F3 Knoxville

Big Ball Battle Buddy Beatdown ch. 3

THE SCENE: Perfect conditions for a beatdown. Clear and cool.

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH, Arm Circles, ‘Round Towns, ‘Round-the-Worlds, Temp Squats, Tempo Merkins, Scorpions, Cherry-Pickers

THA-THANG:

  1. Battle Buddy Body Builder Circuit (All 3 sets of 15 reps per PAX)
    1. Battle Buddy Merkins
    2. Battle Buddy Presses
    3. Titanics
    4. Battle Buddy Throwdowns
  2. Indian Runs to Ampitheater
  3. 11s- Cobras and Inverted Rows
  4. Slowsy back to Fountains

MARY:
Rowers to hit the rear delts

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
9 PAX! Soot, Amazon, Fixer Upper, Postman, Abort, Smoky, Vanilla, Wedding Singer, Drive-Thru

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
“Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.” Proverbs 27:17

MOLESKIN:
Goo Nation often touts living in the Comfort Zone as effective Self-Care and is a safe place to retreat from Involuntary Hardship. In an attempt to handle the stress of life that wears on us, we can often choose to retreat to our Comfort Zone and become isolated, dull, and ineffective Sad Clowns.

In this fallen world, we will face Involuntary Hardship (negative stress). Struggles (and even tragedies) at work, in our families, and in our communities will always be present. Life will always be hard to one degree or another. Instead of choosing to live life hiding in the Comfort Zone, we can choose Voluntary Hardship (positive stress). Voluntary Hardship sharpens us and refines us. Voluntary Hardship can look like consistency in the Gloom, having a mentor or accountability partner who hold our feet to the fire, or living in the 3rd F by serving others and a cause greater than ourselves. Voluntary Hardship builds resiliency and makes us stronger and more capable to withstand the Involuntary Hardship that will come.

As Proverbs 27:17 states, one of the best ways to sharpen our blades with Voluntary Hardship is in relationship with other HIMs. We are called to push each other to be better. In this morning’s workout, we literally pushed each other to grow stronger. HIMs pull Sad Clowns out of their Comfort Zone, but HIMs also push other HIMs to accelerate their growth.

The challenge this morning is to not buy the lie that the way to a good life is by eliminating all stress. The challenge is to examine our lives and find where we need more Voluntary Hardship. More specifically, where do we need to be sharpened by our fellow HIMs and where can we help sharpen others? How can we use Voluntary Hardship to refit, retrain, and refocus after a season of Involuntary Hardship?

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Be on the look out for Haw Ridge and North Hills Workouts!

Some jump rope fun

THE SCENE: The cold is coming soon- so we made the most of the beautiful 50 degree morning!
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Some SSH, Hillbillies, Arm circles and hamstring stretching did the trick.
THA-THANG:
Begin at the top with 5 GUUs. Complete a short run and return to do 5 GUUs and 10 merkins. Continue until you reach the top of the ladder.

  • 5 Get up ups
  • 10 merkins
  • 15 BBSU
  • 20 squats
  • 25 mountain climbers (4 ct.)
  • 30 second plank
  • 35 alternating lunges ( single count)
  • 40 LBCs (4 ct)
  • 45 flutter kicks (4 ct)
  • 50 SSH

Throughout the ladder climb, the Pax took turns jumping rope. The jump rope had to be in use at all times. After a minute or two, someone else would take over before being relieved and jumping back in to the ladder.

MARY:
Added in some American Hammers and Plank Jacks.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
G-6 (respect x3), Magic Mic, Abort, Drive Thru, NPR, Air Gretzky, Postman, Vanilla, Frizzles (QIC)
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Just reflecting on good health. Thankful for the ability to get out of bed and move!

Big Ball Stair Climb

THE SCENE: Low 70s and light drizzle to steady rain
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Side straddle hops
  • Tempo squats
  • Merkin tempo
  • Hillbilly’s

THA-THANG:

Mosey towards Mordor, stop about halfway for 15 derkins and 15 dips.
Continue to Mordor stairs for  9/11 Stair Climb. 9 exercises, 11 reps each, stair climb after each exercise:
  • Get up ups
  • 8 count bodybuilders
  • Mucho lego
  • Captain Thor
  • Burpees
  • Mucho chesto
  • ARods (JLo and pickle pounder combo)
  • Catalina wine mixers
  • Hurpees

Mosey to the Big Ball to honor the first responders lost. Run to the top of Big Ball stairs and back after each set.

  • 8 port authority officers (8 count bodybuilders)
  • 23 NYPD (toes to bars)
  • 37 port authority officers (pull ups)
  • 343 firefighters (hammers as a group)

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
12 including 1 FNG: Air Gretzky, Butterfly, Cornhole, Onstar, Wedding Singer, Drive Thru, John Deere (FNG), Postman, Magic Mic, Duggar, Precious, Abort

Not Burbs Burbs

THE SCENE: High 60s? Nice and cool relatively speaking
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Stretching OYO
THA-THANG:
Co-Q spirit at the Not Burbs Burbs. Pfeiffer took the first portion, split into two and two.
Group 1: ruck and sandbags up the hill to Trader Joe’s and back.
Group 2: complete three rounds

  • 20 ruck merkins
  • 15 OH press
  • 10 thrusters
  • 20 ruck press flutters

Flapjack and do the opposite.

Abort with the second portion, armed with stupid ideas from the Tribe app.

  • 50 ruck swings
  • 40 ruck sit-ups
  • 30 sandbag shoulder throws
  • 20 burpees (slick)

Amazon took the third portion, and decided our legs needed to suffer.
Group 1: Sandbag complex – clean, front squat, overhead press, back squat, drop. Repeat x10
Group 2: clean and press sandbag to shoulders, 10 squats. Drop and repeat, 8 squats. Then 6, 4, 2.
Flapjack.

Leave sandbags and ruck 2 miles with some hills.

MARY:
She wasn’t there
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
4

Bruce Lee and the Catalina Wine Mixers

THE SCENE: No rain, which is always a disappointment for YHC.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

SSH, cherry pickers, little arm circles, tempo squats, mosey!
THA-THANG:
Bear crawl across the bridge at the South end of the pond.

Bruce Lee- super set the following:

  • American Hammer (x10 4ct)
  • Leg raises (x10 4ct)
  • LBCs (x10 4ct)
  • Hell touches (x10 4ct)
  • Crunchy Frog (x10 4ct)
  • 100s (x10 4ct)
  • 30 second rest. Then repeat. We completed 3 sets this morning!

Mosey down the path for some DORAs:

  • 100 merkins
  • 200 Cataline Wine Mixers
  • 300 single leg squats

Mosey to the sun sphere- then ALL OUT back to the flag.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Drive-Thru, Abort, G-6, Ariel, Secret Shower, Wedding Singer, Fixer Upper, Red Writer, FNG Cascade, Frizzles
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Outsourced the Word to the sixth man Fixer Upper who shared about feeling a lack of motivation lately. We were encouraged by his resilience in desiring to provide for his family in the midst of this season.
MOLESKIN:
Learn from us- in a DORA format, 200 CWMs is a bit ambitious- especially on the concrete… Wedding Singer was picking gravel out of his elbows on his way back to the car.