F3 Knoxville

Small, medium or large

THE SCENE: Steady light rain, nice actually
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Regular stuff
THA-THANG:
Mosey to the marina clubhouse.
Small: CMU and burpees, Medium: 2.5’ pole and squat jumps, Large: 3+’ log and Merkins

split up into groups of 3. One person from each group carries their item to the con while their team runs ahead. The team does the exercise associated with the item until their item reaches the con. Then you switch with a teammate and continue down the trail of cones to the Matterhorn and the pull up bars. Do five pull-ups and then repeat heading back to start. Once at start, teams switch items and repeat until all three teams have carried all three items. Once complete, all teams run to cones and do 10 Merkin (3 times) and Cobra Kais (3 times). All hang from bars until 6 catches. Then 10 knee ups. Mosey back to start stopping at each cone for 20 LBCs.
Everyone take turns carrying items back to AO

 

  • Sometimes
  • bulleted
  • lists
  • are
  • handy.
  • in this case they were not.

MARY:
Marge Simpsons led by Tweet-E since the Q didn’t know what the correct form of a Marge Simpson was. Some other stuff and then something else. Maybe something else too but not sure.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
12
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Prayer and worship. Spoke to the packs about prayer not being some grand rehearsed spectacular thing, but rather a communication with our father. It’s not for others but for him. Same with worship, we don’t need to worry about how good our voice sounds or who hears us and what they may think. We just need to worship our father.
MOLESKIN:
So last night was one of the worst nights of sleep I’ve had in a while. Not showing up was not going to be an option. Glad I did. I need to make it out more often, but the bed feels so good in the morning. I have this memory foam pillow and it’s so nice. I probably should give it a name. We have a memory foam mattress pad to. It’s pretty awesome. I don’t think I should give it a name. Our blankets are regular type blankets but are very comfortable. Although last night none of this helped me. It was a bit hot in my room last night because we forgot to turn the air down. That sucks. I went out and slept in the living room and it was too cold because there’s two vents in that room. I felt like Goldilocks I was looking for baby bears bed, but sadly there was no baby bear bed, so I went back to the big bears bed in my room and it was cooler then so I might have slept 15 to 20 minutes. I was thirsty so I got something to drink, not beer. I did fall asleep for a little bit after that and remember dreaming about beating people up that were bullies. I mean like really beating them up. One of them I remember throwing over a fence when I was done with him. They kept coming back with more of their friends to try and beat me to no avail. I kind of felt bad when I woke up. Do you have  dreams like that? I like dreams. Dreams are fun. I like to have fun. Do you like to have fun? You know what’s funny? Monkeys are funny. They throw their poop sometimes. I hope those of you that are reading this are wondering what the heck is he talking about, did he come off his meds or something? Then again I don’t think anybody reads this. If you are reading this, I’m not off my meds, I don’t even take meds…well sometimes ibuprofen. Anyway, if you are still reading this then put a monkey emoji under the post on slack. Then you will be in the secret society of people that read Tank’s backblasts and I will send you a decoder pin in the mail telling you to drink more Ovaltine. Till then, have a wonderful day my brothers
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
CSAUP, forgot to mention snack drive.

Life, the Universe, and Everything

THE SCENE: A bit cooler than it has been recently. Might rain… (but it didn’t)
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

SSH x42 IC
Cherry Pickers x4 IC
TN rocking chairs x15 IC
Cobra burpees x4 OYO
Regular burpees x2 OYO
Crabettes x10 IC

THA-THANG:
Pax has a choice: “42” beatdown at the AO, or “Over the hill” beatdown at the boats.
“Over the hill” won by a landslide (over Choirboy’s warnings), so let’s grab a CMU and head off!

Stations are set up by the hill with the boats. First station is the timing station – Carry the 90lb sandbag up and over the hill, coming back around by the road.
Remaining stations are AMRAP:
Twist lunge
Tricep extensions
Squats
Blockees
Calf raises
Curls
Up & Over Merkins
LBCs
Ice skaters
Alpos

Didn’t think about the fact that our FNG may not know the lay of the land… He ended up taking a wrong turn, and we had to send out a search party. He was 80% named at that point (Waldo). The W got changed to a B during the COT due to cranial physique.

MARY:
Out of time today. Thanks Abu and Tank for teaming up to bring the sandbag back to the AO!
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
11 helped YHC kick off the 43rd trip around the sun. Welcome to FNG Baldo!
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Short word of gratitude to the PAX for the fellowship, encouragement, help, and accountability over the last four years
MOLESKIN:
Thanks to everyone who brought blowers to clean off the AO. Not sure why everyone then decided to leave the AO for the beatdown…
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Hardship Hill coming up – Sign up! Plus help build some obstacles.
Off the Chain on the 21st!

Fast mosey

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

run to shed, SSH, Merkin, cherry picker

THA-THANG:

workout as a group, first one finished frees everybody to fast mosey to next exercise. Everyone worked as hard as they could but we all stayed together.

100 dips

90 merkins

80 LBC

70 squat

60 dry docks

50 imperial walkers

40 iron Mike

30 pull or chin ups

20 reverse crunches toes downhill

10 burpees

Then reversed and added 10 reps

MARY:
Some running and some core work

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
12 strong
CIRCLE OF TRUST:

Christians should be defined by our faith and our actions, not politics party. I’d recommend reading the Bill Haslam book about faith and politics.
MOLESKIN:
Prayers for Blindside’s school, Ribbed’s wife, and Michelle’s husband in ICU

Blockee Dogs Hang’n by the Totem Pole

THE SCENE: Not too bad.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER✔
WARM-O-RAMA:

Cherry Pickers, Windmills, Temp Merkins, Tempo Squats, LBACF, LBACB, SSH
THA-THANG:

  • Grab a CMU from the pile.  Descending Blockee Sets – 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
  • Mosey North to Light Poles.  Totem Pole: 10 8ct Body Builders, 9 Iron Mikes, 8 Elbow Planks, 7 Double Burpees, 6 Jump Squats, 5 Shoulder Taps, 4 Round the Clock Merkins, 3 Monkey Humpers, 2 BBS, 1 CDD
    • Perform all exercises with indicated reps.  After each round, Mosey to where road splits and back, repeating the exercises again but marking off the top exercise every time you return.

MARY:
Planked for the remainder of time – 3 minutes
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
10 Strong
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Be the man who brings a peaceful presence into the room.
MOLESKIN:
N/A
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Sign up to Q!

Persevere!

THE SCENE: Low 70s, High humidity, weird frog sounds in the distance 

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER We did this. 

WARM-O-RAMA:

SSH IC x15

Cherry Pickers IC x5 

Little Baby Arm Circles IC x12 each way

Tempo Squats IC x10 

Little bit of This. Little Bit of that 

Quick run to the Bath House and back 

THA-THANG:

Grab a CMU and place it in a parking spot at the bottom of the lot. Walk back to the starting point. Complete the following exercises with a mosey to your CMU for 10 Squat Thrusts in between each set. All exercises are single count. 

  • 100 SSH 
  • 90 Mountain Climbers 
  • 80 High Knees
  • 70 Hello Dollys 
  • 60 Freddie Mercurys 
  • 50 Shoulder Taps 
  • 40 Merkins
  • 30 V-ups 
  • 20 BBS 
  • 10 Burpees 

Next, grab a partner. Each partner chooses 3 exercises from the above list. One partner farmer carries both CMUs while the other performs 15 of one of the exercises. When done, catch up to your partner and take over the farmer’s carry while your partner does their first round. Turn around when both partners complete their 3 exercises and repeat back to the AO.

NEXT, choose 4 different exercises and while one partner does a lap around the tennis courts, complete the exercise. Each partner does 4 laps and 4 exercises. 

MARY:

Mary wasn’t available today. 

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

8 HIMs, 0 FNGs, 2 Downrangers (ATL, MEMPHIS)

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Patience vs. Perseverance. At what point do we stop being patient for God’s plan to take shape and start persevering through God’s plan that He lays out in front of us? Patience can be hard to practice. We must constantly remind ourselves that patience can pay off. 

I have been preaching and (trying to) practice patience as I search for a new school admin job. This week is the week where I find out whether I will be on a school admin team for next year. If it doesn’t go my way, I must persevere through another year in the classroom (which I do LOVE) and wait for another opportunity to come up.