F3 Knoxville

Category: The Project

The Madison Hotels Decathlon: Team Billy vs Team Eric

AO: the-project
Q: Nosedive
PAX: Mathlete, Baby Face, Munge, Biohack, Lt. Dan, Ocho, Tom Tom, TombRaider
FNGs: None
COUNT: 9
WARMUP:
Side Straddle Hops x15
Hairy Rockettes x15
Moroccan Night Clubs x15
Tempo Squats x15
Cherry Pickers x5

THE THANG:
Mosey over to the CMUs
Separate into 2 teams (Team Billy and Team Eric)
Teams gain 1 point every time a player completes an exercise listed on a drawn index card, runs down to the far wall of the parking lot and back to simulate putting a bag of flaming dog poo on Old Man Clemens’s porch, followed by 10 Merkins
2 points can be gained if a player carries his CMU with him across the parking lot and completes 5 (each leg) Sloppy Joes (Cotton-Eyed Joes, but extra sloppy)
CMU workouts included: squats, American hammers, dips, heavy box cutters, derkins, chest presses, heavy Freddies, triceps, heavy lunges, we’re not worthies, grave diggers, blockees, murder bunnies, big boys, upright rows, and overhead presses (w/ optional saying “O’Doyle rules!” with each rep)
Team Eric won, but Carl got the company in the end
Mosey back to the flag following the imaginary penguin

MARY:
No time

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Convergence this Saturday 7-12-25!!!

COT:
July 7 – My Utmost For His Highest by Oswald Chambers – All Noble Things Are Difficult
“Thank God He does give us difficult things to do! His salvation is a glad thing, but it is also a heroic, holy thing. It tests us for all we are worth.”
Failure is part of getting better

Wall-pees and a circuit

AO: the-project
Q: Erector
PAX: Baby Face, Mathlete, Ocho, Nosedive, skewer, Tom Tom, Erector
FNGs: None
COUNT: 7
WARMUP:
15 SSH, 15 Mountain climbers, 10 tempo merkins, 15 Moroccan night club, 10 tempo squats, 5 cherry pickers
THE THANG:
Mosey to the pool wall for the start of an AMRAP style workout. Do 5 wall-pees, run to the amphitheatre for legs, run up the hill for core, and run to the playground for upper body.
Legs- 20 step-ups and 20 squats
Core- 20 Freddy Mercury and 20 American hammers
Upper- 5 pull-ups and 20 merkins
Do both exercises at each station and AMRAP.
MARY:
Planks
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Convergence Saturday!
COT:
I have often struggled with the concept of trusting in God. It is not that I don’t believe He can do what He says, but I struggle with the implementation. How does God work in the world today? How does He consider my requests through prayer but still know what the outcome will be? The problem with my struggle is that I can’t truly answer any of these questions. The answer is to trust God!
Proverbs 3:5-6 NASB1995
[5] Trust in the Lord with all your heart And do not lean on your own understanding. [6] In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He will make your paths straight.
God’s ways are greater than man’s, so we need to trust that God will do what accomplishes His will. His will is what is best for us.

Battle Royal Team Erector vs Team Slappy

AO: the-project
Q: Flying Dutchman
PAX: Erector, Lt. Dan, Tom Tom, Mathlete, Haggis, Nosedive, Flying Dutchman, Ocho, Baby Face, slappy, Crawlspace, Munge, Chicken Bone, Snaggletooth (Elijah Tafao), @Dart Gun, None
FNGs: 1 None
COUNT: 15
WARMUP:
SSH, Moroccan Nightclub, LBAC, Willie Mays Hayes, Temp Squats, Cherry Pickers
THE THANG:
Team Erector vs Team Slappy compete for most points. Start from the flag and take off to complete three steps. Step 1- one person needs to visit the Bell, the wall, the playground and the pull-up bar. The must complete and excercise and pick up an envelope with a 1 or a 2 on it depending who arrived first. While the is happening the rest of the team is running to the starting point to complete step 2. Flip cards and complete excercise until 35 are complete for the team. Round 3, continue to flip cards but add running up the stairs, do 1 burpee and the back down. Continue doing that until time is called. Excercises include: Derkins, Diamond Derkins, Wide Arm Derkins, Man Makers , Murder Bunnies, Blockees, Curls, Presses, Tricepts. Chest Press, Thusters, Colt 45, Lt Dans, Heavy Squats, Heavy Lunges, Bear Crawl, Mountain Climbers, Dips, SSH, Karate Jacks, Heavy Dolly’s, Heavy Box Cutters, Heavy Fullers, Heavy Big Boys, John Cusack, Kevin MacCallister, Bent Rows, Upright Rows, America Hammers, CMU Swings, Wall-ups.
MARY:
None
ANNOUNCEMENTS:

COT:
Read quote from the Independence Day movie and compared it to Independence Day quotes from our founding fathers George Washington, John Adam’s, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin. The movie quote does get you hyped up to fight for our freedom, and the founding fathers did the same but each added something about God and Christ and our duty there. Speaking about God alongside everything was expected as they understood that without God they would not have anything. It is right, honorable and respectful to be proud of our country, flag and our Independence Day; however, we should never want independence from God. We in Christ are happy servants to a loving God and Savior.

5 years after Erector

AO: the-project
Q: Mathlete
PAX: KickFlip, Rocket, Snaggletooth (Elijah Tafao), TombRaider, Baby Face, Erector, Tom Tom, Mooch, Lt. Dan, Mathlete, flyball
FNGs: None
COUNT: 11
WARMUP:
15 SSH, 15 mountain climbers, 10 tempo merkins, 15 Moroccan night club, 10 harry Rockettes, 10 tempo squats

THE THANG:
Mosey to the stairs behind the theater. Perform 3 rounds of the following exercises at the bottom and then run to the top of the stairs after each exercise.

25 merkins, up and down the stairs, repeat x 3
25 squats, same as above
25 heels to Heaven, same as above
10 burpee bonus single round (repeat til everyone gets there)

Mosey to the amphitheater. 3 sets of 15 box jumps and 15 dive bombers.

We had to add one more thing because of the beasts crushing the workout this morning. Bear crawl up the hill and do 10 burpees and mosey back down.
MARY:
Low plank to finish the minute.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Starfish convergence on July 12th, 6 am right here at The Project!
COT:
Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 4:6‭-‬7 NASB

Scripture speaks several times about not being anxious. This is because anxiety comes out of the empty space between our lived trust in God and the trust that he deserves. When I feel anxious about my wife and her imminent labor and delivery, even though that is normal and expected, it is revealing a gap in my trust. My confidence in God’s good and Providence is incomplete, and I have taken upon myself the burden of filling the gap, covering for God. So I remind myself, and also you today, that we shouldn’t take on so much. It’s not for us to carry. Though we may well face pain and loss, he can and will make it right in the end.

Burn Burn Burn

AO: the-project
Q: Tom Tom
PAX: Mathlete, Baby Face, Biohack, Ocho, Borg, 3-Peat (Carlos Rodriguez), Chicken Bone, TombRaider, Artemis, Nosedive, Mooch
FNGs: None
COUNT: 12
WARMUP:

Projectivators
Tempo squats
Elevator merkins
Cherry pickers

THE THANG:

Go to blocks

Rings of Fire
Do a ring of fire (1 2 3 2 1)
Run a ring around the parking lot

Overhead press (hold block up)
Squats (hold squat)
Heavy big boys (hold block up)
Curls (hold 90 degrees)
Lunges (hold squat)
Heavy flutters (hold block up)
Triceps (hold block up)
Blockies (hold plank)

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Convergence at the-project July 12, 6am

COT:

Luke 16:19-23

There was a rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day.
And at his gate was laid a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores,
who desired to be fed with what fell from the rich man’s table. Moreover, even the dogs came and licked his sores.
The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s side. The rich man also died and was buried,
and in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side.

Hell is real and forever is a long time.
I need to remember this when I talk with my own friends and loved ones. Lest we forget.

John 3:36

Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.