Focus on Failure

The PAX gathered at the Swamp to focus on failure. this was a recurring theme in the exercises and mumblechatter Warm-o-rama: Mosey, Grass pickers, Abe Vagodas, squats, SSHs, monkey humpers. Leaping bounds for 100 yards, buttkickers 50 yards and high knees for 50 yards The Thang Mosey to jungle gym for failurepullups. Each member called …

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Bearing the Rain in Style

8 PAX bear’ed the slight rain and soggy conditions in the Blast Furnace, which is a bit ironic, but then how much more ironic will it be when its snowing. We all know it doesn’t refer to the temperatures anyway, it refers to what happens to the men when they enter in, they are refine …

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A Year with F3

This weekend marks one-year since I posted to my first F3 workout. I had listened to a podcast on the Art of Manliness about Fitness, Fellowship, and Faith. As Brett McKay interviewed the founders of F3, Dredd and OBT, I was intrigued. I looked up the F3 website and discovered that there was an F3 …

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Another Soggy Slog

04-Aug-2018 2 ½ inches of rain overnight on top of already water-logged ground…the Grill was sodden. YHC arrived ~ 15 minutes early and searched for the driest 100-yard stretch on the field for the IronPAX pre-challenge. Not much luck, the stretch still had areas of standing water. Oh well, we would just have to resign …

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IronPAX Pre-Challenge

Ok, so here is the story. The F3 IronPAX Challenge started in a far away galaxy a long long time ago. The name of this galaxy is F3 Greenwood and they are from the galaxy known as “Cray, Cray.” We moseyed and warmed up in the pavilion closest to the football field. The warm up …

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AAA (Abs, arms, and ass)

Thursday, August 2. I miss July. To my everlasting shame, YHC arrived a few minutes late to Q. So Uptown began the warm-up with sun-gods, motivators, grass pickers, and monkey humpers. YHC took over and completed the warm-up with some light jogging, shuffling, bending, skipping, high knees, and butt kickers. Movement #1 – Suicides in …

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Knievel’s First Q

Warm up in Cadence… Sun Gods (10), grass pickers(10), Monkey Humpers (10), crazy climbers(10) Short Mosey Merkins in Cadence 10 to 1 with calisthenics in between. 10merks…side steps…9merks. … karaoke…..8merks……lunges….7merks…..backwards run…..6merks….side steps. …5 merks……karaoke….4merks……backwards run…..3merks….lunges….last 3 merks. 1/4 mile Mosey 20 step up’s in Cadence. …20 dips 20 more step up’s in cadence…20 dips Short …

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Crazy Eights

Run the park in a figure 8 pattern stopping at 3 points (both ends and the middle area). First stop is 80 reps of the assigned exercise. Next stop is 70 reps, then 60, etc. Once you reach 10 reps, repeat 10 again and start counting back up by 10 at each stop. Typically we …

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Cindy’s DirtyMacDeuce

PAX of 5 showed for this early Saturday beatdown in Reeves Park when another call showed causing the PAX to wait a few extra minutes. Flipper: “Why else would two guys be pulling up to the park at this hour than to join F3.” Immediately chatter began about FNG’s selection of stylish Patagonia shorts. YHC …

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Ladders and Fire

28-Jul-2018 A foggy morning broke following the torrential rains the night before leaving a soggy park for our workout. Seven PAX including one FNG vacated the fartsack despite various plausible reasons why they could have skipped the workout including a 12-hour drive the day prior, working late into the night in the rain to keep …

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