01.20.2023 ChumbaBurpees & Weekend Getaway AMRAP WOD

AO: Lightning Rod

QIC: @Goon

PAX: @FreeLunch @StrayCat

Conditions: 30deg, clear

5 Pricinples & DISCLAIMER

Warm-O-Rama

SSH – IC – 25

Don Quixotes (Windmills) – IC – 10

Harry Rockettes – IC – 20 (10ea leg)

Arm Circles Forward – IC – 10

Arm Circles Backward – IC – 10

Halos – IC – 10

Wrist stretches (Push/Pull)

Imperial Walkers – IC – 10

  • MOSEY to field with coupons

1/2 THANG: Chumba-Burpee  (to the song, Tubthumper by Chumbawamba)

Start with SSH at beginning of song

Every time they say, “I get knocked down, but I get up again” you do a burpee.

While not doing burpees, you are continuously doing SSH.

In the end, you will do about 27 burpees.

  • Hahaha, YHC forgot the SSH while not doing burpees. Please forgive my lapse in memory.
  • We each added 25 burpees to the #MABA tally.

The Thang: Weekend Getaway AMRAP WOD

AMRAP in 5 Minutes

  • 200 Meter run
  • 20 Coupon Swings
  • 15 Coupon Squats
  • Max Effort Burpees

Rest 3 minutes

Rinse & Repeat x3

  • Everyone got to Fall Down & Get Back Up Together many times. Varied between 40-100 MABA Burpees! Way to go PAX!!!
  • Good modifications to stay healthy, strong and moving.
  • Simple mosey/mumble chatter walk back to the Lightning Rod

COT:

“Consistency before intensity. 

Start small and become the kind of person who shows up every day. Build a new identity. 

Then increase the intensity.”

From James Clear’s (Atomic Habits author) 3-2-1 email blast, 11/24/2022

Don’t rush the process. Trust the process.

  • Great mumble chatter about how this affects our daily lives, our consistency in life, and our fathering.
  • Announcements
    • Silver Falls Buck Mountain Run – Saturday, February 25th
    • Polar Plunge Portland – Saturday, March 11th
      • Discuss about forming official F3 team
      • Do beatdown before 5K run and then Plunge
    • Oregon Brewery Series 5K Run/Walk/Family friendly strolls.
      • Start & end at Brewery. Differing breweries each time.
    • As a Region, let’s plan for a CSAUP and/or 2nd-F event monthly or twice a month.
      • Beacon Rock Coupon Crawl
      • Crucible of doing a beatdown at each AO in a single morning. Then BBQ or lunch.
      • Convergence on Hood River & Pendleton
  • Let’s make sure the Hood River & Pendleton are each on the F3Nation and F3Portland websites & Slack.

01.16.23 Leg Day

AO: Lightningrod

QIC: Leprechaun

PAX: Goon, Lumbergh, Red Curry

Conditions: Dry and cold. Frost on the windows.

Warm up

  • Mosey to the field with coupons
  • Side straddle hop
  • Toy Soldiers
  • Air squats
  • Squat hold knee press
  • 3rd graders
  • 10 burpees

The Thang

Block 1

  • 10 Deadlift
  • 15 Coupon swing
  • 25 Squat
  • 15 Squat jump
  • 10 Calf raises
  • Run 200 m
  • x3

Block 2

  • To the 20 yard line
  • Walking Lunges down
  • Broad jump back
  • x2

Block 3

  • Sprint across field
  • Walk back to start
  • x3

Finisher – In Cadence

  • Hold squat
  • Hold squat over right leg
  • Hold squat over left leg
  • Pulsing Squat

COT

On MLk day we talked about the role we play in leading conversations that give representation and create more equity for those who are typically marginalized.

As men and leaders we have a responsibility to stand for those who are less fortunate or who did not come from privilege in the past and to take action in creating space for inclusion.

01.11.2023 Centurion

AO: Lightning Rod

QIC: Straycat

PAX: Freelunch, Goon, Red Curry

Conditions: 45deg, wet ground but no rain

DISCLAIMER

Warm-O-Rama

SSH – IC – 20

Big Forward Arm Circles – IC – 8

Big Backwards Arm Circles – IC – 8

Scissor Arms – IC – 8

Jane Fondas – IC – 10 each side

Toy Soldiers- In Circle

Slow High Knees – IC – 10

  • Mosey to Field

The Thang: Centurion (on your own)

Line up on endzone

  • 10 yds Bear Crawl
  • 10 Burpees
  • 10 yds Crawl Bear
  • 10 Burpees
  • 10 yds Crab Walk
  • 10 Burpees
  • 10 yds Dead bug shuffle
  • 10 Burpees
  • 10 yds Dead bug shuffle (other direction)
  • 10 Burpees

Repeat to end up at the other endzone for a total of 100 burpees then pick up the six

  • Rows – IC – 20
  • Mosey back with side ways runs, backwards runs, fishbones, etc.
  • Leg lifts – IC – 20
  • IBC – IC -20
  • Flutter Kicks – IC -20
  • Jane Fondas – IC – 8 (each side)

COT:

“Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.” Matthew 7:13-14.

  • From the Q – Source 1.1:

Discretion is a cage with velvet bars

Each morning, we all face the decision whether to take the Red Pill or the Blue Bill. The first is hard-true and the second easy-false. The Red forces a man to hike up the rocky path toward the EQV, while the Blue lets him mosey down the smooth trail to Mascot-life and chronic Sad Clown Syndrome.
A man’s first Red Pill is the toughest to swallow because it causes Disruption to the status quo in the form of Movement. And while it doesn’t get easier, it does get better. The second, third and thousandth Red Pill is just as tough to swallow as the first, but that initial Movement gives birth to Acceleration which leads to Momentum and Momentum ultimately leads to joy.

Whether it’s his Fitness, Fellowship or Faith, the rocky path to the EQV keeps getting steeper the higher the HIM gets on it. As he becomes more fit, every Workout finds him pushing a little bit harder and faster to improve. As his relationships deepen, he grows into the increasing weight of people’s reliance upon his strength. As his understanding of the Super Unknown becomes clearer, he dives more deeply into his relationship with the SkyQ. The HIM knows that there are no plateaus in the pursuit of proper personal alignment. Every day he is either getting more Right or less.

The HIM depends upon his Guardrails to continue Accelerating. The faster his Movement, the stronger they need to be. To get ready for the expected and be ready for the unexpected, the HIM gradually improves his Guardrails by constructing Routines that allow for increasing action with decreasing thought. Because it is comprised of positive Habits , a Routine does not require an active choice to perform. Over time, it becomes ingrained into the HIM’s daily rhythm such that it would require his active choice not to perform.

The HIM constructs his Routines through the process of Bricklaying. Each individual Brick is a singular positive Habit that is light enough for him to carry and place together with other Bricks. Conjoined, the Bricks become a Routine that form and build his Guardrails. Once a Brick is set, it provides a place to lay the next Brick. Because it is set, the HIM has effectively deprived himself of the discretion to remove it. This enables him to focus his full energy on performing his Routines because he doesn’t have to waste energy thinking about it. Like a soldier, he is freed to action through deprivation of discretion.

While discretion may be the freedom to decide what to do in a given situation, for a man without Guardrails discretion is a cage with velvet bars–it will lead him to take the Blue Pill. Through military training, the soldier learns that there is nothing liberating in having to decide what to do in every situation. True freedom is the pre-determined what that allows full focus on the how.

The stronger the Guardrails, the faster you can drive.

01.10.2023 Weekend Getaway AMRAP WOD

AO: Oakery

QIC: Goon

PAX: @Ghost @Fishman @Output

Conditions: 42deg, clear

DISCLAIMER

Warm-O-Rama

SSH – IC – 25

Don Quixotes (Windmills) – IC – 10

Harry Rockettes – IC – 20 (10ea leg)

Arm Circles Forward – IC – 10

Arm Circles Backward – IC – 10

Halos – IC – 10

Wrist stretches (Push/Pull)

  • MOSEY 1 lap to grab coupons

The Thang: Weekend Getaway AMRAP WOD

AMRAP in 5 Minutes

  • 200 Meter run
  • 20 Coupon Swings
  • 15 Goblet/Coupon Squats
  • Max Effort Burpees

Rest 3 minutes

  • Rinse & Repeat
  • Did 3 AMRAP rounds
  • Everyone got to Fall Down & Get Back Up Together many times. Varied between 40-100 MABA Burpees! Way to go PAX!!!
  • MOSEY 1 lap around school with a mix of Rifle Carry, Alternating Firemans Carry.
  • In the middle of the mosey, we stopped in the back for Wall Sit Coupon Overhead Press passing.

6 Minutes Of MARY:

American Hammers – IC – 20

Pickle Pounders/J Lo’s – IC – 20

Flutter Kicks – IC -25

Protractor

  • Whole group get thru 2degrees each

COT:

YHC read the following prayer.

  • HIMs had great additions as to how the words affected them individually; the things we’re gifted & the recognition of not being the center of the universe.

—–

Dear Lord Jesus, Please help me to overcome my fears…

For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.

2 Timothy 1:7

May I possess only what You give to me, Your power, Your love and Your healing for my mind.

I need Your power, Your love and the sound mind that only you can provide.

May I pursue only that which promotes You and Your kingdom.

You see the contents of my heart.

Please uproot all that is keeping me from loving all people as You love them.

Lord, please forgive me for all of the ways I have grieved You. I repent and turn to you.

I am amazed that You are always with me, saving me, rejoicing over me, loving me and singing over me…

The Lord your God in your midst,

The Mighty One, will save;

He will rejoice over you with gladness,

He will quiet you with His love,

He will rejoice over you with singing.

Zephaniah 3:17

Thank You for Your steadfast love.

Thank You for never leaving me.

Thank You for creating me to reflect Your love, Your grace, Your creativity, and Your goodness.

Lord, use me to remind everyone around me of Your kindness, goodness and love.

In the generous name of Jesus I pray,

Amen.

01.07.23 Hu rah for EMOM!

AO: Lavafield

QIC: Leprechaun

PAX: Goon, Blue Steel, Lumbergh, 1 Cent, Free Lunch, Danish, Slash, Kikiwaka

Conditions: Damp and cool with a light drizzle for shizzle but comfortable.

Warm up

  • 1 lap Mosey
  • Air squats
  • Halos
  • 3rd graders
  • 5 Inchworms w/merkin
  • Toy Soldiers
  • Side straddle hop
  • Monkey Humpers

The Thang

Block 1 Workout

  • At one sideline of the field
  • 15 curls
  • Crab walk backwards to midfield
  • Crab walk forwards to far sideline
  • 5 burpees
  • Jog to starting line
  • 15 Curls
  • Bear crawl forward to midfield
  • Bear crawl backward to far sideline
  • 5 burpees
  • Jog to start
  • 15 Curls
  • Dead bug shuffle left side to midfield
  • Dead bug shuffle right side to sideline
  • 5 burpees
  • Jog to start
  • Hold plank til 6 is in

30 minutes EMOM – at the start of every minute complete the set of exercises, then rest until the start of the next minute.

  • Min.1 – 25 Squats
  • Min. 2 – 15 Merkins
  • Min. 3 – 25 Coupon swings
  • Min. 4 – 15 Overhead press
  • Min. 5 – Burpees AMRAP (for full minute)
  • 1 min Rest
  • x 5 rounds

COT

Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff by Richard Carlson

Chapter 68: Be Willing to Learn from Friends and Family

01.06.2023 Burpee/Blockee Ladder

AO: Lightning Rod

QIC: Goon

PAX: @RedCurry @Stray Cat @Free Lunch

Conditions: 40deg, a few clouds creating an awesome eerie gloom with an almost full/last quarter moon

  • A few PAX got in some additional pre-warmup burpees.

DISCLAIMER

Warm-O-Rama

SSH – IC – 25

Don Quixotes (Windmills) – IC – 10

Imperial Squat Walkers – IC – 20 (10ea leg)

Harry Rockettes – IC – 20 (10ea leg)

Arm Circles Forward – IC – 10

Arm Circles Backward – IC – 10

Halos – IC – 10

MOSEY to field

The Thang: Burpee/Blockee Ladder

CARRY –> SPRINT –> BURPEES –> SPRINT –> BLOCKEES

Ladder Down of Sprints @ 100 & Burpees/Blockees @ 10, 90 & 9, 80 & 8, and so on…

  • Would be [55 Burpees + 55 Blockees = 110 total towards MABA challenge] if completed.
  • Fastest made it to 4 Burpees = 94 total towards MABA.
  • No time for MoM. Did a quick moment of wrist stretching.

COT:

Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us, by Seth Godin  —  Book Description

A tribe is any group of people, large or small, who are connected to one another, a leader, and an idea. For millions of years, humans have been seeking out tribes, be they religious, ethnic, economic, political, or even musical (think of the Deadheads). It’s our nature.

Now the Internet has eliminated the barriers of geography, cost, and time. All those blogs and social networking sites are helping existing tribes get bigger. But more important, they’re enabling countless new tribes to be born—groups of ten or ten thousand or ten million who care about their iPhones, or a political campaign, or a new way to fight global warming. And so the key question: Who is going to lead us?

The Web can do amazing things, but it can’t provide leadership. That still has to come from individuals—people just like you who have passion about something. The explosion in tribes means that anyone who wants to make a difference now has the tools at her fingertips.

If you think leadership is for other people, think again—leaders come in surprising packages. Consider Joel Spolsky and his international tribe of scary-smart software engineers. Or Gary Vaynerhuck, a wine expert with a devoted following of enthusiasts. Chris Sharma leads a tribe of rock climbers up impossible cliff faces, while Mich Mathews, a VP at Microsoft, runs her internal tribe of marketers from her cube in Seattle. All they have in common is the desire to change things, the ability to connect a tribe, and the willingness to lead.

FROM F3:

Leadership is Influencing Movement to Advantage. To do that Effectively, a man must Competently apply the 4 Leadership Skills of V.A.P.E.:

  1. He must have Vision
  2. He must be capable of Articulation
  3. He must possess the means of Persuasion
  4. He is ready to use Exhortation

“The Mission of F3 is to plant, grow and serve small workout groups for men for the invigoration of male community leadership”

  • YHC brought in some coffee for AO Coffeeteria. Great conversations had. Will keep pushing for more & more 2nd F!

(01.04.23) – Courtyard’s love coupons too!

AO: Lightning Rod

QIC: Lumbergh

PAX: Red Curry, Free Lunch, Goon

Conditions

36 degrees and wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwindy!

Warm up

  • Mosey to the parking lot to round about and back
  • SSH x 20 IC
  • Seal Claps x 10 IC
  • Arm Circles x 10 IC (Fwd & Bkwd)
  • 3rd Grade Exercise x 10 IC
  • Windmill x 10 IC
  • Alternating shoulder taps
  • Simple Quad Stretch x OYO

The Thang

BENCHES:

  • 5 Curls
  • 5 Box Jumps
  • Rifle Carry to Bike Racks

BIKE RACKS:

  • 5 OH Press
  • Cowboy Hop Each Rack (alternating sides)
  • Weighted Lunge Walk Back to the Lightning Rod

LIGHTNING ROD:

  • 5 Block Up Leg Raises
  • 5 Squats
  • Racked Carry to Benches, repeat adding 5 reps more each round

Optional 10 merkins, 10 Burpees (dealer’s choice, as many PAX have a monthly goal)

Final shake out mosey: Mix in high knees and booty kickers, side shuffle each direction, and back pedal mosey back to LR

6MoM

  • 10 LBCs x IC

COT

Prayer for today

Dear Heavenly Father,

It’s a new year, new possibilities. I pray today that we find our strength not from within us but from the gifts you’ve blessed us with. Lord draw discipline, devotion, and dedication to continue the lifelong evolution of becoming better men. Help us to fight the fartsack and join our brothers in the gloom as often as possible. Help us to see goals that push and moves us further in this journey. Inspire us to reach out to our community to make this world better in your name.

We lift this up to you today in your Son’s name,

AMEN

That’s a wrap

-Lumbergh

1.03.23 – reps together

AO: Oakery

QIC: Ghost

PAX: Goon, Fishman

Conditions

36 degrees, dry

Warm up

  • 20xIC SSH
  • 10xIC Imperial Walkers
  • 10xIC halos
  • leg swings front back and sideways each leg8x OYO
  • Calf raises OYO 20x each leg
  • 10xIC Daisy Pickers
  • Motivators – countdown from 5

The Thang

  • Partner up complete the number of reps combined
    • 200 dips, partner runs to annex door and back
    • 200 lbcs, partner does parking lot line shuffle halfway down
    • 120 rows, partner does bear crawl across barkdust and back
    • 100 burpees, partner runs up and down landscaping hills
    • 150 shrugs, partner does dead bug shuffle
    • 100 over and backs over coupon, partner does handstand or plank for 30 seconds

6MoM

Merkins 10x IC

COT

Considered ways that our “love” falls short. We often elevate a mother’s love to the status of being the ideal or highest form of human love. I was reading Agatha Christie recently and she played with the idea that it perhaps isn’t as perfect as we might wish. At one point Poirot says “mothers are particularly ruthless when their children are in danger.”

Reminded me of a biblical perspective on love and how we can/should try to love our 2.0s and M in that way.

Romans 15:2 Each of us should please his neighbor for his good.

1 John 4:7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. 10 In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.

True love on earth is rare. The things we call love are usually pale imitations of true selfless love.

Ghost out

1.2.23 Burpees!

AO: Lightning Rod

QIC: Straycat

PAX: Goon, Red Curry

Conditions: 35 and windy

Warm up

  • SSH x 20 IC
  • Windmills x 10 IC
  • Slow High Knees x 10 IC
  • Fast High Knees x 10 IC
  • Butt Kickers x 10 IC
  • Jane Fondas x 10 IC each side

The Thang

Mosey to Track (repeat for time these three sets of exercises)

  • 10 Burpees
  • Bear Crawl 20 Yds
  • 10 Burpees
  • Crawl Bear back 20 Yds

  • 20 Rows
  • 20 Bonnie Blaires

  • 10 Burpees
  • 20 Yds Crabwalk
  • 10 Burpees
  • 20 Yds Crabwalk back (face other direction)

We ended doing 100+ burpees

COT

New Year sharing about goals.

Goon: Blog at work, Side hustle (CAD), Grow F3 Portland

Red Curry: Focus on Health and Fitness

StrayCat: Freediving and Build Garage

12.31.22 Billy Madison

AO: Lavafield

QIC: Leprechaun

PAX: Goon, Blue Steel, Lumbergh, Winger, 1 Cent, Free Lunch, Danish, Cliffhanger

Conditions: dry and comfortable with a beautiful sunshine

Warm up

  • Air squats
  • Halos
  • 3rd graders
  • 5 Inchworms w/merkin
  • Toy Soldiers
  • Side straddle hop

The Thang

Partner Workout

  • P1 Lunge steps with coupon over head to 10 yard line and back
  • P2 coupon swings
  • Partner 2 completes the exercise for as long as it take Partner 1 to compete theirs
  • 5 rounds

Billy Madison – complete exercise for each “Grade”, then run a loop (about 150 m). As you move up in grades you must complete the exercises below it before running your loop. Follow the pattern outlined below.

  • 1st – Diamond Merkins x12 (run loop)
  • 2nd – Dips x12 (then 1st, then run loop)
  • 3rd – WW2 x12 (then 2nd, 1st, then run loop)
  • 4th – American Hammer x12 (then 3rd, 2nd, 1st, then run loop)
  • 5th – Freddie Mercury x12 (continue pattern throughout)
  • 6th – Squats x12
  • 7th – Lunges x12
  • 8th – Monkey Humpers x12
  • 9th – Mountain Climbers x12
  • 10th – Shoulder Touches x12
  • 11th – Plank Jack’s x12
  • 12th – Burpees x12

COT

Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff by Richard Carlson

Chapter 70: Remember that you become what you practice most.