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Grin & “Bear” It…

Date – 5/10/2021
Weather – 61° cloudy and a light wind

Count-off & Name-O-Rama:
PAX –  Aaaargggghhhh, Sex Panther, Special Sauce, Chairman Mao, DFib, Slushii, Sound Machine
QIC –  Rump Roast
AO – Germany Park
Disclaimer – Given 
 
Intro/ Warm-o-Rama:
LBC’s x20 DC, IC
Dancing Bears x15 DC, IC
Windmill x10 DC, IC
Bat Wings x20 (Forward Arm Circles, Backward Arm Circles, Jack Reachers, Seal Claps, and Moroccan Night Club’s)
 
The Thang:
Grin & Bear It (4 Corners)
Cones set up at approximately end-zone and 50yrd line. 
Start by counting off in groups of 3 
Run a lap
Start at the station with your number
Form is king – Prize for the Winner
#1 – 50x Jump Squats each PAX
#2 – 100x Merkins each PAX
#3 – 50x DC lunges  each PAX
#4 – 50x Pop-Up Groiners (Because Slushii didn’t want to do Burpees)
 
Bear crawl between stations
 
Repeat-O for 2 rounds – no run in between
Winner – Bear Crawl the cones or run the track until All-In.
 
Circle of Trust (CoT):
YHC prayed us out

Playlist:
@Sound Machine provided the killer jamz
 

Moleskin:
 I wanted to do something different this morning. SO starting with the normal “template” of a workout, I started over. Warm-up with no Side Straddle Hops created a little mumblechatter as we moved to the field. There wasn’t as much interaction between the group as a whole, but there were in essence 3 groups each I’m sure. In my group, it was mainly Chairman, Sauce and me… I got a “Fuck You Rump” out of both of them, which I’m considering a win! I wasn’t sure if we would get done with two rounds and have time left or not. It looks like not. I think this would be more fun with a larger group and maybe add some running. 

Announcements:
1. Carry the Load Memorial Day Weekend
2. F3 Bleep/F3 Dallas Shirt Order is “LIve” – Go get some swag
3. M’s & Broga after a Saturday Workout – June 5th (See @DFib & @Sound Machine with questions)
4. Retail Therapy tomorrow with the possibility of an @Ultra sighting! 
5. F3 Golf

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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

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Safari and Penalty Burpees

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA:
PAX: Alright Alright, Big Tex, Chairman Mao, Dfib, FNG – El Chapo, Jobu, Nicky Roth, Oatmeal, Poppy, Pow Pow, Rump Roast, Sally, Sex Panther, Sound Machine, Siesta, Slippy, Sweet Baby, Tik Tok, Trash Panda, Ultra, Whoops
QIC: Teasip

AO: Burleson
F3 DISCLAIMER & WELCOME: Given, with added disclosure for COVID

WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x 20, IST x15, Hillbilly x12, warmup lap around the park

THA THANG:
Red Barchetta across the field

1 penalty burpee for Sally being 1 min late and then 8 penalty burpees for Tik Tok being 8 mins late (more to come on the penalty burpees) 

Safari: Form two lines, then do the below exercises two rounds each

Native American Duck Walk, everyone in line hold an Al Gore
Native American Bear Crawl, everyone in line hold a plank
Native American Crawl Bear, everyone in line hold a plank
Native American Crab Walk, everyone in line hold a Wilt Chamberlain

Everyone sprint like a roadrunner to the sidewalk, then Native American Run around the park to the playground

Mosey to the tennis court, where half the group did a suicide while the rest did burpees. Flapjack. 

Next 10 Dry Docks, and at this point, the ECers joined us. They were 52 minutes late, so everyone did 52 burpees, then ended with 10 squats

MARY:
We never did do the rugby sit ups

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
YHC prayed us out

MOLESKIN:
YHC decided to take the PAX on a little safari this AM. YHC had thought about a big planned beatdown, but alas, was slammed with work this week, so that will have to wait. The Red Barchetta starter was a crowd pleaser and generated a few “FUs” from Rump. There were some issues with defining which fence and which trash can for a few of the sprints, so YHC knows why this exercise is normally done on a football field.

The NA Duck Walk led to some discussion about the best human duck call in F3, where the consensus was Ultra would have it, with Sex Panther second. Sound Machine had a rather surprising good duck call, which he claimed is partially due to his first car having hooves.

In the middle of the NA Crab Walks, YHC turned to Alright Alright and asked if the ECers joined the beatdown, should YHC make the PAX do penalty burpees for them being 35 min late. Alright Alright said we should, which YHC kept in his back packet.

A lot of mumble chatter during the Safari, which led YHC to think that maybe the Safari wasn’t a sufficient beatdown, so YHC decided to ramp up the cardio with the NA run and suicide at the tennis court. We decided to split into two groups for the suicides and YHC took Alright Alright’s suggestion of the group doing burpees while they waited, which YHC happily obliged (insert more “FUs” from Rump Roast). 

YHC was going to just do a few exercises and some Mary, but the ECers joined right after the suicides, so YHC had to be consistent and fair and thus 52 penalty burpees were required for the ECers showing up 52 min late. This led to quite a bit of grumbling and a few cries of foul from the ECers saying we were late to the EC workout. However, YHC would like to point out that YHC did not join the EC group or workout at all, so YHC didn’t attend the EC workout. The ECers joined the workout that started at 0700, and thus the penalty burpees were instituted. 

FNG naming occurred. Potential other names were Wild Thing, Dorn (Jobu brought him, so another Major League theme), or maybe Loggins (he has a great head of hair). But El Chapo, mentioned he is a rock climber the rock climbing led to discussions about El Captain where free climbing occurs, and that led to El Chapo. 

Shoutout to the perfect weekers (Big Tex, F150, Slippy, and Sex Panther) and pour one out for Bleep and Special Sauce. Bleep is usually absent on Saturdays, so that’s understandable. Special Sauce was unable to return from beyond the wall in time, as he journeyed to the great North yesterday. Though he’ll probably be happy that he missed all the penalty burpees after requesting no burpees. 

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
1. F3 Grow Ruck in two weekends (April 9-11). Houston has scholarships available!
2. Carry the Load on Memorial Day, May 31
3. F3 Golf

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Avril VQ Groundhog Day

#Backblast Glencoe 03/09/2021

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA:
PAX: Alright Alright, Sex Panther, DFib, F150, Shifty McCoy, Rump Roast, Ultra, Gambler, Bleep, Oatmeal, Teasip, Draper, Agnes, Jobu, Slushii, Plus One, Classified, Stingray, PowPow, and Special Sauce 
QIC: Avril

AO: Glencoe
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER: Given

WARM-O-RAMA:
13x SSH IC

13x Daisy Pickers

13x Hillbillies

THA THANG:

Appetizer:

Indian Run around Glencoe

Groundhog Day:

Deadlifts x10

Overhead Press x10

Upright Rows x10

American Hammers x10

Squats x10

Short loop through Glencoe

Rinse Repeat

Finishing Touches:

Rifle Carry width of football field with 10 burpees then Rifle Carry back

Little touches of abs:

Commandos x13

Burpees x10

Flutter Kicks x20

Penguin Crunches x13

LBC x5

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

YHC thought about what should be touched on and that was upper body, back, and cardio.

MOLESKIN: YHC wanted to thank all the PAX that showed up for YHC first Q. Was exciting and focused on a mixture of cardio, upper body, and back. Ready for the next one!

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

  • Grow Ruck San Antonio 4/8 and 4/9
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The Balboa… With a Side of Burpees

Date – 3/04/2021
Weather – 50° Moon still out and clear skies

Count-off & Name-O-Rama:
PAX –  Broadway Joe, Alright Alright, Aaaarrrrgggghhhh, Pow-Pow, Plus One, Agnes, Coach K, Classified, Sex Panther, Sound Machine, Ina, Sally, and Slusii & Bleep  decided to show up about 0600!
QIC –  Rump Roast
AO – Burleson Park
Disclaimer – Given 
 
Intro/ Warm-o-Rama:
SSH x20 (IC, DC)
IST x20 (IC, DC)
T-Merkins x20 (IC, DC)
Burpees x20 (OYO)
 
Mosey to the fountain = Burpees x10 (OYO)
Mosey to top of Dallas Hall steps x20 (OYO)
 
Burpees x50
American Hammers x100 (DC)
Lunges x150 (DC)
Big Boi Situps x200
Overhead Press x250
Air Squats x300
  
Mosey back to start
 
Circle of Trust (CoT):
 YHC prayed us out

Playlist:


Moleskin:
What a way to celebrate… Yesterday way my 18th wedding anniversary and I decided to take it out on the PAX! (Joking, I’m a very lucky man to have an amazing wife that’s put up with me for as long as she has. Hoping I’ll grow up eventually)

Anyway, while I was STOKED to get Sally back out even if it was just a guest appearance, I was let down that my man Special Sauce and the #subarumafia were all MIA.  Was a ton of mumble chatter during the warm-up to the point I really don’t know how many IST’s we really did… Did anyone actually count?

I had planned to do 50 total OYO Burpees by the time we started the Balboa but, saved the last 20 for the end before we moseyed back to the start. There was some grumbling from AA that the double count lunges was a little too much. So once he was done with all of them I Omaha’d to move on to the Big Boi Sit-ups. I think that was about as far as we got before time was up. Slushii & Bleep FINALLY showed up at like 0550 or some where really close to the end but, honestly I was just glad to see them. More than I can say for someone…. 

Overall, it was a great turnout, I believe a record attendance for 2ndCT. Way to push yourself men. Thank you all for making me a better version of me.  

Announcements:
Texas Independence Day 18K – March 6th
GrowRuck Alamo – April 10th
F3 Golf 

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Germany 3/1/21

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA:
PAX: Rump Roast, Bleep, Aaarrrggghhh, DFib, Sex Panther, Sound Machine, Special Sauce
QIC: Slushii

AO: Germany Park
F3 DISCLAIMER & WELCOME: Given

WARM-O-RAMA:
Burpee x 10 IC

Lap around track – NA style

Merkin x 15 IC

Lap around track – OYO

Monkey Humpers x 20 IC

Lap around track – NA style

IST x 25 IC

Lap around track – NA style

Squats x 30 OYO

THA THANG:
Cindy Crawford – AMRAP 10 minutes (5 pull-ups, 10 merkins, 15 squats, 20 LBC’s, 25 calf raises) to get the full body bikini ready

Mosey to Tennis Courts

DORA

JLo x 75

Lunge x 126 (single count)

Bat Wings x 200 (Overhead clap x 50, Seal clap x 50, 50 forward arm circles, 50 backwards arm circles)

MARY:
Penguin crunch x 10 IC

Uptown crunch x 10 IC (each side)

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Push yourselves. Never give up. Keep trying.  

MOLESKIN:
Bleep started the nonsense of trying to exceed “700 cals” during the 45min workout. YHC took that as a challenge and started the PAX off with a bang out of the gate with burpees. The warmup consisted of a mile of running and 5 exercises increasing by 5 reps starting with 10. YHC heard the usual compliments of Rump Roast but after the second lap YHC didn’t hear any mumblechatter from Rump. Sound Machine stayed strong and didn’t modify but understood his limits. Good to have DFib and Aaarrrggghh back out there to keep the mumblechatter high. The #westside is happy to see the return of Special Sauce after a birthday beatdown over the weekend. The sexiest of all panthers, our very own Sex Panther, was back in the saddle again after getting some recovery rest. Quite a bit of mumblechatter about the playlist but was strange that everyone sang along the entire 45min. Special Sauce also made the recommendation that YHC make the playlist for the 6 mile ruck during TID18k. Watch out DJ Icebox! This wasn’t the beatdown we all wanted but it was the beatdown we all deserved.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
1. TID18k – March 6th
2. Grow Ruck – April

3. F3 Golf

 

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F3 Deck – Joker’s Hot

Date – 2/24/2021
Weather – 65° and clear skies

Count-off & Name-O-Rama:
PAX –  Willie Loman Lifeboat from Atlanta, The Gambler, Sex Panther, Bleep, Slushii, and Sound Machine
QIC –  Rump Roast
AO – Coffee Park
Disclaimer – Given 
 
Intro/ Warm-o-Rama:
F3 Deck and running
Moseyed to the Southeast corner of the park at Turtle Creek Blvd. and Villanova St. for the first round. 
 
Rules:
PAX pics 2 cards. 1st has the exercise. 2nd card is the number of reps. 
Number card = number +10reps
Face card = 25reps
Ace’s = 100rep
Joker’s Hot = Automatic 50x Burpee’s when seen. Regardless of order
 
We did 1-2 draws at each intersection and then moseyed in between blocks. On the last block south, we started with a Bear Crawl for approx 3/4 a block. Then the last block upon getting back to the park we lunge walked. 
 
Finished by running back to the soft top with exactly 6mins left for PAX You-Call-It-Mary. 
 
YHC started it off: 
20x LBC’s DC IC
20x Big Boi’s SC OYO
Lifeboat – 15x Carolina Dry Docks (I didn’t really think this was an ab exercise but, didn’t mention it)
Slushii – 15x J-Lo’s DC (imagine that!)
Sound Machine – 15x Dead Bugs
Bleep – 15x Homer to Marge
The Gambler – 15x Box Top Cutters 
 
Circle of Trust (CoT):

YHC prayed us out

Moleskin:
Life Boat came strolling up from the dark and Slushii and I both thought for a second it was Ultra. AS he got closer we bot could tell it wasn’t but could tell neither of us knew who it was. Bleep complained the whole time how awful Coffee Park so, I decided to go run towards Caruth. At the second intersection, Bleep pulls the Joker, 50 Burpees OYO boys! He cussed me the whole rest of the morning that the “deck was loaded”! Was it tho Bleep? I guess you’ll never really know…

There was enough time for some mumble chatter this morning yet, I felt like we kept it moving and the activity level was high most of the workout. The Gambler was like a wild caged animal running between blocks with a blistering Alright Alright-ish pace. I think it’s noteworthy that Sex Panther was late to the workout and left early due to clearing the mechanism!  

Announcements:
Texas Independence Day 18K – March 6th
Patriot Challenge – LOG YOUR MILES (ends Mar,01)
GrowRuck Alamo – Soon
F3 Golf – My personal favorite! 

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F3 Goes Goggins for the 4x4x24

Date – 2/3/2021
Weather –  48° and clear skies

Count-off & Name-O-Rama:
PAX –  Avril, Arrrggggghhhh, and Sex Panther
QIC –  Rump Roast
AO – Coffee Park
Disclaimer – Given 
 
Intro/ Warm-o-Rama:
Not today

The Thang:
David Goggins Workout
– SSH’s (10mins)
– Nickles & Dimes (10mins)
– Burpee Test (10mins)
– 10x SSH into 10x Merkins (10mins)
– Unassisted Situps till time
 

Circle of Trust (CoT):
YHC prayed us out

Playlist:
Goggins says music is a distraction and won’t be there when you need motivation while doing chin-ups, gripin’ ropes, with a chain around his neck – Self Motivate

Moleskin:
T-claps to Avril as I think he was the only one that made it thru the 10mins of SSH’s without stopping! He truly pushed me to do more. There was some bellyaching, but overall it was a beautiful morning, and 4 men getting better.  Also, T-claps to our boy Sex Panther for getting back out there and embracing the suck with his fellow brothers.  We’ve missed you and glad to have you back. Now, where are those official F3 scales at?!?! LOL

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
1. F3 Golf 
2. 4x4x24 – see Special Sauce
3. Patriot challenge – see Rump Roast
4. TID 18k
5. GrowRuck San Antonio
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Groundhog Day!

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA:
PAX: Teasip, Slushii, Rump Roast, Special Sauce, Avril, Gambler, Sex Panther, Aaarrrggghhh
QIC: Oatmeal

AO: Glencoe Park
F3 DISCLAIMER & WELCOME: Given

WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x 15 IC

Hillbillies x 15 IC

Windmills x10 IC

THA THANG:

Run a small lap to the north goal post across field, around the south goal post and back to pavilion

Complete the following:

Step up press x5 each leg

Curls x10

Squat Thrust x10

Man Makers x10

Run same lap around goal posts stopping at north end to do merkins x10

Repeato…because it’s Groundhog Day.

MARY:

Legs 6” holding block

Flutters 

Penalty man makers x5 since several PAX dropped feet to ground

Try again: Legs 6” holding block

Rosalita

Low dolly, relax

No blocks:

Heels to heaven

LBCs

Various planks to close out

IRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
YHC prayed us out.

MOLESKIN:

It’s Groundhog Day so what could we do over and over and over…Much mumble chatter about YHC not caring about shoulders today.  Perhaps I should have warned PAX to take care of their Starbucky shoulders.  Following the shoulder comments were the complaints of back pain.  I can provide the number of a good sports chiro!  Tclaps to Slushii for being prepared with an impromptu speaker to aid with the monotony.  YHC took pity on PAX with 10 minutes remaining and moved to some Mary since PAX were also upset YHC seemed to neglect core exercises today.  PAX were relieved until they figured out YHC was serious about holding feet at 6”.  Penalty man makers for lazy feet elicited what may be a record 5-6 “F U’s” on the Rumpometer.  I was humbled with such recognition and felt I should thank the Academy and everyone that supported me in my Q journey!

We all survived, had coffee and as far as I can tell, this week’s batch didn’t prep Slushii for a colonoscopy! 
ANNOUNCEMENTS:

  • Patriot Challenge started yesterday.  Get signed up and log your miles!
  • 4x4x24 this Friday!  Get on the train (Rump Roast is HC!) and start hydrating and carbo loading on Weds
  • TID18K on 3/6
  • GrowRuck Alamo 4/9-4/11
  • F3 Golf…
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Coffee

COUNT OFF & NAME O RAMA

PAX: Agnes, Bleep, Classified, Sex Panther, Slippy & Slushii

QIC: Aaarrrggghhh

AO: Coffee Park

F3 DISCLAIMER & WELCOME: Given

WARM-O-RAMA: SSH, IST, Veggie Pickers

THA THANG: Made our way to the Caruth Park tennis courts down Turtle Creek Blvd. and stopped at end of each block and completed the following: 

  1. Squats & reverse crunches x 12
  2. Loiners & WWI sit ups x 12
  3. Merkins & Rugby sit ups x 12
  4. Turkish get ups x 12
  5. Hand raises x 12
  6. Burpees  x12

Tennis Court Suicides: 

Round 1) Run to long end and bear crawl/crab walk back

Round 2) Run to long end and lunge/broad jump back

Mosey back to Coffee Park with same set of exercises between blocks. 

MARY: Reverse crunch, big boy sit ups, rugby sit ups x 6

MOLESKIN: Beautiful crisp morning. We did start out beat down with GAMS (grown ass men skipping) and were called out by neighborhood runners. It was great to hit the courts again at Caruth and look forward to future rings and things workouts once that AO opens again. 

ANNOUNCEMENTS: 

  1. Wednesday 1/20 please bring any suits, slacks, button ups that are no longer in use to you but still have life in them. Splash is collecting to support a great cause. 
  2. 4x4x24 CSAUP Feb 5-6 starting at 1900 on Feb 5.
  3. TID 18K March 6 at 0700
  4. GROWRUCK April 8-10 in SA
  5. F3 Golf