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VF3NSS Pt. 2

AO: greenmachine
Q: SalPal
PAX: Pep, Esposa, Betty Ford, Matador, Cowboy, DintyMoore, Focker, bluemule, moneyshot, Westham (visiting from Omaha IIRC)
FNGs: None
COUNT: 11
CONDITIONS: Locked up tight.

WARMUP: Mosey to field.

THE THANG: 3 Sets, Song + Reading (10 Burpees) + Sketch (Routine)

Set 1: Get Lucky, Leadership, Death March
Set 2: Flower, Get Right, EMOM Sprints/Burpees
Set 3: Stairway to Heaven, Live Right, DORA

Close with 10 burpee buyout

MOLESKINE: Discussion on what constitutes martyrdom, whether Catholics go to VBS, whatever happened to mumblechatter at ~32 minutes in, and record-breaking calorie burn.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Nightmoves, CSAUP 50, Brewsday next month.

COT: F3/FIA Wedding, Travel, Work Anxiety

Stay salty y’all.

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CoverBands Kept Us Moving

AO: middle-tooth
Q: Cowboy
PAX: Matador, Toothless, Focker, Betty Ford, sooner, DrRupp, Choo Choo, Esposa, Pepsi, bluemule, Puzzlah
FNGs: None
COUNT: 12
CONDITIONS: Cool, Moist. Engaging. Invigorating. Fast Paced. Efficient but confusing at times,

WARMUP: Some Bro-ga, Some streatches, Slow-n-Low Squats, Cowboy Giddy Ups, SSH,

THE THANG: Tabata x 2 + 1
Mosey, Burpee Buyin, Pair Off
1. Tabata Timer: 2 Stations 2 sets 4 Rounds / Set 16 intervals total: Work:30 sec Rest Transition 15sec: Mike Tysons against the wall vs Wall Jumps – Partner takes opposite exercise, Burpee & High Five you partner in transition. Then Mosey to Thang 2
2. Tabata Timer: 4 Stations, 2 Sets 4 Rounds / Set 32 Internals total: Work 30 sec, Rest Transition 15 sec: Pull Ups, Swing Thrusters, Crunchy Frogs, Incline Merkins. Mosey to Thang 3
3. Plain-Ole 11s (except only 7s per time constraints). Cowboy Giddy Ups vs Iron Mikes: Back to partners. Partners start at opposite ends. Both start at 6 on their end but with opposite exercise. Move to opposite end and do One, and continue as normal 7s…. Except when you meet in the middle Five Slap Merkins with your partner.
Back to Start for NO-Mary NoTime.

MOLESKINE: sooner shared personal connections to tragic loss in Texas Mystic Camp. It is good to feel the hurt and loss and not deflect or avoid. We love and care deeply at the risk of hurt when lost. This is living fully. But our hearts long for a world where that risk does not exist. The creator God as revealed has promised this day will come when “every tear is wipe away” and we can experience the life our hearts long for. It is hard to see and believe in the middle of hurt.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Night Moves Thursday titan location 7:30pm ; CSAUP 50 Relay end of August.

COT: Count, Announce, Prayer

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Full Moon in June! Happy Halloween! =?utf-8?q??= 🎃 🐺 🌕

AO: middle-tooth
Q: Toothless
PAX: Oatmeal, DrRupp, Matador, Pepsi, Focker, Esposa, Pole Dancer, Betty Ford
FNGs: None
COUNT: 9
CONDITIONS: Perfectly pleasant, clear skies, bright as day

PLAYLIST: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/59GuzDm447UdTWAVqQZlbo?si=1ca8db418ce14815

WARMUP:
– Side straddle hops x 31
– Zombie walk out & back
– Werewolfs (aka Downward Dog into Cobra and back) x 10
– Scorpions x 10

THE THANG:

Mosey to tennis courts (the upside down)

First, obligatory Burpee Thriller, listen to Thriller and do a burpee every time you hear the signature “thriller” in the chorus or something scary in the verses. Lots of scary stuff in that song!

Cue the Deck of Horrors!!!

Circle up and get ready to pull cards.
– Add 10 to digits (2-10)
– Face cards trigger 10 reps of a harder exercise
– Aces have their own devilry
– Next man up does half reps to keep the cards moving

Spades :spades:
– Digits = Squats
– Faces = Squat Jumps
– Ace = Broad Jump to the other fence and back
Clubs :clubs:
– Digits = LBC’s
– Faces = WW1’s
– Ace = 200 American Hammers (single count)
Hearts :heart:
– Digits = High Knees
– Royals = Hopping Hillbillies
– Ace = Cotton Eye Joe (High Knees with words, Hopping Hillbillies with instrumentals)
Diamonds :diamonds:
– Digits = Carolina Dry Docks
– Royals = Diamond Merkins
– Ace = Bear Crawl to fence and back

Back to post at 5 mins out for Howler Monkeys, I.e. monkey humper ring of fire. Got up to 4 each when increasing by 1 every 2 rounds.

MOLESKINE:

Cotton Eye Joe continues to be a fan favorite. The IT bands were burnin’! Got through all the aces too, pretty evenly spaced. Good all around work done by the PAX this AM!

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
– 4th of July Convergence!
– 6/26 Convergence @ greenmachine

COT:
– The men shared and I prayed us out to Jesus Christ, who is always with us

An absolute honor to lead men – thanks for indulging my out-of-season Q!

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Round 2 of the Goblet of Ice Trifecta

AO: greenmachine
Q: Natural Ice
PAX: Esposa, Cowboy, Shania, Matador, Black Lung, Betty Ford, Deep State, moneyshot, Natural Ice, LB
FNGs: None
COUNT: 10
Backblast: Green Machine – June 5, 2025

Conditions: Humid, but rocking

Warm-O-Rama:
Quick warm-up with side straddle hops and dynamic stretches

The Thang – Triforce of Wisdom:
We brought back the 11s format from Titan, dropping the block and swapping the hill for a much longer full-length football field grind.

– Bottom of the Field: Burpees
– Far End of the Field: WWI Sit-Ups

Each round required a different movement to travel the length:
1. Bear crawl
2. Bernie (run backward)
3. Crawl bear
4. Walking lunges
5. Crab walk
6. Imperial walker walk
7. Sprint (plain run)
8. High knees
9. Side shuffle (switch sides halfway)
10. Lieutenant Dan (lunge + squat combo)

The PAX pushed hard, and everyone completed
No quit in this crew.

Moleskin:
This marked Round 2: Wisdom in the Goblet of Ice Trifecta. One more to go:
– :white_check_mark: Power – Titan
– :white_check_mark: Wisdom – Green Machine
– :fire: Courage – Handsomizer (June 6)

COT:
Prayers lifted for the Stronghold men and for those going through the struggle.
Announcements:
– Cruel Hall will be joining Handsomizer this Friday for the final Q of the series
– 4th of July convergence at Handsomizer details to be shared soon
– CSAUP in the works – teams of 5, details coming

SYITG,
Natural Ice

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Slightly Stupid

AO: cruelhall
Q: Movin On Up
PAX: Mistah Mistah, Donkey Hammer, Accounts Receivable, EZ-Go, Focker, Esposa, Young and Restless, Pepsi, Pedialyte, Matador, Pound Puppy, Hit & Run
FNGs: 1 Hit & Run
COUNT: 13
CONDITIONS: Moist

WARMUP:

20 SSH
10 Imperial walkers
10 Hill Billy’s
willy mays
Indian run

THE THANG:

– Atomic Merkin/Drydock apocalypse together

– Playground partners:

1 runs down hill, bear crawls up to weed
2 swerkins

1 runs down hill, bear crawls up to weed
2 WFAGs

1 runs down hill, bear crawls up to weed
2 dips

1 runs down hill, bear crawls up to weed
2 low row on bars

SSH for 6, don’t stop moving

10 Burpee/pullup

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

4:13 Struggle is coming up in June for those interested

COT:

Thanks for letting me lead this morning and way to get after it. I feel like I could run through a wall right now! :facepunch:

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Dora for everyone

AO: greenmachine
Q: Pep
PAX: Chunks, Cowboy, Grape, moneyshot, Sherlock, Matador, Esposa, Betty Ford, Black Lung
FNGs: None
COUNT: 10
CONDITIONS: cool but wet ground

WARMUP: none

THE THANG:
– dora-ish
– one partner runs in a rectangle (endzone to 50 yard line to sideline to endzone back to sideline)
– while other partner doing a slower movement
– switch when first partner meets second partner
– slower movements:
– komodo dragon
– murder bunnies
– bear crawls
– reversies
– dora:
– exercises:
– 50 mericans
– 100 windshield wipers (each side half)
– 150 fire hydrants (each side half)
– 11’s
– exercises:
– mericans
– squats

COT:
prayers:
– esposa’s wife’s shoulder (going to doctor to find out what to do) prayer for jumping children
– grape’s knee cap (the michelangelo anterior davinci metaclorian tendon is the medical term)
– cowboy’s uncle had a stroke

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Big Freedia, Small % of Completed Passes

AO: middle-tooth
Q: Pole Dancer
PAX: Cocktail, TheShield, sooner, Oatmeal, Matador, Toothless, Young and Restless, Focker, bluemule, Esposa, Betty Ford, DrRupp, Steve Austin, Joe Dickey
FNGs: None
COUNT: 15
CONDITIONS: Dewy and Cool

WARMUP: Quick mosey to the fields, active warmup, stretching OYO while delivering instructions for the thang

THE THANG: DORA and Ultimate Frisbee! Set to the rhythmic stylings of New Orleans bounce tunes (obviously a fan favorite of the PAX)

Paired off for a DORA buy-in proceeding some all-offense ultimate!

50x Supermans
100x Burpees
150x Squats
200x Mountain Climbers

Once completed, we split into teams for a half field offense-focused frisbee scrimmage. Each possession ends in either a point for the offense (scoring a goal) or a point for the defense (a turnover). At the end of the possession, go back to the start and switch who’s on offense. Loser of the point performed 5 merkins.

After some lackluster attempts at offense, we instituted a game-wide 10 burpee penalty for each subsequent possession that did not end in a goal. The result was 4 straight possessions that did not end in a goal.

Moral of the story: Middle Tooth plays STIFLING defense (and our completion % more than 10 yards downfield was worse than Jayson Tatum’s 3 point % last night).

MOLESKINE: Welcome to three PAX downrange, come back around next time you’re in town!

Also great to see a return of TheShield!

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Brewsday today, first beers on moneyshot! Yours truly will be in attendance, see y’all there!

COT: Prayers for the dearly departed

PLAYLIST: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6UTW304bCrgZQ8Tu1aoRpX?si=a7936594a5e148ee

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Field Day

AO: greenmachine
Q: Firefox
PAX: Betty Ford, Shania, moneyshot, Sherlock, Pep, t-cell, Young and Restless, Esposa, Matador, LB, Steam, High Heels
FNGs: None
COUNT: 13
CONDITIONS: Perfectly fine

WARMUP: PAX split up into 2 groups and did a rice bag run twice around the track. We welcomed :downrange: posters from Knoxville Steam and High Heels during the run. t-cell was missing his LBAC.

THE THANG: With the school year coming to a close, in the grand tradition of I Have No Idea Why, we held our very own haphazard Field Day celebration. If you haven’t witnessed or been a part of one of these, everyone gathers and participates in random events. Sometimes there are winners, if you’re into that sort of thing.

Part 1: Partner Races – PAX partnered up, starting at the end zone and raced down to mid-field and back.
– Race 1 – Wheelbarrow (with partners swapping places at mid-field)
– Race 2 – Leap Frog
There were winners! Hurray!

Part 2: Rice Bag Relays – PAX split into 4 groups. 1 member of each team traveled 30 yards and back with the rice bag, handing off to the next member of the team. All others held a plank.
– Race 1 – Run
– Race 2 – Run
– Race 3 – Run
– Race 4 – Broad Jumps (which maybe were more like Bunny Hops)
There was a bit that I did not explain well at all in which a winning team’s cone was pushed back 5 yards as a “reward”… but yeah, we kinda abandoned that part. Also, Pep and t-cell turned this into a contact sport.

Also, some teams won! Some more than others.

Part 3: Rice Bag Relay – Even Ricier
The 4 teams consolidated to two teams and did a zipper relay with the ricebag. PAX got on their six, alternating position so that the person next to you was facing toward you (like teeth in a zipper). 1st team member did a WW1 with the rice bag overhead and passed to the next team member, then ran down to the end of the line. Teams passed the rice bag this way to the 30yd line and back.

Part 4: Wind Screws Everything Up
We attempted to play “Flip the Cone” but, in addition to having one less player, the wind was flipping over any upside-down cone. So, the first round was ended prematurely. We modified to scatter short cones in the middle of a 30x15yd play area. Teams lined up at opposite ends and had to travel to pick up a (single) cone and bring it (a single cone) back to their starting line. We did 2 or 3 rounds of this with bear crawls and another round with murder bunnies.

Part 5: Pick up all the crap I brought

Part 6: Back at Startex, 20 V-ups and 30s of a hollow body hold

MOLESKINE:
– Some poor explaining on my part and some unfortunately windy conditions. But we were flexible and everyone was a good sport. Except that t-cell guy.
– Loved getting to use the big field and track. Hopefully I’ll be invited back to Q again!
– I did not have blue ribbons. Instead we had donut holes. Thanks to Betty Ford for bringing the coffee.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: N/A

COT:
– Matador family health scare
– YHC dealing with workforce reductions on team

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Impossible/Manly/Murder Mile

AO: greenmachine
Q: Focker
PAX: Betty Ford, Toothless, SalPal, Pep, Cowboy, Pole Dancer, Works for a Guy, t-cell, Black Lung, moneyshot, Young and Restless, Esposa, Matador, Shania, Topanga
FNGs: None
COUNT: 16
CONDITIONS: Moist

WARMUP: Drive your car to the workout

THE THANG:
400 meter burpee broad jump :burpee:
400 meter lunge :leg:
400 meter bear crawl :teddy_bear:
400 meter “run” :man-running:

MOLESKINE: -the bear crawl makes the burpee broad jump feel like the lunges
-Works for a Guy unsurprisingly took the crown
-everyone was under one hour!
-coffee, Purity chocolate milk, and Donut Den treats provided (thanks Toothless!)
-one of my new favorite traditions is this horrible mile
ANNOUNCEMENTS: see ya next year!

COT: I think everyone wrestled with their respective higher power during the bear crawls

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Middle Tooth Mafia

AO: middle-tooth
Q: Goose
PAX: Toothless, Topanga, Oatmeal, Matador, Esposa, DrRupp, sooner, Betty Ford, LB, The Shield
FNGs: None
COUNT: 11
CONDITIONS: Perfect

WARMUP: Willie Mays Hays, Cherry Pickers, Goog Mornings, Arm Stretches, Arm Circles

THE THANG:
– 2 laps native american runs
– 150 Merkins, WW1s, with run between every 25 reps.
– Lunges: 3 trips down and back with 10 squats every 10 strides.
– Circle of Mary, fielders choice, 20 reps max

ANNOUNCEMENTS: nightmoves tonight!