F3 Knoxville

Speedway Square Dance and Box Dodge

THE SCENE: Very nice!  Mid 50s and clear skies
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x25, Windmills x10, Cherry Pickers x5
THA-THANG:
Square Dance (put CMU at second cone) – this was done as a group and if you finished early, you held a plank until all were done

  • First cone – Iron Mikes x10 per leg, Burpees x10, American Hammers x10 per side
  • Bear Crawl to second cone (~ 30 feet)
  • Second cone – CMU Big Boy Situps x20, Bent over Rows x20, CMU Squat Thursters x20
  • Murder Bunny w/CMU to third cone (~ 30 feet)
  • Third cone – CMU Curls x30, CMU Skull Crushers (tricep extensions) x30, CMU LBCs x30
  • Lunges w/ CMU to fourth cone (~ 30 feet)
  • Fourth cone – Goblet squats w/ CMU x20, Toe Merkins x20, Flutter Kicks (x20 per leg)
  • Inchworm (no CMU) back to first cone

11s

  • Box Jumps
  • Dips

Box Dodge

Every HIM has a puzzle box approximately 1 ft x 1 ft size.  You have to hold the box above your head like a waiter at a restaurant when they carry their trays.  You can switch hands when shoulder starts to get tired.  You try to knock each others box out of each others hand.  Grid with 9 guys was about 366 ft x 36ft (playing space).  If you lose your box, you have to step out of the grid and do 5 burpees.  You cannot grab the box if someone knocks it but if you can stabilize it with your finger tips then you are good.  If it falls or you grab it, get on those burpees.

I have seen this done with pizza boxes and it is far more interesting because they are bigger but can be more easily stabilized.

MARY:
Modified Circle of Pain – every PAX on his 6, legs straight in the air, 1 PAX runs around and pulls legs towards ground, lies down back in spot and next person in circle repeats.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Halfday, Streaker, Trousers, Shoelaces, Rep Sleepy, Doppelganger, Pennies, Cow Patty, Grouch
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
No specific Biblical text but was watching The Chosen Season 1 Episode 8 when Yeshua was talking to the Samaritan woman at the well.  At one point she says, “You picked the wrong person.”  and “I’m rejected by others.” to which Yeshua says, “I know but not by the Messiah.”  While this is not in the Bible, it resonates tremendously in my spirit.  I am ashamedly guilty of judging a book by its cover but not YHWH.  He looks beyond what our eyes see and sees every person he created for who they really are.  We are never to be the judge in this world.  Yeshua called us to love and it is through our love that we show those around us how we are different.  Only when people ask should we offer our views and thoughts from a place of love rather than cramming them down peoples’ throats even though I am guilty of wanting to shake those who do not know, or willingly ignore, they are living apart from YHWH.  YHWH is the only true and righteous judge.  His ways are higher than ours and his thoughts are higher than ours.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Men’s Group with Doppelganger and Cow Patty and others at Food City at 6 AM.  Join them!

Convergence in July.

Battleship

THE SCENE:   Mid 50s and calm.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER:  Administered
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Projectivator
  • LIH/RFTS
  • Cherry Pickers
  • LBAC F&B
  • Grady Corns
  • Squats

THA THANG:

Mosey to the tennis courts.  At the benches do 20 dips + 20 squats.  Bear crawl to the road, crawl bear back.  (Repeat)

Get inside the tennis courts for a couple games of Battleship.  Separate into two teams.  On the court are 12 cones for each team, grouped into a set of 2, two sets of 3, and a set of 4.  Each team has six battle stations – each of which has an exercise associated with it.  At “go” PAX run and grab a ball then run to one of six battle stations.  Perform the exercise, then throw the ball at the enemy’s ships.  Do each battle station before you repeat one.  Continue until one team’s ships are sunk.

Exercises were;

  • 30 Merkins
  • Lunges 15 each leg
  • 40 Mountain Climbers
  • 20 diamond merkins
  • 25 Bobby Hurlies
  • 40 flutter kicks

30 second rest.  Rehabilitate your fleet (i.e., stand up your cones).  Play another round of Battleship, this time exercises were;

  • 20 carolina dry docks
  • 40 plank jacks
  • 10 burpees
  • 10 catalina wine mixers
  • 40 hello dolly
  • 10 burpees

MARY:

  • 5 squats + 5 seconds Al Gore
  • 10 squats + 10 seconds AG
  • 15 squats + 15 seconds AG
  • 20 squats + 20 seconds AG
  • 25 squats + 25 seconds AG

20 merkins + 1 minute plank
(Repeat)

Play the song “Turn it up” by Oh The Larceny.  SSH to the cadence of the song.  Burpee each time they sing the phrase “Turn it up”.  28 Burpees + what felt like about a thousand SSH…

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

Me and 9 of the best men I know.

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Last Tuesday, Biohack’s Word about leaving a legacy made me think of something that a colleague told me years ago.  On a Monday morning, she gave an account of an event that had happened over the weekend in her neighborhood.  She told of a young dad who was mowing his yard.  He rode his mower onto a steep hill, and it tipped over and crushed him underneath.  The man’s wife heard the commotion and came running out to him.  Knowing that he was hurt badly, he asked her to get their children and bring them out so he could speak to them.  He saw his kids for a minute or two and died before the ambulance arrived.

That short story has haunted me for years.  I wonder to myself, “if he sensed that this was the last time he would speak to his children…what did he say to them?”  And then I ask myself, “what would I say?”.  Would I spend my last breaths to tell them how much I love them?  Or would I try to say one last time the most important thing I want them to remember?  If so, what would those words be?

Imagine yourself in a similar scenario…  If you had just 1 more minute on earth with your children, what would you say to them?  Some of our answers included;

  • “It’s all about Jesus”
  • “I love you so much, more than you’ll ever know”
  • “Despite my faults, you turned out great”
  • “I’m so proud of you”
  • “Don’t let this loss ruin you, thrive in life”

(What about you, BB reader?)

Deuteronomy Chapter 6 says (paraphrasing), The Lord our God, the Lord is One.  Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.  Teach these things diligently to your children.  Repeat them.  Talk about them when you’re at home…and away…when you lie down…and get up… Write them down and tie them around your wrist… Write them on the doorframes of your house…   In short, do everything you can to ensure your children understand these things and remember them.

It is likely that you will, mercifully, have much more than a few minutes remaining with your loved ones.  Maybe you’ll heed the advice of poet Robert Frost, and “live life like it’s the last breath you take for that breath is the whole essence of living, the little things in life are what connects us to all the big things we live for.”

What is the big thing that you want your kids to know?
Teach it to them diligently.
Repeat it often in big and little moments.
Find an opportunity to say that thing to them today.
Make the time and have the courage to say the things that mean the most.    

MOLESKIN:

  • Three-peat is deadly accurate with a tennis ball!
  • Glad to have Kraut with us from downrange!

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

  • Family Workout planned for Saturday 9:00 AM – might pull the plug if there is rain
  • May 25 – AOQ Change at Shamrock
  • May 30 – Rampart AO Launch, 7:00 AM Fort Southwest Point
  • July 2 – Convergence at JUCO

Between Two Bridges

THE SCENE: mid 50s, calm
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH, little baby arm circles, tempo squats, tempo merkins, mosey across bridge toward tennis quarts with CMUs
THA-THANG:
There 8 CMU workouts positioned at and in between each light post.  15 reps at each station and murder bunny to the next station.  If a jogger passes during the workout, stop what you are doing and run the opposite direction of the runner until you get to the bridge.  Then return to your CMU and continue where you left off.  The exercises were as follows (all involve CMU):

  • Curls
  • American Hammers (2 ct)
  • Thrusters
  • Big Boys
  • CMU press
  • Grave diggers (2 ct)
  • Swings
  • Blockees

MARY:
Mosey back to grindstone.  Overhead claps, box cutters, and ABCs.
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:
The other day my sister made a super long Facebook post about her views on Covid-19.  It was so long I didn’t even take time to read it all but I knew where she was going and what she was trying to do.  It was written as an attempt to convince someone to agree with her point of view.  I likely agreed with what she said, as we have very similar stances on things, but my thought was, “whose mind are you actually going to change?”  No one goes on to Facebook to have their mind changed which made me realize that sometimes things are just best left unsaid.  Even if something is 100% true, it doesn’t always make it appropriate.  As leaders, we like to speak up and be heard, but sometimes the best thing you can do as a leader is to keep your mouth shut.  So please take the time before you speak, before you post, to ask, is this the appropriate time and/or place for this and will it benefit anyone?  If not then lead through silence.
MOLESKIN:
About 5 runners passed me when I was setting out the papers marking the exercises before the beatdown.  Only one runner passed us during the beatdown.  Baby Weight hulked up and broke his CMU.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Insert information about upcoming events, 2nd or 3rd F opportunities, and any other announcements.

HEAVY PT @ RAMPART

THE SCENE: 54
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
1. Lap around Parking Lot
2. Projectivator x8
3. Tempo Squat x7
4. Tempo Merk x5
5. Mtn Climber x10
6. LBAC F/B X10
7. Grady Corns x10
8. Chattanooga Cherry Pickers x10
9. 5 Burpees OYO
10. Stretch OYO
11. Grab a CMU and mosey to baseball parking lot

THA-THANG:

 FLORA 1-2-3 (partner up, 1CMU/PAX)
1. Upper: P1 – 100 Diamond Merk (switch every 10)
P2 – Plank on CMU
P1+P2 Lap Parking Lot with CMU
2. CORE: P1 – 200 LBC (switch every 20)
P2 – Hold legs 6” w/ CMU above head
P1+P2 Lap parking lot with CMU
3. LOWER: P1 – 300 Squats w/ CMU (switch every 25)
P2 – Al Gore with CMU
P1+P2 Lap parking lot with CMU

 ON THE MOVE – 1 CMU/PAX
1. Lunges – 20 Squats
2. Rifle Carry – 20 Curls
3. Bear Crawl – 20 Thrusters

(DIDN’T GET TO THE REST!)
4. Mosey – 20 Tri Extensions

5. Lunges – 10 Blockees
6. Rifle Carry – 20 Am Hammers (2-ct)
7. Bear Crawl – 20 Kettle Swings
8. Mosey – 20 Good Mornings

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Wingman, Olive Oil, Skeletor, Piston, Creeper, and Snaggletooth

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, 2 fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. 3 Consider him who endured such opposition from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.

God Disciplines His Children
4 In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood. 5 And have you completely forgotten this word of encouragement that addresses you as a father addresses his son? It says,

“My son, do not make light of the Lord’s discipline,
and do not lose heart when he rebukes you,
6 because the Lord disciplines the one he loves,
and he chastens everyone he accepts as his son.”[a]

MOLESKIN:
Great time with the Rampart men! “Thanks for enjoying that workout!”

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Official LAUNCH of RAMPART: Memorial Day!

Plant Trees

The Scene

Beautiful

F3 Welcome and Disclaimer

Fitness, Fellowship, Faith, Free, Modify, Not Professional, Own Volition, Social Distance, Phone

Warm-O-Rama

Motivators (Dumpster Dive picked to start from 5)

Cherry Pickers

Runners Lunge w/ reach

Tempo Squats

Merkins

 

Challenged everyone to go for at least one more rep above what they think they could do during this workout. We are capable of more than we think. 

 

Tha-Thang

Mosey to the CMU Pile and grab one that we will work with throughout the beatdown

 

We set up around the parking lot for 3 rounds of each exercise with a run around the median in between. Exercises as follows:

3×20 walking lunges (After 20 walking lunges, leave cmu, run around the median back to where you left off.)

3×10 thrusters (Between each thruster take 2 steps) median run between each round

3×10 Big Boy Situps (Knuckles to ground behind your head, heel tap at the top) median run between each round

Some 10 counts were sprinkled in by various HIM’s

 

New dock work up next

While group 1 went through a plank variation the second group laid down on the ground next to the dock then got up and immediately got onto the dock. 3 rounds then tap a HIM doing a plank to let them know it is their turn. The below planks were completed in the three rounds: 

Standard Plank

Crab Plank

Freestyle plank

 

Grabbed our CMU’s and headed back toward the CMU pile

 

We circled up and complete 4 rounds of the following:

40 Rocky Balboas

10 CMU swings

 

We then moseyed back to the AO.

 

Mary

We had enough time for 1 minute of flutter kicks

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

14 HIM’s

COT/BOM

“A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.”-Greek Proverb

I changed the quote a little since none of us are old. “A society grows great when wise men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.”-Greek Proverb

Challenged everyone to break out of any self-centered loops we find ourselves in a begin to lay the groundwork for the next in line, even if we won’t reap the benefits of our labor. 

MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS: