F3 Knoxville

Author: Mathlete

On the Road Again by Erector Nelson

THE SCENE: The prettiest darn spring morning we have had yet this year. 50, clear.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER – CHECK
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • High Knees
  • Tempo Squats
  • Arm circles
  • Tempo Merkins
  • Cherry Pickers
  • Michael Felps

THA-THANG:
A heavy workout on the move. We did 10 reps  unless otherwise noted.

  • Parallel bars – inverse rows, 15 merkins
  • Pool wall – wall-ups
  • Playground – pull-ups
  • Amphitheater – Box jumps and bear crawl up the hill
  • Mosey to the recruiting center and pick up a CMU
  • On the way to the Movie Theater:
    • Heavy Freddies, Overhead Press, Goblet Squats
  • At the Movie Theater, do the reps and run up the stairs
    • Thrusters
    • American Hammers x20
    • Curls x20
    • Lunges x20
  • On the way to Badger Ave
    • Blockees x5 for ORPD
    • Heavy LBCs
  • At Badger Ave, do the reps, Bernie to the Light, Sprint Back
    • Rows x20
    • Kettle Swings x20
    • Curls in Al Gore x20
  • On the way back to the Recruiting Center
    • Heavy Flutters
    • Derkins
    • Heavy Sumo Squats
    • Prison cell merkin blockees
  • Drop off the CMUs and Mosey to the Memorial
  • At the Memorial, Dive Bombers
  • Back to the Flag, just in time

MARY:
No time
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

In general, people overestimate what they can get done in a short time and underestimate what they can get done over a long time.

It is a good discipline to set aside dedicated time each day for prayer. But I have encountered a pitfall that can come with it.

I have to be careful not to try and cram in everything I need to pray about. There is a part of me that just wants to get it done. But it should never be done.

The times when I have felt the most peaceful, the most content, have been times when it felt natural to turn my attention upward at the first sign of trouble.

One 5 minute chunk a day can isolate your relationship much like 1 hour a week. But if you talk to someone for 30 seconds 10 times a day, they must be with you wherever you go.

1 Thessalonians 5:16-22 – Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. Do not quench the Spirit. Do not despise prophecies, but test everything; hold fast what is good. Abstain from every evil.
MOLESKIN:
Some good discussion
ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Faster

THE SCENE: Drippy, slushy, 35ish with a brook babbling by in the background
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • High knees
  • Projectivators
  • Tempo squats
  • Little baby arm circles
  • Tempo merkins
  • Dive bombers
  • Fence steppers
  • 5 burpees
  • Cherry pickers

THA-THANG:
3 cycles of AMRAP, 45 s on, 15 s recovery

  • Cycle 1
    • Curls
    • Overhead press
    • Heavy squats
    • CMU Swings
    • Row right
    • Row left
  • Mosey to pool wall and do 7 wall-ups
  • Cycle 2
    • Derkins
    • Block Jump overs
    • Tricep Extensions
    • Heavy freddy’s
    • Thrusters
    • Walking CMU Merkins
    • Mosey to playground for 7 pull ups
  • Cycle 3
    • Heavy Lunges
    • Heel taps
    • Good mornings
    • Heavy flutter kicks
    • Airplanes
    • Blockees
    • Return to parking lot and bear crawl the CMUs back from whence they came

MARY:
60 s tree hugger with a probably-longer-than-necessary joke
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Matthew 6:16-18

16 “When you fast, do not look somber as the hypocrites do, for they disfigure their faces to show others they are fasting. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full.17But when you fast, put oil on your head and wash your face,18so that it will not be obvious to others that you are fasting, but only to your Father, who is unseen; and your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

fasting, Schmemann argues, “rather than weakening us makes us light, concentrated, sober, joyful, pure.

true “Christian asceticism is a fight, not against but for the body.”

In Taft’s words, penance is “not a turning in on self, not a concentration on self-discipline as some sort of spiritual athletics, but an openness to new life, and through it openness to others, the end to which it is all supposed to lead.”

Schmemann counsels a fast to “control our speech”19 so that we can recover a measure of silence in our spiritual life without which we cannot hear the voice of the Lord.

fasting, like all forms of discipline, “is not a pitting of the spirit against the flesh, but rather body and soul united together against sin, body and soul converted together to the Lord.

The body is valuable and a precious gift of the Creator—who Himself of course took on human flesh—but its value is only recognizable paradoxically when it is not pampered but denied, as in fasting: “fasting in Christianity is only truly itself when it realizes the sacredness of the body.

fasting as a physical effort is totally meaningless without its spiritual counterpart: ‘by fasting and prayer.

O Lord and Master of my life!
Take from me the spirit of sloth, faint-hearted ness, lust of power and idle talk
But give rather the spirit of chastity, humility, patience and love to Thy servant.
Yes, O Lord and King!
Grant me to see my own errors and not to judge my brother;
For Thou are blessed unto ages of ages. Amen.
MOLESKIN:
I have a couple of goats, and I realized yesterday that the gate to their pen was completely detached at the hinge. If they had bumped the gate, it would have fallen and they could have escaped. But they didn’t. In the long run, fences don’t work because of their strength or durability. They work because we accept them. If you ever want to get out, just keep testing the fence and one day it will fall.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
none

Playing with the Kids

THE SCENE: A crisp 25 and clear.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • High knees
  • Projectivators
  • Moroccan nightclubs
  • Little baby arm circles
  • Tempo squats
  • Imperial squawkers
  • Tempo merkins
  • Newton’s cradle

THA-THANG:

Baby steps

  • 6 thrusters and a blockee x3
  • Buzz around the parking lot – mosey with block extended in front
  • 6 Airplane! And a blockee x3
    • Airplane = on 6, crunch up with block then extend arms and legs
  • Buzz around the parking lot
  • 6 curl-presses and a blockee x3
  • Put her to bed with some kettle bell swings

Playing in the yard

  • Farmer carry 2 cmus to the field and line up at first tree
  • Transit from tree to tree with one cmu, then do 5 merkins and go back and get the other cmu
    • Murder bunny – sprint
    • 10-15 dive bombers
    • Gorilla walk – bear crawl
    • Al Gore with both blocks til the 6 is up
    • If there’s time, floor is hot lava – stand on cmu, grab the other and move it forward and step on
  • Farmer carry 2 cmus to peace bell

Top Speed

  • 40 seconds – AMRAP – 20 seconds off
    • Curls
    • Heavy Hammers
    • Right row
    • Left row
    • Heavy Flutter Kicks
    • Double stack squats
    • Heavy LBCs

MARY:
No time.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Welcome to FNG – Borg!
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Psalm 71:23,
“My lips will shout for joy when I sing praise to you— I whom you have delivered.”

Habakkuk 3:17-19,
“Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will be joyful in God my Savior. The Sovereign LORD is my strength; he makes my feet like the feet of a deer, he enables me to tread on the heights.”

True joy is free from all but one circumstance, God’s saving grace. Play happens when joy bubbles over into action. Thus playfulness has less to do with what you are doing and everything to do with the spirit in which you do it. It can be hard to keep outside forces from pushing in and stifling joy, especially some days. But if we can see beyond the moment, focus on the wider view, then we can gain an unconquerable spirit. We could all stand to play a bit more.

MOLESKIN:
“Critics who treat ‘adult’ as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Get to work

THE SCENE: Cold with some fog.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • High knees
  • Projectivators
  • Tempo squats
  • Arm circles
  • Michael Felps
  • Tempo Merkins
  • Newton’s cradle
  • Rising Wave – Iron Mikes around the circle, add one each loop until everyone is going

THA-THANG:

On the Way

  • Pool Wall – 10 Murpees
  • Dash line – In turn, do a pushup, sprint to the east end

American Legends circuit – Picked enough stations for the group, rotate stations when the logs make a lap, switch up the stations once one full circuit is completed. We finished 2 circuits.

  • Paul bunyan – drag a couple logs around the islands, flipping flapjacks (tire)
  • John henry – sledge hammer on tire, clean and press (steel bar)
  • Pecos bill – riding (squat pulses) with cmu, Man-nor-king-nor-beast (Stand-lunge-bearcrawl-lunge-stand)
  • Johnny appleseed – bobby hurleys (picking apple’s), Tree (mountain) climbers
  • Casey junior – put your feet up (cmu heel taps), check your watch (curls)

MARY:
N/A
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Sometimes I can get too focused on ideas, like justification by faith, so that is distracts me from the mission. Johnny Appleseed was a great example of someone who lived and acted without being distracted. “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” DO THAT.
MOLESKIN:
Snaggletooth on the road this weekend. Biohack looking at a business venture.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Blood drive the 29th at Lakeshore Park. CSAUP the 30th at Asylum.

Slicing bread

THE SCENE: Cool and Clear. Grinning moon and a shooting star.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
Yes
WARM-O-RAMA:
High Knees, SSH, tempo squats, LBAC, tempo merkins, fence steppers, hip bridges, fire hydrants
Reach for the sky, let it hang, Michael Felps
THA-THANG:
Two circuits on a timer – 45 seconds to work, 15 seconds to move – at The Wall and The Bell. A couple sets at The Bar inbetween.

  • The Wall
    • Wall Walks
    • Muscle Ups
    • Squats
    • Planks
  • The Bar
    • Inverse Rows
    • Big boys
  • The Bell
    • Box jumps / Step ups
    • Decline Merkins
    • Flutter Kicks
    • Dips

MARY:
No Time.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
5 HIMs and 1 FNG (biohack)
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Fresh, hot bread is a blessing. Slicing hot bread is a pain if you like straight, even slices. The best way I have found to cut straight is to stop trying to cut straight, but instead to focus on holding the knife straight. I have to surrender the outcome and focus on just doing the task well. I find that this extends to my life as well. When I think too much about the outcomes, I tend to fall either toward despair (if they’re bad) or pride (if they’re good). We considered the story of Moses in Numbers 20. He lost focus on doing his task well and giving credit to the Lord, so pride led him to take credit for bringing water from the rock. If it can happen to Moses, it can happen to me.
MOLESKIN:
Deeply appreciative to everyone who came out for my VQ and glad to welcome Biohack.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Might have missed this…