7 HIM’s satisfied the Morning Wood with a speedy 5K (3.1mi) ruck completed in 49 minutes. Enjoyed the conversations and the push. YHC is leaving for Aruba 😎☀️…see ya! ~DTH
Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all. ~Sam Ewing
8 beasts showed up this beautiful wanna be spring morning for some fun at Satan’s Hill. Requests for a morning full of broga turned into a nice little beatdown that went something like this:
Warmup: Mosey to bottom of Satan’s Hill and back to the parking lot, SSH, Helicopters, Copperhead Squats, Butterfly stretch, Single knee to chest both sides, LBCs
COP 1: Game of Gambling 2/4/6/8/10/8/6/4/2 – Vegas odds were not in our favor! PAX member flips a quarter and calls Heads/Tails in the air. If call is correct, we take the easy road with Shoulder Tap Merkins, if call is incorrect, we take the hard road with Burpees. Started at 2 reps then run to opposite end of the parking lot and increase/decrease exercise count by 2 with next flip. A few coin flips in, PAX was convinced YHC brought a heads only quarter this morning causing us to do way more Burpees than we hoped for. Purple Rain was gifted the quarter and his Aldi shopping cart this weekend is paid for!
COP 2: Partner up for a Dora with use of coupons – 100 Overhead Press, 200, Bicep Curls, 300 (150 on each leg) Bulgarian Split Squats – Runner goes up and around the island at opposite end of parking lot and back.
COP 3: Ab Blaster w/ Cardio to shed the winter weight in light of the warmer weather – Started at Satan’s Hill entrance with 5 LBCs, run up Satan’s Hill to Farham intersection. 5 LBCs, 10 (2 count) flutter kicks, run to Prenoman intersection. 5 LBCs, 10 (2 count) flutter kicks, 15 (2 count) Freddie Mercuries, run down Prenoman cul-de-sac hill. 5 LBCs, 10 (2 count) flutter kicks, 15 (2 count) Freddie Mercuries, 20 Box Cutters, run up Prenoman cul-de-sac hill back to intersection. 5 LBCs, 10 (2 count) flutter kicks, 15 (2 count) Freddie Mercuries, 20 Box Cutters, 25 Oblique ankle taps, run back towards Satan’s Hill to intersection at Farham. 5 LBCs, 10 (2 count) flutter kicks, 15 (2 count) Freddie Mercuries, 20 Box Cutters, 25 Oblique ankle taps, 30 Plank Jacks, run back to Satan’s Hill parking lot.
COP 4: Triple Check in groups of 4 – 2 runners, Jerkins and Curb Dips.
Time called, Numbers, Names, Announcements – Grow Ruck May 3-5, Breaking Bread Sign Ups, Rudy gave a nice shoutout/thanks to F3 guys that have been praying for him and reached out with kind words of support. He has felt the love and it has pushed him through a tough time.
Prayer Requests included continued thoughts/prayers for Rudy and his family and for Swoops’ friend who is set to return to the states in mid March.
Always a pleasure to lead such a great group of gentlemen and push each other a little harder each time. Continue to get up and push yourself and become a better person today than you were yesterday. Stay blessed!
11 Got together at Timberwolf to try something new, following my lead. Merkins made it burn but we made it through. Here is how it went:
Mosey to the Parking Lot making sure not to jump any curbs figuring the plan out on the way. Warm-Up: Side Straddle Hops, Ukrainian Soldiers DeadMan Hang, Alabama Prom Dates and LBCs.
COP #1: Mosey around the lot looking for the best place to start 4 Corners, Prostitution Style. 20 Side Straddle Hops, 25 Merkins, 30 LBCs, 40 Flutter Kicks
COP #2: Mosey around the lot to set up Partner Doras. 100 Heels to Heaven 200 Flutter Kick, back down to 100 LBCs, Plank for the 6.
COP #3: 11’s around the Mid-Islands. Side Straddle Hops paired with Squat Jumps. OC called plank for the 6 and stretched it out.
COP #4: Finished up with Inclined Side Crab Crawls with reverse for an even beat down.
Called Time after DeadMan Hangs leading into Announcements and Prayer. Privileged to have an opportunity to lead. Felt really good to contribute and challenge myself by being outside of a comfort zone. YHC: MEATBALL
At 5:30 AM, we fired up the FORGE once again. Post-workout surveys suggest that a good time was had by all………………..The following is a brief summary for your viewing pleasure:
Mosey to the Courtyard of the Damned for Warm-Up:
Ukranian Soldiers, Ski Jumps, Apple Bottom Poppers, Pickle Pounders, West Virginia Prom Dates
To the Ampitheater for Exercise One: Wall Climber Burpee on Step One, then run to the bottom of the hill and back. Wall Climber Burpee on Step One and Two, then run…………..repeat pattern until you get to the top.
Exercise Two: Incline Ab Challenge
25 WWII’s, 25 Heels to Heaven, 25 Flutter Kicks. 25 V-Ups. Threw in 25 decline HR Merkins for good measure.
Mosey to the summit of Mt. Chaplain for Exercise Three:
On the descent: Crab Walk the hills/grass, Lt. Dan’s across parking lot
Exercise Four: Ring Around the Toadie – Frog Jump around the perimeter of the parking lot. Asking the PAX to face the same direction throughout proved to be a bridge too far.
Back towards the flag: Stop on the hill for Incline Ab Challenge #2:
25 LBC’s, 25 Freddy Mercuries, 25 American Hammers, 25 Hello Dollies. Finished off with 25 Decline Werkins
A couple of Hill Repeats near the upper parking lot, and time is called.
Numbers/Names/Announcements/Prayer Requests
Final Thoughts: The PAX were able to overcome many challenges today. The warm-up area was definitely a little sus. In addition, Wedding Singer and NTB nearly choked themselves out on the Goose Poop Ice Slide. But, in true F3 fashion, we were able to power through. It was great seeing Gaston back out – also shout out to L Woods who continues to post regularly. Lot of Rucking options coming up, and the Murph at Twin Team tomorrow. Do yourself a favor and check Slack for details.
SYITG
Eight freedom fighters of Southerly origins rucked the South Bank of the James from HFW to PP and back. NTB snoozed the alarm one too many times and escaped his fartsack 3 minutes before launch, texting “I can catch up.” With great faith, YHC replied “Yeah you can.” And perhaps with fear of loneliness as his greatest inspiration, NTB+50# ran/ruck caught the PAX before we reached the turnaround at Pony Pasture. TClaps! Good times and conversations had by all. GTE is just a couple months away! Let’s keep the ruckmentum going and get some more PAX registered. 💪🔥👊
TONIGHT -🚨 VQ ALERT 🚨 – MEATBALL at The Crossing, 6pm kickoff, 401 N Parham Rd
Good morning…..70 and sunny(more like 25 and I thought I saw a penguin from the corner of my eye). A day like today, it allows me to try thingsv plus some gear I haven’t brought out in a while was used. It was just 2 of us((Broadway and myself). After a quick warmup(SSHs, Don Quixotes, Arm Circles, Imperial Walkers) time to get it going.
The first notes from Cult of Personality hit, we were off and running. First part was a 5 exercise station, 3 times thru: 50 2-count battle ropes, 10/side clean and press with a 16kg/35 pound kettlebell, tire slams(10), 10 WW2 with a press(25 pound sandbag) at the top, and jump ropes(in brought 2, 50 with the regular and if you felt up for the challenge 25 with a 5 pound rope). After that down to the football field
What was up next: how about sandbag drags with bear crawls(WTF). A 50 pound sandbag drag, reach back, grab a handle and pull thru. As it moves up, bear crawl to where the bag stopped switch hands. This morning one corner of the end zone to the other side, then turn back around. As the person is doing the drags, the other is running down to the end zone at the other end, come back pick up where they left off at. You have to remember, sand moves inside this requires everything from head to toe to work together so a challenge no doubt
As time was getting closer, one final mini triple check: run up and down the hill with the sandbag on your shoulders, the other person does 10 incline Merkins, 15 tricep dips. We went back to the street, closed it out, loaded gear into my vehicle and called it a day
This will be done again, hopefully with a few more people cause I could literally use 2( I’m have 4 sandbags ranging from 25 to over 100 pounds), what I can come up with will be fun plus the battle ropes fact in my head just now something for next time. I lead again Saturday at Rock and Roll, be ready.
10 Strong men including one FNG showed up to see what YHC had in store at the ALAMO this morning.
Start off with a mosey and Warmarama- SSH, Dead man hang , helicopters, imperial walkers, merkins, flutter kicks , LBCs…..
Mosey to the closest cul de sac for the start of the ALAMO workout
20 A- American Hammers, 20 L- Lunges, 20 A- Alabama Prom Dates, 20 – M- Monkey humpers, 20 o- One legged merkins
Mosey to the next cul de sac…repeat
Mosey to the Endstone and repeated ALAMO with a twist . one exercise and then run to the culdesac next exercise then back to start for 3rd exercise…..until ALAMO was complete
Mosey to next culdesac complete ALAMO
Over to distaff….5 Burpees OYO….followed by grab a partner…one partner goes to one culdesac the other to the far culdesac….50 each of the ALAMO exercises switching culdesac after each letter. Great work with the cardio!
Mosey back to the clubhouse with 3 burpees OYO at every cross street. finished up with some stretching.
Welcome to D Ring…great work this morning. We look forward to having you back out there!
Announcements- Meatball VQ wednesday @ the crossing, GROWRUCK
Prayers for NTB, RUDY, COOKIE, MEATBALL’s family
Thanks for allowing me to lead this morning…I am off to work on the mission statement now!
9 Satans hill veterans and 1 FNG came out to see what YHC had in store this morning… Here is what went down.
Mosey up satans hill and over to Wilson’s Cul de sac for Warmarama- SSH, Imperial walkers, helicopters, merkins, freddie mercury, lbc
11’s from the cul de sac to the top of the hill with merkins and squats
dora across farham with 100 merkins 200 sumo squats 300 LBS ( all this work while watching the starlink satellite train pass by in the sky)
triple check @ the top of satans hill – arm circles ( compliments of oyster) and merkins- timer ran down 4 mailboxes
time for some satans hill suicides- starting from the top of the hill we did suicides – 5 burpees at every turnaround
Finished it off with a ring of fire- 10 various exercises 10X
announcements- GROW RUCK Prayers for the families of 3 Doors down, Rudy and NTB
Lastly welcome to WebstUR! looking like a veteran out there already. thanks for joining us and looking forward to seeing you out there again soon!
6 intrepid SOJ explorers plumbed the depths of their own will to illuminate the narrow path to higher purpose. Many are the intentions of man, but only those who step into the arena find the opportunity to face and overcome themselves. These six HIM’s are preparing for victory, one soggy cold post at a time. Here was today’s ride on the pain train:
The THANG:
WARMERAMA:
PAY THE TOLL:
COP #1:
COP #2:
Mosey BTTF:
COT:
NMS:
“Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely the demonstration of their championship character.” Alan Armstrong
“The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Announcements (SEE SLACK!)
Ten men braved the post Super Bowl monday morning gloom at the Alamo. Here’s what went down:
Map: https://onthegomap.com/s/77bsh04p
Warm up — @ Alamo
Mosey to Rankin Drive
Thing 1 — B.L.I.M.P.S (Rankin Dr)
Mosey to Endstone trail
Thing 2 — Dora: Abs (Endstone Trail)
Thing 3 — 0.5 mile group run to Litton Dr.
Thing 4 — Dora: Arms & Legs (Litton Dr).
Line up — mosey back to The Alamo
COT — @ Alamo