F3 Knoxville

12 Pains of Christmas

THE SCENE: Cool, humid and Gloomy
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  1. Projectavator
  2. Cherry Pickers
  3. Tempo merkins
  4. Tempo squats
  5. Mosey to the sign and back

THA-THANG:

  1. Burpee
  2. Imperial Squalkers
  3. Basilisks
  4. Merkins
  5. Big Boys
  6. Lunges
  7. Side straddle hops
  8. Prone rows
  9. Diamond merkins
  10. Heels to heaven
  11. Squats
  12. Burpees

MARY:

  1. Circle of abs; each PAX got a chance to lead
  2. Ring of Fire merkins up to 5 and back down
  3. Mosey to the sign and back

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Just like Christmas, don’t let the world take something God meant for good and make it a pain.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
2nd F day at Rampart on October 1st. Iron Pax Challenge at The Project tomorrow.

B-DAY Q

THE SCENE:
Cool, crisp morning!
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

All were noted by the Q.

WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Cherry Pickers – x10 IC
  • Monkey Humpers – x15
  • Motivators – 5,4,3,2,1
  • Butt-Kicks (~20 yards – down and back)
  • Karaoke (~20 yards – down and back)
  • Bernie (~20 yards – down and back)

To avoid Burpees during the beatdown, PAX was challenged to obtain four of six total receptions with a nerf football. Epic failure, BUT in their defense, it was dark and wet outside….

THA-THANG:
Six stations laid out around the Oval Office. Each PAX started at a specific station with a relay format. The stations are listed as followed:

  1. PAX #1 ran a “go route” on the football field while PAX #2 threw him the nerf football. If catch was successful, PAX #1 completed LBCs on the field; if unsuccessful, then BB sit-ups.
  2. After throwing the football, PAX #2 completed 34 merkins on the track while everyone else completed the following exercises (AMRAP) at their respective stations. Once merkins were complete, PAX ran to the next station on the oval office and in relay form, the PAX went around the horn to change stations.
  3. CMU Curls
  4. Sandbag – 3 OH throws and then 4 squats with sandbag on shoulders
  5. Burpees
  6. Air-Squats

RINSE and REPEAT

MARY:
LBCs for time (~30 seconds)

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Baby Weight, Butterfingers, Crop Dust, KY, Pinocchio, Shrimp Net, & Smuggler
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
“Great leaders are not the best at everything. They find people who are best at different things and get them all on the same team”. Great leaders aren’t know-it-alls who constantly try to outshine everyone. They admit when they are wrong and genuinely want to learn from others. At the end of the day, it’s not about being the smartest person in the room. It’s about building a team with the smartest people you can find.

Milestones

THE SCENE:  High 50s and clear.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER:  Administered
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • RFTS / LIH
  • Cherry Pickers
  • Willy Mays Hays
  • Down/Up Dog
  • Merkins
  • Mountain climbers
  • Projectivator

THA THANG:

Mosey to the big lot.  Flutter kicks for the six.

Run the length of the lot.  At each line, rotate 90 degrees – so you sprint, side shuffle, bernie, side shuffle, sprint, etc until the end.  LBC for the six.

Mosey to Sophomore Hill and partner up. (Hat tip, Archie!)  Pairs spread out across 6 stations.  At each station there is a “stationary” exercise and a “move” exercise.  First partner does the “stationary” exercise until the second partner does the “move” exercise to the cone and back.  Two minutes each station.  20-second recovery and rotate.  Performed 10 sets.

Exercises were;

  • Station 1:  Bear crawl / Flutter kick
  • Station 2:  Sprint / Carolina Dry Dock
  • Station 3:  Broad Jump / Heels 2 Heaven
  • Station 4:  Sprint / Burpee
  • Station 5:  Lunge / Merkin
  • Station 6:  Sprint / Mountain Climber

Mosey back to the big lot.  Dolly for the six.  Run and rotate again – same as before.

MARY:

Imperial walkers

Jailbreak!

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

Me and 13 of the best men I know

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Joel 1:3, “Tell it to your children, and let your children tell it to their children, and their children to the next generation.”

Ps 78:1-4, “Give ear, O my people, to my teaching; incline your ears to the words of my mouth!  …We will not hide them from their children, but tell to the coming generation the glorious deeds of the Lord, and His might, and the wonders that He has done.”

Ephesians 6:4, “Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.”

We will have a theme for you during the BOM this week – and the theme is Family Discipleship.

Family discipleship is telling the coming generation about the character of God – and teaching them His instructions – or, to use F3 language, teaching them to live and lead virtuously.

Each of the Qs this week is going to present one way that can be done.  These are not exclusive of each other – rather, they really complement each other…

This morning, I talked about milestone occasions.  It’s not very often that we get these opportunities…  BIG moments – special times when your words and actions as a father – which are already so powerful – are magnified tenfold again!  Things like;

  • Birthdays
  • First / last day of school year
  • Move homes
  • Buying their first car
  • Profession of faith
  • First breakup with boyfriend / girlfriend
  • Death of a loved one
  • Formative talks (e.g., the sex talk)

These days could come and go like any other – or, with some planning and deliberateness on your part, these could be memorable or even life changing moments in your child’s life.  You have an awesome opportunity to mark your children and make those occasions like a pillar on the timeline of their lives.

What can you do to make these times deeply meaningful?  Maybe…

  • A well-thought out talk, speaking blessings into their lives.
  • A special gift that reflects the occasion.
  • A trip with just that child.
  • A hand-written letter.
  • Others!

I talked about one way that I’m doing that in my children’s lives.  Every fourth birthday, my sons have received a special gift and a blessing from me.  Each of those birthday blessings is about two paragraphs that I’ve scripted to say exactly what I want to say to them – and it is themed around 2 characteristics that I want my sons to grow to be as men.

We are striving to be men of high-impact.  Where that begins – where we have the MOST IMPACT – and where it is MOST IMPORTANT – is at HOME.

MOLESKIN:

This morning was about discipling your kids by planning for and facilitating meaningful milestones in their lives.  Come back for Part 2 on Wed and Part 3 on Fri!

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Kushti Inspired Workout

THE SCENE: Cool
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
10 Tempo Squats, 10 Fwd/Bwd LBAC’s, 5 Hindu Merkins, 5 Deep Knee Bend, 5 Hindu Burpees
THA-THANG:

Church Parking Lot (8 Stations) Rep count starting at 1 and increase by one each time

Exercise at Every other Parking Spot

R1: Bear Crawl – Deep Knee Bend, R2: Frog Jump -Hindu Merkin R3: R. Single Leg Jump – Hindu Burpee R4: L Single Leg Jump – Deep Knee Bends R5: Crawl Bear – Tuck Jump R6: Lunge – Peter Parker

1 Lap Between Rounds

MARY:
Quick Mosey Back to Track for a plank hold
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Butterfingers, KY, Smuggler, Shrimpnet, Swerve, Walt
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

This workout was inspired by the Kushti wresting and training style practiced in Indian. It’s a fun variation on stuff we do all the time. Take a look at the link below for a good description and some videos.

https://www.ryanglancaster.com/home/kushti-ancient-wrestling-style-and-training

It does no good to worry about what may or may not happen tomorrow; nor does it do any good whatsoever to dwell on mistakes you might have made in the past. We can only learn from past mistakes and modify future behavior for the better. The only day that matters is the one before you. Today

The Peoples’ Q

Right at the top your Q wants you to know that this entire workout was conceived, planned, workshopped, peer reviewed, revised, enhanced, approved by legal, focus grouped, and finally today was delivered to you, the PAX of Asylum.

Perfect fall morning.

Everybody is welcome and everything is disclaimed. Choir Boy is in private practice now, so if you want to sue somebody you can hire him.

Our warmup today included Motivators, stretching, Rockettes, and Rocky Balboas for Rainbow who we missed by just a couple of minutes.

We did some nickel-dime-quarter in honor of its inventor and our own Bionic Man Lilydipper. In trying to avoid bothering an innocent bystander, we ended up getting in her way even more, which is what Gibbler likes to call a Q Fail. Mentioning his name when he didn’t even show up is another Q Fail.

The PAX makes certain demands, and Base Camp to Space Camp is one of them. When the PAX speaks, the Q listens, so into a hornet’s nest we ran. Snitch took one for the team and is presumably on the couch right now in a Benadryl coma.

What’s a trip to the Cloud without some Jack Webb you ask? We don’t know.

Crawdad wasn’t there in person or in spirit, but we did curse him under our breath with a couple of trips up Cardiac.

Convoy couldn’t be stopped all morning and he led us back down to the AO.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
The academic side of F3 is one of the least often talked about, but it does provide valuable insight, and in the case of a recent study we learned about the major difference between AM and PM guys, according to family and friends. We did our best to remedy the inequality. We did it for the families!