F3 Knoxville

Tag: Avocado

Just 5 more minutes…

THE SCENE: Beautiful morning. A little chilly
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Some SSH, some tempo merkins, some tempo squats, follow the leader
THA-THANG:

5 stations, 5 minutes of work then rotate

Station 1 (the big CMUs)

  • monstrous murder bunnies for 3 lines
  • 10 Curls
  • CMU lunges 3 lines
  • 10 overhead press

2 at tennis courts with half CMUs

  • 10 bent row + tricep extension
  • Sprint 3 courts
  • 10 thrusters
  • Crab walk 1 court both ways

3 At waxjob hill 11s

  • Tuck jump burpees at the top
  • Hand release burpees at the bottom
  • Side shuffle up and down the hill

4 At baseball field

  • bear crawl all the bases
  • 5 iron squats at first
  • 10 at second
  • 15 at third
  • 20 at home

5 At the pullup bars

  • 5 pull-up
  • 10 merkins
  • 15 reverse crunch up on parallel bars

MARY:
Hold 6 for the 6, 25 water pumps, 25 superman swims, lbc for time
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
13 Pax including a 2.0
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
I have been really stressed and stretched thin. We need to focus on the task at hand and give it all we’ve got even if for just 5 minutes. Very thankful to the HIMs who stepped up to pray for me and my battle with temptation last night.
MOLESKIN:
Insert any personal comments, notes, devotion content, etc.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Insert information about upcoming events, 2nd or 3rd F opportunities, and any other announcements.

Blowin’

THE SCENE: 47 degrees F, 97% humidity, beautiful skies
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH, Bulldogs, Imperial Squat Walkers
THA-THANG:
Mosey to the Fountain with a CMU.  Split into two groups to take one of the two paths up the trail.

Route 66 Comin’ and Goin’

1 to 11 Merkins after running up

1  to 11 thrusters after running down

Use light posts in the following sequence: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 to use as the 11 markers.

Mt Crumpit Dora

Pair up and complete the following at the trail while partners alternate running up Mt. Crumpit and doing two burpees on the back side of  the tree.  (Too much prescribed to do.  Better suited for an hour long Saturday.)

50 Blockees

100 Decline Dry Docks

150 CMU Swings

200 Bench Presses

150 Bent Rows

100 Curls

50 Blockees

Mosey back to the Grinder with CMU in tow.

MARY:
Box cutters, flutter kicks, Chest presses
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
15 HIMs and 2.0 Webelo
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Bob Dylan is one of my favorite song writers and he is one of the most prolific.  He wrote “Blowin” In The Wind” in 1962 and while most of his questions are unanswerable, there are a few that literally hit me between the eyes.  Here are the lyrics.

“Blowin’ In The Wind”
How many roads must a man walk down
Before you call him a man?
How many seas must a white dove sail
Before she sleeps in the sand?
Yes, and how many times must the cannonballs fly
Before they’re forever banned?

The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind
The answer is blowin’ in the wind

Yes, and how many years can a mountain exist
Before it’s washed to the sea?
Yes, and how many years can some people exist
Before they’re allowed to be free?
Yes, and how many times can a man turn his head
And pretend that he just doesn’t see?

The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind
The answer is blowin’ in the wind

Yes, and how many times must a man look up
Before he can see the sky?
Yes, and how many ears must one man have
Before he can hear people cry?
Yes, and how many deaths will it take ’til he knows
That too many people have died?

The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind
The answer is blowin’ in the wind

Lyrics by Bob Dylan 1962/1963

My prayer is that God gives me the eyes to see, the ears to hear, and the heart to respond.

MOLESKIN:
Hammy is having meniscus cleanup surgery on the left knee tomorrow morning.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Insert information about upcoming events, 2nd or 3rd F opportunities, and any other announcements.

Track Star

THE SCENE: 66 but the rain held off so always a good day.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Mosey to the Oval Office, took a little detor to the right of the Oval Office along side Montvale Station, Bernie up the sidewalk to the track.

Hamstring scoops and walking quad stretch to get the legs ready.
THA-THANG:

  • Totem poll – kind of
  • Ppax starts at the first cone, 6 cones around the track, each has a different exercises and increasing reps
  • 10- Smurpee- half burpee ( Thruster to stand, no merkin or jump)
  • 20 V Ups
  • 30- Apollo Ono’s- 2ct
  • 40- T Merkins- 1ct
  • 50- Hello Dolly’s
  • 60- Split Squat Jumps

After you finish with the first cone ( 10) run around track back to first cone. Then complete exercises at first cone, lunge to the second cone, complete exercises and run around track back to first cone. Continue around the track lunging in-between each cone, always running back to the first cone after you finish reps at the last cone for that round. .

Q decided to pull an switch with 5 min left and changed the lunges to Bernie’s in-between cones.

If you make it all the way around and finish the 6th cone, reverse the totem poll. Start at 60 complete reps, than Bernie around the track back to 60. complete reps and rev lung to 5th cone, complete same as above but using Bernie and rev lunge

MARY:
Plank hold for time, dropped down into yoga hold for a 20 seconds.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
“It’s not whether you got knocked down; it’s whether you get back up.”

F3 is about growling male leadership. Successful leaders live by the quote above. The road to success is often paved in failure. How will you respond to failure in life? will you quit or rise up and keep pushing?

MOLESKIN:
Super proud to see the pax growing. We have a great chance to be one of the best AO’s around.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Kickball, if your interested please let Tank know.

The Perfect Game

THE SCENE: 55 degrees and the ground was wet after some rain last night

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER


WARM-O-RAMA:
Cherry Pickers x5; Little Baby Arm Circles (F&B) x10; Line up on baseline and lunge to next line then inchworm back

THA-THANG:
PAX grab their CMUs and mosey to the baseball field to find cones set up at all 9 positions and both benches

Explained that a perfect game in baseball is getting all 27 outs without allowing a base runner so we would do 27 reps of each exercise at each location except right field. Only other rule is to keep your CMU with you at all times.

  • Pitcher – CMU Swings
  • Catcher – CMU Thrusters
  • 1st Base – CMU Curls
  • 2nd Base – CMU Overhead Press
  • 3rd Base – Iron Mikes (2-ct)
  • Shortstop – Blockees
  • Left Field – Big Boy Situps
  • Center Field – Hand Release Merkins
  • Right Field – Run Lap Around Field
  • Bench 1 – Step Ups
  • Bench 2 – Dips

PAX did 7s on the hill next to the field after completing the perfect game. Bodybuilders at the bottom of the hill and WW2 Situps at the top.

Mosey back to the Grinder

MARY:
Rotated between doing Flutter Kicks and Little Baby Ab Crunches until time

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
12 HIMS and 1 2.0 this morning

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
“Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it.” 1 Corinthians 9:24

What are we doing to make sure we win the race? Just like it takes discipline and training to win a race, we need to be disciplined and be training to lead in the race of life. We win that race by being the leaders that God intends us to be. We must first lead our families, then lead in our churches, workplaces, and any where else God places us. We can lead by example even if we don’t have a title that would indicate that we are in charge. We can do everything to the best of our abilities no matter whether someone is watching or not.

MOLESKIN:
Insert any personal comments, notes, devotion content, etc.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Insert information about upcoming events, 2nd or 3rd F opportunities, and any other announcements.

Tri-Hop

THE SCENE: 65 and we can tell its getting close to summer. The pavement isn’t cold no more! Veep showed up about 15 min into the Thang Thang and despite being told the grueling road head still parked his truck and joined the beatdown!!
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Mosey with you CMU. Stopped at check point #3 for 5 good mornings before heading back on the mosey to pad at the oval office to drop of the CMU’s and then finished the mosey down to the tennis courts.
THA-THANG:

Three areas to work in- Tennis Court, Pad at oval office/ track, road beside track.

Start at the tennis court complete:

  • 10 Burpees at all four corners of the tennis courts, not using inside corners of two courts. Bear crawl up side of courts, lunge back and front side of courts to get from corner to corner
  • Mosey to cone place on The Hill and reverse back to the Pad at the Oval Office.
  • 20 CMU Curl to Press at the Pad
  • Side shuffle halfway down front side of track and switch direction at the mid way cone till end of front side. go down the stairs to the road
  • Run to cone and complete 10 Dive Bombers and 10 Broad Jumps
  • Run back to Tennis Courts and repeat.

Most of the PAX completed One and 2/3 rounds, Avocado finished 2 because he is a beast. Q realized that we can shorten the course up next time.

MARY:
CMU carry back to the Grindstone. We did about 100 ft of OH Carry and then 100 ft of Goblet hold carry. Mosey before and in-between.

Held straight arm plank for 45 seconds once back at Grindstone
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
I have been struggling with my relationship with my daughter recently. it has caused a lot of frustration and challenges at home. I shared some of the struggles I’m dealing with but also shared with the pax the importance of remembering that our words matter to our kids and that often mimic our words and actions. Be mindful of what you say, words can not be taken back.
MOLESKIN:
We held our first OTB PM PT at the Arsenal Wednesday night ( Ok YHC was the only one there BUT there is a huge opportunity for us to have a regular PM PT session for the Arsenal)

More CMU’s have been delivered to the new stash, located behind field two in the bushes that line the bridge. Veep personalized some of them for us.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Where are we at with the kickball team? lets not let this slide by. If you read this let me know if you’re wanting to play.