F3 Knoxville

50 Shades of F3

THE SCENE: 60 degrees.  Cool and cloudy.  And it didn’t even rain.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER: I am still not a professional
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x 25; Cherry Pickers x 10;Tie Fighters (BAC holding a lunge) x 10 back and forth.  Mosey to the back parking lot.

THA-THANG:
Run 1/2 lap, stop at station, and do the following exercises.  8 stops, 4 laps total. Do each pair of exercises like 11s, but 25s, counting up and down by 5.  Each exercise is done a total of 50x

  • Merkins / BBS
  • Rev. Lunges/Supermans
  • Burpees/Squats
  • Plank Jacks/LBCs
  • Smurf Jacks/American Hammers
  • Diamond Merkins/Flutter Kicks
  • CDDs/Hello Dollys
  • Iron Mikes/Squat Jumps

Run back toward AO with just enough time to Devin Hester up the hill with 10 BBS at the top

MARY:
Box cutters x25 and finish strong with ATMs
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Use the TAGS on right-side to record PAX (BE SURE TO INCLUDE YOURSELF) in attendance. Be sure to select the AO in CATEGORY above TAGS and then delete these notes!
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
A friend of mine passed away last week.  He had struggled with MS for about 20 years.  But he never complained.  He worked really hard just to be able to live independently, but he experienced joy in spending time with friends, going to church and he appreciated being able to live the life he had.  I need to think of him more when I struggle to get up for F3, when I feel burned out with work, or I feel worn out with family.  I need to embrace the blessings I’ve been given if I am to be the man God wants me to be.  In other words, quit belly aching and love more.
MOLESKIN:
Prayers sent out to QVC, his son and his family for comfort and healing.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Bend into the wave

THE SCENE: In 60’s, cloudy with some drizzle.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Plank Lifts, 15 Plank Jacks, 20 Side Straddle Hops, 10 Stretchers, 10 Windmills
THA-THANG:
Mosey to Boulder Pile.  Grab appropriate size boulder.  25 Overhead Presses, 25 Curls, 25 Rows, 25 Squats with Boulder at Chest.

Mosey on roadways to Outdoor Chapel.  20 Hello Dollies.  Sevens starting with six Burpees at one end of chapel and one Decline Merkin at stage end of chapel.  Elevens starting with ten Big Boy Sit-ups at one end of chapel and one Bench Dip at stage end of chapel.

Mosey north on roadway to parking lot that is just below Pickett’s Charge.  Do 20 American Hammers.

Mosey to Dragon Tail.  We will do Route 66 up Dragon Tail with the following exercises (doing exercise at each light):

  • Squat Jumps
  • Dive Bombers

Mosey to sidewalk that is at front of Admin Bldg.  Do Bernie Sanders to steps of Admin Bldg.  Then do 20 Shin Lifts on a step of the bldg.

Mosey to AO.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Eleven men.  No FNG’s.

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

In a book I am reading called Tears of an Innocent God, the author, Elias Marechal, talks about a Rabbi that was the only survivor in a shipwreck at sea.  When asked how he survived, the Rabbi recalled, “Whenever a wave arose, I bent into it.”  In our lives we cannot expect all to go smoothly for us.  There are going to be calm and glorious times.  At such times it may be easy to love life, to love our families, to love God.  But there are going to be difficult times as well.  At such times the problems in our life may come like giant ocean waves in what seems like a shipwrecked existence.  The waves appear ready to knock us down and drown us.  At these times it may be very difficult to love our lives, love our families, love God or even believe there is a God.    We must expect the good and the bad.  We must learn to lean into the the waves.  As Elias Marechal states, Good Friday and Easter Sunday are both days to experience God.  We can do so in both good and bad times.  At Steve Earl implies in his awesome song, God is God, God is there and God has the power whether we like what is there for us are not.  Face the hard times.  Trust God and even appreciate Him in those hard times.  Lean into the waves and perhaps, if you can trust God enough, you may even find yourself, as Peter did with Jesus, walking on water, if only for a moment.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Brewski at Union Jacks immediately after workout.

Sally

THE SCENE: Mostly cloudy, 58 degrees, 96% humidity
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x20, Cherry pickers x16, Little baby arm circles x10 forward/x10backward

Jog parking x2, skip parking lot x1, mosey to base of ballfield hill.
THA-THANG:
7’s at the hill

  • Burpees at the base of the hill
  • Bear crawl up the hill
  • BBS at the top x2
  • Crab crawl down the hill
  • Mosey to the grinder

Bring Sally up, bring Sally down

  • Hit the ground/hop up to the music
  • Run the Bomb Shelter short loop
  • Merkins to the music
  • Run the Bomb Shelter short loop
  • CMU squat presses to the music
  • Run the Bomb Shelter short loop
  • Leg lifts to the music (60 degrees up/10 degrees down)
  • Run the Bomb Shelter short loop
  • BBS to the music

MARY:
Box cutters, flutter kicks, LBC’s
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
12 HIM’s, no FNG’s
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

The following is from Wild Together, My Adventures with Loki the Wolfdog by Kelly Lund.

Wish You Were Here

The concept of being present is one that is so often said, but rarely lived.  I’m guilty of it.  I say I am going to be more present; I say I am going to  put my phone down and focus on what’s in front of me; I say I will put the camera down and just look with my eyes.  But I don’t. I get caught up and think secondary things are important in the moment, and then the moment is gone. 

Never has Loki had this behavioral flaw.  How could he?  He sees now and now only.  I am not saying that beyond my knowledge he doesn’t have a memory band of his past experiences.  Simply put, he is not worried about what tomorrow will bring.  The anxiety of the future, the disappointment of the past; that’s not a thing for him.

If now is all we have, all that is promised, let us not be fools and waste it.

As the Bible says, don’t worry about tomorrow. That won’t add an hour to our life. Tomorrow will worry about itself.  This is the day the Lord has made. Let us all be glad and rejoice in it.

MOLESKIN:
Prayers for Moses and Sqeaker’s recovery.  Steer asked for prayers for his family.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
F3 Knoxville 3rd Anniversary during weekend of November 3rd.

The number 7 and 50

THE SCENE: 58 degrees partly cloudy
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Baby arm circles x 10 IC ED IC

Imperial Squat Walker x 15 IC

Tempo Merkin x 10 IC

8 Count Body Builder x 5 IC
THA-THANG:
Yul Brenner: 7 different merkins x 10 reps. Do not come out of plank between merkin types. Q will call out each merkin style.

  • CDD
  • Wide
  • Reg-lar
  • Ranger
  • Diamond
  • Crucible
  • Chuck Norris

Walls of Jerico Start at cone one and complete 7 reps of exercise. Make one lap around cones and start at next cone. 7 cones/exercises, 7 laps.

  1. 7 Burpee
  2. 7 SSH (4ct)
  3. 7 Diamond Merkin
  4. 7-8 count body builder
  5. 7 Jump lunge (each leg)
  6. 7 Smurf jack
  7. 7 Flutters (4ct)

Merkin-cides Sprint to each line and complete number of merkin, sprint back.

  1. 10 merkin
  2. 20 merkin
  3. 30 merkin
  4. 40 merkin
  5. 50 merkin

Triple Nickel Partner up. 5 reps of each (Burpee/BBS) and 5 rounds

MARY:
Capn Thor
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Prepare your faith so in times of trial you know how to survive. Just as we train our bodies to endure physical activity, we should also train ourselves to be faithfully strong when trials come.
MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
We lost an F3 brother at the Alpharetta GA AO last week due to a medical condition. Please be sure to carry your cell phone when on Q in the case any medical emergencies occur.

 

3 Rounds

THE SCENE: 57 degrees, no rain, dry parking lot…what more could you ask for!
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x20, merkins x10, rockettes x20, calf stretches

THA-THANG:

Mosey to the back lot near the bottom of Matterhorn.
Round 1: 100
25 merkins run to line (50yds) and back
25 Lunges run to line and back
25 LBCs  3-count run to line
move to round 2
Round 2: 200
50 squats run to line and back
50 SSH run to line and back
50 toe touch LBCs to line and back
Move to Round 2
Round 3: 100
25 shoulder taps run to line 3 and back
25 Bobby Hurley’s run to line 3and back
25 dry docks run to line 3 and back
Move to Round 1 and keep repeating till time is up
Mosey to AO by way of steps and hill at restaurant
MARY:: dealers choice
hands up hello dollys, BBS X20, backwards leg extensions

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

12 PAX

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
WORRYING DOES BO GOOD.

““So I say to you, do not worry about your life—what you will eat or drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food and the body more than clothing? “Look at the birds of the air. They do not sow or reap or gather into barns; yet your Father in heaven feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? And why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They neither toil nor spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his glory clothed himself like one of these.”
‭‭Matthew‬ ‭6:25-29‬ ‭TLV‬‬

MOLESKIN:
Big praise for Tweet-E’s M today is 18 years sober!!!! What an amazing accomplishment!
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
F3 olympics and functions around the anniversary Nov 3-4