F3 Knoxville

Category: Shamrock

Choose Your Own Adventure

THE SCENE: Warm & Humid
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Baby Arm Circles Forward/Backward
Cherry Pickers
Windmills
10 burpees (5 for each person that was late)

THA-THANG:
Today was a choose your own adventure day!!!  We moseyed to the pull up bars and did 15 pullups each followed by 5 burpees.
Betty was next, he took us to the columns by the church where we did 8’s.  Dirty hookups & lunges.  We did 5 burpees each.
Anchorman had us mosey to the steps at Cedar Bluff Primary School where we did 5 rounds of 10 merkins and a stair climb in between.  We did 5 burpees each.
Jitters was next and we did 50 LBC’s followed by 5 Burpees.
Then it was Jenner’s turn.  We did 50 squats followed by 5 Burpees.
Honeydew was next, and we ran to the CMU pile where we did 21’s.  7/7/7 versions of a curl.  We also did tri extensions, and bench press, all followed by 5 burpees.
Judge Judy saved the “best for last”, and we did 10 blockees, 8 blockees, and 6 blockees.
We moseyed back to the AO, where we added our 5 burpees.

Total Burpees 69 each
MARY:
25 LBC’s and a Judge Judy led round of pickle pounders
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
This Holiday is about freedom.  There was a price for freedom, and many before us laid down their life so that we can make good/bed decisions.  We all made choices today and led the workout.  I encountered a group of PAX in F3 Low Country last week on vacation doing 25 burpees a day, each.  They have PAX who was diagnosed with Breast cancer, and although treatable, it was a reminder to them to take their health seriously.  They are doing 25 burpees a day as a reminder to get checked or seen by a doctor, and to not those things off.  Today we did burpees as a reminder to do the same.
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The Scene

72 and steamy

F3 Welcome and Disclaimer

Fitness, Fellowship, Faith, Free, Modify, Not Professional, Own Volition, Social Distance, Phone

Warm-O-Rama

Motivators

Peter parker stretch

Cherry Pickers

Curtsey Lunges

10 count Squats

 

Tha-Thang

Run to the basketball courts at Cedar Bluff Elementary

Rebound drill where guys get in a line and keep the ball in the air by bouncing it off the backboard to the guy who is next in line. 

Pax will take turns attempting a layup, free throw, 3 pointer, and half court shot (Max 2 attempts, 1 on half court shot). While one guy is going through the shot sequence  the rest are performing an exercise called by the Q:

Shoulder Taps

Tempo Squats

American Hammer

Merkins

Reverse Lunges

Crab Toe Taps

Inch Worms

Imperial Walkers

Side lunges

Gas Pumps

Australian Snow Angels

Big Boy Situp

2 rounds of the 3 man weave after we finished all of the exercises and everyone got to shoot through the sequence twice. 

 

Run Back to Campus 

 

Mary

6 inch LBC’s

Half Burpees (The bottom half) 

Freddy Mercury’s

 

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

6 High Impact Men

 

COT/BOM

Quote from The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis

“The great thing is to prevent his doing anything. As long as he does not convert it into action, it does not matter how much he thinks about this new repentance. Let the little brute wallow in it. Let him, if he has any bent that way, write a book about it; that is often an excellent way of sterilizing the seeds which the Enemy plants in a human soul. Let him do anything but act. No amount of piety in his imagination and affections will harm us if we can keep it out of his will. As one of the humans has said, active habits are strengthened by repetition but passive ones are weakened. The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel,”

 

Where is the enemy attacking you with complacency? Sometimes the enemy does not have to do much except get out of the way and allow us to be complacent as men. Complacency leads to inaction which leads to the Kingdom not advancing. Be vigilant in your lives and don’t let comfort and routine take our eyes off what really matters. We should stay active and have a kingdom focus in every part of our lives. We are either accelerating or decelerating, there is no in-between. 

 

Philippians 3:7

7 But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. 8 Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ

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Survive the Kraken

THE SCENE: Perfectly cool summer morning

WARM-O-RAMA:
Went through exercises for the day:

K-nerkins, R-eaching crunches, A-merican hammers, K-neel downs (prison getups), E-lbow to full plank (Catalina wine mixers), N-ewton’s cradle, and Kraken Burpees

THA-THANG:
Mosey up to football field

Starting on sideline work through 5 reps of each of the KRAKEN exercises; run to 1st hash marks and do 1 Kraken Burpee; run to 2nd hash marks and do 2 Kraken Burpees; run to far sideline and do 3 Kraken Burpees; run back to original sideline

Repeat multiple times adding 5 reps to KRAKEN exercises (@Trolley was working on 25 reps when we stopped)

MARY:
Mosey back to AO (stopped for 1minute of Rocky Balboas); Howling Monkey circle with added twist of running lap around circle when it was your turn to count; 1 more Kraken Burpee; and finished with 25 4-ct Flutter Kicks.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
8 HIMs and 2 with respect

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Read lyrics from Casting Crowns song “Who am I”; Read from Psalm 8 & John 10; Reminded PAX of the Good Shepherd and those who know Him – He cares for you and is in pursuit of you.

Spinning Bear Mountain + Bleacher Mountain

  • Welcome – A hot 77 for 5:30am..
  • Warmup-  35 Windmills, 15 Cherry Pickers, Plank Cross Hold (left knee to right elbow) + Merkin, Stretching Inchworms + Merkins.
  • Workout: 
    • Tabatta Bear Mountain: Bear crawl up the Racket Club Road starting at the bottom. Crawl for 40 seconds, rest 20. Each successive crawl is 90 degrees to the right. So 40 seconds of straight bear crawl, then 40 seconds of side crawl to the left. Then 40 seconds of reverse bear crawl. Then 40 seconds of side bear crawl to the right, then 40 seconds of straight bear crawl.  Sort of reminiscent of  https://f3knoxville.com/the-tabata-bear-on-the-rock/ without the crabs and alligators.  I was so glad that Anchorman, Pool Boy and Mermaid were there to see this version two of the bear mountain. We crawled all the way to the door of the racketball club! Great job gentlemen!
    • Bleacher Mountain: (aka. 12 minute Bleacher AMRAP)  Run as many up and downs on the bleachers as you can in 12 minutes.  We also included the stair case going down to the track for good measure and so we could tally mark with chalk our up/down reps.
  • WarmDown:  Ring of leg fire – Leg lifts in a circle facing out.  Each person runs around the circle tossing the legs down to the ground of the fellow HIMS.  Do another round of this but also through in some random burpees for a dash of chaos.  It was a hot mess – but fun!
  • Words:  Often times the hardest part of the workout is the words at the end, but I wanted to encourage yall to not let it be.  Life is not all sunshine and rainbow s , so don’t be afraid to share anything that’s on your heart. It doesn’t have to be composed. Just share. We’ll support you.  God may or may not give you an encouraging word to share – it’s ok.  We are partnering with you and so is God.  This weekend Rick Dunn gave a great sermon on God’s providence and love of us. ( https://middlebrook.fellowshipknox.org/sermons ) One of my favorite verses were mentioned 1 Thesalonians 5:24 “God is faithful and He will do it!” … It’s a great sermon, I encourage you to listen to it if you have the chance.  Trust in Him today.

Shamrock – Valley of Despair…returns

THE SCENE: Low 60s crisp cool amazing
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

5 Merkins

On your back Side Straddle hop x25 

10 Merkins

Twinkle Toes  (IC) 4 CT x 10

15 Merkins

Cherry Pickers: 5

20 Merkins

Tie Fighters

THA-THANG:

Line up at one end of parking lot. 

Round 1: Bear Crawl to the 1st line and do 1 merkin, BC to next line 2 merkins, BC to next line 3 merkins all the way to 10

Mosey to the valley of despair. 

Battle buddy up

Partner A: Dealer’s choice – merkins or big boys ( switch between the 2 when you burn out ) 

Partner B runs to the bottom, 10 squat jumps, run up the other side, 10 monkey humpers, back down for 10 more jump squats, run back up to partner. Switch. 

2 rounds of this for 10 minutes. 

Mosey to pull up bars

1 rule: If you are not doing pull ups….you are doing smurf jacks. Go for about 10 minutes. 

Run to CMU pile. 

25 Curls

50 Bench press

50 windshield wipers

25 each side – hold lunge while doing block press

50 windshield wipers

Sprints in parking lot at various speeds. 

Mosey back to AO flag 

MARY:
flutter kicks, Merkins, squats
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

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Honeydew, Trolley, Interpol, Pool Boy, Chicken Hawk, Mermaid, Music City, Osteen, Jenner, Dumpster Dive, Finger Food, Tailhook, Rose-A (Like the wine), Slappy, Jitters, Anchorman,
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Matthew 6:2-4

…2So when you give to the needy, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by men. Truly I tell you, they already have their full reward. 3But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.…

Why is this so hard?  It’s so tempting to humblebrag. Why is it not enough that my Creator sees me and my heart when I do a good deed? I have had several moments this year where I helped someone out, didn’t tell anyone, and it was so hard to not share about it.

I’m faced with asking myself, who am I doing this for? Is it really an act of love if I’m doing it for myself, for my own glory? My challenge for me and you is to ask God to put someone in your path that needs help. Ask God to give you strength and true love for Him and the person you are helping. Afterwards, go back to God and give Him the glory. 

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