F3 Knoxville

Put away your toys

THE SCENE: Nothing to write home about… Mid 70s, maybe not so humid
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
23x SSH IC (just until Trolley reached the circle…)
10x Travoltas each side IC
Cossack Squats IC – Chaco picked rep count of 23!
10x Hindurkins IC

THA-THANG:
Mosey in the direction of the coupon pile
Stop halfway for 15x Big Boys OYO
Continue to the back of the maintenance building and grab a CMU
15x Overhead Reach BBS OYO
Mosey with CMU to the parking lot near the fitness center

4 corners of large grassy area each have an exercise on cardboard weinke.
Start at Corner #1 with 10x HR Merkins
Mosey with CMU to Corner #2: 16x Catalina Wine Mixers (8 each arm), 10x HR Merkins
Bear crawl pushing block to Corner #3: 30x Pickle Pounders, 16x Wine Mixers, 10x HR Merkins
Mosey with CMU to Corner #4: 20x Carolina Dry Docks, 30x Pickle Pounders, 16x Wine Mixers, 10x HR Merkins
Crawl Bear pulling block back to Corner #1 (Flutters etc until 6)

Next lap around: Flip the card over to reveal leg exercises!
For time, just mosey w/CMU to each corner. No accumulator either – Just the one on the card
10x Prisoner Get-up (each leg)
15x Squat Jump
30x Monkey Humpers (single count)
10x Donkey Kicks
More Ab work for the 6…

Time to put the toys away! Mosey back to the maintenance building.

Mosey back to the AO, stopping halfway for 10 more BBS OYO

MARY:
Got home 1 minute past curfew… No Mary today.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
8 PAX today – A Wednesday record according to Booster!
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
As most of you know, we’ve been prepping our house for sale. This presents a number of opportunities for… friction. The thing that can grease that friction and keep it from flaring up and causing a fire is Love. Not touchy-feely type of gushy love, but Love that lays down Its life for another. Here’s the description of what love does. Read from The Message because this is a very familiar passage, and sometimes we can gloss over the words when we know them so well…

From 1 Cor. 13 (The Message)
No matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I’m bankrupt without love.

Love never gives up.
Love cares more for others than for self.
Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have.
Love doesn’t strut,
Doesn’t have a swelled head,
Doesn’t force itself on others,
Isn’t always “me first,”
Doesn’t fly off the handle,
Doesn’t keep score of the sins of others,
Doesn’t revel when others grovel,
Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,
Puts up with anything,
Trusts God always,
Always looks for the best,
Never looks back,
But keeps going to the end.
Love never dies.

MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Truckin’ to the Pound is this weekend!  Don’t forget to mark your calendars for the F3 Anniversary first weekend in November.

Ruck tire flipping

THE SCENE: 75, humid
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Unload big tire from truck!
THA-THANG:

Do the required number of reps for each exercise then run a lap around parking lot . Repeat until 8 minutes expire .  Then move to a different exercise and repeat….so on and so forth until all exercises arr complete .

  • 20 ruck merkins
  • 20 ruck curls
  • 20 ruck oh press
  • 20 rows with 60# bag
  • 20 squats with 80# bag
  • 5 tire flips

MARY:
No time
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Insert the WORD here.
MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Insert information about upcoming events, 2nd or 3rd F opportunities, and any other announcements.

8 Men and a Matterhorn

THE SCENE: upper 60’s…felt like October – great weather

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER


WARM-O-RAMA:

  • SSH x 20
  • Tempo Merkins x 10
  • Tempo Squats x 10
  • Cherry Pickers x 5
  • This/that stretch

THA-THANG:

  • Indian run to the base of the Matterhorn
  • 4 Cones spread along the upper half of the hill.  1=closest, 4=farthest.  Exercises written at each cone.
    • 4-Burpees;  3-Diamond Merkins;  2-Plankjacks;  1-Squats
    • PAX run to the 4th (farthest) cone and do 25 reps of the exercise written.  Then mosey back down the hill stopping to do 25 reps of the exercise written at each cone.   Rinse & repeat eliminating the furthest cone each round until you end with only going to the 1st cone.
  • DORA work
    • 50 Thrust Merkins;  50 Squat Jacks;  50 Leg Pass Throughs
    • Partner 1 does reps at the speed bump, while partner 2 runs up the lower portion of the Matterhorn to where the rock ditch starts.

MARY:

  • Hello Dolly x 20
  • Box Cutter x 20
  • Spread Eagle Merkins x 10
  • Superman/Banana

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
8 PAX:  Ratchet, Pepper, Scooter, Woodshack, Shooter, Barn Door, Moped, Bartman

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Words matter.  Say what you mean and don’t generalize.  Shared from John 21 an example of this when Jesus asked Peter “do you love me?” 3 times.  The first 2 times Jesus asked if Peter loved him he used the word Agape which is a deep, unconditional love…Peter in return said that yes he loved Jesus, however he used the word Phileo, which is a brotherly love.  Finally, the 3rd time Jesus asked Peter, he said “Do you Phileo me?”, in other words Jesus said “is that all Peter, do you only love me with a brotherly love and not a deep unconditional love?”.  Jesus was making the point that we should love him unconditionally.  It’s a good example of how our English language doesn’t quite capture the gravity of scripture.  Our word “love” is used for everything:  I love my wife, I love coffee, I love exercising.  The word doesn’t allow you to differentiate between its different meanings in different contexts.  Therefore we should take the time to be specific when we can be….to use the word that will relay our message the clearest.

MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Truckin to the Pound this weekend – 6am at the Truck Stop;  F3 anniversary celebration in November

Ode To The HIMs

THE SCENE: A bit damp but great!
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Side straddle hops (IC) 4ct
  • Baby Arm circles forward x 10 & Michael Phelps
  • Baby Arm circles reverse x 10 & Michael Phelps
  • Squats (IC) 4ct
  • Hand release merkins

THA-THANG:

Ode to Trolley (0-5 min) – Get in 2 lines or one depending on number of people.

  • Indian line formation, single man sprint to 3 stations leading to maintenance building
  • Start in plank position
  • Station 1, burpee
  • Station 2, big boys
  • Station 3, merkins

Ode to Booster and detention (6-20 min)

  • Pick up block and run to bottom of stairs at hill. After each exercise below, run stairs do 20 American hammers at top, then repeat
  • 50 overhead press w/block (OYO)
  • 50 squat w/block(OYO)
  • 50 curls w/block (OYO)
  • 50 rows w/block (OYO)
  • 25 left lumber jack (OYO)
  • 25 right lumber jack (OYO)
  • Repeat the above twice.

Run to quad

Ode to toto

  • 5s in door to door railway (squat jumps – Carolina dry docks)

MARY:

  • 10 V-ups 4ct
  • 10 baby crunches (4ct)
  • 10 box cutters (4ct)
  • 10 Flutter kick (4ct)
  • 10 hello dollys (4ct)
  • 10 scissors (4 ct) then sprint

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

Booster, Cookie Monster, Dreamer, Rocket, Snaggletooth, Stye, Trolley, Waxjob

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Remember to be grateful for things you typically take for granted. An example is our F3 brotherhood.  We shouldn’t take it for granted because it has changed my health and emotional outlook.  Let’s challenge each other to be cognizant of that throughout the day and to acknowledge with thanks something that you have typically neglected.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

  • August 25 – CSAUP – Trucking To The Pound
  • November 3 – F3 Olympics

Simple but Brutal

THE SCENE:  Cloudy, Breezy, around 72 degrees
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Start with 30 SSH on 4ct

Jog from curb to other end of lot…Michael Phelps with some of this and that jog back

Perform 10 Windmill in cadence jog back to other end of lot perform 10x Rockette jog back

Finish warm-o-rama with 10x Cherry Pickers
THA-THANG:
Had 2 different sets of Exercises

Set 1 Legs/Abs

20 Squat, 20 lunge, 20 BB’s, 20 flutters

Set 2 Chest/Back/Shoulders

20 merkin, 20 CDD’s, 20 Superman, 20 overhead clap

 

Ran a circuit loop with 5 stops from AO around up dragons tail and back.  Perform Set 1 at all 5 stops then loop back and perform Set 2 at all 5 stops.  Goal of getting in 100 reps of each exercise.  Mission Accomplished.

MARY:
Insert information about any additional post-THANG work (if applicable).
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
9 PAX  Hands, Jail Bait, Pac Man, Waffle House, Husker, Crab-legs, Waffle- House, Kentucky, Full House
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
We talk all the time about getting better.  We get better physically and we push ourselves on the first “F”.  I wanted to challenge all of us to focus on a few more “F’s” this week…

Fellowship: Contact a brother you haven’t seen.  Reach out.  Be a friend.  Pursue.  Friendships aren’t easy.  We have to work at them.  Do that this week.

Faith: Prayer is something so simple, but we lose focus often.  Challenge to have meaningful prayer in the morning, in the middle part of your day, and in the evening.  Do that this week.

Added F is Friendship:  Focus on our spouses and the friendship we have with them.  Pursue them.  Court them.  Send them flowers.  Do that this week.

Added and last F is Fatherhood:  Be engaged with your kids.  Put the phone down when you’re at home.  No social media.  No fantasy football.  Say “yes” and don’t be so quick to find a reason for a “no”.  Do that this week.

 

MOLESKIN:
Shout out prayers to Hands son Grant as he heads to Austria for a semester abroad.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: