Category: Uncategorized

Date: 2026-01-31
AO: Tar Pit
Q: Jayhawk ,
PAX: LeMond, Homie, Portage, Big Mac, Jayhawk, Panhandle, Da Vinci FNGs: None
COUNT: 7
F3 Pre-Valentine’s Day Q – Love requires curiosity, sacrifice, connection, and partnership.

Warm-O-Rama
Blood flow matters; if it stops, things die. The same is true in relationships. SSH x 30
Cindy Fondle (stretching with the weight in different positions) Cindy Swings – 15 with manly grunts

Partner Mosey + Conversation
Love starts with listening before lifting.
Mosey with a partner toward the sauna location, while conversing with your mosey partner.

Beatdown 1 – Give > Take
Love is a lot of give, not always take.
2 Rounds – Partners stay together
Partner Cindy Merkins
Start left side of Cindy
Merkin → move right → merkin → up and over → repeat back
10 total partner merkins
Seated Cindy Reach-Arounds
Sit back-to-back
Pass Cindy left → right for 10
Then right → left for 10
Big Boy Cindy Pass
Partners interlock feet
One pax Big Boy up, passes Cindy at the top
Alternate reps – 10 total

Beatdown 2 – Connection (Stay Linked)
Stay connected even when it’s uncomfortable. Relationships are never 50/50. Sometimes it’s 30/70, sometimes 0/0, but staying together even at 0/0 is still together. Also, don’t do cocaine, unless you’re a bear. Apparently, it makes for great cinema and good motivation for better bear crawls for HIMs.

Partner Back-to-Back with Interlocking Arms Shuffle (Down the parking lot) Wall Sit
Hold 45 seconds
Partner Back-to-Back with Interlocking Arms Shuffle (Down the parking lot) Bear Crawl Down
Cocaine-Bear Crawl Back

Beatdown 3 – Partnership (Shared Load)
Real partnership means shared weight; even if you aren’t carrying the load, you still have the important role of encouraging your partner (that’s the hidden yet vital weight that enriches your relationship).

2 Rounds of:
20 Cindy plank patty cake (hold plank on Cindy’s while alternating right and left high fives with partner) 10 Man Makers
Partner 1 works while Partner 2 encourages
Switch ever rep to maintain momentum and pace

Partner Carries (Trust & Support)
Sometimes love means carrying more than your share.

2 Rounds of:
Rotate through carries down and back:
Farmer Carry, Fireman Carry, Bear Hug Carry
One partner stabilizes and holds Cindy while doing flutter kicks, while the other runs down, skips back two times, then the partners switch.

Mosied back to the flag

Picklepound Party
Circle up
Pickle Pound x 20
J-Lo x 10 (Left, Right 1)
Monkey Humpers x 10 (eye contact is optional)
Hip Thrusters x 10
OYO until time while we jammed to 5 minutes of 90’s and 2000’s R&B Love Jams.

COT

John 15:13 – “Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.”

Before Valentine’s Day reminds us of romance, let’s remember:
Love is communication, connection, sacrifice, and showing up for your brothers, even when it’s heavy.

MoleSkin

Everyone is going through something. We need each other. I am thankful for these HIM’s vulnerability and brotherhood.

LORD’s Prayer to close

Tags: Tar Pit, LeMond, Homie, Portage, Big Mac, Jayhawk, Panhandle, Da Vinci

Date: 2026-01-31
AO: Mastodon
Q: The wet burrito ,
PAX: Endo, Jailbreak, Glowstick, The wet burrito, Treebeard, Bloomer, Stock boy FNGs:
COUNT: 7
WOR:

The Thang:

Moleskine:

COT:

Tags: Mastodon, Endo, Jailbreak, Glowstick, The wet burrito, Treebeard, Bloomer, Stock boy

Date: 2026-01-29
AO: Mastodon
Q: Glowstick ,
PAX: Glowstick, Endo, Dumpster, Mr Roboto, Archive, Stock boy, Big Mac FNGs: None
COUNT: 7
WOR:
– SSHs
– Copperhead Squats
– Abe Vugodas
– Arm Circles F + B
– Seal Claps
– Stretch anything You Need

The Thang:
Went to the shop and each pax had a picnic table. In cadence, we did – SSHs x10
– Merkins x10
– LBCs x10
– Leg Raises x 10
– Table Presses x 5 (increased to 7 after first round
– Lap around the baseball field

Completed approximately 6-7 rounds

Moleskine:
Discipline is Freedom. I heard this in a video recently and it rang true as I have been inconsistent (lazy) with exercise and diet specifically. Discipline in your diet is freedom from feeling sluggish. Discipline in exercising is freedom from poor health. And so on. Where am I lacking discipline and what could it give me freedom from?

COT:
30 seconds of silence for each pax to pray/meditate/use as they’d like

Tags: Mastodon, Glowstick, Endo, Dumpster, Mr Roboto, Archive, Stock boy, Big Mac

Date: 2026-01-30
AO: Flat Earth
Q: Hershey ,
PAX: Tortuga, Stump, Shiplap, Too Big To Fail (TBTF), Oompa, Jolly, White Noise, Sparty, DQ, Banks, Wagyu, Hershey FNGs: None
COUNT: 12
WOR: SSH and down and back

The Thang: Merry Discmas

Moleskine: Live a consistent life

COT: prayers for pax

Tags: Flat Earth, Tortuga, Stump, Shiplap, Too Big To Fail (TBTF), Oompa, Jolly, White Noise, Sparty, DQ, Banks, Wagyu, Hershey

Date: 2026-01-30
AO: Ground Zero
Q: Buns ,
PAX: Cheap Shot, Endo, Da Vinci, Crack, Dumpster, Samsonite, LeMond, Mr. Bean, Portage, Stock boy, Toto, Buns FNGs: None
COUNT: 12
WOR: Run/Ruck North on Prairie Trail

The Thang:

Moleskine: Remedial or Revolutionary? How BIG or big is your God? Referenced an old child’s Sunday School song “Our God is so big, so strong and so mighty,” as well as an old folks but wonderful hymn “How great thou art.” How you view God will put temporal and eternal perspective into 20/20 vision. Used a couple “Creation” examples of how BIG God is from a cellular level / biological processes to the farthest star away in “astronomical” light years. Is your God bigger than your problems or are your problems bigger than your God. Delve into the creative intricacies of a flower, a snowflake, or a human being! Just to name a few. If HE cares for his creation, how much more does HE care for us!

COT: Continued prayer for Pax seeking employment. Praise for buns turning big corner on more attention and recent successes related to health/exercise.

Tags: Ground Zero, Cheap Shot, Endo, Da Vinci, Crack, Dumpster, Samsonite, LeMond, Mr. Bean, Portage, Stock boy, Toto, Buns

Date: 2026-01-28
AO: Tar Pit
Q: Ankles ,
PAX: Tortuga, Beaker, Da Vinci, SAGA, Panhandle, Portage, DQ, Ankles, The wet burrito FNGs: None
COUNT: 9
WOR: Q was late & arrived w/ PAX already doing SSH IC; Abe Vigoda’s IC; Goofballs IC; Michael Phelps OYO

The Thang: Themed workout honoring the 40th anniversary of the Challenger shuttle disaster. Moseyed up the ramp to The Spa & did a series of “Ring of Fire” exercises. Musical was the Billboard American Top 40 songs for the week ending January 25, 1986.

Each “Ring of Fire” had one “active” exercise (done in 3 escalating sets of 10; 20; and 30 reps) and one “default” exercise. The PAX circled up. Two PAX assigned by the Q ~180 degrees from each other started doing the “active” exercises OYO as the remaining PAX did the “default” exercise OYO while waiting their turns. As the PAX starting w/ the “active” exercise completed their first set (10 reps), they switched to the “default” exercise, and the PAX immediately clockwise switched from the “default” exercise over to their first set (10) of “active” exercise and so on. As the wave of “active” exercise came around to each PAX again, they did a set of 20 reps, etc. When a full 3 sets/60 reps of “active” exercise was completed by all PAX, that particular “Ring of Fire” was complete. The “Rings of Fire” exercises were:

1. Active: Lunges (1 is 1); Default: Mountain Man Climbers
2. Active: Merkins; Default: Plank
3. Active: Monkey Humpers (1 is 1); Default: Hold MH position statically.
4. Active: “Heels 2 Heaven”; Default: On your 6 & hold feet 6 inches from ground.

As a short break between each “Ring of Fire,” the Q read a short collection of facts or synopsis outlining the relevant background facts & general timeline leading up to the Challenger launch & accident.

Moleskine: As a quasi-final exercise/moleskine hybrid, the PAX did a final “Ring of Fire” in plank position (or merkins OYO to break up the planking) while listening to the https://youtu.be/Qa7icmqgsow?si=mAmj7R3CqEvpq4eC made the evening of January 28, 1986 to the American people.

“And the Surly Bonds of Earth to Touch the Face of God.”

F3 Moleskine: Nothing truly worth doing in life is without risk. Don’t be reckless, but try to exhibit the bravery of a “pioneer” regarding something in your life that might require some courage on your part, whether it be related to work, personal relationships, emotional honesty with yourself or others, confronting a bad habit, etc.

COT: Nothing specifically mentioned, so we had a moment of quiet contemplation, concluding with The Serenity Prayer.

Tags: Tar Pit, Tortuga, Beaker, Da Vinci, SAGA, Panhandle, Portage, DQ, Ankles, The wet burrito

Date: 2026-01-29
AO: Dark Room
Q: Banks ,
PAX: Tortuga, Beaker, LeMond, Banks, Brainfog, Manhole, Toto, Framed FNGs: None
COUNT: 8
WOR: The Usual
– 7x Motivators
– 10x Windmills IC
– 10x Mountain Man Poopers IC
– 10x Merkins IC
– Stretch OYO

The Thang: Pearls on a String
We started off moseying around the big loop
– Route 66 at the light poles
– 25x Squats IC
– 25 BBS
– 25 LBC with Pickle Point
– 25 Oblique Crunches each side
– Dan Taylors to 8 squats and 32 lunges
– 25 Merkins
– 25 Jump Squats in Cadence
– 5 Pull up & 10 Derkin partner race
– Pull up & Dip partner trade off
– 25 Flutter kicks IC
– 20 American Hammers IC

Moleskine: The Man in the Arena – Teddy Roosevelt
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

COT: iykyk

Tags: Dark Room, Tortuga, Beaker, LeMond, Banks, Brainfog, Manhole, Toto, Framed

Date: 2026-01-27
AO: Flat Earth
Q: Pine tar ,
PAX: Tortuga, Shiplap, Pine tar, Fiona, Jack, Candyland, Banks, Jolly FNGs: None
COUNT: 8
WOR:

The Thang:

Moleskine:

COT:

Tags: Flat Earth, Tortuga, Shiplap, Pine tar, Fiona, Jack, Candyland, Banks, Jolly

Date: 2026-01-26
AO: Tar Pit
Q: Tortuga ,
PAX: T-bone, SAGA, Panhandle, Jolly, Tortuga, Too Big To Fail (TBTF) FNGs:
COUNT: 6
WOR: ssh, goof balls, scout run around the lake

The Thang:
Five reps of each: curb sit tuck jumps, side plank raises (each side), derkins, box cutters, burpees First to finish the round adds five reps to each

Mosey around the school

Lunge spittoon to 300

Mary in the spa:
25 flutter kicks, protractor,
25 flutter kicks, heels to heaven,
25 flutter kicks, box cutters,
25 flutter kicks (slow)
All IC, no breaks

Moleskine: compliment someone today

COT: yes

Tags: Tar Pit, T-bone, SAGA, Panhandle, Jolly, Tortuga, Too Big To Fail (TBTF)

Date: 2026-01-24
AO: Mastodon
Q: Bloomer , Too Big To Fail (TBTF)
PAX: Endo, Mr Roboto, Too Big To Fail (TBTF), Bloomer, Stock boy FNGs: None
COUNT: 5
WOR: side straddle hops, lip curls, imperial walkers, jogger around the parking lot, Toy soldiers, copperhead squats

The Thang: cocaine bears – bear crawl from one end of the parking lot to the other and at every white parking space line do a Merkin as if sniffing cocaine from the line. – 11s around the lake – squats and star jumps
– Jog to backside parking lot for some Merkins and planks to the song thunderstruck. – sprint down the road to the back of the Baseball diamond
– squats and lunges across Dan Taylor Alley
– 11s at every light pole – BBS and Bobby Hurley
– Dora at the shop – partners – 100 table presses, 200 step ups and 300 dips. One partner works while the other runs a loop around the playground. – down and back cocaine, bear crawl in the parking lot

Moleskine: if it doesn’t challenge you, it doesn’t change you

COT: Roboto’s friends working through marital challenges, Jobs for the PAX, Endo’s friend Ted who is working through a medical challenge, those who don’t have warm and comfortable accommodations in the current weather conditions

Tags: Mastodon, Endo, Mr Roboto, Too Big To Fail (TBTF), Bloomer, Stock boy