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Your layering offends me.

Conditions: Cool, but no cold. 41 I believe. We had some heavy layering from the Pax at the start. Was determined to get those clothes off.

Q: T-Cell

Pax: Cowboy, En Fuego, Venus, Moneyshot

Mosey around the track and pack to the parking lot for COP. All in cadence. SSHx25, Good Morningsx10, Willie Mays HaysX10, Squatsx20, MerkinsX10, Little Tiny Baby Arm Circles and Butt Claps (Venus’s words, not mine)x25.

Headed down for some parking space shuffle. First iteration up was after tracing the parking space was 1 burpee. Back to the start to rinse and repeat for 1 burpee and 2 squats. Back to the start to rinse and repeat for 1 burpee, 2 squats, and 3 merkins.

Mosey back around the track and up to the carpool lane for some DID’s. Topic of discussion was both Head Stud and Venus’s brush, or gashes, with the concrete wall. Consensus was that the fact that Venus needed stitches made his a bit more badass.

Back to the parking lot for another round. This time it was 4 jump squats and 5 SSH.

Finished off the morning with 3 sprints and some Mary.

By the time it was all done. Clothes, plural, were shed. That’s all I wanted.

Bullhorn:

Great morning at the Skunk. Glad we had a much bigger group than last week 🙂 Excited to be a part of this group on a regular basis and looking forward to the many beatdowns to come, both given and received.

First Friday lunch at Cookery this week. I’d encourage you to make this a priority if your schedule allows. Great fellowship with pax you don’t always get to see.

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Strengthening Hearts with CYOA Routine @ The Forge

20 PAX in attendance: Little Miss Piggy, Numbtucks, 3rd Degree (Q), SoccerMom, Creeper, Pocahontas, Lovie, Altidore, Stats, FNG AstroGlide (Matt), FNG RaggedyAnn (Josh), Nimbus1500, Typo+, Tebow, MuRSA, Gaylord Focker, HushPuppy, Sprinkles, Cheese Whiz & RagDoll

Audible (OMAHA!) called earlier this week to hold the Forge at Nolensville Elementary school this week due to a local running event starting at NHS where we usually end ~7am. Thanks to all that found us this AM and passed the news along!

NumbTucks, SoccerMom, AstroGlide, Little Miss Piggy & CheezWhiz @ 5:45 for a pre-party showing with YHC doing 5 pull-ups, 5 Diamond Merkins and 5 Atomic Planks on the minute for 10 minutes. Strong showing! 6 for Pp is a record! Playlist = SwitchFoot

Disclaimer/Warm Up:

Lap Around the front parking lot of School: Explanation of Today’s Beatdown. Remember the “Choose your own adventure” books as a kid? Well, today’s workout was a little like that. YHC had predetermined some of my favorite workouts and designated them numbers 1-12 for possible 12 adventures. PAX chosen randomly and they randomly picked a number 1-6 or 7-12 and we would do that adventure? Confused? Good…

We did:

Thang #3 (NumbTucks): 

SideCrawl Up/Downs: PAX in High Plank with arms on PlayGround raised barrier. Crawl sideways around the ring, performing 3 Irkins every time Q yelled Up and 5 Plank Jacks when Q yelled Down. We did counter and clock-wise directions. ~3-5 minutes

Thang #9 (HushPuppy):

Royal Burpee.2 : PAX perform 10 of each Burpee style called

We did: Hurpees (hand-release burpees), Lungees (Iron Mikes for jump portion), One Legged Burpees (5 each leg), Yurpees (see Tuesday’s Bb for explanation, Traditional

Thang #5 (Altidore):

Partner Sprints:

P1 performs 7 Atomic Merkins while P2 sprints to second light-pole in parking lot. When P1 sprints there after Merkins, P2 begins and P1 Runs back to start. Mary exercise until the 6. Some Fog of War set in at this point and many Pax were eager to keep it rolling, asking how many rounds, unsure of where to start/stop, etc. Mass Confusion. QiC brought it back to Earth and kept it rolling. for the 3rd round we kept it simple and while P1 performs 10 Atomics, P2 Sprints to light AND BACK and then flapjack with P1.

Thang #7 (Sprinkles):

Field Trip! Sprinkles chose it so let’s mosey to the Nol. Park Bridge! It’s kinda my thing…Bear Crawl and then Crawl Bear the length of the bridge with 5 squat penalty for stoppage. Strong Work men!

Mosey back to the NES Pain Ground…

Thang #2 (AstroGlide):

5:5:5. 5 rounds of what was performed for the Pre-party.

Time Called! An hour flies when your having adventures!

Counterama/Namerama/Christenging of FNGs/CoT

What we Learned Today:  NumbTucks is king of MC in Nolensville and is a great battlebuddy, he faithfully goes to the 6 and brings them in. Strong work brother. Random stools on the bridge are not what you think… SoccerMom is intrigued by the PicklePounder. Pocahontas is the king of Emotional Headlocking with 4 or 5 FNGs to his credit recently. Keep Giving it Away bro!

  • F3Nolensville Swag pre-order is LIVE! Get Some by 11/8/18 when the order closes! https://f3.mudgear.com/products/f3-nolensville-broken-wheel-pre-order
  • Tonight, Saturday, October 27th – Boos and Booze Party at Netflix’s house
    • 7:30pm-??? – Adults only please. Look to Slack for address and more details from Netflix (prayed for healing for his back).
  • 2ndF opportunity this Thursday for lunch at Burger Shack in Nolensville. Hit up Typo+ for deets/RSVP.
  • Keep our brother “Mall Cop” in your prayers as he is in Israel/GazaStrip doing aid work and there have been terrorist attacks.
  • So proud to be a part of this strong and growing group of High Impact Men (HIMs).
  • Coffeeteria is a core principle for F3Nolensville and NumbTucks/Tebow/Barney have done an epic job faithfully providing and facilitating 2ndF after the beatdowns. Thanks Gents!

Hebrews 13:7-9  Let your heart be strengthened by GRACE

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The Pound is Launched

iPhone 7 front facing camera not all that good in the dark

Nolensville’s newest, freshest AO, The Pound, got off to a solid start with a Tebow-led Elite 11 wannabe QB camp. 3rd Degree, Altidore, Show Me, Nimbus, Stats, Barney Fievel, Typo+, Creeper, HushPuppy, Pocahontas, and Tebow were present.

Warmup
Jog to soccer fields – thanks to whoever turned on the lights
SSH x 25
GMs x 10
Inchworms x 5
BACs x 10 + 10
Huggers x 10
WMH
Lunge stretch
Squats x 10
SSH x 10

Workout
Soccer field trudge – down and back:
Duck Walk / Merkins – down
Partner 1 – duck walk until partner 2 tags in, then merkins
Partner 2 – 15 merkins, then run and tag in to duck walk
Lt. Dans / Burpees – back
Partner 1 – walking Lt. Dans until partner 2 tags in, then burpees
Partner 2 – 10 burpees, then run and tag in for Lt. Dans

Mosey to Mill Creek Brewery parking lot for happy hour

11s – mountain climbers (x2) / iron mikes (x2) with run in between sets
Plank merry-go-round

Barney came through with the coffeeteria

Thanks to everyone for coming out and helping launch another opportunity to get better. Thanks to Stats and Altidore for the flag.
And, finally, Nolensville swag has arrived (online)! Thanks to TVGuide and 3rdDegree for producing. Order by Nov. 8 – go here to get all swagged up:
F3 Nolensville Broken Wheel Pre-Order

SYITG,
Tebow

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Resume Virtues vs Eulogy Virtues

As I was reading an obituary today, I reminded that I still haven’t seen “proficient at Excel”, “knew his way around a CRM” or “put together one of the best P&L sheets I’ve ever seen” in an obituary byline. Obituaries are saved for things that we really remember people for. What was the difference they made? How did they serve? How did they take care of those in their care?

As a leader, what are you focusing on today in terms of what you will be remembered by? How will you make a difference, even if it’s small, in the life of someone today? How will you make people feel today that are under your care? How will you find a way to serve those that you are leading?

This is not to say that as a manager or a leader, you shouldn’t be expecting the very best out of people in terms of their expectations or behaviors. But are you expecting the best because of how it reflects on you OR are you expecting the best because you can help someone achieve their goals?

The author David Brooks has an article that explores just this topic. The résumé virtues are the skills you bring to the marketplace. The eulogy virtues are the ones that are talked about at your funeral — whether you were kind, brave, honest or faithful. Were you capable of deep love?

As a leader, I’d invite you to read this article today and think about how you can better cultivate eulogy virtues.

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Blimpies

QIC: Iditarod
PAX: CDL, Yosef, Noble Virus, Iditarod
You can tell “cold” has made its impression on the F3 Murfreesboro PAX. 4 Red Pillers showed up to get better or at least keep from getting worse.
WOR:
2 Laps
GMs x 10 IC
Daisy Pickers x 10 IC
WMH x 10 IC
BAC x 10 IC
BACR x 10 IC

The Thang:
B.L.I.M.P.S. and Mosey
5 sets of BLIMPS in Various parking lots around downtown Murfreesboro wit Moseying in between.
Burpees x 5
Lunges x 10 each leg
Imperial Walkers x 15
Merkins x 20
Plank Jacks x 25
Squats x 30
Pax performed to perfection except the two sets in which all pax forgot what imperial walkers were and performed Hillbillies. Mr. Roboto, Schnitzel, Scraps, Aristotle, Nuggets, Ace, NPR, and G-String were all mentioned and discussed during mumble chatter but not in attendance. Also discuseed whether or not Blimpie restaurants still existed IRL or just in gas stations.

MARY: 1 Minute of Crunches

COT/Prayer

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CheezWhiz & RagDoll Team Up to Take Down BrokenWheel

14 PAX in attendance: Barney Fievel, Numbtucks, 3rd Degree, Sterno, Creeper, Netflix, Altidore, Stats, ShowMe!, Nimbus1500, Typo+, Tebow, Cheese Whiz & RagDoll (co-VQiC)

Numbtucks, Barney Fievel and YHC came early for a 10 burpee on the minute for 10 minutes welcome-party. Creeper joined in with many rounds of strong reps also. Getting Stronger! Nice and warm now for the beatdown.

RagDoll gets us circled up while CheezWhiz preps the tunes.

Disclaimer/Warm Up:

15 SSH, Cherry Pickers (4 count stretch bending over at waist and touching ground forward, middle back then stand), 10 Slo&Lo Squats, 30 seconds Good Mornings OYO. Other various stretches RagDoll called out, (I think)

Long Mosey around 1/3 mi track 1.25 times to the Baseball field-house.

Word of the Day: “Plyometrics” RagDoll gave a brief history lesson how a communist developed an Olympic training methodology based of burst/explosion techniques. His name was Yuri SomthingorOtherski (Look it up).

Thang 1: Yurpee Apocalypse

PAX took 10 seconds to partner up. While one partner performs 10 Yurpees (submitted to the Exicon) (Clurpee with 2 tuck jumps = 1), Partner performs AMRAP bleacher box-jumps. Then Flap Jack back and forth until times was called by Q going down by one rep of Yurpee per round. ~10 minutes

Mosey around track to PainGround

Thang 2: Up and Down Apocalypse

PAX took 10 seconds to partner up. While one partner performs 10 Pullups/Chin ups or UnderDoggies  , Partner performs AMRAP Copenhagens (dips…you get it…). Then Flap Jack back and forth until times was called by Q going down by one rep of Pullup/UnderDoggy per round. ~10 minutes

Mary

Circle Up in Parking lot. On Your 6! Keep feet floating during entire routine: 8 count leg hold, 20 Scissor kicks, leg hold, 20 FlutterKix, leg hold, 20 Toes to the Stars (reverse crunch leg thrusters), leg hold, 20 Freddie Mercuries (bicycles…you get it…), leg hold, DONE

Counterama/Namerama/CoT

Announcements: 

  • Great Double Virgin Co-Q by Ragdoll and Cheeze Whiz
    • We had 14 come out and support these guys! Way to go!
    • Playlist used by CheezWhiz available on Slack
  • This Thursday, October 25th – New AO Launch – The Pound
    • This makes the third AO for F3Nolensville since we started 6 months ago. Excellent work, guys! Tebow is the Plant Q.
  • Saturday, October 27th – Boos and Booze Party at Netflix’s house
    • 7:30pm-??? – Adults only please. Look to Slack for address and more details from Netflix. (Hope your back gets better soon bud!)

Isaiah 40:28-31 – Great Shout out and word from RD/CW about how we come out at F3 and get exhausted, but God is never tired and gives strength.

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Westeros 10/22/18 Backblast: “What happened to fall?”

9 PAX ventured outside the warmth and safety of the fartsack on this slightly-above-freezing morning (at least is wasn’t windy and raining).

Namely:
Studio 42
Blue mule
Bicentennial man
High viz
Crablegs
Vector
Minnow tank
Right said
Porcelain

QIC: Right Said

Warm up:
Mosey to school pick up circle
SSH
LBAC
Reverse
Overhead clap
Seal clap
Willie Mays Hayes

The Thang:
Mosey to Love Cir
5 burpees at stop sign
Merkins
Mountain climbers
Squats slow and low
Lunges

Mosey back to Elmington:
Plank and wait at first stop sign
Indian run back to Elmington

Mosey back to parking lot
15 minutes of Mary: dealers choice ab work

Leadership lesson learned: a leader must not only say when to start, but also when to stop.

Coffeteria at Dose: highbrow discussions over caffeine

RS

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Sack full of balls

PAX: En Fuego, Black Widow, Backlash, Offshore, Joey Freshwater, Umbrella, Boone’s Farm, Toga (QIC)

Eight posted on a beautiful Fall morning for a little unexpected fun.  YHC promised a bit of fun if we got at least eight, and here’s how it went down:

Disclaimer then mosey to tennis courts at the park.  Warmup COP, 4x arc loaders across the courts and back.  Bear crawl followed by sprints x2.

Divide into two teams of four to engage in the first annual Nashville F3 Dodgeball contest.  It’s just like regular dodgeball except you do 5 burpees when hit.  If three people on the same team are made to do burpees at one time, then they must do 10 burpees as a team,  and the ‘winning’ team does five burpees and gets a point.  JF, Umbrella, BW and EF lost three to nada.

Mosey back to parking lot for 4-5 rounds of “Don’t Tell Me About My Abs”= core exercise quickly followed by 5 merkins and plank hold.

COT with prayers for all those still living with the impact of the recents storms.

NMM:  This is a fun/different workout from YHC’s RVA days.  That said, the last time involved many more firm and heavier balls.  Toga’s current sack of fun involved many softer and lighter balls that proved to be more difficult to toss with any distance or accuracy.  They also didn’t quite have the impact that any player would want to hear from their balls.  Maybe Santa will reload with a firmer set for Xmas?

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The Forge 10/20/2018 – Love Thy Neighbor and Swamp Bears

15 PAX came together in the gloom, welcomed the sunrise, and got a little stronger. Pax in attendance included: Barney Fievel (Q), Numbtucks, 3rd Degree, Sterno, Creeper, Mursa, Hushpuppy, Costa Rica, Cheese Whiz, Ragdoll, Sprinkles, Netflix, Pocahontas, Stats, and Little Miss Piggy

Long mosey around outside perimeter fence of football field. Various comments were made about how people that run marathons are over achievers and generally suck. Haters gonna hate.

Disclaimer

Warm Up:

20 SSH, 30 seconds Good Mornings OYO, 30 seconds WMH OYO. Other various stretches Barney called out.

Stop by Barney’s beautiful black truck and pick up your coupon (20 pounds).

Thang 1: Love Thy Neighbor

PAX took 10 seconds to partner up. 4 exercises with an assigned number of reps (below) must be completed as a 2-man group. One PAX begins assigned exercise while other PAX jogs out to the predesignated marker (about 75 yards). That PAX jogs back to partner performing exercise and picks up where they left off. Repeat until assigned number of reps of each exercise are completed. How much do you love your neighbor? Enough to pick up the pace on that jog back and “relieve” him?!

Exercises were:

  • 60 Blockees (coupon burpees)
  • 80 Block Merkins
  • 100 Block Squats
  • 120 Block American Hammers

Thang 2: Swamp Bears (11’s)

An old favorite, 11’s. PAX line up on the short side of the parking lot. Two exercises are Ginuwines with coupons and WWIs. Bear crawl across the parking lot is mode of transportation.  40 yard bear crawls between exercises kept us from finishing on time. Next time.

Mary

Barney led the group in some yoga stretches, toe touches, and other various stretches. Flexibility is power!

CoT

Announcements: 

  • Tuesday, October 23rd – Double Virgin Co-Q by Ragdoll and Cheeze Whiz
    • Let’s all come out and support these guys!
  • Thursday, October 25th – New AO Launch – The Pound
    • This makes the third AO for the Nolensville F3 group since we started 6 months ago. Excellent work, guys!
  • Saturday, October 27th – Boos and Booze Party at Netflix’s house
    • 7:30pm-??? – Adults only please. Look to Slack for address and more details from Netflix.

2 Timothy 1:7 – For God has not given us a spirit of timidity, but of power and love and discipline.

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Bomber 10192018 | Focus: Form

CONDITIONS: Brisk. Winter is coming.

PAX: T-Cell, Dewey, Duplex, Porcelain, Shadow (FNG), Princess Aurora, Minnow Tank (FNG), Crawlspace, Crablegs, Cunning Linguist, Vector, Bad Boy, Trapper Keeper, En Fuego, Reveille, ABC

QIC: Hi-Viz

Mosey to upper parking lot. Today’s focus: Slow it down. Focus on form. Today’s about quality of movement, not quantity.

WOR: SSH IC X 20, Squats (Slow-N-Low) X 20 IC, 6-Count Burpees X 10 IC, LBAC X 10 IC, Beetle Baileys X 10 IC, Reverse LBAC X 10 IC

Count off 1s and 2s. Lose count somehow. Re-do count off.

THANG: Mosey to the end of the parking lot. 1s and 2s line up at different spots. Bear crawl zig-zag down the parking lot, forward, side, forward, side. Those waiting to go (and those who ended before others) knocked out some Lieutenant Dans.

6-Count Burpees X 10 IC

Mosey to the parking lot.

1s and 2s line up for relay, up the hill and back. Runner calls the exercise for those on his team.

6-Count Burpees X 10 IC

Rinse and repeat the relay, except runner calls the exercise for the other team.

6-Count Burpees X 10 IC

Grab some wall. Slow-N-Low DIDs X 10 IC.

6-Count Burpees X 10 IC

MARY: LBCs X 20 IC, Plank (~2:00).

Done.

NMM: T-Claps all around. Lots of hard work this morning. I’ve been wanting to Q a workout like this for a while, focusing on slowing things down to make sure all of us are doing things correctly, not just sort of doing them.

YHC has been thinking a lot about shortcuts lately. I challenged the group in this morning’s COT — and I’ll take the opportunity to challenge all of us — to look for the ways we’ve gotten into the habit of choosing shortcuts instead of choosing the more difficult or more costly way to correctly do things. It might be when you post. It might be at work. It might be at home.

Thanks for the opportunity to lead today. And thanks for challenging me to get better at our AOs and throughout my life.

BH: Check out the #Leadership channel on Slack for the 12th Man effort we’re launching. Hit up T-Cell if you’re interested in being a HIM who helps out.

#PickneyPain next Friday. Crawlspace and Right Said have been ‘voluntold’ to take the Q. Sure to be a good one.