Backblasts

DATE: 2022-10-23
AO: Mor-Ruck-Ing
Q: Old Bay
PAX: Kodiak, Magoo, Yardbird, Old Bay, Maj. Payne
FNGs: None
COUNT: 5
6.8 through half urban and half trail – Pimmit Run

DATE: 2022-10-23
AO: Olympus
Q: Hightower
PAX: Juneau, Jag, 2 percent, Lazlo, Maj. Payne, Nano, Peanuts, Popeyes, Zeus, YNAB, Shogun FNGs: Matador DR PAX
COUNT: 13
WARMUP:
50 cadence SSH, 20 squats to knock the chill off.
Spider climb & stretch up stairs, moving WMH, high knees, walk lunges, merkins, karaoke down the neighborhood, fellowship jog to shake out the legs.

THE THANG:
Quick Paint the Lines, shuffling left and right.
5 burpee’s, then jog across Burke Lake Road.
Ran over to our Adopt a Road sign on Rolling for quick group pic. Circle around Signal Hill, making our way back to Olympus.
Then split the group into 2 teams, yellow penny vs non penny. Played 6 vs 7 half court basketball.

MARY:
Flutter kicks, followed by Big Boy Sit-ups

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Street cleaning 10/29: 7am at Sparta
Cornhole 10/30
The Grunt 11/12 7am at Lincoln Memorial
2F Weds, Nov 16 Audacious Brewery

COT:
Spread the word of F3, the NYT article & GMA interview has brought more attention. Growth in F3 occurring nationally!

DATE: 2022-10-22
AO: Sandlot
Q: Traveler
PAX: citrus, spartan, Boomer
FNGs: None
COUNT: 4
WARMUP: SSH, LBAC, Michael Phelps
THE THANG:

Dice Games!
Rules:
PAX took turns rolling 3 dice. Sum of the dice were the quantity of an exercise that all PAX completed together. Triples = no reps.
Straight = 30 yard bear crawl, then crawl bear back.

Take a lap after every 3 rounds.

Set 1: Merkins, BWS, Flutter kicks, SSH (3x)
Set 2: Box jumps, derkins, Freddie mercuries IC, calf raises (3x)
Set 3. BATTLE ROUND: 1v1 die role. Winner gets to choose between burpees (sum of dice) or sprint 50 yard out and back. Tie goes to both doing burpees.

Then ran through the neighborhood and finished with a big hill sprint.

MARY: Heels to Heaven
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Grunt coming up! Cornhole!
COT: Quote from St. Pope John Paul II: “The person doing the work matters more than the work the person is doing.” Let’s strive to seek God in the people that we encounter rather than thinking about what value we can extra f from them.

DATE: 2022-10-21
AO: Sparta
Q: Lightyear
PAX: Doodles, Zeus, Monk, Peanuts
FNGs: None
COUNT: 5
WARMUP: a little Micheal Phelps, hairy rockets, cherry pickers, Willy Maze Haze, and 1 lap mosey
THE THANG: coupons! Partner workout, partner 1 Rifle Carries coup across the football field then regular carry back while partner 2 does a workout. 2 rounds of each workout for each partner (I.e., partner 1 and 2 get to do merkins twice). Workouts were: Merkins, Big Boys, goblet squats, American Hammers. NEXT, PAX competed three rounds of a the inchworm…. Think Ricky Bobby but in a plank with the last person doing a bear crawl to the front.
MARY: PAX round Robbin – Penguin taps, LBCs, sit ups, Pickle Pointers, in and outs. ANNOUNCEMENTS: road clean up on the 29th
COT: Iron Sharpen Iron … there’s more to the proverb. The process of iron sharpening iron difficult. This process creates sparks and at times can be brutal. Just like we make each other better, it’s not always an easy of comfortable process. Sometimes making one another better will create friction and sparks might fly…get out there, make your fellow man better, and if needed get uncomfortable.

DATE: 2022-10-21
AO: Horizon-Ao
Q: Maj. Payne
PAX: Mr Haand, Fish Fry, 3 mile, Lazlo, Kodiak, Median, Magoo, Undertow, sticks, Gherkin, Yardbird FNGs: Attache, DRPAX Willis (F3 South Charlotte)
COUNT: 14
14 PAX stumbled into the shivvery gloom this morning to be warmed up by the Q. It wasn’t easy, but YHC pushed and prodded and kept all PAX sufficiently warm to get them safely to post beatdown coffeeteria. Always an honor to lead this group!

WARMUP:
400 yd run around Horizon AO
20 x SSH
1 x Burpee
15 x Body weight squats
2 x Burpees
10 x Cherry Pickers
3 x Burpees
15 x IW
4 x Burpees
10 x Merkins
5 x Burpees

THE THANG:
Set 1: Three (3) rounds of the following:

5 x Burpees, 10 x Coupon Curls, 15 x Coupon Squats, 20 x Overhead Coupon Press

Set 2:

Then four (4) total rounds of the following (2 sets of 2 rounds):

200 Yd Run – down and back on the soccer field
20 x Squat Jumps, 15 x Merkins, 10 x No Push Up Burpees

Set 3: mosey to playground for two (2) rounds of the following: 20 Yds Broad Jump, 20 Yds Backwards run
15 x Aussie Push-ups, 15 x Bottom Half Burpees / Groiners
10 x Hand Release Merkins, 10 x Mountain Climbers (hard count)

MARY:
10 x Coupon Flutter kicks
10 x American Twists
20 x Coupon LBCs

ANNOUNCEMENTS: The Grunt (Nov 12 – see #thegrunt) and CornHole Tournament (Oct 30 – see #2ndf)

COT:
YHC was thinking about the meaning of life recently. Viktor Frankls’s Man’s Search for Meaning is a 200-page book detailing his experiences as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps during World War II, and it serves as a good place to start. In it, he describes identifying a purpose in life to feel positive about, and then immersively imagining that outcome.

During his experience in the camp, he found that the way a prisoner imagined the future affected his longevity. He concludes in the book that the meaning of life is found in every moment of living. Life never ceases to have meaning, even in suffering and death.

A story he relates in the book involves a group therapy session during a mass fast inflicted on the camp’s inmates trying to protect an anonymous fellow inmate from death by the authorities. Frankl offers the thought that for everyone in a dire condition there is someone looking down, a friend, family member, or even God, who would expect not to be disappointed. He concludes from his experience that a person’s psychological reactions are not solely the result of the conditions of his life, but also from the freedom of choice he always has even in severe suffering. The inner hold a person has on his spiritual self relies on having a hope in the future, and that once a person loses that hope, he is doomed.

So The meaning of life is not our question to ask. Instead it is we who are being asked the question. It is our lives that are the answer. No amount of travel or reading or clever sayings can tell you what you want to know. Instead it is you who must find the answer in your actions – by embodying the principles of justice, self control, courage, freedom, and abstaining from evil.

Aye!