F3 Knoxville

Islands of pain

AO: shamrock
Q: Baby Boomer
PAX: Anchorman, Baby Boomer, Brick, Commission, Mermaid, Pom Pom, slappy, Slipknot, Stitch, Voodoo, Snaggletooth, Gringo, Trojan
FNGs: None
COUNT: 13
WARMUP:
– SSH
– Tempo squats
– Tie Fighters
– Tempo merkins
– Squatting Grady Corns

THE THANG:
– Mosey to CMU pile and stop for some Rocky Balboas along the way
– CMU Island Dora in top lot
– HIM1 stays at start and does following exercises while HIM2 moves to islands
– Round 1: CMU kettle swings
– Round 2: CMU deadlifts
– Round 3: CMU squat thrusters
– HIM2 works through islands
– Island 1 (10 reps): R1 wide merkins/R2 Carolina dry docks/R3 no cheat merkins
– Island 2 (20 reps): R1 big boy sit-ups/R2 flutter kicks/R3 Freddy Mercurys
– Island 3 (30 reps): R1 SSH/R2 Bobby Hurleys/R3 lunges
– Rinse and repeat with HIMs swapping to do all exercises
– Visited islands together as a total group

MARY:
– Howler Monkey circle
– Michael Phelps and overhead arm stretch
– Cherry Pickers
– Groin stretch and Willie Mays Hayes
– Downward Dog and Cobra
– Superman/Banana

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
HH on Monday

COT:
– Brief history of Decoration Day and Memorial Day and it’s meaning
– Remembering those who gave the ultimate sacrifice to preserve our freedom
– Jesus also established a memorial service in the upper room with the disciples
– Communion is an opportunity to reflect on Christ’s sacrifice that has set us free from the bondage of sin
– Remain humble and grateful for all that have laid down their lives in love

NOT a Murph

AO: asylum-pm
Q: Steam
PAX: Abacus, Lizzy, Tenderfoot, Glamper, Lilydipper, Crash Dummy, Drum Major, Pele (Jon Lindberg), Chad Harvey(Pink Panther), Brick, Showgun, Dr. Phil, 0
FNGs: 1 0
COUNT: 13
WARMUP
1. Baby Arm Circle (F) – 10×4
2. Baby Arm Circle (B) – 10×4
3. Rockette: 10×4
4. Grady Corn: 30×4
5. Hillbilly: 10×4

THE THANG
[ Cash In ]
1. 100 SSH (1-count)
2. 75 LBCs (1-count)
3. 50 Mountain Climbers (2-count)
4. 25 Frog Jumps

(Mosey down around to the right to the rock pile below the BSIA Overlook)

Mini-Murph
– 200 merkins
– 200 squats
– 200 bent over rows
– = simulating the 600 total reps in a real Murph
– Form is crucial – crucial
– Instead of running 1 mile on the front and back end of the reps, we’ll run a specific route after each round of reps
– Run an L route around the Pickett’s Charge field
– Rounds of reps
– All 3 Xs
– 25 reps each
– Total of 8 rounds = 600 reps
– Put rocks back
– 25 chest presses + 25 curls
– Mosey back to the flag for Mary

MARY
[ Cash Out ]
1. 100 SSH (1-count)
2. 75 LBCs (1-count)
3. 50 Mountain Climbers (2-count)
4. 25 Frog Jumps

ANNOUNCEMENTS
– Join Lilydipper’s team of champions for Hardship Hill on Monday!
– Drum Major has put together a killer 2nd F event for us this Friday — check out his Slack post above.
– I will be Q’ing a Memorial Weekend Murph at asylum-daybreak on Saturday — join us!
– F3 in the Nude — Swimmies (Nathan Chesney)

COT
I sat there and felt sorry for myself for one minute, then I had to keep going.
-Marcus Luttrell
– I find myself in this position more times than I’d like to admit – feeling sorry for yourself

Events from Operation Red Wing, June 28, 2005
Read the highlighted sections on pages 266-267 in Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell

Draw A Line In The Sand
“I rolled over, and I was paralyzed from the waist down. I started crawling, pulling, using my elbow to start pulling myself through the dirt and out of this ravine. Well I got up and the sun was going down, and I started to crawl. I was in bad shape. I didn’t know what to do. And I was laying in this tree, looking at the moon, and I was feeling sorry for myself. And I must have laid there….my brother was a Navy SEAL too, I got a twin brother, he’s a Navy SEAL. And I was thinking about him a lot and my teammates, and all the training I had been through. I laid there and I was like, c’mon, get up. Let’s go. That’s exactly what I said. What was I gonna do, lay down there and die? I wasn’t gonna do that, I definitely wasn’t gonna feel sorry for myself. And I kept thinking like, I’m still alive man, I mean, I’m alive. They fought and died by I’m still alive. The mission’s still on, let’s go. So, I reached out and I grabbed a rock and I reached out as far as I could and drew a line in the dirt in front of me. I’m gonna crawl to that until my feet hit it and if I’m still alive I’m gonna do it again. That’s what I did. I’d draw a line, until my feet hit it, I’d fall down a hill and draw another line. And I did that for 7 miles.”
– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGxOYWRAjXQ

Takeaways
– This is a great practice to adopt and utilize in life – drawing a line in front of you and working your way past it
– “The lines” we draw through life are sometimes physical, but far more often are they mental, emotional, relational, and spiritual.
– KMF = Keep Moving Forward

In Honor of PFC Clinton Riddle

AO: asylum-daybreak
Q: Waffle House (Brady Greene)
PAX: Brick, Drum Major, Pusher, Lulu (Greg Huddy), Choir Boy, Jumbo(Carter Dickens), Veggie (Rylen Huddy), Crawdad (Robbi Dickens)
FNGs: None
COUNT: 9
WARMUP:

Shoulder blaster

THE THANG:

MARY:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

COT:

Charging up Lizzys Hill

AO: asylum-pm
Q: Lizzy
PAX: Steam, Pele (Jon Lindberg), Drum Major, Lilydipper, Brick, Switchhitter (Tony), Abacus, Crash Dummy, MD Hammer, Sparkler, CRISPR, Kung Blue, Dr Phil
FNGs: None
COUNT: 14
Warm up with 10 burpees, then Michael Phelps, then mosey to Everest then Indian Run to the top. Them mosey to Pickets Charge. Then do 5 rounds alternating burpees, flying squirrels and manmakers. Method of transportation up the hill was bear crawls first three rounds. Switch to backwards mosey, the final round we did bear crawls then run to ao.

Announcements hardship hill

Then cot. I told my story how it took me three times time learn how not to be stuck in a bad cycle in life

Learn to Bloom Where You Grow

AO: asylum-pm
Q: Pele (Jon Lindberg)
PAX: Steam, Swimmies (Nathan Chesney), Lilydipper, Brick, Crash Dummy, Pusher, Pele (Jon Lindberg), High Heels (Henry Ritchie), Rooney(Carl Whipple), Guppy, Shogun
FNGs: None
COUNT: 11
WARMUP:-MOTIVATORS (5 count descending), TENNESSEE ROCKING CHAIRS (4 ct, IC), 10 Windmills (4-ct IC)
-10 BAC forward and backward (4-ct IC)

THE THANG: Four cones spaced about 25 feet apart, go around all four cones to complete a round, then run to the stop sign at the base of the Circle Drive and back and complete rounds 2 and 3. Each cone has a pair exercises for each of the three rounds that must be completed twice to move to the next cone. The timing worked out surprisingly well…

MARY: A few minutes for some LBCs, Smurf Jacks, and stretching.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Hardship hill coming up on Memorial Day, obstacle unloading this Saturday! Also, Thunderhead mountain hike this Saturday, flag planting at the Veteran’s Cemetery on the following Saturday following the morning workout. (9 am), Pluto organizing.

COT: