F3 Knoxville

The Farmer Carry

THE SCENE: Little warm, beautiful morning!
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

SSH x20 IC
LB Arm Circles x12 each forward and backward IC
Little of this, little of that
Shrugs x10 on Q
Cherry Pickeres x10 IC

THA-THANG:

Everyone grab a CMU and Mosey over to Waxjob hill. Partner up. One Partner takes both CMUs and does bears and blocks up the hill, then farmer carries both CMUs over to the tennis courts around two nets and back. While partner one does that, partner two does the following exercises:

  • BBS x30
  • Squats x25
  • Merkins x20
  • V-ups x15
  • Burpees x10

Once the farmer carry partner gets back, both partners grab one CMU and do the following exercises:

  • CMU Overhead Press x25
  • CMU Curl x20
  • Bent Over Rows x15
  • CMU Tricep Extension x10

When both partners finish those exercises, they switch and repeat until Q calls time.

MARY:
Only time for a little Mary today!

Boxcutters x20
LBC to cash out the last 30 seconds

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

8 HIMs strong this morning!

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

On the way to the beatdown this morning I heard the song “Get Along” by Kenny Chesney. I’m not very good at remembering song lyrics, but I remember that he says “afraid to die, afraid to live” and that really got me thinking. I think we are all afraid to die, at least to some extent. But we don’t often think about being afraid to live. Why have that crappy job that we hate when we spend the whole day dreaming about doing something we are passionate about? Why watch other people accomplish things and think it would be amazing, but never go out and try for ourselves? Sure there is always a chance that we can fail, but why not try? Failure is just a lesson. Without failure, we can’t grow and learn. Settling in to our comfort zones and living an “okay” life is not what we were made for. Don’t be afraid to put yourself out there for what you believe in and what you are passionate about. God gave us the gift of this life, don’t be afraid to live it.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
None

Is this Moses’s Birthday?

THE SCENE: It’s getting hot…
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Side Straddle Hop (15), LBAC (10 F/B), Cherry Pickers (10)…………Run to the sandbag bridge

THA-THANG:
It’s back….inspired by what I could only imagine might have been the rest of the Moses birthday Q

3 reps at every light pole……. starting at sand bag bridge, over the wooden bridge, past the troll bridge, and back up the grinder for bear crawl and crawl bear. Oh…and there is about 30 light poles…sorry.

  • Merkins
  • Squats
  • Burpees
  • and for Snorkel and some others…….Big Boys

MARY:
Iron Boys…30 ish
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Butterfingers, Deep Dish, Fins, Flash, Henhouse, Hammy, Ma’am, Mr Rogers, Neighbor, Snorkel, Tin Man
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
We each build a prison of our own personal preference.  Our preference dictates what we eat, where we go, and the people we meet.  As a consequence we get closer and closer to the people inside our bubble and further away from people outside of this preference bubble.  This limit our potential and we become stagnant.  I believe we should break out of this bubble and actively search out people who can make us better.  F3 has definitely been a bubble hopping experience for me, and your strength and passion has made me a better person.

Proverbs 27:17

As iron sharpens iron,so one person sharpens another.

Game of Cards

THE SCENE: Nice and Warm
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Side Straddle Hop (20)
  • Little Baby Arm Circles (15 F/B)
  • TN Rocking Chair (10)
  • Cherry Picker (10)

THA-THANG:
Two teams played a game of cards….card number for rep and exercise by suit.

  • Clubs=Merkins, Spades=Over Press, Hearts=CMU Rows, Diamonds=CMU Curls
  • Bonus:  Kings=1/4 lap, Aces=10 Burpess

MARY:
30 LBC, 30 Hello Dollies, 30 Leg Lifts…………and then some. random stuff thanks to Snorkel and Hammy.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
——-15 Men———Butterfingers, Cable Guy, Deep Dish, Drifter, Fins, Hammy, Ma’am, Neighbor, Pinocchio, Rain Check, Slugger, Snorkel, Tinman, and FNG (Cat5)

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Thomas Carlyle (Essay on Labor)

“For there is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in Work . . . in Idleness alone is there perpetual despair.” In work, we communicate with nature and with truth.  Labor is a “purifying fire.” Destiny “cultivates” us through our labor, and Destiny cannot help the lazy man. “Labor is Life,” and our only knowledge comes from our work. God lets us find a “sacred celestial Life-essence” through our labor:

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a life-purpose; he has found it, and will follow it! How, as a free-flowing channel, dug and torn by noble force through the sour mud-swamp of one’s existence, like an ever-deepening river there, it runs and flows;–draining-off the sour festering water, gradually from the root of the remotest grass-blade; making, instead of pestilential swamp, a green fruitful meadow with its clear-flowing stream. How blessed for the meadow itself, let the stream and its value be great or small!

 

“Safety Patrol”

THE SCENE: 65 degrees and 100% Humidity
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER: ✅
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x 12 IC

Merkins x 12 IC

Baby Arm Circles F/B x 12 IC

THA-THANG:
A. Partnered up and moseyed to backside of the Pound with CMU in tow. Partner A runs up the hill to the rock while Partner B completes the exercises and then rotate. Exercises:

300 Reverse Crunches w/ CMU

300 Overhead Squats (modified for time)

300 Presses (modified for time)

B. Moseyed to next station and completed the following:

Light Pole sprints/jog back while completing:

150 Merkins

150 Squat Jumps

150 Curls

C. Mosey back to AO and completed:

Hello Dolly’s x 10/12 (can’t remember, I was dizzy) IC

Ratchet led us in some on your side love handle eliminators…

 

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:
Talked to the PAX about the joy I have seen this week as I drop off my daughter at school. “New” safety patrol students for next year do the job with joy, fear, excitement, and a willingness to please. The “mentor” safety patrol offers advise and help and tips. It’s awesome. We need to be more like the safety patrol students- eager to try new things, eager to listen to the help being offered, eager to step out of our comfort zone. We need to be like the mentors- eager to offer sound advise and help. PAX challenged to either open car doors, mentor, or both and do it all with joy and excitement!
MOLESKIN:
Dudes got afternit today! It was cool to see the Rucker’s and hook up with them for the BOM!
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Insert information about upcoming events, 2nd or 3rd F opportunities, and any other announcements.

Punchout Burpees & Partner work

THE SCENE: 70o and humid

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Baby arm circles, Forward 10x, Reverse 10x IC
  • Cherry Pickers 10x IC
  • Imperial Squat Walkers 15x IC
  • Tempo Merkins 10x IC
  • Micheal Phelps 20x OYO

THA-THANG:

Mosey to Splashpad parking lot
  • Punchout Burpee Ladder
    • Jab/Cross to Burpee 2/4/6/8/10/10/8/6/4/2
    • Start with throwing 2 combos – Jab/Cross Then 2 burpees, add 2 of each every time till 10
Mosey to Splash pad
    • Battle Buddies – Do exercise – Lunge around top circle go on to next exercise (2 rounds)
      • Wheelbarrow + Shoulder taps – 20x Each partner
        • P1 holds P2 in Wheelbarrow while P2 does shoulder taps
      • Squat & Overhead Pass – 20x
        • P1 Goblet Squats with Bricks, stands to Overhead Press behind back to P2 and repeat
      • Lunge & Twist Pass – 20x (1 is a complete pass from left side P1 to P2 and back to P1)
        • P1 & P2 in lunge position – Hammer with CMU and pass to partner
      • High Plank + Up Right Row – 20x Each Partner
        • P1 holds P2 in Reverse Wheelbarrow and does row while P2 maintains a plank
      • Stacked Plank + Decline Merkins 20x
        • P1 is in plank (bent arms) while P2 does decline merkins

MARY:

  • LBC 1minute
  • Hello Dolly till time

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

7 HIMs reporting today

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Bear one anothers burdens.

Brethren, even if anyone is caught in any trespass, you who are spiritual, restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; each one looking to yourself, so that you too will not be tempted. Bear one another’s burdens, and thereby fulfill the law of Christ. For if anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself. But each one must examine his own work, and then he will have reason for boasting in regard to himself alone, and not in regard to another. For each one will bear his own load.
Galatians 6:1‭-‬5 NASB
We are called to step alongside our brothers and help them when needed, many times even when they don’t want the help because they believe they can do it themselves. We do this to not only build our brothers up, but also to remind ourselves that we are not an island unto ourselves. We need the reminder that we are not “All that” but that we need our brothers as much as they need us.

MOLESKIN:
I’m thankful for F3 and the men at the Brickyard that push me daily to get better and remind me that I am not the greatest but on the path to getting better every day.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
New Fellowship event

6:45 pm Wednesday 5/23. Meet at Food City Powell. Park by pumps and we will run 5K or so. Then drive across street to Pizza Hoss for beers. Please invite all you can.