Tag: #SOJ

  • D-Day

    Today is the 81st anniversary of D-Day. Of the 16.4 million who served in WWII, it’s estimated less than 60,000 are alive to tell the story. Truly an end of an era, so today we paid homage.

    10 HIMs came out today wearing a ruck or weighted vest. They were met with a choice of coupons to carry as well, each member carrying 60-70 pounds for the entire workout. BLIMPS style workout up and down Satans Hill to honor the five beaches stormed: Utah, Juno, Gold, Sword, and Omaha.

    we merged Sword and Omaha together for time, but 9 times up and down the hill with 10 reps of corresponding exercises at each turn.
    Those were some tough steps today, proud of the 9 guys who joined me, we kicked the week of Crabby off right!

    Father’s Day Q 6/15, Summer Tour Dogpile tomorrow, prayers for Futons wife traveling, happy birthday Woodsman (40!) and happy anniversary to Cookie (14 for sure this time) and Futon (11)

  • Hills’ hills

    After joking with BigRig and Boberry that nine 60-second hill repeats seemed wimpy, YHC convinced 2 of the 3 runners to do a hill test of our own.

    Bullseye, Greenbow and YHC hit the block for a warmup and converged at the bottom of Mt. Midlo. After four 90-second Mt Midlo repeats, we were spent! We then hit the block for a cool down where Doozy passed us, blasting some late-90’s boy band jams, working his way toward 6+. We gathered at the (non-existent) flag to close out.

    Thanks for the push, gents – it was good to rev the RPMs.

    Announcements: YHC needs to pick an August date for the homegrown half. If you haven’t started training – you should!

  • We rolled the dice- and it called for burpees

    The Forge turned into a full-blown casino of pain this morning—except the house always wins, and the house wanted burpees. We started with a dice-rolling gauntlet where every number brought a new flavor of exercise, followed by sprint ladders that made sure no muscle was left behind. Just when PAX thought it was winding down, we hit the hills for bear crawls and heels to heaven.

    The Thang:

    Warmerama: side straddle hops, ukranian soldiers, imperial squat walkers, cherry pickers, lbcs, alabama prom dates, roscoe’s mom

    COP 1: Roll the dice: One PAX rolls oversized dice and runs a lap around bus loop carrying a cinder block. while first PAX runs, rest perform exercise that matched the number rolled. 1- merkins, 2- squats, 3- mountain climbers, 4- lbcs, 5- side straddle hops, 6 burpees. Repeat until all Pax rolled and run

    COP 2: Sprint Ladders: (football field): Sprint 25 yards- 10 merkins and jog back. Sprint 50 yards- 15 squats jog back. sprint 75 yards, 20 lbcs, jog back, sprint 100 yards, 10 burpees jog back. Round 2 reverse- sprint 100 yards- 10 jump squats, sprint 75 yards 20 flutter kicks double count. Sprint 50 yards, 30 wide arm merkins. sprint 25 yards, 40 mountain climbers double count.

    Count 3: Parking lot and hills: bear crawl up each hill segment. at each parking lot checking, starting with first one, 10 heels to heaven, increase each time by 5.

    Announcements: Father’s day event hosted by DTH at the Forge; Thursday nights kids and fathers sports/activities at Machismo’s

    Prayer requests: Prayer for L. Woods’ friend going through lung cancer.

  • Packin Balls

    What do you do when the guy who’s been holding your ruck gear no-shows? Load up an extra bag with a set of heavy bocce balls and roll out in style to the jolly cadence of balls clacking. Nice to catch up with PR and Scram and get to know Bru. Rocked out a little over 3 miles through Larus trails and Stony Point Fashion Park. Deep conversation followed at Einstein along theological lines. God is good all the time! Yours AYE! ~DTH

  • Ruck-a-ccino

    6 HIMs skipped the coffee on a warm morning and got to work! Rudy needed a minute so we did a quick lap around the block, rendezvoused, and off we went. Travelled to the depths of Bayfront, swung by Studfinder’s cul-de-sac, then up and around Alamo and back to the start. Just short of 3.5 miles.

    Today we pondered how effective the Paw Patrol would be in real life without having thumbs; would Donald Duck really eat turkey on Thanksgiving; Matlock took notes of Rudy’s hot takes on the Broncos upcoming 6-11 season; and how we can use ice cream to get more guys out to F3

  • Pickle Pounders in the Kitchen

    23 gloom studs saddled up for a ride on the pain train. After a 3 month hiatus serving abroad YHC was rearing to go. Here’s how we won the day:

    The THANG:

    WARMERAMA:

    • Mosey onto the BBall Court and line up
    • Brief F3 Welcome & Disclaimer
    • x5 BURPEE SUICIDES (a suicide followed by 5 burpees, for x5 reps) – one for each flight YHC had to take to get home from the mission field
    • LIFO Snuff arrived just in time to miss the 25 burpees, so we did x5 Body Builders (8-ct burpee) in his honor
    • Circle up for Variable IC reps 
    • Warm? Let’s go wreck the shoulders…

    COP #1:

    • Mosey back to the Tennis courts
    • 4-CORNER SHOULDERAMA
    • x10 Diamond Merkins
    • x20 No Cheat Merkins
    • x30 Werkins
    • x40 CDD’s
    • Bear Crawl between court corners (alt to Crab Walk or Lunge as needed)

    COP #2:

    • Mosey around to the main fields’ chainlink fence
    • CHAINSMOKERS x50 OYO

    COP #3:

    • Mosey back to the Pickleball Courts
    • PICKLEBALL 50’s
    • At each of the individual Pickleball court the PAX is given an exercise to complete – first man to x50 calls out, and PAX moves on to the next court (front runner calls the next exercise)
    • x6 courts completed with variable exercises called: Monkey Humpers, Alabama Prom Dates, Pickle Pounders, LBC’s, American Hammers, SSH’s

    BTTF:

    • Mosey back through trails, stopping a fee times to lunge walk to wait for the Six
    • 2MoM – scrunchy frogs & WWII’s

    COT:

    • Counterama # 23
    • Namerama
    • Announcerama (see Below)
    • Prayer

    Prayer Requests:

    • NTB Family Loss
    • Warby & Snuff traveling 
    • DTH settling back in

    NMS:  Beautiful cool bright morning to be back at it with this crowd of fine brothers. YHC’s slaughter start instructions were a little rusty, but recovered with the IC reps. Somebody has clearly been slipping HIM-enhancing drugs into L Woods water bottle – now it’s hard to keep up with that dude! Fantastic to see a bunch of Summer Tourists beef up the NoToll numbers – thx to Hutton for leading this. Highlight of the morning was Gumbo’s hilarious sexual innuendo on the Pickleball Court – he had us all rolling. Kudos to Heist for keeping the Six with us, and to Machismo for taking a moment to grease the palm of the new Park Supervisor. I’ve been all over the world, but you guys are all on the next level – LET’s GO!  Yours AYE! ~DTH

    Announcements (SEE SLACK!)

    • Summer Tour
    • Timberwolf Games Challenge weekly
    • Alamo-Bros VQ Week
    • Breaking Bread

  • End of May, the warmth left(temporarily)

    Normally at this time of the year, the weather is usually humid yet due to the recent rains it has been a little cooler in the mornings. That’s fine, allows us to train harder and this morning we had a baker’s dozen (13) at RNR come out for a Mudslide Mayhem workout.

    We all headed to the nearby court(Cha Cha a couple of minutes late) for a WARMARAMMA (SSHs, Helicopters, Jazzercise, Imperial Squat Walkers, Merkins, LBCs a little stretching). The juices were rolling with a quick 11s to start out(jump squats and plank jacks). After that back to around the flag for a mega double 4 corners. 2 parking lots, 8 corners starting with 80, a break in the middle then pick up at 40 to the finish. Started with 80 Carolina Dry Docks, 70 Plank Marches, 60 squats, 50 2 count flutters then the change

    The change up was a quick triple check: tricep dips, people’s chair(regular, toes up, on the tip toes) with a run down and back. After that, locked things back up 40 high heel squats, 30 gator merkins, 20 walking lunges, 10 hand release merkins. Think that’s enough, wrong there’s more

    A mega Dora: 100 Incline Merkins, 300 Mountain Climbers, 500 toe taps with runs down the grass hill and back up. After that: I normally do not do Broga with a Saturday workout but today and probably more often I will add it. It felt good, a little grunting but the muscles agree loose. One final run back to the flag, called time numbers, names, plenty of announcements (see Slack) and prayer led by YHC to close it out.

    One thing I want to do this summer, go to the Bridge to train with the guys there. That’s one spot I haven’t been to along with leading spots that I have visited, yet not led a Q there(Forge, Dogpile, etc). I have time this summer to do so plus whatever else I can get involved with. I will see everyone next time

  • Morning F3 run

    Big Rig and Boberry were out earlier, I came about 630 decided let’s get a little maintenance run in before I start the main event. The morning felt good, as usual the heat on my body gets turned up and we’re in the groove. 2.2 miles in 20 minutes felt good but I needed to get ready before everyone else showed up. Another post shortly

  • F-U Ton’s 2 Year Q

    13 HIMs ventured out into the higher humidity of Satan’s Hill to honor YHC’s 2 years of being a part of F3. Shoutout to Heist for riding me for 5 months to finally get me out to join the brotherhood! 2 years has flown by, but not without seeing so many positive changes mentally, physically and emotionally not only in myself, but the PAX brothers surrounding me. YHC wanted to push it a little harder this morning and in the words of Nancy Lopez “You know when the run up Satan’s Hill is the “break,” it is a good workout.” According to the first “Car Back!” call that we expected to be Hermey’ wife barreling down the hill, but was in fact Hermey heading to his surgery, this is how it went down:

    Warm Up: Short run in the parking lot and back to circle for IC exercises including SSH, Helicopters, Ukranian Soldiers, Deadman Hang, Old School Leg/Arm Stretches.

    COP 1: Building Blocks on Satan’s Hill – Partner up with 1 block per pair. P1 runs to the top of the hill while P2 performs exercise followed by MOT x 2 (in honor of 2 years) up the hill when P1 has almost returned. Switch roles and repeat through the 4 different exercises/4 MOTs. Repeat circuit 2 times until we reached about 3/4 of the way up Satan’s Hill. Exercises/MOT included: 1) Side to Side Block Merkins/Broad Jump Blockees, 2) Curls/Lunges on each leg, 3) Skull Crushers/Bear Crawls with block pull throughs, 4) Block Woodchops/Crawl Bears with block pull throughs

    COP 2: Lined blocks up going down the hill with space between to allow for jump overs. Lined up and performed lateral jump over blocks with sprint back to the top, turned directions for lateral jumps over blocks the other direction with spring back to the top and finally forward jumps over blocks with sprint back to the top. Grabbed the blocks and returned to the parking lot.

    COP 3: Dora with 100 Block Lateral Lunges, 200 Single Leg Squats on Block, 300 Holding Block Calf Raises. Returned blocks to their home, while Wildcat took the PAX through some plank holds.

    Time Called, Numbers, Names, Announcements (Toby VQ Monday June 2 at The Alamo, Boys of Summer at Timberwolf continues, Summer Tour continues, SOJ SLT June 10 at Sables, SOJ VQ week coming soon), Prayers (Fandango’s dad suffered heart attack, Fandango’s uncle suffered a stroke, Warby and Ponch for quick healing of injuries, Swoops Friend’s Sister battling CA, Hermey for is surgery, Safe summer for kids/parents with today being the last day of school, YHC’s MIL battling CA, Shoutouts to Warby for showing up today despite an injury and modifying as necessary and Merman for his return from an injury.

    I appreciate everyone for showing up today to support the 2 year Q. Wouldn’t be where I am today continuing to push myself if it weren’t for each and every one of you. F3 has been a blessing and there are so many more people we can reach to continue building each other up. Keep getting at it and push your limits and the positive changes will continue to show! Much love to my F3 brothers! Have a blessed day fellas!

  • The Return

    Seven non-tourists arrived at The Forge for a dry weather session for a change. It was great to welcome back our brother recently returned from mission in PNG. Here is how we spent the time.

    Mosey to the tennis courts for a brief warm up of the usual: SSH, Merkins, Helicopters, Imperial Squat Walkers, Alabama Prom Dates, DQs

    The Thang

    #1: Mosey to the field for 4 corners. 10 Burpees, 20 WWIIs, 30 Squats, 10 Bear Crawls/Crawl Bears to 10yd line and back.

    #2: A modified beast—from goal run to 20, 40, 50, 40, 20 and goal on opposite side doing 6 reps at each location. Merkins, Lunges, Carolina Dry Docks, Something, Alabama Prom Dates, Scrunchy Frogs.

    One lap of the track doing an Indigenous Run, mosey to top of the ramp

    #3: OYO 50 Jerkins and 50 incline Merkins, mosey to stairs

    #4: Triple check: Dips, LBCs, and timer on stairs loop, mosey BTTF

    #5: Ring of fire – 10 Merkins.

    Announcements: Summer Tour

    Prayer Requests: For Purple Rains Brother in Law as he and the family face his health challenge, The DTHs as they adjust back to life on this side, Doozy with a full house with the family home, Belay as he recovers from his back injury, and for safe travels.

    Last Call took us out. Thanks brother and thanks men for keeping the iron sharp.