Author: F3 Nashville Backblasts

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Ring Around the Rosies

AO: the-knoll
Q: Sparrow
PAX: Pebbles, El Capitan, Timber, Sooie, Malibu, WordPress, FLO, Gabby Cat, Bookworm, Smoltz, Iowa, Tonks, Fishbiscuit, Foxy, Samwise
FNGs: None
COUNT: 16
CONDITIONS: 67 Degrees, Partly Cloudy

WARMUP: (5 mins) Inch Worm. Start from touching you toes, walk hands down to down dog. Pedal legs, walk back up to standing, do 15x calf raises. Repeat, except replace pedal with leg lifts. Repeat till time is out.

THE THANG:
(Ring Around the Rosies) – Group 1 that met criteria will run a lap, the group 2 will do an exercise till everyone finishes lap, those who finish early will join exercise. Cycled through Burpees, High Knees, Side Squats, Apollo Onohs, Lung Jumps). Q picked.
Core workout (15 mins): Pattern 45 sec hold, 15 sec rest:
Set 1: Plank Jacks, R Side Plank Crunch, Back Plank with Leg lifts, Left Side Plank Crunch, Plank Shoulder Touch
Set 2: Scissor Legs, Bicycles, ww2’s, Superman Alternating, Rest
Set 3: Repeat Set 1

Cooldown (10 mins): Freeze Tag. 2.0’s are freezers, but it takes 2 unfrozen players to simultaneously touch to unfreeze someone. 2.0’s WON two rounds

MOLESKINE:
As men we often have been conditioned to think in terms of left brain/right brain, reason vs feelings and put a wall between them. This has some merit but sometimes it leads to feeling a disjointed and anxious life. God created our hearts, our desires, and the deepest fundamental reality of who we are. When we see our feelings as flowing from our God given desires, and our thoughts/reasoning as flowing from our heart- it can lead to freedom and contentment, and fellowship with our creator.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Lots of stuff going on in F3 Nashville, Check the slack! No Knoll workout next Thursday as there will be a convergence at Green Machine.

FLO will be doing VQ This thursday. Go FLO!

COT:
Prayers offered and lifted.

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Special 11

AO: middle-tooth
Q: Rocket Mortgage
PAX: sooner, Betty Ford, DrRupp, moneyshot, Toothless, Oatmeal
FNGs: None
COUNT: 7
CONDITIONS: Low 70s

WARMUP: The usual. Sooner was tired.

THE THANG: Ran to playground. 3 sets of
10 Pushups
20 Carolina DDs
25 Squats
Lap around the playground

Ran to Tennis courts

11s – Burpees on one end, Star Jumps on the other. Mode of travel was lunges (painful) one way – Bernie on the way back. Was hard. Y

MOLESKINE:

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Busy July – check Slack

COT: Prayers for travel & mental acuity.

Thanks for being tired with me!

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Monday Funday

AO: toratoratora
Q: Goose
PAX: 40 Minutes, Culture Shock, greyalbum, Ultratecht, invictus, schnitzel
FNGs: None
COUNT: 7
CONDITIONS: Perfect

WARMUP: Willi Mays Hays, Forward Fold, Cherry Pickers, Arm Stretchx2

THE THANG: Deck Of Cards: Clubs=Squats, Hearts=Merkins, Spades=crunches, Diamonds=SSH, Aces/Faces=Mosey

Circle of Mary

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Feel the Pump

AO: detention
Q: Focker
PAX: Movin On Up, Pedialyte, Esposa, Topanga, Matador, Deep State, Mistah Mistah, Winona, Pound Puppy, Average Size
FNGs: None
COUNT: 11
CONDITIONS: Just how I like it

WARMUP: various stretches

THE THANG:
25 sec on, 10 sec rest x5
Rows
Monkey humpers

Pumping Jacks
Merkins to failure then 20 SSH
Repeat until toasted

Block work 25 sec on, 10 sec rest
Thrusters x3
Presses x3
R leg deadlift x2
L leg deadlift x2
Atomic blerkins x3
R side disco x2
L side disco x2

60sec plank
Return blocks
Mary

MOLESKINE: this one ended up being a surprise burner. Respect for Matador still coming late

ANNOUNCEMENTS: none!

COT: EZ-Go have a great trip!
Esposa wisdom for new job opportunity
Prayers for my selfishness and communication

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Beach Bops

AO: bomber
Q: Grape
PAX: Pep, Cream Cheese, Tim the Toolman, DintyMoore, Hedwig, Sherlock, Paddles (DR- Tampa)
FNGs: None
COUNT: 8
CONDITIONS: it’s getting hot

WARMUP: SSH, WMH, LBAC etc. while we waited for DintyMoore to show up

THE THANG: BEACH Dora

B- 100 Burpees
E- 150 Elbows to knees (mountain climbers- 2 count)
A- 200 Alabama prom dates
C- 250 Carolina dry docks
H- 300 High knees

Timer runs around the building

Finished with wall sits and about 2 minutes of Mary

MOLESKINE: always good to get a burner in before a beach trip!

ANNOUNCEMENTS: hunger games 3.0 coming up, 5k coming up, night moves too, there’s a lot happening

COT: praise for Hedwig new job, prayers for DintyMoore friends and others who are sick and hurting

:grapes:

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The quiet return

AO: pain-train
Q: G-string
PAX: FLO, Timber, El Capitan, Pebbles
FNGs: None
COUNT: 5
CONDITIONS:
Beautiful summer morning ending with an epic sunrise.

WARMUP:
– inchworm walkouts to merkin
– runners stretch
– GOAT stretch
– High plank with five merkins following the mission and each core principle
– Mosey around the track, pick up coupons and burden carry to playground

THE THANG:
Thang 1: E2MO2M
every two minutes, complete the following
– 15 shoulder presses
– 10 floor-to-ceilings
– 5 burpees over the block
Completed seven rounds. After the fourth round, add two reps to each exercise if finish before the first minute.

Thang 2: MOT race
Split into two teams. One person on the team raced while the other did block curls.
Race down the cones doing three MOTs on the way out then sprint back to start.
– alligator crawl
– Bear crawl
– Gorilla run
Winning team does 10 block leg extensions per leg. Losing team does 15 goblet squats.
Ran four races

To close it out, we did two rounds of ten SADs (slow ass derkins)

MOLESKINE:
The media portrayal of dads is usually trash. Homer is a lazy idiot, the sultan in Aladdin is a doofus, Bluey’s dad is attentive but he “doesn’t remember the boring stuff” (sunscreen, floaties, essentials). Our kids need good, responsible men to look up to, and the stories we tell should reflect that. Right now, being the prince isn’t cool, and princesses have to do it all themselves.

We need to give our girls an image of good men, so they aren’t satisfied with bad men. And we need our sons to aspire to be heroes who can slay the dragon.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
– TWO VQs next week at the Knoll!

COT:
– prayers were offered up

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The 1975 World Tour

AO: the-castle
Q: SalPal
PAX: Snickers, Pink Slip, Strutter, hambone, Chunks, Pep, Dilbert
FNGs: None
COUNT: 8
CONDITIONS: Swampa$$

WARMUP: Half-hearted SSH + squats

THE THANG: In honor of The 1975 (a shared passion of mine and Chunks), 4 sets of DORA, 75 reps each, each with a different method of travel:

Part 1:
Travel: Bernie Down/Run Back
– 75 Merkins
– 75 Air Presses
– 75 Dry Docks
– 75 Reptars

Part 2:
Travel: Broad Jump Down/Run Back
– 75 LBCs
– 75 Hammers (each side 1)
– 75 Mountain Climbers (each side 1)
– 75 Shoulder Taps (each side 1)

Part 3:
Travel: Shuffle Down/Run Back
– 75 Squats
– 75 Lunges (each leg 1)
– 75 Calf Raises
– 75 Apollo Ono’s (each leg 1)

Part 4:
Travel: Boo-Boo Bear Crawl Down/Run Back
– 75 WWIs
– 75 Burpees
– 75 Lt. Dan’s

Everyone got to part 4 at time, so we went back to startex for assorted routines to close.

MOLESKINE: PSA: Spotify Pleeb-ium throttles your max volume.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Lots going on in July: runs, launches, night moves, etc. Look at Slack. I’m your Q, not your personal planner. 2.0 support for Sunshine, see Slack for how to contribute.

COT: Praise for Snickers in the promotion, for my M and job search, for Sunshine and new 2.0. All other intentions spoken and unspoken.

Stay salty Nashville. Green Sally out.

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Gauntlet

AO: thebuffalo
Q: greyalbum
PAX: Giving Tree, Sandlapper (David Suggs), @baconator, @duplex, @sweetnlow
FNGs: None
COUNT: 5
Warmup:

Mosey
SSH
Seal Claps
Overhead press
LBAC
Runner’s Stretch
WMH

The Thang:

11’s on Long Ave Hill
Merkins/Squats

Ab Work
LBC
Crunchy Frogs
American Hammers
Flutter Kicks
Plank
Side Planks

Coupon Work on Bball court
Overhead Press Waterfall 10-1
AMRAP Rows, Curls, Chest Press

MARY

TAPS:
Sobriety, Adoption, Birthday

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SKA is not only a musical genre…. it’s a lifestyle

AO: handsomizer
Q: Natural Ice
PAX: Freakonomics, Salami, Blueliner, Cuban Missile, Strutter, BCG (F3 Harrisburg PA), Detective Pikachu, Red Skull, Spinal Tap, Old Maid, Natural Ice
FNGs: None
COUNT: 11
The majority of my musical teenage taste was focused on Rock and pretentiously seeking out Indie music. However my punk rock friends and Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2 added a little SKA flavor to my Youth. After seeing this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4nKY1QfWvg about Bart SKA-mpson, I felt inspired to dig into the genre and torture the PAX with my findings.

CONDITIONS: Amazing Sunrise

WARMUP:
Mosey to the Stairs. PAX was informed that is the SKA man started yelling “Get it Up Get it Up Get it Up” we would have to stop what we are doing and run up the stairs…… spoiler alert that happened a few times.

SSH, LBAC, Seal Claps, Moroccan Night Clubs, OHP, Merkins
SKANKING – SKA version of an imperial walker – arms are more loose and your kind of hoping. Its a SKA thing…

THE THANG:
Stair Run Race in pairs
Crossed soccer field with 2 lunges and a burpee broad jump, returned by SKANKing
Stair Run
Short 1 minute tabata – Reverse Lunges, Merkins
Stair Run
Bear Crawl down the soccer Field
Stair Run
Slow Alabama Prom Dates, Freddy Merks and Supermans
Stair Run, and second stair run to get the speaker 🙂

MOLESKINE: Its ok to like Bad Music, Dont Yuk the Their Yum

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
www.nashvillesc.com/geodispark/events/5k July 8th at 7pm here at the Handsomizer location

Hunger Games Round 3 – BBQ and Board Games July 12 at 7pm at the Ice Haus

August 2nd Detective Pikachu is moving and needs your help. Beer and Pizza to be provided

COT: Praise for Detective Pikachu M getting a job at higher than asking salary

Cafe Prius

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2BYtmdfD9l4S6WYDKkr8BW?si=2181b3ddf9834a07

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War!

AO: the-knoll
Q: Sooie
PAX: AAA, Ex-Pat, FLO, morning stār, Pebbles, Sooie, Sparrow, Bumblebee (2.0), Barfly, WordPress
FNGs: 2 Barfly, WordPress
COUNT: 10
CONDITIONS: Cool, Humid, mist on the knoll. Perfect way to kick off the longest day of the year!

WARMUP:
top to bottom
Yes/No/Maybe’s in cadence
BAC
BBAC
Overhead claps
Don Quixote’s
Low slow squats
Slow merkins
Scorpion stretches

20 yard sprints between cones at 20%, 40%, 60%, 80%, 100% speed.
Team competition to pick up the most cones on the 120 yard sprint back.

THE THANG:
War! Broke out the ol’ Deck O’ Cards, maintained the 2 teams from the cone competition. Proceeded to play war. Winning team did 1 of 3 exercises based on the color of the face up suits. Losing team did combination of exercises based on the suit.
J = 11
Q = 12
K = 13
A = 14
Winning team exercises:
:large_red_square: = air presses x total
:black_large_square: = Spicolli’s (calf raises) x total
:large_red_square: :black_square: = Imperial walkers x total
Losing team exercises:
:heart: = burpees
:diamonds:= WW2’s
:clubs: = dips
:spades: = squats

MOLESKINE: Had fun playing the game yet it reminded us of tensions, struggle, uncertainty, and injustice around the world. Shared Psalm 46 as a reminder of something more secure and more foundational than what we can see in the world around us.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
:alert: VQ’s Next Week! :alert:
Sparrow Tuesday 6/25
FLO Thursday 6/27
Come out and show support!
Convergence at greenmachine 7/4

COT:
Prayers offered and lifted.