Author: F3 Nashville Backblasts

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Black Ice

AO: westeros
Q: Natural Ice , Black Lung
PAX: Michelin Man, Tim the Toolman, DintyMoore, Puzzlah, Siri, Pep, Hedwig, bluemule, Duncan
FNGs: None
COUNT: 11
CONDITIONS: Immaculate

WARMUP: SSH, Leg stretchish things

THE THANG: YHC kicked off the Q with a long mosey featuring multiple sets 10 merkins strategically placed to keep the pax together. Once we hit the bridge we did sets of sprints ending with a long set of Lt Dans across the bridge. Michelin Man gave a nice complement by confirming that the Q was set too Hard Mode.

Black Lung took over for an off road mosey up to Love Hill followed by a punishing round of Merry consisting of WW1, Flutter Kicks, and Leg Raises. Proceeding with a session of partnered sprint work around the hill before heading back to the startdex.

MOLESKINE: When the Q is training for a half marathon – the Pax is training for a half marathon!

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Encouragement to work out with 413 Strong!

COT: Prayers were lifted up!

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Double Nickel Next Level

AO: detention
Q: Wedding Singer
PAX: Spinal Tap, Winona, Deep State, Topanga, Focker, Average Size, EZ-Go, Accounts Receivable, Donkey Hammer, Movin On Up, Works for a Guy, Wedding Singer
FNGs: None
COUNT: 12
CONDITIONS: No Rain!

WARMUP:
Disclaimer
Core Principles
Mission Statement
Credo

SSH x 55
T-Ups x 5 each side

THE THANG:
Mosey to shed for coupons

11 Blockees
Lap

11 Blockees
22 4-count Flutters
Lap

11 Blockees
22 4-count Flutters
33 Thrusters
Lap

11 Blockees
22 4-count Flutters
33 Thrusters
44 Block Curls
Lap

11 Blockees
22 4-count Flutters
33 Thrusters
44 Block Curls
55 Derkins
Lap

Ladder down as time allows
I think some PAX were motivated to surpass the bar set by Movin On Up when I led this first iteration on my 55th birthday on May 31st. I think he and a few others Works for a Guy Deep State EZ-Go and maybe more got through about 3 rungs back down the ladder before time was called. Strong work to all!

Store coupons (at least those that we didn’t crush to powder on our bare hands!

Mosey to wall for a short minute of Balls to the Wall

Final 2 minutes spent introducing folks at detention to the fun that is Guantanamo. Clearly a PAX favorite from all the mumblechatter as we made a full circuit.

MOLESKINE:
YHC would encourage everyone to take a few minutes to read the cliff/spark note about last week’s State of the Nation broadcast, or watch the full recording (even on fast speed if you’d like!)

F3 is a leadership organization, and we need to keep that at the front of our minds as continue to encourage, support and push each other. It’s not just about sweating together on the gloom, but it is about striving to become better HIM for each other, our families and community.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Free F3 Brentwood half marathon on 11/9. Hit up Ponzi for details

COT:
Thanks to Deep State for the kind invitation to join y’all, and thanks for welcoming me! I look forward to coming back again soon.

Stay strong and keep singing
Wedding Singer

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Newborn BD

AO: the-castle
Q: Sunshine
PAX: hambone, Strutter, Dilbert, Donatello, The Rod (DR)
FNGs: None
COUNT: 6
CONDITIONS:

WARMUP:

THE THANG:

MOLESKINE:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

COT:

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[1stf] Night Movez: Or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the woo girl

AO: 1stf
Q: SalPal
PAX: Salami, Young Pawn, Pep, “I AM THE SENATE”
FNGs: 1 “I AM THE SENATE”
COUNT: 5
CONDITIONS: Tourist-y

WARMUP: 50 SSH (Screw you Pep)

THE THANG:
– Set tempo for intervals with Iron Mike’s, Stair run, 10 burpees and stair run down.
– 4 minute intervals to do the above, 5 sets
– “Black lung salute” – 10 Burpees EMOM
– Mary

MOLESKINE:
– Flying EH’ed one “Luis” that worked at the Capitol. He disappeared to “take a call with his wife.”
– Tough workout. T-claps to the guys that made it out and made it happen.
– Great 2nd F at Von Elrods.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Run next week at Geodis

COT: Gratitude for the chance to do tough things.

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10 ÷ 2

AO: mistymountain
Q: McAfee
PAX: Transporter, Sanders, Mt Men Brandon and Randall
FNGs: None
COUNT: 5
CONDITIONS: unbelievable 64

WARMUP: farmers carries to set up the stations

THE THANG: 10 rounds of 4 1 minute increment each;
A P A P then B P B P

Abs Pushups Abs Pullups

then

Weights Pushups Weights Pullups

MOLESKINE:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

COT: lots of prayers for those traveling, going through medical procedures or recovering therefrom.

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Track and Field Rack and Stack!

AO: greenmachine
Q: Cal Worthington
PAX: Haggis, Sherlock, Zelenskyy, Cowboy
FNGs: None
COUNT: 5
CONDITIONS:

Moist. Slight Drizzle. Thick.

WARMUP:

Warm Up I.C. X20
SSH
Imperial Walker
Toy Soldiers
PIckUp
Grass Git’rs
Stay down 4 stretch, left & right
Worlds Greatest Stretch

Mosey to the Track!

THANG 1:
Set of 11’s – Dips and Derkins

THANG 2:
Rack and Stack 400
Track Suicides Rack / Stack

Run to the 100 – Drop and do Exercise,
Return.

Run to the 100 – Drop and do Excercise, Run to the 200, exercise Then return.

At each 100, do the exercise. Upon return to start, stack exercises on top of each other.

(100,200,300, 400yrd marks)

✓ 5 burpees
✓ 10 hand release Merkins
✓ 15 Star jumps
✓ 20 heels to heavens

Finish with a Victiry Lap up
And down bleachers.

Mosey to the start and finish with Abs ring of Fire

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Hope on Slack

COT:
Don’t focus on the negative. Control the controllable, keep it moving and you will get through it.

Thanks for letting me lead Focker :punch:

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Adding new routines to the repertoire

AO: pain-train
Q: SalPal
PAX: Timber, The Banker, FLO, El Capitan, Pitmaster, G-string, Cheeks
FNGs: None
COUNT: 8
CONDITIONS: Refreshingly brisk

WARMUP: mosey+ assorted routines

THE THANG: fun to fields behind middle School. Set up 9 cones in a line, ~10 yards apart.

Modified suicides: bearcrawl to 1st cone, 9 burpees, run back, 10 Lt. Dan’s. Repeat, going out an additional cone and down one burpee until you get to the last come with 1 burpee.

Killed time at the end with proper suicides, mosey, and Merkins.

MOLESKINE: Do hard things.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Night Movez, GEODIS run.

COT: This country, Ms pregnancy, gratitude for physical health.

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Encore

AO: cruelhall
Q: Winona
PAX: Topanga, Accounts Receivable, EZ-Go, Works for a Guy, Mistah Mistah, Donkey Hammer
FNGs: None
COUNT: 7
CONDITIONS:
Cool
WARMUP:
Stretches
THE THANG:
Native American run around the block
11s on the bus hill
Burpees at the bottom and WW1s at the top

5 sets
5 pull ups
20 squats
10 v ups

Sprints
Flutters
Plank
Burpee burnout
MOLESKINE:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

COT: prayers for pound puppy and family for family member in hospice.

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Tour de Nations

AO: atlantis
Q: Schnauzer
PAX: SalPal
FNGs: None
COUNT: 2
CONDITIONS: 70 degrees, high humidity

WARMUP: SSHx20

THE THANG:
Run to Treaty Oaks.
Run the loop with 20 air squats, 20 lunges, 20 push ups. x2
Run down Lousiana. Bear Crawl random hill.
Back to West Park for 10 dips x2 in pavilion. 30 step ups.
More running. Tabata air squats. More running back to parking lot.
Sprints x 10
Deep squats x10
Mary

MOLESKINE: 2.64 miles when all said and done. Very hot and humid. Originally planned for basketball mid-workout but audibled due to wet courts and few PAX. We went off campus for a bit, but returned to West Park quickly because we wanted to be near the guy who sprints around the baseball field every morning.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Dash at the Castle 5K. Geodis Park, Saturday 7/27
Night Moves at Bicentennial Park, Saturday 7/20 at 1830

COT:
Prayers for healthy pregnancy
Prayers for injured and downrange PAX
Prayers for Schnauzer’s wife’s friend who recently lost her husband

Coffeeteria at White Bison

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First time is the easiest

AO: thestronghold
Q: tampalibra
PAX: Red Skull, Decaf, toga, Dan Tanna, bluemule, Shocker (Mark Holmes), Spandex, Speed Walker, Baby Boy, Light Weight, Five Points, Layup, Temper Tantrum, Bumble Bee, Peso, Unc, Tampax, Skid Mark, Long Way, Soft Soap and Trajectory
FNGs: None
COUNT: 23
First. We’ve got 160 PAX in this channel and only 6 at the workout. 4 if you take out Red Skull and Decaf who are there by default. I personally cant come every time so I totally get it but I really cant overstate the impact y’all have on these men. I’d really encourage you to commit to coming at least once per class, more if you can. 4:13 speaks directly to the heart of the mission of F3.

CONDITIONS: Cool

WARMUP:
SSH x 30
Squats x 10
LBAC x 10 each way
Jack Webb 1/3 Merkin+Air Press up to 10/30

THE THANG:
Grab a block at mosey

Line up in 2 groups of 11. bluemule was kind enough to Q some 4-count flutters while YHC set up cones.

Sprint relay – grab a cone bring it back, next guy grabs the next and brings it back, so on and so forth until all are picked up and then reset back out.

Group 2 won the first round with Red Skull someone getting stuck with 3 legs of it! To the winner goes the spoils so I gave them the choice of burpees or block thrusters. The team chose thrusters so 15 thrusters while Group 1 did 20 burpees.

Rinse and repeat. Group 2 again took the W. They chose burpees this time so YHC obliged with 30 burpees. 20 thrusters for Group 1.

YHC had some other things planned but wasn’t super pleased with the sprints, the lack of full reps, etc. SO we lined up and every man ran 125ft sprint down, and 125ft back. Immediate rinse and repeat again.

Grab the blocks and mosey home for burpee-apocalypse. When we got to 6 YHC promised we could be done once every person completed every rep. @Tampax stepped up and called out the reps for PAX, awesome leadership.

MOLESKINE:
Barely Legal (repeat 413’r) asked me 3x for a new name. I told him no and that it only gets worse. I finally obliged after insisting several more times. Being at a Tampa Q, and the bright pink shorts, Barely Legal has been officially renamed Tampax. Dont let Red Skull put any of this Tampa-X nonsense out there. It’s Tampax. Period. (pun intended)

I had something a little different dialed up but last second changed it up. I thought it was important for the PAX to experience a team focused challenge. It was interesting seeing them only focus on the dude next to them and give only just enough effort that was required and forgetting about the bigger picture. Some good lessons in that for sure.

COT:
Lots of prayers for safety for the men, resiliency, and their families.

Spandex has a sister getting some cancer scans this week.