F3 Knoxville

Packing parachutes

THE SCENE: Upper 40s a slight drizzle but mostly overcast
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

squats x10 Ic , ssh x 20 ic , merkins x10 ic  , flutter kicks x 20 ic , monkey humpers x20 ic , imperial walkers x 20 ic , merkins x 10 ic , dollys x 10 ic , squeaky dollys x 10 ic
THA-THANG:
Mosey to the summit of kiddie slope . On the way , possum cross the road , monkey humpers at the fountain x 10 ic , lunge a to a light pole , 10 merkins , lunge a light to the next light pole , 10 more merkins (Moses requested lunges so I obliged to his request 😈) continue a slow mosey to summit of kiddie slope

  • 11s (longest ever) w big boys and gas pumps (working that turkey belly)
  • At summit do 1 big boy
  • Run half way , stopping at the plateau of pain( said in a French accent)  do 10 burpees
  • Run to the base and do 10 gas pumps
  • run all the way back up and do 2 big boys …
  • every time you run DOWN, stop at PoP and do 10 burpees (rest stop)
  • rinse n repeat until 11s are done
  • ended up being about 2.5 miles of 11s , 100 burpees , 55 big boys, 55 gas pumps

MARY:
Mosey back to AO
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
9 pax giving me sarcastic laughs , evil looks , hands in the knees …. I knew they loved me !
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Story and credit the Q source ;

Leading Leaders

Charles Plumb, a U.S. Naval Academy graduate, was a jet pilot in Vietnam. After 75 combat missions, his plane was destroyed by a surface-to-air missile. Plumb ejected and parachuted into enemy hands. He was captured and spent 6 years in a communist Vietnamese prison. He survived the ordeal and now lectures on lessons learned from that experience.

One day, when Plumb and his wife were sitting in a restaurant, a man at another table came up and said, “You’re Plumb! You flew jet fighters in Vietnam from the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk. You were shot down!” “How in the world did you know that?” asked Plumb. “I packed your parachute,” the man replied. Plumb gasped in surprise and gratitude. The man pumped his hand and said, “I guess it worked!” Plumb assured him, “It sure did. If your chute hadn’t worked, I wouldn’t be here today.”

Plumb couldn’t sleep that night, thinking about that man. Plumb says, “I kept wondering what he might have looked like in a Navy uniform: a white hat, a bib in the back, and bell-bottom trousers. I wonder how many times I might have seen him and not even said ‘Good morning,’ ‘how are you?’ or anything because, you see, I was a fighter pilot and he was just a sailor.” Plumb thought of the many hours the sailor had spent on a long wooden table in the bowels of the ship, carefully weaving the shrouds and folding the silks of each chute, holding in his hands each time the fate of someone he didn’t know.

Now, Plumb asks his audience, “Who’s packing your parachute?” Everyone has someone who provides what they need to make it through the day. Plumb also points out that he needed many kinds of parachutes when his plane was shot down over enemy territory he needed his physical parachute, his mental parachute, his emotional parachute, and his spiritual parachute. He called on all these supports before reaching safety.

Sometimes in the daily challenges that life gives us, we miss what is really important. We may fail to say hello, please, or thank you, congratulate someone on something wonderful that has happened to them, give a compliment, or just do something nice for no reason. As you go through this week, this month, this year, recognize people who pack your parachute.

MOLESKIN:
F3 packs one of my parachutes everyday ! And That’s just one . My wife packs my parachute in a big way!! My kids pack another, the people I work with pack one.  Don’t take for granted those around you that make you who you are or if you are in a leadership role , be thankful for those that you lead . Often times , we do what we are supposed to do and those around us work just as hard . That’s to be expected right ? Sure , but we can still show love and appreciation. It can go a long way just to acknowledge someone’s hard work even though it’s what they are supposed to do anyway.  As move past thanksgiving, giving thanks shouldn’t t stop through out the year.
thank you !
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Insert information about upcoming events, 2nd or 3rd F opportunities, and any other announcements.

No SSH

THE SCENE: 48, no rain.  Kind of nice!
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

OH claps

10 penalty burpees cause Mayberry forgot the flag

cherry picker

imperial walkers

good mornings
THA-THANG:
Route 66+, merkins at each light pole

watt rd field, do 1 exercise at each corner as you run a lap.  Do 5 laps

  • Mountain climbers x 10, 4 count
  • squats x 10
  • merkins x 10
  • overhead claps x 10, 4 count

mosey to playground for 11’s

pullups and BBS,  run to middle light (50 yds)

20 squats at Bottom of hill.  Run to the outhouse and 20 underhand easy ups.  Repeat 3x

MRSA field

50 yd bear crawl, then 10 CDD.  Repeat 2 x

mosey to AO

MARY:
No time
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Insert the WORD here.
MOLESKIN:
Toto wedding today!
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
convergance next Saturday at the truck stop with 3rd F at 2 rivers church.

2.0 Black Friday Event

  • The Scene:
    • Overcast 50 degrees..perfect day for a workout at The Burbs!
  • Welcome/Disclaimer:
    •  Archie/Cheddar claimed they are not professionals, however we aren’t convinced..
  • Warm-a-rama
    •  Archie/Cheddar led the warm up.
      •  Cheddar sensed we were all a little sluggish from all the turkey, so it went like this:
        • Bur-pees
        • Squats
        • Merkins
        • Up Hil Leap Frog
  • Tha-Thang-FullHouse took over and led the way:
    •  Indian Run to the bridge. We frog jumped across the bridge and indian ran through the park to frog jump across the next bridge.
    • It was a free for all to the base of the hill…
    • Relay race up the hill with 2.0’s vs 1.0’s. Each partner runs twice!
      • 2.0’s grouped in 4’s while the dad’s were in 2’s
      • Dads handicapped with the Bernie
      • The 2.0’s were victorious!
    • Mosey on over to the Tennis Court
      • Partnered up and started at the practice wall.
      • One partner does a wall sit while the other partner bear crawled to the tennis net.
      • Repeat with Crab Walk
    • Regrouped at AO and headed to the open field with a Kickball
      • we played capture the ball. The Q punts the ball as far as they can..the PAX pursues. First to the ball gets to kick it next.
      • Each time we got the ball the 2.0 said their name and something they are thankful for.
      • Each 2.0 can only recover the ball once–allows everyone a chance.
    • Mosey back to AO-basketball court for some Suicides  Wind sprints or Ladders
  • Mary:
    • Flutter Kicks
    • Box Cutter
    •  LBCs
    • Planks
    • We finished up with a version of ring of fire. The kickball was passed around the circle. If you have the ball you do a burpee while the rest of the PAX follows the Q’s lead
      • FIrst Round was:
        • FLutter Kicks
        • Freddy Mercuries
        • LBC’s
        • Repeat
      • Second Round
        • Plank-left-center-right repeat until done.
  • Name-O-Rama
    • 18-(6-1.0s & 12-2.0s)
    • 2 FNK-s got names. We had T-rex(kick-flip) and Copperfield (erector)
  • COT
    • 1 Timothy 4:4-5
    • We talked about being thankful and specifically prayerfully thankful for all that god has created..
  • Moleskin
    • Look out for a new location and a 2.0 workout soon!a

Pool Boy’s 1st Annual Black Friday JUCO Discount Coupon Special

THE SCENE:
Black & gloomy – just as much gloom as getting up and going shopping on Black Friday should be! Actual weather: ~45°F and dry.

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER (Administered):
I’m not a professional Pool Boy or anything else. Know your injuries especially after Thanksgiving Day being yesterday.

WARM-O-RAMA:
6 each x El Capitan OYO
6 x Werewolf OYO
16 x Tempo Squat IC
6 x Tempo Burpee IC (12-count Burpee aka nice and slow)
6 x Decline Pushup on Curb IC
6 x Tempo calf raises on the curb IC (also nice and slow)

THA-THANG:
To the COUPON pile: Black Snake – Take an Indian Run, but the last guy has to weave his way through the Pax to the front of the line.

TODAY’S SALE: Everything is $9.99!

9 hard reps 99 “easy” reps Mary until done
Werewolves Calf raises – 33 left, 33 right, 33 both
Boat – Canoe 3 sec rotate, 5 each 10 count break then repeat
Fairy Jack Burpees 1/4 pushups Flutter kick
Pistol Squats (each leg) 1/4 squats BBS
Wall pull-ups / hangs Wall jumps
Wall sits 15 sec on 5 sec off

Next Up: Team Dora with Unlimited COUPONS!

Each team to do AMRAP individually and as a team AMRAP, pushing yourself and your team.

Base Exercise 1st Round 2nd 3rd 4th
1st person CMU in front Curls Rows Kettle Bell Swing Goblet Squats
2nd person Run in between with CMU
3rd person CMU Overhead Thrusters OHP Tricep Extensions Piston

Q decided close to time that upon completion of 2 full rounds of each exercise the teams would switch to Heavy Freddies (bicycles with a coupon). Might have switched too early because we had time for Mary.

Mosey back to the AO + two wagon wheels & 1 jailbreak. Will likely do more Black Snakes in the future instead after feedback I’ve received.

MARY:
We made it back too soon as we actually had time for Mary…

16 x 4-count American Hammers IC

16 x 4-count Mountain Climbers IC

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA:
JUCO Super Couponers (couldn’t upload or paste image for some reason but you can see the pic if you click it)
15 HIMs

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Black Friday marks the “start” of the holiday (formerly known as Christmas here in America) shopping season. It shows where we put our values and what care about. As Christians, it is the start of Advent where we celebrate God becoming man. It was also on Black Friday in 2016 that my wife left me for the first time. I had been so long in sexual sin against her and she had faithfully prayed for and sought reconciliation. I had been caught sending explicit messages to a woman in October of 2016 but for weeks wouldn’t repent. It was the middle of a storm but my wife was so patient even though she didn’t know to what extent I’d sinned. She moved out but left a note saying exactly what I needed to do in order to regain her trust and reconcile with her. She even said I’d be angry at the end of the note and that’s why she’d written to me instead of telling me to my face. I was even angrier about that than she’d anticipated. After a weekend of self-indulgence and pity yet still in my pride, from that point on I did the things she asked for to save face and keep the “goodies” of marriage- but I NEVER ONCE truly repented until June 24th of this year as I said in my previous Q: Let the Word of Christ Dwell in JUCO richly.

Valuing things rightly, properly takes an attitude and focus not on yourself but on God and others. As Philippians 2:3-11 says:

3 Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. 4 Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. 5 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, 6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. 9 Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, 10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

3 questions we can take from this Scripture:

1. What are you valuing? Is it what the Bible says you should be valuing?
2. Are you considering others better than yourselves?
3. Are you asking (praying, begging, seeking) that God would give you the mind of Christ? If so, do it more and more. If not, confess and repent of not asking and ask God to help you ask and keep asking.

On Black Friday 2016 and until this year when my wife kicked me out of the house, I didn’t know what was truly important and did not humble myself. As I said before this was played out in my wife and I separating and now ending. Divorce papers were signed Nov 13, 2019. I valued everything but the one thing on this earth I’d now give anything to keep.

As we go through Advent, may you who read this 1) value the right things, 2) consider others better than yourselves, and 3) ask God to give you the mind of Christ so that you value what truly matters most – Jesus first, others second, and yourself last.

MOLESKIN:

Glad to have Abe from South Wake in North Carolina with us all week!

Pray for Cheatsheet & his daughter, Mandolin’s M’s mother with his M’s grandmother’s passing in her arms, Messi’s wife in the hospital, Junk’s wife’s post-chemo.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
I forgot to say this but next Convergence next Saturday December 9th at the Truck Stop followed by 3rd F @Two Rivers Church.

Don’t forget about donations for the Veterans Home too! Mayberry will do whatever workout you plan if you say you’ll donate so don’t be shy (the last sentence may or may not be 100% accurate but the first one is!).

21’s & stuff

THE SCENE: Relatively Warm for the Day
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

I washed my Weinke
THA-THANG:

  • 3 to a Group
  • Partner A/B are doing workout routine while Partner C does travelling exercise
  • Again, washed my Weinke
  • There were some Merkins, Broadjumps, American Hammers
  • Then I ran short on exercises so we did Sprints and 21’s

MARY:
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Be ready for the unexpected Temptation

MOLESKIN:
ANNOUNCEMENTS: