F3 Knoxville

Category: Shamrock

Planting Shade Trees

THE SCENE: 68 but pretty humid…it was great!
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Reach for the stars
  • Let it hang
  • Cherry Pickers (IC) 4 CT X 10
  • Baby Arm Circles Forward (IC) 4CT X 10 & Michael Phelps
  • Baby Arm Circles Backward (IC) 4CT X 10 & Michael Phelps
  • Tempo Squats (IC) 4 CT X 10
  • Tempo Merkins (IC) 4ct X 10
  • Mosey

THA-THANG:

DORAs – one works, one runs

  • Diamond Merkins X 100
  • Big Boy Situps X 100
  • Bobby Hurleys (aka Chris Loftons) X 100
  • Carolina Dry Docks X 150
  • American Hammers X 150
  • Lunges X 150
  • Merkins X 200
  • Hello Dollies X 200
  • Squats X 200
  • Calf Raises (Toe Merkins) X 250
  • Flutterkicks X 250
  • Wide Merkins X 250

MARY:

Part of the Q

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

!8 men w/ 1 big dog; Titan joined us as well

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Dennis Swanberg, The Swan as he is known across the country is a former preacher turned Christian comedian and motivational speaker.  He spoke to us and some donors at KARM not long ago.  He weaved in humor and scripture seamlessly.  He was truly amazing.

He spoke about his immigrant great-grandparents who had to make their way in this vast, new land called America by the sweat of their brow.  And, considering that they settled in Texas, they sweat A LOT.

One day, when his great-grandfather was still a very young man, a neighboring farmer saw him out in front of the family home, meticulously burying dozens of acorns.  The farmer approached the grandfather, laughing, and asked, “what in the WORLD are you doing?”

“I’m planting shade trees,” the grandfather quietly replied as he continued dropping seeds into the warm soil.

“Shade trees?” the farmer exclaimed, “Don’t you know it will take YEARS before these things are big enough to provide any shade? You’ll be long gone before then!” he stated smugly.  The grandfather continued planting–determined.

“I’m not planting them for me,” he said patiently, “I’m planting them for my grandchildren.”

The lesson was about how his grandfather planted shade trees for his property that he never got to sit under. Swan’s father and future generations got to get blessings from those shade trees.

Donors of KARM are planting shade trees for poor, homeless, addicted, mentally challenged.

Judge Judy is planting shade trees mentoring that kid whose father is in jail.  Others are volunteering at the Wesley House planting shade trees.

Volunteer soccer, baseball and softball coaches are planting shade trees by teaching the game, character, teamwork.

Preachers, Sunday School Teachers, youth sponsors all planted shade trees over us in hopes that someday we’d figure it out and live out what they taught us.

The best shade trees you’ll ever plant…Are the ones you’ll never sit under!
None of us are self-made. We’re all sitting under “shade trees” that were planted by our forefathers, by our families, and by our friends. Now, it’s your turn to leave a meaningful legacy by planting your own shade trees for others to sit under.

Not everyone can be a legend, but everyone can leave a legacy.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

  • Sign Up To Q/VQ
  • Saturday is Off The Chain CSAUP at the Dog Pound
  • Get ready for the Iron Pax Challenge

 

Shamrock – 5 Brave Men Prep for Iron Pax

THE SCENE: 69F Light Rain
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Side Straddle Hops 20-4 count

5 Merkins

Cherry Pickers: 5

5 Merkins

Tie Fighters

5 Merkins

25 Calf Raises 

5 Merkins

THA-THANG:

Mosey to CMU pile then to covered walkway 

25 Curls

25 Flutter kicks – 4-count 

50 CMU Bench press

50 windshield wipers

10 Squat presses, but do 5 presses at the top before your next squat

20 Hello Dolly 4-count 

30 CMU rows

40 LBCs

50 CMU overhead press

60 American Hammers single count

70 Alternating CMU Merkins – about killed me. 

80 SSH single count 

90 CMU Bench Press

100 scissor kicks single count 

Return CMUs

Take a lap around campus

Mosey back to AO flag

MARY:

Monkey Humpers 10 x 4 count

Imperial Walkers 10 x 4 count 

Monkey Humpers 10 x 4 count

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Anchorman, Trolley, Repeat, Paper or Plastic, Slappy,
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

I really liked what Trolley did last week with the getting to know you COT. 

Get to know each other by saying something about ourselves that everyone might not know. 

 

Burpee Baseball @ Shamrock

  • Welcome: 1 and all.
  • Warmup: A little bit-o-this, little bit-o-that.
  • Workout: Burpee Baseball
    • Two Teams (split up as even as possible).
    • Player at bat throws a ball (from home plate) into the outfield as hard as can then runs around the bases doing two burpees per base (of the specified type) and then run home to get a point.
    • Player from oposing team goes an fetches the ball (starting from home plate) and must do 5 burpees of the specified type at the ball and then run to home to get a point.
    • The player who gets home first wins the point (ball).
    • Teams switch “At bat” turns every three runs (plays/at bats/competitions)
    • Both teams in the “Dug outs” do matching burpees of their player who is in the current play.  So if your player is running to fetch a ball then you do 5 of the burpees (of specified type).  If your teammate is throwing the ball then you do 6 burpees (of the specified type).
    • The team with the most balls wins the game.
    • We almost got through 20 balls and had one home run (Nice huck @Jenner!)
    • Third game of Burpee baseball ( Game 1, Game 2)
    • The Type of burpee is written on the ball itself and is one of the following
      • Burpee with plank jack
      • Burpee with one leg
      • Burpee with Iron mike
      • Burpee with Donkey Kick
      • Burpee with Double Squat Jump
      • Burpee with Parker Climbers
      • Burpee with Lunge
      • Burpee with Frog
      • Burpee with Big Boy
      • Burpee with Release Merkin
      • Burpee with Double Merkin
      • Burpee with Imperial Walker
  • Warmdown:  None.
  • Wrap up Word: 
  • Announcements:
    • Dad Camp
    • Of the chain (CSAUP)
    • Hard ship Hill

TMF / TCE @ Shamrock

  • Welcome & Warning:
    • Despite this being a totally Free workout, we are Amateurs and so are you – so take heed – be ware. workout, zit, zot, ping pong..zap zork — dang it’s early.
    • Why am I up again? Oh, yeah, to get Total Muscle Failure & Total Cardio Exhaustion….
  • Warm Up
    • Super slow and long cherry pickers…
    • A little Burpee + increasing 1,2,3,4,5 merkin additions practice
    • aaaaannnd onto the Beatdown.
  • Workout (Total Muscle Failure + Total Cardio Exhaustion )
    • Start at left side of far corner of football field. Do
      • 1 Burpee
      • 1 Burpee with two merkins
      • 1 Burpee with three merkins
      • 1 Burpee with four merkins
      • 1 Burpee with five merkins
      • Run down the line to the next 5 yard marker and do the same 5 excercises above. Then run directly across the field on the 5 yard line and repeat all the above until you reach the end of the field. (break up into criss crossing teams if we have enough people 10 or more).
      • We made it to the 50 yard line for a total of 55 Burpees and 110 Merkins.  Then we ran the same pattern zig zagging accross the field to the end zone.
    • At the locker room wall
      • With back to wall, walk your feet up the wall. Hold a handstand for 10 seconds.
      • Repeat 4 times.
  • Warm Down
    • 20 Freddy Mercury’s
    • 20 Mountain Climbers
    • 20 Freddy Mercury’s
    • 20 Mountain Climbers
    • Leg Lift ring of fire ( tight HIM circle legs facing out – hold a leg lift as successive HIMs run around the circle and thrown down the lifted legs)
  • Wrap Up
    • We need to strengthen our second F. Fellowship. We went around the circle and announced our real name and shared a tid-bit about each other that the others probably didn’t know. Some shared prayer requests, some shared how they got their F3 name.  Norm, Daniel, Chris, Nathan, Barry, Matt, Jake, Dan, Bradly, Brad, Joshua.    We learned about swimming, going to med school, fainting, lots of kids, and all sorts of good stories.   Love you guys!  Thanks for comin out and bringing light into the darkness.

Head to Head Competition

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

tempo merks
tempo squats
baby arm circles
cherry pickers
quad stretch
arm stretch

THA-THANG:

Break into 2-4 teams depending on how many PAX show up.
Competition
max reps on each.
1 Planks
2 Hand release Merkins
3 100’s at the track, may have to run heats with a winner’s and loser’s bracket
4 Big Boys
5 Wall Squats

We broke into 2 teams.  Team 2 beat team 1 by a score of 23-7.  Points were awarded 3 for 1st, 2 for 2nd, and 1 for third.
MARY:
LBC’s for the remainder of the workout, about 2.5 min
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
1 Corinthians 9:24-27
MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
F3 Dad’s Camp
CSAUP
HARDSHIP HILL