F3 Knoxville

Mayday

THE SCENE: Beautiful morning. Clear and perfect
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA 
SSH X29,

Mosey Around outhouse

Cherry pickers x5
Tha Thang
Partner up, mosey with 1 CMU per duo up towards boats
Stop at 1/2 way at guardrail
Dora:
100 declines
150 CMU squats
200 presses
While partner runs up to top and back (60+ yards)
Mosey to boat
One partner runs to light pole with CMU
while other does burpees. Partner 1 runs back and tags partner 2 and both run to CMU. Repeat switching partners each time.
 10 burpees OYO
At steps:
Stand beside each other.  15 squats total passing CMU each time. Repeat but switch sides. For total of 30.
Run up to rock at restaurant
Repeat x3
 10 burpees OYO
Return back towards AO stopping at each light pole as before but doing LBCs.
Mosey To guardrail again for mini Dora 100 merkins while partner runs to top again
 20 incline merkins on guardrail
mosey to AO for 35 Flutterkicks
COT 12 Pax
BOM
 Story from Rabbi Abraham Twerski

“‘Young man. Why are you eating that fish?’ The young mans says, ‘Because I love fish.’ He says, ‘Oh. You love the fish. That’s why you took it out of the water and killed it and boiled it.’ He says, ‘Don’t tell me you love the fish. You love yourself, and because the fish tastes good to you; therefore, you took it out of the water and killed it and boiled it.’

“So much of what is love is fish love. Young couple falls in love. Young man and young woman fall in love. What does that mean? That means that he saw in this woman someone who he felt could provide him with all of his physical and emotional needs, and she felt in this man somebody she feels that she can write, that was love, but each one is looking out for their own needs. It’s not love for the other. The other person becomes a vehicle for my gratification.

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“Too much of what is called love is fish love. An external love is not on what I’m going to get but I’m going to give. We had an ethicist rabbi Dessler, who said, ‘People make a serious mistake in thinking that you give to those whom you love, and the real answer is you love those to whom you give.’

His point is if I give something to you, I’ve invested myself in you. Since self-love is a given, everybody loves themselves, now that part of me has become in you, there’s part of me in you that I love. True love is a love of giving, not a love of receiving.’

MOLESKIN:
Not a lot of chatter this morning, I’m assuming that means it was a good workout?…
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Prayers for families struggling, praise for friends marriage issues on right road

Over The Hill

THE SCENE: Mid 40s I think….nice & cool.

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER


WARM-O-RAMA:

  • SSH x 40
  • Stretch OYO

 

THA-THANG:
Mosey to big hill on the other side of Hardin Valley Road.  5 cones set up at the top of the hill.  Start at bottom & run reverse suicide (go to furthest cone first) doing the following exercises at each cone.

  • Cone 5:  40 Burpee
  • Cone 4:  40 Hello Dolly
  • Cone 3:  40 Squat Jumps
  • Cone 2:  40 Carolina Dry Docks
  • Cone 1:  40 Merkins

PAX then mosey back to the top of the hill for final descent Paula Abdul style.  Run forward down the hill 2 cones, then bernie sanders back up 1 cone.  Rinse & Repeat until all the way down.

MARY:

  • LBC x 40
  • Mountain Climbers x 40
  • ABCs

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

Tank, Doubtfire, La-Z-Boy, Booster, Snaggletooth, Toto, Hammy, Ratchet, Waxjob, Bartman

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
How are we living for Christ?  While we may not have the same physical needs as other Christians around the world, we do have a responsibility to stand in the gap for our brothers and sisters in Christ.   Are you routinely praying on behalf of others?   Jesus is in the people business and we should be too.

MOLESKIN:
Today is my 40th birthday—special thanks to those who came out for my Q today and for all of the birthday wishes!  F3 is an awesome brotherhood!

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Hardship hill – May 19th.  Booster says there are still some spots left on the JUCO team if anyone is looking for a team to join.

Saturday Buffet

THE SCENE:  Around 50.  Nice & cool.

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER


WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Side Straddle Hops x 20
  • This/that stretch
  • Tempo Squats x 20
  • Leg stretches
  • Burpees x 10

THA-THANG:

  1. Mosey to playground
    • 11’s:  Pull-ups & American Hammers (4ct)
  2. Mosey to soccer field
    • Bear Square.  Cones set up in a square.  Crawl the square always facing toward Watt Rd.  Crawl 3 laps & perform 10 reps of the following at each corner.
      • Lap 1:  Burpee
      • Lap 2:  Speed Skater
      • Lap 3:  Bobby Hurley
  3. Mosey to new bathroom
    • Countdown.  List of exercises written on the ground.  Do all exercises from top to bottom then run down the hill to the parking lot and back up.  Rinse & repeat eliminating the bottom remaining exercise each time.
      • 10 Thrust Merkin
      • 8 Iron Mike
      • 6 Easy Up
      • 4 Squat Jump
      • 2 Round The Clock Merkin
  4. Mosey to baseball field
    • Merkin relay race.  Split into 2 teams.  Team 1 at home plate, team 2 at 2nd base.  Each team holds a plank while a team member sprints around bases.  Once teammate completes a lap, the team does 10 merkins as a group then the next man runs.
  5. Concrete bleachers
    • 75 box jumps

MARY:

  • Boat/canoe
  • Marge/Homer
  • Flutter kicks x 35

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
9 total:  Butters, La-Z-Boy, Mr. Clean, Showcase, Frosty, Booger, Wagon Wheel, Sharpie, Bartman

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
God honors nations who honor him.  Our country was founded on Godly principles and I believe we are still reaping the benefit of that foundation today, even as our country slides further and further into depravity.  As evidenced throughout the Old Testament, God will honor a nation far longer than they deserve because of their foundation.  This grace that we live under creates an environment in which Christians in America often don’t know what it’s like to rely on God completely.  We live in a cushy society where our “problems” are often trivial compared to what Christians face around the world.  Our mentality of “you can accomplish anything if you work hard enough” can easily trap us into leaving God out of our lives altogether, thinking we have somehow accomplished success on our own.  Therefore we need to be ever vigilant about seeking Christ in all we do and putting Him at the center of our efforts.  We should humble ourselves daily, acknowledging that we are nothing apart from Christ.

MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Hardship Hill 5/19

The cure for loneliness, 4/28/2018

THE SCENE: Sunny and cool but warming.  The dew twinkling on the new green grass.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x 50, Tie-Fighters, Some plank streches.  Tempo merks…

3 man Dora with  CMU 150 curls/rows/press with the other two doing 5 burps at the opposite side of lot.
THA-THANG:

Pulling a log together around the Asylum. Volunteers pull the log, others mosey.  Starting an escalator (1; 1&2; 1&2&3 to 5 and then back down.  Pull log a little farther each stop.

  1. 5 burpees,
  2. 10 BBS
  3. Tempo squats
  4. CDD
  5. SSH
  • During the above we stopped at the foot of Everest and did some bear crawl up with reps of mountain climbers, plank jacks, CCDs, Flutter kicks and the back to the log.

MARY:
Hello dolly’s and captian Thors, ATM’s and stop..
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
21 strong with one FNG, Alex (Retreat)
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Talked about how endemic loneliness is in middle aged men and how a group like F3 can be the cure.

Quote from media report on health risk of low social relationships.

An analysis of nearly 150 studies has found that people with strong social relationships had about a 50 percent lower mortality risk than those with weaker ties. Julianne Holt-Lunstad and her co-authors concluded that those with weaker social relationships had a greater risk of death than people who were physically inactive or obese. Let me put that another way. Spending time building and nurturing your friendships might be just as important to your health as eating right and exercising.

I came that they may have life and have it abundantly. – John 10:10

 

A Q for Remembering

THE SCENE: Around 50, with an amazing sun coming up
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
25x SSH IC
15x TN Rocking Chairs IC
10x 4ct Travoltas each side
15x Tempo Squats
10x Tempo Merkins
Run one lap

THA-THANG:
Played a good ol’ game of Memory. 20 cards with 10 different exercises.
PAX take turns flipping 2 cards. If the cards don’t match, all PAX do BOTH exercises.
If the cards match they’re removed, and PAX just do that exercise followed by running a lap.

The cards:
15 Merkins
15 Dry Docks
10 Iron Mikes (each leg)
10 Squat jump
10 Burpee
15 Monkey Hump 4ct
20 Mtn Climber 4ct
Bear Crawl to Pavalon, Crawl Bear back
10 Body Weight Rows at the Scrapyard
20 Big Boys

MARY:
PAX cleared the last card just in time for:
Hello Dollys
Flutter Kicks
Crossing Hello Dolly Flutter Kick Things (pretty sure they have a name, but I can’t think of it)
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
7 PAX this morning. The number of perfection!
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Every workout ends with the Ball of Man… A group united as one! But as an engineer, I am always working with a different BOM – Bill of Materials. The Bill of Materials is a detailed list of all of the components that make up the system that’s currently being designed. All those components serve a very specific purpose. They’re included for a reason. Once they’re assembled, they are part of a functioning unit. Both of those meanings of BOM together reminded me of 1 Corinthians 12:

14For the body is not one member, but many. 15If the foot says, “Because I am not a hand, I am not a part of the body,” it is not for this reason any the less a part of the body. 16And if the ear says, “Because I am not an eye, I am not a part of the body,” it is not for this reason any the less a part of the body. 17If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole were hearing, where would the sense of smell be? 18But now God has placed the members, each one of them, in the body, just as He desired. 19If they were all one member, where would the body be? 20But now there are many members, but one body.

Your role as a member of Christ’s body is no more or less important to Him than any other. This is not to say “You are a special snowflake and nobody is like you”. This is to say that you have a specific reason, purpose, for being, for doing, for living. You have a job to do, a role to fill. Seek what that role is from the Head, and DO it with all your might!

MOLESKIN:
You can always count on Rain Check to subvert the workout… Only 4 cards left and he decided he didn’t want to run, so he intentionally flipped non-matching cards! Of course, it only delayed the inevitable…
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Pray for Butterfingers’ MIL – Upcoming surgery. Support Moses run for 100 miles today! Hardship hill May 19.