Author: Futon

  • 40th Birthday Q

    YHC entered the decade of silence turning 40 on April 29th. 15 HIMs came out to help celebrate a few days late. According to the bottle of Old Forrester 86 Proof (in honor of the year 1986), this is how it went down:

    Warmup: Mosey to the bottom of the hill and back to the parking lot for various IC exercises.

    COP 1: YHC was born 4/29/86 therefore we completed a variation of a Triple Check:

    P1 – 4 Burpees, P2 – 29 Coupon Curls, P3 – 86 LBCs – Hold plank for your group to finish and then run to the bottom of hill and back to the parking lot. Rotate until each partner has completed all exercises.

    Ran this back with 4 Blockees, 29 Merkins and 86 Flutter Kicks

    COP 2: “Build a Bar” – To earn your shot glass, chocolate bottle and liquid of choice (Bourbon vs Body Armor) you had to complete the following:

    Foward Lunges

    Up/Down Planks

    Tuck Jumps

    One Leg Squats

    No Cheat Merkins

    S print up Satan’s Hill

    40 Carolina Dry Docks

    Round 1 x 10 reps, Round 2 x 20 reps

    COP 3: “Build a Bank”

    4 – Mike Tyson Push Ups each

    29 – Navy Seal Burpees combined

    1986 – Squats combined

    Numbers, Names, Shots of liquid of choice for a toast to 40, Announcements (Memorial Day Convergence Location TBD, Boys of Summer at Timberwolf starts 5/7), Prayer Requests (Wildcat positive news with scans, Hermey’s son positive news with scans, Individual in Rountrey who loss wife recently)

    Thanks to all of you for coming out this morning, despite temperatures trying to match my new age! Blessed to be a part of this brotherhood! Cheers to 40 and no more hate!

  • 400th Post

    400 is definitely a small number compared to many of the F3RVA PAX that have posted 1,000+ times, but we learned today that 400 is a big number for quantities of certain exercises! 20 HIMs rolled in to The Alamo on this cool morning for YHC’s 400th post. Here is how it went down:

    Warmup: Mosey to the top of the hill across from The Alamo and back to circle up for appreciation to all PAX for showing up and supporting YHC in his F3 venture, F3 Mission/Core Principles/Disclaimer and various IC exercises

    COP 1: Partner up for Dora with 3 exercises (Carolina Dry Docks, Monkey Humpers, Box Cutters) x 400 of each. Other partner heads to the tennis court and runs suicide with 4 lines. We learned that we have filled our quota for these 3 exercises for the week!

    COP 2: 4(00) Corners: Corner 1 – SSH x 100, Corner 2 – Shoulder Taps x 100, Corner 3 – Flutter Kicks x 100, Corner 4 – Squats x 100

    COP 3: Circle Up for Build a Bank to 400 – Up/Downs AKA Flying Squirrels according to Crabgrass followed by Firecrackers

    Ended with 1 minute to stretch whatever is needed and 1 Burpee each.

    Numbers, Names, Announcements (Rudy’s Draft Day Q this Thursday at Timberwolf, Matlock’s 100 Posts this Friday at Satan’s Hill, YHC’s 40th Birthday Q 5/1 at Satan’s Hill, Boys of Summer Kickoff 5/7 at Timberwolf, Memorial Day Convergence – more info coming soon), Prayer Requests (Unspoken Prayers, Our country), Coffee provided by Heist & Crabgrass (Thanks guys!)

    First and foremost, thanks to Heist for pushing me towards F3 and getting me to drink the Kool-Aid! A big thanks to the PAX that showed up today to support YHC in reaching 400 posts. All of you have encouraged me in some form or fashion and I truly appreciate each and every one of you. I definitely wouldn’t be where I am today physically, mentally, emotionally if it weren’t for you fellas! Keep pushing yourselves, one another and future FNGs! Stay blessed!

  • What “Chores” Do You Hire Out For?

    5 HIMs came out to The Woodshed to find perfect weather, a deck of cards and some chicken scratch on a piece of cardboard. Conversations ranged from soreness in our old age to how much bourbon/beer was consumed last night to hiring out for “chores” around the house that we/M’s don’t want to do. According to the sole toddler soccer cleat we found sitting in the parking lot here is how it went down:

    Warm Up: Mosey around the parking lot. Circle up for various IC exercises and stretches. Grab a coupon and circle up in the parking lot.

    COP 1: Deck of Cards Ladder Style: 1st PAX member pulls top card. PAX performs quantity of exercise for number and suite shown. If the next card is also a number card, then PAX performs 1st number card followed by 2nd number card. If the next card drawn is a face card, then this takes away the “ladder build up” of exercises and forces the PAX to run about the parking lot and return to perform exercises assigned to each face card. If Ace was drawn = 25 burpees. If Joker (2 total) was pulled, the member that drew the card was able to make the rest of the PAX perform dealer’s choice OR they could rescue the PAX from doing exercises. We had a mix of ladder build ups with our highest being a run of 5. 1 Ace drawn for a total of 25 Burpees, 1st Joker drawn negated any further Aces to be drawn (Hermey), 2nd Joker drawn and PAX was made to perform 7s across the parking lot with Decline Merkins and Burpees (Futon).

    Clubs = Carolina Dry Docks

    Diamonds = Diamond Merkins

    Hearts = Hammer Curls

    Spades = Squat Thrusters

    Jack = Plank Jacks x 10

    Queen = Double Count Freddy Mercuries x 15

    King = Double Count Flutter Kicks w/ block overhead x 20

    Ace = Burpees x 25

    Numbers, Names, Announcements (Fandango F3 2-year anniversary Q 3/16 at The Alamo, 3-Year Anniversary of The Alamo 3/30, Glow for Galactosemia 4/11, YHC 40th Birthday Q 4/29 at The Woodshed) Prayers (Wildcat with important scans today, Our country, for the toddler that lost his soccer cleat at The Woodshed).

    The time change doesn’t make it any easier to wake up and work out at 5:30 AM, but I appreciate you fellas showing up this morning. Keep spreading the word and lets get numbers consistently back up in the double digits for The Woodshed. Have a blessed day!

  • Trio at The Woodshed

    3 HIMs came out this morning to the Woodshed for a nice little beatdown! Nothing fancy, but went something like this:

    Warmup: Mosey to the end of the parking lot and back for some warm up stretches and IC exercises. Grab a cindy and left at the flag.

    COP 1: Start at end of the parking lot with called exercise, run to the cindy and perform called exercise, run to the other end of parking lot and perform called exercise. Exercises were added each time. Exercises were as follows:

    5 Burpees, 5 Overhead Press, 5 HRM

    Repeat reps of 5, add 10 Squats, 10 Single Leg Squats, 10 Calf raises

    Repeat reps of 5, 10, add 15 Carolina Dry Docks, 15 Bicep Curls, 15 Incline Merkins

    Repeat reps of 5, 10, 15, add 20 Donkey Claps, 20 Flutter Kicks w/ cindy overhead, 20 JLos

    COP 2: Overhead carry block to middle of parking lot for 11s – Bicep Curls, run across parking lot and up small hill for Dips on the bench

    COP 3: Overhead carry block to the flag for quick ring of fire – PAX called Leg, Ab and Arm Exercise x quantity 10

    Numbers, Names, Announcements (Glow for Galactosemia Run 4/11 – See Nany Lopez), Prayers (Globetrotter and Wildcat in their treatments, any PAX on the IR)

    Pleasure leading you fellas today. Thanks for showing up! Have a blessed day!

  • Yeti’s Hill

    With Satan’s Hill iced over and none of the PAX owning ice skates as a form of cardio, YHC wisely chose against running and leaned into a coupon heavy, upper body smoke fest at “Yeti’s Hill.” The goal was simple – perform exercises while maintaining form and staying upright. Song requests were accepted the evening before for what Spotify may classify as the weirdest compilation of songs (see below). The JBL party box lit up and blasted our first song and the workout went like this:

    Warm Up: Various IC exercises to get the blood flowing

    COP 1: Partner up with a sandbag per pair. P1 performs exercise while P2 stays warm performing their choice of Mountain Climbers, SSH, Monkey Humpers, Firecrackers or Plank Jacks. Partners were allowed to switch off exercises in whatever quantity they wanted, but both partners had to complete all reps. Exercises were: 100 Overhead press, 90 Curls, 80 Skull crushers, 70 Chest Press, 60 Upright rows, 50 Anterior raises w/ palms up, 40 Dips, 30 Merkins on the bag, 20 Bag pull thrus, 10 Bagees.

    COP 2: 2 minutes left to hit abs with 10 Box Cutters, 20 DC Flutter Kicks and 30 LBCs

    Time called, Numbers, Names, Announcements (Frozen Triangle 2/7) Prayers (Heist’s M’s Friend battling 2nd bout of cancer, safety with winter weather this weekend, schools opening back, patience with having kids at home while trying to work)

    Playlist: Enter Sandman by Metallica (Requested by The Duke), Mr. Jones by Counting Crows (Requested by Ponch), Frosty the Snowman – Hip Hop Version found by YHC by Tha J-Squad, Remix Maniacs (Requested by Nancy Lopez), Ice Ice Baby by Vanilla Ice (Requested by Ponch), Dragostea Din Tei by O-Zone (Requested by Rosetta), Snowblind by Black Sabbath (Requested by Warby), Let It Go – Disney goes Heavy version by Our Last Night (Requested by Pad Thai), Church Clap by KB and Lecrae (Requested by YHC), My Name is Mud by Primus (Requested by Boberry), The Elements by TobyMac (Requested by Pad Thai), Cold Hard Bitch by Jet (Requested from number I don’t have a name tied to from Rountrey group), It’s Raining Men by The Weather Girls (Requested by Fandango)

  • Futon’s Farmer’s Carry Four Corners

    On a morning with perfect weather condition for January, 7 HIMs showed up to The Woodshed for a beatdown that combined 2 downrange workouts that YHC attended over the holiday break. Mumble chatter was minimal which YHC took as a sign that the workout was doing its job of being a good beatdown! Here is how it went down:

    Warmup: Mosey around the parking lot followed by various IC exercises/stretches.

    COP 1: Farmer’s Carry Four Corners – Each PAX grabbed 2 cinderblocks each and started in Corner 1. Performed 4 Corners with repetitions going 5-10-15-10-5.

    Corner 1: Curls, Block Overhead Squats, Block Overhead Flutter Kicks (DC)

    Corner 2: Block Anterior Raises, Single Leg Squats (each leg), Windshield Wipers over Block

    Corner 3: Bench Dips, No Surrenders holding Block, Block Chops (each side)

    Corner 4: Blockees, Lateral Lunges holding Block, Halos (Clockwise/Counterclockwise)

    Farmer’s Carry 2 blocks between each corner. After completing Corner 4, carried blocks back to Corner 1 and ran to the end of the parking lot in front of clubhouse and back to re-enter the circuit.

    Ran out of time and unable to complete the last set of 5, therefore time called. Numbers, Names, Announcements (Frozen Triangle Tentatively 2/7), Prayers (No Specific prayers)

    Pleasure to lead this morning fellas! Get out there and make contact with a PAX member you haven’t seen in a while and/or a friend that you haven’t spoken to in a while. Have a blessed day!

  • Blocks at Sharknado

    One final down range post during the break at AO – Sharknado in Murrells Inlet. 2 F3 Grandstrand PAX and YHC did block work to bring in 2026. 11s with swings and blockees and 2 block farmers carry between. Ended with a few random block exercises like curls, skull crushers and OH press. Coffee after. Great to chat and get to know a could have the guys I’ve posted with this week. Feeling blessed in this new year and looking forward to getting back home to sleep in my own bed!

  • The Oyster – Not F3RVA’s Oyster

    Posted down range in Surfside Beach, SC at the AO – The Oyster, with 3 of the F3 South Strand PAX. Temperatures were much cooler than these beach boys are used to as they gave me crazy looks rolling up in shorts.

    Peaches had the Q and ran us through a chatGPT created workout with various exercises to spell out New Year in quantities of 26. Ended with a little jog and plank to close it out.

    Numbers, Names, Announcements, Prayers- Asked the PAX to pray for Wildcat.

  • Blackbeard’s Revenge in Murrells Inlet

    Posted down range with 14 of F3 Grandstrand PAX members for a cooler than usual for this area beatdown. Jeter was on the Q and brought a Four Corners prostitute style workout with 2 burpees, 4 squats, 8 LBCs. Double the quantity at each corner. Moved to bear crawls, merkins and WW2s on the basketball court. Numbers, names, announcements and prayers. Looking forward to posting a few more times this week down here!

  • Too Much Eggnog

    It was a quiet morning the day after Christmas at Satan’s Hill. YHC assumes everyone indulged in too much eggnog with extra bourbon. Thank goodness for Taziki showing up to take part in the following:

    Warmup with mosey in the parking lot and various IC exercises/stretches.

    COP1: Grabbed coupons and set them at the entrance to the parking lot. Started at the bottom of the hill. 4 stops on the hill to perform various exercises in a pyramid fashion of 5-10-15-10-5 reps. Stop 1 – Merkins, Squats, LBCs, Stop 2 – Curls, Lunges with coupon, American Hammers with coupon, Carried coupons to stop 3 – OH press, Coupon swings, WW3s, Stop 4 – HRMs, Firecrackers, Flutter Kicks, return to bottom of the hill while grabbing coupons to return to stop 2. Finishes with 2 minute to spare for a few stretches.

    Numbers, Names, Announcements (Bridge Sat), Prayers (Traveling)

    Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas!