F3 Knoxville

RSS Meets F3 BS

THE SCENE: Low – Mid 50’s…Rather enjoyable really

6:15am RSS (Team of 4) Step Off:
Team jog down Dalton Rd to the Alcoa Middle School Playground. Team finds area suitable for burpee pull-ups and completes the following:

10 Min AMRAP
Ruck Burpee Pull-ups (Goal of 50+)

Slick mosey around middle school for recovery.
Acquire rucks and mosey back towards AO; completing 10 Merkins and 10 Squats along the way.
Remove Rucks and Pick up F3 Pax.

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
7:00am WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Overhead Claps (IC x15)
  • Tempo Squat (IC x10)
  • Cherry Picker (IC x5)
  • Merkin (IC x5)
  • CMU Overhead BBS (OYO x10)
  • CMU Overhead Press (OYO x15)

THA-THANG:
Mosey to plateau of pain and complete as many rounds of the following:

  • (x5) Burpees (baseline)
  • 40yd Bear Crawl CMU Drag (1st cone)
  • (x15) CMU Overhead BBS
  • Leave CMU, Jog back to baseline
  • (x5) Burpees
  • 40yd Bear Crawl (1st cone)
  • (x15) CMU Overhead BBS
  • 40yd Crawl Bear CMU Drag (2nd Cone)
  • (x25) CMU Swings
  • Leave CMU, Jog back to baseline
  • Burpees (x5)
  • 40yd Bear Crawl (1st Cone)
  • (x15) BBS
  • 40yd Crawl Bear (2nd Cone)
  • (x25) CMU Swings
  • CMU Overhead Carry back to baseline

**RINSE & REPEAT **

GOAL OF 2 ROUNDS

Totals (1RD/2RD):
200/400 Yards of Bear Crawl/ Crawl Bears
15/30 Burpees
30/60 CMU Overhead BBS
15/30 BBS
50/100 CMU Swings

MARY:
Mostly protractors and mumble chatter
some BBS, Plank Variations, and Mountain Climbers to finish it off.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
10 Pax
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Take care of yourself! We come out and put in work every morning to become better mentally and physically, pushing each other to the next level of discomfort. But we rarely take the time to prep ourselves and our bodies for the work. We take shortcuts in stretching and spending time listening to our bodies. If you feel like your not limber or embarrassed to do yoga it’s simply because you haven’t practiced it enough! We were not all great at working out our first time, but we have become better at it and the same will happen with stretching and taking care of our bodies.

My good friend’s Father used to say if you don’t like doing something, do it 100 more times…

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Helping Drifter moves boxes from the loading trucks into his new house!

Brick by brick

THE SCENE: Low to mid 50s, perfect workout temp
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

SSH IC x 10

Tempo squat IC x 10

LBAC forward IC x 5

LBAC reverse IC x 10

Brick front raises IC x20

Brick lateral raises IC x 10

Brick OH press IC x10

THA-THANG:
PAX grabs two bricks per person and moseys to church parking where they battle buddy up. DORA as follows: one buddy performs 100 Hallelujah Squats with bricks, 100 American Hammers with bricks 2CT, and 100 high plank to row with bricks 2CT. Other buddy takes bricks and Hallelujah Lunges to first median where they perform 10 front raises and 10 lateral raises with bricks. Hallelujah Lunge to next median and perform 15 BBS with bricks behind head or press out in front of chest. Run back and trade off with battle buddy.

Circle up and perform Sally Up with bricks in hands.

Bataan death Indian run around church parking lot where last person in line drops off and performs 5 Brickees, taps last person to drop off, and continues to run to the front of the line. 2 laps completed around parking lot.

Mosey back to grinder with bricks jamming to “Brick House.”

MARY:
BBS with bricks IC x 10

Ring of fire passing one Brickee around the circle while rest of PAX performs high plank, mountain climbers, and Peter Parkers.

Finish out last 15 seconds with LBCs to close.
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
14 HIMS
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Easter has come and gone. It’s always been one of my favorite holidays. I’ve always been a very stubborn and found it difficult to forgive others who have wronged me in the past. I think this is why I am drawn to Easter because it is a time for forgiveness. Stripped, bound, beaten and crucified, Jesus called for God to forgive those who persecuted him. In times of distress and during the trials of our own lives, may we have the love and resolve to forgive those who have wronged us.

Jesus died on the cross to forgive all humanity of their sins including past, present, and future sins. Although we are imperfect beings, I think we can draw from this act of love and forgiveness. Jesus calls for us to love our enemies and forgive those who have trespassed against us. May we all put our judgement aside and live into this moving forward and become more Christlike.

We are Easter people. Spread the Good News.

MOLESKIN:
Luke 23:34

“Father, forgive them for they do not know what they are doing.”

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Drifter moving party Saturday.

Backstage – Guest Q

Note: Backstage from central Illinois was our Q.

BACKBLAST 4/13/21 “BOMB SHELTER”

Warm-O-Rama:

Motivators, Mountain Man Poopers, Tappy Taps, Plank Line Jump Overs (200 yards)

Thang 1:

Conductor Dueling: 2 Pax raced to 10 Blockees while everyone else does whatever exercise is called. Losing Pax does 3 more blockees.

Tree Trimmers
Boot beaters
Over Unders
Curls
Slo Mo Throws
Halo
Turkish Getups
Big Boys

Thang 2:

Murder Kings / Dr Ws
Cusack Carry / T-Bombs-Bear Crab Rolls

Thang 3:

Parcore

Mary:

One Calls
Twerkin-Sun Salutations
10 Reverse Snow Angel Toe Touches
Absolutions

CoT:

When your in the wrong truck you can pretend you’re not, be demanding or admit it and get out. Pretending is Sadclownism. Being demanding (blaning others) is a mid life cridis. Tge most correct thing to do is get out. Thats what F3 is all about! Aye!?

The two-headed monster

THE SCENE: Warm mid 50s
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

10 SSH (IC), 8 Imperial Squat Walkers (IC), did a quick mosey through circuit 2 with 5 reps of each exercise, but only two body builders.
THA-THANG:
This was a battle-buddy style beatdown from start to finish. Two circuits were in place, one with CMUs, while the other was running + PT. After AO loop was completed, PAX switched and picked up where left off.

Circuit 1: each Pax had 2 CMU, PT was completed with 1 CMU, farmer carry both CMU 10m to next station:

  • Blockees x10
  • Thrusters x20
  • Curls x30
  • CMU swings x15
  • Tricep extensions x20
  • CMU flutter kicks x50

Circuit 2: Run from AO to Apex, complete AO lab with the following PT nested within:

  • 15 Mountain Man Poopers
  • 15 Diamond Merkins
  • 40 1x Iron Mikes
  • 20 Merkins
  • 20 Jump Squats
  • 10 Body Builders

Modified MARY:
We kept up with the BB theme. One PAX completed the following core work while the other participated in a CMU wall sit. We did this for 10 minutes.

  • 15 Box Cutters
  • 20 1x Peter Parker
  • 15 WWII

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Scoutmaster, Drifter, Taco, Smoky, Postpone, Veep, Rep Sleepy, Radioshack, Clothesline, Toad, Avocado, Limbo, Swerve, Webelo (2.0), Hellbender
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
“About thirty years ago there was much talk that geologists ought only to observe and not theorise; and I well remember some one saying that at this rate a man might as well go into a gravel-pit and count the pebbles and describe the colours. How odd it is that anyone should not see that all observation must be for or against some view if it is to be of any service!” — Charles Darwin

I was asked to interpret this quote last Friday. While it’s intended for science, the applicability of this quote has relevance to this time. Every day we make observations, but many times we let them stay as observations. Sometimes this is okay.. but if we extend this quote to our lives today, I think what Darwin is linking is the connection between observation and action. Observations of rocks are useless without taking action into how and why the observations matter. In the same way, F3 nation seeks to inspire HIM who not only can make observations, but transform those observations into actions to make our communities a better place. Let’s not be passive, but instead take a stand for justice and truth in our communities, and inspire others to do the same.

MOLESKIN:

The mumblechatter was high today! Good work everyone.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Drifter moving party next week.

DORAtastic

THE SCENE: 2nd winter cold but the sun warmed it up nicely.
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:

Drifter took the pax through a loop around the parking lot. From what i could see as i was coming in on two wheels were some lunges and a jog back to the grindstone. Then there was some mountain man poopers.
THA-THANG:
Dora #1- Musical Dora– Exercises are done for the full duration of the song no rep count. We also switched up the partner movement between bear crawls, crab walks, broad jumps.

  • Song 1- Everlong- Foo Fighters- OH CMU Press- Bear Crawl
  • Song 2- Thunderstruck- AC/DC – Squat Hold Curl- Crab Walk
  • Song 3- Sick Boy- The Chainsmokers- Pull Ups/Body Rows- Bear Crawl
  • Song 4- Believer- Imagine Dragons– BBS- Crab Walk
  • Song 5- Power- Kanye West- Prisoner Merkins- Broad Jumps

Dora #2- Heartbreak Hill- We moseyed to Mt. Crumpet for our Second Dora- 15 min to complete – Partner ran to top and around Tree.

  • 50 Iron Mikes
  • 100- Turkish Getups no weight – ( This was a challenge but two of the groups finished the full set in time)
  • 150- Leg Raises

Dora #3- DORAcide- We moseyed to the tennis courts for a four-line suicide run Dora. Burpee’s at each line 1,2,3,4. We had about 10 min to work the pax got into Foxholes.

  • 100- Gas Pumps
  • 200- Foxholes
  • 300 Star Fish


MARY:
Crowd Pleasers- 1-4
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Sacrifice is key in leadership. The best leaders have always been servant leaders. A great leader will put others in front of himself to lift those up around him, they do not need the glory. In my professional life i have see both kinds of leaders and the leaders that have put themselves first failed. The only way a team can over come challenges is with strong leadership. DORA’s are a great example of sacrifice in leadership. Your brother is reliant on you to not stop moving even when you’re tired. We have to sacrifice ourselves for the pax and our brothers.
MOLESKIN:
Keep Drifter in your thoughts as he goes through the moving process.

The Q was late today, because i allowed the fartsack to trick me into thinking i had 5 more min. Because of that i was rushing and left my phone at home. Impossible to run a musical DORA without music so Q had to drive back home to find his phone. I appreciate Drifter picking up for the Q’s slacking and took the pax through the warm up.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Backstage- Regional Nan’tan for Mid-Illinois is going to be Q’ing two beatdowns on April 13th at the Bombshelter and 14th at the Arsenal. This is going to be a great beatdown you don’t want to miss. lets show what F3 Blount is all about and show up in force.