F3 Knoxville

Category: Truck Stop

Quarter Pounder in Paradise

THE SCENE: Humid
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER ✔
WARM-O-RAMA:
Cherry Pickers, Windmills, Tempo Squats, Tempo Merkins
THA-THANG:
Mosey to Soccer Field:  Perform 2 Rounds of The Quarter Pounder: Run 25 yards and do 25 Merkins before running back to start.  Repeat at 50 yards, 75 yards and 100 yards with 50 Squats, 75 Mountain Climbers, and 100 SSH.

Mosey to Bleachers for EMOM:  10 Box Jumps, 10 Derkins, 10 Derkin Plank Janks.  Did about 10 rounds or so with a slight mod midway (changed to 5 jumps).

Mosey to Playground:  Seabiscuit Style Grinder with 5 pullups, 10 Merkins, and 15 BBS before running 1 Lap around the adjacent soccer field.  Repeat with 2 Laps, then 3 Laps, etc.

MARY:
Did some Dealer’s Choice at the first soccer field while picking up cones.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
5 Strong

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
God First, Life Second.

MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Hardship Hill

Get Ready

THE SCENE: Warm and muggy
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
20 SSH, 4 ct
5 burpees
15 Imperial Walkers, 4 ct
4 burpees
Little baby arm circles, 4 ct, 15 forward, 15 back
5 burpees
Stretching, little of this and that
5 Cherry pickers

THA-THANG:
Mosey to upper field. 2 rounds:
At the bleachers, do 10 dips, 10 lunges (each leg), 10 sumo squats, and 10 wide arm merkins.
Take a lap doing reps at each corner (5, 10, 15, then 20)
Lap 1 = burpees, Lap 2 = BBS

Mosey to outhouse for 21s:
Easy ups at the top of the hill
Squats at the bottom

Round Q: Count off. Each PAX takes a turn to call the next exercise. The next PAX can interrupt the current exercise as he sees fit. (Readiness – see BOM)

MARY:
Laying with legs 6” off the ground, use legs to write the name of each PAX present.
25 American Hammers, 4ct

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Use the TAGS on right-side to record PAX (BE SURE TO INCLUDE YOURSELF) in attendance. Be sure to select the AO in CATEGORY above TAGS and then delete these notes!
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
There’s been a lot going on in this world lately. A lot of sickness, injuries, and death even in just my very small circle and so much more that impacts other PAX and friends and family not associated with F3. In all of this, I heard a message at one of those recent funerals. The minister was talking about this lady who lived her life Ready. She was ready to go on the next adventure. Ready to tackle challenges and obstacles. Ready to lend a hand. Ready.
So my question to you is: are you ready? Are you ready for today? Tomorrow? Next week? Are you ready for life’s unexpected twists and turns, successes and failures, victories and utter defeats? Are you ready for whatever lies in store for your wife, girlfriend, parents, children? Good or bad?
We men tend to think of ourselves as ready for anything. That’s the Boyscout motto and mentality: Be prepared. But what are you ready for? Is it today or is it eternity? Jesus teaches us not to worry or fret about today or tomorrow, for this world is temporary, fleeting. We need to be ready for Eternity. And more than this, we need to make sure that our families are ready. That our friends are ready. That our neighbors and coworkers and acquaintances are ready. Even the ones we may not really like. Our job is to be ready and get as many others as possible to be ready as well.
So I leave you with this: are you ready?
MOLESKIN:
Praise: Judge Judy’s father had a quick recovery from Covid
Keep praying for Ribbed’s wife and the rest of our PAX struggling with sickness and loss
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Dog Pound CSAUP: Off the Chain
August 21 – Sign up!!!

Blame it on the Rain…that never came

THE SCENE: Perfect
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Take a lap around the island
  • SSH IC x 20
  • Squats (4ct) IC x 10
  • Merkins (4ct) IC x10
  • BA Circ FWD/BWD IC x 5
  • Cherry Picker IC x 5
  • Free Stretch – Whatever serves you best

THA-THANG:
Mosey to the Far Soccer Field

  • Cones are set up 10 yards N/S 30 yards E/W – Perform exercise and run the remaining length of the field to finish. The movement from cone to cone resembles a switchback or a level in Donkey Kong.
    • Round 1
      • Run N/S – Gorilla Shuffle E/W
    • Round 2
      • Bear Crawl N/S – Karaoke E/W
    • Round 3
      • Burpee Broad Jump N/S – Smurf Jack E/W (looked more like a squatting bird)
  • Unbroken – All PAX starts at the corner of the soccer field. Perform Exercise to failure and then take a lap around the field. Perform each exercise x3 before moving to the next. AMRAP 20 Minutes
    • Shoulder Taps to failure x3
    • Squat Hops x3
    • Heel Tap Mountain Climbers x3
    • Exercise cadence looks like this:
      • Shoulder taps to failure
      • Run a lap
      • Shoulder taps to failure
      • Run a lap…
      • You get it!!
  • Mosey back to the AO
    • Perform the Following exercises & reps OYO
      • 50 Squat Hops
      • 100 Walking Lunges
      • 150 SSH
      • 100 BBS
      • 50 Squat Hops

MARY:
The BBS checked this box.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
A Dirty Dozen – One PAX downrange from Denver…North Carolina – Welcome Mater!
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Picked up the Q Source for some inspiration. The last section in the QS is all about growing an effective Lizard Organization. A couple of key notes are: Effective Organizations are built through Relationships – Not Rules. A Man who is Freed to Lead only needs Purpose to drive him forward. Too many rules are like shackles. Q Source gave the example of how Jesus was the original model of a Lizard Organization. In Matthew you can read about Jesus’ 2 Commandments that he gave. (Paraphrasing) Love the Lord God with all of your Heart, your Soul & Mind. 2nd – Love your neighbor as yourself. Matt 22:34-40

Driving to Coffeeteria I realized that I missed the opportunity to talk about reflection in our organization. AKA our family unit. Are we building our family unit through relationship or through rules? Is our family purpose so big and clear that our M’s & 2.0’s are “Freed to Lead”? Or do we just have rules? The next circle would be our job or place of employment. Although we may not be able to affect change from the top down in our work organizations, we can vow to maximize relationships where we’re at. We can create and grow healthy relationships with our co-workers and team.

Hope you all have a great weekend!

MOLESKIN:
We had a solid showing of PAX this morning. Including our Unicorns Doubtfire & Tank. The PAX were completely ready to be Merkining ourselves silly, while having buckets of rain poured on us. However, it was beautiful, sunny and amazing morning to be outside with some sweaty dudes.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Wesley House Workout, Work day & Off the Chain CSAUP – Check slack for details.

WHAT’S IN A NAME?

THE SCENE: Humid
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER✔
WARM-O-RAMA:
Cherry Pickers, Windmills, LBACF, LBACB, Tempo Merkins, LBCs, Tempo Squats
THA-THANG:
Mosey to MRSA field Sideline.

  • 17 Prisoner Squats, Recovery Run (RR) to other side and back
  • 100 High Knees, RR
  • 17 Werkins, RR
  • 120 Flutter Kicks, RR
  • 17 Star Crunches, RR
  • 130 Mountain Climbers, RR
  • 17 CDDs, RR
  • 140 SSH, RR
  • 17 Iron Mikes, RR
  • 10 BBS, RR
  • 7 Burpees, RR

Mosey to Stadium Concrete Bleachers: EMOM – 5 Box Jumps, 10 Squats, 10 Merkins (Rinse and Repeat for 10 Rounds)

Mosey to Playground: EMOM – 5 Pull-ups, 10 Dips, 10 Iron Mikes (Rinse and Repeat for 10 Rounds)

Mosey back to MRSA Field – Four Cones set up like a baseball diamond.  PAX line up in Plank while one PAX runs around the “bases” and performs exercises while PAX remain in plank. One time through the “lineup.” Lineup had to modify after a few runners to switching between Plank and Al Gore each time the runner reached a different base.

MARY:
Box Cutters, Flutter Kicks, LBCs
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
6 Strong
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
God has many names in the Bible but “Sky Q” and “Big Man Upstairs” aren’t in that list.  Despite popular culture, nowhere in the Bible is God described as Santa Claus or the like.  Be careful with giving God names.  When we refer to God with names like these, there is a tendency to dumb Him down and make Him easier to sin against.  Proverbs 1:7 states the beginning of wisdom is the fear of the Lord. That “fear” includes a zealous reverence for His name.
MOLESKIN:
N/A
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Off the Chain coming up.

Happy Fun Time

THE SCENE: the weather was “Noice”
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSHs of course and other stuff including a run around the park.
THA-THANG:
End up at field 1. Partner up

game 1: shuffle passing: line up with two teammates facing each other 10’ apart. Side shuffle from the midline to the goal line and back while passing the ball back and forth. Then do bounce pass back and forth, then do crossovers passing and bouncing. You cannot hold the ball more than two seconds. If it’s dropped, you must do 5 burpees and resume where the ball hit the ground.

Game 2: circle of burpees. Two teams-one on each side of circle.  Bounce or throw the ball to someone across the circle from you and do a burpee. Hot potato fashion.

mosey to the outhouse: partner up. One dribbles the ball up the parking lot and does 5 burpees, other stays and does easy ups, incline merks, BBS, squats. Go till both partners finish all exercises

mosey back to field one.

Game 3: plank red rover. All plank around the circle on your teams side. Hit ball with your fist towards a gap in the circle on the other side. Players try to stop it from going through the circle while keeping plank/bear crawl. After hitting the ball do a merkin. If it gets past, whole team does 10 Merkins

Game 5: kick and fetch- player from each team kicks a ball for the other team to chase it. They sprint it down and mosey to other side with it. Everyone cycles through.

game 6 was goalie kicks. Teams have each player kick against a goalie. If blocked or missed, 10 burpees. If it goes in the goalies team does 5 burpees. (We missed a lot)

MARY:

barely time for some box cutters

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
8
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
I talked about having fun. Taking the time to enjoy life with your family and with your kids. Doing some things that you enjoy doing and making sure that you’re taking care of yourself as well.
MOLESKIN:
Is delicious when prepared with some fava beans and a nice bottle of Chianti
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
CSAUP in July