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QIC:  Dundee

Date: 8/22/2023

PAX:

AOL, Bobbitt, Hurt Locker, Peffercorn, Plucker, Term Limit, Thin Mints

AO: Flintlock

Conditions

Perfectly clear morning.

Temp: 74 degrees

Humidity: 95%

Visibility: 100%

Visibility of Plucker’s future wife: 0%

COP

Standard round of 30 SSHs, 10 WMHs, 10 3GEs, shoulder blasters

The Thang

It would be great to come up with a title for this workout. How about something clever, yet accurate? Let’s go with

Multiple Rounds of Exercises
Pax are given one exercise and a rep count to do. Everyone works towards that total, but when the first pax reaches it, he announces “Recover” and all pax stop where they are and jailbreak to the opposite end of the parking lot (approximately 100 yards). The rounds were:
50 Blockees
100 Gas Pumpers with block – gas pumper with the legs, overhead extension with the block
100 Curlz for the Girlz (just the tip edition) – gripping the block in the front with just the fingers and thumb
100 Goblet Squats
100 Merkins

After running the last jailbreak, pax migrated to a wall for a round of 20 chicken peckers and a wall sit for the six.

The last 90 seconds were filled with LBCs in cadence and 15 leg raises.

COT

YHC mentioned a moment of correction another pax gave him after a previous COT (thanks to Sunscreen for the candor). Rather than (or at least in addition to) giving someone a hard time for a soft commit, make the effort to find out what’s really behind it. Is it really an a premeditated absence in search of an excuse, or is the pax truly wanting to be in the gloom and struggling with something else.

Moleskin

F3 Nation lists Flintlock as a ‘boot camp’ style workout, but that’s only because ‘exercises performed while hoping and waiting for one specific jogger’ wasn’t an option. Other joggers passed by, their qualities assessed only as “her/not her.” There might be a COT in there somewhere.

“Your COT better be good after this.” – anonymous

News

Iron Pax approaches.
There is a Convergence hosted at The U on Labor Day at 6AM.

QIC:  Clothespin

Date: 03/20/2023

PAX: AOL, Plucker, Tube Squeeze, Term Limit, Pill Mill, Picabo

AO: The U

Conditions

Clear and colder than a witches tit in a brass bra….

COP:

SSH

Forward Fold

WMH

Down Dog 

1/2 Mile Lap

The Thang:

Dora:

Pick a partner. There was an odd number so Q worked by himself. One partner did reps while the other moseyed to the other set of cones about 200′ away did 3 squats then returned. They then switched roles and kept going until they had achieved the number of reps cumulatively of each exercise listed below.

50 Burpees

100 Curls

200 Merkins

300 SSH

400 Bench Press

500 Calf Raises W/ Block 

COT

Take advantage of the great opportunity that F3 gives you. We are here to be come better leaders, fathers, friends, husbands and coworkers. Build those shield locks and push each other, not only in the workouts, but in life. I know that I can call on anyone in F3 and they will have my back. Guys will pray, give and will support. Use your time, talent and treasures to support each other. Support is not always praise it may be correction.

Moleskin

Not so fast Clothespin… on the half mile run
This workout is not for the faint of heart
It’s hard to sweat in this weather….
You forgot your squats Clothespin……..

News

Poker Ruck 4-1 at The Battery, Chubby’s, Convergence 7-4 at Hacksaw, Romin Rome Ruck with F3Noga 7-22.

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QIC:  Clothespin

Date: 03/07/2023

PAX: Face Plant, Blackout, Tatonka, Roundup, Sniffer, Zoosk, Nodoz

AO: Parliament

Conditions

50s Clear with a bright moon! Perfect workout weather.

Who the heck let Clothespin Q Trackday anyway……

One would think that Trackday would be running. Make some laps gets some miles and go home… Well not today!

The Thang

Dundee’s Workouts are stupid….
6 cones set evenly spaced on half the track. Traverse the cones in a suicide fashion, buying in with 2 burpees each time you go back to cone 1. Each time you travel out to a cone you do an exercise at that cone then return to cone 1. Mode of transport was mosey the whole time.
Round 1 was 20 Merkins at each cone
Round 2 was 10 BBS at each cones
Round 3 was 20 Squats at each cone
Had just a couple of minutes after round three to stretch and cool down.

COT

I burned 4820 calories Monday and didn’t eat nearly enough. To say the least, I was still tired and did not want to workout this morning. I am so glad to have my F3 brothers to motivate me and share the gloom with me. Try to build those shield locks and make the most of the relationships and fellowship that F3 provides.

Moleskin

Blackout and Tatonka kept talking about meat…. I don’t know what that was about…..
If you don’t burpee, do you even workout?

News

AOL on Q 3/8/2023, Chubbys, F3/FIA Capture the flag 3/25/2023, Poker Ruck at The Battery 4/1/2023

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QIC:  Clothespin

Date: 02/14/2023

PAX: Family Tree, 9Volt, Pipeline, Cooter, Abercrombie, Duvet

AO: The Battery

Conditions

Clear and cool! Perfect for working on our night moves!

phal·lic
/ˈfalik/
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adjective
relating to or resembling a phallus or erect penis.
“a phallic symbol”
PSYCHOANALYSIS
of or denoting the genital phase of psychosexual development, especially in males.
“the phallic phase”

COP

SSH (IC)
Forward Fold
LBAC Forward (IC)
LBAC Reverse (IC)
Overhead Claps (IC)
Willy Mayse Hayse (IC)
Mosey to stop sign with block
Seal Claps (IC)
Mosey up the hill with block to the main attraction!

The Thang

It’s Valentines Day and we all know what they want…..
Cupids Arrow?
Pax placed their blocks at the curls cone an proceeded in a coc.. I mean clockwise direction staying tight to outside of the cones as their path. Making the shape of “Cupids Arrow”….
The exercises along the way included:
25 Curls to impress your date
25 Squats with arms extending out to giver her a note or flowers
25 Hillbilly Walkers cause you’re dancing on this date
25 Pickle Pointers to represent post date activities
As Pax made their way around the “arrow” the reached the married years. In true fashion they get it 1 time a year which is represented by the 25 Monkey Humpers on the other side of the “arrow” shaft.
The Q turned on music appropriate for Valentines Day and the Pax rinsed and repeated as many times as they could until time was called. Like usual all the Pax were completely wasted at the completion of the mornings activities. Which, didn’t really last that long.

COT

Learn Tongue Control!!!





As parents, husbands, leaders and friends the things we say and how we say it can influence people in many ways. It is important to bridle our tongue and control what we say and how we say it. Don’t let anger push your tongue out of control. I have a child that is special needs, has trouble sleeping and will sometimes get up in the night. When he gets up he is up. It doesn’t matter the time. I have to be careful how I respond to these situations. Me blowing up just because I am tired doesn’t help the situation it just makes it worse. I tend to wear my feelings on my sleeve and I have to be really careful to reign that in.

Moleskin:

This workout was harder than expected…
I did it many more times than I expected…
This can’t come to an end quick enough…
Thanks for shafting us today Clothespin….
Why is everyone posting their Strava and Apple stats that looks like penises?….

There are many speculations as to the origin of shape we often use to depict the heart:

If you didn’t study anatomy at all you might assume that the heart shape such that we use for Valentine’s Day cards was what was at the core of our being.

The muscular organ that runs our body in reality is not shaped much like the heart shape at all. So where did the Valentine’s day heart come from?

The conventional heart symbol is used to express the idea of love or adoration.  It is metaphorical in link to the human heart, with the idea that love is a feeling expressed and felt within the heart.

The shape used is much more streamlined, simple, and frankly attractive than the lumpy fistful of muscle that is in our chests. While beautiful in its intricacy in its own way the shape is rather jumbled and confusing and would not be easily drawn or jotted on a love note.

The heart shape we all recognize, and use originated back to an ancient plant known as the silphium. It was a species of giant fennel grown on the North African coastline near the Greek city of Cyrene. It was used as medicine, a flavoring spice, but more importantly as birth control. Because of this it was linked with sex and of course love.

There is also speculation of it being modeled after human anatomy of the breasts or buttocks, as well as that of the water lily leaf or ivy.

The first depiction known was in the 1250’s. It showed up in a French romance called Roman de la Poire (Romance of the pear). But others question if that wasn’t just an upside-down pear…

Medieval art also showed some heart like shapes in the early 1300s. The famous Italian painter Giotto did a painted depiction of charity in the Scrovengi Chapel in which a heart is given to Jesus. This painting had a big impact on the use of the shape of the heart going forward in representing the human emotional range in visual form.

Interestingly, until the later 1400s the heart was usually shown upside down. At the beginning of the 1500s it flipped in images to the heart we see today point at the bottom.

My favorite theory however, is that it is shaped after the buttocks of a woman!!! Cause we all know that Fat Bottom Girls Make the Rocking World Go Round!!!!!

News

Pray for Abercrombie and his M, Pray for Pipeline’s friend with cancer, Tuff Muff 2/25, Capture the Flag 3/25, Poker Ruck 4/1

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