F3 Knoxville

Come ride the Panda Express

THE SCENE: 73 and humid as heck
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x25

BAC x15 ea

Little bit o’ this, little bit o’ that

Cherry Pickers x10

Tempo Squats x10
THA-THANG:
Mosey to the Gresham Stairs for some Panda Express.

Modified 11s.

  • 1 Captain Thor at the bottom
    • Repeat until you hit 5 reps, then work your way back down the ladder. 1234554321
  • 10 Burpees halfway up the path

MARY:
Mosey to the middle pavilion near the AO

30x dips

30x OHC 4CT

30x Decline Merkins

Mosey to AO for some Flutters for the final minute
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Herbie, Filter
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
BELLS from Joan Cronan. Do these every day.

Bible – start your day with the Bible or a devotional

Exercise – do something physical every day

Letter – handwritten to someone you care about to encourage them.

Learn something new – challenge yourself to always be learning.

Special project – at home, work, life. Whether it’s making the bed, cleaning out an old junk drawer, or something bigger – do one of these daily.
MOLESKIN:
Prayers for family, Wilson traveling, and job searches
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
N/a

Anders Brothers Beatdown

THE SCENE: Perfect weather at the Big Ball.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Squat benders x 10, Rows x 10, Obliques x 10
THA-THANG:

With battle buddy, worked through stations.  While one team was going through stations the other teams did “brick planks” (In plank position each person taking bricks off raised board and placing them back).  When the first team returned from stations they switched with another team.

Stations:

  • Carry buckets / cinder blocks
  • Drop buckets/ cinder blocks and curl x 20 water filled pipe
  • Drop pipe, bear crawl to last cinder block and overhead press x 20
  • Bear crawl/lunge back to pipes, curl x 20
  • Carry buckets/cinder blocks back to beginning and switch with another team.

Mosey around pond stopping for flutter kicks, LBC’s, Merkins, stairs at the big ball with 8 count body builders.  Returned to AO to rinse and repeat stations with slight modification of 10 reps instead of 20.

One more mosey around the field and back to AO for Mary.

MARY:
Rows, Jane Fonda’s, Overhead claps with bricks, should taps, arm raises with bricks, ATM’s
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
John 15:2 “Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.”  We all have things in our lives that needs to be pruned.  It’s never comfortable or easy but necessary.  What in your life needs to be pruned so that you are more fruitful and Christ-like?
MOLESKIN:
Prayer requests:  Friends family whose baby passed away at 5 months old, Aborts friend who lost their Dad in an drowning accident, and Bear Traps daughter going on a mission trip with Samaritans Purse.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Pillar Strength

THE SCENE: Clear skies, 75 degrees F, 86% Humidity (Spook was workout Q)
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Power/Core/Prehab – clapping pushups x 5; side plank; 90-90s x5 – 3 rounds
THA-THANG:

Strength – lateral lunge with block; single arm block chest press; shoulder taps (10 reps each side)

Strength- single leg RDL (10 per side); single arm block rows (10 per side); glute marching (10 per leg)

Grinder – split leg squats x 8, block pullovers x 8, single arm block carry 100 yards, 150 yard shuttle run

MARY:

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
A total of 10 HIMs including Spook from Fredericksburg, VA
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Jeremiah 29:11  “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”

This verse is not intended to be a security blanket to us. God will not take away suffering.  Rather this verse reminds us with true, gospel confidence that He will give us hope in the midst of it.  Trust God and His perfect will for us.

MOLESKIN:
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ANNOUNCEMENTS:
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Freedom

THE SCENE: Clear skies, 67 degrees F, 97% humidity
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

SSH, Imperial Squat Walkers, Arm Circles, Cherry Pickers

Grinder Run

Grinder Bernie

THA-THANG:
13 stations each named after an original colony.  One HIM carries a 40# sandbag and the AO shovel/flag and runs down to the road and back while the remaining PAX picks one of the 13 stations.  HIM with the flag exchanges with the one behind them in the rotation and all perform the workout in Kraken style. Happened to be the perfect number (14) so that one person was at a colony while one was running.  Each person completed the flag bearer run and each of the 13 colonies.

Delaware Dips

Pennsylvania WWII Sit Ups

New Jersey SSH

Georgia Dry Docks

Connecticut Box Jumps

Massachusetts Merkins

Maryland Bent Rows

South Carolina Squat Thrusts

North Carolina Curls

New Hampshire Triceps Extensions

Virginia Body Builders

New York Russian Swings

Rhode Island Flutter Kicks

Push Pull

Two Groups with one starting with Merkins and the other with Pull ups.

13 Merkins followed by 13 Inverted Pull ups or 7 strict Pull ups (3 Rounds)

Waxjob Hill 7’s

1 Box Cutter

Bear Crawl Up Hill

6 Dry Docks

Run Down Hill

MARY:

Box Cutters, X’s and O’s, and LBCs

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Total of 14 including Spook from Fredericksburg, VA
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Started the morning with the Stars Spangled Banner version by Jimi Hendrix.  It was played at Woodstock almost 50 years ago on August 18, 1969.  Some believe it was and is an irreverent rendition but I always liked the fact that his guitar playing brought out the chaos that Francis Scott Key must have seen when he wrote the words “rockets red glare” and “bombs bursting in air.”

The main part of THA-THANG with the colony stations involved an AMRAP while the flag bearer was running and each HIM had the “freedom” to do as many of each exercise.  As with each F3 workout, we have the freedom to come out and to give as much or as little as we want.  Suffice to say, everyone wore it out this morning but it was an individual decision to do so.  (OK, we all have a great ability to overtly or covertly push each other.

We all should appreciate the freedom we have that was started in 1776 and resulted in 1% of the colony’s citizens giving their life to attain it.  We should also be overwhelmed with gratitude for the sacrifice of Jesus to gain eternal freedom with God the Father.  In the end of this earthly life that is what will ultimately matter.  For as 2 Corinthians 3:17 says, “Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.”

MOLESKIN:
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ANNOUNCEMENTS:
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Hill time

THE SCENE: Iil muggy but I’m not going to complain
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
My usual baloney

SSH x 15

T merkin

T squat

Cherry Pickers

Arm circles

OYO 30 sec
THA-THANG:

Route 66 to Sophomore Hill…. There were only like 6 lights! Sorry guys!!

  • 5 burpees
  • 4 flamingos
  • 3 shoulder taps
  • 2 merkins
  • 1 Man Maker(?) Cant recall we only did one!

Drop bottom exercise and run to top of hill and back until list is complete

20 Hand release merkins

10 Squats

5 Turkish Get on ups each side

No dropping off list, after each set run to the top of the hill

MARY:
Got some help on the Co-Q Mary on the way back to the AO!
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
A side tangent was discussed in church last weekend. This was about how we need other people. Often we like to think we can handle everything ourselves, but in reality, we rely on others (Family, peers etc.) I have been blessed to have excellent mentors at work this year (and you all aren’t such a bad lot either) Do not be averse to trying to learn from other. Be willing to depend on other people. Chances are they know something you don’t.

MOLESKIN:

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