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Wee-steros

Date: 2026-09-28 AO: Westeros Q: Vector , PAX: Vector, Papa Bear II, Tim the Toolman, CubCadet, Pep, DintyMoore, bluemule, Firefox, Sherlock, Pacer (WL Chapel Hill) FNGs: None COUNT: 10 YHC recently returned from the land of haggis, bagpipes, whisky, and Nessie, so today we celebrated all things Scotland.
CONDITIONS: Just a wee chill in the air
WARMUP: SSH, LBAC, Overhead presses, Seal claps, RLBAC, Imperial Walkers
THE THANG: Interspersed with trivia questions about :flag-scotland:. Answer correctly = 3 burpees. Incorrectly = 5
#1: Elevens with Highlander Caber Toss Jump Squats and 4 count Mountain Climbers.
Break: During the song “I’m Free” by the Soupdragons, hold Al Gore and squat with every mention of the word “free.”
#2: NESSIEs 50 reps of Normal merkins Excellent Form Step Ups SSH Squats Iron Mikes Excellent Form Lochness Merkins (check the exicon)
MARY: A wee variety of exercises
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Tussles, Brewsdays, and CSAUPs oh my. Check Slack.
COT: Thanks for Pep’s appearance and recovery
Great to meet Pacer and bluemule’s kilt. Hopefully the mule grill was relocated without generating new business for Pep’s surgeon.
PLAYLIST: Selected Scottish artists In a Big Country – Big Country Strut – Sheena Easton I Would Walk (5000 Miles) – The Proclaimers Someone Somewhere (In the Summertime) – Simple Minds Walking on Broken Glass – Annie Lennox I’m Free – Soupdragons Magic – Pilot Saturday Night – The Bay City Rollers Stuck in the Middle with You- Stealers Wheel Stupid Girl – Garbage Take Me Out – Franz Ferdinand
:flag-scotland:Trivia: 1. What 2 colors are on Scotland’s flag? 2. What creature is Scotland’s mascot? 3. Name 3things invented by Scotsmen/Scotland 4. What is haggis? 5. What is a hairy coo? 6. What city is the capital of Scotland?
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Green Machine

Date: 2026-09-17 AO: Green Machine Q: Focker , PAX: Focker, Esposa, Pep, moneyshot FNGs: None COUNT: 4 CONDITIONS: SWEATY
WARMUP: Made up stretch routine
THE THANG: ran to track 10 merkins, 10 squats, 10 leg lifts 100 m run Double it until we complete 800 and 80 reps Ran to hill “30s” with monkey jumpers at bottom and cdd’s at top
MARY: dealers choice
MOLESKINE: welp didn’t know it was my Q but luckily I had one saved on the phone!
ANNOUNCEMENTS: check slack
COT: na
PLAYLIST: nope!
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Handsomizer

Date: 2026-09-18 AO: Handsomizer Q: Old Maid , Old Maid PAX: Dangle, SalPal, CubCadet, Firefox, Old Maid, DintyMoore, Natural Ice, Squatter, Vector, Tim the Toolman, Pep, Spinal Tap, Carmen San Diego FNGs: None COUNT: 13 CONDITIONS: Hot
WARMUP: Stretching Baby arm circles
THE THANG: Different exercise for each song.
1. “9-to-5” (Dolly Parton) – SSHs (IC) 2. “Flower” (Moby) – Holding squat during “sally down” 3. “You Make My Dreams (Come True)” (Hall & Oates) – Mosey 4. “I Love Rock ‘N Roll” (Joan Jett) – Merkins/planks 5. “Watch You Step” (Ted Hawkins) – Run the stairs 6. “Bust A Move” (Young MC) – Bear crawl 7. “The Spark” (Kabin Crew) – Dips/step-ups 8. “ Fire in My Soul” (Oliver Heldons) – Mosey 9. “Gas Pedal” (Sage the Gemini) – Freddy Mercuries, V-ups, sit-ups 10. “Come and Get your Love” (Redbone) – lunges 11. “End of the Line” (Traveling Wilburys) – Frog jumps /Cool down 12. “Baby I’m Burning” (Dolly Parton) – Stretch
MARY:
MOLESKINE:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Tennessee tussle A couple opportunities with 4:13 strong
COT: Prayers for Pep surgery on Monday
PLAYLIST: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2YILFAVLVrvxPWtnpK749d?si=QcW9wpOyQYGZOcIbs3YxBA&utm_source=copy-link&pi=gLflSTP2QBe6D
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[The Castle] The Castle

Date: 2026-09-19 AO: The Castle Q: Makita , PAX: Makita, Mr. Pancake, Happy Trees, Barney, SalPal, hambone, Locksmith, Butterfingers, Steely, Flipper, Waymo (formerly Space Baby), Creatine, Dr. Brown Slip, Dilbert, Pep, Strutter, Rewind FNGs: 1 Rewind COUNT: 17 CONDITIONS: Moist :sweat_drops:
WARMUP: 15 SSH, Forward Fold, Willy Mays Hayes, Good Mornings on your own, 15 Imperial Walkers, 15 Hillbillies
THE THANG: Mosey to Parking Lot right by the Police car. “Nothing illegal going on here Officer :male-police-officer:” 25 Squats, Side Shuffle to the Police Car ish. 25 Merkins, Bear Crawl back to start 25 Lunges (Each leg is half), caricoa to Police car 25 Mountain Climbers, Sprint back to start Repeat from bottom to top.
Very quick 5 count.
25 Squats, Run to the Memorial Wall and back 25 Merkins, Run to the Memorial Wall and back 25 Walking Lunges towards Memorial Wall, run remainder of the way and back 25 LBC’s run up the hill and back 10 Burpees and run up the hill and back
MARY: She was present. Steely thought we were done. :face_palm2:
MOLESKINE: My speaker is not a giveaway Dr. Brown Slip :mullet:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: CSAUP 21, Spartan Race, Tennessee Tussle, Struggle 007…Check Slack…
COT: Prayers for Pep and his recovery, Squatter and his family, everyone’s travels, and any other prayers mentioned and not mentioned.
PLAYLIST: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4Zt1uqy3L9Zt6yVmk2fl3J?si=94693a3824184ad1&pt=4927639ad547895268af2d3dbfbc1e72

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No Burpees, No V-Ups, No Hollow Body Holds

Date: 2026-09-16 AO: Titan Q: Firefox , PAX: Pep, Firefox, Spinal Tap, PositiveVector, Sherlock, Hipster, Tim the Toolman, Baby Bird, Papa Bear II, Cropduster, Rhombus, Assange FNGs: None COUNT: 12 CONDITIONS: Positive
WARMUP: Mosey to Parthenon entrance. Where there’s light. – SSH – LBAC – RLBAC – Moroccan night clubs – Air presses – Stretch – Merkins
THE THANG: Mosey about halfway around the promenade. PAX lined up and held a plank (head to toes, rather than shoulder to shoulder). Last PAX bear crawled to the front. All others held high plank until their turn. One full rotation. Encouragement shared to those holding plank and to the PAX bear crawling.
20 Iron Mikes 20 Squat jumps 20 Monkey humpers
Indigenous peoples run about halfway around the promenade.
Repeat the above sequence of plank/bear crawl, then leg exercises.
Mosey to playground and partner up. Partner Derkins. One partner held the feet of the other in a wheelbarrow position. Standing partner does 10 rows then other partner does 10 derkins. 3 full rotations.
At playground, 1 partner does 10 pull-ups and 10 hanging leg raises. The other partner does shoulder tap plank jacks, then swap. 2nd rotation we swapped flutterkicks for the plank jacks.
MARY: Mosey to Startex. 3-4 min of broga.
MOLESKINE: – After Name-o-Rama, YHC realized that he went to high school with downranger Assange. – PositiveVector stayed strong and did not reverse polarity.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: – Tussle, ML Rose fundraiser, and other things in Slack
COT: – Passing of PositiveVector’s colleague – Grateful for continued recovery and discharge of YHC’s mother-in-law but acceptance of change and challenge in family living arrangement
PLAYLIST: Random tunes
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Westeros

Date: 2026-09-14 AO: Westeros Q: Pep , PAX: Makita, Dangle, DintyMoore, Tim the Toolman, Papa Bear II, Roadrash (Casey Greene), Pep, CubCadet, Raven, gutter ball FNGs: None COUNT: 0 CONDITIONS: hot muggy
WARMUP: High plank while dinty did 14 burpees and cub cadet and toolman joined him
THE THANG: Rectangle One partner runs rectangle while other partner does slower movement. When first partner comes around to second partner second partner runs whil first does slow movement Slow movements (one for each side of rectangle) – duck walk – Komodo dragon – Lunge walk – Bear crawl
Modified Indian run – pax moves while lat man up runs to front and on to nearer corner and then back to front – pax movements – Bernie – Karaoke – Lunge
MARY: Round of Mary
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Oct 21 melrose pub for 413 support
COT: Pray for squatter to return Papa bear daughter in sixth month has high glucose.
PLAYLIST: Pearl Jam Vs
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Bomber

Date: 2026-09-11 AO: Bomber Q: Dangle , PAX: Papa Bear II, Dangle, CubCadet, Pep, Firefox, Capt Deaf (Legacy Dallas) FNGs: None COUNT: 6 CONDITIONS: Perfect. Always perfect.
WARMUP: dynamic warmup. Preparing for the tribute and the climb.
THE THANG: A tribute to the 414 fallen first responders 25 years ago. Consisted of 7 stations for 7 min rounds. One second for each fallen first responder with a few extra seconds . Because we can. Then the Climb . AMRAP focused on the legs.
MARY: Ab work finisher. No pain.
MOLESKINE:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Dad daughter event, 4:13 Melrose event.
COT: Prayed for family and loved ones. For brothers and for the opportunity to spend another morning together. For the almost 3,000 lives lost 25 years ago today. Let us not forget.
PLAYLIST: 80’s Hair Band Classics. Why? Just because.
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Green Machine

Date: 2026-09-10 AO: Green Machine Q: Roadrash (Casey Greene) , PAX: Pep, Betty Ford, Shania, Roadrash (Casey Greene), moneyshot, Gutterball, Cowboy, Esposa, Farva, Raven FNGs: 1 Raven COUNT: 10 CONDITIONS: Amazing
WARMUP:Side straddle hop Windmills Cotton pickers Plank jacks Monkey humpers
THE THANG: Dora 123 One pax sprints to endzone and jogs back. The other pax does reps. The count keeps going until as a team they’ve done 100 merkins, 150 BB Sit Ups, 200 squats, and 300 lbc’s
Happy Birthday Farva! 20 burpees
Lastly, 11s on the hill (Carolina Dry Dock – Lunges)
MARY: 6 in for the last min
MOLESKINE: First Q = success. Goals = Peer Pressure FNG’s to return.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT: Squatter
PLAYLIST: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1E4k6iGhKs7UcC?si=y_cL-hcTRv60jII-_wWlyw&utm_source=copy-link&pi=2-4WU_D6QLG8h
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Soccer Trivia

Date: 2026-09-09 AO: Titan Q: DintyMoore , PAX: DintyMoore, Pep, Dangle, Firefox, Makita, CubCadet, Spinal Tap, Tim the Toolman, Hipster, Baby Bird, Papa Bear II, Puzzlah, Three 2.0s FNGs: None COUNT: 16 CONDITIONS: pleasant
WARMUP: warrior pose routine, animal crawls, thunder song burpees/squats (burpee on lightning and squats on thunder)
THE THANG: Name that Sitcom Soccer Steal a player from other team on correct theme song for various tv shows
Penalties for giving up a goal or wrong song guess, rewards for correct song and goals scored
Final Score – 3:3
Most stolen player – Baby Bird Most goals scored – Baby Bird MVP – GMA Most respected scorer – Pep Least respected scorer – Lil Puzzlah
MARY: there were burpees
MOLESKINE: Career and Community well wishes
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Westside Meetup at Tailgate Pizza tonight, Dads and Daughters workout this weekend, Struggle 007 on Oct 2,
COT: Coffee from Tim the Toolman
PLAYLIST: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0wMyLaRHLbYpdVLDHzsGRo?si=dyuwqONMTSqncg1pSPWFWw&utm_source=copy-link&pi=G5Y0lpaSTWGPR
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Betting on Yourself

Date: 2026-09-07 AO: Westeros Q: SalPal , PAX: Pep, Dangle, Grape, Cherry Maguire, Papa Bear II, SalPal, Tim the Toolman, Willy Loman, Road Rash, Gutterball FNGs: 1 Gutterball COUNT: 10 CONDITIONS: Not too shabby
WARMUP: Flower by Moby
THE THANG:
Hill runs + body weight exercises Burpee blackjack
MARY: 10 burpee buyout
MOLESKINE: – Grape needs to watch where he’s running – anyone that beats bluemule gets a t-shirt – Pep requires clarity – Cherry Maguire requests less running. Q had to clarify that not going to :heart: :large_green_circle: means there was no running. – Willy Loman did a funny bit about instructions. Will save for use with children/PAX at later date. – Two HATES from Belmont undergrad. Love to see it. – Tim the Toolman looked so happy coming off a multiday hiking vacation. I strive for such happiness. – Welcome Gutterball!
ANNOUNCEMENTS: westside-wednesday, Struggle signup (see tampalibra or Hipster who already signed up), check -f3-nashville-general for others
COT: Peps dad, expecting Ms.
PLAYLIST: Assorted Alt Rock hits