F3 Knoxville

Author: Stripped

An Even Rad-er Ladder

THE SCENE: 70 & pleasant

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Baby Arm Circles IC | Grady Corns IC
  • Windmills IC | SSH IC
  • Short Mosey to playground.
  • 10 Pull-ups, 20 Merkins, 30 Squats
  • Lunge toward splash Pad

THA-THANG:

Mosey to Splash Pad. Descending Ladder.  Do 12 exercises, take a lap, and drop the top one. Do 11 exercises, take a lap, and drop the top one.  Etc…

  • 12 — 4-Count Shoulder Taps
  • 11 — 4-Count Hello Dolly
  • 10 — Lunges (each leg)
  • 9 — Diamond merkins
  • 8 — Squats
  • 7— CDD
  • 6 — WWI Sit-Up
  • 5 — Dips
  • 4 — Step-Ups (each leg)
  • 3 — Single-leg Bridge (each leg)
  • 2 — Single-leg deadlift (each leg)
  • 1 — Burpee

MARY:

  • Brief Fellowship Mosey & then a full mosey to beat the clock

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

7 PAX

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

“Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.” ‭‭Hebrews‬ ‭13:8‬ ‭

We can count on Jesus. He’s not fickle, he’s not unsteady. His love is unwavering. And the Grace available to us because of his sacrifice is enough for anything we can throw at him.

As a parent, as a husband, as a leader, that’s a characteristic that I want to emulate. I want to be a steady leader, an unwavering husband, and the type of father that my boys can always count on.

The Ol’ Switcheroo

THE SCENE: 70ish. Beautiful.

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

WARM-O-RAMA:

  • SSH IC | Windmills IC
  • BACs | Rockettes IC (Right Leg First)

THA-THANG:

Partner up. Alternate working your way through the list of exercises and running to the next station and back. After both partners have done all three exercises, advance to next station. Rinse. Repeat. Enjoy.

Station 1

  • Diamond Merkins
  • Lunges
  • Box Cutters

Station 2

  • Mountain Climbers
  • Squats
  • Flutter Kicks

Station 3

  • Shoulder Taps
  • SSH
  • BBS

Station 4

  • Inch Worms
  • Single-Leg Bridge
  • Imperial Walkers

MARY:

  • Fellowship Mosey™️
  • Hello Dolly
  • Freddie Mercury
  • BBS

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

We talked about the impact our words can have on the people around us.

It was a pleasure to be in the gloom with a group of HIMs that do such a great job engaging in community, stepping up to lead, and checking in with each other.

Thanks to Mermaid for trading places for a day.

Mystery Station Number 4

THE SCENE: Air Temp: 70°. Asphalt Temp: 700°.

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

WARM-O-RAMA:

  • SSH IC | Windmills IC | Rockettes IC

THA-THANG:

Partner up. Alternate working your way through the list of exercises and running to the next station and back. After both partners have done all three exercises, advance to next station. Rinse. Repeat. Enjoy.

Station 1

  • Diamond Merkins
  • Lunges
  • Box Cutters

Station 2

  • Mountain Climbers
  • Squats
  • Flutter Kicks

Station 3

  • Shoulder Taps
  • SSH
  • BBS

Station 4

  • REDACTED

The Q got the stations out of order, audibled the wrong station while waiting on a truck on the boat ramp, and—as a result—cheated the PAX out of station 4. We will work to rectify this ASAP.

MARY:

  • Fellowship Mosey™️

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

Ten HIMs, including La Bamba from CLT.

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Cheating Our Abs

THE SCENE: 70 & clear with a light dew on the ground and the warm stench of raw sewage hanging lightly in the air.

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Cherry Pickers IC 
  • Baby Arm Circles IC | SSH IC

THA-THANG:

Three circuits of four corners, each done three times (Reps: 30/20/10) as time allowed:

Upper

  • Dips at Flag Circle
  • Pull-ups (half reps) at playground
  • Merkins at tennis court
  • Dry Docks at stinky corner
  • Mountain climbers to wait for six 

Lower

  • Box jumps (or step-ups) | Squats
  • Walking Lunges | Pickle pointers 
  • Crab toe touches to wait for six

Core

  • BBS | Vups 
  • Flutters | Box cutters
  • Only got one core round in until time was us

MARY:

  • Cheated our abs. Shame on us.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

6 PAX

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Just finished Is This Anything? – Seinfeld

A few things struck me from a self-leadership standpoint:

Relentless pursuit of his priorities. – At one point he talks about when he was young that comedy was all he really wanted to do and he realized that it was a tough way to make a living, but if he could just make enough to buy a jar of Skippy PB & a loaf of Wonderbread each week, he could survive and it would be worth it. – Relentless pursuit of your priorities will mean giving up other good things.

Willingness to fail & the discipline to learn from those failures. Jerry talks about the way he develops new material: the same way that all comics get new material—by going out to the clubs and trying it out. And when he’s in that mode of working on new material, if he goes out and does a thirty minute set and comes away with one bit that gets a laugh, it was all worth it. Here’s a guy who has a rare level of success because he understands and respects how rare success is. If he only fails 90% of the time, it was worth it to him. And he’s going to go home, reflect on what didn’t work, make what did work even better, and try again the next day. I think there’s a lot to be said for being willing to try something new and understanding that even if you fail, you’ll learn.

That’s the challenge for each of us this week: to be willing to make the sacrifices necessary to chase what really matters to you, to not be so scared as to be unwilling to fail, and if you do fail to treat it as a learning opportunity.

Skater Haters

THE SCENE: 60ish & delightful

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Cherry Pickers IC | SSH IC | Grady Corns
  • Tempo Squats 

THA-THANG:

40sec at each station. 20sec to move to next station. Take a lap after each round. 3 rounds. Stations included:

  • Pull-ups
  • Wall sit
  • Hand release merks
  • Squats
  • Burpees
  • Step ups
  • Diamond merks
  • Skaters (there was much discussion of the Q’s form, especially as compared to Aladdin’s textbook execution of this exercise)
  • Table Rows
  • American Hammers

MARY: 

  • Flutter Kicks IC

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Malcolm Gladwell – Outliers. All about success. Great book.

Lays his points out through a series of really interesting vignettes—quick read. (Or listen)

Closes the book with this:

“The successful are those who have been given opportunities and who have had the strength and presence of mind to seize them.”

Reflect on the opportunities we’ve been given and how different life could have been 

Reflect on how well you’re leading yourself right now

But also reflect on who you know, who has what it takes to succeed and just needs an opportunity.

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