F3 Knoxville

Heavy Day at the Equalizer

AO: the-equalizer
Q: Ribbed
PAX: Tonka, Stripped, Bookman, Unibráu (Nick Robinson), Smithers, Cheney, Ribbed, Utah
FNGs: None
COUNT: 8
WARMUP: squats and toe touches

THE THANG: put on our bags and sandbags and walk to the flagpole
EMOM exercises 20 count with a little rucking around the track ~8th time through the EMOM we stop and take one lap with the weights
-Curls
-Side extensions standing
-merkens
-squats
-shoulder taps

MARY: mosey back to the AO for a little stretching

ANNOUNCEMENTS: the nude was talked about

COT: –Ephesians 3:1-6

Simmons part Deux

AO: brickyard
Q: Simmons
PAX: Biohazard (Jay Shepherd), fast-n-easy (Nate Votta), Gmail, Gordie
FNGs: None
COUNT: 5
WARMUP:SSH, cherry pickers, toy soldiers, tempo squats, LBAC, OHC

THE THANG: FLORA
Partner up with CMU
Merkins times 100 x 10 in partner holding a plank
200 big boys by 20 partner leg 6 inch off the ground
300 squats by 25 partner to hold the squat
400 CMU swings by 25 partner run
500 sides straddle hops by 50 partner overhead CMU hold

MARY: no time

ANNOUNCEMENTS:Hardship Hill coming up on Monday

COT: 1 Timothy 4:8
For physical training is of some value, but godliness has value for all things, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come.
Paul compares physical training for an athlete with spiritual training for godliness. He states that physical conditioning is of some importance, but is less important than a godly life. The reason godliness is more important than physical fitness is due to its eternal value.
We spend 45 minutes on physical training and only a couple minutes on the COT. We should be working on our spiritual training harder than or physical training.

Keep on running

AO: asylum-am
Q: Cosmo 2 , Hot Tub (John Muller)
PAX: Cosmo 2, Hot Tub (John Muller)
FNGs: None
COUNT: 2
WARMUP: none. We are old.

THE THANG: 5 miles.

MARY: little bit with Hands

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

COT: refer to the legend Hands

NOT a Murph

AO: asylum-pm
Q: Steam
PAX: Abacus, Lizzy, Tenderfoot, Glamper, Lilydipper, Crash Dummy, Drum Major, Pele (Jon Lindberg), Chad Harvey(Pink Panther), Brick, Showgun, Dr. Phil, 0
FNGs: 1 0
COUNT: 13
WARMUP
1. Baby Arm Circle (F) – 10×4
2. Baby Arm Circle (B) – 10×4
3. Rockette: 10×4
4. Grady Corn: 30×4
5. Hillbilly: 10×4

THE THANG
[ Cash In ]
1. 100 SSH (1-count)
2. 75 LBCs (1-count)
3. 50 Mountain Climbers (2-count)
4. 25 Frog Jumps

(Mosey down around to the right to the rock pile below the BSIA Overlook)

Mini-Murph
– 200 merkins
– 200 squats
– 200 bent over rows
– = simulating the 600 total reps in a real Murph
– Form is crucial – crucial
– Instead of running 1 mile on the front and back end of the reps, we’ll run a specific route after each round of reps
– Run an L route around the Pickett’s Charge field
– Rounds of reps
– All 3 Xs
– 25 reps each
– Total of 8 rounds = 600 reps
– Put rocks back
– 25 chest presses + 25 curls
– Mosey back to the flag for Mary

MARY
[ Cash Out ]
1. 100 SSH (1-count)
2. 75 LBCs (1-count)
3. 50 Mountain Climbers (2-count)
4. 25 Frog Jumps

ANNOUNCEMENTS
– Join Lilydipper’s team of champions for Hardship Hill on Monday!
– Drum Major has put together a killer 2nd F event for us this Friday — check out his Slack post above.
– I will be Q’ing a Memorial Weekend Murph at asylum-daybreak on Saturday — join us!
– F3 in the Nude — Swimmies (Nathan Chesney)

COT
I sat there and felt sorry for myself for one minute, then I had to keep going.
-Marcus Luttrell
– I find myself in this position more times than I’d like to admit – feeling sorry for yourself

Events from Operation Red Wing, June 28, 2005
Read the highlighted sections on pages 266-267 in Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell

Draw A Line In The Sand
“I rolled over, and I was paralyzed from the waist down. I started crawling, pulling, using my elbow to start pulling myself through the dirt and out of this ravine. Well I got up and the sun was going down, and I started to crawl. I was in bad shape. I didn’t know what to do. And I was laying in this tree, looking at the moon, and I was feeling sorry for myself. And I must have laid there….my brother was a Navy SEAL too, I got a twin brother, he’s a Navy SEAL. And I was thinking about him a lot and my teammates, and all the training I had been through. I laid there and I was like, c’mon, get up. Let’s go. That’s exactly what I said. What was I gonna do, lay down there and die? I wasn’t gonna do that, I definitely wasn’t gonna feel sorry for myself. And I kept thinking like, I’m still alive man, I mean, I’m alive. They fought and died by I’m still alive. The mission’s still on, let’s go. So, I reached out and I grabbed a rock and I reached out as far as I could and drew a line in the dirt in front of me. I’m gonna crawl to that until my feet hit it and if I’m still alive I’m gonna do it again. That’s what I did. I’d draw a line, until my feet hit it, I’d fall down a hill and draw another line. And I did that for 7 miles.”
– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGxOYWRAjXQ

Takeaways
– This is a great practice to adopt and utilize in life – drawing a line in front of you and working your way past it
– “The lines” we draw through life are sometimes physical, but far more often are they mental, emotional, relational, and spiritual.
– KMF = Keep Moving Forward