Blindside – Page 3 – F3 Knoxville

What’s the worst thing you can catch at the Splash Pad?

June 25, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: the-equalizer
Q: Bookman
PAX: Mouthwash, Ribbed (Joshua Sagraves), Snowbird, Stripped, Blindside, Smithers, Cheney, Madoff, Bookman
FNGs: None
COUNT: 9
WARMUP:

SSHs, Tempo Squats, Tempo Merkins, Gradycorns

THE THANG:

Starfish of fun at the Splash Pad. With music and CMUs. Every few minutes you do a 45 second wall sit when the Q remembers

Middle dice: WW3 sits, # rolled is the row count
Outer dice:

– Squats
– Oklahoma Cheerleaders
– Bent Over Rows
– Flat/Floor Press
– Overhead Press

# rolled you double and that’s the rep count

Start in the middle, move to outer station, when done with an outer section, go back to middle.

MARY:

20 seconds of bend and reach

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Multiple Flag handoffs the next few weeks- Asylum PM and Dog Pound! Starfish at The Project! Veteran Outreach! Dad Camp!

COT:

Your success and others’ (family, community, work…) success both depend on you. Don’t forget that.

Goodnight Ruck

May 27, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: shamruck
Q: Eliza
PAX: Mermaid, Flower Pot, Betty, Eliza, Blindside, Lizzy, Dumpster Dive, Crawlspace, Honeydew, Draino
FNGs: None
COUNT: 10

THE THANG: the hand route+the finger

ANNOUNCEMENTS: one knox game, virtuous leadership hike

COT: call your friends and tell them
Goodnight aka check in and be there. Tell them you’re thankful for them.

Do The Hard Things

May 16, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: the-equalizer
Q: Blindside
PAX: Ribbed (Joshua Sagraves), Madoff, Snowbird, Mouthwash, Bookman, Swimmies (Nathan Chesney), Smithers, Blindside, Tinactin
FNGs: 1 Tinactin
COUNT: 9
WARMUP:

Ribbed’s Patented Warm-up: 1 Squat

THE THANG:
The Snake
5 Stations, 3 exercises per station, 5 rounds, Deescalating # of Reps. Mosey to each station, Mosey back to 1st station after completing the 5th station. Do exercises again doing the next lowest # of reps.

The Stations/Exercises/Reps:
1. Dock
1. CCD, BBS, Mountain Climbers
2. 25, 20, 15, 10, 5 reps
1. Rockpile
1. OH Press, Rows, Curls
2. 20, 16, 12, 8, 4 reps
1. Bathhouse
1. Pull-ups, LBCs, Wide Merkins
2. 15, 12, 9, 6, 3 reps
1. Splash Pad
1. Dips, Derkins, Imperial Squat Walkers
2. 10, 8, 6, 4, 2 reps
1. Top of the World
1. Lunges, Apollo Onos, Burpees
2. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 reps

MARY:
Fellowship Mosey return to Shovel Flag

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Hardship Hill, Ribbed is the new Comz Q

COT:
I don’t like this workout. It is just enough running to tick you off. But I had a conversation yesterday with a friend that I preferred golf over tennis because “My cardio isn’t up for tennis right now.” After I said that, I immediately planned to do this Q because I didn’t like that I said it.

Do the hard things! Do the right things!

Core Cavalcade

May 7, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: the-equalizer
Q: Madoff
PAX: Snitch (Cory Beilharz ), Bookman, Ribbed (Joshua Sagraves), Snowbird, Blindside, Smithers, Stripped, Mouthwash
FNGs: None
COUNT: 9
WARMUP: walk to the smokehouse grab a CMU and walk to the splash pad

THE THANG:
Tabata – 8 rounds 20 secs work 10 sec rest

CMU – 90 degree March Hold
Wall – Legs Up Wall Touch
CMU – standing around the world stops
Sitting jump ups
Freddie Metcuries
CMU – American Swings

MARY:
15 gas pumpers
20 flutter kicks
15 Georgia cheerleaders
1 cherry picker

ANNOUNCEMENTS: flag handoff shamrock on Friday

COT: Matthew 6:25-30. Talked about worry and faith and how as men sometimes our desire to plan and control is a demonstration of worry. We should rely on God voice and hand to lead us and not project ourselves too far into the unknown. Don’t worry about a thing 😉

M&Ms

April 28, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: the-equalizer
Q: Bookman
PAX: Snowbird, Blindside, Stripped, Mouthwash, Madoff, Ribbed (Joshua Sagraves), Smithers, Bookman, Headgear
FNGs: None
COUNT: 9
WARMUP:
SSH, TN rocking chairs, Cherry pickers

THE THANG:
Manion WOD a day early: www.travismanion.org/events/manion-wod/

MARY:
Core stuff- Imperial walkers, LBCs, GA Cheerleaders, Hello Dollys, Flutterkicks

Stretching

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Hardship Hill5/17, Fill that May Q calendar! Check out the other AOs and even Q!

COT:
Today is my 3rd F3 anniversary. I’m thankful for the men of F3 and being a little bit biased, especially at The Equalizer. My reasons for showing up may be different than others, but knowing there’s somewhere to go at 5:30 in the morning to share in a fitness challenge and enjoy some fellowship instills my faith in others.

Plus- where else other than The Equalizer will you get to watch a training session on the soccer pitch before dawn?