F3 Knoxville

Category: The Dog Pound

Persevere!

THE SCENE: Low 70s, High humidity, weird frog sounds in the distance 

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER We did this. 

WARM-O-RAMA:

SSH IC x15

Cherry Pickers IC x5 

Little Baby Arm Circles IC x12 each way

Tempo Squats IC x10 

Little bit of This. Little Bit of that 

Quick run to the Bath House and back 

THA-THANG:

Grab a CMU and place it in a parking spot at the bottom of the lot. Walk back to the starting point. Complete the following exercises with a mosey to your CMU for 10 Squat Thrusts in between each set. All exercises are single count. 

  • 100 SSH 
  • 90 Mountain Climbers 
  • 80 High Knees
  • 70 Hello Dollys 
  • 60 Freddie Mercurys 
  • 50 Shoulder Taps 
  • 40 Merkins
  • 30 V-ups 
  • 20 BBS 
  • 10 Burpees 

Next, grab a partner. Each partner chooses 3 exercises from the above list. One partner farmer carries both CMUs while the other performs 15 of one of the exercises. When done, catch up to your partner and take over the farmer’s carry while your partner does their first round. Turn around when both partners complete their 3 exercises and repeat back to the AO.

NEXT, choose 4 different exercises and while one partner does a lap around the tennis courts, complete the exercise. Each partner does 4 laps and 4 exercises. 

MARY:

Mary wasn’t available today. 

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

8 HIMs, 0 FNGs, 2 Downrangers (ATL, MEMPHIS)

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Patience vs. Perseverance. At what point do we stop being patient for God’s plan to take shape and start persevering through God’s plan that He lays out in front of us? Patience can be hard to practice. We must constantly remind ourselves that patience can pay off. 

I have been preaching and (trying to) practice patience as I search for a new school admin job. This week is the week where I find out whether I will be on a school admin team for next year. If it doesn’t go my way, I must persevere through another year in the classroom (which I do LOVE) and wait for another opportunity to come up. 

Hurt Lap

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

  • SSH IC x 20
  • Windmill IC x 10
  • BA Circ IC x 5
  • Twist the Trunk OYO
  • Stretch it out

THA-THANG:
First Nation Run to the track. This fell apart quickly… Run 1 lap (Hot Lap) – perform exercises – Run 2 laps perform exercises. Repeat until Recover is called. Exercises are below:

  • 5 Burpees
  • 10 Merkins
  • 15 Squats
  • 20 Crabbettes
  • 25 American Hammers

MARY:
10 Merkins, 10 BBS – Descending to 0 (9,9,8,8 etc.)
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
A Hand full of dudes +1
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Junk delivered this:

Don’t be religious
When people in our society use the word “religious“ they think it means for someone to have faith in something or to be involved in one religion or another. That’s not what it means.
Humans by their very nature are constantly measuring themselves, most frequently against other humans. We can’t help it. It’s built into how we see the world and it’s part of why we have such a hard time relating to God, because we can never measure ourselves against him.
Instead we constantly measure ourselves against each other, choosing to see the things that make us look the best and ignore the things that make us look the worst. We make excuses for our shortcomings and pat ourselves on the back for our perceived areas of success or excellence.
This is religion. Religion requires rules and a constant measuring of oneself against a standard. The biggest challenge with that is that very quickly we begin measuring other people against the standard of us.
This happens in every religion. They’re not in an offer in escape from this, save one.
Jesus came to abolish religiosity in favor of rebirth, transformation of how we think. God doesn’t want more religious people, he wants converts. People who’s understanding and outlook on the world is fundamentally changed to one that seeks to glorify God instead of oneself. Men and women who recognize we can never earn salvation and therefore he’s not breeding us based on how many rules we have followed and how well we “toe the line.” Jesus said this clear as day. Man looks on the outward appearance (the rules, the way we look, posturing, judging)… but God looks on the heart. He cares about who you are not what you look like or the facade you put out there. He wants your heart, a renewing of your mind and a filling with His spirit – the behaviors follow naturally.

MOLESKIN:
5 exercises and Run laps to avoid a mile long burpee broad jump Mayberry penalty Q. Deal.

Lots of talk about getting Woke this morning. Felt the most woke about Junk’s word on acting religiously.

The Hot Lap turned into the Hurt Lap courtesy of Excite.

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Work Day coming up & Off the Chain!

Welcome to TabaTa!

THE SCENE: Rainy – Meet at the Pav-A-Lon
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
I forgot my Weinke in the car so Tweet-E & Ribbed helped out. Then finished with some Tempo Merkins & of course – Cherry Pickers.
THA-THANG:
Welcome to TabaTa! Tabata = 20 seconds of work followed by 10 seconds of rest. Each Tabata is 4 minutes or 8 total rounds. We did two exercises per Tabata. Each Tabata had a 1 minute Interlude in between.

  • Tabata 1
    • Imperial Walkers & Shoulder Taps
  • Tabata 2
    • Single Leg Burpee (no merkin) & Dips
  • Tabata 3
    • Pull-ups (assisted or hangs) & HRR Merkins
  • Tabata 4
    • Squat Hops & Crabbettes (I want to call it the Crab & Grab)
  • Tabata 5
    • Plank Reach Throughs & Side Raises (surprisingly difficult)
  • Tabata 6
    • American Hammers & Mountain Climbers
  • I’m out of Tabatas so let’s run up to the gate and back. Also gives us street cred for working out in the rain.
  • Tabata 7 (from the hip)
    • DOMO Squats & BBS

MARY:
Broga – Stretch those hips & glutes out
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Four Horsemen
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
From As a Man Thinketh – “A change of Diet will not help a person who will not change his thoughts. When a person makes his thoughts pure, he no longer desires impure food.” – James Allen

Stress eating, grazing, overeating, overindulging – call it what you will. This is something that I have struggled with for my entire life. Judge’s comments in the weekly newsletter motivated me to talk about it in the COT. A devotional or article that I came across in the last couple of months told me that when we surrender to Christ that we are FREE from all SIN in our life. Whatever we are holding onto is something that we haven’t yet surrendered. This is my stress eating habit. I was praying into it and felt like I was given permission to eat “all that is Holy”. What is all that is Holy? I ask God in a jokingly manner – “everything you pray over” is what came to mind next.

Man, what a realization!!?! I never pray over the handfuls of candy, or scoop(s) of peanut butter that I find myself eating. I never pray over my 3rd or 4th cup of coffee and never I have asked God to bless a 2nd helping of Ice Cream.

What if instead of just impulsively eating whatever carbohydrate or sugar laced item I can find… I said a prayer and asked God to bless it? Can it really be this simple? I tell you, like most rewarding things in my life. It is that simple, at least it seems to be, but it’s not easy. I wish I could tell you that I have absolutely mastered it and have given this sin away to be free once & for all from it’s grasps. Instead I tell you, that I’m in the middle of the fight. I’m in the battle. I’m still getting beat up. But… I’m glad to be in the fight!

According to James Allen, it starts with making my thoughts pure.

MOLESKIN:
Tabata is great way to push yourself. It’s only 20 seconds of work… how hard could that be? Apparently there are some good Tabata Timers out there and I don’t have to use the prerecorded, covers that these dudes were jazzed about.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Wesley House workday coming up, Off the Chain – keep your brothers in your Prayers!

Dog Pound Pre-Birthday Q

THE SCENE: Beautiful Late Spring Morning
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Standard Hops and Pickers
THA-THANG:
It all started with a nice long Mosey which wouldn’t be complete without paying tribute to Jack Webb. The Bataan Death March got the PAX warm. BOMBS followed and we completed the morning with All About The Benjamin’s.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Leadership isn’t about being the best.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Wesley House workout will be 6/16.  CSAUP at the #dogpound on July 24th.

A WaxJob CMUesday

THE SCENE: Like Blind Melon says…No Rain. But…it was very Hummm Id.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Warm up stuff
THA-THANG:
Partner up. Each Grab a CMU. One partner does a Farmers walk with both CMUs while other does 10 burpees and catches up to swap. Stop at the bottom of the steps leading to Dwayne Johnson. Do curls, tris, and presses x10 each. Then run and touch Dwayne and back. Repeat 3 rounds.

Farmers walk again around the island w/ partner doing 5 burpees this time. At bottom steps stop and do: 10 cross over CMU planks, 10 CMU swings, 10 squat to press then do a 1/2 lap around island coming down the steps. Repeat 3 times.
Farmers Walk with partners again w/5 burpees to just past “the boat”. Carry your own CMU back to the AO doing different carry styles on the way.

MARY:
I-beam took over with some flutters, BBS, Hello Dollys, and more BBS all while suspending a CMU above your noggin.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
16 pax including 2 FNGs that Driftwood brought with him from work while they were in town. “Forgetta Bout It” and “Schnitzel”
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Sacrifice. I-beam spoke about our friend WaxJob’s relentless service and sacrifices that he makes for others by putting himself behind everyone else. A true HIM that we should look at for inspiration. Prayed for his mother-in-law and family. Prayers for Biscuits dad and the tragedy that happed on the lake with the teenager and older man.
MOLESKIN:
So the Q was very much winded during the work out. I haven’t been out too much lately and the humidity was quite a shock to my system. I was encouraged to keep going harder by several of the PAX, specifically the freak of nature Tweet-e! One of the things that F3 is so attractive to others is the fact that we push each other to do better. Working out or trying to get fit on our own is very difficult. If I was by myself today I definitely would have stopped and probably not have finished the full workout. Probably would’ve gone and got a biscuit too! So for this PAX member, I’m truly grateful for the rest of the PAX pushing me to keep going.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
None