F3 Knoxville

Asylum AM

THE SCENE: It was a steamy but beautiful morning…
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

WU w side straddle hops, flutter kicks, tempo merkins, and imperial squat walkers
THA-THANG:
FullHouse Dora Exploration

  • Mosey with deck of cards. Every minute stop for an excersise. PAX picks, today it was:
    • hearts = merkins
    • spades = star jacks
    • diamonds = flutter kicks-4 count
    • clubs = squats
  • Arrived at Everest just in time to meet a battle buddy for a Dora. 1 partner runs the other excersises:
    • 100- squats
    • 100- carolina dry docks
    • 100- 4 count flutter kicks
    • (just enough for each battle buddy to complete 3 everests)
  • While the hear rate was up we did a 1 min tempo run on the trail to the west side of everest sprinting from light post to post with a recovery jog to the next- repeated to the top..
  • We moseyed back down excersising every minute until we arrived at the base of the hill to the Asylum…repeated another Dora just as above

MARY:

Closed out with ATM and some box cutters

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Total of 6 with a couple of M’s on a separate walk around park..
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
It was on the heart to talk about sin and how can be lazy dealing with sin. Confront your sin and take it to God. Our nature is to justify or handle it ourselves….repent, ask forgiveness and break down the dam the enemy tries to build between us and God.

MOLESKIN:
I wanted to add sharing our struggles and sin with others we often get a me too! So share and see how we can strengthen one another.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
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Monday Funday

THE SCENE
67 and Muggy

 

Welcome & Disclaimer

 

THE THANG
COP

  • SSH x30 (IC)
  • 4ct Diagonal Lunges x15 IC
  • 4ct Windmill Merkins x10 IC
  • 4ct Tempo Squats x12 IC
  • Arm Circles Forward x12 IC
  • Arm Circles Backward x12 IC
  • Run two loops around the parking lot

Mosey to curb and line up.

 

Jelly Legs
Start at one side of the parking lot.  Perform the following:

  • R1: Hold squat position for 10 count, perform 10 squats, run to the other curb, do 2 Burpees, run back
  • R2: Hold squat position for 20 count, perform 20 squats, run to the other curb, do 2 Burpees, run back
  • R3: Hold squat position for 30 count, perform 30 squats, run to the other curb, do 2 Burpees, run back
  • R4: Hold squat position for 40 count, perform 40 squats, run to the other curb, do 2 Burpees, run back
  • R5: Hold squat position for 50 count, perform 50 squats, run to the other curb, do 2 Burpees, run back

Line up in four separate lines.  Each group mosey to the far parking lots and to one of four cones set up in the corner.

 

Four Corners
Spread out to 4 cones.  Alternate exercises at the cones for set time. When time is done, counter-clockwise to the next cone. Rinse and repeat.

  • Cone 1: Dry Docks x15 or x25 & Narrow Squats x15 or x25
  • Cone 2: 4ct Flutter Kicks x15 or x25 & Star Jumps x15 or x25
  • Cone 3: 4ct Shoulder Taps x10 or x15 & Reverse Lunges (each leg counts as 1) x10 or x15
  • Cone 4: 4ct Hello Dolly x15 or x25 & Smurf Jacks x15 or x25

Round 1: 60 seconds at each station
Round 2: 45 seconds at each station

Mosey to the hill near the SP.

 

Cash Out
Merkin Hill
Run up and down hill doing the following:

  • Start at bottom of hill with 10 Merkins, run to top
  • Top of hill 9 Merkins, run to bottom
  • Bottom of hill 8 Merkins, runt to top
  • Top of hill 7 Merkins, run to bottom
  • Bottom of hill 6 Merkins, runt to top
  • Top of hill 5 Merkins, run to bottom
  • Bottom of hill 4 Merkins, runt to top
  • Top of hill 3 Merkins, run to bottom
  • Bottom of hill 2 Merkins, runt to top
  • Top of hill 1 Merkins, run to bottom

Circle up for Mary.

 

Mary
4ct American Hammers x20 IC
Rt Side Crunches x20 IC
Lft Side Crunches x20 IC
ATMs

 

COT
Number off / Name-0-Rama (40 PAX, 3 FNGs – Petro, Chaco and Fullstack)

 

BOM
“Honorable men refuse to wallow in the small and the bitter.
Honorable men refuse to hate life because something once went wrong.
Honorable men don’t build monuments to their disappointments, nor do they let others brand them and curse them to their destruction.
Honorable men seek out the highest definition of their lives, the nobler meaning granted by heritage, by their ancestors’ dreams and their parents’ hopes.
Honorable men cry out to God until curses are broken and a grander purpose is achieved.
Honorable men don’t settle for lives of regret.”

Stephen Mansfield, “Mansfield’s Book of Manly Men”

As we push ourselves physically each week it is important to remember that we must also be pushing ourselves mentally, emotionally and spiritually…to grow as HIMs.  Physical fitness is important, but character, virtue, integrity and leadership are paramount.  Our world is starving for men with these characteristics.  Men of honor who live beyond themselves.  Men who are life-givers, not life-takers.

I believe there is a direct correlation between strenuous physical exercise and the strenuous pursuit to live a life of honor, integrity and impact.  Both take effort and focus. Both take intentionality, consistency and daily commitment.  Both are met with resistance from the status quo and my own passivity.  Both can’t be pursued alone and require me to surround myself with like-minded men who inspire, encourage and challenge me along the journey.

Each morning in the gloom we have an opportunity to experience these AND be these things for the men on our left and right.  Iron sharpen iron. This is what it means to wear the “F3”.

The Hills Are Alive…

THE SCENE: Cloudy, a bit on the humid side…about 70 degrees.  Good morning to get after it.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Start with 20 SSH on 4ct., 20 Windmill on 4ct., Cherry Picker x10, Baby Arm Circle front and Back x8, Lap around A/O x2
THA-THANG:
Mosey to top of Cardiac, perform 25 reps of Merkin’s at top, 25 at curve 1, 25 at curve 2, and 25 at bottom then run back up to top.  100 reps total…Then perform the same routine with squats, DD’s,  and LBC’s.  When complete flutter kicks till 6 is up.

 

Mosey back to A/O but not done yet!  4 corner workout with same 4 exercises as on cardiac.  Corner 1 Merkin x15, Corner 2 Squat x15, Corner 3 DD’s x15, Corner 4 LBC’s x15, then run up little hill…rinse and repeat until time called.

MARY:
Dose of American Hammer’s x20 on 4ct and then 2 min plank hold (1 min in regular plank, 30 sec right hand in air, 30 sec left hand in air) Recover…
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Big Tuesday crowd! 18 PAX came out to get better… Wouldn’t let me tag Petro, or Thread Count so shout out to u both

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Word today was on Anxiety and how it is present in all our lives and how God calls us to be anxious about nothing but instead pray about everything.  That we are constantly under attack by the things of this world and that we must always be re-calibrating our minds like Philippians 4:8 instructs us “Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise.”  An awesome word from Paul who had every reason to be anxious and worried about his future when he sat in shackles in prison.  Instead, he saw his state as a way to praise and spread the kingdom.
MOLESKIN:

Tortoise vs. Hare: Asylum 3/29

THE SCENE: Balmy gloom 60 F
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

SSH x 25, Tie Fighters x10 each arm, Cherry pickers x 5, Merkins x 10. A couple laps across the parking lot at 50% and high knees
THA-THANG:

Mosey to the playground –>11’s on the playground, box jump/derkins, crunch/flutter kick

Mosey to the Circus Maximus (aka lower parking lot)

Tortoise vs. Hare workout

  • Tortoise: 4 Pax on Log pull
  • Hare: Complete set of exercises and chase down the Tortoise
  • Rinse and repest alternating groups
  • Hare sets: Broad Jump Burpee x 10, Clock Face Merkins set, Burpee Dan x 4.

Turns out the Tortoise was harder to catch that I thought it would be…

Mosey to the Pavillon. Sets of Table Rows, Dips, Jack Knifes (45degree sitting crunches on table top) x10 each, 2 sets.

Back to AO and finish out strong with ATM set.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

9 strong with one FNG, Carni.

Try to remember the importance of sacrificial service which is the foundation of  true leadership.  Recall the example of Jesus on the Last Supper washing the disciples feet.

“Rather, let the greatest amount you become as the least, and the leader as one who serves.”  Luke 22:26

Die to Self

THE SCENE:

Cool and comfortable.  Perfect.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

SSH, Cherry Pickers, Rockettes, baby arm circles, tempo squats and tempo merkins
THA-THANG:
karaoke and high knees and butt kickers

run up the hill and do 2 burpees after each of the below exercies

  • 25 squats
  • 25 Merkins
  • 25 flutter kicks
  • 25 lunges
  • 25 CDD
  • 25 Iron Mikes
  • 25 SSH
  • 25 American Hammers
  • 25 Mountain Climbers
  • 25 squats

mosey to playground

  • 5 Captain Thors
  • 15 box jumps

mosey to pavilion

  • 20 table rows
  • wall sits
  • x3

AO – lunge across parking lot

MARY:

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
12 PAX today
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Die to Self.  It’s Holy Week.  Jesus had to die to himself for us to live.  As HIMs we need to die to ourselves to love our wives, kids, family, workers, community, etc.
MOLESKIN:
Insert any personal comments, notes, devotion content, etc.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
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