F3 Knoxville

The UN-Matched Game

THE SCENE: Cold. Very cold. But not too cold. But cold enough to be cold. But not really that cold. Kind of like cold when your cold and think it could be more cold but don’t want it to be colder. That kind of cold.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Mosey to the flag, 20 jumping jacks, 10 tempo push ups, 10 tempo squats.

THA-THANG:

Mosey to playground for three rounds of 5 pull ups, 5 burpees and 5 squats. Then…
Route 66 with shoulder tap merkins increasing at each cone by one. (11 cones, total of 66). Mosey back to the flag.
Time for the memory game!
12 Tiles  with two of each exercise for matching. Put the tiles face down and try and pick a match. If you get a match you do the exercise and toss the cards to the side. If you don’t get a match, you do both exercises and flip them back over.  After each turn, run down to the playground and do 5 pull ups and back.(we mixed it up a little and ran a lap instead on a couple of them)

MARY:
20 Flutters
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
8 pax
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
“And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.”
‭‭Hebrews‬ ‭10:24-25‬ ‭

talked about our need for the church. Not the actual building, although important to be there, but being with other believers and leaning on each other, learning with each other and loving each other.
MOLESKIN:
Welcome back to the gloom Benchwarmer!  Your too close not to come more often.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
None.

Unleash the heavy weights

THE SCENE: low 20’s but we warmed up quickly

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER


WARM-O-RAMA:

Mosey to the tennis court and back

THA-THANG:

Worked through the following stations using interval timer.  Max reps at each station.  90 seconds per station with 30 second break to rotate.  The weights were piled up in the middle of the circle so each man could grab what he needed to go as heavy as possible depending on the exercise he was doing.

  • Turkish getups
  • Curls
  • Goblet Squats
  • Clean & Press
  • Calf Raise / Shoulder Shrug (alternate)
  • Jump Rope
  • Kettlebell Swings

MARY:
N/A

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Cavalier, Junk, Tweet-E, Tapout, Bartman

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Romans 1:16 – For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is Gods power for salvation to everyone who believes, first to the Jew, and also for the Greek.    We talked about the importance of living in this frame of mind.

MOLESKIN:
Today we broke the big guns in terms of heavy weight:  80+lb gas cans, 72lb kettlebells, 53lb kettlebells, 45lb kettlebells.  Heavy weight is good for you!

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Filling the void

THE SCENE: Partly cloudy skies, temp about 31 degrees.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Quick run around parking lot, 20 Side Straddle Hops, 10 Burpees, 10 Cherry Pickers, 10 Windmills, Little of This and That, Michael Phelps.
THA-THANG:

Mosey to parking lot across the street that is by the entrance way to the Northern Ball Fields.  We will going around the parking lot four times, doing one per lap, the exercises listed in each corner.  In moving around the parking lot we will go from one corner to the next as directed by the sign.

  • Corner 1:  20 Hello Dollies, 20 Flutter Kicks, 20 Bicycle Kicks, 20 Box Cutters (four count each exercise).  Sprint to Corner 2.
  • Corner 2:  20 Squat Jumps, 20 Star Jumps, 20 Iron Mikes (both legs = 1), 20 Mountain Climbers (both legs = 1).  Lunge to Corner 3.
  • Corner 3:  With CMUs – 25 Overhead Presses, 25 Curls, 25 Rows, 25 Squats.  Bernie Sanders to Corner 4.
  • Corner 4:  20 Merkins, 20 Bottle Openers (both hands = 1), 20 Carolina Dry Docks, 20 Shoulder Taps (both shoulders = 1).  Hop to Corner 1.

Mosey to Flag Pole at Entrance Way to Northern Ball Fields.  We will run to following areas and do the following exercises:

  • Flag Pole:  20 American Hammers (4 count)
  • Benches at playground:  20 Bench Jumps
  • Dug out at ball field:  20 Seconds of Pull ups
  • Pavilion:  20 picnic table pull ups.
  • Rinse and repeat.

Mosey past batting cages to beginning of Cardiac.  We will go up Cardiac doing the following exercises at each of the following areas:

  • Curve 1:  10 Hand Release Merkins
  • Curve 2: 20 Dive Bombers
  • Curve 3:  20 Decline Merkins
  • Benches:  20 Bench Dips

Mosey back to AO.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

Twelve men, no FNGs.

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
God created us in His image.  He also created us for relationship with Him.  If we are without God, there is a void within us.  We as humans try to fill that void with other things besides God:  riches, power, success, or finding that perfect person who can take care of our needs.  But those things don’t work.  Only God can fill the void.

I used a song by John Mellancamp in a former message I gave and I want to use it again.  It describes the narrator’s attempt to fill the “void in his heart” with things that just don’t work.  He claims, “I did everything like they said so that I could find happiness.”  The problem is that he “is running from eternity” and trying to fill the void with worldly versus Godly things.  Toward the end of the song, the narrator, frustrated and questioning why the void in his heart remains, exclaims “Hey, Lord, well you made me like I am.”  In other words, if you made me like I am why does this void remain?  The narrator is correct about the Lord making him like he is.  The Lord made each of us with a “void in our heart”.  And, He can heal the “restlessness” that the narrator suffers with.  We will all be unsatisfied until we fill the void with God.  We must look to God, fill our lives with what He gives us, to fill the void.  Listen to God.  What does God want for you?  What is He telling you.  What direction does He want you to go in with your life?  Focus on Him, read about Him, take His message in – there you will find the true stuff that fills the void in your heart.

John Cougar Mellencamp Lyrics
“Void In My Heart”
There’s a void in my heart
I can’t seem to fill.
Been a parent, had three children
And a big house on the hill.
Hundred dollar in my pocket
And it didn’t buy a thing.
Now there’s a void in my heart
And a hole in my dreams.
Well I poured miles of concrete
And strung wire for telephones,
Dug ditches when I was a young boy
When I first left my parents’ home.
Sang my songs for millions of people,
Sang good and bad news,
Now there’s a void in my heart
And a fire at my fuse.
Well I did everything just like they said
So I could find happiness.
Went to school and got a college degree
And at my job I did my best.
As I sit here alone tonight
I see a billion just like me
With a void in their hearts and running from eternity.
There’s a void in my heart I can’t seem to fill.
I do charity work when I believe in the cause
But in my soul it bothers me still.
Hey, Lord, well you made me like I am.
Can You heal this restlessness?
Will there be a void in my heart
When they carry me out to rest?

God, my prayer to you is that each of us will see the voids in our heart and turn to you to fill them.  If we seek you, we will find the strength, comfort and love that can fill the void.

MOLESKIN:
Prayers for our brother, Pinto, who finished a recent bout of radiation treatment for cancer and will be also getting stem cell treatment along with chemotherapy.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
We will be launching in Morristown on April 4.  We have received enough donations for the pull up bars and will be putting them up in the future.

Finger-saver

THE SCENE: 22 degrees… Not quite as windy as yesterday. Occasional snowflakes spotted. Not oversensitive millennials in the park (too early in the day for that). Actual flakes of snow from the sky.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
40-something SSH IC (until the last tardy PAX joined the circle…)
10x Burpees OYO to get the blood pumping
15x TN Rocking Chair IC
10x Hindurkins IC
16x Cossack Squats IC
20x LBAC IC each way
20x Overhead Claps

THA-THANG:
Mosey toward Everest.
At the low stone retaining wall beside the upper parking lot, hop up and back down at each wall segment.

20 BBS at the intersection

Climb up and back down twice at the chest-high retaining wall

Arrive at the bottom of Everest.
Climb a mountain of reps first:
10x 4-count HR Merkins IC
20x Squat Jumps IC
30x CDD OYO
40x LBCs
50x SSH IC

Run up Everest, with a little Bernie thrown in for good measure.

Descend rep mountain:
50x 4-ct Mountain Climbers
40x Squats IC
30x Merkins OYO
20x Lunges each leg OYO
10x 8-ct Body Builders OYO

Head back down Everest. 20 BBS at the bottom

Mosey back to the AO, stopping once for 20 more BBS
MARY:
40x Flutter Kicks IC
20x LBCs
20x American Hammer
15x Side Crunch (each side)

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
9 PAX today… No FNGs
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Read from My Utmost for His Highest: https://utmost.org/called-by-god/

MOLESKIN:
Normally a CMUesday would have been on the docket… But low 20s is a bit tough on the fingers to be gripping frozen concrete. Hopefully the more standard fare was sufficient for today…
ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Fun with coal

THE SCENE: Partly Cloudy, 22°F, Feels like 14°F, Humidity 68%, Wind 7mph from NNE
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

No FNGs

WARM-O-RAMA:

  • SSH x20 IC
  • Burpees OYO x10
  • SSH x20 IC
  • Merkins OYO x10
  • SSH x10 IC
  • Burpees OYO x5
  • SSH x10 IC
  • Merkins OYO x5

THA-THANG:

Mosey to the front of the parking lot where the greenway crosses the road.

At every light and power pole do x5 merkins. Alternate travel mode between stops; bear crawls and lunges. Go till you reach the start of the greenway.

Indian run from start of greenway back through the upper lot loop and to Herbie’s truck to get the ‘Christmas Coal’.

Mosey to a well-lit area of the AO.

2 ‘lumps of christmas coal’ – foam 12 sided dice with exercises, roll both dice do both exercises. Completed this pattern twice around the PAX.

MARY:

  • 4 kinds of flutter kicks, 7x IC each type:
    • Upright arms out
    • Mostly inclined, arms out
    • Regular
    • Regular with BBS on 4 count
  • 20x Hello Dolly’s
  • 20x Box Cutters
  • 5x Captian Thors

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
No FNGs
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Revisit the mission statement, core values, and credo of F3.

F3 is a men’s workout group, with the mission to plant, grow and serve small workout groups for the invigoration of male community leadership. Our workouts:

  • Are free of charge
  • Are open to all men
  • Are held outdoors, rain or shine, heat or cold
  • Are led by men who participate in the workout in a rotating fashion, with no training or certification necessary
  • End with a Circle of Trust

The F3 Credo is: Leave no man behind, and leave no man where you find him.

Focus was on the fact that the workouts are supposed to invigorate us to leadership. The modifier on leadership is community. How are we affecting our community? In the case of the HIMs of Brickyard, this includes the Powell community where we live and workout, our churches, our jobs, our friends and our families. We all have influence in all these areas whether we realize it or not. Someone is watching and noticing our actions. So what are you doing to lead your community?

MOLESKIN:
The topic of leadership is one that I read many books on, listen to podcasts, and discuss with others. It is also an area that I struggle with continuously. I am an introvert at heart and am non-confrontational. I struggle with need to step up and be a strong leader and my desire to not be out front. I am comfortable leading from the six, but I also know that I am not always effective there. I’m thankful for all the things that F3 has taught me and continues to teach me through every workout that I Q and everyone that I participate in. I know that my F3 brothers will continue to push me to be the leader I need to be in my community, my church and my family.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Monthly challenge is still going on – 100 burpees for time. Post your results at http://bit.ly/f3knox2020.
F3 is coming to Morristown. Reach out to anyone you know in the area. April 4th at Frank Lorino Park.