F3 Knoxville

Dream Come True

THE SCENE:  67 and clear.  Perfect.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER:  Administered.

WARM-O-RAMA: 

  • Reach for the sky!
  • Let it hang!
  • Abe Vigoda – IC x 8
  • Cherry pickers – IC x 8
  • Mountain climbers – IC x 8
  • E2K L/R – IC x 10

THA THANG:

Mosey to the recruitment center.  Grab some CMUs and head to the cinema.

Stairway to Seven:  Perform all exercises then carry the CMU to the next line.  First line is 3 reps of each – each line increases the number of reps by 3 (e.g. 2nd line is 6 reps, 3rd line is 9 reps…7th line is 21 reps – total of 84 reps).

Exercises are;

  • Curls
  • Goblet Squats
  • Overhead presses
  • Jumpovers

Carry to the next line – increase rep count by 3….

Early finishers do some ab work.

At line 7:  Turn around and go back down the stairway – starting with 21 reps (each line decreases by 3 reps).

Exercises are;

  • Tricep extension
  • CMU Lunge
  • Upright row
  • Calf raises

Finished early to move on…

Mosey to the cinema steps for Diego

Partner 1 runs to the top of the stairs while Partner 2 does exercises.  Switchero.

  • 100 – Split Merkins
  • 150 – Overhead press
  • 200 – Heavy LBC
  • 250 – Curls
  • 300 – Squats w/ CMU

MARY:

ABCs

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

Me and 5 of the best men I know

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

“Dream come true”.  Have you ever said those words?  Maybe about a vacation? Or about working from home during the pandemic?  Or about fatherhood?  Or after a purchase that you’d anticipated for many years?

For my family, last Saturday was a day of dreams coming true.  For my sons’ entire young lives, they have desperately wanted a dog.  My reluctant wife finally relinquished, and we picked up our Bernese Mountain dog mix named “Rose”.  Romping through the house, chasing and being chased – for my sons, it is their dream come true.

My wife and I have a dream of one day traveling in an awesome RV – staying in national and state parks, seeing all the countryside that our beautiful nation has to offer, meeting people, exploring…that is a dream of ours.  On Saturday – the same day that we picked up our dog – we also made arrangements to buy a small travel trailer and a truck.  We took one small step toward our dream coming true.

In Genesis Chapter 28, we read about a strange dream.  Jacob, running from his homicidal brother and alone in the wilderness, laid down to sleep.  In his dream, he saw a stairway stretching from the earth to heaven and angels were ascending and descending on it.  At the top of the stairway stood God and He said to Jacob, (paraphrased) “I will give you this land.  Your descendants will be as numerous as the dust of the earth.”  When Jacob woke up, he did a couple of things.  First, he showed wonder, “What an awesome place this is!”  I can imagine him thinking – God, you’ve met me here in the wilderness when I thought I was abandoned and you showed me the blessing of my future – what a dream come true…  Then he took a stone and made a pillar to commemorate the dream.  Then he poured oil on the stone.  Finally, he made a vow to God.

I want to ask you to think about your dreams in two ways this morning.

First – what in your life is a dream come true?  What – if you didn’t have it – would be something that you’d say, “if only…that would be a dream come true”.  Maybe your health?  I know if I were terminally ill, I could hear myself saying, “If only I was healthy…that would be a dream come true”.  What is it for you?  Your marriage?  Your good job?  Whatever that thing, I’m challenging you to have fresh gratitude for it today.  Like Jacob after his dream, say “how awesome!” that you have this in your life.

Second – what is a dream that you have for the future?  What do you look out at and wish, “Dream, come true!”.  When Jacob woke from his dream, he set a stone.  Years later, he would return to that stone and build it into an altar – but that day, he set one stone.  What is one stone you can set – one thing you can do to advance toward your dream?  Jacob poured oil on the stone – a sacrifice, a financial investment.  What is one small thing you could do to invest in your dream?  Finally, he made a vow, a promise, he talked about his dream.  Maybe you can tell your dream to a trusted friend.  Words are powerful.  Speaking words out loud is powerful.  Telling a friend, speaking those words, seeking advice, making a plan – that is a step toward your dream.  Proverbs 15:22 “Without counsel plans fail, but with many advisers they succeed.”  What dream can you look at and say, “Dream, come true”?  Take a small step toward making it happen.

Proverbs 29:18 “Where there is no VISION, the people perish

Proverbs 20:5, “The purposes of a person’s heart are deep waters, but one who has insight draws them out.

“Vision without execution is delusion”.  Thomas Edison

MOLESKIN:

Proverbs 16:9, “The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps.”

My kids planned this beatdown

THE SCENE: pleasant, oppressive humidity was noticeably absent
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

-5 Cherrypickers
-10 WW2’s
-15 Big boys
-20 Sprinter sit-ups
-If you finish ahead of pax, LBC’s
THA-THANG:

-Indian run with CMU to Duck pond

-50 merkins upon arrival.
-Run a lap. lunging 1/2 the boardwalk.

-Inch worm merkins for 15 parking spaces.
-Run a lap, lunging 1/2 the boardwalk.

-50 SSH

-Run a lap, lunging 1/2 the boardwalk.

-Plank until 6 is up

MARY:

merkins, flutter kicks, etc

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Get out there and talk to others about F3. Don’t make this something you just do in the gloom and then don’t talk about, I promise there is someone you know that needs the positivity that F3 forces into our lives
MOLESKIN:
2 PAX went down on the Indian run, great to see everyone stop and care for them, wishing a speedy revocery to Rivers and Veep!
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Insert information about upcoming events, 2nd or 3rd F opportunities, and any other announcements.

52 at the Dog Pound

THE SCENE: Perfect – 68 degrees for a 1968 B-day celebration
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

4×13 = 52

  • SSH
  • Rockettes
  • Babby Arm Circles
  • calf raises

THA-THANG:
A little run to Northshore stopping along the way to do 2 sets of 26 reps

Guardrail

  • Incline Merkins
  • Dips
  • Decline Merkins

Base of Matterhorn Speed Bump

  • V-ups
  • Iron Mikes
  • Jump Squats

Light just past Pavalon gravel lot

  • BBS
  • American hammer
  • Bobby hurley

Northshore

  • Merkins
  • Monkey Humpers
  • Pickle Pounders

Mosey back to AO with Mayberry leading cheetahs and stopping to wait on six along the way with a few more reps of

  • BBS
  • Backbone
  • Squats

MARY:
5 burpees and 52 Hello Dollies

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 HIM helped me celebrate 52 years!  Many Thanks
MOLESKIN:
Coffeteria with La-Z-Boy coffee, good times!
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Iron Pax starts Tuesday; just do your best and don’t worry about the others…

Rest Time at the Equalizer

THE SCENE: 70° and actually pleasant

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Cherry Pickers IC | Seal Claps IC
  • Windmills IC | SSH IC

THA-THANG:

Want the PAX to get some rest this morning, so we only worked for three quarters of our time together. 45seconds of each of these exercises and 15seconds of rest. Ran a lap after every six.

  • Diamond Merkins
  • Dips
  • Decline Merkins
  • Seal Claps
  • Merkins
  • Pull-Ups
  • Hand-Release Merkins
  • Dry Docks
  • BBS
  • V-Ups
  • Australian Snow Angels
  • Pickle Pounders
  • Box Cutters
  • American Hammers
  • Flutter Kicks
  • LBCs
  • Box Jumps
  • Split Squats – Right
  • Split Squats – Left
  • Iron Mikes
  • Monkey Humpers
  • Lunges
  • Narrow Squats
  • Step-Up w/ Knee Raise

MARY:

No Time

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Philippians 1:6 – And I am certain that God, who began the good work within you, will continue his work until it is finally finished on the day when Christ Jesus returns.

What good work has God begun in you? How do you see him continuing that work in your life?

MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Fill that q calendar

JUCO – “Be There”!

THE SCENE: Beautiful fall like weather 68F
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Baby Arm Circles forward then backwards (IC) 4 CT x 15 each

Side Straddle hop (IC) 4 CT x 20

On your back Side Straddle hop 25 OYO

5 Burpees OYO

THA-THANG:

Mosey to the CMU pile. Stopped for 25 merkins

Grab a CMU. 

50 Curls

50 American Hammers  

50 Tricep extensions

50 Twists ( Block-a-bye baby? ) 

Mosey to sophomore hill

Line up on the 1st line. 

25 Curls + 25 4-count flutter kick with block then move your CMU forward to the next line

Run 1 lap – Bernie up the hill

25 Squat Thrusters + 25 Big Boys with block then move your CMU to the next line

Run 1 lap – Bernie up the hill

25 Curls + 25 4-count flutter kick with block then move your CMU forward to the next line

Run 1 lap – Bernie up the hill

25 Squat Thrusters + 25 Big Boys with block then move your CMU to the next line

See how far you can go. Stopped at 6:05AM

Return blocks, wall sits, then mosey to AO

MARY:

Dealers choice Mary ( Pickle Pounders, Hello Dolly, Rainbows, Freddie Mercury, Merkins ) 

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

21 including FNG “Leno” and the Juco Rush guys
Kick-Flip, Slappy, Snaggletooth, Mailbox, Hound Dog, 5K, Sunrise, Pool Boy, Butter Knife, Dart Gun, Frenchie, Erector, Ralph, Spotter, Wanderer, Booster, Sty, Leno (FNG), SOS, Wheelchair, Anchorman,
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

I shared this with the guys at Shamrock last week. It’s about 2 words that my grandfather said when I was 12. 

He said these 2 words at his 50th wedding anniversary party. My grandfather was an amazing man. He battled throat cancer years before this so his voice was often hard to hear, but he spoke loud and clear that night and we all listened. 

Thankfully someone recorded the speech. 

He had 2 words that he wanted to say us. 

“Be There”!  You could tell he was so thankful that all of us showed up to celebrate his marriage to my amazing grandmother. 

He talked about how important it was to be there for people. 

  He looked around at over 100 family members and friends that came to celebrate with them. He thanked us for being there and said “this may be the last time that we are all together, but it won’t be the last time up there.”

That gathering and that speech makes me think about all the community  gatherings that Jesus organized. The amount of time he invested in his disciples, the woman at the well, the poor, the rich, the blind, the possessed. He ends his ministry by gathering his disciples for the last supper. He painted a very clear picture of how to Be There for people around us on Earth and invited us to Be There with Him one day in Heaven. 

MOLESKIN:

Prayer requests: 

Jeff – Friend of Sty 

Becky – Friend of Booster’s wife

Butterknife – Final job interview