F3 Knoxville

Author: Doubletap

Tempo Corners and Moseys in the Park

THE SCENE: Arsenal, 39 degrees, misty, and moist
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
20 SSH IC

10 LBCs t-up/t-down

10 Good Mornings
THA-THANG:

Four corners workout with laden mosey in between rounds, mosey length expands with each round.

Corners exercises based on time-under-tension concept.  Slow burn makes for a long burn.  

Pax carry CMU to each corner, and mosey with it in between rounds.

Round 1

  • 10 Tempo Merkins
  • 10 Tempo Squats
  • 10 Tempo Curls
  • 10 Tempo Thrusters
  • CMU Mosey to middle playground, 5 blockees, return to grinder

Round 2

  • 20 Tempo Bent CMU Rows
  • 20 Tempo WW2s
  • 20 Al Gore Pogos w/CMU (hold the CMU, assume Al Gore, pulse up/down in the squatted position) <this became choose your own adventure because Q typoed more WW2s and couldn’t remember what should’ve been here>
  • 20 American Hammers w/CMU
  • CMU Mosey to far playground, 10 blockees, return to grinder

Round 3

  • 30 Tempo Dry Docks
  • 30 Tempo Goblet Squats
  • 30 Tempo Upright Rows
  • 30 Broad Jumps
  • CMU Mosey to Greenway Crosswalk, 5 blockees, return to grinder

Begin again if time allows

MARY:
Plenty-o-beatdown to leave Mary out of the party
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Smuggler, Doubletap, Warthunder(2.0)
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
A missionary friend told me a story about another missionary who visited Israel and took a bus trip to see the countryside.  As they drove, he saw a man in a pasture pushing a sheep.  He asked the driver to stop so he could watch the shepherd.  The driver laughed and said, “That’s not a shepherd, that’s a butcher!”  My friend is a real life shepherd on his homestead, and explained that sheep follow other sheep, who follow the shepherd they trust.  True shepherds earn that following because they take care of their sheep, and the sheep can sense the shepherd is doing things for their good.  This is a tangible manifestation of love as an action, and parallels directly to leadership.  Leaders can’t gain an effective or lasting following by forcing activity (like the butcher pushing the sheep to the killing floor).  Effective leaders care about their people, do what’s good for their people (act out love, in other words).  In turn, people want to follow because they see the goodwill in the leader’s eyes, hear it in his words, and know it by his actions.  Be like the Good Shepherd, serve your people, love them, and give yourself for them.
MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Arsenal Official Launch 6 March.  Get Some!

Weary and Heavy Laden

  1. THE SCENE: Mid 30s and breezy with some snow flurries in the air
    F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
    WARM-O-RAMA:
    20 SSH IC

20 Good Mornings IC

LBACs 10 T-up, 10 T-down

Mosey to see the layout

THA-THANG:
Carrying your favorite CMU, run/jog/walk/trudge/crawl the south loop of path from the Grinder around to the Troll Bridge and back to the Grinder, stopping to complete exercises at marked locations.  Complete as many laps as possible in the allotted time, start over if you reach Beast Mode.

1st Stop: MERKINS/SQUATS

10 LAP 1

20 LAP 2

30 LAP 3

20 LAP 4

10 LAP 5

2nd Stop: WW2s/ALGORE

10/HOLD 20 COUNT LAP 1

20/HOLD 30 COUNT LAP 2

30/HOLD 40 COUNT LAP 3

20/HOLD 30 COUNT LAP 4

10/HOLD 20 COUNT LAP 5

3rd Stop: CMU BENT ROWS/DRY DOCKS

10 LAP 1

20 LAP 2

30 LAP 3

20 LAP 4

10 LAP 5

4th Stop: 2 CT MTN CLIMBERS/CMU CURLS

10 LAP 1

20 LAP 2

30 LAP 3

20 LAP 4

10 LAP 5

5th Stop: 5 X BLOCKEES ON THE GRINDER each lap

MARY:
20 x Flutter Kicks IC

20 2 Ct Heel Taps OYO

10 Cherry Pickers IC

Mosey a full lap of AO (because rookie)

Pidgeon Pose stretch hold for 20 each leg

30 Butterfly Sit-ups OYO (WW2 with butterfly down south)

10 4 Ct Plank Ups IC

10 4 Ct Shoulder Taps IC

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
One FNG joined the HIMs today, welcome to Spurt (Jesse Cartegena)!
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Times are strange and life can be bewildering.  Some may relate when I say I’ve felt weighed down and tired lately.  Jesus said “Come to me all who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest…” and “My yoke is easy and my burden is light.”  Consider that he was a carpenter, and one task he probably engaged was to make yokes for livestock.  Unbalanced weight makes the work hard and painful (like running with a CMU on your shoulders or in your arms).  When the weight is distributed on a well-fitted yoke (like a ruck or weight vest), the burden feels lighter and the work seems easier in comparison to the unbalanced load.  We men are made to carry burdens, to carry our brothers and family with us through good times and bad times, to lead with integrity.  Jesus will make the load bearable for each of us, when we submit to him and let him fit the yoke properly.
MOLESKIN:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Blood Drive at Lakeshore on 29 Jan

CSAUP at Lakeshore on 30 Jan

MWF 0530 OTBs at Sandy Springs (AKA Cougar Valley) in preparation for Arsenal AO kickoff in March

Moses is working on a Beer Ruck around Maryville, details to follow

Kinetic Phonetics

THE SCENE: Cold and breezy, many fingers went numb…. 15 PAX plus two 2.0s
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH, some Hot Feet with LBACs, then LBACs without Hot Feet, Cherry Pickers, false start Tha-Thang, then short mosey to explain exercise
THA-THANG:

Partner sets working through Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, and Delta rounds. One PAX performs a primary exercise for prescribed reps while other PAX performs the alternate exercise while they wait.

We did two different Alphas and two different Bravos, one on either end of the Grinder, then progressed to Charlie and Delta evolutions.  PAX paired off, pairs went to either side of the Grinder to begin:

PAVILION END OF GRINDER:

ALPHA – 2 SETS Each Exercise

PRI Tempo Merkins: 10 reps

ALT Al Gore

PRI Bent CMU Row: 10 reps

ALT Hold Iron Cross

PAIR RUNS TO OPPOSITE SIDE OF GRINDER TO FINISH ALPHA

WHEN BOTH ALPHAs COMPLETE, BEGIN BRAVO

BRAVO – 2 SETS Each Exercise

PRI CMU Deadlift w/Overhead Press:  10 reps

ALT Hold Superman

PRI Globe Jumps:  5 reps (4-count)

ALT V-Ups AMRAP

PAIR RUNS TO OPPOSITE SIDE OF GRINDER TO FINISH BRAVO

WHEN BOTH BRAVOs COMPLETE, RUN TO SWINGSETS FOR CHARLIE

PULL-UP BAR END OF GRINDER:

ALPHA – 2 SETS Each Exercise:

PRI Pull-ups:   10 reps

ALT Iron Mikes AMRAP

PRI Burpees:   10 reps

ALT LBCs AMRAP

PAIR RUNS TO OPPOSITE SIDE OF GRINDER TO FINISH ALPHA

WHEN BOTH ALPHAs COMPLETE, BEGIN BRAVO

BRAVO – 2 SETS Each Exercise:

PRI Tricep Dips:   10 reps

ALT Good Mornings AMRAP

PRI Pike Merkins (Dry Docks):   10 reps

ALT Squats AMRAP

PAIR RUNS TO OPPOSITE SIDE OF GRINDER TO FINISH BRAVO

WHEN BOTH BRAVOs COMPLETE, RUN TO SWINGSETS FOR CHARLIE

CHARLIE – 2 SETS Each Exercise

PRI Groiners:   10 reps

ALT Imperial Squat Walkers AMRAP

PRI Swan Divers (plank arm extensions on swings):   10 reps

ALT High Knees AMRAP

PAIR RETURNS TO GRINDER FOR DELTA

DELTA – 2 SETS Each Exercise

PRI Bear Crawls:   Round Trip between BB goals

ALT Monkey Humpers

PRI Squat Jumps:   10 reps

ALT Hold Plank

IF TIME REMAINS, BEGIN ALPHA AGAIN….

MARY:

20 WW2s OYO

20 2-Ct Heel Taps OYO

IC Alphabets, ABCD twice (double tapped…)

15 Double Shoulder Taps IC

15 2-ct Flutter Kicks IC

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Things were tough last year, and this year is turbulent so far.  Many are dismayed, but men of faith can look to God’s word for encouragement and challenge:

Philippians 3:12-16 – Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Let those of us who are mature think this way, and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal that also to you. Only let us hold true to what we have attained.

Gen Hal Moore (Air Cav Commander in Vietnam, Author of We Were Soldiers Once and Young) wrote that no matter how dire your situation, there is always one more thing you can do to increase your change for success.  And after you do that one thing, there’s always one more thing.

Faithful men can put these two messages together, and the outcome is we always do what we can to serve and trust God, no matter what.  Never give up the faith.

MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

OTBs at Sandy Springs 0530 M/W/F to prep the battlespace for AO kickoff