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A Little at The Harbor

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

PAX: Sound Machine, Stingray, Trash Panda, Swiper, Silent Bob

QIC: F150

AO: The Harbor

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER:

WARM-O-RAMA:

12 SSH, IST, daisy pickers, annies

THA THANG:

Mosey to front of school. Split into two teams, one pax runs the course and exercises while others do exercise.

Rd 1 – Merkins, E2K (both sides), Nipplers X10 ( PAX waiting hold Al Gore)

Rd 2 – Burpees, American Hammers, Rocky Balboas x10 (PAX waiting do Plank Jacks)

Rd 3 – Carolina Dry docks, Alternating Shoulder Taps, T-Merkins x10 (PAX waiting do Squats)

Rd 4 – Lunges, Outlaws, Gorilla Humpers (5 monkey bumpers with Gorilla Jump) x10 (PAX waiting do Hello Dollies)

 

Mosey to Tennis Courts

Motivator long to short

MARY:

12 Yeahs, Box Cutters, LBCs

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

We are influencers in some sphere of influence we are in, whether at home, work, with PAX, or friends. How are you influencing in a positive direction or in a negative direction, F3 is about male leadership and we must be aware we are always leading and someone is always watching us lead. Not watching a creepy way…kids, friends, co-workers, and so on.

MOLESKIN:

 A LOT of soreness and discussion about the number of bear crawls the day before at SCT, causing some modifications for the group. Over all a great morning with the men of The Harbor.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

 

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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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Doomsday Clock 2021

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA:
PAX: Ultra, Nicky Roth, Rump Roast, Jobu, Big Tex, Whoops, Sound Machine, Sally, Agnes, Nate Hartman (FNG/Boggle), Isaiah, Pow Pow, Siesta, Bleep, Ina, Dirtbag, Draper, Avril, Special Sauce, Ant Man, Classified
QIC: Oatmeal

AO: Burleson Park

F3 DISCLAIMER & WELCOME: Given

WARM-O-RAMA:
IST x15 IC

SSH x 20 IC

Windmill x 10 IC

1 penalty burpee for Ant Man’s tardiness

THA THANG:

Mosey to Quad for the Doomsday Clock for approximately 40 minutes:

Making use of the 12 spokes (sidewalks) out from the fountain, YHC had PAX perform the following rotating around each spoke like clockwork. 

  1. 10 Pam Andersons (burpee nippler)
  2. 20 Squats
  3. 30 V Ups
  4. 40 Merkins
  5. 50 Rugby Situps
  6. 60 Gorilla Squats
  7. 70 Mountain Climbers (x2)
  8. 80 Lunges (x1)
  9. 90 OH Presses
  10. 100 Plank Jacks
  11. 110 OH Claps
  12. 120 LBC’s

Following each set of exercises, PAX ran the length of spoke, performed burpees x station number (total of 78 burpees) and ran back to fountain (hub) to start next station.  An exception was made following gorilla squats and OH presses, where PAX bear crawled the length of the spoke and back.  

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
YHC prayed us out.  YHC challenged the PAX to seek the input of each of their M’s about F3.  There has been a theme lately from several of us whose M’s have not held F3 in the highest regard for various reasons, which means that we and much more, I, have failed to properly bring back the tenets of the life-changing organization back to my home.  I challenged the PAX to bring back the feedback and vowed to create more 2F events that include the M’s and 2.0’s as we begin to emerge from Covid prison.  

MOLESKIN:

YHC had the thought to roll this oldie out after not having completed it in over a year.  Many new PAX that had not felt the burn of the Doomsday Clock so why not!  PAX were spread around the circle and YHC heard several conversations (this tells me there is much more effort to be put forth if one can carry on a park walk chat).  YHC received several complaints and groans, but only one emphatic “FU” from Rump so I will assume that he is getting stronger and the workout isn’t a cake walk since it seemed to gas most everybody else.  TClaps to Classified and Special Sauce.  Classified kept a weight vest on the entire time.  This workout sucks without added weight.  Sauce brought a speaker and playlist with minimal notice.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

  • GrowRuck Alamo 4/9-4/11
  • Carry the Load Memorial Day ruck – details will be forthcoming
  • F3 Golf…
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Club Rehab for the Beach

#musclebeach #clubrehab #backblast

Dirtbag Meatball Special Sauce Ina Rump Roast Bleep Slushii sound machine Agnes Avril DFib joined YHC for some muscle beach meets club rehab action

I’m not going to lie, I just came up with all of that workout on the fly and I don’t have the it written down but here’s my best recollection of what we did

Warmup: the usual, SSHs, ISTs, hillbillies, veggie pickers, don quixote

YHC was having some challenges connecting to Bleep’s fancy blue tooth speaker (t claps Bleep for bringing!) Rump Roast was asked to get the workout started…he was a lil slow on the uptake so YHC quickly took the reigns back over…a lot of moaning during the veggie pickers and hillbillies, sounds like the PAX didn’t do any self care after TID18K

Mosey to the field with blocks

Because this was club rehab I prefaced the lap by saying if you didn’t have it in you to do SSHs, mountain climbers, or anything else to keep the body moving but turns out we’re a bunch of stubborn assholes and all ran a lap

Bicep block work of 21s, slow curls up, slow curls down, upright rows

Core block of jackknifes, LBCs, Freddy Mercury’s, uptown crunches, flutter kicks, box cutters, heels to heaven, rosalitas

Repeato the run, bicep, core

Repeato again, throw in some Pilate leg action, a few burpees, lil baby arm circles

Meatball called YHC out that we only ran 3 laps at 6:14 so I told him he had 60 seconds to get one more in, he did but a lot of other PAX tried to be hero’s and took considerably longer than 60 seconds and caused us to go over time by a few minutes

Seemed like a decent amount of mumblechatter throughout but YHC was counting a inordinate amount but hope y’all feel like you got some good core and will be beach ready in now time!

Announcements: no time, had to hustle home

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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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Salty Dogs

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA:
PAX: Rump Roast, Slushii, Bleep, Broadway Joe, Agnes, Sound Machine, Big Tex
QIC: Oatmeal

AO: Burelson Park
F3 DISCLAIMER & WELCOME: Given

WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x15 IC

IST x15 IC

Overhead Claps x20 IC

Windmills x10 IC

THA THANG:

Mosey to softball diamond

1: Farmer carry both coupons, abyss merkins x5 at each base

P2: Run big loop

x2 for each partner

11’s

Curls x1 at west end tree

Triceps x10 at east end tree

Cusak walk between exercises 

  • Coupon comes down on walk or hits ground anytime x3 man makers
  • Rump Roast throws coupon x5 man makers

Mosey to tennis courts

Suicides: long to short.  Squats at each line starting x10 and counting down at each line

x2 full-length suicides

Mosey to soft top for some Mary

Reverse plank pounders w/ coupon on belly x10

LBC’s with coupon x15

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
YHC prayed us out.

MOLESKIN:

Wow, what a salty group this morning.  Workout started very mundane with the farmer carries/abyss merkins although I did get a personal “FU” from Rump to kick start the morning as we were rounding second!  Once we transitioned to the 11’s the real fun started.  The moans and groans started almost immediately with the first round of Cusaks and it went downhill from there as YHC exacted punishment if blocks were lowered during Cusaks and after what seemed to be half the PAX dropping their coupons after the first Cusak walk, YHC added more punishment for each block that hit the ground.  Finally fed up with the pain, the Salt King of the morning, Rump Roast, began to give the PAX lessons in shot putting as he routinely heaved his coupon to get a rest from carrying it overhead.  This elicited many choice words from the PAX as the man makers began to add up.  YHC ended the pain early and we made the mosey to the tennis courts where I practiced some reverse psychology on the PAX by allowing them to vote on whether to continue using the coupons.  The vote went in favor of continuing so I allowed them to drop the coupons and we proceeded to our suicides sans coupons.

The running was foreign to most of the West Siders but they adapted to the small amount that YHC presented.  Overall, it appears the workout was a favorite…especially on the Rump Scale.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

  • Patriot Challenge 
  • TID18K on 3/6
  • GrowRuck Alamo 4/9-4/11
  • 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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Run it Back | Zach Tellier Hero WOD

Date – 2/20/2021
Weather – 30° and the sun shining bright! 

Count-off & Name-O-Rama:
PAX –  Teasip, Meatball, TikTok, DFib, & Sound Machine 
QIC –  Rump Roast
AO – Burleson Park
Disclaimer – Given 
 

Intro/ Warm-o-Rama: 
SSH x15 (DC,IC)
IST x15 (DC, IC)
Cotton Pickers x10 (DC, IC)

Mosey to the parking garage 
 
Tha-Thang:
Zachary Tellier WOD:
10x Burpees
 
Run to the 2nd level
10x Burpees  
25x Merkins
 
Run to bottom, repeat-O
The 3rd level
10x Burpees  
25x Merkins
50x Lunges
 
Run to the bottom, repeat-O
4th level
10x Burpees  
25x Merkins
50x Lunges
100x LBC’s
 
Run to bottom, repeat-O
5th level
10x Burpees  
25x Merkins
50x Lunges
100x LBC’s
150x Squats
 
Mosey back to launch

Circle of Trust (CoT):
YHC prayed us out

Playlist:

Moleskin:
This was the first time that I’ve finished this WOD, it took us about 70mins total and it sucked. I remember during warm-up Dfib was chatty to the point I almost stopped to do OYO burpees but let it slide knowing he was about to see plenty of burpees! I think at the first set of burpees, Teasip knew what we were in for. Just a few minutes in Sound Machine caught on to the pattern. Within just another minute or so Meatball gave me a direct “Fuck U Rump”!  Sound machine at one point sang a Fuck You Rump cheer/fight song. I consider it a win! T-claps to everyone there this morning for getting up and getting out here! Teasip helped push the pace, TikTok with the form to watch. It’s a true beatdown and everyone agreed to push thru another 10-15mins to finish the routine strong. Way to give it away men! #HIM’s

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Second Choice Thursday – Time to be a Man!

Date – 1/28/2021
Weather – 31 degrees

Count-off & Name-O-Rama:
PAX –  Aaarrrggghhh, Agnes, Big Tex, Slushii, & Sound Machine
QIC – Dfig
AO – Burleson Park
Disclaimer – Given 
 
Intro/ Warm-o-Rama:
13x SSH
13x IST
13x Hillbillies
13x Veggie Pickers

The Thang:
Native American Run around park then mosey to field
 
4X40’s Wind Sprints
 
Sets 1 & 3
13x Bonnie Blairs + 1 to grow on
13x Bobby Hurleys
13x Apollo Onos + 1 to grow on
13x Jump Knee Tucks
13x Squat Jacks
 
4X40’s Wind Sprints (between each set)
 
Sets 2 & 4
13x Superman Merkins
13x Carolina Dry Docks
Merkin Clock (on curb, at 12 position – 5x Irkins, at 3 & 9 – 5x unbalanced merkin (one hand on curb and one hand on ground), at 6 postion – 5x Derkin
13x Roof Raisers
13x Wolverines (10x in set 4) 
 
Extra Credit Set
13x Mike Tysons
13x Monkey Humpers
 
6X40’s Wind sprints (for a grand total of 22 – 40’s or 2 miles)
 
Mary
13x J-Los
13x E2K plus 1 to grow on
13x Dying Cockroach
1:13 Plank Hold
 
Circle of Trust (CoT):

YHC prayed us out

Playlist:
None today

Moleskin:
It’s my son’s (F3 Name- Meow) birthday and wanted to honor his big day and entering the  teenage years with a “manly” workout.  Not a ton of mumblechatter other than some grumbling due to the myraid of sprints and hatred of the Wolverine (Burpee – Merkin, peter, merkin, parker, merkin, jump up).  Also Sound Machine has all the toys and the glow in the dark football was fun to throw around pre and post beatdown.  Was some discussion of  Bleep skipping and Rump Roast’s fartsacking after a HC (weird to see Slushii solo in the suburu). I guess he didn’t want a perfect week afterall! Slushii is still on target.  Overall great day, chilly day but the wind sprints made us forget about it quickly. 

Announcements:
CSAUP, Independence Day, Patriot Run, Grow Ruck