Petering Out

As I work from home now it has been very good to be able to connect with F3 men via Zoom workouts.  I’ve especially enjoyed getting to know the Peters clan as Mani and Streisand (Mani’s dad) and occasionally Mani’s 2.0’s, Figment and Snuggles have been consistent participants on Tuesday and Thursday mornings.  Last week …

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Grill Super 21

4 PAX met at the Bartram Trail for a Super 21 beatdown.  It was another glorious morning; clear blue sky with temps in the upper 50s. Apollo, Pocahontas, and I started off warm-a-rama: Arm Circles, Abe Vigoda, SSH, Grass Pickers, Toy Soldiers, Best Stretch Ever, Peter Parkers Pork Chop pulled in toward the end of …

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Back in Business with a Tug of War Beatdown!

11 HIM eagerly gathered on a gorgeous 57 degree morning for the return of the Saturday edition of #BlastFurnace! I was particularly pumped about the morning as my buddy from church (an avid crossfitter and hopefully also future F3 Indian Valley PAX) posted for his first workout with us! Warmup: SSH x 15 IC Copperhead …

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Good timing.

Warm up SS hops, Abe Vagotas, Grass pickers, Streching OYO, Trunk Rolls OYO 10 one way , 10 the other way, Murkins, Mountain Climbers, imperial walkers, Mosey. The Thang Moseyed to the first corner outside the park for 10 Burpees, Moseyed 100 yards to the 2nd corner for another 10 Burpees, Moseyed 200 yards to …

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Long Cool Ruck…man

Conditions: It was a sunny start to the morning with few clouds and a temperature of 58 degrees. Only I, Dynamite, posted for the ruck this morning. In light of this, I decided to depart a few minutes early to ruck a longer distance. “Thang:” I departed from the Shimerville Rd parking lot at 0527 and walked …

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52 Pick

I took the F3 workout deck of cards and shuffled them, turned them face down then drew cards for the exercise. # cards 2-10 got 10 reps. Face cards got 25 reps and aces got 100 reps. We got through 21 cards during the beatdown.

Don’t drop the frisbee

We played our summer games, Ultimate Frisbee.  It’s never just a game though. In this edition we did a burpee anytime the frisbee was dropped.  We also did 10 merkins every time there was a score. You could also trade in your 10 merkins with 2 clap merkins if you preferred. I think some of …

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Bear Crawl Beatdown

Conditions: It was a cloudy, windy, but warm start to the beatdown with a temperature of 72 degrees. 9 PAX posted, including one FNG, at the Trojan for the Bear Crawl Beatdown. The beatdown started promptly at 0530 with the disclaimer stated and all posted PAX agreeing to the core values of F3 with an AYE! …

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Return to the Gloom

Conditions – A Humid 70 degrees. No rain during the work out, but plenty of sweat. Q – Tuck 1 FNG Disclaimer given Warm Up: Arm Circles Circle Arms Toy Soldiers Some stretching into SSHs Mosey half of the park, followed by some stretch walks, butt kickers, and high knees back to the flag The …

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Unexpected

Planning for the unexpected is something that fits into the habit of being prepared.  Several years ago I mentioned F3 to a friend who lived only a few steps from our AO.  Today he showed up at 05:15 for our workout that now starts at 05:30.  Thankfully Dynamite was prepared by showing up 10 minutes …

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