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Passing the Flag!

Date: 2026-07-28 AO: The Knoll Q: Half Lyfe , Juicy J PAX: Malibu, Juicy J, Étouffée, Roadkill, Half Lyfe, Sooie, Pebbles, DintyMoore, Sparrow, Sooie’s 2.0’s – Sharktooth and ?? FNGs: None COUNT: 10 CONDITIONS: Wet and Sticky
WARMUP: SSH, BACS (Thank you Pebbles for starting us off). Windmills, Hill Billy’s
THE THANG: Round 1-Run Aheads: Passing the Flag “speaker” front to back. Person in back sprints to front. Once flag in front PAX stops and does 10 Iron Mikes. Repeat. Ran around neighborhood and back to The Knoll for Round 2.
Round 2: AMRAP 5 Burpees 10 Merkins 15 Squats 20 Flutter Kicks 4Ct
Round 3: Circle Up Pass the Flag. Person holding the flags does lunges. While rest of PAX does 10 (or 5 reduced for time and higher number of PAX from when work out was created night before) Merkins. After PAX did # of Merkins flag was passed around circle. Repeat until everyone held flag. Next exercise was 10 Iron Mikes. We stopped Juicy J the new Knoll AOQ!
“This flag represents more than a workout. It represents leadership, service, and showing up for the men beside you. Today we pass it to you—not because you’ve finished the journey, but because you’re now part of it. Welcome to the AOQ.”
Juicy J took the flag over to the hills for 11’s Burpees on top, WW2’s at bottom. Headed back to playground for some Mary.
MARY: WW1’s, J Lo’s, Flutter Kicks to finish.
MOLESKINE: Remember my first work out at Pain Train about a year ago with Juicy. Have gotten to know him well over the last year. His enthusiasm, willingness to lead, and creativity and leadership for new F3 events has shown he is ready to carry the flag! Congrats Juicy J! Thank you all for coming out and supporting and pushing each other. This is an amazing group of men, and am grateful for all of you.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: West Side Meet Up and other events. Check Slack.
COT: Count off, name-o-rama, coffee and chocolate milk. Prayers for Étouffée friend getting married and kids getting ready for new school year.
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2 Sooie 2 Knoll

Date: 2026-07-28 AO: The Knoll Q: Half Lyfe , PAX: Malibu, Juicy J, AAA, Étouffée, Roadkill, Half Lyfe, Sooie, Pebbles, DintyMoore, Sparrow FNGs: None COUNT: 10 CONDITIONS: wet, moist, and damp… x10
WARMUP: baby arm circles, hillbillies, all the things.
THE THANG: Half Lyfe beatdown AMRAP. Indian Run with the flag and speaker
Juicy J NEW AOQ Announcement Game of 11’s. Burpees and WWII’s
MARY: Flag Carry squats. Punish the rest with Ab workouts
MOLESKINE: very thankful for the great leadership from Half Lyfe and Pebbles. They have done an incredible job leading Tuesdays and Thursdays AOU for well over a year.
I am honored to help lead moving forward.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: see 1stf -f3-nashville-general. And bellevue Hang August 12th at Tailgate Brewery.
COT: prayers for new couples and for all the kids going into school coming up in the transitions. Be with each of our families.
PLAYLIST: Need to Breathe and some amazing Jesus music. He lifted our spirits.
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The Knoll

Date: 2026-07-23 AO: The Knoll Q: Pebbles , PAX: Half Lyfe, Roadkill, Pebbles, Juicy J, Sooie, Malibu, AAA, Sparrow, 3×2.0 FNGs: None COUNT: 11 CONDITIONS: Perfect, the grass was actually dry
WARMUP: Side Straddle Hops Bacs Bac Bacs Windmills Run 800m
THE THANG: – 10 burpees – 5-10-15-20 yard shuttle runs – —– – 10 burpees – 25 merkins – 5-10-15-20 yard shuttle runs – —– – 10 burpees – 25 merkins – 50 Iron Mikes – 5-10-15-20 yard shuttle runs – —– – 10 burpees – 25 merkins – 50 Iron Mikes – 100 big boy sit-ups – 5-10-15-20 yard shuttle runs – —– – 10 burpees – 25 merkins – 50 Iron Mikes – 100 big boy sit-ups – 150 squats – 5-10-15-20 yard shuttle runs
MARY: 4 minutes
MOLESKINE: This one was harder than it looked on paper. T-claps to Malibu and AAA for making it to the squats in the finals round. All others were smoked from SalPal on Tuesday.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Check Slack
COT:
PLAYLIST: Really bad wedding music
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I consider lifetime bans a formal invitation and/or challenge

Date: 2026-07-21 AO: The Knoll Q: SalPal , PAX: Cherry Maguire, Juicy J, AAA, Vanilla Ice, Sooie, Half Lyfe, Wolfpack, SalPal, Shakira, morning star (F3 Nashville), bumblebee FNGs: None COUNT: 11 CONDITIONS: WET
WARMUP: Mosey + 5 Core Principals
THE THANG: Coupon-cides: 1. Bear Crawl + Thrusters 2. Lunge + Merkins 3. Murder Bunnies + Swings 4. Burpee Broad Jumps + Lt. Dans
T-claps to AAA and Half Lyfe for making it to the final round.
MARY: Quick Merkin Cooldown
MOLESKINE: Be excellent.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: CSAUP, 2nd Wednesday event, check Slack. Juicy J get with The Merchant on additional coverage for 2nd F.
COT: Our brother Squatter, personal intentions.
PLAYLIST: Hurt.
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The Knoll

Date: 2026-07-09 AO: The Knoll Q: Juicy J , PAX: Juicy J, Sooie, Pebbles, AAA, Roadkill FNGs: None COUNT: 5 CONDITIONS: moist
WARMUP: little baby arm circles, backpacks, low slow squats, side straddle hops, Willie May Hayes
THE THANG: Adventure around the neighborhood, indigenous running, throwing the ball over the shoulder, for every drop 15 Burpee‘s, Roadkill had more drops than he had catches so we did like 75 Burpee‘s, at every F3 MEMBER‘s house we did 20 merkins. Then we went to the cornfields/soybean Fields and we formed a circle and we played a game with the ball and we did lots of various ab workouts and exercises, then we did the indigenous run back all the way home with lots more Burpee‘s and Merkins and then we formed a final circle at the starting spot with more ab workouts
MARY:
MOLESKINE: your mom
ANNOUNCEMENTS: #leanpax begins Convergence Pain Train Convergence
COT: munchkin with some snarky comments
PLAYLIST: angry birds :bird:
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Feeling hot hot hot

Date: 2026-06-30 AO: The Knoll Q: Pebbles , PAX: Chains (Ryan Johnson), AAA, Timber, Half Lyfe, Pebbles, Sooie, Étouffée, Morning Star, Bumbleber FNGs: COUNT: 9 CONDITIONS: Got and humid
WARMUP: Side straddle hops Bacs Back bacs Windmills Slow squats Merkins
THE THANG: 11s “surf style” We paddled (bear crawl) and stood up on our boards (burpees) 1/2 mile of bear crawl with 110 burpees
“Hit the beach” with sand bags AMRAP Pull ups x 5 Squats x 10 Overhead press x 15 Deadlift x 20 Run 200m
MARY: 5mjn
MOLESKINE: That was harder than I thought it would be. God created everything good. Trust that the hard, bad, ugly, is ultimately working towards that good.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: July 11th Convergence at Percy Warner stairs
COT:
PLAYLIST: Bob Marlet
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The Knoll

Date: 2026-06-18 AO: The Knoll Q: morning stār , PAX: Pebbles, morning stār, Sparrow, Bumble Bee (2.0) FNGs: None COUNT: 4 CONDITIONS: nice
WARMUP: Oye, I don’t remember …
THE THANG: Bumble bee led us in lots of crawling.
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The Knoll

Date: 2026-06-16 AO: The Knoll Q: morning stār , PAX: morning stār, Sparrow, Juicy J, Sooie, Half Lyfe, Pebbles, Bumble Bee (2.0), Tiger Claw (2.0) FNGs: None COUNT: 8 CONDITIONS: pleasant
WARMUP: mosey to the tree line, rope flow edu
THE THANG: partner up … – one partner: 3 step ups, 3 dips, 3 erkins – other partner rope flow – swap – anyone that gets hit by the ball runs 75% to the backstop and back (later we sent partners) – share gratitude as you rope flow
MARY: baby cat crawl
MOLESKINE: great to be in a place where I don’t have to put a mask/persona on
ANNOUNCEMENTS: summer lean pax, check slack
COT: encouraged PAX to lean into spaces (even if it’s solitude) where they can show up and be themselves
PLAYLIST: the birds
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The Knoll

Date: 2026-06-11 AO: The Knoll Q: Shakira , PAX: Sooie, Juicy J, Pebbles, Shakira, Roadkill FNGs: None COUNT: 5 Conditions: perfect weather filled with anticipation and excitement
Warm up: Warm up (jog increasing speed, side shuffle, high knees, butt kicks, open the gate, lung with twist)
Drills: Passing & dribbling
The THANG: World Cup Workout Trivia Time 90 minutes in a game = 90 hammers 45 minutes in a half = 45 partner ww2s 30 minutes Extra Time = 30 hammers 13 goals for messi = 13 skater squats 11 players on a team = 11 skater squats 5 shots in penalty shoot out = 5 skater squats
World cup game soccer format Every goal = 5 merkins 
Trivia Time pt. 2 World Cup 1994 = 94 american hammers  48 teams this year  = 48 skater squats US won bronze in 1930 = 30 skater ww2s
Bonus: Partners kick and chase the ball 1 minute plank to Shakira’s world cup hit “Waka Waka”
Moleskine: It’s easy to get stuck in our daily routine and forget that we live in a big world full of people very different than us. Take some time this week to celebrate how diverse the world is!
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The Knoll

Date: 2026-06-09 AO: The Knoll Q: Shakira , PAX: Shakira, Pebbles, Étouffée, morning stār, Bumblebee🐝 (2.0), Bear Grylls ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ (2.0), Snoozy bear ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ (2.0), Mugsy🍻 (2.0) FNGs: 2 Snoozy bear ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ (2.0), Mugsy🍻 (2.0) COUNT: 8 CONDITIONS: perfect conditions for a nice sweat followed by a light shower
WARMUP:
Arm circles Willie Mayes Hayes Downward dog to merkin x 5 Butt kicks High knees Walking hamstring stretch
THE THANG:
Partner frisbee toss – Every throw squat and take a step back. +1 rep each throw – Repeat with burpees. Squats up to 15, burpees up to 8
120 squats total, 36 burpees.
Ultimate frisbee  – Every Drop = 1 burpee/6 mountain climbers – Every Score = 5 Lt. Dans/5 mike tysons
Lost track, but well over 60 mountains climbers and 50 Lt. Dans
Frisbee Golf Mary for time – Total group shots = reps – 36 mountain climbers to finish exercise
MOLESKINE: When I learned to play frisbee, I was very bad at it and it took me a long time to learn to have fun at something I was bad at. Find places in your life to do a reality check and calibrate when you need to have fun, adopt a learner’s mindset, and work hard.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT: Prayers for Squatter and his family, the Banker’s friends, and that we all would find moments to be grateful this week.
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