F3 Knoxville

Uphill Service

THE SCENE: 60, damp but not raining!
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Side Straddle hops, moracan night clubs, Imperial Squat Walkers (botched the counting on that one)
THA-THANG:
Mosey to the guardrail for 20 dips.

Then 20 Merkins followed by 20 BBS, then 15, then 10, then 5 of each.

Black snake the long way to the handy CMU pile where we grabbed a CMU for every other HIM.  Guantanamo Circle for 1 round holding the cmu off the ground.

Mosey to Jucomojaro and partner up for a dora.

  • 20 Moving Blockies
  • 40 Tricep Curls while walking uphill
  • 60 OHP while walking uphill
  • 80 Squats moving uphill
  • 100 Curls while walking uphill

Partner would run up to the next street drain with headlamp and shovel or rake and clear the debris from the clogged drains.  running back down to swap with the partner.

The water will now run down Juco so much better.  might even be dry next time.

MARY:
Hello Dolly, Crabby Rockets, Superman, Freddie Mercury, LBC, Heels to heaven
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
I recently had a chance to talk to some newly married couples and they were to ask us questions about life and marriage.  A) this made me feel old, but that’s okay.  The first question of 10 we pulled out was a great and hard question:  How do you interpret Phil 2:12 that says “to continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling?”  Not the question I was expecting, but it taught me 2 things:

  1. People are hungry for opportunities to talk truth.  Challenge: Make those conversations happen.  Ask hard questions, find someone to mentor, join a men’s group, read and discuss a book with a group.   Serve the community by making this happen.  Service isn’t just clearing drains on Jucomojaro or giving to the poor.  Give to your brothers by talking truth with them this year.  23 days left.  “For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve and give his life as a ransom for many.”
  2. I’m encouraged by young people in the church asking great questions.  Learn from them and ask good questions.  Don’t fly over familiar passages like they are just nice sayings or familiar text.  Wrestle with it. In fact, “continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling.”  If you are in Christ, given your life to Him by putting faith in Jesus alone for your salvation, the work and fear and trembling isn’t over if you are saved.  That work is finished, but since you are saved, take the work of responding to God with the greatest level of seriousness that you have – it matters to the Kingdom and it matters to God.

MOLESKIN:
Thanks brothers by serving each other by being out in the gloomy mornings to encourage us to grow.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Dec 21, Climb Clingmans with HIMs for the latest sunrise of the year.  See Kickflips email or ask me for details.

Grateful Cards

THE SCENE: Cold and gloomy
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

1. Run around the parking lot
2. Projectivator
3. Cherry Picker
4. Tempo merkins
5. Tempo squat

THA-THANG:

  1. Draw a card; do number in reps of:
    1. Clubs – LBCs
    2. Spades – Big Boys
    3. Diamonds – Merkins
    4. Hearts – Squats
    5. Joker – 1 burpee (double for each joker)
  2. Each PAX takes a turn drawing a card
  3. After each time around the circle, do a flutter kick ring of fire
  4. Add all jokers to the remaining deck and shuffle
  5. Run a lap around the parking lot with burnie, high knees, and butt kicks

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Thanksgiving

  • The more we have, the less grateful we are.
  • Challenge: daily gratefulness session
  • Example:  I’m thankful for Kickflip and his humble and authentic leadership.  I have ordered Jotham’s Journey based on his suggestion in the newsletter this week to read with my family during Advent.
  • Psalm 100

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
FNG:  Wet Bandit

Looking good in the neighborhood

THE SCENE: A chilly 26 degrees, but we warmed up soon enough

WARM-O-RAMA:

Quick jog
SSH
Windmill
Tempo Squats
Tempo Merkins
Baby Arm Circles

THA-THANG:

Mosey to JUCant Hill do the following at each light pole
15 Burpees
30 Freddy Mercurys
45 Merkins
60 Squats
In front of Anytime Fitness, we did SSH & Mt Climbers to entice others to join us in the gloom
Mosey to JUCOmanjaro
60 Squats
45 Merkins
30 Freddy Mercuries
15 Burpees
A little Mary at the top
Mosey to Maple Street parking lot, grabbed some guardrails to do Dips and Dirkens

MARY:
Had about 4 minutes of core

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Mark 10:45
MOLESKIN:
Tremendous respect for the proactive nature of the group (demonstrated in working out in the gloom).  A call to service should be our heart’s cry – and glorifying God in our chosen vocation.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
4 parades upcoming around Knoxville, great opportunity to spread the mission/vision of F3 and get more to join us in the gloom!

Shamelessly Stealing Great Workouts!

THE SCENE: 28 degrees and dry
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Side straddle hop in cadence 20
Cherry Pickers
Arm rotations thumbs up in cadence
Reverse thumbs down in cadence
10 Windmills in cadence
2 each of the following GET UP.  NAVY SEALS Burpies , V-UPS, IRON MIKES, MERKINS, BIG BOY SIT UPS, MT. CLIMBERS, AMERICAN HAMMERS, SIDE STRADDLE HOPS, BEAR CRAWL into each other, SQUATS

THA-THANG:
• Mosey with the person in the back sprinting to the front to big parking lot
• This was originally done on a football field we improvised using cones and parking spaces.EXERCISES AT EACH GOAL LINE AND EVERY 10 YARD LINE.  ONCE YOU COMPLETE THE 1ST EXERCISE RUN DOWN THE FIELD AND BACK . REPEAT THE FIRST EXERCISE MOVE UP 10 YARDS AND DO THE NEXT EXERCISE, RUN DOWN THE FIELD AND BACK REPEAT THE 1ST 2 AND MOVE TO THE 3RD.  AND SO ON.1 MOVEMENT EVERY 10 YARDS, STARTING AT THE GOAL LINE. 1 GET UP.  5 NAVY SEALS , 10 V-UPS, 15 IRON MIKES, 20 MERKINS, 25 BIG BOY SIT UPS, 30 MT. CLIMBERS, 35 AMERICAN HAMMERS, 40 SIDE STRADDLE HOPS, BEAR CRAWL 10 YARDS, 50 SQUATS
• Mosey back to the flag

MARY:
Flutter kicks in cadence
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Use the TAGS on right-side to record PAX (BE SURE TO INCLUDE YOURSELF) in attendance. Be sure to select the AO in CATEGORY above TAGS and then delete these notes!
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
The warrior ethos (AKA Jedi Training) consist of 13 pillars: commitment, honor, respect, prepared, faithful, fighter, hungry, humble, lover, teachable, firestarter, truthful, and generous.
Each one is tied to a Bible verse.

The master has failed more times than the inexperienced have ever tried. Let’s learn from our mistakes.

Respect: the 3rd pillar
The verse for this pillar is Matthew 7:12

“So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.”
Matthew 7:12

Provide Security

“Respect everyone, and love the family of believers, fear God, and respect the king.”
1 Peter 2:17

I have a lot of respect for you gentlemen. Not only for showing up and putting in the work, but how you live by example and practice what you preach.

I have so much respect for all of you. You challenge me during the workouts and then even more so afterwards. Commission does a fantastic job of this. He’s constantly giving back to the community. Kick Flip is another example. I mean when we were laid up with COVID he brought us board games and doughnuts. Let’s continue to challenge each other.

MOLESKIN:
Insert any personal comments, notes, devotion content, etc.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Insert information about upcoming events, 2nd or 3rd F opportunities, and any other announcements.

Play House and 6pack hunt

THE SCENE: Cool, dry and perfect
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Insert information about the warmup.
THA-THANG:
Run to the Clayton Performing Arts Center, aka the Playhouse

  • SSH in each brick Cubby
  • Bear Crawl the short stairs
  • Hop on the loading dock
  • Run to each entrance to the building and do 20 of the following and then move to the next door
  • SSH
  • Kick throughs
  • Donkey Kicks
  • Dips on the bench
  • 1 Leg squat
  • Mountain Climbers
  • Newton’s cradle
  • Diamond merkins
  • Merkins
  • Jump Squats

Grab some lights and head to Jucomajaro

1 “scout” went up 1 line while the rest did the following until his return

  • Flutter Kicks
  • Imperial Walkers
  • LBC
  • Side Crunches
  • Plank
  • Hello Dolly
  • Superman

At the power lines, did “11’s” with X man Crunch and Crabby Rockets but with the #6 instead because running short on time.  Ran to the top of the regular Juco, Mosey down.

MARY:
Box cutters & Done!
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

We have the promised Holy Spirit – don’t miss this power.  It’s not from you.

Acts 1:8 But you will recieve power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you and you will be my witnesses ….to the end of the earth.

The Promise of the Holy Spirit is a reminder to be Bold.

  1. Speak for Jesus
  2. Know that you are not the power source
  3.  Be refreshed and respond in obedience.