Tortoise & Hare, Episode 3 of 6

AO: thestronghold
Q: Red Skull
PAX: Decaf, Young and Restless, bluemule, Chunks, hambone, Focker, Natural Ice, Michelin Man, Longhorn, Judy, Right Said, Crawlspace, SalPal (retired), Speed Walker, Baby Boy, Light Weight, Five Points, Temper Tantrum, Unc, Tampax, Skid Mark, Long Way, Trajectory
FNGs: None
COUNT: 24
CONDITIONS: 73 degrees, low humidity, beautiful sunrise – a perfect day for a run.

WARMUP: Assign PAX to their pace groups and begin the standard warmup – SSH, Squats, HBWs, Stretches

THE THANG: Every man was assigned a group to run with. It was the task of each man to stay with the assigned group. Doing so would ensure a Personal Record time for every 4:13 Strong man. Four were successful, six could not do it.

Congrats to Speed Walker (25:49), Five Points (26.23), Baby Boy (26:27) and Temper Tantrum (28:58).

Thank you to all of my Pacers for setting and holding the bar.

MOLESKINE: The 4:13 Strong men are in week 4. This has traditionally been the hardest week of the 40 Day, not because we do anything different, but because the men become comfortable and over confident. Please keep the 4:13 Strong men in your prayers this week…they all need it!

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Signing Day for this class will be Friday 8/30 at 11:30am. Join us, help celebrate what our men have accomplished and enjoy a delicious lunch of Hot Chicken with Mac & Cheese.

COT: Prayers for strength, healing and endurance.

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.

Tortoise & Hare – Run 2

AO: thestronghold
Q: Red Skull
PAX: Decaf, Chunks, Crawlspace, Longhorn, Judy, SalPal, Right Said, Michelin Man, hambone, Focker, bluemule, Detective Pikachu, Parkman, Speed Walker, Baby Boy, Light Weight, Five Points, Temper Tantrum, Peso, Unc, Tampax, Skid Mark, Ling Way, Soft Soap, Trajectory
FNGs: None
COUNT: 26
CONDITIONS: Cool 79 degrees with 87% humidity. It was hard to tell if we were running or swimming.

WARMUP: Oval Up…SSH, Squats, IWs, Stretches

THE THANG: RUN!! 3 miles around the campus. Crawlspace took off and wasn’t seen again until the finish line. 8 of our 12 4:13 Strong men set PRs this morning! We were “all in” in 41:22. It was a great morning of encouragement and hard work. Thank you SalPal and Michelin Man for providing the entertainment while the six worked his way to the finish line.

MOLESKINE: Thank you to all the F3 support this morning! You all have no idea the magnitude of the impact your presence has on the 4:13 Strong men. Keep coming back!

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

COT: Baby Boy took over the COT and closed us out with a prayer of gratitude.

Tortoise & Hare, ep 1

AO: thestronghold
Q: Red Skull
PAX: Right Said, Chunks, bluemule, Michelin Man, Focker, Natural Ice, SalPal, Decaf, Longhorn, Judy, Duncan (F3 Waxhaw), Speed Walker, Baby Boy, Light Weight, Five Points, Temper Tantrum, Bumble Bee, Peso, Unc, Tampax, Skid Mark, Long Way, Soft Soap, Trajectory
FNGs: None
COUNT: 25
CONDITIONS: 73 degrees and very humid

WARMUP: SSH, Squats, IWs, Right over Left, Left over Right, WMH

THE THANG: RUN!! The first 3 mile run for the new class and for some of our F3 PAX. The 4:13 Strong men started of in a sprint and made it to the first turn before they started walking. We had a fast finish of 26:15 and an “all in” time of 38:34. Not bad for the first run. We will do one more run before breaking into Pace Groups.

Thank you Michelin Man for leading the wrap up exercises as we brought in the six.

MOLESKINE: Thank you to my F3 brothers for coming out this morning. Your presence makes a huge difference for the 4:13 Strong men.

COT: Prayers for strength, wisdom, courage and endurance.

Black Ice

AO: westeros
Q: Natural Ice , Black Lung
PAX: Michelin Man, Tim the Toolman, DintyMoore, Puzzlah, Siri, Pep, Hedwig, bluemule, Duncan
FNGs: None
COUNT: 11
CONDITIONS: Immaculate

WARMUP: SSH, Leg stretchish things

THE THANG: YHC kicked off the Q with a long mosey featuring multiple sets 10 merkins strategically placed to keep the pax together. Once we hit the bridge we did sets of sprints ending with a long set of Lt Dans across the bridge. Michelin Man gave a nice complement by confirming that the Q was set too Hard Mode.

Black Lung took over for an off road mosey up to Love Hill followed by a punishing round of Merry consisting of WW1, Flutter Kicks, and Leg Raises. Proceeding with a session of partnered sprint work around the hill before heading back to the startdex.

MOLESKINE: When the Q is training for a half marathon – the Pax is training for a half marathon!

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Encouragement to work out with 413 Strong!

COT: Prayers were lifted up!

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

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:

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.

My Eras Tour

AO: titan
Q: Puzzlah
PAX: DintyMoore, Spinal Tap, Old Maid, Tim the Toolman, Salami, SalPal, Michelin Man, Elmer (DR from Raleigh), Escobar (DR)
FNGs: None
COUNT: 10
CONDITIONS: Reminiscent of the glory years

WARMUP: Mosey around the park. Stretch: World’s Greatest Stretch, Calves.

THE THANG:
My eras were an attempt at 4 decades of fitness, so 4 sets of workouts that were organized around my athletic endeavors of hockey, basketball through high school, football through college, Rugby through my 20s, and a classic F3 dora that got edited for time. I would have incorporated a lot more sprinting (suicides, 55s, etc.), but I have been working through some foot pain (Thanks to Spinal Tap for the recs that I will try out).

Hockey/Plyometric station:
– Broad Jump
– Speed hop
– skaters
– skaters with a pause
– launch off one leg into a sprint

Basketball/Lower Body station:
4 rdsx10 reps each of:
– Air Dramas (Squat then extend up onto your toes)
– Hold squat shoulder circuit (Palloff press)
– Iron Mikes
– Tuck Jumps

Football/Full Body:
38 Up Downs going around the circle like Dan Campbell in that Hard Knocks episode.

Rugby-ish:
4 rds of:
– Bear crawl 10 m
– 10 Dancing Bears
– 10 Merkins
– Sprint Back 10 M

F3 pivot to a few rounds of partner lateral runs 20 m, while partner does plank shoulder taps, then Freddie Mercuries, then SSHs. Not quite enough time for a Dora.

about 8 minutes of Mary back at the flag.

Described some of the srummaging techniques that I pivoted away from during coffee that I will come back to in the future after some encouragement.

MOLESKINE:
As I was looking at the environs on Google Maps to plan out the Q, I noticed that the landmark that our alphabet overlords highlight is the Taylor Swift Bench. I didn’t know it was there and didn’t bother to seek it out, but modern stardom, longevity, and fandom/activism were discussed. A bird that had seen better days awaited us where I put down cones to warn us of what was to come.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
2.0s welcome at bomber on 6/14
Salami Dash at the Castle 5k that includes tickets to future Nashville SC game
f3nashville.slack.com/archives/C3MSWGATT/p1718203308939989
COT: Prayers for travel, discretion with new work opportunities, and Pep DR in San Francisco.

Appreciated this fine group of HIMs for my first Q at Titan working through some beginner’s trudge.