Vanilla

Dirty Thirty Birthday Beatdown

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6/23/2018

QIC: Vanilla

AO: CHOP: Milton, DE

PAX: Chappie, Chattahoochee, Chairman, Leatherman, Toy Soldier, Fireplex, Summit, Vanilla, Waterfall (Early Dismissal)

Warm-O-Rama

SSH – 30 IC

Seal Jacks – 30 IC

Cherry Pickers – 15 IC

Windmill – 15 IC

The Thang: Dirty Thirty Birthday Beatdown

Shuttle Run format with exercises on each end. 30 exercises for 30 reps with Prison Break in between from end to end of CHOP parking lot.

  1. Merkin
  2. Squat
  3. LBC
  4. Derkin
  5. FWD Lunge (Alt. Legs)
  6. Flutter Kick IC
  7. Incline Merkin
  8. Reverse Lunge
  9. Scissor Kick IC
  10. Diamond Merkin
  11. Mexican Jumping Beans
  12. Box Cutters IC
  13. Ranger Merkin
  14. Calf Raises
  15. Leg Lifts
  16. Wide Arm Merkin
  17. Iron Mikes (Lunge Jumps)
  18. High Plank – 30 Count
  19. Shoulder Taps
  20. Apolo Ohno’s
  21. American Hammers IC
  22. Overhead Claps
  23. Burpees
  24. Box Cutters IC
  25. FWD Arm Circles IC
  26. Broad Jump to Back Peddle
  27. Forearm Plank – 30 Count
  28. Reverse Arm Circles IC
  29. Wall Sit – 30 Count
  30. Big Boys

3rd F Message: The Joy is in the Journey

“Success is a journey, not a destination”

I’ve heard many times that if you want to hear God laugh, tell him your plans. As I reflect on the last decade of my life, it looked nothing like I would have scripted. It had deep dark valleys and some wonderful mountaintop experiences, both of which I would not have expected. I had big goals set for things I wanted to achieve by 30 and quite frankly the bulk of them never came to fruition. But I’m confident in this, that He who began a good work in me, will be faithful to complete it until the day of Christ Jesus (Philippians 1:6).

“For I know the plans I have for you, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you a future and a hope.” -Jeremiah 29:11

As leaders and High Impact Men, it is our responsibility to cast vision, set goals, and know our direction. However, as leaders, we also need to be emotionally stable enough to embrace and enjoy the journey, even when it takes us down a different path than planned. Leaders love the journey, leaders love the process. Leaders stay diligent even when things shift, because ultimately they know that God will work all things out for the good of those who love him (Romans 8:28). Embrace the Journey, Find Joy in the Journey, and keep traveling toward your destination, even when a decade is nothing like you expected.

“Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time, we will reap a harvest, IF we do not give up.” -Galatians 6:9

Ended with Number-Rama, Name-O-Rama, & COT/BOM

Humbly Your QIC,

Vanilla

Primis Pavilion of Pain

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5 HIM BEAT THE FARTSACK THIS MORNING   This truely is an awesome  location to be stretched, get uncomfortable, grow yourself and take in the perfection of Gods creation as the sun rises over the bay        You should try it sometime

QIC- Summit 

Warm-a-rama

Capri lap around park

SSH- 18 IC

Cherry pickers – 18 IC

Windmill -19 IC
Moroccan night club – 18 IC
Imperial walkers -18 IC
Lunge walk baseline to baseline on basketball court.
Nur back
  • Mosey around Park , end at PAVILION of pain.
  • Super 21-

21 Prisoner squat – 21American hammer IN CADENCE..????????‍♂️

20 prisoner squat – 20 American hammer IC
‘Intermission’ after 15/15 for stairway to seven.
Mosey to stairway
  • Stairway to seven….
1 burpee, 1 Erkin on bottom step , run up to top stairs , 1 diamond merkin , then run back down.
Continue up to 7.
Mosey back to Pavilion of Pain
3rd F message
Pick back up with Super 21
14 prisoner squat 14 American hammer IC down to 1/1
Mosey back to basketball courts
Name-a-rama
COT
  • 3rd F 
  • Stress testing builds reliance

    Reliance is the heart of Trust. For a Team to be Dynamic, the Members must implicitly and fully rely upon each other to Competently perform their part of the Team’s Mission-essential Tasks. It is not enough for a man to tell his Team Members that he can do his job, or even for the Q to do so. They have to see the man in action under stress for reliance to build.

    Whether it is the character of another man or a footbridge over a gorge, we only decide to step forward in reliance if we believe it is strong enough to keep us from falling. If we don’t believe a man’s character can bear the weight, we won’t rely upon him any more than we would a rickety bridge over a rushing river.

    The most efficient method to gauge the strength of something is to stress test it under a controlled environment to find the point at which it breaks. We do this with a footbridge by jumping up and down on it at a point where it spans a place that won’t kill us if we break through. If a bridge can hold the jumping-me ten feet over the ground, then I assume I can rely upon it to hold the walking-me fifty feet over the gorge.

    With men the stress test principle is the same, although the means and methods vary by what we need the man to do. For example, a candidate for public office is subjected to the stress of a political campaign. If he cannot withstand that without breaking down we deem him too unreliable for the pressures of the office he seeks. An attorney must shoulder the stress of the bar examination before he can be trusted to try a case. A doctor must survive the rigors of his residency before lives will be placed in his hands. Passing the stress test indicates sufficient strength to bear the weight of the real thing.

    When applied to a man rather than a thing, stress testing serves a dual purpose. Like it does with the bridge, it demonstrates reliability to others. But, unlike the bridge, it also demonstrates to the man himself that the reliance of others is justified. Passing the stress test gives a man the confidence he needs to take on the responsibility of what comes afterwards. “If I got through that,” he tells himself, “then I have what it takes to get through this”. You can trust me because I am reliable—I trust myself.

Slow burn 2.0

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  • QIC- Summit

 

  • Warm up – IC 15 each
SSH
CHERRY PICKERS
PRISONER SQUATS
MOUNTAIN CLIMBERS
WINDMILL
  • THE Thang- curtesy of Chappie’s chalk art -Slightly modified.
  • Each PAX pick a station
Stations-
  1. Box Jumps
  2. Slosh Pipe
  3. Rapid Merkins–
  4. Rapid LBC’s
  5. Hair Burners – actually does smell like hair burning ….
  6. Squat Press Lunge w/cindy
  7. Upright Rows w/40lb. ruck
  8. Burpees
  9. Tire Flip
  10. Dragon Crawl
  11. Burpjacks – burpee with a bomb jack
  12. Plank
Work Each station for 60 seconds , Q calls next and move to next station for 60 sec.
12 stations. After 4 stations all Pax go for Mosey around block. Return for 4 stations, mosey , last 4 then Mosey.
There may have been a few 10 counts in there somewhere.
  • QuickBreak for 3rd F message
Each PAX then chose a ‘favorite’ station and we finished with  30 seconds at each of those stations.
Plus some LBCs for the fun of it …..
Chappie was concerned about a ‘slow burn’ from Tuesday…….I tried to clear any concern.
  • 3rd F (pulled from F3nation.com )

Disturbance To The Status-quo

Leaders influence movement to advantage

A leader is a person who can influence people to do things that they would not have done otherwise. Put another way, but for the influence of the leader, the things done by his followers would not happen. The leader is the agent, the impetus and the proximate cause of his followers’ movement toward the doing of those specific things that he identifies as advantageous. Without him, they would remain static and focused on maintaining the status quo. In the heart of man inertia will reign—absent a disruption.

The connection between movement and leadership is critical because it presupposes a need for movement, a recognition by the leader himself that the status quo is something less advantageous than some other place, a location the leader visualizes and then articulates to his followers. Only then can the leader begin to persuade them to follow him to the new place. He must describe it to them first because people will only overcome their inertia and follow someone if they believe that he knows where he is going. They won’t leave the known for the unknown, no matter how charismatic the leader is.

Because it induces movement, leadership causes Disruption

It wrenches people away from the place at which they were determined to remain. It causes them to question the foundation for their belief that their status quo was desirable and that stasis was in their best interest. It attacks the palpable (but false) sense of security that inertia provides. Like the agitator in a washing machine, leadership dislodges things long embedded in people’s emotional fabric, things that are impure and do not belong there but to which they had become accustomed—like a ketchup stain on their favorite shirt.

Being both Disruptive and agitating, leadership will naturally make people uncomfortable, at least until they begin to see for themselves that they are being led to a place of advantage.

If a man calls himself a leader but does not cause Disruption by initiating movement, then he is not practicing leadership. He might be doing something else, like managing or engaging in politics, but he is not leading. He is a leader in name only until people begin to follow him to an advantageous place that he has visualized and articulated to them. A leader influences movement to advantage.

A great leader’s legacy is built on love

The degree to which a leader is able to influence movement is dependent upon his level of skill. People will follow a leader when he is in the room. People will continue to follow a good leader when he has left the room. But only a great leader is able to influence movement to advantage even after he has died. That is a legacy leader, and he is a rare breed whose legacy is built upon love.

All great leaders aspire to leave a legacy. Leadership is a difficult skill to master, requiring desire, commitment and love. Having paid for that skill with blood, sweat and tears, great leaders have the natural inclination to pass on what they have learned and to be remembered for it. This yearning is what creates their legacy. It comes from the leader’s love for his followers and his sincere desire to see them obtain advantage.

A great leader accelerates throughout his life. He views leadership as a craft that must be honed through continual study and application. In the way that a lawyer or doctor practices his profession from the standpoint of service to his client or patient, the great leader’s focus is always upon his followers rather than himself. It is their best interests, not his, that motivates his actions. It is their advantage, not his, to which he initiates movement. This is only possible if, first and foremost, he loves them more than he loves himself.

The great leader knows that If his love is not great, than neither will be his leadership.

7-11-18 TOTAL BODY MELTDOWN ( PRIMIS )

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7-11-2018

QIC: Leatherman

AO: Primis, Lewes

PAX:  Vanilla, Chappie, Chairman, Stretch,

Warm-O-Rama

SSH -18 IC

MC-20 IC

Merkins – 10 IC

Quick run to Savannah Rd and back to the Docks. 

The Thang Part 1

Rinse and Repeat 3 times

10 LBCs

10 LEG RAISES

10 LBCs

10 HANGING LEG RAISES

10 LBCs

10 MC each leg

10 LBCs

10 BYCYCLE LBCs

10 LBCs

The Thang Part 2

10 FORWARD LUNGES ( each leg )

10 BOX JUMPS

10 REVERSE LUNGES (each leg )

10 STEP UPS ( each leg )

10 PRISION SQUATS

10 AL GORES HELD FOR 10 COUNT ON Q.

Break for 3rd F

Today is 1 year that my M has been on a Life changing health journey. My wife was over 250lbs this time last year and now is down to 160lbs. Her commitment to changing her life for the better was not just for herself but for our 4 kids. She in turn was my motivation for my life change. I was 313lbs this time last year and now weigh 208.lbs. Our Pastor made a comment to us a couple weeks ago and said that he sees a difference in the way we love each other. Thinking on that makes sense because for us to be able to truly love our spouse we had to love our selves. Behind every strong man is a strong women, if were not for her being a strong women who knows where we would be.

 

The Thang 3

Mosey over to the Compass by the Over Falls Ship

10 MERKINS

10 WIDE MERKINS

10 DIAMOND MERKINS

10 STAGGERED MERKINS ( switch up ) 10 MORE

20 PLANK SHOULDER TAPS

10 LEFT LEG RAISED MERKINS

10 RIGHT LEG RAISED MERKINS 

The Thang 4

Mosey to the Basketball courts

20 PRISION SQUATS

20 MOUNTAIN CLIMBERS

20 PRISON SQUATS

20 MOUNTAIN CLIMBERS

20 PRISON SQUATS

20 MOUNTAIN CLIMBERS

HOLD PLANK TILL GROUP IS DONE

RINSE REPEAT 3 XS

FINISH LAST 60 SECs WITH FOREARM PLANK.  ( Q had to do extra 15secs since I dropped ) VANILLA REMINDED ME IF YOU CANT DO IT DONT Q IT  SO I HAD TO MAKE UP FOR IT !!!!

Ended with Number-Rama, Name-O-Rama, & COT/BOM

Humbly Your QIC,

Leatherman .

Muggy Morning Beat Down!!!

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7-3-2018

QIC: Leatherman

AO: CHOP , Milton

PAX: Fireplex, Summit, Vanilla, Chappie, Nugget, Chairman, Skipper, Wolverine, Chattahoochee, Wonderbeard, Ying-Ying, Waterfall

Warm-O-Rama

SSH -20 IC

MC-20 IC

CP- 15 IC

Lap around Church .

The Thang ! Doracide Modified 2-2-2

The PAX partnered up for the beatdown.

5 Cones set up spaced out 2 parking spaces wide for Suicide Burpees .

Partner 1 starts the suicides drill while Partner 2  started the Merkins ( 200) to completion switching back and forward with Partner 1.  Immediately switch to  (200 )LBCs until completion Switching with Partner . Finished with (200) Prison Squats until Completion in same fashion.  

Cone 1 – 1 Burpee

Cone 2 – 2 Burpee

Cone 3 – 3 Burpee

Cone 4 -4 Burpee

Cone 5- 5 Burpee

200 Merkins

200 LBCs

200 Prison Squats

Break for 3rd F

I spoke about how the sport of Wrestling taught me how to handle certain situations in my life. whether I win or lose taking those experiences and learning from them. I read 3 Quotes from a Legend in the sport and another Man who is becoming a legend in his own right.  I explained what they meant to me and how I thought described us as HIM.

Pain is nothing compared to what it feels like to quit. Give everything you got today for tomorrow may never come.  -Dan Gable

The easiest thing to do in the world is pull the covers up over your head and go back to sleep. -Dan Gable  

To get better you have to step out of your comfort zone. You cant do the same things you’ve always done and improve. – Jordan Burroughs

Thang 2-

Rapid Fire Coupon Set.

20 Curls IC

20 Tricep Extensions IC

20 Overhead Press IC

20 Bent Over Rows IC

20 Dips

15 1 leg dip Switched legs 15 more.

Finished with some MARY each HIM called out a Exercise until time was up.  

Leatherman – Flutter Kicks 20 IC

Summit – 10 Big Boy

Nugget – 35 Reverse Crunches

Chappie – 18 Hello Dolly IC

Fireplex -15 E2K Each Side

Wolverine- High plank  60 Second countdown  

Ended with Number-Rama, Name-O-Rama, & COT/BOM

Humbly Your QIC,

Leatherman .

Back-2-Back beatdowns

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27 June 2018, 7 HIM posted for my Back-2-Back beat downs and to watch a beautiful sunrise over the canal and fishing fleet

Warm-up  50 SSH, 25 cherry pickers, 25 windmills

The Thang-  Mosey 1 lap inside tennis court, 1 lap karaoke switch sides at half way, half lap high knees, half lap toy soldiers.

Deck-of-death –  Deck of cards each suite represents an exercise  deal off 1 card at a time face value represents reps lots of spades seemed to of showed up during the beginning to create a little chatter

Diamonds- diamond merkins

Clubs- prisoner squats

Spades- big boy sit ups

Hearts- Bobby Hurleys

left 2 Jokers in the deck if joker showed up that was 5 burpees

With the message I asked each pax to tell the group what F3 meant to them lots of good input

ended with Count-o-rama, Name-o-rama and COT

 

50th Birthday beat down

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26 June 2018

12 HIM beat the fartsack  and posted for my 50th birthday beatdown

Warm-up  50 sidestraddle hops, 25 cherry pickers, 25 windmills, 25 MNC

The Thang,  Mosey from the AO to the town fishing pier for the  pain station #1

dragon crawl the length of parking spots, 10 merkins, crawl bear back to starting point, 10 merkins.

Mosey to grass lot across from firehouse for pain station  #2

25 flutter kicks,  Toy soldier set 30 LBCs,  E2Ks 20 each side, 15 big boy sit-ups

Mosey across footbridge to town park for pain station #3

50 prisoner squats, 20 step ups on benches,  10 burpees

Mosey back to AO

Quote from John Quincy Adams- If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more you are a leader.

Talked about how to me being in the military along with F3 is a brotherhood

Ended a great beat down with count-o-rama, Name-o-rama and  a COT

 

 

 

 

 

 

Knocked Down

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6/30

6 HIM posted

warm up- tubthumper -chumbawamba. Every time he says “I get knocked down” you do a burpee. Follow Q doing SSH and marrocan night clubs in between.

Start upper body station at circle. All with cynder block as coupon. 10 irkins. 10 dirkins. 10 left side stagger merkins. 10 right side stagger merkins. 20 triceps extensions. 20 shoulder press. 20 curls.

Run .5 mile to middle school.

Ab station. 75 lbcs. 50 reverse crunch. 50 flutter kicks. 25 big boys.

Run .5 mile back to circle.

Rinse repeat.

3rd F. 2nd Corinthians 4:7-16. Definitely would recommend reading this again on your own and digesting it. So much good information.

Because time restriction did 1 more set of upper body station and ab station all at circle. Without the mile run.

Totals- 27 burpees in warm up! A lot of arm and ab stuff! And 2 mile run. Great push HIM!

Ace is the Place

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Great push this morning, especially by those whose legs have been put to the test 3 days in a row this week!
Warm up-
SSH- 25
Arm circles forward – 15
Arm circles reverse- 15
Cherry pickers – 10
Prisoner squats – 10
Mountain climbers – 15
The Thang- 
Mosey to Ace Parking Lot.
Line up on one end of lot.
25 ssh – single count
Sprint to 3/4 point
25 ssh. Bear crawl  to end of lot.
25ssh. Mosey back to start. Plank for 6
25 merkins
Sprint to 3/4
25 merkins
Lt Dan to end
25 merkins
Mosey back to start. Plank
25 squats
Sprint to 3/4
25 squats
Bear crawl to end
25 squats
Mosey back to start. Plank
25 Big Boys
Sprint to 3/4
25 lbc
Lt dan to end
25 Big Boys
Mosey back to start. Plank.
3rd F –
Toy soldier set – 30lbcs, 20 etks each side, 10 …. or 15 Big Boys.
Mosey back to AO.
Round of Mary.
Hello dolly , leg climbs , box cutter, flutter kick, American hammer
COT
3rd F-

Present Tense

It was spring, But it was summer I wanted,

The warm days, And the great outdoors.

It was summer, But it was fall I wanted,

The colorful leaves, And the cool, dry air.

It was fall, But it was winter I wanted,

The beautiful snow, And the joy of the holiday season.

It was winter, But it was spring I wanted,

The warmth, And the blossoming of nature.

I was a child, But it was adulthood I wanted,

The freedom, And the respect.

I was 20, But it was 30 I wanted,

To be mature, And sophisticated.

I was middle-aged, But it was 20 I wanted,

The youth, And the free spirit.

I was retired, But it was middle age I wanted,

The presence of mind, Without limitations.

My life was over.

But I never got what I wanted.

Jason Lehman

This poem has insight for all ages. But also touches heavily on the reality that we can often focus on what we don’t have , and miss what’s in front of us.   This carries different meaning for each of us- depending on what you may be going through, your age, your health, firtness, family, friends, Job , business, etc.
I take it as a message of – you are right where you need to be. do not miss the blessings right now because you are solely wishing for what’s next.   Live at the fullest now. See how you can impact and improve others lives where you are now and don’t wait for the next season. You’re life will be better for it.    It’s ok to set goals, be driven towards achieving  them, but go after them now and don’t wait for the next season, or tomorrow , or perfect timing to do it,  because It won’t come.  Now is the time.   Live life the way it’s intended to be.  And be an High Impact Man.
HIM seize the day- go after what they need, live life with anticipation of what’s coming,  but dont allow themselves to be paralyzed today  in false hopes That tomorrow will bring what they want.
SUMMIT

3 Thangs for 3 PAX

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6/23/2018

QIC: Vanilla

AO: Aegis: Georgetown, DE

PAX: Fireplex, Summit, Vanilla

Warm-O-Rama

Cherry Pickers – 19 IC

SSH – 20 IC

Seal Jacks – 20 IC

Smurf Jacks – 20 IC

Plank Jacks – 20 IC

Mosey to Napa Autoparts

Cherry Picker – 20 IC

Windmill – 10 IC

Mosey to Georgetown Middle School for Tha Thang

The Thang 1: Chappie Challenge aka Scary Spice Circuit

Start: PAX lined up along sidewalk 1 on near side of school front yard.

Round 1: Bearcrawl to sidewalk 2, mosey back to start, complete 30 merkins OYO.

Round 2: Bearcrawl to sidewalk 2, Lt. Dans to sidewalk 3, mosey back to start, complete 20 merkins.

Round 3: Bearcrawl to sidewalk 2, Lt. Dans to sidewalk 3, Dragoncrawl to sidewalk 4, mosey back to start, complete 10 merkins.

The Thang 2: Quarter Pounder

Sprint 25 yards – 25 Merkins, Nur Back

Sprint 50 yards – 50 Prisoner Squats, Nur Back

Sprint 75 yards – 75 Mtn. Climbers, Nur Back

Sprint 100 yards – 100 LBCs, Nur Back

Break for 3rd F

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” -Edmund Burke

Read excerpt from Freed to Lead by OBT & Dredd

“There are many great Workout locations in F3Nation, but Charlotte’s Freedom Park was the first. It is where it all started. Not only is it a great place for a Workout, it also serve the community in a thousand different ways. The average man in F3Metro probably spends an average of 7 hours a week there in one capacity or another. Go there on a Saturday morning in the spring or fall and you will see the parking lots stuffed full of minivans and the fields overrun with kids playing soccer and baseball. There is so much sweet America there it will make your teeth hurt. When the world is running particularly amok, a day in Freedom is all a man needs to keep him focused on what we have here, what is worth protecting. The World may be afire, but we have Freedom, brothers. We have Freedom. Is it likewise in every park that is part of F3Nation? We imagine so. That is really why we do this, isn’t it?

One day after soccer, Dredd was walking toward his minivan with his daughters when the youngest one asked him why there were never any police officers at Freedom Park. He had never thought about it until that moment, but she was right. Except at the front gate (enforcing the no-left turn rule), he had never seen a police officer patrolling the park. So he answered, “They are probably at other places where they are needed.”

Which prompted her older sister (in her older sister voice) to say, “Yeah, we don’t need them here because we have the daddies.”

Little sister replied, Riggggght we have the daddies to keep us safe at Freedom. The police are at the parks without the daddies.” At that, Dredd kind of looked away so his daughters wouldn’t see the tears in his eyes, and he noticed that he could see about five other F3 guys within nine-iron distance, coaching soccer or cheering their kids on. And he knew there were another twenty F3 men that he couldn’t see from where he was standing. But there were there. 

It occurred to Dredd that if the bad guys came to Freedom they might have thought it easy pickings because they would see no police on duty. But they would be mistaken. If evil came to Freedom it would have the daddies to contend with, and it would not stand a chance. While we might be outnumbered Brothers, we have locked our shields and will keep them locked in the heat of battle. We know that to be true. 

Alone, we may go down fighting but we are still easily overcome. But we do not fight alone. We fight behind the Locked Shields of the Minivan Centurions. That shield wall will not be broken. That is Why We Are Here. We are F3.”

Mosey back to AO for Tha Thang 3: Captain Thor

1:4 ratio of big boys & American hammers, work to 10:40

Ended with Number-Rama, Name-O-Rama, & COT/BOM

Humbly Your QIC,

Vanilla

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