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THE SCENE: Sunny and nice, high 60’s to low 70’s
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
20 Side-Straddle Hops, 10 Burpees, 10 Windmills, 10 Rockettes, 10 Cherry Pickers
THA-THANG:
Mosey to Playground.  All my benches.  We will do elevens starting with 10 bench jumps and 1 decline merkin, working our way to 1 bench jump and 10 decline merkins.

Mosey to Pavillion.  We will do elevens starting with 10 picnic table pull-ups and 1 bench lift working our way to 1 picnic table pull-up and 10 bench lifts.  Afterward, we will do a 60 second squat with backs on wall.

Mosey on roadway south until it starts heading west.  We will stop to do 20 American Hammers.

Mosey to area close to stop sign as round heads west.  20 Box Cutters.

Mosey on roadway to front of Admin Bldg.  Stop at Cone 1 which is in front of sidewalk going to stairs of admin bldg.  We will be running clockwise on roadway going around admin bldg, stopping at each cone to do the listed exercises that will be written be each cone.

  • Cone 1 (located by sidewalk to Admin Bldg):  Deon Sanders to flagpole and sprint back, staying on right sidewalk going and left sidewalk coming back.
  • Cone 2 (located on inlet by road as it heads west on south side of admin bldg):  20 Carolina DryDocks
  • Cone 3 (located at boulder pile):  Pick up appropriate size boulder and do 20 overhead presses, 20 curls 20 rows and 20 squats.
  • Cone 4 (located past parking lot and on west side of admin bldg.)  Hop to Cone 5.
  • Cone 5 (located about 25 yards past Cone 4):  Bear Crawl to Cone 6.
  • Cone 6 (located about 25 yards past Cone 5):  20 Star Jumps
  • Cone 7 (located near stop sign on northeast side of Admin Bldg):  20 Hello Dollies
  • Cone 8 (located on right of roadway as it heads past Admin Bldg.  20 Dive Bombers
  • Cone 9 (located opposite of second set of stairs to left of roadway that is east of admin bldg):  Run up and down stairs three times.

Rinse and repeat after completing the nine cones.

Mosey to AO.

MARY:
20 Pickle Pounders, Boat Canoe
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
16 men.  We had Honcho from the Johnson City AO join us.  We also had an FNG, friend of Punch List named Nate Moore.  He is an attorney and we gave him the F3 name of Jail Bait.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
We are made in God’s image.  The Bible says it.  If this is true, there is greatness within us.  We are created to do powerful things, wonderful things.

We usually don’t think that way.  We often think of ourselves as poorly made creatures who need to be molded into something completely new.  Kathleen Norris states in her book, Cloister Walk “These days when someone commits an atrocity, we tend to sigh and say, “That’s human nature”  And certainly, we humans are sinners.  But as Norris remarks, “our attitude would seem wrong-headed to the desert monks, who understood human beings to be part of the creation that God called good, special in that they were made in the image of God. . . This is why Gregory of Nyssa speaks so often of ‘returning to the grace of that image which was established in you from the beginning”

We usually seek God outside of ourselves.  This can be when we go to church, when we take a nature walk, when we read the Bible, when we see God reflected in our fellow humans.  But, because we are made in God’s image, we are also capable of seeing God within ourselves.  As Bob Benson says in his book, See You at the House, “I must listen to the voice that is within me.  For that voice, too, is the purposeful, calling voice of God to us.”

When in my twenties, I had difficulty listening to the voice of God within me.  I was in a career field that others had encouraged me into but I struggled with it and did not have a great love for it.  My heart, my soul, the voice of God within me, was telling me to try psychology, but it seemed impossible – I would have to leave a job and go back to school.  Yet, that voice kept calling to me and with the help of God’s voice through conversations with friends and those who loved me, I finally listened fully to God’s voice within me.  It has made all the difference to me.

I encourage you to start listening closely to the voice of God within you.  What is your heart saying to you?  Can you hear God’s voice within you?  Start listening to that voice for direction.  And in your prayers, listen to that voice within you.  Certainly, continue to listen to others and look outside of yourself for God’s directions to you.  But also listen within yourselves for God’s directions to you – because you are made in the image of God.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
3rd F on Saturday, August 11.

Kickball tournament on Saturday, August 18.

Gravity

THE SCENE: 64 degrees, 100% humidity.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER ✅
WARM-O-RAMA:

SSH x 20 IC

Tempo Squats x 20 IC

Baby Arm Circles x 10 IC
THA-THANG:
1. BLIMPS- Rounds of 20-15-10-5. Each completed with a .33 loop run. Total distance for this= 1.22 Miles

BBSU

Lunges

Imperial Walkers

Merkins

Plank Jacks

Squats

2. Sprints x 4

3. 11’s- Squat Jumps and LBCs from Pier to splash Pad

4. Sprints x2 w/ Merkins

5. Loop Run x2

MARY:
Proton led us in flutter kicks, proton parkers, and burpees. This was a mistake…
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
2 questions: Who do you gravitate towards? Who gravitates towards you? Think about this.

MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

F3 Dads Camp in August!

Launch Party/Change

THE SCENE: 75 and ready for Launch
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Money to Flag

SSH x 20 IC

Imperial Walkers x 20 IC

Michael Phelps OYO

THA-THANG:
Launch Party included a view of almost all that our new AO “The Equalizer” has to offer:

  • DORAs on Soccer Field- 200 Merkins & 200 Squats
  • Mosey to the Boat Launch/Dock/Pier
  • 7s from Dock to Playground- LBCs & Pull-Ups
  • Mosey to Splashpad- Proton-led Flutter Kicks x 25 IC, Pfeiffer-led Hello Dolly’s x 25 IC, Partner BBSU x 20
  • Mosey to Trail Running path- 11s- incline/decline Merkins (modified for time)
  • Mosey to basketball court- 5-10-15-20 Rounds of Burpees with cross court running between each set.
  • Partner run of loop x 1.5

MARY:
Abs
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Great response for the new AO Launch at The Equalizer (formerly known as Carl Cowan Park).

Brief rundown on the history of Carl Cowan and his fight for equality in Knoxville. Change is inevitable, be ready, get ready, be in charge of the change you want in your life. Evolve- do not be the same man you were last year, 5 years ago… be better.

F3 Knoxville experienced change today- new AO & it was a wonderful morning.

MOLESKIN:
S/O to Frosty, Mayberry, Junk, and Abacus for being with us in the SuperOcho/NirvanaNine quest. Awesome work men! We welcomed “Central Park” to the group and he came in with some respect!

We prayed for Landline and his family as they transition to St. Thomas. Yes, the Virgin Islands. Godspeed brother!

We prayed for Sliderule and his family and for Abacus’ Aunt.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
The Equalizer will meet on Saturdays only for now but vibe was to expand the schedule. More info soon. Coffeteria at Dunkin Donuts was only letdown of the morning. New spot coming next week.

Bees, tics, snakes and varmints.

THE SCENE: Cloudy, temp in 70’s.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
20 Side-straddle hops, 10 Burpees, 10 Rockettes, 10 Cherry Pickers, Little of This and Little of That, 10 Michael Phelps
THA-THANG:

Mosey to Trail by Northernmost Parking Lot that leads to road by northern gate.  We will do 14’s to the road where we will bear crawl one light then run four lights all the way to the roadway.

Mosey to bottom of Mt. Everest.  20 Hello Dollies.  20 Carolina Dry Docks.  Next, run up Mt. Everest .  Stop at roadway below Admin Bldg.

Mosey to Boulder Pile.  Pick up appropriate boulder.  We will do the following exercises:

  • 25 Curls
  • 25 Overhead Presses
  • 25 Rows

Next, put down boulders and run to top of space needle and back to boulder pile.  Repeat the exercises with boulders.  Then put boulders back in pile.

Mosey to stop sign at southeast corner of Admin Bldg.  20 American Hammers

Mosey to outdoor pavilion close to outdoor chapel.  We will break into three groups with one group running to island at nearby parking lot, second group doing decline merkins off of chairs or benches and third man doing jump squats at other end of chapel.  Groups then switch exercises so that all three groups will do all three exercises.  Rinse and repeat.

Mosey north on roadway to parking lot west of roadway where new restrooms are located.  Go to southern end of parking lot.  We will do suicides by running to first cone and back, second cone and back, etc until all five cones have been reached.  Each time back do 10 Big Boy Sit-ups and 20 Baby Crunches.  Rinse and repeat.

Mosey to AO.

MARY:
20 Box Cutters.  Planks with lifts of each arm, each leg, and then arm and leg at same time, both sides.  ATM’s.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Fifteen men with one FNG, Chris Sisk, whom we named “Robin.”
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
This world involves suffering and death.  We tend to want to ignore death, keep it at a distance.  Yet, one certainty in life is that we will die.  Another certainty is that we will suffer.  I need to do a better job at looking this suffering and death in the face.  Because when I do so, I go beyond the rigamarole of my daily existence.  It forces me to consider what I am about. . . what this world is about . . what the Creator is about.  It makes me look not just at the finite but the infinite.  And in my smallness, in my short time here in the face of eternity, it leads me to face God.

It is good to know that Jesus suffered to.  He did not run away from suffering or try to gloss over it.  He went to those who were suffering.  He didn’t give them some kind of sugar coated message about how everything was going to be happy and terrific for them.  What he did show them was the means to go beyond our worldly existence – he showed them that life, the truth, the Word as John writes in the bible, is so much more than what we generally think it is.  And, Jesus, God, showed us that he understands suffering.  He understands because he suffered too.  He was poor, shunned, mocked, beaten, torn apart, nailed to a cross.  But he rose again, showing us that we are more than death, we can conquer it, through Him we hold the key to victory.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
3rd F on Saturday, August 11.

Firecracker 400

THE SCENE: 78 and Muggy.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • SSH IC x 15
  • Merkins IC x 10
  • Tempo Squat IC x 10
  • BA Cir IC x 10
  • Cherry Picker IC x til we lost the PAX
  • Stretch it out

THA-THANG:

  • Complete exercise round and run to the split and back. All Exercise are with CMU
  • Lion King x 25
  • OH Press x 25
  • Brick Switch Merkins x 25
  • Goblet Squat x 25
  • Curls x 50
  • Tricep Extension x 50
  • Rinse and Repeat

MARY:
Flutter kicks IC x 50
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
15 strong HIM’s
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
What is something that you are holding on to, that if you were to let go of would help you move forward in your life.
MOLESKIN:
It was great to see some visitors out this morning. We had 6 ruck in and out to add about 6 miles to their total today. Also 4 are on their way to complete the SuperOcho.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
No Announcements at this time