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The Gift of Today

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THE SCENE: Beautiful, sunny, low 60s
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER Check.
WARM-O-RAMA:

-20 Side Straddle Hops (4-ct), in cadence

– 10 Imperial Squat Walkers (4-ct), in cadence

-Bolt 45s

– 10 Cherry Pickers (4-ct), in cadence

– 10 Windmills (4-ct), in cadence

– Little of This and then That

THA-THANG:

Mosey to Area 51.

DORA!  PARTNER UP! One partner runs to fire hydrant near the Area 51 Loading Dock (this was modified to the big tree half way down… the fire hydrant was a bridge too far…) and does 5 squat jumps and runs back while the other starts the exercises.  Each pair shall complete the following:

  • 100 Big Boy sit-ups
  • 100 Lunges (doing both legs counts as 1)
  • 100 Merkins
  • 100 Smurf Jacks

Mosey to Grassy Field southwest of Admin Building.

RECTANGLE CONE WORKOUT:

  • Run around cones in rectangle.  On the long side, do Bernie Sanders, on the short side do Bear Crawls.  Stop at midpoints and corners for exercises:
    • At midpoints (long side only), do 20 Carolina Dry Docks
    • At each corner, do 20 mountain climbers (2-ct)

Rinse and repeat, but replace the exercises with the following:

  • At midpoints (long side), do 20 Bobby Hurleys
  • At each corner, do 20 Plank Jacks

Mosey to Intersection of Circle Drive.

  • 25 American Hammers, 20 Flutter Kicks, 20 E2Ks left side/right side.

Mosey to AO.

MARY:
Ring of Fire, Captain Thors, and we ended with 31 Candy Corn

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
We did the 31 Candy Corn in honor of Quikrete, aka Grady Pitstick, who joined our PM PAX last year and passed away last November.  He would have been 31 today.  Tomorrow is not guaranteed to anyone. Take advantage of today.  Always take the opportunity to reach out to someone who might need a little support, a little encouragement, or just a smile and a friendly greeting. It may mean more than you think.

MOLESKIN:
Prayers to Sparkler and his family on this day.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Goliath at the Gorge this week-end. Good luck, brothers!

Life is Short — Give Yourself Away While Your Here

THE SCENE: Crisp, 43 degrees.  Chilly but not for long…
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • 25 SSH
  • 10 Cherry Pickers
  • 10 Baby Arm Circles/ 10 Bakkards
  • 10 Seal Claps
  • 30 Apollo – “Oh, No’s”
  • 30 Snow Boarders
  • 20 Merkins

THA-THANG:
Parking Lot:  High Knees, Karaoke, Skipping, Bear Crawls, Lunges, Mountain Climber

Battle Buddy up, Grab a CMU and Slingshot to Everest, 15 Squats and catch your buddy to switch.

Everest:  Blockees with overhead press.  Partner runs halfway up Everest, does 10 Big Boys and then switch.  3 rounds

Slingshot back to the AO doing 15 dips while alternating.

MARY:

  • 15 Snow Angels
  • 15 Superman
  • 15 Toe Touches
    COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

Tooth Fairy, Snitch, Rousey, Viagra, Crab-Legs, Hands, Hot Tub, Waffle House, Flashback,

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Read a book over the Summer call the “Book Thief”.  It is written with the narrator as death.  Death takes the souls of everyone who has died.  Death is not angry, mean, or have any malice.  It is just his job to take souls once someone dies.  Every once in a while there is a soul that is so much lighter because that person has given most of themselves away in this life so there is not much to pick up and carry away. None of us gets out of the life alive.  Take the time to give yourself away in this life so you will be the lightest of souls taken to heaven.

“His soul sat up. It met me. Those kinds of souls always do – the best ones. The ones who rise up and say “I know who you are and I am ready. Not that I want to go, of course, but I will come.” Those souls are always light because more of them have been put out. More of them have already found their way to other places.”

Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

MOLESKIN:
Prayers for Viagra as he works with his group to buy toys for kids in low income areas and reach even more kids this year for Christmas.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Brolympics II on Nov 9th.

Food Drive this Month

CMUesday→CMUs-day

THE SCENE: Clear and crisp… Perfect amount of chill to keep comfortable during the workout.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x30 IC
Travoltas x10 IC each side
Tie Fighters x10 IC each way
Cherry Pickers x7 IC
Hindurkins x10 IC
Monkey Humpers x20 IC

THA-THANG:
Such a lovely pile of CMUs just begging to be used. We’ll use as many as we can! 2 CMUs apiece! Hence the slight modification of today’s spelling…

Farmer carry to the base of baby Everest.
Battle Buddy up for some Dora-style work.
Running partner goes to the top for 2 burpees while the other does reps.
Uphill styles:
-Farmer Carry
-Bernie the Farmer
-Overhead Carry
-Overhead Bernie

Exercises:

  • 50 Popup Merkins (alternate merkins with hands on 2 blocks/hands on the ground
  • 100 Squat Thrust
  • 100 OHP (audible… What was I thinking? Right after squat thrusts?)
  • 150 Lawn Mowers
  • 100 CMU BBS
  • 100 Fwd Raise
  • 200 Curls

There were more, but I think that’s all we got through…

Mosey on back and put the toys away.
MARY:
Threw down a few flutter kicks while the CMUs were being stowed.

One CMU made it through the workout but didn’t survive restocking.
Broke into 4 pieces x5 burpees per piece makes 20 Burpees OYO!

20 4-ct crunches to cash out

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
20 CMUs got some love from 10 HIMs this morning… Plus Pfeiffer and Gibbler showed up to put in the miles.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
1 Cor. 3:6 – I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase.
All good farmers know this one. When you feel that soreness in your shoulders later today, remember that and look for places God may want you to do some planting or watering and let Him make it grow!
MOLESKIN:
Snitch needs to check the GroupMe or the calendar or something before he posts or he’s gonna keep ending up at Waxjob Qs…
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
2nd Annual Brolympics is less than a month away! And December is the quarterly 3rd F. Location is Lenoir City at 2 Rivers Church.

Friday is for 11s (on the 11th)

THE SCENE: Cool – felt good. Character-building good.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

Welcome to F3: Fitness – Fellowship – Faith. My name is Steam and I’ll be your Q this morning. Couple of things: Not a professional, you’re here on your own volition, you made a choice to be here. You know your body better than anyone, if you need to modify anything we do feel free to do it but push yourselves and push those around you. It’s Big Orange Friday, RED Friday, and the 11th of October. More to come on that…


WARM-O-RAMA:

SSH (Side-Straddle Hop) 11×4 in cadence

Rockette: 11×4 in cadence

Baby Arm Circles: 11×4 in cadence (Forward & Back)

Squats: 11×4 in cadence

Merkins (cmon, did people really expect a Friday Q without merkins?): 11×4 in cadence

THA-THANG:
Theme of the day is 11s (11th of October – ha ha ha…..)

[ Mosey to Playground by AO parking lot ]

  • 11s (Shoulda seen this coming from a mile away)
    • 1 Incline Merkin (benches)
    • Run to pavilion
    • Execute 10 box jumps
      • CORRECT FORM – Q demonstrates correct box jump form. Quality over quick. Slow is smooth and smooth is fast.
        • Jump up (feet planted on box (bench, etc)
        • Extend through the heels and legs, standing up straight and bringing hips up and forward
        • Jump down
    • R&R (Rinse and Repeat)
    • PAX gets spread out
    • Q identifies this and huddles PAX together at Pavilion
    • All-together –> PAX completes 11s –> runs back to the playground – executes 10 incline merkins –> sprints back to the pavilion and executes 1 good box jump in correct form

[ 10 count from PAX – walk and talk ]

[ Mosey to hill next to AO parking lot ]

  • Battle buddy up
  • “What the Hill”
    • Q explains what the hell “What the Hill” is
    • All PAX in bear crawl position
    • Move up the hill in bear crawl position
    • Counts off 11 paces of bear crawl
      • Executes 5 merkins
    • Q starts the 11 paces count-off, other PAX step up and counts the 11 + 5 merks
    • Reach the top of the hill
    • Q reminds PAX that its the 11th of October. Just because it’s not September 11th anymore, doesn’t mean that we should forget the sacrifices of 9/11 until next year. Ties in the hill element of pushing through the pain, climbing up/down that hill, without 60+ lbs of gear.
    • PAX heads back down hill in same movement
    • 1/2 way down Q gives the RECOVER and invites PAX to take 10
    • switches position from facing downhill to uphill –> crawl bear (Backwards)
    • Same movement: 11 paces + 5 merkins
    • Reaches the end of the hill

[ 10 count from PAX – walk and talk ]

[ PAX mosey to playground next to AO ]

  • Battle buddy it up
  • 11s (lol surprise)
    • 1 Man-Maker
    • 10 buddy situps
    • As a team
    • 75% of the way through –> Q gives a buy-out option: 25 squat holds with Seal Claps or finish out
    • Seal Claps win
    • PAX executes 25 seal claps while holding the squat position

[ 10 count mosey and count ]

[ PAX mosey to pavilion ]

  • New battle buddy it up
  • Circle around the flag post by the pavilion
  • All PAX execute 5 merkins THEN
  • 1 battle buddy at a time –> sprint to AO lot and starts flutter kicks
  • PAX recovers at AO lot and finishes out flutters together (25)

 

  • Q leads PAX in closing stretches (recover muscle groups)
  • Same way we came in this morning – we go out: PAX executes 11 loud and proud SSHs to end well

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
10 PAX – no FNGs
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

It’s the beginning of the end of the workweek (for most). I find Fridays are a good time to remember. Remember the past week – what worked, what didn’t, where you saw God show up.

  • It’s Big Orange Friday. REGARDLESS of how tomorrow turns out (Vols fans know exactly what I’m talking about) TODAY is Big Orange Friday and I will celebrate and live well in it.
  • RED Friday: Remember. Everyone Deployed. We are able to do this because people are over there doing that. Remember the brothers we have overseas serving a country who can so quickly forget about them. We won’t forget.
  •  I’ve been on a Lord of the Rings kick lately, for about the past 20 years. And was watching the Fellowship of the Ring yesterday and something really got me.
  • “Needless were none of the deeds of Gandalf in life. We do not yet know his full purpose.”
    •  What a way to describe someone. Needless were none of the deeds of______.” I want to be like that. Life full of purpose and the things I say and do not be needless. Also I think there is a beauty in not knowing our full purpose yet. The God we serve knows and it’s a beautiful thing when he gives us glimpses of what he has created us for in this life, but we don’t know our full purpose yet. That’s part of the adventure of walking with Him.
  • Way to end the week strong men – as we go to our families and loved ones this weekend – Keep the Faith & Fight the Good Fight.

MOLESKIN:

Keep the Faith & Fight the Good Fight.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

2nd F Convergence with F3 Northeastern TN/Goliath at the Gorge next weekend at Doe River Gorge! Check the F3 Knoxville GroupMe calendar for info or contact Abscess, Tank, Steam for more info on how to get signed up. It’s sure to be a blast.

Am I my brothers keeper? Yes

THE SCENE: Perfect
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
20x SSH
THA-THANG:

  • Mosey to Picketts Charge – run to each cone and do 3 Burpees x 8
  • Back to AO for RAW(Ratchet Approved Workout) 10 Stations were set up with coupons. AMRAPs while HIM carries Log up Baby Everest each him to complete two rounds
  • Mosey to tall hill next to the Dragon. Do 7s with BBS AND DIVEBOMBERS
  • Mosey back to AO

MARY: circle up on Six , do 3 American Hammers with jagged pills(protein powder containers filled with sand/water) pass to next him for three rounds, Lay on back w feet six inches and press jagged pills x5 4ct pass to next him for two rounds, tempo BBS X 10

 

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Lesson learned from Cain slew Able Bible verse. We are our brother’s keeper. We all have responsibilities to watch out and help one another.
MOLESKIN:
Special prayer for Code Browns wife while running a 100 mi race. Pray for Iceman and his wedding Saturday
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
collect food for Second Harvest