F3 Knoxville

Author: Wall Ball

Embrace the Challenge

Embrace the Challenge

THE SCENE:Oh the weather outside is weather…

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

SSH IC x 20

Cherry Pickers IC x 4

Randomly selected 2 HIMs to lead 10 minutes of the Q. (Yes, it was random @Cavelier, you selected my favorite number so it was out of my hands)

THA-THANG:

Evolution #1: @Wallball

Run slow, then run fast, recover

@Butters arrived on the run, he accepted 10 minutes of the Q.

Grab the gear and mosey to MRSA field 1

Evolution #2: @Wallball

The Frenchman’s charge + 50 Gorilla Humpers at each end

Evolution #3 @Wallball – 28 minutes up to this point

Split into 2 teams.

1 man strap into a ruck towing 90-100# sandbags, bear crawl to light, drop it and run to mid field, running summersault, run back, strap in and Berne back. Tag out.

PAX alternates between merkins, big boys, Squats, flutters. (20ea)

Evolution 4: @Cavelier – 10 minutes

Side shuffle the lines off the end line and goalie box, sprint to mid field along sideline, lunge to true mid, 5 burpees, lunge to other sideline. Rinse and repeat sprints and shuffles.

LBCs at midfield, back to true mid for 10 more burpees, somehow we made it back to the baseline but I don’t remember how

Evolution 5: @Waxjob (10 minutes)

Indian PAX hurdle the field (jump over planking PAX, full field)

15 pickle pounders

Bear crawl Slalom back to other end line

Evolution 6: @Butters (10 minutes)

PAX plank shoulder to shoulder, pull through sandbags and rucks from one end to the other. Reverse and repeat.

7’s to mid field 8 count body builders and diamond Merkins

MARY: (2 minutes)

Bust it back to the AO. Made it with 7 seconds to spare.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

Use the TAGS on right-side to record PAX (BE SURE TO INCLUDE YOURSELF) in attendance. Be sure to select the AO in CATEGORY above TAGS and then delete these notes!

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

I have been challenged at work recently with an expectation additional leadership. Basically, have to figure out what I need to be doing on the fly. I have come to see the correlation of this to life in general. We say a lot: “Embrace the suck” but we should also include “Embrace the challenge”. Today’s PAX embraced the challenges that were thrown at them and excelled. HUGE shout out to everyone for encouraging those thrust into these positions this morning.

MOLESKIN:

Praise for prayers answered:

Waxjob has a contract on his house!!!

My father has had some heart trouble recently and we got some good news this week. Diagnosis isn’t as dire as originally suspected but still serious. Thanks to all the prayer warriors, it was drastically impactful and immensely appreciated.

Prayers needed:

Family that @Bartman works with had an unexpected death in the family. It’s hard to lose someone but especially hard when that family should have had a much longer time with them.

Waxjob needs a place to live for a month. If you know anyone that can rent a spot for a month, let him know.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Hardship Hill is coming up. Team Dog Bite is ready to get after it.

Abdamonium

THE SCENE: Like walking through soup.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

@Shooter chose today to settle up for missing his Q on the previous Wednesday. Solid 4 second makeout session with the pee rock painstakingly selected from the pile at the Dog Pound. After that, we got after it:

  • 5 Burpees
  • 10 Cherry Pickers
  • 15 Mericans
  • 20 SSH
  • 25 Imperial Walkers

THA-THANG:

  • Mosey to running loop and commence Route 66 with Mericans at each light pole, plank til the 6 arrives
  • Continue mosey to baseball field
    • Split into 2 teams and race around the bases (Twice)
    • Home to First: gorilla shuffle, First to Second: sprint, Second to Third: gorilla shuffle, (opposite direction) Third to Home: Sprint (Second lap: sub bear crawl for gorilla shuffle)
  • Mosey to playground
    • 30 Pullups/30 Burpees (However you can get them)
  • Mosey to Upper Parking Lot
    • 8 stations, start at 5 and add 5 at each station, 2 loops
      • 1st loop: Big Boys (5+10+15+20+25+30+35+40=180 Total)
      • 2nd loop: American Hammers (2 count) (5+10+15+20+25+30+35+40=180 Total)
  • Offered 3 options for the next whoopin: 1) Dora 2) Circuit 3) Amazeballs. The PAX chose Amazeballs
  • Mosey to top soccer field, commence Amazeballs:
    • Split into 2 teams, line up on opposing sides of the same baseline
    • PAX plank while one member of each team runs to mid field and retrieves a ball with a workout written on it. Once the ball makes it back to the baseline, the teams complete the workout and one PAX goes to get the next ball. Exercises:
      • 20 Burpees
      • 40 Merkins
      • 50 Big Boys
      • Lunges (Midfield then sprint back)
      • Bear Crawl (Midfield then sprint back)
      • Bernie Sanders (Midfield then sprint back)
  • First Nation run (Indian Run) to AO to complete 1 loop of the truck stop

MARY:
Popcorn to different PAX: flutter kicks, side crunches and Freddie Mercury’s
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
One visitor from F3 Memphis: @Goldilocks
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Through my transition from individual contributor to a leadership position at work, it has required me to reconsider how I look at my output in order for the team to succeed. It is required for me to anticipate hurdles and roadblocks that may come up for my team members and support them to be successful in spite of these challenges. I encouraged all of the PAX to reach out to others around them and offer support when they are struggling physically and emotionally. #ISI
MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS: