F3 Knoxville

Rucking The Burbs

THE SCENE
58 and Clear, rain at the very end

 

THA-THANG
Ruck 1 mile down the Greenway to Gallaher View towards Middlebrook Pike.
Stop for 6 Rounds (with a ruck) of the following:

  • 6 Burpees
  • 6 Merkins6 Squats (ruck on back)
  • 6 Lunges (each leg)
  • 6 Thrusters
  • 6 Overhead Squats

 

Ruck another 1.5 miles (approx. 2.5 total) to Fellowship Church.
Stop in the parking lot for 4 Rounds (with a ruck) of the following:

  • 6 Ruck curls
  • 6 Ruck ground to overheas
  • 6 Overhead Tricep extension
  • 6 Overhead Ruck presses
  • 6 Ruck swings (Kettlebell swings)
  • 6 Ruck upright rows

Ruck another 2 miles back to SP (approx. 4.5 total) through the West Hills neighborhood (Indian Run style) back to West Hills Park.

Ruck one round of the parking lot, including Bernie up Lover’s Lane. (approx. 5 miles total).

 

Mary
Circle up for 2 rounds of 4ct Flutter Kicks x30 IC

Jump in the car as the rain comes down!!

Hydro Plow

THE SCENE: A bit damp with 100% chance of downpoor
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH 4c 25  Dancing bear merkins 4c 10 Cherry Pickers 10 Tempo Squats 10 Hill Billy Squat Walkers 15
THA-THANG:

  • Mosey to stairs, @ bottom of stairs 20 merkins 20 dips 30 squats. Crawl Bear up steps. @ top of steps, 5 Burpees over the rope. Rinse & Repeat.
  • Mosey to the wall.  Wall squat while passing a coupon. Once coupon gets to the end of the line that HIM sprints up steps returns to the end of the line.  Took up to much time so we cut it short.
  • Mosey/ Jail Break?.. To the parking lot. With groups of 3, @ one end SSH @ the other end Leg lifts. In the middle slide 45lbs or 35lbs plate from one end to the other alternating end workouts.
  • are
  • handy.

MARY:
Metronome and Ring -O- Fire
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Know the difference in an “Excuse and a Reason”.  The PAX is the what makes F3 what it is.  Without the HIMS F3 does not exist.  We make a decision to get out and live in the gloom.  If we don’t make it to a work out, ask yourself if you have a reason or an excuse.  A reason would be work or an injury or sick etc.  An excuse is sleeping,  “Man I just don’t have time”etc.  This holds true with life decisions as well.  If you decide you want to make a change or want to get a new job that you know is better or what ever the case may be and you convince yourself you can’t…… Think for a moment.  Do I have a reason or am I making an excuse?

Quotes:

” Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.”   – Marry Anne Radmacher

“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go,instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

” I want to be used up when I die.”  – George Bernard Shaw

MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Hardship Hill   May 19th

Kraken open some CMUs

THE SCENE: 63 – perfect

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER


WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Merkins IC x 10  4ct
  • Squats IC x 10  4 ct
  • Calf raises IC x 10  4ct
  • OYO stretching

THA-THANG:

Split into 3 teams and attacked the CMU Kraken.  Perform exercise at each cone then run a lap around the circle with your CMU passing the cone you just completed and progressing to the next cone.

Cone # Lap 1 Lap 2
1 Mr. Spectacular x 25 Single arm bent over row x 25 (per arm)
2 CMU Squats x 25 Derkins x 25
3 CMU Single Arm Curl x 25 (each arm) CMU Tricep Press x 25
4 CMU Burpees x 25 CMU Big Boys x 25
5 CMU Lunge 25 out, 25 back CMU Front Deltoid Raise x 25
6 Thrust Merkins x 25 CMU Squat Press x 25
7 CMU Overhead Press x 25 CMU Hello Dolly x 25
8 Lizard Merkin crawl to center of circle & back Incline Merkins x 25

 

MARY:

  • Captain Thors
  • Box Cutters x 20

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
18 HIMs in full effect:  Junk, Mayberry, La-Z-Boy, Flanders, Abacus, Podium, Ribbed, Snitch, Deadhead, Bowflex, Tweet-E, Scooter, Respect, Shooter, Tonka, Flute Loop, Driftwood, Bartman

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
John 3:16 is one of the most known scriptures in the Bible, however not many people read beyond verse 16.

16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned,but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son. 19 This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20 Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed. 21 But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.    John 3:16-21

If we have not believed upon Christ as our Lord and savior, then we are already dead in our sin.  We need to be reminded of our actions and that we are never truly acting in secret.   God knows what is done in secret.  Are your actions honorable when no-one else is looking?  The fact is that there is never a time when no one sees what you are doing because God sees all.  Therefore the choice is whether you will act righteously in the light or unrighteously in the darkness.  Either way, nothing is hidden from God’s eye and he will judge us each accordingly.

MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Swimming with Bricks

THE SCENE: Slight breeze and a warm 61oF
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Baby arm circles, Forward 10x, Reverse 10x IC
  • Side Straddle Hops 25x IC
  • Suzanne Summers 20x EL IC (cross jacks)
  • Cherry Pickers 10x IC
  • Micheal Phelps 20x OYO

THA-THANG:

  • Mosey to my truck to grab bricks
  • Mosey while doing The Swimmer around outer parking lot to starting point
  • Iron Hulk
    • 1 Merkin:4 Air Press (with bricks)
    • 8x increasing by 1 Merkin and 4 Air Presses each time (8 Merkins, 32 Air presses)
  • Dora 1-2-3 with bricks
    • Find a Battle Buddy
    • P1
      • 100 Merkins on bricks
      • 200 LBC with bricks on chest
      • 300 Goblet Squats
    • P2
      • Run around outer parking lot with bricks either doing The Swimmer or the Airplane
    • Plank until all are finished
  • WonderBra 15x IC
    • PeoplesChair against wall. Hand at chest with bricks, Push out, in and up
  • Iron Hulk 5x
  • Lap around the parking lot to AO

MARY:

  • Flutters 15x IC
  • Box Cutters 10x IC
  • Bruce Lees 15x 
  • Squat to Crawl to Merkin and repeat 10x
  • Boat Canoe
  • Dealers Choice:
    • Circle of Pain – Mr. Wedgie
      • 5 Merkins, 4 Knuckle Merkins, 3 Ranger Merkins, 2 Wide Merkins, 1 Diamond Merkin
    • BBS – Hands behind head, fingers interlaced 20x – A-Rod
    • Slutter Kicks – Fast-n-Easy

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Being authentic. Too many times we put on a persona of what we think people want to see. We act differently around our family, friends, church and co-workers to meet expectations. Social media has elevated this to an unhealthy level where we only post the most perfect moments in our lives and compare ourselves in all of our imperfections to other’s most perfect moments. We need to strive to be authentic in all aspects of our lives and stop comparing ourselves to these micro snapshots from others.

Just Do It.

THE SCENE: 50’s – calm 

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, so if you need to modify any of the exercises we do this morning feel free to do so! But push yourself and those around you.”


WARM-O-RAMA:
1. Cherry-Picker: 15 x 4 in cadence

2. SSH: 20 x 4 in cadence

3. High Knees: 20 x 4 in cadence

4. Plank Jack: 20 x 4 in cadence

5. Merkin: 10 x 4 in cadence
THA-THANG:
PAX put keys/wallets/etc in Steam’s ruck

Steam assigned flag carrying duty to different PAX members throughout the beatdown

  • Mosey to The Foundry
    • Mosey around the back (bottom lot)
    • 15s
      • Assemble battle buddy teams
      • Bottom lot = Battle Buddy situps
        • Fingers interlocked behind head – battle buddy hold feet
        • Start with 14 BBSs
      • Top (Front of The Foundry) = Merkins
        • Start with 1 merkin
      • Time Crunch —- PAX recovered at bottom lot
      • G-6 led PAX in 10 – 4 count merkins as the exit ticket
  • Mosey Right out of The Foundry
    • Mosey to bridge tunnel leading to under I-40
    • Peel
      • 2 columns facing the tunnel ahead
      • QIC gave the command “PEEL” & each battle buddy team sprinted to the middle of the tunnel – executed 5 merkins – and sprinted to the other side and held the squat position until all PAX recovered
      • All PAX waiting their turn to PEEL held squat position
  • Mosey to middle column in open parking lot under I-40
    • 8s
      • @ middle column – 7 smurf jacks
      • @ trailer across lot = 1 squat
    • QIC rallied PAX @ trailer with flag
    • Full out 100% sprint back to middle column
  • Mosey back to AO
    • F3 Cadence Call by QIC
  • Abs @ AO
    • Frank led PAX in American Hammers & Flutter kicks until 6 arrived

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

27 total – 2 FNG

Quarantine – Steam – Put-Putt – Swanson – Baby-Face – Hillary – Abort – Amazon – Rousey – Rascal – Butterfly – Bessie – G-6 – Frank – Creeper – Plunger – Cowbell – Careless – Crouton – Prom Night – Petey – Cheatsheet – Cliffhanger – Ringworm – Cougar – Dipper – Bareback

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
1 Chronicles 28:10 = Be careful now, for the Lord has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary; be strong and do it.

(MSG) “…..be brave and determined and do it.”

God is calling us as men to be strong – to be determined – to do it. He’s called us to build for him, not tear down. I don’t feel like I’ve been strong and have been doing it lately.

That’s where this circle doesn’t just stay here. Take this encouragement outside of 0530 – 0615.

 

Pray It Out

PRs: G-6’s friend who is battling cancer – for their family