F3 Knoxville

Category: Big Ball

Joker’s Wild at the Big Ball

THE SCENE: Temperature around 68 with a slight drizzle.

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER


WARM-O-RAMA:
A few side straddle hops, couple of cherry pickers, BIG arm circles, overhead claps, and front side claps.

THA-THANG:
We took a little mosey to the amphitheater to get out of the wet.  We discovered a pack of playing cards and a dry erase board set out on the stage.  Dry Erase board had this written on it…

  • Hearts – Burpees
  • Clubs – Merkins
  • Diamond – Odd – Dips / Even – Derkins
  • Spades – Squats
  • Aces – Sprint the stairs 5 times
  • Jokers – WILD

We spread the cards out, face down…then flipped them over and followed the commands . Example – 5 of Hearts – 5 Burpees; Queen of Clubs – 10 Merkins.

This totals up to 84 of each rep.  Joker #1 – 25 “My People” by G6; Joker #2 – 8 Bodybuilders by Amazon

MARY:
Ran out of time….

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
18 Total HIMs

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Temptation…it gets to all of us.  Key is to try to not not focus on the temptation…that only makes your brain think about it more. Rather, you should replace the temptation with a positive thought.  Temptation can drive your emotion, which drives your thoughts, which drives your actions, which determine who you are.

MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Tuesday Card Game

THE SCENE:  Overcast. 70 degrees. Low humidity.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
BAC x10 IC
SSH x15 IC
Hillbilly x10 IC
Tempo Merkin x10 IC
Tempo Squat x10 IC
8-ct Bodybuilders x5 IC

THA-THANG:
After warmup, formed two lines on Petey & Amazon. PAX mosey to Amphitheater and circled up.

Deck o’ Cards
Hearts = 4 ct Flutter Kicks IC
Diamonds = Inverted Rows IC
Clubs = Merkins IC
Spades = 8 ct Bodybuilders IC

Ace = 20 reps
Face cards = 15 reps
Less than face = Value of Card

Joker pulled:

All PAX run to top of amphitheater steps for the shoulder shredder:

4ct Overhead Claps x25 IC…arms stay out
Pick cherries, drop em in the bucket
4 total sets to get to 100 reps

Bear crawl down amphitheater steps after.

Continued with Deck of Cards. Couldn’t finish so the last set of exercises I pulled 4 aces to hit 20 of each exercise before endex.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
24 PAX, no FNGs

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Discussed the importance of focusing on one thing and doing it well rather than multi-tasking as it pulls attention away and it’s difficult to get momentum generated. “Never half-ass two things. Whole-ass one thing.” Ron Swanson

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Big Ball to start Monday workouts

Geology Rocks!

THE SCENE: Hot and Dark
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Side Straddle Hops x25, Baby Arm Circles x10, Merkins x10 (4ct), Tempo Squat x15

THA-THANG:
Mosey to Methodist Church, get a battle buddy and every person get a rock

  • Line up on one side of parking lot and complete 20 squats, 15 lunges, 10 jump lunges with rock
  • Partner Wheelbarrow across lot. Then do 20 merkins, 15 Carolina Drydocks, 10 diamond merkins
  • Sprint back and repeat (trade roles on the wheelbarrow)
  • Mosey to Walnut St. hill with rocks
  • One partner at bottom of hill does squats w/ rock while other runs to top with rock overhead and does 1 rockee (burpee w/ rock). Come back down hill and switch while other partner runs to top and does 2 rockees. Repeat until you get to 10 (each partner runs hill 5xs)
  • Recover at top of hill and do 50 LBCs and 50 American Hammers with rocks
  • Mosey back to AO and return rocks on the way

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

 

Rise Up to Fall Back

THE SCENE: Cool and Dark… and a little grassy
WARM-O-RAMA:
Side-Straddle-Hops, Baby Arm Circles, Arm Stretches, Cherry Pickers, Windmills, 8-Count Merkins
THA-THANG:
Ring-of-Fire Merkins to 7

Buddy Bear Crawls (2x per PAX) + 25 Squats (4x)

Descending Sprint + Burpee Cardio Ladder

Tunnel of Love (2x)

MARY:
Row, Row, Row your boat (and canoe)
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
16 PAX
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Train your body, mind, and soul! You always fall back to the level of your training, so rise up and get better!

Old Miss Lucy’s dead and gone

THE SCENE: The air was thick!
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER: Nope, not a professional

WARM-O-RAMA:
Stretching feels so good.

THA-THANG:
Mosey to “painted steps” for 10 minute circuit of:

  • bear crawl down steps
  • forward lunge, side lunge, other side lunge, backward lunge (light pole to light pole)
  • 80%-90% run up the ramp
  • R&R

Mosey to parking lot towards the Tn River

  • select a coupon (challenge yourself)
  • squat to the lyrics of “Flower” (Moby)

Mosey to greenway along TN River

  • stop at every third light pole alternating between 10 merkins and 10 squats

Mosey back to AO

MARY:
This was my VQ – step up and lead if you have not done so!

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
including 1 FNG – Gesundheit
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Run wild. To risk everything. To hold nothing back.
To lay it all on the line: your reputation, your success, your comfort.
It’s that moment when fear is overcome by faith. Live free.
It’s not the liberty to do whatever you want whenever and wherever you want,
But rather it’s living in accordance with the author of humanity
And finding freedom by connecting with the creator who conceived you.
Let the light flood into your eyes for the first time.
Feeling the blood course through your veins, finding the truest version of yourself
By knowing the one who knows you even better than you know yourself.
Love strong. Because you were first loved. Because without love we all perish.
Because the earth and the stars can and will pass away, but love, love will always remain.

from”Oh God Forgive Us” by For King and Country

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Make sure to attend 3rd F this Saturday and the CSAUP on the 25th at the truck stop!