F3 Knoxville

Block Party

THE SCENE: About 61 degrees with clear skies
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

SSH x20; Arm Circles forward/reverse x15, windmills x15; Jog parking lot; 50% faster job parking lot; skip parking lot; bear crawl to CMU pile.
THA-THANG:
Mosey with CMU on the Block Party circuit while stopping at the following 20 stations:

  • Bent rows x24
  • On the shelf x6 each side
  • CMU toe tap x66
  • Squats x24

Interlude:  Road Block merkins, x18

  • Clean and press x12
  • Roll over merkins x6 each of 4 CMU ends

Interlude:  Run to Springbrook fountain and back to give the CMU’s a break.  They only get a workout 4 or 5 times a month.

  • Dead lift x6 per arm
  • Overhead elbow extensions x12
  • Dips x24
  • Straight arm overhead lift x12
  • Upright rows x24
  • Burpee press x12

Interlude: At the base of Mt Crumpet count off by 2’s.  #1’s run up while #2’s farmer hold two CMU’s then switch. Next #1’s Bernie up while #2’s farmer hold two CMU’s then switch. Finally #1’s bear crawl up while #2’s farmer hold then switch.

  • Curls x24
  • CMU swing x12
  • Overhead press x12
  • Single arm row from lunge position x12 per side
  • Overhead squat press x12
  • Lunge to grinder with CMU

MARY:
Box cutters x20; Floor wipers x20: flutter kicks x15; BBS to cash out.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
11 total PAX, no FNG’s
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

I have two friend that each contracted melanoma in their late 30’s.  24 years later cancer had returned.  In the case of Judy, it was lung cancer on her left side.  She has been battling it and other issues for the past 6 years.  Last November, Judy and her husband hosted a large gathering at their house to play Shanghai Rummy.  It lasted longer than perhaps it should and the next day found Judy in the hospital for several day with pneumonitis in her healthy right lung and that issue continues to persist.  One of the things that impressed me the most about her hospital stay was that she prayed more about who God would place in her path so she could be His vessel for the Gospel.  Judy is a fighter – she has to be – and the following are excepts from a letter she wrote a few weeks ago.
Happy Spring, family and friends! My winter quarantine, cold and gray, is just making the beauty of Spring an even greater joy to me. Walking around seeing little green leaves push up through barren mulch and flowers appear out of lifeless looking limbs just thrills me – creation (and Spring in particular) truly does reflect our Creator who is at His core the Redeemer and Restorer!
I will never look at nor take springtime for granted again.  Judy paints a beautiful picture of how God can renew even me just as all of His creation
And good news!… He continues to choose to restore my little body – scans a couple weeks ago showed no evidence of cancer and my lungs are slowly healing! We are so grateful. I do not need any oxygen support when sitting or piddling around, but need a little for activity and definitely need when exercising. Hopefully that need will continue to diminish, however I am thankful that my “jet pack” oxygen frees me to live life normally. 
My quarantine will end Easter weekend – so excited! However, I will continue to somewhat minimize health risks, as there is still inflammation in my compromised lungs (unfortunately, the pneumonitis scarred my healthy lung that had not been impaired by the three thoracotomies). But all that has come through a sovereign and good God’s hands – so I will rest in that reality. As C.S. Lewis says, “Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even agony into glory.” My little trials are all being redeemed – as are yours.
Her “little trial”!!! And I get upset if I get stuck in traffic for a few minutes!  Really dwell a few minutes on that C.S. Lewis quote.
Our children and grandchildren are coming for Easter weekend, so it will be a most joyful coming out party!!! 
You are at the heart of my story with your prayers, love, and encouragement! I have been so richly blessed in every way!
I want to have the faith and peace that God has given Judy so I end with Phil 4:6-7.  In it Paul does not pray that we experience a life of ease, prosperity, wellness, or comfort.  His prayer is that we experience God’s peace on this temporary earthly journey.
Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.  And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

MOLESKIN:
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ANNOUNCEMENTS:
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40 Years in the Wilderness

THE SCENE: Pleasant. Mid 50s. Not too dry or wet
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Side Straddle Hops IC x40
THA-THANG:
A leisurely stroll around the park stopping to admire different bodily movements.

  • Star Jacks x40
  • Ranger Merkins x40
  • Wide Merkins x40
  • Right leg Side Lunge x40
  • Crab Walk forward, backwards, to the right, to the left
  • Left leg Side Lunge x40
  • Dips x40
  • Redwood Group Squat x80count
  • Dry Docks x40
  • Mtn Climbers IC x40
  • BONUS HILL!!! Reverse Bear Crawl Up x10
  • Lunge from one sign to the next (about 40-50)
  • Pull-ups or modify x40
  • Step ups x20 for each leg

 

MARY:

  • Superman / Banana
  • Flutter Kicks IC x40
  • Plank with elbows slightly bent, run around and push on everyone’s back
  • ATM cash out

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
15 Total
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
1 Peter 3:15 be prepared to give a defense for the hope within you, but do so in gentleness and respect.
Our first tendency is to repay evil for evil, but we have to take time to prepare ourselves to not react that way. Seek wisdom in the Word, in works of wisdom, and in people who are wise, and train yourself to act and react differently.

MOLESKIN:
N/A
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Bomb Shelter Team need one more guy for the Hardship Hill event

A Fifth of Fun

THE SCENE: really nice in the mid 60’s
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

We 10 SSH
THA-THANG:

Starting at AO with 10 burpees, 20 merkins and 20 squats. Moseyed through park stopping 14 more times for the same. We did 150 burpees, 300 merkins and 300 squats for 750 total reps (hence the workout name).

MARY:
15 crunchy frogs 4-count IC

20 cross leg sit-ups

20 plank jacks 4-count IC
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
10 men
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
This sucked big time. We were going to do it OYO but decided we would be able to push each other through the high reps if we stayed together. You won’t always have someone there pushing you to take care of business. Often at work or home you have no motivation to take care of your responsibilities but it must be done. Dig down in yourself and find the motivation to move forward.
MOLESKIN:

Thanks to Woodshack, Pinnochio and Umbro for joining me on a ruck to the educator for 5 rounds up with 15 coffin sit-ups and 15 plank jacks.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Suicides by light posts

THE SCENE: 47 I think
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Ratchet effect

squatsx 20 ic

merkind x 10 ic

SSH x 20 ic

jog across PL x 2

millennial run x2

millennial sprint x 2
THA-THANG:
Super 11s

  • At the light post, start w one rep each of merkins, squats and big boys
  • Run 2 light posts then run back one light posts, increases rep by one .
  • Always run 2 light posts and back one between PT
  • Super 11 is where you start at one and go to 11, with each exercise
  • Once we reached 11, go back down to one
  • again, between exercises, running 2 Light posts and back one
  • mosey to the pull up bars
  • 4 sets of 5 pull ups
  • run a lap
  • mosey to the parking lot
  • suicides x1
  • millinnial sprint suicide x1
  • time was up!

MARY:
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COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
14 pax
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Just one of those days where you don’t want to be or do. I was on Q of course but yesterday and today was just one of those days that I struggled to wake up and post at F3. But, the big BUTT! I could have stayed in my bed aka comfort zone but told myself that these are the times you need to suck it up and BE and DO!
MOLESKIN

i Figured we might have 6-8 guys….maybe that was me not feeling it and thought the rest of the guys would not be feeling it and not show up. I was DEAD WRONG! So glad I sucked it up and was there this morning! Not only did we have 6 guys Rucking but we had 14 men total for the F3 workout . So greatful for you guys and to know that you guys were there to embrace the suck with me!

Sometimes, it’s ok to not want to do or be but those are the times to really challenge yourself . AYE!
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
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A Q for Remembering

THE SCENE: Around 50, with an amazing sun coming up
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

25x SSH IC
15x TN Rocking Chairs IC
10x 4ct Travoltas each side
15x Tempo Squats
10x Tempo Merkins
Run one lap

THA-THANG:
Played a good ol’ game of Memory. 20 cards with 10 different exercises.
PAX take turns flipping 2 cards. If the cards don’t match, all PAX do BOTH exercises.
If the cards match they’re removed, and PAX just do that exercise followed by running a lap.

The cards:
15 Merkins
15 Dry Docks
10 Iron Mikes (each leg)
10 Squat jump
10 Burpee
15 Monkey Hump 4ct
20 Mtn Climber 4ct
Bear Crawl to Pavalon, Crawl Bear back
10 Body Weight Rows at the Scrapyard
20 Big Boys

MARY:
PAX cleared the last card just in time for:
Hello Dollys
Flutter Kicks
Crossing Hello Dolly Flutter Kick Things (pretty sure they have a name, but I can’t think of it)
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
7 PAX this morning. The number of perfection!
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Every workout ends with the Ball of Man… A group united as one! But as an engineer, I am always working with a different BOM – Bill of Materials. The Bill of Materials is a detailed list of all of the components that make up the system that’s currently being designed. All those components serve a very specific purpose. They’re included for a reason. Once they’re assembled, they are part of a functioning unit. Both of those meanings of BOM together reminded me of 1 Corinthians 12:

14For the body is not one member, but many. 15If the foot says, “Because I am not a hand, I am not a part of the body,” it is not for this reason any the less a part of the body. 16And if the ear says, “Because I am not an eye, I am not a part of the body,” it is not for this reason any the less a part of the body. 17If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole were hearing, where would the sense of smell be? 18But now God has placed the members, each one of them, in the body, just as He desired. 19If they were all one member, where would the body be? 20But now there are many members, but one body.

Your role as a member of Christ’s body is no more or less important to Him than any other. This is not to say “You are a special snowflake and nobody is like you”. This is to say that you have a specific reason, purpose, for being, for doing, for living. You have a job to do, a role to fill. Seek what that role is from the Head, and DO it with all your might!

MOLESKIN:
You can always count on Rain Check to subvert the workout… Only 4 cards left and he decided he didn’t want to run, so he intentionally flipped non-matching cards! Of course, it only delayed the inevitable…
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Pray for Butterfingers’ MIL – Upcoming surgery. Support Moses run for 100 miles today! Hardship hill May 19.