F3 Knoxville

Behind Enemy Lines

F3 Welcome & Disclaimer
COP
No Warmup
The Thang 
The Pax divided into three squads – 1st Squad, DT Squad and Cowboy Squad.
* Took three different routes and did a hard mosey to the water treatment plant. En route, Cowboy Squad stopped at the soccer fields and did mini-suicides to the soccer goals and approximately 50 LBCs (OYO). Other two squads stopped for stations en route.
  • At the Water Treatment Plant, all three squads circled up and did (depending on when the squad arrived)
    4 x 25 Squats (3 count IC), 4 x 25 Merkins (IC) and Baby Arm Circles (10 forward) pterodactyl (10 backwards)
  • All squads cross country mosey back to CMU pile. Stopped en route at the Field Office for 30 Hello Dollies (3 count IC)
    Each squad got a CMU for every two people and carried the CMUs on a mosey up to the Asylum.
  • At the Asylym – 2 x 10 (3 count IC) of Diamond Merkins while all squads arrived.
  • Leave CMUs – run down Everest, reconvene for Doras.
  • DORAS. Each squad – approximately 4-6 trips up Everest. 8-10 minutes. Lunges and Wide Grip Merkins at the bottom.
  • One final trip up Everest to the top of the Summit and back to the Asylum. Mosy with CMUs back to AO.
  • Final Sprint up Hill by AO and back. Back to AO.
ABS
  • 40 Flutter Kicks  (3 count IC).
 
BOM
Stick with your squad so you can put yourself in good place to push past what you think you can do. Look out for the men in your squad.

Leg Day!!!!

The Scene: 55 and wet. Rained all night but stopped just in time

F3 Welcome & Disclaimer

The Thang

Warmup

Cherry Pickers x10(IC)

Arm Circles Forward x10 (IC)

Arm Circles Backward x10 (IC)

High Knees x10 (IC)

 Mosey to playground

Bulgarian Split Squat x10 (IC) both legs 2 rounds

Squats x15 (IC)

Derkins x15 (IC)

Bulgarian Split Squat x10 (IC) both legs

Squats x15 (IC)

 Mosey to bottom of cardiac

Narrow Squats x25 (IC)

Merkins x15 (IC)

Run to top of hill

American Thor abs

Run to bottom

Squats x51 (IC)

Backpedal up hill

Skyhawk Merkin x15 (IC)

Run to bottom

Squats x25 (IC)

Run to parking lot

Squats x52 (IC)

 COT

Number off: 23

BOM: Tenacity: the quality or fact of continuing to exist; persistence

 MOLESKIN

Great morning for some legs. The pack keep pressing on to end the week.

 

Chalk Games

The Scene: 40 and clear

F3 welcome and disclaimer

Warm-o-Rama
10 IC forward arm circles
10 IC reverse arm circles
20 IC x 4ct Merkins
Mosey to hockey rink and BB up

The THANG
Hopscotch
1st round
burpees
1 partner does 20 SSH and 20 LBC while other completes the burpee hopscotch
Switch
When both finish take a lap

2nd round
Carolina dry docks/bear crawl
Domo squats
Switch
When both finish take a lap

Mosey to Pee Rocks
AMRAP
20 x Clean and press
20 x Squats
20 x Curls
20 x Tris
While partner sprints across the parking spots

3 rounds of Pinwheels (aka shuffle press in a circle)
Partner does Rocky Balboa until Pinwheel is complete

Ab-o-rama
Pickle pounders
BBS
American Hammers

BOM

This past fall I read a book by John Eldridge called “Fathered by God” and it spoke of how many men seek their strength from a woman instead of seeking it from God. By doing this it leads us to begin to resent the woman because the strength we as men need is not something we can obtain from her. That is something we must obtain from God. I’m sure I was partially doing this to my wife as well, but ever since reading that I have been trying to get my strength from God, F3 being a part of that, and providing my strength to her. You know what? It has helped our relationship and our family.

Tomorrow my wife goes in for surgery, and the last time she went in for surgery was about 4 years ago when she had an unplanned operation for an eptopic pregnancy. I didn’t realize the severity of the operation until the doctor came out and said “ok the chances she won’t make it, or that there will be complications are slim, but there is a possibility she could not return”. As I sat in the waiting room my mind raced, we had a 2 year old son at home, she was a stay at home mom, which means she did everything for him and me, and at that time the woman I had been gaining my strength from might not come back to me. I was freaked the fudge out, and I was a weak weak man.

As we approach this surgery tomorrow, I know we are in a different place, I’m giving her my strength instead of taking my strength from here and I know in my heart God is watching over her. However, I’m still a weak man. We now have 2 wonderful children and a 9 week old puppy at the house, her recovery time is 4-6 weeks and I’m scared of the wheels falling off the bus . I don’t struggle with the thought of losing my wife on this one, because that is in God’s hands. But daily I struggle with not being the husband she needs or the father my kids need.

I also know all of us here are all struggling with something or another, injuries, illness, divorce, death of a loved one, depression, loss of a job, possible move, etc. What we need to do is turn it to God. This is when God wants us to turn it to Him. It says so in:

2 Corinthians 12:8-10

“Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. But He said to me “My grace is sufficient for you for my power is made perfect in weakness” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses so that Christ power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong”

I am a weak man. But I am strong because I know God is with me, and my M. I know he will watch over her, protect her, and bring her out of this better than before.

WAtch OUt FOr THat POle

THE SCENE: 40 and clear

F3 Welcome and Disclaimer

THE THANG

Side Straddle Hop ICx20
Belly Merkins ICx15
Baby Arm Circle ICx15
Tempo Squats ICx15

Route 66 on World’s Fair Park
We ran a distance between 11 light posts, starting with 1 rep at the first pole and then adding one additional rep at each light post until you hit 11.
Round 1: Burpees
Round 2: Squats
Round 3: Merkins
Round 4: Big Boy Situps
Round 5: Carolina Dry Docks

Mosey to the Big Ball stairs.
Calf raises ICx15
Toes in calf raise ICx10
Toes out calf raise ICx10
Squat jump every other stair all the way to the top.

COT Number off and Name-O-Rama (1 FNG!)

BOM
“Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,” Colossians 3:22-23 ESV

Red Writer said that he is a recovering people pleaser. He talked about how part of being a H.I.M. (High Impact Man) is rejecting passivity. It’s easy for us as men to either check out of the mundane things or shrink back from the things that make us feel intimidated, pressured and afraid. But as men we must refuse to be passive and live our life on purpose and with greater purpose. That greater purpose is always found when we lift our heads up out of our boredom and stress, and see that we have a Heavenly Father and His gaze is always on us. He sees our weakness, he sees our frustration, he sees our fear; and He still loves us. His gaze and his unconditional love is the fuel that drives us in the mundane and the stress, to stay engaged and reject passivity.

“I always feel it well just to put a few words of prayer between everything I do” -Spurgeon

Sweet Sixteens

The Scene: 53 and clear skies
F3 Intro and Disclaimer
Warm-O-Rama:
Around the Worlds
Figure 8s
Halos
American Swing
‘Merkins
The THANG:
Sets of 16, AMRAP
– American Swings – Suicide Run + 16 ‘Merkins
– Goblet Squats – Jump rope 50x
– Burpee facing KB – Suicide Run + 16 ‘Merkins
– Sumo High Pulls – Jump rope 50x
MARY:
Plank-O-Rama
20x Toe Touches
20x Rockettes
20x Knee Holds
Shoulder Blasters!
Sit-Ups / V-Ups
WORD:
Q Shared a story about a member of the PAX needing someone to just listen.  You don’t always need to solve a problem, sometimes listening is the right thing to do.
Moleskin:
Tweet-E was back and the mublechatter was rich!  Three new guys to Ropes & Bells, and they put out!  Good to have you guys and we’ll see ya tomorrow!