F3 Knoxville

100 Rep Rounds

THE SCENE: Mid 50s. Quite pleasant.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
2 Burpees
Low Plank Jacks IC x 20
2 Burpees
Catalina Wine Mixer IC x 10
2 Burpees
High Plank Toe Touches IC x 20
2 Burpees
Superman/Banana on Q
THA-THANG:
As many rounds as possible
10 Burpee Box Jumps
20 Derkins
30 Knee Tucks
40 Dips
Run down to troll bridge and right to the road to make a loop.
Repeat
MARY:
Butterfly Sit-ups x 20
Kick Out and Pulse x 20
Low Plank Spider Knees x 20
Toe Touches x 20
Repeat
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
18 including two 2.0s
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
The Wise Man

People have been coming to the wise man, complaining about the same problems every time. One day he told them a joke and everyone roared in laughter.

After a couple of minutes, he told them the same joke and only a few of them smiled.

When he told the same joke for the third time no one laughed anymore.

The wise man smiled and said:

“You can’t laugh at the same joke over and over. So why are you always crying about the same problem?”

Moral of the story:

Worrying won’t solve your problems, it’ll just waste your time and energy.

MOLESKIN:
was shooting for 5 rounds. If you got there, you’re welcome. 500 reps to start the day. Plus however many rounds of Mary we did.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Sandbaggin on Cardiac

THE SCENE: 50° humid
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
THA-THANG:
Warmup loop 2 miles interval rucking
At the top of Cardiac near the single bench and light post:
10 Sandbag Burpees
20 Merkins
30 Sandbag Presses
20 Sandbag Deadlifts
10 Frontload Sandbag Squats
First man done grabs jugs and goes to the bottom at corner of fence with mile marker and returns.
AMRAP until man carries jugs down and back
Each time a man returns everyone ruck small loop. Head down cardiac, take a right heading to parking lot, right out the back and up toward pav, left just past ball field, past playground and back up to the top of Cardiac
Start back with PT above together. When done next man carries while other AMRAP.
MARY:

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Baseball F3 Shamrock Style

THE SCENE:

Partly Cloudy, 49 ℉, Humidity 91%, Feels like 48 ℉, Wind Speed 3.7 mi/h, Wind Direction ENE

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Stolen from @Lancelot – F3 Suncoast. (http://f3suncoast.com/2020/05/07/this-aint-no-peanuts-cracker-jacks-boys/) Modified a bit and used the Softball field.  Instead of bases, home and the three outfield positions used as stations (bases).

“Let’s Warm-up out in the Outfield for a few” – or in AO parking lot.

  • 15   Michael Phelps 
  • 15  Arm Circles Front/Back 
  • Motivators from 6 (4 count)
  • Mosey to CMUs

 “Play Ball!” on Softball Field     

Start at Home Plate, ( RF, CF, or LF small groups)

a. 25 Merkins
b. 25 Overhead Presses
c. 25 Chest Presses
d. Second Set :Repeating Exercises Above
e. Finish with 10 SSH
f. Mosey 1 Lap Around the Bases 
g. Pick Up Coupon, Mosey to 1st Base 

1st Base (All do these as group pretending to be at home.  Then rotate counter clockwise.  Or four stations.)

a. 25 Squats 
b. 25 Lunges
c. 25 heel raises
d. Second Set Repeating Exercises Above
e. Finish with 10 SSH
f. Mosey 1 Lap Around the Bases 
g. Pick Up Coupon, Mosey to 2nd Base

2nd Base

a. Colt 45s (15 Curls x 3 Positions)
b. 15 Blockees: burpee w/ coupon
c. 15 Bent Rows
d. Second Set Repeating Exercises Above
e. Finish with 10 SSH
f. Mosey 1 Lap Around the Bases 
g. Pick Up Coupon, Mosey to 3rd Base

“There’s no Crying in Baseball”

3rd Base

a. 25  Mountain Climbers
b. 25  Thrusters
c. 25  Monkey Humpers
d. Second Set Repeating Exercises Above
e. Finish with 10 SSH
f. Mosey 1 Lap Around the Bases to Home 
g. Pick Up Coupon, & Mosey to F3 Home Base: Flag for COT 

Round of Mary 

1. 20 Big Boy Sit-Ups 
2. 30 LBCs 
3. 20 American Hammers 
4. 30 Freddie Mercury’s 
5. 20 Flutter Kicks

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Fun look at comparison of Baseball and Christianity.  Using http://gregburdine.com/baseball-christianity-5-similarities/ 

MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

COVID by the Cove

THE SCENE: 40s and clear. Atypical May morning. Isn’t that funny? Simply adding or removing a space completely reverses the meaning of that sentence….
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x20 IC
Cherry Pickers x5 IC
Rockettes x15 IC
Hammy Crampers x10 IC each leg
Monkey Humpers 4ct x20 IC
LBAC x 20 each way
OHC x 20

THA-THANG:
Grab a CMU and head to the bottom of the Matterhorn

COVID-19 workout – 19 reps of each:
Curls (4ct)
OHP (one arm, 19 each)
V-Ups
Iron Mikes
Decline merkins

Of course, COVID-19 leads to Respiratory Distress:
AYG to the top of Matterhorn.
30s stargazer OYO, then plank for the 6.

Return to the bottom of the hill, R&R

Mosey back to AO, curls and OHP on the way.
MARY:
4-ct crunches IC x25
Flutter Kicks IC x25
Side Crunch IC x15 each side

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
<10 plus a couple spares.... CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Urban legend says it takes 21 days to form a habit. Of course, this is an overgeneralization, but… Lockdown was more than 21 days. What habits did you form? Maybe some good, maybe some bad… Step back and evaluate. As things loosen up over the coming days/weeks, make the effort to keep the good and do away with the bad!
MOLESKIN:
One of my bad habits was not working out… That second trip up the matterhorn this morning was a painful reminder of that.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Insert information about upcoming events, 2nd or 3rd F opportunities, and any other announcements.

This One’s for Jinxy

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THE SCENE: Sunny, slight breeze, mid 60s… not bad.  Not bad at all.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

My BACKBLAST disclaimer is that I’m writing this for Mr. Jinxy, who was crying about doing one.  “I don’t know how to do it… the line spacing is all messed up… do I need to do it?  Wah wah wah…” So I’m just doing it for him this time.  THIS time.

I think he got through the welcome and disclaimer without too many screw ups.  I was Q2 for the beatdown, due to having more than 10 people show up (#covidsucks), and was frantically scanning the workout he printed out and handed me, oh, five whole minutes before starting.  Gave me PLENTY of time to try to figure out what the <radio edit> he had in mind.


WARM-O-RAMA:
We did some warm up stuff.  I recall SSH, Cherry Pickers, Tempo Squats, BACs… again, I was trying to kind of stretch and decipher his workout at the same time.
THA-THANG:
Mosey down Roadshow Run.  Nickle/Dime/Quarters along the perimeter trail (run 1 light, do 5 reps of exercise, then 2 lights do 10 reps, then 5 lights, do 25 reps).  Exercises: American Hammers, Burpees, Merkins, CDDs, Bobby Hurley’s, BBSs.

Mosey to Field of Dreams.  Bernie up the hill at the side of the field 3 times, doing 20x jump squats, deep squats, star jumps.

Four corners around Field of Dreams.  Run one long side, Bernie the other.  Bear Crawl on the short sides.  At the corners to 10x BBS, Flutter Kicks, Hello Dolly’s, Elbow to Hand Planks.

Mosey to the bench on the hill near the Admin Building.  This was a long uphill mosey, and the suck factor was pretty high.  Brick almost lost it, but he held on like a champ. Abscess: “I would NEVER do this all by myself.” I heartily agree.

MARY:
Capain Thors, Leg Lifts, maybe one other thing?  I was kind of making stuff up at this point.  Jinxy’s group was late (sooo typical), so it was just us doing the Mary.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
15 Strong, including two FNGs (one of whom was Pluto’s 2.0), who we named Utah and Crank Bait.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Jinxy had a bad day and told us all about it. We were super sympathetic.  He said something really awesome about getting joy out of setbacks.  I’m getting a #&%^-ton of joy out of the setback of having to write his backblast.  That’s for DANG sure.
MOLESKIN:
Impressed with the strength of Brick’s stomach, but was a bit disappointed about not witnessing merlot spillage.  Nice to see a good crowd out in the Fake Gloom.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
None