F3 Knoxville

Tag: Brick

Can you HEAR the music?

AO: asylum-pm
Q: Pele (Jon Lindberg)
PAX: Pusher, Brick, CRISPR, Switchhitter (Tony), High Heels (Henry Ritchie), Drum Major, Mailbox, MD Hammer, Tenderfoot, Z-Bone, Crash Dummy, Glamper, Title IX (Christian Prescott), Kung Blue, Sparkler, Doubtfire (Nick Bond), Pele (Jon Lindberg), La-Z-Boy (Zac Smith), Lizzy
FNGs: None
COUNT: 19
WARMUP: -20 SSH (4-ct IC)
– 10 Windmills (4-ct IC)
-10 Grady Corns (4-ct IC)
– 10 Mountain Climbers (4-ct IC)
– calf stretches
THE THANG:
MOSEY up Baby Cardiac and to the open area next to the road.
JINXY’S FOUR AND A QUARTER. Start at bottom of hill, run to top of slope and do 25 reps of an exercise, return to starting position. R&R 4 times, totaling 100 of the exercise (all single count).
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Round 1: Bottle openers
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– Round 2: Squat Jumps
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MOSEY to Colosseum
Run around OUTSIDE circle, doing exercises at the Four “corners”
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15 Big Boys (or 30 LBCs), 15 American Hammers (2-ct)
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MOSEY to FIELD BELOW COLOSSEUM.
RECTANGLE of DEATH!!
Blue cones on Corners, Orange Cones on sides (one side has blue cone in middle). Sheets will tell you what to do and how to get to next Blue Cone. Rinse and Repeat. First one done yell RECOVER.
Corner
1: Do 20 Iron Mikes (10 each leg). Suicide using orange cones to next
blue cone.
Corner 2: Do 20 Plank Jacks, Bear Crawl to next Blue Cone
Corner 3: Do 20 Big Boy Situps, Bernie to Blue Cone ½ way down.
½ Way Cone: Do 10 PRISONER GET UPS, Bernie to next Blue cone
Corner 4: 20 Shoulder taps , EL CAPITAN to next Blue Cone
Mosey to rock pile, AMRAP with curls, presses, rows, and triceps.
MOSEY TO AO
MARY: Flutter kicks, E2Ks, Homer/Marge
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Camping this week-end, various Ruck events, Hiking workout in early March, tune in to Slack.
COT: Quote from the movie Oppenheimer: “Algebra is like sheet music. The important thing isn’t can you read the music, it’s can you HEAR it” . Faith is similar. You can check all the boxes of the rituals of your faith, but the goal is to hear the music of your Sky Q’s love in your heart and soul. It may take a while for that to happen, and it’s not necessarily connected to how may boxes you check, but it’s an incredible feeling hearing that song in you once you attune to your God. “During the quiet moments, when I still my mind and my body, I can hear the song of His love in my heart and in my soul.”

EMOMday

AO: the-farm
Q: Choir Boy
PAX: Aladdin, School Zone (Michael Shope), Big Red, Choir Boy, Brick, Bunker
FNGs: None
COUNT: 6
WARMUP: ✅

THE THANG: Mosey to Da Club to pick out a coupon. Mosey to the small pavilion for some EMOMs. 1st round – 5 merkins, 5 incline merkins, and 10 chest presses (on your back using the coupon) for 10 minutes. Lap around the playground. 2nd round – 10 curls, 10 dips, 10 LBCs for 10 minutes. 3rd round – 10 overhead presses, 10 squats (with the coupon), and 10 flutter kicks (4 ct). Return the coupons. Mosey back to the AO.

MARY: No time

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Convergence on 2/17 at Big Ball at 7:00 am. Clown car meeting at Kroger at 6:10 am for anyone wanting to car pool.

COT: Be thankful for the opportunity to get old.

A Rucking Good Time

AO: the-equalizer
Q: Blindside
PAX: Stripped, Ribbed, Brick, Snowbird, Utah, Blindside, Bookman
FNGs: None
COUNT: 7
WARMUP:
Typical Blindside-y Warm-upy Things

THE THANG:
Take Rucks and Sandbags to the Tennis Courts. 1 Slick lap around the track.
2 Rounds of various reps for each exercise with 30 second rest in between.
12 Croc Merkins
15 Ruck Thrusters
10 Ruck Curls
10 Ruck Front Raises
Down & Back Bear Crawl
10 (each leg) Lunge Twists
10 4ct. Mountain Climbers
15 Ruck Swings or Ruck Rows
10 Slick Burpees
Ruck-on, Ruck-pace Lap

MARY:
Stretching with Blindside

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
-SIGN UP FOR GTE!!!
-Big Ball Convergence rescheduled for 2/17. See Slack for new sign-up sheet
-Escape From Haw Ridge date TBD
-Hardship Hill on Memorial Day

COT:
Don’t spend time being negative about other people. Instead, spend that time figuring out how to build up their capacity.

Change Up

AO: shamrock
Q: Voodoo
PAX: Commission, Stitch, Tinker, slappy, Mermaid, Glamper, Honeydew, Brick, KickFlip
FNGs: None
COUNT: 10
WARMUP:
Check
THE THANG:
CMU, Dora-style

2 partners alternate exercises but both CMUs must be used at all times. Completed 3.5 rounds with a set of Mary after each.

-Rows
-Wall squats
-OH press
-Toe merkins
-Curls

COT:
>From CS Lewis’ Screwtape Letters
I once had a patient, a sound atheist, who used to read in the British Museum. One day, as he sat reading, I saw a train of thought in his mind beginning to go the wrong way. The Enemy, of course, was at his elbow in a moment. Before I knew where I was I saw my twenty years’ work beginning to totter. If I had lost my head and begun to attempt a defence by argument I should have been undone. But I was not such a fool. I struck instantly at the part of the man which I had best under my control and suggested that it was just about time he had some lunch. The Enemy presumably made the counter-suggestion (you know how one can never quite overhear What He says to them?) that this was more important than lunch. At least I think that must have been His line for when I said “Quite. In fact much too important to tackle it the end of a morning”, the patient brightened up considerably; and by the time I had added “Much better come back after lunch and go into it with a fresh mind”, he was already half way to the door. Once he was in the street the battle was won. I showed him a newsboy shouting the midday paper, and a No. 73 bus going past, and before he reached the bottom of the steps I had got into him an unalterable conviction that, whatever odd ideas might come into a man’s head when he was shut up alone with his books, a healthy dose of “real life” (by which he meant the bus and the newsboy) was enough to show him that all “that sort of thing” just couldn’t be true.

How can you be on the lookout for these ordinary distractions?

47 More

AO: asylum-pm
Q: Steam
PAX: Pele (Jon Lindberg), Drum Major, CRISPR, Jeevan Kypa (Scrubs), Glamper, High Heels, Brick, OnStar, Lilydipper, Rooney (Carl Whipple), Switchhitter (Tony), Tenderfoot, Pusher, Kung Blue, Abacus, MD Hammer, Crash Dummy, Cheetah Boy, Cleopatra
FNGs: 1 Cleopatra
COUNT: 20
WARMUP:
– Cherry Picker: 5×4
– Rockette: 10×4
– TN Rocking Chair
– Baby Arn Circles (F): 10×4
– Baby Arm Circles (B): 10×4
– Mountain Climber: 10×4
– Merkin: 5×4

THE THANG:
(Mosey to the BP)

1 — January PFT (6-10 minutes)
– 2 minutes of squats
– 2 minutes of merkins
– 2 minutes of BBS
(Log your reps + 2miler here for January: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe6g_CIi1YToaVu8_-URG-0TUYgvJoT7J4fOboUuH3Ru5dJHQ/viewform)

(Mosey down to the NP)

2 — Part of Cardinal
– Nickel + Dime
– 2 POC: The Island
   – 2 yellow cards (5 + 10)
– Do the 5-card, run around The Island, and execute the 10-card
– Everything except burpees will be on a 2-count

(Mosey back to the AO lot for Mary)

MARY:
Cherry Pickers: 5×4

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Checkout the weekly newsletter for all of the events coming up – there’s a ton 💪

COT:
Don’t Stay Submerged
– Extraction quote: “You drown not by falling into the river, but by staying submerged in it.”
– This reminds me of the ministry of Jesus
   – He loves people better than anyone
   – He would find someone in their current state — love them right where they’re at — but also love them enough to not allow them to stay there. John 5 is a great example of this: www.bible.com/bible/116/JHN.5.NLT
       – He saw this man by this pool and had compassion and understanding for him because he realized he had been there for a long time.
       – Boom – Jesus loved him right there where he found him – but he also loved him enough to not let him stay there
           – I always wondered if that man went back after he was healed. Did he come back to that pool that he was lame at for years and years and share what Jesus did for him with others. Woo……….
What if we did that? With every man in this COT – whether you’ve been here for 1 workout or for 100 workouts. (“Man, I love you and I see you – but I love you enough to not let you stay where you are. Let’s figure this out together. Let’s journey together.”)

– Takeaways –

  – Who can you call on to help pull you back to the surface?

  – Who can you challenge + encourage to not stay submerged?

  – 47 more weeks to go this year
       – Which is exactly 7,896 hours (if Google is correct)

What are you going to do with that time?