F3 Knoxville

Track Work

THE SCENE: Warm and Wet
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Side Straddle Hop, Abe-Vigoda, Annie, Finkle Swing, Nancy Kerrigans, Mountain Man Poopers
THA-THANG:

4×400, 4×200, 4×100
The following workouts are done after each section of track. Example: Run 400 do 4×4’s, Run 400 do Bat Wings, Run 400 do Speed Skaters, Run 400 do Alphabet

  • 4×4’s – 10: Start standing up arms overhead, Burpee to Plank, 4 Merkins, 4 Mountain Climbers (that’s 1)
  • Bat Wings – 1: 20 Forward Arm Circles, 20 Backward Arm Circles, 20 Seal Claps, 20 Overhead Claps
  • Speed Skaters – 20, 10 each leg
  • Alphabet – On your 6, Legs raised 6 inches, Trace Alphabet upper case letters

MARY:
No time left from THA-THANG

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
A Perfect Day to Trust

God blesses those who are poor and realize their need for him, for the Kingdom of Heaven is theirs.  Matthew 5:3

Come to Me with all your needs, with that huge emptiness inside you.  Facing that awful emptiness is the first step toward being filled with My Presence.

So be glad on those days when you can barely get out of bed – when you feel sluggish and just not ready to face the world.  Yes, be glad!  Tell yourself that this is the perfect day to practice trusting and depending on Me.

If you keep depending on Me throughout your day, you will make a wonderful discovery as you crawl into bed at night.  You will discover that My Joy and Peace have become your companions.  You may not know exactly when they joined you on your journey through the day.  But you will feel the benefits of having been in their company.

“The perfect ending to your day is realizing that God was with you all along.”  That’s me paraphrasing the devotional this came from.

2 Corinthians 4:6, Matthew 5:6, Colossians 2:9-10, Psalm 150:6
MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
1500 at JUCO tomorrow.

Gifts from a Dry Bag on a Damp Day

THE SCENE:

Unseasonably warm (59 degrees) and very damp with rain looming and some drizzle

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER:

8 HIM’s were present with no FNG’s present. My name is Hamm etc. etc.

WARM-O-RAMA:

SSH’s, LBAC’s, Nolan Ryans, Dirty Reindeers, Reindeer Kicks, Bobby Hurley’s Cherry Pickers, Windmills.

Then we Nolan Richardson’ed to the setup where coupons and cones were located nearby.

THA-THANG:

There were two cones setup 20-25 yards apart.

There was a CMU and a 50lb Sandbag at the Gift Wrapping Station. While the rest of the PAX participated in the WOD, 2 HIMS were always manning the CMU and Sandbag as follows:

CMU: 25 Curls, 5 Brickees, AMRAP Monkey Humpers

Sandbag: 25 Curls, Cone2Cone Throws & Back, AMRAP Monkey Humpers

The rest of the PAX drew an exercise from the bag and performerd it in the manner of the Twelve Days of Christmas Workout. After each set a Mosey was taken around the AO and back to the designated area.

  • 1 – 8 Count body Builder
  • 2 – Plank Jacks
  • 3 – Mountain Climbers
  • 4 – Cone2Cone Lunges & Back
  • 5 – A Cone to Cone Bear Crawl & Back
  • 6 – Burpees
  • 7 – Shoulder Taps
  • 8 – Iron Mikes
  • 9 – Chain Breakers
  • 10 – Overhead Claps
  • 11 – Squats
  • 12 – Merkins

MARY:
HIMS instructed to MARY on their Own

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Hamm, Fast-n-Easy, Herbie, Biohazard, A-Rod, Manilow, Simmons, & Tractor

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

“When we love something it is of value to us, and when something is of value to us we spend time with it, time enjoying it and time taking care of it.” M. Scott Peck

How often do we find ourselves ignoring opputunity to invest in our children, significant others, or people in general because we are distracted or entralled by something else (i.e. social media, cell phone, etc.) We do well to reduce these distractions and to engage with our children and others by learning about them and relating to them. In some ways this goes against our nature which we have to learn how to defy in order to have the best quality in our relationships.

MOLESKIN:

We prayed for our ability to cope with holiday stress, career decisions, and the Mend House.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Manilow will be on Q Thursday. Other Q’s are still available in December.

A Snow Day @ JUCO

THE SCENE: High 20’s and snow on the ground
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
The Motivator starting from 7
The Ole Miss Piss in honor of Lane Kiffin rejoining the SEC

THA-THANG:

Mosey to wall
Indian run Squats on Wall
Take CMU to Freshman hill
21’s Merkins @ top, squats at the bottom
Repeat until I  call time around 6:05-6:07
25 Calf Raises with CMU
20 Curls with CMU
15 Tri Ext with CMU
10 BBS with CMU
5 American Hammers with CMU
BTW @ wall hold for 1:00 min
Mosey to AO

We made it down to 7 on the 21’s, the snowy steep hill slowed us down and really made us pay attention to our footing.  Altar boy, however, was the human snowboard and flew down the hill repeatedly.
MARY:

Doomsday Clock (til we finish)

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Matthew 12:9-16
If Jesus can go to Church when the Pharisees set him up to break laws, we can follow his example in the face of issues we may have with doctrine.
MOLESKIN:
Trolley’s work stress.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
no announcements

MARSOC Monday

THE SCENE: 47* – in that window where you don’t know what to wear.  But no rain so good to go
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Windmills x10 IC
Tempo lunge x10 IC
4 count merkins x10 IC
Tempo merkins x10 IC
SSH x20 IC
THA-THANG:
Pretty simple routine today, I know it’s probably done at every AO including Big Ball, but I hadn’t seen it come up in a bit so I decided it was time for the Marine Corps Short Card.  We moseyed out of the fountain area and over to the Big Ball.  Perform an exercise for the indicated number of reps, then sprint the stairs at BB to the top and back down before moving on to the next exercise.  I did not deviate from the prescribed exercises:

  • 30 merkins
  • 30 squats
  • 30 crunches (4 count)
  • 10 burpees
  • 10 windmills
  • 30 merkins
  • 30 mountain climbers (4 count)
  • 30 flutter kicks (4 count)
  • 10 burpees
  • 10 cherry pickers
  • 30 merkins
  • 30 star jumps
  • 30 supermans
  • 10 burpees
  • 10 chain breakers
  • 30 merkins
  • 30 lunges
  • 30 hello Dolly’s (4 count)
  • 10 burpees
  • 10 trunk twists
  • 3 sets of max dead hang pull ups, 10 second break in between each set

About halfway through the list, I called an audible and eliminated the stair runs in between exercises to allow everyone the chance to complete.  Those that finished earlier moved to the side and knocked out ab exercises, people joined in as they completed the short card:

Oblique crunches led by Butterfly
Flutter kicks
V Ups led by Ariel
American hammers
Heels to heaven
Boat/canoe

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Nine strong including one FNG: Half Caff, Orkin, Ariel, Huffy (FNG), Driftwood, G6, Butterfly, Swanson, Abort
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
“It is not work that kills men, it is worry.  Work is healthy; you can hardly put more on a man than he can bear.  But worry is rust on the blade.  It is not movement that destroys machinery, but friction.”  –

Like usual, what I share is something that I need to hear and listen to more than I’m providing for anyone else.  I just hope that I can listen and that it can help anyone else needing to hear it.  I make things worse nearly always by worrying, worrying before I can even do anything about it.  Worry does nothing to improve a situation.  The best thing I can do is turn worry into action, find something to work on.  If I can actually work on the problem at hand, it rarely is as bad as I worried about it being.  If I can’t yet work towards that, I need to find something else to occupy and improve until the time comes.
MOLESKIN:
Prayers for Lady Junk, Magic Mic’s grandfather Ed, Passport and his M, Ariel’s grandmother, and Orkin as he travels oversees

Another 12 Days (and a Yule Log)

THE SCENE: Unseasonably warm!
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER: Maybe?  Code Brown was in charge of that and perhaps skipped over some of it.  No FNGs so we’d heard it all.
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH IC; practice some Manmakers and a Fireman Carry.  Wish Hot Tub and Gibbler well as they took off like scalded dogs to do a little marathon training tour of the Asylum.  Let’s move.
THA-THANG:
4 volunteers strap in the harness to pull the Yule Log to Circus Maximus.  We use a rotation of volunteers to pull the Yule Log a half lap around at a time, at each stop, we celebrate the Days of Christmas cumulatively as follows:

  • Day 1:  Manmaker;
  • Day 2: Iron Mikes, 4 count
  • Day 3: Jump Squats;
  • Day 4: Smurf Jacks;
  • Fiiiivvveee Buuurrrrpppeeeeeees!
  • Day 6:  Hello Dollys (4 ct, IC)- led by Carney;
  • Day 7:  Merkins (4 ct, IC)- Led by Code Brown;
  • Day 8: Mountain Climbers (4 ct, IC)- led by Double Wide;
  • Day 9: American Hammers (4 ct, IC)- led by Rainbow;
  • Day 10: Big Boy Sit-ups (IC)- led by Honeydew;
  • Day 11: Carolina Dry Docks (4 ct, IC) – led by Pom Pom;
  • Day 12: Partner up and Fireman Carry twelve steps each.
  • Mosey back to AO (with Yule Log in tow)

Bunny takes over and whips us like mules up Baby Everest.  Our distance runners rejoined the PAX and took a turn pulling the Yule Log up.  Manmakers at the top:  Rinse and repeat.

MARY:
Somebody put Cat Gut in charge for a brutal 5 minutes of Boat/Canoe.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Christmas isn’t about bright presents in flashy wrapping.  God’s ultimate gift of love and grace through his Son came in very humble wrapping.  With that in mind, we should be able to celebrate Christmas in any situation.  Also, this day in history:  The counter-offensive known as the Battle of the Bulge began in the Ardennes Forest.  Those involved certainly spent Christmas without anything fancy or shiny.
MOLESKIN:
Prayers for Pinto and his family and Junk, Junk’s wife, and their family.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Second F gathering at Tank’s house on Jan 3.  M’s are invited.