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  • The Pit (Kingsbury Park) – Sean O’Donnell

    28 July 2025 Backblast: Fudd, Colson, and Southie posted.
    1 mile warmup
    6 stations
    12 bicep curls with coupons at each station
    12 burpees at each station
    14 mountain climbers at each station
    1-minute Al Gores at each station
    Merkins to Mariah Carey’s “All I want for Christmas is you” song
    End with COT.

  • The Gaunlet (Rivercrest Park) – Guardian

    7/28/25 0530-0615 “No More Tears” – Ozzy Tribute

    F3 mission – To plant, grow and serve, small workout groups for men for the invigoration of male community leadership.

    5 core principles – Always free. Open to all men. Held outdoors regardless of weather. Led in a rotating fashion by a member of the PAX with no training or certification necessary. Ends in a COT, just as it begins.

    F3 credo “Leave no man behind, but leave no man where you find him.”

    Pax:
    Bourbon
    Huckleberry
    Geppetto
    Mile High
    Badger
    Ukelele
    Echo
    Wario
    Sven
    Flipper
    Peach
    Fossil
    Irish Hoss
    Guardian – Q

    There were four stations set up in the shape of a Cross ✝️. The concessions building served as the middle point.

    We started by the path closest to the parking lot. Station one was 10 Burpee’s for round one and 10 absolutions for round two.

    Do your 10 Burpee’s then run to the concessions building to perform Obama’s around the building (4ct bear crawl followed by 4 merkins).

    Once completed, run down the path to the west towards the grassy area where the hill is and perform 15 plank Jack shoulder taps, run back to the concessions building to perform Zombie walks around the building.

    Once completed run the path to the south towards the batting cages and perform 20 side straddle squats. Run back to the concessions building for another lap of Zombie walks.

    For the fourth leg of the cross, run to the east to the end of the path and perform 25 – 4ct flutter kicks. Run back to the concessions building for a Yoke walk (two laps under weight (we had sandbags, heavy blocks, and a rucksack for coupons).

    The exercises that coincide with the laps around the concession building spell out OZZY!

    Follow the same process for round two and the exercises were 10 absolutions, 15 Iron Hulks (shout out to Hulk Hogan- one merkin followed by four air presses equals one rep), 20 Lt Dan’s and 25 X-factors.

    We circled back up for the last five minutes for some stretching as we listened to one of Ozzy’s greatest hits, “Mama I’m coming home”. It’s a reminder that we’re all gonna be gone from this earth one day, and let us not judge books by their covers as Ozzy was probably judged the majority of his entertainment life. He considered himself a Christian and in the latter years of his life, according to his kids, could be found studying scripture.

    COR
    NOR
    6- Sven
    Announcements
    LDP3 – Living 3rd
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  • The Battlefied Ruck (The Shops At Fallen Timbers) – Carl Miester “Crawdad”

    7/26/2025
    Battlefield Ruck

    Q-Crawdad
    Fat Amy
    Silver Surfer
    Djibouti
    Arcy
    Norm
    Wipers
    Van Wilder
    Cybertruck

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

    Backblast: July 27th, 2025

    AO: The Pump Station

    PAX:
    Carmen Sandiego – Q
    Radio
    Tarnished

    Workout: Let’s Run

    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:
    Radio rucked, Tarnished and I ran to 6th street to Woodland Park and back.

    Count-O-Rama: 3
    Name-O-Rama

    The Six – Radio

    LDP3

    Ball of Man

    Very humid this morning. Phone said it was 94%.

  • Pump Station (Hood Park) – Huckleberry

    F3
    “11’s”
    The Pump Station
    7/27/25

    PAX:
    Nitrous
    Meatloaf
    Fossil
    Yoshi
    Tarnished
    Carmen Sandiego
    Radio
    Flo
    Q: Huckleberry

    F3 (Fitness, Fellowship and Faith)

    Mission:
    To plant, grow and serve small workout groups for the invigoration of male community leadership.

    Principles:
    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
    5. End with a Circle of Trust

    WARM UP:
    7 Motivators in Cadence

    THANG:

    Starting Line:
    Begin with 1 Merkin
    Run to mid-section line

    Mid-Section Line:
    11 Lt. Dan’s (2 is 1)
    Run to far-section line

    Far-Section Line:
    10 Mt. Climbers (2 is 1)
    Run back to mid-section line

    Return Mid-Section Line:
    11 Squats
    Run back to staring line

    Starting Line:
    2 Merkins

    Far-Section Line:
    9 Mt. Climbers (2 is 1)
    Continue until at Starting Line you are doing 10 Merkins and at Far-Section Line you are doing 1 Mt. Climbers (2 is 1)
    At each mid-section line you are always doing 11 Lt. Dan’s (2 is 1) (going) and 11 Squats (returning).

    COT: Sixth was: Meatlaof

  • The Commons (Levis Commons) – Paul Devine

    7/15/25
    AO: The Commons
    Workout: Mario Kart
    PAX:
    Thor(Q)
    Ponzi
    Wario

    Mission, Principles and Disclaimer given

    Warmup:
    Windmills
    Chainbreakers
    SSH

    The Thang:
    Try to get 7 laps around the track. Each station you get to, pick a card and do that exercise and follow any special directions
    Mushroom: bear crawl to next station
    Gold Mushroom: Powerskip to next station
    Red Shell: 10 BBS
    3 Red Shells: 30 BBS
    Green Shell: 15 Curls
    3 Green Shells: 45 Curls
    Blue Shell: Catch up to the leader and they do 10 Man Makers
    Lightening: Everyone at station does 5 Inch Crawls(extra)
    Fake Boxes: 10 Merkins
    Bananas: 30 Monkey Humpers
    Triple Banana: 60 Monkey Humpers
    Star: For the next 3 stations do 20 American Hammers (2×1)
    Bomb: everyone at station does 5 Burpees(extra)

    NOR & COT

  • Nightmare (Perrysburg Municipal Park) – Mike “Gold Star” Niese

    7.25.25 – Nightmare – 7 of Diamonds

    Pax List:
    Q = Gold Star
    Big Spoon (#6)
    Photon
    Guardian
    Cyber Truck
    Longhorn
    Crawdad
    Meatloaf

    Warmup
    Potato Pickers – in cadence
    Windmills – in cadence
    Motivators – Starting at 5

    Beatdown = 7 of Diamonds on baseball field

    >1st Round – 7 reps
    Mike Tysons
    MOT = Bear Crawl
    >2nd Round – 14 reps
    Curls
    MOT = Murder Bunnies
    >3rd Round – 21 reps
    Monkey Humpers
    MOT = mosey
    >4th Round – 28 reps
    Squats
    MOT = dragon walk
    >5th Round – 21 reps
    Box Cutters
    MOT = mosey
    >6th Round – 14 reps
    Superman Merkins
    MOT = Inch Worm
    >7th Round – 7 reps
    Absolutions
    Imperial Walker

    COR / NOR / #6 / Announcements / Prayers / COT / Picture

  • The Pit (Kingsbury Park) – Dora

    BACKBLAST
    Dora, Colson

    Lightening and rain. We posted, prayed, and left without working out.

  • Wakanda (Maumee High School) – Caleb Croniser

    AO: Wakanda

    PAX:
    Chubbs
    Longhorn
    Meatloaf
    Rudy
    Manchester
    Wario-Q

    F3: Fitness, Fellowship, Faith;

    Mission: The Mission of F3 is to plant, grow and serve small workout groups for men for the invigoration of male community leadership

    Five Core Principles:
    It is free of charge
    It is open to all men
    It is held outdoors
    It's led by men who participate in the workout in a rotating fashion, with no training or certification necessary
    Ends with a Circle of Trust

    Our credo is: Leave no man behind yet leave no man where you found him.

    Warm up: Side straddle hop

    Workout: Murph…ish?

    Rotating between 6 stations set up with the following exercises
    5 pull ups
    10 dips
    15 merkins
    20 curls w a block
    25 body weight squats
    30 BBS
    Repeato.

    Then we decided to double everything for the last round, just for fun!

    COR
    NOR
    6 from Longhorn
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  • The Wall (Riverside Park) – Mike “Photon” Bauer

    Backblast: July 24th, 2025

    AO: The Wall – Riverside Park – Perrysburg, OH

    PAX:
    Photon – Q
    Badger
    Big Spoon
    Coconut
    Fossil
    Guardian
    Irish Hoss
    Vespa
    Waldo

    Workout: The Triple Helix

    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) – 27

    The “Thang”:

    The Triple Helix: an infinite ascending three-stranded ladder where the difficulty of the work scaled with the helix. Workout consisted of a circuit with the following structure:

    Perform 3 reps of 3 different exercises at bottom of stairs.
    Run halfway up the stairs.
    Perform 3 reps of 3 harder versions of original 3 exercises.
    Run up the remainder of the stairs.
    Perform 3 reps of 3 even harder versions of original 3 exercises (all with block).
    Run down ramp back to start.
    Increase rep count by 3 and repeato.

    Exercises were as follows:
    Level 1 – Flying squirrels, Squats, BBSUs
    Level 2 – Burpees, Jump Squats, Captain Thors
    Level 3 – Blockees, Thrusters, WWIII Situps

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

    The Six – Vespa

    LDP3

    Ball of Man

    Spreadsheets from the Gloom: 70, calm, 96% humidity…and you felt all of it it. This one sucks, no doubt about it. The consistently increasing rep counts, especially on the block level, really start to wear you down starting in round 3. It’s a good suck though. The plyometric exercises and the stairs gas your lungs, the block work crushes your arms, and the whole lot of it wrecks your legs. It provides an interesting combination of failure/fatigue modes that rotate throughout the beatdown. And it’s that combination that causes it to be just out of reach. Coco lead the charge during this run through and he got through the man-makers of round 5… So close, but still out of reach. No warmup on a good day might make it achievable by the likes of him, Stark, Viper, etc. So no changes needed.

    Playlist was modified a bit from the initial run:

    “The Twist” – Chubby Checker
    “Twist” – Phish
    “Spiral Staircase” – Kings of Leon
    “Twisted” – Lettuce
    “Wind Up” – Foo Fighters
    “Twist And Shout” – The Beatles
    “Helix” – Justice
    “Gimme Three Steps” – Lynyrd Skynyrd
    “Twisted Tales” – Jane’s Addiction

    Speaker placement was good for this…about 6 stairs above the middle landing, facing down. It allowed you to hear the music at all three work areas. Any more PAX and it would probably be necessary to move the 2nd level to the grass to the West of the stairs.

    As always, it was a pleasure leading this one. I’d like to see some more elite PAX give it a shot on a good (and cooler) day to see if all 5 rounds can be completed in their entirety.