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Ring the Bell, School’s In – 9/24/20

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA:
PAX: Isiah, B cup, Gambler, Sweep (FNG)
QIC: Oatmeal

AO: La Madeleine
F3 DISCLAIMER & WELCOME: Given

WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x 15 IC

Kim Jung Ils x10 IC

Windmill x 15 IC

THA THANG:

Billy Madison workout – From the Exicon: Inspired by Billy Madison’s journey through back through school, this routine involves a running loop and exercise per grade.  For best effects, perform routine on school grounds. Begin with a loop (ideally single-file line leader style) to simulate the grade, followed by an exercise with 12 reps as the exam.  This concludes 1st grade.  Run the loop again, followed by the 1st grade exercise x 12 reps plus a new exercise x 12 reps.  This concludes 2nd grade. Continue with the loop and adding an exercise each time until you’ve completed one loop and exercise combo for each of the 12 grades. 

Exercises were as follows with a lap around the stadium after each round:

Bonnie Blairs

Irkins

LBC’s

Lunges

Yeah Thrusts

Merkins (time ran short at this point so YHC called a jail break back to La Mad)

A…

Had a few minutes when we got back to the parking lot so we did some Homer to Marge and then 6” hold until time

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
YHC prayed us out

MOLESKIN:
YHC had two workouts in mind for the gloom and decided on Billy Madison when Gambler introduced his FNG since it would be a more social/keep us together.  The running exercise combo got to the PAX and there was very little mumblechatter from the get go.  YHC recorded just over four miles and kudos to B Cup and Sweep for making it through a tough workout.  However, YHC determined us to be remedial students since we only made it through the sixth grade, but I was quickly reminded by PAX that the lap was in excess of a normal quarter mile.  So maybe we are just extremely thorough students.  Goal would be to continue training and see how much we can improve.

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CLIMB VQ

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA: F150, Draper, Aaarrrggghhh, Slushii, AlrightAlright, Plus One, Oatmeal, PowPow, Rump Roast, Bleep, Chairman Mao, Icebox, Ultra, Isaiah, Sound Machine, Jazzercise, Sex Panther, Froggy, B Cup

QIC: Classified

AO: Glencoe Park

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER: Given, made regretful ant bite disclaimer, karma below

WARM-O-RAMA: 
SSH X 15 IC
Imperial Storm Troopers x 15 IC

THA THANG:
Short coupon mosey to the field for the CLIMB

Crab Walk short side of the field and run back
     Curls with coupon x 20
     Gasser

Lunge Walk short side of the field and run back
     LBCs with coupon x 20
     Gasser

Inchworm short side of the field and run back
     Iso Squat with coupon x 10
     Gasser

Merkin Walk short side of the field and run back (Ant bite Karma and merkin agony shortened merkin walk to half way)
     Man Maker x 10
     Gasser

Bear Crawl short side of the field and run back
     Bonny Blair x 20

Coupon mosey to the pavilion

MARY: (Q fatigue sets in)
Mountain Climbers x 20 OYO
Penguins x 20 OYO (YHC tries Penguin 6-inches)
WWI Sit-Ups x 20 IC
J Lo × 0

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
YHC prayed us out, thankful for another double digit turn out and asked for strength and fellowship in the coming months. 

MOLESKIN:
Very appreciative to everyone that came out this morning. Workout was supposed to be on the tennis court with motivators in between, but we improvised. Lots of grumble during the inchworm. Ant bite karma on the Merkin Walk. General disgust from pack leaders Aaarrrggghhh and AlrightAlright when YHC called the Merkin Walk when the rest of the PAX was halfway. Rump Roast claimed 7Fs on the scale. YHC was not informed of the beer/claw requirement this morning, which may have been why most of y’all showed up… but beers will be served tomorrow at the harbor!

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Siesta VQ Saturday 8/22 at 7am, followed by 2.0 workout at 9am
F3 Golf October 10 (TX/ou Weekend). Ultra and Mulligan from FTW are Co-Q
Growruck postponed to April 9-10
F3 10 year January 15-17

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Katy Trail:Bridge to Glencoe

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA:
PAX: Alright Alright, B Cup ,Chairman Mao, Gold Digger, Teasip
QIC: PowPow

AO: La Madeline (launch point)
Date: 7/20/20
F3 DISCLAIMER & WELCOME: Given

WARM-O-RAMA:
ISTs and SSHs

THA THANG:
Mosey to the North end of Mockingbird Bridge, which is station #1.  Station #2 is the South end of the bridge. Station #3 is the Northwest corner of Glencoe Park and Station #4 is the Southeast corner of Glencoe.

Station #1 = 5 Burpees / Station #2 = 5 Burpees & 10 Merkins / Station #3 = 5 Burpees & 10 Merkins & 20 Lunges / Station #4 = 5 Burpees & 10 Merkins & 20 Lunges & 40 Situps

The workout was to do the exercises above at the station and then run at typical Katy Trail interval pace to the next station, then do those exercises….repeato etc.

Station order: 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 3 / 1 / 4

On the second station 4 we only ran to station 3 (due to time), but did the full station 4 exercises then interval pace/all you got back to station 2 and then from there mosey back to La Madeline with time for 5 more burpees.

Totals: 40 Burpees, 50 Merkins, 80 Lunges, 80 WWI situps and somewhere between 2.7 and 3 miles

MARY:
Done at station 4

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
YHC exhorted us out

MOLESKIN:
This was a fun one.  Due to the delinquency of this backblast YHC doesn’t recall much of the mummblechatter. The escalating nature of the exercises was cribbed from a Rump Roast workout a few day earlier. 

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MISSION!

Tuesday, July 21, 2020

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA:
PAX: Alright Alright, Draper, Plus One, Teasip, B Cup, Oatmeal, F150, Slushii, Sex Panther, Rump Roast, Shifty McCoy, Special Sauce
QIC: PowPow

AO: Glencoe
F3 DISCLAIMER & WELCOME: Given

WARM-O-RAMA:

MISSION

Merkins x 5 (DC, IC) // ISTs x 10 (DC, IC) // SSHs x 15 (DC, IC) // Squats x 15 (DC, IC) // Irkins x 10 (DC, IC) // OH Claps x 10 (DC, IC) // Nolan Ryan x 10 (DC, IC) each side

THA THANG:
Partner up. Partner 1 does single leg deadlifts with coupon and rear leg elevated on bench (we’ll call these SLDs until we get a better name) while Partner 2 does curls with coupon

RD1: SLD x 5 each leg (no coupon for first round to work on form) & Curls x 10. Run across football field to opposite sideline (@50%), run back (@80%)

RD2: SLD x 5 each leg & Curls x 15. Run across field, run back.  Pick up coupons and lunge walk across field carrying coupon ~1 minute, lunge walk back.

RD3: Repeato RD2

Coupon bent over rows x 10 (DC, IC) then mosey to tennis courts to paint the lines

MARY:
Single leg glute bridge w/opposite arm coupon press & hold (Definitely need a name for this one) x 5 each leg

LBCs x 20 (DC, IC) // Uptown crunch x 10 (DC, IC) each side // Crab cakes x 15 (DC, IC) // Flutters with block press & hold x 15 (DC, IC) // Rosalita with block press & hold x 10 (DC, IC)

Repeat single leg glute bridge x 5 each leg

Squats x 10 (DC, IC)

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
During Name-O-Rama Alright Alright went around the circle handing out F3 Dallas business cards to every PAX. YHC explained that we started the workout by spelling out “MISSION” and then recited F3’s mission out loud for the PAX. The business cards are about EHing other men and EHing is essential to the MISSION. F3 is unique because of the five core principles, we’ve got something that ALL men need, but most men don’t have in their lives. YHC prayed us out by reciting the five core principles and exhorting each PAX to go out and #GiveItAway.

MOLESKIN:
Slushii, Bleep and Pepper gave the HC but were nowhere to be found at 0530 . Yeah, I am calling you out in the backblast, sorry!  While Sex Panther, crafty as he is, dropped the lowest risk HC ever – he HCed on Band 20 minutes before the workout started, presumably while driving to the AO.

Slushii actually showed up! He was just 15 minutes late. We were not hard to find and glad you made it out brother, better late than never! Rump Roast offered up a moderate amount of his “signature feedback”, no F-bombs that I recall, maybe a “PowPow you suck” or two. YHC’s first attempt to demonstrate form on the SLDs was a fail, completely rounded back.  Alright Alright helpfully corrected Draper’s form by shouting at the Q, “Draper’s doing it like a Claymaker, is that right?” Man, lunge-walking with a coupon is tough! There will be more of that in YHCs future Qs.

Great to see Sex Panther back in the gloom after a few weeks off in California. Alright Alright wore a weight vest with 8 lbs, getting ready for GrowRuck (Tclaps!), and this momentarily took him into full beast mode – he rage-smashed his coupon on the ground after the 2nd round of lunge walks.  Fortunately, YHC brought a spare and so Alright Alright did not go miss anything during Mary.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
1. Happy Hour on 7/24/20 in PowPow’s front yard. Starts at 1730
2. GrowRuck Alamo in San Antonio on September 19 – Sign up now!
3. F3 Nation 10 year anniversary – January 2021 in Cape Fear, North Carolina. Sign ups are open now with discounted pricing!

 

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Beachdown with Slushii and Aaarrrggghhh – Glencoe Park

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA:
PAX: Isiah, F-150, Classified, Plus One, Oatmeal, Dismount, B-Cup, Bleep, Teasip, Alright Alright
QIC: Slushii, Aaarrrggghhh

AO: Glencoe Park
F3 DISCLAIMER & WELCOME: Given

WARM-O-RAMA:

SSH x 15 IC, Crab Cakes x 15 IC, Crab Humpers x 15 IC

THA THANG:

DORA – with coupon – 100 American Hammers, 200 Shoulder press, 300 Curls (PAX 1 runs to lightpole and back while PAX 2 completes exercise then repeato)

Dirty McDeuce – Step up right leg onto bench with coupon  12 IC, Rugby Situps x 12 IC, Step up left leg onto bench with coupon x 12 IC, run around goal post and back to pavillion. Repeato 3 times

MARY:
Uptown Crunch x 8 IC (each leg), LBC x 8 IC, Reverse Crunch x 8 IC, Rosalita x 7 IC

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Give it away

MOLESKIN:
YHC was happy to have a Co-Q with this beachdown. Today was all about getting the body physically ready for summer time (although summer started months ago in TX). Some mumblechatter about the music choices. Good to keep variety in the music to dull the pain of the coupon work. Great COT/BOM at the end – GIVE IT AWAY. Everyone. Go out there and be a better man and watch it spread. Great continual showings from the FNG’s that were brought out last week. 

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
1. Grow Ruck – San Antonio – September 18th – sign up if you are going
2. F3 10 year anniversary – Cape Fear, NC – sign up if you are going 

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Extreme Couponing – 7/3/20

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA:
PAX: AlrightAlright, Sting Ray, Bleep, Slushii, B Cup, Draper
QIC: Oatmeal

AO: Glencoe Park
F3 DISCLAIMER & WELCOME: Given

WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x 15 IC

Hillbillies x15 IC

Windmill x10 IC

THA THANG:

Mosey around park pointing out landmarks along the way.  PAX choice where to start, but object is to circle park carrying coupon stopping at each station to perform the following:

Field bleachers: offset walking merkins x5 DC

Northside sideline to goal post: Block lunges

NW softball field: Merkin groiner curl x10

SW softball field: Step up press x10 DC

Pavilion: Squat box thrusters x10

Repeato circuit when complete…

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
YHC completely forgot to pray us out.

MOLESKIN:
YHC put this together knowing it would be challenging to the PAX, but as always underestimated the pain involved.  I believe the step ups were the crowd favorite followed by the squat box thrusters!  Fortunately, there were no banged shins today!  PAX were indignant with YHC as I spent a good 10-15 mins of the workout EH’ing a passerby who, for the record, spoke to me first.  As an always accelerating HIM, I could not pass up the opportunity to spread the F3 gospel.  There was a question of whether today’s workout would be 45 minutes or an hour to which YHC offered an hour when the 45 minutes was up.  There were no takers, however I was challenged to take another lap to make up for my EH lollygag.  I asked for volunteers to keep me company and again was rebuffed.  YHC also apologizes for the COT lapse today!