F3 Knoxville

Catch Ya On the Flipside

THE SCENE: Not even 70 degrees. Is this really July?
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Cherry Pickers x8 IC
SSH x25 IC
Cossack Squats x8 each leg
Warmup lap around the tennis court
Rainbow Drops x10 IC
Hindurkins x10 IC

THA-THANG:
Grab a CMU and head to the grassy field by the playground. Cones set up in a square about 16 yards apart.
Each cone has a card with an exercise.
Bears and Blocks to the first cone and do that exercise.
Bears and Blocks to next cone and do first cone exercise plus next cone exercise.
Continue to 3rd and fourth cone, adding exercises escalator style.
Abs for the six.
Once six is up, Blocks and Bears (backward bear crawl with block) to first cone. Drop that exercise, do the other three.
continue back down the escalator. Exercises:
10 Hand Release Merkins
30 Pickle Pounders
20 Carolina Dry Docks
16 Catalina Wine Mixer (8 each arm)

Guess what… Every card has a flipside! Repeat above, except crab walk carrying CMU on abdomen.
First round forward, second round backward. Exercises:
10 Knee-Up-Down each leg (same as Catalina except going from standing to kneeling and back)
30 Monkey Humpers
10 Donkey Kicks
15 Squat Jumps

MARY:
Cool-down lap around the tennis court.
Flutter kicks x20 IC
Switch to slutter kicks without breaking cadence – x15
Left-Right-Middle crunches x15
Crab Kicks x15 IC
Big Boys x20 IC

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
6 PAX this morning, plus a flying EH who stayed for about a lap and a half around the cones. Didn’t make it to Name-O-Rama. Hope to see him again…
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Word courtesy of F3 Ruud (Curt Williams) – Texted to our small group men:
“The Spirit has really been impressing Phil 4:6-7 on me lately. Not just for the really difficult stuff – which is when I would more likely think of this – but lately He’s been instructing me that this is for EVERYTHING (duh… like it says). It has taken such a load off of the many smaller daily concerns and decisions and really helps increase the listening (even though I’m still a poor listener).”

Phil 4:4-7 (ESV)
Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice. Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand; do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

MOLESKIN:
Glad to have Repeat and Dilbert come down and play in the grass with us! Wish we had known the FNG wasn’t going to be able to stay. Hope he got enough taste to come back…
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Praise for Drifter’s M and upcoming 2.0 doing well! Lots of prayer all around for loved ones battling cancer. Seems like it’s all around.
Don’t forget Kickball (8/18)
Quarterly 3rd F August 11 at the Overlook
2nd annual Truckin’ to the Pound 8/25

Images

THE SCENE: Sunny and nice, high 60’s to low 70’s
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
20 Side-Straddle Hops, 10 Burpees, 10 Windmills, 10 Rockettes, 10 Cherry Pickers
THA-THANG:
Mosey to Playground.  All my benches.  We will do elevens starting with 10 bench jumps and 1 decline merkin, working our way to 1 bench jump and 10 decline merkins.

Mosey to Pavillion.  We will do elevens starting with 10 picnic table pull-ups and 1 bench lift working our way to 1 picnic table pull-up and 10 bench lifts.  Afterward, we will do a 60 second squat with backs on wall.

Mosey on roadway south until it starts heading west.  We will stop to do 20 American Hammers.

Mosey to area close to stop sign as round heads west.  20 Box Cutters.

Mosey on roadway to front of Admin Bldg.  Stop at Cone 1 which is in front of sidewalk going to stairs of admin bldg.  We will be running clockwise on roadway going around admin bldg, stopping at each cone to do the listed exercises that will be written be each cone.

  • Cone 1 (located by sidewalk to Admin Bldg):  Deon Sanders to flagpole and sprint back, staying on right sidewalk going and left sidewalk coming back.
  • Cone 2 (located on inlet by road as it heads west on south side of admin bldg):  20 Carolina DryDocks
  • Cone 3 (located at boulder pile):  Pick up appropriate size boulder and do 20 overhead presses, 20 curls 20 rows and 20 squats.
  • Cone 4 (located past parking lot and on west side of admin bldg.)  Hop to Cone 5.
  • Cone 5 (located about 25 yards past Cone 4):  Bear Crawl to Cone 6.
  • Cone 6 (located about 25 yards past Cone 5):  20 Star Jumps
  • Cone 7 (located near stop sign on northeast side of Admin Bldg):  20 Hello Dollies
  • Cone 8 (located on right of roadway as it heads past Admin Bldg.  20 Dive Bombers
  • Cone 9 (located opposite of second set of stairs to left of roadway that is east of admin bldg):  Run up and down stairs three times.

Rinse and repeat after completing the nine cones.

Mosey to AO.

MARY:
20 Pickle Pounders, Boat Canoe
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
16 men.  We had Honcho from the Johnson City AO join us.  We also had an FNG, friend of Punch List named Nate Moore.  He is an attorney and we gave him the F3 name of Jail Bait.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
We are made in God’s image.  The Bible says it.  If this is true, there is greatness within us.  We are created to do powerful things, wonderful things.

We usually don’t think that way.  We often think of ourselves as poorly made creatures who need to be molded into something completely new.  Kathleen Norris states in her book, Cloister Walk “These days when someone commits an atrocity, we tend to sigh and say, “That’s human nature”  And certainly, we humans are sinners.  But as Norris remarks, “our attitude would seem wrong-headed to the desert monks, who understood human beings to be part of the creation that God called good, special in that they were made in the image of God. . . This is why Gregory of Nyssa speaks so often of ‘returning to the grace of that image which was established in you from the beginning”

We usually seek God outside of ourselves.  This can be when we go to church, when we take a nature walk, when we read the Bible, when we see God reflected in our fellow humans.  But, because we are made in God’s image, we are also capable of seeing God within ourselves.  As Bob Benson says in his book, See You at the House, “I must listen to the voice that is within me.  For that voice, too, is the purposeful, calling voice of God to us.”

When in my twenties, I had difficulty listening to the voice of God within me.  I was in a career field that others had encouraged me into but I struggled with it and did not have a great love for it.  My heart, my soul, the voice of God within me, was telling me to try psychology, but it seemed impossible – I would have to leave a job and go back to school.  Yet, that voice kept calling to me and with the help of God’s voice through conversations with friends and those who loved me, I finally listened fully to God’s voice within me.  It has made all the difference to me.

I encourage you to start listening closely to the voice of God within you.  What is your heart saying to you?  Can you hear God’s voice within you?  Start listening to that voice for direction.  And in your prayers, listen to that voice within you.  Certainly, continue to listen to others and look outside of yourself for God’s directions to you.  But also listen within yourselves for God’s directions to you – because you are made in the image of God.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
3rd F on Saturday, August 11.

Kickball tournament on Saturday, August 18.

Be in the moment

THE SCENE: Beautiful morning
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

yep, did that
WARM-O-RAMA

capri lap around the track Indian run style

SSH x 20

Squats x 15

merkins x 10

All IC 4ct
THA-THANG:

  • Dora’s
  • 100 plank ball pushes. P1 and P2 plank up about 2-3 Yard’s apart facing each other, pushing a ball back and forth alternating hands until 100 is reached , run a lap .33 mile together , then alternating running to said tree and back while P is doing bbs 150 and 200 squats
  • Mosey to BBALL court, one lay up on each side , then we played a game of Knockout . If you got knocked out , go to the sideline and do Mary Catherine’s until there is a winner . Detention won, because he is just that good!
  • Lay up relay, split into 2 teams . Each team on opposite sides of the court. Dribble as fast as you can , make a lay up, dribble back and pass to the next, so on and so forth . Loosing team 10 burpees , winning team 10 SSH
  • MOSEY to the trail for escalator stopping 5 times . Stop one 10 burps , stop 2 10 burps 20 merks , stop 3 10 burps, 20 merks, 30 Star jacks , then back down ….
  • Mosey back to the AO

MARY:
Boat, canoe , catamaran

flutters x 20

LBC X10

press up for 30 seconds
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
6 hims
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
We made a stop on the trail and went down to the lake and just stood there for a few minutes to take in the sites. Lake was calm , sun was rising , a paddle boarding in the distance , just enjoying the moment. Yes, we were there to workout and get better physically but sometimes you just need to stop and be in the moment
MOLESKIN:
For me today was about just being in the moment. Sometimes it’s just what we need, for me at least. Yes, I am looking to push my self to the limits, I have a “why” I push my self , I love philosophy and learning about the meaning of life. I love looking deep into my why and trying to figure it all out. But, I love just being in the moment too.  I think I need more of it and really just enjoy life as it is. Look NO further than you have to, just be. Sometimes , we make it more complicated than what it is. I am certainly guilty of it and will continue to “go deep” into living life to its fullest. In order to live life to its fullest is to BE IN THE MOMENT! Go have a great day and take it in brothas!!

aye
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
3rd F coming up weekend of Aug 11 . Kick ball tourney the following weekend then trucking to the pound Aug 25th

Circuits

THE SCENE: 70, lower humidity, VERY NICE
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
15 SSH

10 Cherry Pickers

10 Baby arm circles forward and back

10 Tempo squats

10 Merkins OYO
THA-THANG:
Circuit around the AO on the outer paved loop.  1 lap = 1 mile

Exercises along the loop;

  • 25 werkins
  • 25 CDD
  • 30 Squats
  • 20 dips
  • 20 merkins
  • 20 lunges – 10/leg
  • 20 easy ups
  • 20 flutter kicks, 4 count
  • 20 derkins
  • 40 step ups – 20/leg
  • bear crawl parking lot to the flag (~40 yards)

some Pax got 3 loops, some got 2-1/2 loops

MARY:
LBC

Box Cutters

Squat jumps
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Insert the WORD here.
MOLESKIN:
Cosmo got 3 laps!
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Trucking to the pound CSAUP

F3 anniversary and family picnic

Truck stop ruckers

THE SCENE:  pleasant
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Ruck to the soccer field
THA-THANG

We started at the corner and did lunges with ruck over head for 50 yds. Every 5th step we did 5 over head press. Then 20 upright rows and 20 curls. Rinse and repeat.

Then bear crawl 25 yrs followed by 20 ruck swings and 20 lion kings. Rinse and repeat.

Then we did fireman carries (50 yds. Each) followed by 2-man carries (50 yds. Each)

one lap around the field (rest ruck)

we then did decline ruck merkins, 5 reps followed by 10 sec plank (5X) with the last set to failure

then 5 4ct flutter kicks ruck over head then hold 6″ for 10 sec (5X) last set to failure

then 5 squats with ruck held out in front the 10 sec electric chair (5X) last set to failure.

and cap it all off with a nice relaxing 1.5 mile ruck.

MARY:
I recently attended operation red wings Go ruck lite, so in the keeping with the spirit of these brave warriors (who refused to give up until they were killed) we had minimal rest between exercises.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

MOLESKIN:
Well done wall ball and frosty!!!
ANNOUNCEMENTS: