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Westeros 12.24.18: The 12 Tasks of F3-mas

5 HIM came out into the gloom to celebrate Christmas Eve (Pre-party with The Jeweler and Porcelain).

PAX:  T-cell, Crawl Space (LIFO), The Jeweler, Porcelain, Vector (QIC)

Conditions:   Freezing fog and 29 degrees – in other words, perfect

Warm-o-rama:  SSH x 12, Willy Mayes Hayes x 12,  LBAC x 12, Overhead Presses x 12, Reverse LBAC x 12, Good Mornin’s x 12.  Crawl Space pulling into parking lot necessitated an extra 12 Merkins so he could catch up to the PAX.

In celebration of the holidays (and perhaps to fondly recall PA’s recent Q at Bomber?) the PAX performed the 12 Tasks of F3-mas.  Increasing in reps, the PAX partnered up and could not move on to the next stage until all were finished (Keeping the F2 principle alive). Of course, all accompanied by the requisite Vector Cheesy Playlist (patent pending), holiday themed, of course.

Playlist:
Mr. Heat Miser – Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree – Brenda Lee
Last Christmas – Jimmy Eat World
Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) – U2
Christmas in Hollis – Run-DMC
Christmas in Sarajevo – Trans-Siberian Orchestra
Christmas Wrapping – The Waitresses
Feliz Navidad – Jose Feliciano
Santa Stole My Lady – Fitz and the Tantrums
Wonderful Christmastime – The Shins

The Tasks:  After completing each task, run with partner around the traffic circle (although once YHC realized that we’d only performed 3 tasks and had 25 minutes to go, we abandoned the laps – had nothing to do with my distaste for running, of course).

10        Burpees
20        V-Ups
30        Lt Dans
40        Pull Ups
50        Merkins
60        Dips
70        Incline Merkins
80        Jump Squats
90        Little Baby Crunches
100      Plank Jacks
110       SSH
120      Squats

Mosey back to flag to end the fun.

COT:   Prayers for my father-in-law (has early stage dementia) and thanks for the holiday season.  Especially thanks to the men today for the opportunity to lead and get better each day.

SYITG,

Vector

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Dirty Santa!

December 22, 2018

The Twelve days of Christmas inspired these awesome 12 PAX to join together this lovely morning to  celebrate together the first Noel of NOLENSVILLE F3!
Conditions: They came together under a setting full moon, at a balmy 29 degrees, and more importantly NO wind and NOT WET.

PAX who made it:  Cheezwhiz (co-Q), Mr. Opus, Creeper, 3rd Degree, Stats, Typo +, Soccer Mom, Altidore, Sterno, Barney Feivel, Staples, and Little Miss Piggy (co-Q)

PreParty: 3rd Deg, Soccer Mom, Creeper, Mr.Opus–LMP, and Cheezwhiz  joined in for last 4 rounds and Typo + might have slid in for a couple?      10 burpees on the minute x 10 min.

Warm up: Disclaimer
Circle up: IC baby arm circles x10 each, SSH x 20, Toy soldiers on own each leg

OK – Let’s get some small coupons from the truck – one each
Travel to soccer field:  “John Cusaks” – that right, put that coupon “radio” over your head and let’s jog

As we come close to the soccer field, the first few PAX scream in glee like a five year old girl on her first pony ride,  “WHAT IS THAT!” as they point toward the Christmas tree lit up by the glow of the parking lot light pole.     “SANTA CAME!!!”  Three presents sat sparkling in magical wonder underneath the tree. The game may be played differently, but this time it was definitely “Dirty Santa” that dropped these gifts off. (3 numbers were randomly selected and that number PAX would get the chance to open a present)

Barney Feivel got first crack at opening a gift, only to reveal —Thang 1 was inside:

“The Twelve Days of Christmas!”

Sooo, someone must have been at odds with their girl, cause that true love sure had some wacked out ideas for gifts. We did the exercises just like you would have sang the song – yep with all the repeats.   Great job on this one everyone:

  1. A 40 yd dash in the cold!, 2.knee tucks, 3. Clurpees, 4. Iron Mikes, 5. Peter Parkers, 6. Flutter Kicks, 7. Hello Dollies, 8. American Hammers, 9. Alabama Prom Dates, 10. Merkins, 11. Lunges, 12. Squat Jumps

Creeper selected box number two, finding Thang 2 inside:

“Tabat – YEAH!”

You know it, and you love it!  But this time to some crazy Christmas tunes – 2 rounds (Mosey over to playground )
Round 1 – Coppenhagens and Plyo “box” jumps
Round 2 – Pull ups/under dogs and merkins

Sterno got the pleasure of opening the last present and found Thang 3:

“Killer Christmas Coupon Shopper”

Partner up and grab 2 coupons per pair. Partner one goes shopping (Run to other end of soccer field and back) while Partner 2 cuts coupons (does exercises with one coupon in each hand).  Then switch.
Together they have to achieve: 50 reps each of shoulder lateral raises, front raises, bent over Ts, and shoulder presses.    Dang those shoulders are burning now.

Mosey back to the vehicles – a little ice skating along the way on the frozen parking lot ponds!

Mary:  Circle up:  the infamous Tebow Stretch, cherry pickers IC, hip flexor stretches

CoT:  numbers/names/prayer to close
2ndF- being considered for after New Years – The Casual Pint of Smyrna
Jan12 – Warpath !
SoccerMom may make his last F3 on 1/5/19

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Merry Christmas @ The Pound – 12/20/18

14 PAX for a dark and rainy good time: Staples, Kermit, Show Me, TypO+, Griswold (FNG), Mursa, Cheese Wiz, 3rd Degree, Altidore, Stats, Sterno, Creeper, Netflix, Tebow (QIC). We had all the Christmas spirit feels with some Christmas music – with a minor malfunction (thanks, Mursa for the gloom-proof speaker).
3rd Degree and Creeper got in a pre-party of 8 rounds of 5 burpees with a sprint. Well done, fellas

WARM UP jog then,
SSH x10
Imperial Walkers x 10
Squats x 10
Merkins x 10
(2X)

Let’s WORKOUT shall we
Run / politician suicides with exercises:
(Run) 0.5 light pole for 25 merkins (then politician back)
1 light pole for 50 iron mikes
1.5 light poles for 75 mountain climbers
2 light poles for 100 SSH

Mosey to Mill Creek Brewery happy hour:
Bear Crawl / reverse lunge suicides, then repeat with
Crawl Bear / lunge suicides

Happy hour continues:
10-1 reps of:
Apollo Onos
HR merkins
American Hammers

Lots joined in (were guilted in?) for a post party led by 3rd Degree (he likes to party) of 10 pull ups, 9 merks, 8 jump squats, 7 pull ups, …
Coffeeteria at Nolensville’s finest, Mama’s Java (pending E&B completion) with Numbtucks, 3rd Degree, and Show Me discussing the Christmas devotional.

Welcome, Griswold, Typo’s bro-in-law. Love the rake story. Classic Clark Griswold.

Continue to pray for Soccer Mom and his family as they’re about to move next month. Check out amesforafrica.com for more info and to stay caught up. Also be praying for Soccer Mom’s sister-in-law (and newborn baby) as she starts cancer treatment.

See y’all on Saturday. Merry Christmas!

-Tebow

 

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Hillympics Week 3: Track and Field

16 PAX arrived for a track and field based Hillympics. A cool drizzle added to the gloom factor and would play a nice roll in adding some weight to the burpees and merkins for the day.

QICs: Black Lung and Boy Band

PAX: Venus, Life champ, Prevac, Tampa libra, Razorback, Ludwig, Bad Boy, Toga, Red Skull, Frugal McDoogal, White Russian, Too tall, Moneyshot, Hot n’ Ready

We started with a mosey to the track followed by 1 lap around the track and then circled up for WOR. Wanted to get a little loose before the running that was coming.

WOR: Good mornings, Willie Mays,  Toe Touches, Low and Slow Squats, Baby Arm circles forwards and back, and overhead claps.

Thang: Track and Field day

The workout was designed to highlight speed and strength in a mix of alternating skill team events.

Event 1: 800m race: All PAX together, scored by sum of position at the finish  1)White 2)Red 3)Blue.  White team with a dominant performance, though they later would find that they had started too strong.

Event 2: Hand-stand-off: All pax perform a handstand, longest time wins 1)Red 2)Blue 3)White.  Props to TooTall for going into trance mode and defeating White Russian for the final spot. Moneyshot gave them a good fight for the white team.

Event 3: 8x100m relay (with hand release merkins while waiting for your teamate, scored x2 once for team placement and once for average number merkins per PAX).  Race: 1)White 2)Red 3)Blue  Merkins: 1)Blue 2)Red 3)White.

Event 4: Burpees x 2 min: Avg. per pax. 1)Blue 2)White 3)Red. Good form with chest to ground was the expectation. On a wet and cold day, this added about 5lbs per PAX and after 2 min of Merkins these became quite difficulty. I was impressed by the good form by all PAX involved.

Event 5:  400m Team Partner carry (at least 1 pax must be carried the whole 400m). 1) White 2)Blue 3)Red. White and Blue team set a blistering pace early and left YHC in the dust.

Event 6: Team WWIIs first to team total of 50 x #PAX. 1)Blue 2)Red 3)White

Event 7: 400m Run: All pax running scored by sum of placements 1)Blue 2)Red 3)White  And after a great running start, the white team just gave out at the end. Winning the 800m and the 400m Partner carry lead to near last place finish for every PAX on the team….

Following this it was a very slow mosey back to the parking lot for COT. The site of PAX struggling to make the 200m journey back brings the satisfaction of a workout well planned.

COT

Announcement: Trident on hold until 2019

Additional points: All teams were present at >75% participation 1 point each, all teams had a flag (if Tampa Libra can be believed, apparently he Hulked out on his and broke it in half….) 1 point each.

Total Points for the week:

Blue:12     White:9    Red:9

3 week total: Blue: 30, White: 29, Red: 22

 

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CrossFit Exodus @ Broken Wheel

16 PAX in Attendance: Creeper, Sterno,  Barney Fievel, Tebow, SoccerMom, ShowMe, TapOut, Netflix, ragdoll, Little Miss Piggy, Typo+, Stats, Altidore, Staples (FNG), 3rdDegree & CheezWhiz (QiC)

Pre-party
3rdDegree, Creeper, ragdoll, SoccerMom, Little Miss Piggy, & CheezWhiz @ 5:15AM for a pre-party showing with 3rdDegree leading this jolly bunch of yahoos.  We did 5 Pull-ups, 5 Diamond Merkins and 5 Jump Squats per round. We did 10 rounds in 10 minutes (1 round every 60 seconds).

Little Miss Piggy and Cheez Whiz missed the first couple rounds….Cheez Whiz was late ’cause he had a loaner car that wouldn’t start (freakin’ push button starter…I guess it was left on all night), so he had to ad lib and take the car that currently doesn’t have any power-steering (and technically isn’t even registered). Oh well. Good times had by all and a good pre-pump before the official “Thang”.

Warm-Up/Disclaimer

  • LBACs x 10 Forward and Reverse
  • SSH IC x 15
  • High leg kicks (toy soldiers?) one leg at a time ~ 15 sec each.

Let’s Mosey!
Let’s get this show on the road….

We ran to the nearby elementary school playground.  According to my rough Google maps estimate that’s about 0.3 mile. Good enough for me. Time to do the thang.

There’s a lot of frost on the metal swing sets…this playground gives us a few more options that are closer to the ground doing for pull-ups.

Thang 1: 2018 CrossFit Exodus
I’m not an expert in CrossFit exercises, but I was told that a basic routine would include pull-ups, merkins, and squats performed in sequence on the minute for a period of time.  So for this version, PAX performed 18 rounds (for 2018…and it happens to be the 18th too) on the minute for 18 minutes. One round includes 5 pull-ups, 10 merkins, and 15 squats. Nice job PAX. We just did 90 pull-ups, 180 merkins, and 270 squats.

Mosey
Let’s get back to the park (~0.3 mile). Little Miss Piggy and ragdoll had to take off…ragdoll needed to catch a plane to KC and Piggy went ‘wee wee wee all the way’ to work.

Thang 2: TABATA SICY
It’s time for some TABATA work with the ROCKY theme music inspiring us to keep going after pumping our arms up like Popeye. PAX performed 8 rounds (4min) every 30 seconds. A round is 20 sec of activity followed by 10 sec of rest. We rotated through the following exercises 2x.

Sit-ups (BBSU)
Iron Mikes
Calf raises
Yurpees (Yeah. You know it…the Yurpee originated at Broken Wheel, so had to get it in somehow)

Mary
Pax performed various exercises on our sixes to give our tummies a burn. Then we did some stretching which ended with “the tebow” stretch to help keep all those tebow muscles loose.

Counterama/Namerama/CoT
SoccerMom brought an FNG, Adam, who we affectionately named Staples. Adam works in construction…so ya know…,but did find out during coffeeteria that he actually works in an office (not on-site) and does have a really nice stapler. So that’s nice!

Post-party
Tebow turned 32 today (I think). PAX stuck around for 32 American Hammers in honor of Tebow’s big day. NOICE!

Announcements

  • Make sure to sign up for Q slots for F3 Nolensville on 159.203.165.130/ under Q Sign up (created a link in this sentence)
  • F3 WarPath is scheduled for January 12th. 3rd Degree wants people to join him for at least half of it.
  • Join us at The Pound this Thursday 12/20 @5:30AM led by Tebow. I’m sure it’s gonna be an epic beat-down ’cause Tebow is like the best.
  • “Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong. Let all that you do be done in love.” 1 Corinthians 16:13-14 ESV

Sincerely,
Cheez Whiz

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Secret Santa & Reindeer Games

PAX: Porcelain, Pumpkin Spice, Crab Legs and En Fuego for the pre-party, then joined by Bicentennial Man, Bad Boy, Vector, Hi-Viz, Blue Mule, Right Said and Trapper Keeper

QIC: En Fuego

Conditions: Primed for Santa’s imminent arrival

11 PAX took the DRP and posted at Westeros this morning.  All left jollier, merrier and better for it, while mindful of the truth nugget given to us through the great Christmas classic Polar Express – “Seeing is believing, but sometimes the most  real things in the world are things we can’t see.” Namely, T-Cell’s presence this morning.

THE THANG:

0530 – light-headed disclaimer given due to the Porcelain pre-party and we jump right into the Christmas spirit.  What better way for YHC to say Merry Christmas to his fellow PAX than a little rendition of Feliz Navidad.  We hold plank during the song, merkin for every Feliz Navidad and mountain climb our way through the chorus.  Mumble chatter at the 2:40 mark as to whether this was an extended version.  Twenty seconds later, we’re up and we mosey, setting up COP at the base of the hill along the Bowling entrance.  PAX perform SSH, WMH, GMs and Scorpion Stretch, upon completion of which the day’s instructions are given.

Tucked in a Santa hat are 10 folded up pieces of paper, each one carrying the name of Santa or one of his reindeer.  Each also contains a corresponding exercise / reindeer game to be performed upon selection.   When a PAX is chosen for his turn as Secret Santa, he pulls a name out of the hat, and the PAX then gifts the others with an approximate 2-minute Q, only rule of Secret Santa being that the Q must minimally incorporate the corresponding exercise.  Upon completion of the Q, the PAX then picks the next Secret Santa and we repeat from there.  The reindeer games…

Dasher – 100 yard dash

Dancer – Lieutenant Dans

Prancer – Patty Cake merkins (PAX form two lines like reindeer on a sleigh, so patty cakes performed to your left or right vs in front of you)

Vixen – Vacuum Cleaner (popular M gift, so long as it comes from a grandparent)

Comet – Chilly Broad Jumps (of course reindeer love jumping over one another)

Cupid – Catch Me If You Can (because of course reindeer love playing chase too)

Donner – Diamond Merkins (another popular M gift, so long as it comes from said M’s PAX)

Blitzen – Big Boy Sit Ups (you think the Reindeer don’t need some abs to carry that sleigh?)

Rudolph – Rockette Dips, a PAX pleaser, and not TK’s first time

Santa – Squat Jumps, to help squatting in those chimneys all night long

Finish with a couple minutes of Mary, where we circle up for some Ho Ho Ho’s (PAX alternate between 25x Hammers with a coupon passed around and Outlaws).  Timer goes off and we mosey back to flag, huddle up for COT / BOM.

BULLHORN:

  • Bicentennial Man hosts F3 Libeery tomorrow night at Fat Bottom Brewery.  Freed to Lead will be the topic of conversations, among many good others
  • Tentative hold for the next 12th man leadership event, led by Bad Boy, on January 21st (?).  Early rumors Jerome Bettis may be in play, we’ll see…

Honored and appreciative of the opportunity to lead this morning, and appreciate each of you going all in on some Secret Santa.  Praying for a wonderful, rich and meaningful Christmas season for you and your families, and that we are reminded daily of His presence and goodness, and the real reason for the season.

En Fuego

 

 

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(Back) BLAST FROM THE PAST @ The Forge

December 15, 2018

15 PAX joined together this lovely morning to ramble down memory lane for this RETRO themed work out (at least for those of us old enough to remember these things).  – apparently Gaylord Focker does not recognize the awesomeness who is Charles Bronson)
Conditions: A pleasantly awesome 47 degrees, and more importantly NO wind.  Ground plenty enough wet to make you take notice.

PAX who made it:  Ragdoll, Cheezwhiz, (FNG) Jinxy Cat, (FNG) Mr. Opus, Netflix, Creeper, 3rd Degree, Tebow, Gaylord Focker, Stats, Typo +, Soccer Mom, Show Me, TV Guide, and Little Miss Piggy (Q – but channeling Coach Numbtucks for this one)

PAX: who FARTSACKED EVEN THOUGH THEY WERE AN HC:  Altidore, Barney Feivel, and Kermit

PreParty: 3rd Deg got it going with Soccer Mom, Typo +, and Creeper; but Mr.Opus, LMP, and Cheezwhiz  joined in justa  couple minutes late

Warm up: Q remembered to give Disclaimer this time, then channeled the 80s version of Coach Piggy with his polyester BIKE coaching shorts (stop visualizing these long hairy thighs)
Light jog around the parking lot once.
On the line:   20 yards of toy soldiers, butt kicks, long lunge
Circle up: IC baby arm circles x10 each, SSH x 15, Cherry pickers, Tennessee Prom Dates (alternating legs)

Travel to soccer field:  Indian Ruck Run (remembering old army days for sure with this one) – Partner up
Carry your partner for this Indian run, switch when you get to the end of the line

Thang 1:              Charles Bronson
Remembering this stalwart of manliness is nothing but good for the soul –we give Chuck Norris and Clint Eastwood and others all the props, while this grisly man of iron is often left in the shadows (163 show credits to his name, 11-3-21 to 8-30-03 RIP, Death Wish 1 to 5, Dirty Dozen, Once Upon a Time in the West)
Sprint x100 yds, then army crawl 10 yds. Mosey back to start line.  Before starting sprint, PAX perform 50 reps of: (Round 1) SSH, (2) Merkins, (3) Burpees, (4) Little baby crunches, (5) jump squats
Q lost his shorts about 20 yards into each sprint (Polyester doesn’t stay up so well)

Mosey over to playground

Thang 2:              Sally Merkin’s
Dang Moby still can’t figure out if he wants to bring her up or down – Merkins done on cue to the song (Q found out this week that this is a common song to use in the army for merkins so it again left him reminiscing about boot camp)—OMAHA!!!! With about 45 sec left, it became apparent that all of us Sallies were hardly able to get our jibblies off the ground, so Q switched it to squats.

Thang 3:              “Top Gun”s
Of course a retro themed workout couldn’t have an arm pump by any other name…
Hail Mary (triceps) – Partner Up (cause everyone needs a Goose to help them get the job done). Maverick does 11 Coppenhages (dips) on the ledge with feet elevated on Goose who was in plank position, then switch; Rinse/repeat with 1 less rep each round until complete
Underdog/Plank Jack 11s – Occasionally, Maverick gets all bent out of shape and goes at it alone, so each PAX to himself for 10 Underdogs/1 Plank Jacks, then work way down to 1 Underdog/10 Plank Jacks.

Mosey back to the vehicles

Mary:                   “P90x Abdominals”
Okay, so this isn’t from the 80’s but it is retro from a while back. Remember that abdominal routine from P90x that made ya burn but got really monotonous and boring…this Mary routine relives the memories…
Circle up on your six:  IC V-position bicycle fwd x15/reverse x 15, V-position Luge (in/outs with knees to chest) x10, Hello dollies x 10,  then flip over tall plank for BirdDogs (opposite arm and leg raise) x 15

CoT:  Numbers/Name-o-rama including FNG naming – OH MY! ShowMe comes through with a clutch performance today naming Mr. Opus (isn’t it supposed to be Mr. Holland?! Who cares! This is better), and 3rdDeg pulls out Jinxy Cat for us.
Closed with a sermon by Q  ?—been thinking a lot this week about how we are called to simple belief in Jesus.  John 1: 1-13, John 6:27-29 .  Don’t put the pressure on yourself to have some “radical faith” but rest in the belief and faith that God has granted you.  It is a gift of God.  Just receive it and let it transform you.

2ndF- being considered for after New Years – The Casual Pint of Smyrna

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Bomber – 12.14.18 – “Six Monkeys Humping”

19 PAX got into the Christmas spirit as they made their way through the 12 Days of Christmas on the last “Friendly” Friday of 2018.

QIC: Princess Aurora

PAX: Ride Along, Cunning Linguist, Harvey Updyke, Hi-Viz, Studio 42, Porcelain, Bad Boy, Firefox, Crablegs, Brother-at-law, T-Cell, Pumpkin Spice, Shadow, Hot Route (FNG), Crawlspace, Preacherman, Vector

THE THANG:

PAX set off on a medium mosey around the baseball fields and MPCC over to the upper lot and circled up for a little warmup pain. All exercises in cadence.

  • SSH x 12
  • SnL Squats x 12
  • Merkins x 12
  • Mountain Climbers x 12
  • LBAC w/ Good Mornings x 12
  • Cherry Pickers x 12
  • Air Press x 12

Thoroughly warm and likely wondering when YHC was going to stop being polite and start getting real, the theme of the day was introduced. The PAX would go through the 12 days of Christmas building on each day in the same manner as the song, and those days went a little something like this:

  1. A Lap Around the Parking Lot
  2. Jump Squats
  3. American Hammers
  4. Clerkins
  5. Burpees
  6. Monkey Humpers
  7. Flutter Kicks
  8. Imperial Squat Walkers
  9. Hop Kicks
  10. Jump Lunges
  11. Thrusters
  12. High Knees

This turned out to not be as friendly as some would expect, but YHC is convinced it was at least friendly in spirit if not physically. What’s better than a bunch of grown men butchering a classic Christmas carol with shouts of “Six Monkeys Humping” echoing through the parking lot?

Upon completion of one final AYG lap, PAX moseyed back to the lot to hold a Boat Pose for 60″ in honor of the wet ground.

COT/BOM

MOLESKINE:

YHC got a little defensive when Hi-Viz and Bad Boy questioned his math, but there is speculation that perhaps it was either misspoken or misheard. Regardless, the point was ultimately made that Christmas would be Day 12 from this point in time. This was enough for YHC to build a workout around even if the true “Twelvetide” is Dec 25 – Jan 5. All is forgiven.

BULLHORN:

  • Libeery on 12/18 at 7:30 – Fat Bottom Brewery.  PAX will be discussing the F3 book Freed to Lead. Reading, while highly encouraged, is not required to join the fun.
  • Christmas Day workouts will be OYO. Coordinate amongst yourselves should you wish to work off the cookies and milk.
  • NYD Convergence to return to FRA aka The Hill. Likely time will be 0700 – 0800. Here’s hoping it’s not 7 degrees outside again.

PA out.

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Hillympics : New Military PT Test

PAX: 
Red – BoyBand, Yardsale, Hot N Ready, Life Champ, Too Tall 
White – Red Skull, Prevac, Money Shot, Frugal,  Black Lung
Blue – Razorback, White Russian,  Venus, (Q) Tampa Libra

We ran a revised version of the new Military PT Test slated to come out by 2020. Exercises and points as follows:

  1. Deadlifts with the trap bar @ 165lb, RDL’s with barbell @ 85lbs. Relay style with a 10 rep max per person before switching, cant move on to RDL’s without at least attempting 1 deadlift. 5-minute AMRAP, points awarded for total reps.
    Blue, Red, White
  2. Standing power throw: toss a 10-pound ball backwards over your head as far as possible.
    Blue, White, Red
  3. Hand Release Merkins – 3 minute max reps 
    White, Blue, Red
  4. Sprint relay. 25 yards down and back: Sprint, 40lb farmer carry, Side shuffle, sprint
    White, Red, Blue
  5. Knee-tucks. 3 minute max reps.Amazingly all teams finished with 66 reps so we finished up with a hang-off.
    White, Red, Blue

Todays point totals after the above + points for attendance, flag, and YES gifts.
Red: 7
White: 13
Blue:  12

Will post updated overall score on Slack. 

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Tour de Nolensville @ The Pound

tour de france pictures GIF

13 PAX in Attendance:  Creeper, Tebow, TV Guide, SoccerMom, Altidore, “Judge Judy” (FNG Nathan, Sponsored by Creeper, way to EH man!), MuRSA, Numbtucks, RagDoll, Kermit, Barney Fievel, Stats,  & Tercer Grado (Spanish for Third Degree) (QiC)

5:15 pre-party solo showing of Dancing Bear Pyramid by SoccerMom. I came in midstream and completed the back half of the pyramid and 7,6,5 pull-ups for penance.  BG Music today provided by AudioSlave, Tedashii, LeCrae, Trip Lee, Foo Fighters, and others.

Warm-Up/Disclaimer:

  • Jog around parking lot x 1
  • SSH IC x 15
  • 30 seconds GM OYO

The Thang 

F3Nolensville Tour: Mosey ~2.5 miles total with various speedbumps. Whenever you finish a set and are waiting for the 6, Freddie Mercury (bicycle theme, get it?) We have to show our FNG what F3Nolensville is all about… We visited: NUMC and crawl-beared up the parking lot exit ramp,  next to the new storefronts being built at the corner of Rocky Fork/Nolensville Rd. across from the BrokenWheel Cemetery and busted out 20 and 15 inverted rows on the hand rails with 10 Lt. Dangers in between. Up and Mosey to the Amish Feed Mill for some Parking Lot Shuffle with suicide sprint and tap the curb with fingers, politician back and perform 2 merkins in the adjacent slot all the way around the lot. Next…it’s kind a my thing and we are right there so….BEAR CRAWL AND CRAWL BEAR THE BRIDGE! Welcome to F3Nolensville Nathan… GET SOME! (Amazing to see the growth with this particular exercise. Y’all are killing it!) 5 squat bonus for any stoppage along the way. Next, mosey to the parking lot of MillCreek Church of Christ for some parking lot line jump variations waiting for the 6 to keep the heart rate up. Next, Mosey to the parking lot of Powder Buy the POUND (they basically invited us) for some Clerkins, Derkins and Flutter kix till the 6. Recover and Mosey to the Mill Creek Brewery parking lot where a Volley Ball Net had been previously set up by Coach Numbtucks for some drills. We faced off with a partner and Jumped to block then side step and R&R down the length of the net. Then boxing training began with duck under sidestep of the net with jab/cross combo back and forth down the length of the net. I counted 6 net touch violations after I finished and so we did 6 penalty Yurpees as Coach would want us to. Time is slipping away so we moseyed to the Pound parking lot where we did a Sunrise Sampler till the 6 (10 Derkins, Irkins, Dips, Benchjumps) and then YHC forced the PAX to endure the mandatory post-party of Pull-ups to failure (proud of the effort! Keep this number in mind as you may see this again…Gauge the growth)

Tour de Nolensville part 1 complete!

CoT/Numbers/Names/Christening of FNG

Moleskin/What we Learned:

  •  I definitely missed being out in the gloom with you men, my friends, and am glad to be back
  • Great to meet another FNG via Creeper: “JudgeJudy”
  • See you Saturday for another Q!!!!!!!!!!! (Unless someone appeals my signup, I am open to co-Q or relinquish my spot. Otherwise, happy to lead)
  • Keep NumbTucks and his fam in your prayers as he leaves on a trip to Pittsburgh for his wife’s doctoral degree conference and then to the Bahamas for a getaway
  • Exhorted the PAX to consider and contrast the mindsets of Dickens’ character Scrooge from a Christmas Carol: a “squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner!” with Jesus Christ who, in Phillipians 2:5-8 is described as follows: 
    5 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant,[c] being born in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.” This is the bad and good news of Christmas…each one of us is naturally a Scrooge, a grasping, proud and covetous sinner, but when transformed by grace we can have the mindset of Christ, no longer grasping but giving in humility. This happens by faith and if you have questions or want to talk more about this, reach out to me and we can get a beer or coffee…

3D, out!