F3 Knoxville

Author: Smuggler

This is my block

THE SCENE: It would be nice to be done with the below 50 weather, 45 outside but rain held off.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Motivators 5-1. Q did get mixed up but we got the work in
THA-THANG:
Thang 1:

Mini Totem pole- Complete first exercise and bear crawl up the “hill” ( it really is more like a steep embankment, Q initially wanted to do a crawl bear up and bear crawl down but in the name of safety we stitched) , Move on to 1 and 2 + bear crawl, repeat same till all exercises done than start over at 1.

  • Grave Diggers- 10 each side
  • CMU Swings- 15
  • Curls 3way ( bottom to mid, mid to top, full) – 10 each way
  • CMU clean/split press – 10 ( 5 each leg)

Thang 2:

Murder Hornets

  • Murder Bunny 10 yards
  • 10 Manmakers
  • 10 CMU Lunges on each leg- static
  • 10 BBS
  • Repeat every 10 yards for 30 yards
  • OH Carry back to start and repeat

MARY:
No time today
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Difference between cows and Rino’s. Rino’s are driven, audacious, focused and consistently charging towards success. Cows are content sitting in the field chewing their cud. F3 is about building leadership. Leaders are not cows they are Rino’s. Be a Rino.
MOLESKIN:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Pint night tonight @ 5 Causal Pint.

Guest Q- Backstage

THE SCENE: 55 and clear skies. the massive tree that had fallen on the grindstone had been cut up, all pax behaved and did not take home complementary firewood for finishing what was about to come.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Motivators
  • squat Walks
  • Head Shoulders, Knees and Toes

THA-THANG:

  • Thang 1
  • Line up. 1st person runs his block 50 yards, drops it and runs back. Everyone repeats stacking their blocks. Then they retrieve them. Everyone does exercise while they wait.
    • Bobby Hurley’s
    • Merkins
    • Big Boys
    • Carolina Dry Docks
    • Jungle Boy Squats
    • SSH
    • X Squat
    • Dive Bombers
    • Freddie Mercuries
    • Burpee
    • Boot Beaters
    • Imperial Walkers
    • Plank
    • Monkey Humpers
    • Plank Jack
    • Mountain Climbers
  • Thang 2: Never Ending Relay- PAX completed 6 stations exercise and moved on to next station
    • 1- Alpos- 20
    • 2- Bonnie Blaire- 20
    • 3- Carolina Dry Docks- 20
    • 4- Deadman Burpees- 10
    • 5-Thrusters- 20
    • 6- Freddie Mercury- 20
  • Indian Run

MARY:

  • Bay City Scissors
  • Rosalita Whip
  • Captain Thorin

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Don’t be a cow. Be a bison! Cows huddle up in storms. Bison charge storms.
MOLESKIN:.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:

The Mental Grinder

THE SCENE: 55, clear sky’s. apparently there was a storm no one knew about because there was a huge tree laying in the middle of the AO.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Frankenstein sideline to sideline
  • walking quad stretch with hand raise- side line to sideline
  • Lunge with twist- side line half way
  • side lung L/R rest of way to other side line
  • Mosey to Spaghetti Hill
    THA-THANG:
    Bill Murray at Spaghetti Hill- Complete the exercises than run to the top of the hill and jog back down. Rinse and repeat for time- 25 min
  • 10 Merkins
  • 10 Squats
  • 10 BBSU
  • 10 Burpees

Mosey Back to Grindstone- stopped at park entrance to complete the Mary
MARY:
2 Min Tabata ( due to time)- Switched between Boat to Cannon and Starfish Crunches – 20 seconds work , 10 seconds rest. switching experiences each time.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Leadership, its what F3 is built one. Yes we are here to get stronger and improve our fitness but the main goal is to build community leadership. Often people wait to be told to lead, however if you are waiting to be told to lead its to late. I found a wonderful quote this morning that really shows this principle. “A position of authority is neither necessary nor sufficient for the exercise of leadership”-Eric Werkowitz

Don’t wait to be told to lead, find those voids of leadership and fill them. no mater if its at work, home, family or community. Be bold.
MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Regional Nan’tan from Tri-County will be leading beatdowns on 4/13 and 4/14. Bring a CMU to the Arsenal on Wednesday.

The 2000’s

THE SCENE: 60 and amazing. Stars in the sky. perfect gloom weather.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
F3 Gotcha- Pax lined up, first two have basketballs. goal is to make your shoot before the guy behind you makes his. SSH while you wait for your turn. If you get knocked out you have 5 burpees than rejoin the group. play till one guy has not been knocked out. Needless to say Q’s basketball experience made this a little unfair!
THA-THANG:
Millennium- Pax does all exercises together, 100 reps for each. work till the FIRST guy is done. Than the pax runs a 100m lap around the track back to start spot.  Last set is Burpees ( we did not make it here) they are done all together IC, rotate Q for burpees.

  • SSH
  • Lunges
  • Merkins
  • Flutter Kicks
  • Mountian Climbers
  • LBC’s
  • This is as far as we got today. Total was 600 reps and 600meters running. We will work to reach the 2k mark as a pax.
    MARY:
  • 20- Gas Pumps
  • 20- BB’s
  • Starfish sit ups for time

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
continuing to reflect on Gratitude and how to express that. One of the best was is to be specific in your gratitude. For me F3 has continued to be more than a fitness thing. in July i had major knee surgery, which put me out of any kind o f fitness program. Around the same time i was pushed go see my GP DR to get a physical. My blood work showed elevated cholesterol. My DR was concerned since my father died of a heart attack in his mid 50’s and with me being 35 at that time wanted to get ahead of any issues. However his suggestion was to put me on stations. I have never taken any long term medication and i knew that i could change my situation through exercise. I was convinced that my lack of working out due to my surgery was the driving factor to my elevated levels. I finally took the plung into F3 a couple months later and have not turned back. I recently went to redo my blood work and not only have all my levels dropped but they are all in the good ranges now. I credit F3 and the pax with pushing me to grow and put my fitness first but also to hold me accountable for showing up in the gloom every week. F3 will change your life if you lean in and I’m more than grateful for that.
MOLESKIN:
Regional Nan’tan from Central Illinois will be here leading two Q’s next week. One on Tuesday at Bombshelter and Wednesday at Arsenal. Make sure we show up and show out.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:

DORAtastic

THE SCENE: 2nd winter cold but the sun warmed it up nicely.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Drifter took the pax through a loop around the parking lot. From what i could see as i was coming in on two wheels were some lunges and a jog back to the grindstone. Then there was some mountain man poopers.
THA-THANG:
Dora #1- Musical Dora– Exercises are done for the full duration of the song no rep count. We also switched up the partner movement between bear crawls, crab walks, broad jumps.

  • Song 1- Everlong- Foo Fighters- OH CMU Press- Bear Crawl
  • Song 2- Thunderstruck- AC/DC – Squat Hold Curl- Crab Walk
  • Song 3- Sick Boy- The Chainsmokers- Pull Ups/Body Rows- Bear Crawl
  • Song 4- Believer- Imagine Dragons– BBS- Crab Walk
  • Song 5- Power- Kanye West- Prisoner Merkins- Broad Jumps

Dora #2- Heartbreak Hill- We moseyed to Mt. Crumpet for our Second Dora- 15 min to complete – Partner ran to top and around Tree.

  • 50 Iron Mikes
  • 100- Turkish Getups no weight – ( This was a challenge but two of the groups finished the full set in time)
  • 150- Leg Raises

Dora #3- DORAcide- We moseyed to the tennis courts for a four-line suicide run Dora. Burpee’s at each line 1,2,3,4. We had about 10 min to work the pax got into Foxholes.

  • 100- Gas Pumps
  • 200- Foxholes
  • 300 Star Fish

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MARY:
Crowd Pleasers- 1-4
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Sacrifice is key in leadership. The best leaders have always been servant leaders. A great leader will put others in front of himself to lift those up around him, they do not need the glory. In my professional life i have see both kinds of leaders and the leaders that have put themselves first failed. The only way a team can over come challenges is with strong leadership. DORA’s are a great example of sacrifice in leadership. Your brother is reliant on you to not stop moving even when you’re tired. We have to sacrifice ourselves for the pax and our brothers.
MOLESKIN:
Keep Drifter in your thoughts as he goes through the moving process.

The Q was late today, because i allowed the fartsack to trick me into thinking i had 5 more min. Because of that i was rushing and left my phone at home. Impossible to run a musical DORA without music so Q had to drive back home to find his phone. I appreciate Drifter picking up for the Q’s slacking and took the pax through the warm up.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Backstage- Regional Nan’tan for Mid-Illinois is going to be Q’ing two beatdowns on April 13th at the Bombshelter and 14th at the Arsenal. This is going to be a great beatdown you don’t want to miss. lets show what F3 Blount is all about and show up in force.