F3 Knoxville

52 Pickup with Coupons

THE SCENE: 72 and steamy
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • SSH IC x20
  • Imperial Squat Walkers IC x15
  • Cherry Pickers IC x10
  • Tempo Merkins IC x10
  • Little of this, little of that

THA-THANG:

  • Mosey to the planters for Ascending Bear Crawls. Curb to curb, start with 1 derkin, crawl to other curb 2 derkins, till you have completed 10 derkins.
  • Mosey to the rock pile to find a coupon
  • Mosey while lifting our coupons high to the splash pad
  • 52 Pickup with coupons
    • Jokers & 2s – 15 Burpees (no coupons)
    • Aces – 1 lap around splash pad with our coupons held high
    • Suits (reps for value, face cards are 10)
      • Hearts – Tricep curls
      • Spades – Goblet Squats
      • Clubs – American Hammers 4ct
      • Diamonds – Curl to Overhead press
  • Mosey to rock pile to return our coupons
  • Mosey to AO

MARY:
Flutter Kicks IC x15
Hello Dolly’s IC x 15
Boat/Canoe to time

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

“Trust in the Lord forever, For in God the Lord , we have an everlasting Rock.
Isaiah 26:4 NASB

MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Suits Me

THE SCENE: The JUCO, nice but hot when your in a full suit

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Really awkward Karate kicks. SSHx20, Frogger merkins
THA-THANG:
The commute: Mosey to the coupon pile. Stop for a donut and coffee (CMU) Do 25 merkins, 25 curls, 25 OH presses  then run up the hill and back. Repeat but drop five reps each time. . Lunge up the steps and over to the sophomore hill w/CMU.

Rat Race: at Sophomore hill, drop CMU at top right corner. 4 corners, 4 exercises: CMU squat-curl-press-Tri x10, burpees x10, frogger Merkins x15, bear crawl 1/2 way to cone and sprint the rest, repeat…..

Commute back home to coupon pile, forgot to “get milk” on way home, so go back up steps doing a 20 curls at the top. and drop off CMUs upon return. Then mosey to AO.  Stopping at the F3 sign for a quick pic and some flutter kicks

MARY:
No time for her

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
This week a friend of mine from high school hit rock bottom. He was truly broken in all sense of the word. He is suffering from drug addiction and he is being treated at a facility as we speak. It is when we are broken that we can truly see the overwhelming love of God. We ignore or forget his gift when things are going our way and we “have no need” for God. But when your broken and then made new, you can truly appreciate Gods gift to us. Example of a light stick, breaking and then glowing.
MOLESKIN:

it was hot wearing a suit

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Dirt Circuit and Go Ruck Sept 29th

Crush Your Fear

THE SCENE: Perfect Morning
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x 25(IC)
Imperial Walkers x 20(IC)
American Hammers x 20(IC)
Mountain Climbers x 20(IC)
Squats x 10(IC)
Flutter Kicks x 25(IC)
BBS x 20 (OYO)
Burpees x 5(OYO)

THA-THANG:
Partner Sets:

  • 100 Merkins (P1 does 10 while P2 holds plank; 100 total for group)
  • 100 LBCs (P1 does 10 while P2 holds 6″; 100 total for group)
  • 100 Squats (P1 does 10 while P2 holds air chair; 100 for total group)

Dealer’s Choice:  Pax choose movement and lead in cadence.

  • Box Cutters
  • Hand Release Merkins
  • Side Crunch
  • Jump Squats

10 Minute Work: Every minute on the minute for 10 minutes.

  • 5 Merkins
  • 3 Pull-ups
  • 2 Burpees

50yd Walking Lt. Dan to circle up for 2 rounds of SALLY:

  • Leg Lifts
  • Thrusters w/cmu

1 Round of Let The Bodies Hit The Floor.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
5 PAX including 1 FNG “Terminator” I can’t believe we actually gave someone this name…we were clearly struggling for something more creative…
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Your greatest accomplishments lie on the other side of fear.
MOLESKIN:
Prayers for Bumblebee, his wife and family.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Pandora-mosey

THE SCENE: 65, cloudy, but no rain
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
I stretched my running parts
THA-THANG:
I turned on Pandora and ran around the park.

MARY:
I skipped this
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
MOLESKIN:
Have you ever volunteered to take a Q at the last minute with no real plan?  I did.  I figured I would wing it, and that the handful of guys who showed up would be ok with that.  As it turns out, I only had to be concerned with me.  No one else showed and I moseyed around in the dark.

The Pandora station I turned on was Christian rap, yes I listen to Christian rap, and I’m not afraid to say that.  What struck me as interesting was (a) if you had told me years ago I would listen to Christian rap I would have had the same reaction you did when you read it.  Really?!?!?  He listens to that?  And (b) no matter what path we run down God always has a means to catch up to us. For music, there is Christian rap, country, rock, contemporary, old school hymms, etc.  He has every angle covered and He never gives up on us.  A close friend of mine has recently been talking about the strongholds we keep close and do not want to relinquish to God.  Why do we do this even when He calls us to surrender everything to him? The easy answer is sometimes the best, but the answer is because we are stupid, stubborn, selfish people.  No matter what we tried to hide, or how many times we try to run away, He is always there for us.  Pursuing us and wanting us to pursue Him.  He wants us to surrender it all to Him, not just the easy stuff, but ALL of it.  [James 4:7, James 4:10]

Practicing Mental Toughness

THE SCENE:
Low 20s C.  We were tough enough to handle the humidity.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
Mosey to the flag & Good Mornings
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • 20 SSH
  • 20 Rockettes
  • 20 Squats
  • 20 Plank Jacks
  • 10 + 10 Super Baby Arm Circles
  • 5 Cherry Pickers

3/4 lap with some High Knees, Butt Kickers, Skips ending at the playground

THA-THANG:

30:4:30’s (5 here, 25 there; then back for 10, 20; etc…  For a total of 30 each time.)

  • Exercise 1 – Swtichfoot/Toe Tap 4ct @ playground kerb.
  • Bernie up the slope to the lil path.
  • Bear crawl to splash pad
  • Exercise 2 – Flutters 4-ct @Splash pad
  • Mosey out the back of the pad, round and back down.
  • Hold plank for the 6.

Mosey back to flag.  Rainbow gave us a 10 count while we paired up.

  • 10 Hand Release Merkins – high 5 buddy
  • 20 Big Boys – high 5 buddy
  • 30 Dolly Partners – Hello Dolly tapping feet with Buddy
  • 20 Squats
  • 10 Dips
  • 1 lap (sprint up the hill to flag for extra credit)
  • Rinse and Repeat.

We managed four laps before we decided to hit Mary a little early.
MARY:

  • 20 Freddie Mercury
  • 20 LBC Chasers
  • 20 Superman
  • Bunny lead us in some Captain Thor’s up to 6
  • 10 BBQ squats (Low and Slow)
  • 20 Plank Jacks
  • 40 SSH to take us to the hour

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Seven strong today.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
I saw a video on Social Media featuring Nick Saban talking about Mental Toughness.  He defined Mental Toughness as “What does it take to break you?”  Are you frustrated, what does it take to make you give in? Is it too hot.  Do you have a little knock?  Does that break you?  Does it make you lose focus?

The video made me think about other areas of my life.  What is it that the kids can do to break you?  (“Just get in the CAR!”)  What does it take to make you give in on being a Dad for a minute/hour/rest of the day?  Make you check out mentally? What makes you frustrated at work, makes you lose focus and take it out on someone else?

I don’t have any quick fixes – no medicine that can give you more Mental Toughness.  It’s all about self-discipline.  That thing that makes you come out early and do first F.  I think that F3 can help you to exercise your mental toughness muscle so that when the time comes you have the discipline to do what you need to do, when you’re supposed to do it, the way it’s supposed to get done.

MOLESKIN:

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