F3 Knoxville

Category: Asylum AM

Founding AO

Lucy Taylor Davis

AO: asylum-am
Q: Rainbow
PAX: Cat Gut (Mike Davis), Cinco (Scott McGuire), P3, Bunny, Pac-man, Farley, Cosmo 2
FNGs: None
COUNT: 8
In honor of Cat Gut (Mike Davis) new granddaughter this workout was named the Lucy Taylor Davis. Welcome to the world Lucy. To make you proud we started with:
25 SSh on the 4 count
Tie Fighters
Some Windmills and Cherry pickers
Tempo merkins led to Rocky B’s a few times on the curb then on the mosey…

Mosey to the Big O for a partner workout. AMRAP of an exercise while partner ran the O. Switch out. Exercises were step ups, incline merkins, dips, and flutters. When everyone finished mosey to Circus Maximus…
At circus Maximus 4 cones were set up all along the circle. 10 exercises at each cone. 3 rounds. Exercises were merkins, squats, dry docks, 4ct LBCs. Mosey to bottom of baby Everest for 10 jump squats at bottom and 10 reverse lunges at top. Back to AO

2 minutes for stretches.

Discussed in BOM how important starting our day in prayer and fellowship was. How F3 sets us up perfectly to do that every morning. Cited Bonhoeffer

Full Circle

AO: asylum-am
Q: Gibbler
PAX: Hot Tub (John Muller), Matlock (Bill Maddox), Bunny, Tropicana, Cinco (Scott McGuire), Gibbler, Love’s, P3, Rainbow, TRC/Crab legs, Waffle House (Brady Greene)
FNGs: None
COUNT: 11
WARMUP: merkins and squats and ssh

THE THANG: mosey up baby Everest and do alternating light poles with 5 merkins and squats to bottom of Everest to pickle ball courts with 4 corners of merkins picklepounders dry docks and froggy squats for Hands. Back to the AO to avoid a Q fail

MARY: nope nada zip

ANNOUNCEMENTS: haw ridge 3/28

COT: psalm 100

[the-pulpit] 2025 Metric Workout #1 – January

AO: the-pulpit
Q: Sawdust
PAX: Betty, Smoked Pickle, Leland Robbins (Geiger), Snitch (Cory Beilharz )
FNGs: None
COUNT: 5
WARMUP:
– SSH
– Tempo Merkins
– Stretching
– Cherry Pickers
– Windmills
– Tie-Fighters
– X-Wings

THE THANG:
– The following list of exercises are performed in sets of 25 reps. After completing a set of 25 reps, put down your CMU, run 25 yards, do 2 burpees, return to your CMU, and continue. Here are the exercises:
– 150 curls
– 125 heavy squats
– 100 OHP
– 75 CMU swings
– 50 Thrusters
– 25 Blockees

MARY:
– BBQ Squats
– Big Boy Sit-Ups
– Flutter Kicks
– Hello Dollys
– LBCs

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
– Haw Ridge Date Drop… Team Pulpit being coordinated by Betty
– How many cumulative reps can you complete?
– Record it here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdUx68cH7hmb8-HiU08l1EIWwum_yfflpmrV2iDAtElFA9CXQ/viewform

COT: John 15:1-5 What is He pruning you for today? It is a stretch goal, just like this metric.

[virtuous-leadership-school] F4 LDP

AO: virtuous-leadership-school
Q: Mermaid
PAX: Pebbles(Kenaniah Rush), Mermaid, Spinner, McFly, Otis, Borg, Skeletor
FNGs: None
COUNT: 7
The is morning we took Virtuous Leadership on the road. We started at 0600 and kept the cadence of our Sunday morning meeting. We met at the Victory lodge at Wafloy Mountain Retreat. This was during the Forg3 retreat where we studied Virtuous Leadership in the context of q.1 get right, q.2 live right, q.3 lead right, and q.4 leave right.

We did our study of LDP (the leadership development process) as a lead in to studying lead right with Borg . The LDP focuses on another acronym SAOF which stands for:

Schooling – essentially what we are doing with Virtuous Leadership
Apprenticeship- once you have been educated, you work alongside someone who is a leader
Opportunity- you get to practice being a leader
Failure- you have to fail or “court minor disaster” in order to improve leadership. Essentially learn through a series of mistakes.

We were a little slow and sleep deprived to get started. But as per the usual, this was another highly impactful meeting that even with a location change and new faces, we still managed to enlightening conversation that sharped iron.

As guys woke up, our numbers grew and we had lots of participation towards the end. We discuss the SAOF approach and how it applied to being a leader at work and especially with our kids.

Two quotes from Dr Brad Greene who I listened to in a leadership presentation this week.

“We can waste time, but time is never wasted”

When we are empowering a new leader, it takes time and feels like a waste because we can do it faster and easier. But that investment is not wasted time in the long run when you have developed a new leader.

“Fail cheaply”

When I asked Dr Greene about the best way to train a young leader, like my kids, as they don’t teach leadership directly in college. His reply was that kids, or new leaders need to be provided opportunities to fail cheaply. A brand new driver doesn’t need and expensive sports car or luxury vehicle. When the inevitable car accident, bad parking job, or fender bender occurs, that is the opposite of failing cheaply.

Today was an amazing morning, and I am a better man for sharing the insights we had this morning.