F3 Knoxville

Author: BackBlasts

Copy Cat of Blindside’s 7/19/23 Workout

AO: shamrock
Q: Mermaid (Bradley Roberts)
PAX: Mermaid (Bradley Roberts), 8 seconds (Paul Richardson), Base Salary, Nadia (Aaron Jacques), Voodoo (Eric A), Caveman, Stitch (Brad Ware), KickFlip (David Greer), Eliza (Kevin Parrott), Honeydew (Jason Childers), Daniel Callis – Anchorman, Skidmark (Brad Coulter), Dumpster Dive (Brad Burnette), Glamper, Brick (Chris Tittle), Fabio (Joe Hamilton), Twitch
FNGs: None
COUNT: 17
WARMUP:
Tempo Squats x 10
Tempo Merkins x 10
Cherry Pickers x 3
THE THANG:
Two decks of cards. Find a battle buddy, draw a card and multiply the card value by 10, and split the exercises with you battle buddy, each doing half of the total. Once you complete the exercises, take a lap, draw a card and repeat.
The suit of the card determined the exercises.
Spades: Big Boys & Hello Dollies
Hearts: Merkins & Dips
Diamonds: Squats & Lunges
Clubs: Bench Press & Curls
Joker: 25 Thrusters each

Collect as many cards as you can and build your best poker hand. Caveman and Twitch managed a royal flush with one wild card, which was the winner and it wasn’t close.
MARY:
We went arounf the group calling an ab exercise, and followed each with 10 merkins until time ran out.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
F3 in the Nude 7/29/2023
COT:
The importance of using a back blast. With Pax miner rolling out next week, we discussed the highlights and reasons for back blasts. I was able to share information from my first workout 4 years ago and recognized the members in attendance and even could even recall the message from that workout.

Prayer Requests
Dumpster Dive’s attorney friend struggling with a forced retirement due to kidney failure.
Anchorman’s daughter who is recovering from a successful tonsillectomy.

Smile for the Camera

AO: the-farm
Q: Trash Panda
PAX: Aladdin (Mansour Hasan), Sharpie (Gary Mitchell), School Zone (Michael Shope), Mayberry, I-Beam (Ryan Gerken), Monstar (Josh Sparrow), Trash Panda
FNGs: None
COUNT: 7
WARMUP:
Mosey down the road to find a nice spot to WOR – SSH, WMH & runner stretch, BAC, BAC-BAC, a few good mornings and we are off!

THE THANG:
1. 3x(10 dips, irkins, derkins, merkins w/ 50 Spicollis (calf raises)) mosey to next pain station w/ a little bear crawling down the stairs
2. Parking Lot Work:
-lunge, lunge, broadjump (some variation of Lt Dans) x 2
-alligator merkins
-inch worms
mosey to the right section of hill for next speed bump
3. 40s w/ merkins at the bottom and squats at the top, MOT = politician up (bernie’s?) bearcrawl down

MARY:
50 LBCs (during the Thang)
13 burpees
13 Leg raises
13 windmills (2 is one)
20 Suzanne Sommers (3 positions per leg)

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
F3 in the nude coming up – check slack

COT:
I appreciate everyone being so hospitable since I’ve moved to Knoxville. F3 Community is strong here and I am excited to join. Challenge to PAX is to make sure that this mentality is present in other aspects of our life as it applies to greater impact to our community. A smile and a kind word goes a long way to build a stronger community.

James 4:17

AO: dogpound
Q: Waxjob (Josh Brady)
PAX: Aladdin (Mansour Hasan), Junk (Sam Yoakum), Choir Boy (Kenny Saffles), Mayberry, Waxjob (Josh Brady)
FNGs: None
COUNT: 5
WARMUP:
15x SSH IC
5x Cobra Burpees
5x Cherry Pickers
10x Cossack Squats
15x LBAC each way
15x Grady Corns
10x Tempo Merkins
THE THANG:
Grab a CMU and mosey toward the Backbone
OK just kidding, let’s walk.
Speedbump: 15x curls, 15x OHP
Top of the hill: 15x Alpos, 15x BBS
Next speed bump: 15x Tris, 15x squats
Up to the Backbone: 5x weighted knee raises holding CMU with feet, 5x weighted pullups doing same. Well, some of us did anyway.
Was going to do more stuff up there, but thunder rolls, so let’s head back. Wind back down same exercises at each spot.
Cower under the outhouse awning as drizzle begins, bide the time with 11s – Up/Over Merkins and Weighted Step-Ups
MARY:
50x 4ct Flutters IC
10x Apple Dippers each side
Row your Boat down about 5 streams
TIME!
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:
There will be times when nobody around you is doing the right thing. Possibly even mocking you for doing so yourself. Stay strong. Choose to do the hard thing.

What an interesting life, to be a Leader

AO: asylum-pm
Q: Pele (Jon Lindberg)
PAX: Abacus (Erik Ella), Steam, Lilydipper (John Neece), Pusher, Ghost Flag (F3Knoxville), Drum Major (Mike Johnston), Brick (Chris Tittle), Doubtfire (Nick Bond), Rooney (Carl Whipple), Tenderfoot, MD Hammer (Jan Michael Carrillo), Glamper, Pele (Jon Lindberg), Lizzy, Gridiron
FNGs: None
COUNT: 14
WARMUP: SSH, BACs forward/backward, Grady Corns, Hamstring stretches on benches, Cherry Pickers, Plank Jacks

THE THANG:
Due to the rain, we met under the PAV-A-LON and did most of the workout there. Tabata style, mixture of arms, legs, and Abs, a bit Spirit-led. When the rain let up for a bit, we moseyed to the parking lot for some more spirit-led activities at the four corners, making sure to get our fronts and backs wet (hand release merkins and LBCs). Back to the PAV-A-LON to finish out the Tabata workout.
MARY: Wall sits until time.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Backblast Ap, F3 in the Nude a week from Saturday, 2nd F at Abacus’s that same day, FORGE coming up late September. Prayers for the Macon PAX and the family of our brother that fell there this week.
COT: Showed a Coach K video from the show The Bear that talks about leadership. Unfortunately , the video was too soft to hear, but the takeaways were as follows: 1. Success requires you to CHANGE YOUR LIMITS. NOT EASY!!
 Expect there to be bumps in the road. Failure.
 Don’t accept that Failure as your final destination. Change and adapt and get back at it.
 There’s definitely a fear factor here.

2. TEAMWORK. You can’t do it by yourself. Surround yourself with people that will help you succeed, not drag you back.
 Don’t confuse criticism (designed to help you improve) with negativity (holding you back)

3. LISTEN. Don’t just talk. CONVERSE
 Collaborate to find solutions. Not only will you be able to draw on others for ideas, but when you ask for and incorporate their advice, they become more invested too.

4. What an interesting life to be a leader. EMBRACE IT.