F3 Knoxville

Flag Handoff

AO: thequacken
Q: Z-Pack , DoorKicker (Jud)
PAX: FixerUpper, Half-Caff (Patick Teasdale), Shotgun, Wedding Singer, Gmail, Mr.May, Postal, Recoil (Blake Conley), Backflow, Mermaid, Frizzles, Mountain Ice, Drano, vanilla, Lizzy, Otis
FNGs: None
COUNT: 18
WARMUP:
SSH
Windmills
Imperial Walkers
Tie Fighters
OH Claps
Michael Phelps
Squat and Reach
Ring of Fire Merkins

THE THANG:
Z-Pack – Burner Ring
In the Park we did four exercise stations, mosey between each station on the track.
1. 10 Burpees, 10 step-ups, each leg
2. 10 pull-ups, 20 V-ups
3. 5 Tres Merkins, 5 Mucho Leggos
4. 15 Decline Merkins, 20 Flutter Kicks on 4ct

DoorKicker – No Mercy
40 sec work / 20 sec rest per move
1. Jump Squat
2. Merkins
3. Mountain Climbers
4. V-ups
5. Plank Jack
Then… somebody yelled out about fireman’s carry and things got crazy.
DK divided us up into two, 9 man teams and we bear crawled the parking lot. Then we partnered up for fireman’s carries. One guy carried his partner to the other end of the parking lot and his buddy carried him back. Then we bernied a lap around the parking lot.

MARY:
no

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Go Ruck Basic and Tough this weekend! Also a 13 mile ruck

COT:
Fixer reminisced, then Z-Pack reminisced and DoorKicker said some stuff but I was getting coffee. Fixer and DoorKicker, feel free to add to this backblast with your COT comments. I’ll leave off with these verses from Ecclesiastes 4:9-12

Two are better than one,
because they have a good return for their labor:
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If either of them falls down,
one can help the other up.
But pity anyone who falls
and has no one to help them up.
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Also, if two lie down together, they will keep warm.
But how can one keep warm alone?
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Though one may be overpowered,
two can defend themselves.
A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.

Beholding, Becoming

AO: thequacken
Q: FixerUpper
PAX: Yeah-Yeah (F3 Cumming), Gmail, Shotgun, Monsanto, Frizzles, Recoil (Blake Conley), Backflow, Z-Pack, Spellcheck, Duggar
FNGs: None
COUNT: 10
WARMUP:
Ruckaloop

THE THANG:
Ruck down HISTORIC Gibbs Drive, not just any old Gibbs Drive. Respeck!

Ruck up and down Central stadium seats, take a really blurry group pic.

Back to the AO

MARY:
Next time for sure.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Convergence tomorrow at Asylum!
0600 prerun and preruck
0700 beatdown
0800 coffeteria and speaker
0900 growschool

COT:
Reflection on quote from William Blake
“We become what we behold.”

And we … beholding … are being transformed

And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.
2 CORINTHIANS 3:18

11/5 Beatdown

AO: thequacken
Q: Frizzles
PAX: Mountain Ice, Z-Pack, Shotgun, FixerUpper, Recoil (Blake Conley), Frizzles
FNGs: None
COUNT: 6
WARMUP: The Usual, and also a slow warmup suicide across the parking lot- using the 6 handicap signs as the markers for where to run to.

THE THANG:

Separate in to two groups of 3

Q set a timer for 8 minutes of:

Group 1: Farmers carry CMUs around the parking lot

Group 2: AMRAP
15 x Merkins
20 x BBSU
25 squats

Once the timer goes off:
Everyone meet at the bottom of the lot to run a suicide together.

Group 1 and 2 swap.
Repeat
Each group got 2 rounds of each with a total of 3 suicides in between.

MARY: Just enough time for 20 flutter kicks.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

CONVERGENCE!!! Go sign up.

Flag handoff to DoorKicker (Jud) next Wednesday :saluting_face:

COT:

Just a PSA about skin cancer. Go find a dermatologist and get yourself checked. A little scar is a better option than radiation, etc. Catch it early!

Enter Novemburn 🔥

AO: thequacken
Q: Mountain Ice
PAX: Z-Pack, Natty, DoorKicker (Jud), Magic Mic (Jarrett Woodall), Recoil (Blake Conley), Backflow
FNGs: None
COUNT: 7
WARMUP:
SSH
Imperial walkers
Hillbillies
Roco cherry pickers
Downward dog hold
Cobra pose

THE THANG:

Mosey w/ CMUs over to the park. At the low wall next to playground, perform prescribed exercises before running a lap around the park track.

Exercises:
20 Thrusters
20 Weighted Step-ups w/ knee drive (10 ea leg)
20 body weight calf raises on wall
20 body weight single leg RDLs

After completion of reps, run a loop around Fountain City Park

Return and drop 4 reps. Working from 20-16-12-8-4 till completion.

MARY:

Who?

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Quacken flag handoff
F3 Knoxville convergence
Patriot Packs ruck

COT:

“If an emotion can’t change the condition or the situation you’re dealing with, it is likely an unhelpful emotion. Or, quite possibly, a destructive one. But it’s what I feel. Right, no one said anything about not feeling it. No one said you can’t ever cry. Forget “manliness.” If you need to take a moment, by all means, go ahead.
Real strength lies in the control or, as Nassim Taleb put it, the domestication of one’s emotions, not in pretending they don’t exist.”

– Ryan Holiday, The Obstacle is the Way

Andiamo

AO: thequacken
Q: Gmail
PAX: Check Yes, Monsanto, FixerUpper, DoorKicker (Jud), Z-Pack, Monsanto
FNGs: 1 Monsanto
COUNT: 7
WARMUP:
SSH, Temp Merkins, squat & reach, tie fighters
THE THANG:
Mosey to Gresham track
Perform the exercises then run. reps were 10,20,30, 40 of:
– Hand Release Merkins
– Squats
– Burpees
– Lunges (easy way)
Mosey back to AO
MARY:
no time, sad but true
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Brolympics & rucking events – see news letter for details
COT:
1 Corinthians 15:33
Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.

Book 12 Pillars talks about being careful who our friends are. Goes on to say that we should view our relationships as associations and some associations we should increase, some we should limit and some we should de-associate. Are the people we surround ourselves with doing us good or harm? We need to cultivate good relationships. We need to be concerned about who our kids build relationships with.

When I read this ch I immediately thought about how blessed I am to have the same boneheads at F3 workout with me multiple times a week.


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