F3 Knoxville

The revenge of the dragon

THE SCENE: mid-30’s and clear
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x20; Imperial Walkers x15; Windmill x10; High knees and butt-kickers across the parking lot.

THA-THANG:
Mosey to bathhouse for some 7’s

  • pull-ups at the bathhouse
  • v-ups at the bottom of the ramp.

Top Parking lot for a DORA

  • 100 HR merkins
  • 200 big boys
  • 300 squats

Finished with the dreaded Welsh Dragon. Well, we didn’t finish… the dragon finished us.

MARY:
No time

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Ecclesiastes 11:9Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of youryouth. rWalk in the ways of your heart and sthe sight of your eyes. But know that for allthese things tGod will bring you into judgment.

Dirty Thirty

THE SCENE: A chilly mid 30’s
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • SSH x 15 IC
  • Cherry Pickers x8 IC
  • Tempo Squat x 10 IC

THA-THANG:
A little mosey over to the track. There are 4 sets of exercises, each containing 3 movements of 30 reps a piece. Once you complete one of the sets, burpee broadjump between cones and take off on a lap. When you return, move on to the next set.

Set 1:

  • 30 Wide Merkins
  • 30 Ranger Merkins
  • 30 Merkins

Set 2:

  • 30 Iron Mikes
  • 30 Sumo Squats
  • 30 Monkey Humpers

Set 3:

  • 30 Shoulder Taps
  • 30 Dry Docks
  • 30 OH Claps (4ct)

Set 4:

  • 30 BBS
  • 30 Bicycles (2ct)
  • 30 Hello Dolly’s

MARY:
Finish off with BBS until time.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
9 showed up to get some reps in
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
“The two most important days in your life are the day you’re born and the day you find out why” – Mark Twain

Everyone reading this has already done the first one of those, but finding out “why” is what we may never officially know. I thought maybe it was when I got married or had my first kid, but I don’t know for sure.

One thing I do know is that every single person who has ever shown up to F3 didn’t do it because it’s fun to wake up at 5am to go work out in the rain and get thrashed. There was an underlying reason that made you think you should show up to this. Could have been fitness, could have been the fellowship, could have been the faith, or it could have been something else you didn’t know or understand. I came to the conclusion that my “why” could also be out there at 5:30am because for some reason I kept showing up. Someone I may not have even met yet may impact me in such a way that it changes my life forever, or maybe I do that to someone else. Or one of those things could have already happened.

You may not ever get to know your “why” but sometimes there are some things in life that let you know you may be on the right path to find it. I think F3 may be that path for a lot of us.

MOLESKIN:
Insert any personal comments, notes, devotion content, etc.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Insert information about upcoming events, 2nd or 3rd F opportunities, and any other announcements.

Atomic Habits

THE SCENE: Starting to get gloomy in the fake gloom
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER Did it
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH, this & that, Imperial Walkers, arm circles foward/backward, Rockettes
THA-THANG:

  • In memory of Grady Pitstick, a Dora with a total of 34 (would have been his 34th bday) deconstructed burpess while Battle Buddy did countless Grady Corns
  • Dora with LBCs and Bring Backs
  • Steps Up and Calf Raises
  • CMU Doras with Curls, Presses, Squats, and Big Boys

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Dozen
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
A review of “Atomic Habits” by James Clear. A book about habit formations, how and why they form, and how to created new or change old habits.  A few key takeaways for me:

  1. Habits are like compound interest.  Saving $1 isn’t going to change your life, but saving $1 every day over time will.  Same for certain habits.  Smoking today isn’t going to kill you, but smoking everyday for years might.  Eating healthy today isn’t going to make you lose weight, but eating healthy every day will lose weight over time.
  2. To change your habits, you must change your identity.  Your mind believes you are what the evidence says you are.  You cannot claim your identity to be a fit man if you sit on the couch and eat junk food.  The evidence doesn’t support the identity.  You must give yourself evidence of the identity overtime, and habits are they way to do that.
  3. “You do not rise to the levels of your goals; you fall to the level of your systems”.  A lot of people focus on goals, which are good, but goals alone won’t help you achieve a goal.  I want to be a more fit man for my health and my kids, but if I only have a goal, I’ll never get there.  I need systems in place, like habits, to be the focus on my attention.  You have to focus on the actions that build up overtime to reach the outcome you want.  Create habits that will support the goal, and focus on those habits. The goals will take care of themselves.

Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

MOLESKIN:
Steam and his new bride.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Clothing drive, canned food drive, Brolympics 11/5 at Lakeshore.

Run fast. Carry heavy things. Do burpees

THE SCENE: Cool and sweaty all at the same time
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA

tempo squats, wide merkins, ssh
THA-THANG:
Loooooooooooong a$$ Indian run to the church parking lot for a Dora beatdown.  100 merkins, 200 2 ct imperial squat walkers, 300 WW2’s but we didn’t get to many of those. Looooong Indian run back

MARY:
Ab work for time
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
10 HIMs got 1% better
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Motivation follows action. Not the reverse.
MOLESKIN:
Insert any personal comments, notes, devotion content, etc.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Miles 4 Maryville on Saturday. Show up and show out to encourage some sad clowns to come out into the gloom. Bumblebee also looking for help moving on Saturday

RushTheField

The Scene

Perfect!

F3 Welcome and Disclaimer

Fitness, Fellowship, Faith, Free, Modify, Not Professional, Own Volition, Social Distance, Phone

Warm-O-Rama

Cherry Pickers

Motivators 

Imperial Walkers

Harry Rockets

Hand Release Merkins (Ended up being regular Merkins because it was wet)

Tha-Thang

We split into 3 groups of 4 and proceeded with the below workout. The football field was locked so we used the big parking lot at the far end of campus.

 

Rush the field

 

80 lb sandbag

Carry from curb to curb

Others run to “50 yard line” and do 5 burpees and run back. Rotate so that each member has a turn with the sandbag.

 

When entire team has completed the exercise do 52 reps of mary of your choosing. 

 

45 lb kettlebell

Deadlift to high pull 

Run to “goal post” 10 squat jumps, run back. Rotate so that each member has a turn with the kettlebell.

 

When entire team has completed the exercise do 52 reps of mary of your choosing. 

 

40 lb ruck plate

Overhead/chest height march to squat

Run to opposite “goal post” and do hillbilly squat walkers, run back. Rotate so that each member has a turn with the ruck plate.

 

When entire team has completed the exercise do 52 reps of mary of your choosing. 

 

Completed the same series again but the ruck plate station turned into curl and press and the kettlebell station turned into swings.

 

Mosey back to the shovel flag with the objects in tow. 

Mary

5 burpees (Because burpees are the best)

10 count squat to finish

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

12 High Impact Men

COT/BOM

Are your goals really To Do List items. We were challenged by our current or future goals that we have set for ourselves. When making a goal it should be something that as a little risk/opportunity for failure. This allows you to push harder in your mind. If you “goals” are always 100% achievable are they really goals, or are they items to just check off your To Do List?

MOLESKIN:

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