Ruxpin

Tic-Tac-Gohhh!

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It was great to once again have a Cousin Eddie with us. We had 2 PAX from different regions in SC last week and today we extended a warm (very warm!), humid, and sandy welcome to JAX FL, Gecko. Nothing like getting that F3 Passport stamped! That made it a 12-pack for the beatdown.

This Gloom’s “gameful employment” brought to you by Nugget’s influence. Our brother has a reputation for bringing games into his Q’s, so YHC, looking for a fresh Q idea, decided to throw-down with a man-sized game of sandbag Tic-Tac-Toe. a.k.a. Tic-Tac-Gohhh! Of course, we started with the warmup…

WARM-O-RAMA:

  • SSH – 18 IC
  • Swartz Jacks – 20 IC (just pay attention Leatherman, you’ll get ’em figured out)
  • Imperial Walkers – 20 IC
  • Hill Billy Walkers – 18 IC
  • Crab Flippers (a.k.a. Cherry Pickers) – 20 IC
  • Flying Squirrels – 10 OYO

Mosey down N. Bedford Street to the field on North Bedford Street Park, where PAX would find what pre-ruck rucker Ruxpin caught YHC red-handed setting up prior to the workout: A man-sized Tic-Tac-Toe painted on the field (shout-out to sprayable sidewalk chalk!) YHC should’ve taken a pic because, you have to admit, it did have a cool F3 symbol painted in the middle square.

PAX counted-off by 2’s…well, some of us did. Uh, hem, Doubtfire! It took a couple tries but we got it figured out. Nonetheless, 12 PAX beat the Fartsack to post for this highly excellent game! 12 PAX equals 2 teams of six. Y’all started your Saturday with 2 Six PAX! Here’s how it all went down:

THE THANG:

Teams were set up EXACTLY 100′ feet apart. Team X, with 5 40lb sandbags stacked at their cone marked with X’s. Team O, with 5 40lb sandbags stacked at their cone marked with O’s. On the count of 3, 2, 1 Gohhh! PAX took turns and had to carry a sandbag and carefully place it (like a baby, per Q’s instructions) into the tic-tac-toe design in the middle of the field trying to get 3-in-a-row-tic-tac-toe! Teams played to win the best of 7 rounds.

Round 1: O’s win! (wouldn’t you like to hear THAT more??)

  • Winners, Plank.
  • Losers, 25 Sandbag Squat Swings
    • (Yes kids, sometimes you win, sometimes you lose!)

Round 2: O’s win! (yep, you heard it here first, folks! O’s won 2 straight!)

  • Winners, Plank.
  • Losers, 25 Sandbag Squat Curls

Round 3: X’s win! O’s 2 – X’s 1

  • Winners, Plank
  • Losers, 25 OH Shoulder Press

Round 4: X’s win! O’s 2 – X’s 2

  • Winners, Plank
  • Losers, 25 Bulgarian Ball Busters

Round 5: X’s win! O’s 2 – X’s 3

  • Winners, Plank
  • Losers, 25 Sandbag Pulls (vertical…sack to your Bombjacks!)

Round 6: O’s win! O’s 3 – X’s 3

  • Winners, Plank
  • Losers, 25 Plank Pulls

CHAMPIONSHIP ROUND, Round 7: Teams compete with their best line-up

  • Jack Wins! SOG…Son Ofa Gun!
  • Losers, 18 Burpees (both teams)

Great competition, great fun! We all got stronger, so yep, it looks like everyone actually did win. Hmm…

3rd F Breather: YHC shared a rinse and repeat of a 3rd Word he shared from a life experience which really drove home the Word of God:

Exodus 33:13-15. Moses said to the Lord, “You have been telling me, ‘Lead these people,’ but You have not let me know whom you will send with me. you have said, ‘I know you by name and you have found favor with Me.’ If you are pleased with me, teach me Your ways so I may know You and continue to find favor with You. Remember that this nation is Your people.” The Lord replied, “My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest. Verse 15 reads: Then Moses said to Him, “If your Presence does not go with us, do not lead us up [to the Promised Land] from here.“

  1. As leaders, what’s one thing we CANNOT do without? God’s presence!
  2. Earlier in verse 2 it says that an angel would go with them, but NOT God’s presence.
  3. In verse 3, going into the Promised Land, victory was promised
  4. BUT…God’s presence WOULD NOT go with them. Before Moses pleaded with God later in the chapter, we read that God had planned to withhold His presence from His people.

Have you ever thought about why? This used to confound me until I was walking a trail in the woods across the parking lot from my church years ago, with 2 of my 3 boys. After playing with every stick (guns/swords) and every rock (grenades) it was time to start heading down through the woods, across the field and parking lot toward home. But the boys would not stay with me! After repeated urgings for them to stay with me, without their corresponding response to do so, I, slightly ahead of them on the trail just simply stepped behind a large tree. I literally hid or withheld my presence. I’m their father, so I didn’t do it to be mean or even to make them suffer. I didn’t go home and cruelly leave them in the woods to fend for their 2-yr-old and 3-yr-old selves. I stepped behind the tree to hide my presence for one reason: To hear the words “Daddy, where are you?” They cried out almost immediately and I responded almost immediately. That’s when it hit me! When God hides His presence from us it’s not because He’s mean, wants us to suffer, and it’s not that He is cruel. He simply wants us to recognize His absence and to call out to Him and say, Daddy, where are you? I need your presence in my life, my leadership! I need you God. That’s what Moses cried out on behalf of himself and the nation. And God answered and said, “My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”

As men, husbands, fathers, and leaders what’s one thing we cannot do without in order to be HIM? God’s presence! When you notice His absence, repent (turn) and cry out to Him.

The Thang 2:

  • 10 Swerkins, run (kinda) across field – 20 Carolina Drydocks
  • 10 Swerkins, run (kinda) across field – 15 Split Jacks (15 each leg)
  • 10 Swerkins, run (kinda) across field – 10 Mtn. Man Poopers
  • 10 Swerkins, run (kinda) across field – 05 Nipple Scraper Merkins

Mosey back to AO for a 10 mins of Mary:

  • 15 Climb da Ladder -Compliments of Vanilla
  • 20 4-Count Freddies – Compliments of Hideous
  • 25 Reverse Crunch – Compliments of Nugget
  • 15 Big Boys – Compliments of Bovine
  • 20 Flutter Kicks – Compliments of Ying Ying (great cadence bro!)
  • 20 Groiners – Compliments of Doubtfire (some serious sucktology!)
  • 15 Burpees – Compliments of Cousin Eddie, Gecko from JAX, FL.
  • Great recall Nugget!

YHC heard the bells ringing; time to circle up.

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  • Prayers: Chappie’s teens; Gecko’s teens; Chattahoochee; etc. Thanx for taking the hand-off Vanilla!

Thanks for the opportunity to lead HIM! Thanks for your ear at Coffeeteria, Gecko. What are the odds that you show up in DE and post at exactly the same time we’re working through almost identical issues with sons? Perhaps Soul-Q might’ve had a hand in our schedules.

Chappie, out!

DATES, DATES, DATES!!

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7/3/2019

QIC – Ruxpin

PAX – Sugar Daddy, Chairman, Gump, Leatherman, Wild Wing

PRIMIS – Lewes, DE

Warm Up: 20 SSH IC; 20 Horseshoe Crab Flippers IC; 20 Squats IC; 20 Shoulder Taps IC; 20 Legs Raises IC.

The Thang: Mosey to the covered pavilion for 2 pain stations.

STATION 1 Pavilion: 20 Dips OYO; 20 Derkins OYO; 20 Wide Arm Merkins OYO; 20 Staggered Arm Merkins OYO (10 each hand forward).

STATION 2 Pavilion: 20 Big Boys OYO; 20 E2K each side OYO; 20 Gas Pumpers OYO; 20 Reach Through Crunches OYO.

Third F Message: Please see below.

STATION 3 Wheelhouse Parking Lot: Sprints @ 50%, 75%, 100% speed with 20 Squats after the speed set. (x2). Wosey to the draw bridge for a Bear Crawl to the top with 20 Bobby Hurleys looking out over the canal.

STATION 4 The BIKE RACK: Wosey to the Rack for 20 Pull Ups & 20 Double count Flutters. Mosey back to the courts.

Count off, Name-O-Rama, COT.

Third F Message on Dates surrounding Independence Day:

APRIL 19, 1775: The Revolutionary War begins with shots fired at Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts.

JUNE 7, 1776: Richard Henry Lee introduces a motion in a meeting of the Continental Congress that the United States IS AND SHOULD BE DECLARED free from ties to Great Britain. Delegates disagree about the wisdom of the idea, which comes to be called the “Lee Resolution”. Eventually, the Congress appoints a Committee of Five to draft a Declaration of Independence for consideration.

JUNE 11, 1776: John Adams convenes the Committee of Five to draft a Declaration of Independence. The five members of the committee are John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Robert Livingston and Roger Sherman. The committee chooses Jefferson to write the first draft.

JULY 2, 1776: The Continental Congress votes to declare independence from Great Britain, formally adopting the Lee Resolution. The next day John Adams writes in a letter to his wife that, “The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epocha in the history of America….It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and ILLUMINATIONS, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward, forevermore”.

JULY 3, 1776: The Continental Congress begins debating and editing the draft Declaration, eventually making 86 edits and cutting the length by about a fourth.

JULY 4, 1776: The Continental Congress approves the final draft of the Declaration, formalizing what had already been decided on July 2. Congress hires printer John Dunlap to print copies of the Declaration to be distributed throughout the colonies.

JULY 9, 1776: A copy of the Declaration of Independence had reached New York City. With Hundreds of British Naval ships occupying New York Harbor, revolutionary spirit and military tensions were running high. George Washington, commander of the Continental forces in New York, read the document aloud in front of City Hall. A raucous crowd cheered the inspiring words, and later that day tore down a nearby statue of George III. The statue was subsequently melted down and shaped into more than 42,000 musket balls for the fledgling American Army.

New Beginnings

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Warmup:

Milton Mustard Seed welcomes our brother from Charleston, SC today.
  • Side Straddle Hop 20 IC
  • Seal Jacks 20 IC
  • Smurf Jacks 20 IC
  • Plank Jacks 20 IC
  • Hairy Rockets 15 IC
  • Mountain Man Poopers 15 IC
  • Cherry Pickers 15 IC

The Thang

Caterpillar Snake Run with 12 pound medicine ball to 4 locations with exercises at each location.

First stop H&R Block

  • Merkins 20 IC
  • Air Drama Squats 25 OYO
  • Flutter Kicks 25 IC

Second stop Adkins Law Firm

  • Diamond Merkins 15 IC
  • Ballerinas Toe Squats 25 OYO
  • American Hammers 25 IC

Third stop field behind apartments

  • Hand Release Merkins 20 OYO
  • Bobby Hurley 20 OYO
  • Absolution 10 IC

Final Stop field behind AO

  • Walking lunges across field passing medicine ball
  • Burpees 10 OYO
  • Toy Soldier Set 40/20/10

F3 Message: New Beginnings bud around you and within you every day. You don’t need a clean slate. God is in the business of making all things new.

2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has come the new is here.

Peter 1:3 Praise be to theGod and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In His great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.

Jeremiah 29:12 For I know the plans I have for you declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

Seal Jacks Smurf Jacks 20 IC

Aching Arms In Lewes

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6/26/19

QIC- Summit

PRIMIS – Lewes , DE

Warm up- 

Lap around courts 

SSH- 15 

Mountain climber – 15 

Moroccan NC- 15 

Cherry picker- 15 

Imperial Walker – 15 

The Thang- 

Mosey to park pavilion 

Station 1- 

1- tricep dips- 20 reps. make sure fingers are pointed towards your feet. 

2- T – Merkins- 20 sets.  Merkin, followed by right side plank. Return to plank, do merkin ,then left side plank. Return to high plank , merkin.  Rinse and repeat. Total of 40 merkins.

3- plank ups.    20 reps. Start in high plank, lower right arm to rest on Forearm , them lower left arm down to rest on forearm , then push up to complete merkin. 

4- inch worms with shoulder taps – 20 reps 

5- Supermans – 20 reps in 4 count cadence 

Mosey to public lot by bridge 

Station 2- 

1- Toy soldier set-

  30 little baby crunches 

  15 ETK- each side. Concentrate on form. Legs in figure 4, one arm out and be other on back of head.  Twist and lift abs to connect elbow to your knee. Leaving arm out on ground with hand flat. 

  10 big boy sit ups. 

2- diamond merkins 20 reps 

3- irkins- 20 reps. inclined merkin -hands on guard rail , feet on ground. 

4- walking merkin- 20 reps. start in full plank, Side step to the right 2 steps keeping body straight.  Do merkin, return to high plank, side step left 2 steps , perform merkin, repeat.  

5- inch worm merkins – 20 reps.  Start in standing position, inchworm to high plank, preform merkin , inch worm back to toe touch position, stand up = 1 rep

Mosey to back to tennis courts .. 

Station  3 –

1- flutter kicks – 10 reps in cadence 

2- hand release merkin- 10 reps 

3- dips with leg lift – dip on bench with feet bent at 90 Degree- raise one leg when you dip  then another , 10 reps each leg. 

4- Derkin- 10 reps – declined merkin with feet on bench 

5- merkin- 10 reps – start high plank and do standard merkin. 

Name-A-Rama 

COT 

Great push by all! Another beautiful morning in Lewes!

Wheelbarrows and 45’s

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QIC Semi


Warm-a-Rama
All i/c
20 seal jacks
20 Windmills
20 seal waves
20 Cherry pickers
20 mountain man pooper

The Thang

Mosey to new HOB entrance

Pax pair off

Big boy 45’s.
Wheelbarrow to light pole
Sumo squat 45’s I/c
Wheelbarrow to light pole
Leg lift 45’s.
Wheelbarrow to light pole
Legs 6″ squats. I/c
Wheelbarrow to light pole


3rd F
All in
Talked about how Abraham was all in sacrificing his son Issac for the Lord.
Genesis 22

Mosey back to CHOP

13 HIM showed – semi, Ruxpin, leatherman, Vanilla, Chappie, Wildwing, Chairman, toy soldier, Waterfall, doubtfire, Fireplex, nugget, FNG gump

Number Rama

Name Rama

COT

Lucky # 7 on the ball field

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6/22/19

Nugget on Q 


Warm up. 25 SSH. 15 cherry pickers. 15 windmills. 15 mt climbers. 


Mosey to baseball field. 


Bearcrawl 1-2-3. Partner. Pax 1 bear craws then crawl bears while partner to is doing exercises. Both must complete 100 merkins. 200 lbcs. 300 squats. 


7 of diamonds. Rep increases by 7 each time around bases. 7 burpees. 14 4ct flutter kicks. 21 merkins. 


3rd F. Message on genealogy of Jesus. How he came from a lineage of people with some skeletons in their closet. But he uses everyone from all walks of life. 


Blue Falcon. Split into teams. Each team has 30 seconds to come up with a 2 minute workout. They tell each other their workouts. Then hey do theirs and switch and do the other teams workout. First team to complete both workouts win!


Mosey to circle. 

Sally loves Hot Apple Turnovers

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Location: Primis

Q: Chairman

Pax: Doubtfire, Leatherman, Ruxpin, Summit, Wild Wing

Warmup: 43 SSH IC, 18 Moroccan Night Clubs IC, 20 Shell Pickers IC, 18 Mountain Climbers

The Thang Part 1:
Bring Sally Up Merkin Challenge
Air Squared Air chair with 20 OH claps
Mosey to foot of drawbridge
Hot Apple Turnover: Crawl Bear up bridge, Crab Walk along flat metal section Bear Crawl down bridge, 10 Count
Nur up bridge, Lt Dan along flat metal section, Bear Crawl down bridge. Wosey to municipal lot.

F3 Message about dedication. HIM must be dedicated to post and then hard work follows once you post just like how HIM have to be dedicated and work hard in their professions. At least 1 of us has already put in their time working and now is dedicated to staying in shape. While not mentioned during message, our dedication also applies to our families. Bible versus quoted:

“The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.” – Genesis 2:15

“For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: ‘The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat.’ We hear that some among you are idle and disruptive. They are not busy; they are busybodies. Such people we command and urge in the Lord Jesus Christ to settle down and earn the food they eat.” – 2 Thessalonians 3:10-12

“Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.” – Colossians 3:23-24

“All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty.” – Proverbs 14:23

“The craving of a sluggard will be the death of him, because his hands refuse to work.” – Proverbs 21:25

The Thang Part 2: Wosey across street and Mosey to 2nd Street to AO. Super Toy Soldier Set 50 LBCs 35 E2Ks 20 BBs.
Bring Sally Up Squat Challenge
10 Burpees

Number-O-Rama, Name-O-Rama, and COT. Announcements. Sat 7 22 @ 1500 F3 Family Bike ride Five Points to Wild Wings house for Hopkins Creamery treats! Prayers for Chattahoochee as he recovers and has the wisdom to listen to doc’s orders, Semi vehicle situation gets resolved, and Chappie for not posting (????????????) wherever he may be.

Stations of Pain @CHOP and sweat…many stations of sweat.

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June 18 2019

QIC – Summit 

AO- CHOP

Warmup- 

SSH- 15 

Imperial Walker – 15

Mountain Climber- 15 

Arm circles – 15

Reverse arm circles – 15 

Bolt 45s 

Mosey around block back to AO

The Thang- 

Each PAX Pick a station to start

Stations- 

  1. Burpees
  2. Squats with 50lb sandbag
  3. Merkins
  4. LBC’s
  5. Hair Burners – with Cindy 
  6. Squat – Overhead Press w/cindy
  7. Dips on bench 
  8. American Hammer
  9. Burpjacks
  10. Plank

Work Each station for 60 seconds , Q calls next and move to next station for 60 sec. 

10PAX 10 stations. 

After 3 stations complete , all Pax go for Mosey around block. Return for 3 stations, mosey , last 4 stations then Mosey.

Meet in middle for –

3rd F – https://www.success.com/rohn-4-tips-for-setting-powerful-goals/

Rinse and repeat for 30 seconds with no mosey in-between.   Go until time. 

Woof.     God work men.  ????

Name-a-Rama

COT 

VQ2 Rain of Pain

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NAME O RAMA

GLOOM FACTOR: 05:15 66° and raining

10 Pax showed for a rainy morning beatdown at the hands of Doubtfire

WARMARAMA:

20 SSH IC

20 Windmills IC

20 Cherry Pickers

20 Smurf Jacks IC

THE THANG:

Mosey to Food Lion, Bear Crawl from light pole to light pole and do 25 Burpees, Crawl Bear back to opposite light pole and do a 60/30/15 Toy Soldier set

Mosey to Car Wash via Morris Ave.

3rd F: PRAYER

Prayer is much more than bringing to God your list of wants, desires, and needs. It is a radical act of worship that reminds you of who you are, who God is, and what life is all about. Prayer is surrender:

  1. Prayer is surrender to the reality that there is someone more ultimate than you.
  2. Prayer is surrender to the reality that life isn’t just about you.
  3. Prayer is surrender to the reality that you need help.
  4. Prayer is surrender to the reality that there is wisdom greater than ours.
  5. Prayer is surrender of your right to live as you choose.
  6. Prayer is surrender of your hopes to God’s grace.

PAX were encouraged to step up their prayer life and to make it a daily habit to be prayer warriors and to consistently lift our M’s, 2.0’s, careers, and community to our heavenly Father.

THE THANG continues at the carwash:

Crab Walk to end of Island and do 25 Groiners

Walk Crab back and do 20 Merkins

Mosey back to AO

MARY:

6″ leg lift – 30 count

6″ leg lift – 30 count (thanks Fireplex)

Dolly’s – 10 IC

Big Boyz – 15 OYO

Elbow Plank – 10 count by 10 PAX (total 100 count)

COT

Normandy 75th Ruck Q

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More great numbers for a Saturday, 11 PAX posted for a beatdown at the Aegis–including 1 FNG. Welcome shout out to Ox! Again, brother, remember it doesn’t get easier but you get better/stronger/faster. Keep posting. A few PAX got in some pre-ruck action: Shout out to Ruxpin, Leatherman, & Summit (bought a ruck, so he’s neck-deep now! 😉 )

Most of what was done and most of what YHC shared was captured in screenshots, so after the warmup info, those items will simply be posted. So here goes…

Warm-O-Rama:

  • SSH – 30 IC
  • Seal Jacks – 30 IC
  • Crab Flippers – 30 IC (a.k.a. Cherry Pickers)
  • Windmill – 15 IC
  • Sebif – 15 IC (Something Else But I Forgot)

All warmup repetitions were either 30-count or combined to be a 30-count, as esplained by YHC in recognition of his grandfather’s unit — the 508th PIR — which jumped into Normandy and subsequently fought for the next 33 days til getting a reprieve and being sent back to England to prep for their next mission. This day marked day 3 since jumping in…so the countdown was on at 30 reps.

508th PIR – “Red Devils”

PAX were informed through commo channels to bring a ruck if they owned one. A few extras were on hand, but 40# sandbags sufficed otherwise. The Thang, courtesy of GORUCK, would commence at Georgetown’s WWII Memorial since this past Thursday was the 75th Anniversary of D-Day.

The Skinny:

Ruck Q courtesy of GORUCK

PAX rucked 1 Mile to the field at the corner of W. North & Pleasant Streets, completed the above workout following YHC’s 3rdF, then rucked 1 Mile to return to the WWII Memorial at the Georgetown Circle. The excellent pace was set by the PAX doing a 30-steps shuffle during the ruck to and fro.

1 mile 2x

Here’s the 3rdF shared for a breather:

YHC took the PAX into a little OT, but no one’s feelings were hurt…at least he doesn’t think so.

Number-Rama: 11!

Name-O-Rama: Not sure what happened but Bovine got really confused; he thought he was Doubtfire! 🙂 FNG named Ox. Welcome to the tribe!

COT/BOM:

  • Announcements/Prayers
  • A few met up for coffeeteria at what America runs on, and had some great 2ndF.

Grateful for the opportunity to Q at the Aegis…more grateful for the opportunity to share about my Pappap and the 508th…and ever grateful for that greatest generation! Aye! Thanks for your ear, men! Awesome push by all.

Chappie, out!

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