F3 Knoxville

Category: Asylum AM

Founding AO

11 Babies in 24 Hours

THE SCENE: Humid. Sweaty.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER Charmin is a lawyer, so I’m sure we’re covered
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH, Old Man Windmills, Peter Parker Merkins, BACs, OHCs, reverse until arms fall off
THA-THANG:

First of all, it was Charmin, Hands, and YHC, and between the three of us, we had delivered a combined 11 babies in the preceding 24 hours. So we probably deserve some kind of F3 award for that.

But even heroes need to work out.  Thursday morning and a small crew means it’s time to mosey, so we did. Down to the pier, where we did some abs (although with Charmin, you can’t shred what’s already shredded) and ran some laps. 

Took the fragrant route down to the sewage plant, and up to the lower parking lot where Knoxville’s Finest apparently decided to reposition some CMUs underneath the neglect-o-matic. We thought we might as well use them, so Curls, Presses, Squats, Hands’ Signature Shrug (™), Rows, and more curls while we watched a beautiful sunrise. Plus some more running.

Last mosey up to the AO and just enough time for a fast trip up mini cardiac with 2 burpees to top it off.

MARY:
Pro tip, if you time things right, you can avoid Mary.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
An ace obstetrician and two regular guys
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Insert the WORD here.
MOLESKIN:
From Brother Lawrence, a cook who knew a thing or two about work, worship, and a life well lived:

We can do little things for God; I turn the cake that is frying on the pan for love of Him, and that done, if there is nothing else to call me, I prostrate myself in worship before Him, who has given me grace to work; afterwards I rise happier than a king. It is enough for me to pick up but a straw from the ground for the love of God.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

30 Seconds, Rinse and Repeat

THE SCENE: Sunny and warm, high 80s, thankfully not too humid
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER 

Yep.
WARM-O-RAMA:

– 5 decreasing Motivators (in cadence), 10 Rockettes, 10 Cherry Pickers, 10 Imperial Squat Walkers, Little of this/that

THA-THANG:

  • Mosey to Stop Sign south of Admin building. Do 30 seconds of the following 4 exercises.  Rinse and Repeat.
  1. Plank Jacks
  2. Pickle Pounders
  3. Mountain Climbers
  4. Shoulder Taps
  • INDIAN RUN to new bathrooms. Do 30 seconds of the following 4 exercises.  Rinse and Repeat.
  1. Big Boy Situps
  2. American Hammers
  3. Little Baby Crunches
  4. Flutter kicks
  • Mosey to CMU pile. Get in a circle, every other man has CMU.  Do 30 seconds of the following exercises, then pass the CMU.  If not doing the exercise, then do what’s in parentheses.
  1. Overhead Press (LBCs) (2 minutes)
  2. Curls (Imperial Walksers) (2 minutes)
  3. Rows (merkins) (2 minutes)
  4. Squats (Side Straddle hops) (2 minutes)
  • Mosey to top of Baby Cardiac. Do 3 Burpees and sprint to the top.  Then do 30 seconds of the following 4 exercises.
  1. Froggie Jumps
  2. Lunges
  3. Bobby Hurleys
  4. Smurf Jacks
  • Mosey to road intersection up to Admin building at Stop Sign northwest of building. Do 30 seconds of the following 4 exercises.
  1. Diamond Merkins
  2. Burpees
  3. Carolina Dry Docks
  4. Ranger Merkins (ran out of time for these)
  • Mosey To AO (Bernie Sanders to tree)

MARY:
No time!

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

See Tags, plus J-Lo who isn’t in the system??

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

ARTICLE: Why Highly Efficient Leaders Fail (Harvard Business Review)

  • One of the key attributes of leaders is the ability to execute and get things done. Whether it’s at work, at church, at home, or in your community.
  • Sometimes leaders who have super high productivity have sacrificed their people-based focus.
  • So the irony is that sometimes High Efficiency makes people less effective leaders overall.
    • They tend to push others around them to the point of burnout.
    • They place unrealistic demands on others, leading to stress and frustration among the team.
    • Their lack of personal relationships can be an obstacle to promotions, as well as costing them in their personal lives.
  • Great leaders balance Task Focus (getting r done!) with People Focus (inspiring, empowering others, etc.) skills.
  • Not just about being efficient, it’s about being effective. Sometimes you have to go slow to go fast.  Take the time to make those personal connections
    • 6 out of 10 of the top differentiators of effective leaders relate to people skills (e.g., listening, developing others, and empowering team members).
    • Highly task-focused leaders can display controlling or perfectionistic behaviors that can alienate others. They also fear letting go of control to others because it might reflect poorly on them if results suffer.

MOLESKIN:
Best wishes to J-Lo during his deployment to Florida.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
None

11’S Are Heaven

THE SCENE: Clear and nice, 55 degrees at circle up
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Warm up with SSH x30 on 4ct, 4ct Windmill x10, Baby Arm Circles (thumbs up and down) x10, Cherry pickers x8, Tempo Merkin x10

 

THA-THANG:
Stayed in AO parking lot to start. 8 CMU’s on each end. Did 11’s starting with Curls and CMU Swings, running back and forth

Second set of 11’s in AO lot of Overhead press and squat

Mosey to playground

11’s there consist of Box jumps and 4ct LBC’s

Mosey to Little Hill

11’s there consist of DD’s Bernie every other trip up and Start jumps at top

MARY:
Back to AO finish with CMU extended flutters and Recover
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
8 HIMs IN Attendance at Asylum
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
God made us for work. Our vocation is a way to serve others and show others who Christ is.

Leave it all

THE SCENE: Humid, 72 degrees
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Side Straddle Hops, baby arm circles (forward and backward), Mountian climbers

double Indian run to the “animal trail:

THA-THANG:
We started at a light post at the bottom of the “loop Parking lot.” At every other pole there was an exercise written in chalk. These exercises were done down and back.

  • Bear Crawl
  • Bunny Hop
  • Crab Walk
  • Frog Jumps
  • Lunges
  • Duck Walk

We moseyed to the Pavillion for Burpee Sprint Ladders

1 burpee – sprint down and back, 2 burpees – sprint down and back. etc. for 3 rounds. 45 sec., 1 min., 1:30.

Circled up in the pavilion for 7 x 3. We did 2 rounds of 6 exercises. The exercises were grouped together in pairs. seven reps of each exercise were completed back to back to back, as many reps as you could complete in 45 seconds with 15 seconds for rest.

  • Star Jumps, Jump Squats
  • Mountain Climber (4 count ), High Knees (4 count)
  • Jump Lunges, Side Kick outs

Roxanne by the Police – push up at Roxanne, half burpee at “put on the red light”

Surrenders: 4, 30-second rounds of 2 excercises. Move 1: Pax started on all fours. Hands directly under sholders. Knees at a 90-degree angle 2 inches off the ground. this was held for 30 seconds. Move 2: the Same position except hands was directly out from shoulders pushing against a wall. This was held for 30 seconds as well.

MARY:
Boat Canoe, Cross Crawl

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
17
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
As created creatures of the LORD, we are dependent. Dependent on life, breath, food, abilities, and talents. Let us know be deceived into thinking that the very things we are dependent on the Lord for creating independence in us.

Rusty Math

THE SCENE: Couldn’t be prettier
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER Choirboy is a lawyer, so I’m going to say we’re covered
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH, Windmills, Crawdad’s arrival (not an exercise, but certainly a ritual), BACs+OHCs, reverse and repeat
THA-THANG:
We took the Moseytown train up to the old Rockpile (RIP), where midnight elves had created Blockhenge. We tore it down and beat our arms and shoulders to death. We crawled like bears, we ran like I guess Bernie Sanders would if he could, we lifted CMUs in every way we could.

Moseyed over to Grinch’s Hill, which honestly is way worse than Hardship Hill. We were raising money for Operation Enduring Oatmeal, which is a charity that tries to get Jinxy’s order right at Panera. Squat and Merkin 11s. Proton swept us to the Cloud.

Rusty is a math genius and just for us, he invented a new way to concieve numbers and counting.

Box Baby Boxes at the cloud, followed by a visit from Jack freaking Webb, whose superpower is changing the density of air. He does not make it lighter I’m afraid.

We took Skunk Alley to Cardiac and by then it was time to take it to the house.

MARY:
There’s no  Marys in Operation Enduring Oatmeal
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
6 dudes with busy Saturdays…Proton, Crawdad, Hawk, Rusty, Choirboy, and YHC
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Excerpt from “This is Water” by David Foster Wallace, in honor of graduation season
MOLESKIN:
Grateful to be out there with these men.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Apparently some other F3 guys are running around somewhere today. Best of luck to you!