F3 Knoxville

Bend into the wave

THE SCENE: In 60’s, cloudy with some drizzle.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Plank Lifts, 15 Plank Jacks, 20 Side Straddle Hops, 10 Stretchers, 10 Windmills
THA-THANG:
Mosey to Boulder Pile.  Grab appropriate size boulder.  25 Overhead Presses, 25 Curls, 25 Rows, 25 Squats with Boulder at Chest.

Mosey on roadways to Outdoor Chapel.  20 Hello Dollies.  Sevens starting with six Burpees at one end of chapel and one Decline Merkin at stage end of chapel.  Elevens starting with ten Big Boy Sit-ups at one end of chapel and one Bench Dip at stage end of chapel.

Mosey north on roadway to parking lot that is just below Pickett’s Charge.  Do 20 American Hammers.

Mosey to Dragon Tail.  We will do Route 66 up Dragon Tail with the following exercises (doing exercise at each light):

  • Squat Jumps
  • Dive Bombers

Mosey to sidewalk that is at front of Admin Bldg.  Do Bernie Sanders to steps of Admin Bldg.  Then do 20 Shin Lifts on a step of the bldg.

Mosey to AO.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Eleven men.  No FNG’s.

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

In a book I am reading called Tears of an Innocent God, the author, Elias Marechal, talks about a Rabbi that was the only survivor in a shipwreck at sea.  When asked how he survived, the Rabbi recalled, “Whenever a wave arose, I bent into it.”  In our lives we cannot expect all to go smoothly for us.  There are going to be calm and glorious times.  At such times it may be easy to love life, to love our families, to love God.  But there are going to be difficult times as well.  At such times the problems in our life may come like giant ocean waves in what seems like a shipwrecked existence.  The waves appear ready to knock us down and drown us.  At these times it may be very difficult to love our lives, love our families, love God or even believe there is a God.    We must expect the good and the bad.  We must learn to lean into the the waves.  As Elias Marechal states, Good Friday and Easter Sunday are both days to experience God.  We can do so in both good and bad times.  At Steve Earl implies in his awesome song, God is God, God is there and God has the power whether we like what is there for us are not.  Face the hard times.  Trust God and even appreciate Him in those hard times.  Lean into the waves and perhaps, if you can trust God enough, you may even find yourself, as Peter did with Jesus, walking on water, if only for a moment.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Brewski at Union Jacks immediately after workout.

Sally

THE SCENE: Mostly cloudy, 58 degrees, 96% humidity
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x20, Cherry pickers x16, Little baby arm circles x10 forward/x10backward

Jog parking x2, skip parking lot x1, mosey to base of ballfield hill.
THA-THANG:
7’s at the hill

  • Burpees at the base of the hill
  • Bear crawl up the hill
  • BBS at the top x2
  • Crab crawl down the hill
  • Mosey to the grinder

Bring Sally up, bring Sally down

  • Hit the ground/hop up to the music
  • Run the Bomb Shelter short loop
  • Merkins to the music
  • Run the Bomb Shelter short loop
  • CMU squat presses to the music
  • Run the Bomb Shelter short loop
  • Leg lifts to the music (60 degrees up/10 degrees down)
  • Run the Bomb Shelter short loop
  • BBS to the music

MARY:
Box cutters, flutter kicks, LBC’s
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
12 HIM’s, no FNG’s
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

The following is from Wild Together, My Adventures with Loki the Wolfdog by Kelly Lund.

Wish You Were Here

The concept of being present is one that is so often said, but rarely lived.  I’m guilty of it.  I say I am going to be more present; I say I am going to  put my phone down and focus on what’s in front of me; I say I will put the camera down and just look with my eyes.  But I don’t. I get caught up and think secondary things are important in the moment, and then the moment is gone. 

Never has Loki had this behavioral flaw.  How could he?  He sees now and now only.  I am not saying that beyond my knowledge he doesn’t have a memory band of his past experiences.  Simply put, he is not worried about what tomorrow will bring.  The anxiety of the future, the disappointment of the past; that’s not a thing for him.

If now is all we have, all that is promised, let us not be fools and waste it.

As the Bible says, don’t worry about tomorrow. That won’t add an hour to our life. Tomorrow will worry about itself.  This is the day the Lord has made. Let us all be glad and rejoice in it.

MOLESKIN:
Prayers for Moses and Sqeaker’s recovery.  Steer asked for prayers for his family.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
F3 Knoxville 3rd Anniversary during weekend of November 3rd.

The number 7 and 50

THE SCENE: 58 degrees partly cloudy
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Baby arm circles x 10 IC ED IC

Imperial Squat Walker x 15 IC

Tempo Merkin x 10 IC

8 Count Body Builder x 5 IC
THA-THANG:
Yul Brenner: 7 different merkins x 10 reps. Do not come out of plank between merkin types. Q will call out each merkin style.

  • CDD
  • Wide
  • Reg-lar
  • Ranger
  • Diamond
  • Crucible
  • Chuck Norris

Walls of Jerico Start at cone one and complete 7 reps of exercise. Make one lap around cones and start at next cone. 7 cones/exercises, 7 laps.

  1. 7 Burpee
  2. 7 SSH (4ct)
  3. 7 Diamond Merkin
  4. 7-8 count body builder
  5. 7 Jump lunge (each leg)
  6. 7 Smurf jack
  7. 7 Flutters (4ct)

Merkin-cides Sprint to each line and complete number of merkin, sprint back.

  1. 10 merkin
  2. 20 merkin
  3. 30 merkin
  4. 40 merkin
  5. 50 merkin

Triple Nickel Partner up. 5 reps of each (Burpee/BBS) and 5 rounds

MARY:
Capn Thor
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Prepare your faith so in times of trial you know how to survive. Just as we train our bodies to endure physical activity, we should also train ourselves to be faithfully strong when trials come.
MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
We lost an F3 brother at the Alpharetta GA AO last week due to a medical condition. Please be sure to carry your cell phone when on Q in the case any medical emergencies occur.

 

3 Rounds

THE SCENE: 57 degrees, no rain, dry parking lot…what more could you ask for!
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x20, merkins x10, rockettes x20, calf stretches

THA-THANG:

Mosey to the back lot near the bottom of Matterhorn.
Round 1: 100
25 merkins run to line (50yds) and back
25 Lunges run to line and back
25 LBCs  3-count run to line
move to round 2
Round 2: 200
50 squats run to line and back
50 SSH run to line and back
50 toe touch LBCs to line and back
Move to Round 2
Round 3: 100
25 shoulder taps run to line 3 and back
25 Bobby Hurley’s run to line 3and back
25 dry docks run to line 3 and back
Move to Round 1 and keep repeating till time is up
Mosey to AO by way of steps and hill at restaurant
MARY:: dealers choice
hands up hello dollys, BBS X20, backwards leg extensions

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

12 PAX

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
WORRYING DOES BO GOOD.

““So I say to you, do not worry about your life—what you will eat or drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food and the body more than clothing? “Look at the birds of the air. They do not sow or reap or gather into barns; yet your Father in heaven feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? And why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They neither toil nor spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his glory clothed himself like one of these.”
‭‭Matthew‬ ‭6:25-29‬ ‭TLV‬‬

MOLESKIN:
Big praise for Tweet-E’s M today is 18 years sober!!!! What an amazing accomplishment!
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
F3 olympics and functions around the anniversary Nov 3-4

Square Dancin’ In The Gloom

THE SCENE: Chilly, gloomy, ominous, lol
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

Welcome to F3: Fitness – Fellowship – Faith

– My name is Steam & I’ll be your Q this morning

– I am not a professional and you are here on your own volition – which means I don’t know any injuries you may or may not have

– So if you need to modify any of the exercises we do this morning – feel free to do so

– That being said – you’re not here on accident this morning. Neither are they. Let’s rock.


WARM-O-RAMA:

    1. SSH: 15×4
    2. Imperial Walker: 15×4
    3. Squat-Bender: 15×4
    4. Merkin: 15×4
    5. SSH: 15×4

THA-THANG:

Mosey to Market Square

– Warm-Up with the Market Square Dance (3 Evolutions Total)

  • Start at C1 (bottom R)

    • Sprint to C2 (Top R)

    •  Fireman carry to C3 (Top L)

    • Sprint to C4 (Bottom L)

    • Fireman carry to C1

    • Modify = lunges

  • [ 15×4 SSHs ]

  • Start at C1

    • Sprint to C2

    • Bear crawl to C3

    • Sprint to C4

    • Bear crawl to C1

  • [ 15×4 SSHs ]

  • Start at C1

    • Sprint to C2

    • Long-jump to C3

    • Sprint to C4

    • Long-jump to C1

  • [ 15×4 SSHs ]

– Converge @ the bell

  • Stayin Alive with 75
    • Bell —> sprint to stage
    • There are 5 steps
    • 15-4 count incline merkins on each step – one evolution at a time
    • Do this 5x
    • We will do the merkins in unison and in cadence

[ Mosey back to AO ]

    • Each stop sign/stoplight = 15 merkins

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Count-Off = 8

Name-O-Rama: G-6, Jenner, Careless, The Voice, Old Spice, Bessie, Swanson, Steam (Q)
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

  • Did a Lord of the Rings trilogy this weekend and as you can guess, it was awesome. Huge LOTR fan. I love the Christian symbolism that is portrayed in the trilogy, as well as the 9 or so hours of action and overall story. One of my favorite moments comes from the character of Samwise Gamgee, the main character’s reliable companion:
  • Frodo :
    • I can’t do this, Sam.
  • Sam :
    • I know. It’s all wrong. By rights we shouldn’t even be here. But we are. It’s like in the great stories Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were, and sometimes you didn’t want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy. How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad happened. But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something. Even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn’t. Because they were holding on to something.
  • Frodo :
    • What are we holding on to, Sam?
  • Sam :
    • That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it’s worth fighting for.

[ This week, a war is being waged against you, against me, against our country and her leaders, against our world. Sometimes this is more tangible than others. ]

  • Consider Ephesians 6:10-20 our epic pre-battle speech as we ride out to the enemy and meet him head on this week.

“Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm. Stand therefore, having fastened on the belt of truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, and, as shoes for your feet, having put on the readiness given by the gospel of peace. In all circumstances take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one; and take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God, praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end, keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints, and also for me, that words may be given to me in opening my mouth boldly to proclaim the mystery of the gospel, for which I am an ambassador in chains, that I may declare it boldly, as I ought to speak.”

Ephesians 6:10-20

MOLESKIN:
Prayer request from G-6 for Cooper Dewalt – severely damaged his fingers in an accident this weekend