Wake, wake up (it’s the first of the month). -Bone Thugs-N-Harmony

AO: greenmachine
Q: Goose
PAX: Focker, Sherlock, Cowboy, moneyshot, Black Lung, Michelin Man, Cal Worthington, Strutter, FeelTheBerns, Hall Moniter
FNGs: None
COUNT: 11
CONDITIONS: Steamy

WARMUP: Willie Mays Hays, Forward Fold, Cherry Pickers, Arm Stretches

THE THANG:
-Dora: 400 SSH while partner runs to midfield and back.
-Lunge goal line to goal line with 10 squats every 10 yards, down and back.
-Run goal line and back with 10 merkins at opposite end, countdown 10 yards each trip.
-Bernie Sanders down and back

Circle of Mary

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
– Tuesday Brewsday this Tuesday at 12 South Taproom
– Detective Pikachu needs help moving this weekend

Prayers for Blueliner has a speedy recover.

Summer Fun

AO: titan
Q: DintyMoore
PAX: Black Lung, bluemule, Papa Bear, Pep, Right Said, Salami, Tim the Toolman
FNGs: None
COUNT: 8
CONDITIONS: Clydesdale friendly

WARMUP:

THE THANG:
Warm Up –
Ring of Fire – merkins (stopped at 200)
– tap out = high knees
Mosey
25 SSHs
Mosey
25 Dips
Mosey
20 Shoulder Taps
Mosey
Partner Up

Partner/Teams Challenge
– Wheel Barrow to Agility Course (5 burpees each switch or at finish
– Ninja Rap Merkins
– 4x4s – (burpee, plank, mtn climber, merkins) while partner completes Bearcrawl and Agility Ladder on field

Complex Mary (20 count)
– Alabama Prom Date – LBC
– Vector Ups – Box Cutters
– American Hammers – Crunchy Frogs
– Inch Worm – Shoulder Taps

MOLESKINE:
F3 is not fun

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
gullivers-travels-challenge continues, nearing halfway point.

handsomizer convergence on Friday with bomber closing for kickball challenge

Run to the Castle at handsomizer – come and join Salami and YHC for some bonus f3 bonding.

COT:
Summer time coverage for what remains for those traveling and interacting with family. Encouragement for those in our Nashville group.

Daft Punk is playing at my house

AO: iiipillars
Q: princessaurora
PAX: LorelaiG, t-cell, Two Face, Zelenskyy, Sooie, Haggis, Black Lung, Go Fish, Will Norton, Grape, Swiffer, Foot Drop, Fake Job, gov’t mule, Tackle Box, Good Morning America, Full Monty
FNGs: None
COUNT: 18
CONDITIONS:

Oh-so hot, the perfect foretaste of what will surely be a steamy 14th anniversary.

WARMUP:

Mosey to the field for some

SSH
I’s, Y’s, and T’s
RAC->MNC->RRAC
WMH
SnL Squats

THE THANG:

Marriage, like life, is a dance. With YHC celebrating an anniversary tomorrow, it was time to prep with a dancer-inspired workout.

STEP 1

4 sets:
Explosive jump lunge w mid-air switch x 5 ea side//1’ rest with Merkins x 20

STEP 2

4 sets:
Bulgarian split squats x 12 ea side//1’ rest with Prone Snow Angels x 20

Shake it out with a lap

STEP 3

4 sets:
Partner Nordic Curls x 8-10, alternating each set

STEP 4

4 sets:
Deep Squat Calf Raises (with wall assist) x 15//Tibialis Raises x 20

Reverse crunch for six

STEP 5

4 sets:
Pull-ups x 8-10//Pseudo-Planche Merkins x 15

Mosey back to flag

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

– Gulliver’s Travels challenge is in full swing. The perfect excuse to check out some AOs you might not otherwise attend. Speaking of…
– 4:13 Strong is back in action. Hit up thestronghold and help lead this class of men toward new lives.
– Night Moves at Bicentennial Park this Saturday.

TAPS:

– Praises from Haggis for a special time on the road with his dad.
– Prayers for Swiffer ‘s friends’ daughter Victoria and her upcoming surgery, and praises for a successful first operation.

A pleasure as always, men. Life’s a dance, and you sure learned as you went today!

PA out

Dragonslaying and Other Recreational Activities

AO: handsomizer
Q: SalPal
PAX: Black Lung, Freakonomics, Strutter, Cuban Missile, Rocket Mortgage, Frasier, Betty Ford, Patty, Natural Ice, Blueliner
FNGs: None
COUNT: 11
CONDITIONS: Epic

WARMUP: WMH + Mosey

THE THANG: Tiamat is a legendary five headed dragon goddess with high armor class, limited magical immunity, elemental resistance, the works.

How do you take down this dragon? Sweet sweet sustained damage per second.

Start with 1 Durpee at the bottom of the stairs. Run up to each landing and back, doing a durpee at the bottom. Each landing is 5 Dips, 5 Derkins, 5 Dive Bombers, 5 Diamond Merkins.

Repeato, increase Durpee by 1 and landing reps by 5. Finish doing 5 durpees at the bottom and 25 reps at each landing.

MOLESKINE: Black Lung made a healing joke. I laughed/coughed up blood.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: A lot happening. Bourbon run (see Strutter), Brew Ruck, Hunger Games, Night Moves, Castle Run, Gulliver’s Travels.

COT:
Lift up the men who need F3.

Relay Races

AO: iiipillars
Q: Chunks
PAX: Grape, princessaurora, Black Lung, Right Said, Pep, Foot Drop, gov’t mule, YumYum, Tackle Box, Zelenskyy, Two Face, t-cell, Harbaugh, Jazzy Jeff, Swiffer
FNGs: None
COUNT: 16
CONDITIONS:

WARMUP:
Grab the 2 Coupons and Mosey to the field
41 SSHs

THE THANG:

Round 1:
– Cinder Block Carry: One member carries the cinder block 50 yards and back.
– Bodyweight Exercise: Team does Jumping Jacks until the cinder block carrier returns.
– Switch and Repeat until each team member has carried the cinder block.
Round 2:
– Cinder Block Swings: One member performs 20 swings with the cinder block.
– Bodyweight Exercise: Team does Mountain Climbers until swings are done.
– Switch and Repeat until each team member has done swings.
Round 3:
– Cinder Block Curls: One member performs 20 curls with the cinder block.
– Bodyweight Exercise: Team does Plank Hold until curls are done.
– Switch and Repeat until each team member has done curls.
Round 4:
– Cinder Block Rows: One member performs 20 rows (10 each side) with the cinder block.
– Bodyweight Exercise: Team does Burpees until are rows done.
– Switch and Repeat until each team member has done rows.
Round 5:
– Cinder Block rifle carry: One member rifle carriers a block down and back..
– Bodyweight Exercise: Team does Merkins until the block carrier returns.
– Switch and Repeat until each team member has carried the block.

TEAM 2 were the Winners 3 – 2.

Circled up for some P90X Yoga to end

MOLESKINE:
Always an honor to lead. SYITG
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Check Slack, busy July
COT:
Prayers for the Webb Family

Once Upon a Time in 13 Rowdy Colonies

AO: greenmachine
Q: Hair Band , Black Lung
PAX: Dumpster Fire (F3 Naperville), Pebbles, moneyshot, Hipster, McAfee, The Merchant, Rocket Mortgage, Works for a Guy, Natural Ice, bluemule, DintyMoore, Dilbert, Good Morning America, Cowboy, El Capitan, Wolfpack, SalPal, Hair Band, Sparrow, Tim the Toolman, Black Lung, Esposa, Grape, Country Parkour, Under the Table, Haggis, Strutter, Chunks, Michelin Man, Focker, Fake Job, Late to The Party
FNGs: 2 Fake Job, Late to The Party
COUNT: 34
CONDITIONS: bright and swampy

WARMUP:
30 SSH, 5 Good Mornings, 10 Merkins, 10 Squats. 10 LBAC, 10 Reverse LBAC, 10 Imperial Walkers, 10 Hillbillies.
Thing 1: Burpee Apocalypse (10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1)

THE THANG:
A salute to the 13 colonies.
1. 10 New York Yurpee (Burpee Variation. Merkin at bottom of burpee is a clap-merkin and on up portion there are 2 tuck jumps per burpee).
2. 30 Virginia V-Ups
3. 50 South Carolina Side Straddle Hops
4. 30 Rhode Island Iron Mikes (2-count)
5. 30 New Hampshire Hand Release Merkins
6. 50 New Jersey Jump Squats
7. 50 Connecticut Crunches
8. 35 Maryland Merkins
9. 50 North Carolina Dry Docks
10. 50 Massachusetts Mountain Climbers (2-count)
11. 50 Georgia Gorilla Humpers
12. 50 Pennsylvania Plank Jacks (2-count)
13. 50 Delaware Dips

Run half lap around the track and start from the top. 3 rounds.

Total reps 1776.

MOLESKINE:
This workout was a beast sprung most from the tortured mind of Black Lung
We had 5/34 men completely finished the work out
We finished by reading the Preamble to the Declaration of Independence & saying the pledge of allegiance

Preamble: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

COT:
– SalPal requests prayers for his baby on the way and his baby they just pulled from daycare

Graditude for 8 Count Bodybuilders

AO: iiipillars
Q: Natural Ice
PAX: YumYum, Michelin Man, Grape, Haggis, LorelaiG, Two Face, Tackle Box, Black Lung, Pep, princessaurora, Go Fish, Focker, Natural Ice, Full Monty, Foot Drop, Jazzy Jeff
FNGs: 2 Foot Drop, Jazzy Jeff
COUNT: 15 and a late @blacklung
CONDITIONS: Perfect

WARMUP: SSH, Arm Circles, Stretching

THE THANG: A fully plagiarized bluemule work out

Part 1
The pax went for a nice long mosey searching for a flat parking lot.
After forming a circle the instructions were simple, share something you are grateful for from this last season and lead the pax with 4 Eight Count Bodybuilders. All 15 pax expressed grateful hearts leading to the completion of 60 Eight Count Bodybuilders with impeccable form.

Part 2
After a mosey back the startdex, we rinsed and repeated the previous thing, but this time each Pax shared something they were looking forward too. With the addition of Black Lung we racked up an additional 64 Eight Count Bodybuilders leading to a total of 124.

MOLESKINE: Keep a grateful heart as this could have been sets of 10 burpees.

– 4th OF JULY CONVERGENCE ALERT – AOs will converge at greenmachine with a co-Q from Black Lung and Hair Band

– YHC & Firefox will be hosting The Hunger Games™ round 3 at the Ice Haus®, 7pm on 7/12 :cut_of_meat: :game_die: —– Potentially a whole wild boar will be smoked (if not I got a brisket and a pork butt)
– Our summer Brew Ruck is scheduled for Saturday 7/13!! Details will come from Red Skull in nashville-rucking
– Night Movez returns on Saturday 7/20 at 6:30pm, details from SalPal here f3nashville.slack.com/archives/CB0LHPZ2R/p1718206100184169
– An f3nashville.slack.com/archives/C3MSWGATT/p1718203308939989 for the upcoming 5k at Geodis Park on 7/27, home of handsomizer!! Hit up Salami for details!

COT: Prayers for Grandparents and traveling familes

Thanks again men of iiipilars for having me out. Next time we will have a themed play list and burpees

:naturalice:

Feel the Pump (Again)

AO: iiipillars
Q: Focker
PAX: Black Lung, t-cell, Haggis, princessaurora, Two Face, YumYum, Full Monty, Swiffer
FNGs: None
COUNT: 9
CONDITIONS: Sticky with more construction equipment

WARMUP: started 2 minutes late so abbreviated stretches
Bear crawl and crab walk up hill to gate

THE THANG:
Mosey to low brick wall
30 sec on, 10 sec off
Right leg step ups
Left leg step ups
Dips
x4

Mike Tyson push up
Jump ups
x4

Bicep incline push ups
Monkey humpers
x4

Mosey to start
Pumping jacks (Merkins to failure, 15 SSH, and repeat until we all suck at merkins)
Tough round of Mary

MOLESKINE: great mumblechatter to start the workout, definitely decreased as it went on. Good to have Black Lung back from the UK.
“Cold coffee and hot Gatorade” was provided.
Men, my shoulders and chest are toast

ANNOUNCEMENTS: lots of stuff in July, check Slack!

COT: multiple illness related. Reminder to lean into our people’s lives and needs. Prayers for my ability (or inability) to communicate with my wife

Not Easy but Not Diabolical

AO: handsomizer
Q: Hair Band
PAX: Blueliner, Roadrunner, Cuban Missile, Black Lung, Lee LaFleur (F3 Tool), Old Maid
FNGs: None
COUNT: 7
CONDITIONS: slightly warm, mostly perfect

WARMUP:
SSHs
LBACs
Michael phelps
WMHs
Imperial walkers
Hillbillies
Walking lunge
Sprints (50, 75, 90)

THE THANG:
At the stairs:
10 burpees
Squat walk up stairs
Hold plank at top until all in
15 4ct mountain climbers
Recover, back to bottom of stairs

15 burpees
Squat walk up stairs
Hold plank at top until all in
Skip 4ct mountain climbers
Recover, back to bottom of stairs

40 dips
Squat walk up stairs
Hold plank at top until all in
15 4ct mountain climbers
Recover, back to bottom of stairs

40 (20e leg) iron mikes or bulgarian split squats
Squat walk up stairs
Hold plank at top until all in
15 4ct mountain climbers
Recover, back to bottom of stairs

Mary at bottom of the stairs
Squat walk up stairs
Mosey back to start

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
• 2.0 workout at middle-tooth tomorrow

COT:
• each man shared a prayer request or praise report: job search, family health, personal health, traveling mercies

Thank y’all for giving me the opportunity to lead. I’m blessed each day to be a part of this group.

Rock on,

Hair Band :the_horns:

Basically iiiPillars at Middletooth

AO: middle-tooth
Q: Focker
PAX: Black Lung, Betty Ford, Pep, Two Face, Harbaugh, Cowboy, moneyshot, Zelenskyy, High School Musical (DR), Formica
FNGs: None
COUNT: 11
CONDITIONS: Sunshine

WARMUP: Various stretches while waiting on Black Lung

THE THANG: This workout was designed around praying at Yuri’s house. He is a dear friend of moneyshot who is undergoing surgery today for pancreatic cancer.
-Run one mile to his home. Every turn we did 10 burpees, 15 dry docks, 10 lunges.
-Had the chance to pray over this family and their home with time for reflection
-Run one mile back with turn workouts being 10 jump squats, 15 diamond push ups, 20 monkey humpers
-upon arrival back to startex, we did 10 ww1 and 10 prisoner squats, then 20, then 40, then 23.6. These sets were broken up by sprints. Total of 93.6 for average number of days in the summer

MOLESKINE: somehow we ran uphill both ways, full light during the whole workout.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: brewsday coming up! 2.0 workout this Saturday! Reach out to Grape.

COT: Opened up about how my first reaction to Yuri’s house being a mile away was thoughts of inconvenience/not ideal for this workout. The Lord used this to convict me of my selfishness and allowed me to reflect on the importance of physical places in our life. There is a reason we visit our old homes, have memorials where things have happened, and worship at buildings. Being somewhere holds power cause we are physical beings. moneyshot thanks for the chance to come into Yuri’s life and y’all’s friendship this morning