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Are You Not Entertained!?

AO: middle-tooth
Q: Toothless
PAX: Rocket Mortgage, Betty Ford, Hair Band, Young Pawn, Oatmeal, Subway, sooner, Puzzlah, Focker
FNGs: None
COUNT: 10
CONDITIONS: The rain let up just like I planned it at precisely 5:27am. In scouting the conditions, I encountered a crawdad swimming on the asphalt. True story, will share the evidence.

PLAYLIST: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0NyMRuMJGaBWv8NwcJHMrm?si=a9c2c1828dc74b12

WARMUP:
– SSH x 80 (Colosseum was finished in 80 AD!)
– Willy Mays Hays x 12 (two each side)
– Michael Phelps x 10
– Big Arm Circles x 10
– Reverse Big Arm Circles x 10
– Good Mornings x 10 oyo

THE THANG: Are You Not Entertained!? :crossed_swords: :stadium:

Start with a 4 minute plank for plankpril to “win the crowd”

Count off into 2 groups. For the following rounds, all reps must be completed, but groups may pick up reps from the six to complete. Loser will have a choice of exercise in the next round, team wins will matter at the end.

Round 1
– Bear crawl to fence
– Lunge back
– 50 merkins
All run 2 laps when completed

Round 2
– Chariot (wheelbarrow) to fence
– Broad jump back
– Choice: 50 WWI’s / 100 American Hammers (2ct.)
– Team 2 won Round 1, so Team 1 chose 100 two-count American Hammers
All run 2 laps when completed

Round 3
– Suicides x 3 (each far court line, first & back, second & back, 3rd & back)
– Inchworm Merkin there
– Bernie back (outside line to avoid collision)
– Choice: 50 Euro Steps / 100 Squats
– Team 1 won round 2, so Team 2 chose 100 Squats

30 Burpee buyout, minus 5 per winning round for each team.
– Team 2 won 2 rounds and did 20
– Team 1 won 1 round and did 25.

Back to Startex for Mary – dealers choice of weapon (exercise) and proceed til time.

MOLESKINE:
On a particularly rainy morning, YHC was grateful for the 10 PAX who did not let the fartsack win them over and who came out to test their mettle.

I personally found the playlist invigorating, and while there was mumblechatter, I think all but 2 PAX held the full 4 minute plank! Excellent full body yells on brand from Young Pawn.

Considering the conditions, we stayed pretty dry all the way until Mary when Rocket Mortgage promptly had us down in the water for our first exercise. Thanks for that – made the coffee from sooner taste even better!

ANNOUNCEMENTS: So very many – please see -f3-nashville-general for the full list!

Additional announcement is that Oatmeal and sooner are taking their families camping this weekend to Montgomery Bell State Park, and there’s an open invite to others who want to go!

COT: YHC echoed the message in the pre-blast about the importance of AOQs in F3 and shared gratitude for the 5-6 current and previous AOQs we had around the circle. I reiterate that we want PAX to lead before they’re ready and to leave before their ready, and we are pushing to help that trend solidify.

Prayers shared for recent diagnosis, death of an extended family member, and for a tragic incident in another F3 region with an FNG collapsing & not making it. Will share more as that travels through the grapevine.

Thank you, HIM, for your effort today. May you be better for it!

As always, it’s an honor to lead.
— Toothless :tooth:

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Its the end of the world

AO: greenmachine
Q: sooner
PAX: t-cell, Oatmeal, Black Lung, Focker, moneyshot, Cowboy, Betty Ford, Haggis, NFT, Rocket Mortgage, Topanga
FNGs: None
COUNT: 12
CONDITIONS: it’s the end of the world… Pleasant temperatures and mild humidity, but massive radiation and deadly spore outbreaks

WARMUP:
A standard active sooner warm up

THE THANG:
The world has laid waste to your city. Every day is a fight for basic survival.
“Ab city”
– Fifty LBCs
– Fifty “dolphin kicks”
– Fifty hammers
– Fifty WWI
– upon finding a mangled, mutated t-cell… Added 50 happy crunchy frogs… Note, t-cell actually had turned into a frog from the radiation

Every gas station has been sacked. Homes sit empty. Store fronts shattered. A new world awaits in the great beyond.
DORA
– Groups of 3
– Two travel… one by bernie, one by mozie
– One stands watch… 100 x mike tysons; 200 x iron mikes; 300 merkin-jacks (cut short for time)

After the end of the end of a great journey, a eutopia is found deep in the heartland. The pax observed the start of the age as follows
– sprinting at increasing speed x 4
– a bit of yoga/dad stretching
– plank-pril

MOLESKINE:
Leg day!

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
See slack

COT:
Comfort and healing, leadership and loving kindness

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Leg Day

AO: middle-tooth
Q: Young Pawn
PAX: Betty Ford, Cowboy, DrRupp, moneyshot, Oatmeal, Pole Dancer, Rocket Mortgage, sooner, Toothless, TheShield, Topanga, Stinky Pete (F3 Chapel Hill), Overnight
FNGs: 1 Overnight
COUNT: 14
CONDITIONS: :barely_sunny:

WARM UP: :plank: ⭕️
It was day 2 of plankpril so all pax needed to do a 66 second plank. We stood in a circle and took turns doing a plank while the rest of the pax did 66 seconds of warm up exercises including arm circles, imperial walkers, lunges, Bonnie Blairs, squats, and others.

THANG 1: Lopsided Races :man-running: :bear:
Pax paired off and repeated raced to a mark 5 yds away and back. One pax in each pair sprinted and the other bear crawled. The winner of the race had to go 5 steps farther in the subsequent one. The sprinters won the first couple and then crawlers started to even the tide.

THANG 2: Dorabell :school_satchel: :kettlebell:
Pairs did a Dora with 100 each of squats, Freddy Mercurys, fire hydrants and Lt. Dans. Plus, there were two kettlebells (16 and 24 kg), after both pax in a pair carried one it was passed down the line.

MOLESKIN: YHC has been away on a health hiatus and it felt good to be back. Grateful for F3 Nashville.

COT:
:pray: Prayers for grief and healing

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
:beers: Brewsday postponed until next week, see 2ndf

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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

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Find your adventure

AO: handsomizer
Q: G-string (Eli Kresta)
PAX: Natural Ice, Rocket Mortgage, Freakonomics, Red Skull, Spinal Tap, Black Lung
FNGs: None
COUNT: 7
CONDITIONS:
Rainy and chilly. Perfect for a beatdown… in the parking deck.

WARMUP:
– Motivator X6
– Inchworms
– Mosey to the parking deck
– BACs
– Back-BACs
– Overhead Claps
– 20 burpee buy in (hero style)

THE THANG:
Split into two teams
Thang 1:
Rotate through the following exercises
– Pullups on the ledge
– endorphins with the sandbag
– Bear-crawl up the incline and back

Thang 2:
Complete the reps as a team
– 150 perfect merkins
– 200 sandbag rows
– 250 air squats

MARY:
– 25 big-boys
– 25 LBCs
– 25 slow leg raises
– 45 second hollow hold

MOLESKINE:
“The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.” -GK Chesterton
Looking back on my life, my twenties were full of adventures (travel, missionary work, moves, etc.), but now that I’m thirty, I am married with a child. There is a lot less obvious adventure in the day-to-day operations now. HOWEVER, it fills my heart just as much as the adventures did in my twenties.

How do we view adventure? How do we see the extraordinary in our daily lives? Do we see our roles as husbands and fathers as truly heroic, and do we treat them as such?

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Biscuit run tomorrow

COT:
Friend of PAX has lost multiple children in the last 12 months. Prayers for him.

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L.E.A.P. D.A.Y.

AO: greenmachine
Q: princessaurora
PAX: Breadsticks, Cowboy, Focker, Grape, moneyshot, Rocket Mortgage, t-cell, Topanga, Works for a Guy, monster biscuit, Haggis
FNGs: None
COUNT: 12
CONDITIONS:
Practically arctic juxtaposed with the balmy weather just days before

WARMUP:
Mosey to midfield for a little COP:
– SSH
– LBAC
– Randies
– Moroccan Night Clubs
– Fire Hydrants
– WMH

THE THANG:
Line up in the end zone for a L.E.A.P. D.A.Y. escalator. Each round, PAX perform exercise, Bernie to 50-yard line, and jog back. With each successive round, PAX are adding the next exercise on top of previous exercises before their runs.

Lunges x 10
– Eccentric Squats (3-ct down) x 20
– Apolo Ohnos x 30
– Plyo Jumps x 40

400m lap to shake the legs out, and then, in keeping with the day’s “extra” theme, perform final round with all four exercises one more time.

Moving into the upper body portion with the same format.

– Dive Bomber Merkins x 10
– Ab Thrusters x 20
– Y-Raises x 30

200m lap followed by an extra round of all three, then mosey to the pull-up bars.

Split into groups of three. One group calls ab exercise while they perform 29 pull-ups each as a team (modified for time, but not before t-cell, moneyshot, and YHC tested the original plan).

FIN

MOLESKINE:
Soundtrack consisted of bonus/hidden tracks through the years, and there were some real nostalgic gems in there.

Always a great group at greenmachine. Thanks to Focker for letting me take the reins on this extra day and for caffeinating us all. I might need to make GM a part of my routine.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Murder Mile – 3/28
Plankpril – 4/1-4/30

COT:
My BIL and his wife’s pregnancy
Haggis’s job search

PA out.

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Texas Independence Day – 2024 edition

AO: middle-tooth
Q: sooner
PAX: DrRupp, Oatmeal, Toothless, Pole Dancer, Michelin Man, Rocket Mortgage, Cowboy, Betty Ford, moneyshot, monster biscuit, Gilmore Girl
FNGs: 1 Gilmore Girl
COUNT: 12
CONDITIONS: a truly warm spring texas-like morning with a whipping wind carrying the scent of freedom

WARMUP: an active warm up

THE THANG:

Battle of the Alamo
– pull ups to exhaustion, hang until all in, lap, repeat x3
– swing decline merkins to exhaustion, plank till all in, lap x3

Go for reinforcements
– texian run down granny white and back

Remeber the Alamo! 13 days of battle (aka 13s)
– Iron mikes + star jumps
– murder/redurum bunny travel (much like the alamo, we were overcome by exhaustion and converted to mozy/bernie travel halfway through the battle)

Long live the Alamo
13 star jump buy out

MOLESKINE: Michelin Man is disappointed by presence of a Texas Battle flag on the shovel

ANNOUNCEMENTS: toothless has much better posts than his predecessor

COT: prayers for family, grief and healing

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Apocalypse Recovery

AO: handsomizer
Q: Natural Ice
PAX: Freakonomics, Frasier, Rocket Mortgage
FNGs: None
COUNT: 4
CONDITIONS: Spring is sneaking up – leggings are optional

WARMUP: SSH until Rocket Mortgage joined us, Arm Circles, and Imperial Walkers, and a .88 mile mosey around the park.

THE THANG: Mega Apocalypses

Pax Performed each set of exercises in a pyramid format, starting with 10 reps of each exercise and decreasing by 1 each round until combining sets 2 and 1 at the end.

Each set Pax held Al Gore tree hugger pose waiting for 6 – Once the whole set was done we ran the big stair route.

Mega Apocalypse 1

2 count Iron mikes
Squats
WW1
Merkins

Mega Apocalypse Deux

Lt Dan
Star jumps
WW1
Carolina Dry Docks

MOLESKINE: Mumble Chatter was intentionally high as we caught up on each others lives.

Caffe Natty, in an effort to not wake up his house hold grinding beans, stumbled upon the a secret blend of 1/3 Good Citizen and 2/3 The Well coffee for a perfect blend of acidity and boldness.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Future Hunger Games in the works and upcoming greenmachine insanity.

COT: Lifted up Freakonomics article submission and everyones families

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Staying Warm by the Fire 🔥

AO: middle-tooth
Q: Toothless
PAX: Topanga, sooner, Rocket Mortgage, monster biscuit, Betty Ford, Cowboy, Black Lung, Firefox, moneyshot, Young Pawn
FNGs: None
COUNT: 11
CONDITIONS: Crisp and clear, some mumblechatter about it being too cold and being ready for spring. The Q was prepared to address this concern.

TUNES: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/459qwYOyQ4j1hCmtMHFZsC?si=aHk7_t1wRMOsKetBfl43wQ&pi=u-KhB6nvHMTeuB

WARMORAMA

– SSH x 30
– Active warmups down lot to light pole

THE THANG

PAX count off forming three groups

– Group 1 does an Indian run for 2 laps
– Group 2 does an exercise on the ground
– Group 3 does a standing exercise around Group 2

All shuffle when G1 returns. Runners to the ground, ground stands up, and standing group runs.

Do four sets (2 mins AMRAP in each station based on runners):
1. Hand Release Merkins, Tree Huggers
2. American Hammers, Burpees
3. Carolina Dry Docks, Lt. Dans
4. Big Boy Sit Ups, SSHs

Circle up for…

Rings of Fire 🔥

Thunderstruck
– High and low plank, up or down on “thunder”
Roxanne
– SSH / Burpees on “Roxanne”
Flower (Bring Sally Up)
– Squats, up or down as directed

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
– Night Moves at Frothy Monkey in the Nations Wednesday at 1800 hours
– Last 2 weeks of #leanpax

MOLESKINE:
It was an honor to have a little homecoming back to #middle-tooth. Everyone showed up for corporate 😆 The men all pushed themselves this AM and I dare say managed to stay warm!

— Toothless 🦷

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Garage of Wonders

AO: handsomizer
Q: Detective Pikachu
PAX: Spinal Tap, Rocket Mortgage, Freakonomics, Plumber
FNGs: None
COUNT: 5
CONDITIONS: Foggy, mildly chilly

WARMUP: Circuitous mosey to the top of the stairs. Stretches, BACs, Seal Claps

THE THANG: Garage of Wonders
Mosey between floors, with 100 reps of an exercise at every floor.
1: Merkins
2: WW1s
3: Squats
4: Single leg deadlifts
There are 7? total landings (we skipped some)
10 reps of each exercise at the top and mosey back to StartEx

ANNOUNCEMENTS: The Hunger Games tomorrow night at Natural Ice’s place. Firefox is bringing the games.

COT: Pray for my wife, as her doctoral defense is this coming Tuesday. Pray she prepares well and remembers what she prepares.