Preblast June 2, 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: Icebox 

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

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

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

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

5:30-6:15 | Thursday Alternatives | La Madeline (La Madeline) | Q: Rump Roast

FRIDAY:
5:30-6:15 | Bootcamp Workout | Moss Haven Elementary School | Q: F150

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

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. #SYITG

Doubletime… sort of

PAX: Draper, Gold Digger, Sally, Tater Tot

QIC: Alright Alright

A small crowd gathered on Monday morning for a nice humid run. Everything went well for the first 1/2 mile of the run.  And at that point the group got split up, and took some new routes.  One PAX learned that running out to Skillman and back is not the most efficient route.  But he found his way home.  We all enjoyed fellowship and some enjoyed cervezas after the run.

It’s 2019, Everyone’s a Winner

DATE: Friday 5/31/19

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA:
PAX: Teasip, Coach K, Draper, Rump Roast, Sweet Baby, Stingray, F150, United, Peppa, Alright Alright, Icebox, Sambuca
QIC: Sally

AO: Caruth Park
F3 DISCLAIMER & WELCOME: Given – also noted that there would be competitions today but that the goal of the workout is to get stronger, faster, and more resilient, not to beat guys (friends) in something meaningless 🙂

WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x20
IST x 15
Run from one end of parking lot to the other at 50%, 75%, 85%, and all-out

THA THANG:
Mosey to tennis court

Circle up, count off 1-2

Team 1 vs Team 2 in a timed points contest
PAX had the choice of:
1 lap around the short loop (outside of the tennis court),
20 catcher squats, or
20 hand-release merkins

Completing 1 round of an exercise was worth 1 point. PAX could not do the same exercise twice in a row.

PAX were informed that “the losers had to do burpees.”

Go.

After ~10 minutes, we tallied up the scores. Team 1’s average score of 11.714 points beat Team 2’s average of 11.5 points.

Team 2 had to do 10 burpees, and Team 1 had to also do 10 burpees, but with two jumps at the top :).

5 count

Circle up; partner with the man across the circle from you.

Partner sprint relay competition

One partner planks on the endline/baseline while his partner sprints to the other endline/baseline (across both courts) and back.

Each sprint down and back was 1 point.

After ~4 minutes, AlrightAlright and United’s score of 13 sprints beat the several other teams at 12 and 11. They were allowed to select “15 of any exercise”; they chose burpees.

At this point the tennis instructor guy was ready to get going, so we moved to the curb on the far side of the tennis court.


Wheel(/?World) of Merkins

Starting with Irkins (hands on the curb, feet in the street), PAX did 10 merkins.
Then rotate 90 degrees clockwise and put your left hand on the curb, right in the street. 10 merkins.
Rotate 90 degrees clockwise again and do 10 derkins.
Rotate the final 90 degrees and do 10 merkins with your right hand on the curb, left in the street.

10 count


Wheel(/?World) of Legs

Similar to the above with merkins, but this time starting with your left foot on the curb and right in the street – a lunge position. 20 squats/lunges.
Rotate clockwise, this time feet shoulder-width apart, with left leg on the curb and right in the street – uneven squats. 20.
Rotate clockwise, put right foot back on curb, left in the street. 20 squats/lunges.
Rotate the final 90 degrees, right foot on the curb, left in the street, 20 uneven squats.

Brief Rings ‘N Things

3 groups:

First group does 10 pull-ups

Second group does 15 derkins

Third group runs around the tree (“that tree”) and back.

Move to the next station. Go through all once.

MARY:
PAX’s choice:
Penguin crunch
Protractor
Uptown crunch

Sally’s choice:
Dr. W’s


CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Gave thanks for the men around us and for all of our blessings, asked for direction and guidance, and prayed for comfort for those in affliction.

MOLESKIN:
Great turnout for a Friday with 13 guys.

Competition is a great way for guys to push themselves, as long as it doesn’t turn into a negative. Guys did great today and it never (okay maybe only a couple times) got too intense.

Wheel/World of Legs required some dynamic thinking which YHC failed… by putting the right leg up on the 3rd exercise, we essentially did uneven lunges with the “left leg up” twice.. YHC recognized this fact when his left quad started shaking.

“Hip Hop Workout” on Spotify was a less vulgar playlist than YHC’s last Q. Still had some drops here and there but overall a better balance between “Go HAM” and “oh my goodness”

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
1. Hit up the chat about QSource today.
2. Coach K’s Amazing Race tomorrow. It is a good time and a great workout, make it out if you can!

Second Choice Thursday’s with Rump and Co.

Date: 5/30/2019

Count-off & Name-O-Rama:
PAX: Sweet Baby and Chairman Mao
QIC: Rump Roast

AO: Burleson Park
F3 Disclaimer & Welcome: Given

Warm-O-Rama:
IST x20 IC
SSH x20 IC
Toy Soldiers x10 IC
Groiners x10 IC
Side Lunges x10 IC
Lunges x10 IC

The Long Way Around (mosey perimeter of the park) with You pick em’  — legs or arms at the corners…
@Chairmain went with arms = 14 Ranger Merkins OYO
@Sweet Baby went with legs = 25 squats OYO
YHC went with arms = 14 Hand Release Merkins OYO

Tha Thang:
Drill Instructors!!!
On the Q’s command; rapid transition thru any combination of –
“On Your Feet” – Choppin’ feet
“On Your Six” – Holding legs 6″ off the ground
“On Your Face” – Holding High Plank
“Down” – Holding down Merkin position
“Up” – Back to High Plank

Moseyed from Soft-Top back to the east end of the park roughly half-way around for the “Wheel of Merkins” x5 IC

From Wheel of Merkins, we went into “Leg Day”… Starting at the east end of the park, we did each exercise followed by a down and back to the big tree.

Bonnie Blairs x20 OYO
Gorilla Squats x20 OYO
Bobby Hurley’s x20 OYO
Squats x20 OYO
Lunges x20 OYO

Mosey to the tennis courts. At this point, the Q is winging it… I decided to do my own version of Lazy Dora going backward. Since there were only 3 of us and limited time left we went with lower reps and no partners. 

Each set followed by Bear crawl across both courts and back –
100x Squats
75x LBC’s
25x Merkins

Circle of Trust (CoT):
Once again, thank you for the guys that came out for another #2ndCT. I would like to see more guys join us and take the Q or give me any ideas to improve it. I tried to equal out the legs vs. arms beat down this week and will continue to try and come up with new ideas. YHC prayed us out.

Moleskin:
There wasn’t a ton of mumblechatter today, and I’m not sure if it was the intensity of the work out this morning or more the lack of “umph” on all 3 of our parts. Once we got going, it was a solid work out. Thanks to @Chairman Mao helping me make the call to make the run in between the leg-day exercises longer. I was trying to wimp out!

Announcements:
Q Source on Friday/ tomorrow around 1130am, location TDB

Memorial Day Murph

For the fourth straight year, we gathered on Memorial Day to remember those that have lost their lives for this country by doing the Murph.

PAX: Coach K, Teasip, Aaarrrggghhh, Ant Man, Chairman Mao, Splash, Sally, Gold Digger, Draper, Cinco

QIC: Alright Alright

The Murph

1 mile

20 rounds of 5 pull-ups/chin-ups, 10 merkins, 15 squats

1 mile

With temps in the high 70s and humidity at the same level most of us struggled through this one. Chairman smoked it though. Coach K wore a weight vest again, and beat his time from last year by about 10 minutes. Impressive stuff.

Another Brooks Koepka Major…

On Sunday May 19th, Brooks Koepka won his 2nd consecutive PGA Championship, and his 4th major in his last 8 tries. As many of you know, every time he wins a major YHC leads a celebratory workout.  In the past these “celebrations” have been focused on getting the PAX’s arms to look like Brooks’. This workout was a little different. We celebrated each of his PGA Championship victories by trying to work through each round.

PAX: Double D (from The Fort), Coach K, Ina, Draper, Pepper, Rump Roast, Oatmeal, Sally, Ant Man, Pow Pow, FNG Tater Tot (formerly known as Andrew Webb)

QIC: Alright Alright

Warm-o-rama

PAX rotate doing maximum pull-ups while other PAX do the following exercises…

SSH x29

IST x29

Overhead Claps x29

Monkey Humpers – not 29

Merkins – not 29

Mosey to Quad also known on this day as Bethpage Black

Partner up for Dora

272 reps for each exercise (the number of strokes Brooks had in this victory); other partner runs to flag pole and back

Plank Jacks

Gorilla Squats

Alternating Shoulder Taps

Mosey to Parking Deck to relive Brooks’ 2018 PGA Championship victory at Bellerive.

This victory took Brooks 264 strokes, so we did that many reps of each exercise, or tried to.  No one was able to complete these.  The other partner ran up two ramps and back down.

Pickle Pounders

Groiners

Alabama Prom Dates

(These exercises were selected because Tiger was Brooks’ toughest competition in the 2018 PGA Championship)

This workout was particularly tough because it was a large number of reps of exercises that we don’t do very often.  Let’s keep mixing these in.

Welcome to Tater Tot, and #tclaps to Pow Pow for another EH.  Dude is killing it.

The Rump

Date: 5/23/2019

Count-off & Name-O-Rama:
PAX: Sweet Baby and FNG “Goose”
QIC: Rump Roast

AO: Burleson Park
F3 Disclaimer & Welcome: Given… Sorta

Warm-O-Rama:
Cotton Pickers x12 IC
Crab Cakes x12 IC
Ranger Merkins x12 IC
IST x20 IC
SSH x20 IC

Moseyed down Durham St to Rosedale. A niiiiiccceee quite street for little work.

Tha Thang:
Ascending Curb Crawl
Bear crawl from 1 side of the street and turn and complete 1x Derkin, then back across and 2x Derkins to 13.

Moseyed on down to Dublin St. and made our way back to the Tennis courts for some “Bodies Hit the Floor”
While playing “Bodies” by Drowning Pool
Start/hold plank when “Bodies Hit the Floor” – Donkey Kick against the back wall (26 total)
When song counts “1,2,3,4” do Merkins (21 total)

Run DMC’s
Omaha’d here and went inside the fence around the tennis courts rather than outside
I had Some Best of – Run DMC on the playlist for this one.
20x Diamond Merks
20x Merks
20X Carolina Dry Docks

Mosey to the soft top for some circuit work
were only 3 of us so we did each station OYO
5x Pull Ups
10x Squats
5x lunges (each leg)

The Rump:
10x Ranger Merkins
10x Up straddle hops
10x Merkins
10x Prisoner Get Ups
With a run across the field and back in-between each exercise like during benchmark day.

Circle of Trust (CoT):
Thanks to the guys that came out and posted with me for the second installment of #SecondChoiceThursday. I would like to see more guys join us and take the Q or give me any ideas to improve it. I know I’m beatdown! Way to get better men; Rump prayed us out.

Moleskin: I pulled up at about 0527 and thought that I might just be posting by myself! FNG John showed up and Sweet Baby made it in right at 0529:57! Started out and did our warm up and wasn’t until our run and start of Ascending Curb Crawl I gave the F3 Disclaimer and mentioned AA would be disappointed in me! Between the running and Rump having some tunes going the whole time there wasn’t a lot of mumblechatter.

Announcements:
Q Source on Friday around 1130am, location TDB

Preblast May 19, 2019

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

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is f3dallas-300x300.jpg 

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 at Taco Joint in Preston Center.

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: F150 

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

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

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: TBD

5:30-6:15 | Alternatives W/ Rump | La Madeline (La Madeline) | Q: TBD

FRIDAY:
5:30-6:15 | Bootcamp Workout | Check Twitter | Q: TBD

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

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. #SYITG

Inaugural “Second Choice Thursday”

Date: 5/16/2019

Count-off & Name-O-Rama:

PAX: Sally, Sex Panther, and Sweet Baby
QIC: Rump Roast

AO: Burleson Park

F3 Disclaimer & Welcome: Given

Warm-O-Rama:
Mickey Mouse Merkins (WDW) x 6 OYO
Cotton Pickers x 10 IC
Ranger Merkins x 14 IC
IST x 20 IC

Took the long way around w/ x10 “you pick em’ merkins” (Any merk variation you can think of)

Diamond – Rump’s pick
T-Merks – Sweet Baby & Sex Panther’s pick
Superman’s – Sally’s Pick

Tha Thang:
Drill Instructors!

    On Q’s command, rapidly transition thru any combo of below movements:

On your feet (standing chopping feet)

On your six (holding 6” leg lift)

On your face (hold high plank)

Down (hold 6” / bottom of merkin)

Up (back to up)

Mosey to Tennis courts (had to Omaha to the B-ball court, apparently, people actually play tennis at 530am in the morning)

Bear crawl merkin’s  OYO
4ct exercise  //  3 x bear crawl, 4th is merkin
Hands should be staggered during merk
½ way down the court
Bear crawl the rest
½ way bear crawl merk
Crawl bear the rest

Run length of the park to the “Wheel of Merkin’s”
(Grab some curb 10x Erkins, stay in plank and rotate 90 degrees clock-wise, one hand on the curb, one hand not x 10 Merkins, rotate another 90 degrees to a Derkin x10, then another 90 degrees to the opposite hand on the curb. 40 total)

Moseyed back to B-ball court

Lazy Dora (an estranged and despised retaliative of Dora 1-2-3)

Partner UP
100 Merkins (PAX seemed tired of Merkins so we changed it up… Omaha’d these to Burpees)
P1 10x Merkins/ P2 Plank it out

200 LBC’s
P1 20x LBC’s / P2 6” Leg holds / or Flutters

300 Squats
P1 25x Squats / P2 Squat hold

Due to time we got 60x burpees, 120x LBC’s, and finished out the workout with 3 minutes of squats. 

Circle of Trust (CoT):
Thanks to the guys that came out and posted with me for the inaugural #SecondChoiceThursday I feel like 4 PAX showing up on a Thursday morning to put their faith in me is awesome. Way to get better men; Rump prayed us out.

Moleskin:
I pulled up to Sex Panther sitting on a table and feet up on the bench, looking like some kid out of a random 80’s movie at the skate park after the lights had come on and all the other kids had gone home to eat dinner. sally showed up next and it was time, was there just three of us..? AND… Ummm, hey guys playing tennis at 530am in the morning. Didn’t you realize I was planning to use those courts?

We got started and made the disclaimer and got started with the Mickey Mouse Merk’s which seem to promptly get everyone’s attention. I did forget to explain the “get up” in between reps and didn’t realize myself until it felt awkward! After the Warm-O-Rama I let DJ Google (Cardio Hip-Hop) playlist take over. Sally, Sex Panther, and YHC were finishing our mosey around the park when Sweet Baby finally decided to show up! For which I was thankful for as I had Lazy Dora planned which works waaay better with partners. I was impressed with the turn out on a Thursday morning, I hope this to be a weekly “Second Choice Thursday” moving forward.

Announcements:
Q Source tomorrow @ 1130, usually Preston Center-ish

The Ticket Campound Meets F3

DATE: 5/7/19

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA:
PAX: Pow Pow, Draper, Oatmeal, Sex Panther, Special Sauce, Icebox, Teasip, Rump Roast, Aaarrrggghhh, Coach K
QIC: Alright Alright, Pepper

AO: Glencoe Park
F3 DISCLAIMER & WELCOME: Given

WARM-O-RAMA:
None

THA THANG:
F3 Power Hour, instead of a shot of beer every minute on the minute, do a burpee every minute on the minute for the duration of the workout.

Exercises done as a team to reach either 1310 reps or 967 reps. Each PAX does his own (up to 110 or 81) then helps others reach their number.

Carolina Dry Docks to 1310

Alabama Prom Dates to 1310

Merkins to 967

Plank Jacks to 1310

Overhead Claps to 1310

Uptown Crunch to 967

Nipplers to 967

Dips to 967

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Working together as a team is how F3 is supposed to work in every area of our lives. Never forget this.

MOLESKIN:
Draper received his name because he is in advertising, so we immediately went to Mad Men.