F3 on July 4

DATE: 2022-07-04
AO: Farm
Q: Chile
PAX: Infinity, Matthew – Running Man, Sparky, Faceplant
FNGs: Buzz
COUNT: 6
WARMUP:
Frankensteins
Beet Pickers
Michael Phelps
Willie Maes Hayes
Grady Corn

THE THANG:
25 Reverse Crunches
60 Sec Wall Sit
10 Star Jumps
15 Sit Ups
25 Bicycle Crunches
30 Squats
On July 8, 1776, the first public readings of the Declaration were held in Philadelphia’s Independence Square to the ringing of bells and band music. One year later, on July 4, 1777, Philadelphia marked Independence Day by adjourning Congress and celebrating with bonfires, bells and fireworks.

The custom eventually spread to other towns, both large and small, where the day was marked with processions, oratory, picnics, contests, games, military displays and fireworks. Observations throughout the nation became even more common at the end of the War of 1812 with Great Britain.

25 Dips
20 Squat Jumps
25 Sit ups
30 SSH
In June of 1826, Thomas Jefferson sent a letter to Roger C. Weightman, declining an invitation to come to Washington, D.C. to help celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. It was the last letter that Jefferson, who was gravely ill, ever wrote. In it, Jefferson says of the document:

“May it be to the world, what I believe it will be … the signal of arousing men to burst the chains … and to assume the blessings and security of self-government. That form, which we have substituted, restores the free right to the unbounded exercise of reason and freedom of opinion. All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. …For ourselves, let the annual return of this day forever refresh our recollections of these rights, and an undiminished devotion to them.”

20 Merkins
20 Dips
10 Derkins
20 Dry Docks

Congress established Independence Day as a holiday in 1870, and in 1938 Congress reaffirmed it as a paid holiday for federal employees. Today, communities across the nation mark this major midsummer holiday with parades, firework displays, picnics and performances of “The Star-Spangled Banner” and marches by John Philip Sousa.

30 squats
20 Lunges
20 Reverse Lunges
30 calf raises

How many signatures on the Declaration of Independence? A. 56 What year did the Star-Spangled Banner become the National Anthem? A. 1931

20 Bird Dogs
30 Superman
15 Glute Bridges

ON JULY 4, 1960 WHAT STATES ADMITTANCE TO THE UNION WAS SOLIDIFIED WITH A 50TH STAR ON THE AMERICAN FLAG? A. Hawaii President Eisenhower was the first President to serve under the 50 star flag.

What food is eaten most on 4th of July? Americans consume 150 million hot dogs on the 4th of July, enough to run the length of Washington D.C. to Los Angeles five times!

MARY:
30 Sec Plank
20 Penguin crunches
20 Nolan Ryans (10 each side)

COT:
“This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.” —Theodore Roosevelt, 26th president of the United States

“This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.” —Elmer Davis, American news reporter

“A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.” —Bill Vaughan, American columnist

Cornhole around Olympus

DATE: 2022-07-02
AO: Olympus
Q: Nano
PAX: Zeus, Peanuts, Rollingstone, Obadiah
FNGs: Full Metal Jacket
COUNT: 6
WARMUP: The usual

THE THANG:

The PAX all grabbed a beanbag and set off for a tour of the AO. At the first stop, one PAX donated a bean bag and the PAX did 10 burpees. This continued as we worked our way around the school stopping 5 additional times with exercises that included:

* 20 step ups + 10 burpees
* 40 Overhead claps + 10 burpees
* 60 Air squats + 10 burpees
* 80 Tippy toe jumps + 10 burpees
* 10 burpees

We then set out in the reverse direction to pick them all up doing 3 burpees per stop.

Finally we had a bit of time for some F3 cornhole. Each pax has one toss per round. The losing team did all of the exercises, if there was a tie, they split them.

MARY:
Pickle Pointers, flutter kicks, row boats

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Keep the mountain dogs in your thoughts! Be safe this weekend.

COT:
>From the F3 Round Table podcast: A man’s masculinity is not established one and for all, but rather needs to be repeatedly established for a man to feel right about him self. When we don’t, we can turn into A-holes or Sad Clowns. F3 helps all of these things: 1. It shows the A-holes there is someone better, 2. It gives the sad clowns a community of men to belong to, 3. It gives us something hard, perhaps even daily, to perform that helps us avoid the dwindling masculinity in the first place. So come be a man, put a man their place, and lift a man up, but don’t leave anyone where you found them!

Field Full ‘O Pain

DATE: 2022-07-02
AO: Freestate
Q: Winston
PAX: Dungeon Master (Amon), ShowMe, Horshack, Butter
FNGs: Novacaine, PurpleFox
COUNT: 7
WARMUP:
25 side straddle hops IC
Jog to far corner of the field
25 side straddle hops IC
Jog to far corner of the field
25 side straddle hops IC
Jog to far corner of the field
25 side straddle hops IC
Jog to far corner of the field

15 hillbillies IC
15 hairy rockets IC
10 pike hop merkins IC

10 sit throughs IC
10 abe vigodas IC
10 cherry pickers IC

THE THANG

1 min AMRAP circuit (20 LBCs IC between sets)
1 Curl to over head press
2 Coupon squat to overhear press
3 Curl to halo
4 Taint scrapers
5 Incline mirkins

Pax completes 3 blockies at the starting line then…
Murder bunnies to the second line
Bear crawls to the third line
Runs to the end of the field and back to the coupon
Rifle carries the coupon to the start
Holds plank until everyone is back

Repeat three times

MARY:
20 big boy sit ups single count
20 X factors ic
20 count ic plankorama
20 flutters ic alternating short/long every 5