F3 Knoxville

12 Days of Christmas

THE SCENE: The Asylum – Clear Skis – 22 Degrees Wind coming in from the west at 3 knots
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x20

Light run across the parking lot x4

THA-THANG:
12 Days of Christmas

  • Wheel Barrels with partner. 2x each 12 steps
  • 11 Merkins
  • 10 Carolina Dry Docks
  • 9 Mountain Climbers
  • Mosey to Cardiac
  • 8 American Hammers
  • 7 Big Boy sit ups
  • 6 Hello Dolly’s
  • 5 (Fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiive Boooooooooat Canoooooooooooes)
  • “The Run” up Cardiac. 25% to the turn 50% to the turn 100% to the top of the hill
  • 4 Jump Squats
  • 3 Iron Mikes
  • 2 Burpees
  • 1 Hug for your brother

Rinse and repeat x4

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
22 Men
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

We all sang the following:

O come, let us adore Him,
O come, let us adore Him,
O come, let us adore Him,
Christ the Lord

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Insert information about upcoming events, 2nd or 3rd F opportunities, and any other announcements.

50 & below

THE SCENE:   Debatable between 21, 22 and 24.    Either way: COLD!!

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA

  • stretch
  • around the worlds
  • figure 8’s
  • halos
  • stretch some more

THA-THANG:
My last few Q’s have been descending ladders….they’re easy to plan and give you a sense of accomplishment as you complete them.  Today was no different.   Descend the ladder, then eliminate the lowest number exercise.  Rinse & repeat until only one exercise left.  Use a KB for everything except the JR and merkins.

  • 50 jump rope
  • 45 curls
  • 40 big boys
  • 35 overhead press
  • 30 goblet squat
  • 25 hip thrusters
  • 20 Russian swings
  • 15 Lizard merkins
  • 10 American swings
  • 5 Turkish getups

MARY:

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
4 PAX:  Ratchet, Shooter, Pogo, Bartman

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Pace yourself.  Don’t hurt yourself by overextending yourself.  I’ve been doing a lot of remodeling around my house lately and still posting regularly for workouts which has me exhausted and beat up.  It’s OK to take a rest day.  Your body needs rest occasionally.   Listen to it.

MOLESKIN:
We all decided that Mexican food trucks and Vietnamese food should be the official food sponsor of F3.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Sweet looking Bomb Shelter shirt hitting the gearstore soon!

BB: 16 strong at the Dog Pound

THE SCENE: Bright and early, 38 degrees at start but it got warmer
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
20 “4 count” side straddle hops,

50 merkins,

20 “4 count” mountain climbers

20 “4 count” plank merkins

mosey to outhouse for 40 step ups

THA-THANG:

Mosey to the bottom of the steps

40 merkins, 40 dips, 20 lunges

Run up steps and touch the rock

40 merkins, 40 dips, 20 lunges

Run up steps and touch the rock

Recover with plank

Mosey towards Matterhorn with 10 burpees 1/2 way there

Lunge halfway up hill w sprint to the top

To the Pavilon for 20 pull-ups, 20 decline merkins, and 20 dipS

MARY:
Mosey back to the AO for:

20 “4 count” American Hammers”

50 bicycle kicks

50 baby crunches

20 “4 count” Hello Dolly’s”

40 Merkins

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
16 Strong, flute loop, detention, ratchet, butters, doubtfire, peach fuzz, ribbed, tank, junk, buehler, scooter, shooter, lady fingers, frosty, lazy boy, eyebeam

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
10% of us is visible to the whole world.  The other 90% (everything that goes on in our hearts and minds) is only known to us and God.  Is there stuff going on in our 90% that we want changed?  If so, working harder and trying to come up with the power on our own to change the big stuff that needs to be changed is a fruitless, exhausting effort that most likely won’t work.  The answer:  “Desperate Prayer”.  Go to God in authentic surrendered desperation and ask Him to release His Spirit to work in you – get specific on what you want changed, and get desperate, and do it regularly, and see what happens.  Praise Him.
MOLESKIN:
Pray for Mayberry’s family, Praise for Ratchet’s parents
ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Tuesday Throwdown

THE SCENE
42 and Clear

 

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

 

WARM-O-RAMA
SSH x25 IC
Tempo Merkins x12 IC
SSH x25 IC
Tempo Squats x12 IC
Baby Arm Circles Fwd x12 IC
Baby Arm Circles Bkw x12 IC
Imperial Squat Walkers x12 IC

 

THA-THANG
Countdown
Partner up. For this routine, one person performs the exercises while the other jump ropes.

Routine:  Run to far cone perform x20 reps, run back to first cone perform x15 reps, run to the second farthest cone and perform x10 reps, run back to first cone perform x5 reps.

Exercises:

  1. Wide Merkins
  2. Narrow Squat
  3. Superman Swims

Mosey to pavilion.

 

Table Work
With your partner, gather around one of the picnic tables.  Perform 4 rounds as outlined.  Each round is 2 minutes long with a 30 second break between rounds:

Rd

Exercise 1

Exercise 2
(Done until Partner finishes Ex1)

1

 Step Ups x10/leg Bench Dips

2

 Bulgarian Split Squats x10/leg Let Me Ups (Wide Grip)

3

 Side Step Ups x10/leg Decline Carolina Dry Docks

4

 Foot to sky x10/leg Let Me Ups (Close Grip)

Mosey to intersection of old trail and new trail near the water (just down from Cardiac Hill).

 

Route 132
Start at intersection of the new trail and old trail.  At the first light pole, perform the 1 Dry Dock and 1 Jump Squat.  Continue up the path pausing at each light pole to do the exercises while increasing 1 rep each light until you get to 11 reps of each exercise.

Mosey to the base of Cardiac Hill.

 

Cardiac Mary
Start with 10 BBS then run up Cardiac.  At the first switchback perform 15 4ct Flutter Kicks.  At second switchback perform 10 BBS.  At the top of trail, where the trail meets the road, 10 BBS.

Mosey to SP.

 

Cash Out
ATMs

 

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
5 PAX, 1 FNG (Dorothy)

 

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM
The secret to growth is movement.  Whether it’s physical, mental, relational or spiritual it’s not enough to talk about change, you have to put it into action!

James 1:19-25
“Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God. Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.”

 

MOLESKIN
Intimate crew this morning, but the 5 HIMs gave it 100% and crushed the morning!  It was great to meet Dorothy, glad he could make it in from Albany.  Hopefully work will bring him back soon.

 

CMU Later

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THE SCENE: Pretty warm and a perfect morning for a beat down!
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x25 IC
Imperial Walker x15 IC
Run in place, lunge when Q calls it out
Little Baby Arm Circles x20 IC
Blocktanamo
THA-THANG:
Mosey over to a lamp post, then do the following exercises between each lamp post:

  • Lunges
  • Crab Walk
  • Squat Jump

Mosey to another lamp post on the other side and do bear crawls, but don’t stop at the next lamp post! Going for two. Mosey over to grinder with CMU.

Do 2 reps of the following Exercises. After doing each exercise twice, run to the corner and do two double military merkin burpees. Repeat for time, increasing each exercise by 2 until Q calls time (2, 4, 6, 8…).

  • Braced Squats (Holding CMU straight out while squatting)
  • Curl, Press, Tri with CMU
  • CMU Merkin row (merkin w/ hand on CMU, then row)
  • Dips
  • Pull-ups

MARY:

  • Louganis
  • Plank on your six holding CMU
  • Boxcutter
  • Guantanamo
  • Snorkel suggestion, Pass the CMU

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
13 Pax this morning with no FNGs: Hammy, Woodshack, Moses, Drifter, Butterfingers, Flash, Pinnocchio, Snorkel, Raincheck, Slumlord, Mr Rogers, Waxjob, Fins
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
We as men are expected to be courageous, but I don’t think that a lot of men know what that means. Someone once explained it to me like this: Imagine that you are afraid of snakes and there is a child next to you that is not afraid of snakes. If the child picks up a snake, that does not show courage. But if you pick up a snake, it is courageous. Courage is not the lack of fear, it is overcoming fear. Look at men in the military. My cousin earned a bronze star as a platoon leader in Iraq in 2003. One of his men got shot and my cousin ran across the road, threw the guy over his shoulder, and ran back shooting his M16 with one hand. He did not go get that guy because he thought it was a good opportunity to earn a bronze star. He got that guy because that guy is his brother and the fellowship that they have was enough for my cousin to overcome his fear of running through a street full of flying bullets. The first day that I came to F3, I came to get in better shape and to make myself better. I was scared to do my VQ, but today I showed up for the men who came. I showed up to make them better. That is why F3 works so well, because of that 2nd F and being able to push each other and work with each other to overcome our fears and show courage.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

  • Saturday, December 30 meet at Alcoa municipal building
  • February 24 CSAUP