F3 Knoxville

Heavy day at Rampart

AO: rampart
Q: Skeletor (Tyson Canup)
PAX: Feeny (Josh Banken), Lucille (Austin Williams), Outnumbered (Daniel Hildebrandt), Piston (Ralton Emory), Skeletor (Tyson Canup), Porthole, Old English
FNGs: 2 Porthole, Old English
COUNT: 7
WARMUP: Rounds of SSH with traditional exercises like tempo merkins, Knox cherry pickers, and tempo squats in between.
THE THANG: Heavy day, 7 stations, each man at a station with a sandbag. Rotate through each station for two rounds

Round 1/round 2
35# kettlebell KB swings/snatch
40# bag front rack squats/sandbag burpees
40# bag curls/curls
60# bag bent rows/cleans
20# bag tricep extension/OHP single arm
80# bag dead lifts/dead lifts
53# kettlebell farmer carry/shoulder carry

Carry man was the timer, rotate when he returns to start position

MARY: punishing core exercises from Skeletor
ANNOUNCEMENTS: F3 in the Nude, was a blast. Be sure to be there next year.

-Giant thanks to our 2ndF Q for pulling the men together for an outing yesterday. It looked like y’all had a great time.

-SHOVELFLAG HANDOFF!!!
Thursday, Aug 3 5:30AM at the Project  let’s be there to support our brothers.

-Steam comes to Rampart to Q for us on August 7th. Let’s show up here to support him.

Looking forward to a Wingman Q on Wednesday and a Feeny Q on Saturday.

COT:

Basic Beatdown

AO: thequacken
Q: Road Block
PAX: FixerUpper (Patrick Core), Z-Pack (Brian Brockman), Lizzy, Duggar (Gary Anders), Tenderfoot, Secret Garden, Dr. Seuss
FNGs: 1 Dr. Seuss
COUNT: 8

WARMUP:
SSH’s, Hillbillies, Imperial Walkers, stretches, an uphill Mosey

THE THANG:
Bataan Death Crawl

Four sets of arm, ab, and leg exercises with a 1/3 mile mosey between each.

Ring of Fire – squats

A brief word about Creation and Evangelism.

Also enjoyed a cameo appearance (due to injury) by Wedding Singer and his sidekick Scout!

7/29 waiting for watermelon

AO: bigball
Q: Drive-thru (Mikel Towe)
PAX: Butterfly (Duncan Johnson), Postman (Scott Colby), Drive-thru (Mikel Towe), Baller, Ben & Jerry’s
FNGs: None
COUNT: 5
WARMUP:
THE THANG:
Watermelon Crawl:
Listen to watermelon crawl. Bear crawl around fountains and do 8 merkins every time he says watermelon.

Mosey to area past amphitheater.
5/10/15/20
Decline merks
Calf raises
Am Hams
Dips
Run to top of amphitheater rows.

Mosey to church parking lot

Parking lot AMRAP-25 minutes
Rocks 10/20 reps
Bonnie blair
Curls
Triceps
OH press
Front raise
Merkins
Big boys

MARY: only star gazers
ANNOUNCEMENTS: paxminer
COT: Pray for Butterfly’s grandfather who had a stroke and the rest of the family.

You Need to Let Go to Take On Something New

AO: asylum-daybreak
Q: CRISPR (David Smelser)
PAX: Choir Boy (Kenny Saffles), Veggie (Rylen Huddy), F6 (Tim Pope), lebowski, Matlock (Bill Maddox), Lulu (Greg Huddy), CRISPR (David Smelser), Dung Beetle (Scott Kimsey), Brick (Chris Tittle), Swimmies (Nathan Chesney), Qbert (Bob Buckner), Jumbo(Carter Dickens)
FNGs: None
COUNT: 12
WARMUP: SSH, cherry pickers, rockettes, this and that, imperial walkers
THE THANG:

25x step up, pull up, dip, incline merkin, rocky balboa, SSH, imperial walker, squat, then 20, 15, 10, 5

LT Dan down the parking lot, then merkins up the dragon, some squat ring of fire, imperial walkers down the dragon, core 4 around the parking lot, and ending with some rounds of William Wallace.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: 2nd F at Abacas tonight, choir boy family travels

COT: I’ve been struggling with Heroic Individualism as defined by Brad Stulberg. My intent had been to do Words based on his book The Practice of Groundedness, but life got in the way and couldn’t prepare a Word for this Q. Actually, heroic individualism got in the way. I had an opportunity to do some professional development that would be amazing and a big resume builder. But it’d be a huge commitment and require a massive amount of time. My wife and I chatted and she asked what I’d have to give up to take something like that on? What’s less important in my life right now that I could replace it with this opportunity? Her, the kids, work, F3, church, etc? Turns out she’s right and I have no more time to give, or at least that much time for that level of commitment.

Everything has an opportunity cost. Taking something on might mean not taking something on lad or perhaps having to let go or step back from something you’re already doing. There is only so much time available to you, so while you may want to take on all the amazing opportunities that come your way, but choose wisely so you don’t over burden yourself to a point you’re half doing everything and losing focus on those things that matter most.

[f3knoxvillemain] F3 in the NUDE

AO: f3knoxvillemain
Q: Mermaid (Bradley Roberts) , slappy (Nathan Evers), KickFlip (David Greer)
PAX: Eliza (Kevin Parrott), Pele (Jon Lindberg), Lilydipper (John Neece), Skeletor (Tyson Canup), OnStar (Arthur Dias), Pusher, Lucille (Austin Williams), Scott McGuire (Cinco), Airborne (Chase Perkins), Mathlete (Jacob Platfoot), Ocho (Matt Hudson), Chris Poetzel (Mustard), slappy (Nathan Evers), Monstar (Josh Sparrow), Waxjob (Josh Brady), Abacus (Erik Ella), Daniel Callis – Anchorman, Caveman, KickFlip (David Greer), Outnumbered (Daniel Hildebrandt), Butterknife, Sparkler (Brian Pitstick), Windex, Mermaid (Bradley Roberts), Google(Tim Dugas), I-Beam (Ryan Gerken), Smoky (Raymond Hale), Twitch, Port Hole
FNGs: 1 Port Hole
COUNT: 30
Warm up (all 4 ct except for things on own)
(Get in ankle deep water)
reach for the sky/cherry picker combo (3 cad)
Hairy Rockets (10 cad)
Catalina wine mixers (10 on own)
Tempo Merkins (10 cad)
Big boys (10 on own)
American hammer (10 cad)
Flutter kicks (10 cad)
(move to deep water)
SSH (10 cad)
Squat jumps (10 cad)
Burpees (5 on own)

We then divided into three groups to hit the following three stations where we budgeted about 10 minutes per station.

LOG PT
Review the approach and the positions (Ready, right shoulder, left shoulder, waist, chest, sitting, overhead)
2 groups w 2 logs
1st group carries log out and around the float and 2nd group stays on beach doing log workouts. When 1st group returns they do log workout and 2nd group carries around float. This is the workout pattern.
workouts (shoulder to shoulder OHP, squats, good mornings, big boys, OH hold, and squat thrusters)

Volleyball station looked like this;
Bobby Hurleys – 20, run, 15, run 10
Sharks and Minnows, Round 1: Sharks bear crawl – minnows crab walk
Hand release merkins – 20, run, 15, run 10
Sharks and Minnows, Round 2: Sharks lunge walk – minnows broad jump
Hello dollys (4ct) – 20, run, 15, run 10
Sharks and Minnows, Round 3: Sharks frog jump – minnows army crawl
Set of 7s – dive bomber and BBS

Bucket Challenge Relay
divide into two teams, that worked out to two teams of four. One man carried a 5 gallon bucket full of water from the lake to a 45 gallon trash can. Only one team member could carry at a time. While he was carrying, two members held a 5 gallon bucket full of water while the 4th member did waterlogged merkins. They ran a relay in this fashion until the trash can was full.

After the relay was won or lost, we got into the water and did a race to the buoys. And finally did some Big Boy situps and some carolina dry docks where you had to dunk your face underwater to perform the exercise.

We moseyed back to the volleyball pit for some old fashioned tug of war. This was with the team you rotated with, and no shoes and gloves in deep sand left no advantage, and was quite fun.

The Mary consisted of an ab exercise of 10 reps, followed by 10 merkins. We did about 5 rounds of this before going back to the lake and do an out and back race to the buoys and back. Time was called and we got into the COT.

The COT was about being vulnerable. Working out in the “nude” with no gloves, no shirt, and no shoes leaves you exposed. I issued a challenge to the men of F3 Knoxville to be vulnerable and share times of vulnerability with the group. Sharing these types of stories endear ourselves to one another, and my experiences could help others going through similar situations. I then shared about a dark time in my life where I lost two jobs in one year, but how in hindsight that was one of the best things to ever happen to me. We then closed in prayer and ate a great breakfast provided by the Dog Pound (Google, I-beam, & Smoky).