Month: March 2024

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The OTB One at Pain Train

AO: offthebooks
Q: Wolfpack
PAX: Flower Power, Link (2.0)
FNGs: None
COUNT: 3
CONDITIONS: 65 and sprinkling. Perfect weather.

WARMUP: mosey around the park. SSH, BACs, BACBACs, stretch your legs

THE THANG:
THANG 1: DORA
200 reps Merkins
200 reps dips
One Pax runs around the playground while the other is knocking out the reps.

Thang 2: 11’s
Pull ups
Skull Crushers
15 yard run in between

Thang 3: Follow the Leader
Tested our mobility and ability to squeeze through tight spots on the playground while following Link as best we could.

Mary:
LBCs
Freddie Mercuries

MOLESKINE: Huzzah for showing up and getting the work done in the rain.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

COT: Fellowship at The Well

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Creating a 4F AO

AO: the-knoll
Q: Hair Band
PAX: Sooie, morning star, Wolfpack, Siri, Malibu, Ex-Pat, Pebbles, Merchant, Bumblebee
FNGs: None
COUNT: 10
CONDITIONS: hummid

WARMUP:
50 SSHs
Arm circles
Air press
Michael phelps

THE THANG:
Spread out into Teams & stations

Push station
Skull crushers 20
Carolina dry docks 20
Elbow tap push ups 10
Rotate

Pull station
Pullups 10
Rows 15
Rotate

Core station
Supermans 20
V-ups 20
Ukrainian hanmers 20
Rotate

Burpee freeze tag

MOLESKINE:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
– Plankpril coming up soon, check 1st F channel
– Murder mile coming, check green machine

COT:
– everyone shared a prayer request, work, families, deaths, travels

Thanks y’all! So happy to have lead this morning, it was an honor and privilege!

Rock on,

Hair Band

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Bench Warmers

AO: atlantis
Q: Firefox
PAX: Sally, Toothless, Pole Dancer, Three Stooges
FNGs: None
COUNT: 5
CONDITIONS: No complaints

WARMUP: Many thanks to Three Stooges and Sally who joined me for 10 minutes of mindful breathing/meditation prior to starting. From there, we did a short parking lot mosey and stretching.

THE THANG: Despite the 2 months of lead time, all my theme ideas were a bit half-baked; so, I went simple. 4 sets of exercises, each repeated 3 times.

Set 1: The Sequence plus Broad Jumps
– 40x Plank Jacks
– 30x Mountain Climbers
– 20x Merkins
– 20x FLBACs
– 20x BLBACs
– 20x Air Presses
– Broad Jump across the short dimension of the parking lot and back

Set 2: Time to ride the bench!
– Step-ups with knee raise
– Bulgarian split squats
– One-legged stands (from seated position, while holding one leg off the ground, use your other leg to raise yourself to standing)
First round we did 20 reps per leg, then 15 reps, then 10 reps.

Set 3: Keep the benches warm! 30 seconds on, 10 seconds off, rotating through the following:
– Bench flutters (with core engaged and seated on the ground facing the bench, hold one foot above the bench seat and the other below… then swap their positions)
– Decline mountain climbers (feet on bench seat, hands on ground)
– Copenhagen plank right side (PAX were encouraged to pick a modification that worked for them. Mine was with both feet on the bench, single forearm down on the ground, doing small knee crunches with my non-supporting leg)
– Copenhagen plank left side

Set 4: Did I forget to do any hollow body holds? 40sec on, 15 sec off… 3 times through. The last hold was challenging.
– Shoulder touch plank jacks
– Hollow Body Hold

MOLESKINE: This was my first time trying to incorporate meditation at both the beginning and end of a Q. Looking for feedback from the PAX (particularly Three Stooges and Sally, but definitely chime in Toothless and Pole Dancer) on how that went for you.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
– Game Night 3/12
– Murder Mile

COT:
– Everyone shared.
– Everyone took 2 minutes of silence for prayer intentions, let their thoughts run their course, and then clear their minds.

Always an honor and privilege to lead, gentlemen!

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Somebooty Will Be Sore

AO: middle-tooth
Q: Hair Band
PAX: Works for a Guy, monster biscuit, bluemule, Topanga, Cowboy, sooner, Michelin Man, Oatmeal, Toothless, moneyshot, Pole Dancer, Crawlspace, DrRupp
FNGs: None
COUNT: 14
CONDITIONS: threatening to pour

WARMUP:
Mosey on track
50 SSHs
Lunges
Moving WMHs
High knees
Butt kickers

THE THANG:
Take cones to field and set up

10 burpees buy in each round
Burnie to middle cone
20 iron mikes (per leg)
Burnie to far cone
30 drop squats
Burnie back
Hold plank til all in
Repeat x3

10 burpees buy in each round
Lung walk to middle cone
20 V-ups
Lunch walk to far cone
30 happy crunchy frogs
Squat walk to back
Hold plank til all in
Repeat x3

Mosey back to start-x, hold low squat for 2 minutes

MOLESKINE:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
– brewsday was last night, success!
– Murder mile on the 28th, check greenmachine for deets

COT:
– everyone shared a prayer request, requests for work, being better parents, health of friends and family, losses in family, being more in the present

It is always a pleasure go come lead middle-tooth! Thank y’all for having me

Rock on,

Hair Band

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A-space-Dora

AO: iiipillars
Q: Pep
PAX: Bear, Bard, princessaurora, t-cell, Grape, Go Fish, Dollywood, Zelenskyy, Tackle Box, Embassy Sweats, Pep, Black Lung, TiVo, government mule, lucky strike, Formica, hagis, Lucky strike
FNGs: 1 Lucky strike
COUNT: 17
CONDITIONS: early spring – cool but comfortable

WARMUP:
– overhead claps: 20
– seal claps: 20
– imperial walkers: 15
– good mornings: oyo

THE THANG:
– hand release Mercian: 100
– Alabama prom dates: 200
– fire hydrants: 300
– dips: 200
– american hammers: 100

– pullups: 50 with partner running around track
– ended with mary

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Plank-ril – month of April pranks planking

COT:
– Praise blacklung’s dad has a fall but no fractures
– Princess Aurora’s sister in law: post child birth issues

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Bring Your Own Kid Workout at The Knoll

AO: the-knoll
Q: Wolfpack , morning star, Sooie
PAX: Ex-Pat, El Capitan, AAA, Three Stooges, Merchant, DB, Pebbles, Firefox, 2.0’s:  Big Red, Link, Bumblebee, Tonks, FishBiscuit, AwesomeAxolotl, Birdman (2.0), Wildflower (2.0)
FNGs: 2 Birdman (2.0), Wildflower (2.0)
COUNT: 19
CONDITIONS: Warm with a sprinkle

WARMUP: stretching and motivators led by Bumblebee and Morningstar

THE THANG:
Thang1: 11’s
Burpees on one side, Big boy sit-ups on the other
Bunny hops one direction, Bear crawl the other

Thang 2: Old school movie time
Split up in pairs (Dads and 2.0)
One pax is the VCR
One pax is the Remote
Start opposite of one another. The VCR is doing the exercise while the Remote controls the speed. If the remote is running forward, VCR goes fast. If remote is running backwards, VCR goes slow. If remote pauses, the VCR holds the current position. Switch places for 60 seconds on/60 seconds rest.

Movies watched:
– Merkins
– Squats
– Big boy sit-ups

Thang 3: Infection!
2.0s were the infected and ran around tagging PAX to infect them. Three rounds with alternating movement types each round.
R1: Pax has to run backwards
R2: Pax has to run sideways
R3: Pax has to skip

Thang 3: Bear Tag Royal
All pax in Bear crawl. If you get your hand slapped your out and have to stand on the side and do your exercise of choice until the end (didn’t see any burpees?)

I believe FishBiscuit and AwesomeAxolotl were our champions!

MOLESKINE: Criss-cross-applesauce!

Thank you Morningstar for sharing a delightful message. A reminder to all 2.0s to encourage and share delight in every action. And a reminder to us dads to seek out and nourish that delight in our 2.0s.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

COT: 1-2-3 Delight!

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Sgt. Pepper

AO: hendersonville
Q: Sunshine
PAX: Chunks, Disc Jockey, Pep, Splitter
FNGs: None
COUNT: 5
CONDITIONS: Moist w/ misty rain

WARMUP: Good mornings, Imperial Walkers, SSH, mosey

THE THANG: Volleyball peppering. When the ball hits the ground, the PAX who missed it picks an exercise for the group to perform for 10 reps. Repeat until Mary.
Mary: dealers’ choice

MOLESKINE:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

COT:

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[F3 Nashville] Comment: “Katy Guest Q compliments of VMax”

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(Rest of BB) …
Anointing – YHC was introduced to a time-honored, sacred Knoll
tradition. Upon his first time Qing at the Knoll, the Q is invited to
down a shot of olive oil. He has the option of passing off the glass
to the AOQ, but of course YHC wasn’t gonna go sawft like that. It
went down smooth and has been a constant reminder in the back of my
throat all day of the great hospitality shown by these HIMs. 😉

Coffeeteria was a solid time of 2nd F comparing regional traditions
and successes between Nashville and Katy. YHC loved hearing about the
CSAUPs here and different AO setups. I shared our growth experience
and how things like 3-4 day per week AOs and the 30/30 phenomenon have
both been successful. But the best part was hearing the historic
dominance that Knoll pax have displayed over any female wrestler who
dared step onto the mat to try her hand. Much more impressive than
YHC getting pinned by a blind wrestler freshman year of high school.
My trickeration proved futile.

Such a great morning in the gloom with my Nashville brothers across
the country. It was an honor to lead and privilege to serve. Thanks
again to Morning Star for allowing me to Q and VMax for the
hospitality all weekend hosting our family. If any Nashville pax are
in the Houston area come out on the west side and visit The Peak
anytime!

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Find your adventure

AO: handsomizer
Q: G-string (Eli Kresta)
PAX: Natural Ice, Rocket Mortgage, Freakonomics, Red Skull, Spinal Tap, Black Lung
FNGs: None
COUNT: 7
CONDITIONS:
Rainy and chilly. Perfect for a beatdown… in the parking deck.

WARMUP:
– Motivator X6
– Inchworms
– Mosey to the parking deck
– BACs
– Back-BACs
– Overhead Claps
– 20 burpee buy in (hero style)

THE THANG:
Split into two teams
Thang 1:
Rotate through the following exercises
– Pullups on the ledge
– endorphins with the sandbag
– Bear-crawl up the incline and back

Thang 2:
Complete the reps as a team
– 150 perfect merkins
– 200 sandbag rows
– 250 air squats

MARY:
– 25 big-boys
– 25 LBCs
– 25 slow leg raises
– 45 second hollow hold

MOLESKINE:
“The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.” -GK Chesterton
Looking back on my life, my twenties were full of adventures (travel, missionary work, moves, etc.), but now that I’m thirty, I am married with a child. There is a lot less obvious adventure in the day-to-day operations now. HOWEVER, it fills my heart just as much as the adventures did in my twenties.

How do we view adventure? How do we see the extraordinary in our daily lives? Do we see our roles as husbands and fathers as truly heroic, and do we treat them as such?

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Biscuit run tomorrow

COT:
Friend of PAX has lost multiple children in the last 12 months. Prayers for him.

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B.E.A.C.H. B.O.D.S. :beach_with_umbrella: :muscle:

AO: cruelhall
Q: Toothless
PAX: Deep State, EZ-Go, Pedialyte, Accounts Receivable, Donkey Hammer, blackwidow
FNGs: None
COUNT: 7
CONDITIONS: Steadily soggy…but we had it made in the shade (literally) of the Cruel Hall pavilion :classical_building:

PLAYLIST: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4zyFdHWdnCRvbNwafZcrMI?si=467e64ecea4d467b

WARMUP:
– 30 x SSH
– 10 x Willy Mays Hays
– 15 x High Knees OYO
– 15 x Butt Kickers OYO
– 10 x Carrot Pullers (pka Cherry Pickers, which makes no sense)
– 10 x Windmills

THE THANG: BEACH BODS :beach_with_umbrella: :muscle:

PAX split into 2 groups, switching off as runners for a rotation timer while the other group busts out the reps below. All PAX have to complete all reps, group waits for the 6 to transition to the next exercise.

Travel on blacktop: Mosey down, bear crawl across, bernie back, shuffle across. 2 laps each rotation.

Big boy sit-ups x 50
Euro steps x 50
Atomic merkins x 50
Crab jacks x 50
Happy crunchy frogs x 50

Modify travel to replace bear crawl with shuffle across, still x2 laps

Bulgarian split squats x 50
Outlaws x 50
Dry docks x 50
Smurf jacks x 50

MOLESKINE: The workout and tunes were admittedly the opposite vibe of the surroundings, but it was a good lift and it proved the point that you’ve gotta put in the work before you get to enjoy the results. Those BEACH BODS will be better on Spring Break for having spent the morning in the rainy Gloom today.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
– brewsday next week
– Murder Mile at the end of the month at greenmachine

COT:
– Prayers for family coming in town, speed of life is fast
– Prayers for a cousin with a new baby, entering parenthood
– Prayers for school decision and family conversations on the topic
– Prayers for a pregnant wife, that nausea continues to abate

YHC shared that we just got back from a trip to visit my wife’s grandpa whose wife had just passed away. They had been married almost 60 years. Reminder to the PAX that we’re not guaranteed any time at all, and to take a moment of gratitude for their spouse and share an extra word of encouragement or an I love you today.

It’s always an honor and a joy to join you gents out in Crieve Hall – thanks for the warm (ish) welcome and I look forward to next time!

— Toothless :tooth: