Rivercrest Park (The Gauntlet)
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Date/Time
Date(s) - 01/01/2018
5:30 am - 6:15 am
The Q:
Venom
Location
Rivercrest Park
Categories
Tags:
boot camp, Perrysburg
Bootcamp style workout. Huge AO! 1/2 mile and .9 mile track. 2 Large pieces of playgroup equipment for pullups and hanging exercises. Over half a dozen soccer and lacrosse fields. The possibilities are endless for your Monday beatdowns!
The First Monday of each month will be a Murph workout in honor of Lt. (SEAL) Michael Murphy.
“Day One” Backblast
F3 Toledo – New Year’s Day 2017 @ 6:50am @ The Gauntlet (Perrysburg)
It was cold (-12*F wind chill) with multiple inches of snow on the ground
This beatdown was performed at Pburg (14 pax) and Sylv (30 pax) AO’s simultaneously.
The Pax:
Stark, Raven, Hanson (from F3 Nashville), Zod, Spaulding, Bambi, Tots, Buttermaker, Rooster, Virus, Shakira, Jennay, TuPac, Bourbon (Q)
Welcome to F3:
Gather at parking lot – not at shovel flag
F3’s mission is to plant, serve and grow men’s small workout groups, in order to reinvigorate male community leadership.
F3 principles:
· It must be free of charge;
· It must be open to all men;
· It must be held outdoor, rain or shine, heat or cold;
· It must be peer led in a rotating fashion by men who participate in the Workout, with no training or certification necessary;
· It must end with a Circle of Trust (the “COT”)
Disclaimer
Opening Comments from Q to PAX:
“At 6:50 am on this day seven years ago, 34 men gathered in the gloom. This set into motion a series of events which ultimately delivered you to the gloom too.
The shovel flag is a symbol which we have grown to love, but it didn’t even exist at the beginning of this first workout so they naturally gathered under the flagpole.
They didn’t know it at the time, but they were launching an unprecedented crusade against sad clowns that would give rise to new found strength in men like you and like me. We are all Qrusaders fighting for ourselves and now too for the men next to us.
It is not an accident or some sort of coincidence that you posted here today. You posted because you demand more from yourself. Only you know if you are reaching your limits. Stand tall. Feel strong. Be proud. Unshackle your warrior!
Welcome to the Gloom gentlemen.”
The Thang:
From Q to PAX:
“Today’s beatdown is not the exact workout performed by the men at the first post, but inspired by it. Unless specified otherwise, all exercises will be to a 34 count in recognition of the 34 men posting at that first workout 7 years ago.”
Q instructed Stark to keep with the Six for entire workout. Stark did so graciously and kept the motivation flowing for all PAX.
1/4 mile run to warm up; Q instructed the PAX to mosey to the soccer fields at the base of the hill in the park. This was extra challenging this morning with multiple inches of snow requiring PAX to keep their knees high.
In Cadence:
1. Merkins
2. Wide Arm Merkins
3. Diamond Merkins
4. Military Merkins
Run the length of soccer field and back
In Cadence:
1. Jump Squats
2. Dolly (on your 6 with legs 6” off ground- spread apart- bring together)
3. Flutter Kick
4. LBC
Run the length of soccer field and back
In Cadence:
1. Side Straddle Hop
2. Burpees
3. Mountain Climber
Run the length of soccer field and back
1. Howling Monkeys (Circle up- 10 monkey humpers each around the circle like dominos but in both directions – when done you hold it until everyone gets a turn to do theirs… faster is better here.)
2. Jacob’s Ladder (Increasing burpees by 1 at the bottom of the hill up to 7 in recognition of the 7th anniversary of F3). Pick up the six when you finish. Many of the PAX decided it was safer to use their bodies as sleds to get down the hill than to sprint it. Wise decision and fun had by all in the gloom!
Q instructed PAX to run to the top of the hill and circle around the flag that was planted and not seen until Jacob’s Ladder.
Comments from Q to PAX:
“The Campos was a workout group that grew to problematic numbers and consequently created the first starfish style spinoff – this spinoff was the birth of F3. The Campos Qrusaders left the first shovel flag as a tongue in cheek gift to this first pax with the following note attached to it.”:
Q retrieved the note from the shovel flag and read it aloud to the PAX:
“Pax (if you last),
Blood, Sweat, Toil & Beer (to bastardize a great phrase) will breed a deep regard called Brotherhood. If you give yourselves to this endeavor, you will find it, and it will find you.
I hope you reach a point today or next Saturday — where you want to quit. So, in the union of men, “you against you” becomes a public and/or common struggle. It’s here you will see there is much more in you that you’ve withheld — or in your weakness, you’ve rationalized away.
It’s time; but if you don’t care, we won’t care either. What’s it gonna be, son??
– Apostle GX”
Q then instructed the PAX to mosey down the hill and back to the school parking lot where we started the beat down.
Q then spoke the following words to the PAX:
“We have met this challenge 304 times as a region. Today is the 305th workout for F3 Toledo. To commemorate this feat, the last exercise of the morning was a 305 count plank around our shovel flag.” There was some struggle to keep the count in order. Not sure if it was the cold, the hangovers, or some just missed kindergarten…
Count-O-Rama: 14 PAX posted
Name-O-Rama
Know the 6: Bambi was the sixth PAX in count-o-rama. He was named because he was a hunter and likes to hunt deer. He took on the challenge of F3 for the fitness aspect and many doubted him. He has grown mentally and physically over the months in the gloom and is a regular poster. We celebrated his achievement of 50+ pounds of weight loss since joining F3 due to the exercise and also working on proper nutrition.
Intentions and Ball of Man
Announcements: Winter Challenge
Thank you for joining me in the gloom and entrusting your beatdown to me on New Year’s Day. I loved seeing the max effort from all PAX that posted and am proud to call each of you a brother. Here’s to a fantastic 2018!