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The Knoll

Date: 2026-04-09 AO: The Knoll Q: Half Lyfe , PAX: Lady Liberty, morning stār, Pebbles, AAA, Half Lyfe, Juicy J, Bumblebee (2.0) FNGs: None COUNT: 7 CONDITIONS: another great morning.
WARMUP: mosey, leg stretches, windmill
THE THANG: Similar to Tues with some modification. Round 1 Timer run to fire hydrant and back. SB clean, curl, squat Jump rope burpee Flutter kicks Swing rows Merkin with plank Jack Decline merkin with core lift
Round 2, 3, 4 Timer 100, 60, 40 jump ropes Mountain climbers Swing rows WW2 Dips SB squats Pull ups
Ended with some Mary, pax selected exercise.
MOLESKINE: grateful for F3 to strengthen mind, body, spirit!
ANNOUNCEMENTS: check slack
COT: count off, name-o-rama
PLAYLIST: various.
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The Knoll

Date: 2026-04-07 AO: The Knoll Q: Half Lyfe , PAX: Roadkill, Timber, Pebbles, Malibu, Papa Bear, Shakira, AAA, Half Lyfe, Juicy J FNGs: None COUNT: 9 CONDITIONS: perfect after a little warm up.
WARMUP: Mosey with high knees, butt kickers, karaoke, side shuffle, arm/leg stretches.
THE THANG: 50 sec on 10 sec between stations. Finished with some flutter kicks.
MOLESKINE: Mash up beat down with mash up playlist. Never know what life will throw your way so always time to reflect, adapt and grow!
ANNOUNCEMENTS: check slack!
COT: count off, name-o-rama, coffee.
PLAYLIST: mash up
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The Knoll

Date: 2026-04-02 AO: The Knoll Q: Stubs , PAX: Étouffée, Stubs, Roadkill, Pebbles, Shakira, Juicy J, morning stār, Bumblebee 2.0, Churchill 2.0 FNGs: None COUNT: 9 CONDITIONS: perfect
WARMUP: SSH x20 BACs, BACBACS, OHP x15 Low slow squats x 10 Slow mercs x5 Slow mosey to stop sign
THE THANG: Dora Partner 1 runs to fire hydrant and back Partner 2 exercises As a team complete 300 squats 200 4 count flutter kicks 100 Mercans 75 Carolina dry docks
Pax planked or did imperial walkers while waiting for 6th
5 minutes of Mary Imperial walkers, ww1s, crunches, hammers, low slow squats, leg raises, etc.
MOLESKINE: sometimes you need to keep it simple
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Many spring events please check slack for more details. COT: Prayers and coffee
PLAYLIST: the alt hits of the 2010s
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The Knoll

Date: 2026-03-31 AO: The Knoll Q: Stubs , PAX: Étouffée, Papa Bear, Stubs, Half Lyfe, Sparrow, Pebbles, morning stār, AAA, Juicy J, Roadkill, Bumblebee 🐝 2.0 FNGs: None COUNT: 11 CONDITIONS: perfect
WARMUP: 10x ssh 10x BACs, BacBacs, OHP 10x low slow squats Willy Mays hays OYO Mosey to stop sign, then to water table
THE THANG: Deck of cards Aces =15 reps Face =10 reps Numbers = as indicated Deuces wild – run to backstop and back and pax calls out exercise of choice
Hearts = squats Spades = step ups Clubs = Mercans Diamond = Dips
Wilds were – LBCs, monkey jumpers, lazy imperial walkers and cobras
Mary was 20x ww2s and LBCs
MOLESKINE: needed to keep it simple – so the deck of cards made todays Q easier. Definitely having a harder time getting up and out these days and didn’t want to over complicate it.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Lots of upcoming events mentioned crawfish boil March into May Juicy half marathon Family farm camp 4:13 ruck event F3 dads workout in May As always check slack
COT:prayers and coffee
PLAYLIST: some 2000 alt jams at a low volume. Plenty of chatter. Sound of birds.
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The Knoll

Date: 2026-03-26 AO: The Knoll Q: Pebbles , PAX: Juicy J, Half Lyfe, Pebbles, AAA, Étouffée, Timber FNGs: None COUNT: 6 CONDITIONS: Cool and balmy
WARMUP: Side straddle hops Bacs Bac Bacs Don Quixotes Cherry Pickers Low slow squats 50 pushups for Half Lyfe
THE THANG: 11s on the hill Round 1: Carolina Dry Docks and Burpees Round 2: Iron Mikes and Lt. Dans
MOLESKINE: Lots of running – we covered 2 miles of hill running with hard leg work in between. My legs will be toast.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Pitmaster BBQ The Struggle
COT: Stress is real. Don’t deny it. Check in with your brothers to see how they are doing.
PLAYLIST:
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Piglet Beatdown

Date: 2026-03-19 AO: The Knoll Q: Piglet , PAX: Piglet, Roadkill, Juicy J FNGs: None COUNT: 3 CONDITIONS: excellent
WARMUP: side straddle hops, arm circles, backpacks, various stretches
THE THANG: Cone 1 – burpees, run to Cone 2- Abs – repeat process until death. Mixed in mike tysons, merkins, and burpees. Solid classic beatdown
MOLESKINE: Piglet’s words of wisdom
ANNOUNCEMENTS: F3 Dads and Pitmaster cookout
COT: Prayers up
PLAYLIST: Roadkill’s flatulating sounds
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Malibu’s Ruck-aroni around the ‘hood

Date: 2026-03-17 AO: The Knoll Q: Malibu , PAX: Juicy J, Half Lyfe, Roadkill, Stubs, Étouffée, Malibu FNGs: None COUNT: 6 CONDITIONS: perfect
WARMUP: side straddle hops, arm circles
THE THANG: 3 Mile Ruck around the neighborhoods
MOLESKINE: Malibu’s words of wisdom
ANNOUNCEMENTS: F3 Dads and Pitmaster cookout!
COT: Prayers up for friends and family and all the wars going on
PLAYLIST: none needed
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Pebbles Beatdown

Date: 2026-03-24 AO: The Knoll Q: Pebbles , PAX: Juicy J, Half Lyfe, Pebbles, AAA, Étouffée FNGs: None COUNT: 5 CONDITIONS: 50 ish
WARMUP: side straddle hops, various stretches
THE THANG: Rotating merkins, pullups, abs, dips, lunges. Rotate based on group run up to the fire hydrant.
MOLESKINE: Pebble’s words of wisdom – Check up on your friends. Lots of folks struggling right now.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: F3 Dads – check slack
COT: Prayers up!
PLAYLIST: rock ‘n roll, alternative rock, and some Creed!
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3 Dudes Having a Good Time

Date: 2026-03-12 AO: the-knoll Q: Pebbles PAX: Juicy J, Half Lyfe FNGs: None COUNT: 3 CONDITIONS: Shockingly Cold and Windy
WARMUP: Side Straddle Hops Don Quixote’s Cherry Pickers Slow Squats
THE THANG: Circle up for station work. Rotated thru stations while one pax ran for appox 1min as the timer. Sandbag was available to level up. Exercises completed: Pull Ups WWIIs Squats Merkins WWIs Step Ups Mike Tyson’s Iron Mike’s Dips
MOLESKINE: 3 brave men showed up in the dark and cold. Humbled that they did.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Check Slack.
COT: We talked about moderation. As men we are wired to push and persevere. Our challenge is to practice the virtue of temperance and moderate our efforts so we’re effective and don’t burn out.
The season of Lent in the Church is a great way to practice this virtue.
PLAYLIST: Pop music
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Move, then rope; repeat.

Date: 2026-03-10 AO: the-knoll Q: morning stār PAX: AAA, Juicy J, Papa Bear, Sparrow, Bumble bee (2.0) FNGs: None COUNT: 6 CONDITIONS: quite lovely; just darker than before.
WARMUP: YHC was late so thanks to the PAX for starting the warm up with SSH, arm cricles, etc.
THE THANG: partner up; one partner moves to the tree and back the other ropes
round 1: backwards moving imperial walkers to tree, mosey back round 2: baby crawl with accentuated shoulder drop, politician back round 3: murder bunny/slow frogger to tree and mosey back
Mosey to backstop in between.
MOLESKINE: not much better for invigoration than intentional movement for45 minutes with some other men.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: check slack
COT: YHC shared about being triggered/dysregulated/hurt this week and how just thinking through it didn’t really work. Once I paused and took time to forgive each person involved, release the situation and open up to bring my core need to God things shifted substantially. Could tell my body relaxed and I was able to dig deeper into what my heart needed.
Encouraged PAX to get back to the basics. One of the basics of the inner life is forgiveness. I’ve been using a helpful model rooted in Christian tradition lately: 1. Count (name) the debt (hurt or what you wanted) 2. Cancel it (forgive because you’ve been forgiven) 3. Pass it to Jesus (he’ll do something with it; ask him to show you what it is) 4. Relinquish the right to be the other person’s judge (only God can really see everything and judge rightly) 5. Bless or pray for that person (you’ve done those same things too) 6. Ask Jesus what the one core need was that you didn’t get met in that situation/by that person (what you long for is good) 7. Ask God to meet that need directly (only he truly can anyway)
Stay childlike my brothers, -m*