F3 Knoxville

Tag: Abscess

Chasing Windmills

THE SCENE: Clear and a little nippier than it seemed, around 50 degrees with a bit of a breeze.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER Nailed it. I think.  
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • -20 Side Straddle Hops (4-ct), in cadence
  • – 10 Steve Earl’s (4-ct), in cadence
  • – 10 Cherry Pickers (4-ct) in cadence
  • – Little of this, little of that (arm stretches)
  • – 20 Moroccan Nightclubs (4-ct), in cadence
  • Calf Stretches on curb, followed by 20 calf raises, OYO

THA-THANG:

Mosey to big parking lot southwest of the chapel:

KRAKEN: Six cones in a rectangle. Start at first cone and do 5 Reps of each exercise.  Run around the cones to where you started PLUS ONE Cone, then do 10 Reps of each exercise. Keep adding 5 reps until you’ve returned to where you started.  Last cone will be 30 reps of each exercise.

    • Exercises are: MERKINS/BOBBY HURLEYS/BBS

Mosey to big parking lot east of the chapel. Lines 60 yards apart with X’s about 20 yards apart between lines.  Partner up.  Goal is for Partner 1 to travel to the next X, then do maintenance exercise until Partner 2 (who was doing plank) catches up.  Then Partner 1 starts the next series while Partner 2 does maintenance exercise.  Partner activities (active/maintenance) are:

      • Broad Jumps / Iron Mikes
      • Lunges / Smurf Jacks
      • Bear Crawl / Mountain climbers

REVERSE AND COME BACK.

  • Mosey to CMU pile. Keep your battle buddy, but everyone gets a CMU
    • One partner runs to end of parking lot with CMU, does 5 Jump over Burpees and runs back while the other starts the exercises. Each pair shall complete the total number:
      • 100 Big Boy sit-ups w/CMU
      • 100 Lunges w/ CMU (both legs = 1)
      • 100 Side to side Merkins
      • 100 Squat Presses w/ CMU

We ran out of time before we finished the lunges.

MARY:
She was not to be found
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
11 Strong.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

As some of you know, THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT DAY of CELEBRATION!!  That’s right, on this day, in 1605, Miguel de Cervantes’ El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha, better known as Don Quixote, was published. The book is considered by many to be the first modern novel as well as one of the greatest novels of all time.  There’s Chivalry, there’s Romance, there’s dudes charging at Windmills, there’s Delusions of Grandeur… It’s the best book ever.

“It is not the responsibility of knights errant to discover whether the afflicted, the enchained and the oppressed whom they encounter on the road are reduced to these circumstances and suffer this distress for their vices, or for their virtues: the knight’s sole responsibility is to succor them as people in need, having eyes only for their sufferings, not for their misdeeds.”

Some Key Tenets of being a good Christian are contained in this quote…

  • Help others:

Proverbs 19:17: Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will repay him for his deed.

1 John 3:17  But if anyone is wealthy and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him?

  • Do not judge:

Matthew 7:1-5 and Luke 6:37: Judge not, and ye shall not be judged:

 

Please join me in celebrating this great anniversary. I can’t think of any other reasons to celebrate.

OH, wait a second… I guess it’s ALSO our Nan’Tan’s 50th BIRTHDAY!!!

MOLESKIN:
Happy Birthday Abscess!  Way to finally earn our RESPECT! 😉
ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Slaughter tours the Asylum

THE SCENE: A crisp 65 degrees, beautiful weather for my tour of the AO
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x 10; Cherry Pickers (slow) x 7; Overhead Clap x 25; Moroccan Nightclub x 25.

THA-THANG:
Inaugural “Flight of the Blue Falcon”

  • Given two 8x12x16 (XL) CMUs, two PAX held the CMUs overhead while the rest of the group ran away for a 10-count.  At the end of the counting, “drop” was called and the herd executed AMRAP of an exercise designated by a block-holder (burpees, merkins, squats, pickle pounders, smurf jacks, etc) until the blocks caught up and were passed off.  Upon exchange, the new CMU holders designated the next exercise and began 10-count while everyone else ran away.  Rinse and repeat, with a goal of showing the Q the ins and outs of the AO (Everest, Cardiac Hill, etc) until time was up.

MARY:
Arrived back at the AO with about 5 minutes to spare, completed flutter kicks x 25, tempo squats x 20, then overhead claps/moroccan nightclubs until time was up (lost count in the midst of the mumble-chatter).

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
1 Peter 5 v. 6&7 say “Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.”  Talked about what it means to cast anxieties on Him, and that it means to cut the cord and leave it there, not reel it back in like a crank-bait.  Shared a story about a flight with my M, when she got very nervous during a turbulent flight.  Being the “good husband” that I thought I was being, I told her not to worry, that it would be ok.  Of course, that didn’t help, and she looked at me, panicked, and said “how do you know?”.  My too-quick and too-honest response was “I don’t, but I can’t fly the damn plane, so there’s nothing I can do about it…”  This is a good reminder that as men, we need to be honest, but we need to do so with love.
MOLESKIN:
The Asylum bunch was fun, but way too courteous.  I should have explained the “blue falcon” concept better at the beginning, because they were asking “who wants the block?” instead of just handing it off to the next vict.. er, uh, participant.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Keep an eye on the Q calendar, me and “my friends” as Mermaid called them, will be making appearances at more AOs to spread the love.

No More, No Less

THE SCENE: Low 50s and partly cloudy
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER  Check
WARM-O-RAMA:

-Motivators (7 count)

-11 Cherry Pickers, IC

– 10 Rockettes, IC

-10 Tempo Merkins, IC

THA-THANG:

Mosey to Serpentine Sidewalk.

    • Run down sidewalk, suicide style, stopping to do the following exercises:
      • 2 lights: 5 Merkins/ 4 lights: 10 merkins/ 6 lights 15 merkins/ 8 lights 20 merkins.
      • Rinse and repeat with Carolina Dry Docks
      • Rinse and repeat with Dive Bombers, but shortened this one to every light.  Q was getting gassed.
    • Mosey to Play ground:
      • 30 Seconds AMRAP:
        • LBCs
        • Xs &Os
        • BBS
        • American Hammers
      • Rinse and repeat
    • Mosey to Baby Cardiac
      • 7s on the hill: Froggie Jumps and Iron Mikes (2-ct)
  • Mosey to CMU pile, avoiding the condoms on the ground.  So Gross.
    • 30 seconds AMRAP: Overhead Presses, Curls, Rows, Triceps, Rinse and repeat, except for triceps.

MARY:
No time.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
11 Strong
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

EYORE: It occurred to Pooh and Piglet that they hadn’t heard from Eeyore for several days, so they put on their hats and coats and trotted across the Hundred Acre Wood to Eeyore’s stick house. Inside the house was Eeyore.

“Hello Eeyore,” said Pooh.

“Hello Pooh. Hello Piglet,” said Eeyore, in a Glum Sounding Voice.

“We just thought we’d check in on you,” said Piglet, “because we hadn’t heard from you, and so we wanted to know if you were okay.”

Eeyore was silent for a moment. “Am I okay?” he asked, eventually. “Well, I don’t know, to be honest. Are any of us really okay? That’s what I ask myself. All I can tell you, Pooh and Piglet, is that right now I feel really rather Sad, and Alone, and Not Much Fun To Be Around At All. Which is why I haven’t bothered you. Because you wouldn’t want to waste your time hanging out with someone who is Sad, and Alone, and Not Much Fun To Be Around At All, would you now.”

Pooh looked at Piglet, and Piglet looked at Pooh, and they both sat down, one on either side of Eeyore in his stick house.

Eeyore looked at them in surprise. “What are you doing?”

“We’re sitting here with you,” said Pooh, “because we are your friends. And true friends don’t care if someone is feeling Sad, or Alone, or Not Much Fun To Be Around At All. True friends are there for you anyway. And so here we are.”

“Oh,” said Eeyore. “Oh.” And the three of them sat there in silence, and while Pooh and Piglet said nothing at all; somehow, almost imperceptibly, Eeyore started to feel a very tiny little bit better.

Because Pooh and Piglet were There.

No more; no less.

(A.A. Milne, E.H. Shepard)

Be present for those around you who are withdrawn, or depressed, or in need of encouragement. Also look to God when you feel this way.  Oftentimes, no words are needed.  Just be there and open your heart.  God will always be there to fill it.

MOLESKIN:
Happy Birthday to Brick! 40, BABY!!
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Tank’s party Friday, ski trip Feb. 7-9.

brickyard invasion JUCO

THE SCENE: Cool  32’F
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER  Screwed that up!   10 Burpees

WARM-O-RAMA:

had to get to the Coupon PileMosey– walked  M.A.R.S up 10  and Down 10

Mosey — Imperial Squat Lunger 10

Mosey– Walked     Over head Claps

Mosey — A little of this, that, get some more, do not forget that
THA-THANG:
With your Chilled Coupon,

50-40-30-20-10

Push-ups, straight arm raises, squat thruster, squat, twists

( on paper it looks so easy )

MARY:

had to get back to the A/O

Mosey — 10 ct LBC

Mosey — 10 ct Bicycles

Mosey — 10 ct Flutter kicks

At A/O gut buster No feet on the deck!

100 Flutter kicks, 75 hello dolly’s, 50 Bicycles, 25 box cutters

Ladder Run the parking lot

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
27 HIMs Strong
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
you may not always understand someones path, and seeking out to understand their path may not work.  But know that the lord put you in that individuals path for a reason.  you are given a choice just as everyone else is.  What will you do with your choice.

 

I call to mind the merciful story of God’s love that we heard today in a spiritual retreat for the clergy.   the Priest speaker said that God knows the struggle of those who are addicted.   He knows that their efforts are flawed and weak.   God also knows that with-in the fog of confusion, there is a soul crying to God for his help.  Like the good thief on the cross, you son will have the chance to hear the words, “Today, you will be with me in paradise.”

-Fr. Val Bartek

MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

This Is 2020 (Without Hugh Downs and Barbara Walters)

THE SCENE: Rainy, low to mid 50s

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x 20, baby arm circles forward x 20, baby arm circles backward x 20, 20-second plank, Pilates push-ups x 20 (10 each leg – merkins with left leg raised up x 10 followed by merkins with right leg raised up x 10), tempo squats x 20

THA-THANG:
Mosey to CMU pile via the Dragon’s Tail stopping at each light pole to do an exercise x 20 reps – alternating between merkins and squats

Pickup a CMU and mosey to the pavilon

CMU curls x 20 followed by 20-second recovery, rinse and repeat for 4 rounds (80 total reps)

Mosey to Crawdad’s Yoga Studio

Carolina dry docks x 20 followed by 20-second recovery, rinse and repeat for 4 rounds (80 total reps)

Mosey back to pavilon for table rows using the same reps and recovery as before

Mosey back to the yoga studio for flutter kicks, same schedule

Mosey back to the pavilon for CMU overhead presses, same schedule

Mosey back to the yoga studio for more Pilates push-ups, same schedule – Cheatsheet and Crawdad started singing the Hokey Pokey Song and dubbed the Pilates push-ups the “Hokey Pokeys”

Mosey back to the pavilon, pick up the CMUs and mosey to the CMU pile to return them

Mosey to Cardiac with just a few minutes to spare, so we only had time for one run up Cardiac and to the AO without stopping for any exercises

MARY:
We ran out of time for Mary, but we did get some ab work in during the workout

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
13 HIMs getting better in the rain on the first Saturday workout at the Asylum in 2020

Veggie was here, but he is not in the group, so I couldn’t tag him.

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
It is a new year and a new decade and no one knows what it holds.  It could be the year that someone is added to your life, or it could be the year that someone is taken away.  It could be the year of the promotion, or it could be the year of the demotion.  It could be the year of kindergarten, or it could be the year of graduation.  It could be the year of the big win, or it could be the year of the big loss.  Regardless, you don’t need a resolution, you need a constitution, a foundation.  On a big scale, it should be God, your family, your friends, etc.  But, it can be anything that grounds you.  It can even be as simple as the F3 workouts.  The asphalt, concrete, and grass do not change, and they are always there waiting for you whether you have a good day/week or a bad day/week.  They are checkpoints after good times or bad and before whatever lies ahead.  If nothing else, start there and build.  Have a good new year but not just for what good fortunes may come your way during the year but based on what you keep your eye on and focus on while the year goes by

MOLESKIN:
Prayers for Pinto, Flashback 2, Lady Tank, Cheatsheet’s family, Lady Junk, and Veggie going back for another semester of college
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Party at Tank’s house on 1/10

Still need money for pull up bars for the Dog Pound