Author: F3 Nashville Backblasts

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The Great Beaver Beatdown 🦫 🌖

AO: pain-train
Q: Sooie
PAX: Siri, Roadkill, Juicy J, FLO, Cheeks, Sooie
FNGs: None
COUNT: 6
CONDITIONS: A perfect 55 degrees, slight breeze, and basked in the smile of the Great Beaver herself.

WARMUP: 3 Truths and a Lie (F3 Edition)
Each PAX took turns sharing three truths and one lie while everyone did Imperial Walkers. Guess correctly? Reward yourself with 10 squats. Guess wrong? Pay the penalty: 10 burpees.
If the majority sniffed out the lie, the storyteller took the burpee penalty instead.

By the end, we learned a few surprising things about our brothers, some believable, some definitely HR violations if true.

THE THANG: The Labors of The Great Beaver
Juicy J made a brief cameo, then sped off after the “warmup” in his Prius to “save his body” for “the tussle,” dashing our hopes for an epic 3v3 showdown. So, the remaining five brave souls launched a co-op campaign to conquer four brutal labors:
– Labor 1 at gazebo 1: 100 Alternating Hand Block Merkins (as a group)
– Labor 2 at gazebo 2: 200 WWII Sit-ups with Blocks (as a group)
– Labor 3 at gazebo 3: 300 Goblet Squats with Blocks (as a group)
– Labor 4: the team returned to gazebo 1 for the Table Carry Gauntlet: 1 PAX at the front, 1 PAX at the rear of the picnic table, 2 PAX performing farmer carries with blocks, 1 PAX carrying a single block solo. We rotated positions as fatigue set in.
Completed 2 full rounds of the 4 Labors.

MOLESKINE:
None, other than reflection on the joy of doing hard (stupid) things together.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
– The Ascent (11/15) see Siri for details
– Pain train food drive, bring your non-perishables to pain train to help alleviate food insecurity in our community. See FLO for details.

COT: The Fellowship of The Beaver
Topics discussed:
– Siri’s unsolicited Zoom call contribution
– Apricot explosions (don’t ask)
– Chocolate milk + spicy peanuts + paintball = a questionable life choice
– Gallon Challenge CSAUP proposal
– FIRE! it isn’t anything.
– The mysterious inner workings of the male psyche
– Deep thoughts from shallow dudes
– Quantum entanglement and other things we don’t actually understand

Prayer Requests:
That none of our lives depend on opening a pickle jar for the next couple of days.

Thank you FLO for the Flo Joe and all who came out. Had a great time!

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Help I’ve Fallen and I Can’t Get Up

AO: cruelhall
Q: Tinkertoy
PAX: Matador, Works for a Guy, Esposa, Kraut, Pedialyte, Harry Caray, Focker, Pound Puppy
FNGs: None
COUNT: 8
CONDITIONS: Optimal at 56*

WARMUP:
Dynamic: mosey/toy soldier/donkey kick/side lunge.
Static: GMs/bow to ground/hand to sky/broga/squat to straight leg

THE THANG:
3 rounds
-30 step ups (15 each leg)
-lunge down
-mosey back
Hold plank until all in or go for an extra round

3 rounds
-25 chair squats
-low prisoner walk down
-mosey back
Hold plank until all in or go for an extra round

3 rounds
-20 pistol squats (10 each leg)
-side lunge down
-mosey back
Hold plank until all in or go for an extra round

Beep test (20meters)
-go until no one is left
Jog around test until all in

Marry abb circle for 3min.

MOLESKINE: Focker would rather run than participate in leg day. Works for a Guy defeated the beep test. Matador and Harry Caray honorable mention.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Butterball run

COT: Prayers for Dale’s family and community as they deal with sudden loss. Reminder that life is fragile. Prayers for Pound Puppies family as his work travel picks up.

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No Excuse November

AO: thebuffalo
Q: The Bobs
PAX: Ultratecht, Space Baby, greyalbum
FNGs: None
COUNT: 4
CONDITIONS: Mid-50s, clear; sunrise on Sevier Lake gave Cornelia a run for her money

WARMUP: Standard issue SSH, Good Mornings, Will Mays Hayes, Little Baby Arm Circles, World’s Greatest Stretch, Mosey on down to the watering hole

THE THANG: “November” = 8 letters → 8 rounds of increasing reps. Perform the following circuit; after each round, take a short mosey (~50 yards) and return.

Round Exercise Reps
1 Merkins 10
2 WWIs 20
3 Squats 30
4 Lunges (count one leg) 40
5 LBCs 50
6 Carolina Dry Docks 60
7 Flutter Kicks (4-count) 70
8 Air Presses 80

Mosey past the enchanted cave on the way back to base. MARY to bring us home

MOLESKINE:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

COT: New chapters

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F3 The Gathering

AO: atlantis
Q: Pal
PAX: Subway, Puzzlah, Pole Dancer, Toothless, sooner, Oatmeal
FNGs: None
COUNT: 7
CONDITIONS: Foggy

WARMUP: Mosey

THE THANG: Color Pie Tabata + MTG Deck of Death ft. LotR

MOLESKINE: Oatmeal was visibly pissed we didn’t just play Magic. Puzzlah was visibly confused by the mumblechatter. Good times had by all.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Stairs, food donations, check Slack.

COT: Country, marriages, family strife.

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4 Part Dora

AO: the-knoll
Q: Stubs
PAX: Gold Digger, AAA, Stubs, Lady Liberty, Roadkill, El Capitan, Juicy J, morning stār, Bumblebee 2.0, Churchill 2.0, Icebox 2.0, Sandlot 2.0
FNGs: None
COUNT: 12
CONDITIONS: beautiful with a Beaver super Moon

WARMUP:
SSH x15
BACs x10
BacBacs x10
Shoulder Press x 10
Low slow squats x 10
Slow mercs x 5
Willie Mays Hays OYO
Short Mosey to stop sign and then to river table

THE THANG: partnered up for 4 part Dora
400 squats
300 LBCs
200 Dips
100 incline Mercs

MOLESKINE: I turned 53 yesterday. Birthdays are a good time to take stock where you are. While there are many areas in need of improvement, I wanted to express gratitude for the past year of F3

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Good luck to Juicy J morning stār and El Capitan in the tussle this weekend

COT: thank you to Lady Liberty for the closing prayer. Maybe by 54 I’ll be able to publicly pray like he can!

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We’re Too Saxy for this Q

AO: greenmachine
Q: Firefox , Grape
PAX: Wham-O, Betty Ford, Hipster, Topanga, Esposa, Works for a Guy, Black Lung, Pep
FNGs: None
COUNT: 10
CONDITIONS: Saxy

WARMUP: Grape led us on a long mosey around the block (accompanied by some sweet, sultry, saxy sax songs) and back to Startex for:
– SSH
– Imperial walkers
– Hillbillies
– Good mornings
– LBAC
– Overhead claps
– Seal claps

THE THANG: Today is National Saxophone Day. The Saxophone was invented in the 1800s by Adolphe Sax, who was born on November 6, 1814 and went on to live a life full of en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolphe_Sax.

To celebrate National Saxophone Day, PAX moseyed to the football field and partnered up. 1 partner did an exercise in the endzone while the other bear crawled 20 yards and back. Each exercise was accompanied by a true/false trivia question. Wrong answers increased the bear crawl distance by 5 yards (each direction).
– S – SSH; The Saxophone is a woodwind instrument – True
– A – ?; Adolphe Sax was Austrian – False, he was Belgian
– X – X-jumps; Kenny G is best known for playing the alto saxophone – False, he primarily plays the soprano sax
– O – Overhead Press; Richard Nixon was a saxophone player – True, he could play 5 instruments
– P – Pop Squats; A saxhorn is another name for the saxophone – False, it’s another family of instruments invented by Adolphe
– H – Hand-release Merkins; Adolphe Sax invented 8 types of saxophone – False, he invented 14 different types
– O – Ohno’s (skaters); The name of the saxophonist for the Electric Mayhem (from the Muppets) is “Lips” – False, it’s “Zoot”
– N – Newton’s Cradle; The smallest saxophone is only 12 inches long – True, it’s called a soprillo
– E – Elbow plank jacks; The most expensive saxophone ever purchased was made of plastic – True, it belonged to Charlie Parker

The bear crawl stretched out to the 30yard line but by the end had come back to the 20.

PAX did 18 burpees and 46 Iron Mikes (each side is a half) for the year 1846 when the saxophone was patented.

Pax then did 45 merkins for the 45 pound heft of the contrabass saxophone (which is over 6ft tall)

Mosey back to Startex. 2 separate 47 second hollow body holds for the 47 minute world record of the longest note ever held on a saxophone.

MOLESKINE:
– Sadly, I did not get to share one more factoid, the largest gathering of simultaneously playing saxophone players involved 1875 musicians.
– Kudos to Betty Ford for guessing our theme during warm-up
– Props to Pep Esposa and others for throwing out many other saxophone-related names and references
– Grape link that sweet, saxy playlist in the thread, please!

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
– Check Slack

COT:
– Thoughts prayers to marriages, new phases in life, and safe travels

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Thomas the Train

AO: pain-train
Q: Derby
PAX: Wolfpack, Juicy J, Roadkill, Piglet, Link (2.0)
FNGs: None
COUNT: 6
CONDITIONS: Full Moon!

WARMUP: BACs, BACBACs, MNCs, Shoulder Press, Good Mornings, Willie Mayes Hayes, 6 Slow Merkins, Runners Stretch, PE Stretch

F3 Mission Statement and Credo

THE THANG: Link (2.0) led us in a Mosey around the park then we collected Coupons for those without sandbags.

THANG #1: Parking Lot 11’s: Merkins and Power Cleans traveling w/ weight.

10 Count followed by a Mosey around the park

THANG #2: 10 Chest Presses, 10 WWII’s, 10 Weighted Squats then run to Playground for Pull-up(s) per set complete (~5 sets complete).

10 Count followed by a Mosey around the park then stashed coupons.

MOLESKINE: Followed up with PAX on excellent conversations and date plans w/ my wife which were initiated by our prior commitment to schedule something with our significant others.

Recommended opening up those 2026 calendars and visit with family on marking time off for vacations/time together.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Sooie on Q Friday and Chili Dip on Q Wednesday.

COT: Prayed us out

Thank you for the opportunity to lead this morning!

:horse_racing:

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Lets play with the cones

AO: titan
Q: Choo Choo
PAX: Goose, DintyMoore, CubCadet, GameStop, Natural Ice, Sherlock, Spinal Tap, Tim the Toolman, Choo Choo, Mayham
FNGs: None
COUNT: 10
CONDITIONS: Perfece for a workout

WARMUP: SSH, inch worm, squats

THE THANG: PAX split into 2 teams; Teams assign workout for eachother.
1- Pickup the cone: run -> pickup a cone -> burpee ladder; RNR.
2-Flip the cone: cones laid out right side up and upside down -> do a workout -> run -> flip other teams cone, 2 min timer. We did merkins, gas pumpers, v ups
3-Team suicides: one runner from each team runs and touches a pillar, while other do some workout.

MOLESKINE: Its winter and getting cold, be consistent in showing up for a workout. Once you take a break it gets harder to get back into the rhythm.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: check -f3-nashville-general

COT: we prayed out.

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Station to station

AO: the-knoll
Q: Stubs
PAX: Wolfpack, Derby, Sooie, Roadkill, Stubs, Gold Digger, AAA, El Capitan, Juicy J, morning stār, Pebbles, Étouffée, Link (2.0), Bumblebee (2.0)
FNGs: None
COUNT: 14
CONDITIONS: chilly start but quickly warmed up

WARMUP: SSH x20
BACs x12
BacBacs x12
Shoulder presses x12
Slow squats X10
Willy Mays Hays OYO
Mosey to far stop sign (voted on by Pax on Election Day)

THE THANG:
5 teams
4 stations
5th team as timer carried 50LB sandbags to fire hydrant and back

2 Rounds
Mercs
Squats
LBCs
Dips

2 Rounds
Carolina dry docks
Swing rows
Freddie Mercuries
Step ups

With remaining time we did 11s on grassy hill
Jump Squats and Hand Release Mercs

MOLESKINE:
Don’t Borrow Worry

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Good Luck to All participants in the Tussle
COT: silent prayer and coffeterria

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Simple and Effective

AO: westeros
Q: Natural Ice
PAX: Papa Bear, Sherlock, Michelin Man, Juicy J (JBowman), Spinal Tap, Squatter, The Merchant, Tim the Toolman, bluemule, Vector, Chunks, Pep
FNGs: None
COUNT: 13
CONDITIONS: Spooky Foggy and 34F – PERFECT

WARMUP: Did not start with SSH, but Windmills and then SSH, Merkins, Imperial Walkers, Squats, Hill Billies, Deep Groin Stretches

THE THANG: Simple and Effective!
– 5 pull ups
– 10 BB Sit Ups
– 20 Merkins
– 30 Dips
– Run across the field

Various forms of Merry in between sets as we waiting on the 6

The pax was so enthusiastic, that we had to rinse and repeat. (correct me if I am wrong, but I think we did it 6 times)

In total we ran 1.6 miles!

Ended with merry and we gave Pep a chance to SSH in Cadence……. to no real effect…. one day you will get it :slightly_smiling_face:

Playlist was Michelin Mans highschool CD collection

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6oxbeNXMdnBn0i24KrnRLK?si=0f318d06d0f14f13…… and yes I did add a song by Bush at the end

MOLESKINE: Its getting cold, but we have an extra hour of sleep. Don’t Waste it!

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Percy Warner Beat Down – 11/15 at 6 am !
GROW School Dec 6th

COT: Prayed to see the blessing and to have a grateful heart!