F3 Knoxville

Category: Quacken

The Quacken AO Launch!

THE SCENE: 50 degrees. Cloudy. Little rain toward the end.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

WARM-O-RAMA:

Warmed up in an adjacent pavilion b/c we couldn’t all fit in the normal one!

SSH X20 4ct IC

Cherry Pickers x10 IC

Annie’s – x8 each forward and backward each.

Little bit of this, little bit of that…

Imperial Walkers x10 4CT
THA-THANG:
Relay run with the 20lb baby around the Fountain City Park loop 1 time. Turn around and run up to the Gresham Hill continuing the relay run with the 20lb baby.

Welsh Dragons (Happy St. David’s Day!)

  • Bear crawl position the whole time. Move forward 4 steps.
  • Do 1 merkin
  • Do 1 plank jack
  • Do 1 pair of back of shoulder taps
  • Bear crawl forward another 4 steps.
  • Rinse and repeat for ~30ft adding 1 rep to each move every time.
  • Rest and then turn around and go halfway back-ish toward where we started starting over at 1 rep each.

Relay run with 20lb baby back down Gresham Hill around the side to the Duck Pond.

The Quacken Circuit

  • 8 station circuit around the Duck Pond. 20 reps of listed exercise at each station, except the last station which is 10 Kraken Burpees (regular burpee with 3 hand-release merkins at the bottom). Repeat the loop 2x or until time.
  • #1 – 20 Squats
  • #2 – 20 Merkins
  • #3 – 20 Overhead Claps 2CT
  • #4 – 20 LBCs
  • #5 – 20 American Hammers 2CT
  • #6 – 20 Mountain Climbers 2CT
  • #7 – 20 SSH 2CT
  • #8 – 10 Kraken Burpees (3 hand-release merkins at the bottom)
  • Ran out of time, but almost finished 2nd loop

Relay run back to the AO with 20lb baby.

MARY:
Out of time! We had too much fun.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
18 HIMs made it out for the launch! Herbie, Abort, Half caff, Mr. Wedgie, SiPad, Bowflex, Chaucer, Hamm, Belding, Fast-n-Easy, Swanson, Quagmire, Detention, Ghost, Tank, Doubtfire, Erector, Filter
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Philippians 2:3-4 “Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.”
MOLESKIN:
4 takeaways for today:

  1. Accountability – Hold one another accountable to make it out here. Encourage one another to get better and be better. Hold one another accountable in our regular lives outside our workout times as well.
  2. Q! Sign up to Q! Everyone has the ability, wherewithal and capacity to do it. We can help. You can do it.
  3. Mend House – Come out and post with these guys on Wednesdays at 6pm. They’re a great group of guys to workout with and we all benefit from being around one another.
  4. Give Back – Give back to the AOs where you post. Volunteer for a cleanup day or help do things around the park / school / etc. I know we can definitely help the Lions Club keep FC Park clean and running well for everyone to use.
    ANNOUNCEMENTS:
    Chili cook-off tonight 6-8pm at Fort Loudoun Yacht Club. Reach out to Rusty or Doubtfire for more info.

    F3 Knoxville, The Quacken
    Launch of The Quacken AO in Fountain City on March 1, 2019.

B.O.M.B.S. at the FC OTB with O.T.C.!

THE SCENE: Low 40s, partly cloudy, still wet from last night.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

I’m not a professional! 🙂 1 FNG! So many letters in the title of this post.
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH – x27 IC (I got distracted and we did too many, sorry!)

Cherry Pickers – x10 IC

Annie’s – x7 each arm front and back, then switch. IC

Imperial Walkers – x10 4CT
THA-THANG:
B.O.M.B.S.

Mosey to church parking lot. Partner up. 1 Partner runs to the top of Hotel Drive while the other does the exercises at the bottom. Keep switching out until all exercises are done.

  • 50 – Body Builder Burpees
  • 100 – Overhead Claps 2CT
  • 150 – Merkins
  • 200 – BBS
  • 250 – Squats

Recover

MARY:
Bearpees in the parking lot from one end to the other.

Bearcrawl 4 “steps” and then do 1 burpee.

Recover
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
4 HIMs – one of those an FNG! Welcome, O.T.C.! Herbie, Frasier, and Filter round out the count.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Pat Summitt’s Definite Dozen – Take Full Responsibility

Take ownership of your actions. Admit when you screw up. Be accountable. Hold one another accountable.
MOLESKIN:
Prayers for Herbie’s kid w/ strep, Frasier’s travels, Filter’s mom, MIL, and Aunt-in-law.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
March 1 is the official AO launch! This location is officially up on the F3 Knoxville website, too, if you’d like to share with an FNG. It’s starting to feel official! https://f3knoxville.com/the-quacken/

 

Mend House – Burpees and Bear Crawls

THE SCENE: Clear and 48
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Mosey from the Mend House to the Gresham Parking Lot

  • Burpees 0
  • SSH 10x 4ct IC
  • Burpees 2
  • LBAC 10x 4ct IC Forward & Backward
  • Burpees 4
  • Cherry Pickers 10 4ct IC
  • Burpees 6
  • Air Squats 10x IC
  • Burpees 8
  • Overhead claps 10 4ct IC
  • Burpees 10

THA-THANG:

  • Ascending Bear Crawls
    • 1 Merkin, Bear crawl across the lot, 2 Merkins, Bear crawl, …. to 10 Merkins
  • 21s
    • BBS – Start with 1 (increase by 1 each time)
    • Run to end of the lot
    • Leg Lifts – Start with 20 (reduce by 1 by each time)
    • Continue until numbers are flip-flopped.

MARY:

  • Circle of Pain – Merkins (start with 5 down to 1)

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
11 Hims, 9 from Mend House (2 FNGs)

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
As a group of men we need to hold one another up, strengthen and encourage each other. Just as a body has different aspects to build it up, we each have unique strengths that can apply to the group.

Ephesians 4:16

16 from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.

MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
The Quaken will launch on March 1st. Mark your calendars.

Thunderstruck Annie OTB

THE SCENE: PERFECT – Low 50s. Cloudy. Dry.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

I, sirs, am not a professional.
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x25 IC 4CT

Cherry Pickers x10 IC

Annie IC – 7 each arm forward and back IC

  • Plank position. Extend one arm out to do a BAC 7x forward. Switch arms and repeat. Switch arms and reverse rotation. Bonus points for doing them at the same time…

Air Squared –

  • People’s chair with 20 overhead claps OYO

THA-THANG:
Mosey to parking lot across the street.

4 stations, 30 reps each lap, 5 laps total.

  • 150 merkins
  • 150 imperial walkers 2CT
  • 150 overhead claps 1CT
  • 150 curb jumps

BBS when done.

Time left –

  • Sprint one end of the lot to the other. Do 1 burpee. Sprint back. Repeat 3x.

MARY:
Mosey back to AO.

PAX selected 20 reps of their favorite exercise for the group to do:

Flutter kicks 4CT IC, BBS OYO, American Hammers 4CT IC, Squats IC

Thunderstruck – do one pushup every time they say “Thunder” or “Thunderstruck” and plank otherwise for the duration of the song.

Tempo Squats until time. 20 IC

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Mr. Wedgie, Frasier, Abort, Clinger, Herbie, Filter
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Prayers for Wedgie’s mom, Filters mom, MIL, and aunt-in-law, Frasier’s big decisions,
MOLESKIN:
Philippians 2:3-4 – “Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.”
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
AO launch on Friday, March 1 at 5:30am!

Flying headlock con queso at the Fountain City OTB

THE SCENE: Low 40s. Very foggy.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x25 IC 4CT

Cherry Pickers x15 IC

BAC x25 IC 4CT

Flutters – x10 4CT IC

THA-THANG:
Mosey to the base of the Gresham Middle hill

  • 11s
    • 1 jump squat at the bottom
    • 10 burpees at the first lit light pole about 3/4 of the way to the parking lot up the steps along the path
    • repeat until numbers reversed

Mosey to the Duck Pond

  • 3 situp stations around the left half of the pond loop
    • Station #1 – 25 BBS OYO followed by 10 overhead claps OYO. Run to #2.
    • Station #2 – 25 Edward Scissorlegs followed by 10 overhead claps OYO. Run to #3.
    • Station #3 – 25 LBCs followed by 10 overhead claps OYO. Run back to #1 the way you came
    • Repeat 2x
      • More overhead claps, batwings, and cherry pickin’ IC

Mosey to AO

MARY:
Plank position – 15 shoulder taps on a 4CT for remaining 30 seconds.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Herbie, Frasier, Clinger, Filter
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
2 Timothy 1:7 – “For God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power and love and self-control”.
MOLESKIN:
The PAX performed a flying headlock con queso on a younger guy who was in the park hanging with some other folks when we arrived. He approached us to see what we were up to and noted he’d been drinking and getting high (hence the queso bit) over there this morning / last night after finishing work… (shoutout to Abort for the new(?) definition). He joined us for the warm-up and first several minutes of the exercise and got after it. The 11s with the burpees and jump squats on the Gresham Hill did him in though. Hopefully he comes back out. And I hope and pray we brought some light into his life this morning.

We also chatted with the ladies who regularly walk in the morning as the PAX were leaving. They inquired about F3 and said they were glad we were out there in the mornings while they are walking. Really good to develop that connection with them.

Prayers for Herbie’s daughter, Filter’s mom and MIL.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
CSAUP is Saturday at the Bomb Shelter

The Quacken launches on March 1

Adding Mondays to the mix in addition to Fridays