F3 Knoxville

Author: Rep Sleepy

Rep Sleepy’s One Year Anniversary

THE SCENE: Low 40s but we didn’t stay cold for long

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER


WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x12; Oh Yeahs (Forward/Backward) x12; Tempo Squats x12

THA-THANG:
Partner up and each pair draws a card that determines where they run to and if they need to take a CMU with them based on the suit. Once at the location another paper tells them what to do based on the card value.

Diamonds – Leave CMU and run to baseball field

Hearts – Take CMU and run to the Apex

Clubs – Take CMU and run to the Troll Bridge

Spades – Leave CMU and run to the Tennis Courts

 

DIAMONDS

2-4 – Homerun Bear Crawl (Bear Crawl the base path)

5-10 – Squat Jumps times number drawn

Face Cards – Squat Jumps times 15

Ace – Jump Squats times 20

 

HEARTS

2-4 – Murder Bunny to cone and back

5-10 – Blockees times number drawn

Face Cards – Blockees times 15

Ace – Blockees times 20

 

CLUBS

2-4 – Overhead Carry Suicide (4 cones)

5-10 – Thrusters times number drawn

Face Cards – Thrusters times 15

Ace – Thrusters times 20

 

SPADES

2-4 – Crab Walk to cone and back

5-10 – Burpees times number drawn

Face Cards – Burpees times 15

Ace – Burpees times 20

MARY:
Big Boys while waiting for the six to get back; Boxcutters x12; Flutter Kicks x12; Mountain Climbers x12; Catalina Wine Mixers x12; LBCs for time

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
13 HIMs including one FNG, “Nailed It”

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Thank you

  • Thank you for all the times I was wagon wheeled back to because we leave no man behind
  • Thank you for encouraging me to keep going even when I thought there was no way I could do this because we leave no man where we found him
  • Thank you for making me a better husband and father
  • Thank you for the ways you will push, encourage, and pray for me as we continue to walk life’s journey
  • Thank you for a brotherhood that is unlike anything I have ever know
  • Thank you to Swerve for never shutting up about F3 to the point I had to come see why he was so enthusiastic about it.
  • Thank you to Smuggler, I wouldn’t have made it past one month, let alone to one year, without your encouragement.
  • Thank you to Drifter, your M helped get mine to come to FIA starting in January and she needed it much like I needed F3.
  • Thank you to each and every one of you, I wouldn’t have enough time to go through how each of you encourage, push, and teach me through your words and actions.

Thank you is not enough but it is all I have

MOLESKIN:
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ANNOUNCEMENTS:
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A Bit Foolish

THE SCENE: Low 60s with rain

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER


WARM-O-RAMA:

Windmills x10; SSH x20; Mosey to the pavilion

THA-THANG:
Partner up, partner one does step ups while partner two does an exercise that flip flop. Start with 10 reps per exercise and work up to 40 increasing by 10 each round than start back down. Run to top of Blind Man’s Hill and back after each round. Exercises were:

  • Merkins
  • Big Boy Sit Ups
  • Squats

MARY:
Assorted planks; Overhead Claps x20

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Smuggler, Baby Weight, Scoutmaster, Webelo, Rep Sleepy

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Drifter mentioned in Slack yesterday that I was in rare form and appreciated me bringing some joy to the gloom. It got me thinking about how all of us have that side to us that some may consider foolish. Listen to these quotes:

Mix a little foolishness with your prudence; it’s good to be silly at the right moment.

— Horace, Roman poet

I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.

— Mark Twain

Until you’re ready to look foolish, you’ll never have the possibility of being great.

— Cher

I think that we as men are often hesitant to show our foolish side but then here we are at 5:30am in the rain working out outside. Don’t be afraid to let all parts of your personality come through when dealing with others, sometimes the biggest breakthrough can be found in what the world calls foolish.

“For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.”

‭‭1 Corinthians‬ ‭1:18‬ ‭ESV‬‬

MOLESKIN:
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ANNOUNCEMENTS:
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Infinity Ladder

THE SCENE: A chilly 27 degrees

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x20; Cherry Pickers x5; Oh Yeah Right Leg Lunge with Arm Circles Forward x15 and Left Leg Lunge with Arm Circles Backwards x15

THA-THANG:
Mosey down to the road near the Troll Bridge to start the ladder with Catalina Wine Mixers x10. Stop two is the base of Infinity Hill for Boxcutters x20. Stop three is 1/3 the way up Infinity Hill for Gas Pumps x30. Stop four is 2/3 the way up Infinity Hill for Big Boys x40. Stop 5 is the top of Infinity Hill for Pickle Pounders x50. Came back down the hill stopping to do all the exercises again.

Went back up the ladder again stopping at #2 for Imperial Squat Walkers x20 and #3 for Iron Mikes x30 then back down stopping to do Imperial Squat Walkers again.

Did Burpees x10 at the bottom and then back to stop 2 for Merkins x20. We were running out of time some went back to the grinder for Burpees x10 to finish it off.

MARY:
Flutter Kicks x15; LBCs for time

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
7 HIMs and 1 2.0 tackled the Infinity Ladder

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

“Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.”
‭‭1 John‬ ‭4:7-12‬ ‭ESV‬‬

MOLESKIN:
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ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Mr. Rogers 50th birthday Q this Saturday. CSAUP at Asylum on 2/26, sign up in Slack.

Suicide EMOM

THE SCENE:
Rain, lots of rain

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x20, Squats x10, Cherry Pickers x5, Piano Tappers x5

THA-THANG:
EMOM timer set for 35 total minutes, run across the Grinder (approximately 50 feet) every minute when buzzer goes off. Work through the following exercises in between the runs (we made it through them twice) :

  • Thrusters x50
  • Curls x50
  • Grave Diggers x50
  • Goblet Squats x50
  • Tricep Extensions x50
  • Bent Rows x50

MARY:
Boxcutters x15, Flutter Kicks x10, Big Boys x20, LBCs for time

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
5 HIMs playing in the rain

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

“Honor everyone. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the emperor.”

‭‭1 Peter‬ ‭2:17‬ ‭

MOLESKIN:
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Murder Bunny Homicide

THE SCENE: 28 degrees and frosty
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Cherry Pickers x5; Piano Tappers x5; SSH x20; Tempo Squat x10
THA-THANG:
This was created by Poopdeck from F3 JeffCo (south of St. Louis)

Five cones set out on field next to the grinder. Start at first cone and Murder Bunny to second cone. Run back to first cone then back to second cone, do 5 Blockees then Murder Bunny to third cone. Run back to first cone then back to third cone, do 5 Blockees then Murder Bunny to fourth cone. Run back to first cone then back to fourth cone, do 5 Blockees the Murder Bunny to the fifth cone. Run back to the first cone then back to the fifth cone, do 5 Blockees then Overhead Carry back to the first cone. Do 20 Goblet Squats, 20 Tricep Extensions, and 20 Curls.

Rinse and repeat until time is called

MARY:
Boxcutters x15; Flutter Kicks x15; Big Boy Sit Ups x20; LBCs for time

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Smuggler, Swerve, Scoutmaster, and Webelo helped me solve the Murder Bunny Homicide

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Stole this from a post that my friend Poopdeck put up the other day (edited to shorten):

“I don’t just show up to work out.  I show up to be there for other men. We need to be there for each other to build each other up.  F3 is an outlet. Almost like a men’s recess.  I went from a silo’d life with little to no friends…to a life where I now have a group of men who I know and consider very close friends.    I show up for them.  They show up for me.  I’m not lonely anymore.  I have peers that I know have my back.  Peers that are going through the same struggles in life.  Men I trust.  Men I can vent to. Like minded men looking to grow physically and mentally.  Like minded men looking for companionship. The cold does not hinder our capability to be better men.  Time is not a thing. Age isn’t a limitation. Your fitness level does not matter.  There are no excuses!!! Men, stop being that sad clown with excuses.  If you are seeking male companionship, needing somebody to talk to, or need that outlet to relieve stress, remember that F3 is a solution!  Men need men to grow.  Iron sharpens iron!!  Stop hiding. All you need is the will to be a better man.  I was struggling.  F3 changed my life.”

Who do we each know that needs to be part of F3?

MOLESKIN:
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