F3 Knoxville

Armor Bears

THE SCENE: 67 degrees and cool as a cucumber.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER: Dutifully Executed
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • SSH x15
  • Knoxville Cherry Pickers x5
  • Abe Vigoda x5
  • Willie Mays Hayes x6
  • Tempo Merks x10
  • Tempo Squats x10
  • FLBAC x10
  • RLBAC x10
  • Seal Claps x10
  • OH Claps x10
  • Moroccan Night Clubs x10
  • Chattanooga Cherry Pickers x11
  • SSH x10

Mosey a lap in the lot.

THA-THANG:
Perform 10 LL Cool J’s – Lunge each leg, burpee, then squat jump (the cool part is the burpee). Hold plank for 6.

Grab a battle buddy for Dora. Pax one performs exercises below. Pax two bear crawls to the cone.

  • 100 Monkey humpers
  • 200 Merkins
  • 300 SSH
  • 400 LBCs
  • 500 squats

LL Cool J came back for an encore at halftime. Thanks, LL!

MARY:

Please don’t tell Mary we didn’t have time for her this morning. She doesn’t exactly like hearing that.

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

There’s a really cool story in the Old Testament of Jonathan (Saul’s son) and his armor bearer when they sneak out away from the troops to see if God might hand the enemy over to them. They were at

In 1 Sam 14 it says,

6 Jonathan said to the young man who carried his armor, “Come, let us go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised; it may be that the Lord will act for us, for nothing can hinder the Lord from saving by many or by few.” His armor-bearer said to him, “Do all that your mind inclines to.[b] I am with you; as your mind is, so is mine.”[c] Then Jonathan said, “Now we will cross over to those men and will show ourselves to them. If they say to us, ‘Wait until we come to you,’ then we will stand still in our place, and we will not go up to them. 10 But if they say, ‘Come up to us,’ then we will go up, for the Lord has given them into our hand. That will be the sign for us.”

Jonathan and his armor bearer wound up taking down 20 guys. Then God caused a panic in the enemy camp. The lookouts wound up seeing what was going on and brought it to Saul’s attention who was resting under a tree. Instead of rallying the men, Saul winds up calling roll, calling for the Ark of the Covenant to be brought up, discussing what to do with the priests, and finally rallies the troops to join the battle.

What we have here are two examples; one of initiative and the other of hesitation. While Jonathan was taking the initiative to see if God might hand the enemy over to them, Saul was frustrated with the stalemate and taking a nap.

YHC recently read a quote that said,

“Dear optimist, pessimist, and realist – while you guys were busy arguing about the glass of wine, I drank it! Sincerely, the opportunist!” – Lori Griner

Often we think we are being productive by discussing, analyzing, strategizing when it is often time to act. Action is way more effective than talk.

Theodore Roosevelt once said,

“Get action; do things; be sane; don’t fritter away your time; create; act; take a place wherever you are and be somebody; get action.”

2 Challenges for Today:
1. Talk Less – Act More
2. Surround yourself with people of action.

MOLESKIN:
Everyone is probably going to need new gloves after that many bear crawls. Binks makes bear crawls look so natural, we’re worried he might have been raised by bears. YHC knows what it feels like to miss a week and #thatsucked. Glad to be suffering in the gloom with you HIMs again.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

  • T-Shirts hit the store very soon! Need to have 12 purchased within the two week window in order to go to print.
  • Look for first Saturday, 2nd F fellowships coming up! We’re making these regular.
  • Wingman has the Q Wednesday.
  • Prayers for our DLs, DRs, and MiAs!

Just a few merkins

THE SCENE: a farmer’s rain. Slow and steady.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Little baby arm circles. SSH. Peter Parkers.
THA-THANG:
Using the full upper loop, run 5 light poles, do 5 merkins and 5 LBCs. Run 5 more and do 10. Keep running 5 light poles and increase by 5 each time. Go all the way to 50.

Finished up with a couple victory laps on the full upper and lower loops

MARY:
Stuck with 50 for each of the following. Flutter kicks. Side crunch L&R. Crossing side crunch L&R.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
2 Pax
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
It was a bit of a small crowd since Hydrant had to leave early. But was thinking about the difference between goals and momentum. I feel like I don’t have a lot of specific goals in my life at the moment (aside from major house reno), but I do have a lot of good momentum on many positive life habits. I think that momentum is really important for times like this. And it’s always easier to maintain current momentum than trying to ramp back up to activity after a lull.
MOLESKIN:
N/A
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Might be a demo day at my house soon!

Big Ball Stair Climb

THE SCENE: Low 70s and light drizzle to steady rain
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Side straddle hops
  • Tempo squats
  • Merkin tempo
  • Hillbilly’s

THA-THANG:

Mosey towards Mordor, stop about halfway for 15 derkins and 15 dips.
Continue to Mordor stairs for  9/11 Stair Climb. 9 exercises, 11 reps each, stair climb after each exercise:
  • Get up ups
  • 8 count bodybuilders
  • Mucho lego
  • Captain Thor
  • Burpees
  • Mucho chesto
  • ARods (JLo and pickle pounder combo)
  • Catalina wine mixers
  • Hurpees

Mosey to the Big Ball to honor the first responders lost. Run to the top of Big Ball stairs and back after each set.

  • 8 port authority officers (8 count bodybuilders)
  • 23 NYPD (toes to bars)
  • 37 port authority officers (pull ups)
  • 343 firefighters (hammers as a group)

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
12 including 1 FNG: Air Gretzky, Butterfly, Cornhole, Onstar, Wedding Singer, Drive Thru, John Deere (FNG), Postman, Magic Mic, Duggar, Precious, Abort

Seeing the truth

THE SCENE: cool rainy morning
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Stretching

Tiefighters

cherry pickers
THA-THANG:
Iron Pax week 1 Care Bear workout

MARY:
N/A
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
We like to sugarcoat things, but that can often be to our own detriment when we are not honest with ourselves. We cannot truly move forward if we are not honest with ourselves and others about where we are and where we want to be.
MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS: