F3 Knoxville

Pick your poison

THE SCENE: Equalizer 47 degrees, clear
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Mosey to flags and do SSHs and Merkins
THA-THANG:
Do following exercises and qty. before completing one lap around track and move to next exercise. You can do them anywhere along track and in any grouping you wish. Total must be 46.

  • Dry docks x46
  • Bobby Hurley’s x46
  • Merkins x46
  • Iron mikes x46
  • shoulder taps x46 each shoulder
  • Bear crawl steps x46
  • Diamond Merkins x46
  • squat jumps x46
  • wide Merkins x46
  • lunges x46 each leg
  • LBCs 4ct x46

REPEAT if  necessary

MARY:
Flutters and stuff
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

9  PAX, toebox, tank, abacus, woodshack, hot tub,  detention, choirboy   bunny, peekaboo

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
“Know therefore that the Lord your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commandments.”
‭‭Deuteronomy‬ ‭7:9‬ ‭
MOLESKIN:

It wasn’t the hardest q in the world, but  that’s OK

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

HHOCR, prayers

Encouragement

THE SCENE: Beautiful day, temp hovering under 70 degrees, blue sky with a few white clouds
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
20 Side Straddle Hops, 10 Pinto Twists, 10 Windmills, 10 Cherry Pickers, 7 Baby Arm Circles Forward and 7 Backward, 5 Wide Arm Circles Forward and 5 Backward.
THA-THANG:
Mosey to stop sign at northeastern corner of Admin Bldg.  We will do Twenty American Hammers.  Then we will do the following cone exercises around the roadway that semi-circles the Admin Bldg.  We will sprint to Cone 1 and follow instructions from there.

  • Cone 1:  Ten Burpees.  Then Bernie Sanders to Cone 2
  • Cone 2:  20 Hello Dollies (four count).  Then Hop to Cone 3.
  • Cone 3:  20 Imperial Walkers (both legs = 1).  Then Bear Crawl to Cone 4.
  • Cone 4:  20 Smurf Jacks.  Then Lunge to Cone 5.
  • Cone 5:  20 Squats.  Then Bernie Sanders to Cone 6.
  • Cone 6:  20 Squat Jumps.  Then Grapevine Right to Cone 7.
  • Cone 7:  20 Carolina Dry Docks.  Then Grapevine Left to Cone 8.
  • Cone 8:  40 Baby Crunches, 20 Merkins, 20 Box Cutters, 20 Diamond Merkins, 10 Shoulder Taps (both shoulders = 1).

Mosey down hill by roadway that heads to main roadway coming from entrance gate at Lyons Bend.  We will do elevens starting with 1 Big Boy Sit Up at bottom of hill and 10 Iron Mikes (each leg = 1) at top of hill.

Mosey to Area 51.  We will do 20 Hands Wide Merkins.  Then we will run up the hill to roadway that semicircles the Admin Bldg.  We will go back to Cone 8 and repeat the exercises there.

Mosey back to AO.

MARY:
20 Flutter Kicks, 20 Bicycle Kicks, 30 Side Heel Touches while on Six, 25 Buzz Saws
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Seven men, no FNG’s.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

1 Thessalonians 5:11 ESV /

Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.

One thing I appreciate about our F3 brotherhood is how we encourage one another.  I always hear brothers exhorting one another to keep up the good work, to keep pushing.  I never hear brothers criticize other brothers for being too slow, for not keeping up.  We work hard but we do so with a great deal of support.  It works the same way with the time we share from our hearts.  We praise one another when the news is good and are ready to console and wrap our arms around anyone who shares something painful or difficult.  Keep up the good work.  Keep striving to be excellent but keep encouraging one another to reach for excellence.  Men need encouragement and it is the iron sharpening iron aspect of F3 which is one of the truly magical things about our group.  We take that creed seriously and in so doing, we reach out to our fellow man.
MOLESKIN:
Prayers for J-Lo’s recovery from torn meniscus and prayers for co-worker of Sparkler and her husband who was recently diagnosed with colon cancer.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Board meeting to prepare for Hardship Hill.  Hardship Hill will be this Saturday.

Sprints and Merkins

THE SCENE: 47 and clear
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH IC 25

Smurf Jacks IC 25

Star Jacks IC 25

Plank Jacks IC 25
THA-THANG:
Sprints

Merkins

Ab stuff

MARY:
World’s greatest Merkin

Spiderman Merkins
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Whatever I said wasn’t what I wanted to say.  But God is not meek his is strong and he is always strong.  He wants us to be meek at times, so that we can depend on one another and more importantly depend on Him.  He wants us to be strong for one another. There have been far too many stories lately of men not reaching out and it ending in dire consequences.  We as HIMs need to make sure we are reaching out too and being God’s light to these men.

MOLESKIN:
Props to Junk for coming out even though he is on IR

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Hardship Hill is this Sat

Shaking the Rust Off

THE SCENE: 49°F, chilly and clear spring morning
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA: (all IC 4-count)

  • SSH x20 
  • Merkins x4 
  • Imperial Walker x20 
  • Merkins x6
  • Imperial Squat Walkers (or Imperial Squawkers) x20
  • Merkins x8

THA-THANG:
Mosey to the Square w/ the fountain
Kraken:
Complete exercises at each cone and keep running around the loop. Rinse and repeat until time is up.

  • Cone 1 – Jump Squats x20
  • Cone 2 – Shoulder Taps (4ct) x20
  • Cone 3 – Mountain Climber 4ct x20
  • Cone 4 – Squats x20
  • Cone 5 – Smurf Jacks x20
  • Cone 6 – Merkins x20
  • Cone 7 – Dry Docks x20
  • Cone 8 – Lunges x20 (10 each leg)

Short mosey to the large square planter area
Using 4 planters to make a large square:
At first corner: Scorpion Dry Docks x20
Bear Crawl to next corner
Next corner: American Hammers x20
Lunge to next corner
Next corner: Scorpion Dry Docks x20
Bear Crawl to next corner
Last corner: American Hammers x20
Lunge to next corner
Rinse and repeat

Mosey to Civic Center front walk
5s
Merkins on 1 end of walk, squats at other end of walk

Mosey back to SP

MARY:

  • Captain Thor (1 BBS for 4 American Hammers, up to 5 and 20) IC single count
  • Plank Jacks x20 IC
  • Flutter Kicks x20 IC
  • LBC x50 IC
  • Plank
    • Hand and leg up
    • Switch to other side
  • Stretching

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
8- Salad Boy, Samaritan, Kick Flip, Frenchie, Erector, Chaco, Snaggletooth, Archie (QIC)

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
An excerpt from Day 2 of “Known- Finding Deep Friendships in a Shallow World”
Theologian Paul Tillich articulated the distinction beautifully when he said, “Language…has created the word ‘loneliness’ to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word ‘solitude’ to express the glory of being alone.” One is toxic. The other is life giving.
The alone we speak of here is the toxic kind. Almost anything can trigger it. Aloneness unchecked turns us in on ourselves and destroys perspective. The gathered pain is an inch-by-inch slide off an emotional cliff. It is isolating. Left unresolved, it is a cancer.
Who chooses to be alone and disoriented in the dark? No one. Who wants to experience moments of unbridled joy or great hardship by themselves? No one. Human contact is life itself.
It is important to remember that F3 is intended to be more than just a fitness class. It is a venue for relationships. F3 is an excellent way to prevent loneliness for men.

Snitch Has Gas

THE SCENE: 49 and awesome
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER We’re all adults here
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH, Windmills, Squats, BACs, OHCs, Thumbs Down, more OHCs, take a lap.
THA-THANG:
Box Baby Docks on the Cloud, on repeat. Table Row/Squat Elevens followed by a short mosey down to Atomic Speedway. Maybe the pay-to-play people stole our CMUs? Maybe they grew legs and were making an escape? Either way, we had to pick them up.

Curls, Hands Shrugs (™), bernie, swings, presses, sprints, the tricep thing, more curls. Q just wants to be shredded like Rainbow. A guy can dream, right?

We followed our hearts, which led us to Cardiac, where we figured it was time for hand-releases, squats, dips, flutters…and a repeat. Q is so afraid of boat/canoe that he would rather repeat cardiac one more time.

MARY:
See above. Q is scared and not ashamed to say it.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Rainbow, Hands, Snitch, Finger Paint, and yours truly. Crab Legs is lost in London, so we had the “My Fair Lady” soundtrack on repeat the whole time.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
“Is it?…is it?” I whispered to my guide.
“Not at all,” said he. “It’s someone ye’ll never have heard of. Her name on earth was Sarah Smith and she lived at Golders Green.”
“She seems to be…well, a person of particular importance?”
“Aye. She is one of the great ones. Ye have heard that fame in this country and fame on Earth are two quite different things.”
MOLESKIN:
Q is grateful to be up early, running around with these men.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Snitch calls a guy about a gas line, guy tells Snitch what happened after he died. Spoiler alert; it’s all true.