F3 Knoxville

Tag: Curveball

4/5 Ain’t Bad

AO: Asylum PM

5:45pm — 6:30pm

Meeting at the morning AO parking lot

[ The Scene ]

  • Probably cold(ish)
  • Probably dark(ish)

[ Welcome/Disclaimer ]

(1) Welcome to F3: Fitness, Fellowship, Faith

(2) My name is Steam and I’ll be your Q this evening

(3) A few things before we begin:

  • Contrary to popular belief, I’m not a professional
  • You are here on your own volition
  • If you need to modify anything we do this evening, feel free to do so, but push yourself and the men around you. They deserve it and so do you.

(4) FNGs?

Coat Collection: “We will take any and all coats to be donated and count them before the Warm-o-Rama

– Less than 5 coats = 100 man-makers (8-count body builder) throughout the Q

– More than 10 coats = no burpees or man-makers throughout the Q”

We had 4 coats.

[ Warm o Rama ]

  • Windmill: 10×4 IC
  • Imperial Walker: 10×4 IC
  • Baby Arm Circles: 10×4 F + 10×4 B
  • Rockette: 10×4 IC
  • SSH: 50 (1-count)

[ The Thang ]

(Mosey to the parking lot leading down into the pavilion)

(1) 4 Corners, 3 POCs

  • 4 rounds of PT and focus on 1 corner at a time
  • We’ll do an exercise at one of the corners (POC 1), run to the Pavilion and do an exercise (POC 2), then run to the playground and do an exercise (POC 3), and then come back to this parking lot to rinse and repeat with the other 3 corners
  • Corner 1 (POC 1)
    • 10 man-makers OR 10×4 Mountain climbers
    • Mosey to POC 2
      • 10 burpees OR 10×4 dips
    • Mosey to POC 3
      • 10 man-makers OR 10 box jumps
    • Mosey back to AO lot
  • Corner 2 (POC 1)
    • 10 man-makers OR 10×4 squats
    • Mosey to POC 2
      • 10 burpees OR 10×4 incline merkins
    • Mosey to POC 3
      • 10 man-makers OR 10×4 flutter kicks
    • Mosey back to AO lot

Buyout Option — Q entertained the buyout option for PAX to sprint up Baby Cardiac, do one slow merkin, run back down to POC 1-3 and do 20×4 squats, instead of of more man-makers/burpees. We chose the buyout option.

(Mosey to the light path entrance below the AO parking lot)

(2) Route 66

  • Each light is going to be 5 reps of an exercise (all on a 1-count)
  • Once you finish all 3 sets of lights, go to the next light and pick one exercise from each set of lights you just did and execute 25 reps of each X. We consolidated the below into all 3 Xs at one light, for 3 lights, and at the top light, choosing 1 X from the 3 at each light, to do together. 
  • 1st 3 lights — Upper
    • Wide merkins (1)
    • Carolina Dry Docks (2)
    • Dive Bombers (3)
  • 2nd 3 lights — Lower
    • Sumo squat (4)
    • Bobby Hurleys (5)
    • Iron Mikes (6)
  • 3rd 3 lights — Core
    • BBS (7)
    • Toe Touches (8)
    • Up & Outs (9)

[ Mary ]

ATMs (15×4 shoulder taps, 10×4 slow merkins, 10 quick merkins OYO.)

[ COT ]

  • # off
  • Name o Rama
  • FNGs
  • BOM

“When you don’t know how to identify a win, you will start mislabeling victories.” — Jerry Flowers

9 Ways You Can Identify Wins for the Rest of 2021

1 — Focus on the process, not the results

2 — Develop an aptitude (natural ability to do something) for gratitude

3 — Ask for feedback

4 — Mentally buy-in to the idea of incremental growth.

5 — Evaluation by documentation

    • sticky notes, journaling, documenting your incremental growth

6 — Don’t focus on just 1, but the many

    • A lot of people want to experience this really huge, identifiable, sexy win, when in reality, it’s about the hundreds of small wins along the way that aren’t as huge or public or sexy

7 — Encourage someone

8 — Use the “Share My Location” and “Find My iPhone” setting on your phone in real life

9 — Initiate the Matthew 7:7 model

    • ““Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.”
    • ‭‭Matthew‬ ‭7:7‬ ‭ESV‬‬ — https://bible.com/bible/59/mat.7.7.ESV

Same parking lot different thang

THE SCENE: 45°F, Clear Sky
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA: (all IC 4-count)

  • SSH x20  
  • Merkins x10  
  • Imperial Walker x20  
  • Merkins x10
  • Imperial Squawkers x10
  • Merkins x10

Mosey to parking lot towards rec center

THA-THANG:
Kraken:
Complete exercises at each cone and keep running around the loop. Rinse and repeat until time is up.

  • Cone 1 – Jump Squats x20
  • Cone 2 – Shoulder Taps (4ct) x10
  • Cone 3 – Mountain Climber 4ct x10
  • Cone 4 – Squats x20
  • Cone 5 – Smurf Jacks x20
  • Cone 6 – Merkins x20
  • Cone 7 – Dry Docks x20
  • Cone 8 – Supermans

Mosey back to SP

MARY:

  • Flutter Kicks x20 IC

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Guardrail, Hound Dog, Kenjo, Butter Knife, Wanderer, Dart Gun, Zippy, Cosmo, Nadia, Curveball, Spotter, Data, Booster, Erector, Frenchie, Archie (QIC)

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Check your Pride
Pride is often the route cause of conflict and it is important to be aware of it.
I have recently reflected on conflicts with my wife and have seen that my pride often is to blame.

MOLESKIN
Prayer Requests:

  • Hound Dog’s grandma past away
  • Booster parents are coming to town to visit and this is the first time they have traveled since the start of the pandemic

Quarter Mile Stations

THE SCENE:

Clear Temperature Humidity Feels like Wind Speed Wind Direction
36 ℉ 87% 33 ℉ 3.5 mi/h NE

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER.
I am not a professional.  I have a phone.  Workout as injuries allow.

WARM-O-RAMA:

Happy Jacks (5)
Tempo Merkins (10)
Dead Bugs (10)
Abe Vigodas (10)

THA-THANG:
Mosey to the track.

On the track, there are nine stations.
1. Burpees
2. Monkey Humpers/Squats
3. BBS/Merkins
4. Flutter Kicks/Hello Dolly
5. Diamond/Wide Merkins
6. Smurf Jacks/Lunge
7. LBC/Box Cutters
8. Merkins/BBS
9. Dips/ Carolina Dry Docks

Running around the track stop at every station and do 10 of the exercises. Second time around the track do the second exercise listed. If there is one. Third time go back to first. And so forth. If you want, you are allowed to pass a cone and not do that exercise. But every cone passed increases the number of exercises by 10. If you pass 1 cone, then you do 20 at the next cone. You then drop back to 10. So, you can make this go as you want. You could run the entire time and not do any exercises. On your honor. Work yourself out as hard or easy as you want.

Mary:
Dead Bugs (15)
Supermans (5)
LBC(4)

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
8 good men got better.

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

From Dredd’s blog The Collision Learner and Chapter Five from Minivan Centurion Good Drivers
“If a guy cuts you off in traffic, you can take that as “drop dead” and respond in kind. Or you can just assume that he is a bad driver and keep driving reasonably. If you choose the former, that means that you too become a bad driver and may provoke another negative response from him. A good driver wouldn’t do that because it might disrupt him from getting to his destination safely, which is the whole purpose in driving, to get where you are going in one piece.”
With your goals, don’t let the bad change you in a way that could keep you from where you want to end up.

 

MOLESKIN:
For all of our families and coworkers.  For Pom Pom and his competitors next week. Just a wee bit more for Pom Pom.  For the unsaid prayers in our hearts.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

SSHhhh – Faithfulness is Quiet

THE SCENE: Coldest day in awhile. But just right for a beatdown (it wasn’t raining!)
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER – Administered
WARM-O-RAMA:
Overhead clap x 10 IC
Seal clap x 10 IC
Tempo squat x 10 IC
Seal clap squat x 10 IC
Tempo Merkins x 10 IC
Rainbow drop x 5 IC
Mountain climber x 10 IC
Forward lunge x 5 each leg
Side lunges x 5 each leg
Burpees x 7
Tennessee Rocking Chair x 10 IC

Name an exercise not SSH- Curveball named Jump Squats (after SSH’s & variants were named several times)

Falling Indian Run to the CMU pile

THA-THANG:
At the CMU pile

Exercise (modification in parentheses)
10 Blockees (10 burpees or 10 squats & 10 merkins)
15 Kettle bell swings (15 seal clap squats)
20 Goblet squats (20 squat jumps)
Run down the slope & back

We modified the second time through to the following:
10 Burpees
15 Kettle bell swings
20 Squats

Sparkles finished first and led us in 20 Flutter Kicks x IC. Put our CMUs up.

Falling Indian Run 1x and then back to the #ShovelFlag

Inspired by @Baby Boomer’s use of my 11’s we’ll be doing a modified hill version of 11’s:
BBS at bottom
Bear Crawl or Lunge up
Flutter kicks (4-ct)
Crawl Bear or crab walk down

MARY:
Dealer’s Choice (stopped after 4 PAX)
Big Finale: Pool Boy’s modification of Thunderstruck

Thunderstruck
Q plays “Thunderstruck” by ACDC. PAX complete 1 standard Merkin for every “thunder!” that is heard in the song. Plank during the rest of the song. Awesome way to end a workout and just make sure any juice that’s left is burned away. (modification listed below)
1:23
Thunder = 1 merkin, return to plank
Thunderstruck = 1 burpee and do core the Q calls
Core Exercises Flutter Kicks
BBS’s
LBC’s
Box Cutter and end with like 7 burpees

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA – 6 faithful men.

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Proverbs 20:6 – Many a man proclaims his own steadfast love, but a faithful man who can find?

Faithfulness is maybe the most underrated fruit of the Spirit. Staying your post when it seems all hell is breaking loose is hard, yet it also is commended in Ecclesiastes 10:4 – If the anger of the ruler rises against you, do not leave your place, for calmness[a] will lay great offenses to rest.

We live in what seem to be crazy times. Can we even count on having liberty, food, a house, a marriage, you name it tomorrow? This is why Proverbs 20:6 asks the question:

Many a man proclaims his own steadfast love, but a faithful man who can find?

We all see and I especially see in my own heart where it has gone astray and yet we’re called back time and again by God. We are the bride of Christ, to be presented without spot or blemish

But what does real faithfulness look like? It starts with doing what you’re supposed to do. With showing up at work and working diligently. With doing what you told your wife / kids / friends you would do.

It goes from there and works its way out to ministry opportunities. As a Christian, to quote Mack Stiles (who will be at my church’s Men’s Conference “Act Like Men” this weekend), “my life is forfeit.” We have been bought by Christ, how could we not be faithful and serve others? Then as we live out the Gospel (also summed up in 1 Corinthians 15:3-5) it will overflow. We’ll make disciples of all nations, starting with our families, then churches, then communities, and go on and on!

But remember, it starts with being a faithful man.

Some ways we can be faithful men in F3:
1. Show up to workouts regularly and consistently (make the HC!).
2. Intentionally get to know other PAX while working out.
3. Intentionally get to know other PAX outside of F3 (that’s the 2nd F ICYMI).
4. Sign up to Q! This not only will humble you (the Q is not about you but about serving the men who show up and trust your leadership) but also it serves the AO-Q. The best problem to have is that the AO-Q cannot get a Q in. This happened last summer at Shamrock. Let’s make it happen again!
5. Post a backblast!
6. Ask an AO-Q or the Nantan and other men how you can serve them.
7. Pray for your F3 brothers.
And so much more.

So ask yourself the question that Proverbs 20:6 asks:
Many a man proclaims his own steadfast love, but a faithful man who can find?

MOLESKIN:
Some people tried to troll me with SSH’s as suggested exercises. I hate to have to qualify it but we can be SO MUCH MORE CREATIVE than that overused exercise! Prayed for Amber and Megan (doctors are unsure for both of them what is causing the physical pain and suffering they’re experiencing), Curveball’s mom, Boomer’s travels, and Mermaid’s upcoming family business purchase.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Men’s Conference at my church tonight. EH the guys who haven’t been out in a while too.

Be a Good Driver

THE SCENE:

Partly Cloudy Temperature Humidity Feels like Wind Speed Wind Direction
41 ℉ 83% 36 ℉ 6.1 mi/h NNE

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER.
I am not a professional.  I have a phone.  Workout as injuries allow.

WARM-O-RAMA:

Happy Jacks (5)
High Knees (15)
Abe Vigodas (10)
Cherry Pickers (3)

THA-THANG:
Mosey to CMUs.

On way, Burpeevators to 8.  (Start regular Burpee, 2nd is Burpee with 2 Merkins. 3rd, Burpee with 3 Merkins up to 8th and Burpee with 8 Merkins.)

On to CMU pile and have everyone grab two. Using parking lot, place a CMU on each side of the parking lot. Starting at one CMU#1, do an exercise, mosey to CMU#2 do exercise, mosey back to CMU#1 do exercise, mosey to CMU#2 do exercise, and then mosey back to start CMU#1. While waiting for six, do second exercise. Finally, when six has finished doing first exercise four times, do third exercise in cadence. So, first exercise 4 times with CMUs, second exercise while waiting, and third exercise as group.
1, 15 CMU Merkin walk-overs, Squats, Jump Squats
2, 15 Overhead CMU Press, Big boys, Flutters
3, 20 CMU Curls, Calf Raises, Twinkle Toes
4, 25 CMU Bench Press, Hello Dollys, LBCs
5, 15 CMU Triceps, Lunge, Jump Squats
6, 15 CMU Rows OR CMU Kettle Bells, LBCs, Box Cutters. Due to time, PAX was given a choice. And Recover was called cutting this short.

No real time for Mary but some got in almost 10 or 10 American Hammers.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
16 total.  8 Bootcamp/PT and 8 Rushers.

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

From Dredd’s blog The Collision Learner and Chapter Five from Minivan Centurion Good Drivers
“If a guy cuts you off in traffic, you can take that as “drop dead” and respond in kind. Or you can just assume that he is a bad driver and keep driving reasonably. If you choose the former, that means that you too become a bad driver and may provoke another negative response from him. A good driver wouldn’t do that because it might disrupt him from getting to his destination safely, which is the whole purpose in driving, to get where you are going in one piece.”
With your goals, don’t let the bad change you in a way that could keep you from where you want to end up.

 

MOLESKIN:
For our suffering friends and our student in intensive care and for their families.  For my mother and all of my family.  For the unsaid prayers in our hearts.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: