• Post Type: Backblast
  • When: 03/19/2022
  • AO: The Bunker
  • QIC: BOS
  • FNG's:
  • PAX: Broke (R), Nutria, Doodles (R), Pink Floyd

Saturday morning at Stowe Park.  A long train was chuggin’ through.  Buckeye and Tool Time were headed out for a run.  0700 hit and Breaker Breaker took the majority of the PAX down the road for a Yank warm up while three of us made our way to the Bunker to test out this years Mental Battle WOD.   Before we got underway we spotted Doodles and Pink Floyd headed down the road in search of Breaker and the guys.  They had been caught on the wrong side of the previously mentioned train. With no luck they looped back and joined us in the Bunker.

March 27th is the Anniversary of F3 Mental Battle.

Mental Battle WOD – Each set started with statistics about mental health and workplace mental health.

Round 1 (with weight)

  • 50,000,000 adult Americans experienced mental illness in 2019.
  • 56% of employees spend time looking for another job.
  • 27,000,000 Americans with mental illness are unable to receive treatment.

Exercises are “Without weight” / “With Weight”  Reps counts were “doubled” from the stats at the intro of the round.

100 Lunges / Lunge-Curls
112 Merkins / Chest presses
54 Squats / Goblet squats

Round 2 (with weight)

  • 60% of employees do not feel their management helps them to deal with stress.
  • 33% of employees can’t afford their healthcare costs.
  • 80% of employees reported feeling emotionally drained by their work.

120 Calf Raises / Calf Raises with kettle bell
66 Lunges / Lunge Passthroughs
160 Moroccan Night Clubs / Tricep Extension

Round 3 (without weight)

  • 65% of employees find it hard to concentrate at work due the environment at work.
  • Over 60% of youth with mental illness do not receive treatment.
  • Over 60% of employees feel they don’t get paid enough to save for an emergency fund.

130 LBCs
120 Box Cutters
120 Flutters

A few more facts to finish up the WOD.

Suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in America.

22 veterans commit suicide EVERY DAY.

Last Friday at Downtown Slaughter shared that F3 had lost 9 PAX to suicide in the past year.

Next exercise is… Peoples Chair – Right leg up / Left leg up / March

Circle up – Jack Webb 1-4 x 6 followed by Monkey Humpers, Apollo Onos and Low Slow Squats x 20 IC.

Few minutes left for a round of pain from the PAX.  We tried Side Plank Leg Lifts that turned out to be something only Nutria was successful with.  American Hammers, Merkins and Freddie Mercs before it was time to return to the Yank with the rest of the PAX.

Mental struggles are all around us, and so are our F3 Brothers.  No OYO!

If you or someone you know needs immediate help, please reach out to 800-273-8255.

Til next time – BOS