YHC spent the weekend working on remodeling our deck. Of course, when you mention working on your deck, fellas like Aquaman and Fin may mishear you. Aquaman added his recommendation to trim your hedges around your deck, so it looks bigger. YHC thought that was a jolly good suggestion. The conversation stayed fun the rest of the time. Speaking of Decks – Be sure to pay attention to Rafiki and the Ayden boys and stop by this Saturday to help at 0900. They are helping a lady with her deck (the real one). This is invigorating community leadership and helping a lady who needs it. 

The theme of today is three. Just because doing something 3 times makes it tougher. By the way, don’t Google how to spell Manage a Trois on a school computer. It’s not pretty. However, YHC loves things in Threes, so Trio will work. Life is that way, always coming in threes. Taking that lesson to exercise also works the same way…but a little different. 14 studs posted at the Collard Patch for a Three some…wait…for a Trio. 

Warm-up: Starting with a trio we began with Good Mornings; Slo-Lunges; and Slo-Squats. Then did it 3 times. Then we did SSH; Merkins; Imperial Walkers. See a pattern. 

The Thang: When it comes to doing something 3 times, only one set of exercises comes to mind: Wimpy Legs: Jump Squats, Jump Lunges, Mule Kicks x 3. It’s brutal, and then you do it two more times. After that we took a lap around the loop moving forward, backward, and sideways.  Some pax assumed we would be taking 3 laps around. Comz error. 

Next we took off down the entry road. See, when a designer decides that light post need to be installed, it’s not for proper lighting, they were placed there to be markers for a Bono Q. So, at each post we did the following: Merkins, Shoulder Taps, Plank Jacks starting at 5 reps, then 7,10,12,and 15. 

When we got to the parking lot at the entrance an idea sprung into the Qs head…well actually it came a couple of days before. We completed the following exercises every light pole with a mosey between and a bear crawl for the last one: WWII; J-Los; Heels to Heaven. 

We hustled back to the flag and that was a wrap. 

COT: Keep Dolly, Stripper’s daughter, new born Caden, Porter in your prayers. 

Naked Man Moleskin: Two Pro Tips: 1) if you get flowers for your Bride and want to put them in a vase, arrange the flowers in Groups of 3. See, three is a magic number. 

2) YHC had a revelation about 3 weeks ago about a well planned Q. Rather than just doing 50 straight reps of squats, a man gets a better workout by doing 20 reps x3 sets. You see, a man can do 20 reps and keep form. By keeping form, the workout is better. Then you get the privilege of being cursed at when he tries to get off the toilet 2-days later.   Taking that to other exercises and rep counts, it seems better to wear out a body group by doing 3 exercises, 3 times. 

One of the reasons YHC loves F3 is for the fellowship. For the fun. To be able to talk about how big our decks are for 45 minutes just makes me laugh. The ability to connect with our inner boys, our ability to laugh, for just 45 minutes a day is vital to being a strong leader the rest of the day. I am honored to have been able to laugh with the men of The Collard Patch this morning. 

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