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
Adieu to Bachelorhood
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA:
PAX: Classified, D fib, Draper, Fluoride, Isiah, Island Time, Oatmeal, Plus one, Rump Roast, Sally, Shifty McCoy, Siesta, Sound Machine
QIC: Teasip
AO: Burleson Park
F3 DISCLAIMER & WELCOME: Given with COVID disclaimer
WARM-O-RAMA:
8 Vegetable Pickers, 16 ISTs, 20 SSHs (Wedding date is 8/16/20)
THA THANG:
Run a short lap around the field, then Squats x16, Pickle Pounders x16, Alabama Prom Dates x16, Monkey Humpers x8
Merkins x16
Apple Turnover (bear crawl half the field, switch to crab walk the rest of the way. Then reverse crab walk halfway back, switching to crawl bear halfway)
Reverse Crunch x16
Rugby Situps x16 OYO
Imperial Squat Walkers x16
ATMs (15 Alternating Shoulder Taps, 10 Tempo Merkins, 5 regular Merkins)
Groiners x16 OYO
E2K x8 each leg
Another lap around the field
We all ran a suicide with 4 stops and 5 burpees when you got back each time
Everybody do lunges across the field
Duck Walk halfway across the field and duck walk back
Double Merkin Burpee x16
Indian Bear Crawl
Nolan Ryan x16
Gorilla Humpers x8
Same suicide as earlier, but 4 merkins each time back (16 total), followed by more Pickle Pounders and Alabama Prom Dates x16 each
MARY:
Done during the workout
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
YHC thanked the PAX for being there with him these last 3.5 (or 4.5, YHC can never remember) years with F3 and the improvement YHC has made in fitness (tummy fat loss) and general manhood. YHC would not be where he is today, about to marry the woman of his dreams without F3. Thank you
MOLESKIN:
The jokes were funny and frequent of course. Several PAX mentioned YHC should only need about 3 reps of pickle pounders for the big night and there were probably wasn’t a need for any other type of exercise. During the Apple turnover, YHC mentioned to stop at second base, to which Sally and Draper responded “no now you can go all the way to home base” and the continuation of bases reached was asked to which YHC had no response. Draper requested I note these for the backblast, so feel free to comment if I missed some jokes. When lunges were announced, Draper had some not kind words for Oatmeal after their EC was apparently heavy on the legs with them carrying their coupon and ruck for over 2.5 miles. So #tclaps to them and PowPow (who had to leave early) for doing the EC. There was a heavy dose of Rump F-bombs today, which YHC always likes to hear since it means the workout is tough. The Double Merkin Burpees produced quite the groaning, as well as the burpee suicide. YHC appreciated everyone coming out to show support as YHC bids adieu to the single life.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
1. Siesta VQ next Saturday, 8/22 at 0700. Come out and support him!
2. 2.0 workout to follow at 0900, should be about 30 minutes.
3. GrowRuck SA has been moved to the weekend of April 9-10
No Brooks, some Biceps
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA:
PAX: Aaarrrggghhh, Alright Alright, Bleep, Classified, Double Pane, Draper, Froggy, Plus One, Rump Roast, Shifty McCoy, Slushii, Sound Machine, Special Sauce
QIC: Teasip
AO: Glencoe Park #glencoefasho #makeglencoefunagain
F3 DISCLAIMER & WELCOME: Given, including COIVD disclaimer
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x20, IST x15, Windmill x10
THA THANG:
Mosey to the Playground for a quick circuit:
Group 1 does 5 pull ups, then relieves Group 2 (doing Squats AMRAP) who relieves Group 3 (doing LBCs AMRAP) who relieves Group 4 (doing Step Ups AMRAP) who goes to do 5 pull ups. Complete 4 rounds.
Mosey to the football field for some football suicides with coupons. The markers were each of the three lights on the far side and the far goal line.
Suicide 1: Going from short to long with increasing Bicep Curls (3,6,9,12)
Suicide 2: Going from long to short with decreasing Man Makers (12,9,6,3)
Bear Crawl to the first pole and Crawl Bear back. 12 OH Press when back
Suicide 3: Going from short to long with increasing Squats (3,6,9,12)
MARY:
Done a little during the circuit at the beginning
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
YHC prayed us out
MOLESKIN:
With Brooks not showing up on Sunday, YHC decided to go heavy on the running. YHC was originally going to do the Suicide Special, but decided to modify it with coupons and football field. Special Sauce and a few others were curious if we were going to repeat the Bill Murray Caddyshak/Groundhog Day workout, but quickly found that was not the case. Rump was none to pleased and let YHC know it early and often. Overall a solid turnout and YHC was happy to have so many post in the Gloom.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
1. Ultra is rucking to raise money for Doctors Without Borders in their support of Beirut this Wednesday starting at 1800 and going to midnight. Come join him for all or some of it and donate.
2. 2.0 workout to take place next Saturday, August 22 at 0900 after Siesta’s VQ.
Caddyshack – The Bill Murry
Date: 08/07/2020
Temp: 83°
Weather: Clear skies and humid AF!
Count-off & Name-O-Rama:
PAX: Plus One, Sting Ray, Ultra, Sex Panther, Froggy, Shifty McCoy, Bleep, Sound Machine, Agnes, Slushii, Special Sauce, Double Pain, Alright Alright, Teasip
QIC: Rump Roast
AO: Burleson Park
Disclaimer: Given
Intro/ Warm-o-Rama by Shifty McCoy:
Side Plank Hold for 60sec each side(IC)
Good Mornings x9 (IC)
Split Squats x9 (each leg, IC)
NC Groiners x18
Rump Challenge – Lap around the Park or Burpees till pax make the lap (Everyone ran)
Circle of Trust (CoT):
Alright Alright prayed us out
Playlist:
No music this morning
Moleskin:
OK, so maybe it was more “Ground Hog Day” than “Caddyshack” but, again, my knowledge of golf is limited at best! It seemed like a good idea last night. I think everyone heard that the warm-up exercises this morning were suggested golf exercises – The internet never lies… Right?
I noticed Bleep didn’t have a whole lot to say this morning. I believe @Ultra called me an A$$hole the first round across, @Special Sauce told me he was thinking about faking having to take a dump for the first time ever at an F3 workout, @Double Pain told me that he’d forgotten what round he was on reinforcing the “Ground Hog Day” movie comparison. It was a pretty epic beatdown.
#acceleration #isi #giveitaway
Announcements:
Grow Ruck – sign up soon
@Ultra trucking white Rock Lake for 6hrs next Wednesday – dets to follow
2.0 workout coming up soon stay tuned to Band – Ok, I forgot the dates!!
HH Officially moved to next week Friday, 14 Aug – Not sure if Q has been finalized
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!
Bringing Sexy Back!
Date: 06/25/2020
Temp: 77 °
Weather: Yucky – almost 80 ° at 0530 in the morning and downright soupy out
Count-off & Name-O-Rama:
PAX: Bleep, Teasip, & Shifty McCoy
QIC: Rump Roast & Shifty
AO: Burleson Park
Disclaimer: Given by Shifty
Intro/ Warm-o-Rama by Shifty McCoy:
SSH x 14 (IC)
IST x 12 (IC)
Cotton Pickers x 12 (IC)
Groiners x 12 (IC)
At this point YHC took over:
Circle of Trust (CoT):
YHC prayed us out
Playlist:
No music this morning
Moleskin:
I was extra motivated this morning for Shifty to give the disclaimer and lead the Warm-O-Rama. We had to prompt him a little on the disclaimer but did a great job. It wasn’t too far into my portion that Teasip proclaimed that he wished Shifty would have Q’d the entire work out! As soon as we started moseying to the benches it was clear my knee was hurting more than it has been. After the first set of step-ups I wanted to go home. So I modified my original idea of Jacobs Ladder to Dora Bear Crawl and I will tell you…. Between 200 Merkins the other day, @Arrrghhhhs beat down yesterday, 100x Burpees yesterday, and the Dirty McDuece it sucked! Everyone agreed! @Bleep announced that he officially hates Bear Crawling! Teasip on more than one occasion had some choice words, and even Shifty proclaimed this work out was the dumbest idea EVER! I took them all as a compliment! No doubt we ALL got better today. #acceleration #isi #giveitaway
Announcements:
HH tomorrow – see Band
The Seven Levels of the Candy Cane Garage
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA:
PAX: Alright Alright, Bleep, Chairman Mao, Icebox, Plus One, Rump Roast, Sex Panther, Shifty McCoy
QIC: Teasip
AO: Burleson Garage (Omaha from Glencoe with the storms)
F3 DISCLAIMER & WELCOME: Given
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x20, IST x17, Windmill x10
THA THANG:
With the storm, YHC was forced to Omaha to the Burleson parking garage for a modified beatdown from what YHC originally planned.
Start with 12 merkins, then alternate running and back pedaling up the ramps to the last covered one.
OH Press x20 at the top, then run/back pedal back down. Followed that with a ramp suicide (run to the far parking space line and run back and keep going until you touch every line on the ramp).
Followed that up with Squats x15 and Bear Crawl up 4 ramps, then shuffle down the ramps.
Burpees x12 and WW1 Sit ups x15 OYO once we got back to the bottom. Followed by Crawl Bear up 4 ramps which was quite the crowd pleaser. Shuffle back down the ramps.
Finish up with lunge walk up one ramps, backwards lunge up another, The Bird x20 and Mountain Climbers x10 before moseying back down for 3 MoM
MARY:
Uptown Crunch x12, Rugby sit ups x15
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
YHC prayed us out.
MOLESKIN:
YHC woke up to a text from AA concerned about lightning. YHC didn’t see any while getting ready, so wasn’t concerned about the impending storm. Until YHC started driving, then decided that yes lightning was everywhere and Omaha’d to the Burleson parking garage. Sex Panther confirmed we couldn’t get into the garage but I think several of the PAX had already figured that out. During the windmills, it was noticed that YHC had a much slower count than Plus One who said that the Windmill is obviously a cardio workout. There wasn’t much grumbling until the Crawl Bears which got several groans and death glares from the PAX. Rumor has it Shifty McCoy splashed merlot to which Rump said YHC should feel terrible about. But YHC has no time for feelings or sympathy at that time of the day. Overall a good beatdown and a fun Omaha in the sweatbox.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
1. GrowRuck Sign up is live. Check out band for details.
Midway Hollow Launch – Monday Funday w/ Rump & Slushii
Date: 06/01/2020
Temp: 70
Weather: Very few clouds and an amazing pink, orange, red sun-up. IT alone was worth the beatdown!
Count-off & Name-O-Rama:
PAX: Bleep, Sex Panther, & Shifty McCoy
QIC: Slushii & Rump Roast
AO: Northaven Park
Disclaimer: Given
Intro/ Warm-o-Rama:
SSH x 15 (IC)
IST x 15 (IC)
Hillbillies x 15 (IC)
Dancing Bear x 10 (IC)
Circle of Trust (CoT):
YHC prayed us out
Playlist:
No music this morning
Moleskin:
We all we’re lacking a little motivation this morning and probably didn’t start until around 0532-0533 and after a quick warmup got straight to business with this mosey for damn near a mile with very brief stops to get the heart rate up even more. I feel like once the bear crawling started we all got focused and were grunting more than chatting. It was a good beatdown this morning. Glad my brothers came out to support our first “official” Midway Hollow Monday boot camp. Look forward to growing the AO and F3! #acceleration #isi #giveitaway
Announcements:
None
The Last Dance (Beatdown?)
#backblast 5/19/20
AlrightAlright Teasip Amelia PowPow F150 Sex Panther Rump Roast and Shifty McCoy joined YHC for a Last Dance themed beatdown, here’s the thang
Warmed up to the Bulls pregame intro song, SSH and IST’s (23 of each)
First 3 Peat:
Go “DJ” – hold overhead, press with “DJ” (45)
House “Party” – hold goblet squat, curl “party” (75)
“Burn” up the dance – Freddy Mercury’s while holding coupon, bench press with “burn” (76)
Second 3 Peat
PAX ran a lap around the park, spread out start time by 10 seconds each, while waiting to run and while PAX completed the run completed sets of BLIMPS (burpee, lunge, IST, merkin, plank jack, and squat
Did lap/BLIMP combo two more times
Finished with a ring of fire, hold legs 6 inches + flutter kick, went to 91
PAX was welcomed this AM with me rocking my “real men wear red” Bulls tank,
Morning observations:
Rump Roast didn’t know what the Last Dance was, contemplating our friendship, Teasip is real close to hiring me as his wedding DJ after throwing these hits out, PowPow has the sweetest quarantine beard I’ve seen so far, AlrightAlright still has a Starbucky tailbone
Per Pow’s post, I’m leading again this Thursday at Lindsley Park, will be hitting up the Sante Fe Trail and a hill I found
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3mcagFlJImUthqF5J3YgQ1?si=iJye4KMkTb29ALt7KLHeEw
Midway Hollow Statpad Sunday
Date: 5/24/2020
Temp: 74° and cloudy
Weather: It as nice and cloudy even in the dark, with a nice cool breeze.
Count-off & Name-O-Rama:
PAX: Slushii, Bleep, Sub Prime, and Shifty McCoy
QIC: Rump Roast
AO: SE Corner of Park Lane & Lakemont Drive
Disclaimer: Given
Intro/ Warm-o-Rama:
– SSH’s x20 IC
– IST’s x20 IC
– I feel like I’m forgetting something here
– Cotton Pickers x10 IC
The Thang:
Mosey down Lakemont a block or so to Beechwood
– 25x Deep Squats (Slow & Low OYO)
– Moseyed down another block for
– Wheel of Merkins x10 each (IC)
Moseyed to Walnut Hill parking lot for:
– Suicide long-to-short using light poles in the parking lot.
Then had PAX pick exercises for a Jacobs Ladder. Bleep picked – Sideways Crabwalk to a waypoint. So I had to Omaha and had Slushii and Sub Prime pick an exercise each. Big-Boi Sit-Ups and Slushii had to get all fancy and gove us a variation of an Uptown Crunch but from the side plank position, drawing top knee and elbow together.
After Jacobs Ladder we moseyed thru the church campus to the Midway Parking lot.
– 10x Forward Lunges (DC IC)
– 15x Jack Reachers (overhead press DC IC)
– 10x Reverse Lunges (DC IC)
– 15x Thumbs Up reverse arm pulses
Moseyed to Valley Ridge and PAX did some Mountain Climbers waiting on the 6 (Shifty and YHC).
Then a little 2nd F slow mosey and mumble chatter back to the launch point for CoT.
Circle of Trust (CoT):
Slushii prayed us out this morning
Playlist:
No tunes today
Moleskin:
It was nice to see Sub Prime back out with us this morning and that it was a decent little Midway Hollow Statpad Sunday! YHC will admit to other than knowing I wanted to go to the church, I didn’t plan the “light” workout. I believe it’s safe to say that we all ran a little further than we anticipated and ended up getting in a pretty solid beatdown. The Second F was well deserved. I think everyone agrees that after the shelter in pace, even with a lot us staying pretty active, a full week of F3 beat downs is tough, it’s going to take me a few weeks to get back into the full swing of things and can’t wait!
Announcements:
CSAUP tomorrow