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Friday Funday

AO: thebuffalo
Q: Goose
PAX: greyalbum, Daylight, The Bobs, Blackbox
FNGs: None
COUNT: 5
CONDITIONS: perfect

WARMUP: forward gold, arm stretch, willie mays hays

THE THANG:

-mosey to Roy’s and back
-Dora: 200 squats, WW1, crunches while partner runs
-lunges- 10 squats every 5 paces

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Friends by the river event starts next weekend
Walk for apraxia, contact Hot Route for details

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Only Wanna Be With You

AO: greenmachine
Q: Chunks
PAX: Cowboy, Grape, t-cell, Rocket Mortgage, FeelTheBerns, Young and Restless, NFT, Midwife, Natural Ice, Black Lung, Michelin Man, Legal Eagle, moneyshot, Focker, Fudd
FNGs: None
COUNT: 16
CONDITIONS: Brisk

WARMUP:
42 SSH
Stretching

THE THANG:
Round 1:
– Cinder Block Carry: One member carries the cinder block 50 yards and back.
– Bodyweight Exercise: Team does Jumping Jacks until the cinder block carrier returns.
– Switch and Repeat until each team member has carried the cinder block.
Round 2:
– Cinder Block Swings: One member performs 20 swings with the cinder block.
– Bodyweight Exercise: Team does Mountain Climbers until swings are done.
– Switch and Repeat until each team member has done swings.
Round 3:
– Cinder Block Curls: One member performs 20 curls with the cinder block.
– Bodyweight Exercise: Team does Plank Hold until curls are done.
– Switch and Repeat until each team member has done curls.
Round 4:
– Cinder Block Rows: One member performs 20 rows (10 each side) with the cinder block.
– Bodyweight Exercise: Team does Burpees until are rows done.
– Switch and Repeat until each team member has done rows.
Round 5:
– Cinder Block rifle carry: One member rifle carriers a block down and back..
– Bodyweight Exercise: Team does Merkins until the block carrier returns.
– Switch and Repeat until each team member has carried the block.

TEAM 1 were the Winners 3 – 2.

Circled up for some P90X Yoga for 10 mins

5 Mins of Dealers Choice Mary
MOLESKINE:

ANNOUNCEMENTS: 10 Year Anniversary Saturday

COT: Prayers for family and healing.

Always and honor to lead you men. SYITG!

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Overtime Pickleball

AO: middle-tooth
Q: Chunks
PAX: sooner, Schnauzer, Pole Dancer, Toothless, Betty Ford, hambone, Hanes, Young and Restless
FNGs: None
COUNT: 9
CONDITIONS: Very Nice

WARMUP: Mosey around the park
Light stretching

5 Burpees EMOM for 10 mins
With Big Boy Sit up, Squats and Rest till the top of the next minute

THE THANG:

Head to the Tennis Court for Overtime Pickleball
Winner Servers and then Winner of the rally stays on the court
Loser picks the exercise for the PAX to do while waiting.

MOLESKINE:

Don’t worry about criticism from someone you wouldn’t ask advice from.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

COT: Prayers for Betty Ford and family, also for Sooner’s coworker battling cancer

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9.10 Mystery Workout

AO: the-knoll
Q: AAA
PAX: Sooie, El Capitan, Stubs, Sparrow, The Banker, Timber, G-string, morning stār, Malibu, Papa Bear, Bumblebee, Iowa, The Judge
FNGs: None
COUNT: 14
CONDITIONS: mid 50s, damp grass.

WARMUP: -5 motivators
-10 lunges
-Baby arm circles and back BACs
-10 slow squats
-10 slow push ups
-mosey down to tree line and back

THE THANG: 8 rounds of a 2 minute AMRAP start with a 20 yard sprint/run, and then do 11 reps of designated exercise and then run back 20 yards and do another 11 reps until 2 minutes are up.
Round 1- 11 burpees
Round 2- 11 pushups
Round 3 – 11 air squat
Round 4- 11 mountain climbers
Round 5- 11 jumping jacks
Round 6- 11 jumping lunges
Round 7 – 11 Carolina dry dock
Round 8 – 11 tuck jumps

Finished with some Ultimate Frisbee

MOLESKINE: John 15:13
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

In remembering 9/11 tomorrow, let’s take a moment to think about and remember the ultimate acts of love shown by many on 9/11, and the many years after 9/11.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: 9/11 workout at capital steps 5:30 am, Brig workout at 5:30 am

COT:

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Stay Classy

AO: iiipillars
Q: Zelenskyy , princessaurora
PAX: Black Lung, Two Face, Zelenskyy, t-cell, princessaurora, Pep, Go Fish, Haggis , None
FNGs: 1 None
COUNT: 9
CONDITIONS: absolutely stunning

WARMUP:
• 2 laps running
– jumping jacks
– thumbs-up-rows (cat-stretch rows)
– baby arm circles forward
– baby arm circles backwards
– thigh stretch (willie mays hayes?)

THE THANG:
– Bearpees (across the field & back – longways x4) OYO 1 Burpee followed up by 4 count bearcrawl forward.
– Aiken Legs x3 (20 squats, 20 box jumps, 20 lunges, 20 jumping-jacks, one lap)
– 100 sit-ups
– Dips until everyone finishes sit-ups
– 2 more laps

⬆️ this seemed short?

MOLESKINE:
Return to lot for Mary:
– flutter kicks 30
– Jane Fondas 20 each side

Names and Counting
Announcements & Prayer

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Tomorrow & Saturday (can princessaurora or Black Lung add details?)

princessaurora will send link for shirt purchase/order

Next week Go Fish will lead. Reagan themed workout.

COT:

Prayers for Pep job security
Celebrating Two Face parents 50th anniversary
Praying for Go Fish on Thursday PhD dissertation

*Please add if I missed something!

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Pistol Pete!

AO: detention
Q: Grape
PAX: Black Lung, Winona, EZ-Go, Pedialyte, Works for a Guy, Movin On Up, Mistah Mistah, Michael Freiburg, Deep State, Natural Ice, Matador
FNGs: None
COUNT: 12
CONDITIONS: doesn’t get better than this in Nash

WARMUP: SSH, WMH, LBAC, Moroccans

THE THANG: in honor of Pete Sampras’ first grand slam title on 9/9/1990, we did a bunch of running and burpees

S- 14 suicides
A- 90 Alabama prom dates
M- 64 merkins
P- 15 prison cell merkin burpees
R- 30 regular burpees
A- 40 ab thrusters
S- 45 SSH and 44 squats

5 MoM

ANNOUNCEMENTS: 9/11 and 9/14 convergences

COT: prayers for Mistah Mistah’s friend, for Natural Ice interview, for EZ-Go’s sick household

:grapes:

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Hambone Runs

AO: the-castle
Q: hambone
PAX: hambone
FNGs: None
COUNT: 1
CONDITIONS: FANTASTIC

WARMUP: Run

THE THANG: Run

MOLESKINE: This was probably too hard for you

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

COT:

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#cruelhall heads north

AO: handsomizer
Q: Donkey Hammer
PAX: Focker, Patty, Freakonomics, Cuban Missile, Michael Freiburg, Young and Restless, Mistah Mistah, caprate, Black Lung, Natural Ice, Old Maid, Red Skull, Globetrotter
FNGs: 1 Globetrotter
COUNT: 14
CONDITIONS:
65 and pleasant

WARMUP:
SSH, GM, WMH, IW, hillbillies
Cat/cow
Thoracic rotations
High plank -> right/left foot forward with rotation
Prone snow angel
Prone scorpion
Down dog to up dog
Side lying shoulder rotation
Jane Fondas
Supine pigeon
Straight leg raises – R, L, B

THE THANG:
Dips x 25

Tabata – 45 seconds on, 15 seconds off x 3 rounds
Elevated shoulder taps
Step ups
Mtn climbers
Lateral lunges

Dips x 25

11’s ( although we only had time for about 4 rounds)
Kick throughs at the top/atomic merkins at the bottom

Jog back to the start

MOLESKINE:
What a great day to get out with the men on handsomizer. A few of the cruelhall made it out and it was a great time. Looking forward to you guys traveling south on October 4th for a visit. It was an honor to lead.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
September 11th convergence at Capitol steps at 5:30am

10th Anniversary convergence September 14th at stonewall. Starts at 6am.

Half marathon training is ongoing. Nashville Half Marathon is October 26th. Join the nashville-half-marthaon channel if interested.

Congratulations Patty on your upcoming marriage. Wonderful news!

Welcome, @Globetrotter!

COT:
Proverbs 27:17
As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.

Let’s continue to be there for each other in pursuit of being the best version of ourselves

It was a great morning. Thank you for letting me join in.

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Phat Cinderblock Workout

AO: pain-train
Q: Siri
PAX: The Banker, Timber, G-string, FLO, Pitmaster, Wolfpack, Sooie, Cheeks
FNGs: None
COUNT: 9
CONDITIONS:
Phat

WARMUP:
stretching + shouldermania + mosey to stage to pick cinderblocks

THE THANG:
EMOM UNTIL FAILURE
3 Burpees + 3 cinderblock Front Squats with Overhead Press*

*On the minute, perform 3 Burpees + 3 Front Squats with Overhead Press. Burpees stay at 3-Reps every minute. The Front Squats increase by 1-Rep every minute (ex: 3 Burpees +1 FS, 3+2, 3+3, 3+4…and so on). Continue climbing the ladder of Front Squats until you can not complete the reps in that minute.

-Active Rest b/t Sets-
– mosey one lap followed by alternating sets of 15 (2-count) imperial walkers and 15 (4-count) SSH. 3 sets of each.

MOLESKINE:
T-claps to G-string for making it to 28 reps with a 54 lb cinderblock, and to The Banker and Timber for getting to 31 reps with standard cinderblocks :clap: :clap:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
9/11 and 9/14 convergences. Some convo about the possibility of a Bellevue edition of Hunger Games Pitmaster Wolfpack :eyes:

COT:
Prayers lifted up. Thank you for letting me lead!

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Basketball

AO: bomber
Q: DintyMoore
PAX: CubCadet, Firefox, Papa Bear, Pep, Sherlock, Tim the Toolman, Wet Wipes, Puzzlah, Hedwig, Dirtbag, Ronaldo 2.0, Leonardo 2.1
FNGs: None
COUNT: 13
CONDITIONS: perfect according to Wet Wipes

WARMUP: mosey around big field to batting cages

THE THANG:
Warm-Up
Jog around baseball field to the batting cage

Backside of batting cage has lots of coupons and grab 1 coupon per PAX

Two Rounds of 10 – EMOM
20 Bent Row
20 Alabama Prom Dates
20 Shoulder Press
20 Kremlin Twists
20 Elevated Push-Ups
20 Toes to Chin High Pull
20 Blockees
20 Alternating Shoulder Taps
20 Leg Raises
20 Lunges

After two rounds – run to school playground for basketball game. Split teams based on numbers and play 3v3 (both ends) with 20 second shot clock. Defense calls out shot clock while defending. Two five minute games were played.

Mosey back to flag

MOLESKINE:
It’s great to be back at the most respected AO in Nashville. Thanks for granting time away for gullivers-travels-challenge and for all our guest Qs during August.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
23-year 9/11 Memorial Convergence at Capitol steps next Wednesday
10-year F3 Nashville Anniversary Convergence at Sevier Park next Saturday

COT: We all need a little more grace.