F3 Knoxville

What’s for dinner?

THE SCENE: it was a little cool

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

WARM-O-RAMA:

Beginning of the best day ever..
Projectivators, big and little arm circles, Moroccan nightclubs, and a few merks
THA-THANG:
Appetizer- 50 pull-ups and 100 hanging crunches

Salad- hill runs with 7s. Diamond merks at the top and wide merks at the bottom.

Main Course- 13 block exercises 10 reps each: OHP, tri-x, bench press, butterfly bench, Freddy press, inside curls, outside curls, man-makers, sq thrusters, and  heavy dips.

MARY:
No time

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Proverbs 5 – what are we giving our strength to. Will it be worth it. Should we rethink where our energy goes?

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
ESCAPE FROM HAW RIDGE

Bringing Habits HOME – Year 2

THE SCENE: 41 and windy
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER: Administered

WARM-O-RAMA:

  • SSH x20 (IC)
  • Cherry Pickers x5 (IC)
  • Little Baby Arm Circles (IC) x10, both forward and reverse
  • Dive Bombers x5 (IC)
  • Squats x10 (IC)
  • 30 seconds on your own

THA-THANG:

Mosey to the quad.

Ghostman Baseball -Split into two teams. First team runs to first, completes the exercise, returns home while the other team does the Home exercise. Switch when running team returns. Second round: Run to 1st, do the exercise, run to second, do the exercise, return home. Continue the pattern until you reach home. You do not need to run back from home.

  • First Base
    • 15 Merkins
    • Big Boys at Home
  • Second Base
    • 30 Smurf Jacks
    • American Hammers at Home
  • Third Base
    • 5 Burpees
    • Flutter Kicks at Home
  • Home Plate
    • 30 Squats
    • Plank at Home

Mosey towards the duck pond and stop for 50 Boosters (Toe Merkins) on the curb

  • Welsh Dragons up the hill near the duck pond parking lot (bear crawl forward x4, 1 merkin, tap each shoulder, plank jack – repeat and increment merkin, shoulder tap, plank jack each time until you get to 10 or your arms fall off!)

Mosey to parking lot west of the flag.

  • Seven of Diamonds (7, 14, 21, 28 of each exercise) at the four light poles
    • Split back into same two teams from baseball.
    • One team will do exercises clockwise and other will be counter-clockwise. First team to complete all exercises wins.
    • Round 1 – Squats
    • Round 2 – LBCs
    • Round 3 – SSHs (single-count)

MARY:
PAX choice for a few rounds to finish out
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
12 total – 6 Bootcampers and 6 RUSHers
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

It’s been right at one year since I led my first F3 Q. Over that time, several things have changed in my life. I’m now a father of 3. I’ve changed jobs. Despite the changes in my personal and home life, F3 has been a constant steady source of encouragement, wisdom and physical strengthening.

I’ve participated in a convergence at JUCO, a CSAUP at The Asylum, Brolympics, and a memorial Q for Cardinal. Every one of these events was a ton of fun, but there’s something deeper just below the surface if you take a minute to pause, look for, and appreciate it.

Each of you here has that thing within you and I know it because you are here this morning. You set an alarm, you got up and drove here when most people are still in bed. You were intentional.

Intentionality is one of the things F3 has given me over the last year. I’m by no means perfect but I’m better than I was before.

My challenge to you this morning is to pick one part of your life and be more intentional in pouring into it the rest of the week. It could be your marriage, a friendship, your children or maybe even a hobby for yourself. Whatever it is, be intentional because that’s how change is made and that’s how we get better.

MOLESKIN:
Insert any personal comments, notes, devotion content, etc.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:

3/18 – Painting for Cardinal’s widow
4/14 – Escape From Haw Ridge (pre-order a shirt by 3/10 if you want one)

 

Quarter Murph Endurance

THE SCENE: A perfectly balmy 53 degrees with stars overhead and dreams in our hearts.

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
Yup, we did all that.

WARM-O-RAMA:
15 each of:
SSH
Mt Climbers
Tempo Merkins
Tempo Squats
Moroccan Night Clubs
Knoxville Cherry Pickers

THA-THANG:
Quarter-Murph Repeats
One traditional Memorial Day work out is a “Murph”. Named after Lt. Michael Murphy who gave his life valiantly during a recon mission in Afghanistan in 2005. A full murph is: 1 mile run, 100 pull ups, 200 merkins, 300 air squats, 1 mile run. Normally done for time. (Usually w/ a weighted vest – we did not do vests)

Today, we divided a murph by 4, then broke down the sets into manageable bites. We went one quarter-murph at a time and worked to see how close we could get to a full murph.

  • 400 M run from the playground around the building and back.
  • 5 sets of: 5 pull ups, 10 merkins, 15 air squats
  • 400 M run

That’s one quarter-murph. Then start over at the top (so two runs in a row in between exercises) and do as many quarter-murphs as you can in our time.

We had several bros who knocked out a full murph! IM-pressive.

MARY:
None needed.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Did that.

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
James, the half-brother of Jesus and leader of the early church in Jerusalem wrote a little epistle. In the very first chapter, he drops the line:

James 1:2–5 (ESV) — 2 Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, 3 for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. 4 And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. 5 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.

In the same way a hard workout can absolutely crush you, but leads to growth in strength and endurance, trials in our lives can have the effect of growing us in Christlikeness. No one wants trials. No one thinks they’re good when they’re happening. But we have a promise that there is a plan behind it all that will end with our good and will even have a ‘perfecting’ effect on us.

Charles Spurgeon said, “I’ve learned to kiss the wave that throws me against the Rock of Ages.”

We can learn to kiss the wave as we lean into our challenges knowing that we may not need to be rescued from them, but only seen through them. So lean in and know that God is doing more than you can see through your trials!

MOLESKIN:
Enjoyed leading this one. It was largely self-directed.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Escape from Haw Ridge T-shirt orders are due by Fri. Register for Escape from Haw Ridge. Anyone who can should sign up for painting at Cardinal’s wife’s new place.

RunNGun…

THE SCENE: 44 degrees with a full moon
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Side straddle hop in cadence 20
Tempo squats
Cherry Pickers
Arm rotations thumbs up in cadence
Reverse thumbs down in cadence
10 Hairy Rockettes
10 Windmills in cadence
5 burpees on your own
THA-THANG:
Single File Mosey with the HIM in the back sprinting to the front

  • BBS
  • Side 2 side lunge with a shuffle from one line to the next facing the tree line
  • 20 Flutter kicks
  • Side 2 side lunge with a shuffle from one line to the next facing the school
  • 20 BBS with claps

    Single File Mosey with the HIM in the back snaking to the front to the coupon pile

  • 30 curls
  • Run stairs
  • 5 pull ups/10 LBCs Rinse and repeat
  • 20 Curls
  • Rifle carry to the Stadium
  • Bear Crawl to the top with CMU
  • Rifle carry to the coupon pile and put your coupon up

Single File Mosey with the HIM in the front falling off for 2 burpees

  • 20 Crunchy Frogs
    Single File Mosey with the HIM in the front falling off for 2 burpees

    • 20 Rainbow Drops

Sprint fron Crosswalk to crosswalk.

Single File Mosey with the HIM in the front falling off for 2 burpees

    • 20 Pendilum Crunches
    • 20 dips
    • Bear Crawl across the street and crawl bear back
    • 20 dips
  • Columbine drills:
  • side shuffels x2, high skips (no smiles), and walking lunges

MARY:
No Time…
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
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CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Message:
The warrior ethos (AKA Jedi Training) consist of 13 pillars: commitment, honor, respect, prepared, faithful, fighter, hungry, humble, lover, teachable, firestarter, truthful, and generous.
Each one is tied to a Bible verse.

Lover: the 9th pillar
The verse for this pillar is Mark 12:30-31

“And you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength.’”
“The second is equally important: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ No other commandment is greater than these.””
Mark 12: 30-31

Be a lover of Christ. LEAD WITH LOVE ❤️

I spoke about losing my cool with someone who honked at me during my run yesterday. I was super embarassed after the fact. I was not a High Impact Man… I was a clown and felt like it.

It’s not about how hard we fall, it’s about how we pick ourselves back up. I’m thankful we have a forgiving God. I hope the gentleman that honked at me, knows I was out of character, and that I actually love him (even though my actions did not show it).

MOLESKIN:
Insert any personal comments, notes, devotion content, etc.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Painting for Cardinal’s widow 3/18 in Karns

Need a JUCO representative for Hardship Hill Obstacles

 

All in His Name

THE SCENE: clearer than expected and warm.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

15 SSH, 15 Mountain climbers, 10 tempo merkins, 10 tempo squats, 15 Moroccan night club, 15 Imperial walkers
THA-THANG:
Heavy day with the rain. Today’s workout is a ladder. Start with 25 reps of the first exercise then run to the pool wall and do 5 wall-ups. Next, do the first two exercises and 5 wall-ups at the pool wall. Continue through the list until all exercises are performed, then start to drop the first exercise one by one. The last set will be one set of merkins.

  • 25 OHP
  • 25 Tricep extensions
  • 25 Rows
  • 25 Curls
  • 25 Merkins

MARY:
Got a few LBCs in.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
8 PAX got swole this morning.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
“Whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through Him to God the Father.” – Colossians 3:17 NASB1995

Most of the day, we likely perform our tasks without thinking much about our purpose. Our focus should always be on serving God. So, we need to be mindful of where our thoughts should be in all that we do. We need to do all in the name of the Lord. Do we bring God glory in all the things that we do? This is probably an easy question to answer, but a hard answer to hear. Let’s try our best to keep this in the forefront of our minds.

MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS: