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QIC:  Blackout

Date: 06/22/2022

PAX: Cavity Search, Chiclet, Face Plant, John Doe, Pocket Taco, Roundup, Second Base, Sniffer

AO: Parliament

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Conditions

Nice and humid, with phone weather alerts related to poor air quality; Like breathing in water.

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COP

Mosey to Parking Lot in front of school

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The Thang

Blackjack

PAX started at one end of the parking lot; PAX performed 20 BBSU and then ran to the other end of the parking lot and performed 1 Merkin. This was repeated (19/2,18/3…..1/20)

After every second round, PAX performed 5 buy-in Burpees before starting the next round

Totals: 210 BBSU; 210 Merkins; 50 Burpees

PAX moseyed to bleachers and did two steps forward and one back on the way up; squat on each bleacher on the way back down. PAX moseyed to track circle and performed a “Circle Merk” up to 5 reps; PAX held plank until their turn to Merkin

MARY

Faceplant: 20 Pickle Points oyo
Second Base: 20 Monkey Humpers oyo
Cavity Search: Plank for time (About 45-60 seconds)

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COT

Read a couple of bible verses and a quote on consistency:

1 Corinthians 15:58: “Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lod knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain”

Galations 6:9: “And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up”

Quote of unknown origin: “Consistency is what transforms average into excellence”

Really been thinking lately on consistency, not just in the family realm and physical fitness realm but in the spiritual realm as well. The unfortunate reality is that we live in a society now that de-values both hard work and commitment along with steadfast faithfulness. Don’t let that deter you from maintaining your consistency, especially in your walk with Jesus. As leaders of men, our families, our colleagues, etc. we are called to remain consistent in all aspects of our life but especially in our faithfulness. A consistent Christian scares our society to death, so let’s make them sweat!

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Moleskin

John Doe finally got to experience my VQ from two years ago! Thought I would be nice and re-issue it for him.

Turns out muscle failure is REAL; 210 merkins, I can barely type this backblast today.

Some PAX got excited when they thought they heard me say “Circle Jerk”….It was really “Circle Merk” thanks Cavity Search for clearing that up.

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News

2nd-F Channel
3rd-F Channel
July 4, Anvil re-launch Convergence
July 16, Fallen Five Ruck
July 23, Lookouts beatdown and 2nd-F event

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QIC:  Blackout

Date: 06/13/2022

PAX: Krispy Kreme, Lanyard, Purple Rain

AO: Beast Ridge

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Conditions

Humid!

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COP

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The Thang

PAX paired off into twos; One partner performed exercises below while second partner ran lap around parking lot. Reps below are cumulative between partners:

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COT

Talked about anxiety; especially pertaining to a personal situation. All of us face times of anxiety at varying levels and it is important to follow and Trust God’s plan during those times. Read the verse: Phillipians 4:6 “Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God”

I was in a situation Sunday night where I couldn’t sleep due to some anxiety and I came across this verse. I prayed and allowed God to transform my anxiety into trusting him.

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Moleskin

This one looked easier on paper; maybe it was the humidity

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News

Lots of Announcements;

3nd-F: Chubby’s (See channel on Slack); every Monday except first of month
2nd-F: Brew tour event coming up; reach out to Blue (See channel on Slack)

July 4: convergence at Pound Town (aka Anvil) (Reach out to Shake N Bake)
July 16: Fallen Five Memorial Ruck at The Dam (Reach out to Mr. Clean)
July 23: Lookouts beatdown and 2nd-F event (Reach out to Oil Can)
September 2: Labor Day Convergence Wuzonka Ball Tournament – details to come

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QIC:  Gretel

Date: 06/08/2022

PAX: Band Camp, Blue, Dundee, Life Alert, Lyft, Money Shot, Napoleon, Ponce, Shake N Bake, Sherlock, Sling Blade, Starbucks, Tasty Cakes, 8 Seconds  

AO: Shot House

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Conditions

70 degrees, clear, nice break in the storms from the last few days

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COP

SSH, WMH, 3rd Grade, Imperial Walkers, ~200 yard mosey

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The Thang

Lower body and core Dora

Pair up

One PAX duckwalks ~30 yards, completes 25 monkey humpers, and duckwalks back

Other PAX works on 1000 reps of core work – 250 each of boxcutters, LBCs, flutter kicks, Hello Dollies

When finished, continue the duckwalk/monkey humper travel while partner does burpees until 6 is in.

Had a few minutes left when 6 finished, blasted out the 4 core exercises as a group until time.

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COT

Are you doing the little things it takes to make progress when you might be stuck on a plateau? Monkey humpers and duckwalks get you into that lower range of the squat that we may avoid most of the time. Get uncomfortable in order to move forward and move your concentrica to a place of advantage.

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Moleskin

Ozzy timeline playlist:

• Paranoid (Black Sabbath) – 1970
• Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (Black Sabbath) – 1973
• Over the Mountain – 1981
• Bark at the Moon – 1983
• Road to Nowhere – 1991
• Tomorrow – 1995
• Gets Me Through – 2001
• I Don’t Wanna Stop – 2007

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News

Walking beer tour June 25

Independence Day convergence – Anvil

Fallen 5 – July 16

Lookouts convergence and 2nd F – July 23

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QIC:  AOL

Date: 06/06/2022

PAX: Picabo, TT, Rebar, Juice Box, Night Fever, Term Limit, Tube Squeeze, Freebird, Hurt Locker

AO: The U

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Conditions

Clear 64 Degrees, Felt Like 64 Degrees, Humidity 75%, Wind 3.0 mi\h from se

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COP

Intro 

F3 – Core Principles

Disclaimer

mosey to front center parking lot in front of school.

COP – Warmup

SSHx15

Merkins x 10 IC

Lbac x 10 fwd and rev 

Cherry Pickers x 10

21’s SSH IC

Mosey to student parking lot for Thang….

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The Thang

All pax will stay together for the entirety.

We will pick up the 6 after each set of parking lot islands

Pax will do a burpee at each light pole adding a burpee at each additional light pole. PAX will Bernie between islands. Once to the end of the row, pax then mosey to next set of islands.

Row 1 (light poles) (4)  – Green

Row 2 (plain islands) (5) – RED

Row 3 (light poles) (4) – Green

Row 4 ( plain islands) (5) – RED

Row 5 (light poles) (4) – Green

Every other row has light poles. On rows where islands do not have light poles the burpees count will be the same as the previous light pole. 

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So….

ROW 1 (Kracken Burpees 1,2,3,4) – MOT (Bernie)

ROW 2 (Triple Merkin Burpees 4,4,4,4,4) – MOT (Karaoke)

ROW 3 (Navy Seal Burpees 5,6,7,8) – MOT (Bernie)

ROW 4 (Double Merkin Burpees 8,8,8,8,8) – MOT(Karoke)

ROW 5 (Regular Burpees 9,10,11,12) – MOT (Mosey)

Once Workout was Completed each pax had finished

(138 Burpees and 306 Merkins)

COT

COT

Procrastination 

I have been sitting on this workout for about 4-5 months…… once i got it all together, i put it aside knowing it was going to suck. 

 I wanted to break it out, but not really…..I always made up some excuse…..I had originally planned this for REBARS first morning out, but changed last minute….other times it was raining……I just let excuses get in the way.

When I got down to the root of it all, why did I procrastinate? Because I really didn’t want to put in the work. I wasn’t willing to put myself in an uncomfortable position to push myself and others. 

A lot of these early morning are not fun, it sucks being in the middle of these workouts, it’s painful, we feel like quitting and giving up, but when it’s all said and done when we are finished, the feeling of completion we get is awesome, knowing we likely completed the hardest the we will do all day……..we did that before 6:30 in the morning. 

So today, this week, this month, the next time a difficult or hard situation presents itself, don’t shy away, just because you don’t want to do it.

Step into the middle of it, push through the pain, thru the difficult times, and get the work done!

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Moleskin

we had many moans and groans throughout this mornings beatdown.

Rebar told the Q before we got started that he loved him, despite the pain that was coming.

Picabo complained and complained, Juice Box and Freebird just kept on moving like this type of work was normal for them. We had several comments from “respectable” pax on how it would be nice to be in thier 20’s again. then they groaned as they went back into all the burpees.

The Pax all did an awesome job! They Pushed through and Finished! Well Done Men!!

We finished about 1\3 of a mile from our vehicles, so most of the pax walked back and had some fellowship time, 3 of the more “respectable” pax decided to mosey back to thier cars, this was the point where we learned that freebird does not like anyone to beat him, as he joined the front group as to not finish first… LOL

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News

Chubby’s

Anvil Relaunch (poundtown)

Fallen five

Lookouts Game

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QIC:  Blackout

Date: 06/01/2022

PAX: AOL, Hurt Locker, Night Fever, Picabo, Pill Mill, Purple Rain, Rebar, TT, Uncle Joe

AO: The U

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Conditions

Nice and humid

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COP

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The Thang

PART I

Mosey block to middle of parking lot and mosey back to side #1

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COT

Read two quotes: “What gives definition in your life is what you have built in as part of your life” – Unknown. As my pastor Sunday talked about this, it reminded me of something else I had heard in the past. That was that, the things we want most in life come by going to the places or mindsets that we least want to go. Encouraged the PAX to keep pressing through. The reality is whether it’s physical, spiritual, family life, work life, or whatever it may be, we are all going through something. Keep showing and keep pressing play and the end result will be better regardless of what it looks like now.

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Moleskin

AOL mentioned that we were basically doing all the exercises from the BURPH again; to which Q responded “thanks”

A lot of moaning and groaning – “That’s what she said” – Uncle Joe

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News

2nd-F for events coming up
3rd-F for opportunities including Chubby’s Monday nights
July 4 re launch of Anvil (aka PoundTown)
July 16 Fallen Five Ruck
July 23 Lookouts Beatdown
Labor Day Wuzonka Ball tournament

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QIC:  AOL

Date: 05/25/22

PAX: Shake n Bake, Up in Smoke, Sherlock, 8 Seconds, Snatch, tasty Cakes, Lyft, Blue, O.B., Shea

AO: Shothouse

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Conditions

68 Degrees, Humidity 93%, Wind 4.4Mi\H From SE

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COP

SSHx 15

Forward fold OYO

WMH x 10

LBAC (fwd& Rev) x 10

Cherry pickers x 10

Chinooks x 10

21’s (with penalty burpees)

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The Thang

Triple Travelling 11’s on the football field

it wasnt 3 sets of individual 11’s, we did them all at once…….

o Run 10 yards, (1) HR burpee, Am. Hammer, Lt. Dan’s. Run back to Goal Line, (10)Hand Release Merkins, BBS, Jump Squats

o Run 20 yards, (2) HR burpee, Am. Hammer, Lt. Dan’s. Run back to Goal Line, (9)Hand Release Merkins, BBS, Jump Squats

o Run 30 yards, (3) HR burpee, Am. Hammer, Lt. Dan’s. Run back to Goal Line, (8)Hand Release Merkins, BBS, Jump Squats

o Run 40 yards, (4) HR burpee, Am. Hammer, Lt. Dan’s. Run back to Goal Line, (7)Hand Release Merkins, BBS, Jump Squats

o Run 50 yards, (5) HR burpee, Am. Hammer, Lt. Dan’s. Run back to Goal Line, (6)Hand Release Merkins, BBS, Jump Squats

o Run 60 yards, (6) HR burpee, Am. Hammer, Lt. Dan’s. Run back to Goal Line, (5)Hand Release Merkins, BBS, Jump Squats

o Run 70yards, (7) HR burpee, Am. Hammer, Lt. Dan’s. Run back to Goal Line, (4)Hand Release Merkins, BBS, Jump Squats

o Run 80 yards, (8) HR burpee, Am. Hammer, Lt. Dan’s. Run back to Goal Line, (3)Hand Release Merkins, BBS, Jump Squats

o Run 90yards, (9) HR burpee, Am. Hammer, Lt. Dan’s. Run back to Goal Line, (2)Hand Release Merkins, BBS, Jump Squats

o Run 100 yards, (10) HR burpee, Am. Hammer, Lt. Dan’s. Run back to Goal Line, (1)Hand Release Merkins, BBS, Jump Squats

ABSOLUTION

start at goal line

Bear crawl to 10 yard line – 1 absolution

Bear crawl to 20 yard line – 2 absolution

Rinse and repeat to 50 yard line. Time Called!!

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COT

How many of you are fathers? Husbands?

As men our day to day lives can be difficult, so many things have our attention.

Wife, Kids, Work, Clients, what ever it may be.

The thought of manhood in this day in age, often take a negative connotation.

But lets look at the characteristics of AUTHENTIC MANHOOD.

Characteristics of authentic manhood

1) Rejects passivity

We are not just sitting on the sidelines, not just doing nothing, we are not letting our wives, make all the decisions…we are actively involved in our familes

2) Accepts responsibility

We take responsibility when we do wrong, we are not placing blame on others, we step into the hard times in life, admit where we are wrong, or where we mess up, move on and learn from it.

3) Leads courageously

We get out of our comfort zone, leading is never easy, for someone like me who doesn’t like being in the forefront, easpecially leading a mens workout group. But we step into those roles, and lead, even though a lot of times we may be afraid or scared.

4) Expects God’s greater reward

We take time out of our day to spend time in his word, we go about our days knowing our days may not be easy, but we push through, give God the glory in all that we do, and praise Him for all he does for us. 

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Moleskin

The Grass on the football field was soaking wet, so from the first set of exercises on, the PAX were soaked.

There wasn’t a whole lot of mumble chatter at all, the men came to put in work and thats what they did.

Blue did mention once or twice how he did not care for the Q at that very moment, but he took that comment back once the workout was complete.

This was YHC’s first time Q’ing at This AO, and i Enjoyed everyminute of it!

Great PAX, Great Leadership, I will surely be back! Thank you for having me.

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News

Upcoming Convergances (Memorial Day BURPH), (Fallen 5), (Lookouts)

Donations for chubbys, toilet paper

Prayers for Families and all involver in Texas Shooting.

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QIC:  Blackout

Date: 05/18/2022

PAX: Cavity Search, Chiclet, Choo Choo, Face Plant, Second Base, WreckedEm

AO: Parliament

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Conditions

Very nice

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COP

Mosey to bleachers with blocks

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The Thang

BLACKJACK (21s)

PAX began at bottom of stone bleachers and performed the following:

5 CPRs to “buy-in” at the beginning of each round

20 Blockees; run to top of bleachers; 1 Squat; run back down
19 Blockees; run to top of bleachers, 2 Squats; run back down
18 Blockees; run to top of bleachers; 3 Squats; run back down
17 Blockees; run to top of bleachers, 4 Squats; run back down
16 Blockees; run to top of bleachers; 5 Squats; run back down

After first five rounds, PAX ran a 1/4 mile lap on track together for some active rest

15 Blockees; run to top of bleachers; 6 Squats; run back down
14 Blockees; run to top of bleachers, 7 Squats; run back down
13 Blockees; run to top of bleachers; 8 Squats; run back down
12 Blockees; run to top of bleachers, 9 Squats; run back down
11 Blockees; run to top of bleachers; 10 Squats; run back down

After second five rounds, PAX ran a 1/4 mile lap on track together for some active rest

Did 5 reps of a “Curl”cle; PAX held block in curl position until it was their turn; each PAX did 1 rep in a circle all the way up to 5 reps.

1 Minute of stretching

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COT

Talked about forgiveness. Somebody asked a friend of mine who happens to be a preacher where the line is between forgiving somebody without their repentance versus waiting on it before forgiving, in other words, what wrong doing is bad enough to justify needing their sorry. His response was interesting and it started leading into the mindset and how a calm and forgiving mind is peace but a very calm and forgiving mind is joy. He mentioned that forgiving someone in the eyes of Jesus has simply nothing at all to do with their sorry or repentance for the act (hard to swallow I know!). Alternatively, it has everything to do with you or I (the one forgiving) and the mindset of joy and peace. Forgiving someone is a personal choice and should have nothing to do with your feelings or thoughts towards them or whether or not they are truly sorry. Challenged PAX to forgive in this manner even when they feel like the other party does not deserve that forgiveness.

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Moleskin

At beginning, Faceplant asked Q who pissed him off, response was very quick…”Second Base”. To which Second Base responded, you need to get over that LOL. This led to a brief remark on this conversations relevance to the COT later to come.

Q has taken the “very friendly” advice on ways to fix speaker; cleaned it out and it worked just fine this AM….WreckedEm could even hear it all the way from the parking lot at 0532 to the bleachers. It helped guide him to our beatdown.

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News

2nd-F Channel
3rd-F Channel
Fourth-F this weekend
Memorial Day Burph at The Dam
July events coming up (Fallen Five, Lookouts, Re-launch of Anvil Pound Town

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