F3 Knoxville

Crawl bear up the ladder

THE SCENE: Low 60s again, just having perfect gloom weather
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
3-point squats
BAC Forward
OH Claps
BAC Reverse
SSH
THA-THANG:
Grab keys and mosey out of the pavilion, out of the park and across the street to the parking lot of Fountain City United Methodist Church.  Routine is going down Jacob’s ladder.  Start in the lower parking lot, where you always do 5 BBSUs.  Run up the parking lot until you reach the split, and crawl bear up the storm drain to the upper parking lot.  Once you reach the upper lot, you have 10 eight count bodybuilders, then run out to the sidewalk and back down the hill to the lower lot.
The five BBSUs at the bottom remains the same for every iteration, but you decrease your reps of eight counts at the top.  Rounds 10-6 are eight counts, rounds 5-1 switch to diamond merkins at the top (this felt generous).

Everyone finished mostly at the same time, after which I thought we needed some lower body work.  Has been a while since I’d thrown in leg blasters, so we knocked out a round of that.  All exercises done together in cadence with no rest in between:

  • 20 squats
  • 20 lunges
  • 10 jump squats

I forgot how fun it is to run after doing those.  The plan was to reverse the ladder and do 10-6 with diamond merkins and 5-1 with eight counts, but time was a little short and I wanted to hit the escalator.  So we moseyed around to the parking lot adjacent to the duck pond.  I stole Swanson’s idea for the escalator without running from Tuesday.  Exercises as follows:

  • Imperial walkers (left right one)
  • Hello Dolly (4 count)
  • Alternating shoulder taps (left right one)
  • Crab cakes (left right one)
  • Dips on curb
  • Hand release merkins

Start at 1 rep of each, work down the list and return to the top.  Increase reps each time on the way to 10.  I think we finished 8 before time ran out.

MARY:
Crunches with feet elevated 6″
Flutter kicks
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
5 Strong: Filter, Duggar, Manilow, Toucan, Abort
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Cap’n had sent a text with the following passage from The Daily Stoic: “When the standards have been set, things are tested and weighed.  And the work of philosophy is just this, to examine and uphold the standards, but the work of a truly good person is in using the standards when they know them.” – Epictetus
To me, one of the standards I need to both set and make sure that I am upholding is making my actions and decisions come from a place of love.  That doesn’t mean to always be nice, because as we’ve learned from the Q source you have to be able to tell people the difficult truths in life.  However, sugarcoating a problem or ignoring it also is not upholding the standard.  I need to make sure my actions are always based in love and to leave no doubt that that is the case.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Can drive for Second Harvest and Brolympics on November 9.

JUCO Circuits

THE SCENE: 58 Degrees and a full moon
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Cherry Pickers, SSH, Baby Arm Circles, Tempo Squats, Tempo Merkins – waiting on Trolley
THA-THANG:
Mosey to clean parking lot

  • Circuit Workout.  45 Seconds Work, 15 Second Recover between Stations
    • Squat w/ coupon
    • Merkins
    • Squat Side Walk
    • American Hammers
    • Side Lunge
    • Plank
    • Mountain Climbers
    • Wide/Diamond Merkins
  • 5 x 35 Yard Sprints.  10 Second Recovery in between
  • Repeat Circuit
  • 5 x 35 Yard Sprints.  10 Second Recovery in between

Mosey to Coupon Pile

  • Groups of 3 Circuit.  Work 30 Seconds.  15 Second Recover in between.
  • Curls
  • Tricep Extensions
  • Big Boy Sit Ups

MARY:
3 minutes of stretching after a tough week of workouts
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
19 HIMs this morning.  18 doing Circuits and 1 Rucking
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Psalm 19:21 – “Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will stand.”

As we go through each day, we have our dreams and desires, but ultimately we need to put our faith in God’s plan for us and lean on His will and not our own.
MOLESKIN:
Praise for Mandolin’s asthma and shin splints, Prayer that we continue reaching out to our community and welcoming future FNG’s to our AO’s.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
November 9 – Brolympics

Am I my brothers keeper? Yes

THE SCENE: Perfect
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
20x SSH
THA-THANG:

  • Mosey to Picketts Charge – run to each cone and do 3 Burpees x 8
  • Back to AO for RAW(Ratchet Approved Workout) 10 Stations were set up with coupons. AMRAPs while HIM carries Log up Baby Everest each him to complete two rounds
  • Mosey to tall hill next to the Dragon. Do 7s with BBS AND DIVEBOMBERS
  • Mosey back to AO

MARY: circle up on Six , do 3 American Hammers with jagged pills(protein powder containers filled with sand/water) pass to next him for three rounds, Lay on back w feet six inches and press jagged pills x5 4ct pass to next him for two rounds, tempo BBS X 10

 

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Lesson learned from Cain slew Able Bible verse. We are our brother’s keeper. We all have responsibilities to watch out and help one another.
MOLESKIN:
Special prayer for Code Browns wife while running a 100 mi race. Pray for Iceman and his wedding Saturday
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
collect food for Second Harvest

Pick your improvement

THE SCENE: Calm and cool, 57 degrees
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
20 SSH IC, LBAC x 10, Walking Knee pull to chest x10, lunge twist x10

THA-THANG:

  • Mosey to Mt. Crumpet
  • Complete set # of reps per round spread between 2 exercises. Your choices how many reps you do of each exercise but you had to do a minimum of 20 per exercise
  • Between each round, pick the way you get up Mt. Crumpet: 1. Lunge 1/2 way, run 2. Broad jump 1/2 way, run 3. Bear crawl 1/2 way, run 4. Burnie all way up. At the top, do 10 WW2 or 10 BBS or 20 LBCs
  • Round 1: 80 reps, squat jumps or Iron Mike (1 ct)
  • Round 2: 80 reps Merkins or plank leg lifts (2ct)
  • Round 3: 60 reps Burpies or walking lunges
  • Round 4: 80 reps Mountain Climbers(2ct) or Shoulder Taps (2ct)
  • Mosey back to grinder: CMU Work, run grinder and do 10 knee tucks (while holding yourself up on the bars) between each round. Same format as above: finish total number of reps spread between 2 exercises
  • Round 1: 60 reps, Overhead press or Bent Rows (minimum 15)
  • Round 2: 50 reps, Curls or Upright Rows (minimum 10)
  • Round 3: 40 reps, Squat thrusters or burpie block jump overs (minimum 10)

MARY: Flutter kicks, Swimmers, Protractors.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Just like we had small choices in how we did each part of the workout today, we have choices in nearly everything that we do in our daily life. Oftentimes, however, we choose to complain and worry about the things that we have absolutely no control over. In Matthew 6, it asks who can add one inch to his stature by worrying? No one! Let’s stop complaining and worrying about those things over which we have no control and instead focus on the things we can change each day.

CMU’s and Mt. Crumpet

THE SCENE: Cool, perfect.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
-SSH

-Little baby arm circles

-Merkins on the Q’s call for up and down

THA-THANG:

-1/2 court Melungeons with CMU, once you reach the grinder 50 squats with CMU

-Partner up and Indian Run to the Mt. Crumpet, bring along one CMU per team.

-Dora style, 100 bodybuilders, 200 WW2’s (we didn’t even come close to finishing the WW2’s)

-Indian Run with the CMU’s back to the AO

MARY:
-Flutter kicks, LBC’s and more Merkins
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Mitten, Drifter, Hammy, Pinnochio, Snorkel, Flash, Espy, Swazye, Taco, Moses
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

” God won’t ever give you more than you can handle” I call BS on this often used phrase. There are numerous examples in the Bible and our own lives where He gives us more than we can handle. Cancer, death, bankruptcy, divorce, prodigal children, etc are all more than we can handle. God does not expect you to to come through these things alone, he expects you to come to him with your burdens where he will bear the burden with and for you. He gives you more than you can handle so you’ll come to learn to depend on him fully and in doing so be an example to your brothers who are walking through hard things of their own.
MOLESKIN:
Way to power through the back injury Hammy. Respect. Double respect.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
I have t-shirts for those that ordered them and will bring them to the AO on Tuesday. Moses had some nifty biz cards to pass out, if you need some hit him up!