F3 Knoxville

Category: Asylum AM

Founding AO

Thankful

THE SCENE: Rainy, temp in 50’s.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
10 Pinto Twists, 20 Side-Straddle Hops, 10 Tempo Merkins, 10 Windmills, 10 Rockettes, Michael Phelps.
THA-THANG:
We met at Pavilion at Northern Ball Fields due to rain.  We stayed at Pavilion after the Warm-O-Rama to do Totem Pole with the following exercises, 30 seconds each exercise, five times each exercise:

  • Burpees
  • Squats
  • Picnic Table Pull-ups
  • Star Jumps
  • Big Boy Sit-ups

Mosey to CMU pile.  Each man gets CMU and puts it by curb on parking lot.  We will do the following exercises, then, after each exercise, bear crawl two parking spaces, lunge two parking spaces, and Bernie the remainder of the parking lot to the curb. Sprint back to other curb and do the next exercise, then repeat the trek across the parking lot.  Here are the exercises with the CMU’s:

  • 25 Overhead Presses
  • 25 Curls
  • 25 Rows
  • 25 Squats with CMU at chest.
  • 25 Incline Merkins with hands on CMU
  • 25 Decline Merkins with feet on CMU

Return CMU’s to pile.  We will then sprint back and forth across the parking lot.  We will go back and forth four times.

Mosey back to Pavilion.

MARY:
2 minute squat with back to wall.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Seven men, no FNG’s.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
I Chronicles 16:34 Oh give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever!

As Thanksgiving approaches I want to say how thankful I am to have F3 brothers like you in my life.  As men, we need the bond of other men in our lives.  I have a wonderful wife, wonderful family, wonderful co-workers.  But I need to walk among solid men, men who strive to be HIM’s, men who challenge me, men who push me, men whom I can talk to in confidence, men who I admire, men whom I feel a unique bond with.  F3 has added something to my life.  I feel it each week, feel it in my step, feel it when I get together with you guys, whether for workouts, Coffeeteria, or a beer.  And, my wife sees this change in me.  She loves it that I go to F3.  She loves it that I am in community with such good, spiritual men.

So, I give thanks for you guys.  And, I look forward to giving you Hell at Brolympics!!

MOLESKIN:
Prayers for Junk’s wife, Messi’s wife, Thunderstruck’s mother, Chaucer, and Butter’s son.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Brolympics this Saturday, 6:45 am at Asylum.

Lt. Dan & Iron Mike meet Squat for legwork

THE SCENE: Clear, about mid 50s, no wind, normal gloom
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH 20 IC

Cherry Pickers 15 IC

Windmills 15 IC

Candy Corns 31 IC

  • Merkins 5 IC
    THA-THANG:
  • Mosey down street to stop sign – 5 burpees OYO, the mosey to bottom of hill to 4 cones approx 20 yds apart, do exercise at each cone, first lap 5, second 10, third lap 15
      • Cone 1 Squats (Lt Dan to Cone 2 – lung, then squat, 2 lung, 2 squats, 3 lungs, 3 squats etc)
      • Cone 2 BBS – run to cone 3
      • Cone 3 American Hammer (4 ct)
      • Cone 4 Windmills (4 ct)
  • Mosey up hill to monument 5 Merkins OYO, then mosey to CMUs
  • Dora with partner
    • round 1 curls 100x, partner bernies to end of lot does 15 bbs, runs back
    • Round 2 presses, 100x, partner lunges to end of lot, does 15 jump squats, runs back
    • Round 3 Push ups on each side of CMU 70 x, run to end of lot, 15 iron mikes
  • MOsey to monument – 20 Flutter kicks (4 ct) IC
  • Mosey to AO
  • COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

    CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
    Everyone is faced with burdens, some are small, others quite significant. No one is immune.  at Juco last friday @fingerfood mentioned a situation where a patient was diagnosed with MS whereby the patient would certainly end up in a wheel chair. The patient was someone who was full of life replied (something like this), after the news of the diagnosis – “if God wants me in a wheelchair, then I will worship him from a wheelchair”. We all have some sort of wheelchair.  We do not choose these burdens. Rely on God and our communities to help carry the burdens.
    MOLESKIN:
    Pray for brother @Chauncer who was in a severe car crash on Nov 3 and for @crashlab’s work team who is facing some tough times related to various medical issues and pray for his co-worker nurse who was killed by a drunk driver
    ANNOUNCEMENTS:
    Broolympics this saturday

Burning off the Snickers

THE SCENE: A crisp 33
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH (x20); Cherry Picker (x5); BAC (x 10 each way).

THA-THANG:
Mosey to playground — 5 body blasters OYO (burpee > pull-up > knees to elbows).

Mosey to b-ball court for suicides:

  • Sprint suicides with 10 merkins at each line and a burpee every time you touch the baseline.
  • Run to playground for 5 body blasters
  • Bernie suicides/20 squats at each line and burpees at baseline
  • Run to playground for 5 body blasters
  • Bear crawl suicides/25 LBC at each line and burpees at baseline
  • Run to playground for 5 body blasters
  • Lunge suicides/10 CDD at each line and burpees at baseline
  • Run to playground for 5 body blasters
  • Crab walk suicides/25 BBS at each line with burpees at baseline
  • Run to playground for 5 body blasters

MARY:
no time for that.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
1 Corinthians 16:13-14 — “Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.  Let all that you do be done in love.”

Rise of Q-Bacca

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THE SCENE: 70 degrees.  On Halloween.  Really.  Oh, and rainy too!
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Storm Trooper Surrenders (SSH) x25 IC
Tie Fighters x15 IC each way
Imperial Walkers x15 IC
Failure to Launch x8
Womp Rat Kicks (Rockettes) x15 IC

THA-THANG:

Time to learn the ways of the Force! Begin with the Light side

Mosey to the bottom of the Sarlacc Pit (Baby Everest)

All excercises x11 (one for each film)
Start with Lunges, escape the pit, then mosey back along the path. Then lunges and walkers.

-Lunges (each leg)
-Imperial Walkers (4ct)
-Gorilla Humpers (4ct)
-Hand-release Merkins
-Taps (shoulder… 4ct)

Kessel Run (up and around the parking lot, down to the playground), completed in less than 12 parsecs.

Now it’s time to discover the power of the dark side…

Same as previous routine, except Wookie (bear) crawl from the playground entrance out to the street between rounds.

-Derkins
-American Hammers
-Ranger Merkins
-Knees to Chest (hanging from swingset)

Force is in perfect balance… Completed both routines just in time to return to AO

MARY:
None today!
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Five padawans today, including FNG Baby Boomer (Norm Vaughn)
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
The struggle between light and darkness is real. But it’s not between two “sides” of the same coin. Light and darkness are opposites. And the light is not just one side of some impersonal “Force”. The Light is a person.

John 1:3-9
All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. He came as a witness, to bear witness about the light, that all might believe through him. He was not the light, but came to bear witness about the light. The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world.

MOLESKIN:
So I got this Chewbacca onesie about a month ago. Thought it would be great for a Halloween Q. Surely by October it’ll be cold enough to wear this thing. So I committed. And then it was 70 degrees. Hope the smell washes out…
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Brolympics! Sign up! Canned food! Bring it!

Ai-CAN Legs and Bro-CAN-back Mountain

THE SCENE: 60ish and cloudy.  No rain yet!
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x20; Now grab 2 cans each from Charmin’s food drive box; Imperial Squat Walkers x 20; Tie fighters x 11 each way; line up on the baseline curb for some Rocky Balboas. All in cadence.
THA-THANG:

  • Mosey to the Cloud for some Aiken (or Ai-CAN) Legs:  20 squats, 20 box jumps, 20 Mary Katherines, 20 Rev. Lunges, rinse and repeat.  Stop midway for 10 burpees (10 burpees every time someone drops a can!)
  • Rest with Flutter kicks IC x 20.
  • Mosey to the Pavalon and partner up.  20 step ups on the tables while the partner wall sits with cans held out. Rotate out. Rinse and repeat.
  • Mosey to bottom of Baby Everest (or is it Little Cardiac??).  Vote to hold on to the cans for the remainder of the workout.
  • Bro-CAN Back Mountain:  Doras with your partner.  One partner Bernies up the hill (back pedal) and then runs down while the other is doing SSH or Moroccan Night Clubs (250 total for each exercise).
  • Back to the Cloud for Can Ups:  Grab a bench, plank position with cans in front of you.  Place one can up on bench from plank, then merkin, then other can up on bench, then merkin, then one can back down on ground, merkin, and other can back down on ground and merkin.  That’s 1.  Do 10 of those.
  • Mosey back to AO

MARY:
Code Brown led in some Canned Thors, then some Canned Dollies
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Food drive message: “Another of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, spoke up, ‘Here is a boy with five small barley loaves and two small fish, but how far will they go among so many?”  John 6:8-10.  We never know what small thing will lead to big miracles.  Have faith and great things can happen from even the smallest gesture.

MOLESKIN:
Prayers for Pacman and his wife as she goes to Vanderbilt for evaluation of eyesight issues.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:

  1. Last week for the food drive!  2) Brolympics on Nov. 9.  Sign up now!!