AO: The Grove
When: 06/03/2024
Number of Pax: 24
DR Names:
Number of FNGS: 1
FNG Names:
QIC: Deja Vu
Introduction
This was my AO VQ. It was a perfect morning, right at 60 degrees. There was a great turnout of PAX ready to get at it. This was also the official Site Q handoff from Hatchet to Old Maid.
Warm-O-Rama
Move your feet in place: Delivered Disclaimer, Mission, 5 Core Principles and Credo with a couple of “Hit-It’s” sprinkled in just for fun.
Good Morning – Good Evening
Motivators from 6
Tai Fighters – IC
Michael Phelps – IC
The Thang
This workout is a throw-back to when I would go to health clubs in the 80’s and 90’s and there would be line of machines called a circuit. You would just go from one to the next on down the line to get a full body workout in an efficient sequence.
There are 10 exercises in order to be an easy transition from one to the next with no rest. We did 20 reps of each, then run 0.2 mile loop. Goal is to rinse an repeat 5 times so you would have done 100 reps of each of 10 exercises and run a full mile. The exercises in order were:
Bent Over Rows
Curls
Coupon Squats
OHP
Calf Raises (Coupon Over Head)
Dips
Pull Overs
Flutter Kicks – 2 ct (Coupon pressed up)
Chest Press (YHC likes to switch off and do these one handed every other round)
Leg Raises (Coupon pressed up)
With 25 total in attendance, Pax were paired up so everyone could be pushing someone else.
At 0554, we circled for Mary which was 20 Big Boys and 1 minute Low Plank repeated until Recover-Recover. We got 3 full rounds in. Temp at The Grove went up a few degrees because 25 six-packs of abs were on fire.
Circle of Trust
This was a coordinated day of Q’s by all members of the FS Chaminwood Expansion Team to deliver a consistent, respectful, personable message about the expansion of F3 Plainfield.
-Mission of F3 is “To PLANT, GROW and serve small workout groups for men for the invigoration of male community leadership”
-In fulfillment of the mission, four years ago, the men of F3 Plainfield expanded out from F3 Naperville to more deeply serve their proximate community
-F3 Plainfield has furthered the mission by growing from an original 3 AO’s to 11 where 60-80 Pax post daily and 2nd F and 3rd F activities are plentiful
-And now is the time, again, for expansion to further the mission
-F3 Chaminwood will continue to give this gift away and focus on the communities of Channahon, Minooka and Shorewood
-Official Region Launch will be 8/01 and SLT1 will be announced at a Combined Convergence in Aug
-There is a new slack for F3 Chaminwood. All are encouraged to join. The link is in the announcement from Picasso on Friday
-All Pax will continue to be able to HC and post at any of the F3P or F3C AO’s
-There will be a channel F3P Slack to HC to post in F3C and likewise, there will be a channel in F3C Slack to HC to post in F3P
-PAX will need to determine where they want to track their stats and have that region (F3P or F3C) as their home region.
-If they post in the other, they will need to fill out the /Slackblast in the Downrange channel of their home region Slack. This is exactly the same as how it now works between F3P and F3N.
-This is an exciting time. I love F3, I love F3 Plainfield and I love you men
Caboose flippantly asked if this meant they would never see YHC again. While it was known that he was joking, it was a good opportunity to reiterate that the main emphasis is to to make sure everyone can workout every day wherever they want. No behavior has to change. The tracking changes and the new Region, F3 Chaminwood, will facillitate PAX in those communities to be able to focus more on 2nd F and 3rd F activities that are closer to home. It will also focus EH’ing in Shorewood, Channahon and Minooka to continue to grow. Finally YHC discussed that early on in the process, the Expansion Team was very specific with each other about language. Words not to use were: Split, Division, Separation as these all have a negative divisive connotation. Words to use are: Growth, Expansion and Fulfillment of the Mission. YHC made sure this answered Caboose’s question and thanked him for the question.
Naked Man Moleskin
We named FNG Ricochet, based on an embarrassing story about when he was on a track team in college, he did the shot put, and they had an idea to try to hit a shot with a softball bat. He swung, made contact, the shot did not move but the bat shattered and “Ricocheted” up and split his forehead open.
Site Q duties for Mondays at The Grove were officially passed from Hatchet to Old Maid who nailed it today and produced an excellent FOMO.
Gift was also presented to Hatchet in appreciation of his past Site Q performance and in anticipation of the “Hatchling” that is soon to be forthcoming. There was much well deserved love shown to a high quality HIM.