YHC's F3 journey began with the smell of delicious ribs on January 1, 2022. I was strolling my 2.0 around the neighborhood and saw Castaway and Cherry Baked huddled around a large grill in the communal neighborhood picnic area. My nose couldn't resist the temptation and I slowly made my towards the smell that emanated throughout the air, hoping that these two strapping gentlemen would indulge me with a sample of the goodness that lay smoldering on the grill. I realized that I knew Cherry Baked from the beforetimes when gyms were wide open and, at that point, the EH from those two gentlemen was strong and gripped me like the claw of a brown bear holding a flopping salmon, wet from the river wild.

5 months later, the time had come to pop that V off that Q and what better place to do it than The Eagle, the premier Monday morning SoDu AO, according to Max Power. Since Mother's Day was yesterday, the theme would be a tribute to all the mothers out there.

WARMARAMA

Mosey with high knees and six kicks
Side Shuffle Hops x20
Imperial Walker x20
Willie Mays Hayes x10
Slow Lunges x10
Michael Phelps x20
Arm Circles x10
Reverse Arm Circles x10

MAIN EVENT

Time to pay tribute to all the mothers that burped us, helped us crawl and taught us to walk.
Mosey over to the street behind the school and do 10 burpees at each street light using different modes of transportation.
Bear Crawl
10 burpees
Crab Walk
10 burpees
Lunge Walk
10 burpees
High Knees
5 seal burpees (cut this one in half to avoid a mutiny!)

Mosey over to the short wall in front of the school for some Mother's Day trivia.
Valentina Vassilyev holds the record for most children birthed by a single mother having given birth to 69 children, including 16 sets of twins. Many PAX scoffed at this number but the Internet told me it was true and what I have learned in my 39 years on this spinning marble is that the Internet wouldn't lie. Proof is in the pudding: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_with_the_most_children
We paid tribute to Valentina by doing twin sets of Dips, Derkins, and Ierkins.
16 Dips
16 Derkins
16 Ierkins
Do it twice because twins.

Mosey back to Startex and grab the coupons for some more Mother's Day trivia.
Halima Casse holds the record for most children delivered at a single birth with 9. Pudding is right here: https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/most-children-delivered-at-a-single-birth-to-survive
We paid tribute to Halima with 3 sets of Overheard Presses, Curls, Rows, and an Ab exercise.
9 Overhead Presses
9 Curls
9 Rows
Ab Exercises:
Flutterkicks
Boxcutters
Freddy Mercurys

We ended the ME with a song that all mothers love: "Mother" by Danzig. Burpee every time Danzig sings mother, father (to give some love to the Dads, too), and because I love guitar solos, we did some burpees during those, too. In between the burpees, we did SSH, squats, and lunges.

MARY

Since we did some ab work during the ME, Mary was reserved for stretching.
Butterflies
Seated Back Stretch
Inchworm into some sort of pose that I do not know the name of. Bring your right leg forward and raise your right hand toward the sky and do it again with the other leg and other hand.
Downward Dog
Cobra
Child's Pose

COT
Appreciation for the gentlemen and camaraderie of F3. It's been life changing and brought so much positivity and energy into my life that I hope we can pour into everyone we meet to be the best husbands, fathers, sons, friends, co-workers, etc. that we can be every single day. Aye!