Month: May 2017

Merkin Ladders

Thirteen men, including one FNG, started the day strong with a round of ladders meant to work the upper body and abs.  Time to go to the beach. Conditions: cool summer morning in South Carolina The Thang: Warm up the main muscle groups: all in cadence: SSH x 20; Imperial Walkers x 20, 10 count …

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Old Time Bells

4 men descend upon the #Yard for an #OldSchoolBeatDown with YHC. Conditions: humid Warm Up: 2 laps around the circus The Thang: KB Revolutions: 10 x each way- Halos, Slingshots, Around the Worlds, Figure 8’s, Hunch Backs The following exercises were performed in sets of 3 and cycled through for 4 minutes, followed by 1 …

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DRWs in Brunswick County NC Beaches

Are you a #SadClown when on vacation at one of the Brunswick Co, NC Beaches?  That includes Sunset Beach, OIB, Holden, Oak Island, Bald Head, Kure Beach, Carolina Beach. @F3BrunswickDRW is a service to connect the southern-NC-beach-vacationing men of F3 Nation for DRWs to help you avoid #SadClown syndrome.  Here is how it works: You …

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Ramble’s That-was-a-good-route Friday

13 (lucky) Pax enjoyed a fast, Friday four miler — many coined it as a “real” good route. Woodrow to Duncan Duncan to King King to Preston Preston to Santee Santee to Waccamaw Waccamaw to Kiawah Kiawah to Maple Maple to Preston Preston to Woodrow Woodrow to SPC COT/BOM Sketch  

Preblast: SPEEDFORNEED 1st Race Metro- American 4miler 7/4/17

*RACING CHARIOT IS HERE! Here is updated preblast with movie trailer video for the Metro American 4miler race (click above).  Please follow @F3SpeedForNeed as communications will be transitioned to that Twitter handle. YOU MUST REGISTER BY JUNE 21 TO GUARANTEE YOUR GENDER SPECIFIC SHIRT * SPEEDFORNEED Inaugural Race!!! After months of planning, marketing, praying, fundraising, and …

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#SPUR AOQ Handoff – Welcome Week/W2/Weeeeecola passes torch to TinTin

Weather: Perfect The Thang… Mosey lap around the blatt field and circle up along the pre-drawn circle (This made it easy for Betamax) COP SSH x 20 Merkin x 15 IC Flutter kick x 20 IC Burpee X 5 with increasing merkins (Down, 1 merkin, down , 2 merkins.. etc) Mosey across the field Pax …

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T3AMWORK

Warm up:Mosey to center of parkSSH x 25 IC Inchworms x 15 IC LBAC Forward x 20 IC LBAC Backward x 12 IC Woodchoppers x 15 IC LBC x 25 OYOPax does burpee frog jumps from one side of yard to otherThe Thang:Pax gathers at the tennis courts.  Q, still out of breath from the …

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Mud, Sweat and Open the Vents Strokes!

The F3 Super Bowl is the CSAUP of F3 Nation. The Marine Corps hosts the Mud Run and it draws the Nation like bees to honey. Wet…gritty…sandy…muddy…stinking honey. It gets in every orifice, will not wash off without a serious effort, soap and a towel you will probably throw away when finished. It’s a 4.5+ hour car ride on a Friday. Riding down …

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Amble turns 4

Just a mere 4 years ago a small group of pax came together to form a running group and named it Amble.  Over the years and after a few location changes Amble has been a consistent running group for the men of F3 Columbia.  Even though there have been running groups branch off, Amble is …

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Simple but Effective at Legion

It sucked!…. Intersection stations with Bear, Crab, and Lunge Walks on the way out. Totals: 280 Merkins 350 Squats 80 Peter Parkers (yep, that IS what they’re called Hee Haw) 200 Iron Crosses. Partner Dora: 100 Burpies 200 Mountain Climbers (ea leg=1) 300 SSHs (single count). Great work by PAX!

Kim Jong misses Hump Day Happy Hour for this?!?!

2….i repeat 2, pax attended the SMACKDOWN…work was done…but there are more people in the picture above than were at the workout… Conditions:  it was 92 freaking degrees. it was sunny. like real sunny. because it was the afternoon. 545 in the evening actually. 1745 in military time… Tha thang: after no responses on twitter …

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VIRGIN AIRLINES

It was a cool morning in Camden, SC and those that showed made it through a Spring Football Practice-inspired workout.Q started with a quick disclaimer then read 1 Peter 5:2-3 about Leadership.The group then mozied over to the corner of the park.  The group circled, followed by Mercans, BAC, and BB Situps in cadence.Next exercise …

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ULTIMATE CHALLENGE MUD RUN UPDATE 5/15/17

YHC is aware that some of you have already received this update. Better to have it twice than not at all. Travel safe! INFORMATION BEFORE THE RACE • Donate to the Hidden Wounds foundation at the following link. This is a worthy cause and we will be presenting them a check at the race site. …

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Hill workout

When: 5/9/17 Conditions: High 50s, perfect QIC: Big Worm Pax: Big Worm, Biggie Smalls, Nard Dog Disclaimer Mosey twice around Blatt field for a warm up. Then arm circles, overhead claps, and 20 merkins. Mosey once around the Blatt Field, then two minutes AMRAP big boy sit-ups. Then the following ladder: 5 (10), 4 (10), …

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Introducing: @F3SPEEDFORNEED / HELPING Kids & GROWING F3Nation

CALLING ALL MEN IN F3NATION:  PLEASE take just a few minutes to read about this new and exciting charitable initiative, watch the video link, consider making a donation to fund the charity, and seeing how your region can get involved and IMPACT our communities. “When I became a part of F3, I gained so much more than …

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GORUCK Red Light and Blue 006 – August 18-19 – Pre-Blast

August 18-19 Team Spearhead Charlotte hosts their next Red Light and Blue. This will be a GORUCK weekend filled with four events and the chance to earn five patches if you do all four events. This event provides your chance to experience a GORUCK class at their entry level option as well as raise money …

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Virgin Flight

Conditions: 51 degreesIt seemed like a good plan on paper.  It was a beautiful cool morning and 24 pax showed up for my attempt at leading a workout.  “Flexibility is the key to airpower” and my plan barely made it through first contact.  But with a couple of key modifications, we pressed forward into a …

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F3 Runs the Basin – Relay Races are all the rage!

Friends, Romans, Basiners……lend me your ear. In what will undoubtedly go down as one of many reinvigorating events bringing F3 to the forefront of the fitness, fellowship and faith landscape, we are proud to announce our first forray into the wild world of RELAY RACES! (F3 Runs the Basin…get it?) It started as an innocent joke. …

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STATS 101

Conditions:              Fitty DegreesHaving trained my entire life for this moment, YHC arrived as is custom by bicycle to lead the Camden Geriatric Group of F3.  Fearing that the PAX could be smaller than normal due to Cinco D’mayo the previous day, YHC was quite surprised to see the PAX grow to 21 for this delightful …

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#Scramble 10K

With little to no fanfare, #Scramble jumped on the 10K bandwagon testing out a diverse route of flats & hills.  It was good. Conditions: The last, perhaps, of the 60 degree mornings…  ‘gonna be hot by Friday. TheThang: Left out of Trenholm Plaza onto Trenholm Road Right on Converse Right on West Buchanan, which becomes East Buchanan, which becomes …

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Inspirational Words from F3 Grease Trap’s M

Men- I am sure many of you have seen this on twitter already (Bagger Vance sent out yesterday), but I thought it was worth posting in this way to ensure everyone had a chance to read this. Chase Kemp is F3 Grease Trap.  His M wrote the message in the link below…please read.  Powerful stuff. …

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TUTUS & FOOTBALL

Conditions: Perfect. 63o & clearI can’t say that I wasn’t a little nervous about my virgin Q. I spent countless hours studying The Exicon and selecting the finest movements for this very gloom. Lately, while experiencing F3 in the PAX, I’ve had recurring flashbacks of glorious moments during football two-a-days and knob year at El …

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Scramble takes a trip to Walmart

Furlough, RA, and McLovin showed up for the pre-run Then they were joined for the actual run where we took off up Forest Drive and took a right on Gregg Street and proceeded to take two to three laps around around the Walmart/Sams/Hobby Lobby.  The three lap route was around 4.78 miles.

SPUR takes on some Stairs, Merkins, Squats, Burpees and Pull-Ups

Conditions: Mid 50s, clear, slight breeze… pretty nice for our time on some stairs   The Thang: Circle up, start with the disclaimer and a mosey to the corner of Wheat and Sumter. 25 SSH Demonstration of proper Merkin form, each pax complete 20 merkins. Mosey to pull up bars on Blatt field, complete 10, …

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Loaded Dice

Conditions: A touch warm and humid but quite tolerable Tha Thang: 9 D&D fans posted for an unwelcome #Pondoapproved “run”. Monday rhymes with hills, so we did it with a twist. Mosey to Indian Mound hill base (the full segment! #jarjarapproved) Roll the deltoidal icositetrahedron alphabet dice (I really just made that up, I have …

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