F3 Knoxville

Author: Swerve

The Magnificent 7 Doing 67

THE SCENE: Cool, about 32 degrees
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x 20.

LBAC x 10 (both ways)

Overhead claps x 27.
THA-THANG:

Partner up, because no soldiers should ever fight alone. We did a modified Dora, so here we go. While one partner does the exercise, the other partner will melungeon to the cones and back. Challenge: other than for the blockees, you will not set your block down.

  • Exercise 1 – Thrusters x 67.
  • Exercise 2 – CMU Big boys x 67.
  • Exercise 3 – Curls x 67.
  • Death round – Blockees x 67.
  • Rinse and repeat.
  • All pax completed one round and were deep in the second when recover was called.

MARY:
We worked right up until time.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
For today’s workout, I wanted to honor Bill Barnfield, my wife’s grandfather. This past weekend, I preached the funeral of his wife of 67 years. Bill is a committed man. He served as a medic in the Korean War, and saw heavy action that he still can barely talk about. After returning from the war, he married, raised four kids, and worked, worshipped, and honored his family. In the last few years of her life, he served his wife in a way that should humble each of us. He loved, cherished, and served her even when the pandemic hastened here dementia, and she no longer knew who he was. He meant what he said in his vows, and he completed his mission of loving her until death do us part. I believe he got his commitment and grit from the example of his Savior, who also had a mission. Philippians 2:5-8 says, “Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.” We ended on a challenge to examine where we needed to step up our commitment.
MOLESKIN:

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A Cold Day in Uno

THE SCENE: 28 degrees of F3 bliss.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x 20

Cherry Pickers x 10

LBAC x 10 (forwards and backwards)

Iron inchworm of Death – Pax lined up head to toe with CMUs and bearcrawled the prescribed distance while dragging their blocks.
THA-THANG:
Your workout destination was determined by the lovely color of the Uno card of your choice.

  • Blue – mosey to the bottom of the troll bridge and perform the number of blockees on the card.
  • Yellow – mosey to the short apex and do the number of thrusters on the card.
  • Red – mosey to the stairwell with your CMU and do however many rounds indicated by the card.
  • Green – stay on the grinder and murder bunny to the other set of cones. When you reach the cones, do the number of Big Boys on the card.
  • Penalty cards were as follows:
    • Draw 2 – go to the color prescribed and to 20 of the exercise.
    • Skip – go to the color location and do 10 of the exercise. Skip with your CMU back.
    • Reverse – go to the location from the color of the card, and do 10 plank jacks on your block.
    • Wild – go to the short apex, do 10 curls, then murder bunny the path back to the stairs.
    • Draw 4 wild – go to the troll bridge and do 40 grave diggers.

MARY:
Flutterkicks and Hello Dollys for time.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Philippians 1:27-30 – ”

  • 27 Only vlet your manner of life be wworthy8 of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of you xthat you are standing firm in one spirit, with yone mind zstriving side by side for the faith of the gospel, 28 and not frightened in anything by your opponents. This is aa clear sign to them of their destruction, but bof your salvation, and that from God. 29 For cit has been granted to you that for the sake of Christ you should not only believe in him but also bsuffer for his sake, 30 engaged in the same dconflict that eyou saw I had and now hear that I still have.”
  • It seems like whenever I give the devo, I am always talking about suffering, and so I did again. The point of reading the above verses is that not all suffering is bad. When we approach some of the best things in life, we find that they are difficult. It doesn’t matter if it is F3, marriage, parenting, or just trying to live out your faith. In one of my favorite shows called Yellowstone (I know, I’m terrible), a class A screwup is trying to learn how to be a cowboy on the Dutton Ranch. He makes a comment to an older cowboy that was something like this, “I’m not sure I’m cut out for this.” He said this because of the difficulty he was facing. He was learning how to suffer well. The older cowboy responded, “It’s not something people are cut out for. This is something that is cut into you.” Sure we might face difficult moments, but the greatest things life are not easy. It is a privilege to suffer sometimes, indeed most of the time if we do it in such a way that honors Christ. God bless you men.

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Arm Flappin Dora

THE SCENE: A warm 54 degrees and perfect weather for a little work.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Windmills  x 10 (4 ct)

Little of this, Little of that.

Cherry Pickers x 8
THA-THANG:
After shouldering our bricks, we moseyed to the Methodist Church parking lot.

  • The Pax partnered up for some Dora slow suicide.
  • Exercise one – 100 blockees.
  • Exercise two – 150 big boys with CMU.
  • Exercise three – 200 CMU curls.
  • Exercise four – 300 CMU goblet squats – no one made it to this round.
  • While one pax did the exercise, the partner did suicides to the three medians in the parking lot. Upon arrival at the median, the pax would perform 10 overhead claps on a 4 count, and then run back.

MARY:
No time.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
I spoke about hearing a wife say that she didn’t want to leave her husband behind in the faith. When thinking about F3, the whole phrase of “leave no man behind, and no man where you found him” really resonates with me. I think I appreciate it so much because I feel like it reminds me of how God pursues lost sinners like me. I read from most of Isaiah 53 which talks about all the things that Jesus does for us. He carries our sorrows, He was numbered with us as transgressors, He died to make intercession for us. The challenge I left us with is we need to fight against the temptation to leave behind our wives, children, and friends when it comes to faith.
MOLESKIN:
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Earning the Candy

THE SCENE: 47 degrees and light breeze.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
– LBAC forward and backwards x10.

– Cherry Pickers x 10.

– Tempo squats x 10.
THA-THANG:
The Q intended to go to Mt. Crumpet, but considering that the other Pax had injured knees, we stayed and did everything on the Grinder. So, we did a Dora with three to earn our candy:

  • Overhead press x 100.
  • On, over, off block merkins x 100.
  • Goblet squats x 300.
  • Imperial squat walkers and BBS x 400.
  • While 2 pax did the exercises, the other pax overhead carried the CMU to the end of the Grinder and back.

MARY:
We worked right up until the end.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
3 HIMs and a whole lot of fun.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Psalm 46:1 says “God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.” It is good to know that God desires of us to come to Him, when we are in trouble or when we have messed up. It reminds me very much of the relationship that fathers have to the children. We can’t let sin slide, but at the same time, we want our kids to come to us when they are hurt. This Psalm also reminds us that we cannot follow God alone. We need His strength and His presence to live well.
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Fun on the Anvil

THE SCENE: mid 60’s, light rain, wet.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH X 20

Windmills x 10

LBAC – Forwards and Backwards X 10

Run a short loop.
THA-THANG:
At the four corners of the grindstone, a cone was placed to indicate four stations.

  • Station 1 – 10 blockees.
  • Station 2 – 10 CMU Big Boys.
  • Station 3 – 10 Curls.
  • Station 4 – 10 Imperial Squat walkers (4ct).
  • After a station was completed, to get to the next one, the pax would run the short loop from the warm up, then overhead carry their CMU to the next spot.
  • After completion of the round, we added 10 reps to each exercise and continued. Rinse and repeat.

MARY:
LBC for time.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
5 HIMs.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Hebrews 12:5-7 – “And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons? ‘My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor be weary when reproved by him. For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives.’ It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons.” I told the guys that this verse has been on my mind lightly because discipline is difficult. God wants to shape us through physical, spiritual, and mental fitness, but that requires a dedication on our part and a willingness to endure pain. It reminded me of a poem I read recently that I shared with the pax about God’s anvil.  It says:

“When God wants to drill a man
And thrill a man
And skill a man
When God wants to mold a man
To play the noblest part

When He yearns with all His heart
To create so great and bold a man
That all the world shall be amazed,
Watch His methods, watch His ways!
How He ruthlessly perfects
Whom He royally elects!

How He hammers him and hurts him
And with mighty blows converts him
Into shapes and forms of clay
Which only God can understand!

How He bends but never breaks
When his good He undertakes
How He uses whom He chooses
And with mighty power infuses him
With every act induces him
To try His splendor out!
God knows what He’s about.”

All of us can understand that God shapes us through difficulty, the problem is there are so many things that want to pull us off of God’s anvil.  At times, it’s a war within ourselves.  So stay on the anvil men, and when you are tempted to crawl off, jump back on it, because that is where God does His best work.

MOLESKIN:
Prayed for Walt since he is traveling from the death of his grandfather.
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