Category: The Forge

Pre-Party: 3rdDegree led Staples, Kermit, and Nimbus doing some yoga-inspired work in the downpour with the medic pumping the Aggressive Spa mix.

21 PAX in attendance for the main event: Kermit, Staples, Stats, Numbtucks, Mursa, Nimbus, Mickey Mouse, Mufasa, Topper, CheezWhiz, Sex Ed, Lovie, Mic Drop, Sprinkles, Pocahontas, Gaylord Focker, TVguide (VQ coQ), 3rd Degree (coQ), and 3 FNGs – Ohh Ship, Back Ho, and G.I. Jane got after it.

Warm-up/Disclaimer:

• SSH IC x 20
• Squat Thrusts IC x 20
• Tempo Merkins IC x 15
• Mountain Climbers OYO
• Good Mornings
• Willie Mays
• ShowMe Lap

Thang 1: Bataan Death March
Kicked off a Bataan Death March with a 5 burpee buy-in to start. Pax start their mosey from the Mill Creek bridge behind the HS football field, the last man completes 5 burpees before sprinting to the front of the line. Rinse. Repeat. Threw in a few speed bumps along the way: bump #1 – 10 merkins, bump #2 – 10 Iron Mikes (each side is a half). We death marched all the way to the middle school soccer fields.

Thang 2: Doracides

Dora + Suicides = Doracides. Yes, it’s as terrible as it sounds. A slightly modified version though, partners shared the following: 100 merkins, 200 LBCs, 300 squats. Mode of transportation was suicides, with a burpee at each cone x3. Immediately following the Doracides, we got in one more Bataan Death March lap around the entire soccer field. Ensuring everyone got their fair share of the suck.

Plank and wait for the six. Closed out the march with 5 more burpees for the entire group. Next up, 3rdDegree beat down.

Thang 3: Bearcrawl Suicides
More partner work. This time bearcrawl suicides. Partner 1 hangs back to stretch out whatever they want. Qs orders – insert mumble. Partner 2 begins with bearcrawl to the first cone, then crawlbear back. Repeat 3 times to complete suicides. Flapjack. This one sucked.

Thang 4: The Royal Burpee

• Single Shot Jack – 5
• Double Shot Jack – 5
• Clap Burpee – 5
• Mountain Climber Burpee – 5
• 180 Burpee – 5
• Insert Fog Of War – memory (and body) fading quickly, was there more?

To end the thangs, we performed some Banana Supermans.

CoT/Numbers/Names/FNG Naming

What we learned: Get comfortable with being uncomfortable. Stepping outside of your comfort zone is key. It’s how we experience new things in life. It’s how we confront our fears. It’s how we become stronger leaders. After a few good words by 3rdDegree, we tightened up our CoT for prayer.

Bullhorn: (memory still foggy)… this Wed 6/12 – 2ndF opportunity for lunch in Nashville. Open to all, hoping to get the Nolensville PAX that work downtown together for some grub around noon. Watch for more details on slack.

Post Party: 3rdDegree led Numbtucks, Staples, CheezWhiz, Stats, & TV Guide to perform a 20 burpee ante for each FNG. 6 rounds of 10 burpees on the minute, totaling 60 burpees. Aye!

Beereteeria: Altidore came through with a special drop off delivery of some Good People IPA. Cerveza Salute in full effect to celebrate TV Guide’s first Q. Also big thanks to Numbtucks and CheezWhiz for providing the traditional Coffeeteria. A good day indeed.

– TV Guide, out.

Pre-Party: YHC led Staples & eventually Old Hickory & Creeper got in on a Bearway to Heaven. YHC wanted to up the ante so led off and ended with 10 burpees. BearCrawl Slice of Bread…delicious.

Since the football field was locked (bummer!) we ran around the schools until 1 mile complete and ended at the elementary school pain ground for the rest of the Thang.

Time to get ready for some gauntlet action next weekend. Nothing like some running and getting REAL close with your bros to get a man prepared!

A wonderful morning- no more gloom and a gentle breeze, 50 deg and warming

19 PAX. Fell one short of Numbtucks’ challenge but still a great showing.  Co-QiC Little Miss Piggy and Cheezwhiz, Mickey Mouse, Show Me, Numbtucks, Nimbus 1500230349587, Tebow, 3rd deg, Old Hickory, Stats, Staples, Hush Puppy, Mufasa, TV Guide, Typo +, Kermit, Mr. Opus, Creeper, Sterno

Preparty:  led by the one and only KERMIT!   a nice opening run to the Elementary school and back — about 2.5 miles

Disclaimer then warm up:  BAC-IC, toy soldiers, WillieMaysHays

The Gauntlet touts a challenging 8 mile course, and seeing that it is next weekend…we decided the group needed a little cardio booster today — let’s get some more running in.

RUN: x 1 mile –everyone seemed to still be feeling pretty good, even the prepartiers

Thang 1:  GUNS-N-ROWSES !!!
LMP still isn’t sure why CheezWhiz insisted that we not run into the nearby neighborhood to do this thang .  Weird.   But it did seem that the  people driving by were all staring at this bunch of manly-men rising to the challenge and engorging their…backs and biceps!
Attitude adjustment x 10 burpees.
Partner UP–PAX1 stands straddling PAX2 laying on ground.  PAX1 does a low row using PAX2 as weight, then PAX2 does a hanging bicep curl on PAX1’s arms. Apocalypse style counting down from 10 to 5, then switched positions and repeat.   Man the mumble chatter was classic Nolensville on this one.

Run: x .75 mile  end at playground

Thang 2:    10x 10
grab a ledge and we have 10 reps each of Copenhagens, Merkins, and Squats on the minute x 10 minutes — to spice it up we threw a few rounds of different type of merkins.

Run:  x.91 miles  through neighborhood and back to vehicles   = total of 2.66 miles  + preparty .   I think I heard a final total including PP to be 5.3 miles.  Great work.

Plank and wait for the six.

Mary:  Grab a small coupon.  Circle up.
Split leg WWI with twist x 10 to each leg ,  American Hammers IC  x 25 ,  single coupon Merkin with pull though x 10.

COT: Count and Name-o-rama.  Prayer.
Announcements- Gauntlet next Sat. at 5am !   Be there (if you can)
Prayer-SoccerMom, LMP’s mother-in-law with breast cancer (mastectomy soon), Spicoli’s getting his scan results to check for cancer return, Barney running marathon, Mufasa job situation (praise and prayer) …sorry if I missed one — just message me and i’ll add it here.
Praise-HushPuppy’s nephew with leukemia found out it is a more treatable type but keep praying b/c he is undergoing treatment

Coffeeteria served — and Numbtucks was served by LMP as well 🙂

7 PAX PREPartied for GAUNTLET: 3rd Degree, Staples, Sterno (QiC), Altidore, Stats, Typo+ & Nimbus.

Mosey around school for all sorts of madness. Trump Burpees, Farmer Carries, Barishnakov squats, Underdoggies, Merkins, Burpees, UpsideDown Kingdom Runs…work was done, fun was had and attitudes were adjusted. 45 min. flies!

6 o’clock is upon us, let’s go!

10 PAX in attendance: Wolverine, Nimbus 1500, Stats, Sterno, Ragoll, LittleMissPiggy, Altidore, Typo+, Staples (VcoQ), & 3D(YHC, coQiC)

Warm-up/Disclaimer (Staples on Q):

• Jog around parking lot x 1 (then circle up)
• SSH IC
• Tempo Merkins IC x 10
• GM OYO

To the Field!!!
Partner up. Grab a tennis ball from Staples Vacation Bible School knapsack and get on the line. P1 throws the ball across the field and P2 goes and gets it with called MoT while P1 AMRAPs the exercise called. When P2 reaches the ball, mosey back to endzone to meet up with P1. Then flapjack. Rounds included: Skanks and Merkin, DuckWalk and WWIs, Sprint and American Hammers, lunge-walk and squats. Maybe there was another round too…Oh well. Should have been there.

RING OF FIRE!

Pax circle around the Knights logo at the 50 and shoulder to shoulder held highPlank. One by one, pax bear crawl around the circle back to their place. Almost resembled Duck, Duck, Goose. Lots of MC about playing with Staples’ balls. Priceless. Also…Wolverine and Nimbus resemble gorillas when crawling sideways…and FAST.

Great job Staples! Then the reigns were handed off to 3D and things went a little sideways…all spontaneous ideas. Some were keepers…some were…interesting.

Bleacher Work:

Pax split into 2 groups of 5, on each end of the bleachers (where no middle hand rail would rack you) and in line crawl-bear up the stairs to the top, then mosey back to the bottom and HP/Al Gore for the 6.

Then a race of sorts where Teammates RiverDance the bottom bleacher seat while one at a time pax race to the underside and perform 10 pull-ups, then rejoin their team. Proceed through team until all have performed pull-ups. Basically a tie.

Enough of that…let’s head to the track.

BURPEE BEAST MILE (modified)

10 Burpees, run 400m, 10 Burpees x 4 with some Ab work thrown in, including 30 LBCs, 15 WWIs. Nice way to get 80 Burpees and 1 mile in, then some!

Next!

We just had to take advantage of the Hurdles on the field, so:

Hurdle Curls x 30. Then some Boxing Sequences including:

• 4 jabs, then side-step duck under hurdle, R&R x 10.
• 4 UpperCuts then step over hurdle R&R x 10,
• Jab-Hook then side step behind and around to opposite side. R&R x 10.
• High kick-Low kick then alternate stance and R&R x 10.

Finally, Line up the 10 hurdles and bear crawl through the tunnel. 3 burpee penalty for any knocking into the hurdles. If Sterno hadn’t been trying, we would have done better. 6 penalties. Oh Well, everyone did 18 penalty burpees.

Then we lined back up and crawl-beared through the tunnel. Pax didn’t know the penalty this time, and we racked up a whopping 10 penalties. Pax lined up and had to sprint 10 yds per penalty, so we sprinted 100yds.

TIME CALLED.

CoT/Numbers/Names

Sterno 9th man. Married, 2 kids, all beautiful apparently. Owns a catering business. All around good dude.

Spoke to the Pax about the freedom that comes through a right relationship with the Sky-Q. It’s what this weekend’s holiday is all about. When Jesus yelled out “It is finished”, it wasn’t a cry of defeat, or relief that suffering was ending, but a victory cry declaring that his Mission was complete, complete forgiveness is possible and available now through His finished work! Now we can live in light of that. Enjoy the holiday!

What we Learned:

• Sterno will adjust some attitudes…
• Thanks to LMP for Coffee!!! (Thanks Sterno and Altidore for the buds)
• Cerveza Salute is a cool tradition, but funny that it occurs on high-school property.
• Staples is cool under pressure…Uh, guys?! Cops are rolling up…
• Altidore may need bail money. Hit him up on Venmo…
• Sterno will forever rename our CSA(not)UP Guillotine, which is unfortunate, because Altidore relied on this when informing the tattoo artists what he wanted.
• Welcome FNG “DickTat”

BullHorn:

• The Gauntlet is coming! 5/4/19 F3Nolensville’s first CSAUP event. Today was in prep for that…it will be 2.5-3 hours, ~8 miles, 5 AOs, endless memories…we will be getting ready over the next month with 45 minute (extended) PREParties before the Forge on Saturdays. Sterno is on this week. Lace up your sneakers for a field trip…
• RagDoll is planning F3Dads local event for May 19th and F3Franklin is hosting one April 28th (Next Sunday, 3pm, Pinkerton Park) as well. Sunday afternoons. Free event with kid-friendly 45 minute workout with snacks and drinks afterward.
• Very excited to have had 2 V(co)Qs with Sterno/Scrooge Thursday and 3D/Staples today. Thanks for coming out in support fellas! The mission of F3 is to reinvigorate male community leadership through the planting and serving of mens workout groups. The mission is being fulfilled!

Thanks for stepping up today Staples and all for following my spontaneous lead today,

3D-out!

4/13/19

Location: The Forge

Conditions: Upper 50s tapering light showers ending with the PREParty

QIC: 3rd Degree (PREParty) Stats (Thangs)

Pax: 3rd Degree, Mufasa, Numbtucks, TV Guide, Netflix (Pre-vac after PREParty) Nimbus 1500, Barney Fivel, Typo+, Peaches (FNG), Show Me, Mr. Hollands Opus, Kermit, Stats.

Disclaimer

9 Pax Embarked on a 45 minute PREParty led by 3rd Degree.

Show me lap for Typo, then Indian Run down the greenway with a speed bump by the lake to stretch. F-Barre near completion, as Numbtucks saunters in to join the fun. Indian run continued to Nolensville Elementary with a speed bump along the way; Crawl Bear the small bridge. At the school, 25 APDs on the large balls, BC two light poles, (about 60 yds) CB to the balls (About 40 yds) Burpees to the 6. To the pain ground for AMRAP Pull up set followed by three Negatives and three GMs. IR back to the Forge with a 15 Merkin speed bump along the way. All in by 6:03 total 3.5 miles. Good work PREPartiers getting ready for the Gauntlet!!!

Disclaimer

Warmorama

SSH, SJs, CSs, CPs, WMHs, Mosey around the lot to the football field.

Thang 1

Hockey is a lot of skating up the ring switching to defense then skating backwards, with a lot of physicality along the way.

Suicide Burpee Apocalypse Pyramid.

Pax Mosey started on the goal line, mosey to the ten, perform one Burpee, politician back to the goal line, mosey to the twenty, perform two Burpees, continue this pattern until reaching the other goal line, ten Burpees then politician back, mosey to the opposite ten for nine Burpees and work their way down the Pyramid. Routine called after 30 minutes, a few PAX almost completed the circuit.

Thang 2

It takes 12 wins to win the Stanley Cup, wait nope it takes 16 wins to win the Stanley Cup (thanks 3D for keeping the Q honest.

PAX then executed a round of 16s, similar to 11s, with the two exercise areas of the goal line and 50 yard line. Exercises were HRCs (hand release clap merkins) and Warhammers (WWI with 2 American Hammers at the top) both of which were invented, to our knowledge, in Nolensville. Circuit called after 25 minutes. Pax finished with an “all you got left” 100 yard sprint.

Countorama/Nameorama

FNG Peaches Welcome!

9th Man Kermit, thanks for sharing. If any PAX are walking through similar struggles Kermit mentioned, please reach out to Kermit for support.

Bullhorn

• Prayed for Barney’s small group friend who is currently missing.
• Soccer Mom
• First Nolensville CSAUP Gauntlet May the 4th.
• Shoutouts to everyone for pushing to get better and bringing FNGs, keep giving it away!!
• Take time to slow down and press into Holy Week this year and soak in its meaning.

If any PAX has questions about Holy Week or anything mentioned in COT please reach out to Me or any of the AO leaders (Numbtucks, 3rd Degree, Tebow, Typo)

It was an Honor to lead, thank you for the opportunity.

-Stats

 

March 30th, 2019

Gloom: perfect amount

PAX: Nimbus, Stats, Numbtucks, TV Guide, Hush Puppy, Scrooge, Type O+, 3rd Degree, Staples, Rag Doll, Cheez Wiz, Old Hickory, Playboy, Tebow,

QIC: Sterno

Pre-Party: 10 HIM’s decided to start their Saturday by taking a Red Pill and accepted the challenge of a 45 minute pre-party.

Pre-Party PAX: Nimbus, Stats, Numbtucks, TV Guide, Scrooge, Type O+, 3rd Degree, Cheez Wiz, Show Me, Sterno

Warm-Up: Mile Indian Run

Pre-Party Thang #1:

Thankfully the football field was unlocked so we had access to the track for a Fibonacci Sequence (Thanks for the new workout routine BoyBand). We began our run on the back stretch of the track. Every 200 meters we stopped and performed a designated number of Alternating Shoulder Taps, Carolina Dry Docks, Little Baby Crunches, and Monkey Humpers. Reps for each exercise in the set were increased at each stop following the Fibonacci Sequence (0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55). It’s all fun and games in the beginning but things got real pretty quick.

Pre-Party Thang #2:

“Lovely Day” (remix) by Out of Eden came on the medic. All PAX hold plank and every time you here “Lovely Day” all PAX do 1 Merkin. Learned that in the early 90’s 3rd Degree had a thing for ladies that wore acid washed jean overalls (Good to know!).

Time’s up so we mosey back to the parking lot where we are joined by Tebow, Staples, Hush Puppy, Playboy, Ragdoll, and Old Hickory. Show Me had to Pre-Vac (Not sure why, but if I had to guess I would say it had something to do with opening day of Turkey Season).

Clock strikes 6am, Time to get this party started! Mosey over to the drainage ditch to pick up our coupon for the day.

Thang #1:

Coupon Work
Line up with your coupon and throw it with your right hand, bear crawl to coupon (Repeat) to designated destination.
Line up with your coupon and throw it with your left hand, bear crawl to coupon (Repeat) to designated destination.

Mosey across parking lot and circle up by the buses. As I look around the circle two PAX’s coupons are noticeably bigger. It appears that Tebow and Nimbus decided to bring their A-game today.

Bicep Curls OYO x 40
Overhead Presses OYO x 40
Tricep Overhead Extensions OYO x 40

Thang #2:

Mosey to the Mill Creek Elementary School pain ground

Everybody grab a spot on the ledge that you can plank on.

Ledge Work:

• Start at the top of the ledge, bear crawl down ledge and do 10 derkins, crawl bear back up ledge and do 10 merkins
• Box Jumps OYO x 20
• Squats OYO x 20
• Start at the top of the ledge, bear crawl down ledge and do 9 derkins, crawl bear back up ledge and do 9 merkins
• Box Jumps OYO x 18
• Squats OYO x 18
• Start at the top of the ledge, bear crawl down ledge and do 8 derkins, crawl bear back up the ledge and do 8 merkins
• Box Jumps OYO x 16
• Squats OYO x 16
• Start at the top of the ledge, bear crawl down ledge and do 7 derkins, crawl bear back up the ledge and do 7 merkins
• Box Jumps OYO x 14
• Squats OYO x 14
• Start at the top of the ledge, bear crawl down ledge and do 6 derkins, crawl bear back up the ledge and do 6 merkins
• Box Jumps OYO x 12
• Squats OYO x 12
• Start at the top of the ledge, bear crawl down ledge and do 5 derkins, crawl bear back up the ledge and do 5 merkins (Repeat down to 1)

Mosey back to the drainage area to return coupons

SPEEDBUMP: 20 Burpees

Continue our Mosey back to the drainage area so we can return our coupons.

Thang #3:

Burpee Broad Jump Bridge and Repeat

3rd Degree Pre-Vac (Later Brother!)

Thang #4:

Need to get some more miles in on this workout so its time to Indian Run.

It was brought to my attention that we lost a PAX after the Bridge Burpee Broad Jumps so shortly after we started our run I decided to return to the parking lot. So after Nimbus went zooming by I decided to call a speedbump and have all the PAX turn around and begin the Indian Run back to the parking lot. Time for Nimbus to sprint to the front of the line again. This made Numbtucks extremely happy so I decided rinse and repeat this sequence so Nimbus could get some extra sprints in.

Thang #5:

Ring of Fire

All PAX circle up and plank. Q calls out an exercise while one by one each PAX bear crawls around the circle.
• Mt Climbers IC x 15
• Plank Jacks IC x 15
• Catalina Wine Mixers OYO
• High Plank Right Arm up
• High Plank Left Arm up

Thang #6:

4 Forty Yard Sprints

Mary:

Flutter Kicks IC x 30
Little Baby Crunches OYO x 30

Great work out there today gentlemen!

Sterno

Location : The Forge (Nolensville High)

Conditions : 39 dry with light breeze of 3-5

QIC : Stats

PAX : Barney Fievel, 3rd Degree, Numbtucks (welcome back), Altidore, Nimbus 1500, Gaylord Focker, Old Hickory, Cheez Whiz, Lil Miss Piggy, TV Guide, Sterno, FNG Playboy.

Quick Show Me lap around the parking lot, which did not work for Show Me, however Lil Miss Piggy and Coffateria did arrive during this time.

Disclaimer

Warmorama :

4 SSH IC

4 LBAC IC

Good Mornings OYO

Now that the round of the “First Four” is over its time to get to the real madness. Pax moseyed over to the football field, counted off into four teams and the four “Regions” were identified. The workout areas were on the 10s and 50s of the field.

The Thang :

Round of 64 (each team started at a different region and completed 64 reps of the exercise once all Pax on the team completed the reps all moved to the next region by the MOT listed. Each subsequent round also represented the number of reps that were executed)

North – Merkins

South – Plank Jacks

East – Squats

West – LBCs

MOT – Mosey

Round of 32

North – Atomic Merkins

South – Burpees

East – Iron Mikes

West – WW1 Situps

MOT – Politician

Sweet Sixteen

North – HRCs (Hand Release Clap Merkins)

South – Double Shot of Jack Burpees

East – Lt. Dan Squats

West – Warhammer Situps

MOT – Duck Walk

Elite 8

North – Clap Merkins

South – Yurpees

East – Bobby Hurleys

West – Captian Thor (round 8)

MOT – Lunge Walk

Final Four (transitioned from the 10s and 50s to the middle of the field still four workout stations, just closer since we were running short on time)

North – 4X4 Merkins

South – Kracken Burpees (but with 4 clap merkins instead of 3)

East – Freddie Mercury’s (X40)

West – Dan Taylors (a Lt. Dan with 4 lunges instead of 2 lunges)

MOT – Bear Crawl

Championship Round

Pax counted off into 2 groups and took a shot at the “Sally” push-up challenge which came down to Nimbus and Barney almost making it to the end. Barney bested all of us this day, but I suspect we will all have another chance at this one again.

The prize for winning was a scratch off lotto ticket with a potential jackpot of $75,000.00.

Moleskin:

• Polar Express is recovering well from his triple bypass surgery
• Sterno’s LP9 and 2.0 are fighting through the flu and friend recently received a diagnosis of cancer
• Gaylord’s Mother is not feeling well he is traveling to Memphis to be with her during this time
• 1st Thessalonians 5:16-18 – Rejoice always, Pray Continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus. Let us all remember to Rejoice, Pray and Give thanks in all circumstances as we consider Christ’s love and sacrifice for us.

Bullhorn:

• The Gauntlet is coming May 4th, if you would like to run the course with the AO leaders reach out to Barney. The CSAUP event will be 8 miles consisting of 5 AOs beginning and ending at The Forge.
• The new Monday AO, Defiant kicks off this Monday the 25th at 5:30 am with a pre-party at 5:15.

Always a pleasure to lead.

-Stats