F3 Knoxville

Author: BackBlasts

Three Minutes at a Time

AO: asylum-am
Q: Rainbow
PAX: Dung Beetle (Scott Kimsey), Waffle House (Brady Greene), Gibbler (Tim Basch), Hot Tub (John Muller), Sawdust, Matlock (Bill Maddox), Hands, Cat Gut (Mike Davis), Bunny, Snitch (Cory Beilharz ), Cinco (Scott McGuire), Double Wide, Pac-man, Rainbow, Loves, White Belt
FNGs: None
COUNT: 16
WARMUP: 20 SSH, 10 Tie fighters each leg, 10 tempo merkins, 10 plank jacks, dead bugs, head to curb for Balboa’s on each end of the parking lot with a jog in between
THE THANG: 5 3 minute stations
Suicides
Rotating 10 Table Rows and 10 Dips
Burpee Box Jumps
Bernie’s Up Little Everest
Plank

Hope was to make it through 2X’s. We finished burpee box jumps on the second round. So…2 stations short of our goal
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT: 8 Habits of a Great Leader
1. The habit of no snooze
2. The habit of pre deciding
3. The habit of doing the hard right
4. Habit of you first leadership
5. Touching the line
6. One more rep
7. Fueling the fire
8. The habit of showing back up

[running] 30/60/90

AO: running
Q: Butterknife
PAX: Dart Gun, Noodles (Brian Solmonson), (Tooth Fairy) Dana Rust, Fetch, Butterknife
FNGs: None
COUNT: 5
WARMUP:
Run to neighborhood where we’ll be doing the workout
THE THANG:
30 seconds on 30 seconds recovery, 60 seconds on 60 seconds recovery, 90 seconds on recover back to the starting point. Rinse and repeat 🔂 x5
MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

Iron Pax, Week 2 – WHY?!

AO: thequacken
Q: FixerUpper
PAX: Lizzy, Z-Pack, Herbie, FixerUpper
FNGs: None
COUNT: 4
WARMUP: Sorta, while disclaiming
THE THANG: Totally f3greenwood.wordpress.com/2023/09/10/bde-mile-ipc-2023-week-2/
MARY: No
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Marine Mud Run 9/16 at Melton Hill Park. Contact Lizzy to run or man the tent.
COT: Why would someone get up at 4:45am and drive across town to run for miles at a middle school track? A couple reasons come to mind :
#1 – The dudes who will be there. I’m excited to see the PAX and celebrate the wins and carry the burdens with you all.
#2 – A daily dose of discipline. If I regularly don’t go to F3, I tend to stay up too late, eat too much, and spend too much time on screens. Bad place for me to be.

The IPC is hard, and so are the other 11 months of F3, but the investment of time and effort is well worth it.

True CMUesday

AO: the-project
Q: Mathlete
PAX: Biohack, Tom Tom, Ocho, slappy, 3-Peat (Carlos Rodriguez), Comfort Zone, Fire inthe Hole (Dave Duhamel), Mathlete, Munge (Nathaniel Bond)
FNGs: None
COUNT: 9
Warm-up: Running drills
Pool wall: 1 BDE burpee, 5 wall-ups, 1 BDE Merkin
Recruiting Center: 2 BDE burpees, 5 pull-ups, 2 BDE Merkins
Grab CMUs and head to theater steps
Travel by farmer carry (left, right) and rifle carry
Run stairs between sets
• 3 BDE Burpees
• 20 Rows L
• 20 Rows R
• 30 Curls
• 3 BDE Merkins
Travel to next set of stairs, same thing
• 4 BDE burpees
• 30 OHP
• 20 Good mornings
• 50 Heavy Freddies
• 4 BDE Merkins
Back to the Recruiting Center: 2 BDE burpees, 5 pull-ups, 2 BDE
Mary: Dealer’s choice – Box cutters, awkward turtles, basilisk, merkins, pickle pointers
Word

Acts 5:1-11
This story isn’t about generosity, it is about lying.
As a young man, I was an avid liar. Never to particularly malicious ends, but always self serving. In spite of warnings about tangled webs, I found myself to be a pretty handy spider. I was lucky enough to have a watershed moment when I was young where I was discovered in a relatively serious lie with nowhere to retreat. This didn’t come close to curing me, but it did strike the first light of awareness. Since, I have given special attention to trying to work on this flaw.
The lie sits deep in the heart of sin itself. Lying, in its essence, is the act of twisting my view of reality to serve my own purposes, functionally placing myself in the seat of God. Every lie, whether of commission or omission, begins with a lie to yourself. A lie is always in conflict with relationship because it intentionally creates a discontinuity between my understanding of reality and yours. How can I possibly remain in relationship with someone with whom I do not share the same reality?
However, I don’t think that abhorring a lie means that I should speak all truth to all people. Most of us have probably witnessed first-hand a vicious personal attack levied from the perceived moral high ground of “I’m just being honest.” Truth, like all goods, must be constantly tempered by that highest good, love. We must also be cautious about the burden of truth that we lay upon others. God, in his wisdom, does not reveal to us the fullness of His Truth because He knows that we are too weak to bear it. Likewise, it is sometimes better for us to moderate, but this is very tricky business. Certainly there are truths that are not helpful for a child. But I must be very cautious of my motives. Am I really protecting them, or am I really protecting me?
What we can be certain of is that if I intend to conform myself to a man who calls himself the way, the truth and the light, every lie is a nonconformity.