F3 Knoxville

CMUs work for getting glue off of your fingers

THE SCENE: Damp but not raining
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Warm up stuff
THA-THANG:
Mosey to get a CMU. Then mosey to the far end of the front side lot along the field. At each parking lot line do two merkins, bear crawl to next and repeat to the last line (13). 

mosey back to start.
squat walk to line do a burpee, repeat to the last line.

mosey back to start. Rifle carry CMU and do 1 clean and press at each line.

Slow mosey back to start w/CMU. At start do two Sprints to end and sprint back.

walk with CMU and do two American swings at each line.

run a lap around the track w/o CMU. Hold plank till 6 catches.
once back walk with CMU while curling, at each line do 3 oh presses

REPEAT (got all in on second round except last exercise)

MARY:
Ring of fire up to 5 merkins, LBCs
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
6 pax
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

look for ways to serve/live others

MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
None

Rabbit Hunt

THE SCENE:  Mid 60s and calm.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER:  All veterans – skipped.  
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Phelps
  • The Real Cherry picker
  • Willy Mays Hays
  • Down/Up dog
  • Thread the needle
  • Quick mosey to the recruiting center

THA THANG:

At the recruiting center.  Nine cones.  Tabata – do 20 seconds exercise, 5 seconds rest.  Rotate one cone each rest.  Merkins, squats, LBCs.  Each round, one man cycles out to do pull-ups.

Mosey to the cinema parking lot that is divided by 7 parking lanes.  PAX start on one end of the lot – we’re the Wolves.  One PAX is our Rabbit – he gets a head start and goes to line 3.

When the wolves howl, we all go.  The Rabbit does 12 Merkins then advances to the next line….12 merkins – advance again…  Repeat, working toward the end of the lot.  He’s trying to make it to safety.  The Wolves do 8 Merkins and advance – we’re trying to catch the rabbit.  (he gets a head start but does more Merkins).  Rabbits win if they make it to the other side.  Wolves win if all Rabbits are caught by the last Wolf.

Repeat the game a few times with a new Rabbit each round.  Perform with;

  • 4 / 6 Iron Mikes (both legs)
  • 8 Flutter Kicks (4-count) / 10 Flutter Kicks
  • 6 / 8 bobby hurley
  • 6 / 8 Mountain Climbers (4-count)
  • 1 / 2 burpees

15 BBS + Bear crawl: Repeat x3

Repeat the tabata circle again.

Mosey home.

MARY:

30 merkins to finish off our 210 for the day.

HD until time is up.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

Me and 8 of the best men I know.

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

We say this in F3 – leave no man behind – but leave no man where you found him.  If you are striving to be a HIM, you will not be the same man next year that you were this year – because you are always growing, always be getting better.

This morning, we each thought about one thing that we want to be better at by the end of summer…

Anders Ericsson is regarded as the godfather of the science of excellence.  He is the world’s foremost expert on studying expertise – what makes one man so much better at something than nearly all of his peers.  This morning, we borrowed a couple of his ideas – these come from a book called “Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise”.

Becoming excellent at something takes a lot of ….practice!  But just doing something over and over in the same way as a routine what Ericsson calls “naïve practice” – it might make you a little better but will never lead you to excellence.  To become truly excellent, you have to practice in a certain kind of way – what he calls purposeful practice.

Purposeful practice – practice that will lead you toward excellence – involves;

  1. Practicing with focus
  2. Setting improvement goals for each individual practice
  3. Feedback. You need to be another man to know your plan, to see your work, and to provide you with feedback on your performance.
  4. Working outside of your comfort zone. Anders tells us this may be the most essential aspect of purposeful practice. He puts it directly: “If you never push yourself beyond your comfort zone, you will never improve.

We shared some of our goals/commitments and how we will incorporate purposeful practice in working toward them.

MOLESKIN:

Proverbs 16:3 “Commit to the Lord whatever you do, and he will establish your plans.”

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Tomorrow – AOQ Change at Shamrock

May 30 – Rampart AO Launch, 7:00 AM Fort Southwest Point

June 4 – Speedway Launch

June 11 – Family Workout at The Project.  9:00 AM

July 2 – Convergence at JUCO

DORA’s Card Game

  1. THE SCENE: A beautiful morning in the gloom

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER


WARM-O-RAMA:

SSH x20; Imperial Squat Walker x10; Mosey loop for the workout

THA-THANG:
Partner up, PAX 1 runs loop from warmup. PAX 2 draws a card to determine how many reps to do of the exercises. Exercises were Derkins, WW2s, and Step Ups.

  • 2-10 = reps equal to number on card
  • Face Cards = 15 reps
  • Ace = 20 reps
  • Joker = 25 reps

MARY:
Flutter Kicks x20; Boxcutters x 10; LBCs x20; Big Boys for time

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
12 total this morning with two FNGs

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.

  • Dale Carnegie

Specializing in self-improvement and interpersonal skills, American writer and lecturer Dale Carnegie talked often about the power of action. It’s easy to let our small doubts and anxieties balloon into overwhelming fears — because we allow them too much time and space to grow rather than taking action to face them. “If you want to conquer fear,” Carnegie urged, “do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.”

The Bible also talks about fear.

“do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.”

‭‭Philippians‬ ‭4:6‬ ‭ESV‬‬

Don’t let fear hinder you from being the man God has called you to be. Pray and take action.

MOLESKIN:
Pray for Pennies daughter as she will be traveling out of the country. Pray for Trousers and his family. Pray for Smuggler and Halfday as they travel this week.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Rampart launch on 5/30 at 7am

Speedway launch on 6/4 at 6am

More running than I thought

  1. THE SCENE: Insert info about the weather, etc.
    F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
    WARM-O-RAMA:

    Warm up stuff
    THA-THANG:
    Mosey up to the boat.
    start at light pole 1, do one of exercise . Run to light pole #6 and back to start. Run to pole #2 do two of exercise and run to pole #6  and back to start. Run to pole #3 etc etc until you hit Pole #6 with exercise. Audible: running was more than I thought so we went to just running back to last spot then to running ahead after exercise. Exercises are:
  • Merkins
  • Russian rockettes 4ct
  • Shoulder taps 4ct
  • Alternating pistol squats
  • plank toe touches 4ct

 

MARY:
A Ring of fire with hello dollies. Then LBC’s, Peter Parker’s, imperial Walker’s, imperial squat walkers.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
13
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Ask the pax what do they spend their time on, What is important that you work for? for all those things…

You can do better.

MOLESKIN: 

great to be back at the Dog Pound!

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

july 2nd convergence at JUCO. Shamrock flag pass wed, June 11th kickball tournament

No Glove Monday

THE SCENE: Cool and a slight rain
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Two laps around the parking lot, one running, one Bernie.

cherry pickers, windmills, & quad stretching
THA-THANG:
Mosey to the posts near the church

20 lunges & a 30 second wall squat
19 lunges & a 30 second wall squat
repeat to 1/30

Bernie to the curb and repeat by 5
20 elevated heel squats with a Bernie back and forth in between

Mosey to the circle where St. Patrick used to reside.
repeat by 3
10 each leg Bulgarian split squats
10 step ups
20 calf raises

Mosey through the parking lot
at the covered area of the school do the Mary
10 LBC’s in cadence
40 Flutter kicks in cadence
15 Big Boys
15 hello Dolly’s

mosey back to the flag and perform calf raises until time expires

MARY:
See above
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Do you ever have an experience where you are seeking an answer to a problem and you discover the answer is right in front of you?
I was tired of being “overweight”, i ballooned up to 210 and knew what to do, but despite working out and running 5-6 days a week I was making no progress.  I knew I needed to make better eating decisions but didn’t want to commit.  The answer was in front of me in plain sight, but I was intentionally blind to it.
it’s been a 90 day journey, but with moderation to my eating habits I have been able to drop my weight into the mid 180’s.  This has increased my ability to “push it” during the workouts.  The answer was there all along.

In Luke 24, on the rod to Emmaus, 2 men had a similar experience they met a “stranger” and explained their sorrow that Jesus was dead.  The stranger was actually Jesus, but they were blind to that.  Jessie eventually reveals himself and they found the answer they were seeking.  (This is a massive paraphrase, lol).

This revelation was life altering.  What exists in your life that you are missing that is hiding in plain sight?  Are you burying your head and being ignorant, are you seeking the answer?  Sometimes what you seek, like my weight, is obvious, and owning up to your shortcomings will reveal the answer.

MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Passing the flag to Betty on 5/25