Goodbye to Blocktober Costume Beatdown

DATE: 2022-11-01
AO: Freestate
Q: Horshack
PAX: Winston, Deagle, ShowMe, Butter
FNGs: Lefty
COUNT: 6
Warm Up

SSH x 25 IC

Carolina Dry Docks x 19 IC

Shoulder Taps x 15 IC

Mountain Climbers x 15 IC

Michael Phelps x 14 IC

4 laps – Ricky Bobbies

Harry Rockettes x 15 IC

Willie Mays Hayes x 10 IC

Windmills x 10 IC

Cherry Pickers x 15 IC

The Thang: Blocktober is Over, Long Live Blocktober

EMOM: 3 sets with 8 rounds each

5 blockies then 15 mountain climbers

10 CPRs (Curl / Press / Raise) then 10 squats

10 Taint Scrapers then 10 merkins

Mary:

Leg Lift Rosalitas x 15 IC

Freddie Mercuries x 15 IC

Box Cutters x 10 each direction IC

Plank-o-rama x 10-10-10-10-10 IC

Reverse Crunches x 15 IC

Announcements

Saturday Nov 5th – Adopt A Road Clean Up

Saturday Nov 12th – The Grunt

COT:

Count-o-rama – Name-o-rama

“With the faith of a child”
Halloween brought lots of kids and it was noticeable that in general, the 6 year olds and younger are typically ALL IN with their costumes, believing themselves to be their favorite characters while the 7 yo and older crowd begins to lose that commitment to make-believe. They call the age of seven “the age of reason”

It reminded me of a story that during one of Picasso’s abstract periods, an art critic told the master – you know, my child could have painted that! Picasso reportedly looked delighted and responded saying, “you’ve made my day – I wish I were as wise as the day I was born.”

Matthew 18:2-4: “Jesus called a little child to him, and placed the child among them. And he said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.”

Both Day of the Dead and All Souls Day are very similar remembrances of the deceased including prayers and honors, for ancestors with nearly every other secular and religious observance around the world.

Clearly, the vast majority of the world believes that there is some life beyond this world something to hope for. Of course, this is rooted on faith and not some scientific or observable evidence.

It reminds me of a seminar I attended many years ago about leadership and strategy execution. The instructor had led the seminar in Washington DC over a dozen times before and delivered the material to other groups in war torn regions, and nearly every major industrial country as well as across the largest cities in the United States.

He said that of all the places he had visited, the thing that distinguished Washington DC by far in his experience was how cynical and resigned people were. Washingtonians generally had seen it all – and great ideas were doomed.

They seemed to have lots of great reasons why the most inspiring leaders, the best visions, and most well-designed strategies would invariably go off the rails.

He used a Colin Powel line, that leaders are brokers in hope and they inspire in their followers a faith in a better tomorrow.

This instructor believed that hopefulness and faith in our world is a muscle which is very present in young children, but often atrophies over our lifetimes leaving us jaded as adults to play a smaller game.

The instructor encouraged us to swim against today’s prevailing cynicism and resignation, find an opportunity each day to reconnect with our playfulness and imagination, our childlike faith and hopefulness, get on the court and play a big game worthy of our lives.

Trick or Treat Horror Trivia

DATE: 2022-11-01
AO: Atlantis
Q: Infinity
PAX: Deflator, True North
FNGs: Spent Casing (FNG)
COUNT: 4
WarmUp: Jumping Jack-o-Lanterns, Scarecrow Circles, Pumpkin Pickers, Zombie Fighters, Friday the 13th Merkins, Frankensteins, and Grady Corns.

The Thang: Trick or Treat
Mosey along the waterfront, stopping every ~⅛ mile for a “trick or a treat” pop quiz. . The Q quizzes the PAX on horror film trivia (see https://bigquizthing.com/trivia-questions-ans/horror-movie-trivia-questions-with-answers/). If they answer the trivia question correctly, they get a “treat” exercise, but they get a “trick” exercise if they answer incorrectly. “Treat” Exercises:
– Elbow Plank
– Freddie Mercuries
– Bird Dogs
– Friday the 13th Merkins
– LBCs
– Copperhead Squats
– Flutter Kicks
– Sweat Angels

“Trick” Exercises:
– Thriller Burpees
– Bonnie Blairs
– Monkey Humpers
– Peter Parkers
– Jump Squats
– Bear Crawl
– Crab Walk
– Sprint
– Dolphin Crunches

Mary: American Hammers.

Announcements: Next F3 regional convergence workout will be the Grunt on Saturday, November 12th, 0700 in front of Lincoln Memorial.

CoT: I was talking with a prospective PAX yesterday, trying to explain why we meet early in the morning for our workouts. The following quote came to mind: “If you make your bed every morning, you will have accomplished the first task of the day. It will give you a small sense of pride and it will encourage you to do another task and another and another. By the end of the day, that one task completed will have turned into many tasks completed” (Admiral McRaven, Make Your Bed). Posting at an F3 workout is like making your bed in this context, but so much better. Your workout in, sporting some sore muscles, you can go throughout the day feeling like a beast, taking on more challenges, and exerting more leadership in your work, family, and community. And you will reap the rewards of your diligent effort not only that day, but throughout your life.

Jokers’ Wild

DATE: 2022-11-01
AO: General
Q: citrus
PAX: Hard Knox, Lazlo, Toolbox, Trolley, Moneyball, 2 percent, XL FNGs: None
COUNT: 9
WARMUP: Mosey, windmills, cherry pickers, WMH, IW, Hillbillies, Michael Phelps, arm circles, down dog, world’s greatest stretch

THE THANG:
5 card stud

Exercise:
♠️ = merkins
♣️ = tempo squats
♦️ = WWIs
♥️ = flutter kicks (IC)

Number of reps:
Ace = 15
Face card = 10
Number card = The number. On the card.

Joker = wild card, if you do 10 burpees

Winner of each round got to choose between 150 yard sprint and drawing a card to do that number of burpees. Loser did whatever the winner didn’t choose.

Last round switched to 5 card draw, which didn’t help the team that suggested we switch to 5 card draw.

MARY: Thanks to numerous ♦️ and ♥️, most of Mary took place during the thang. But we capped it off with Nolan Ryans anyway.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Vet Burpee Challenge 11/11, The Grunt 11/12

COT: If you see someone struggling, see if you can find a way to help – even if it’s small. Sometimes the small things make the biggest difference, because the alternative is often “no thing”.

Halloween: Trick or Treat?

DATE: 2022-10-31
AO: Horizon-Ao
Q: Kodiak
PAX: Purple Rain, 3 mile, Fish Fry, SPINAL TAP, Yardbird, Gherkin, 2 percent, Magoo, vplaxico FNGs: @attache
COUNT: 11
WARMUP: SSH, MP, IW, WMH, CP, Arm Circles, Down Dog
THE THANG: Mosey to the coupons. This Halloween-inspired workout involved stops along the way to trick or treat. To avoid giving the wrong incentive, the exercises associated with both tricks or treats kind of sucked: Station 1 (Coupons): Treat – 20 burpees
Station 2 (baseball diamond): Trick – Pax lined up on the third base line and ran around the bases, one departing as the guy in front of him touched first base, pax in line did squats x 2 Station 3 (Downed Tulip Poplar): Trick – 20 Frankenstein squats Station 4 (Front of WMS): Trick – 20 Carolina Dry Docks
Station 5 (staff parking lot): Trick – Murder bunny the width of 20 parking spaces) Station 6 (Discovery Turf): Treat – 20 coupon chest press
Station 7 (Corner): Trick – 20 Dips
Station 8 (DES entrance) – Trick 20 Curls, Treat 20 overhead press Return to the Coupon stash
MARY: Shoulder taps, John Travoltas, Flutter kicks
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Possible convergence and later start time for Veterans’ Day (Friday 11/11)
COT: Appreciate Halloween with your kids even if they’re cranky from too much sugar

Birdman’s V-Q (Birdman Qd, Deagle is posting)

DATE: 2022-10-29
AO: Freestate
Q: Deagle
PAX: Butter, Cannoli, Winston, CashOnly, Novacaine
FNGs: Brony, Birdman
COUNT: 8
WARMUP:
SSH, Swingbillies, Cherry Pickers, Windmills, Arm Circles, Hairy Rockets

THE THANG:
Part 1
2 times
“Brody Diamonds” 4 coupon stations with 50 ft bear crawl in between. Stations
20+ curls
20+ overhead press
20+ squats
20+ bent rows

Part 2
1 mile run with 2 body-weight exercise stations
Run 2 laps around large field.
20 Burpees
Up to 20 pull ups
Run 2 laps of large field.
20 merkles (?) and/or dips
30+ seconds of Balls to the Wall

Part 3
2 times
50+ yard uphill lunges (or El capitans) with walk down.

MARY:
Each Qs one exercise

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
The Grunt
COT: