F3 Knoxville

Inaugural Project Heavy PT

THE SCENE: rainy, upper 50s
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
15 SSH, 15 Moroccan night club, 15 overhead claps, 10 tempo merkins, 10 tempo squats, 5 cherry pickers
THA-THANG:
Exercises performed buy muscle group for maximum burn.

Shoulders/Chest/Triceps

  • 20 Merkins
  • 20 Overhead presses
  • 20 Tricep extensions

Biceps/Back

  • Colt 45
  • 20 Rows

Legs

  • 30 Squats
  • 30 Lunges (total)
  • 30 Calf Raises

Core

  • 15, 4 ct Heavy Freddies
  • 15 Big Boys
  • 20 American Hammers (total each side)

Rinse and repeat until time is called.

MARY:
15 flutter kicks and some stretching
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
6 HIMs to kick off Thursday right.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Growing this AO is the goal.  We want to reach out to as many men in the community as possible.  Today, I wanted to remind everyone of our mission.

F3: Fitness, Fellowship, and Faith

Fitness is what gets it going. A free workout certainly is enticing for anyone wanting to get their fitness where it needs to be.

Fellowship is the glue that holds us together. I don’t wake up early and get wet from rain for just any reason. I do it for the fellowship.

Faith is the ultimate strength builder for HIMs. Recognition that we are but a small part of the universe around us is so humbling.  I appreciate all the words of wisdom shared during COT.
MOLESKIN:
Don’t eat two chicken biscuits as a pre-work out “snack”. Just ask Whipper.

sweating it out in the garage

THE SCENE: Phone said 59* and lots of rain, definitely warm for January
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Warm up started in 11th Street Parking Garage, which is where we stayed for duration.  Lots of rain, plenty of lightning too…
Merkins
Squat and reach
Grady corns
Imperial Walkers
SSH
THA-THANG:
Mosey up the ramp to the fourth level of the parking garage (the bottom floor is 3? Haven’t figured that out yet).  Routine is the BOMBS Escalator, the Bombscelator? Anyhow, BOMBS done escalator style.  Start with B, run the length of the garage and back.  B O, run.  So on and so on.

  • Burpees x10
  • OH Claps x20
  • Merkins x20
  • BBSUs x20
  • Squats x40

Quick 10 count and mosey on, up another level to the fifth level of the parking garage.  More chalk on the ground, this time just straight through the list for two rounds:

  • Monkey humpers x10
  • Squats x10
  • J-Los x10
  • Burps x10 (not burpees, just the foot thruster part)
  • Run a lap of the garage

Again rinse and repeat for two rounds.  Another quick 10 count, then run a half lap of the garage to get to the north stairwell.  There we did three sets of calf raises on the stairs, 15 reps per set.  First set regular, second set toes in, third set toes out for calf raises.  Then Oompa Loompa down the stairs to the bottom (squat each step taken).

MARY:
Flutter kicks
Hello Dolly
Flutter kicks
(There was a lot more in this same sequence but ran out of time, thank goodness)
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
5 Strong: Walrus, Cornhole, Huffy, Swanson, Abort
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
I’ve just struggled this week in getting out in the gloom.  My M has been struggling with fear at night.  Her grandmother’s apartment burned on Saturday (she made it out, but lost everything) and now she is terrified that our house will burn down while we sleep.  We’ve been unplugging almost everything we can before going to bed.  This is something that I really struggle with.  My reaction is to want to “fix” a problem, but this is not something I can really fix.  I just have to be supportive and help her move past her fears.  Huffy really brought it home, giving us Psalm 56:3 “When I am afraid, I put my trust in you” and added that every day our Lord challenges us to allow our faith to overcome.
MOLESKIN:
Prayers for Huffy, who had a skiing accident that has his shoulder in bad shape (yet he still makes it out to workouts, like a beast), prayers for Walrus who is trying to improve his marriage and working on things with his M, praise and prayers that Swanson had great news at the doctor

arms and legs

THE SCENE: 60 with just a little drizzle – felt really nice
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Jog two laps with 5 Merkins (lap 1)/5 squats (lap 2) every 20-25 paces

THA-THANG:

Mosey to rock pile and Select two rocks, one for each hand that are equal with in size

20 reps of each x 3 rounds:
Curls
Tricep ext
OH press
Front raise
Bent over row
Chest press (on ground)

Replace rocks and mosey big ball steps

Oompa Loompa up the steps
Lunges on the flat
Oompa Loompa down the steps
Frog leap the flat

R and R x3

Mosey two laps with 5 Merkins (lap 1)/5 squats (lap 2) every 20-25 paces

MARY:
we started with 5 burpees, 5 sec rest – 4 burpees, 5 sec rest on down until 1 burpee, 5 sec
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

“Wait a minute, Doc. Are you telling me you built a time machine… Marty McFly from “Back to the Future” Doc was told that building a time machine would be impossible. but he didn’t let that stop him, he did it anyway. What are you being told is impossible – now go and do it.

MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Jane

THE SCENE: a little chill in the air, but just right once moving.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER Check!
WARM-O-RAMA:

Ssh – 25
Merks – 10 4 count
Squats – 20

THA-THANG:

Mosey to Jane Allen  all PAX take turn carrying sandbag PAX not carrying sandbag will do 5 merkins and then run to catch the PAX carrying the sandbag, PAX switch when the group catches the Sandbag.

Bottom of Jane Allen – Sandbag will be carried to the top by each PAX. In the mean time, the other pax will be rotating between the following exercises.

As many as you:
Burpee
Hurpee (burpee with 5 pickle pounders at the bottom)
8 count BB
Wolverines (burpee with a merkin and then a peter parker (both sides))
Merkins 4 count
Simpson’s (start with legs 6inches of ground (Homer). left legs straight up (marge). twist side to side (Mr. Burns)
Inchworms

R & R but only half way up Jane Allen

Return mosey the same way we came carrying the sandbag, group doing 5 merkins, run to catch up.

MARY:
no time left
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
look for those to be in community with
MOLESKIN:
first time out using my new sandbag. I think I will call here Jane!
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
none

Lightning HIIT

THE SCENE: Low 60s. Thunder! Lightning! Oh my!
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

SSH X 20

Squat Walkers x 15

10-1 Burpees
THA-THANG:

Tabata

30 sec on 10 sec off

HR Merkins

Clap Merkins

Get-Ups

Jump Tucks

Single Leg V-Ups

Mtn Climbers

Run to scrapyard and back. If lightning do SSH for 2 minutes under pav. I think we did 6 or 7 rounds. We saw lightning once so did the 2 minutes of SSH that time. Espy said he would rather risk the lightning than do that again.

MARY:
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
5 HIMs
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

16 rules for simple living:

  1. Believe in yourself , but be aware of your limitations
  2. De-clutter and simplify 
  3. Use everything in moderation
  4. Keep things in perspective
  5. Treat others how they want to be treated
  6. Family first
  7. Pay attention to the moment
  8. Have a positive mindset
  9. Educate yourself
  10. Be passionate about something
  11. Always be reflective
  12. Surround yourself with supportive people
  13. Banish the word “perfection”
  14. Fix it, or deal with it, but stop whining about it
  15. Remember things that you are grateful for
  16. You can have it all, just not at the same time

MOLESKIN:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: