F3 Knoxville

Home Again

THE SCENE: 42 degrees F, 60% humidity, light drizzle at the end
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

SSH, Arm circles, Merkins, Low plank, Cherry pickers
THA-THANG:

Two workout areas set up about 40 ft apart.

Start by doing the following 7 exercises.

Merkins x12, Peter Parkers x12, WWII Sit-ups x12, Inverted Pull-ups x12, Dry Docks x12, Step Ups x12/leg, Dips x24

Lunge to the second station and perform the following 7 exercises with a CMU.

Bent Rows x12, Curls x12, Upright Rows x12, Thrusters x12, Triceps Extension x12, Lawn Mowers x12/arm, Russian Swings x12

Run 1/3 mile on the AO trail stopping midway to perform 3 burpees.  Return to AO, lunge 40 feet, and repeat sequence until “Recover” is called.

MARY:
Flutter kicks, Box cutters, LBC’s
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
12 HIMS, no FNGs
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

The BOM centered around the 4 points of this article with hopes that each HIM will read, absorb, and dwell on the entire piece.

THE DEATH OF DECENCY IN THE AMERICAN MIND

It used to be easier to be a “decent” person. It was easier to come to the end of a life imperfectly lived, in which mistakes were made and convictions shifted through different phases, without being labeled a bad human being. We used to be allowed to think wrong things until we figured out better ways to think. It used to be permissible to say the wrong thing, to do something stupid, to hold a belief that was different from our neighbor’s, without being written off as hopeless, vile, or worthless.

These days, something as benign as leaving a shopping cart in a parking lot or putting a dog in the backyard is enough to make Americans despise each other. It seems that the era of general agreement about what makes a person “good” is over. Can we expect to see funeral crowds dwindling because, in our ultra-sensitivity, in our refusal to see beyond a careless word or deed, in our determination that any belief that contradicts our own is indecent, we will no longer allow people to be honored for the good that God accomplished through their imperfect lives? Are vitriol and mistrust the new languages of humanity in this nation?

It appears so.

How can people who live in the same country have such different and clearly defined ideas of what makes a person “good” or what makes a life worthy of honor? How is it possible that even two people who both claim to be applying Scripture can be so oppositely situated on moral issues?

And, maybe more importantly, what are my responsibilities as a follower of Christ in a time when decency seems completely arbitrary? What are the social standards that “good” people adhere to? Who decides? And how much should I care?

I can’t control how people think, how they speak, or what they think of me. But, there are a few things that I can remember that will make me a better and more God-honoring participant in the culture.

1. No one is good. (Romans 3:10)

The whole concept of “good” people is a secular one. The Bible clearly tells us that we are all bad, much worse than we care to admit.  Maybe it’s time to stop being so shocked when people prove that we are all the sinners that God tells us we are. Goodness is a fruit of the spirit, not a righteousness scale-tipper. If there is any good in me, it is from God alone, and not something that I should try to take credit for.

2. The Bible is my authority, not the culture. (1 Thessalonians 2:13)

I shouldn’t get my instructions about how to live a godly life from politicians or movie stars or bloggers. If I am living according to Scripture, I will see the world differently, and that means I will sometimes be misunderstood and considered prudish, judgmental, out of touch, and irrelevant, even by some in the church. I have to learn to be okay with that. Biblical convictions shouldn’t hinge on the approval or disapproval of those who don’t share my worldview.

3. I should live to please God above all. (Galatians 1:10)

As much as I would love to come to the end of my life and hope that people have good things to say about me, my aim is to please God and obey Him, even if it costs me the good opinions of some. Not everyone I know will appreciate or respect my viewpoint, especially given the current hatred of certain biblical ideals. Am I willing to be labeled by the world so that I can hear “Well done, good and faithful servant” from my Lord?

4. As far as it depends on me, I should live at peace with everyone. (Romans 12:8)

It is possible to live a quiet life and still stand on biblical truth. Sometimes we are called to be quiet and sometimes we are called to be voices crying out in the wilderness, but we are never called to be cruel.

It’s easy to get caught up in the desire to please people. It’s difficult to be THAT person–the one who is saying unpopular things and holding to unpopular beliefs. Yet, didn’t Jesus tell us that we would have trouble in this world? Didn’t He promise that this faith would bring division? For a long time American Christians coasted along, enjoying a culture that said decent human beings lived according to the Bible. Things are different now. Now we will be called wicked for believing God’s good commands. We will be called good if we reject parts of Scripture that conflict with the culture. I guess the question we all have to ask ourselves is this: are we willing to accept the label “bad human” for the sake of the gospel, knowing that living to please the Lord is choosing to be despised by the world?

“And you will be hated by all for my name’s sake. But he who endures to the end will be saved.” Mark 13:13

MOLESKIN:
Several fighting cancer including Snorkel’s father-in-law, Fin’s co-worker, and Dreamer’s dad.  Praying for Chaucer’s mom in her personal battle.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Insert information about upcoming events, 2nd or 3rd F opportunities, and any other announcements.

Rockin the dock

THE SCENE: High forties rain came in as a drizzle at the last 10 mins

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-ups:

ssh, tempo merkins and squats, cherry pickers.
THA-THANG:
Start at the splash pad and do exercise for one minute then run down to and around the outhouse and back. Then move to next exercise. Exercises are:

  • log hold walk
  • Merkins
  • Table rows
  • One arm press w/bar
  • Step ups
  • tris with plate
  • CMU swings
  • Dips
  • Log OH press

After almost a round we took a mosey around the park to do random stuff including: tempo squats, boat/canoes and flutters on the smaller than I thought floating dock. 20 Dry docks in front of the dock on an incline.
mosey to playground where we did a pull up and a burpee. Then 2 of each, then 3….up to 5. Mosey back up to the splash pad for a few 30 second rounds of the exercises again and then mosey to AO.

MARY: no time for her

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA:

8 pax
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

MOLESKIN:
Welcome back Cavalier and UniBrau’
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Wesley House snacks!

Raise the Flag

THE SCENE: Cool but definitely shorts weather. No rain #BlessUp

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

  • Welcome to F3: Fitness – Fellowship – Faith
  • Name is Stean and I’ll be your QIC this morning – honored to do so
  • Any FNGs?
  • Knock out a few things before we begin
    • Contrary to popular belief I’m not a professional
    • You’re here on your own volition
    • You know your body better than anyone – if you need to modify anything we do this morning: DO IT.
    • However here’s my challenge to you for the next 45 minutes and the week:
    • When you’re tired and hurting and ready to throw the towel in, remember 2 things: someone is hurting more than you and is more tired than you are & the name of the game is one foot in front of the other. That’s how we get through the next 45 minutes and the next week.


WARM-O-RAMA:

 

  • SSH: 12×4 IC
  • Bend & Reach: 12×4 IC
  • Imperial Walker: 12×4 IC
    • 2 burpees on your own
  • Windmill: 12×4 IC
    • 2 burpees on your own
  • Baby Arm Circles: 11×4 forward & 11×4 backwards IC

THA-THANG:

 

(Mosey to Pavilion)

(Battle buddy up)

[Quarter Pounder]

***Steam showcases his impeccable taste in music – blasting motivational classic rock for all to hear***

  • Pav: 25 battle buddy sit-ups each with the other holding the feet
    • 1 lap around the AO and back to the Pav
  • Pav: 25 1-count battle-buddy merkins (Hand clap)
    • 1 lap around the AO and back to the Pav
  • Pav: Repeat the 1st – 25 BB sit-ups each with the other holding the feet
    • 1 lap around the AO and back to the Pav
  • Pav: Repeat the 2nd – 25 1-count BB merkins (Hand clap)
    • 1 lap around the AO and back to the Pav
  • Recover in the Pav – Wall Sit

 

[Quarter Pounder Round 2]

  • 4 sides of the table/bench in the Pav
    • Short sides = 25 chin-ups
    • Long side 1 = 25 incline merkins
    • Long side 2 = 25 dips
  • When PAX gets done with 1 side –> hold the squat
  • All PAX execute 12 4-count SSHs together in between each side of the table/bench

(12 count)

(Mosey to the playground)

(Walk to the arches of the playground – getting breathing back in control)

(PAX execute 12×4 squats while waiting on a rival tribe to finish running down the parking lot they’re headed to)

(PAX mosey’s across the street from the playground to the parking lot)

[100s]

  • sprint down to far end of parking lot
    • Execute 25 squats
  • Sprint back to start point
    • Execute 25×4 down/up merkins
  • Sprint down to end of lot
    • Execute 25 calf raises
  • Sprint back to start point
    • Execute 25×4 SSHs

(12 count)

(PAX mosey to parking lot in front of AO)

(Battle buddy up)

[75s]

  • Battle buddy teams sprint to the 3 grass buffers alongside the parking lot
  • Grass Buffer 1: 25 x 4 merkins
  • Grass Buffer 2: 25 x 4 squats
  • Grass Buffer 3: 25 x 4 SSHs

(ALL PAX mosey back towards the playground – Q makes the challenge for 1 of the PAX to lead 25 x 4 SSHs at each point of contact going back)

(PAX steps up to the plate and a new HIM leads each new round of 25×4 SSHs

(Mosey back to AO)

MARY:

With “We Will Rock You” blaring – PAX execute American Hammers & Flutter Kicks to the beat

To end it, Q leads PAX in Motivators (2)

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

21 PAX – no FNGs

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

What flag will you raise this week?

MOLESKIN:

  • What flag will you raise this week? Spoiler Alert – things aren’t going to go your way 100% of the time this week. If they do, that is awesome as well. However, the question has to be asked: “What flag will you raise this week when that happens?” A flag of gratitude and glory and blessing? What flag are you unconsciously raising as well?
  • Think about what flags you raise this week – when the going is good and the going is rough. Does the flag you raise make others want to help raise it with you? Is the flag you raise life-giving? Take the high ground this week – and raise the flag of honor and duty and courage and prayer and humility – in the spheres of influence that God has uniquely placed you in.
  • This is just the huddle – the game is out there. Go take the high ground.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Q101/GrowSchool Convergence THIS Saturday at the Asylum (2/29/2020)

  • 7am – 8am: Q101 led 2 of the F3 Knoxville TRUEbadours team (Judge Judy & Absces)
  • 8:10am – 9am (rough estimate): GrowSchool will take the place of coffeteria post-workout at the Chick-fil-A off Kingston Pike close to Lakeshore park (catty-corner from Panera where coffeteria normally is). The TRUEbadour team will lead a GrowSchool – a short time of leadership sharing and wisdom. Think of GrowSchool as an extended BOM/Leadership training.
  • Any questions/more info –> reach out to Steam or Abscess.

Wet N’ Wild

THE SCENE: Steady Downpour
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

THA-THANG:
Elevator style – Complete Round 1 – Run to the area formerly known as the boat and return Complete Round 1 and 2 – Run to the boat and return. After you complete all 4 exercises in 1 round, then begin to take off one exercise each round.

  • 10 Body Builders
  • 20 Thrusters
  • 30 Lunge & Curl
  • 40 Plank Thrusters

MARY:

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
1 Cor 10:31 – So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Sowing Seeds

THE SCENE: Beautiful sunshine and cold, temp in 20’s.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

20 Side-Straddle Hops.  10 Burpees.  Ten Cherry Pickers.  8 Burpees.  Ten Windmills.  6 Burpees.  Seven Baby Arm Circles Forwards then Backwards.  4 Burpees.  Seven Wide Arm Circles Forwards then Backwards.  2 Burpees.  Little of this and that.
THA-THANG:
Mosey to trail way that is east of parking lot and which meanders towards the Lyons Bend Gate entrance of the park.  We will do 14’s on the trail until it reaches the roadway that goes to the Lyons Bend Gate.  With the 14’s we will bear crawl one light, then run for four lights, then repeat the pattern until we get to the roadway.

On grass by the roadway we will do 20 Hello Dollies in cadence.  Next we will run and do nickel, dime, quarters (run 1 light, do 5 of exercise, then 2 lights and do 10 of exercise, then 5 lights and do 25 of exercise) with the following exercises:

  • Dive Bombers
  • Big Boy Sit-Ups
  • Merkins

We will stop at the bottom of Mt. Everest.  Here, all men will do 10 Hand Release Merkins, then 40 Baby Crunches, then run up Everest and go all the way to the top of the Space Needle.  Men then run back down the stairs to the Space Needle and meet in parking lot.

Mosey to Area 51 at southeastern side of Admin Bldg.

We will be doing sevens on the starting from the bottom of driveway of area 51 and heading south a distance of about 20 yards.  We will start with 1 Squat Jump and go the 20 yards to do 6 Burpees, then continue with the “sevens” sequence.

Mosey onto roadway and head to parking area by apartments. We will do 20 American Hammers in Cadence

Mosey on roadway to parking lot with nice restrooms.  We will do 20 Flutter Kicks in Cadence.

Mosey to CMU Pile.  Each man grabs CMU.  We will do the following exercises.  Between the exercises we will sprint to the end of the parking lot and back.

  • 25 Overhead Presses
  • 25 Curls
  • 25 Rows
  • 20 Bell Ringers
  • 20 Sit Ups with CMU at chest
  • 20 Decline Merkins with feet on CMU

Mosey to bottom of Mini Cardiac.  We will go uphill to AO.  We will start with Bernie Sanders until we get to green sign, then sprint the rest of the way.

MARY:

10 Sideways Shoulder to Knee Bends on Right Side and 10 Shoulder to Knee Bends on Left Side (Four Count)

.COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Eight Men, No FNGs
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

2 Corinthians 9:10

Now He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness;

Zechariah 8:12

‘For there will be peace for the seed: the vine will yield its fruit, the land will yield its produce and the heavens will give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to inherit all these things.

As a very young boy I can remember planting seeds with my mother in a flower bed before the season of Spring came around.  I was very anxious to see when the flowers would grow.  My mother told me it would take some time but I would go out to the garden each day to look, only to see the same old flower bed with no growth. I forgot about it all after a while.  Then one day, the flowers actually sprouted.  I was filled with excitement and wonder.  Those flowers actually came from the tiny little seeds I had planted!!

We as humans can also plant seeds and watch righteousness spread through what we have planted.  A visit to a person in need, an opening the door for a person at a store, a letter to an old friend, listening intently to someone who has something on their heart to say, paying attention to youth as they approach adulthood, an anonymous gift to another, a compliment given a few times a week to others – these are ways we can plant seeds of righteousness.  And as 2 Corinthians 9:10 indicates, God will multiply and harvest the seeds we have planted.

Sometimes we may plant a seed without even knowing it.  For example, an airlines ticket agent planted a seed for me one time when I was flying from Dallas to Jackson, Mississippi back when I was working as a trial consultant.  I was not really looking forward to the trip and was feeling a little sorry for myself that morning.  I heard the ticket agent talking to a fellow ticket agent at the counter about the movie Patch Adams starring Robin Williams.  Patch Adams was a medical doctor who made it his mission to help others, whether he healed them medically or made them smile and even laugh in the face of their serious illnesses.  I left that ticket counter thinking, you know, I can try to be like that this very day.  I have a difficult job ahead of me but I can choose to be kind to those I meet, to carry a face of strength in grace, to plant a few good seeds here and there.  I felt good for the rest of the trip and was even more confident in my work.  In the way I was choosing to act, I felt like God was behind me.  And, who knows, I may have spread some good seeds along the way.

As HIM’s, we make the choice to do good.  And, we can to that daily.  Keep the idea of planting seeds in your mind today and this week.  And remember that God will harvest your seeds of righteousness.

 

MOLESKIN:
Prayers for Hand’s wife and her friends on the trip they are taking to Florida for the week. Prayers for Hands as he parents his sons on his own with the hope they don’t burn the house down!  Prayers for our brothers Messi and Pinto.