F3 Knoxville

Category: Asylum PM

Ping!

AO: asylum-pm
Q: Lilydipper
PAX: Crawdad (Robbi Dickens), Mermaid, Pele (Jon Lindberg), High Heels, Steam, lebowski, Choir Boy, Veggie (Rylen Huddy), Jumbo(Carter Dickens), Borg, Toretto, Mr Jinxy
FNGs: None
COUNT: 13
WARMUP: 20 Side Straddle Hops, 10 Tempo Merkins, 10 Burpees, 10 Tempo Squats, Curly Stompers, 7 Twistees, 5 Pterodactyls Forward, 5 Pterodactyls Backward

THE THANG: Mosey to the Pavilion. We will do 11s starting with 10 Picnic Table Pull-Ups and 1 Bench Up.
Mosey to the Playground. We will do 7s starting with 6 Bench Jumps and 1 Decline Merkin.
Mosey to the parking lot with the nice restrooms. We will stop to do 15 American Hammers.
Mosey to driveway that goes toward soccer fields. We will do 15 Flutter Kicks.
Mosey to the newer parking lot by the soccer fields. We will run in a Candy Cane route 1 ½ way around the parking lot, stopping at each crosswalk to do an exercise. Whoever finishes the exercises at the end of the Candy Cane first sweeps everyone back to the start. Here are the exercises we will do with each run:
20 Hello Dollies
20 Bobby Hurleys
10 Dive Bombers
10 Shoulder Taps (both shoulders = 1)
Mosey on the sidewalk that is east of the Outdoor Chapel toward the Caribbean Parking Lot. We will stop halfway to do 15 Freddie Mercurys, then mosey on to the Caribbean.
We will do another Candy Cane run, stopping at three cones to do exercises. The brother who completes the exercises at the third cone first should sweep everyone back. With each exercise we will Bernie Sanders to the first cone, Skip to the second cone, and High Knees to the third cone.
Here are the exercises we will do with each round:
20 Diamond Merkins
20 Wide Merkins
20 Carolina Dry Docks
Mosey toward AO parking lot by going past pavilion. We will stop near gate of parking lot to pick up CMU size boulder. We will do 15 Overhead Presses.
Mosey to the AO.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Two OTB sites kick off next week. The 1st is a ruck-based AO on Mondays at West Hills Park from 5:30 am to 6:30 am. The 2nd is a PM workout from 6:00 pm to 6:45 pm at Bluegrass Elementary. The KARM Dragon Boat Festival is June 15.

COT: The spirit of God is indwelling within us. It is as if God’s pure spirit drifts into our pores. Wrap you mind around that concept, of the spirit of God being within you. When I think upon it, it certainly leads me to desire to be a High Impact Man. Sometimes I feel so far away from the Spirit of God. I feel sluggish, like one feels when they wake up first thing in the morning. I might drink a fine cup of coffee and when I do, I can feel my brain cells start waking up. It’s like ping, ooh that felt good, that braincell just came alive, ping, things are getting a little clearer, ping, yeah, I am starting to get the picture. If I picture the Spirit of God within me, it’s like that good coffee waking me up. Ping, yeah, I can help my fellow man, ping, I’m going to put a smile on my face today, ping, I’m gonna tell my wife how much I love her, ping, I’m going to help that older man get up the curb, ping, I’m going to get involved in a service project, ping, I’m going to make someone’s day brighter today.
My message: wrap your mind around the Spirit of God working within you. Try to picture it and see what it does for you. Picture God’s holiness, purity and strength within you. You might just feel God sinking into your pores and waking up your brain cells. And when that happens, it’s a mighty good thing.

Lots of Blasters

AO: asylum-pm
Q: Pele (Jon Lindberg)
PAX: MD Hammer, Mayberry, Tenderfoot, Mr Jinxy, Jeevan Kypa (Scrubs), High Heels (Henry Ritchie), Rooney (Carl Whipple), Lilydipper, Brick, Kung Blue, Title IX (Christian Prescott), Switchhitter (Tony), Pusher, Steam, Pele (Jon Lindberg), Lizzy, Colonel (Alex Wallace), Dr. Phil
FNGs: None
COUNT: 18
WARMUP: SSH, Tempo Squats, Grady Corns, Windmills, Steve Earles, leg stretches

THE THANG:
MOSEY to parking lot below Coliseum.
Pyramid laps! Partner up with like speed. Run opposite directions, every time you meet (top and bottom), do the following exercises in REPS of 10
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LAP 1 CDDs

LAP 2 CDDs, LBCs
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LAP 3 CDDs, LBCs, Mtn Climbers (2-ct)

LAP 4 CDDs, LBCs, Mtn Climbers (2-ct), Bobby Hurleys

LAP 5 LBCs, Mtn Climbers (2-ct), Bobby Hurleys

LAP 6 Mtn Climbers (2-ct), Bobby Hurley s
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LAP 7 Bobby Hurleys
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MOSEY to a Hill on Pickett’s charge or on side of Bermuda Triangle
Goal is to do each group of exercises, going up to top of hill after each group is completed, for a total of 5 times up the hill. Can be done in any order. Exercise groups are:

AB BLASTER:
20x: LBCs, BBSs, American Hammers (4-ct), Bicycle Kicks (4-ct)
ARM BLASTER:
20x: Merkins, Carolina Dry Docks, Bottle Taps (4-ct), Diamond Merkins
LEG BLASTER:
20x: Bobby Hurleys, Iron Mikes (2-ct), Froggie Jumps, Squats.
CARDIO BLASTER:
20x: SSH (2-ct), High Knees (2-ct), Butt Kickers (2-ct), Mountain Climbers (2-ct), Smurf Jacks

MARY:
Hello Dollies, stretching with Pele
ANNOUNCEMENTS: New AOs launching at West Hills (Monday morning, heavy ruck) and Bluegrass Elementary (Wednesday evenings at 6 pm)

COT:Albert Schweitzer, was a German philosopher that lived in the late 1800s through early 1900s. He is attributed with this quotation: “The Purpose of Human Life is to SERVE, and to show the compassion and the Will to Help Others.” We discussed this quote and how it applies to F3, and ended with another quote: “In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.”. I am thankful that the men of F3 have been that spark for me.

NOT a Murph

AO: asylum-pm
Q: Steam
PAX: Abacus, Lizzy, Tenderfoot, Glamper, Lilydipper, Crash Dummy, Drum Major, Pele (Jon Lindberg), Chad Harvey(Pink Panther), Brick, Showgun, Dr. Phil, 0
FNGs: 1 0
COUNT: 13
WARMUP
1. Baby Arm Circle (F) – 10×4
2. Baby Arm Circle (B) – 10×4
3. Rockette: 10×4
4. Grady Corn: 30×4
5. Hillbilly: 10×4

THE THANG
[ Cash In ]
1. 100 SSH (1-count)
2. 75 LBCs (1-count)
3. 50 Mountain Climbers (2-count)
4. 25 Frog Jumps

(Mosey down around to the right to the rock pile below the BSIA Overlook)

Mini-Murph
– 200 merkins
– 200 squats
– 200 bent over rows
– = simulating the 600 total reps in a real Murph
– Form is crucial – crucial
– Instead of running 1 mile on the front and back end of the reps, we’ll run a specific route after each round of reps
– Run an L route around the Pickett’s Charge field
– Rounds of reps
– All 3 Xs
– 25 reps each
– Total of 8 rounds = 600 reps
– Put rocks back
– 25 chest presses + 25 curls
– Mosey back to the flag for Mary

MARY
[ Cash Out ]
1. 100 SSH (1-count)
2. 75 LBCs (1-count)
3. 50 Mountain Climbers (2-count)
4. 25 Frog Jumps

ANNOUNCEMENTS
– Join Lilydipper’s team of champions for Hardship Hill on Monday!
– Drum Major has put together a killer 2nd F event for us this Friday — check out his Slack post above.
– I will be Q’ing a Memorial Weekend Murph at asylum-daybreak on Saturday — join us!
– F3 in the Nude — Swimmies (Nathan Chesney)

COT
I sat there and felt sorry for myself for one minute, then I had to keep going.
-Marcus Luttrell
– I find myself in this position more times than I’d like to admit – feeling sorry for yourself

Events from Operation Red Wing, June 28, 2005
Read the highlighted sections on pages 266-267 in Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell

Draw A Line In The Sand
“I rolled over, and I was paralyzed from the waist down. I started crawling, pulling, using my elbow to start pulling myself through the dirt and out of this ravine. Well I got up and the sun was going down, and I started to crawl. I was in bad shape. I didn’t know what to do. And I was laying in this tree, looking at the moon, and I was feeling sorry for myself. And I must have laid there….my brother was a Navy SEAL too, I got a twin brother, he’s a Navy SEAL. And I was thinking about him a lot and my teammates, and all the training I had been through. I laid there and I was like, c’mon, get up. Let’s go. That’s exactly what I said. What was I gonna do, lay down there and die? I wasn’t gonna do that, I definitely wasn’t gonna feel sorry for myself. And I kept thinking like, I’m still alive man, I mean, I’m alive. They fought and died by I’m still alive. The mission’s still on, let’s go. So, I reached out and I grabbed a rock and I reached out as far as I could and drew a line in the dirt in front of me. I’m gonna crawl to that until my feet hit it and if I’m still alive I’m gonna do it again. That’s what I did. I’d draw a line, until my feet hit it, I’d fall down a hill and draw another line. And I did that for 7 miles.”
– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGxOYWRAjXQ

Takeaways
– This is a great practice to adopt and utilize in life – drawing a line in front of you and working your way past it
– “The lines” we draw through life are sometimes physical, but far more often are they mental, emotional, relational, and spiritual.
– KMF = Keep Moving Forward

Charging up Lizzys Hill

AO: asylum-pm
Q: Lizzy
PAX: Steam, Pele (Jon Lindberg), Drum Major, Lilydipper, Brick, Switchhitter (Tony), Abacus, Crash Dummy, MD Hammer, Sparkler, CRISPR, Kung Blue, Dr Phil
FNGs: None
COUNT: 14
Warm up with 10 burpees, then Michael Phelps, then mosey to Everest then Indian Run to the top. Them mosey to Pickets Charge. Then do 5 rounds alternating burpees, flying squirrels and manmakers. Method of transportation up the hill was bear crawls first three rounds. Switch to backwards mosey, the final round we did bear crawls then run to ao.

Announcements hardship hill

Then cot. I told my story how it took me three times time learn how not to be stuck in a bad cycle in life

Learn to Bloom Where You Grow

AO: asylum-pm
Q: Pele (Jon Lindberg)
PAX: Steam, Swimmies (Nathan Chesney), Lilydipper, Brick, Crash Dummy, Pusher, Pele (Jon Lindberg), High Heels (Henry Ritchie), Rooney(Carl Whipple), Guppy, Shogun
FNGs: None
COUNT: 11
WARMUP:-MOTIVATORS (5 count descending), TENNESSEE ROCKING CHAIRS (4 ct, IC), 10 Windmills (4-ct IC)
-10 BAC forward and backward (4-ct IC)

THE THANG: Four cones spaced about 25 feet apart, go around all four cones to complete a round, then run to the stop sign at the base of the Circle Drive and back and complete rounds 2 and 3. Each cone has a pair exercises for each of the three rounds that must be completed twice to move to the next cone. The timing worked out surprisingly well…

MARY: A few minutes for some LBCs, Smurf Jacks, and stretching.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Hardship hill coming up on Memorial Day, obstacle unloading this Saturday! Also, Thunderhead mountain hike this Saturday, flag planting at the Veteran’s Cemetery on the following Saturday following the morning workout. (9 am), Pluto organizing.

COT: