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Bomber Burpees

AO: bomber
Q: DintyMoore
PAX: Cream Cheese, hambone, Hayes Carll – Solo Cup, Papa Bear, Recharge, Tim the Toolman, Vector, ThePuzzlah, Abacus 🧮
FNGs: 1 Abacus 🧮
COUNT: 10
CONDITIONS: Gloomious

WARMUP: mosey to top parking lot
– 10 L&S Merkins
– 10 Michael Phelps
– 10 L&S Squats
– 10 WMHs
– 10 burpees w/ plank jacks

20 burpees total (approved modifications shared for the remainder of the workout!)

THE THANG:
Mosey to Small Field
3 Groups –
– Group 1 does 15 burpees (descending)
– Group 2 does 15 v-ups (descending)
– Group 3 does 15 coupon swings (descending)

+ 120 burpees

140 burpees total for workout

MARY:
Broga with thoracic stretch followed by high plank to downward dog and finish in sphinx with a couple toe touches and good mornings to finish

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Night Moves w/ @chunks next Thursday
Last Friday in October @timthetoolman hosting dinner
#octoburpee challenge continues
F3 Game Night @firefox house October 23rd

COT: prayers for Solo Cups friend facing a surgery soon and for healing

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Bomber 5-26-2023: Graduation

It’s been a bittersweet few weeks at YHC’s house, as my 2.0 Thomas has picked his college destination (Boiler Up!) and last Saturday graduated from high school.  As our relationship hits an important transition, YHC wanted to celebrate graduation and provide some life lessons. As an added bonus, my 2.O as well as Cub Cadet’s 2.0 Edward came out for their first F3 workouts.

PAX:  23 (to celebrate the Class of ’23?)  Chunks, Cream Cheese, Cub Cadet, Dinty Moore, Firefox, Focker, Hambone, Legal Eagle, Kat Scan, Princess Aurora, Ranch Hand, Shockdoc (FNG),  Siri, Solocup, Spinal Tap, Steampunk (FNG), Supernova, T-cell,  The Flop (FNG), Toolman, Topps (FNG), Vector (QIC), Wet Wipes 

Conditions:   60 degrees and perfect

Disclaimer given and then start the playlist:  
Pomp & Circumstance to start the day, but sometimes graduation means learning hard lessons . . . cue

Everybody Wants to Rule the World – Tears for Fears
(“Welcome to your life. There’s no turning back.”)

Everyone does SSH until the song title is sung –> 3 burpees.  Song timed at 4 minutes to reflect 4 years of high school.

Graduate – Third Eye Blind
(“Do you live the days you go through?”)
Unwritten – Natasha Bedingfield
(“Live  your life with arms wide open.”)
Life’s What You Make It – Talk Talk
(“Baby, life’s what you make it. Celebrate it. Anticipate it.”)
Don’t Stop Believin’ – Journey
(“Don’t stop believin’. Hold on to that feeling.”)
Breakaway – Kelly Clarkson
(“But take a risk, take a chance, make a change, and breakaway.”)
Wide Open Spaces – The Chicks
(“Room to make her big mistakes.”)
Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) – Green Day
(“I hope you have the time of your life.”)
You Get What You Give – New Radicals
(“You’ll be okay, follow your heart.”)
Hey Look Ma, I Made It – Panic at the Disco
(“Think I must be dreamin’, wide awake and dreamin'”)
Celebration – Kool and the Gang
(“So bring your good times and your laughter too. We gonna celebrate your party with you.”)

  • Warm-o-rama:    WMH, Good mornings, LBAC x 15, RLBAC x 15, Imperial Walkers x 20
  • Thang 1:  GRADUATE

G:  Gorilla humpers x 50
R: Raises of calves x 50 (each leg)
A: American Hammers x 50 a side
D: DIPS x 50
U: Underdogs x 50
A: Air Presses x 50
T:  Tunnel of Love x 2 teams
E: Erkins x 50

  • Thang 2:  Partner UP – DORA

50 Pull-ups
150 Squats
250 LBCs

Partner runs around Rec Center

  • MARY:

Flutter kicks, Hello Dollys, Boxcutters

  • COT

Thanks, HIM for helping Cub Cadet and me celebrate Thomas and Edward and reflect on their graduation.  Those with little ones, realize their graduation day will be here much faster than you want (the days are long but the years are short). While, yes, I did make my 2.0 splash (sorry T!), later that day he said, “Dad, I think I will come out again. When I was doing it, it was no fun, but you feel so much better if you start your day that way.”  Perhaps we have a new convert? We’ll see.  Remember, we all have our graduations, big and small.  Cherish those around you and make in impact in their lives.  You all do that for me and hopefully I return the favor.

SYITG,

Vector

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Bomber 3-24-2023: 53DM

YHC turned 53 last week (you may have seen Cub Cadet’s backblast from the OTB cruise workout in the middle of the Caribbean last week – see Titan channel), so wanted to celebrate a little late with my favorite burpee brothers (even though not a single burpee occurred). Playlist wasn’t a cute theme – just a playlist of YHC’s favorite band, Depeche Mode, who kicked off their world tour last night and who I will see for the first time next weekend.  If you didn’t like post-punk British new wave or the number 53, you were not happy . . .

PAX:  Black Lung, Cream Cheese, Cub Cadet, Dinty Moore, Firefox, Pep, Pop-a-Lock, Right Said, Supernova, T-cell, Vector (QIC), Wet Wipes 

Conditions:   Balmy 70 with birds tweeting

DM Playlist:  
Personal Jesus
Just Can’t Get Enough
Behind the Wheel
Never Let Me Down Again
Walking in my Shoes
It’s No Good
Precious
I Feel You
Everything Counts (Live)

Disclaimer given and then a tradition unlike any other:

  • Warm-o-rama:    SSH x 53 (Pep asked “How old are you Vector?” to which I responded “Oh you will learn very soon”)
  • Wander to Rec Center:  LBAC x 15, RLBAC x 15, WMH 15 OHO, Good Mornings 10 OHO
  • Thang 1:  53 Dora

Partner up. one does exercise, one runs around rec center:  53 pull ups, 153 merkins, 253 squats.  When done, improvised rock pass on wall.

  • Thang 2:  Presents!

Go to hill and see what presents the HIM brought.  PAX pick exercise x 53 reps, then sprint up the hill.  So many good presents . . . but oddly, I didn’t ask for Black Lung’s present, as I suspected it might have rhymed with “burped peas.”

  • Thang 3: My gift to the PAX

As at every quality birthday party, you get a take home gift.  Today it was DIDs: 18 dips, 18 incline merkins, and 17 decline merkins (adds up to 53. Get it?).  PAX was so deserving that they got a second present of the same thing.

COT:

  • Prayers for Firefox’s M, kids making college decisions, and others unnamed. CSAUP this weekend and Richland Creek Run the following weekend (sign up for F3 team).

Thanks, HIM.  Thinking back, the thought that at 53 I could do what I do now (even though I’m a little slow) would have been laughable. I owe thanks to each of you (not just those not present today but who spent time with me in the gloom).  You’ve made me a better man, and I deeply appreciate each of you.

SYITG,

Vector

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Bomber 11-11-2022: Celebrating 5 Years in the Beautiful Driving Rain

A shy over 5 years ago, I finally relented to Ebola’s prodding and came out to meet a bunch of men, working out, in the dark cold gloom. Led by Hambone, I thought I would (but proudly did not) splash merlot after the WOR.  Flash forward to 2022, and the positive impact of F3 on my life, especially the past 3 years, has been huge (if my biceps are not quite so).  Thus, this morning, I wanted to celebrate all things 5.

PAX:  Black Lung, Focker, Legal Eagle, Michelin Man, Porcelain, Salpal, Supernova, T-cell, Tim the Toolman, Vector (QIC) and Wet Wipes with the dedicated wounded but healing walkers Cub Cadet and Firefox

Conditions:   Pelting sloppy rain, 60s – truly in the words of many PAX “beautiful”

Playlist:  Bands and songs with “5” in the name — a lot of bands with a lot of not so good songs:

I Want You Back – Jackson 5 (inadvertently deleted from playlist at the start by the soggy Q)
Wake Up Call – Maroon 5
Mambo No. 5 – Lou Bega
White Lines – Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
9 to 5 – Dolly Parton
Video Killed the Radio Star – Ben Folds Five
She Looks So Perfect – 5 Seconds of Summer
5-1-5-0 – Dierks Bentley
Worth It – Fifth Harmony
Go Where You Want to Go – The 5th Dimension
Bad Company – Five Finger Death Punch
When the Lights Go Out – Five
Kick Out the Jams – MC5
Glad All Over – The Dave Clark Five (cut for time)
Superman (It’s Not Easy) – Five for Fighting (cut for time)

Disclaimer given and then mosey in the beautiful pelting rain to the McCabe Rec Center for the Sloppy Warm-o-rama (as Q tried to get music started):  

Squats, LBAC, Reverse LBAC, WMH, Good Mornings

The Thang:  5 Exercises, 5(0) Reps, 5 Sets

5 exercises: Merkins, squats, big boy sit ups, DIPs, pull ups

Do 50 reps of each, run around the Rec Center, repeat for 5 sets. Q, in the interest of time, Q reduced reps of a selected exercise to 5 with each set.

Mary:  Flutter Kicks, Ankle Lifts, 10 Burpees, and a few SSH to close us out.

COT:

  • Open Tab (or Maybe Tap Out, Tap In – we were confused) tonight — check Slack for deets and come for the beers and more importantly the discussion.
  • 30 seconds to listen to the world (and our walkers returning to the COT)
  • Sincere thanks to the HIM and F3.  This morning, being grown up dudes basically splashing in the rain, illustrates why F3 is so special.  Reach out to those we encounter who would benefit from F3 as I have — I am stronger physically, emotionally, mentally thanks to all of the HIM who I’ve encountered along this journey.  Keep pushing and inspiring me and each other. #ISI
  • Also, I unfortunately failed to send thanks for our veterans on 11/11 — appreciate all of you (including Porcelain and Cub Cadet who were with us this morning).
  • Cafe Dose followed and was awesome (complete with Focker looking like he walked out of the sauna at the Y)

SYITG,

Vector

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Bomber – 09.16.22 – “16th September”

16 (on the 16th!) PAX paid a trip to the Museum de Pain to critique form.

QIC: Princess Aurora

PAX: Black Lung, Caddieshack, Coach Weird (FNG), Firefox, Focker, Legal Eagle, Michelin Man, Pop-A-Lock, Ranch Hand, Spanarkel (WL-Lake Norman), Siri, Supernova, T-Cell, Toolman, Wet Wipes

THE THANG:

Medium mosey over to the side lot entrance to reintroduce an old Stonewall standby: the Ark Loader. PAX travel up the hill by Bear Crawl, followed by Bunny Hop, Crab Walk, and Duck Walk. SSH for six.

Return to startex for COP:

  • SSH x 8
  • LBAC F x 9
  • OHP x 10
  • IW x 11
  • LBAC R x 12
  • Hillbillies x 13
  • Nordic Jacks x 14

Hop over to base of driveway for the main event. In honor of René Magritte’s painting, 16th September, PAX partnered up to complete 160 team reps of the following:

  • Merkins
  • Ab Thrusters
  • Glute Bridge
  • Raise the Roof (OHP)
  • Iron Mikes (1ct)
  • T Raises (Bent-over Reverse Flyes)
  • Turkish Sit-Ups (switch sides every 10)
  • Elbows to Knees (Reverse Crunch-ish)

Almost everybody got through the entire circuit just before time was called.

COT/BOM

MOLESKINE:

Qing Bomber is always a pleasure, and today was no exception. An already special morning was made more special as this was our first opportunity for a post-Bomber visit to dose since 2020.

Welcome to Caleb aka Coach Weird!

BULLHORN:

TAPS

  • Formica and family as they goodbye to his father who entered hospice this week.
  • Wet Wipes’s M and all other women as they grapple with a shattered veil of safety in the wake of Liza Fletcher’s tragic murder.
  • Pop-A-Lock’s back and continued healing

Announcements:

  • Tennessee Tussle, brought to you by F3 Spring Hill, will run Saturday, Nov 12 at 0630 in Pinkerton Park in Franklin. Teams of four from across Middle Tennessee regions will compete in a unique workout relay in one of three divisions for bragging rights and a good time. Read more here.

Go Tigers.

PA out

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NASHVILLE — 06/24/22

QIC: 

Pumpkin Spice

PAX: 

Black lung

Breadsticks

Crablegs 

Crawlspace

Cub cadet

Firefox

Focker

Hambone

Lunch lady

Michelin man

MCafee

Natural ice

Oops

Princess aurora

Ranchhand

Right said

Siri

Supernova

Vector

Yellow Hammer

Gloom:

Delightful, high-60s

Warmorama

A little jog around the greenway, stop at the top deck for some exercises.

  • SSH x 10
  • High Knees x 10
  • Butt Kickers x 10
  • LBAC x 10
  • rLBAC x 10
  • Moroccan night clubs x 10
  • WMH x 10

Main Event

NASHVILLE

The PAX partner up and make their way to the top of the entrance hill. One partner does an exercise, the other runs to the bottom of the entrance and Bernies back. Flapjack. SSH for the six before moving to the next exercise. Exercises are below:

No hand merkins (Hand release)

American Hammers

Squats

Humpers, monkey variety

V-Ups

Incline Merkins

Lunges

LBCs

Eight count body builders

After all NASHVILLE exercises are complete, the PAX make their way to the startex for some Mary Go Round, whereby we do 60 seconds of a Mary exercise I call out based upon my perceived favorite Mary exercise from certain long-time PAX.

Vector – Box Cutters

Crawlspace – Hello Dolly

Crablegs – Time Machine Leg Lifts

Hambone – Alabama Prom Dates

Firefox – High Plank

Princess Aurora – WWIs

Black Lung – Flutter Kicks

Moleskin:

The Nashville PAX have been an immense blessing to me these last 4 years, and I find myself tremendously grateful for your fellowship, encouragement, camaraderie, and fitness. As my last bomber Q, it was a pleasure to bring things to a close with a NASHVILLE Q. A special thanks to Crablegs for EH’ing me many moons ago. I look forward to popping in for a surprise Q sometime in the future!

COT:

Prayers for Lunch Lady’s friend Jim, who was recently diagnosed with small cell carcinoma.

  • PSpice
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Ice Storm?

PAX: @t-cell @Tim the Toolman @hambone @McAfee @bluemule @Vector @Pop-A-Lock @Michelin Man @toga (QIC)

Gloom Factor:  Nil.  70 and Sunny

Lucky number 9 posted in an alleged ice storm to get a little better this morning.  It went something like…

Circle up next to cars, lineup most of the weights in YHC’s home gym, and commence with standard issue WOR.  Mosey up and down the parking lot a few times to get the ol’ ticker going then lineup for bean bad toss=

Each PAX lines up at a station to execute an exercise whilst one member of the PAX tosses a sandbag a predetermined distance and back, run to the end of the lot, rotate to the next station and repeato.  The exercise for today’s outing included:

  • Alternating offset merkins
  • Goblet squats
  • Kb swings
  • Tricep press
  • Jump rope
  • Man makers
  • Med ball slams
  • Dumbbell side raises

Time!

Announcements:  Get training for GrowRuck 27, get yourselves to 4:13 next week, and enjoy keeping the kids busy since they’re all home from school.

NMM: YHC was terribly excited to receive an offer to Q at Bomber (a first), and the opportunity to take Hambone’s Q made it all the sweeter.  The PAX quickly learned that the main part of the driveway was relatively clear of ice, but the parking spaces were slippery as whale s@&t!  We managed to complete almost 3 times through the circuit and got to witness some sweet form on the sandbag lift and toss.  The coffee is all the better when Pop a Lock buys!

Stay Classy,

Toga

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1/21/22: Form Matters

AO: #Bomber

QIC: @pumpkin spice

Conditties: Bone-chilling

@bluemule
@Crablegs
@Crawlspace
@DintyMoore
@hambone
@McAfee
@Michelin Man
@Minus3
@Natural Ice
@Pop-A-Lock
@pumpkin spice
@Salpal
@Siri
@t-cell
@Tim the Toolman
@Vector

Warmorama:

SSH x 15
LBAC x 15
rLBAC x 15
Moroccan Night Clubs x 15
High Knees x 15
Butt Kickers x 15
WMH OYO

THE THANG:

Today’s workout emphasized the importance of proper form. Because after all, as @Crablegs appropriately likes to say, we came here to work out. As @River Dawg used to say (maybe he still says this, he’ll have to come back for a visit to find out), as fast as you can — not as fast as you can’t. Modifying as necessary is commendable, cutting corners is not.

Phase 1:

The PAX line up on the top deck parking lot. Bearcrawl across the parking lot, and stop at each line in the parking lot to do a hand release Merkin. You can’t cheat on those. Once moved across the whole lot, flutter kick and wait for the six.

Phase 2:

Lunge across the lot and do 5 squats at each line. 90 degrees on the squats, or else. If YHC or the AOQ spot anything less, everyone has to stop and do 10 Big Boy Sit-ups. There were some repeat offenders. When anyone tried to flying EH women, we also had to do 10 Big Boys. Hello Dolly and LBC for the six.

Phase 3:

High knee across the lot, and stop at each line to do 5 Plank Jacks. Hard to cheat on those too. Alabama prom date and box cutters for the six.

Phase 4:

Partner up and make your way to the top of the main entrance hill. PAX take turns doing sets of stationary exercises at the top of the hill, with the other partner moseying to the bottom of the hill and traveling back up in different modes of travel. At the top of the hill partners collectively perform 100 Merkins, 200 Iron Mikes (each leg is one), and 300 American Hammers (each side is half; keep your hands together and must touch the ground on each side for it to count). Traveling exercises alternated between Apollo Ohnos and Bernie.

BULLHORN:

@bluemule is hosting the next rendition of side straddle hops tonight. See 2nd F channel for details.

Pray for @Popalock’s friend who is suffering from a mysterious medical illness

– Spice

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Bomber – 11.26.21 – “45 Minutes of Warmth”

7 HIM evaded the post-Thanksgiving fartsack and took the DRP amidst an almost unbearably chilly backdrop at Bomber.

PAX: Crablegs, Michelin Man, Porcelain, Right Said, Salpal, Tim The Toolman

QIC: Cunning Linguist

Gloom Factor:
High. Temp at kickoff was 25, and there was a slight breeze. We remain unafraid to step into the discomfort here in F3.

INTRO:
Frigid temps awaited the men of Bomber this AM. At 0529, the 1MW was delivered, and at 0530, a moderately repetitive Disclaimer was disclaimed.

YHC led us outside the main entrance of Bomber and up Sloan Ave to the upper parking area for McCabe and we began the WOR at “The Bump.” IYKYK

WOR:
15 x SSH
10 x LBAC
10 x rLBAC
12 x WMH
15 x SnL Squats

We then moseyed to side of Community Center for THANG 1.

THANG 1:
40s
Each set totals 40 reps, with two moves per set, and a lap around the Community Center between each set.
The moves today were Merkins and Squats
35/5
30/10
25/10
20/20 (the Barbara Walters set, per Crablegs)
15/25
10/30
5/35
Plank upon completion

Countdown from 20 to 1, then a mosey to the main baseball diamond for THANG 2.

THANG 2:
“The Starting Rotation”
Counted off 1 to 4, with 4 standing at home plate, 1 at first, 2 at second, 3 at third.
4 did 10 Burpees
1 did Squats
2 did Carolina Dry Docks
3 did LBCs
Upon completion, home plate calls out “Rotate”
Each base advanced 90 degrees, with movement between bases being Bear Crawls
Continue until all end up where they started.

Brief mosey to STARTEX for Mary.

MARY:
15 x Freddie Mercury
20 x Alabama Prom Dates
15 x Flutter Kicks
20 x American Hammers
15 x Alternating Heel Taps
12 x Box Cutters
10 OYO LBCs to finish

COT/ Kneeling BOM

MOLESKINE:
Always an honor to lead the Men of Bomber, all of whom put in a fantastic effort this Black Friday. Thank you for letting me take point this morning.

BULLHORN:
Rumors of a potential F3 Nashville Chess Night are brewing. Check around on Slack for the deets.



See you all on the flip side.

-CL

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Bomber 11-5-2021: Reviewing 5 Core Principles on the Q’s 4th

A chilly morning with the season’s first signs of frost greeted 21 HIM on the 4th anniversary of YHC showing up in the gloom, nearly falling out by the time Hambone finished his Warm-o-Rama, and deciding to keep coming out to this rag tag bunch of dudes for the next 4 years.  With many new HIM from the past few years around, I realized we hadn’t had much talk of some of the F3 basics.  So today, YHC (using a highly coordinated playlist) reviewed the 5 F3 Core Principles.  Giddy-up!

PAX:  Bad Boy, Black Lung, Blue Mule, Crablegs, Crawlspace, Cub Cadet, Firefox, Hambone, Hi-Viz, McAfee, Michelin Man, Natural Ice, Porcelain, Pumpkin Spice, Princess Aurora, Right Said, Siri, Spinal Tap, Supernova, Tool Man, Vector (QIC),

Conditions:   Frosty, 32 degrees.

Disclaimer given and then mosey up hill and down to the McCabe Rec Center for the Warm-o-rama:  
LBAC x 10, RLBAC x 10, WMH x 10 OYO, Good Mornin’s x 10 OYO

F3 Core Principles:

#1:  Workouts are free of charge.
Song: “I’m Free” – Soupdragons
Hold Air Chair until the word “free” noted in the song –> then do 1 burpee

#2:  Workouts are open to all men.
Song: “The Man” – The Killers
Stationary lunges until the word “man” noted in the song –> then do 1 jump squat

#3:  Workouts are held outdoors, rain or shine, hot or cold.
Songs: “Blame It on the Rain” – Milli Vanilli (or at least lip synched by them)
“Walking on Sunshine” – Katrina and the Waves
“Heat of the Moment” – Asia
“Cold as Ice” – Foreigner
DORA with partner:  100 Pull-ups, 200 WWIs, 300 Squats

#4:  Workouts are peer led with rotating leaders.
Song: “One Thing Leads to Another” – The Fixx
DIDs on the wall for duration of the song – 20 Dips, 20 irkins, 20 dirkins (repeat)

#5:  Workouts end with a Circle of Trust.
Songs: “Circles” – Post Malone & “A Question of Trust” – Billy Joel
Mary PAX Choice — a lot of goodies including Crunchy Happy Frogs to honor T-cell in his absence

COT:

  • Praises for Bad Boy and M 10th anniversary!
  • Sincere thanks to the HIM and F3.  F3 has been far more formative for me than I could ever imagine 4 years ago. Being an HIM, inspired by all of you, has made me such a better person and leader. Keep pushing and inspiring me and each other. #ISI

SYITG,

Vector