2/21/26 Battlefield Ruck
Tag Team Ruck
Intro/Welcome
Count o Rama (15)
The Thang:
2.66mi Ruck across the bridge to the FT Battlefield statue then turn around. Stopped every 0.5mi to do 10 Air Squats or 10 Merkins OYO.
COT:
Count o Rama
Name o Rama
6 – OSHA
LDP3 – Crawdad
Announcements
Prayer – Tackleberry
PAX List:
Yoshi (Q)
Tackleberry (Q)
Waldo
Wipers
Mercy
Rudy
Echo
OSHA
Crawdad
Djibouti
Norm
Runt
Doubtfire
Doogie
Lonzo
Music Trivia Beatdown 2-23-26
Sven – Q
Waldo – 6
Purdy
Mercy
Footloose
Doubtfire
Vespa
F3, mission, 5 core principles, credo.
Warm up: SSH, Potato Pickers, Arm Circles
Counto, split into teams.
Music Trivia, multiple categories and styles, some name that tune, some "Classic" Rock and Pop/Punk trivia. Correct team picked an exercise and gave an exercise to their opponent. Lots of man makers for warmth, curl presses, curls, squats, and abs with a run to the cherry house at halftime.
Both teams won.
CountoRama, NamoRama, announcements, prayer requests. LDP3 on Faithfulness.
#ISI #HonoredToLead
Minute to Win it
PreThang:
25 Don Quixotes
25 Jacks
Thang:
One minute AMRAP exercises. Switch exercise at every one minute marker with 10 second break between exercises – repeat X3
– burpees
– BBC
– merkins
– Freddie Mercury’s
– Hand-release merkins
– Plank
– Lt. Dan
– Mountain Climbers
– Bonnie Blair’s
– Merkins
COT
PAX: Southie, Besse, Colson
Backblast: February 23, 2026
AO: Foundry
PAX:
Carmen Sandiego – Q
Meatloaf
Wario
Spaulding
Rudy
Workout: EMOM
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: Willy Mayes Hayes, goofballs, learning to fly/learning to land
The “Thang”:
Had to modify the workout due to the snow/ice. We did 5 exercises for a minute with a 5 merkin buy in for each exercise. The 5th exercise was always a 5 minute merkin and rest. We did this for about 7 rounds. Exercises would vary each time.
American hammers
Carolina dry docks
Outlaws
Jump squats
Bear squats
Walking lunges
Side straddle hops
Absolutions
Nolan Ryan’s
V taps
Mountain goats
Monkey Humpers
High plank
Burpees
Flutter kicks
Big boy sit-ups
Arm circles
Box cutters
Al Gore
Diamond pushups
Little baby crunches
Bonnie Blair’s
Plank Jacks
Mountain climbers
Surprise! 15 flying squirrels
Count-O-Rama: 5
Name-O-Rama
The Six – Meatloaf
LDP3
Ball of Man
Run the Hill
Pax:
Ukulele
Echo
Spaulding – Q
Long jog up hill and around the top
Suicide to lights (2 lights and up to the top)
Sprint up walk down
Jog up and around circle but stay up top
Reverse suicide start at the top
Walk down sprint up
Jog around circle back to the bottom
Suicide – start with 1 burpee and 1 burpee at each turn run hard the whole time
Slow jog up and around circle stay at the top
Reverse suicide
Walk down back petal up
Run circle and go to the bottom
Merkin hill run
Run the hill three full times and you must complete a total of 60 merkins
Stop and do any amount of merkins at any time
Leadership Ruck BackBlast
Pax
Guardian
Deliverance
Photon
Tarnished
Meatloaf
Flo Q
Welcome
Mission
Principles
Rucked to the Maple Street dock discussing the importance of humor with family friends and coworkers
COT
2/21/26
Fortress
Pax:
Thor(q)
Wario
Huckleberry
Flo
Guardian
Fat Amy
Photon
Meatloaf
Stark
Tarnished
Spaulding
Deliverance
Warm ups
Stretching and a group murph
Workout:
Broke into 3 teams. 1 team per sled.
1 pax pushing sled to cone and back.
Rest of team doing set exercises.
Once the pax got back, switch until all pax has been on sleds.
Round 1:
First cone/BBS
Second Cone/Bonnie Blairs
Third Cone/Merkins
Halftime: Another group murph
Round 2
First Cone/LBC's
Second Cone/Boy Bands
Third Cone/Burpees
Finished with Howling Monkeys to 40.
Backblast: February 14th, 2026
AO: The Fortress – Grace Church – Perrysburg, OH
PAX:
Photon – Q
Bevo
Coconut
Deliverance
Gold Star
Guardian
Longhorn
Meatloaf
Tarnished
Workout: What's Your Love Language?
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
Side Straddle Squirrel Jacks: 10
Arm Circles Forward (4 is 1): 10
Arm Circles Reverse (4 is 1): 10
The “Thang”:
Learned about the 5 love languages, one language at a time.
1. Quality Time: PAX performed 100 burpees for time. Goal was a quality time. Early finishers picked up the 6 until the 11 minute timer.
2. Physical Touch: PAX partnered up by weight and performed a modified 11s until time. Exercises were partner squats on one end and plank-jack paddy-cake on the other end. MOT were either wheelbarrow or partner carry to the first light post.
3. Acts Of Service: At the start of the 10 minute timer, all PAX started AMRAPing SSH in cadence indefinitely. As long as a PAX was performing SSH, they were still awake. The second each PAX had to take just one rep off, it signified them falling asleep. Once a PAX fell asleep, he was transported into his own personal nightmare. The nightmare was that individual PAX’s least two favorite exercises. AMRAPing and switching when necessary. That’s it. You fall asleep and you are forced into performing your two least favorite exercises for the remaining time. There was only one way to escape your own nightmare…to be woken up and freed by another PAX who performed an act of service to you and jumped into your place in that particular nightmare.
4. Receiving Gifts: Q gave gifts to the rest of the PAX…the tires. PAX split into two teams and performed tire flips a la the 2025 Battlefield convergence. Buy-in was three perfect merkins before running to the tire and starting to flip. Max of two men on the tire at one time. One done with the tire flips, PAX ran back to start and performed buy-in reps again. Team who flipped the tire down and back to the light post was the winner.
Ended with:
Count-O-Rama: 9
Name-O-Rama
The Six – Tarnished
LDP3
Ball of Man
5. Words of Affirmation: PAX went around the COT clockwise and gave a word of affirmation to the man on his left until every PAX had an opportunity to speak. We speak out so often about our families and communities, but rarely give praise to each other. It was a fantastic reminder of what our PAX bring to the table and to each other each and every post.
Spreadsheets from the Gloom: BB was written 6 days late, so I can’t remember the weather. It was cold though…but not for long. This was a burner. Nothing like starting off a beatdown with 100 burpees and ending it with tire flips. Add 600 SSH and partner carries in between and you’ve got yourself a winner.
Two winners really…there was a playlist:
“A Kiss To Send Us Off” – Incubus
“Heartshine” – Mother Love Bone
“Love Rollercoaster” – Red Hot Chili Peppers
“High On Your Love Suite/One Mo Hit (Of Your Love) (Medley)” – Rick James
“Love’s Dance” – Earth, Wind, & Fire
“State Of Love And Trust” – Pearl Jam
“Heart-Shaped Box” – Nirvana
“Lover, Leaver (Taker, Believer)” – Greta Van Fleet
“Love Foolosophy” – Jamiroquai
“What Is Love” – Haddaway
Overall, the love language theme went well. Only thing I would change would be the nightmare portion of the Acts of Service. Not enough time during this beatdown to explain it adequately. It’s better held for a full beatdown. The rest was awesome, though. Loved the partner 11’s…would also make a great full beatdown in the future. And you can never go wrong with tires.
Words of affirmation was icing on the cake. Honored to have the rest of the PAX buy-in to that and take part so honestly.
2/7/26
AO: The Battlefield
Workout: Swamp Battle V.2
PAX:
Thor(Q)
Djibouti
Crawdad
Shepherd
Jersey
Gold Star
Fat Amy
Doogie
Wario
Norm
Lonzo
Marcy
Arcy
Mission, Principles and Disclaimer given
Did some quick warm ups like SSH, Chainbreakers, etc.
The Thang: Break out into 2 even teams.
Part 1:
Everyone runs to the end of the parking lot and back. Complete work. First team to have 3 finish the work and touch the sled can start pushing sled around the island for points. 1 point every time it goes around.
EVERYONE else moves into part 2 to try to finish first. You can only move on if you completed at least half of the work from part 1.
Part 2:
Both team start doing 10 reps of an exercise and putting a chip into their bucket.When they run out of chips, they can sprint to the sled person and tag them. That ends the round.
Points:
1 point for every time the sled goes around
3 extra points if the offense touches sled first
-2 points if the defense finished first
Exercises per round:
OYO Work:
Swapped between Merkins, BBS, Jump Squats, etc.
Team Work:
Monkey Humpers(4×1)
Suicides
Jungle Bois
LT. Dans
NOR & COT
2/20 – Rabbit Hole
"Levels"
Q – Viper
PAX:
Doubtfire
Rudy
Fat Amy
Footloose
Waldo
Echo
Purdy
Gold Wing
OSHA
Flat Stanley
Manchester
Lonzo
Norm
Sven
Stu
The Thang:
Warm up:
SSH
Chain Breakers
Potato Pickers
Imperial Walkers
Mosey to the hill
Format:
Do an exercise in cadence (two count) until failure to see what level you're at (beginner, intermediate, advanced, elite). Once you hit failure, start running the hill until the last man standing hits failure. Repeat with a new exercise.
Exercises performed (with numbers for each level):
Squats – 16, 57, 113, 178
Merkins – 18, 41, 68, 99
LBCs – 19, 55, 102, 155
Lunges – 10, 38, 73, 113
Supermans – 8, 28, 53, 81
CoT:
6 – Purdy
Prayers – Snowbird, Binford, Echo