F3 Knoxville

A friendly visit

THE SCENE: Clear 70 degrees humid
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Over Head Clap x 40 IC

Tempo Squat x 20 IC

T-Plank Arm Circles x 15 EA ED

8 Count Body Builders x 10 IC
THA-THANG:
Aiken Legs: on benches complete two rounds of 20 squats, 20 box jumps, 20 lunge (10 EL)

Mosey to Stairs

Jelly Legs:

  • R1: Hold squat for 10 seconds; 10 squats; run up stairs; 2 burpee
  • R2: Hold squat for 20 seconds; 20 squats; run up stairs; 4 burpee
  • R3: Hold squat for 30 seconds; 30 squats; run up stairs; 6 burpee
  • R4: Hold squat for 40 seconds; 40 squats; run up stairs; 8 burpee
  • R5: Hold squat for 50 seconds; 50 squats; run up stairs; 10 burpee

Grizzcalator: Merkin crawl up stairs completing push-up on every other step and three push-ups on landings.

Mosey to bridge

Burpee Broad Jump across bridge and then lunge back across bridge.

Mosey back to AO

MARY:
Pick card- 3 rounds of 10 squat, 10 flutters (4 ct), 10 lunge (10 EL).
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
JJDIDTIEBUCKLE

  • Justice
  • Judgement
  • Dependability
  • Initiative
  • Decisiveness
  • Tact
  • Integretity
  • Endurance
  • Bearing
  • Unselfishness
  • Courage
  • Knowledge
  • Loyalty
  • Enthusiasm

When we’re enthusiastic about something, we’re willing to sacrifice for it. People who are enthusiastic about a cause will sacrifice time and money for it. People who are enthusiastic about their jobs will make personal sacrifices to spend time at work and educate themselves to do a better job.

Do the Hard Thing First. Lead by example. People/family is watching you to see how to act/react to situation and life.

MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Butter Biscuit

THE SCENE: Cool and Clear
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Side Straddle Hop (20), High Knees – 1 Minute, Mtn Climbers (20), Squats (20), Groiners (10)

THA-THANG:
The Butter Biscuit (PT & Run) [1X, 2X, 3X, 4X, 3X, 2X, 1X] (.25) Mile Lap

Single Count PT

  • 50 Side Straddle Hop
  • 40 High Knees
  • 30 Mtn Climbers
  • 20 Squats
  • 10 Groiners

MARY:
Something new from Pinocchio…Thanks,  Box Cutters, LBC’s to cash out

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
15 HIM’s tackled the Butter Biscuit; Butterfingers, Henhouse, Neighbor, Snorkel, KY, Hammy, Graceland, Espy, Goldfinger, Sake, Pinocchio, Dreamer, Drifter, Moses, Cable Guy
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

I have gained more than friends over the last two years with F3.  Through constant sacrifice and suffering I have found brothers within this circle of men.  I’ve have learned so much from each of you.  Your strength, compassion, and generosity have change my life.  Thank You!

Proverbs 17:17

A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

Proverbs 27:17

As iron sharpens iron so one person sharpens another.

 

Leave it all

THE SCENE: Humid, 72 degrees
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Side Straddle Hops, baby arm circles (forward and backward), Mountian climbers

double Indian run to the “animal trail:

THA-THANG:
We started at a light post at the bottom of the “loop Parking lot.” At every other pole there was an exercise written in chalk. These exercises were done down and back.

  • Bear Crawl
  • Bunny Hop
  • Crab Walk
  • Frog Jumps
  • Lunges
  • Duck Walk

We moseyed to the Pavillion for Burpee Sprint Ladders

1 burpee – sprint down and back, 2 burpees – sprint down and back. etc. for 3 rounds. 45 sec., 1 min., 1:30.

Circled up in the pavilion for 7 x 3. We did 2 rounds of 6 exercises. The exercises were grouped together in pairs. seven reps of each exercise were completed back to back to back, as many reps as you could complete in 45 seconds with 15 seconds for rest.

  • Star Jumps, Jump Squats
  • Mountain Climber (4 count ), High Knees (4 count)
  • Jump Lunges, Side Kick outs

Roxanne by the Police – push up at Roxanne, half burpee at “put on the red light”

Surrenders: 4, 30-second rounds of 2 excercises. Move 1: Pax started on all fours. Hands directly under sholders. Knees at a 90-degree angle 2 inches off the ground. this was held for 30 seconds. Move 2: the Same position except hands was directly out from shoulders pushing against a wall. This was held for 30 seconds as well.

MARY:
Boat Canoe, Cross Crawl

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
17
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
As created creatures of the LORD, we are dependent. Dependent on life, breath, food, abilities, and talents. Let us know be deceived into thinking that the very things we are dependent on the Lord for creating independence in us.

Four for the Fourth

THE SCENE: Cool and Clear
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
A little jumping and some jogging on the Grinder 50%, 75%
THA-THANG:
Rinse and Repeat (4 Times)

  • 40 Curls
  • 20 Mtn Climbers
  • 30 Mr. Spectacular
  • 20 Mtn Climbers
  • 20 Bent Rows
  • 20 Mtn Climbers
  • 10 Burpees

Run to the troll bridge (10x 4 Count Squat Walkers)

MARY:
Rotate between (Hanging Leg Raises  & LBC’s) [4 Rounds – 1 Minute Per Exercise]
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
4 HIM’s did some hard work on the 4th….Butterfingers, Drifter, Pup, Woodshack
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM::
Lately I’ve been doing a little introspection, and I came across this quote regarding the power of silence.  I hope you like it.

If you have a gift with words, learn to keep your mouth shut; when you speak, punctuate with a pause; and when you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Your silence passes many messages; one is that you are somebody, but nobody, a person able to face a crowd and to wait.  This is an almost biological power of the big secure animal looking at harmless ones.  People understand or better said they feel.  After this you have a better chance to be listened to.

I don’t think we always consider silence as a tool for conversation, but sometimes it’s exactly what we need.  This applies to our personal and work relationships.  Lately, I have been trying to be more deliberate with my conversations, and I think the impact can be pretty profound.  Sometimes  just not saying anything can be the best policy.

 

Uncomfortable

THE SCENE: 71°F, Pleasant Gloom 
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA: 

  • Imperial Walker x20 
  • Butt kicks across parking lot
  • High knees across parking lot
  • Run loop around parking lot
  • Merkins x10 IC (4-count)
  • Imperial Squat Walkers (or Imperial Squawkers) x20

THA-THANG:
Mosey to the court
Partner up and line up along sidewalk at one end of courtyard
Partner wheelbarrows to first sidewalk
Partner leap frog to next courtyard crossing sidewalk
Partner wheelbarrow (partners switch roles)
Partner leap frog to cones
Run back to original sidewalk
Repeat (first time all groups stay together, second time race)

Partner Derkins (3 sets of 10 OYO)

Mosey over to a clear, blank wall
Wall Sits 1 minute
Balls to Wall 30 seconds
Wall Sits 1 minute
Balls to Wall 45 seconds
Wall Sits 1 minute
Balls to Wall 1 minute

11s thru the courtyard
BBSs and Squats

Mosey back to SP

MARY:

  • Flutter kicks
  • Heels to the heavens
  • Plank
    • Right arm and leg up
    • Left arm and leg up

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Chaco,  Spotter, Judge Judy, Erector, Black Box, Guano, Booster, Gump, Commission, Kenjo, Archie (QIC)

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
One of Christianity’s greatest idolatries today is also one of the most subtle and insidious: the idolatry of comfort. 
Widespread especially in affluent Western contexts, comfort idolatry is the product of a consumerist context that frames everything—including spiritual things—in terms of expressive individualism, self-fulfillment, and “bettering yourself.”

In this context, going to church is just one among many other curated things (which may also include podcasts, self-help books, juice cleanses, yoga, backpacking, the Enneagram, Jordan Peterson, and so forth) that can add something to one’s unique spiritual path toward wisdom and wellness and becoming a “better person.”
Because it is so widespread and subtle, this framing doesn’t often seem so deadly. But it turns Christianity into a product akin to a smartphone app: something the “user” can opt in or out of as is convenient, or appropriate as needed but only insofar as it suits them. If it is in any way uncomfortable or costly, the “app” is easily deleted. 

But a Christianity that’s accessed only as it suits us, only when it’s comfortable and on our terms, is not really Christianity. To truly follow Jesus is to flip the cultural script on comfort. It is to shift one’s gaze away from a consumer self and toward our worthy God; from an inward, self-help orientation to an outward, others-helping orientation. Healthy Christians are always wary of easing into comfortable Christianity.
https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/8-ways-battle-comfort-idolatry/

I am very guilty of this form of idolatry. My life is not comfortable right now because of my children. Two of my four are really stressing me out, and honestly, I find myself dreaming of the days when the last one is out of the house. I look forward to just being comfortable all the time, but that is not the life I have been called to as a Christian. I need to set my mind on staying faithful to God’s will and not on my own comfort.