Spartan Prep – Day One

20190318
Q: Flea

DISCLAIMER: Given

WARMUP: 

20 Hillbillies
20 Imperial Walkers
20 SSH
20 Lunges
20 Cherry Pickers

THE THANG

Modified Triple Nickles – Moseyed to the Hill to start some Spartan Training!
5 – burpees at the bottom
5 – 4 count WWII Situps at the top
—3 reps
Moseyed back to the playground by the shovel flag for 1 round of
– Aussie Merkins (Timer – 20 reps)
– Dips
– Derkins
– Step Ups
Finally, back to the shovel flag for 50 Calf Raises, 20 Squats and 20 Mountain Climbers.

Ended with Number-O-Rama, Name-O-Rama, COT.

MOLESKIN+
Don’t forget to keep thinking about the Spartan Race later this Spring. More Details HERE. Free Samples is taking Hard Commits now!!!

Words of Wisdom: Building on DIRTY JOBZ Use of poetry, I felt like we needed some Shakespearean culture in our lives.

Discussion From the Art of Manliness
“Knowing how to inspire and lead others is an essential manly attribute. In Shakespeare’s  Henry V, King Henry exemplifies manliness in action as he rallies his army against the highly skilled French knights. In his “Saint Crispin’s Day” speech, Henry V speaks of glory, honor, and brotherhood- all ideals that inspire even the most despairing and downtrodden of men. Read this fictional, and yet powerful speech when you’re feeling unmotivated and depressed. It will stir you to focus on the legacy you are building and will pass on to your sons and to history. “

“St. Crispin’s Day Speech”

By: William Shakespeare

WESTMORELAND. O that we now had here
But one ten thousand of those men in England
That do no work to-day!

KING. What’s he that wishes so?
My cousin Westmoreland? No, my fair cousin;
If we are mark’d to die, we are enow
To do our country loss; and if to live,
The fewer men, the greater share of honour.
God’s will! I pray thee, wish not one man more.
By Jove, I am not covetous for gold,
Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost;
It yearns me not if men my garments wear;
Such outward things dwell not in my desires.
But if it be a sin to covet honour,
I am the most offending soul alive.
No, faith, my coz, wish not a man from England.
God’s peace! I would not lose so great an honour
As one man more methinks would share from me
For the best hope I have. O, do not wish one more!
Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host,
That he which hath no stomach to this fight,
Let him depart; his passport shall be made,
And crowns for convoy put into his purse;
We would not die in that man’s company
That fears his fellowship to die with us.
This day is call’d the feast of Crispian.
He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
Will stand a tip-toe when this day is nam’d,
And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
He that shall live this day, and see old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,
And say ‘To-morrow is Saint Crispian.’
Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars,
And say ‘These wounds I had on Crispian’s day.’
Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot,
But he’ll remember, with advantages,
What feats he did that day. Then shall our names,
Familiar in his mouth as household words-
Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter,
Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester-
Be in their flowing cups freshly rememb’red.
This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian shall ne’er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered-
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlemen in England now-a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs’d they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.

LEXICON: Word of the day
3S2T- Strength, Speed, Stamina, Toughness (physical) and Toughness (mental).

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Simple 3×4 Set Workout

Or How I Came to Stop Worrying and Love the Week After DST.

20190311
Q: Flea

DISCLAIMER: Given

WARMUP: None

THE THANG

Today’s workout was a timed circuit that was set to take exactly 42 minutes so walked through some of the new exercises and went straight into it.

Each workout was 45 seconds during the first part with a 15second rest in between

3 Sets Total
1. Lunge-Knee Power Driver-Squat
2. Side Straddle Hops
3. Squat and Calf Raises
4. Plank
5. Curtsey Lunges
6. Diamond Pushups

7. 4 Reps (50 sec/10sec rest)
7a. Jump Squat/Burpees
7b. High Knees

Ended with Number-O-Rama, Name-O-Rama, COT.

MOLESKIN
Words of Wisdom: “Saying Yes to Something is Saying No to Something Else.”

Don’t forget to keep thinking about the Spartan Race later this Spring. More Details HERE. Free Samples is taking Hard Commits now!!!

LEXICON: Word of the day-
FATHERTIME- That PAX who swears he can read the Q’s watch from up to 20 yards away. “This 7 minute AMRAP has to be over by now.” “Probably should head back for Mary to be safe.” “This has to be the last Mary exercise, I’m sure it’s 6:00 now.”

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The Hill 0.5

20190211
Q: Flea

DISCLAIMER: Given

PAX: Burgundy, Priorities.

Warmup:
Copperhead Squats
Merkins
Imperial Walkers
Hill Billies

THE THANG

Started with a quick mosey to the bottom of the hill at tabletop where we did:
-Scissor Kicks
-Little Baby Crunches
-Rosalitas

following the workouts we ran up the hill and moseyed to the nearby playground where PAX rotated through
-Merkins (30 Merkins acted as the timer )
-Step -ups
-Dips


This was followed by a mosey back to the main meeting spot ad nearby playground where the PAX rotated through
-Jump-ups
-Derkins
-Aussie Merkins ( 20 Aussie Merkins acted as the timer )

Next up was a 5 lunge step-1 Thor Jump transit back to the flags where we ended with a few rounds of modified “Hey Watch Iss”

Ended with Number-O-Rama, Name-O-Rama, COT.

MOLESKIN
Words of Wisdom: “Lemons are actually a man-made hybrid of an orange and citron. Ipso Facto, we gave life it’s lemons.”

Everyone is back in one piece from the camping trip. We will plan one more kind of 2nd F event sometime between now and June. Also, as a reminder that the 2019 GEAR is out, you can order your own here.

LEXICON: Word of the day-
CLUSTERQ- An abomination of a Q that elevates the self-confidence of all other PAX in attendance, thereby convincing PAX on the fence that they couldn’t possibly do worse than THAT guy, leading to an influx in Q signups.

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Royal Rumble – F3 Style

28 Jan 2019

Q: Priorities

So y’all might not know this but YHC is raising up 3 kids to be die hard WWE wrestling fans. What might be more surprising is that M Priorities is actually the driving force behind this. Forced to watch WWF Monday Night RAW (still going btw) by her older brother as a kid, she became the world’s biggest fan of the Heart Break Kid, Shawn Michaels. Fast forward 25 years to last night and the entire Priorities family was screaming at the tv watching the 2019 WWE Royal Rumble!

So if you don’t know, the Royal Rumble is a match where a new wrestler enters the ring every 90 seconds. The only way to be eliminated is to be thrown over the top rope and both feet hit the floor. The last person left in the ring wins the match and goes on to headline WrestleMania! If you watch only one wrestling match every year it is this one. Fan or not, you should check it out next year. In case you missed it, we reenacted the event at Table Top the next morning. Here’s what went down:

A new exercise every 90 seconds. First two rounds were SSHs and Arm Circles to warm up, 90 seconds AMRAP. Every following round, 1 pax sprinted around the “ring” (perimeter of the soccer field). Any time left on the clock when the sprinter returned was rest for everyone. Repeat 30 times.

COT:

“Every man’s heart one day beats its final beat, his lungs breathe their final breath and if what that man did in his life makes the blood pulse through the body of others and makes them believe deeper in something larger than life, then his essence, his spirit will be immortalized. “

– Ultimate Warrior

This is one of the most motivating speeches in the history of wrestling. Ultimate Warrior came on Monday Night RAW and gave this speech 2 days before having a fatal heart attack. As #HIM we should continually be looking for ways to inspire others around us, not for our own legacy but in service to our community.

NMM:

If you’re reading this, you need to join our Slack channel! Click here. It is the best way to trash talk and get a little information of course. Be prepared with your best facial hair picture for your profile pic!

Still time to join us on the F3 California camping trip Feb 8-10. Let someone know by any means necessary right now!

Lots of spaces open on the Q schedule. Get it done.

Welcome FNG Hogsbreath!!

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Setting Records

19 Pax w/ 6 FNGs

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Q: You Betcha

Pax: Priorities, Burgundy, Sharkbait, Bru Ha Ha, Jagger, Flea, Croc, Beach, Mr. Rogers, Cleveland Rocks, Red Alert, Heckler, FNG Sherman, FNG ABC123, FNG Tiny Lumber, FNG King Friday, FNG Trolley, FNG Science Guy

Warm Up:

SSH

Imperial walkers

Hill billies

The Thang:

Started off easy…

25 hand release merkins

50 yard bear crawl

20 burpees

50 yard crawl bear

25 hand release merkins

50 yard crawl bear

20 burpees

50 yard bear crawl

25 hand release merkins

2 laps around the track to cool down.

A tribute to Week 2 of the 2018 IronPaxChallege

Partner up with a coupon

          Thrusters w/ coupon. Partner runs 50 yards and back. Swap. Conitnued for 8 minutes with a ~2 minute rest.

            Curls w/ coupon. Partner runs 50 yards and back. Swap. Conitnued for 8 minutes with a ~2 minute rest.

8 minutes of abs.

            Flutter kicks

            American hammers

            Dolly

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Happy Birthday Croc! Wait, where is Croc…?

23 Jan 2019

Q: Priorities

Rumor is it was the anniversary of Croc’s birth on the big ball. Was he here to confirm? No. Were others there to help celebrate? Yes. Seven in fact. Welcome FNG Cooncat! Apparently it’s the state pet of Maine. Don’t tell me you came to Bash at the Beach this morning and didn’t learn anything!!

YHC was a little nervous that it might just be limited numbers this morning due to the extreme weather. The ole temperature thermometer (on my new Apple Watch…) said it dipped down to 40 degrees this morning but to my surprise, we were 7 strong to play around in the sand. Delighted in the turnout, I texted Dreamliner about our great workout. His response:

“That’s so cool. Very happy to hear you all are really growing. 

That said. You are complaining about 40 🤦‍♂️”

Well, the morning turned out to be beautiful despite being a little crisp. Here’s how it went down…

Disclaimer: “My practices aren’t designed for your enjoyment” – Norman Dale

Warmup:

  • SSHs IC x33
  • Copperhead squats IC x15
  • Moroccan Nightclubs IC x33
  • Its IC x20
  • Paint the lines

The Thang:

Catch me if you can – Lunges in the sand version – We started with 1 pax carrying two jugs lunge walking toward the pier. When caught, the pax carrying the jugs does 5 burpees and sprints to catch the jugs again. With 7 pax, the jugs never moved forward since there was always a line of pax waiting to take over. So an audible was called to have 2 pax lunging at a time carrying 1 jug overhead. Brutal.

Once we hit the pier, we split up into 3 groups. 1 group doing wall sits, 1 doing box jump, and 1 sprinting around 50 yards with the jugs and back. Once the jugs made it back to the pier, rotate. Each 3 rotations, we swapped groups.

Last, we had to get the jugs back to the flags. So we all lunge walked back passing the jugs in a line as necessary.

COT:

YHC happened to watch Hoosiers yesterday. Apparently I’m the only fan of 80s sports movies…

“If you put your effort and concentration into playing to your potential, to be the best you can be, I don’t care what the scoreboard says at the end of the game, in my book we’re going to be winners.” – Norman Dale

If we’re giving our best, truly our best, to our jobs, our marriage, our family, our concentrica, then it doesn’t matter what the score is, we’ll be winners.

Count/Names/BOM

Announcements:

The sites are booked for the F3 CA camping trip coming up in a couple weeks! Let me know if you are interested. Feb 8-10 at Sunset State Beach near Watsonville. Plenty of room available. Sign up here.

F3 CA has started using Slack as an easy means of communicating. It’s a really convenient app that will help reduce the number of emails and texts. Please check it out here.

Check out the Spartan Race here, June 1-2.

Follow @f3monterey and @f3nation on twitter.

Email us at f3monterey@gmail.com


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Supermoon Spartan

20190121

Q Sharkbait

Pax Priorities & Burgundy

Warm Up

SSH

Imperial Walkers 20

Hill Billies 20

Abe Vigoda Slow Stretch Wind Mill 20

CooperHead Squat Lower 3 count up on 4

Annie Plank and One Arm circular 10 each

The Thang

Spartan

PAX enjoyed lining up and sprinting 100 yrds ish, doing 10 merkins at the finish and walking back to the start all together. 30 rounds.

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Lights, Camera, Burpees

19 Jan 2019

Q: Priorities

Pax: Red Alert, Chips, Flea, Sharkbait, Jagger, Bru Ha Ha, Sawdust, Dirty Jobs, FNG Heckler, Croc, FNG Butter Knife, Burgundy, Cleveland Rocks, Priorities

14 pax put on a show in Monterey as KSBW Action News filmed the action. No cheating on form, we have it all documented!! Here’s how it went down:

Warmup:

  • 10 Burpees
  • 9 SSHs
  • 8 LBCs
  • 7 IWs
  • 6 Merkins
  • 5 Sun gods
  • 4 Flutter kicks
  • 3 Copperhead squats
  • 2 Lunges
  • and…
  • 10 Burpees
  • From OBTs playbook, sometimes you’re ready to do one thing, literally 1 thing, and life throws you 10 Burpees instead. Be ready.

The Thang:

Indian Run – 2 laps

Mosey to amphitheater steps

  • 1st step: AMRAP Calf raises
  • 2nd step: AMRAP Dips
  • 3rd step: AMRAP Derkins

repeat up to the top and back to the bottom. Each pax took a turn doing 5 burpees to time when we switched steps.

Mosey to pick up coupons, place them at goal line. Mosey to other side of the field. From the other goal line we got back to our coupons repeating the following:

  • Sprint forward 40 yards
  • Sprint backwards 30 yards
  • Bear crawl forward 20 yards
  • Crawl bear back 10 yards
  • repeat

Back at the goal line we paired up for coupon Dora’s. YHC was a little to ambitious calling for 100 manmakers, 200 kettle bell swings, 300 presses.

Had to audible to 50 manmakers and ended the swings early. Ran out of time….

Words of Wisdom:

YHC referenced an article from the Boston Globe from a few years ago. The biggest threat facing middle-age men isn’t smoking or obesity. It’s loneliness. Loneliness has been linked to an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, stroke and Alzheimer’s. A 35 year study at BYU found a 26 to 32% increase in premature death for those lonely or living in isolation. Experts say the best way to combat loneliness and to forge and maintain friendship is through regularity, something always on the schedule.

Here is your regular schedule: 1545 weekly workouts across F3 nation. At that moment, 287 Saturday workouts were taking place. We were 14 of thousands of other men across F3 Nation out in the gloom, getting better.

Counterama/Name-O-Rama/B.O.M.

Announcements:

The 4th Estate was on hand to document the movement taking place on the Central Coast. Stay tuned for a KSBW news story in the next few weeks. Thanks for coming out and filming us Shannon!

Welcome FNGs Heckler and Butter Knife! Great to have you with us!

F3 Camping Trip February 8-10 at Sunset State Beach in Watsonville. Sign up here.

Spartan Race at Toro Park June 1-2. Stay tuned for details.

Sign up to Q here.

Join us on slack if you want to stay up on current F3 Monterey events. Slack is an instant messaging service that will let you keep in touch with F3 Monterey much better than email, text or twitter.

But you should still follow us on Twitter @F3Monterey

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Burpees for Burgundy

20190116

Q Sharkbait

Pax Burgundy & Priorities

WarmUp

SSH

IW

Copperhead Squats

Abe Begota

Hill Billies

The Thang

Mosey to Wharf Market

4 rounds Deconstructed Burpee

The perfect exercise, broken down into pieces. Squats, then leg thrusts, then Merkins, then leg thrusts, then up. For example, do 10 squats, 10 leg thrusts, 10 Merkins, 10 leg thrusts, then up.

Arm Circles

Mosey to Plaza

Four Corners Escalator

Burpees,LBC’s, Merkins and Squats

Combination of Four Corners and an Escalator. Four exercises. 10 reps, run to next corner, 10 reps+20 reps next exercise, run, 10, 20, 30 reps, run, 10, 20, 30, 40 reps, run to start. Can go back down escalator: 40, 30, 20, 10, run, 30, 20, 10, run, 20, 10, run, 10.

Mosey Back to Flags.

COT

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The BEAST Revisited (aka “This Sucks”)

20190112
Q: Flea

DISCLAIMER: Given

PAX: Burgundy (Respect), Sawdust, Croc, Sharkbait, Bruhaha, Jagger, Priorities, Cleveland Rocks, Beach, You Betcha.

Warmup:
Cherry Pickers
Abe Vigoda
Imperial Walkers
Hill Billies
Arm Circles – Infront [Forward/Backward] – Overhead [Forward/Backward]
400m Lap

THE THANG

The BEAST (6 reps – 25yd run – 6 reps – 25 yd run – 6 reps)

Used the great F3 Beatdown Deck to determine the workout, extremely wet turf as we just had rain the previous day. Small Note: The following are not in order.

Side-Straddle Hops
Carolina Dry Dock
Freddie Mercury [4 counts]
Wide-Arm Merkin
Monkey Humper [4 counts]
Plank Jack [4 counts]
Diamond Merkin
WWII Situps
High, Slow FlutterKick [4 count – in cadence]
Hand-Release Merkin
American Hammer [4 counts]
Rosalita
Backward Lunge [each leg]
Merkins

DORA 1-2-3-4s (Only got to 3s)

Two partners performed this workout, one would be exercising while the other did a 400m lap.

100 – Aussie Merkins
200 – WWII Situps
300 – WOJO Squats
400 – Calf Raises

Ended with Number-O-Rama, Name-O-Rama, COT, followed by coffeteria.

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