F3 Knoxville

Milestones

THE SCENE:  High 50s and clear.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER:  Administered
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • RFTS / LIH
  • Cherry Pickers
  • Willy Mays Hays
  • Down/Up Dog
  • Merkins
  • Mountain climbers
  • Projectivator

THA THANG:

Mosey to the big lot.  Flutter kicks for the six.

Run the length of the lot.  At each line, rotate 90 degrees – so you sprint, side shuffle, bernie, side shuffle, sprint, etc until the end.  LBC for the six.

Mosey to Sophomore Hill and partner up. (Hat tip, Archie!)  Pairs spread out across 6 stations.  At each station there is a “stationary” exercise and a “move” exercise.  First partner does the “stationary” exercise until the second partner does the “move” exercise to the cone and back.  Two minutes each station.  20-second recovery and rotate.  Performed 10 sets.

Exercises were;

  • Station 1:  Bear crawl / Flutter kick
  • Station 2:  Sprint / Carolina Dry Dock
  • Station 3:  Broad Jump / Heels 2 Heaven
  • Station 4:  Sprint / Burpee
  • Station 5:  Lunge / Merkin
  • Station 6:  Sprint / Mountain Climber

Mosey back to the big lot.  Dolly for the six.  Run and rotate again – same as before.

MARY:

Imperial walkers

Jailbreak!

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

Me and 13 of the best men I know

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Joel 1:3, “Tell it to your children, and let your children tell it to their children, and their children to the next generation.”

Ps 78:1-4, “Give ear, O my people, to my teaching; incline your ears to the words of my mouth!  …We will not hide them from their children, but tell to the coming generation the glorious deeds of the Lord, and His might, and the wonders that He has done.”

Ephesians 6:4, “Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.”

We will have a theme for you during the BOM this week – and the theme is Family Discipleship.

Family discipleship is telling the coming generation about the character of God – and teaching them His instructions – or, to use F3 language, teaching them to live and lead virtuously.

Each of the Qs this week is going to present one way that can be done.  These are not exclusive of each other – rather, they really complement each other…

This morning, I talked about milestone occasions.  It’s not very often that we get these opportunities…  BIG moments – special times when your words and actions as a father – which are already so powerful – are magnified tenfold again!  Things like;

  • Birthdays
  • First / last day of school year
  • Move homes
  • Buying their first car
  • Profession of faith
  • First breakup with boyfriend / girlfriend
  • Death of a loved one
  • Formative talks (e.g., the sex talk)

These days could come and go like any other – or, with some planning and deliberateness on your part, these could be memorable or even life changing moments in your child’s lifeYou have an awesome opportunity to mark your children and make those occasions like a pillar on the timeline of their lives.

What can you do to make these times deeply meaningful?  Maybe…

  • A well-thought out talk, speaking blessings into their lives.
  • A special gift that reflects the occasion.
  • A trip with just that child.
  • A hand-written letter.
  • Others!

I talked about one way that I’m doing that in my children’s lives.  Every fourth birthday, my sons have received a special gift and a blessing from me.  Each of those birthday blessings is about two paragraphs that I’ve scripted to say exactly what I want to say to them – and it is themed around 2 characteristics that I want my sons to grow to be as men.

We are striving to be men of high-impact.  Where that begins – where we have the MOST IMPACT – and where it is MOST IMPORTANT – is at HOME.

MOLESKIN:

This morning was about discipling your kids by planning for and facilitating meaningful milestones in their lives.  Come back for Part 2 on Wed and Part 3 on Fri!

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

JUCO Care Bear IPC

THE SCENE: Not bad, about 65 degrees.

WARM-O-RAMA:

IPC – little time to stretch, most folks came early to stretch on your own

THA-THANG:

Move to the adjacent parking lot
Format – AMRAP for 45 min
Start at cone 1 and bearcrawl to cone 2 and perform 25 air squats
After the squats, bearcawl to the left to cone 3 and perform 25 merkins
After the merkins, reverse bearcrawl to cone 4 and perform 25 big boy situps
After the big boy situps, bearcrawl to the right to cone 1 and perform 25 burpees
Various mods through (some lunged, LBCs, mosey, side shuffle, etc)

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Isaiah 1:1-16-17
Wash and make yourselves clean.
Take your evil deeds out of my sight;
stop doing wrong.
Learn to do right; seek justice.
Defend the oppressed.[a]
Take up the cause of the fatherless;
plead the case of the widow.

MOLESKIN:

Message is simple, stop doing wrong, learn to do right.  Only through the power of Jesus can we do right

 

I Hope

THE SCENE: Low 70’s and clear
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

25 SSH

5 Cherry pickers

10 Tempo Merkins

10 Tempo Squats

THA-THANG:

  • Mosey to Sophomore Hill
  • 4 Corners
    • 20 BBS, Bernie Up
    • 20 Single Count Lunges, shuffle right
    • 20 4 Count Swimmers, jog down
    • 20 Squats, shuffle left
    • 2 laps
  • Mosey to the Coupon Pile
  • DORA – Partners swap between coupon work and a wall sit
    • 100 Curls
    • 100 Bent Over Rows
    • 100 Raisers (with the coupon fully extended, touch your thighs then raise the coupon to eye level)
  • Mosey to the 2nd largest parking lot (can’t believe we don’t have a name for that)
  • Suicides
    • at the farthest line of each increasing rep
      • 3 head, shoulders, knees and toes taps with a merkin
      • 10 monkey humpers
      • 5 Get Ups (from standing, touch your shoulder blades to the ground and then get up to standing)
  • Mosey to the Flag

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

I hope you are had a good workout. [Use hand to show my modest level of hope]

I hope I have pizza for dinner. [Use hand to show my low level of hope]

I am sure many of you hope UT wins a national championship  [Use hand to show a high level of hope]

I hope that Jesus is the son of God, that his life was pure, perfect and sinless, that his death atoned for my sins, that he overcame death in his resurrection and that he is seated at the right hand of God while his spirit fills my heart and walks with me daily. [Use hand to show my highest level of hope]

Romans 8:18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us. 19 For the anxious longing of the creation waits eagerly for the revealing of the sons of God. 20 For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it, in hope 21 that the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God. 22 For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now. 23 And not only this, but also we ourselves, having the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our body. 24 For in hope we have been saved, but hope that is seen is not hope; for who hopes for what he already sees? 25 But if we hope for what we do not see, with perseverance we wait eagerly for it.

Are your resources of time, money and thought focused on this hope or have you placed your hope elsewhere?

A la Mexicana

THE SCENE: 69 and a little foggy.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Overhead claps x 10.
  • Seal claps x 10.
  • Side straddle hops x 10.
  • Cherry pickers x 10.
  • Mountain climbers x 10.
  • Tempo merkins x 10.

THA-THANG:

Played a game with boxes and tennis balls. The objective was to score in the opposite goal. In order for the team to score, the player had to do one of the below exercises and throw a tennis ball in the goal.

  • 10 Burpees.
  • 10 Heels to heaven.
  • 10 Lunges (2-ct).
  • 10 American hammers (2-ct).
  • 10 Freddy Mercuries (2-ct).

The team that scored more goals decided what exercise we all would perform at the end as a group (Flutter Kicks x 20).

Mosey to the CMU piles.

We kept the same two teams than in the previous game and we ran a circuit starting at the CMU piles going to the small hill all the way to the pull-up bars and down the stairs. During this small loop there were different exercises that should be completed as a team to add up 200 reps of the following:

  • Bicep curls x 2.
  • Triceps extension x 2.
  • Overhead press x 2.
  • BBS.
  • Squats.
  • Pull ups.
  • Merkins.

MARY:
Hello Dollies X 21.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
11 Hombres Valientes.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Reflected about the importance of having a balance in our life and try to plan things in advance to meet our goals. Also commented about over planning, that is the other extreme of the equation, so depending on where we are, we should lean towards one end or the other.
MOLESKIN:
Prayed for our kids and the return to school, our families and dear friends.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
IPC.

The Switch Up – Leaders must serve others…

THE SCENE: 73 degrees and in between storms…
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

• Side Straddle Hops (IC) X 10
• Cherry Pickers (IC) 4 CT X 10
• Overhead Claps X 10 (IC)
• Baby arm circles F & B X 10 (IC) with Michael Phelps
• Tempo Squats (IC) 4 CT
• Hand Release Merkins X 10
• Mosey to get CMUs

THA-THANG:

Coupon Work – Back & Biceps
• 25 curls
• 30 Single Arm Bentover Row (15 Left & 15 Right Arm)
• Run the stairs & do pull-ups or hang for 25 seconds
• 25 curls
• 25 lying lat pullovers
• Run & do pull-ups or hang for 25 seconds
• Rinse & Repeat
Dice Game
• Exercises included skaters, planks, mountain climbers, sumo squats

MARY:
Freddy Mercury x 25; Hello Dollies x 25; Big Boys x 10

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
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CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

Leaders must serve others…

“But among you it will be different. Whoever wants to be a leader among you must be a servant, and whoever wants to be first among you must become your slave. For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve others and give his life as a ransom for so many.” Matthew 20:26-28

I am extremely thankful to be a part of this group. I was lured in by the first F Fitness, but the third F Faith is was what I needed, and the second F Fellowship was the glue that kept me coming back.

F3 is such a great organization to be a part of. You guys challenge me on and off the court! Your workouts are hard (sometimes CSAUP), but the challenges you lay down at the end, your words, your actions, your prayers, that’s where the magic is!!

You challenge me to be a better man. To be a better husband, a better father, a better leader in my home and in my community. To serve others and be what God has called us to do.

I’ve got a lot of room for improvement, but I want to thank you for the push!!

I encourage you to look for opportunities to serve : things like Work Day, volunteering at the homeless shelter, donating blood, etc

MOLESKIN:
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ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Welcome Bus Stop!!