F3 Knoxville

Stay In The Fight

THE SCENE: Insert info about the weather, etc.

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

  • Welcome to F3: Fitness – Fellowship – Faith
  • Name is Steam & I’ll be your Q this morning so thank you for having me

[ No FNGs ]

  • Couple things before we begin
    • I’m not a professional
    • You’re here on your own volition
    • Modify as you need to this morning but push yourself and the men around around here – they made a choice to be here and so did you – make it count.
  • ALSO – As your Q this morning:
    • I will have my ruck (no weight) with me the entire time this morning.
    • Feel free to throw your keys in there
    • There is CPR equipment and a med kit in there as well – in case of an emergency – it’s important everyone knows that.
    • I’ll also have my phone – we’re trying to get men on Q in the habit of having their phone on them, or at least having 1 phone in the PAX for emergency purposes. Better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it.

ALL THAT BEING SAID – LET’S GET TO WORK


WARM-O-RAMA:

 

  • SSH (Side-Straddle Hops): 25 x 4 in-cadence
  • Baby Arm Circles: 11 x 4 in-cadence (Front & Back)
  • Imperial Walker: 11 x 4 in-cadence
  • Merkins: 11 x 4 in-cadence
  • Mountain Climber: 11 x 4 in-cadence

THA-THANG:

Toe the Line:

  • Karaoke down
    • 2 burpees
  • Karaoke back
  • High knees down
    • 4 burpees
  • High knees back
  • Rockette down
    • 6 burpees
  • Rockette back
  • Sprint down
    • 8 burpees
  • Sprint back

(10 count)

(American Indian Mosey to lighted path by Northshore)

3s Company

  • every 3rd light: 8 up/down merkins in cadence
  • R&R until we hit the street

(10 count)

(mosey to in front of Everest)

Battle Buddy Crushers

  • Battle Buddy It Up
  • As a BB team:
    • in front of Everest: 11 BB situps each (WWII situps)
    • Mosey to the top of that little hill
    • Top of little hill: 11 half-burpees
    • Mosey back to in front of everest and hold Al Gore
  • New Battle Buddy it up
  • As a BB team:
    • In front of Everest: 11 BB high-five merkins
    • Mosey to the top of little hill
    • Top of little hill: 11 squat jumpers
    • Mosey back to in front of Everest and hold the plank
    • 20 SSHs all-together

(10 count)

(New Battle Buddy)

(American Indian Run back to AO)

TPQs (Thought-Provoking Questions) to On the Mosey Back to AO

    • 1) Why do you come to F3?
    • 2) What do you need to leave behind in 2019?

(Arrive back at AO)

At AO

  • Core-ter Pounder
    • 25 flutter kicks
    • 25 knee-sit ups
    • 25 LBCs
    • 25 Toe touches
  • Circle it Up –> Cash out with ATMs

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

17 PAX – No FNGs

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

I recently went and saw the new Star Wars movie, once on a date and once by myself – loved it both times, would highly recommend. There were a couple quotes that I pulled out of the movie that really got me:

  • “I know what I have to do but I don’t know if I have the strength to do it”
    • I hope you and I find ourselves in this position this year. Maybe we already have. I hope this position can remind us of our necessity of a savior and remind us that he’s far bigger than “fill in the blank.”
  • “The First Order wins by making us think we’re alone.”
    • Don’t be sad clowns. Isolation is a dangerous place for men. The First Order in the movie is representing the bad guys essentially. Creating perversions of the mind to trick the good guys into thinking they’re alone, hopelessness. There is a very real enemy and he thrives of making us think we’re alone. I hope I’m not the first to tell you that you’re not, but you’re not. I encourage you to fight against that theory this year. What we do here is only the launching point for out there. This is the huddle – the game is out there. You’re not alone and you have high impact men that will toe the line and lock shields with you here and out there.
  • “Good people will fight if we lead them.”
    • F3 is in the year-round $free.99 business of iron sharpening. High impact men want to be lead and need to lead. Everytime you come out here, you give another HIM the fighting chance to get a little bit better with you. Your battle buddy, your coworker, your spouse, your kids, your fill in the blank – keep them in the fight. Keep yourself in the fight. Now that fight may look different for you than it did last year, but stay in the fight. Whether that’s the 45 minute fight here in the gloom or a different kind of fight when you leave here, be the kind of HIM that lead people to Keep the Faith & Fight the Good Fight. Be the kind of HIM that keeps yourself keeping the faith and fighting the good fight.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

F3 New Year’s Party THIS Friday @ Tank’s House: “F3 Knoxville is having a New Years party…kind of. Bring the wife, girlfriend/significant other or even a FNG. It’s going to be a fun night of fellowship to celebrate the new year! What to bring: a few bucks for the game tournaments, a small dessert or appetizer and BYOB. Tea and coffee will be provided. Make the HC now and let your wife/sig other meet the other idiots that you workout with at 5:30am!” @ 7pm at

Keep the Faith & Fight the Good Fight!

Words

THE SCENE: Dark, wet, cold
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:. Imperial Walkers, Tempo Merkins, Kahzak Squats, Mtn Climbers, High Knees, Skips

  • THA-THANG: 5 stations, 3 min. at each station, 3 cone suicide between each, short Mosey after completing all stations, then do it again
  • Station 1.
  • 20 BBS
  • 20 Peter Parker (2ct)
  • 20 Bridge Marching (2ct)
  • 20 J-Lo (plank, hip dip, 2ct)
  • 30 LBC
  • 20 Superman
  • Station 2.
  • 5-8 pull ups
  • 10 knee tucks
  • 10 assisted piston squat (5 per leg)
  • 5 slow-release hangs
  • 25 Merkins
  • Station 3
  • 20 CMU Goblet Squats
  • 10 Water pumps per leg
  • 10 Step ups with CMU (per leg)
  • 10/leg shoulders-high hip thrusters
  • Station 4
  • Crazy 8 Curls
  • 20 Upright Rows
  • 15 Dips, CMU on legs
  • 15 lawnmower per arms
  • 20 incline merkins (bench or CMU)
  • Station 5
  • 15/leg Single Leg Dead Lift
  • 10 Burpees
  • 20 lunge twist with CMU (10 per leg)
  • 30 Calf Raises (10 each: toes out, toes neutral, toes in
    MARY:
    None
    COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

    CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
    Two great Proverbs about using our words are found just a couple of verses apart in Proverbs 12.

  • 12:16  Fools show their annoyance at once, but the prudent overlook an insult.      Sometime we don’t need to say anything at all, just ignore the slights and insults that are passed our way.
  • 12:18 The words of the reckless pierce like swords, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.      When we do choose to speak, let’s speak words that bring healing to the hearers, not wounds and pain.

    MOLESKIN:

    ANNOUNCEMENTS:

The 35-Birthday Q

THE SCENE: A little wet, upper 30’s at the Project
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
35 SSH, 10 tempo squats, 10 windmill, 15 Moroccan night club, mosey to amphitheater for 10 tempo merkins (where it was dry)
THA-THANG:
Mosey up to the playground.  Starting here, we did 5 rounds of a full body beatdown.  To begin each round, do 7 pull-ups and 7 toes-to-bar.  Then, mosey to the amphitheater for more upper body work.  Then, run the trail around the drainage ditch towards Tulane Ave. and stop before turning around for legs.  Run back to start and repeat.

Exercises performed:

  • 35 merkins
  • 35 squats
  • 35 dips
  • 35 lunges total
  • 35 diamond merkins
  • 35 monkey humpers
  • 35 werkins
  • 35 sumo squats

After the fifth round of pull-ups and toes-to-bar, we cashed-out round five with 35 burpees (my gift to the PAX).
MARY:
The burpees were enough.  Happy Birthday!
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
4 HIMs were not afraid of the threat of a cold rain today.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Context is always important when studying the Bible, joining a conversation, reading a news article, and many other activities.  Without it, one can twist what is read or heard into what they wish fit their lifestyle or justify their take on things.  YHC’s M likes to give me a hard time about all the running I do.  She quotes to me the first part of Proverbs 28:1 – “The wicked flee when no one is pursuing…”.  Some translations say “run when no one is chasing them”.  This is her excuse for not running outside no matter the conditions.  All in jest of course.  If we continue to read:  “…but the righteous are bold as a lion.”  The second part of the verse adds context to the first part that is necessary for full understanding of the passage.  The wicked flee because they are trying to hide their life or their decisions from those around them and probably from God.  The righteous are bold because they have nothing to hide and want to share the hope within them with those around them.  When you study the Bible, always make sure you gather all the context necessary to gain the whole truth.
MOLESKIN:
It was great to start my birthday off with the HIMs at the Project.

Leg day

THE SCENE: Overcast, 40°F, Feels like 38°F, Humidity 95%, Wind 3mph from SSE
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • SSH 25x
  • Manly Arm Rotations 10x forwards and backwards
  • Little of this, little of that
  • Squats 20x
  • Burpees 10x

THA-THANG:

Mosey around the parking lot to the covered entry of the school

4 rounds
  1. Single-leg squat 15x
  2. Single leg Romanian deadlift 15x – stand on one leg, bend forward from hips, keeping your standing leg straight, opposite hand travels to standing foot
  3. Lunge 15 x
  4. Single-leg Glute bridge 12x
  5. Side plank 30sec
  6. Supermans 15x
10 Manmakers
3 rounds
  1. Lying hip clam 20x – Lie on your side with your knees slightly bent and one leg resting on top of the other. Raise your top knee as high as you can, pause, then lower back to the start. Complete all the reps on one side, then switch and do it on the other side.
  2. Squat 20x
  3. Clock Lunge – Right leg Forward, Right leg side, Right leg back, Left leg Back, Left leg side, Left leg forward
  4. Box Jumps 10x

MARY:

  • Flutter Kicks 25x
  • Cap. Thors 5x
  • Hello Dolly 25x
  • Circle of pain merkin style
  • Imperial squat walkers till time

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Herbie, A-Rod, Fast-n-Easy, Biohazard, Natty
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

And if one can overpower him who is alone, two can resist him. A cord of three strands is not quickly torn apart.
Ecclesiastes 4:12 NASB
We need a group of men in our lives that can help hold us up when we are weak. We must be in a proximate and persistent relationship with these men to provide the strength when needed. If you don’t have a shieldlock established, start working on it now.

MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Brickyard Invasion Asylum Style

THE SCENE: It was a dry and balmy 36 degrees
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH IC X 30, Toy Soliders IC X 20, LBAC IC X 20 forward and backards, Windmills IC X 20, Bone the Fish
THA-THANG:
We did a circuit around the parking lot.  It included 5 exercises with 5 stations.  CMUs were used.  We did 50 reps of each exercise at station 1.  40 reps of each at station 2, 30 reps of each at……you get the idea.  Exercises were

  • Merkins
  • CMU High Pulls
  • CMU Thrusters
  • CMU Squats
  • CMU Rows

MARY:
Australian Snow Angels IC X 20.  Needed to do some back extension work.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
My video didn’t record so I don’t remember who was there other than Charmin, Coolio, Cheatsheet, and Cat Gut.  There was lots of RESPECT! I do remember that!
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Prodigal Son is not just about the return of the son.  There is way more too it than that!  THE Father is waiting and pursuing us! Don’t wait to hit rock bottom before realizing that GODs love is constant.  He won’t force us to come to him, but he will always be there waiting!