F3 Knoxville

Category: The Project

You are not number one

THE SCENE: a little cool for April, but perfect for a real grinder at the Project.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
15 SSH, 15 Moroccan night club, 10 tempo squats, 5 cherry pickers, 10 tempo merkins
THA-THANG:

The Workout: April metric

Part 1:  RUN

10 minute timer

  • Start the timer, then…
  • Run from Line 1 to Line 2 (~10 yards) and back to Line 1
  • Run from Line 1 to Line 3 (~20 yards) and back to Line 1 
  • Run from Line 1 to Line 4 (~30 yards) and back to Line 1
  • That is 1 rep
  • Rinse and repeat as many times as you can in the 10 minutes.
  • 1 minute rest

Part 2:  AMRAP

3×2 minutes timer

  • Count the total number of reps (cumulative, not individual)
  • Start the timer, then…
  • 2 minutes AMRAP SSH
  • (no rest)
  • 2 minutes AMRAP High Knees (count 1 leg)
  • (no rest)
  • 2 minutes AMRAP mountain climbers (count 1 leg)
  • 3 MINUTES REST AND RECORD 1st ROUND # OF REPS

Now…REPEAT the full routine – starting over with your rep count

Submit four scores: Round 1 run reps, Round 1 AMRAP reps, Round 2 run reps, and Round 2 AMRAP reps.

MARY:
The workout ran long so no time for Mary.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
7 PAX finished strong this morning.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
The You versus You workouts are all about competing against past self and working hard to become better men overall. We can all be commended for wanting to better ourselves as long as our focus is not solely on serving ourselves. Here are a few relevant scriptures to consider.

“Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves; do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others.” – Philippians 2:3-4 NASB1995

And He said to him, “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the great and foremost commandment. The second is like it, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments depend the whole Law and the Prophets.”
Matthew 22:37‭-‬40 NASB1995

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her, – Ephesians 5:25 NASB1995

These are just a few passages of scripture that remind us that we should always be more concerned with serving others over ourselves. We are called to put others desires before our own; love God and then our neighbors; and love our wives such that we are willing to die for them. For example, if we go into an argument with our wives with a mind to win, we have already lost because we are not following God’s will.

You are not number one; you are last.
MOLESKIN:
Poor execution of the warm-up, location of the thang, and timer issues from YHC led to the workout running long. My apologies.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Planning for Hardship Hill is in full swing. Reach out to Mathlete or Biohack to see how you can help.

The Rule of Lurches

THE SCENE: Cool spring morning, don’t get much better. Waxing crescent
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • SSH
  • Hairy Rockettes
  • Imperial Squawkers
  • Tempo Lunges
  • LBACs
  • Grady Corn
  • Moroccan night clubs
  • Cherry pickers

THA-THANG:

  • Mosey to the recruiting center, grab a block
  • CMU pyramid (5, 10, 15, 20, 15 10, 5)
    • Curls
    • Lunges (each leg)
    • OHP
    • Squats
    • Extensions
    • Rows (each arm)
    • 1/2/3/4/3/2/1 pull ups
    • 1 Irkie Dirkie
    • Stopped at 0600
  • Grab a battle buddy and a log
    • Lurches – together, lunge step forward, at the top golden arch to the other shoulder
    • To the top of the parking lot
    • 5 power merkins each
    • To the bottom of the parking lot

MARY:
We definitely did a little
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

I would like to propose a few types of rules that people live by

Rule of War – Do it to them before they do it to us

Eye for an eye – Don’t do worse to them than they did to you

Silver rule – Don’t do to others what you don’t want them to do to you

Golden rule – Do unto others what you would have them do to you

God’s rule – Love your neighbor as yourself (Leviticus 9:18)

Jesus new commandment – Love one another as I have loved you (John 13:34)

Now, if I were a preacher, this could be a whole sermon series, but since I am not, I just want to hang out around last step. When one reads “Love your neighbor as yourself”, it lands as the highest demand that you could make on someone. In fact, I think most people don’t really distinguish the top three tiers of this list. But I think there is actually a lot going on up here at the top.

My eyes have been most opened to this as, over the past ten years, I have attempted to be a father to my son. Being a father has demanded from me an enormous amount of growth, which I frankly didn’t think I needed before I started. When I was married without children, I pretty much had the whole “love your neighbor” thing down. I was a pretty charismatic guy who knew how to steer a situation toward good outcomes, and pretty much did right by all, at least on a comparative scale. And having a baby made it tougher, cause it was exhausting, but I had served on a submarine, so sleep deprivation was kinda normal already. But then the boy turned two and things went downhill. For some reason, he didn’t obey my every word, in spite of my very good imitation of the way good parents act on TV. As the years went on, I descended into a mindset of figuring out how to force my son to behave, and as my methods escalated, I started realizing that I didn’t like the path I was on. But I was caught in a mental trap, on one side an intense responsibility to “raise him right” and an intense reality of how things were actually going.

Eventually, I arrived at the realization that the difference was the rule. For most people, I lived in the golden rule zone, treating them the way I wanted to be treated. But with my son, I was operating on the next level up, I was loving him as myself. Trouble is, I didn’t love myself very well. While on the exterior I was all relaxed and friendly to others, internally I was a slave driver. My son had the unfortunate experience of actually being loved by me more. Pride played a huge role in this, leading me to have low expectations of others while demanding more and more of myself, primarily in the form of external performance. But with Paul, I expected everything, even more than myself because he had the full attention of potentially the greatest dad ever born.

And that’s the genius of Jesus’ new commandment. Rather than allowing my own, twisted internals to set the standard, the expectations are nailed to a cross. I need to stop trying to make a better version of me and start acting like Him.
MOLESKIN:
Ran out of time for my planned work at the wall. Maybe next time.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Hardship Hill, Forg3, Dragon boat race

Concentrica

THE SCENE: Cool and Gloomy
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Projectivator
  • Run around the parking lot
    • High knees
    • Bernie
    • Butt kicks
  • Tempo merkins
  • Tempo squats
  • Cherry pickers

THA-THANG:

Concentrica:

  • M – Relationship with your wife – your center
    • 100 merkins
    • Hold Al Gore for the 6
  • Shorties – Relationship with your kids – your legacy
    • 50 LBCs
    • 50 flutter kicks
    • 50 Freddy Mercuries
    • Hold plank for the 6
  • Shieldlock – Your team for mutual defense
    • 100 step ups
    • Dips for the 6
  • Whetstone – Mentor/mentee
    • 20 burpees – it’s hard, but it makes you better
    • Hold Al Gore for the 6
  • Mammon – Your work, love it or hate it
    • Run 2 laps
    • Wagon wheel for the 6

MARY:
Because relationships can be hard, we did 5 walpies on the way back to the shovel flag.  Upon returning to the flag, we did “popcorn mary” where I picked a PAX to lead an exercise until time ran out.

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

  • How do you measure success in your life? Money? Things? Friends? Church attendance? Fitness?
  • Wrong scoreboards!
  • The Concentrica should be our scoreboard as seen from a Biblical worldview.
  • We should measure our success by the quality of the relationships we have on the Concentrica.
  • Which of these 5 rings are you missing in your life?
  • Which of them do you need to invest more in?

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Thirsty Third Thursday at Orange Hat Brewing.  Free drinks for veterans.  OTB this Saturday if a Q steps up.

We aren’t animal

THE SCENE: clear  and chilly
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMERWas given.

WARM-O-RAMA:
Little Baby arm circle forward and back

Tempo merkins

Downward dog, upward dog,

Zebra butt kicks, awkward turtles

THA-THANG:
Mosey to the bricks for 6 rounds of gorilla complex

  • 8 curls
  • 8 pull ups
  • 8 OHD pree
  • 8 triceps extensions
  • 8 merkins

The we did 10 rounds of yoke walk. Picking up a heavy log and Pax pair up to carry it.

 

MARY:
Two rounds of 10 reps of zebra butt kicks and awkward turtles.

Then two rounds of duck jousting

Duck walking  and trying to knock another PAX, down.

then a 1 minute of Thunderstruck
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

Genesis 1:26‭-‬28

MOLESKIN:

God in his sovereignty,  tells us 4 times that we are made in his image and in today’s day were identity is being challenged we need to remember to look to God, and accept his gift of love through salvation and remember he came to earth in the form of man to so we could have fellowship again .

Below is something that was apart of my morning devotion.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Hardship hill is coming on memorial day

Queen for your Queen

THE SCENE: Cool and Clear, brisk for Spring but totally perfect, waning gibbous overhead
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Hairy Rockettes
  • Cheerleaders
  • Moroccan nightclubs
  • Grady corn
  • Cherry pickers
  • Mountain climbers
  • Tempo merkins
  • Pickle pounders
  • Pickle pointers

THA-THANG:

  • Mosey to the Friendship Bell
  • Bicycle race 3:04
    • 20 4-ct freddies, 5 rowboats x5
    • 10 4-ct mountain climbers, 5 pickle pounders
  • Another one bites the dust 3:37
    • Mucho chesto at songs pace
    • 10 Catalina wine mixers
  • Hammer to fall 3:40
    • 20 4-ct American hammers
    • 20 imperial squawkers
  • Headlong 4:33
    • 20 drydocks, run
    • 20 basilisks, run
    • 10 dive bombers, run
    • 10 speed skaters, run
    • Repeat to end of song
  • Breakthru 4:09
    • 20 squats
    • 20 Lunges
    • 20 step ups
    • 20 dips
    • 20 hello Dolly’s
    • Repeat to end of song
  • Flash 2:48
    • Indian run around the loop
  • Mosey to the pool wall
  • I want it all 4:01
    • 6 Wall ups
    • 6 BttW shoulder taps
    • Wall sit until they say “I want it all”
  • RTF

MARY:
No time, and I had Bohemian Rhapsody all ready to go…
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

In F3, we spend a lot of time talking about working out, but there is another part of fitness that we rarely talk about, what I would call the silent majority of fitness, the queen. Exercise is awesome, but without the right supplies, it won’t make the change we are hoping for. Trouble is, there are so many different aspects and topics and controversies that can muddy the water. So I just wanted to touch on some of the basics that I think are generally agreed upon.

  • You can’t out-king your queen, or another way I have heard it said, you can’t outrun your fork. There is not an amount of exercise you are capable of doing that will allow you to eat whatever you want. Your ability to consume calories Completely outpaces your ability to burn them
  • In – out = accumulation. That’s it. There are no tricks to understanding your weight. If you eat more than you burn, you will accumulate.
  • Drink water. Signals from the body can be confusing, and it common to try and address thirst by eating! Before you eat, drink water to make sure you are actually hungry. Also, you will feel way better and it will help manage the stunning amount of salt in the American diet.
  • Quality protein. We 90s kids were raised in a world that seemed to think protein was outdated, so we have bad habits about eating primarily carbs. An exercising man should eat about 1 g of protein per 2 pounds of body weight. That’s more than the nutrition facts imply, unless you weigh less than 100 lbs. Try to center your meals on a food that is high in protein, which my rule of thumb is 25% or more of the calories from protein. If you don’t want to do the math, more grams of protein than fat is a good place to start and pretty much avoid things made with grains.

MOLESKIN:
Something different for each song was kinda fun, but it was too much briefing. Shoulda made a sheet or something.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
ESCAPE FROM HAW RIDGE!!!!!