F3 Knoxville

Moses & The 10 Commandments

THE SCENE: 30’s
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

  • Warm-O-Rama
    • SSH – x10 (IC)
    • Tempo Squats – x10 (IC)
    • Hillbilly Walkers – x10 (IC)
    • SSH – x10 (IC)
    • Windmills – x10 (IC)
    • Merkins – x10 (IC)
    • BBS – x10 (IC)
    • SSH – x10 (IC)
  • The Thang
  • Mosey Around Greenway
    • 1st Stop (There is Only 1 God)
      • Tennessee Rocking Chairs – x10 (IC)
      • Intentional Thinkers – x10 (IC)
      • Inch Work Merkins – x10 (OYO)
    • 2nd Stop (You Shall Not Make Idols)
      • Froggie Hops – x10 (IC)
      • Bobby Hurley – x10 (OYO)
      • Smurf Jacks – x10 (IC)
    • 3rd Stop (You Shall Not Take The Name of the Lord your God in vain)
      • Burpees – x10 (IC)
      • Absolution – x10 (IC)
      • Body Builders – x10 (IC)
    • 4th Stop (Remember The Sabbath Day to Keep it Holy)
      • Rest – x10 (seconds)
      • Forward Leaning Rest Position – x30 (seconds)
      • Stargazers – x10 (seconds)
    • 5th Stop (Honor Your Father and Mother)
      • Booyah Merkin – x10 (battle buddy)
      • Crowd Pleaser – 1:1 Merkin : Groiner to 5:5 and back down (OYO)
    • 6th Stop (You Shall Not Murder)
      • Ladder Jacks – 2 of each: SSH, Seal, Smurf, plank, bow and back up for 1rep – x5 (IC)
    • 7th Stop (You Shall Not Commit Adultery)
      • Edward Scissor Legs (Hello Dollys) whatever your comfortable with – x10 (IC)
      • Pickle Pounders – x10 (IC)
      • Monkey Humpers – x10 (IC)
    • 8th Stop (You Shall Not Steal)
      • Tug a War w/Battle Rope!
    • 9th Stop (You Shall Not Lie)
      • 2 min max push-ups
    • 10th Stop (You Shall Not Desire to Possess Anything That Belongs to Another Person)
      • Sprints – x10 (down and back = 1…we got 2 in before time!)

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
5 pax in total
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
The word was mixed in with the beatdown. Focused on the 10th commandment in the BOM and how social media makes it easy for one to wish they had something someone else has.  That picture on social media is a moment in time that has others wishing they could be there, or have a life more like the person who posted it.  Don’t fall into that trap.
MOLESKIN:
Seeing how far the pax have come in a years time is a true blessing.  So many of our pax have lost weight, gained new friends, and have strengthen their relationship with God.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Habitat of Humanity opportunity this coming weekend.  I have yet to get the final details and will try to finalize this plan early this week.

A few rounds in the octagon

THE SCENE: 48* and clear, perfect weather
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
High knees IC
BAC forward and reverse IC
Imperial squat walker IC
SSH IC
THA-THANG: Mosey out of the start point and towards L&N, opposite direction of the usual mosey.  Train horn gives the Q a good panic, as the route crosses the railroad tracks where cones and routine are set up.  Fortunately its just two engines which clear the tracks quickly and we continue our mosey into the Preacher lot.  Eight cones set up in a circle/octagon.  Exercises are mostly still on the cones, as follows:

  • Reverse flyes with rocks
  • Wide merkins
  • Squat jumps
  • American hammers on 4 count
  • Lion kings with CMU’s
  • Lunges on 2 count
  • 8 count bodybuilders
  • Heels to heaven

PAX split up to have groups of 2-3 at each cone.  16 reps of each exercise, then bear crawl to next cone moving in clockwise direction.  Once you arrive back at your original cone/exercise, run to the center of the octagon and plank it up (plank variations until all finish).  Q asks for someone to step into the middle and give one of their biggest fears.  Sneaky Pete steps up, and his fear is being misunderstood.  ALR.

Go back to original cone.  Repeat routine, this time only performing 8 reps of each exercise, and instead of bear crawling to next cone, run a lap around the octagon.  Again, plank in the middle when finished with routine and wait for the rest to finish.  Duggar steps up and admits one of his biggest fears is failure.  Which just happens to be QIC’s biggest fears, and would have been admitted at the end.  ALR. PAX grab cones and CMUs and begin mosey back to SP (dropping 4 CMUs just across the tracks for retrieval later).

Once back at SP, Q asks one more to tell a fear.  The Voice steps up and states letting someone down is his fear.  A.L.R.  Mary begins.

MARY:
Edward scissorlegs x25 on 4 count.
5 sec rest
Edward scissorlegs x25 on 4 count (someone said take them to 100, so we did)
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
18 PAX Strong: Reverb, Swanson, Sneaky Pete, Petey, Operation, Filter, Sipad, Duggar, Midas, The Voice, Cowbell, Cheesesteak, Jenner, Crawdad, Passport, Careless, Scope, Abort
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Fear.  We all have fears, and we have to deal with fear every day.  Fear isn’t necessarily bad, as fears of things have helped keep us alive up to this point in our lives.  However, constantly giving into fears makes us cowards.  Constantly ignoring fears would make us insane.  The key is to listen to our fears and decide whether to give into them or stand up and turn that fear or hardship into grace.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Mend House workout on Monday at 6.  Try to show up and support these men as they hopefully launch their own AO into F3.

Hungry Hungry HIMs

THE SCENE: Perfect weather, dry and cool
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x20
LB Arm Circles x12
LB Arm Circles Reverse x12
Little of this, little of that
Squats x15
Go to baseline and job across parking lot
Butt kicks back to second sign then jog rest of way
75% run to far side
100% run back
THA-THANG:
Thanks to Woodshack for the idea and providing all necessary equipment for this Q!

We played some modified hungry hungry hippo. There were four teams of 3 people (one team of 4) spread equidistant from the center.  Everyone did a wheelbarrow to the center and grabbed 4 tennis balls to throw back to their cone, then completed the wheelbarrow back. The whole team did 20 reps of each exercise on the tennis balls (15 reps if you got the orange tennis ball) and then returned the tennis balls to the center and repeated. While doing the wheelbarrow, the other member of the teams would hold Al Gore or a plank.

There were 21 tennis balls with different exercises on them and two orange tennis balls that were 15 bodybuilders. Each team got the orange balls at least twice.

MARY:
Boxcutters x20 before time was up
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
13 men crushed it this morning with no FNGs
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Catholics have mass every day of the year and therefore have specific Bible readings every day of the year. Here is the Gospel for this morning:

Luke 15:1-10

The tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to listen to Jesus, but the Pharisees and scribes began to complain, saying, ‘This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.’ So Jesus addressed this parable to them. ‘What man among you having a hundred sheep and losing one of them would not leave the ninety-nine in the desert and go after the lost one until he finds it? And when he does find it, he sets it on his shoulders with great joy and, upon his arrival home, he calls together his friends and neighbors and says to them, ‘Rejoice with me because I have found my lost sheep.’ I tell you, in just the same way there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous people who have no need of repentance.

Or what woman having ten coins and losing one would not light a lamp and sweep the house, searching carefully until she finds it? And when she does find it, she calls together her friends and neighbors and says to them, ‘Rejoice with me because I have found the coin that I lost.’ In just the same way, I tell you, there will be rejoicing among the angels of God over one sinner who repents.

These passages also remind me of the prodigal son. You see, we all want recognition and it makes us feel good when we are celebrated and told that we are doing a good job. But if we are not careful, we start to get jealous, just as the son who stayed with his father. If we think of the sheep in the passage above as humans, do you think that none of the 99 would be jealous? They did what they were supposed to do, but this other sheep that went off and got lost is getting a party because it came back.

The Bible also tells us that the man who puts money in the collection basket when everyone is watching him and making sure that they know he is contributing has his reward. That feeling he gets from the admiration of others is his reward. We must remember that our reward is in Heaven, and we must rejoice when one of our lost brothers or sisters comes back into communion with us. We should be the ones organizing the party, not the ones getting jealous because someone who was lost is getting that recognition.

MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Synergy at Sundown

THE SCENE: Cloudy, 50s, and threatening rain, but threaten is all it did…
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER 

Check

WARM-O-RAMA:
20 SSH (IC), 20 Suzanne Sommers, 10 Cherry Pickers (IC), 5 Prisoner Cell Merkin Burpees (PCMB) OYO

THA-THANG:
Mosey to the new trail at the north end of the park.

  • LIGHT POLE ESCALATORS
    • Start at first light pole. Do exercise then run to second light pole, do exercise, run back, etc.  Go to 8 light poles. Exercises are:
      • Light Pole 1: 5 Prisoner Cell Merkin Burpees (PCMB)
      • Light Pole 2: 10 lunges (5 each leg)
      • Light Pole 3: 15 Carolina Dry Docks
      • Light Pole 4: 20 Suzanne Sommers
      • Light Pole 5: 25 LBCs
      • Light Pole 6: 30 iron mikes (15 each leg)
      • Light Pole 7: 35 Hello dollies (single count)
      • Light Pole 8 : 40 Imperial Walkers (single count).
    • When done, do LBCs until 6 catches up.

Mosey to the center of the circle drive around the Admin building.

  • BUCK 25s!
    • Start at center cone.  Barry Sanders to the left to another cone about 75 years away. Sprint back to center cone, do 10 Pickle Pounders.
      • Barry Sanders to the cone to the right about 75 yards away, sprint back, do 10 more Pickle Pounders.
      • Run down stairs and back up, do 5 more Pickle Pounders.
      • Bernie Sanders to the base of the stairs at the admin building, do 100 SSHs
      • Run back to center cone, and sprint back to the top of stairs of admin building and do one more emphatic Pickle Pounder!
  • 75 calf raises on building steps (25 normal, 25 toes in, 25 toes out)

Mosey back to AO.

MARY:
Captain Thors, Boat/Canoe, Bicycle kicks, Hold plank 1 minute, Star Gazer refractory period.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Nine men strong! (Quickrete not tagged)
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Many Words recently have focused on surrounding ourselves with positive people.  Why is that?  The reason is because of a concept called SYNERGY, which is based on the Greek word Synergos, which means “working together”.

In my line of work, we look at toxic effects of chemicals.  If there is synergistic toxicity, the sum of the toxicity is something greater than simply adding the two together.  For example, the toxicity of Chemical A (with toxic units =2) + Chemical B (with toxic units =3) = 10, not 5. An example is mercury and lead, both of which are neurotoxins.  A study was done where mice were given a dose of mercury that typically would kill 1% of them, and a dose of lead that would also typically kill 1% of them.  So you would expect 1-2% to die.  But they ALL bit the dust, because of the the combination of lead and mercury, which are synergistic toxins.

So synergy can be a bad thing in toxicology.

But it can be a wonderful thing in other facets of life… like FOOD and DRINK

  • Milk + Chocolate Chip cookies!
  • Pumpkin Pie + coffee!
  • Pizza + Beer!
  • A nice Bordeaux wine + a perfectly cooked filet mignon!!!! (This is where the Q started to get really hungry…)

We all know about the analogy of the fist, too.  Each finger by itself is very weak, but when balled together, WATCH OUT!

It can also be wonderful in relationships.  We are stronger together than the sum of our parts. As Cap’n said at the Olympics, there’s no way in heck we would all get up in the dark and go to a mist-covered field to throw a discuss and do bench presses and flip a 400 pound tire if it weren’t for the presence of others in the group.  Same goes for every F3 workout that we do.  I want to thank the F3 PAX, and especially the Fake Gloomers for adding synergy to my life. I am grateful for each one of you.

Quote:

GENESIS 11:6.  And the Lord said, “Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. And nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them.”

MOLESKIN:
Prayers of thanks that Mr. Jinxy’s situation at work has stabilized.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Special F3 workout at the Mend House, Monday Nov 12 6-7 pm, 308 Knox Road.  Park at the Fountain City Krogers nearby.  Contact Abscess or Tank for details.

Cleveland, TN F3 launch Saturday, Nov. 17! 7-9 am with caravan leaving earlier.  Contact Abscess for details.

Third F coming up December 8, 8:30 a.m. Stay tuned…

True HIMs don’t quit in the rain

THE SCENE: Temp in the low 50’s and oh the rain! Loved it!
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

No a professional, but the PAX looked like it this morning!
WARM-O-RAMA:
15 SSH, 15 mountain climbers, 15 Peter Parker’s, 10 Spiderman (Peter Parker’s down at 6″), 15 imperial walker, 10 windmill
THA-THANG:

Mosey a short distance a line up for the Bataan Death March.  This was slightly modified.  The PAX at the back did 3 burpees instead of 5 and then ran to the front of the line (Indian run style run).  Finish the march at the sophomore.

At the sophomore, it really started to pour down rain, so why not be on the ground for most of it (not an audible; it just worked out that way).  Start with 20 merkins in the first corner and then Bernie Sanders up the hill.  Lunge walk getting 10 lunges each leg.  At the next corner, do 20 flutter kicks on a four count.  At the final corner, do 10 burpees and then return to the beginning for one more round of the same.

Mosey toward the center of campus to the north parking lot of the area.  Using the parking lot aisles as markers, do a burpee suicide.  As Trolley pointed at, that is a very redundant title for a exercise!  Suicide style, run to the first aisle and do 5 burpees, return to start, run to the second aisle and do 10 burpees, return to start, run to the third aisle and do 15 burpees, and then finish the suicide doing burpees at each aisle as you decrease the count.

Mosey to the center of campus and find a wall to assist with ATMs.  Instead of traditional alternating shoulder taps, we did balls-to-the-walls shoulder taps.  Whole different ball game!

  • 10 balls-to-the-walls shoulder taps (in cadence)
  • 10 temp merkins in cadence
  • 10 fast merkins on your own

Continue the Bataan Death March back toward the AO launch point, but stop in the corner of the lot.  We still got time for more!  20 squats in cadence and then line up for the Indian bear crawl.  All PAX are holding plank while the one in the back is bear crawling to the front.  We went down to a 6″ plank a couple of times during this and we completed 2 full rounds before the fun was over.

MARY:
I guess the Indian bear crawl was our Mary!
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
9 PAXs crushed it this morning!
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
“For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world, and forfeit his soul”, Mark 8:36, “The conclusion, when all has been heard, is:  fear God and keep His commandments, because this applies to every person.” Ecc. 12:13

Focusing on or putting first the concerns and pleasures of this world will gain us nothing in the end.  We would have received our full reward at the end of this life with no hope in the next.  But this life is but a vapor (James 4:14 – not Paul, sorry!).  Eternity is forever.  So, keep our focus on God and keeping his commandments and we will have treasure in Heaven for eternity!

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Mend house workout, Monday at 6:00 pm.  Cleveland launch next Saturday.