Pump Station (Hood Park)

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   Mike “Photon” Bauer

   July 18, 2025

   ***2.0 Family Day Beatdown***

   Backblast: July 13th, 2025

   AO: Nightmare – Municipal Park – Perrysburg, OH

   PAX:
   Photon – Q
   Binford
   Clutch (Tackleberry 2.0)
   Coconut
   Golden Gate
   Hairbrush (Photon 2.0)
   Hallmark (Waldo 2.0)
   Minecraft (Golden Gate 2.0)
   Shepherd
   Shepherd’s 2.0 – FNG (not named)
   Shooting Star (Stark 2.0)
   Spaulding
   Sprinkles (Wario 2.0)
   Stark
   Tackleberry
   T-Rex (Binford 2.0)
   Unicorn (Binford 2.0)
   Waldo
   Wario
   Weasly (Waldo 2.0)

   Workout: Photon’s Phamily Phunday

   FNG’s: Sprinkles (Wario 2.0), Unicorn (Binford 2.0), FNG (Shepherd 2.0 – not named)

   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) – 10
   Windmills – 10
   Flying Squirrels – 10

   The “Thang”:

   We transported PAX and kickballs between two sets of cones spread about 40 yards apart. The methods were as follows:

   1.) Rocket Launch. Hairbrush’s brain-child, she manned a toy rocket launcher which sent the signal for the rest of the PAX to move…think Red Light Green Light. PAX could only move when the rocket was in the air. Goal was for teams to race to see which could MOT the length of the field, pick up all of the kick balls, and MOT back the fastest.

   Round 1 had all PAX sprinting out and back. Round 2 had all PAX sprinting back, but adults had to bear crawl out.

   2.) Partner Carry. Each team had to transport all of their kick balls AND all of their people from one side to the other. Every person EXCEPT for the last person on each team HAD to be carried over by someone else. A person could return to the starting line solo in order to carry something else or be carried. A person being carried could NOT be carrying a ball.

   Round 1 anyone could carry a ball. Round 2 only 2.0s could carry a ball.

   3.) Captured. Thick sharks and minnows. All 2.0s started at far end of the field while all adults were stationed in the middle of the field. 2.0s had to run to the other end without being tagged by adults. Adults could only move by bear crawl.

   Round 1 was a narrow field. Round 2 saw a wider field, but ended up being not wide enough.

   4.) Crane Game. This was a variation of the partner carry. Adults would pick up a 2.0 (ideally underneath the arms) and hold them while the 2.0 secured a kick ball between their feet. Adults would then lift the 2.0 and carry them across the field where they would be lowered to drop the ball like a crane. This continued for several rounds, but devolved a bit over time.

   We ended by abandoning the kickballs and doing a wheelbarrow race the length of the field. Some 2.0s were the wheelbarrow the whole time and some larger ones flap-jacked midway through.

   Ended with:
   Count-O-Rama: 20
   Name-O-Rama

   The Six – Spaulding

   LDP3

   Ball of Man

   Spreadsheets from the Gloom: 89, sunny, and no breeze, with a heat index of 95. Holy crap this one was hot. Maybe even too hot. There’s a reason we work out at 5:30am in the morning when it’s cool and dark. Not sure how to properly plan for this given large open areas are basically a necessity for these large family friendly workouts. Shade is tough to come by under those circumstances. Only alternative could have been water; either squirt guns, buckets, or water balloons. Will certainly be a consideration during future summer family workouts.

   Aside from the heat, most of the PAX seemed to enjoy themselves…lots of positive feedback all around. This seemed to strike a good balance of work and fun for both the kids AND the adults. Utilizing the 2.0s as weight helped with this considerably and will certainly be implemented in the future. Some of the ideas didn’t pan out exactly as intended, but they all worked out in the end. It’s definitely a different type of challenge to structure a workout for heat and small kids, but it was a blast.

   Loved having the opportunity to have my daughter out there watching me lead, and for her to have the opportunity to plan/execute some of her own ideas in that group environment. Look forward to doing it again in some more moderate weather!

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