F3 Knoxville

The pain train

THE SCENE: 34*, nice and clear
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

No warm up, no time. Quick gear inspection and get the show on the road
THA-THANG:
Equipment list, everyone with rucks with challenge weight, water bladders etc. Three 60 pound sandbags (Sandy, Sandra, and Irene) and one big girl 80 pound sandbag (Betty).

Move out away from start point, rotating sandbags every 0.20 miles. At the end of your rotation, you have to pay a 5 squat transfer fee before handing off the sandbag. Transition can not allow sandbag to touch the ground. Head to Tom Black Track on UT campus, hitting every scrappy hill we can.

Once at the track, ground sandbags for PT. Circuit consisted of the following:

  • Atlas lift with 60 bag
  • Lateral pull merkins with ruck
  • Bent over row with 80 bag
  • Leg levers with ruck overhead
  • Reverse lunges with 60 bag
  • Shoulder loads with 60 bag

Last man bear crawls to cone and back, taking over at Atlas lifts and bumping everyone to next exercise. Go through circuit twice.

Recover and link the sandbags together with carabiners for the pain train (aka the floppy log) back.  Carry can consist of shoulder, farmer carry, whatever. Rotate as needed like an event. Due to time left, after a few rotations the pain train is broken back into individual bags as the train moves slower. Last quarter ro third mile sandbags had to be carried off shoulders. Get back right at 6:15.

Impact and enunciate

THE SCENE: 41* which was nice and toasty in comparison to the last few days
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Shoulder taps
Tempo lunge
ANGLE ANGLE ANGLE grinders

SSH

THA-THANG:

Mosey out of the SP and toward the Big Ball.  Lots of chalk at the base of the stairs for the escalator.  Each exercise is 10 reps, picking up a new exercise each iteration through and running the stairs to the top of the Big Ball after completing each exercise.  Final iteration is 10 reps of all six exercises followed by the run to the top and back down for Mary.  Exercises as follows:

  • Imperial squat walkers
  • Merkins
  • Pickle pounders on 4-ct
  • Alternating shoulder taps on 4-ct
  • Crab cakes on 4-ct
  • Tricep dips

Short mosey up to the middle platform of the stairs beside big ball.  Circle up for contra burpees.  Start with normal burpee, then add a merkin each repetition until you reach 10 merkins at the bottom of the burpee.  Recover back down to the bottom of the big ball to pick up laundry.

Mosey across bridge and over to the amphitheater.  Line up across the front of the stage.
15 Bulgarian split squats (15 each leg), 15 wide merkins
15 jump squats, 15 Carolina dry docks
15 side step ups (15 each leg), 15 legs on stage sit ups and touch stage

Recover and mosey the long way around and up behind the amphitheater heading back to start point for Mary.

MARY:
Recliner flutter kicks (not laid back completely)
Recliner Edward scissor-legs
Boat/Canoe
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
12 strong including a visitor from Charlotte: Operation, G6, Singlet, SiPad, Careless, Swanson, Brooks, Amazon, Reverb, Cowbell, Red Writer, Abort
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Impact is forcible contact to strong effect.  Thank the PAX for the impact they have all had on me recently, where I know I’ve taken small things from each of them and emulated to try to improve my character.

1st Official OTB Ruck Workout at B.B.

THE SCENE:
Cold. Clear. 30 degrees.

Explained the format of these workouts moving forward. 100% of these will be used for event prep.

  1. Dress as you would for an event. Test out your clothing that you want to wear (i.e. will these baselayers and a small windbreaker keep me warm during the event?, should I try out these new shoes?). Recommended to never wear shorts. Low crawls will occur on the reg.
  2. Pack like you would for an event. Should contain, at a minimum: reflectors, headlamp, 30# weight, full water bladder, ID (don’t worry about quitter’s cash :)) Pack extra weight than you usually do. The worst thing about training with only 30# weight is discovering that your ruck weighs ~48# at the start of an event.
  3. Sandbags and coupons will be present at EVERY workout. You can crush all the ruck PT and cardio that you want, but if you can’t carry heavy shit for long distances, you’re going to have a bad time at an event.
  4. Workouts will sometime consist of only carrying coupons for the entire duration of the workout. Other times there will be shorter distances covered with more sandbag and ruck PT.
  5. This is not an F3 workout. So instead of circling up like an F3 workout, we will line up in ranks & columns like the administrative phase of an event. The QIC will “inspect” rucks for minimum items listed above. This will get you used to unpacking and packing in a hurry. We may do some “dump it” and “pack it” days with time hacks.
  6. Like the Tough page, to Q one of these workouts, you will first have to have completed a Tough or higher event. Light only doesn’t count.

WARM-O-RAMA:
BAC x10 IC
SSH x15 IC
Squat x10 IC
Merkins x10 OYO

THA-THANG:
Coupons in tow: 80# sandbag, 60# sandbag

Ruck to the soccer fields and onto the turf. All workouts below with rucks on.

Phase 1:
Line up along the end line with sandbags. Partner up. Pick your poison (80# or 60#).
Partner A: Clean, squat, toss sandbag in front of you. Repeat & continue until end of penalty box (18 yds). Shoulder sandbag and run it back
Partner B: 5 Merkins, 10 Ruck Presses, 15 Front Squats R&R until partner returns
2 sets each

Phase 2:
Daisy chain 80# & 60# bags together.
2 people: bear crawl drag sandbag for 12 yards. Front carry it back
remaining team: 10 flutter kicks, 5 get ups (ruck in front). R&R until group returns
Swap out and repeat until every person completes the bear crawl twice

Intermission:
2 sets of Front, Back, Go for 45 seconds.

Phase 3:
Sandbags still daisy chained
2 people: low crawl drag for 12 yards. Farmer carry back
remaining team: 10 squats, 10 merkins. R&R until group returns
Swap out and repeat until every person completes the low crawl twice

1 set of Front, Back, Go

Phase 4:
Circle up. Sandbags are with random PAX.
Burpee, clean & shoulder the sandbag, toss it clockwise to the next person
Repeat until each person tossed the 80# 6 times

Intermission:
5- 8ct bodybuilders

Phase 5:
Partner Up. 3 people on the 80#. 2 people on the 60#
Burpee, curl, clean, squat, toss to next person
Repeat until each person performs 10 reps

PAX head back to AO

MARY:
5- 8ct bodybuilders

The Weatherman is a Liar (v1)

THE SCENE: Cold, wet, a bit icy. 35 degrees
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

10x BAC IC
Little bit of…
10x Sumo Shoulders IC
10x Hillbilly IC
10x Tempo Squat IC
10x Tempo Merks IC
5x Bodybuilders (8ct) IC

THA-THANG:
Shoulder Shredder (100 reps)

Stay in parking lot. PAX partner up along baseline:
Partner A: Run to other side, perform 2x bodybuilders, coming back: bear crawl 3 parking spaces, lunge 3 parking spaces, run back
Partner B: Flapjack (5 merks, 5 flutters, R&R)
Performed 3 sets of above

PAX mosey to picnic tables by concession stand

PT Pyramid:

  • 1 table row (pull-up), 2 merkins, 3 Big Boy Situps
  • 2 rows, 4 merks, 6 BBS, continue up the pyramid
  • 6 rows, 12 merks, 18 BBS, then back down the pyramid
  • 1 rows, 2 merks, 3 BBS

PAX mosey to large chapel area where FiA works out. Partner up:
Partner A: Bearcrawl forward to other side, crawl bear back, crab walk forward, crab walk reverse
Partner B: Flutter kicks
2 sets each

PAX mosey back to AO.

MARY:
Had 4 minutes left, so we did another Shoulder Shredder (100 reps)

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Talked about working/practicing things you hate doing (i.e. bear crawls & crab walks) to turn deficiencies into strengths.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Mend House workout on Wednesday 12/12
2nd F at Printshop on 12/19 (will send invite)

3rd F Prep Work

THE SCENE: Brisk morning, temp in the 30’s
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

SSH, A little of this and a little of that, Tempo Squats, Tempo Merkins
THA-THANG:

Mosey to Sunsphere to tackle the stairs.

  • Bear crawl up stairs with 5 Merkins at the middle and top
  • Lunge up stairs with 5 squats at the middle and top
  • Repeat

Mosey to parking lot S7.  Divide up into 4 teams for a relay.  One man runs the length of lot while others do flutter kicks.  Each man takes a turn running.  Recover.  Same thing with plank/Merkins.

Mosey to parking lot C15.  Everyone grabbed a coupon for the following:

  • Curls x 10 – run up stairs and back
  • Presses x 10 – run up stairs and back
  • Flutter kicks with coupon over head x 10 – run up stairs and back
  • Squats x 10 – run up stairs and back

Recover then everyone does American Hammer with coupon x 10 IC.  Also a round of circle burps without coupons.

Mosey to amplitheater for some SSH IC.  Mosey back to AO while Steam lead F3 cadence. Wrap up with a round of “leg pushes” (not sure if it has a name, everyone on their backs, legs up pointing outside circle. Each man runs around pushing everyone’s legs down.)  Over head claps x 25
MARY:

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
22 HIM’s total with 3 FNG’s
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Philippians 2:3-4  Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.  Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.

We can all be selfish with our time and resources.  Let’s humble ourselves and seek to serve others in a way that glorifies God.  Put others first and seek to do what we can to meet their needs and not just our own.
MOLESKIN:
Everyone keep in mind the Fountain City AO that they are trying to get started.  If anyone can attend some of those workouts it would be greatly appreciated especially to the Mend House guys who have been coming out.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:

3rd F event immediately followed.  Great job to the guys who spoke!!  Very encouraging and insightful.