F3 Knoxville

Category: McFee – The Farm

Latin Suicides

AO: the-farm
Q: Choir Boy
PAX: Choir Boy, School Zone (Michael Shope), Sharpie
FNGs: None
COUNT: 3
WARMUP: Some SSHs, little baby arm circles (forward and backward), windmills

THE THANG: Mosey to the basketball court for some suicides with exercises.  Start at one baseline, run to the top of the three point line and do 10 reps, run back to the baseline, run to half court and do 20 reps, run back, run to the top of the opposite three point line and do 30 reps, run back, run to the other baseline and do 40 reps, run back and do abs until the six arrives.  

We did squats, merkins, calf raises, CDDs, lunges, and burpees (we made it to the opposite three point line on burpees before time).  So, we did 100 squats, 100 merkins, 100 calf raises, 100 CDDs, 100 lunges (total – 50 each leg), and 60 burpees.  Not bad by 6:15am.  We may have gotten better, but at least we didn’t get worse.  And, School Zone taught us some select Latin words along the way.

MARY: Only had time to hold a plank for a minute.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: None spoken

COT: I sometimes get discouraged that I’m not better (faster, stronger, fitter, etc.) from all of the workouts that I do.  Then, it occurs to me that if this is what I’m like with all of the workouts that I do, imagine where I would be if I didn’t do any. That thought helps motivate me to keep coming out.

Burpee Walk

AO: the-farm
Q: Choir Boy (Kenny Saffles)
PAX: Aladdin, Choir Boy (Kenny Saffles)
FNGs: None
COUNT: 2
WARMUP: SSHs, tempo squats, tempo merkins, some stretching

THE THANG: Burpee Walk – at each light pole around the main loop do 3 burpees and walk to the next one. We did a lap and then jogged the loop to confirm the number of light poles. There are 40. We had more time, so we did 10 more light poles for a total of 50 light poles and 150 burpees.

MARY: Aladdin led us in some flutter kicks, hello dollys, Freddy Mercurys, and LBCs.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: None

COT: Just remembering to take the pic this time

Light pole DORA

AO: the-farm
Q: School Zone (Michael Shope)
PAX: Choir Boy (Kenny Saffles), School Zone (Michael Shope)
FNGs: None
COUNT: 2
WARMUP:

Stretching and such
THE THANG:

DORA at each light pole
Merkins
BBS
Squats
Freddy Mercs

Mosey to bball court for bearcrawls and imperial walkers

MARY:

Ring of fire (line of fire)
Boat canoe

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

BLIMP @ the Farm

AO: the-farm
Q: Choir Boy (Kenny Saffles)
PAX: Choir Boy (Kenny Saffles), Sharpie (Gary Mitchell)
FNGs: None
COUNT: 2
WARMUP: Some stretching, SSHs, little baby arm circles, tempo merkins, tempo squats, windmills

THE THANG: Mosey to the parking lot between the bball courts and tennis courts for a BLIMP.  Following the parking lot/roads around the bball court, do the exercise at 12:00, 3:00, 6:00, 9:00, and again at 12:00 for 5 total sets of the same exercise before moving to the next exercise and round. The exercises and reps for each set were:

Burpees x 10
Lunges x 20
Imperial walkers x 30
Merkins x 40
Plank jacks x 50

MARY: Freddie Mercuries and Box Cutters

ANNOUNCEMENTS: None mentioned

COT:  Sharpie had an early meeting so we cut the formalities short.  We had good mumble-chatter along the way.

Tabata Under the Stars

AO: the-farm
Q: Choir Boy (Kenny Saffles)
PAX: School Zone (Michael Shope), Aladdin (Mansour Hasan), Sharpie (Gary Mitchell), Choir Boy (Kenny Saffles)
FNGs: None
COUNT: 4
WARMUP: Mainly some stretching

THE THANG: Tabata – 20 seconds on, 10 seconds off, 8 rounds, run a lap around the island (taking the Panama Canal to cut it short), rinse and repeat. We got in 6 sets – merkins, squats, CDDs, LBCs, calf raises, and dips

MARY: Star gazers

ANNOUNCEMENTS: None

COT: Remember that as we watch our kids grow, we will miss these days in a few years just as much as we miss the younger days now.