Author: wstark

  • The Pit (Kingsbury Park) – Zach “Colson” Kreischer

    Flashback IPC 2025 Week 1 – Feeks WOD
    Honoring Patrick Feeks

    – Start and compound round of 2 Thrusters & 2 100m sprints. (E.g. 2, 4, 6, 8, etc)
    – AMRAP exercises for 50 minutes.
    – record total number of completed 100m sprints.
    ** we completed up to round 16 thrusters and 16 100m**

    COT
    PAX: Colson and Southie

  • Pump Station (Hood Park) – Spaulding

    Jennays journey
    Pax:
    Ukulele
    Carmen San Diego
    Colt 45
    Sherpa
    Shepherd
    Ginger – down range from Columbus
    Van wilder
    Echo
    Spaulding – Q

    Warm up:
    Windmills
    Arm circles
    Motivators starting at 10

    Running the whole AO and over to the wall doing work on each corner –
    10 burpees – 10 lt dans – 10 burpees – 10- lt dans- go back for the 6

    Run the same route but backward doing four corner workouts

    Hill runs
    5 burpees then sprint up the hill
    Twice

    5 lt dans and Run Backward up the hill

  • Run @ the Pump Station (Hood Park) – Derek Emery

    Backblast: March 15th, 2026
    AO: The Pump Station

    PAX:
    Van Wilder
    Colt 45
    Ukulele
    Echo
    Spaulding
    Carmen Sandiego (Q)

    Our mission is to plant, grow and serve small workout groups for men for the invigoration of male community leadership.
    Five principles are open to all men, always free, always outdoors, always led by a member of the pax. Only you know your medical history so modify if needed. End in a circle of trust,

    Credo is leave no man behind, but leave no man where you find him.

    Workout name: Forrest Gumpers

    Warm up: butt kickers, karaoke, back pedal

    THE THANG:

    Relived the Forrest Gump movie. Divided it into 3 sections.

    1st one was when Forrest broke through his leg braces to run fast. To simulate this, we did hills. After a few, the fastest (Ukulele) got to chose the last hill run which was running backwards.

    2nd section was during the time Forrest was in Vietnam when he tried to save his friend Bubba by carrying him out of the jungle. In the area between the pump station and the wall, we did fireman’s carries to simulate this one.

    3rd section was when Forrest went out on the long run across America. I set up lights throughout the ramps at different speeds for running. Green meant sprint, white meant walk, blue meant jog and red meant to turn back around. Ran about 4 laps.

    As Forrest said, life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you are going to get. So I changed the lights while running changing the speeds of the drill.

    On the way back we decided to do fireman’s carry. Once we got back to the flag, we wanted to salute Lt Dan for all is work so we did Lt Dan’s during the whole Beatdown song.

    Count-o-Rama: 6
    Name-o-Rama
    The Sixth: Echo

    COT
    Ball of man

  • Leadership Ruck – Fitness of the Body, Mind, and Soul – Alec Falkenberg

    Meatloaf – Q
    Tarnished
    Spit Valve
    Photon
    Golden Gate
    Isosceles
    Deliverance

    Leadership ruck

  • The Battlefied Ruck (The Shops At Fallen Timbers) – Jason Nofziger

    3/14/26 Ruck & Run

    Open to all men!

    Pax:
    Waldo
    Wipers
    Viper
    Norm
    Gulliver
    Doogie
    OSHA
    Lonzo
    Arcy
    Runt
    Crawdad
    Djibouti
    Fat Amy (Q)

    4 Rucked
    9 ran – did the Dana Out n’ Back.

    No man or Rudy left behind today!!

  • The Armory (Waterville Library) – Mike “Photon” Bauer

    Backblast: March 12th 2026

    AO: The Armory – Waterville LIbrary – Waterville, OH

    PAX:
    Photon – Q
    Doubtfire
    Fat Amy
    Lullaby
    Manchester
    Polaroid
    Vespa

    Workout: Curling For Girl…ing? Rev. 2

    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 (2 is 1): 53 while we waited for Manchester

    The “Thang”:

    PAX participated in America’s favorite winter past-time: curling; F3 style. The sheet was setup in the parking lot as follows. Hog Line was 21m from the button. The House was standard dimensions with a 2ft, 4ft, 8ft, and 12ft circle. Button was illuminated with a lit cone. There was no backline or hack.

    PAX split up into two teams of three and YHC was a floater. The progression of the game was as follows.

    Offensive team decided who was taking which role on the throw.
    “The Stone” estimated how many “reps” of the round’s MOT he wanted to put on the throw.
    “The Stone” would aim, close his eyes, and take the pre-estimated number of reps of the round’s MOT, and wherever he ended, he placed his dot.
    During the shot, the “sweeper” would perform an alternative non-blinded MOT next to the stone as it traversed the sheet.
    During the shot, the “thrower” would perform curls until the MOT ended for that shot.
    Non-throwing team would perform 15 burpees per person as a timer for the offensive team.

    Each team alternated roles over the course of 4 throws per round. Scores were tallied at the end of each round and were pointless.

    Two rounds were played. Exercises were as follows:

    Round Stone MOT Sweep MOT
    1 Bear Crawl Broad Jump
    2 Bear Crawl Broad Jump

    Ended with:
    Count-O-Rama: 7
    Name-O-Rama

    The Six – Polaroid

    LDP3

    Ball of Man

    Spreadsheets from the Gloom: Figured I’d try this again with some new implementations from the initial run’s learnings. First of all, we stuck to just bear crawls for the blind MOTs…for both rounds. They are controlled, they are hard to cheat, and repeating them for both games made the second game a lot more competitive because everyone’s accuracy was much better. In a similar fashion, we ran the same “sweep” MOT for both rounds: broad jumps. The landings of the broad jumps do help the blind stone aim if they follow the sound, but I still like the idea of explosive movements for the sweepers.

    The non-throwing team was still an issue. The loose 50 reps of the queue exercise were replaced with 15 burpees per person, but a number of PAX simply didn’t push themselves to complete them. Part of it might just be that they want to watch the throwing team. Perhaps an EMOM timer could be implemented to encourage keeping time/pace.

    All that said, running this at The Armory was awesome. The lit parking lot was perfect for not one, but two complete house setups.

    Playlist remained the same, because it was on point:

    “In The Stone” – Earth, Wind & Fire
    “Push” – Matchbox Twenty
    “Push It” – Salt-N-Pepa
    “Slide” – Goo Goo Dolls
    “The Sweep” – Westside
    “Slide” – Slave
    “Stop The Rock” – Apollo 440
    “Like A Stone” – Audioslave

    This is a really fun beatdown. I wish there was a good way to make it more challenging while keeping it fun, but the format makes it a bit challenging. Maybe someone will take bits and pieces of the idea and come up with something a lot better. Until then, we’ll probably keep this as a winter special. Not every beatdown has to be hard. Being fun is okay too.

  • The Pit (Kingsbury Park) – Nigel Hogan

    F3 workout, men present: Kolson, Southie, Bob Ross

    SSH x13 IC
    Imperial Walkers x13 IC
    Hillbillies x13 IC
    Arm Circles x13 each direction
    Good Mornings x13

    Coupon Curl x13
    Coupon Overhead Press x13
    Coupon Goblet Squat x13
    Coupon Upright Row x13
    Repeat 4 rounds

    Coupon Thrusters x13
    Rifle Carry 130 ft
    Coupon Bench Press x26
    Rifle Carry 130 ft
    Coupon Skull Crushers x26
    Repeat x 2

    Sit Ups x26
    Flutter Kicks x26
    American Hammers x26
    15 Burpees
    26 Merkins

    End with COT

  • Nightmare (Perrysburg Municipal Park) – Spaulding

    Pure Evil beatdown

    Pax:
    Meatloaf
    Goldstar
    Spaulding – Q

    The thang:
    Warm up
    Wind mills – 13
    Arm circles -13 forward and 13 backward

    Motivators- starting at 13

    Main beatdown:
    This is a descending ladder from 13 to 1.
    Each round = the number of reps matching the round.
    Example:
    Round 13 = 13 reps of everything
    Round 12 = 12 reps of everything
    …and so on.
    13 minute timer
    Exercises:
    • Merkins
    • Squats
    • Big Boy Situps
    • Plank Jacks
    • Imperial walkers (2=1)

    After each round:
    Run down to sidewalk intersection and back

    Revenge round:
    Descending ladder 13 down to 1
    Burpees!
    Run down and back after each set

  • Wakanda (Maumee High School) – Spaulding

    Round and Round

    Pax:
    Chubbs
    Arcy
    Jersey
    Big spoon
    Warrior
    Rumor
    Quick draw
    Spaulding – Q

    The thang:

    Warm up:
    Potato pickers
    Arm circles
    Motivators (starting at 8)

    Beatdown:
    Round 1
    Working around the island
    Top right corner and bottom left corner
    3 burpees every time then Bear crawl to next corner
    Top left corner and bottom right corner 10 reps then run to next corner
    Lap 1. jump squats
    Lap 2. Merkins
    Lap 3. Big boy sit ups
    Lap 4. Side straddle hops

    Round 2 – same work
    Mode of transportation karaoke and politicians (back pedal)

  • The Wall (Riverside Park) – Thor

    3/12/26
    Pax:
    Thor-q
    Coconut
    Carmen San Diego
    Mile high

    We ran more than worked but we sweat a lot.

    Cone 1- 1 kraken burpee
    Back to bottom- 10 LBC’s
    Cone 2 – 2 kraken burpees
    Bottom- 20 LBC’s

    Continue until cone 5 and 50 LBC’s

    Round 2
    Kraken burpees at cones/monkey humpers and Freddie Mercs at bottom.