December 19, 2023 – Helix
QIC – T.Swift
PAX – 14 HIM – TC, Walkabout, Laser Jet, Cannon, Walleye, BabyBack, Janacowski, Mulligan,Truly, Schnitzel (best sausage this side of the Mississippi), Motorboat, JumpStreet, Tea Party?
The glorious morning of love started with a pre run that I didn’t want to do but ended up needing to do. Big shoutout to Truly for getting my butt up and pre running. Arrived to see the lovely Mulligan just finish a 2 mile pre run before our 3 mile pre run. The dude is a beast of a human. If you haven’t pre ran with mulligan or enjoyed a beatdown with that HIM, you need to. He’s just an incredibly guy. So on went the pre run with TC (also a lovely HIM) and Truly (adorable) and THE Motorboat (the name says it all). It was an enjoyable group of dudes. I cut off the pre run a little early to setup some lights for the beatdown of love. 14 certified BA HIM showed up to start off the day right. My man, Walleye, who I coach 1st grade b-ball with showed up as a first timer of the Helix. He joined the F3 cult a few weeks back and is just crushing it! Before the mission statement and all the usual F3 lingo, we started it off with hugs. Nothing better.
Mission Statement – to plant, grow and serve small workout groups for men for the invigoration of male community leadership
5 Core Principles:
1. Open to all men
2. Free of cost
3. Always outside
4. Led in a rotating fashion
5. Always end in a circle of trust
Credo – Leave No Man Behind, Leave No Man Where We Found Him
Disclaimer – We are not professionals, so modify as needed.
Warmarama – light, short job listening to V-Day music (Thanks to the DJ Truly for the tunes) then exercises below…
- Side Straddle Hops
- Partner Stretch – Lower back holding hand stretch
- Side Straddle Hops
- Partner Stretch – Laying hamstring stretch
- Partner Abs – Jenna Jamesons (Chowda’s Creation)
- Partner Stretch – Big boys while holding hands
- Side Straddle Hops
- Partner Stretch – Spotting Squat
- Partner Merkins – very wheel barrel like
THE THANG:
Little Park Workout
Laps and different workouts at each small park of the Helix route…could stop at each park for a set
Stop 1 – Monkey Humpers, Oh Yeahs, Vandelays
Stop 2 – Horizontal Pickle Pushers, Tree Huggers, Naked Armando’s
Stop 3 – Partner Squat – butt to butt – 1 minute
Stop 4 – Hip Thrusters, Squat Jump/Humps, Gorilla Humpers
MARY – American Humpers – with the GREATEST SHOOTING STAR I’ve ever seen and finishing on/with (however you want to take it) Mulligan!
If ya caught the theme – it’s all about the LOVE with plenty of laughter and mumblechatter. Onto the COT…actually, not yet. With all the love the exercising going on, Mulligan’s M came speeding into the parking lot. She must’ve felt his pelvic thrusts from the 8-9 blocks away. True love! COT time…
F3 – COT – “Sticky”
So the title of the CTO is “Sticky” which probably gets some of you HIMs excited or distracted…but it comes from a solid bible verse I heard last year during the ‘Bible in a Year’ Podcast – Ecclesiasticus 13:1 “Whoever touches pitch will be defiled(tar), and whoever associates with a proud man will be like him” Translation – You want to be with virtuous people because that’ll get stuck on you. You want to get someone that’s stuck on you. Don’t want to be with an evil person because that’ll get stuck on you.
There’s a saying that you are like the average of the 5 people you hang out with the most. Spending time with fools vs. virtuous people. It’s crucial to spending time with people that are wise and make you better. Our “idols” in anything…shows, authors, characters, celebrities may not be the most virtuous people we idolize. Every day we get a choice to invite either wisdom or folly in our life daily. The HIMs here chose wisdom. That’s why I believe F3 is crucial to us men. We choose to start our day with fantastic humans, and it just sets the mood for the day. Thanks to you all for being the good kind of ‘Sticky’ with me.