F3 Knoxville

The 20s

The Scene: 35ish and clear!

F3 Welcome & Disclaimer

Warm-O-Rama:
400m Run
Squat 15x IC
Around the Worlds
Figure 8s
Halos
American Swing
Russian Swings
‘Merkins 15x OYO
400m Run

The THANG:
400m Run
20x Thruster (10 each)
20x American Swings
20x Lunge (10 each) extend overhead
400m Run
20x Hand Release ‘Merkin
20x SOTS Press (10 each)
20X American Swings
400m Run
20x Loop Lunge
20x American Swings
400m Run
Plank until 6 arrives
Turkish Get-ups for practice until time for Mary…

MARY:
Plank-O-Rama for a long while…
10x American Hammer w/KB
20x Flutter Kick

Word:

Just a quick note to keep a distant friend, John Yeager and his family in our thoughts.

Farmer’s Carry 101

The Scene: 37 and Gloomy
F3 Intro and Disclaimer

Warm-O-Rama:

Around the Worlds
Figure 8s
Halos
American Swing
Russian Swings
10x ‘Merkins

The THANG:
20 min AMRAP
20x KB Swings then 20x Slide Squats
8x Sandbag Shoulder Toss (60# or 80#)
12x Burpees
1x Farmer’s Carry (Double 82# Jerry Cans or Double 53# KBs)

MARY:
Plank-O-Rama for a long while…
20x Flutter Kick
10x American Hammer w/KB

WORD: Just a quick note about “Find your voice” and “Know when to shut up and listen.”  As men we have to learn and practice when to use each of these effectively. Something to think about as we move through our day.

Burp Back Monday

F3 Welcome & Disclaimer

5:30 COT

– Side Straddle Hop X 40

– Imperial Squat Walkers X 20

– Baby Arm Circles x 20 each way

– Circle Burps – Up Downs

Mosey to Everest- 2 Stops on the way Burpee ladder 10-5, 5-1

Entrance Sprint

Clock Merkins – Find a hill and line up in plank position at 12 o’clock. 5 Merkins. Move to

3 o’clock, 5 Merkins. Move to 6, 9, or whatever Q calls out and do 5 Merkins in each

position.

Burp Back Mountain

The exercise is then performed by pairing up with one person proceeding to run

backward up the hill/forward down the hill 5X while the other person is

performing burpees. The individuals continue to alternate running with burpees

until 100 total burpees are completed. When finished, pax continue to run hills

until entire pax completes.

Field of Dreams x 2

1s 1st corner – AMRAP Imperial Squat Walkers until relieved.

2s 2nd corner – AMRAP Lunges until relieved.

3s 3rd corner – AMRAP Peter Parker until relieved.

4s at Home Plate (4th cone) will perform 15 Burpees then run to First, relieving

the Pax there

Cash Out

Devin Hester to the top of the Hill x 2- Full Sprint!

BOM

Romans 12:2 MSG 1-2 So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your

everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to- work, and walking-around

life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the

best thing you can do for him. Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you

fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed

from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to

it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity,

God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.

Chalk Games

The Scene: 40 and clear

F3 welcome and disclaimer

Warm-o-Rama
10 IC forward arm circles
10 IC reverse arm circles
20 IC x 4ct Merkins
Mosey to hockey rink and BB up

The THANG
Hopscotch
1st round
burpees
1 partner does 20 SSH and 20 LBC while other completes the burpee hopscotch
Switch
When both finish take a lap

2nd round
Carolina dry docks/bear crawl
Domo squats
Switch
When both finish take a lap

Mosey to Pee Rocks
AMRAP
20 x Clean and press
20 x Squats
20 x Curls
20 x Tris
While partner sprints across the parking spots

3 rounds of Pinwheels (aka shuffle press in a circle)
Partner does Rocky Balboa until Pinwheel is complete

Ab-o-rama
Pickle pounders
BBS
American Hammers

BOM

This past fall I read a book by John Eldridge called “Fathered by God” and it spoke of how many men seek their strength from a woman instead of seeking it from God. By doing this it leads us to begin to resent the woman because the strength we as men need is not something we can obtain from her. That is something we must obtain from God. I’m sure I was partially doing this to my wife as well, but ever since reading that I have been trying to get my strength from God, F3 being a part of that, and providing my strength to her. You know what? It has helped our relationship and our family.

Tomorrow my wife goes in for surgery, and the last time she went in for surgery was about 4 years ago when she had an unplanned operation for an eptopic pregnancy. I didn’t realize the severity of the operation until the doctor came out and said “ok the chances she won’t make it, or that there will be complications are slim, but there is a possibility she could not return”. As I sat in the waiting room my mind raced, we had a 2 year old son at home, she was a stay at home mom, which means she did everything for him and me, and at that time the woman I had been gaining my strength from might not come back to me. I was freaked the fudge out, and I was a weak weak man.

As we approach this surgery tomorrow, I know we are in a different place, I’m giving her my strength instead of taking my strength from here and I know in my heart God is watching over her. However, I’m still a weak man. We now have 2 wonderful children and a 9 week old puppy at the house, her recovery time is 4-6 weeks and I’m scared of the wheels falling off the bus . I don’t struggle with the thought of losing my wife on this one, because that is in God’s hands. But daily I struggle with not being the husband she needs or the father my kids need.

I also know all of us here are all struggling with something or another, injuries, illness, divorce, death of a loved one, depression, loss of a job, possible move, etc. What we need to do is turn it to God. This is when God wants us to turn it to Him. It says so in:

2 Corinthians 12:8-10

“Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. But He said to me “My grace is sufficient for you for my power is made perfect in weakness” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses so that Christ power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong”

I am a weak man. But I am strong because I know God is with me, and my M. I know he will watch over her, protect her, and bring her out of this better than before.

Sweet Sixteens

The Scene: 53 and clear skies
F3 Intro and Disclaimer
Warm-O-Rama:
Around the Worlds
Figure 8s
Halos
American Swing
‘Merkins
The THANG:
Sets of 16, AMRAP
– American Swings – Suicide Run + 16 ‘Merkins
– Goblet Squats – Jump rope 50x
– Burpee facing KB – Suicide Run + 16 ‘Merkins
– Sumo High Pulls – Jump rope 50x
MARY:
Plank-O-Rama
20x Toe Touches
20x Rockettes
20x Knee Holds
Shoulder Blasters!
Sit-Ups / V-Ups
WORD:
Q Shared a story about a member of the PAX needing someone to just listen.  You don’t always need to solve a problem, sometimes listening is the right thing to do.
Moleskin:
Tweet-E was back and the mublechatter was rich!  Three new guys to Ropes & Bells, and they put out!  Good to have you guys and we’ll see ya tomorrow!