F3 Knoxville

Author: BackBlasts

Get The Led Out Before We’re Not In Kansas Anymore

AO: asylum-am
Q: Sawdust
PAX: Double Wide, Cinco (Scott McGuire), Rainbow, Matlock (Bill Maddox), Swimmies (Nathan Chesney), Tropicana, Cat Gut (Mike Davis), P3, Grandslam (Trey Leake), Newton
FNGs: None
COUNT: 11
WARMUP: SSH (24), Tempo Merkins, Cherry Pickers, Rockettes (@Bunny Style), Tie-Fighters, X-Wings, Bobby Hurley’s Up Route 66, but turn at the Stone to do some Peter Parker Pickle Pounders (Say that fast 3x)

THE THANG: Light Pole Pictionary Circuit –
Started with Bearpees & ended with TN Rockin’ Chairs while reviewing the custom deck of cards with exercises. Ten (10 Reps of each exercise.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Convergence 20-Jan-24 at #bigball.

COT: “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill

A balmy stroll around JUCO

AO: juco
Q: Data
PAX: Booster, Fetch, Mailbox, Lil’ Spice, Dart Gun, Wanderer, Guardrail, 5K, Noodles, Erector, Stye (Hal Phillips), Love Shaq, Butterknife
FNGs: None
COUNT: 14
ONE-MINUTE WARNING
WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Reach for the sky & let it hang
Abe Vigodas
Moroccan Nightclubs
Motivators
TN Rocking Horses
ONE THANG:
Play a game of infection in a section of the parking lot blocked-off by cones. One person is infected and moves by bear crawl. Everyone else is a crab walker. Once you are tagged, do 10 Pickle Pounders and then you are an infected bear crawler. We played 3 times.
ANOTHER THANG:
Mosey to the really large parking lot with 10 rows of parking lines.
Building blocks, courtesy of a @Tank backblast I found.
Run to first line of parking and do 1 of 1st exercise. Move to next line, do 2, etc. Total of 10 lines across the lot. Mosey back to the beginning before doing next set.
1. Merkins with runs
2. Squat jumps with bear crawls (every other)
3. Dry docks with Bernie Sanders
4. Lunges with side shuffles
JUST ONE MORE THANG:
Mosey to the loading docks. Split into 2 groups and perform a Newton’s Cradle for 2 full rotations.
Everyone holds a plank
Person in front runs and jumps up on the loading dock, runs back down the ramp, performs 5 Merkins, and goes to back of the line.
MARY:
Imperial Walkers
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Convergence on 1/20
COT:
Don’t Waste Your Life by John Piper
“Making Much of Christ from 8 to 5”
1. We can make much of God in our secular job through the fellowship that we enjoy with him throughout the day in all our work.
2. We make much of Christ in our secular work by the joyful, trusting, God-exalting design of our creativity and industry.
3. We make much of Christ in our secular work when it confirms and enhances the portrait of Christ’s glory that people hear in the spoken Gospel.
4. We make much of Christ in our secular work by earning enough money to keep us from depending on others, while focusing on the helpfulness of our work rather than financial rewards.
5. We make much of Christ in our secular work by earning money with the desire to use our money to make others glad in God.

[karns-otb] Cardinals VQ

AO: karns-otb
Q: Commission
PAX: Sawdust, Voodoo, Leland Robbins (Geiger), Kevin (Miss Piggie), Neon, Smoked Pickle
FNGs: None
COUNT: 7
WARMUP: Cardinal’s V-Q
Warm-o-Roma
15- Side Straddles Hops
10- Tempo Merkins
10- Flutter Kicks Double Count
10- Little Baby Arm Circles Forward
10 – Little Baby Arm Circles Backwards
10- Hallelujahs
10- Knoxville Cherry Pickers
20 Sec. Samson Hold
PHELPS it out

“Card’s Run and Repeat”
5 Burpees followed by a moment of silence for Cardinal.
10 – Big Boys
10 – Heels to Heaven
Run to far end zone and back, repeat

10- Burpees Burpee Counter 30
Little Baby Crunches
Mt. Climbers Double Count
Run to far end zone and back, repeat

15- Burpees Burpee Counter 60
Air Squats
Freddy Mercury’s
Run to far end zone and back, repeat

20- Burpees Burpee Counter 100
Run to far end zone and back, do the last set of 20 burpees together.
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Walking lunge for 10 yards followed by 10 squats
Walking lunge for 10 yards followed by 10 squats
Side lunge (left leg) for 10 yards followed by 10 squats
Backward lunge for 10 yards followed by 10 squats
Side lunge (right leg) for 10 yards followed by 10 squats

Mosey to the shovel flag
20 American Hammers (4 count)

Taylor Phelps, Age 36, died on 11 Jan 2023. He left behind a widow and two children (Andrea, Clay and Evie). Over 170 men surrounded the football field at Rampart, the largest convergence I have ever seen. Guys who hadn’t been out in years and haven’t been back out since. HIMs or high impact men all around the world joined us in completing Cardinal’s workout. Many in honor of Taylor, gave their F3 name to be Cardinal.

His wife Andrea lost her father days before. The men of F3 painted and prepped the house she was moving into. Then they raised $109,456 for his family. I don’t know what has been done for them since or who has stayed in contact with them.

But I do know some widows in my life and I am sure that you do too.

James 1:27
27 Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.
Reach out to a widow, young or old, and let her know that she is important, loved and remembered. See what you can do to serve her and her family.

10 for 10

AO: shamrock
Q: Bed Wetter
PAX: Baby Boomer, Honeydew, Snaggletooth (Elijah Tafao), Skidmark, Stitch, Dumpster Dive, KickFlip, slappy, Crawlspace, Mermaid
FNGs: None
COUNT: 11
WARMUP:
7 minute stretch
Followed by 10 burpees and 2 minute plank
THE THANG:
10×10 as a group each exercise
CMU push-ups
CMU Squats
CMU OH press
CMU kettlebell swings
CMU OH Big Boys

If you finish round side straddle hop

Abs
1 minute plank
45 second CMU flutter kicks
30 second Russian twist
15 second each leg dead bug
5 burpees

Lunge Back to CMU pile
Indian run back to start

MARY:
N/A
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Welcome to Moes on Friday
COT:
God promises that if we turn to Him in difficult times, He will give us a peace beyond belief, beyond understanding.

the peace of God guards our hearts and mental powers “by means of Christ Jesus.”

Phillipians 4:7

Cardinal’s VQ, 1 year later

AO: thequacken
Q: FixerUpper
PAX: Secret Garden, Z-Pack, Lizzy
FNGs: None
COUNT: 4
Cardinal’s Q

Warm-o-Rama:
15 Side Straddle Hops
10 Tempo Merkins
10 Flutter Kicks 
10 Little Baby Arm Circles Forward
10 Little Baby Arm Circles Backward
10 Hallelujahs
10 Knoxville Cherry Pickers
20  Sec. Samson Hold
10 Willie Mayes Hayes
The Thang:
Choose two points about 100 yards from each other – these will be Point A and Point B. Starting at “Point A” perform Set 1 exercises, then run to “Point B” and repeat those same exercises. Run back to “Point A”.
Repeat this sequence for exercise Sets 2, 3, and 4.  

Set 1
5 Burpees
Moment of silence after burpee #2
5 Big Boys
5 Heels to Heaven

Set 2
10 Burpees                                               
10 Little Baby Crunches
10 Mt. Climbers Double Count

Set 3
15 Burpees                                               
15 Air Squats
15 Freddy Mercuries

Set 4
20 Burpees

ANNOUNCEMENTS: big ball convergence 1/20

COT: 1 more burpee
There’s a last time for everything
Do good as long as you have the opportunity. Galatians 6:10