F3 Knoxville

pretty simple routine

THE SCENE: 75* and humid, perfect for watering the sidewalk with sweat
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Moroccan night clubs x25 IC
Tempo lunge x10 IC
High knees x25 IC
OH claps x25 IC
Static stretches – middle, left, right for 20 sec each
THA-THANG:
Fairly simple this morning, mosey out of start point and over to the amphitheater.  Routine is the eight exercise escalator.  Do the first exercise, run a lap out of the amphitheater (heading away from start point), left across pedestrian bridge, left by the Big Ball and back around the pond to the amphitheater.  Do first exercise and add an exercise each lap.

  • Plank jacks x20
  • Merkins x20
  • Box jumps (or step ups) x15
  • Pull ups on Big Ball x10
  • Lunges x20
  • Burpees x5
  • Dips x20
  • American hammers x20

Had to call an audible at lap 4 (the loop was too long).  All things stayed the same except the loop was to run out the flat part of amphitheater, turn right and run up the ramp to go to the high side, do inverted rows instead of pull ups, then run down the other side and return to the amphitheater stage.

MARY:
No time for Mary, the escalator took too long.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
5 strong in the sweat box: Cowbell, The Voice, Misfire, Amazon, Abort
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Friday was the 14th anniversary of Operation Red Wings, which led me to look up lessons learned from that event (depicted in the book and movie Lone Survivor).  Marcus Luttrell detailed one of his experiences not of those events particularly, but it stuck with me.  That is, that we have a tendency to put ourselves in a pecking order by comparing ourselves to those around us.  “That guy can lift more, he can solve the Pythagorean theorem faster, etc etc.”  In Luttrell’s case, during Hell Week of his BUD/s course the strongest swimmer in the class tapped out.  His immediate thought was, if that guy can’t make it, there is no way I can make it.

But courage, grit and determination are much harder to quantify to allow you to place yourself in a pecking order.  Just because someone might be more talented, doesn’t mean you can’t beat them.  The man that is hard to beat is the one who won’t quit.
MOLESKIN:
Continue praying for Carrot and his 2.0, and for Crawdad and his M.

Dirty 30

THE SCENE: 72° , partly cloudy
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

SSH (jumping jacks) – x30 IC 4CT

Baby Arm Circles (rotate arms forward 15x then back 15x) – x15 IC 4CT

Michael Phelps (bear hugs) – x30 IC 4CT

THA-THANG:

Mosey to the Gresham Middle School Stairs/Hill

  • 15 Big Boy Situps at the bottom
  • Sprint to the top of the hill
  • 15 Squats at the stop sign

REPEAT

5 Cones will be set up in a ~100 yard field. 

ROUND 1:  frog squat to broad jump between cones

ROUND 2: run suicide to get to next cone

Cone 1:American Hammers – x30 4CT

Cone 2: Worst Merican Ever (10 wide merc, 10 reg merc, 10 diamond merc) 

Cone 3: Mountain Climbers – x30 4CT

Cone 4: Drunk Mercs – (10 left hand high mercs, 10 normal mercs, 10 right hand high mercs) 

Cone 5: Over head claps – x15 4CT

MARY:

  • The Spanking (30 burpees together)
  • Flutter Kick x10 IC
  • Edward Scissor Legs x10 IC
  • Circle of Pain
  • Boat/Canoe on the way out

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
4 HIMs celebrated with me. Wilson, Herbie, Mr. Wedgie, and Filter.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
We have been going through Nehemiah at church. It has been eye opening for me to see the amount of opposition he faced when doing something God had called him to do. We may face the same opposition/distractions when we are trying to accomplish our goals, whether that be in our marriage, parenting, at work, or trying to better ourselves at F3. Read Phillipians 3:12-14

Excess

THE SCENE: 67°, sunny
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x 15
Windmills x 10
Arm circle x 10
Cherry pickers x 8
THA-THANG:
99 Problems
Suicide 8 cones up Crumpet between each exercise. Bear crawl back down.
Merkins
Get-ups
Curls w CMU
Brick squats (sit on CMU)
4-count Mountain Climbers
Tricep extensions w CMU
MARY:
LBC for 1.5 minutes
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
11 men including Tanya from Eastern NC region.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Nothing is good in excess.
MOLESKIN:
Nobody got to Triceps.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Amazon Abort co-Q

THE SCENE: Forgot to look, felt like about 75* and humidity wasn’t yet too bad
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Led by Amazon:
BAC forward x20 IC (evidently at Brickyard these are know as manly arm rotations)
BAC backwards x20 IC
Moroccan night clubs x20 IC
OH claps x20 IC
Led by Abort:
Pulse squats x15 IC
Tempo lunge x10 IC
Cobras x10 IC
Amazon:
Sumo squat x10 IC
THA-THANG:
Mosey across Emory Road to the First Tennessee bank parking lot and pair up.  Dora style work, one partner does Galway Hookers across parking lot (4 lunge steps, 1 supersquat, 4 lunge steps, 2 supersquats, continue) to cone and the run back.  The other partner works through:

  • Burps x100
  • Calf raises x100 (on 4-ct)
  • 200 high knees (left/right 1)

Once the partner returns, swap and continue through the exercises.  All groups ended about the same time, so a quick mosey through the parking lots, and back across Emory Road right in front of splash pad.  Quick round of ATM’s to even out the leg work we just did, then continue mosey to pick up a pet rock at the lot just beyond the park.  Grab your rock and mosey with it across Emory to the Health and Wellness parking lot (fitting right?).

Four corners routine, sort of.  Each exercise set with rocks, then run carrying rock overhead to the next corner.

  • Front rock raises x20
  • Eight count bodybuilders x10
  • Rock OH squats x20
  • Brickyard manmakers x10

Finish the four corners, then rinse and repeat for a second round.  After a quick joke about a third round, its time for the shoulder shredder.  Overhead claps on a 4 count, stopping every quarter to pick some cherries.  TAKE US TO 100!

Get rock overhead and mosey back across Emory Road for the last time and take the rock back and return it.  Mosey back toward start point for a little cardio.

Sprints are around 30 yards, all done together.

  • 80% sprint, immediately followed by 10 merkins on 4-ct IC
  • 80% sprint, immediately followed by 10 cobras on 4-ct IC
  • 100% sprint, AYG, immediately followed by 20 SSH IC

MARY:
Flutter kicks x20 IC
BBSUs x20 OYO
Flutter kicks x20 IC
BBSUs x20 OYO
Boat/canoe cash out – in canoe doing flutters, Moroccan night clubs, OH claps
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
9 strong with plenty of visitors: Herbie, Biohazard, Fob, Manilow, Pele, Lilydipper, Fast N Easy, Amazon, Abort
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Amazon spoke about the importance of focusing on others who might be struggling.  Lessons he has learned in GORUCK events, specifically his most recent HTL.  During those events, and in life in general, we find ourselves struggling and contemplating giving up.  But if you look around, there is generally someone worse off than we are.  If you focus your energy on them and helping them keep moving, its funny how you forget the pain you’re in or how tired you are.  Focus on helping someone else, and you’ll be amazed how far that takes you as well.  AYE!!

Deck Of Cards – Not stacked

THE SCENE:   70ish


F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
25 SSH, 20 baby arm circles

THA-THANG:

Grab a CMU and head to the cloud. F3 deck of cards with a 4-5 man Indian sprint for jokers.  Face cards 25, A’s 100 and other cards the number + 10.  Mixture of Cardio, Abs, legs and chest.

With 6 minuets left PAX chose to pick out all the face cards(25’s and 100’s) and perform exercises(vs man makers for every card left.

MARY:
Insert information about any additional post-THANG work (if applicable).
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
21 pax welcome Tinker from out of town
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Find success in failure- example from 2 Timothy:  Paul and Barnabas took young Mark with them on a missionary trip, but he returned home before the end of the trip for reasons not revealed in Scripture.  Whatever Marks reasons, Paul apparently thought they were unjustified since he refused to take Mark along on a subsequent tips(Acts 15:38).

Did Mark fail at being a missionary? Judging from Paul’s response, it would appear he did.  While the New King James Version says Mark “departed” from Paul, the word probably is closer to deserted – a more negative connotation.  It’s probably reasonable to conclude that Mark did fail at being a missionary.

But did that make him a permanent failure?  Apparently not, for the same apostle Paul who was so disappointed in Mark counted him a valuable coworker in ministry later in his life.  This is a perfect example of how to succeed at failing; fall, get up, and continue on.  The next time you fail, make sure it is a temporary experience, not a permanent label.

Don’t get failing and failure confused.  Failing is nothing more than the back door to success.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
F3 Dads Camp