Author: wstark

Leadership Ruck 6.21.25

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Sorry for the duplicate

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Guardian Ruck
Van Gough Run
Carmen San Diego Run
Norm Run Q.
Fossil Run
Long Horn Ruck
Astro Ruck
Mr Anderson Ruck
Ten Pin Ruck
Van Weilder Ruck
Bourban Run
Dutch Run
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Capital Run
Base Line Run
Tribeck Run
Ukilehli Run
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Guardian Ruck
Van Gough Run
Carmen San Diego Run
Norm Run
Fossil Run
Long Horn Ruck
Astro Ruck
Mr Anderson Ruck
Ten Pin Ruck
Van Weilder Ruck
Bourban Run
Dutch Run
Stalker Ruck
Meat loaf Ruck
Cyber Truck Ruck
Capital Run
Base Line Run
Tribeck Run
Ukilehli Run
Stark Run
Isosilies Run

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Astro
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Van Weilder_Ruck
Burbon
Dutch
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Meat loaf_Ruck
Cyber Truck_Ruck
Capital
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Stark
Isosalies
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Backblast: June 21st, 2025

AO: The Fortress

PAX:
Carmen Sandiego – Q
Ukulele
Capitol

Workout: Lights Out Running 5:30 run instead of ruck

FNG’s: none

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: n/a

The “Thang”:

Ran to Necropolis and back. Fast past there, Fartleks on the way back. Total of around 5 miles.

Count-O-Rama: 3

Backblast: June 20th, 2025

AO: The Rabbit Hole – Whitehouse Library – Whitehouse, OH

PAX:
Photon – Q
Astro
Bourbon
Doubtfire
Fancy Feast
Fat Amy
Mercy
Rudy
Vespa

Workout: The Heartbeat Of The Summer Solstice

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

Willie Mays Hayes – 10
Piano Keys – 14

Mosey to the hill

The “Thang”:

Jacob’s Ladder

For a given round, perform 1 hill sprint up and down the big hill. After descending the hill the last time in a given round, perform a 30s walk away from the hill to the cone and back to the hill. After each round, increase the number of hill sprints by 1 for the following round. Repeat until time.

After the mosey back to the flag, we finished with 10 burpees in cadence…because Photon.

Ended with:
Count-O-Rama: 9
Name-O-Rama

The Six – Fat Amy

LDP3

Ball of Man

Spreadsheets from the Gloom: 60F and dry, but a thick layer of dew on the grass, making this one even more fun. This beatdown was an audible. More importantly, it was a response. A comment was made that a DR post in Cincinnati saw more hills in a single beatdown than in all The Black Swamp. And having lived in Cincinnati for 5 years as a young lad, I know that the area does have a lot of hills. But they don’t have our hill. And they don’t have our PAX. We go hard. Borderline stupid at times. We’re the type of guys who will run 5 miles BEFORE doing 400 burpees. Or run IPC Week 0 BEFORE running Bourbon’s Lucky 7’s. Hell, some of us will Murph 8 times in 7 days. Or do 1475 burpees in 7 days. Or even ruck 50 miles in ONE DAY just because. We’re the type of guys who will bearcrawl through snow down Main Street in (-20F) windchill to celebrate our brother’s 69th birthday.

I’m sure the PAX in Cincinnati are great. I’m sure their beatdowns are hard. And I’m sure that the same can be said for all of the regions in F3 Nation. But the men in the swamp are just built different. It’s contagious…the type of peer pressure that would actually make your parents proud. There’s a reason they called this area “The Toledo Miracle”…it wasn’t supposed to be this way. It wasn’t supposed to flourish, let alone work at all. But it did…because of the guys who step into that circle every morning.

So thanks to Gold Star for giving me the inspiration to try something hard (borderline stupid), and to the other 8 guys who took on the challenge with me. As far as I know, the current record for hill sprints at The Rabbit Hole is now sitting at 23. And I hope that some fired up PAX with a passion for punishment crushes that number sooner rather than later.

Playlist (as well as the workout structure itself) was an ode to The Summer Solstice as today was the last day of this year where the days are still getting longer.

“Long Day” – Matchbox Twenty
“It’ll Be A Long Time” – The Offspring
“Daylight” – Coldplay
“Everlong” – Foo Fighters
“The Boys Of Summer” – The Ataris
“Foreplay/Long Time” – Boston
“The Sun” – Maroon 5

Kettlebell Baseball Beatdown
Mission: The mission of F3 is to plant grow and serve small workout groups for men for the invigoration of male community leadership.
1. Be free of charge
2. Be open to all men
3. Be held outdoors, rain or shine, heat or cold
4. Be led by men who participate in the workout in a rotating fashion, with no training or certification necessary
5. End with a Circle of Trust
The Thang:
Each inning will consist of doing each exercise on every base followed by running a lap of the infield.
Inning 1: 25 Kettlebell Swings
Inning 2: 25 Goblet Squats
Inning 3: 25 One Arm Bent-over Row (2 is 1)
Inning 4: 25 Kettlebell Swings
Inning 5: 25 Curls
Inning 6: 25 Goblet Lunges (2 is 1)
Inning 7: 25 Kettlebell Swings
Inning 8: 25 Skull Crushers
Inning 9: 25 Thrusters
Victory Lap: Run a lap around the whole field along the warning track.
Double Header: If you finish the whole game go back to the first inning for a double header.
Count-o-rama: 17
Name-o-rama:
Frodo
Cybertruck
Wario
Stalker
Sugar Bush
Spaulding
Capital
Longhorn
Stark
Ukelele
Meatloaf
Carmen San Diego
Guardian
Yoshi
Footloose
Goldstar
Van Wilder – Q
6 Speech
Announcements
LDP3
Prayer Intentions

06/19/2025 – Juneteenth:

Date: 06/19/2025
Time: 5:30 – 6:15 AM
Location: The Wall – Riverside Park, Perrysburg, OH
Q: Bourbon

PAX Count: 18 Total

PAX Names:
Dutch
Capitol
Coconut
Lego
Ukulele
Irish Hoss
Fat Amy
Guardian
Ten Pin
Frodo
Huckleberry
Redken
Finkle
Carmen San Diego
Purdy
Geppetto
Nitrous
Bourbon

F3 Mission: Fitness, Fellowship, Faith; To plant, grow, and serve small workout groups for men for the invigoration of male community leadership

Principles of F3:
• It must be free of charge
• It must be open to all men
• It must be held outdoor, rain or shine, hot or cold
• It must be peer led in a rotating fashion by men who participate in the workout, with no training or certification necessary
• It must end with a Circle of Trust (COT)

Disclaimer Statement

Warmup:
• Motivators. 10 to 1.

Beatdown:

• History: Juneteenth represents the annual holiday that celebrates the official emancipation of enslaved people in Texas on June 19, 1865, marking the end of slavery in the United States. This was nearly two years after President Abraham Lincoln emancipated enslaved Africans in America.

• The Awakening:
o 6 x Burpees [6-count, in cadence]
o 19 x Chain Breakers [4-count, in cadence]
o 18 x Imperial Walkers [4-count, in cadence]
o 65 x Mountain Climber [4-count, in cadence]

• The Journey to Freedom:
o 6 x Jump Squats [4-count, in cadence]
o 19 x Lunges (2 is 1) [OYO]
o 18 x Perfect Merkins [OYO]
o 65 x Side-Straddle Hops [4-count, in cadence]

• New Dawn Freedom Sprint:
o Sprint up the ramp to the American flag
o Plank until all PAX get to the flag
o Sprint down the ramp and plank at the bottom until all PAX get to the bottom

• Unity Core:
o 6 x American Hammers [4-count, in cadence]
o 19 x BBSU’s [4-count, in cadence]
o 18 x Flutter Kicks [4-count, in cadence]
o 65 x LBC’s [OYO]

• New Dawn Freedom Sprint (Final):
o Sprint to the second pole toward Hood Park
o Recover for the 6
o Plank
o Circle Merk to 65
o Sprint Back to start

Playlist:
• “Wade the Water” – Cynthia Liggins Thomas
• “Glory” – Common and John Legend
• “Get Up, Stand Up” – Bob Marley
• “Freedom” – Beyonce
• “I Can” – Nas
• “Power” – Kanye West
• “This is America” – Childish Gambino
• “Higher Ground” – Stevie Wonder
• “Say It Loud” – James Brown
• “Fight the Power” – Public Enemy
• “A Change is Gonna Come” – Same Cooke

COT:
• Count-O-Rama and Name-O-Rama
• Learn about the 6: Irish Hoss.
• Announcements
• LDP3
o Shovel Flag
o Site Q, Geppetto, shared the following blog post from F3 Johnson City:
• https://f3netn.com/2016/10/22/its-just-a-flag-like-f3-is-just-a-workout/
• COT / Prayers and Intentions

Backblast: June 19th, 2025

AO: The Wall

PAX:
Carmen Sandiego – Q
Ukulele

Workout: Fartleks “black ops”

FNG’s: none

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: Ran to the pump station and ran 2 hills

The “Thang”:

Ran 5 miles of hills and straightaways at variable speeds.

Count-O-Rama: 2