F3 Knoxville

Keep going, don’t give up. Plank destroyers for all!

THE SCENE: Nice balmy morning at the dog pound.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH

 

THA-THANG:

Mossied over the the dock area.

rounding the parking lot stopping at every light pole we do the follow exersies. 1 per pole

  • plank destroyers
  • crabets
  • donkey kicks
  • mountain climbers
  • Freddy Mercurys
  • burpees
  • squat walkers
  • iron mikes
  • monkey humpers
  • peter parkers

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
11 HIMS made it happen today.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Thank you guys for coming and pushing me. This group keeps me aright in a busy and crazy life.
MOLESKIN:
hold me accountable to Q once a month at least.

Slot Cars (The Grateful Grid)

THE SCENE: 73 very nice.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER ( I got the order right!)

WARM-O-RAMA:

20 SSH, High Knees + Burpee + toe-tap-shuffle, Cherry Pickers, Plank Destroyers, Donkey Kicks, Crabets, Clap Merkins, Freddy Mercuries, Mtn parkers, Peter Parkers, Squat Walkers, Iron Mikes.

THA-THANG: 

Welcome to the Grid! A 10×10 square parking lot with over a 100 stalls in it.  We did one exercise per stall in a snaking fashion in teams of two.  The 10 rows of exercise were:

  1. Plank Destroyers
  2. Crabets
  3. Freddy Mercuries
  4. Mountain Parkers
  5. Peter Parkers
  6. Squat Walkers
  7. Donkey Kicks
  8. Iron Mikes
  9. Burpees
  10. Clap Merkins

The exercises stayed the same for each column and only changed when you completed a row.  The distance between columns were determined by the painted lines of the parking stalls.  We did one rep per stall.

So we did 10 reps of each exercise, but each rep was separated by about 30 feet.  So we got up and got down at least 100 times in addition to the exercises.

We started off in teams of two (the slot car drivers) and launched successive teams as the previous team reached the next column of stalls.  It spread out nicely but we were all close enough to encourage one another on the passes or the different directions.  The “slots” were the rows of stalls we tried to stay in.

We finished one round then started on the next round. In round two, instead of moseying from stall to stall we burnied down and bear crawled back.  Almost finished the crabets and then called time.

MARY:
Freddy Mercuries
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Welcome FNG Pool Boy!

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
This F3 stuff is the best thing ! Feeling so grateful for it. It’s the best part of my day.  Creative, challenging, always different, always free.  Rain or shine.  Always encouraging.  Great testimonies and BOM’s.  We be sittin’ on GOLD fellas!  I hope where ever I go I can always find an F3 PAX to workout with!

MOLESKIN:
Booster has an announcement about an announcement… but that’s all we heard.  🙂

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Again welcome FNG ==> Pool Boy!

Motown Beat Down

THE SCENE: Buckets of Rain
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
LBAC’s (Fwd/Bwd) 4ct x 10, Michael Phelps, 4 Pt Cossack Squats 4ct x 10, Spider Man Lunges (L/R) x 5, Side Straddle Hops 4ct x 10, Mtn Climbers 4ct x 10
THA-THANG:
CMU Circuit Time!  3 Stations 3 Exercises Each Station (20, 15 10) count.  All on the grinder…

  • Station 1: Bent Rows, OH Press, Goblet Squat
  • OH CMU Lunge from pavilion to middle of bathrooms.
  • Station 2: Incline Merkin, Decline Merkin, Mtn Climber….all on CMU
  • Bear and Block to 1st basketball goal
  • Station 3: Step Up on CMU, Burpee Box Jump, Upright Rows
  • Leave block and run quarter mile loop….and then start again.

MARY:
PAX circles up for burpees and running in place to Bill Withers – Ain’t No Sunshine.  Every time the song says Gone or Go the PAX does burpees, and the rest of the time the PAX runs in place.          Mo Mary…..

Dancing Bears and ABC’s

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
The PAX enjoyed some soggy Motown and got buckets better! Butterfingers, Drifter, Fins, Flash, Hammy, KY, Moses, Napster, Pinocchio, RadioShack, Snorkel, Swayze, Woodshack
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
I recently spent some time away from my family on business travel, and that always reminds me how much I love them.  I think that sometimes we take each other for granted.  This probably goes double for the people close to you.  Sometimes it’s really difficult to get past all of the day to day stress and take a moment to appreciate these relationships.  So I just wanted to encourage everyone to pause for a moment and spend some downtime with your family.  This could be as simple as playing Legos with kids or have coffee in the morning with your spouse.  These small moments are really what keeps us together and reaffirms our commitment to each other.

A back from the beach beatdown…

THE SCENE: A little balmy
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

8 Cherry pickers

15 Little baby arm circles

15 SSH

Cadence was a little off, I blame the Q…

THA-THANG:

-CMU pickup, squat then press. 20x OYO

-Merkins. 20x OYO

-WW2’s. 20x OYO

-LBC’s until the PAX is done

-Indian Run with CMU to the church parking lot.

-Split into 1’s and 2’s

-1’s do burpees while 2’s run to other end and do  10x big boys and run back to the 1’s. Switch it up.

-Indian Run with CMU back to the AO

-Bear crawls length of the court, stopping every three hands for a pair of Merkins.

-Quick trip to Krumpet and back to the AO

MARY:
LBC’s, Big Boys and WW2’s to cash out.

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:
We all have something that wakes up up from time to time or something that keeps us awake. Turn to Matthew 6 when you are heavy laden with worries of this world.

Matthew 6

“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?
MOLESKIN:
A word from Wendell Berry about peace in the midst of what worries you.

“The Peace of Wild Things”

When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
***Attention! I’m looking at putting a t-shirt order together. We’d need 12 shirts to be ordered before they would ship so I’m trying to judge interest amongst the PAX. I feel like there are enough guys like myself that have started in the last few months that would want a shirt or two. Send me a message on GroupMe if you’d like one and I’ll determine if there is enough interest.***

someone stole my cone

THE SCENE: 70s ish and humidity returned to normal
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Three point merkins
Super squats
Static stretches middle left and right
SSH
THA-THANG:

Mosey out and over to amphitheater and up to top with plenty of rails. Start at top with the 15 rows, then mosey down the green way, each time stopping at the cone and doing that exercise before returning to the top and doing 15 rows.  Suicide style, each cone is progressively further away from the rails.

  • At planters, 30 dips
  • At bridge across pond, lunge 15x each leg
  • At bridge across Cumberland, burpee broad jump to other side and back
  • At parking lot, 30 jump squats

Work your way back to the nearer cones again suicide style and call when time is up.  Mosey down to the amphitheater stage.

  • Put one foot on stage and do 10 squats, swap legs and 10 more squats
  • Feet up on stage and do 10 BBSUs
  • Bunnyhop up the stairs to the top, touching each stair

Repeat x2.  Then time to stretch out chest from Monday.

On stage:

  • 10 decline merkins
  • 10 flat merkins
  • 10 incline merkins

Again repeat for 2 rounds.  Mosey back to start point

MARY:

  • Hello dolly
  • American Hammers
  • Boat/canoe

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Perfect 10: Half Caff, Passport, Gesundheit, Aerial, Apollo, G6, Orkin, Swanson, Amazon, Abort
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Sometimes in life it seems like the things you know and are maybe even good at, seem harder than usual.  During those times, you have to go further and put more effort in to get the same result.  The suicide routine was a great way to symbolize having to run further each time just to make it through a round.  But, eventually you get a handle on the situation and can begin to return to the original status where that extra distance and effort isn’t necessary.