You’ve been William Wallace’d

What a beautiful morning!  almost 60deg and raining, perfect for a F3 beatdown.  12 HIMs showed up for a William Wallace beatdown.  Welcome to FNG, Matlock.  Sterno, thanks for bringing him out!

 

PAX: MicDrop, Barney Feivel, Creeper, NumbTucks, Kermit, Snowball, Nimbus1500, Sterno, Matlock (FNG), Stats, Tebow, Typo+ (QIC).

 

Pre-Party: 10 Burpees on the minute for 10 minutes, led by NumbTucks.  NumbTucks, Stats; Late Arrivals: Creeper, Barney Feivel.

 

Mosey, Disclaimer, etc

Warmups:

12x SSH IC; 12x LBAC IC, 12x RLBAC; Stretch OYO

 

Let’s Get It Started In Here…

William Wallace

PAX break into 4 groups of 3.  PAX 1 in each group runs to the middle, does the exercise, runs back.  PAX 2 and 3 plank and wait.  PAX 1 finished, PAX 2 goes, and so on.  Once all 3 complete, rotate to new workout.  All groups complete all 4 exercises.

  1. 10 Squats / 10 Baryshnikov Squats (Legs rotated out to the sides, hips opened, heels raised, then squat.)
  2. 5 Captain Thor (An ab exercise done in a 1:4 ratio. 1 big boy sit up to 4 American Hammers (Russian Twist).)
  3. 20 Bulgarian Ball Busters (Reverse lunge ending with a sharp knee-up. Should be accompanied by a karate sound for maximum effect.) Each leg is 1.
  4. 10 Burpees (do it!)

 

Indian Run

PAX all do a slow run.  Last PAX sprints to front and joins the line.  All PAX follow in like manner until all PAX have a chance to run to the front.  Thanks to Sterno for staying with the 6 on this run.  Make our way back to the parking lot.

 

11’s

PAX line up at light pole.  Run to next light pole, do 10 Merkins.  Run back to first light pole and do 1 Jump Squat.  Total of 11 reps.  Continue in like manner decreasing Merkins and increasing Squat Jumps, keeping total reps at 11 at each light pole.

 

Zig-Zag-ing

PAX plank head-to toe.  Last PAX rises and hops over each PAX in succession until they get to the front, then plank.  Progress until each PAX has hopped.

 

CoT

Count-o-rama, Name-o-rama; naming of FNG; closing prayer.

 

Great job today folks! I’m honored to lead you on my 50th post.

 

Typo+

Broken Wheel 2/5/2019

AO: Broken Wheel

Conditions: It was an un-seasonally warm day (65 degrees) for the middle of winter. The fog was rolling in as 18 PAX decided to take the Red Pill and get stronger.

PAX: Kermit, Altidore, Snowball, WMD, Udder, Inspector Gadget, Hush Puppy, Mic Drop, 3rd Degree, Numbtucks, Cheez Whiz, Type O+, Show Me, Stats, Ragdoll, Creeper, Netflix (AKA not Hulu), Sterno (QIC)

Warm-O-Rama: (20) Don Quixotes (IC), (20) American Hammers (IC)

After a mosey around the ball field PAX returned to the parking lot, partnered up and toed the line. Time to get to work!

Routine: “Nolan Richardson”
Partner 1 will perform each exercise denoted below as Partner 2 Politicians 50 yards, performs a ” Bobby Hurley” & jogs back to continue the exercise from the count accumulated by Partner 1. This will continue until the repetition count stated below is met. 1. Burpees (150). 2. Squats (300). 3. Big Boy Sit-Ups (150). 4. Little Baby Arm Circles (300). 5. Merkins (150). 6. Imperial Walkers (300).

Exercise 1: Burpees (150)
Exercise 2: Squats (300)
Exercise 3: Big Boy Sit-Ups (150)

Due to time constraints, mode of transportation was switched from a Politician to a Sprint. PAX seemed to appreciate this audible.

Exercise 4: Little Baby Arm Circles (300)
Exercise 5: Merkins (150)
Exercise 6: Imperial Walkers (300)

8th man (3rd Degree AKA Big Poppa): Originally from California, just outside of L.A. (That’s RAD!, nice one Altidore), Graduated with three degrees from the University of Tennessee (Go Vols!) and is currently waiting for his fourth 2.0 to enter the world.

Announcements/ Prayer Requests: Nolensville has a new Monday AO starting soon. There are several names being kicked around. I’m pretty sure guillotine has been vetoed but we’ll see. Continue to pray for Soccer Mom.

Great work today gentlemen!

Sterno

Polar Pain

The polar vortex blew in 17 PAX this morning to Broken Wheel where our theme was simply to keep warm and not die of hypothermia. It would have been a very Oregon Trail way to go, but, not on my watch!!

There was a Preparty, but: NumbTucks yelled something grumpy and unintelligible when I asked him what they were doing, so I let it be. To a bystander it looked like sprints between light poles with speed bumps of shivering.

PAX: Nimbus1500, CheezWhiz, Netflix, NumbTucks, Show Me, Creeper, Tebow, MicDrop, Stats, Gaylord Focker, Snowball, Barney Fievel, Steinbrenner (F3 Memphis), Sterno, Kermit, Inspector Gadget, and RagDoll (QiC).

Warm-up: 

  • 40 Side Straddle Hops
  • 10 LBAC’s forwards and backwards in cadence.
  • Stretch out the legs with some Toe Touches, Willie Mays Hayes and Good Mornings, and away we go!

Thang 1: Urban Typewriter

We’ve done the Typewriter a few times before on the glorious Forge football field, but we’re remanded to a parking lot this morning with only parking space stripes to guide us. So we’ll call this the Urban Typewriter.

  • Starting at the edge of the parking lot the PAX perform 10 Ranger Merkins (that’s a Merkin with your arms pulled back toward the bottom of your ribcage)
  • Then duck walk approx 40 yards towards the other end of the parking lot
  • Move forward approx 5 yards and perform 10 Burpees
  • Bear crawl back across the parking lot 40 yards
  • Repeat 10 Ranger Merkins and continue to serpentine your way through the lot, moving ahead 5ish yards each time you cross the lot.

Now, you kids that are over 35 should know what a typewriter is: that old writing machine where you press a key, and a hammer raises to strike an ink ribbon to impress a letter on a sheet of paper. Keys get pressed, the carriage moves right to left, until you get to a new line and it all starts over again.

Well, our typewriter looked more like one of those janky old rusty bits someone dug out of a dumpster behind Goodwill where all the keys are locked up, and you press one key and 5 letters all try to strike the ink ribbon at once, and it ends as a whole gobbed up inky mess that jacks up your paper.

I admit, performing the Urban Typewriter with little more than faint parking lot stripes to guide you is a challenging task, and as Q, I take responsibility for any unclear directions. The function was there – we’ll need to keep working on form.

At any rate, the PAX were breathing hard at the end of 10 passes across the parking lot.

Mosey 1: Catch Me If You Can

We line up for an Indian Run, 1.25 times around the the track. Last PAX in line drops to do 3 Yurpees (check the Exicon, courtesy of F3 Nolensville), then sprints to the front of the line, tagging the last person in line on his way past who then drops to do 3 Yurpees.

Thang 2: Wall Work

We pull off at the Snack Shack to do a Nimbus1500 favorite thing – Wall Walk-Ups. After pairing off…

  • Partner 1 does 5 Inverted Box Jumps (start at the top, jump down), while
  • Partner 2 does as many Wall Walk-Ups as possible (begin in high plank position, then walk your feet backwards up the brick wall of the Snack Shack, then down again).

Rinse and repeat this, increasing the number of Inverted Box Jumps by 5 each set – 5, 10, 15, 20 – until Q calls time or Barney Fievel breaks your phone.

Mosey 2: Catch Me If You Can (Redux)

Those who had already done Yurpees get to start at the front of the line while we continue our Indian Run. We complete another .75 times around the track and then stop off at the picnic shelter.

Thang 3: Arm To Table

We number off in groups of 4, each standing at the corner of a wooden picnic table bench. We do three sets of:

  • 5 Derkins
  • 5 Overhead Presses of the picnic table

I know there was some jealousy for those who didn’t get to do Yurpees on our Indian Run, so after circling up we all do 3 Yurpees together for good measure.

Nameorama / COT

I was impressed to have 17 PAX on what I think has been one of our coldest mornings of the winter so far… even while missing a couple regulars on IR. Great job men!

Creeper gave us a 9th Man overview of his life which included the fact that he is an Eagle Scout, how he started dating his wife when she was but a young intern at a local church (he assures us she was 18 and not his intern), and how he’s a professional wrestling super-fan. Who knew! I honestly don’t think we could handle any more info from Creeper than we got today – mind blown.

Continued prayers for Soccer Mom and fam. Keeping 3rd Degree and his fam in prayer as they prepare for 2.0. And healing for all our injured PAX.

Really enjoyed seeing you all and leading you this morning. Until next time, peace!

~ RagDoll

Duck Hunt

16 Sportsman came out for a guided tour of the marshes of Nolensville this morning guided by yours truly….

Conditions: It ain’t Teal season boys….. So forget the September temps. The mallards are flying for this late season hunt! 30 degrees with about 1-2 mph NW wind

Pax: 3rd Degree, Sterno, Barney Fievel, FNG – Snow Ball, Kermit, Inspector Gadget, Stats, Creeper, TV Guide, Ragdoll, Tebow, Netflix, Altidore, Micdrop, Nimbus, Show Me (Q) aka lead guide.

Pre-Party : Something ridiculous, hard, and grueling…(Which is why Q skipped so he could get his shotgun ready)

Warm Up:

18 was a special number today

18 – Side Straddle Hops

18 – Squats

18 – Merkins

18 – Forward Arm Circles (Q’s cadence struggled but it was because he wanted his Quack cadence to be stellar for the rest of the hunt)

18 – Backward Arm Circles

Mosey to the Blind where we will put in!

Thing 1 – The DUCK Blind Mill Creek (River) Bridge

#1 – Decoy Set up

Mill Creek Bridge was our hunting blind this morning. The mallards love the river bottoms and we were there to make sure we smoked em when they committed to our blind. But first we had to get our decoys across the river…. You can’t expect to get on em if your mojo ain’t in proper flying position… Q made the sportsman duck walk the bridge to get their decoys out. But since sun was coming up and we needed to be timely about a 5 burpee penalty/reward was issued for any hunter who gave in early.

#2 – Harvest Retrieval (don’t tell the Mrs.’s)

Any duck hunter worth his salt doesn’t leave his kill in the river and since we didn’t have a dog with us we were our own dogs. Pax were issued partners and partnered bear crawl back across the bridge as far as they could make it with their partner pax strapped to their waist. Once pax were exhausted and ducks started to sink pax’s switched up and completed the bear crawl back to the boating ramp.

Mosey  to Mill Creek Brewery Parking lot

Thing 2: The Clean Up

Time to clean our kill…

18 – Calf Rises

Duck walk the parking lot to the other side

6 – Iron Mikes in honor of Michael Waddell the great Realtree host

Rinse and repeat 2 additional times…. Why you wonder? The daily bag limit is 6 but the possession limit is 3 times the bag limit BABY so lets go!

Mosey to the pain ground

Thing 3: 6 pack

We ate a lot of Duck so we want to work off the flab even though this routine has nothing to do with our core.

1 Pull up and 5 Merkins repeat with 2 pull ups and 4 merkins and so on each time to equal 6. Once the sportsman hit 5 pull ups and 1 merkin the lead guide ShowMe showed no mercy and told them to rinse and repeat to wash off all that filthy duck meat from their teeth…..

6MOM

18 – Freddy Mercury

18 – WWI

Q had struggled on his calling cadence giving too many quacks in the blind so graciously 3rd degree and Tebow stepped up to the shooting platform and unloaded one final good load of steel shot on em…

18 – American Hammers (courtesy of 3rd degree)

18 – Crunchy Frogs (Thanks to Tebow because he knew we needed sushi after all that wild game)

Circle of Trust

Q encouraged the sportsman with the importance of spending quality time with their 2.0;s and how this is so vital. Outdoors is simply one way to do that. Be intentional with our time, put the phone away and invest in those who need us the most.

9th Man – Stats allowed us to peak in a little bit more to his world and shared about hometown, love for running, F3, and his bride.

 

Announcements

The guillotine I mean gauntlet (sorry Sterno) is coming soon….

Welcome Dave Ramsey’s Snowball to the group.

2nd F this Thursday lunch meet up not sure where yet?? Tebow has mentioned potentially Brothers  Burgers on Slack…

 

That’s all for now men. Thanks for getting on the waders and diving in the water with me this morning and making some memories. Keep your guns loaded and your calling reeds cleaned out for our next hunt…. Sometimes them coots come in hot!

We Must Climb, We Must Climb!! @ BrokenWheel

As Gollum said, “We must climb, we must climb.” We took his advice and took it to heart with some hill work, along with some fun speed bumps along the way. Sorry guys we ran a LOT this morning.

PAX: Sterno, 3rd Degree, Nimbus 1500, Creeper, Stats, Altidore, Tap Out, Aby, Barney Fievel, Show Me, Mic Drop, Tebow, Staples, Netflix, NumbTucks (QIC)

We did 10 burpees and then took off on a 1-mile jog to Countryside (the dreaded hill). This hill was introduced on my first half marathon I trained for, I HATED THIS HILL.

Along the way:
Speed bump 1: 50 Dips on benches
Speed bump 2: 50 Merkins
Speed bump 3: 50 American Hammers

THE HILL:
nine total driveways up the hill. At each driveway, each PAX performs burpees and WW1s. Both must add up to 10. Begin with nine burpees and one WW1. Decrease burpees and increase WW1s until you end up at the top with one burpee and nine WW1s

The way back:
Speed bump 1: Flutterkicks
We finally reached THE BRIDGE for one bear crawl across as we waited for others to show up. Staples hurt his ankle, some walked with him, while the others did some MARY.

Workout Notes:
– Warpath is this Saturday 5am at the Concord YMCA (feel free to show up for part or whole) Contact Third Degree for more details
– Ironclad sign up has past, but reach out to Princess Aurora if you want to sign up. He will have mercy
– Nimbus needs to stop revealing what he ate the night before by letting the gas flow freely while running in the front. (The smell is still haunting me)
– Show Me was on point with much yelling this morning. I heard a lot about Dabo Swinney.
– Hit up Tebow with some cash for coffee (venmo: @Nathan-Wright-34)

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 F3nashville.com 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

Broken Wheel Pyramid 11s

21 PAX endured mid 30s temperatures in an extra oppressive gloom to work out this morning.

PAX: Numbtucks, Mic Drop, Nimbus 1500, Sterno, Rag Doll, Altidore, Barney Fivel, Woody, Tebow, Soccer Mom, Netflix, Show Me, Creeper, Gaylord Focker, Jason Bell (FNG) know known as “Kermit”, Cheese Whiz, TV Guide, 3rd Degree, Inspector Gadget, Typo +, Stats (QIC)

Disclaimer

Warmup:

Mosey around parking lot

Baby Arm Circles X20 IC

Reverse Baby Arm Circles X20 IC

Side Straddle Hops X20 IC

Round of Good Mornings, Willy Mays Hayes and Cherry Pickers OYO

Thang 1: Bataan Death March

PAX ran in a straight line last in line dropped for three Burpees. Caught back up with the last PAX and tagged him out for a his three Burpees proceeded to front of the line. We proceeded until everyone had the chance to do Burpees and lead the group. Appx .75-.8 of a mile.

2nd Thang: 11s Pyramid 

Pax lined up in the parking lot for 10 Atomic Merkins, Bear Crawled to a middle line for 1 War Hammer (a WW1 with an American Hammer at the top) Crawl Bear to a third line for 10 Plank Jacks. Pax then Bear Crawl to the middle line for one more War Hammer, Crawl Bear to first line for 9 Atomic Merkins, Bear Crawl to the middle line for 2 War Hammers, Crawl Bear to the third line for 9 Plank Jacks and repeat lowering reps at the first and third line increasing reps at the second line. We called this as finished after about 20 minutes.

Mary (Sally):

PAX did the Sally squat challenge.

-Sign up for the Christmas party December 7th.

– Through this season take time to slow down from all the running and remember the meaning of Christmas. “Long lay the world in sin and error pining, til he appeared and the soul felt its worth”

– Keep Spicoli in your thoughts as he walks through his illness.

– Remember Rag Doll and his family during this time.

-Prayers continue for Little Miss Piggy and his family.

Stats out!

Oregon Trail Part 2

Conditions: 25 degrees

16 PAX in Attendance: 3rd Degree, Tebow, Altidore, CheezWhiz, Stats, Nimbus1500, ShowMe, Netflix, Creeper, Sterno,  SoccerMom, Inspector Gadget, NumbTucks (NimTucks this morning), ragdoll, Barney Fievel & WMD.

PreParty: 3rd Degree, SoccerMom, CheezWhiz, Creeper and Gaylord Focker (Don’t know what they did, I’m more of a Post Party kinda guy)

Warm up:
Started circled up for 10X: Twist Lunges, Knee Tucks, Toy Soldiers, T Merkins, Prisoner Squats & Prisoner Iron Mikes?

Prairie Problems
Partner swap:  PAX 1 Prairie Grass Pullups (Burpups) 10X, while PAX 2 completed as many “side plankups” as possible.  Swap then Rinse and Repeat for 10 mins

Base of the mountain 
The cold is tough on those wooden wheels.  15X (Broken Wheel) One Legged Hops on the Right Leg, 10X Angle Grinders, 15X One Legged Hops on the Left Leg, 20X Mountain Climbers.  Rinse and Repeat from the park entrance to the back parking lot, otherwise known as the Rockies

BurpBack Mountain 
Gotta do what you have to keep warm with your partner.  PAX 1 did Politicians up the Hill and Bear Crawled down 3X, while PAX 2 did Burpees.  Swap then Rinse and Repeat until there were an aggregate of 50 Burpees done by the pair.  Part way through, we lost some feet to frost bite, so the last 25 were one legged Burbees.

Quick Snake Run back to home base

Mary
30 Seconds of: Reverse Crunches, American Hammers, Jack Knife Sit-ups, One Legged Prom Dates (one round per leg, while my name was bellowed in a compromising way be the PAX), Wine mixers, Crunches, Mountain Climbers & Freddie Mercuries.

Post Party
Nimbus1500, 3rd Degree, CheezWhiz, Creeper, NumbTucks and SoccerMom & Barney completed 10 Yurpees

17 BEAR down @ BrokenWheel

 

17 PAX in Attendance:  Creeper, Sterno, NumbTucks,  Barney Fievel, Tebow, TV Guide, SoccerMom, ShowMe, MicDrop, Inspector Gadget, Nimbus 1500, MuRSA, WaterBoy (F3Franklin Pax), Netflix, RagDoll, CheezWhiz  & 3D (QiC)

NumbTucks & SoccerMom @ 5:15 for a pre-party showing with YHC doing 6 Pullups, 9 Irkins and 12 Iron Mikes (or Squats for NT) per round. We did 8 rounds in 10.5 minutes (1 round every ~75 seconds) Creeper came in midstream and busted out good sets including a makeup set after other Pax were done. BG Music provided by Maserati, TobyMac and others.

Warm-Up/Disclaimer:

  • Jog around parking lot x 1
  • SSH IC x 10
  • Tempo Merkins IC x 10
  • SJ IC x 10
  • LBACs x 10 Forward and Reverse with Big ACs intermingled
  • Tempo Squats IC x 10
  • 30 seconds GM OYO

The Thang(s) 

Dancing Bear Pyramid: PAX perform 2 Merkins and then recover to perform 2 Dancing Bears (Andean Bear (RIP) from Nashville Zoo on news…basically a jump squat and OHP). R&R going up in 2 reps of each until 10 & 10. Then back down the other side of the pyramid back to 2 each.

Bearway to Heaven: Bear crawl and then crawl-bear Sprints from parking lot lines (every 2 lines = 1 station) with Burpee Speedbumps at every station (10, 8, 6, 4, 2) all set to the 8:16 minutes:seconds of Stairway to Heaven. It rocked! YOU TRY IT!

Then…

It’s kinda my thing and we have to show our guest WaterBoy what F3Nolensville is all about… Bear crawl and Crawl-Bear the bridge (5 squat bonus for any stoppage)…

Lastly…

Deconstructed Yurpee Apocalypse: Start with 10 squats, then 10 Atomic Planks, 10 Clerkins (Clap-Merkins), 10 APs, and 20 Tuck-Jumps. Then decrease by 2 for Squats, APs, Clerkins, APs and by 4 for the TJs all the way down to 2:2:2:2:4.

MoM: Pax perform various Mary exercises until Q is smoked, then asks PAX for input on next exercise…R&R.

We did: Flutter Kix, Freddie Mercuries, American Hammers, Plank progressions (High, R arm up, High, L arm up, Low)

CoT/Numbers/Names

Moleskin

  • Make sure to sign up for Q slots for F3 Nolensville on F3nashville.com under Q Sign up (created a link in this sentence)
  • If you can bring or Venmo $ for coffeeteria to Tebow (@Nathan-Wright-34) that would be great as supplies are needed
  • 3rd F opportunity in Franklin: Marriage Tune up Series Date: Thurs Nov. 29th Location: 320 Main Street Suite 200 Franklin TN 37064 (above the TN bank on square) Time: 530am-6:30am
  • Exercise Self-Control and Discipline this week when men are expected to gratify the flesh. I’m not saying not to enjoy and be thankful for the gifts of good food and drink, I’m just encouraging to consider serving and not being a glutton…Aye?
  • Shared a little about when overwhelmed with darkness in your heart, others’ hearts or the world around us, remember that Christ overcame the world, nothing can separate those that are loved by God through Jesus if a Christian
  • Romans 8:35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?36 As it is written,

    “For your sake we are being killed all the day long;
        we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”

    37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

  • Everyone is getting stronger, faster and better the more you post. GREAT WORK! See you Thursday!!!!!!!!!!!

3D, out!

The Oregon Trail

Conditions: 38 degrees and raining

13 PAX in Attendance: 3rd Degree, Tebow, Altidore, CheezWhiz, Stats, Typo+, Nimbus1500, ShowMe, Netflix, Creeper, TV Guide, Sterno & SoccerMom.

PreParty: 3rd Degree, SoccerMom & Typo+ (Don’t know what they did, I came in hot at 5:30)

Warm up:
Started circled up with a few Butt Kicks, Side Straddle Hops and Dynamic Stretching prior to setting out on the trail.

Indian run over to Independence, MO (Nolensville First United Methodist Church) to gear up for our journey.

Assemble the Wagons: Partner up
Partner 1 in wide PLANK while Partner two begins their IRON Hulk swapping every set, ascending from 1 Merkin:4 AirPresses to 10 Merkins:40 AirPresses

Now that our transportation is taken care of, we rode over to the Kansas River (Mill Creek) via an Indian Run.

Ford the River
Crabwalk feet first, then sideways, flip sides then backwards over the bridge.

Bear Hunting
Partner 1 begins Crawl Bear away from Partner 2, while Partner 2 does 5 Pistol Squats on each leg.  Once partner 2 completes his Pistol Squats, he Bear Crawls until he catches Partner 1.  (Flip sides, Rinse and Repeat the length of the high plains of Nebraska (Nolensville Soccer Fields)

Carry your Kill
Now that we’ve got lots of bear meat, we need to get it back to the wagon via Partner Carries from the Soccer Fields to Mill Creek Brewery.

AND…we all died of dysentery (Ran out of Time)

Quick Snake Run back to home base

Mary
In honor of the origin of the name Oregon, thought to be from the French Canadian word Ouragan (Hurricane), we completed a quick Hurricane Hoedown.

Post Party
Nimbus1500, 3rd Degree, CheezWhiz, Creeper and SoccerMom completed 7 Yurpees