It’s two days post Valentine’s Day and the F3 men of Nolensville gathered at The Forge for an after-VDay support group to learn a little something about romance and the things ladies love.
3rd Degree with an intimate preparty: Numbtucks & 3rd Degree went out for a pre-date doing 10 burpees on the minute for 10 minutes. Precious.
PAX: Tebow, Sterno, Typo+, Show Me, NimbusFifteenHundredSyllables, Barney Fievel, Netflix, Aunt Bea on a scooter, Stats, 3rd Degree, MURSA, Dr. Little Miss Piggy, TV Guide, Old Hickory, Kermit, CheezWhiz, Numbtucks, and RagDoll (QiC).
Warm-up:
- 10 Side Straddle Hops
- Toy Soldiers (high leg kicks) on your own
- Butt Kicks on your own
Thang 1 that Ladies Love: Chick-Fil-A Parking Lot
If there’s one thing ladies love, it’s Chick-Fil-A. Any day, show up at Chick-Fil-A between lunch and dinner and it’s slammed with preschoolers and yoga-pants.
So you wanna take your family out to Chick-Fil-A you say? Your lady will love it, but good luck finding a parking spot amidst 900 minivans. For Thang 1 we’re gonna practice parking at Chick-Fil-A … here’s how it works:
- On one long aisle of a parking lot there are 6 parking spaces marked with cones. In each spot there is an exercise named: 30 Imperial Squat Walkers, 20 Yurpees, 25 Mountain Climber Merkins, 30 Roly-Poly’s, 50 Jump Squats, 20 War Hammers.
- PAX mosey up the aisle looking for an open parking spot with a cone. If it’s open, one jumps in and does the named exercise.
- The rest of the PAX continue around the parking lot and go down the next aisle where a mode of transportation is marked: Mosey, Duck Walk, Sprint, Crawl Bear.
- PAX continue around and around the parking lot, alternating into open parking spots as available, and paying attention to the continuously changing mode of transportation down aisle #2. No double parking!
We do this for about 25 minutes until Meat Loaf is done singing “Out of the Frying Pan.” Everyone did great here and I think all found a parking spot. You’re set to take your family to Chick-Fil-A any day!
Except Sunday of course.
Thang 2 that Ladies Love: Sparking Joy with Marie Kondo
Oh yes, ladies love to organize their house like Marie Kondo. Who’s Marie Kondo you ask, you uncultured neanderthal? Well, ask your significant other – she knows. But for the uninitiated it’s something like this:
- First you take all your crap out of your closets and dump it on your living room floor.
- Then you go through each item and decide if it “sparks joy” for you. If it sparks joy, you keep it. If it doesn’t, you throw it out.
Simple, right? See, tuning into your feminine side is not hard gentlemen. Let’s practice.
We line up at one end of the parking lot and Q has a random PAX call out an exercise. We perform a number of them, and then Q has another PAX decide if the exercise sparked joy for them or not. If it sparked joy, we do more. If it did not, we sprint to the other end of the parking lot and still do more. We did things like…
- Iron Mikes (they sparked joy)
- Suzanne Somers (she did not spark joy)
- Lieutenant Dan’s
- Burpees
- Merkins
- Good mornings (thanks Netflix)
Thang 3 that Ladies Love: Remembering Important Dates
Ladies love it when you remember important dates, like their birthday! To practice we’re going to spell out the word BIRTHDAY with exercises.
We go around the circle to celebrate the significant others of our F3 men by remembering their birthday. For example, I think Tebow’s wife was born on the 26th of some month, so we did 26 Burpees…
- Burpees
- Iron Mikes
- Ranger Merkins
- Tony Hawk Burpees
- Hydraulic Squats
- Duck Walks
- American Hammers
- Yurpees
Now, I don’t know why, but you all hooked up with ladies who were born in the 2nd half of the month. We did lots of things. But good for you – you got stronger.
Nameorama
Stoked to have my first FNG naming opportunity this morning as we welcomed Andrew “Scrooge” into our fold. Thanks for coming out brother – well done and hope to have you back soon. MURSA with the 9th Man – good to have you back friend.
Announcements
Boy you were all chatty this morning. Let’s see if I can remember this…
- Typo+ will be organizing a 2nd F lunch next Thursday. Details to come on Slack.
- Stats is organizing a 2nd F outing to the Pistol Range on March 23rd @ 10:00am. Stay tuned for more info.
- Sterno and Co. are helping us organize donations for refugee students at Tusculum Elementary. They’ll make a 3rd F Costco run for supplies soon – you can participate by sending money via Venmo to @jered-parks (that’s Altidore).
- F3 Nolensville & F3 Franklin will be hosting a Convergence at Pinkerton Park in Franklin on Saturday, March 9th, 6:00-7:30. That means no Forge that morning, but let’s all represent Nolensville and skedaddle down to Franklin to meet some other F3 brothers.
- And MURSA has more gloves than he has hands, so hit him up if you need gloves.
COT
- Prayers for Typo+’s mom who is having some reconstructive surgery following breast cancer on Tuesday morning. Let’s all lift her up this week.
- Let’s celebrate the new life of 3rd Degree’s 2.4, Coulson! Congrats bro!
- And Numbtucks is down for the count with a knarly knee. Nice to see some true 2nd F & 3rd F being performed by Dr. Little Miss Piggy on the patient this morning… and some 4th F being performed by the patient. Get better soon dude.
Postparty was a Stats & 3rd Degree 16 rep Sunrise Sampler. Tasty!!
Glad to have you all out this AM! You’re getting stronger, you’re getting faster… and you’re getting dizzier every time you do a Tony Hawk Burpee. Peace!
~ RagDoll