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Twin Peaks meets Star Twins

Great job today.
The temp was almost perfect, the sunrise almost perfect and the 14 men that met near the Parthenon…..well we can say they made themselves better by showing up.
Guest Gemini from Pittsburgh took the humble Q and after a disclaimer of sorts warmed up the group. Batwing 10 IC
Lateral lunge jumps-10 IC. Copperhead squats-10 IC and a most to a grassy hill.
Gemini then professed his love for backward bear crawls on hills evidence by their use at Columbus Ohio convergence last year and GrowRuck 14. The task was to honor a 110 year old three legged foot race with a three legged backward bear crawl up the hill. Following was some short running, planking and dirty dogs and leg lifts from plank to make sure the right muscles were warm. The second effort was an emom with 10 toe taps on the curb followed by a burpee and a 10 yard sprint and back. Each minute you added a burpee and had less rest time. When you failed to complete in time you did 24 of any exercise during the next minute round. A good solid group made it to the 15 burpees round completing 120 burpees. One person started the 16 round but it was not completed.
The pax moseyed back to the shovel flag for one minute of side hops, 35 flutter kicks IC and 25 bicycle crunches IC to end at 0615 on the dot.

bullhorn: August grow ruck just outside of Atlanta.  East side buffalo launch shifted to 3 May.

Pax:

Pumpkin spice
Ham bone
Panhandle
Brother at law
Ccr
Hi viz
Right said
Blue mule -provided transport to guest Q
BnB
Porcelain
Crab legs
Twin peaks
Vegimite
And Q Gemini

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Trust the Process

Clear skies and sixty something degrees.  11 pax took the daily red pill and trusted the process at Titan.  QIC: Porcelain.  Pax: Cub cadet, crab legs, bicentennial man, beano-WL, vector, hot route, Right Said, hambone, Crawl Space, pumpkin spice.

Warmup mosey to picnic table area 30 ssh, 20 Wmh, 10 good mornings, 10 merkins, 10 squats.

My hometown 76ers scored a record 51 points in the 3rd quarter of game 2 to win.  Many years of trusting the process is seeing pay off in the playoffs.  So the workout will trust the process for 51 reps each after breaking into a tall and short table groups. 

P-picnic table pickups ground to overhead in cadence (hip, shoulder, up, shoulder, hip, ground=count)  took a break at 26 to swap positions.

R-Rows bent with picnic table in cadence (up, down=count).

O-One leg (Bulgarian) split squats foot on table.  51 each leg oyo.

C-Carolina dry table.  Dry docks with feet on bench for a bit more stress on shoulders to build to more hand stand merkins.

E-Exaggerated leg raises.  Laying on table with legs off to hyperextend 51 reps oyo.

S-squat (box type) on to the bench.  51 oyo.

S-step ups on to the bench 51 total to keep time.

All waiting was planking.

Group had carried two medicine balls and cones to the area.  Revealed their purpose to be a game I called free Ballin.  1 small 8# ball and 1 large 20# ball to always keep moving.  Pax in circle facing each other.  Pitch and catch ball to another pax once you catch it.  If a pax drops a ball then it is a 5 burpee penalty for everyone and those holding the balls do the burpees with ball in hands.  Also, 5 burpee penalty if no throw before Q can say Boban Marjanovic (sixers backup center).  Only one drop for burpees over around 3 minutes of figuring out names while throwing.  Yea….no need for the cones.

Mosey back to statue for Mary.  Getting some open water swimming in lately for the Chattanooga half-Ironman so I had some old swimming dry land ab exercises in mind.  Circled up because the medicine balls will be used again.  The Mary thang: 51 four count flutter kicks; 20 breast stroke kicks (on back, start legs elevated 6 inches like flutter kick but cadence with drawing both knees back towards the head along the sides then return to starting position); lever degrees of leg raises varying down at 6 inches then ups varied for 25 degrees, 45 degrees, and 90 degrees for around 2 minutes; 20 j-los in cadence, ball circle-5 american hammers with the two medicine balls rotating clockwise(I started counter-oops) around group, those without balls did hollow holds legs and arms up, one full rotation.

Bullhorn: east side AO opens next Friday.  Clown car from Bomber.

COT: prayers of thanks for god giving us the strength the push each other to be better men.

moleskin: Boban had a good night tonight with 14 pts to cover a resting Embiid and still a sixers victory.

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Baker’s Dozen @ TITAN

13 PAX Present at the inspiring Parthenon for a guest-Q by YHC today.

PAX: Porcelain, Cub Cadet, Vector, CrawlSpace, BadBoy, CrabLegs, Hi-Viz, Brother-at-Law, HarveyUpdyke, DFrost, Hot Route, CCR, & 3rdDegree (QiC)

Warm-Up/Disclaimer:

Burpee Beast Mile: 1 mile jaunt around the park with interspersed bursts of 10 burpee speedbumps. 50 Burpees, 1 mile jog, ~10 minutes. Good start to the workout! Disclaimer given mid way…glad no one got hurt…yet!

Circle up around Nessy after our last round of suffragette burpees and the final mosey for:

CoP:

  • SSH x 10 IC
  • SJ x 10 IC
  • IW x 10 IC
  • Demo and 3x of the following upcoming exercises:
  • Yurpees (Nolensville original), HRC (Hand-Release Clerkins (Clap-Merkins)) Aka Hilary Rodham Clintons, Floating Starfish

The Thang(s) 

Crawl-Bear 7s: Yurpees at bottom (Burpee with clap merkin and 2 tuck-jumps instead of jump at end), Crawl-Bear up 3 small sets of stairs to wide middle landing, Floating Starfish (each side = 1/2) at the top then mosey down stairs (Plank and wait for the 6 at the bottom when finished),  strong work men!
Mosey to the North side parking lot for:
Democratic National Convention! (exicon approval pending)
This is a routine consisting of HRCs, Obamas, Bernie Sanders (aka Politician BackPedal), Al Gore and, I made up on the spot, citizen-statesman sprint (forward, AYG sprints)
Meant to do this as a lap around the lot, but the 44th president killed that idea…We made it through Obama one end to the other after a 10x HRC start and a midterm Al Gore recovery speedbump. Ended with 2 Bernies and 2 Citizen-Statesmen
Whew!!
Mosey to John Thomas Statue on SW side of Parthenon for:
3 Minutes of Mary:
Exercises:
  • 30 seconds Al Gore
  • Flutter Kicks x 25 IC
  • Supermen x 15 IC
  • Freddie Mercuries x 25 IC
Mosey and circle up around Old Glory Shovel Flag for:
CoT, Countorama, NameoRama
BullHorn/NMMoleskine
  • F3Franklin Hosts WarpathXI this Saturday 4/13/19 5am @ “Armada” AO location (Pinkerton Park) launch site. 5.5 hours of Fun (~10 miles, with 7 AOs interspersed. JUST SAY YES!) Let Torch from F3Franklin know if you’re planning to come.
  • F3Nolensville Hosts our first CSAUP 5/4/19 “The Gauntlet” Starting and ending at The Forge AO (Nolensville High Football Field) launch at 5am. ~8 miles, 5 AOs ~2.5 hours. Come support this inaugural event!
  • F3Nashville to launch EastSide AO soon. BaL with more info.
  • Ended with BoM and reminder that we should be grateful for all the gifts we have: beautiful sunrise, Spring Weather, Brothers in Shield-Lock with us. Shout-Out to SkyQ for help in being the men we are called to be: men of conviction, character, servant-leaders in all the various roles we are in: father, husband, employer/ee, brother, son, friend. Let’s go!

HIMs gathered for coffeeteria @ 3 Bros for LDP led by Porcelain.

3D- out!
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Dora 1,1,2,3

March 27, 2019

Gloom: crisp clear and above freezing

PAX: Badboy, Crablegs, Davinci, Harveyupdyke, Panhandle, Parksandrec, Porcelain, Princessaurora, Reveille, Vector

QIC: Crawlspace

Warm up: quick jog around/ through the park, good mornings, Willie Mays Hayes, squats, lil baby arm circles, air presses, etc…

Work: Dora 1,1,2,3: One PAX bear crawled/lunged to the community center then jogged back to swap with working PAX. Work:

      • 100 Pullups
      • 100 Merkins
      • 200 lil baby crunches
      • 300 Squats

Mary: After work we hit the soft mulch of the playground for Mary. Work included American hammers, heel tags, leg raises etc…

COT: We early wrapped for an important message led by Porcelain concerning the serious issues surrounding depression and the effects it has on us as men as well as the people we love and care for. Several brave PAX had the courage to share and open up on some personal experience with these challenges. It was a great opportunity to remind everyone that we are here for one another and to of course reach out to any one of us anytime.

I couldn’t be more impressed with you all and it is always my pleasure to lead you!

SYITG,

YHC Crawlspace

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Cinder blocks and tennis balls…(Scorpion prep)

March 20, 2019

Gloom: crisp / low wind

PAX: Apgar, Badboy, Brotheratlaw, Ccr, Crablegs, Cunninglinguist, Floppydisk, Harveyupdyke, Hiviz, Princessaurora, Porcelain, Pumpkinspice, Reveille, Rightsaid, Rocketleague, Studio42, Trapperkeeper

QIC: Crawlspace

Warm up: quick jog around/ through the park – Willie Mays Hayes, circles, good mornings, side straddle hops, squats, etc…

Work: teams of 3 PAX each rotated taking turns between bearcrawl+throwing cinders blocks (while traveling towards Parthenon), burpees+lunges (next to block man) and running to the Parthenon and back to the block man. (all this from mid field parking lot)

FUN: tennis ball tag in the parking field  – three PAX were “it”, everyone else ran! 15 side straddle hops if you were tagged or hit with a tennis ball. If you threw and missed: 30 side straddle hops. After 3 tags you pass the ball.

Mary: After some fun we hit the dirt for some pass the buck ab work.

COT: Everyone is getting excited for the Scorpion this Saturday!

SYITG,

Crawlspace

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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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15 HIM braved the cold this morning for a run heavy special.  The gloom factor was high but the temperature was low at 21 deg F.

PAX: Fred Said, Porcelain, Wendell G (from F3 Raleigh), Lockbox & Turbo from 4:13 thanks to BV and the clown-car, Trapper Keeper, Brother At Law, Craglegs, Bicentennial Man, Bad Boy, Cunning Linguist, High Viz, and YAC TheJeweler.

Warm-o-rama: The disclaimer was given briefly after we started jogging… we took a lap around the big green space (let’s call it the Hulk from now on) for a 600m warmup jog.  Circle up by the memorial for some stretching: 20 SSH, 10 WMH, 10 Hill Billies, 10 BAC (F & R), 15 Air Presses.  Mosey onto the 1 mile loop track for the following.

The Thang: 800m, 700m, 600m, 500m, 400m, 300m, 200m, 100m count down with 80, 70, 60, 50, 40, 30, 20, 10 reps  in between.   The exercises were as follows: 80 SSH, 70 Air Presses, 60 LBCs, 50 Squats, 40 BACs, 30 Merkins (diamond, wide, regular), 20 kicking the moon, 10 burpees.

Mary: We did the last 100m or ~150m to make up for lost distance earlier,  on the field and ended close to where we began.  30 seconds of American Hammers in the middle of the field.

After your YHC almost lost the breakfast he had yet to eat, we counted off with 15 total HIM.  BV gave a few announcements, we have a Nashville CSAUP coming up, and a TT this weekend at Rose Park at 2pm.  It was great to have the men, Lockbox & Turbo, from 4:13 strong, they really showed a lot of heart and grit!

It was a pleasure to lead and be lead by this great group of men.

~TheJeweler

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The King. Is. Here!

High 30sF and starting to get some good BMNT light.  15 total pax.  QIC: Porcelain proudly stepping in for the workout before the Q Source LDP on the King.  Pax: the Count (WL Chattanooga mucho respect 60), Reveille, PA, Bad Boy, Brother At law, Tiny Dancer, CCR, Hot Route, Right Said, Vector, Studio 42, Crawl Space, Crablegs, BnB.

Brief disclaimer then mosey with shovel flag up and through the Parthenon to the ellipse.  Warmarama: 30 ssh, 10 wmhs, 10 good mornings, 20 merkins, 20 squats.  Workout explanation.  The King is comprised of a man accelerating his physical fitness.  That fitness can be judged by the factors of 3S2T: speed, strength, stamina, toughness (physical), and toughness (mental).  Coupon circuit on the fundamentals chasing the quickest or most reps man to get right.

The thang: moseyed over to porcelain’s pre positioned vehicle near the ellipse and unloaded all weights to the rear of the Parthenon.  Moleskin: this format was great once it got going but was slow to begin with the off load and set up.  Next time I need to EH a passenger to help off load early then stay by the equipment while I bring the rest of the group over.  Forgot the speaker but Bad Boy obliged to run back and get it while PA and team removed a bumper plate that would not fit on the bar.  Walked down the line of each station set up to explain rotation.

Station Circuit based off of 3S2T for the King.  Q’d up a playlist set to a 3 minute timer all exercises were for as many reps as possible.  The new mosaic dragon sculpture at the base of The Parthenon helped enhance the sound and ambiance.  With numbers stations were singles or pairs.

1. Speed-Ellipse Run

2. Strength-135# thrusters were a bit aggressive so modified to deadlift.  Squat hold alternate for a pair.

3. Stamina-jump rope.  Alternated with Squats for a pair.

4. Toughness mental.  Crawl bear stairs.  Reverse bear crawl up the Parthenon stairs then mosey back down.

5. Toughness physical.  Wall ball or passes with large 20# medicine ball.

6. Toughness mental.  Balls to the wall handstand merkins.

7. Toughness physical- farmers walk up the Parthenon stairs and back with 5 gallon buckets of sand.

8. Stamina- kettlebell swing with 25# or 50#.

9. Strength- overhead press with 45# barbell.  Remaining bumper plates that did not fit were available for pairs.

Made it all the way through 9 stations then moseyed with coupons back to Porcelain-mobile to stash.  Not enough time for Mary on return despite Roxanne beginning to play.  Circled up for COT in the Ellipse.

COT: the Scorpion 23 March 0600 CSAUP is all about pushing your stamina and toughness. TAPs for Count’s friend having Heart valve surgery and brother Bob fighting with bile duct cancer.  Also, Studio 42’s dad, Roger, suffered a heart attack recently and is in recovery.

5 continued to 3 bros coffee for contnuation of Q points from the King.  43 feet podcast is a great resource.

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A Stroll at Titan

Pax: Bad Boy, Blue Mule, Centipete, Crab Legs, Cunning Linguist, G String, Halpert (WL from Memphis), Harvey Updyke (QIC), Hi-Viz, Porcelain, Reveille, Trapper Keeper, Vector

Conditions: 35ish and dry, gloom factor medium

Disclaimer

WoR: Moseyed from statue of JT to southern end of the main field. Circled up for:

  • SSH x20
  • Good Mornings x10 oyo
  • WMH x10
  • Imperial Walkers x20

Thang: The sidewalk monster at Westeros sent YHC for a tumble Monday morning, leaving me with a bruised palm heel and tweaky wrist. As such, my Q plan was modified to stay off the hands as much as possible, which naturally led to lots of running. Altogether the pax clocked around 3.4 miles, stopping every 1/3 of a mile or so for a dealer’s choice exercise, of which 10 reps were performed. Choices included jump squats, dips, burpees, regular squats, Freddie Mercuries, scissor kicks, and some other stuff I’ve now forgotten. The last leg involved an all-you-got sprint up the hill west of the Parthenon, before convening back at JT’s statue for a quick Mary consisting of 25 Crunchy Happy Frogs.

CoT: Great to have Halpert (a paper salesman) join us as a guest from Memphis. Heard a little more from G String, our sixth man. Prayers for Bad Boy and family as they look to welcome a 2.0 in 4 weeks, give or take.

Moleskine: The leadership lesson today is that restraints, while sometimes frustrating, can provide clarity and focus. A minor injury limited my options this morning, but simple was still effective. Self-imposing restraints, even when all is well, may help with cutting through the noise and focusing on the outcome. Thanks for the opportunity, men. A pleasure as always.

Harvey

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Tighten – 01.30.2019

10 men woke up this morning and said “Dang it’s cold, and is it snowing now?” and still came to Titan.  Love it.

When: 01.30.2019 5:30 AM

Conditions: 20 degrees, windchill lower, with progressively sticky snowflakes throughout the morning.

Pax: Brother at Law (QIC); Bad Boy; CCR; Rev; Porcelain; Crab Legs; Hi Viz; Pumpkin Spice; Trapper Keeper; Tampa Libra.

WOR: Easy mosey taking the long way to the backside of the Parthenon, where we did a nice mix of SSH, GMs, WMHs, lung and LBAC, lung and RBAC, overhead press, and seal claps.

THANG: Mosey back to the front of the Parthenon and under cover, where we would perform four super sets.  You would keep doing each super set AMRAP for five minutes.  When I called time, then we all run the big hill loop.  Gather back at the Parthenon and move onto the next super set.

Set 1: Lateral box step up x10 on each leg; box jumps x10

Run the big hill loop.

Set 2: DIDs for 4 minutes (20 dips, 15 incline merkins, 10 decline merkins)

Run the big hill loop.

Set 3: Bunsen Burners (bulgarian split squats x10 each leg); 40 mountain climbers.

Run the big hill loop.

Set 4: Broad jump as far as possible, then fast feet backwards to starting point x10; plank jacks x10; Carolina dry docks x10.

Run half the big hill loop and gather at virtuous statue for…

MARY: Simple, but effective: 1 minute high plank, 30 seconds side plank, 30 seconds other side plank, 1 minute high plank, 5 GMs, 10 WMHs.  All done.

Announcements: First Friday Lunch this Friday, February 1, at the Cookery at 11:30 AM.  Be there.  Tampa Libra will not be there.  West Park (name TBD) tomorrow at 5:30.  Q Source with Porcelain at 3 Brothers after Titan.  I could not make it but I’m sure it was great.

Prayer Requests: Pumpkin Spice’s wife’s knee (meniscus surgery); Bad Boy’s M is six weeks away from their next 2.0 and related Bad Boy is cramming in a lot of business travel in February to be home for deliver, so prayers for safe travels too; Crab Legs is in a good place after some discernment about work, so hoping to keep that momentum moving forward.

Theme of today’s prayer, in continuing with my personal work with Ignatian Spirituality, was focusing on cura personalis, Latin for “care for the whole person.”  I think F3 does a great job with that and has really helped me focus on all aspects of my life.  More reading here if you’re so inclined: https://www.ignatianspirituality.com/16996/cura-personalis.

It didn’t feel as cold as the mercury indicated and the snow was truly beautiful, so it made for a very special Titan this morning.  Always a privilege to lead and be pushed by you guys.

Brother at Law

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