal, Sex Panther
QIC: Rump Roast, Sally

AO: Burleson Park
F3 DISCLAIMER & WELCOME: Given

WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x 20
IST x 15

Mosey around the big loop at Burleson, stopping at each corner for PAX’s choice of squats, merkins, and Mary.

THA THANG:
Mosey to the parking deck and down into the basement, where @Rump Roast had set up a reincarnation of @Icebox’s Christmas Ring of Fire workout.

Ring of Fire:
9 “stations” arranged in a circle, with the following corresponding exercises:

Merkins
Squats with weight vest
Weighted jump rope
Burpees
Shoulder pulses with baby weights
Lunges
Ski Abs
Big Boy Sit-ups
Bobby Hurleys

PAX picked a station to start at and performed that exercise for 1 minute. After a 15-second break PAX rotated to their next station.

After the 9th round was completed, all PAX took a lap up to the ground floor of the parking deck and back down into the hot box.

We repeato’ed this whole routine once.

MARY:
Done in the workout

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Done.

MOLESKIN:
This was the 0700 option workout for the day after the Fourth of July. #tclaps to Rump Roast because he also went to the first workout.

During the second round of ROF, PAX suggested each other’s starting point, which was fun.

Mosquitoes are shockingly very bad down in the hot box.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
1. Top Golf was great. All had a good time. HBD to Sex Panther.
2. Come out to a QSource Group. It will become very worth your effort.
3. Fort Worth workout this Saturday 7/20

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Preblast July 14, 2019

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

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Upcoming this week:

Q Source Groups 

  • Wednesday nights at 6 PM at Chick-fil-A on Hillcrest (across of SMU).
  • Friday for lunches at 11:30 AM in Preston Center, Location TBA.

Q Source Groups are a great place to learn and explore the leadership philosophy of F3. We meet to improve our leadership skills for the benefit of our families, workplaces and neighborhoods. The philosophies are based on timeless principles, they are also useful for any group that wants to improve the leadership skills of its members.

 

Workouts & AOs:
MONDAY:
5:30-6:15 | Mutt Ruck Monday | Flag Pole Hill (Second Parking Area) | Q: TBD

5:30-6:15 | Double Time (Run) | Flag Pole Hill (Second Parking Area) | Q: Pepper

TUESDAY:
5:30-6:15 | Bootcamp Workout | Glencoe Park AO (Eastside playground) | Q: Coach K

WEDNESDAY:
5:45-6:30 | Bootcamp Workout | Caruth Park AO (Parking lot) | Q: TBD

THURSDAY:
5:30-6:15 | Running Workout W/ Pain Stations | Katy Trail AO (La Madeline) | Q: Alright Alright

5:30-6:15 | Thursday Alternatives | Burleson Park AO (Park on Southside) | Q: Oatmeal

FRIDAY:
5:30-6:15 | Bootcamp Workout | Check Twitter (@f3_dallas) | Q: Alright Alright

SATURDAY:
7:00-8:00| Bootcamp Workout | Burleson Park AO (Park on Southside) | Q: Rump Roast

WEATHER POLICY: 
As Texas weather is never typical know we do workout outdoors and our weather policy is…
1. We don’t cancel for cold, wind, or rain. If possible, we defy the forecast (#Cantore) & POST!
2. We don’t mess with lightning. Lightning will kill you. If there’s lightning, we will cancel or ENDEX.
3. Check Twitter for updates before the workout.
4. #SYITGPreblast June 9, 2019