F3 Knoxville

No Tanks at the Gun Show

THE SCENE: Warm & dark.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH, Cherry Pickers, Grady Corns, Windmills
THA-THANG:
Various good-looking PAX took turns delivering a well-rounded, impromptu beatdown.

  • Pull-ups and merkins at the bathhouse
  • Jack Webbs and merkins at the splash pad
  • 7 of diamonds from the flag circle included such treats as CDD, BBS, Diamond Merks, VUps, Squats, More Squats, Squat Jumps, and some running
  • 21s, Rows, Overhead Presses at the rockpile
  • Fellowship Mosey™️

MARY:
Ring of fire, and some other stuff

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
13, including FNGs Animal House & Snow Bird
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Headgear shared about God’s provision.

Shamrock – ABC easy as 123

THE SCENE: Very gloomy and humid
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER – Check 
WARM-O-RAMA:

Mountain Climbers – IC – 15 – 4 count 

Tie Fighter 4 CT x 10 each

Side Straddle hop (IC) 4 CT x 10

Cherry Pickers x5

Stretching – Quads and back 

Demo – the 1-2-3 MerkBurpee (1 Wide-2 Standard-3 Tri merkins, then up to complete a burpee) 

THA-THANG:

Mosey to Fox Lonas then back to the flag. 

A-B-C  easy as 1-2-3:  

 At the bottom of the hill do 5 sets of 1-2-3 MerkBurpees (1 Wide-2 Standard-3 Tri)  then walk backwards up the grassy hill. 

A – Air Squat – 10

B – Big Boys – 10

C – Crabettes- 10 

Repeat for a total of 4 rounds. The 1-2-3-MerkBurpees became really challenging after the 1st 2 rounds. 

Mosey over to some tall curbs

8-8-42 – My Dad’s 80th birthday today so in honor of him we did: 

8 – 4-count tricep dips in cadence 

8 – decline merkins 

42 – Calf raises 

Mosey to the river rock. Grab two 2-5 pound rocks. 

10 IC – Butterfly, then hold on the 10 for 10 seconds

10 IC – behind your back flutter with rocks – then hold for 10 seconds 

Hold rock in front of you and do LBS – Little Bouncy Squats 10 IC- then hold on 10. 

We did 2 rounds of this, then on round 3 we did 15 reps with 10 second holds. 

Round 4 we did 20 reps with 10 second holds. 

Mosey to the next parking lot. 

We traveled across the lot 4 times dealer’s choice: Bear, Crab or lunge. Can change it up each time if you want. 

 

MARY:

dealer’s choice – Curveball with LBCs, Caveman with Cherry Pickers, VooDoo with 5 Burpees before Betty had a chance to demand it. Betty snuck in some pickle pounders. 

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Curveball, Caveman, Voo Doo, Betty, Osteen, Mermaid, Tailhook, Baby Boomer, Curry, Dumpster Dive, Honeydew, Slappy, Anchorman,
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

I may not know what the day may bring, but I know who brings the day. 

Job 38

3 Brace yourself like a man;
I will question you,
and you shall answer me.

4 

“Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation?
Tell me, if you understand.

5 

Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know!
Who stretched a measuring line across it?

6 

On what were its footings set,
or who laid its cornerstone—

7 

while the morning stars sang together
and all the angels[a] shouted for joy?

We often do our best to control our day and we think we know what is best for us. 

Like the potter and the clay example, does the clay vase know what is best for it? Or does the potter who created it know what is best and care for it? The potter has already planned out all of the future steps for that lump of clay.

MOLESKIN:
Prayer for Skidmark’s new baby girl, PomPom’s foot, Curveball’s friend who lost their mom, teachers and kids, my work travel this week and that Betty does not steal my local legend segment while I’m gone.

Where’s the Warm Up?

THE SCENE: Dark & Steamy
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH’s 4ct x 20, Tempo Merkins 4ct x 10, Imperial Squat Walkers 4ct x 20,

Nair7’s Grinder Hill – WW2’s & Merkins
THA-THANG:
Dora-esque Relay Beat Down @ The basketball court:

5 Stations where Pax rotates 1 à 2, 2 à 3, 3 à 4, 4 à 5, 5 à 1

Station 1-4 are AMRAP stations & Station 5 is the “relay” station with a set #, time, dist., etc of exercise. Note that stations only shift when the previous station members arrive like a relay race.

St1 – Ballerinas / toe squats

St2 – Alabama Ass Kickers

St3 – WW2’s

St4 – Angle Grinders

St5 – Run 2 Laps around the basketball court & relay to station 1.

*Interestingly enough this turned out to be about a 2-minute tabata workout. This might be the Cropdust signature workout 😉

MARY:

Bring Sally Up – Deconstructed Burpee
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

Use the TAGS on right-side to record PAX (BE SURE TO INCLUDE YOURSELF) in attendance. Be sure to select the AO in CATEGORY above TAGS and then delete these notes!

 

CIRCLE OF TRUST / BOM:

“To be secure means to isolate and fortify the “I” but it is just the feeling of being an isolated “I” which makes me feel lonely and afraid. In other words, the more security I can get, the more I shall want”. To put it still more plainly; the desire for security and the feeling of insecurity are the same thing. To hold your breath is to lose your breath.” – Alan Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity
MOLESKIN:

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ANNOUNCEMENTS:

September 10th Beer Mile @ Moses’

Men’s Meating Dinner August 20th 6pm @ MOBC Swerve & Rep. Sleepy’s Church –If you plan to attend let one of them know by Wednesday 8/10 –

Race for Hope 8/20 there is still time to sign up to run or donate: https://runsignup.com/Race/TN/Knoxville/HOPE5K

Soccer the Drifter Way

THE SCENE: A thick fog set the perfect atmo for this crazy Mongolian throat music I found. Seriously, check it out.

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
19 SSH, 20 Merkins, Soccer Warmup Run around the parking lot. Run to Soccer Fields stopping for T merkins and jumping squats at each stop sign (for safety)

THA-THANG:
Part 1 – Going For Distance.

10 cones. Farthest Cone marked with 10 reps, next closest 20, then 30…all the way to 100 which were like right in front of us. Kick the soccer ball as far as you can then sprint as fast as you can to it. The farther you kick, the lest reps you do when you return. Same with throwing the disc golf disc and dragging the weighted bag. This continued in cycles for about 20 min

Soccer Ball – Lunges
Disc Golf – Merkins
Weighted Bag – Big Boy Sit-ups

Part 2 – Scrimmage Match

Split into 2 teams and we played on a very small field (I brought small goals). 20 min match.

Scoring Team – 5 Star Jacks
Scored on Team – 5 Burpees
Out of bounds sidelines (all players) – 4 side crunch each side 10 min, then 2 T-Merkins each side for 10 min
Out of bounds goal lines (all players) – 3 Big Boy Sit-ups for 10 min, then 3 merkins for 10 min

The ball goes out of bounds a lot so we get some good work in.

MARY:
Run back to the AO. Then we got 20 Flutter Kicks, and LBCs until time. 

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
6 PAX. Loafers from down range. Great to have you all week!

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Reading a book called “Living Fearless”. Highly recommend.

From what I can tell, at the core of the book is this concept of 3 different identities we can assume. The fake, the real, and the true.

The fake is the identity that takes the least faith to live in. It’s all the lies we accept about ourselves like, “I’m not good enough for X,” or “I’m just a nobody so it doesn’t mater what I do.”

The real identity is tricky, because it can sound very genuine, like repentance, but it just sort of stops there. It says, “Man, I looked at porn again this week and am really struggling to do better,” but it just says that, week after week.

The true identity is the one that takes the most faith to live in, and is the hardest to believe. It is the identity of what God made us to be. It’s a higher calling, and it’s something that can only be discovered and maintained through Christ and through careful dedication to the word and to honest prayer that seeks a true answer. One that helps us with our everyday activities.

I’m not doing the book justice, so just go read it. At first, the book rubbed me the wrong way, but now I see that I was being challenged on things I needed to be challenged on and now I see it was rubbing me the right way.

MOLESKIN:
N/A

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Remember the events on the 20th. A charity race and a men’s dinner. check the slack.

Boise State Blue Dice

THE SCENE:  Foggy
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

SSH x20; Mountain Man Pooper x10; Imperial Squat Walker x10; Mosey loop around parking lot with High Knees, Butt Kicks, Frankensteins, and Side Shuffles

THA-THANG:

Partner up, one partner did step ups while other did what the dice directed then switch

  • rolled Blue Dice to see which exercises
  • if rolled a 1   15 pull ups
  • 2  15 big boys
  • 3  15 explosion merkins
  • 4  15 flutter kicks (4-ct)
  • 5 run to the church sign
  • 6  25 Smurf Jacks

MARY:

PAX Roulette

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Use the TAGS on right-side to record PAX (BE SURE TO INCLUDE YOURSELF) in attendance. Be sure to select the AO in CATEGORY above TAGS and then delete these notes!
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:  

Word – John 3:16   After a stroke in June of 2021, I couldn’t remember what John 3:16.   I read it for the first time post stroke and God used that verse to overwhelm me with His presence.
MOLESKIN:
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ANNOUNCEMENTS:
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