F3 Knoxville

Tag: Biscuits

OG Reunion Ruck

AO: the-farm
Q: I-Beam
PAX: Mayberry, Einstein, Toto (James Smith), Lightweight, Waxjob, Driftwood (Gary Bloom), Frosty, Wall Ball (Rob Harlow), Bartman (Jason Draper), Butters, Biscuits
FNGs: None
COUNT: 12
Ruck loops with PT and sandbags.

A Ruckin Good Birthday

THE SCENE: Getting muggy again
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER Done.
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSHs,Gradycorns,Rockets,Lil Baby Arm Circles, Gradycorns, Cherry Pickers, and a lap around the parking lot
THA-THANG:
Rucking around the park plus:

Lower Body (3 sets of 12 reps for each exercise)
Squats
Ruck lunges
Bulgarian split squats

(3 sets of 12 reps for each exercise)
Merkins
Easy Ups
Pull Ups at the playground

Plank (3 sets, 30 seconds each)
Ruck American Hammers (2 sets x 12 reps)
Imperial Walkers (2 sets x 12 reps)
MARY:
Hello Dollys, Flutter Kicks, LBCs oyo
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
7 including 2.0 Charger!
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

“As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.”
Ernest Hemingway
“In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber.  So long as it receives a message of beauty, hope, cheer, and courage – so long are you young.  When the wires are all down and our heart is covered with the snow of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and only then, are you grown old.”  ~Douglas MacArthur

MOLESKIN:
Getting old.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Hardship Hill obstacle build at I-Beam’s on Tuesday.  Be there or Venmo if you can!

Fascination Development

THE SCENE: Cloudy with lingering showers, 72 degrees

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

WARM-O-RAMA:
15 SSH
5 Cherry Pickers
10 Tempo Squats
10 Tempo Merkins
10 Baby Arm Circles
Quick Stretch

THA-THANG:
Mosey to base of Dwayne
11’s up to turn
Burpees and Man Makers
Called an audible 20 minutes in

Mosey to Backbone
2x Muscle Up or Pull Up
5x Squat Jump
Burnie Sanders to top of Matterhorn
3x Burpee
Mosey to Backbone
Rinse and Repeat

Mosey to Little Everest
AMRAP – 10 mins
5x Squats
Bearcrawl to top
5x Merkins
Crabcrawl to bottom
Rinse and Repeat

Suicides to Cory Hill
2x Merkins every parking line

MARY:
Mosey to AO
Mary

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Waxjob, Mayberry, Smoky, Goat Dish, Earmuffs, Biscuits

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Our company looks to hire people that have a curiosity for buildings and how buildings are put together.  Imagine going to a doctor and finding out the doctor doesn’t have a curiosity for how the body works.  I’m not sure I’d want that doctor working on me.

I had an employee one time that was young and new.  We gave her a project to design with wood and she didn’t know the size of a 2×4.  Was a startling revelation that she was designing a building with material she didn’t even understand.

This brings me to the below quote that I just found.
People in organizations need to develop a fascination for what doesn’t work. @kenblanchard #leadership

Just like having curiosity in life, everyone should have a fascination for what doesn’t work.  Having this fascination may lead you down a path where you find a solution.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Painting for Cardinal’s wife in Karns on Saturday, 3/18
Shovel flag building workshop – tentatively scheduled for 4/1/23.  More details to follow.

Pray for MC (Mary Claire) as she continues to battle stage 4 cancer.  The prognosis is not good.

Share Your Burden

THE SCENE: 51 with a surprise shower during warm-o-rama.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
SSH IC x20
LBAC IC x10 forward, x10 backward
Tempo Squat IC x10

Cherry Pickers x5, K-town cadence

THA-THANG:

To the coupon pile
Everyone pick a handheld pair you can do a lot of reps with.
Q grabs the biggest rock in the stack and “shares” it with the nearest guy.
The PAX sets out around the grounds
  1.  small rocks = perfect Curl-Press-Tri
  2.  BIG rock = overhead hold
When the big rock carrier needs to trade, everyone does:
10 Squat Jumps
20 Lunges
30 SSH
40 Rocky Balboas
Next PAX takes “The Burden” and off around the grounds again.
Continue until time for Mary

MARY:
Ran out of time.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

We just did an exercise called “Share the Burden.” How easy was the exercise overall? How easy did it feel to carry the big burden when everyone else was throwing up small rocks? What happened when you got tired? Some folks have a tendency to quit as soon as things get hard to avoid public failure. Did you give it up right away like those people? Those people don’t get up at 5am to work out in the cold!
No, your pride kicked in and you pushed as hard as you could. You tried to do more, some of us more than we should. You knew there was more work to do after, but you still pushed harder. If you knew you had more in the tank, and you were carrying the burden so the next man didn’t suffer, good for you.
But what about the rest of us? How much of your push was not wanting to be embarrassed? Not wanting to look weak? How many of us risked injury just to save face, or to not stand out?
Yesterday we lost a PAX. He was 36, a husband, father of two, a pastor in our community for 8+ years. He spent his ministry life actively reaching out to others to relieve them of some of their burden. We should all do the same.
But, I don’t need to tell most of you to help others, most of us are good at it. We often consider ourselves ready to share someone else’s burden. We volunteer to jump in and help when someone else needs it. We feel good about helping out a brother, or a neighbor, or a family…especially when the need is dire.
But what do we do when WE are the ones struggling, the one failing? Do we jump out and announce it? Do we volunteer for help? Do we look to share our own burden? Or do we hide, struggle on, and fake it?
When I last checked, the F3 GoFundMe for Cardinal’s family was over $33K…in 12 hours, basically just from F3. That shows tangibly what the PAX around us are ready and able to do. So do NOT rob them of the opportunity to serve. When you allow others to share your burden, you invite them into sharing blessing as well!
Don’t struggle in silence, don’t just try not to look like a screw up. Do not push harder when you are flailing and dragging yourself, your family or your business down. Ask for help. Ask the SkyQ, ask your pastor, and ask an F3 Brother, or two or three or four. You can’t lock shields with yourself, so look around, share your burden with the dude walking next to you, and work harder TOGETHER! Share the burden AND the blessing.

MOLESKIN:
It was a pleasure to consider just how blessed we are to have each other. #ISI

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Impromptu convergence, this Saturday, 1/14/23 in honor of Cardinal and support of Rampart.

Forgiveness

Warmup:
10 SSH
1 HR Burpee OYO
5 Cherry Pickers
2 HR Burpees OYO
10 Tempo Squats
3 HR Burpees OYO

Mosey to Basketball Court
Stations
Sandbag Toss
Kettlebell Swings
CMU Farmers Carry
Burpees

Mosey to Soccer Field
Elevens
10 BBS
1 Merkin

Mosey to Bathrooms
Dora
100 Merkins
250 High Knees
500 SSH

Mosey to Concrete Stadium
5 Box Jumps
5 Decline Merkins
5 Rounds

Mosey to AO
Mary

Forgiveness – Colossians 3:13

bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.