F3 Knoxville

Tag: Ariel

I will need a second breakfast

THE SCENE: perfect temp a few sprinkles
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER done
WARM-O-RAMA:

Warm up mosey – two laps around park. Lap 1 stop at each corner and mid point of long side and do 10 merkins. Second lap do 10 squats at the same place.

THA-THANG:

Burpee + KB swing pyramid
1 ea, 2 ea, 3ea, so on until 10 ea and then back down – This Sucked!

50 mtn. climbers on a 4 count

21 box jumps, merkins, KB swings
R&R with
18 reps ea
15 reps ea
12 reps ea
9 reps ea
6 reps ea
3 reps ea

MARY:
3 minute abs – Flutters, Hello Dollys, Box Cutters, American Hammers, Boat/Canoe
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Repeat from Friday but basically don’t miss out on the important stuff by being too busy.
MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

arms and legs

THE SCENE: 60 with just a little drizzle – felt really nice
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Jog two laps with 5 Merkins (lap 1)/5 squats (lap 2) every 20-25 paces

THA-THANG:

Mosey to rock pile and Select two rocks, one for each hand that are equal with in size

20 reps of each x 3 rounds:
Curls
Tricep ext
OH press
Front raise
Bent over row
Chest press (on ground)

Replace rocks and mosey big ball steps

Oompa Loompa up the steps
Lunges on the flat
Oompa Loompa down the steps
Frog leap the flat

R and R x3

Mosey two laps with 5 Merkins (lap 1)/5 squats (lap 2) every 20-25 paces

MARY:
we started with 5 burpees, 5 sec rest – 4 burpees, 5 sec rest on down until 1 burpee, 5 sec
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

“Wait a minute, Doc. Are you telling me you built a time machine… Marty McFly from “Back to the Future” Doc was told that building a time machine would be impossible. but he didn’t let that stop him, he did it anyway. What are you being told is impossible – now go and do it.

MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Brickyard Invasion (Big Ball Assault)

THE SCENE: Clear-ish 32 degrees
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH x 30 IC

Overhead Claps x 40 IC

Imperial Squat Walkers x 10 IC
THA-THANG:

1/2 mile run

50, 40, 30, 20, 10 Reps of

  • Push-ups
  • Burpee
  • Dips
  • Squats
  • BBS

MARY:
Cap’n Thor

Flutters x 20 IC
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what he is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently he starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not see to make any sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of – throwing out a new wing here, putting an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it himself.

C.S. Lewis
MOLESKIN:
God has the best laid plans for you. Trust Him. Talk to Him. Let Him lead.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:

MARSOC Monday

THE SCENE: 47* – in that window where you don’t know what to wear.  But no rain so good to go
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Windmills x10 IC
Tempo lunge x10 IC
4 count merkins x10 IC
Tempo merkins x10 IC
SSH x20 IC
THA-THANG:
Pretty simple routine today, I know it’s probably done at every AO including Big Ball, but I hadn’t seen it come up in a bit so I decided it was time for the Marine Corps Short Card.  We moseyed out of the fountain area and over to the Big Ball.  Perform an exercise for the indicated number of reps, then sprint the stairs at BB to the top and back down before moving on to the next exercise.  I did not deviate from the prescribed exercises:

  • 30 merkins
  • 30 squats
  • 30 crunches (4 count)
  • 10 burpees
  • 10 windmills
  • 30 merkins
  • 30 mountain climbers (4 count)
  • 30 flutter kicks (4 count)
  • 10 burpees
  • 10 cherry pickers
  • 30 merkins
  • 30 star jumps
  • 30 supermans
  • 10 burpees
  • 10 chain breakers
  • 30 merkins
  • 30 lunges
  • 30 hello Dolly’s (4 count)
  • 10 burpees
  • 10 trunk twists
  • 3 sets of max dead hang pull ups, 10 second break in between each set

About halfway through the list, I called an audible and eliminated the stair runs in between exercises to allow everyone the chance to complete.  Those that finished earlier moved to the side and knocked out ab exercises, people joined in as they completed the short card:

Oblique crunches led by Butterfly
Flutter kicks
V Ups led by Ariel
American hammers
Heels to heaven
Boat/canoe

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Nine strong including one FNG: Half Caff, Orkin, Ariel, Huffy (FNG), Driftwood, G6, Butterfly, Swanson, Abort
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
“It is not work that kills men, it is worry.  Work is healthy; you can hardly put more on a man than he can bear.  But worry is rust on the blade.  It is not movement that destroys machinery, but friction.”  –

Like usual, what I share is something that I need to hear and listen to more than I’m providing for anyone else.  I just hope that I can listen and that it can help anyone else needing to hear it.  I make things worse nearly always by worrying, worrying before I can even do anything about it.  Worry does nothing to improve a situation.  The best thing I can do is turn worry into action, find something to work on.  If I can actually work on the problem at hand, it rarely is as bad as I worried about it being.  If I can’t yet work towards that, I need to find something else to occupy and improve until the time comes.
MOLESKIN:
Prayers for Lady Junk, Magic Mic’s grandfather Ed, Passport and his M, Ariel’s grandmother, and Orkin as he travels oversees

discernment

THE SCENE: 58* and rainy
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
It would be kind of silly to have a bridge to warm up under and not use it right?  Slowzy to the underpass before warm up exercises:

Imperial squat walker x10 IC
Four count merkins x10 IC
TN walking horse x10 IC
Grady Corns x20 IC

THA-THANG:
Short mosey from the underpass over to the amphitheater, where we modify the Q to stay out of the rain (though not dry).

First routine is Dora starting from top of amphitheater steps, so pair up.  One guy at the top performing exercises, the other sprints down the stairs, jumps on stage and runs to the farthest point (don’t run into the pond…) and knocks out 5 merkins before turning around and sprinting back up the stairs to reliever their partner. Exercises as follows:

  • Pull ups/inverted rows x100
  • Burpees x100
  • Star Jumps x100

Recover and assemble on the stage for modified Route 66.  Placed a ruck in the middle of the stage as the half way point, maybe a tad shorter than light pole distance but worked fine.  First round of Route 66 was runs with sit up ups, obviously going 1:11.  Quick 10 count off before we do another round of Route 66, bear crawling between and doing Jack Webb’s 1:11.  Shoulders were smokeeddddd.

MARY:
No time for Mary
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
4 very not dry ballers: Swanson, Ariel, G6, Abort
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

At another workout, I had shared a quote which I didn’t realize was so fitting for the group of men I’m fortunate enough to surround myself with: “A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.” When I shared it, I really liked it and therefore planned a workout with rocks near a big church.  But what I was unaware of was the HIMs that I share my mornings with have visions of cathedrals in their minds, and the strength and determination to turn those visions into actions.  Those actions into their dreams.  I am extremely fortunate to be in such close proximity to these men, and my hope I take in what I see and hear to emulate them such that one day I might find the rocks and become the architect as well.

Prayers this morning are for discernment.  I requested selfishly for this for myself, but noted that I am aware that every man in that COT needed it more than me.