Backblast: December 29th, 2025
AO: Camelot – General’s Ice Cream – Whitehouse, OH
PAX:
Photon – Q
OSHA
Purdy
Rudy
Vespa
Workout: Error 404
FNG’s: N/A
Mission and Principles:
F3: Fitness, Fellowship, Faith
Mission: To plant, grow and serve small workout groups for men for the invigoration of male community leadership.
The core principles of F3 are that it is always:
1. Free of charge
2. Open to all men
3. Held outdoors, rain or shine, heat or cold
4. Led by men who participate in the workout in a rotating fashion, with no training or certification necessary. You versus you. Modify or stop an exercise if you need to. The most important thing is that nobody gets hurt.
5. Ends with a Circle of Trust
Credo: Leave no man behind but leave no man where you find him
Warm-up: In Cadence
SSH (2is1): 202 (to represent YHCs 404th post of the year, which was not an error)
The “Thang”:
Luck had it (but not really) that this was the 404th post of the year, so Error 404 seemed like a fitting theme. “We’re sorry, the page you requested could not be found. Please go back to the homepage.” Since we couldn’t find the beatdown that was requested, we went back to the homepage…YHC’s first Q of the year. And it just happened to be “New Challenger Approaching”, the introduction of The Crabsolution.
PAX performed 3 sets of abbreviated 11’s, each set with one of the top 3 least favorite exercises of 2024, one new exercise out of the crab position, and one MOT.
Round 1: 7’s – Pull-Ups, 20 meter run (due to snow), Aussie Makhtar N’Diayes
Round 2: 7’s – Thrusters, 10 meter Murder Bunny, Crab Jacks (2 is 1)
Round 3: 7’s – Absolutions, 10 meter Crab Walk, Aussie Groiners
After the final round of 7’s, there was a re-unvailing of the new the Crabsolution to the Whitehouse/Waterville PAX. The Crabsolution is essentially an Aussie absolution entirely out of the crab walk position. PAX did 5 in cadence, because any more is basically impossible.
Ended with:
Count-O-Rama: 5
Name-O-Rama
The Six – Purdy
LDP3
Ball of Man
Spreadsheets from the Gloom: 5F windchill due to the 27mph winds. There was no escaping the suck of the weather or the suck of the work. The only reason this run wasn’t as bad as the inaugural debut was because it was only 45 minutes instead of an hour. And we cut the crabsolution reps in half. It really is a horrendous monstrosity…so difficult that half of the pax couldn’t even perform 5 reps. Good to see that it’s getting the hate it deserves in this year’s “Best Of” polling. It’s the worst exercise by a long shot.
The playlist from the original made its return to accompany all the crabby PAX through their test of terrible.
“Bad” – Michael Jackson
“Bad To The Bone” – George Thorogood & The Destroyers
“Crab” – Weezer
“Bad Day” – Daniel Powter
“2 Bad” – Michael Jackson
“Rock Lobster” – The B-52’s
“Everything Sucks” – Reel Big Fish
“Sing For Absolution” – Muse
“Worst Is On Its Way” – Korn
It’s been a heck of a year…was good to reflect back on how it all started. Thanks to those who made it out for this one.
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