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Supporting Our Bros

THE SCENE: Sunny and hot, temps in low 90’s.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
20 Side-Straddle Hops, 10 Plank Position Sky Reaches, 10 Rockettes, 10 Baby to Wide Arm Circles Forward, 10 Baby to Wide Arm Circles Backward, 10 Cherry Pickers.

THA-THANG:

Mosey to Stop Sign at Southeast Corner of Admin Bldg.  Go to road and down hill on east side of road.  We will do elevens starting with 1 Big Boy Sit-up on bottom of hill and 10 Squat Jumps on top.

Mosey to grassy area across street from water plant bldg.  There will be four cones set up.  We will do the following exercises at each cone in sequence and move between cones as listed:

  • Cone 1:  1.  20 Smurf Jacks.  2.  20 Plank Jacks  3.  20 Sky Jacks (Bernie Sanders to Cone 2)
  • Cone 2:  1.  20 Hand Release Merkins.  2. 20 Carolina Dry Docks.  3. 20 Diamond Merkins.  (Bear Crawl to Cone 3)
  • Cone 3:  1.  20 American Hammers 4 count.  2.  20 Hello Dollies 4 Count.  3. 20 Flutter Kicks 4 Count.  (Sprint to Cone 4)
  • Cone 4:  1. 10 Shoulder Taps each shoulder.  2.  10 Mountain Climbers 4 count.  3. 10 Iron Mikes 4 count  (Bear Crawl to Cone 1)

Mosey to Area 51.  We will run up hill, stopping to do 5 Burpees at each of four landmarks, the last being the tree by the road that goes back to the Admin Bldg. Parking Lot.  We will then do 20 Bicycle Kicks at the top of the road.

Mosey to Bat House.  We will go down stairs and do 15 Baby Crunches at bottom of stairs.  We then run to piney area near top of Mt. Everest and do 15 more Baby Crunches.  We then run up to the Summit of Mt. Everest and do 15 more Baby Crunches.  Finally, we run back to Bat House and do 15 Baby Crunches.

Mosey to AO.

MARY:

20 Right side crunches and 20 Left side crunches

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Nine men, no FNG’s.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
A friend of mine who lives near Chattanooga sent me an awesome article from the Labor Day edition of the Times Free Press of Chattanooga.  The article talked about our F3 brothers in that community.  The link to the article is attached below.  The article meant a great deal to me for several reasons:

  • Us Knoxville guys helped start the first AO in Chattanooga.
  • Our brothers are doing great things in that community.  They now have eight workout groups there.
  • The article discusses how across the United States feelings of social isolation and loneliness are increasing according to the American Psychological Association.
  • The article discussed how one study, published in the journal Perspectives on Psychological Science found social isolation to have the same risk factors for death as obesity.
  • The article talks about how F3 helps men to be more fit but also breaks up the patterns among men of isolation and loneliness.
  • The article talks about how the Faith component of F3 gets men to think about things greater than the individual and think of ways to improve the community.

Here it the link to the article:  https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/local/story/2019/sep/02/inside-mens-groabout-more-just-exercise/502599/.

MOLESKIN:
Prayers for Jinxy who has been found to have some matter around his heart, for Simba’s wife who has heart surgery tomorrow, and for Mr. Roger’s and his family who lost their son, Garrett.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Funeral for Garrett this Sunday.

Leave your Burden…Jesus sacrificed for you!

THE SCENE: 63* and absolutely perfect! Bombshelter AO
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

WARM-O-RAMA:
Tempo SSH Sealclaps x 10

Tempo Squats x 10

Tempo Merkins x 10

Tempo BBS X 10

Hurpees x 10

THA-THANG:

  • Mosey to lower softball field with Hammer/weight stopping along the way to do presses/thrusts x 10, 4 stops (Weights represent carrying burdens in life)
  • Circle the Waggons- without weight run single file around circle of cones, switch directions when hear “Switch”, when hear “Down” drop and do Burpee. Incorporate Highknees and side shuffle, RR for 5 min, pick up weights 10 presses, mosey w weight to next station Presses along the way
  • Trolly Grid- start w 3 Merkins at every star running from one star to next x 8, BBS at stars lunge to next x8, 3 Squat Jumps at stars x 8 BearCrawl to next, 2 Burpees at stars x 8 and Broad Jump to the next
  • Bo Knows- battle buddy up, one does wall sits while holding weight out while buddy does 100+ HighKnees, RR
  • Pick up weight mosey to next station pressing along way
  • run to cones stop and do 5 Carolina Drydocks at every cone x 10, go back the other way stopping to do 5 x Boxcutters at cone x 10

MARY:
Tempo flutter kicks x 15, Tempo Hello Dolly x 15, Dead Bug x 20, LBCs for last minute

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:
We can not control our burdens through out life but we have hope for eternal life through Jesus’ sacrifice. Leave your burden with him and rest assured!
MOLESKIN:
🙏🏻Pray for Mayberry’s daughter, Mose’s Friend and people in Florida due to Hurricane, and our FNG @Treble’s friend who is having brain surgery
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Check out the calendar we have a lot going on!

Iron PAX – DP

THE SCENE: Clear and Cool
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • SSH IC x 20
  • BA Circ IC x 15
  • Squat IC x 10
  • Merkins IC x 10

THA-THANG:
Iron Pax – Week 0

  • The Laredo
  • 24 Squats
  • 24 Merkins
  • 24 Walking Lunges (ea leg)
  • Run 400m
  • Rinse and Repeat x 6

MARY:
Ribbed led us through some Plank Destroyers
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Gracious to be a part of F3 and specifically the Dog Pound PAX. As AO Q I’d like to accomplish 2 things with you 1. Create a culture of Qing. It’s the foundation of F3 and gives us a place to practice our leadership. It also gives us the opportunity to say thank you and give back to all the Q’s we’ve attended. 2. Let’s find a way to install some pull up bars!! Looking forward on working on this with you all.

MOLESKIN:

Applause to Mustard for showing up with one running shoe and one keen fishing sandal. He still posted a great time!

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
TTTP

FIA/2.0 workout

Brolympics II

RAW meets the Dumbee

THE SCENE: Low 70’s….possibly the most humid morning of the summer….ugh…

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER


WARM-O-RAMA:

Mosey from the outhouse to the tennis court fence and back.   OYO stretch as we review the exercises.

THA-THANG:

  • 8 Stations
    • Decline Merkins
    • Big Boy Situps (30lb ruck sack)
    • Jump Rope
    • Overhead Press (35 KB, 2×25 dumbbells, golden cmu)
    • Curls (30, 25, 20 dumbbells….start heavy and lighten as needed)
    • Tricep press (2x50lb plates)
    • Squats (box of rocks, 2x30lb ruck plates, big cmu)
    • Dumbees (burpees using 15lb dumbbells)

Man doing dumbees is the timer….everyone rotates when he finishes his set.   Round 1 = 15 dumbees.  Round 2 = 10 dumbees.  Rounds 3 & 4 = 5 dumbees.

Finished with a slow mosey to the tennis court and back.

MARY:

Dealers choice:  v-ups x 20;  shoulder-tap merkins x 20;  side crunch x 15 (per side)

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
8 strong!    Abscess, Aladdin, Driftwood, Waxjob, Cavalier, Bueller, Tweet-E, Bartman

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Talked about Paul’s ministry and how we was bold, yet he also had a plan to engage with audiences where his conversation was likely to be engaging.   We should practice this in our walk as well as we try to reach others with the gospel.  Look for fertile soil where the conversation will be received.   We can be bold and smart at the same time.

MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

  • Truckin to the Pound – Sept 14th
  • Goliath at the Gorge  – Oct 19th
  • Hardship Hill planned for April 2020
  • Iron PAX challenge getting ready to kick off

Be There

THE SCENE:

Cloudy with a chance of burpees.  No rain.  Around 70ish degrees or so.

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

I’m still not an expert, so it’s still free and the usual disclaimers.


WARM-O-RAMA:

SSH x 20, baby arm circles forward x 20, baby arm circles backward x 20, a little bit of this, a little bit of that, tempo squats x 10, tempo merkins x 10, cherry pickers x 5.

That was going to be it as I had just mentioned to Preacher (who was back from AZ) that we would not do burpees because they are not a warm-up, but Cheat Sheet arrived at that time, so we did 5 burpees OYO.

PAX counted off – 24 HIMS, so, when we do reps, we will do 24 of them.

THA-THANG:

Mosey to Everest via the long, windy path with all of the light posts (not sure if it has a name).  Pass a light post, do a burpee.

Carolina dry docks x 24 at the bottom of Everest

Run up to the first tree, do 24 squats

Run back to the bottom of Everest, do 24 merkins and then hold plank until the six arrives and finishes the merkins

Rinse and repeat, this time running to the second tree up Everest and back

Rinse and repeat, this time running to the tree at the top of Everest and back

Back at the bottom of Everest, we were on the wrong side of Everest, so we had to run all the way to the top of Everest to the area formerly-known-as the rock pile (we skipped the exercises on this trip)

Mosey to the monument for some family that gave a lot of money where the normally-wonderful view of the sunrise was dampened by clouds, but it did not affect the 24 American hammers that we did on a 4-count

Mosey to the CMU pile and battle-buddied up

One person runs across the parking lot, down the hill, around the Pavilon (counter-clockwise), stops at the picnic tables in the Pavilon, does 24 pull-me-up rows on the tables, and returns to the CMU pile

The other person does Mr. Spectaculars using the CMU until his battle buddy returns

Switch out and repeat – each person ended up doing each exercise at least twice

Mosey to the Cloud and find a bench

Derkins x 24

Dips x 24

Box jumps (or step ups) x 24

Only had time for one round of those before holding a plank until the six finished

While planking, right arm up, right leg up, down, left arm up, left leg up, down

Mosey to the AO

MARY:

Proton led the PAX through some flutter kicks while the Q grabbed his phone, and Proton didn’t stop until 30 (on the 4-count) for some reason (after all of those reps of 24, you would think he would have gotten it, but Proton loves exercise so much, he probably just wanted to do those extra 6 reps)

Q returned and led the PAX through box cutters x 30 and hello Dollys x 30 (both on the 4-count) since Proton went to 30

Finished out with boat/canoes until time expired (some PAX mumbled that the workout went over, but it was 8:00 by the Q’s watch, which is the only time that matters – and it matched the time on the Q’s cell phone, for what it’s worth)

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

We started with 24 and ended with 25.  Assfault completed a Flyin EH on someone he knew along the way, so we were able to welcome Real Chill.  Another FNG started with us and ended with us – welcome Caitlyn.  Tank, the dog, also joined us.

Nacho and Jumbo were also there, but they did not have tags that showed up, so there are only 23 tags, but there were 25 HIMs.

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Caedmon’s Call had a song out in the 90s called Center Aisle that was about the writer’s first experience at a funeral, which happened to be the funeral of his friend’s sister who had committed suicide.  It is a good song, check it out if you haven’t already.  This line from the song has always stuck with me: “There aren’t words to say/Words aren’t remembered/But presence is.”

Show up.  Hopefully, we can also say the right things and do the right things, too, but we can’t if we don’t show up first.  And, if we can’t say and do the right thing that will make everything better, then at least we can be there, which is important, both in bad times and good times.  There are moments in people’s lives that they will remember who was there and who was not, e.g., funerals and weddings, and often times we would rather not be there because it makes us uncomfortable or it is too much of a hassle or whatever.  But that doesn’t matter.  What matters is this: should we be there for that person for that moment in his/her life?  (I’m not talking about the times that you cannot because of work, family, or other commitments – I’m not suggesting that we, as humans, can be everywhere and do everything.  I’m talking about the times that you can, but you just don’t.)

The Bible has a lot of references to God’s presence in our lives, e.g., Matthew 18:20, Matthew 28:20, and John 14:18, and Jesus is the manifestation of God’s presence.  Let God be present in your life and then be there for your wives/girlfriends (as long as you don’t have both at the same time), be there for your kids, be there for your parents, be there for your other family members, and be there for your friends.

Your presence will be remembered.  Your absence may not be forgotten.

MOLESKIN:

Props to Archie for posting after being up since Friday morning.  And, he took the message to heart and attended a wedding the same day that he thought about missing.  How about that?  That is either good timing or bad timing.  Part of me wants to apologize to Archie since he probably needed to sleep.  

Good to see Preacher again as always. 

Abscess took a lot of photos and videos. 

Still praying for Junk’s wife. 

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Someone said something about something that was coming up, but I can’t remember what it was now.  It might have been about the IronPax Challenge and/or Truckin to the Pound on 9/14.  I do know that there is a 2.0 event coming up on 9/22, but I did not say that then.