F3 Knoxville

7elevens

THE SCENE: Cold, clear morning with frost abound

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER


WARM-O-RAMA: Cherry pickers, SSH and morning call

THA-THANG:

  • Part 1: 7 Overhead CMU Presses, 7 CMU Thrusters, 7 Blockees, 11 Yard Murder Bunny, 11 We’re Not Worthies, 11 Yard Reverse Murder Bunny
  • Part 2: Roll a workout dice and perform rolled exercise

MARY: Upper and Lower Body Stretches

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

MOLESKIN: Inspired by Inky Johnson

  • How do we face adversity?
  • What is your motivation?
  • Commitment is staying true to what you said you will do even when the mood that you said it in has left
  • One bad chapter does not define the book
  • Turn “you will never do X because of Y” into “I will use Y everyday of my life to make a difference

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

  • Miles for Maryville 10/22 – Contact Butterfingers to work tent
  • Brolympics 11/5
  • Painting work day at Cerebral Palsy Center in November

11’s, Diamonds, and Dragons at JUCO

THE SCENE: 35 and clear

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER: administered

WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH IC x 20
Cherry Pickers IC x5
Arm Circles Forward and Back IC x 10 each
Merkins IC x10
Squats IC x10
30 Seconds OYO

THA-THANG:
Mosey to Sophomore hill, stop halfway for some Imperial Walkers, and Bernie to the top of hill.

11’s between the trailers and handrail. Perform burpees at trailers and rows at handrail.

Mosey to quad with some Guardrail led flutter kicks on the way

7 of diamonds at the quad, start with 7 and increase by 7 at each corner (7, 14, 21, 28)

  • Round 1 – squats
  • Round 2 – SSHs (single count)
  • Round 3 – flutter kicks (4-count)

Mosey towards the flag and stop in parking lot for Welsh Dragons.

Mosey to the flag

MARY:
10 reps of Freddy Mercury’s IC

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
8 Bootcampers and 8 RUSHers

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

From “The System: The Glory and Scandal of Big-Time College Football” by Jeff Benedict and Armen Ketyian

Kyle Van Noy was a top high school football prospect in the state of Nevada in 2008. He was being recruited by LSU, Nebraska, Oregon, UCLA and twenty others. BYU had attempted to contact him, but he wasn’t interested in playing at a university tied to his church.

On April 29, 2008, BYU head football coach , Bronco Mendenhall, stepped into the pulpit to speak at Kyle’s church in Reno, Nevada. Kyle was forced to go by his parents, but was all ears as Coach Mendenhall spoke of the way geese fly in a V formation and that even if one goose fell out of formation, another goose would wait with him until he either died or was able to rejoin the group. Kyle had never heard anyone speak like that, especially a football coach. His interest was piqued.

Throughout the recruitment process, Coach Mendenhall and Kyle developed a deep friendship. Kyle would sometimes call him for advice in various situations he ran into. Despite their friendship, Mendenhall laid out in detail the requirements of the BYU honor code that would be required if Kyle decided to play football at BYU. Despite offers to Oregon, Colorado, UCLA, and Boise State, Kyle eventually settled on BYU, saying “I wanted to play for a coach who cared more about me as a person than a football player.”

Just a few days from National Signing Day in 2009, Kyle called Coach Mendenhall to tell him he had been arrested for drunk driving. Mendehall’s policy prohibited him from offering scholarships to players who weren’t living in compliance with the honor code. He didn’t make exceptions – not even for the best recruits. Mendenhall offered to help Kyle Van Noy find somewhere else to play, but he was insistent that he wanted to play for BYU.

Mendenhall went to his AD and worked out a deal that Kyle could come to BYU, but he would have to sit out the entire 2009 season and go a full year without violating the honor code. Kyle and signed with BYU.

One month later, Kyle had a run in with the police over alcohol consumption but no charges were brought against him. Coach Mendenhall would not find out, but he decided to fly to Provo and confess in person. As he sat in Coach Mendenhall’s office, he told him, “I need help.” Coach Mendehall responded with the following quote from former BYU president Jeffrey R. Holland: “It is the plain and very sobering truth that before great moments, certainly before great spiritual moments, there can come adversity, opposition, and darkness. Life has some of those moments for us, and occasionally they come just as we are approaching an important decision or a significant step in our life.”

Mendenhall looked Kyle in the eye and told him not to worry about the second incident, “That’s why I gave you the one-year plan”, he told him.

Kyle Van Noy sat out the 2009 season and then played linebacker at BYU from 2010-2013. He earned a myriad of honors throughout his time at BYU and was named the All-Independent Defensive Player of the Year his senior year. Kyle Van Noy was picked by the Detroit Lions in the second round of the 2014 NFL Draft and is still in the NFL today after signing with the Los Angeles Chargers in May, 2022.

I don’t where Kyle Van Noy would be if Coach Bronco Mendenhall hadn’t believed in him and given him a second chance. Obviously, he is an immensely gifted athlete that could have thrived on any D1 football roster. However, would he have continued to struggle with things outside of the field like he did in high school? We’ll never know, but the one person who believed in him, Coach Mendenhall, set boundaries and enforced consequences for Kyle’s actions. As a result, he has seen a lot of success in his NFL career that may not have come otherwise.

Who are the people in your life that need you to believe in them? You may not be a head football coach of a national program, but you may be the father of a son who needs to understand what it is to be a man and take responsibility for your actions, what it means to be a true High Impact Man (HIM).

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Sign up for Brolympics on Nov. 5 hosted by The Asylum

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.