Author: Brock Benson

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Farewell Boys

 

18 Pax: Show Me (Qic), Tebow, 3rd Degree, GlenGarry, Old Hickory, Professor X (RESPECT), Creeper, Barney, SexEd, Stats, Staples, Kermit, NetFlix, Mickey Mouse, Gaylord Focker, Sterno, Nimbus 1500, Hot Dish

Conditions: Mild gloom factor mid 40’s and wet…. but even the hardest gloom factors don’t get this group down….. that’s something I’ll truly miss boys! Respect ain’t given its earned!!!! Ya’ll have earned mine!!!!!!

Warm Up: Show me lap…fighting back rain falling from the eye sockets…. but carry on because that’s what we do….. IC x14 – SSH, SJ, OP, HB,Merkins, BACs, GM’s OYO,

Thang 1: Salute to 3D who I always found pushed the crap out of me in everyone of his Q’s I posted in (sometimes I’m tempted to skip if I know he is on Q)

– 10 burpees on the minute x 10 Minutes.  You’re welcome.

Thanks KERMIT for retrieving the much needed Medic!

Thang 2:  Stadium B.O.M.B.S

Partner Up: 50 Burpees, 100 OP, 150 Merkins, 200 Big Boy Sit ups, 200 Squats,

One Partner reps while other runs stadium and then switches until reps are finished.

Mary: Another salute to 3D…. Partner up for Suicide Bear Brawls to the 50yd line at 10yd increments. Age is just a number Professor X!!!!!! RESPECT!

COT: Isaiah 26:3 has given me a lot of encouragement the past few months in a pretty confusing season. God keeps those in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on him because he trusts in him. There is a lot of noise out there guys but God is constant fix your eyes on Him. He ALWAYS comes through in the end.

Prayer Needs: LMP Wife and Family, Typo+ Wife and Family, Soccer Mom R&R, Toy Story’s Race,

Announcements: –  Nashville Rescue Mission; Glengarry and family are serving Christmas Eve in Kitchen,

-Tomorrow at 3pm if you can help me out just moving some big items it would be much appreciated. Address is 3128 Locust Hollow, Nolensville, TN 37135.

Coffeteria: Breakfast Burritos and fellowship was on point!!! Nimbus you are first class brother!

In all seriousness will miss the fellowship with all of you in a big way. Much respect for each of you  and the leaders you all are in your own ways. You’ve all left an impact on my life I’m grateful for.

See you in the Gloom!

-Show Me Out!

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Broken Wheel on the roll

18 Pax got after it this morning as Broken Wheel Rolled on!

Pre Party: 3D led in Pre-party with Kermit and Show me for a tandum of Pull ups, diamond merkins and sumo squats on the minute

Conditions: Gloomy, 72 degrees and damp.

Pax: 3D, ShowMe (QIC), Nimbus, ToolTime, SteinBrenner, IG, TVG, Tebow, Kermit, DoubleBird, Mufasa, RagDoll, NetFlix, Mickey, GlenGarry, Scrooge, HushPuppy, Professor X

Show Me Lap

Warm up

Baby arm circles – 10 IC

Baby arm circles back – 10 IC

Copperhead squats -10 IC
Copperhead merkins – 10 IC
Side strattle hop – 10 IC
Smurf Jack – 10 IC
Australian snow angel- 10 IC (In honor of Q’s sister in New Zealand!)
Thang 1 – Parking Lot Fun
R1 – Pax lined up on far light poll
1 burpo for every 3 – lunges across Parking lot increasing 1 burpo after every lunge set.
R 2
3 – Bobby Hurleys to every 3 – lunges across parking lot
R3
Duck walk to middle light poll. 10 burpos commence duck walk to far light poll.
Thang 2 – Blue Falcon 
Pax were divided into two teams to brain storm for 30 sec and form a 2 minute workout challenge together as a team. Losing team 10 burpee penalty.
Team 1 – AMRAP Double shots of Jack
Team 2 –  30 Merkins 50 Squats
Thang 3 – jacked up – 
But first our 10 burpee penalty for Q’s stupidity and not having the rules to his own game!
50 – ssh
12 – Smurf jacks (Thanks to clever negotiation tactics from some of the PAX)
Mary
ABC – OYO
Seal Jacks – 20 IC
COT

Q encouraged Pax to consider 1 John 2:14 –  I have written to you, young people, that you are strong, and the word of God resides in you, and you have conquered the evil one. Does the word of God reside in us? Do you know Jesus as savior? Life is purposeless without this relationship.

9th Man Ragdoll thanks for sharing!!!

Announcements

BBQ Night coming soon

Iron clad challenge coming soon too.

Post Party

3D and Ragdoll busted out 10 Atomic merkins

Until Next Time guys!

Show Me

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Broken Wheel Rolls On

Intro:  Memorial Day is over and this morning marked Tuesday nothing remarkable about the Tuesday following  a great memorial day weekend celebration. But today we live out the freedom we so celebrated this weekend. One thing about freedom sometimes that’s hard to recognize is the work it takes to keep walking in it. Grateful for the men this morning who decided to work out from the freedom they’ve received.

Pax: Nimbus 1500, Kermit, Tebow, Hot N Ready, Creeper, Numbtucks, Polywag, IG, Altidore, Mufasa, Stats, ShowMe(QIC)

Conditions: Warm

Pre Party: Not sure?

Warm Up :

  • ShowME Lap then circle up
  • Baby Arm Circles IC – 14
  • Baby Arm Circles backward IC- 15
  • SSH IC – 14
  • Seal Jacks – 15
  • Good Mornings OYO
  • Merkins IC – 10

Long Mosey around the fields to the football field.

Workout: 

THANG 1 – Tebow Remix 

Pax lined up on goal line mode of transportation between trees (aka yard lines) broad jump)

Tree 1 – 10 WW1

Tree 2 – 20 Burpees

Tree 3 – 30 Iron Mikes (each side is a half so 15 full)

Tree 4 – 40 Merkins

Pax repeated the remix back to the goal line they started

Thang 2 – ShowMe Remix 

Pax partnered up for 3 sets of the Show Me remix

20 – Copenhagens

2 – Bear crawls down the hill and then partner wheel barrel back up the stairs

Thang 3 – 3rd Degree Remix

Bridges are things we will all face in life if we aren’t already. A bridge is a transition between where we are and where we’re going. Transitions sometimes suck really bad too. No doubt this one did. The PAX bear crawled the bridge in the remaining 3 minutes of their time. Hopefully we are better for it.

COT – Mufasa’s family and friends in Dayton Ohio need us to be praying after last nights Tornado. We continue to remember SoccerMom.

Announcements – Nimbus and Numbtucks are planning a night ruck soon. Can’t remember the date? Convergence with Franklin at the Forge Saturday 6am – 7:30am.

Encouragement – Protect your marriage. The enemy is real and he wants to destroy families. Enjoy intimacy with your brides! Its a God given gift we’ve been given the freedom to enjoy!

Post Party – Not sure?

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Bassmaster Classic

Pre Party: Stats and 3rd Degree – Bearway to heaven

Conditions: Clear, Cold 35 degrees just the way the big bass like it pre-spawn baby. Get the red lipless crank baits ready! Day 2 of the bassmaster classic is on!

Pax: 11 Pax Gaylord Focker, Ragdoll, Old Hickory, Stats, Little Miss piggy, Scrooge, 3rd Degree, TV guide, Kermit, Typo O positive guided by Q Show Me decided to come out for what they thought was going to be a little leisurely bank fishing but they were wrong. That ain’t how its done on the elite series. Anglers go hard.

Warm Up:

15 – SSH (IC)

15 – Arm Circles Forward (IC)

15 – Arm Circles Backward (IC)

15 – Merkins Low and Slow (IC)

15 – Squats (IC)

Q Asked PAX if they knew what day it was. After a few failed guesses Q informed them Day 2 of the Classic! Lets get it!

Mosey to Breakfast where thanks to Stats we were reminded that tournaments can’t be won on Day 2 but they can be lost! Go hard!

Q asked what every Fisherman has to do before they hit the water? Breakfast!

Thang 1 : Breakfast. Sun rise sampler x 5 

5 – Dips

5 – Derkins

5 – HRCS

5 is a really important Number come tournament time…. We need 5 Big ones in the livewell at the end of the day so we got to do some running. Since we don’t have the boat we’ll have to get it done the old fashion way….

Thang 2: Lake RUN (AKA Suicides on Tennis Court) x 5 rounds 

Now that we’ve done a little bit of Running we do what every elite series angler does. Throw in another big dip of Copenhagen baby.

Thang 3: 49 Dips – for the 49th annual bassmaster classic on the Tennessee River in Knoxville this weekend!

Sometimes you do a bunch of running and things don’t work out on a particular spot like you think they would. Maybe the water got dirty over night or the fish you had found in practice moved. PAX followed Q on a mosey to a new fishing hole since the gates were open to the field but the frost ruined the spot. So we had to do what good anglers do and what good dads, fathers, and husbands have to do daily. ADJUST! Gotta fish the water you’re dealt…..

Thang 4: Graphing….. We did some more running because our fish kept moving and so we did too. Pax did a mosey to a pseudo bridge where Q challenged Pax to duck walk half and Bear crawl Half. Q and Pax were unsure how we connect this to bass fishing but Ducks are a good bait!

Mosey to the Parking Lot where Pax finally were able to settle down a few key spots we’d nailed down through our lake searching…. Graphing pays off in the end!

Thang 5: 4 Corners. 

Q should have connected Pax 4 Corners to our own 4 Corners Marina on Percy Priest but we’ll save Percy Priest for later….

Round 1 – 7 Burpees at each parking lot corner while moseying between corners

Round 2 – 14 Flutter Kicks at each corner

Round 3 – 21 Merkins at each corner

Mosey back to the lot for Mary

Mary

The 1972 Bassmaster classic was held on our own Percy Priest Lake. This weekend marks only the 2nd time its ever been to the state of Tennessee. So we decided to honor the legacy

19 – WW1

72 – Flutter Kicks (IC) Q had to take a few breaks to make it all the way but we finished!

COT

Remember Gaylords Mom as she battles memory loss along with Polar Express as he comes back from triple bypass. Lift of Gaylord and Cheezwiz both as they strive to be good leaders in their families during difficult times. Typo O and others Q included will be traveling this week for Spring Break. As its brought to your mind lift up those who will be on the roads as traveling can be really stressful.

Lets all embrace the good Spring weather God’s giving us right now and do our best to get outdoors with our neighbors and be salt and light in our communities.

Upcoming announcements: 2nd F next Thursday at the new Mexican  restaurant will be headed up by 3rd Degree. 2nd F next Saturday a gun range trip headed up by Stats!

Post Party: 3rd Degree, Ragdoll, TV Guide, Stats, Little Miss Piggy and Kermit wanted to catch some bigger fish and since they got the draw for the second flight in they headed to the democratic national convention to do so.

1 Minute Al Gore, 30 Seconds of Bernie Sanders (Politician Backwards) and 30 Seconds of Hilary Rodham Clintons.

Their rods were sore from all the hook sets after that for sure!

Fisherman were some of the first disciples Jesus called. They are hard core dudes. Franklin may have kicked our tails last week at Convergence but we are better for it. Keep up the good work guys and keep on castin!

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Duck Hunt

16 Sportsman came out for a guided tour of the marshes of Nolensville this morning guided by yours truly….

Conditions: It ain’t Teal season boys….. So forget the September temps. The mallards are flying for this late season hunt! 30 degrees with about 1-2 mph NW wind

Pax: 3rd Degree, Sterno, Barney Fievel, FNG – Snow Ball, Kermit, Inspector Gadget, Stats, Creeper, TV Guide, Ragdoll, Tebow, Netflix, Altidore, Micdrop, Nimbus, Show Me (Q) aka lead guide.

Pre-Party : Something ridiculous, hard, and grueling…(Which is why Q skipped so he could get his shotgun ready)

Warm Up:

18 was a special number today

18 – Side Straddle Hops

18 – Squats

18 – Merkins

18 – Forward Arm Circles (Q’s cadence struggled but it was because he wanted his Quack cadence to be stellar for the rest of the hunt)

18 – Backward Arm Circles

Mosey to the Blind where we will put in!

Thing 1 – The DUCK Blind Mill Creek (River) Bridge

#1 – Decoy Set up

Mill Creek Bridge was our hunting blind this morning. The mallards love the river bottoms and we were there to make sure we smoked em when they committed to our blind. But first we had to get our decoys across the river…. You can’t expect to get on em if your mojo ain’t in proper flying position… Q made the sportsman duck walk the bridge to get their decoys out. But since sun was coming up and we needed to be timely about a 5 burpee penalty/reward was issued for any hunter who gave in early.

#2 – Harvest Retrieval (don’t tell the Mrs.’s)

Any duck hunter worth his salt doesn’t leave his kill in the river and since we didn’t have a dog with us we were our own dogs. Pax were issued partners and partnered bear crawl back across the bridge as far as they could make it with their partner pax strapped to their waist. Once pax were exhausted and ducks started to sink pax’s switched up and completed the bear crawl back to the boating ramp.

Mosey  to Mill Creek Brewery Parking lot

Thing 2: The Clean Up

Time to clean our kill…

18 – Calf Rises

Duck walk the parking lot to the other side

6 – Iron Mikes in honor of Michael Waddell the great Realtree host

Rinse and repeat 2 additional times…. Why you wonder? The daily bag limit is 6 but the possession limit is 3 times the bag limit BABY so lets go!

Mosey to the pain ground

Thing 3: 6 pack

We ate a lot of Duck so we want to work off the flab even though this routine has nothing to do with our core.

1 Pull up and 5 Merkins repeat with 2 pull ups and 4 merkins and so on each time to equal 6. Once the sportsman hit 5 pull ups and 1 merkin the lead guide ShowMe showed no mercy and told them to rinse and repeat to wash off all that filthy duck meat from their teeth…..

6MOM

18 – Freddy Mercury

18 – WWI

Q had struggled on his calling cadence giving too many quacks in the blind so graciously 3rd degree and Tebow stepped up to the shooting platform and unloaded one final good load of steel shot on em…

18 – American Hammers (courtesy of 3rd degree)

18 – Crunchy Frogs (Thanks to Tebow because he knew we needed sushi after all that wild game)

Circle of Trust

Q encouraged the sportsman with the importance of spending quality time with their 2.0;s and how this is so vital. Outdoors is simply one way to do that. Be intentional with our time, put the phone away and invest in those who need us the most.

9th Man – Stats allowed us to peak in a little bit more to his world and shared about hometown, love for running, F3, and his bride.

 

Announcements

The guillotine I mean gauntlet (sorry Sterno) is coming soon….

Welcome Dave Ramsey’s Snowball to the group.

2nd F this Thursday lunch meet up not sure where yet?? Tebow has mentioned potentially Brothers  Burgers on Slack…

 

That’s all for now men. Thanks for getting on the waders and diving in the water with me this morning and making some memories. Keep your guns loaded and your calling reeds cleaned out for our next hunt…. Sometimes them coots come in hot!

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A Quasi Veterans Day Team Work Salute

 

Pre Party: Led by NumbTucks himself one legged and all cast the vision for 6 PAX in 15 rounds of Merkins and LBCS on the minute. Pax included 3rd Degree, Soccer Mom, Gaylord Focker, Creeper, and Show Me

Parade Conditions: The Gloom was in full at 5:30am with Low’s in the 40’s but it didn’t stop 13 Pax from gearing up to lay it out in more ways than one….

PAX: 3rd Degree, Numbtucks, Creeper, Tebow, Soccer Mom, Pochantus, Sprinkles, Stats, Type O+, Nimbus 1500,  Gaylord Focker, Creeper, Barney Fievel, Show  Me (Q)

Warm Up: 

Baby Arm circles x 15

Over Head Claps x 15

Merkins x 15

Good mornings

Butt kicks x 15

Mosey to Parade Route…..

Parade March (Thang 1):

Partner up for a March!

Lap 1: Partner Carry as far as possible and switch followed by 15 Alternating Shoulder Taps

Lap 2: Lap the track then 15 partner throw down crunches each

Lap 3; Partner Cary as far as possible and switch followed by 15 partner curl ups each.

Let Freedom Ring (Thang 2): 

Frisbee is an American Freedom and its also what dogs chase… What better way to salute The Pound??

6 v 7 in a Ultimate Game of Ultimate of Frisbee

Game Rules:

Rule 1: Frist to 3 wins

Rule 2: Each change of possession = 3 Burpees by all PAX

Winning Team: 3rd Degree, Tebow, Numbtucks, Type O+, Creeper, Stats, Gaylord Focker….(They must be better dogs than us!) (Show Me is a sore loser)

Mary:

American Hammers x 15

Flutter Kicks x 15

Amber Waves of America (Guest Q Soccermom!)

COT:

Ecclesiastes 4:12 – We need community!

Lift up Soccermom as he travels to Alabama and raises support, and Stats as his family and mom walk through loss.

Reminder: Get your F3 swag gear TODAY!!! Last chance call!!!

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Psalm 127 (10/18/18)

Morning started off in the dark. Head lamps were welcomed. 5:30 am sharp we didn’t waste any time getting after it. This one was for all those back at our homes and for those who haven’t seen the light of day yet.

Psalm 127:3-4

Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one’s youth.

15Pax: Show Me (Q), 3rd Degree, Numbtucks, Soccer Mom, Creeper, Tebow, Stats, TV Guide, Hushpuppy, Nimbus 2000, Mic Drop, Netflix, Altdor, Typo Positive, Cheese Whiz

Warm up –

30 Baby arm circles forward in cadence

30 Baby arm circles backward in cadence

30 Seal Jacks

Stretch OYO

Mile Mosey (roughly) we took a little jog down the path around the soccer fields and Mill Creek Brewery and back to the cottage Spot to get some work in.

Psalm 127

Super Sets x 3 (for my 3 boys)

1 Set = 30 Copenhagen’s, 30 Merkins, 3 partner wheel barrel rotations up the steps,

Soccer mom and Hushpuppy got after it beating everyone on their sets. We moseyed over to our favorite bridge where 3rd Degree loves to issue out punishment.

We lunged across the bridge and then we bear crawled back to our starting position.

Time expired as we ended in the circle of trust.

Good work!

-Show Me