Backblast: January 10th, 2025
AO: Black Ops – Municipal Park – Perrysburg, OH
PAX:
Photon – Q
Badger
Bourbon
Dodger
Gold Star
Guardian
Huckleberry
Life Alert
Phat Thor
Piggly Wiggly
Spaulding
Ten Pin
Workout: Swim Meet
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: OYO
Swimmers Forward
Swimmers Reverse
Michael Phelps
Moseyed over to the Baseball Diamond
The “Thang”:
In celebration of the newest addition to the Perrysburg Black Swamp AO arsenal, PAX participated in an F3 swim meet at the newly minted Municipal Park AO. The Swim Meet Consisted of 4 events:
100m Freestyle: Bear Crawl
100m Breast Stroke: Murder Bunny
100m Backstroke: Crab Walk
100m Butterfly: Burpee Broadjump (did not run due to time and slick conditions)
Each round consisted of the following work:
20 Jump Squats – Representing jumping off of the starting block
25m MOT – Representing one lap of standard pool
5 Burpees – Representing the flip turn at the end of the pool
20 Flutter Kicks (4 is 1) – Representing the dolphin kick after a flip turn
25m MOT
5 Burpees
20 Flutter Kicks (4 is 1)
25m MOT
5 Burpees
20 Flutter Kicks (4 is 1)
25m MOT
PAX planked or picked up the 6 upon completion of a round before moving onto the next event.
Ended with:
Count-O-Rama: 12
Name-O-Rama
The Six – Dodger
LDP3
Ball of Man
Spreadsheets from the Gloom: 5F wind-chill with a layer of ice and snow to make things extra crappy. This was a good idea, with decent execution. We didn’t have time to complete all 4 events, so things will need to be shortened or poeple will need to work faster. In the spirit of the theme I’d like to keep the distances the same, so perhaps lowering the rep. counts on some of the exercises would help. That, or just call the event after the first three PAX finish. There was a lot of mumblechatter going on during this one, so there’s opportunity for people to speed up. Other alternative would be to cut the distances in half completely in order to make room for the team medley relay event. It would be fun to decide legs based on individual PAX strengths and weaknesses and compete based on that.
We dive into the playlist below:
“Swimming Ground” – Meat Puppets
“Nightswimming” – R.E.M.
“Jump In The Pool” – Friendly Fires
“Dive” – Nirvana
“Going Under” – Evanescence
“The Stroke” – Billy Squier
“Kick Out The Jamps” – MC5
“Float On” – Modest Mouse
“Underwater Love” – Faith No More
Always appreciate PAX getting out on terribly cold mornings and this was no exception.
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