F3 Knoxville

Pinocchio’s Mama Kraken

THE SCENE: In the 50’s and beautiful
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSHs x 20
Cherry Pickers x5
Bodybuilders x5
Side Tri Rise x5 each side

THA-THANG:
A normal kraken but spread across a quarter mile loop. There are 8 cones with a different exercise at each one. After finishing that exercise, run around the loop, past the last exercise you did, and go to the next cone. Complete until Q calls time.

    • Crawl Bear up Mt. Crumpet
    • 80 Merkins
    • 80 Squats
    • 25 Bodybuilders
    • 50 BBS
    • 60 Lunges total
    • 80 Side Tri Rises total
    • 60 4 count Flutter Kicks

MARY:
Boxcutters x15
Hello Dolly x15
LBCs to cash out
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
9 hims today, Smokey and Sandman are not on the website.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
“Habits are formed by the repetition of particular acts. They are strengthened by an increase in the number of repeated acts. Habits are also weakened or broken, and contrary habits are formed by the repetition of contrary acts” – Mortimer J. Adler.

I have been working on creating habits for myself, but it has been difficult. I have started focusing not only on what I need to do, but what habit is already in place that is stopping me from implementing my new habit. Seeing what I am actually doing instead of what I should be doing has helped me to form better habits.

MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

CMU Monday

THE SCENE: just about perfect
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER: not a professional
WARM-O-RAMA:
Tempo Merkins – 10
Tempo squats – 10
TN walkers – 10
MARS – 10/ea
SSH – 25

THA-THANG:

Mosey to the big ball corner of the field.

CMU shuffle carry from light pole to light pole to the corner of worlds fair and clinch

20 ea/ CMU
Step ups
Squats
KB swings
Squat press
Curls

Each PAX carries CMU to the base of the small grass hills
20 CMU plank pull through
Bear crawl CMU drag up the grass hill

R&R

CMU Suicide across clinch bridge with Exercise at ea light pole – 15ea
1 – kB swing
2- squat press
3 – curl/ tri ext
4 – incline merkin
5 – decline merkin

MARY:
we worked on our wash board abs

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
look toward the “new” thing, dont get stuck in the past, learn from it and move on

Aiken Wildfire Giants

THE SCENE: Not too chilly..50.  Post rain fresh air.
WARM-O-RAMA:
A few ssh and then off to box-jump country.   In an effort to always keep variety in our recipe we’re rolling throught the Lexicon/Exicon and we are at #9  Aiken Legs  #10 Air Drama Squats  #11 Air Squared … So lets do those.

Two rounds of Aiken Legs is (20 Squats, 20 Box Jumps, 20 Lunges, 20 Split Jacks)..

15 Air Drama Squats  (Squats on curb with Calf raises)

15 Air Squared ( Squat chair while forward extended arm claps in cadence)

THA-THANG:  Looper

An AMRAP in ~ 20 minutes of Seven Exercise stations.  The stations were next to our beloved Maintenance wall by the CMUS. Distribute the 20 HIMs evenly on the stations before beginning.  The stations were

  • 20 Peter Parkers + 5 Stair Climbs
  • 20 Iron Mikes + 5 Stadium Hill Climbs
  • 20 Star Jacks + 5 wall Loops
  • 10 Handstand Pushups + 2 Building Loops
  • 20 A Hammers + CMU + 40 Imperial Squat Walkers
  • 20 Plank Destroyers + 20 Box Jumps (at other building with wall)
  • 20 (3 cmu) Derkins + 1 crab walk around the wall

I cut us off a bit early so we could get in a good ole Mary.

MARY:

  • 50 Hello Dollys
  • 50 Freddy Mercuries
  • 50 LBC
  • WildFire Plank Merkin Raised Alternates.  When Crowder says Wildfire (during the song) do a merkin and finish by raising the opposite arm until the next merkin.  I think it ended up being 3 sets of 6 merkins with several minutes of holding the plank.

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

“We need not reinvent what a man is, but only rediscover him. How? By forsaking the uncertain sounds of society and hearkening to the war drum of Scripture. God calls us to fellowship with giants — or those who slayed them — great men who have run the race before us and offer their strengths, weaknesses, and sins to instruct us on how to walk before God this side of heaven.” —  Greg Morse.

“Through You we will push back our adversaries; Through Your name we will trample down those who rise up against us. For I will not trust in my bow, Nor will my sword save me. But You have saved us from our adversaries, And You have put to shame those who hate us. In God we have boasted all day long, And we will give thanks to Your name forever. Selah.”

Psalms 44:5-8 NASB

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Brolympics  Nov 9th.    Bring Headlamps for Pool Boy’s Safari on Wednesday.

Doubtfire almost went swimming

THE SCENE: Perfect gloomy morning. 53 degrees
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
The obligatory SSH, cherry pickers, some burpees and a little of this and that
THA-THANG:
Mosey around the park a little. And stopped at the upper lot for some DORAs. Partner up for totals of 50 burpees, 200 Merkins, 300 squats. Partner runs down lot and around island (100yrds +-) while partner 2 does exercises.

After that we hit the parking lot lines for some suicides. Each time you got back to start you did 1 burpee. Total of 15 lines (I think)

then mosey around some doing some Mary Lou Rettons on the concrete snake ramp up and down.

Mosey to splash pad or 7s with dips and decline Merkins. Mosey back to AO stopping for 10 pull-ups.

MARY:
box Cutters x25, some yoga leg and arm raise stuff and 10 more Merkins
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
2 are better than 1. Work with your brother to help further God’s kingdom. Psalm 133
MOLESKIN:
Doubtfire dodged a bullet this morning. His back was hurting him and he put out a last-minute post at 4:33 AM asking for coverage. None of us saw the message until after we got started. We were all discussing what we would do to him at the equalizer for missing a Q. We landed on jumping in the water. Fortunately for him he got in the text before. Get better soon Doubtfire!

On another note there was a gentleman there at the flagpole with all kinds of stuff laid out, lights incense rugs etc. He was very friendly, and we invited him to join us next Wednesday.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Cross bar is in need of a job. He’s an industrial engineer but it impressive background. Maybe looking for something in construction as well. Prayers for him to find something quickly.

Persevere through frustrations

THE SCENE: A cool 40 something degrees.  Large crowd present due to the Race for the Cure.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Warmed up with a little SSH’s, Cherry Pickers, Over Head Claps, and Tempo Squats
THA-THANG:

Mosey to Sunsphere steps:

  • Bear crawl all the way up stopping at mid point for 10 Merkins and 10 more Merkins at the top.
  • Mosey to Amplitheater: DORA: partner 1 runs up and around seats then switch with other partner.  As a pair, complete 100 Big Boy sit-ups, 100 lunges, 100 Merkins, and 100 smurf jacks.
  • Mosey to field:   Long side, Bernie sanders – Short side, bear crawl.  Mid point on long side do 20 Carolina dry docks and mid point on short side to 20 mt. climbers.  Do at least one round then repeat with 20 squats and 20 flutter kicks.
  • Mosey back to AO for ring of fire: Merkins, American Hammers, squats

MARY:

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
With my son working on his vehicle trying to keep it going as long as possible it gets frustrating when you think you’ve fixed one problem then you notice another problem.  He’s persevering and learning.  In life if we aren’t seeing progress, answered prayers, etc.  Don’t give up, keep pushing, working hard doing the right things.  Eventually we will see progress and we learn a lot on the journey.
MOLESKIN:
Prayed for the guys at the Goliath at the Gorge.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: