(5/5/22) Exploratory Death March

AO: The Oakery

QIC: Ghost

PAX: Ram, Dad Joke, Rubik, Output, Deacon, Fishman, Mad Dog, Revolutioon

Conditions

50, showers

Warm up

SSH x 20IC

Imperial Walkers x 10IC

Scissor Arms x 8IC

Daisy Pickers x 12IC

on your six – side ankle touches x20IC

single leg bridges x 10 IC each side

dead bug shuffle 10 feet each way

Bring Sally Up – with single arm plank leg lift

The Thang

Mosey to Coop Road

Bataan Death March – 3 burpees up the hill then back and up the side road and back

Stop for 10 squats and 10 merkins in a circle on awkward cadence (holding for random amounts of time before coming back up)

Mosey around meadow path at school and back to flag pole

6MoM

Reachers (squat to jump/reach) x20IC

Ankle touches x20IC

calf raises – 20 seconds each leg

Reverse Snowman x20IC

Merkins x20IC

Frozen Freddies x 20IC

CoT

You practice like you play

F3 is like practice for the adversity we face in life. That’s why we meet outdoors rain or shine. It gives us a chance to handle whatever life throws at us. That’s why we left the cover today even though it was raining. The next couple of months will be relatively easy, but will we be able to build a movement at the Oakery that lasts through the winter? It remains to be seen.

We are preparing for difficult times that will lie ahead – Ephesians 6:13

Ghost out

(5/3/22) 50/50

AO: The Oakery

QIC: Ghost

PAX: Ram, Dad Joke, Rubik, Output

Conditions

50, overcast, dry

Warm up

SSH x 20IC

Hillbillies x 10IC

Halos x 8IC

Windmills x 10IC

leg swings forward x 8OYO each way

leg swings sideways x 8OYO each way

calf raises – 15seconds OYO

Mosey around to get coupons.

The Thang

Complete in any order OYO

Laps around school x5

Donkey kicks x50

Coupon manmakers x50

Coupon curls x50

Shoulder press w/ feet on picnic table (coupon press for modification) x50

Bonnie Blairs x50

Coupon shrugs x50

6MoM

No time

CoT

Talked about go30 goals for May and encouragement to attend the convergence.

My goal is to at leasts once during each meal focus consciously on chewing and swallowing my food before taking the next bite. Rubik wants to do 10 pullups twice per day. Dad Joke wants to connect better with some friends. Ram wants to be on time to his various commitments

Rubik asked for prayer for leading his Bible study group on Thursday

Ghost out

4/29/22 – Crab Walks and Bear Crawls and Coupon Swings Oh My

AO: Lightning Rod

QIC: Walkman

PAX: Kiwi, Free Lunch, Kingpin, Herbie

Conditions: 47 and dry with slightly damp ground. Sun keeps coming up earlier and earlier! Great to have Kingpin down range from Laramie, Wy.

Warm up

Windmill x 10, Halo’s x 10, Monkey Humpers x 10, Daisy Pickers x 14, Third Grade x 10, Mosy to landing above the field.

Thang

Start at the top of the landing, above Ben Franklin. Circuit of 5, 10, 15, 20, 25.

Goblet Squats, Coupon Swings, Weighted Leg Raises. Between each set, crab walk down the ramp, sprint in front of Ben Franklin, Bear Crawl up the rap. Repeato.

Mosy to the stairs. Complete 3 rounds of the (completely misnamed) Paula Abdul & Chest-hurt Cheeto’s. Line up at the bottom of the stairs, two guys sprint up the stairs going 3 steps up, 2 steps back (Paula’s). The rest of the line does Merkin’s (Chest Hurt’s). YHC shared a video on slack of the actual video, and it turns out I got nearly all of it wrong (not chester cheeto, not 3 steps forward 2 steps back). Oh well, those are fun/hard.

Mosy to the ‘Rod.

6MOM: Squats x 20, Plank x 15 (front, each side).

COT

YHC shared about how managing stress, being present, etc is tied directly to the actions we take before the stress hits – diet, sleep, emotional hygeine, etc etc. Shared a story of how this impacted me this week and had a good discussion about it with the pax.

Great work Men!

Walkman

(4/28/22) Island Hopper

AO: The Oakery

QIC: Ghost

PAX: Mad Dog, Fishman, Ram, Dad Joke, Deacon, Rubik, Output, Revolution

Conditions

Mid 40s. light mist.

Warm up

SSH x 20IC

Hillbillies x 12IC

Reachers x 12IC

Halos x 8IC

Daisy Pickers x 12IC

leg swings forward x 8IC each way

leg swings sideways x 8IC each way

calf raises – 15s OYO

world’s greatest stretch

Mosey around to back of school.

Wall sit while doing (cherry pickers, shoulder press, overhead claps, arm circles forward and backwards – all exercises 10IC)

The Thang

Each area of the playground is an island. Going counterclockwise we squat jump between islands. Start with three on each island. Go at your own pace

Bear crawl around slide then climb and slide down then 5 merkins

Duck walk around jungle gym then 5 shoulder touch planks

Side shuffle forward side shuffle backward around the 3rd one then 5 rows/pull ups

Add 5 each time around (we completed about four rounds, up to 20 reps)

6MoM

Hold a pole – leg up hip raises x20IC

Frozen Freddiez x20IC

Reverse Snow Angel x20IC

Box cutters x20IC

Big Bois x20IC

CoT

I get too focused on task completion and continue trying to complete tasks when I am spent and completely inefficient. Previous evening this happened and I wasted a bunch of time and got no rest and it was very frustrating.

I think it comes down to trust. I want to trust God more to guide me through life in a way that is balanced, not focused on completing tasks, but on following His Spirit in what is helpful in the moment.

We talked about go30 for April and then a few people opened up about personal struggles. It was great to hear people really getting vulnerable and honest. Getting some skeletons out of the closet!

Ghost out

(4/26/22) Limiting Factor

AO: The Oakery

QIC: Ghost

PAX: Mad Dog, Fishman, Ram, Dad Joke, Deacon, Rubik, Output

Conditions

High 40s. Light rain tapering off.

Warm up

Mosey 2 laps

SSH x 12IC

Reachers x 10IC

Hip Circles x 6IC each way

3rd Grade x 10IC

Imperial Walkers x 10IC

Scissor arms x 8IC

Mosey around school. Then grab the two heavy coupons. They shouldn’t touch the ground until the end of the workout.

The Thang

One exercise will be the “limiting factor” or weakest link alerting us that it’s time to switch

4 stations, 2 people at each station, exercises until someone can’t go with good form any longer and calls switch. Then everyone moves to the next station.

1st rotation – coupon (kettle bell) swings, merkins, spiderman lunges, plank (twice through rotation)

Lap around school taking turns carrying the coupons

2nd rotation – coupon curls, lunges, Jane Fonda left side, Jane Fonda right side (twice through rotation)

Lap around school taking turns carrying the coupons

3rd rotation – Coupon clean squat and press, Right side oil derricks, Left side oil derricks, side plank (once through rotation)

6MoM

0

CoT

Thinking about sharing each others burdens. When we ask for help managing our burdens (or our sins) and acknowledge our weakness then we are being honest with others about the burdens we carry and give them a chance to help us willingly, like when we ask for help carrying the coupon around the school.

But if we don’t ask for help with our burdens (or sin) we still force others to carry a weight. It might be the weight of our distraction or our forgetfulness or our lack of joy in interacting with them. When we aren’t living up to our potential or walking in step with the Spirit other people pay the price even if they don’t know it.

Deacon pointed out that it’s important to share our joys as well, not just our burdens.

Ghost out

(4/21/22) Shrug it off

AO: The Oakery

QIC: Ghost

PAX: Mad Dog, Fishman, Ram, Dad Joke, Deacon, FNG (now Revolution)

Conditions

42 degrees and one brief rain shower.

Warm up

SSH x 20IC

Windmills x 10IC

Imperial Walkers x 10IC

Scissor arms x 8IC

Leg swings foward x 8ea IC

Leg swings sideways x 8ea IC

Reachers x 10IC

Mosey around parking lot. Then grab the three coupons.

The Thang

Partner up and complete…

200 coupon shrugs while partner does a lap around parking lot.

150 merkins while partner does over and backs down the parking lot

200 GT(or goblet) squats while partner does bear crawl

100 rows while partner does coupon rifle carry

6MoM

Frozen Freddies x 20IC

CoT

Did a go30 check in. Most people were still on the wagon or had gotten back on after missing one or two days.

Thinking about friendship (having my old friend Joby as FNG) Wanting to leverage our friendships to help make us better men, but also to help us flourish and have fun. Talked about convergence. Hopefully a few of us will be able to make it too Hood River and meet some of the other PAX in the area.

Then we got to know our FNG so we could give him a name.

Ghost out

(4/19/22) Asymmetry

AO: The Oakery

QIC: Ghost

PAX: Mad Dog, Fishman, Output, Deacon

Conditions

42 degrees and light rain.

Warm up

SSH x 20IC

Leg swings foward x 8eaIC

Leg swings sideways x 8eaIC

Scissor arms x 10IC

Hillbillies x 10IC

Reachers x 10IC

Mosey around parking lot. Then grab the three coupons

The Thang

2 rounds of interval workout 30 seconds on, 15 seconds rest

Right leg squats with coupon on right shoulder

Right arm coupon shoulder press

Right arm plank

Right leg Jane Fondas

Right leg split squats

Right arm row

Lap Around School

Same thing on left side.

Lap Around School

6MoM

Merkins x 30IC

Big Boys x 20IC

Reverse Snow Angel x 20IC

Frozen Freddies x 20IC

Flutter jacks x 20IC

CoT

Kind of a rambling one…

First, just want to encourage PAX to keep making that consistent effort to be here. The novelty has worn off.

Second, thinking about asymmetry (Russia vs Ukraine, State media vs. free media, powerful vs. disenfranchised). I’m disturbed by the dehumanizing and radical rhetoric coming from RT TV, the asymmetry between truth and the rhetoric. I want us to be in dialog with each other so that moderate voices are being heard rather than just the radical ones in the media. We must be willing and able to talk and to learn from each other or we too are susceptible to aiding and abetting terrible things.

Deacon reminded us of how Jesus always got to the heart of the matter and it usually transcended our categories and polarization.

Output talked about the importance of using God’s word, rather than our own opinions, as the foundation for our thinking.

Ghost out

(4/18/22) Asymmetry

AO: LightningRod

QIC: Walkman

PAX: StrayCat, Lumbergh, JellyFish, Kiwi

Conditions

47 and clear. That sun is starting to come up earlier and we started the week on a great note!

Warm up

Side lunge x 10ea

Slow high knees x 10

Monkey humper x 10

Jane Fonda x 10ea

Third grade x 10

Halo x 10

Side lunge x 10ea
Slow high knees x 10
Monkey humper x 10
Jane Fonda x 10ea
Third grade x 10
Halo x 10

Mosy to the Track with coupons

The Thang

Right leg coupon GT squats x 25

Right arm coupon merkins x 25

Right leg lunges x 25

Right arm row x 25

Right leg split squats x 25

400M run

Right side Jane fonda’s x 30

Right side stretch x 10

Right arm shrug x 25

Right leg coupon GT squats x 25

Right arm coupon merkins x 25

Right leg lunges x 25

Right arm row x 25

Right leg split squats x 25

400M run

Leg leg coupon GT squats x 25

Left arm coupon merkins x 25

Left leg lunges x 25

Left arm row x 25

Left leg split squats x 25

400M run

Left side Jane fonda’s x 30

Left side stretch x 10

Left arm shrug x 25

Left arm coupon merkins x 25

Left leg lunges x 25

Left arm row x 25

Left leg split squats x 25

400M run

6MOM

Frozen Freddie x 10

Plank (w/ ea side) x 10

Bunny Hill

COT

Two CoT messages here today.

Sometimes life gets asymmetrical. You over commit, over execute, under prioritize. When you do, things downstream suffer. Some actions require countering actions – yin and Yang.

Your energy, focus, patience, presence, etc  are consumable. The older I get, the more valuable it is to say no and To find balance. To hunt the Yang. To under commit. Or to know what it takes to restore me and to be ok with it. In order to give 100% of my self to something.

Bertrand Russell, A Free Man’s Worship (Very worth a long read)

The life of Man, viewed outwardly, is but a small thing in comparison with the forces of Nature. The slave is doomed to worship Time and Fate and Death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour. But, great as they are, to think of them greatly, to feel their passionless splendour, is greater still. And such thought makes us free men; we no longer bow before the inevitable in Oriental subjection, but we absorb it, and make it a part of ourselves. To abandon the struggle for private happiness, to expel all eagerness of temporary desire, to burn with passion for eternal things–this is emancipation, and this is the free man’s worship.

And this liberation is effected by a contemplation of Fate; for Fate itself is subdued by the mind which leaves nothing to be purged by the purifying fire of Time. United with his fellow-men by the strongest of all ties, the tie of a common doom, the free man finds that a new vision is with him always, shedding over every daily task the light of love. The life of Man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long. One by one, as they march, our comrades vanish from our sight, seized by the silent orders of omnipotent Death.

Very brief is the time in which we can help them, in which their happiness or misery is decided. Be it ours to shed sunshine on their path, to lighten their sorrows by the balm of sympathy, to give them the pure joy of a never-tiring affection, to strengthen failing courage, to instill faith in hours of despair. Let us not weigh in grudging scales their merits and demerits, but let us think only of their need–of the sorrows, the difficulties, perhaps the blindnesses, that make the misery of their lives; let us remember that they are fellow-sufferers in the same darkness, actors in the same tragedy as ourselves.

And so, when their day is over, when their good and their evil have become eternal by the immortality of the past, be it ours to feel that, where they suffered, where they failed, no deed of ours was the cause; but wherever a spark of the divine fire kindled in their hearts, we were ready with encouragement, with sympathy, with brave words in which high courage glowed.

Well done Men!

Walkman

(03.18.22) – Charge the Hill and 2 zig zags

AO: Lightning Rod

QIC: Walkman

PAX: Free Lunch, Jelly Fish, Steamy Nix, Stray Cat

Conditions

47, wet ground but otherwise dry. Great morning for a beatdown!

Warm up

Jogged to the corner with our coupons, completed:

  • Burpee Box jump x 5
  • Neck rolls x 10
  • Arm Scissors x 10
  • Imperial Walker x 10
  • Burpee Box Jumps x 5
  • Windmill x 10
  • Third Grade x 10
  • Monkey Humper x 10
  • Burpee Box Jump x5
  • Side Lung x 10

Mosied to the tiered hill by the football field with our coupons.

The Thang

Charge the Hill:

  • 5 Pull ups
  • Charge the hill while bear hugging the coupon
  • 5 merkins
  • run down the hill
  • repeato with 10, 15, 20 reps

2 Zig Zags (I always accidentally call Bolt 45’s ‘Colt 45’s’, and then I get the Afro Man song in my head, which birthed this idea).

Bolt 45 1: 15 top 1/3 squats, 15 mid range squats, 15 bottom 1/3 squats, 15 merkins, 15 jump squats

Bolt 45 2: 15 top 1/3 Merkins, 15 mid range merkins, 15 bottom 1/3 merkins, 15 squats, 15 full Merkins.

Charge the hill:

  • 5 pull ups
  • charge the hill while bear hugging the coupon
  • 5 Squats with the coupon
  • run down the hill
  • repeato with 10, 15 reps.

Mosy back to the ‘Rod.

6MOM

  • Big Bois w/coupon and OHP x 10
  • Frozen Freddie x 20
  • Plank x 15, side plank x 15 each side
  • LBC x 25

COT

I shared that my family is in a tremendous period of transition, and that’s its been really important for me to be able to be very empathetic to the emotional swings, rational fears and challenges, etc. We had a good conversation about handling transitions, self awareness, and some great edification from the pax.

Great work today Men!

Walkman

(09.7.21) – No Bunnies were harmed in the making of this beatdown

AO: The Gauntlet

QIC: Walkman

PAX: Kiwi, Herbie(!), Free Lunch

Conditions

60ish and clear. Surprisingly brisk for the temp but fall is definitely in the air. The Pax trickled in and we kicked things off.

Warm up

Mosied a lap around the track and then to the tennis courts. Lined up and did Grady Corns x 10, line hops (hop forward and backward over the line) x 10, arm scissors x 10, line hops x 10, Imperial Walkers x 10, Line hops x 10, Windmill x 10, Line hops x 10, Mary Poopins x 10. Ran a set of fishbones down and back and mosied to the goal line.

The Thang

Lined up on the goal line and completed 3 rounds of exercises down the field.

Round 1: Sprint 20 yards, run 10 yards backwards, 5 shoulder touch merkins, repeato to the end zone (50 total Merkins). Mosied a 3/4 lap around the track back to the starting end zone.

Round 2: Lunge walk forward 20 yards, 10 burpee’s with a jump at the end, lunge walk 20 yards backwards, 10 burpees with a jump at the end, repeato alternating forward/backward lunges. YHC was not jumping very high by the 50 yard line! Mosied a 3/4 Lap around the track back to the starting end zone.

Round 3: Farmer carry the coupon 10 yards, 1x burpee thruster and one set of hop overs. Repeato to end zone. Mosied back to the starting area.

6MoM

  • Outlaws x 10 both ways
  • Penguins (heel touches) x 15
  • Dead bug pulses x 10
  • Finished a minute early to get Herbie in the count-o-rama/name-o-rama and out by 6:15

COT

I shared the landscape in my life for the next two weeks, and how thinking about it and putting a plan together gives me a lot of confidence and peace. We’re going into a two week sprint of new school for the kids and new schedules for us, and it’s critical that I’m present and patient through it. If I have anxiety about it, my kids certainly do (and they’ve shared some). I have a chance to earn a lot of trust and vulnerability from them here, if I’m present and patient. To do that, I need (4) F3 workouts a week, I need good sleep and no hangovers (no second bottles of wine Kiwi!) and I need to put my phone away in the afternoons and just embrace the time with them.

Kiwi shared his perspective is similar, sans kids. The lockdowns and Covid pressure are real on everyone, and he feels it in his life as well.

Free Lunch has some big auditions this week – you’ll crush them!

Great opportunity to help us all adapt back to a semblance of routine, and there are tons of men out there in the same position we can help! What’s your landscape look like and what do you need to do in order to Thrive through it?

Great work Men!

Walkman