F3 Knoxville

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Masters of the Blockee!

THE SCENE: 50s w a bit of chill in the air
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
Bear crawl in line to the tennis court, Line up for jog across courts, high knee skips, crawl bear, and jog.

Mosey back to the AO for Monkey Humpers x20, SSh x20, Merkins x10 all IC. Rows for bros with the CMU x20 IC, Blockees x5, CMU curls x20 ic, 5 more Blockees OYO.
THA-THANG:

Mosey down to the base of the parking lot next to the pee rocks with CMU for DORACIDES

  • 75 blockees, 150 curls, 200 CMU goblet squats
  • P1 does said exercise while P2 does suicides. first cone 1 burp, 2nd cone 2 burps, and 3rd cone, 3 burps, run back to your partner and switch, keeping cumulative count of reps between partners
  • If you finish early, P1 Planks while P2 does 20 flutters IC, switch, rinse and repeat until all pax complete the Doracides
  • Blocklee dan back to the AO. 4 lunges w CMU, 2 Blockees. Continue this until half way. I cut it short to get in some mary

MARY:
5 more blockees, Dead head led us in Flutters IC, Hello dollys x10 ic, Slutters x10 IC, Supermans x10 IC, pickle pounders x10 IC, and J-LOs x10 IC
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
29 including 1 FNG, PINK EYE. Welcome!
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
Chase the Lion Manifesto!. Instead of me typing it up here, google it and it will come up. Capn Crunch read this to us at one of his Q’s for his BOM one morning. It has stuck with me and I try to read it every so often to get a life check. Its short and sweet but means so much to me. Thank you for sharing Capn! I love to share it with others.
MOLESKIN:
I miss seeing my bros at the Dog Pound. So many AOs and so many great HIMS out there that I look up to at all the different AOs. I encourage more Pax to go visit other AOs to meet others and grow our community. Not saying to stop going to the one closest to you, but one morning every once and while, wake up a little earlier and drive a little further to visit other AOs and meet the HIMs that make their particular AO special. Thanks to all the HIMS at all the AOs for being who you are, leaders!
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Insert information about upcoming events, 2nd or 3rd F opportunities, and any other announcements.

Pre-ThirdF Fun

THE THANG

  • SSH 25x (IC)
  • Side Lunges 10x each leg(IC)
  • Imperial Squat Walkers 15x (IC)
  • Arm Circles Forward 15x (IC)
  • Arm Circles Backward 15x (IC)
  • 10 Burpees OYO

Run up to top of the hill, do 5 burpees and run down.  Partner up with Battle Buddy and line up along the curb.

Grinders

1st Battle Buddy lunges to the first cone, then sprints to 2 second cone, does 2 reps of the exercise while Battle Buddy 2 is jumping air rope.  Switch. Each round increase by 2 reps until each man does a total of 14 reps.  Rd 1 = Burpees

Bumper Circuit – Second pavilion

  • 1st cone x10 lunges in place
  • 2nd cone x5 burpees
  • 3rd cone x10 squats
  • 4th cone x5 burpees

Mini-Sea Biscuit – 3 Laps

  • 10 Burpees
  • 20 Merkins
  • 30 Squats

Wheel Barrel Merkins – 100 yards switching every 25 yards

21’s – Under pavilion – Modified down to 10 after 5 sets

  • Box Jumps
  • Rows

Mary

5 Burpees on OYO

25 Sundials

25 pickle Pounder

25 Proton Parkers

Run up to top of the hill, do 5 burpees and run down.

Kraken open some CMUs

THE SCENE: 63 – perfect

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER


WARM-O-RAMA:

  • Merkins IC x 10  4ct
  • Squats IC x 10  4 ct
  • Calf raises IC x 10  4ct
  • OYO stretching

THA-THANG:

Split into 3 teams and attacked the CMU Kraken.  Perform exercise at each cone then run a lap around the circle with your CMU passing the cone you just completed and progressing to the next cone.

Cone # Lap 1 Lap 2
1 Mr. Spectacular x 25 Single arm bent over row x 25 (per arm)
2 CMU Squats x 25 Derkins x 25
3 CMU Single Arm Curl x 25 (each arm) CMU Tricep Press x 25
4 CMU Burpees x 25 CMU Big Boys x 25
5 CMU Lunge 25 out, 25 back CMU Front Deltoid Raise x 25
6 Thrust Merkins x 25 CMU Squat Press x 25
7 CMU Overhead Press x 25 CMU Hello Dolly x 25
8 Lizard Merkin crawl to center of circle & back Incline Merkins x 25

 

MARY:

  • Captain Thors
  • Box Cutters x 20

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
18 HIMs in full effect:  Junk, Mayberry, La-Z-Boy, Flanders, Abacus, Podium, Ribbed, Snitch, Deadhead, Bowflex, Tweet-E, Scooter, Respect, Shooter, Tonka, Flute Loop, Driftwood, Bartman

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
John 3:16 is one of the most known scriptures in the Bible, however not many people read beyond verse 16.

16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned,but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son. 19 This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 20 Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed. 21 But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.    John 3:16-21

If we have not believed upon Christ as our Lord and savior, then we are already dead in our sin.  We need to be reminded of our actions and that we are never truly acting in secret.   God knows what is done in secret.  Are your actions honorable when no-one else is looking?  The fact is that there is never a time when no one sees what you are doing because God sees all.  Therefore the choice is whether you will act righteously in the light or unrighteously in the darkness.  Either way, nothing is hidden from God’s eye and he will judge us each accordingly.

MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Circuits of Courage

THE SCENE: Just about perfect weather – 50 degrees, no wind

F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER

WARM-O-RAMA:

  • SSH IC x 25
  • Cherry Pickers IC x 10
  • Tempo Squats IC x 12
  • Merkins IC (4 ct) x 15
  • 2 sets of 5 burpees OYO as we toured the circuit

THA-THANG:

We did a circuit on the grinder (1 station at each corner) with 1 station at the flag pole, and another at the pavalon. Each station has 2 exercises listed. Pretty simple – pair up with a battle buddy and do 20 reps of both exercises listed and move to the next station until time is called. Ended up making it through 3 rounds.

  • Station 1: Mountain Climbers (4 ct.) and Squat Jumps
  • Station 2 (flag pole): Dry Docks and Flutter Kicks (4 ct.)
  • Station 3 (pavalon): Bench Rows and Derkins
  • Station 4: Supermans and Hello Dollies (4 ct.)
  • Station 5: Shoulder Press and Bicep Curls (both exercises with the supplied rocks)
  • Station 6: Merkins and Lunges

Mosey to base of Little Baby Hill. One partner runs the hill and does 2 burpees at the top, while the other does squats at the bottom. Rinse & repeat – 3 times up the hill each.

MARY:

Did a little plank work, 20 American Hammers (4 ct) IC, and finished with AMRAP LBC’s for the last minute.

COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA

38 strong this morning – No FNG’s

CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:

When one man acts courageously, it strengthens the spines of other men. It took courage for Peaches and Food Truck to share their testimonies with us at the 3rd F event on Saturday. By doing so, they allowed our small group time to be more open and allowed us as men to be more vulnerable with each other because they had the courage to be open themselves.

When we come out each morning to the gloom, we can either choose to push through the suck and make our brothers push themselves harder and farther than they imagined, or we can choose to half ass it and settle for mediocrity. When I see a brother pushing himself to his max, something stirs inside me that makes me want to push myself harder as well. Don’t be the guy who waits for someone else to step up before stepping up yourself. We’re called as HIMs to be the guy that strengthens the spines of other men through our actions.

Hard At It

THE SCENE: Cloudy and windy, temps in 50’s
F3 WELCOME & DISCLAIMER
WARM-O-RAMA:
20 Side-straddle-hops, 10 Burpees, 15 Imperial Walkers, 10 Windmills, 10 Tempo Merkins, Planks with arm and leg raises
THA-THANG:

Mosey to the Dragon Tail.  We did Route 66 up the Dragon Tail with rabbits sweeping slower brothers back to starting point after each exercise.  The following were the exercises:

  • Squat Jumps
  • Big Boy Sit Ups
  • Shoulder Taps (each shoulder)

Mosey to Playground.  We did four corners with the following corners and exercises.  We rinsed and repeated after the first round:

  • 20 Bench Jumps at playground
  • 20 seconds of pull ups at baseball bullpen
  • 20 picnic table pull-ups in pavilion
  • 20 Star Jumps at Flag

Mosey to Pavilion.  We did totem pole with 30 seconds of each exercise, starting with first exercise, then restarting but adding next exercise on totem pole.  The following were the exercises:

  • Hello Dollies
  • American Hammers
  • Carolina Dry Docks
  • Picnic Table Pull-ups

Mosey to AO.

MARY:
20 Box Cutters
COUNT-OFF & NAME-O-RAMA
Eight men.
CIRCLE OF TRUST/BOM:
One of the inspiring F3 sayings is “I have your six.”  G-6 talked about the isolated man at our last 3rd F event.  As a psychologist, I have met many isolated men who do not feel anyone has their back.  Their confidence and zest for life are low because of it.  As humans, we need to feel support from others, know that others are there for us.  That knowledge gives us the courage to take chances, to fail, get back up, push on and finally succeed.  You see toddlers needing that support from parents when they explore.  The toddlers explore with pleasure but also look back to make sure their parents are there, are looking on, have their sixes.  As F3 brothers, lets take the “I have your six” saying as a model to commit to others, to build them up, give them courage.  We are HIMs in our workouts and out in the world.
MOLESKIN:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
3rd F this Saturday at Outlook!