F3 Knoxville

Let’s Go To The Beach

AO: asylum-pm
Q: Steam
PAX: Doubtfire (Nick Bond), Lizzy, Pusher, MD Hammer, High Heels, Brick, Rooney (Carl Whipple), Switchhitter (Tony), Colonel (Alex Wallace), Pele (Jon Lindberg)
FNGs: None
COUNT: 11
WARMUP
– The Mosey: to the Coliseum overlook
– Squat: 12×4
– The Mosey: down to the rock pile
– Curl: 25 up/down
– Chest presses: 25 up/down
– The Mosey: to the big tree
– Baby arm circles (F + B): 12×4
– The Mosey: to the road
– The SSH: 12×4
– The Mosey: to Muscle Beach

THE THANG
Muscle Beach Mania
(1) 10s
– POC: Muscle Beach + Pavilion
– Xs: Inverted Rows + Dips

(2) BB Pyramid
– Get a BB
– POC: Muscle Beach + Pavilion
– Pyramid: 3 levels (all reps as a team)
– L1: 400 LBCs
– L2: 200 knee-ups (Modification: Imperial Walkers)
– L3: 100 flutter kicks (2 count)
– While one BB is cranking out reps here, the other is running around to the other end of Muscle Beach and then knocking out 10 reps on one of the machines + coming back
– If you get done – help another BB team finish their reps

Time crunch — left Muscle Beach NLT than 6:18pm to account for the travel time back to the AO.
– Get a new BB
– Somewhere between here and the flag — share 1 thing that was good in your week and 1 thing that was challenging.
– Stopped 2x and asked different guys to share what they learned.

MARY
– ATMs
– Light stretching

ANNOUNCEMENTS
– The 2024 F3 Knoxville Leadership Survey is LIVE and the RDT (Regional Direction Team) wants to hear from YOU. Head over to the announcements channel or check your email to learn more about “the why” behind it and complete this year’s survey. Reach out to me with any questions/issues.
– 9 Year Anniversary Convergence: Saturday, November 16th @ The Asylum. More details to come. If you want to be on the planning team to help with this – let me know.

COT
>From The Screwtape Letters, by C.S. Lewis
Check out the passage I read from the book in this message thread for context.

Mini-Word built inside the Word — from the last line that I read: “The Enemy (God) wants a world full of beings united to Him but still distinct.”
– It’s an election year — tensions are high and you don’t have to look far to see how deep the division and emotionally charged rhetoric goes.
– Even though we are united in Christ (if you are a Christian) or united under the banner of F3, we are still distinct beings with unique thoughts, opinions, and world-views. This is good, btw.
– That being said — F3 is not the place to blast your political views out there in a way that isolates or excludes others. That’s anti-F3 mission. Respectful conversations? 100%. During the workout, let’s be about the workout and be about challenging and encouraging each other – not our political views. After all, F3 Core Principle #2 is that F3 is open to all men.
– Dark Helmet said it best when asked the question “What is F3’s position on this?” Relating to something political, viewpoint, etc.
– We don’t have a position as F3. The mission of F3 is to plant, grow, and serve small workout groups for men for the invigoration of male community leadership.
– If I can find this video/audio clip or message from him I will share it.

The part in there that really stands out for me is the line “He wants servants who can finally become sons.”

– John 10:10 — A thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I have come so that they may have life and have it in abundance.

– Galatians 5:1 — For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.
– The word “again” stands out to me and causes my focus to shift to the last part of Romans 7 and beginning of Romans 8

– MSG (22) Something has gone wrong deep within me and gets the better me every time. (23) It happens so regularly that it’s predictable. The moment I decide to do good, sin is there to trip me up. I truly delight in God’s commands, but it’s pretty obvious that not all of me joins in that delight. Parts of me covertly rebel, and just when I lease expect it, they take charge. (24) I’ve tried everything and nothing helps. I’m at the end of my rope, Is there no one who can do anything for me? Isn’t that the real question? (25) The answer, thank God, is that Jesus Christ can and does. He acted to set things right in this life of contradictions where I want to serve God with all my heart and mind, but am pulled by the influence of sin to do something totally different.

– Romans 8:1 — Therefore, (meaning because of everything I just stated) there is now no condemnation for those in Christ Jesus.

– Why? Romans 8:2 (MSG) — Those who enter into Christ’s being-here-for-us no longer have to live under a continuous, low-lying black cloud. A new power is in operation. The Spirit of life in Christ, like a strong wind, has magnificently cleared the air, freeing you from a fated lifetime of brutal tyranny at the hands of sin and death.

We are men are continuously learning what it means how to be a true son. And as He invites us further into redemptive sonship, we step further up and further into the men we were always called to be.

Decending ladder

AO: the-farm
Q: Bartman
PAX: Aladdin, Choir Boy, Einstein, Lightweight, Pew-pew
FNGs: None
COUNT: 6
WARMUP: normal stuff

THE THANG:

Descending ladder.

10 iron Mike (4 ct)
9 decline Merkin
8 plank jack (4 ct)
7 box jump
6 cdd
5 superman swim
4 speed skaters
3 side merkins (per side)
2 tricep press (per side)
1 1-min wall sit

MARY:
Crunchy frogs

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
2nd F lunch Friday @ Corner 16 on Northshore

COT:

Workloads sometimes seem insurmountable. Just start. Get something accomplished. Don’t quit. Before you know it you’ve accomplished a lot and have the motivation to finish.

Borrowed Courage

AO: juco
Q: Guardrail
PAX: Windex, Haggis, Wanderer, Mailbox, Fetch
FNGs: None
COUNT: 6
WARMUP:15 SSH, 15 mountain climbers, 10 tempo merkins, 15 Moroccan night club, 10 tempo squats, 5 cherry pickers

THE THANG:Mosey to Freshman hill.
– 20 merkins
– Up and down the hill for 1 burpee
– 20 squats
– Up and down the hill for 1 burpee
– 20 big boys
– Up and down the hill for 1 burpee
– Repeat

Mosey to Soph Hill:
– Carolina dry docks at bottom
– Bernie up, Walking lunges down
– Freddie Mercury at top

Then 10 pull ups, 10 burpees, 10 jump squats, 2x.
Back to the CMU pile for 20 curls, then mosey back to the flag the long way (stopping for dips and crab walk with feet on the wall, thanks for that one Haggis)

MARY: dealers choice

COT: Be like Daniel, courageous for God’s glory, not our own
Daniel 2:37: You, o king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the power and the might and the glory”
That takes guts. God rewards that.

Iron PAX Week 2

AO: thequacken
Q: FixerUpper
PAX: Z-Pack, Gmail, Herbie, Hobie, Prairie Dog (Trey Barrett), Reroute (F3MintHill), Streetrod, Streetrod
FNGs: 1 Streetrod
COUNT: 8
WARMUP:
Warmup Stuff

THE THANG:
IronPAX Week 2

MARY:
Not today

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
2nd F Lunch – let’s do it!
Sign up to Q! Its good for you

COT:
I reflected on the leadership lessons gained while throwing sandbags across a field in the rain last December. It was a team exercise and I was chosen by Steam and CRISPR to get a group of 10 other men to throw sandbags about 100+ yards in about 2 mins (I think). Two lessons became clear.

Use heads-up leadership = don’t get so focused on the small task in front of you that you lose sight of the big picture and your team’s health or progress. It might mean that you intentionally devote time and attention to how the team is doing vs just trying to throw “your own sandbag” as far as possible.

Don’t panic – It really doesn’t help you accomplish your or your team’s goals

I related this to an on-going work deadline I’ve been going through, which is a complex project involving several people in the office and several people outside of the office.

Throwing the sandbags took about 2 minutes, but I have thought about those 2 minutes many times during the last few weeks. Was it exercise? Yes, but it was so much more!

——

Also, it was great to have Reroute (F3MintHill) downrange from Charlotte and FNG Streetrod join us.

Farmer’s delight + broga

AO: asylum-am
Q: Hands
PAX: Hands, Matlock (Bill Maddox), P3, Sawdust, Snitch (Cory Beilharz ), TRC/Crab legs
FNGs: None
COUNT: 6
WARMUP:SSH, TN rocking chair, froggie squats, tie fighters, shoulder blaster, X wings.

THE THANG: Rotate through CMU exercises while one pax farmer carries around the Pav-a-lon. Did 4 total rounds, changed the exercises after round 2.

MARY: BROGA! ( Matlock (Bill Maddox) planted that seed earlier).

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Iron Pax this Friday.

COT: If things aren’t working out like you planned, take heart! You’re in good company (ie the apostles). Keep moving forward one step at a time in faith and you will end up where you are supposed to be.