F3 Knoxville

#2ForTuesday

THE SCENE: Dry, humid, mid 70s, sunny. Jk it was rainy and miserable. BUT it was character-building rainy and miserable.

  • 2FT = 2 For Tuesday (Unrecognized national holiday)
  • R&R = Rinse & Repeat

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

  • Welcome to F3: Fitness-Fellowship-Faith
  • Name is Steam and I’ll be your QIC this morning – honor to do so.
  • Couple things before we begin:
    • Not a professional
    • You’re here on your own volition
    • You know your body better than anyone else – if you need to modify anything we do this morning feel free to do it, but push yourself and the men around you. They deserve it and so do you.


WARM-O-RAMA:

 

  • SSH: 11 x 4 IC
    • 2FT –> R&R
  • Monkey Humpers: 11 x 4 IC
    • 2FT –> R&R
  • Squat Bender: 11 x 4 IC
    • 2FT –> R&R
  • Rockmill (mix of Rockette & Windmill): 11 x 4 IC
    • 2FT –> R&R

THA-THANG:

(mosey to Amphitheater)

  1. 11s
  • Stage = 11 box jumps (full extension)

(sprint to the top)

  • Top = 11 pull-ups

(sprint back down and hold the incline merkin plank on the stage)

  • Rinse & Repeat because it’s 2 For Tuesday!
  • Recover at the bottom in the incline merkin plank on the stage
  • Execute 11 down/up incline merkins

 

(3 Points of Contact)

  • stone wall on 1 side of the stage – the stage – stone wall on the other side of the stage
  • Stone Wall 1 = 11 1-count incline merkins
  • Stage = 11 situps
  • Stone Wall 2: 11 1-count decline merkins
  • R&R because 2FT
  1. 11s
  • Stage = dips 

(sprint to under the bridge to the left)

  • Under the bridge to the left = 1 wall-sit + seal clap

(Sprint back to stage)

  • Rinse & Repeat because it’s 2FT!

(sprint to covered area right before the stairs to the bridge)

  • 1 wall-sit + Seal clap
  • Rinse & Repeat (9 & 2, 8 & 3, etc)

MARY:

Core 4

  • 4 areas of the amphitheater stage
  • 25 1-count reps each area
    • LBCs
    • Flutter Kicks
    • Spidermans
    • Cockroaches
  • R&R because 2FT

(COT inside of amphitheater)

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

8 PAX – No FNGs

Abort – Walrus – Half-Calf – Cornhole – Swanson – Huffy – Amazon – Steam

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

 

  • Chase the Lion

MOLESKIN:

sweating it out in the garage

THE SCENE: Phone said 59* and lots of rain, definitely warm for January
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Warm up started in 11th Street Parking Garage, which is where we stayed for duration.  Lots of rain, plenty of lightning too…
Merkins
Squat and reach
Grady corns
Imperial Walkers
SSH
THA-THANG:
Mosey up the ramp to the fourth level of the parking garage (the bottom floor is 3? Haven’t figured that out yet).  Routine is the BOMBS Escalator, the Bombscelator? Anyhow, BOMBS done escalator style.  Start with B, run the length of the garage and back.  B O, run.  So on and so on.

  • Burpees x10
  • OH Claps x20
  • Merkins x20
  • BBSUs x20
  • Squats x40

Quick 10 count and mosey on, up another level to the fifth level of the parking garage.  More chalk on the ground, this time just straight through the list for two rounds:

  • Monkey humpers x10
  • Squats x10
  • J-Los x10
  • Burps x10 (not burpees, just the foot thruster part)
  • Run a lap of the garage

Again rinse and repeat for two rounds.  Another quick 10 count, then run a half lap of the garage to get to the north stairwell.  There we did three sets of calf raises on the stairs, 15 reps per set.  First set regular, second set toes in, third set toes out for calf raises.  Then Oompa Loompa down the stairs to the bottom (squat each step taken).

MARY:
Flutter kicks
Hello Dolly
Flutter kicks
(There was a lot more in this same sequence but ran out of time, thank goodness)
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
5 Strong: Walrus, Cornhole, Huffy, Swanson, Abort
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
I’ve just struggled this week in getting out in the gloom.  My M has been struggling with fear at night.  Her grandmother’s apartment burned on Saturday (she made it out, but lost everything) and now she is terrified that our house will burn down while we sleep.  We’ve been unplugging almost everything we can before going to bed.  This is something that I really struggle with.  My reaction is to want to “fix” a problem, but this is not something I can really fix.  I just have to be supportive and help her move past her fears.  Huffy really brought it home, giving us Psalm 56:3 “When I am afraid, I put my trust in you” and added that every day our Lord challenges us to allow our faith to overcome.
MOLESKIN:
Prayers for Huffy, who had a skiing accident that has his shoulder in bad shape (yet he still makes it out to workouts, like a beast), prayers for Walrus who is trying to improve his marriage and working on things with his M, praise and prayers that Swanson had great news at the doctor

Do or Do Not…There is No Try!

THE SCENE: Mid to high 30s with a less-than-desirable breeze
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Overhead Claps x 50 IC
  • Rockette x 20 IC
  • High Knees Ring of Fire with Burpees

THA-THANG:
PAX moseyed to the path where we began a Route 66 with BBS at each light pole until we reached the bleachers.

At the bleachers we smoked 20 merkins, 40 squats, and 60 dips OYO.

We continued the Route 66 BBS until we reached the playground. We did a set of 11s with derkins at the bottom of the hill and burpees at the top. The catch is that each trip up the hill was a sprint “Pickett’s Charge” style with the whole PAX staying in sequence.

Following the 11s we moseyed on to the MRSA-laden soccer fields where we lined up on the base line. One PAX called out an exercise of choice and then side-shuffled along the boundary line while the stationary PAX performed that exercise. We did everything from side straddle hops to asphalt kissers.

We eased our way back along the Route 66 (with pistol squats this time) and paused at the bleachers for 20 merkins, 40 squats, and 60 dips.

MARY:

  • Plank 30 seconds
  • Hello Dolly x 20 IC
  • Plank 30 seconds
  • Flutter kicks x 20 IC
  • Plank 30 seconds
  • Box Cutters x 20 IC

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
“Do or do not. There is no try.” Yoda coined this phrase years and years ago, but I never stopped to think about what it meant until I listened in on F3’s 43 Feet podcast about time management. They suggested removing the word “try” from your vocabulary. It sounds incredibly simple, but I have found that saying “I WILL do something” in lieu of “I’ll try to do something” makes a tremendous difference in how much I promise, how serious I am about that promise, and how efficiently I spend my time.
MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Mark your calendars for pull-up bar install day at the Dog Pound. Contact La-Z-Boy with any questions. WE WILL DO PULL-UPS IN 2020!

Gentleness in Strength

THE SCENE: Low 40’s and too nice
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

LBAC f/b, Tempo Merkins, Tempo Squats, Calve Raises
THA-THANG:
Mosey the Running Path, stopping at each pole for either 5 Diamond Merkins + 5 Merkins + 5 Werkins, or 5 Narrow Squats + 5 Squats + 5 Summo Squats – QIC’s call.  (14 Poles total I believe)

Arrive at Soccer Field. Perform directed exercise/reps at one end, mosey to other end, repeat, mosey back and repeat, until 5 rounds of the exercise/reps are complete. We did Burpees x10, Jump Squats x20, Merkins x20, Monkey Humpers x30.

Mosey to Playground. Perform Grinder of 5 pull-ups, 10 Merkins, 15 Dips – Mosey short distance and do 2 8ct BBs, Mosey back and repeat until time called.

Mosey to Bridge. Perform Indian style Slowsy with PAX forming a line, shoulder to shoulder in Al Gore. Last man chooses exercise to the front (Bear Crawl, Frog Jump, Mall Walk, Burpee Broad Jump, etc.). Rotate thru until bridge is traversed. MARY:
Cosmo led some Flutter Kicks.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
13 Strong


CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
See Weekly Email (01/19). Spoke about the importance of cultivating the virtue of gentleness and the stumbling block that can hinder our gospel witness if we lack gentleness. “Blessed are the meek. They shall inherit the earth.”
MOLESKIN:
Some of my favorite HIMs showed up for this one, to include Toto. What a blessing it was to lead and fellowship with these men. Awesome group.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
N/A

Rain = pavalon work

THE SCENE: low 50’s, rain, wind.  Pretty gloomish.

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Mosey to 2 Rivers church
  • squats
  • merkins
  • this/that stretches

THA-THANG:

  • 11’s:   Decline merkins & thruster merkins
  • 11’s:  squat jumps & increasing timed wall sit
  • dips & crunches in increasing reps of 10

MARY:
N/a, lots of abs in the last exercise we did

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
5:  Cosmo, Cornhole, Sparky, Mayberry, Bartman
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
“If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go together.”   Millions of people around the country are in the first week of their “get healthier” new year resolution…most of them will fizzle out over the next two weeks largely because they try to do it alone.  I am thankful for the brotherhood and accountability of F3 and it’s ability to keep me from being a flash in the pan when it comes to fitness.

MOLESKIN:
Kind of an impromptu Q because of the rain.  Thanks to the good folks at 2 Rivers Church for letting us use their covered areas so we could stay dry.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: