730 Reps for 730 Days of F3

May 10, 2019

WHEN: 05/10/2019
QIC: Soybean
PAX: Buffay, Cortez, Gibson, Milton, Nickelback, Nubbin, Soybean

How do you measure a year? Heck, how do you measure two? And THEN how do you translate that into a number of reps that adequately celebrates the momentous nature of a 2nd Anniversary Q? Quandaries, quandaries…which seem to be solved by the number 730 (but more on that in a bit). Both YHC’s VQ and 1st Anniversary Q were at House of Pain, but the stars didn’t align this year to Q there…so YHC decided to bring the Pain to Duck & Weave in order to present ‘gifts’ of steel to @nickelback in gratitude for his invitation to join F3 two years ago. Stopped by Church of the Good Shepherd, threw several pieces of steel in the trunk and headed for Hillsborough where 7 PAX represented in the gloom.

WARM-UP
LBACs x 15 IC (skipped the reverse)
Windmills x 10 IC
WMH x 10 IC
Played “Seasons of Love” from Rent (yeah, yeah, yeah – Broadway haters) so that PAX could (a) get nervous as they heard the number 525,600, (b) reflect on “How do you measure a year in the life?” and (c) perform exercises like SSH and Mountain Climbers until hearing “525,600” or “love” when they’d complete 20-25 Squat Jumps over the course of ~3:00 minutes.

MAIN EVENT
Moseyed back to parking ramp still contemplating “How do you measure a year in the life?” where hidden HoP steel was revealed. PAX selected beams wisely and learned that they would be completing 730 reps to mark 730 days of Soybean’s F3 life (2 years x 365 days/year = goal). Only needed 4 exercises to achieve high rep success:
– Curls x 25
– Rows x 25
– Goblet Squats x 25
– LBCs w/Steel x 25
Completed inaugural set at 1st level of parking deck, more at 2nd level, 3rd, etc…and on up to top where music eased the pain…then back down. Got to bottom at 6:10a with 600 reps completed, so PAX knocked out the remainder with 25 Curls, 50 Rows, 25 Goblet Squats and 30 LBCs sans steel. WE MADE IT – WELL DONE!

MARY
Peter Parkers x 15 IC
Superman Ring of Fire 10 count per PAX

ANNOUNCEMENTS / PRAYERS
2nd F on Wednesday night – details in the Slack channel
Prayers for Nickelback’s daughters who are under the weather, for his M who will care for them while he travels to see Mom / Grandma in Virginia. Prayers also for our wives / mothers – and for women who’d like to be moms but for a variety of reasons cannot enter into that role.

Keep inviting men to join us. Keep changing lives. F3’s a game changer. YHC is incredible proud, humbled and honored to be part of this movement.