F3 Knoxville

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.

4×4 @ 2min

THE SCENE: 50o and clear.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Baby Arm Circles 15x IC – Forward and reverse
  • Cherry Pickers 15x IC
  • Imperial Squat Walkers 15x IC
  • Micheal Phelps – about a min

THA-THANG:
4 Stations, 4 Exercises, 2 minute work, 15 sec change.

  • Station 1
    1. Hand Release Merkins
    2. Merkins
    3. Carolina Dry Docks
    4. Shoulder Taps
  • Station 2
    1. Squats
    2. Lunges
    3. Calf Raises
    4. Step-Ups
  • Station 3 – with bricks
    1. Curls
    2. Overhead Press
    3. Tricep Extensions
    4. Bent Over Rows
  • Station 4
    1. Flutter Kicks
    2. Big Boy Sit-ups
    3. Bruce Lees
    4. Little Baby Crunches

MARY:

  • Slutter Kicks 10x IC
  • Captian Thors – 5BBS/20American Hammers
  • Boat/Canoe

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Gratitude. Seek out the little things daily that we can express gratitude for, your daughter/son taking out the trash without asking, your co-worker cleaning up the kitchen even when they didn’t make the mess. When you start looking for the things in life to be thankful for, it is harder to be negative and your spirit of gratefulness will spread to those around you.

The Two Brysons

THE SCENE: 49 (perfect!) and no rain (for a change)
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x 15

Cherry Pickers x 10

Mosey the route to be repeated later on

Merkins x 30

Tie Fighter BAC x 10, forward and reverse
THA-THANG:
Divide into 5 groups for some station work:

STATION  #1

GRAB A CMU

CURLS x 20

ROWS x 20

SQUATS (W/CMU) X 20

Repeat until bumped

STATION #2

BURPEES x 10

Hello Dolly (4 CT) x20

Sumo Squats x 20

Repeat until bumped

STATION # 3

Single leg calf raises x15 each leg

Car. Dry docks x 20

Flutter kicks (4 ct) x20

Repeat until bumped

STATION #4

Bear Crawl across parking lot to last line

merkins x 20

Lunge back to beginning

Amer. Hammers x 20

Repeat until bumped

STATION #5

RUN

RABBITS WAGONWHEEL TO THE 6.  FINISH TOGETHER.

START AT STATION #1

Each group made it through about 1 1/2 times

MARY:
Ring of Fire with leg lifts, Capt. Thors, and ATMs
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
My connection to God and to my fellow man is strongest when I have the courage to lower my defenses and allow myself to be vulnerable with others.  When I risk getting hurt is when I gain the most.  Do not be afraid to show weakness.  God said to Paul “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.”  (2 Cor. 12:9).  I pray that I have the courage to acknowledge my weakness to others and make myself vulnerable.
MOLESKIN:
2 FNGs today, both named Bryson.  Welcome Churro and Overachiever.  Prayers for Weezy and Gardener and their family as they move to Athens.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Q101 at JUCO – Mixin’ it up

THE SCENE: Recovering from the rain this week it was a little soggy but perfect weather for a beat down.   Not to hot not too cold. F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

4 Standards: Disclaimer, Proper count and cadence, BOM, COT

  • A – Authenticity – If you can’t do it, then don’t Q it. Period
  • C – Consistency – Count the same way every time, all the time.
  • E – Energy – The PAX feed off the Q’s energy. Bring the heat and be early.
  • S – Selflessness – The workout is about the PAX, not the Q. Not ever

WARM-O-RAMA:

  • SH 25x (IC)
  • Wide Merkins x 10 (IC)
  • Merkin 15x (IC)
  • Arm Circles Forward 15x (IC)
  • Arm Circles Backward 15x (IC)
  • 3 Hand Release Burpees OYO

THA-THANG:

String of Pearls to Hill – No Man Left Behind, plan the workout with all fitness levels in mind.

  • Stop 1 – 100 Squats (P1 does 10 while P2 holds air chair; 100 total for group))

Explanations and transitions can make or break a workout!

Three stages of the PAX, where are you?

  1. Survival
  2. Push yourself
  3. Encourage

Grinders – 12 min

1st Battle Buddy lunges to the first cone, then sprints to 2 second cone, does 2 reps of the exercise while Battle Buddy 2 is jumping air rope.  Switch. Each round increase by 2 reps until each man does a total of 14 reps.  Three rounds:

  • Rd 1 = Burpees
  • Rd 2 = BBS
  • Rd 3 = Ranger Merkins (hands at should width, elbows in)
  1. Keep the PAX Moving. No down time
  2. Practice explanations the night before and make sure they are easy to explain!
  3. Demonstrate as needed
  4. Structure the workout with all skill levels in mind.
  5. Always start and end on time. Always have a watch or a phone
  6. Rehearse your exercises and your cadence aloud in prep for the workout.

The BEAST is 6 exercises, performing 6 reps at 6 stops. 12 min

4 lines (lined field or cones).  Start at first line, sprint to second and do 6 reps, then to third and do 6 reps, then to fourth and do 6 reps, back to third for 6 reps, back to second for 6 reps, back to start line and complete 6 reps.  Hold Plank until all finish.

  • Merkins
  • Star Jacks
  • Squats
  • Wide Arm Merkins
  • Bobby Hurley
  • Burpees

MARY:
Dealers Choice

  • Flutter Kicks x 25(IC)

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:

BOM

BOM

  • Plan your workout – Actually write it down and get someone who has Q’d before to review it.
  • Better to have too much than not enough
  • Have an alternative Plan! for rain, weather size of PAX etc.
  • Welcome everyone
  • Use good form
  • Cadence- Inflection and recover and practice out loud!

BOM

“Today you will spend solitary moments of conversation with yourself, either listing your complaints or counting your blessings.”

“Think with me for a moment. Do you live a life of blessing or complaint?

  • easy to find fault, discontent.
  • easy to be irritated and impatient.
  • easy to groan and moan about the difficulties of life
  • easy to be dissatisfied.

Why are these things so easy? Well, they’re easy because sin still causes us to make it all about us. ”

“Our readiness to complain is another argument for the forgiving and rescuing grace that Jesus, without complaint, willingly died to give us.”

Saint Francis Prayer

Lord make me an instrument of your peace
Where there is hatred let me sow love
Where there is injury, pardon
Where there is doubt, faith
Where there is despair, hope
Where there is darkness, light
And where there is sadness, joy

O divine master grant that I may
not so much seek to be consoled as to console
to be understood as to understand
To be loved as to love
For it is in giving that we receive
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned
And it’s in dying that we are born to eternal life
Amen

 

The Old Hag

THE SCENE: 50’s, a little gloomy
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
20 Ruck Merkin buy-in
THA-THANG:
Coupons were 1 – 65ish pound sand bag and 1 – 60 pound sandbag

Ruck with coupons and PT stations

PT Station 1

20 sandbag and ruck Squat

20 sandbag and ruck bent over row

20 ruck merkins

20 ruck presses

PT Station 2

20 Incline Ruck Merkins

10 Sandbag cleans

PT Station 3

15 Diamond Ruck Merkins

20 Sandbag Ruck Squats

15 Ruck Swings

20 Ruck Presses

MARY:
No time

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Insert the WORD here.
MOLESKIN:
My sandbag is a 80 pound bag but I only have about 65 pounds in it right now.  It hangs over your shoulders when carrying it.  I-Beam thought it looked like a saggy old hag (use your imagination).  So, that is how the sandbag got the name Old Hag.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Insert information about upcoming events, 2nd or 3rd F opportunities, and any other announcements.