F3 Knoxville

The Hydra

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

  • Side Straddle Hops@30
  • Arms Circles B/F@15
  • Cherry Pickers@15
  • Indian Run to Troll Bridge

THA-THANG:

Three rounds on the grinder in groups of two….

Everyone started at a station (1-9) in groups of two and did the exercise for the round.  One person at station 1 ran to the troll bridge for some battle ropes with the hydra.  The second team member ran to meet his teammate once the battle started.  The returning teams started back on round two exercises at station 9, and continued until the third round moving down each time while a new team went to battle the hydra.

# R1 R2 R3
0 Double Waves @40 Rope Throws@40 Lateral Waves@40
1 CMU Rows CMU Curls CMU Rows
2 Overhead Press CMU Decline Overhead Press
3 Squats Tuck Jumps Squats
4 Burpees Mountain Climber Burpees
5 Big Boys LBC’s Big Boys
6 Kettle Bell Swing Kettle Bell Press Kettle Bell Swing
7 Side Straddle Hop Hill Billy’s Side Straddle Hop
8 Flutter Kick Hello Dolly Flutter Kick
9 X-Cross Situp American Hammer X-Cross Situp

MARY:
CMU pass around the circle on the 6 and finishing with some leg throw downs…

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
15 Men Battled the Hydra: Butterfingers, Deep Dish, Drifter, Fins, Flash, Iceman, Moses, Mr. Rogers, Pinnocchio, Pup, Snorkel, Squeaker, Squiggly, Waxjob, and Woodshack.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
The hydra is a metaphor for our own self doubt, fear, and anger. Negative emotions can only create more harm in our life. Remember emotions are not something that happen to us. We choose how to react to our emotions and we can only become better by cauterizing negative thinking and defeating the hydra.
MOLESKIN:
HYDRA LERNAIA (Lernaean Hydra) was a gigantic, nine-headed water-serpent, which haunted the swamps of Lerna. Herakles (Heracles) was sent to destroy her as one of his twelve labours, but for each of her heads that he decapitated, two more sprang forth. So with the help of Iolaos (Iolaus), he applied burning brands to the severed stumps, cauterizing the wounds and preventing the regeneration.

Birthday Treats!

THE SCENE: Beautiful 45ish degrees, no rain!
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x25
Squats x15
Jog across parking lot at 25%, back at 50%
Jog across parking lot at 50%, back at 75%
Lung halfway across lot, jog rest of the way. Same back.
THA-THANG:
4 exercises on each side of the grinder, 25 reps of each (down by 5 each round) and defensive slide across the grinder after each exercise. The twist? When I call out “It’s your birthday (insert name)” everybody runs over to the cones and that person calls out the present they want for their birthday. Everyone does what that person calls, then we go back to where we were on the grinder and continue on.

Exercises on grinder:

Rows with CMU
Goblet Squats
Box Jumps
Iron Mike

Patty Cake Merkins
Dips
BBS elbow tap at top w/ partner
American Hammers

The Presents:

Mr. Rogers – Bear crawl down, lunge back
Woodshack – wheelbarrow halfway, jog to end and do V-ups. Switch on way back.
Snorkel – Groucho walk forward and backward
Squiggly – Bear crawl halfway, 25 LBCs, bear crawl rest of way, 25 LBCs, reverse back.
Drifter – Drunken ape crawl across, bernie back
Pinocchio – Fiddler crab across, bernie back
Rusty – Burpee dans across, Lt. Dan Back (4:1 for both)
Moses – Inch worm merkins there and back
Flash – Bernie there and back
MARY:
Boxcutters x20
LBCs to cash out
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
10 HIMS to battle Sad Clown syndrome this morning with no FNGs
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
I turn 25 tomorrow and I started thinking about how over a quarter of my life is now gone. My first instinct was to think of what I have not done and regrets that I have. We need to learn from the past, but stop focusing on things that we cannot control. We need to focus on what we can do today to make sure that we have no regrets 25 years from now. We need to focus on what we can do to make up for those things. I regret not surfing in Australia when I was there because I was too self conscious. Now, I focus on when I will take my wife to Australia and we will go surfing together. I am focusing on a solution, not on what I did wrong.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Alcoa CSAUP in ONE WEEK! Be there!

Register for OCR as soon as possible, the event is May 19th

Duck walks and pet rocks

THE SCENE: 45* and crisp, great morning
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Baby arm circles, forward and reverse, 10x IC
Imperial walkers 10x IC
SSH 30x IC
Merkins on 4 ct, 12x IC
Prisoner tempo squats 10x IC

THA-THANG:
Mosey across the street to the Steamboat parking lot, circle up for 20 merkins.  Recover and mosey back across the street behind Powell Station park, circle up in lower lot for 20 merkins.  Each PAX finds a rock to tote around for the next little bit.  Retrace our route back to Steamboat parking lot, circle up for 20 merkins.  Mosey back to school parking lot.  10 count.

5 cones are lined up across parking lot.  PAX instructed to duck walk with rock held in at chest to first cone, then place cone on the ground and perform 5 burps.  Pick up rock, duck walk to next cone with rock held straight out in front (arms extended).  Rock down and do 5 burps.  Continue duck walk to each cone, alternating between holding rock in at chest and holding rock straight out arms extended between cones.  Each cone do 5 burps.  Once finished at last cone, sprint back to start with rock, plank and wait for the 6 to complete.  Recover and 10 count, repeato for a total of 3 rounds through.

Pick up pet rock and mosey back over to Powell Station park and partner up.  Dora style, partner 1 performs rock PT while partner 2 runs a lap around the pavilion and playground.  Partner 2 stops at the pavilion for 10 merkins before finishing run and relieving partner one.  Flapjack, each pair performs 100 reps of exercises:

  • Rock curls
  • Tricep extension
  • Goblet squats
  • Front hold shoulder lifts
  • BBS with rock pressed over chest

Once complete, switch partners and run through the same exercises.  This time, partner performing rock PT does AMRAP until partner 2 finishes run.  Flapjack, then move to next exercise.  Recover and 10 count.

Mosey back to lower lot to return rocks, then mosey back to AO for Mary.

MARY:
Box cutters x20 IC
Extended boat/canoe (I’d planned ATM’s but was worn out, so I extended boat/canoe til time was up).

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
8 Strong – Tractor, Herbie, Wood Tick, Natty, Mr. Wedgie, Charmin, A-Rod, Abort
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Expanding on word I had from BB a few weeks back (the same boiling water that softens the potato hardens the egg).  From the book of James: “Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.  Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.  If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you.  But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind….Blessed is the one who perseveres under trial because having stood the test, that person will receive the crown of life that the Lord has promised to those who love him.”
MOLESKIN:
Continue to pray for Charmin’s friend John, who has been diagnosed with cancer.  Also pray for Natty’s friend who had a family member take his own life.

Lots of Pee Breaks

THE SCENE: 44, little gloomy
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x 43 IC, waiting on Mayberry

Windmills x 10 IC

Imperial Walkers x 10 IC

10 Burpees OYO
THA-THANG:
Break into 2 teams

Team 1 does 5 burpees while team 2 starts the mosey.

Team 2 Mosey long way to soccer field at Watt Rd.  Stop at each light and do 5 merkins (total of 80)

Team 1 follows after the burpees.  Team 2 did their 5 burpees at the field while waiting on team 1.

BLIMPS relay

One team member runs length of field and back while rest of team completes AMRAP of the following;

Burpees

Lunges

Imperial Walkers

Merkins

Plank Jacks

Squats

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11’s across width of field.  Derkins and Groiners

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Escalator variant – do exercise A, run a lap around the field, at same corner do exercise A and B, run another lap…repeat for the four exercises

A – Burpees x 5

B – Merkins x 10

C – Squats x 15

D – BBS x 20

Once complete we went down the escalator starting with 20 BBS, run a lap….repeat.

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Mosey back to AO by way of the upper field, stopping at each light post and doing 20 Squats

MARY:
Ran out of time
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

MOLESKIN:
Ratchet involved with organization that helps homeless teenagers and young adults, pray for them

Deadhead on job transition

United weekend being a blessing
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
CSAUP next week

The Playlist on Shuffle

THE SCENE:
60°F, it’s not raining, but the ground is very wet
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
• SSH x25 (IC)
• Inch Worm Merkins x20 (OYO)
• Imperial Squat Walkers x20 (IC)
• Plank
○ Hand and leg up
○ Switch to other side

THA-THANG:
Mosey to the Baseball Dugouts
Pull-ups 3 sets of 10, mosey around the concession stand between each set

Mosey to the open air Chapel
Flowers by Moby: Push-up Challenge
“Green Sally Up”= move to standard plank
“Green Sally Down” = move to 6″ plank
Get Up Offa That Thing by James Brown: Leg lifts
Start by holding legs 6″ off the ground
“Get Up Offa That Thing” = Lift the legs up to 90° and then bring them back down

Mosey to upper parking lot

The Kraken
The 8 cones are setup in a circle. Spread out among them. Complete exercise at that cone and run around all the cones to the next cone (make the whole loop + one cone). Rinse and repeat until you complete the whole loop, twice.
• Cone 1 – Merkins x20
• Cone 2 – Squats x20
• Cone 3 – SSH x20
• Cone 4 – Jump Squats x20
• Cone 5 – 4ct Shoulder Taps x20
• Cone 6 – Lunges x20 (each leg)
• Cone 7 – Dry Docks x20
• Cone 8 – Smurf Jacks x20

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
6 , Waffle House, Frenchie, Crab Legs, Music City, Gibbler, Archie (QIC)
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
The struggle with Pride is real. It can cause us to react to others negatively because we are comparing ourselves. We are competing with those around us.

“Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.” – Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life

MOLESKIN:
I’m enjoying the addition of music to the workouts. It makes it a little more fun and helps me be more energetic. The guys did a great job today!

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
The 2nd F event at Abridged Beer Company is tonight at 6:30pm. See you there!