F3 Knoxville

Hidden Figures and a Farewell to 90!

THE SCENE: Hot as heck… again… temps in the mid-90s and a blazing sun overhead.  This is OCTOBER??!
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

Check.

WARM-O-RAMA:

  • 10 SSH (4-ct, IC)
  • 10 Baby Arm Circles Forward/ Backward (4-ct, IC)
  • 10 Moroccan Nightclub (4-ct, IC)
  • 10 Tempo Squats (4-ct, IC)
  • 10 Cherry Pickers (4-ct, IC)
  • 10 sec high knees/ 10 sec butt kickers
  • 10 merkins (OYO)

THA-THANG:

  • Mosey to shady grass field by closest parking lot to Lyons View entrance.   Partner 1 Hops to first cone, Bear Crawl to second Cone, then Duck Walks to third cone and sprints back, and trades off with partner 2, who is working on the following exercises (cumulative reps):
    • 90 BBS
    • 90 LBCs
    • 90 American Hammers (2-ct)
  • Mosey to CMU pile
    • 30 Curls/30 Overhead Presses/30 Rows.  Try to complete in 90 seconds.  Rinse and Repeat x3.
  • Mosey to Cardiac:
    • MODIFIED DORAS:
      • Partner 1 run to first corner do 30 reps, Partner 2 do 30 reps, then run to catch up with Partner. Then do the last 30 together (15 each) “Patty-cake” style. Exercises:
        • 90 Merkins
        • 90 Shoulder Taps (each shoulder = 1)
        • 90 Bottle openers (?) (each arm = 1)

MOSEY TO grassy area at the road intersection: 30 BBS

MOSEY TO shady northeast corner of perimeter drive around admin building: 30 LBCs

MOSEY TO AO: 30 American Hammers (2-ct)

MARY:
90 squats

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
9 strong! 0 FNGs!

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM

I recently watched the movie Hidden Figures, which is about three young women who worked “behind the scenes” at NASA in the early 1960s and did the calculations that enabled John Glenn to launch into space.  It’s pretty obvious that we did a lot of exercises totaling 90 reps. This was to celebrate the last afternoon workout in the 90s. But did you realize:

    • We did 9 exercises and 10 reps per exercise in the Warmup?
    • We did 9 different exercises during Tha Thang?
    • I’ve spoken 90 words so far?

So we had some Hidden Figures in our Workout, and we also have Hidden Figures in our lives. These might be co-workers who do tasks that “keep everything moving”, which for me would be the data analysts that crunch the numbers so I can perform my modeling and write my reports. Maybe it’s a secretary, or dispatcher, or just someone who brings a positive and enthusiastic attitude to work every day. Maybe it’s someone at church who does a lot of unnoticed things that make events special… At my church up in Chicago there’s a woman, Fern, who washes and irons the tablecloths for special events and organizes cabinets, and there’s Anne, who stitches hats out of leftover yarn to pass out to homeless shelters.  Maybe it’s a Friend that you don’t see very often, but is always there when you need them, to offer words of encouragement, a shoulder to cry on, or a hand to help you up. And then there’s our relationship with God, who is Hidden from our earthly eyes, but is always with us in our time of need.

Seek out those Hidden Figures in your lives and thank them.

MOLESKIN:
Thankful that Jinxy’s heart procedure and diagnosis were favorable! Thanks to Sparkler for taking the lead on the Asylum PM obstacle construction for HH.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Anti fragile

THE SCENE: 70s n dry , very dry
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Plank hold , merkins , plank hold , Peter Parker’s while giving disclaimer. Bombshelter men do work , even during the disclaimer!

Jog the grinder and back , 10 squats IC , jog again and back, 20 imp walkers IC, jog again and back , imp squat walkers

 

 

THA-THANG:
Mosey next to the playground for DORACIDES,

  • 100 bodybuilders
  • 200 monkey humpers (4ct!)
  • 300 big boys
  • Once done , burpee dans until the 6 finishes
  • w Doracides , p1 is doing exercise while p2 suicides 3 cones w burpees at each cone . 1st cone-1 burp, 2nd cone -2 burps , 3rd cone -3 burps , rum back and switch

MARY:
Insert information about any additional post-THANG work (if applicable).
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
17 pax
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Black swan is a Crazy unexpected disastrous event

What are we:

1. Fragile

2. resilient and survive

3. anti-fragile , be durable and thrive 

Thriving  in the chaos of the unpredictable. 

MOLESKIN:
Let’s strive to be anti fragile ! That does not mean we go beat our chests and become tough guys, so to speak. It means we should prepare / practice to thrive in daily life. Could be a Q you have coming up or that business proposal or family life , etc…  the point is that if we are prepared and fit to thrive in our situation , what ever it may be, we will be able to adapt in a positive way to anything unpredictable.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Insert information about upcoming events, 2nd or 3rd F opportunities, and any other announcements.

8 minute abs, and solving baseball problems

THE SCENE: Maybe it’s starting to cool down?  At least a little?
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

SSH x 20, CP x 5, Imperial Squat Walkers x 10.  Short, to the point.
THA-THANG:
There’s a pattern here: Run up the hill to the top of the Dragon, and down the dragon and then back to the AO, talking out our issues as we go.  Upon hitting the AO, we have 8 min of work, 1 min for each exercise, doing as many as you can.  Then run again.

  • First 8 minutes is Abs:  gas pumpers; Freddy Mercurys, side crunches left, then right, V-ups, LBCs (with a 2 sec hold at the top), flutters, American Hammers
  • Next 8 minutes after run down the dragon is arms and shoulders:  (Grab a CMU for some of these) Merkins, Overhead press, In-outs (or back and forths – not sure what to call these.  Move the CMU into your chest and then straigten the arm out and then back against the chest, so on and so forth), Curls, Carolina Dry Docks, Lat pulls while on your six, and more Merkins.
  • Next 8 minutes- Head to the Cloud this time for leg work.  Really, after the run, we only have a few minutes, so call audible, do about 45 seconds each of box jumps on the benches, squats and lunges.  If we’d had time, we would have included step ups, mountain climbers, more box jumps, Iron Mikes and a couple of other leg exercise I can’t remember.
  • Recover to the AO.

MARY:
None, no time.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Life is so much better, easier, nicer when we show grace to others.  God has shown us the ultimate grace.  How we treat others is not about who they are.  It’s about who we are.  Gibbler’s addendum:  the brother of murder victim in Dallas, who demonstrated tremendous grace in forgiving the person who shot his brother, is the ultimate example.
MOLESKIN:
So, we want home run and strike out celebrations in baseball and maybe a shorter season.  Also, we are tired of the hypocrisy of rich celebrities taking up the mantle of climate change while flying around in private jets and living in gigantic mansions.   Those were some of the discussions on the mosey.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Don’t skip chest day

THE SCENE: 68 and clear
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Cherry picker 4ct IC x10
  • Hula hoop 4ct IC x10
  • Imperial Walker 4ct IC x10
  • SSH 4ct IC x25

THA-THANG:

The Whole Enchilada

  • 5 Burpees
  • 10 Elevated inch worms
  • 15 BBS
  • 20 Merkins

5 rounds

Mosey to the tennis court

4 corners

  • 10 Wolverine Burpee (Horrible exercise)
  • 10 Windshield Wipers each side
  • 10 DEEP squats
  • 10 Gas pumpers 4 ct

MARY:

  • Heels to Heaven 4ct IC x10
  • LBC 4ct IC 25

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Romans 8:25 “But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.”  While I’m going through a struggle at work and hoping for a positive outcome it is hard to be patient.  But what I should be, and what this situation has reminded me of, is to hope in Jesus for His outcome for me, and to try and be patient.  In this crazy instant world we live in that seems to be the struggle, wanting what we want when we want it and then we don’t wait patiently at all.  We want instant gratification.  But He gives us patience to wait and hope to eventually see Him.  And how much sweeter are the things that we actually wait a long time to get?

MOLESKIN:
Prayers for LadyJunk

Prayers for Flashback and his pedal bike ride for MS.

Charles Bronson is better than Chuck Norris

THE SCENE: 70 Degrees and not fall like
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Sun Gods x 25 Each Direction/Each Position (4ct)

Imperial Squat Walker x 15 IC

SSH x 40 IC

Overhead Clap x 20 IC

4 Burpee OYO

3 Burpee OYO
THA-THANG:

Mosey to back parking lot

Charles Bronson: 50 reps of exercise then sprint to first cone and bear crawl to second. Run back to start and begin next exercise.

  • SSH
  • Push-up
  • Burpee
  • BBS
  • Jump Squat

Mosey to AO

Operation Gothic Serpent: 73 wounded and 19 killed October 3-6, 1993

24 Body Builders IC – Straight through

19 Body Builders – One for each man killed

  • MSG Gary Gordon (MH, PH)
  • SFC Randy Shughart (MH, PH)
  • SSG Daniel Busch (SS, PH)
  • SFC Earl Fillmore, Jr. (SS, PH)
  • MSG Timothy “Griz” Martin (SS, PH)
  • SFC Matthew Rierson (SS, BS, PH)
  • CPL James Smith (BS w/Valor, Oak Leaf Cluster, PH)
  • SPC James Cavaco (BS w/Valor, PH)
  • SGT James Joyce (BS w/Valor, PH)
  • CPL Richard “Alphabet” Kowalewski Jr. (BS w/Valor, PH)
  • SGT Dominick Pilla (BS w/Valor, PH)
  • SGT Lorenzo Ruiz (BS w/Valor, PH)
  • SSG William Cleveland Jr. (SS, BS, Air Medal w/Valor, PH)
  • SSG Thomas J. Field (SS, BS, Air Medal w/Valor, PH)
  • CW4 Raymond Frank (SS, Air Medal w/Valor, PH)
  • CW3 Clifton Wolcott (DFC, BS, Air Medal w/Valor, PH)
  • CW3 Donovan Lee Briley (DFC, BS, Air Medal w/Valor, PH)
  • SGT Cornell Houston Sr. (BS w/Valor, de Fleury Medal, PH)
  • PFC James Martin Jr. (PH)

MARY:

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
The men of Task Force Ranger went into Somalia as a team, fought as a team, and no one was left behind.


MOLESKIN:

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