F3 Knoxville

2025 Groundhog Day

AO: bigball
Q: Drive-thru (Mikel Towe)
PAX: Huffy (Ken Hill), Postman (Scott Colby), vanilla
FNGs: None
COUNT: 4
WARMUP:
SSH
Baby arm circles
Moroccan
OH clap
Shoulder tap
10 burpees

THE THANG:

Mosey to rock pile
Curls-20
Lion kings-20
Front raises-20
Overhead press-20

Mosey to start
Jump Squats-20
American hammer-20
Tmerkins-20
Lap

START BACK WITH WARMUP

COT: Lessons from Groundhog Day

– Reflect on your routines and habits. …
– Take a step back and reassess your goals. If necessary, make a change. You don’t have to live the same day over and over again and fall into the same problems.
– Embrace personal growth, be kind to others, live in the present moment, and actively make the most of every day by learning from your mistakes and using each opportunity to become a better version of yourself just like Phil Connors does when trapped in a time loop, realizing he can use each repeated day to improve himself and positively impact the lives around him.

[clinton-otb] Heavy Tabata Stations

AO: clinton-otb
Q: Bail Bonds
PAX: Natty, Biohazard (Jay Shepherd), Biohack, Mathlete, flyball, Colonel (Alex Wallace), Ryan S, Bail Bonds, Ryan S. was our FNG who is now Mud Bug.
FNGs: 1 Ryan S. was our FNG who is now Mud Bug.
COUNT: 9
WARMUP:
Cherry Pickers, Lateral Lunges, OH Claps, Seal Claps, Tie Fighters, SSH, TN Rocking Chairs, Peter Parkers, Supermans, monkey humpers, LBCs

THE THANG:
Mosey the Greenway
3x through:
40 srcond tabata, 10 second transition, bear crawl between stations.
Wall ball
60# sandbag front squat
CMU OH Press
Mtn. Climbers
Alternating Lunges
Merkins
Curls
BBs with 15# KB press at the top
35# KB Swings
40# dumbell tricep extensions

MARY:
No time

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Escape Haw Ridge 3/28

COT:
We are commanded to love one another. Bearing a brother’s burden with him is a way to do that. F3 is a place where we can lean on each other, praying for and with our brothers as they go through trials and temptations. Below is commentary based on a sermon I heard recently.

The following is an excerpt from The MacArthur New Testament Commentary on Galatians 6.

Bear one another’s burdens, and thus fulfill the law of Christ. For if anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself. But let each one examine his own work, and then he will have reason for boasting in regard to himself alone, and not in regard to another. For each one shall bear his own load. (Galatians 6:2–5)

Christians are continually (present tense) to bear one another’s burdens. Bear has the thought of carrying with endurance, and burdens is from baros, which refers to heavy loads that are difficult to lift and carry. Used metaphorically, as here, it represents any difficulty or problem a person has trouble coping with. In this context the reference suggests burdens that tempt a sinning believer to fall back into the trespass from which he has just been delivered. A persistent, oppressing temptation is one of the heaviest burdens a Christian can have.
To be freed from a sin is not always to be freed from its temptation. The spiritual believer who truly loves his brother and sincerely wants to restore him to a walk by the Spirit will continue to spend time with him and make himself available for counsel and encouragement. Prayer is the most powerful weapon believers have in conquering sin and opposing Satan, and nothing helps a brother carry his burdens as much as prayer for him and with him.

The brother who has been delivered from a trespass has an obligation to let his spiritual friends help him carry his burdens, It is not spirituality but pride that makes a person want to “go it alone.” James tells believers to “confess [their] sins to one another, and pray for one another, so that [they] may be healed” (James 5:16). God Himself is the believer’s ultimate source of strength, and on Him we are called to cast our burdens (Ps. 5:22) and our cares (1 Pet. 5:7). But He often uses fellow believers as His agents to help carry the burdens of His children.

Wait. Didn’t we just do that?

AO: the-equalizer
Q: Cheney
PAX: Bookman, Ribbed (Joshua Sagraves), Stripped, Snowbird, Smithers, Mouthwash, Headgear, Madoff, Cheney
FNGs: None
COUNT: 9
WARMUP: 1 squat, 2 tempo merkins, 20 SSH

THE THANG:

20 of each exercise followed by a lap around splash pad and stone henge
1. Merkins
2. Squats
3. Mountain Climbers
4. Burpees
5. Lunges
6. American Hammers

Repeat 5 times

MARY: none

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Escape from Haw ridge and Q source

COT:

“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” – Robert Collier

Lucy Taylor Davis

AO: asylum-am
Q: Rainbow
PAX: Cat Gut (Mike Davis), Cinco (Scott McGuire), P3, Bunny, Pac-man, Farley, Cosmo 2
FNGs: None
COUNT: 8
In honor of Cat Gut (Mike Davis) new granddaughter this workout was named the Lucy Taylor Davis. Welcome to the world Lucy. To make you proud we started with:
25 SSh on the 4 count
Tie Fighters
Some Windmills and Cherry pickers
Tempo merkins led to Rocky B’s a few times on the curb then on the mosey…

Mosey to the Big O for a partner workout. AMRAP of an exercise while partner ran the O. Switch out. Exercises were step ups, incline merkins, dips, and flutters. When everyone finished mosey to Circus Maximus…
At circus Maximus 4 cones were set up all along the circle. 10 exercises at each cone. 3 rounds. Exercises were merkins, squats, dry docks, 4ct LBCs. Mosey to bottom of baby Everest for 10 jump squats at bottom and 10 reverse lunges at top. Back to AO

2 minutes for stretches.

Discussed in BOM how important starting our day in prayer and fellowship was. How F3 sets us up perfectly to do that every morning. Cited Bonhoeffer

January You vs You

AO: thequacken
Q: Z-Pack
PAX: DoorKicker (Jud), Shotgun, Z-Pack
FNGs: None
COUNT: 3
WARMUP:
SSH
Windmills
Knoxville Cherry Pickers
OH Claps
Baby Arm Circles
Hillbillies
Tempo Merkins
Mountain Climbers

THE THANG:
Here is the January/July challenge:
Metric Workout #1
(Every man will need 1 CMU)
Set a timer for 30 minutes.
Complete as many cumulative reps as you can in that time.

The following list of exercises are performed in sets of 25 reps. After completing a set of 25 reps, put down your CMU, run 25 yards, do 2 burpees, return to your CMU, and continue.

Here are the exercises:
– 150 curls
– 125 heavy squats
– 100 OHP
– 75 CMU swings
– 50 Thrusters
– 25 Blockees
When you finish the Blockees, start back at the top with curls.
It will look like this:
25 curls → 25 yard run → 2 burpees → 25 yard run → 25 curls…repeat until 150 curls are finished, then switch to squats…etc.
Once through the entire circuit is 525 reps (burpees do not count toward total).

How many cumulative reps can you complete?

We listened to a F3 Beatdown playlist that I found on Spotify. We ran across the parking lot for an estimated 25 yards. It took longer than I thought it would.

MARY:
LBCs
Flutter Kicks
Plank Jacks
Low Plank 30 seconds

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
February is VQ month. If you have never Q’d or haven’t led a workout in awhile, this is a great month to Q. I am happy to answer questions and I will co-Q with you if you want.

COT:
Keep the faith.
Sometimes good things, good plans don’t work out. “Stuff happens” that change our plans. God is good and he works things out for the good of his people. At times I struggle with, the whys, though. I feel like I deserve an explanation from God why things didn’t go the way I plan. Seemingly good things that God would approve. These are faith growing times for me. God is good all the time. He doesn’t owe me explanations, and that is OK.