Tag: 1stF

1st F meetups are workouts where you come together with other men from the community to make each other physically and mentally stronger

  • The Fire Marshall has Tunnel Vision

    6 Swole Studs gathered on a warm morning to see what WestHoes newest AO had to offer. According to the Rabbits that ran by this is what went down more or less.

    Gomer Q. Welcome. Gitty up start: 8 Burpees. Mosey to the Tunnel. 10 Merkins at each overhead bulb. Mosey to the Tennis courts for a short COP, all IC: Mountain Climber x25, Turn & Bounce x10, DQ x10, Deadman Hang with VMI extension, LBC x 15, uphill LBC x 25, L leg straight LBC x 15, R leg straight x15, both legs six inches x15, both legs 45 deg x 10, both legs 90 x 10, APD x10, Tuscaloosa Trailer Park Twister (uphill) x10.

    Roger Roger Q. Mosey to the big parking lot. Triple check. Jump Squats + Box cutters. Merkins + Flutter Kicks. Mosey to the basketball courts.

    Atilla Q. Ark Loader: Bear Crawl, crab walk, Lunge walk, sprint. 4 corners: Burpees, HTH, WW2, Merkins and reverso. Mosey BTTF 10 Burpees. Flutter Kicks, Freddie Mercuries, Stretching.

    Blue Moon took us out. Prayers for those seeking jobs. Healthy pax and families

    NMS – Eschewing Members Only as it sounds too exclusive and various offered aviation terms or other euphemisms Roger Roger settled on Tunnel Vision – because you know, we are so focused on our goals.

    TIL that there are 400 LI batteries in the cabin on each flight. For years YHC and other road warriors are responsible for at least 5-6 (laptop, tablet, phone, small battery backup, large battery backup, headphones, etc) so its easy to do the math. The issue is that many are very cheaply made with minimum standards and more importantly if they catch fire (daily – at least one) they are difficult to extinguish while in flight as the airlines in their infinite wisdom wont let us crack the windows to vent to atmosphere like you can on a spacecraft. And it turns out there is only so much baking power carried on each flight. So silly.

    Also we found the nearest AED at the pool safely behind a fence that we need something bigger than a pickup to knock down. Luckily YHC has a lot of experience with heavy equipment – if you know what I mean – and there is a Bobcat supporting the construction work.

    Get Some!

  • Coupon Triple Triple Surprise

    10 Gentlemen of the Gloom converged at Mary to start our Thursday in the very best way. After checking for the nearest emergency toilet options using Hitch’s new app, we launched forth at 0530. On the way to the COP, we stopped by YHC’s car to pick up some coupons.

    COP: Deadman hang, DQs, Imperial Walkers, Ukranian Soldiers, etc.

    Coupon Triple Triple: Three rounds of three triple checks with coupon work. Round 1: P1 Lunge pass throughs, P2 overhead press, P3 run to the fence, Bernie back // Round 2: P1 Goblet Squats, P2 Kettle bell swing, P3 karaoke to the fence and back. //Round 3: P1 – alternate rows 10x P2- Bench press, P3- bear crawl half way to the fence, run to the fence and back. Deposit the coupons on the way back to the flag.

    Final COP: end with some ab work. LBC 25xIC, Freddie Murcury 25xIC, American Hammer 25xIC, Flutter Kicks 25xIC. End with 10 burpees OYO and some stretching.

    Numberama, Namerama, YHC took us out.

    NMS: Coupons are a rare sighting at 45MOM. Not all were happy to see them today, but it was good to get some solid strength work in. Great groupings and perfect temp.

    SYITG

  • Two roads diverged in a yellow wood

    Two PAX arrived on this wet day. YHC was 1-min late, so the other PAX had already left to do his own circuit. According to the street lamp that went out at 5:40am, here’s what happened by the amphitheater:

    COP: Helicopter, arm circles (forwards and backwards), Ukranian soldiers, Imperial walkers, Copperhead squats.

    Merkins x35, Superman x 1min

    Cue music-driven ab excercises – flutter kicks, freddie mercury, LBCs

    Algore for 1 minute

    Arm lifts with traffic cone x 3 sets

    Bear crawl + SSH through half of the traffic circle

    Mosey to stage – 3 sets of BTTW, merkins, and belly-down starfish

    Mosey to Cage – 15 pull-ups and 10 Jerkins

    Mosey back to the field – 20 squats, 15 hand-release merkins, 30 merkins

    Both PAX reconvened at the field for some fellowship, and YHC took us out, asking the Lord to help us remember his love for today.

  • Ladder at the Hoedown

    Warm Up: Thorough Stretching, Side Straddle Hops, Arm Circles, Circle Arms, Imperial Walkers
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    Mosey to begin our ladder at church parking lot and retrieve coupons.

    • 5 Buprees (+ mosey)
    • 5 Burpees + 10 Merkins (+ mosey)
    • 5 Burpees + 10 Merkins + 15 Squats (+ mosey)
    • 5 Burpees + 10 Merkins + 15 Squats + 20 Curls (+ mosey)
    • 5 Burpees + 10 Merkins + 15 Squats + 20 Curls + 25 Mt. Climbers (2 count) (+ mosey)
    • 5 Burpees + 10 Merkins + 15 Squats + 20 Curls + 25 Mt. Climbers (2 count) + 30 Bent Over Rows (+ mosey)
    • 5 Burpees + 10 Merkins + 15 Squats + 20 Curls + 25 Mt. Climbers (2 count) + 30 Bent Over Rows + 35 LBC’s (+ mosey)
    • 5 Burpees + 10 Merkins + 15 Squats + 20 Curls + 25 Mt. Climbers (2 count) + 30 Bent Over Rows + 35 LBC’s + 40 Overhead Claps (+ mosey)

    Mosey back to base.

    • BearCrabSprints = bear walk halfway across parking lot, switch to crab walk to end, then sprint back
    • Zombie Walk = Lunge across the whole parking lot, sprint back

    Circle for Mary:

    • Lunges (20 count)
    • Box Cutters (15 count)
    • WWI’s (10 count)

    COT – Shared highs and lows (good fellowship), welcomed new FNG (Data) to the F3 family.

  • Free For All at Sunday Funday

    None of us really knows how many guys showed up to do the “come as you are when you are ready” event that is Sunday Funday. According to local legend passed among the campers in the park, 2 started at 6:15, 4 started at 7, one or two started at 9, and someone went biking. For all involved, temperatures remained constant at 70 and sunny.

    The 7 a.m. launch included a near millionaire, and near billionaire, a guy with a fever, a guy with 50 direct reports, and 150 bikers. Route: Bridge, dog poop, Buttermilk, Belle Isle (top loop), North Bank (note the Oxford comma), and BTT (watch out for the super fast mountain bikers!!) VSF.

    7-ish miles.

    NMS: Tons discussed…Kristi Noem’s sweet heart, no-bid $150MM contract to friends, worshiping dead racists, waterfront preservation work, stains magically appearing on a very specific part of your shorts, Jamaicans being detained by ICE at 2:30 a.m. in the hospital (ok, that one involved an old lady tripping on morphine). But, never a dull moment.

    Race results: Confusion reigned on the podium. UpChuck DQ’d for taking the hiker route, but managed to slide past Shakes / Offshore on the home stretch courtesy of a well-timed rendezvous with a friend of Shakes’ (note the apostrophe) on the trails. Somehow, slowest guy crossed the finish line first. Definitely not pretty…we’ll call it a draw.

    Announcements:

    Kubota has the Q at First Watch, the AO with the best mumblechatter in all of F3-dom on Wednesday. That kicks off Seazn of Giving. Then, K-man has the Q for The Bridge on December 27. Clown cars forming now.

    Couple of races coming up…Snowy Owl in early January, and Bel Monte in March. LG!

  • More Hot Potato

    The AO that remains without a name and whose site Q continue to be MIA tossed around another hottest of hawt potatoes today.  Here is how it went down:

    • Attila
      • COP
        • SSH
        • Ukrainian soldiers
        • IW
        • Helicopters
        • Arm circles
        • DMH
        • Merkins
        • LBC
        • APD
      • Mosey to the pull-up bars for 3x of 10 pull-ups and 20 pole smokers
      • Picnic table – 3x of 20 step-ups and 20 dips
    • Gomer Pyle
      • Series of 5 burpees and stretches
      • Mosey to the lake and on a small hill series of incline/decline merkins and ab exercises
    • Borat – mosey to a place where we are not inside a roped off/no trespassing zone
      • Series of squats, lunges, planks, burpees, and mountain climbers
    • Blue Moon – mosey back to the parking lot
      • 4 corners with 10 merkins, 15 WWII sit-ups, 20 squats, 25 H2H
      • Series of burpees
      • Stretching
      • COT with Blue Moon taking us out

    The PAX is determined not to let the AO die.  A name, Q sign-up and other administrative details to be handled in near future.  Good work from the PAX.  Our former military members love them some burpees.  You have been warned if they Q. 

    The Bridge with EF Hutton tomorrow.  Thanksgiving convergence is in 2 week at Mary at 7 am.

    God is good all of the time!


    Attila

  • YHC and a Bunch of Rabbits

    One nocturnal man and uncounted rabbits launched at the stroke of 04:00 in the latest edition of The Clinic. Conditions were 70 and sunny with dense fog and intense blackness. According to the rabbits silflaying, the following may quite possibly have happened.

    Mosey to the edge of the golf course for the COP.

    SSHs x30 (4 count, unless otherwise noted)
    Imperial Walkers x20
    LBCs x20
    Flutter kicks x20

    Mosey about 200 yards, pass the Dana Point Vietnam Veterans Memorial, and perform 20 HRMs.

    Continue moseying another 200 yards, stopping for a variety of squats, LBCs, WWIIs, merkins, and so forth, generally following the fall-line of the trails towards the beach. Ignore the darkness. Embrace the isolation.

    At the top of the bluff, continue right / downward to the beach path, then down the steps to the sand, forward 50 yards to the water line. Turn 80 degrees right / north, until intersection of water / sand, then proceed 6-10 feet west of intersection of sand / water (i.e., run in the water).

    Note: Water temp 66 degrees.

    Proceed to intersection of rocks / water / cliff. Find appropriate sized rock. 20 merkins. Find different appropriately sized rock. 20 boat / canoe. Do so without ingesting water / sand.

    Proceed south on beach, repeating 6-10 feet from water’s edge, always on the water side. Approximately 1 mile run. Glorious.

    Repeat rock exercises at south end of beach.

    Proceed north / east to beach road and follow road uphill. Grade as much as 14%. Unforgiving. Lower speed, force continued run. Do not walk.

    At top of hill, repeat exercises.

    Continue east / northeast through city park and back to golf course, repeating exercises 3-4 additional times. 3 MOM at edge of golf course.

    Number, name, and YHC took himself out.

    NMS: YHC finds this workout to be the pinnacle of experiences, approximately 2x per year. Few things like exercising along the beach anywhere in the world. With the time change and the jet lag, YHC did this a bit earlier than normal. Good for the soul.

    Announcements: EF Hutton leading The Bridge this weekend. No finer person to help our fellow men. Sign up, join up, and experience all 3 Fs in one morning.

  • No Members Present

    The new Wellsley AO is still under naming consideration.  No one from Wellsley appeared today.  Here is how it went down for the non-members:

    • Attila
      • COP
        • SSH
        • Ukrainian soldiers
        • IW
        • Helicopters
        • Arm circles
        • DMH
        • Merkins
        • LBC
        • APD
      • Mosey through the tunnel to the field for a 4 corners with 10, 15, 20, 25 reps of an exercise
        • 70 HRM
        • 70 WWII sit-ups
        • 70 squats
    • Tater
      • Form the H at the tennis courts with exercises at each corner and burpee in the center
        • 10 squats
        • 10 WWII sit-ups
        • 10 dips
        • 10 CDD
    • Blue Moon
      • 7s on the hill with Mike Tysons & WWII sit-ups
    • Gomer
      • Meander around the AO stopping to do burpees – 41 burpees
      • Mary
        • FK
        • Mountain climbers
      • COT with Gomer taking us out

    A hot potato where AO names continue to bantered about.  Today’s theme focused on airline/airport/flying themes in honor of the site Q Roger Roger.  TBD.  No AED located by Gomer.  Prayers up for those looking for jobs and our country. 

    God is good all of the time!

    Attila

  • Full moon + Dora =

    Three brave souls dared to conquer their weak bodies at 530am in the light of the bright full moon. According to the stones on the ground where the portajohns used to lie, here’s what went down:

    COP

    helicopter

    arm circles

    imperial walkers

    Ukrainian soldiers

    dead man hang

    copperhead squats

    Merkins and Back’ens:

    merkin

    superman

    close arm merkin

    phelps out of water

    hand release merkin

    Starfish stretch

    Mosey to tower, where we encountered the Dora curse. Dora turned us in to bears, and we have to complete 350 ab exercises (she later increased it to 400 😲)

    dora curse

    400 ab exercises while partner bear crawls to top, touch tower, run down

    After breaking Dora’s curse, we moseyed to Logland for some lumberjack training.

    log carry x12 x2 rounds

    log lifts x12 x 2 rounds

    Plank as you wait for your turn

    Moseyed back to the field but was stopped briefly when we turned into bears again, having to bear crawl around the roundabout, before heading back to the field with some lunges and ending with 2 minutes of overhead clapping to celebrate our victory from the bear curse.

    COT: numerama, namerama

    Florence came out of his cop mobile to say hi to us. We’re glad to hear that he is doing good work to restore peace in our city. He says that he misses F3 but hopes to make it out one day and also encourage others to join too.

    YHC took us out. Glad to have Senka out again from NC!

  • All Members Welcome

    Nothing soft about this launch today.  5 grizzly PAX vets assembled where all members are welcomed.  Here is how it went down:

    • COP
      • SSH
      • Ukrainian soldiers
      • IW
      • Helicopters
      • Arm circles
      • DMH
      • Suzanne Somers
      • HRM
      • LBC
      • APD
    • Begin to mosey around the Wellsley lake, stopping occasionally to exercise and allow the PAX to reunite
    • Stop for 2 rounds of a 5x
      • Run
      • Incline merkins
      • Sumo squats
      • FM
      • H2H
    • Mosey back to the Wellsley clubhouse, stopping occasionally to make the lake walkers uncomfortable
    • 2 rounds of:
      • 20 dips
      • 20 step-ups
      • 20 PLTs
    • Mosey to the bars where each man does 2x 10 pull-ups while the rest do monkey humpers
    • Mosey back to parking lot to stretch
    • COT with YHC taking us out

    We are off and running at the newest AO, “Members Only.”  Do not let the name fool you.  While the esteemed members of Wellsley “workout” in their clubhouse, F3 remains outside and open to all men.  Great work from the PAX, and we still have so much terrain to explore.

    Gomer has his ramp build on the Southside tomorrow.  Reach out for details.  Prayers up for many in the PAX dealing with tough times.  God is good all of the time!

    Attila