Shawshank Goes to work at the Fields of Dreams!
Conditions: 42 Degrees, but no rain The Thang: YHC loves to lead the men of Shank. Very uplifting to see so many Pax helping and encouraging each other… even before the workout. While YHC was scouting the AO for good pain stations… I could see 4x Pax sitting at The Rock(Accountability group) in great discussion making each other better men. Then there …
Welcome Chimichanga to the Shank
1/8/19 Shawshank WO Conditions: Dry 50s Much gratitude to the pax that posted this morning despite the CLEMSON WIN the night before. YHC was expecting a light crowd. The Saxe Gotha Pax came to represent and welcome Chimichanga into the Shawshank gloom. The WENKIE focused more on form and LITE on the WEIRD factor. No …
Fun times had at The Hollow for today’s Saturday-vergence
We had a good Saturday crowd at The Hollow with representation of multiple AOs – including Mulligan from F3 Sumter. He showed up ready to run, work-out, or whatever we had planned. Sounds like he’ll be a Saturday regular as he has moved here but is still working in Sumter. There were ~8 for SL, …
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Shawshank rocks the “New Year” like a Hurricane!
Conditions: 54 Degrees and wet, but no rain The Thang: YHC called out the Pax of Shawshank to start the new year right by promising a beat down. Great to see a good crowd of 14 Pax take on the challenge. Welcome to F3-Nick who just moved to town from Charleston and has been on the DL for …
Double Barrel Smackdown
Earler in the week we noticed there was an open spot on the Q sheet for this Saturday, so YHC and Scotch decided it was a good opportunity to tag-team this merry band of misfits in hopes of delivering a decent beatdown. It seems the Christmas spirit was alive and well in Scotch last night …
Final Details: Inaugural “Wildcat” – Lexington (SC) Region #CSAUP
PAX, The new #CSAUP simply called “Wildcat” is here. This multi-mile/multi-pain station #CSAUP between the AOs of Hollow/CAT, Ambush, Shawshank, Arena and Surge. Start at one AO, do a 5-10min pain station, run to the next AO, do another 5-10min pain station, repeat until you’ve made the loop back to where started. It’s about a …
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PREBLAST – 25 Days of Christmas 2018
Looking for something to get you in the Christmas Spirit? Or Maybe something to get a headstart on your New Years Resolutions? Keep reading to learn more about a December Challenge to help you battle the winter weather in the Gloom and the pounds from all the Holiday Events all while getting some 2ndF with …
The Slammer Remixed
With The Slammer being sometimes attendance prohibitive, a makeover was in order to motivate the Shank pax. Also, YHC agrees with Uncle Ron that the original version is too rep-heavy, leading to bad form. This version of The Slammer features new exercises, more pain stations, more lunges, less reps…but the bear crawl had to stay. …
Happy Burpee Day!
YHC signs up on the Q sheet months in advance and had no idea that the 22nd was Turkey Day. It was a classic fartsack day that YHC was forced to post for and it was good. YHC had two Qs planed and opted for this one. Weather 40 degrees Disclaimer/Prayer The Thang: Mosey around …
Cue the shot of Andy Dufresne on his knees in the rain
The 9 men that defied cantore and posted in what would be miserable conditions to most are currently feeling zero regret. They opted for the Daily Red Pill, aschewing the easier option, the dreaded blue one. Good work, men. All 3Fs on display this morning. Conditions: 39 degrees, raining, 9 mph wind The Thang: Disclaimer …
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Upper Body Beatdown
13 Pax beat the Fartsack and showed up to get their swole on. It was great seeing a few Pax that had been out for a while. Keep pushing the rock, men. THE THANG: Mosey to the block pile and grab one. Circle up and begin the fun. One minute to complete exercises. 5 reps …
The one with so many AMRAPs
18 of F3LexSC’s finest elected to post at The Shank on this fine November morning. It was a cardio-intensive, AMRAP-themed snotwoggler. All 3 Fs were present this AM. Truly a pleasure to lead these men. Here’s what we did: Conditions: 69 degrees, humid The Thang: Disclaimer BOM Mosey Line up Butt kicks to line High …
Three Rounds of Elevens?
Been on the Q sheet for a while for Shank and haven’t been able to make it there for whatever reasons. Finally made it there and had a good one planned. Things just didn’t go according to said plans. Here’s how it went: Weather: 60s and damp, it was nice 1 MW Disclaimer Warm up …
The Hollow hosts a Saturday morning Block-a-thon and Ab-a-thon
The CAT guys announced on Friday that they were planning to come join us for the Saturday semi-vergence of surrounding AOs. So I figured I better have something fun for them. The block workout used was one previously “rained out” by one of the hurricanes so I wasn’t sure how things would go. It seemed …
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The Side Monkey under a Moonlit Sky
The men of the Shank answered the call this brisk morning to enjoy a full moon and some odd exercises. YHC brought a rather large weinke (ok, it was a full dang page of notebook paper) and still didn’t really follow it, so hopefully this captures everything in order… The weather: 47 and cool with a …
The one with a mask, some dog lovin, and some accidental man-touching
An embarrassingly low turnout on Tuesday lit the accountability fire so 17 men posted (including 8 for Stridelite) for Thursday’s edition of The Shank. The weather was perfect. The mumblechatter was thick. Work was done. Here’s the recap of the YHC and Buzzsaw (or was it Uncle Ron?)led beatdown. Conditions: 59 degrees, 71% humidity The …
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Lexington PAX take on the IronPAX Challenge
YHC was looking through the Q sheet earlier this week and saw an open spot for this Saturday and decided to take the open spot. We did somethings different than my typical Q’s. Not a lot of running but a work was still done at The Hollow this morning. 12 PAX got together and we …
Saturday in the Park
9 PAX (including 1 rucker) posted for a Saturday workout at Shawshank. As a Q, any time that you get Paper Jam and Notebook at the same workout, you’re going to have your hands full. YHC did his best to keep things on track. Below is a detailed account of what happened: Conditions: 70 deg …
Dunphy Balls UP! 4 year Anniversary Q
16 pax beat the fartsack and posted for a Dunphy double whammy Birthday and 4 yr Anniversary Q. Pax heeded the call to wear orange in honor of Darth Visor who F3 nation lost recently. The mumble chatter started slow but rose to the Shank standard. The buy in gator merkins was a rough start …
F3 Workout Deck of Cards
First of all, Happy birthday to Rocking Chair. A true #HIM. While many were celebrating his birthday workout somebody had to hold down the fort on this side of town. So YHC decided to use opportunity to try out his newest purchase from the F3 store. Flip over the first card and do the exercise. …
Dunpy PT Test and MerkinFest
9-25-18 Weather : Breezy 70s 4 pax for The Rock, 2 Pax for XL Stridelite, 2 Pax for Stridelite FNG Disclaimer Prayer COP SSH 20 IC Imperial Walker 20 IC TTT 20 IC Overhead Claps 20 IC PT Test 2 min. Merkins, BBSU, 3 laps for 1 mile. Traveling MerkinFest Corner – Merkins 20 OYO …
Almost Leg Day
17 pax, including 1 FNG, posted for a modified leg day at the Westside’s muthaship. It started with a 30-minute #GetRight session at The Rock, as KD dropped some knowledge on the group of 6. A half dozen over-achievers chose #Stridelite for their pregame warm-up. A couple stragglers rolled in around 5:35 as we strolled …
The “Tellier” WOD
YHC has been sitting on this one for a little while, and was actually planning on rolling it out at Cryptonite this Saturday, but due to Florence, YHC decided to drop it on the Shawshank Pax. The Pax responded as they always do, with mumblechatter. Sgt. Zachary Tellier, 31, was killed in action on September 29th, …
9/11 Memorial WO #NeverForget
FNGS Disclaimer Prayer The Thang Mosey to Sandbox Shelters COP 20 SSH 20 TTT 20 Overhead claps 10 merkins 1 pull up – 8 X sets Merkins 7 X Pullups, 60 Tricep Dips Mosey to soccer field. At each corner. 25 Merkin Buffet Line. 11BBSU. Finish in the middle. 25 Merkins 15 BBSU. Regular Merkins …
And then there was light! Shawshank – Stadium Edition
On Tuesday the Shank was dark. Real dark. All the lights were pretty much off. On Thursday, the AOQ must have worked some magic, because as YHC came down Barr road the sky was lit up. The Shank had almost every light on available. YHC started quickly rethinking his Q to take advantage of the …
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Not the Slammer
Tclaps to Site Q Cheers. He’s done such a good job of keeping the Q sheet full at The Shank that YHC hasn’t had a chance to lead these men. Glad to be back at The Shank and glad to have the opportunity to lead again. Conditions: 73 degrees, 100% humidity The Thang: Disclaimer BOM …
Shawshank hits the Bricks
On Friday night, YHC asked if anyone was posting the following morning. YHC already knew the answer, but wanted some HC’s so he could prepare a red pill for this group of animals. With a plan in hand, YHC stopped by C.A.T. and borrowed about 40 bricks for the day’s festivities. This ended up being …
A small field, a smaller hill, and a burpee
Ah, the gloom. YHC had not a dang clue what to Q this morning, and 100% made this one up on the fly. Fortunately, there was Stridelite, so the opportunity to wake up and get the cobwebs out was used to at least come up with a starting point for this Q. Weather: who knows, …
Making Saturday’s Great at The Hollow
There’s some real enthusiasm around Saturday’s again at The Hollow! 19 PAX showed up to #MSGA, and boy did they! Awesome crowd for a tag team lead by Parking Lot and YHC! This workout had it all and then some! Here’s what happened: Weather: Not terrible, felt a little dryer than the past few Saturdays. …
Shawshank guys do some fundamentals
This week marks my 3rd anniversary of F3. So this is my first of three Qs for the week, all at the first 3 AOs I went to. Namely Snakepit (where it all began on Saturday 7/18/15), Shawshank (where I did my first weekday workout), and The Hollow (which I learned about later, was closer …
Kool Moe Dee, Cameo, Vanilla Ice and others make an appearance at The Hollow
So… I took off work yesterday to clean out my garage. Yes it was that bad. While cleaning out the junk I came across a bag of stuff from when I went from a 1986? Dodge Conquest to a 1993? Ford Explorer. Basically it was all the stuff from my glove compartment, under my seats, …
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Blocks, BLIMPS, & Blunders
7 PAX started a workout at Shawshank this morning and 8 finished it. T-Claps to Viper from coming over from the Central Midlands Transitional Retreat and helping the PAX finish strong. Here’s how it went down: Conditions: 76 deg F and dripping FNGs, Disclaimer, Prayer The Thang: Mozy across Red’s Bridge, over the tiny hill, …
Preblast: Inaugural “Wildcat” – Lexington (SC) Region #CSAUP
PAX, Only a few weeks until the new #CSAUP simply called “Wildcat” is here. Click link or copy link below to sign up to participate or help Q the painstation: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/108uKKS2wRlRvh3oWKRqqiRhjgHLVJl2OBxMTBhMCeIc/edit?usp=sharing We in F3 love a good #CSAUP event and YHC saw that the men of F3 Rock Region have developed a great event called …
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Thats what she said…we are Finnish-ed
YHC was proud to lead the Pax of the Shank for a post-Vacation accountability Q. The Pax were fired up and ready to go, and Man Bun ninja’ed himself into the formation while it was already moseying along. It is the belief that he understood YHC was not a professional. Weather: 68ish, a little bit …
Flutter kicks…the easy way
YHC has a vacation coming up and saw an empty Q slot, so YHC jumped on it as to prevent the pre-vacation fartsacks. It is always a humbling experience to lead the pax of Shawshank. The men are not scared to work, and the goal is always to give them the opportunity to get better. …
The Zero Rep Workout™
Are you tired of the same old workout? Do you often find yourself unsure of how many reps you should do to effectively work your muscles? Do you simply struggle with counting??? If you answered “YES!” to any of these questions, then The Zero Rep Workout™ is the solution to your fitness problems. Please continue reading …
The modified #NordicChallenge comes to the Shank
7 pax post for the last day in May to see what YHC had imagined up for them. It was a typical spring morning that felt like a typical summer morning. The humidity did not disappoint, and neither did the pax. Weather: 73 with about 92% humidity, so the weatherman said it felt like 75 …
Slammer: May 2018 Edition
What a great, humid day to be in the gloom with my brothers. The Slammer always brings PAX out of the woodworks. Today, we had Bonsai make an appearance after nearly a year of not posting. We were missing some of our smarter regulars, but the insane ones still showed up for the craziness that …
Return of the Weirdness to Shawshank
5/22/18 Conditions: Perfect Beatdown Weather 70s, VERY MOIST 4 pax for Stridelite, 4 pax for The Rock YHC was honored to bring back the weirdness to Shawshank. 14 pax joined YHC in the gloom for some Time Machine Merkins, a true crowd pleaser with a side of block exercises. No sand was in today’s menu …
4 Years of Shenanigans
29 of F3 Lexington’s finest honored YHC by coming out and celebrating 4 years of trying to get better. The plan (yes… there was a plan) was to go old school with some of YHC’s favorite Shawshank exercises, and cover a large portion of this sprawling AO. Mission accomplished. Conditions: Shawshank. No need for an …
Boo Boo’s Weinkeless Q at Shawshank
Inspired by the workouts of the Gauntlet, YHC decided to make a few guest Q appearances at AOs all over Lexington in the weeks following. Shawshank would be lucky number one and draw the first spot. I didn’t have huge plans so I got bold and went without a weinke to see how it would …
PAX ready to name the FNG at The Hollow
YHC received a message from Hollow AOQ Iron Mary about leading this Saturday since F3 Lexington converged at the F3 3rd F 5k in support of LLS, Mac, and Shake-n-Bake last Saturday and YHC wasn’t able to complete the Q last week. YHC accepted and was glad to be able to lead the men of The Hollow this …
Just rub a little Spanish on it…
The pax of Shawshank, 10 strong, set out on a little adventure this morning to get better and some weird use of Spanish came up along the way. Its just different at Costco. YHC promised there would be zero box jumps…and there were none. The temp – mid fifties, clear skies and a beautiful moon, …
Shawshank attempts to Beat The Freeze
15 pax assembled ‘round the #ShovelFlag this AM to make their #downpainment. YHC appreciated the invitation to come Q and hospitality from the friendly convicts at Shawshank. Disclaimer and BOM led by YHC Mosey to baseball field parking lot COP Windmills x 10 Hillbillies x 10 Imperial Walkers x 10 Squats x 10 Thru the …
Inaugural Brick Shank Challenge
YHC Enjoyed my inaugural Q out at Shawshank this morning with a very good showing of 15 Pax (I think I saw 2 or 3 for SL). These guys always work hard and today was no different. We narrowly missed the early morning rain showers, which turned out to be irrelevant, because I managed to …
#Fiddy
8 men decided that sleeping in on a perfect Saturday morning was for suckas. They wanted to sharpen some iron, and they did just that. These men hit it hard and took everything YHC threw at them. A balmy 60 degrees with an ever so slight breeze Disclaimer and prayer. The Thang “Slaughter Starter” – Immediately …
In Your Eyes
11 PAX posted at Shawshank this morning for some block work and Gauntlet prep. It seemed like we spent most of the time holding blocks overhead, a la the movie Say Anything with John Cusack and his boom box playing “In Your Eyes” by Peter Gabriel. This morning was pretty much exactly like that, and …
Broken Weinke Experiment
YHC had to improvise his Weinke today. It’s true, this happens to many of us when we decide to Q, but this wasn’t because YHC forgot his plan. Nope, one of our senior leaders decided to run more after Stride lite and did not come back for BC, which is completely out of character for …
Hey AOQ, where are the bricks?
YHC was looking forward to a pain free Q this morning and had some really fun things planned. All of this went bad before our 45 minutes of fun was up, but such as life. I owe the pax 8 minutes in May, and I will not forget it gents. Conditions: 45ish The Thang: Disclaimer/BOM …
Saturday before Easter Convergence at C.A.T.
Michael Murphy was a 29 year old Navy Seal who died in Afghanistan fighting for our freedom. Today, 22 men from multiple AO’s around the region gathered for a mini-convergence to honor this fallen hero. Most importantly, we gathered to remember the crucifiction and resurrection of our Lord, Jesus Christ. It was a good day! …