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2 Year Anniversary!

AO: the-castle
Q: Chunks
PAX: Horizon, The Merchant, Mr. Pancake, hambone, Pep, Strutter, Cross-stitch, Fabuloso, Squatter, Space Baby, Juicy J, Brown Slip, Butterfingers, Victoria, Fanny Pack, Flipper, Abacus, Diddy Kong
FNGs: 2 Abacus, Diddy Kong
COUNT: 19
Celebrated the 2 Year Anniversary of The Castle’s start as an OTB workout.

Moseyed to the parking lot at the Drakes Creek baseball fields stopping for some Monkey Humpers at the traffic light.

Did some warm up exercises while having some story time about the start of the Castle. Grateful to Cross-stitch and Flipper for planting the seed before we got here. Thanks fellas.

Moseyed around the concession stand. Circled up for the Burpee Apocalypse with a lap around the stand after each set.

Moseyed back to the Startex with some more Monkey Humpers at the light. Then a sprint to the flag.

Finally, 5 mins of MARY and 5 Burpee buy out.

Announcements: LeanPax, Holy Smokers, F3 After Hours. Check Slack for all the details.

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT: Brown Slip is the New AOQ. Congrats brother.

Prayer requests: Travel, Strutter’s family

COT: Was absolutely blown away, yesterday. I didn’t want to start an AO in Hendersonville and was told by several people. “Oh we’ve tried and it’s never worked”. Sunshine pushed me to do it along with Pep , hambone and others committing to coming up from Nashville and beyond. So we launched as an OTB workout, Jan 2024. To see 19 HIMs there, was beyond anything I could comprehend. There were times when it was 2 or 3 of us. Then Dilbert showed up and EH’d every single person he met. Then Strutter arrived from NC, bringing the energy from the mother land.

There are countless others to thank. Thank you all for showing up, leading and investing in the fastest growing AO in Nashville with the best coffeetria. I’m excited to see what is next for the HIMs beyond the Wall (Old Hickory Blvd). White House is growing and it’s just a matter of time before another AO is Hendersonville starts.

SYITG,
Chunks

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4 mile run to Love Circle

AO: nashville-running
Q: Chunks
PAX: Chunks, DintyMoore, Crawlspace, Right Said, SalPal, Juicy J, hambone, Strutter
FNGs: None
COUNT: 8
CONDITIONS: chilly

WARMUP: upper left groin stretches

THE THANG: 4 mile run for Love

MOLESKINE: meetup at Star Bagle w Bomber

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

COT: good conversations at Star Bagel w the Bomber crowd. Coffeeteria

Juicy J finally meets the legendary hambone all expectations surpassed and then some.

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New Years Day Convergence – Welcome 2026!

AO: thestronghold
Q: Red Skull
PAX: Hipster, DintyMoore, Mumbler, Ponzi, Natural Ice, Purple Tiger, hambone, toga, Chunks, Barney, Wolfpack, Tinkertoy, Young and Restless, Tim the Toolman, Decaf, Grape, Pep, Topanga, Take 3, Animal, BTB, Tool Bit
FNGs: None
COUNT: 23
CONDITIONS: 32 Degrees – perfect workout weather!

WARMUP: Mosey to the gravel lot for the usual warm-up: SSH, IWs, Windmills, Squats, Merkins, T-Ups and Scorpion Stretch.

THE THANG:
Mosey to the Auditorium

Part 1: Mental Toughness Week (Tryouts) – Burpee Apocalypse with a run around the building the building in between each round.

Mosey to the North Lot

Part 2: 40 Day Challenge – 6 weeks of work condensed down to six movements: Lt. Dan, Bear Crawl, Crab Walk, Burpee Broad Jump, Crawl Bear and Politician.

Mosey to The Hill

Part 3: The Work Phase – 7’s on the hill with Hand Release Merkins at the top, run down the hill, Jump Squats at the bottom, Politician up the hill.

Mosey back to the flag and time!

MOLESKINE:
4:13 Strong is a great program for men who want to change the course of their life, but it is hard. Only 35% of the men who enroll have what it takes to complete all program requirements. A big factor to success are the relationships that our men build with other men who can show them how to handle hard things. You can make a real difference for the 4:13 Strong guys by showing up, working out with them and modeling how HIM face challenges.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
LeanPax begins on 1/5
The Stronghold is now meeting every Thursday
Struggle Prep is coming in a few short weeks
Young and Restless is the new AOQ of The Stronghold

COT:
A great turnout for our New Years Day Convergence. Thank you all for coming out to join us!

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Marry Go Round the Bags

AO: iron-giant
Q: Cross-stitch , Dilbert, hambone
PAX: Dilbert, hambone, Brown Slip, Country Parkour, Mr. Pancake, Concretia – F3 Paulding, Butterfingers, Steely, Hammer (2.0), Tony Shoemaker
FNGs: 1 Tony Shoemaker
COUNT: 11
CONDITIONS: Freezing Cold

WARMUP: qtr mile mosey

THE THANG: 10-3 3-4 ladder. I forget the order (with sandbags): burpees, squats, presses, merkins, rows, curls

MOLESKINE: prayer for your F3 brothers who may be going through some tough times and having to make tough decisions

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

COT:

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Surprise!

AO: the-castle
Q: Strutter
PAX: UTAH, Cross-stitch, Butterfingers, Steely, Space Baby, hambone, Strutter
FNGs: None
COUNT: 7
CONDITIONS: it was a beautiful morning.

WARMUP:

THE THANG:

MOLESKINE:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

COT:

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Rotational Stations

AO: iron-giant
Q: Steely
PAX: hambone, Dilbert, Butterfingers, Steely
FNGs: None
COUNT: 4
CONDITIONS: 32 degree and a slight breeze

WARMUP:
25 Side-Straddle Hops IC
10 Arm-Circles Forward/Reverse IC
10 Forward hand claps IC
10 Overhead hand claps IC

THE THANG:
The PAX rotated through 8 stations of exercises(Curls, Dips, Overhead Press, Squats, Merkins, Step-Ups, Pull-Ups/ standing Rows, flutter kicks) using a Tabata timer of 1 minute per station and a 10sec rest to rotate. Then a 4 minute rest between cycles. We cycled through the stations 3 times. During the 4 minute rest PAX took a slow Mosey around the parking lot. Finished with everyone’s personal selected ab exercise.

MOLESKINE:
10 seconds to rotate wasn’t long enough

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

COT:
Dilbert and his son are headed to Indy to watch Monday night football. Safe travels!!

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Oh Hill no, Christmas edition

AO: the-castle
Q: Strutter
PAX: SalPal, hambone, Fabuloso, Brown Slip, Barney, Strutter, Steely, Cross-stitch, Pep, Wrong Way
FNGs: None
COUNT: 10
CONDITIONS:

WARMUP:

THE THANG:

MOLESKINE:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

COT:

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The Great Shave Deception

AO: titan
Q: Squatter
PAX: Chunks, hambone, CubCadet, Pep, Spinal Tap, Tim the Toolman
FNGs: None
COUNT: 7
CONDITIONS:
Windy 42 degrees

WARMUP:
SSH
Michael Phelps
Butt-Kickers
WMH-Runners Stretch-2Buck
Good Mornings

THE THANG:
Indian Run w/ speaker

15 minutes of
5 Pull-ups
10 Merkins
15 Squats

Coupon work in cadence
Curl to OH Press 4 ct
Body Builders 8 ct
Slow Thrusters 8 ct
Deadlift to Row 4 ct
BB Sit-ups 4 ct
Flutter kicks 4 ct
Lunge walk/OH walk w/ coupon
Rinse Repeat til 615

MOLESKINE:
Squatter still has a beard. You can’t believe anything you see online these days. But as promised the PAX saw a beardless Squatter as they passed around his drivers license pic from 15 years ago.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
F3 Christmas Party 12/12
Christmas Eve Titan Workout – 2.0 friendly
New Year’s Eve Titan Workout – AOQ change

COT:
Prayer and Coffeteria at Star Bagel

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Simple Instructions

AO: iron-giant
Q: hambone
PAX: Mr. Pancake, Dilbert, hambone
FNGs: None
COUNT: 3
CONDITIONS: 36 and raining

WARMUP: Simple .2 mile job

THE THANG:

(NOTE: all sandbags were 60, 70, or 80 lbs. Sandbag rotation command in effect)

1, 2, 3, …, 13 of:
Merkins
Sandbag Deadlifts
Sandbag Squats

1, 2, 3, …, 10 of:
Dips
Squats

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 of:
Sandbag lunges
Sandbag pulls
Hangs

Head back to the end for:

45lb plate drivers
45lb overhead hold

MOLESKINE:

1. Harder than YHC thought; workout was meant to be relatively easy. First round was supposed to go to 15, but I happily modified.
2. Dilbert uttered “I want to go back to bed” (paraphrased) during the 6th set of sandbag pulls. That’s the closest I’ve seen a man leave a workout and literally go back to bed since Poppa Lock did it at bomber.
3. Mr. Pancake showed no quit, but perhaps some regret.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: noneya

COT: Prayers for Station Camp (location may be wrong) girl paralyzed and trampoline park. Life changing, and not in an easy way.

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Secret Q School

AO: the-castle
Q: hambone
PAX: Mr. Pancake, Strutter, Steely, Space Baby, Brown Slip, hambone, Brad!
FNGs: 1 Brad!
COUNT: 7
CONDITIONS: Not cold enough for gloves

WARMUP: A little bit of mosey, a little bit of merkins, a little bit of squats.

THE THANG: Head to the tennis courts–bear crawls, lunges, backwards running, side shuffle, more bear crawls

Run to playground and do a pull up

Get sandbags out of car, line up behind Q, and do pulls at 80lbs and 60lbs.

MOLESKINE:

1. Strutter rejected the tombstone. Good metaphor.
2. Brown Slip being back after being sick was fantastic. He might be the next bear crawl champion.
3. Mr. Pancake tricked his friend Brad into coming all the way up from Lebanon (not the country).
4. Space Baby was not much challenged by the running, but the sandbags were hard (ok I made that up–those weren’t hard for him either).
5. Steely missed the pre-run, but we had a great conversation about diesel engines at coffee.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

You missed grow school by coming to this workout

COT: the usual