F3 Knoxville

Tag: Borg

Lords of the Rings

THE SCENE: 66 degrees and a calm and beautiful morning
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Karate Jacks, Imperial Squawkers, Tempo Merkins, Bird Dogs, Knoxville Cherry-Pickers, Moroccan Night Clubs, Stretch on your own

THA-THANG:

Ruggers Run: modified Indian run with a rugby ball – pass it back, last man sprints it back to the front of the line.

The mission: Gather the required hash (tally) marks for each exercise group.  Most hash marks required multiple reps to count, and approved modifications to earn a tally were included.

  • Karate Jacks (4 count)
    1 hash = 20 KJ’s
    40 hash marks required
  • Rings Pull-ups
    2 Inverted Rows : 1 PU
    1 hash = 5 PU*, 10 IR
    40 hash marks required
  • Running Laps
    1 hash = 1 lap**
    30 hash marks required
  • Imperial Squawkers (4 count)
    1.5 squats : 1 IS
    1 hash = 20 IS, 30 squats
    40 hash marks required
  • Bird Dogs (4 count)
    1 Big Boy : 1 BD
    3 LBC : 1 BD
    1 hash = 20 BD, 20 BB, 60 LBC
    40 hash marks required
  • Derkins
    1 merkins : 1 Dk
    3 incline merkins : 1 Dk
    1 hash = 15 Dk, 30 Mk, 45 IM
    40 hash marks required

* A rather heavy towing chain was present.  Any that did pull-ups wearing the chain got to put a bonus hash mark in any category.

** A 45 lb weight vest was present.  Any that ran the lap wearing the vest got to put a bonus hash mark anywhere they wanted.

Mission was accomplished with time to spare.  Outstanding effort, HIMs!

Mosey back to the flag.

MARY:
Shoulder burn to finish out the day!  Grady Corns into Moroccan Night Clubs into Little Baby Arm Circles (both ways) – high reps with no breaks in between!.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

“For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith – and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God – not by works, so that no one can boast.” (Ephesians 2:8-9, NIV)

Four Approaches to Salvation.  What saves us?  How is salvation accomplished?  Some people believe that you are saved by subtraction.  You just need to stop doing certain bad things and you will be right with God.  Others believe that you are saved by service.  If you just do enough good things, go to church, be nice, get baptized, and give enough, you will qualify for salvation.  Still others believe in salvation by comparison.  In comparison to really bad people, they are justified before God.  None of those options work.  None of those will make you “righteous” or right with God.  You can’t earn it, and you’ll never deserve it.  We are saved by grace – God’s grace!  Salvation has nothing to do with what we can do.  It’s all about what Jesus has already done!

MOLESKIN:
A record turnout for me and a huge welcome to Rocket’s father and triple respect: “Keating”!  We hope to see you come out again soon!
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Hardship Hill is almost here!  Flag handoff this Friday at Rampart.

Y-12 LA-LA

THE SCENE: Beautiful, high 50’s.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER: Done!
WARM-O-RAMA:
15 SSH
12 Seal Claps
12 SSH
12 Imperial Walkers
5 K-Town Cherry pickers
12 Morrocan Night Clubs
Taylor Phelps it out
Mosey to the new course, “Y-12”.

THA-THANG:
Start at the bottom of Y-12, run to the next light pole and do the exercise on the card, rinse repeat:
There are 12 light poles to the top.

  • L – Lunge Walk to first light pole
  • A – 20 Merkins
  • L – 20 Ballerina Squats (Squat up to tiptoes)
  • A – 20 Freddie Mercuries (2-count)
  • L – 20 Monkey Humpers
  • A – 5 4X4’s (Burpee with 4 Merkins and 4 Mountain Climbers)
  • L – Karaoke to the next pole
  • A – 20 LBCs
  • L – 20 Calf Raises
  • A – Side planks (20 seconds each side)
  • L – 20 Jumping Lunges
  • A – 20 High, Slow Flutter kicks (2-count)
  • LALA at the Top – 20 Smurf Jacks, 20 Hand Release “Chuck Norris” Merkins, 20 High Knees, 20 Oblique crunches (10 each side)
  • Run back to the bottom and repeat until time is up.

MARY:
Four minutes o’ Mary in doses of 12 reps.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Done!
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Matthew 7:16. “You will know them by their fruits.” Fruit takes time to develop and show. Watch your fruit.  Watch the fruit of those you let into your inner circle or are getting close to. Watch the fruit of those who are motivating you to do something – is the motivation using your desires out of line or building on God’s desires for you?
MOLESKIN:
Praise report and request for prayer from Bobbitt about progress on a liver transplant for J***e.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Lots of good chatter about Escape from Haw Ridge – everyone at The Project has an assignment, see Slappy.

Testing is Purifying

THE SCENE: A crisp, wet 50, Almost new moon
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Projectivators
  • Hairy Rockettes
  • LBACs
  • Tempo Squats

THA-THANG:
March Metric Workout

  • Mosey to the recruiting center
  • Everybody get a block and line up along the parking lot
  • 15 minutes of work, change exercises every minute, count total reps as you go, move a parking lot line every 50 (everything is with a CMU)
    • OHP
    • Goblet Squats
    • Bent over Rows
    • Big Boy Situps
    • Curls
    • Lunges
    • Derkins
    • LBCs
    • Tri extensions
    • Deadlifts
    • Thrusters x5
  • 3 minute rest, then DO THE WHOLE THING AGAIN
  • Put up the blocks and head back to the flag

MARY:
No time
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

The prospect of being tested doesn’t usually make me excited. Thanks, I expect, to our public education culture, most of us associate testing primarily with being judged, usually based on a comparatively short and only vaguely representative sample of our performance. Too often, it seems that the circumstances of the test have more to do with the outcome than our preparation.

Consequently, most of us avoid tests when we can. Our experience says that we get better outcomes when we rely on more controlled vehicles like 1001 take home worksheets. We don’t like the risk if failing. But I am here to tell you that this perspective is a wound and scar that is crippling your growth, and it’s time to start stretching it out.

This model of testing is shallow and unhelpful. Perhaps unsurprisingly, I think the model presented by the bible provides insight. In the preblast, I quoted Psalm 66 v. 10 “For you, God, tested us; you refined us like silver.” Here and in many places, “test” is the Hebrew word is Tsaraph, which is directly related to the process by which impurities are removed from silver or gold, what we would call smelting. Through heat and pressure, the precious metal is separated from the dross and purified. So while evaluation is one aspect of testing, by its nature, it is also a means of purification. It is through repeated testing that gold becomes pure, and likewise, it is through repeated testing that we grow, develop, and become stronger. And, in truth, we want to be tested. From our youth, we seek out challenges. Easy is boring. It’s only under the weight of time with nagging fear and doubt that this inclination gets slowly crushed out of us.

Tsaraph – 1) to refine, try, smelt, test 2) to find out who is qualified for battle, as with Gideon in Judges 7:4 3) to smith, as in shaping metal (Jer 6:29-30, Is 40:19) 4) to refine by means of suffering (Ps 66:10-12)

Is 1:25 – “And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin.”

Zec 13:9 – “And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.”

Mal 3:2-3 – “But who may abide the day of his coming? And who shall stand when he appeareth? For he is like a refiner’s fire, and like fuller’s soap: and he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto The LORD an offering in righteousness.”

Finally, I want to show how this directly connects to the F3 leadership process, Q4.5, here is an excerpt:

So where does Failure fit into the Leadership development equation? What does it add to a man’s Leadership Foundation? If he already knows what a Virtuous Leader does and is–and is able is able to do and be those things himself–why must a Leader also Fail?

The reason is that Failure is a crucible. It is the forge by which a Leader is purified through the burning away of his me-first self-regarding nature. It matures him. Without Failure (and lots of it), a Leader will retain too much of who he was and keep doing what he did, rather than being fully transformed into what a Virtuous Leader is and consistently do what a Virtuous Leader does.

MOLESKIN:
We were late getting back. In September (ouch…) probably gonna need to get right over to the recruiting center and warm up on the way.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Wild at Heart, Escape from Haw Ridge, Hardship Hill

CMU Headz – A Work of Your Hands

THE SCENE: Clear and cold at 36 degrees.F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  1. Projectivator
  2. Overhead Clap
  3. Seal Squat
  4. Basilisk
  5. Merkins

THA-THANG:

  1. Mosey to blocks.
  2. Carry blocks to steps.
  3. Enjoy the steps (25 reps each):
    • Curls
    • Squats
    • Overhead Press
    • American Hammer (2 count)
    • Tricep Extensions
    • Heavy LBCs
  4. Hold a heavy Al Gore as each PAX runs up the steps and does a blockee.
  5. Rinse and repeat as time allows.
  6. Return equipment.
  7. RTB

MARY:

  • Freddy Mercury
  • BBS
  • Heal to Heaven
  • Box Cutters

    COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
    7 Men

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Isaiah 2:6

For you have rejected your people,
the house of Jacob,
because they are full of things from the east
and of fortune tellers like the Philistines,
and they strike hands with the children of foreigners.
7  Their land is filled with silver and gold,
and there is no end to their treasures;
their land is filled with idols;
and there is no end to their chariots.
8  Their land is filled with idols;
they bow down to the work of their hands,
to what their own fingers have made.
9  So man is humbled,
and each one is brought low-
do not forgive them!
10 Enter into the rock
and hide in the dust
from before the terror of the Lord,
and from the splendor of His majesty.
11 The haughty looks of man shall be brought low,
and the lofty pride of men shall be humbled,
and the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.
12 For the Lord of hosts has a day
against all that is proud and lofty,
against all that is lifted up- and it shall be brought low.

What idols do we have?  What are we worshipping out of the works of our own hands?

MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Quarter Murph Endurance

THE SCENE: A perfectly balmy 53 degrees with stars overhead and dreams in our hearts.

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
Yup, we did all that.

WARM-O-RAMA:
15 each of:
SSH
Mt Climbers
Tempo Merkins
Tempo Squats
Moroccan Night Clubs
Knoxville Cherry Pickers

THA-THANG:
Quarter-Murph Repeats
One traditional Memorial Day work out is a “Murph”. Named after Lt. Michael Murphy who gave his life valiantly during a recon mission in Afghanistan in 2005. A full murph is: 1 mile run, 100 pull ups, 200 merkins, 300 air squats, 1 mile run. Normally done for time. (Usually w/ a weighted vest – we did not do vests)

Today, we divided a murph by 4, then broke down the sets into manageable bites. We went one quarter-murph at a time and worked to see how close we could get to a full murph.

  • 400 M run from the playground around the building and back.
  • 5 sets of: 5 pull ups, 10 merkins, 15 air squats
  • 400 M run

That’s one quarter-murph. Then start over at the top (so two runs in a row in between exercises) and do as many quarter-murphs as you can in our time.

We had several bros who knocked out a full murph! IM-pressive.

MARY:
None needed.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Did that.

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
James, the half-brother of Jesus and leader of the early church in Jerusalem wrote a little epistle. In the very first chapter, he drops the line:

James 1:2–5 (ESV) — 2 Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, 3 for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. 4 And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. 5 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.

In the same way a hard workout can absolutely crush you, but leads to growth in strength and endurance, trials in our lives can have the effect of growing us in Christlikeness. No one wants trials. No one thinks they’re good when they’re happening. But we have a promise that there is a plan behind it all that will end with our good and will even have a ‘perfecting’ effect on us.

Charles Spurgeon said, “I’ve learned to kiss the wave that throws me against the Rock of Ages.”

We can learn to kiss the wave as we lean into our challenges knowing that we may not need to be rescued from them, but only seen through them. So lean in and know that God is doing more than you can see through your trials!

MOLESKIN:
Enjoyed leading this one. It was largely self-directed.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Escape from Haw Ridge T-shirt orders are due by Fri. Register for Escape from Haw Ridge. Anyone who can should sign up for painting at Cardinal’s wife’s new place.