F3 Knoxville

Who Needs Gloves?

AO: asylum-am
Q: Mermaid
PAX: Mermaid, Cat Gut (Mike Davis), Shotgun, Farley, Matlock (Bill Maddox), Hands, Tropicana, Cinco (Scott McGuire), Rainbow, Aquafina, P3, Fabio (Joe Hamilton), Holler, white belt
FNGs: None
COUNT: 14
WARMUP:
What is the best warmup exercise ever? The PAX answered Cherry Pickers, so we did three low and S L O W cherry pickers, followed by SSH, Runner’s stretch, both legs, Up dog & down dog, with some tempo merkins and tempo squats
THE THANG:
Mosey to the pavalon, and remind the PAX that the chose the full Mermaid, and not the lite version.
We proceeded to do 20 lunges, followed by a 30 second wall squat, then subtracted one lunge each round. 19 lunges, 30 seconds, 18 lunges, 30 seconds, all the way down to 1 lunge and a 30 second wall squat.
Following the sweatfest of the above, we went to the picnic tables and did two round of bulgarian split squats, 10 each leg for a total of 20 each leg. We moseyed back to the curb next to the flag and did 20 heel elevated squats. We then divided into two groups. One group stayed at the bottom of the hill and did 5 merkins, while the other group sprinted to the top. At the top, the runners tried to complete 5 merkins before the second group sprinted to the top. We did an up and down hill with merkins, then an up and down hill with squats.
MARY:
We walked back to the flag and finished with going around the circle and the PAX calling a mary exercise, and following each with 10 merkins. We closed out with some simple runner’s stretching and quad stretching.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
10 yr anniversary on the horizon for 11/8
COT:
I want to normalize men being vulnerable. We don’t have to suffer through our problems alone. We can share the trials, and our friends can help us walk through the challenges. I shared a story about a friend whose wife left him almost a year ago, and she also abandoned the kids. He is trying to put his life back together, and it is a real challenge. Pay attention to your friends, be there when you notice a problem, and don’t be afraid to verbalize your problems as many of us may have some wisdom to share so that you don’t repeat the same mistakes we made when we were faced with tough times.

IPC…you later

AO: asylum-am
Q: Matlock (Bill Maddox)
PAX: Hot Tub (John Muller), Gibbler, P3, Cinco (Scott McGuire), Waffle House (Brady Greene), Farley, Cat Gut (Mike Davis), Playboy
FNGs: None
COUNT: 9
WARMUP: no time. Especially since Bob walked right through the circle and was extremely legubrious
THE THANG: IPC Week 4.

MARY: Cat Gut (Mike Davis) finished in 33 minutes. Cinco (Scott McGuire) made it to the last set of burpees. No one else sniffed the end

ANNOUNCEMENTS: retirement lunch for good ol Cat Gut (Mike Davis). Happy Birthday to Hot Stubbs

COT: Daniel 6:10. God does his deepest work in private

CMUesday for the Ladies

AO: asylum-am
Q: P3
PAX: Tropicana, Sawdust, Matlock (Bill Maddox), Pac-man, Gibbler, Tramp Stamp, Nordberg
FNGs: 1 Nordberg
COUNT: 8
WARMUP:

5 Easy Burpees
39 SSH
Lap around the parking lot
Cherry Pickers
Runners Stretch Sequence
Shoulder Lubricator

THE THANG:

Catch me if you can with CMU farmer carry and 5 Burpees to Poets Amphitheatre

Partner 1 – AMRAP at Muscle Beach
5 pull-ups / 10 Rows
15 Decline Merkins
20 Big Bois
30 Squats

Partner 2 – Poets Amphitheatre

20 deficit Merkins – bottom
20 Thrusters – Tier 1
30 Curls – Tier 2
10 Blockies – Tier 3
– run back and switch with partner

Catch me if you can with CMU farmer carry and 5 Burpees back to AO

MARY: Notta

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Cat Gut Retiremenet lunch on Friday! Make sure and let Rainbow know

COT:

Talked about how fortunate we are to have the women in our lives. M’s, mothers, sisters, daughters. They show us the grace of God through them (most of the time)

Ephesians 5:25, 28 – “Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her… In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.”

Rage Q Part II

AO: asylum-am
Q: Waffle House (Brady Greene)
PAX: Rainbow, Cat Gut (Mike Davis), Matlock (Bill Maddox), Cinco (Scott McGuire), Fabio (Joe Hamilton), P3, Pac-man, Tropicana, Tramp Stamp
FNGs: None
COUNT: 7, 8, or 9 depending on who we include
I think I might be more suited to like a Tin Pax, or a Lead Pax. Friday’s workout ground me down to nothing and I spent the weekend facing the sad truth that I am not an iron pax. I took it all out on myself and you today. Thanks guys!

Today’s Copper Pax™ Challenge included a Shoulder Blaster, followed by a First Nations Run (sincere apologies to those offended, specifically Matlock (Bill Maddox) ‘s non-loose and unhappy groin). In this post-Wayne Dunn world in which we’re living, it’s the Q’s fault if a guy inflames a groin like that. I apologize.

But hey! We added 10 years to your life with a Junk Science. We bear crawled a long way. Some quick trips around the baseball diamond while the other guys did ab work. Jack Webb made an appearance during the 7th inning stretch. Home run sprints followed by more bear crawls and mosey home. Couple of trips up baby cardiac to close us out.

Happy Monday! Thanks for getting out there together – what a privilege it is.

COT: a thought from from Alan Jacobs in 2017. His prediction was accurate, I’m sorry to say. If we take our cues about how to think about others from social media (as opposed to the gospel), we will become vindictive moralists like everybody else. Here’s the quote:

“When a society rejects the Christian account of who we are, it doesn’t become less moralistic but far more so, because it retains an inchoate sense of justice but has no means of offering and receiving forgiveness. The great moral crisis of our time is not, as many of my fellow Christians believe, sexual licentiousness, but rather vindictiveness. Social media serve as crack for moralists: there’s no high like the high you get from punishing malefactors. But like every addiction, this one suffers from the inexorable law of diminishing returns. The mania for punishment will therefore get worse before it gets better.”


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