Yogi was the Q and led the charge with 52 Card Pickup! Each PAX pulled a card in rotating fashion. Diamonds resulted in diamond merkins, clubs required squats, hearts were burpees and spades were WWII’s. Within each suit ace = 15 reps, kings = 13 reps, queen = 12 reps, jack = 11, 10 = 10, 9 =9 and so on. Let’s not forget the Joker = 10 of any choice exercise. The deck was split in half with one stack uphill and the other down hill with an 80 yard hustle in between. All PAX pulled cards.

Many thanks to HGTV for organizing Honor Week!

At the end of the workout Yogi offered words of wisdom encouraging all not to hold it in and to lean on your brothers in arms, church family and others during hard times.

Announcements:
Kiffin let us know that Tuesday at Just Dough It they will be running F3 Tokens to Henry’s House. Henry is 9 years old and just beat stage 4 cancer!

Kitty Litter let us know that Monday at 88MPH we will begin The Murph and run down to Ritter do some stuff and run back to Waverly Place.

Prayers:
Life Alert just getting back from vacation working through family conflict.

Pickup mentioned Prayers for those in memory of veterans and those who have given all for our country this Memorial Day Weekend.

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What a glorious morning to lead the the PAX.the weather was fantastic and the fellowship was even better. We started out with 2 laps around the church and quickly circled up for some SSH’s and good mornings. Next up 11’s in the parking lot (Merkins on one side Boat Canoes on the other). From there we headed over to Mookies Pickle and did 11 merkin/boat canoes at 3 corners and 12 of each at the final corner With about 10 minutes left we took the long way back to flag and proceeded to plank hold while random pax jumped rope.

3 + miles was achieved and we hit 100 merkins & boat canoes.

We had multiple ruckers and a big turnout of folks for the EC.

Grateful to lead the pax and prayers for Petey, My M for a speedy recovery from her surgery and safe travels for Sparky as he heads back to Wisconsin.

Welcome FNG Yogging!!!

Associate with people who are likely to improve you. Welcome those who you are capable of improving. The process is a mutual one: men learn as they teach.”

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Well we had a great gathering @stonecutters this morning including a first time appearance from @WebMD. We started with our typical warm up of side straddle hops, jump squats and S. Cary stretches. During the stretches I asked everyone to think about the following. Just how we plan projects with the END in mind first, what we want the end result to look like or features we want it to have, think about how you want people close in your life to speak of you at the end, as a eulogy.
We grabbed some river rock coupons and proceeded to walk while we did some arm circles, Seal Claps, punch waking, and nut crackers.
Off to the next lot we partnered up with some sevens at each end of burpies, V-Ups, and partner merkins in the middle. After some singing and karaoke shuffle to the blocks we worked out the arms with several curls, presses, and rows.
Over to the picnic tables with step ups, snow angels, heals to heaven, and lower back stretching. Then some balls to the wall before finishing with some final stretching and discussions. We can all think about our walk with God while we are here and how we want to be remembered by our loved ones.
I appreciate @HGTV for organizing Honor & Respect week!!

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Pledge, then stretched to classic rock of Aerosmith, moseyed to the muster point.
Alpha Team did a fandango (a dora with a cone annotated with a challenging exercise, after completing the team returns to join PAX at muster point) Bravo Team did a circle of pain strength training with weights-focusing on ‘resistance’- slow & deliberate movements. Alpha & Bravo did 3 rounds.
The ME-sled pull Alpha vs Bravo-pull sled 50 yards with one passenger, at the line passenger jumps off sled does 5 burpies and sits on sled, then team pulls to finish line.
With just 2 pullers Bravo Team was victorious.
Mosied to flag for PAX-led Marys.
HGTV was granted disgression to veto any Mary suggested but he ‘resisted’ his own grumpy nature.
In celebration of Respect & Honor week the PAX shared stories of wisdom regarding marriage, children relationships and how we can inspire who we love by listening to their feedback and being always respectful.
Guys were given the ultimate gift of a free F3 logo tattoo on their calf- some men chose to do both calfs.
HGTV is now working on a special ‘tramp stamp’ , for some PAX this may require some manscaping.

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What’s Up Scary!

A very pleasant morning it was over in the land of up lighted $2M+ houses, pineapples and doggy treat vending machines (WTF).

21 gathered for the ME and I was thrilled with the group of men who decided to join me at JIU this am. A solid group of guys I wish I saw more often (gotta get over to Scary more often).

Started with a 1 mike pre run with Amway, Astro, Chipper, Kitty Litter and Home Grown. EHarmony was out on a ruck.

Pledge.

Standard Warm Up.

Mosey to the Big House Neighborhood for Mr T. We found some hills along with our inside voice (even Yogi and me) and worked the T along with a POS.

We all (we almost all) did 5 burpees every time the words What’s Up were said. I think we did about 40 extras.

Back to the park for a flawless Motivator.

Wrapped up with a set of 140s. Joe Smiff was confused. I really miss both Joe’s and JP’s voices. Smooth.

COT.
21 Pax.

Praises for a young Hank (middle schooler friend of Fleder family) who just wrapped up Chemo for his cancer. There was a big celly. God is good.

Prayers for Yogi who is working through some family and personal challenges. Keep your head up, Yogi!

Closed with a Prayer for Friends.

HGTV asked me to share some wisdom. For me, its be yourself and be thankful for the great stuff we have with our F3 Community. It’s the best.

Later
MIAGD.

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Three for the blue collar one mile EC. Wings showed up on time and brought two seminarians that live in Texas who lodged lakeside at the Wings estate for the week whilst taking a class at Shepherd’s seminary.

Mosey, warmups, mosey, pickle with a cherry and CDDs/LBCs, then balls to the wall and squats, then 60%/80%/100% runs x 6.

Much to the YHC Astro’s chagrin another FNG named Jared was not named Subway. 0 for 2!

-Unitard

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The dome prevails!
Great morning to try out some new thangs. Thanks to the PAX for their patience.

Thang 1- Field of Dreams. Partner up, take a base on the field aka corner of parking lot, each corner assigned an exercise. PAX at home base aka 4th base execute 10 burpees while all others AMRAP. Then run to first to relieve that team, all teams advancing a base. Rinse and repeat.
Thang 2- F3 baseball. New partners, new field, new exercises. Each base assigned an exercise where the PAX must work together to achieve 100 reps. Start spread out one team per base. Once done, advance a base. If you catch the team in front they do 10 penalty burpees (some selectively heard 2).
Clear as mud?

Fun times with a great crew capped off with delicious brew.
MIAGD!

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An assortment of upper body and core focused exercises were executed throughout Ritter Park. Some Murph prep was also completed to ensure the PAX are ready for Memorial Day. Finished with some stretching. A good overall workout with zero running.

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Amazing Day for some great HIMs at the SCary’sPREMIERE AO.

Started off strong with the pledge and a mosey heart touching moment for Web as he admired his senior leader and helped him remember how to call SSHs!

Next was lamp-post alley. Ran the alley twice, first round was merkins every post. This weekends upcoming horse race got me on the betting mood. Made a bet that ECs are not workouts, and my horse won! The prize. Next round Burpees at every post! Heart was screaming!!

Finished with a game of ultimate. And everyone promised to do their burpees at home today.

Praises and prayers.

Bonfire at TR’s place Saturday.

Make it a great evening!

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Started a few seconds late then moseyed to the Harris teeter for the main thang. Time to start getting ready for the Murph so partner Dora with pull ups, merkins, and squats. From there lots of moseying with random exercises and a 4 corners thrown in. Bubba particularly enjoyed the running and skipping. MIAGD

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