F3 Knoxville

Author: Red Writer

WAtch OUt FOr THat POle

THE SCENE: 40 and clear

F3 Welcome and Disclaimer

THE THANG

Side Straddle Hop ICx20
Belly Merkins ICx15
Baby Arm Circle ICx15
Tempo Squats ICx15

Route 66 on World’s Fair Park
We ran a distance between 11 light posts, starting with 1 rep at the first pole and then adding one additional rep at each light post until you hit 11.
Round 1: Burpees
Round 2: Squats
Round 3: Merkins
Round 4: Big Boy Situps
Round 5: Carolina Dry Docks

Mosey to the Big Ball stairs.
Calf raises ICx15
Toes in calf raise ICx10
Toes out calf raise ICx10
Squat jump every other stair all the way to the top.

COT Number off and Name-O-Rama (1 FNG!)

BOM
“Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,” Colossians 3:22-23 ESV

Red Writer said that he is a recovering people pleaser. He talked about how part of being a H.I.M. (High Impact Man) is rejecting passivity. It’s easy for us as men to either check out of the mundane things or shrink back from the things that make us feel intimidated, pressured and afraid. But as men we must refuse to be passive and live our life on purpose and with greater purpose. That greater purpose is always found when we lift our heads up out of our boredom and stress, and see that we have a Heavenly Father and His gaze is always on us. He sees our weakness, he sees our frustration, he sees our fear; and He still loves us. His gaze and his unconditional love is the fuel that drives us in the mundane and the stress, to stay engaged and reject passivity.

“I always feel it well just to put a few words of prayer between everything I do” -Spurgeon

Game Day at the Big Ball

THE SCENE 75 and clear

F3 Welcome and Disclaimer

THE THANG
COP
Merkins 20x IC
Imperial Walkers 15x IC
Toy Soldiers 10x IC
Arm Circles fwd & back x15 IC

JOHN WARD PRESS BOX  (field by 11th St.)
Do exercise at 4 stations / cones
Round 1 – 30 Squats (each cone)
Round 2 – 25 Plank Jacks
Round 3 – 20 Merkins

RISE TO THE TOP  (THE HILL [.5 mile mosey] )
Buddy 1 does 20 BBS then switches to Werkins while…
Buddy2 runs stairs to top of “The Hill” and back down.
Buddy 1 & 2 switch

Rinse and repeat x3

BUDDY CARRIES ACROSS FOOT BRIDGE
(Switch places, rinse and repeat)

Mosey back to AO! [.5 miles back]

DEALERS CHOICE ABS
COT
Count-o-Rama and Name-o-Rama: “hospital | age | F3 / FNG

BOM
When we talk about being a HIM we talk a lot about making an impact on our world. We talk about how we can “happen to our day” instead of “our day happening to us”. In order to make that impact, we have to get ready to face our day. PSALM 16:2 says “You are my Lord; apart from you I have no good thing”. This is where we start… from a place of gratitude to God. When we acknowledge that apart from Him we have no good thing, then it gets us ready to face whatever challenge, hardship, victory we face. As HIMs, we always point to something larger than ourselves. I can’t keep spiritually improvising this, I have to take the time to remember that “(He) alone is my portion and my cup”… and that “the boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places” (16:3-4).

Red Writer’s Greatest Hits

THE SCENE
70 and Clear

F3 Welcome and Disclaimer

THE THANG
COP
SSH 25x IC
Imperial Walkers 15x IC
Dive Bombers 10x IC
Arm Circles fwd & back x15 IC

“GET UP OFFA THAT THING” (thanks Quickbooks)
Squats then a burpee every time James Brown says “GU Offa TT”

Find battle buddy, line up on curb.

NO PAIN NO GAIN SPRINTERS (thanks Cap’n)
Buddy 1 does 20 BBS while Buddy2 holds their feet
Buddy1 switches to wide Merkins Buddy2 sprints to cones.
—  1st cone – 5 burpees
—  2nd cone – 10 burpees
—  3rd cone – 15 burpees

Buddies switch, rinse and repeat

“BRING SALLY UP” (thanks Woodshack)
Buddy 1: Pull Me Ups on tables
Buddy 2: Wall Sits/ mumblechatter

(Switch places, rinse and repeat)

Mosey back to AO!!

“ATMS” (thanks Cap’n) IC with no rest (without leaving plank position)
15 Alt Shoulder Touches (4-ct IC)
10 Tempo Merkins (4-ct IC)
10 fast Merkins (single ct IC)

“ROXANNE” (thanks Lexicon?)
Alternate Superman to Banana every time the Police sings “Roxanne”
Modified to alternating plank positions (one arm up) and mountain climbers

Abs (Dealer’s Choice)
Flutter Kicks x20 IC
Boat / Canoe on Q
Hello Dolly x20 IC
Ab Circuit – x15 each LBS, Leg Raises, Rocking Chairs

COT
Count-o-Rama & Name-o-Rama

BOM
After Red Writer, our Q, was on all fours “calling the buffalo” during dealers choice abs… he was reminded of a verse that he shared in the BOM:
Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly in my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest on me. That is why, for the sake of Christ, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

Monday Mayhem…

CONDITIONS
37 degrees and clear

COT
– Side Straddle Hop x25 (IC)
– Squat x15 IC FROM| count 3-1 (i.e. “1, 2, 3” = the slow drop)
– Lunge x10/leg IC FROM *end with isolation; hold 10 count/leg
– Big & Little Arm Circles x10 (IC)
– Reverse Big & Little x10 (IC)
– Mountain Climber / Merkins. x10
+ MC on 3 count
+ Then Merkin x 2 OYO and hold at top. Repeat. Start MC’s together
– Slaughter Starter x15 (OYO)

THE THANG
Follow the Leader
4 Single File Lines (do what I do)
We Will Rock You (Pat-Pat-CLAP)
Pick Up Coupons On Way Back

Tabatas
4 minute routines that consist of 20 seconds of work followed by 10 seconds of rest…
– Uppercut Coupons
– Explosive Leg Lunge
– ABC’s
– Worst Merkin Ever

Cardiac Hill
Group 1: 10 Merkins, 10 big boys, 10 Pickles
Group 2: Run down and sprint up Cardiac Hill

COT
Count-O-Rama and Name-O-Rama

BOM
“Gentleness is strength and power under control”

As men in today’s culture, gentleness is not a celebrated characteristic. Gentleness, to us, usually means weakness at it’s best and femininity at it’s worst. But when we look at the scriptures, it’s one of the chief characteristics of being a HIM / man of Christ. Paul says it’s a fruit of the Spirit that we should bear. Scripture says “let your gentleness be evident to all”.

When we look at the masculinity of Jesus, we see that gentleness is a chief trait of our Master. Matthew 26, on the night he was betrayed and arrested, Jesus said to Peter: “Put your sword back in its place, for all who draw the sword will die by the sword. Do you think I cannot call on my Father, and he will at once put at my disposal more than twelve legions of angels?” He could’ve laid the boom at any moment. He had all the power in the world. But he humbled himself and died for us instead.

Gentleness is strength and power under control

— Red Writer & Doogie