We stretched.
We pickled.
We conquered Mount Inferno.
We planked.

It was like Mount Doom mixed with Free Solo.

We listened to the same angry song on repeat for 45 minutes.

Great workout, guys!

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was the theme today.

We had a list of 10 solid kettlebell moves and we listened to ‘Ten’ the album straight through.

When was the last time you actually listened to an album, no skips, and in order as the artist intended? Bet it’s been a while.

Pearl Jam’s ‘Ten’ is high up on YHC’s faves of all time list, so homage was paid.

We did start with some stretches as promised. Thanks to my cousin who is a sports PT and has enlightened me to how important — and how bad — my hip flexibility, strength, and alignment is.

Excercises straight through. Pickle. Repeato.

– Swings
– Hunter Squat Left / Right
– Pullover Press
– RDL Left / Right
– Rows Left / Right
– Goblet Squat Thrusters
– Clean to Press Left / Right
– Elevated Lunge Left / Right
– Woodchop Left / Right
– Swings

Solid morning.

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9 on the final day of August for a 45 minute EMOM backed by all-time classic album-closing tracks. It was the kettlebell all-star team today, so they rolled with my “no breaks” workout just fine.

After COT, we joined the SWW crew to celebrate Amway’s 500th SC post. I’m thankful for Amway’s leadership in F3 and his positive influence on my life.

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10 boot campers and 4 run clubbers this fine Friday morning. Pledge and we were off a short mosey. Warmed up behind Java Jive and then straight into a classic partner Dora, up the stairs and around the building was the pickle and merkins, LBC’s and squats were the exercises.

Next we moseyed down Kildaire and to the base of the infamous Kildaire stretch. Hill repeats were on tap with a variety of merkins and squats at each top turn around spot and WW1’s at the base. That left us 8 min to get back to the flag. We made it just in time to finish it off with 15 squats to stretch out our legs.

AMBRR and BRR coming up. Prayers for Life Alerts family, Vegemite’s family, DEET’s family, Kitty Litter and the world in general. It was great to be out there with you HIM this morning. Go MIAGD!

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For the main event:

Mission statement, core principles, and the pledge at the flag, then we ran over to the office parking deck on Palace Green for three sets of four corners with plank jacks, Apollo Ono’s, Bobby Hurley‘s and Shakira‘s.

Run back to the park for a very modified mini Murph: pull-ups, merkins and squats then run the pickle , called for time at about seven or eight sets.

The runners joined in for COT. Stretch and a have a nice day for the finish.

We have a purpose, men. Be kind to others and MIAGD!

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13 HIM met for a moist 1st day of August celebrating my 7th F3 anniversary this morning. Dang! I can’t believe it’s been seven years! Several months ago I signed up to Q today and it completely slipped my mind. Maybe I’m just getting old….

Seven years ago, Bluewater convinced me at work to come give F3 a try, he said he’d meet me there in the morning. So I showed up….he didn’t.

Ok, technically he did, he just didn’t know Carpex and South Wake had different workouts, so he went to South Wake, and I went to FWD. You know, the one right down the street from our office. No one there knew who Dale Rose was, and I sure as shit didn’t know anyone’s nickname!

At any rate, all things went well. Slack wasn’t a thing at that time and it took me a surprisingly long time to learn there was a sign-up sheet for Q’s, or that you could just look at it to see who was leading what workouts. We’ve come a long way in 7 years!

On to the workout!
No FNG’s, so YHC completed a very abbreviated disclaimer and we headed to the large Koka Booth parking lot for a standard warmup and light stretching before heading to the rock pile at the far end of the lot.

The Thang:
Partner up, and grab an ego rock. Partner 1 does each exercise AMRAP while the partner runs a pickle.
Rows
Curls
Overhead Press
Triceps Extension
Then put it all together for Rock Your Body.

Once we completed that round, we did a rapid fire set of Mary and repeated the sets using a slightly shorter pickle route. After dropping the rocks we headed back with two stops along the way for more Mary.

Thanks again for coming out to help celebrate this milestone. We never know the impact we are having on other pax. We show up, and we lift up.

Announcements:
Hermes had them all: Cleaver run Aug 10th, Golf Tournament coming up, some other stuff.

MIAGD, fellas!

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Slow and methodical was the plan this morning, YHC had a goal for the pax to leave the workout stronger with some sore muscles, hopefully the mission was accomplished.

Lots of swings (140)
~1 mile worth of farmers carry
Just a few Turkish getups
Squats
Presses
Offset Merkins
Weird chair sit weight thing that failed
Core

And a playlist from my emo days that was both loved and hated. (See below)

Q sheet is open, come be the DJ for a day.

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19 Pax for got swole with some sweaty swinging

Warmarama
SSH/Fazio/Squat stretch/Merkins/cobra/calf stretch
High knees to burpees

Main Event
3-5 rounds each
Swings
TGU
Merkins
RDLs
Front Squat
Clean + Press
Bulgarian SS
Pull Ups
Plank with KB pullover

Wrapped up with all you got mountain climbers

Pax were very impressed with the techno version of Metallica song on playlist. Sure it will make the rotation at future Hulkamanias.,

Prayers for Morpheus and Job Search and for Bubba for his loss

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11 for a moist jog through a state park. If I missed anyone on the tag, I apologize.

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3 for an EC jog. By the end of the workout we had 18 at the main event. Can’t spell legendary without LEG! Some jogging, squats and calf work.

Announcements: TCP sawgrass Sunday. 1776 workout convergence on 7/4.

Welcome FNG Desitin!

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