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Burpie Police is on Patrol at Detention

Scene: Detention AO, Time: 515am , Officer:  CalfKiller

Patrol arrived at the welcome party ( 10 burpies on the minute for 10 minutes ) and issues YHC a warning for improper jump during a burpie .  5mins later Backup Sergeant Ludwig was quick to enforce the citation by confirming the lack of jump.

Penalty: Ghost Q = BigBang

PAX :CCR, Floppydisk, Officer Calfkiller, Sergeant Ludwig, Blackwidow, Dupree Accounts Receivable , TooTall (PlankBoy), Umbrella, Brother-at-law (TomBradyHater), Pop-A-Loc, NumbTucks (FutureRuckStar), Tokyo Rose, Dr.Smartt, Skid Mark, FNG ChairForceOne,  and YHC (BigBang)

COP: Who Cares (GMs AMRAP and 5min Disclaimer spoke by Siri, your welcome Bagger)

Thang: Good thing Burpies were fresh on the mind

     Set1: 10 burpies on the minute for 10 minutes

3 suicides (Keep the blood Flowing)

     Set2: 10 burpies on the minute for 10 minutes

3 suicides (Keep the blood Flowing)

     Set3: 10 burpies on the minute for 10 minutes

MARY: 20 FK, 1 min low Plank

Moleskin: Thanks to CCR for keeping me accountable on the Q. Mad love for CalfKiller and Ludwig appreciate the honesty. Floppy thanks for the Pre-F3 Ruck and congrats. You got to experience 100 more burpies than everyone else. #Winning

Welcome Russ: ChairForceOne. Appreciate your service, and hope you come back and get to experience an Aunt Bea Q to really see how werid F3 can be. This morning was pretty stupid,  thanks to all PAX for giving it your all.

Sparty On, and SYITG

 

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Lucky Horseshoe Comes to The Skunk

PAX: Venus, Life Champ, Preacher Man

QIC: En Fuego

A breezy 22 degrees greeted the 4 PAX at the Skunk this morning – Super Bowl hangover had nothing on these men, much to the delight of YHC who at 5:28 was fairly certain he’d be flying solo on this Q.  Following a short mosey, disclaimer and COP, we proceeded with The Thang:

Lucky Horseshoe (courtesy de Racetrack, courtesy de Toga – though this time I believe we applied the down and distance correctly).

  • Run carved .25 mile lap around the baseball fields.  Avoid ice patches.  20 merkins
  • Lap 2, 20 merkins, 20 storm squats
  • Lap 3, 20 merkins, 20 storm squats, 20 scorpion dry docks
  • Lap 4, 20 merkins, 20 storm squats, 20 scorpion dry docks, 20 WWIs
  • Lap 5, 20 merkins, 20 storm squats, 20 scorpion dry docks, 20 WWIs, 20 lunges.  Not a lot of mumble chatter by this point
  • Lap 6, 20 storm squats, 20 scorpion dry docks, 20 WWIs, 20 lunges
  • Lap 7, 20 scorpion dry docks, 20 WWIs, 20 lunges
  • Lap 8, 20 WWIs, 20 lunges
  • Lap 9, 20 lunges
  • YHC calls for the Victory Lap; Preacher Man says check your time.  Following checking of said time, YHC realizes we have 30 seconds left.  Hold plank while thanking Preacher Man for keeping us honest with the clock.

Mosey back to close out in prayer – lifting Toga, Head Stud and his wife Emily, and Life Champ’s buddy in Knoxville up in prayer.  Great work by the PAX – 2.65 miles all in including moseys.  Thank you for the opportunity to lead and be a part of all things F3 with you

En Fuego

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Ned Ryerson Takes Over Cruel Hall

PAX:       Bagger Vance, Floppy Disk, Black Widow, Ludwig van Osh Kosh, PSL, Big Stick, Vegemite, Yard Sale, Accounts Receivable, Third Degree,  Offshore, Brown Nose, HVAC, Prevac, Brother at Law, Braveheart, Aunt Bea, Swamp Fox, CAPSLOCK, Black Lung, Skid Mark, CCR (YHC)

22 unsuspecting PAX were met with a stiff single digit wind chill and a redundant test of wills this morning.  A quick counter clockwise (Brother at Law tried to take it to the bus loop) mosey around the small loop and down to the pavilion to get the blood flowing.

YHC aka Ned Ryerson, Needle Nose Ned, Ned the Head, etc… explained to the PAX that today is Groundhog Day and that we would be paying homage to PunxsutawneyPhil’s annual temporary home for February 2nd, GOBLER’s KNOB.  To add to the drama, I staged a little trouble with the Bluetooth speaker to get started.

Good Mornings x10 IC
Overhead Claps x10 IC
Burpees x10 OYO
Burpees x10 OYO
Lieutenant Dumps x10 OYO
Escalators.  10 merkins, run to 1/2 court and back.  15 merkins, ¾ court and back. 20 merkins, full court and back.
Reverse It…Run to ¾ court and back, 15 merkins.  Run to ½ court and back, 10 merkins.
SSH for the 6

Now that we are warm, it is time for the KNOB

Knerkins (knuckle merkins) x10 OYO
Nelson Mandela Merkins (aka terrorists) x10 OYO.  SSH for the 6
One-Legged Burpees x10 OYO (5 each leg)
Burpees x10 OYO

Time for a quick mosey to the parking lot.  Gather in a blob similar to starting time.

22 unsuspecting PAX were met with a stiff single digit wind chill and a redundant test of wills this morning.  A quick counter clockwise (Brother at Law tried to take it to the bus loop) mosey around the small loop and down to the pavilion to get the blood flowing.

YHC aka Ned Ryerson, Needle Nose Ned, Ned the Head, etc… explained to the PAX that today is Groundhog Day and that we would be paying homage to PunxsutawneyPhil’s annual temporary home for February 2nd, GOBLER’s KNOB.  To add to the drama, I staged a little trouble with the Bluetooth speaker to get started.

Good Mornings x10 IC
Overhead Claps x10 IC
Burpees x10 OYO
Burpees x10 OYO
Lieutenant Dumps x10 OYO
Escalators.  10 merkins, run to 1/2 court and back.  15 merkins, ¾ court and back. 20 merkins, full court and back.
Reverse It…Run to ¾ court and back, 15 merkins.  Run to ½ court and back, 10 merkins.
SSH for the 6

Now that we are warm, it is time for the KNOB

Knerkins (knuckle merkins) x10 OYO
Nelson Mandela Merkins (aka terrorists) x10 OYO.  SSH for the 6
One-Legged Burpees x10 OYO (5 each leg)
Burpees x10 OYO

Time for a quick mosey to the parking lot.  Gather in a blob similar to starting time.

22 unsuspecting PAX were met with a stiff single digit wind chill and a redundant test of wills this morning.  A quick counter clockwise (Brother at Law tried to take it to the bus loop) mosey around the small loop and down to the pavilion to get the blood flowing.

YHC aka Ned Ryerson, Needle Nose Ned, Ned the Head, etc… explained to the PAX that today is Groundhog Day and that we would be paying homage to PunxsutawneyPhil’s annual temporary home for February 2nd, GOBLER’s KNOB.  To add to the drama, I staged a little trouble with the Bluetooth speaker to get started.

Good Mornings x10 IC
Overhead Claps x10 IC
Burpees x10 OYO
Burpees x10 OYO
Lieutenant Dumps x10 OYO
Escalators.  10 merkins, run to 1/2 court and back.  15 merkins, ¾ court and back. 20 merkins, full court and back.
Reverse It…Run to ¾ court and back, 15 merkins.  Run to ½ court and back, 10 merkins.
SSH for the 6

Now that we are warm, it is time for the KNOB

Knerkins (knuckle merkins) x10 OYO
Nelson Mandela Merkins (aka terrorists) x10 OYO.  SSH for the 6
One-Legged Burpees x10 OYO (5 each leg)
Burpees x10 OYO

Time for a quick mosey to the parking lot.  Gather in a blob similar to starting time.

BULLHORN
Lunch today (already happened)

MOLESKINE
I appreciate everyone’s willingness to jump in and embrace the glory that is Groundhog Day.  One of the best movies (films?) of all time to be sure.   Always good to lead…its been awhile since I’ve knocked out two in one week.  If you are reading this, stop what you are doing and go sign up to Q.   It’s what keeps this thing going.

 

War Eagles,

CCR

 

 

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Stonewall Sandbaggin’

QIC: Hambone
PAX: Vegemite, Kangaroo Jack/Mac (FNG), Spider Bite, Black Lung, Pop-a-Lock (Nebraska), FTTAL, Deep Dish, Jeweler, Bad Boy, Crawfish, Bicentennial Man, Big Stick

Abstract:
The Saturday men of F3 Nashville posted to see what an hour of working out would do to their bodies, minds, and souls.

FIRST:
SSH IC x 20
Toy Soldier IC x 14
Merkins IC x 10
IST IC x 15
Squats IC x 17
Merkins IC x 20

Grab the sandbag and rucks. Mosey out a bit and back the parking lot.

SECOND:
Grab the sandbags and repeat the cycle:

Decline Merkins x 10
Decline Merkins x 10
Dips x 20
Dips x 20
Sandbag Squat x 30
Ruck Lung x 30
Ruck Overhead Press x 30

THIRD:
Split into two teams of 6 or 7 and head to the hill. Run up the hill with ruck. Losing team selects a member to mosey up and back with the sandbag

FOURTH:
Sick Cycle

3 Sets:
Seal Claps x 20, Overhead Claps x 20

Run

3 Sets:
Merkins x 10, Air Press x 15

Run

3 Sets:
LBCs x 20, Low Flutter x 20

Run, drop sandbags at parking lot, head to back side building for Mary.

Return Home.

Done.

NMM:
Prayers for the F&F of Bad Boy and Jeweler. Prayers for the Pax for guidance throughout the week.

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XC day

VQIC: CDL
PAX: Mr. Roboto, Noble Virus, Papa Juan, Grohl, Scraps, Iditarod, Aristotle, Yosef
Weather: lovely 49F, 10-15 mph wind

CDL used his cross-country knowledge base to work PAX how he knows best: Running.

Mosey from MMC parking to Prentice Fridge & A/C parking for WOR
X9 IC? Goodmornings
X20 IC WMH
X10 OYO Inch worms
X20 SSH

Mosey across the street to the Underpass of Thompson Lane bridge over College.

The Thang:
X20 Pushups
X20 WWII
X20 Squats
Spring the concrete hill up to Thompson, and mosey the road back around to the bottom.

Repeat x3

Mosey back to the Corner of Abdominal Pain.

YHC advised we had completed approx 2.5 miles of running.

X30 flutter kicks
X30 American Hammers
X30 Rosalita’s

CoT and BoM. And there was much comradery today

Bullhorn: PT test Thurs Feb 8th.
FYI, Yosef will be out of pocket due to travel the week of 2/12-2/16. That means the Thurs 2/15 workout is up for grabs. Hit the Google calendar signup, or let Iditarod or myself know.

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Improvise

PAX: Bagger Vance, Dr. Smartt, Prevac, Skid Mark, Bartman, Yard Sale, Vegemite, Deck the Hollis, Tokyo Rose, Black Widow, Bicentennial Man, Funyuns, Venus, Big Stick, Lunch Lady, Jolene (FNG), Pop-a-lock, Tampa Libra

QIC: Tampa Libra

Mosey down to the bottom, across the lots, up the hill and back around. Circle up for standard F3 warmups: SSH, Willie, Good Mornings Butt-kickers, High Knees.

Mosey to the field to sharpen our mental game with some agility work on the ladder. 6 different workouts, two times through on each one. Jog to the 50 for a few more stretches.

THANG:
Tabata: 4 exercises – 30 sec hard, 10 second break, 1 minute rest after each round.

Peter parkers, split squat jump, plank get-ups, burpees.

4 total rounds

Mosey to the back of the stadium and partner up. 1 Partner in a wall sit while the other partner does decline pushups with feet on their partner’s knees.

Switch.

Bulgarian Split Squat using partner instead of bench. 5 each leg.

Switch.

2 rounds of the above.

Core:

Sarah Michelle Gellar’s (wide leg, cross-over, situp) – 25
Eureka’s Castle’s (sit-up, v-up) – 16
Florence Nightingale’s (pulse ups) – 25
Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s (heel touch) – 150

COT. Prayer.
A lot of sickness going around. A lot of tragedy across F3 Nation with deaths in the family or F3 brotherhood. Lunch Lady requested prayers for several students (age 8) with behavioral issues needing constant restraint.

We live in a broken world. Go and be Lights in it this week. Proud to walk with you all.

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A Not So Super Rare Blue Blood Moon Workout

QIC: NumbTucks
PAX: Harvey Updyke, Vegemite, Olanmills, Offhore, Umbrella, Calfkiller, Barney Fieval
Weather: Mid 20’s

8 total PAX slowly strolled in, with one showing up after a short warmup. Some mumblechatter about the moon looking not so Blue?? Even though the moon wasn’t very impressive it gave us some light to get in a quick beating.

Started off with 10 burpees in the parking lot to get the blood flowing.

Mosey over to the garage for some warmup in cadence:
20 Side Straddle Hops
12 Good Mornings
12 Willie M’s
15 Baby Arms Circles (Forward and Backward)
15 Air Presses
10 Slow & Low Squats
10 Slow & Low Merkins

Thang:
Partner up (1 Partner stays on ground level the other runs up and down the garage)
Together complete 150 Merkins & 150 WW1s while other runs up and down.
The partner goes up the garage & first lunges across the garage & second time through broad jumps across (**some mumble about the top being longer that we remembered.) * the other partner remains working on the 150
Once exiting the garage stairs you must collect 5 burpees before taking over for your partner. Run hard back rot your partner.
Those who finished planked and flutter kicked.

Lined up shoulder to shoulder in the parking lot.
Bear crawl across all parking spaces (every other line stop and do 5 plank jacks

Mosey to Park:
2 Rounds of: 10 Jump Squats, 10 Carolina Dry Docks, 10 Mountain Climbers
Jog to Laps
End by Bear crawling across entire field in between track

Mosey to Parking lot for Finish:
Finish with one min of Good Mornings!

Good Morning fellas!

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A Most Excellent Adventure

Penned by Aristotle

QIC: Aristotle
PAX: Noble Virus, Scraps, Schnitzel, NPR, Yosef, Nuggets McPatty, Grohl, Iditarod
Weather: Mid-20’s and windy

9 PAX grunt and sweat on an adventure through history via Bill and Ted and learn to ‘Be excellent to each other.’

Long warm up lap around the Square –shake things up by going clockwise.

Circle up for short WOR:
SSH x 20 IC
WMH BAC x 10 IC
GMs RBAC x 10 IC

The Thang:
Mosey to the parking deck between Walnut and Maple.

YHC explains the basic plot to ‘Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure’ for the few poor souls who have never seen it. Declares exercises will loosely relate to the military historical figures they traveled through time to kidnap and pass their history test –in order to save the world through the inspirational music of the Wyld Stallyns.

Excellent! [Enthusiastic air guitar]

Round 1: Napoleon Bonaparte
Starting on the bottom floor of the deck, keeping all things low to the ground like our French warrior-Emperor.
Elevens – Squats and Mericans, but Bear Crawls in between.
Much grunting by PAX. Bear Crawls = Waterloo

Round 2: Genghis Khan
Travel back to 1209 to rampage like the infamous Golden Hordes.
Escalator (of sorts) between each level of the parking deck, sprinting in between each one.
PAX were instructed to yell out random exercises. YHC picked the loudest one, and all sprinted to the next level:

Level 1: Burpees x 10 OYO
short sprint
Level 2: Lt. Dans x 20 OYO
long sprint
Level 3: Overhand claps x 25 IC
long sprint to the top due to time

Round 3: Joan of Arc
At the top, on your 6 for a full view of the sky. Go back to 1429 to share Joan’s divine vision to lead the French army to victory over the English.
MARY/Ring of Fire/choose your own ab exercise
PAX were encouraged to ‘Be excellent to each other’ in their choice of ab smokers:

Iditarod: Flutter Kicks x 20 IC
Yosef: Crunchy Frog x 10 OYO
Nuggets: LBC x 20 OYO
Scraps: Crab kicks x 20 OYO (a move of Scraps’ own creative invention)
Noble Virus: Freddie Mercury x 20 OYO
Grohl: WW1 x 10 OYO
NPR: Hello Dolly x 20 IC
Schnitzel: American Hammers x 20 OYO
YHC: Mosey back to Courthouse for all to count-off whilst planking.

COT and Prayer for all to be excellent to each other by remembering history, and through the Spirit doing the Greatest Commandment and the second one just like it.

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Titan 01-31-2018: Sprints in the Blue Blood Moon

PAX: Porcelain, Blue Mule, Third Degree, T-Cell, CCR (Co-Q), and Brother-at-law (Co-Q)

6 PAX came out to get some grunts in under the largest moon in the history of the entire universe (apparently 3% larger than a normal moon).  It was inspiring.

WOR: Jog part about half of the mile loop with 20 burpees incorporated before landing at the field for some stretches.  SSH x 20 IC, BAC f/r x 10IC, Windmill arms f/r x 10IC, GM x 10IC, WMH x 10IC.

Mosey to the parking lot for partner sprint suicides:

Partner One sprints a three light pole suicide (sprint to light pole 1, run backwards to start, spring to light pole 2, run backwards to start, sprint to light pole 3, run backwards to start).  Partner two performs exercises until Partner one tags him out for his share of sprints.  Exercises were: 1) mountain merkins; 2) jump squats; 3) carolina dry docks; 4) jump lunges; 5) flutter kicks; 6) atomic merkins; 7) pulsing sumo squats (now Blue Blood Moon Squats I guess, we are workshopping the name).

CCR tagged in for the last 15 minutes to bring us one home.

Mosey over to the covered picnic tables for some D’Mish Lateral Movement Sevens (TM).  Burpees on one end, walking lateral squat to next stop before completing jump squats.  Legs were a burning.

Close it out with AMRAP in one minute of each: 1) dips; 2) WWI’s; and 3) bench jumps.  Do it again.  Mosey to cars for COT.

Announcements: Check Slack for 3rd F signups by month.  I believe we are signed up through May now.  Excellent work.  First Friday lunch at the Cookery this Friday at 11:30.  CCR committed.  T-Cell can’t be there 🙁

Great to lead and workout with the men of Titan today.  It’s such a fun site that offers a lot of different opportunities.  In honor of the Blue Blood Moon, I leave you with “Blue As Your Blood,” off of the Walkmen’s phenomenal 2010 album Lisbon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mwhr2O7aYg.  Enjoy!

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#RF20 at Sir Ellington

PAX: BV, Floppy Disk, PSL, CAPSLOCK, Donuts, Vegemite, Funyuns, Big Stick, FTTAL, Pop a Lock, Karamazov, Prevac, Blue Mule, Venus, Skidmark, Brown Nose, Black Lung, Ludwig van Oshkosh (QIC)

I’m blanking on two others. Q fail — rake me over the coals for it.

28 degrees greeted the highly appropriate 20 PAX who were so excited for an #RF20 themed Q.

YHC makes no secret of the fact that he’s an ardent fan of Roger Federer. Each time the Swiss Maestro has won a grand slam, YHC has led a Federer themed workout, and today was no exception. This past Sunday, Federer won his record extending 20th grand slam and 6th Australian Open title. 20 and 6 would be our main numbers for the day.

Moseyed from the church up the left side of the main Ag Center loop to the top for WOR.

20 SSH

10 Good Mornings

10 WMH

20 Air Presses

20 Seal Claps

10 Butt Kickers

Thang:

BLIMPS (burpees, lunges, imperial walkers, merkins, plankjax and squats)

There are 9 speed bumps on the upper loop. PAX would do 20 reps of each BLIMP exercise at the 1st, 3rd, 5th, 7th and 9th speed bumps, and a 6th set of BLIMPS back at the start of the loop in front of the house. When all was said and done, a total of 120 reps of each.

Alternate between 20 WW1s and 20 Mountain Climbers until the 6 is in.

As Blue Mule would say: Simple, but effective.

Head back down to the playground for 20 rows and 20 hanging knees to chest. Since Fed went back to back at the Australian Open, it was a given we would do 2 sets of each exercise.

Plank for the 6.

Mosey back to the parking lot for Mary.

20 Flutter Kicks

20 LBCs

40 secs of low plank

Great work today. Iron sharpens iron, so the group pushes all of us to get better. Or as Nike would say, Betterer.

Keep El Maestro and his family in your prayers. His wife is battling the flu, they have a newborn, and he may have had another seizure last week.

Tough Mudder coming up in the fall. Contact Donuts ‘n Mish for details. If you act quickly, it’s only $400 right now.

Ludwig