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.

Back 2 School!!!! :books:

AO: middle-tooth
Q: Toothless
PAX: DrRupp, Triple Pane, Cowboy, moneyshot, Pole Dancer, Cal Worthington, sooner, Hanes, Pollo Loco
FNGs: 1 Pollo Loco
COUNT: 10
CONDITIONS: Honestly, balmier than advertised. Cool breeze cut down significantly on what would have been a bona fide hot yoga session. Sunrise rivaled toratoratora to boot :sunrise:

PLAYLIST: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/04KkhaUX0fj1nwynplCZMW?si=a37a6268af3c4544

WARMUP:
– 30 x SSH
– 10 x WMH (2 count)
– 10 x Windmills
– 15 x Overhead Claps
– 15 x Seal Claps
– 15 x Moroccan Night Clubs
– 15 x Imperial Walkers
– 5 x Scorpions, each side half

THE THANG: Back 2 School!! :books:

School Bus Route :bus: :octagonal_sign:
Start with a one-mile Indian run “school bus” around the perimeter. Every time the rotation completes the stop sign comes out and the PAX have to give 10 Prisoner Squats. After all, schools are basically prisons. Aim for 100+ squats, 10+ stops.

Route went southeast to the corner, northeast past the playground and then up behind the school. Continue to tennis courts and turn left to cut up through the middle of the AO past startex. Turn right at Lone Oak on the sidewalk and reenter the park on the small path. Turn right onto the main field path, make a full loop and return to started.

Core Subjects :male-teacher:
Split into 5 groups, post up at each station with 1 group running around the parking lot loop 2x. The other groups split up and go to 1 of 4 stations, performing an exercise until the runners return. Repeato with the timer group running 1 lap instead of 2.

English
– “Apart” vs “a part”
– Hello Dollys, spread those legs “apart”

Math
– Ratios, multiplication
– Captain Thors 1:4 ratio of Big Boy Sit-ups to American Hammers

Science
– Inertia
– J-Lo’s, it takes force to stop movement in a given direction

History
– First public school in the country predates the country’s founding
– Boston Latin School founded in 1635
– 1 Clerkin, 6 Supermans, 3 Peter Parkers, 5 Mountain Climbers

Once PAX complete each station and are back to their “homeroom”, they serve detention. Complete 20 burpees. SSH in silence to get out of detention, otherwise more burpees, repeat til successful.

MOLESKINE:
YHC was sucking wind after the bus route and appreciated the pace pushers who made it more of a challenge. The sunrise was so nice the Q called a Salute the Sunrise between the sets with a 10 burpee salute. As for detention, the PAX didn’t get out of detention immediately, but they were much more eager to avoid the burpees the second time and got out after only 2 rounds.

Also of note, sooner finally pulled a great name out of his hat and gets credit for Pollo Loco, who was a fantastic EH apparently by Michelin Man though the Mich himself was not in attendance :eyes:

YHC also brought some home-brewed Gatorade for coffeeteeria. If there was ever a morning for it, this was it, and it hit the spot as a preamble to sooner’s excellent carafe of bean juice.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
– U-Haul themed workout this Saturday AM for Detective Pikachu
– brewsday next Tuesday @ 12S Taproom, 4:30p
– 10th Anniversary of F3 Nashville coming up on 9/13

COT:
Prayers for…
– Pole Dancer’s wife in the job search, turned out down, looking for the right fit
– sooner spoke for all parents & kids coming into the school year, prayers for a clean sheet for the rest of summer to start the school year off right
– YHC shared prayers for my wife with the due date 1 month away, prayers for a healthy full term baby and a smooth delivery

Men, Cal Worthington once again mentioned this may be his last week in Nashville, and while that may or may not be true, I do want to share a hearty thank you for the energy and camaraderie he’s brought during his extended time with us. Be sure to say thanks and send him off well throughout the week!

It’s always an honor to lead you men – thanks for an excellent morning, wouldn’t have wanted to spend it any other way!

— Toothless :tooth:

Track and Field Rack and Stack!

AO: greenmachine
Q: Cal Worthington
PAX: Haggis, Sherlock, Zelenskyy, Cowboy
FNGs: None
COUNT: 5
CONDITIONS:

Moist. Slight Drizzle. Thick.

WARMUP:

Warm Up I.C. X20
SSH
Imperial Walker
Toy Soldiers
PIckUp
Grass Git’rs
Stay down 4 stretch, left & right
Worlds Greatest Stretch

Mosey to the Track!

THANG 1:
Set of 11’s – Dips and Derkins

THANG 2:
Rack and Stack 400
Track Suicides Rack / Stack

Run to the 100 – Drop and do Exercise,
Return.

Run to the 100 – Drop and do Excercise, Run to the 200, exercise Then return.

At each 100, do the exercise. Upon return to start, stack exercises on top of each other.

(100,200,300, 400yrd marks)

✓ 5 burpees
✓ 10 hand release Merkins
✓ 15 Star jumps
✓ 20 heels to heavens

Finish with a Victiry Lap up
And down bleachers.

Mosey to the start and finish with Abs ring of Fire

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Hope on Slack

COT:
Don’t focus on the negative. Control the controllable, keep it moving and you will get through it.

Thanks for letting me lead Focker :punch:

Catch me if you Can 🏃🏻‍♂️🏃🏃🏻‍♂️

AO: middle-tooth
Q: Cal Worthington
PAX: DrRupp, Michelin Man, Rocket Mortgage, sooner, Oatmeal, bluemule, Cowboy
FNGs: None
COUNT: 11
CONDITIONS: Steamy :hot_face:

Another steamy day in the gloom as 8 schweaty pax braved the moisture to come see what YHC had in store! We :man-running:. We :package: jumped. We :burpee: . Then we ran some more, mixed in some other exercises and :burpee: :burpee: :burpee: :burpee: at the end because why not!?!?

WARMUP: I.C. X20
SSH
Imperial Walker
Toy Soldiers
PIckUp
Stay down 4 stretch, left & right
Worlds Greatest Stretch

THANG 1:
Catch me if you Can Burpee – to Picnic Benches

Pick a Partner, one runs while the other does a burpee. Catch your partner, they drop for a burpee and you run, rinse and repeat till destination.

THANG 2: 11’s
:burpee:s & 📦 Jumps

THANG 3:
Catch me if you Can :burpee: back to parking lot!

THANG 4: Parking Lot ⭕️ Sprints x20

Partner Up! Partners run in opposite direction around the whole parking lot. When they meet, drop and do the exercises below then keep running back to the start. 20 count on all exercises / Ab exercises in cadence!

T Clap Merkins
Big Boys
Sumo-Squats
Flutters IC
Freddy Mercuries IC
Burpees

Announcements: Hop on slack
COT: Grateful for F3 Nash
:pray: : Families/ Marriages/ :us:

:heart_hands:

Cal Worthington

Clydesdales Unite!

AO: middle-tooth
Q: Subway
PAX: Betty Ford, bluemule, Cowboy, Cal Worthington, Goose, Hipster, moneyshot, Oatmeal, Rocket Mortgage, Toothless, Starblade McKoy (Sp?)
FNGs: None
COUNT: 12
CONDITIONS: warm

WARMUP: Mosey, burpees , stretching

THE THANG:

5 / 5 minute rounds

Supersets 20 reps

Merkins (your choice)
Rows

Calf Raises
Curls

Side Straddle Hops
Step Ups

Taint Scrapers
Dips

Squats
Overhead Press

W/ coupons when applicable

Guantanamo Bay followed by dealers choice ab work

MOLESKINE:

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Friday and Saturday stuff- check slack!

COT: Prayers for Bareback and his family as they move westward!

Thank you for letting me lead- it was a pleasure! SYITG

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

Lots of Squats

AO: middle-tooth
Q: Young Pawn
PAX: Chunks, moneyshot, Bareback, Goose, Right Said, Detective Pikachu, Oatmeal, Rocket Mortgage, Cowboy, Toothless, Binki, Star Blade McCoy
FNGs: None
COUNT: 13
CONDITIONS: A little reprieve from the swampiness, somewhere around 75° :sunrise:

WARMUP:
Made a circle. PAX alternated doing 13 (or more…) squats and doing one of these exercises for a minute: arm circles, imperial walkers, pitcher’s stretch, lunges, reverse lunges, Bonnie Blairs, fire hydrants, donkey kicks (“the wrong way” says Cowboy, his way was better), mountain climbers, Lt. Dans, peoples chair, around the world lunges, and more squats. And we took turns planking during the exercises.

THE THANG:
>From home plate, one PAX pulls the Frisbee and bernies around the bases while the rest of the PAX play defense and try to tag him out. No running with the disc, no force outs, round as many bases as you can. Record was 5 bases (home run + single).

Closed with 5 minutes of Mary and stretching.

MOLESKIN:
:dagger_knife: Star Blade McCoy has only been posting for 2 weeks and is moving away in 6 weeks. A lesser man would’ve said “there’s no time to start something new.” Star Blade said “I’ll do the right thing right now” and found a group of other HIMs to make him better.

:man-lifting-weights: By my count, we did 2,532 squats altogether – including the 10 I gave DP for his sarcasm during the COT. Thanks Toothless for the coffee. Thanks Oatmeal for being AOQ and an encourager. Picture already posted above! :point_up_2:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
:us: Convergence tomorrow! f3nashville.slack.com/archives/C3NL0TTM3/p1720013034582569
:f3_nation: New AOs opened this week! See iron-giant and the-discipline
:man-walking: Fred “Right “Gulliver” Said” Pickney is traveling. f3nashville.slack.com/archives/CB0LHPZ2R/p1719504981614859

COT:
:pray: My sister had a baby on Monday, Bareback and Detective Pikachu are also moving soon, and other spoken and unspoken requests. In your mercy, Lord, hear our prayer.

Repeato

AO: greenmachine
Q: Michelin Man
PAX: Focker, moneyshot, Haggis, Cowboy, Michelin Man, Deep State, Triple Pane, Missing someone?
FNGs: None
COUNT: 8
CONDITIONS: acceptable

WARMUP: run around the Machine

THE THANG:

3 pullups -> bearcrawl -> 5 merkins -> bearcrawl -> 7 rows -> run back to start.

Repeat for 40 minutes.

5 minutes of sprints.

COT: Love being in the circle as always.

A morning with sooner

AO: middle-tooth
Q: sooner
PAX: Triple Pane, Betty Ford, Cowboy, Toothless, Pole Dancer, Rocket Mortgage, Oatmeal, starlord hook
FNGs: 1 starlord hook
COUNT: 9
CONDITIONS: smokin

WARMUP: we did some active stretching and opened up cowboys hips

THE THANG:

First… Ab City
– 50 LBCs plus 25 leg lifts
– 50 LBCs plus 25 alternating leg lifts
– 50 LBCs plus 25 WW1

Second… Choose your own adventure
-pardner up
– player 1 runs the long way round to meet player 2 to finish exercises
– Player 2 run short leg to do exercise
– Alternate players
– Exercises were merkins, dips, iron mikes and jump squats

Third… Goaltimate
– Basically make it take it ultimate

MOLESKINE:
I took too long in cot

ANNOUNCEMENTS: lots, we have a great nantan… Read his posts

COT: family, travel, praise for healing

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