F3 Knoxville

VQ Burpee Day

THE SCENE: Clear and Rowdy
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH-IC x 25, mtn climbers -IC x 20, Imperial Squat Walkers- IC x 25, plank jacks – OYO x 25
THA-THANG:
Burpees were a staple!

  • Burpee Dans across a standard parking lot curb to curb up to 10 burpees
  • Butkus – 45s step up with 15s rest x 5
  • 5 cone modified suicide ladder – 5 cones over appox 100 yards.  1st cone 30 SSH, 2nd cone 30 SSH +20 squats, 3rd cone 30 SSH + 20 squats + 15 burpees,  4th cone 30 SSH + 20 squats + 15 burpees + 10 BBS, 5th cone all  + 5 HR merkins, rinse and repeat

MARY:
Hello Dolly- IC x 30,  American Hammers – IC x 20

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
This Q was way harder by myself on Sunday.  It was much easier with the group.  Life is the same way.  So many times we try to do things on our own and we don’t rely on God.  We try and try ourselves and when we fail, then we turn to God.  We need to put God in everything we do and rely on him to carry us and let his will be done, not ours.  Life is much better with God in it, and not doing it by ourselves.
MOLESKIN:
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ANNOUNCEMENTS:
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We all worship

THE SCENE: Beautiful morning

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • 20 SSH IC
  • 12 Tempo Squats IC
  • 10 Merkins IC
  • 10 Cherry Pickers IC
  • 12 Baby Arm Circles (Forward & Reverse) IC

THA-THANG:

Escalator style workout: Each light pole has an exercise with an assigned number of reps. Go to Light Pole 1, complete the exercise, and run back to the start line. Run back to Light Pole 1, do the exercise, run to Light Pole 2, do the exercise, and run back to the start line. Light Pole 1, then 2, then 3, and back to the start line. Rinse and repeat until you make it to the last light pole (total of 8 light poles). The exercises/reps were as follows:

  • Light Pole 1 = 5 Hand-release Merkins
  • Light Pole 2 = 10 Jump Squats
  • Light Pole 3 = 15 Carolina Dry Docks
  • Light Pole 4 = 20 Lungs (10 each leg)
  • Light Pole 5 = 25 LBC’s
  • Light Pole 6 = 30 Iron Mikes (15 each leg)
  • Light Pole 7 = 35 Hello Dollies (single count)
  • Light Pole 8 = 40 SSH (single count)

Followed that with a little Indian run action – traditional and then with lunges and then with bear crawls. Mosey over to the cloud for the following:

  • 10 Burpee Box Jumps
  • 10 Tricep Dips IC
  • 10 Derkins
  • 10 Tricep Dips IC

MARY:

  • 20 Flutter Kicks IC
  • Plank hold into Mountain Climbers
  • 20 American Hammers IC

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

24 HIM’s got better today. Sharky & Potter came out as well (no tag)

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

One of our pastors shared the following quote with us a couple Sundays back. The message is that we all worship something. If we’re not finding our identity in Christ, then we’re finding it somewhere else. Because of sin, we are all broken cisterns. If we find our worth in money, power, the approval of others, fame, glory, etc., we will never have enough. Those worldly idols were never meant to fill the void in our hearts caused by sin – no matter how much we have, we will always want more because our souls will never be satisfied with worldly possessions. A relationship, through faith, with our Father is the only sustainable source of life.

While David Foster Wallace (the man who coined this quote) wasn’t a Christian, his message regarding worldly idols is relevant to our daily struggles.

“In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And the compelling reason for choosing some sort of god or spiritual being to worship – be it Jesus Christ or Allah, Yahweh or the Wiccan Mother Goddess, or some inviolable set of ethical principles – is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive. If you worship money and things, if they are where you tap real meaning in life, then you will never have enough, never feel you have enough. It’s the truth. Worship your body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly. And when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you. On one level, we all know this stuff already. It’s been codified as myths, proverbs, clichés, epigrams, parables; the skeleton of every great story. The whole trick is keeping the truth up front in daily consciousness. Worship power – you will feel weak and afraid, and you will need even more power over others to keep the fear at bay. Worship your intellect, being seen as smart – you will end up feeling stupid, a fraud, always on the verge of being found out. And so on.”

Burpeelicious Workout

THE SCENE: JUCO was pleasant this morning:  no rain and comfortable temperature with low humidity.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
15 mountain climbers, 15 plank-jacks, 15 SSH, 15 Imperial Walker, 10 Windmill, and 15 Moroccan Night Club
THA-THANG:

Mosey towards the Sophomore stopping halfway for 5 8-count body builders.  Continue mosey. Start with 5 reps of the following exercises (one at each corner) and increase by 5 the next two sets (i.e. 5, 10, 15 reps).  Burpees and breaking down the burpee.

  • burpees and Bernie Sanders up the hill
  • squats and run to next corner
  • merkins and run down to the next corner
  • thrusters and run back to start
  • repeat

Mosey to coupon pile and complete 15 squat, curl, press, and tricep extensions in one motion.

Mosey over to hand rails near the middle of campus.  Complete 15 supine pull-ups and 5 burpees at each corner of the parking lot, running from one corner to the next (4 corners, thanks for asking Toto, 2 rounds total).  Collect the 6 and do 5 more burpees.  Mosey towards the flag.

Stop at the corner of the parking and complete 10 tempo merkins in cadence.  Bear crawl to next corner and sprint to the flag.

Circle up and begin a merkin “wave”.  1st PAX does 1 merkin, then the PAX to his right completes 1 merkin.  Repeat until all have complete 1.  All PAX are holding plank the whole time while they are not doing their merkins.  Increase reps by 1 until time is called.  Thanks to Fast-n-Easy for stepping it up on round 4 and encouraging all the PAX to complete the final round with hand-clap merkins.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
10 PAX today
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Not prepared for the Word this morning, I decided quickly to turn in The Word to James 1.  This one of my favorite passages. I read the first 8 or so verses.  Trials will come, but you will make it through them and be better in the end if you look to God for wisdom.  Ask God for wisdom, and he will give it if you ask without doubting but with faith.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Prayers for all those recovering from the Go Ruck event this past weekend.

Stand on the Rock!

THE SCENE: 65 Degrees cool
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
-Side Straddle Hop (15 in cadence -4 count)

-Feet Together Leg Stretch (20 Seconds)

-Cherry Pickers (15 in cadence – 4 count)

-Michael Phelps (30 seconds)

-Arm Circles

THA-THANG

-Indian run with CMU to the Educator

-Partner Workout – 300 curls with CMU/Run/Bear Crawl Hill/ 10 air squats

-Partner Workout – 200 overhead press with CMU/Run/Bear Crawl Hill/10 air squats

-Mosey back to grinder

MARY:
Led by Snorkel

-Armstrong’s, heel touches, hello dolly, scissors, and superman/banana
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

  •  Spartan
  •  Snorkel
  •  Drifter
  •  Fins
  •  Emeril
  •  Napster
  •  Bumblebee
  •  Neighbor
  •  Chief
  •  Hammy
  •  Tin Man
  •  Butterfingers
  •  Squiggly
  •  Gecko
  •  Happy
  •  Flash

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Psalms 18:2 – The LORD is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer; my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
MOLESKIN:
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ANNOUNCEMENTS:
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The last shall be first

THE SCENE: Partly cloudy with nice breeze, low eighties.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
20 Side Straddle Hops, 15 Bottle Caps, 10 Plank Jacks, 10 Windmills, 10 Cherry Pickers, Little of This and Little of That
THA-THANG:

Mosey down Roadshow Run and go to trail near Lyons Bend Entrance.  20 Hello Dollies.  After that we will do 14’s on trail as it goes east and then south.  We will stop when it curves by parking lot.  We will bear crawl to first light and sprint next four all the way on the trail, bear crawl one light, sprint four lights.

Mosey on roadway until we get to playground.  We will do elevens starting with one bench lift and ten bench jumps.  20 American Hammers in Cadence afterward.

Mosey to grassy area close to Pickett’s Charge.  There will be cones on he grassy area.  We will do suicides running to each cone and back to start.  Rest to do 40 Baby Crunches.  Do suicides one more time but this time do 10 Merkins each time we get back to start.  Those who finish first do Big Boy Sit-ups.

Mosey to front of Admin Bldg.  Stop to do 20 Box Cutters in Cadence.

Mosey to rock pile near Admin Bldg Parking Lot.  20 Bench Presses, 20 Curls, 20 Rows, 20 Squats.

Mosey to AO.
MARY:
Plank with lifts of each hand and each leg.  Leg stretches from plank position.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Nine men including a Flying EH who was our FNG.  His hospital name is Tony Guidera and we dubbed him “Bojangles.”
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Matthew 19:30

But many who are first will be last, and the last first.

Matthew 20:16
So the last will be first, and the first last.”
Mark 9:35
And he sat down and called the twelve. And he said to them, “If anyone would be first, he must be last of all and servant of all.”
In all these sayings, Jesus is indicating that God does not give great importance to ability, success, wealth or fame in His Kingdom.  Jesus also indicates that God places importance on us serving others.  As leaders we should think of ourselves as servants, not head of the pack.
One of the reasons that I have loved the F3 Brotherhood and F3 Philosophy so much is that I feel we follow this philosophy that Jesus speaks of.  When I came to F3, I heard that military men had started it and I was worried that it was going to be a “get your A _ _ in gear boy” type of mentality where guys are pushed and made fun of when they failed.  Instead, I found a group of men who do push THEMSELVES but who encourage the newcomers and circle back for them when they cannot keep up with those ahead of them.  I found a group who gives RESPECT to the older, slower guys.  The philosophy of F3 is to encourage EVERY MAN.  We respect each man for what he offers, for his unique set of gifts.  We admire the fastest and we admire the strongest.  We admire the slowest who is giving it all to get better.  We admire those who are great speakers, who know about our community, who are good teachers, who are awesome mumble-chatterers, who are willing to do something that they are uncomfortable with doing, who are willing to wake up early morning to get better, who are willing to come out on an afternoon of excessive heat and humidity to get better.  Who is first and who is last in F3?  Who knows?  I guess we are all first and all last.  And I get the feeling that God smiles on F3 Knoxville because we do live out the philosophy that God has asked us to live by.

MOLESKIN:
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ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Hike this weekend on Andrews Bald.  Those going will meet at Food City at 8:30 am and head out together.  Mud run in Atlanta following weekend.