F3 Knoxville

The Super Kraken

THE SCENE: 73°F, Gloomy and Muggy
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA: (all IC 4-count)

  • SSH x36  IC 4-count
  • Merkins x12 OYO
  • Imperial Walker x36  IC 4-count
  • Merkins x12 OYO
  • Imperial Squawkers x36 IC 4-count
  • Merkins x12 OYO

THA-THANG:
Mosey to the ORHS Front Circle
Super Kraken (its a big loop):
Complete exercises at each cone and keep running around the ORHS Front Circle. Rinse and repeat until time is up.

  • Cone 1 – Jump Squats x36
  • Cone 2 – Shoulder Taps (4ct) x36
  • Cone 3 – Mountain Climber 4ct x36
  • Cone 4 – Squats x36
  • Cone 5 – Smurf Jacks x36
  • Cone 6 – Merkins x36
  • Cone 7 – Dry Docks x36
  • Cone 8 – Lunges x36 (18 each leg)

Mosey back to SP

MARY:

  • Flutter Kicks x36 IC
  • Stretching Flow: touch the sky–> touch your toes–> touch the sky–> touch your toes–> leg stretch–> leg stretch

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Rocket, Chaco, Erector, Frenchie, Snaggletooth, Kickflip, Trolley, Archie (QIC)

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
As a parent it is important to:
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.”
‭‭Proverbs 3:5 ESV‬‬
https://www.bible.com/59/pro.3.5.esv
God is in control of how your kids turn out. Be faithful and do what you think He is telling you to do. Trust in God for the outcome.

MOLESKIN
Recommendations from Frenchie for next year:

  • Give the PAX the option to skip 1 cone at their own choosing, but they still have to run the associated lap. It’s like a birthday present to the PAX 🙂
  • Make any 10 count rest a 36, or next year a 37 count

Tabata Tuesday @The Project

THE SCENE: muggy but not the rain we could have had – perfect for F3 workout
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Cherrypickers – SSH – Arm Circles – Tempo Squats – Tempo Merkins – Mosey over to Playground

THA-THANG:  (“A String of 3 Pearls…”)

3 sets of Playground Pull-ups (10) Alternating w/Parallel Bar Dips (10)

Mosey over to Outdoor Amphitheater for 3 Cycles of Tabatas (20s ON/10s OFF)

  • Cycle 1 – 8 sets of High Knees Running in Place
  • 30s Recover
  • Cycle 2 – 8 sets of Squats (or Lunges)
  • 30s Recover
  • Cycle 3 – 8 sets of BBS (or LBC)
  • 30s Recover

Move to Other Stage of Amphitheater for

11’s of Box Jump/Step Up on Stage + Bernie Up Hill to Platform for Burpees.

MARY:
NONE FOR TIME

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Good job, Erector and Chaco. It would have lonely there without you guys…

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
MOLESKIN:
 ANNOUNCEMENTS:

The Dash

THE SCENE:  74 degrees and clear
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Cherry Pickers – IC
Windmill – IC
Motivators (brought this one back from a post in St. Louis)
Tempo Squats – IC
Tempo Merkins – IC
Leg stretches OYO

THA-THANG:

Mosey to the track for Hundred Yard DASHes:

Set a recurring timer for 1-minute intervals.

DASH 100 meters.  Upon arriving at the mark, begin exercise (called by Q) and continue until the timer sounds (every minute, on-the-minute).  When the timer sounds, DASH again to the next mark and perform the next exercise (called by Q).  Repeat for 4 laps.

Example:  Lap 1
0-1:00 – DASH to 100 meters and perform hand-release merkins until timer sounds
1:01-2:00 – DASH to 200 meters and perform flutter kicks until timer sounds
2:01-3:00 – DASH to 300 meters and perform Carolina dry docks until timer sounds
3:01-4:00 – DASH to 400 meters and hold plank

Repeat (changing exercises) for Laps 2-4

Lap 2: Wide-arm merkins, Dollys, scorpion dry docks, side crunch (one side)
Lap 3: Diamond merkin, LBFC (flutter crunch), peter parkers, side crunch (other side)
Lap 4: merkins, War Hammer (BBS + 4 AH), shoulder taps, low plank

Mosey to the parking lot for Cone Battle

8 cones set out – 4 standing (“up”) and 4 tipped on their side (“down”).  Divide into two teams; Team Up and Team Down.  Goal of each team is to get all 8 cones either up or down.  Perform exercise and DASH to a cone, placing it up – or knocking it down.  Continue until one team gets all cones simultaneously up or down – call out when completed.  Stop at 3 minutes, if not completed.

Round 1: 10 BBS
Round 2: 3 HRBs
Switch to 1-minute intervals
Round 3: 5 Sumo Squat
Round 4: Lunges
Round 5: LBCs
Round 6: No exercise, just DASH

MARY:

Squeaky Bed Dolly (when your legs open, crunch and push your hands between your legs)
Superman/Merkin Intervals

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Last week, we buried my grandmother – Edith Otten.  At her funeral, my mother shared many fond memories and spoke of the legacy that her mother passed down to her.  She also read from the Psalms;

Psalm 39:4-5

“Lord, remind me how brief my time on earth will be.

Remind me that my days are numbered—

how fleeting my life is.

You have made my life no longer than the width of my hand.

My entire lifetime is just a moment to you;

at best, each of us is but a breath.”

 

Seneca the Younger was a citizen of ancient Rome – a philosopher, a statesman, and an advisor to emperor Nero.  According to legend, he corresponded with Paul the Apostle.  Some early Christian writers, such as Martin of Braga, were influenced by his philosophies.  Among Seneca’s many known works is “De Brevitate Vitae” – The Shortness of Life.  This stoic work contains many nuggets of wisdom, including;

“It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.”

 

Psalm 90 is unique among the Psalms; in that it is the only Psalm attributed to Moses.  Verse 12, “Teach us to number our days carefully so that we may develop wisdom in our hearts.”

 

Someday there will be a headstone with your name on it.  It will have the date you were born and the date that you died.  In between those dates, there will be a DASH.  That dash represents today, this week, this year.  You are living that DASH.  Are you doing your utmost to use your precious few years wisely?

What bad habits do you need to put to death?

What good habits do you need to cultivate into your life?

What hatchets need buried?

What relationships need investment?

Lord, teach us to number our days carefully – not so that we would fear death, but rather that we would be encouraged to live life well!

MOLESKIN:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Independence Day Parade

Saved By the Bell

THE SCENE: 71°F, No rain yet, but plenty of humidity
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • SSH x20 IC 4-count
  • Burpees x4 OYO
  • Imperial Walker x20 IC 4-count
  • Burpees x6 OYO
  • Imperial Squawkers x20 IC 4-count
  • Burpees x8 OYO

THA-THANG:
Mosey to the Bell
21s- box jumps and dips

Mosey to the ORAU pond walkway (scenic route)
Run laps around the pond:
Before the lap, OYO

  1. Merkins x20
  2. Squats x20
  3. Shoulder Taps (4ct) x10
  4. Smurf Jacks x20
  5. Scorpion Dry Docks x20

Mosey back to SP

MARY:

  • Flutter Kicks x25 IC
  • LBC x20 IC
  • American Hammer x15 IC
  • Stretching Flow: touch the sky–> touch your toes–> touch the sky–> touch your toes–>plank–> leg stretch–> plank–> leg stretch

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
5- Erector, Kickflip, Chaco, Snaggletooth, Archie (QIC)

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
“For physical training is of some value, but godliness has value for all things, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come.”
‭‭1 Timothy 4:8 NIV‬‬
https://www.bible.com/111/1ti.4.8.niv

Don’t neglect the 3rd F

Moleskin:
We did 21s by the bell and we stopped the laps at the pond right before it was time to do burpees, so today’s theme was being saved by the bell 🙂

Rocky Balboa moment at the Project

THE SCENE: A little cooler.  Perfect!
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

15 SSH, 15 mountain climbers, 10 tempo squats, 10 windmill
THA-THANG:
Mosey to the AO’s biggest hill (i.e. K2/5 hill, The Ridge, etc…it goes by many names at this point).  Perform a pyramid with merkins at the bottom and squats at the top:  10, 20, 30, 20, 10 reps.

Covering some ground this morning we moseyed over to the track at the high school.  We got the whole body covered at the track.  We performed the following exercises at the 100 meter marks and added a station up the steps on the west side of the school (definitely feeling some Rocky Balboa at the top!).

  • 10 diamond merkins
  • 20 narrow squats
  • 15, 4-ct Freddie Mercury

We moseyed back to the flag and got a little Mary in.
MARY:
15 Heels to Heaven, 20 American Hammer, and 15 Hello Dolly
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
5 HIMs!
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Matthew 7:13-14 – “Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it.  For the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life, and there are few who find it.”

We can be “all-in” with our faith, but if we have errors in our convictions, we can be one of the many mentioned above.  Paul, before he met Christ on the road to Damascus, was zealous for the Lord.  However, he was persecuting Christians!  Jesus corrected Paul and he became one of the biggest influencers for the Church.  Consider the things you hear about God and the Bible and study them to make sure they are true.  Always seek the truth!

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Planning in the works for upcoming CSAUPs.  Look for announcements about 2nd F lunches in Oak Ridge!