Category: Handsomizer

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Passing of the Flag

AO: handsomizer
Q: Natural Ice , Freakonomics
PAX: Detective Pikachu, Grayson Adkins, Salami, Black Lung, Down Range from Atlanta – Can anyone share his name to get properly tagged?
FNGs: None
COUNT: 6
CONDITIONS: Soggy

WARMUP: An OG warm up SSH, LBAC, MERKINS, SQUATS

THE THANG:

Thing 1 – YHC Natural Ice led the PAX through the rain to the top of the parking garage – instead of the planned burpee-stairway-a-clock-alypse we pivoted to the ramp-running-burpee-apocalypse. Pax performed a burpees apocalypse descending from 10 at each level of the garage. Once we hit the bottom we ran back to the top where the Q was handed off

Thing 2 – Freakonomics took the pack back down the garage, and each each level we performed a variety of exercises including, merkins (decline and incline), squats, lunges, and bear crawls!

Merry – A very long planril low plank, and a dealers choice ended in burpees

ANNOUNCEMENTS: A big warm welcome to Freakonomics stepping up as the new AOQ for Handsomizer! He has always brought a very energetic and positive attitude to the AO and I am excited to watch him continue to grow our handsome location!

COT: Prayers for Black Lung and his 2.0’s safety this weekend during their white water canoe trip. We also as lifted prayer for his family as they navigate a new job for his M and the changes to their schedule.

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Mindfulness

AO: handsomizer
Q: Chunks
PAX: Spinal Tap, Grape, Right Said, Red Skull
FNGs: None
COUNT: 5
CONDITIONS: Pleasant

WARMUP:
Mosey to the Parking Garage
Normal warm up of SSH, Imperial Walkers, Little Baby Arm Circles
THE THANG:
Exercise at the bottom of the ramp, mode of travel up the ramp to half way do the exercise again, mode of travel to the top of the ramp excercise again
Exercises: Merkins, Hand release merkins, big boy situps, LBCs, Lunges, Jump Squats
Mode of Travel: Bear Crawl, Lunges, Mosey, Bernie

Pass the Speaker Caboose is loose run back to the startex
MOLESKINE:
Reach the top of the parking garage
Paused for a moment to take in the sunrise and think about the meaning of the upcoming Easter Weekend.
Shared a little bit of what I said at my Grandfathers funeral about being present in everything we do

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
4:13 Class in need of encouragement, so make plans to come and encourage these men as they start a new life.
UFC 300/BBQ on 4/13/124 in Hendersonville. Check out 2ndf for details
Plankpril startes 4/1/24. Check slack for all the details

COT:
Closed in prayer for Easter and all of us dads to be present with our kids.

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Elevens and Economics

AO: handsomizer
Q: Detective Pikachu
PAX: Freakonomics, Frasier
FNGs: None
COUNT: 3
CONDITIONS: Slightly chilly

WARMUP: 1 mile run around The Stadium, followed by stretches

THE THANG: Elevens on the Gated Hill to the southwest of StartEx. Merkins and WW1s. Mosey back to StartEx for Mary. Too many Jane Fondas.

MOLESKIN: good economics education from Freakonomics. You had to be there

ANNOUNCEMENTS: QIC is now under contract on a house. We’ll be leaving Nashville in August for the Upstate of SC.

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Relay for Life

AO: handsomizer
Q: Hair Band
PAX: Natural Ice, bluemule, caprate, Chunks, Spinal Tap, Mansport, Plunger
FNGs: None
COUNT: 8
CONDITIONS: perfect English weather

WARMUP:
Mosey
Good mornings
WMHs
LBACs
Air press
Michael phelps

THE THANG:
Relay Race day! Two teams

15 burpees for lead off runner, rest of team continues to do burpees until runners get back
Runners Run ramp
Once all in winner is declared and winning team gets to choose a different exercise for themselves, that exercise can only be used once though. Winning team also adds 5 reps to their exercise each time they win
Rinse and Repeat

Final scores
Team blue mule, mansport, chunks, and Hair Band 3 wins
Team Spinal Tap, Cap Rate, Plunger, and Natural Ice 1 win

MOLESKINE:
Rugby might be the best sport?
If you are traveling to Scotland, start in Edinburgh or Glasgow and travel around the Highlands

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
– murder mile at greenmachine, check channel for details
– bluemule hosting a beer tasting for his birthday, likely happening the 22nd
– Plankpril, check 1stf channel for details

COT:
– each man shared a prayer request, prayers for health, wellness, deaths of family members and friends, new jobs, job search, traveling mercies

As always, thank you for having me out to lead! It was an honor and a privilege to become more handsome at the Handsomizer.

Rock on,

Hair Band

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Find your adventure

AO: handsomizer
Q: G-string (Eli Kresta)
PAX: Natural Ice, Rocket Mortgage, Freakonomics, Red Skull, Spinal Tap, Black Lung
FNGs: None
COUNT: 7
CONDITIONS:
Rainy and chilly. Perfect for a beatdown… in the parking deck.

WARMUP:
– Motivator X6
– Inchworms
– Mosey to the parking deck
– BACs
– Back-BACs
– Overhead Claps
– 20 burpee buy in (hero style)

THE THANG:
Split into two teams
Thang 1:
Rotate through the following exercises
– Pullups on the ledge
– endorphins with the sandbag
– Bear-crawl up the incline and back

Thang 2:
Complete the reps as a team
– 150 perfect merkins
– 200 sandbag rows
– 250 air squats

MARY:
– 25 big-boys
– 25 LBCs
– 25 slow leg raises
– 45 second hollow hold

MOLESKINE:
“The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.” -GK Chesterton
Looking back on my life, my twenties were full of adventures (travel, missionary work, moves, etc.), but now that I’m thirty, I am married with a child. There is a lot less obvious adventure in the day-to-day operations now. HOWEVER, it fills my heart just as much as the adventures did in my twenties.

How do we view adventure? How do we see the extraordinary in our daily lives? Do we see our roles as husbands and fathers as truly heroic, and do we treat them as such?

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Biscuit run tomorrow

COT:
Friend of PAX has lost multiple children in the last 12 months. Prayers for him.

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Apocalypse Recovery

AO: handsomizer
Q: Natural Ice
PAX: Freakonomics, Frasier, Rocket Mortgage
FNGs: None
COUNT: 4
CONDITIONS: Spring is sneaking up – leggings are optional

WARMUP: SSH until Rocket Mortgage joined us, Arm Circles, and Imperial Walkers, and a .88 mile mosey around the park.

THE THANG: Mega Apocalypses

Pax Performed each set of exercises in a pyramid format, starting with 10 reps of each exercise and decreasing by 1 each round until combining sets 2 and 1 at the end.

Each set Pax held Al Gore tree hugger pose waiting for 6 – Once the whole set was done we ran the big stair route.

Mega Apocalypse 1

2 count Iron mikes
Squats
WW1
Merkins

Mega Apocalypse Deux

Lt Dan
Star jumps
WW1
Carolina Dry Docks

MOLESKINE: Mumble Chatter was intentionally high as we caught up on each others lives.

Caffe Natty, in an effort to not wake up his house hold grinding beans, stumbled upon the a secret blend of 1/3 Good Citizen and 2/3 The Well coffee for a perfect blend of acidity and boldness.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Future Hunger Games in the works and upcoming greenmachine insanity.

COT: Lifted up Freakonomics article submission and everyones families

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Out Of This World

AO: handsomizer
Q: Grape
PAX: Freakonomics, Black Lung, Carabiner, Z Pack, Green Acres
FNGs: 1 Green Acres
COUNT: 6
CONDITIONS: wet and wild

WARMUP: 30 SSH
15 LBAC F
15 LBAC R
15 Seal claps
15 OH Press
Mosey to bottom of stairs

THE THANG: bearway to heaven

In groups of two, run the stairs and do 86 reps each of the following exercises

Carolina Dry Docks
O Squats
Merkins
Elbows to knees
Take off (sprint back to startex)

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Leanpax is over!

COT: prayers for health of friends and family and for boundaries and boldness in relationships

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Garage of Wonders

AO: handsomizer
Q: Detective Pikachu
PAX: Spinal Tap, Rocket Mortgage, Freakonomics, Plumber
FNGs: None
COUNT: 5
CONDITIONS: Foggy, mildly chilly

WARMUP: Circuitous mosey to the top of the stairs. Stretches, BACs, Seal Claps

THE THANG: Garage of Wonders
Mosey between floors, with 100 reps of an exercise at every floor.
1: Merkins
2: WW1s
3: Squats
4: Single leg deadlifts
There are 7? total landings (we skipped some)
10 reps of each exercise at the top and mosey back to StartEx

ANNOUNCEMENTS: The Hunger Games tomorrow night at Natural Ice’s place. Firefox is bringing the games.

COT: Pray for my wife, as her doctoral defense is this coming Tuesday. Pray she prepares well and remembers what she prepares.

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Get Handsome the Fastest

AO: handsomizer
Q: Hair Band
PAX: Natural Ice, Spinal Tap, Freakonomics, Detective Pikachu, Frasier, Fudd
FNGs: None
COUNT: 7
CONDITIONS: a riddle: a lactose intolerant person who had cheese 30 minutes ago

WARMUP:
50 SSHs

THE THANG:

Relay race:
2 teams

Round 1:
Both teams do burpees
1 person does 10 burpee buy in then runs the handicap ramp and back down the stairs (due to rain we moved to the parking garage)
Tag next person
First team to all in chooses next exercise
Rinse repeat

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
– #leanpax still going strong
– #hendersonville relaunch tomorrow 01/13 at 6am
– #brewsday meeting (leanpax approved) is on the horizon
– January 24th Night Moves in the Nations for #Atlantis
– brewruck Feb 17th after leanpax

PRAYER REQUESTS:
– each man shared, prayers for family physical, mental, and emotional health. Prayers for work & research. Celebrating for DRer Fudd family, new grandchild born

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Punishment for Defeat

AO: handsomizer
Q: Natural Ice , Salpal
PAX: bluemule, Red Skull, Grape, Rocket Mortgage, Frasier, Blueliner, Cuban Missile, Natural Ice, Salpal
FNGs: None
COUNT: 9
CONDITIONS: Chilliest

WARMUP: SHAME! Hey guys we really sucked at kickball last week, and we need to get our act together. I swear, if loose to bomber 7 or 8 more times in the future… thats it. I am out of here! I will be getting a peloton.

THE THANG: Punishment for Losing!

@salpal lead us through 3 EMOM circuits
Too many Burpees, Sprints, and Lt Dans!

I took over for a brief merry break followed by a ladder of OHP & Merkins, counting up to 10 and then back down.

Mandatory stair work following with a stair skipping sprint and 92 bunny hops up the steps.

5 minutes of merry ended us out with a final burpee buyout!

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Hendersonville 1/13 at 6 am!
Leanpax!