Don’t drop the weight!

Location: Paddock
Date: 2022-07-06
Weather: Warm and humid

Q: Wally World
PAX: 4 – Wally World, Sous Vide, Bootlegger, Dub-K

Warm-O-Rama
Various OYO stretches

Tha Thang
During the entirety of the workout, PAX had to carry their weight without setting it down. If a PAX dropped their weight, everyone had to do 10 burpees.

Workout: 11
10 curls at top of hill, 1 shoulder press at bottom of hill
9 curls at top of hill, 2 shoulder press at bottom of hill
8 curls at top of hill, 3 shoulder press at bottom of hill…etc.

No PAX dropped their weight, so no burpees were done 💪🏽

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Diego & Ring-of-Fire Mash-up

Location: Gridlock
Date: 2022-07-02
Weather: Humid… which is better than huhigh. 🙂

Q: Muck
PAX: 18 – Sparky, LeBron, Slick Willie, Sous Vide, Expo, Wagon Train, Bandwagon, Axeman, Zebra, Subject Matter, Radio, Nutmeg (DR), El Fed, Chewbacca, Geppetto, Steve-O, Wally World, Muck

Warm-O-Rama
– Michael Phelps
– Runners stretch (switch)
– Cross feet, bend and hang (switch)
– Tricep pull (switch)
– Arm across chest (switch)
– Quad pulls (OYO)
– Grass grabbers (15, IC)

Tha Thang
Start off with Diego…
Partner up, then mosey to coupons at the football field. Each team takes a coupon to hill by scoreboard.
One PAX begins exercise at top of hill… partner PAX goes to bottom of hill, does an exercise, then back up the hill. Partners switch until top exercise count is complete. Five rounds total:

Top: 50 Coupon swings
Bottom: 10 Plank Jacks

Top: 100 Overhead presses
Bottom: 10 No Surrenders

Top: 150 Curls
Bottom: 10 Squats

Top: 200 Bentover Rows
Bottom: 10 SSH’S

Top: 250 Mercans
Bottom: 10 Big Boy Situps

Then we fell into a burnin’ Ring of Fire. Staying in pairs, there were nine stations. We did AMRAP reps for 1:30, then :30 rest while we rotate:
1. Dips
2. Step ups
3. Lunges w/ twist
4. Big boy situps
5. Arm Circles
6. Jump rope
7. No Surrenders
8. Mercans w/ rotation
9. Box cutters

We did all this while winging a tennis ball at each other.

Mosey back to the flag for COT and Coffeeteria.

Welcome Wagon Train! You and your Dad made a great team!

Happy 200th post Radio!

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Mumble In The Jungle

Location: Sherwood
Date: 2022-07-01
Weather: Stupendous

Q: Muck
PAX: 5 – Geppetto, Chewbacca, Dub-K, Showcase Showdown, Muck

Warm-O-Rama
That’s a negative ghostrider

Tha Thang
Timer driven mumbleruck.
4:30 of Ruck, then 1:30 of PT.

Seven stations (not in order):
– Squats
– Curls
– Overhead Press
– Mercans
– Ruck Swings
– Bench Press
– Raggedy Ann’s

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A bunch of dumbbells!

Location: Paddock
Date: 2022-06-29
Weather: 55 and amazing!!

Q: Sous Vide
PAX: 7 – Sous Vide, Zebra, Wally World, Whitewall, Bootlegger, Dub-K, Geppetto

Warm-O-Rama
A few dynamic stretches.

Tha Thang
Each pax had to farmer carry some dumbbells for 1 mile. Every time you had to set them down you performed 5 burpees, 10 hand release mercans and 15 squats. It was FUN!

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Bucket of Fun

Location: Paddock
Date: 2022-06-22
Weather: Humid

Q: Weird Science
PAX: 5 – Weird Science, Bootlegger, Sous Vide, Geppetto, Dub-K

Warm-O-Rama
Jog around AO
Stretch on own

Tha Thang
4 corners of the parking lot and pavilion. Mosey from one corner to the other. Half way down the lot, do 10 side straddle hops.
4 corners-
-30 squats
-30 merkins
-30 mountain climbers
-30 big boys
-30 step ups at pavillion

After completing one round each PAX got the chance to toss or bounce a tennis ball into a bucket. If they made it, they did 5 merkins, if they miss it, 5 Burpees.

We did multiple rounds and as a reward for all the hard work, each PAX got an extra shot at the bucket per round. Sous Vide was the only PAX to make the shot!

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Number 1

Location: Gridlock
Date: 2022-06-28
Weather: 63

Q: Bootlegger
PAX: 13 – Bootlegger, Geppetto, Sous Vide, Muck, Sparrow, LeBron, Steve-O, Oshag, Raquel, Showcase Showdown, The Janitor, Wally World, Axeman

Warm-O-Rama
Michael Phelps
Arm circles
Grass grabbers

Tha Thang
Jog to football field
Two-man groups:
One Pax- run 50m/1 man maker/run 100m/1 man maker
Other Pax- 1000 total of Pax choice…squats/merkens/American hammers/side straddle hip
20 count rest
300m of rifle carry and murder bunnies (rotate Pax)
Jog back to flag
30 ice scatters
10 TNT toads

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Butt To Bench

Location: Gridlock
Date: 2022-06-27
Weather:

Q: Lansbury
PAX: 11 – Lansbury, Radio, Dub-K, Possum, Oshag, Sous Vide, Chewbacca, Muck, Zebra, Geppetto, Santa’s Little Helper

Warm-O-Rama
Ruck and dynamic warm-up

Tha Thang
5 Rounds:
10 Burpees
20 Ruck Chest Press
30 Ruck squat to bench with rock back and rock forward
40 Dead bugs
Ruck
Mary

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Parking Lot of Pain or P.L.O.P

Location: Gridlock
Date: 2022-06-25
Weather: B-e-a-utiful

Q: Steve-O
PAX: 15 – Czekov, Geppetto, Sparrow, Sous Vide, Radio, Axeman, Raquel, Chewbacca, Lincoln Log, Showcase Showdown, Incognito, Zebra, Expo, Muck, Steve-O

Warm-O-Rama
Michael Phelps, arm circles, runner stretch Muck style and standard, bend and hang, down/upward dog, dynamic warm up (high knees, butt kickers, frankensteins, open and close gate, end w/ 21s (failed).

Tha Thang
Bear Crawl Inch Worm / Native American(?) Run to begin a punishment for being disappointments and failures who count.
Mosey to Coupons, Groups of 3
1. Run a lap
2. Mucho Leg-0:
– narrow squat, regular squat, wide squat
– jump lunge right, jump lunge left, repeat
3. Boulder Shoulders:
– push up in front of coupon, move up
– incline push up, move forward
– decline push up, move back
– incline push up, move back
– regular push up, repeat
Rotate to next exercise within the group of 3 each time a lap is complete.
PAX completed 6(?) full rounds
Mosey to flag
Squat Circle (Colon Cleaners):
– All PAX are performing AMAP squats while a single PAX bear crawls the outside perimeter of the circle, next PAX begins their lap once first PAX returns. Go until last PAX completes his lap. (This was the reward should the PAX have counted correctly)
Leg Raises: 11 per side in cadence
Supermans: 25 OYO

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Pi, Pies, Pines, Supine, Supa-Fine!

Location: Sherwood
Date: 2022-06-24
Weather: Super Fine! Perfect temp. Perfect humidity. Perfect sky. We could see the 5 planets lined up for the 1st time in 20 years!

Q: Showcase Showdown
PAX: 4 – Showcase Showdown, Muck, Steve-O, Dub-K

Warm-O-Rama
Warmup. Stretch OYO, Merkins, SSH

Tha Thang
Rucked a 1.4mile loop to the hidden Pine needle trail behind the softball stadium while discussing important life milestones like:
– [ ] Tall baby Girl in utero!
– [ ] The uselessness of memorizing Pi to 35 digits
– [ ] Our favorite Pies, … Possum Pie?
– [ ] Impressive Matthew memorization by the next gen. (Way to go, Willbo! God is good!)
– [ ] Giving Two x 2 flips to a Tire…until we got too tired. (It was Sous Vide size)
– [ ] Tires—> Cars. Using my playlist with old songs that pay tribute to certain favorite car models, we played Name That Tune, with each miss = another round of Mary. (They just don’t make songs like this anymore… about Lincolns, Caddies, 409s, Coupes, Corvettes, low riders, & greased lightnings).

2 rounds of Mary included curls, military press, Strike-Throughs, TNT Toads, ice skaters, Plank toe-twists, AmHams with weight, & ended in the Supine position, doing chest presses with the weights.

All in all, at the beginning of the day, a Super-Fine time was had by all!

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100 Reps of Summer

Location: Gridlock
Date: 2022-06-23
Weather: Mid 70s, balmy yet seasonal

Q: Raquel
PAX: 9 – Bootlegger, Steve-O, Sous Vide, Ollie, Raquel, Axeman, Muck, Slick Willie, Incognito

Warm-O-Rama
Jogged up to the football field, grabbed a coupon and headed to the bottom of the scoreboard hill. Mike Phelps, AC, Bend and Hang, Up and Down dog, hands to the sky.

Tha Thang
Summer started Tuesday, so to celebrate the season’s arrival, we partnered up and had a summer themed workout, with a summer themed playlist. 1 partner completed reps, while other moseyed then relieved until rep count was complete:
S – Steve Earles x 100 (partner moseyed up hill, 2
Burpees, moseyed down hill)
U – Upright Rows X 100 (partner moseyed up hill, 2
Catalinas, moseyed down hill)
M – Monkey Humpers x 100 (partner moseyed up hill,
2 Burpees, moseyed down hill)
M – Manatees x 100 (2 is 1) (partner moseyed up hill,
2 Catalinas, moseyed down hill)
E – Elf on the Shelf X 100 (partner moseyed up hill, 2
Burpees, moseyed down hill)
R – Redrum (Murder bunny up – 5 manmakers- rifle
carry down)

Ran low on time, moseyed back to flag.

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We only did 10 Mercans

Location: Gridlock
Date: 2022-06-20
Weather: 58 degrees and clear, felt great.

Q: Incognito
PAX: 8 – Dub-K, 3D (DR), Muck, Axeman, Radio, Sous Vide, Geppetto, Incognito

Warm-O-Rama
Michael Phelps and Arm Rotations

Tha Thang
We rucked around; stopping every 2 minutes to do 10 Mercans.
We got back to the flag sooner than I expected, so we did squats for the last 5 minutes (while still stopping every 2 minutes for Mercans).

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Sweater weather

Location: Gridlock
Date: 2022-06-18
Weather: A cool reprieve from the heat

Q: Zebra
PAX: 14 – Muck, Expo, Hertz, TStark, Fergie, Sous Vide, Incognito, Raquel, Radio, 49er, Axeman, Oshag, Santa’s Little Helper, Zebra

Warm-O-Rama
Over half the pax got the memo and wore blue shorts with their black shirt. Our resident fashion police failed to comply.

Michael Phelps, arm circles, downward dog, runners stretch
30 SSH IC
10 Imperial Walkers IC
10 Hillbillies IC

QIC unloaded his trunk with lots of toys to play with today. Pax hauled 3 weighted fitness balls and 3 sandbags and moseyed to the tennis courts

Tha Thang
After a little more stretching, we split into 4 groups for Station work.

Station 1: Amrap
10 wall balls
20 mountain climbers
20 overhead claps

Station 2: Amrap
5 sandbag squat presses
10 BB sit-ups
20 SSH

Station 3: Amrap
5 burpees
10 jump squats
20 grapplers

Station 4:
Celebrations.
8 court suicides with increasing merkins at each court. When the group completed their celebration, we rotated stations

After each group completed all 4 stations, 10 minutes remained.
Finisher: 1 round of 11’s

LBC’s — bear crawl 1 court — Variation of merkins (wide, diamond, clap) — Bernie back

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On The Clock

Location: Sherwood
Date: 2022-06-17
Weather: Big Blue skies and clear as a bell (which is another phrase that makes no sense)

Q: Muck
PAX: 8 – Zebra, Dub-K, Geppetto, Showcase Showdown, Oshag, Sparrow, Santa’s Little Helper, Muck

Warm-O-Rama
10 Squats
10 Imperial Walkers

Tha Thang
As the title suggests, it was a timer driven ruck.
4:30 of Ruck, then 1:30 of PT.

1st round- Squats
2nd round- Curls
3rd round- Overhead Press
4th round- Mercans
5th round- Ruck Swings
6th round- Bench Press
7th round- Raggedy Ann’s

Welcome Sparrow! Glad to have you join us!

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Hero Workout: Hortman

Location: Paddock
Date: 2022-06-15
Weather: Mid 70s, max humidity

Q: Wally World
PAX: 6 – Wally World, Sous Vide, Dub-K, Weird Science, Geppetto, The Janitor

Warm-O-Rama
OYO stretching

Tha Thang
Run 800M (half mile)
80 air squats
8 pull-ups

Repeat for as many rounds as possible within workout time limit.

We completed 4 rounds, finished with 15 IC cockroaches.

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Hangman!

Location: Gridlock
Date: 2022-06-14
Weather: Clear and a tad humid

Q: Sous Vide
PAX: 8 – Sous Vide, Oshag, Muck, Radio, Axeman, Wally World, Raquel, Geppetto

Warm-O-Rama
We did some dynamic stretches as we moseyed to the pull up shelter.

Tha Thang
Everyone had their own timer and the super fun game we played was hangman!! You had to hang from a rafter for a total of 8 minutes. However, every time you let go and touched the ground you had to run a quarter mile and do 30 hand release mercans. We then moseyed back to the flag. With the music and the high humidity, a great time was had by all!!! Plus, it really loosened up your shoulders.

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Rome had 7 hills, we only have 2

Location: Gridlock
Date: 2022-06-11
Weather: Questionable at first but turned out to be great

Q: The Janitor
PAX: 16 – Axeman, Slick Willie, Fergie, Wally World, Oshag, Radio, Incognito, Muck, Expo, Toto, Raquel, Sous Vide, LeBron, Geppetto, The Janitor, Santa’s Little Helper

Warm-O-Rama
Stretches OYO
Danger Zone

Tha Thang
Dora 123 at football scoreboard hill
100 v ups
200 curls
300 squats

Partner at top did 1 burpee, 2 burpee, 3 burpee according to round.

Walked to the LCA hill and did 11’s synchronized Catalina’s and man makers. Wakes back to flag

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When you come to a fork in the road, take it.

Location: Sherwood
Date: 2022-06-10
Weather: Primetime

Q: Steve-O
PAX: 5 – Geppetto, Toto, Slick Willie, Muck, Steve-O

Warm-O-Rama
Mumble chatter and static stretching as needed.

Tha Thang
Ruck through Sherwood Forest, about half on the beaten path and half on the road less traveled to ensure mosquito bites, rolled ankles and increased humidity and thereby perspiration. Discussed F3 name origin of each PAX present as well as some of the suckier beatdowns endured as well as Muck’s global F3 fame (if you consider Ohio global). Several stations throughout: curls, squats, shoulder press, merkins, upright rows. Return to base.

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If You Q It, They Will Come (Or Not)

Location: Gridlock
Date: 2022-06-09
Weather: If it were any better, it would have to be twins. (I never understood that phrase)

Q: Muck
PAX: 8 – Oshag, Santa’s Little Helper, Incognito, Bootlegger, Axeman, Sous Vide, Raquel, Muck

Warm-O-Rama
– Michael Phelps
– Runners stretch (switch)
– Cross feet, bend and hang (switch)
– Tricep Pull (switch)
– Pull arm across (switch)
– Grass grabbers (15, IC)

Tha Thang
Field of Dreams
In teams of two (Incognito was all by himself), the PAX took a base and completed AMRAP exercises there until relieved. Once the team at Home completed 10 burpees, all the runners would advance. When the last team completed their burpees, we ran an inside loop of the parking lot).

1st Base (AMRAP exercises)
• 1st round: Dips
• 2nd round: Curls w/coupon
• 3rd round: Bentover rows w/coupon
• 4th round: Overhead press w/coupon

2nd Base (AMRAP exercises)
• 1st round: American Hammers
• 2nd round: Cross crunches (elbows to opposite knees)
• 3rd round: Big boy situps
• 4th round: Bobby Hurleys (slap the ground, then jump shot)

3rd Base (AMRAP exercises)
• 1st round: Plank jacks
• 2nd round: Mercans
• 3rd round: Hillbillies
• 4th round: Side to side jump squats

Home
• Burpees (10)

Pax completed six rounds (repeat rounds 1 & 2).

Mosey back to the flag. Bootlegger led us in flutter kicks (IC) to round out the morning.

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Pinochle Deck of Death

Location: Gridlock
Date: 2022-06-07
Weather: Wet

Q: Wally World
PAX: 10 – Wally World, Possum, Steve-O, The Janitor, Muck, Oshag, Sous Vide, Bootlegger, Toto, Zebra

Warm-O-Rama
Moseyed to coupons by the shelter, took them under the shelter. OYO stretching

Tha Thang
♠️ – Mericans
♣️ – Curls
♦️- Squats
❤️ – Shoulder press

Face cards switched after each joker:
1 – 5 cockroaches
2 – 5 manmakers
3 – 10 deadbugs
4 – 10 monkey humpers

Each joker was also an exercise:
1 – 2 min tension toad
2 – 2 min wall sit
3 – 2 min plank
4 – 2 min table/crab walk hold

Ended with a bit of Mary

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God of Thunder

Location: Birds Nest
Date: 2022-06-06
Weather: Light Rain

Q: Doc Holiday
PAX: 2 – Wally World, Doc Holiday

Warm-O-Rama
5 min dynamic stretching

Tha Thang
10 merkins
10 curls
10 front overhead presses
10 tricep extensions
10 squats
10 bent rows
10 split lunges left leg
10 split lunges right leg
10 leg lifts
1 min rest
Repeat until end of time
Finished with a 3 min frog squat

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Return of the Possum

Location: Gridlock
Date: 2022-06-06
Weather: P E R F E C T. Poster model for the best of days.

Q: Muck
PAX: 6 – Toto, Geppetto, Possum, Radio, Sous Vide, Muck

Warm-O-Rama
Thought about it… does that count?

Tha Thang
Muck Ruck… 2.4 mile loop… seven stations… 20 squats and 20 mercans at each. Lots of mumblechatter.

Great to see Possum! Double Respect!

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Uno, 76ers, Benjamins, Four Corners… They Said There Would Be No Math!

Location: Gridlock
Date: 2022-06-04
Weather: The question you have to ask yourself is, “Does it get any better?” And the answer is, “No, it does not”.

Q: Muck
PAX: 13 – Fergie, Sous Vide, Raquel, Radio, Subject Matter, Axeman, The Janitor, Steve-O, Hertz, Toto, Animal Style, Mr. Schneebly, Muck

Warm-O-Rama
– Michael Phelps
– The definitive “Runners Stretch” (switch)
– Cross feet, bend and hang (switch)
– Knee hugs (OYO)
– Tricep pulls (switch)
– Grass grabbers (15, IC)

Tha Thang
Started off with three rounds of Uno, doing the exercises of the corresponding color and the number of reps on the card:

RED – Squats
BLUE – Mercans
YELLOW – Big Boy Situps
GREEN – Plank jacks

Reverse, Skip, and Draw Twos: 10 reps of the exercises of that color

WILD – 5 Burpees

DRAW +4 – Mosey Parking Lot

Transitioned into four rounds of 76ers:
Sprint to first cone and do 7 reps. Repeat at 2nd & 3rd cones. Sprint to the end cone. Repeat 7 reps at each cone back. Four rounds:
1st round: Mercans
2nd round: Big Boy Situps
3rd round: American Hammers
4th round: Side straddle hops

Five rounds of All About the Benjamins (rep count equals 100):

25 Curls >>> 25 Lunge Steps >>> 25 Squats >>> 25 Lunge Steps back to coupons

25 Shoulder Presses >>> 25 High Skips >>> 25 Mountain Climbers >>> 25 High Skips

25 Bent Over Rows >>> 25 Bear Crawl steps >>> 25 LBC’s >>> 25 Bear Crawl steps back

25 Coupon swings >>> 25 High knees >>> 25 American Hammers >>> 25 High knees back

25 Bench Presses >>> 25 Bernie steps >>> 25 Cross crunches >>> 25 Bernie steps back

Baseball Relay
Teams divided evenly for a relay race. Bernied around four cones, handing off a baseball to the next person. Losing team did five burpees.

Ended with 5 minutes of pax choice Mary involving Big Boy Situps, Heel Touches, and Dead Bugs.

Welcome Mr. Schneebly!

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Abs because I can’t feel my arms still

Location: Paddock
Date: 2022-06-01
Weather: Perfect

Q: Wally World
PAX: 3 – Wally World, Sous Vide, Weird Science

Warm-O-Rama
Extended stretching time

Tha Thang
30 big boy sit-ups
1 min tension road
20 cockroaches IC
1 min wall sit
40 American hammers
1 min plank
20 dead bugs IC
1 min tension toad
30 single leg big boy sit-ups w/ rotation (15 each side)
1 min wall sit
30 single leg toe touches (15 each side)
1 min plank
20 reverse crunches
1 min tension toad
40 crunches
1 min wall sit

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Four Fine Folks for Friday: Frickin’ Fenominal Fitness for 4 Funny Friendly Fools

Location: Sherwood
Date: 2022-05-27
Weather: A bit of Drizzle on our Hizzles

Q: Showcase Showdown
PAX: 4 – Showcase Showdown, Muck, Geppetto, Steve-O

Warm-O-Rama
4 types of Stretchies, since 4 of us showed up in the light rain. 4 rucksacks, (+ 3 pancho villas, 1 golf umbrella protecting 1 Bluetooth speaker).

Tha Thang
Since the Theme was “Four”, we hiked over to the softball stands and stair climbed 4 fast laps up and down the rafters until my calves started yelling at me, “hey! I’m burning!” Then we did some calf raises on the curb, as if to tell my calves, “Shut it!” Then as we hiked toward the UK mountain of coal, we brainstormed famous 4’s, and hit ALL of them: 4 horsemen of the apocalypse, 4 score & 7 years ago, 4 for the 4 that stood at the door, “Fore!”, 4 sides and corners of a quadrilateral, and many more. At the top of the coal we uncovered a hidden treasure: 4 painted jaspers, smooth, flat rocks wrapped in silver foil. We were each told to keep them in our pockets at least 4 days to remind us of our connection to the earth, and to The Maker, and to be thankful. After 4 days in our pockets we were told that we could give them to a friend, keep them, or swallow them. Lastly, as we listed and debated the best 4-somes in music history while walking back, we listened to some of them: Zepplin, Rush, Beatles, Stones, Wuggles, and (Kentucky’s own Backstreet Boys). At the car site, we dropped our packs and each of the 4 of us led a 4-count exercise : 40 copperhead squats, 40 4-count merkins, 40 box cutters, 40 3-count SSHs, while we listened to “40” written by King David (psalm 40) and performed by the undeniably greatest rock quartet: my Irish lads, U2. (“I waited patiently for The Lord. He inclined and heard my cry. He lifted me out of the pit. Out of the mire and clay. I will sing a New Song… How long to sing this song.”)

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You know what this Q needs? More Bearcrawls.

Location: Gridlock
Date: 2022-05-31
Weather: Decadent

Q: Steve-O
PAX: 10 – Showcase Showdown, Sous Vide, Axeman, Bootlegger, Muck, Geppetto, The Janitor, Mace, Steve-O, Incognito

Warm-O-Rama
Michael Phelps, Arm Circles, Runners Stretch Muck Style, Tension Toads, Bend and Hang, Copper Head Squats, Mosey to Dumpster Coupons.

Tha Thang
Dora 123, Round 1:
100 Coupon Swings
200 Overhead Press
300 Coupon Squats
1 partner doing exercise while the other ran to far cross walk and did one of the following and ran back:
10 Mountain Climbers
10 LBCs
10 Side Straddle Hops
Dora 12, Round 2:
100 Thrusters
200 Curls
1 partner doing exercise while the other Bear crawled 5 parking spaces and did one of the following and bear crawled back. PSA: Grizzlies have been spotted in the area!:
10 Flutter Kicks 2 is 1
10 Saturday Nights
Returned coupons and moseyed back to the flag.

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Court Day

Location: Gridlock
Date: 2022-05-28
Weather: Slightly cool, humid and great!

Q: Axeman
PAX: 17 – Animal Style, Wally World, The Janitor, Weird Science, Fergie, Sous Vide, Radio, Sparky, Subject Matter, Oshag, Santa’s Little Helper, Lansbury, 49er, Slick Willie, Steve-O, Muck, Axeman

Warm-O-Rama
Mosey to basketball courts for some SSH’s IC, Grass Grabbers, Frankensteins, butt kickers, knees to chest and pigeon pulls.

Tha Thang
PAX moseyed to the tennis courts for some ladder exercises. We did 20 reps of each action between each pair of courts: calf raises, mercans, LBC’s, Lunges, Shoulder Taps, American Hammers, Bonnie Blairs and Dead Bugs. Each exercise was performed, starting with calf raises and return to start for 3 burpees. We then did calf raises between court 1-2, then mercans between courts 2-3, returned to calf raises and back to the start for 3 burpees. We proceeded like this until the end of court 8 and back.
Everyone then moseyed to the coupons on the football field for tabata. PAX did one minute of each with 15 seconds of rest between: coupon curls, coupon squats, v-ups, and overhead press. We then ran out of time and moseyed back to the flag for circle of trust.

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Light Pole Part

Location: Paddock
Date: 2022-05-18
Weather: Nice

Q: Weird Science
PAX: 3 – Weird Science, Boo Boo, Sous Vide

Warm-O-Rama
Stretch on own

Tha Thang
Rucked down the hill and up to the front of the park. We then proceed to do 15 curls and 15 triceps extensions every light pole until we got back to the hill. We then switched to 10 front raises and ten overhead presses at the remaining light poles. The rucked back to the parking lot.

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Salute to the Mighty Elements

Location: Gridlock
Date: 2022-05-26
Weather: Blame It On The Rain- Milli Vanilli

Q: Muck
PAX: 11 – Oshag, Bootlegger, Sous Vide, Incognito, Wally World, Lansbury, Axeman, Geppetto, Steve-O, Santa’s Little Helper, Muck

Warm-O-Rama
– Runners Stretch (switch)
– Cross feet, bend and hang (switch)
– Michael Phelps
– Tricep Pulls (switch)
– Grass Grabbers (15, IC)

Tha Thang
Soundtrack and beatdown were a salute to 70’s & 80’s dance music, particularly the Mighty Elements… Earth, Wind and Fire.

Because you remember, the 21st night of September, reps were either 21 or 9.

Earth- Body weight exercise
Wind- Mosey
Fire- Coupon (or dips)

1st Round:
Earth- “Let’s Groove” (5:34)
(AMRAP throughout song)
• 21 Big Boy Situps
• 9 Box Cutters

Wind- “Sing A Song” (3:20)
• Parking lot mosey

Fire-“Got To Get You Into My Life” (4:09)
(AMRAP throughout song)
• 21 Curls
• 9 Overhead Presses

2nd Round:
Earth- “Shining Star” (2:49)
(AMRAP throughout song)
• 21 Mercans
• 9 Lunges with a twist (two is one)

Wind- “Boogie Wonderland” (4:46)
• Parking lot mosey

Fire-“September” (3:33)
(AMRAP throughout song)
• 21 Bentover rows
• 9 Coupon swings

3rd Round:
Earth- “Get Down On It” (3:30)
(AMRAP throughout the song)
• 21 Squats
• 9 Monkey Humpers

Wind- “Jungle Boogie” (3:05)
• Short parking lot mosey

Fire- “Fresh” (3:47)
(AMRAP throughout the song)
• 21 Raggedy Ann’s
• 9 Dips

Began 4th Round
Earth- “Every 1’s A Winner” (4:48)
(AMRAP throughout the song)
• 21 Saturday Nights (Lansbury request)
• 9 Side Straddle Hops

Finished up with 30 Sous Vides (Sous Vide’s choice)

Check out my playlist on Amazon Music: F3 Elements
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Football Field 4 Corners

Location: Birds Nest
Date: 2022-05-23
Weather: Cool

Q: Wally World
PAX: 2 – Wally World, Boo Boo

Warm-O-Rama
Various stretching

Tha Thang
We would ruck a lap around the football field, then jog around the football field, stopping to do exercises at each corner.

Ruck lap
Jog lap: 5 burpees each corner
Ruck lap
Jog lap: 10 mericans each corner
Ruck lap
Jog lap: 15 squats each corner
Ruck lap
Jog lap: 20 LBCs each corner
Ruck lap

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Neil of Base

Location: Gridlock
Date: 2022-05-21
Weather: 70+ – Warm, Nice, and Beautiful

Q: Incognito
PAX: 13 – Muck, The Janitor, Steve-O, Hertz, Axeman, Subject Matter, Slick Willie, Lincoln Log, Showcase Showdown, TLC, Raquel, Sous Vide, Incognito

Warm-O-Rama
A few random stretches
Then mosey to basketball court

Tha Thang
Music selection alternated exclusively between Ace of Base and Neil Diamond

Each round was four exercises; first 3 were 30 seconds with a 15 second break, 4th exercise was 1 minute
Did each round twice

Round 1
Light Jump Squats
Run-stance Squat
Airborne Heisman
Circle Run

Round 2
Squat Reach Jump
Run-Stance Squat Switch Pick-up
Lateral Leapfrog Squat
Twist Combo

Round 3
Jump Knee Tuck
Bonnie Blairs
Leapfrog Squats (front to back)
Hot Foot

Round 4
Run Stance 180 Jump
Gap Jump
Monster Truck Tires
Single-leg Burpees

Did a triple cross
Merkins – 300
BBS – when done with Merkins

Did another triple cross
LBCs
Hip Rock and Raise

Moseyed to flag for some Flutter Kicks IC

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Cronut Cronies

Location: Sherwood
Date: 2022-05-20
Weather: Finally, 70 degrees and clear in the gloom! Woo hoo!!!

Q: Muck
PAX: 6 – Muck, Geppetto, The Janitor, Steve-O, Showcase Showdown, Sister-in-Law (DR)

Warm-O-Rama
Zero, nada, nought, nothing, nil, diddly, zip, zilch, etc.

Tha Thang
Arboretum trail is 2.5 miles long… didn’t make it all the way around, but covered a good portion of it.

Seven layers… 4:30 minutes of mumbleruck, 1:30 minutes of AMRAP exercises with ruck. The seven exercises were:
Squats,
Curls,
Mercans,
Overhead press,
Ruck swings,
Bench Press,
Raggedy Ann’s.

Finished with about a minute of curls back in the parking lot.

Followed up with coffeeteria at Parlor Donuts, where the cronuts are amazing! Great to have Sister-in-law join us DR!

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Tennis Court Back and Forth

Location: Gridlock
Date: 2022-05-19
Weather: Gloomy, Foggy and just a tad Soggy

Q: Steve-O
PAX: 11 – Incognito, Sous Vide, Raquel, Oshag, Muck, Axeman, Showcase Showdown, Zebra, Steve-O, Bootlegger, Santa’s Little Helper

Warm-O-Rama
Arm Circles, Michael Phelps, Ambi-Turners, Static Grass Grabbers, Quad Pulls, Runners Stretch, The REAL Runners Stretch, Calve Stretches, Tension Toads, Mosey to Tennis Courts.

Tha Thang
1.5 Rounds of the following:
– Begin with 10 burpees at Court 1 (C1)
– 3/4 to full Jailbreak between each court.
– C8, 10 Chuck Norris Pushdowns (Newly Coined: push up w/ explosion, try to get hands off the ground at the top)
– 3/4 Jailbreak to C2
– C2, 10 Squats
– C7, 10 Gas Pumpers
– C3, 10 Carolina Dry Docks
– C6, 10 Bonnie Blair’s 1 is 1
– C4, 10 Big Boys
– C5, 10 Catalinas
– C4.5, 10 Mucho Leg-O rounds
– Now work your way out in reverse but 20 reps of each exercise.
– reached C1 to complete 1 full round
– One lap around the perimeter and then repeated Tha Hang back to the middle to reach 1.5 rounds.
– Moseyed to flag and did 5 minutes of Mary:
– Rawquelle: 20 Windshield Wipers 1 is 1
– Bootlegger: 10 Flutter Kicks in Cadence
– Zebra: 15(?) ARods
– Showcase Showdown: 10 TNT Toads in Cadence
– Oshag: …4… Hillbillies
– Due to dissension in the ranks ended with 5 BroPees and 30 second Al Gore.

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Four Year Anniversary

Location: Gridlock
Date: 2022-05-14
Weather: Gorgeous

Q: Incognito
PAX: 19 – Hertz, Showcase Showdown, Wally World, Radio, Slick Willie, Yanni, Oshag, Santa’s Little Helper, Sparky, The Janitor, Zebra, Mule, 49er, El Fed, Lansbury, Steve-O, Geppetto, Muck, Incognito

Warm-O-Rama
Static stretches by the flag
Dynamic stretches on the basketball court

Tha Thang
1 Suicide
8 minute Tabata: 20 seconds Lunges – 10 second break – 20 seconds Merkins – 10 second break – repeato 8x
Mosey to pullup shelter
Did some Wally World 22’s: 10 squats, 10 lunges, 10 dead bugs, run to end of parking lot and back, repeato. Played a song called ’22’ over and over.
Did a Pullup-Merkin routine, took 10 minutes:
Minute 1: 16 Pullups – 16 Merkins
Minute 2: Rest
Minute 3: 14 Pullups – 14 Merkins
Minute 4: Rest
Minute 5: 12 Pullups – 12 Merkins
Minute 6: Rest
Minute 7: 10 Pullups – 10 Merkins
Minute 8: Rest
Minute 9: 8 Pullups – 8 Merkins
Minute 10: Rest
Mosey to football field for some Sous Vide 4 corners.
Was supposed to start with 20…but all the babies that were there cried too much so we started with 10…we made it around once
Closed with Mary:
American Hammer IC
Day & Night
Box Cutters IC
Freddy Mercury IC
LBC IC
Mosey to Flag

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3 is the Magic Number

Location: Sherwood
Date: 2022-05-13
Weather: Perfect for a t shirt

Q: Geppetto
PAX: 3 – Showcase Showdown, Steve-O, Geppetto

Warm-O-Rama
Walking to the side parking lot where we should park in the future as we were asked not to park in the main lot before sunrise.

Tha Thang
We made a big loop through the adjacent softball and baseball fields and through the pine trail. Steve-O carried a 45lb weight because his pack was ripped. Geppetto held on to Pearl’s leash.

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May the “Seis de Mayo” Imperial-March-around-the-Stadiums Be With You

Location: Sherwood
Date: 2022-05-06
Weather: Just like I like my Salsa: Mild, … and free of any toenail clippings.

Q: Showcase Showdown
PAX: 5 – Showcase Showdown, Geppetto, Steve-O, Muck, Chewbacca

Warm-O-Rama
Imperial Walkers
Lando Leg Lean-o
Solo So-Lows

C3-“PO” (Plank-Off) Name-o-Rama Challenge (went about 4-5 rounds before most of us either couldn’t think of another Star Wars character, got too tired of planking, or were DQ’d because I didn’t explain the rule that you couldn’t repeat any names). Steve-o won again this week. Add another cro-nut to his list.

Tha Thang
I’m honor of today, May 6th, my brother’s 47th bday, (Shout Out to @TheCount from several of the 30+ AO’s of https://F3cherokee.com), we enjoyed the sweet sweet sounds of Star Wars music (mostly the master, John Williams) played throughout the warm up and Ruck.
The 2.37m Ruck snaked around the North Half loop and added the adventurous off-road tour of the several of UK’s newer athletic facilities.

Our good Lord held off the rain storm until the moment we closed in the COT.

(Note: The Phantom Menace also attended, leashed up and attached to Steve-O).

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Four corners

Location: Gridlock
Date: 2022-05-12
Weather: Nice

Q: Wally World
PAX: 10 – Wally World, Zebra, Steve-O, Slick Willie, Axeman, Muck, Bootlegger, Geppetto, Oshag, Santa’s Little Helper

Warm-O-Rama
None

Tha Thang
Did an exercise at each corner of the parking lot. Moseyed between corners.

1st corner: stretching
2nd corner: ab exercises
– cockroaches
– reverse crunches
– big boy sit-ups
– box cutters
– flutter kicks
3rd corner: arm exercises
– mericans
– dips
– decline mericans
– plank
– burpees
4th corner: leg exercises
– copperhead squats
– wall sit
– step ups
– monkey humpers
– jump squats

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701

Location: Gridlock
Date: 2022-05-10
Weather: 60 and clear

Q: Sous Vide
PAX: 9 – Sous Vide, Oshag, Geppetto, Axeman, The Janitor, Steve-O, Muck, Showcase Showdown, Raquel

Warm-O-Rama
10 ssh
10 seal jumps
10 flings
10 copper head squats
10 lunges
10 quads
10 knee hugs
20 Frankensteins
Shuffle over and back
High skip
10 bulldogs each leg
10 knee circles each leg
10 iron cross
10 groiners
20 small jumps

All done on the basketball court

Tha Thang
Mosied to walking path where the white dots are and did a Paula Abdul of 10 Mercans and 10 squats. Going back one dot to do 5 burpees. From there, mosied to the long section of wooden guard rail by the houses and did one of three things per section of rail. Jump/ hurdle each section, step on and over each section or high step over each section. There were lots of sections! From there we mosied to the shelter near the flag and did three sets of 10 dips and 10 donkey kicks.

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700-an impressive number & a lot of HUSTLE

Location: Gridlock
Date: 2022-05-07
Weather: Gray, Misty 52 degrees

Q: Radio
PAX: 12 – Sous Vide, Zebra, Oshag, Chewbacca, Santa’s Little Helper, Lansbury, Raquel, Lincoln Log, Axeman, Ollie, Radio, The Janitor

Warm-O-Rama
Static- Michael Phelps, Grass grabbers I-C (12), SSH I-C (10)
Dynamic- High knees, butt kickers, walking knee hugs, quad stretch, pigeon pulls, and Frankensteins
In honor of Sous Vide’s 700th post we did 700 reps of our activities or we did 40 seconds (with a 20 second transition) of the activity.
Since we had 11 men present we each did 64 reps in order to reach 700 reps – starting with Jump ropes.

Tha Thang
We moseyed to the top and grabbed a coupon for each pair. While one person did a coupon activity the partner did a body weight activity. Then we all did an ab exercise and then a movement/agility exercise.
Round 1-coupon swings, body weight squats, BBS, jog to corner and back
Round 2- coupon chest press, lunges, palms to the sky, Carioca to the corner and back
Round 3- coupon upright rows, bench dips, American hammers, ice skaters
Round 4- coupon curls, reverse lunges, LBC’s, high skips
Round 5-coupon squats, mountain climbers, heel touches, T-jacks
Round 6- coupon bent over rows, burpees, shoulder taps, F&B line jumps
Round 7- coupon overhead press, Bobby Hurley’s, plank jacks, S to S line jumps
Round 8- Coupon Gun carry to end of parking lot, bear crawl between cross walks
Ran out of time

Jon Acuff (author) defines HUSTLE as “doing important things others aren’t willing to do.”

Our Sous Vide is a HUSTLER and we are thankful for the example he sets for our F3 group. Reaching 700 posts today is an admirable accomplishment!

Colossians 3:23

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Shake It Off

Location: Gridlock
Date: 2022-05-05
Weather: Low 50s, Humid and Damp

Q: Raquel
PAX: 11 – Raquel, Geppetto, Sous Vide, Oshag, Muck, Incognito, Steve-O, Showcase Showdown, Axeman, The Janitor, Santa’s Little Helper

Warm-O-Rama
Moseyed up to the coupons and headed over to the snack stand at the football field. Michael Phelps, arm stretches, bend and hang, runners stretch side to side. Got our muscles warm to the tune Shake It Off, sung by pop icon and Wally World crush Taylor Swift.

Tha Thang
The name of the game was Isometrics. Each round featured 3 static holds lasting 45 seconds each, with a 15 second period between each hold to “shake it off”. Between rounds pax moseyed 30 yards, did multiple reps of an exercise, then moseyed back for another round. Festivities proceeded as follows:

Low Toes Out Sumo Squat
Coupon bicep hold at 90 degrees
Superman hold
30 yd mosey – 5 burpee- 30 yd mosey

Overhead coupon hold from the people’s chair
Hollow hold
90 degree split squat (45 secs each leg)
30 yd mosey – 5 catalinas – 30 yd mosey

Pushup hold 2 inches off the ground
Glute bridge
Wall sit
30 yd mosey – 10 a rods- 30 yd mosey

Side planks (45 secs each side)
Upright tricep row
Good morning
30 yd mosey – 10 plank Jack’s – 30 yd mosey

Overhead press
Plank
One legged calf raise (45 secs each leg)
30 yd mosey – 10 burpees – 30 yd mosey

Low sumo squat
Bicep hold at 90 degrees
Overhead press from the people’s chair
30 yd mosey – 10 catalinas- 30 yd mosey

Returned coupons and moseyed back to the flag.

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You failed the test!!

Location: Gridlock
Date: 2022-05-03
Weather: NICE!

Q: The Janitor
PAX: 11 – Muck, Lincoln Log, Oshag, Showcase Showdown, Incognito, Axeman, Slick Willie, Sous Vide, Steve-O, The Janitor, Santa’s Little Helper

Warm-O-Rama
Tension toads
Michael Phelps
Side straddle hops
Plank/down dog/up dog?/sky pose

Tha Thang
Moseyed to coupons to do some Dora

100 coupon v ups
200 coupon curls
300 squats (we did not finish this one because we had more pressing things to do….)

Now that everyone was good and tired, we all participated in the Fitness Gram Pacer test. Everyone failed miserably.

We returned to the flag and went through a full round of Mary.

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