{"id":23466,"date":"2024-04-25T14:40:25","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T18:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/?p=23466"},"modified":"2024-04-25T14:40:25","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T18:40:25","slug":"a-social-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.f3winstonsalem.com\/f3\/2024\/04\/a-social-experiment\/","title":{"rendered":"A Social Experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Each and every member of the PAX starts in F3 for different reasons.\u00a0 Along the way, we align some of our goals and often discover new ones.\u00a0 The great thing about this brotherhood is that it has so much to offer, whereas in a single post, different PAX can walk away with wholly diverse benefits realizations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>TIME WASTERS.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nobody cares.\u00a0 Cadence was perfect.\u00a0 Move on.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>BEATDOWN.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Find a partner.\u00a0 He may be your friend or may be your foe.\u00a0 The PAX were instructed to partner up based similarly on athletic prowess.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The structure of the workout provided a simple competition.\u00a0 On the track, the partners were supposed to start a round by fist bumping at the 0 meter mark.\u00a0 One partner was supposed to run 300 meters in one direction (towards the moon, clockwise, or in the direction your spirit animal takes you &#8211; you choose).\u00a0 The other partner was supposed to perform the called exercise for the called number of reps and then sprint 100 meters in the opposite direction.\u00a0 Using the oval shape of the track, each pair should meet up at the same location.\u00a0 The first partner to arrive was supposed to start doing WWIIs.\u00a0 The second partner to arrive was supposed to perform 15 burpees.\u00a0 When the burpees were finished, the partners were supposed to switch roles (the one who ran 300 meters was supposed to do the exercise and the one who supposedly performed the exercise will run 300 meters).\u00a0 Once both partners have had a chance to supposedly perform the same exercise, they were supposed to move onto the next set.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Diamond Merkins x 30<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">KTG Iron Mikes\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 x 20<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Heels to Heaven\u00a0 \u00a0 x 30<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Perfect Merkins \u00a0 \u00a0 x 20<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bootheel Squats\u00a0 \u00a0 x 45<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mountain Climbers x 65<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If performed correctly, the 300 meter runner should \u201cwin\u201d every time.\u00a0 But how great is the enticement to avoid burpees and get in some extra WWIIs?\u00a0 Will the PAX be honorable, stick to proper form, and accept a burpee consequence? Or will the allure of padding the WWII totals be too great?\u00a0 Would a partner be OK knowing that his lack of attention to exercise form or ability to count caused an F3 brother to do burpees?\u00a0 Herein lies the social experiment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>DONE.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>NAKED MAN MOLESKIN.<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">First of all, I am ALWAYS honored when even one person posts to a workout.\u00a0 Most mornings I set the bar pretty low by having a Plan B with the expectation of sad clowning \u2026 you know, just in case.\u00a0 Let me offer my extreme thanks to the gentlemen who showed up to make our gloom a little brighter.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As always, each man came this morning for different reasons \u2026 clearly.\u00a0 And as always, it is my sincere hope that I could play a small part in helping accomplish that reason.\u00a0 Hopefully everyone walked away with betterment in some area of his day.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I felt like a Middle Eastern dictator circa 2011.\u00a0 The revolt of the masses!\u00a0 The will of an oppressed people can topple a despot.\u00a0 The meek are inheriting the earth!<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Palin was there, so yup, exercise hacking and mumble chatter were unfortunately in full effect.\u00a0 We\u2019ll cover counting and actual fitness at a later time in the semester.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Not to be outdone in the mouth moving department, things came out of Schlitz\u2019s mouth that my sensitive ears have never heard before and likely will never hear again (until the next time I workout with the beer man).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Five Dollar Footlong is confused about astronomy, particularly by the position of this planet\u2019s satellite, but Schlitz helpfully offered to show him his moon.\u00a0 And something about knees.\u00a0 I was too busy exercising to follow this useless conversation.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Frank and Beans wisely (see what I did there) shied away from the more negative vitriol and only threw glancing blows at the Q.\u00a0 He\u2019ll learn soon.\u00a0 As someone trained in the art of careful contemplation, he was not an obnoxious instigator, but more of a subtle proponent of the shenanigans.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Is it too soon to make a brain joke about Greenspan?\u00a0 The statute of limitations is a year, right?\u00a0 Anyway, he didn\u2019t need to do any basic comprehension to completely demolish and embarrass the Q in any form of running &#8211; rapid moseying or sprinting.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Frostbite attempted to be diplomatic by admitting (when nobody was around) that he \u201cliked\u201d the format.\u00a0 What does liking the format mean and how does that translate to following instructions?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">YHC was afraid to use the terms clockwise or counterclockwise because Schlitz\u2019s ability to use a watch might exceed his mental capacity.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Greenspan\u2019s cognitive ability is on par with Schlitz\u2019s.\u00a0 He correctly answered the true\/false question &#8211; Am I holding up fingers?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fist bumps (or fist pounds) DO NOT MEAN touch your tips.\u00a0 Come on, why did we have to go there?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After almost 9 years (I think) of doing this F3 thing, it is a testament to this group that I can still be amazed by its ingenuity and creativity.\u00a0 Using that power to completely ignore what the Q says or the spirit of the workout is a different story.\u00a0 But hey, the tools are still there, it just depends on how you use them.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">YHC spent an inordinate amount of time trying to devise a workout that would encourage the PAX to really push themselves physically and mentally, while following the rules of human physiology to obtain optimal results.\u00a0 As usual, YHC was a complete and utter failure of epic proportions.\u00a0 For all the Q\u2019s carefully planning, the PAX were able to dismantle the beatdown and outthink him in a mere matter of minutes.\u00a0 Sheesh.\u00a0 Oh well, back to the drawing board.\u00a0 Maybe by my 200th Q, I will finally learn how to do this thing.\u00a0 Obviously, I\u2019m a very slow learner.\u00a0 Is there an upcoming Q school?<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Some people said they had fun.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>ANNOUNCEMENTS:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Frank and Beans has the Q at Urban Assault on Friday and if you want to know what he has planned, you have to come and find out.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Good turnout for Samaritan Ministry this week.\u00a0 A few spots still open for the upcoming date.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Happy hour (and a half) next week at Campus Gas.\u00a0 (I\u2019m not sure why I\u2019m writing this, but \u2026 no wives allowed.)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lunch Bunch is this Friday.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>PRAYERS:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Ziggy Stardust family<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Five Dollar Footlong took us out in a special way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Zima Out.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each and every member of the PAX starts in F3 for different reasons.\u00a0 Along the way, we align some of our goals and often discover new ones.\u00a0 The great thing about this brotherhood is that it has so much to offer, whereas in a single post, different PAX can walk away with wholly diverse benefits 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