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6/6/19: Big Boy Burpee Pyramid

Location: Atlantis

Conditions: Low 70s, humid

QIC: Pumpkin Spice

PAX: Crawlspace, DFrost, Vector, YHC

THE THANG

In the usual fashion, disclaimer was made and the PAX moseyed around the field and then entered the field on the west side for some Warmorama.

  • SSH x 15
  • Imperial Walkers x 15
  • LBAC x 15
  • Moroccan Night Clubs x 15
  • rLBAC x 15

After we were sufficiently warm, we took our places on the sideline and did a pyramid workout using the telephone poles that are ~100 feet apart. PAX ran to Pole #1 and did 5 Burpees, then Bernied back to the start line and did 10 Big Boy Situps. They then ran to Pole #2 and did 10 Burpees, and Bernied back to the start for 10 BBS. Continue the pattern for Poles # 3 and # 4 with 15 and 20 Burpees at each and Bernie back to the start line for your 10 BBS. Then finish the pyramid by working down again for Poles #3, #2, and #1 with 15, 10, and 5 Burpees at each.

After completing the Big Boy Burpee Pyramid, the PAX moseyed back around the field with an AYG 300m sprint to the Pizza Hut. PAX partnered up and while one partner did AMRAP Steve Irwins, the other ran around the water tower. PAX tagged up and changed roles. Next up was AMRAP Swerkins while partners ran around the water tower. Once both partners had ran twice and did both exercises, we made our way back to the shovel flag for 90 seconds of Freddie Mercury before all was said and done.

MOLESKIN

  • A small but quality workout today out at Atlantis. Mumblechatter included discussion on David Goggins and what it means to push yourself beyond the mental barriers you put on what your body is capable of. You can do at least 1 more rep than you think, you can hold proper position without going to your knees for 5 more seconds, and you can exercise with perfect form even when your body wants to take shortcuts. You won’t get better if you don’t push yourself!

BULLHORN

  • June Leadership Lunch – JUNE 21, 11:45a-1p
    • Cafe at Thistle Farms on Charlotte Ave.
      Discussion on how to deal with difficult personalities by Dr. Jerry Hickson. He’s an excellent speaker and leader. Well worth your time to attend.
      Lunch will run $20/person and can pay Vector.
      Need final count by June 17 (planning for 15-20 but room for more). RSVP using the link on Slack.

– Pumpkin Spice

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Atlantis – 05.30.19 – “Lingchi”

7 PAX experienced the lingering death at Atlantis this week. At least the weather was nice!

QIC: Princess Aurora

PAX: Crablegs, Crawlspace, Lunch Lady, Right Said, Trapper Keeper, FNG Woodstock

THE THANG:

Disclaimer and long mosey around the lower fields with some Buttkickers, High Knees, Side Shuffles, and Backpedals strewn throughout. Back to the flag for COP:

  • SSH x 20
  • WMH x 20
  • SnL Squats x 15
  • LBAC x 15
  • Overhead Claps x 15
  • RLBAC x 15

Torture time! YHC quizzed the PAX to see if anyone knew what “lingchi” was.

*Crickets*

So, a quick educational moment for you, dear reader: lingchi is the term given to an old torture and execution technique during which the “recipient” had small pieces of flesh cut away over time. Westerners came to call it “death by a thousand cuts,” and that was to be our theme of the day.

As a group, the aim was to complete 1000 reps of the following:

  • Clerkins
  • Upright Rows (30# plate)
  • Thrusters
  • Sumo Squats (CMU)

After a rocky start in terms of tracking reps (#Qfail), we eventually settled in to a system of marking on the pavement as reps were completed. No surprise that the Thrusters were the first to be knocked out. While time ran out with our counts for Upright Rows and Sumo Squats somewhere in the high 800s, most impressive was that we completed the Clerkins in the eleventh hour. That’s 143 clap merkins each, and if you’ve never done that, YHC recommends you keep it that way.

COT/BOM

MOLESKINE:

Tclaps to everybody for dogging this one out. Had YHC not dragged you around for a half-mile and 5′ COP to start, 1000 reps would’ve been hit across the board. Special shoutout to FNG Woodstock for enduring this as his first workout. Please come back!

Other observations: the scent of fresh cut “grass” in the air, Right Said always keeps a pen and pad handy, and sometimes you just don’t need Mary to close it out.

BULLHORN:

  • June 21: Vector Leadership Lunch at Thistle Farms
  • Late July/Early August: Social Ruck CSAUP
  • September 14: 5th Anniversary Workout – Save the date!
  • Late October/Early November: TN CAN RUCK 002!
  • Be on the lookout for some site upgrades and other new initiatives to help connect the PAX and disseminate information.

PA out.

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Circuit City

PAX: Crablegs, Vector, Trapper Keeper, Cunning Linguist, Toothless, TheNanny, & YHC TheJeweler

QIC: TheJeweler

Conditions: 70 degrees, foggy, gloom factor HIGH!

Warm-O-Rama: Disclaimer…. Jog from the parking lot around to the playground… circle up.  20 SSH, 10 Good Mornings, 15 WMHs, 10 Hill Billies, 10 Imperial Walkers, BACs, & Air Presses.  Sprint Drills: High Knees & Butt Kicks

The THANG: We started off with 2x 400m circuits.  The circuit consists of a 100m sprint, 10 merkins, 100m sprint, 10 LBCs, 100m sprint, 10 burpees, 100m sprint 5 flutter kicks & 5 crossovers.   Between the circuits we jogged 100m for recovery.

Mosey back to the playground for some burpee fun.  Each burpee consisted of 6 reps:  Regular Burpees, Burpee Jacks, Walmart Burpees (roll back on your back then kick your legs back to a pushup and back up is one), Burpee Mountain Climbers, Side Burpees (legs get kicked out to the right and left), Superman burpees.

Mosey back to the start of the circuit for one more go at the 400m circuit.  This one really gets the heart rate up.

With everyone a bit winded, we jogged to the water tank for a little partner work.  We split up in teams of two… each team had to complete 300 squats.  While one team member was performing squats, the other sprinted 1 lap around the water tank.  Trade out and repeat until all squats are complete.

MARY: 10x WW1s, 20 Olympic Sit-ups aka Rocking Chairs, 30x Flutter Kicks…. TIME

Announcements: Memorial Day Murph

Prayer Request: Ludwig’s Wife… and i’m probably forgetting some again but that’s my fault for being behind on posting this BB.

As always, thank you gents for allowing me to lead and for pouring into my life.

 

YHC ~ TheJeweler

 

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Atlantis – 04.18.19 – “Just Barely BEARable”

6 PAX took the DRP this morning and went with the flow at Atlantis (pun intended).

QIC: Cunning Linguist
PAX: Crablegs, Cunning Linguist, En Fuego, Lunch Lady, Pumpkin Spice, Trapper Keeper
TEMP: A fairly balmy and moist 62 degrees at launch.

THANG 1:
Mosey from shovelflag along the track toward lower parking lot and then pull off onto grassy area near said parking lot for COP:

• SSH x 20
• LBAC x 15
• rLBAC x 15
• WMH x 12
• SnL Squats x 15

YHC failed to have the PAX count off in pairs and instead moseyed toward end of parking lot. Having remembered the count off at this time, YHC then called for Bear Crawl 1-2-3s (allegedly a Pumpkin Spice Special).

YHC however was slightly aggressive in his plans for this routine, as the routine (IIRC) calls for Bear Crawls and then Crawl Bears back while partner performs 100 Merkins, 200 LBCs, and 300 Squats.

However, YHC could sense after the first round that the Crawl Bears were a bit ambitious, and therefore, modified the maneuver so that all PAX were to sprint back to starting line instead of Crawl Bears. Plank upon completion.

THANG 2:
Once all in, YHC called on Pumpkin Spice to give countdown from 30 to 1 then mosey to Pizza Hut (during which, there was significant mumblechatter overheard discussing the best pizza places in town) for 7s, starting with:

• Dips x 6
• Step-Ups x 1 (1/2 per leg)
• Mosey to port-a-john between rounds

Again, plank upon completion.

THANG 3:
With time to spare, we moseyed over to the Swings to perform 50 Down Unders (aka Steve Irwins) OYO.

Then, slightly circuitous mosey back to shovelflag and down on 6s for Mary:

15 Boxcutters
20 Alabama Prom Dates (thanks Crablegs)
20 WWIs OYO (thanks En Fuego)

COT/BOM

MOLESKINE:
It never ceased to amaze me that PAX continue to show up to YHC’s Qs. I continue to be humbled by such HIMs, day in and day out. Each one of you who I interact with as a member of F3 is an inspiration.

BULLHORN:
• Prayers for Lunch Lady on two fronts: new job opportunity closer to home, and postpartum depression suffered by a friend
• Keep an eye out for the 4/25 Leadership Lunch with Tom Ward, CEO of the Oasis Center, at Crievewood Baptist

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Golden Bear Crawls – 11 Apr 2019

PAX: Defrost, Lunch lady, Pumpkin Spice, Crablegs (YHC)

Warm-Up/Disclaimer:

PAX warmed up with a quick mosey around the front of the park, traveling along Morrow road and to the playground – aka Driving Range for WOR

WOR: SSH, Squats, Moroccan night clubs, LBACs (f/r), good mornings

Thang:

PAX moseyed from the range to the first tee with a pit stop at the swings to perform 2 reps of the Shark Swinger (Steve Irwin/Underdog/Under row), honoring the 2nd place finishes of Greg Norman.

Upon arriving to the first tee PAX performed 5 rounds of the following (goal was 6, one for each of Jack’s green jackets):

  • Golden Bear Crawl down the path to the parking lot
  • Lefty Lunge down the parking lot
  • Sarazen Sprint back to the tee
  • 15 Jordan Jacks (new exercise – Moroccan Night Jacks, 2015 Masters winner)
  • 29 Rory MerkIlroys (29y old soon to be 2019 Masters champ)
  • 37 Sergio Squats (age 37 at time of masters victory)
  • 64 Hogan Hammers (one for each of Hogan’s 64 PGA tour victories)

Having been thoroughly exhausted by the circuit, PAX performed

  • 4 Big Cat Burpees (one for each green jacket)
  • Bobby Jones Broad Jump – from the first tee to the Clubhouse (aka – Pizza Hut) for a brief Mary
MARY: 30 Fowler Flutter kicks in cadence

Mosey back to the 19th hole for COT

  • Prayers for Lunch Lady’s friends as they deal with postpartum depression
  • Prayers for my family with circumstances around the loss of my grandfather a few weeks ago
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Thirsty Thursday

April 4, 2019

Gloom: crisp, clear, 50°

PAX: Defrost, LunchLady, RightSaid

QIC: Crawlspace

Warm up: quick jog around/ through the park, side straddle hops, Willie Mays Hayes, squats, lil baby arm circles, air presses, Moroccan night clubs, Shnooks, reverse lil baby arm circles etc…

Work: At the playground with two teams of two: One PAX sprinted to the shipping container then jogged back to swap with working PAX.

  • 50 pullups
  • 100 squats
  • 100 swing merkins
  • 100 box jumps
  • 100 down unders

Mary: sit ups, box cutters, hello dolly, world war 1’s, Freddy mercury’s, leg raises, one minute plank.

COT: Everyone is excited for Vector’s Q at Bomber tomorrow and we realized that Atlantis isn’t on the website for new folks to find. All in all a great start to the morning!

SYITG,

YHC Crawlspace

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Atlantis 3-28-2019: Under the Sea

7 HIM came out into the beautiful gloom to make themselves better and to launch the first Q under the AOs new name – gents, let’s get ready to go “under the sea!”

PAX:  Crablegs, Crawlspace (LIFO), en fuego, Lunch Lady, Right Said, Trapper Keeper, Vector (QIC)

Conditions:   52 degrees, perfect

Mosey around the fields to the lower parking lot for the

Warm-o-rama:  WMH x 10,  Good Mornings OYO x 10, LBAC x 15, RLBAC x 15,  SSH x 20.

First Round:
Mosey up to playground where the main event was held.  In honor of the new name, the PAX performed a pyramid of exercises spelling out the new name.  Between each exercise, a friendly jaunt around the Bob Ross Memorial Water Tank:

American Hammers x 25
The Merkin x 50
Little Baby Crunches x 75
Air Presses x 100
Normal Squats x 100
Thigh Masters x 75
Irkins x 50
Steve Irwins x 25

Playlist:  (As an aside, do you know how hard it is to find moderately paced, ocean/sea/water themed catchy yet cheesy tunes?  I should get Ironclad credit for that alone, my friends . . .  but I digress)

Octopus’s Garden – The Beatles
Barracuda – Heart
The Tide is High – Blondie
Under the Sea – Samuel Wright (Yes,  that would be The Little Mermaid song)
Flood – Jars of Clay
Brandy (You’re a Fine Girl) – Looking Glass
Cake by the Ocean – DNCE
Once in a Lifetime – Talking Heads
Take Me to the River – Annie Lennox
Under the Sea – Squirrel Nut Zippers

Second Round:  2 sets of DIDs — 20-15-10 in the Pizza Hut Pavilion

Mary:  A variety of fun including Flutter Kicks, Alabama Prom Dates, WWIs, LBCs, Alphabet, Boxcutters, Hello Dolly’s

COT:

  • Fri 3/29, 12th Man Leadership Lunch with retired US Army Ranger, John Belman.  11:30 at Richland Country Club. Link to RSVP. See more details on the Slack #leadership channel or contact Bagger Vance.
  • Thanks to all who participated in yesterday’s #F3MentalBattle – reminded the PAX that we need to talk openly about these issues every day, so please continue to support one another.
  • Prayers for a friend of Lunch Lady and myself who’s newborn had to be admitted for jaundice.

Was an honor to lead you men this morning. SYITG,

Vector

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The Scorpion – 03.23.19 – “Success”

In what was arguably perfect weather, 23 PAX conquered F3 Nashville’s inaugural “Wild West” CSAUP, The Scorpion, this weekend and celebrated with McDonald’s and a birthday song. Special appearances and support from three other PAX.

QIC: Crablegs, Porcelain, Princess Aurora, Pumpkin Spice, Vector

PAX: Bad Boy (Stonewaudible), Bagger Vance (30#), Big Bang (30#), Black Lung, Blue Mule, Brother-at-law (Stonewaudible), Crawlspace, Cunning Linguist, Floppy Disk, Hambone, Hi-Viz (Photography/Sag Wagon), Leatherneck (30#), Ludwig Von Oshkosh, Mystery Machine, Pop-A-Lock, Reveille, Right Said, T-Cell, Tampa Libra, Tiny Dancer (30#), Trapper Keeper

THE THANG:

Princess Aurora

Following a PAX count, the usual disclaimer, and some extra instructions for the undertaking at hand, YHC took the PAX on a medium mosey up and around the Hill of Sisyphus and back to the Great Lawn for a COP, all exercises IC:

  • SSH x 43 (HBD BV!)
  • Chinooks x 10
  • Overhead Press x 10
  • Reverse LBAC x 10
  • Peter Parker x 10
  • Imperial Walkers x 10
  • Overhead Squats x 10
  • Newton’s Cradle x 10

Porcelain (Titan)

In the epicenter of the Athens of the South, this Q was heavily inspired by famous Greek battles and the years in and means by which they occurred. PAX divide into three teams and grab a picnic table, their ship for the battle. Whilst making their way around the entirety of Lake Watauga, PAX must complete as a team the following exercises and reps, avoiding the enemies’ attempts to block them along the way:

  • 490 Carolina Dry Docks
  • 480 Exaggerated Leg Raises
  • 300 Box Jumps
  • 479 Merkins

Winning team gets fewer burpees. Called for time (Qvantage: YHC)

2.5 miles to Westeros with a quick detour around Love Circle (for about half the PAX. Instructions clear for several, but not clear enough for all. YHC will own it.)

Pumpkin Spice (Westeros)

Making up for lost time, Pumpkin Spice dished out this short doozie:

  • Burpee Broad Jump down the sidewalk ~50 yards to WEMS steps
  • Crawl Bear up stairs
  • Sideways Bear across
  • Bear Crawl down stairs
  • Burpee Broad Jump another ~30 yards

Flutter Kicks for six and mosey back to start.

2.1 miles to Bomber.

Vector (Bomber)

A HIM known for his musical Q’s (and cues), Vector started the PAX off with a buy-in of 19 Burpees and 27 Squats paying homage to the AO’s former life as an airport created in 1927. With that out of the way, PAX were instructed to do three sets of Sevens, holding People’s Chair between each set and enduring the promised cheesy 80s playlist:

  • Set 1: Bulgarian Split Squats/Overhead Squats
  • Set 2: Merkins/Big Boy Sit-ups
  • Set 3: Erkins (variant spelling on Irkins originating somewhere near 51st and Nevada)/Rows/Pull-ups

2.5 Miles to Atlantis

Crablegs (Atlantis)

Short on time, but not on spirit, Crablegs closed the CSAUP out with two Atlantis signature exercises and a tribute to birthday boy Bagger. Quick hop over to the swings for Steve Irwins x 43. When you’re not rowing, Moroccan Night Club like a boss.

All in, and the CSAUP is complete.

COT/BOM

MOLESKINE:

Thank you to everybody who posted for this event as it’s been a long time coming. Nashville’s last AO-to-AO CSAUP was the original Ironclad in 2015, an event that introduced to F3 a curious bystander walking with his kid through Centennial Park. That bystander was none other than the HIM we came to know as Crawfish. YHC likes to think at least one guy saw us out there and thought to himself, “I need to know more.”

Hearty tclaps to Hi-Viz for playing photographer/videographer/support vehicle/catering. It’s a committed man who wakes up at 6am on a Saturday to walk around snapping photos of guys doing stupid and hard things. Or maybe it’s just a sadist. I’m banking on the former, though.

By my numbers, we had almost 11 miles including the workouts. Not bad! Also, excellent job by all the Qs coming up with four very different workouts and being willing to adjust on the fly. The Scorpion next year will be the chance for some new HIM to show us what they’ve got!

BULLHORN:

  • Wed 3/27, Mental Health Day at all your Wednesday AOs. Qs will end about 5 minutes early to allow for an extended COT. The purpose of this will be for folks to discuss the topic of depression.
  • Fri 3/29, 12th Man Leadership Lunch with retired US Army Ranger, John Belman.  11:30 at Richland Country Club. Link to RSVP. See more details on the Slack #leadership channel or contact Bagger Vance.
  • Sat 4/13, Warpath CSAUP with the Franklin Boyz
  • Sat 5/4, The Gauntlet CSAUP with the Nolensville Nard Dogs

PA out.

 

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3/21/19: Bearcrawlbear 1-2-3

Location: Atlantis (West Park)

Conditions: Mid-40s and dry

QIC: Pumpkin Spice

PAX: Lunch Lady, Mystery Machine, Princess Aurora, TK

THE THANG

After a brief disclaimer, the PAX moseyed around the field and took the long route around the pumping station, settling under the Pizza Hut. We started things off with a Side Straddle Hopocalypse x 100, followed by:

Warmorama :

  • LBAC x 15
  • Air Press x 15
  • Moroccan Night Clubs x 15
  • rLBAC x 15

The PAX paired up and we moseyed over to the starting parking lot for instructions. One partner would be doing the Bearcrawlbear traveling exercise, with the other doing the 1-2-3. PAX swap places when the traveler gets back to the start, and the count continues where the 1-2-3 PAX left off.

  • Bearcrawlbear: Bear crawl up one row to the light post (50 feet), cut across the parking spaces to the other row, then crawlbear back to the start
  • 1-2-3
    • 100 Merkins
    • 200 LBCs
    • 300 Squats

After the Bearcrawlbear was complete, the PAX repeated the warm up mosey, taking the long route around the field and pumping station, ending at the swings. One partner then started doing Steve Irwins while the other ran around the nearest water tower. PAX swapped places until both had run and done Steve Irwins.

Finally, PAX made there way to the parking lot for some Mary:

  • Flutter Kicks x 20
  • Hello Dolly x 20
  • LBC x 20
  • High Plank x 60
  • Left arm up x 60
  • Right arm up x 60
  • Box Cutters x 20
  • Freddie Mercuries x 20
  • American Hammers x 30

MOLESKIN

  • Mystery Machine treated the PAX to some deliciously tasty chocolate chip toffee cookies for tailgate desserteria. A few PAX understandably went back for seconds
  • Lunchlady shared stories about his 5 year-old son being a budding chef. He doesn’t let Lunchlady make chili without him — and who can blame him??

BULLHORN

  • The Scorpion CSAUP is on Saturday at 6am shoving off from Titan. Be there! Breakfasteria to follow at Atlantis (AKA West Park), featuring Pumpkin Spice coffee no less.
  • F3 Nashville shirt order is live on the Slack general page. Thanks to Hambone for finishing out the Scorpion order, so that all of us, and most especially Cunning Linguist, can get our hands on that PA-designed thing of beauty

– Pumpkin Spice