D-Day+76[Years]

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COT @ Georgetown, DE WWII Memorial

6 June 2020

QIC: Chappie

14 PAX posted at the Aegis AO in Georgetown for a D-Day inspired workout by Chappie that went a little something like this…

WARM-O-RAMA

  • SSH – 18 IC
  • IW – 18 IC
  • Cherry Picker – 10 IC
  • SwartzJack – 18 IC
  • MNC – 18 IC

PATRIOT RUN – for 2 reasons:

1) Today is 76th Anniversary of D-Day!

2) We should NEVER be ashamed to fly it high! And fly it high we should!

>>>To County Bank Steps      (We’ll chalk that one up as practice…know what YHC means?)

Who said that? “Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force: You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hope and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you.      Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well trained, well equipped and battle-hardened. He will fight savagely. But this is the year 1944! The tide has turned! The free men of the world are marching together to victory! I have full confidence in your courage, devotion to duty and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full victory! Good luck! And let us all beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.  ~Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander, 6 June 1944.

Workout: PAX Plank, each, in turn goes to top & back down. (1 rotation)

PATRIOT RUN:

>>>To School Field:

Almost nothing went exactly as planned on June 6, 1944. In the end, partly due to poor weather and visibility, bombers failed to take out key artillery, particularly at Omaha Beach. Many paratroopers were dropped far off their marks and became vulnerable to German snipers. And during the land invasion, a critical fleet of marine tanks sunk in stormy seas and failed to make it ashore. Despite the setbacks, Allied troops pushed through and by pure grit, got the job done. 

Workout:

Round 1: Low-Crawl to 1st Sidewalk (get low!)

  • LZ Jumps (Squat Jump, Parachute Landing Fall style w/feet & knees together) – 33 Single Count     
  • Merkins – 33 SC

Round 2: Run For Cover! (He sees you, get down! & low-crawl | Run for cover!, get up and run) from 1st SW to 4th SW and back. Snipe got YHC on this one, ankle’s still a little stiff but only because Chauffeur asked about it!

Round 3: Low-Crawl to start

  • LZ Jumps – 33 SC (Squat Jumps PLF style)
  • Hand-Release Merkins – 33 SC (Brutal, but when you’re ready to quite, remember they didn’t – Burp if you need a break/rest)     

YHC Omaha’d the rest of the field workout due to time constraints, time to move!

PATRIOT WOSEY:

>>>Around corner to School Parking Lot:

French businessman Bernard Marie was 5 years old and living in Normandy on June 6, 1944. He remembers before the Allied invasion, he and his friends could not go out and play on the beaches because “Mother couldn’t trust anybody. So, for me, everybody wearing a uniform was a bad guy.” Bernard Marie recalls when the shooting was done. He heard his mother outside yelling, so he and his grandfather ran upstairs to follow her. “I will never forget,” he says, “She was hugging a soldier! I could not understand that. For me it was a bad guy. So she called me to come and said, ‘These soldiers are good, they’ve come to save us.'” To this day, Bernard Marie is grateful to that soldier—and to all the veterans who fought to liberate France from the Nazis. “The most important thing for any human being is freedom,” he says. “We cannot forget the 6th of June.”

Workout:

Advance & Retreat – PAX took turns calling Advance! or Retreat! for length of parking lot (kinda like suicides but not…)

  • Advance! – mosey forward
  • Retreat !– nuR back

PATRIOT RUN: (With a self-imposed punishment run by Quattro who everyone else thought was running ahead to get pics. No pics, but it did bring an important life lesson: Pay attention to details. Lol! Accelerating man!

>>>To Armory:

PAX acknowledged family members who fought in WWII, especially D-Day. Some of those mentioned…

Chauffeur’s grandfather, somewhere in the crowd
Quattro’s grandfather (L), SPC James H. Baxter Jr.
Chappie’s grandfather, CPL William Goodwin

We’ve done a lot of 33 reps today. Explanation: Done to honor YHC’s grandfather, CPL William Goodwin, who jumped into Normandy with his 508th PIR (Red Devil Regiment (82nd Airborne). They fought for the next 33 days in and around Chef-du-Pont before being sent back to England and preparing to jump again in Holland (Operation Market Garden).

Workout:

(Start at curb) Bearcrawl to top of steps – 33 American (of course!) Hammers, return… (again YHC cut out the rinse & repeat which included: 33 X’s & O’s & 33 Gas Pumpers (4-count)

PATRIOT RUN:

>>>Return to AO at WWII Memorial:

Other quotes:

“We’ll start the war from right here!” ~ Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., Assistant Commander of the 4th Infantry Division, upon finding that his force had been landed in the wrong place on Utah Beach. (Yes, that’s who you think it is)

“I took chances on D-Day that I never would have taken later in the war.”      ~First Sgt. C. Carwood Lipton, 506th PIR, 101st Airborne Division. (Band of Brothers)

PAX circled up for the COT around the WWII Memorial

  • Number-Rama
  • Name-O-Rama
  • Named FNG: Welcome to Ruxpin’s 2.0, Peyton (now F3 Peddles)
  • Announcements & Prayers

A huge welcome back to Summit! We’ve missed you! Great to have you in the ranks again, brother. As always, YHC is grateful and humbled by the opportunity to lead these awesome HIM. Always inspired to hear the stories of WWII veteran’s from our own families as well. Let’s live lives that honor the sacrifices of those from the Greatest Generation.

~Chappie, out!

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CHOP 6/2/2020 And we kept runnin and running and running.

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F3 CHOP 6/2/2020

  • Be free of charge
  • Be open to all men
  • Be held outdoors, rain or shine, heat or cold
  • Be led by men who participate in the workout in a rotating fashion, with no training or certification necessary
  • End with a Circle of Trust

WARM-0-RAMA

20 SSH IC

20 cherry pickers IC

20 smurf jacks IC

20 Grady Corn IC

THE THANG

Run approximately .5 miles to parking lot circle in front of local HOB school where pax will complete the escalator.

Escalator- Take lap around parking lot and do 10 burpees, Lap around parking lot 10 burpees 20 jumpin beans lap around parking lot 10 burpees 20 jumping beans 30 merkins F3 message insterted here (details at end of back blast) … Lap around parking lot 10 burpees, 20 jumping beans 30 merkins 40 squats. Lap around parking lot 10 burpees, 20 jumping beans, 30 merkins 40 squats 50 lbc lap around parking lot. Wosey to stop sign, Mosey .5 miles back to CHOP.

Number o rama (12 HIM posted)

Name o rama

COT- Please continue to pray for our President and his advisors. Please pray for peace during this time of unrest. Praise the Lord for Quatros father in law and let keep him lifted in prayer to make a full recovery. GritMill will be reopening on July 2 2020. CHOP will be closed and all HIM will meet at the Grit Mill. Way to get after it HIM!! (total distance running today was 3 miles)

F3 MESSAGE

Ephesians 5:15-21 15Be very careful, then, how you live-not as unwise but as wise, 16making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil. 17Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the LORD’s will is.

The Devil is about like a roaring lion right now. He is using every distraction he can to separate us, and cause divide. We need to discern the time, we need to remember the great commission. Jesus told us to simply treat others the way we wish to be treated not to treat others the way they treat us. Its an easy lesson, but a hard practice.

Matthew 5:43-48 

43 “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ 44 [a]But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you, 45 that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. 46 For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? 47 And if you greet your [b]brethren only, what do you do more than others? Do not even the [c]tax collectors do so? 48 Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.

Matthew 5:41 41 And whoever compels you to go one mile, go with him two.

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Relaunch!

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5/30/2020

WARM-A-RAMA

20 SSH I/C
20 PLANK JACKS I/C
20 WINDMILL I/C
SIDE SHUFFLE CAPRI LAP AROUND CIRCLE, switch direction half way
21 CRAB FLIPPER I/C
20 SEAL WAVE I/C
20 SEAL JACKS I/C

THE THANG

Mosey north to Ruxpin’s Distillery

10 hanging knee lifts
5 burpees
3 rounds

Mosey across railroad tracks to white building

20 urkins, jump wall, 10 derkins
Climb steps
20 urkins, jump wall, 10 derkins
5 leg lifts
3 rounds

3RD F

Play The Man • Devotional
https://bible.com/reading-plans/4023/day/1?segment=0

Mosey to Domino’s

Hold wall sit while one HIM does 2 chicken peckers rotating through all HIM

Mosey to circle

20 split squats per leg (1 leg on bench)
Lt. Danger around circle
Toy soldier set
60 lbc
30 E2K (each side)
20 big boys

6 HIM showed: Semi, Chattahoochee, Quarto, Fireplex, Chauffeur, Toy Soldier

Number Rama
Name Rama
COT

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The H.O.B./M.E. 500

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The so-named workout will become evident as you read on but it was done in honor of the race that is always run on Memorial Day — The Indianapolis 500. This year it is postponed to later this Summer in August. Meanwhile, it served as a good motivator for the first workout at CHOP since mid-March.

Monday was the “official” reload of F3 First State since the shutdown and it was a good one! The relaunch was a brutal 2nd Annual Memorial Day Mini CSAUP at Cape Henlopen State Park. 13 PAX started the day with a mile-long double Patriot Run to the beach, planted the shovel flags, promptly got completely wet, and commenced to making “sugar cookies” between sets of Sandbear and recitations of the F3 principles: Open to all men. Free. Always outdoors, rain or shine, hot or cold. Peer led. And always end with a COT. It all unraveled from there. But it was awesome to be back together! PAX shared brief bio’s of fallen warriors throughout the workout to keep focused on the reason for the Day. We ended the 2-hr CSAUP with a tailgate coffeeteria.

The morning after: 13 PAX posted again for what was originally scheduled as a day of reeecovery. Yet the draw of being circled up together again for motivation, accountability, locking shields, and to be sharpened “as iron sharpens iron,” drew PAX out of the fartsack to ignore recovery for a Chappie led H.O.B./M.E. 500 — so named after the perfect little oval in front of these two elementary schools: H.O. Brittingham & Milton Elementary…

The Oval

First things first…

WARM-O-RAMA: (something like this)

Disclaimer given because it’s been so long, and because of the presence of an FNG; welcome Spread!

  • SSH – 18 IC
  • Crab Flippers – 18 IC
  • Moroccan Night Clubs – 18 IC (not Arm-Circles Chappie!)
  • Windmill – 18 IC

Mosey’d to H.O.B. & M.E.

3rd F YHC chose to share his 3rd F word to be sure to get it in:

First, a quick recitation from the PAX of F3 core principles and mission.

See if you can finish this very popular verse from Jeremiah 29:11 : “For I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you…’ <PAUSE> …’a future and a hope.'”

We tend to think the 2 most important thoughts of this verse are that God will give us A FUTURE and A HOPE.

But I’ve been re-thinking this lately because in our nation, our state, and our communities we’re surrounded not only by signs people are putting on their front lawns with the word “hope.” on them, but behind those signs are people concerned about an undetermined and unknown future. They’re looking for hope. Maybe you are too!

Whether we’re talking about businesses, schools, churches or other entities that have been affected by the shutdown who wonder if they’ll be able to reopen and what it will look like when/if they do, nobody likes an unknown future. That’s why I think there are 2 words in Jeremiah 29:11 that are even more important than the words “future” and “hope.” I’m talking about the words: “I KNOW.” God was saying to Israel, the false prophets don’t know the future, but “I know.” Israel themselves didn’t know the future, but God said, “I know.” Our federal, state, and local governments can’t even pretend to know the future, but God says, “_______________.”

Admit it, having an unknown future bugs us! It’s disorienting! I don’t know the future, and you don’t know the future, but the most important part of this verse, that part which actually gives us hope, is that God says, “I know…I ALONE know…the plans I have for you.” This is a call to turn to God and trust Him!

“For I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope.'” Trust Him for those plans, THAT future!

The Thang:

PAX partnered up and completed the following exercises cumulatively (Partner 1 runs lap, partner 2 exercises, swap, rinse and repeat to total number of reps were completed:

  • 100 – Apollo Ono
  • 200 – Merkins
  • 300 – Seal Jacks
  • 400 – Squats
  • 500 – LBC’s (500, get it?)

Mosey return to CHOP AO

Number-Rama

Name-O-Rama – Welcome again, Jalil Davis (F3 Spread)

COT – Prayers lifted for several PAX and family members, etc.

Honored to Q the reload workout at CHOP. Welcome back, welcome, back, welcome back…

Chappie, out!

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Witty Title

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20200513
 Q: Flea
DISCLAIMER: OYO
Warmup: 
 Sun Gods – 10 IC 
 Daisy Pickers – 20 IC
 4 count Calf Raises -20 IC
 Abe Vigoda – 20 IC
THE THANG

FIRST WORKOUT
 START THE CLOCK
http://www.intervaltimer.com/timers/9177532-f3-10-may-2020
15 Shoulder Taps – each side
 SSH to the one minute mark 10 In-Place Inch Worms
 SSH to the two-minute mark 10 Single-Leg Deadlifts – each side
 SSH to the three-minute mark 10 Jumping Lunges- each side
 SSH to the four-minute mark 15 American Hammers
 SSH to the five-minute mark
  REPEAT FOR A TOTAL OF 4X 

SECOND WORKOUT
 80 SSH
 70 LBCs
 60sec Low Plank (Together)
 50 Reverse Pank Dips
 40 American Hammers (each side)
 30 Walking Lunges
 20 Merkins
 10 Burpees 

Finish with 26 Imperial Walkers, 20 Hillbillies, 20 Overhead/Front Claps, Plank to end of time.

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Shelter-in-Pain

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06 May 2020

Q Flea          

—-Warm – Up—-
Imperial Walkers – 20 IC
Hill Billie’s – 20 IC
Cooper Head Squat – 20 IC
Abe Vigoda – 20 IC
Cherry Pickers – 20 IC

—-The Thang—-
So for this one, you’ll need an interval timer. You can either use your own or click the link (already built).
http://www.intervaltimer.com/timers/9141353-f3-6-may-20204 sets — 10 exercises [1 min] (50 sec/exercise, 10 sec rest)
               -> 45 sec rest between sets
Total Duration 41:35

Side Straddle Hops 
Burpees 
Merkins 
Side Plank 
Side Plank – Other Side 
Mountain Climbers 
High Knees 
LBC’s
Air Squats 
Jump Lunges

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The 100

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Q Sharkbait 
Pax Jagger, Bruhaja, Burgundy, Cleveland Rocks & Flea

Warmup
20 Side Straddle Hops
20 Imperial Walkers
20 Don Quixote 

15 Blades of Steel
Start in plank position with hands directly under shoulders, keeping arms as straight as possible. Slowly perform merkin with only your shoulders doing the movement, no bend in your elbows. At your lowest position your shoulder blades are close together, with elbows and back still straight. Slowly raise your body with only your shoulder blades pushing away from your spine. Your shoulder blades will be slightly rounded at top once complete. Suggested to move slow.

The Thang
100 SSH / Imperial Walkers 
90 High Knees
80 Dying Cockroaches 
70 Mountain Climbers
60 Groiners / 
50 Squats / Freddie Mercury’s 
40 Jump Lunges / Wide Arm Merkins
30 Butt Kickers
20 Burpees 
10 Merkins

100 ft Inch Worm
Start in a good form plank, inch hands forward as far possible, when you can’t extend any further, inch feet forward until you are back in a standard plank, and repeat. 

50 LBC’s 4 count

COT

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Houghton, Hasselhoff & Cash

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Nothing exciting to say today folks… just the facts:

Disclaimer Given, always.

WarmUp:

All IC: Mountain Man Poopers (shout out to you, Hogs Breath… you are missed,) SSH, 1/2 jack, jumps, IW’s, Gorilla Humpers, Hairy Rockets (sotyHB!)

The Thang:

Squats with Inger Houghton

Till I say stop: Burpees but instead of Merkin do 3 plank jacks
Till I say stop: Jump Rope
Till I say stop: Reverse Crunch
Till I say stop: Mike Tysons

Jump in my Car: Burpee on “Jump into my Car” or “Get Outta my Car” lyrics, else SSH

Plankfest: 3min, rest, 2 min, rest, 1 min

Till I say stop: Run in Place

10 Start Jacks OYO

Till I say stop: Aussie Burpees
3 reps of 5 air presses, 5 merkins
Till I say stop: Gas Pumps

Hurt, Johnny Cash… Al gore on first 4 lines, plank on second 4, repeat every 4 lines.

Name-o-rama, COT

Can’t believe Flea made it out today. Congratulations on the new one!

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Full Body of Pain

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13 Apr 2020

Q : Flea

DISCLAIMER: OYO

WARMUP
-SSH 50
-Cherry Pickers – 20 IC
-Abe Vigoda – 20 IC
-Imperial Walker -20 IC
-Mosey lap around your house/field or block (your choice)The Thang
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Ab round: The Bruce Lee
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-American hammer (4 ct–20 reps)
-Flutter kicks (4 ct–20 reps)
-LBCs (4 ct–20 reps)
-Heel touches(4 ct–20 reps)
-Freddie Mercuries (4 ct – 20 reps)
-Crunchy frog (30 reps)
         Done in cadence, in a V-like sitting position, first wrap your legs with
your arms. Quickly open yourself up by moving your arms out to your
sides and extending your legs out in front of you. Bring them back in.
Repeato.

–Sprint around your house/Field/Block
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Leg round: The Conor McGregor
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-Squat (50 ct)
-Lunge (40ct, per leg)
-Over-coupon/obstacle side hops (50 ct)
-Long Jumps (30 ct)
-Apollo Ohno (50 CT)
Speed Skater style side hops.

–Sprint around your house/Field/Block
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Arm round: The Muhammad Ali
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-Burpees(15 ct)
-Carolina Drydock (30 ct)
-Merkins (20ct)
-Overhead Air Press (50 ct)
-Single leg Tricep dip (20 ct – ea leg)

–Sprint around your house/Field/Block

If you have more than 5 minutes left repeat your favorite portion. If you have less than 5 minutes do a mosey lap around the block/field to cool down.  

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More than a Groiner

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Our meeting room got hijacked and let’s just say I am glad the rest of the pax did not log in to the meeting ahead of me.

Other west coast Virtual AOs started up this week and took some of the down range pax from our Saturday virtual AO. While I missed them, I really enjoyed just seeing F3 Monterey PAX on the screen. It was like old times down at Carmel High.

Warm Up:

50 SSH, 30 IW, 50 MNC, 30 Shoulder Taps, 50 Squats

Plank fest: 3 min plank, 30 second rest, 2 min plank, 30 sec. rest, 1 min plank, 1 min. high knees

This is where it was like old times. I wanted to try this out and I think it worked well. Partner up (yes, virtual partner up) and:

Partner 1 Al Gores, Partner 2 runs 20′ away from camera and does 10 Merkins. All pax halts when first group reaches 100 Merkins together.

Repeat again: P1 does Seal Jacks while P2 runs and does 10 mtn. climbers. Halt at 100.

Repeat again: P1 does Sun Gods while P2 Crawl Bears and does 10 Mike Tysons. Halt at 100.

That was it for the partnering up. I think it worked really well. I will do it again next virtual AO that I Q.

Burpees to failure. We knew Sharkbait would be the last on this one!

20 Groiners OYO (paying tribute to the meeting hijackers, if you will.)

We stayed around and chatted a little. Great to catch up with the PAX.

YHC and Q – Cleveland Rocks

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