3, 2, 1…let’s count!

AO: atlantis
Q: Grape
PAX: Three Stooges, Cable News, Sally, Right Said, Puzzlah
FNGs: None
COUNT: 6
CONDITIONS: cold, but not cold enough for sleeves

WARMUP:
Quick run around the parking lot to warm up my arms (@Sally reminded me that’s not how it works)
20 SSH
10 Imperial Walkers
10 Hillbillies
10 LBAC F
10 LBAC R
10 OH Claps
10 Seal Claps
10 Moroccan Night Clubs

THE THANG:
Let’s count animals!
1 Bear Crawl around the parking lot
2 minutes of Monkey humpers (this was much harder than I was expecting)
3 sets of 3×3 inchworm merkins
4 sets of 4 crunchy frogs

Mosey to the bigger parking lot

Let’s count down!
Dora 3-2-1
300 Squats
200 Merkins
100 BBSU’s
50 Burpees (I don’t think any group finished this)
Runner was going to the second tree and back

Mosey back to startex for Mary

MOLESKINE: super proud of the guys working hard. Was worried about Cable News for a bit, but like a true HIM he powered through! Also loved when Puzzlah would say “sweet” in a high pitched voice every time I gave him the rep count in the Dora. Thanks for having me y’all!

ANNOUNCEMENTS: brewsday, plankpril, murder mile

COT: everyone shared an intention, including prayers for family members and friends who are battling cancer, high school decisions for Puzzlah, and work stuff for Sally

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Tortoise & Hare #1

AO: thestronghold
Q: Red Skull
PAX: bluemule, Longhorn, Hacker (Franklin), Right Said, Chunks, Decaf, Young and Restless, Big Country, Wookie, D Pole, Mix Tape, Milli Vanilli, Comeback, Army Surplus, Frozen, For the Girls, Westside, Pacer, Trajectory, C Sharp, Triple Sevens, Blitz, Sgt. Meatball
FNGs: None
COUNT: 24
CONDITIONS: Very cold 27 degrees

WARMUP: SSH, IW, Squat. WMH, stretches

THE THANG: RUN!!! 3 mile loop around the campus. Not bad for the first official run. Fastest time for the new class was 28:23, and all in at 40:18. Had a little time at the end for some Mary.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Happy 37th birthday to bluemule. Thank you for starting your day at The Stronghold!

COT: Comeback closed us out with a prayer.

Ridin Dirty

AO: westeros
Q: Hacker (Franklin)
PAX: Vector, Right Said, Chunks, Pep, Siri, Natural Ice, DintyMoore, Young and Restless, CubCadet, Breadsticks, Frenchie, Roboto, Tommy Girl
FNGs: None
COUNT: 14
WoR
– SSH
– IW
– BAC/Back BAC/OHC
– slow ass merks
– GM
– WMH
– Runner’s Stretch

The Thang
Pain stations with 1 minute AMRAP / 30 second rest
1. HR merks
2. 4 ct flutter kicks
3. BBS
4. 70lb farmer’s carry
5. 60lb sandbag burpee
6. 60lb medicine ball over the shoulder throw
7. 50lb row
8. 50lb goblet squat
9. 30lb plate uhaul
10. 40lb badonkadonks (Alabama Prom Dates)
11. 35lb kettlebell swing
12. 25lb kettlebell clean to press
13. stepups with 30 lb plate
14. battlerope

Lock in gains with a quick mosey, then r/r to time

MARY
– Plank rotation
– LBCs
– Scorpion Stretch
– Cobra
– Downward Dog

Announcements
– Beer tasting at Blue Mule’s house on Friday
– Tortoise and Hare tomorrow at thestronghold, bootcamp on Thursday
– Culture week in Franklin this week — all workouts led by current/former Nantans focusing on F3 culture
– Q vs Q on April 6th at +TN+37064/@35.9212646,-86.8612508,17z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x88647e558f4ee3e1:0x360564ef7acd299c!8m2!3d35.9212646!4d-86.8612508!16s%2Fg%2F11gh6bcw6g”>www.google.com/maps/place/Pinkerton+Park,+405+Murfreesboro+Rd,+Franklin,+TN+37064/@35.9212646,-86.8612508,17z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x88647e558f4ee3e1:0x360564ef7acd299c!8m2!3d35.9212646!4d-86.8612508!16… in Franklin at 6:30 AM. If Huntsville brings more PAX, they’re going to take our flag. Please, think of the flag. All TN PAX are welcome. If any AL PAX happen to ask you for the address, its… uh… maps.app.goo.gl/Ta6ZVAFduSGNZqi56?g_st=ic

Prayer Requests
– As discussed in-person

Moleskin
Identify and focus your energy on what you can control. There is a lot of stuff swirling around in all of our lives, some of which affects us greatly, and most of which we cannot control. You can think of these events as fitting into a series of concentric circles, like a target or dartboard. At the center, the bulls-eye, is your area of control. If you really think about it, that area is limited to yourself, your attitude, and your actions. Beyond that lies the area of influence, which gets a lot trickier: there many things we all want to influence, but influence is uncertain and situational. It isn’t control. You might have a lot of influence over, say, your kids or people who work for you, and much less over more distant relations or strangers. At the same time, the things we want to influence vary greatly in importance to us. The sweet spot for impact is high influence/high importance scenarios, but it can be productive to invest in low influence/high importance situations, so long as we understand up-front that those are investments that might take a long time to pay off (if they pay off at all) and may require allies with greater influence to help. Beyond the domain of influence is noise. Noise is a distractor. A Jester. The news, people who are beyond our reasonable influence, whose interests contradict our own, these are all noise in terms of our ability to create impact. The only thing you can do here is remove yourself from the noise, if you can, or choose to ignore the noise, if you must.

Sorry for the wall of text, but that was what was on my mind at the airport on Saturday.

Thanks for letting me lead today!

Firehydrants are not easy at 300 count

AO: bomber
Q: Pep
PAX: Puzzlah, Papa Bear, Chunks, Right Said, Pep, Einstein, Mall cop, snowden
FNGs: 2 Mall cop, snowden
COUNT: 8
CONDITIONS: drizzly but warm-ish

WARMUP:
– little baby arm circles : 15
– reverse little baby arm circles : 15
– seal claps: 15
– imperial walkers: 15

THE THANG:
dora
– run to Mercedes (do not touch the honey pot)
– exercises
– burpee: 100
– american hammer: 200
– firehydrants: 300
– dips: 200

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
– beer tasting at Blue Mule’s
– plank+april coming

COT:
– papa bear’s niece had a premature baby that passed

This Little Light Of Mine

AO: middle-tooth
Q: Goose
PAX: bluemule, Pep, Right Said, Rocket Mortgage, Cowboy, Toothless, moneyshot, Michelin Man, Good Morning America
FNGs: None
COUNT: 10
CONDITIONS: chilly

WARMUP: Willie mays, forward fold, arm stretches, cherry pickers

THE THANG:

Run to the light: 300 squates with run to the light and back after every 25 reps.

Lunge to the light and back

Adora: 300 ssh while partner runs

Circle of Mary

MOLESKINE:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

murder mile 3/28 green machine

Plankpril is approaching

Game night at Firefox house tonight!!

Prayers for Nancy’s family

The One in the Rain

AO: bomber
Q: Wolfpack
PAX: Tim the Toolman, Crawlspace, DintyMoore, Firefox, Papa Bear, Pep, Right Said, Vector
FNGs: None
COUNT: 9
CONDITIONS: You can only get wet once

WARMUP: Mosey to upper parking lot. BAC, BAC BACs, Imperial Walkers, WMH.

THE THANG:

Thang 1:
Four Corners (Was going to do a triangle, but that parking lot was so perfectly square decided to go with that and add an extra set)

Perform the exercise and run to the next corner making your way around the square. 7 rounds in total.

R1: Burpees, 7 reps at each corner
R2: Flutter Kicks, 14 reps at each corner
R3: Merkins, 21 reps at each corner
R4: Squats, 28 reps at each corner
R5: Carolina Dry Docks, 21 reps at each corner
R6: WW1, 14 reps at each corner
R7: Iron Mikes, 7 reps at each corner.

Thang 2:
3 sets of Bear Crawls from the community center, up the stairs to the upper parking lot

Mary:
Plankapalooza
20 seconds high plank
20 seconds low plank
15 seconds high plank
15 second low plank
10 seconds high plank
10 seconds low plank
5 seconds high plank
5 seconds low plank

MOLESKINE:
It may have been uncomfortable to roll around in the wet and and bear crawl up a waterfall, but a reminder that it’s good to go out of our comfort zones and test ourselves from time to time. Great work Pax!

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Bring your kid to workout day next Tuesday at the knoll. DM me if you have any questions.

Biscuit run tomorrow.

Murder mile March 28 at GreenMachine

COT: silent reflection for all prayers both said and unsaid.

Leap Day! (Almost)

AO: titan
Q: Grape
PAX: preacherman, Right Said, Crawlspace, Sherlock, Black Lung, Pep, Natural Ice, Firefox, greyalbum, Tim the Toolman, Spinal Tap, DintyMoore
FNGs: None
COUNT: 13
CONDITIONS: warm and windy! Got done right before the showers

WARMUP:
20 SSH
10 WMH OYO
10 Good Mornings OYO
10 LBAC F
10 LBAC R
10 OH Claps
10 Seal Claps
10 Moroccan Night Clubs

THE THANG: In honor of my son’s 1st real birthday tomorrow (he’s turning 4…or 1…or something) we worked on our leaping ability with a jump-themed playlist

Mosey
Stop at various points to do 20 crunchy frogs IC
At the ellipse, partner up for Dora

LEAP
100 LBC’s
200 E2K (mountain climbers)
300 APD’s
4:00 Plank (1 minute at a time with 20 seconds of rest)

Mosey to hill

FROG
Frog jump up hill, run down
Run up hill, run back down
Obama up hill, run back down
Grapevine run to startex

MOLESKINE: those frog jumps really wrecked me. Hope you guys enjoyed the Mary themed Dora. Thanks for having me!

ANNOUNCEMENTS: biscuit run, plankpril

COT: Grey’s adoption, upcoming surgeries, selfish parenting

Tortoise & Hare – The Final Chapter

AO: thestronghold
Q: Red Skull
PAX: Hair Band, Right Said, Judy, Longhorn, Skeet, Decaf, Woodpecker, Wookie, Goldie Locks, Evel Knievel, Sunshine, Neanderthal, Peach Pie, Prince’s Hot Chicken, Tatter Tot, Iron Flush, Mittens, Mr. Krabs
FNGs: None
COUNT: 19
CONDITIONS: 63 degrees and dry despite some distant lightning and thunder

WARMUP: Mr. Krabs led us through a thorough warm-up: SSH, IW, HW, WMH, Squat, Good Mornings

THE THANG: RUN!!! 3 miles. It was a little disappointing that no 4:13 Strong man set a PR on the final run of the 40 Days. At least Hair Band got a 2024 PR finishing in 20:37!

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Signing Day is this Friday at 11:30. Come join us as we celebrate this class transitioning into the Work Phase of the program.

COT: Prayers for strength, guidance and wisdom as these men begin interviews and the job selection process.

Burpees-on-a-String AO Tour

AO: hendersonville
Q: Chunks
PAX: Pep, Splitter, Disc Jockey, Sunshine, Right Said, Crawlspace, Desk Pop
FNGs: 1 Desk Pop
COUNT: 8
CONDITIONS: Warm and breezy

WARMUP: SSH, Good mornings

THE THANG:
Burpee Mountain
Mosey to the hill
Burpee Mountain
Sprint to the top, mosey to the high school
Burpee Mountain
Mosey to the football field
Choose your own adventure: PAX line up on the endzone. First PAX chooses an exercise for the group to perform while he moseys to the other end zone and back. When he returns, next PAX chooses and exercise and does the same. Go until all PAX choose an exercise. Switch to the other endzone and repeat.
Burpee Mountain
Mosey
Burpee Mountain
Mosey to Mary
Finish Burpee Mountain

Mary: Dealer’s choice ab exercises until 6:45

MOLESKINE: Two Chunks Qs, two Disc Jockey merlot splashes

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

COT:

Gutenberg

AO: bomber
Q: Grape
PAX: Avalanche, Black Lung, Pep, Vector, Cream Cheese, Right Said, Crawlspace, Firefox, CubCadet, Tim the Toolman, Michelin Man, DintyMoore, Sherlock
FNGs: None
COUNT: 14
CONDITIONS: as Crawlspace said, this is the one month per year of perfection

WARMUP: 20 SSH
10 WMH OYO
10 Good Mornings OYO
10 LBAC F
10 LBAC R
10 OH Claps
10 Seal Claps
10 Moroccan Night Clubs

THE THANG: Mosey for a bit on the greenway

Flower

Jack Webb to 8 then back down

2/23/1455 the first Gutenberg Bible was printed, so we went to church

Mosey to church number 1
10 Burpees
Mosey to church number 2
10 Burpees
Mosey to playground
10 Burpees

Sets of 55 reps with 5 pull-ups in between

B- BBSU
I- Irkins
B- Bobby Hurleys
L- Lt. Dans
E- elbows to knees (mountain climbers)

MOLESKINE: thanks for letting me lead this morning! Good work out there!

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Biscuit run, Plankpril

COT: Mental, physical, and emotional health of our communities and families

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