F3 Knoxville

Category: The Project

December metric

AO: the-project
Q: Mathlete
PAX: Biohack, Ocho, OBrother, Icey Hot, Erector, Munge, Flying Dutchman, Mathlete, Haggis
FNGs: None
COUNT: 9

WARMUP:
Windmills, cherry pickers, tempo merkins, mountain climbers
THE THANG:
Escalators
1: Burpees x 5
2: 1 + Squat Thrusters with CMU x 10
3: 1-2 + CMU Bicep Curls x 15
4: 1-3 + Merkins x 20
5: 1-4 + Little Baby Crunches (LBCs) x 25
6: 1-5 + Lunges x 30 (15 each leg)
7: 1-6 + Carolina Dry Docks x 35
8: 1-7 + Mountain Climbers x 40 (two-count)
9: 1-8 + Goblet Squats with CMU x 45
10: 1-9 + American Hammer with CMU x 50 (single-count)
MARY:
no time
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
convergences Jan 6 Arsenal, Jan 20 big ball
COT:
We live in a culture that tends to value masculine virtues like strength and courage, but feminine virtues are just as important. One of these is vulnerability. Vulnerability is showcased especially during Christmas, when God, who is most powerful, chooses to lower himself to the place of the most vulnerable, a baby human, living in a country oppressed by a conquering nation, to poor parents. Jesus demonstrates this virtue throughout his ministry with the climax at Calvary, when he gives himself up to his enemies, though he had legions of angels at his call. He preferred His own suffering and death at their hands over the destruction of His enemies. Vulnerability is necessary for any relationship. Ocho gave us a great quote from CS Lewis’s Four Loves about how vulnerability is a non-negotiable part of love. With those stakes, we better learn to be vulnerable.

Super Tuesday

AO: the-project
Q: Unibráu (Nick Robinson)
PAX: slappy, Erector, Tom Tom, Snaggletooth (Elijah Tafao), Rocket, 3-Peat (Carlos Rodriguez), Mathlete, Icey Hot, OBrother, Biohack, Borg, Flying Dutchman
FNGs: None
COUNT: 13

WARMUP:
Preparation Drills
THE THANG:
Conditioning Drill 1 and 2, followed by super 21s
MARY:
Flutter kicks, scissor kicks and side crunches.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT: Stay consistent and keep progressing.

12 Heavy Pains of Christmas

AO: the-project
Q: Biohack
PAX: Erector, Flying Dutchman, Biohack, OBrother, slappy, Papa Lock, Tom Tom, Feeny, Munge
FNGs: None
COUNT: 9
WARMUP:
-Projectivator
-Cherry Pickers
-Tempo Merkins

THE THANG:
Death march to hill on ORAU campus parking lot. Then do the first exercise, run up and down the hill, do 2 + 1, run, do 3 +2 + 1, run, etc. Just like the song.

1. Blockee
2. Elves on the shelf
3. Thrusters
4. Derkins
5. Big Boys
6. Lunges
7. Curls
8. Rows
9. Diamond derkins
10. Tricep extensions
11. Squats
12. Blockees

MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:
This month, billions of people around the world will celebrate the birth of a Jewish baby in a town in a land that they don’t think Jews lived in before 1948.

The current conflict (and past and future ones) were foretold in Genesis to Abraham by God. He promised that the decedents of his 2 sons would fight until the end times.

Slap-opoly

AO: the-project
Q: slappy
PAX: Biohack, Borg, Boy George, Erector, KickFlip, OBrother, Ocho, Papa Lock, slappy, Tuba (Dylan Cox), Flying Dutchman, Tom-Tom
FNGs: None
COUNT: 12
WARMUP:
-reach for the stars/hang low
-twistys
-down/up dogs
-go-getters
-jumping spider
-iron mikes
-friendship merkins

THE THANG:
-we separated into 4 teams.
1. Cobra Commanders
2. Chuck Norris’s
3. The Terminators
4. The A-Team

The parking lot was the game board. Each team was given 2 oversized dice. You roll, move that many spaces, and do the exercise (based on the roll). 10 points for every complete lap and 1 pt per stop.

MARY:
-Flutter kicks
-leg lifts with slow hello dollys
-Freddy mercs

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
-the farm kick off
-Shamruck flag handoff to @Eliza
-1/20/24 big ball convergence

COT:
I listed out some of the top ten statements that I’ve said to myself while doing F3 over the past 4 years. (Don’t have the list with me right now. I’ll update this later)

The Ocho Ocho (88) Q

AO: the-project
Q: Ocho
PAX: Flying Dutchman, Biohack, Munge, Mathlete, slappy, Icey Hot, Tom Tom, Rocket
FNGs: None
COUNT: 9
Disclaimed the brethren.

WARMUP:
10 x each:
SSH IC, TEMPO SQUATS IC, TEMPO MERKINS IC, Mountain Climbers IC, Willie Mays Hayes, Michael Phelps

THE THANG:
Mosey to Bell
– watch your form, don’t blitz through it…aim for perfect form.
– everyone aim to hit 88 reps, break it up 4/22 or 8/11 or whatever.
– we’ll keep working until every man feels like he got the full benefit of that set.
– When you hit 88, start doing LBCs, big boys, box cutters, or flutter kicks (something core).

88 Dips/LBCs till 6 is done
Mosey to K25

88 Bobby Hurleys/LBCs till 6 is done
Mosey to Y12

88 Lunges up the hill/LBCs till 6 is done
Mosey back to Bell

88 Merkins/LBCs till 6 is done
Mosey to Sr Center

88 Curls w/ rocks/LBCs till 6 is done
Mosey to Flag

88 Monkey Humpers/LBCs till 6 is done

MARY:
We call this the Gloom.
Psalm 88 may be the gloomiest of the Psalms. Most end on hope. Not this one. But it’s so good to know God knows that we have days that feel like this and doesn’t turn us away. He calls us to cry out to Him.

Read PS 88 (NLT).

So just like in our workout: when things are gloomy, watch, wait, and pray. Check your form. Slow down. Wait on another guy. Know that God hears you even in the gloom.

Before you know it the gloom will be over. At least till next time.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
ROCO launch convergence. 12 Pains @ JUCO Wed.

COT: