F3 Knoxville

3 Seconds of Courage

Asylum AM

F3 Q: 10.29.22 

AO: Asylum 

7am – 8am 

[ The Scene ] 

[ Welcome/Disclaimer ]

  • Welcome to F3: Fitness – Fellowship – Faith 
  • My name is Steam and I’ll be your Q this morning 
  • A few things before we begin: 
    • I’m not a professional 
    • You’re here on your own belief 
    • You know your injuries if you have any so if you need to modify anything we do today feel free to do so, but push yourselves and the men around you. They deserve it and so do you. 
  • FNGs?

[ Warm o Rama ] 

— X + take a lap — 

1 — SSH: 20×4

(Take a lap)

2 — Merkin: 10 (1ct)

(Take a lap) 

3 — Windmill: 10×4

(Take a lap) 

4 — Mountain Climber: 10×4 

(Take a lap) 

5 — Baby Arm Circle: 10×4 F 

(Take a lap)

[ The Thang ] 

(Mosey to the top of Cardiac)

(1) The Elevator of Strength 

  • Nickel, Dime, Quarter
  • 5, 10, 25
  • 3 Points of Contact
  • Top: 5 Man Makers (8 count)
    • Run to Point 2
  • Middle Curve: 10 Squats (1 count)
    • Do Point 2
    • Run back to Point 1
    • Do Point 1 + Point 2
    • Run back to Point 1
    • Do Point 1, 2, and 3
  • Bottom: 25 Flutter Kicks (4 count)
    • Run back to Point 1
    • Hold the plank

(Mosey to the Dock)

(2) There And Back Again

  • 2 points of contact 
  • Dock + entry pathway to the right 
  • 5 rounds – together 
  • Each round after the first one increases the # of reps by 10 (1ct)
  • 1: Merkins (10)
  • 2: Squats (20)
  • 3: Dry Docks (30)
  • 4: SSH (40)
  • 5: Calf-Raises (50)

(Mosey to the Island)

(3) Battle Buddy Core 4 Laps 

  • Get a BB
  • 4 core Xs we’ll do
    • LBCs
    • Flutter Kicks 
    • American Hammers 
    • Cockroaches 
  • 1 BB will stay here and just crank out reps of 1 X while the other BB takes a lap. 
  • Rinse and repeat until both of you have completed all 4 Xs here
  • Done? Plank it up. 

(Mosey to the playground or AO depending on time)

[ Mary ] 

  • SWS (Stretching With Steam): The Married Edition

[ COT ]

  • # off – 11
  • Name o Rama 
    • Choir Boy, Crawdad, High-Heels, Matlock, Mr. Jinxy, Crispr, Drum Major, Convoy, Lebowski, Q-Bert, Steam
  • FNGs – 0
  • BOM

“3 Seconds of Courage”

A funny story from my honeymoon about 3 seconds of courage, and no, it’s not what you think. 

After dinner one night, my wife and I were walking around the property and there was this band playing in this outdoor amphitheater area. So we sat down and got a drink and listened to them for a bit. They were playing some pretty popular music that people could dance to, and some of the staff was dancing with guests towards the stage, and then some of the guests started getting up to dance. And as Megan and I were watching this, something really strange happened – I got super nervous. I could tell my wife wanted to dance, and I did too, but for some reason I was really nervous to ask her to dance. My new wife! I kind of danced around it a little bit, asking her “Hey do you want to dance?” And her replying “Yeah kind of but I’m nervous!” And guys it was the funniest thing looking back. I’m sitting there with my wife, and she wants to be asked to dance and I want to ask her to dance and whisk her away with boldness to do so, and I’m sitting there thinking “What the hell man, just ask her to dance, she’s your wife and she wants to dance with you, what are you doing!?” 

And I almost missed out on an opportunity to dance with my wife. Almost. I shared this with her when we were cliff jumping this summer, and she was nervous to jump off a 10 foot cliff into the lake: “All it takes is 3 seconds of courage.” And after about 10 minutes she eventually jumped and it ended up being fine. The same thing applied to me last week, when I almost missed an opportunity to ask my wife to dance, I had to take my own advice – 3 seconds of courage is all it takes. Looking back tt really was kind of funny, both of us sitting there, just having been married, and nervous to get up and dance together. 

So sometimes a deep breath and 3 seconds of courage is all it takes: 

  • To be intentional 
  • To be bold 
  • To be thoughtful 
  • To make an impact

And the scariest part of that is not the end goal, but the initial workup mentally. And so I want to pose this to us as we head into the weekend and a new week, where can you implement 3 seconds of courage? Someone in your life needs this from you! Maybe it is your wife or your family or your friends or your coworkers or a conversation you’ve been meaning to have for a while. All it takes is 3 seconds of courage.