F3 Knoxville

Category: Big Ball

Borrowed Q from Mouthwash

THE SCENE: 35* – good incentive to keep moving
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Windmills
Tempo squats
Patty cake merkins
OH Claps
BAC forward and reverse
Standing shoulder taps
THA-THANG:
Short mosey over to the base of the Big Ball, which is where my first theft of Mouthwash’s recent Q comes into play.  First routine is 5 body blasters (Burpee -> Pull up -> Knees to elbows) and try to keep good form (keep from swinging about).
Then we stepped over to the stairs and go 1:10 with jump squats at the bottom, run to the middle landing and do WWII sit ups.  Start with one rep of each exercise, then two, all the way up to 10 reps of each.
Finish off with another round of body blasters.

Recover and mosey back to the lawn at World’s Fair Park.  This is the other part of his Q I stole.  Set up cones down the sidewalk for various suicide drills with exercises thrown in.  Every time you were at the start point, you did two burpees.  This remained constant regardless of the round or which cone you were on.  Variations as follows:

  • Sprint suicide; 15 merkins at each cone
  • Lunge suicide; 15 squats at each cone
  • Bear crawl suicide; 15 LBCs at each cone

Quick mosey back over to the base of the Big Ball.  Told everyone to do 5 body blasters and meet back out front to head back to the start point.  As soon as everyone was in front, I sent them back for 5 more body blasters, then we jogged it back home.

MARY:
V-Ups
Flutter kicks
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Fantastic Four: Amazon, Passport, Swanson, Abort
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
I’ve lived in Knoxville about 3 years now, but being from Maryville I grew up only 30-40 minutes away.  If you’d told me five years ago I’d be walking around downtown Knoxville at 4:30AM multiple times a week, I’d probably think I made a huge mistake and wound up without a place to live.  When I first started F3 about 2.5 years ago, I only posted Saturdays because I “didn’t have time” to post during the weekday mornings.  If I’m not lazy, now I’m trying to post four weekdays plus Saturdays.It’s funny how things that once seemed either highly unlikely or maybe even unfathomable slowly become not just possible but completely routine.  While the two instances I just mentioned are positive, the unfortunate thing is that it happens for negative things as well.  Neglecting a relationship with a parent/child/spouse or friend usually isn’t an acute issue.  Neither is half-assing things at your job.  You allow yourself wiggle room to become complacent in these things, and five years fly by and you are doing things you’d never have imagined yourself doing.  Only this time when you realize the routine you are not proud, but ashamed.  Look at your day, both what you’re doing and how you treat people, and ask yourself how that compares to five years ago.  And take the steps today to make sure five years from now you hold your head high.  Leave no doubt.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:Can drive finishing up and the Brolympics this weekend.

Three man birthday bash

THE SCENE: Low 50s, a little cool start but absolutely perfect once moving
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Mountain climbers
WWII situps
Burps
Tempo squats
Patty-cake merkins
OH Claps
THA-THANG:
Very short mosey just across the street to the sidewalk outlining the war veteran’s memorial for four corners.  Start at corner one, perform the exercise, run the square outside the veterans memorial and back to the start.  Do first exercise then second corner exercise, finish the square.  Continue adding each corner on the lap until doing all four exercises.  Exercises were:

  • Merkins x20 (four total rounds)
  • Eight count bodybuilders x10 (three total rounds)
  • Lunges x20 (10 each leg, two total rounds)
  • Freddy Mercury x20 (4 count ex, one total round)

Again, very short mosey to the rock pile behind L&N STEM academy.  Grab a rock and knock out the list below, doing 23 reps of each exercise for Ariel’s 23rd birthday.  After each exercise, you either run to the flag pole at the memorial and back or stay in place and knock out 15 merkins.  Can change as often as you want.  Exercise list, with rocks:

  • Curls
  • OH Press
  • Squats
  • Front raises
  • Curls
  • Lunges
  • Sit ups
  • Curls

Third very short mosey back to the fountains where we started.  Again 23 reps of each exercise utilizing the four benches on the outside perimeter of the fountains.  Bear crawl around the circle between each bench. Exercises:

  • Dips
  • Step ups
  • Incline merkins
  • Pistol squats

Rinse and repeat doing an easier/harder modification.  Cut the reps from 23 of each exercise down to 12 of each, but crab walk (feet forward is the correct form) between the benches instead of bear crawl.

MARY:
Leg lifts
American hammers
Ariel’s choice, which he got to lead: V-Ups
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
3 man birthday bash: Ariel, G6, Abort
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
I’ve lived in Knoxville about 3 years now, but being from Maryville I grew up only 30-40 minutes away.  If you’d told me five years ago I’d be walking around downtown Knoxville at 4:30AM multiple times a week, I’d probably think I made a huge mistake and wound up without a place to live.  When I first started F3 about 2.5 years ago, I only posted Saturdays because I “didn’t have time” to post during the weekday mornings.  If I’m not lazy, now I’m trying to post four weekdays plus Saturdays.

It’s funny how things that once seemed either highly unlikely or maybe even unfathomable slowly become not just possible but completely routine.  While the two instances I just mentioned are positive, the unfortunate thing is that it happens for negative things as well.  Neglecting a relationship with a parent/child/spouse or friend usually isn’t an acute issue.  Neither is half-assing things at your job.  You allow yourself wiggle room to become complacent in these things, and five years fly by and you are doing things you’d never have imagined yourself doing.  Only this time when you realize the routine you are not proud, but ashamed.  Look at your day, both what you’re doing and how you treat people, and ask yourself how that compares to five years ago.  And take the steps today to make sure five years from now you hold your head high.  Leave no doubt.

CMU Monday

THE SCENE: just about perfect
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER: not a professional
WARM-O-RAMA:
Tempo Merkins – 10
Tempo squats – 10
TN walkers – 10
MARS – 10/ea
SSH – 25

THA-THANG:

Mosey to the big ball corner of the field.

CMU shuffle carry from light pole to light pole to the corner of worlds fair and clinch

20 ea/ CMU
Step ups
Squats
KB swings
Squat press
Curls

Each PAX carries CMU to the base of the small grass hills
20 CMU plank pull through
Bear crawl CMU drag up the grass hill

R&R

CMU Suicide across clinch bridge with Exercise at ea light pole – 15ea
1 – kB swing
2- squat press
3 – curl/ tri ext
4 – incline merkin
5 – decline merkin

MARY:
we worked on our wash board abs

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
look toward the “new” thing, dont get stuck in the past, learn from it and move on

Persevere through frustrations

THE SCENE: A cool 40 something degrees.  Large crowd present due to the Race for the Cure.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Warmed up with a little SSH’s, Cherry Pickers, Over Head Claps, and Tempo Squats
THA-THANG:

Mosey to Sunsphere steps:

  • Bear crawl all the way up stopping at mid point for 10 Merkins and 10 more Merkins at the top.
  • Mosey to Amplitheater: DORA: partner 1 runs up and around seats then switch with other partner.  As a pair, complete 100 Big Boy sit-ups, 100 lunges, 100 Merkins, and 100 smurf jacks.
  • Mosey to field:   Long side, Bernie sanders – Short side, bear crawl.  Mid point on long side do 20 Carolina dry docks and mid point on short side to 20 mt. climbers.  Do at least one round then repeat with 20 squats and 20 flutter kicks.
  • Mosey back to AO for ring of fire: Merkins, American Hammers, squats

MARY:

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
With my son working on his vehicle trying to keep it going as long as possible it gets frustrating when you think you’ve fixed one problem then you notice another problem.  He’s persevering and learning.  In life if we aren’t seeing progress, answered prayers, etc.  Don’t give up, keep pushing, working hard doing the right things.  Eventually we will see progress and we learn a lot on the journey.
MOLESKIN:
Prayed for the guys at the Goliath at the Gorge.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:

High Five

THE SCENE: Just about perfect. cool and dry
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
I am not a professional
WARM-O-RAMA:
25 ssh
10 Tennessee Walkers (mountain climbers but foot come up beside your hand)
Manly Arm Rotations – 15 each way
15 tempo squats

THA-THANG:

Five rounds a of five reps of each exercise:
– Merkins
– Incline
– Decline
– Catalina Wine mixers step up (normal wine mixer, but add done next to a bench so that you start in plank, drop to elbows, back to plank, up on to bench, back down to plank, with a push up every time you are in plank)
– Dry docks

Five rounds a of five reps of each exercise:
– Squats
– Step ups (each leg)
– Box jumps
– Lunges (each leg)
– Pistol squat (each leg)

10mins of EMOM (every minute on the minute):
5 Merkins
5 squats
5 burpees

MARY:
20 BBS
20 Flutters

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

“But what I’ve learned is that you don’t have to be perfect to do something extraordinary. Ordinary people are heroic, and an ordinary life lived well is, indeed, extraordinary.” – Chris Edmonds from No Surrender

MOLESKIN:
We had 4 visitors downrange!
Johnny Cakes from Jacksonville, FL
Outhouse from Gastonia, NC
Tebow from Atlanta, GA
Shoota from Franklin, TN