F3 Knoxville

Discovering the Project

THE SCENE: Just above freezing and clear.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
15 mountain climbers, 10 tempo merkins, 10 imperial walkers, 10 windmill, 15 Moroccan night club
THA-THANG:
Mosey to the playground and note the dip bars along the way.  We have got to use these!  Perform 3 rounds of the following:

  • 10 pull-ups
  • Run to the dip bars and do 10 dips
  • Run to the amphitheater and do 10 box jumps
  • stay at the dip bars on round 3 and do squats until the 6 gets in.

Long mosey over to the high school main entrance.  These are nice walls with a varying height for PAX of all sizes!  We have got use this!

  • 10 quasi-muscle-ups on the wall
  • 10 donkey kicks
  • 10 merkins
  • lap around circle in front of the school
  • repeat exercises and hold plank until the 6 finishes.

Mosey to the track for one more round of fun.  After a little detour to find an open gate, we assembled one the track for “Catch me if you can”.  One PAX Bernies while a partner does the called exercise.  When the partner completes the exercise, sprint to catch the other PAX.  Once caught, the partner that was running drops and does the exercise.  One full lap of doing 10 diamond merkins and one doing 5 burpees.  Mosey back to the shovel flag.
MARY:
No time.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
5 representing The Project today.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Isaiah 40:25-31  Be humbled by the awesome power of God.  We may “grow weary and tired” in this life and “stumble badly”, but “yet those who wait for the Lord will gain new strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles, they will run and not get tired, they will walk and not become weary”.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
3rd F opportunity coming up.  Sign up for Hardship hill in May.

Read me like a book

THE SCENE: 35* and NO RAIN
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Imperial walker x10
  • Bat wing
    • BAC forward x20
    • BAC reverse x20
    • OH Claps x20
  • Tempo squat x10
  • 4 count merkin x10
  • SSH

THA THANG:

Ascending curb crawl 1-13. Bear crawl from one curb to the other, do 1 merkin. Bear crawl back to the original side, 2 merkins. Continue up to 13 merkins.
Decision time: 5 exercises at 5 different places, PAX choose rep count of 10, 20, 30, 40, 50. PAX choose the reps before knowing the exercise, and once they’ve used a number they can’t use it again.
  • Star jumps @ Big Ball (50)
  • Sit ups @ stage (40)
  • Burpees @ fountain (10)
  • Curls with rocks @ L&N (30)
  • SSH @ South end of park (20)

PAX read me like a book, burpees only 10 reps. G6 called it before we ever got there too.

20 sprints. Do 20 of exercise, sprint to the other end of the road and continue reps of said exercise until everyone has made it. Call a new exercise and repeat.
  • Diamond merkins
  • Squats
  • Sit ups
  • Wide merkins
  • Plank jacks
  • Burpees (10)

MARY:
Flutter kicks x20
Sit ups x20
Box cutters 10
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
10 Strong (get to keep my beard): G6, Reverb, The Voice, Amazon, Rousey, Passport, Cowbell, Duggar, Swanson, Abort
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
The Einstellung Effect: the negative aspect of having experience.  We all usually think having experience and even success somewhere is a good thing, and it is.  However, this effect describes the type of confirmation bias that arises from having success at something: you might not consider other options which might be even better or more beneficial.  Challenge to myself and other PAX to not only try to get better at things which they struggle with, but also occasionally take a look at things you do well, and consider that you might have another option.  My personal challenge is to try to find a way to love my family and friends in a better way. AYE!!
MOLESKIN:
Continue to pray for Passport and that hopefully he can avoid another back surgery, for G6’s son Rick who still has a fever following his operation, and for Swanson and his wife and family.

Suicides and Bacon

THE SCENE: 45* and rainy (sort of), somehow the rain stopped just long enough for the workout
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Mosey to the parking lot in front of Maple Street Biscuit Company

100xSSH, 10xTempo Merkins, 10xTempo Squats

THA-THANG:
Suicide ladder performed on the full length of the parking lot (approx. 100 yards)

Perform 5 merkins on one end of the parking lot and 5 Bobby Hurleys on the opposite end. Add 5 reps for every round completed. The PAX performed 6 rounds finishing with 30 reps of each exercise.

DORA 123:

  • 100xBBS
  • 200xChair Dips
  • 300xSquats

Exercises were performed by one HIM while the other ran down to some coupons to perform either 10 sandbag slams or 10 kettlebell swings.

After DORA we performed AYG sprints down and back in the parking lot. We almost lost the PAX when the smell of Maple Street’s bacon hit us during the sprints. Note to avoid that area of the AO in the future to avoid casualties.

MARY:
20xImperial Walkers

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
9 HIMS and no FNGs

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
This last week I was out of town for work for the first time since my daughter was born and left my wife to fend for herself with the two kids. It was nice getting a small break from the chaos of having two little ones, but I quickly found myself missing the whole crew. It was a good reminder to cherish the time we get with our loved ones. It’s easy to come home from work exhausted and neglect family time, but as High Impact Men, we need to make an effort to fully utilize this time to encourage and uplift our families. 

MOLESKIN:
Shoutout to Bagger for pre-rucking solo. I fartsacked and paid the price with my shame. Bagger’s last workout before moving to Atlanta is this coming Monday. Let’s make sure to send him off right!

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Bring books for the Wesley House next week.

99 Problems but the rain ain’t one

THE SCENE: 50 and pouring rain
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
DORA warmup – partner farmer carries CMU’s to the bathrooms and back

  • SSH x100
  • Arm circles x150
  • BBS x200

THA-THANG:
99 Problems (99 reps of each exercise) – Run down to the troll bridge and back between each exercise. Exercises:

  • Merkins
  • Monkey Humpers
  • Curls
  • Mountain Climbers (4 count)
  • Flutter Kicks (4 count)
  • CMU OH Press
  • Step Ups
  • CMU Dead Lift
  • Shoulder Taps

MARY:
Dr. W x10 IC
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
11 Men
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Short version – Don’t spend your life chasing the small, incremental moments of happiness. Find the joy in what you naturally do every day in life.

“Happiness is an emotional response to an outcome. If I win, I will be happy, if I don’t I won’t. It’s an if-then, cause and effect, quid pro quo standard that we cannot sustain because we immediately raise it every time we attain it. See, happiness demands a certain outcome, it is result reliant and I say if happiness is what you’re after then you’re gonna be let down frequently and you’re gonna be unhappy much of your time. Joy though… Joy is a different thing, its something else. Joy is not a choice, it’s not a response to some result. It’s a constant. Joy is the feeling that we have from doing what we are fashioned to do no matter the outcome. See, joy is always in process it’s under construction. It is in constant approach alive and well in the doing of what we’re fashioned to do and enjoying. The easiest way to dissect success is through gratitude. Give thanks for that which we do have, for what is working. Appreciating the simple things we sometimes take for granted. We give thanks for these things and that gratitude reciprocates. Creating more to be thankful for.It’s really simple, and it works. I’m not saying be in denial of your failures. No, we can learn from them too. But only if we look at them constructively as a means to reveal what we are good at. What we can get better at, what we do succeed at. We don’t always do our best, and since we are the architects of our own lives, let’s study the habits, the practices, the routines that we have that lead to and feed our success, our joy, our honest pain, our laughter, our earned tears. Lets dissect that and give thanks for those things. No matter what you choose, do not let it jeopardize your soul.”
MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Habitat for Humanity project on 3/9.

A JUCO Farewell

THE SCENE: 31 degrees but no precipitation! A beautiful morning!
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

SSH (IC) x 20, Tempo Merkins (IC) x 10, Moroccan Night Club (IC) x 10, Cherry Pickers (IC) x 8, Tempo Squats (IC) x 10

THA-THANG:

Mosey to Sophomore Hill Bataan Death March Style (Indian run with PAX in back doing 3 burpees before running to the front).  Dora Style Workout with 100 Body Builders, 200 Merkins, and 300 Squats.  PAX not performing exercise will Bernie up the hill and do 5 Big Boys.  When your group is finished do Body Builders until 6 is finished.

Mosey back towards AO

MARY:
Cash out with a game of 11’s starting with 10 Calf Raises and 1 Burpee

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

12 HIMs crushed it today!

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

1 John 4:18 – There is no fear in love.  But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment.  The one who fears is not made perfect in love.

Today will most likely be the final time I Q in F3 Knoxville.  This week, my wife and I will be moving to the Atlanta Metro area to start a new chapter in our lives.  As the verse says above, we do not fear this change and are looking forward to it because everything has worked out how it was meant to.  The process for us to get to this point our lives has been very frustrating and stressful at times.  However, if things hadn’t worked out the way they did, I would have never been exposed to F3 and had the opportunity to meet and get better with all of you over the last few months.  For that, I am extremely grateful and consider myself lucky to have had that opportunity.

MOLESKIN:

Bonus points to Judge Judy and Spotter for joining me on the preruck!  I encourage some new people to give the preruck a shot.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: