F3 Knoxville

Author: La-Z-Boy

Tabata Refresh

I copied this Q and BOM from a previous BB in June of 2021. I fully intend to only recycle Q’s and BOMs this year! Yes, I am going to take other people’s.

THE SCENE: Rainy – Meet at the Pav-A-Lon
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
I forgot my Weinke in the car so Tweet-E & Ribbed helped out. Then finished with some Tempo Merkins & of course – Cherry Pickers.
THA-THANG:
Welcome to TabaTa! Tabata = 20 seconds of work followed by 10 seconds of rest. Each Tabata is 4 minutes or 8 total rounds. We did two exercises per Tabata. Each Tabata had a 1 minute Interlude in between.

  • Tabata 1
    • Imperial Walkers & Shoulder Taps
  • Tabata 2
    • Single Leg Burpee (no merkin) & Dips
  • Tabata 3
    • Pull-ups (assisted or hangs) & HRR Merkins
  • Tabata 4
    • Squat Hops & Crabbettes (I want to call it the Crab & Grab)
  • Tabata 5
    • Plank Reach Throughs & Side Raises (surprisingly difficult)
  • Tabata 6
    • American Hammers & Mountain Climbers
  • I’m out of Tabatas so let’s run up to the gate and back. Also gives us street cred for working out in the rain.
  • Tabata 7 (from the hip)
    • DOMO Squats & BBS
  • Tabata 8 (from the hip this time, not last)
    • Hangs and Merkins

MARY:
Broga – Stretch those hips & glutes out (we’ve not made any improvement on this)
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Four Horsemen – Lucky 11 today
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
From As a Man Thinketh – “A change of Diet will not help a person who will not change his thoughts. When a person makes his thoughts pure, he no longer desires impure food.” – James Allen

Stress eating, grazing, overeating, overindulging – call it what you will. This is something that I have struggled with for my entire life. Judge’s comments in the weekly newsletter motivated me to talk about it in the COT. A devotional or article that I came across in the last couple of months told me that when we surrender to Christ that we are FREE from all SIN in our life. Whatever we are holding onto is something that we haven’t yet surrendered. This is my stress eating habit. I was praying into it and felt like I was given permission to eat “all that is Holy”. What is all that is Holy? I ask God in a jokingly manner – “everything you pray over” is what came to mind next.

Man, what a realization!!?! I never pray over the handfuls of candy, or scoop(s) of peanut butter that I find myself eating. I never pray over my 3rd or 4th cup of coffee and never I have asked God to bless a 2nd helping of Ice Cream.

What if instead of just impulsively eating whatever carbohydrate or sugar laced item I can find… I said a prayer and asked God to bless it? Can it really be this simple? I tell you, like most rewarding things in my life. It is that simple, at least it seems to be, but it’s not easy. I wish I could tell you that I have absolutely mastered it and have given this sin away to be free once & for all from it’s grasps. Instead I tell you, that I’m in the middle of the fight. I’m in the battle. I’m still getting beat up. But… I’m glad to be in the fight!

According to James Allen, it starts with making my thoughts pure.

MOLESKIN:
Tabata is great way to push yourself. It’s only 20 seconds of work… how hard could that be? Apparently there are some good Tabata Timers out there and I don’t have to use the prerecorded, covers that these dudes were jazzed about.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Wesley House workday coming up, Off the Chain – keep your brothers in your Prayers! <- This is not relevant lol

Twelve Days of Christmas – 22 Edish

THE SCENE: Cold, Dark and, Dry. Just the way I like it.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • SSH IC x 25
  • Imperial Walkers IC x 15
  • Merkins (4ct) IC x 10
  • Stay in PLANK!!
  • Plank Jacks (4ct) IC x 10
  • Stay in PLANK!!
  • Cobra Stretch
  • Downward Dog – Peddle it out
  • Cherry Pickers (4ct) IC x 5
  • Burpees OYO x 10

THA-THANG:
Let’s Mosey

  • Take a break halfway to Matterhorn for BBS OYO x 10
  • Mosey to the Backbone
  • Perform workout, 12 days of Christmas Style.
    • Round 1 – Station 1
    • Round 2 – Station 1 & 2
    • Round 3 – Station 1, 2 & 3
    • R&R until Time or all 12 stations are completed
  • Stations are spread up and down Matterhorn at perfect spacing no matter what Blindside tells you. Evens go up and Odds go down.
  • Even Stations are Merkins. Count is the number Station you are at. Station 8 = 8 Merkins
  • Odd Stations are Squats. Same count as above.
  • Yes, that’s a lot of Merkins, Squats and Hill Climbs. These guys are Studs though.

MARY:
It’s bulking season, we don’t have time for Mary.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
10 Strong HIMs
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

From the Book Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Highly recommend you familiarize yourself with the ideas in this book.

What is the opposite of Fragile? Most people say Robust, Hard, Sturdy, Strong, etc. Paraphrasing, Nassim says, that if Fragile means that the rougher that item is handled, the faster it breaks. Then the opposite of Fragile should be “Anti-Fragile” where the harder something gets handled, hit, etc., the stronger it gets.

Imagine a package that says, “Fragile, Handle with Care” – We can understand this idea.

What about a package that says, “Sturdy, Can take some hits but may eventually break”?

An Anti-Fragile package would say, “Kick me, throw me as much as possible because the more challenges I face, the stronger I get”. This is the idea of being Anti-Fragile.

Have you ever met anyone that was wearing a “Fragile, handle with care” label? Which label are you wearing today? What if we took that label off and wore the Anti-Fragile label?

I know that all of you Men reading this inherently understand what it means to be Anti-Fragile. That’s why you keep coming out at 530a in below freezing temperatures. Day after day, week after week and year after year. It’s important that we continue to remind each other of Anti-fragility. That way, when we come across a challenge we’re ready for it. We need to eat stress and challenges like Energy Bars.

The easiest way to remember comes from Brian Johnson. Remember your OMMS. Like meditation chanting OMMS.

Obstacles

Make

Me

Stronger

Or for us – MMMS

Matterhorn

Makes

Me

Stronger

MOLESKIN:

Pray for the Men of our PAX. We are called to be leaders in our families, work and communities. There will be a lot put on us at all times. Continue to pray for the ability to speak Truth when needed. Give grace in abundance and daily renewed strength to repeat this as many times as we are called.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Blood Moon – Circuit of the DP

THE SCENE: Hot, for November, we missed the eclipse but caught the blood moon.

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • SSH IC x 25
  • Merkins IC x 10
  • Cherry Pickers IC x 5
  • Dynamic warmups

THA-THANG:
Circuit of the DP – loop around the outhouse down to the West side of the playpen. Each exercise that starts at 25 descend by 5 reps each lap.

  • AMRAP
  • 25 Squats
  • Bernie to outhouse
  • 5 Burpee Box Jumps
  • Tweet-E corner
  • 25 Thrusters
  • Sprint
  • Ascending Bear Crawl Merkins 1-5, go up by one at each parking lot line
  • 25 v-ups
  • Lunge to start
  • Reverse the exercises for laps 4&5

MARY:
Flutter Kick IC x 30
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Vice or Virtue? What will you choose?

https://www.inspiredoriginal.org/post/a-herculean-choice-virtue-or-vice

“Of all the real good Things that Heaven grants to Mortals, there is not any one that is to be attain’d without Application and Labour.”

It was not long, however, before Vice interrupted her and told Hercules that she could show him a shorter way to happiness.

In response, Virtue scolded Vice, saying:

“Tis true, you were of a Celestial Origin; but were [you] not cast out of the Society of the Gods? And have you not, ever since, been rejected by all the most worthy Men, even upon Earth? … On the contrary, My Conversation is with the Gods, and with good Men; and there is no good Work produc’d by either, without my Influence. I am respected above all Things, by the Gods themselves, and by all the best of Mortals.”

Virtue finished her speech with the claim that all of her followers “look back with Comfort on their past Actions; and delight themselves in their present Employments. By my means, they are favour’d by the Gods; belov’d by their Friends; and honour’d by their Country: And when the appointed period of their Lives is come, they are not lost in a dishonourable Oblivion; but flourish in the Praises of Mankind, even to the latest Posterity.”

 

MOLESKIN:
1 FNG today Squatter – kept distance to 1 mile – saw the Blood Moon, but missed the eclipse

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
None that I know of…

Did someone order Pizza?

THE SCENE: Perfect
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • SSH IC x 20
  • Ranger Merkins (4 ct) IC x 10
  • Windmills (4 ct) IC x 10
  • Cherry Pickers (4 ct – Dog Pound Style) IC x 5

THA-THANG:
Grab a CMU

  • Partner Up
    • Partner A – Drops down for 5 Burpees and 5 Ranger Merkins then runs to catch up to Partner B
    • Partner B – Farmer Carrying both CMU’s – alternating until you reach the base of Matterhorn
  • Rinse & Repeat the following until you reach the top of Matterhorn
    • 10 Sumo Hi-Pulls (Standing)
    • 15 Pizza Box Carry (Traveling Forward)
    • 10 Thrusters (Standing)
  • Mosey to Pull up Bars and deposit the CMU while you take a “Hot Lap” around the Big Island
  • AMRAP Cindy for Time
    • 5 Pull-ups
    • 10 Merkins
    • 15 Squats
  • Repeat Partner Exercise back to AO

MARY:
Appreciate Mayberry calling out some abs to get us finished.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Let your mess be your message. I shared a story on FB to mark the 3 year anniversary of a death of a close friend. I talked about his struggles with his addiction and shed light on some of mine. Ultimately, he didn’t make it, but he left me with the advice to Never Stop working out. As result of sharing this story, his ex-girlfriend reached out to me to say that she hasn’t been herself since his passing. That when she read the post he could hear him encouraging her to get past her excuses and get back in the gym. I told her to send me a message when she gets her first workout in. She said that she was in the gym signing up at that moment! This shows that we relate to people more in the struggle than we do in the good times. Let your mess be your message.

MOLESKIN:
Tried to make this one continuous circuit today, but the new exercises and the multiple locations made it too complex. We just have to take it one circuit at a time.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Everyone loved Escape from Haw Ridge!

Matterhorn Circuit

THE SCENE: 39 degrees Fahrenheit, slight breeze – no sweatshirt needed
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • SSH IC x 25
  • Tempo Merkins IC x 15
  • Tempo Squats IC x 10
  • Cherry Pickers (Dog Pound Style) IC x 5

THA-THANG:
Indian Run to Matterhorn & Battle Buddy up. Travel to each cone between Speed Hump and the Pav-a-lon.

  • Partner Merkins x 20
  • Pull-ups/Knees to Chest x 20
  • Reverse Lunge up Matterhorn
  • 25 Squat Hops
  • 11’s – CDD’s & Dips
  • BC down hill
  • R&R for time

MARY:

  • Flutter Kicks IC x 20
  • Spidey Stretches

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Arguing with your wife is like reading the EULA on the internet. You get part way through and just agree… This month there is a call out from F3 to take the M out for a nice date. Let’s take the wife out!!

Link to podcast here: https://soundcloud.com/f3nation/stuff-worth-trying-podcast-episode-23?utm_source=clipboard&utm_campaign=wtshare&utm_medium=widget&utm_content=https%253A%252F%252Fsoundcloud.com%252Ff3nation%252Fstuff-worth-trying-podcast-episode-23

MOLESKIN:

Ribbed disappears at 615a sharp. Aladdin has wheels and we found out that a CDD is a dip according to Trunk.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Check the email.