One great thing about F3 is the opportunity to get out of your comfort zone. I've been in the Clydesdale weight class since early high school. I never really ran that much and barely know my way around the track as evidenced by my misunderstanding of track distances today. The fact that 16 guys are
YHC woke up at 0430 this morning with questions in my head. My legs were still sore from Maneater's beat down at Shake 'n' Bake. I really wasn't sure I wanted to do a bootcamp and I needed to get at least 5 miles in for my cannonball training. I planned to do my usual
The PAX: Ricardo, Bird's Nest, Bumpers, Phoenix, Boy Wonder, Akron, Miracle Grow, Backdraft, Patch, Mall Cop The Setting: YHC pulled into the AO a little after 0500 to survey the site and make sure the track was available. My legs were sore from the last two days so he night before I had posted a
The new F3 Worx gear leaves a fine sweat angel! The PAX: Pacer, Red Coat, Flo Jo, Golden Corral, Ricardo, Snakes on a Plane, Hazmat, Lynda, Sandpiper, Saban, Nancy, Popeye, Mall Cop The Setting: It was a balmy and humid morning at Arise. I pulled in to the lot at 0502 and found
The PAX: Frosty, Gekko, Boy Wonder, Earheart, Poehler, Shocker, Three Card Monty, Driftah, Mall Cop The Setting: It was a balmy and humid morning at ShakeWeight. We farmer carried our weights out of the garage and headed for the cooler parking lot next to the defunct Macaroni Grilll. I queued up a playlist of sufficiently
Sweat Angel - 7/8/21 It's leg day!!!! Wild Sweat Angel spotted in its natural gloomy habitat. 5 Pax didn't skip leg day. It's been almost 2 years since this beatdown was last delivered. It was every bit as difficult as I remembered it and then some. I warned them that this might leave
Date: 6/5/21 Cobains for not posting this backblast sooner. You did the work and deserve the credit so here it is. Thanks to Nomex for the title of this post. PAX: Phoenix, Tommy Boy, Poehler, Bushwood, Don't Cha Know, City Slicker, HBO, No Comprende, Jon Coctostan, 8 Mile, Major Payne, Akron, Shrinkage (FNG), Bruce Lee,
Date: 6/3 I apologize for the delayed backblast. Life got busy the last few weeks but better late than never. I encouraged PAX to bring their heavy bags for this beatdown. I kept it simple but that didn't mean it was easy. The PAX: Sweat Angel: Gunny, STP, Don't Cha Know, Frosty, Stick Up (DR),
Burpees The word strikes fear into the hearts of men. Burpees. Just typing it makes me shudder. But face it, there really is no better full body strength and cardio exercise. During COT at Shake & Bake I had announced that I had the Q at Slammin' Sammy's this week and that we were "going
Heavy Day Want to get your heart rate going without taking a run? Lift heavy. Want to make it extra hard on yourself? Do it with good form! You don't want to be like that guy you knew in high school that loaded up the bar then bounced off his chest doing bench or swung