St. Patrick’s Struggles and Snakes

DATE: 2022-03-16
AO: Compound
Q: Jenner
PAX: Hightower, Pop Fly, Zeus, Roddick, YNAB
FNGs: None
COUNT: 6
WARMUP: Side Straddle Hop x17, Imperial Walkers x17, Arm Circles x17, Michael Phelps x17, Potato Pickers x10, Downward Dog

THE THANG: Moseyed to behind the tennis courts to start off in “England”. Who can name a patron saint of Ireland that was born in Ireland? “St. Patrick”. Wrong, he was born in England. Let’s do 10 burpees OYO. Anyone? Ok, St. Brigid and St. Columba. Let’s do 2 merpees (merkin burpee ladder). At the age of 16, St. Patrick was captured by pirates and taken to Ireland. Let’s do 16 merkins.

Mosey to under the parking garage performing crawl bear down the “wave” hill. Patrick was a slave for 6 years. Perform 6 sets of 6 pull ups on the box pillars against the wall while your partner does Balls to the Wall.

Patrick escaped on a ship back to England so mosey back to England bear crawling up the “wave”. Perform 30 dips and 10 jump squats. Patrick decided to become a missionary and to go back to Ireland and convert the Pagan Celtics.

Mosey back to Ireland crawl bear down the wave and head to the far side of Ireland to the right end goal line. Travel across Ireland converting the pagans. Form a line and the front PAX broad jumps, drops to hold plank, and the next PAX bear crawls up to the front, broad jumps, and holds plank, and repeat all the way down the field.

Patrick became more spiritual and took a position on top of a hill and fasted for 40 days. So run up the hill in the left corner of the field and perform 40 air squats.

Now the legend that St. Patrick drove out the snakes from Ireland is not true. Snakes did not travel through Britain to Ireland when the land masses were connected. But just to be sure, select a PAX to be a snake charmer that starts off with two neon green gloves. The rest of the PAX must run forward on the white lines of the soccer & lacrosse field between the end goal and the 25 yd line and the sidelines and try not to get tagged. The first person to be tagged by the snake charmer takes one of the neon green gloves and becomes a snake charmer. Now, they must chase all the rest of the snakes (PAX) off the field. Once PAX are tagged, they go to the net and continuously jump up and touch the top of the goal. Repeat twice.

MARY: Flutter kicks x35, LBC x50, Penguin Crunches x15

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Shenanigames tomorrow.

COT: St. Patrick dedicated his life to his faith and converted the Pagan Celtics of Ireland. He is well known for numerous stories, wrote two book, and converted a lot of people. In our lives, we should try to help others live right and lead right and it event extends to F3. So go out there and try to head lock some sad clowns and get them out here to F3!

Rockstars & Jokers

DATE: 2022-03-15
AO: Atlantis
Q: True North
PAX: Deflator, Infinity, Hammerhead, Rogue, True North
FNGs: None
COUNT: 5
WARMUP: 25x SSH, arm circles, box jumps
THE THANG: mosey and 3 rounds of 5x rockstar jumps per person. for each rep, other PAX do reps of merkins/planks/rockstar jumps. mosey to stadium for 2 teams pulling 4 cards of their deck of cards ❤=burpee, ♦=merkin, ♠=squat, ♣=crunch, 🤡=2x the previous. MARY: last 4 cards of the deck
ANNOUNCEMENTS: none
COT: Happy St. Patrick’s Day – one man can change the course of a nation. St. Patrick’s prayer (excerpt): Christ be with me, Christ within me
Christ behind me, Christ before me
Christ beside me, Christ to win me
Christ to comfort me and restore me.
Christ beneath me, Christ above me
Christ in quiet, Christ in danger
Christ in hearts of all that love me
Christ in mouth of friend or stranger.

Mental Battle WoD (Upscale)

DATE: 2022-03-19
AO: Farm
Q: Infinity
PAX: Matthew – Running Man, Chile, Gekko (Keith Capp)
FNGs: Buzz (2.0)
COUNT: 5
WarmUp: SSHs, Don Quixotes, Willy Mays Hayes, Michael Phelps, Imperial Walkers, and Grady Corns.

The Thang: Mental Battle WoD
Each set will have stats about mental health and workplace mental health. The workout will be in the form of a Dora 123. As you are working with a partner, each stat is doubled. After all three sets are complete, if you have time repeat sets until time is up.

Round 1
50,000,000 adult Americans experienced mental illness in 2019. 56% of employees spend time looking for another job.
27,000,000 Americans with mental illness are unable to receive treatment. 100 Merkins
112 Lunge-Curls
54 Coupon Shoulder Press

Round 2
60% of employees do not feel their management helps them to deal with stress. 80% of employees reported feeling emotionally drained by their work. 33% of employees can’t afford their healthcare costs.
120 Goblet Squats
160 Reverse Lunge with coupon
66 Coupon block Thrusters

Round 3
65% of employees find it hard to concentrate at work due the environment at work. Over 60% of youth with mental illness do not receive treatment.
Over 60% of employees feel they don’t get paid enough to save for an emergency fund. 130 LBCs
120 Box Cutters
120 Flutters

CoT:
In this workout, we helped each other overcome tremendous challenges. Similarly, there are those of us struggling with mental challenges that need our support. A few things to leave you with: Suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in America.
22 veterans commit suicide EVERY DAY.
So be aware that you likely encounter people every day who may appear normal, but are struggling inwardly. Please reach out for help if you need help. Anything you do to reach out to those struggling could be small and simple, but could save a life.

The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is a United States-based suicide prevention network of over 160 crisis centers that provides 24/7 service via a toll-free hotline with the number 1-800-273-8255 (TALK). It is available to anyone in suicidal crisis or emotional distress. The caller is routed to their nearest crisis center to receive immediate counseling and local mental health referrals. The lifeline supports people who call for themselves or someone they care about.

Back to the stairs of insanity

DATE: 2022-03-15
AO: Freestate
Q: Deagle
PAX: Horshack, ShowMe, Butter
FNGs: DungeonMaster, Cannoli, Lefty
COUNT: 7
WARMUP:
• SSH x 25 IC
• The Chinook x 20 IC each side
• Michael Phelps x 15 IC
• Imperial Walkers x 20 IC
• Monkey Humpers x15 IC
• 2 laps around the blacktop, HK/AK on the sides
• El Capitan x 15 each direction
• Mountain Climbers X15 IC
• Cherry Pickers x 15 IC
• Windmills x 15 IC

THE THANG:
Jog to the stairs of pain…

10 rounds of up and down the stairs, 10,9,… merkins in between 2 laps of recovery at the parking lot
5 rounds of up and down the stairs, 5,4,3,2,1 burpees in between

MARY:
• Reverse Crunches x 20 IC
• Freddie Mercury x 15 IC
• E2Ks x10 each side IC
• Protractor
• LBC x20 IC
• Dollys x 10 IC + 10 flutters

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
We’ll have our Third Thirsty Thursday next week (shocking…)

COT: