F3 Knoxville

Tour De Springbrook

THE SCENE:

Fabulous January morning in the mid 30s with rain, wind and then a little snow to cap the fun off.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

SSH X 10

Arm Circles Front/Back X 10 each

Cherry Pickers X 5

Mosey around lower half of Springbrook Park

THA-THANG:

At the upper half of Springbrook and starting at the 1st light pole

Complete 10 Burpees

Sprint to the 3rd light pole

Complete 20 Air Squats

Sprint to the 5th light pole

Complete 20 Merkins

Sprint to the 7th light pole

Complete 20 BBS.

REPEAT this rotation at every other light pole until we reach Mt. Crumpet.

At Crumpet

20 Merkins

Sprint up to the tree and jog back

20 BBS

Burnee up to the tree jog back

Repeat until Q says stop.

Mosey Back to AO.

MARY:

Box Cutters X 15

LBCs Cash out

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
15 Strong one FNG who was dubbed Saki
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Today’s word was all about the gloom this time of year and what amazing men come out for F3 experience.

The Rules for Being Amazing

By Robin Sharma

Risk more than is required. Learn more than is normal. Breath. Excel. Love. Lead. Speak your truth. Live your values. Laugh. Cry. Innovate. Simplify. Adore mastery. Release mediocrity. Aim for genius. Stay humble. Be kinder than expected. Deliver more than is needed. Exude passion. Shatter your limits. Transcend your fears. Inspire others by your bigness. Dream big but start small. Act now. Don’t Stop. Change the world.

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

Burpee Dan meets Fat Amy…

THE SCENE: It was a Balmy 16 Degrees.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

  • SSH X 20
  • Imperial Squat Walkers x 20
  • Little baby arm circles Front x 15 and back x 15
  • Cherry Picker x 10
  • Run 2 laps

THA-THANG:

Burpee Dan’s

  • Burpee Dan, down and back, down and back , 4 lunges /4 burps, 4/3, 4/2, 4/1

Fat Amy
1- 50 Squats

10 Burpees
40 BBS
10 Burpees
Run to the top of the Hill
2 – 10 Burpees
20 Star Jacks
10 Burpees
Run to the top of the hill

3- 10 Burpees
20 Star Jacks
10 Burpees
Run to the top of the Hill
4 – 10 Burpees
40 BBS
10 Burpees
50 Squats

MARY:
Hands of Time

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Bring snacks for Wesley House!

The Beatdown That Keeps on Giving

THE SCENE: Mid 40’s.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

WARM-O-RAMA – ACTIVE BASELINE:
Walking Lunges With a Twist (100ft)
Carolina Dry Docks (IC x 10)
Burnie Sanders Back (100ft)
Inchworms (50ft)
SSH (IC x 20)
Broad Jumps (50ft)
T-Merkins (OYO x 10)
Burnie Sanders Back (100ft)
High Kick Forward and Back (100ft)
Rockette Line in lieu of Woodshack (IC x 10)
Burnie Sanders Back (100ft)

THA-THANG:
Starting with 3 balls to the wall you have completed round 1. Add the next movement for round 2 – 3 balls to the wall, 5 pull-ups, run back to beginning. Round 3 begins with balls to the wall, pull-ups, adding merkins, then run back to start….
Round 10:
3 Balls to the Wall
5 Pull-ups
10 Merkins
15 V-Ups
20 Iron Mikes
25 Dips
30 Shoulder Taps
40 Rotating BBS
50 CMU Overhead Press
CMU Farmer Carry Back to Start

MARY:
LBC (oyo x20)
Ankle Touches (oyo x25)
Hello Dolly (4ct x20)
Slutter Kick (4ct x15)
Mountain Climbers (4ct x20)
Bycycle (4ct x10)

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
9 Pax out for TOUGH beatdown!
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Finding myself struggling daily to find and hang on to the intensity and motivation to stay fit; I find myself searching and looking for motivational quotes, stories, and videos.  In my most recent search I found a list of 10 reasons to stay fit:
1. Get confident in your own abilities
2. Extend life expectancy
3. raise quality of life
4. Look and feel better
5. Be in a better mood
6. Have a stress-free life
7. Be more energetic
8. Become more productive
9. Discover who you are
10. Become Harder to kill
Though this list may not be the most motivating list to get fit or re-find the motivation it did sit on my mind heavily from another perspective. I couldn’t help but to reflect on God while reading this list, and finding that the list is almost a perfect reason to be a Christ follower. I found a way to incorporate following God into each of these 10 items and how this list served me more as a reason to follow Him!

MOLESKIN:
There’s rumor of a CSAUP headed this way….
ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Where Do You Want to Go

THE SCENE: 33 degrees F, 97% humidity, overcast skies
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

SSH, Cherry Pickers, Little Baby Arm Circles, Overhead/Forward Hand Claps

Run to Dalton Street and then down to the base of Waxjob Hill for a set of 7’s.  Started with one BBS at the base and 6 Burpees at the top.  Each time was Bear Crawl up and Mosey down.
THA-THANG:

Three stations using CMU’s

Station 1 (Touch It)

  • Incline Merkins – x17
  • Toe touches – x17/foot
  • Decline Merkins – x17
  • Dips – x17
  • Crossover Planks – x17
  • Bobby Hurleys – x17
  • Shoulder Taps – x17

Run length of the Grinder and return to Station 1.  Bear Crawl with CMU to Station 2.

Station 2 (Lift It)

  • Bent Rows – x12
  • CMU Swings – x12
  • Squat to OH Press – x12
  • Dead Lifts – x12/arm
  • Triceps Extension – x12
  • Curls – x12
  • Goblet Squat – x12

Run length of Grinder and return to Station 2.  Overhead carry CMU to Station 3.

Station 3 (Throw It)

  • Two hand CMU push throws toward West direction.  Throw six times.  Retrieve and OH carry back to Station 1 then run length of the Grinder.

Return to Station 1 and repeat stations 1 through 3.

MARY:
Flutter kicks, box cutters, LBC’s, ABC’s (capital letters), LBC’s
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Total of 18.  No FNG’s.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
I try to read two books a year.  I just made it under the wire in 2018 when I finished “Everybody Always” by Bob Goff on December 30th.  In the book Bob mentions that he recognized each of his 4 children’s 10th birthday in a special way.  His question to them was, “where do you want to go?”  His 4th child is an adopted boy from Uganda who had been mutilated by a witch doctor in that country.  His genitals had been cut off when he was 8 years old and left to die.  Charlie at age 10 wanted to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro.  After a few days they made it to 16,400 feet when Charlie decided he could not go any further.  At that point Bob holds a ceremony and gives Charlie medals for his efforts.  Medals for bravery, for effort, for strength.  He proclaimed him a Mountain Climber.  Bob Goff finishes Chapter 23 with this encouragement:

The most important part of our ceremony wasn’t what I said or all the medals.  It was what I didn’t say.  You see, I didn’t tell Charlie how far he had to go.  I said, “Charlie, look how far you’ve come.”  People who are becoming love celebrate how far the people around them have come.  They’re constantly asking the question, “Where do you want to go?”  Then they help the people around them get there.

Go do that with the people you love, including your enemies.  Don’t talk to them about their failures and the dark places they’ve been.  Talk to them about who they’re becoming and the bright hope that is their future.  Speak truthful and wise words over them.  Bring a few medals too.  As you put the last one on their chest, look them in the eye and tell them, “Look how far you’ve come.”  Knowing that the journey you and I are on never really ends, we can ask the people we love one of the most important questions ever conceived.

“Where do you want to go?”

I personally want to add that I see a lot of this going around with the Bomb Shelter HIM’s.  Sometimes we even intuitively know where our partners in the gloom are going.  We are there for them and we help them get there.

MOLESKIN:
Continued to lift Derrick up in prayer as he endures a long recovery from an auto accident  We added Tony for surgery recovery and also Rainman from F3 Knoxville.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Partnership construction with Blount County Habitat for Humanity has been cancelled for this Saturday.  A reschedule for late February is anticipated.

As a Man Thinketh

THE SCENE: Cool and Cloudy (33˚F)
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Cherry Pickers 8 (4 Count), Little Baby Arm Circle 15 Fwd/Bwd, High Knees (1 Minute)

Indian Run to Mt. Krumpet!  (Looping down the trail along Darwin, across the wood bridge, and finally across the road all the way to Krumpet.)

THA-THANG
Krumpet Dora (Krumpa…Drumpet…)

Split into two man groups for partner Dora.

Hill Workout….Alternate from Bear Crawl, Bernie, and Sprinting to the top of Krumpet.

  • Hillbilly’s 200 (2 Count)
  • Dry Docks 200
  • Squats 200
  • Mountain Climbers 200 (4 Count)
  • Big Boys Sit-ups 300….for a lucky few

MARY
Ab-Kraken; LBC’s x 20, Pick Pounder x 10, (4 Count) Captain Thor’s x 5, Pick Pounder x 10, (4 Count) Box Cutters x 10, Pick Pounder x 10 Big Boys x 20, Pick Pounder x 10
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

13 Strong at the Bombshelter! Back Up, Butterfingers, Cable Guy, Dreamer, Drifter, Emeril, Hammy, Jamaican, Neighbor, Pinocchio, Proton, Tin Man, Wood Shack

As a Man Thinketh

Into your hands will be placed the exact results of your own thoughts; you will receive that which you earn; no more, no less. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain, or rise with your thoughts, your Vision, your Ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.  – James Allen

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/4507/4507-h/4507-h.htm

All that we are is the result of which we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become. – Buddha

Your disposition will be suitable to that which you most frequently think on; for the soul is, as it were, tinged with the color and complexion of its own thoughts…

Your life is what your thoughts make it. – Marcus Aurelius