F3 Knoxville

Category: The Project

Two Years

THE SCENE:   60 and calm.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER:  Administered
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Moroccan nightclub
  • Seal jacks
  • Abe Vagoda
  • Cherry Pickers
  • Mountain climbers
  • Merkins
  • Projectivator

THA THANG:

Short mosey to the Friendship Bell

  • Raccoon crawl around the perimeter
  • 11s – Chest tap irkins and box jumps

 

Mosey to K-25 Hill.  Pair up.

  • Partner 1:  Up the hill
    • 1st time – Sprint
    • 2nd time – bear crawl
    • 3rd time – Bernie
  • Partner 2 – Exercises
    • 45 burpees
    • 45 BBS
    • 45 lunges (2-ct)
    • 45 squats
    • 45 Merkins

Mosey back.

5 jump squats, 10 wall-ups, 5 jump squats, 15 inverted rows.  Repeato.

MARY:

Sprints – winner leads core exercise.  Repeato until we are all whipped.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

8 of the best men I know

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Two years…  Two years ago, I was the FNG when Snaggletooth led the incredible workout that we repeated this morning.  I am so thankful for this group and grateful to the men who come out day after day to challenge each other physically, spiritually, relationally – I’m a better father, husband, and friend because of F-3 Project.

The reflection that I had for us this morning is from 1 Corinthians 13 – The Love Chapter…

“Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful, it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.”

We zoomed in on those last few words, “…endures all things”.  In the original Greek, the word rendered in English as “endures” is hypomenei.  The word literally means, “remaining under the load” – but suggests something more like a military force that is being besieged and ordered to dig in! Defend the stronghold! Repel the enemy!  What are the enemies of love that we need to repel?  One is complacency.

Complacency is the subtle and silent enemy of your marriage.

There are outliers on either side – but experts say that, on average, it takes about 2 years for the “Honeymoon Phase” of a marriage to taper off.  In the beginning of our relationship, we are smitten with our spouse, wanting to always be around her, wanting to always please her and impress her.  Over time – around 2 years – that feeling tends to wane and a sense of complacency about our marriage can take hold.  What was once fascinating can become familiar.  Where we were once passionate, we can become passive.

Dr. Skip Moen, Academic Dean of Master’s International Divinity School, suggests that the word hypomenei could be understood as, “to stand firm…or to stay alive…”  So, the challenge issued this morning was to do something intentional today to keep alive (or breathe fresh life into) the spark in your marriage.  Don’t overcomplicate it.  It can be simple, like…

  • Ask her more questions
  • Be playful
  • Be spontaneous
  • Make room for quality time together
  • Play a game together
  • Schedule more sex
  • Put a flower on her pillow
  • Share a fantasy with her
  • Greet her with a bear hug after work today
  • Send her a text
  • Pray with her about her struggles
  • Laugh and make her laugh
  • Write her a note
  • Change your pattern of initiating sex
  • Express gratitude and show appreciation for her

Pick one…or a few…. Do it today!

“Love….endures…”

MOLESKIN:

Today was a repeat of the incredible workout Snaggletooth led two years ago.  Here’s his bb; https://f3knoxville.com/45-2/

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Collecting donated items for Safe Haven through the end of the month

Good to be back

THE SCENE: 28 and dry.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER: Check, check, and check.
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Lap around the parking lot and straight to Recruiting Center.
  • SSH
  • tempo Squats
  • LBAC (fwd/back)
  • Cherry Pickers X5
  • Whatever other warmup/stretch you need while I set up the workout.

THA-THANG:

  1. 20-15-10 (Reps with CMU)
  • Curls
  • Thrusters
  • Tricep Extensions
  • Squats
  • LAP around parking lot w/CMU

2. FLORA 1-2-3

  • 100 Merkins while partner holds plank
  • switch every 10
  • LAP around parking lot w/CMU
  • 200 LBC while partner holds 6″ leg lift w/CMU (directly overhead or extended back)
  • switch every 20
  • LAP around parking lot w/CMU
  • 300 Squats w/CMU while partner holds CMU Gore
  • switch every 25
  • LAP around parking lot w/CMU

3. 10’s
• 10 Single arm rows (each side) – Mosey CMU to curb and back
• 10 Lunges (each leg) – Mosey CMU to curb and back
• 10 Good Mornings + 10 BBS– Mosey CMU to curb and back
• 10 Uneven Merks (each side) – Mosey CMU to curb and back
• 10 Kettle swings + 10 Overhead Calf Raises – Mosey CMU to curb and back
RECOVER FOR TIME – MOSEY BACK TO SHOVEL FLAG

MARY:
We had some time for a few: Freddy Mercury, Dolly, Basilisk.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
CRAZY 8 – special shoutout to Wanderer and Miss Fire – welcome back to The Project – way to crush it!

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
What lessons are you still learning from the events of 2020-2021? With the world overturned by the pandemic, politics, social upheaval and violence, I have felt the deep need for more inner silence and stillness. However, being cooped up last year with continuing implications to the present day are no guarantee that we have achieved stillness or silence in our hearts and minds. We know this to be true. Out of the lessons that God is teaching me, I have felt pressed to keep leaning into these lessons which have become promises and blessings of God’s presence and peace. I have to keep rehearsing them, speaking them, reaffirming my faith in God’s strength, wisdom, and grace. In keeping with this practice of speaking blessing and promise over my life, my wife and I pray this blessing adapted from Deuteronomy over our children: “God, we ask that you would cause him [her/us] to flourish; cause him to be above and not below, the head and not the tail, a leader and not a follower, a giver and not a borrower; may he be blessed in order to be a blessing to others.” What do you need to speak out loud over your life? Over your marriage, children, and home? Over your work and your ministry? Learn your lessons. Speak blessing over all whom God has given you.

MOLESKIN:
Just turned 47 – respect is just a few years away! Can’t say how much it means to work out with these guys.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Coffeeteria @ Dunkins!

The Gorilla meets Top Gun

THE SCENE: Rainy! high 40s
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

done as suggested 


WARM-O-RAMA:

   •    Side straddle hops (IC) 4ct
    •    Imperial squakers  (IC) 4ct
    •    Tennessee rocking chair
    •    Cherry pickers
    •    Stretch on your own 30 seconds

THA-THANG:

Because of rain we modified.
Mosey to senior center: Modified gorilla complex, With a cinder block perform the following OYO without stop: 8 Curls For Girls, 8 Overhead Presses, 8 Tricep Extensions, 8 rows then drop coupon for 8 Merkins. Follow this up by a quick mosey to pool center wall. Rinse and Repeat 8 Times.
Mosey with block to dip bar, get some reps in. head to covered stage for modified top gun:
Perform 10 reps each of 5 standing coupon exercises squats, lunges, deadlifts, kettle ball for 10 minutes. The 5 coupon exercises are repeated for the entire 10 minutes. The Danger Zone happens every minute on the minute when PAX drops coupon and perform 3 Burpees, then pick up where they left off on the coupon exercises.
Returned coupons to recruiting center and mosey back AO.

MARY:
no time
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Blocky meets the track

THE SCENE: high 40s beautiful morning
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

done as suggested

WARM-O-RAMA:

 Side straddle hops (IC) 4ct
    •    Imperial squakers  (IC) 4ct
    •    Tennessee rocking chair
    •    Cherry pickers
  • downward and upward dog
    •    Stretch on your own 30 seconds

THA-THANG:

Stair circuit: Two lines carry blocks to school track. Leave half the blocks at one end of track and bring rest to steps. Do circuit with partner one exercise while partner two runs the stairs twice. Curls, triceps, one arm row left then one arm row right.
Blocky track workout: we are calling this build the blocky.
  1. carry blocks to north end of track. Therefore there are blocks 200M apart (north and south end of track). At north end, partner 1 starts with 15 presses while partner 2 runs track backwards for catch-me-if-you-can. After the presses, partner 1 sprints to catch partner 2, where they both turn forward and mosey to second set of blocks. Thus its a sprint from 100 to 200M depending on the exercise and partner. When u catch him, mosey together to south end of track (total run of 200m). Then, 2 count Flutters to 15. Partner switch and repeat.
  2. For the second circuit, repeat the above but do 10 thrusters. everything else the same.
  3. for third circuit, repeat the above but do 5 full blockys.
*Possible modifications for next time, can have cones at 100M, so even if you don’t catch your partner you can turn and mosey. can add a blocky count down, 4 then sprint, 3 then sprint … until 1.
On run back to AO, we did 5 sets of 5-rep blockys with timing determined by next person in run line.

MARY:

1 minutes for Mary, did hello dollys and leg lifts.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

talked about self reflection first thing in the morning to ask yourself what the 3-things that need to get done today. Then a second reflection at mid-day or even to reflect on what worked or didn’t work in achieving those 3-things.

MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Tax Day

THE SCENE: Cool Clear 40s.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
High Knees, SSH, Temp Squats, LBAC, Temp Merkins, Fence Steppers, Pickle Pointers, Fire Hydrants, Reach for the sky and let it hang, Michael Felps
THA-THANG:

The Wall

  • Wall ups
  • Bear crawl the loop
  • Attempt Handstand pushups

Recruiting center – 5/10/15/10/5

  • Farmer step ups
  • Gurls (AL Gore curls)
  • Alpos (cross-grip lifts)
  • Extended Lift (Zombies?)
  • Thruster-extensions
  • Heavy Core Set – 20 each every time
    • LBCs
    • Flutters
    • Freddies
  • Wait for the 6 in a lunge

One set of 10

  • CMU swings
  • Rows
  • Heel raises
  • Heavy core set

MARY:
No time

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
He who knows he has enough is rich.

Tax time for me often works as a self assessment.

In that context, I think it is a good idea to look and see how much I have and consider how much is enough.

Being content has less to do with the “how much” and more to do with your response.

The bible project has a great video on generosity that points out how Jesus didn’t live life focusing on scarcity, but believing and trusting in God’s abundance.
MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS: