F3 Knoxville

Truck Stop Saturday 6-11-22

THE SCENE: Low humidity.  Ideal temp.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER: added a rapid fire pre-workout name-o-rama and struggled to remember all 5 F3 Pillars

WARM-O-RAMA:
typical
THA-THANG:
EV.1 – PAX mosey’d to the upper field to complete the Ab Circuit below – 4 exercises; 4 sets per exercise before moving to the next; 30 seconds of work and 15 seconds of rest

1 – Elbow Plank     2 – Flutter Kick     3 – Full Range Freddie Merc     4 – Dead Bug / X-Up

EV.2 – 1-Mile Mosey around the perimeter greenway

EV.3 – Bleacher E.M.O.M – prescribed rep count for each exercise, every minute on the minute for 10 minutes

1 – High Stepper x 10 (2=1)     2 – Air Squat x 5 (10 for some)     3 – Imperial Walker x 10 (2=1)

  • after the 10th minute – PAX scaled the bleacher and charged up the hill to the greenway, then mosey’d back to Field 1 for EV.4

EV.4 – Touchdowns – 4 rounds of the following – perform the rep-count of the round’s exercise on the end line of the field, then run to the other side of the field and do the same before running back to the start.  Early finishers circle back for the Six

– Round 1 – 20 Merkins (Lunge to the Six)

– Round 2 – 15 Reverse Crunches (Bear Crawl to the Six)

– Round 3 – 10 Prisoner Get-Ups (Run to the Six)

– Round 4 – 5 Burpees (Encourage the Six)

MARY:
Group Merkins in Ring-of-Fire Format (3,2,1,1,2,3)
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
9 HIMs and a 2.0 (Champ)
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Invite Christ into the areas of your life that are holding you back.  That’s where He wants to be.  Break the cycle.
MOLESKIN:
2 Corinthians 5:17 – Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation.   The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
July 2nd convergence at JUCO.  No Truck Stop (or any other workouts) that day.

No title needed – it was hot

THE SCENE: 75 and gross
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
1 burpee

10 SSH

5 Cherry pickers

10 tie fighters

10 more tie fighters

20 Grady corns

THA-THANG:
4 stations and you have to get a partner. 1 partner runs to the next station and back while the 1st partner is doing the first item. Then they switch, after completing all 3 they run together to the next station.

  • station 1:
    • air taps
    • VUp
    •  BBS
  • Station 2
    • mountain climbers
    • pickle pounders
    • Monkey humpers
  • Station 3
    • Burpee’s
    • iron mikes – modified to lunges
    • Welsh Dragons
  • Station 4
    • CCD
    • Hand release merkins
    • shoulder taps

go back down the ladder

MARY:
Insert information about any additional post-THANG work (if applicable).
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Remember the humanity of Chris and his grace and patients with us as he was with his disciples and everyone else.
MOLESKIN:
Insert any personal comments, notes, devotion content, etc.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
convergence July 2nd.

Billy Boy Goes Back to School at Rampart

THE SCENE: A muggy 71 degrees. Too dang hot for a penguin to just be walking around here!

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER: Dutifully executed…twice!

WARM-O-RAMA:

  • SSH x15
  • Knoxville Cherry Pickers ® x5 (Are ground cherries a thing?)
  • Willie Mays Hayes x8
  • Tempo Merks x10
  • Tempo Squats x10
  • FLBAC x10
  • RLBAC x10
  • Grady Corn x10
  • Moroccan Night Clubs x10
  • Chatty Cherry Pickers ® x10
  • SSH x15

THA-THANG:
PAX performed a Billy Madison routine. The goal was to get Billy all the way through high school graduation. To complete first grade, pax performed 12 reps of exercise 1 and moseyed a lap around the parking lot. For second grade, PAX completed 12 reps of exercise 1 and exercise 2 then took a lap. Grade three, exercises 1, 2, and 3 twelve times each, lap, and so on. Exercises were as follows. PAX ALMOST completed the 12th grade, thus Billy can still claim to be the “smartest man alive!” …and we cannot. …yet.

    1. OH Claps (Slap Hands!)
    2. SSH
    3. Big Boys (“It was my shoe!” mmhmm!)
    4. Merkins
    5. Shoulder Taps
    6. Squats
    7. Toe Merkins
    8. Monkey Humpers
    9. Heels to Heaven
    10. Dry Docks
    11. Flutter Kicks
    12. Burpees

YHC knows y’all enjoyed the soundtrack as much as he did. For all you Culture Club fans, etc., here it is.

  1. Old John Braddelum – Alan Mills (Personal fave when counting in cadence. Wow!)
  2. ABC – The Jackson 5
  3. The Stroke – Billy Squier (apparently about the music business and not…well…)
  4. Carry on Wayward Son – Kansas
  5. I’ll Tumble 4 Ya – Culture Club
  6. Jump Around – House of Pain (Clearly not edited. Pastor apologizes)
  7. Beat on the Brat – Ramones
  8. Renegade – Styx
  9. Rock ‘n’ Roll (Part 2) – Gary Glitter (Obviously from Happy Gilmore but we needed a break, right?)
  10. Tuesday’s Gone – Skynyrd (Also from HG but… just… it’s Skynyrd, ok?)

MARY:
No time for Mary. DON’T tell us our business, devil woman!

Name-O-Rama:

9 PAX including 2 FNGs at Rampart this morning! Welcome “Doppler” and “Rango”!

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Reminder of our motto at Rampart: 1 Cor 16:13-14: “Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong, do everything in love.”

1 Peter 5:8-11 reads, “Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. 9 Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that the family of believers throughout the world is undergoing the same kind of sufferings. And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast. 11 To him be the power for ever and ever. Amen.”

YHC has stopped praying that God would keep me from being tempted. After 40 years, YHC has realized, it’s not going to happen. “And lead us not into the time of trial” is a better translation of the Lord’s Prayer. Peter tells us that God doesn’t tempt us. We are tested. Temptation will always be there in one form or another. Even Jesus was actually tempted!

Instead, YHC has been praying for STRENGTH against temptation.

One practical thing YHC been learning is about will power. Will Power matters more than IQ. Willpower is a better predictor of success than intellegence. Some of you have seen the Marshmallow Test (see a version of it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yo4WF3cSd9Q). The crazy fact is that these 15 minutes of discipline and willpower could predict kids’ future the next 15+ years. Kids with grit and will power perform better in life than kids that have a high IQ!

Here’s what we need to know about willpower: IT’S A MUSCLE – It gets tired. How do you hack your will power? Pre commit. Made decisions and act on them early to keep yourselves from having to make those decisions when you’re weak. Odysseus’ men plugged their ears and had them tie himself to the mast of the ship to avoid the song of the sirens and running the ship into the rocks.

This is the psychology of the HC (hard commit). When you make the decision the night before, you won’t be tempted to complain about a leg cramp and roll over the next morning when it’s time to get up. Make the decision when your willpower is strong to avoid the fartsack. This is true about many things. Examples are as follows:

Food – Precommit and eliminate prompts. YHC struggles with lunch. It’s a weakness. I now make it ahead of time including healthy snacks so that I don’t mess up.

  • TV – unplug it
  • Social Media – delete it and use browser
  • Impure thoughts – delete or remove whatever prompts them

Bottom Line: Be Alert to those temptations and weaknesses you have and make good decisions EARLY!

MOLESKIN:

  • Welcome FNGs Doppler (RESPECT!) and Rango!
  • YHC is proud of our FNGs for listening or …not listening… to the M about coming to this ridiculous morning beatdown. Looking forward to seeing you guys Wednesday!
  • YHC found himself downwind of Airborne who lived up to his name after a weeklong camping trip eating beanie weenies… Don’t be downwind of Airborne after a week-long camping trip eating beanie weenies.
  • 2DE was afraid to live up to his name and made a necessary and quick egress after the COT! Just go man!
  • “Slap hands!” – Wingman
  • YHC is downright impressed with whatever happened the week while gone. T-Claps to the High Impact Man, Skeletor for some stellar leadership in the AOQ’s absence.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

  • VQ from Piston coming at you Wednesday! Truly excited to see what this HIM has for us! He’s been working hard these last couple of months. Be sure to HC and be there for your brother!
  • Convergence at JUCO on July 2!

little known facts about laziness #1

THE SCENE: Muggy, humid, 101% humidity and also just alot of water in the air.

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Cherry pickers
  • Harry Rockets
  • Baby arm circles forward ‘n back
  • tempo merkin
  • tempo squat
  • stretch OYO

THA-THANG:

Descending Ladder

Complete the given number of reps for all 19 exercises. Mosey a short distance. Drop the top exercise and start again at 18.

  • 19 Mountain Climbers
  • 18 Diamond Merkins
  • 17 Tricep Extension
  • 16 Dry Docks
  • 15 Crab Toe Touches
  • 14 Bench Presses
  • 13 Big Boy Situps
  • 12 Squats
  • 11 Baby Arm Circles (each direction)
  • 10 Step-Ups
  • 9 Calf Raises
  • 8 Freddie Mercury’s
  • 7 Side Straddle Hops
  • 6 Bicep Curls
  • 5 Merkins
  • 4 Lunges
  • 3 Overhead Presses
  • 2 Jump Squats
  • 1 Burpee

MARY:

None, our timing was impeccable.

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Little known facts about Laziness #1

Lazy are good at risk assessment

Prov 22:13

The sluggard says there is a lion outside. I shall be killed in the streets!

Notice the sarcasm. Proverbs isn’t very gentle to the lazy.

Prov 26:13

The sluggard says “There is a loin in the road! There is a loin in the streets!”

Again about the lion in the road. The lazy guy sure is milking this lion excuse. This is repeated twice which is interesting. Some of the sharpest criticism in proverbs is directed toward the lazy.

Prov 20:4

The sluggard does not plow in autumn. He will seek out the harvest and have nothing.

At  least the excuse has changed here. The sluggard has moved on. The idea of autumn is that it’s a little cold or chilly. It’s just a little hard to do the work right now. Something to keep in mind, I might have to try it out next winter.

Proverbs paints a picture or holds up a mirror. This is what laziness looks like. We have a chance to look at it and consider if it’s us. What in our life might look like this.

Today, consider this picture. Do you see yourself?

More little known facts about laziness to come.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
July 2nd, Convergence on JUCO.

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