F3 Knoxville

Author: BackBlasts

Almost Late

AO: the-equalizer
Q: Madoff
PAX: Stripped, Ribbed, Snowbird, Cheney, mouthwash (Mike), Bookman
FNGs: None
COUNT: 7
WARMUP:
20 Grady Corns and a Slowzy to Smokehouse
Grab CMU and rifle carry to splashpad

THE THANG:
Tabata 20sec work 10 sec rest 8x
– Squat Arm Extensions
– Calf Raises
– Goblet Reverse lunge
– Blockee to Curls Stay Squated
– Frog sit legs over the block

Bruce Lee Abs
– 90 American Hammers
– 50 Frog Kicks
– 30 BBC with a twist
– 20 L raises
– 5 Dragonfly

Walk back and Murder Bunny from road to Smokehouse

MARY:
1 cherry picker

ANNOUNCEMENTS: unCOVEred July 13th

COT: Doing the right thing in your heart (like lending someone money) can become a wrong thing if your heart is not right (like they don’t pay you back). It’s challenging to keep our hearts right when other people do not do what we deem to be right. But there’s honor in trying to be that high road guy.

BLIMPS and Circuits

AO: thequacken
Q: Wedding Singer
PAX: Z-Pack, Magic Mic (Jarrett Woodall), Prairie Dog
FNGs: 1 Prairie Dog
COUNT: 5
WARMUP: Hillbillies – Seal Claps – Squat and reach – Step Jacks – Eagles – Inchworm Merkins – Derricks

THE THANG:
B.L.I.M.P.S. followed by circuit of 7 stations with 7 different exercises on one minute Timed segments: 45 seconds of work and 16 second rest

MARY: Flutter kicks

ANNOUNCEMENTS: uncovered on 2nd Saturday of July at the Cove

COT: named FNG Prairie Dog

[mountainbiking] Wednesday Night Ride

AO: mountainbiking
Q: Imaginary
PAX: Frosty, Toebox, Spicoli, Riddler, Old School, Cleaver (@Spicoli’s 2.0)
FNGs: 1 Cleaver (@Spicoli’s 2.0)
COUNT: 7
Happy 4th of July!!

WARMUP / ROUTE: Take off and ride. Got in a lot of downhill sessions and some flow.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Q calendar is open. Please signup – just pick a location, lead the ride and provide a COT of what is on your mind. If you ride by yourself, you are equipped to Q.

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Not sure if this story is true below, but we talked about not missing opportunities – you never know when it may be the last.

A good friend of mine unexpectedly lost his wife. A couple months later we were golfing together, chatting about nothing. He asked what my dinner plans were, and I told him wifey wanted my homemade chili and cornbread, but I didn’t feel like stopping at the store. We golfed a few more minutes when he quietly said, “Make the chili.”

It took me a few minutes to realize we were no longer talking about dinner. It was about going out of your way to do something for someone you love because at any moment, they could unexpectedly be taken from you. So today I’m sharing with you that wisdom handed to me by my dear friend, that I’ve thought of many times since that day. Next time someone you love wants you to go for a walk or watch a football game or play a board game or just put your phone down and give them your undivided attention, just do it. “Make the chili.”

Mt Mean Mic

AO: bigball
Q: Magic Mic (Jarrett Woodall)
PAX: Postman (Scott Colby), Soot, Drive-thru (Mikel Towe)
FNGs: None
COUNT: 4
WARMUP:
The usual

THE THANG:
Mt Mean Mic

Escalator workout: set of exercises, run stairs, add a new set each round

5 Burpees
10 lunges
15 Merkins
20 Toe Taps
25 LBC
30 Am Ham
35 Shoulder Taps
40 Cobras
45 Flutter Kick
50 SSH

MARY:
Sprint back to fountains

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Convergence 7/13

COT:
Leading is a big part of F3, so if you haven’t led in a while sign up for a Q!

Take 5

AO: shamrock
Q: slappy
PAX: Skidmark, Baby Boomer, Caveman, Crawlspace, LeBling, Haggis, The Situation, Stitch
FNGs: None
COUNT: 9
WARMUP: SSH, tempo merkins, runner stretch, calve stretch, cherry pickers

THE THANG:
– I had planned my workout but left the exercises blank. At the end of the warmup each man called out an exercise and I randomly filled in the blank for what was next.
– Ran to the track. Went around the backside half lap, through the bleachers, and ended at the half wall near the front gate.
– For Act 1 at the half wall we did a set of step ups and merkins doing 5-10-15 each alternating between the two exercises. We followed with another set of derkins and mountain climbers.
– For Act 2 we moved to the end zone for take 5 every 5. We moved across the field stopping every 5 yards to do 5x each. First pass was alternating hello dollys & copperhead squats, second was lunge 10 yards and do 5 LBCs, third pass was alternating SSH & V-ups, and the final pass was 1 burpee every 5 yards.

MARY:
– Nolan Ryans
– Superman / banana
– Shoulder taps
– Ankle taps
– Flutter kicks
– Freddy mercurys

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
– F-3 Uncovered
– Please fill up the q calendar

COT:
After attending the funeral last night for Sarah I was struck by the impact she had by her big joyful smile and her passion for art. There were many other things but these two things really stood out. Question: Am I smiling enough? Also, what beauty or goodness am I bringing into the world with my talents?

“The aim of the person of faith is not to be as comfortable as possible but to live as deeply and thoroughly as possible – to deal with the reality of life, discover truth, create beauty, act out love.” E. Peterson