5/19/21 Beatdown at the Harbor

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA:
PAX: Avril, Jennay, Phelps, Silent Bob, Stingray, FNG – Austin Bonick, FNG – Travis Connor
QIC: Big Tex

AO: The Harbor
F3 DISCLAIMER & WELCOME: Given

WARM-O-RAMA:
15 SSH, 10 ISP, 10 Vegetable Pickers

THA THANG:
11’s in the parking lot w/ Burpees and Squats

Mosey to the park at Church and Fieldcrest

10 Urkins OYO, 10 Step-ups each leg, 10 Derkens OYO, 15 Dips OYO

Mosey on back trail, stop halfway 10 Carolina Drydocks IC, Mosey to the back parking lot of the Rec Center

Partner up and Dora – 100 Merkins, 200 Monkey Humpers, 200 Overhead Claps

MARY: 20 LBCs, 15 Flutter Kicks, 2 Penguin Crunches

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
YHC thanked everybody for coming and prayed us out.

MOLESKIN: Not a lot of Mumblechatter that I heard. I heard Stingray and Jennay tell each other their origin stories for their nicknames. FNG – Travis threatened to splash merlot at one point, but to his credit no merlot was splashed.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Oops. YHC was in a hurry this morning, and I think we neglected announcements.

Sandbags & Coupons

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA:
PAX: DFib, TikTok, Rump Roast, Sound Machine, Chairman Mao, Jobu, Shifty McCoy, Phelps, Siesta, Plus One, Big Tex

QIC: Oatmeal

AO: Burleson Park

F3 DISCLAIMER & WELCOME: Given

WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x 9 IC

Stop x5 penalty burpees for not being “in cadence”

SSH  x10 IC

Squats x10 IC

Little Orphan Annies x10 IC

THA THANG:

Count off by 4’s and split into three teams.  Each man took his coupon and each team grabbed a sandbag from YHC’s trunk.  Sandbad must not touch the ground throughout the workout.

Mosey to the Pit of Dispair carrying coupons and sandbag.  Teams getting there first get rest.  Team in the six gets no rest.  

Modified DORA in the pit.  Each PAX must complete the following:

  • x50 merkins
  • x100 squats with coupons
  • x150 flutter kicks with coupons

Teammates rotated through following until exercises above are completed by each PAX:

  • Box jumps up big steps
  • Wall sit with sandbag
  • Cusak run up and down small stairs

Mosey to Turner Quad around the corner to commence a team crab walk relay with sandbag on the belly.  Each team makes one lap with sandbag trading as necessary while other team members alternate lunge walks and Cusak walks around circle.

Mosey back to park

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
YHC prayed us out.  Extolled the virtues of Shield Lock groups and gave some other inspiring soliloquy that would have gotten an eyeroll or two from Icebox if he was in attendance.   PAX bolted quickly to grab Bubba’s before many returned for the 2.0 workout.

MOLESKIN:

Mumblechatter was varied.  There was a ‘new and improved’ (???) Rump Roast present.  While he did refer to YHC several times as Cadre Oatmeal for the GrowRuck approach to the workout, I never got an ‘F*** You,’ only a “This is great, we should do more workouts like this again!’  This almost caused YHC to grab his block and go home in disgrace and shame.  Overall some complaints, but the PAX were resilient and showed great toughness.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

  • Carry the Load Memorial Day Event: May 30, noon – May 31, 13:30
  • 2.0 workout following at 0900
  • McKinney workout May 15, May 22 @ 0700, Bonnie Wenk Park
  • F3 Golf

Harbor Sprints

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA:
PAX: Alright Alright, Classified, F150, Jobu, Phelps, Rump Roast, Silent Bob, Slippy, Sound Machine, Special Sauce, Stingray 
QIC: Teasip

AO: Lake Highlands North Park (#theharbor)
F3 DISCLAIMER & WELCOME: Given, with COVID disclaimer

WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x20, IST x15, Hillbilly x12

THA THANG:
Split into four groups for 4x5x5 with Pull-ups, Swerkins, Dips and Squats

Mosey to the parking lot for 10 sprints, with a Mary break after 5

Mosey to the benches for Irkins x10, Step ups x20, and Derkins x10

Mosey over to the hill for 10 more sprints, this time up the hill with another Mary break after 5

Mosey back to the parking lot for some backwards sprints, then a shuffle sprint and karaoke sprint

Mosey back to the start where the burpee rule was in effect so 6 burpees. Then finished up the workout with Gorilla Squats x12 and OH Claps x12

MARY:
Did the following exercises throughout the workout:
Uptown crunch x12, Rosalita x12, Rugby situps x12, 

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
YHC talked about what the CoT means and encourage PAX to be vulnerable with each other to help keep each other accountable. YHC shared his recent struggles with his M and taking her for granted/harboring resentment lately. Good input from several PAX from improving communication, keeping the word Grace in mind, and trying to do little things for the M (giving gifts/cookies, doing the dishes). Much appreciated men!

MOLESKIN:
YHC planned on doing some running after Slippy’s brutal tabata workout yesterday that only involved about .5 miles of movement. YHC showed up a few minutes early to get a lay of the land and find good sprinting spots. Classified saw this and assumed that YHC was looking for a portapotty (a smart assumption).

The PAX were none to thrilled about the sprints. Slippy had a blowout after about sprint 4 and went to the non-mobile workout for the rest of the workout. Rump Roast 2.0 was out in full force and full of positivity. Sauce pointed out multiple times that “we’ve already done these” as we returned back to prior stops for the workout. We discovered Classified has quite the backpedaling speed and may have been misused during his gridiron glory days as a lineman when he should have been a corner.

Slightly less mumblechatter than normal, which YHC attributes to the PAX sucking wind and having almost constant movement. YHC will definitely continue to incorporate sprints and pullups in future Qs.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
1. 2.0 Workout this Saturday at 0900
2. Carry the Load Memorial Day Weekend
3. F3 Golf

Dual QOTY for Retail Therapy

Hey Dirtbag hold my beer real quick…

Special Sauce Trash Panda Stingray Stingray Meatball Slushii Rump Roast Draper sound machine DFib Jobu Sex Panther Bleep Phelps (Tim) Noah “Don’t Call me Baby Shark” Phelps, Shifty McCoy, and Sally joined AlrightAlright and YHC for the first ever Dual QOTY beatdown

Warmup:
SSH, ISTs, Veggie Pickers

The Thang (alternating Q’s with every other song)
AlrightAlright took us up to rock out with our Camp Gladiator friends to flex our muscles and intimidate them with our EDM beats

Then I ran us to one of the parking decks and stopped us on an incline for some Mary to work on the lower core

AlrightAlright made us do some spider man push ups and and mountain climbers…Draper and other PAX showed some genuine concern about “just” holding a plank for a bit and were disappointed that planking was the exercise we were doing

OG Icebox Alert!
Listening to Baby Shark, SSH with burpees every time they said “Shark” (basically two minutes of burpees)

AlrightAlright ran us up to the top of the parking deck and had us doing bear crawl suicides

Because YHC is a sadist we followed that up with a few minutes of Arms by Mrs Icebox

AlrightAlright wasn’t done bear crawling so we had to bear crawl down a flight of stairs and followed that up with some irkins

YHC then went for a mosey to a different parking deck and was disappointed in the lack of hustle by the PAX so started to burpee, even more confusion by the PAX as I’ve never instituted the burpee rule during a Q which led to 21 burpees once the 6 was in (would’ve been 40 if AlrightAlright had been doing the burpees)

AlrightAlright took a page of of the DJ Icebox instruction manual and had us mosey to a big stairwell for Mony Mony dips (listening to Billy Idol’s Mony Mony, hold a back plank and do a dip every time they say “Mony”)…Jobu asked how many that was and I promised I’d do a real OG workout where I count out the number of reps for each song

AlrightAlright then took us back where we started to roll around and do merkins on ant hills (clearly his tolerance for ant bites is greater than his disdain for doing core exercises on concrete)

Someone must have said something because AlrightAlright used some words my playlist wasn’t allowed to use and made us run around Starbucks, taunting us with what we could be doing instead of working out

YHC then rocked out with 4 more minutes of Mary on the ant hills since we were already contaminated

Announcements:

Draper is kicking us off of Band 6/1 so Teasip doesnt have to repost my backblasts on the website

2.0 workout 5-8, bring the kiddos out and give the M’s a break on Mother’s Day weekend!

Carry the Load

F3 Golf

Growruck Infinity

PT Test on Katy Trail – 5/6/21

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA:
PAX: Draper, Gambler, Gutenberg, Aaarrrggghhh, Trash Panda, Phelps
QIC: YHC

AO: Katy Trail
F3 DISCLAIMER & WELCOME: Given

WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x 10 IC// IST x 10 IC – Mosey to stairs at corner of Mockingbird and Bush for:

Aussie Merkins x 10 IC – Mosey to Katy Trail

THA THANG:
PT Test: 2 minute AMRAP Merkins, 2 min AMRAP Sit-Ups, 2 mile run for time

The Standard: 42 Merkins // 52 Sit-Ups // 18:18 for 2 miles

Results:

  • Draper: 72 // 51 // 15:20 – FAIL
  • Gambler: 57 // 55 // 14:20 (estimated) – PASS
  • Gutenberg: 30 // 38 // 16:34 – FAIL
  • Aaarrrggghhh: 67 // 51 // 15:38 – FAIL
  • Trash Panda: 48 // 51 // 16:24 – FAIL
  • PowPow: 44 // 55 // 14:37m – PASS
  • Phelps: Did not test (see Moleskin)

1/4 mile interval then 12 x Flutter Kicks IC // 1/4 mile interval – 15 x Plank Jacks IC

Mosey back to La Madeline – LBCs until time (5 reps)

Total distance: 3.5 miles

MARY:
During workout

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
YHC thanked the PAX for posting this morning and explained how it gives me energy and enthusiasm and hopefully I reflect that back to the PAX throughout the beatdown. Encouraged the men to think about their Jester today (The Daily Discipline over the Temptation of the Flesh that Hinders Acceleration) with the intention that will lead to acceleration across all 3 Fs, especially leadership within our families.

MOLESKIN:
YHC always likes to take the opportunity to get some “pulling” work in (Aussie Merkins), the imbalance we all have in our strength and stamina for “pushing” exercises (Merkins and OH Press) compared to “pulling” exercises (Pullups and Rows) is significant.

We found Phelps on the Katy Trail about  3/4 mile into our 2 mile timed run. Turns out he showed up early, but thought he was late (left his phone at home) and took off for the trail before any of the rest of us arrived.

The PT test standard was taken from the PT test that was applied to the men at GTE22 (GrowRuck Training Event 22) this past weekend in Myrtle Beach. Many of the ~100 men in Myrtle Beach failed the test. This morning, four of six PAX failed the PT test, but for Draper, Aaarrrggghhh and Trash Panda it was only due to missing the sit-up standard by a single rep. They can definitely meet the standard. Gutenberg needs to get better at Merkins, just like YHC did when he started F3, this will 100% happen all he needs is consistency. Every one of the PAX this morning completed the 2 mile run with plenty of time to spare – good thing given that this is a running AO.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
1. F3 Dads and 2.0s workout this Saturday (5/8/21) at 0900
2. McKinney launch continues 5/8 and 5/15 – EH your guys north of 635!
3. Carry The Load on 5/30 and 5/31 – Sign up and raise some $ for a great cause

 

El Beatdowno de Cinco De Mayo

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA:
PAX: AlrightAlright, Slippy, Classified, Slushii, Bleep, Sweet Baby, Gambler, Phelps, Rump Roast, Supercuts

QIC: Oatmeal

AO: Coffee Park

F3 DISCLAIMER & WELCOME: Given

WARM-O-RAMA:
Slaughter Starter (courtesy of AA) – 20 burpees

+5 more burpees for Supercuts tardiness

IST x10 IC

SSH x 10 IC

Windmill x 10 IC

THA THANG:

Striders across field and back

Bear-crawl Bataan across field.  The Six bear crawls to the front, performs five merkins, five squats and holds Al Gore until passed by next PAX.

Mosey to the north end of Turtle Creek and partner up to commence a Dora in celebration of Cinco de Mayo:

 

M – Merkins x100

A – American Hammers x150

Y – Yeah thrusts x200

O – Overhead claps x250

Mosey to the bleachers for mucho ejercicios

Chesto:

Merkins x10

Werkins x10

Diamond merkins x10

Irkins x10

Derkins

Legos (Piernas):

Squat x10

Lunge x10 SC

Mexican jumping squat x10

Bonnie Blairs x10 SC

Clay Makers x10 SC

Abos (Estomago):

Rosalita x10

Flutter kicks x10

Heels to heaven x10

Low dolly x10

LBC 10

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
YHC prayed us out.  Extolled the virtues of Shield Lock groups and implored the men to seek out another man of similar age, values, stage of life and connect. Shield Lock groups are there to increase accountability and discuss real issues that we face as men. YHC has formed a Shield Lock with F150, Phelps and DFib and will report progress as we develop deeper relationships and get into meatier issues (

MOLESKIN:

AA’s Slaughter Starter was not a crowd favorite as YHC asked him to take over the warm up so I could quickly grab my weight vest after being shame goaded into it by Slippy & AA.  Slippy wowed the crowd by announcing he was wearing 50lbs in his vest to start the workout, however I think he quickly reassessed once we started the workout.  Mumblechatter was varied throughout.  Rump Roast accused YHC of not knowing what he was doing during the “mucho” exercises, but as I recall I was spent at this point.  

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

  • Carry the Load Memorial Day Event: May 30, noon – May 31, 13:30
  • 2.0 workout: May 8 @ 0900
  • McKinney workout May 8 @ 0700 
  • F3 Golf

SCT Quad Q

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA:
PAX: Phelps, DFib, Waterfall, Classified, Trash Panda
QIC: Slushii, Agnes, Bleep, Rump Roast

AO: Burleson SCT
F3 DISCLAIMER & WELCOME: Given

WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x 15 IC

IST x 15 IC

Hillbillies x 15 IC

10 Burpees 

THA THANG:
Rump Roast – Mosey to field and do Ring of Fire (T-Merkins and Hand Release Merkins) x 37; burpee test for 6min

Bleep – Native American Run to fountain and back to soft top; 10 burpees

Slushii – Move to the wet grass and do combination of core exercises IC (J Lo, Penguin Crunches, Homer to Marge, Uptown Crunch, Big Boi Situps, Heels to Heaven, Dead Bugs, others that YHC can’t remember)

Agnes – Mosey to tennis courts (lunge walk around outside of 4 courts, box jump at each corner of court, mix in 5 burpees every couple of minutes)

MARY:
Done during workout

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Rump Roast prayed us out with a few specific prayer request this morning and thankful to be in the gloom with our brothers. 

MOLESKIN:
Agnes had the bright idea to Quad Q a #westside workout. Yesterday we started planning on what to do and when. Normally the rain would have been an easy excuse for some of our fartsackers but they prevailed. Tclaps to Phelps and Classified on the continuation of the quest for the perfect month! We had a willy loman from F3 Naperville join us this morning. Waterfall was thankful to not have to wear a mask and still be alive! DFib was able to beat the fartsack and join us during his second busiest week of the year, thanks DFib! Trash Panda was thrilled to jump right into the mud. 

Rump Roast thought it would be fun to immediately mosey to the field and get right to a Ring Of Fire with T Merkins and Hand Release Merkins. Lots of mumblechatter around being wet and dirty right off the start. 

Once we got to the fountain during Bleep’s 10min many of the PAX washed off their muddy hands before heading back to the park for YHC to take over. 

YHC put everyone back on the grass for 10min of non stop core work. 

Agnes led the PAX to the tennis courts for a lunge leg destroyer! 

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
1. F3 Golf
2. AA’s 1st annual 30th birthday party May 1 (3pm-5pm)

3. Carry to Load (Memorial Day – Sunday noon to Monday noon)

4. 2.0 Workout May 8th

5. Launch of F3 McKinney (First 3 Saturdays in May)

Post GrowRuck Beatdown

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA:
PAX: AlrightAlright, Slippy, Classified, Dfib, Pow Pow, Sound Machine, Stingray, Phelps, Big Tex, Slushii, Silent Bob, Icebox, Cash (Pax from Katy), Scott Friend (FNG), Tyler Zoz (FNG)
QIC: Jobu, Oatmeal

AO: Glencoe
F3 DISCLAIMER & WELCOME: Given

WARM-O-RAMA:
Side Straddle Hops x20; Pickers. x.20

THA THANG:
Group 1: Carry Coupons around outer loop 2.5 laps in 20 min. Penalty burpees for not finishing.

Group 2: Split into groups of 4. Starting at home plate each group must have one person performing lunges with sandbag while the rest of the pax bear crawling alongside. Group must go all the way around the entire field and stop at every light post and perform 100 merkins as a group. Once back at home plate group must perform 200 dive bombers. The sandbags were not aloud to touch the ground at any point in the workout.

MARY:
Penalty burpees x10

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
YHC prayed us out

MOLESKIN:
YHC was ready to exchange his Q for another day because of his recovery from Growruck. Oatmeal talked him into co-Qing so we could share the lessons we learned with the group. Most of the complaining came from the soreness of the Pax who attended GrowRuck 2 days before. 

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
1. All future GrowRuck events

A Fun Track Lap at The Harbah

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA:
PAX: Alright Alright, Big Tex, F-150, Gold Digger, Gusher, Icebox, Jobu, Meatball, Mr. Mom, Phelps, Silent Bob, Slippy, Stingray
QIC: Teasip

AO: The Harbah!
F3 DISCLAIMER & WELCOME: Given with the COVID disclaimer

WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x20, IST x15, Hillbillies x15

THA THANG:
Mosey to the football field for 11’s with Merkins (start at 10, go down to 1) then run across the field for Squats (start at 1, go up to 10). Go until 10 Merkins and 1 Squat.

Headed over to the bleachers for 5 rounds of running up and down bleachers (3 were normal, 2 were bunny hop up and run down).

Do two rounds of 10 Irkins, 10 Dips, 10 Dirkins, and 10 Step-ups (each leg)

Do a lap around the track: Shuffled the curves, ran backwards down one straightaway, and burpee broad jump the other straight away. Mary after.

Mosey back to the park for 12 Dry Docks

MARY:
LBCx x17, Rosalita x17, Rugby Sit-ups x17 (OYO), Yeah Thrusts x17

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
YHC prayed us out

MOLESKIN:
YHC journeyed over to the Harbah this AM to see how they live it up there. Solid turnout including Mr. Mom from McKinney (major T-claps!) and Phelps continued his perfect attendance. Name change to Iron Horse or Ironman perhaps?

Icebox and Meatball had their own #jeepmafia, but Dirtbag apparently didn’t give enough hard consideration last night as he was notably absent.

The burpee broad jumps were quite the crowd pleaser. Icebox did his best to encourage the PAX to work smarter, not harder by bringing their feet up to their hands to complete each burpee to give them an extra 6 feet (or 4 feet in Big Tex’s case) between broad jumps.

YHC is looking forward to coming back out to the Harbah again.

No Ultra sightings, so the under of 2.5 is looking like a solid bet unless he pulls his own Phelps and shows up the rest of this week

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
1. Grow Ruck this weekend! Can still sign up, but probably won’t get a shirt
2. 2ndF event this Saturday at Vector Brewing. M’s, 2.0’s and pets welcome!
3. F3 Golf

Willie Mays Hayes Spring Training Workout

 

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA:
PAX: Draper, Slippy, Special Sauce, Gold Digger, AlrightAlright, Bleep, Swoop, F150, Trash Panda, Big Tex, Oatmeal, Stingray, Phelps, Slushii, Classified, Sweet Baby, Dr. Seuss, Gusher,   Jay (FNG), Supercuts
QIC: Jobu

AO: The Harbor
F3 DISCLAIMER & WELCOME: Given

WARM-O-RAMA:

Mosey to track

15 Side straddle hops

15 Imperial storm troopers

THA THANG:

Everyone: Jog curves sprint straight away one lap.

After each lap perform 1 exercise:

15 Burpees

15 Air Squats

15 Merkins

15 Plank Jacks 

(1 Mile total)

Mosey to tennis court:

Team  Relay groups of 2: 

Partner 1 Crawl Bear full court

Partner 2 Broad jump full court

Partner 1 Crab walk full court

Partner 2 Bear crawl full court

Partners 1 and 2 switch exercises and go back ( Complete 2 relays)

Mosey to Parking Lot 

 

MARY:

15 LBC’s

15 Freddie Mercuries

15 Plank Jacks

20 Penguins

20 Flutter kicks

 

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
YHC prayed us out and asked for strength and endurance for the rest of the week.

MOLESKIN:
Grumbling began immediately when YHC called for a mosey to the track. The only explanation can be is that Slippy’s track workouts of late have given the track a bad reputation. Anyways, every lap around the track was in memory of every donut that Bleep consumed during the Krispy Kreme Challenge. After 1 mile Phelps was ready to call it a day but YHC had other plans. After 2 impressively fast relays PAX moseyed back to the parking lot where YHC tortured everyone with a drawn out MARY until 0615.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

1. Growruck
2. Memorial Day event