Does Calvary Even Pay Its Electric Bill?

Date: 2026-01-03 AO: olympus Q: Krzyzewski , PAX: voodoo, flipper, The Worm, MARTA, Mountain Momma, Schedule C, Gapper, hoover, Emoji, Pepsi, Unplugged, ickey_shuffle, Blanks FNGs: None COUNT: 14 Cold weather? Don’t care. Rain? Don’t care. No electricity? Don’t care. Horrible beatdown of doubles with 6x reps of each element for 5 sets? Don’t care. No Dropkick Murphy’s on the playlist? Listen, buddy…now we’ve got an issue. …and so it went this morning. Despite, let’s say, less than ideal conditions, the pax absolutely dominated the worst iteration of the Clean ‘Em Up v2.0 that we’ve seen yet. However, it was false hopes of some American Celtic punk rock on the lead-in to ‘Good Times Bad Times’ that caused the most consternation this morning. Truly, it’s hard to please all the pax all the time. Today, proved especially hard with numbers bursting into the teens for the most populated hot box beatdown YHC has ever witnessed. Phenomenal to see so many of the usual suspects and always a pleasure to have weekday legend, Unplugged, join us for a weekend beatdown. Also, welcome back to Gapper, Schedule C, and Blanks – hats off for ignoring all signs of good reason and returning to Olympus once again. As always, it’s an honor that so many pax show up each week. It has nothing to do with YHC, but so much to do with the trust each man puts in to each other collectively. More on this in a bit – however in a world increasingly devoid of true accountability to oneself, to each other, to our communities, etc. this is a cool and rare thing to witness and YHC is proud to be part of it. Much of this morning was horrible, but conquering this weinke made us all that much better. Also, this was absolutely the kick in the pants YHC needed to start the day. All right, enough intro, give the people what they want…let’s get into the recap… WARMUP: Swings (10x), prying squats, hi-pulls (5x e/s), synovial circles, one-handed swings (5x e/s), slingshots (7x e/w) THE THANG: 1) Voodoo Complex (3 sets) – Voodoo complex (1x round e/s) – Voodoo complex (2x rounds e/s; ‘chain’) – Voodoo complex (2x each exercise, but 1x round e/s; ‘complex’) 2) Clean ‘Em Up 2.0 (5 sets; nice variety of chains/complex/lopsided Hydrox) – Double clean (6x) – Double squat (6x) – Double snatch (6x) – Double press (6x) – Double swing (6x) – Double renegade row (6x e/s) 3) Da Six/Eight/Ten Complex (3 sets) – Lawnmower rows (6x e/s) – Monkey-humper squats (8x) – Merkins (10x) 4) Carries – Progressive single-bell carries to farther and farther light posts with 4x goblet squats after each MARY: Classic hot box Mary where pushing benches back into place and running bells to your car post-beatdown is all you need ANNOUNCEMENTS: – THE PR:o:D – First Friday of the month – see Slack for details. Flipper gave a quick recap of the successful turnout of the first edition this past Friday. Prayers for continued success and hopes that many of our brothers, who have strayed from F3 over the years, will continue to post and come back – :pancakes: Second F Friday (1/9) – second Friday of the month at Stacks. See Slack for details. – :deciduous_tree: “A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit.” YHC has written about some variation of this in the past, but during a trip to a plantation in Charleston this past week this saying crept into his brain once again. While the origins of this quotation seems to be debated (likely an ancient Greek proverb), it’s meaning shines brightly as we embark on a new year. Standing before a driveway lined with dozens of enormous live oak trees made YHC reflect. The man who planted those had no idea of the thousands of people who would one day enjoy their shade, beauty, and grandeur. BUT, the charge for us, is how can we equally plant seeds? It’s not organizing large-scale projects or charity drives. It’s not even taking the lead of an F3 workout. Man, it just starts with posting. Be consistent. Show up. Be the reason that another man chooses to flee fartsack and get himself better so he can be a better man, husband, father, uncle, etc. Just get out there and post. YHC is a richer man because of those before him. Pay it forward and have a great week! COT: YHC took out the Olympus crew. We caught a glimpse of the gentlemen of The Rock, who seemed to be having just as much fun moseying and burpee’ing in the open elements