F3 Knoxville

Keep Climbing

AO: juco
Q: Butterknife
PAX: Butterknife, Windex, Ghost Flag (F3Knoxville), Po-Boy (Travis Dupre), Glamper, Incoming (Rodney Pointer), Booster (Les Fout), Dart Gun (Todd Mulder), Doubtfire (Nick Bond), Parkour, Fetch (Joel Moran), Brick
FNGs: None
COUNT: 12
WARMUP:
Side straddle hop in cadence 20
Cherry Pickers
5 Burpees on your own
Arm rotations thumbs up in cadence
Reverse thumbs down in cadence
Motivators 8x

THE THANG:
Grab a CMU
Mosey to JUCOmanjaro
Partner up
Sprint to first stripe while partner farmer carries do 5 Burpees
Bear crawl next stripe while partner farmer carries do 10 Burpees
Sprint to Next stripe while partner farmer carries do 15 Burpees
Repeat with Squats, Derkins

MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:
“You are the sum of the 5 people you spend time with.

Show me your circle and I’ll show you your ceiling.

And if you’re the smartest and most successful person in the room….

It’s time to find a new room.

What an absolute honor to be in this room!!!

I’m a 🧽 “

Three things will last forever—Faith, hope, and love—the greatest of these is love.
‭‭1 Corinthians‬ ‭13:13‬ ‭NLT‬‬

Heavy day at Rampart

AO: rampart
Q: Skeletor (Tyson Canup)
PAX: Feeny (Josh Banken), Lucille (Austin Williams), Outnumbered (Daniel Hildebrandt), Piston (Ralton Emory), Skeletor (Tyson Canup), Porthole, Old English
FNGs: 2 Porthole, Old English
COUNT: 7
WARMUP: Rounds of SSH with traditional exercises like tempo merkins, Knox cherry pickers, and tempo squats in between.
THE THANG: Heavy day, 7 stations, each man at a station with a sandbag. Rotate through each station for two rounds

Round 1/round 2
35# kettlebell KB swings/snatch
40# bag front rack squats/sandbag burpees
40# bag curls/curls
60# bag bent rows/cleans
20# bag tricep extension/OHP single arm
80# bag dead lifts/dead lifts
53# kettlebell farmer carry/shoulder carry

Carry man was the timer, rotate when he returns to start position

MARY: punishing core exercises from Skeletor
ANNOUNCEMENTS: F3 in the Nude, was a blast. Be sure to be there next year.

-Giant thanks to our 2ndF Q for pulling the men together for an outing yesterday. It looked like y’all had a great time.

-SHOVELFLAG HANDOFF!!!
Thursday, Aug 3 5:30AM at the Project  let’s be there to support our brothers.

-Steam comes to Rampart to Q for us on August 7th. Let’s show up here to support him.

Looking forward to a Wingman Q on Wednesday and a Feeny Q on Saturday.

COT:

Basic Beatdown

AO: thequacken
Q: Road Block
PAX: FixerUpper (Patrick Core), Z-Pack (Brian Brockman), Lizzy, Duggar (Gary Anders), Tenderfoot, Secret Garden, Dr. Seuss
FNGs: 1 Dr. Seuss
COUNT: 8

WARMUP:
SSH’s, Hillbillies, Imperial Walkers, stretches, an uphill Mosey

THE THANG:
Bataan Death Crawl

Four sets of arm, ab, and leg exercises with a 1/3 mile mosey between each.

Ring of Fire – squats

A brief word about Creation and Evangelism.

Also enjoyed a cameo appearance (due to injury) by Wedding Singer and his sidekick Scout!

7/29 waiting for watermelon

AO: bigball
Q: Drive-thru (Mikel Towe)
PAX: Butterfly (Duncan Johnson), Postman (Scott Colby), Drive-thru (Mikel Towe), Baller, Ben & Jerry’s
FNGs: None
COUNT: 5
WARMUP:
THE THANG:
Watermelon Crawl:
Listen to watermelon crawl. Bear crawl around fountains and do 8 merkins every time he says watermelon.

Mosey to area past amphitheater.
5/10/15/20
Decline merks
Calf raises
Am Hams
Dips
Run to top of amphitheater rows.

Mosey to church parking lot

Parking lot AMRAP-25 minutes
Rocks 10/20 reps
Bonnie blair
Curls
Triceps
OH press
Front raise
Merkins
Big boys

MARY: only star gazers
ANNOUNCEMENTS: paxminer
COT: Pray for Butterfly’s grandfather who had a stroke and the rest of the family.

You Need to Let Go to Take On Something New

AO: asylum-daybreak
Q: CRISPR (David Smelser)
PAX: Choir Boy (Kenny Saffles), Veggie (Rylen Huddy), F6 (Tim Pope), lebowski, Matlock (Bill Maddox), Lulu (Greg Huddy), CRISPR (David Smelser), Dung Beetle (Scott Kimsey), Brick (Chris Tittle), Swimmies (Nathan Chesney), Qbert (Bob Buckner), Jumbo(Carter Dickens)
FNGs: None
COUNT: 12
WARMUP: SSH, cherry pickers, rockettes, this and that, imperial walkers
THE THANG:

25x step up, pull up, dip, incline merkin, rocky balboa, SSH, imperial walker, squat, then 20, 15, 10, 5

LT Dan down the parking lot, then merkins up the dragon, some squat ring of fire, imperial walkers down the dragon, core 4 around the parking lot, and ending with some rounds of William Wallace.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: 2nd F at Abacas tonight, choir boy family travels

COT: I’ve been struggling with Heroic Individualism as defined by Brad Stulberg. My intent had been to do Words based on his book The Practice of Groundedness, but life got in the way and couldn’t prepare a Word for this Q. Actually, heroic individualism got in the way. I had an opportunity to do some professional development that would be amazing and a big resume builder. But it’d be a huge commitment and require a massive amount of time. My wife and I chatted and she asked what I’d have to give up to take something like that on? What’s less important in my life right now that I could replace it with this opportunity? Her, the kids, work, F3, church, etc? Turns out she’s right and I have no more time to give, or at least that much time for that level of commitment.

Everything has an opportunity cost. Taking something on might mean not taking something on lad or perhaps having to let go or step back from something you’re already doing. There is only so much time available to you, so while you may want to take on all the amazing opportunities that come your way, but choose wisely so you don’t over burden yourself to a point you’re half doing everything and losing focus on those things that matter most.