F3 Knoxville

Author: Pennies

Rolling The Bones at the Speedway

THE SCENE: Warmer than it’s been – perfect weather for a tough beatdown.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

F3= Fitness. Fellowship. Faith
F3 Workouts:

  • Are free of charge
  • Are open to all men
  • Are held outdoors, rain or shine, heat or cold
  • Are led by men who participate in the workout in a rotating fashion
  • End with a Circle of Trust


WARM-O-RAMA:
All in cadence:
Side straddle hops
Tempo Squats
Seal Claps
Overhead Claps

THA-THANG:

Mosey to lower lot with CMUs.  Pax line up at start line with CMUs. Each pax rolls a pair of dice, riffle carries CMU to 1st station and do double  # of reps of that exercise. Pax farmer carries CMU back to start line. 

Roll again.  If not doubles, pax does the same thing as above.

When pax rolls doubles, they do that # in blockies at start line, then riffle carries CMU to next station and does double # rolled of that exercise.

If pax are at the same station for 5 rounds, on the next roll they must do that # in blockies, then move to next station and do double the # at the new station.

Stations (exercises are all with CMUs):

  1. Pull through merkin
  2. Bent row
  3. Goblet squat
  4. Arm curls
  5. American hammer
  6. Skull crusher
  7. Overhead press

MARY:
Mosey back to the flag.  Jailbreak was called by someone who shall remain nameless. 

  • Flutter kicks – in cadence
  • Cherry Pickers – in cadence. 

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
“I rejoiced in the Lord greatly that now at length you have revived your concern for me. You were indeed concerned for me, but you had no opportunity. Not that I am speaking of being in need, for I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content. I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need. I can do all things through him who strengthens me.”  Philippians 4:10–13 ESV

con·tent·ment
noun – a state of happiness and satisfaction.

 When think of being satisfied, what comes to your mind?  For me, it’s when I’m full from a meal. I can’t eat another bite – I’m satisfied. 

So many people don’t know what it means to be satisfied. What it means to say, I’m full.  What it means to say, I’m content.
So many men sacrifice their marriages, their children, their friendships because they don’t know how to say, I’m satisfied. 

The opposite of contentment is gluttony. But gluttony is more than just over eating. It is the greedy pursuit of more stuff: money, power, praise, acceptance, food, alcohol, etc. 

Paul’s secret to contentment was this: I can do all things through Christ.  Christ was enough for him. His pursuit wasn’t material things – his pursuit was Christ. 

David said something similar in Psalm 23 – “the Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want.” Another way to translate that is to say, “ The Lord is my Shepherd, He’s all I need.”  

He’s all we need. That’s the secret to being content. Let’s stop trying to find fulfillment and happiness in things or people. Let’s commit to pursuing Christ and being satisfied in Him.

MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Brolympics – Nov 5th.
Christmas Trees – We are looking for people to donate Christmas Trees for families at Montgomery Village.  This will be done through Emerald Youth’s JustLead afterschool ministry at Woodlawn Christian Church.  Information will be put on Slack this week.

Joker Stops The Music

THE SCENE: Crisp Fall morning. No rain.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSHs.
Shoulder Taps
Cherry Pickers
Tie Fighters

THA-THANG:
Mosey to playground. PAX drew cards from two decks and did the exercises based on the suit.

  • Diamonds = Merkins
  • Hearts = Air Squats
  • Spades = BBSU
  • Clubs = Triceps dips

# of reps:
Number cards = add 10 to #
Face cards = 25 reps

JOKER STOPS THE MUSIC
Whenever a Joker card came up, everyone ran down to pull up bars, did 5 burpees, and ran back, picking up where they had left off.

MARY:
Flutter kicks
Little Bit of This and That (because our shoulders needed it).

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Work is a part of God’s wise design for the universe. In the Garden of Eden, God gave Adam and Eve jobs (Genesis 1:28). In their work to keep the garden and subdue the earth, they were perfectly fulfilled. It wasn’t until our first parents rejected God’s wisdom that work became a source of toil and discomfort, with displeasure and laziness entering the picture (Genesis 3:17). 

Laziness is foolishness incarnated. It is the ultimate rejection of God’s wisdom for the world because we are designed to work for God’s glory. Some of the most sarcastic and biting remarks in the book of Proverbs are reserved for those who are able to work but unwilling to do so. 

“As a door turns on its hinges, so a sluggard turns on his bed” (Proverbs 26:14). 

“The sluggard buries his hand in the dish; he is too lazy to bring it back to his mouth” (Proverbs 19:24; 26:15). 

“As vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes, so are sluggards to those who send them” (Proverbs 10:26). 

Lazy people are not only comical in their commitment to doing nothing, they’re an irritant to those forced to be near them. Some are so committed to laziness they’ll invent ridiculous reasons to avoid working.

“The sluggard says, ‘There is a lion outside! I shall be killed in the public square!’” (Proverbs 22:13). 

The wisdom of the book of Proverbs is that hard work is not only the way the world works but that it pays off. Proverbs 14:4 says “Where there are no oxen, the manger is empty, but from the strength of an ox come abundant harvests.” Owning oxen comes with a lot of dirty work in the stable. But without that effort, you’ll never see a harvest. Only those with “diligent hands will rule …” (Prov. 12:24). The apostle Paul says simply, “The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat” (2 Thessalonians 3:10). 

Where is the Gospel?

God made us to work. When God placed Adam and Eve in the garden, only some of the earth was cultivated. They were told to exercise dominion, fill the earth, and subdue it. Adam and Eve’s work in agriculture, city-building, irrigation, and culture would be the way God’s image, his name, and his glory spread throughout the earth (Genesis 1:27). In Eden, all work was sacred. Milking the cows mattered. And in Jesus, that happens again.

Through Jesus’ death and resurrection, he makes us a “kingdom of priests” once again. We are part of a kingdom of sacred workers whose every effort matters; where every keystroke and line of code advances God’s glory. The promise of laziness is that if we don’t try, we won’t be disappointed. But because Jesus rose from the dead we can know that none of our efforts will be frustrated because all efforts are eternal.

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MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Speedway Doracides

THE SCENE: Clear early Fall morning.

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

F3 (Fitness. Fellowship. Faith) workouts: 

  • Are free of charge
  • Are open to all men
  • Are held outdoors, rain or shine, heat or cold
  • Are led by men who participate in the workout in a rotating fashion
  • End with a Circle of Trust
  • “The Mission of F3 is to plant, grow and serve small workout groups for men for the invigoration of male community leadership”
  • F3 Credo: Leave no man behind, and leave no man where you find him. 
  • NOT A PROFESSIONAL
  • Don’t know your injuries – take care/modify as needed.

WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Side straddle hops – 20 IC
  • Tempo Squats – 10 IC
  • Cherry Pickers – 5 IC
  • LABCs – 10 IC (foward and backwards)

THA-THANG:

Doracides 

Partner up. 

1 person does exercises, the other runs suicides:

  • 1 burpee at first cone, back,
  • 2 burpees at second cone, back, 
  • 3 burpees at third cone, back. 

Switch. Pick up where partner left off

  1. 100 merkins
  2. 200 lbcs (little baby crunch)
  3. 300 squats

Rinse and repeat. 

MARY:
Didn’t manage time well so we had no time for Mary.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

“Have nothing to do with godless myths and old wives’ tales; rather, train yourself to be godly.”

“For physical training is of some value, but godliness has value for all things, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come.”

1 Timothy 4:7-8 NIV

MOLESKIN:

Excerpt from Disciplines of a Godly Man – R. Kent Hughes

PAUL ON DISCIPLINE

The word “train” comes from the word gumnos, which means “naked” and is the word from which we derive our English word gymnasium. In traditional Greek athletic contests, the participants competed without clothing, so as not to be encumbered. Therefore, the word”train” originally carried the literal meaning, “to exercise naked.”  By New Testament times it referred to exercise and training in general. But even then it was, and is, a word with the smell of the gym in it – the sweat of a good workout. “Gymnasticize (exercise, work out, train) yourself for the purpose of godliness” conveys the feel of what Paul is saying.

SPIRITUAL SWEAT

In a word, he is calling for some spiritual sweat! Just as the athletes discarded everything and competed gumnos – free from everything that could possibly burden them – so we must get rid of every encumbrance, every association, habit, and tendency which impedes godliness. If we are to excel, we must strip ourselves to a lean, spiritual nakedness. The writer of Hebrews explains it like this: “Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us” (Hebrews 12:1). Men, we will never get anywhere spiritually without a conscious divestment of the things that are holding us back. What things are weighing you down? The call to discipline demands that you throw it off. Are you man enough?

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Parkinson’s Run coming soon.

Work Hard To Have A Good Name

THE SCENE: Clear and crisp Fall like morning.  No humidity… until we all started sweating.

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

WARM-O-RAMA:

  • SSH – 20 IC
  • Cherry Pickers – 10 IC
  • Tie fighters – 10 forward/10 backward IC

THA-THANG:
Pax moseyed to the lower lot of the church carrying their CMU.

Your Name Is Your Workout – Pax spelled out their F3 name, with a sprint across the parking lot and back in between each letter.  After they finished that name, they moved on to their hospital name.

A – 50 SSHs
B – 25 LBCs
C – 30 AIR SQUATS
D – 15 MERKINS
E – 50 CMU CURLS
F – 10 BLOCKIES
G – 50 CMU ROWS
H – 20 JUMP SQUATS
I – 30 OVERHEAD PRESS
J – 50 BIG BOYS
K – 20 CRUNCHY FROGS
L – 20 SKULL CRUSHERS
M – 25 CMU GOBLET SQUATS
N – 10 BURPEES
O – 40 SSHs
P – 20 IRON MIKES (2ct)
Q – 30 LBCs
R – 50 CMU ROWS
S – 30 AMERICAN HAMMERS (2ct)
T – 30 CMU CURLS
U – 35 OVERHEAD PRESS
V – 20 JUMP SQUATS
W – 30 BIG BOYS
X – 10 BLOCKIES
Y – 25 SKULL CRUSHERS
Z – 30 MERKINS

MARY:
Didn’t have time for it.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

A Good Name Takes Hard Work

“A good name is more desirable than great riches; to be esteemed is better than silver or gold.”
‭‭Proverbs‬ ‭22:1‬ ‭NIV‬‬

“A good name [earned by honorable behavior, godly wisdom, moral courage, and personal integrity] is more desirable than great riches; And favor is better than silver and gold.”
‭‭Proverbs‬ ‭22:1‬ ‭AMP‬‬

“It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.”  Benjamin Franklin

“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.  If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.”  Warren Buffett

It takes hard work and sacrifice to build a “good name” but we all know stories of people who threw it all away with one bad choice.  Let’s hold each other accountable and make sure we are not putting ourselves in situations where our “good name” can be ruined.  Let’s make sure to call out weak areas in each others lives so that none of us ends up losing what we have worked so hard to build.

MOLESKIN:
Praise for birth of Master’s child.  Praise that Burnout is feeling better as he recovers from COVID.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

  • 9/11 Memorial Stair Climb at Asylum and Beer Mile at Moses’ house on 9/10.
  • PJ Parkinson’s 5K on 10/2 – see YHC for details.

Speedway Kraken in the Storm

THE SCENE:  “It was a dark and stormy (morning)!”  We were soaked to the bone but it kept us cool!

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

WARM-O-RAMA:

Gathered at the flag.
SSH x20; Tie Fighters x10 each leg; Cherry Pickers x10.
All done IC.

THA-THANG:
Moseyed down the parking lot to other side of church in the pouring rain where the 8 stations of the KRAKEN were set up in a large circle around the parking lot.  Pax spread out at different stations and as they completed the exercise, they would run the whole circuit before going to the next station in a clockwise rotation.  Rinse and repeat.

Kraken stations were as follows:

  • 10 hand release Merkins
  • 20 mountain climbers (2 count)
  • 10 Iron rockets (2 count)
  • 20 leg lifts
  • 10 Carolina dry docks
  • 20 Imperial storm kickers (2 count)
  • 10 Burpees
  • 20 crunchy frogs

MARY:
Moseyed back to the flag.  We didn’t have a whole lot of time left so we just held squat for time.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Proverbs 11:10-11
“When the righteous prosper, the city rejoices; when the wicked perish, there are shouts of joy.  Through the blessing of the upright a city is exalted, but by the mouth of the wicked it is destroyed.”

We all have “cities” that God has placed us in charge of: our employees, our families, our circles of influence.  Through our actions and our words, we can build up and bless our “cities” or we can destroy them.  We can tear down people and destroy them with our words and inflict generational curses on our children, or we can be a blessing to them and build them up and help them to prosper.

Let’s choose to lead our “cities” well today and build them up through our words and actions, so that they will see Christ in us.

MOLESKIN:
Rep Sleepy’s mom – in hospital.
Pennies – traveling to Florida this coming weekend.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

  • Bible study at Food City – Wednesday at 6am led by Doppelganger and Cow Patty.
  • Breakfast at Rep Sleepy’s after Saturday’s beatdown.  Sign up on Slack.
  • Work day at Cerebral Palsy Center – August 6 starting at 7am.
  • Run with HOPE on 8/20.  Shenanigans is putting together a team.  Sign up to support Hope Resource Center.