F3 Knoxville

Tag: Biohack

Where are my eyes

THE SCENE: Insert info about the weather, etc.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • High knees
  • Projectivators
  • Moroccan nightclubs
  • Little baby arm circles
  • Tempo squats
  • Imperial squawkers
  • Tempo merkins

THA-THANG:

Hit the parallel bars (20 inv. Rows + 20 merkins) and wall (10 Wall-pees) on the way

Baby steps @ Recruiting center

  • 6 thrusters and a blockee x3
  • Mosey around the parking lot
  • 6 Airplane! And a blockee x3
    • Airplane = on 6, crunch up with block then extend arms and legs
  • Mosey around the parking lot
  • 6 curl-presses and a blockee x3
  • Mosey around the parking lot
  • Line up along the short end of parking lot
  • Lunge two parking spaces with cmu, then bear crawl back and do 10 dry-docks, then go back and get the cmu. Cross the parking lot
  • Next two, transit 2 spaces, then do 10 of the listed exercise. Cross the parking lot
    • Rifle Carry – Good mornings
    • Farmer Carry – Tricep ext.
  • Finish up with some high speed work
  • 40 seconds – AMRAP – 20 seconds off
    • Curls
    • Heavy Hammers
    • Right row
    • Left row
    • Heavy Flutter Kicks
    • Double stack squats
    • Heavy LBCs

MARY:
Just enough time to put our heels to heaven.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

In these days, it seems like uncertainty abounds. When we don’t know what is true or who to trust, it is tempting to just pick something or someone and cling to it. Life feels easier when you have a simple answer, even if the answer is wrong. It is really unpleasant to reside in unknowing, to accept the chaos each day. It seems better to hide your eyes, turn to distractions, but that just stores up suffering for later.

Instead, it is better to accept the unknowing of today by abiding in this transcendent truth: that we can place our trust in our Father above. The plan is not ours to know, even the Son did not know the day or the hour, but if we place our trust in the only One who is truly trustworthy, then our future is secured.

Psalm 121

1 I lift up my eyes to the mountains— where does my help come from?

2 My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth.

3 He will not let your foot slip— he who watches over you will not slumber;

4 indeed, he who watches over Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.

5 The Lord watches over you— the Lord is your shade at your right hand;

6 the sun will not harm you by day, nor the moon by night.

7 The Lord will keep you from all harm— he will watch over your life;

8 the Lord will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore.

MOLESKIN:
Thanks to Manilow for the glamor shots!
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
IPC week 2 coming up. Hardship hill.

IronPAX Recovery Workout

THE SCENE: 64 and cool
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER – Yes and Phone in case of emergency
WARM-O-RAMA
SSH, Tempo Merk, Mountain Climbers, Tempo Squats, Cherry Pickers, Individual Stretch, Mosey to Recruiting Center

THA-THANG:
4 Corners – 3 Rounds – 20 Reps

Arms
20 Curls
20 Single-arm Rows
20 OHP
TRAVEL: Murder Bunny

Legs
20 Heavy Squats
20 Heavy Lunges
20 Heavy Squat Jump
TRAVEL: Rifle Carry

Abs
20 Heavy BBS
20 Heavy Freddy
20 Heavy Heals-to-Heaven
TRAVEL: CMU Bear Crawl

Back/Body
20 Good Morning
20 Blockees
20 Thrusters
TRAVEL: Heavy Lunge

We had time so we added 10 Heavy Dips + 10 Tricep Extensions (Thanks Kick!)

Mosey back to Shovel Flag

MARY:
PAX Choice – LBC, Freddy Mercury, E2K, Basilisk, Prone Row, Hello Dolly, Flutterkick

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
5 Lucky Bastards – Good crew to enjoy Heavy PT and some coffee/water afterwards

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Romans 12:1-2 (ESV)

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. 2 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

MOLESKIN:
Biohack is the hero today with coffee, cups, and (almond?) milk and Kick-Flip, our Fearless Leader for the water! Good work, gents!

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Hardship Hill Obstacles – something about a deep leaf-covered hole filled with sharp wooden pikes… with little people dressed in teddy bear suits and spears? Kickflip has all the details…

IPC Week 0

THE SCENE:  70 and rainy
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER:  Administered
WARM-O-RAMA:

Stretch OYO

To the track…

THA THANG:

Iron PAX Challenge, Week 0

  • 100 merkins
  • Run 2 laps (800m)
  • 75 merkins
  • Run 3 laps (1200m)
  • 50 merkins
  • Run 4 laps (1600m)
  • 25 merkins
  • Run 5 laps (2000m) 

MARY:

No time

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

Me and 7 of the best men I know

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Psalm 143:4

“Remember what God has done for you. Let His grace and mercy comfort you, and remind you of His unfailing love.”

Psalm 103:2

“Let all that I am praise the Lord; may I never forget the good things he does for me.”

MOLESKIN:

PRAYERS / ANNOUNCEMENTS:

tripple 11s

THE SCENE: beautiful morning. 60s
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER: followed the standard disclaimer

WARM-O-RAMA:

  • seal claps (IC)
  • Moroccan nightclub (IC)
  • merkins (IC)
  • plank – upward dog back stretch
  • Stretch on your own

THA-THANG:

  • mosey to track, bear crawl 25 count right arm.
  • mosey to High School Stairs (there are three levels)
  • tripple 11s. squats, dry docks then freddie mercury. for the count, did 1:10:10; 2:9:9, etc.
  • mosey to track indian run around the track
  • exercises at 0 and 200m marks. mosey between marks and include 50 yard sprint.
  •  for the exercises, 10 burpees, 20 lunges each leg, 30 merkins, 40 LBCs. repeat that twice.

MARY:
no time
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
gratitude
MOLESKIN:
none
ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Suffering is not the end

THE SCENE: Humid and 70, but we can see the stars.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Projectivators
  • Moroccan Nightclubs
  • Tempo squats – demo “in the basement”
  • Tempo Merkins
  • Mountain climbers
  • Hairy Rocketts
  • Lap with run warm-ups – skips, karaoke, slides

THA-THANG:

  • Grab 2 blocks each and farmer carry down to the square
  • 40 curls, murder bunny to NW corner
  • 40 OHP, sprint back to get block
  • 10 squats, 10 4c basement squats, rifle carry to NW corner
  • 20 bent over rows – both arms together, farmer carry to SW corner
  • 10 split irkins, 10 4c basement split irkins, block bear crawl to bell
  • 10 step-up w/ press, 10 dips, 10 4c basement dips, farmer carry to parallel bars
  • 20 curls, 20 inverse rows, farmer carry to pool wall
  • 10 wall-ups, farmer carry one block to senior center pavillion
  • 10 squats, 10 4c basement squats, hustle to parallel bars
  • 20 inverse rows, 20 merkins, sprint to pool wall
  • 10 wall-ups, rifle carry remaining block to senior center
  • Heavy core set – 20 freddies, 20 LBCs, 20 flutters – all 4c

MARY:
Kind just did the thang
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Faith is the art of holding onto things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.
-Clive Staples Lewis

From “No man is an island” by Thomas Merton, Ch.5 Item 2

The Christian must not only accept suffering: he must make it holy. Nothing so easily becomes unholy as suffering.

Merely accepted, suffering does nothing for our souls except, perhaps, to harden them. Endurance alone is no consecration. True asceticism is not a mere cult of fortitude. We can deny ourselves rigorously for the wrong reason and end up by pleasing ourselves mightily with our self-denial.

Suffering is consecrated to God by faith – not by faith in suffering, but by faith in God. To accept suffering stoically, to receive the burden of fatal, unavoidable, and incomprehensible necessity and to bear it strongly, is no consecration.

Some men believe in the power and the value of suffering. But their belief is an illusion. Suffering has no power and no value of its own.

It is valuable only as a test of faith. What if our faith fails in the test? Is it good to suffer, then? What if we enter into suffering with a strong faith in suffering, and then discover that suffering destroys us?

To believe in suffering is pride: but to suffer, believing in God, is humility. For pride may tell us that we are strong enough to suffer, that suffering is good for us because we are good. Humility tells us that suffering is an evil which we must always expect to find in our lives because of the evil that is in ourselves. But faith also knows that the mercy of God is given to those who seek Him in suffering, and that by His grace we can overcome evil with good. Suffering, then, becomes good by accident, by the good that it enables us to receive more abundantly from the mercy of God. It does not make us good by itself, but it enables us to make ourselves better than we are. Thus, what we consecrate to God in suffering is not our suffering but our selves.

Does this mean that seeking out suffering (like here) is inherently prideful?

Suffering is unavoidable
Suffering well requires practice
To practice suffering well, it is better to pick a good environment (Merton was ascetic)
MOLESKIN:
I had planned to make it back to the recruiting center, but it was clear by the time we got to the bell we wouldn’t make it. That first leg of murder bunnies was longer than I thought…
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
CSAUP in two days, 2nd F – concert at Bissel 6:30 pm Saturday, IRON PAX is coming up in September