F3 Knoxville

Category: Big Ball

TGIM – Run Your Race.

THE SCENE: 40s – FEELS 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;
    • Despite popular belief I’m not a professional
    • You’re here on your own volition
    • You know your body better than anyone – if you need to modify anything we do today – do it. But push yourselves and those around you!

WARM-O-RAMA:

  • SSH: 11×4 IC
  • Half-Burpee: 11×4 IC
  • Imperial Walker: 11×4 IC
  • Windmill: 11×4 IC
  • Iron Mikes: 11×4 IC

THA-THANG:

  1. The Quarter Pounder
    1. Battle buddy it up
    2. BB1: Big Boy sit-ups (feet under rail)
    3. BB2: Sprint to stairs going up to bridge = 25 merkins (1-count)
    4. R&R 2x for each battle buddy

[ Mosey to Bridge overlooking Cumberland Avenue/The Hill ]

  1. UT Wins, You Win – Papa Johns
    1. Line up in merkin plank facing UT
    2. Man in the back leads PAX in 2 merkins (up/down = 1)
    3. Sprints to the first position
    4. R&R until we’ve made it across

[ Mosey to bottom of parking lot across from WFP ]

  1. Seabiscuit
    1. 2 curves in the lot
    2. Each curve = 25 V-Ups
    3. 2 laps

[ Mosey to hill leading up to WFP ]

  1. American Indian Run
    1. TAKE THE HILL

[ Back at AO ]

    • All my benches
      • Correct-form box jumps (Up/Down = 1
    • Ring of Fire
      • Each HIM leads PAX in 14 reps of an exercise
    • ATMs
      • Cash out like a boss

 

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

5 PAX – No FNGs

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

TGIM – Thank God It’s Monday. “Thanks for being out here this morning men, and pushing hard. This has nothing to do with you, nothing to do with me. Some people didn’t wake up with breath in their lungs this morning, you did. Thank God it’s Monday and the creator let us get physical in his creation.”

Usually what we hear about Mondays is negative and along the lines of “ugh I hate Mondays” or “here we go again.”

YES. HERE WE GO AGAIN – LET’S ROCK!

Monday is the best day of the week. A chance to do a little better than you did last week. A fresh start. Embrace Mondays as a fist-bump or slap on the back from our Divine Creator.

Think of Monday as the start of a race, in a far larger race that has been going on for years (25 for me). Hebrews 12 gives us the race, the gut-check, and the reassurance that this is a race that cannot be shaken.

12:1-2 (Jesus, Founder & Perfecter of our Faith) = are the introduction. This is the action item, this is the intro to the race, and a reminder of the race official and who HE is, regardless of who or when we are.

12:3-17 (Do Not Grow Weary) = For me this is the gut-check/slap motivational youtube video you watch at 3pm to psych yourself up for the rest of the workday. Do. Not. Grow. Weary. The race we run as High Impact Men is long. And it is hard. And it is full of curves and cracks in the road. And it is life-giving. How do you refuel when you get tired/weary in a race/OCR/GORUCK event? How do you refuel in the race you run in life?

12:18-29 (A Kingdom That Cannot Be Shaken) = As sons of the most-high King – we run a race that is set for the kingdom, a kingdom that cannot be shaken. This is the reassurance and light that the race we run is worthy of fighting hard for and pressing further in for.

Keep the Faith & Fight the Good Fight!

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Check out the Q calendar on the F3 website – we need men to step up and lead! Grab a battle buddy and lead together!

Goliath at the Gorge/2nd F with F3 Northeastern TN this Friday-Saturday in Johnson City. It ain’t too late – contact Abscess, Tank, Steam to get more info and how to be a part of what is for sure going to be a character building weekend with PAX from around our state.

P.S. = GO VOLS. WE WANT BAMA.

Remember

THE SCENE: Cloudy, 60-ish
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x 20 (4 count)

Baby Arm Circles x 15 (4 count) forward and backward

Shoulder Taps x 15 (4 count)

Cherry Pickers x 10 (4 count)

Little of this, little of that
THA-THANG:

  • Mosey to amphitheater for 11’s – Box jumps onto stage, inverted rows at top of seats
  • Ring of Fire on stage – American hammers adding a rep each revolution from 1 to 5
  • Mosey to lower parking lot at edge of park for Doras – 150 merkins and 150 big boys total per duo
  • Mosey back to amphitheater for Ring of Fire – Same as earlier but with squats instead of hammers
  • 11’s again with choice of exercises – Any ab exercise on stage, any chest exercise at top of seats
  • Easy Mosey back to fountains – 10 more merkins + 10 flutterkicks (led and picked by Duggar and Midas)

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
7 Total
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Spoke about the use of the term “remember” in Genesis. As a verb the Hebrew word “Zakar” means “to remember”, but as a noun it means “male”. We were made to bear the image of God and to remember Him, but the Old Testament gives a detailed record of Israel’s failure to do so. So just as we remember to set alarms and set out clothes, we should be men who remember God and who we were designed to be
MOLESKIN:
Pray for Drive Thru and his wife as they are trying to conceive and have just begun therapy, Midas for exam grades, and myself and my wife as we try to buy our first home.

Crawl bear up the ladder

THE SCENE: Low 60s again, just having perfect gloom weather
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
3-point squats
BAC Forward
OH Claps
BAC Reverse
SSH
THA-THANG:
Grab keys and mosey out of the pavilion, out of the park and across the street to the parking lot of Fountain City United Methodist Church.  Routine is going down Jacob’s ladder.  Start in the lower parking lot, where you always do 5 BBSUs.  Run up the parking lot until you reach the split, and crawl bear up the storm drain to the upper parking lot.  Once you reach the upper lot, you have 10 eight count bodybuilders, then run out to the sidewalk and back down the hill to the lower lot.
The five BBSUs at the bottom remains the same for every iteration, but you decrease your reps of eight counts at the top.  Rounds 10-6 are eight counts, rounds 5-1 switch to diamond merkins at the top (this felt generous).

Everyone finished mostly at the same time, after which I thought we needed some lower body work.  Has been a while since I’d thrown in leg blasters, so we knocked out a round of that.  All exercises done together in cadence with no rest in between:

  • 20 squats
  • 20 lunges
  • 10 jump squats

I forgot how fun it is to run after doing those.  The plan was to reverse the ladder and do 10-6 with diamond merkins and 5-1 with eight counts, but time was a little short and I wanted to hit the escalator.  So we moseyed around to the parking lot adjacent to the duck pond.  I stole Swanson’s idea for the escalator without running from Tuesday.  Exercises as follows:

  • Imperial walkers (left right one)
  • Hello Dolly (4 count)
  • Alternating shoulder taps (left right one)
  • Crab cakes (left right one)
  • Dips on curb
  • Hand release merkins

Start at 1 rep of each, work down the list and return to the top.  Increase reps each time on the way to 10.  I think we finished 8 before time ran out.

MARY:
Crunches with feet elevated 6″
Flutter kicks
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
5 Strong: Filter, Duggar, Manilow, Toucan, Abort
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Cap’n had sent a text with the following passage from The Daily Stoic: “When the standards have been set, things are tested and weighed.  And the work of philosophy is just this, to examine and uphold the standards, but the work of a truly good person is in using the standards when they know them.” – Epictetus
To me, one of the standards I need to both set and make sure that I am upholding is making my actions and decisions come from a place of love.  That doesn’t mean to always be nice, because as we’ve learned from the Q source you have to be able to tell people the difficult truths in life.  However, sugarcoating a problem or ignoring it also is not upholding the standard.  I need to make sure my actions are always based in love and to leave no doubt that that is the case.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Can drive for Second Harvest and Brolympics on November 9.

create a new story

THE SCENE: Low 60s, great weather to get a sweat going
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Static stretches – left, right, middle
High Knees
Monkey Humpers
Merkin variations – diamond, ranger, wide
SSH
THA-THANG:
Barely any mosey, just to the side of the fountains.  Run the sidewalk down to the stage, 10 burpees, come back.  Climb down the ladder, decreasing burpees by 1 rep each iteration.  Burpees are done 10-6, then switch to merkins for 5-1.
Everyone does flutter kicks waiting for the six to finish up.  Recover and 10 count.  I played a dirty trick, picked the key ruck up and acted like we were moving on.  Then sat it back down and told everyone we were finishing the set, this time in reverse.  Same routine, but 10-6 is merkins and 5-1 is burpees running to the stage and back.  If you haven’t noticed, the number of the day was 10.  Today is 10/10 and my Braves gave up a soul crushing 10 runs in the first inning of the NLDS last night.

Recover and mosey over to the big ball.  Chalk on the ground for exercises:

  • Pull ups
  • Hanging leg lifts
  • Burps
  • Reverse crunches

Following the number of the day, 10 reps of each OYO and plank up out front.  Pull ups followed by hanging leg lifts is a fun 1-2 gut punch.  So I let the guys pick one exercise to cut in half.  They chose leg lifts, so I added those reps to reverse crunches as we went back through the routine.

Finishing with legs on the stairs at the Big Ball.  10 lunges, 10 squats, 10 calf raises followed by a sprint up to the top of the stairs and back down.  Repeato x2.

Mosey back to start point.

MARY:
Ran short on time, just had time for:
Crunches with feet elevated 6″ like starting position for flutters
Flutter kicks
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
6 Strong: G6, Passport, Reverb, Wings, Acapella, Abort
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
I have a buddy who has a tendency to tell the same stories over and over.  And while there is nothing wrong with high school stories (or college, or whenever), especially if those stories have lessons to be learned. I’m not saying there is anything wrong with reliving accomplishments, funny memories or anything like that.  However, don’t just tell those old stories.  Always be looking for new stories to create, and live with the mentality that what you do today is what you’ll remember in 10 years, make sure its a good memory that you want to tell.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Can drive for Second Harvest going on, Brolympics II on November 9th.

Tailgating downtown

THE SCENE: Upper 60s, felt great
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Tempo squat
  • Imperial walker
  • 3 point merkin
  • OH claps
  • SSH

THA-THANG:

Mosey out to amphitheater, stop at the top for two rounds of each:
  • 15 rows in the rails
  • 15 sit ups with feet on chair backs
Continue mosey to rock church, 5 rounds of:
  • 10 curls
  • 10 rock squats
  • 10 alternating hand merkins
  • 10 front lifts
  • 10 OH lunges
At the conclusion of each round, dealers choice between 10 burpees or sprint to the church and back twice.
Mosey over to the stairs of Mordor for AMRAP of the following
  1. At bottom: 10 decline merkins, 5 pistol squats each leg
  2. Sprint to the top
  3. At top: 10 big boys, 10 mountain climbers
Mosey back to start point

MARY:
No time for Mary this morning
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
4 strong: Drive-Thru, Cornhole, Bag Man, Abort
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Short and simple this morning, live your life to leave no doubt. No doubt about what is important to you, how you treat people, and what your actions say about you. Leave no doubt!