F3 Knoxville

Category: The Dog Pound

Skatepark Ladder of DOOM

THE SCENE: Beautiful morning!
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER  Done and done goodish
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH IC x25 | LBAC IC x10 each way | Cherry Pickers IC x5 | Tempo Squats IC x10

THA-THANG:
Grab a CMU and head across the street. Leave CMU at the Parking Lot entrance, don’t worry, we will see them soon…

Mosey to Skatepark. Complete the exercises & reps. After each round, run up and over the wall (or around and do 1 Burpee), run along the wall and do 10 Squat Thrusters where you dropped your CMU, and return to Skatepark for the next round. Once down the ladder, go back up!

  • Sometimes
  • 100 SSH
  • 90 Imperial Walkers
  • 80 American Hammers
  • 70 Squats
  • 60 Hello Dollies
  • 50 Shoulder Taps
  • 40 Flutter Kicks (2 ct.)
  • 30 Merkins
  • 20 Lunges (each leg)
  • 10 CCD
  • 5 BodyBuilder+’s

MARY:
Ring of Fires (Led by Trunk):

Merkins from 3

Squats from 3

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
9 HIMs; 0 FNGs
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

We only have 168 hours per week. 

“The happiest people spend much time in a state of flow – the state in which people are so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter; the experience itself is so enjoyable that people will do it even at great cost, for the sheer sake of doing it.” Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  1. Prioritize. 2. Be clear on what energizes us. 3. Stop making excuses and do what you need to do.

Why do some people get more done than others? They understand the difference between time management, which is a fixed amount & energy management which is elastic, malleable, and subject to change. Is what we are spending our energy on important? Is staying up an extra 40 mins worth that episode? Is focusing on menial, non-important tasks @ home or work worth being drained when it’s time to spend time w/ your M or 2.0s?

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Insert information about upcoming events, 2nd or 3rd F opportunities, and any other announcements.

Under Cover @ The Dog Pound 4-26-22

THE SCENE: Early arrivals made their way to the Pav-A-Lon in the dry.  Those who were right on time got washed.  A couple of new exercises were introduced this morning.  Descriptions of each are included below.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

Done and done well.  Big welcomes to 1 FNG (I.C.P.) and to Jagged Pill for making it back for a second time.

WARM-O-RAMA:
Some leg stretching and tempo-merkins
THA-THANG:
EV.1 – Ab Circuit – 30 seconds work, 15 seconds rest, 4 sets of each exercise before moving to the next

1 – Elbow Plank

2 – Dead Bug

3 – Full Range Fred (Freddie Mercury where the elbow comes all the way to the knee and the foot goes all the way back to the ground to complete each rep)

4 – Sitting Single Leg Raise (seated position with back resting against picnic table bench and legs straight – raise your leg as high as you can without bending the knee, then lower it and repeat).

    • 2 sets for each leg
    • this needs a better name

EV.2 – 10 Minute E.M.O.M. – perform 10 reps for all exercises, every minute on the minute

1 – High-Steppers – Rocky Balboa using the picnic table bench as the elevated touch point (2=1)

2 – Air Squats

3 – Imperial Walkers (2=1)

EV.3 – 10 reps of each, together, for 3 rounds.  QIC calls the cadence, PAX calls out the rep count, 10-count between rounds

1 – Cap Gun (R) – bench-assisted pistol squat with the right foot grounded

2 – Cap Gun (L) – bench-assisted pistol squat with the  left foot grounded

3 – Bird Dog (2=1)

4 – Single Leg Step Down (R) – standing on the picnic table bench, perform a single leg squat so that your left foot is lowered below the bench and your right thigh becomes parallel to the ground, then stand back up

5 – Single Leg Step Down (L) – standing on the picnic table bench, perform a single leg squat so that your right foot is lowered below the bench and your left thigh becomes parallel to the ground, then stand back up

6 – Arm-Ups – similar to a shoulder tap – from high plank position in front of the picnic bench, move each hand from the floor to the bench, and then back down to complete one rep (left hand up, right hand up, left hand down, right hand down = 1)

MARY:
Windmills x 6 IC; 10 Merkins OYO
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
9 PAX, 1 with Respect, and 1 FNG
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Ancestral Mathmatics –

In order to be born, you needed:

2 parents

4 grandparents

8 great-grandparents

16 second great-grandparents

32 third great-grandparents

64 fourth great-grandparents

128 fifth great-grandparents

256 sixth great-grandparents

512 seventh great-grandparents

1024 eighth great-grandparents

2048 ninth great-grandparents

For you to be born today from 12 previous generations, you needed a total of 4,094 ancestors over the last 400 years.

Think for a moment – How many struggles?  How many battles?  How many difficulties?  How much sadness?  How much happiness?  How many love stories?  How many expressions of hope for the future? – did your ancestors have to undergo for you to exist in this present moment…
MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
CSAUP – Escape From Haw Ridge coming up May 6

Not All CMUs are Good CMUs

THE SCENE: Wonderfully warm(er than recently)
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER Done and Done well… 
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH IC x25 | LBAC x10 each way | Cherry Pickers I[DP]C x5 | Tempo Squats x10
THA-THANG:

Grab a CMU & Colonizer Run with CMU Merkins to the bottom of Matterhorn. Partner up, 1st Partner AMRAPs the exercises while 2nd partner runs to the Backbone for 5 pull-ups, repeat until each round is over. Partners then run together up Matterhorn for 10 Burpees together, return and start the next round.

Round 1: Squat Thrusters, OH Press, Curls, Goblet Squats

Round 2: Left Arm Row, Right Arm Row, Flutter Kicks, CMU Pull Throughs*

*Time was called before we got here, returned to the AO, stopping for 25 dips on the way

MARY:
There just wasn’t any time left. Maybe next time.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
12 HIMs; 2 FNGs (!!)

Ski-Dog; Excitebike; Goat Dish; Mayberry; Ribbed; Submarine; La-Z-Boy; DriftWood; Inspector Gadget; Nole; Jagged Pill; Blindside

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

“Not all money is good money.” 

I heard this quote for the first time yesterday and it really made an impact on me. Hustling, grinding, and always searching for more financial success isn’t always a good thing. Would taking a promotion and a pay increase be worth more time away from my family? Maybe, but not often. This is something I need to remind myself as I have opportunities to add more hours or enter into a new position in Knox County Schools…ANNOUNCEMENTS:
2nd F event tonight at 6 pm at Admiral’s Pub in Farragut; CSAUP 5/9 9 pm-Midnight; JUCO Convergence 7/2

A Break In The Storm @ DogPound 4-12-22

THE SCENE: Wet with frequent lightning and thunder right up until go-time, when it all dissipated to provide us with a perfect 40 minute window of mostly rainless workout weather
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH IC x 20; feet together touch toes 20-seconds; LBAC IC x 5 each way; grab a CMU and mosey across towards the Thunderdome
THA-THANG:
EV.1 – Abs Circuit – 4 exercises > 30 seconds of work / 15 seconds of rest > 4 sets of each before moving to the next > 20 seconds recovery between exercises

1 – Elbow Plank

2 – Flutter Kick

3 – Freddie Mercury w/ full range of motion (we turned the FM into an actual ab exercise instead of a race to see how quickly one can turn his neck back and forth – in standard BBS position, the left foot is raised until the knee meets the right elbow.  Shoulders and foot are then returned all the way back to the ground before switching sides).

4 – Dead Bug

EV.2 – CMU Circuit – (performed at the center circle of the Thunderdome) 8 exercises > 20 seconds of work /  10 seconds of rest > 5 sets of each before moving to the next > 30 seconds to jog to the baseline of the Thunderdome and Bernie back to your CMU

1 – Curl

2 – Toe Tap Block-Overs

3  – Thrusters

4 – Burpee Block-Overs

5 – Single-Arm Shoulder Press (sitting or standing)

6 – Deadlifts

7 – American Hammers w/ CMU

8 – Hip to Halo

MARY:
Booked it back to the AO w/ CMU’s to make it on time
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
5 total with 2 early departures for “meetings”
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
1 – make Easter meaningful this year.  The culmination of events that occurred on this week so many years ago is the most important happening in all of human history.  Don’t overlook it.  Understand and appreciate the sacrifice that was made, and consider Jesus’s invitation to “come to me”.

2 – Big props to all the Men who’ve toughed it out through the winter months.  As the temps increase so will the size of the COT.  Give yourself a pat on the back if you’ve maintained consistency throughout the cold season.

MOLESKIN:

Matthew 11: 28-30 – Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.  Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.  For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
The Flag is being passed at The Equalizer this Friday, April 15th, at 0530.  Be there.

Slap your wife’s ass

THE SCENE: Perfect F3 wearher
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • SSH
  • Cherry pickers @ Dog# speed
  • Imperial walkers

THA-THANG:

Mosey to the base of Matterhorn

20 of each at the bottom

  • LBC
  • Rev crunch
  • Heels to heaven
  • Dead bug
  • BBS with twist

Mosey to pull up bars

  • 5 pull ups
  • 20 merkins

Rinse and repeat

At completion mosey back to the AO
MARY:
Hello Dollys
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
As the title says, go home and smack your wife’s ass. While this may also get you a smack in the face, the point is to make your wife know you still want her. I don’t know your wife’s love language, I know my wife’s isn’t to be smacked on her ass.  But we as men fall into a cycle of work, parenting, rest, do it again. A lot of marriages end up as cohabitation, coparenting, roommate type relationships, and that’s not what God wants for us. He wants us to have a passion for our wife’s. He wants us to love them, desire them, and want them intimately. We all had to work to win the women we married, so go home and remind them of that, remind them that you still desire them and love them.

If you do chose to randomly go home and smack your wife’s ass, let us know how that worked out. You never know unless you try.
MOLESKIN:

We seem to be missing a lot of brothers at the Dog# lately. I know we’re all busy and have a ton of other things going on, but let’s get back in the gloom. Also shout out to Cowboy who was downrange from Nashville

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Prayers for daughters going through some medical issues and other struggles. Prayers for girl dads as we raise these young women to hopefully see what love and marriage looks like. PS they watch how we treat our wives.   Prayers for our PAC who were MIA.