F3 Knoxville

I don’t remember signing up

AO: shamrock
Q: Mermaid
PAX: Dumpster Dive, Crawlspace, Stitch, slappy, Flower Pot, Mermaid
FNGs: None
COUNT: 6
Q SIGNUPS had me down for the day, but I did not sign up, so we went with the calendar.

We warmed up and did a revised version of the no glove love workout, that focuses on lunges and wall squats. 10-1.

Then we did three rounds of 20 heels elevated squats, and split squats.

Next we grabbed blocks and repeated 3x the following:
20 good mornings
50 bench press
20 Curls

Finally we moseyed back to the flag where we did an ab exercise with 10 merkins in between until time expired. We all called one exercise and did 60 total merkins.

IPax Week 2

AO: shamrock
Q: Stitch
PAX: Squatter, Butterknife, Tinker, LeBling, Mermaid, Crawlspace
FNGs: None
COUNT: 7
Warmup: 800 meter run

THE THANG:

80 Merkins
Lt. Dan’s Magic Legs – 15 yards
14 Cactus Jumpsquats
Lt. Dan back

80 Coupon Plank Jacks
Murder Bunny
14 Cactus jumpsquats
Reverse murder bunny

60 Merkins
Bricklayers
14 Cactus Jumpsquats
bricklayers back

60 coupon plank jacks
Lt Dan magic legs
Repeat Cactus JS

40 merkins
bricklayers

40 coupon plank jacks
murder bunny

20 merkins
Lt. Dan

20 Coupon plank jacks

800 meter run

COT:

My son has these wristbands that have Bible verses on them. He wanted some of those and I loved that. Now, I’m not a fan of reading a single Bible verse, without context, because it’s easy to take and use them in ways they were not intended.

Anyway, I was looking through his collection the other night and one really simple one jumped out at me. It was Colossians 3:2 which says “Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. Some translations say to seek. Seek, meaning to desire, have passion for. Well as a matter of fact, that entire day I spent all of my time and focus on earthly things. I was exhausted. I was stressed and I was feeling some despair.

Whether it was about food, money, sickness, work, responsibilities, home repairs, you name it. My day was spent focused on those things.

19 “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, 20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. – Matthew 6

Store up treasures you can access today AND tomorrow. Spend your time focused on the ONE and the ones who matter most. Your mind, body and soul will also benefit today.

IPC Week 1

AO: shamrock
Q: Crawlspace
PAX: Crawlspace, Eliza, Gringo, LeBling, Mermaid, Skidmark, slappy, Stitch, Commission
FNGs: None
COUNT: 9
WARMUP:
Mosey to CMU pile

THE THANG:
3 burpee buy in and 3 burpees every 4 minutes throughout workout.

11s Workout:
– Do 10 thrusters, travel 30 yards, 1 hand release merkin travel back.

The mode of transportation changes for each round.

– bear crawl
– Lunge walk
– Burpee broadjump
– Run
– Murder Bunny Down, Redrum Bunny Back

Repeat travel order 2x

MARY:
– various dealers choice an workouts

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

COT:

Ephesians 4

– God put a measure of Himself in all of us, giving gifts to men. Everyone has something of God that the others of us don’t. We can reach more of our potential as we engage in community.

Fitness Time in Tennessee

AO: shamrock
Q: Stitch
PAX: slappy, Eliza, Anchorman, Bed Wetter, Band Camp, Dumpster Dive, Mermaid, LeBling, Haggis, Squatter, Crawlspace, Lightweight
FNGs: None
COUNT: 13
WARMUP:
Warm O Rama:
Moroccan Nightclubs
Grady Corns
Tempo Squats
Imperial Walkers
SSH

THE THANG:
Football handoff run to the back parking lot. Ball works it’s way back through the line and last person sprints to the front, hand off starts back down the line.

Blind draw from each category. One on each corner:

CORE
CARDIO
LEGS
UPPER BODY

Reps =
Card # + 10
Royal = 25
Ace = 100

Got at least 24 exercises in, including 25 Burpees.

COT:
Reading through Proverbs recently and it’s humbling. It’s really a manual for everyone and it challenges our thoughts, attitudes, and actions. It really encompasses every aspect of our lives and just how much of it we offer to God.

I was reminded about anger and what that does to a man. What that does to ME! There’s a lot of anger out there and it’s very easy to let that seep into you. I don’t watch the news anymore. I used to watch it religiously and then I just realized that it was making me…angry. And, there was very little, if anything, I could do about any of it. I can feel the tension in the world around me, today.

How do we respond? There are over 900 verses in Proverbs. Here are two:

1. Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses. That’s 10:12.
2. The vexation of a fool is known at once, but the prudent ignores an insult. 12:16

Which one of these do we represent? Are we snapping back at others to expose and tear them down or are we seeking to put them in a better light? Tim Keller said that “anger is energy released to defend something you love. When you are in a dispute, stop releasing your anger against the other person in order to defend your ego. Release your energy against the problem (not the person) that is dividing you.”

So my challenge today is to step away from the tv. Take a breathe! If we claim to be followers of Jesus, then we shouldn’t look like everyone else. You don’t have to compromise your beliefs to bite your tongue, offer kindness and show love to someone you disagree with. And when you do that, who gets the glory? It’s not you.

Nice and Easy Circuit

AO: shamrock
Q: Eliza
PAX: Oscar Meyer, slappy, Nadia (Aaron Jacques), Free Fall (Justin Whitaker), Dumpster Dive, Flower Pot, Crawlspace, Band Camp, Toretto, Honeydew, Stitch, Skidmark, Waxjob
FNGs: None
COUNT: 14
WARMUP: SSH, Hairy Rockettes, Updog, downdog, 5 tempo merks, stretching

THE THANG: mosey to CMU pile and convene in back parking lot

2 sets of exercises in the parking lot and 2 runners. Runners take one short lap around the lot and bump you to the next exercise until it’s your time to run. When done with Set 1, you bump and join set 2 and vice versa.

First set: OH press, V Ups, Curls, Flutter Kicks, CMU Swings, Big boys

Second set: Alternating Rows, Plank Jacks, Bench Press, Side Crunches, Blockees, Heels 2 Heaven

Time for 11’s rocky balboas and curb squats

MARY: built in – 1 minute plan

ANNOUNCEMENTS: disc golf, bonfire, IPC coming up

COT: what are you dedicated to? What gets your focus, energy, time, attention, money?!? Be dedicated to important things whether it’s your M or your 2.0s or your job or quiet time or F3. Evaluate what you’re dedicated to and recalibrate to what’s really important.