F3 Knoxville

Clickety-Clack

THE SCENE: Break out the parkas (It’s really the best weather)
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER Administered accordingly, we’re not all savages here.  Definitely not whomever Handsome Rob is.
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH IC, Grady Corns IC, Tempo Squats IC, Cherry Pickers IC
THA-THANG:
6 stations, roll the dice at each station.  Whatever number you get, multiply it by 5 and that’s the number of reps you get to do.  Then after the burpee station, run around the exterior of the tennis court.  The exercises were as follows:

  • Dips
  • Merkins
  • BBS
  • Air Squats
  • Shoulder Taps
  • Burpees

Mosey to the rock pile.

THEEEEENNNNNN we did 7 reps of curls, 7 overhead presses, 7 rows at the rock pile, then ran to the bathhouse to do 7 pull ups, then repeated for a bit.

MARY:
Long mosey back to the #shovelflag to do some LBCs, boats and canoes (need to call on School Zone more for that stuff), Flutterkicks, then dead bugs.  Finally Kobra Kai (never dies!)
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
10 Fantastic PAX that included Ironman down range from Montgomery
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
“I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.” – Jack London

Dude only lived to 40, but he lived.  Can’t be afraid to experience life.  Take advantage while you’re here on this earthly plane.
MOLESKIN:
Prayers for Ribbed’s wife, all those traveling.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Brolympics on Nov 5th, Flag handoff at Dog Pound

Trying to turn back time

THE SCENE: A Fantastic 60
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER  Checkeroni.
WARM-O-RAMA:
15 SSH

10 Tempo Merkins

10 Tempo Squats

10 LBAC Foreward 10 Backward

10 Morrocan Night Clubs

10 Grady Corn

10 Hallelujah

10 Chattanooga Cherry Pickers

5 Cherry Pickers
THA-THANG:

Mosey to the track (Our last day on the track before the city closes it down for upgrades!!) Perform a modified Millennial routine. Preform 50 of determined exercise then sprint 100m.

  • 50 squats; sprint 100m
  • 50 LBC; Sprint 100m
  • 50 Merkins; Sprint 100m
  • 50 SSH; Sprint 100m
  • 50 Toe Merkins; Sprint 100m
  • 50 Lunges; Sprint 100m
  • 50 2-count Flutter Kicks; Sprint 100m
  • 50 2-count Mtn. Climbers; Sprint 100m
  • 100 Hallelujahs; Run full lap
  • 50 Burpees; Indian run full track

Mosey back to circle. Plank while AC/DC Thunderstruck plays. Every time thunder is said do a merkin every time “Thunderstruck” is said do a burpee. Ring of fire squat jump to 4.

MARY:

Dealers Choice around the circle
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
5 Awesome PAX
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
From “Dailydad.com Slow down or you’ll miss this gift” Were seemingly in a rush all the time, always in a hurry to get to the next thing, for seemingly no reason. Meanwhile our children, friends and family often take the back burner and we rush so much that we wind up missing them and everything important that one day we’ll give anything to get back. So slow down and appreciate today appreciate the ones around you and make sure to remind them ow much you love them.
MOLESKIN:
Pray for the boys on the DR and DL and for all the men that showed up.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Rampart shirts are LIVE!! Put the orders in we have to weeks to get at least 12 in order for the  to go to print. Starting next month were gonna plan on getting coffee together every first Saturday of the month. 2nd-f opportunities are still always welcome though.

No CMUesday

THE SCENE: A hint of fall in the air.  First time in the 50’s in a while
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Warmed up with 20 SSH on 4ct, Tie Fighters Left and Right x10, Rockettes x12, Imperial Walkers x10 mosey’d to pavilion for 10 tempo incline merkins and 10 tempo dips.
THA-THANG:
Mosey’d to lower parking lot for a 4 corner(ish) workout starting at corner 1 with 25 jump squats.  From there you bear crawl out to cone 1 about 20 yards out, once there switched to crab walks to cone two, then once at cone 2 back to bear crawls to cone 3.

25 gas pumpers at cone 3 then run to the 3rd corner at adjacent parking lot for 25 merkins, and then run to 4th and final corner for 25 dry docks.  Hope was to finish 4 rounds.  We didn’t quite get 4

Once 6 was up we completed a circuit in one parking lot.  Idea was one exercise at a time, performing 25 at one end, run to the other end of the lot for 20, run back for 15 and so on.  All the way to 5 reps

Once you completed 5 reps you moved on to the next exercise.

Exercises were: LBC, Flutter Kick, and F Mercury’s

Once completed we had time for one last “Hard as you can” up Baby Everest.  Then circled up.

MARY:
We did 10 SSH’s on 4ct.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
We talked about loss and I shared this prayer:

Lord Jesus, thank you for guaranteeing the Day of no more death—whether by “natural causes” and aging, way too early “Homecomings,” or by senseless acts and dark circumstances. Though you have already removed death’s “sting” (1 Cor. 15:55-56), it still slaps us in the face, buckles our knees, and rocks our sensibilities,.

 

Thank you for validating our shock, encouraging our grief, and giving us tears. Standing before your friend’s grave, you wept before you raised Lazarus to life. You revealed your anguish before you exercised your power. Death is a violation. It’s not the way things are supposed to be.

 

It’s only because of your death and resurrection, we now gratefully affirm death isn’t sovereign, you are. Sin didn’t triumph, you did. Our funeral doesn’t get the last word, you do. Jesus, you are the grace giver and grave robber. Death’s keys are in your hand, and so are we.

With the same hand you will wipe every tear out of eyes, reach into our painful stories of loss now. We still have questions, but we don’t question your goodness and faithfulness. Because the Gospel is true, to be absent from the body is to be present with you. Life is Christ and death is gain. Our mourning is for this brief, painful moment; but eternal joy will come in the morning. Thank you, and So Very Amen.

 

 

 

 

 

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

Talent towards Career, Genius towards life

THE SCENE: Cool and Breezy
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

10x Little Baby Arm Circles (E.W.)

10x Cherry Pickers

THA-THANG:

                              Mosey To Pavillion:

Partner Up:

        • (3 Sets)

          Pax #1 Does 10x Dips on Table Bench w/ feet on Pax #2 Back in Plank

          Pax #2 Holds Plank while Pax #1 Completes

          Mosey To Swings:

        • (3 Sets)

          Pax #1 does 10x Body Rows @ Swings

          Pax #2 does Merkins @ Bottom of Hill while Pax #1 does Reps

Mosey Back to Oval Office:

Stop 1.) 10x Tempo Squats

  • @ Oval Office:

    400m Run Broken into 2 halves by cones

    Using Same Partners:

    Pax #1 does 10x Merkins, 10x Big Boys- When complete Pax #1 runs to catch Pax #2

    Pax #2 does bear crawl as far as he can in time-

    When Pax #1 catches up to Pax #2, Pax #2 Starts Merkins/Big Boy Reps while Pax #1 begins bear crawl.

    Second half of 400m track, bear crawl switch to lunges.

MARY:

10x Overhead Clap (4 ct)

10x Seal Clap (4 ct)

10x Flutter Kicks (4 ct)

10x Ankle Touches (4 ct)

Little of this little of that shoulder/quad stretching

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
@Smuggler @Nail @Hot Squat @Nair @Shrimp Net
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
“Talent towards career, Genius towards life”

Put 100% effort into your job every day, but know when the work day is over and to focus on our true meaning. Leave your work at the door, and commit 100% to your family

 

Ring Around the Mosey

THE SCENE:

Few clouds, 59 Degrees, 93% Humidity (not 100!!)

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

WARM-O-RAMA:
1. Cherry Pickers (x5), 2. BACF (x10) 3. BACB (x10), 4. Tempo Squats (x10), 5. SSH (x15), 6. Mountain Climbers (x10)

THA-THANG:

Mosey up the Hard Knox hill & grab the guardrail for 25 dips.

Pick up a rock for each hand and 25 Front Claps and 25 OH Claps

25 Merkins OYO.

From that corner we will Lunge Walk to the next short corner and do (5) Burpees. Mosey to the far end and then Bear Crawl to the next short corner. Will then do 5 Burpees, 25 Squats. Mosey to the far end and then Lunge Walk to the next corner. 5 Burpees, 25 Squats, 20 Shoulder Taps, etc. Mosey, repeat…

After each lunge/crawl we add a set:
(5) Burpees,
(25) Squats,
(20) Shoulder Taps,
(15) SSH,
(10) Leg Raises,
(5) more Burpees to end.

6 total exercise stops & 3 full laps around.

Mosey down and east along Hardin Valley Rd. back into the east parking lot. Did some Mary and some Flutter Kicks (x15). Mosey back through the lot to the COT

MARY:
At COT finished off with Hello Dolly (x15), Side crunches (x15) each side, Heels to Heaven (x10), LBC’s (x15)

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

17 HIMS including (1) 2.0, (9) RUSH

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

What is Fellowship? The dictionary defines it as A Community of interest, activity, feeling, or experience.

Sounds kind of shallow by definition but we do need fellowship. We need deeper fellowship. It’s a cornerstone of this group.

I believe it’s true that we also need friendship. We all know men that simply don’t have many friends. They are married, too busy, they just prefer to be alone. If married, your Wife shouldn’t have to carry that stress or burden of being our only friend and we know that isolation is not good for us. (Proverbs 18:1 – Whoever isolates himself seeks his own desire; he breaks out against all sound judgment).

We need each other!

In John chapter 15, Jesus tells his disciples “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.”

How can we love someone we don’t know? How can we lay down our life for a friend if we don’t have any friends?

There are lots of lonely men out there and they need friendship. Understand that in Christ you have been saved through faith by grace, and not by anything you did or can do. Nothing. When we realize that, we are free to share with other men who we really are.

I believe God calls men to take the lead, make sacrifices. Look at where we are right now!

There’s little good to be gained without some form of pain.

So take a chance to reach out and get to know someone, even of it means rejection. Maybe make it a goal to learn something new about someone here every morning. That’s where Fellowship leads to real friendship.

MOLESKIN:

Prayer for Butterknife and his family after the passing of his Uncle Kevin. Room Service’s father had some test results that were not positive. Prayers for his treatment going forward. Data and his boys.