Space Needle

Yon Pax

8 specimen posted to the needle this morning under the questionable guidance of the Q, Squid.

Sun Devil, Kojak, Wooley Bugger, Hurley, La Fleur, Cheesey Poufe (probably “poof” but he didn’t specify, and I imagine this is how La Fleur might spell it) visiting us out of VA, Waxy, and Squid.

Everyone wore yoga pants and headbands as instructed. Then, it got aerobic.

The thingymabob:

  • SSH
  • LBC
  • Flutters
  • Criss-cross scissor core workout
  • Mosey to the stage
  • Pair up. Run to the other end of the stage and do a downwards ladder of burpees starting at ten. While one runs, the other stays and does amrap squats.
  • Mosey to upper courtyard above the fountain.
  • New pairs, same exercise as above, sub lunges for squats.
  • Mosey to the lower courtyard by the large steps.
  • New pairs, same exercise as above, sub step-ups for lunges. For time considerations, we did 10 through 6 instead of all the way to zero.

COT

Announcements:

  • Upcoming events: Worthington weekend, base to space, Goruck in August, Goruck custom (F3 only) in October.
  • Now officially compiling a list of folks interested in F3 team scuba for a tentative open water certification class in Sept. Reach out to Squid (Layton Miller on facebook) if you are even tentatively interested. If you’re not interested, reach out anyways and he’ll convince you.
  • Still running third F on the east side on Saturday mornings over at Starbucks. If you have further questions, contact Kojak.

Words:
Look around you to find leaders that you know are successful at being leaders, and try to figure out what it is that makes them successful. Carry that with you and observe those around you to try to see if you can learn from their examples.

A.D.D. at the K.M.S.

.18 men came out for a surprising dry morning that then turned into a surprisingly wet morning.

The PAX:

  1. Fifth wheel
  2. Mash
  3. Gift box
  4. Spam
  5. AC/DC
  6. Tardy
  7. Bam Bam
  8. Jar Jar
  9. Drama
  10. Jemaine
  11. Spotlight
  12. Gilligan
  13. FSBO
  14. Guero
  15. Buckeye
  16. Schnitzel
  17. Singlet
  18. Kramer (Q)

The Thang:

Warmup:

SSH

Sumo squats

Imperial Walkers

Arm circles

Bropees x 5

 

Mosey to front of school

10/20/30: decline, incline, dips

15 box jumps

Mosey back

Jack Webb  1×4…5×20 and back down.

Screw your buddies: 4 people call exercise to the rest of the group, then run / bear crawl up hill, while rest do exercise. Mash started us out by calling jillian michaels. Bad Mash!

 

Red bearchetta

Rain starts…gentle at first.

Lt. Dan (1 squat:4 jumping lunges, 2:8 etc). Much enthusiasm for the jumping lunge mod.

Mosey to start of track. Rain really coming down now. 

Catch me if you can w / 3 burpees 1 lap. 

Mosey back

Some Mary:

  • Captain Thor
  • freddy mercury
  • flutter
  • 50 LBCs

Annoucements: 2.0 workout convergence at KMS at 9am, bring your kids!  Custom ruck coming up, check facebook or ping Buckeye, sign up soon!

Camping trip, check with Guero.

Words: Show up and lead. Kramer volunteering in school today to teach Junior Achievement – terrifying but will be a great experience!

 

Thanks for coming out.

  • Kramer

HURLEY VQ!

11 PAX got after it Monday @ MOHAI for Hurley’s VQ: Squid, Scrum, Squid, Wooly Bugger, Meetup, Kojak, SPAM, Bangkok, LaFleur, 529’er, Hurley (Q)

CoP:

10 count each: SSH, cotton pickers, windmills, merkins, arm circles, and imperial walkers

The Thang:

Deck of cards: Each card was an exercise and we were playing against time.

Hearts = burpees
Diamonds = mercans
Clubs = squats
Spades = abs

Each number = number of reps. Each guy was given a number and was in charge of calling a variation when that number was pulled.

Aces = AMRAP of the exercise for one minute

Jacks = a game of tag with the winner picking 10 reps of an exercise

Queens = partner carry across the parking lot

Kings = four corners with 5 reps of the exercise at each corner

We made it through only 38 cards

Announcements:

– 2.0 workout at 0900 @ KiMS this coming Saturday. All regular workouts are ON.

8/17GoRuck Star Course 50 Miler

9/22Tough Mudder

10/19Custom GoRuck Tough for F3. Sign up via link: https://www.goruck.com/event-14722/

WoW:

It’s never too late to start making changes to make yourself better.

18 PAX @ start. 19 PAX @ end.

19 PAX got after it Saturday @ Gasworks: Journey, Big City, The Natural, FNG TKO (EH’d in motion by Dunder!), FNG Rasta, FNG Mellencamp, Dunder, Mifflin, Bangkok, LaFleur, 5 mil, Hurley, Waxie, Sun Devil, Dive Bar, Applebee, Schrempf, Husker, 529’er (Q)

CoP: 

Mosey to top of the hill. SSH, LBC fast cadence x 100, squats

The Thang:

– 4 teams. 4 weights (punching bag, 40lb. sandbag, 30lb. ruck plate, 40lb. ruck plate).

– One person from each team carries weight overhead down the hill to the bench & back (100M-ish each way). Rest of the team does AMRAP exercises (WWI, Hand release merkins, regular merkins, sumo squats).

– Walking lunges from top of hill to parking lot

– 10 decline merkins / 20 incline merkins / 30 dips

– Mosey to path 1/2 way up the hill, then backwards bear crawl to top.

– Fast cadence LBC x 100

– Sprinkled throughout the workout to this point were about 60 burpees OYO.

MoM: 

– Inchworm plank up merkins x 5

– Fast cadence LBC x 100

Announcements:

– Hurley VQ on 6/11 @ MOHAI. Get some!

8/17GoRuck Star Course 50 Miler

9/22Tough Mudder

10/19 Custom GoRuck Tough for F3. Sign up via link: https://www.goruck.com/event-14722/

WoW:

We can do a lot more together than we can do on our own. This is a great AO with a great vibe and a great PAX. Bangkok is going to kill it here as Site Q! Props to Dunder for EHing TKO while doing WWI sit ups on the top of the hill.

Defiance visits Wright Park

Defiance came to Wright Park for a workout that made men better.

PAX: Frenchy, Lunger (Q), Chief!, Bivvie, DDT, Smelter and FNG Matlock

After warmups from Frenchy everyone grabbed a weight of some sort – sandbags, a bag of battle rope or a 30# slam ball. Run the perimeter of the park with the coupons stopping along the way to do stuff like pull-ups, dips, situps, bear crawl up a hill and dragging the sandbag.

Finished with sprints, bear crawls and duck walk on the baseballba court.

A little merlot was splashed.

Lunger gave a history lesson about the park during the workout. #historyiscool.

Breakfast at Hob Nob. Good work men!

Lucky at Heritage

13 guys made it out to Heritage to continue their quest towards a Redwood patch. 

Elroy, Bam Bam, Bob, Shark Bait, Valdez, Singlet, Guerro, The Hoff, Hollywood (Q), Worthington, Buckeye, Kramer, Jemaine

The Thang:

SSH, merkins, Mtn climbers, cotton pickers 

The millennial (Run 100 meters, complete 100 reps of…)

SSH, Merkins, Squats, LBC, Lunges, Dips, Flutters, Step Ups, Mtn Climbers, Burpees

6MoM

Announcements 

2.0 workout next Saturday (6/16) 9am at KiMS

Rucks a plenty 

Tough mudder 

Base to space

Words:

Thinking about the celebrities who supposedly “had it all” yet took their own life, recently. 

One main thing to realize is that F3 is a community which will support you, lift you up if you need it. You only have to ask. 

Dora and X-mas in Redmond

PAX
Earl, Gorka, Frigid, Thriftshop, Kobe, Zombie, Dig Dug, Jujitsu, Brady, Nietzsche, Xbox, Snip (Q) – Thanks to Xbox for being way better than me at remembering the PAX!


Clearly, my skills at selfies could be improved 🙂

The Thang
Ssh, imperial walkers 

Mosey

Swedish Mile

Pair up for Dora 1 2 3 (100 merkins, 200 LBCs, 300 Squats)

Mosey

12 days of x-mas (diamond push-up, burpees, yoga pushups, v, lounges, wide push-ups, break, cotton pickers, sumo squats, hand to foot in crab position, burpees) 

 

A Cluster F of a Backblast

A Cluster F of a Backblast

 

Log Boom Park 6/8/2018

 

PAX:  FNG Topknot, 5th Wheel, Guero, Dry Dock, SPAM, 529, Narwhal, Seabass, LaFleur, Hurley, Worthington, Dunder and Mifflin, FSBO, Magic, 7-Layer, Olaf, Salsa and MASH

Q:  Gekko

 

The Brute Bag made its maiden voyage at Log Boom Park today.  Moving forward the Brute Bag will be known as Steve-O (long story/you had to be there).

 

Here comes the cluster F part of this Backblast…..there was constant motion and switching of teams and pairs = pretty hard to capture everything without the help of a courtroom stenographer.

 

See some late PAX straggling in = punctual PAX immediately begin to job in a direction away from the stragglers, and then retreat back to home base.

 

CoP:  SSH, mountain climbers and merkins.

 

Introduce the Brute Bag, and the overall layout for the workout was this:  1 PAX does 10 reps on the Brute Bag, 2 PAX do an AMRAP exercise, and 1 PAX does AMRAP exercise.  Rotate through your group while the rest of the group runs an out and back.

 

Brute Bag exercises:  bent over lateral rows, bear hug squats, hip extension squat thrusters, curls, bear crawl pushes.

 

Exercises for other team members:  sumo squats, merkins, diamond merkins, flutters and squats.

 

Entire PAX:  line up shoulder to shoulder and hold a squat.  Pass the bag from one end to the other, and once you pass it you complete 5 burpees.

 

Partner up:  P1 does ab exercises hanging off of the wall while P2 holds feet.  Flapjack x 3

 

3MoM:  circle up and begin doing 4-count flutters while the bag gets passed around the entire circle.  72 reps

 

 

Announcements

*Normal Saturday workout schedule for 6/9:  Bellevue, KiMS, Heritage Park, Gas Works at Point Defiance at 7AM.

*6/16 at 9AM:  2.0 (kids) workout – boys and girls welcome.  2.0 workouts are really for your M (wife!).  Get the hooligans out of the house and tire them out!  (Blatant self-interest:  the more you do this = the more guilt-free F3 workouts you get to hit IMHO.)

*6/22-24:  Worthington Weekend Family Extravaganza in Richland

*6/30:  Base 2 Space up the Space Needle.  Talk to Grissom for more details.

*10/19:  GoRuck Custom Tough event for just our F3 group.  Sounding like you will want to be one of the first 35 PAX to pay for this…..talk to Buckeye.

 

WoW:  Have an environment where you feel safe saying, “Taddah!  Look at how awesome I have been….”  F3 can be that group for you.  Looking around our CoT you see numerous success stories on the physical fitness/health/weight loss side of things, and you also see guys who have made impressive strides in a short period of time on family, relationships and personal development.  At home encourage your kids and spouse/SO to feel safe to step up and own their success.  Many in our society are eager to step up and own failures, but attribute success to “luck” – MAKE them own their success and know that they have a safe place to own (~almost brag!) their recent wins.

 

Other “noise”:

*Salsa estimating that the Brute Bag/Steve-O weighs in at only 40 lbs makes me think that his internal scale is off…….or I am much weaker than I think…..

*Some planking was done on our finger tips (AKA – PYS for your fingers.  Cue Hollywood saying, “It must be easy…..cuz it’s only exercising your fingers.”)

*Guero shot out of the cannon on the first running legs in the parking lot!

*YES – 72 flutter kicks was the last exercise.  Some guys (LAFLEUR!!!) did not seem to want to pass the Brute Bag.

*Dunder and Mifflin said that the partner ab work we did should now be called “Brokeback”…..

 

Go DOMINATE today!!!!

 

Return of the Quicksand Gun Show

Sun’s out, Guns out

PAX: Hollywood, Salsa, Worthington, Dry Dock, Hurley, Goats, Spam, Brady, and Xbox (Q)

Warmup: Run around the field, 10 IC Good Mornings, Windmills, Cotton Pickers, Merkins, and 15 IC Arm circles to include flapjack.

Thang:

4 Corners. Home 25 LBCs, visitor Burpees AMRAP; YHC decided to switch up the order, so we ran the corners 3, 1, 4, 2; with 2 being in the far corner, it lead to the salmon ladder. 😋

Salmon Ladder up: increments of 2 Diamond Merkins per level, all flat travel done with walking lunges; pickup 6 once done.

Salmon Ladder down: Starting at 16, down by 2 on each level: Sumo Squats; all flat travel, reverse lunges; pickup 6.

Head to track. YHC started with the idea 5-10-15-20 repititions of Jillian Michaels at each corner, but after corner 2, switched to 5-10-10-5.

One more time with Carolina Dry Docks, but we stuck with the count 5-10-15-20.

Headed back to the field to do Abs in the reverse order of the corners we did at the beginning: 20 LBCs, 10 World War IIIs, 20 American Hammers, and YHC forgot what the fourth corner was.

Spotlight loves running backwards, so we ran the corners backwards at the end as well.

On the second round of AMRAP burpees, Salsa found it appropriate to pace the speed… which allowed YHC to keep up.

Spam did not let me run slow on the laps around the track. Grrrr. Love you man.

Brady helped count cadence during warmup.

Glad to have you back Worthington!!! Thanks for the good words from the Star Course. Encouraging.

I always get better hanging out with Goats and Hurley. Great attitude and hard workers! Get at it men.

Great location Hollywood. Thanks for being an awesome Site Q. I’m working on some men to help build it up…the long, slow EH.

YHC provided WoW: attention management. Don’t let electronics grab your attention. Set time aside to give important things sole attention.

Thank you for letting me lead you men. Have a great week. Get at it and earn that Redwoods patch tomorrow and Saturday.

1,011 LBCs at The Needle

11 PAX got after it Wednesday @ Space Needle: Talent, Hurley, Squid, LaFleur, Lateral, Schrempf, Meetup, SunDevil, Bangkok, LaFleur, 529’er (Q)

The Thang:

5 stations w/ 1.45 miles of total mosey in between. Exercises distributed evenly at each stop.

Total Exercises:

50 inchworm plank up merkins

200 little man in the woods (aka smurf jack)

1,011 LBCs (fast cadence)

Announcements:

– Hurley VQ on 6/11 @ MOHAI. Get some!

– 8/17 GoRuck Star Course 50 Miler

– 9/22 Tough Mudder

– 10/19 Custom GoRuck Tough for F3. Sign up via link: https://www.goruck.com/event-14722/

WoW:

Talent reminded us of Passport’s FB post yesterday. He is going through some difficult times. Many have already reached out immediately upon seeing his message. F3 is there for him – just like it is for all of us. It’s easy to take that fact for granted when things are going well. Remember that this group genuinely wants to help anyone who is in need. Anytime.